New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 8041 - 8108

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

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

8041 - Requested clarification regarding food....

8042 - God's great love....

8043 - God seeks to inspire reciprocal love....

8044 - Strengthened action of the opponent....

8045 - Striving for living faith....

8046 - Blessing of sufferings and hardships for the people....

8047 - Domination of the opponent at the end....

8048 - Grace of God‘s address....

8049 - Sparks of love in man.... Awakening the spirit....

8050 - Doubting the transfer of pure truth....

8051 - No mechanical reception.... understanding this....

8052 - Free will is decisive....

8053 - Feeding the truth.... Positive power....

8054 - Is the Bible completed....

8055 - Testing of the will of the first-created being....

8056 - Understanding spiritual knowledge....

8057 - God's unusual help....

8058 - Incentive for vineyard work....

8059 - Belief in the soul's continuation of life....

8060 - Promise: 'The outpouring of the spirit....'

8061 - "He who listens to you, listens to Me Myself...."

8062 - God's justice.... Judgment.... Work of redemption....

8063 - Spiritual petition: Prayer for grace and strength....

8064 - Introspection....

8065 - The Messiah came to the world....

8066 - 2 Peter 3:10....

8067 - Meaning of the love commandments.... Love became cold....

8068 - The Eternal Light descended to Earth....

8069 - Teaching ministry.... 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise....'

8070 - Draw from the spring the water of life....

8071 - The earth's last hour....

8072 - The near end demands increased vineyard work....

8073 - Granting prayers.... The right relationship of a child with its Father....

8074 - Are you living in truth?....

8075 - Every being fell and ascends voluntarily....

8076 - Blessing from the connection with God....

8077 - God's spirit does not contradict itself....

8078 - God's help is assured for you....

8079 - Redeemer work in the kingdom beyond....

8080 - Through natural events God reveals His power....

8081 - Forerunner.... Visible appearance.... The time is fulfilled....

8082 - God is love....

8083 - Activity in the beyond.... Giving out the truth....

8084 - Proof of love of God: love for the neighbour....

8085 - Predetermined intervals of time as periods of Salvation....

8086 - Escort of the leading spirit....

8087 - Verifying the truth....

8088 - Knowledge of the eternal plan of Salvation....

8089 - Darkness means lack of knowledge.... Struggle between light and darkness....

8090 - Battle of faith.... Adversity.... Rapture....

8091 - Human manifestation in Jesus ....

8092 - Divine revelation for **all** I-conscious beings....

8093 - Ultimate goal is union with God....

8094 - Influence of the beings of light on man.... Free will....

8095 - God is in us.... He is present to us....

8096 - The work of changing into love and faith....

8097 - God's love pursues people.... Creation love proof....

8098 - God reveals Himself in times of spiritual hardship....

8099 - Right vessels for the light.... for the truth....

8100 - God's protection for His vessels.... Loving father words....

8101 - Blessing of loving intercession....

8102 - Jesus has built the bridge....

8103 - Taking refuge in Jesus.... The adversary's activity....

8104 - Reason for the catastrophe....

8105 - Participation of the light beings in the work of creation....

8106 - God wants to be known.... Reasons for the revelations....

8107 - God: Love - wisdom - power....

8108 - What is meant by "eternities"....

Requested clarification regarding food ....

B.D. 8041 from November 17th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I want to enlighten your spirit if you ask Me for it: The soul's actual task during its life on earth is to attain full maturity, for at the beginning of its earthly existence its substances are still more or less immature. It still has to tackle many instincts which it brought along from its previous embodiments and will always have the opportunity during its earthly life to master them, providing its will is good and directed towards Me. Nevertheless, it is passing through the satanic realm, which means that it has to wage a constant battle which lasts as long as it lives on earth. Time and again it will come into contact with spiritually immature substances, which it also consumes in the form of food in order to keep the body fit, and these substances must be spiritualised by the soul too, that is, it has to try to bring everything into the right order. Hence these spiritual substances will join the body; they serve the growth and preservation of that which was given to the soul as an external cover, in which the soul itself should attain full maturity. The spirits, the substances contained in food, are therefore of service and thereby slowly ascend as well .... irrespective of whether they come from the plant or animal kingdom .... The nourishment needed by the body as sustenance is spiritual substance in the process of maturity too, which has achieved various degrees of development .... The body can also consume something unhealthy, that is, nourishment which still contains too many immature spiritual substances .... which then might not only bother the body but also the soul .... and manifest itself in the form of diseases .... However, a strong soul is able to put these immature substances in order but it must already have achieved a high degree of spiritual maturity to be able to exert a redeeming influence on the still immature spiritual substance. The correct preparation of food can therefore promote faster maturing by eliminating virulent spiritual substances before it comes into contact with the human body. For all spiritual substances still constrained in creation have a low degree of maturity but they can be redeemed faster if they willingly serve the human being. Then their path can be shortened, which is the case when the body submits to the soul's will, when the body does not prevent a soul's conscious striving towards attaining perfection and when these spiritual substances also support the soul by subordinating themselves to the body and thus let themselves become spiritualised too .... But this only happens if the food the body consumes is pure, healthy and beneficial for the body's continuation. For once the soul succeeds in making the body compliant by submitting itself to the soul's will, the body's spiritualisation will soon take place, providing the soul has united itself with the spirit within itself .... thus consciously strives towards spiritual perfection ....

If, however, the soul has no bond at all with its spirit then it will allow itself to be determined by its body .... i.e., all unspiritual substances of its external cover will strongly predominate and control the soul; in that case its thoughts and intentions will only aim to increase its physical well-being and then a high intake of food and drink will also prevent its spiritual development .... The body will consume an excess of unspiritual substances which pull body and soul down, for then everything of a satanic nature will push itself into the forefront and find no resistance .... thus endangering higher development if not preventing it altogether. And once again it follows that the prayer for blessing of all nourishment is the best means to avoid this danger .... I can and will transform everything that is detrimental for your soul if only you always think of Me before you eat your food, which will always contain more or less immature spiritual substances, because everything passing through the works of creation is still earth-bound whatever degree of development it may have achieved. Your will to attain perfection on earth is valued by Me, and a prayer for blessing everything you consume always proves your will to Me and I shall always comply with it. However, that which serves the maintenance and growth of the body fulfils its actual task .... it is of service .... And in this way you must always look at the consumption of food .... The fact that a certain moderation has to be observed, that you must not merely satisfy your physical cravings, speaks for itself, for then you will avoid the danger of your body being harassed by harmful spiritual substances .... You don't need any special clarification as to which foods are useful and which are detrimental to you, for your will to live in My eternal order will also give you the right feeling in the choice of your meals .... and each one can be of use to you, just as each one can harm you if you don't keep to the right amount or if base cravings incite you into satisfying them .... For you must know that only your free will determines to what extent you resist the temptations of the adversary, of your soul's enemy. And he will always make use of everything that can become a danger to you. He will arouse cravings in you, he will use the body to influence your soul and put it under pressure wherever it is possible for him.

He himself is incapable of forcing you, just as he has no direct influence on the spiritual substance which is still bound in matter; but he can incline your will towards him if you accept the thoughts he transmits to you through cravings and you comply with them yourselves .... by either satisfying these craving or by being careless in the choice as well as the amount of your food or even consciously sin against My order which you, however, know full well and can also observe with good will. Hence in a sense you contribute towards the redemption of immature substances within matter by consuming the right amount of food and drink, because the maturing process of these small spiritual particles involves their being of service, and as soon as you enable them to 'serve' you are helping them to mature. I Myself assigned this serving function or duty of service to every work of creation, and if the human being himself lives within divine order he will never prevent the spirits' higher development, in whatever form they are still bound .... For I also created the human being with all his needs, and it is up to him to always observe moderation and to make use of that which I assigned to him in love and wisdom. And anyone who does not consciously want to sin will also make use of all creations I designated for him, on whatever spiritual level they may be, according to My intended order .... And in unity with Me he will always appeal for My blessing and then also contribute towards the fact that his body's still immature spiritual substances as well as those the body consumes for its upkeep will be guided into the right order .... that they will mature during earthly life according to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's great love ....

B.D. 8042 from November 18th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

Let yourselves be bestowed by Me, for My love for you is exceedingly great and only ever wants to give and make you happy. And I require nothing more from you than an open heart, that is, your will to accept gifts of love from Me. But then you will be abundantly provided for, I will provide for you spiritually and earthly .... everything you need for body and soul will be sent to you so that you can cover your earthly path with the success of being spiritually matured and having found unity with Me .... which is the purpose and aim of your existence on earth. Let yourselves be blessed by Me .... I want to pour out My blessings on you in abundance because you are weak and in need of help and because you would not be able to ascend without My help. But I want you to reach the height, I want you to become again what you were in the beginning: perfect beings who are unspeakably happy .... You are My share and therefore you shall also be united with Me. But you still keep yourselves distant from Me unless you voluntarily open your heart to Me and desire that I Myself take possession of you .... This will, this desire, must become active in you, and for this you need strength and grace, for you are still weak beings and you are still under My adversary's control as long as you have not yet consciously joined Me through your will .... And therefore My love constantly endeavours to approach you such that you let yourselves be touched by it .... or also, I constantly bestow gifts of love upon you so that you should turn towards the giver, for only then will these gifts of love be of value to you. I love you and only want you to feel My love, but this requires an opening of your heart, an inner willingness to receive My radiation of love. And you prove this to Me when you think of Me when you think of a God and creator from Whom you yourselves originated. Then your will is already directed towards Me and I use every such opportunity to convey gifts of love to you in whatever form this may take .... I bring My word close to you, I stir up the desire in you for the bond with the one Whom you acknowledge as your creator, and I mentally enlighten you or forward scriptures to you which correspond to the truth, or I bring you together with people with whom you can have spiritual conversations .... I take care of every individual and want to radiate love into his heart so that this love will be reciprocated and you will consciously strive for unity with Me, Who is eternal love. For I constantly want to give Myself away, I constantly want to make you, My living creations, happy, because I also constantly want to win your love in return, which again establishes the original relationship which signifies eternal bliss. And you can be certain that My love will never give up on you, that it will pursue you even if you still keep away from Me .... I will not rest until I have also won your love, for only reciprocated love makes you happy .... My love for you, however, never ceases because you came forth from My love .... And therefore I will never stop giving Myself to you .... I will never stop encouraging your return to Me .... I will constantly touch your hearts, and even if you close yourselves off .... once My strength of love will break through, you will voluntarily surrender to it, you will push towards Me in love, and the bliss of receiving and giving will have no end .... For My fundamental substance is love, and you, too, will return to your original state again, because I will not give you up, because I constantly pursue you with My love until you have become and remain Mine forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God seeks to inspire reciprocal love ....

B.D. 8043 from November 20th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

The darkness spread across earth is truly great and therefore people's sinfulness also increases the closer the end is .... And again and again My love seeks to bring light to people, for no matter how low they have sunk, no matter how far they are from Me .... My merciful love knows about the dreadful fate that is destined for all of them who do not find their way back to Me before the end, who have not taken the path of return before the end comes. I know about the power of the adversary to whom people succumb, I know about their weaknesses and lack of will, I have to allow their will freedom, and I see how they constantly head towards the abyss .... that they will be banished again for an infinitely long time in creation .... And I take pity on their fate so that My love follows every single soul until the end and still tries to win it .... But I also know that every soul will one day come to the light, even if eternities pass by .... My love for My living creations is overwhelming and therefore leaves no stone unturned in order to shorten their wretched state, in order to snatch them from My adversary's hands, because I fear for My children like a father and want to spare them all suffering .... because I want to provide them with abundant bliss. Yet My supremely perfect being will always work in lawful order, and thus a being can never enjoy beatitude which consciously opposes Me, which does not approach Me voluntarily but persists in its resistance, which once caused its darkness and meant great distance from Me .... I cannot make such a being happy but nevertheless I do not withdraw My love from it .... on the contrary, I pursue it with My love .... I try to make Myself known to it as a God of love so that it will be easy for it to return My love and then all danger of being lost will be averted .... Love awakens love in return .... If I now expect or hope for love from My living creations which live on earth as human beings, then I must first prove Myself to them as a God of love, to Whom they will then trust and offer Him love in return .... If I want to experience love from My living creations, they must also know about My love for them .... even though it is often difficult to convince people of the love of their God and creator, Who wants to be their father for all eternity .... Yet I want to win the hearts of My children, and this presupposes .... (20.11.1961) that they learn to recognize Me, it requires that I help them when they are in need and turn to Me for My support .... People must feel love from My side which then awakens counter-love .... Yet very often they are unable to recognize My love because their spiritual state is still very dark as a result of their own lack of love, and then they have to be enlightened in all truth, but always in such a way that My love is emphasized but not My judicial power. Threats of punishment will not lead them onto the path of love but they will only fear Me if they believe in a God at all Who has all power over heaven and earth. However, if it is possible to make them understand a loving God through the supply of truth, Whose means are only ever understood if the correlations are truthfully explained to them, if My love for all people is repeatedly emphasized, then it is also possible that their hearts will turn to Me in love, and then they will voluntarily do what is My will, and then I will already have won their love and their return to Me is assured. And therefore I will never stop wooing My living creations' love, for it cannot be gained by force, and thus My words must also be addressed to you humans with all love if I want you to listen to Me and consider all My words with all seriousness .... For what is offered in love will also be more likely to be heeded; harsh, angry words, on the other hand, even if they were justified, will not awaken love but result in renewed resistance, and then I will have gained nothing. My gospel of love shall be spread throughout the world and where this happens with unselfish love it will truly not be without success. But if only fear of punishment is awakened in people, the change to love will remain undecided ..... Then a person can certainly make an effort to act correctly but his way of life is not yet an activity of love of his own free will, which alone, however, will bring the creations back to Me as My children who once left Me voluntarily .... I woo the love of these My living creations and only ever seek to reveal Myself to them as God of love, as 'father' .... And therefore I draw their attention to the effect of an unloving way of life, that they should think about it and give account to themselves as to how far they fulfil My commandments of love. For they must possess the knowledge of My commandments of love, it must be imparted to them, but fulfilment cannot be achieved through compulsion .... My love will eternally belong to you, My living creations, and it will not rest until you have returned to Me again .... until you, too, will return My love and the union with Me, which belongs to eternal bliss, is now also restored ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strengthened action of the opponent ....

B.D. 8044 from November 21st 1961, taken from Book No. 85

A great task has been assigned to you and you should not let yourselves be shaken by anything and unwaveringly carry out the work for Me and My kingdom. The fact that My adversary tries to prevent you from doing so with all his might is due to the end time, for he knows that he does not have much time left. And therefore he tries everything to withhold the pure truth from people; he will do everything to prevent you, My bearers of light, from being of service to Me ..... But he will not succeed, for I know whom I could choose for this mission .... I know that your will is Mine and will not be changed so easily .... great actions are planned on the part of My adversary and he will shake the walls of faith .... and the people who do not stand firm in faith will waver .... But I will enlighten the spirit of those who fully surrender to Me and they will see through My adversary's machinations and resist him .... I Myself will fight with them against the one who wants to overrule Me .... Nevertheless, you humans must be very careful, for he disguises himself well and seeks to exert his influence as one of you .... Yet My working will also be obvious, you will also be able to recognize Me Myself and therefore also remain faithful to Me, Who truly can also be recognized in My word .... And My word will give you the strength to resist it, you will feel My language beneficently and will not be able to withdraw from its effect of strength .... And I have foretold you that My adversary's interventions will become increasingly stronger, that he will use the most shameful means and that you humans will be in danger if you don't turn to Me sincerely and appeal to Me for protection and for an enlightened spirit which is also able to see through his tricks .... do not waver in your faith in Me, Who Myself descend to you in the word .... You can recognize My language as the voice of your father as soon as you belong to My own, but then you will also hear what the father says to you, and you will also recognize My adversary, even though he speaks to you under a mask .... But it is not My word, and therefore you, who are Mine, will reject it and not follow the one who tries to seduce you. And yet, I must leave the decision to you Myself, because I don't want to force you either, because I don't want to make you unfree in your will, thinking and acting .... yet he cannot force you either, and therefore .... if you are undecided .... turn to Me and ask for My help, and truly, I will hear you and give you brightness of spirit so that you will be protected from the fall, so that you will not fall prey to him who wants to plunge you into ruin .... who wants to extinguish the light which shines from Me and which spreads its glow far and wide .... Only ever let the light shine, radiate it by taking care of the spreading of My word, only ever adhere to Me, remain intimately united with Me and keep everything unspiritual at bay through your will to remain in the light and in the truth .... and he will achieve nothing .... he will storm in vain against the walls of faith which surround My own .... he will have to desist from you but win over the weak whose contact with Me is not yet intimate enough to prevent his influence. Again and again he will try to extinguish the light from above, again and again he will harass My bearers of light but again and again he will also meet with resistance because he will be recognized, even if he appears under the mask of an angel of light. For I want to open your eyes to Me, you who serve Me, so that you know who is approaching you and can meet him by holding out the light to him, which he flees because he recognizes its exit .... Where I am, he cannot be, and therefore only ever hold on to Me and call upon Me .... And he will desist from you because My presence is unbearable to him .... Be mindful and remain in prayer, and truly, he will not be successful, and the light of truth will break through and illuminate his shameful activity ever more brightly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Striving for living faith ....

B.D. 8045 from November 22nd 1961, taken from Book No. 85

Every person should strive to gain a living faith, for then he will never be without strength, he will always take refuge in Me, in Whom he has a living faith, and constantly be able to receive strength from Me, for this flows to every person who unites with Me in prayer or heartfelt thoughts of Me .... But a living faith requires a life of love .... because anyone who lives in love draws Me to himself, Who is love. And anyone who can be present to Me will no longer doubt Me, he will have gained a living faith and will no longer sever his bond with Me, he will never be without strength and thus need not fear anything he encounters. Living faith is to be highly valued, for the human being no longer walks his path alone but in constant company, because I will no longer leave him, for he allows My presence in him through love. Faith in Me is also the passed test of will, the human being has taken the path back to Me, for he acknowledges Me, otherwise he would not be able to believe or his faith would only be dead. But if his faith has come alive through love a change of nature has already taken place in him, love has kindled a light in him in which he now also recognizes Me Myself and cannot help but consciously strive towards Me and seek the union with Me which he once gave up. Love and faith cannot be thought of without each other .... for living faith emerges from love .... spiritual knowledge becomes conviction, as it were, which cannot be proven because love gives bright light .... And only convinced faith provides the human being with strength which I Myself can now give to him because I am present to him through love .... How calmly a person walks his earthly path who has a convinced faith .... he never feels abandoned or weak, he knows that I am close to him, he comes to Me with every request and knows that I will grant him every request he makes to Me in earthly or spiritual adversity .... A living faith is truly strength-giving; and therefore you should all strive to gain such faith. Then it will prove your approach to Me, your will to be united with Me, you will acknowledge Me and thus pass the test of will for the purpose of which you stay on earth .... And then I will also be able to give you life, as I have promised, “he who believes in Me shall not die eternally ...." You are therefore still doomed to death as long as you are unable to believe in Me Myself, Who redeemed the world from sin and death in the man Jesus .... For as long as you still don't recognize Me in Jesus, and as long as you are still under the spell of sin, as long as your spirit is still darkened, and this always means that you refuse to acknowledge Me as you once did. And you should try to free yourselves from this dark spiritual state, you should change your nature into love again, and then you will also be able to believe in Me as your God and creator, as your father of eternity .... You will soon try to establish the bond and it will become a firm conviction in you, because love will shine in you .... if you let it shine in .... gives you bright enlightenment. And you will truly awaken from death to life, you will believe in My presence alive, and then I will also reveal Myself to you, I will prove Myself to you .... because you believe ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of sufferings and hardships for the people ....

B.D. 8046 from November 23rd 1961, taken from Book No. 85

He who created you also knows about all your weaknesses and needs, spiritual and physical .... and He will also be able to remedy them at any time .... But do you know what serves you for your perfection? Nothing is futile that I allow, and it only ever requires your right attitude towards Me, and your soul will benefit from everything that happens, from every physical and spiritual weakness, for it will then always turn to Me and entrust itself to Me .... and it then establishes a bond with Me which enables Me to turn strength to it again .... And as soon as the purpose is achieved that you have entered into the close bond with Me I can also remedy your hardship and suffering, and I will also do so in order to prove to you the love of your God and creator Who wants to be your father and also be recognized by you as 'father'. And therefore trustingly hand yourselves over to Me and believe that I will turn everything into the best for you, even if you are sometimes unable to comprehend My working. The time you humans have left until the end is getting shorter and shorter .... Everyone has to reckon with being suddenly called away, and then he will thank Me that I gave him the opportunity beforehand where he could still perfect himself, where his soul could purify itself and he already acquired a degree of light on earth. For no one knows when his hour has come .... But there is not much time left for any of you humans, for the end is near. But I know every person's will and his degree of maturity, and whatever I can still do Myself to increase the latter I will truly not refrain from doing. And if it means suffering and hardship for you I will only try to strengthen your bond with Me, and truly, everything will serve you for the best. But I will also help you earthly, I will strengthen your body and keep it fit as long as you want to serve Me, just as I will always support you with My love and grace, whatever may come. You should only trust Me and come to Me with all your needs, because only the bond with Me is your salvation, because this bond with Me signifies the passed test of will for the purpose of which you live on earth. People, however, would think little of Me if their earthly life were always calm and peaceful; their thoughts would only ever be worldly and turned towards pleasure .... But they shall find their way to Me, and therefore I have to bring Myself to their remembrance again and again, namely through suffering and hardship of all kinds which make them remember Him Who is powerful and rules heaven and earth .... Only then will they seek the bond with Me, and only then will they fulfil their purpose of earthly life .... But again and again I tell you that you can also ask Me to turn away what distresses you .... For I want to reveal Myself to you in My love and power .... I want you to recognize a God Who acts towards you as a father, Who also wants to prove His love to you so that you will also show love to Him. And the more trustingly you come to Me the sooner I will hear your prayer, for I will not let a true faith go to waste ....

Amen

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Domination of the opponent at the end ....

B.D. 8047 from November 24th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I will not be able to reap a great harvest at the end of days, for My adversary's activity is very successful because the spiritual substance embodied in the human being during the last days remained in opposition to Me for a very long time and only reluctantly entered into its last embodiment as a human being. Yet its time was fixed, and it is not impossible for this spiritual substance to release itself from My adversary's control, because My measure of grace is inexhaustible, which I pour out in order to still help all spiritual substances to emerge from the darkness into the light ..... Free will must indeed be left to him, and this is often subject to the adversary's influence, even though the human being could also direct it correctly. And thus many more people will belong to My adversary in the end, they will be submissive to his will, they will do what he demands because he tempts them with earthly goods and thus earthly matter will be aspired to and people will completely place themselves under his control. His harvest will be great but he will not be able to enjoy it because I will wrest the spiritual from him again and once more banish it into solid matter .... thus deprive him of all power over this spiritual substance and only weaken him by binding his followers again into the creations of the new earth. And there will only be a few who completely surrender to Me, whom I have won for eternity and whom I will therefore also rapture to the new earth, where a new redemption period has to begin again with people who are Mine and thus live a paradisiacal life in constant bond with Me and the spiritual substance full of light .... For the spiritual maturity of those who will animate the new earth as the stock of the new human race allows for such a heartfelt bond with the spiritual world, and I Myself will be able to dwell amongst My own because they are united with Me in love, because they have passed their test of earthly life and therefore may also live a blissful life in the paradise of the new earth. I will truly still try to increase their number, I will not refrain from anything that could bring another soul back to Me, I will fight until the last day for every soul where I still see a possibility of salvation .... but I will not be able to achieve much more success. Everything satanic will push itself forward and also try to seduce My own who, however, enjoy My protection and need not fear these evil spirits. Yet the separation of spirits will be quite evident, open enmity will prevail between those who belong to My adversary and the believers .... They will do everything to make life unbearable for My own; every thought of theirs is satanic, for they are constantly under the influence of the one who seeks to dethrone Me and wages a very open battle against Me Myself .... who is so clearly recognizable as the antichrist, and now it is also recognizable in which time you humans live, which hour the world clock has struck .... For as soon as My adversary takes action against Me Myself he exceeds his authority and will be bound for a long time. For people shall always be free to decide whether and what they believe .... I do not tolerate coercion because the human being can only perfect himself in free will .... But if they are forced to deny Me then My adversary will carry out the most shameful work on this earth which will cause Me Myself to bind him, to put a stop to his activity and to restore order on earth which alone guarantees an ascent development according to the plan of eternity .... And you will be able to observe for yourselves how people increasingly surrender to My adversary .... you will see how disenchanted humanity is with its way of life, how it increasingly falls away from the faith, how the thoughts and aspirations of fellow human beings are directed and what hardship befalls the believers who remain faithful to Me or even want to fight for My teaching .... They will be hostile and will be increasingly distressed .... but I take care of all those who are of good will .... I call them off so that they do not run the risk of becoming a victim of My adversary .... or I endow them with unusual strength to withstand all hostility .... and I will save them when the hardship seems to become unbearable .... then I Myself will come in the clouds and take them away to their new home where they will live in peace and bliss ....

Amen

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Grace of God‘s address ....

B.D. 8048 from November 25th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I can certainly convey My word to you humans but I cannot force you to accept it, for your will is free .... But always bear in mind that even My adversary cannot force you to oppose Me and My word .... Hence you yourselves decide, and therefore you will also have to answer for it one day if you ignore My gifts of grace, if you pass them by unimpressed and thus your earthly life is an idle activity which has not brought your soul the slightest success. It is the great grace which is still given to you in the last days that you can hear Me Myself, that you can receive strength directly from Me which comes to you in the form of My word .... And you should make use of this grace, you should listen to Me and then let your heart speak, and you will truly also become aware of the strength which flows to you from My love. Especially you humans who are not yet in contact with Me should not close yourselves off to My word, you should unprejudicedly move My word within yourselves and you will feel addressed as if by a good friend, you will be beneficially touched as long as you don't openly resist My word. And I also want to speak to you like a good friend, like a father Who only ever wants the best and wants to make His children happy .... I only want you to give up your inner resistance against Me, then every word of Mine will touch you like a loving address which will move you in your heart and which you cannot oppose .... Just listen to Me willingly and truly, you will not regret it, for My word conveys strength and light to you, and your soul will feel at ease when it is supplied with strength and light .... Therefore, again and again I will try to make My word accessible to you humans, because only My word is still able to change you if you have not yet taken the path to Me .... My word can be the good Shepherd's call to you, Who follows His sheep who have lost their way and are going astray .... My call can still reach them, even if they have strayed far from their Shepherd .... And they can follow Him and return in free will. For I must respect your free will and may not compulsorily influence you. But I can address you at any time, for you always determine yourselves whether My address reaches your heart .... You always determine yourselves whether you hear your father's call in it and turn to Him, because you feel His love in every word which touches you. And when you are struck by My ray of love, then don't close your hearts .... open them and let the light shine into you, and truly, you will thank Me eternally that My love followed you even when you still turned away from Me .... For you will now come to life, My strength of love will awaken you from death to life, and you will now no longer lose this life, for My word will now sound to you forever and ever, and forever and ever you will desire to be addressed by Me, and forever and ever I will fulfil your desire ....

Amen

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Sparks of love in man .... Awakening the spirit ....

B.D. 8049 from November 27th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

Each one of you humans certainly harbours the divine spark of love in his heart, which is part of Me Myself and which characterizes you as divine living creations which can be in constant contact with Me as the eternal father-spirit .... Yet as long as the human being himself does not establish this bond with Me this spiritual spark slumbers within you, it cannot express itself to you, for you yourselves first have to awaken it to life, and this therefore includes the bond with Me which you establish through loving activity .... Hence you have to ignite the divine spark within yourselves, you have to give life to the spirit, and then you will also become aware of the strength which flows through you as an expression of Myself. You are Mine and will remain so forever, yet you must want to belong to Me yourselves, only then will you establish the bond with Me .... you consciously join Me .... you allow Me Myself to work in you, which you previously prevented through your resistance, through your rejection of My strength of love .... So there is a spark of this divine power of love in you, and this spark remains eternally connected with Me .... If you yourselves let this spark in you become a bright flame, then it can now only strike towards Me, the sea of fire of eternal love .... And the union of your soul with Me must also irrefutably take place one day, which then will never be revoked again .... But whoever does not awaken My spiritual spark to life remains dead .... he cannot come to life because he is devoid of all love .... Once the original spirit of all love had given up, it repelled every influx of love power, it closed itself to every illumination of love and fell into the abyss completely devoid of all love .... Although My infinite love slowly helped this fallen being to ascend again, to the degree of maturity which now allows an embodiment as a human being again, there is nevertheless no love in him at all, because only free will has to open itself to a renewed illumination of love, but this was taken away from the being until the stage as a human being .... And a completely loveless being is also completely without strength and could never cover the path to the final height .... It would always and forever remain on the same level, and its being human would be completely pointless. For this reason I place a divine spark of love into the human being's heart which only needs to be ignited by the human being himself in order to be able to radiate strength again, so that it is now possible for the human being to complete his ascent development .... because I constantly pull him, because the spiritual spark in him constantly pushes towards the father-spirit and does not rest until it has reached its aim. And therefore the awakening of the spiritual spark to life is the most significant task which determines your beatitude in the spiritual kingdom .... And since the spirit in you can only be awakened through loving activity, you now also recognize the importance of a life of love, of fulfilling the divine commandments of love .... The spirit within you will constantly urge you to be active in love. If you comply with this urge, then it will also express itself to you, for now you allow this its working in you .... The spiritual spark in you is love .... Thus you possess the ability to love again as a human being, yet you have to muster the willingness to love yourselves .... The spirit within you can only impel you, push you from within, but it will not force you, because this alone must be accomplished by your free will. But you are now no longer incapable, which, however, you would be if I had not added this little spark of love to you .... But you can now also see from this what a great sin it is to reject My illumination of love again if you make no effort whatsoever to give life to the spirit within you .... For it is the greatest gift of My love to lower a ray of love in you again, you who have apostatised from Me of your own free will, which enables you as a human being to form the bond with Me again which you once severed yourselves. For without this divine spark within you you would never ever be able to reach the aim of returning to your father's house again. For you now have the opportunity to take the path to Me and indissolubly restore the bond with Me, whereas otherwise you would not be able to detach yourselves from My adversary and could not oppose him with the strength of love against which he is powerless. You can defeat him with Me Myself, for the spirit within you is My illumination of love which will certainly dispel him as soon as you strive towards Me, as soon as your spiritual spark establishes the bond with Me through loving activity. For since I Myself am love, the spiritual spark in you also urges you to constantly work with love, and where love is My adversary can no longer be .... There I Myself have been victorious and achieved the aim: I have regained the soul and will now also never lose it again .... for love indissolubly binds it together with Me for all eternity ....

Amen

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Doubting the transfer of pure truth ....

B.D. 8050 from November 28th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

Anyone who wants to fulfil My will, will also only ever work according to My will. Nevertheless, it is a matter of sincere resolve, for I Am not satisfied with words which do not arise from the heart, which are only voiced by the mouth or which flow forth from the intellect .... For the will must utterly belong to Me, then the human being will have completely submitted himself to My will and will no longer be able to think and want anything other than that which corresponds to My will. However, the adversary will always attempt to gain this will of yours for himself, he will constantly try to tempt you anew by means of the world, he will try to loosen your bond with Me, in which case there is a risk that he will intervene in your thoughts .... which, however, will impel Me to send My angels so that they will build a wall around you, so that they will mentally influence you and assuredly push him aside because your innermost intention applies to Me. I Am aware of every human being's attitude and therefore also know who so totally hands himself over to Me so that I can trust him with an extraordinarily important task in the end time: to accept the truth from Me and to spread it .... Truth can only come forth from Me, and it can only be conveyed into pure vessels, because everything of an impure nature would prevent the working of My spirit in the person and because the truth from Me can only be conveyed through My spirit to earth. Therefore, understand that the receiving vessel must be clean and that the human being must voluntarily be willing to be of service to Me .... Don't you believe that it is possible for Me to recognise a person's state of soul and to know who is capable of such a task? Do you think I would arbitrarily work in a person who cannot show the preconditions which make the transfer of the pure truth from above possible? If it is My will to bring the truth to you humans because you urgently require it, should it not be possible for Me to choose an appropriate tool which serves Me according to My will? Why do you deny Me the power to protect this tool from error? A tool to which I assign the task to receive the pure truth from Me and to spread it? .... Do you think I would keep urgently calling for the spreading of that which is conveyed from above to earth were it not the guaranteed pure truth which My last disciples shall carry into the world? The fact that people I have not chosen also appoint themselves makes your objections understandable; nevertheless, you should make clear whom you accept as true 'Word recipients' .... Indeed, you are entitled to conduct this examination if you carry it out with My support solely with the intention of serving the pure truth .... In that case, however, you will also recognise the true tools I have chosen for Myself, for anyone who desires the truth may receive it, he will identify where the truth is which originates from Me. Yet don't believe that you can accuse every tool of 'influx of error', for every such suspicion merely proves to Me that you doubt My love, wisdom or power .... Have I Myself not given you the promise to 'guide you into truth ....' And should that not be possible for Me in your opinion?! When I recognise the necessity to convey the pure truth to humanity, then I also truly know the right ways and means, and I know the right hearts which completely hand themselves over to Me and My will, which I can choose for this task of being mediators between Me and people .... so that those who desire light shall become enlightened. Believe that everything is possible for Me .... Believe that Love wants to help you come out of darkness into light, and believe that I know how this can happen .... and accept with complete faith what you are offered by My love, wisdom and power ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

No mechanical reception .... understanding this ....

B.D. 8051 from November 29th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

You may gain insight into the deepest depths of divine wisdom when your love has reached the degree which unites you again with Me, your God and father, Whose nature is supremely perfect and Who then lets you participate in everything that could make you happy .... And you will be unspeakably happy when all knowledge is made accessible to you, when you are also allowed to gain insight into My reign and activity, when you realize how infinite My love is and My might .... and when you are allowed to behold all the glories your father has in store for you when you have found union with Him. Yet a person rarely reaches this degree of maturity on earth, and therefore the final knowledge cannot be made accessible to him, but this does not mean that he will not receive the pure truth from Me if I instruct him Myself. Yet he would not be receptive to the deepest wisdom from Me. And this is also not necessary for his earthly life, nor would he be able to bear the immense happiness such profound knowledge would give him. Yet the ever-expanding knowledge also belongs to the bliss which never comes to an end, which always increases .... for deepened knowledge also signifies increased radiance of light .... Radiation of My love which makes the being unspeakably happy. Nevertheless, you humans can believe that I always convey pure truth to you if you allow My spirit to work in you .... even if it is not yet granted to you that the brightest light shines for you, that everything can be made understandable to you .... For I Myself will never withhold the truth from you if you seriously desire it. A person's degree of love is decisive as to how far he is in realization and how far this realization makes him happy. Yet no human being will ever be able to accept extensive, truthful knowledge from Me if he cannot demonstrate a degree of maturity of his soul which also provides him with the understanding for it, for that person will not accept dead knowledge from Me as soon as I Myself can speak to him .... because the prerequisite for the working of My spirit in the human being is a life of love, a degree of maturity which also provides him with the right understanding for what he receives .... It is not a mechanical transmission of truth from Me into a person but the transmission of My word presupposes a degree of maturity which therefore also guarantees fullest understanding at the same time, which now also enables him to instruct his fellow human being in truth and in accordance with the knowledge he has gained himself through the introduction into truth .... Thus no still immature person will be destined for a teaching task .... and no immature person will be able to receive My word from Me either .... but the recipient of My word will be permeated and illuminated by the light of love himself, and this also signifies fullest understanding and the guarantee to be a good teacher to his fellow human beings, for My word is life and must irrevocably also give life to a person who voluntarily accepts it from Me. My word is the emanation of light of love and must also have luminosity .... And the transmission of My word is connected with a task: to pass it on, to carry the light into the darkness .... And therefore the light bearer himself must be of bright spirit .... I only make this understandable to you because you humans often doubt the calling of the one who is My instrument and serves Me by receiving My word .... The acceptance is also linked to a task, and this, in turn, can only be fulfilled by a spiritually awakened person .... Thus complete understanding can also be assumed for the wisdom conveyed to him by Me, he can be acknowledged as a legitimate teacher, and his explanations can be unhesitatingly accepted as corresponding to truth, for he is willing to serve Me, and then he will also always be taught by My spirit as soon as he seeks to fulfil his spiritual mission .... I Myself train My disciples, I Myself choose the right representatives for Myself who shall proclaim the gospel on earth in My stead .... I prepare them for Myself and also give them the strength to work for Me and in My name .... And therefore My spirit must be able to work, which also requires a certain degree of maturity of its soul .... And you can then be certain that you will only be instructed in the pure truth, for I Myself speak through those who bring you My word, through whom I Myself speak to you if you are willing to listen to Me ....

Amen

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Free will is decisive ....

B.D. 8052 from December 1st 1961, taken from Book No. 85

The human being must be able to decide in all freedom of will .... The fact that he cannot always carry out his will should not lead to the assumption that he has no free will, for his innermost thoughts and will are decisive for the direction of his will. But in most cases he will not be hindered by Me in the execution of his will. For I want him to experience the effect of his will himself in order to recognize whether he was right or wrongly directed. And with merciful foresight I also know how to direct the effect such that it will bring salvation to the affected person's soul again, yet this does not change the fact that the human being has to answer for the direction of his will as soon as he has caused harm as a result, always on condition that he recognizes in himself the adverse divine aspect, that he is therefore not in union with Me but still exposed to the adversary's influence .... which he himself certainly recognizes insofar as he does not consciously unite with Me. A person who seeks My presence is also inwardly driven to think and want correctly .... A person who lives without any faith whatsoever is influenced by My adversary .... he is in bondage to him and will rarely do and think as it is My will .... Thus his will will also be wrongly directed and he will have to answer for it .... And yet, it is possible that people believe to be of service to Me and yet their will is wrongly directed. In that case, however, the bond of the heart has not yet been established, a foreign relationship still exists internally, the human being outwardly fulfils forms which are intended to feign a close bond .... Thus he regards himself as a vineyard labourer and yet he is not yet accepted by Me as a servant .... as long as the heart bond is missing. Then, therefore, it can only be spoken of as a 'worldly occupation', although it concerns ecclesiastical organisations, and then the degree of love will be decisive for his will and his thinking .... And even then the adversary can still have supremacy, he can influence the intellect and it can then be active in a damaging way: that he mixes spiritual knowledge, which corresponds to truth, with his own intellectual thinking and thereby thus contaminates the originally pure truth, that he changes it because the adversary has an influence on him .... because his bond with Me is not yet intimate enough to protect him from wrong thinking .... It is always the human being's free will which is not curtailed by Me, and therefore it is also possible that pure truth .... emanating from Me .... and that it is always the human being himself who determines whether and to what extent he stands in the truth .... But for a distortion to be prevented by Me would be a disregard of free will .... Moreover, every person is able to direct his thinking correctly himself, because he only needs to turn to Me, as truth itself, because he only needs to seriously desire it in order to then also receive it guaranteed .... Again, this is your free will, which is also certainly inherent in a person who seriously seeks the bond with Me, who has the right relationship as a child with Me and who therefore will also always direct his will as it is right before Me. And therefore no person can shift the responsibility away from himself who believes to have been wrongly instructed .... for it is up to him whether he is satisfied with such instructions or whether the desire for truth prevails in him, which will certainly also earn him such .... The human being's will is free .... Neither My adversary will be able to force him, nor will I Myself exert My influence on a person, because the free decision of will in the human being's earthly life decides his fate in eternity. And this applies in particular to the human being's spiritual course of development. His earthly destiny is also so controlled that he can also let his right will prevail, even if restrictions are imposed on him in the implementation .... But spiritually he decides his state of maturity himself in free will, and he will always think and want correctly if he strives towards Me, if he establishes an intimate bond with Me and has therefore surrendered to Me, so that I Myself can now guide and lead him and he will also attain perfection ....

Amen

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Feeding the truth .... Positive power ....

B.D. 8053 from December 2nd 1961, taken from Book No. 85

You will be introduced to knowledge which corresponds to truth .... Again and again I can give you the assurance that you truly live in truth if you make this word conveyed to you from above your own, if you accept it as an instruction which you receive directly from your God and father, because I deem it necessary that you humans experience the truth. When I Myself speak to you then you can receive nothing but pure truth .... And you can feel for yourselves that I speak to you Myself if you listen to or read My word with an open heart .... For then it will give you strength and light. You can notice an unusual effect when knowledge reaches earth without any earthly aids, and you can also deduce the origin from the content of this knowledge .... Love is constantly preached, and this also reveals that the giver Himself is love, that it is a positive strength which expresses itself, which can only ever come to you from above, from the kingdom of light, and thus also proves Myself. It is the last time before the end .... It is urgently necessary that a light is kindled for you so that you know why you live on earth .... And I bring such a light to you Myself by revealing knowledge to you humans which you should accept because it is truth .... For it is still dark in your spirit, for knowledge which does not correspond to truth darkens your spirit, it confuses your thinking and truly brings you no blessing for your soul .... And you humans no longer walk in truth except for a few who receive it from Me themselves .... What is conveyed to you as spiritual knowledge is My adversary's educated spiritual knowledge which can no longer claim to be pure truth from Me, although I taught it Myself on earth when I walked the earth .... My adversary's effort is and always has been to invalidate the truth from Me, to enforce it with error and to make it impossible for people to recognize Me Myself in My nature .... And you humans must know that this is his constant activity to keep you humans in the darkness of spirit into which he has plunged you and into which you have voluntarily followed him. But I want to give you brightness of spirit again, and I want to show you the way how you can find your way out of the darkness and reach bright heights again. And therefore I will bring you the truth again and again, and I will make My will known to you .... And as soon as you fulfil this will of Mine you will also become enlightened again and you will be able to recognize Me as your God and creator Who loves you and wants to be your father for time and eternity .... You have to accept the truth otherwise you will continue to walk astray and unsuccessfully travel your earthly path. And you can believe that your God and father Himself will convey the truth to you, that He is omnipotent and thus it is possible for Him to convey the pure truth to earth .... that He is love Itself and will only offer you that which is beneficial for your soul, and that He is unsurpassably wise and therefore will also impart profound wisdom to you and introduce you to His plan of eternity, to His rule and activity .... You need not doubt the truth of the word which you hear through My messengers who serve Me as My instruments .... My great concern for you humans prompts Me to reveal Myself to you because the end is near, because you need the truth so that you change your way of life, so that you detach yourselves from the world and turn to Me .... I cannot force you to change, I can only always point out to you the fate you are facing, and therefore I can only ever present the truth to you .... but you yourselves must accept it and strive to fulfil My will, which is made known to you through the transmission of truth .... Believe that only My love moves Me to speak to you, and believe that it is I Myself Who speaks to you, for I do not want you to perish but to gain eternal life ....

Amen

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Is the Bible completed ....

B.D. 8054 from December 3rd 1961, taken from Book No. 85

How misguided you are to assume that with the Scriptures, the Book of the Fathers, My Word has come to an end .... that I Myself have set a limit in so far as that I now do not communicate anymore, that I do not speak to people any longer .... Who gives you the authority to make such an assumption? .... Who will deny Me to speak time and again as Father to My children? Who gives you the right to make the assertion that the Bible is sufficient on its own, that you humans need no other Word? ....

Those of you who reject every new revelation are still confined in the darkness of spirit .... And in this darkness you will not understand the Bible either, thus it is still a closed book for you because you do not understand the spiritual meaning of the letters, or you would also find the references concerning My continuous revelations in this book and the working of My spirit would be comprehensible to you .... But as long as your spirit is still unenlightened you cannot grasp the meaning of the Word which I Myself spoke to My disciples while I lived on earth ....You humans would be unfortunate if you had to content yourselves with a book which can no longer be checked by you yourselves for changes in its contents .... if you were not repeatedly offered the pure truth from above as a guiding principle as to whether you yourselves are living in truth ....

Those of you who only accept the Book of the Fathers have not yet penetrated 'the Word' yourselves, you have only read it intellectually but not allowed the spirit within you to speak, who instructs you and explains to you the spiritual meaning of the Word ....You adhere to the letter and do not understand its meaning .... And when I Myself want to guide you into truth you deny My activity, and you suspect My servants of associating with My adversary .... you question My will and the power to speak to those who devoutly offer their service to Me and who are thus also able to hear My voice within themselves ....

And you stubbornly hold on to your opinion that My Word is concluded with the Scriptures, which you acknowledge as the only book through which I have revealed Myself ....And that is your loss, because by rejecting My Word from above you prove yourselves to be mere dead Christians, because living Christianity is an 'activity of love', and this would result in your spiritual enlightenment and thus also in an understanding for My exceptional help in times of spiritual hardship ....

Then you would also comprehend the Bible words, the promises, which I Myself gave to you and which point out that I will reveal Myself to those who keep My commandments .... So how do you intend to interpret My promises, if you deny every 'New Revelation'? .... Do you want to call Me a liar when I announce My 'comforter' to you who will 'guide you into every truth ....' How do you understand these Words which have to come to pass, because every promise I gave to people during My life on earth fulfils itself .... And why do you not want to believe? Because your spirit is arrogant, because you lack inner life, spiritual awakening, and thus you believe that you are able to determine and limit Me and My activity as it suits you .... But you are mistaken, even if you believe that you have acquired knowledge through your studies which entitles you to reject My Word from above ....You are spiritually arrogant and therefore you can never receive a revelation from Me yourselves, because I only bestow My grace to the humble, and you are lacking this humility .... And thus you still walk in darkness, and you will not be able to penetrate it since you avoid the light which could give you insight if you wanted to step into its radiance ....

My love for My living beings will never end, and hence I will never fail to speak to you humans wherever the conditions to do so are met. And My Word will always sound in those who are of good will, to whom the Father can speak like to His children and who have a living faith in Me. And to them I will give evidence of Myself, and My Own will recognise My voice because I can be present with them .... I can reveal Myself to them as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Testing of the will of the first-created being ....

B.D. 8055 from December 5th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

A being was once created by Me which has now become My most bitter enemy and adversary .... This being likewise emerged from My love, it was put forth as the first being by Me because I wanted to create a vessel for Myself into which I could let My love flow .... My love was exceedingly great and it wanted to communicate .... and since My will alone was sufficient I created an image for Myself, a being which was exceedingly perfect, which I was able to radiate with My strength of love and which, like Me, was now to create and work for its own happiness .... I wanted to give Myself away, I wanted to find a resonance for My immeasurable abundance of light and strength and thus created a being which could catch this flow of love, a being in which I could recognize Myself, which was My image .... And all My love was directed towards this being. I made it happy and found My own happiness in this happiness .... it stood in the highest abundance of power and strength, it was a reflection of Myself which, being exceedingly perfect, also carried the same will and creative urge within itself and was now incomparably blissful with Me .... And this being was active, its immeasurable strength urged it to create identical beings, its will used the strength flowing to it from Me and again and again gave rise to new beings which, like it, were supremely perfect, for only perfection could emerge from My strength of love, and the first-created being was of the same will as Me, in the same light, and was united with Me in deepest love, so that supreme bliss filled this being and it expressed its bliss again and again by creating beings identical to it .... It was a state which could have lasted forever and yet did not remain so .... For everything created were 'works' of My love .... It was perfect because nothing imperfect could come forth from Me .... My love for the first-created being was overpowering and its love also belonged to Me, Whom it certainly recognized but could not behold. I constantly beamed My love at this being but I did not force it to return the love to Me in the same measure, instead, I made the reciprocation of My love freely available to it .... I had created the being with free will because free will inevitably belongs to perfection. My will was indeed apparent to the being at all times, it was, as it were, anchored in My word, through which the creator's communication with His created being was established .... The 'word' was the thought which had become form, which radiated into the being and which the being was also able to reciprocate, so that the most intimate exchange took place between us, which made both the being and Me immeasurably happy .... And thus the being knew about My will and in its love completely entered into My will .... (5.12.1961) And now I wanted to test its love, it was to provide Me with the evidence that its love for Me entered into My will in completely free will, although it could also think and want differently, because as a divine being it was not subject to any coercion, because love was the only thing which could have determined the direction of its will .... My first-created being had created countless beings of the same kind out of its will using My constantly flowing strength of love, and its will was always in unison with Mine because deepest love united it with Me .... And these acts of creation made the being immensely happy .... It constantly received strength of love and constantly used this strength of love in My will .... until I demanded the decision of its will from it in all freedom .... i.e., it became aware that it could also work on its own authority, that it was not hindered in any way because it was not subject to any limitation .... because it was a free being which was only bound to Me through love .... And since the being was able to receive the thoughts flowing to it from Me .... My word .... flowing to it from Me and to take a position on them itself, it was also possible for it to view them negatively .... that is, to oppose them with his free will. And so it also came to terms with the thought that despite its highest abundance of light and strength, despite its highest perfection, it was always only a recipient of strength, but not a source of strength .... To mentally adjust itself to this was My test of will, which the highest spirit of light truly could have passed if its love so filled it that it would have submitted itself to Me as its creator in free will, which, however, would never have been detrimental to its ranking because My love for it was so great that it would never have needed to feel its dependence on Me .... But it would have still increased in its bliss through the passed test of will, in its perfection, which was now no longer just My work but had also been proven by itself as its own will .... But the being failed .... It became My adversary out of the spirit of light Lucifer .... He could not see Me but he saw the army of beings he himself had brought into being, and he was aware of its immense power, and this awareness made him become arrogant .... He exalted himself and rejected any further illumination of love on My part .... This turning away from Me was a process which lasted for eternity and which can only be depicted to you humans, for the spiritual motives cannot be explained to you in a comprehensible way as long as you dwell on earth. I had created an image for Myself which turned itself into the opposite and was also able to do so despite all abundance of light because it was a completely free being which was in no way subject to compulsion or limited in its thinking and willing .... Nevertheless, its fall and also the fall of countless beings into the abyss is the path to the highest perfection .... because it creates the possibility of transformation into gods .... which I could never create because the created being's free will has to accomplish this itself. The product of My love turned away from Me .... In its original substance it was love itself which turned away, which no longer gave itself away but desired to possess .... and which therefore completely contradicted My fundamental nature. Yet it was My emanated strength of love which irrevocably has to return to Me according to the order of eternity. But first the being must have changed again, and it must accomplish this change in free will. And every once fallen being will also reach this aim, even though eternities are necessary for this .... Even the first created being, which My infinite love had externalized from Me, will accomplish this transformation in itself, and it will be able to enter into highest glories .... but before that it will serve Me as an antipole because it has shaped itself into it .... For his kingdom also serves Me, he himself also works with .... even if unconsciously .... in the perfection of all spiritual things ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Understanding spiritual knowledge ....

B.D. 8056 from December 6th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I want to open up your understanding for a knowledge which lies outside of intellectual thinking and which therefore cannot be taught to you by fellow human beings. Spiritual knowledge cannot be fathomed with the intellect, nor can it be understood with the intellect alone if it is brought to you .... I Myself must first be able to work in you through My spirit, which can only then give you the right understanding for it. You may well object that you don't need such knowledge for your earthly life .... But this earthly life is not given to you to savour it earthly, that only your body creates what it believes it needs for its well-being .... For this earthly life will not last long, then you will exchange it for a life in the spiritual kingdom, in the kingdom about which you lack knowledge but which you should nevertheless strive to attain in order to use earthly life accordingly. You know nothing about what happens after your death; yet knowledge about it is imparted to you, and thus I Myself must provide you with the understanding for it, otherwise it will only remain dead knowledge which your intellect knows nothing about. And you should know that you will have to live a second life on earth which will not pass away, which will remain with you even if you have to suffer earthly death .... This second life is the life of the soul, it is the actual purpose of your earthly life that the soul matures, that the body is paid less attention to, that the soul gathers spiritual treasures in order to attain a spiritual life. However, empty knowledge about this is not of use to you, instead I Myself want to make this knowledge accessible to you so that you will understand it and then also lead your earthly life accordingly. Yet your intellect cannot give you sufficient clarification .... But I speak to you through the heart, and you will truly be able to understand this enlightenment if only it is your will to be introduced to the knowledge about the cause and aim of your earthly progress. Then My spirit will already be active in you and the bond with the kingdom which is not of this world will be established .... It will always be difficult for a worldly person to accept a world outside of the earthly, and if he is told about it his intellect will not be able to understand it .... Yet only a serious thought that there could still be a world makes My slight influence possible, even though I always respect the human being's free will, thus I never force him to accept such influxes of thoughts which could bring him enlightenment .... But one thing is certain, that the earthly world .... earthly life as a human being .... is not an end in itself but a means to an end. Only this one thought should move people within themselves, and truly, they would be able to record success for the soul, which then would certainly desire and also receive further enlightenment .... Yet only I Myself can make spiritual knowledge accessible to you humans, I Myself cannot be switched off, for without Me you cannot prevent the fact that only your intellect is active and that it is influenced by My adversary, who does not give you light but wants to keep you in spiritual darkness. Hence, intellectual thinking without devotion to Me will only produce dead knowledge which only concerns earthly things, which only serves physical well-being but will not influence the life of the soul .... it will only ever answer material questions but it will never touch the kingdom which is your true home .... the spiritual kingdom from which you originated and into which you will enter again when your earthly life is over. But you should acquire knowledge about this kingdom, you should desire knowledge about it through the desire to establish the bond with Me, Who grasps every spiritually directed thought and also mentally answers it when I see that the will is good and the desire for enlightenment is serious .... Then My spirit in you will be stimulated into activity, and then I can make knowledge accessible to you which cannot be conveyed to you humanly .... unless My messengers convey it to you on My behalf, but then they will also have been taught by Me in order to proclaim the truth to you .... For you must learn the meaning and purpose of your earthly life so that you will also live it out with spiritual success, so that your soul will mature and attain eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's unusual help ....

B.D. 8057 from December 7th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I have to provide you humans with unusual help since you are also unusually harassed by My adversary .... He, who is completely opposed to Me, only ever strives to obstruct your way back to Me, to stir up resistance in you against Me and thus to prevent you from returning to your father's house, which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life as a human being .... Therefore he will stop at nothing if he believes he can achieve his aim by completely separating you from Me. And thus you would be in greatest adversity if I did not help you, for I truly do not leave you to your fate, I offer you My help which you must indeed accept voluntarily because I do not force you. But even My adversary cannot force you, thus you are entirely free to turn to Me or to him .... This is why I appear unusually, I reveal Myself to you humans again and again, I address you unusually through strokes of fate when you are hardened of heart, but I also address you with gentle words and so obviously reveal My help to you if only you don't close yourselves off but listen to Me .... Then you will receive unusual strength and need not fear falling prey to My adversary and his work .... You are not helplessly at his mercy, I truly hold My hands protectively over you if only I recognize your will which strives away from him and turns towards Me .... I reveal Myself to you, you can recognize a loving God and father if only you remember Me with an open heart and are only willing to live rightly and justly on earth .... Then you will not be at the mercy of evil forces, for then I will make sure that you recognize My extraordinary working, that you feel the closeness of your God and father and know that you are safe in My love and might. It is precisely My adversary's obvious activity which gives rise to My unusual appearance, otherwise you humans would truly succumb to his arbitrariness and deceit. But I fight for your soul just like My adversary, and only your will decides who wins the victory over you. And therefore you should know everything, you should gain knowledge of My nature, of My love, wisdom and might .... And you should also know that you are still under My adversary's rule as long as you don't express the will to become free from him yourselves. And I Myself impart this knowledge to you because otherwise you would never be instructed in truth, because My adversary constantly endeavours to keep you in spiritual darkness, in lies and error, and then you will not see the path which leads out of darkness into light .... For this reason I light a lamp for you and show you the path, for this reason I also work in an unusual way, i.e. I use every opportunity to bestow the pure truth upon you humans so that you then take the path to Me of your own free will, Whom you also learn to recognize and love through the truth and Who can then also take possession of you if you voluntarily turn to Him and desire Him. Believe that the truth will set you free .... that you can liberate yourselves from My adversary's power if you know that I Myself will help you, that I will stand by your side as soon as you merely request and allow My presence through your will, which is free and therefore neither I nor My adversary can forcefully turn towards it .... You alone decide, and so that you decide correctly you will be introduced to the truth, and blessed is he who accepts it, who recognizes and acknowledges Me as God and father from eternity and who now consciously takes the path to Me .... For I come to meet him and never ever let him fall into My adversary's hands. I Myself take possession of him and never let him fall into the hands of My adversary again.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Incentive for vineyard work ....

B.D. 8058 from December 8th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

My love will carry you over everything, for I want to protect My own in every adversity of body and soul. The time is very serious and countless people are in danger of falling prey to My adversary's activity and therefore need active help, they must be warned against him and admonished to stick to Me, whatever may come. And since I cannot address every person Myself, because not every person is in the spiritual state to be able to hear Me Myself, I need helpers on earth .... People who, wanting to serve Me, transfer My proclaimed will to their fellow human beings, people who inform their fellow human beings of a God of love Who still wants to win them all over for Himself before the end. People are addicted to the world and earthly goods and would never be able to hear My voice if I wanted to speak to them. And therefore a way has to be found to open up the spiritual kingdom to these worldly people as well, to make them understand that they only live in a world of appearances and that the real world, which will remain eternally, is the spiritual kingdom from which they came and into which they will return again after the death of their body .... If it is possible to make them think about this once, then much is already gained. And you, My servants on earth, should help them to do so; you should make it possible for Me to speak to them through you, and you do this by spreading My word, by also conveying to your fellow human beings what My love and grace allows you to receive and what is helpful for the salvation of your souls. And if you now work for Me, on My behalf, as My faithful servants, I will also protectively hold My hands over you and always provide you with the strength to carry out this work for Me. Anyone who wants to serve Me will be accepted, for I need vineyard labourers everywhere, there is great spiritual hardship among people everywhere and time is hurrying .... the last hour of the world clock will soon strike and My servants cannot be busy enough, for to have saved just one soul from the new banishment at the end of the earth is a gain which cannot be valued highly enough. And you can believe that My might is great, that I am able to do everything, that no thing is impossible for Me .... And therefore you need never doubt that you will be able to carry out My order .... Only your will should completely belong to Me, and then I can also work on you and bestow unusual blessings upon you, I can always provide for you physically and spiritually such that you will be able to carry out My will and that you will also be able to successfully complete your mission. After all, I alone determine every person's fate, I alone determine his life span, and I alone know what is good for you and your salvation .... But I also know what work you are willing to do for Me, and I make use of your willingness, for I need mediators from Me to people in the last days whom My call shall also reach so that they will find Me and be saved before the end .... It only ever applies to build a bridge from My adversary's kingdom into My kingdom .... it only applies to show people this bridge, for even the people of the world will come into great adversity and then they can remember your words, they can remember Me and call upon Me, but they must first have gained knowledge that I am a powerful and loving God Who can help everyone who just wants to be helped .... And you should convey this knowledge to them, again and again you should let My word go out into the world .... you should use every opportunity to proclaim Me and My will to your fellow human beings, and you should not miss an hour, for the time is hurrying and the end is near .... And My protection, My grace and My love will always be certain for you .... You will be led through all adversity, you will recover physically and spiritually if only you firmly believe in Me and trust Me, for I will not let a firm faith fail ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Belief in the soul's continuation of life ....

B.D. 8059 from December 9th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

If only people would believe that their soul .... their actual Self .... is immortal, if only they would believe that the soul as a human being on this earth is preparing its own fate in the kingdom of the beyond when it leaves its earthly body .... One day people will bitterly regret their indifference to their later fate, for one day they will realise what they had neglected to do in their earthly life, what they could have achieved had they believed the warnings and admonitions which were constantly given to them on earth. The indifference to their future fate is the great evil which threatens to pull many people into the abyss .... And therefore they shall only ever be informed of the fact that there is a continuation of life after death, that they cannot cease to exist even if they have to shed their earthly body .... their thoughts shall be directed towards this time which will come as certain as one day will follow the other .... If only they were able to gain the belief in a continuation of life after death they would also live more responsibly. This, too, cannot be proven to them, they can only believe it .... but they can gain a convinced faith if they think about it and question their actual purpose of earthly life .... Just a spiritually directed thought would suffice for a person to mentally receive an answer from the kingdom which is the soul's true home .... Yet such questioning thoughts have to be sent out by the human being of his own free will, for he cannot be forcibly urged into such spiritual thinking. But the smallest impulses are enough for him to question himself, and it will definitely only have beneficial results. Hence the human being will often have to suffer severe losses which can affect everything he loves .... earthly commodities or even people dear to him, the loss of which can motivate him to such thoughts .... And then even harsh strokes of fate will have become a blessing for him if they lead the person into a spiritual train of thought and thus enable spiritual powers to intervene, trying to instruct him. And if a person is asked whether he assuredly believes in the soul's continuation of life he will usually doubt it, even if he is religiously instructed in such a way, because he has not yet openly contradicted it. But he lacks the inner conviction and this makes him indifferent in his conduct, which should be aimed towards this life in the spiritual kingdom. But time and again the human being will have to deal with experiences which can and should direct his thoughts to the end which is certain for him and yet will not denote an end for his soul. And frequently he will also receive instructions by way of conversations or as printed material, although he can accept or reject them of his own free will ....

And even the loss of earthly goods can make the human being think and wonder whether owning these is the real purpose of earthly existence .... Then it is possible that he will change his way of thinking; then it is possible that he will not regard a continuation of life after death to be out of the question and afterwards he will lead a conscious way of life, because he believes that he will have to be answerable for it one day. And then the certainty that his body's death is not the end will steadily grow, for wherever there is the slightest will to live expediently on earth the human being will also receive help and he will not go astray ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Promise: 'The outpouring of the spirit ....'

B.D. 8060 from December 11th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I have promised that I shall pour out My spirit upon all flesh, and servants and handmaidens shall prophesy .... And all My promises will come to pass because My Word is truth .... Hence you humans should not deem it unusual that I express Myself through the spirit, that I manifest Myself to you .... For it is the time of the end and it is necessary that I give evidence of Myself to you, although you are not forced to look upon these expressions through the spirit as proof of Myself .... It is your own free choice; nevertheless, you will find it easier to gain faith if you accept what is revealed to you through the outpouring of My spirit. I want to help you because you are too weak on your own, for you lack the strength which arises from love .... And love has grown cold amongst people .... Only love will bring your faith to life .... And therefore you shall be instructed by Me directly about the necessity of a life of love, because your fellow human beings' advice to comply with the commandments of love is not taken seriously by you. But there is no other path to faith and thus also to salvation than love .... which expresses itself in selfless neighbourly love. And in order to inform you of what you have to do .... in order to inform you of My will, I reveal Myself to you through the spirit .... I pour out My spirit upon all flesh .... I Myself speak to you, insofar as that My Father-Spirit addresses the spiritual spark within you, which will subsequently guide you into truth, which will explain everything you are expected to believe, so that you will then affirm the knowledge which, although it cannot be proven, will nevertheless no longer seem doubtful to you, because I Myself convey it to you through the working of My spirit within you. And thus My promise is coming true.

My obvious activity has become necessary in the last days because people are completely without faith. If they therefore make an effort to fulfil My will .... if they make an effort to live a life of love according to My divine commandments, they will soon be able to believe, since the spirit within them will come alive and will teach them from within, so that they will also be convinced that what is revealed to them through the working of the spirit is true.

And since this promise is included in the Scriptures, it should not be implausible to people that I reveal Myself .... And yet, My Word is not being recognised as the fulfilment of the said promise and is rejected and attacked especially by those who draw upon the Book of Books .... For they take a negative view of the New Revelations because their spirit has not yet come alive and they are still spiritually unenlightened. Nevertheless, My Word shall not pass away, My promises will come true, and time and again I will reveal Myself to those who desire to hear My voice and who, through love, bring the spirit within them to life, who, through a life of love according to My will, also make heartfelt contact with Me, so that My eternal Father-Spirit can express itself to the spiritual spark .... And they will have a living faith, everything imparted to them through My spirit will become their conviction, for they know they only receive truth from Me, that I illuminate their hearts and that they are permeated by My spirit of love which dispels all spiritual darkness .... And thus I will help you find your way out of the spiritual night, I will help all people to realise My will and will also give you the strength to fulfil it .... And then you will be able to believe, nothing will frighten you anymore, for with unwavering faith in Me and My power you will entrust yourselves to Me and I will have won you over for time and eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"He who listens to you, listens to Me Myself ...."

B.D. 8061 from December 12th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

You are given the task of spreading My word .... And you truly render Me blessed services when you act as mediators between Me and people whom I cannot address Myself but who shall nevertheless hear My word so that it will touch their hearts and they will listen to My voice. My word sounds down to earth from above .... I descend to you Myself, as it were, and speak to you. But there are only ever a few who hear Me, to whom I can speak directly and who also recognize My address as the father's voice .... Yet My word shall resound everywhere, and for this I need you, for you find access to your fellow human beings, and what you convey to them they also accept while they .... to be able to hear My direct address .... would have to consciously open themselves to Me and My illumination of love and do not do so of their own accord. Hence you should serve as mediators, you should make it possible for Me to speak through your mouth, you should make it possible for them to read My word which then will truly not fail to have an effect. And thus many people can be addressed by Me if you take your task seriously, if you only ever make sure that people can take notice of My unusual gift of grace, which can have a great effect if only one person is of good will. How often do they not find what fully satisfies their hearts in church congregations…. they are and remain empty, for they lack My word's strength which, however, My pure word from above vouches for. As soon as I Myself can speak to a person he will also noticeably feel the strength of the word, and he will happily accept it and no longer want to miss it .... Only ever carry My word out into the world .... Be diligent in your work in My vineyard and it will bring you and your fellow human beings the greatest blessing. Admittedly, most people know about Me as God and creator, they also know about My will .... But this knowledge is no longer alive for them, it was imparted to them when they were not yet capable of judgment themselves, it was brought up in them but has lost the inner spirit, or also: the spirit has not yet come alive, and everything they know about Me and My will is only dead knowledge which does not and has not found an echo in them and is therefore worthless .... And this knowledge shall come alive in them through you, it shall have an effect as strength, it shall stimulate people into activity on their souls; it shall contribute towards them seriously seeking contact with Me and that they now consciously fulfil their purpose of earthly life .... They must be informed of their earthly life task, of its outcome and its aim .... And therefore I call you again and again to diligent vineyard work .... Do not fail to convey My word wherever an opportunity presents itself .... Always remember that a soul can be regained for My kingdom, that the souls are in great spiritual need, which are completely distant from Me, which have not yet established contact with the One Who created them .... Bring My word to all I lead you into the path, for I know it who needs it, who has the maturity to let it come alive in him .... For not long anymore and My voice will resound audibly and then all those who have received My word within themselves, who have gained knowledge of Me and My working on you, of My love for all My creatures and My willingness to help those who appeal to Me in greatest adversity, will also possess exceedingly great strength. Still scatter much of the seed so that it takes root and still brings forth abundant fruit .... And be faithful servants to Me, for I need you all the more the closer the end is .... For I wrestle for every soul to find the way to Me before the end is there .... And I Myself will open the doors for you through which you shall enter in order to offer people the gifts of your lord to bring them the gospel .... And whoever listens to you listens to Me Myself, and he will truly not be lost ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's justice .... Judgment .... Work of redemption ....

B.D. 8062 from December 13th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I am a good and just God .... My love belongs to you, My creatures, always and forever. And yet, out of My love I cannot approve of an injustice, I cannot make you happy with My love if you have become sinful .... but this does not mean that I punish you for your sins, instead, you yourselves create an unhappy state for yourselves through sin, you distance yourselves from Me, and this always signifies unhappiness, for My love cannot touch you because you create the distance yourselves through sin and I cannot influence you against My eternal order .... And therefore every sin requires atonement according to My law of order, so that My justice will be satisfied, so that you can approach Me again in order to receive My love. My nature is love and mercy, and therefore I am also exceedingly long-suffering .... Nevertheless, My justice cannot be eliminated because it also belongs to My nature, which is exceedingly perfect. And thus I must also let punitive judgments come upon you, but you always initiate them yourselves, because you must come to order again in order to become blissfully happy, and because acts of atonement are necessary for this .... States which are only ever the effects of people's wrong will, thus consequences of sin .... which I therefore allow so that the sins are atoned for and you humans enter a state again which brings you close to Me and you can then also be made happy by My love again. Such punitive judgments are only ever educational means, they are means to lead you back to Me again; but they are never evidence or expressions of My wrath .... For I feel no wrath because I am Love .... yet My justice causes Me to make you feel the consequences of your sins Myself in order to change you. And thus you draw every punishment upon yourselves, but you yourselves can also let it become a blessing for you if you turn to Me in every adversity, be it physical or spiritual .... if you confess your sin and appeal to Me in Jesus Christ for forgiveness of your guilt. My love for you is so great that it accepts every sinner, that I write his guilt in the sand and that I also no longer demand atonement from you when you call to Jesus and hand your guilt over to Him .... But I cannot do this as long as you remain in sin, as long as you don't believe in Jesus' act of salvation and still live your earthly life at a distance from Me. Then I will have to try to win you in the form of a punitive judgment which will then only ever be a sign of My righteousness for you, which cannot accept you as long as you persist in sin .... Then the effects of sin will rebound on yourselves .... Then you may be affected by sufferings and hardships and adversities of all kinds .... but these are then the compensation for your sins, you make atonement, you bear away guilt while you are still on earth, and you can find the way to the cross .... And then the path to Me will also become free again for all of you, then I can accept you again, I can prepare a blissful fate for you because I can bestow My love upon you again .... and because My justice has been served ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual petition: Prayer for grace and strength ....

B.D. 8063 from December 15th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

From My abundance you may take grace upon grace. For I distribute with full hands, I do not limit My gifts if only you want Me to give them to you .... And My love for you is truly exceedingly great, for I see weak little children in you who cannot ascend without help, who need My help to ascend. And if you now appeal to Me for grace and strength it will truly be granted to you, because I will gladly grant such a request, after all, it proves to Me your will to reach Me, from Whom you once took your origin. And you admit your weakness, you recognize the deficient state you are in and humbly come to Him Who is strength and light Himself and also wants to provide you with strength and light. You can certainly dispose of vitality in earthly life but this does not yet guarantee your ascent to the height because you need spiritual strength for it, which you can indeed acquire with vitality .... And if you therefore ask for spiritual strength you recognize your state of weakness yourselves and try to remedy it. I give you everything, I am constantly willing to hand it out, and no-one need go empty-handed who hopes to be strengthened by Me .... But you must approach Me for this .... For once you rejected My love .... and this meant that you became powerless, because My love loses effectiveness as soon as it encounters resistance. Therefore you first have to give up your resistance, and you prove this to Me when you appeal to Me for grace and strength .... which means that you are willing to return to Me, that you feel the lack of love as a weakened state and want to receive it again. And thus I can also give Myself to you and provide you with grace and strength .... And truly, I will distribute abundantly to you, you will have no lack and now also cover your earthly path of life with success. You will pass your test of will and only ever turn your eyes towards Me because I will now draw you with My love. You can believe that you will not be successful on your own, that you need Me and My help ..... My greater than great love guarantees that I will grant you this, yet you must request it yourselves, you must turn your thoughts towards Me and open yourselves for the influx of strength of grace. Just as you once turned away from Me and closed yourselves in free will .... so you must now come to Me again of your own free will, and your prayers will truly be answered, for My love only ever wants to give itself away, it wants to make you happy, it wants to awaken the dead, it wants to strengthen the weak .... It wants to draw you to itself and therefore seeks union with you, but you have to enter into it of your own free will because I don't force you. But then I will know no restrictions, you may receive strength and grace in abundance, and the ascent upwards will be easy for you, you will live your earthly life in accordance with its purpose; you will come to realize that I Myself and the union with Me is the purpose and aim of your earthly life. And now you will consciously walk the earthly path, for then you will feel like your father's children, you will establish the right relationship of a child to its father, and truly, you will return to your father's house and now be and remain united with Me forever .... You will make right use of all graces and mature on earth .... You will now be able to enter My kingdom as My true children, which is your true home ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Introspection ....

B.D. 8064 from December 16th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

You too, My loyal servants, have to be admonished by Me to improve your souls more eagerly, for as long as you live on earth you all still carry immature substances within yourselves. You all more or less still have to fight against inclinations, longings and all kinds of weaknesses, and you should always remember that you ought to spiritualise these substances during your earthly life. A constant struggle will have to take place, and you should overcome them, you should try to influence the unspiritual substances with much love to let go of you, to join the desire of the spirit within you, to stop pestering your soul so that it will be able to ascend to the pinnacle with ever greater ease and without being held back. I want to make the path to happiness easier for all of you, but you also have to work on yourselves, you seriously have to examine yourselves as to what weaknesses and faults are still burdening you; you have to question yourselves whether your soul is still constrained by any cravings .... you have to fight against every impure impulse, suppress each irate motion, you must not send out any ignoble thoughts and deny any human being your love .... you have to try to put right every injustice you have inflicted on a fellow human being ....

Your thinking shall always be noble and pure, which excludes every thought of hatred and vengeance .... You should avoid every unkind word and always remember that you expect love, compassion and forgiveness from Me, thus you should also grant the same to your fellow human being .... In everything you think or say you should know that I know it too, and you should ask yourselves whether you are behaving correctly in My presence? .... I know that you are all still weak, that the battle which you should wage against yourselves is indeed the most difficult .... But My strength is always at your disposal and you only need to send a pleading thought to Me and, truly, I will give you the strength and you will be victorious .... You will be able to pacify the evil spirits within yourselves. They will leave you progressively more alone, they will become modest and also comply with the soul's desire to calm down and make use of the strength for their own purification ....

For they have this possibility to reach maturity themselves within the earthly body and to join the soul, because it will take all fully matured spiritual substances along into the kingdom of the beyond when it has to leave its earthly body. The soul itself still has various instincts within itself from its previous embodiments, which it is supposed to change for the better .... And it is also pestered by the body of flesh, because that is shaped from unspiritual substances .... But the human being also has the possibility to exercise a redeeming influence on these evil spirits .... if he tries to change all negative qualities to the contrary until he has become humble, gentle, peaceful, compassionate and just .... until he has become love himself, which includes all those virtues, and then the human being will also be able to enter the spiritual kingdom fully matured. And therefore you should seriously examine yourselves as to what virtues you are still missing .... investigate, whether you have changed your nature completely already .... check, what you still need and seriously work at improving yourselves ....

And you most certainly will be successful if only you have the serious intention and appeal to Me to give you strength because you are too weak on your own. Call upon Me in Jesus so that I will strengthen your will, so that you will lose your weakness of will, so that I will forgive you when you have become sinful, and truly, My help is assured to you, for it is My own will that your souls shall mature, and I Am truly pleased in those who take changing their nature into love seriously .... For as soon as you are full of love all unspiritual substances within you will also become spiritualised, because they cannot resist the strength of love. But wherever these evil spirits are still active, love is not yet profound enough, in other words, I Am as yet not able to work in all fullness within you and you will have to fight to become pure so that I can take abode in you .... And then you will also have been redeemingly active within yourselves ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The Messiah came to the world ....

B.D. 8065 from December 19th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

How dark was the world when I descended to earth .... Only rarely did a light shine, only rarely were the people in whom a light of love was kindled, and they recognized the great adversity and called for a saviour Who should redeem the world from sin and death. For they had received the knowledge that the Messiah was to come to bring salvation to people, and they waited for this Messiah, for they had been informed by prophets of His appearance in this world. And this prayer of the few I heard .... I Myself descended to earth because the prophecies were to be fulfilled and because the need was so great that one had to come as saviour and redeemer of the world .... And I emanated My light, I let My love radiate upon all people, and those who stayed within My flow of love were truly filled by the light of love themselves, and they recognized Me as the Messiah Who was to redeem the world from sin and death. Where darkness is, there My adversary has supremacy, and he truly rages amongst humanity in order to corrupt it .... But I came into this world as a brightly shining light and illuminated his activity, so that he was recognized as satan and corrupter by those who desired to walk in the light, who kindled love within themselves and who therefore were willing listeners when I proclaimed My word to them: My divine teaching of love, the fulfilment of which alone meant salvation for humanity from its spiritual adversity .... The light itself descended to earth .... Love embodied itself in a human being Who prepared itself as a vessel for the divine light of love from eternity .... I took on flesh because I Myself, as an inexhaustible source of strength, had to choose a cover for Myself in order to be able to dwell amongst you humans who would have passed away if My immeasurable abundance of light and strength had shone upon you .... if I had met you unveiled. And so a soul of light offered itself .... an angelic spirit called into being by Me .... to animate this human outer form and thus to prepare a vessel for Me into which My strength of love could now pour .... so that I Myself could dwell among you humans in this human outer shell, so that you could now receive from My light of love what you desired when darkness oppressed you humans and you wanted to chase it away through the light .... which shone forth from Me Myself to you and illuminated the dark night .... I lived as the "man Jesus" in the midst of you humans .... I had therefore descended to earth because I wanted to bring help to you humans in greatest spiritual need .... I wanted to release you from the power of the one you once voluntarily followed into the abyss and from whom you alone were unable to escape. This is why I Myself came to earth as saviour, for I accomplished the act of salvation for you in the human being Jesus .... Through My crucifixion I redeemed the guilt which kept you distant from Me and which first had to find its just atonement if I wanted to receive you into My kingdom again, if you wanted to dwell in the light again as in the beginning .... The light descended into darkness .... A being of light had to come to earth in Whom the eternal light could manifest Itself .... A human shell had to receive a soul of light, which then prepared its body for Me so that it would not perish when I Myself took up residence in this human form .... For I Myself was the power of love Which emanated Itself into infinity but Which needed an external cover as long as It dwelled amongst you humans who had renounced all light. But I was only recognized by a few because a spark of love still glowed in them which pushed towards Me and they were also lifted out of the darkness. But first the act of salvation had to be accomplished, the original sin had to be redeemed, the purchase price had to be paid for the souls which were still under My adversary's control who did not want to release them. And the man Jesus walked a difficult earthly path .... He prepared Himself to become My dwelling place and to receive Me into Himself. And thus His whole way of life was only a change of love, because love intimately united Him with Me and caused Me to take abode in Him .... And thus His greater than great love offered Me a sacrifice for His fallen brothers .... He took their guilt upon Himself and went with it to the cross .... He suffered and died in terrible agony and endured by virtue of His great love .... For He had received Me Himself, He had completely united Himself with Me, He Himself had become love, which is My primal element, so that I Myself thus accomplished the work of redemption in the man Jesus ....

(19.12.1961) And I redeemed you from sin and death, I restored you to the state which existed before your fall into sin .... yet I make it dependent on your will to acknowledge Me Myself in Jesus Christ and to believe that you will find salvation. I shone down on this earth as a bright light, and in this light humanity was now able to recognize the path it had to take in order to return to Me again, into the father's house. In the darkness before people did not find the way and therefore they constantly walked astray, they were in the realm of My adversary and knew no path which led out into My kingdom. I Myself first had to open up this path for you, on which you can now all follow Me, and that is why I descended to earth, that is why I put on flesh and offered the most difficult sacrifice for you in the human being Jesus .... I have lit a light that will never go out again, for the work of redemption has been accomplished for all time .... again and again the path to the cross will be the path for people which leads back to Me, into My kingdom .... And again and again you humans will be pointed to the one Who died for you on the cross .... the great love of the man Jesus will always be presented to you as the 'path of discipleship', and you will truly also walk in the light because you kindle it within yourselves as soon as you fulfil His commandments of love .... as well as you connect yourselves with Me Myself through love .... For you will have overcome darkness, you will be free from your enemy and adversary, you will return to the father again from Whom you once came forth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

2 Peter 3:10 ....

B.D. 8066 from December 21st 1961, taken from Book No. 85

The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night .... the day when I will reveal Myself to humanity with a voice of thunder which will be heard by everyone and which no human being will be able to avoid .... For sooner or later the act of transforming the earth will have to take place, sooner or later order must be established once again; the earth must again become a place of education for the souls which should mature fully and reach perfection. And this day has been planned for eternity, My plan is based on the fact that a transformation like that will occur one day because the human race itself will provide the reason for it .... which was certainly recognised by My wisdom .... And thus My power will also implement the plan and you can expect this day with certainty .... it will bring one period of Salvation to an end and a new one will start, as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture .... Time and again I point this out to you, but since you humans don't believe, since you don't take My Words seriously, it will take you by surprise, for even if My adversary reigns on Earth in the last days, even if he brings people so completely under his control that they lose all faith and in the end are true devils which oppress My Own and cause them utmost distress, they will nevertheless be equally horrified when My Own are lifted up before their eyes and they realise that they cannot be saved anymore, that they will fall prey to an act of destruction themselves, that there is no way out anymore and that the earth will devour them .... For there is no other way to purify the earth; all living creations will have to be dissolved and the spiritual substances within be placed into new forms .... a comprehensive cleansing work has to take place so as to re-establish order, which will also guarantee progression for the spiritual beings and which will completely exclude My adversary's activity for a period of time, on account of which he and his followers will be constrained for a long time.

This day of the end is proclaimed to you humans over and over again, yet only a few believe in it and even these few have no idea how close it is .... yet I will repeat My admonitions and warnings until the end, until the end I will address everyone and draw your attention to it, and until the end every one of you will still have the opportunity to avoid the horror of this end .... And therefore don't pity those who leave you, whom I take from this life prematurely .... don't pity them, for their fate is better than yours who live until the end and don't believe .... They still have the opportunity to attain light in the beyond, but the former continue to descend ever deeper, for I know that they would also choose the path to the abyss in the kingdom of the beyond, that they would not make use of the blessings of an early death; after all, I know the state of every soul and accordingly also shape its earthly destiny. And even if it is difficult to believe in an end of this earth, people will nevertheless have no excuse for they should only live righteously, then their end will not result in their banishment into hard matter, then they will either belong to My Own, whom I will return to the new earth, or they will still be recalled before and then they will not go astray either .... But it is better that they prepare themselves for an approaching end, that they take the possibility into account of being suddenly faced by an act of destruction from which there will be no more escape .... Anyone who reflects on these thoughts just once will certainly also find the path to Me, to the Creator of heaven and earth, Who brought everything forth from Him and therefore can also destroy everything again .... And I would like to rescue all of you from ruin; consequently I will bring the final work of destruction on earth home to you time and again .... And anyone who believes will not have to fear this day either, for he will prepare himself, and even if he is still weak and not perfect, he will nevertheless find a merciful Judge Who will not condemn him but help him attain eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Meaning of the love commandments .... Love became cold ....

B.D. 8067 from December 22nd 1961, taken from Book No. 85

It is the same adversity on earth as at the time when I descended to earth to bring people the light, to rescue them from deep night in which they would have hopelessly sunk without My love. And again I come to earth in the word, again I kindle a light for people which shall lead them out of the darkness of night into the light of day .... Again I Myself speak to people as I did when I walked across the earth. I bring them the gospel, the divine teaching of love, because I know that their lack of strength, their spiritual darkness, is only caused by the lack of love, which is light and strength for everyone who practices it, who lives a life of love for God and his neighbour. Humanity is in greatest spiritual adversity because it does not pay attention to what I announced to it .... it disregards My commandments of love and has completely fallen prey to the one who is devoid of all love. And this adversity cannot be remedied in any other way than through a way of life in love .... But love has grown cold among people and My adversary rules their hearts and drives them to ever greater lack of love .... For this reason I descended to people in the word and now walk the earth again and am present to everyone who wants to listen to Me and kindle love in his heart. And again and again I prove this presence of Mine to you by addressing you, by you writing down My word on My behalf and thus also making it accessible to your fellow human beings who want to hear it and who also believe in My address because the flame of love burns in their hearts and the heart recognizes Me as God and father from eternity Who speaks to His child. The great spiritual adversity prompts Me to address you as I did before when I Myself dwelled amongst people and addressed them in the same way. Few recognized Me then, and only a few recognize Me today, and yet it is the same God Who speaks to them, the God and creator from eternity, from Whose love and power you emerged and to Whom you will belong for all eternity. But you humans can only hear My voice directly when you live as I Myself exemplified life to you on earth, when you walk in love .... And thus I must proclaim to you today, as I did then, the commandments of love for God and your neighbour, I must tell you the cause of your spiritual darkness and your great adversity and show you the way to get out of it .... I must explain to you the meaning of a life of love and constantly admonish you to live in My will .... For I want to help you, I want to be your saviour again from night and death, I want to awaken you to life where you can enjoy light and freedom. And therefore I descend to you in the word and once again bring you the divine teaching of love, the gospel, in its purest form. For you shall recognize Me Myself in the word which flows from above to earth and wants to enter your hearts .... For then I Myself can also take abode in you, I can be present in you and address you Myself .... And you will recognize the voice of the father Who speaks to His child .... And what I have to say to you will always be the same: Love Me above all else and your neighbour as yourself .... Therein lies your whole task of earthly life, that you recognize Me Myself through a life of love in unselfishness, thus believe in Me alive, and that you now also acknowledge Jesus Christ as redeemer of the world and son of God, in Whom I embodied Myself .... and that you will be saved through this faith .... But living faith requires love, and therefore I will only ever proclaim My teaching of love to you, and it will be the content of the word which flows down to you directly from above, which resounds in you as the working of My spirit as soon as you live in love yourselves .... My word teaches love, and you can provide yourselves with the evidence of My presence in you if only you live a life of love, for then I will speak to you and you will be able to hear Me .... And the spiritual adversity will leave you, the night will give way to the light of day, you will be full of light yourselves, for then you will draw Me to yourselves, because love desires love .... And then you will fulfil your purpose of earthly life: you will become love again and return to Me from Whom you once originated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The Eternal Light descended to Earth ....

B.D. 8068 from December 25th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I gave you what you needed in the darkness of night when I descended to Earth: a light, which should illuminate for you the path back to Me into your Father's house. Î sent My Son to earth, a soul of light, which shone brightly and took the path across the earth as a human being, which started its earthly path as the infant Jesus and ended on the cross, so that you humans would be able to attain bliss. A soul of light descended into My adversary's dark domain, and I embodied Myself in this soul of light, because the human being Jesus drew Me, the Eternal Love, to Himself with all His might, because He accepted Me Myself in His heart, which was full of love for Me and for His fellow human beings. A soul of light was sheltered in the infant Jesus which indeed gave up its light because it had to stay as the human being Jesus in the midst of human beings, but He was full of love as well and did not let go of this love but increased it within Himself .... so that He, with an abundance of strength of love, thus performed miracles and taught in all wisdom on earth. He was a human being, for the mission of Jesus, the man, consisted of showing His fellow human beings the path which leads back to Me, to the Father, and to walk this path ahead of them, to live a life of love Himself, which alone brings people close to Me again, as I Am Love Itself .... But this happened in lawful order, a human body was animated by a soul .... yet His soul was a soul of light. Nevertheless, as a human being it was as subjected to the same temptations as every other person. But since Jesus, the soul, was full of love, this love also gave it the strength to resist the temptations .... It had relinquished the light, that is, at the start of His life on earth Jesus, the human being, was without knowledge like every other person, but the love within Him very quickly illuminated His spirit, the love within Him soon emanated bright light so that Jesus recognised humanity's great adversity as well as its origin, which had been caused by the original sin of the human race .... Jesus constantly increased in wisdom and strength because love filled Him ever more, because He was in most intimate contact with Me and thus enabled My light of love to permeate Him completely .... And then He emanated light in turn, He instructed people with wisdom, He performed miracles by virtue of His power which was based on His great love ....

The man Jesus spiritualised Himself during His life on earth, because His love achieved that the body willingly submitted itself to the soul's wishes, because body and soul always had the same aim: to help people in their adversity, to take redemptive actions, spiritually and earthly .... He healed the sick since He also wanted to demonstrate the strength of love to people and first expressed this in a perceptible earthly way in order to win them over to Himself, so that they would accept His divine teaching of love and make an effort to follow Him on the path of love. But people were still subject to My adversary's power, who had no intention of setting them free and who weakened their will in every conceivable way .... And the man Jesus wanted to break this power, He wanted to defeat him with My strength .... for the love in Him was overwhelmingly powerful, and through this love He forced Me increasingly more to express My love, He drew Me, the 'Eternal Love' to Himself, and thus I was in Him and in this most heartfelt unity with Me the man Jesus accomplished the act of Salvation .... that is, as a human being He endured the greatest suffering and torment because the Love in Him .... I Myself .... gave Him the strength to accomplish this act of Salvation. Thus, He waged battle against My adversary as a human being, and through His death on the cross He achieved victory over him and over death .... That which previously had been impossible for people, to release themselves from his control, became possible for them after the act of Salvation .... The Saviour Who had descended to earth brought help to humanity in this immense adversity, yet this was only possible through 'love', and I Myself was this love .... The fact that 'Love' had chosen a human form for Itself was necessary on account of people, for they were meant to recognise Jesus as the One in Whom the Divine had manifested Itself in abundance, because I Myself was unable to be visible to people and therefore had to avail Myself of a human shell .... And that only a soul of light was able to offer this shell to Me is likewise understandable, because I would have been unable to take abode in an impure soul .... Besides, the human shell was meant to lead the way for people which I opened up to them in Jesus .... Consequently, as a human being He had to be of the same kind as every human being, otherwise people would have been unable to follow Him .... Yet, He Himself, the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, will always be at people's side as a Helper .... while the man Jesus only used the strength of love, but this permeated Him fully and completely, so that therefore 'love' accomplished the act which signified redemption from sin and death for humanity. Time and again I try to reveal this mystery to you humans, yet you will only be able to grasp its full depth when you have changed yourselves into love .... Then there will also be light in you, then the divine light of love will permeate you again as it was in the beginning and you will be very happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Teaching ministry .... 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise ....'

B.D. 8069 from December 28th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

You can only correctly administer a teaching ministry if you possess the correct teaching material which corresponds to the truth. And precisely this teaching material should be seriously scrutinised by you if you want to educate your fellow human beings, because only that which came forth from Me as pure truth is a blessing. Yet this scrutiny is usually omitted, people accept unhesitatingly and as a matter of course what they receive as truth and even take care to spread it without having established the origin, without being firmly convinced themselves of having received the truth. But a teacher's position is a responsible one, for he can bestow great blessings but also poisonously influence people's hearts because only truth benefits the soul, while error is genuine poison. And anyone who wants to teach can clarify for himself whether he represents pure truth, providing he has the serious will to stand up for it and appeals to Me Myself for assistance to enlighten His thoughts and not to let him go astray. He will certainly find My support and I Myself will guide him into truth. For this is My promise to you and it will come true because My Word is truth. And you must know the truth, for then you will walk with Me, whereas error will time and again result im My adversary's company, who only wants to cause you damage and therefore prevents you from attaining the light of truth. For this reason, every teacher has a great responsibility if he spreads something that does not correspond to the truth. And you humans believe that you can acquire truthful knowledge through study .... you believe, that you can attain spiritual knowledge by intellectual means and only pay attention to those people who thus have adopted ample intellectual knowledge, and are also willing to acknowledge it as truth. But I will 'destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent ....' Do you now understand the meaning of these Words? You will never come into possession of the pure truth if you don't come to Me yourselves and desire the truth from Me .... For I have reserved it for Myself to guide you into truth, because I alone know who is receptive for it, who has the spiritual maturity in order to recognise the truth as such .... And the spiritual maturity, in turn, depends on the human being's serious will to live according to My will. Contact in spirit and in truth must have been established with Me first, so that My flow of love can pour into the person, and this flow of love is the transfer of My Word, of the truth, in the form of thoughts or the audibly conveyed Word ....

Then the person will be guaranteed to know the truth, his thinking will be right, and he need not fear to fall prey to error, for the heartfelt bond with Me and the desire for truth will protect him from it .... But where can such desire be found among the teachers, who believe themselves to know the truth .... who have not yet understood the spiritual correlations, who do not know which prerequisites need to be fulfilled in order to be deemed worthy by Me to receive the truth? .... Spiritual knowledge is indifferently adopted through tradition and taught, and people accept it again without thinking it through, and thus enter into spiritual darkness or they cannot find their way out of the darkness they are in .... For misguided teachings cannot enlighten anyone, instead, they only increase the darkness and cause spiritual hardship to souls, because they need light in order to take the right path which leads to higher spheres. And all this must also make the urgency of My revelations understandable for you humans, for the time left is only short, and if people are to find and take the right path they will need light to illuminate the path for them. Light, however, can only come from above, and everyone administering a teaching position should first make contact with the light of eternity in order to be illuminated by this light himself, and truly, the spiritual hardship would not be as great if the truth were accepted by people .... And whatever can still be done by Me will certainly happen, for only truth sets people free, only truth guides people back to Me, and only through truth can you humans become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Draw from the spring the water of life ....

B.D. 8070 from December 30th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I will always keep the spring open for you so that you can quench your thirst at any time, for you need a healthy water of life from which your soul can strengthen itself because it is still weak and powerless. And thus you only need to want to receive and the water of life will flow out of the spring and flow to you without limit. In this you recognize My love for you which always wants to give itself away and which only requires an open heart in order to flow into it. I only require from you the desire to be bestowed by Me, and My gifts of grace will flow to you unmeasured because such a desire pleases Me, Who can only ever consider you if you give up all resistance against Me, thus desire to receive the water of life from Me yourselves. And thus you know that the source of life is always open for you and that you should only humbly ask Me to allow you to refresh yourselves with it .... And truly, you will not need to live in want, you will be given according to your state of weakness, for you shall recover at My source of love, you shall truly be allowed to refresh yourselves and receive what you desire. And thus I want to comfort you in suffering, strengthen you in weakness of soul and also of body, I want to instruct you and introduce you to the truth .... I want to please you through My personal address which, however, only ever applies to the salvation of the soul; I want to reveal Myself to you as a father Who dearly loves His children and strives for unification with them .... I will not miss any opportunity where I can speak to My children because they need My address, because they have to draw the water of life from the source so that it does not lose its strength .... And therefore I want to tell you that I am always ready to offer you a fresh drink and strong food, that only you have to create the opportunity for Me yourselves by opening yourselves, by desiring to drink and eat. And truly, you will not go empty-handed, I will always be ready for you, for I will not let any opportunity pass by to address you, because this is My bliss to be in contact with My children on earth, which makes a supply of pure water of life possible .... I always want to make you happy, and you shall always feel this happiness by being certain that you are addressed by the father and that this address only ever demonstrates His greater than great love for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The earth's last hour ....

B.D. 8071 from January 2nd 1962, taken from Book No. 85

And the last hour of the world's clock comes constantly closer .... These Words don't mean much to you humans for you don't believe that you are so close to the end .... And for your sake I cannot give you compelling evidence of this for your fear would render you incapable of fulfilling your earthly task. And thus you may or may not believe it, and your nature will be in accordance with this unbelief when the hour has come. For My plan has been determined for eternity, and profound love for My living creations made Me decide on this plan in all wisdom and will also determine Me to bring it to fruition because the time is fulfilled. My Nature is forever unchanging, and what I once foresaw as being necessary and successful for the beings which are still separated from Me I will also carry out and not allow people to make Me change My plan, since it was based on humanity's will which I have eternally foreseen as no longer capable of change on this earth. I do not plan and act arbitrarily but immeasurable love and wisdom determine Me in everything that happens. Hence there is no reason why I should refrain from implementing My eternal plan of Salvation, for I can see every situation clearly and therefore know that nothing will be gained by changing or deferring My plan of Salvation.

You humans must bear in mind that you truly have had enough time at your disposal and yet those of you who do not believe in Me have not changed .....Even if you had far more time at your disposal you would still not change, hence a postponement of the end would be completely ineffective and pointless and would even put My Own at risk of falling prey to My adversary as well if I do not constrain him as it is intended .... You really ought to grant Me supreme wisdom and profoundest love, then you will no longer appeal to Me for preventing the end of this earth, then you will expect the coming time with complete trust in My love which shall protect everyone who wants to belong to Me and which will truly also use its might when My Own need help in any adversity. Even if you humans don't want to believe that your time is nearing its end you should at least consider the possibility that you suddenly will be recalled from earth; for you know that you cannot prolong your own life and that you don't know when your last day will come. Just consider that you cannot stop death and think what will happen to your soul, which is immortal, which is your real Self whose fate you decide yourself during your earthly life .... But you do not even believe in your soul's continuing existence, and as a result of your unbelief you are in serious trouble for it will not stop Me from carrying out what is proclaimed in Word and Scripture .... For the time is fulfilled and everyday is still a blessing which you can use if only you are of good will.

However, don't put your hope in false prophets who deny an end, who believe that they can change My mind, for they do not speak in My name but are the instruments of the one who wants to keep you in spiritual darkness and who therefore wants people to believe that they have unlimited time .... People would rather believe these false prophets and only ever seek fulfilment by enjoying a good life but fail to consider their souls whose existence they doubt or deny. And it will come to pass as it was foretold .... I Myself will come in the clouds in order to fetch My Own before the work of destruction of the old earth begins .... Not one stone will remain on the other, for the earth will have to be renewed. A new earth will arise, a paradise-like creation which will accept all immature spiritual beings again which were released at the destruction of the old earth and require new forms once more in order to continue to mature fully. And this new earth will be inhabited by those who had remained true to Me until the end .... For they will have reached the degree of maturity which allows them to enter the sphere of light and therefore they will also be allowed to inhabit the paradise which will truly be the same state of beatitude for them as if they had entered My spiritual kingdom without their physical shell. Yet they shall serve Me as the root of the new human race ....

A new period of Salvation can only start with spiritually mature human beings who will also help all still constrained spirits within their environment to speedily achieve maturity, who have such a heartfelt bond with Me that they will also teach love to their children and children's children and bear witness to their God and Creator's glory, and thus the release from the form can progress quickly because I will dwell amongst them in the living Jesus .... Because all people who will then inhabit the new earth will also entrust themselves to their divine Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ and in awareness of the original sin also consciously take the path to Him and therefore all resistance will have been broken, for then every person will consciously take the path of return to Me so that I Myself can be present to him since his great love for Me will allow it. Hence this will be the thousand-year kingdom in which the victory over Satan will be evident, for he cannot and will not oppress anyone anymore since all have entirely freed themselves from him and achieved the return to Me, leaving him unable to enter My kingdom until even this blissful time will gradually change again .... until people once again show an inclination towards matter and thereby release the chains of My adversary .... who is lord over matter .... and his influence markedly manifests itself again .... Yet before this time comes to pass many souls will have entered My kingdom in a completely redeemed state .... I will have been able to reap a good harvest, and then the battle with My adversary for the souls will start again .... Yet I will be victorious and time and again wrest souls from him and reduce his follows who represent his power. And time and again he will contribute towards the fact that the redemption of the fallen spiritual will continue. For I will never surrender what is Mine, even if it takes eternities .... one day it will return to Me and then remain united with Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The near end demands increased vineyard work ....

B.D. 8072 from January 5th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Every one of you is reminded to consider the gravity of the time .... No-one among you should take it easy, no-one should believe themselves to have much time left, each one of you who wants to do so shall still work diligently in My vineyard, for everyone's work is needed since it can still result in the salvation of a soul if it is carried out with a loving will to help. I see the many unhappy souls which still linger so far away from Me because they live without faith and only make use of their life on earth in a purely material way .... And I will guide you to wherever I can still see an opportunity to win them over through My Word, that is, I will guide your thoughts and actions such that they will obtain possession of My gift of grace, of My Word, which flows to you from above. Rest assured that you can still greatly contribute towards the redemption of erring souls, you just should not let yourselves become discouraged; you must constantly work and I shall truly give you the strength so that you will be able to work according to My will. And you should also take note of the fact that you will be able to discover a greater will to live and increased self-indulgence the closer it gets to the end .... For people don't believe in an end and thus will uninhibitedly satisfy their wishes and cravings. And it will be just like it was at the time of the Flood: they ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage .... they will live in an exuberant lust for life and the floodgates will be wide open for sin. For My adversary will have predominance and will certainly make use of it ....

And this is the time you are approaching, and everyone who fails to remember Me and does not appeal for My protection and help will be at risk. However, anyone who believes in Me will also turn to Me and he will not go astray .... And anyone who wants to be of service to Me may also experience My special grace .... yet he shall also pay attention to My instructions which will only ever consist of doing redeeming work. And you can do this constantly by referring the people around you to the coming event, by admonishing and warning them, by conveying My Word to them wherever possible. Every such activity will be blessed even if the success is not immediately obvious .... So don't get discouraged if you come across all kinds of opposition; don't stop in your willingness to be a helpful co-worker for Me; consider the great spiritual hardship and carry out redemption work by distributing My Gospel, by spreading My Word, which is greatly effective and can touch those souls which are not yet entirely hardened belong to My adversary. And very soon you will realise the truth of My Word, since you are approaching the end with giant strides .... For the time is fulfilled and it will come to pass as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Granting prayers .... The right relationship of a child with its Father ....

B.D. 8073 from January 6th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Oh, why don't you recognise your Father's love Who only wants the best for you .... Let yourselves be stopped on the path which leads into ruin, listen to the coaxing calls of your shepherd and turn around .... Return to Me and let yourselves be guided by Me, for if you stay away from Me you will be at the mercy of the enemy who ruthlessly pulls you into the abyss, who scatters My flock and with the greatest of ease leads it into his domain if it does not take refuge in Me, where he cannot follow. And you humans should know that he constantly lies in wait for you, that he will not miss any opportunity to pull you into his trap and that he is very successful because you rely on your own strength when, in fact, you can only be victorious with My support. And I see your fate, I see the danger you are in and even if I want to help you .... you don't accept My help because you turn away from Me in view of the fact that your will is not directed towards Me as yet. Your thinking cannot forcibly be changed, a voluntary transformation towards Me has to take place, only then will I be able to take you by your hand, only then will you be able to receive My evident help. And in order to achieve this voluntary focus on Me I have to let adversity come upon you, and you will find it difficult again to believe in a God of love, but the adversity intends to encourage you to take the path to Me and to appeal to Me for help ....

All I want to achieve is for you to find the path to Me, that you listen to your shepherd's coaxing call, that you take refuge in Him when you are in difficulty .... And you will truly find help; however, your call to Me must come from your heart .... You are often surprised at the fact that your prayers are not answered, yet you do not give account to yourselves as to what kind of prayer you send to Me .... If I don't feel that your heartfelt prayer was sent to Me in spirit and in truth I do not hear you, for such prayers rise up to Me every day a thousand fold, but they are soullessly recited, they are formal prayers which I cannot grant because they don't yet testify to the bond, to the relationship of an appealing child to its Father, Who then will certainly help with anything .... for nothing is impossible for Me .... If, however, a prayer lacks depth of feeling it will not reach My ear and then it will not be granted either .... not due to insufficient love on My part but due to insufficient lack of childlike trust in Me, which is the assured guarantee that every request will be granted .... If only you were able to believe in My inconceivable love for you .... which only ever wants to give itself away, which does not want to let you suffer. Yet your conduct forces Me to use means which make you question My love .... And yet, I only want to help you .... And blessed is he who lays claim to these final means of help, who still finds the path to Me and calls upon Me in his distress .... For he will truly receive My help and may visibly experience Me, and he will believe in Me and not go astray ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Are you living in truth? ....

B.D. 8074 from January 7th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The will to attain truth also guarantees its receipt .... however, such genuine will is rarely to be found .... People unreservedly accept whatever is presented to them as truth and accordingly adjust their outlook, i.e. depending on the information conveyed to them they either live within light or within darkness .... For only light can grant pure truth .... whereas error will always darken the spirit. This concerns spiritual knowledge and not earthly information which can be substantiated by evidence but which has no influence on the inner life of a human being who was given his earthly existence for the purpose of attaining full maturity of soul. Aspire only to pure truth and you will receive it with absolute certainty .... Yet what you are presently offered as truth .... who gives you the guarantee that it can lay claim to be the truth? .... Time and again you should ask yourselves this question. You should know that many schools of thought advocate their spiritual knowledge as truth, that all teach something different but that there can only be one truth ....

Thus you should not ‘unreservedly’ believe either one or the other but always turn to the highest Authority .... to the Eternal Truth Himself .... you should turn to the One Who is in charge of everything, Who has created everything, Who is supremely perfect, Who knows all and Who is Love Himself .... Who therefore also wants to give light to you, His living creations, because He loves you .... Who truly did not create the beings in spiritual darkness but did not prevent them from striving towards the darkness of their own accord by following the prince of darkness .... Lucifer .... into his realm. But He Who gave you life does not want you to remain in darkness; He wants to give you light which you can accept from His hand at all times, He is always willing to illuminate your thinking and provide you with clear insight regarding all questions you might have .... regarding the reason and purpose of your existence .... And if you are taught by the ‘Eternal Truth’ Itself It cannot impart anything but the purest truth to you, and then you will also be able to believe with conviction, you will know that you live in truth. You can be absolutely certain that the truth will be granted to you providing you earnestly desire it .... This is the first requirement, for if a person acknowledges God as the Eternal Truth he will also approach Him directly and appeal to Him for providing him with the truth .... Thus he consciously opens himself to the ray of light .... he establishes the bond which is the purpose and goal of earthly life .... which once was voluntarily interrupted and thus resulted in the being’s fall into the abyss, into darkness ....

The fact that the human being consciously opens himself to be illuminated by God’s love also means that his lightless state changes into a state of light .... and then the human being will receive the kind of knowledge which hitherto had been concealed from him .... You humans can be assured that this process is possible and does happen .... you may also believe that everyone is able to experience it .... but not everyone can meet the necessary requirements which, however, only limits the direct receipt of truth and not the indirect supply of pure truth .... For truly, everyone who desires the truth will receive it .... Yet everyone can also shape himself such that he can receive the pure truth directly by merely living a life of unselfish love whereby he awakens the spirit within himself which, being part of God, lies dormant in every person and also knows everything and thus can teach a person from within. Take the path to the higher Authority; don’t be satisfied with what people offer you even if they likewise believe it to represent the ‘truth’ .... There would not be so much darkness on earth if the truth had established itself amongst people. But it is obvious that dense darkness prevails or earth would be in a state of harmony and peace, when in fact the opposite is the case ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Every being fell and ascends voluntarily ....

B.D. 8075 from January 8th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

I certainly knew the direction of your will when I created you, I knew that you would make the wrong decision of your own free will .... Yet this did not prevent Me from completing My plan of Creation because I also foresaw the final goal which will result in unlimited bliss for the created beings once again. Besides, those beings really fell entirely of their own free choice .... Since every being enjoyed an immense abundance of light it also knew what it was doing when it distanced itself from Me .... thus it was fully responsible and cannot blame any other being .... not even Lucifer, its maker. For I would never have allowed a being’s will to be determined .... it was able to freely want and act by itself and so, accordingly, was its guilt which kept it chained to the abyss. Yet on the other hand, each one of these fallen beings had the opportunity to shape itself into a godlike being again. For the process that took place from the moment it fell into the abyss was a plan of Salvation based on love and wisdom which made this retransformation into perfection possible. The beings were by no means lost to My adversary forever, although they had followed him voluntarily .... Yet I, too, was entitled to these beings because they had emerged from My strength of love .... And I will not allow anyone to deny Me this right. Nevertheless, neither I nor My adversary will ever force the being to make a decision for Me or for him, instead, it is left up to its free will to choose its lord. I know that the final decision will sooner or later be in My favour but the being itself determines the time it takes for this final decision. But the goal motivated Me not to prevent the beings’ fall .... which I certainly could have done but, in My wisdom, recognised as wrong in view of the goal, which only an act of complete freedom of will can achieve. The fact that I knew every individual being’s decision in advance did not influence the act of creation insofar as I might have created the beings differently according to their direction of will ....Supreme perfection adorned all My living creations given that nothing flawed, imperfect, could have emerged from Me. And their free will especially demonstrated their divinity, even if it was aimed in the wrong direction and thus the being changed within itself into the opposite .... But retransformation is such an immense task for the being, something so enormous, that the goal motivated Me to nurture it with greatest love, wisdom and might.

Reshaping the fallen beings into all kinds of creations was an act which gave Me much happiness, something which you humans cannot imagine .... It was My strength, which once inexorably poured out of the Primary Source, which now took on forms according to My will .... And since every created spiritual being was My once-emanated strength which did not fulfil its actual purpose, it was now diverted into those forms, giving them life and performing tasks .... because all strength coming forth from Me must become active according to My will .... However, the once fallen spirits are no longer self-aware, instead, disintegrated into innumerable tiny particles, they carry out a designated task in the law of compulsion .... They must yield to My will in order to attain the state in which self-awareness and free will can be returned to them .... This process of development of the once fallen spirits is My plan of Salvation, which was designed with profound love and unsurpassed wisdom and which, with certainty, will return all once fallen beings to Me in supreme perfection .... which can only be achieved by the free will of the being itself and not by virtue of My power. But the fact that everything has to take place according to My law of eternal order may also prolong the process of return indefinitely, for I cannot intervene against the being’s will when it has to pass its final test as a human .... I must let love and justice prevail and cannot bestow bliss upon a being which is still burdened by the guilt of the original sin .... For this reason I must demand the acknowledgement of Jesus and His act of Salvation on earth, and the person must take his original sin to Him under the cross and appeal to Him for forgiveness .... Then he will have passed the final test of will, he will have acknowledged Me Myself again in Jesus, in Whom I became a visible God for him and can now provide him with supreme bliss again in My kingdom, in which he will stay united with Me for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessing from the connection with God ....

B.D. 8076 from January 10th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You will achieve great spiritual gain if you often unite with Me in thought, if you commune with Me and thus turn away or withdraw from the earthly material world which will only ever satisfy the body but not the soul. But the soul receives strength from Me, from every bond, because such a bond always means an opening of the heart for the illumination from Me. Understand that contact only ever has to be established in order to guarantee an overflow of strength .... and that every mental turning towards Me creates such a contact which is of greatest blessing for the soul. I cannot have a determining effect on your will because it is free; therefore you must seek the bond with Me of your own accord. But you will never regret it, for you will never go empty-handed, you will always receive strength and grace from Me because I can now illuminate you with My strength of love. The clearest form of this illumination is My word directly conveyed to you .... But your soul can also receive an unusual impetus for loving activity, for spiritual activity .... And this is always proof of My illumination of love, which you make possible yourselves through a conscious bond with Me .... But if you receive My word then the blessing is inconceivable, because not you alone but countless spiritual beings are co-recipients who can draw strength from the word and mature .... Every bond with Me is a source of inexhaustible strength for you .... Physically you don't feel anything of it, and that sometimes makes you indifferent. But your soul will thank you if you repeatedly switch Me on in your thoughts .... it matures itself, and it will not remain powerless but spiritual strength will be at its disposal as often as it needs it .... You only ever need to turn to Me in thought, be it questions or requests which move you .... only ever come to Me with them and thereby allow Me to illuminate your open hearts, which results in every voluntary bond with Me .... And then you can also assume with certainty that you will be able to make spiritual progress .... because it cannot be otherwise when you receive strength from Me than that it helps you to ascend. And thus every work of love will also establish a direct bond with Me, because I Myself am love, because .... "whoever remains in love remains in Me and I in him ...." In your earthly life alone it is a matter of restoring the bond with Me which you once voluntarily broke off .... You turned away from Me of your own free will, and you must turn to Me again of your own free will. Then you will have passed your test of will on earth for the purpose of which your existence as a human being was given to you .... The distance from Me still exists when you enter embodiment as a human being .... And only when you live a conscious life will you be able to reduce this distance, and blessed is he who kindles love within himself and thereby re-establishes the intimate bond with Me .... blessed is he who often raises his thoughts to Me and converses with Me .... Now I Myself can influence him again as before, I can illuminate him with My love, and his earthly life will now not be an idle one either, he will bring the soul to its aim, for it is no longer powerless as it was at the beginning of its human existence but it can constantly receive strength from Me through the bond with Me, and it will be able to mature and perfect itself while still on earth. The human being needs My strength .... Although vitality is at his disposal he needs spiritual strength to mature his soul, which he can only receive from Me if he opens his heart, i.e. if he consciously turns to Me in thought, in prayer and through loving activity .... And I will truly provide you abundantly with strength, for I want you to return to Me .... I want you to become perfect, and I long for you who once came forth from My love and who shall find their way home again into their father's house.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's spirit does not contradict itself ....

B.D. 8077 from January 11th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You can safely advocate My Word as the pure truth and I will guide your thoughts such that you will always recognise where My adversary pushes forward, intending to confuse people's thinking. After all, I gave you the pure truth so that people shall gain access to it. And anyone who can receive this truth from Me directly will also be qualified to work as a teacher and will always be able to refute every objection posed to him by his fellow human beings. It is My will that the truth shall penetrate, that there shall be light, that the darkness shall be dispelled, that is, that people will learn to think correctly. However, since this requires people's free will it is not easy to counteract error. It is the human being's own responsibility as to whether he lives in truth or in error, since from My side he will truly be given light which he only needs to accept if he seriously wants to achieve maturity of soul .... And thus you shall receive the assertion that you need never fear that My spirit will contradict itself. Whether or not it is My spirit which expresses itself can easily be established by anyone who sincerely wants the truth .... For he will also receive the ability to differentiate from Me and he will feel himself addressed by Me. Nevertheless, he must accept My Word with his heart and not only with his intellect. A biased person attempting an examination is no longer able to form a correct opinion .... for his intellect will prevail and drown out the emotions of his heart .... I, however, Am only able to speak to a person through his heart. Therefore, open your hearts if you want Me to speak to you, be it directly or through My servants' impartation .... Want to be addressed by Me and, truly, your thinking will be enlightened, you will understand what was previously incomprehensible to you, you will also be able to make clear judgments, and you will be happy to hear your Father's voice Who wants to speak to all His children who merely desire to hear Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's help is assured for you ....

B.D. 8078 from January 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

And I have promised you My support in earthly and spiritual adversity, which you can also expect with certainty because I love you. But do you also faithfully come to Me with all your concerns? When you are distressed you often torment yourselves with your worries and don't think of handing them over to Me and asking Me for help. I can also make the seemingly impossible possible, and I want to prove Myself to you as a father in order to win all your love. Do not forget that the father speaks to His children and that the father will not teach His children wrongly .... Don't forget that you possess all My love, and then you will also believe in My willingness to help and entrust yourselves to Me in your adversity. For you are all burdened by adversity, each one of you is in need of help, and this must also be the case in the time of the end, because I want to gather My small flock, because it shall press towards its shepherd Who will truly protect it from the enemy .... If you recognize the adversity then you turn to Him; if you are completely unencumbered then there is a danger that you will turn to the world, and I want to prevent this. I fear for every soul that it will not get lost again for endless times, and therefore I try to draw every soul to Me. It shall find Me in earthly hardship and weaknesses of all kinds where only I can help you. And truly, it will be allowed to experience Me in My love and might, but it has to believe, and it will be able to believe alive if it lives a life of love. And if your faith is only weak then nevertheless come to Me and appeal to Me, then I will also strengthen your faith by visibly assisting you .... I let mercy and grace prevail because I know about the weakness of My living creations .... You lack love and yet I do not let you fall, but I try everything to also kindle the flame of love in you .... I give you gifts because I want to win your love in return .... But come to Me of your own accord because I cannot force you to turn to Me .... If earthly hardship presses you, entrust it to Me and you will not go empty-handed, I will not close My ear to your requests, I will help you because I have the power to do so, and I love you and don't want you to suffer .... if only you have found your way to Me, which often cannot be achieved other than through suffering .... You humans should all experience the love of your God and creator, for only then will you return to Me in free will .... I want to reveal Myself to you as a loving father, and that is why you sometimes get into difficulties and worries which should drive you towards Me .... So come and ask Me and entrust yourselves to Me .... And I will reveal Myself to you as a loving father Who can help and wants to help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redeemer work in the kingdom beyond ....

B.D. 8079 from January 14th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You will also be able to redeem the souls in the kingdom of the beyond if you want to help them to get out of their adversity. And they will be eternally grateful to you, for they can receive great help from people who are more willing to accept it than the help of friends in the beyond who are close to them in the same cover they wear themselves and who therefore often don't find faith when they want to instruct these souls. But you humans can make My word accessible to them, which has great strength and often quickly determines the souls' acceptance. For as soon as you want to help the souls they also feel your love, and this works as strength. If My word, offered to them through you, is now heard by them, they will also feel its effect of strength and accept it with complete faith .... and then they will already be helped, for then they will also exchange information with other souls, and thus they will start to be redemptively active themselves, they will also want to make other souls happy or talk to them about what they have heard, and thus My word can have an effect. You humans are unaware of the service of love you render to those souls to whom you consciously bring My word .... Your faith itself is still weak because you cannot gain insight into the kingdom of those souls which surround you and are not unwilling to be taught by you .... Where spiritual good is offered, where spiritual conversations are held, where a bond is established with the spiritual kingdom through thoughts, there flash sparks of light which are noticed by those souls and are often already eagerly awaited .... They rush towards these sparks of light and take part in the spiritual instructions, they are attentive and fill themselves with spiritual food because they desire it and noticeably experience a strengthening. And therefore every spiritual work you humans accomplish on earth is blessed, because such souls always take part in it which surround you and are willing .... And if you consciously summon them you can send them a stream of light which truly has a great redeeming effect. And this work of redemption in the kingdom of the beyond is to be valued very highly, for countless people enter that kingdom who are suddenly called away from earth and still have the opportunity to ascend there .... And before the end death will still hold a great harvest, for I see the hopelessness for many people to still increase their state of maturity on earth, and if I want to prevent them from sinking further and finally being at My adversary's mercy I have to call them away from this earth and give them the opportunity in the spiritual kingdom to still ascend .... And it will also be made easy for them if only they are not completely hardened and nevertheless strive towards the abyss in free will .... Yet the bond between these prematurely recalled human souls and earth still exists to a great extent, and therefore you, who are active in My vineyard, are also observed far more by these souls, and they are also more willing to accept instructions from you because these are given in a form which appeals to them .... when My word sounds, which you pass on to your fellow human beings or it moves your thoughts itself .... Believe that the radiation of My word which you receive is of far greater effect than you yourselves can measure .... Believe that you will always spread blessings wherever My word is received, written, read or passed on orally .... And therefore use every free hour to be active in My vineyard, because souls will always arrive who are eager for spiritual nourishment and who pursue you and your actions and thoughts .... Help them, for they are in great spiritual hardship as long as they are still surrounded by darkness which, however, you can remedy through the light emanating from My word and help them to ascend. For My love applies to all souls, only I cannot work extra-legally. And therefore you should give them love, and for the sake of your intercessory love I can now also help them to ascend ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Through natural events God reveals His power ....

B.D. 8080 from January 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

I want to enlighten you about everything which only serves to ensure that you still take the path to Me, your God and creator, Whom you once voluntarily left, before the end. You humans don't know the reason for your existence as a human being on this earth and yet you should try to find out about it, for only then will you live your earthly life consciously. You are indeed told that you are on earth in order to become perfect, but because you lack closer understanding these teachings do not touch you .... You must first be truthfully instructed and take a mental stand on it yourselves .... Only then will you live your life appropriately. And I try to convey this truth to you, yet your free will is decisive as to whether you accept and recognize it as truth. But now you humans are close to the end, and if you still want to reach maturity of soul by then you must take it seriously and consciously make contact with your God and creator .... You must therefore believe in Him for the time being .... And therefore you will still experience many things which will prove to you a 'power' outside the earthly world (power?) .... You will not be able to deny the intervention of a power which you cannot determine yourselves, which also shapes your destiny and to which you must surrender. If only you come to this realization in earthly life then the first step has already been taken, for then it will also be possible for you to make contact with this power, and then you will be grasped by Me and truly guided step by step upwards .... And now you will also understand why I so often try to reveal Myself in natural events .... People must be able to see that human will, human powers are eliminated when things take place in nature which, as catastrophes, also claim countless human lives .... They must learn to recognize a power above themselves, even though such events do not yet signify a compulsion to believe, since completely unbelieving people also give themselves other reasons for such events if they are still completely opposed to Me. Yet I reveal Myself in natural events of all kinds .... yet individual people will always feel addressed by them, i.e. they will recognize that I am and that they themselves also originated from Me. There is only a short time left until the end, but there will still be many revelations of this kind, for I can no longer speak to those who are hardened in any other way, and only through the most severe strokes of fate can some souls still be won over who suddenly realize that they themselves are powerless and dependent on the one Who created them .... And again and again I will therefore address people .... loudly and powerfully to those who pay no attention to a quiet address, for the connection between Me and earth will always remain in place because you humans are creations of My love which I want to win back. And the closer the end is the louder My voice will sound, which will express itself through the elements of nature .... until the last day has come when harvest will be held .... where everything will fall to death again which has completely turned away from Me and a new life will begin on the new earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Forerunner .... Visible appearance .... The time is fulfilled ....

B.D. 8081 from January 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

People on earth will not change anymore, there is no further spiritual progress, only individual people will still find Me since they are determined to fulfil the purpose of their earthly life. Whatever can still be done on My part in order to increase the number of the latter will truly be done, and My love will also find ways and means to touch the hearts of a few so that they will open themselves without inner resistance and accept My Word .... Yet they are not many and thus it can be said: The time is fulfilled .... For humanity's low spiritual level determines the end itself, and this truly has descended to a point where a transformation of humanity is out of the question .... My adversary reigns over the spiritual essence which takes the last path across earth as a human being and in an entirely negative sense influences those who are enslaved by him and comply with his will. Hence they have made their final decision of will already and have chosen the kingdom of darkness again .... they will return to matter again, which enslaved them on earth and from which they can no longer detach themselves. And matter will receive the soul once more ....

However, until the end I will still offer people the opportunity to turn towards their God and Creator, for the steadfastness of My Own might yet change their mind and let them ask questions which I Myself would certainly answer, because I want to spare these individual souls a renewed banishment, a repeated process through the creations of the new earth. And My spirit will so evidently be with My Own that even the disbelievers would begin to wonder .... I will reveal Myself to them through the visible help that I will grant to My Own .... and the disbelievers would be able to believe if they wanted to release themselves from My adversary who keeps them enchained .... For I will seize even the faintest thought they might have about Me and never let go of them again .... because I will let Myself be found even in the last hour wherever there is the will to experience Me .... My Own, however, will recognize how the adversary keeps their fellow human beings enchained .... My Own will be subject to his onslaughts as well, yet My strength will clearly be at their disposal, for I Myself will help them in the battle and they will emerge victoriously .... For truly, My strength is stronger than his, and he will flee from the light you shine on him because he recognises Me Myself therein.

And in order for My Own to remain strong they will receive active help; I Myself will be with them in the Word, I will send them bearers of light which will radiate so brightly that they will dispel all shadows and also repel the enemies intending to oppress My Own .... I will delight people with My presence and fortify them in their resistance against the enemy .... And individual people will be able to behold Me and draw tremendous strength from this and also transmit this strength to their brothers .... And then you will hear of the one who shall announce My arrival, who will appear again as the voice in the wilderness and whose light will shine for all of you, and you will recognise him as My forerunner at the time of the end .... I won't abandon you, who want to be and remain My Own, in your physical and spiritual hardship, you are truly not alone and forsaken even if it worldly seems like that to you .... I Myself Am with you and you will also sense My presence and have unwavering faith in Me and My arrival on the day of Judgment .... And for the sake of My Own I will shorten the days so that they will persevere until the end .... For there will be no spiritual change on this earth anymore; yet a spiritual turning point will have to come, the earth will have to be of service again for the spirits' higher development .... And the spirits having failed their last test of will must be bound again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God is love ....

B.D. 8082 from January 19th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Everything arose from God's strength of love .... He Himself is the primary source of strength, His fundamental element is love, thus He is love Himself .... And yet He is a Being Which works and creates with wise judgment .... He is a Being Which puts Its thoughts into effect, Which constantly brings forth new creations that radiate His strength of love into infinity. This, however, always serves its purpose, it is not arbitrarily effective but its result is determined by God's wisdom and might .... God is love .... You humans will not understand this statement as long as you are unable to comprehend the nature of love, which necessitates shaping yourselves into love. For you will always look at love as a characteristic which you confer to the highest and most perfect being. But that this Being is love Itself will remain incomprehensible to you as long as you live on earth as a human being.

And you all emerged from this love, you are emanated strength, you yourselves are love in your fundamental nature .... but likewise you are beings with the ability of thought and will .... the evidence of an 'entity' .... Hence, nothing arose and will continue to arise haphazardly .... Everything is very wisely considered; all things are the thoughts of a supremely perfect Being Which you humans call 'God' .... And this Being reproduced Itself .... It brought forth the same beings from within Itself, It emanated Its strength of love and gave it forms .... It created .... Everything created by God is and remains love in its fundamental substance. It is and remains strength which shall become effective in accordance with divine will .... If, however, it is prevented from being effective then divine order will be changed .... The principle of love will be turned into the opposite. The Being Which is love, wisdom and might Itself .... thus 'God' .... will be resisted, which the beings He had brought to life could indeed accomplish because He had also endowed them with free will as His images .... But in that case the being will leave its lawful order .... it will turn itself into the opposite .... it will certainly carry on existing, but it will no longer allow the strength of love to become effective and that will signify solidification, it will signify a standstill, it will signify the death of what once radiated as 'life' from God ....

The human being's fundamental substance is love, yet on the whole he is still in opposition to the One Who had emanated him as a being .... And therefore he does not recognise what love is .... For this reason the nature of God, Who is love Himself, is also incomprehensible to him. For love is simultaneously light, Which, however, provides little enlightenment for the human being while his love is still feeble. Hence he is also unable to recognise God's nature, he can only believe the information he receives regarding it, but as soon as such reports accord to the truth they will also enlighten him, for then he will endeavour to change his nature into love, and he will also turn to the Being Which is supremely perfect and begin to recognise It as the 'Eternal Love' ....

But he will never be able to fathom God's nature, for He is the eternal centre of strength, whereas all created beings are emanated but very tiny sparks of strength which would never be able to behold the primal fire without ceasing to exist .... A person would be able to perceive the love, wisdom and might of a perceptible God on earth already if he is of good will and opens his heart for the illumination of love again by the Being he originated from .... For this supremely perfect Being reveals Itself to His living creations ....

And the greatest evidence of love of the One, Who is love Himself, is that He reveals Himself, that He provides His created beings with information about Himself as far as they are able to grasp it .... and that He thereby wants to re-ignite their love to make it effective again in line with the fundamental element .... so that His living creations will re-enter the eternal order in order to create and work as it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Activity in the beyond .... Giving out the truth ....

B.D. 8083 from January 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Without truth you cannot become blissfully happy, for truth is light, and once you enter the kingdom of the beyond every error you still hold on to will darken the light, it will impair its radiance, and this will mean for your soul that it cannot yet redeem itself. But the soul only finds its happiness in a redeeming activity .... Thus it cannot radiate light itself as long as it does not possess it, even if it no longer needs to dwell in darkness because its way of life on earth has secured its entrance into the kingdom of light .... but it must free itself from erroneous thinking, it must ward off every shadow which every wrong thought signifies. It must desire pure truth, and then it will also be allowed to receive it, and brightest light will shine upon it. You must know that your bliss in the kingdom of the beyond consists of carrying light to the souls in darkness, of helping them out of wrong thoughts and offering them the pure truth .... for the truth lets them find Me Whom they have not yet recognized correctly in error .... And many people enter the kingdom of the beyond who think wrongly. You should help them in their spiritual adversity and thus redeem them .... But for this you must be enlightened yourselves, you must have been instructed in the truth and thus first try to free yourselves from knowledge which does not correspond to the truth. If your life on earth has been an activity of love then you will suddenly recognize the right knowledge as soon as you have discarded the earthly body .... You will stand in bright light and now also be able to carry out your activity on other souls which makes you happy .... But often a soul holds on to its knowledge which it represented on earth and then its state is not blissful, then it will still be in a state of twilight until it is willing to be taught the truth itself, until it relinquishes its wrong knowledge and now also increases in light which slowly starts to shine and also has luminosity .... i.e. helps souls out of darkness again who want to accept the light. For this reason it is incomparably valuable to have already accepted the truth on earth, for this is light which clearly and distinctly shows the path to ascent and which also signifies beatitude in the spiritual kingdom, because the soul can now be active for its own happiness. Only love can bring light to you humans, even if a person lacks spiritual knowledge, for he will suddenly know everything and be blissfully happy. But anyone who has love will also not reject the truth on earth when it is offered to him. And therefore he will be able to register a great plus upon his entry into the kingdom of the beyond, because he can now share out the treasures he acquired in earthly life by fulfilling My commandments of love .... He will be richly blessed and able to work in the spiritual kingdom without any darkness. Thus his light will also be correspondingly bright, and blessed is he who does not pass away on earth without love .... And no matter how low the degree of love is .... but it always signifies a small light which is a great help when he arrives in the kingdom of the beyond .... Therefore you should not be indifferent as to whether you move in truth or in error during your earthly existence .... you must first have discarded all error, you must have accepted the pure truth before you can enjoy bliss in the kingdom of the beyond, for this consists of the redeeming activity which, however, can only be carried out by a soul which stands in the light itself .... thus in recognizing the pure truth, because this soul is also in contact with Me as the eternal truth and this union with Me is the aim which every soul has to reach if it wants to be and remain blissfully happy forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Proof of love of God: love for the neighbour ....

B.D. 8084 from January 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You should prove your love for Me through unselfish love for your neighbour .... Whatever you do to the least of My brothers, you have done to Me. Love for God without love for your neighbour is therefore not possible, for feelings which you then feign for yourselves cannot be judged by Me as 'love', because love will always express itself in works which serve the well-being of the neighbour in need. Love without works is likewise impossible, for love is strength and strength always wants to be active. And therefore you will always have the yardstick for your love: whether it impels you to work, whether your will is stimulated to do works of love. You should seriously give account of this, and you should never pass by your fellow human being's need .... you should only ever seek to alleviate hardship, to give pleasure, to comfort and to help, for you will always recognize hardship around you .... And in particular you should take care of people who are in spiritual hardship. Admittedly, such help is not often accepted, for very few people are open to help for their soul. Nevertheless, again and again you should try to distribute spiritual food and drink wherever possible. Only then will you prove your love for Me when you take care of your fellow human being's spiritual and earthly hardship, who is also My living creation whose soul I want to win. And only such love, which expresses itself in works, will earn you a living faith, which I require in order to grant you eternal beatitude .... "He who believes in Me will be blessed ...." But what do you mean by faith which is to earn you this beatitude? I am not satisfied with words by which you want to confirm a "faith" .... I first require loving activity, evidence of your love for Me through unselfish neighbourly love. For only this can give birth to a living faith which alone is of value before Me. And as long as your love for your neighbour is still small, as long as you don't behave like a brother towards him, as long as you lack works of love, you should not feel too certain that you will become blessed through 'faith' alone .... For then your faith is only a form .... you just don't contradict it, but you are still far from being alive. And will you then ever awaken the spirit in you to life, which can only come to life through loving activity? .... You are constantly demanded to work with love, yet you only rarely comply with this demand and therefore only living faith can rarely be found. How serious will this error be in the beyond one day, that you believe you don't need works? .... Yet only 'works' follow you, and you can only show a few of them because there was too little strength of love in you which would have been active in works .... Your beatitude will correspond to your degree of love, because only love results in true faith .... But faith without love is dead and will therefore never lead to beatitude. And you should not confuse 'love' with 'feelings' which can easily arise in a person but which nevertheless do not cause him to perform works of love for his neighbour .... And you will truly be offered many opportunities to be lovingly active, and you should never close yourselves off to the requests of your fellow human beings who are in need. You should sincerely want to help them and then you will also be able to do so, because love enlightens your spirit and also shows you the right ways and means, be it earthly or spiritual hardship which you then try to remedy. But don't rely on words which are dead as long as you don't give them life through loving activity .... You will never attain the right understanding of the words which the scriptures contain if you do not awaken the spirit within yourselves through loving activity .... And therefore "works" are demanded of you .... for "whatever you do to the least of My brethren, that you have done to Mean ...."

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Predetermined intervals of time as periods of Salvation ....

B.D. 8085 from January 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 85

To Me a thousand years are like a day .... to Me it is truly irrelevant when you return to Me, how long you remain distant from Me, for I know that you will return to Me one day for sure and then be united with Me forever .... But you yourselves will suffer immeasurably during this time of separation, for only the union with Me provides beatitude .... And I love you and therefore would like to shorten your time of wretchedness for your own sakes .... I don't want you to suffer; nevertheless, in My wisdom I recognise the blessing which suffering holds for you, because it can encourage you to hasten your return to Me, because it can change your attitude and your will. Yet I shall do everything within My power to shorten the duration of your resistance without, however, affecting your free will. For your will itself determines the duration of your distance from Me, and I shall not compel it .... Therefore, although time is irrelevant to Me, the intervals of time in My plan of Salvation which were designated for the development of the souls are nevertheless determined .... that is, the timing of My plan of Salvation is fixed and will be upheld according to My love and wisdom ....

Periods of Salvation have been planned which are limited, thus time and again new opportunities of development present themselves .... in wise anticipation of the fact that the ever new resistance on part of the fallen spiritual world in some respect will also necessitate a new Judgment .... or, that the lawful order, which the opposing spirits totally disregard thereby preventing all higher development, will need to be restored again from time to time .... These fixed intervals of time are thus 'periods of Salvation', which irrevocably will be observed by Me and therefore signify the end of an old and the beginning of a new developmental period, the time of which cannot be ascertained by you humans but which nevertheless can be irrefutably expected by people in times when spiritual progress is no longer discernible.

But it is also part of My eternal plan of Salvation that such knowledge is and will remain unverifiable for people .... For the beginning and end of the various 'periods' are so far apart that people lack all knowledge and only the spiritually awakened accept such information as credible .... To Me a thousand years are like a day .... But you humans experience this time as being immeasurably long, and you could shorten it for yourselves if only you would seriously strive for your deliverance from the form, which you are indeed able to achieve in your earthly life as a human being .... For all means of help are truly at your disposal, only your will cannot be forced to change your nature into love .... Yet this change into love must be carried out, and you only need a very short time to achieve it .... If a developmental period comes to an end without you having reached your goal, then your fate can be an infinite extension of your state of being distant from God, which is indeed extremely agonising for you but only motivates Me to create ever new possibilities for you .... for the still God-opposing souls .... in order to further your development .... For I know that I will achieve My goal one day, and the concept of time does not exist for Me .... everything is the present for Me .... even the past and the future ....

You won't be able to understand this as long as your thinking is still limited. But one day you will understand it and will even find it incomprehensible yourselves that you had resisted Me for so long .... For the unification will irrevocably take place one day, and that also means immeasurable beatitude, in which all past suffering will fade away, in which you will only recognise My love with praise and gratitude which pursued you even into the deepest abyss and did not rest until it had reached its goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Escort of the leading spirit ....

B.D. 8086 from January 24th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The spiritual processes which justified the apostasy of the spirits can only ever be hinted at to you humans, for there are no means of comparison which would be comprehensible to you, and you first have to be in an elevated state of maturity of your soul in order to be able to penetrate spiritual knowledge quite deeply. Nevertheless, you will be instructed by Me in accordance with the truth if My spirit can become effective in you. And then you will also always be able to recognize when you are offered error, for where My spirit is active thinking is also right. And I will give you an explanation which you would never be able to give yourselves. What I once created stepped out of My eternal order and fell away from Me .... What I had created were beings, I-conscious, thinking creatures with free will .... They were spiritual products of My power of love .... These beings fell away from Me. And thus an act took place in the spiritual kingdom which was extremely serious for this spiritual substance which had fallen away from Me, for it was the cause of activity and creation on My part, it was the cause of all visible creations, it was the cause of a plan of salvation such as only I Myself could devise in My love, wisdom and might, because it was necessary to regain all spiritual substances which had fallen away from Me and to provide them with the beatitude again which they had voluntarily relinquished .... And all spiritual substances which are full of light and remain with Me take part in this process of return because their bliss consists of serving Me according to My will .... And thus you now know about fallen and non-fallen beings, you know that there are two kingdoms inhabited by these beings, and you know that I only know one aim, to place the fallen spiritual beings into a state again in which they can be immeasurably happy. All wretched spiritual beings which remain far away from Me shall be 'redeemed' from this state, and all blissful spiritual beings which remained with Me participate in the redemption of the fallen brothers .... As long as the fallen one passes through the creations of earth it moves in the law of compulsion, and the blissful spiritual being participates in the creation of earthly creations in which that spiritual being can take abode and cover the path to ascent .... until it then has to cover the last stretch as the 'soul' of a human being, where the once fallen original spirit has to pass its last test of will .... And now it is also understandable that the human being is helped in every way to reach his aim .... But the human being's will is free .... From the kingdom of light this help can therefore only be granted if the human being offers no resistance .... From the beginning of his embodiment as a human being he is joined by a guardian spirit who looks after him but can never influence him against his will .... Yet this protecting spirit will also allow earthly events to approach the human being in accordance with 'God's will' such that he can derive spiritual benefit from them .... yet never strive to mature the soul under compulsion because this contradicts My will. This protective spirit accompanies the human being from the beginning of his earthly life but not always with success .... His love for the unredeemed is exceedingly great, for these are always beings of light, otherwise they would not be assigned the care of an earthly human being. Nevertheless, even their love has a limited effect, always according to the human being's will, but the being of light will always stand by his side as a guiding spirit, so that the human being is never without help if only he wants to be helped. If the human being now gives in to its urging which stimulates him into loving activity, so that he ignites the spark of love within himself, so that he awakens the spirit which is My share from eternity .... then I Myself can influence the human being through My spirit, and then the human being's protective spirit will also have more influence on him, because his will only ever strives for the same thing I Myself want to achieve in the human being through spiritual activity: to practise love, thus to accomplish the inner change of nature into love .... If the human being then enters the kingdom of light upon his departure, he will also be received by that guardian spirit which the soul also recognizes as its constant earthly companion .... But the soul itself is an individuality of its own, it is the once fallen original spirit which brought itself to perfection through the path through the abyss, albeit again and again supported by spiritual helpers who redeem themselves in heartfelt love and also constantly have the opportunity to do so. Every spiritual being is an individuality in itself, it only has a different degree of maturity and works in unity when this is necessary, when it requires excessive strength which the individual being does not yet possess .... Just as Jesus' love was directed towards all His fallen brothers, the love of all beings of light also participates in the redemption of those fallen ones, and the particles of an original soul, of an original spirit, which still has to travel the path of ascent, already experience their care .... Again and again they are involved in the creation of the external forms which these particles have to pass through .... For I let the beings of light be active for their own happiness, and their love takes care of everything that is wretched and has been handed over to them for care .... This, then, is to be understood by the 'spirit of the beyond' which joins the soul in earthly life. But this 'soul' is not just a part of the fallen original spirit which first has to unite with 'its spirit' again as a human being ..... But the 'spiritual spark' which slumbers as My share in every soul, which I Myself in My grace and mercy add to this original spirit as a small spark of love, must unite with My eternal father-spirit, because it is still devoid of all love as a result of its former apostasy, as a result of the rejection of My strength of love .... It is certainly difficult to understand the spiritual processes in My kingdom at one time, yet the explanations I gave you are sufficient for you to think correctly, for you to be able to free yourselves from erroneous assumptions which My adversary repeatedly tries to inflict on you in order to undermine the pure truth and to lower doubts into your hearts .... I enlighten you intelligibly because he has already succeeded in spreading light shadows over the light which was not sufficiently guarded by such clouds but which will nevertheless shine brightly to the one who desires to stand in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Verifying the truth ....

B.D. 8087 from January 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Spiritual knowledge can never be proven .... Nevertheless, you can become firmly convinced that what is presented to you is truth if you receive it spiritually, if it was gained through the 'working of My spirit' in the human being, for then you will know that it did not originate from people but that the human being was taught by My spirit from within .... The fact that it does not appear conclusive to people will nevertheless not let you doubt it, for they will also not be able to provide you with any counter-evidence which invalidates the knowledge gained through the spirit. Thus it is only decisive whether spiritual knowledge has been acquired through working of the spirit .... And such an examination is due to everyone who strives to live in truth. Therefore I choose light bearers for Myself .... to people who are to receive spiritual knowledge from Me directly .... only ever people who lack all knowledge about it, who are not burdened by knowledge which they would first have to repel in order to be completely free to receive the 'truth from Me' .... And this examination will certainly be possible as to whether the recipient was able to demonstrate prior knowledge, whether he drew his wisdom from books or whether he was influenced by conversations with fellow human beings .... But where all this is eliminated, where no spiritual knowledge whatsoever was previously recorded, there one can speak of a completely empty vessel which I Myself therefore now chose in order to fill it with the spiritual current of My love .... in order to convey truthful knowledge to it, which is announced to it by the spirit from Me, Who can never be mistaken .... Such knowledge will be recognized as truth and thus also find convinced faith, for such knowledge is strength of love from Me which will also not fail to have an effect. But most people don't take the trouble of a serious examination .... They reject it without thinking about the way unusual knowledge has reached earth and whether it is within the realm of earthly-human ability to be able to acquire extensive knowledge without any study .... They do not think about it and yet they would have the most convincing proof that forces are at work which they themselves cannot explain without faith .... For if they recognize supernatural powers then it would also be easy to fathom in which realms these powers are to be sought, for the content of knowledge would instruct them about it, which they could not refute .... Yet since the human being's will is free, his thinking cannot be influenced by force either; yet the willing person will look for an explanation and also find the right one .... For he allows himself to be captivated by spiritual knowledge if he seriously examines it. Because it originates from Me it will also work as strength where open hearts are found .... And these again will be able to believe even without proof because they feel the truth in their hearts. For this reason, however, spiritual knowledge cannot be transmitted in a school-like manner, for it will remain dead knowledge without persuasive power as long as My spirit cannot work in the person himself .... so that he will be instructed by Me Myself through the spirit again. The intellect will never be able to fathom spiritual knowledge, yet the intellect will always be able to deal with knowledge which has reached the human being by spiritual means .... And as soon as a heartfelt bond with Me exists the human being's thinking will also be guided correctly and he will recognize and accept the truth without any evidence. For the intimate bond with Me also guarantees My working in him, and he will become wise through My spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Knowledge of the eternal plan of Salvation ....

B.D. 8088 from January 27th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You are instructed by Me in everything you need to know in order to benefit your soul's salvation .... And this includes the fact that those of you who shall teach, who shall proclaim My Gospel, whom I send into the world as My endtime disciples .... will also be initiated into My eternal plan of Salvation. For you should know all correlations so that you can confidently pass on the knowledge you receive from Me. This is why the spirit imparts extensive knowledge to you, in other words: I instruct you Myself so that you will know the truth. I have always mentioned the fact that the end is imminent and explained to you the fact that and the reason why a period of salvation will end and a new one will start again .... I have outlined to you My plan of Salvation and also given you the reason for your human existence .... I have given you the explanation about your origin and your goal and also provided you with the correct image of Me Myself, of My nature, in order to encourage you to seek contact with Me directly and to strive towards your perfection .... I also clarified the fact that your fundamental nature was different than it is now .... but that you should attain the original state again .... which is the purpose and goal of your life on earth .... Hence, it is My constant endeavour to inform all of you about My plan of Salvation, yet only a few are able and willing to accept the information. However, those who are serious about their perfection shall be truthfully instructed and this is only possible through the 'working of the spirit' .... so that your indwelling spiritual spark will make contact with the eternal Father-Spirit so that the human being can be taught from within about everything he needs to know in order to become blissfully happy again, as he was in the beginning. But this conveyance of knowledge cannot be forced upon a human being, a person's free will must decide what he wants to accept or reject, for only on condition of free will is it possible to attain perfection on earth. My servants on earth can therefore only provide their fellow human beings with this knowledge, My pure Gospel, they can only ever make sure that people will receive the information about their eternal God and Creator's unusual working, Who wants to bestow upon humanity the knowledge which will help them attain beatitude .... This is what the vineyard labour consists of for which people place themselves at My disposal because they want to be of service to Me as faithful servants during the last days .... Distributing the Gospel is so important during the last time before the end that I will bless every person who makes himself available to Me for this, because people should know what will happen to them, they should be made aware of the fact that a period of salvation will come to an end and that they should do their utmost in order to fulfil their task on earth. Nevertheless, only those who desire the truth will accept it, for they are able to recognise the truth when it is brought to them. People's free will decides their future fate, so if people are truthfully informed it will be possible for their will to make the right decision, for the truth is strength .... after all, it comes forth from Me and cannot be ineffective .... But it does not compel their acceptance; instead, it will merely impress upon a person if he is of good will .... And I want to lead you to him and, time and again, open doors for you through which you can enter and proclaim My Gospel .... Time is running out and people urgently require the truth .... a light in which they can recognise the path which leads to higher spheres. Therefore they shall receive such light from above because darkness prevails on earth and the light from above must penetrate if the darkness is to be dispelled and enable people to still step into the light of day before the end. This is why I still take such obvious care of people and, if they don't openly oppose Me, they will so soon feel the soothing effect of the light of truth and desire it, in which case they need not fear a near end either, for they will take the path of ascent into the light .... that is, the truth will lead them back to Me, from Whom they once originated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Darkness means lack of knowledge .... Struggle between light and darkness ....

B.D. 8089 from January 28th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The battle between light and darkness will flare up ever more fiercely the closer it gets to the end .... i.e., the truth will be undermined by lies and error, because God's adversary has great influence on people and because their love has grown cold which would let a light shine in the darkness .... My adversary has brought darkness into the world, he has renounced all light himself, he has striven away from Me, he has voluntarily chosen darkness and with him countless beings who also resisted the light which shone towards them from Me .... And the darkness consisted of a state of beings that they no longer recognized anything, that they lost all knowledge of their own relationship with Me, of Me Myself and of the state of bliss they were in before their apostasy .... They became completely ignorant .... and this is not a blissful state .... But as soon as a light shines for them it dawns in them what they once gave away .... And My adversary tries to prevent this, and therefore he fights against all light which could give truth to the beings and lead them back to Me. But light beings likewise endeavour to give light to people on earth by influencing their thoughts and trying to guide them correctly .... Hence there is a battle between beings of light and beings of darkness for people's souls .... And this battle rages particularly fiercely in the last days before the end, which in turn means that the truth is guided to earth by the world of light in My will .... but that the adversary uses all means to prevent the truth from finding its way among people .... Again and again he will try to enforce it with error, again and again he will try to influence the intellect of people who are at his beck and call, to change the truth, to spread wrong knowledge and cause such confusion that people cannot find their way through the knowledge they receive and that they neither recognize Me Myself in My nature nor My adversary correctly, otherwise they would truly strive towards the right lord. But My adversary wants to prevent this, and he is truly very successful, for people themselves are uninterested in whether they walk in truth or in error .... Yet the light is necessary so that people will find and walk the right path .... For this reason the light is repeatedly guided by Me to earth, and I speak to people in such an understandable language that everyone can truly grasp it, that everyone would be able to think correctly if only his sincere will were to do so .... And this will alone is decisive, for if it is good, thus turned towards Me and the good, then My adversary will hardly gain any influence, then error will also be able to be offered to him .... he will immediately recognize it as error and reject it. But only a few have this serious will to be instructed in truth, only a few are aware of the fact that truth is light and error means darkness .... But the fact that this battle takes place between light and darkness can no longer be overlooked, for people no longer agree on their views. But no one asks which views might be the right ones either .... they are indifferent, and the adversary has succeeded in keeping humanity in darkness, for against their will no light can be given to them, forcibly they cannot be guided into truth. Nevertheless, in the end time I will let lights flare up everywhere, and people who are eager for light, who seek to escape the darkness, will also allow themselves to be illuminated. They will accept the truth which I convey to people from above in an unusual way, because My adversary's activity in the end time also requires an unusual counteraction .... Seek ye all the light .... Escape the darkness and your desire will truly be granted .... And then also rely on the truth being brought to you. For I Myself take care of those who want to walk in the light, I enlighten their spirit, I guide their thinking correctly, and I also let them recognize where darkness tries to assert itself .... For I Myself am the truth, and this shall also be the share of those who strive towards Me, who want to take the path back to Me and whose path must therefore be illuminated by light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Battle of faith .... Adversity .... Rapture ....

B.D. 8090 from January 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

And My adversary's followers will persecute you because they will proceed against everyone who believes in Me and the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... I inform you of this beforehand so that you will not become scared and waver in your faith. For they will be unable to harm you because I Am with you as your refuge and protection and know how to help everyone as long as he turns to Me as soon as he suffers earthly or spiritual adversity .... It has to happen this way because the end is near, because a separation of the spirits still has to take place, because My Own will have to profess Me before the world when this confession is demanded of them. Hence you will have nothing to fear, you, who count yourselves among My Own, who have living faith in My love and might and are so closely united with Me that you take no step without Me .... who always feel Me with you and are therefore at peace in My presence, not even fearing your enemies, who will certainly feel severely harassed but whose faith cannot be shaken. I Am informing you of this already .... Not much time is ahead of you until it will happen, nevertheless, I will keep the day and hour secret from you because it would not benefit your soul if you knew it. But neither will I stop proclaiming the end to you and drawing your attention to everything that will still take place before the end. For thereby you shall recognise which hour has struck on the world's clock, and you shall calmly expect the end. At present you can still do your vineyard work, you can still spread My Gospel throughout the world .... You still have a certain amount of freedom which you should and are able to use .... Yet the time will pass by quickly, and then you will no longer be able to openly work for Me and My kingdom. Then you will no longer be allowed to be spiritually active, you will be forced to withdraw and only able to work secretly, but I will constantly provide you with strength, for you will continue to hear My Word and through you it will also reach your fellow human beings, because I protect My servants and show them the ways they have to go in order to let Me Myself speak to their fellow human beings.

And then you should only ever rely on Me, don't take any path without Me, you should always and forever commend yourselves to My protection and confidently await My help if you require it. For I will shorten the days for the sake of My Own .... The battle against you, against the believers, will only last for a short time because it will be waged with all brutality and therefore I will put an end to it Myself when the time is right. And during this time the spirits will conclusively separate, for then every person will acknowledge his lord, the lord to whom he feels he belongs. Regardless of the objections you humans might time after time raise against these indications .... they will turn into reality and you will all have to make the decision: for Me or for him, who once again will plunge you into the abyss .... Yet whatever can still be done for your deliverance will be done, and I will leave no stone unturned in order to release anyone from his control who accepts My help .... Yet the person's free will is decisive, and I do not compel it .... But I demand great strength of faith from My Own so that they will endure until the end .... Nevertheless, their will to belong to My Own will also give them remarkable strength, and the greater their adversity is the more firmly they will join Me and the stronger will be their faith, which I certainly shall not disappoint. And once the time comes when you can no longer work openly for Me and My kingdom then the last phase on this earth will have started, for then everything will quickly happen one after the other, the battle of faith will begin openly, the final decision will be demanded of people, and the adversary's followers will outshine each other with their undignified onslaughts against the believers .... Then you, who belong to Me, can also daily expect My coming, for I will rescue you from your adversity of body and soul, I will lead you away from this earth, and it will come to pass as it is proclaimed, because then the time will have been fulfilled ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Human manifestation in Jesus ....

B.D. 8091 from January 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

I will truly convey to you everything that contributes towards your spiritual enlightenment, because you humans need light and those of you who want to serve Me shall pave the way for your fellow human beings as bearers of light by illuminating the path which leads to Me and eternal life. And I know where people require clarification; I know where their thoughts are still misguided and thus I also know that they require light, because every wrong thought merely causes confusion, spiritual darkness. Time and again I will let a light illuminate the darkness and thereby show you the right path you should take during your life on earth. And since you must take the path to the cross on earth .... since you must recognise and acknowledge Jesus as Son of God and Redeemer if you want to enter the kingdom of light, you must also be truthfully instructed about My human manifestation in Jesus, otherwise you will be unable to acknowledge Me Myself in Jesus .... And precisely this human manifestation problem is difficult for you to solve, for you cannot envisage that I .... the greatest and most perfect Spirit in eternity .... manifested Myself in a human being. You cannot envisage that it was impossible for Me to be personified in any other way than in Jesus, Whose external cover sheltered the divine Creator within .... Who was certainly human in His outer form, yet entirely permeated by My divine spirit of love .... His whole nature was and remained as ‘God’ in order to become visible for you, My living creations. You must never visualise the ‘Eternal Deity’ as a personified Being, Which would therefore be limited .... I permeate the whole of infinity, for this infinity is infused with My strength which takes unlimited effect .... I Myself Am the primary centre of this emanation of strength and therefore not imaginable as a limited Being .... Nevertheless, I was able to totally permeate a form, to so illuminate it that it was nothing else but My fundamental substance, that it was the same as I Myself, merely in a conceivable shape for you humans .... And this external form was Jesus, the human being, Who became My shell because My living creations wanted to behold something that was spatially-defined and because the act of Salvation was also intended to take place visibly for you and this required a humanly observable process that was meant to liberate people from sin and death if they believed in it .... if they believed in My human manifestation in Jesus, in the act of love and compassion which was accomplished for the sake of the sinful human race by a human being Who sheltered Me in all fullness within Himself. Other than in Jesus I Am inconceivable to you. In Jesus, God .... the greatest spirit of infinity .... became a human being, and Jesus Himself was God, for even His human external frame spiritualised itself and was totally permeated by My spirit of love .... Jesus was only human until He had spiritualised Himself through His life of love .... However, the external form had to endure all suffering and pain and finally the most bitter death on the cross because Jesus wanted to absolve His fellow human beings from the immense guilt of sin, and the act of Salvation was only accomplished with the crucifixion, which I Myself .... the Eternal Love .... therefore accomplished in Jesus and consequently I Myself must be acknowledged in Jesus. All of you, as My once emanated beings, are love in your fundamental substance .... as was Jesus, Who remained with Me when you voluntarily detached yourselves from Me .... He, too, was emanated by Me, hence My Son .... And I sent this Son of Mine to earth in order to redeem you, in order to open the path of return again. Even as a human being His great love upheld the connection with Me, He only ever desired My love and I did not deny it to Him .... Thus I was able to permeate Him entirely, I was able to illuminate Him and take complete possession of Him. And since His external shape was human, I therefore became ‘human’ and Jesus became ‘God’. No separation existed between us anymore, He had totally merged with Me, He was as one with Me. So now My living creations can behold Me Myself face to face in Jesus when they enter the kingdom of light in a ‘redeemed’ state, where they will be eternally happy.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Divine revelation for **all** I-conscious beings ....

B.D. 8092 from February 1st 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You are offered a gift of love of immeasurable value, for it is a source of strength for countless souls on earth and in the kingdom of the beyond. All still imperfect beings lack strength and light, they are weak and darkened in spirit and therefore still in an unhappy state. And therefore strength and light must be supplied to them, they must be given gifts of love by Me because they cannot liberate themselves from their wretched state. And that is why My strength constantly flows to all I-conscious beings when My address sounds out into infinity. It is only ever meant for My living creations, for the children who long for the father's address, as well as for the beings which have not yet recognized Me as father and which I want to bring close to My fatherly heart. And thus every being will receive light and strength which allows itself to be illuminated by Me, which happens in the form of My word conveyed to it. As soon as a being has gained a glimmer of realization it is delighted when My word is sounded to it, and then it will also quickly ascend .... which applies to the human being on earth as well as to the souls in the beyond .... and this cannot be otherwise, for My word is strength in itself and also has to become effective. The imparting of My word is a gift of grace which only ever requires the voluntary opening of the heart, for the being once rejected this illumination of My love and therefore free will must now be willing to accept it. But then the effect of My gift of grace will be inconceivable .... For the wretched being will become blissfully happy again, as it was in the beginning, if only it lets Me Myself speak to it and then experiences My will and complies with it. However, people on earth pay too little attention to this gift of grace .... Only rarely is the value recognized and these blessings consciously received, only rarely does a heart open and allow light and strength to flow into it, only rarely am I Myself recognized as the original source of this bestowal of love, and only rarely do people prepare themselves as a receptacle into which My flow of love can flow, a blessing to the human being himself and to all souls surrounding him on earth, or also to spiritual beings which feel attracted as soon as My word sounds which beneficially touches them. I truly care for all My creations which once came forth from Me .... I know what they lack, why they have become wretched, and I also know in what way they can be helped .... They once voluntarily separated from Me and thereby entered a state which cannot be called blissful. Yet again and again I bestow gifts of grace of My love upon them, and it only depends on them whether their state will improve, for whatever I offer My living creations will only ever be for their salvation, it will only ever help them to attain their former perfection again .... Yet every gift of grace of My love has to be voluntarily accepted, only then can it become effective, only then can light and strength flow to the being again, and then it will also take the path to Me again because it recognizes Me in the light which now shines upon it. The connection was broken by the being itself, but I re-establish the connection with it. Yet My living creation shall not approach Me under compulsion but I Myself reveal Myself to it so that it will recognize Me and learn to love Me and then voluntarily hand itself over to Me .... And then My creature's return as 'My child' is also assured. Every address on My part is a revelation, for I convey knowledge to you humans which all I-conscious beings in the universe also receive. And this knowledge gives all My living creations knowledge of their God and creator, of their father of eternity. It gives them knowledge of My being and of their primordial relationship to Me .... And it illuminates the darkness which surrounds the once fallen being until the light shines to it from My source of strength and light for eternity .... And where once light can radiate from Me there will be no more darkness for ever .... where once I can speak to My living creations, there the wretched state will also change and one day bring unity with Me again, for whoever accepts My gift of grace will be and remain blissfully happy for ever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Ultimate goal is union with God ....

B.D. 8093 from February 2nd 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The perfection of all things is their unity with Me .... for everything in existence, everything that is visible to you humans, from hard matter up to the human being, is My once-emanated strength which were shaped into beings according to My will but which distanced themselves from the primary source of strength, thereby becoming incapable of any kind of activity which necessitated strength, and which therefore were reshaped by Me into creations of the most varied kinds .... And all these creations also sheltered spiritual substance which had fallen away from Me and gradually helped it towards perfection .... Even matter itself takes this process of higher development .... thus everything strives towards perfection. All beings' perfection guarantees their unification with Me, their eternal God and Creator .... The strength, having flowed forth from Me, returns to the primary source of strength again, every being unites with Me and finds supreme bliss in this unification .... Anyone who knows about this process which extends over eternities, anyone who is initiated in My eternal plan of Salvation, is indeed already close to perfection, because this information already proves that he is illuminated by My light of love which was once voluntarily rejected by the being. In the state of imperfection, in the state of distance from Me, the self-aware being .... the human being .... is still unable to perceive this light of realisation, for only My illumination will give him this light, and this illumination can only be conveyed to a person who voluntarily opens his heart, thus, who desires light from Me. And opening the heart presupposes the will to approach Me again, thus the human being is already on the path of return to Me, from Whom he once separated of his own free will. Then there will be a conscious striving for perfection, for the person will make an effort to live according to My will, he will subordinate himself to My will and that means that his nature will adapt itself increasingly more to My fundamental nature, that it will change into love again, because it will constantly open itself to My ray of love and will want to receive it .... All resistance in the being will have been broken and nothing will stand in the way of unity with Me .... it will be moving towards perfection. And in this state it must also gain realisation .... the human being will be initiated into My eternal plan of Salvation, he will once again penetrate the most profound knowledge which the being possessed in the beginning, and it will be able to delight other people with this knowledge if they are willing to accept it.

And thus you humans can understand that a light which grants you knowledge about your beginning and your whole process of higher development after the apostasy from Me can only be kindled in you by Me Myself, for only I know all secrets and only I can reveal most profound wisdom to you .... I Myself Am the light Which illuminates you when you are being initiated into the truth, and I truly know to what degree My ray of love, that intends to lead you to perfection, can strike you. Yet you can rejoice and cheer that the knowledge at your disposal was directly conveyed to you by My love .... you can be glad that you received spiritual wealth imparted to you by Me Myself through My dormant indwelling spirit .... My infinite love even pursued you when you were still vastly distant from Me .... without self-awareness, disintegrated and struggling through endless pain to come higher .... However, once you reached the stage of self-awareness again, you were seized by My love and it took possession of you .... You were given a tiny spark of love to accompany you, which was able to enter into contact with Me providing it was your will .... which, as part of Me, was able to take effect in you as soon as you allowed for it .... This spark love is not effective against your will, but the fact that it is in you in the state of a human being also provides you with the guarantee that you can completely unite yourselves with Me again .... And this part of Me in you bestows bright light upon you, It instructs you in all truthfulness as soon as you merely allow It to take effect. Then you may delve ever deeper into the truth, brightest realisation will be granted to you once more and you can emanate the light again which enlightens you from within. For you consciously established the relationship with Me, otherwise I would be unable to take effect in you, because I do not enforce My influence upon a person but expect his complete devotion until I reveal Myself to him .... However, in that case the spiritual communion will have taken place .... I distribute food and drink as nourishment for your soul .... I give you the bread of heaven, the water of life .... I will speak to you and My Word will come alive in you .... the soul will perfect itself and be as one with Me for time and eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Influence of the beings of light on man .... Free will ....

B.D. 8094 from February 3rd 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The torments of the unredeemed spiritual cause all luminous spiritual to lovingly assist him on his way back from the depth to God. For love will always have a redeeming effect, love will always be active, love will want to help because love is divine strength and always has a positive effect. That is why even the fallen spiritual cannot be lost for ever, for love does not rest, and it fills all spiritual which is full of light, all creations which have reached perfection, which have remained faithful to God and are therefore constantly permeated by God's love. It is only the free will of the ego-conscious being, which once fell away from God, which sets limits to the light beings' activity of love and therefore determines the success .... which shortens or lengthens the duration of the return path to God, depending on the attitude of the human being's ego-conscious being .... towards God. The luminous spiritual must also take this free will into account .... it cannot use coercion, it can only ever give its love to the unredeemed and try to persuade it to accept love. However, its influence in the human being's earthly life also has a counter-effect on the part of the one who is responsible for the spirits' apostasy .... He, too, tries to influence the human being's will, and the human being himself has to decide which influence he will yield to. Love is a strength which must not find any resistance if it is to become effective on the still unredeemed .... However, giving up resistance is a matter of free will .... If love could work without resistance then everything would truly already be redeemed from the adversary's bonds, but the once-fallen beings could never reach highest perfection if they were not able to resist the working of love. Complete freedom belongs to the law of eternal order, and every coercion is a violation of this order from eternity. The being was once placed out of God completely free, it could determine itself, and it will also never lose this right, even if it had chosen the path to the abyss. And it would also inevitably take the path to ascent if it had not lost all knowledge after the conscious turning away from God .... The darkness it has chosen itself is the cause of its resistance to God, the being lacks the slightest glimmer of realization, of light, what its resistance and its distance from God mean, it does not recognize its wretchedness and yet experiences a state of torment .... And therefore it is the constant effort on the part of the world of light to send a ray of light, a ray of love, to this being which dwells in darkness, which can have a calming effect on the resistance as long as it concerns the spiritual being which is still bound in the creations .... If the being is then already I-conscious .... if it walks the earth as a human being then it will also be illuminated again and again by the strength of love, and small sparks of light will glimmer which can change the state of ignorance, the state of darkness, and a small glimmer of realization can already determine the human being to give up his resistance, to turn his will towards God .... This is the constant endeavour of the world full of light, of the spiritual beings which are full of the light of love from God, which want to radiate this light to the places of darkness, which constantly want to help the still unredeemed to become free from the adversary's power, to attain bright light again, to willingly receive God's illumination of love by which it is touched directly or also indirectly through His messengers of light. To voluntarily accept the light of love from God also means to give up all resistance, it means to receive strength to shape oneself into love, it means to illuminate thinking, it means to awaken the spiritual spark in the human being to life .... it means conscious connection with God, because the spiritual spark in him pushes towards the father-spirit from eternity .... And thus the union with God must then also take place, because the love now radiating into the human being is of such strength that the complete transformation into love also takes place, which lets the 'created being' become a 'child' of God, which is now merged with God and remains so for all eternity, but which nevertheless does not lose the awareness of itself and is therefore inexpressibly blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God is in us .... He is present to us ....

B.D. 8095 from February 6th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

There is no greater gift of grace for you humans on this earth than that you are taught by Me in direct speech .... For then I am present to you, and I prove My presence to you through revelations which can only come to you from Me Myself, Who knows everything .... thus I am in you, for whether you conceive even a tiny spark of My spirit of God in you .... My spirit is indivisible, and therefore you can always speak of the fact that I Myself am working in you when this tiny spark of spirit expresses itself. And thus you will also be truthfully instructed by Me, since I Myself am the eternal truth. Thus you have to evaluate the reception of the word, which is therefore an unusual gift of grace because you, as human beings, are not yet in the highest degree of maturity which results in complete unification. Yet My love for you is exceedingly great and unusual help has to be given to you because My adversary has great power and uses it to ruin you. Yet I would not be able to express Myself if you yourselves did not let the spark of My spirit of God flare up, if you yourselves did not live a life of love which ignites the spiritual spark and now allows it to work. And you, in turn, would not hear anything of its manifestation if you did not listen to yourselves in profound faith, if you did not believe in My direct address .... And this again presupposes the inner bond with Me which now causes Me to radiate My love towards you and to bestow it upon you in abundance. I always want to be in you and prove My presence to you. And therefore I will always address you as often as you allow it, i.e. connect with Me inwardly and listen within .... And then I will pour out a wealth upon you which will truly make you blissfully happy .... I give you light in all abundance, I teach you truthfully about everything that is helpful for the maturing of your souls .... I radiate My love upon you and My love gives you what you lack because you are not yet perfect. I have often already enlightened you about the 'working of My spirit' and thus informed you that there are indeed limits to the human being's intellectual knowledge but never to the knowledge which can be gained through the working of My spirit .... This knowledge is truly unlimited and yet it can be imparted to the human being by Me Myself, Who is truth, Who is light from eternity. But only I Myself can convey this knowledge to you, and I truly choose the right vessels for Myself into which I can let My light flow, but which shall now also shine far into the dark night .... Yet this is rarely possible, people usually resist Me because they don't let their heart speak but their intellect. But where My direct activity is possible the ray of light is of such strength that it can and will illuminate many human hearts which merely receive it without resistance, which surrender themselves to the illumination of love and thus indirectly accept My address. (6.2.1962) And this is what I want to achieve, that people lose their spiritual blindness, that they slowly come to realize again what they were in the beginning and what they shall become again .... I want to kindle a small light in every person, for then he will live his earthly life consciously, he will ask questions within himself and these will be answered mentally, his thinking will be right if it is his desire to experience truth .... He will know about My will and strive to fulfil it because he will also start to recognize the connection with Me as his God and creator .... And increasingly brighter light will certainly shine upon him, for he opens himself to My illumination of love as soon as he only establishes mental contact with Me, as soon as he relinquishes all inner resistance against Me. I Myself am in him as the tiniest spark of God, and he no longer opposes this presence of Mine, and then I can also work in him .... And I will also do it, I will reveal Myself to every person, albeit in different ways, always according to his degree of maturity, but every person will be able to recognize Me who only wants to. My ray of love will touch him again and again until he consciously opens himself and desires Me and My love, which will then be bestowed upon him in all abundance .... For I love My living creations and want them to become blissfully happy .... I also want them to know of My great love so that they will reciprocate My love. But then the union will also be assured, then My living creation will also have escaped all darkness, because the light will shine within itself, because I Myself can be present to it and then there will truly be no more relapse into the abyss to fear ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The work of changing into love and faith ....

B.D. 8096 from February 7th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

I want to introduce you to My kingdom of light and glory .... because I love you and want to be and remain united with you for all eternity. Yet this union can only happen with beings which have adapted themselves to My fundamental nature, which have shaped themselves again as they were in the beginning when they came forth from Me in all perfection, which also meant, that they were pure light and love. Thus they must turn into light and love again, for they voluntarily reversed their previously perfect state into the opposite. Nevertheless, this reshaping into love, the transformation into perfection, is a work of My living creations' free will, consequently, it can take an infinitely long time until it has been accomplished .... But since My boundless love always accompanies the being and provides it with all opportunities it will certainly reach the goal one day .... Sooner or later the work of transformation will be accomplished and the being will be admitted into My kingdom of light and glory where eternal beatitude will be its fate. You humans who live on earth in order to finalise this very work of transformation into love should believe that I love you, then you will want to come closer to Me and desire My illumination of love .... You should know that you are the recipients of My fiery flow of love, that it only depends on your will as to whether you feel its effectiveness .... And you should know that I will not rest until you, too, immerse yourselves in the ocean of My love and unite with Me forever .... You should believe this, for you may only experience the proof when you have achieved your goal.

Thus faith shall impel you in earthly life to conduct yourselves according to My will .... to first endeavour to live a life of love as you are taught by My commandments so that through fulfilling My commandments you will come to realise that what you believe is the truth .... For you can gain the conviction yourselves by living a life of selfless neighbourly love, which will truly make knowledge accessible to you that will make you happy. You can certainly be informed of the glories in My kingdom to make you strive towards them .... however, you will only attain the right kind of faith when you live up to My commandments of love. Then you will feel My love in yourselves and be able to recognise Me Myself as a God of love. I long for the love of My living creations and want that they, like children, long for the Father, in order to be able to seize them and make them blissfully happy with My love. If you realised the rich blessings every work of selfless love results in, you would truly change and shape yourselves into love within a short time, then you would have fulfilled your purpose of earthly life .... Yet all this has to be done by your free will .... For this reason My love constantly endeavours to motivate you into loving activity through My Word, to spur you into living up to love .... by sending you My end-time disciples to proclaim the Gospel of love to you .... For nothing else can take the place of love .... Every person must of his own free will kindle love in himself and fan it into a bright flame. And this love will unite with Me, the Eternal Love, for love cannot help itself but strive towards Me. And as soon as I can illuminate the person again as it was in the beginning, the being will also have changed itself into its original state again, it will have become love again and thus united with Me for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's love pursues people .... Creation love proof ....

B.D. 8097 from February 8th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

I truly want to make the path of ascent easy for you if I recognize your will that you want to take it, that you want to reach Me, Whom you acknowledge as God and father from eternity. For the father does everything for His child in order to gain its love. Since I am love Myself I also embrace everything with My love that once came forth from Me. You were all products of My love, and you are and remain united with Me because your fundamental substance is divine strength of love, because you therefore also remain emanated strength of love from Me which cannot eternally pass away anymore .... but which nevertheless could and did strive away from Me of its own free will and thereby turned your nature inwards and could no longer exhibit anything divine about it. But if a father fears losing his child he will pursue it and try to induce it to return to him again because he loves his child. In the same way I will not leave anything of substance to itself but I will also follow it and help it to slowly ascend ..... Yet I do not reveal Myself to it at first so as not to harden its resistance, but I provide it with help which the being unconsciously avails itself of .... I take it captive, and it allows itself to be taken captive because it is thereby wrested from another power which mercilessly wants to keep it in deepest depth. My love applies to the created in every constitution, for I want to be eternally united with all that was once created, I want to fill all created without limit, and all created also returns to Me one day, which had voluntarily aspired to the depth. The fact that I am particularly concerned for the human being during earthly life, who is the spiritual being I once aspired to ...., is again based on My infinite love, which wants to win the human being's will for itself in order to then also possess his love .... And thus the human being must also experience My great love during earthly life if he is to reciprocate it .... He must be informed of an exceedingly perfect being Which is love Itself and Which wants to bestow Its love upon Its creatures .... The human being must feel himself to be My creature and now also desire My love .... And therefore I pursue the human being with My love, which he would also be able to recognize if only he would pay attention to his earthly fate, which clearly testifies to the guidance of a power which wants him well .... for no-one is left in his earthly adversity, again and again he is granted help, again and again a powerful Deity expresses Itself and helps the human being out of adversity .... (8.2.1962) You could recognize Me .... Yet My adversary has great power over you because you desire what still belongs to him, because you still turn your eyes towards the earthly world and therefore pay no attention to spiritual currents. And the more you desire earthly things the more you prove your affiliation to him and the less you will pay attention to My silent revelations and thus also not be able to recognize My love which is constantly meant for you and wants to win you. But I cannot prevent My adversary from using all his arts to captivate you .... For he has an equal right to you since you once followed him voluntarily. And therefore it is indeed a battle between Me and him for your souls, but you yourselves will bring it to a conclusion, for you will have to decide for Me or for him .... But if only a small flame of love is kindled in you then I will also know that I have won you, for love pushes towards Me; the divine spirit spark, which is My share, pushes towards the eternal father-spirit and the human being is saved for time and eternity .... You should only ever consider everything around you as a gift from Me .... You should recognize that everything I have brought into being serves you .... You should not pay attention to what people do to you but to what your God and creator created for you from eternity in order to make your life on earth pleasant .... You should gratefully accept everything that serves you in life from My hand, i.e. always know that it is I Who provides for you and cares for you during your earthly life .... And you would have to recognize and acknowledge so much love on My part that it truly should not be difficult for you to love Me again because you recognize Me as your benefactor .... And you should unite yourselves with the one Who again and again demonstrates His great love for you .... And it would truly be better for the whole of humanity if it wanted to turn away from My adversary and strive towards Me, for this free will would be blessed a thousand fold, because now people could quickly ascend, for then My adversary would have lost his power, he would no longer be able to harass people who have voluntarily taken the path to Me, their father, Who is only waiting for His children's return home in order to now also be able to make them happy without limitation .... And therefore I will court your love as long as you live on earth, and My love will also always reveal itself to you .... but never force your will, which is and will remain free because you are divine creatures ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God reveals Himself in times of spiritual hardship ....

B.D. 8098 from February 9th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Every thought you send to Me in spirit and in truth is received by Me, and I really seek to answer your questions truthfully. But you, too, must try to accept this answer without prejudice .... You should feel like empty vessels which I want to fill with the correct contents that can only be beneficial for all of you .... And you should know that My love for you is limitless, that It will therefore use every means to help you, who are so close to perfection, to achieve this final goal, for which there is not much time left. You should also know that My adversary has immense power during the period before the end, which is granted to him by people who do not seriously strive for their final perfection themselves .... and that he will also succeed in achieving many people's downfall again, whose earthly progress will then have been in vain. Since I know everything, even the fact that many still undecided souls are too weak to resist his shameful actions .... and since My love is infinite and I truly want to liberate all people from his hands yet cannot contravene the law of eternal order, I will act within the framework of eternal order by helping all those who will merely raise their thoughts to Me, whose will is not against Me, even if they have not yet openly decided for Me ....

But I want to help them make the right decision. Thus I have to give them light and strength so that they can learn to recognise Me one day and then also muster the strength to resist My adversary and to strive towards Me. I Am by no means a God Who could not be reached by you .... I Am love, and love is never distant from Its living creations, It always and forever pursues them, even if they are still extremely remote from Me. First you have to learn to recognise this God Who, as Father, takes a personal interest in the fate of every individual human being and for Whom you therefore should never search for in the distance. One heartfelt thought from My child calls Me to him, and I will be and remain near to him, for the child's love will not allow a separation again .... And I will reveal Myself to him .... And this is My great help, which I bestow on humanity in the last days who suffer utmost spiritual hardship .... I will speak to people Myself, and all people who merely open their hearts to hear Me speak from above may hear My Words ....

I will impart light and strength to them through My Word, which they need for their perfection. And thus I Am at work Myself .... your eternal God and Father .... to lessen My adversary's activity, to offer people a rescue anchor which enables them to escape the danger of yielding to his activity. I speak to people Myself, and use for this a willing instrument which serves me knowingly and allows My direct action on and within him .... because I do not impose My will on humanity but it should freely decide whether to accept My Word or not .... But I Myself speak to all people .... because I Am motivated by My infinite love which will never end and which is always willing to help. And you humans should believe that the spiritual hardship is vast, because you are approaching the end. You should also know that the end is the result of My love .... For I know what needs to be done, I know when the time has come that I have to restore lawful order again so as to continue with the work of return for the fallen spirits.

But I also know where and how help can still be given, and I truly use every opportunity to open people's eyes while they are still on earth in order to reveal Myself to them .... My sheep recognise the voice of their shepherd .... and they follow it. However, My voice will sound in the universe too, for My Word is also heard in infinity, it speaks to all self-aware spirits and permeates them with light and strength .... Thus you will not be able to say that you cannot or may not hear Me .... For then My love or My might would be limited .... And even if I Am and remain unattainable for My living creations I Am nevertheless intimately united with them through love, and so close that every living creation can hear Me if he loves Me too and thus has established the unity again, as it was in the beginning .... For in the beginning all beings could hear My Word, and this was their beatitude, and one day it will be their beatitude again when the light of My love permeates the beings once more as before ....

Amen

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Right vessels for the light .... for the truth ....

B.D. 8099 from February 11th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

And it will be given to you according to your desire .... Anyone who desires the truth will receive it, but the indifferent person will never receive it or be able to recognize it, for I respect the human being's will .... And therefore I always want to be approached for truth so that you will prove to Me that you also desire Me, Who is the eternal truth. And therefore the bond with Me must first be established of your own free will, for I will never fill a vessel which does not open itself in order to receive My gift .... You are not yet able to properly evaluate the gift of grace from above, you are not yet aware of what it means to be addressed by the father Himself, to be given knowledge by the father which gives you an overbright light in the spiritual darkness which is spread across the earth. But I do not radiate this light arbitrarily, I look for the right vessels for it into which I can pour Myself and which then also radiate this light again according to its purpose to where it is needed. But a certain prerequisite must always be present, which on the one hand consists of the desire for the pure truth and on the other hand of shaping oneself into a receptacle for My flow of spirit .... Through a life of love the human being must have prepared himself to become a vessel into which I Myself can now pour .... And this requires the human being's free will, which is why the human being himself decides whether he will be chosen by Me to become a useful instrument through which I can convey the truth to earth. And I recognize human hearts, I know about their formation, I know about the will of the individual, and I also know in which way the human being benefits from a gift of grace of supreme value .... I know who has the serious will to serve Me in My vineyard, and I truly also use it where I need it and where it is in the right place according to its ability in order to successfully work for the salvation of fellow human beings' souls. And the human being's inner degree of maturity will always also determine the task I now assign to him in My vineyard .... And his activity will not be carried out arbitrarily but I Myself will assign it to him because I know him, because I know about his innermost attitude, about his love for Me and his neighbour .... and because, accordingly, it can only ever be the task he now fulfils as My faithful servant on earth. And thus I tell you that not many people are filled with the desire for truth .... Although My address is often desired and expected, a person is rarely concerned about being filled by Me with My spirit, about being introduced to the truth by Me .... And therefore the pure truth can also rarely only be conveyed to earth, for the serious desire for it is the first condition to receive it .... But in view of the spiritual darkness the supply of truth, of a light which breaks through the darkness, is so necessary that I truly bless the person who requests a light from Me, and that this person also truly does not direct his request to Me in vain .... You all don't value the pure truth highly enough, you go there indifferently and it affects you little whether you are instructed in the truth or not .... And therefore you also don't desire the truth, and thus it cannot reach you either .... And therefore every person demanding truth will enjoy My special protection, for only through him is it possible to convey truth to people, even if this does not happen in a direct way .... but the desire for truth must also be present if the directly conveyed truth is to be accepted by fellow human beings. Yet the vessels are few who prepare themselves to receive the pure truth from God .... There are only a few people who ask Me for the supply of truth, and I will know how to protect them from all challenges of the world, I will know how to protect them from My adversary who will always harass the bearers of light in order to extinguish the light which shines from them. The darkness is almost impenetrable and therefore humanity is in greatest distress, for only the light illuminates the right path which people have to take in order to reach their aim .... A bright ray of light is urgently needed to break through the darkness, and where there is only the possibility to kindle a light there is also the prospect of people being saved from the end .... Desire for truth is the first condition, and only a person who desires truth can be a suitable tool for Me which I can use for the blessing of all people .... For this person is able to carry a light and illuminate the darkness because he possesses a light, because his desire for truth has kindled a light in himself which is now also guarded by Me from every cloudiness, which now sends out its bright ray and illuminates the path for people who are of good will .... And these My bearers of light will always enjoy My protection, for I need them in the last days because people have to experience the truth, for they can only become blissfully happy through the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's protection for His vessels .... Loving father words ....

B.D. 8100 from February 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You should not doubt My love, and therefore you should also not believe that I close My ear when a prayer reaches Me in spirit and in truth .... What a person's heart feels when it prays to Me is the only decisive factor for Me to hear his prayer. And if he asks for spiritual gifts, if he asks for what solely serves the salvation of the human being's soul, then he can truly expect his requests to be granted, for then it is also a prayer in spirit and in truth which ascends to Me. And this is also a guarantee for you that you need not fear any error if you desire the truth and ask Me to protect you from wrong thinking. How gladly I comply with such a request because I want to give you the truth and only have to recognize your desire for it, which you prove by asking Me to protect you from error. And then you can truly accept everything as pure truth which is conveyed to you from above as evidence of My love for you, which wants to bestow gifts of grace upon you in order to facilitate your ascent to the height .... I am your father, you must always remember this when you are afflicted by doubts, when you are in fear, in distress of body and soul. Your father has the power to take everything from you, to do everything for you, and no thing is impossible for Him .... But your father is also full of love for you, His children, and therefore He will do everything that serves you for the salvation of your souls .... And if you only ever look at Me, your God and creator, as your father, you will also have utmost trust in Me, and you will also not let such misgivings arise in you that I will lead you astray who strive for the truth .... Only ever remember that I am your father, and then you will also trustingly come to Me with every concern, you will not need to be anxious and converse with Me like a child talks to its father. For I understand all your weaknesses and take them into account if only I see that you are willing to live to please Me. I assess your will and help you to overcome all weaknesses if you trustingly submit them to Me and appeal to Me for help. For such prayers are directed to Me in spirit and in truth and I do not overhear them. And again I have to emphasize that I Myself choose My vessels which are to receive My flow of spirit in the last days before the end and pass it on, because the spiritual adversity in the last days necessitates this. Admittedly, I require a person's voluntary dedication in order to make him suitable for a task which is extremely significant for the last days .... Yet I can only entrust such a mission to those who can also demonstrate the necessary prerequisites for it .... And this can only be judged by Me, for only I see into the individual's heart, only I know whose will is so devoted to Me that he gives himself completely to Me and is only ever willing to serve Me. And I will fill his heart with gifts of My love .... And he himself will also mature from the spiritual knowledge which I now let flow into his heart, because people need light in order to find the path which leads upwards. You humans should not believe that I lack the power to erect a protective wall around such a vessel if I want to let the pure truth flow into it, to open up a source from which the purest water of life flows, which is intended to help people heal their souls .... You may not deny Me this power, you who believe in a God Who is love, wisdom and power in Himself .... The human being's will is indeed free and he can work against it without being prevented by Me .... Yet My wisdom was also at work when I prepared My vessel for Myself, for it was based on the will of a person whom it recognized as rightly directed and was therefore also able to choose that person as a vessel .... For My love for you humans wanted to help you to emerge from spiritual adversity .... And it also knew the right means, which consisted of lighting a light for you so that you could see and now also consciously take the path to Me .... You humans lack the light of truth and therefore I kindled it for you .... And truly, I only give you truth, and I protect all from error who only sincerely desire the truth .... And that I can do this you will not doubt, that I want it is guaranteed to you by My greater than great love .... And My wisdom recognizes the right ways, the right means and also the human hearts which long for light .... And to all of these I will guide the light of truth and they will recognize Me Myself when I speak to them through you, who thus serve Me as right vessels, as is My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of loving intercession ....

B.D. 8101 from February 13th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

No soul shall go hungry to whom you give your loving intercession .... Where My love is bound to the law of eternal order your love can have a redeeming effect, and for the sake of your love I can supply strength to the souls and help them to achieve final redemption. For I only want to induce you to express love, because love is a strength which can bring help to the still unredeemed as well as promote your own ascent development. And thus everything that is based on love has an extremely beneficial effect, on earth as well as in the beyond. If you humans are able to embrace everything with your love you are already far advanced in your development and you can enter the kingdom of the beyond as perfected beings when your soul leaves the earthly body. But people are only rarely able to muster such love, for they usually still judge purely humanly and see their fellow human beings' faults and weaknesses, which is why they don't believe they can love them. But love should be such that it understands everything, that it can forgive everything, that it sees its fellow human being's weaknesses and faults with merciful eyes .... that it is willing to help him .... And anyone who can acquire this degree of love on earth can truly call himself blessed, for he has accomplished the transformation of his nature into love, which was the aim of his earthly progress .... But you should all make an effort to attain this degree of love, and therefore you should only ever try to imagine your fellow human being's soul which is often in deepest adversity and in need of help .... regardless of whether it is still on earth or already in the kingdom of the beyond .... If you could see such souls you would be seized by deep compassion and your will to help would also be immediately stimulated so that you would want to release them from their adversity. And thus you must seriously consider the idea that such souls urgently need help and rarely only receive it because other people take offence at their nature and therefore they don't earn any love from their fellow human beings .... A person's thoughts cannot be good, but the soul is to be pitied because it is in the fetters of the adversary who suffocates everything good in it and it is helplessly at his mercy in its weakness .... because it does not awaken love within itself which would give it strength to resist .... And you should help such souls with your love .... A good thought, an intercessory call to Me and also an unselfish work of help which charitably touches the soul can cause love to flare up in the soul because it feels a strength within itself which has directed your love to it. If you would only ever try to put yourselves into the misery of those souls, then your love would strike them and you could truly be redemptively active on these souls. For every soul is pitiful which still lives in complete darkness, which has not yet felt the strength of love in itself. And you pass by precisely such souls, you pay little attention to them or you turn away from them because people don't appeal to you, because you don't believe you can love them .... Take care of them, try to put yourselves in their shoes, you who have already found light, have mercy on those who walk without light .... give them love and present their hardship to Me, and I will truly be merciful to them for the sake of your love and provide them with strength which they only need to use correctly in order to find their way out of their adversity. Think less of the human being than of his soul, which is grateful to you for the smallest help because it cannot help itself if it does not make use of the strength of love .... And since it has little love itself you should give it to this soul, and you will be redemptively active and likewise find fulfilment of your requests if you are in spiritual hardship yourselves and present it to Me, for you all need help from Me as long as you still live on earth. And even in the kingdom of the beyond I will not deny help to those for whom you pray with love ....

Amen

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Jesus has built the bridge ....

B.D. 8102 from February 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

You humans have to enter the bridge to the spiritual kingdom, you have to try to detach yourselves from the earthly world, you have to think about your purpose in life on earth; you have to think about where you have come from and where you are going again. You must occupy yourselves with spiritual thoughts and you will already be moving on the bridge into the spiritual kingdom. And then you will also remember the teachings which were given to you for the purpose of your education, and you will also take a stand on the individual teachings in your thoughts .... And then Jesus Christ and His act of salvation will also come before your eyes, Who in truth has built the bridge from earth into the spiritual kingdom. And now your will will be decisive as to whether thoughts of the divine redeemer will touch you more deeply, for these thoughts will radiate to you from the world of light and you need only grasp them in order to derive a blessing which you, as human beings, cannot measure. If you are of good will you will return to these thoughts again and again, because Jesus Christ Himself will take hold of you as soon as you remember Him and feel His influence as thoughts and questions arise again and again as to what the work of salvation is all about .... (15.2.1962) And such questions will truly also be answered for it is the most important thing in earthly life that you find Jesus Christ, that you acknowledge Him as the divine redeemer and thus recognize Me Myself in Him .... For you must voluntarily return to Me again, Whom you once no longer wanted to acknowledge .... If you now believe in Jesus Christ, then you will also recognize Me Myself in Him, Who became a visible God for you, so that this recognition will become easy for you. Every person will one day have to realize his own attitude towards Jesus and His act of salvation. And therefore I will send My disciples into the world again and again who are to proclaim the gospel, who are to mention the act of salvation and thus carry the knowledge of Him everywhere, Who built the bridge for people which leads from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. These two kingdoms are separated and there was a deep gulf which could not have been bridged by people alone. And in recognition of people's great adversity the man Jesus built this bridge through His act of salvation, through His death on the cross, through which He redeemed people's great original sin .... He opened a path that leads back to the father, to Me, from Whom you all once came forth .... But without Jesus Christ this deep gulf still exists and you will remain in the dark realm forever, because no way leads out without Jesus. This is why people should hear about Him, about His work of great mercy, about His infinite love, and then they will also recognize that the man Jesus sheltered Me within Himself, Who is Love, Who thus took abode in Him. Jesus sacrificed Himself for His fellow human beings, which He would not have been able to do had it not been for the love in Him which gave Him the strength in His bitter suffering and dying on the cross in order to redeem humanity's guilt and to clear the way into the father's house for those who accept His act of mercy and appeal to Him for forgiveness of guilt and who therefore now also recognize and acknowledge Me in Jesus. And again and again people should therefore be pointed to Jesus Christ and His act of salvation .... They shall experience the spiritual hardship they are in as long as they do not believe in Him and are therefore still burdened with their original sin .... They shall hear again and again that they cannot become blessed without Jesus Christ, that the kingdom of light remains closed to them as long as they have not taken the path to the cross, because for such a long time they did not recognize Me Myself either, but this is the meaning and purpose of their earthly life, that they strive towards Me again of their own free will, Whom they had once voluntarily left .... The reason for their apostasy was also that they were unable to see Me .... In Jesus I became a visible God to them, and in Jesus they now also have to acknowledge Me in order to be accepted by Me again .... And therefore they must enter the bridge to the spiritual kingdom, for this kingdom is their true home, which can only be reached via the bridge Jesus built through His death on the cross .... You humans seriously desire information about the act of salvation, about the divine redeemer Jesus Christ and His mission on earth, seek truthful knowledge about Him, and truly, it will be granted to you, for you shall attain beatitude. The path to beatitude leads via the cross of Jesus Christ .... And therefore I will send My disciples to you again and again, and they will testify to Him, they will testify to My human manifestation in Jesus and to the greatest work of mercy which love itself accomplished on earth in the man Jesus ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Taking refuge in Jesus .... The adversary's activity ....

B.D. 8103 from February 16th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

My adversary seeks to extinguish the light which shines brightly down to Earth .... And all of you will still experience his activity, for he does not shy away from anything if he believes he can reach his goal with it. And the light shines brightly already and places those people who accept it and allow it to shine into their hearts into a state of realisation. The light, however, exposes My adversary, and people try to detach themselves from him, for they see the cross of Christ light up and turn to the divine Redeemer for help to release them from the enemy of their souls .... For this reason he leaves no stone unturned to extinguish the light from Me .... Yet he will have little success, for those who belong to Me are also capable of offering him resistance .... And they also receive the strength from Me to take their path as bearers of light, they protect the light themselves, because they are faithfully devoted to Me and thus the adversary has no power over them. It is the time of the end where My adversary's activity emerges ever more fiercely, but I, too, will reveal Myself remarkably and My Own will recognise Me and remain loyal to Me, precisely because they are enlightened, because they know about the battle between darkness and light. And every individual person will have to battle it out with the adversary as well, however, I will stand by anyone's side who wants to belong to Me and he will be victorious, he will recognise where shadows spread across the light and leave this situation as long as the adversary works in it .... Yet a person can consider himself fortunate if he has entered the flow of love which comes to you in the form of My Words .... The darkness can no longer scare him and neither need he fear that his light will be taken away from him and that he will descend into darkness again .... But he must voluntarily have entered the kingdom of My light, he must accept My Word, which is conveyed to earth from above, in his heart and thus open it of his own accord, so that the light from above can shine in and brightly illuminate him from within .... Then he truly need no longer fear My adversary's game of deceit, then he will ward off the adversary himself through the light, which the latter avoids ....

And if you fear that you don't have enough strength to fend him off when he beleaguers you, then take the path to the cross, call upon Jesus and appeal to Him for strength, and your desire for Jesus will be a certain means of defence against the enemy, for Jesus once faced him in battle and defeated him. And thus his power was broken, he will never be able to rise against Jesus, he will never succeed in snatching a human being back from Jesus again, for He protectively holds His hand over the one whose soul He bought back from His adversary with His blood .... Jesus Christ is the divine Redeemer Who was merely My shell in which I embodied Myself in order to give you humans your freedom again if it is your will to liberate yourselves from his control .... And once you have turned to Me in Jesus again, he can truly no longer snatch you from Me because his power will have been broken .... And anyone who has taken the path to the cross, to Jesus, lives in light as well .... This is why My adversary's spends the greatest effort to extinguish every light which might illuminate the path to the cross for people .... Yet he is incapable of achieving anything if the human being himself doesn't want it .... You should always bear in mind that you need only desire the light for it to shine for you .... that you should only have Jesus as your goal and that you will safely reach this goal, for only your will decides whether you live in light or in darkness. My side will always kindle a light for you, My side will impart the truth to you and in its bright radiance you will also find the right path .... I Myself radiate the light to earth by sounding My Word, I Myself speak to you and that also signifies the illumination of your hearts with My light of love .... And then only your will determines the degree of realisation, for My Word is instructive and informs you of My will. If you comply with it, the light will become increasingly brighter and you will recognise My adversary's activity and offer him resistance .... And he will leave you alone, because he avoids the area of light you occupy now because you have become My Own ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reason for the catastrophe ....

B.D. 8104 from February 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

In the last days before the end I will pour a large measure of grace upon humanity .... For I know of their weakness, of their spiritual darkness and their inclination toward the earthly world, their craving for earthly possessions, honour and fame .... I know that they are held captive by My adversary and in their weakness they are incapable of releasing themselves from his power. And I try to help people in various ways since everyone requires support in his spiritual hardship. And I also know what each person needs and therefore consider everyone according to his attitude towards life itself or towards Me. For I want to win every single person for Myself.

But people don't know that My adversary keeps them imprisoned when they desire earthly possessions, since they are oblivious to the true purpose of their earthly existence. Consequently they don't try to escape his control either. And people who cling to material possessions with heart and mind have to be helped by Me in a special way which, however, is not recognised by them as help .... I have to deprive them of their belongings, I have to let them get into situations where they learn to recognise the fleeting nature of all earthly things, I must make them realise their own vulnerability so that they will remember Me in their helplessness and consciously approach Me for help .... For I want them to find Me, Whom they have not found in the world and will also struggle to find .... This is a manifestation of Myself which affects people painfully but they cannot be aroused from their indifference in any other way ....

And yet, even this manifestation is a blessing in the last days, for a heartfelt prayer to Me and its fulfilment can direct the human being towards Me so that he will not leave Me again, so that he will ask for My guidance from that moment on and hand himself over to Me .... And then I will have won him over and saved him from the adversary, who will have lost his power over him. You humans will only ever see the destruction in every kind of natural disaster and make thoughtless judgments as long as you are not affected by them yourselves .... Yet nothing happens without My will or permission, and you should always bear this in mind when you hear about unexpected events threatening people's life and property, when people are powerless and only able to help according to their meagre strength .... But I know every individual person's will and also the possibility of leading erring souls onto the right path to Me .... And truly, I will take care of every individual who prays to Me in spirit and in truth and appeals for My help .... And the time of the end will justify such events which human will is unable to prevent if they were destined by My will .... You humans will often still be subject to the fury of natural forces and only rarely recognise therein My loving care for those whose souls are at risk .... I only want to help you release yourselves from My adversary which initially happens when you send a heartfelt appeal to Me and thus acknowledge Me as your God and Creator .... and then recognise the transience of things which still belong to My adversary. Try to let go of your desire for earthly matter, for all sorts of possessions .... For you will always receive whatever you need when you join Me and recognise your real earthly task and aim to comply with it ....

But don't let yourselves be shackled by My adversary who so temptingly portrays worldly goods to you that I have to intervene Myself by showing you that you can lose them at any time if this is My will. These interventions are painful but they can be a blessing for you .... And the One Who takes away from you can also always give to you. And He will help anyone in distress if he hands himself over to Him in complete faith and appeals for His help .... But always recognise My will in every natural event, for My will is truly determined by love and wisdom and thus everything is a blessing for you as long as you find the right attitude towards Me and realise the true purpose of earthly life .... then you will come ever closer to Me and know that everything I allow to befall humanity is a gift of grace .... For it is the time of the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Participation of the light beings in the work of creation ....

B.D. 8105 from February 19th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The word which comes to you from Me will only ever impart the clearest knowledge to you, for this is My purpose, that you will be instructed in the truth, that your thinking is right, that you will receive clarification in all questions which move you mentally and that you therefore know the truth yourselves in order to be able to represent it to your fellow human beings. Again and again I try to clarify people's misconceptions, and I could and can only do this by making knowledge accessible to a completely ignorant person before he took notice of this wrong knowledge, which, however, I Myself had not imparted to people but which resulted from his own wrong thoughts and changes. I only ever try to instruct people in the truth but cannot prevent people from transforming it again themselves and thus attain wrong thinking .... The apostasy of the spirits .... of the beings created by Me .... happened as it was explained to you again and again, that the beings, which had emerged from My strength of love as My images, turned away from Me but Whom they recognized in their abundance of light as their God and creator. These beings had been externalised by Me as completely independent, and if I call them My images they were therefore the image of Myself in the most minimal form, if the word 'form' is applicable to spiritual beings at all .... Yet the beings were able to behold and recognize themselves, they were also able to exchange themselves through the 'word'. They were therefore independent beings, completely independent of each other and also independent of Me .... except for the constant radiance of love on My part which enabled them to create and work in the spiritual realm .... This radiance of love was therefore, as it were, the bond which united us .... And the apostate beings themselves tore this bond apart by turning away from Me and rejecting the illumination of love .... and consequently also lost their creative power and became incapable of any activity .... which meant the hardening of their spiritual substance .... However, I had separated these beings from Me, they were isolated from Me, yet each individual being was an original spirit brought into being by Me ...., originally a 'God-like being' ..... Understand that it was therefore also able to determine its own free will and was in no way influenced or hindered by Me, because in the light of its knowledge it was also very well able to judge what it wanted and did .... And yet, it turned away from Me and voluntarily strove towards the abyss, which then also meant the loss of light, of the strength of love from Me and consequently the loss of all knowledge. Thus the kingdom of darkness came into being which received all these beings which had voluntarily separated themselves from Me .... That I will not leave these beings in darkness forever has also been told to you again and again, for My nature is love and love gives up nothing .... love always seeks unification with everything that has emerged from love .... Yet every fallen original spirit has to return to Me of its own free will before the beatification through My love can take place again. But the fallen one is completely weakened, for it rejected the strength from Me .... And if this weakened one is to cover the path from the abyss to the height then it has to be helped .... And all spiritual beings full of light which are filled with love are ready to help it, because their love is therefore meant for the weak, fallen one until its final return to Me .... And furthermore you must know that all spiritual beings full of light, all spiritual beings which once remained with Me, create and work together with Me in My will .... And thus it will also be understandable to you that all works of creation arose from this joint activity .... that I make all spirits which emerged from Me happy by constantly receiving strength and using it, by letting creations arise in accordance with My will which are now intended to serve the fallen spirits as a way back to Me .... You will understand that the beings full of love take care of their fallen brothers and thus see their task in redeeming themselves .... And thus every single original spirit .... even if it is dissolved into innumerable substances .... will experience the care of this light-filled spiritual being during its entire course of upward development until the last perfection .... For love always applies to the wretched and seeks to lead it to beatitude, regardless of whether love radiates from Me directly or from the beings of light, for it is always My emanation of love which flows through all beings of light, which now again pass on and utilize the strength as stations of strength according to My will. Thus the fallen original spirits are handed over to these beings for care, which means that they grant them help throughout the whole process of ascent development, that they create all prerequisites in order to give the individual spiritual substances the opportunity to be of service, and thus always let earthly creations arise in My will .... the spiritual substances as a cover in which maturing now takes place through service. And thus this spiritual substance slowly ascends from the abyss, through the stone, plant and animal kingdoms up to the human being .... And even as a human being, the original spirit .... now its soul .... needs the care of the world full of light .... But now it would not be able to take a step upwards because this upward development in the human being can only be achieved by love, but the soul is completely devoid of love, for it once rejected My illumination of love and now has to voluntarily open itself to My illumination of love again .... which, however, can only happen if there is already a small spark of love in it .... And I Myself place this spark into the human being's soul at the beginning of his embodiment .... But a divine spark of love is always inseparably connected with eternal love .... So you humans can well say that you have the God-spirit in you, for this spark of love is My share, it is the spirit of My spirit .... it is the divine ray of love which, however, still remains ineffective as long as you still resist Me .... but which immediately ignites when you open yourselves in free will to the illumination of love from Me, that is..., if you mentally turn to Me, if you make an effort to live to please Me, if you implore Me in prayer for My grace, My spirit and My strength .... if you therefore consciously want to belong to Me again and hand yourselves over to Me, so that I can then fill you with My spirit, so that the bond of your spiritual spark with the eternal father-spirit is established, which then secures your irradiation of love again, which slowly leads you to perfection. This bond of My divine spirit of love with you, which must be striven for by your free will, is then also your complete change of will. You approach the original state again and then return to Me at your demise as a perfected original being .... The being which once turned away from Me has voluntarily found its way back to Me, and it now shines in brightest light again .... because My love can radiate through it again as it once did when it was still with Me in the kingdom of the blissful spirits .... And all beings of light took part in its bliss, just as they took part in its fate when it was still wretched ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God wants to be known .... Reasons for the revelations ....

B.D. 8106 from February 20th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

It cannot be told to you often enough that I appear unusually in the end time because I want to save you humans from ruin. I use many means, I address every individual person in his fate of life, I show Myself in unusual events of all kinds because everything that happens is My will or My permission .... And I speak to you humans directly from above through the transmission of My word .... because I only want to achieve one thing, that you recognize Me Myself in everything that happens, in everything you encounter, be it of a joyful or sorrowful nature. I only want to be recognized by you .... I want you humans to believe in a God and creator Who wants to be your father and Who, in His love, tries everything to win your hearts for Himself. This is why I reveal Myself, this is why I also send you My word from above, for you shall receive information as to why everything happens and that one is above you Who directs everything that happens, even though He takes people's free will into account. Yet My will and My might will know how to judge everything correctly which people's will does wrong and therefore much responsibility also rests on the human being himself .... But since you humans are mostly ignorant, since you lack the right knowledge, I will also try to convey this to you by informing you about the meaning and purpose of your earthly life and your earthly task .... You humans no longer have much time at your disposal but it can still suffice to induce you to strive towards Me Myself as your God and creator, and this is the only thing I still want to achieve so that you need not fear a new banishment in the end when the whole earthly creation will be judged anew again .... You must therefore accept this as a reason when I reveal Myself to you through My word .... I address you .... An unheard-of grace which My love bestows upon you, because My word has a strength which can easily cause a change of will in you. And then you will be saved for all eternity if your will changes, if it turns towards Me and I can now also grasp you. For it concerns your free will .... Neither I nor My adversary can force you into the direction of your will. But My word can bring it about that you give Me your will, because through My word you learn to recognize Me Myself and My nature, because My word is a direct illumination of love which can ignite in you, and because you come close to Me Myself if you willingly listen to My word and act accordingly. It is a means of grace with such a significant effect that you humans can be awakened to life which lasts forever .... For it is life itself, it is an emanation of strength which can awaken everything dead to life if only it gives up its resistance .... Therefore you should listen to Me when I speak to you Myself; you should not reject My messengers who convey My word to you, for I Myself send them to you because I recognize hearts which only still require My illumination of love in order to come alive, in order to then have escaped eternal death. And I will have to speak loudly to anyone who does not pay attention to My silent address, which will also often happen before the end, for where I only see a possibility to soften human hearts I will leave no stone unturned, because it is not about the body's well-being but about the state of the soul, which shall be saved before the end .... Don't doubt My love, for even if you humans are not always able to recognize it, it is nevertheless the reason for everything you experience and which also often affects you painfully. And as long as there is still a possibility to influence human hearts I will not fail to grant them help. For I don't want them to perish; I want them to attain eternal life and be blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God: Love - wisdom - power ....

B.D. 8107 from February 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 85

I will make Myself known to you as a God of love, wisdom and power .... And therefore I will do everything to prove Myself to you. I will constantly guide you through earthly life who request My guidance, and you will always recognize help as soon as you get into adversity, because My love will not leave you in adversity .... You will also always be able to recognize My wisdom, for you may only take one look into My creations. Everything that surrounds you will testify to My wisdom as soon as you seriously think about it, as soon as you don't walk blindly through your earthly life. Then you must also remember the creator Who let everything arise around you and Who truly created all things in wisdom which serve you humans as well as the various creations in order to maintain and exist .... For nothing came into being without meaning and purpose which creation contains, except that you humans are not always able to fathom the purpose. And the fact that everything has come into being also proves to you again My might, to which no limits are set .... which radiated everything My love and wisdom wanted out of itself, which let its thoughts become form .... You humans could constantly let My works of love speak to you, which always reveal My wisdom and power to you, and you could already conclude from this that there is a God and creator Whose nature is perfect .... You can all think, and you will also always be stimulated on the part of the beings of light which seek to actuate their love on My behalf for you .... You should only not resist such thoughts which point to your God and creator .... The recognition of His perfection, the knowledge of His love, wisdom and power, will always ensure you an easy earthly life, for then you will also consciously turn to Him because you have recognized Him as supremely perfect .... And this alone I seek to achieve, to make Myself known to you as a perfect being, so that you will then also seek contact with Me. For you first have to believe in a being with conviction before you make contact with this being. Love, wisdom and power in highest perfection .... that is My essence .... And you should consciously strive for this being. Then you will not walk the earth unsuccessfully, then your short existence on earth will be the last conclusion of a long period of development, which will have brought you back to your original being again .... For you can only achieve this through the bond with Me in free will .... And whatever I can do to induce you into this bond I will also do, because I am interested in your return to Me, because I want to shorten the state of separation, which is not a blissful one for you. But if you recognize Me as a supremely perfect being then you will try to join Me of your own free will, you will give Me your love, you will no longer turn away from Me when I want to illuminate you with My love, and earthly life will let you reach the aim .... For I Myself can now also influence you because you have given up your resistance against Me. And so that you will now also know about your purpose of earthly life, I will convey this knowledge to you on a path which, in turn, should prove My love, wisdom and power to you .... I speak to you because My love wants to help you .... I instruct you about your beginning and your final aim in a way you cannot be instructed earthly, which shall confirm My great wisdom to you .... and I choose an unusual way to convey this knowledge to you .... because everything is possible for Me, whatever I want. And I want to guide you humans to beatitude and truly know all ways and means, but I leave you free will. And this can also reject all means of help, and then the human being, despite his earthly progress, will remain at the same stage of development where he stood at the beginning of his embodiment .... If he does not sink and strive towards the abyss again, which then means his renewed banishment when the end has come .... For the law of order is observed from My side, and no human being can become blessed who violates the law of order ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

What is meant by "eternities" ....

B.D. 8108 from February 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 85

The former apostasy of the spirits from God has extended over endless ages .... Eternities passed during which the light-shining host of spirits was inexpressibly blissful in His nearness .... Eternities passed before the slow transformation took place in the original spirits, where again and again God's strength of love flooded them and they were devoted to Him and then again free will moved them to turn away from God .... And eternities passed again until these beings decided to finally turn away from God .... This process in the realm of the spirits cannot be comprehended with human understanding, for something that was created most perfectly reversed its fundamental nature, it took on a completely opposite nature, and thus a world full of wretchedness arose, a world of darkness and torment .... which is also incomprehensible to human understanding .... But this process did take place and was the cause of creation, which is to bring about the return of all fallen beings to God from Whom they originated. But the act of creation also took an infinitely long time, for all material creations were, as it were, spiritual substances 'on their way back' which had to ascend again just as they had once fallen into the abyss .... which therefore could not pass over any phase and therefore also took a long time for the emergence of creation. Every work of creation contained fallen spiritual substance in the various degrees of its development .... And the time was also endlessly long before the fallen spiritual, which had hardened into solid substance, was encased and through God's will became matter, forms, which now visibly appeared .... These infinitely long periods of time are likewise inconceivable to human intellect, which is why it is certainly possible to speak of eternities which have already passed by since God's will of love created beings which He had established as independent of Himself .... And likewise, eternities will pass until all spiritual beings have taken the path back to God and reached the aim again .... the union with God .... But that this process of the spiritual beings' apostasy from God once took place shall be made known to people who are these apostate spiritual beings .... so that they learn to grasp the significance of their earthly life, so that they seek contact with their God and creator of eternity and try to penetrate more closely into the knowledge of their original state, which is the purpose and aim of their earthly life. For the knowledge of it will make them happy .... because it is already a state of light to attain knowledge of it in contrast to the darkness in which the fallen spirits still find themselves, which once voluntarily gave up the light of knowledge and chose deepest darkness .... Therefore God will kindle a light for those who desire it .... who want to step out of darkness. And this light will inform people about questions which cannot be answered by people .... which God reserves for Himself to answer but gives a light to everyone who desires it. The human being should know that he owes his existence to a being Which brought everything into existence that is apparent to him .... And he should know that this being is supremely perfect and that therefore everything It created is based on profound love, supreme wisdom and inconceivable power .... He should know that he may and should devote himself to this being in order to experience supreme bliss, because that being is love in Its fundamental substance, Which always and forever wants to give Itself away .... Who created beings in great numbers in order to be able to make them happy forever and ever .... And the human being should know that he was created in God's image, which only voluntarily turned itself into the opposite .... but which will certainly have completed the reversion one day, and that as a human being he will now cover the last phase of material creation, which can earn him union with God again if he himself has the will to do so .... And the will will be stimulated by the knowledge of all this, but which it can also freely accept or also reject again. Yet God wants to reveal Himself in His being, He wants to be recognized by people as a being Which is love, wisdom and power in Itself, because this knowledge also awakens love in people and love signifies union with God, Who Himself is love from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers