New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 8425 - 8521

Please take special notice of the fact that God’s Words addressed to us are non-denominational.

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

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

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

The publication of the proclamations was made possible due to the active support of the many friends of God’s New Revelation.

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

8425 - Representing the truth.... blessings of spiritual work....

8426 - Who speaks to you?.... Every soul is a member of God....

8427 - People's low spiritual state necessitates an end....

8428 - God Himself inclines to His creatures....

8429 - Harmonious life on the new earth....

8430 - New banishment inevitable for the adversary's followers....

8431 - Power of the word secures return to God....

8432 - Judgement.... Warning of the adversary's action....

8433 - The adversary's activity behind a mask....

8434 - Assurance of protection against confusion and hostility....

8435 - All circumstances of life offer opportunities to mature....

8436 - The correct way of life is not enough to mature fully....

8437 - Atonement of guilt through Jesus....

8438 - Warning against intercourse with the psychic world....

8439 - Divine care for vineyard workers....

8440 - Creation of the new earth in a moment of time....

8441 - Power of loving intercession for unbelievers....

8442 - Vineyard work according to divine will....

8443 - Nothing will remain unredeemed forever....

8444 - Attitude to the world determines spiritual progress....

8445 - God’s human manifestation....

8446 - Faith and love guarantee God's protection from adversary....

8447 - Special justification of reassignment to earth....

8448 - ‘Correcting’ God’s Word.... Corruption of truth....

8449 - Multiple walk through creation.... Diversity....

8450 - Great power effect of the divine word in the hereafter....

8451 - Truth alone leads to the goal....

8452 - Proof of God is His word.... Exceeding the authority....

8453 - Why is Jesus' recognition necessary?....

8454 - Jesus taught love on Earth....

8455 - Fully Trusting Prayer....

8456 - Why was it possible for a body of work by the opponent to prevail?....

8457 - Only God is Ruler of the universe....

8458 - Irrefutable knowledge from above.... Mind thinking....

8459 - Explanation regarding original spirit and apostasy....

8460 - Two different kinds of revelations cannot be true....

8461 - Prayer for strength.... Overcoming ego love....

8462 - God's protection in the fight against the enemy....

8463 - Jesus suffered immeasurably....

8464 - God's instruction to educate fellow human beings about Jesus....

8465 - Why is the information about the process of return not known?....

8466 - What is prayer in spirit and in truth?....

8467 - Where do the temptations go out?....

8468 - Only Jesus can strengthen the will....

8469 - Resurrection of Jesus....

8470 - Clarification about intercession....

8471 - Attainment of sonship with God requires detachment from the world....

8472 - Mission to vineyard workers: to spread light....

8473 - Bids in coercion are not God’s will

8474 - Knowledge is given according to the soul's maturity....

8475 - God wants no compulsion.... The truth sets you free....

8476 - Love and dedication needed for vineyard work....

8477 - There is no coincidence.... Nothing happens arbitrarily....

8478 - How do you recognize the truth from above?....

8479 - Touchstone of divine revelations: Jesus' act of Salvation....

8480 - Distortion of truth....

8481 - The earnest will to the light is the prerequisite of truth....

8482 - Process of the Word-reception....

8483 - Purpose and meaning of the revelations.... Signs of Truth....

8484 - Activity of demonic powers disguised as angels of light....

8485 - Doubts about end prophecies....

8486 - Jesus' life before His teaching ministry....

8487 - False Christs and prophets....

8488 - Statement on mental and literal address....

8489 - Battles for souls.... Counterpole....

8490 - Overcoming the world....

8491 - Feeding souls with the right food....

8492 - With God no thing is impossible....

8493 - Completion is also possible in a short time....

8494 - Gift of grace before the end.... Jesus Christ....

8495 - Explanation about re-incarnation.... Jesus and Salvation....

8496 - Every man must answer for himself....

8497 - Dead knowledge.... Awakening the spirit....

8498 - God reveals His nature through His speeches....

8499 - The audible Word requires a high degree of maturity....

8500 - The predetermined day of the end will be kept....

8501 - Time indication.... (Continuation of no. 8500)

8502 - Distribution.... (Continuation of nos. 8500 and 8501)

8503 - God requires a living faith....

8504 - God's justice demands atonement for guilt....

8505 - Teacher training....

8506 - Ascension of Christ....

8507 - The right worship....

8508 - Bearing suffering for fellow human beings....

8509 - Belief in a pre-life in a must-state....

8510 - Re-transformation into love.... Spiritual spark.... Outpouring of the spirit....

8511 - Are dissolved particles capable of suffering?....

8512 - Declaration of sufferings and afflictions of the last days....

8513 - Unheard-of grace of the word reception....

8514 - Where God's Word is recognised, that is where He is present....

8515 - Presupposition of the presence of God: love....

8516 - The outpouring of the spirit.... Whitsun....

8517 - Events in the realm of spirits before the creation of the world....

8518 - Truth is unknowable without love....

8519 - Truth is light.... Darkness the result of heartlessness....

8520 - God's protection from the adversary's temptations....

8521 - False Christs and prophets.... Characteristic: Salvation....

Representing the truth .... blessings of spiritual work ....

B.D. 8425 from March 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Undeterred you should go your way and not let any objection hold you back, for you are subject to My guidance through your own will and thus you cannot do otherwise than walk the right path. People will indeed always oppose the thought material which originates from Me Myself with their own views, yet you will always succeed in refuting every objection, for you work with results which were not gained by the intellect but by the spirit within you, and it only depends on the partner's will whether he is serious about the truth or only wants to assert himself. But if you recognize the latter, then refrain from your teachings, for where the will is not present the truth will never be recognized or penetrate. But you should not let yourselves be irritated by this, after all, the battle between light and darkness will continue until the end, but the light emanates from Me, and the prince of darkness will truly not be victorious over Me, for his activity will come to an end because the time is fulfilled .... The darkness will be broken through and all dark forces will be rendered harmless, and bright light will shine because a new time is dawning where people themselves will not resist the light, where they can be permeated by My strength of love through a life of love according to My will and this always signifies bright realisation and true thinking, so that the darkness has departed and will also no longer oppress people as long as they maintain the bond of love with Me themselves. But this will no longer happen on this earth, for humanity, with few exceptions, is in the hands of My adversary, it feels at ease in the darkness of spirit and does not seek light, and thus people will accept and spread far more erroneous thought material but reject the truth as long as they don't kindle the light of love within themselves, but then they will also turn to the pure truth which originates from Me Myself. Only a few open their hearts to the ray of love emanating from Me, and for the sake of these few you should carry out your mission with all diligence, for every soul which remains protected from a repeated earthly progress through all creations on earth is a great spiritual gain for Me, for it is eternally wrested from My adversary and now constantly strives closer to Me, even if it does not yet depart from earth in final maturity ..... yet its ascent in the spiritual kingdom is guaranteed, and its earthly progress as a human being was not unsuccessful .... and whether your activity as a vineyard labourer also seems unsuccessful to you, My servants. Every single soul is My created being for which I already struggle endlessly against My adversary, which I already look after endlessly and provide it with all help .... And this is why the return of every individual soul gives Me immense bliss when it has covered the path through matter with the success of being able to enter the kingdom of the beyond, free from every material external form, for it can constantly continue its development as a spiritual being but for the time being it has overcome matter, which for every being still belongs to My adversary and therefore he, too, still has a right to that soul until it has left its material body .... Time and again I will enlighten you about the fact that all spiritual work of yours is blessed, for it will never be unsuccessful .... And even if you cannot achieve great success with your fellow human beings there are always souls in the beyond around you who gladly and willingly accept the truth from Me because they feel the light radiation beneficially, whereas the human being on earth feels no effect as long as he closes himself off, as long as he values his intellect higher than the results which the spirit in the human being imparts to the one who allows its working .... Intellectual thinking offers no guarantee for truth of the thought material, but the spirit instructs the human being correctly, and this shall always give you the certainty to represent your spiritual knowledge as truth when other views are opposed to you. For the human being can err but the spirit from God does not err .... And everyone who seriously examines with the will to stand in truth, who wants to reject every error as belonging to the opposing spirit, will be able to recognize that My spirit working if pure truth is conveyed to him. The desire for truth alone is decisive as to whether a person lives in truth. Nevertheless, you should be eagerly active and take care of the spreading of the truth ..... But I will do everything in order to invalidate My adversary's activity .... And one day the light will break through brightly and shine again on earth in its strength .... But no longer on this earth, for it is My adversary's kingdom which he will dominate until his power is broken, until he himself is rendered harmless for a long time and people are no longer exposed to his influence ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Who speaks to you? .... Every soul is a member of God ....

B.D. 8426 from March 2nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The Spirit Who introduces you to all truth is I Myself, the highest and most perfect Spirit in infinity, your God and Creator, the Lord of heaven and earth, Who is from eternity to eternity .... You should believe this, and if you feel too small and tiny for the highest and most perfect Being to address you, then know that I speak to My children as Father, for you once came forth from Me, you are most closely united with Me, because you are strength from Me which can never ever pass away .... And no matter how small you may think yourselves to be, you are still My creatures, you belong to Me, for your original element is the same as I Am, and the spark which rests in you is My share, it is inseparably connected with the Father-Spirit from eternity .... And if it thus expresses itself in you, then it is I Myself Whom you hear .... The fact that it is not comprehensible to you is due to the fact that you have distanced yourselves and consider yourselves distant from Me, that you have lost the feeling of belonging to Me as a result of your voluntary turning away from Me, but this is only possible in your imagination, for you cannot separate yourselves from Me forever. Yet you shall also regain the awareness of the close bond with Me, and therefore I address you. If you are truthfully instructed as to what you were, what you are and what you shall become again, then there is also the possibility that you will try to reduce the distance from Me, and the closer you come to Me again the more understandable it will be to you that the highest and most perfect Being will lean down towards you, because then you will understand your own relationship to Me. But this realisation presupposes a conscious striving towards Me .... it presupposes that you follow the quiet voice within you which first of all encourages you to fulfil My will, to live a life of love .... For through love you draw closer to Me Myself, Who is Eternal Love, and My voice will now sound ever brighter and clearer in you, because the Father wants to motivate His children to fully and completely hand themselves over to Him, so that the vast distance His creations once strove for will be reduced and finally completely abolished .... that they finally unite with Me again. For one thing is certain, that nothing will be relinquished by Me which once emanated from Me, because everything is My share, because nothing exists which belongs to another power but is only unlawfully influenced by a being which also once emanated from Me in all power and glory and abused this power of his in free will .... yet (he was) not prevented from doing so by Me, because My unsurpassable wisdom and infinite love initiated a tremendous process of transformation and based this plan on that free will of My now adversary which, however, will ultimately result in an endless beatification of all spiritual beings created by Me and to which even My adversary will one day voluntarily submit himself, and whether eternities will still pass by. Everything is and will remain eternally Mine, only that it will voluntarily step out of order at times but will also irrevocably once again insert itself into this eternal order. Yet My loving care will always be at work to achieve this final goal, and My direct address is also explained in this loving care, for even if I stand supremely above My creations .... which once took their start while I Am from eternity .... nevertheless My love for you is unimaginable and this bends down to the tiniest creature and fills it with strength. How much more, however, will this love express itself to the self-aware being, the human being, and seek to draw him to itself, because the self-aware being is already able to recognize Me and learn to love Me if it is truthfully instructed about its origin and its goal .... in order to then freely strive for Me from within itself and to unite with Me again, because it can only be immeasurably happy in union with Me and I would like to prepare this bliss for everything that has emerged from Me .... For My love has called you into life and My love also wants to make you eternally happy, therefore My love will also be continuously active so that you will reach your final goal. And therefore I placed a small spark of love in your heart which is inseparably connected to the Eternal Love, which pushes towards Me but always leaves the human being's will free, so that he can also suffocate the small spark of love within himself and then remain at a distance from Me for eternities, which also signifies eternal times of wretchedness. Yet as long as you live on earth as a human being, where you are to pass your last test of will, My love will also pursue you and try to encourage you to change your will, so that it turns towards Me and you consciously insert yourselves into My law of eternal order again: so that you shape yourselves into love again in order to be able to unite with the Eternal Love forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

People's low spiritual state necessitates an end ....

B.D. 8427 from March 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Once someone has penetrated spiritual knowledge he is also entitled to make a judgment in regards to humanity's spiritual state, and he will realise that spiritual progress on this earth is not possible anymore .... He will be able to observe that the commandments of love for God and one's neighbour are only very rarely lived up to and that the disregard of these commandments results in ever greater darkness .... He will also know that people's will itself is the decisive factor and that this is also misused, since it is turning increasingly more towards the adversary which explains why people are under his control. Salvation would certainly be possible if only people were willing to accept the Word of God, which He Himself conveys to earth and which truly has the strength to lead to a change in human thinking. Yet precisely this willingness is missing and thus humanity is irrevocably approaching the end, so that the unspiritual state will be brought to a halt and a new phase of redemption will start which will impede the endless fall into the abyss, and the being which had failed as a human being will be integrated into the process of return once again, in accordance with divine will. Anyone who has penetrated spiritual knowledge will also understand everything that is happening .... he will know that one period of Salvation is coming to an end and that a new one is beginning, because he knows the reason for people's unspiritual state and also that God's love keeps creating ever new possibilities to lead the beings, which had once emerged from Him, to their goal. And only those people who penetrated spiritual knowledge can offer a little help by passing their knowledge on to their fellow human beings .... but then free will has to be prepared again to accept such knowledge. And people's will is extraordinarily weakened .... A person could certainly place himself into a state of strength and also attain a stronger will, but this requires him to live in love himself and to take the path to Jesus Christ Who, through His crucifixion, acquired unmeasured blessings, thus also the strengthening of will .... Deeds of love will always grant strength to a person, and a call upon Jesus will fortify the will, for then the will is no longer completely averted from God, for anyone who is lovingly active also establishes contact with God, the Eternal Love. And anyone who calls upon Jesus Christ acknowledges Him as the Redeemer of the world and thus also as God Himself, Who became a human being in Jesus Christ .... Hence you all can escape this state of weakness, you are not left to your own devices in your helplessness, but strength is at your disposal at all times if only you desire it .... And those who possess this knowledge will always provide you with clarification, but as long as your heart and ears are unreceptive to it their words will remain ineffective, you will remain weak and unenlightened and won't live up to your purpose of life.

However, force will never be exerted on you on God's part, it will be entirely left up to your will as to how you deal with your fellow human beings' instructions, yet they will be conveyed to you so that you can also make this decision yourselves. If, however, your own will rejects it and you cannot find your way out of the state of darkness then you are entangled in a net of lies and errors which you can no longer tear apart yourselves, since it keeps you constrained and was cast upon you by the adversary himself. And then the only option left is to break the adversary's power, that is, to remove the opportunity for him to harass people on earth, which means the dissolution of earth with all its creations as well as all living creatures up to the human being .... hence an end for you humans with a subsequent banishment into hard matter and a reshaping of all material creations for the purpose of sheltering the still bound spiritual substances, which likewise shall attain higher development on this earth .... A spiritual change on this earth is impossible because people fail to muster the will for it .... Yet that which will follow later will also demonstrate a spiritual change, for after the demise of the old earth a new earth will arise with incomparably beautiful creations, with spiritually mature people who had passed their test of faith and will on this old earth and who shall be returned to the new earth as the root of the new human generation .... For they will be spiritually awakened, they will know about God's love and His reign and activity throughout the universe and they will also know that all creations only serve the once fallen spiritual beings to attain full maturity, they will know that divine order must be observed and that everything which leaves this order will require endless time in order to reach the goal again one day, to integrate with the law of eternal order and to live a life of selfless love .... And at the end of an earthly period love will have grown completely cold amongst people, thus profound darkness will be on earth, for only love is the light which penetrates the darkness .... And only the one who lives in love will also penetrate spiritual knowledge, he will ignite the light within himself and all the terrors of darkness will be over for him .... And this bright light will illuminate the new earth, and all people will be fully enlightened for they will live in love and walk with God, Who is Love Himself and the Light of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God Himself inclines to His creatures ....

B.D. 8428 from March 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Why do you humans not want to believe that you can come into contact with Me so closely that you hear My Word? Why is the most natural thing in the world, that the Father speaks to His child, so unbelievable to you? Why do you doubt that the highest and most perfect Being will descend to you in order to offer you delicious gifts, when this is also only proof of My perfection, that My love for you is unlimited and constantly wants to bestow gifts upon you? .... Why do you deny Me this love and power of wanting and being able to express Myself to people? After all, you all came forth from Me, and every work of creation around you also bears witness to Me, and everything has its meaning and purpose? .... But the knowledge of this is hidden from you and you don't believe that I want to give it to you .... And therefore it is difficult for you to believe because you don't have the right idea about Me, because you don't know Me in My nature and because you yourselves have been led into wrong thinking by My opposing power, which primarily aims to give you a wrong, totally distorted image of Me in order to prevent you from loving Me as a father wants to be loved by his children .... But you should first establish the right relationship with Me, the relationship of a child with its Father, and then everything will be easily understandable to you, and My direct address will no longer seem doubtful to you but only be a confirmation of My Fatherly love which wants to make you happy, which wants to give you life which lasts forever. And although you still lack profound knowledge you nevertheless know that you were created by a power since you were unable to create yourselves as a self-aware, thinking being with free will. Hence you must have emerged from a mighty and exceedingly wise power, for every work of creation around you and also you yourselves are evidence of a wise creative power which therefore cannot be denied. This power has given rise to creatures as which you must recognize yourselves .... And the human being is, as it were, the crown of creation, for no other work of creation possesses intellect and free will .... And it is to be concluded from this that the Creator Himself in all perfection must have these qualities, that He is a thinking, free-willing being in highest perfection .... For the created work cannot be more than its Creator is .... And thus it must also be easy for the human being, as a 'begotten' being, to surrender to his 'producer', thus to look upon and acknowledge the latter as Father, to Whom the child voluntarily takes the path because it feels it belongs to Him .... For you are beings capable of thinking and you should establish this completely natural bond with your Creator and Father of eternity. And if you do so, you will lift the barriers yourselves which seemingly separate you from the highest and most perfect Being, then you will no longer look for your God and Creator in the distance, as the completely ignorant human being does, but you will allow My presence within you through your thoughts which are directed towards Me, as real children do, and then it will no longer seem strange to you that your God and Father addresses you, then you will only ever want Me to be constantly present to you, that I constantly make you happy with My address, that you receive from Me what you lack in earthly life: light and strength, i.e. realisation of yourselves and your destiny and also the ability to achieve what I have set as your goal .... As soon as you recognize Me as Father you will also give Me your love, which you once denied Me, and the love in you will flare up into a bright glow and attract Me mightily, so that you will completely join Me again and have now also reached your original nature again, in which you were immeasurably happy .... This alone is the purpose of My address, for as long as you cannot hear your Father you are still very distant from Me, and you must reduce this distance yourselves and finally remove it, you must want the Father to draw close to you, and truly, I will not close My ear and heart if you intimately ask Me Myself for My presence .... But don't think that I consider you too small to speak to you .... I am and remain your Father, Whose love for His children is unlimited and Who will not rest until they have returned to Him, even though they once separated from Him voluntarily .... My love, however, has not diminished and will not diminish eternally either, but will pursue everything that once came forth from Me until its final return to Me .... And as soon as it is possible for Me to address you, you are also on the path of return home, you are on the path into your Father's house from which you once came forth in light and strength and also have to stand in light and strength again in order to unite with Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Harmonious life on the new earth ....

B.D. 8429 from March 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Whatever idea you might have of the new earth, the reality will far surpass your imagination, because a blessed time will dawn for My Own, for the people who will endure to the end and be taken to the new earth .... People will live together in absolute harmony and peace, surrounded by incomparable works of creation .... Even the animal world will coexist peacefully, there will be no hostility between the creatures, for their soul substances are also nearing embodiment as a human being, and all spiritual substances bound in the creations will sense the harmony surrounding them and noticeably change their resistance, which will become apparent by their willingness to be of service, because these spiritual substance, too, want to arrive at their final path on this earth quickly .... People will be able to enjoy many magnificent things, given that they are fully matured for a life of beatitude, and they would enjoy this beatitude in the kingdom of the beyond were it not for the fact that they shall continue their life on the new earth because the new human race shall arise from them ....

And once again souls will be able to incarnate who have achieved a higher degree of maturity due to the great changes, due to the exceedingly sorrowful last days and the immense destruction, who will now be far more willing to fulfil the final functions of service in the material form as a result of people's loving way of life on the new earth. Consequently, they will not be entirely without love at the beginning of their human incarnation and thus will progress faster, especially since they can not be troubled by the adversary, since their love also assures them the light beings' protection and help .... so that they will be able to easily repel the instincts and longings which still adhere to them .... For their will is directed towards Me, and thus they shall also fully consciously pass their test of will in their earthly life as a human being, because My adversary is unable to bother them and people's love establishes the bond with Me .... This privilege of an easier earthly progress for their descendants will be acquired by My Own through their successful battle before the end, which will truly necessitate a strong will and immense love for Me and which I therefore will also reward in every sense. In addition, I know when the spiritual substances in the form change their will, and accordingly I Am able to place them into external forms on the new earth again which will guarantee the spiritual substances' willingness to serve .... The situation on the new earth will be such that people will no longer be burdened by suffering and problems, so that they no longer will experience earthly or spiritual hardship, so that they will be able to enjoy the magnificent creations in perfect happiness, and that one person will love the other so much that he will want to discard everything that could burden the other .... And this love allows Me Myself to dwell among My Own, to teach them and to bring joy to them with My presence. A truly divine peace will spread across all created beings and remain for a long time, because every activity is determined by love, and thus even succeeding generations will allow Me to dwell amongst them .... and the adversary will be totally excluded .... For he cannot be where I Am present, and all people will have been redeemed in truth, for they live in the sign of the cross, they are brightly enlightened about Jesus Christ's act of Salvation and love Me in Him with a passionate heart ....

It is truly a state of paradise which certainly will last a long time, but it will not last indefinitely .... For ever more spiritual substances travelling through the creations, whose resistance has not yet been entirely broken, will attain their final embodiment, and then the longing for matter will come to the fore again and in a manner of speaking loosen My adversary's chains .... For people will desire what still belongs to him and demonstrate their adherence to him and thus will also be controlled by him again .... And then the adversary will have the right to influence the human being's will once more, and he will use it by tempting people into wrongful deeds which offend against the commandments of love and thus also distancing Me from the face of the individual who has submitted himself to My adversary ....

And so the battle between light and darkness will start again; earth will once again serve as a place to mature, for an infinite number of constrained spiritual substances will take the path of higher development and they will all be given an appointed length of time. And time and again also entirely redeemed souls will depart into the spiritual kingdom, for Jesus Christ's act of Salvation will never remain ineffective, and I, for My part, will always make sure that the knowledge of it will be conveyed to people, for Jesus Christ will always oppose the prince of darkness, and Jesus Christ will sooner or later be victorious depending on people's will, which is and will remain free and which will also achieve the last perfection in earthly life .... because one day it will submit itself to Me and completely subordinate itself to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

New banishment inevitable for the adversary's followers ....

B.D. 8430 from March 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

My eyes rest full of pity on the degenerated human race which is controlled by My adversary and unwilling to pull itself away from him. It has willingly surrendered to him and thereby denies Me the right to intervene effectively, for I will not proceed against My adversary's will, since you want to belong to him yourselves. Yet he keeps drawing you ever further down, he is preparing your downfall, for you will fall back to the depths from which you started your process of development across earth and had to pass through all creations in order to one day finally exist as a human being. And now the same fate will be granted to you, since this is what you want and you are doing nothing to escape from his power. And even though this information is presented to you, you don't want to believe it, and there is almost no other way left to change your thinking unless the tremendous affliction, which will befall the entire earth before the end, can still achieve it. As long as you are able to think there is still the possibility that you will spend some thought on yourselves, that you will consider the death of your body and wonder what will happen afterwards .... Yet by and large you will dismiss such thoughts, you don't believe in anything at all and assume that you will cease to exist when your body dies.

But you are hugely mistaken and will have to pay heavily for this mistake, however, you refuse to accept a truthful explanation and cannot be forcibly influenced either. And faced by a serious crisis you just revolt against the power which inflicts this on you, for as soon as you are in serious trouble you gladly blame someone else for it, even if you yourselves deny a God and Creator .... Yet you cannot stop misfortunes and have no option but to acknowledge a power which is stronger than you are .... Consequently, such strokes of fate and extraordinarily severe adversity are the only means left which could still change your way of thinking, and I have to use them in view of the end and considering the fate, which I would like to avert from you .... Don't feel sorry for people who suddenly have to depart from this life, for they will still be able to find some light in the beyond, if they are not already completely enslaved by My adversary and then also sink into the abyss in order to be banished into matter yet again .... But woe to those who will experience the end without having changed their conduct of life, their thinking and their unbelief .... They cannot be saved anymore, and even the greatest mercy on My part, My infinite love for all My living creations, will be unable to avert the fate of a new banishment for them, because it is the only option for the soul to attain perfection one day when, after an infinitely long time, it lives on earth as a human being again and consciously travels the path to Me in order to become liberated from every form.

And this new banishment amounts to a deed of love on My part, because I will seize this soul from My adversary's power and subordinate it to My will again. And as a human being it will only be able to release itself from him if it consciously calls upon Jesus Christ to be redeemed .... And since people on earth no longer believe in Him and appeal to Him for help, they cannot be released from the adversary's control either, and he invariably will pull them down into his domain .... Yet you humans have free will and thus are just as able to direct it towards the divine Redeemer as to him .... and you would be saved for eternity .... Since you don't do so you will consequently also have to accept the results of your opposing will towards Me.

But time and again I will impart the relevant information to you, I will speak to every one of you through the voice of conscience, and I will make him realise the fleeting nature of all worldly pleasures and commodities, I will let him personally experience suffering and adversity .... And finally I will speak to him through the elements of nature .... Yet I will not force his will, and therefore he only has to blame himself for the fate he is approaching .... I would like to bestow him with unlimited happiness .... He himself, however, chooses the state of wretchedness, the state of utter torment and of being constrained. And thus he will receive what he desires, for his inclination toward earthly matter will result in his own banishment into hardest matter again. For although I have every power at My disposal, I will not forcibly influence the will of a self-aware being or I would be in breach of My law of order, which will never be possible .... Yet I will speak to people until the end, and anyone who pays attention to My Words will be saved from the fate of a new banishment, and he will thank Me eternally that My love pursued him until he changed himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Power of the word secures return to God ....

B.D. 8431 from March 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

With every word you hear from My mouth you receive a proof of grace of My infinite love, for you receive a flow of strength which helps your soul to constantly ascend even if your body does not feel it .... But you will become ever more eager in your striving towards Me, and you will also certainly reach your goal, because strength from Me can never remain ineffective .... And since you voluntarily desire and receive it from Me this already signifies your passed test of will, for you acknowledge Me, your will of rejection, which caused your former fall, is broken and your return to Me is guaranteed. Yet how rarely does a person on earth express the will of his own accord to serve Me, that is, to make My will his own and to prove it to Me through active cooperation in accordance with My instructions. Every person is encouraged by Me to do so, for his thinking is always guided by the guardian and guiding spirits such that he can establish the right relationship with his God and Creator, so that he, as My living creation, as My child, can make contact with his Father mentally or through prayer and work of love .... I also come close to the greatest sinner, and every human being will once deal with questions which concern himself and the purpose of his earthly life .... However, how he will deal with this question is up to his free will, yet it only rarely happens that a person completely submits himself to the power Which called him into life, that he quietly communes (with the power) in thought and thereby gives Me the right to take hold of him and influence him ..... which is only possible if he voluntarily takes the path to Me, which is only ever a matter of his own heart and which he can never be induced to do by his fellow human beings, for even if his fellow human being tries to guide him onto the path to Me it is only his free will which lets him take the path. And this will is certainly influenced by the world of light but it is not forced, otherwise the return to Me would have been accomplished long ago but would not result in highly perfect beings. But if you humans knew that your devotion to Me results in the greatest blessings for you, that you thereby cause Me to speak to you like a father speaks to his children, and that you can receive an abundance of strength through such an address .... you would truly make use of this heartfelt bond and let yourselves be bestowed by Me. Yet this knowledge cannot be proven to you either because otherwise it would force your will, and thus you must take the path entirely of your own accord, you must allow yourselves to be guided by My spiritual spark within you which will truly push you towards Me if only you don't resist it .... if only you always follow what your innermost voice tells you: if you perform unselfish deeds of love which always signify a bond with Me, because I Myself am love. And thus it is first necessary that you live in My eternal order: that you live a life of love, then I can also address you, then My eternal Father-Spirit can give you light through the spiritual spark in you, which is therefore My share, and make your soul exceedingly happy, because with the light it will also be filled with strength and it can and will safely cover the path to the home .... For I will eternally no longer let such a soul go from Me once it has given itself to Me so that an influx of My divine strength of love in the form of My word could take place .... And I not only endow this soul with strength but also all who now indirectly receive My word, to whom it is passed on by the person who willingly performs vineyard work for Me .... For My word is blessed with My strength, and anyone who now lets it take effect in him and becomes active according to My word will also cover the ascent and reach the goal with certainty. For since you humans are in weakness and darkness I must lead you out and provide you with strength for your earthly path of life. And truly, I bless everyone who makes it possible for My word to be conveyed to earth, who offers himself to Me of his own free will to work for Me and My kingdom .... who opens himself in desire for the one truth in order to let this truth shine into himself, for only truth can serve the soul and bring about its return path to Me, for only through truth is it also certain of My presence, and with Me it will always succeed in its ascent .... And as soon as I can guide the truth to earth you will also receive a proof of grace of My infinite love which uses every opportunity to regain what was once lost and which is always ready to radiate strength and light so that people will also find and see the path they should take which leads upwards, back into their Father's house .... And everyone will also receive the strength to ascend, to whom I will give the pure truth .... My word from eternity .... can send to them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Judgement .... Warning of the adversary's action ....

B.D. 8432 from March 7th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You shall always receive the strength to be active for Me if this is your will. You can be certain that I will guide your thoughts correctly and that you will therefore judge rightly and justly if this is also your will .... For I know your heart, I know your thoughts, and if I Myself want you to receive the truth from Me and spread it, I must also place the certainty in you to live in truth, and I must grant you the right faculty of judgment or you would not be suitable for spreading the truth. There is much spiritual knowledge which is represented as originating from Me and yet does not originate from Me but from My adversary. Consider that the light from above, which brightly illuminates everything and breaks through the darkness, snatches much of My adversary's following away and that he therefore does everything to prevent this, to dim the light because he is no longer able to extinguish it .... And thus he will appear under a mask, he will want to do the same as Me. He will find vessels enough who do not see through him and are therefore willing servants to him. And through these he will also make himself known, yet not through the working of My spirit, which he will never be able to cause to express itself .... But he tries to influence a person's own intellectual thinking in such a way that the results of his intellect are given as 'imparted spiritual knowledge' by people who want to excel but still lack the right humble attitude towards Me and who also don't want to refrain from their actions because the desire for truth does not fill them in such a way that I could protect them from erroneous thinking .... Moreover, the activity from the spirit world is particularly obvious in the last days, for My adversary also influences the souls in darkness to provide people with erroneous mental knowledge, and since people often strive for spiritual contact with this world which still belongs to the adversary, the preconditions are also given for spiritual instructions which cannot claim to be true. Yet all this is merely the result of people's wrong way of life who do not live in accordance with My will and are therefore particularly exposed to such misguidance in the last days .... And I can only ever warn you not to believe everything that is offered to you in spiritual knowledge; yet I cannot force you, neither to reject what is wrong nor to accept what is true .... I MUST leave it up to you but give every human heart a fine sense as soon as it only desires the pure truth. However, the fact that people will be extremely harassed by My adversary in the last days has been constantly announced to you, and it is understandable that he will try everything to oppose Me and the pure truth. And his trick is to seemingly give the same and yet to instruct people completely erroneously, because he knows that error will not achieve the goal which the human being is supposed to reach on earth and which I want to help him achieve through the transmission of My word. His constant endeavour is to cause confusion, and since love alone kindles a bright light in the human being which also exposes error but people have little love, error will also take frightening hold ..... But you, who have offered yourselves to Me of your own free will to serve Me and the pure truth, should know this .... You shall not be deceived by him, and therefore I place the will to defend yourselves in your heart, and I will also make Myself known to you where I Myself am at work and guide the pure truth to earth .... For I pour out My spirit upon all flesh, but this also includes that people's thinking is guided correctly and that they therefore also hear the expression of My spirit and express it in conversations. You will be able to ascertain the agreement and then also know that My spirit works in those who cross your path and also immediately recognize the value of what I Myself convey to you from above. And believe that I enlighten every person's thinking who seriously only strives for truth and takes the path to Me, Who alone can give him pure truth. And whatever you humans receive should always be examined with the sincere desire to only serve Me and the pure truth, and then you will certainly recognize where the spiritual knowledge originated from. For many false christs and many false prophets will appear in the end, against whom I have warned you constantly and always .... But you must also acknowledge genuine prophets through whom I Myself make Myself known to people, Who is the Eternal Truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The adversary's activity behind a mask ....

B.D. 8433 from March 8th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The adversary will fight using all means during the last days before the end .... And neither will he shy away from availing himself of My Words and portraying himself as an angel of light which intends to bring salvation to people. And in their spiritually unenlightened state people will not recognise who approaches them and takes possession of their thoughts .... They will believe blindly as long as they hear pious words which, however, can be voiced by every spirit, because they are mere words which it does not believe in itself but which it uses in order to deceive people and to lead them astray. These dark forces don't shy away from any lie and often introduce themselves to people as elevated and supreme beings of light in order to deceive them and to stifle their doubts regarding the truthfulness of their statements. And you will be surprised in which way My adversary will continue to influence people through his accomplices during the last days .... For he wants to imitate Me .... Just as I Myself convey the pure truth to earth he, too, will try to impel people to listen to him by disguising himself as an angel of light. And people's obsession with making contact with supernatural spheres, with receiving extraordinary information and thus with entering a realm which is outside of this earth often provides My adversary with the opportunity to push himself forward and to be of service to people in order to confuse their thoughts, so that they are no longer able to recognise the pure truth if it is offered to them, because they, too, want to push themselves forward and regard themselves as recipients of the truth. The adversary plays an unscrupulous game but people themselves support him, for usually it is mere curiosity rather than a genuine desire for truth which motivates them into establishing contact with this spiritual world, which emanates blatant error in order to undermine the pure truth and which does not provide people with enlightenment. Only deceptive lights keep flashing up which so dazzle the eye that it cannot recognise the pure truth anymore. However, I Myself Am unable to do anything else but to repeatedly point out his cunning and trickery to you, for you yourselves give him the reason which makes his activity possible. For as soon as you strive towards Me with profound sincerity and desire the purest truth from Me I would truly not let you fall into his hands, and you would realise brightly and clearly that you are only being deceived by evil spirits, and time and again I have revealed the attributes to you by which you can recognise them ....

Just test them concerning My 'human manifestation in Jesus Christ', ask them to explain this mystery to you and you will realise that they will fail because they are still unenlightened themselves, that they don't know anything about Him and His act of Salvation and that they only avail themselves of His name in order to deceive you, yet they don't mean the name of their God and Creator of eternity, which they cannot voice in awareness of what it signifies .... They certainly make use of Jesus' human name, because they only ever speak of a human being but not of God Himself .... And you will truly not meet many people who, as bearers of light, will be able to enlighten you about this, because they received this clarification from Me Myself. But then you will also be able to make a judgment and accept the light from them without having to fear that you will be wrongly instructed .... And you can believe that a person will not know the truth as long as this problem of My human manifestation in Jesus is still unresolved .... Anyone who does not recognise or has not recognised Him as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world in Whom I manifested Myself in order to be able to be a visible God for My created beings will never .... be it on earth or from the beyond .... be able to inform you humans truthfully, for he himself does not yet have the truth, the correct realisation, and therefore he is not a right leader and teacher for people on earth either .... However, you humans are easily inclined to accept everything you receive from the spiritual kingdom as truth, because the desire to hear something extraordinary dominates you, thus it is stronger than the desire for the pure truth .... Yet in order to entrust you with an extraordinary task, which consists of receiving the truth from Me directly and of passing it on to your fellow human beings, you still lack too many prerequisites which facilitate a transmission of the pure truth .... requirements which I cannot exclude as not to endanger the pure truth. For you still move within a world of spirits yourselves which you attract through your desire for something extraordinary and, as a result, you are not guarded against influences from My adversary's sphere .... Neither do you free yourselves from this influence: instead you place yourselves at the disposal of these forces time and again which you, however, would definitely repel through heartfelt devotion to Me in Jesus Christ, through devotion to your Father and Redeemer, Who is your refuge and protection against everything that is unspiritual and that wants to encroach upon you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Assurance of protection against confusion and hostility ....

B.D. 8434 from March 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Anyone who has made it his task to be redemptively active in the last days will time and again be faced with difficulties on the part of My adversary because he will use all means to prevent humanity from being brought light in the dark night which is spread across the earth. Therefore it will also be extremely difficult to convey the pure truth .... My Word, which is beamed to you humans from above .... from above to you humans, because it will be prevented from all sides, for people don't know how far they have already fallen prey to My adversary if they reject this Word and resist its distribution. But it is a glaring phenomenon in the last days when My adversary's activity shall be exposed and he himself uses all means to prevent this, and the more time progresses the more obvious this battle of darkness against light will become, and a confusion of human thinking will be recognisable which truly can already be regarded as spiritual chaos .... For even well-intentioned people will find it difficult to make the right decision. Yet the ray which descends upon them from above has the brightest luminosity, and it will beneficially touch the hearts of those who only desire truth, righteous thinking, the Word of God, the right nourishment for their souls ..... And these will not be deceived, no matter how My adversary tries to run against the wall of your faith .... For I Myself am with those who serve Me fully consciously and can be called My last disciples, whom I instruct Myself again and instruct them to go out into the world .... i.e. to spread My Word, which I Myself convey to earth because people need the truth. And they can also be certain of My protection and guidance .... I will always let everything come to them in such a way as to be useful for their task, which they should and can fulfil with My help. And they will be able to see for themselves by their inner peace that I am with them, for I give this to all who fulfil My will .... so that you can also see from it whether your actions are blessed, whether they correspond to My will .... For I have promised you My peace so that you will recognize Me Myself and My presence, for where I Myself am My peace must also fill you, and there the possibility is also given to convey the pure truth to earth, which likewise proves My presence to you. Whatever approaches you, accept it as wanted or permitted by Me .... Thus always pay attention to your inner feeling and you will accept what is right and reject everything wrong, even if My adversary tries to disown you .... You can always be certain of My protection, and this mainly consists of the fact that I correct your thinking, that I protect you from all confusion which My adversary wants to cause in you. Anyone who serves Me can also know that he is protected, and the adversary will not be able to harm him much, but time and again he will try to intrude in order to undermine the pure truth .... However, strong faith in Me and My love is your strongest self-protection, for I will truly not let such faith be destroyed, and you can stand up for the spiritual knowledge you receive without worry and pass it on as purest truth, no counter-objection will shake your faith, and then you will also be the right servants for Me through whom I can work Myself in the last days before the end. The battle against the darkness will not become easier, the prince of darkness will cause more and more confusion, he will attack you, and false christs and false prophets will arise who will persecute you .... You will have to reckon with public hostility and persecution but you need not be without My protection, for I know how necessary your work is for Me and My kingdom, whoever is able to do it .... You should only give Me your whole will, the work in My vineyard should be the most important and most urgent thing for you and everything else should take a back seat .... And you should also consider everything as My will by which you are prevented from still being of service to the world .... I know the means I have to use in order to win you completely for Myself, and therefore I shut you off from the world, you who want to be spiritually, by receiving My word from Me, because every worldly thought can be an obstacle and because there is not much time left until the end and during this time I still want to help all people to recognize correctly .... So don't be afraid of My adversary and his activity, for you will experience My loving care until the end, you who serve Me of your own free will, you who are willing to carry the gospel out as My last disciples ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

All circumstances of life offer opportunities to mature ....

B.D. 8435 from March 10th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

How your earthly life turns out is entirely determined by My will, because I have known from the very beginning which direction your will is going to take during the time of your earthly life as a human being. And according to this will all events will happen to you such that they can influence you to direct your will correctly. So even if you apparently shape your own circumstances of life you will nevertheless be affected by the same measure of suffering and adversities, by destined experiences, regardless of what kind of living conditions you have. And therefore you can go through life with a certain composure since I will, after all, always provide you with the greatest possibility to reach your goal of attaining perfection on earth. Consequently, it is entirely irrelevant for your soul's development as to whether you are poor or rich, whether you are nicely shaped or have physical defects, for all advantages as well as your disadvantages can contribute towards your eager work of improving your soul, just as they can equally be the reason for you to neglect this psychological work .... For it always depends on yourselves, on your will, as to what extent you allow yourselves to be influenced by everything that approaches you externally in the form of experiences, strokes of fate, illnesses and all kinds of adversities but also of wealth, fame, honour and earthly power .... Everything can be detrimental and everything can be beneficial to you .... It depends entirely on what kind of attitude towards Me you find in earthly life .... It depends entirely on whether you allow yourselves to be spiritually influenced, whether you are able to look upon your earthly life as a test of your will, as a means to an end, as a gift of grace by the One Who brought you to life .... It depends entirely on whether you not only place importance on your body or are seriously concerned about your soul .... If the latter is the case then everything will be a blessing for you, no matter what comes upon you, and you will climb the ladder which leads to ascent step by step which helps you to reach higher spheres until you reach the goal when your soul will leave the earthly body .... This is why you should unperturbedly accept everything, always in the knowledge that I thereby intend to attract those of you to Me who are still distant from Me and yet need to find the right attitude towards Me in order to subsequently live your life on earth according to My will, which lets you achieve perfection ....

And when there is a risk of people being entirely distant from Me, then I must indeed use means which are described as an unusually severe destiny of life, yet they are always based on the fact that an unusual resistance towards Me still exists, which I cannot forcibly break but which can recede in view of the immense earthly adversity, which can subsequently push the human being onto the right path to Me and thus show a correctly inclined will, which signifies everything for the person, for then I Myself will be able to take evident charge of his earthly life, and the human being will be truly relieved from all responsibility if he completely hands himself over to Me and lets Me think and act on his behalf .... So everything that can contribute towards a change of will is good, even if it appears to be distressing and unbearable, yet it is not distressing for the soul but fortunate and a blessing, for it matures and reaches that goal which, on its own .... without My indirect help .... it would hardly be able to attain. For I know every individual person's will. And thus I also know to whom I can bestow exceptional gifts of grace, who will use these correctly and derive the most blessings from them .... In that case, I will win this soul over to Me with less severe means, because the resistance, which in the beginning of the embodiment as a human being still firmly controls the soul, will have already considerably lessened .... In that case My means of help need no longer be so painful, slight impulses will suffice that the person will take the right paths, that he will recognise his purpose of earthly life and makes an effort to do justice to it .... And the suffering or adversities which are still imposed on him will be easy to endure, for then the person will already have established the connection with Me and through this connection he constantly receives strength from Me, which makes his ascent considerably easier .... Thus, a person's external circumstances of life are irrelevant for the shaping of his soul .... In fact, difficult situations in life often have more favourable effects on his soul than an easier and worldly-blessed life on earth, which is more likely to be a danger to its maturing .... However, no destiny is so severe that it could not be endured by a person who believes in a Power Which is love, wisdom and might in Itself, for if he believes he will turn to this Power for help, and he will indeed receive it .... For then he will already have the right attitude towards Me and that will certainly guarantee his full maturing on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The correct way of life is not enough to mature fully ....

B.D. 8436 from March 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

If you consider that only deeds of love take effect on your soul after the death of your body and that all earthly intentions, thoughts and actions will not result in any kind of benefit for the soul in the spiritual realm, you truly would not live your earthly life so indifferently .... And even if you faithfully fulfil the duties earthly life demands of you, even if you do everything in everyday life in order to live a correct life in the presence of people .... each and every deed is without value for what alone is everlasting .... for your soul .... as it cannot take any earthly acquired possessions along, all earthly knowledge stays behind, all earthly treasures and every person's reputation is worthless if the soul enters the kingdom of the beyond deprived of spiritual possessions. Only spiritual aspirations and actions of love yield everlasting spiritual treasures for the soul ....

And people are so often conscious of their own importance just because they are leading a correct way of life even though they only have their earthly actions or a certain amount of order in their living conditions in mind and fail to consider that the purpose of earthly life is a different one than improving their physical well-being .... they fail to consider that a human being's every activity has to be supported by love, that it has to be motivated by love if it is to be of value for the soul after the death of the body. And if you now observe all the things that are done and said by you or in your environment, and how seldom they are caused by love, then you have to admit that everything is in vain and only serves your attainment of earthly purposes. And you would be shocked if you could feel your soul's deprivation as physical discomfort, for then you would never be able to enjoy your life again .... Yet your soul is unable to express itself so obviously because then you would only strive to live a different kind of life due to selfishness so as not to feel this daily and hourly discomfort, and then such striving would also be worthless. But you should consider what value every earthly attainment has for you, since you know, after all, that your stay on this earth won't last forever .... But you don't believe in the continuation of the soul's life after death, and that is why you are so half-hearted and disregard your soul. You believe that you will cease to exist at the moment of death and one day will bitterly regret that you have not made better use of the time on earth; you will regret not having loved more, which each one of you can do, since a tiny spark of love smoulders inside of him that he only needs to kindle .... Every human being can also experience for himself the benefit of a deed of love done to him by a fellow human being .... And thus he could benefit his neighbour too, it would certainly not be to his disadvantage, for the inner satisfaction of his action would inspire him into ever more actions of love and his selfish love would decrease at the same rate as his love for his neighbour grows ....

No human being suffers a loss, for whatever he gives out of love he will receive a thousand fold in return on earth or one day in the spiritual kingdom and then be exceedingly blessed, because the time on earth when he should thus rise above himself is only very short, whereas the soul in the spiritual kingdom can eternally enjoy the riches it has acquired on earth. People live indifferently, eagerly undertaking earthly work, eagerly increasing their earthly possessions, using all their energy of life for entirely negative actions, because they constantly just create transient values .... Their soul's immortality however .... is not taken into account by them, they do not take loving care of it, it has to starve and then enter the kingdom of the beyond in a miserable state where it only finds what its love as a human being on earth has provided for it .... And if this life were without love then the soul would be without light and strength and would approach a painful fate, for only through deeds of love is it able to mature on earth ....

And therefore people should not say 'After all, I am not doing anything evil ....' The human being has to do good deeds born of love in earthly life, only then will he be able to enter the kingdom of the beyond without self-reproach even if he has not yet achieved a high degree of love, he will surely be able to attain it in the beyond providing that the light has been kindled so that the soul will not enter the spiritual kingdom in complete darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Atonement of guilt through Jesus ....

B.D. 8437 from March 12th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The human being Jesus took upon Himself an abundance of suffering as atonement for the immense guilt of sin which all beings had incurred through their apostasy from God. God's justice demanded an atonement for this guilt if the beings ever wanted to come close to Him again and be received by Him into the kingdom of light and bliss. No guilt could remain unatoned for, yet again the guilt was so great that it could never have been paid off by the being itself, for it consisted of the fact that the being rebelled against God fully consciously and in a state of brightest realisation, that therefore no deficiency or ignorance could excuse the offence but that the beings, in fullest freedom of will, renounced their love for God and thus placed themselves in an adversarial relationship with Him, from Whose love they had emerged. This great original sin caused the beings to be completely devoid of light and strength .... They lost life, they hardened into rigid spiritual substance which was then reshaped into creations of all kinds according to the eternal plan of salvation, because God wants to lead everything that has fallen away from Him back to Himself again. But no matter how long times pass which can rightly be called eternities, and no matter how dreadful the torments in these times are for the once emanated spiritual beings, the guilt of these beings themselves can never be redeemed .... A work of atonement had to be accomplished (by) God which was so tremendous that the Eternal Deity was satisfied with it, that for the sake of this work of atonement, He .... for the sake of Him Who accomplished it .... cancelled the original sin of all fallen spiritual beings, that it found forgiveness and brought light and strength and freedom back into the being. And this atonement consisted of a being taking the guilt of the fallen brothers upon itself out of love, that it endured the most unspeakable torments and pain as a human being, that it walked the most bitter path of suffering ever travelled by a human being on earth and ended its life as a human being with death on the cross, which was disgraceful and so painful that only love enabled the man Jesus to endure this suffering until His death by virtue of His love .... For what people who were true servants of satan could only think of, they carried out on the man Jesus, and He bore His cross without complaint and in deepest surrender, He suffered unspeakably and died the most agonising death .... For He was pure and sinless, and His soul, which had descended from the kingdom of light to earth for the sake of this act of salvation, suffered far more because it was in the darkest sphere, at the mercy of His tormentors, who were satan's servants. Yet this soul voluntarily offered itself to make atonement for the Father and to bring His children back to Him again, for it knew that only love was capable of making such a sacrifice and that only a sacrifice of love could be regarded as atonement for the overwhelming guilt which consisted of the beings giving up their love for God .... And therefore God accepted the sacrifice of love, and He was satisfied with that act of salvation by the man Jesus, Whose love constantly increased and completely filled Him, so that love was the determining factor for everything Jesus did .... that He was in closest union with the Eternal Love Itself and thus the act of salvation was accomplished by love.... but love was God Himself .... He Himself took the form of a human being and travelled the path across the earth, for a soul of light formed itself as a human being in such a way that Eternal Love could take up residence in Him, that God and Jesus were one, that God Himself .... Eternal Love .... has redeemed all guilt for those beings who, as human beings, now also acknowledge Him and consciously avail themselves of the blessings of the act of salvation which Jesus purchased for them on the cross .... The atonement has been made and the path to the Father, into the kingdom of light, is free .... Yet free will has caused the apostasy from God, and free will must also strive to return to Him, and this requires that Jesus Christ is freely acknowledged by people as the redeemer of the world, as God's Son, in Whom God Himself became man .... in order to redeem the guilt through love, which banishes the being from the face of God until it allows itself to be redeemed by Him and then will also be allowed to behold God in Jesus face to face ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Warning against intercourse with the psychic world ....

B.D. 8438 from March 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Into what error are you humans drawn if you do not defend yourselves against it? But you can defend yourselves against it, for you have intellect and you have prayer .... Your intellect can and must take a stand on whatever spiritual thoughts are offered to you, and you must entrust yourselves to Me in prayer and appeal for My help in the examination. And truly, you will recognize error as such and not allow yourselves to be captured by it. I Myself guide the truth purely to earth, and I seek to guide it everywhere, and anyone who takes possession of it will now also brightly and clearly recognize what does not agree with what radiates directly to earth as My Word .... If only you seriously resist all error then you will also recognize it for certain, because I assess a person's desire for truth as a desire for Me Myself and do not deny Myself to him, thus I do not withhold the pure truth from him. And you can also be certain that heart and mind will resist accepting untrue spiritual knowledge. For the pure truth will also shine into the darkness like a strong ray of light and uncover everything that has originated from My adversary. The fact that his activity will be constantly more noticeable in the end time by trying to confuse people's thoughts has always been announced, and also that the darkness will become ever denser the closer it gets to the end. But where the light of truth flashes the darkness cannot hold on, and this means that such people will always move in the truth whom I teach Myself, and that they will also be able to clarify whether and where error has taken root in people, and thus the pure truth can also be opposed .... Yet time and again it has to be said that only that is and can be pure truth which I Myself, i.e. the Father-Spirit of eternity, communicate to the spiritual spark in the human being .... that pure truth can therefore only reach earth through the working of the spirit .... but that you cannot guarantee the truth if it has been gained by other means ..... thus if the intellect has given birth to a body of thought or if a supersensible contact with the spirit world has been initiated, which always endeavours to influence people's thinking but is neither entitled nor able to instruct nor to convey purest truth .... People believe they can experience everything supersensible if only they make contact with the supersensible world through thoughts or their will .... But they don't reckon with the fact that this spirit world is completely different, that all spiritual beings want to make themselves known, regardless of whether they are filled with light or still walk in darkness .... And people on earth lack the ability to judge whether the spiritual knowledge they receive corresponds to the truth, but they accept it, mostly unchecked, and error enters people in such a way that it is impossible to speak of light, rather, the darkness becomes ever denser .... But the desire for instruction from the spiritual kingdom is becoming ever stronger because people don't feel well in the lightless state on earth, they just don't take the right path. They don't turn to the Eternal Truth Itself, they don't establish the connection with Me, Who alone can and wants to introduce them, yet I don't forcefully influence people. And thus time and again you will be dominated by the adversary who wants to keep the darkness alive and therefore also wants to extinguish the light from above and now places blinding lights by its side which shall irritate and also dim the gentle glow of the light from Me .... And since the human being himself has to make the final decision to seek and request the truth in all seriousness, I will not put a stop to My adversary before the time .... For the human being can find his way out of the net of lies and error if only he earnestly asks for the truth .... And I will also come to the aid of every person who desires clarification, for this is truly possible for Me, to protect those from My adversary's influence who are of good will, who strive towards Me Myself and want to detach themselves from the opposing power which has held them in bondage until now .... However, anyone who is lukewarm and accepts everything he is offered as truth is also responsible for his lightless state, and he will hardly find the right path which leads to the goal. But this person will also enter the kingdom of the beyond with little light .... if not completely without light. into the kingdom of the beyond when the hour of departure from this earth has come .... For you can all reach the light if only you seriously want to ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine care for vineyard workers ....

B.D. 8439 from March 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You, who want to be active for Me, will always experience My care, for I have given you this promise that I will take over all earthly care for you if you seek Me and My kingdom, if you first think of your soul .... But I will be even more concerned about your earthly worries if you offer yourselves to Me to do redemptive work, thus to be active as servants in My vineyard, for then I will always provide you with everything you need as a faithful Father of the house .... You still don't take all My promises seriously enough, and yet it only depends on the strength of your faith in them whether you consciously entrust yourselves to My constant care .... And then I can also give you the evidence that I care for My children like a Father in every way. Anyone who is active for Me in complete unselfishness truly provides Me with help on earth which I reward him for, for as long as people are still on a low spiritual level I cannot make direct contact with them but I can have an effect on them through mediators who are now active for Me and on My behalf. And these mediators, in turn, must also be able to demonstrate certain prerequisites in order to be suitable for this work, and especially in the last days before the end there are not many people who voluntarily offer themselves to Me as mediators .... But the few who do so will enjoy My protection and My help all the more, since the redemptive activity is extremely significant, because every single soul which is saved before the end is a great gain for Me .... And then should I not care for those like a Father who voluntarily offer themselves to Me to take on a mediator's office out of love for Me and their neighbour? And do you believe that My love is limited or petty? .... I know about all needs and I will also meet them, as I have promised .... And anyone who now trusts Me unconditionally will no longer be oppressed by earthly worries either, he will not need to anxiously calculate, for he will be given in abundance, because he, too, will now distribute in love again where he recognizes need and his help is expected .... And you should all gain this firm faith that all My promises will come true, for as long as you serve Me unselfishly you are My servants whom the father of the house looks after and provides them with everything they need for body and soul. Believe that I will bless you the more noticeably the less you are still attached to the world, but whatever you still demand from the world or believe to be able to acquire by your own strength I will then also have to take away from you, for I also leave you the freedom of your will .... Whoever wants to take care of himself shall also do so .... he will not be hindered by Me. However, if you were able to see what rescue work your spiritual activity is in the last days, how beneficial its effect is and what great spiritual hardship can be remedied by it .... then you would also understand that I am also concerned about the earthly well-being of My co-workers and already reward them on earth for what they do, and you would no longer give room to any worrying thoughts because you only need to hand yourselves over to your Father in order to be guided by Him through life .... And again and again I tell you: I need you, My servants on earth, because this help can only be carried out by people, for My might will not necessarily intervene in order to accomplish the great rescue work .... but the love which impels you to redeeming work will result in success and therefore you will also be rewarded. Yet it shall not be done for the sake of earthly reward but your heart will drive you and therefore the work will not be unsuccessful either. And I know well who serves unselfishly, and My blessing is certain for him .... But I also know where earthly interests predominate, and I don't call this 'work in My vineyard' either but an activity which is purely worldly, even if it hides behind spiritual garb .... And anyone who is still worldly-minded himself is not yet completely devoted to Me .... But whoever completely surrenders to Me also keeps My promise: "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all else will be added to you .... "And I stand by My word and will therefore also fully and completely take over the care and bestow My love upon the human being, he will have what he needs and still be able to give to his neighbour .... For the child which trusts in its father will truly not be deceived .... And the servant who serves Me can hand over all his worries to the father of the house, Who will arrange everything for him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Creation of the new earth in a moment of time ....

B.D. 8440 from March 16th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

It is possible for Me to create all things in a moment of time, for it just takes a thought which My will and My strength externalise as My work .... However, when I work visibly to human eyes .... which is demonstrated by every work of creation surrounding you .... everything takes place within the framework of lawful order, so that you humans will be able to understand the processes of creation and therein recognise My love, wisdom and might .... For I have placed the same ability into you .... if only to a minimal degree .... which also enables you to create and shape and which also requires a certain length of time, because the state of imperfection which you humans still experience on earth also subjects you to the law of time and space, which does not apply to the perfect being, since then limitations of time and space no longer exist .... My reign and activity is always proportionate to the state of maturity of the spiritual being which is affected by it .... but it does not exclude that I have unlimited power at My disposal in order to externalise everything in an instant, because I have no need of time since I exist beyond the laws of time and space.

When the emergence of creation took place I intended it to have the purpose of giving the fallen spirits the means to gradually mature, to gradually travel the path from the abyss, to create ever new opportunities for it to be of service in some form or other .... Thus the development plan of every creation was always guided by My will, so that ever larger creations with ever newer intended purposes emerged .... so that gradually a higher development occurred .... Consequently, this emergence of creation required a certain length of time, for precisely this very time was intended to achieve the developmental ascent .... For the fall had been infinitely abysmal, and the same distance has to be travelled in order to return, so that everything will move within the lawful order that is required by everything perfect.

But if, at the end of a period of Salvation, a work of creation is transformed by My will in order to create new opportunities of higher development, then new works of creation can emerge again which are called by Me into being in an instant .... For this, too, is intended in My eternal plan of Salvation without revoking the law of eternal order by doing so .... because spiritual substances of all degrees of maturity on the path of return are already present precisely because of the spirits' earlier infinitely long developmental path on the old earth ....

Everything is present and will only be transformed, be it hard matter or already lighter forms in the plant and animal world .... Everything will be set free by the violent destruction, however, in its state of immaturity it cannot keep its freedom but has to be placed into material forms again which correspond to its present state of maturity .... And time and again even as yet still hardened spiritual substances will be able to start their path of development in the innermost part of the earth, which will also find themselves in complete turmoil and release spiritual substances and in turn provide room for the former spirits .... if one can speak in this case of room at all .... But all works of creation are in effect present to accept the lowest fallen spiritual substance which starts its path of development. It will, after all, require an infinitely long time again until one day it will reach the surface of the earth in order to progress further ....

So, although the work of transformation on this earth is the work of a moment, everything will nevertheless progress in lawful order .... And because such a work of a moment's time cannot take place before people's eyes, because they have not yet achieved the highest degree of perfection and are unable to grasp such expression of My might and strength, the people who remain faithful to Me will be carried away at the end .... They will in fact observe the work of destruction because I will open their eyes to it, but they will not see the emergence of the new earth .... All concept of time will be taken from them until they are led to the new earth, until they are allowed to behold the completed new creation in all its glory and take possession of it .... And it is indeed irrelevant how much time it takes for the new earth to emerge, but since I Am revealing My eternal plan of Salvation to you humans I also inform you that I don't require time, for My will is able to externalise every one of My thoughts in an instant as a creation, and My love and wisdom also recognise what is beneficial and suitable for the final return of the spirits which once voluntarily deserted Me ....

Only a small proportion of people will ever be spiritually enlightened and able to comprehend these explanations of Mine, but I want to grant them an insight into the secrets of creation in order to arouse their love for Me ever more ardently, for especially My plan of Salvation is most pleasing for all beings, since it reveals My love, wisdom and might, and anyone who already gains this realisation on earth can truly be called blessed, for he is close to perfection, he is close to his final return to Me, his God and Creator of eternity, Who has revealed Himself as Father and Whose love is never-ending ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Power of loving intercession for unbelievers ....

B.D. 8441 from March 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

How far away are people from Me who have no faith in a God and Creator, who only regard themselves as the product of a natural force and don't want to acknowledge anything that points to a powerful being .... Their will of resistance is still unbroken, they reject Me and don't want to unite with Me, and therefore they are still completely under My adversary's control, they are his helpers because they also want to convince their fellow human beings that there is nothing which could be acknowledged as a wise power. They certainly take the path across earth as human beings but they are very close to the abyss into which My adversary will plunge them again if they don't think of something else before their death .... For such completely unbelieving people can hardly expect an ascent in the kingdom of the beyond either, because they are not open to enlightenment and will persist in their point of view. They also misuse the gift of intellect in earthly life, for they could also come to different conclusions by way of intellect if they had the serious will to gain the right light about the purpose of their existence on this earth. But such thoughts, when they arise in them, are rejected and there is no other way to help them believe, for evidence would be a means of coercion which, however, is never used. Mostly such unbelieving people are also of hardened hearts, and thus, since they lack love, it also remains dark in their heart, and only the counter will is strong, which will also try to influence fellow human beings in the same sense because, as a follower of the adversary, he is stimulated by him to work for him. And if you want to try to convince such people of the truth you will hardly be successful, and the only thing you can do for them is intercession, because if this is done with love .... it radiates back to those people as strength and can then also have the effect that the person thinks and his will to defend himself becomes weaker .... And therefore you should also remember all unbelievers in prayer so that their hearts can be touched by the power of intercession .... You should always remember that these souls are still completely under My adversary's control and must be helped if they are to be released from him .... He cannot be forcibly changed, he rejects My direct illumination of love and therefore also loses its effectiveness .... But your love makes the supply of strength possible which he feels beneficially and which can change his thinking without him being forced into it. And if you consider that such a soul is exceedingly weak and therefore cannot offer the adversary any resistance, then this weakness should take pity on you and stimulate your will to love to do everything possible to save it .... And in this case only loving intercession remains, which can still wrest the soul from the adversary after all, because it does not remain without effect. Free will is the divine in the human being, and yet this free will has also been the cause of the deepest fall, and it still is .... therefore the return of a fallen soul often requires eternal times if love does not come to its aid during its earthly existence. For love is able to do everything .... And the adversary succumbs to love .... Then he cannot hold the soul, it will free itself from him and strive towards the one Who is love .... So it will now also acknowledge Me as its God and Creator, and it will then be saved for time and eternity .... No human being would need to be lost on earth if every soul were prayed for with heartfelt love .... For only such prayer is successful, but not lip prayers from the masses which do not ascend to Me in spirit and in truth but are mostly formal prayers without strength .... But if only every person would make the salvation of a soul his goal, that he would turn his love towards this soul and ask Me for salvation, so that it would not be lost again for endless times .... truly, people would change and attain a right faith, and they would do everything to fulfil their purpose of earthly life .... Yet love has grown cold amongst people and everyone only thinks of himself, therefore he cannot believe either, nor can he reach the goal, instead, he unwaveringly heads towards the abyss again and has to start an infinitely long path once more in torment and wretchedness .... For My might cannot intervene where the will is directed against Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Vineyard work according to divine will ....

B.D. 8442 from March 18th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will bless every effort that applies to the distribution of My Word. You cannot imagine how necessary it is for people to be informed of their purpose of earthly life, for they only consider it to be the maintenance of their body and live a life which can be called everything else but spiritual. The dark of night prevails everywhere and nothing else will help but to spread sparks of light which tear the darkness apart and can stimulate people into following the right path they recognise in the glow of the light, and I will truly see to it that the illumination of light will increase .... I will still make My Word from above available to all those who can yet be affected by it such that they will listen to the One Who is addressing them and accept His admonitions, so that they will finally allow themselves to be led and will no longer be able to go astray. I know the means and ways and will truly employ them. I leave no opportunity unused and you, My servants, shall only ever willingly carry out what you are urged to do from within, for this urging comes from Me, to Whom you have offered your service. So let Me tell you that you need not fear the weakness of your body either, that I will give you strength to work for Me, because I need diligent labourers in My vineyard and recognise full well who serves Me with complete dedication .... Yet don't tear yourselves apart by zealously embarking on things which I did not assign to you .... You should always pay attention to My instructions and do what I ask of you .... For you can believe Me that true success will be achieved in silent activity, that I Myself will only powerfully manifest Myself when otherwise nothing else can be accomplished anymore and the end is near .... But if you want to win over the 'world', if you want to teach the masses, much of your work will be done in vain, for there will only be a few more and you will not manage to change the 'human race', you will not succeed in bringing many people to their senses, instead, only individual ones would reward such overzealous efforts .... Then you will have employed your strength in vain, for these few will .... because they mean well .... also still be won over through silent activity, because they are known to Me and I will make My Word accessible to them too ....

However, My paths are different than yours, hence you should pay attention to the inner voice and comply with it as My instructions. This inner voice will never induce you into drawing particular attention to yourselves or into embarking on great campaigns which I know will not be very successful. I will therefore exclude My co-workers from the world time and again, because then the work for Me and My kingdom can be carried out more intensively and because My vineyard labourers should also increasingly perfect themselves , which heartfelt dedication to Me will achieve and is more likely to happen in seclusion then in the flurry of the world, for everything you expect to be very successful requires worldly preparations which, in turn, are not suitable for internalising the person. For this reason I repeatedly advise you to carry out silent vineyard work, which consists of lovingly influencing your fellow human beings into shaping themselves into love and of informing them of My Word .... hence of contributing the most important thing towards distributing My Word which is conveyed to you directly from above .... Believe Me that the effect of My Words will yet achieve the greatest blessing and spiritual progress .... Believe Me, that you will gain extraordinary merits if you utilise all opportunities to inform your fellow human being of My Word, for it will affect everyone who is still of good will .... whilst people will only accept all other efforts to teach them spiritual knowledge with their intellect without involving their heart apart from a few, who, however, I will also win over for Me by other means, because I know the human hearts. Consider the fact that it takes intellectual thought to present My divine revelations to people such that they will be gripped by them .... but that only the intellect is addressed and that it will rarely lead to spiritual success .... but that the direct conveyance of My Word or the passing on of My direct revelations will be far more successful because My Word is blessed with My strength and because those people who shall contribute towards inducing spiritual advancement among people had to already possess a certain degree of maturity prior to it .... Believe Me that I will bless all silent work for Me and My kingdom, and make every effort to be diligent labourers for Me who will only every follow their Lord and Caretaker's instructions and lovingly look after their fellow human beings .... I will do everything else for you and also guide you such that you will offer My Word to those who will gratefully accept it as an unusual gift of grace which will truly have the desired effect ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Nothing will remain unredeemed forever ....

B.D. 8443 from March 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Every human being is responsible for his soul's state of maturity himself, consequently the human being also determines how long he will remain distant from Me, that is, every original spirit .... the embodied soul in a person .... will return to Me without fail, yet the length of time it takes to achieve this return depends on free will, and thus it can take eternities until the soul has become what it was in the beginning: a perfect being which is closely united with Me, which then will be able to work beside Me in light and strength and freedom .... The fact that this return to Me will happen sooner or later is certain, because it is the fundamental law of eternity that everything emanated by Me as strength will have to return to Me again .... Yet the duration of return to Me can stretch across eternities and you humans are incapable of comprehending this period, for your thinking is limited ....

Nevertheless, there is no such thing as 'eternal' death, if it is understood as being perpetually distant from Me .... You can indeed speak of eternities but not of a state that will last forever, which thus is without end .... For such a concept is not compatible with My Nature, which is love and wisdom and might .... Do you really think that My wisdom and might don't have the means at their disposal to achieve everything, even the final return of the spirits which once fell away from Me? Or do you think that My love is so limited that it would leave even just one being in a state of eternal death? ....

You know that even My adversary will return into the Father's house one day and that he will be accepted by his Father as the son who has returned home, even if infinite times will still pass by .... Nevertheless, he will not be banished from My face forever, he, too, will yearn for My love one day and voluntarily return to Me. And nothing will remain in an unredeemed state, for even the hardest matter will dissolve one day, it will release the captured spiritual substance and bit by bit spiritualise itself, for everything in existence in the whole of the universe is spiritual strength, of which I was and Am the source, its effect merely manifests itself at various degrees of hardness, thus consequently hardened or already softened it is approaching its spiritualization .... but the spiritualization of all matter will certainly take place and nothing defying Me will remain .... This wrong assumption is also a product of human intellectual thought which has to be corrected through My direct instruction from above, for such a teaching was never conveyed to you humans by Me ....

Time and again My adversary will intrude and influence people to change spiritual knowledge with the intention of misleading you and awakening doubts in My Nature, for as soon as you believe that unredeemed spirits have to remain in their state forever then you are also questioning My infinite love .... it would be limited, which is impossible with a Being, Which is and will remain supremely perfect for all eternity. My adversary has truly many opportunities to slip in and cause confusion, and he will always do so when My spirit's activity is displaced by intellectual thought, which is only possible when people are not content with a simple explanation and feel committed to add or delete something. If, however, they would shy away from making changes at all, such errors could not creep in, for then they would strictly keep to My Word and could not fall prey to error ....

And therefore I have to keep exposing errors all over again, I have to convey My pure Word to you humans, I have to correct everything so that you will not acquire spiritual information that has not originated from Me but which is eagerly endorsed as My Word .... It was conveyed to earth in all purity and truthfulness, yet if a person takes it upon himself to make changes he cannot be prevented by Me, but I will always make sure that you humans will come into possession of the pure truth time and again .... And if you desire to know the truth then you will also query every misguided teaching and won't be able to reconcile it with the supremely perfect nature of your God and Father of eternity ....

And the best and safest test you can make is to ask yourselves whether your God's love and wisdom justifies a teaching, for as soon as one quality is missing you may also reject it as incorrect .... And truly, I will also substantiate why the teaching of eternal condemnation is misguided .... so that you can believe it and be sure that you are living in truth, which I will keep imparting to people because truth alone is the light which illuminates the path of ascent ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Attitude to the world determines spiritual progress ....

B.D. 8444 from March 21st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

It is extremely important that you think correctly, and therefore you should always ask Me to enlighten your thinking, for then you will recognize and judge everything in the most enlightened way and not get caught in satan's nets, whose endeavour is and will always be to confuse your thinking. If you have little sense of justice then you will not offer him inner resistance either, you will unhesitatingly accept everything wrong and not recognize it as wrong because the urge to think and act righteously does not prevail in you. This is why all children are pleasant to Me who only ever want what is right to prevail, that what is wrong is branded and rejected as My adversary's work. And I always want to open the eyes of those who carry this inner desire for right and justice, I want to give them a clear view and good judgement so that they will always recognize the activity of the one who wants to ruin you. The path you should take is a straight one, and even if it leads steeply upwards, thus requiring strength to ascend, it will nevertheless always be clearly recognisable to you who want to travel it .... And therefore you need not fear that the adversary will block your path upwards, for he does not have the power to do so .... But he will try to lure you onto byways which are easier to take .... So temptations will come upon you to deviate from the right path, which you will only resist when you no longer desire the comforts that the world .... the easily passable path .... offers you. Therefore, as long as you still seek comforts for yourselves, for your physical well-being, you will not offer My adversary the resistance you have to offer him if you want to reach the goal .... I can also shape the arduous path upwards for you in such a way that you will nevertheless cover it and enjoy the ascent .... but I will not offer you any goods of the world which you still desire with all your heart and which still prove how much you are still attached to the world .... Only when your desire has died down, when you are willingly willing to give up everything earthly, can I send you what you need for body and soul, for I, Who knows about all your needs, will also provide for them as soon as I recognize that you have overcome matter .... And thus you should also learn to think correctly and take care that you don't fall prey to the tempter who will still nurture many desires in you but the fulfilment of which will push you away from the straight path to Me, for this path requires renunciation and relinquishment of earthly goods and pleasures of the world. And it can nevertheless be beautiful if you start on it full of love for Me and desire nothing more than to soon be united with Me .... The love within you will make everything easy for you, it will let you overcome all difficulties because it is also strength and because love pushes towards Me with all its might and will also certainly reach the goal .... But where this love is there is no more room in a person's heart for earthly things .... And thus you can also recognize every serious striver by his attitude towards the world .... As long as he has not yet completely overcome the latter he does not yet walk the straight path which leads upwards, and he will still often succumb to the tempter and have to struggle greatly until he has killed all desire within himself, providing he seriously strives towards Me and seeks to reach the goal .... otherwise the world will take him completely captive again and also hardly release him again .... Time and again you will be able to observe that spiritual progress can only be achieved with surrender of the world and its matter .... For anyone who earnestly seeks the spiritual kingdom turns away from the world, and then he will also reach his goal .... But anyone who is also willing to serve the lord of the world at the same time is not yet spiritually minded, otherwise he would have to recognize the difference, the opposition of both kingdoms and openly decide for one or the other .... No one can serve two masters .... And thus you will also judge rightly and justly if you apply this as the standard for the individual's attitude, and you need not fear to judge wrongly if you want to judge justly .... if you ask Me for enlightened thinking, for clarity, where you yourselves still hesitate to pronounce the final judgment. You will always be able to say: 'By their fruits you will know .... "And you should also check whose spirit controls people, for My spirit will truly help all people to detach themselves from My adversary if only everyone is willing to do so himself ....

Amen

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God’s human manifestation ....

B.D. 8445 from March 22nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The greatest mystery, My human manifestation in Jesus for the purpose of redeeming all once fallen spirits, for the purpose of redeeming the beings’ immense original sin of apostasy, will remain a secret to people as long as they are not truthfully instructed and desire to know the truth about it .... You humans do not want to believe that you live in utmost darkness .... exactly because of this original sin which first of all has to be redeemed before you can become enlightened, but then you will understand everything once and for all and have no more doubts. However, you can only receive the pure truth from the Eternal Truth Itself Which also wants to educate you because It is the Light of eternity Itself and wants Its living creations to live in the light too .... Yet it is up to your free will to accept the truth; and you are certainly able to decide whether you are instructed truthfully ....

There is only one condition: that you live within love .... Because love is the fire which is emanated by the light of wisdom .... A spark of love has been placed into you, as a divine element, which is connected to Me, the eternal love. As soon as you voluntarily ignite this spark within you it will strive towards the fundamental fire and this, in turn, will return its light in the form of most profound wisdom .... You will become knowledgeable, the light of understanding will illuminate you and your thinking will be correct, it will be true .... And it is this truth which I want to convey to you so that you may recognise your task on earth and fulfil it .... Hence, you shall know about your original sin and My plan of Salvation since eternity .... Most importantly, you shall learn about the salvation through Jesus Christ, about My human manifestation in Him and, above all, you shall be taught that you should not sidestep Jesus Christ if you ever want to achieve eternal life .... He came to earth to preach the Gospel of love to people, to exemplify the right way of living, to show them the right path which leads to eternal life .... But people, encumbered by the original sin, could still not have reached their goal as long as they were not released from this original sin .... And this was achieved by Jesus’ act of Salvation, by His death on the cross, because He accomplished the act of atonement for this immense guilt and could only do so as a human being because I Myself was in Him, since love is My fundamental substance .... Love is not merely a quality of My Being but I Am love Itself ....

You will be unable to grasp this as long as you live on earth but only this clarification can make you better understand My human manifestation in Jesus so that the unification (‘Unification’) is no longer questionable to you either .... My essence cannot be personified, but in Jesus My all-encompassing spirit shaped Itself into something conceivable to you .... But Jesus’ complete unification with Me did not occur until after the act of Salvation was achieved, which explains why Jesus, during His earthly life, also occasionally spoke of the Father as being external to Himself .... but at the same time He always referred to the unification too .... At the time of His life on earth people were in a state of darkness, and light .... i.e. clear awareness about the act of Salvation .... could only shine for those few who deliberately placed themselves below the cross, who wanted to be redeemed and thus voluntarily gave themselves to Jesus and pleaded for forgiveness of their sins and guilt .... Consequently, humanity continued in a state of spiritual darkness, and this act of Salvation .... Divine Love’s greatest act of mercy .... will continue to be ignored, Jesus will merely be known as a human being and any divine mission by Him will be denied .... For this reason humanity also remains burdened by the original sin, it continues in spiritual darkness and does not perceive the light either .... when it is occasionally emanated, for they close their eyes to avoid seeing it ....

But the light from above cannot be extinguished anymore because, time and again, there will be people who ignite the spiritual spark within themselves and are then able to receive direct instructions from their eternal Father-Spirit. And one day this light will shine brightly, it will entirely dispel the darkness when My will deems the time to be right for it .... Because you humans are approaching the end of a salvation period, and a new one will begin, but this will be of bright light because he, who has brought darkness into the world, will be banished for a long time, and because during this approaching time people will let (have let?) themselves be redeemed by Jesus Christ, thus they are released from their original sin .... The knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, of My human manifestation in Him, is of such incredible significance that I will, indeed, do everything to convey it to people, but it has to be left to their free will as to whether they accept it and then follow the path to the cross .... whether they surrender the guilt of their sins to the only One Who, when He is implored to do so, can and will liberate them. Because He died on the cross for humanity’s guilt of sin, He made

Amends for the immense guilt, and God’s justice was served by this .... Because the love of God had mercy on those who had formerly deserted Him .... Love Itself made the sacrifice .... God in Jesus delivered humanity from sin and opened the path into the kingdom of light and bliss again ....

Amen

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Faith and love guarantee God's protection from adversary ....

B.D. 8446 from March 23rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Faith is the strength that lets you cope with everything .... And the strength of faith is determined by the strength of love you kindle .... And thus My adversary can never achieve success where faith in Me is rooted, and I will not let such faith come to nothing. You need never doubt My love, otherwise you would also have to doubt My perfection which, however, is undisputed even if you don't know everything.... But I reveal Myself, and in these revelations I substantiate and explain everything, so that you will always be able to recognize My nature even if you cannot fathom it profoundly. For My perfection also includes the fact that there is no limit to Me and therefore you will never be able to comprehend My greatness either .... especially during the time when you live on earth as a human being. And thus My love must also be unlimited, and it must also express itself to you humans if you desire to make use of it yourselves. And love protects you from all influences of the adversary, love protects you from error, love gives you everything you need in order to become blissfully happy .... if only you open yourselves to this gift of love. It only depends on your own will to what extent you may experience My love .... It flows to you from Me without limitation, but you yourselves determine the measure of My love, and thus you can also believe that your request for protection from all attacks by the enemy, your request for protection from error, is also an opening of your heart for My illumination of love at the same time, for you ask Me and I can give it to you .... My love, however, constantly seeks to hand itself out, to give itself away and to make you happy .... You should never doubt this, and if you only possess this faith in My love it will also constantly grow, because you yourselves will also return My love, and this again means that the degree of love in you increases and you fulfil the purpose of your earthly life to change again into your original state where you were radiated by Me as love and were supremely perfect .... Love alone brings about your perfection, and since My fundamental substance is love, My nature must also be supremely perfect .... But then it is also completely out of the question that I leave My creatures in wrong thinking who give themselves to Me .... And therefore you can also accept all My revelations as purest truth and need not doubt them. And the content of My revelations will convince you of the truth yourselves, because negative beings would never be able to convey such knowledge to you and I will truly prevent any spirit from taking possession of your thoughts which faithfully and consciously hands itself over to Me, its God and Creator of eternity, Whose will it seeks to fulfil .... It is truly difficult to bring truth to humanity because it is not recognized as such and My adversary is always attributed greater power, yet only when people's own defence is still present as the adversary's influence, from which they do not free themselves. And therefore one can also justifiably speak of a battle between light and darkness, for it is a struggle for the souls so that they do not fall prey to darkness .... Anyone who is strong and faithful to Me will also truly be rewarded, for he will be allowed to experience ever greater evidence of My presence, and he will become a diligent labourer for Me in My vineyard, for he represents everything with the conviction which only the pure truth can give him .... The bond with Me has been established and will also never be severed again, although time and again the adversary will try to break into the ranks of My own and cause confusion .... He will be recognized and pushed back because I Myself stand behind every one of My servants with My strength and protect him from his activity. Nevertheless, I cannot prevent his attacks because it concerns your free decision of will, which he also wants to win, and no means is too bad for him to achieve his goal .... But I can protect you from falling prey to him, and I truly grant you this protection so that you need not fear him and his activity, for I am always at your side, you who believe in Me and in My love and thus already belong to My own, whom he will never be able to detach from Me. And as long as I can be present to you through your love I will also reveal Myself to you, and you will be able to brightly and clearly differentiate between what comes from Me and what comes from My adversary's realm .... For I Myself enlighten your thinking and also give you strength to withstand all temptations which will still approach you.

Amen

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Special justification of reassignment to earth ....

B.D. 8447 from March 24th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You need only ever turn to Me and I will give you the clarification you require, for I am always willing to emanate light, and light is every truthful clarification which reaches you through the working of the spirit within you. You should know that I always comply with the will of a self-aware being, even if I foresee that success will not be achieved .... otherwise no being would be able to embody itself on earth because there is more negative than positive success .... Nevertheless, I give all beings the opportunity to embody themselves as soon as they have only reached the stage of ego-consciousness .... If they now let this stage pass by unsuccessfully, if they fail their last test of will as a human being on earth, they will nevertheless not be prevented by Me from walking the earthly path, only they will also have to bear the consequences themselves which the wrongly directed will has brought about. Before My crucifixion people were not yet redeemed, thus they were burdened by the original sin, and thus they could not enter the kingdom of light after their physical death either .... For I first had to redeem their great guilt of sin and they had to voluntarily accept My sacrifice, they had to acknowledge Me as the redeemer of the world, Who also died for them in order to purchase their release from the adversary. The fact that after My crucifixion I also descended to those souls which languished unredeemed was a gift of grace from My love which wanted to end their state of misery if only they acknowledged Me .... But I could not appear before them as a radiant God, then they would not have endured My light, and they would also have been forced to believe in My work of salvation in view of My might and glory .... Thus I appeared before these souls as the crucified human being Jesus, and every soul which now acknowledged Me was allowed to follow Me out of its realm into My kingdom of light and beatitude .... Yet not all accepted My love .... Many were still in the power of My adversary who once again rejected My love and remained his relatives .... But I still try to save the soul from hell, for the work of redemption is not interrupted in the beyond either, because everything redeemed is full of love and always wants to help the unredeemed in its love to ascend from the abyss .... Love, however, is a power which does not remain ineffective forever. Therefore, time and again the beings of light will succeed in luring the unhappy spiritual being up out of the deepest depth. And time and again sparks of light will radiate into the darkness which those beings will follow and then allow themselves to be guided because the love of the beings of light has an effect as strength .... With increasing light they can then also gain the realisation of the magnitude of their guilt of sin for not having acknowledged the redeemer when He descended into hell .... And in this realisation they can also request their renewed return to earth .... always in the will to be able to make up for what they have missed, even though they know that they will not be given any recollection in earthly life. But this will then really applies to the attainment of spiritual maturity, it is not just the desire for the earthly-material world. And there are such cases, even if only very isolated, those exceptional cases of an embodiment on earth which have a 'certain justification' .... and which are permitted because such souls remember their rejection of the divine redeemer and are willing to pay off this great sin on earth .... which earns them an unusually difficult earthly lot .... but through the free will of man this renewed life on earth can also bring a relapse, but it does not have to bring it ..... For he will also be granted unusual graces which can result in his complete atonement .... For freedom of will must also remain with those souls in order to achieve perfection on earth. You humans cannot measure My infinite mercy and love which wants to help all fallen beings to redemption, but I can only ever tell you that nothing happens which could be regarded as outside My divine order, yet the souls place themselves outside My order of free will, yet everything will always take place in lawful order on My part, which is why a transfer back to earth will always have a reason but never take place arbitrarily for the purpose of making up for neglected ascent development .... If an excessive guilt is the reason for a request for conviction on earth, this request will also be granted, but then the being must also be so far enlightened in the kingdom of the beyond that it also recognizes its guilt and only requests the change of life on earth for the sake of it. Don't believe that I consider a soul unkindly which appeals to Me for mercy .... Yet its free will cannot be taken away from it as long as it is a self-aware being .... And this free will can bring about its ascent as well as its deepest fall into darkness again .... But one day even these souls will reach their goal, albeit after an infinitely long time .... One day they too will return the way to Me to join Me for eternity ....

Amen

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‘Correcting’ God’s Word .... Corruption of truth ....

B.D. 8448 from March 25th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Irrespective of how pure My Gospel was sent to you from above you humans will not leave it unchanged for long, and time and again errors, having arisen from human intellect, will creep in and which consequently have to be corrected again if the people who sincerely desire it are to live in truth. Once thoughts have established themselves in people they will hardly want to let go of them. For this reason My adversary uses a person’s intellect to reinforce his erroneous opinion.

You are always of the opinion that I protect the truth .... However, human free will makes it clear that any distortion of truth is possible .... But you can just as well voluntarily desire the pure truth, which you then will certainly receive .... My Word from above is truly a gift of grace from Me which should be so sacred to you that you would not dare change this Word .... But precisely because people are imperfect and still exist in dark spheres they do not recognise My Word’s immense value and do not shy away from adding their own intellectual thoughts, thereby devaluing My Word from above .... And then misguided opinions arise in due course, the light becomes dim and loses its radiance because only pure truth emitted by Me Myself can bestow bright light ....

You humans, consider how presumptuous you are when you correct ‘the Word of God’, when you believe that you can offer more easily digestible nourishment to people by making changes to it which you are truly not entitled to do .... Earth could not experience such darkness if My light’s radiance from above had not been reduced over and over again. For I have often sent a bright light from above to those who had requested it from Me, who had asked Me for the gift of pure truth .... And anyone who listened to them also lived in the light of truth and could pass it on too .... But time and again human intellect intervened. Time and again selfishness, people’s craving for recognition and their material outlook has resulted in people utilizing My Word from above and exploiting it, in the true sense of the word, for the sake of worldly success .... In that case spiritual success will only ever be sparse and again can only be found where deep desire for truth predominates, so that I Myself can work in a person and clearly make him recognise the truth while placing a will of resistance against wrong spiritual knowledge into his heart. And therefore, I can only ever show you the way to the source. Accept what has originated from Me and is given to you unadulterated .... You should always examine and not accept everything given to you but you will also be able to recognise the true source if you sincerely want to do so .... And then abide by what you receive because then you are drawing living water which has a truly healing effect, whose strength cannot be surpassed as it originates directly from Me and radiates into your heart, touching your soul and giving it food and drink to help you achieve eternal life.

Hence you humans can consider yourselves truly blessed if someone lives amongst you whom I was able to choose as a vessel for the flow of My spirit, who has become a source for you from whence living water comes forth. You can consider yourselves blessed in the knowledge that this water of life is offered to you just as pure and clear as it comes from the source, which I Myself have made accessible to you .... Bend down and drink from it and truly, you will be able to continue your earthly path refreshed and strengthened. You will live in the light of truth and then influence your fellow human beings such that they too will take the path to the source, if they are of good will .... But the corrupted Word will increasingly lose its value and only be advocated by those who lack the desire for truth, who therefore do not object to changes and misguided teachings but unreservedly accept everything as truth although it did not originally emerge from Me in this form .... Nothing accepted by imperfect humanity will remain pure for long but time and again I will make sure that pure truth is transmitted to earth, and you humans need only sincerely desire it and it will be given to you.

Amen

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Multiple walk through creation .... Diversity ....

B.D. 8449 from March 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

To Whom nothing is hidden in infinity, He also knows about the will of every individual and its direction, and thus He can also shape the fate of every person's life according to this will, and thus you can all know yourselves in the care of your God and Father from eternity .... He is the most perfect Being, and therefore He lacks neither love nor wisdom nor power .... And thus everything is possible for Him because He knows what is helpful for the salvation of your soul, and therefore He will also do everything out of His love so that you will reach your earthly goal .... Nevertheless, He leaves you free will, and this alone determines everything that happens and also the effect, and thus it is entirely up to you whether and when you reach your goal. But one thing is certain, that the course of your earthly life will always be such that all possibilities will be made available to you to reach your goal, and failure is therefore always your own fault but cannot be blamed on the circumstances of life or on the One Who has placed you in such circumstances. You will always be mentally influenced, both on the part of God as well as on the part of His adversary .... Yet the degree of opposition to God, which once brought you to fall, still varies in strength in people, and accordingly he also accepts thoughts from the world of light or the world of darkness .... Yet only a completely free decision can bring him to the final goal, and therefore people must time and again be held accountable for the purpose for which they walk across earth .... they must be mentally addressed, and the word of God must be conveyed to them so that they can now adjust themselves to it according to their will. They must know what tasks they have on earth and what consequences both fulfilment and non-fulfilment will entail .... For as long as they know nothing they cannot be called to account .... Such instruction can certainly take place from person to person, which can then be beneficial if a person has truthful knowledge .... But the truth can also be offered to people directly from the kingdom of light if the capable human being asks for it, if he asks himself about the meaning and purpose of his earthly life and cannot be given the right information by his fellow human beings .... And even the most primitive people can be prompted to think correctly if they regard their fellow human beings as their equals .... thus possess human feeling, by which they differ from the animal, which is instinctively driven to destroy the weaker. However, the degree of development of man will always determine his responsibility. As long as he can distinguish between good and evil, because he can perceive or feel the effects of both good and evil deeds in himself, he is also responsible for his actions; if he does not have this capacity for feeling, then he is still like an animal .... which is due to the fact that the time of his soul's embodiment has certainly come, which was set for him, but that he has not yet reached the degree of maturity in the pre-embodiment and has to come to terms with all his urges and sinful desires on earth .... which is also possible but will be extremely difficult because such a person is not very accessible for instructions offered to him .... But you know that often one walk through the creations of earth with the last embodiment as a human being is not enough and that much of the fallen spiritual still has to travel this path several times, and then you also have the explanation for the spiritual state of undeveloped people who live in most primitive realisations and for whose actions and doings you could not give yourselves an explanation which you can reconcile with the nature of a perfect God and Creator .... Endless times already exists the material creation, and endless times it will still exist .... Time and again there are new possibilities of development, and God's eternal plan of salvation encompasses all fallen spirits in the most diverse degrees of development .... And at the same time people with different degrees of soul maturity will always inhabit the earth, and only if you are initiated into God's plan can you give yourselves the right explanation for the diversity of people in all areas of this earth. For you all do not know whether you are walking the earthly path for the first time or whether it took you eternities until you became what you are now .... you don't know whether you can already show an earlier existence in other periods of creation because you are deprived of all recollection .... But one day you will also gain knowledge of this and everything will be understandable to you which still seems puzzling to you today .... For one day the light you voluntarily gave away will shine brightly again, for you will not walk in darkness forever .... One day you will return to God, where there is light and strength and bliss ....

Amen

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Great power effect of the divine word in the hereafter ....

B.D. 8450 from March 27th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

A spiritual realm is opened up to you through the working of My spirit within you which you would not be able to fathom intellectually .... And I also know why I convey such knowledge to you, I know where this knowledge is directed from you again, I know who is receptive to it and who desires to know about that which is intellectually concealed from the human being .... I also know what effect My word, which provides information about deepest knowledge, has on individual human hearts .... And for the sake of this effect I constantly provide you, My servants, with spiritual knowledge of highest value, for it can kindle a light in all of you that all spiritual darkness will fall away from you, that you will be in a state of brightest realisation again .... I pursue no other goal with the transmission of My word from above than to radiate a light into the darkness, for darkness is My adversary's kingdom and characteristic .... but where I work there is light, and there the adversary has lost his power. For anyone who moves in the light has escaped his sphere of power, he has broken through the darkness and turned towards the light which originates from above, from Me. And thus I have known for eternity where I still find open hearts which gladly turn towards the light if only a faint glow touches them .... And therefore no work is done in vain which is connected with My conveyance of the word, because I know exactly who benefits from this spiritual work, because I also know that there are many earthly pilgrims who settle down exhausted where the living water flows from a spring .... You, My servants on earth, you conscientiously do your duty, you try to comply with My will and work for Me without, however, being able to overlook the success, but I know about it .... And you should also continue to work diligently even if your work seems to be in vain .... Just be satisfied with the assurance that nothing is done in vain which is done for Me and My kingdom in the will to serve Me .... A person only needs to harbour the inner desire to know the truth in spiritual matters .... And this person will certainly enter the realm of My sun of love, he will certainly receive truthful knowledge, because I know every person's thoughts and respond to them as soon as they are turned towards Me Myself and My kingdom. The fact that there are only ever a few should not discourage you, for throughout infinity all My teachings are heard and accepted again by those souls which have already taken the path of ascent, even if they departed from earth immaturely. You humans think in a limited way, and thus you cannot grasp the thought that My ray of love penetrates everywhere, that My word resounds everywhere in the spiritual kingdom and never remains ineffective. However, the full certainty of this does not serve you, for you would truly lose your humility if you were able to see the great success which the acceptance of My word by you results in for the I-conscious creatures in the spiritual kingdom .... because everything which originates from Me must have a tremendous effect as an emanation of strength if it does not meet with resistance .... And one effect of strength of My word is already that the souls give up their resistance when they are only very slightly touched by My strength, for which you, who are of service to Me, provide assistance, for since you still walk on earth as a human being yourselves you will also attract such souls which are still earthly bound but which also perceive the gentle light and hasten towards it because the darkness afflicts them. These will then already be willing to give up their resistance, and now they will feel increasingly stronger effects of strength, and My word will be greedily received by these souls and no longer rejected as on earth .... Believe it, you My servants on earth, that you are doing far greater redemptive work than is apparent to you in earthly life .... And believe that the transmission of My word from above never remains without effect. Yet you cannot yet see through the spiritual kingdom, you only ever have to keep My assurance that you will do good work as soon as you seriously serve Me of your own free will .... out of love for Me and your neighbour who is in great spiritual need. And therefore you should make use of every day, always unite with Me and all spiritual beings full of light and devote yourselves to receiving, to receiving a ray of light of love from above which will give life to everything that is still dead if only it is received without resistance .... if My word is listened to and taken to heart so that it can also become effective, be it on earth or also in the spiritual kingdom .... For much unredeemed spiritual life still awaits its redemption ....

Amen

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Truth alone leads to the goal ....

B.D. 8451 from March 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

So I ask you again and again: Do you want to stand in the truth? Or do you not care what you believe? For you can only be considered according to your will, and you will never be able to receive truth or recognize it as such if you do not sincerely desire it, because truth only comes forth from Me and I can only consider you if you open yourselves to Me, if you stretch out your hands to Me asking Me to fill them with gifts of My love .... But I know what it means when you are allowed to walk in the light, I know how extremely important it is that the truth is presented to you, even though you cannot assess its value as long as you are still living on earth .... in an area where the spiritual darkness does not burden you as it will once you have left this earth .... Then you will long for light and feel (be) unhappy in darkness or in dim twilight and have to look for a light over there .... i.e., you will have to open yourselves to the truth in the kingdom of the beyond if it is offered to you there again, for you cannot be blissfully happy until the light shines for you, which alone radiates the truth. You all don't know how carelessly you spend the short time on earth if you don't try to gain spiritually, and therefore truthful knowledge about it has to be made accessible to you, you have to experience that you first have to fulfil My commandments of love, and then you will also penetrate further into profound knowledge, and depending on the degree of love you acquire on earth, the extent of your knowledge will also be, and it will correspond to the truth, because no error can creep in under the illusion of the light of love, for it will be discovered as anti-divine and rejected by the human being himself, and then he will also reach his goal on earth .... But error will never ever lead you to the goal .... You humans, however, are very indifferent in this respect and unhesitatingly accept everything you are offered without examining its truth because you don't feel suitable for it .... But you can if only you turn to the Eternal Truth Itself .... For this request will always be granted. And I will convey the truth to earth as soon as a person offers to receive it who only wants to serve Me and the pure truth again .... Who else could guarantee to convey pure truth to you as long as you humans are not yet perfect? And who can guarantee that your fellow human being will give you pure truth if he wants to instruct you? .... The truth has to come forth from Me Myself if you also want to experience its effect on yourselves, which will always be brightest light .... And I Myself have given you this promise to guide you into truth, thus the promise must also come true, and you may receive it from Me at any time if only you make contact with Me and wait for the fulfilment of My promise. The fact that you enter this earth without any knowledge is the result of your past apostasy from Me, since you deprived yourselves of all light and all knowledge .... Yet your human existence on earth can bring you bright light again if you want it yourselves .... But only the pure truth is a true light, and therefore this truth must be conveyed to you, which is only ever possible through the bestowal of My word, through the outpouring of My spirit into a vessel which is suitable for it .... For a person has to prepare himself in free will to become such a vessel which now receives My ray of love and passes it on to his fellow human beings .... But people walk the earth in a lightless state and have little desire for a true light which would illuminate their path .... And therefore only few people are in possession of the truth, and there is still great darkness over the earth which everyone could break through for himself if only he demanded the pure truth. And this is the great spiritual adversity on earth which has to be ended because people do not remedy it themselves, because they refuse to receive the truth, which alone can awaken them to eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Proof of God is His word .... Exceeding the authority ....

B.D. 8452 from March 29th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

When My word is offered to you humans .... in whatever way it may happen .... you will recognize that I want to make it easy for you to establish a bond with Me, for as soon as you read it and take the content into your heart you will feel that you are being addressed by Me, and then you will also be able to maintain this bond with Me by often turning to Me in thought .... I only want to achieve this mental bond and therefore I address you directly or indirectly .... I approach you Myself in order to take on a form for you, in order to reveal Myself to you as something of essence, in order to make a connection comprehensible to you between you and the power Which called you into life. And all people will one day harbour such thoughts within themselves as to how their origin can be explained .... And according to their strength of will they will also be mentally instructed again. Everything spiritual that lives on earth as a human being shall mature, and all possibilities will be opened up for it to reach the goal of becoming free from its material external form. So one of these possibilities is that they listen to My word, which is offered to them in the most diverse ways .... For I was originally in contact with all My living creations through My word, which they heard and thus knew about My will .... And if they are now to fulfil their destiny on earth they must also now know about My will again, because the fulfilment of My will also releases the spiritual from all material form. Yet people at this time don't want to accept all this because they often don't want to believe in the existence of a God and Creator, and therefore they also mostly reject My word, they place themselves completely outside My order of eternity because they don't fear any responsibility towards a higher power. And such people can rarely only be informed of the will of this power, the fulfilment of which, however, requires release from the form. Thus I cannot reveal Myself to them, I cannot address them Myself, because no bond whatsoever is established with Me, which alone brings about a maturing of the spiritual in earthly life. And yet, the belief in a God and Creator may not be completely eradicated on earth, which, however, is what My adversary has in mind .... But then he will exceed his authority and I will prevent him from carrying out his plan in the end .... which also gives you a comprehensible explanation for the ending of an earth period .... For even if people don't want to believe, humanity must never lose all knowledge about a God and Creator, so that they can voluntarily adjust themselves to such knowledge at any time that they can also change their initial standpoint .... God completely denying…. because they have knowledge of a being .... even against their will to acknowledge this being .... But if all knowledge of a God and Creator were to disappear amongst people, then salvation would no longer be possible, but this will never be permitted by Me for the sake of the return of those who once fell away from Me. And time and again My word will be conveyed to earth whereby I will prove Myself and reveal Myself to people who allow Me to speak to them, and My adversary will never be able to prevent this conveyance of My word, even though he will do everything to invalidate My word and influence people to doubt My existence .... Time and again good forces will be at work which have an enlightening effect and assist those who want to believe and seriously strive towards their maturing. But it will remain a battle between light and darkness as long as there are still unredeemed spirits. And this battle will become even harder the closer the end of a redemption period is .... because by then the darkness has become so strong that the light can only break through weakly .... But it will never be able to be completely extinguished .... And the light will triumph in the end and shine strongly again at the beginning of a new era and have a pleasing effect on people who will no longer oppose the light and will also walk in the light for a long time .... And once again I will be able to address people and reveal Myself to them, I will also dwell amongst people Myself and make them happy with My address because they have now reached a degree of maturity which allows My direct dwelling amongst them and because My adversary has been rendered harmless for a long time and can no longer dim the light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Why is Jesus' recognition necessary? ....

B.D. 8453 from March 30th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

More and more urgently you humans need to be pointed to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ because the time granted to your soul to release itself from the form is coming to an end .... However, you cannot attain full freedom if your original sin has not been redeemed first, which can only be attained through the acknowledgement of Jesus as redeemer of the world. In order to be released from guilt it has to be recognized as guilt and its forgiveness has to be consciously requested ..... And you humans can only achieve this if you believe in Jesus as the Son of God and in His act of salvation .... If you yourselves know that you were the cause of His bitter suffering and death because you once became guilty and first had to be released from your guilt before you could enter the kingdom of light and bliss again .... The fact that Jesus' walk across the earth took place, which ended with his death on the cross, is still disputed by many people because .... for the sake of free faith .... no evidence can be produced to prove it .... Yet time and again people are informed that God Himself sent His son to earth .... that a being of light called into being by Him offered to walk the path across earth as a human being in order to atone for the great guilt of the past apostasy of many beings .... It is also explained to people what the apostasy consisted of and why the atonement had to be made .... People are clearly informed of what originally took place in the kingdom of the spirits in order to make it easy for people to believe in Jesus' act of salvation. And all people could also gain this faith if only they would prepare themselves through a life of love so that the spirit from God could work in them ..... Yet this is precisely what people lack, and thus they reject everything they are told except for a few people who, in turn, endeavour to point their fellow human beings to Jesus Christ so that they can find redemption from the state they got into precisely because of the original sin which still weighs upon them unpaid .... And the end comes closer .... An infinitely long time of ascent development should come to an end in earthly life as a human being, but this earthly life is no longer utilised in such a way that the human being consciously turns to the One Who can set him free for all eternity .... He lets a great opportunity pass by as soon as he lives his earthly existence without Jesus Christ, as soon as he does not mentally unite with Him, in Whom God Himself has made Himself imaginable to people and all beings .... And his remorse will be very painful one day when he will realise in the kingdom of the beyond what he missed on earth .... For he will also have to find Him there before it becomes light around him, and the guilt of sin will burden him until he has asked Jesus for forgiveness. But then he will no longer have the opportunity to mature into a 'child' of God, which was certainly possible for him on earth .... The soul enters a completely new spiritual phase when it has been redeemed by the One Who atoned for its original sin on the cross; then the darkness in which it had lived since its apostasy from God will have fallen away from it .... and the light which now shines upon it will make it immensely happy, and it will now also recognize itself as a divine being, because all imperfection has left it as well as it is free from sin and its consequences .... The fact that God has to administer justice and thus demands atonement is based on His perfection and the divine law of order, and thus the human being also has to atone for everything in earthly life which burdens him as sin, as an offence against divine order, or do so in the kingdom of the beyond .... But to atone for the great original sin is neither possible on earth nor in the kingdom of the beyond because this guilt was too great and required an atonement which a human being would never be able to make .... For this reason Jesus took this guilt upon Himself for people and redeemed it through His death on the cross .... Yet He demands that the human being also wants to become free from his guilt and thus consciously places himself under the cross, consciously hands over his guilt to Him and asks for forgiveness .... And once he has received this forgiveness, that he has been redeemed from this great original sin, he also has forgiveness for all other sins he committed in earthly life, for the man Jesus died for all sins which were and will be committed .... in the past, present and future .... He redeemed all guilt of sin, yet the redemption from it has to be consciously requested, otherwise all fallen spiritual substances would abruptly be returned to their original state, but then no perfection of the beings into gods would be possible, which necessitates free will. But if a human being consciously acknowledges the divine redeemer Jesus Christ as God's Son, in Whom God embodied Himself, then he also humbly hands himself over to Him and appeals to Him for help, because he is unable to resist God's adversary on his own and needs Jesus, Who has defeated this enemy, Who has paid His adversary the purchase price for all souls who want to be redeemed .... It is and remains a matter of free will to become free from the great guilt as well as from all sins the human being has committed in the flesh .... But he can find complete forgiveness, he can become free from all guilt because One took this guilt upon Himself out of love and mercy, because He suffered unspeakably and died the most agonising death in order to spare people the unspeakable suffering they would have had to take upon themselves in order to make a just atonement .... You can become free of all guilt, yet it is up to you whether you accept the immeasurable grace, whether you allow yourselves to be redeemed, for you will not be forced to do so, nor can the act of salvation take effect on you against your will and grant you full freedom which you do not desire .... For this reason you can only ever be advised to turn to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... You can only ever be admonished not to pass Him by .... You can only ever be truthfully informed about Jesus and His act of salvation .... but you have to take the path to the cross yourselves of your own free will. And you will truly not regret it if you listen to those who step into your path as God's messengers in order to enlighten you .... Then your earthly path will not be an idle one, for then you will certainly also reach the goal of entering the kingdom of light and beatitude free of sin ....

Amen

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Jesus taught love on Earth ....

B.D. 8454 from March 31th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Jesus' soul brought love along with it to earth and therefore He was able to take excessive suffering upon Himself, since love gave Him the strength to do so. He knew that people were especially lacking love and were therefore weak and powerless. Although they also sheltered a tiny spark of love, hence they were capable of love, nevertheless, they were unwilling to love because it was smothered by My adversary .... who increasingly stimulated their selfish love and prevented selfless love from coming through. Consequently Jesus exemplified a life of love to people .... Jesus only treated His fellow human beings with kindness, He healed their afflictions, He comforted them and helped wherever help was needed .... He was unselfish and always willing to ease people's fate on earth ....

He taught them why they should live a life of love, He warned them of the consequences of a heartless way of life, just as He repeatedly demonstrated to them the effects of a life of love and provided the proof Himself by being capable of great feats of strength, by healing the sick and performing miracles by virtue of His constantly increasing love .... for He was closely united with God, the Eternal Love Itself .... And therefore Jesus taught people to establish the bond with God, their eternal Father, which can only take place through love and through heartfelt prayer ....

All this had become unfamiliar to people and only a few lived a life of love, but they soon recognised Jesus as the promised Messiah, they recognised in Him the Father .... This love had kindled a small light in them which subsequently was nourished by Jesus' teaching and made the darkness recede .... And this doctrine was meant to be spread among the human race, for this reason He educated His disciples Himself, sending them into the world with the instruction to proclaim Him, His act of Salvation and the Gospel of love, because people should be shown the right path which leads to eternal life ....

However, Jesus would never have been able to accomplish this act of Salvation had He not been full of love, but love achieves everything, no limits exist for love .... nothing is impossible for it, nothing exists that love could not overcome .... for as a human being it would have been impossible to survive such an extent of suffering and pain as was imposed upon Him .... But the strength of love helped Him to be victorious .... by virtue of love He endured the most bitter suffering and excruciating death on the cross and only gave up His life when the act was accomplished ....

Only then was it possible for a person to release himself from the adversary who kept him in bondage as long as the guilt of sin had not been redeemed .... Only after Jesus' crucifixion were people able to appeal for strength and reinforcement from Jesus Christ, in Whom God Himself, as the Eternal Love, had died .... People are no longer at the mercy of God's adversary and his arbitrary use of power, they can detach themselves from him if they pray to Jesus for help and through a life of love acquire the strength to fulfil God's will.

Consequently, it is most important in earthly life that the Gospel is proclaimed to people, which removes the dense darkness from people and lets them find faith in Jesus Christ as Son of God and Redeemer of the world, and which will always grant the strength to complete the earthly path successfully .... For love is strength, without love a person remains weak and cannot reach his goal, on account of which he lives on earth .... But neither can there be light on this earth without love, for it is the realm of God's adversary who spreads dense darkness with the aim of preventing the recognition of God and not to lose his followers but who can be recognised in the light as an enemy ....

Where love is preached, the faith in Jesus Christ can also be awakened if only people are willing to live up to the commandments of love. And thus the labourers in the vineyard of the Lord shall diligently work and spread the Word of God, which will always consist of the divine commandments of love, because people must be informed of the fact that only love will gain them spiritual advancement, that only love will grant them the strength to improve themselves, and that love also bestows upon them the light which reveals extensive knowledge so that they will consciously travel their earthly path .... conscious of their task and their goal .... and do their utmost to strive for it .... As soon as they acknowledge Jesus Christ, as soon as they know that God Himself has accomplished the act of Salvation in Jesus Christ and then consciously hand themselves over to Him, they will also be released from their original sin and reach the goal on earth and the final union with their God and Father of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fully Trusting Prayer ....

B.D. 8455 from April 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

And if you get into earthly distress only a heartfelt call to Me will suffice and I will protect you and keep all adversity away from you, yet this call has to come from the heart and not just be a lip prayer, for a call from the heart is also the evidence of trust, it is proof of a living faith which I will fulfil at all times. How easily your earthly life could be covered by you if you were constantly in intimate contact with Me, always aware that you can entrust yourselves to your father and always be heard by Him .... My love for you is truly endless, and it also grants you everything that is helpful for your soul .... But you will also no longer request anything from Me which could harm you, for the intimate bond with Me also presupposes a certain spiritual maturity, your desire to be allowed to hand yourselves over to Me is also the guarantee that I can now act like a father towards his child, for you are no longer disobedient to Me, you have already passed the test of will which is the purpose of your earthly life .... It is the most beautiful awareness for you that you may feel like children who never ask the father in vain, and henceforth you will no longer walk any path alone, for I will be your constant companion because I want to protect you against every enemy, be he a danger to you on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... Just give yourselves to Me in complete trust and your earthly path will be so easy for you that you will also reach the goal effortlessly. You are only weak for as long as you keep your distance from Me, and you have to fight for as long as you keep your distance from Me; but if you are united with Me through your heartfelt devotion to Me, through your will, your love and constant thoughts, then you will also feel strong and no longer fear any oppression. If you consider yourselves My children, you will also be cared for and looked after by Me as father. But you must not exclude Me from your thoughts, for then you will certainly be harassed by My adversary in many ways and I will not be able to help you, because you will have to consciously turn to Me in order to be allowed to experience My love and help as well ..... However, an intimate bond with Me requires living faith, whereas a formal faith will only ever result in formal prayers which do not reach My ear, because I want to be called upon in spirit and in truth .... A living faith, in turn, demands a life of love, for a person can never believe alive who is without love, because without love he is also distant from Me, Who is the Eternal Love .... But I want to be close to you, so close that you will feel My presence, and then you will also speak to Me trustingly like children, and I can return your address, I can prove My presence to you by granting your requests and by always binding you more firmly to Me .... For My bond of love will be eternally indissoluble, which now unites us for time and eternity. And you cannot measure the blessing you will receive from My presence but you will be able to hear Me, your Father will speak to you and you will recognize My voice and be happy because bright light will flood you at the same time .... For My ray of love, which now strikes you, must spread bright light and make you blissfully happy .... Just always seek closest contact with Me through heartfelt prayer, through the child's intimate dialogue with its father .... And your walk across earth will be easy and carefree, for the bond which you once voluntarily severed has now been restored in free will and can no longer be severed for ever .... But I look kindly upon My children, I no longer let them walk along without a guide, I avert all danger to body and soul, and I always draw My children closer to Me so that they can no longer abandon Me because they feel safe in My care. Entrust yourselves to Me, your Father, at all times and believe that My love will provide you with everything in order to please you, because then your soul will long for Me and I can now also provide for it spiritually and earthly and because My love constantly wants to give itself away and give happiness to all beings on earth and in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

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Why was it possible for a body of work by the opponent to prevail? ....

B.D. 8456 from April 2nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The adversary will often still try to run against the wall of faith, and he will also try to shake the faith of those who have found Me and whom he hopes to change again. And again, the only thing that matters is that a person's faith has come alive, because then he can already speak of knowledge with conviction and does not just need to believe something for which he lacks evidence. Living faith gives the person inner certainty and he no longer doubts but is already so united with Me that he has the clearest evidence in My presence that his thinking is enlightened and such faith can no longer be shaken. Yet My adversary will still be able to achieve success where the human being intellectually tries to fathom the correlations, where he .... i.e. the intellect .... builds on erroneous spiritual knowledge which he now regards as the basis and also represents it as truth .... Erroneous thinking is then also the consequence of this, and this can only be directed properly when the human being begins to doubt the spiritual knowledge he possesses. He has to ask in order to be able to receive answers, and he has to ask these questions in a feeling of complete ignorance which then humbly lets him come to Me .... If you humans knew how far you still are from the pure truth and how few people only accept the grace of My direct instructions from above .... then you would also recognize with fright the great power of the prince of darkness, but which you humans yourselves concede to him .... For you are not filled with a great desire for truth which would urge you towards Me so that I Myself would give you the truth .... You know that lies and error are the adversary's strongest weapons but you do not protect yourselves from them by appealing to Me for help .... You could not fall prey to this error if you were seriously interested in the pure truth .... And even if the truth is conveyed to you, you are nevertheless not willing to surrender your wrong spiritual knowledge, and the truth cannot take root in you, you yourselves prevent the effect of light because you are not willing to detach yourselves from darkness and follow the light .... But you cannot become enlightened against your will .... When I walked on earth to bring the light to men, I foresaw the structure of lies erected by those who called themselves My followers .... I foresaw that people were completely misguided and were themselves too weak to free themselves from the tangle of misguided teachings, I knew that precisely where the foundation was allegedly laid by Me Myself My adversary had much success .... For he succeeded in distorting all My teachings. And thus a work of construction came into being which never had and could never have Me as its master builder, that I could never take part in a work where My adversary had obviously forced his way in, for everything I taught on earth has been distorted. And spiritual knowledge is now advocated which did not originate from Me but is the work of human beings .... results of confused intellectual thinking over which My adversary has dominion .... Yet I could not prevent it because I do not act against people's free will .... Yet the few who seriously strived for truth and who acknowledged Me as the Eternal Truth always received the pure truth, and every willing person was able to accept it and also attain spiritual maturity .... Yet that work of building up remained in existence, and it was supported by all those who acknowledge it and never seriously concern themselves with the spiritual knowledge which is presented to them but which they, with an earnest will, would recognize as erroneous, for they would never be able to acknowledge a supremely perfect Being as the originator, as the founder of such a church, if only their thinking is good and just. Endless love, unsurpassable wisdom and might must always be recognisable, and where this is not the case it is impossible for Me Myself to have been at work, instead, My adversary always has his hand in it, and he will truly strengthen the darkness ever more and not tolerate his followers trying to free themselves from him. Therefore, My servants on earth, don't be surprised if time and again My adversary succeeds in having the error defended by people who are not yet able to believe vividly enough and therefore still use their intellect too much instead of listening to their heart, which would truly teach them otherwise. The structure erected by the adversary cannot be torn down so easily, for it finds strong supports in all those who do not yet recognize him and who therefore also accept everything as truth without seriously examining it. But people's will is free ....

Amen

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Only God is Ruler of the universe ....

B.D. 8457 from April 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Another sign of the approaching end is that people will continue to make ever new attempts to penetrate the mysteries of creation but never in a spiritual way by which alone they can receive an explanation .... They intellectually try to ascertain what is still concealed from them, they undertake experiments to explore what exists beyond earth, they want to discover natural laws and only make use of them again for the sake of earthly profit .... They exclude Me Myself, the Creator and Provider, the Ruler of the universe, and believe that they can conduct unauthorised research of creations which exist outside of earth ....

They will carry on with their experiments despite the fact that they fail time and again because it will never be possible for people to occupy other planets without losing their lives .... But even then I will still respect their determination; I will not stop them so that they will recognise the futility of their projects themselves. And although they will believe that they can interfere with My creations they will lose sight of their own intellectual limitations ....

They could gain unlimited knowledge by spiritual means but only the souls would benefit from this, people, however, only look for earthly advantages and for this reason will not chose the path which could lead them to correct understanding .... But all their attempts will fail and only ever cause harm to people who will offer themselves as test objects .... Humanity's place is and remains the earth .... just as all other celestial bodies are self-contained. The beings who occupy every star, be it the earth or other celestial worlds, are subject to the natural laws I decreed to every star. They will be unable to cancel any of these natural laws or associate with beings from other planets, and any attempt will be paid for with their lives, because it is presumptuous to ignore My laws, common sense alone should tell them to refrain from such experiments. This is already a sign of the approaching end, it is a sign of total disbelief in a God and Creator, or they would not dare to destructively interfere with His creations in the belief that they will be able to create works which travel at speed through the universe .... They will be dead works without purpose and goal .... they will only prove how presumptuous people are on earth and how dark their spirit is despite their most astonishing calculations .... which will nevertheless be wrong as they will have to experience time and again.

People already intervene in all existing laws of nature, yet never for the benefit of their fellow human beings, they only cause physical and spiritual damage, for with their experiments they also change their natural living facilities, they poison the air, the water and thus the purely physical living conditions, but with their godless actions also cause immense damage to the souls which will never be able to mature on earth in such great distance from Me, their God and Creator .... This great distance, however, is demonstrated by them, for only satanic influence determines their thinking and doing, only Satan provides them with these thought, because he himself tries to exclude Me and exerts a thoroughly negative influence on people.

The attempt to reach stars beyond earth cannot and will not ever be blessed by Me, but until the end I will still show mercy to those whose souls have not yet completely fallen prey to My adversary .... otherwise every attempt would soon be doomed. But I fight for every soul, and as soon as they turn to Me in heartfelt prayer at times of earthly difficulty I will also help them and let them seemingly succeed, yet always with the aim that people should find their way back to Me and let go of their intentions when they have to recognise that they are dependent on a higher Power, Which can never be understood by their intellect but nevertheless will be grasped by the heart ....

You will still hear much more and perhaps even be surprised by the feats people are able to accomplish. But you should know that they receive their strength from My adversary who, like Me, tries to create works amongst My creations which he himself is unable to do and therefore uses the will of people, whom he can easily influence since they have little or no faith at all .... Yet they are his final attempts, for his time will have run out and he will instigate his fall into the abyss himself, for when he has caused utmost confusion amongst people I will put an end to his activity, and nothing will remain of the works which people accomplished under his influence .... Everything will disintegrate and I will once again restore order on earth, so that it can continue as a school of the spirit and fulfil its purpose in accordance with My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Irrefutable knowledge from above .... Mind thinking ....

B.D. 8458 from April 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Nothing remains hidden from you if you approach Me Myself for clarification .... Yet you would not grasp everything in all its depth, and therefore I can only ever give you an answer according to your capacity .... But this answer will never lack truth, even if it is written in such a way that you can understand it .... I will not let you fall into erroneous thinking, even if the clarifications can only be limited as long as you have not yet attained such maturity that you can also penetrate the deepest depths of wisdom. And thus you should also be content with what I impart to you, you should not think that I don't hear your request, and you should always leave it up to Me which knowledge I reveal to you, for you will be able to grasp the correlations ever more with increasing maturity of soul. This is why it is often not possible for fellow human beings to understand what seems easy for you to grasp, precisely because their state of maturity is still lower and therefore the spiritual knowledge imparted to them is also incomprehensible to them. But if people believe themselves to be knowledgeable, their knowledge must absolutely correspond to My Word conveyed to you from above .... They cannot have other knowledge at their disposal which is now to be acknowledged as true, for only pure truth emanates from Me and this will never contradict itself. Therefore you, who receive My Word from above directly, need never doubt the truth of this Word, and you can justifiably advocate it, because your thinking can never be wrong either as soon as you are active for Me or speak on My behalf, even if you are dealing with intellectual people who possess great earthly knowledge .... Spiritual knowledge is a different matter, spiritual knowledge is an area which is not fathomed by the intellect but is unlocked by the spirit in the human being, which does not ask for intellectual acuity but can and will only express itself when the heart has become love .... but which then also gives the human being comprehensive knowledge .... And then he will also be able to understand everything, for I will always open up the right understanding for the spiritual knowledge I impart to him. For this reason even a person who is far below an intellectual person's degree of intelligence will have greater knowledge than the latter, and he will be able to refute his objections .... because then the spirit will always be active in the human being and not the intellect when the truth has to be defended, and he will not be able to be outdone by the adversary's intellect either, because the spirit is always superior to the intellect, for it knows everything, whereas the intellect has only acquired earthly knowledge and this is not sufficient to invalidate spiritual knowledge. Admittedly, My adversary will always intervene when it is necessary to take action against the pure truth and yet he will not succeed against the light from above, which he does not expose himself to because he flees the light from Me. And thus My servant, who is active on My behalf, need never fear the superiority of a person who shuts himself off from the working of the divine spirit, for he will always be and remain the inferior, because even the sharpest intellect cannot stand against the light which shines forth from Me into the darkness .... For I Myself am and will remain invincible, and My strength will also be in those who are active for Me, who want to carry out the light which I radiate into themselves .... And they will always be a match for those who oppose them and try to belittle My Word from above .... Their knowledge will not suffice to credibly refute your knowledge .... you will always be able to counter them glibly, for then it will not be you who speaks but My spirit, and you will only ever speak what it puts into your mouth. Therefore you should always speak soberly and clearly to those who do not want to accept you as My representatives, who believe that you speak from yourselves when you spread My Word from above. Your counter-speech will be calm and objective because I Myself am with everyone who is active for Me and My kingdom, and because he will truly have knowledge at his disposal because I Myself was able to instruct him, because I Myself can work in him through My spirit, as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Explanation regarding original spirit and apostasy ....

B.D. 8459 from April 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You, who want to be of service to Me during the last days before the end, have all My care and attention. For you shall still correct many errors which I disclose to you and through which I hand you the means to take action against them, which you would never be able to do without the transmission of My Word from above. I know where people's thinking is still confused, I know where opinions have taken root in them which they don't like to relinquish but which nevertheless do not correspond to truth. But I want to give light to everyone; I want to enlighten the thoughts of those who were given the task by Me to spread the truth. I can only ever give you the same explanation, namely, that you are My once emanated beings which did not fulfil their purpose because they opposed Me. What I emanated as strength were self-aware, intelligent living creations endowed with free will .... thus not dead works but living ones, for My strength, which was their fundamental substance, is and will remain something alive which constantly wants to be active .... This strength, therefore, was given the form of beings by Me, although this had to be understood in a spiritual sense, for they were able to behold each other as most magnificent and brightly radiating living creations .... Each emanated being was an individual being .... it was externalised as an independent being and continually permeated by My strength of love .... They were images of Myself, they were miniatures of My own nature which were able to work independently in strength and light and were supremely perfect, since only perfection could come forth from Me. And these beings apostatised from Me, as a result of their free will they changed themselves into the opposite, they lost their perfection, became imperfect and wretched, for they rejected the divine light of love which permeated them and subsequently discarded their divinity. However, the beings continued to exist, they merely renounced love, and this was possible because as evidence of their divine origin they possessed free will which could be used in any direction and which expressed itself in opposition to God. The being had merely rejected God's strength of love, thus My continuous illumination of love, and that resulted in its fall into the abyss, because it became incapable of activity and hardened in its substance .... Thus the being I once created in all perfection voluntarily distanced itself from Me and moved ever closer towards the abyss ....

This apostasy of the spirits has been explained to you by Me time and again, and you know what the apostasy consisted of: the fact that My love was being rejected .... By doing so the being incapacitated itself to any kind of activity .... But since the being itself was My emanated strength which could not remain inactive, this strength had to take effect in different ways, and this became possible by reshaping this strength into creations .... which then had to be active according to My will .... The fallen being therefore carried out an activity of service in different shapes under the law of compulsion .... That which moves through the works of creation for the purpose of gradually ascending to higher spheres is the fallen spiritual living creation which once originated from Me .... It is the being I created in supreme perfection, which I externalised as My image and which, on an extremely painful and infinitely long lasting path of return, shall now reshape itself again into that which it had been at the very beginning .... The answer cannot be given to you more clearly when you ask what happened to the 'spirit' when the being fell .... Which spirit do you mean? .... I created spiritual beings and they fell away from Me. The soul is therefore not the 'soul of a spirit' but the soul itself is the once-fallen original spirit which embodies itself in the human being to reach its final state of perfection .... And when a non-fallen spirit embodies itself in a human being then his soul is this said original spirit, and not just part of it .... The fact that all fallen spirits are also constantly looked after throughout the entire process of return by beings of light which have completely entered My will when they had to prove themselves is time and again explained to you, for their bliss consists of being able to contribute towards the fallen beings' final return, and their overwhelming love constantly takes care of all creatures and always provides new shells which enable the fallen beings to ascend. For love will always act according to My will, and it therefore also flows continually to an imperfect soul so that it can consciously change itself during its life on earth and become again what it had been in the beginning. And this transformation can only be accomplished by love, which the being must kindle as a human being in order to find the union with Me again, which turns it into a blessed being for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Two different kinds of revelations cannot be true ....

B.D. 8460 from April 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I cannot make concessions where it concerns the transmission of the pure truth. Understand that only one truth can and does exist and that this comes forth from Me, since I alone know everything and therefore only I can convey the knowledge to those who possess a profound desire for truth and make heartfelt contact with Me, who thus make themselves worthy and suitable to receive bright light. And neither will I speak to people with two tongues by teaching different things to different people .... For truth is eternally unchanging and will not allow previously misguided human thinking to impose limitations on it either. I will always provide you humans with clarification if you have fallen prey to such mistakes. And therefore I must criticise where My adversary has already prevailed, and I must openly highlight misguided mental concepts .... And I will do so as soon as divine revelations are conveyed to Earth .... For only because of their complete concurrence will you be able to scrutinise the origin of such revelations yourselves. But it would also utterly contradict My wisdom were I to instruct people differently, by adapting My instructions to their hitherto thinking, if it is wrong .... The truth must uncompromisingly expose misconceptions, because only the truth will benefit the soul, because only the truth is the path leading to Me. And people who are closely connected with Me through love will always be gladdened by the pure truth and willingly forego misconceptions .... Hence, a caring person will feel impressed by the truth and easily recognise that he was hitherto wrongly instructed .... For the error .... that is, My adversary .... is unable to hold someone captive who hands himself over to Me, he will therefore easily be able to let go of wrong thoughts and unhesitatingly accept the truth. But what is one to think of revelations which obviously keep within such humanly established limitations?

I certainly want to convey My Word to all places, I want to reveal Myself to all people, but in order to do so I need completely empty vessels .... people who are not so entrenched in wrong concepts that they do not voluntarily relinquish or doubt them .... If I want to reveal Myself to a person then his doubts that he is in possession of truth must impel him toward Me, requesting that I grant him spiritual enlightenment .... Only then will I be able to enlighten him, but never as long as he is still bound and unable to inwardly release himself from misguided teachings .... My revelations require an empty vessel which I can subsequently fill .... And then I will clearly emphasise that which does not correspond to the pure truth from Me .... For I cannot utter two different kinds of spiritual knowledge and will not veil anything, but instead disclose everything, because you humans are in need of light in order to find and travel the right path to return to Me into the Father's house. Hence, whatever concurs has been conveyed to you humans by Me, once the prerequisites exist which allow for My revelations .... And if contradictions are found then you must be cautious and seriously scrutinise them, for I Myself cannot make any concessions which contradict the truth. Yet I want to win all people over before the end, and therefore I also want to show the right path to those who are still being misguided, and truly, anyone who completely devotes himself to Me will receive clarification, and he will find his way out from a thicket which is inextricable for the half-hearted and indifferent person .... My adversary has so much control over people that he has turned them into fanatics who no longer allow anything else .... be they members of ecclesiastical organisations or sects or of the various schools of thought .... It is precisely the fact that they are incorrigible when My messengers want to inform them of the pure truth, that demonstrates their bond with him who does not allow clear thoughts to arise in them, but instead impels them to fanatically advocate misguided teachings .... And then it will be difficult to win them over to the pure truth .... even those of good will allow themselves to be deceived because the adversary appears by the same token and is determined to make people spread wrong spiritual knowledge as divine activity .... yet I will always protect those people from believing it who fully consciously hand themselves over to Me and only ever appeal to Me for the truth .... Even so, all of you should be on your guard, for the adversary has many tricks at his disposal in order to hold on to his followers, and he will fight the truth until the end, until I Myself put a stop to his working and place him in chains again because the time of the end has arrived ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prayer for strength .... Overcoming ego love ....

B.D. 8461 from April 7th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I take all your weaknesses into account and will truly not ask for anything that is not possible for you to accomplish .... And so that you can remedy your state of weakness at any time you need only make use of the grace of prayer .... For as soon as you only pray for strength in order to be able to carry out your soul's work you will receive it, for through prayer .... if it is directed towards Me in spirit and in truth .... the contact between you and Me is already established and the strength can overflow into you. Hence it only applies that you decide to pray, to send a heartfelt call to Me that I may take care of your weakness and help you to reach the goal which was set for you in earthly life. But in order to be able to pray sincerely you must also believe alive .... you must be convinced that your God and creator is also your f ather, Who does not think sparingly of any of His children when they turn to Him and request help because they feel too weak themselves to fulfil My will .... But My will is that the human being lives in love .... And because self-love is still stronger he has to fight against it and feels too weak to do so .... But if he asks for My help in complete trust then he will always think less of himself and the caring love for his neighbour will become stronger, and the more he now practices love the more he will also be happy himself, since love itself is also the strength which remedies his state of weakness. You can truly be confident that your prayer for strength will be answered, for if you come to Me of your own free will I will also reward you and give you what you ask for, and if you are first concerned about your soul's salvation, that you thus request strength for your spiritual ascent and thus prove to Me that you strive for Me and My kingdom, then you will also receive everything else you earthly require ..... but whether I grant you earthly wishes, if only such move your heart or cause you to pray, depends on your maturity of soul or also on the danger such an earthly fulfilled wish can be for you. But My ear will always be open to you as soon as your call comes from your heart and you intimately unite with Me. This is why you need not fear a state of weakness, you need never think that I will set you unmanageable tasks, for I want nothing more than for you to practise love, and this can only be achieved through a battle against self-love, for which you therefore should and may request strength. For you are weak creatures due to your past fall into sin, where you gave away strength and light in the blindness of your thinking .... But if your thinking has only changed to such an extent that you turn it towards Me, then your state of weakness will also change and you will be amazed at what you are now able to do with My strength, which I irrevocably give to you as a result of heartfelt prayer in spirit and in truth. Therefore you need never be discouraged, even though time and again you become aware of your powerless state .... For He Himself is the source of strength from eternity, He also supplies all His creatures with it without limitation, only the creature has to open itself to receive it .... And this happens through the bond with Me in prayer .... This is why prayer is a grace of utmost importance, because you achieve everything with it .... Only the strength of your faith determines the degree of strength you receive, and this faith will become ever stronger if you only test it once, if you sincerely commend yourselves to Me and confidently wait for My help .... I truly leave no prayer unfulfilled because I Myself want your strength to increase, so that you will become powerful and light-filled beings again, as you were in the beginning .... Only I cannot provide you with strength against your will but you must come to Me yourselves and desire strength, you must open yourselves through heartfelt prayer and you will truly be allowed to receive everything you need in order to mature while still on earth .... And the body will also be considered so that it will serve the soul to mature, so that it will then use the strength to work with love and thus fulfil the purpose of earthly life. Don't fear your weakness, for I will be able to be powerful in the weak if only he turns to Me Myself in his weakness and asks Me for strength and light and grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's protection in the fight against the enemy ....

B.D. 8462 from April 8th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Time and again you will experience evidence of My love so that your faith will always become more alive, so that you will be aware of My constant presence and thus I can also work in you. I constantly want to speak to you, even if your body is not aware of it, but your soul hears Me and constantly receives My illumination of love, it gains spiritual treasures and constantly matures further. And thus I reward your work for Me and My kingdom, which is extremely urgent because the time is coming to an end and I still want to find access everywhere in order to make Myself known to people. And I bless every activity which is done for Me, and therefore I also bring My own together so that one will support the other, so that everyone will give to the other what the latter does not possess .... that you will support each other, be it earthly or spiritually. For a time of battle will still come for all of you where you will have to prove yourselves but where you will also be able to do so, because you need only constantly call upon My strength which will also flow to you in abundance, for I will not abandon My own and guide them through to the end. And time and again I also draw your attention to the attacks of My adversary, the enemy of your souls, that you should be vigilant and not allow yourselves to be tricked, for he, too, will approach you under the mask of an angel of light, and there will be great confusion amongst My own who do not want to believe that the adversary fights with means which have the appearance of good and righteousness and which are lies and deception. Therefore be vigilant and persevere in prayer, hand yourselves over to Me in fullest trust that I will protect you from his attacks, and the more intimately you unite with Me the clearer you will also be able to see through the enemy and turn away from all those who are connected to him and approach you as his accomplices. I will always hold My hands over you and yet there will be battles for you, because you shall decide of your own free will for or against Me, for or against him .... But I know My own and will not allow you to be deceived by him .... I enlighten your thinking, I instil in you the feeling of resistance if he approaches you, under whatever mask it may be .... But you should always bear in mind that you are in a dark area, for this earthly world is his domain where he can and will work if he is not opposed .... And you can only ever ask for light and through your will cause light to be supplied to you, and then you truly need not fear the prince of darkness, for where there is light he does not stay, he flees the light because he flees Me, Who is the light of eternity. Nevertheless, you must always be vigilant, for you yourselves are not yet perfect, and wherever you give the slightest impetus he will use the opportunity and try to confuse you, to agitate you, to become impatient and to push your thoughts away from Me. And therefore it is a constant battle for you against his temptations, but for which you only ever need to appeal for My support and you will emerge victorious, he will not be able to harm your soul .... And I promise My protection to all of you who want to belong to Me, whom I therefore count as My own because you surrender your will to Me, because I possess it and therefore will no longer leave you to My adversary .... And everything will also be bearable for you, even though difficult times will come upon you, for I have also promised you My protection, My help and guidance for these times. And you can let everything approach you without worry, it will always happen as I have determined in My plan of salvation and as it will be beneficial for those who belong to Me .... As soon as you completely hand yourselves over to Me I will take care of you, earthly and spiritually, and I will guide you through all hardships of life without harm .... My strength will flow through you no matter what approaches you, for you can always feel safe in Me, like children you can always trustingly come to the Father and He will lovingly take care of you, He will always be there for you and guide you through to the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus suffered immeasurably ....

B.D. 8463 from April 10th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You should always remember how much the man Jesus has suffered on your behalf because His love wanted to help you free yourselves from Satan's bondage. He has taken upon Himself all your guilt and suffered enormous pain as atonement for this guilt and ultimately paid for this guilt with the most excruciating death on the cross. And although you are repeatedly confronted with the magnitude of His sacrifice and the extent of His suffering it is emotionally impossible for you to empathise with this pain. And yet you should remember it often in order to understand His immense love for you which was the reason for His act of Salvation. His soul was pure and immaculate, it came from the highest realms of light into the dark, sinful world, it came to a human race which was sinful because of its former apostasy from God and which continued to sin during its earthly life because it was influenced by God's adversary, who constantly provoked it into committing ac28.12.1962ts of unkindness and whom it could not resist because it was completely weakened by the burden of the original sin .... The people themselves lived in dense darkness and therefore could not know their soul's enemy, and thus they were in a state of acute spiritual distress and without help would never have been able to free themselves from it either. And Jesus took mercy on this human race, they were His fallen brothers who would have remained eternally separated from the Father and thus He wanted to help them, He wanted to show them the way of return to the Father's house again. Jesus voluntarily offered Himself for an act of atonement, the magnitude of which cannot be understood by you humans ....

He suffered physically and psychologically because whatever could be done to torment Him, whatever could be done to cause Him suffering and pain, was done by people who were followers of the adversary who sought to prevent the act of Salvation with all his might .... But what the soul had to endure in the region of the lord of darkness at the hands of his servants and accomplices is inconceivable to you humans. Because it came from a divine, bright realm and descended into hell, into the dark region of God's adversary, where the soul now had to suffer intense torment since all sinfulness and darkness affected it painfully, because everything unspiritual clung to it and attempted to pull it into the bottomless abyss .... But it resisted, it used the strength out of God .... Because Jesus' soul was filled with love and this love was its strength which enabled it to accomplish the act of Salvation .... Jesus saw people's wretched condition on earth, He saw their weakness and their blindness, and with His love He began to fight His adversary who controlled humanity, who had pushed them into disaster and sought to prevent them from breaking away (from it). He (Jesus) opposed his hate and evil actions with His love .... And this love was stronger than hate, it defeated the opponent .... Love sacrificed itself for other people, and with His death on the cross love had purchased humanity's freedom from bondage.

(10.4.1963) The price had been very high, He had paid the ultimate for people's guilt of sin, He had sacrificed Himself .... He had proven to the adversary that love is stronger than hate, that love can accomplish everything, that it does not even fear death if it wanted to give freedom to the enslaved by this means, if it wanted to lead the dead back to life again, if it could snatch the captivated from its dungeon master .... No pain and torture was too much for the man Jesus to abandon the act of Salvation because His mercy for the sinful humanity was so profound that He did not fear anything any longer and obediently and willingly accepted death, that prior to this He suffered excruciating pains for the sake of humanity's sins .... And when you humans remember this then you must rush to Him with intense love, you must hasten under the cross in order to belong to those for whom the human being Jesus has shed His blood .... You have to be so imbued with the strength of His love that you respond to it from the bottom of your hearts and completely give yourselves to Him, to eternally become and remain His Own .... You cannot contemplate His suffering and death often enough, and then you will constantly draw closer to Him when you consider that every pain He had taken upon Himself should have been suffered by you in order to make

Amends for the immense guilt .... and that He has redeemed you from it .... This was only possible due to the love within Him .... And this love was God Himself, Which totally permeated the man Jesus and gave Him the strength to complete the act of mercy and defeat the adversary, because love is the strength to which even God's adversary had to succumb .... so that he has to let go of those souls who are walking the path to the cross, who acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Divine Saviour and who pray to Him for forgiveness of the guilt ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's instruction to educate fellow human beings about Jesus ....

B.D. 8464 from April 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Wherever the opportunity of mentioning the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ presents itself to you, you should speak of Him and emphasise His great significance for every single person .... Where possible, you should motivate people to remember Him, for everyone knows Him, everyone has heard of Him, yet only a few have a living faith in Him, and only they can partake in the blessings of the act of Salvation .... But they are precisely the ones who should try to invigorate their fellow human beings' faith in Him, Who alone can save them from spiritual adversity, which will only be perceptively felt after their body dies. You should not fail to make use of every avenue in order to steer the conversation towards Jesus Christ, even if the other person feels uncomfortable about it .... you should simply ask him what Jesus means to him, whether he has already thought about the doctrines regarding Him and what conclusion he has come to .... Even if they only want accept Him as a human being, Who advocated His own philosophies of life and sacrificed His life for these opinions, you can nevertheless explain to them that He was certainly a man who lived among people, but that He had to fulfil a spiritual mission and that every person can derive benefit from that mission if he wants .... Indeed, most people only regard their life on earth as an end in itself and don't believe in their souls' continuation of life .... Nevertheless, you should also try to unsettle these opinions and truly, I will place the right Words into your mouth if all you endeavour to do is kindle a small light for these blind people, if you want to help them fulfil their purpose of earthly life. If you are imbued by the knowledge which corresponds to the truth, you will time and again feel impelled to convey this knowledge to people and then opportunities will arise where it is possible for you, and I truly bless everyone who tries to persuade his fellow human beings to believe in Jesus, because Jesus must not be by-passed if the soul wants to attain bliss one day when it enters the spiritual realm after physical death. This faith in the soul's continuation of life is likewise lacking in most people, consequently, it is difficult to educate them, yet no stone shall be left unturned, for the misery such souls are approaching is indescribable and if you can help them spare such wretchedness they will be eternally grateful to you, for one day every soul will gain realisation, even if it still takes eternities ....

Everything relating to Jesus, His life on earth, His crucifixion and His ascension, is a myth for people which they certainly know, but cannot believe that these events, which are hugely significant for each individual still unenlightened soul, to be true. However, you humans live on this earth to attain the goal of releasing yourselves from every form and entering the kingdom of the beyond in a spiritualised state. But to do so it is crucial that you find redemption through Jesus Christ, that He helps you attain freedom, because only He can loosen the chains which still tie you to God's adversary. He alone can help you attain eternal life, and thus you must acknowledge Him and hand yourselves over to Him so that He will take your immense guilt upon Himself and so that He might have given His blood for you as well, which He shed on the cross for all people, past, present and future. If you accept Him and appeal to Him to take the immense guilt from you, you will also suddenly be able to think differently .... many things you previously were unable to understand will become comprehensible to you. For this reason you should at least accept information about Him when it is conveyed to you, for no-one shall go astray, but it is up to the human being himself whether he wants to let himself be saved .... Let yourselves be educated about Jesus and His act of Salvation, about the spiritual reason for it and about your past original sin, which you cannot atone for yourselves but can only be released from through the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... And don't walk past Him in earthly life, try to muster the understanding for the kind of mission He had to fulfil on earth and believe that every person must take the path to the cross .... believe that every human being must carry his guilt of sin under the cross, which means, that he must acknowledge Jesus Christ as Son of God and Redeemer of the world, in Whom God Himself became human in order to redeem humanity from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Why is the information about the process of return not known? ....

B.D. 8465 from April 12th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

If only you would always take the path to Me, you would be helped in every adversity and distress, be it spiritually or earthly .... you would be looked after such that it will benefit your soul, for only pure truth is beneficial. I have not imposed any restrictions on you, and if you want to increase your spiritual knowledge I shall always be willing to instruct you.

You want to know why information is revealed to you now of which you have had little or no knowledge so far .... I want to give you the reason for this: time and again there have been people whose spiritual state enabled them to be introduced to the most profound mysteries of creation, and who thus also knew about the very first beginning of creation, about the apostasy from Me and about My eternal plan of Salvation. But such knowledge could never be passed on to other people as long as their state of maturity was lower than those who had received it from Me .... Its profundity would never have been understood, and had people merely adopted it literally their intellect would have caused them to reject it as the fantasy of a dreamer, since an unenlightened spirit would not have been able to grasp it .... And so, at the time of My life on earth people still had a very low spiritual level too, because they were still completely under the control of My adversary, who had been the cause of the immense spiritual darkness ....

Consequently, there were only a few people whom I could instruct about such mysteries of creation, and even they had difficulty in understanding it because they were still burdened by the original sin and this meant that their power of perception was inadequate. They certainly questioned Me time and again but I could only refer them to the enlightenment of their spirit after My crucifixion, after the act of Salvation, which lifted the dense darkness from those who loved Me. Hence they gradually came to understand what I had taught them but they would not have been able to pass the knowledge on for the very reason that their fellow human beings, whose spirit was not yet awakened, would not have been able to comprehend it .... Since this knowledge .... i.e. the enlightened spirit .... was only the result of a right way of life, of the fulfilment of the commandments of love which I had taught people as a matter of priority, people first had to be motivated to fulfil My commandments of love ....

Furthermore, you should also know that I gave My disciples the task of writing everything down for future generations .... For even they were still unable to understand the most profound wisdom and therefore only adhered to My instruction to proclaim what I had said to the people who followed Me, who regarded Me as a prophet and expected miracles or the healing of their every affliction from Me, who drew comfort and strength from My Words, and whose faith in the one and only God I was able to strengthen because they were of good will .... But there were only a few who wanted to learn more, and they were more motivated by their intellect than their heart to ask about things which only I was able to answer .... They certainly accepted the explanations but they did not leave a deeper impression on them apart from a few whose hearts were very willing to love and who recognised Me as their God and Creator ....

The fact that they were initiated by Me and very happy about such knowledge need not be mentioned, but it always just remained pleasing spiritual knowledge for those followers whom I instructed Myself, however, it did not get passed on to their fellow human beings or their descendants, since they were unable to understand it and therefore such discussions were not mentioned by My disciples either. Besides, such knowledge about the very first beginning and ultimate goal of all creation was not necessary for people and indeed not always beneficial. Had they been informed of it as dogma it could have, to some extent, compelled people's will, who .... if they had faith .... would have considered their development until the human stage with a shudder and would have felt unfree or unable to muster love for a God Whose plan would have been totally incomprehensible to them .... But where it was possible for Me to transmit divine revelations to earth this knowledge was given to people as well ....

And the proximity of the end explains why clear information about this is always given, because people cannot be reminded strongly enough of their responsibility now, for the act of a new banishment is at stake, which only takes place at the end of a period of Salvation and is extremely significant for all ascending souls .... Prior to this, souls who had failed to reach maturity on earth still had the opportunity in the kingdom of the beyond to reach full maturity .... But at the end of a period of Salvation this opportunity no longer exists, then the most appalling event occurs whereby the souls will be disintegrated into individual particles and be banished into hard matter again .... What would now be more reasonable than Me informing you humans about the fate that awaits you if you fail?

You are also able to pass your test of earthly life without any knowledge if you lived with love .... But when love has grown cold, so that failure is inevitable and the souls' fate is sealed with a new banishment, then I will use any means beforehand in order to disturb humanity. Then I will also make sure that people receive the information about the great plan of creation .... even though the success is nothing more than that people will listen with incredulity to such information and far more will reject than accept it. But I also know the will of individual people, and therefore I also know who will not reject this knowledge and who will draw the consequences from it .... and truly, they will receive it from Me, just as I have always guided those into truth, into profound spiritual knowledge, who desired it in their hearts and through a life of love were also receptive to it .... For you should also recognise a God of love, wisdom and might in every happening that you experience, and you should trust Me and always call upon My help, because the hardship will still be considerable before the end, yet anyone who perseveres will be blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

What is prayer in spirit and in truth? ....

B.D. 8466 from April 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

This is your actual task, that you enlighten those who are mistaken, that you give truthful answers to those who ask questions and that you thus bring light into the darkness .... For humanity walks along in darkness, their thinking is misguided and therefore they do not recognize the right path which leads to Me .... to the final perfection. Truth alone can bring about this perfection, but never error or lies .... And if you, who want to serve Me, want to give clarification you must first receive it from Me yourselves, because only I can convey truthful knowledge to you .... And therefore you should come to Me with all questions which move you, so that I will answer you and thus train you to become teachers who will now work beneficially amongst their fellow human beings .... When you pray to Me it is only important that you intimately unite with Me, that you don't call upon a distant God like a being Who is inaccessible to you, Who certainly has great power and therefore you hope for help from Him .... from Whom, however, you consider yourselves far away but would like to make use of His power because you are in need .... Such a call gives Me no pleasure .... But if you see your Father in Me, Who lovingly cares for all His children .... if you now converse with your Father in all humility, if you trustingly present your adversity to Me and thus have entered into an intimate bond with Me through your trust, then this is a prayer which I hear because it is a living call from the child to the Father .... Such a prayer has nothing veiled, nothing secret, it is also nothing formal, but something deeply felt in the heart .... Hence it is a true prayer where the child's heart exposes everything before the Father, where it spreads itself out before Him and confesses its weakness and helplessness and is therefore also valued by Me as such, for it demonstrates profound humility and love for Me and I can now pour out the cornucopia of My grace in abundance. Then you will pray in spirit and in truth, and then you can also safely hope for fulfilment, for as soon as you are devoted to Me with love you will only address such requests to Me whose fulfilment will not harm your soul, because your love for Me enlightens your spirit and your thoughts are already far more turned towards the spiritual kingdom than towards the world and its illusory goods .... But now consider the nature of the prayers which are mostly uttered by people. Consider that a true prayer in spirit and in truth requires a 'withdrawal into the quiet chamber', by which I only want to be understood that at the moment of prayer the human being must mentally withdraw into the chamber of his heart. And no matter how short the prayer is, if it is only a call to Me in adversity .... But this call has to come from the heart, and then a prayer truly needs no learned words or a certain form .... for I understand the babbling of a child and don't want to hear any high-sounding words which have already been born again by the intellect or which are taken over by other people .... This is why a mass prayer can only have a beneficial effect if everyone prays silently in his heart, even if everyone has the same request, for as soon as masses say the same prayer aloud they have to use a specific form, and then it will not be possible to have a confidential dialogue with Me which alone guarantees the fulfilment of the request. You humans can achieve a lot through right prayer but for the most part you don't pray right .... As soon as you believe in a God your heart shall impel you to unite with this God in thought, and then you will speak to Him like a child speaks to its father, and then you will pray correctly, you will pray in spirit and in truth, whereas formal and general prayers usually lack the intimate, confidential bond with Me, which, however, is entirely human, because external impressions always have an effect and therefore the withdrawal into silence is required. But you cannot expect any particular blessing for the souls from loudly spoken formal prayers, from general prayer actions, except for those people who are able to completely close themselves inwardly and pray in their heart .... who don't listen to what their fellow human beings say aloud .... I only want to explain all this to you so that you will understand why so many prayers remain unanswered and why I require of you a prayer in spirit and 'in truth' .... Only the core is ever valid before Me, not the outer shell, and I see into a person's heart and cannot be deceived by lip prayers or daily habits which are performed soullessly. However, if a person calls loudly to Me in his heart's distress, then such a call is also proof that it is not just a form but deeply felt internally, and this is how it is also valued by Me, Who always endeavours to help in order to prove the Father's love to My children .... because I also want to win your love. And therefore you should always give account to yourselves when you pray whether you first establish a child's heartfelt relationship with the Father or whether you are satisfied with a habit, with a form, with prayers which cannot reach My ear. For prayer to Me is also an immense gift of grace, because you can thus establish the bond with Me at any time and thereby also provide the evidence of having passed the test of will, which is the purpose and goal of your earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Where do the temptations go out? ....

B.D. 8467 from April 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Much is offered to you because My love for you is boundless, and do you believe that I will leave a request unfulfilled which is for the benefit of the soul? But the soul will derive the greatest advantage if I instruct it in truth, for then it will learn to recognize and love Me, and then its goal is also guaranteed, that it will unite with Me through love .... You humans shall still experience much through My teachings, you shall penetrate ever deeper into an area which can only be made accessible to you spiritually, and therefore I will reveal Myself to you time and again, through My spirit I will impart knowledge to you which shall make you happy and help you achieve perfection. And it is important that you know how you are made up and why you are made up the way you are as a human being on earth. You have to pass your last test of will on this earth, it is a matter of accomplishing the reshaping to your original being, which means as much as that you change everything negative, which still clings to you, into the positive and become the perfect beings again, which you were in the beginning. Your imperfection consists in the fact that your free will, which was able to develop in all directions, turned around, that it strived for the opposite of what corresponded to My will, that is, it was lawful order. It stepped out of the law of eternal order, it misused its will and thus turned its nature into the opposite .... But now, through the endlessly long process of return, it has again become able to make a decision of its will again .... which it could not do before in the state of bound will .... This process has already been explained to you in detail .... But now, at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being, the being is still far from perfection because it has many negative things in itself which it first has to overcome in earthly life .... For the being is still entirely under the power of the one who caused its fall into the abyss .... And since the beings once voluntarily followed him to the abyss, he also still has a right to the souls .... But I also have a right, because all My creatures came forth from My strength .... Now the soul itself has to make the decision to which lord it wants to submit itself, and both I and My adversary fight for its will during earthly life .... Thus My adversary also has the right to influence the human being's will, and therefore he also does everything in order to win him over .... Since the human being .... the embodied once fallen creature .... has much negativity in him, i.e. characteristics and urges which mark his affiliation to My adversary, the human being must now wage a battle against these characteristics and urges .... He must overcome himself, reject everything negative and change his nature again by adopting divine qualities .... by finding a just measure for all instincts which are naturally inherent in him as a human being, so that he can test himself and wage a battle against himself, i.e. against the thoughts, actions and senses of the human being which have been brought into disorder by the adversary .... and which, as a result of the former fall, have completely perverted the nature, i.e. violate the law of eternal order .... The battle for the human being's will between Me and My adversary constantly takes place during earthly life, and the adversary will use his arts of seduction at all times, he will always encourage the human being to act contrary to law, thus to violate My order of eternity .... And time and again the human being will have to muster the will himself to resist these temptations but will always receive the strength to do so if only he asks Me for it .... The temptations always originate from My adversary, whereas I only want to be called upon to protect the human being from falling. Whatever it may be .... in which way the human being is tempted .... it is always the work of My adversary. Such temptation never emanates from Me, but I Am always willing to help you humans to resist temptation. It is a matter of you humans detaching yourselves from My adversary who fights for you by repeatedly trying to tie you down and bring you down .... I will never lead you into such temptations in the same way but seek to deliver you from them .... But I cannot dispute My adversary's right to fight for you who have become his kin in free will .... And likewise, I did not place these wrong urges in you, so that they could pull you down by natural law .... but your free will must set the limits itself, you must find the just measure, then you will never sin .... My adversary, however, will always try to induce you to transgress the just measure .... thus to turn everything good into the opposite, to abuse all natural law instincts within you and thereby drive you to sin .... He will never cease to tempt you until the end of your life, but you can overcome him with My grace and My strength .... However, the fact that I allow all these temptations does not mean that I Myself "lead you into temptation" .... but I lead you out of temptation and deliver you from all evil .... if you ask Me for it .... Nothing negative can be claimed by Me, I Myself cannot have put anything negative into a human being either, but I can only ever create perfection, which, however, the being itself can turn into the opposite in free will through the influence of My adversary .... But in earthly life you should test yourselves as to whether you are willing to fight against everything ungodly in you, and I will help you to do so in every way .... For I want you to reach perfection, but I Myself will not increase your spiritual adversity by adding to your possibilities of defeat .... For I love you and want to make you blissfully happy forever ....

Amen

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Only Jesus can strengthen the will ....

B.D. 8468 from April 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The fact that I died for you humans on the cross was an act of grace of such profound significance that it cannot be held up to you often enough, so that you will also make use of the grace which the man Jesus acquired for you humans through this death. For as soon as you disregard Jesus Christ's act of salvation there will be no redemption for you, and you will remain bound in the power of the one who is and will remain your enemy, who never wants your beatitude but will only plunge you into ruin since he lacks all love. You yourselves are also devoid of all love due to your past apostasy from Me, for you rejected My illumination of love .... And as long as you are still in the power of the adversary who caused your apostasy from Me you will never be able to receive My strength of love either, for this requires your own voluntary willingness to let yourselves be illuminated, and you will never be able to muster this will, for your will is extremely weakened. Through My death on the cross I acquired for you the blessings of a strengthened will, thus it will no longer be impossible for you to release yourselves from the adversary's power if you seriously want to do so and turn to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ to release you, to redeem you from sin and death. Apart from Him there is no-one who could help you in your adversity, for Jesus is your redeemer, He is your God and Father, it is He to Whom you owe your existence, for Jesus and I .... your father from eternity .... are one. I Myself offered the act of salvation for you humans in the form of the man Jesus, so that the act of atonement visibly took place for you humans and you can now also consciously carry your guilt of sin to the cross, for you can only be redeemed from your original guilt if you want this yourselves .... when you realise that you have sinned against Me yourselves and you now ask Me Myself in Jesus to forgive your guilt .... What was impossible for you before My crucifixion, that you were able to muster the strength to fight the enemy of your souls, became possible for you after My crucifixion, because then you had an abundance of grace at your disposal which you only needed to use by turning to Jesus of your own free will and asking Him that He may also have died for you .... And truly, your guilt will be redeemed for the sake of Jesus' blood. Yet you can never be released from your past guilt if you pass by Jesus Christ, then you will irrevocably continue to carry your burden which presses you to the ground, and you will remain a slave to My adversary, you will continue to live in darkness and weakness, you will be wretched beings who walk the earth without any spiritual success, whom My adversary does not release and who alone cannot muster the strength to detach themselves from him .... If only you humans could grasp the significance of Jesus and His mission on earth, and if only you could muster the will to turn to Him for help in your adversity, for only if you acknowledge Him as the Son of God, in Whom I Myself became human and Who died on the cross for you and your sins .... will He strengthen your will, and then you will also have the strength to detach yourselves from the enemy of your souls. But because you don't know about the correlations, about the cause of your existence as a human being, about your actual relationship with Me, your God and Creator, you don't seriously think about what Jesus' earthly life and His suffering mission was based on, and you don't consciously make use of the blessings which, however, are at your unlimited disposal if only you want to accept and make use of them .... Just as once Lucifer .... the first-fallen angel spirit .... plunged you into the abyss, so now Jesus, the Son of God, will help you up out of this abyss again .... but you were not forced to fall then, and so you are not forced to return now either .... Your free will has to prompt you to turn to Jesus, and then you will truly feel His strength and power, then you will be released from My adversary and become full of light and strength again yourselves, because the divine redeemer will give you light and strength as soon as you acknowledge Him and thus Me Myself in Him .... He redeemed the great original sin of all fallen spiritual beings and has now opened the door for them again into My kingdom, which they would not have been able to enter in their state burdened by the original sin .... He paved the way for all beings to return home to their Father's house. Yet no being is forced to take this path, instead, he (the human being) has to follow Jesus voluntarily, he has to want to be redeemed through Jesus' sacrificial death on the cross and therefore also voluntarily renounce My adversary .... And what he cannot achieve on his own he will be able to do with the help of the divine redeemer, Who has paid the ransom for all souls, so that the adversary must release every soul which wants to be released from him .... And in order for it to want to do so, the man Jesus died the most bitter death on the cross, He offered Himself as a sacrifice and bought all souls free with His blood .... This work of mercy is so immeasurably significant and yet many people pass it by and do not avail themselves of the most delicious thing that can be offered to them on this earth .... They persist in sin and refuse to acknowledge Jesus, and thus they do not acknowledge Me Myself either, Who died for you in Jesus on the cross in order to redeem you ....

Amen

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Resurrection of Jesus ....

B.D. 8469 from April 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Death has been overcome, and so you humans will also rise after the death of the body, and your soul will live forever. For I have given you the evidence that I rose from death on the third day because I overcame the one who brought death into the world. I Myself have promised you eternal life if only you believe in Me, for without redemption through Jesus Christ, in Whom I Myself died on the cross, your soul cannot awaken from the state of death .... For so long My adversary still has control over you, who does not want to let the soul come to life .... And even if you humans doubt that I truly rose from the grave you can still attain life if only you abide by the teaching I gave you on earth .... if you live in love, for then you will awaken from the night of the grave, then the light of day will shine for you, then your soul will also have attained eternal life. But I had previously informed people that I would rise from the dead on the third day, and My promise was fulfilled, and numerous people witnessed that the grave was empty, that nothing had remained in it .... I only wanted to provide you humans with the evidence that you can also spiritualise your body if you follow Me, that there need no longer be any death for your body either when all its substances have spiritualised themselves and joined the soul, and that you can then truly enter the kingdom of the beyond alive, as My ascension has also proven to you. The fact that after a long time you are no longer able to believe what happened at the time of My life on earth and when this life on earth ended for Me is due to the state of unkindness in which humanity now finds itself .... But anyone who lives in love also knows of his own accord that everything happened as it was conveyed to you, for he is told by his spirit which introduces him to the truth .... And nothing will be able to dissuade a person who has been taught from within from believing in Jesus' suffering and death, in His resurrection and ascension. And this person will have no fear of bodily death, for he knows that he cannot perish but will only now return to his true home where he will live for eternity .... I have overcome death, for without My act of salvation you humans would have remained in the state of death forever, because you would have remained eternally distant from Me and thus My love and vitality would not be able to shine through you .... But I gave My life in order to purchase life for you in return, so that you need never fear death again but will enter eternal life when your soul leaves the earthly body .... Yes, you too can take your body with you into the kingdom of light and bliss if you spiritualise it in earthly life, if you dissolve all dross from the soul through love, if you can also determine the body to completely hand itself over to Me and to live in My following .... Soul and body can rise from the dead, as I have proven to you, yet you will only rarely succeed in this total spiritualisation in earthly life .... But that it is possible is why I died on the cross and abolished all horrors of death for all who acknowledge Me as the Son of God and redeemer of the world, in Whom I Myself descended to earth to suffer and die for the whole of humanity .... And this act of salvation has found its conclusion with the resurrection, which was intended to be the evidence of the truth of My teaching for all people, for I predicted My resurrection on the third day. The fact that there is no longer any concrete evidence for it has to be in order not to curtail people's freedom of faith and will, but they can create the evidence for themselves at any time if they live according to My teaching, thereby awakening their spirit and now receive teachings through this spirit which concern that act of salvation until the end, until the resurrection on the third day. Human beings will not be able to provide you with proofs, but the spirit within you .... which is of divine proportion .... can introduce you to the truth, and then you will be able to understand and believe everything which otherwise seems unacceptable to you. But as soon as you can believe in My resurrection you will also know that your life does not end with the death of your body but that your soul will be resurrected to a life which will last forever ....

Amen

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Clarification about intercession ....

B.D. 8470 from April 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The real purpose of your earthly existence has been presented to you so often already .... that it is just a matter of your relationship with Me, which you once voluntarily severed because you did not want to acknowledge Me .... For you could not see Me, and therefore you accepted the one whom you could see as your lord and creator: My first created spirit of light, Lucifer .... During your present existence you need only pursue one goal: to restore the relationship with Me and thereby acknowledge Me as your God and Creator again, from Whose love you once came forth .... No other being can establish this relationship for you, it can only be done by you and requires your will, which is and will remain free, even if you delay your decision for the time being. You cannot avoid taking it if one day you are to reach the goal of becoming blessed, as you were in the beginning .... And this final union can only be brought about by love, thus you have to be willing to live with love, nevertheless, you will never be forced to do so .... But due to the original sin your will is very weak and therefore needs strengthening .... And this strengthening of will is the great blessing which the human being Jesus has acquired for you through His act of Salvation .... Consequently, if you are able to give yourselves to Him and ask Him to strengthen your will, you shall certainly arrive at your objective .... However, your will can never be decisively influenced by the kingdom of light, only your fellow human beings are able to render kind-hearted intercession for you, if you yourselves are too weak to walk the path to the cross .... Then the love of a fellow human being can pray for you, and I will truly listen to such a prayer by giving strength to the person for whom it was requested by love. For love is strength, and if you consciously give it to a spiritually troubled human being it will affect him as strength, unless he then takes the path to the cross himself or acts with love himself and becomes enlightened .... Loving intercession for other people is at all times an aid to save erring souls, which should not be underestimated ....

But it is a completely misguided idea to ask beings of light for intercession .... Consider that these beings are utterly permeated by love which is, in fact, intended for all wretched beings .... Consider that no being would be exempt from their willingness to help and that no unredeemed being could exist if the beings of light were not constrained by divine laws which they cannot infringe against. These beings, however, know about a person's last goal on earth .... they know, that the acknowledgment of their God and Creator can only take place in free will, and that this acknowledgment is the passed test of will, which is the purpose of a person's life on earth .... They know that the bond with Me has to be re-established, which every being has to strive for and accomplish for himself in all freedom and without any coercion .... Yet the light beings' love is so profound that it would truly suffice to instantly transform every being, precisely because it is strength that never fails to have its desired effect .... Thus this love has to be limited by Me, i.e., even the beings of light have to be subject to laws which they, however, respect because they are completely merged with My will, and therefore also know what helps the human being to achieve the last goal, the union with Me .... However, the beings of light can use mental influence and motivate other people to intercede, and this certainly will not fail to have an effect. I want people to take the direct path to Me and not try to reach the goal in a round-about way which is unreachable that way .... and you would understand that if you knew about the highly developed degree of love of all beings of light .... If you approach these beings for intercession .... what are they to request of Me on your behalf? .... That I should act in opposition to My law of order and release people from the conditions which facilitate a return to Me, a change of their nature? Anyone who genuinely appeals to the beings of light for help will also be led into the right way of thinking by them, and then he will do whatever corresponds to My will, since the beings of light are inspired by the same will as Mine and therefore merely try to influence you accordingly. But then you will also reach your goal on earth with certainty, for they only ever endeavour to guide you to Me, to remind you of Jesus' act of Salvation .... They will show you the path you are supposed to walk, but they cannot walk it for you ....

And now consider that a prayer to Me already signifies the bond with Me, which is the purpose and goal of earthly life .... that you, .... if you pray to the beings of light for intercession .... thus bypass a direct relationship with Me .... And what outcome do you expect from the 'intercession' these beings should request of Me? Time and again I tell you that you can certainly ask the beings of light for help if you have already proven your will to Me .... and they will help you, because they are only the administrators of My will and therein experience their beatification .... But they will never be able to establish your bond with Me on your behalf through intercession, because they are always connected with Me and will want you to also establish this bond with Me voluntarily, since this is your true purpose of earthly life .... As long as you still appeal to the beings of light for 'intercession' your thoughts are not yet guided by these beings of light, but My adversary attempts to influence you such that you will only lengthen the path to Me, because he wants to prevent your final return to Me .... Intercession can only be made by people for each other or for still immature souls in the kingdom of the beyond. Then the requesting person's degree of love affects the person prayed for as strength, and because then I will, for the sake of unselfish love, give strength to those who need it and who are lovingly remembered by others .... But the concept of 'intercession' does not apply to the kingdom of light. The thoughts of people who rely on intercession are misguided and only prolong their return to Me, which is My adversary's sole intention through this misguided teaching ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Attainment of sonship with God requires detachment from the world ....

B.D. 8471 from April 18th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You can achieve everything if only you muster the serious will, for then you will also be able to receive unmeasured strength to carry out what you want .... Yet precisely your will is weak and the world still holds you too captive to be willing to surrender everything .... But if you want to attain childship to God while still on earth, this requires a complete overcoming of the world .... You must have completely detached yourselves from matter, which, however, does not mean that you should withdraw into the desert as a hermit .... You can also stand in the midst of the world and yet have completely overcome matter, for to deal with it does not mean to desire it. For the earthly fulfilment of duty need not be an obstacle to the soul's ascent if it is a service to fellow human beings and if this service is not carried out solely for the sake of earthly gain, that is, if the human being's activity is motivated by the acquisition of material goods. Even a person's possessions are no obstacle to complete spiritualisation if they are used again for serving, unselfish neighbourly love .... But if self-love is satisfied first, then the path to spiritualisation is still very long, then the striving for the highest goal is not yet serious and thus the will is too weak, which also results in a lack of strength .... It is therefore up to you humans yourselves whether you still reach the goal in a short time .... You can have a whole life at your disposal and not get any further .... But you can also complete yourselves in a very short time if this is your serious endeavour, because then you will truly not lack strength. And as soon as you are given knowledge which also assures you an abundance of blessings you can now also consciously strive for perfection, which, however, always requires you to detach yourselves from the world. The extent to which you are willing to do so is also determined by your ability, for the serious will assures you the supply of strength. You humans, however, still expect too much from your life, you still harbour various desires and are not willing to relinquish them .... Nor do you trust Me unreservedly as yet, otherwise you would not doubt that I will also guide you through earthly life, that you need not suffer hardship .... if I recognize that your soul's salvation is of utmost importance to you and you distance yourselves from earthly desires .... For it is I alone Who can give to you but also take away .... Who also provides for you most abundantly if you are willing to make a sacrifice to Me .... For you will truly not come to any harm, for what the body voluntarily relinquishes the soul gains a thousandfold .... And if you consider that you have to give up all earthly goods when your soul relies on your body .... that you cannot take anything over but only your spiritual gain, then you will also realise the worthlessness of earthly goods and try to free yourselves from them for the sake of spiritual advantage. But I cannot force you to renounce, I can only help you by taking away what still hinders you or by placing so many obstacles in your way that you voluntarily give up what is not helpful for your soul's salvation. And you must seriously try to establish this difference between 'fulfilment of duty' and 'your own desire for the world's goods', and if you feel completely free of the latter then you can truly also reach the final goal on this earth, to attain childship to God, for the course of your life will then also be shaped according to the seriousness of your will and striving, always offering you the highest opportunities to reach the highest goals .... But you will not lack strength because then you will enter into My will and your return to Me will be assured ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mission to vineyard workers: to spread light ....

B.D. 8472 from April 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

What you have to do if you want to serve Me is to stand up for the spiritual knowledge you constantly receive from Me. This is why I convey it to earth, so that people are enlightened, so that they are informed of the truth and made aware of error, so that they detach themselves from it, because truth alone is the path which leads to Me, to eternal life. Hence you need not fear at all that you will be left without protection, that I will leave you defenceless to My adversary's attacks, but as soon as you are active for Me I Myself will walk by your side and avert every danger from you. For I need you, I did not choose you to be labourers in My vineyard for nothing .... I know how necessary the supply of pure truth is for humanity, and therefore everything will also happen on My part so that you can fearlessly carry out your work .... And you can be certain that I will determine all your paths, that I will direct everything in such a way as to benefit people's spiritual development .... I also know the hearts of those I can still address who are open to My word, which is offered to them in purest form through you, who have offered yourselves to Me in free will .... The effects of error and lies are so appalling that I truly use all means to lead people out of their error .... But My adversary likewise fights against the truth with cunning and treachery .... And you must courageously take up this battle by openly representing the truth, by proclaiming what you yourselves may receive through My grace and thus inform your fellow human beings of it. Do not fear the adversary and his accomplices, for they will not be able to contradict the pure truth, for this testifies for itself .... However, you must reckon with the fact that My adversary will still launch fierce attacks against you, yet My presence will always protect you and My messengers of light will likewise protect you, so that you will be able to speak freely and unhindered and the strength of your speeches alone will reveal the origin .... For you don't need to think about what you should say, for I Myself will put the right words into your mouth .... There is not much time left and therefore much work still has to be done, which mainly consists of spreading the truth. Therefore you must also speak wherever the opportunity presents itself, and you should always know that I Myself will guide people into your path whom you should inform of your vineyard work .... And depending on the willingness of their hearts to love they will listen to you or reject you, yet always with their own responsibility, for it is an overwhelming grace when I take care of the individual person and want to pave the way for him to Me, back into his Father's house .... I alone am the way, the truth and the life .... Only through Me can you attain the pure truth and only through the truth can you acquire eternal life .... But on the path of error and lies you go directly towards the enemy of your souls .... Then you will never take the right path, and you can never attain salvation as long as you still move in error .... You must not walk your earthly path so indifferently that it is irrelevant to you whether you move in truth or in wrong thinking .... You must recognize the consequences which you must strive for or which you must fear, depending on whether you accept spiritual knowledge which originated from Me or from My adversary .... Be aware of your responsibility, for I have given you the intellect so that you can also take a purely intellectual stance on every spiritual good .... And if you are of good will and believe in a God Who is love, wisdom and might, then you will also appeal to Him for help if you consider yourselves incapable of an examination .... And I will help you and truly guide your thoughts correctly, for this is My greatest concern that you humans live in truth, and thus you need only seriously desire the truth and it will irrevocably be given to you, for I convey it directly to earth, because there is great spiritual hardship amongst people and because only the pure truth can remedy this hardship and then you will only be able to fulfil your purpose of earthly life if you live in truth. The truth originates from Me, but every error has My adversary as its source, who only ever wants to keep you humans in spiritual darkness so as not to lose you, because the truth exposes him and clearly shows you the path which leads to Me and to eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bids in coercion are not God’s will

B.D. 8473 from April 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Also this is not My will, that the people are handicapped in their free decision, that they are given commandments, after which they are allowed to move only in the limits of what again people only have determined .... Free will is the decisive factor in human life, for it alone gets done the maturing of the soul, but it also can fail, because it is completely free .... If now the freedom of this will is cut, then people get guilty in doing it .... But the man himself has the gift, to be able to use his mind, and he could make himself free from this fetter of the coercion of will .... But most times he does not find the courage in the face of the human orders. But I ask the question: Why do you just now follow this order so eagerly, while otherwise you easily break the commandments .... It is much required from you humanely, and you don’t consider it .... why are you obedient, when it is required from you to believe everything unconditionally, what is offered to you? Why don’t you obtain yourselves a clear light, before you accept teachings as truth? For upon which indifference do you break the commandments, which I Myself have given to you, how do you behave without passion to the commandment of neighbourly love? But you follow the commandments eagerly adopted by people .... And how much light would you receive, if you fulfilled the commandments of love .... All veils would fall from your eyes too, which covered the truth until now. And you would ask one thing: Who gives you the guarantee, that you have been presented pure truth? And even the slightest doubt means, that you open yourselves to the light, that you desire truth, and then also this desire can be fulfilled. To put the people in a kind of compulsory state is a great offence against Me, Who I have given free will to all My creatures, for which they must also justify themselves one day. And this is especially significant, because it has to do with the upward development of the soul, that presupposes free will .... The spiritual maturation can only promote that, what is done in free will .... And you prevent this development of soul by putting your neighbours in a compulsory state through commandments, so that a free decision is made impossible for them .... Indeed everyone could break free of this tutelage, if he is only doing for truth in best earnest .... But he likes shifting his own responsibility and does, what people demand from him, but not that, what I demand: that they live in love .... But always a life in love contributes to the clarity of mind, and then the person will also know, that I never could be the author of such commandments, that might cut man from his spiritual freedom. You shall not accept anything, before you may have thought about it, and you only shall ask for My help always, so that your thinking is right .... And believe it, you will have joy with the thoughts, that rise in you after a heartfelt prayer to Me, for it is My will, that you walk in truth, and therefore I will put you also the right feeling for truth in the heart, and you will be able to break away from all error slightly, as soon as you will accept Me Myself as the right teacher, if you come first to Me, to receive enlightenment from Me. This doesn’t have to be an obvious process of literal interpretation, because I have many ways to bring the truth to you, and that you also recognize this as truth, I direct your thoughts, and you believe then, that it is your own thought, but you are also fully convinced, that it is right .... And know, that the fellow man has no right to blank out your own thinking, as he commands you indubitably to accept, what he teaches you .... I didn’t give this right to any man, to curtail the freedom of the will, but the man himself is to decide, what he wants to accept and reject .... Because once he will have to answer for that, because it is about his spiritual maturation. But if he puts the fulfilling of commandments of love before anything else, so his maturation is also guaranteed, then he will come to the truth by himself more and more, and he has not got to give up so much of error, when he enters the spiritual kingdom .... For his light is strong and breaks through the darkness, which means any error for a soul .... Love alone is necessary to mature and to stand in truth .... But who doesn’t have love, will hardly get out of darkness, because he is not helped by the alleged means of grace, to which the man relies too easily, who is not in the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Knowledge is given according to the soul's maturity ....

B.D. 8474 from April 21st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The knowledge you humans require for the maturing of your souls will always be made accessible to you. For you live in the last days before the end and are in utmost danger of going astray again if you don't receive information about what kind of responsibility you have for yourselves, i.e. for the immortal part in you, for your soul. You humans carelessly live from day to day during these last days because you only take notice of what is useful for your body, which will perish, but not for the immortal part in you .... You are also indifferent towards all spiritual instructions, be they from ecclesiastical organisations or from those who aspire spiritually and who are therefore in contact with the spiritual kingdom, which is not of this world .... You don't believe them and are therefore not receptive for divine revelations when they are conveyed to you through people who work as labourers in the vineyard of the Lord. Yet in your stubborn psychological state you urgently need help, you need a truthful explanation regarding yourselves, the meaning and purpose of your existence and your actual task on earth .... This is so essential for you because you don't have much time left until the end. And you are truly richly endowed by God, for everything you need for your salvation of soul will be conveyed to you, providing you do not close yourselves to God's grace when it so evidently flows to you. However, such spiritual knowledge should not remain worldly information which you, in turn, only utilise again in a worldly sense .... It should be the one and only nourishment for your soul, so that it can mature fully and reach its goal in earthly life .... to join God forever, since eternal life in beatitude depends on it .... And you should always pray for correctly realising what benefits your soul, and truly, such prayer will be granted to you .... For as soon as you consider your spiritual welfare imperative, you will also receive support in every way so that, with increasing maturity, you will turn away from the world and ignore its demands. And you can rest assured that a serious spiritual aspirant will also attain clear thinking, because the spirit in him is able to express itself as soon as he lives according to God's will, of which every person is informed .... For every person will have the opportunity to hear the Word of God, irrespective of whether he hears it directly through His messengers or in the traditional way in churches .... He will be instructed of the commandments of love and if he lives up to them his thinking will become clear, his knowledge will increase, since he may also receive direct revelations through his heart in the form of thoughts which will be conveyed to him from the world of light .... And these beings of light .... because they are merely the implementers of divine will .... also know the spiritual state of the people in their care, and thus they will also know what a person will need for his soul's salvation, and that is what he will receive .... For the soul will be offered what it desires ....

However, the intellect's desire for knowledge is not part of the soul's nourishment but will only ever benefit the intellect, which will then make earthly use of it, thus it does not signify any particular gain for the soul .... This is why you should be content with the spiritual information you are given and not ask for knowledge you have not yet received, which therefore remains purely intellectual knowledge as long as you are not so spiritualised that your spirit can delve into it, so that nothing will remain unknown to you because you yourselves, that is, your spirit, can penetrate everything and inform you of it, for then such knowledge will no longer pose a danger to your souls .... Just live a life of love, then you will instantly be placed into brightest radiance when you enter the kingdom of the beyond and no more unsolved questions will exist for you. But above all, try to attain maturity of soul yourselves, which allows the divine spirit to take effect in you .... Only then will you have reached the degree of perfection when you will receive clarification about everything .... Yet this degree of maturity is prerequisite first before the knowledge about the most profound secrets of creation can be disclosed to you and also be utilised by you in the right manner .... But as long as you lack this psychological maturity one can only speak of intellectual curiosity and not of a desire for spiritual knowledge which reveals your God and Creator's nature to you and which lets your love flare up for Him .... Anyone who seriously strives spiritually can find his own explanation, because his train of thought is guided by knowledgeable forces, and these thoughts will become increasingly clearer the more he enters into God's will and entirely subordinates Himself to His will ....Then he need only appeal to Him for clarification and he will receive it, if it is conducive for his perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God wants no compulsion .... The truth sets you free ....

B.D. 8475 from April 22nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The will towards God is at the same time the will to detach oneself from God's adversary .... But the will towards God will also always mean the will towards truth, for the human being who is completely wrongly taught can only free himself from the adversary when he walks in truth .... The truth alone sets you free .... through the truth the adversary's nature will be revealed as well as his shameful work and activity, furthermore, through the truth the human being will also set himself free from all error, and he will realise that error is intended to keep the human being in bondage of thought and will .... that it chains people to decrees and commandments which, again, only originated from God's adversary and which are therefore intended to keep the human being bound, to make him completely unfree and to prevent him from ever finding the truth .... But the truth sets you free .... for anyone who lives in truth no longer recognizes the adversary as his lord, he has recognized him and detests him, he consciously turns to the One Who is the Eternal Truth .... Thus an ecclesiastical organisation based on error can never permanently bind a person to itself who has found the truth .... And thus as long as the human being is bound to this organisation by commandments or laws it cannot possibly represent the pure truth, because truth does not tolerate coercion and because coercion has only ever been imposed on people by My adversary, since God Himself created every being in fullest freedom of will .... Hence, as long as people are required to perform earthly or spiritual actions or tasks under the threat of punishment, there is obviously coercion, because the human being shall then be burdened with the feeling of having sinned if he does not comply with those requirements .... The human being should have complete spiritual freedom, under no circumstances should he be subjected to spiritual coercion .... He should only ever be taught in love that God's commandments must be fulfilled .... the commandments of love for God and love for one's neighbour .... This alone is the task of those who want to help people to the well-being of their souls, who want to be God's servants and thus have to render this service to Him, to educate people to love .... But love must also be exercised freely, no services may be demanded under compulsion which are devoid of love, which are only done again in order to comply with human requirements but which do not result in the slightest progress for the soul. Now it is a false objection if it is said that humanity needs laws because without them it would go through earthly life completely indifferent and its state would be completely disenchanted .... You humans, who consider such things to be good, only seemingly maintain a certain order which appears externally, yet the souls are raped because they are deprived of all free determination, because people have to act what they should do of their own free will and this is therefore entirely worthless for their maturing. Moreover, they are deprived of their sense of responsibility if they strictly adhere to what they are offered by individuals who feel called to lead the masses .... With only a little thought you must realise that such commandments, which signify a compulsion of will for the human being .... because in the case of non-fulfilment they are called sin .... can only have come from the adversary of God .... For precisely in the stage as a human being on this earth free will alone determines his spiritual progress, and every spiritual coercion is satanic activity .... And if you know all this it will also be easy for you to completely detach yourselves from spiritual knowledge which obviously reveals the work of God's adversary .... For the truth sets you free .... Memorise that you are no longer subject to the adversary's fetters if you live in truth, which only comes forth from God and which you can only receive and understand if you have already intimately united yourselves with your God and Father, so that you have made a free decision of will and the adversary has lost all right to you. Then you will also no longer fear anything that has been threatened to you by those who are still connected to the adversary, otherwise they would also recognize and strive for the pure truth and try to completely detach themselves from error .... Know that God Himself is love and that He will never impose those punishments on a human being which are threatened to you if you do not submit to the teachings and commandments which were given by human beings under the influence of the adversary in order to keep people in bondage .... The truth alone sets you free, and without hesitation you will release yourselves from those fetters if you are in possession of the truth which God gives to everyone who earnestly desires it, and which alone is the light through whose shine the adversary and his activity is unmasked .... And anyone who has the truth is now also a divine creature again, and he truly no longer needs to fear his adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love and dedication needed for vineyard work ....

B.D. 8476 from April 23rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You are all called to redeeming cooperation on earth, yet you must fulfil prerequisites so that you will be chosen to serve Me and can be instructed by Me as to what you should do .... You must first be filled with love for your fellow human being whom you want to help out of spiritual adversity .... For if you cultivate love within yourselves you will also recognize the degree of spiritual hardship in which people live .... And then you will also be willing to help .... You also have to be in close contact with Me which, however, is already guaranteed by the love within you or I would not be able to assign you your task. And you must firmly believe that all people have a task to fulfil and, in realisation of this, also instruct your fellow human beings .... And there are not many people who have recognized the meaning and purpose of their earthly life and would also like to lead their fellow human beings to the same realisation, because love has grown cold, because every person only thinks of himself, thus he still has a strong selfish love which he should overcome during his earthly existence. This is why I keep recruiting co-workers on earth, for this work can only be done by people, because I cannot influence people supersensibly due to their free will test .... But I know every individual person's heart, I know his state of maturity, his spiritual condition, his will and his love, and truly, I choose the right servants for My vineyard .... And thus they can work for Me to the greatest blessing if only they are willing to serve Me in all freedom of will and in love, for then I will take over the guidance and the human being need not fear to undertake anything which contradicts My will .... I only want full devotion to Me from those who are willing to serve Me, then I can choose them, for full devotion to Me guarantees that the human being is full of love and willing to help, and then he can also work beneficially amongst his fellow human beings .... If people would only concern themselves with the fulfilment of the commandments of love, then the great spiritual hardship would not be .... There would be no such spiritual low that would cause the dissolution of the work of creation on earth ..... Yet My commandments of love are only little respected, self-love predominates, everyone is his own neighbour, and people stifle the divine spark within themselves, the spark of love which I placed in every person's heart, and they remain enslaved by My adversary from whose power they should liberate themselves in earthly life. And these people can only ever be helped by a fellow human being who recognizes the spiritual adversity and wants to remedy it. And this person will also always find My support, because I don't want to let any soul go astray and the salvation of just one soul is a great gain for Me .... because it is eternally released from My adversary's control. And therefore I bless every person who serves Me with utmost unselfishness, who only cares about his fellow human being's salvation and whom I therefore endow with strength and light as My co-worker, which he shall pass on again to those who dwell powerlessly in darkness, who need help to find their way out of deepest spiritual hardship .... And I instil the right thoughts into all those who want to serve Me and also guide them to the people on whom redemptive work is to be done .... However, it is by no means a spiritual coercion which I exert on you but I direct your thoughts which you voluntarily move within yourselves again .... and driven by the love within you .... now also carry out what is My will, because My will also fulfils a loving heart .... Therefore the first thing is love, and no person can ever be a faithful servant and diligent co-worker to Me who does not have love ...., by which alone you can recognize God's true servants .... For even such people call themselves 'servants of God' who are completely without love, and these will never be able to achieve spiritual success, for their speeches are dead even if they are based on My word, but they lack life because their spirit itself is not alive, which only love can awaken to life. Time and again love is placed in the foreground by Me, and anyone who has love cannot go astray, for he is united with Me through love and has fulfilled his actual purpose of earthly life, and therefore it is also your most urgent task to stimulate your fellow human beings into a life of love, and then you will also be successfully active in My vineyard and do redemptive work according to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

There is no coincidence .... Nothing happens arbitrarily ....

B.D. 8477 from April 24th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Believe Me, there is no coincidence, instead everything is divine providence and every human being’s course of life proceeds in accordance with divine will .... For whatever does not correspond to My will nevertheless has My permission so that you may derive spiritual benefit from it if you make the right use of everything .... However, you are not at the mercy of a blind power, every experience during the course of your life has its reason and serves a purpose .... But how you use it is up to yourselves, because what matters in earthly life is the test of your will. And in order to evaluate every happening properly you should always request My support, and truly, you will think and act in the right way, because I will not guide you the wrong way if you entrust yourselves to Me voluntarily .... And thus everything confronting you is determined by Me or permitted for the purpose of your perfection ....

When you are in constant contact with Me through works of love, sincere prayer or in thoughts which relate to Me, you can also be certain that you will not think and act in opposition to My will, because then I will bless your every action and your souls will mature .... Hence you should view whatever confronts you every day as My direct action on you, because I direct all threads, I start relationships, I bring those together who shall serve Me and seize every opportunity to guide you humans into truth, who sincerely desire it .... This is most important in the last days, because passing the test of volition, which will determine your future fate, entirely depends on the truth. Sparks of light will flash on earth and tear the dark night apart, yet only few people will ever strive for them, the majority will be content with the night and flee the light .... But there will also be deceptive lights causing confusion as their light is short lived and plunges people into even deeper darkness than before .... But where there is desire for light the darkness will lift and people will find their way into the light of day ....

You, who ask for it, shall all become enlightened, and need only ever take notice of where the light is coming from .... If its radiance is bright it will make you feel good, you will be able to penetrate the darkness and be happy with the light which shines for you .... Deceptive lights, however, will confuse you, you will not be able to find complete understanding and therefore feel uneasy, if you are interested in the pure truth .... if you genuinely just want the pure truth .... But I know My Own, and thus I can speak to them, and they will recognise the Father’s voice, and as soon as I can speak to them Myself they will be saved for time and eternity .... And thus it is only important that you humans do not walk any path alone without first praying for My guidance. Because this prayer guarantees My protection and My help when you are still too weak and inexperienced to differentiate between true and deceptive light by yourselves. But I will place the right thoughts in your heart and then you will always live in truth, because you are seeking it ....

I can prepare vessels for Myself anywhere, which fulfil all conditions and thus allow the ‘working of My spirit’ within them .... And anyone with an awakened spirit also knows whether and when I speak Myself, because My sheep know My voice .... And when I Am able to send revelations to earth I will also take care of their distribution .... But My adversary will do the same by also trying to communicate with people who are gullible and facilitate his actions, and he will also try to spread error and find people to help him .... Nevertheless, the truth will shine like a brightly radiating light, whereas the adversary will only be able to ignite deceptive lights which will merely increase but not disperse the darkness .... But people’s free will has to be upheld, and this free will must sincerely want the truth and request it from Me Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

How do you recognize the truth from above? ....

B.D. 8478 from April 25th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I truly want to bring light to you and therefore also uncover all errors, and you can believe that you will recognize every error if you remain intimately united with Me and only ever desire to know the truth. Then you will also possess the right faculty of judgement, for My word from above guarantees you this, because you should work for Me and on My behalf. Thus I can only send disciples into the world with the mission to proclaim Me and My gospel who possess purest spiritual knowledge themselves, who have received it from Me and who are also able to differentiate between spirits, who are able to separate truth from error and only have the sole will to serve the pure truth. And even if people's maturity of soul differs so that, depending on their maturity, a light can be conveyed to them from Me which shines brighter or weaker .... yet it will never deviate from the truth if I Myself am the source of spiritual knowledge which comes to people unusually. And even if a piece of knowledge is not so extensive it must still be the truth and allow it to be recognized .... But every contradiction must be clearly pointed out as error. People will always err because their intellect is still too active, which My adversary can influence and which he also does because he is an enemy of truth .... Yet precisely for this reason I guide the pure truth down to earth, and you need not fear that the adversary has the upper hand if you seriously want to stand in the truth .... Then it will also be given to you. But you must not forget that the adversary has great power at his disposal in the end and that he truly makes use of it because people themselves grant him this power .... And the battle will be a fierce one which will be waged between light and darkness, and where only one light emerges he is also already prepared to extinguish or dull it by interspersing it with error and time and again finding people whom he can mentally induce to make changes to spiritual knowledge which was originally conveyed to earth by Me. Yet people who only desire the truth will always reject of their own accord that which does not correspond to the truth. Yet forcibly I neither influence My adversary nor the people belonging to him, because I respect the will of the latter but, on the other hand, the sincere will to stand in truth will always protect a person from accepting erroneous spiritual material .... Yet because it is the time of the end, time and again a new source will be opened to you where you can draw purest water of life, and from this you will also be able to easily test whether you are inwardly healthy or whether you feel no effect of strength at all. I will not leave people without help who are inwardly connected to Me and trustingly turn to Me for the supply of truth .... And I enlighten their thinking, I give them the right faculty of judgment, and thus you humans need never ever fear to fall prey to error. And I always give you the touchstone, the act of salvation of Jesus Christ, which will solely be the content of My direct revelations, even if these do not yet convey wisdom to you in all depth if the soul's maturity does not allow it .... Yet if I convey My word to you at all I will always emphasise the act of salvation, because you must have found redemption through Jesus Christ on earth if you want to freely enter the kingdom of the beyond .... This is enough for you to know if you want to check whether divine revelations are conveyed to you or whether the adversary has intervened in order to confuse you, for as soon as you are not given sufficient information about Jesus and His act of salvation he is the one who wants to prevent your redemption, which you can only find through Jesus Christ. And I will always convey this knowledge to you through My spirit about the significance and spiritual reason for the act of salvation, only then will you become enlightened, and only then will you know if and when you are being addressed by Me Myself, and you will no longer be able to fall prey to error .... Therefore examine everything and keep the best, for as soon as you are stimulated into loving activity good spiritual forces are also at work .... because through a life of love you will also be able to recognize error and it can no longer be dangerous for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Touchstone of divine revelations: Jesus' act of Salvation ....

B.D. 8479 from April 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

How far have people distanced themselves from the truth, it is so difficult to introduce them to it because they are still awash with wrong thoughts and unable to let go of them. They accepted everything and made it their spiritual possession which they can hardly get away from. And precisely this wrong thinking, the adherence to error, is the immense spiritual adversity people find themselves up against. No matter how often I correct misguided teachings again, no matter how often I convey the purest truth to Earth, it does not gain acceptance because people's wrong thoughts repeatedly oppose it, because there is no will for the pure truth and everything is deemed to be true which merely seems to be a message from the spiritual kingdom. In addition, especially Jesus' act of Salvation cannot be properly grasped by humanity as yet; they don't know its profound significance and reason and thus concepts developed in due course which no longer correspond to truth but which are not abandoned either .... Time and again I say that the reception of pure truth requires entirely empty vessels which need not be purged from wrong ideas first, but that the pure truth must enter such a vessel entirely unimpeded .... Only then will it be possible to provide a correct explanation, and only then can one speak of the 'transmission of truth through the spirit'. However, for as long as Jesus' act of Salvation is still argued about, as long as there is not complete clarity about the fact that Jesus' soul came to Earth in order to accomplish a work of redemption, a unique act of mercy on behalf of the sins the human race had committed .... as long as people don't know the magnitude of the original sin they are burdened with and that they actually take the path across earth because of it .... they will not fully understand the fact that One has redeemed this immense guilt of sin through His death on the cross .... that they can therefore release themselves from their guilt if they acknowledge Him as the divine Saviour in Whom I manifested Myself as a human being, and the person must take the path to Him of his own free will and appeal to Him for forgiveness .... This free will must be present, otherwise he cannot become redeemed .... Thus, every human being can find forgiveness if only he wants it himself .... And what does 'forgiveness of guilt' mean? It means that it will be completely deleted, that it was paid for by the One Who took the guilt upon Himself .... that the human being will then be completely free and all effects of the offence will be removed, because Jesus, the man, had accepted the effects upon Himself through His immense suffering and the most bitter death on the cross .... Every suffering a human being was able to endure was accepted by Jesus, the man, of His own free will and He truly atoned for the guilt, the atonement He rendered was sufficient for Me in order to wipe out the immense original sin which led to My living creations' fall, as well as to forgive the sins which were committed by the human being in earthly life on account of his state which was burdened by the original sin ....

I Am indeed a God of righteousness and demand restitution for all guilt, for I cannot let any being enter My kingdom of light and bliss until it has been redeemed .... This is why a being's wretched state can last for an infinitely long time depending on its will to accept the blessings of Jesus' act of Salvation .... It will truly have to suffer accordingly, either in the kingdom of the beyond or through a renewed banishment in matter for another infinite time .... However, since Jesus, the man, has accomplished the act of Salvation, every soul which turns to Him, acknowledges Him and avails itself of the blessings of the act of Salvation, will also be redeemed .... And that means that its guilt will have been deleted, that it will be completely free from its guilt and able to enter the kingdom of light .... And if the soul has not found Him on Earth it will still be able to find Him in the realm of the beyond. Redemptive work is constantly carried out on the part of the world of light, the path to Him is pointed out to every soul, everything is done in order to help the wretched beings, and only totally hardened souls will descend ever lower and, at the end of a period of Salvation, can expect to be banished into matter again .... As long as you humans have not recognised the significance of Jesus and His act of Salvation for all spiritual beings which had become sinful, you will not get rid of your guilt either .... But do not believe that you may take the path across this earth for as long and as often as it takes you to come to this realisation .... Why do you cling to this hope that you will be able to catch up on what you neglected to do, or to atone your own sins? You will never be able to atone for the original sin yourselves, even if you lived a thousand lives on earth as a human being .... Because of this alone the pure truth needs to be conveyed to you, for each misguided thought is misleading and you allow it to be followed by constantly more wrong thoughts. You can believe that an enslaved soul also has to put up with enough agonies in the beyond in order to do penance for the sins it committed on earth. But you will never be able to cope with your original sin by yourselves, and as soon as you allow yourselves to be redeemed from it by Jesus Christ .... for which your free will must always impel you .... your earthly guilt will truly also be forgiven, because for this I Myself died on the cross. And believe that I do not convey opposing teachings to the people on Earth .... There is only one truth, and this truth I try to convey to people, and every person who sincerely desires the truth will also recognise it as such, for I will not leave anything unsubstantiated, I will provide you with understandable explanations and instruct you comprehensively so that you will also recognise error if it is offered to you. Time and again I highlight Jesus Christ's act of Salvation only to show you the path you need to take in order to reach your goal. And it is wrong to say that you cannot reach this goal during one life on earth, for Jesus Christ died on the cross precisely for the purpose of enabling you to return to Me in one period of Salvation ....

However, if you ignore the blessings of the act of Salvation, it may well be possible that you will have to take the infinitely long process through the creations again .... Yet I will keep denouncing the misguided teaching that you may return to Earth as often as you like, because it will lead to completely wrong thoughts and because only truth can lead you to the goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distortion of truth ....

B.D. 8480 from April 27th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I must constantly remind you of the fact that nothing will remain as pure as it originated from Me where it concerns the transfer of My Word from above, because people are still imperfect and therefore do not take sufficient care of that which is extremely precious. And precisely this impels Me time and again anew to convey the pure truth to earth as a countermeasure to My adversary's efforts of consistently undermining the pure truth. However, it is up to you humans which spiritual information you accept; you are not subject to any coercion, neither from My nor My adversary's side, only your own desire for truth is the decisive factor .... You don't realise what gift of grace you receive when I talk to you directly time and again and repeatedly try to cleanse what had become worthless through My adversary's influence because error is being endorsed, because the truth had become interspersed with inaccuracies and thereby rendered the spiritual nourishment impure and harmful to you. You will question how this could have happened. If all people who listen to or take notice of My Word were of the same spirit, it would indeed be impossible for incorrect spiritual knowledge to creep in .... But precisely people's different spiritual state allows for the fact that personal and wrong thoughts are included in the pure truth which emanates down to earth from above .... And it is not sufficiently scrutinised by those who then try to spread the spiritual knowledge .... I Myself cannot infringe upon people's free will, I can only emanate the pure truth to earth, which will also be recognised as such by those with the serious will to know the truth themselves and to only distribute pure truth .... And to these you shall listen, then you will hear Me Myself .... However, I cannot contradict Myself, I cannot teach one thing here and the opposite somewhere else, for the truth from Me forever remains unchangeable, thus your only responsibility is to scrutinise what you want to accept as truth .... I can only ever refer you to the criterion as to whether and what you are taught about Jesus Christ .... I can only ever enlighten you about the reason for your human existence, about the mission of Jesus, the man, and about His acknowledgement as Saviour of the world .... If you take notice of this explanation then the question of what you can acknowledge to be truth and what you may reject as error will answer itself. I don't demand blind faith, I present profound knowledge to you so that you can clearly recognise all correlations.

No unconditional acknowledgement is demanded of you; instead, you should think about it and, at the same time, appeal to Me for spiritual enlightenment and then, truly, everything will become clear and understandable to you, you will comprehend My plan of Salvation and then also know that it can only be like this and not anything else .... For as soon as I instruct you, it will truly take place such that you can understand it, that no gaps remain open for you which might cause you to intertwine misguided thoughts again. Then you will be able to conduct an examination at any time, for all divine revelations must have the same contents, they cannot contradict themselves or the divine source would be questionable. And what is credible to you then will always be determined by your desire for truth, for if you are incapable of completely liberating yourselves from error then you will not be suitable for receiving the pure truth .... In that case misguided teaching will be spread again, yet then you will not be able to claim that you received them from Me .... I only convey the pure truth to you .... The pure truth does not contradict itself, and this pure truth comes to you through the spirit. You are being taught by your indwelling spiritual spark which is in contact with the Father-Spirit of eternity and which knows everything and therefore will only give you pure truth .... You must carefully inspect the origin of all spiritual knowledge and the manner of its transmission. You should not accept and spread something without having scrutinised it if you are not entirely certain that the spiritual knowledge you endorse is absolutely pure. Test everything and keep what is good .... So always accept My divine doctrine of love, for this will never be misguided .... live accordingly, love Me and your neighbour as yourselves, and make an effort to live your life in keeping with My will, and truly, you will soon be spiritually awake and realise whether and when you are offered the truth, for this will make you happy, whereas misguided teachings are only gladly listened to by very immature people who can still be influenced by the adversary .... You humans must make the decision, and your desire for truth must predominate, then you will not run the risk of falling prey to error and you will recognise who is talking to you .... Yet the errors will become ever stronger the closer it is to the end, because My adversary knows that he won't have much time left ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The earnest will to the light is the prerequisite of truth ....

B.D. 8481 from April 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The spiritual confusion is great, but you yourselves must long to get out of it, you yourselves must ask for clear thinking and pure truth. But as long as you yourselves are not willing to do so, you remain in a lightless state because you dwell in the territory of My adversary, who is the lord of darkness and who seeks to extinguish or dim every light. But you will understand all this when you think about the fact that you have voluntarily stepped out of the light, that you have voluntarily given away the light of knowledge, because you turned away from Me, who am the light from eternity. It is therefore impossible that you are in the light and yet are distant from Me ..... You first have to re-establish the connection with Me, which then also surely results in the influx of light and you possess a bright, clear thinking and all connections are now also clear to you, but for which you cannot muster any understanding as long as you stay in dark areas ..... As humans you do not sense the lack of spiritual light, your thinking is filled with earthly material desires, and your striving is solely directed towards the increase of earthly goods ..... But in spirit you are blind, you do not know what you are on earth for and what your God and Creator demands of you, why He grants you the graces of earthly life as a human being ..... But you also don't demand to know anything about it, you are content with the fulfillment of bodily desires and live thoughtlessly into the day, and My opponent uses your spiritual blindness to deepen the darkness more and more. And once questioning thoughts really arise in you, he himself will answer them immediately by confusing your thinking more and more and you will not find out of the darkness of the night to the light of the day because your will is also too weak to seriously find a way out. That it is possible to come out of the darkness only presupposes your serious will to learn something about the meaning and purpose of the existence on earth as a human being ..... For I will strengthen an earnest will and never leave man without an answer, but the first step must irrevocably be taken by you humans yourselves .... For you left Me voluntarily and now also have to return to Me voluntarily. But that I will also help you, of that you can be sure, because I only wait for man to muster this serious will, because then he has already taken the first step, and truly, it will always be easier for him to now also go the way of return to Me. And then also a small light will shine in him, and he will have other thoughts as before, he will desire to know what lies at the basis of his emergence, he will ask again and again: "Why", and again and again an answer will come to him mentally, so that his thinking starts to order itself, and this thinking will now certainly also be directed by Me Myself .... You can truly believe that I pay attention to your innermost thoughts and that no thought is foreign to me, which you move within you, and I also truly use every opportunity to guide your thoughts to what is important for you .... to know about your purpose of life on earth and your task. Because obviously I can only address few people so that also the fellow men gain knowledge of My eternal plan of salvation ..... But I work in every man in such a way that I transfer light thoughts to him and only demand his willingness to accept them .... I cannot determine him to be willing, but he is permanently exposed to the influence of the light beings who look after him, and therefore it is possible for every man to find his way out of the darkness of the spirit, if only he does not openly resist the loving efforts of his spiritual attendants .... In the same way, however, My adversary also works, and he very often finds great willingness, although neither I nor he force the will to open or close itself to My or his streams .... You must be free if you want to become again what you were in the beginning, you must voluntarily let My stream of love flow in and reject the influence of My adversary .... And if you sincerely want it, then you will also receive power and be able to move in the light .... I can help you, but I will not force you, but just as also My opponent cannot force you and therefore the last decision lies with you men. But the light will touch you immensely beneficially if you let it flow into you, and then you will also increase in strength, which I give to every being that only does not reject it .... Escape the darkness and desire light, and you will experience a radiant morning and never ever fall back into darkness, because I Myself then illuminate the way for you, which leads upwards, towards the eternal light .....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Process of the Word-reception ....

B.D. 8482 from April 29th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You must not grow tired of standing up for the truth, time and again I say this to those who may receive the pure truth from Me, whom I Myself have chosen to serve Me as a vessel into which the outpouring of My spirit can flow .... These are characterised by a plain and simple way of life, by their genuine nature and humble attitude towards the greater than great gift of grace they receive .... For the pure truth cannot endure any unusual side effects .... the recipient of the truth will be just as clear and pure as the truth which originates from Me, even though he need not be a Saint in order to serve Me as a vessel. For only rarely will a person on earth attain the degree of perfection for which he could be called saintly .... But he will be able to show certain prerequisites which allow for My extraordinary working within and in aid of him .... The Word-reception will therefore always take place in a most natural way, without strange signs or happenings, and the person himself will always firmly have his feet on the ground, he will not demonstrate any kind of ecstasies or raptures .... He will simply hear My Word and write it down in order to preserve it for future generations. Anything which appears sober and clear to other people's eyes is also suitable to appeal to those who are still living in the midst of the world, and especially these shall be persuaded to turn their eyes to spiritual spheres. They gladly dismiss everything of a psychic nature but they must nevertheless form an opinion about that which is offered to them in this way .... because they will have to acknowledge an extraordinary power since the results stand up to firm scrutiny. And anyone who is seriously willing to examine will truly feel a great spiritual blessing, for he himself comes subsequently in possession of the most delectable that can be offered to him on earth: he comes into possession of the truth, which can only come forth from Me as the Eternal Truth .... And although this natural process only finds little credence despite its explanation, it does not exclude the fact that many people pay attention to spiritual transmissions which exhibit unusual side-effects, thus they look for and allow themselves to be deluded by a framework whose brilliance intends to obscure the poor quality of content .... However, only the content is important, and in order to convey the pure truth to earth, which is the most delectable content of a vessel, I chose the most insignificant vessels.

Nevertheless, one prerequisite has to be in place: a strong will, for they must defend the spiritual knowledge against My adversary's every onslaught and therefore they have to be so devoted to Me that they will constantly receive My strength as to be able to cope with their task. And since an ability of judgment is simultaneously conveyed to them with the truth they will always be capable of recognising misguided teachings and of confronting them with the pure truth .... And only like this is it possible to spread true spiritual knowledge on earth, which originated from Me directly .... The fact that My adversary tries to be equally active during the last days before the end means that he is also grooming vessels for himself by encouraging people to listen to spiritual influences sent to them from the psychic world and that he tries to gain these people by disguising himself as an angel of light, by making people feel secure in the belief that they are being addressed from the highest spheres. It would not be a danger for the souls of fellow human beings of good will as long as they are prepared to accept good advice .... Yet his only intention is to prevent people from handing themselves over to Jesus, Who alone can bring salvation for their souls .... He wants to stop people from releasing themselves from their immense guilt of sin, and no means is too evil for him to achieve his aim, hence he will also avail himself of My Words in order to mislead people and to be believed by them .... He will stop at nothing, and it requires immense love for Me and one's neighbour that his activity will remain without influence on a person .... And this requires My countermeasure again by prompting My bearers of light to step forward with the truth and to provide clarification wherever possible so that people will not fall prey to error, so that they will not get caught in his nets of lies .... so that they will not bypass Jesus Christ, Who alone is Saviour and Redeemer of humanity and Who has to be called upon for forgiveness of sin, so that earthly life is not lived in vain and the human being will still find redemption on earth .... Time and again the significance of the knowledge about Jesus and His act of Salvation has to be presented to you, and this can only be accomplish by the pure truth which is directly conveyed to earth by Me. It is, in fact, a light bearer's most important task to inform the human race of this and to do everything in his power to spread the truth .... And everything will be done by Me, too, in order to support your work for Me and My kingdom .... For humanity still lives in profound darkness and bright light shall be given to those who desire it, who long for Me and the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Purpose and meaning of the revelations .... Signs of Truth ....

B.D. 8483 from April 30th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You will be given spiritual knowledge which your soul needs to mature on this earth. And thus My gospel of love will be preached to you first and foremost, which you now also have to live out in order to feel the effect, because love is the first thing and no spiritual progress can be achieved without love. Only love will open up your understanding for the knowledge I want to impart to you so that you will recognize My nature and then also learn to love Me .... For you are completely darkened in spirit when you start earthly life as a human being, you first have to be slowly guided to the light, and the light has to be brought to you by light bearers who are inwardly enlightened and thus able to instruct you truthfully .... And I take care of your enlightenment because I want your earthly life to bring you the success for which your soul is embodied as a human being. I know best what knowledge you need on earth, and I also supply it to you. I also know how much error there is in the world and how this error has to be countered .... I know that My adversary also exerts his influence on you and therefore I offer you My help so that you can survive the battle against him .... And thus I also give you knowledge about him and his activity, I give you knowledge about the reason for your humanity and show you the right path you have to take in order to reach the final goal of re-establishing the union with Me which you once voluntarily severed .... You should know why you are on earth and then also adjust your life according to this knowledge .... This is the purpose and meaning of My everlasting revelations, for I alone can impart knowledge to you which entirely corresponds to the truth, because I am the beginning and the end .... and because you came forth from Me and shall return to Me again in order to remain with Me forever. And I say to you that you can abide by what I convey to you by way of revelation with all certainty, for it originates from the Eternal Truth and can only be purest truth. And if you raise the objection that the revelations do not correspond and that you cannot know which revelations are genuine, i.e. which originated from Me, I can only ever reply that you need only have the firm will to recognize the pure truth and that you should ask Me Myself with all your heart to let you recognize it .... And you will definitely gain the inner conviction that I Myself address you when you receive a revelation from Me, whereas you will remain inwardly untouched by spiritual knowledge which did not originate from Me .... It always depends on yourselves, on your degree of desire for truth, that you also have the right realisation, for anyone who only accepts spiritual knowledge indifferently will remain unimpressed by whatever is presented to him .... And he will also be unable to make a decision between truth and error. And time and again a person's degree of love will be decisive as to whether he is impressed by the truth, whether he feels touched by it .... For this reason My teaching of love is repeatedly emphasised first, and as soon as this is merely followed a person's thinking will already be enlightened to such an extent that he will be able to recognize what is truth and what is error .... And I also give a second recognition sign of pure truth: the presentation of Jesus Christ's act of salvation .... its justification and its effect .... If you humans are without knowledge about it, your earthly existence will not lead you to the goal, and therefore I give you a right clarification through My revelations. But if spiritual transmissions leave gaps so that people cannot grasp the depth of the divine act of mercy, then they are not 'divine' revelations .... For since I know that Jesus Christ is the only salvation for the once fallen spiritual being, that He is the only path which leads to the goal, to Me, I will give you a truthful clarification precisely about this in order to induce people to entrust themselves to Him, to appeal to Him for strengthening of will and for forgiveness of your guilt .... For this forgiveness opens the gate to the kingdom of light for you humans. And therefore you can always use the presentation (emphasis) of the act of salvation and its profound spiritual reasoning as a touchstone, and then you will also certainly recognize and accept a genuine revelation, whereas you will not allow yourselves to be impressed by wrong spiritual knowledge but reject it if My adversary tries to consider you in the same way, so that he will cause confusion amongst people. Not much time will pass anymore and then his activity will be put to an end .... But the time until then demands a serious battle from you which, however, you will pass with My help .... For your bond with Me alone secures you clear knowledge and My protection and support, which you can request at any time .... And never will such a prayer be in vain as soon as it is sent to Me in spirit and in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Activity of demonic powers disguised as angels of light ....

B.D. 8484 from May 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You shall be fighters for Me and My kingdom, and thus you will also have to stand up to My adversary's onslaught .... But you will not fight alone, you will have Me as your commander and truly, I will lead you to victory, for he will be unable to bring you down since you fight with My strength and as My messengers. My might is certainly superior, you just have to utterly and completely entrust yourselves to Me to come into full possession of strength when you need to resist him. Thus you need not be at all afraid, no matter what form his approach takes. He hides himself behind many disguises and will always try to scare My Own, but he will not succeed when I Am asked for protection.

But you should know that I do not speak with two tongues .... I will not give one person this and another person a different teaching and explanation, and thus two masters have to be at work where conflicting spiritual teachings occur .... But I know every person's heart, I know his attitude towards Me, His eternal God and Creator, and I therefore also take possession of the heart which completely entrusts itself to Me, and guide the person on all his journeys through life .... If you could see to what extent My adversary's kingdom has spread and with what weapons he fights in order to gain supreme control during the last days, it would no longer surprise you that so much wickedness reveals itself and that the dark world fights the pure truth in every possible way. I can only ever tell you to trust Me by completely handing yourselves over to Me and allowing Me to take care of you ....

And do not let satanic activities deter you .... For I will prove to you that My might is greater and will show him his limitations too when the time has come .... You should believe that there are also strong connections between the spiritual realm and earth and that the adversary is particularly busy due to disguising himself as the brightest being of light, which he is able to do because the state of each person's soul itself gives him the power for it. You don't know these demonic forces who will do anything during the last days in order to pull people into ruin .... But anyone who stays close to Me truly will not need to fear these forces .... even if they tried everything to worry the soul which is devoted to Me .... Many bad spirits are also embodied on earth during the last days who serve their master as messengers from hell and cause much spiritual harm .... They, too, are granted freedom, for they also could find salvation from an eternally long state of torment if they would accept salvation from Jesus Christ during their earthly life ....

These are demon-possessed souls whose time of embodiment as human beings has come, but who are still wholly satanically minded and do not stop their resistance, they are still totally subject to the adversary's influence and are fine accomplices to him. They believe to spread light but constantly try to extinguish it. They are in profound darkness and cannot escape from it .... and yet they have to travel their earthly path with freedom of will, which can just as well bring them salvation .... These demonic spirits will also try to mislead everyone who voluntarily belongs to Me .... But I Myself will always stand between them and you, for they don't like Me and take flight to avoid the light .... Therefore you need not fear them; nothing can harm you as long as you entrust yourselves to Me, and My increased flow of strength will enable you to fend off every onslaught. You may not be touched by them because I Myself will protect you from every harm and danger and because you work for Me and therefore can also always rely on My help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Doubts about end prophecies ....

B.D. 8485 from May 2nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

One redemption period has expired and a new one begins .... And whatever can still be done to save souls from the end, to spare them the path through the creations of the new earth, that will truly still be done, for all good forces in the spiritual kingdom and also on earth make it their business to help the souls to reach the goal before the end. But the fact that the end of this earth has come is irrevocable, after all, the day of the end has been fixed in My plan of salvation since eternity, and it will also be kept. But what such an end of a period of salvation means cannot be described to you in words, for it is a process which is incomprehensible to all of you humans .... that everything you now still see around you ceases to exist .... that an end has come for everything, be it living creations or other creations, and that therefore humanity will also fall to the lot which corresponds to the satanic state. All these references to the end find little credence because it is simply inconceivable to people and because they cannot look back on anything similar to consider it credible. Yet everything unwinds according to My eternal plan of salvation, for I foresaw from eternity the spiritual state people are in and that there is no other possibility left to promote the further development of everything spiritual. Everything has to progress upwards, and therefore new opportunities have to be created for the still bound spiritual to mature .... The act of transformation on earth is therefore an immense blessing for this spiritual substance, for it enters a new stage of its development when it is released from hardest matter and enters less hard deformations where it can mature more quickly than before .... But the souls of people who failed in earthly life are severely affected, for they experience a complete dissolution again and are banished anew into hard matter in order to start the course of ascent development again in endless agony and bondage. And in order to save what can still be saved before the end, everything is truly being done, and a work of redemption is underway, both in the spiritual kingdom as well as on earth, which could have great success if the human being himself did not determine the success through his will ..... He cannot be forced to believe in an end of this earth, yet the mere belief in it would cause him to change, and then he could truly still mature so far in the short time that he would be saved from a new banishment .... But people lack faith, and whether they are repeatedly reminded of the seriousness of the time, whether the purpose of existence is repeatedly explained to them .... The time set for this period is coming to an end, and a completely new earth will arise after the destruction of the old earth, which again offers countless possibilities to the spiritual, which has not yet reached its goal. For I hold fast to My plan of salvation because My resolutions are unchangeable. And therefore you humans are not able to prevent Me from doing so, you are not able to change My will when it concerns the very plan of salvation which I reveal to you humans because of the imminent end and let you see so that everything is understandable to you and you shall only ever learn to recognize My infinite love as the reason .... And this love would truly be small if I wanted to comply with your wishes and requests and depart from that plan, which, however, is not possible in eternity, that I would reject and change decisions once taken .... But I will hear all requests which you humans send in love for your fellow human beings for their salvation, and therefore the serious request goes out to you who believe and are not entirely without love: Remember all unbelievers and pray for them so that they may escape the dreadful fate of new banishment .... Take care of those whom you know are unable to believe and pray for them, that they may be enlightened in spirit, that bright thoughts may come to them which they will take up and that they may change their mind .... You should only give them a small impulse and wish that it will not remain unsuccessful, and your love for these wretched people will truly have an effect and bring about a change of heart in them. And this, too, is redemptive work which you can all do and which can still save souls from the end .... For I am truly a merciful God, and I value every kind thought which applies to such souls and help so that I can still reap a rich harvest before the end comes.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus' life before His teaching ministry ....

B.D. 8486 from May 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will always educate you in all truthfulness, as soon as you desire it .... And I will also always answer the questions that arise in you, because you only desire the answer for the sake of truth .... that is, you would like clarity where various opinions prevail .... If I give you the instruction to spread the truth, you shall also always receive an explanation, no matter what it is: The earthly path of Jesus, the man, can no longer be verified, only by spiritual means can you humans be informed as to how and where Jesus spent the years which preceded His actual work as a teacher .... Even so, it is certain that he lived a very simple life with His family and that He always remained reticent even within the circle of people who frequented His parent's house.

He kept away from all festivities, as well as larger gatherings; He always kept Himself to Himself and inwardly matured as a result of His exceptionally helpful attitude towards His needy fellow human beings .... For His heart was full of love and this love increased His wisdom, knowledge revealed itself to Him so that He clearly recognised everything .... even though in the beginning this inner light came to Him in a flash only to withdraw again for a while, and then He spoke and thought like everyone else again, yet in His knowledge He was far more advanced than His contemporaries. However, He refused to accept instructions from people ....

You humans may well believe that love is the best teacher and that someone .... who correctly develops his love .... will gain inner knowledge which can never be offered to him so comprehensively by another person .... You should know that Jesus' soul had come from the kingdom of light, that it had indeed forfeited the light during its life on earth but not the love within itself because, as a purest being of light it was illuminated by My eternal Fatherly love .... As a human being the light of love could not shine in abundance, because His fellowmen would have been unable to endure it, yet in Jesus the man it glowed on and revealed to Him all knowledge, on account of which He soon recognised humanity's immense hardship and His mission and consciously prepared Himself for this ....

But you also know that He already preached in the temple as a boy .... that He gave answers to the scribes which took them aback .... Thus it testifies to the fact that He already possessed knowledge as a boy which He was not taught by people but which was caused by the bright flame within Him .... His love grew ever stronger and thus His wisdom increased .... and the Pharisees and scribes already treated Him with hostility because He wouldn't allow Himself to be taught by them, instead He stayed away from every school ....

No records survived for future generations about the time between His sermon in the Temple and the beginning of His actual ministry, and therefore many different assumptions and descriptions are being advocated, as worked out by human intellect .... The reason why no records exist is because Jesus' life proceeded quietly in His parental house, because He seemed to have lost all divine abilities during this time, He stepped out of public view and led a very secluded life and, as a carpenter's son, also worked in His profession as such .... Nothing extraordinary happened to Him, for during these years Jesus had to mature as a 'human being' because He wanted to exemplify to people the way of life which leads to full maturity, to perfection ....

Throughout this time His life was quiet, He did not possess any remarkable abilities, in fact, He gave the impression of a simple-minded person, because He withdrew from all people and only ever gave short answers and even the usual worldly knowledge seemed unfamiliar to Him .... Most of all He avoided contact with those who belonged to the Temple and whose task it should have been to provide spiritual guidance to people .... And so, soon there was no-one in His environment .... not even His close relatives .... who were still convinced that the once so extraordinary child had a divine mission ....

This time of Jesus' life on earth had been especially grievous, for what was no longer externally visible was nevertheless deeply hidden within, it is just that Jesus had to deal with it Himself, He had to come to terms with everything as a human being, He had to fight as a man against all inner cravings and passions which besieged His body just like all other people .... He had to suffer and fight and mature through being of service .... For by virtue of His love, which emanates wisdom, He soon realised all correlations and He knew that He Himself first needed to attain the degree of maturity which would enable Him to accomplish His mission ....

And He covered this process of development in silence and solitude as a plain carpenter's son .... Who did not leave His hometown, Who often merely looked for solitude for the purpose of attaining inner maturity by withdrawing into remote regions, by climbing hills and frequently staying alone for days, only in contact with His God and Father and remaining in prayer for strength and fortitude for that which was ahead of Him, which He often saw before His eyes in great detail and which plunged Him into dreadful states of fear. During these times He turned to Me in search of help .... And I was with My Son, I gave Him strength and granted Him increasingly brighter realisation, so that He time and again offered Himself to complete the work which was intended to bring humanity salvation from sins and death ....

However, the notion that the man Jesus acquired more profound knowledge through association with philosophers and teachers in foreign countries is completely misguided .... Who else could possibly have taught Jesus better than I Myself .... But I Myself dwelled in Jesus, the human being, as a result of His boundless love .... It is an absolutely absurd idea that Jesus would have needed instructions from another person .... in order to then be able to undertake His teaching ministry on earth in His country of origin .... If you humans have proof that I Myself convey the truth to earth providing specific preconditions exist .... how much sooner was Jesus therefore able to be taught by Me directly, after all, His love and total devotion to Me surpassed all of you .... Only someone who has no idea as yet about the consequences of a life of love, can make such allegations that Jesus had acquired the knowledge in other countries in order to appear as a teacher, that He had to visit other people in order to study their doctrines ....

That which I evidently allow to happen to a simple earthly child: that I convey to it through the spirit the pure truth from above, you humans must truly grant the man Jesus as well, Who descended to earth in order to let Me Myself speak through Him to you, Who really did not need any teachers, instead, He accepted the most profound wisdom from Me directly and through these instructions became suitable to teach and to impart the pure truth to His fellow human beings .... And now you can also accept these very Words of Mine as purest truth, after all, it is My will that you should not live in error and that you shall receive an explanation where you yourselves are still lacking knowledge.

Most of all, it concerns the fact that you humans gain a clear impression as to Who Jesus essentially was and why He came into the world and grew up in the humblest and poorest circumstances .... For although He was as human as anyone else, He nevertheless proved to people that every person can develop the highest spiritual abilities in himself and that the knowledge He possessed and imparted to people came from within Himself .... but that He never had the need to be educated by others or to take notice of doctrines, since everything was, after all, known to Him, otherwise He would not have attained the highest perfection on earth which resulted in complete unity with Me, so that He became as One with Me .... in Whom I Myself became a human being in order to redeem you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

False Christs and prophets ....

B.D. 8487 from May 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Beware of false Christs and false prophets .... I warned you about those when I lived on earth because I knew of My adversary's activities, of his snares and unscrupulous machinations whereby he tries to pull you humans into ruin. He is using all means, and this especially during the last days in order to increase the darkness in which humanity languishes. There will be people everywhere who claim to be knowing and initiated into the secrets of creation, who demand people's recognition and faith in their spiritual experiences and who are but My adversary's tools, because they support and spread spiritual knowledge which completely contradicts the truth. False Christs and false prophets will appear in large numbers .... They will all wear the cloak of divine messengers, they will all claim to possess knowledge and to be in contact with the highest representatives .... They will pretend to be messengers of light and yet walk in profound darkness themselves, and therefore they will only ever spread darkness amongst their fellow human beings. They cannot emanate light because they don't possess light themselves, yet their mannerisms are so self-assured that people do not dare doubt the divine mission of those who, nevertheless, in reality work for My adversary. But only people who live in truth themselves will be able to recognise this and they, in turn, will be described by them to be false prophets .... And it will be difficult to convince oneself of the true prophets' divine mission, yet it is not impossible .... The fact that true prophets exist is proven by My warning against false prophets ....

However, you need only ever seriously desire not to fall prey to the latter and truly, you will also know whom to turn to. For My messengers will bring you a message which will touch your soul in a comforting and helpful way, which will affect you like a nourishing meal and refreshing drink, which you will continue to desire and thereby become noticeably strengthened for your earthly life's path. Whereas the alleged knowledge conveyed to you by wrong teachings cannot convince you of the truth and does not result in any illumination or stimulation of your soul .... It is and remains barren knowledge which you will find barely credible and of little use to you. It is more likely to cause you dread and fear because you are unable to detect a loving God therein, Who behaves like a Father with His child. False prophets will never be able to offer people pure truth, and the adversary's only intentions are to undermine the truth, to entangle people in error. His most eager endeavour consists of withholding from people the truth about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, about God's human manifestation in Jesus, or to confuse their thoughts such that they won't take the path to the cross and thereby their earthly path remains unsuccessful for their souls .... And no means is too evil for him to use, because Jesus defeated him through His crucifixion, and he is trying to regain the fruits of His victory again .... Souls who turn to Jesus are lost to him; consequently he will try to give an entirely wrong description of Jesus so that they do not see any reason why they should take the path to the cross. The truthful portrayal of the act of Salvation also has a redeeming effect, and this means that My adversary will lose his followers, what he tries to prevent by cunning and trickery. And you humans can truly and easily recognise every false prophet yourselves by the fact that he withholds the knowledge of the Salvation through Jesus Christ from you, and thus you are entitled to dismiss him as a 'false prophet' .... And especially during the last days you can notice increasingly more often that most diverse descriptions of spiritual subjects are given by those who present themselves as prophets of truth. Yet in one instance they all agree, that the salvation through Jesus Christ .... the sacrifice on the cross by the man Jesus to redeem the immense guilt of sin .... is doubtful, because the belief in this signifies a loss of followers for My adversary and he does not want to lose them ....

Jesus Christ has been argued about for centuries, because time and again false prophets arose who had already proven their affiliation to My adversary and were influenced by him to act against Jesus .... Although they were unable to completely dispute the earthly life of the man Jesus and thereby remove the knowledge of him entirely, the real purpose of His earthly existence .... His redeeming mission .... was repeatedly portrayed as a misguided teaching which removed people's hope of ever being released from their guilt of sin unless they themselves made

Amends .... unless they thus believed these false prophets. Yet no human being will ever be able to release himself from his immense guilt of sin without the help of Jesus Christ; no human being will ever succeed in perfecting himself by his own strength without Jesus Christ, because the original sin absolutely prevents this .... Hence 'self-redemption' is impossible, irrespective of how sincerely it is aspired to, because the human being's will is too weak and would fail time and again .... Regardless of how you are instructed .... if Jesus Christ is not portrayed as the Son of God and Saviour of the world, in Whom I embodied Myself, you are not taught the complete truth, and you will not become eternally free, since only truth will set you free. And I Myself transmit this truth to you, I Myself, your God and Creator of eternity, the greatest and most perfect Spirit in infinity .... I transmit the revelations to you directly and guide you into truth, because I want to give you the light of awareness again, which you once gave away voluntarily and which will be returned to you providing you willingly accept it, providing you let yourselves be taught by Me and surrender to Me with love, thus also fulfilling My will .... providing you change yourselves to love and accept your original nature again in which you were happy beyond description. Only One can promise all this to you, and only One can help you to achieve it, and this One is Jesus, Who is completely merged with Me, thus He and I are one .... God from eternity to eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Statement on mental and literal address ....

B.D. 8488 from May 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

How often have you already been informed of the fact that I speak to all children who desire to hear Me, and that their thoughts will therefore also move in truth if they only ever intimately unite with Me. And thus what they say in order to communicate with their fellow human beings will also be correct .... it will not go against My will, for an earthly child devoted to Me is now also guided by Me and therefore cannot move in wrong thoughts either. And then this will be expressed in constant admonitions to love, in the effort to also induce fellow human beings to live a life of love, and this will always correspond to My will. Therefore you need not take offence at such words either which only ever refer to love for Me and for the neighbour. The thought of this is not wrong, it is a mental spiritual good which originates from Me and therefore also has to be good, for an earthly child which completely hands itself over to Me will also be permeated by My love and will want to radiate this love to its fellow human beings again .... This must be recognized and acknowledged, and thus such a person cannot be portrayed as a false prophet as soon as it concerns the spreading of My divine teaching of love .... A mental influence on My part cannot be denied .... However, a word transmission on My part may not always be assumed, because such a transmission requires very special prerequisites. A word transmission would exclude all error, and once a person has fulfilled the conditions which enable a word transmission directly from Me, then the form of My address will also let Me Myself be recognized, for then a person's degree of education or knowledge will no longer be decisive, because My word radiates in all perfection, irrespective of a person's nature and circumstances .... Then a direct word reception from Me can no longer be denied, because the human being as such did not possess knowledge which is now offered to him in a simple but perfectly formed way. The thinking of an earthly child devoted to Me is certainly quite guided by Me .... but it will always express its thoughts in its own way of speaking, which, however, can also be a blessing for fellow human beings and is often more readily accepted than My word, which originates directly from Me. But believe it, where I express Myself in direct speech I also want to be recognized as the giver Who is supremely perfect and to Whom everything is possible ....

And therefore I speak in direct form through simple, plain earthly children who allow such direct address and have been chosen by Me as mediators between Me and people, for these have no special talent for the form and language I use when I reveal Myself. Their human abilities and knowledge are far surpassed by the nature and content of what I convey through them to earth .... For a perfect being shall be recognized as the outcome of what people shall accept and what is offered to them as a special gift of grace, so that the truth of these proclamations need not be doubted either .... For only pure truth is conveyed from Me to earth. I have to point this out so clearly because erroneous views can only slip in and have also set in (which has also happened) where a certain spiritual arrogance has revived the belief in high pre-embodiments .... precisely because only mental objections leave open the possibility that other thoughts will also creep in, because the human being is constantly exposed to temptations .... And the fact that the adversary is also interested in confusing people whose will is good and turned towards Me is only intended to remind you to be extremely cautious, to be deeply humble and to be ever more intimately attached to Me, Who alone can protect you against his attacks .... Yet I Myself am never the source of misguided teachings, and I have already explained many times that and why even the beings of light which have descended to earth know nothing of their pre-embodiment .... And time and again I will point out that you are misled in your thoughts to assume certain pre-embodiments, and from this you must also recognize that it cannot be a direct address on My part, otherwise I would contradict Myself, which eternally cannot be. You will receive the richest blessings if you dedicate yourselves to serving Me with love and encourage your fellow human beings to live a life of love, to pray for them with intercessory love so that the great spiritual hardship will be remedied .... I bless you who are therefore active for Me and My kingdom and always request My support for this .... Much blessing will accrue to you, for I value your will to serve Me .... yet the pure truth must also always be requested, and then no erroneous thoughts will be able to creep into you either .... You will enjoy My protection in every way, for I am pleased with every faithful servant who willingly carries out the work in the vineyard of the Lord ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Battles for souls .... Counterpole ....

B.D. 8489 from May 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

As long as My adversary serves Me as an antipole, his activity will also come to light openly, for he has the right to influence people's will because they once followed him voluntarily when he strayed from Me into the abyss .... So these creatures belong to him but they now have the right of free decision from Me in the stage as a human being .... The human being's will shall consciously turn towards Me or towards him. And therefore this will is also influenced from both sides .... from the side of light and from the side of darkness .... And this free decision will always mean a fight, for My adversary is driven by hatred .... He does not fight for the fallen one‘s possession out of love for him, but he is only driven by hatred towards Me and also towards everything created which he does not want to let attain bliss .... And in his hatred he uses the most despicable means, and therefore the human being's path through earthly life is not a state of bliss, peace and harmony but a constant battle against the adversary if the human being wants to become free from him and return to Me .... And this state can only improve if the human being makes an effort to live a life of love, for then he will already come into harmony with himself, he will establish contact with Me as the Eternal Love and he will become powerful, for love is strength .... And where love is, there the adversary's activity is restricted, for love is the only weapon he succumbs to .... He flees love, for love is divine, and it spreads light which he shuns .... And thus the human being himself is always decisive as to whether I or My adversary is victorious over the soul, for where love is there I am Myself .... Where love has grown cold My adversary has dominion, and these souls belong to him. It would truly be victory on My side if the battle only took place between the adversary and Me, yet the outcome is decided by the human being .... And that is why you humans bear such great responsibility for your earthly change. I Myself cannot render the adversary harmless because it is his right to fight over you, who are still in his possession as long as you do not voluntarily try to detach yourselves from him, but the strength to do so is certainly at your disposal. You just have to request it from Me in prayer or acquire the strength yourselves through loving activity. Love binds you together with Me and I Myself can then defend the adversary if he approaches you and wants to tempt you .... Your earthly life can truly remain without struggle if you let love flare up in you and thus serve with love, by which you safely detach yourselves from the enemy of your souls .... For every service of love brings you strength from Me which is easily able to push the adversary away. Then your earthly life will not be so difficult either, for anyone who serves with love will need to fight less, because the adversary will become weak in the face of love and his oppressions will become ever less .... And then, by working with love, you will also have expressed your devotion to Me, then you will have decided the battle yourselves and your soul will have voluntarily turned to Me, My adversary will have to give it up because I will not let My living creation, which voluntarily returned to Me, be snatched away from Me. This is why humanity can only experience a peaceful time when it makes it impossible for the adversary to work through a way of life which completely corresponds to My will: a way of life in love, which is also a way of life in divine order ..... And this will always be the case at the beginning of a redemption period when the earth is inhabited by people who have passed their earthly test of life, who resisted all My adversary's temptations and are in a paradisiacal state again .... whereas before, at the end of a redemption period, My adversary has overwhelming power which people themselves grant him through their loveless way of life .... And because everything is out of order as a result, because all upward development of the spiritual is prevented, an end has to come, divine order has to be restored, people have to be separated from each other, the earth has to be cleansed and arise anew in order to continue to serve as a training station for the spiritual being on its way of return to Me .... And love is the only way to still reach Me in this last time, to free oneself from the fetters of My adversary in order to be allowed to start a new life again in harmony and bliss on the new earth .... For where love is, there I Myself am also, and I truly also bring you peace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Overcoming the world ....

B.D. 8490 from May 7th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Anyone who loves the world still belongs to My adversary, for the earthly world is his kingdom where he rules and reigns. All desiring thoughts which apply to the world's goods are whispered into your ear by him, and therefore you will hardly accept the guidance of light beings' thoughts which try to direct you towards spiritual things and would like to induce you to turn away from this world's goods, to recognize them as transient and to strive for imperishable goods. But you have to go through this world in order to overcome matter, for you shall become free from it, you shall leave earth as spiritualised, for this is your goal. My help for you now consists of the fact that I repeatedly make you aware of the transience of earthly goods, that I often also take from you that to which your heart is particularly attached, not in order to inflict suffering on you as a result, but through such suffering you shall come to the right realisation: that everything passes away, that everything has no value for eternity .... Only when you learn to recognize the true value or unvalue of material goods will you detach your heart from them and strive for more valuable possessions which remain with you and which you can take over into the kingdom of the beyond. Yet you lack one thing and therefore only think purely earthly .... That is the belief in a continuation of life after the death of your body. Only your earthly body can die, precisely because it is matter, but what animates the body .... the soul .... cannot die, it can only leave your material shell, and then it can be poor or rich when it enters the kingdom of the beyond. And you yourselves prepare this lot for your soul during earthly life. Its purely earthly attitude puts the soul into an extremely miserable state which it will one day feel bitterly and ruefully remember the unused earthly time as soon as it has a small glimmer of realisation. But in earthly life you can also gather riches for the soul if you learn to overcome earthly matter and think of the soul spiritually, if you direct your thoughts into the spiritual kingdom, which is your true home. And believe it, you will easily and joyfully leave this earth when the hour of your departure has come; matter will not hold you back and you will gladly detach yourselves from everything that belongs to earth. And because a far more beautiful life then awaits you I am only ever concerned to make you overcomers of the earthly world and its goods, to help you recognize their worthlessness and to free you from things to which you chain your heart and which nevertheless can easily signify a danger for you, that you forget your spiritual striving over them, that you still pay the tribute to My adversary which he demands from you. Earthly life is short but the whole of eternity lies ahead of you, and you can easily forfeit a glorious life in eternity for the sake of this short earthly lifetime because you misjudge earthly goods, because you attach a value to them which they do not possess. And thus you have an explanation why fate sometimes hits you hard by taking what you love, be it people or earthly possessions, because I only want to direct your thoughts to spiritual things which will compensate you a thousand fold for earthly losses and for earthly suffering of all kinds. Everything is a blessing if it is able to detach your senses from worldly possessions, and I will truly reward you abundantly with spiritual possessions for every voluntary renunciation, and one day you will be very grateful to Me that I helped you to become free from material desires and cravings and that you were able to enter the spiritual kingdom unencumbered by such .... Everything that belongs to the world is still an obstacle on the path to Me, therefore you should overcome such obstacles and cast off all desire in order to be able to enter your true home freely and light-heartedly in order to be allowed to be eternally blissful there, as is your destiny ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Feeding souls with the right food ....

B.D. 8491 from May 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Your soul must constantly receive the bread of heaven, it must draw the living water from the spring if it wants to recover and mature, for it needs nourishing food and a revitalising drink .... And I am always ready to give it this nourishment if only you come to My table to take supper with Me, if only you always find yourselves where I offer you food and drink .... if you listen to Me as I speak to you. And My gifts will never be sparse but you may take in abundance what My fatherly love offers you .... For you must not let your soul go hungry and only think of your body, for it is transient but the soul is everlasting, and therefore its condition shall be improved as long as you live on earth. And when I Myself give you food and drink it means that I Myself speak to you, that you listen to My word which teaches you love .... And if you now follow My word so that you are not only hearers but doers, then your soul will revive, it will mature and reach perfection for the purpose of which it lives on earth as a human being. But how do you want to fulfil your earthly task if you only pay attention to what serves your body's well-being .... you only live in the world and completely neglect your spiritual task ....? Your soul will leave the body in the same state as it entered it, it will enter the kingdom of the beyond miserable and meagre, for it had to live in want during its earthly life and was therefore unable to mature. It was deprived of nourishment, it never came to My table to be fed and watered by Me, it passed by all gifts of grace without making use of them, and one day it will bitterly regret this .... Yet I cannot force you humans, I can only instruct you and ensure that you take notice of My word, that you hear My address one day, that the great gift of grace is offered to you one day, which you now only need to use .... Your pilgrimage is long and you will often sink down on the path without strength and long for proper refreshment and then you should also give it to your soul, and truly, you will continue your earthly path strengthened and time and again go to the spring in order to strengthen and refresh yourselves anew .... And once you have been My guests, whom I Myself was able to feed with My word, with the true bread of heaven, you will soon no longer enjoy any other food, for you will feel the benefit of food which your soul needs and never want to miss it. And then you will no longer need to worry that you will not be able to fulfil your earthly task. For you will be powerful and comply with My will, your soul will constantly join Me more and more, and in the heartfelt bond it will receive ever more strength, it will completely transform itself into love and become again what it was in the beginning: a divine being which, in full possession of light and strength and freedom, can work and create in My kingdom .... And therefore you humans should always abide by My word, you should desire to hear Me and open your ears and hearts so that I can give you what you need .... For My word is the right nourishment which comes from heaven, without which your soul can never recover, for it is still weak and imperfect at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being, and it shall mature and perfect itself during earthly life. And where I Myself now open up a spring from which the living water .... My word .... flows out, there the soul can and will also be able to refresh itself at any time. For this spring is still pure and clean, the water of life is not yet exposed to contamination, it flows brightly and clearly and has a revitalising effect on the soul which refreshes itself from it. And if you humans receive My word directly you need not fear any contamination either, you will receive knowledge from Me in utmost truth which signifies light for you, which breaks through the darkness in which you humans live like a ray as long as you don't let Me kindle such a light for you. Do not walk in the night but seek to reach the light of day .... Do not accept all kinds of food but let yourselves be fed and watered by Me Myself, and do not shy away from the path to the source if you want to be sure to receive unadulterated spiritual knowledge which is truth because it originates from Me Myself .... And truly, your earthly path will not be an idle one, you will strive towards the goal and also come ever closer to it, for I Myself call you to My table, I invite you as My guests to take supper with Me, and I will truly offer you the right food and the right drink, I will nourish your souls so that they need not starve ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

With God no thing is impossible ....

B.D. 8492 from May 10th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

As long as your faith is not yet rock solid I can only ever work on you within the framework of the natural, that is, I cannot let anything unusual happen which would now force you to believe .... And therefore I often hold back although everything is possible for Me and there is nothing I cannot remedy. The faith in you must be so strong that you will not let the slightest doubt arise in you, then even an unusual working on you will no longer harm you, you will only feel an ever deeper love for Me .... I can do anything, nothing is impossible for My might, and I also want to make you, My children, happy and grant your requests if only you present them to Me with complete trust and let go of all doubt in you about My love or My might. Yet there will always be a small doubt in your hearts unless you are so deeply united with Me through love that all doubt is eliminated .... But I also know what serves you, and therefore you should surrender to Me and My will, and truly, I will reward you for your devotion .... And you will praise and glorify Me and serve Me on earth already and one day in eternity. Everything you encounter during your earthly life has been planned from eternity, for I have also known about your spiritual development since eternity and constantly seek to increase and promote it. And I often have to use the strangest means, for it not only concerns your own soul but also that of your fellow human beings who surround you and always one person shall mature in the other .... And thus they, too, must not be forced into faith, instead, they, too, must first have matured to such an extent that they will also accept unusual experiences as a matter of course through the strength of their faith. And since faith grows in accordance with a person's activity of love, love is a prerequisite, and this has to be cultivated first if I am to be able to make an unusual appearance, but then nothing is impossible for Me .... Strong faith is necessary in the coming time, for only someone who has a deep spiritual bond with Me, which is the result of love, will also be able to endure the adversities of the coming time because he constantly draws strength from Me and is also convinced that I am always ready to help. And again I say to you: Through love you unite with Me and can therefore also withstand all adversity, you will be able to overcome every weakness and ward off every enemy, because I Myself always stand by your side and guide you through all hardships of life. If only you make an effort to shape your nature into love you need not fear anything, no matter what may come upon you, for then your faith will also increase in strength, and then you will be able to achieve and do everything because you possess the strength for it which love and faith earn you. You are only powerless as long as you have not yet reached your original being. But if you live a life of love then the reformation of your nature will take place and you will soon be full of strength, your faith in Me and My might will increase, and if you then address a request to Me you will also be fully convinced that I will grant it to you. For I want to show you My love in order to gain all your love, so that the unification can then also take place again, which results in a complete radiating of love, and then you will also have achieved the deification of your being, which is the purpose and goal of your earthly life as a human being. Every thought you turn to Me causes Me to send you a ray of love, and therefore you should often unite with Me in thought or prayer, and My strength will constantly flow into you and cause you to work with love again, and that also means constant unity with Me as the Eternal Love .... it also means constantly increasing faith which is unshakeable in the end and enables you to persevere until the end, to overcome all adversities of the coming time in order to then receive the reward and be able to be transferred to the new earth .... For then you will be able to experience even the most inconceivable things without danger to your soul, because then you will know that nothing is impossible for Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Completion is also possible in a short time ....

B.D. 8493 from May 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

And however you may be constituted .... you all still have the opportunity to perfect yourselves on this earth as long as you seriously strive for it. The firm will to fulfil your earthly task will also motivate you to pray heartily that I will grant you strength to do so, and truly, you will not address this request to Me in vain .... You will receive strength in great measure and My grace will pour out upon you and you will feel urged to work with love .... And then your transformation of being will begin and you will come ever closer to Me in order to unite with Me one day .... But this firm will must first be present, and it can be stimulated by all kinds of causes .... Strokes of fate can also lead you to think differently than before, you can be prompted by fellow human beings to think about the meaning and purpose of life, you can be driven by your fellow human beings' adversity to unselfish neighbourly love, and all this can rightly direct your will to come to Me and establish the bond with Me, and then you will already be seized by Me and receive all help to reach your goal. This is why you should not always regard difficult times as misfortune, for they can bring about a change in your thinking more quickly, and you can make spiritual progress in a short time, always in accordance with your will to love, which can be stimulated in times of adversity and now the change of your nature back to love can take place. And truly, you can achieve the same success in a short time which other people can achieve in a far longer time if they go through earthly life more indifferently, certainly making an effort to always live and think right and righteously but lacking the strength which an activity of love earns them. Their maturing process requires far more time, whereas such maturing can also come about in a very short time if the human being's will seriously strives for it. But it always has to be the drive from within, not the prospect of reward, because then the works of love can no longer be called unselfish. Yet every person who has the serious will to perfect himself will also have enough opportunities for love work .... And the bond with Me will thereby become ever more intimate, his soul will feel where it came from and that the spiritual kingdom is its true home, and it will consciously strive towards this kingdom, it will detach itself from the world, and with the turning away from the earthly world the desire for the spiritual kingdom will also become stronger, and all danger of being linked to the earthly world again will be over, it will have safely escaped the new banishment and therefore need no longer fear the end either .... For this reason all this shall also be held up to people time and again, through you, My servants, they shall gain knowledge about themselves and the meaning and purpose of their earthly existence. You can only impart the knowledge to them, for they have to muster the faith in it themselves .... But if they remain without any knowledge then only a life of love can put them into the state that they will be mentally taught by the beings of light, and then they will also travel their earthly path in accordance with My will, for love imparts the knowledge to them. However, since love has grown cold amongst people the knowledge has to be conveyed to them from outside, which can happen truthfully through you since you receive it directly from Me. And such true knowledge can also have the effect that the human being will mentally take a stand on it and thereby turn his will towards Me and seriously seek the bond with Me. And where there is only the slightest prospect that a person will still change, every possibility to achieve this change will also be exhausted .... and all of you who want to be of service to Me can contribute to this, because through you fellow human beings' thinking can be directed into the spiritual realm, which is necessary first, because no-one in the world can attain this realisation that he should strive towards the spiritual kingdom in order to fulfil the meaning and purpose of earthly life. As the human being now attunes himself to knowledge which is conveyed to them by you, he is free to .... But you should undauntedly do your work in My vineyard and I will support you in every way, for time is approaching its end and it shall still be well used for the salvation of erring souls which only see the world and therefore are also in danger of falling prey to this world, i.e. to matter. Yet the possibility of a soul's transformation still exists until the end, because I pursue it with My love until the end and it only needs to give up its resistance in order to be seized by Me, and then it will be saved for time and eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Gift of grace before the end .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 8494 from May 12th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will pour out an abundance of grace in the last days before the end, for people are in need of it; they require much support in order to still be able to cover the last stretch of their earthly path successfully. And many people will even have to be guided onto the right path first and they, too, will require help for this, for they are still on the path into the abyss and have to be called back and guided correctly. Every means used by Me before the end is a means of grace, for people themselves do nothing to prevent it, they travel their earthly path indifferently and therefore don't deserve any help, since they still rather resist than accept help. Yet I love all My living creations and don't want even one of them to go astray .... I don't want them to languish in a wretched state for an infinitely long time again .... And this is why I will temper justice with mercy .... I will leave no stone unturned to save them before the end. And I also know what will help every individual person; I know what is suitable to guide him onto the right path. And this is what I will use without, however, compelling the human being's will, for he has to make a free decision. But it will be made easy for him, for the means of grace will be brought to him so visibly that he will also be able to recognise them as such.

Time and again the human being's attention is pointed to the spiritual kingdom .... Time and again he is approached by death in some form or other, he experiences it in his surroundings by having to let go of people who are very dear to him, and he hears of various kinds of death. He will always be reminded of his own fleeting nature and can then reflect on thoughts about what comes after death .... His thoughts will be directed towards the spiritual kingdom, since they often also follow the deceased and thus give rise to such questions as: Where are they now? Have they completely ceased to be? Or is there a prospect of meeting again? .... And then time and again spirit guides, to whose protection people are entrusted, will intervene by trying to influence them and giving them an explanation .... They make it possible for such people to receive knowledge of My Word, which is directly transmitted to earth, or they let them come across books which will offer them clarification, they do everything to direct their thoughts to the kingdom which is their true home and which they will enter when they pass away from this world .... And the departed, too, exert an influence from the beyond by constantly entering their thoughts which, to a certain extent, will establish a connection from the spiritual to the physical world. My measure of grace is inexhaustible and everyone would be able to take advantage of it, if only they were willing to do so.

That is why I let My Word be heard, for whoever hears and accepts it will truly make use of the greatest gift of grace which certainly will also bring him the right result, which will help his soul to mature and let him reach his goal while he is still on earth, so that he will find Me and enter into union with Me, which then will also assure his perfection .... For it is important that the human being establishes his bond with Me before his soul leaves the body, before the hour of departure from this earth has come .... As soon as he has recognised and acknowledged Me he will not get lost, for then he will take the path to the cross, to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, he will recognise Me in Him and thus will also have taken the path to Me. And then he will have been saved from the adversary for good, for Jesus Christ will deliver him from his bondage; Jesus has taken his guilt upon Himself and opened for him the path to the Father .... Jesus and I are one .... To realise this is the guarantee of return for the once fallen spirits to Me, and for that reason I will always provide people with the information through My Word, that is why My Word is the greatest and most effective gift of grace which I can still offer humanity before the end, and blessed is he who accepts it, for he will truly not go astray anymore .... There is not much time left, and the battle for the souls is fiercely waged on part of the darkness .... But I, too, Am fighting for you, My living creations, and I will help you, so that you, who will settle this battle, will make the right decision, so that you will take the path to Jesus Christ, in Whom I became a human being Myself in order to redeem you .... Make use of this immensely merciful act of Redemption through Jesus Christ and, truly, you will be victorious and delivered from the one who wants to destroy you ....

Amen

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Explanation about re-incarnation .... Jesus and Salvation ....

B.D. 8495 from May 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

It is completely misguided to assume a return to earth in order to atone for the guilt of sin, although God's law of divine justice demands compensation for all guilt .... Yet there are truly many possibilities open to Me, so that one day all guilt will surely be redeemed and the being can be admitted into the kingdom of light and bliss again, which is closed to it in the state of guilt. The kingdom of the beyond, into which the soul enters after the death of its body, corresponds to its degree of maturity, hence it can either stay in utter darkness or in brightest light and as a result its fate will either be an agonising or a glorious one.

And both the torments as well as the splendours are indescribable and impossible to explain to you humans, and therefore the torments .... thus the fate of the unredeemed, sinful souls, can be dreadful and the soul consequently often suffers beyond imagination for its guilt or for the sake of its guilt, thus with its suffering it also makes

Amends for much of its guilt. And its state of suffering can last an infinitely long time if it is incorrigible, if it refuses to accept advice from the spiritual guides who want to help it out of its misery. For it cannot enter the kingdom of light until it has redeemed its guilt .... as far as it concerns the sins it has committed on earth ....

But since the original sin of its apostasy from God is far greater and this guilt can never be redeemed by the being itself, the human being on earth or his soul in the beyond irrevocably has to find Jesus Christ, for He alone is able to deliver it from this guilt for which He died on the cross .... Without Jesus Christ the soul will never be free from its guilt, even if it languishes for ages in the darkness of the beyond .... Thus it has to call upon Jesus for mercy, for forgiveness of its guilt, and time and again its spiritual helpers will try to persuade it to seek salvation in Him, Who sacrificed His life for this guilt.

And if the soul hands itself over to Him, then its original sin as well its guilt of sin committed on earth will be redeemed .... Then it will be free from all guilt and for the sake of Jesus' blood will be accepted in the kingdom of light and bliss .... If, however, the soul is so obstinate that it will not turn to Him despite all efforts by the beings of light trying to help, it will descend ever lower, its torments will be immeasurable, and if it still doesn't succeed in lifting itself up from hell .... which even then is still possible with the light beings' help .... it will have to take the path through the works of creation again in order to sooner or later reach its goal after all .... Yet this return to earth is not the soul's re-incarnation as you humans assume, and it is also all but desirable, because once again it is an infinitely long state of agony for the soul, having been dissolved into the tiniest of particles, until it reaches the stage of a human being again ....

You humans have to be told time and again that you will never be released from your guilt without Jesus Christ. This is why Jesus' act of Salvation is so significant, because He alone is the gate to the kingdom of light .... For even if your immense torment in the beyond makes

Amends for the guilt of sin which you committed on earth .... you will nevertheless be unable to enter the kingdom of light without redemption from your original sin by Jesus Christ .... And similarly, even a repeated life on earth would be of no use to you, because you would add new guilt and first have to find Jesus, Whom you can also find in the beyond .... hence you don't need to return to earth again ....

Time and again I draw your attention to this misguided teaching, because you thereby also devalue the act of Salvation, because by way of this misguided teaching you try to convince your fellow human beings that you are able to remove the guilt by yourselves, and thus you bypass Jesus, but without Whom you can never be delivered from your original sin, which cannot be redeemed even through the greatest agony on earth or in the beyond. Let yourselves become convinced of the importance of taking the path to the cross, and don't deceive yourselves with false hopes by which you will only prolong your unredeemed state and languish for an infinitely long time in darkness, for He alone is the light Which descended to earth, Which brought you salvation from sin and death, if only you would voluntarily appeal to Him for forgiveness of your guilt, if only you didn't rely on being able to cope with your guilt in further earthly lives and through such belief only ever prolong the state of darkness and suffering, for without Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation you will never attain light, freedom and beatitude .... without Jesus Christ you will never be delivered from your guilt ....

Amen

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Every man must answer for himself ....

B.D. 8496 from May 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The human being has to take responsibility for his earthly way of life, for his speech, thinking and actions, for he has received the gift of intellect, the gift of thinking, from Me and can therefore also weigh everything up as far as it corresponds to My will .... This applies in particular to his attitude towards the teachings which are supplied to him on the part of fellow human beings, which touch spiritual areas .... Because as soon as something is presented to him earthly he also adjusts his thoughts to it and accepts or rejects, and that often with great eagerness, as soon as he expects some advantages from it. Man is able to think and is now also to use this ability. And if spiritual material is now supplied to him, he should also subject it to an examination in order to be able to accept or reject it justifiably .... But then he should not just rely on his fellow human being's advice but take a stand on it himself, for he himself will have to answer for it, and then he will not be able to pass the blame on to his fellow human being who advised him to think and act the way he did .... Every man bears responsibility for himself .... because every man can think .... And if he is not sure of the correctness of his thinking, then he should take the way to Me Myself, but not rely on the fellow human being, whose thinking can be just as wrongly directed .... And a great injustice is committed by the man who believes himself called to have an effect on fellowman, that he imposes his views on him .... so that the latter is to accept without contradiction what the latter offers him. A person can certainly be instructed, but he must always be free to accept these instructions, for the person himself must decide and be responsible for his decision, but he cannot pass on the responsibility to those who have instructed him, and they must never determine a person to accept the teachings. Freedom of will is the great factor, which is determining for the perfection of a man. And every curtailing of free will is a wrong, a sin, which I cannot accept without demanding retribution for it .... And again it must be pointed out that on the part of a teacher first the commandments of love are to be emphasized and only the fulfilment of these commandments is to be demanded, because then man's thinking will also recognize brightly and clearly what is true and right and man then decides for it of his own accord .... But to accept a teaching but to eliminate a life of love can never lead to spiritual success .... even if that teaching corresponds to truth .... But unloving people will never be able to pass judgement where truth and where error is .... And that is why ultimately not the intellect of man decides, but the love of the heart .... Where this is missing no right judgment will be able to be passed, but then also the acceptance of a teaching without contradiction is of no use, for it is completely worthless for the soul .... That is why I first demand the mental opinion about that spiritual material, which is imparted to a man from outside. And if the teaching of love is now presented to him and he also thinks about it, then already a small light can be kindled in him, and he can make an effort to live out love .... And this alone brings the soul to maturity .... Who therefore seeks to stimulate his fellowmen to love, he will be blessed by me. But who imparts spiritual knowledge to them with the demand to accept and acknowledge it without contradiction, he does not act in My will, because he causes fellowmen to think inertly and these now believe to be relieved of their responsibility, to be able to pass it on to those who taught them. One day this excuse will not be valid before Me because I have endowed all men with the gift of the ability to think and this is now also to be used when it is about the salvation of souls, especially then when you eagerly think of everything earthly whether and how it could be of use for you. No man once takes the responsibility from you, therefore also give no man the right to have a determining effect on you when it is about the welfare of your souls. Because also about this a light is given to you by Me when you listen to My word, which sounds to you from above, which I send to all who are of good will ..... I will do no compulsion to you; I will always just explain everything to you and give reasons, but always leave it up to you to accept or reject My word. Because I want that you perfect yourselves on earth. And therefore I also want to enlighten you about everything wrong, so that you do not let yourselves be determined to think and act in the will of fellowman, but to first check yourselves whether and how you act and think right before me, who has created you so that every man must also bear the responsibility for himself and his soul's salvation.

Amen

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Dead knowledge .... Awakening the spirit ....

B.D. 8497 from May 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

It is the spirit that makes alive .... You can use many words that your mind forms, and yet they can be and remain dead words unless the spirit is awakened within you and gives them real life .... Understand it, you let your intellect predominate; you seek to fathom everything with the intellect, and you neglect the most important thing, to first bring the spirit to awakening in you, which will then rightly direct all your thoughts and intellect activity, so that you also reach the right understanding of that, which remains incomprehensible for you without this spiritual help. But the spirit is divine part; it certainly slumbers in you, but can only develop when you yourselves move in divine order, i.e. make the principle of love your own. Thus right, truthful intellectual activity is dependent on your inner nature, on your attitude towards love .... You will not be able to deny this fact, that only a life of love ever guarantees you right thinking, that only a life of love also lets the words come alive which you speak, that they then are not just mere form but are valued as spiritual property of meaning .... provided that they are not purely worldly matters but enlightenments which reach into spiritual territory. Because even if a man makes this area to the content of his speeches, he will not be able to give much to fellowman, as long as he himself is still unawakened spirit, because then also all his words are empty and dead, because it is only the spirit, which makes them alive. And again, deeper conversations about spiritual knowledge will also only be held where love is unmistakable, because people without love choose no such content for their conversations .... since these are only filled with the world and therefore no living knowledge can be expected from these. Or speeches are held about it only for professional reasons .... and then they will always remain only dead words without spirit and life. To get from this level to the pure spiritual level is difficult but not impossible .... Who is still too much attached to the world, he can also be led by strokes of fate of the most different kind or other experiences to go into himself and to think seriously. And then already he can listen to the voice of conscience, to the voice of the spirit in him, and now think more seriously. And when his heart is not completely hardened, he will also start to become active in love, and then he penetrates deeper and deeper, and the knowledge, which he had taken in intellectually before, becomes alive in him, what love alone achieves. As long as now also the book of books, which contains divine wisdom, is only read with the intellect and the heart is not yet involved in it, it will also only remain a dead knowledge, because before love does not awaken his spirit, he only reads the letter and does not understand its spiritual meaning .... And such teachers are not qualified to instruct their fellow human beings, for then they cannot speak alive, they only pass on learned knowledge without meaning and life .... And again the fellow human being's state is decisive, to what extent the knowledge is comprehensible to him, i.e., to what extent he takes care of the divine commandments of love .... He will come to understanding when his spirit can instruct him himself, because he lives out love .... Then the word can be offered to him no matter how incomprehensible, everything is bright and clear to him, because he is introduced from the inside what love brings about in him. And only such men should provide a teaching service, who have prepared themselves so that the spirit out of God can work in them, and these are then also called to be active as servants of God. But anyone who calls himself to be without an awakened spirit will hardly be able to work in the vineyard of the Lord, for then he will only be worldly active, even if he puts a spiritual cloak around his profession, he will remain a servant of the world because he will not be able to lead people to where the actual goal is .... because his sermons are dead and help no-one to come to life, for the human being must attain life from within, and this is only possible through a life of love, through which the spiritual spark in the human being makes contact with the Father-Spirit of eternity and then a maturing of the soul is also possible in earthly life .... for the spirit from God addresses the soul, not the intellect .... But this will then also accept everything what the spirit out of God imparts to the soul ....

Amen

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God reveals His nature through His speeches ....

B.D. 8498 from May 16th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Even though you will not be able to fathom Me and My nature for all eternity, you shall still be given a clear picture of your God and Creator, and you shall not be left thinking wrongly. You are to know that I am the highest and most perfect Being, Which cannot be eternally attained in Its perfection, but Which you are nevertheless to strive for, because you once emerged from Him in all perfection as His images and are also to become so again. And your bliss consists of the fact that you ceaselessly strive towards Me, and this bliss has no end because the striving towards Me will also never stop, for in the state of perfection everything is unlimited, both for Me as well as for you .... You will also not be able to grasp the term 'perfection', exactly because your thinking is still limited as long as you stay on earth. And the more imperfect you now still are according to your nature, the less you are able to grasp Me Myself and My nature, and then it is also easy that My adversary gives you a distorted image of me, that I am portrayed as a most imperfect being, which has ungodly qualities about it, like judicial mercilessness and unkindness .... which eternally condemns .... and ignoble feelings, like vengefulness and eternal punishments for offences, which I never condemn .... (vindictiveness that retaliates for offenses I never condemn), but in love am always ready to help you .... My adversary seeks to portray Me to you as an imperfect being so that you will deny Me love .... And this distorted image of Me I want to uncover to you again and again as work of lies of My opponent and enlighten you so far that you can recognize in Me a God of love, wisdom and power, that you are able to recognize a perfect being, to whom you can give your love, for which I long, because you are children of My love, who will no longer lose My love eternally, even if they turn away from Me in free will. For a being which is perfect cannot hate and condemn, It will only ever endeavour to help Its creature out of the state of imperfection so that it can unite with It again for eternity .... And therefore I reveal to you a clear picture of Me, of My all-fulfilling strength of love, which became active in wisdom and also created you .... I reveal to you the goal I set Myself when creating all beings and also the plan of salvation which leads to the deification of beings .... I substantiate everything for you so that you can truly recognize My love, wisdom and might, for as soon as all this is presented to you in truth the light of realisation shines for you again, albeit still to a small degree, and you begin to recognize yourselves as My creations called into being by Me .... The truth will also kindle the small spark of love in you, and then you will penetrate ever deeper, you will know that you are on the path of return to Me, from Whom you once voluntarily distanced yourselves and thereby completely reversed your perfect nature and became imperfect .... But what is to unite with Me again must be perfect, and it must voluntarily enter into My will, against which it once violated .... But as soon as it has recognized My nature, which is love, wisdom and power in itself .... it will also voluntarily submit to My will again .... And therefore I reveal My nature to it, which again can only happen through My address, through My word, which I convey to people and which will also give bright light to the one who accepts My address. For I alone can convey pure truth to earth, I alone am the light Which wants to shine into your hearts .... I alone am the love, which does not want to let you get lost .... I am wisdom Who knows all ways and means to guide you to the light, and I also have the power to snatch you from My adversary's hands if you yourselves offer Me no resistance .... However, everything is determined by your free will .... And this will only then be turned towards Me when you recognize Me as a supremely perfect being Whom you can love .... And this requires that you live in truth, that you become free from erroneous thoughts, from spiritual knowledge which My adversary had brought to you in order to prevent you from taking the path to Me .... And that is why I speak to you Myself from above, I guide My word down to earth, so that you can become free from erroneous spiritual material, which prevents you to recognize Me right, who loves you as most perfect and wants to draw you to Me eternally ....

Amen

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The audible Word requires a high degree of maturity ....

B.D. 8499 from May 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

A person's greatest spiritual achievement during his life on earth is to hear God's voice within himself, for it is evidence that the divine order has been restored, the state the original being was in when it was created and in direct contact with its God and Creator, so that the being was able to hear His voice within itself .... However, as long as this being is still living on earth as a human being it should also improve its degree of perfection such that it will be able to audibly hear this divine voice within itself, for this requires a high degree of maturity which only few people reach on earth. Even so, the mental transmission of God's Word is proof of a person's diligent striving for maturity of soul, that he has established the bond with his God and Creator and thereby is capable of hearing the divine address .... The being's original state was a state of perfection which the being itself reversed into the opposite .... Hence the being lost the ability to hear God's voice by which the Supreme Being communicated with His living creation in the beginning .... And for as long as the being heard God's voice it was also abundantly happy .... because it was illuminated, it was aware of everything, it recognised itself as the living creation of a supremely perfect Being, and it was blissfully happy in this realisation .... When it lost the ability to hear His voice it also lost all realisation, it distanced itself ever further from God and lost all knowledge of itself, because it lost its self-awareness when, for the purpose of returning back to God, it was disintegrated and reshaped into manifold creations. All this is not known to the human being when he enters the earth as the last stage of his path of return to God .... But the knowledge can be conveyed to him, and this happens through inner communication, through his spirit, which, as part of God, is in contact with the eternal Father-Spirit, and which can inform the person from within as to what he originally was, what he is now and what he is supposed to become again .... And this inner instruction comes to him in the shape of thoughts as long as he hasn't attained the maturity of soul which is required to hear the divine Word.

However, the fact that he is allowed to gain this realisation at all, that it is conveyed to him through the working of the spirit within the human being, is such a tremendous gift of grace from God which should spur him to attain ever higher maturity and will also enable him to receive messages directly from God. The human being can mentally be introduced to the truth, to the correct realisation of all that which otherwise would remain hidden to him .... His thoughts can be guided such that they will come close to the truth and that the person will also be convinced that his thinking is correct .... But he can also be directly addressed by God if he has to fulfil a mission again: to convey the true information to his fellow human beings who lack spiritual knowledge .... Then the Word will sound audibly in him once more as it was in the beginning, he will be able to communicate with his God and Creator, he will be able to ask him questions and he will receive a reply and he, as well as his fellow human beings, will no longer live in darkness, a bright light will be kindled in them which will brightly illuminate the night in which all once fallen spiritual beings still live if they have not yet established an intimate contact with the eternal Source of light .... You all ought to know that you were once able to communicate directly with your God and Creator, you ought to know that you will always be able to restore the state to ask Him and receive an answer, but that it depends on you as to whether you shape yourselves such that you become worthy of direct communication from God, for you must enter the law of eternal order again which you once voluntarily left .... you must let the principle of love become dominant in you and through love you will unite with the One Who is Eternal Love Itself .... Once you are united with Him you will also hear Him, for His love is so profound that He constantly wants to please His living creations with His communication .... But then the return to Him will be assured, for the human being's desire to return to the Father's house which he once left of his own volition will become increasingly stronger, and His Word will be so powerful that the person or his soul will be unable to evade its influence .... And it will attain ever greater perfection until it has regained its fundamental nature again, until it becomes that which it once was in the beginning .... an abundantly blissful being which will praise and extol God for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The predetermined day of the end will be kept ....

B.D. 8500 from May 18th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The day is not far away that My wisdom predetermined in order to cause a transformation on earth which merely serves a worldly inclined human race as a dwelling place but is no longer used as a spiritual place of education .... The day is not far away when My will shall implement an act which aims to achieve the complete transformation of the external shape of the creation work earth, which signifies the destruction of all life in, on and above the earth as well as all existing works of creation .... For My plan of Salvation has been determined for eternity and the time will be kept which I, in My wisdom, recognised to be necessary in order to create new maturing opportunities for the spiritual beings .... And you humans will not be able to persuade Me to abandon this plan or to grant you more time, for I know and have known for eternity humanity's spiritual state at this point in time, which is precisely the reason why a complete change is needed, a renewed transformation of all spiritual beings which are on the path of return to Me .... Consequently, My predictions that you should not count on a long time ought to be taken literally .... that you should not transfer the announced end to the future, for one day even the future will become the present, and this time has arrived. Moreover, you humans can see for yourselves by all the happenings in the world and around yourselves that people's spiritual low level can almost not be surpassed anymore, and therein you will also have to recognise the reason for a near end, for everything has become disorderly, the development of the spiritual beings has come to a standstill if it is not regressing ....

Hence you are living in false hope if you humans believe that you can win Me over through prayer, even if I keep telling you that prayers have great strength .... But what you pray for is only ever a selfish prayer, because you are not prepared to surrender your earthly life, and therefore you only pray that I should preserve the earth so that you will not have to fall prey to the end as well .... Your prayer should only concern your fellow human beings' state of soul, you should only take care of your spiritual maturing and pray for each other and not appeal to Me for abandoning a final destruction, for this is needed for the spiritual substances which are still bound in the creation which, just like you, are entitled to ascend so that one day they will also be permitted become a human shell. But people forfeit their own right to be embodied on earth because they no longer take even one step upwards but are more inclined to strive towards the abyss again. A prolonged existence on this earth would be of no benefit whatsoever for these souls, instead they would even sink lower still, and they shall be prevented to do so .... which happens through a new banishment .... so that they will be wrested away from My adversary again, who had too much control over them as human beings in earthly life. You humans should only pray on behalf of each other that the souls will still release themselves from his control before the end .... Such a prayer of loving intercession for one of your fellow human beings will also reach My ear and be granted .... yet you will not succeed in trying to persuade Me to change My plan of eternity, after all, I know what is beneficial for all My living creations and what will help them to progress.

Therefore, anyone who wants to work for Me in My vineyard should take into account that the imminent end is a fact and thus be appropriately active on earth by preaching love and by also drawing all people's attention to the proclaimer of this divine teaching of love, to Jesus Christ, so that they will take the path to Him and under His cross and become redeemed from sin and death when the end has come .... Then they will either enter the kingdom of light or be placed onto the new earth where they will be assured of a paradisiacal stay which is already comparable to entering the kingdom of light, because people will have passed their test of earthly life and be free from guilt. And in order that many people will still reach this goal I continue to address them time and again through you, My messengers on earth, who receive My Word directly and pass it on to wherever it will be faithfully accepted. And this speech will not cease until the end, for I know who is suited to hear My Word, who allows My ray of love to flow into his heart and also makes correct use of it. And they will testify time and again that the end is not far away, they will never cease to mention My plan of Salvation and constantly refer to Jesus Christ and His act Salvation .... Time after time I will also emphasise His great significance and refer people to Him, Who alone can deliver them from the fall into the deepest abyss. And anyone who is able to believe in an end will not fear it either, for his faith has come alive through love and a person who lives in love will always also have the strength to defy all onslaughts which will still confront him in the last days .... For love itself is strength, because love connects the human being with Me, the Eternal Love, and thus constant strength flows to him from Me. And truly, none of you need to fear the end if only you would make the effort to live a life of love .... Humanity, however, is lacking love and is therefore descending ever deeper and thus causing the end itself .... as I recognised for eternity and therefore My plan of Salvation will be implemented, as it was proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

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Time indication .... (Continuation of no. 8500)

B.D. 8501 from May 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You will never receive any indication in regards to time, because it would only have a damaging effect on your soul if you exactly knew when a prediction will take place. You should certainly take notice of it because I want you to prepare yourselves, because I want to admonish and caution you .... admonish, so that you will eagerly work at improving your soul and caution, so that you will not become complacent, which you will bitterly regret one day. This is why I inform you of future happenings and indeed pointed forthcoming events out to people since the beginning of this period of salvation, for the idea of approaching them shortly should encourage you to live in accordance with My will and thus fulfil your purpose of earthly life .... Yet the time when you should expect the announced events has never been specified, and this made you become half-hearted regarding these predictions .... You always assume that My predictions will fulfil themselves in the distant future .... But you fail to consider that time passes constantly, that you draw ever closer to this future and that one day even the 'future' becomes the 'present' .... Thus I once again predict to you that the end of this earth, the end of a period of Salvation, is soon to come. And I keep referring to it with increasing urgency because it seems incredible to you that you should live in this end time .... Once again I don't give you the precise time and will not do so until the end as not to compel your will ....

Yet I one thing I will tell you, you don't have much time left, very soon the time will come when all My predictions will fulfil themselves and you should not rely on the fact that one day is like a thousand years to Me .... Even a thousand years eventually pass by, and thus even the period of Salvation in which you live will come to its end one day, for sooner or later a new period will have to start if only for the sake of the bound spiritual substances in the works of creation which shall continue their development .... And again I only say, you are on the verge of it .... But time and again I repeat these Words with such urgency that you should nevertheless start to think .... Time and again I try to attract labourers during the last days before the end because I urgently need them in view of the forthcoming event, I convey remarkable knowledge to you humans so that you learn to understand My predictions, so that you know the reasons on which My proclamations are based .... I do this because the end is very near and because you ought to believe that My Words will fulfil themselves .... Yet even now I cannot specify the time since I don't want to throw you into incalculable chaos .... For the knowledge of the precise day and hour would throw you into dreadful confusion but no longer result in any kind of maturity. I can only repeatedly and ever more urgently draw your attention to the fact that you must take the fulfilment of all predictions into account, that you should not rely on the fact that you yourselves will not experience them anymore ....

No-one knows the hour of his death and neither will anyone know as to whether he will be taken by surprise by the announced end, by the immense work of destruction and its predecessor, the unexpected natural disaster, and whether he will have to live through everything that happens in the last days, for I keep telling you: You are on the verge of it, you don't have much time left and every day and every hour must take into account that I will extraordinarily manifest Myself through the elements of nature, and then you will also know that the end is no longer far away .... Therefore you should live in accordance with My will .... It will enable you to approach all events without fear .... You should only unite yourselves with Me through deeds of love, prayer and frequents thoughts and truly, your souls will not be harmed even if I prematurely call you back .... But I will also physically protect you if it is My will that you shall still serve Me until the end .... Yet never expect Me to disclose a time to you, for it would not be of any benefit whatsoever for you, who serve Me, nor for your fellow human beings whose state of maturity is even less suitable for such knowledge. Yet whatever knowledge you can possibly impart to your fellow human beings about the forthcoming events, about My eternal plan of Salvation and the Father's infinite love Who wants to save all His children before the end .... should be done by you, and thus you still carry out fruitful vineyard work for Me until the end .... For every soul which still finds deliverance is a gain for Me for which I will truly reward you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution .... (Continuation of nos. 8500 and 8501)

B.D. 8502 from May 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

And wherever the opportunity presents itself to inform your fellow human beings about the forthcoming end and all preceding events you should speak up, so that no-one can use the excuse not to have heard anything about it. For I really still want to do whatever it takes to give people a small light yet, and thus I will also bring you into contact with those where there is still a small glimmer of hope that they will react by thinking about it and then observing for themselves what is happening around them. I try to direct all people's thought such that they, for once, would like know what they can still expect, if not in this life then in another, to which their thoughts will therefore be directed. The life which people presently live with purely earthly directed thoughts is by no means healthy for their souls, for the soul is meant to rise above all matter during its earthly life. But if the human being ties himself to matter it will signify for the soul a state of hardship, a state of hunger and of hopelessness of attaining its goal .... And this is why people's attention shall be drawn to the transience of all worldly things and, with good will, they can still utilise the short time by acquiring something of permanence for themselves even if the earthly body will cease to exist .... all I aim to achieve by constantly announcing the forthcoming end is that they will give account to themselves about the state of their souls, if they at all believe in a continuation of life after death .... Yet this very faith is missing, which is the reason for the enormous spiritual adversity during these last days. But don't let it put you off informing your fellow human beings again and again of what you were allowed to hear from Me .... You shall talk about the working of the spirit within yourselves as well as the contents of what is conveyed to you as My Word ....

Tell them that they are in great danger of going astray for an infinitely long time if they don't diligently use the short time until the end in order to change their nature into love which, during the last days, does not show much love at all .... Tell them that they still have to take the path to Jesus before their death, that they have to carry their guilt under His cross and appeal to Him for forgiveness .... And you have to teach them the most important commandments: the commandments of love for God and one's neighbour .... on the fulfilment of which depends their state of soul on earth already and later in the spiritual kingdom .... You must pass on everything you hear from Me directly, always in relation to your fellow human beings' state of soul, so that they learn to understand it and also direct their thoughts to Me, Who will always help them if they pray for help. I convey this knowledge to earth so that people will have an explanation, even for what still lies ahead of them and what I constantly announce, so that they will not be taken by surprise by the events, which will come without fail as I have always and forever proclaimed. For I still want to give everyone the opportunity to prepare themselves in order to then await the end without fear, which only needs to be dreaded by those who, as completely obstinate followers of My adversary, will be banished once more into the creations of the new earth.

Detach yourselves from earthly matter so that it will not become your shell again from which you no longer can free yourselves without help .... Believe that the end will come in not too long a time, for the low level has been reached, no spiritual change is possible on this earth anymore .... Only a total transformation of earth can also achieve a spiritual change, and in order for you to be permitted to experience this change on the new earth you must strive for a heartfelt bond with Me, so that I can count you to My Own who will remain faithful to Me even in the harshest battle of faith which is yet to be waged against you by My adversary .... so that you will receive strength from Me and persevere to the end .... And you will be able to enter a realm of peace and beatitude .... You will be allowed to populate the new earth where you will receive the reward for you steadfastness when you have to confess Me before the world .... Then you will have prevailed over this world and you will never need to fear My adversary again, for he, together with his followers, will be bound for a long time again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God requires a living faith ....

B.D. 8503 from May 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Only ever believe in Me with a living faith, that is, don't be satisfied with words or other people's assurances but closely unite with Me in thought and speak to Me like a child speaks to its father, plainly and simply and full of childlike trust; always let Me walk beside you as your friend and brother, and tell Me everything that inwardly bothers you, always appealing for My assistance to help you reach perfection while you are still on earth. You should no longer lead a single life, you should always request My presence and feel it too, for every sincere thought draws Me to yourselves, and if you establish this bond with Me yourselves then strength will always flow to you as well, which you can use for deeds of love again .... thus through love you join with Me ever more closely. Hence anyone who does not exclude his God and Creator from his thoughts is also daily and hourly under His Fatherly care, and his earthly life will always proceed such that it will benefit his soul .... For anyone connected with Me in thought already leads a spiritual life, and his soul will constantly ascend ....

But how many people spend their lives without considering their God and Creator, they only ever entertain earthly thoughts and just anxiously worry about their physical wellbeing .... And although they call themselves Christians because they belong to a religious organisation they only occasionally establish a relationship with Me, and this is not sufficiently alive in order to generate spiritual achievement .... Much has become a formality which, however, is only of value if it is carried out with a living faith, just as prayer is not what it should be .... a child's heartfelt dialogue with the Father; instead people are satisfied with empty words which don't come from the heart and are merely voiced by the mouth.

I, however, Am a living God, everything has to be truthful before Me, and therefore I want a living contact established by you with Me, but this also guarantees higher development and leads the soul to the goal. For would I leave a child or consider it poorly, be it spiritually or even earthly, once it has made heartfelt contact with Me, to whom I Am truly the Father it can unreservedly trust? But where this intimate bond is missing there still exists a broad gulf, the human being looks for Me in the distance, he speaks of Me as a Being Which is unattainable to him and Which he indeed acknowledges because of Its might which he cannot deny in view of the creations, who also admits to Its wisdom which is demonstrated to him through the creations, but who does not know anything about the love of a God Who wants to be a Father to all living creations because he has not spent serious thought on the Being Who had brought him into existence. And as long as I Am merely the distant God for people they will live their earthly life without spiritual achievements, for they lack the flow of strength to travel the path of ascent which, however, requires the living creation's heartfelt connection to Me in order to enlighten him.

This is why every human being will achieve his goal if he is able to establish this close relationship with Me, if he expresses a living faith in Me through a constant desire for My presence .... And such desire will be granted by Me, and forthwith the person will no longer walk any path alone, I will always guide him, I will always direct his thoughts, and because I no longer meet any resistance the person will also completely enter into My will and improve himself ever more. Where I have found the entrance into a human being's heart My adversary will have lost his power, albeit he will still try everything to win him over for himself again, but My strength, which the human being constantly receives due to My presence, will resist him.

Just let your soul come to life, which will always happen when I can take effect on it Myself, when I can illuminate it with My strength of love, and you always enable Me to do this through a heartfelt bond with Me .... Then you will ask for Me, and the danger will have passed that the adversary can take possession of you, who will take flight from Me and is unable to besiege you so long as I Am present in you .... And you will soon not undertake anything, nor walk anywhere, without having asked for My blessing, and then you can also be certain that I will walk by your side wherever you go, that I will mentally instruct you and let My strength and light flow to you in abundance .... Yet all this is not possible when a person only mentions his God and Creator with his mouth without being inwardly urged to establish contact with this God .... His earthy life will not bring him much spiritual success unless he still changes his thoughts and actions, so that he will learn to recognise Me and then believes in Me with a living faith ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's justice demands atonement for guilt ....

B.D. 8504 from May 21st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I am a good and just God .... My love for My living creations is immeasurable, and I would like to make all of them happy and give them the highest happiness because love urges Me to do so .... But since I am supremely perfect, I Myself must also move in My order from eternity; all signs of My perfection must be recognizable, and therefore also My justice must prove My perfection, which therefore also sets limits to My exceedingly great love, which I would like to prove to all My creatures .... I cannot make a being happy that has become sinful because this would contradict My righteousness .... Therefore My love is bound to My eternal law; it can only make the perfect happy to the extent that I want the being to be indescribably happy .... I can certainly grant mercy for justice by helping the being that has become sinful that it becomes free of its sins .... But the will to do so must come from the being itself, it must be aware of its guilt of sin and desire to become free of it, and it must ask for help to do so .... Thus I cannot release the being from its guilt against its will, nor can I make it happy with My love until My justice has been satisfied, for which the being itself must be willing .... Many of the spiritual beings called into life by Me had transgressed against Me .... They had become sinful, and barriers were imposed on My endless love because My justice did not allow love to work as before, that it therefore immeasurably blessed the beings .... And therefore these beings would have been eternally banished from My flow of love if My justice had not been satisfied, which, however, the beings themselves were unable to do, which they were completely incapable of doing due to their resistance to My strength of love .... in which their great sin consisted .... Nevertheless, the atonement had to be carried out according to the law of divine order if the beings were ever to be able to be permeated by My love again, thus to be made happy .... And this work of atonement was accomplished by the man Jesus out of love for Me and for humanity, whose wretched state He recognized and wanted to remedy by virtue of His love .... My justice was thereby satisfied, and My love was now able to come forth and turn towards the beings which once had gone out from Me and prepare a beatitude for them again which only I Myself as the Eternal Love can bestow upon them, but which also makes every being immeasurably happy .... Due to the former sin of apostasy from Me a restriction of My love was imposed on Me on the part of the one who became sinful .... because I do not give love power to it against the will of a being .... And even if it gives up its resistance, it must first have become free of its sin guilt to be allowed to receive My love again, because this requires justice, which belongs to My perfect nature, and because I eternally cannot overturn the law of order .... which is founded in My perfection. The man Jesus fulfilled the law, He lived entirely in divine order, but He also saw the way of life of His fellow human beings, which was completely against the law of divine order, and He took all their guilt of sin upon His shoulders and offered Me such an unheard-of sacrifice to redeem the guilt of sin of all that had once fallen, and I accepted this sacrifice, I was satisfied with it as compensation for the immeasurable guilt, which the beings that had fallen away from Me and then also the human beings had loaded upon themselves .... I accepted the sacrifice of the man Jesus, Who wanted to redeem all people from sin .... For the love in Him brought the sacrifice .... But love was I myself .... Thus love redeemed the guilt, but this would not have been possible without an act of atonement which I could only accomplish in the shell of a human being who was capable and willing to suffer .... Who Himself suffered immeasurably as compensation for the fallen one's guilt of sin. And therefore justice has not been bypassed; it was satisfied, and now My love could again become effective; it could give itself away and make the creatures immeasurably happy, because they were again without guilt, and that is why they can also unite with Me again and be completely radiated through by My love, as it was in the beginning .... And My love will not let up, and it will help everything that once had become sinful to voluntarily carry its guilt under the cross, to hand it over to Jesus and thus My justice will not be circumvented and the being will nevertheless be released from its guilt, because Love sacrificed Itself, because in the man Jesus It declared Its willingness to suffer and to die so that people will not punish the once fallen beings for their immeasurable sin…. did not need to suffer for their immense guilt of sin because they would have been eternally incapable of redeeming their sins and making (the) atonement for Me, which I, as a righteous God, had to demand in order to grant the beings the beatitude again which My immense love wants to provide for them. The compensation for the great guilt must be created first, because My perfection cannot violate the lawful order; every guilt must be redeemed, because this demands My justice ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Teacher training ....

B.D. 8505 from May 22nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will supply you abundantly with teaching material so that you also can instruct your fellowmen right and give them enlightenment when they demand it. And I will also truly prepare the right teachers for me, men who are so devoted to Me that they always only want to be active in My will and always and constantly entrust themselves to My guidance, who do nothing without Me and also always only desire and want to spread pure truth. Because this is a responsible office to be a teacher to fellowmen, because the maturing of the souls of those is also dependent on the spreading of truth, if they are of earnest will to fulfil their purpose of earth life. Who wants to teach, he must first himself stand in truth; he must possess a spiritual knowledge, which he himself completely masters, if he wants to pass it on comprehensibly to his fellowmen. And such knowledge can only I Myself give to a man, who is willing to utilize it according to My will .... And at the same time as knowledge I also give man the understanding for it; I train him to be a teacher, who now can work for blessing .... He certainly receives the knowledge with the heart, but also his intellect is so directed from Me that he grasps everything and can now also reproduce it right. And as soon as he is now active for me, as soon as he wants to teach fellowmen according to My will, also his thinking will be directed by Me right; My spirit can have an effect in him .... And then he will always instruct men so that they can understand everything themselves and always demand new instructions. And everyone will be able to get information from those who receive their teaching material from Me Myself .... And this is to be especially emphasized that you men then go to the spring out of which you are to draw, and the water of life will then also serve you for the salvation of your soul. Everything you receive in knowledge in the spiritual sphere must have its origin with Me .... And that is why you also have to check it for its origin. If I now teach you Myself, then you can be sure of it that you are allowed to pass on everything what you receive from Me, that I give you the order for it, because I want that pure, true spiritual knowledge is passed on to men, and because I also train the suitable men for it, who carry out this teaching order. And you can also unhesitatingly accept every explanation from them, for it will always correspond to truth, even if it is voiced by the person himself as it were as his own thought material, for then it is I Myself Who guides his thoughts, because he speaks for Me and in My name. You then do not need to fear that his own words contradict My word supplied to him, because if he is active for Me, then I protect him from weaving in wrong spiritual material. But you are not always allowed to assume the same when a man speaks who does not have the assignment from me .... Because My spirit must always be able to work in him, what requires certain preconditions. But My spirit will also have an effect where a man in love towards Me and towards the neighbour stands up for pure truth, if he earnestly wants it himself that he only expresses truth. I support every earnest will and see to it that man then himself recognizes truth and supplies no erroneous thought material to his fellowman. But if you are in possession of My word from above, then you have the most delicious teaching material, which enables you to your teaching office, because everything what you now pass on, you draw out of the source, out of the spring of life .... and everyone who hears it, he again receives My word from Me Myself, even if it is offered to him by a mediator .... But he then can be convinced of the purest truth of that what is given to him; he no longer needs to doubt and therefore can also mature in his knowledge, because My word has great power, because My word is the light, which breaks through darkness, and because it is a delicious food for the soul, which now can be fed and watered by Me Myself and therefore also receives the best what can ever be offered to it .... My love light from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Ascension of Christ ....

B.D. 8506 from May 23rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The time of My visual existence for people on earth came to an end when I ascended to heaven .... For I had fulfilled the mission as a human being and finally gave My disciples and those who believed in Me as the Son of God a last sign which should strengthen their faith .... I showed Myself to them once more and demonstrated to them My Divinity by way of visibly ascending to heaven .... which they were only allowed to observe due to their strength of faith and which, in turn, should provide them with great strength for their further mission: to proclaim Me and My Gospel throughout the world .... No evidence can be provided for My ascension either, and yet it took place before the eyes of those who were completely devoted to Me. For My ascension no longer compelled them into believing, they had recognised Me and no longer doubted anything, but they had also been initiated into the most profound knowledge by Me and therefore I was able to ascend before their eyes as a last sign of My might and glory, which occurred and could occur visibly because I gave My Own exceptional strength for this experience. However, it was only a process which will be experienced by every soul that perfects itself on earth once it leaves its body and then enters spiritual realms in radiant light which, however, will remain concealed from the human eye. But it glides up into the kingdom which is its true home. Evidence of this should also be given to people even though it will not be acknowledged by still immature people who have not achieved any kind of spiritualization.

The ascension of Jesus will remain a myth to people as long as they have not penetrated spiritual knowledge, because something unusual had taken place which in fact only My followers were allowed to experience. However, it will no longer be doubted as soon as the human being's soul has acquired a certain degree of maturity where nothing will be disbelieved anymore due to the realisation that nothing is impossible to God .... With Jesus' ascension the act of Salvation was concluded. I had descended to earth and returned to My kingdom again which I nevertheless had never left, for I was and Am everywhere, but I had taken abode in a human form so as to be visible to you humans, and therefore I also ascended visibly again in order to then always and forever remain visible to everything I created for the sake of its beatitude ....

My Own stayed behind and felt lonely and abandoned as I disappeared from their sight, yet they were imbued by My spirit and clearly recognised their mission now, and they felt impelled by the spirit to carry out the task with which I sent them to all nations on earth. For this reason I let them experience the extraordinary event which was the final miracle on earth that completed My earthly progress .... For they needed much strengthening of faith since their contact with Me had, after all, resulted in a certain amount of dependence which they still had to overcome, and thus every one of My disciples time and again was able to recollect the final events in order to then do My will with wholehearted enthusiasm .... Yet I remained with them in spirit, and throughout their activity for Me they were frequently allowed to hear My Words which revealed My presence to them, so that their love for Me grew ever deeper and thus their knowledge increased to the same extent, and with it their ability to work for Me ....

I had redeemed people's immense guilt of sin through My act of Salvation, and humanity had to be informed of this which could only happen again through human beings who themselves had experienced Me and My crucifixion .... Now they could proclaim the purest truth about this great act of compassion, and thus especially My first disciples were unusually strengthened and equipped for their mission, I had personally been able to teach and prepare them for their task in advance and I had extraordinarily strengthened their faith, although they kept their freedom of will. However, their love for Me and their way of life permitted My additional gift for their office, for the whole of humankind should be informed of this occurrence which had originated from the divine sphere for the sake of people and thus I required appropriate servants and messengers to spread this information. And these had to be able to support with full conviction what they were teaching .... Their love had enabled them to cope with unusual experiences and to eagerly bear witness of everything to their fellow human beings as well. But this knowledge of My act of Salvation will always necessitate a certain degree of love in order to be accepted and believed .... Yet a loving person will be infused by My spirit and guided into every truth, as I Myself have proclaimed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The right worship ....

B.D. 8507 from May 24th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will answer all your questions when you let Me speak to you and believe that I know about all your thoughts and also gladly give you enlightenment .... It is My will that you always remain united with Me through loving activity and prayer and that your thoughts often move into spiritual spheres .... that you therefore do not leave Me out of your thoughts .... If this bond is established through your free will, then you also give Me the right to direct you and your thoughts. And then you will always be stimulated into loving activity, for the intimate bond with Me will provide you with the influx of strength which will enable you to work with love .... And this activity of love consists of unselfish activity of love, of service .... For you humans can only redeem yourselves through service in love.... What made you reach the height during your pre-embodiment in a state of compulsion were the serving functions you had to perform according to My will .... In every form you had to serve, and through this you reached a state of maturity which made your being human possible .... And in this stage, where you have stepped out of the state of compulsion and can act completely in free will, you are now to serve voluntarily in love to reach the last perfection on earth. Once you fell, and your sin consisted of wanting to rule in arrogance .... And now as a human being you have to serve in humility and love in order to accomplish your change back to your original nature again, which had emerged from Me most perfectly .... This 'serving with love' is therefore your task in life, the fulfilment of which you should always make a point of. And this service of love cannot be replaced by a so-called 'divine service' where people come together at certain times in order to carry out certain customs which can be completely worthless if they are carried out mechanically and lack all deeper meaning. I include prayers which can only be described as lip prayers, where the mouth makes use of learned words and the heart is uninvolved .... or also other actions which have nothing to do with serving in love .... It is certainly good and beneficial for the soul when man visits places where God's word is offered to him, when he himself desires to hear My word, and he then will also carry away a blessing for his soul according to his desire .... as also a spiritual exchange of thoughts with fellow human beings will be good, where lively speech takes place, where My presence is assured, when these people gather in My name and now My spirit can also work because I am present where two or three are gathered in My name .... as I have promised. Then people will prove to Me that they are serious about serving Me, and then everything they undertake will also be blessed, for they will then refrain from all form, from formal customs, which can easily become mechanical action and are then completely useless. You should understand that I only ever desire a living connection from you to Me .... that you should establish the relationship of a child to its father and that this will happen in the quiet chamber .... i.e. away from the world .... But what is prevented rather than encouraged in large communities .... unless people gather to listen to My word, which is offered to them .... But if you humans give Me the opportunity to address you yourselves .... If you receive My word from above through messengers which I send to you Myself, because I know the nature of every human heart .... then you will have far more blessings from this direct address, because then no external things will distract you and My word can penetrate deeply into your hearts .... You will sometimes find it difficult to detach yourselves from habits or views imprinted on you, but on serious reflection you will also recognize the worthlessness of them, for as soon as you seriously endeavour to increase your maturity of soul mere forms will no longer suffice for you and you will separate yourselves from them .... You will understand it that your father demands more from his children .... that you are just to prove your love to Him, which is expressed in works of unselfish neighbourly love, which is a constant serving and also certainly leads to the maturing of your soul. And you can also believe it that also the light of knowledge will shine brighter and brighter in you, because love in you also carries wisdom into you, and quite naturally that will be for you, what caused you before to question .... You will find the answer clearly and distinctly within yourselves, and all doubt within you will fall silent ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bearing suffering for fellow human beings ....

B.D. 8508 from May 25th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will also give you an explanation as to whether you can bear suffering for your fellow man or whether every person must bear the burden himself which was assigned to him for the salvation of his soul .... You humans must consider that your soul is supposed to mature fully during your earthly life, that all still immature substances should spiritualise themselves, which happens through love or suffering, for this dissolves the layers which still prevent the light of My love from radiating into the soul. And at the same time such substances of the body which are still immature are also a problem for the human being by causing him all kinds of diseases and thus, with patience, love and in submission to My will, they should be calmed and therefore spiritualised which is, after all, your real earthly task, to help your soul towards the greatest possible level of perfection. And this spiritualisation of soul and body must be accomplished by every person himself, this work can never be done by someone else on his behalf, and one day he will be grateful to Me that, by way of suffering and adversity, I helped him gain perfection. Consequently you can understand that you should not really try to avert anything which can benefit your fellow human being's soul .... If, however, love is impelling you to offer yourselves to Me asking to bear your fellow human being's suffering then I will not stop you in your love .... It will be temporarily taken from the person and placed upon you, and thus you raise your soul's maturity because you are willing to accept more suffering and are motivated by love to do so.

One has suffered for all of you in order to release you from the immense suffering you would have had to take upon yourselves as penance for your guilt of sin, which was the reason why earthly life is a valley of tears and suffering for you humans .... But now all you humans can turn to this One Who will also take your suffering upon His shoulders and help you carry it .... Whose substituted atonement was accepted by Me and to Whom you should go if your suffering weighs you down, and he will help you carry it or take it from you depending on what is best for you.

However, the love of a fellow human being who is willing to suffer on your behalf is very highly valued, and this love will also guarantee you a flow of strength, for love is strength which will noticeably affect the sufferer .... And if someone offers loving intercession for you who have to suffer, the strength of this love can so permeate you that you will no longer feel the degree of suffering .... that your pain and agonies temporarily disappear, and your souls benefit from the strength of this love .... and thus mature and become less sensitive to pain .... The degree of love always determines the benefit the sufferer derives from such a prayer of love for him. And since the maturing of the soul is the purpose of earthly life and there are many possibilities to achieve this, it should be recognised first and foremost and not be prevented. True love, however, knows why a person has to suffer and will help him endure and make it easy for him to accept God's will .... And then I will take the cross from him and his soul will have moved a step forwards again ....

Love and suffering help the soul to reach the goal .... If a person still has a low degree of love then greater suffering often occurs in order to hasten his soul's purification .... But this purification of soul can never be achieved by another person's conscious suffering on behalf of the former. Every soul is responsible for itself, and every soul has to reach its own maturity, which happens through love and suffering .... And the degree of suffering depends on the degree of love. I will certainly answer the prayer of someone who offers himself to bear suffering on behalf of a fellow human being because he loves him .... I will let him partake in the pain which he then has to endure. Yet he endures it for the purification of his own soul .... he indeed relieves the other person of the suffering for the sake of love, yet it serves him for his own perfection, whilst his fellow human being must likewise take care of himself and his psychological state of maturity, even if he is temporarily released from his suffering. No labour of love remains without result, yet where and how it takes effect remains My decision, Who knows every person's state of maturity and whom I will always consider accordingly .... And I give to every person what he is able to bear, and it is enough that he calls upon Jesus, the bearer of the cross, if he deems his burden too heavy for him .... And as long as the human being lives on earth he has the option to reach the goal of perfecting himself through love and suffering .... through following Jesus ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Belief in a pre-life in a must-state ....

B.D. 8509 from May 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

No man possesses the recollection of a stage of his previous life in the must state, and that is why also the knowledge about it is little credible to men; they certainly take note of it, but they cannot bring the previous states into connection with their earth life as man and are far more inclined to reject all this knowledge. And thus the forthcoming new banishment is also not credible to them and cannot frighten or induce them to change their life and strive for their spiritual perfection .... But neither can evidence be given to people that they have already lived on this earth for eternal times and are now in the last stage of their development .... Because their perfection is to take place in completely free will, but proofs would mean a compulsion on the will. Nevertheless I do not let up to again and again supply men with that knowledge, and just the unusual influx of it should already be considered as small proof to men that knowing powers are at work, which take care of men in their lack of knowledge and want to give them enlightenment .... And people only needed to think about the meaning and purpose of creation and the meaning and purpose of their own walk on earth .... Then also the knowledge about the course of their souls through creation would be much more believable to them and would rather make them happy than frighten them that they now have moved into the last form as man to also once become free from this and to have ended their course on earth. But men cannot be put into a degree of knowledge against their will, i.e., a love life is necessary for it to be able to reach a degree of knowledge. And the human being cannot be forced into love, therefore knowledge cannot be conveyed to them as long as the precondition is not fulfilled .... And again he has to be taught how important it is to fulfil the commandments of love, and this can only ever happen on the part of a fellow human being who possesses knowledge himself and wants to pass it on in love .... thus their cooperation is absolutely necessary, and I bless you as soon as you offer your services to Me, for I need you to instruct your fellow human beings in accordance with the truth .... Whenever the opportunity presents itself you should call upon Me in spirit and ask for My blessing, then your work will not be unsuccessful either .... And when only an impulse is given to men, which causes them to think, then he already enters the right way and can be continued on the part of their leaders, to whom they are entrusted during earth life. It is only ever a matter of making the human being think about himself and his actual purpose, about his relationship with his God and Creator from eternity .... It is only a matter that he does not only walk on worldly ways but once also enters the spiritual way, i.e., that his thoughts are not only worldly directed but deal with his actual purpose of earth life, which always means a change into the spiritual kingdom, which can be exceedingly beneficial. You men will certainly find far more rejection, and still you are to try again and again and point out to fellowmen to the creations around them, which prove a God, whose power let them come forth, and it is to be explained to them what creation actually is .... that your soul has gone through all these creations in small and smallest particles and that also all these creations in endless long time will likewise go the last course as man over earth .... You will certainly only rarely find belief, and still this description can stimulate fellowmen to think, and then already much is won, because such thoughts will then no longer leave them, because they can more and more observe world events and the more and more frequent destructions of earthly matter, which can also take place naturally. You men, who yourselves were already introduced into this knowledge, you can be beneficially active among your fellowmen, if you inform them of it, even if you find no faith ..... Especially in the last days this knowledge is still to be spread, because for every unbelieving human being there is the danger that he will be granted the same fate again which he has long since overcome .... that he will be begotten again into the creation of the new earth, which, however, does not mean a 'transmigration of souls', instead, your soul will be dissolved again, and its course of development will take an infinitely long time again until it has once again attained maturity in order to be allowed to take the last test of will in the human being on earth .... You unbelieving men are in danger to fail, and that is why this warning is to be given to you that you have to take a lot upon yourselves again, which lies behind you, and you are to believe in it and willingly accept the teachings, which are given to you to turn this dreadful lot away from you. Just kindle love in yourselves, and truly, you will be able to believe and also change your way of life; you will eagerly strive to still fulfil your earth task, for you are able to do everything if you fulfil the commandments of love .... Then you will lack neither strength nor knowledge, and then you will also listen to My messengers and follow them on the right path which leads upwards, towards the right goal .... into your father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Re-transformation into love .... Spiritual spark .... Outpouring of the spirit ....

B.D. 8510 from May 27th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Every person carries the divine spark within himself, which is part of Myself, Whose fundamental element is love .... Hence a tiny spark of divine love is inside of you and is in inseparable contact with Me, the primary source of the strength of love .... Consequently, this spark smoulders within you when you start your life as a human being on earth, and you are able to fan it into a brightly burning flame of such radiance that nothing inscrutable can prevail in it, since this flame illuminates everything and is able to completely permeate a person, so that he will live in brightest realisation as it was in the beginning, when he came forth from Me as a ray of love and a supremely perfect being .... Everything that is intimately connected with Me is in full possession of light and strength .... This is why the only important thing in a human being's existence is to restore this connection .... which the being once voluntarily severed .... and precisely this is made possible through this very spiritual spark, which is intended to establish the connection with the eternal Father-Spirit in order attain a state of brightest enlightenment and clearest realisation which, at the same time, is a state of strength and freedom. Anyone having kindled this divine spark within himself will never be able to go astray again, for he will then move within the range of My divine light of love, he will have become a vessel into which the flow of My love can pour, for love caused this spark to ignite. Thus, anyone who is lovingly active also establishes the bond with Me, because I Am Love Itself, because ....'Whoever lives in love lives in Me, and I in him ....' Love is the principle of divine order, only love is important in earthly life, for I Am Love Myself and if you want to reach Me then it can only be done by shaping yourselves into love and thereby becoming as one with Me again .... For your fundamental nature was love and it is only necessary for you to transform yourselves into your fundamental nature again .... for this reason I placed a spark of love into you, because you had forfeited love completely and without My support would never ever have been able to change back again, which I thus bestowed upon you by placing a part of Myself into you which is eternally connected to Me ....

And now you should use your existence on earth to fan this spark into the brightest glow .... Then all imperfection will fall away from you, you will have escaped all unhappiness, spiritual blindness will give way to brilliant light, you will know everything again, for love itself is the light which will illuminate you and dispel all darkness .... Through love you awaken the spiritual spark in you to life, and you will have evaded the state of death which every form of heartlessness signifies for the once created living creation. Then My ray of love will be able to permeate you, and since I Am all-knowing you will also attain the state of knowledge, because you will have entered the state of divine order which guarantees brightest light and clearest realisation .... where you will become as perfect again as you were in the beginning. Do you still find it incomprehensible as to what is meant by the 'outpouring of the spirit'? Do you now understand that it is a completely natural process when the spirit instructs you from within? As soon as you establish a bond with Me through living a life of love I Myself will be able to work in you by helping you attain the realisation again which you once lost, which you voluntarily forfeited when you relinquished all love and resisted My illumination of love. To accomplish your task on earth merely means to change yourselves into love again, for which I gave you the opportunity by placing a tiny spark of divine love into you .... And therefore only love needs to be preached to you, for if you practise this you will also gain a complete understanding of the consequences which the activity of love will have .... The pouring out of the spirit will become a comprehensible concept for you and then you will also know what truth is and where and how you can attain it .... For everything originates from Me and only requires a connection with Me so that you can partake in it and become as perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect .... However, as long as you lack love your spirit will remain dark, it will certainly rest dormant within you as a spark but it will not be motivated into action which always requires loving activity. Therefore you can consider yourselves blessed if this information is imparted to you, if you accept it and then endeavour to live your life according to this knowledge .... that you let love flare up in you and thereby receive the life again which will last eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Are dissolved particles capable of suffering? ....

B.D. 8511 from May 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Every being will forfeit its self-awareness again if it totally fails as a human being and can no longer escape the fate of a renewed banishment .... And this is the most dreadful thing that can happen, for although having been dissolved into countless minute particles it is no longer able to feel like a whole entity, as you humans assume, it nevertheless experiences inconceivable agonies, because the spiritual being, which was once created as a free entity and already had partially regained its freedom again as a human being .... is now constrained and experiences this constriction as dreadful torment. For My once emanated strength had been self-aware beings, they had been able to live to the highest degree, thus they had not just been dead shells .... yet they became like that when they apostatised from Me .... When the spiritual substances became hard the actual life had escaped from it, that is, My strength, which gives life to everything in the first place, no longer permeated these shells .... And the dissolved minute particles will also remain without life as long as they cannot be illuminated by My strength of love .... The fact that these lifeless tiny particles can nevertheless be sensitive is incomprehensible to you humans .... In that case, however, they would never react when My strength of love tries to capture and enclose them so that the fallen spiritual substances can be reshaped into matter .... For even its resistance is a reaction which demonstrates that the spiritual substance feels a certain amount of pain and tries to put up a fight .... And the whole of Creation is in this state of torment, for it is subject to a law of which I Myself Am the Originator .... It is not free and has to subordinate itself to My law of eternity .... which is extremely painful for the spiritual substance which once was created as a free being .... However, would it not feel this agony, it would never ever be possible to change this lifeless state again .... You humans will never be able to understand this, but you should believe it, otherwise you would not need to fear a descent into the abyss and you would be completely indifferent as to what will happen to you after the death of your body. On earth you have your self-awareness again and are free up to a certain degree and yet not entirely happy as long as you have not found unity with Me by completely handing yourselves over to Me ....

Nevertheless, as long as you are alive you can still attain the latter .... If, however, you lose your self-awareness again then you will also lose all freedom, your activity will be determined by My will once more leaving you unable to use any will of your own, you will be bound within deepest darkness without knowledge of your existence, because you will be dissolved and only perform those functions which your God and Creator has decided you should do .... And if you, in a mature state of soul, are one day able to view this long period of time in the state of compulsion, then you will also know about the inconceivable agonies your soul had to endure in the countless forms, and you will also understand why My love is constantly admonishing and warning you in order to spare you this appalling fate. For you cannot vanish again into nothingness, and because you are immortal .... albeit dissolved .... then that which remains will never be insensitive either .... You humans should only ever content yourselves with the information I convey to you as truth .... I want to rectify misguided assumptions like the one that the dissolved spiritual substances lack sensory perception, that its state is therefore synonymous with 'non-existence'. Then the process of development would not be a maturing until the state when it receives its self-awareness again as a human being, for all spiritual beings only redeem themselves by way of suffering and being of service, both before their incarnation as a human being as well as during their human existence .... It should not be forgotten that the being had burdened itself with tremendous guilt due to its past apostasy and that it will increase this guilt again if it does not make use of the last time of grace as a human being and descends again into the abyss. And although a complete redemption through the being is not possible, it will nevertheless have to make

Amends and suffer for as long as it is not released from this guilt through Jesus Christ's act of Salvation .... To accept Jesus' work of grace and compassion is the human being's task in his earthly life, and therefore he could easily ascend .... If he fails and rejects all help from above, if he descends again into the abyss, then it will also be understandable that his path of suffering will start again when the soul is dissolved again and the path through the creations starts all over .... And neither will the suffering come to an end until the immense guilt is, sooner or later, redeemed through Jesus Christ, when the human being's will is ready to take the path to the cross and to appeal to Him for forgiveness of his guilt .... And this great blessing is at the disposal of you humans on earth .... If you don't use it and pay no attention to it then your suffering will not come to an end, for you are very distant from Me, your God and Creator, and that always signifies lack of freedom, light and strength and consequently you will not be happy either ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Declaration of sufferings and afflictions of the last days ....

B.D. 8512 from May 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I give you to consider that you can use every day for your perfection, which is still granted to you .... And even if you are still so far away from Me, you can bridge the wide gulf yourselves as soon as you pray to Me intimately .... Then you have voluntarily walked the path to Me, and I truly come to meet you and draw you to Me .... And even if the time is only still short when you stay on earth, as long as you possess free will, you can turn it towards Me, and from that time on you also give Me the right to take you by the hand and to lead you. Only this free will must become active from you, which you give to Me when you pray to Me as your God and creator, whom you acknowledge as powerful, and appeal to his love that it helps you. I only demand an intimate prayer to me, and truly, you are rescued for time and eternity. Because through this prayer you again acknowledge Me as your father, from whom you once went out, and through this prayer you also again seek the union with Me, and then also My power can again radiate into you, and every relapse to the deep is now impossible, because I now also assert My right towards My opponent, because you are also My share, which I no longer give away, when it has once decided for me. And you still possess the I-consciousness; you still walk over earth as man. And you only still need to make good use of the short time to complete yourselves, because you can now also be sure of My support for it, because I still wrestle until the end for every soul, that I win it for me. Only I cannot take possession of you as long as you yourselves still turn towards My opponent and he therefore also has the right over you, which I do not dispute with him. However, I cannot impress you humans very much with spiritual warnings and admonitions; earthly worries and hardships must weigh you down, then there is more of a chance that you will remember Me and take the path to Me with the request to help you .... And that is why I cannot turn away hardship and worries from you men because they are the last means to cause you to change your thinking .... For this reason suffering will also be rampant in the last days, every person will be affected by it himself or will have to experience it in his fellow human beings, for love is to be kindled in people's hearts, and every earthly adversity can be the cause for hearts to soften and willingly help their fellow human beings .... And where just one spark of love glows I will help and provide people with the strength to continue to be active in love .... And then they already establish a quiet bond with me, which they deepen according to their degree of love. Until the end opportunities will present themselves to the human being where he can help unselfishly .... whether he takes advantage of them is decided by his will, which is free .... but precisely for this will he is responsible, for his will is influenced by My side as well as by the adversary's, and he must now decide. But he can think, and mentally My light beings will assist him, but always have an effect on him without compulsion, as also My opponent cannot direct them compulsorily. But My love does not let him fall; My love pursues the soul until the death of the body, and it is touched by Me so often that it can truly decide for Me .... And as soon as it only carries out works of love, I have won it, because now it approaches Me and again and again receives power for love work. And love joins us together .... this soul can no longer get lost .... But without hardship and suffering I will no longer achieve anything on this earth, and that is to be an explanation to all of you why the end-times often seem to be unbearable .... What My love no longer brings about can only still happen through trouble and suffering that I Myself am called upon in suffering and am asked for help. And this call will be assessed by Me as recognition of Myself, and man will also be considered accordingly; I will announce Myself so obviously that man now first learns to recognize Me and he also shows love towards Me ..... And I will still accept him in the last hour .... He will remain protected from the lot of the new banishment, and even if his degree of maturity is still so low he will still be able to increase it in the kingdom on the other side because the danger of a fall into the abyss now no longer exists .... Because who once has recognized Me, he no longer gives Me up for ever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unheard-of grace of the word reception ....

B.D. 8513 from May 29th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The word from above is given to you, and that means that you are in direct contact with the highest and most perfect spirit in infinity .... it means that His strength shines into you, that He speaks to you, that a ray of light from the eternal light falls into your hearts, it means that you stand in right filial relationship to Him, Who is your father from eternity .... You cannot grasp this exceedingly great grace that His love has mercy on the once fallen and that He uses a human being who himself still walks in human weakness but whose will is to serve his God and Creator .... You cannot measure what grace you are allowed to receive when His word sounds to you, which obviously proves to you the bond with your God and Creator .... For your former apostasy from Him plunged you into endless depths, you became completely unable to hear His word .... And yet His love bridges this deep gulf, and He addresses you humans in order to win you back again as His children, who after all had emerged from His love and voluntarily stepped out of the child relationship .... The most perfect Being bends down in His love to the fallen being and speaks to it .... It again announces to it Its will and lights a light for it that the being can find the way in darkness, which leads back to the father, which it otherwise would not find eternally and which still has to be walked, if the being wants to again reach happiness, which was its share in the beginning. In the state as man the being is in spiritual darkness, and that means that he knows nothing of the secrets of divine work, that both his earth purpose as well as his relationship to God is unknown to him .... And only when he receives a small light, for which he is on earth, he will also lead his way of life according to his knowledge, and therefore this small light has to be kindled for him, which he himself can still increase in its illuminating power .... And as soon as therefore man can walk in the light, he will also feel well and flee from darkness .... And he will turn towards the eternal light, which now radiates into his heart, and then he will also again be able to hear the word in himself, which once sounded in him as love radiation of God .... But men mostly walk in darkness because the light of love does not burn in them or only weakly .... And that is why the word of God can rarely only sound, and the state of mankind would be hopeless if again and again a pure vessel would not offer itself, which has prepared itself for the reception of a great favour .... to receive the divine word, which now sounds directly as an outpouring of divine love, which seeks to achieve nothing else but to find access to human hearts again in order to make known to them the divine will, upon the fulfilment of which their salvation of soul depends .... an eternal life in light and power and freedom .... depends (is dependent). Where the word of God can be conducted to earth, there also the guarantee is given that the right way up is entered, because the divine word can only sound under certain conditions, and these are also already a proof of a certain soul maturity, because God Himself can only express Himself through such a vessel, which has formed itself to love and through this has also prepared itself as receiving vessel of the divine spirit. The word was silenced in the beings, which fell, and the great original sin had to be redeemed before, before the possibility existed again to hear the word in the heart, but the merciful love of God again and again ensured that he could open a source, out of which the water of life, his word, flowed pure and clear to men, at which all can refresh themselves, who want health in their souls. Because men need this stream of life; they need an obvious proof of God's presence to again be stimulated to approach him and therefore to fulfil their purpose of life on earth. They must be pulled out of the state of darkness; knowledge must be supplied to them again about their original beginning and their final goal .... about their relationship to their God and Creator and their actual purpose of earthly life. But the supply of the divine word to earth remains an unheard-of gift of favour, because once the beings voluntarily rejected His divine address and through the rejection of His love power they burdened themselves with a guilt of sin, which was so great that it could not be redeemed by the beings themselves .... And yet, the highest, most perfect Being addresses His creations again because His love is immeasurable and He wants to win back all His creations, (and therefore He addresses them again) so that they voluntarily surrender to Him for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Where God's Word is recognised, that is where He is present ....

B.D. 8514 from May 30th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

My presence is evident wherever My spirit is able to work, for My expressions through the spirit testify to Me, and only someone closely united with Me can hear this expression of the spirit. For it is the same as if a father speaks to his child, it can hear him because they are together .... So now, you humans will ask yourselves whether I address you too, although it does not happen directly .... when My messengers bring you My Word .... Yet even then will you hear the Father's voice, providing you wish to hear it .... For I will be present to those as well, even if they merely read My Word, since it can only affect their heart if it voluntarily opens itself and thus allows Me to enter, in which case the person feels addressed by Me, the Word comes alive in him, it is no longer the dead Word only heard by the ear but his heart accepts it and is happy to hear Me speak. And thus he is permeated by My spirit, for his spiritual spark has already been awakened to life or he would truly not recognise the Father's voice. Hence, all those people may hear Me who make contact with Me in thought even if they cannot hear My Word directly. But I also know to whom I can convey My Word, who desires to hear Me and who allows Me to speak to his heart .... For this reason I said to you 'I shall pour out My spirit over all flesh ....' For everyone's spirit is enlightened who recognises Me Myself in My Word. Thus My spirit is able to speak to the spiritual spark within him, just as his thoughts will be right and truthful, because he is inwardly in contact with Me .... Yet all this presupposes love .... Without love every human being's heart stays closed to My speech, without love all knowledge remains dead for him, without love the human being cannot recognise the Father's voice, he only hears empty Words which mean nothing to him, and he will reject anyone who imparts such Words to him .... Only love is the key to the door of the heart through which I can enter, consequently I have to be present to the person who recognises Me and My Word and allows himself to be impressed by it. And I know people's hearts, I know where love has been kindled and where My presence is possible, because where love exists I Myself Am present ....

Thus, a lovingly active person already has the most certain guarantee for My presence, because I Am Love Itself and therefore have to be where love is being practised .... And where I Am present I will express Myself .... This certainty should make all those of you happy who recognise Me in My Word, for you know that I Am present in you and that you therefore have already established the bond with Me, which is the meaning and purpose of earthly life, and that you have also passed the test of earthly life, otherwise you would be unable to recognise My Word as the Father's voice. And thus you know that My vineyard labourers' task of spreading My Word is extremely significant, for then I can be present in every person who accepts My Word from your hands and who recognises that the Word of his eternal God and Father is addressed to him. I speak to all of you, I speak to every single one of you, always according to your degree of maturity and love, and I guide you into truth, for only truth will be able to fill you with joy yet you can only receive it from Me, the Eternal Truth. This is why all those of you who come into possession of the truth from Me through My servants on earth, if you are unable to receive it directly from Me, may consider yourselves fortunate .... But you can always consider yourselves addressed by Me Myself, for I touch your heart, and the most certain sign that I Am present to you is the fact that you open the door of your heart to Me, i.e., that you long for My presence. And believe that with every Word you receive from My mouth strength will flow to you .... Your soul will spiritually benefit for My Word is not ineffective, it has to lead to spiritual progress because the strength of My love pours into your hearts and can never remain ineffective. Hence your willingness to hear Me, to receive My Word, is already a reliable guarantee that your soul has found the path back to Me, that it is maturing, because it longs for Me and My presence and thereby enables Me to provide it with everything it is lacking: that it will regain light and strength and freedom, which it once voluntarily forfeited .... I want to fill you with My spirit, as I have promised, and you will receive My Word which will guide you into all truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Presupposition of the presence of God: love ....

B.D. 8515 from June 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Again and again I want to point out to you that you all can hear My voice when you just carry out the change back of your nature to love and are now so intimately connected to Me through love that you can hear Me. Because My presence, which you now allow in you through love, will then also prove itself through My address, as you also heard My word in you in the beginning, when you had gone out from Me in all perfection. You are indeed still far away from it at the beginning of your existence as man, because your nature lets little love be recognized; but very quickly you can change, and you can become happy men on earth, if you just join Me intimately, what only presupposes a life in love. And again and again I give you the assurance that every gulf can be bridged when you just muster the will for it yourselves, because you just need to pray intimately to also secure My presence for you. The spiritual spark in you, which is part of My father-spirit from eternity, will also constantly push towards it, and if the human being consciously strives for the unification of his spiritual spark with the father-spirit .... that he lives a life of love and thus causes the eternal love Itself to be present, then he will also certainly be able to hear My voice within himself .... the clearer the stronger love flares up in him .... Then therefore My spirit can pour into a suitable vessel, because love banishes all impurity out of the heart and this has therefore prepared itself right that My love stream can flow in. And to be radiated through by My spirit means to gain deepest, truthful knowledge .... to change the state of ignorance, of spiritual blindness and darkness into a state of light and clarity about everything what is connected with one's own being .... To be ignorant is not a state of bliss .... To stand in brightest knowledge will always make man happy because then he is also already close to his original state where he was radiated through with light and power .... And this light and power will be his share when he brings love in him to unfold .... Then My light of love also radiates to him again, then he can also hear Me Myself again .... He can exchange with Me; he can ask, and he will receive answer; he can be introduced to deepest knowledge through My word, because My spirit flows over him and inner clarity, bright knowledge will always fill him with happiness .... Love therefore secures this blissful state for him; love gives him light and strength; love establishes the bond with Me as the Eternal Love, and this human being clearly and distinctly hears My voice within himself who only ever lives a life of love. Only through My death on the cross did it become possible again that this intimate union with Me took place, because before My opponent possessed too much power and he prevented men from love work, where he could only .... and because the original sin had created an unbridgeable gulf between My living creations and Me .... I have bridged this gulf Myself through My death on the cross ..... Nevertheless, every human being has to step onto the bridge himself and restore the bond with Me on his own initiative .... And this only happens through love, because I can only unite with a person who seeks to assimilate himself to My original nature, who draws Me to himself through a life of love .... And so love is the prerequisite to also be able to hear My voice, because love results in My presence and My presence proves itself again through My address .... And so I also could fill My disciples with My spirit and give a clear sign of My work after My ascent to heaven .... Through My death on the cross they had again become free from all guilt, their life was a service in love and their hearts thus prepared that My spirit could flow in, and this obviously happened because I wanted it that way that men take note of My unusual work in My disciples .... And so they could also .... full of wisdom from Me .... now carry out their mission to spread My gospel to the world and to proclaim Me and My great work of grace and mercy .... For all men are to reach their perfection on earth, and therefore they must first lead a life in love to then be led by Me Myself by the hand, to mature in their souls and to grow in knowledge and to be able to associate with Me Myself as a child associates with its father .... And then they will also hear My voice the higher the degree of their love increases .... For the father speaks with His child .... God speaks with His creatures because He wants to lead everything again to perfection, because all His creatures are to live again in light and power and freedom eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The outpouring of the spirit .... Whitsun ....

B.D. 8516 from June 2nd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Only after My crucifixion was it possible for Me to pour out My spirit, for prior to this no human being would have been capable of sheltering anything divine within himself, since humanity was still burdened by the original sin of the antagonism against God. My spirit, however, is the emanation of Myself, and no human being burdened by guilt could ever have been a recipient of this emanation, for the gulf which existed between what had become guilty and Myself was too deep.

But I, in the human being Jesus, have made

Amends for this guilt, and everyone who accepts My act of Salvation is now also able to prepare himself such that he can receive My illumination of love again, and that means that I Myself can take abode in the person and as evidence of My presence can also permeate him with My spirit .... Then his thoughts and intentions will be determined by the strength of the spirit, he cannot think and want something wrong as long as My spirit works in him .... For he completely consciously allows Me to work in him, he opens himself by intimately uniting with Me and thus enables Me to lower the light ray of My love into his heart which illuminates everything .... giving him the most bright and clear knowledge, so that the human being will emerge from his present darkness and be guided into every truth by My spirit, as I have promised.

This act of the outpouring of spirit, which took place in My disciples in full view of all people, had to be preceded by My crucifixion, My adversary had to be defeated first so that he would no longer be able to forcibly keep people in darkness but had to release those who turned to Me, who allowed themselves to be redeemed by Me, that is, who consciously acknowledged My great act of mercy and wanted to partake of it .... Thus death .... the immense spiritual darkness .... had been conquered for them, they were able to prepare themselves as vessels for the outpouring of My spirit .... Now they no longer experienced wrong thoughts, they recognised the truth and also fully consciously aspired to it, they emerged from the state of complete ignorance, they became enlightened .... My spirit permeated them, and now they also came closer to Me again, that tiny spark of spirit, which as part of Myself had rested dormant within themselves, aspired towards the eternal Father-Spirit to which it was inseparably connected. Very simply put .... the connection with Me .... having once been voluntarily discontinued by the beings, was restored again, and a being that was once more in contact with Me, the Eternal Light, had to be permeated by My light too, and its every thought can then only be right. He has to recognise the truth, and then the human being also has to uphold this truth, because he is urged by My spirit to proclaim the truth to all of his fellow human beings .... And this, too, was My first disciples' mission, whom the outpouring of My spirit enabled to go out into the world and proclaim the Gospel to all nations. They had to possess the truth themselves in order to pass it on, and even though during My years of teaching they had been instructed in the truth by Me, the outpouring of My spirit nevertheless had to take place first so that they then would brightly and clearly recognise their task and no longer be burdened by ignorance, for they were instructed through the spirit by Myself, Who stayed with them as I had promised.

And thus, time and again I will pour out My spirit upon people who want to serve Me, who prepare themselves as vessels into which My spirit can flow and who, like My first disciples, want to bring the truth to people in the knowledge that only the pure truth can help people in their immense spiritual adversity .... And My spirit will be effective in them so that the darkness will be dispersed and the people desiring to serve Me by assisting in the redemption of errant souls will think correctly again. No person can give what he does not have ....

However, to you, My servants, I want to give abundantly, so that you can impart it again to your fellow human beings who urgently require your support, since they will not establish the relationship with Me on their own .... Yet you, who know all correlations, can enlighten them and even now persuade them to their change their will. And you will always be able to receive spiritual knowledge in abundance, and at all times .... when you ask questions, they will be answered such that you will also be able to recognise the Provider, which you then should pass on .... for many people and countless souls in the kingdom of the beyond will ask questions and desire truthful answers .... they will be able to receive them from you, for I know all thoughts arising from the heart and will give to every person according to his task (comprehension).

And this is My working in you .... the working of My spirit, which the first disciples were allowed to experience for themselves after My ascension. They, too, had to be assisted by My love time and again, for in order to implement the task given to them by Me they required extensive knowledge, and without My obvious support they would never have been able to accomplish this task, for I constantly instructed them through the spirit. Thus they did not have to be afraid to be incapable of working as teachers or of spreading incorrect spiritual knowledge and were able to administer their office well .... they were able to proclaim the Gospel in accordance with My will ....

And today, too, I give My last disciples on this earth the same task of taking the truth to people, which can only come forth from Me directly. For the earth is engulfed by profound darkness, errors and lies are so widespread that people have to muster an utterly sincere will in order to find the truth and then also to recognise it as such. But only through truth can they become blessed, because they can only learn to recognise and love Me when the pure truth about Me and My nature is imparted to them. And this knowledge, the pure truth, can only be imparted to them through My spirit, but it will also be clarified for you, because I love you and you only need to establish a heartfelt bond with Me through equal love in order to induce the spiritual spark in you, which is inseparably connected to the eternal Father-Spirit, to express itself .... Then I can speak to you Myself and place you into a state of cognition, and then you will also know what you have to do in order to achieve your goal .... the unification with Me .... while you are still on earth. For when I instruct you Myself you truly will be taught correctly, and then you will accomplish your task on earth for sure and change yourselves into love, you will adopt your fundamental nature again and be blissfully happy, as you were in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Events in the realm of spirits before the creation of the world ....

B.D. 8517 from June 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You came forth from My love .... thus you are beings whose fundamental substance is love like Me and therefore could be spoken of as images when you belonged to Me and My strength of love constantly overflowed into you. And as long as you therefore belonged to Me you were also most perfect; you were full of power and light; you stood in brightest light; you recognized everything; you knew about all connections, and this extensive knowledge made you happy, because you could now also work in all wisdom and prepare immense happiness for yourselves. For you were able to work and create in free will and yet stood in the same will with Me, your God and Creator, and you therefore moved in fullest harmony .... you moved in divine order .... And I delighted in the happiness of My creatures which I, however, wanted to increase even more insofar as that every being should move in free will, independently of Me .... because then the bliss increased limitlessly when the being .... uninfluenced by Me .... entered into My will, although it could also think, want and act against My will, because the freedom of its will did not impose any restriction on it .... It could increase its bliss without limit .... But there was also the danger that the being directed its free will wrongly and acted against My will, which now resulted in the opposite: that the being became unhappy, because only remaining in My eternal order guaranteed the state of happiness for the being .... but thinking, wanting and acting against My order brought the being lightlessness and powerlessness and bondage .... a state which could not be called happy. Therefore the fall of the beings was a result of free will, but which again had to be granted to the being, otherwise it would not have been of divine origin, because free will is the proof and belonging to a divine being. The fact that this will now turned wrong and took a wrong direction was the cause of the creation of the world. Because all beings striving away from Me through this wrong will also once again had to strive towards Me in free will to reach again that original happiness, because I want to consider and fill everything that has come out of Me with My exceedingly great love, what is founded in My eternal order. Because love always just radiates love, only no resistance is allowed to be put against this love, otherwise it remains ineffective. Therefore the being once again has to give up its resistance, and that is the purpose of the endless long course through creation, which I called into life to cause the once fallen being to change back, which again has to take place in free will, as once also the falling away from Me had free will as reason. My love no longer stops eternally; My love also pursues the being straying from Me, but it does not force it to return .... But it knows innumerable ways and means to once again achieve the return to Me .... But My love also does not give up on a single being, even if it puts itself on the defensive towards Me for eternal times .... Once it nevertheless returns to Me in free will, then I can fill it again as in the beginning .... You men now, who dwell on earth, to you the knowledge is to be passed on about what preceded the creation of the world, so that you take knowledge of your God and creator and his plan of salvation from eternity .... No fellow human being can give you such knowledge unless he has received it from Me Myself. For a human being will never know of his own accord about the deepest secrets of creation and all processes in the spiritual kingdom .... Because man is in that state of lack of knowledge through exactly that former apostasy from Me, through his once wrongly directed will. But an explanation is to be given to him; he is to know about his beginning and his aim to now lead his earth life accordingly, which is to earn him the return to Me when he submits himself to My will again ..... And such knowledge can only be given to him by Myself .... And that I impart it to you already proves to you My great love towards you, which therefore expresses itself to also win back your love, which alone can establish the union between us, which is purpose and aim of your earth life as man. This knowledge supplied to you is a sign, a proof out of that spiritual world, which you once had left, because you stepped out of the eternal order, when you directed your will wrongly. And when therefore such a clear proof is given to you men out of that spiritual world that your God and creator reveals himself to you by him giving you knowledge of those processes in the kingdom of spirits, which preceded the creation of the world, then these revelations are only to cause you to it, to seek contact with the kingdom which is outside of the earthly realm, which is your true home and should therefore be striven for by you with all your strength, because only then will you be able to experience the infinite love of your God and creator again, Who, as father, wants to make you happy with all the glories in His kingdom .... For you would never strive towards Him in earthly existence if you were not given a small light as to what you were in the beginning, what you are now and what you shall become again .... For I want to receive you again as My children and fill you with My love, I also want to possess your love and be united with you forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Truth is unknowable without love ....

B.D. 8518 from June 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

It is a futile effort to guide a person into truth who is devoid of all love .... Because exactly the lack of love is the darkness in which he is, and he can neither recognize a light in this darkness, nor would he be willing to accept it and to let himself be enlightened. Love, light and truth belong together; they are not to be thought without each other, and the spiritual trouble of men consists of unkindness, which brings darkness after it and therefore also truth cannot be recognized. And however the rescue of a soul is to proceed .... the commandments of love must always be presented to it first, and if it complies with these then salvation is also already guaranteed, because light and recognition of truth will then be the result .... To impart knowledge to fellowman, which can still be so deep and extensive, is completely useless when this man is without love, because then he is not able to penetrate into that knowledge and to recognize it as truth. But who has love, he will unhesitatingly accept truth, because he can recognize it as such. And it is again and again suggested to you that the gospel of love is urgent to be spread because it is pointless to supply much spiritual material to a man, which he is not able to grasp because his spirit was not yet awakened through love and he therefore also cannot be addressed by the father-spirit or also because man does not allow the expression of the spirit in him through his lack of love. And that is why the effect of My word sent to you from above will be completely different on men, according to the degree of love, which he has reached .... It will make a love-filled person deeply happy, and it will only have a weaker, soothing effect on those who are also only lukewarm in the fulfilment of the commandments of love, but who cannot be called entirely loveless .... The understanding of profound truths will not be as obvious as in a love-filled person who, as it were, has the same feeling within himself because his thinking could already be guided before the pure truth was conveyed to him from Me ( .... carried). But he will also recognize the correspondence and therefore be fully convinced of the truth of the spiritual knowledge conveyed to him. Yet people who have hitherto gone through earthly life lukewarm and indifferent but not entirely unloving can feel touched by the words and now make an effort to penetrate .... themselves…. They can above all recognize the importance of the commandments of love and change their way of life by now living consciously and striving to fulfil the commandments of love more eagerly .... And then their understanding will also grow, they will penetrate spiritual knowledge ever more and strive ever more eagerly towards Me. And that is why the transmission of the word sent to you from above is very important and significant, because it has an educational value and always only requires good will to be fully effective. Knowledge alone is not enough when love is lacking .... It will perhaps be thought through intellectually but have no further influence on the soul, on the will of man to reshape himself according to this will .... Therefore also the teaching of love can only be received with the ears, but not followed, and then man will gain nothing, but remain standing on the same level, because he can always only mature through love .... Anyone without love also has no desire for truth, and only the world offers him desirable goods, which he strives for ever more eagerly and thereby falls ever deeper into darkness, from which he can only find his way out through a life of love. If love is not strongly enough anchored in a man, then also the understanding for spiritual knowledge is not present to that extent that he himself could teach again, because fullest understanding and brightest clarity belongs to a teaching activity, to be able to refute all objections and to answer every spiritual question .... Love, light and truth are not separate from each other, but irrevocably the fire of love will radiate the light, which can only ever be pure truth .... Therefore My word, which comes forth from Me and is intended to touch hearts, must be lived out .... the word, which preaches love, must also cause the human being to live in love, and then he will also have enlightened thinking, and he will know what truth is and be able to distinguish it from error .... The ability to distinguish is therefore a sign of the awakened spirit, and only when you humans live in accordance with My divine commandments of love will it also be possible for you to recognize pure truth, and then you will also represent it as such .... because a gift which originates from Me is exceedingly effective and will certainly still help you humans on earth to attain perfection .... for you will transform your nature into love and no longer be of a will which is opposed to Me, you will unite with Me with every work of love, and I Myself will be present in you .... you will unite with Me again and be happy as you were in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Truth is light .... Darkness the result of heartlessness ....

B.D. 8519 from June 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

He who seeks will also find, yet intellect alone will never be able to differentiate between truth and error .... His will to possess the pure truth has to come from the bottom of his heart, and then his heart will be able to separate truth from error .... There is widespread error in the world which means that one can indeed speak of dense darkness, for truth alone is light .... And it almost seems as if the truth would no longer be able to prevail but be overwhelmed by darkness .... But time after time it will penetrate again as a ray of light and enlighten a person who yearns for the truth. Yet it cannot be attained purely intellectually, otherwise clever people would indeed always have to have the truth and a less gifted person would be shut off from all light .... But coming into possession of the pure truth is determined by a different factor ....

A heart has to be willing and able to love, then the light will ignite in the human being by itself, and then he will be able to distinguish truth from error .... He will avidly accept the truth and reject every inaccuracy. The fact that the earth is engulfed by profound darkness is due to people's heartless way of life .... Heartlessness is the equivalent of spiritual darkness .... Only love is the light which bestows brightest realisation, love awakens the human being's spiritual spark to life, and love emanates the light of wisdom. And thus someone with a heart that is willing to love will not fall prey to error either, his thinking will move within the truth for he is already connected to Me through love, and then the light ray of My love can enter his heart and tell him everything he desires to know.

And only a loving person will actually ponder whether he is thinking correctly, whether he receives the truth or has fallen prey to error when he is offered spiritual knowledge .... For a heartless person couldn't care less whether his thoughts are right or wrong .... Yet only the human being who recognises and accepts the truth will be happy, for the truth will set him free and only then will he find the right purpose in his earthly life .... Only the truth will inform him about the meaning and purpose of his earthly existence, the truth will always provide inner peace, and he will find the goal worth striving for which he believes he has recognised in the truth ....

Through truth the person will also come close to Me, he will recognise and strive towards Me, and he will regard every error to be against Me and reject or fight it. His earthly life, too, will only appear worth living to him when he has received truthful knowledge about all correlations and the human being's correct relationship to God, his Creator and Provider, and he will strive towards Him in the knowledge of finding beatitude which, as a human being, he is as yet unable to experience. Earthly life will also only appear meaningful to him when he is truthfully instructed about everything .... Darkness, in contrast, cannot make a person happy, and every misguided teaching is spiritual darkness which can never please a person but should be penetrated by a ray of light, which denotes truthful knowledge ....

The person requesting truth is rich indeed, for he will receive it without fail, because I Am truth Myself and every wish for Me will be granted .... Nevertheless, it is very difficult to bring light into the profound spiritual darkness in which people live at present, precisely because people are blind and no longer able to even see a ray of light .... Their eyes have been weakened by deceptive lights and can no longer perceive a soft ray of light .... And they chase after these deceptive lights and get caught in ever greater darkness .... But they cannot be forced to accept the true light, being in darkness they have to yearn wholeheartedly for a ray of light, then they will also be illuminated from within and be so pleasantly touched by it that they will want to escape the darkness. And time and again I let the light shine to earth and I also know who desires the truth .... and truly, he will receive it, but first it has to be preceded by a genuine desire for it ....

But every human will is free, and if he turns to the light he will truly not need to regret it .... If, however, he seeks darkness he will perish in darkness, for it will only ever lead into My adversary's domain, whereas truth will lead to Me Who can only be reached through truth, for truth gives you humans a clear idea of what you need for your soul, and thus truth is the path that leads to Me and to eternal life .... Truth is the light that emanates from Me and enlightens the heart of every person who lives with loves and wants to unite with Me, the Eternal Love .... He will reach his goal, permeated by light he will return to his Father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's protection from the adversary's temptations ....

B.D. 8520 from June 6th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

You can live your earthly life without worrying as soon as you have found Me .... as soon as you are united with Me through prayer and activity of love, for then you have voluntarily returned to Me and can never ever go astray again .... And even if you are confronted by temptations because My adversary keeps believing that he can win you for himself, you nevertheless need not fear these temptations because I will protect you from falling prey to them. For your voluntary dedication to Me has given Me the right to do so, but neither will I contest his entitlement to fight for the souls which are embodied as human beings in earthly life. However, you are not defencelessly at the mercy of these temptations, for from the moment you turn to Me I watch over you and protect you from falling. If you envisage your long development through the creations of earth which resulted in your embodiment as a human being in the first place, then you will also understand that I support you in every way so that you will still reach the last goal, so that you will find unification with Me .... Admittedly, this can be more or less heartfelt, it can mean total fusion with Me but also not be quite so deep and intimate at first, and yet merely your will to belong to Me is already the decisive factor for Me, for then you establish the bond with Me which is also the guarantee that I will never let go of you again and then the adversary will have no more control over you ....

And this heartfelt bond can only happen when the original sin has been taken from you because of your acknowledgment of Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, for you will never take the path to Me of your own free will while you are still burdened by the original sin, because then My adversary will still have complete control over you. Your dedication to Me proves, however, that you want to be released from My adversary, and this already gives Me the right which is no longer disputable. For then you belong to Me, because you have emerged from the strength of My love albeit also through My adversary's will who used My strength to create you .... And everything that originates from My strength of love inevitably has to return to Me, for My strength, which was externalised by creating the being, will return to its primary source again. And you humans stand just short of this goal when you live on earth .... It is the last stage of the huge process of return, when the soul .... the once fallen original spirit .... embodied in a human being, should pass the final test of will .... to return to Me or to My adversary again, from whose power I had removed it until it was able to make a decision again as a self-aware being ....

This is why the earthly existence as a human being is of such great significance; after all, it decides the soul's fate .... whether it will be eternally happy or have to languish in misery and torment for eternities again. Admittedly, it will reach its goal one day, but its free will can extend endlessly for the duration of its apostasy from Me, just as it can finish it within a very short time and return to Me into the Father's house, which it once left of its own free will. Time and again you should bear this great significance of your earthly existence in mind and seriously strive to reach perfection, to return to Me, and always establish mental contact with your God and Creator of eternity, so that I then will be able to catch hold of you and draw you to Me .... For I do not influence you against your will, and neither can My adversary chain you to himself against your will .... You have to make your own choice for Me or for him, and with this decision you determine your later fate. But if you remember My love and appeal to Me for My assistance with complete trust, then you will truly not be left defenceless at My adversary's mercy, but I will always stand between you and him and keep him at bay, and his temptations will lessen because you .... if you sincerely desire Me, will be surrounded by a bright shining light which My adversary flees because it gives evidence of My presence and he avoids Me because he is My enemy. He is no longer able to pursue you as soon as you entrust yourselves to Me with complete faith and thus unite with Me through activity of love and prayer .... as soon as you never keep Me out of your thoughts .... Then you will have passed your test of will, and you will also attain the last goal while you are still on earth, that you perfect yourselves with My help and My strength .... so that you are and will remain My Own for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

False Christs and prophets .... Characteristic: Salvation ....

B.D. 8521 from June 7th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

A strong light casts a deep shadow .... So especially where My pure Word is emanated to Earth, much error will also be conveyed to it, for My adversary seeks to extinguish the light from above or to obscure its radiance. This also explains his attempt to mislead people with seemingly similar gifts, that he deceives people with transmissions from the world of darkness and tries to offer them in the same format but which clearly betray his counter activity, for it distracts people from that which is most important: from the pure truth about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation .... The redemption of souls through Jesus Christ is precisely what he wants to prevent in order to keep his followers, whom he regards as his power. Much spiritual knowledge will be offered and everyone will claim to have 'received it from above' .... because My adversary does not shy away from disguising himself as an angel of light in order to confuse people's thinking. And I cannot stop his approach; after all, people themselves grant him this right. For it is mainly the desire for unusual experiences which offers My adversary the opportunity to intervene and to provide them with spiritual information which is worthless, if not perilous, for the human soul. Many people have a very strong desire for extraordinary experiences and are therefore not critical enough with themselves .... If they turn to Me with an earnest will for protection from erroneous thinking, if they are really interested in the pure truth, they will certainly also be protected and My adversary will be unable to exert his influences over them, because I Myself will place the inner resistance into their heart .... But mostly they have initiated the communication with the beyond and are themselves incapable of verifying as to whether they receive truth or error .... And the spiritual beings in the beyond make use of this attitude by providing people with messages which they accept unchecked as truth, and thus My adversary can constantly intervene. The fact that he is solely interested in intensifying the darkness and in obstructing people's path to Me .... that he will do everything in his power to prevent people from becoming redeemed through Jesus Christ, can be easily understood in view of the approaching end. Such connections with the spiritual world are therefore established in all places and people would rather accept this spiritual knowledge than the pure truth conveyed to them from My side.

Nevertheless, I will not determine people's free will but, time and again, I will provide clarification instead, and every sincerely striving person will recognise the truth and reject the error. I will repeatedly mention the characteristics to you, I will provide those of you who want to serve Me with the clear ability of discernment so that you can check yourselves and, in turn, also give clear instructions to your fellow human beings so that they, too, will be able to recognise the error and liberate themselves from it .... You can rest assured that no earnestly truth-seeking person will become entangled in the thicket of lies and error which My adversary skilfully knows how to cast .... However, anyone who accepts something without examination lacks a profound longing for truth and therefore cannot be protected by Me, for My adversary is equally entitled to fight for every soul so as not to lose it, because it once followed him voluntarily and he makes full use of this right of his during the soul's human existence .... and only the human being's own will can disable him .... You will still hear much about his activity and must pay ever more attention to everything happening around yourselves .... You should only ever ask for Me and My protection and I will truly not deny it to you .... I have constantly told you to beware of false Christs and false prophets .... And how often will the attempt still be made to lead you astray .... how often will the holiest of names still be used in order to give you a taste for error and untruth. But you .... if you are serious about the truth .... must pay attention to your innermost feeling which will always discard the error. And always commend yourselves to Me and My grace, for as soon as merely your will is inclined towards Me, My adversary will have lost all power over you. False Christs and false prophets will time and again tempt you until the end, but you are able to recognise them, for they will not emphasise Jesus' act of Salvation and not try to encourage you humans to take the path to the cross in order to liberate yourselves from your guilt of sin .... Then you will also know that you are not truthfully being instructed and can safely reject everything you are offered by that side .... Precisely the lack of knowledge about the significance of the act of Salvation is the spiritual darkness, and this shall be penetrated by the light of the pure truth .... The act of Salvation shall be mentioned in all places with the reference that the salvation .... the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ .... is the most important thing which must be attained in earthly life in order to be able to enter the kingdom of light and beatitude .... And this knowledge is repeatedly conveyed to you through My Word from above .... But My Word will never be spoken where no clarification of it is given or where His great act of mercy is denied or trivialised .... Therefore, beware of false Christs and false prophets, for they only increase the darkness spread across the earth but they do not grant light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna