Admonitions And Warnings Part 2

In The Word of God are texts published and offered which Bertha Dudde was permitted to prophetically receive and record. One promise of Jesus Christ was (John 14.21): ‘Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him.’

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Its sole purpose is to make the present-day Word of God .... accessible to all people. May this Word of God become a blessing to many people.

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Who was Bertha Dudde?

Bertha Dudde wurde am 1. April 1891 als zweitälteste Tochter eines Kunstmalers in Liegnitz, Schlesien, geboren.

Bertha Dudde was born on 1. April 1891, as the second oldest daughter of a painter, in Liegnitz, Silesia. She became a dressmaker and began to receive pronouncements from God through the ‘Inner Word’ on 15. June 1937.

“In a clear dream I was moved to write down my thoughts after devout prayer. Understandably this often gave way to doubt and inner conflicts until I was convinced that I was, myself, by no means the initiator of these exquisitely gracious words; but instead it was the spirit within me, in other words, the love of the Heavenly Father was obviously responsible for them and introduced me to the truth”.

“I was given knowledge of the spiritual world which far exceeded my elementary school education. I received and receive this knowledge as a dictation in a state of complete consciousness; I write down everything I am told in shorthand, in order to then transfer it word for word to clean copy. The procedure does not take place in a state of compulsion, for example in a state of trance or ecstasy, but in an absolutely level-headed frame of mind. However, I have to want it to happen and then I can receive these dictations voluntarily; they are neither bound by time nor place.”

“Now I only have one wish, which is to be able to make these gifts of grace accessible to many more people and in accordance with the will of God Himself to be allowed to do much more work in His vineyard.”

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

Bertha Dudde died on 18. September 1965 in Leverkusen, Germany.

Published by friends of the New Revelation, Hans-Willi Schmitz und Wilhelm Wegers

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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

Thinking admonitions and warnings to detach from the world and the purpose of life on earth

3659 - Urgent reminder to work on the soul....

3821 - Urgent admonition to detach from matter....

4419 - Serious exhortation to soul work....

5180 - Serious admonition to consider the life after death....

5317 - Serious reminder to break away from matter....

5325 - Exhortation to gather spiritual treasures on earth....

5329 - Serious reminder to remember death....

5517 - Love of the world.... Serious admonition....

5550 - Serious reminder to work on the soul....

5705 - Serious admonition.... Materialistic outlook....

5926 - Serious reminder to remember the purpose of life on earth....

6408 - Exhortation to make good use of life on earth....

6761 - Serious warning to the world....

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

Reminders to practice the virtues

0548 - Admonition to unite.... Peacefulness.... Love....

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1003 - Admonition to exercise self-control.... Gentleness - Peacefulness....

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3301 - Exhortation to love....

4096 - Serious admonitions about Christian neighbourly love....

4356 - Educational tools.... admonition to love....

4990 - Love – power reception.... love has grown cold.... serious reminder....

5989 - Love radiance.... decision reminder.... will....

6833 - Warning against appearances and outward appearances....

7678 - Admonition to humility....

Warnings against the adversary's

5987 - Warning against false prophets....

6013a - Various gifts of the spirit....

6013b - Speaking in tongues.... Warning against wrong spirit....

6706 - Warning against the enemy.... fight against him....

7673 - Warning about communicating with the beyond....

7743 - "Working of the spirit".... Warning against mediumistic receptions....

7977 - Serious warning against psychic receptions....

8149 - Warning against medial reception....

8307 - Warning against "spiritual leaders"....

8312 - Warning against medial receptions.... "Spiritual Guides"....

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

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

8870 - Loving but urgent exhortation from God....

Thinking admonitions and warnings to detach from the world and the purpose of life on earth

Urgent reminder to work on the soul ....

B.D. 3659 from January 17th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Do you know whether you will still live to see tomorrow? Whether you will still have the strength to work on earth and to shape yourselves into spiritual maturity? Do you know whether your life will not end prematurely and you will no longer be able to work if you live without strength in the beyond? Therefore reckon every day and every hour with your passing away and make use of the time, work diligently on your soul and gather spiritual riches so that you will not pass over into the beyond empty and poor. God calls out to all of you: Do not value earthly life too highly and do not forget your soul, for it alone outlasts earthly life and must bear the consequences of your earthly change. And if you only strive for earthly possessions on earth which you cannot take over into eternity, then your fate in the beyond will only be pitiful, for you possess nothing and therefore cannot give anything .... and therefore also receive nothing. Again and again you will be reminded to remember your souls .... Don't ignore this admonition which comes to you from above but seriously consider the danger you are in if you live lukewarmly and indolently and only seek and accept the world. Seek to detach yourselves from it and to enter into contact with the spiritual kingdom, constantly remind yourselves that every day can be your last and give yourselves an account as to whether you feel mature enough to enter the spiritual kingdom. You are indeed involved in earthly duties which you have to fulfil, yet always leave them in second place and work on your soul first, for the earthly duties will be taken over by someone else if you are no longer able to fulfil them when your earthly life is over .... But no-one can take your soul's work off your hands, you have to do it yourselves, and you will be judged according to it in eternity. And therefore you should always reckon with a premature death, for no one of you has much time left, and therefore the work of the soul is more urgent than ever. And anyone who is called by God to work for His kingdom should be diligently active and point out to people everywhere that they don't have much time left, he should inform them of their fate in eternity if they enter the kingdom of the beyond without strength because the human being on earth neglected to gather spiritual riches, and this alone signifies strength and the possibility to also be active in the beyond. But without such the soul is inactive, powerless and in a pitiable state which it can, however, avert if it follows the admonitions, if it puts the well-being of its soul before that of the body, if the human being constantly provides the soul with spiritual nourishment and thus gives it strength to shape itself according to God's will. For you humans don't have much time left but you will constantly be informed of the end and the consequences of an unused earthly life. Therefore pay attention to these indications, be active and work with love as long as you can still work on earth. And thereby create a blissful fate for yourselves in the beyond, where you may then be active for your own happiness, because strength and light is your share, which you will then constantly receive from God, who shapes your souls according to His will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Urgent admonition to detach from matter ....

B.D. 3821 from July 9th 1946, taken from Book No. 48

Recognise the time and adjust your life accordingly .... Anyone who is unable to detach himself from the possessions of the world will find the last days before the end very difficult, for he will lose everything if he does not belong to those who are completely corrupt, who will receive everything so as to completely renounce Me. Then I will have to take that which you are unable to relinquish voluntarily from you by force if I want to save you from entirely falling prey to the one who wants your eternal ruin. For earthly matter belongs to him and must never become the principle of your life, instead you should use it to cover your most essential physical needs so that you can consider your soul the more abundantly .... For this alone is needed in the coming time, because you only have little time left until the end. But if you spend it by just taking care of your physical well-being then your soul will go short and will have to suffer indescribably if I still want to rescue it before the end. Therefore remove whatever your body does not require and give it to your needy fellow human being, for there will be much hardship with My permission. Recognise the last days before the end by the fact that a great tribulation will befall the earth which you will be unable to avert by yourselves and which will be made even worse through My will, through My last intervention before the end. Then you all must realise that I only want you to have very little for your body, that I want to direct your mind more towards the soul, towards the spirit, and humbly submit yourselves to My will. Ignore your body and only take care of your soul, then I will take care of your physical well-being and keep you alive until the end, and you will be able to endure your last stage of life because I will help you.

And thus liberate yourselves from all earthly matter, detach your heart from it, and gladly share whatever you own with your needy neighbour. And you will not have to go short despite your externally most modest living conditions, you will be able to live and work because your soul will receive doubly what your body gives up. I must take your earthly possessions away from you if you don't part from them voluntarily, I must implement a forceful solution if you are too weak to separate yourselves from them. But it is far better if you already detach yourselves from them in your heart before, that you no longer let yourselves be enslaved by matter, but that you leave everything up to Me of your own free will if you sacrifice everything you own to Me .... Then I will return to you what you need and also make your earthly life easier, and you will make proper use of the time until the end for your soul. For if I tell you that you that your life will not last long anymore, why should you still anxiously worry .... ? You will have to leave all earthly possessions behind when your body dies, your soul, however, will remain chained to it even in the spiritual kingdom if it hasn't detached itself on earth already. And I want to help the soul learn to overcome it on earth and free itself from all longing for it .... Detach yourselves from matter .... I let this call resound more urgently than ever, for the care of your soul is paramount in the forthcoming time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Serious exhortation to soul work ....

B.D. 4419 from August 26th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

A rich treasure is at your disposal, but people pass it by indifferently. Every hint of it is well heard but leaves no impression. You receive information from all sides about an imminent change of life, yet you don't believe it and the time passes which is still to be regarded as the last time of grace. You humans derive no benefit from it, you pay no attention to My voice which touches your ear in various ways. And thus I will let it sound so loudly that you will have to hear it, even though you will still not be forced to pay attention to it, for your will is free. But the time has come which signifies the end because people are no longer willing to change despite their ability to change. They live entirely without faith, they are so distant from Me that they are without any spiritual supply of strength and thus cannot achieve spiritual progress. Their earthly life has become completely pointless, for they don't value it for eternity but it is only an end in itself for them, thus it contradicts My eternal order. And therefore I want to put an end to it so that the earth will arise anew again, so that the spiritual development of the people inhabiting it can continue again and I can dwell amongst My living creations again and let My strength of love flow into them because they love Me and strive for My presence. And so the last time has irrevocably come for this earth .... it is an extremely serious time for all people, for it is full of responsibility because it brings life or death .... yet not only for the body but for the soul, which has to suffer eternally or can also become blissfully happy. You humans, listen to My word, take it seriously, prepare yourselves, try to gain faith by seriously thinking about what you hear through My messengers; don't resist if you are urged to work with love, for this alone will bring you salvation, it will bring about an inner change and is life for your soul. Pay attention to the hardship around you and help where possible, put self-love aside and pay more attention to your neighbour who is in the same hardship as you. Help him and you will also be helped, and believe that the end is near. Then you will also make better use of your life, you will deal with the thought of death and the soul's continuation of life, and your earthly life will be steered on the right path by itself, because then your sense of responsibility will grow and you will strive for the salvation of your soul. I only ever want to admonish you for your own sake to think of your soul and let its well-being be more important to you than the well-being of the body, to which I give what it needs if only you strive for light, for truth, for Me .... For the time you still have left is passing quickly, yet you can still achieve an unspeakable amount with good will, because I help everyone who believes in Me and seeks to fulfil My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious admonition to consider the life after death ....

B.D. 5180 from July 29th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Once again I admonish you humans on earth: Consider your souls and your state after death .... For the forthcoming extremely difficult turn of events in your earthly life is merely intended to make you consider your physical death and what will follow afterwards. I want to draw your attention to it and lovingly inform you of the hard times which will befall you, so that you then will believe it if you are as yet unable to believe, if you still discard as a fantasy what is solemn truth. You are in great danger, for you live earthly life so light-heartedly as if it would last forever and yet, the time left to you is so short that you would be horrified if you knew of it. You gamble your life away, you are moved by trivial worries, and yet it is only important that you consider your soul, so that it will be able to calmly endure every adversity in order to start the true life in light and strength in the spiritual kingdom. Yet it is up to you humans yourselves in which state your soul will enter the spiritual kingdom.

I ever more urgently admonish you to change your attitude, although it doesn't have to be bad it is nevertheless too earthly minded to be suitable for the spiritual kingdom. Like a loving Father I call to My children on earth: Be concerned about your soul, consider your real purpose of life and hurry, for there is not much time left until the end .... Change your attitude before it is too late .... bear in mind what fate will await you when your earthly life is over, and believe that the soul's life will not end with the body's death but that it will live on, yet in the state you have created for it in earthly life.

You are responsible for its fate in eternity, that is, you have to accept the consequences of your earthly life yourselves, which will be a fate in darkness if you have used your life wrongly. And you live wrongly if you live without faith and without love .... if you do not acknowledge Me as your God and Father and therefore do not observe My commandments either, if you only live for the world but not for the spiritual kingdom, which is your true home and which you inevitably will have to enter, albeit its spheres are so different that it can mean both supreme happiness as well as most bitter agony for the soul, depending on its state of maturity. And you humans are responsible for this state of maturity ....

This is what I call to you from above again, so that you will turn inwards and change, so that you will pay less attention to earthly life in favour of advancing your soul's spiritual life .... Listen to My call from above, take stock of yourselves, turn around before it is too late, for the day will come without fail which I have always and forever announced to you .... You don't have much time left, therefore make use of it and take care of your soul, so that it will not have to fear the end which is soon about to happen to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Serious reminder to break away from matter ....

B.D. 5317 from February 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

This is the commandment of the hour that you try to detach yourselves from matter and strive for the spiritual with a stronger will. Earth with its earthly-material goods is still desirable to you, but nothing of it will remain when the time has come for My announcements to be fulfilled, when the end of this earth is here and your life comes to an end. Then only what you have collected in spiritual goods will count, and only this wealth will make you able to enliven the new earth or to work with it in the spiritual kingdom .... But anyone who has nothing to show of spiritual goods, who was so closely connected to matter that he completely forgot the spiritual, will become matter himself. He will be condemned to a new banishment because only earth can become his abode, because the spiritual kingdom cannot receive him since matter still keeps him bound ....

Seek to detach yourselves from it, free yourselves from that which is your undoing, you have long ago overcome hard matter .... do not let yourselves be captured by it again, but seek to become free from all form .... Strive for spiritual life, a state of freedom, light and power .... And if you are willing to do so, then don't hesitate, for you won't have much time left .... Matter is so enticingly presented to you by My adversary that your will constantly weakens .... Think about the fact that everything you can see and grasp is transient, seriously consider the worthlessness of that which still seems desirable to you, and contrast this with an infinitely long time .... in darkness or in the brightest light .... You can create both states for yourselves, and therefore choose seriously .... Drop matter and seek contact with the world, which offers you something far more beautiful than the earthly world, which is soon approaching its end. Don't let yourselves be beguiled by its illusory goods, the decay of which you will all still experience, for for the sake of your souls I will still let you clearly recognize its impermanence, so that you will be shaken up and think about your fate after the death of your body .... I warn you full of fatherly love because I would like to spare you unspeakable suffering but can only warn you but not force you to listen to Me.

Leave off the pleasures of the world and turn your mind upwards, call upon all spiritual beings full of light for help if you are too weak to solve yourselves, be of good will to strive upwards and you will be helped. But do not delay, for the time is hastening and it will come as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Exhortation to gather spiritual treasures on earth ....

B.D. 5325 from February 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The wealth of spiritual good cannot be desired enough, for it alone creates beatitude in the kingdom of the beyond when the soul has discarded everything it possessed on earth, when it dwells in the spiritual realm where only spiritual good is of value because it alone is imperishable. You can acquire this wealth on earth but only if you ignore earthly wealth, because you cannot be granted both at the same time. You must know that two masters offer you their goods but that the goods are completely opposite as well as the masters who want to distribute them. Both have a different sphere into which they want to draw you .... and both areas are far apart so that you will have to decide which one you prefer. That is why both lords entice you with their goods .... but one of them is transient while the other lasts forever .... You should consider this when you are confronted with the decision .... Do you only want temporary happiness? Or do you seek eternal happiness? Then you must also choose the father and creator of eternity, Who wants to provide you with everlasting treasures if only you confess Him. He will give you plenty so that you need not suffer any lack, and He will also provide you with the perishable goods which you need to maintain your body, as soon as you first desire the spiritual gifts. But as long as your eyes are blinded by the treasures His adversary offers you, you will not see the mild splendour of the spiritual gifts. Therefore you must turn away from them and be content with the fulfilment of earthly needs, which the father and creator of eternity assures you, so that you will live on earth and not become incapable of acquiring spiritual wealth. For He is truly your father Who cares for your spiritual and physical well-being but Who will never give you goods which are perishable for you, even if they seem indispensable to you during your earthly lifetime. They only cling to you from the outside and yet block the access to the soul for those who would like to provide them with spiritual nourishment. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, everything else will be granted to you .... But you will never be able to find the kingdom of God if you seek it in the world, which is the kingdom of His adversary .... And you will lose everything you have gathered in earthly possessions, for none of it will follow you into eternity. But the spiritual possessions can no longer be taken away from you, they will follow you into eternity, they are the soul's share which it will take with it into eternity ....

And therefore it cannot be presented to you loudly and admonishingly enough that you should acquire spiritual treasures on earth, that you should create wealth for yourselves which signifies an inconceivable blessing in the spiritual kingdom .... a wealth which will always increase, although you use it to constantly distribute, to give to the needy, to whom you want to practice merciful neighbourly love because you yourselves are driven to do so by love. Acquire this wealth on earth so that you will not have lived in vain .... Decide in favour of the lord, Who offers you good gifts, receive from His hand what His infinite love offers you and make all those happy who are poor and need your help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious reminder to remember death ....

B.D. 5329 from March 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

None of you humans knows how long you will live on earth, none of you knows when the hour of your recall will come, and none of you knows whether you still have the time to prepare for your end. And you humans should always remember that you could already stand before your judge tomorrow, that He will demand an account from you for your earthly way of life, for the use of your will, for your actions and omissions .... And you should also imagine the consequences of your conduct on earth and therefore seriously endeavour to live in such a way that you need not fear the hour of your recall, your last day. The fact that you are allowed to live on earth is a grace which you should make use of or you will bitterly regret it, for you can gain an infinite amount on earth but also lose an infinite amount. You have the strength to work for a blissful life in eternity, but if you use this strength wrongly, so that you only want to make your earthly life beautiful, then your recall from earth will be a misfortune for you, because you will lose everything you own and will not be able to display any of the possessions which are of value in the world of the beyond. Then you will never be able to return to make up for what you have missed, you will have to create a bearable fate for yourselves with great difficulty because you lack the strength which was abundantly at your disposal on earth. You are still alive and indifferently ignore indications of your end, admonitions and warnings, the life of your body makes you secure but you don't think about the life after death .... Seriously consider the hour of your departure from this earth and ask yourselves what you may take with you, ask yourselves what spiritual possessions you have acquired. Will you have much to show for it? Will the thought of death frighten you? Will you be able to stand before your judge without fear because you have lived according to His will? Seriously consider your situation and change it if it does not seem satisfactory to you, for there is not much time left and no one knows when he will be called away .... None of you can prolong his life by just one hour when his time is up, but each of you can achieve it that there is no hour of death for him but only an entrance into eternal life .... Everyone can gather riches on earth which he takes with him, which are imperishable and guarantee him a life in the kingdom of the beyond .... and what is therefore possible for you, that you should try to achieve, for on the other side it will be unspeakably difficult for you to make up for the shortfall you have through your own fault if you don't recognize your purpose of earthly life, if you only work for the life of the body but not for the life of the soul on earth .... Use every day that is still given to you, for all too soon the hour of death will come for you when you stand before your judge ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love of the world .... Serious admonition ....

B.D. 5517 from October 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

People don't want to relinquish the world and so they try to make compromises which I, however, cannot accept. No-one can serve two masters .... especially not when both are entirely opposite in their nature. And thus, the world with all its pleasures and attractions is completely opposite to what you humans should strive for .... the spiritual kingdom, whose Lord I Am and will remain. You certainly live in the midst of the world but only in order to prove yourselves, in order to learn to overcome it, and not in order to savour it to the full and to satisfy your every corporeal wish, for then you will leave your soul dissatisfied to the same extent. You count on a natural decline of your cravings and wishes as you get older and think that you will still find enough time to consider your soul .... But do you know how long you will live on earth? Do you know whether you will experience old age according to your will? Have you any idea how poor and wretched you will enter the kingdom of the beyond were you to be recalled suddenly? Consequently, it is unwise to defer what is most important in earthly life to an uncertain time and thus you should realise that worldly pleasure, an earthly satisfying life on this earth, cannot be right in My eyes, otherwise you would not have to take into account that every day could be your last one. Every person with only a little faith in Me and a continuation of life after death will feel uncomfortable if he thinks about his sudden death, because he knows that he does not live in accordance with My will, but instead he silences himself with the world and its pleasures. Only total unbelievers have no second thoughts or qualms of conscience of any kind by getting out of the world whatever they can .... They have long quelled their indwelling silent admonisher which still makes his voice heard in those who are not without faith. My Words are intended for the latter to bear in mind that the world will not give them anything of lasting value for eternity, that they cannot take anything which seems desirable to them on earth along into the spiritual kingdom. They should bear in mind that they ought to detach themselves from worldly things and that they can easily do this if they develop the love within themselves .... Then they will find nothing desirable anymore if it belongs to the one who is My adversary and therefore devoid of all love .... Love will give a person the right realisation regarding the value and worthlessness of things, love alone is the counteracting force to the world, for anyone in possession of love makes contact with the Eternal Love and This becomes the goal of his wishes and cravings, the world will grow pale and no longer exert an attraction, the soul will receive more attention than the body, the human being will learn to overcome the world and live a meaningful and appropriate life on earth and need not fear a sudden recall either, for the soul will have found the path which leads to its true home ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Serious reminder to work on the soul ....

B.D. 5550 from December 7th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Without hesitation you should tackle your soul's work, for you don't have much time left. When I call these words to you again and again, then see the urgency in it, see My love for you and see the danger you are in. I cannot give you obvious signs, signs which you have to believe, because this would not benefit you but would only be a compulsive compliance with My will for fear of what you now believe .... that the end will come and with it the downfall. I want to save you, i.e. protect you from this downfall, and therefore I cannot interfere with your free will, I can only persuade you and make you aware of what will irrevocably come but need not be feared by you if you are in a more mature state. You humans on this earth, remember the responsibility you bear for your souls, for the imperishable within you. One day you will bitterly regret it if you don't listen to Me and My words, for then you will no longer be able to make up for what you can still do now. And you will have to suffer greatly if you lack spiritual riches, if you arrive in the beyond naked and poor .... And no matter how short your time is on this earth, no matter whether you are called away before the end .... every day could bring you treasures if only you wanted to use it properly. Why don't you tackle your soul's work, enter into intimate contact with Me, appeal for My grace, ask Me for strength to be able to carry out what I have given you as your earthly task; hand yourselves over to Me, i.e., completely submit your will to Mine, want to walk rightly before My eyes .... From now on live life with Me so that you no longer leave Me out of your thoughts, so that you constantly think of Me around you, and My love will take hold of you and also help you where you are too weak on your own .... only want Me Myself to take care of you .... want you to fulfil your earthly task, and I will guide and lead you, I will no longer leave you alone, and your will will become ever stronger to enter Mine, and then every danger will be over for you, then you need not fear the end or a quick death .... And then your soul will be saved and it will go towards a new life in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious admonition .... Materialistic outlook ....

B.D. 5705 from June 22nd 1953, taken from Book No. 62

You humans only have eyes for the world, you only lust after earthly treasures, you aim to satisfy the appetites of your bodies, you only move in an area dominated by matter but everything of a spiritual nature is silenced by you .... Yet your body is only the shell for what will continue to exist after your physical death, your body is only your soul’s abode for a short period of time. It is the soul which should accomplish maturity through earthly life, but because of your materialistic attitude you let it starve, and thus it will enter the spiritual kingdom in a wretched condition. The physical world is the kingdom of the banished spirits, although you live on it as human beings too it is nevertheless your last stage before your entrance into the spiritual kingdom. As long as you are so dominated by the worldly spirit that you only ever desire material possessions, that you only plan and work for this earthly world, you will be enslaved by matter, even though, as its master, you should rise above it. You are using your whole energy of life to purely reinforce the realm of God’s adversary when you strive for the world and its commodities. But you should use the energy of life to gather spiritual values, to acquire eternal treasures, you should voluntarily part with commodities which are short-lived and which will be taken from you one day, which you cannot take across into eternity. You should use your energy of life correctly and acquire everlasting values you can work with in the spiritual kingdom, they represent treasures for you which will make you truly happy.

You are more than just all material creations, because these were only created for you to serve you as a means to reach perfection .... But you humans fail to recognise their value, you are aiming for the world instead of recognising it as a obstacle to your spiritual development. You serve matter rather than let matter serve you, you allow yourselves to be controlled by it and become its slaves. And that means that you are preparing your soul’s death, that it will be surrounded by a thick cover when it enters the kingdom of the beyond so that no ray of light can get through this cover. Consequently the soul will suffer tremendously until the cover is dissolved, which could take an eternity, providing the cover does not get increasingly harder still and there is no further hope for the soul to discard it. You humans have no idea what you are doing to your soul when you are focussed on earthly-material things, when you only want to acquire material things. Recognise the transience of your surroundings and remember what is everlasting. Do not live your earthly life in vain because you only received it for the maturing of your soul, of the spiritual essence within you, which can only use spiritual food in order to develop, in order to leave the body without a cover when your hour has come .... Consider your soul and turn your mind towards the spirit .... because your soul will continue to exist but all worldliness will pass away ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Serious reminder to remember the purpose of life on earth ....

B.D. 5926 from April 11th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You humans completely forget your purpose of earthly life and therefore don't live in accordance with it either .... What seems important to you is of no use to your soul, for the sake of which you live on earth, and you pay no attention to what alone is important. You only live for your body but not for your soul and yet you are only active as a human being on this earth for the sake of your soul .... Everything you strive for, everything you think and do, will not bring you any success, for earthly success will not remain with you, it is only a dream image which you cannot hold on to, which will pass away and fade into nothingness at the moment of your death. And as long as it still exists for you, it only serves the transient shell of the soul, but not the soul itself. Thus you use all your vitality, your will and your thoughts on completely worthless things, but you don't strive for real goods, and thus you treat your soul wretchedly, you leave it in greatest adversity even though you would have the opportunity to help it .... You love yourselves, your worthless outer shell, above all else .... you are still very much stuck in selfish love, in a love which is wrongly directed and can never lead you to the aim for the purpose of which you dwell on earth. You see every day how transient everything is, every day you lose people close to you through death, you know that they have to leave everything behind which was previously worth striving for and that they will enter the kingdom of the beyond completely empty .... And yet you do not change .... and whether everything around you perishes, you do not direct your thoughts spiritually but only mourn after what you have lost and seek to regain it as quickly as possible .... You are fools, for you are darkened in spirit. The world with its goods makes your eyes incapable of seeing because it blinds you and you can no longer recognize anything correctly. And through your thinking you place yourselves into the hands of the one whose aim it is to keep your soul in his possession, which means as much as to push it into darkness. Your thoughts are only earthly directed and you forget the one to Whom you owe your life and before Whom you will one day have to answer .... You push back every spiritual thought, every thought of responsibility, you don't want to be reminded of it, and you dull your conscience to such an extent that you soon believe nothing more than what is visible and tangible to you and which you strive for with all your senses .... There is almost no connection between the inhabitants of earth and those of the spiritual kingdom which is still beneficial, whereas the bond downwards is extremely strong, for the human being establishes it of his own free will precisely by striving for that which is transient and still belongs to the realm of God's adversary. You completely misjudge your purpose of earthly life and therefore the earth no longer fulfils its purpose of being a place of education for the spirit .... which results in the dissolution of earthly creation, because this is the lawful consequence of living contrary to divine order .... For you humans live against this divine order .... otherwise your spiritual state would let you see brightly and clearly what your task and aim on earth is .... And every act of contravention must have a lawful effect .... which is why the end of this earth has also come, after which the grace of embodiment as a human being will be withdrawn from it and all spiritual substance will receive this external form to which it strives through its own will .... For the grace of embodiment is not utilized but abused, and thus free will itself determines the fate of the spiritual .... it brings about the end of earth because the law of eternal order no longer allows for anything else ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Exhortation to make good use of life on earth ....

B.D. 6408 from November 22nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Your earthly life as a human being is but a moment compared to the infinitely long time you already had to live through in the creations of earth, even though you were not fully aware of it. But as a human being you live a conscious life and yet of such short duration that it would truly be possible for you to pass the battle for the purpose of which you live on earth .... You had to suffer for an inconceivably long time before because you were bound, without strength and without freedom .... This long time has been an uninterrupted state of torment for you, which you will realize one day .... But as a human being you live in a certain freedom, and you also possess vitality in order to acquire final freedom. Thus you are, as it were, able to create complete freedom for yourselves and only need a correctly directed will to do so. The time on earth is only short, and precisely for this reason you should also muster the will to gain the greatest success from this short time on earth. For only what comes afterwards is the right life for you, but it can be exceedingly glorious and also just as painful .... Nothing too difficult is truly demanded of you humans and you could therefore pass your test of will .... And yet, most people fail because their desire for beatitude concerns wrong aims, because they already want to achieve earthly things which, however, can only be given to them in the spiritual kingdom .... They strive for wrong goods even though they know that they will perish with the death of their body .... They use the short time of earthly life wrongly, although they are taught about their actual purpose of earthly life and about the effects of a wrongly directed will and a wrong way of life. They only allow their free will, which was given to them after an infinitely long time of bondage, to be active in an earthly direction, even though they are constantly admonished and warned by God through His word, through His messengers, who want to help people to attain the right aim .... No matter how short the time on earth is .... people cannot and will not put themselves off until the time afterwards when they could reap a rich harvest if they had cultivated their land well during their earthly life .... But they want to enjoy beforehand, and thus they are content with fruits which bring them death instead of eternal life .... You humans are truly only granted a very short time to test your will, and you could pass the test if only you would earnestly turn to Jesus Christ that He may strengthen and rightly direct your will .... Such a request would truly not be in vain if only it were spoken in the heart so that it can reach His ear .... For every man who wills it becomes free through Him, through Jesus Christ, Who died for it on the cross .... He has promised you an eternal 'life', a life in power and glory, in freedom and light .... Believe His promise and turn to Him when you become weak and the world threatens to dominate you .... Call upon Him for help where your strength is insufficient to resist. For this is the battle you have to fight on earth, that you renounce what the world offers you in order to one day be allowed to occupy the kingdom which offers you imperishable goods and which lasts forever. Believe that it is possible for you to survive this battle on earth if only you call upon Jesus Christ for His support, if you hand yourselves over to Him Who has overcome death .... He will surely lead you to life, for He Himself is the way, the truth and the life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious warning to the world ....

B.D. 6761 from February 14th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

My word will always be doubted by those who still have too strong a bond with the world, who cannot keep a proper measure insofar as they only pay tribute to the world and do not think of their earthly task. My word calls for withdrawal from the world, it calls for overcoming the lures and charms that emanate from the world. And there are an endless number of them. And if they now pay attention to My word they will only be left with harmless pleasures which can no longer endanger their soul, and their desire will increase for pleasures of a spiritual kind .... Thus they by no means come off badly, it is just that they are considered by Me and not by My adversary. But the latter still has great power over the majority of people, and what he thus offers them will rather be seized, it fills the human being's senses and is therefore also constantly strived for by them. And then My word will not make an impression, rather it will be unwillingly rejected because it is contrary to their desires. And thus it can also be explained that every bond with Me is loosened when physical desires arise and are not repressed .... when the human being's eye feasts on things which only provide comfort for the body .... or when worldly advantages entice the human being into work which, again, only serves the body and not the soul .... Then My adversary will step between Me and the human being, and then My word will no longer have an effect on him either because My voice will not be heard in him. And you will always be able to notice that people who have already withdrawn from the world will lend an open ear to My word, whereas still worldly-bound people listen to it with complete lack of understanding and are rather unpleasantly affected by it because it demands something from them which they don't want to give: Renunciation of earthly pleasures and enjoyments .... And satan still has these completely under his control. Therefore you humans cannot be warned often enough about the world if you want to gain eternal life in bliss .... Anyone who does not believe in life after death will only laugh at such warnings and try to gain from the world what pleasures it can only offer him .... But I address the people who believe in it and admonish them to use their earthly life for the life after death. They only give away for a short time what seems appealing in order to then be able to possess everything, happiness and bliss, light and strength and freedom .... And the more they listen to My admonitions and warnings the more deeply and happily My word will touch them, for they hear their father's voice which, however, is not accepted by those who are still too devoted to the world .... Nor is it surprising if My word is doubted by those who should recognize it because they consider themselves My representatives on earth .... They too are mostly still under the 'spell of the world' .... They, too, have not yet been able to detach themselves from it, and therefore they are also still attached to My adversary who confuses their thoughts, so that they also lack the ability to judge when My pure word is conveyed to them .... And this not only applies to official representatives of My name but also to those who still combine spiritual interests too much with worldly interest .... who still turn their eyes too much towards the world instead of turning away from it .... Again and again I have to say that the world is not My kingdom but My adversary's kingdom .... that you have to leave it, i.e. overcome it, in order to be able to take possession of My kingdom. But then My word will also touch you deeply, and only then will it shine for you like a light from the heavens .... But you will never voluntarily enter into its light if you still pay too much attention to the glare of the world .... And My word is the light which shines pure and bright in the hearts of those who have overcome the world, who seek with all their senses the kingdom which is not of this world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Reminders to practice the virtues

Admonition to unite .... Peacefulness .... Love ....

B.D. 0548 from August 16th 1938, taken from Book No. 12

You, who are in contact with each other on earth, should learn to get on together .... you should respect and love each other, you should share your worries and make an effort to muster mutual understanding, all of you are, after all, your Father's children, all of you are a small part of the eternal Deity and therefore you are all the same living creations of His love .... And if you deem yourselves entitled to consider yourselves better than another you will hardly be pleasing to God, for it will become a stumbling block for you on your path to perfection. You must establish a relationship with each other which corresponds to God's will .... You will truly reap far more love where you sow love, and every heart you meet with love will lovingly turn to you. It may mean overcoming yourself each time, yet the advantage for your soul is extremely valuable. Neighbourly love should be cultivated and never be neglected or even disregarded, for your own strength will grow to the same extent as you consider your neighbour. Therefore, don't let discord arise between you, live in love and strive to balance everything with love, and don't offer the other person any reason for unkindness. Your whole nature should become pure love; hence, you must also take care to always give love in order to receive even more. And judge not, so that you will not be judged .... Time and again you should bear these few Words in mind if you run the danger of making judgments about your fellow human beings .... Everyone has faults and weaknesses, and many don't even recognise themselves and therefore treat others arrogantly, yet anyone who practices gentleness will also approach such fellow human beings with the greatest patience and peacefulness and leave the responsibility of judgment to the Lord, for He alone will make sure that these, too, will recognise His power and bear the last burden of their lives with profound humility .... Yet you yourselves only ever ought to fulfil your task with greatest love, which consists of uniting with each other .... of overlooking another person's flaws and only aiming to serve the Lord in everything you do, so that you will establish a relationship which only serves the purpose of proclaiming the kingdom of God to your fellow human beings .... and all your efforts will be successful if you only ever make true love your driving force. If you make an effort to give love, it will fall on good ground and awaken love in turn .... yet love can never thrive in discord but provide the evil power with ever more influence .... For that reason, try to abstain from all unkindness if you want to unite yourselves with the One Who is true Love Himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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Admonition to exercise self-control .... Gentleness - Peacefulness ....

B.D. 1003 from July 12th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Learn to restrain yourselves and become gentle and peaceful, for your time on earth is given to you as a probationary period during which you should reach full maturity, training and shaping yourselves for the benefit of your soul. You will hardly be able to fulfil your earthly task if you don't strive for this first, for all your soul's difficulties arise from your own lack of self-control. And thus hear what the Lord Himself is proclaiming to you:

You, My children on earth, have to make an effort to treat each other with love .... You have chosen this stay on earth in the knowledge of what you are lacking; you have many opportunities to combat your weaknesses and mistakes, yet you must also have the good will to make use of the possibilities offered and, through constant self-restraint, grow stronger and overcome your mistakes. Bear in mind, My children, with how much patience I have to overlook your weaknesses again and again, and yet My love for you does not diminish .... Consider how much more reason I would have to become impatient, and how I, nevertheless, in utmost patience and mercy, embrace My children again and lovingly forgive them when they have trespassed .... consider that My life on earth demanded an abundance of patience towards sinful humanity, which nevertheless did not recognise My love and repaid all the good I did for people with ingratitude, and finally made Me suffer so indescribably ....

How much did they humiliate Me and devised all sorts of torments and, without any blame, handed Me over to be crucified .... And I patiently shouldered even this most bitter injustice and nevertheless did not withdraw My mercy from those who wronged Me .... I implored the Father in heaven to forgive them their sins and did not turn away from humanity but tried to win them over with patience and love and thereby bring them redemption. And therefore you should also practise the virtue of self-denial, one should live for the other and only ever endeavour to ease each other's suffering, so that you will become perfect and will not have lived your earthly life in vain. And sacrifice all your worries and pains to Me, and you will become as gentle as doves and communicate with each other patiently and with love, and inner calm will enter your hearts .... and I will help you if you are in danger of losing yourselves.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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Exhortation to love ....

B.D. 3301 from October 21st 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The human being's innermost being must be permeated with love if it wants to enter into a close connection with Me which will earn it extraordinary strength .... He must give extraordinarily in order to be able to receive extraordinarily. This willingness to give must be an inner urge, without any external influence, without compulsion and without the thought of repayment. Love for one's fellow human being must drive him to give of himself, be it in an earthly or spiritual way. For the fellow human being whose essence has not yet become pure love is always in need of reception. Only when he has love will he lack nothing, for then he will be exceedingly well provided for by Me. But as long as he is still unable to receive My emanation of love and strength directly he has to be helped by his fellow human beings, and this is true neighbourly love, that the human being hands out what earthly or spiritual possessions he has himself, that he gives what he receives from Me in abundance in order to help those who can only be given meagrely due to their own fault. And the more the human being gives out the more he will receive from Me, for he noticeably draws Me to himself through his active neighbourly love and thus enters into the most intimate bond with Me, which earns him strength and grace to a great extent, because My love permeates him as well as I am near him .... But likewise, what keeps away from Me will be powerless .... Anyone who does not kindle love in himself cannot expect love either, anyone who does not want to give himself cannot receive anything, and his life will be powerless and lightless .... And because he himself does not help his fellow human being he will not be helped in this spiritual adversity either. Admittedly, My love constantly approaches these people in the form of My word, so that again and again he is reminded of the necessity and blessing of the activity of love, that again and again My commandments are presented to him in order to motivate him to be lovingly active. Yet he has to accomplish the change to love himself, he has to ignite the spark within himself since no-one else can do this for him, yet the smallest act of neighbourly love already brings him blessings, it will make him happy and stimulate him into further activity of love. The only path to Me is love .... Only in love can a person draw close to Me, and only through love does he draw Me to himself, only through love does he follow Me, and through love alone can he become perfect .... But anyone who is permeated by love for Me can only progress in his development because My strength and love will never leave him. He has, as it were, wrapped an unbreakable bond around Me which can no longer loosen, for love becomes more and more dense; he absorbs My spiritual substance into himself, i.e. his spirit unites with Me, he joins Me in order to never ever detach himself from Me again .... And only love can achieve this .... Love is the most delicious thing that can touch a person's heart, because it is My emanation and everything that comes forth from Me has to make everything happy. But whether the human being feels happiness depends on his ability to love, on his will for good. For as soon as he carries this will within himself the spark of love is also ignited in him, as soon as he has the will to do good he is urged from within to do good, thus to give love, and he establishes contact with the original source of love .... he receives because he is willing to give away .... And thus he has united himself with Me through his good will. But every human being can muster the will to do good, yet he must muster it without coercion or influence .... He can only be guided, i.e. pointed to the divine through My word .... And then he can act according to his free will .... And therefore love cannot be allocated to a person but he has to kindle it in his heart himself, yet the strength goes to him according to his will. But without love no human being can enter into union with Me and therefore no one can become blessed without love either ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious admonitions about Christian neighbourly love ....

B.D. 4096 from August 3rd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Recognise your weaknesses and try to resolve them .... don't become impatient when you should put yourselves into another person's position, and be lenient .... don't hurt his feelings, and take the commandment of love seriously when your neighbour needs your active help or encouraging words .... Don't provide any reason for argument but kind-heartedly try to find agreement, take My example, I Who approached all people with a loving heart to win them over. And thus you, too, should always try to win the other person's heart; you should leave nothing undone that could awaken love, for full understanding of the other person's weaknesses can only manifest itself in love. And thus each one of you should do this to the other, leave no opportunity unused to please with a kind word or a loving action, for if you avoid hurting your neighbour, if you give him inner peace, you will do a truly Christian deed of neighbourly love which will benefit you, for you will thereby strengthen him physically and spiritually. He will be placed into a state of love himself, he will feel love in return, and he will not fail to put his love into action. He will lessen his selfish love ....

Be patient and gentle, meek and humble, and your life will become easier, for love is the best weapon against animosity, and love forgives and endures, it gives and makes happy, it unites hearts, it heals wounds and will never be without understanding of the other person's weaknesses and faults and will finally triumph nevertheless, for love is strength which achieves whatever it wants ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Educational tools .... admonition to love ....

B.D. 4356 from June 28th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Understand that all means have to be used if My rescue work on you is not to be in vain. I have to use ever harsher means of education and people will be affected by ever more oppressive hardship, I will grant them ever less joy of life, for it is necessary because the end is approaching. People remain apathetic in their attitude towards Me, which is not for and not against Me; I have to rouse them from the lethargy of spirit so that they turn in one direction; they have to feel a pressure on their will which, however, has to decide for itself. Increased joy of life does not fulfil this purpose, and therefore adversity has to approach them, and thus I am prompted by you humans yourselves to show Myself as a strict God where I want to be recognized as a loving father. And yet, My love is also the reason for this means of education, for it applies to your salvation from spiritual night. You don't have much time left on earth, and if you knew your fate in the world of the beyond you would gratefully bless the suffering I send to you in order to win you over. But thus you grumble and complain and doubt My love and also My existence. And if you are given clarification you reject it without thinking about it, you become bitter and don't pay attention to your fellow human being's hardship because you only think of yourselves. Yet every act of love shown to your neighbour would ease your fate on earth, it would enlighten your thinking, let you recognize Me and give you strength. But without love you will sink deeper and deeper and the end will take you by surprise .... Let yourselves be warned and listen to My voice, don't just remember your adversity but look around you and try to help where it is necessary. For only love can save you, only love will I kindle in you, then you need not fear the end, then you will be saved from eternal ruin, then you will use the short time on earth in the right way, you will receive strength and persevere despite all adversity, you will recognize Me and remain faithful to Me even in the last battle on this earth, you will stand firm until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love – power reception .... love has grown cold .... serious reminder ....

B.D. 4990 from October 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Every service of love has the effect of receiving strength .... If you humans would take this to heart there would be no weakness whatsoever for you, neither in faith nor in knowledge, and your life would be easy. You would receive back a thousand fold what you pray for out of love, and therefore you would not have to fear any earthly worries .... But what is the situation in the world? Adversity and misery, unbelief and ignorance characterize people's state, and all this points to the end .... Love has grown cold among people .... Hence they also lack strength, which is the result of the working of love. It is a weak humanity which passes away in spiritual darkness. Love has grown cold amongst people .... You cannot measure how serious this is for their souls, for they thereby prove their remoteness from God, because closeness to God inevitably means receiving strength, but closeness to God is only assured through loving activity. But what do you humans want to achieve if you are far from God .... Then every endeavour will only lead to the abyss, no matter how eagerly you create and work; for without God you are enslaved by the one who is His adversary and to whom alone you owe your wretched state. God alone is your salvation, if you do not seek Him you will be lost for eternity. God alone is strength and power and glory, and in His nearness you will live in bliss. But if you are far from Him, if your spirit is darkened, if you walk blindly and powerlessly on earth, and if you enter the spiritual kingdom blindly and powerlessly, your wretched state will increase due to your guilt. Love alone sets you free, love alone brings you closer to God, love imparts strength and light to you, love redeems you. Overcome yourselves, you who are still strongly stuck in selfish love, turn to your fellow human being and have open eyes for his suffering; help him, be constantly active in unselfish love. Then you will increase in strength and light, you will strive towards God Who reveals Himself to you through your activity of love, to Whom you unite through your activity of love so that He works with and in you. Love has grown cold among people .... Take care that you do not belong to those for whom there is no salvation anymore because they have left God. Seek to secure His nearness through loving activity and make sure that your strength increases, that you believe firmly and steadfastly and let your faith come alive through love. Then the earthly world will no longer burden you, you will live in constant striving for the spiritual kingdom, you will feel God's presence and be full of love and strength, and since you now live in and with God you will succeed in everything, your spiritual as well as your earthly work will be blessed .... Do not let love grow cold, so that you will not belong to those who have to fear the near end, who are far from God and become a slave to the one who is His adversary ....

Amen

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Love radiance .... decision reminder .... will ....

B.D. 5989 from June 30th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You are already eternally distant from Me and close yourselves off from My illumination of love .... and you will still be eternally distant from Me if you don't open yourselves to My grace, if you continue to resist Me as you have done so far .... For now you will soon have reached your hour of decision, you can return to Me completely in order to live a blissful life, but you can also continue to resist, and then you will be banished again from My closeness, which you had almost reached already .... you sink back and have to travel the same path again through all creations of nature. And eternities pass before you are confronted with the decision again in the same state of free will .... You humans cannot measure what this means, but I know and truly want to protect you from it, I want to try to induce you to escape this fate of yours and therefore call out to you: Return soon, don't let the end approach, come to your senses before it is too late .... Distance from Me means darkness and torment, bondage and powerlessness .... Distance from Me means that My illumination of love can no longer touch you and that you are therefore wretched. You could greatly reduce the distance from Me, you had and still have the opportunity to come close to Me, and your will alone determines whether you want to remain close to Me or turn away from Me completely again .... And I, in untiring patience and love, try to help you and direct your will from where light and strength can come to you .... But I cannot determine the right direction of your will, it is left up to you, and that is why you fail .... Everything is within your reach, a glorious kingdom in strength and bliss .... if only you reduce the distance from Me and let yourselves be permeated by My strength of love. For you must seek contact with Me if you also want to be full of light and strength. You must voluntarily take the path to Me, you must want to reduce the great distance from Me, you must not turn away from Me but fully consciously strive towards Me, and you must believe that I am the father of all of you and can therefore be reached by every one of My children who seriously wants to reach Me. My love for you, My living creations, has not diminished, it still embraces you with the same intensity, it just does not force itself upon you .... For the strength of love must not find resistance otherwise it will remain ineffective.

And if you humans are not yet able to feel My love, if you do not yet feel touched by My love, then you still remain in resistance against Me, and you should give it up, you should completely hand yourselves over to Me, you should no longer want to possess your own will but only be willing to live according to My will .... Then you will have voluntarily submitted yourselves to Me, then all resistance within you will be broken, then the distance between us will be reduced, and then you will be able to come so close to Me that you will feel My presence and you will be able to feel My love .... for you will be happy that you can nestle like children in your father's arms, that your father will embrace you in His love and prepare for you a blissful life in eternity .... O take care that you come into this state before the end is there, take care that you belong to those who can enter the spiritual kingdom by the father's hand, who stand firm in the last battle on this earth .... Make sure that you have become Mine, and you will remain Mine for all eternity ....

Amen

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Warning against appearances and outward appearances ....

B.D. 6833 from May 18th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

I know all your thoughts, I know your innermost heart's emotions and therefore you can never deceive Me. I want to say this to all those who think differently than their mouths speak, who can indeed throw sand in the eyes of their fellow human beings but who must never believe that I evaluate what the mouth speaks but only ever look at the heart as it feels. And thus you humans will also be able to understand that every outwardly recognizable behaviour is pointless and futile, that it is only ever intended to hide your innermost feelings and emotions from your fellow human being and that it only encourages deceitfulness and dissimulation when people think and feel differently. But nothing remains hidden from Me .... I see into the furthest corner of the heart and I will also evaluate all of the human being's actions accordingly. For this reason I would first like to educate you into truthfulness, I would like to awaken the feeling of responsibility in you so that you will judge yourselves, that you will exercise strict self-criticism of your thoughts and actions and that you will drop all games towards Me, that you will completely expose yourselves and approach Me as you really are .... in order to then also recognize your faults and shortcomings and now work on yourselves with all seriousness. For the little cloaks which you like to put on yourselves in order to hide the real thing underneath are of no use to you. And I ask you: Are you more interested in the judgement of your fellow human beings than in Mine? What you do in a worldly way might well give you cause to cover yourselves, to put on a mask .... But you also play such a game of hide and seek on a spiritual level. Where the salvation of your soul is concerned you should remain truthful or you will only prove that you don't believe in Me as a supremely perfect, all-pervading being. And therefore the person who refrains from everything that is to be regarded as soul work and also openly admits this is even better to be called than those who give themselves the appearance of being good and pious and yet do no work at all on their soul. For these know what their earthly task is but they don't comply with it but feign it. And every lie is from the adversary, therefore they also voluntarily give themselves into his sphere. Anyone who seriously strives to attain perfection quietly works on himself, and fellow human beings will only notice little of it, only his way of life in love is outwardly recognizable .... Works of love can also be feigned and in truth be certain striving towards a aim, but even these are not valued by Me, for true love awakens in the human being's heart and cannot be replaced by external actions. All people should be told that I demand true sincerity where salvation of soul is striven for .... that I will not be satisfied with externalities if this sincerity of love is lacking, and that no-one can pretend to Me .... You should pray in spirit and in truth, and in the same way you should act in spirit and in truth .... But every outward appearance is pretence and deception, which the heart also recognizes and the human being therefore avoids all outward appearances as soon as there is a deep and sincere desire in his heart to unite with Me .... Then every outward appearance will only disturb his inner gathering, then he will also keep away from traditional customs which are nothing but symbols lacking the actual meaning. Many people lack the right seriousness for a change of nature, and yet this alone will earn them a life of bliss, for a deformed soul cannot be transferred into a sphere where it would have to perish .... It cannot enter the kingdom of light if it has not first shaped itself such that it has become receptive to light .... And for the purpose of this transformation it is on earth .... And therefore this transformation, the change of nature, should be pursued with all seriousness, for the human being only has a short time at his disposal for it which, however, is fully sufficient if he has the will to reach Me. Then I will truly assist him and help him to mature in every way, then he will recognize himself and call to Me from within his heart, and I will hear his call because he was sent to Me in spirit and in truth ....

Amen

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Admonition to humility ....

B.D. 7678 from August 20th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

Recognize your weaknesses and try to counteract them by humbly submitting yourselves to Me and asking for My grace, for help in spiritual adversity. For I will be close to the least if he .... as the least of one .... serves his fellow human being and helps him to his soul's salvation. The great will not always be the chosen ones but only true humility will secure a person's calling, and therefore only a few people are chosen, although many are called to it .... i.e. many people only needed to find their way into true humility in order to then also be chosen by Me. But all people still have too much need for recognition, they want to stand out from their fellow human beings, they want to be noticed and thus, as it were, to stand out, and this already impairs true humility which results in the receipt of unmeasured grace. But I leave every person his will, only you should learn to recognize what is advantageous and what is evil for you. As long as a person deems himself small and unworthy he will speak to Me in spirit and in truth if he seeks prayer contact with Me. And then My spirit can also flow into him, then I can bestow graces upon him without restriction. But if a person is noticed by his fellow human beings due to his ability to hear My voice within himself, his humility can easily change and give way to complacency, which is always a danger for the human being. And therefore you should always examine yourselves as to what moves you to communicate to your fellow human beings, you should know that every self-satisfied thought can grant My adversary shelter and that you then prevent Me Myself from dwelling within you and addressing you .... And you should be critical of yourselves .... if you want to serve Me in truth. For wherever you stay you must always pray to Me in your 'quiet chamber' and appeal to Me for My spirit. And can you withdraw into your closet when you are in the midst of the world? When you are surrounded by people who are not all of the same mind and often only expect sensations? You should not forget for a moment that I hear the voice of a child who turns to Me in thought and also answer it .... but that I remain mute when an unfaithful feeling reveals the complacency of a person who indeed prays to Me but not in spirit and in truth .... First purify yourselves from this feeling and you will appear small and humble before Me and not try to attract the attention of the world around you. And thus you can believe that I am indeed among you when two or three are gathered in My name .... but that you have no guarantee of My presence where complacency, arrogance or spiritual arrogance deny Me presence and the door is now open to the adversary, who will indeed also present himself in the garment of light of an angel but will not give you words of truth and life .... humility of heart is the best test, for I give My grace to the humble .... And you all have to test yourselves as to whether you have shaped yourselves into the right humility when you ask Me for My word. Then you will also be able to be certain of My working, then you will be addressed by Me and receive strength and light according to your request ...._>Amen

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Warnings against the adversary's

Warning against false prophets ....

B.D. 5987 from June 28th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I take care of My own, and every spiritual and earthly request will be granted, for My own will also only grant Me earthly requests as the spirit from Me gives them. And spiritually I always provide for them according to their will, spiritually they are guided and cared for by Me, because the attainment of My kingdom .... the spiritual well-being of their souls .... is the first thing they strive for and therefore My spirit can also work in them. And therefore they can go their way without worry, it is the right one, because I Myself guide them .... Beware of false prophets, yet know that there are also genuine ones, otherwise I would not have warned against the false ones. But you can recognize genuine prophets by their nature and their work. They only strive selflessly to protect their fellow human beings from disaster, from satan's influence, from their spiritual downfall. Therefore they proclaim Jesus Christ, Who alone can snatch people from that influence, Who alone is their saviour and redeemer and leads them to eternal life. These prophets proclaim their Lord completely unselfishly and at the same time point out God's judgment which will befall people if their words are not believed .... They announce to people what is in store for them if they continue to walk their wrong paths. But only their concern for the salvation of their souls drives these messengers to sound their calls of admonition and warning. Wherever you meet such prophets, there let My words come to you .... listen when they speak to you and don't reject them, for their love drives them to do so, and that is why I also sent them amongst people to announce the near end to them so that they don't fall prey to it .... Therefore you should not reject everyone who announces the approaching judgment to you, for he only wants to save you and not just frighten you. But many also seek to gain a source of income in such an office .... They associate it with an earthly purpose, and these are not servants of God but servants of satan .... For My adversary wants to cause confusion amongst people, and thus he, too, will make use of My words, he, too, will speak of the end in order to make people believe that he is speaking on My behalf, in order to then direct people's thoughts towards their earthly life in order to then cause them to pay more homage than ever to the world, and he will know how to portray the world in such bright colours that people's love will be increasingly more turned towards the world .... Many false prophets will appear before the end, all of them will make use of the statement of the true prophets, who will also proclaim what is to come yet not with regard to My kingdom but only ever put their earthly aims first, but who also make use of My words yet are not unselfish but seek to gain their own advantages. And therefore their speeches will not correspond to the truth, therefore worldliness will still shine forth too much from their speeches, for anyone who still belongs to the world cannot deny it. But you humans can sense who has been sent to you by Me if you want to be Mine and stand in truth .... Then you will clearly recognize who is speaking to you, and you will follow the call of the true prophets, for they only want to lead you to Me, they don't want anything for themselves and they despise the world ....

Amen

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Various gifts of the spirit ....

B.D. 6013a from July 31th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The spirit of God manifests itself in various ways, since its working depends on a person’s ability, on his spiritual maturity .... and it also depends on his disposition which spiritual gift will be given to him. To receive a spiritual gift always presumes the shaping into love, thus a voluntary total transformation of the being. God’s spirit can only flow into a suitable vessel .... a vessel, which thus was prepared for the reception of the divine ray of love through unselfish deeds of love .... Anyone who has not yet achieved this transformation into love cannot expect a gift of the spirit. Consequently, the gifts of the spirit are always merely the result of a loving way of life and never arbitrarily granted gifts .... They have to be ‘endeavoured’, which anyone could do but which is rarely done. The way God’s spirit takes effect depends on the task given to a person who was shadowed by God’s spirit during his earthly life, which God’s wisdom certainly recognised to be beneficial for humanity but nevertheless requires the human being’s free will. God truly knows who wants to serve him and how that person shapes himself, He will therefore place him where he is able to work most effectively ....

People in the last days have to be shaken up since their thinking becomes completely superficial, thus they need to be extraordinarily impressed in order to disturb their contentment. But even unusual phenomena have a completely natural explanation, yet what appears to be natural to one person is inconceivable to another because he is spiritually blind. Hence these ‘spiritually blind’ people are confronted by someone with ‘vision’ who can detach himself from his earthly tie and, as you might say, be lifted into the spiritual realm, and who returns from this spiritual realm to earth with a gift which cannot be gained in an earthly way .... He will work with powers which enable him to achieve the seemingly impossible .... by way of the Word he will be able to heal the sick or see the future clairvoyantly, he will possess profound wisdom and thus will also be able to inform his fellow human beings .... or he will know what is otherwise concealed from people .... He will be able to speak foreign languages .... the working of the divine spirit will clearly manifest itself .... but only in order to gain people’s souls for the spiritual kingdom, because the spirit of God only affects people spiritually and does not promote earthly interests. Hence the holder of a spiritual gift will always be a labourer in the vineyard of the Lord ....

As a result of this gift he will be God’s representative on earth who wants to establish and increase His kingdom and has made it his task in life. God’s spirit will only manifest itself noticeably to other people through His willing servants, although every person can be permeated by His spirit and thus also be able to understand clearly and precisely and be qualified to pass his knowledge on to other people. Nevertheless, people only receive in accordance with their will, and a prerequisite for receiving an obvious gift of spirit is their willingness to work for God and His kingdom. For God wants to reveal Himself through people to all of humanity. God wants to be recognised in His working, hence a person has to act as an intermediary as long as God cannot approach people Himself, as long as unbelief and spiritual blindness make this utterly impossible. It follows that God reveals Himself through His spirit, which manifests itself through a human being, in order to guide people into faith, to enlighten them, to make them see the light shining from above onto people .... in order to let them know the purpose of their earthly life and to illuminate the path to the goal .... All spiritual gifts only serve to influence people’s souls in the divine sense. Then powers will be released in a person which clearly testify of a divine influx .... the influx of strength that originates in God .... the strength of divine spirit ....

Amen

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Speaking in tongues .... Warning against wrong spirit ....

B.D. 6013b from August 1st 1954, taken from Book No. 65

And then the human being will accomplish things which seem unnatural to other people, which far exceed a human being’s natural ability .... He will know about things which are usually hidden to people, he will be able to clarify matters convincingly and comprehensibly to his fellow human beings, which a person cannot ascertain with his intellect alone .... he will be able to enter regions which are inaccessible to others .... He will have the strength to cure the sick, to perform miracles or even be able to see the future clairvoyantly, abilities will become evident which he never developed in himself .... he will speak and also understand foreign languages when it is necessary and beneficial for other peoples’ spiritual development .... He will be influenced by divine strength in every way .... but generally only have one of these gifts, since the requirements vary for each spiritual gift and all requirements are rarely found in one person. But each spiritual gift has to fulfil its purpose, i.e. it has to be possible to derive a benefit from each one .... The gift of healing the sick, apart from physical recovery, will undoubtedly also contribute towards the souls’ recovery, since people learn to believe in the power of the spirit, which is activated by the healer’s as well as the sick person’s firm faith. Predictions of future events, too, can motivate people to change their way of life, to do penance and return to God, because these predictions only ever relate to the earthly consequences of people’s spiritual low level .... Proclaiming the truth through the divine spirit also contributes towards the awakening of faith and a change of lifestyle, and again, should be regarded as a purely spiritual factor of utmost importance. Only what contributes towards achieving spiritual benefit can be described as the working of the spirit, because whatever originates from God can’t be anything but illuminating .... It has to bring light and reveal the ambiguous, it cannot emanate even more darkness than is already amongst humanity ....

However, God’s spirit can also affect a person in order to remove his state of darkness, to kindle a light in the person’s heart .... to reveal the soul’s layers, so that the soul rejoices and cheers and praises its God and Father, Who bestowed it with enlightenment. This influence applies more to the soul than the person’s intellect, hence the spiritual gift need not be perceptible to people, but it occasionally affects the outer person so intensely that he tries to express himself with incomprehensible words .... People call this process ‘speaking in tongues’, but it always just affects the human being himself .... it is a gift of the spirit which almost every spiritually awakened person can call his own but only in rare cases is it so intense that other people notice a change. For every spiritually awakened person feels the contact his soul experienced such that his soul raises itself to God praising and thanking Him, that it gives itself to Him and finds inner peace and beatitude .... Then his inner ego communicates with God in thought, then he constantly talks with God without words ....

Everyone should endeavour to gain this spiritual gift for themselves in order to speak to his fellow human beings on behalf of God and His kingdom, in order to accomplish the redemption work himself as His co-worker, which is blessed. But beware of the wrong spirit, because this, too, makes itself perceptible wherever it can slip in, where pride, self-satisfaction and need for recognition still prevail, thereby offering this spirit the opportunity to express itself in a manner that seems equally unusual. But instead of light it only leaves confusion and agitation .... caused by conditions which are off-putting to serious fellow human beings and only result in joy and approval in those who belong to this spirit themselves. Therefore: Do not believe every spirit .... and scrutinise it by taking notice of the gleam of light, of its intensity of light .... Because God is light .... what comes forth from God is light .... and therefore divine gifts of spirit categorically have to leave an effect of radiant light, otherwise they are Satan’s works of deception, which he particularly uses during the last days with the intention to dazzle people’s eyes as well as their souls in order to plunge them into even greater darkness and render them unable to recognise the true light ....

Amen

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Warning against the enemy .... fight against him ....

B.D. 6706 from December 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 72

My adversary's activity is unusually noticeable, for he causes discord wherever he can. He thereby leads people into spiritual and earthly distress, he tempts them into unkind actions, he creates enmity which can never give birth to good, and with a sneer he watches as people incited by him fight each other, as they try to harm each other and thereby completely fall under his control. You humans must be careful and learn to regard every bad word, every bad action as his work, and you must defend yourselves against it. For the more you give in to him the tighter the chains he puts on you will close. Where I can work there is peace and harmony, mutual understanding and forgiveness, because love is there which allows My working. And it is just as easy to recognize the territory where My adversary resides, for unkindness, hatred and enmity, betrayal and discord prevail in his area .... And you should avoid this area if you don't possess so much strength yourselves that you can confront the adversary, that you succeed in creating order by virtue of your love, in balancing and ousting the adversary. But he has great power in the end time which people themselves concede to him, for they mostly stand isolated in the world .... isolated from their creator and sustainer, isolated from the good spiritual world, and therefore they are good targets of My adversary's attack who, without finding defence, can approach them and who also draws them into his domain. For there is no longer much faith and love to be found amongst humanity which alone makes My presence possible and is a strong protection against him. People are already no longer alarmed by the fact that such obviously loveless actions and speeches are recognizable .... They rather call it a just struggle to master daily life and thus to repay eye for eye, tooth for tooth, what is done to them, be it in living together with fellow human beings or also in material terms .... They don't see My adversary's work in it, instead, each one seeks to assert only himself, and any means is fine with them. But they are already under his control if they merely allow an unloving thought to arise in them, if they use harsh words or carry out actions which lack love .... And they should let themselves be warned and flee from the one who wants to captivate them, they should seek peace and tranquillity in Me, they should resist every ignoble thought, they should try to compensate with love what unkindness has caused, then they will deliver a just fight to My adversary which will also find My support, because I can intervene helpfully where I see such an attitude which is according to My will. Seek to withdraw from every impure sphere and if you are unable to live in community with people who do not deny My adversary access .... then join Me all the more closely and you will find peace and tranquillity in Me, and My messengers of love will close a circle around you which the dark world cannot break through. But be mindful and look around you how My adversary continues to be active .... Recognize him and turn away from him. Everyone will have the strength to do this who only seriously wants it. He is overpoweringly active in the last time .... But an abundance of grace makes it possible for you to withstand and not succumb to him .... Make use of this grace, call upon Me for protection and strength against him, and your call will truly not be in vain ....

Amen

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Warning about communicating with the beyond ....

B.D. 7673 from August 14th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

It is My will that you should turn to Me in heartfelt prayer before you make contact with spiritual beings, because it depends on this heartfelt prayer whether the contact with the spirit world will be beneficial for you. Heartfelt prayer protects you from beings who cannot benefit you since they are not yet enlightened themselves .... But you yourselves do not know whether the souls of the deceased called by you have already entered the kingdom of light, for even if they confirm it you cannot know whether their statements are credible. Hence you should approach such contacts with the spiritual world very cautiously, because you yourselves already have to be in a spiritual setting which deters all evil, so that nothing can touch you and you are only taken care of and taught by beings of light. Dealing with the souls of the deceased is always very dangerous because you humans do not know which sphere they occupy. Although such conduct is not a sin if you are motivated by your love for these souls, but you yourselves won't gain anything and are more likely to lose if you thereby come into contact with dark spheres and receive misguided teachings or messages which are not beneficial for your soul. Consequently, I strongly warn you against such dealings with the spiritual world for your own sakes ....

Irrespective of what you are told by this world .... it will never match the profundity and wisdom of My Word, which is transmitted to you humans by My love from above and conveyed to you by messengers of light, if you are not able to receive it from Me directly .... I Myself want to be your friend and teacher, your brother, Whom you can approach with any kind of question, be it earthly or spiritually .... And I will always answer you if you desire it. I will tell you that you have to take the path to Jesus Christ if you want to achieve beatitude. And thus you yourselves should inform the souls of the dead too and direct them in thought to Him, Who is everyone's Redeemer from sin and death .... For even these souls will have to find him first before they can be admitted into the kingdom of light. You cannot provide a greater service of love to these souls than to proclaim the Gospel to them in thought, the divine teaching of love, which I preached Myself in the man Jesus in order to show them the path of return to Me, into the Father's house. You have to want to help the souls of the deceased, you have to give to them .... and not accept instructions from them, irrespective of what kind they are.

The knowledge about the future is withheld from you by Me, thus you should not raise questions of this kind to them ....

However, you should always desire spiritual knowledge, but this cannot be given to you by these souls. Nevertheless you can always ask Jesus Christ, the divine Teacher. He will lovingly enlighten you and always call you to Himself to appeal to Him for forgiveness of sin, to follow Him, in order to be guided by Him into the kingdom of light and bliss .... But without Him you cannot become blessed .... You should remember this, and if it is your will to live in accordance with My will then you will also live up to everything Jesus had taught on earth, what He expressed in His commandments of love for God and your neighbour: Then you will live in love yourselves and recognise where light can be found .... then you will be able to discern the value of spiritual communications and endeavour only to contact the spiritual world of light which can then transmit clarifying instructions to you. For you yourselves always determine the degree of light which you find yourselves in .... But be warned that dealing with spiritual beings is dangerous if you do not know the degree of maturity of the souls you are questioning .... Always remember that you should give to these souls, for they will all need your intercession in order to ascend, thus you should give it lovingly for their, as well as for your own, salvation of soul .... And then you will receive as you have given ....

Amen

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"Working of the spirit" .... Warning against mediumistic receptions ....

B.D. 7743 from November 12th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

The direct transmission of My word to earth can and must be assessed differently than other transmissions from the spiritual kingdom, which can very easily be of a negative nature if the recipients do not possess a very high degree of spiritual maturity so that they are protected from error by the world of light. Thus it is certainly possible for the world of light to intervene where this high degree of maturity is recognizable, but then it will always try to influence those people to establish the spiritual bond with Me Myself and certainly awaken a feeling of resistance in them in order to avoid the dangers which an intercourse with the spiritual world can always offer. People should indeed always unite with the world of light and voluntarily place themselves under its protection, yet as soon as it concerns accepting knowledge from them they should always be on their guard .... For it is My will to acquire spiritual knowledge through 'working with the spirit' .... My will is for the human being to awaken the spirit within himself through loving activity, which then unites with the eternal father-spirit, and that he then allows himself to be taught by Me, as I promised when I lived on earth. For it is a matter of conveying the pure truth to you humans, of introducing you to the truth, which can only happen through My spirit. Then those beings of light can indeed also convey the truth to you but they will do it instead of Me, they will offer you on My behalf what your soul is capable of receiving. But it is always My father-spirit of eternity which addresses the spiritual spark in you .... You hear My voice which you hear in your heart, which the physical ear does not hear because it is not the body but the soul which is addressed and thus you are addressed from within by My spirit. If, however, you are granted spiritual receptions which you hear with your physical ear, which are conveyed to you by a person in a mediumistic state, then a spiritual being will indeed express itself through this person but it is not 'My spirit' which expresses itself in you .... And you don't know in which degree of light of love that spiritual being is which expresses itself to you .... If a person's maturity of soul is inadequate it is understandable that he believes such proclamations precisely because they originate from the spiritual kingdom, for inadequate maturity of soul also means inadequate knowledge of the lawful order which prevails in My kingdom .... And thus the human being can never judge whether the truth is conveyed to him .... but he believes everything that is presented to him. And in this way much error is spread amongst people because My adversary can intervene where the degree of maturity is not very high .... But if the human being endeavours to live in accordance with My will he will inwardly resist such messages, for this is already the voice of My spirit which warns him not to accept everything as truth and which encourages him to seek the bond with Me himself .... And then he is also given the guarantee that he will receive pure truth. For even if he is not immediately able to hear My voice within himself his thinking will nevertheless be right, for as soon as the human being desires the truth it will also be conveyed to him, and he will refrain from statements by beings from the spiritual world which he is unable to judge himself from which sphere they come .... You shall let My spirit speak within you, and you shall prepare yourselves to be a vessel into which My spirit can pour itself. For I have given you the promise that "I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh ...." And therefore you should not try to achieve something by wrong means: the supply of truth .... which only I Myself, as the eternal truth, can ever give to you .... You should not take paths which can also be a danger for you, although I will protect every person from error who only seriously desires the truth ...._>Amen

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Serious warning against psychic receptions ....

B.D. 7977 from August 27th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

You should not trouble yourselves with doubts, but you should also know that you only receive pure truth from Me by merely wanting your thoughts to be correct and true. And you will always receive assurance that I do not contradict Myself, that therefore the spiritual information which originates from Me, which was conveyed to those of you through the 'working of My spirit' who allow My activity in you, must always tally. However, since My adversary's influence confused people's thinking, since falsehood and error are far more likely to be accepted by people, it has also become necessary to convey the pure truth from above time and again, for truth does not remain pure for long among people, for unkindness reigns and this darkens the spirit, so that it is easy for My adversary to proceed against the truth and to intersperse it with error, without this being recognised by people. Light is all you humans need in order to find and travel the path to Me and to ascend .... In the darkness you take wrong paths which lead off course, and since it is My adversary's goal and intention to alienate you from Me and to gain you for himself, he will eagerly strive to confuse your thinking, and he will do so under the mask of an angel of light. And the danger that he will be heeded is particularly great during the time of the end, because people are lacking love and therefore possess no power of judgment either .... They fall prey to error and then he will have won them over. For this reason I keep making you aware of the cover under which he appears. For he is full of cunning and trickery, he tries to slip in where he can show himself as an angel of light, where people look for contact with the spiritual kingdom .... but where the preconditions are missing which guarantee a genuinely pure spiritual bond with the world of light .... However, wherever the preconditions exist he is unable to intervene, and only then will the truth be guaranteed, because all beings of light work on My instructions and can only distribute pure truth which they receive from Me .... Yet can you humans know with absolute certainty that you demonstrate the preconditions which guarantee you this bond with the world of light? And can you therefore be certain that the spiritual realm conveys the full truth to you? Can you do this where it concerns psychic transmissions from the spiritual kingdom? Do you know whether it is impossible for the adversary to intervene if a person as a 'shell' forfeits his own will? Only a high degree of maturity will result in your protection by the world of light .... but in view of the great risk the beings of light will always try to influence people such that they allow the 'working of the spirit' in them in a conscious state, that they shape themselves into a receiving vessel for the divine spirit .... that they improve themselves in order to grant the beings of light the undisputable right to repel everything unspiritual from them and to only let the pure truth flow to them, which they receive from Me, so that they can instruct you humans if it is your will and you fulfil all preconditions ....

You humans must remember that the time of the end has come, that you don't have much time left, and that you should therefore accomplish the work of improving your soul with increased vigour .... And you must know that My adversary will use all his power to try to prevent this endeavour .... Thus he will try this where he is not recognised, where a human being's conscious will does not offer him opposition .... He has great power and makes use of it when psychic receptions are desired whose truthfulness cannot be verified by you humans .... Be warned, for the point is not that it would be impossible for a being of light to express itself through a medium, but the point is that you humans are incapable of judging whether a being of light expresses itself or whether the adversary's clever disguise enables him to spread darkness .... And this darkness can have a disastrous effect on you; misguided teachings can be conveyed to you from which you can only detach yourselves with difficulty .... But a misguided teaching will always obstruct the path to Me, it will obscure the light in you or extinguish it entirely, and the path to Me will be prolonged by you .... I want to caution you of this, for there is not much time left, you are near the end, and once a misguided teaching has taken hold in you it will take quite a while before you recognise it as such, and this time might no longer be at your disposal .... The possibility that you are offered truth certainly exists, but you are unable to judge whether it is offered to you and consequently there is always the risk that your spirit will become darkened if I don't seriously warn and admonish you only to believe those Words which are conveyed to you through My spirit .... for it will guide you into all truth, as I have promised you ....

Amen

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Warning against medial reception ....

B.D. 8149 from April 12th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

"Every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come into the flesh is of God .... "Thus you can use this as a touchstone to determine whether you are being taught by Me Myself or whether you have fallen prey to a wrong spirit, for this spirit will never bring My embodiment in Jesus, My descent for the sake of humanity's redemption, to your attention but will testify against it. But you must now also know that the counter-spirit often intervenes where it is offered this opportunity, when the human being relinquishes his will and thus an alien spirit can take possession of him, which you are not always able to recognize. I certainly always seek contact with you humans, and I rejoice in every bond you try to establish with Me yourselves, and where I find completely pure vessels My ray of love will also be able to flow into them, but this act should happen consciously; you should devote yourselves to Me so intimately that you will then be able to hear My voice in a conscious state, and then you will also be certain that your father Himself speaks to you .... But do you know the state of maturity of all those around you? Do you know whether you are protected against the influence of an unfair spirit which tries to cause confusion amongst you? .... You need not walk in error but you are not certain that it will creep in if you hand yourselves over to the spiritual forces as a 'medium', if you surrender your will and thus cannot defend yourselves if a wrong spirit takes possession of you. Yet these evil spirits are only waiting for this opportunity to slip in, and every impure thought, every preconceived opinion, every lack of love can already enable it to slip in, and then its 'spiritual knowledge' will be conveyed to you and you will accept it as 'My word' .... I want to speak to every one of My children, but believe Me, the intimate bond which every one of My children establishes with Me will certainly also earn him My word, yet every one of My children can hear it within himself, and depending on his intimacy, his dialogue with Me, My word will clearly resound within himself, his thoughts will be guided such that the child will feel that its father is instructing it and that it can completely abandon itself to these thoughts .... that they are truth .... Of greatest value is the inner bond which the human being establishes with Me himself of his own free will, for this protects him from error and also gives him inner peace and the certainty of being safe in My love. I have certainly said that where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them .... And you may also have this certainty that I Myself am with you and give your thoughts the right direction. And then everyone will also speak in full awareness what I put into his mouth, and then I Myself can also express Myself and instruct you by exchanging thoughts and, through the intimate bond with Me, being completely filled by My spirit .... Thus you will then speak in My will, which will then be a blessing for all of you. For the intimate bond with Me is and remains the prerequisite that I am present to you, and you can establish this at any time and in any place .... Then you are not bound to fixed hours which never guarantee whether everyone has prepared himself such that everyone is in most intimate contact with Me and then My presence is also guaranteed in every person's heart .... For all prerequisites must be in place if I Myself want to reveal Myself to a person ....

Amen

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Warning against "spiritual leaders" ....

B.D. 8307 from October 23rd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Whatever impartations from the spiritual world are offered to you can only be purest truth from Me if the knowledge of My act of salvation, of its significance and spiritual reasoning, connected with My human manifestation in Jesus, is made accessible to you, for then you will know..., that I Myself work through My spirit, that they are not just messages from the spirit world which is not yet permitted by Me to teach but which also wants to bring itself to knowledge, yet they are often secluded souls, they are not yet in knowledge themselves, i.e. in the light. However, they have a strong need to communicate with people and to pass on to them what they have represented in earthly life. The bliss of the beings of light consists in the transmission of pure truth, of the stream of light which they themselves are radiated through by Me .... Hence they can also pass on purest truth and are permitted by Me to instruct people who sincerely request the truth from Me .... For these are protected from all erroneous teaching .... Yet the kingdom of the spirits comprises countless souls which have not yet reached perfection on earth, which have already spread much error on earth but in the firm conviction that they stand in the truth .... These do not yet have full light but they do not give up their usual activity on earth .... They also try to influence people's thoughts from the kingdom of the beyond, especially when the latter voluntarily open themselves to their influence in order to receive spiritual messages, when they establish contact with the spirit world and cannot control themselves which spiritual beings approach them .... It must always be said as their excuse that they want the best but take the wrong path .... that they neglect to turn to Me Myself in an earnest request for truth .... How often do spiritual beings present themselves to them as 'guides' and find undivided faith in people who willingly accept everything that is conveyed to them. If these spiritual beings are put to the test, that full clarification about Jesus' act of salvation is demanded of them, then they will only ever convey what was known to them as human beings on earth, yet the true knowledge of it is alien to them .... And therefore they will never speak of the unity God Jesus either, because this light could not yet shine in them, because they themselves do not yet recognize their God and creator in Jesus .... because they themselves could not yet be permeated by the light of truth. If spiritual teachers are active who are instructed by Me to convey the truth to people, then they will pass on the flow of love-light which emanates from Me and radiates through them to people who are intimately in contact with Me Myself .... But then they will also kindle a true light for them about the act of salvation and My human manifestation in Jesus .... But what a spiritual being does not possess itself it cannot pass on either .... Yet the good will of the receiver also determines the degree of light of the giver who, with the best will in the world, would like to share their knowledge with people on earth and use every opportunity where they can divest themselves. But it must always be emphasized that I do not assign them this task because they are not yet mature enough for instruction in fullest truth, yet their will is not resisted .... My protection, however, consists of not letting those walk in error who sincerely desire purest truth from Me .... But anyone who is satisfied with every gift (transmission) from spiritual beings which he cannot control himself .... who unhesitatingly believes everything he receives from the spirit world, his desire for pure truth is not so strong that he could be protected from error. And again you must therefore make a distinction between the 'working of the spirit', between 'My working in the human being' .... and the results from the spirit world .... which you hear with your body's ear through mediums or which you express to your fellow human beings in a mediumistic state ..... And I have given you a sure sign for testing by indicating whether and how you gain knowledge about Jesus' act of salvation and My incarnation .... And if there is not yet complete clarity about this you also have to be careful with the acceptance of spiritual knowledge, and you can only ever be given the one advice to contact Me directly, as the eternal truth, and to approach Me for this .... And truly, I Myself will introduce you to the truth, as I have promised ....

Amen

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Warning against medial receptions .... "Spiritual Guides" ....

B.D. 8312 from October 28th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

It is understandable that I take care of all people in this last time before the end, that I try to instruct people everywhere and address them as soon as only a receptive heart can be found which lets Me speak to it and passes My address on to its fellow human beings again. It is particularly important to Me that people are admonished to love, because otherwise no salvation from ruin can be expected. And where people come together who cultivate this spirit of love, who live a life of love themselves and try to encourage their fellow human beings to do the same, it will also be possible to send messages to people from above which are only ever intended to encourage people to strive spiritually, to put the world with its demands aside and to strive for the salvation of their souls. And thus I will also be able to make Myself known through the inner word where all prerequisites are present which enable the working of My spirit in the human being. And then only the same truth will ever be conveyed to earth, because people shall walk in the light in order to cover the right path to ascent. Yet My adversary also works and dresses himself in the garment of an angel of light in order to mislead people, and this cannot be warned of enough. And this will be ascertained by such announcements which deviate from the pure truth, which you humans can check at any time. For as soon as I Myself instruct people I will not convey different knowledge to earth than there .... Therefore, as soon as the transmitted spiritual knowledge coincides, I Myself am active .... But if there are contradictions My adversary is at work who fights against the truth in order to maintain darkness. But if people's will is good they may also know themselves to be protected from the influence of opposing forces, and everything will work out for the souls' blessing. For the will of the individual is decisive as to whether he is touched by the pure truth and also recognizes it as truth. And the will is good if he gives himself to Me Myself because he strives for unity with Me and makes an effort to live a life of love in unselfishness .... . Then he need not fear falling prey to dark forces, and then he will also be helped in every way .... There is only one thing I have to mention again and again, that people should, if possible, beware of medial receptions .... For even though not every message from the spiritual kingdom received in a mediumistic state need be erroneous, you humans will nevertheless not always have the power of judgement to distinguish error from truth, and this is the danger that you must always fear being misled. For the beings of light, who in special cases also make themselves known through a medium, will time and again try to persuade people to switch off mediumistic reception and consciously request My word, they will point out to you that you only need to shape your heart through loving activity so that I Myself can use it as a receptacle for My spirit and My flow of love strength will then also pour into such a prepared heart. But if 'spiritual guides' make themselves known to you in the mediumistic state, you must always be on your guard, for then both the recipient and his environment must be of high spiritual maturity and sincerely desire only the pure truth .... in order to experience the protection of the world of light, which pushes away all unspiritual elements which try to interfere. But you humans should know that My spirit can and will work in every person who fulfils the prerequisites: that he lives a life of love, thereby attains a firm faith and then consciously listens within himself after heartfelt prayer for the supply of the pure truth .... He must earnestly desire the truth so that it will now also be supplied to him through the working of My spirit in him .... But then you will not need any instructions from the spirit world, which is uncontrollable for you .... although the truth can also reach you from there, because the world of light only passes on on My instructions what it receives from Me .... but this should happen again through the spirit in the human being which establishes the connection with the eternal father-spirit .... And spiritual guides, who are active in My will, will always try to encourage you humans to establish the bond with Me yourselves, so that My promise will be fulfilled: „I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth, who will guide you into all truth ...." and „Whoever loves Me and keeps My commandments, I Myself will come to him and reveal Myself to him ...." Understand that I am always ready to speak to you and to make known to you everything that is helpful for your salvation .... And therefore take the path directly to Me, Who is the eternal truth Myself and wants to set you free from everything that is still part of My adversary who, as the prince of darkness, also seeks to keep you in darkness .... I Myself bring you the light, and accept it and let it shine into your heart, and truly, it will only be for your blessing ....

Amen

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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

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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

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Loving but urgent exhortation from God ....

B.D. 8870 from October 19th 1964, taken from Book No. 93

For eternal long times you already dwell in far distance from Me, and you can now in earth life lift this distance completely; you can unite again with Me and enter the kingdom on the other side in highest happiness. You have the possibility for this, and everything is offered to you in life so that you just have to be of good will to now also lead earth life successfully. But I say: If you are only of good will .... but what is to mean, if you turn your will towards Me, then your will is good, and then you will also certainly reach your aim .... For it is only a matter of this will of yours that it freely decides for Me, for the good, the divine, for everything what corresponds to the principle of eternal order. Then man enters into the state as he was in the beginning, he has returned again and become a perfect being, which he was in the beginning. But that this way back is also a fight, that also My opponent fights just the same for his souls and that man therefore must freely decide to whom he wants to belong, that you all realize, and that is why earth life is no easy one; it demands power of resistance and perseverance from you, but which also guarantee the right aim. But now .... towards the end .... increased demands will be placed on you, you must muster everything in order not to become indifferent .... Your power of resistance must grow and your will become stronger and stronger, and therefore you need the help of Jesus Christ, Who gladly complies with your call to strengthen your will .... For He alone can impart to you the strength of will which you lack in the battle against your enemy if you want to reach the aim .... Without Him you will also hardly be of good will .... for this is good if you kindle love in yourselves, and love also acknowledges Jesus Christ as the redeemer of people .... But then you need not fear the adversary, for no matter how much he rages among men in order not to lose his followers, yet he cannot compete with 'good will', after all, this is already turned towards Me, and it also remains turned towards Me until all eternity .... As soon as you give up your former resistance against Me you open yourselves again to My illumination of love, which now causes you to change into your original nature, that you are now My children again, who now create and work in My will as they once did, but who are no longer merely My 'works' but have attained childship to God of their own free will. When I have reached this aim then I will have succeeded in the work of return, you will certainly have been separated from Me for an infinitely long time and this will have been a state of wretchedness, yet it will then only be like a moment for you compared to eternity, when you will be able to enjoy supreme beatitudes. If you would all believe these words of Mine and make an effort during the short time of your earthly life to reach this aim, you would not grant My adversary the right to have an effect on you. You only need a right will and strengthen it through the call of Jesus Christ, and you would be free from him who already holds you in bondage for such a long time .... If only you would listen to My voice, which sounds to you from above, which warns you and admonishes you before the coming time, where he will rage even more fiercely to bring you down .... But you listen more to the voice of the world, and you lose My wholesome word .... And I cannot help you because you yourselves do not want to be helped .... The last time passes because all prophecies come true and it comes as it is written. All of you will lose life, and if you do not belong to the ones who are Mine, whom I can rapture at the end, then only the last judgement remains for you .... that you will again be banished into matter, to cover the endless long course once again, until you are again as man confronted with the renewed decision: to confess for Me or for My opponent .... but that you can fail just as you now fail. For you yourselves have your fate in your hand; you can also now still use the time until the end, if you are only of good will ...._>Amen

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