Jesus Christ Is The Light Of The World

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

8151 - Man needs the light....

5836 - Primal light from eternity radiates light....

8679 - God is the source of light and power from eternity....

3997 - Apostasy from God and the way of return.... light - darkness....

7863 - Original light from eternity.... Jesus Christ....

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

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

5646 - The deepest knowledge was revealed to Jesus.... following Jesus....

8355 - Jesus' promises must be fulfilled....

5988 - Promise of life.... Jesus Christ....

5592 - "I am the light of the world...." light is truth....

8700 - Truth emanates from God himself....

8669 - Love degree is measure of truth....

7857 - Charity.... following Jesus.... truth....

6486 - Characteristic of truth: Jesus Christ.... Love....

7945 - Let the light of truth illuminate the way....

8239 - God's light of love is insight and knowledge....

7029 - The light of knowledge can only come from God....

6931 - Earthly knowledge is not 'wisdom'....

7771 - "You must all be taught by God.... "

3596 - God is the Word.... God's presence.... Different conveyance of the Word....

4969 - Light - Shadow of death.... Deceptive light - God's help by means of sickness and suffering....

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

7679 - Instruction from God requires bonding with Him....

7489 - Bonding with Jesus Christ....

5168 - Prayer for grace and strength, for illumination of the spirit....

6624 - Calling upon Jesus Christ from the darkness....

6061a - Light is where God's spirit works....

5931 - Jesus Christ is the gate to the kingdom of light....

3195 - Spheres of light.... different luminous intensity.... childhood of God....

6735 - Transference of light in the beyond....

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

3774 - Light from the height....

7719 - The light of eternity....

Man needs the light ....

B.D. 8151 from April 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The spiritual light shines out into the darkness .... My word sounds down to earth and breaks through the night that is spread over the earth .... For My word is the light which shines from above and penetrates dark regions .... My word is the evidence of My love for people who walk along in spiritual darkness and who will be swallowed up by the abyss if a light does not point out to them the danger they are in .... , for they walk along the edge of the abyss and are pushed ever closer to this abyss by My adversary and do not notice it because they are blind in spirit. Humanity has to be struck by a ray of light, it has to become sighted in order to now also take the right path which will only become apparent to it through the light. You humans must not believe that your God and creator leaves you to your fate, that He takes no part in your earthly course and its success .... For I am not only your God and creator but I am your father Who loves His children and wants to lead them out of every adversity and danger, because He knows that you are blind in spirit and constantly in danger of sinking into the abyss. And this constant danger is the darkness in which you walk, for you are completely without realization of what you are, what you were and what you shall become again. For you lack the light .... the truth from God .... You lack the knowledge which I alone can give you, because you once rejected it and are therefore to blame for your darkened state. I first have to give you this light again because you cannot acquire it yourselves .... which you certainly could if only you would kindle love within yourselves, which is a true light and gives you knowledge .... But you live without love and therefore also remain in darkness. And if I want to lead you out then I must kindle a light for you, I must give you a light .... I must bring the truth to you, even if you are not worthy of it, if you don't do anything to attain it yourselves .... But My love for you is great and it is the last time .... The danger that you will sink into the abyss has increased, and whatever I can still do to save you from this fall into the abyss I do .... And thus I let a light shine down to earth, I give you the truth even though you don't deserve it because you don't strive for it yourselves. But I know about your spiritual blindness into which My adversary has plunged you, and thus I kindle a light in you, and as soon as you don't resist it, as soon as you accept the light, the darkness around you will disappear and you will recognize the path which I show you, which you should take: the path of love .... I convey My word to earth and constantly address you that you should fulfil My commandments of love and that you will then also find your way out of the spiritual darkness, that you will feel at ease when you have escaped the darkness of night and entered the light of day. Because you are in completely dark territory, that is why you need a light .... And yet, you must receive it voluntarily, you may not reject it otherwise you will not be able to feel any effect of the light. And if I can only send you a small ray which makes you realize that the path you are taking is not the right one .... if I can only convey so much truth to you that you learn about your God and creator and your relationship with Him .... then you can already increase the glow of light yourselves by desiring to know more, and this desire will truly be fulfilled by Me. Only a small glimmer of light shall penetrate you, and the benefit of light will then cause you to kindle it in yourselves by practising love, because you recognize it as the origin of light. And if only this is achieved, that you humans fulfil My commandments of love, then the dark night will also be broken through, for the light of love will shine brightly into the night and chase it away, and the sun of the spirit will rise and all danger will be banished. And that is why I must send a light from above to earth, for on earth twinkling lights only appear from time to time which give off no light and therefore mean no benefit for people. The light must emanate from Me, from the eternal source of light and strength, and truly, such light will penetrate everything if only no resistance is offered to it .... But anyone who desires to stand in the light will also be illuminated by it, and through My word he will be introduced to vast knowledge which corresponds to the truth. And this knowledge will convey to him again the realization of what he once was and shall become again .... And it will make him seriously strive, for he will recognize the path which is now brightly and clearly shown to him and which also safely leads to the goal, to perfection, to union with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Primal light from eternity radiates light ....

B.D. 5836 from December 26th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

The abundance of My light shall outshine you if only you believe in Me without doubt and want to accept the light of eternal truth from Me Myself. For every ray of light emanates from the original light .... But what does not emanate from Me is not light .... it does not spread brightness but could only dazzle in order to leave behind even greater darkness. But I, the original light from eternity, want to kindle bright light in people's hearts, I want the ray of light to touch them as a blessing, I want it to illuminate their path which they still have to walk on earth .... so that they will walk it safely and without getting lost .... for they shall reach the aim, they shall find Me, they shall long for ever brighter light in order to finally merge with the original light of eternity and be eternally blissful .... For light is life, light is bliss, light is truth .... Light is knowledge of the deepest connections between the creator and His creature. To dwell in the light is a divine state which all of you humans should attain because this is your destiny from the very beginning. And thus you will now understand that only the connection with Me, the original light, ensures your light transmission, for in order to be able to receive something emanating from Me contact has to be established with Me .... Thus you will never be able to reach the light as long as you keep yourselves isolated from Me, as long as you don't believe in Me, as long as you don't open yourselves as a vessel into which My strength of light and love can pour. And this is your own will that you open yourselves, that you prepare your heart to be such a vessel, that you shape it into a temple in which I, the eternal light Itself, can be present and now illuminate you from within .... that I can kindle a light in you which shines brightly and illuminates every corner .... You shall attain the knowledge again which was lost to you due to your former fall into sin. And you shape your heart into a temple of God if only you keep My commandments, if you fulfil My commandments of love .... Then you will do everything that ennobles you, you will purify your hearts from ignoble desires, from vices and depravities of all kinds, you will cleanse them from all dross and adorn them with the virtues of righteousness, mercy, gentleness, peaceableness, humility and patience. You will only ever work in love and draw Me to you, because My love can now no longer resist your love. And once you have won Me I can shine My light into you in all fullness, and then the gates to eternal beatitude will be opened to you, then you will already dwell in My kingdom, even if you still live on earth, and radiant with light you will cross over into the spiritual kingdom .... And you will know everything that was previously still hidden from you and be eternally blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God is the source of light and power from eternity ....

B.D. 8679 from November 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

From Me alone the light goes out, because I alone am the source of light and power from eternity. And everything that exists was created out of My strength and filled with My light, which is the emanation of My infinite love .... And so you can also say love, light and power is one .... love, light and strength have their origin in Me, because I Myself am love, light and strength in My primal element .... But you, too, as My created beings, are the same in your original substance, for My divine strength of love could only emanate the same, which was only formed as a being, because I Myself am also a being Which has a thinking will .... In view of My highest perfection this awareness would crush you, because as a human being or imperfect being you are unable to grasp such, for you voluntarily stepped out of the former perfection in which I created you and are therefore no longer able to grasp that for which highest perfection is required. Your thinking ability is limited; the power of knowledge, as it were, is weakened; love as well as light and power are considerably weakened, which once was unlimitedly your share .... But it is always at your disposal .... So you yourselves can again acquire light and power, as soon as you ignite and nourish love .... the principle of divine order .... and nourish it, as this is your destiny as long as you are still imperfect, so that you will attain perfection again in order to be able to be permeated by My love, My light and My strength again without limitation. I am always the origin, and therefore the contact with Me is absolutely necessary that you can be filled by love-light and power .... But as man you cannot measure what happiness My radiating through with divine love-power gives you; you do not know about the exceedingly great feeling of happiness, which My direct supply of love-light and power guarantees you .... And that is why you make no or little effort to establish the close bond with Me in order to be able to partake of this immense bliss. You live indifferently because you are completely unaware of your own shortcomings as well as of your earthly task, your aim and your affiliation to Me, which you should only acknowledge yourselves so that it will be realized and earn you My rays of love. And even if the knowledge about it is conveyed to you, it appears to be little credible to you, and it does not fit into your world view, which is more familiar to you and to which you pay all attention .... And yet, everything that surrounds you earthly is only an illusion .... But real is your state of soul in its spiritual misery, which however can be remedied exactly through supply of love power and light, through union with Me, the original source, out of Which My love power current flows incessantly and only needs your free will to also be able to flow through you, so that you can feel a happiness, which you then certainly no longer want to give up, because it already means the intimate contact with Me, without which the love power transmission can never take place. You men are always to consider that I alone am the source and always only this source has to be sought out through conscious acknowledgement and call of Him, Who gave you life and Who also constantly wants to make you happy with His love power and light expression, only needs your free will to now also be able to work on you. You are to know that this is your aim in life and your task, to again cancel a separation, which you accomplished voluntarily, and therefore voluntarily again unite with eternal love Itself, so that It can now also again radiate through you with light and power, to prepare happiness for you. For once you yourselves were full of light and strength and therefore also blissful .... And so you also are to become again, because as man you are formed deficiently, you lack power and light, because you lack love, My divine radiation, which you once voluntarily rejected .... And what this rejection of My strength of love meant for the beings once emanating from Me you can already determine by your deficient state alone, for it is both the light .... your knowledge and realization .... as well as your strength is severely limited .... as human beings you are very imperfect creatures until you willingly turn to the eternal source of light and strength again and ask for the flow of His love, which truly will not be denied to you because this is also My aim from eternity, to permeate everything that once came forth from Me with the flow of My love in order to make it blissfully happy to an inconceivable degree .... For only in light and power can you lead a happy life, and light and power will again and again offer and supply you with My love, for light and power are the epitome of beatitude .... They are the evidence of My endless love, which applies and will apply to all My creatures until all eternity ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Apostasy from God and the way of return .... light - darkness ....

B.D. 3997 from March 11th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

From the kingdom of light you came forth and now walk in darkness, and that through your own fault .... God is the light from eternity, and thus He was the origin, and what came forth from Him had to be light again, for light radiates and spreads light .... And yet, that which came forth from Him sank into darkness, it lost its luminosity because it wanted to escape the original light, because it did not want to be nourished by the eternal original source of light and because it recognized itself as full of light and did not believe it needed an influx of light .... because it thought it was powerful compared to God, thus it exalted itself. It was not ignorance which caused the light-filled being to be arrogant towards God, for it possessed supreme knowledge and precisely this knowledge, because it encompassed everything, was the cause of its arrogance, and therefore its arrogance was a sin against God of utmost significance, for God's living creations sought to belittle their creator, the highest and most perfect being, for they no longer acknowledged Him. They became sinful and fell into darkness, i.e. into a lightless state where they lost all recognition, all knowledge. God withdrew His strength of love from the created being which wanted to escape from Him, He took away from it what its arrogant thinking had caused .... the knowledge and thus the realization of what it was and what it should be .... Yet He also gave it the opportunity to attain realization again and return to its original state, because it is not in accordance with His love and wisdom to be eternally separated from that which was created by Him. It can free itself from the great sin of apostasy from God and thereby also return to the state of light again, but then it has to give up all arrogance, it has to strive towards God's nearness, it has to enter His circle of light and love again and allow itself to be radiated through .... It must want to escape the darkness and desire light .... But you humans, who embody that which has fallen away from God, still walk in deepest darkness, for your will does not strive towards God and therefore you do not enter His circle of light either, and you are still far away from God .... you shun the light, and you remain without knowledge, without all realization. And yet, you are able to lift your distance from God in a short time, to bridge a gulf which you have created for yourselves, for God will assist you in every way with His love and grace in order to guide you to the original state which you voluntarily left. Yet you must also voluntarily try to attain it again, it cannot be returned to you against your will or you would remain imperfect for all eternity. But if you have the will to return to the exit of light, if you strive towards the light yourselves, then it will also become yours, then you will enter the state of realization, you will become knowledgeable, i.e., you will regain the lost knowledge, and you will now give up all arrogance, you will approach God in humble love, and His infinite love, which He has never withdrawn from you, will receive you again and guide you towards your former purpose .... You may work in abundance of light and strength and will be inconceivably happy. You humans on earth, flee the darkness, seek the light, and where a faint glimmer of light shines, turn there and step into this light and it will become ever stronger until you are surrounded by the highest light .... Take this call seriously, for you will never feel at ease in darkness, for after your demise you will experience it as unspeakable torment, and only light will give you bliss, yet then it will be far more difficult for you to reach the light. Therefore, make use of the time on earth, strive for knowledge, strive towards God, the eternal light, and let Him place you in the state of knowledge again, approach the creator and father of eternity again in love and humility, and He will accept you and help you attain beatitude, which you can only find in unity with the original light from Whom you once originated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Original light from eternity .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7863 from April 2nd 1961, taken from Book No. 82

My spirit has become effective in you when you enable Me to speak to you, when I convey My word to you and you hear it in your heart as My direct address. And this word shall convey the truth to you which you need in order to become blissfully happy. Everything you need to know will be announced to you through the voice of the spirit. For as long as I cannot teach you Myself you are blind in spirit, that is, you are without all knowledge, you are without inner light. But I am the original light from eternity, and all beingness which has emerged from Me shall move in this light, otherwise it cannot be blissful .... Thus I let My light emanate into infinity; I radiate through all beingness which does not oppose Me .... I let My light shine down to earth, I guide it to people who are lightless at the beginning of their embodiment .... I guide them into truth, into truthful knowledge which also explains their existence on earth and which provides them with information about the meaning and purpose of their life .... And this knowledge means light for them, which emanates from the eternal light and also leads back to the eternal light again. This knowledge is very extensive, for it encompasses My entire plan of salvation, it encompasses the work of My creation, the apostasy of the created and its return to Me .... It is an act of My greater than great love for you that I convey this knowledge to you, that I give you a light again, you who once rejected this light and thereby became darkened in spirit. But you shall not remain in this darkness forever, and therefore I Myself want to illuminate your earthly path on which you can return to Me again .... If you know about your past apostasy from Me, about your original sin, which was the reason why you once had to walk the earth as a human being, then all other knowledge will also become understandable to you .... And when I Myself can impart this knowledge to you through the voice of the spirit then you will have already come considerably closer to Me, then you will have already separated yourselves from the one who once dragged you down with him to the abyss .... You have then established the bond with Me, otherwise I would not be able to speak to you .... You have become free, you have escaped the adversary's power, you have consciously turned to Me, your will desires Me again, from Whom you once took your departure .... And you were able to set yourselves free because the divine redeemer Jesus Christ helped you to do so, without Whom it would never be possible for you to become free from satan's bondage. And the knowledge of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ is the strongest light which shines to you through My love, for it determines your beatitude .... You must be permeated by this light, for as long as you are without knowledge of the great act of mercy of the man Jesus you will walk along in darkened spirit and be unable to recognize another light. For in Jesus Christ I Myself, the original light from eternity, descended to earth in order to dissolve the darkness, in order to kindle a light of love in people's hearts which illuminated their path upwards. All of you humans will come to a crossroads on your earthly journey .... And then you will be pointed to Jesus Christ and you will have to take the path to Him, Who died on the cross for you humans in order to redeem the original sin of your apostasy from Me .... My greater than great love will try to provide you all with the knowledge about Him, I will also give you all a light beforehand by trying to enlighten you about Jesus and His mission .... But first this light has to find nourishment in yourselves and light up into a bright flame. You yourselves must turn to Him of your own free will .... And then your return to Me is also assured, Who Myself in Jesus accomplished the work of salvation on the cross .... In the darkness of spirit you lack all knowledge, and darkness of spirit is when My adversary tries to push you away from the light, when he prevents you from working with love, because love is the light from eternity .... And therefore I will only ever stimulate you into loving activity and do so through the voice of conscience as long as I cannot address you directly.... But My spiritual spark in you expresses itself very quietly for the time being, so that only a small help is given to you .... And your will will then decide. And when it has decided in favour of Me then My light will shine ever brighter in it; it will recognize Jesus Christ, it will recognize Me in Him and never ever will it fall back into darkness, for My light will draw it upwards, in the light it will recognize the path and reach its aim .... he unites with Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The Messiah came to the world ....

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

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

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

Amen

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The Eternal Light descended to Earth ....

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

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

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

Amen

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The deepest knowledge was revealed to Jesus .... following Jesus ....

B.D. 5646 from April 8th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

The act of creation as well as the fall of man, the spiritual beings' turning away from Me, can only ever be depicted to you humans, i.e. in such a way that you will understand what motivated the son of man Jesus to allow Himself to be crucified and why He has to be acknowledged as the son of God and redeemer of the world. The human being's degree of maturity also determines his power of realization; only rarely can a human being penetrate the deepest wisdom and thus understand My reign and activity as the human being Jesus did, for He was able to see through everything and thus also My eternal plan of salvation, the plan of divinizing the once-created .... This most profound realization as a human being was also only the result of His life of love, which thus brought about the divinization of Himself, thus the man Jesus achieved this aim on earth, as it were, which I set for the entire spiritual being, the beingness created by Me. The attainment of this aim, the divinization of His being, inevitably had to entail such a bright spiritual state that Jesus was able to recognize, overlook and see through everything .... but at the same time also the infinitely wide distance of people from Me, which could never lead to that aim. This very knowledge motivated Him to do something in order to bring My living creations back to Me, Whom He loved above all else, as beings which, through love, had assimilated themselves to My fundamental nature. Love for Me and for His fellow human beings was the divine in Him which now also let Him know about everything and thus also about the only path which was a help for that which had fallen away from Me. However, the man Jesus was never able to impart this knowledge to His fellow human beings .... He was certainly able to show them the way to attain knowledge but never to transfer His own knowledge to His fellow human beings. And therefore the knowledge about the creation and the apostasy of the spiritual substance from people cannot be gained in a school-like way, nor can it be presented by Me Myself such that the human being will have full understanding for it .... It is the deepest knowledge which only becomes the property of the one who wants to possess it through love .... Nevertheless, you humans are guided by My spirit into right thinking as soon as you are able to do so, so as not to fall prey to misguided teachings which can obscure or even disfigure My image for you, which would never deepen your love for Me. But true love can illuminate your spirit in an instant, and everything which was previously still unclear to you will appear before your spiritual eye with such clarity that no worldly knowledge will be able to displace your knowledge .... Then it will be impossible for you to harbour another wrong thought within yourselves, you will recognize as error what is error, but you will also know that you stand in truth, in right knowledge, because this is the light which flows into you from the original light, which cannot be conveyed to the intellect from outside but which everyone has had within himself since the beginning. On earth a person rarely reaches the degree of maturity which reveals to him everything that was revealed to the man Jesus, yet the right following of Jesus is the only path which reveals the secrets to him, and anyone who takes this path will also understand the work of creation, the fall into sin and the act of salvation of Jesus Christ, and the realization, the knowledge of My reign and activity, of My plan of salvation from eternity will come to him, of My eternal plan of salvation and deepen his love for Me, Who only let My greater than great love take effect in order to give and receive love again, and Who therefore will never tire of wooing My living creations' love until they offer it to Me of their own accord as My children, until they have deified themselves through love ....

Amen

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Jesus' promises must be fulfilled ....

B.D. 8355 from December 15th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

You shall be introduced to the truth by My spirit .... I gave you this promise when I lived on earth because I knew that you always had to stand in the truth in order to become blessed .... because I also knew that the pure truth would never last long among people, for they were and are imperfect and will never receive the perfect, pure truth unchanged .... You humans who think about it will never be able to claim that a transformation of the pure truth is not possible, nor will you be able to claim that I Myself cannot allow such a change of truth, for since you possess free will as a characteristic of your divine origin I cannot and will not curtail this free will if the human being makes changes of his own accord to the spiritual knowledge which originally came forth from Me as My word .... And this alone substantiates My new revelations which I send to you so that you will also be able to move in truth if this is your serious will .... It is so easy to understand that I, as the eternal truth, will only ever be anxious to make them accessible to My living creations, since I don't want them to live in spiritual darkness, because then they would never find their way back to Me. Yet seek Me a word from the scriptures which states that I will never ever express Myself to people again, because I will never be able to find My way back to them .... allegedly .... in this book of the fathers and thus now remain silent towards those who desire to hear the father's voice .... You will not be able to provide this proof, for My fatherly love truly knows what My children need on earth and also always turns to them what they need .... And you humans have distanced yourselves from the pure truth because you .... as long as you are still unawakened in spirit .... you do not understand how to interpret My word in scripture correctly either .... For you do not grasp the spiritual meaning of the word, otherwise not so many errors would have been able to assert the pure truth and humanity would walk along in bright light, whereas the opposite is the case .... And whether you learn all the letters by heart, they remain dead as long as the spirit is not awakened. But an awakened spirit hears My voice and recognizes it as the father's voice, because spirit speaks to spirit and beneficently touches the soul. "My sheep recognize My voice .... "Why do I emphasize this? Because you should all ask yourselves whether you are My sheep .... you represent My word which is written in the scriptures which testify of Me .... But then you must also represent everything I Myself have spoken as the man Jesus, and then you will be very clearly informed that I reveal Myself to people who 'love Me and keep My commandments .... "And then you will also not be able to claim that every direct address on My part contradicts the book of books. You yourselves have created statutes for yourselves and adhere to them ironclad .... For you the book of books is regarded as complete, which certainly contains everything that is useful for the human being to know .... but remains without value for the person whose spirit is not awakened and who (not) understands the spiritual meaning of the word. And if I now inform people Myself that and how the spirit in them has to be awakened .... if I want to help them to enlighten their spirit through My direct address so that they will also learn to understand My written word .... then you cannot deny such proof of love on My part or dismiss it as adversarial activity .... For then you will only prove that you yourselves are still unawakened in spirit, that you read My word and do not think about the fact that every promise I Myself made to people has to come true. And I said: 'I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth, Who will guide you into all truth and remind you of what I have said to you .... " I have said, "I will remain with you until the end .... " "He who believes in Me, as the scripture says, from his body will flow rivers of living water .... " I have said, "You must all be taught of God .... " and also gave many other indications about the "working of My spirit in you." But have you already seriously considered these words of Mine, how and if they come true? No .... for otherwise you truly could not doubt My direct utterances, you could not accuse Me Myself of lying, but you must believe what I have said and gratefully receive what I offer you .... And behold the great spiritual hardship around you which truly could not be if all people would read the book of books enlightened by the spirit. But since people do not fulfil the prerequisites for enlightenment through the spirit, which consist of unselfish activity of love, this book, which could indeed suffice to lead people to beatitude, is of no use to them either .... Yet they don't understand it and are mostly just formal christians whose mouths speak differently than their hearts are made of .... But I cannot be satisfied with a pseudo-christianity, for where unselfish neighbourly love is lacking there can be no light, there is no living faith, otherwise I Myself would be recognized in every word which My greater than great love sends to people from above because they need help; for it is the time of the end and only the pure truth can give people the light which illuminates their path that leads back to Me ....

Amen

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Promise of life .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5988 from June 29th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I will give life to those who flee death, who turn away from the one who brought death into the world and who believe My promise that they shall live forever if they let themselves be awakened by Me. I alone can fulfil this promise, I alone can command death to release you and I alone have the strength at My disposal which you need for life. Whoever therefore wants to live, let him come to Me and receive life from My hand .... whoever truly wants to live, let him desire strength from Me and he will be able to draw it without limit. I want to give you life, for I love you and therefore want to wrest you from death, I want to change your soul's lifeless state and give it the ability to be active for its own happiness .... I want it to be able to work in light and strength on earth already and one day in the spiritual kingdom .... But I can do nothing against your will .... Only when you want to escape death yourselves can you be fed with My strength, only when you turn away from the enemy of all life will he have lost his power over you and you will walk towards eternal life. Only when you direct your steps towards Me will the strength flow to you which guarantees you life, for you then open yourselves to My flow of love's strength and your hearts can now be filled with the water of life .... and you have escaped eternal death. But alone, without help, you will never be able to accomplish the release from the enemy of your souls, for your will is weakened and gagged by him, he keeps you down and you cannot rise on your own. And you would never be able to awaken to life if one did not have constant access to you .... One Whom the enemy cannot prevent from coming to you because He is stronger than the one who holds you captive .... But this one can only help you and release you from him if you want it yourselves, and so that you want it, touch His hand and let yourselves feel the benefit of His love. He steps into your path so that you will pay attention to Him and give Him the right to redeem you .... Jesus Christ, Who through His death on the cross earned the right to penetrate even the territories of His adversary in order to loosen the fetters of those who want it. My merciful love also comes to the souls in the depths .... be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond .... Where there is greatest adversity the saviour is near, there Jesus Christ obviously shows Himself so that people will take the path to Him Who alone can lead them out of the night of death into the light of life. He is the life Itself, Which took on flesh on earth in order to bring to life those who had fallen prey to death .... In Jesus Christ I Myself approach you humans and truly bring you life as soon as you let Me help you, as soon as you turn your eyes towards the cross and receive the strength to rise up, to resist and to free yourselves from captivity with My help. For I have redeemed you from sin and death .... I have purchased eternal life for you on the cross ....

Amen

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"I am the light of the world ...." light is truth ....

B.D. 5592 from February 1st 1953, taken from Book No. 61

I am the light of the world, and only where I am can the light shine, but where I am not there is darkness .... Anyone who allows these words to deeply penetrate his heart will also soon be touched by a ray of light, for he will realize that he has to take the path to Me in order to reach the light. But light is truth, and truth emanates from Me. And thus no-one can walk in truth who is distant from God, who has not accepted Me Myself so that I will kindle a light in him. But to receive Me means to make love your own, for anyone who lives in love lives in Me and I in him .... I, therefore, am love, truth, light and life .... Without Me you live apart, in darkness. Wherever else you seek the light .... you will not find it if you do not ignite it within yourselves through love, if you do not draw Me, Who am love Myself, to you through loving activity. There can be disorder in your thoughts, but then there is also disorder in your heart, then love is not in you, which orders everything according to eternal law, which also guides your thinking correctly and does not let any ambiguity, no questions and no doubts arise in you. Thus light is only in you when I Myself have found acceptance in your heart, because I Myself am the light from eternity. But you are free to choose the light or the darkness .... If you believe in Me, through Whom the light has come into the world, if you believe in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation, then you will also try to win Me, you will let yourselves be called out of darkness by Me, you will listen to My voice, you will recognize My commandments of love as My will, and you will enter into My will for the sake of light, you will long for Me, for My love, for the life I have promised you, you will recognize that there is no life without Me and thus voluntarily step into the glow of light which I Myself emanate, you will look for the light and also find it .... You will move in truth as well as you move in love .... There is no other way to reach the truth than through love .... And this will also explain to you the error spread throughout the whole world, which infallibly has to be where there is no love .... But love has grown cold among people .... Where is the truth to be found which cannot be where I am not Myself, which is not apart from Me and which has been suppressed by human unkindness itself. Where there is no love there is darkness, no matter how highly developed people's intellect may be .... I am the light of the world, but I am also the eternal love .... but where the light is extinguished, where love cannot be found, there is also darkness of spirit, there is error, ignorance, delusion and spiritual arrogance, for there the prince of darkness reigns who wants to displace the truth and thereby also the one Who is the eternal truth, Who is the light from eternity ....

Amen

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Truth emanates from God himself ....

B.D. 8700 from December 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Desire the truth .... and truly, this spiritual request will be granted to you. But don't search for this truth in books which are based on human intellect again, which are purely intellectual thoughts .... assumptions, for which no evidence can be provided. For as soon as you assume that people are capable of ascertaining the truth by themselves, you are mistaken, because pure truth originates from Me alone, as I Myself Am the Eternal Truth. Therefore I say, request the truth from Me, sincerely appeal to Me for it and you shall receive it. The truth, as I want it to be understood and which you should request of Me, is a wealth of knowledge of a spiritual nature .... It is knowledge which extends into spiritual spheres and which can never be substantiated by evidence .... it is the knowledge of your existence, its reason and purpose .... it is the knowledge of the Power Which brought everything into existence and of the relationship between you humans and this Power .... It is the knowledge about the nature, reign and activity of this Power, Which has created everything that exists .... It is impossible for any human being's intellect to provide a truthful explanation of this, such an explanation can only be given by the Eternal Truth Itself .... Hence you have to ask It yourselves. It is I Who can and wants to give you an answer because I Am the highest Authority and also the Love, Which wants to please you, My living creations, with this knowledge. But I can only reveal Myself to those who sincerely desire truth .... yet they will not ask Me in vain to impart the truth to them ....

However, only a few people have this sincere desire .... Mostly they are indifferent or they unreservedly accept what is given to them by their fellow human beings who also merely use their intellect but cannot guarantee that their reasoning was guided correctly. Not many are interested in the basic questions relating to their existence as human beings, and the belief in a God of love, wisdom and might is not always strong enough to ask Him for enlightenment. The pure truth, however, can only emanate from Me, and their wrong attitude towards Me, their God and Creator, is the reason why people live in error and devoid of all truthful knowledge and thus don't make use of their earthly life which could lead them to perfection .... Their indifference towards truth is a side effect of the human souls' immense immaturity, for they are still dominated by My adversary who tries to prevent everything which could provide people with clarification, because he doesn't want to lose them and can only control them as long as their spirit is dark, far removed from the truth; but only truth leads people to perfection, truth alone is beatitude, it is a light which illuminates the darkness of night that is spread across the earth ....

I Myself Am the Truth, and thus anyone who knows the truth is closely united with Me .... As long as you humans are not truthfully instructed you lack the light for your earthly path of life .... Admittedly, you keep walking, but where is the path leading to without truth? .... It can only lead into the abyss, whereas you will irrevocably ascend if you take the path of truth, for this is brightly illuminated and leads you to the goal, to Me Who is Eternal Truth Itself. And I Am truly always willing to guide you into truth, as I promised when I lived on earth .... I will reveal Myself in My love, wisdom and might to every person who simply desires in his heart to hear Me, to be guided into truth by Me .... This is the most important prayer you can send to Me, for this plea demonstrates your serious will to return, it also proves to Me that you acknowledge Me as your God and Father, and it is a spiritual request which will surely be granted .... For as soon as I can convey the pure truth to you, you will also learn to get to know and love Me in My nature .... And I want your love, I yearn for your love which is only deep and pure if you, through the conveyance of pure truth, know about everything, your origin and past relationship with Me and the goal which shall unite you with Me again .... Then love will ignite in you and you will push ever closer to Me and thus can also be guided into ever more profound knowledge which will make you extremely happy .... You will learn about My eternal plan of Salvation, about the Father's love for His children and the great work of return, for which every single person can also offer Me his services .... You will learn to love Me .... And this love will make you blissfully happy, for it will lead to the final union with Me, to eternal life .... Yet only the truth leads to the goal and thus you humans should strive for the truth, you should lovingly hand yourselves over to Me and let yourselves be taught by Me, and then you will indeed be instructed by Me, your God and Father, Who knows everything and Who thus can and wants to teach you everything because He loves you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love degree is measure of truth ....

B.D. 8669 from November 10th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

It is My will that the human being should live in love .... because love is the fundamental principle of a divine being and because you humans are to become divine beings again, as which I created you in the beginning. If you fulfil this will of Mine then you will also be obedient children who do not want to grieve the father, who gladly submit to His will, who no longer want anything else like Me, because then they will also have My will in them and can no longer sin .... Love is everything what I demand of you, because then all spiritual blindness softens from you, then you will also always recognize what is worth knowing for you and what helps you that your soul matures. You can believe it that you then also can no longer fall prey to error because love, which fills you, also gives you a clear recognition what has taken its start from Me and what from My opponent. Because love awakens the spirit to life, which rests in you as important part of Myself and which will always impart the right knowledge to you. You men could therefore no longer walk along in error when you would lead a love life .... But if you still think erroneously then you lack love .... You must take this to heart if you ever want to come into possession of pure truth. You will not recognize the truth as such as long as the degree of love still leaves something to be desired .... Because lack of love means darkness; it means lack of knowledge, therefore spiritual blindness, which can only be remedied through a life of love, through unselfish neighbourly love, through overcoming of self-love, which is never divine, but part of My opponent. Again and again the commandments of love are preached to you and again and again the effect of a love life and the terrible consequences of a loveless way of life are presented to you. But as long as you do not take this to heart, you will walk in error, and no matter how eagerly you believe to be in the 'service for the lord' .... which has no value before Me, where a life of love is not the proof that man moves in right, true thinking. The fellow human being should never accept what an unloving person tries to impart to him .... especially when it touches spiritual things which absolutely require a life of love if they are to correspond to truth. The preacher must live in love, but a life of love is also a prerequisite for understanding a sermon. And a right love must express itself in works; it cannot only be assured through words, because love is power, and every power will have an effect. That is why a spiritual connection with Me can only ever be established through loving activity, then the flow of grace of My love will also flow inexorably into the human being, and then a change in his nature will take place, which is the purpose and aim of earthly life .... Then man does not live his life in vain; it brings him perfection .... because the being once gave love voluntarily, and voluntarily it must practice love again to now also be able to be illuminated by Me again, what also helps it to the last perfection, so that it can unite with Me again, as it was the case in its original state. If you men would nevertheless hold up to yourselves the great importance of a love life, then you would also recognize how far fellowmen move in truth, if you only apply the standard to love. You are certainly not to condemn them but seek to help them .... But then you also know what you are allowed to accept from them .... whether truth or error is offered to you, for without love man cannot move in truth .... But love guarantees right thinking, and only a man standing in love is therefore entitled to teach, because I Myself can have an effect in this, I Who am love Myself. But a loving person will never accept or spread error because I Myself prevent him from doing so, for he is already Mine as soon as he has united himself with Me through a life of love, as I have promised with the words: 'He who abides in love abides in Me and I in him ...." Therefore truth must also be there, because I, truth and love are one .... But whether a man lives in love, that you know by his works, whether they are done in all unselfishness only for the neighbour's good or for help or are always only works, which show self-love or calculation .... Then you also have to be on your guard to accept instructions from that one, because then no truth is guaranteed yet, which starts from Me Myself, Who can only ever be there where true love is to be found ...._>Amen

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Charity .... following Jesus .... truth ....

B.D. 7857 from March 24th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

O take My way of life as an example for all of you and follow Me .... Live a life of love, practice patience and gentleness towards your neighbour, be peaceable and merciful and only ever strive to win your fellow human being's love, for then you will also encourage him to take you as an example and to live a life of love according to My will. Only love can help you to become blissfully happy, and therefore you must change your nature .... You must overcome selfish love, you must merge into love for your neighbour, your whole will and thinking must be borne by love .... you must not think of your neighbour in spitefulness, you must not harm him, you must not make yourselves judges over him, you must also patiently bear his weaknesses and only ever lovingly help him onto the right path so that he also recognizes himself and endeavours to change his nature .... And My blessing will rest on all will and actions, you will now follow Me in truth, Who was full of love and always ready to help. Therefore, whatever you undertake must always be determined by love .... you must always ask yourselves how I would act in your place? And your heart will always give you the answer that you only ever let love rule and don't give room to any ignoble thoughts in your heart. But you should also always remain in truth and not let your neighbour walk in error either, you should help him to recognize his error because it cannot result in blessing. Therefore, what you recognize as error you should lovingly present to your neighbour and leave it up to him whether he comes to Me with it and asks Me Myself for right thinking, for clarification. I Myself have promised you that I will not leave you in error if you seriously desire the truth, and I will also always fulfil My promises and give you light where it is still dark in you. But then also expect the answer in your heart when you ask Me questions from your heart .... Let yourselves be addressed by Me Myself and you will also hear a clear answer within yourselves .... It is My will that you enter into a heartfelt bond with Me yourselves, that you come to Me yourselves, so that you hear My address within yourselves and then also prove yourselves how you relate to Me. And I will always give you the opportunity to do so when you are moved by thoughts which you alone are not able to judge properly .... And then you should come to Me and ask Me .... and I will instruct you correctly so that you will feel clarity within yourselves and no longer question but act according to My will, because I put this will into your heart as an answer. And so you should all act yourselves who want to belong to Me .... you should also try to influence your neighbour if you want to be lovingly active towards him and protect him from error or wrongdoing. You only ever need the father, and just as I worked on earth with love, only ever taught love and gave love, so your earthly path should only ever be determined by love, then you will truly be true followers of Me, then you will work for the benefit of your fellow human beings, then you will truly be redeemingly active on earth ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Characteristic of truth: Jesus Christ .... Love ....

B.D. 6486 from February 27th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Everything that testifies to Me is truth, for My adversary will never bear witness to Me and My name. Consequently, wherever people speak on behalf of Me and My kingdom, where My name is glorified and My act of Salvation mentioned in order to lead fellow men to Me as well, where the clear Gospel of love is preached, it cannot be My adversary's work .... always provided that not mere empty Words are recited which have nothing in common with a 'living' proclamation of Jesus Christ anymore. And so you will always be able to form a correct judgment as to how and when the truth, which originates from Me, is proclaimed to you. For My act of Salvation will always be emphasised as a sign of the teachings' divine origin, which I Myself want to be distributed among people. Hence it should not be difficult for you humans to conduct an examination if it is your serious will to receive the truth .... In that case Jesus Christ Himself will be the touchstone, for My adversary will never preach Him, instead he will do everything in his power to undermine Christ's act of Salvation in order to prevent people from approaching Him for deliverance from sin and death. Only the love which Jesus, the man, exemplified to you on earth, can redeem you, for this reason His divine teaching of love must always be emphasised; love must be preached and lived up to by all those who are My true representatives on earth, who speak in My name and impart the truth to you from Me .... And once again you have a reliable feature of a genuine representative of My name: preaching love and loving actions. Where this is missing, truth cannot exist, because I Myself cannot be present where love is missing, but only I Myself can be the source of truth. You can always recognise these characteristics yourself, and where they are absent you can rightfully decline what you are offered, you need only ever make sure that you don't let yourselves be deceived by empty words, for My adversary avails himself of the same Words, although they can always be recognised as a deceptive light by anyone who seriously desires the truth. And thus it is up to you as to whether you receive truthful spiritual information and recognise it .... You need not live in error, it will never be impossible for you to recognise it, for your own will determines your power of judgment .... You may safely reject any spiritual knowledge which does not place Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation at the centre of attention .... For then I would not be correctly recognised either, since I accomplished the act of Salvation in Jesus Christ and can never be separated from Jesus again, with Whom I was able to become as One through His greater than great love for Me and for His fellow human beings .... Anyone who wants to acknowledge Me must also acknowledge Jesus Christ, for He and I are One .... And if this is not clearly recognisable in a teaching, it cannot be the pure truth, in that case unselfish love will not be emphasised either, which alone was the will of Jesus, the man, and therefore is My will as well and is therefore the epitome of the teaching Jesus preached on earth .... This must always be proclaimed but it will never be proclaimed where My adversary aims to suppress the truth and replace it with his own knowledge .... Pay attention to these characteristics and you will also brightly and clearly recognise every misguided teaching .... even if it is beautifully worded but nevertheless lacks living faith in Jesus Christ and the only effective love .... And accept without hesitation any teaching which testifies to Me in Jesus Christ ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Let the light of truth illuminate the way ....

B.D. 7945 from July 19th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

I will introduce you to the truth, as I have promised you .... For truth alone is the light you need on earth which shall illuminate the path that leads to Me, back to your father's house. Without truth you walk in dense darkness which My adversary has spread over you because he wants to prevent you from finding the path to Me and because he wants to prevent the desire for Me from awakening in you at all. Therefore he also tries to distort Me and My nature; he portrays Me to you humans in a completely wrong way, he gives you a distorted image of Me, he wants to prevent you from recognizing Me and loving Me .... he portrays Me as a being who is imperfect .... as a God of vengeance and wrath, as a harsh and severe judge .... as a being which lacks all love, otherwise He would not teach of eternal damnation and thereby only awaken fear and anxiety in people, which excludes all love for Me. But only love can bring about your return to Me. Love for Me must cause you to strive towards Me and thus to fulfil My will, which again is only a life of love .... Love is therefore the fundamental principle of My eternal order .... And you must be instructed in truth in order to gain a correct concept of the nature of your God and creator, Who wants to be your father and therefore courts your love. Only the truth gives you a clear picture of Me and My nature, and therefore I convey the truth to you, because then it will become light in you and you will recognize Me correctly .... For both I and he fight for your souls .... And that is why he wants to keep you in spiritual darkness, because the light reveals Me Myself as well as his nature and then the souls will be lost to him who recognize and learn to love Me in the light of truth and then also strive towards Me of their own free will. When I lived on earth I was well aware of the lightless state humanity is in as long as it is not introduced to the truth by Me. And therefore I gave you the promise that I Myself will remain with you until the end of the world .... that I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth .... But you must always declare your willingness yourselves, you must desire the light so that it may shine and illuminate the path which leads to Me. Then you will truly no longer need to fear darkness nor the prince of darkness, for he himself will flee the light which radiates from Me .... and he will always try to extinguish it but to no avail, because .... where the light from Me can once shine .... My guardians also stand and protect it from his influence. And thus it is only up to you humans yourselves whether you want to escape the darkness .... I will always kindle a light for you which breaks through the darkness as soon as you only desire light. Thus I will always convey the truth to you from Me, I will instruct you through the spirit as I did on earth, and if you accept My instructions and live your life in accordance with My will then you will also become enlightened yourselves and recognize Me, your God and father of eternity, you will love Me and strive towards Me, and then I will take hold of you and truly no longer let you fall back into darkness, then you will clearly see the path in front of you which you have to take in order to reach Me, and then you will consciously travel your earthly path with the aim of reaching the height where I Myself await you, Who longs for your return and therefore will always radiate bright light .... And the truth will make you happy which will reveal everything to you: your former destiny and nature and your aim to be again what you were in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's light of love is insight and knowledge ....

B.D. 8239 from August 13th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Wherever I can convey the light from above the darkness which My adversary has spread across the earth will be chased away. People who allow My light of love to flow into them ...., who thus read My word conveyed to you from above and move it in their hearts, will become knowledgeable, the veil which hung before their eyes will lift .... it will flash within them and they will attain brightest knowledge about things which were previously hidden or incomprehensible to them. For My light of love has a powerful effect if only no resistance is offered to it. You humans need no longer fear darkness of spirit if only you wanted to listen to Me and let My words penetrate your heart .... Yet you are mostly indifferent and yet you are offered something delicious when you are allowed to receive My word through My messengers. And if you feel addressed by Me then My word has entered you, your heart has been touched by My word and you awaken from a state of twilight which is your fate as long as you have no spiritual knowledge .... But if these are offered to you in the form of My word then they will also make you happy as soon as you are of good will, i.e. if you want to fulfil the will of your God and father Who called you into being. As long as you are ignorant you will only live your earthly life ..... But if you are given knowledge which corresponds to the truth then you will start to live a spiritual life on this earth. And then you will become enlightened, you will ask questions and receive answers, for I Myself will intervene in your thinking when I see that you desire light. And only now will life appear worth living to you, although you separate yourselves from the desire for matter, but you have recognized a higher purpose and you will pursue it and seek to reach the goal. My will is only that you step out of darkness, that you desire the light and gratefully accept it from Me when I kindle a light in your hearts, when I convey knowledge to you which signifies light for you, because you enter earth completely ignorant and life is and remains an idle course for you as long as you don't kindle a light within yourselves in which you now recognize everything brightly and clearly and thus can now also live a conscious earthly life .... conscious of your outcome, your earthly task and the goal which consists of unification with Me .... And you can receive this knowledge from Me at any time if you listen to My word from above and live it out, if you are not only listeners but doers of My word. Then all shadows will vanish, the correlations will be bright and clear to you and you will also gain knowledge of My nature, you will feel that I Myself am love and you will then also offer your love to Me .... then you can no longer remain in the night of death, you long for light yourselves and I will also let it shine brightly in you, for I love you and don't want you to dwell in darkness .... I Myself am the light from eternity which descends to you, which shines into your hearts and shall only be willingly accepted by you in order to then also make you unspeakably happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The light of knowledge can only come from God ....

B.D. 7029 from January 31th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

Only from above will you receive a light, but from the depths only darkness will touch you .... And thus you can also easily check whether spiritual knowledge flows to you from above or from deep regions, whether you receive clear knowledge or you get into confused thinking, whether the correlations are clearly apparent to you or you are only plunged from one question into another .... Light is cognition, clear knowledge, enlightenment about things that were hitherto in the dark for you. But if spiritual knowledge is conveyed to you from the abyss then you will move in perpetual obscurity, it will be impossible for you to find a connection and you will always become more confused in your thinking. For every erroneous train of thought ends in a dead end, you will find no way out, no clarification, no answer which satisfies you if you seriously want to receive such .... while the light from above shines into every dark corner and there is nothing which the light cannot penetrate .... The human being will receive a clear picture of all spiritual correlations, of God Himself and His creation, of His plan of salvation, His reign and activity .... But such light can only come to him from where it has its origin .... from the original light from eternity .... But anyone who is introduced to such knowledge will solve all problems, all riddles; he will be able to understand and also speak intelligibly to his fellow human being if he also seriously desires clarification. But what originates in the depths can never satisfy a truth-loving person because it always brings more confusion and appears to a thinking person as utter nonsense. And therefore it is certainly possible to test spiritual knowledge as to its origin, however, only for the one who tests with the desire for truth .... Anyone who does not have this desire for truth will not accept any light either, because his attitude creates a dense cover around him which does not allow any ray of light to pass through. But the light is there, it shines brightly and radiantly so that these rays also attract others, only it does not forcibly break through where it encounters resistance. But every resistance is abandoned as soon as the human being turns to God before a test and asks for enlightenment of his spirit, for right thinking .... Then the rays of light will touch him with all their strength .... Knowledge will open up to him which can only be imparted to him from God. And this knowledge will fill him with emotion and inwardly urge him to pass it on. And then there will be no more doubts for him, there will be no unresolved questions, for as soon as just one question arises it will also be clearly answered for him .... mentally or through direct address or also through attention in an indirect way .... The human being has to get in touch with 'above' .... he cannot expect that a light can shine for him from the depths, and he must assume that earth or fellow human beings are still in the realm of the depths, which is why he is compelled to make a serious examination, as well as spiritual knowledge is conveyed to him in the usual way .... For people can err, and they also err if they have not first made contact with God, if they have not likewise requested their knowledge from 'above' and allowed the light from above to flow into them. But God does not err, and the transmission of His word through the spirit will also give people full light, so that the secrets of creation will also be revealed to them and every event, every experience, will become understandable to them, so that they will also recognize their purpose of existence and their own relationship to God. Anyone who is once enlightened about this will no longer walk in darkness, and he will now walk his path through life consciously, he will strive towards the aim set for him and he will know that he is taking the right path. But if he is given spiritual knowledge which comes from the depths, then it will neither enliven nor stimulate him to conscious soul work. For he will not make sense of what could determine a creator to give life to the human being, he will constantly give himself new explanations and reasons and again and again reject them, he will not have a clear picture of God Himself and His working, instead he will have confused concepts which either make him indifferent or affect him unpleasantly, which therefore will not give him light but spread ever more darkness within him. And as long as you humans are unable to see clearly you also know that no light from above has been given to you .... no truth emanating from God in which you feel comfortable and which makes you happy. For even if you intellectually strive for enlightenment you are in a maze from which you will only find your way out if God Himself guides you .... Therefore you must call upon Him and appeal to Him for light, and then it will also shine down upon you and the truth will spread out before you as bright as the sun. And therefore examine yourselves whether the spiritual knowledge you possess gives you fullest clarity and recognition .... Test yourselves as to whether you are faced with unsolved riddles or whether you are able to recognize God's plan of salvation in every event .... Examine yourselves whether the knowledge you have been given satisfies you and whether it corresponds to the image you have in mind of a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence .... And don't believe that it is God's will that you walk in darkness. He wants to give you all light, He wants to make you happy with the pure truth, He wants you to enter the original state again when you knew everything with the greatest of light and were aware of everything .... And therefore He Himself repeatedly guides His light to earth, and anyone who allows it to flow into him will also turn ever more towards the light of eternity, he will strive for unification with Him and thus also enter the original state again, in which he is blissfully happy and will remain forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earthly knowledge is not 'wisdom' ....

B.D. 6931 from September 30th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Even if you deem yourselves wise, you are nothing of the kind as long as I cannot let My light shine into you to enlighten your spirit. For that which you consider knowledge will not make you happy for long, even if it comes close to the truth, for it is merely earthly knowledge .... knowledge, which relates to everything you deem worthy of knowing for your earthly life. Were you to forego your physical life tomorrow this knowledge would also be lost to you if you could not show any spiritual progress. But those of you who don't strive spiritually do not possess wisdom. Wisdom is the realisation of everlasting knowledge, which comes forth from Me alone and flows to the one who sincerely desires it. However, you humans only ever judge intellectual results and deny the value of all spiritually gained conclusions. You thereby only prove that you are still unenlightened, that you exist in a pitiful state because the time you lived on earth has so far been completely useless. You are chasing after the wrong possessions if you content yourselves with the information you have gained so far, which exclusively answers earthly questions and solves problems which, from a spiritual point of view, are worthless. You miss the purpose of your earthly life which solely consists of changing your soul's spiritual darkness, of dissolving its layers which prevent the penetration of light. You don't even know the purpose of your earthly life, you don't know about the actual task you are given, but you believe yourselves to be wise if you possess purely earthly-orientated knowledge .... if you have a keen intellect at your disposal and solely use this divine gift to research and ponder with a purely earthly goal in mind ....

You can attain an eminent reputation on earth, you can indeed achieve great things compared to your fellow human beings, but you cannot call yourselves wise, since by virtue of your intellect you will be unable to fathom anything which lies beyond the sphere of human habitation .... And at the end of your life you will have to admit that you know nothing, if you approach your end consciously, if you come close to passing through the gate to eternity and you think about the accomplishments of your earthly progress .... Then your own self-assurance will leave you; then you might perhaps even become aware of the futility of your efforts, and you would be grateful if you could still receive a small glimmer of light about the human being's real purpose of life. If you .... who deem yourselves wise .... are offered a light during earthly life you spurn it due to self-importance, for while you are influenced by deceptive light you cannot feel the gentle radiance which, however, would enter your heart, whilst the deceptive light .... your intellectual knowledge .... cannot spread inner clarity. You should never reject a light if it illuminates you unusually, your should not try to explain such light intellectually, you should close your eyes, which are already weakened by the deceptive light, and let the true light shine into your heart, that means, you should put all your earthly knowledge aside for once and simply listen quietly when you hear Words of wisdom .... You should make time to let your thoughts roam into a region which is unknown to you, and long to learn more about it .... And every such thought will become a blessing for you .... For then you will receive knowledge which you will recognise as 'wisdom from God' and which will truly gain you greater success than the worldly knowledge you strive for .... which will vanish, just as your body will vanish, and which has not provided the soul with the slightest progress .... which left it in the same darkness it was in when it came to earth as a human being ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"You must all be taught by God .... "

B.D. 7771 from December 13th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

What happened at the time of My life on earth also happens today insofar as I teach you again as I once taught My disciples .... You are therefore taught by 'God Himself' .... And so you must also be instructed in the truth, because God is the eternal truth .... People did not recognize Me when I dwelled amongst them and brought them My teaching of love, when I introduced them to a knowledge which only I Myself could bring to them .... But those who were in love also believed what I imparted to them; they soon recognized that they were not human words but God's words, and therefore they also accepted My teachings .... And thus people today are also addressed by Me, and those who live in love recognize the father's voice, the voice of their God and creator of eternity, and they also accept My teachings .... And again, it is My divine commandments of love which I place as a priority for you humans, because you only recognize Me correctly when you have awakened the spirit within yourselves through love. For the spirit within you is My share, it is also the one who teaches, so that you, too, can say: You are taught by God .... I no longer physically dwell on earth as I did then, but nevertheless I am with you as I promised: “Until the end of the world ...." and when I speak to you through the spirit, I thereby prove My presence to you, and you can .... just as My disciples did at that time .... recognize that your God and creator, your father, speaks to you. But you must live in love, because without love the spirit in you can never awaken to life, because without love it cannot express itself and you will feel nothing of the 'presence of God'. But as soon as I can speak to you I will also always place love as the most important thing, I will repeatedly emphasize My commandments of love, I will admonish people to love and hold the greatest work of love before their eyes: My sacrificial death on the cross, which only love could accomplish and with which I crowned My life on earth as a human being, so that you were redeemed from sin and death. And thus My word today will also repeatedly refer to Jesus Christ's act of salvation, for you humans must know that My love has redeemed the guilt of sin for you and that you can only become blissfully happy if you acknowledge My act of salvation, if you acknowledge Me Myself in Jesus Christ and appeal for forgiveness of your guilt of sin. And therefore you humans must also know about the reason for this act of salvation, about your past great guilt and about My greater than great love .... And this knowledge is conveyed to you through My word, and you will be taught by Me Myself, just as I once taught My disciples who were to experience the act of salvation and then testify to it .... And you, too, who hear My word, you shall proclaim to those who are without knowledge or without faith in Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer .... For all people shall learn why I lived on earth; all people shall learn that they must not reject Jesus Christ, because then they would also reject Me Myself and eternally no longer be able to attain life .... They must find their way to Me one day, for this is why I died on the cross, so that their guilt is forgiven .... And they themselves must want and take the path to the cross, to Me in Jesus Christ .... They must live in love so that they learn to believe and then also allow themselves to be grasped by eternal love .... And I will never leave people to their own devices, for I have given you the promise to remain with you until the end of the world .... And thus I will also address you and teach you as I taught My disciples when I walked the earth ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God is the Word .... God's presence .... Different conveyance of the Word ....

B.D. 3596 from November 7th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

And thus I Am in the midst of you in the Word as I have promised. I won't leave you on your own and you shall also feel My presence, and so I draw near to you in the Word, for I Myself Am the Word and anyone who has My Word can also speak of My presence and feel protected near to Me. I Myself Am a Spirit Which is not bound to any material form but is strength and light to the highest degree and Which, due to Its will and Its thinking ability, has to be addressed as a Being, Which takes effect with love and wisdom and therefore emanates love and wisdom into eternity. And My love expresses the strength and the light in a form which you humans can become aware of, as you are not yet mature enough in order to receive strength and light in its fundamental substance .... And this expression is My Word, which I convey to you so that you shall gain maturity .... A Spirit which is light and strength in itself can in fact only be present in the form of light and strength, and thus My Word, the emanation of Myself, has to incorporate light and strength within itself, and this characterises My closeness. And therefore I gave you the promise that I will stay with you until the end of the world .... by the fact that My spirit is always with you who want to receive light and strength .... by the fact that My directly emanated Word is constantly conveyed to you in order to make My presence known to you. I Am with you .... and even if I don't visibly dwell among you, you nevertheless have the evidence of My presence in your hands if you recognise Me in the Word. For I Myself Am the Word .... and you will constantly receive it as soon as you desire Me and My being close to you.

Thus anyone who recognises Me in the Word will also be profoundly happy that I Am close to him, and all doubt, all fear and all worry will leave him because he knows that the One is beside him Who will helpfully support him in every adversity of body and soul. Consequently, My will grants strength and grace, for anyone desiring My Word will open the door to his heart through which I can enter in order to take abode in it. And I will never ever leave him again once his will applies to Me and he has recognised Me in the Word.

For the Word is the medium through which I express Myself, through which the most perfect Spirit of eternity reveals Himself to the imperfect beings in order to lead them to perfection .... I Am close to you .... So why do you who have My Word, who receive it directly or through the mouth of the recipient, still hesitate and worry .... I Am with all of you, because your desire for My Word demonstrates your love for Me .... And remember that only the flow of My Word to you gives you the certain proof that I Myself Am with you. Anyone who does not desire to hear Me does not desire My presence, his heart does not strive towards Me, for it would long for the expression of My love, for proof of My presence. Admittedly, the desire for My Word can certainly vary .... the human being can want to be comforted and strengthened through spiritual consolation, he can want to enrich his knowledge of spiritual spheres, he can also think of Me with gratitude and therefore want to express it by desiring My presence, he can want to remain with Me in intimate dialogue and accept My Word in his thoughts .... yet he must always be spiritually minded, then I will also let Myself be found and his call will draw Me to himself, and I will reveal Myself through My Word, since otherwise the human being would be unable to endure My presence. And likewise My Word will be conveyed to him in different ways .... through the direct working of the spirit within him so that he will be able to hear My Word himself .... through receiving it from a direct recipient who proclaims My Word on My instructions, or by way of mental transmission of knowledge from the spiritual kingdom .... through reading the Word I convey to earth .... through spiritual conversations with fellow human beings .... I will always look after a heart which desires Me, I will always be with those who want to hear Me, for I Myself Am the Word, and thus I Myself dwell amongst people if they listen to My Word with the sincere will to let Me speak to them. Then I will offer them the bread of heaven, My flesh and My blood .... And if they thus eat and drink Me Myself they have to be most intimately united with Me .... if they accept My Word in profound faith that I Am the Word Itself they will accept Me in their hearts and I will constantly please them with My presence .... For I gave you the promise that I will stay with you until the end of the world, and every Word of My promise will come true, because My Word is and will remain the truth for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Light - Shadow of death .... Deceptive light - God's help by means of sickness and suffering ....

B.D. 4969 from September 19th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Anyone who is not impressed by My Word is still subject to the shadow of death, he does not recognise the light and deliberately keeps his eyes closed because he prefers darkness and thus prevents the light from entering. He keeps his sights on the world where deceptive lights are constantly flashing and dazzling his eyes, so that that he either fails to see the gentle light shining from the spiritual kingdom or entirely ignores it for the sake of the secular light. He is enthralled by everything of an earthly nature and, if he is approached by a messenger of light with My Word which suggests that he should renounce earthly possessions for the sake of his soul's salvation, he turns away indignantly, because he has no concept of the life of the soul and does not want to relinquish the world because he feels comfortable in it, and thus he is approaching spiritual death. My Word could provide him with spiritual treasures, My Word could give him a light which soothes his soul, My Word could awaken him to eternal life, yet he is taken in by the world and only looks for and desires that which provides his body with comfort. He remains in the dark despite the world's deceptive light .... For this reason I want to help him learn to despise the world by presenting its possessions as transient and worthless, by allowing his body to grow weak and by reminding him of his physical death. Even that which a person deems most desirable I allow to fall apart and to shatter, I let the person suffer earthly adversity and distress, bear suffering and illness and make him realise that the world will not help him. I allow the person to plunge down from an earthly elevated position, I allow poverty to replace wealth, and only ever for the purpose of his recognising the worthlessness and impermanence of what he desires, and time and again I will make My Word accessible to him, so that he will try to find a substitute in it for the earthly things he had lost .... I let him experience darkness where no deceptive light will flash anymore, so that he will see the gently light from above and turn to it, so that he will escape from the night of death into the light of life .... This is why the suffering on earth will never end, because time and again I want to draw people to Myself who are still distant from Me and subject to the prince of the world, but whose course of life will soon be over without having resulted in success for the soul, on account of which it is embodied on earth. And in all places I will let a light shine in the darkness, and anyone who allows himself to be illuminated by its gentle glow will first move from the darkness into a dim light which he finds comforting and his desire for light will grow .... My Word will touch his heart, he will recognise it as a loving Fatherly Word, as the only path to life, and his soul will enter from the shadow of death into the land of light, into eternal life ....

Amen

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

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

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

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Instruction from God requires bonding with Him ....

B.D. 7679 from August 21st 1960, taken from Book No. 81

Peace will enter your heart if only you remain intimately united with Me and always let Me be your guide and companion on your earthly path of life. And then this path will also always be light and bright, you will no longer need to fear darkness, for My love enlightens you and gives you clarity and realization. And then many questions will also be answered for you, that is, you will find the answer within yourselves and also recognize it as truth. Therefore know that the bond with Me must always be established first if you want to dispel the blindness of spirit, if you want to gain knowledge about your relationship with Me and your earthly task. Know that all problems will be solved for you if you desire this and turn to Me Myself to give you light. But I can only ever instruct you according to your receptivity, and you should eagerly try to increase this yourselves, because then nothing needs to remain secret to you anymore, because I can then introduce you to the deepest depths of wisdom. And this will happen through My spirit, which is and remains connected to the spiritual spark in you and is awakened to activity through your will. If you now establish the bond with Me then your will has become active in the right direction, and then the spiritual spark in you has also awakened to life, which now expresses itself in you and will instruct you comprehensibly. From this you can see that it is you yourselves who cause Me to speak, that the will to hear Me also determines Me Myself to speak .... And then you need not doubt that a person hears My voice within himself. Yet I can only ever express Myself as the human being himself allows, that is, as he desires to hear Me. Only when he is completely silent and only listens to what I have to say to him can I impart spiritual knowledge to him which goes beyond his knowledge, and only then can he speak of having been 'taught' by Me, for then knowledge will be made accessible to him which he did not possess before, which he did not absorb through study and which only My spirit can impart to him. But for the most part people already have a certain degree of knowledge which they have gained through reading or external teachings, and then they are unable to completely free themselves and I can then only hand it out according to their attitude. The desire to hear Me also guarantees My address, yet always only on condition that the human being has reached a certain degree of maturity of his soul. And this degree of maturity again will also determine the closeness of the bond with Me and the degree of devotion to Me when the child desires to hear Me. And the spiritual results will be correspondingly, for if the father expresses Himself to His child then He truly gives it what is most beneficial to the child .... And only I Myself can determine this in My wisdom and love, for I want to win souls but not lose them to My adversary. I want to promote the souls' development, I want them to become enlightened and to increase in wisdom .... so that they can teach in the last time before the end .... so that they will go out into all the world as My last disciples to proclaim the gospel to all people ...._>Amen

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Bonding with Jesus Christ ....

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

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

Amen

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Prayer for grace and strength, for illumination of the spirit ....

B.D. 5168 from July 10th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

May your prayer always be and remain: "Father, fill us with your spirit, with your strength and your grace ...." With this request you testify to your spiritual poverty, that you admit your weakness and ask Me for love, for strength and grace and for enlightenment through the spirit. And I will hear you, for I hear and listen to every prayer concerning your spiritual sustenance and help you to ascend. As soon as you are concerned about your soul's well-being you will also have grasped the meaning and purpose of earthly life, and then it will be easy for Me to give you what you desire without endangering your free will. Then you will be aware of your still imperfect state and seek to remedy it of your own free will. You come to Me for My help and you will truly be helped, for My heart rejoices at your desire for Me and I can think of you like little children who, in their weakness and ignorance, need to be cared for and taught so that they will grow and prosper and walk the right path .... so that they enter the path that leads to Me, to the height, to the light. Power, grace and illumination of the spirit .... if you ask for these, you will possess everything .... My love and mercy and complete clarity about your earthly task and its solution. You enter the state of realization and then walk along with sight where you were previously still blind and therefore also still wretched. If My flow of strength touches you, you will also feel My love for you, which powerfully attracts you. I love you even though you are still imperfect and therefore constantly convey My grace to you in order to let you become perfect if you use this grace. And you will do so because you also appeal to Me for enlightenment of spirit and therefore most clearly recognize what you lack, how you should live and which path you must take in order to become blissfully happy. You will achieve everything if you ask Me for strength and grace, for enlightenment through the spirit. For then your heart will already be open to the flow of strength of love, My spirit can be active in you, for you no longer prevent it from doing so because you open yourselves to My flow of grace and love and it inevitably becomes effective in a willing earthly child turned towards Me. I truly love you mightily and yet My grace has to take hold of you first, because due to your imperfect state you are not worthy to receive proofs of love from Me and therefore I have to grant grace in return for justice. I must draw you to Me since you will not come of your own accord, yet you yourselves can decide whether you accept My grace .... I don't force you to follow Me, but My grace has a mighty effect on the one who offers no resistance. And every request for grace is a giving up of resistance .... Bear in mind that I can then shower you abundantly if you demonstrate through your prayer the will to accept and utilize the blessings from Me .... Cry out to Me for strength and grace and the outpouring of the spirit upon you .... Then you will have true humility, for you feel that you are in need of these gifts. And to the humble I bestow My grace .... He calls upon Me and has already come considerably closer to Me in his humility because he has established the relationship between child and child which includes love for Me and humility towards Me and shapes the human being such that I can shower him abundantly with My grace and My strength and My spirit .... which now becomes active in him and guides him into all truth ....

Amen

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Calling upon Jesus Christ from the darkness ....

B.D. 6624 from August 17th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

It is not My will that shall determine your fate in eternity, but rather you yourselves, through your will, shall make it either glorious or dreadful; but you can change an appalling situation and, if you want to do this, will always receive My support. And regardless of how dark you are, light will be made accessible to you, and if you desire light then you will always be able to remain therein, you won't have to return to the darkness, for your will shall always be complied with even in the spiritual kingdom. Don't reject those who want to make you happy by giving you light. You will feel better than in the dark regions from which everything shall ascend to the light one day, although it has to happen voluntarily .... All of you who dwell in dark regions, be they on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond, are unhappy living creations without peace, without light and without strength ....

These are the effects of sin with which you have been burdened for eternity and which you have even increased during your earthly life as a result of your heartless way of living .... As long as you are not released from this guilt of sin your state cannot improve either. But you can want to have the guilt taken from you so that you can arrive at light and blissfulness. First decide to become free from a restraint which burdens and tortures you .... Resolve to entrust yourselves to the One Who can set you free, and appeal to Him to help you. You all know of the One Who sacrificed Himself on the cross for the guilt of your sins .... You all know of Jesus Christ, but not all of you believe in Him and His act of Salvation. And yet He is the only One Who can help you in your distressing situation, Who can lift you up from the abyss, Who can and wants to grant you light and life .... but Whom you have to call upon yourselves and appeal for help. Anyone who does not believe in Him will not turn to Him either and will remain in darkness forever, since there is no other way to happiness without Him. But time and again you will be referred to the One, time and again a light will be offered to you, a gleam of hope, which you should heed. Turning your eyes to the gleam of light a cross will always shine for you, if you are not entirely obstinate, for in His great mercy He will come to meet you in order to save you .... But you may also rest assured that He will save you if only you want it yourselves ....

And thus I repeat that I do not condemn you, that it is not My will which has determined the fate which makes you feel unhappy, but rather you created it yourselves and you can also change it yourselves if you take refuge in the One Who can release you .... in Jesus Christ, with Whom I Myself have become as one, Who thus is your God and Father of eternity. Irrespective of whether you are still living on earth or whether you have had to shed your earthly cover already .... light will only be within and around you when you have found Jesus Christ .... but without Him you will be living in darkness, without Him you will also be distant from Me, Who had embodied Himself in the man Jesus Christ in order to die on your behalf on the cross for the atonement of your guilt of sin .... Only when a person hands his guilt over to Me with complete faith will he get released from it, and that is entirely up to your own will .... My love cannot do anymore but to keep sending you bearers of light proclaiming My will, who will also kindle a light in you .... Allow yourselves to become illuminated, change and come to Me in Jesus Christ .... and the darkness will recede, bright light will appear and all torments of darkness will fall away from you, you will be able to rise into spheres of light and be and forever remain blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Light is where God's spirit works ....

B.D. 6061a from September 22nd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Light is everywhere where I can pour out My spirit, for darkness has broken through there and will never be able to take hold there again. Light is where I Myself can instruct people, where My word is respected, where people long for contact with Me and listen to My word as spoken to them .... Light is where people make it possible for Me to radiate My spirit over them .... But the light is also only there, for it cannot be given to you humans other than through My working of the spirit. And therefore far more darkness is spread across the earth, for My spirit can only rarely work .... Brightest light could be emanated and deepest knowledge could be imparted to people and they would feel at ease in the light of knowledge .... But anyone who wants to be knowledgeable seeks to gain it by other means; he believes he can penetrate intellectually into areas which can only be fathomed spiritually. People are mostly unaware of the right path, they know nothing of the fact that I reveal Myself through My spirit. The 'outpouring of the spirit' is a completely unknown concept to them .... All they know about it is the Pentecostal experience of the first disciples, which they regard as unique and don't want to believe that this process can repeat itself again and again and with all people if they can demonstrate the same prerequisites as My first disciples. I am always in closest contact with My living creations but only express Myself when they also establish contact with Me through loving actions or heartfelt thoughts. To most people I am only a distant God, and they can never be addressed by Me Myself that they hear My voice, because they don't have the desire to hear Me and therefore don't pay attention to what is conveyed to them through their spirit.

The outpouring of the spirit is the ability to unfold thoughts which, as it were, touch unfamiliar territory, so that the human being's realization is increased, that clarity is gained in him about previously unresolved problems .... that he thus receives knowledge which My spirit imparts to him. The outpouring of the spirit is a transfer of strength which he did not possess himself and which now comes to him from Me .... "My spirit will pour out on all flesh ...." Light and power overflow from Me into a person when he opens himself, when he prepares himself to be a vessel worthy of Me Myself .... My light and My strength .... within himself. And people are not informed about this process, nor can they be, because they can only understand it under certain conditions and cannot demonstrate them. For to shape oneself into the vessel of the divine spirit means as much as to shape oneself into love, and all people who lack love, who do not fulfil this first and most important commandment, cannot believe that I make Myself known either. My spirit's working means to be in direct contact with Me and to hear Me .... Again, only spirit-awakened people can speak about the outpouring of the spirit .... the connection with Me must already have been established which allows My spirit to be effective. And therefore the outpouring of the spirit cannot be advocated as a doctrine, because there would be no understanding for it as long as the ordering of thoughts through the spirit has not taken place .... But people could believe it and try to shape themselves through loving actions so that My spirit can pour itself out upon them. Yet even this faith does not exist because people live without any love .... Therefore they are spiritually blind, they walk in darkness, and they don't see where a light shines, and if it is brought close to them then they turn away.

9/22/1954 But they can only be happy when they stand in the light. And even if they do not recognize their darkness as a lack on earth, in the beyond the darkness will torment them unspeakably, and good for those who then strive towards the sparks of light which occasionally flash at them .... good for them, for they can also still reach the light there ....

Amen

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Jesus Christ is the gate to the kingdom of light ....

B.D. 5931 from April 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The gate to the kingdom of heaven will truly be opened for you if you only want to enter it and turn to the right gatekeeper .... to Jesus Christ, Who Himself will then lead you into His kingdom .... There is no other gate where you can exclude the divine redeemer Jesus Christ and still attain beatitude .... Without Jesus Christ the gates remain closed to you and you have to remain outside the kingdom of light until you also decide to entrust yourselves to Him and His guidance .... until you acknowledge Him as the only path to the light, as the saviour and redeemer of all people who live in adversity and misery without Him, be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom. You all have to surrender to Him, you all have to enter the path He showed you at the time of His life on earth .... you must all follow Him, then your path will lead directly into the kingdom of heaven, then you will have returned to the father from Whom you once came forth .... But without Jesus Christ you constantly go astray, without Jesus Christ you do not see the right path. Everything is without light before you and you don't realize that you are walking downwards instead of upwards .... You must choose Jesus as your leader and follow Him without resistance. For it was through Jesus Christ and His act of salvation that the gates to the kingdom of heaven were first opened, through Jesus Christ and His crucifixion the path was opened for you humans .... He walked it for you, the path of atonement and infinite suffering, He removed all obstacles which blocked your path to the father, and He Himself took the burden from you so that you can now ascend freely and easily if only you follow Him, Who went before you .... Therefore no soul will find entrance into the kingdom of peace and light which rejects Jesus Christ .... which does not acknowledge Him and His act of salvation and therefore is not released from its great guilt of sin either .... which again and again falls to the ground and cannot rise to light heights on its own, which also sees no path leading upwards but constantly strides downwards because the divine guide Jesus Christ cannot assist it as long as it opposes Him. He alone is the gate to eternity, He alone admits into His kingdom or denies entry to the souls which enter the spiritual kingdom after the death of the body .... He alone segregates the souls according to their will .... and blessed who were already His on earth; blessed who acknowledge Him as God's son and redeemer of the world, who see in Him their father from eternity and have also joined Him for all eternity .... These He leads into His kingdom, which offers bliss without number .... But the gates to the kingdom of heaven remain closed to His opponents, who have to remain outside for an infinitely long time until they too call upon the one Who can lead them to the light .... Jesus Christ, Who redeemed the world from death and sin ....

Amen

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Spheres of light .... different luminous intensity .... childhood of God ....

B.D. 3195 from July 22nd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

In the spiritual world there are many gradations, many degrees of bliss, which are recognizable as radiations of light of varying strength and correspond to the souls' degree of maturity. As soon as the being, the soul, has entered the kingdom of light, happiness and bliss are its share because it can receive God's emanation of strength, which always means bliss, even if the soul can only be considered to a small extent according to its maturity. But happiness increases according to the being's activity of love, which always means an increase of its strength, thus an increased radiating through of divine love. And the being can be active without restriction, it is in a state of life, of freedom and constant love under constant use of the power out of God, because the divine power continuously flows towards this being and the power reception triggers deep happiness in it. But the being is now continuously active, it works in love again by passing on the strength and making countless beings happy with it and promoting their spiritual progress and at the same time developing itself into ever greater perfection, which again results in an increased influx of strength from God. And ever more luminous are the rays of light which now surround the being. There is no limit in the kingdom of light, and spheres of light are everywhere where the beings have attained the degree of maturity that they can receive the divine emanation into themselves, that they are permeated by His strength of love. But since the abundance of receiving strength corresponds to the degree of maturity, the spheres of light will also have different intensities of light, for the more perfect the being is the closer it is to the eternal deity Who, as the original light, radiates an inconceivable abundance of light onto all beings. But since the perfect spiritual knows no limitation the being can always come closer and closer to the eternal deity, thus it can constantly progress, it can directly receive the emanation of love and yet it is not completely united with Him as soon as it has not attained childship to God. For this means complete merging with the original light, it means unlimited reception of strength and thus highest bliss. Every being in the kingdom of light is unspeakably happy and yet can always feel even deeper happiness the more it expresses its own love and thereby increases its reception of light and strength. But the being, once standing in the light, knows no limits in the beyond, and this awareness is just so extremely happy that the being can strive for ever higher perfection and that divine love is likewise unlimited in its emanation of strength. But receiving strength from God is always to be valued differently than the final union with Him, which earns the being the childship to God, for it is one with God and its activity in the spiritual kingdom is different from that of the beings of light. They create and shape entirely out of themselves and are exceedingly happy, because this activity requires the highest degree of love and therefore increases their bliss immeasurably ....

(22.7.1944) The entry into the kingdom of light therefore already takes place as soon as the soul has attained the maturity which allows light to shine through. But then there are innumerable degrees of perfection and thus also innumerable stages of bliss, which is why the soul can enter ever new spheres of light which always and constantly increase. For there is no limit to what is perfect. The soul floats higher and higher, it approaches the original light, and yet it is not completely one with the original light if it has not acquired the right of childship to God on earth. But it has found union with God from the moment it feels His radiance of love, when it is so purified that it can receive rays of strength and light within itself. For from now on it also has eternal life, it can be active, thus work in love, and it can ascend to immeasurable heights, it can receive light and strength from God and, through union with equally mature spiritual beings, increase them and be inexpressibly happy. But just as the abundance of light is inconceivable to man on earth, so there are also no possibilities of comparison for the bliss of the beings which have found entrance into the spheres of light. For as long as the human being lives on earth he is an imperfect creature, he only sees and hears with the eyes and ears of the body and cannot imagine the spiritual world which is devoid of all matter, which only exists spiritually and can therefore only be seen and understood by the spiritual being in the human being, by the soul, but only when the soul has reached a certain degree of maturity. And therefore humanity cannot form an idea of the spiritual kingdom, it can only believe, and this only if it is willing and allows itself to be taught without inner resistance. But it can strive to receive enlightenment and then many things will become comprehensible to it. For then the first rays of light will already begin to take effect, and just as a slow maturing of realization, of light, i.e. of knowledge about the pure truth, is recognizable on earth from then on, so the development of the being in the kingdom of the beyond will also increase .... it becomes more and more perfect, it joins God more and more .... it is unspeakably blissful .... But childship to God is a higher degree of perfection, and it includes infinite delights. It is the right of those who already strive for God on earth with all their senses, who love Him with all their heart and want to serve Him in most faithful devotion, who accept suffering and earthly hardship in submission, who strive to fulfil His will and are always and constantly lovingly active, for they already seek to assimilate themselves to the eternal deity on earth, and therefore God's love takes hold of them and paves the way for them to reach Him .... Yet their fate on earth is not easy, they have to pass many tests, they have to fulfil tasks on earth which require great strength and a firm will to reach God. Yet divine grace is available to these souls without measure so that they will reach the aim if only they strive for it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Transference of light in the beyond ....

B.D. 6735 from January 13th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

A bright light shines for the souls in the beyond wherever I Am able to convey My Word to earth. These souls are often surrounded by such profound darkness that it is causing them overwhelming pain from which they would like to escape. And if their desire for light arises then I will also let them recognise sources of light because then the souls will go to them .... And this is the beginning of their ascent .... albeit at first it is almost imperceptible, but once a soul has visited a place where it has detected a ray of light it will keep returning to it, and then there is no further danger that it will descend into darkness again. But what is the nature of the light that makes them feel good and want increasingly more light? ....

Souls who apathetically stay in dark spheres are entirely devoid of strength and thus incapable of recognising anything in their environment. However, they are aware of being alive, of not being obliterated, and this awareness is tremendously agonising for them, since they are able to think even though their earthly acquired information has become confused .... Nevertheless, they are able to contemplate their wretched state and thus start to question themselves whether and in what way they have caused this state themselves .... And if such questions arise in them I Am also prepared to answer these questions. But I cannot do so directly, instead I just have to offer them the opportunity to find someone willing to instruct them accordingly. And every such question and the desire for an answer is already a desire for light .... All lack of knowledge is the equivalent of darkness for the soul, all correct knowledge is light .... A soul which no longer occupies its body, which therefore is no longer able to see with its physical eyes, is blind as long as it is completely ignorant, and for this period of time it will be engulfed by night.

But it may be given light, it may receive clarification, and as soon as it willingly listens to these explanations it will also perceive that the night is becoming lighter .... At first it will enter into a twilight state, it will begin to formulate clear thoughts and thereby experience a sense of well-being, and then it will become increasingly more illuminated within; it will be able to see what it was previously unable to see .... however, its sense of well-being is not caused by earthly-material impressions, rather it is gladdened by a state of inner enlightenment because it also knows that it will be able to escape its dreadful situation and how it can achieve it. Besides, it is faced by a sphere of activity which it finds indescribably attractive after its former state of inactivity, for now it has the strength to work, since it is motivated to do so by an urge to love.

Hence, the places where My Word can be heard are such places of enlightenment which emanate a glow of bright light attracting innumerable souls .... but which will only be perceived by those who yearn to leave their darkness, who long for light. For there also exist souls which shy away from light, which have sunk so low that the light is painful to them since it reveals their depravity, and who therefore fight the light believing themselves able to extinguish it. However, such souls will be pushed aside, whereas every light-desiring soul will be attracted by or guided to it by helpful beings, and as soon as they merely listen without resistance to what is imparted to them, the state of darkness will change into a state of twilight. Now these souls will be stirred by an impulse for life and they will become hopeful .... they want to live in order to become active, and their resolve will also give them the strength ....

Light is knowledge, light is truth, and thus light is the only thing that needs to be transferred to the souls in darkness so that they, too, will awaken to life .... And this is why you will always be besieged by light-hungry souls which want to participate in the transference of light when My Word is conveyed to you, when I enlighten you humans, when I impart the pure truth to you through My spirit .... This is why there will always be a glowing light attracting countless souls as soon as you make contact with Me in order to receive My Word. For the concept of light in the spiritual kingdom only ever has to be understood as the transference of the pure truth from Me .... Light is realisation, light is knowledge which originates from Me, which is radiated by Me Myself to earth in order to penetrate the darkness, to enable you humans to become blessed, but which you only ever will be able to receive if you make contact with Me, with the light of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

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Light from the height ....

B.D. 3774 from May 18th 1946, taken from Book No. 48

Heaven lets its light shine down to earth but earth remains dark, it refuses to accept the light, for the inhabitants of earth have their eyes fixed on the kingdom of darkness which occasionally emits a glow of fire but which is only satan's deception. And they greedily seek to catch this illusionary light and pay no attention to the gentle light which comes from above. Only a few accept it, and for these the spell of darkness is broken, they have escaped the night and are walking towards a bright morning. Why do you people hesitate to receive the light from the heavens? Why do you chase after a deceptive light and do not let yourselves be taught about its unworthiness? Why do you not want to receive from above what the depths can never offer you? Why do you not muster the will to free yourselves from the power that holds you in the darkness of the spirit? .... Because you are no longer able to believe in the Giver of light, in an almighty, wise and loving creator of eternity Who also created you and truly for a different purpose than the one you strive for. Consider how meaningless your existence is when you imagine that tomorrow can already bring your physical end .... What use is that which you so eagerly strive to attain, what use are earthly goods to you if your body has ceased to be? Your soul will then meet a dreadful fate, for it is without any spiritual possession and therefore without strength, it is dead but not extinguished .... Let yourselves be taught if the bearers of light step into your path, listen to them and ponder their words, and with an earnest will you will recognize that their words are not empty, that they carry life within them, that they are well to be believed as soon as a creator is acknowledged from eternity .... and seek to gain faith in a creator through reflection and questions which you send into infinity .... And the light from the heavens will also touch you and you will feel its benefit, a mild and gentle glow will fall into your heart, your spirit will be enlightened and the desire for ever brighter light will stir within you and find fulfilment. Let the light from above have an effect on you, don't flee from it, for this light alone will bring you life, it is not a deceptive light but imparts spiritual possessions to you, the striving for which means bliss for you and brings bliss .... escape the darkness through your will and you will live ....

Amen

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The light of eternity ....

B.D. 7719 from October 3rd 1960, taken from Book No. 81

In Me you recognize the light which shines from eternity, which radiates out into infinity and which also wants to penetrate your hearts so that it becomes bright and all darkness disappears. I, therefore, am the light from eternity which descended to earth, which was shrouded in darkness and therefore an unhappy abode for you humans. I Myself descended to earth and kindled a light in people .... I brought them the divine teaching of love, the observance of which certainly imparted knowledge to them .... And realization is light, realization is knowledge of the pure truth which emanates from Me .... I showed people the path to reach the light .... I showed them the path of love which irrefutably had to earn people wisdom, for the fire of love radiates the light of wisdom. The 'light' descended to earth, thus 'love' has come to earth .... and love is I Myself, I Myself am the original source of light .... And as such you shall learn to recognize Me, you shall know that My essence is 'love' and therefore must also be unlimited 'wisdom' and that .... whoever is illuminated by My love is also guided into deepest wisdom and thus stands in knowledge. Therefore no human being can become knowledgeable, i.e. come to realization, if love has not first been kindled, for without love there is no wisdom, just as there can be no light without fire. And if you humans want to mature in knowledge you first have to make an effort to mature in love, thus to let your degree of love rise ever higher, because then the light will be within you and brightly illuminate everything which was still dark before. And you should only ever request strength in prayer, you should ask for the strengthening of your will, and this request will truly be granted to you. For through heartfelt prayer to Me you connect yourselves with the source of strength, with the source of light and love .... you connect yourselves with the one Who can and wants to give you everything but Who wants to be approached by you for it, because then His working will be unlimited if your will belongs to Him .... I come to you and truly kindle the light of enlightenment in you, I truly do not leave you in spiritual darkness, for I impart strength to you which you then use for loving activity and then the light in you is also kindled and you gain knowledge. And thus you will understand that your intellect cannot give you knowledge which corresponds to truth or that you cannot call knowledge 'realization', for realization is wisdom and wisdom is the knowledge from Me which gives light and beatitude. And this alone is what you should strive for, because this knowledge will be taken over into eternity, because it will not pass away like earthly knowledge, because it constitutes the human being's wealth with which the soul will one day be able to work in the kingdom of the beyond. You should desire the light from Me, you should turn to the light Itself to enlighten you; you should pray for it and you will receive it, for through prayer you already establish the connection with the eternal light and It will send Its rays into your heart and give to you according to your desire. Light, love, truth .... everything belongs to Me, everything belongs to My being, and one cannot be thought of without the other .... but as soon as you stand in knowledge, as soon as you call a truthful knowledge your own, the darkness of night is broken in which you were for endless times .... you have taken the path back to Me, you are moving towards the light again, you let yourselves be illuminated by Me as the 'eternal light', and you will once again reshape your being into the original being .... you will become what you were in the beginning .... beings full of light, who are constantly connected with the original source of light and power .... you will be blessed and remain forever ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers