Redemption Periods - Time And Space – Eternity

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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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

6733 - God's constant addressing and offering of His word....

Periods of redemption

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

5170 - Periods of development - duration.... matter and influence....

3619 - Redemption process.... eternities.... hell - damnation....

4040 - Redemption epoch with Jesus Christ....

7221 - Redemption period with Jesus Christ....

6432 - Redemption period with Jesus Christ....

2891 - ?resNotTranslated?

7187 - Expiry of a redemption period....

8748 - The end of a period of Salvation is assured to you....

5659 - Large period between the beginning and end of an epoch....

6479 - With the Lord a thousand years are as one day....

5060 - Plan of salvation based on free will....

Time and space

9016 - Time estimation not possible for people....

4011 - Human timing of the end.... disciples of Jesus also unknowing.... shortening the days....

8777 - God's perfection knows no limits of time and space....

6608 - Concept of time and knowledge about it....

7924 - Concept of time and space....

8252 - Time concept of earth's evolution....

8997 - Time and space law.... state of the still imperfect....

6634 - Creationless spaces....

2575 - ?resNotTranslated?

7013 - Concept of time in the state of perfection....

7419 - Wide space in the afterlife....

7474 - Concept of time and space....

8779 - Concept of time and space.... Bliss....

Eternity

8399 - God is from eternity....

0974a - Immortality.... Eternity.... Suicide....

0974b - Immortality.... Eternity.... Suicide....

1912 - ?resNotTranslated?

7782 - Concept of eternity.... God's plan of salvation....

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

6019 - Concept of eternity.... Perfection....

Eternal damnation

6550 - God's infinite love.... Eternal damnation....

4602 - Eternal damnation....

6155 - There is no eternal damnation....

8947 - Description of the process of the return work....

God's constant addressing and offering of His word ....

B.D. 6733 from January 11th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

I want to instruct you all so that your thinking would be free from error. I want to give you all light so that the darkness will leave you, and I want to fill you with strength and thus make you blissful beings already on earth. And thus I am always willing to hand out to you everything you lack, yet I can only offer it to you with love but not induce you to accept My gifts of love. And because you humans are still blind in spirit you pass Me by if I stand in the way and want to impart My gifts to you. Yet I will call upon everyone so that he will hear Me when he is unable to see Me .... and if My call is also overheard, then I touch him .... I will let him go through adversity and misery so that he will now pay attention to the one Who can bring him help. For people who are in an unfortunate state and yet could free themselves from it, endure Me. They endure Me because My adversary often closes their eyes and ears because they are still in his power. The weakness of My living creations takes pity on Me, and therefore My love constantly pursues people and awaits the opportunity to be able to offer them strength and light .... But which human being feels himself weak and miserable, which human being knows that he walks in darkness? As long as he still possesses vitality he does not feel the spiritual hardship, the lack of light and strength of his soul, because he does not know the right light which enlightens his soul and only gives man true happiness .... And he is also not instructed in the right way, he is not guided into right thinking, because those who now want to be teachers of their fellow human beings were not instructed right themselves .... But everyone would receive full enlightenment from Me Myself if only they wanted to take the path to Me, if only they wanted to listen to Me with an open heart, Who speaks to people again and again and only requires an open heart which listens to My words. If only people would believe that their God and creator wants to address them because He is also their father Who cares about His children's salvation .... if only they would believe that the father's love applies undividedly to His children and that this love only ever endeavours to change His living creations' wretched state into a blissful one. My adversary, however, does not want to let this belief arise in you, but you yourselves should turn to Me and dispute his right over you, and you would always receive My support. But one thing is certain, that you humans will be influenced by Me to the same extent as My adversary tries to influence you .... but that it is now up to you yourselves whose influence you accept .... Every person will hear My address, be it in the form of My word or also in the form of hardship and suffering, if My silent address is not listened to .... And as long as you live on earth I will appear again and again and knock at the door of your heart .... for you humans have mercy on Me and I will not give you up, even if I have to struggle for you for ages .... But I will not rest until you willingly open your heart and ear to Me, until you let yourselves be gifted with light and strength from My hand .... For My love for you will not diminish, it applies to you for all eternity, and it only wants you to become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Periods of redemption

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Periods of development - duration .... matter and influence ....

B.D. 5170 from July 14th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The plan of redemption of the fallen spiritual always unfolds in certain periods of time which correspond to the respective state of the spiritual. And that is why the individual redemption periods are different, both temporally and in their conditions and possibilities of maturing. There are longer and shorter periods of redemption as well as completely different creations in these, which mean a more or less hard fetter for the spiritual bound in it. And from this it follows that different demands are also made on people in such individual stages of redemption so that they attain their spiritual maturity. A gradation would be recognizable, so to speak, if the individual periods of development could be compared with each other .... and it would be evident that the creations always adapt to people's state of maturity, i.e. their will, that therefore people without hard resistance against God also live in a world which allows for easier dissolution of the material form and therefore also requires a shorter time for a process of development. And this will always be the case when a total dissolution of the earthly creation has preceded and the spiritual substance which has escaped from it is to be brought into a new form again. Then this spiritual, as living in an environment beneficial to it, strives far more eagerly upwards, even if it is still unconscious of itself. But after such a total dissolution the human race on earth is also even more peaceful, more united with God, which beneficially influences the still bound spiritual and also helps it to ascend. Hard matter is indeed still enlivened by deeply fallen spiritual substances, and these spiritual substances will still want to exert their influence, especially when this period of redemption draws to a close again. But every epoch is an ascent from the abyss to the height, every epoch reveals spiritual substances which no longer offer resistance to God or very soon give Him up, but also those which remain in resistance to God, which have hard matter as their abode and again and again want to and will have an unfavourable effect on the more mature spiritual substances. The longer people withdraw from this influence, the longer the periods of development will be, because a conclusion will only occur again when these beings, bound in hard matter, are allowed to embody themselves as human beings again after an infinitely long transformation. For these beings now determine the time of the end or dissolution of the creation they inhabit .... Turning towards God also ensures a long existence, turning away from Him is renewed resistance and ultimately necessitates the destruction of that which does not fulfil its purpose .... a dissolving of the earth and a new forming of spiritual forms. For according to the law of eternity everything must strive upwards, and what fails will sink so low that it can again be integrated into the process of upward development, so that the law of eternity will be fulfilled .... constant upward development of what has fallen until it has reached the former height again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption process .... eternities .... hell - damnation ....

B.D. 3619 from December 4th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The spiritual's process of redemption lasts as long as the spiritual itself needs it ..... Thus it cannot be said to take the same length of time but every entity determines it itself through the severity of its resistance, through its will to allow itself to be redeemed. And therefore eternities can pass before this process is finished, and several redemption periods can be necessary; but one epoch can also suffice for the spiritual being's complete redemption as soon as it is willing and consciously strives for redemption in the last stage of development.

This last stage can be lived through by the spiritual being sooner or later in a redemption period, for here too the will of the spiritual being in the bound state is decisive, even though this will is not free. The being certainly has to carry out certain activities, it cannot fight against divine order, but it can willingly comply with this activity, it can strive for a loosening of its bondage itself; and then it does not need such a long time for its ascent development in the state of compulsion and can all the sooner enter the last stage with freedom of will where it finally has to decide whether it is willing to serve in love and of its own free will or falls back into resistance against God .... And this is why a being which ascended quickly in the preliminary stage can prolong the process of redemption itself through an unused earthly life as a human being by then having to continue it in the kingdom of the beyond under considerably more difficult conditions. Eternities can pass again in the spiritual kingdom before it can enter the kingdom of light; there is also the possibility that it will sink deeper and finally have to walk the path through creation again, in bound will .... that therefore a second redemption period is necessary for this beingness and also several in order to reach the aim once. The spiritual being, which remains in hard resistance to God, needs a far longer period of time for its redemption. It is held in hard matter, it already needs eternities for its ascent development in the state of compulsion, but this also once leads to the last stage as man where it has to pass the last test of will. Even then there is still the danger of a standstill or decline, but also the possibility of complete redemption. But the latter will become smaller and smaller the further a redemption period has progressed. It is evident that the resistance against God has not yet been broken despite endless long captivity before, it is evident in humanity's spiritual low, in its unbelief and in a life without connection with God. But people who nevertheless reach their aim at this time have to endure strong struggles as compensation for their infinitely long resistance before, yet they also have to expect exceedingly strong strength and grace on God's part, Who assists the spiritual in immense love in order to lead it to the aim. But the beingness which fails inevitably takes the course of development once again without being given the opportunity to mature in the beyond, for it no longer reaches the degree of maturity which requires an ascent development in the beyond. Rather, it is in the power of satan, thus it has already sunk so far that only the binding in the firmest matter .... a renewed course through creation in a state of compulsion, can help this spiritual being to reduce its distance from God and thus also the total lack of strength, which is the result of the distance from God. And thus it is possible that several periods of development are necessary to lead a being to the aim, and that is why people also speak of eternal damnation, of hell and death, because they are periods of time which, according to human judgement, last eternities, which the human being's intellect cannot grasp with its concept of time and which therefore also explain God's merciful love, with which He tries to influence people at all times and especially in the time of the end in order to protect them from such a repeated earthly progress, in order to guide them into the state of maturity which enables them to enter the kingdom of the beyond in order to continue their development there. For once the time God has granted the spiritual being for redemption has expired, and a new period begins according to the eternal plan of salvation, which is the basis of all events and only has the redemption of the unfree spiritual as its aim ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption epoch with Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 4040 from May 15th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

The day of judgement is the conclusion of a redemptive epoch which was extremely significant in the development of the spiritual. For in this epoch Jesus Christ was on earth, the emissary of God, a son of light, Who descended from the spiritual kingdom to redeem humanity. The development of the spiritual had come to a standstill, there was no more progress, there was no more striving towards God, towards the light, towards the eternal truth. And love had grown cold among people .... There was a spiritual low on earth which required help, otherwise everything spiritual would be lost again to the one who had been the cause of the great darkness in the spiritual world. The help was urgently needed and could only be given in the form of a ray of light from heaven .... A being of light had to travel the path on earth in order to instruct people and at the same time exemplify to them the right earthly change as proof that what God demanded of people who wanted to liberate themselves from the power of His adversary could be fulfilled. And Jesus was such a being of light according to His soul, while His body was human with all the weaknesses and impulses that characterize human nature, which He had to fight against just like every other human being. His soul certainly strove towards God without knowing its outcome, for as a human being it was deprived of all recollection, the man Jesus had to take the same path on earth, otherwise His act of salvation could not be valued as such, otherwise it would not have been a sacrifice of atonement which He offered to God for the sins of humanity. And thus the man Jesus had to wrestle and fight .... He had to endure the same battle against darkness which is demanded of all people, which no-one can be spared who wants to become eternally blissful. And He emerged victorious from the battle against darkness and thus provided people with the evidence that victory is possible if it is seriously striven for. For although His soul yearned for God, for its true home, His body nevertheless had to pay tribute to the earthly, and every progress was an act of free will, every increased degree of maturity was the result of overcoming the world, the reward of the battle against Himself, against all earthly desires and renunciations of earthly joys and pleasures. And this will was brought forth by the man Jesus .... He set Himself free and sought and found complete union with God already on earth. And He simultaneously redeemed the whole of humanity from the bondage of death, for God accepted the sacrifice which a weak human being offered to Him for the whole of humanity .... And so this redemption period was of immense significance for humanity as well as for the spiritual, which still languishes in matter and still has to cover the long path of development. This spiritual feels the relief and pushes towards its embodiment as a human being in order to be able to make use of the graces of the work of redemption for the purpose of final redemption from form. But the spiritual embodied as a human being pays little or no attention to this and lets a time of grace pass by which it should and could utilize with the greatest success. Humanity does not grasp the significance of this epoch and remains in sin and guilt .... And thus a termination of the redemption epoch granted to the spiritual for upward development is foreseen and the day is determined from eternity when account will be demanded from the living and the dead .... the day of judgment, when all will have to answer for their attitude towards Jesus Christ and for their way of life; when they will receive their reward or punishment according to merit .... And you humans are approaching this last day with giant strides .... Be aware of the immense importance of this and make use of the extremely short time for your salvation. Take refuge in Jesus Christ and ask Him for help, and He will still redeem you in the last hour if you want to let Him redeem you, if you believe in His mission and acknowledge Him as the son of God, Who came down from above to set people free from satan’s power .... Believe in Him and ask Him for strength and you will not need to fear the last day, it will not be a judgement but a redemption for you if you only commend yourselves to Him and His grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption period with Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7221 from December 5th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

The work of salvation has been accomplished for all times, but this earth period was destined for God to come to earth Himself in Jesus Christ .... this earth carried the divine saviour and redeemer, and thus the time had also come with this earth period when completely redeemed souls could leave the material world and return to the kingdom of light again, which was not possible before .... even if a person lived on earth according to God's will. But they were not yet free of their original sin, which prevented them from entering the kingdom of light. From that time of Jesus' life on earth, from the time of His death on the cross, the first fallen away original spirits had returned to the eternal home. The work of redemption had been accomplished for all eternity, for all people of the present, past and future. Countless people had gone the way across the earth before, and yet it had not been possible for them to push open the gate of death and enter into life. Yet these many people of the past also shared in the blessing of the act of salvation, they too were touched by the blessings of the act of salvation, only their free will also had to profess Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer, which could be proven for the first time when Jesus descended into hell after His death in order to carry His sacrifice there too, so that it was acknowledged .... Only then did these people also become free of their original sin, because Jesus Christ died for all people .... It was an overwhelming grace for all souls who were allowed to embody themselves during this earth period, since the lord Himself walked across the earth .... Admittedly, the knowledge of His earthly life, of His bitter suffering and death on the cross and His resurrection, of His act of mercy of greatest love will also be conveyed to people in more distant periods of development; they will always experience this great work of atonement which was accomplished by the love of a human being in Whom God Himself was able to embody Himself .... And this knowledge will not remain hidden from any human being. For again and again the gospel of love will be preached to people, and the living out of the divine commandments of love will also result in the spirit being able to express itself in the human being, which again and again will mention that act of salvation as the first and most important thing, so that the knowledge of Jesus Christ can never be lost but will be preserved through every period of salvation and again and again also be imparted to people in the following epochs. Nevertheless, it is a special grace to have been embodied on earth at the same time as the human being Jesus .... for which the entire duration of an earth period is to be counted. And yet, at the end of this epoch faith in the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, in Whom God embodied Himself, is already extremely weak .... Love has grown cold amongst people and therefore there is no living faith, spiritual activity is no longer possible in the majority of people and therefore faith has also been lost. But again and again God will ensure that the knowledge of Jesus Christ will not be lost, so that every person can adjust himself to it and will also have to answer for it. Knowledge alone is of no use to a person, but only his attitude towards the teaching of Jesus Christ, which is always based on love, can earn him a blessing. But he can still be reminded of it far more often as long as Jesus' earthly life cannot be denied .... even if it could not be proven .... Because of the human being's freedom of will it will also be possible to find less and less concrete evidence, yet never evidence which points to the contrary, for this earth period bore the divine redeemer and saviour, and all those who walked the earth in this earth period have a certain advantage .... to be able to believe more easily if only they want to .... The gate to the kingdom of light was opened through His death on the cross, and many can now enter through this gate to eternal life. But every person has to travel the path to the cross of his own free will, and therefore he cannot be forced by evidence. Yet the love of Jesus Christ stretches out its arms to all people from the cross, and everyone is touched and called upon to come to Him .... And this will also be the case in the following redemption epochs .... Every person will experience the great work of love and mercy of the divine redeemer, and every person will have to recognize and acknowledge God in Jesus Christ in order to be able to enter through the gate of death into eternal life .... Every person will have to believe in Him in order to attain a blissful life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption period with Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6432 from December 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 69

The hour of redemption draws near .... No long time will pass before the end is drawn under a period which could bring redemption and also brings redemption to those who have joined the flock of Christ's fighters, who have followed His call and walked the same path as He walked on earth .... For the people of this earthly period a special light of grace had poured forth, for in this last earthly period God Himself embodied Himself in the man Jesus in order to redeem humanity .... to make it possible for the whole of humanity to be able to behold the eternal light again, from which the spiritual world had once voluntarily turned away and therefore its fate was and would have remained a profound darkness without the divine redeemer Jesus Christ. This earth period was so significant because it ended a hopeless state which had already lasted for an infinitely long time .... And the redemption of all spiritual beings which entered the stage of embodiment as human beings during this earth period would have been completely possible .... And yet this unheard-of bestowal of grace was not utilized, and again only a few reached their aim on earth .... to be able to end this life in the flesh with their souls fully matured in order to find acceptance in the kingdom of light. This would have been possible for all people, but because free will is decisive and this was not properly utilized, countless souls left this earth unredeemed .... although they all received knowledge of Jesus' act of salvation, of His crucifixion and His mission .... Yet they lacked faith, and even the knowledge of this greatest work of mercy ever accomplished on earth had no effect on people .... And so a redemption period which could have brought the greatest success now comes to an end .... and a new one begins again, so that all beings will be offered the opportunity again to make use of the blessings acquired through Jesus' death once more, for complete redemption can only take place with the help of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... And you humans are now facing this turning point, you are facing the end of the old and the beginning of the new era of redemption, which therefore also signifies the end of this earth and the emergence of a new earth. There is still time for every single human being to turn to Jesus Christ with the request to help Him .... The knowledge of His work of redemption could still be used, even if faith in it is lacking .... But anyone who can only believe in the existence of this human being can occupy himself with this 'human being' in thought and have a mental dialogue with Him, so that this 'human being' will explain to him why He wanted to seal His ideas with a cross .... And he will get the answer because the divine redeemer grasps everyone who only enters into contact with Him. Intellectual knowledge alone is not of much use to him but it can help to initiate a purely intellectual mental argument which can end more or less successfully. This earth period was blessed with God's personal earth walk .... And much could have been achieved by people with good will, yet their will was not often directed upwards .... Only a small flock ever followed Him, and at the end of this period it will not be much bigger either. Therefore you can all expect the near end with certainty, you can indeed still enter the divine redeemer's following beforehand, you can join His small flock, for He will accept you until the last hour .... But the end of this earth has irrevocably come, and therefore you are required to make great haste and use all your strength, you are urgently advised to appeal for strength so that you will all reach the aim before the last day has come .... that you will profess Jesus Christ before it is too late ....

Amen

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Expiry of a redemption period ....

B.D. 7187 from October 13th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

You only have a little time left and a redemption period will come to an end and a new one will begin. What this means is beyond your comprehension, and that is why all references to it are not believed. Rarely does only one person deal with it in thought, and therefore only one person also seldom prepares his life for it. But you should all be told that it is extremely important for you how you yourselves will be at the end of the earth period. And you have this state in your own hands and thus also have to answer to the one to Whom you owe the grace of embodiment as a human being. The fact that you live on earth as a human being is a grace from God .... your creator and father .... although, on the other hand, it is the consequence of the former sin of apostasy from God, which you therefore also owe to your deceiver and enemy, God's adversary. But the return to God also necessitates your earthly progress, and this is therefore also granted to you through the love of the one Who created you. Thus the earthly path can earn you your return to God .... But you can also remain in the power of His adversary. You are free to do both, and God gave you .... i.e. the one who once fell away from Him .... certain periods of time for this purpose, which should serve that redemption from the adversary and return to Him. And such a redemption period has now soon expired and you are about to come to an end. There is the possibility to escape his power and return to the father's house again .... but you can also forfeit this possibility for yourselves and fall back again into the dreadful fate from which you have already escaped through the endlessly long course of development over this earth .... You can again fall endlessly low and again need endless times until you reach the same stage and again walk the course over this earth. God knows the fate of every single soul, He knows its state of maturity, its attitude and thus also the danger it is in. And as long as it still walks across the earth as a human being there is also still the possibility of a change of will, which God now still uses until the end. And this also includes that people are repeatedly informed of what is in store for them. And He constantly warns and admonishes and never misses an opportunity to inform the few who are still open-hearted about coming events, about the forthcoming end, and to enlighten them about their actual purpose of earthly life and their earthly task. The fact that only a few ever accept what is proclaimed to them can be explained by the human being's freedom of will, who may not be forced to believe by evidence or unusual phenomena. Yet God Himself addresses people .... they could believe if only they were willing to listen to Him, because then He would also be able to reveal Himself to them without coercion and soon they would no longer need any evidence and would feel in their hearts by Whom they are addressed .... And people would then live responsibly and also look forward to the end with confidence and without fear, for these will not be lost eternally ....

Amen

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The end of a period of Salvation is assured to you ....

B.D. 8748 from February 9th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

You are granted a specific length of time in order to attain your perfection, and that means as much as that the individual periods of development in My eternal plan of Salvation were fixed to last a certain time, consequently it means that I Myself will bring such a period of development to conclusion once the time has come to an end, for all My reign and activity takes place in lawful order, as was recognised by My wisdom to be good and successful. My decisions never change because profound wisdom and infinite love determined all events, and I have limitless power at My disposal in order to implement what I foresaw to be expedient. However, the beginning and the end of a period of development are so far apart that it is no longer possible for people to establish the start and thus they also deem an end impossible, therefore it simply remains a matter of faith to accept this teaching .... And neither should a human being be forced into changing his will due to some kind of evidence, and for that reason a veil has to remain spread across the most profound secrets of creation .... Nevertheless, one day the time will arrive when one period of Salvation comes to an end, and this is constantly pointed out to humanity through seers and prophets which I repeatedly awaken on earth in order to speak to people about things which cannot be explored by human intellect alone .... Ever since the start of such a period attention has been drawn to the fact that it will also come to an end eventually, yet such references rarely met with belief and people did not allow themselves to be influenced by it to change their way of living if the latter did not correspond to My will .... Such prophesies seemed implausible to them, and neither was it possible to force them into accepting teachings of that nature .... But regardless of how much time passes, sooner or later all references to the end of a developmental epoch will come true, and people must take into account that a new era will start again, what is old will pass away and something new will arise .... even if they are incapable of imagining such a renewal. But very few people dwell on this, and these few will delve deeper into My plan of Salvation and receive enlightenment from My side and therefore will also be convinced that an earthly period will come to an end, since due to their will for Me they also penetrate all correlations .... You humans have been granted a period of time in which to change yourselves, to return to Me. And this path of return was infinitely long, since before your existence as a human being you already lived on earth in other works of creation .... yet only in the human state are you aware of your life, you are only conscious of yourselves when you are human beings, whereas prior to this your self-awareness was missing and therefore you are oblivious to the time before your human existence. Even so, the time granted to you would have completely sufficed for you to become the kind of being again which you were when you first came forth from Me ....

If, however, you have not reached your goal then it will be your own failure and you will have to accept the consequences, for with untiring patience and greater than great love I helped you to ascend step by step, and I only gave you free rein for a very short time so that you, in complete freedom, were able to turn your steps towards Me of your own accord, that you voluntarily .... for love .... would come to meet Me in order to then always and forever be able to remain with Me as My child .... But I had to allow you this freedom, for it was the basic condition which enabled 'living creations' to become 'children', and it was indeed easy for you to pass this last test of will because you received an abundance of blessings, since I pursued you with My love and left no stone unturned to encourage your return to Me for good .... But the time granted to you has expired now and the law must fulfil itself .... Even if you humans don't want to believe it, the end of this period of development will come with absolute certainty, yet only the few which I will carry away on the last day will grasp it in its whole significance, in their spiritually awakened state they will understand the correlations and thus have become My Own on earth .... The others, however, will suddenly see themselves faced by death and be utterly unable to judge what is happening around them, what the spiritual implications are, for in their spiritual blindness they neither recognised their wrong way of life nor Me as God and Creator and had been lifeless creatures even before they fall prey to physical death .... But the time I predetermined for this earth and its inhabitants is over, and only My Own will survive and inhabit a new earth so that the eternal plan of Salvation .... the return for all once fallen spirits through My great creation .... will continue to return some of the fallen beings back to Me for good again. Yet untold suffering and immense misery will always precede the end of a developmental period, and precisely this indication should make those people think who pay attention to world events .... But people still opposed to Me don't see the suffering, instead they only see earthly pleasures, good living standards, economic development and solely strive towards earthly possessions .... And these, therefore, can only be shaken up and brought to their senses through natural disasters which cause tremendous devastation and destroy people's earthly commodities and possessions. Consequently, don't be surprised if many such disasters still come upon you, for they are the last means to galvanise those people who lethargically exist in their worldly sense of security and in physical comfort and who approach a dreadful end if they won't change anymore, which can only be achieved through a disaster which will not be caused through human will but gives clear evidence of a Power which they would only need to acknowledge in order to be saved for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Large period between the beginning and end of an epoch ....

B.D. 5659 from April 24th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

The processes on earth which accompany the end of a developmental period and the beginning of a new one repeat themselves at long intervals, so that in the end no human being can prove the beginning of those periods of time and consequently no evidence can be produced for a destruction at such an end either. And this is God's will so that people do not have to believe if they do not want to believe. The end of a previous period is certainly known to people but only as traditional knowledge, which can also be doubted. At the beginning people still know about the process of the end, and this knowledge will also be preserved in the descendants for many generations, but the closer it gets to the end of such a period of development the more this knowledge will fade, it will certainly still be mentioned but no longer be regarded as an established fact and in the end only be regarded as a legend which is not historically proven. The believers certainly consider all indications of it to be truth but they are not believers because they see the end coming and are afraid of it, instead, faith also carries a higher power of realization to them and therefore the end of the earth is also understandable to them. And so even today people cannot be frightened by references to the flood because they hardly believe in it any more. This time is so far in the past that it has become completely meaningless for the people who will live on earth in the last days. But most people don't know and understand that this time has also ended a period of redemption and consider it quite impossible that the same process should repeat itself .... And it all has to be like this for the sake of people's freedom of will. Every coercion which is intended to bring about a change in a person's thinking and will would be wrong where it concerns the ascent development which is intended to take place in complete freedom of will; people can believe what is proclaimed to them but they can also turn away their ears and intellectually reject everything, they must not be forced by any evidence to think and act against their will. An infinitely long time lasts for a phase of development on the part of people, and this, too, is the will of the divine creator, so that their attitude in the last days will remain unaffected, so that they can believe in an end but also doubt it, so that they can therefore also make the final decision of faith, for or against God, completely without constraint. There is no lack of indications on God's part about the near end, and people are also given the reason for the end, yet their will always remains free and even the divine prophecies do not oblige them to do anything, because they are likewise given in such a way that they can be accepted but also rejected if the will is not present to live and act in accordance with divine will. This will alone gives clarity, and this will will also not refuse to accept the proclamations through seers and prophets .... And likewise, the person who carries such a will within himself will also believe in the previous periods and their end and be convinced that the end is imminent again, because everything will come as God had it proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

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With the Lord a thousand years are as one day ....

B.D. 6479 from February 18th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Infinite periods of time will still pass by until all works of creation, the whole material world which shelters unredeemed spiritual substances, can be dissolved .... until everything of a material nature has spiritualised itself .... until everything that had become imperfect has achieved perfection again .... Infinite periods of time will pass by .... But with the Lord a thousand years are as one day, for He exists for ever and ever, to Him any length of time is like an instant .... Yet for the imperfect spiritual being it takes infinite periods of time until it reaches perfection again, but then the time of retransformation will also seem to it like an instant. And thus you humans can rest assured that the earth, too, will continue to exist for an endless time in order to serve its purpose of helping people to attain childship to God; you can believe that time and again people will populate this earth and that therefore an 'end' of the creation work Earth cannot be spoken of yet .... However, you can just as confidently believe that the earth will time after time change itself again, i.e., renew itself, that it will have to be repaired time and again in order to comply with its task, and that this will repeatedly take place after certain periods of time, although the process of development will be far from completed and you cannot speak of an end of the world .... if you thereby understand the complete cessation of all earthly-material creations. As yet countless spiritual beings are still waiting for salvation, only a very small portion of the once fallen spirits have been redeemed and returned to God .... As yet the greater part is still subject to judgment, i.e., it is bound in all kinds of creations .... And all these bound substances must still reach the stage as a human being and be allowed to embody themselves as a human being on earth .... And this is why the earth will repeatedly arise anew once such a developmental period begins to slow down.

But the emergence of a new earth always signifies the total transformation of the earth's surface, an end for the people inhabiting the earth .... apart from a few whose earthly process resulted in their maturity. And this is why humanity also has to be informed of an approaching end, it has to be explained to them what it entails because they don't want to and cannot believe in a termination of the entire creation of the world and you will be unable to refute their arguments against it .... It is, however, irrelevant for people as to whether an 'end of the world' is possible .... They shall only get used to the idea that their end is imminent, that this planet earth will go through a transformation to which people will fall prey, even if it still takes forever until the earth has one day spiritualised itself completely. As yet this point in time has not arrived and yet the human race is facing its end .... because an orderly continuation of development for the spiritual beings on earth necessitates a disintegration and renewed transformation of the creation and this will always take place within certain periods of time. This knowledge can only be spiritually conveyed to people and will therefore find little credence. And it will be even less believed the closer it gets to the end, because people's ignorance is also a sign that the souls' higher development on earth begins to falter, that people no longer reach the degree of maturity they are intended to and would be able to reach .... or they would understand God's plan of Salvation. For an infinitely long time to come the earth will still remain a place of education for the lowest fallen spirits, but it will always have to be repaired anew in order achieve the maturing of the spiritual substances in accordance with the divine plan of Salvation. Time and again new human generations will populate the earth, for God Himself will lead the people to the newly-formed earth from whom such generations shall arise .... who, at the end of a period of Salvation, are close to their perfection, so that every epoch will start again in utmost harmony with God and striving for unity with Him, and that then it will also be guaranteed that people will reach perfection and return as blissfully happy and illuminated spiritual beings to their Father of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Plan of salvation based on free will ....

B.D. 5060 from February 11th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

My plan of salvation has been determined from eternity but it is based on the human being's free will. However, I do not determine the human will in order to bring it into line with My eternal plan but I insert it into the human being's free will, thus he develops in accordance with this will. For I have known about him since eternity how he will be at the end of this redemption period despite most favourable influence and all possibilities for a change of will. In no way do I have a determining influence. Completely free will brings about all events on this earth. Everything in the entire universe does not happen arbitrarily but every event is based on My wisdom which directs everything in order to lead the being to the highest possible development, in order to achieve a change of will which is the purpose and aim of earthly life. Even the knowledge on My part about the failure of earthly life for so countless souls does not prevent the scheduled course of the individual redemption periods, for the souls have to come to a certain decision, although they also have to fail and exhaust a new possibility in order to reach the aim for once. Free will necessitates such possibilities, which I have very well recognized since eternity and which is why the course of development of every individual soul is planned to the smallest purpose, irrespective of success. For I cannot determine success, although I know about it when I want to know it. But for Me eternity is like a moment, and what is not achieved in one period of development can be achieved in ever-repeating phases of redemption, yet it always has to proceed according to plan, because free will cannot be eliminated, but just as My love and wisdom can never withdraw or conceal itself either and this always creates the most favourable opportunities to develop free will in the right way. The plan of salvation from eternity only pursues the souls' redemption and their return to Me .... When I reach the aim is of no significance to Me but extremely significant to you, because for you humans, as long as you are still imperfect, the concept of time plays a part, thus you can be in an unhappy state for an infinitely long time and thus have to live through periods of suffering which end with the moment of your soul's redemption, the healing, which is My plan of eternity and which I would like to constantly promote if your will does not oppose Me. The healing process can be extremely lengthy but it can also take place in a short time, which, however, you determine yourselves. And even if I know about the success or failure this does not determine My eternal plan of salvation, for I am eternally unchanging, and what My wisdom once recognized as right will also be carried out by My strength of love, because it irrevocably leads to the aim, even if eternities pass by .... One day the world will be redeemed and all beings will be united with Me, because nothing can eternally resist My love ....

Amen

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Time and space

Time estimation not possible for people ....

B.D. 9016 from July 16th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

I will always avoid allowing you to feel abandoned by Me, for you shall turn to Me with all your needs and cares and you will always receive an answer, because I know what troubles you and I Am always willing to take them from you if you trustingly hand them over to Me .... You need not worry in the slightest for I will think on your behalf, I know what bothers you and what questions come to your mind ....

Infinitely long periods have passed during which people already inhabited the earth, for the estimation of time you deduce from the Book of the Fathers is only warranted insofar as it shows the respective spiritual state of the people at the time, but that humanity inhabited the earth for an extremely long time already .... that only those happenings were recorded for their orientation which were of significance for humanity's development .... but that it is no longer possible to determine the duration of these times, you would never come to the right conclusion. However, this much is certain, that although many earthly periods have passed by already, the human being is still the same creation today that he was then .... that he was able to use his intellect from the start and that he was always troubled by the same problems which still bother people today, as far as they concerned the reason and purpose of their existence. For the gift to contemplate such things was given by Me to people from the start. Even in those days people discovered signs of pre-historic creatures already although they did not acknowledge them as their own kind since they differed considerably, and the first people knew that people like themselves had not existed before them, for they recognised themselves as a new creation, they knew that their existence had started an act of creation which had not happened before ....

They knew that they were able to talk to each other and that it was possible for every created human being to communicate with his fellow human beings. Besides, pre-historic beings were not known to them, nor did they know all the pre-historic creations they had to pass through themselves before they were allowed to embody themselves as human beings. Yet at no time have pre-Adamites lived together with people on earth, because they became extinct before people appeared on earth. Coexistence could never have taken place because it did not correspond to My plan of eternity, which could not have created something imperfect at a time when the perfect human being should prove himself as the crowning glory of creation. For the human being was unconscious of all pre-historic creations, he did not know his long process through the works of creation on earth, and thus as a new creation he had to be perfect and capable of receiving a soul, because the human being started a completely new path on earth with the goal of final unification with Me. The fact that the human being, due to his own fault, failed to reach this final union is not related to the process through the previous stages, for every soul which is permitted to embody itself as a human being one day has also reached the degree of maturity which allows for such an embodiment.

But it is impossible for people to establish the precise duration of humanity's existence on earth, nor will they receive clarifications in that respect because it is irrelevant how long people have lived on earth already, and by the same token it cannot be established when those pre-historic people lived. However, it is certain that they preceded the human being, that ages ago they dwelled everywhere as a creation which likewise served the maturing of innumerable tiny particles of soul, and thus they also contributed towards the higher development of these tiny particles which subsequently were allowed to embody themselves in a human being again. You humans can no longer establish it timing-wise, nor will it be possible for you, you can estimate an approximate period but will never know as to whether it is correct, for every single human being's live-span is limited. My creation, however, has existed for eternities, which will indeed remain eternities for you until you reach the light one day .... Then you will know that even the concept of eternity is but a fleeting moment for Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Human timing of the end .... disciples of Jesus also unknowing .... shortening the days ....

B.D. 4011 from March 31th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

The human determination of the time of the end is also inaccurate, as soon as it is calculated intellectually or given by people of unawakened spirit. However, if they announce the end in the near future, they come closer to the truth. But they can also still postpone the time of the end for a long time, and this would be a deception which has detrimental consequences for people's souls. For anyone who does not expect the end shortly will also never seriously tackle the work of the soul, and this is the purpose of such announcements, that people strive to change and can only do so if they constantly work on themselves and keep the near end in mind. This is why God constantly points to the end but always leaves people in uncertainty about the time of the end. And even His servants, who are mentally in contact with Him, are not informed of the exact time, yet the firmer they stand in faith, the more they live in love, the more they will also know that they themselves are in the time of the end, for they pay attention to the appearances which God Himself announced to earthly people through His son Jesus Christ as a sign of the end. Even the man Jesus did not know the day and hour of the end, and His announcements were also to be applied in all times, so that His disciples also reckoned with the approaching end and the imminent return of Christ, which was connected with the end. His disciples were also of awakened spirit and could not determine the day and hour. And so no certain information can be given from a human point of view until the end, only the signs of the time can be taken into consideration and from them the near end can be concluded, which must one day irrevocably come because the divine word must be fulfilled. But serious strivers will also seriously consider the thoughts of the end of the world, the day of judgment and the fulfilment of all prophecies which point to it. And their eyes will also be opened so that they will recognize the signs of the end, and their thinking will be right .... They will know that they themselves live in the time, that they have to familiarize themselves with the thought in order to belong to those who have to live through a time of unspeakable hardship and distress because these precede the end. But Jesus has also given them a comforting assurance that He will shorten the days for the sake of the elect, so that they will become blessed. And therefore, if a person believes that the end time has come and that the last judgment is to be expected every day, he need not be anxious .... he will have the strength to endure everything as long as he strives towards God and belongs to His own .... But only then will he recognize the signs of the end time, otherwise he will never expect a near end because he does not believe. But the believers know what hour has struck .... they know that the end is near, as God has proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's perfection knows no limits of time and space ....

B.D. 8777 from March 12th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

Aeons have passed by already and aeons will yet pass, and there will still be creations in the universe, because infinitely many once-fallen spirits are still awaiting their salvation, because innumerable spiritual beings, hardened in their substance, are still waiting for their transformation into matter and the higher development of all these spiritual substances requires eternities until they have become a self-aware being again which can conclude its development but which can also fail, and this requires an infinitely long time once more until its ultimate spiritualisation. You humans will wonder why I, the Eternal Divine Spirit, the Creator and Lord of everything in existence, resolved to undertake such an activity in infinity in the first place, why I created spirits and did not prevent them from falling into the abyss, from revolting against Me and, in a manner of speaking, becoming opposed to Me .... and why I want to change the attitude of these spirits in My favour again .... And you will ask yourselves what motivated Me to let countless creations arise, which are basically these fallen spirits .... And I will have to keep giving you the same answer, that both the creation of perfect beings as well as the rescue of the beings which became imperfect was motivated by My infinitely profound love and that My unsurpassed wisdom also devised a plan by which I will achieve My goal one day .... that My unlimited power was able to bring anything I wanted into existence, that no restrictions exist for Me and this awareness is My whole bliss which I would like to share with other beings, but then they must also have the same nature as I have Myself. All My reign and activity in infinity only serves the one purpose of educating My once 'created works' into true gods, into supremely perfect beings which, as My 'children', can create and work with Me and with the same will. Since I Am perfect no limitation exists for Me, which is the reason for the endless number of the created and of the fallen spirits and the infinitely long lasting periods of time these spirits require until they are what I Myself was unable to create: true children, My images, which work with inconceivable happiness in the spiritual kingdom. By forming a correct concept of Me and My Nature it must first of all also be clear to you that no limitation can exist for Me, otherwise I couldn't be called supremely perfect, since a limitation is always a sign of imperfection .... Neither time nor space is limited for Me, neither love nor wisdom and power ....

And thus I will always and forever be active and nevertheless have a goal: the complete deification of all beings which were brought into life by Me. And this complete deification necessitates the created being's free will, which can join Me and My will but also oppose Me without being prevented. For only free will is true life .... without this free will everything is just a dead creation having emerged from My power but without the involvement of love and wisdom. For Love created beings for Itself which it wanted to please, and Wisdom drew up the plan of 'deifying' the 'created' beings .... Love gave 'life' to the being, for only free will signified life, whereas a being, were it forced to fulfil My will, would be and remain a dead being, which was certainly created in highest perfection but at a loss as to what to do with this perfection were it bound to comply with My will. In that case all created beings would only have been offshoots from Me and not something I externalised as independent beings, which could neither want nor act freely like I Myself .... And this, in turn, would have questioned My love and wisdom which, however, are the epitome of My Nature, the epitome of supreme perfection. The soul requires a degree of maturity in order to have knowledge of My act of creation, otherwise it would not be receptive for such knowledge, for it does not merely concern the information but also the understanding for the processes regarding the emergence of Creation as a whole as well as for the infinitely long time needed in order to complete the work of return .... And since you humans are unable to imagine infinite times and unlimited space you can only be given an indirect explanation. Nevertheless you should know that to Me a thousand years are like a day and that sooner or later the day of returning home into the Father's house will come for every being, even if eternities will still pass by, that the bliss will then make up a thousand fold for all previous states of torment and that this bliss, too, will never come to an end .... which you humans likewise cannot understand because you have only a limited thinking capacity .... but that you then will also love Me, your God and Creator, your Father of eternity, with all your heart, with all the sincerity you are capable of, and that you will also most eagerly take part in the redemption or beatitude of all beings which have not attained the final goal as yet. For then you will be driven to do so by love which will have reached a degree that you will be able to accomplish whatever you want. For then you will have completely entered into My will and thus have become gods, My children, which I will never ever lose again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Concept of time and knowledge about it ....

B.D. 6608 from July 28th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Endless periods of time have passed and will still follow .... Time periods which mean eternities for you humans but which will nevertheless come to an end one day, because in the state of perfection there is no longer a concept of time for the being, thus the torment of an infinitely long time is also ruled out for such a being. Yet again and again you humans must be made aware of the eternities you have already lived on earth and that you can already put an end to this infinitely long time of your development in your earthly life if you endeavour to become perfect, so that you will then no longer be subject to the law of time and space, so that you, as most blissful spiritual beings, will also lose the torment of the concept of time, which belongs to complete beatitude. Again and again you must be told that your existence has not only been on this earth since your birth as a human being but that you have already covered eternal times, partly consciously, partly unconsciously, and that it is up to you whether you prolong this time endlessly again or put an end to it .... But in the state of imperfection there is no end for you, only the way of your existence is different .... thus the conscious state can also disappear again, and yet you continue to exist unconsciously, and then you have to cover eternities again until you again have the opportunity to complete your earthly course in a degree of perfection which excludes every concept of time. Although you don't know anything about the time behind you, and therefore you don't take your perfection on this earth seriously either .... You may not know it either, i.e. it may not be irrefutably proven to you, because then you would be in a certain compulsive state of perfection .... Nevertheless, this knowledge is presented to you and it is left up to you how you relate to it ..... If you believe in it even without evidence you will also make an effort to reach a degree of light on this earth, you will strive for perfection, and then the 'end of time' will also approach for you. But the unbeliever will not allow himself to be impressed by such knowledge either, and he is in great danger that he will prolong his own time, that he will be bound in the creations for eternities again, that he will unconsciously take an infinitely long earthly path again but nevertheless have to take upon himself the torments of this path, because for the originally freely-created spiritual being every constraint, every bound state is also a state of torment .... That is why the knowledge of this is made accessible to people in the last time before the end, it is presented to them and can lead to greater responsibility towards the souls. Again, this possibility is very small because without faith in an earthly purpose of life, in the attainment of a specific aim, even such knowledge is not believed, because even the teachings about the soul's course of development are only regarded as fantasies to which no significance is to be attributed. But these teachings are a serious reminder, because it concerns the freedom of every individual soul .... It is about something that every being wants, because it can only feel happy in freedom, but which it .... in order to possess it .... it must also strive for .... And it should be stimulated by the supply of this knowledge, people should think about the term 'eternity' .... and relate themselves to it. And they should also know that both freedom and bondage lie within their will, that they will be helped in every way to attain freedom but that they will also not be hindered if they return in free will to the bondage again, from which they have already released themselves and can now completely detach themselves in earthly life. Whether they accept the knowledge as credible, whether they draw their conclusions from it and make it the basis of their way of life, however, this also determines their spiritual state, it determines the degree of maturity they reach on earth and consequently also their state after the death of the body .... But the transmission of this knowledge is also one of the last means of grace which are used to help people in their spiritual adversity .... But everything happens and has to happen without coercion, for perfection can only be achieved in full freedom of will, yet help will be granted to the soul in every way ....

Amen

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Concept of time and space ....

B.D. 7924 from June 20th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

The concept of time only applies to the imperfect spiritual being which still experiences limitations of thought and which therefore is also bound to time and space, whereas the perfected spiritual being knows no boundary and past, present and future are the same concept, for the perfect being can see and experience past, present and future events at the same time and will therefore also be eternally happy because nothing exists anymore which could ever burden the being. For the expediency of everything is recognisable given that it helped the being to achieve perfection. It has been surmounted, thus it should belong to the past and yet it is vividly in the present and its effect is always apparent .... nonetheless never connected to time and space .... Being capable of understanding this is already a sign of approaching perfection .... yet not entirely comprehensible for the human being as long as he still lives on earth, as long as he is not perfect and still held captive by time and space. Concepts of eternity are therefore inconceivable for the human being; he can certainly imagine infinitely long periods of time but not fathom them rationally, just as he cannot imagine that 'time' will eventually no longer exist .... that he lives and can equally be in the past as well as in the future .... that everything that ever happened is apparent to him. Then he will, in fact, also know about a 'beginning' but this will be just as apparent to him as the attained goal of all beings which originated from God and returned to Him again. Then there can be no restriction for a being anymore, for due to its fall into the abyss the being had caused its own restriction .... A state of darkness began, followed by gaps of knowledge, of realisation .... the lack of light was of a temporary nature, because the situation of the beings changed from epoch to epoch .... And thus their place of abode also kept changing, which makes a spatial boundary understandable .... Time and space are attributes of the imperfect being, which consequently was limited in its activity precisely because it was imperfect .... in other words, it was subject to space and time, it was no longer as free as when it emerged from God .... It had put itself in chains or allowed itself to be chained by God's adversary, and determined the duration of its confined state itself .... It made itself dependent on time as long as it didn't seriously strive towards gaining perfection ....

Yet one day time and space will have been overcome, one day these concepts will no longer be applicable, because one day perfection will certainly have been attained .... And then the being will find it incomprehensible why it had kept itself at a distance from God for so long that it was restricted in every way, and then again it will be able to understand that with the Lord a thousand years are as one day, because time does not exist for Him, therefore the concept that 'God is eternal' is meaningless, for He is always in the present, the past does not exist for Him, He sees future events just as much in the present as past events .... He was and is and always will remain the primary nucleus, the vibrant source of strength, the beginning and the ending .... He was and is and remains the timeless, infinite Being Which none of His created beings will ever be able to fathom .... And no 'before' or 'after' exists for Him .... He is always in the present and this present will never end .... And every concept of time and space is only ever a characteristic of His once apostatised beings which created their own 'boundary' by reversing their nature .... which let that which is perfection become imperfect, which shaped themselves into something God-opposing .... which reversed their original state into the opposite .... And thus the apostatised beings created the law of time and space themselves in which everything of an imperfect nature has to exist, because everything imperfect moves within a certain boundary .... Only that which is perfect is unrestricted; however, everything that is subject to limitation is also imperfect, according to the law of eternity .... The being came forth from God in perfection, and neither time nor space existed for this being and it was infinitely happy. Yet its fall into the abyss created boundaries in every way which will only cease to exist when the being has shaped itself back into perfection, to its fundamental nature, to the state in which it was once created by God ....

Amen

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Time concept of earth's evolution ....

B.D. 8252 from August 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

The evolution of earth required an infinitely long time .... Even if you humans want to set up a concept of time for this you are unable to think that far back because it exceeds your intellectual capacity. Yet you should know that the apostasy of the beings I created took place during an equally long period of time but that the concept of 'time' is not applicable for this slow developmental stage of earth because this concept only exists for the self-aware being in its stage of imperfection, since the concept of time no longer exists for the perfect being. This is why people will only ever be able to estimate the individual stages of the creation work 'earth' but never even come close to the truth .... unless they apply the concept of 'eternities' .... For the apostasy from Me has taken eternities, and the same period of time will be needed to return the spirits which had deserted Me.

And if you humans now considered that you are close to joining Me again completely .... if you considered that these eternities are already behind you and that you can soon finish your ascending process of development and succeed in completely liberating yourselves from the form .... if you considered that your apostasy from Me happened eternities ago and that you can now lessen this immense original sin and become completely released from it with the help of Jesus Christ .... then you would truly only be moved by the one thought of sincerely giving yourselves to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ and appeal to Him to grant you the strength to establish your final unification with your God and Father, Whom you can now recognise in Jesus Christ and for this reason entrust yourselves to Him in love and humility in order to cancel your past sin of arrogance and heartlessness ....

Your thinking will only ever move within limitations, and thus you cannot understand that an endless time has passed in which you were constrained by My will, which had removed you from My adversary's control so as to enable your higher development .... And you cannot be granted the retrospect of this endlessly long path .... because it would no longer be possible for you to continue your path across earth in free will, since you would be driven by fear to live according to My will, and then you would never be able to become perfect .... as this requires free will. However, if you know about your soul's process before its incarnation as a human being, your sense of responsibility will be stronger and then the results of people's research will also be of value, who think they can prove that the evolution of earth and its inhabitants took thousands of years and which should make you wonder how long you have been on earth already .... albeit not as self-aware beings ....

Yet then you will also know that the whole of creation shelters spiritual beings on their upward process of development in order to once again become what they had been in the beginning: free, self-aware beings, able to be active in strength and light as they were intended to be when I created them through the strength of My love .... It can only ever be believed since evidence of it cannot be given .... but even faith can become a conviction if the human being in his last stage on earth tries to bring his nature into line with that of his God and Father, if he changes himself to love and thereby unites himself with Me .... For as soon as I can be present to him because I Am love Itself he will also be able to believe with certainty and know that he only lives on earth in order complete his task after his infinitely long path. And he will wholeheartedly strive towards Me and thus find unification with Me, his Father of eternity, and be inconceivably happy ....

Amen

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Time and space law .... state of the still imperfect ....

B.D. 8997 from June 17th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

You can assume with certainty that the work of return will one day be completely successful for Me .... that I will not turn away from any being, that every being will take the path to the father's house .... that even My first-fallen spirit will one day return to Me of its own accord and that therefore no being's fate could ever be called hopeless, even if it still keeps itself distant from Me for eternal times .... Because My love is guarantee for this, which will never stop to worry about every being, which once has taken its start from Me. Because since every law of time and space is eliminated for Me, it also does not mean that what you understand under eternal times .... With Me everything is one, past, present and future .... And also the sufferings and agonies, which you have to get through to again return to Me, are only moments for Me in relation to eternity. But it is precisely the law of time and space in which you can achieve your self-aware state .... as a human being .... and which makes the time of suffering so unbearable for you, for the being also suffers dreadful agonies in the bound state, because the spiritual being was once completely free and now feels the bondage as agony but yet knows nothing about the duration of this state. But as man this law is valid for him and it will not end until the being is in the state of perfection and then all limitation falls away for it. So the soul also takes the concept of time and space over with it into the kingdom on the other side, only it is in the immature state of confused thinking and believes itself already long times in an environment, which does not please it, although it is not yet long time in the kingdom on the other side. Therefore the concept of time and space is still a sign of its deficiency, but which the being will still have until it has found Jesus Christ .... which then also secures it brightest thinking, and complete devotion to Him also redeems from this bondage to time and space .... Therefore also the man, who still finds to Jesus Christ on earth, will no longer think earthly, but the thoughts will be directed heavenwards, and he has already made himself familiar with the thought that earth life is only a temporary state, in which he is to reach the last maturity .... that there is then also no longer time for him and that he can always transfer himself where he wants. And when man has already come up to this spiritual recognition, also no suffering will touch him anymore so that it seems to be unbearable for him, because he knows it that this also passes and will once appear to him like a shadow, which has fallen on his earth way. However, the human being as such must also be subject to the law of time and space, for his soul can only mature through suffering and torment, and the duration of time as well as the locations play a major role in this, for if this law were eliminated a major factor contributing to the maturing of the soul would be missing, because a state devoid of time and space is the fate of the already perfect, whereas it is a means for the still imperfect to do everything to become free of suffering and torment. Nothing that constitutes the bliss of the beings of light may be equal to that which the unblessed have to endure in the depths through their apostasy from Me .... The kingdom of these apostate spirits was a limited world, and thus they also had to suffer from this limitation .... But at any time they are free to lift this limited state and to be happy again without limitation .... But then they will also understand it that the time was like a moment where they had to bear suffering and atone for their former sin. And then it will also be clear to them that this law of time and space must also be part of the still imperfect spiritual world and that it only contributes towards perfection ....

Amen

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Creationless spaces ....

B.D. 6634 from September 2nd 1956, taken from Book No. 71

It is the love for the unredeemed which underlies the whole of creation, which brought it into being and ensures its existence. And this love has no end, which is why there will also be no end or cessation of earthly creations until all bound and therefore wretched spiritual beings have been redeemed. Visible creations only prove My working to you, for you humans are unable to see the spiritual creations, but these spiritual creations likewise serve the spiritual for perfection, which, however, is still incomprehensible to you as long as you are imperfect inhabitants of earth .... Yet My love also let these spiritual creations come into being because, apart from their purpose of leading to higher perfection, they also contribute to the happiness of the beings which are already allowed to receive light and strength from Me and are now allowed to use them creatively in accordance with My will. My rule and activity is the constant emanation of love and its purposeful determination .... Where love and wisdom can work unhindered, even the most wonderful creations have to arise and serve to make the spiritual being happy again, which was once created with the ability to feel and judge, so that works of love produced by Me have to cause it indescribable bliss. However, I cannot bestow these blisses on beings which have given up their perfection or have not yet attained it, but which I nevertheless love infinitely .... And thus I first try to shape them such that they can join the host of blissful spirits .... and therefore constantly create new creations which correspond to their degree of maturity but whose task it is to increase that maturity .... And thus earthly creation is secured for endless times to come, because there is still infinitely much spiritual which needs such creations to mature, to return, to the perfection it once voluntarily surrendered. And once the earthly creations have passed through, even if only with little success, then the still imperfect will be supplied to spiritual creations, and even now My infinite love ensures that further development is possible, even if in a completely different way than could happen on this earth. I do not leave any being to its fate, for I have created innumerable opportunities to mature in My longing for love for the spiritual beings which once fell away from Me. And even the greatest resistance is only increased impetus for creative activity for Me, because thereby I can express My love which is always and forever meant for My living creations. But love never forces .... And therefore it also leaves unlimited freedom to the beingness, but it is so strong that it constantly draws the beingness .... And as long as earthly works of creation exist I demonstrate My love, because these serve the once fallen being to return to Me .... Yet even this greater than great love of Mine can meet with resistance, and creations can be wandered through without the slightest success. Then it can be possible that this spiritual being, which is still completely opposed, cannot see any work of creation, neither earthly nor spiritual .... that it is in complete emptiness, in endlessly vast spaces, where it is completely dependent on itself, where nothing proves 'life' or 'love' to it and yet it is conscious of itself to endless agony. This state of being without creation is the most dreadful fate that can be bestowed upon a soul which left all creation unused for spiritual further education, which also drew no benefit from its earthly existence, which thought it had emerged from nothingness and also believed it would sink back into nothingness after the death of its body .... And yet, even this state is a loving act of mercy for the soul, for it does not last forever either, but it prepares the soul such that it looks at the first creations again full of astonishment and gratitude, which My love now lets arise before its eyes .... And now the further development can begin in the spiritual kingdom which it neglected on earth .... And My creations, whether of a spiritual or earthly nature, will nevertheless achieve perfection after an infinite time, because My love will never cease to help the unredeemed until I will once be able to make it happy with My love until it accepts it without any resistance and thus has accomplished the return to Me of its own free will ....

Amen

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Concept of time in the state of perfection ....

B.D. 7013 from January 9th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

To the perfect being the time of the past appears like a moment, although it can overlook every single phase and also experience it again and again as present, but everything agonizing no longer touches the being, yet God's great merciful love is always apparent to it anew when the being transports itself into the past. Yet concepts of time no longer exist for that which has become perfect, and whatever moves the being in its thoughts it will only ever praise and glorify its creator and father and never miss an opportunity to pay Him back in the form of redeeming activity. And therefore a retrospective look into the past must also be possible again and again in order to repeatedly assist the spiritual being, which still languishes in the fetters of matter, and to place it into other deformations .... a task incumbent upon the perfect, which is allowed to participate in creating and creating according to God's will. Although the past is only like a fleeting moment for every being of light, yet for the still bound spiritual it is eternities .... And because the being of light knows about the torments in these eternities, it stands by the bound one in heartfelt love in order to help it to become free. But God's creation is infinite, the number of fallen beings is incomprehensible, and therefore the number of light beings in God's service is also immeasurably great. For there is no limit with God because He is the most perfect being and because everything perfect is unlimited .... And thus there will also be eternities of creations which shelter imperfect spiritual substances, and for eternities the work of redemption will take place in these spiritual substances, because the love of the already redeemed constantly increases and his blissful gratitude is constantly expressed in redemptive activity. And it is also part of a perfect being's bliss to be able to look into the past, to experience it as present .... because its love for God constantly increases as a result, because it now also recognizes God's unsurpassable wisdom as a being of light and every single deformation it had to go through itself appears to it like a precious miracle work which again and again proves to it the father's love for His child. What once meant unspeakable agony for the being will now make the being of light happy and spur it on to create such forms itself in order to shelter unhappy beingness in it with overflowing love, so that it will likewise attain that bliss which is granted to the being of light. Because love, wisdom and power are inherent in the being of light, it is also equally creatively active, and because it knows about the purpose and success of all works of creation, it will not cease its activity, always creating and working in love for God and for the unredeemed .... For it also possesses the power towards God's adversary, it wrests the spiritual from him in order to supply it to its God and father, yet it also knows about the being's former beatitude when it will be rid of all forms. There is no suffering and no torment for the perfect being, yet it knows about the torments of the imperfect and seeks to liberate it from them. That is why it can experience its own course of development through creation as present again and again, and it will nevertheless be unspeakably happy in remembrance of its course of development .... And ever new plans will mature in it which serve redemption, ever new creations will arise from the being, in most intimate contact with its creator and father of eternity it will also receive His strength and use it again for creative activity .... because it is of the same will as God Who wants to bring back everything that once fell in order to make it eternally happy ....

Amen

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Wide space in the afterlife ....

B.D. 7419 from September 30th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

The endless vast spaces in which the soul wanders, which immaturely enters the kingdom of the beyond, are without object .... You must understand that it cannot see anything spiritual itself, earthly things no longer exist and its own image of desire is completely blurred and confused due to its lack of maturity of soul, thus it cannot form its own surroundings out of its thoughts either, for it has no clear image of thought, just as its state of soul is empty .... especially if, despite its old age, it did not learn to overcome the world before its departure from earth. But being completely devoid of faith results in the soul no longer being moved by anything and therefore its state in the beyond corresponds to a completely empty space, in that it now wanders incessantly, always hoping to meet someone the soul is looking for .... This is an agonizing state which should result in a certain desire being awakened in the soul .... the desire for a like-minded soul with whom it could exchange information about this state. And when this desire grows and becomes too strong then a being usually steps into its path which appears to be completely adapted to its state but which is a soul of light which approaches the soul in disguise in order to influence it to change its thinking. For as soon as a soul is worn out due to its long wanderings it is grateful for every stimulation offered to it by the beings of light through many suggestions which the soul has to accept in order to slowly change its state. But sometimes it is also difficult to win the soul over for a suggestion if it is so hardened that it does not strive for any change, that it remains stubborn in its thinking and yet holds a higher being responsible for its agonizing state. For no unbelieving human being is without a spark of God's realization, and he will always accuse this God-being and blame Him for his wretched state .... which is why it can also take endless times until such a soul is soft and compliant and complies with the suggestion of a being of light which comes to it in the same disguise. But then the state also changes noticeably and the twilight becomes increasingly lighter and clearer, even if one cannot yet speak of a circle of light into which the soul enters, but it begins to behold objects here and there, the emptiness of space is interrupted, and the soul takes in various impressions and demands activity which is now also assigned to it on the part of the being of light. Every soul which wanders about in such vast empty spaces is joined by beings of light in certain periods of time which want to help it, but not every being of light is listened to. And therefore it can take eternal times until such a soul finds redemption, until it has become so compliant that it accepts the proclaimed gospel of love and becomes active accordingly .... Yet without love it can never receive redemption .... And this is why a person's intercession is of such great importance, for it achieves that a soul's will of resistance is broken, that it willingly accepts all instructions and teachings from the beings of light and in a relatively short time emerges from the empty space into beautiful inhabited areas where it continues to work inexorably on its spiritual progress. For the light beings' greatest endeavour is to lead the souls to Jesus Christ, without Whom no soul will find salvation from its wretched state. And where a person's intercession supports this effort of the beings of light the soul can find Jesus Christ more easily, for it senses the human being's love which awakens reciprocal love in the being .... And love joins together with love again, a loving soul recognizes Jesus Christ as God and redeemer of the world, and it will surrender itself to Him without any resistance .... And then the soul is saved for time and eternity ....

Amen

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Concept of time and space ....

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

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

Amen

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Concept of time and space .... Bliss ....

B.D. 8779 from March 14th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

You will glorify My name for all eternity .... You will give thanks and sing your praises to the One Who created you and Who will make you profusely happy .... You will recognise your God and Creator as your Father Who is connected to you in profound love, Who created you out of His love, because He was filled by immeasurable strength and because He found His bliss by making use of this strength .... You will love Me with all your heart, for you will have to reciprocate My love once you have developed into love again as you were in the beginning. But infinitely long periods of time will still pass by until everything created will have changed into love once more, until all created beings will grant Me the love again which they initially felt for Me. Yet time does not exist in eternity and the concept of time is only applicable to you humans who still live on earth in a state of imperfection. And earthly life, too, is but an instant compared to the infinitely long time before your life on earth as a human being, and if you only enter the spiritual kingdom with just a glimmer of realisation, with just a slight degree of light and love, then this previous time will already appear to you like a short process of development towards your ascent; yet what lies ahead of you will never end .... And thus every concept of space will also be excluded in the state where the light from Me can already permeate you in the spiritual kingdom .... Then you will be able to stay wherever you move to in your thoughts, no distance will exist for you, no inaccessible goals, only your degree of maturity will determine the spheres of your stay, and you will not want to enter into any other spheres of your own accord either, because you will know yourselves that any sphere will correspond to your degree of light and love. But your love for Me will flare up brightly within you, and the soul will long for Me with ever more yearning, and I will grant it fulfilment, I will let My love flow ever stronger and constantly intensify its bliss. Were you humans on earth aware of this state of bliss, truly, you would do whatever it takes in order to attain it, yet you can only be informed of it, the evidence of it, however, cannot be given to you, for this beatitude is so inconceivably immense that it can only become the fate of those who voluntarily strive towards this degree of maturity, which is the condition for the receipt of beatitude which I have prepared for My living creations.

However, people need only behold the wonders of creation which, admittedly, no longer appear unusual to them because they have become accustomed to seeing them, but they nevertheless testify to a Creator Who uses His strength with love and wisdom in order to also give pleasure to people on earth already .... And such a Creator still has countless possibilities in order to grant His living creations evidence of His love, yet he requires people to take the path to Him, to let their frame of mind be dominated by Him .... I require people to live in and with Me but in order to then also prepare a fate for them which they cannot even imagine on earth .... I only want to receive your love, but then I will also consider My children with My love and create beatitudes which no human being can possibly dream of .... which no eye has ever seen and no ear has ever heard of .... And I thus often step into a human being's life so that he can recognise Me as a God of love and he would only have to respond to My love in order to approach this blissful fate .... And one day he will not be able to understand why he denied Me his love for so long .... one day it will be incomprehensible to him that he kept himself far-away from Me for such long periods of time, and then he will only be concerned with helping people to gain realisation faster, since he will be allowed to look after them when he is in the spiritual kingdom. Being inconceivably happy himself in his love he will also want to help those attain happiness who have not yet reached the degree in order to be given My gifts of love directly. And this is why constant redemption work is being carried out from the spiritual kingdom, for every redeemed soul takes part in it as soon as it is enlightened itself and can also observe all events on earth, the ever-increasing decline of spirituality as well as the flashes of rays of light in this dark world. And every redeemed soul will then already be able to emanate light itself and penetrate the darkness for the salvation of people who are of good will. And the redemption of every soul will cause great rejoicing in the spiritual kingdom, their love for Me will increase and My children will praise and extol Me without end, for their every feeling is a prayer of gratitude in ardent love for Me .... Love, however, is bliss and can intensify without end .... I Myself as Eternal Love will always be the yearning and the goal of all illuminated spiritual beings which constantly receive My emanation of love and are continuously active because love is also strength which can never remain inactive .... And you humans should know about God's infinite love, so that you, too, may receive it as soon as your own degree of love allows for a constant illumination in which you will be and remain immeasurably happy ....

Amen

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Eternity

God is from eternity ....

B.D. 8399 from February 1st 1963, taken from Book No. 88

From Me all things have come forth .... There is nothing that does not have My power of love as its origin .... And there is no other source of strength from Me .... From eternity everything is My work, for spiritual creations exist from eternity, from eternity I work, because strength always requires a field of activity where it can become effective .... But these creations are completely incomprehensible to you humans; it is enough for you to know that I was and am active from eternity, that I cannot be inactive because the eternally flowing flow of strength does not allow such .... You humans have too weak a faculty of thought and cannot be given any information about the nature of My activity, yet you should know one thing, that only the creation of beings like Me prepared a beatitude for Me of which you have no idea. And this creation lies endless eternities in the past, so that you should only ever understand the term 'in the beginning' figuratively, i.e. determined for you and your capacity for comprehension .... For for Me there is neither time nor space, and thus the living with essential creations is likewise of eternity, only this process of the creation of beings is to be especially emphasized as an indescribable act of bliss. For you humans should be able to form a small idea during the time of your earthly change and it will therefore be explained to you according to your capacity. But as soon as your soul has already reached a small degree of maturity you will recognize of your own accord that nothing is limited for Me and that you may never spatially or temporally limit My creation and activity in all of infinity. But one thing is the incontrovertible truth that there was once a 'beginning' for you as spiritual beings .... precisely because you emerged from Me, because you were spiritual creations .... Evidence of My immeasurable abundance of strength which became active in love and wisdom .... Nevertheless, this beginning lies eternities in the past, and thus only the multiplicity and immense number of earthly works of creation will be explainable to you, which only concern a tiny measure of the entire creations, of the universe, and you will be able to imagine .... even if you don't quite grasp .... how innumerable the beings created by Me were, and as a result also learn to understand the endless times which are to bring about the deification of these created beings .... Yet you must never form limited ideas in this contemplation either, for with Me there is no limitation and will not be until all eternity .... And My strength will constantly let new creations arise, My love and wisdom will create nothing without meaning and purpose, and everything will always serve to make the beingness that emerged from Me happy .... For My fundamental being is love which wants to give itself away, which also requires vessels into which it can pour .... Beings which return love to Me and therein also lies My beatitude .... And love always wants to give and receive, and this exchange is a process of bliss which you humans are unable to grasp .... And if I give you a small glimmer of light of realization about it, this is also already a granting of My infinite love, for which I want to give you a small proof in order to also kindle your love for Me, which will then also drive you to seek the final union with Me .... For only then will I be able to make you happy when all earthly form has fallen away from you, when you, as inhabitants of the kingdom of light, can also be permeated by My light of love from eternity and are now also no longer bound by the law of time and space .... Then the concept of eternity will also be comprehensible to you, and you will know that you, too, already exist for eternities and that only the state of imperfection also signifies temporal and spatial limitation, but that even in this state you are unable to receive an all-encompassing enlightenment. Nevertheless, in My love I provide you with gifts of the highest value in order to spur you on to constant spiritual striving, so that you can still reach the degree of perfection on earth which makes you worthy of the brightest radiance of light when you enter the spiritual kingdom and you will be and remain immeasurably blissful for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Immortality .... Eternity .... Suicide ....

B.D. 0974a from June 21st 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The question of immortality .... the concept of eternity .... cannot be solved by the human being because on one hand he cannot understand something that reaches beyond earthly concepts, but on the other hand he cannot be given a spiritual explanation which he could adequately understand either. Only on entering the regions of light can the being be given a partial explanation but even then it remains a problem which, like the eternal Deity, can never be completely solved and comprehended. This has to be said first in order to explain the following:

In times of great spiritual adversity people are inclined to believe that they can put an end to their lives at will, and thus an end to their existence, because they believe that they only exist for a limited period of time and hence feel entitled and qualified to shorten it. They simply lack understanding for immortality, for endlessness of time, for eternity .... That they will never cease to exist cannot be proven to them, but the thought of knowing that life will end one day is far more comforting to them .... And although from time to time the human being feels uneasy about the temporal ending he nevertheless rather accepts this thought than the thought of a continuation of life after death because he knows that everything on earth is temporary and therefore he cannot and will not believe in the immortality of his Self. To explain the concept of ‘eternal’ to such a person would simply be impossible .... The idea that something so intimately related to him should never cease to exist worries him and awakens his sense of responsibility because, understandably, life has to be viewed quite differently as soon as a permanent existence has to be taken into account.

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Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Immortality .... Eternity .... Suicide ....

B.D. 0974b from June 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Consequently, people who consciously deny life after death will not hesitate to end their earthly life themselves since they believe that by ending their earthly life they will dispose of everything, and fail to consider the consequences of their action if they are wrong. They only destroy the outer shell but not life itself and therefore they have to continue living it .... since it cannot be destroyed, neither on earth nor in the beyond .... it is, in the true sense of the word, immortal, i.e. of eternal duration. It is not possible to end it because the Creator has created the being out of Himself and everything of divine origin cannot possibly perish. For that reason the Creator, in His wisdom, has ordained that there shall be no limit for the being to reach its state of perfection .... that even in eternity it can steadily advance and thus be constantly active and give as well as receive .... without ever becoming exhausted or ever having received the ultimate from the eternal Deity. The earthly human being can barely conceive the concept of ‘eternity’, neither can immortality be completely explained to him since nothing on earth is everlasting, and since the immortality of soul cannot be proven to him he has to believe it. Likewise, human intellect cannot analyse the time concept of ‘eternity’ either. This attempt cannot possibly lead to a result as long as the human being cannot apply the same comparison to a physical medium. He only accepts something as true when he has conclusive evidence. And therefore there remains only faith again .... The human being has to believe what cannot be demonstrated to him, and thus the immortality of the being throughout eternity must precede all other reasoning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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Concept of eternity .... God's plan of salvation ....

B.D. 7782 from December 27th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

The upward development of the fallen spiritual substance took place over infinitely long periods of time, infinitely long times were necessary before the earthly-material creation was shaped to such an extent that it could offer the already more mature spiritual substance a place to stay and help it to serve .... and infinitely long times were necessary until the spiritual being had developed to maturity through service in a state of compulsion, so that it could now walk the earth as a human being, so that it was allowed to animate a material form again, which, however, no longer walked the earth in a state of compulsion but had regained free will .... but which was also given the same task to mature: to serve .... But now this service was no longer a compulsion but had to be exercised in free will, in love .... But then it guaranteed the spiritual a becoming free from all form .... These endless long periods of time of the human being's pre-development, i.e. his soul, can well be described with the word 'eternities'; and yet they are limited in time, i.e. they once temporally come to an end .... But eternity lies before the human being, for the soul of the human being is imperishable, it remains in existence for all eternity .... While it is still in an imperfect state on earth as a human being, the state in eternity shall be perfect, because this is and remains the divine creator's aim to be able to create and shape with equally perfect beings in the spiritual kingdom. For you humans it is impossible to grasp what God has set as His aim. But you know one thing, that He can only work together with 'perfect' beings. And you should try to achieve this perfection while still on earth, which is also possible .... The father only puts His children to the test of will for a short period of time and, after the infinitely long course of development before, this time on earth is truly like a moment, because the father's greater than great love no longer wants to cause His children long agonies, so that love for the father will push them towards Him and they will seek to fulfil His will out of love: to voluntarily serve Him .... And this short earthly journey determines the state of the soul in eternity .... But it can also lead back to the abyss again, which again means a course of development into agony and darkness, but the natural consequence is a change of earth as a human being contrary to God's will. And yet, it cannot be avoided because the last perfection has to be achieved in free will and therefore no coercion whatsoever may be done to the human being. Once the soul looks back on its earthly path .... which includes the whole process of pre-development .... then it will grasp all correlations in bright realization, and then it will also know that the soul's 'perfection' has required this process and that the soul itself determines the duration of its maturing .... And yet it will be blissful even if it has prolonged its earthly progress through its own fault, for it will only possess this realization in the state of perfection .... when it has become an overcomer, because love has unfolded in it into bright fervour .... For love will stimulate it into service, and then it will also have reached the aim on earth which secures its release from every form. What lies in the past can still be so agonizing .... once it will be overcome .... But the soul does not cease to be eternally, and the final aim truly outweighs all previous suffering and torment, and beatitude never comes to an end again .... And this is God's plan of salvation, which can only be revealed to you humans in a small way, but which is truly founded in God's love and wisdom and is also carried out by His power .... For He longs for His "children" and wants to create and work with them for eternity ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

What is meant by "eternities" ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Concept of eternity .... Perfection ....

B.D. 6019 from August 10th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Infinitely long periods of time have passed in which My creative will has been active in order to guide the estranged spirits back to Me .... Infinitely many creations have thus emerged which were intended to make this return possible, and countless souls have reached their goal to dwell with Me in the light again .... Yet far longer periods of time will be necessary until all spirits have travelled the path back to Me. For innumerable beings came forth from Me and once strayed from Me of their own free will.

These are eternities, periods of time the duration of which is inconceivable to you humans, and therefore the word 'eternal' can indeed be applied without being a wrong concept for you, even if one day the point in time will arrive when the set time for every period comes to an end .... For even the longest period of time is just like a moment for Me, but infinitely long for all living creations in the state of imperfection .... In the state of imperfection .... And now you will understand that a limit of time only ever exists in the state of imperfection .... whereas perfection does not know any limitation, that the concept of time can no longer be applied to everything perfect, and thus it is irrelevant to Me Myself when the complete return to Me will be accomplished. Yet for you, My living creations, who became imperfect of your own fault, it is of utmost importance how long you will remain in a condition which is agonising for you and the duration of which will consequently be shortened or prolonged by yourselves.

The deeper you are entrenched in sin, the further away you are as yet from perfection, the more the concept of time and space will frighten you, precisely because it is incomprehensible to you and yet it cannot be denied .... because your lifetime on earth is strictly limited and yet infinite ages in the past as well as infinite ages of the future have become a certainty for you .... The latter is even your firm conviction, so that you do not consider it possible for an era to end. Your conviction is in so far justified as that there is no such thing as an 'end', that the spirit will always and forever exist, but this alone is 'real' .... only the unreal things will vanish, which are only the means of return to Me .... And the human being all too often counts himself as the unreal, as what is not permanent, which passes by like time .... because he ignores the soul within himself which is not subject to limitation and which can never cease to exist .... but which is able to suffer eternal torments because it requires eternities to become perfect and then it will also be able to be infinitely happy in utmost freedom, independently from time and space .... because it will stay with Me again, Who is without beginning and end and everywhere, Who exists from eternity to eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Eternal damnation

God's infinite love .... Eternal damnation ....

B.D. 6550 from May 19th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You do not know God's love and mercy and His unceasing efforts to help you, His creatures, from the depths to the heights. He wants to leave nothing in the depths, everything that once fell shall return to Him again in order to be able to be unspeakably blissful in His nearness. What is separated from Him, what is at a great distance from Him, is unhappy and moves Him to pity .... And His love enticingly calls for this wretched creature to turn to Him again, from Whom it had voluntarily turned away .... Yet everything happens without coercion, it is not possible to force those beings to return to God, the return to Him can only be achieved through love, but that it will happen some day is certain, for God's love will not relinquish anything that is His, that has emerged from Him. But because only love can influence the fallen being in that way that it voluntarily returns, therefore the irradiation of love must touch the being again and again until it opens itself and is determined by the power of love to approach God again. And this process takes place in earthly life when the human being becomes aware of the fact that he is guided and led by a higher Power, that he now hands himself over to this Power and follows his inner voice, which is a silent address from God .... Then his resistance is broken and the being is on the path of return to God .... for now God's love draws it, and His mercy also helps the still unworthy to ascend. God's love is infinite .... And therefore no being can be lost forever .... God's love and His mercy pursue that which has sunk into the abyss, and that is why there is also ransom from hell, because God's love is greater than the sinner's guilt .... and because mercy wants to compensate for the fallen being's weakness, and that is why every being is wooed by God's love until it opens itself and allows a ray to work in it. And then the spell is also broken, for love has great power. This is why people must not speak of an 'eternal damnation' .... For eternal damnation presupposes a severe, unloving judge who deprives the being of all freedom and mercilessly passes his sentence .... But God does not want the state in which the wretched finds itself, into which it has fallen through its own fault, in free will .... God wants to save the wretched from it, He wants to lead it to salvation, He wants to irradiate it with His love, and His mercy does not make a distinction as to the magnitude of the guilt of sin. But He does not force any being into salvation .... And therefore such wretched states can also last eternities, for they must be ended by the being itself .... You humans can believe that all help will be granted to them, because God's love is infinite and will never diminish or decrease, no matter how long His creations persevere in resistance .... God is not angry but He takes pity on the unhappiness of those creatures, yet He cannot put them into a state of bliss exercising His power because this would neither correspond to His justice nor to His creatures' freedom of will .... Thus He will only try to influence the souls' will in that way that they will voluntarily turn to Him .... But then a complete return is also guaranteed, for God's love is so powerful that it conquers everything where only its effectiveness is permitted .... And one day every being will have returned to Him, one day even the abyss will have to release everything, because God's love is stronger than hatred and because even God's adversary will one day voluntarily turn to God again, even though this will still take eternities, but God's love will defeat him.

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Eternal damnation ....

B.D. 4602 from March 30th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

God's mercy knows no bounds, God's love is infinite, His patience immeasurable, and for this reason His living creation cannot be lost forever or He would not be perfect. For this reason it is wrong to speak about eternal damnation, if it is to be understood as a concept of time which intends to describe something that is never-ending. For this kind of eternal damnation would then signify something completely lost to God .... thus a spiritual being would finally be relinquished to His adversary, which originally had emerged from God and was taken away from Him by His adversary .... But in that case this adversary would be greater than God, to a certain extent he would be the victor and superior to God's might and strength which, however, is and never will be possible, for no being is able to surpass His perfection, might and wisdom.

What has emerged from Him will eternally remain His in possession, it will just be separated from Him for a time, that is, it has distanced itself from Him to the greatest extent due to its own will. Yet even this distance is not a permanent condition because the being, in order to be happy, has to be affected by God's emanation of strength and .... if it lacks the will for this itself, it will be seized by God's love and mercy which wants to provide it with the state of bliss. Hence eternal damnation would contradict God's love and mercy, or they would be limited, whereby God's perfection would suffer a loss. An utterly perfect Being has no human weaknesses, but eternal wrath would be an inferior human attribute, just as every eternally lasting state of punishment could not be called a divine principle, for the Divine is characterised by love .... Love, however, saves and helps; it forgives and will never push something away from itself forever.

In contrast, the adversary lacks the divine principle of love, and it will always be his objective to pull the spiritual beings down to himself forever. He is the one who causes confusion to people's concept of eternity, who tries to portray God as merciless and harsh in order to stifle people's love for Him .... he is the one who does not know mercy himself and therefore unhesitatingly aims to render the souls miserable, who wants to deprive them of every opportunity of help in order to corrupt them forever. And he finds many followers of his doctrine of eternal damnation .... who do not recognise God in His infinite love or they would be unable to believe this teaching. Yet the truth will always be conveyed to people and the error glaringly brought to light, so that God will be recognised and loved as the most perfect Being, so that people will join Him and abhor His opponent ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

There is no eternal damnation ....

B.D. 6155 from January 5th 1955, taken from Book No. 66

There is no eternal separation from God, there is no eternal condemnation, no eternal death .... For God's infinite love eliminates such, which takes care of every being, which has mercy on every being, no matter how low it has sunk, and which will also never ever leave to His adversary what has emerged from eternal love. Yet there is a separation from God for infinitely long periods of time which, however, is never God's will but the will of the being itself .... thus no condemnation by God can be spoken of either. If the being is so infinitely distant from God then it is its own fault, its own will, and it can reduce this separation at any time, it can return to God at any time because God grants it every help, as soon as only the being itself is of the will to return to God .... Thus the unhappy state is created by the being itself, and the unhappy state consists of the fact that the being lacks light and strength the further it distances itself from God because it rejects God's love, which signifies light and strength for the being .... But God's love constantly endeavours to call the being, which is dead due to its lack of strength, back to life again .... God's love is always ready to radiate strength and light to the being, yet always in compliance with His eternal order, the law, which is based on His perfection .... And therefore the duration of distance from God can be infinitely long for a being .... the term 'eternity' is therefore not entirely unjustified, only a state which never ends is not to be understood by it. But for the being which has separated itself from God there is always the possibility to put an end to its wretched state, for it is never left to itself but is always pursued by God with His love .... Salvation opportunities are always offered to it, and it is always left to its free will to make use of them .... For God's love is unlimited, it is not resentful, it is always willing to help, to save, to make happy and blissful, for it is always His creations which His strength of love once called into being .... and which He will never ever abandon, and whether eternal times pass away .... Yet it is impossible to return a life full of light and strength to a being which closes itself off to the original source of light and strength .... Free will is the characteristic of all that is divine, and to eliminate free will would mean to de-divine the being .... to leave it eternally imperfect and therefore also eternally unhappy .... but an unhappiness that would be God's will .... God, however, wants to provide His creations with eternal happiness and therefore leaves them free will, according to which the being can now determine for itself whether and for how long it keeps itself distant from God or longs for God's love and presence .... Yet no being will ever be cast out from God's presence, for His love is so strong that it will lead everything back to Himself again which once originated from Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Description of the process of the return work ....

B.D. 8947 from March 2nd 1965, taken from Book No. 94

Worlds will come into being and just as many will pass away again, for the number of fallen beings was so great that you cannot imagine it. But also My love, wisdom and power are unlimited, and they always only have one aim in mind, to lead all these fallen beings to perfection, to once again establish the original state, which was proper to all fallen in the beginning. Because again and again I tell you this that everything has come out of Me in highest perfection and that I will not rest until this perfection is reached again. And this work of return goes on in all worlds, which hold endless many thoughts from Me, which have become form, which all follow their purpose in legal order, which are as versatile as the sand on the sea .... but which also can cause every being, which has reached I-consciousness, to strive for the creator and shaper of all those worlds, and therefore already the first step to the return from the being itself is done. Therefore as long as creations of earthly material kind still arise, so long is the work of return still not completed, and eternities will still pass before the last fallen spiritual has covered the way up. But there will be no end of that what once has emerged out of My hand .... Only its state can and must change once, because no being can eternally remain distant from My love, only the resistance, which the being opposes to Me, is often so great that still eternal times will pass before it can take the way through creation(s), which then also once guarantees it perfection. And that again proves the power, which My opponent has over this spiritual, because it is only then withdrawn from its power, when it is bound in the creations of most different kind. Then it also irrevocably goes the way up .... even if in the law of compulsion .... but this is also progress for the being in its ascent development until it reaches the stage as man where now the opponent has influence on him again. But as long as he still prevents the hardened spiritual substance to let himself be captured by the love power of God, so long this spiritual only strengthens his power consciousness for him, which on the other hand lets My will to form become stronger and stronger to also wrest this spiritual from his fettering. And so he is and remains My opposite pole, which is indeed also inferior to My power when I want to use it .... But for the sake of the creatures, which once have to decide between Me and him, he will also still remain My opposite pole for a long time, until also he will voluntarily surrender to Me .... but then the work of return has succeeded Me completely and then only spiritual creations exist, which make all beings happy without measure and now will also no longer pass away. This is a description of the course of the return of the spiritual in short words, but for you the time is unthinkable .... you humans have to reckon again and again with the emergence of worlds which serve Me to bring this work of return to a conclusion. For I do not reckon with time and space, My spiritual world is endless, and My love has also given life to an endless number of beings who, however, have relinquished it and now return from the state of death to which they voluntarily entered. into which they voluntarily entered .... into the state of life again. And what the creations of those worlds hold are exactly those spiritual beings that have come to death, which are to win back their life again and this is well possible in the stage as man. But since also now again My adversary uses his power .... which he has the right to do because his following once followed him voluntarily .... earthly life is now also responsible, for the human being can certainly reach highest perfection but also fall infinitely low. But for Me time plays no role, because once also the poorest spirit will surrender to Me and My love, once also My opponent will return to his father's house and be happy in My love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers