Spiritualism

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

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

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Who was Bertha Dudde?

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

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

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

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

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

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

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Influence on the souls of deceased people

2401 - Contact with the deceased .... Souls close to Earth ....

3505 - Influence of immature souls who died early....

8204 - Bad influence of immature souls from the beyond....

Spiritualism

2496 - Contact with the beyond .... Willingness to give .... (Spiritualism) ....

7009 - God-blessed spiritual connections.... low spiritism....

8762 - Spiritual connections?....

Demonic influence on the people

4438 - Demonic influence on light bearers.... fight against truth....

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

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

Dangers of media reception

6468 - Dangers of psychic communication....

7720 - Dangers of psychic reception....

8149 - Warning against medial reception....

Check the spirit good

4971 - Examining deviating spiritual information.... (Spiritualism?)

7512 - Conscious or medial receptions....

8337 - Examination of spiritual 'receptions'....

8695 - Psychic receptions - Credibility....

Right intercourse with the spirit world

5166 - God-ordained intercourse with the spirit world....

7388 - Banishing the demons.... warding them off....

8765 - Connection with the world beyond a guarantee for truth?....

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Influence on the souls of deceased people

Contact with the deceased .... Souls close to Earth ....

B.D. 2401 from July 8th 1942, taken from Book No. 32

Countless souls are close to earth whose state of maturity is still very low and who therefore still harbour the desire for earth because the higher spheres are still inaccessible to them. These souls are often still unaware of the fact that they no longer belong to earth, that is, they still don’t know that their physical life on earth has come to an end, and therefore they still remain in their old environment and want to talk to people without, however, being heard by them. Sometimes it can take a long time until they realise that they have nothing to do with the Earth anymore. It takes a long time until they find themselves in their new environment and finally stay away from Earth. This stage of ignorance is not very satisfactory for the soul, for it finds no understanding and help anywhere because it turns to people who cannot help in the way it desires to be helped. Only the realisation that it has passed away from earth for good and that people can only offer their help through prayer motivates the soul to reflect on its present state and to consider the possibility that it might be able to change this state itself. Then it will pay attention to every opportunity which raises its degree of maturity. Only then will it take stock of itself and try to hold itself to account, which will often result in bitter remorse that it did not use earthly life in accordance with God’s will. And during this remorseful mood it is often visited by beings of light which approach it under a cover so as not to be recognised as beings of light. These draw the soul’s attention to the suffering of other souls and try to awaken its compassion for them. Then it will depend on its inner attitude as to whether the beings of light will provide it with strength or leave it to its fate again until its compassion for the needy souls outweighs its own suffering and the beings of light continue their influence anew, and then with successful results. Earth is surrounded by countless souls which, in a manner of speaking, still live on earth, but unknown to those people who define everything they cannot see and touch as non-existent, and who therefore refuse to believe that the souls of the deceased surround the people who stay behind. For they can only be seen with spiritual eyes, however, the physical eye is blind, consequently the souls are unable to make themselves known by any means, because people do not react to them, since they are dependent on the divine natural laws in which God Himself has placed them. They only see and hear with physical organs, but the souls of the deceased require spiritual vision.

And so there is no connection between the souls of the deceased and people on earth, in a purely worldly sense; only an entirely spiritual connection exists, and this can only be established if the human being on earth is willing to harmonise with the souls, that is, if the human being on earth believes in the soul’s life after death and as a result of this belief tries to communicate with these souls. Consciously getting in touch with the spiritual world is the prerequisite so that contact can be established between people and the souls in the beyond, which makes a mutual understanding possible. And then it depends on who is more knowledgeable, the human being or the soul in the beyond. For the informed participant shall instruct the uninformed one. If the soul in the beyond is in a very immature stage, then the human being can convey his knowledge to it by speaking to the soul, which the souls can understand and hear very well. But, if a human being lacks knowledge, he will be instructed by knowledgeable spiritual beings once his will desires this instruction.

And thus you humans on earth can very beneficially influence the souls which are close to earth, since the state of their maturity is usually inadequate, with little knowledge and therefore not much strength. By transmitting the knowledge with loving thoughts they can be helped insofar as it enables the souls to detach themselves more easily from earth and at the same time turn their attention to equally suffering souls in the beyond. This can awaken love in them and they will subsequently be introduced to further knowledge by the beings of light, which recognise the souls’ change of heart, and then, on their part, helpfully support the souls.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Influence of immature souls who died early ....

B.D. 3505 from August 4th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

Countless souls dwell close to earth who are secluded without realization of the eternal deity, who entered the kingdom of the beyond blindly in spirit and, still unconscious of their miserable state, stay close to people who were in their vicinity on earth. And these souls, through their desiring and urging, often impel people into actions and speeches which correspond to their will, i.e., they transfer their thinking to people who offer them no resistance, who are of the same spirit and therefore receptive to the influence of those souls. The rapid departure from earth, often in the midst of life due to the influence of demonic forces, to which countless people fall victim, transfers the still immature souls from the state of strength into a state of complete lack of strength. They feel that they can no longer accomplish anything of their own will and therefore seek to transfer their will to living people in order to still have an effect through them, in order to determine them to carry out their will. And this unfavourable influence from the spiritual kingdom of darkness has a particularly detrimental effect on earth because the number of people who die increases daily and many people are deprived of the opportunity to reach their state of maturity on earth. At present the earth is surrounded by dark creatures who even try to deny the forces of light access to earth and are successful where people are indifferent towards the spiritual. The immature souls still strive for the same as on earth, and they transfer their desire to people

(4.8.1945) who have the same thoughts, the same desires and the same state of maturity. And these are willing executors of what they are mentally whispered to. Increased mortality, which is unnatural, i.e. occurs as a result of human hatred and lack of love, will also increase the darkness in the spheres next to earth, for people have not yet evaluated their earthly life, they cannot yet record the spiritual successes, they are mostly easy-going and belong to the world, and their desire for bodily death is correspondingly, as soon as particularly difficult living conditions do not make them realize the worthlessness of it in the last hour and their thinking still changes before the entrance into the spiritual kingdom. Then the soul will also not be surrounded by deepest darkness but will see rays of light flashing now and then, which it will follow and soon come into brighter surroundings. But then its desire will no longer be exclusively for earthly matter, it will easily separate itself from earth and its former surroundings and find a substitute in the spiritual kingdom which seems more valuable to it .... But immature souls cannot rise into these spheres, they are held to earth as if by chains and are also always close to their relatives or like-minded people on earth. And their spiritual state will hardly lift as long as forces from the beyond exert their influence. And their ignorance is not suitable to have an enlightening effect on people, moreover, they make it difficult for the beings of light to gain access to them, and only the serious will of the human being himself clears the way for the beings of light. And therefore earthly chaos, initiated by human will and demanding many sacrifices, also results in a spiritual decline, for even after the human being's death his thoughts are still active .... And people should protect themselves from the influence of immature, prematurely deceased people by praying for them and asking for protection through the beings of light, for right thinking and God's grace and strength .... Then the endeavours of the dark spiritual forces will be fruitless, they will not be heard by people and cannot cause spiritual harm. For again, it is the human being's own will whether he strives for the good in order to be in contact with good forces or carelessly abandons himself to the pressing thoughts of the bad forces .... The human being can protect himself, but he must have the will to do so and consequently abhor bad thoughts and actions .... He must walk a path himself which corresponds to God's commandments, then all influence from the spiritual kingdom exerted by lower forces will be ineffective. For rays of light penetrate everywhere where only light is desired, where good is striven for and spiritual progress is longed for. There the beings of light are constantly active and they chase away all dark figures around people, for their power is great as soon as the human being grants them this power through his will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bad influence of immature souls from the beyond ....

B.D. 8204 from July 2nd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The door to the kingdom of light is closed to all those who have not yet recognized their redeemer from sin and death in Me, i.e. who do not recognize Jesus Christ's act of salvation as such and thus also do not acknowledge My human manifestation in Jesus and thus Me Myself .... And thus you can also understand that countless souls leave earth and enter the kingdom of the beyond burdened by their original sin, that they wander around in darkness or twilight and still stay close to earth, that they often don't know that they no longer live on earth and yet would like to express themselves through people again and therefore harass them in every way. And thus you are also given a reason for the conduct of many people who are .... influenced by such souls .... let themselves be carried away into the worst deeds. And the closer the end comes the more noticeable this influence will become, for time and again people depart from earth who live and die without faith in Jesus Christ and are therefore not free from their guilt of sin when they enter the kingdom of the beyond .... who take their evil thinking and their will, which is still turned towards the adversary, with them and are also influenced by him to oppress people according to their nature .... And thus the earth is surrounded by an endless host of most evil spirits who know no other goal than to transfer all their vices and desires onto people and to weaken their will and also mentally influence people so that the rejection of the divine redeemer also becomes stronger in them again and they are all in greatest danger of losing any faith they still have, who now doubt and turn away from Jesus Christ and therefore remain in deepest darkness and enter the kingdom of the beyond .... Can you now understand why I admonish people time and again to take the path to the cross, to hand themselves over to Jesus Christ and ask Him for strength of will, for forgiveness of guilt and help in the battle with the adversary in order to become free from him? .... I only want to inform people that they are bound by their great guilt of apostasy from Me and that they alone cannot break these chains, but (but only) with the help of the divine redeemer they can become free from his power .... And this is the goal of their earthly life, yet people know little or nothing about it, and since they are close to the end they are in great danger of departing unredeemed from this world and thus entering the kingdom of the beyond unredeemed, where it will be very difficult for them to find Jesus Christ, even though this is still possible then. But as long as it is still possible to convey this knowledge of the divine redeemer to people on earth, the whole world of light will work towards it and exert its influence in My will to enlighten people about it, and I Myself will convey this knowledge to earth so that people will receive enlightenment about Jesus Christ and His mission in all truth and turn to Him of their own free will .... For only then will they also recognize Me Myself in Him and acknowledge Me and thus also consciously take the path back to Me which leads home, back into the father's house. And many souls in the kingdom of the beyond will also participate in the instructions I Myself give to people on earth who are willing to work for Me and My kingdom. And thereby a light can also be kindled for these souls which can also facilitate (illuminate) their path of ascent on the other side, so that they, too, will learn the truth about Jesus Christ and His act of mercy and will no longer be defensive but call to Him from the darkness for salvation, which will certainly be granted to them. And you humans can support this work of salvation by remembering the departed in intercession and by reciting the gospel to them yourselves, by addressing them and praying to them for clarification about Jesus and referring them to Him when they are in darkness or in spiritual distress. And they will listen to you because every effort in love will be felt beneficially by them. And they will also change their will and consciously turn to Jesus, Whom they now also recognize as redeemer, in Whom I embodied Myself on earth in order to be recognized and acknowledged by you humans .... And you will not perish but come to the life which lasts forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritualism

Contact with the beyond .... Willingness to give .... (Spiritualism) ....

B.D. 2496 from October 5th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

It is incomparably valuable to enter a state which results in contact with the spiritual kingdom, because only through such a connection is it possible to be guided into truth. And therefore it is, in fact, God’s will that this contact shall be upheld as long as the human being strives for the truth. Only the desire for truth justifies such a connection, for the purpose of a connection from this side to the beyond is to convey the pure truth to earth. Nevertheless, every person believes that he wants the truth as soon as he makes contact with the beyond. But it is often only curiosity, hence, the desire to receive information about the kingdom of the beyond, without being aware of the task that the received knowledge should be passed on to uninformed fellow human beings. For he who receives shall give as well. If a person’s selfish love is strongly accentuated, he will only accept the knowledge from the spiritual realm for himself. This does not correspond to God’s will, for all actions and thoughts should be based on the commandment of neighbourly love. A loving heart receives and distributes again what it receives .... However, if a person is unwilling to give, he will also lose the right to receive gifts. If he nevertheless maintains contact with the beyond, there is no guarantee that he will receive pure truth, for then beings will also push close, which, on account of their selfish love, are still far removed from the truth. Hence, not all proclamations need to correspond to truth if they were received by a person who has not offered his service to God, that is, who has not declared to Him his will to work for Him and the distribution of the pure truth. This conscious intention to be of service to God protects the human being from untruthful spiritual gifts, for God only conveys the truth to earth for the purpose of distribution amongst humanity. The reception of spiritual gifts must be the result of a loving heart, love for his fellow human being must first make the person capable and worthy of receiving spiritual gifts. But people with a very low degree of love can also establish contact with the beyond; they will also constantly receive messages from the spiritual kingdom, but these will always correspond to the being or the soul’s degree of maturity of the person who establishes the connection. Every person having declared himself willing to receive messages from the spiritual kingdom will be taken possession of. All spiritual beings want to express themselves, and they do so according to their degree of maturity, that is, according to their knowledge. But the partition between truth and untruth is erected by the human being himself through the degree of his desire for truth. The desire of anyone striving for the pure truth will be met by bearers of truth, by beings of light which are united with God. They can only impart pure truth and also protect the recipient from accepting error, for they have so much strength that they can push all imperfect beings away from the vicinity of a person who only desires the truth and wants to receive it in order to distribute it to the human race living in darkness.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God-blessed spiritual connections .... low spiritism ....

B.D. 7009 from January 2nd 1958, taken from Book No. 75

All spiritual connections to earth are under My protection as soon as people's will is good who initiate such connections. For these connections have to be established on earth because the spiritual world is only allowed to work when the human being's will allows it. If people's will is good then the world of light may also intervene, whereas if people's attitude is low the spiritual forces express themselves which do not radiate light but rather deepen the darkness in which people find themselves. But since it is My will that light shall shine for you humans I will always bless those bonds which are the result of a good attitude and good will. And thus I will also protect those people from erroneous transmissions, for good will gives Me the right to do so, to push away the immature spirits and to prevent them from receiving erroneous thought material .... And thus you can also accept instructions from the spiritual kingdom without worry and with relief, for the world of light constantly endeavours to guide you to the light, which also happens through mental influence as soon as you desire light. But then you will also soon realize that you are also allowed to establish ties, that there is no separation between the earthly and the spiritual world .... that you are constantly surrounded by beings which are only of your will and attitude .... But only those people who have the serious will to come closer to Me and the truth will believe in this, for people who also establish spiritual bonds and are still of a lowly nature themselves have no real faith in Me. Rather, they only seek to satisfy their own curiosity, they try to uncover secrets and seek sensational entertainment .... And these people are also served according to their attitude, and their faith in a God of love will never be awakened in them, instead, they are far more likely to draw closer to My adversary, who pushes them ever further away from Me through lies and error. This is why serious warnings must be given against such ties with the spiritual kingdom, whereas every person who seeks to establish a serious bond with the world of light may feel safe under My protection. For the beings of light are the executors of My will, the beings of light do nothing of their own will, for their will is fully subject to Mine. But I often make these beings happy with tasks by entrusting them with people for guidance who earnestly strive towards Me, who have already entered into a serious bond with Me, so that I can provide them with light, with the pure truth which originates from Me and is thus conveyed to them directly or through My messengers of light, but who will never offer you humans anything other than what flows to them from Me. For you must know that My emanation of light and strength constantly touches these beings and is then passed on by them and that their bliss also consists of being able to provide them with light and strength again which such need and require. Therefore only your will is decisive to unite with Me and the world of light, then you are also guaranteed My protection and blessing, irrespective of whether the light of truth mentally reaches you or you receive it from Me in the form of My word. The eternal truth Itself is always at work, and It will ward off every dishonest spirit which tries to intervene .... just as, conversely, My beings of light are powerless against this dark world of spirits if the human being himself grants them access through his attitude and allows their activities. And every person should account for his motives which drive him to try to exchange spiritual forces .... A serious warning should be given against spiritualism of a lower kind, which brings no blessing but is a great danger to hand oneself over to My adversary if it is not recognized in time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual connections? ....

B.D. 8762 from February 25th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

I can only ever tell you that you should let Me Myself speak to you, that you should only listen to Me Myself, and truly, you will not need to regret it, for everything you need to know will be conveyed to you, you will not need to walk along in darkness but bright light will illuminate the path, at the destination of which I Myself will receive you .... Therefore you should always turn directly to Me that I light the light for you; you should not expect it elsewhere. For light can only come forth from Me, Who is the light from eternity .... I certainly direct My flow of love light through countless light beings everywhere into infinity; it always has its origin in Me and therefore always remains the same light. But you know that there are also blinding lights, you know that these can certainly blind your eyes but also make them incapable for the right light, which gives off a gentle shine and still brightly illuminates everything, which will touch you beneficently, but does not flash glaringly before you and therefore weakens your eyes. And such dazzling lights are work of My adversary, who likewise makes use of people who are prepared to be active for him for the forwarding of his vessels .... People who want to cause confusion themselves, or also those who have the best intention but do not take the way directly to Me to have a light lit. You men must know that there are innumerable spirit beings, which still lack the light of knowledge themselves, but which seize every opportunity to establish connection with men on earth, and which disown them, which therefore seek to impart what they possess themselves, although it does not correspond to truth. Furthermore you must know that the spirit world is constantly in contact with you and according to your own degree of maturity you are also surrounded by spiritual beings, which now consider you through irradiation of their knowledge to your thoughts. Every thought has its start in the spiritual world, and it always touches you men according to your own maturity and your will and desire for truth. The process, which constantly takes place through thought activity of man, takes on certain forms when it happens consciously, when therefore men consciously establish the connection with the spiritual world and receive spiritual material from there, which then more or less corresponds to truth, because men stand in completely different stages of maturity and also purpose and aim of the conscious connection with the spirit world is different. But every opportunity is seized by the spirit beings because they want to make themselves heard. I have now equipped you men with free will, and this alone decides whether you are influenced positively or negatively by the beings of the spiritual kingdom, because according to your will the teaching spirit beings come to you, which can either bring light or put you into ever greater darkness. Because your free will determines your walk of life; it drives you or hinders you to work in love .... Your free will earnestly desires truth or is content with whatever spiritual good is offered to you .... Your free will earnestly strives towards Me or joins My opponent .... And therefore your free will also determines the teachers who seek to instruct you from the spiritual kingdom. But only beings of light are entitled to instruct you, and these are also guaranteed to impart pure truth to you, because they only pass on what they receive directly from Me. But how are you to recognize whether you are instructed by the world of light or by such beings, which themselves do not yet stand in truth? You must first take the way to Me, devote yourselves to Me completely and ask Me for supply of truth. And if I now give you an answer through My messengers of light from the spiritual kingdom, then you can be assured that I will first encourage you to make direct contact with Me Myself .... that I will enlighten you about 'the working of My spirit in the human being' .... and that I therefore give you a guarantee that you will then receive purest truth from Me, because My spirit cannot err .... Then I will certainly also work in you through messengers of light, that is, My ray of love-light will be passed through those high spiritual beings who are admitted for instruction, who pass on nothing but My strength of love, who radiate 'My word' to earth, which emanates directly from Me. Understand: People who sincerely desire the truth and intimately unite with Me can certainly also be instructed in accordance with the truth by spiritual means, because their purity guarantees it, yet these are such rare exceptions and yet they tempt fellow human beings to seek truth in the same way, and these take a great risk because they themselves cannot control the spirit world which expresses itself to them, because ignorant spirits also make themselves heard and therefore there is never the certainty of receiving pure truth .... But every being of light which receives the flow of love light from Me and passes it on will in turn try to influence the human being to establish an ever more intimate direct connection with Me and thus enable the 'working of the spirit'. It will enlighten the human being about the fact that truth emanates from Me alone and can also be received directly from Me .... For the being of light knows about all dangers of a spiritual contact with the spirit world, and it knows that the human being can rarely only meet the dangers on his own, because a completely pure, mature soul life of the human being is a prerequisite .... but such would also allow the process of direct transmission through My spirit, which is far more beneficial for himself and his followers. The average person's state of maturity is still too low for him to be able to guarantee the connection with the high world of light, and therefore the danger is too great that error will be represented as truth just because it originates from the 'spiritual kingdom', thus it was conveyed to people through mediums. A medium will also not be able to ward off an impure spirit which can easily slip in where earthly-directed desires or impure urges are still present in one of the participants of such circles which seek to make contact with the spiritual kingdom. Such a connection is and remains a danger for the souls of men, because only very rarely the sphere is so pure that no counter spirit finds access .... and then also pure truth can be imparted to men. But every such favourable opportunity is also taken by the beings of light and tried to make use of in the sense to make man understand the 'working of the spirit in man', so that then a reception of truth is guaranteed and a great blessing also grows out of it for fellowmen. But then it will also be understandable to you that there is only one truth, which alone starts from Me, Who is the eternal truth .... And I must emphasize this again and again that you can then also represent the absolute truth when I Myself am the origin of spiritual knowledge which comes or has come to you through My direct working in you .... but that you will never have the same certainty when you are taught in a different way, although even then partial truths come to you .... but there is just as great danger that you humans will be misled .... For My adversary is active on earth and also in the spiritual kingdom, and his aim is to increase spiritual darkness and to extinguish or dim all light .... But I am the light from eternity, and I will always radiate light into the darkness, so that you, My creatures, find the way, which leads back to Me and to eternal life ...._>Amen

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Demonic influence on the people

Demonic influence on light bearers .... fight against truth ....

B.D. 4438 from September 21st 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The demonic influence is particularly strong where the truth threatens to break through, and that is why you are often plagued by thoughts which these beings let flow towards you and which are intended to make you unfit to receive or pass on the truth. Light and shadow are always together, the battle of light against darkness always takes place, and the human being's will determines which forces will win the day. Where there is light, i.e. truth, the dark beings also crowd together to extinguish it, to displace truth through lies and error. And this has the effect that every spiritual work is made difficult for the bearers of light as soon as they themselves do not muster the strong will to be constantly active for God and His kingdom. Then a light bearer draws strength from God and can resist every influence from the demonic side, then he is stronger than that strength, then he has the spiritual light as a protective wall around him and can resist every influence, every wrong thought. The strength of will must never weaken, then even the demonic forces will have no effect. Yet a bearer of truth will always feel the proximity of these beings which fight against the truth insofar as the spiritual work is more difficult, that inhibitions and obstacles influence it and the human being must again and again request strength anew from God and thus join God ever more intimately if he does not want to become weak and leave victory to the demonic forces. Yet he will never remain without help, for once the light can be guided to earth there are countless beings of light ready to defend him, and anyone who has once offered his services to God will also find a faithful helper and advisor in Him Who will never abandon him to the enemy but protect him against his influence ....

Amen

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

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

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

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

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

Amen

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Dangers of media reception

Dangers of psychic communication ....

B.D. 6468 from February 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Much is presented to you humans as truth which was received in a mediumistic state from the spiritual kingdom .... And you frequently support this information with confidence because you are convinced that you cannot be wrongly educated from this world .... And especially these teachings can cause you considerable disadvantage, because you are then no longer able to receive the pure truth. Psychic communication always necessitates utmost caution .... this has to be said to you time and again. Because the recipient’s environment is rarely so purged, so permeated by light, that negative influences cannot intrude .... Only then can pure truth also be conveyed by mediumistic means. But the thoughts of people who surround the recipient also affect psychically made statements. The recipient himself has surrendered his will and is now controlled by an unknown will. Only extreme integrity of his outer circle keeps everything unspiritual at bay .... However, as soon as a hitherto accepted wrong thought emerges in someone in this circle, he attracts beings who instantly want to intensify his error, since they are now able to enter this environment .... which is not possible when all participants are wholly inspired by the desire for purest truth and completely submit themselves to God and all that is light. But this commonly shared will soon abandons psychic reception, because people will then consciously approach God for clarification, for truth .... and it is no longer necessary to surrender the will, to enter into a state of trance, because God will certainly grant such sincere request for conveying the truth and will choose a servant from this circle to whom He can transmit His Word in a conscious state ....

On the other hand, not every mediumistic message can be discarded, since beings of light occasionally also use this opportunity to contact people, in the hope that one day they will be able to establish the heartfelt contact which facilitates the conveyance of absolute truth. But these psychic messages always have to correspond to God’s Word, which is received in a conscious state. However, differences of opinion will frequently arise because mediumistic messages are equally highly valued. The messages of the beings of light will always concur with each other, they will always proclaim the truth from God .... And each deviation has to be seriously examined as to whether and to what extent the environment or the medium himself had an already preconceived opinion which contradicted the consciously conveyed Word. There is only one truth, and this comes forth from God Himself, even though it is transmitted by beings of light .... And where there is truth there is no contradiction .... But there are many different opinions, and there are different sources used by people ....

Yet only one source is the fountain of life, which God has made accessible .... He Himself pours His spirit into the human hearts who prepare themselves as a vessel for the flow of spirit .... This preparation is conscious work, it is the work of improving the soul .... it is a transformation to love .... which is the prerequisite for the working of the divine spirit ....

But a person can receive psychic messages even when he has not achieved this transformation, simply by handing over his own will and allowing himself to be seized by an unknown will .... And the quality of this unknown will is determined by the degree of maturity of his own soul and the souls of people in his surroundings .... Every spiritually revived person will oppose mediumistic reception because he recognises the inherent danger and because a spiritually awakened person is always permeated by a profound desire for truth. However, a medium with a high degree of maturity will soon be able to receive the messages consciously, and these will never contradict the pure Word of God, which flows forth from the fountain of life made accessible by God Himself. Beware if you discover contradictions, and examine the source of the teachings which contradict themselves. And if you want to know the truth you will also receive clarification .... when you ask God Himself for help, when you submit to Him every doubt, every question, and always just want to be taught correctly and able to support Him and the only truth .... the truth from God ....

Amen

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Dangers of psychic reception ....

B.D. 7720 from October 5th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

And time and again I admonish you to love, because only love will awaken the spirit within you to life so that it can manifest itself. You ought to know that the spirit's manifestation is of incalculable value for you, because then you will receive My Word in all its purity since I Myself will be able to speak to you through the spirit. You should know that love activates spiritual powers in you which you have always possessed but which lay buried within you since your past apostasy from Me. Thus the higher you ascend through love the more these spiritual forces will develop again and your nature will change once more into the original being that you were at the beginning when you were still in My image .... supremely perfect entities which were able to be creative and active like Me for their blissful happiness .... You relinquished love of your own free will .... and must voluntarily strive for love again, you must open yourselves to My illumination of love so that My spirit will flow into you again, and thus all past abilities will awaken to life and you will enter into active communication with Me once more. However, I also want you to know that My adversary will try to influence you in the same way; he, too, would like to express himself through you and could succeed if you submit yourselves to him. Then he will be able to take possession of you and transfer his will onto you, then you will also be able to speak but what you say will be a jumble of thoughts which will lack all clarity, and you will not benefit from it. And therefore I seriously caution you against submitting yourselves in weakness of will to spiritual powers which misuse you; I warn you against psychic communications which you humans often cannot distinguish but which always denote a danger, which cannot be called the working of the spirit but are simply messages from different spheres of the spiritual world and only rarely guarantee the pure truth. Even people who are still far removed from love are able to receive psychic communications, for as soon as they submit themselves in weakness of will to a spiritual power they will be possessed by it, and they won't offer any resistance if these powers come from the lower spheres of the spiritual world. But anyone who ignites the flame of love within himself will inevitably establish contact between his spiritual spark and Me, the eternal Father-Spirit. And this person can only pass on truth, he actually receives My Word, he is addressed by Me directly and can only be taught the truth ....

And I would like to warn all of you through this Word that you should not believe every spirit, that you should turn to Me Myself and only appeal to Me for truth. You should not ask questions, you should not desire to know that which My wisdom keeps hidden from you, you should not ask these spirits about earthly matters .... You should only ever trustingly come to Me with all your concerns and I will truly answer you through your heart .... if only you pay attention to your thoughts, your inner impulses and intentions .... Then I will speak through your heart to you and you will truly not need advice from spirits of whom you don't know to which sphere they belong, for they disguise themselves well, and you will often consider them good spirits, whereas in fact they only cause confusion and try to stop people from their direct communication with their Father of eternity. I so gladly want to speak to My children .... but I can only do so if you shape yourselves into love, because only love can speak to love. Hence you should all come directly to Me and, by just sincerely uniting with Me and listening attentively, you will also hear Me Myself within you .... you will be able to enter into a dialogue with Me and even problems you entrust to Me will clearly resolve themselves. And if you live a life of love My voice within you will become increasingly clearer, for then the spiritual spark within you will be addressed by its eternal Father-Spirit and audibly reveal itself to you. But don't think that you will receive My communication in a roundabout way if love is not within you as yet. The working of the spirit and psychic receptions must be distinguished from each other .... Admittedly, each time a spiritual force is at work but just as there is light and darkness, the forces of light will also always have to fight against the forces of darkness .... Light is where love can be found, and therefore love alone determines the degree of truth which forms the basis of these spiritual messages .... And love approaches Me directly, since I Am Eternal Love .... Love resists communications which do not originate from Eternal Love Itself. And Eternal Love wants to be in direct contact with you .... I want to be addressed by you yourselves so that I can also speak to you Myself. And that is the 'working of My spirit' within you, which I constantly announced to you with the Words 'I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth ....' Love is everything, and only through love can you unite yourselves with Me. And I want to receive this love from you and truly, you will be guided into all truth ....'

Amen

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Warning against medial reception ....

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

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

Amen

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Check the spirit good

Examining deviating spiritual information .... (Spiritualism?)

B.D. 4971 from September 22nd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Don't fail to appeal to God for clarification when you have questions or doubts in your heart, because He, Who is the eternal Truth Himself, also wants you to live in truth and brightly and clearly recognise it as such. You have the right to raise questions, as bearers of light you must be knowledgeable in order to be able to instruct your fellow human beings correctly, and thus you are entitled to criticise if you are not convinced that the spiritual knowledge you receive from external sources is the truth. In that case it is not just your right but also your duty to establish clarity for the sake of truth, in yourselves as well as in regards to those who spread error and claim it is truth. God always remains true to Himself and thus His Word will also always be the same, just as His will turns into an action in keeping with His plan of eternity. No-one will ever be able to claim to have received something from God as truth which deviates from His eternal Word, for His Word will never change. Whatever He announces through seers and prophets will come to pass according to His Word. But the meaning of His Word can be understood differently by people and therefore it is necessary to explain time and again how He wants His Word to be understood. And these explanations can only be conveyed to people from the spiritual kingdom, which repeatedly happens through divine revelations, through the direct transmission of the pure truth, by God speaking to suitable people through the voice of their heart directly but also by way of beings of light, which themselves live in absolute truth and also want to impart it to people on earth. Consequently, only the purest truth comes forth from God as well as from the kingdom of light to people, providing they sincerely desire it and the recipient himself accepts this truth without distorting it, which depends on his degree of maturity .... God does not deny Himself to anyone who appeals to Him for the pure truth, He grants it to him without reservation, yet the applicant is not always capable of receiving spiritual knowledge, that is, of understanding it as it should be understood .... The truth comes forth purely and clearly from the spiritual kingdom, however, a heart not entirely pure will cloud it and then pass on ambiguous spiritual knowledge; this is why the degree of maturity of someone who wants to spread the truth on earth will determine its purity. The spiritual information does not come spoilt from above; instead it is distorted by the human being's will if he lacks the necessary degree of maturity which shapes him into a proper recipient of divine truth. Hence this is the explanation for minor variations which nevertheless cannot be considered an error.

However, completely contradictory messages from the spiritual kingdom claiming to be irrefutable truth necessitate a serious examination. For then different forces will be the points of origin of the proclamations and should therefore be subjected to a stringent review. And again, the degree of maturity of the one who desires to receive spiritual knowledge has to be examined first, albeit this is not easy for you humans, since a person's inner nature is not so openly accessible to you as to be able to assess the person's quality. But then you must keep to the Word which was once spoken by God and which will never lose its meaning, even if eternities pass by .... If therefore an explanation completely deviates from this Word you can rightfully believe it to be a deception by dark forces which pretend to be knowledgeable and which only succeed with people who seek contact with the spiritual world without having the necessary maturity to be a receiving terminal for the pure truth. Hence their hearts are not yet pure enough in order to serve as a receiving vessel for the divine spirit but who are nevertheless spiritually arrogant .... since they want to be something they are not and so fall prey to the forces of the underworld. The latter will understandably instruct them regarding their raised questions, but not truthfully so as to deepen the darkness with error where light is sought. God imposed conditions which must be fulfilled if the human being wants to hear His Word in direct contact with Him, which guarantees purest truth .... and the first condition is to shape the heart into a worthy vessel of His spirit through selfless love .... Love includes profound humility, childlike prayer and the utter submission of will to the divine will. Anyone fulfilling these conditions can confidently establish contact with the kingdom of light and need not fear to receive error or not to recognise the truth as such. As a recipient of divine truth he will also be able to legitimately advocate it, and his teaching, his knowledge, will always concur with the Word of God, which eternally remains as unchanged as it came forth from Him .... He will always know the truth because he will be instructed by God Himself, the Eternal Truth ....

Amen

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Conscious or medial receptions ....

B.D. 7512 from February 1st 1960, taken from Book No. 79

Knowledge is imparted to you through the spirit, you are taught from within and can then pass this knowledge on, but you can always proclaim the origin within yourselves, you can deny with certainty that you have received it from outside and thus represent spiritual knowledge as having been received from Me Myself. And this is then also the guarantee that this spiritual knowledge is truth, for if the spirit within you teaches you, you must receive truth, because the spirit within you is My share, because it can only proclaim to you what corresponds to truth, since it is the spirit of My spirit and I am the eternal truth Myself. Hence you can represent your knowledge as truth with certainty, for you did not receive the spiritual knowledge from outside, you did not gain it through study, but you possess extensive knowledge which came from yourselves, which was in truth conveyed to you 'from above', because the spirit in you is in contact with above, with Me, and will never ever relinquish this bond. And yet, the examination is still necessary as to whether the knowledge you possess was imparted to you in a mediumistic state or whether you received it in a fully conscious state .... You must always seriously check if you want to represent your spiritual possessions as truth, for there is also the possibility that in a state of unconsciousness you hand yourselves over to spiritual forces which likewise try to transfer spiritual knowledge to you if you surrender (divest yourselves of) your will and these forces can now use your will. Then there is an obvious danger that ignorant forces will also divest themselves because they are not countered by the clear will and the desire for truth which protects the human being from error. And you should conscientiously check this .... For the spirit in you expresses itself in a fully awake state, it speaks to your soul and informs it of what I Myself want to convey to the human being on earth .... because the spirit in you is part of the eternal father-spirit. But mediumistic receptions are and remain a danger for the human being, for he is not protected against hostile influence because the soul does not consciously defend itself when hostile forces approach it. And they will always do so under the guise of truth in order to be listened to .... But you humans can hardly distinguish error from truth because it is well disguised, yet as soon as only the slightest deviation is recognizable from the spiritual knowledge which comes to you humans through the working of My spirit, you must be careful not to fall into error, for then the working of the opposing forces can already be detected precisely by the contradiction with My pure spiritual knowledge. But you are warned again and again not to put yourselves or let yourselves be put into a mediumistic state, for it is a danger for you to which you expose yourselves. For you yourselves will find it difficult to separate truth from error, because the camouflage is a very skilful one and the impure spiritual forces likewise make use of My sayings which they know and use for their purposes. The working of the spirit guarantees pure truth, but mediumistic receptions are not working of the spirit in a good sense, even though spiritual beings also try to gain acceptance and also succeed if the human being uses his will, if he allows himself to be used by them as a tool in an unconscious state. And you have to carry out this examination when spiritual knowledge is offered to you which does not entirely correspond to the word conveyed to you by Me. The recipients need not be of a will turned away from Me, but they are not so united with Me that they completely hand themselves over to Me, so that I can protect them against those spiritual forces .... They often have a great urge to assert themselves and want to stand out, and this demonstrates a degree of arrogance which the adversary knows how to exploit very well. And because they themselves are convinced of their task to serve as a tool they do not seriously examine themselves either and thus indulge in the spreading of erroneous spiritual knowledge if they do not seriously seek their soul's salvation and then also inwardly feel a resistance to continue to be medially active. The working of the spirit has to take place in full consciousness, and then a teaching material is imparted to the human being from within in which My spirit can work, for he is in direct contact with Me and hears My word, he hears Me Myself, because his spiritual spark has established the bond with the father-spirit of eternity, with Me, Who now makes Myself known to him, as it is a blessing for him and humanity. And he will always receive and convey the pure truth, he will never need to fear falling prey to error as long as he desires the truth himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Examination of spiritual 'receptions' ....

B.D. 8337 from November 24th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I want to send My Word to all places, I want all people to be informed of it and I will also lead all those to you to whom you shall impart My Word. I will pour My spirit upon all flesh and choose the right vessels for Myself far and wide which I will be able to instruct mentally or even through the inner Word because it is essential to inform people of My will and their earthly task. And thus I work everywhere because the last days before the end will require extraordinary help. And time and again I say to you that I speak to you directly or indirectly through My messengers of light who receive My Word from Me and pass it on to those of you who allow the flow of spirit to enter you. In the latter instance My Word, which is given to these messengers of light by Me, will also be recognisable by the style of the Word .... Yet it will always be the pure truth from Me, because the messengers of light merely comply with My will and will not pass on anything other than truth to those of you who sincerely desire the truth. Nevertheless, you should always check it and, at all times, bear in mind that My adversary, too, wants to express himself in the last days and that he will present himself as an angel of light .... you should always remember that I have warned you about false Christs and false prophets .... For they, too, wreak havoc on earth and intend to confuse people. And you will always be able to carry out this examination by appealing for My support and by taking My Word into consideration: that every spirit which professes that Jesus Christ came in the flesh can also be regarded to have been called by Me .... But attention always has to be paid to the fact that this embodiment in the flesh has to be explained to you .... For in order to deceive you an evil spirit can use the same words too, since it knows them well yet it will be incapable of explaining them.

Similarly, immature spirits which are as yet unenlightened but bear no ill intentions may also want to express themselves and thus pass on what they remember from earthly life. These should not to be acknowledged as teachers .... And, again, the recipient's attitude is decisive as to whether such immature beings will be able to express themselves or whether the sincere will for truth will prevent them from carrying out their intentions. In the same way as preachers exist on earth who only use what they know as subject matter for their sermons without, however, being spiritually enlightened .... and yet they need not be bad .... so beings express themselves in the beyond which had also once performed this ministry on earth and then continued their instructions in the beyond. And as long as they pass themselves off as otherworldly teachers they will be listened to or rejected .... depending on the person they try to educate. But since these beings in the beyond don't know that God and Jesus are one and only ever see the 'human being' in Jesus Who perfected Himself on earth .... but neither do they know what this 'perfection' implies .... they avail themselves of His human name in order to make their instructions credible .... For they lack the full realisation of this great sin otherwise they truly would not commit it .... They still intend to lead people into the 'heavenly kingdom' just as they planned to do on earth during their work as preachers. This is why their reports from the spiritual kingdom will also give people the impression that they are perfect spirits from higher spheres .... The spiritually awakened person, however, can sense that I Am not and cannot be the source of this spiritual knowledge, because My divinity in Jesus is not clearly emphasised, but this shall always be made comprehensible through My Word since Jesus Christ's act of Salvation will only be understood and acknowledged if you humans receive truthful clarification about it. You can never be advised often enough to constantly enter into heartfelt contact with Me and to pray to Me in spirit and in truth, so that everything is excluded which is misguided or incomprehensible to you and does not benefit your soul but is more likely to cause it damage .... For My adversary, by using shadows, eagerly tries to darken the light which shines brightly wherever the will for truth prevails and where he himself is therefore unable to lead people astray .... Yet whenever you are unsure, ask Me and I will always grant you illumination and, time and again, give you the evidence of My love which will lead all of you to the light so that you will be able to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Psychic receptions - Credibility ....

B.D. 8695 from December 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You, who received My commission to distribute the pure truth, must also be informed about everything yourselves in order to be able to form a clear opinion about the value of spiritual conclusions which are advocated by your fellow human beings as truth. You should know that both valuable as well as worthless connections are being established with the spiritual world, that beings from all spheres of the spiritual kingdom want to make themselves heard by you, that they try to transfer their thoughts to you and that the human being himself is the determining factor of which beings will be able to approach him. And the desire for truth is always decisive but this is often displaced by the desire for experiencing the unusual, so that the craving to learn something unknown from the psychic world takes priority .... although with the best intention to act and think righteously and good .... Such opportunities are also used by the inhabitants of the spiritual world of light which want to lead people to the right path and thus also try to influence them to deepen their attitude regarding the spiritual realm and to especially draw their attention to the fact that love is the first and most important commandment. Therefore any advice to love can be considered as corresponding to My will. The purity and the will of the recipient who receives messages in a psychic state also determine the quality of these messages .... However, it also depends on the spiritual state of the circle of listeners, on their attained spiritual maturity .... And the flawed thoughts of an immature person alone are enough to enable impure spirits to slip in; they likewise make use of a medium in a state of trance and then often repel the messengers of light, because forces of darkness gather wherever the opportunity presents itself to speak through a human being who has given up his own will .... who therefore speaks in a psychic state of mind .... The purer the circle and the greater the harmony within as well as the desire only to be truthfully instructed the more credible will be the results, but then they will also concur with the teaching which is conveyed to you directly from above, thus their authenticity will be beyond doubt, for countless beings of light try to gain access to people from the world of the beyond and impart the truth to them on My instructions. Yet these beings of light will time and again try to influence people into establishing the connection with the spiritual world in an awake, conscious state, they will enlighten them about the 'working of the spirit' in a person and aim to encourage them to enter into heartfelt contact with Me, which will enable them to receive profound knowledge which cannot be conveyed to earth in a psychic way .... in a state of trance. For I Myself promised you humans the working of My spirit, and you can and should believe My Words .... But the fact that My adversary's working will also strongly come to light cannot be denied, and he will always make an effort to confuse the concepts ....

He will use psychically inclined people in the same way in order to speak through them, yet only ever with words which lack all coherence, words which intend to feign wisdom but are sheerest nonsense.

You can put this to the test yourselves by questioning what kind of spiritual benefit you can gain from transmissions which, on closer inspection .... on the basis of My Word .... utterly contradict the truth. Then spirits will answer which are still unenlightened, which still possess a certain amount of worldly knowledge and .... since they diligently supported it on earth .... will also try to pass it on to people now. They enshroud themselves in the garment of an angel of light, indeed, they even use Jesus' name for their transmissions because they don't recognise Him as 'God' and thus avail themselves of a human name .... And although, in order to mislead people, they grant Him an exalted mission, they nevertheless only do this with the intention of stopping people from thinking correctly and to belittle Jesus' work of Salvation, thus preventing them from calling upon Myself in Jesus. They try to lead people completely astray about Jesus' mission on earth and My human manifestation in Him .... Transmissions from the spiritual world which fail to offer truthful clarification that a pure soul of light dwelled within the man Jesus, which so shaped the body that it could become an abode for Me .... that I Myself, therefore, accomplished the act of Salvation in Jesus and the complete unity of Jesus with Me took place .... that I and Jesus are one .... can always be rejected by you as error and as a deliberate deception by spirits in the beyond. They are especially active during the last days before the end in order to cause confusion in circles which want to do what is right but have not awakened their spirit as yet, so that it can grant them the gift of discernment in order to be able to keep divine and ungodly revelations apart ....

People are unaware of the fact that they will always have to fight the forces of darkness, and specifically in the last days, because the latter want to prevent people from becoming enlightened, and that the only assurance not to fall prey to them is to desire the light directly from Me, and this sincere appeal to receive the truth will also establish the connection with Me, which then will also ensure your correct protection from the activity of these forces. But it isn't always love for Me and therefore for truth as well, but generally only inquisitiveness for an insight into spheres which are still closed to them. People know that earthly life alone is not the reason for the existence as a human being, and they certainly try to obtain information but believe that forces from the beyond will only ever instruct them truthfully and thereby only provide the adversary with more opportunities to confuse their thinking. However, it can help a person to think correctly if he sincerely desires the truth, if, according to his sincerity, his maturity of soul and his desire, beings of light enter such a 'spiritual communication', which certainly realise to whom they can convey pure truth. Yet they will always try to educate a person to the point that he will no longer require an aide .... no mediums which receive transmissions from the spiritual kingdom .... but that he shall establish such heartfelt connection with Me Myself in order to let himself be addressed by Me directly or to enter into contact with the right bearers of light who will impart the right and true spiritual knowledge, which he will therefore also recognise as truth, because he has already awakened the spirit within himself which will guide him into truth .... A person can certainly be warned about futile communication with the spiritual world .... But he cannot nor should he be prevented from it, because there is always the possibility that thereby he will come to believe in a continuation of life after death and he can also be shown the right path if he is serious about knowing the truth. Anything that reveals the will to act right before Me is good, yet first and foremost be warned of anything that only serves to satisfy the senses or to increase earthly knowledge, for no blessing will ever rest on it and a person like that will never be able to recognise the truth and always rather believe teachings which are still far from the truth and will never originate from Me. For this reason I Myself mentioned as a sign to recognise the truth of spiritual receptions the characteristic that you should check whether the enigma of My human manifestation in Jesus is revealed to you such as I Myself explain it to you through My Word, through the working of My spirit within you .... Reject that which does not correspond to My Word conveyed to you from above, no matter how many fine words are used to demonstrate a divine source to you .... My adversary also uses such words, he will stop at nothing because he wants to keep people in the dark .... because he knows that truth is a light which unmasks him and his activity .... And he will always seek to extinguish or obscure it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Right intercourse with the spirit world

God-ordained intercourse with the spirit world ....

B.D. 5166 from July 7th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

An immense number of spiritual beings surround the earth and stay close to people who are somehow connected to them through the same spiritual maturity, the same attitude or bonds in earthly life. They all sense that great things are preparing themselves, they know that something is about to happen to earth and its inhabitants; yet only highly developed spiritual beings know God's eternal plan of salvation and thus also the course of the coming time. The spiritual world is extremely busy and wants to help earthly people on God's behalf to increase their degree of maturity as much as possible before the day dawns which will end their lives. The ignorant souls in the spiritual kingdom also sense a general threat to earthly people and instinctively stay close to those they were close to. They cannot tell themselves what they are worried about and yet they are concerned about people, especially if they were lovingly attached to them. However, there is a law according to which there is no enlightenment as long as a person is without love and faith .... For as long as the human being's soul is incapable of recognizing and accepting the truth. The same also applies to the souls in the spiritual kingdom which have still imperfectly left earth. They lack all understanding for the eternal truth, and thus God's plan of salvation is also incomprehensible to them, in a manner of speaking there is a lack of thinking, they cannot grasp what higher truths are offered to them until they have awakened love within themselves and thereby attain a certain understanding. And thus, for the time being, no enlightenment can be given to these souls in the spiritual kingdom about the reason for their restlessness and concern. But they want to make themselves known to people and try in every way to direct people's thoughts towards themselves in the belief that they can talk to them and be understood. It is a great disappointment for these souls when they are not listened to, as they believe, and yet they do not give up their efforts to make themselves understood. There is a certain kind of love around their retarded ones, and this love is credited to them by God and given them a way to express it. Wherever people come together on earth in remembrance of the deceased in order to help them, a God-willed communication from earth to the spirit world can be established. But the reason must always be love that wants to help, which will then also bring blessings on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom. And now again the degree of maturity of those people is decisive which souls are admitted into the spiritual kingdom to be able to express themselves. People are surrounded by countless souls and each one wants to express itself, yet not every soul is allowed to do so, but all are allowed to listen and they will understand what is being said. A spiritual protective wall surrounds spiritually striving people, but the spiritual guides of the still ignorant souls also make an effort to bring them into a higher degree of realization by always hearing and understanding words of love and stimulating them to think about their own state and degree of love. Hence people on earth can also influence these souls beyond death if the connection with the spirit world is established on a God-pleasing basis .... to give and receive whatever is only helpful to the soul .... Spiritual strivers are therefore always allowed to make contact with the world of the beyond, but people should always give account of the motive which makes them establish such a connection. For the souls in the beyond it is a relief, a relief of their concern for people, if they can draw their attention to what threatens them, for which they have a fine feeling but not the right explanation. And they will always stay close to the endangered and want to help them. And this will to help will be valued by God and rewarded with counter-help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Banishing the demons .... warding them off ....

B.D. 7388 from August 9th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

In the name of the crucified saviour Jesus Christ you will be able to expel every evil spirit from your vicinity, for the name of Jesus contains the power which overcomes it so that it desists from you and flees. In the coming time you will very often have to resort to this help because the work of satan's followers will get worse and worse in view of the end which these spirits will certainly feel and they therefore know that they don't have much time left. They are facing a new banishment if they do not convert first, and although they are not fully aware of this, they nevertheless know that they will be deprived of their freedom, which they still have to a certain extent because they are supported by the lord of darkness whom they serve. They know that they will lose this freedom and therefore rage particularly strongly beforehand in order to bring you humans down who want to belong to Me. But they are completely powerless as soon as the name of Jesus Christ is held up to them, Whom they fear and flee from. These evil spirits work on them as emissaries of satan .... and you feel their activity as unrest, discord, hardship and suffering of all kinds and through weaknesses of soul and bondage, for they prevent you, wherever they can, from good actions or also from spiritual bonds with the world of light and its inhabitants. They keep you chained to the world by repeatedly whispering worldly thoughts to you and try to tie you down with such thoughts in order to turn you away from spiritual striving, spiritual thoughts and good works .... You will feel oppressed without knowing a direct reason, and then you can always believe that it is bad spirits who try to draw you into the dark spheres, albeit mostly without success, as soon as they try their hand at those who want to belong to Me and whose hearts already belong to Me through their will. The will which is directed towards Me protects people from all attacks of the evil one, so that they will not fall prey to it, they will only have to suffer emotionally under its afflictions, for all spiritual peace is robbed from it by those spirits on behalf of their lord, who seeks to prevent all redemption through Jesus Christ .... Therefore you only need to speak the name of Jesus with devotion and you will drive the enemy away from you who does not dwell where Jesus Christ is, but Who will certainly respond to every call and therefore you will always have safe protection by calling upon His holy name. The death on the cross was not in vain, it snatched countless souls out of the enemy's hands and will still snatch countless souls from him, for he was suffered for time and eternity, for the present, past and future, and again and again satan will have to experience the power of the name of Jesus, for he will lose appendage, although he believes to gain supremacy in the battle for people's souls .... And even those he wins through their attitude will be taken away from him again and bound anew in matter, and the adversary will lose their souls again for an infinitely long time .... Believe that you have power over him, that he does not need to win the victory .... believe that you possess a weapon with which you can surely drive him away .... if only you call upon Me in Jesus Christ to protect you against him. And you will experience My protection, you will be released from his power, for you are stronger than him through My name because you call upon Me Myself and I truly will not leave you without help. For He Who died on the cross for you is truly greater and stronger than your soul's enemy, and He will also use His power if you call upon Him for help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Connection with the world beyond a guarantee for truth? ....

B.D. 8765 from February 28th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

I will always bless every start which is undertaken with the purest intention to serve Me, to come closer to Me. I know about all motives which cause a person to establish ties with the spiritual world .... I know whether it is only curiosity about hidden things or real desire to know truth which drives a person to try to gain insight into the spiritual kingdom, and accordingly I will comply with his desire .... I will smooth the path for the truth-seeker and also let him come into possession of the truth, but I will also not prevent it if worldly desire for knowledge earns him disappointment, if he is erroneously taught by spiritual beings, because these can approach every person who gives them the right to do so through his own attitude towards truth .... As your desire is, so it will happen to you, because you are completely free in your thinking and wanting, but you are also to use this freedom right. And so it should be said to you again and again that you should only earnestly desire truth in order to also be allowed to take possession of it, but that it cannot be given to you if you do not desire it .... For the imparting of truth from Me is a gift of grace which has to be valued and requires the will to accept it. But the desire for truth is only little to be found with men, therefore I will help everyone to reach truth, who is only driven by the desire for it, even if he goes a wrong way, if he turns to unknown powers and asks them for enlightenment. Then only those forces will approach the sincere seeker who can meet his desire .... which have been instructed by Me to pass on truth which they receive from Me directly .... If only you humans would believe that the desire for truth is also the guarantee for its reception. And whether you then also go wrong ways, you will be led on the right way, and I Myself will always see to it that you are not misled, you who just desire to be instructed in pure truth. But as long as people are still attached to the earthly world they are more or less indifferent to truth, then they will certainly also occasionally want to know something more detailed about areas still unknown to them .... of the spiritual world .... But they lack the serious will to only attain pure truth, and that is why spiritual powers can also approach them, which teach them mentally wrongly; man himself will therefore draw wrong conclusions; his thinking will not be able to be directed by Me Myself through his spirit, because he is not serious enough about standing in truth. But as soon as a man makes an effort to lead a love life, also the desire for truth will awaken and become greater all the time, and then he can also accept his thinking as right with certainty; he will have the conviction in his heart, because love has already kindled a light in him and because his thinking can be enlightened. And so love and desire for truth irrevocably belong together to come into its possession, but then man is to be called rich, although they are no earthly goods, which he possesses, but spiritual goods outweigh all earthly wealth, because this is invalid with the moment of death and remains behind on earth, while spiritual goods follow man into eternity, the soul can now work with this spiritual goods, increases it constantly and can never ever lose it. Man is to be called exceedingly rich, who possesses knowledge about himself, his start / beginning and his aim, his earth life purpose and his connection with Me as his God and creator from eternity .... This knowledge cannot be replaced by anything because it is a divine knowledge, a spiritual wealth, which is everlasting. And it is always just a matter of man turning to spiritual teachers, that he does not rate his intellect so highly that it could fathom areas inaccessible to him .... For then he will never gain correct, truthful knowledge, whereas the spiritual teachers are always willing to give people correct knowledge as long as they fulfil the prerequisites: a profound desire for truth and a life of love which allows the beings to take care of them and, as mediators, to bring them the truth from Me. And then it can happen in the most diverse way .... But it should always be considered that the human being has to protect himself against the influence of immature beings, which is often difficult when he tries to enter spiritual areas together with other people and can never vouch for their spiritual maturity .... And that is why he is to establish the direct union with Me and bring the spirit in him to awakening (awakening) that I now can express Myself through the spirit. Then he can be sure that no error will come to him, while he does not have this guarantee, because immature spirits can always force their way in, where the possibility of slipping in is given, (where the possibility of slipping in is given, because immature spirits can always force their way in,) through immaturity, mistakes and weaknesses of the fellowmen, who join such a circle, through which now the traffic with the spirit world is to take place. I will protect every man earnestly desiring truth from error, but as soon as he associates with such men, who are not completely of the same spirit and will as he, he cannot guarantee to rely on pure truth, because also these draw a following to themselves, but which no longer stands in truth and therefore also cannot hand out any. You must always know that I cannot violate My law of eternal order; you must know that certain conditions must always be fulfilled to allow My direct work on you .... and that I will not deviate from My law of eternal order either, otherwise I could be called impermanent, thus not perfect. But of this every man can also be sure that pure truth is accessible to him, because every man has My divine spirit spark in him, which is in constant connection with Me and to which I also can always supply pure truth. Therefore unite with Me, and I Myself will introduce you to all truth ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers