Trinity

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

1472 - Exploring the God Being God's Will.... Seek and ye shall find....

7659 - Creation evidence of an essential Deity....

Nature of God

2288 - ?resNotTranslated?

2539 - ?resNotTranslated?

7860 - Love, wisdom and power of God....

6641 - The being of God....

Jesus Christ is God

7511 - Understanding spiritual problems.... incarnation....

7731 - God's human manifestation in Jesus....

8263 - "God sent His son to earth.... "

2452 - ?resNotTranslated?

3465 - "My father and I are one...."

3621 - ‘Whoever sees Me sees the Father....’

7001 - The Christ-Problem.... Trinity....

8250 - God and Jesus are one.... Human manifestation of God....

Trinity

0662 - The eternal Trinity....

0930 - Mystery of the trinity.... God the father.... God the son....

2056 - ?resNotTranslated?

4484 - The doctrine of the Trinity of God....

5389 - Misguided teaching about the Trinity....

7117 - The problem of the Trinity....

8674 - Calling upon the 'Holy Spirit'....

Aim in life: union with God

5577 - God's spirit in the man Jesus.... following....

1138 - ?resNotTranslated?

2129 - ?resNotTranslated?

8973 - Faith and love lead to unification with God....

Exploring the God Being God's Will .... Seek and ye shall find ....

B.D. 1472 from June 15th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

Every thought, which is meant for the God-being, will lead up. Nothing is arbitrary when man's spirit is concerned with God, but then the will has become active to strive up. The will must be used before; the thoughts must be directed towards the all-dominating power of a being, which is still incomprehensible to man. Therefore the will must become active to grasp this incomprehensible, and he must send his spirit for this into regions where enlightenment becomes available to him about the questions, which occupy him. But the desire for it will be differently strong, and this is the explanation why also the wanting to penetrate into deepest truth produces the most different successes .... why therefore the results of those wanting to know God are not always the same. Many a man is content to know that there is an eternal divinity, while others seek to fathom it and desire nothing more than to get fullest enlightenment about this problem. These will also get enlightenment because every demanding thought will be fulfilled by the light beings, which stand in knowledge and therefore are allowed to instruct man through mental transmissions of their knowledge. The more therefore man seeks truth the more detailed it will be offered to him, but without enlightenment the heavenly father never leaves his earth child desiring light. To recognize the eternal divinity in its highest perfection, the state of greatest maturity belongs, which the being on earth does not reach, however such is given to man desiring light, so that his spiritual state becomes more mature and it is therefore possible for him to find understanding for all divine work. And so he is therefore slowly introduced into the knowledge about God .... love in him towards this God .... being love but is power .... and so the power now goes to him to be able to solve deeper and deeper problems about the eternal divinity. To a certain extent he is given the ability to recognize that what is the origin of all life .... "Seek and ye shall find .... " God himself gives us the promise that every search for truth will be successful .... "knock and it shall be opened .... unto you" we must desire truth to be able to receive it because God opens his ear to every voice which penetrates up to him out of the deep and gives to man what he asks for in spiritual relationship. God wants that the thoughts of men are meant for him; he wants that light becomes for them in the darkness of spirit; therefore he will also guide men so that they come closer to this light. He has given men the ability to think about the most different problems; he will therefore leave no question unanswered, which is meant for his divine nature. Because light and truth is what earth beings lack, but God, as eternal truth, wants to spread light everywhere, and he just wants to see the desire awakened in man for exactly this light. Then it flows to him in all fullness .... .He himself speaks to the earth child standing in the desire for truth and enlightens it; he makes himself known; he helps the weak earth being by him seeking to explain everything to him comprehensibly and therefore his spirit is opened to the reception of deepest divine truth. He gives man the power to grasp divine wisdom; he thereby increases the desire, and man is introduced into the knowledge about divine being, as far as it is beneficial for earth time, because God wants that men recognize him; he wants that they seek to investigate him; he wants that men desire pure truth, then he imparts all wisdom to them .... .

Amen

(This translation was created by an „artificial intelligence“ using the original documents ‘Word of God’ received through the ‘Inner Word’ by Bertha Dudde.)

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Creation evidence of an essential Deity ....

B.D. 7659 from July 29th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

Everything you see around you in creation serves the perfection of the spiritual. Nothing is meaningless and purposeless, everything has its purpose, even if you humans cannot recognize it. But God's wisdom has ruled everywhere where His love created .... His omnipotence brought everything to fruition that wisdom and love wanted .... The whole of creation is the expression of God's strength of love, His immeasurable wisdom and power. And creation is suitable to let people recognize the greatness of a God and creator; it is also suitable to let people believe in a God and creator if only they think about what they see around them. Yet people walk blindly in spirit through earthly life, who pay no attention to what proves God's greatness to them; they cannot see because they do not open their eyes to the wonders of nature .... They take everything for granted and nature tells them nothing because they don't believe. For the believing human being involuntarily remembers the Eternal Deity when he merely delves into a work of creation and reflects on its origin and purpose .... For creation proves a God because it testifies to a lawful order which always requires a Lawgiver and because it reveals the purpose and destiny of every work of creation, which in turn proves a wise, thinking Being Who gave His destiny to everything created. But the human being must also have the will to find out whether an essential Deity seeks to reveal Himself to people through creation .... He must want to think correctly and thus also strengthen his faith by being proven a God and creator through creation .... He must reflect in the will to gain insight into problems which are objects of dispute amongst people .... For there will always be people who seek to deny a God and creator to those who acknowledge Him, who believe in Him .... And in such matters of dispute creation truly serves to provide every person with clarification if only he seriously desires it. And the very seriousness of this desire is decisive for the answer which the human being will now mentally receive .... For the miracles of nature are not human products, but neither are they arbitrarily created works, otherwise they would not reveal the lawful order. For creation is an expression of strength which was directed by a will as long as its results are purposeful and subject to certain laws which always testify to a wise Law Giver. Anyone who asks will receive an answer .... but anyone who gives himself the answer as it suits him, because he does not want to believe in a God and creator, will also certainly err, for his thinking will be wrongly guided by the one who did not want to acknowledge God himself and who is therefore also stricken with spiritual blindness and will never convey the truth to a human being .... Anyone who does not acknowledge God is under the influence of God's adversary, and this influence will always aim to destroy people's every belief in a God and creator .... But the human being can free himself from this influence if he earnestly seeks to know the truth himself, for the desire for truth results in his train of thought being directed such that he can nevertheless attain faith in a God and creator Who reveals Himself to him in the wonders of nature. For God can be recognized by anyone who wants to recognize Him .... And He has so many means of grace at hand which help the human being to believe .... He need only look around and the light of knowledge can be kindled in him if only he is of good will .... Then all works of creation will preach to him of God's love, wisdom and omnipotence .... Then he will be able to believe and never lose his faith again ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Nature of God

2288 - ?resNotTranslated?

2539 - ?resNotTranslated?

Love, wisdom and power of God ....

B.D. 7860 from March 29th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

Where My love and wisdom is active, where My might can become effective, My blessing will also be recognizable, for I only ever endeavour to help you humans to perfect yourselves on earth .... And I bless those who support Me in this endeavour, who enter into My will as a human being, who make it possible for My love, wisdom and might to express itself .... who establish a close bond with Me, their God and father of eternity .... For deep darkness is spread across the earth, people walk in spiritual darkness, they are wrongly guided in their thinking and therefore their way of life does not correspond to My will either, and it would never be possible to lead them towards perfection if a light could not shine for them which leads them out of the darkness of night .... If you humans walk in the light then you will clearly recognize the path which leads to perfection .... And you will also walk it if only you ignite the spark of light within yourselves in free will. For this spark is light whose ray can intensify if only you are of good will. My love for you is boundless, My wisdom recognizes your state, and My might can and will truly seek to improve this state if you don't oppose Me. And therefore I convey My word to earth and bless every person who prepares himself such that he can hear My voice, that he can hear My word, which is truly the greatest means of grace for you to mature in your souls, to perfect you as long as you live on earth. You should never forget that My nature is love, that this love applies to you, My living creations, and that it wants to help you .... And this love of Mine will not let you walk in error if you seriously desire the truth. My wisdom, however, recognizes that you lack the truth but that you can only attain perfection through the truth. So what could be more obvious than for My power to express itself because My love and wisdom would like to supply you with what you lack? If only you seriously try to imagine My nature, if you first believe in My infinite love for you, then you need never fear that this love will deny itself to you .... Thus you need not fear that you, who need the truth, will be deprived of it .... because this would not correspond to My wisdom, which only wants to promote your perfection but not error, confusion and your decline .... And I truly also have the power to push away My adversary who would certainly like to counteract but cannot do so as soon as you are devoted to Me, as soon as you only want to comply with My will, as soon as you entrust yourselves to Me without reservation. Only believe in Me, believe that the father will not let His children run into ruin who trust in His protection and His love .... do not believe that My might was not sufficient to resist My adversary when he wants to oppress you .... when he tries to prevent My working on you .... Love, wisdom and power .... that is My Essence .... Love protects you, wisdom knows all means and power carries out what love and wisdom decide. And thus My 'essence' is always expressed in My word which I convey to you from above and which you can therefore also always recognize as My word .... For I want you humans to attain eternal life, beatitude, light .... For I am the truth, the way and the life .... Whoever entrusts himself to Me unconditionally will also truly reach the light, the truth will be presented to him, he will take the right path and irrevocably reach the life which lasts forever .... Only open yourselves to the light from above which wants to shine upon you, don't close your hearts when My word sounds to you, when it is given to you, because you need My flow of strength of love in order to attain life ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The being of God ....

B.D. 6641 from September 10th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You humans will never be able to completely fathom My Being, for your own imperfection will prevent you from doing so for the first time, but I will also be and remain unfathomable for every being created by Me, because I am the eternal primordial centre Whose emanation you as well as all created beings are .... Creations of infinite tininess which are unable to grasp the elemental power from which they originated. And thus I can only ever give you pictorial explanations as long as you stay on earth, yet these explanations will always correspond to the truth, even though they are such that they can only be regarded as a weak comparison of what you want to know about My being. As long as you personify Me Myself, that is, as long as you imagine something limited as 'God', it is difficult to give you a correct explanation .... As soon as you imagine Me as 'strength' alone, you are likewise still thinking erroneously .... But if you are able to imagine something being-like, which fills the whole of infinity, or if you are able to imagine the whole of infinity as a living, I-conscious, thinking and exceedingly powerful being .... then you are already getting closer to the truth, for I am the all-filling spirit, Who knows no limitation, Who is everywhere and Who is nevertheless also present in the smallest, most inconspicuous work of creation .... Who is strength and light in Himself, Who is love, wisdom and power in highest perfection .... No-one can imagine this spiritual being because every created being is just a tiny spark of that divine strength which is precisely unable to grasp its creator. Yet the bliss of My living creations consists of being in contact with Me, their creator .... to live and work in the awareness of belonging to Me, to know themselves loved by Me and to constantly receive My strength of love .... This blessedness is increased by the fact that I .... the hitherto incomprehensible and unfathomable being .... that I likewise assumed a form for the formed being, that they can now communicate with Me as with something similar, because the strength of love flowing through the being triggers such a desire in them to be united with Me in intimate communion. As an all-filling spirit I cannot be visible to My living creations but I was able to shelter Myself in a form equal to their own, I was able to occupy a form in such abundance as it was able to contain while it was still earthly matter in order to then radiate through the spiritualized form without limitation, so that I was and remained visible to My living creations who were able to bear the sight of Me .... And every being can also experience this irradiation with divine strength of love and increase it to an ever higher degree, which therefore means the 'deification' of the created being, which I set as the aim for every being when I called it into life. The human being Jesus was therefore the first being to achieve this deification on earth and at the same time fulfil a mission which had become necessary due to the apostasy of the originally created spirits from Me .... Who, however, could only fulfil this mission if the 'divine strength of love' was used .... when love filled the human body to the highest degree. Thus I Myself, Who am the strength of love from eternity, had to be in the human being Jesus .... 'Love' had to embody itself in a human form so that the mission could now be carried out: to redeem the guilt of sin of the former turning away from Me .... I, the eternal deity, therefore took abode in the human being Jesus, but precisely in such a way that My essential strength: love, wisdom and omnipotence, poured into that human being, Who was to serve Me as a form and Who was also never to lose this form, because I wanted to become a 'visible' deity for you in it, Who has now become imaginable to you in such a form .... Nevertheless, I am and remain unfathomable in My beingness for all beings, because this also belongs to bliss, to always and forever strive for something seemingly unattainable and yet to know oneself loved by this elemental, supreme and most perfect being .... And I have proven this immense love to you humans through My death on the cross, which the man Jesus indeed suffered but was only able to suffer because of My love .... because I Myself was in Him and thus love accomplished the act of salvation which now made the highest beatitudes accessible to the created being, which it would never have been able to achieve without this act of mercy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus Christ is God

Understanding spiritual problems .... incarnation ....

B.D. 7511 from January 30th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

The problem of God's incarnation in Jesus Christ can be explained to every human being if the teacher makes use of My word conveyed to you from above. But whether it is understood depends on the will of the person being taught, on his maturity of soul, on his degree of love, which only gives him the right understanding for it. For it is not the knowledge he accepts which is decisive as to whether he penetrates this problem but the readiness of his soul, which must have a certain preparation in order to be able to positively attune itself to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, Who sheltered Me in all fullness within Himself when He lived on earth. And this preparation of the soul brings about love, which is like a bright light that shines through and enlightens the soul .... To explain God's human manifestation requires the awakening of the spirit, both from the teacher as well as from the one who is to be taught, for a person who is still unawakened in spirit is also completely blind, and he would never grasp it even if it were truthfully explained to him. This is why there is so little understanding amongst people for this problem as well as for Jesus Christ's act of salvation, because only a few people are able to form a correct idea, precisely because the majority of people's spirit is still unawakened. And thus most people only look at My human manifestation from the point of view that I bestowed abilities upon the man Jesus which allowed Him to be unusually active. Thus they only see Jesus as a human being with high ethical aims and unusual abilities; but that the eternal deity concealed Himself in this human being is incomprehensible to them and therefore not credible either. For this reason they will also usually form two concepts under 'Jesus Christ' and 'God', from which the erroneous teaching of a three-person deity has arisen, which cannot be refuted so easily either, because the right understanding requires the awakening of the spirit and this can only be awakened again through a life of love .... but love has grown cold amongst people, as is obvious in the last days before the end .... And yet, the right understanding is so necessary in order for a human being to completely surrender to Jesus Christ, in order to recognize and acknowledge Me in Him and thereby to have the certainty of attaining eternal life, for: "He who believes in Me has eternal life ...." For this reason people first have to make an effort to live in love, then My pure word can be conveyed to them, and then every problem will be easily solvable and understandable which is now presented to people in My name. And love is only weakly kindled on earth, and that is why so much error is advocated, that is why so much lack of understanding is encountered despite the supply of pure truth from above. For until the flame of love illuminates the human heart the truth cannot gain a foothold, it is just as incomprehensible to people as erroneous teachings which wrongly try to solve all these problems. Then the human being cannot distinguish truth from error either, but this is easy for him if he is of awakened spirit, if he is able to hear the voice of his spirit within himself through a life of love, which now opens and rightly guides his thinking. It is always love which is decisive, and a person who lives in love will always find complete understanding for all correlations, but without love he will be blind in spirit and the clearest instructions will be of no use to him because he cannot understand them. Therefore, first make an effort to live a true life of love and then desire the truth, and it will come to you clearly and comprehensibly, for then you will receive knowledge from within which will give you brightest light, which you will understand and which will make you happy, and you will also enter into the right relationship with Jesus Christ and through Him also with Me, Who embodied Myself in the man Jesus and Whom to acknowledge is also an acknowledgement of Myself which will one day lead you to beatitude, back to Me into your father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's human manifestation in Jesus ....

B.D. 7731 from October 27th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

The greatest mystery for you humans is and will remain My human manifestation in Jesus Christ .... Even if it is explained to you in a comprehensible way, it will nevertheless remain a secret for you, because My Being cannot be made completely understandable since you always want to personify a thinking being. Thus, you imagine a 'spiritually tangible' God as something 'limited' and also assign this to Jesus, the human being Who, in a manner of speaking, unites two beings within Himself. However, this concept is not right, for My Being is inscrutable, it is the all-pervading and all-encompassing strength which knows no limitation and yet is intelligent and endowed with a will.

It is impossible for you humans to imagine My Being because you are finite, because you have not yet attained the perfection which removes every limitation. Nevertheless, you, too, are carriers of this strength, you are merely permeated to a limited extent by the strength which, however, Jesus harboured in all fullness because He was perfect, thus He had, through a life of love, deified Himself on earth .... No limit for the influx of divine strength existed for Him, He was completely permeated by it .... thus My fundamental nature, the divine strength of love, was in Him, and so I Myself was able to be in Him, Whose shell had so shaped itself that it enabled a complete permeation of it without being consumed by My strength.

And thus it can be said that it was 'God' Who merely had made Himself visible in the shell of the man Jesus because, as the source of strength, I could not be visible to any being since no being would have survived had it been able to look into the enormous fiery sea of My love .... Consequently, I had to create a limitation for Myself, I had to choose a form which could be visible to you humans and completely permeate this form .... However, the form nevertheless remained what I Myself Am for eternity .... the highest and most perfect Being .... The form served the highest and most perfect Being as an abode for the sake of My living creations which desired to behold Me. And yet, they will never ever be able to fathom My nature because it is and remains inscrutable for all created beings, for everything that once emerged from Me.

Wanting to personify the Eternal Deity is a misguided notion, for I Am not a limited Spirit, I Am all things .... I Am the strength Which permeates everything, Which pervades the whole of infinity, Which maintains all beings and creations and safeguards their continued existence .... And yet, I Am a Being Which acts in wisdom and love, Which uses Its will and can think in supreme perfection, thus love and wisdom always determine Its thoughts and omnipotence carries out everything.

The fact that the once created beings desired to behold Me was the cause of their apostasy .... But it was not possible for Me to be visible to these beings because they would have ceased to exist in view of the abundance of light and strength which would have had to be revealed to them .... Even so, I wanted to satisfy My children's desire, I wanted to visibly present Myself to them and I did so in Jesus Christ, in a human shell, which first had to spiritualise itself in order to absorb the abundance of My of light and strength .... The shell had to become the same spiritual substance which is My fundamental nature for eternity ....so as not to perish when I Myself permeated the form ....

Hence nothing human stayed behind, everything was spirit from Me and thus Jesus was God .... I had become a human being, but only in order to accomplish, as a human, the mission of redeeming your original sin. Nevertheless, nothing of Jesus the 'human being' stayed behind, through His life on this earth He had deified Himself, He had completely merged with Me, His Creator and Father of eternity .... My fundamental nature had manifested Itself in Him .... The eternal Spirit which permeates everything had assumed a visible shape in Jesus .... And thus I became visible to all My children who mature to a point that they can bear to see Me, that they may behold Me from face to face ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"God sent His son to earth .... "

B.D. 8263 from September 3rd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I sent My son to earth .... A Being Which emerged from My eternal primal love, Which turned Its whole love towards Me when a great host of My originally created spirits fell away from Me, Which recognized Me as Its father of eternity although It could not see Me, wanted to prove Its greater than great love to Me by wanting to bring the apostate children back to Me through a work of a unique kind .... And because His love moved Him to do so, I allowed it, I gave My consent for this being to descend to earth, for It to go from the kingdom of light, where It was immeasurably blissful, into a dark region .... into the kingdom of My counter-spirit Lucifer, who was the first of the fallen beings to become My antipole. I sent My son to earth Who offered to serve Me Myself on earth as a cover because I wanted to bring help to all fallen beings in their great spiritual adversity. For their way back to Me had been cut off, they would have had to remain eternally at a great distance from Me in a state of endless torment and wretchedness .... But they were all My creatures which had come into being out of My love and might through the will of the first-created being .... Lucifer .... who originally found the greatest bliss in creating creatures using My strength .... That this original spirit, which I had put forth as My image, fell, I could well have prevented, but I did not .... for in My love and wisdom I foresaw a process of complete deification of the fallen beings with the ultimate goal of childship to God, which, however, had to be achieved by free will .... However, the will of the fallen beings was so weakened by the influence of My counter-spirit Lucifer that the beings were incapable of once again reaching up from the deepest depths if I had not given them help, which was now also given to them on My part by the being in a state of compulsion .... thus according to My will .... through the material creation .... But even then the beings were still completely powerless because they once rejected My strength of love and could only gain this strength for ascent through love .... However, they had become incapable of love .... In My overwhelming mercy I probably put in a spark of love in their last stage on the path of return to Me .... Nevertheless, the immense burden of original sin, of rebellion against Me as their God and father in the state of brightest knowledge, remained on each of the fallen original spirits, for it had to be redeemed according to the law of divine justice, atonement had to be made which these fallen beings could never make themselves .... And therefore an original spirit remaining with Me offered to accomplish this work of atonement on earth because His love for Me and for the fallen brothers was so immense that He was willing to take upon Himself everything that this work of atonement required in terms of pain and suffering .... For He wanted to walk the earth as a 'human being', He wanted to embody Himself in Jesus' human shell and walk a path of suffering which required utmost love and which also made the manifestation of the Eternal Deity Himself in Him possible .... For I could only be where love is .... I could only unite Myself with love and therefore choose a vessel for My dwelling which had completely shaped itself into love .... Jesus' soul indeed brought love for Me with it to earth, but the region it entered at His birth was Lucifer's kingdom, and the soul was oppressed by him, everything surrounding Him was Lucifer's share, and because He had taken on the task of carrying out a mission as a human being to save His fallen brothers, He was not allowed to use the strength of love which was at His disposal as 'My son' in order to defend Himself against the oppressor and to shake it off .... but He had to wrestle with His fellow human beings and redeem the oppressor through a life of love .... which was therefore not so easy to lead because the unspiritual tried to hinder Him and His human outer shell reacted in the same way to all temptations .... thus His soul had to fight against it until the love in Him broke through ever more strongly and He thereby also spiritualised His physical shell, thus His light of love shone ever brighter and He did what the adversary wanted to prevent Him from doing: .... that He endured superhuman suffering and death out of love, thus He opposed My enemy with love and defeated him through love.... that He satisfied My justice and paid the purchase price for the souls which the adversary could now no longer hold captive .... Love, then, accomplished this work of mercy, which completely filled Him, and this love was I Myself .... But 'My son' had to pass through this darkness, through Lucifer's kingdom, and therefore had to leave behind His light and strength, which He possessed as a non-fallen original spirit. He had to .... like every human being, start earthly life in the same weakness, for He was meant to show people the path which leads back to Me again .... the path of love and suffering, which truly the man Jesus preceded His fellow human beings and I was able to take abode in Him because His soul was not burdened by original sin and His love gave Him the strength to also spiritualise His human body, thus He passed through earthly life without any sin .... For sin is only that which violates love .... And since I place a spark of My divine love in every human heart, every human being is also capable of igniting love and fanning it into highest embers .... Thus nothing impossible is required of you humans, because only weakness of will can prevent you from working with love and you can always ask Jesus Christ to strengthen your will, because this is one of the blessings He acquired for you through His death on the cross. And you humans must make use of these blessings of the act of salvation so that His act of mercy will not have been offered to you in vain, so that you will recognize Me Myself in Jesus, Who took abode in His shell in order to redeem you from your guilt of sin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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"My father and I are one ...."

B.D. 3465 from March 31th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

My father and I are one .... I had to speak these words to people who were unable to understand that love, the eternal creative power from which everything emerged, was in Me and thus enabled Me to do the same as the father, the creator of all that is, was able to accomplish .... I wanted to prove to people the strength of love which was active in Me, and I wanted to make it understandable to them that this strength is the original strength which let everything come into being .... and that this strength works in a person who is love in himself. For the father, as the eternal love, unites Himself with everything that has shaped itself into love and is therefore one with Him. The elemental strength unites itself again with that which originated from it as a flow of strength, and thus the human being who has become love is no longer separate from it. And thus the strength will also express itself in all its effectiveness where unification with the father has taken place, and the human being filled with eternal love will be powerful, he will be able to use his might and strength and accomplish things which are beyond human ability .... he will be able to work miracles, just as I had that strength at My disposal and used it to prove the power of love to people. I wanted to illustrate the power of love to people in order to inspire them to work with love, in order to motivate them to follow Me and likewise strive for unification with the father .... Yet humanity did not understand this, for their spirit was darkened by unkindness, and the darkness of spirit could not be remedied in any other way than through loving activity, because spiritual brightness requires the permeation of God's strength of love, but this can only express itself where love is practiced and felt .... But spiritual brightness is light, spiritual brightness is wisdom which is born of love .... And thus light and strength are one .... Wisdom and love cannot be thought of without each other, just as the father cannot be thought of without the son .... love as generating power and wisdom as emanation of it, as light which no longer allows darkness to arise. And divine wisdom had to fill My nature when I lived on earth as a human being, because the fullness of the strength of love flowed into My physical cover and made it able to work miracles. Yet people don't grasp it until they have become love themselves and can feel the strength of love in themselves. They can enter into the most intimate bond with God, their father of eternity, they can be one with their heavenly father, the eternal love, just as I was one with Him .... if only they live in love and thereby align themselves with the eternal love, the elemental strength from Whom they once originated. To be permeated by eternal love is incomparable bliss .... to be knowledgeable and powerful and to receive this knowledge and power directly from God .... to feel no separation from the father, Whose love draws into His domain all that does not oppose Him .... This bliss is so overwhelming that mortal man is unable to bear it. Nevertheless, he can strive for it with the awareness that the father will fetch him into the spiritual kingdom if he has entered into union with Him on earth .... My way of life on earth, however, was intended to make the strength of love visible to people, they were to learn to grasp its significance in order to take My way of life as an example and, like Me, choose the father, eternal love, as the aim of their earthly life .... The union with God already took place on earth, its effect was visible to people who were devoid of all love and therefore without light, i.e. ignorant. I wanted to come to their aid and show them the way to step out of the darkness of night into the bright light of day .... I taught them and gave them the commandment of love .... For God was in Me and so was His wisdom .... I was one with My father .... incomprehensible to mankind .... I was merged with Him eternally, for to eternal love all returns that has changed to love ....

Amen

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‘Whoever sees Me sees the Father ....’

B.D. 3621 from December 6th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Whoever sees Me sees the Father, because the Father and I are one .... I brought the Word to people but they did not recognise it as God’s Word, as the expression of His infinite love for His living creations. They looked at it as human word, given to them by Me from Myself, because they were dark inside and did not know about God’s working within the human being .... Hence they could no longer hear God’s voice themselves, which could have provided evidence to them of God’s presence, of His essence and his close relationship with people. I, however, wanted to return this knowledge to them, I wanted to introduce them to the strength of love and faith, so that they might become noticeably aware of God’s presence if they heeded My teaching .... I came to them as a mediator sent by God to proclaim His Word to people of good will in accordance with His instruction. The eternal Father-Spirit took abode in Me to visibly work through Me .... Everything I said and did was His work, His will, His strength and His love .... I was merely the form through which God expressed Himself, or His presence would have been unbearable for the people who were living in profound spiritual darkness .... And the form which veiled the Father-Spirit also belonged to Him, for everything within Me aspired towards the Father-Spirit, albeit it was a mortal shell like any other human being .... But because of the spirit within Itself It became immortal ....

I was Jesus, the man, but only in My external appearance, because everything in and about Me was spiritualised by love, it was united with the eternal love to which I was inseparably connected since eternity. God as a spirit is not visible to human beings, nevertheless He made Himself visible to them in Me as a person, He adopted My physical garment and showed Himself in it to people, identifying Himself as wisdom, love and omnipotence. And to those who believed in Me My work on earth gave evidence of the Deity through miracles, which were only possible to God and which My will could accomplish because God was in Me, and thus His will, wisdom and strength permeated Me .... Hence there was no further separation between God and My mortal body, It had become one with Him, He occupied it completely, He Himself walked on earth in My external form, which in turn was a work of His love in order to make Himself accessible to people .... And I brought His Word to them .... He Himself spoke through Me, He, the eternal Word Himself, had become flesh in order to make Himself heard by people. Because they no longer knew the mystery of eternal love, the eternal Father-Spirit, Whose Word establishes the bond with people ....

They no longer knew about the strength of the Word which draws everything towards Itself when it can become effective in a person .... They did not know that every human being could hear the divine Word Itself in himself if he shaped himself to love in accordance with God’s will, in order to receive the divine love Itself .... For this reason God came to earth Himself, and He brought them the knowledge again which should release the people from their darkness .... And people did not recognise Him, they pursued Me, Who sheltered the Divine inside of Me, as a human being .... And I had to allow it to happen in order to safeguard their free will. I brought the Word to them but they did not accept it, and they did not recognise in Me the One Who permeated Me completely .... They saw Me but not God in Me, Who did not conceal Himself from their view but performed signs and miracles in order to make the blind see again .... But to those who believed He revealed Himself in His love, wisdom and omnipotence .... And they saw Him rise to heaven in full glory, they saw His shell spiritualising itself before their eyes and in radiating light ascend to the kingdom which had been its home since eternity ....

Amen

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The Christ-Problem .... Trinity ....

B.D. 7001 from December 24th 1957, taken from Book No. 75

All the angels bowed down to the Lord Who descended to earth .... For they knew that it was the beginning of an act of Salvation for the fallen spiritual beings, because God's infinite love Itself came to help His living creations which were staying in the abyss. The spiritual beings which had remained with God in the world of light were full of love for those who had fallen and were equally devoted to God in profound love, and this love became ever more glowing the more they realised the significance of the act of compassion which was to be accomplished for the fallen beings .... For they were aware of the deep gulf that had to be bridged in order that these fallen beings could reach the pinnacle again. And thus a soul, an originally created angel-spirit, offered to build this bridge, It offered God, the Eternal Love, to make

Amends on behalf of Its fallen brother for their past offence against Him. This soul's love for God and for Its fallen brothers in the abyss was such that It aimed to unite both again, and the Love which animated It was God Himself .... And therefore, when the soul of light embodied Itself on earth in the infant Jesus the eternal Love Itself descended to earth and thus 'God' became a 'human being' .... And the human shell in turn had to spiritualise itself through its life on earth, in the midst of dark surroundings it had to let the light within itself shine, through living a life of love it had to let itself be permeated completely by the Eternal Love .... And this accomplished the deification, so that everything about the man Jesus became love .... and thus Jesus became 'God' .... God's human manifestation in Jesus cannot be explained in any other way than the fact that the Eternal Deity .... Love .... manifested Itself in Jesus because He, as a soul of light having descended to earth, so shaped His human shell that it enabled God to take abode in it .... which would have been impossible in a heartless, sinful person .... And the unification of Jesus with God can equally only be understood as the complete deification of the man Jesus through love .... God sent His Son to Earth ....

These Words have to be evidence to you that the soul of the man Jesus came from above, that a most elevated spirit of light offered Himself for a mission on earth but which God Himself, the Eternal Love, carried out, for Love accomplished the act of Salvation, Love redeemed the guilt of sin, Love brought the fallen being deliverance from sin and death. However, the concept of 'love' is still incomprehensible to you humans because you have not shaped yourselves into love yourselves .... And until then you will be unable to grasp God's human manifestation and no Words will enlighten you about it as long as love has not been kindled in you to illuminate your spirit. But you must not think of 'God' and 'Jesus Christ' as two Beings, you must not speak of the 'Father' and the 'Son' in combination with the 'holy Spirit' in the same way as you hitherto imagined the 'Trinity of God' to be .... God and Jesus are One, and the strength of the spirit emanates from this Oneness because, again, it is an inseparable part of its nature, because God is love, wisdom and strength .... something spiritual which no-one is able to behold. But the eternal Deity manifested Itself in the man Jesus and became a visible God to His created beings .... And all the angels in Heaven praise and glorify Him, Who descended to earth for the love of His living creations which desired to see Him .... And He opened the gate to eternal bliss for all of them ....

Amen

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God and Jesus are one .... Human manifestation of God ....

B.D. 8250 from August 24th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

That the human spiritual state is growing increasingly darker is revealed by fact that people are no longer able to understand God’s ‘becoming One’ with Jesus properly .... and that they therefore also lack the right comprehension for God’s ‘human manifestation’ .... Owing to the misguided teaching of the three-person Deity they began to think wrongly. Yet, time and again, it has to be said that the eternal Deity cannot be personified .... thus It cannot be conceived as anything other than power permeating the whole of eternity .... This power cannot be limited nor can it be thought of as a ‘form’ .... but it can permeate a form completely .... And this process of complete permeation by divine strength occurred in the man Jesus ....

He was full of love and love is the fundamental substance of the eternal Deity .... ceaselessly emanated into infinity, which creates and maintains everything .... And this divine strength of love permeated the human form of Jesus and thus manifested itself in Him. God’s fundamental nature took abode in the man Jesus and thus God became ‘human’ .... and since Jesus was completely filled with the fundamental substance of God, He became ‘God’ .... Because even His completely spiritualised human form was able to wholly unify with God after His crucifixion so that Jesus then became the comprehensible Deity .... that the human being cannot imagine God other than in Jesus .... but that it cannot ever be a question of ‘two people’ .... The human being Jesus had achieved the goal on earth, the complete deification, which all created beings should achieve .... Because God wanted to create images of Himself whose final perfection, however, had to be achieved by the free will of the being itself. Jesus the man achieved this deification not only on account of a life of love, but with the act of Salvation He also redeemed humanity’s guilt of sin .... for He used God’s strength of love or He would have been unable to bear the terrible suffering and crucifixion. This strength of love was God’s fundamental nature, thus God Himself was within the man Jesus in all fullness and accomplished the act of Salvation ....

However, it is a misleading concept when you humans speak of a three-person God because the eternal Deity cannot be personified since It is pure love, and this love manifested Itself in Jesus, and thus the eternal spirit God was working in Jesus, and to all beings He can only be comprehensible in Jesus .... Since God’s former created beings had abandoned Him because they could not see Him, He became a visible God to them in Jesus .... But Jesus is not a second being that could be thought of as existing next to God .... He is God because God is strength of love, Which permeates a fully spiritualised form, thus it consists entirely of divine fundamental substance and is therefore only visible to those beings who have also become spiritualised in order to see spiritually.

It is certainly correct to describe God’s nature as Father, Son and Holy Spirit if the Father is acknowledged as love, the Son as wisdom and the Holy Spirit as the will or power of God .... Because God’s nature is love, wisdom and power .... But the goal God had set for Himself when He created the beings, the voluntary deification of these beings, also explains .... when it is achieved .... God’s manifestation in Jesus .... the visible Deity in Jesus, while the three-person Deity does not allow for a correct, i.e. truthful explanation. People have created their own concepts which obstruct their spiritual maturing process, because only one God can be called upon; three different Gods may not be prayed to but God Himself wants to be acknowledged in Jesus, and hence He can only be worshipped in Jesus .... And He demands this acknowledgment of all human beings, because this acknowledgment had been denied to Him in the past, and because the act of Salvation has to be accepted at the same time .... Because no person can find forgiveness of his original sin without Jesus Christ, and therefore the human being has to declare his belief in Him .... he has to believe that God Himself has shown compassion for humanity and accomplished the act of Salvation in Jesus ....

Amen

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Trinity

The eternal Trinity ....

B.D. 0662 from November 11th 1938, taken from Book No. 14

Always be aware of the great blessing you receive and always remain willing to carry out the task given to you, and the Lord will bless you. The message you receive today is intended to briefly explain the eternal Trinity to you. This is a problem you humans find difficult and yet it is so very easy to understand, for only the Deity is everything in one Person. It unites wisdom, love and strength of will within Itself. Whenever a Trinity is spoken of, it is always just the quintessence of love as the Father, of wisdom as the Son and of will as the Holy Spirit. For the Father's love brought everything into existence .... God's wisdom subsequently put every creation into its rightful place and allocated their tasks .... and the spirit of will animates everything and assures its existence ....

Only in this way, that everything is united within the one eternally unchanging Deity because God is forever the quintessence of love, wisdom and might, can the most comprehensible solution to the problem be found, but people often came to the wrong conclusion and, as a result, gave the misguided explanation of three deities. The living relationship of the child with the Father makes it easy to find the right explanation that God is everything in One and that no separation whatsoever is possible .... that therefore everything also has to unite itself in God. People's limited intellectual capacity also tried to apply human limitations to the eternal Deity and imagined an entity which was intended to represent the Eternally-Divine and this in line with their own opinions and concepts.

Any personification of God is a wrong concept .... for a Being Which unites everything within Itself and Which is incomprehensible in Its abundance of light and strength cannot find expression in one person. But to enable people to form a mental concept this eternal Deity embodied Itself in a human being, so that they are indeed able to conceive an outer appearance of what became comprehensible to humanity as the Son of God. Love and wisdom, will and omnipotence were also united within this Son of God, and again nothing was separated from each other.

Through Jesus' death on the cross the power of death was broken .... that is, it now became possible for people to conquer evil by using their will .... Will became strength at the same time, and from this time on the willing person on earth also received God's strength to turn his will into action and thereby release himself. This strength of the Holy Spirit in turn is an emanation of the all-embracing Deity again, yet it is never a person in itself .... Intending to ascertain this kind of problem intellectually would only ever lead to ever greater misconception, for you humans have devised something that is far too human and comes nowhere near the truth if you try to imagine the Deity in triple form ....

Amen

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Mystery of the trinity .... God the father .... God the son ....

B.D. 0930 from May 26th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Behold, My child, I look into your heart and know your will to serve Me, yet I miss your soul's faith in the omnipotence of divine love, and thus you will always hesitate when obstacles stand in your way, where unreserved faith can remove these obstacles, for the one who desires My love will never be abandoned by Me, and if he now needs My help it will always be given to him in all places. And if your heart urges you towards Me I will be close to you and keep everything away from you which could disturb the connection with My child. For I need souls who trust Me .... I still have much to say to you and am therefore always ready for you if your heart desires Me.

And so detach your thoughts from the world and hear the voice from above: The mystery of the divine trinity has always been for man the cliff on which he has failed. And that is why today you will again receive an instruction which, without leaving any doubt, shall contribute to the solution in all clarity and easily reveal the problem to the thinking person .... And thus the spirit from God came alive and the light shone brightly and clearly .... divinity is able to shelter itself in all fullness in a being, but that the pure spirit is inseparable and the most unworthy being is in closest contact with it, that therefore also only this inseparable spirit is to be understood by the eternal divinity and everything that has emerged from it is only the spirit out of God .... which no longer correctly recognizes the feeling of belonging to it and thus separates or removes itself, but nevertheless is always only divine product, therefore is always and eternally as original substance spiritual from God .... Who therefore removes himself from the divinity no longer recognizes himself, but nevertheless remains what he is .... but who seeks the connection with It his spiritual senses the affiliation and is therefore consciously the same .... And now you will be able to grasp that the mystery of the trinity of God can be explained as follows: God's love made itself known to human beings as father .... thus as the origin of humanity .... Love bridged humanity's separation from its creator and thus embodied itself in a human being Whose spirit recognized its belonging to God and Who was thus, as it were, one with the divine father-spirit. And thus the human being was only externally a being in itself, the spirit, however, was God's .... The original relationship was established, the spirit recognized itself, and thus God was in all fullness in that Which became His abode on earth in order to be visible to humanity. The divinity united with the human body had become visible, as it were, in order to let people recognize the distance they had created for themselves. Divine love had thus become active and now also placed divine wisdom in the heart of the God-man. For His spirit was one with God and therefore also had to be in all wisdom and be able to serve all divine strength .... God's wisdom had to express itself through the mouth of man, and thus all of Jesus' activity on earth was God's activity through the son of man, but not that a second being expressed Itself through it. And the concept God the father .... God the son cannot be explained in any other way than that the eternal father-spirit revealed Himself through the mouth of a human being, that God the son is therefore the same as God the father, only made comprehensible to the human being through Jesus Christ, Who overcame the separation from the father-spirit precisely through the realization of the unity with eternal love .... No one comes to the father but through Me .... This is probably easier to explain than that everyone who wants to unite with the father must also recognize that the divine spirit in him is inseparably connected with the father spirit and that everyone has to find this way and therefore follow the divine redeemer in everything, Who exemplified His life to those who like Him desire to go to the father. This is not possible in any other way than only by following Jesus, Who as son of man gave the example that only the spirit from God has to recognize its affiliation to Him and that there are then no more barriers which separate it from the father ....

Amen

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The doctrine of the Trinity of God ....

B.D. 4484 from November 11th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You have the gift of being able to use your intellect and you ought to use this gift. In an earthly respect your life compels you to do so and you readily comply with this compulsion. It is the most natural thing in the world for you to think about everything you encounter, to explore and ponder and thus intellectually enhance your earthly knowledge. But only rarely if ever do you use your intellect in order to acquire spiritual knowledge of your own inner accord. You certainly allow yourselves to receive it from external sources and accept it without using your intellect, without scrutinising or thinking about it. But you don't assimilate it with your intellect and thus you don't use the latter, or you misuse it by drawing entirely wrong conclusions because you accept the spiritual knowledge you receive without examination. But He Who endowed you with intellect will also hold you to account as to how you have used it.

Countless people live with misconceptions because they don't think about doctrines which should motivate their scrutiny because, in the form they are presented to people, they are simply unacceptable .... Admittedly, you reject all scrutiny with the remark that you, as human beings, are incapable of making a correct judgment, and you are right insofar as your intellect alone is not enough for this. Yet each and every time this has to be countered by the fact that enlightenment by the spirit can and always must be requested in order to truthfully explain the most difficult problems, and that God will never deny His assistance to someone who seriously wants it. And thus it is also possible for a human being to get an explanation for questions which the intellect alone is unable to answer. But the less a person believes that he is incapable of making a correct judgment the more it is necessary to appeal to God for assistance. This is more advisable than to accept doctrines which a person finds difficult to accept, for whatever a person wants to endorse as truth also has to be completely explained to him, on account of which teachings from above are constantly conveyed to earth which bring light into the spiritual darkness. And darkness is wherever the truth is being displaced or veiled, where misguided teachings are spread and upheld by people as truth. And this darkness shall be penetrated by light .... Lies and error shall be displaced by the truth, it shall be exposed where people are wrongly instructed, because only the truth leads to eternal life and only the truth is divine, whereas misguided teachings are God-opposing ....

And so it is essential to throw light on a doctrine which, mixed up and completely distorted by the enemy of souls, has found approval amongst people, and precisely because the latter did not use their gift of intellect and accepted without inspection what they were offered: the doctrine of the Trinity of God .... This doctrine is completely incomprehensible, that is, it cannot be rationally grasped and understood, it is an unacceptable explanation of the eternal Deity because it is absurd, since the human being who is professing it is not allowed to think about it anymore or, if he thinks about it, cannot admit to it .... Wanting to place the eternal Deity into a strictly-limited form is a sign of those people's imperfection who accept this teaching. Every form is a strictly-limited concept but God's Being is limitless because it is something profoundly perfect. Hence something supremely perfect cannot be divided either, for perfection is a state of spirit and something spiritual can never be divided into three parts .... thus one can never speak of a three-person God because it is an inconceivable concept which will lead to completely wrong points of view about the Deity's nature. God the Father .... God the Son .... and God the holy Spirit .... these concepts do not justify the assumption that three persons have united themselves as the eternal Deity, hence that these three amount to one God, whereas the nature of God can be made comprehensible to people if the three concepts are explained such that the 'Father' is love, the 'Son' is wisdom and the 'Spirit' is strength ....

And this alone is the correct explanation which is the foundation of the doctrine of the Trinity of God, yet due to misunderstanding it was wrongly interpreted and resulted in the misguided teaching that the Deity consists of three persons.

The spirit of God, the partial concept of God's Nature, can never be personified; it cannot be limited to a form in line with human ideas, it is an infinite abundance of light and strength which is directed and used by an exceptionally strong will of love. The light is God .... the strength is God .... and the will of love is God .... one is not without the other, everything Divine incorporates this Trinity within Itself; it is the sign of perfection if love, wisdom and strength are inherent in a being, in which case it has become an image of God. Yet it is only ever one Being .... not a form but something infinite, spiritual, which requires no form in order to exist and which would burst all forms if they had not spiritualised themselves first, so that they were able to contain love, wisdom and strength in abundance without ceasing to exist.

Such a form was the human being Jesus, Who was chosen by God as the carrier of the entire abundance of love, wisdom and strength in order to serve people as a conceivable Deity so that they can believe in an Essence Which, being of supreme perfection, is nevertheless in connection with imperfect people, His living creations. But this form was purely physical, it was effectively only at the disposal of physical onlookers because the spirit requires no form in order to be able to be seen .... The idea of Father, Son and holy Spirit as three separate entities .... even with the addition that they are one .... is misleading, because people will then be at risk of implementing a separation by calling upon every part individually and will thereby increase the consciousness of each of the three parts, thereby losing the right, truthful sense of the one God to Whom alone they should turn in every earthly and spiritual adversity.

Even the man Jesus, Who lived on earth as an individual being in order to accept the abundance of God within Himself, became one with Him, which was evidenced by His ascension, because the body had completely spiritualised itself and all substances were able to join the eternal Deity and thus there no longer existed two separate beings who were perfect but it was only one Deity, Which was love, wisdom and strength in supreme perfection. God the Father, God the Son and His Spirit, which permeates the whole of infinity and implements everything that is determined by His will. It is the eternal Deity's Nature which is being characterised by the concepts of Father, Son and holy Spirit. Wisdom .... the Son .... comes forth from the Father of love, and the all-permeating strength implements what is decided by the Father and the Son. God is all-powerful and exceedingly wise and loving .... This concept is more understandable and solves the problem of the triune Deity in the simplest way, and only spiritually blind people are unable to grasp or acknowledge this uncomplicated solution because they are misled by spiritually blind leaders who are unenlightened and refuse to let themselves be taught ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Misguided teaching about the Trinity ....

B.D. 5389 from May 11th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

People have a completely wrong concept of the divine Trinity due to the misguided description of a Divinity which consists of three persons. Every thinking human being will deem such an explanation unacceptable, thus it will either be accepted without thought or it will be rejected, whereas a correct explanation can be accepted by every human being since it reveals the essence of the eternal Deity and considerably adds towards enlivening faith in God. The concept of God has already become so vague to people that they find it difficult to have faith, and if they are now expected to understand the Deity as three persons as well the concept becomes even more confused and faith will waver. Indeed, rightly so, because in order to believe in a three-person God, the intellect has to be completely detached. But God has given the human being intellect for the purpose of assessing what he should believe. But with divine assistance, i.e. through the spirit of God, the intellect can certainly acknowledge a Divinity if it is truthfully instructed. In that case even the keenest intellect will not refuse to agree.

But this truth reveals God’s Being in the manner that unites love, wisdom and strength within Itself, that one is unthinkable without the other .... that love is the fundamental concept from whence wisdom emerges and both express themselves through the strength of will. Love is the creative principle which gives rise to everything; it is the birth giving strength. However, it does not create aimlessly or arbitrarily but it proceeds with wisdom. Whatever God’s wisdom knows to be good and right is accomplished by His will if love urges Him to do so .... It is the concept of a supremely perfect Being .... Because love, wisdom and omnipotence are evidence of a perfect Entity, Which cannot be exceeded further. Love, wisdom and omnipotence are proof of Divinity, they provide the human being with a concept of the eternal Deity’s substance, but they are not three different divine persons united within one Being ....

The misguided doctrine of God’s Trinity has considerably contributed towards people loosing faith, because a description like that had to result in instinctive rejection and thus the grace of prayer was not used, which could have provided the sincerely seeking human being with clarification. The object of their prayer was questionable, people thought it strange to call upon three persons which they should believe to be as one God. Immense confusion has been caused, it was an evident influence of Satan, who forever attempts to undermine the truth, to obscure the essence of God and to estrange God Himself from them.

The fact that this misguided teaching was accepted in the first place testifies of the darkened spiritual state of those who, due to their complete lack of enlightenment, did not possess any means of discrimination and hence had been excellent tools in Satan’s hands to distribute this teaching and with this to endanger the faith in a manner as rarely a misguided teaching had achieved. In order to believe in God as a supremely perfect Being, this Being also has to introduce Itself to people such that they can recognise His perfection, also the intellect of a human being who is looking for the truth has to understand such concepts, otherwise he could not be held to account ....

God is not content with blind faith, He demands every teaching to be deliberated and responded to, because faith can only become alive when it has become an inner conviction. When this option is excluded from the start, when people are presented with a misguided teaching for unconditional acceptance, only blind faith can be demanded and achieved by this which is of no value before God. On the contrary, it is far more damaging to the soul, especially when God’s image becomes distorted and thereby the love for Him cannot arise, which is absolutely essential in order to become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The problem of the Trinity ....

B.D. 7117 from May 11th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

The problem of the Trinity is one of many problems which have been made difficult to resolve due to a completely misguided explanation. The explanation which is simple and comprehensible for all people is not accepted because human reasoning has become confused by concepts which are incomprehensible to the human intellect but which, for this very reason, are retained as unchallengeable and people are even forbidden to reflect on them. However, every human being who comprehends the ‘human manifestation of God’ in Jesus, who does not seek to personify the Being of God, will find this problem easy to understand and to explain .... who recognises the all pervading spirit as ‘God’ and who understands that the inconceivable Deity manifested Itself in Jesus in order to become a ‘visible’ God to Its created beings .... Hence the concepts: Father .... Son .... and Spirit will no longer lead these people into misguided thinking, because they only acknowledge one Being which unites love, wisdom and strength within Itself .... Love gave rise to everything and thus is the Creator, the ‘Father’ .... And out of Him the ‘Son’ also emerged, in Whom the Father manifested Himself. But the Son is also ’Wisdom’, because only love is the fire which emits the ‘light’ .... Thus love and wisdom cannot be separated, just as Father and Son are one.

And again love is also the strength which, however, only ever expresses itself in utmost wisdom. The ‘spirit’ of God is His continuous emission of love, which helps the as yet imperfect to achieve final perfection. Hence only one Being can ever be considered God Father, Son and Spirit, a Being Whose essence consists of love, wisdom and strength .... The fact that this Being manifested Itself in the man Jesus does not sanction the change of the Deity into a twofold Being Which can be called upon separately .... and then adding another one as the ‘spirit’ to this twofold Being, Which again is called upon by those who cannot work this problem out by themselves but simply accept the sermons of unenlightened thinkers. This is proven by the fact that many people are unable to call upon the Father in Jesus Christ and they are usually unable to understand that God Himself is only accessible to them in Jesus Christ; that the threefold, different prayer only ever reaches one ear, that the eternal Deity cannot be divided, that It Itself in Jesus Christ came close to the human beings, who were unable to conceive the eternal, all-comprehensive and pervading spirit .... The concepts: Father, Son and Spirit still prompt you humans, whose spirit is yet unenlightened, to aim your thoughts and prayers into different directions ....

You call upon God the Father, you call upon Jesus, and you also call upon the spirit, so that it might come to you .... But you will only pray correctly when these three have become one concept for you, when you only call upon one Being Which unites within Itself love .... the Father, wisdom .... the Son, and strength .... the spirit, and only then will you have solved the problem of God’s Trinity correctly, too. Although the teaching of the ‘three-person Deity’ has been extended by adding that these Three are one .... the teaching is nevertheless a serious misguidance of people, which results in further misguided opinions .... Especially the call to God in Jesus Christ incorporates unlimited strength which, however, is lost to you, who are still subject to misguided notions and unable to free yourselves from them. You and your awareness would certainly benefit from sincere reflection upon the subject but you refrain from it because you have become slaves, even though God had given you complete freedom .... But you should use your spiritual freedom, and then God Himself will truly help you to clarify your thoughts, for He Himself is the light and He wants to give light to all those who desire it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Calling upon the 'Holy Spirit' ....

B.D. 8674 from November 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You humans often call the 'Holy Spirit' that it may come upon you, and you are unaware of the fact that it is within you and only requires your free will so as to be able to speak to you .... The spirit is part of Me, it is inseparably connected with the Father-Spirit .... thus it is a divine spark which was added to your soul when it incarnated on this earth as a human being, in other words: you once emerged from Me as an emanation of love and therefore consist of the same fundamental substance as I Myself .... This substance solidified after your past apostasy from Me and you, who once had been full of life, became lifeless beings. For My strength of love permeated you and this strength was only able to be constantly active. However, since you rejected My strength of love it also left you incapable of any kind of activity. And you are still in this weak state when you enter the earth as a human being. In order that you will be able to accomplish the task given to you in your earthly life I radiate a spark of My eternal strength of love into every human heart, which thus is My share again .... You are alive with the once emanated strength and that means that you are in possession of vitality, that you can be active in an earthly way and therefore also comply with your task as a human being .... Your real task, however, is and remains your spiritualisation, the retransformation of your nature into its original state. And you can only accomplish this task if you change yourselves into love .... In order to be able to do that a spark of love has to be radiated into you first, since you, due to your past apostasy from Me, are completely without love. This spark of love is the emanation of Me Myself .... it is the emanation of My spirit into your soul which, however, only awakens you humans into life if you apply your will .... You all possess the spiritual spark, which is part of Me Myself, within you .... Hence it need not come to you anymore, it is inside of you but can only manifest itself if, through a life of love, you provide the possibility for it, because it will not impose itself and influence you against your will in any way .... Therefore you can at all times awaken the spirit in you but you will not be compelled to it.

When you pray for the Holy Spirit to come to you, you demonstrate your lack of knowledge regarding the right correlations, furthermore, you prove that you have a false concept of it, because you personify it to a certain extent and call upon it as an entity .... It is, however, My 'emanation', for I Myself Am the Holy Spirit of eternity, and I Am present to anyone who calls upon Me. However, you must never think that the spirit you call upon is separate from Me, and it will and cannot comply with your call as long as you do not shape yourselves into love, for even if My strength of love is unlimited it will never be able to radiate into a closed heart, and a heart remains unreceptive as long as it is unwilling to love .... since precisely due to the spiritual spark or spark of love it received from Me it is capable of loving .... Willingness to love, however, prompts the spirit to reveal itself to you, even if you don't call upon it expressly .... It is within you but will remain silent as long as you disregard love, because it is love itself and therefore can only speak to love. It is inseparably connected to the eternal Father-Spirit, and therefore enables 'My spirit' .... or the divine fire of love .... to flow into you humans in abundance and thus cause the spiritual spark to continuously educate you from within; for then divine light of love must also illuminate your hearts and that signifies brightest realisation, it signifies the receiving of knowledge which corresponds to the truth, because My spirit knows everything and can therefore only impart the pure truth to you. Therefore you can only ever pray that I Myself may be present to you, but this also requires you to shape yourselves to love, otherwise the Eternal Love cannot be present to you. You can therefore only pray to be granted the strength to fulfil My commandments, then you will always become aware of My presence, for with every work of love you draw Me close to you because I Am Love Itself .... And then I will also work through My spirit in you, as I have promised you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Aim in life: union with God

God's spirit in the man Jesus .... following ....

B.D. 5577 from January 14th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You humans can be full of the divine spirit if you live as followers of Jesus. As a human being He was no different from you, His life was only a struggle and fight against the desires which He felt like you but wanted to suppress out of love for Me. His life was a life of love for His neighbour, whom He knew was in need and wanted to help. What He achieved you humans could also achieve if you were serious about receiving Me Myself in all fullness. His soul was indeed from the kingdom of light but it did not recognize itself as such until the man Jesus was permeated by My spirit of love. At times My spirit did speak from Him, then the man Jesus spoke with supernatural wisdom and astonished his fellow human beings .... Yet as soon as My spirit hid itself again Jesus felt just as human as they did and His occasionally brighter spiritual state confused and frightened Him; He was closed but turned towards Me with ever more intimate love which then also gave Him the light about His earthly task .... The man Jesus had to wrestle with all powers which were against Him, He had to experience and suffer everything only a human being can suffer, for He preceded you humans on the path which you should and can also take with His help. I helped Him Myself with My strength of love, which He constantly requested and acquired through His life of love. And this unusual supply of strength of love enabled Him to accomplish the work of salvation .... You humans, too, could accomplish unusual things if you wanted to acquire My strength of love yourselves through loving activity; yet you lack the will which, however, was overdeveloped in the man Jesus, yet again only as a result of the love He developed within Himself. As a soul of light His soul felt the great spiritual hardship of the environment, and therefore its will to help was so strong and inspired the man Jesus to work in love .... You humans also see spiritual and earthly hardship around you, and if you wanted to help, you would also receive the strength .... because the will is taken into account .... And you, too, could be full of the divine spirit, because every work of love could result in My strength of love and thus My spirit could become effective in you. The following of Jesus would truly not be demanded of you humans if it could not be fulfilled. For again and again it has to be emphasized that Jesus walked His path on earth as a human being and that all divine attributes were His humanly acquired merits, that the deity did not determine His path of life but that the human being subjugated the deity to Himself .... well understood: that the love of Jesus, the human being, moved Me to the unlimited expression of love, because I am powerless against love, because I Myself am love from eternity .... The man Jesus has conquered Me Myself with Me, He has done what I Myself had to do .... what My fundamental nature demands .... to let the power of love take effect .... And every human being who works in love forces Me into self-emptying .... Yet this compulsion is the most pleasing feeling for Me, Who always wants to give Myself away but can only give Myself away according to My law of eternity where love meets Me. Love must unite the being with Me, then it is filled by My spirit, by My strength of love, and then it can work in and with Me, then the human being has taken the path of following Jesus which leads to unification with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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Faith and love lead to unification with God ....

B.D. 8973 from May 9th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

If you bear My infinite love in mind, which took the most bitter suffering and dying for your sins upon itself in order to open the gate into the kingdom of light for you again, then this act of atonement alone should already induce you to respond to My love with as much depth you are capable of feeling .... Yet precisely this is what you are lacking, you are no longer able to muster such love because My adversary still keeps you in chains and will do whatever he can to prevent your kind-hearted actions. It is not as if you were entirely incapable, because you shelter a tiny spark of My love in you which you need only nurture to grow into a bright flame. Yet this requires your will again, which is free and therefore not compelled by Me nor My adversary. And this free will can do anything .... It is able to establish the most heartfelt bond with Me but it can also completely submit to My adversary .... However, even the slightest will for Me is already enough for Me to grant you strength and constantly prove My infinite love to you .... If you therefore call upon Me Myself in Jesus for help against him, your resolve will be strengthened and you will have escaped My adversary, you will strive towards the light, live your life purposefully and indeed reach the final goal, unity with Me.

But what should you do first so as not to live your life in vain?

First, you must believe in a Power Which created you .... If you acknowledge this Power it will be easy for you to establish mental contact with Me, for your belief in Me is already evidence that you want to detach yourselves from your present lord, for he will try to shake any belief you have .... But since you turn to Me of your own accord I will help you take the right path which leads to Me. First of all, I will inform you of the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, in Whom I became a human being, and explain the significance He has for you .... And as soon as you know that you can always turn to Him, that He and I are as One, you will always hand your guilt, which was the cause of your human existence on earth, over to Him .... From then on you will be able to feel the great love I expect of you, which is needed to enter into union with Me.

Thus you can all attain faith in a Being Which is exceedingly powerful, wise and loving .... And when you recognise that this Being is exceedingly perfect you will also be able to love It .... In that case you will also know that you should strive towards this Being, that you are still distant from It as a result of your past sin of apostasy, that He wants to win you back again and seeks to attract your love which alone can revoke the original sin when it has been handed over to Jesus Christ, Who has redeemed the guilt of sin on the cross ....

Only love can lead you back to Me again, only love is needed to enable you to enter the kingdom of light again, only love returns to you all abilities which you once possessed in abundance and relinquished! Love alone is the bond between Me and you, for it is your fundamental element, just as I Myself Am love .... Consequently, if you believe in Me, then the spark in you, which brings this faith into being, has already come alive and it will flare up ever more frequently and finally lead to unity .... Therefore, believe that I exist, that I have created you as well as everything you see around you, and you won't be able to help yourselves but to make mental contact with Me and thereby receive strength, you will become knowledgeable. That is, the right thoughts will flow into you so that you will know the truth, for the result of transferring My strength of love is that you may also have an insight into previously closed spheres .... However, it always depends on your degree of love ....

Therefore, let love become active in you, for love is everything; it gives you clarity of thought as well as the strength to implement what benefits your soul. It will take you to Jesus Christ, and once you have recognised Me in Jesus Christ you will assuredly also take the path towards perfection, you will return into your Father's house from which you once voluntarily distanced yourselves ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna