Only the truth leads to the goal

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

7866 - People need the truth....

8872 - 'I will guide you into truth....'

What is truth?

5700 - What is truth?.... Where can it be found?....

7142 - What is truth?....

Origin of truth: God

4165 - Truth only originates in God....

8744 - There is only one truth.... this one comes from God....

God a truth giver and teacher

6161 - God only can give the truth....

5445 - God as Teacher.... Truth - Light....

5247 - "You must be taught by God...."

God’s word – purest truth

8392 - Can the pure truth be guided to earth?....

7152 - The Word of God: Unadulterated truth....

8448 - ‘Correcting’ God’s Word.... Corruption of truth....

Testing the truth

8087 - Verifying the truth....

8364 - The human being's duty is to scrutinise spiritual information....

8037 - Test all things and keep what is good....

Touchstone of truth: Jesus Christ and His work of redemption

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

8479 - Touchstone of divine revelations: Jesus' act of Salvation....

8595 - Testing the truth of spiritual good....

8228 - Test the spirits....

Blessing of doubting

3770 - Doubt, too, is God's help towards truth....

6874 - The blessing of doubting.... Truth....

7755 - Doubts about the truth of the predictions....

Conditions for receiving the truth

6377 - Conditions for receiving the truth....

8424 - Condition for receiving truth: to give up knowledge of mind....

Condition: faih in God

1134 - Faith is the first condition for truth....

5706 - Faith in God.... revelation.... truth....

Condition: working in love

2218 - Love is the key to truth....

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

7658 - Truth not without love....

Condition: serious desire for truth

7767 - Fulfilment of divine promises.... Truth....

6814 - Truth comes from within.... desire for it....

7629 - Sincere desire for truth guarantees truth....

Condition: free will

4460 - God’s word must not force to acceptance.... free will....

8052 - Free will is decisive....

Accepting od rejecting the truth

2162 - Accepting the word of truth requires faith and labour of love....

4499 - Justification for rejecting the truth.... God as judge....

6441 - Feeding the truth....

Spirit working of God

2877 - The working of the spirit.... Guarantee for pure truth....

4470 - Various spiritual activities: wisdom, seeing, prophecy.... (Konnersreuth)

8416 - Difference between the 'working of the spirit' and 'psychic' receptions....

Heart and mind thinking

2302 - Emotional and intellectual thinking.... Truth....

1918 - Intellectual research.... truth....

6120 - The truth speaks to the heart....

Different schools of thought

6627 - Different schools of thought.... Where is truth?....

8990 - Various schools of thought.... There is only one truth....

4786 - There is only one truth.... Feeling of heart....

The true church of Christ

7072 - The true church.... Sects.... Working of the spirit....

5174 - Characteristic of the church of Christ: The working of the spirit....

Working of the adversary against the truth

5671 - Foreign Gods.... ceremonies.... bowl - core.... truth....

8433 - The adversary's activity behind a mask....

8487 - False Christs and prophets....

6526 - Battle of the dark forces against the truth....

Some examples of errors and their lessons

8348 - God wants to be loved and not feared....

2873 - Teaching of re-incarnation is misguided.... Law....

5389 - Misguided teaching about the Trinity....

7910 - Doctrine of damnation is misguided teaching....

8731 - The true description of the act of Salvation....

8391 - Error to be corrected again and again....

The fight against error

3984 - Combating error.... darkness.... truth....

8555 - Accepting truth is a commitment.... Errors....

Spreading the truth

4515 - Condition for right representatives of God: working of the spirit and truthful knowledge....

8381 - Spreading the truth.... Love life....

6494 - Office of the truth bearer.... false legal concepts....

4021 - Unquestioning faith of the servants of God.... protective wall - truth....

Spreading the truth in the hereafter

1600 - Conveying spiritual truths in the hereafter....

7623 - Activity of the beings of light.... Spreading the truth....

Connection with God through prayers in spirit and in truth

3132 - Condition to the truth - path to God....

8466 - What is prayer in spirit and in truth?....

4746 - Prayer in spirit and in truth....

4951 - Answering prayer in spirit and in truth....

5309 - "I am the way, the truth and the life...."

6251 - The truth cannot be prevented....

9029 - Only truth leads to the goal....

People need the truth ....

B.D. 7866 from April 8th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

The transmission of the pure gospel to earth has become urgently necessary, and therefore I chose an instrument for Myself which is active in My will, because it completely subordinates its will to Mine and serves Me as a suitable vessel into which I can let My flow of love flow .... For My flow of love is 'My word' .... It is My gospel which I proclaim again in all purity as I did on earth .... but which has not been preserved so purely and therefore always needs correction from My side if you humans want to speak of 'My word' .... You church Christians do not want to believe that the pure word of God is no longer offered to you. You undoubtedly accept everything as 'My word' but serious reflection would reveal many contradictions, you would certainly not recognize Me Myself in this word which has been distorted by people, so that you have long since ceased to live in truth and are therefore also in danger of not reaching the aim which has been set for you in earthly life, because only truth guarantees you this aim. But again and again I therefore want to convey the pure truth to you, and you need only accept it in order to safely take the path of ascent, the aim of which is Me Myself, with Whom you should unite .... And thus I offer you the truth Myself which will enable you to attain beatitude. And you humans should listen to what is conveyed to you through an instrument chosen by Me Myself, what is brought to you as My true gospel, so that you will walk the path of truth. If I call upon you to do so, I nevertheless want you to examine everything, that you don't accept anything thoughtlessly, for it shall become your own spiritual knowledge, and this requires a serious opinion, an examination in the will to only accept the right spiritual knowledge which corresponds to the truth. And then your thinking will truly also be enlightened, you will feel what you are allowed to accept, for the truth will beneficially touch your soul, whereas every error leaves the soul unimpressed, i.e., it will not result in spiritual progress for you. For you can truly believe that I want to convey the truth to you and that this is also possible if I find a heart which is willing to serve, which completely submits to Me and My will, which desires the truth itself and allows My spirit to work within itself. For it is the end time and it has become urgently necessary that the pure truth is presented to people .... It has become urgently necessary that I Myself take care of those who desire the truth, it has become urgently necessary that the many errors are denounced which are also spread where people believe they are 'serving Me' .... Although every person could recognize for himself the errors which have crept in where truth is allegedly proclaimed .... For as soon as people lived in accordance with My divine commandment of love they would also be of enlightened spirit, i.e. their thinking would be correctly directed and they would reject all misguided teachings; yet they pay too little attention to My commandments of love and therefore do not realize that they are being wrongly guided. And therefore they have to hear My divine teaching of love anew, they have to be given the gospel anew which only ever contains this teaching of love, because love is everything .... because without love the human being cannot live in truth and because without love he can never reach his final aim: the union with Me, Who am eternal love Itself .... And thus don't be surprised when I address you humans and send you My disciples again .... don't be surprised when I convey 'My word' to you in all purity, for this word is necessary if it is to become light in you, because only truth is light which originates from Me and leads back to Me again .... because only truth shows you the right path which leads to light and beatitude ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'I will guide you into truth ....'

B.D. 8872 from October 23rd 1964, taken from Book No. 93

Truth cannot long keep as pure as it is when it comes forth from Me, therefore I already told you during My lifetime ‘I will guide you into truth ....’ because I knew that My Word, which I brought to you Myself, would not remain pure either .... And this will always be the case as soon as it is studied by human inadequacy, as soon as the pure Word enters the region of imperfect human beings who look at it from an entirely intellectual point of view. Hence I kept sending My pure Word from above to earth but it has always been spoilt again. You humans have no guarantee that the Book of Books is protected from change, because I do not interfere with people’s free will and can only ever safeguard a presenter of My Word if he commends himself to Me and asks Me to protect him from error. However, you humans are not at risk from misguided thoughts if you spiritually and in truth ask Me to enlighten your spirit, then you will also know where error has crept in ....

But the claim that I Myself protect My pure Word from becoming spoilt is incorrect, because this would question the free will of human beings, who can do whatever they want with My spiritual information. And thus you also need to consider with regards to the Book of Books that changes were made in the course of time which I could not prevent .... precisely because of human free will .... Consequently, the necessity for a new revelation constantly arose again which had to clarify the existing misconception. Hence you humans only have to want the truth, but you should not feel certain to have the truth because you can obtain it from the Book of Books .... otherwise I would not have needed to tell you so clearly and precisely that ‘I will guide you into truth ....’ Furthermore, you also have to take into account that the working of My spirit is always of a spiritual nature .... that I Am concerned with the salvation of the soul which I want to win for Myself through My Word .... that every Word from Me merely intends to achieve your spiritual perfection.

And these spiritual instructions have often been combined with human supplements which later proved themselves to be wrong and gave rise to doubt .... just as My divine Words of love were frequently combined with human additions, but people hold on to these and refuse to let go of this human product. Hence concepts applicable at the time were included in My ‘divine’ Word such as, for instance, ‘that women shall not teach’ .... This is not My commandment at all, instead allowances were made for that period of time but it had no right to be regarded as ‘divine Word’, as is apparent from My Words ‘that I will pour out My spirit on all flesh; servants and maidens will prophesy ....’ Consequently, what I deemed necessary to correct was repeatedly done through new revelations .... which, however, could not retain their purity either but also had to be corrected again ....But I gave you the promise that I will guide you into truth, and therefore you may rest assured that every person asking for truth will also receive it .... Because I will not let anyone walk in error who does not want to fall victim to the adversary .... who desires the pure truth with all his heart .... But this is only possible by means of a new revelation, in view of their freedom of will I cannot prevent people from distorting My initially transmitted Word, and that this has happened is due to people’s low spiritual level which does not offer the adversary any resistance .... But I will always make sure that the light of truth will nevertheless shine for you who desire it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

What is truth?

What is truth? .... Where can it be found? ....

B.D. 5700 from June 17th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

You humans have to be informed of the truth in order to be able to fulfil the purpose of your earthly life .... But what is truth? And how can you attain truth?

God Himself is the Eternal Truth, and therefore anyone who desires truth has to turn to God Himself and ask Him for the truth. There is no other way but this direct one, for even if it is offered to someone in a different way he will only be able to recognise it as truth if he prays to God for the enlightenment of his spirit, for the right kind of thinking. Thus a person has to acknowledge God first, he has to believe in Him .... And this faith will only be alive in him, it will only have become his inner conviction, if he lives a life of love, for faith will only come alive through love. Love is the key to wisdom, love guarantees correct thinking that corresponds to the truth, for love, truth and God are one ....

You humans first have to adopt the fundamental truth that love is the first condition for correct thinking, that you can only speak of an enlightened spirit if you make the effort to live a life of love, which is to be understood as selfless neighbourly love and through which you also express your love for God. You humans ought to know that where love is, God Himself is also present, and where God is, there is also love .... You ought to know that it is God's will to lead you into the pure truth, that He does not want to withhold anything from you, that you shall change your state of ignorance into a state of realisation and that He is at all times willing to guide you into the truth but that you first have to fulfil the conditions if you want to live within the truth. You should not assume yourselves capable of being able to ascertain the truth with your intellect alone, for your intellectual thinking will move into the wrong direction as long as God is excluded, just as the will for truth, the serious request for it, has to be present, which God considers to be the request for Himself, for He Himself is the truth of eternity .... And prerequisite for this sincere request is the fact that the person is willing to relinquish his prior knowledge in exchange for pure truth, that he opens himself to the knowledge he is allowed to receive after he has proven his faith in God with his sincere appeal for spiritual enlightenment, for receiving the pure truth. God will impart the truth to anyone who seriously desires it, and He will give him the power of realisation at the same time ....

But what is to be understood by truth in this context? .... It is the truth coming from God, which is not verifiable through earthy methods .... it concerns problems which occupy every thinking person, which he would like to solve and which are insolvable by purely rational means .... It is the knowledge of the very first beginning and the ultimate goal of everything in existence .... the knowledge of meaning and purpose of creation, of meaning and purpose of earthly life .... it is the knowledge of all correlations between the Creator with His living beings and creations .... It is the answer to all questions which you humans are unable to answer intellectually, or rather, for which you cannot provide the evidence for the accuracy of your answer .... You can only ever assume and think correctly or wrongly .... God, however, gives you the truth .... if you comply with His conditions ....

And this pure truth shall be presented to everyone. It is up to you humans whether you want to accept it, whether you adjust your attitude such that you will recognise it as truth, for you have free will .... And even the most precious spiritual information cannot compel acceptance, for it is offered to you in a way that you can accept or reject it, depending on your attitude towards Him, towards faith and towards love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

What is truth? ....

B.D. 7142 from June 8th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

You will not be led astray if you approach the eternal truth Itself for 'truth'. What kind of God of love would He be if He did not offer a good gift to His children who trustingly come to Him in order to allow themselves to be bestowed by Him ....? And where would God's wisdom be found if He Himself wanted to convey spiritual knowledge to people which does not correspond to the truth ....? You have to imagine God in His essence, which is supremely perfect and therefore nothing imperfect can be offered by Himself. But since people's great spiritual hardship consists precisely of the fact that they live in error, that they are far removed from the truth and therefore cannot find the path of return to God either .... since, again, for the sake of the final return to God the human being only has to live through earthly existence at all, it is God's everlasting endeavour to convey the pure truth to people, and He will also do so wherever the opportunity presents itself, that is, wherever the conditions are fulfilled under which such conveyance of truth is possible. But no-one will request truth from God who does not believe in God himself .... Nor will anyone request truth who does not also request it from God, even if he is not aware of it .... And thus the desire also signifies a certain love for it and thus also love for God, Who Himself is truth from eternity .... And if the human being therefore turns to God Himself in thought or even just with the innermost stirring of the heart, which resists everything untrue, God will also in a way convey the requested truth to the human being .... If the human being is already capable of a certain realization through a life of love, if his thinking is already enlightened through unselfish activity of love, then the human being will also feel that an answer to his questions can be given to him directly from God, and he will listen to this answer within himself, he will pay attention to his thoughts, he will have the firm certainty that God reveals Himself to him .... But then he will also know that he will only receive pure truth, that he need not fear error, because only truth can reach him on God's part and because God also protects a truth-seeking child from erroneous influence, precisely for the sake of truth .... What is truth? .... This question is so often asked by people who think they are clever but who also feel that they very often fall prey to error and therefore become uncertain about the truth of what is generally held .... All of them would have their question answered if they had those prerequisites, such as: faith in God .... unselfish activity of love and desire for truth .... And then they would no longer doubt or ask, because the answer would be clear and light in themselves .... But until they can demonstrate those prerequisites, even these words are quite incomprehensible and unbelievable to them, they seem incompatible with their sober intellectual thinking .... And so long they will also live without knowledge, even though they are rich in earthly knowledge or have acquired spiritual knowledge in a scholastic way .... They have no inner guarantee for the truth of it and will never be able to obtain it in any other way than through the 'revelation of God', which can take place in many different ways but is completely certain to the sincere striving for truth. This is why one person can stand up for the truth with full conviction, whereas another person can certainly accept but will never be able to represent with inner certainty that which he has acquired intellectually without having been instructed by his spirit within himself .... for pure truth only emanates from God and only God Himself conveys it to the person who sincerely appeals to Him for it .....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Origin of truth: God

Truth only originates in God ....

B.D. 4165 from November 12th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Only that is truth which has its origin in Me as the eternal truth. There is only one truth and this is conveyed to earth by Me Myself through My spirit. You humans should understand that truth can never originate from humans, for the human being, as an imperfect creature, is distant from truth as long as he is not united with Me, because truth cannot exist outside of Me. Distance from Me likewise signifies wrong thinking, ignorance and lack of powers of cognition. Consequently, the human being will not be able to distinguish truth from error but will always lean towards error in a state of remoteness from God because it corresponds to his imperfect nature. Only when he is united with Me will he accept the truth from Me and also recognise it as such. And even if the truth is not offered to him by Me in an extraordinary form through the inner word, his line of thought will still be right, for his thinking is guided by the spirit, he will be enlightened and therefore also stand in truth. Hence the bond with Me must always be established first, and this requires seclusion and inner immersion in spiritual problems, questions which the human being desires to be answered, heartfelt thoughts of Me and appeals for My help, for right thinking .... for enlightenment of the spirit. Then he will desire the truth and it will be given to him. But then the human being will also have to compare with the spiritual knowledge which was offered him by people, and he will realise that the latter differs considerably from that which is imparted to him by Me. For I reserve the right to distribute the truth Myself. But what comes from Me, what obviously originates from Me, can be accepted and also defended as pure truth with utmost certainty, and therefore I choose servants for Myself on earth who directly receive knowledge from Me which has to be addressed as pure truth, because it demonstrably has no other origin than the spiritual kingdom, since the act of transmission proceeds extraordinarily, thus eliminating human thought. And now this spiritual knowledge conveyed by Me to earth can confidently be used as a standard for knowledge to be examined .... What agrees with it is truth, what deviates from it can be rejected as error and also branded accordingly. For error is seeds of satan, error is My adversary's means to oust Me from people's hearts and to increase his power. You humans are too lenient towards error, you do not recognise its great danger and therefore you do not fight it but tolerate it. But I cannot tolerate it and therefore instruct My servants to fight it strictly and to drop all tolerance if it is necessary to expose error and put forward truth. I demand that My servants fight with the sword of their mouth and endow them with all gifts to successfully take action against everything that contradicts the truth from Me, which does not have its origin in Me. I alone distribute the truth, but I consider all who want to stand in truth, for the desire for truth also proves the desire for Me Myself, and I will never deny Myself, but I also demand as a gift in return that the recipient of truth will speak up for it towards his fellow human beings who are still under the sway of the one who fights against everything that comes from Me and who, as the prince of lies, will always try to undermine the pure truth so that I will no longer be recognised, so that people will walk in darkness and shun the light which, through My love, shines for them again and again, for all those who desire to be in the light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

There is only one truth .... this one comes from God ....

B.D. 8744 from February 4th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

Only from Me can the light shine for you, because I am the source of light from eternity .... And that is why you can also only receive information from Me if you are moved by questions which concern spiritual areas .... Because in this area I alone am the lord; I alone know about everything, and I alone also have the power to answer your questions truthfully, by Me supplying you with the knowledge about it through My spirit. And that is why I also want that you present every question, which moves you, to Me for answer; I want that you occupy yourselves with it in remembrance and submit every ambiguity to Me, so that I now can also give you information about it. And that is why it would be so easy for you to move in purest truth, because I alone know about everything, but also love you so that I do not want to leave you in error. But you only rarely turn to Me with questions, which you cannot answer yourselves, and then it is also easy that error is brought near to you, because My opponent knows about all weaknesses and he always finds connection, where an earnest desire for truth does not deny him the entrance. Where I now obviously guide truth to earth, where you obviously can speak of divine revelations, there the error is clearly pointed out by Me, and you are taught according to truth. Man himself can extend his spiritual wealth when he asks Me questions, but which must always touch spiritual areas because divine revelations are always about the supply of spiritual material, of knowledge, which has nothing to do with the world and its demands. And as soon as therefore disputes arise between men about spiritual thought material, then also the right opportunity is given to present these disputes to Me Myself and to desire enlightenment, and truly, you will receive this in fullest truth and increase in knowledge, in a spiritual thought material, which will remain with you in eternity. Because truth always and forever remains the same; it never changes and will also always only make happy, never disappoint. But if you walk along in error, then you will never be able to be happy, because error is belonging to My adversary, and he will never seek to make you happy, but always hinder you to find true happiness, which however means for you truth coming from Me. And whether men also want to deny that there is an absolute truth, then also this thought has been whispered to them by My opponent, because there is only one truth, and this goes out from Me .... If the human being believes that he can look at everything from different angles and now believes something to be truth just because it appears so to him, then he is already in deepest error because he speaks a relative truth .... Truth is absolute, unique, and not to be overthrown by however fine a formulation .... It cannot be regarded by one as such, by another as such, for it cannot be refuted, because there is only ever one truth, and this is with God as the eternal truth Itself .... And I do not contradict Myself, neither do I formulate the truth in such a way that it can be understood differently, but in all clarity I convey it to you humans who only desire the truth .... For I alone know and recognize everything; I alone am the source from which pure truth comes forth. I alone also have the power to impart the truth to My creatures .... as soon as they are self-aware .... even if, due to freedom of will, I cannot prevent this truth from being deformed again and again .... For My adversary does this again and again in order to assert himself, and every person is free to choose from whom he accepts his spiritual knowledge .... but he will only have the guarantee of truth with Me .... And man can certainly as a result of his degree of maturity more or less recognize truth as such and therefore also hold the opinion that truth is relative .... as every man considers it from himself .... But then this only proves a very low degree of maturity, and he will also not change his judgement until he himself has increased the degree of maturity of his soul, what is only possible through love work alone .... And thus the person who is willing and active in love will always be approached by the truth, whereas the rejection of truth is also evidence of a loveless nature in the human being, who then only ever lets his intellect speak and cannot be instructed by his spirit within himself, which is only awakened through a life of unselfish neighbourly love .... And in this alone you men find the explanation of the different thinking .... you find in it the explanation why truth is not recognized and why mankind moves in such confused thinking .... Love is missing, and without love man has only a very low degree of realization; without love he does not desire truth, and without love he will also not recognize it as truth, however always be open-minded for teachings, which My adversary has put into the world to proceed against truth, which will always be and remain his endeavour. For he only ever requires darkness of spirit for his activity in order to have complete success .... to prevent people from the right realication ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God a truth giver and teacher

God only can give the truth ....

B.D. 6161 from January 11th 1955, taken from Book No. 66

You visibly recognize My adversary's influence who confuses people's thinking, who teaches them to regard darkness as light, who only ever endeavours to deepen the darkness of night, who wants to deny access to every ray of light and still finds support among people themselves because they close themselves off to the light which My love nevertheless turns to them .... People are ever more eager to untangle the knot and pull it ever tighter .... because they all believe that they can achieve this themselves, but My support is needed for this .... They believe they can fathom the truth by virtue of their intellect .... and they fall further and further into error and lies. It is like a calculation which can never work out because the error is not discovered at the beginning, and this error is that I am eliminated where I alone am responsible .... that I am not approached for the truth, Who is, after all, the eternal truth Myself .... And this is only proof that people seek Me far away, that they have not established the right relationship with Me, that they do not come to the father like children and desire from Him what they themselves lack .... Yet they do not want to admit their lack .... they believe they possess what they lack .... the truth .... And as long as everyone believes himself to be in the truth and yet everyone thinks differently, there is only one path: to approach the eternal truth itself so that it will reveal whether and whose thinking is right .... And people do not take this path, otherwise it would be self-evident that this 'God' gives people what they ask for .... And if you humans are now moved by the question of what truth is .... where you can find it .... which school of thought is the right one .... then submit all these questions to Him Who alone can and will answer them if you believe in Him as love, wisdom and omnipotence .... And every doubt, every ignorance would be taken from you, brightly and radiantly the light would shine for you, which now illuminates all your ways and no longer lets you go astray .... But My adversary persuades you that you yourselves, by virtue of your intellect, are able to fathom the truth .... And thus you argue because he wants it that way, and you never reach the truth, which is always and forever My share but which everyone can receive from Me who comes to Me in faith and who in love desires the truth and asks Me for it .... I will truly not let him go empty-handed .... I will illuminate his thinking and give him unlimited enlightenment, for I want there to be light among men, I want the truth to spread, so that those who are blind will see and the light of day will shine on those who until now walked in the night .... For only the truth leads to bliss, only the truth leads to Me, Who am the eternal truth itself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God as Teacher .... Truth - Light ....

B.D. 5445 from July 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I Am your Teacher, and I truly teach you right. I give you light .... And thus the battle against darkness starts from Me, for to carry light into the darkness means to fight against the darkness, to dispel it with brightly radiating light which penetrates into every corner if it is not denied access. But bringing light means bringing the pure truth to those who still languish in error, in the darkness of the spirit. Truth, the Eternal Light, emanates from Me and is directed against the one who is an enemy of truth, who wants to spread error and lies in the world in order to dethrone Me. He shall never succeed because the light has such a strong luminosity that it exposes every intention of My adversary. It will uncover the pure truth quite clearly and distinctly all correlations and thus also the battle between light and darkness and its cause, and all the sooner where humanity is brought the truth which will appear acceptable to all those who want to know what was not sufficiently explained to them .... about the meaning and purpose of earthly life and their earthly task .... He opens up and the light can shine into his heart. He accepts the truth I give to him through My servants, whose Teacher I Am Myself. I Myself therefore bring the truth to those who ask for it, even if they receive it from a human being .... Yet it is I Myself Who speaks through this person. And because the darkness lies very densely spread across the earth I have to kindle little lights everywhere, that is, take abode in the spirit of many people in order to speak to people, and I do this wherever devout people who are devoted to Me and active with love, speak for Me, be it in congregations, be it in small circles .... wherever My Name is mentioned, where, as it were,

I Myself can dwell amongst them through the will of those, there I can also express Myself through the mouth of one or the other, and he will then be able to speak spiritually and then speak for Me and My kingdom, and what he speaks shall be pure truth. For where two or three are gathered in My name I Am in their midst and I shall truly know how to prevent My adversary from gaining the upper hand if one of his representatives would be among them .... The truth shall find access everywhere, but whether people feel comfortable in brightly lit rooms is up to them .... Many retreat into darkness again because they believe they can do without the light, the pure truth. For My adversary also fights with tenacity and all the means at his disposal. Nor does he shy away from seemingly accepting the truth, from presenting himself as a servant of Mine in order to turn a blind eye at the first opportunity and to clearly move on to the opposite .... to reject everything he had previously advocated .... Wherever there is still darkness, where uncertainty and lack of understanding prevail, there My light has not yet penetrated, there My adversary is at work. Where, on the other hand, illumination full of light can be given, there the truth is advocated, there people speak for Me, the One Who is Eternal Truth, and you should listen to them. Untruth, error and lies have an ungodly and serious effect in the beyond because the soul has no clear realisation, because all its thinking and willing is confused and it cannot find its way out of the darkness without help. Only the light of truth points the way in this kingdom, and anyone who does not possess it is poor and wretched .... This is why I want to instruct you humans while you are still on earth and convey the pure truth to you so that you will not wander around in darkness on earth and even more so in the spiritual kingdom, where you find it even more difficult to accept the truth than on earth .... But you can only be saved through the truth, for truth is light and light is bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

"You must be taught by God ...."

B.D. 5247 from October 31th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Let yourselves be taught by Me and accept knowledge which will one day make you happy if you want to be active in the spiritual kingdom but which will also make you happy on earth because you will always be in the light where your fellow human beings still walk in darkness. Through My instructions you gain knowledge about things which cannot be fathomed by intellect alone because the evidence for it will always be lacking; but if I instruct you about it you need no evidence because the direct instruction through Me is already evidence enough for the truth of what I teach you. At most you can doubt that I Myself, your God and father of eternity, am your teacher, yet if you want to establish contact with Me through faith in Me and love for Me I will always be with you, otherwise I would truly not be a loving God and father. If you believe in a God of love then you can also be fully assured of His love and consequently also of His protection against all unfair forces. But then you will also know how to evaluate the knowledge from above and not the slightest doubt will befall you as to the truthfulness of what you receive directly from Me. You are taught in fullest truth .... You have spiritual wealth with which you can work, and you should not let it lie fallow as long as you still live on earth ....

(10/31/1951) You are called by Me for your spiritual mission, for I can only choose people for it who allow themselves to be taught by Me, thus you also have to work with the spiritual knowledge you received from Me, for your knowledge is far more comprehensive than people can ever impart to you. And therefore you truly occupy a first place as teachers amongst My servants who proclaim My gospel on this earth, because you have the certainty to stand in truth, which is not offered by the spiritual knowledge received from people. You are the salt of the earth .... one grain of pure truth has a greater effect than an excess of knowledge which is no longer pure and has therefore also lost its strength. And therefore you are exceedingly necessary proclaimers of the gospel to Me, whom I truly would not instruct Myself if it were not for the fact that people so urgently needed to receive the truth. I know what they lack, I know which teachings they take offence at because they are presented to them in a distorted way; I know where their faith needs strengthening and want to help them to have the right and living faith. And therefore I give them pure truth, and this through the mouth of My servants on earth, whom I can instruct Myself. Can you be taught the truth more securely than if I Myself, as the eternal truth, impart it to you? And can you find a better teacher than your God and father of eternity, Who is true and unchanging? If I give you My word, you can drop all doubt, for I do not lead people astray. Nor do I give half truth or the truth in an incomprehensible form .... I give as is comprehensible to you and at the same time also the power of realization to the one who is taught by Me, so that he can pass on the received knowledge in an equally comprehensible way for the blessing of his fellow human beings who are to be helped in spiritual hardship .... And thus, whomever I give an office will also be able to administer his office, because I Myself ensure that My servants on earth are capable of the work I assign to them and because I Myself choose those who are suitable for it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word – purest truth

Can the pure truth be guided to earth? ....

B.D. 8392 from January 24th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

You can rest assured that it is possible for Me to convey the truth to earth and that I want to do so is due to the great spiritual adversity, the cause of which is precisely error and lies, as I have told you time and again. Salvation can only be brought to people by conveying the pure truth, and therefore I reveal Myself time and again. But you humans doubt that I choose the right vessels for Myself through which My spirit can work and which I therefore also protect from all error as soon as it concerns spiritual possessions. Yet you humans yourselves repeatedly water down My pure word by arbitrarily adding or changing it, by believing that you can teach people better by adding explanations which My pure word truly does not need, for it is given in an understandable way to every person with an open heart. But anyone who closes himself off is truly not helped by explanations either, he cannot understand it because he does not want to understand .... And this is why it is so difficult to keep people in the pure truth, for My adversary's endeavour will always be to disfigure them, and he has a strong influence on those people who make precisely these changes or improvements .... even though they are of good will to be of service to Me but also still have their own need for recognition or are linked to earthly interests. And thereby they support the adversary's activity themselves. You humans cannot be careful enough to guard My spiritual knowledge which I convey to you directly, because you have to live in truth if you still want to reach the goal in the short end time. For you must recognize Me in My nature so that you will then also love Me and strive towards Me .... And only the pure truth gives you My nature as it is .... not as My adversary would like to portray it .... that you see in Me a punishing, angry God of vengeance Who mercilessly condemns and condemns those who are not of His will. I know the human being's weakness and his wretched state takes pity on Me so that I will do anything that can mean help for him if he wants to be helped. And again, only the pure truth can have such an effect that he will remember his earthly task and strive to fulfil it .... If the human being can be offered the truth he will also lift himself up by it and strengthen his will if he has not yet completely fallen prey to My adversary. And because I know how necessary pure truth is for humanity in order not to get lost again in the end for an infinitely long time .... but because I also know that it is no longer present, that people are already thinking wrongly again, I descend to earth again in the word and enlighten them. But in addition I convey to them the knowledge of the forthcoming end and all preceding events .... For I let nothing come upon people without preparing them for it .... But even these predictions are not accepted by people, and only those who are of awakened spirit know about the correlations .... and will pay attention to them and also live their lives accordingly. And as soon as people express doubts about such predictions concerning the forthcoming end, their spirit is also unawakened. And you can also conclude from this their spiritual maturity, for they don't recognize the father's voice Who only conveys the pure truth to them. And you can be firmly convinced that I also know ways and means to make the pure truth accessible to those who seriously desire it, but I don't impose it on anyone either, for the human being should decide for himself whether and how he evaluates My gifts of grace. Yet one thing is certain, that I hold My protective hand over those whom I have chosen as My right vessels into whom I can pour out My spirit .... I will protect the source from all contamination, which I Myself have opened up, and thus you humans are also guaranteed to receive the truth at the source, as pure as it originated from Me Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The Word of God: Unadulterated truth ....

B.D. 7152 from June 23rd 1958, taken from Book No. 76

Why do you humans hesitate to accept the pure truth? .... I herewith speak to those who reject spiritual knowledge purely because it was received in an unusual way, because it was not acquired through study or intellectual thought but clearly reveals that it flowed forth from a different source. Why do you value the knowledge you possess so highly that you are unwilling to let go of it? Who guarantees you the truth of this knowledge, which certainly was passed on from person to person time and again but which was naturally also always subject to changes because nothing remains as pure as it was given to the imperfect human race in the past. I, the Eternal Truth, will always take care that the pure and unadulterated truth is conveyed to people but, for the sake of their freedom of will, I cannot prevent this pure truth from being repeatedly spoilt. But it should also make sense to you humans that no guarantee can be given that it will be kept clean .... Hence, each one of you should be able to understand that time and again I will make sure that people will be able to live in truth .... and you should be grateful for this and longingly accept this truth as soon as it is offered to you. But what do you humans do? .... You are hostile towards those who offer you something very exquisite; you shake them off you like irritating insects and thus throw away the opportunity that I speak to Myself and 'guide you into truth', as I have promised. You are satisfied with something that has become worthless, with nourishment which no longer contains any nutrients, for your soul is meant to mature fully during your life on earth and, for this purpose, needs hearty sustenance which only My Word, which is the truth from God, can provide. If, however, it is offered food which no longer contains any strength whatsoever, the soul cannot possibly mature .... And this food is the knowledge you traditionally adopted, of which you did not even once seriously form an opinion but which you diligently endorse as truth and ignore the pure truth from Me, which is offered to you by My love time and again. Admittedly, as human beings you believe yourselves incapable of judging what is truth or error .... and likewise deny this power of judgment to your fellow human beings and, therefore, insistently adhere to the knowledge you possess .... but you forget that I Myself .... the Light of Eternity .... want to bring light to you as well and certainly have the power to do so. But on account of your freedom of will My activity must take place within a natural framework, otherwise it would be easy for Me to address you loudly and clearly from above and inform you of My will. And thus I repeatedly transmit the truth to you humans in an entirely natural way, as I have promised. For My Word 'Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away ....' is also a confirmation of this, because only the pure truth is My Word .... If this is to remain, I must convey it to you over and over again in all purity, because people do not protect it from becoming spoilt, because people change and distort both its words as well as its meaning as long as they have not awakened their indwelling spirit, and because this spiritual awakening has only rarely happened with those who deemed themselves called to interpret My Word.

You humans move within a tangled mass of error .... you usually merely hold on to words whose meaning you don't understand .... Nor do you know the correlations, because the knowledge of this is only the result of the awakening of the spirit .... Neither have you got the deep desire to hear your Father's voice, if you actually listen to the 'Word of God' .... It is more an involvement of the intellect than the heart, and I Myself can only speak to you through the heart, thus My Word bypasses your ears ineffectively .... Besides, you can only receive the pure truth from Me if you seriously desire truth, because then you will also desire to enter into contact with Me as the Eternal Truth, because through your desire you also prove your love and your faith in Me. Consequently, you humans, who reject the messengers wanting to bring you the truth, know that you are without love and without faith even if your mouth says otherwise .... You know that your Christianity merely observes formalities, that it is not a living Christianity, otherwise you would have come alive and would also be able to speak of the 'working of the spirit' in you .... that your thinking would then be guided right through the spirit. Then you would also learn to distinguish between the pure truth flowing forth from Me and the 'additional human work' .... the teachings, which certainly originated from Me once but which have become so distorted by people that they can no longer be described as 'My Word'. But the fact that I constantly convey My pure Word to you again ensures that you receive the 'pure truth', which can only originate from Me, the Eternal Truth. For this reason you can only receive it again directly from Me or be taught by those who receive it directly .... for your fellow human beings will be unable to guarantee that they distribute truth if they gained the knowledge intellectually or adopted it according to tradition. You must always take into account that the truth will never remain pure as soon as it is guarded by imperfect people .... unless they are enlightened by My spirit. But they will also unhesitatingly condemn and denounce what does not correspond to the truth from Me .... The living water will always have to be drawn from the source. I Myself, as the Eternal Truth, will always have to be the origin of the knowledge you humans ought to accept as truth, and therefore you will always have to establish the bond with Me Myself first if you want to gain possession of truth .... But you can rest assured that it will not be denied to those of you who earnestly desire truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

‘Correcting’ God’s Word .... Corruption of truth ....

B.D. 8448 from March 25th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Irrespective of how pure My Gospel was sent to you from above you humans will not leave it unchanged for long, and time and again errors, having arisen from human intellect, will creep in and which consequently have to be corrected again if the people who sincerely desire it are to live in truth. Once thoughts have established themselves in people they will hardly want to let go of them. For this reason My adversary uses a person’s intellect to reinforce his erroneous opinion.

You are always of the opinion that I protect the truth .... However, human free will makes it clear that any distortion of truth is possible .... But you can just as well voluntarily desire the pure truth, which you then will certainly receive .... My Word from above is truly a gift of grace from Me which should be so sacred to you that you would not dare change this Word .... But precisely because people are imperfect and still exist in dark spheres they do not recognise My Word’s immense value and do not shy away from adding their own intellectual thoughts, thereby devaluing My Word from above .... And then misguided opinions arise in due course, the light becomes dim and loses its radiance because only pure truth emitted by Me Myself can bestow bright light ....

You humans, consider how presumptuous you are when you correct ‘the Word of God’, when you believe that you can offer more easily digestible nourishment to people by making changes to it which you are truly not entitled to do .... Earth could not experience such darkness if My light’s radiance from above had not been reduced over and over again. For I have often sent a bright light from above to those who had requested it from Me, who had asked Me for the gift of pure truth .... And anyone who listened to them also lived in the light of truth and could pass it on too .... But time and again human intellect intervened. Time and again selfishness, people’s craving for recognition and their material outlook has resulted in people utilizing My Word from above and exploiting it, in the true sense of the word, for the sake of worldly success .... In that case spiritual success will only ever be sparse and again can only be found where deep desire for truth predominates, so that I Myself can work in a person and clearly make him recognise the truth while placing a will of resistance against wrong spiritual knowledge into his heart. And therefore, I can only ever show you the way to the source. Accept what has originated from Me and is given to you unadulterated .... You should always examine and not accept everything given to you but you will also be able to recognise the true source if you sincerely want to do so .... And then abide by what you receive because then you are drawing living water which has a truly healing effect, whose strength cannot be surpassed as it originates directly from Me and radiates into your heart, touching your soul and giving it food and drink to help you achieve eternal life.

Hence you humans can consider yourselves truly blessed if someone lives amongst you whom I was able to choose as a vessel for the flow of My spirit, who has become a source for you from whence living water comes forth. You can consider yourselves blessed in the knowledge that this water of life is offered to you just as pure and clear as it comes from the source, which I Myself have made accessible to you .... Bend down and drink from it and truly, you will be able to continue your earthly path refreshed and strengthened. You will live in the light of truth and then influence your fellow human beings such that they too will take the path to the source, if they are of good will .... But the corrupted Word will increasingly lose its value and only be advocated by those who lack the desire for truth, who therefore do not object to changes and misguided teachings but unreservedly accept everything as truth although it did not originally emerge from Me in this form .... Nothing accepted by imperfect humanity will remain pure for long but time and again I will make sure that pure truth is transmitted to earth, and you humans need only sincerely desire it and it will be given to you.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Testing the truth

Verifying the truth ....

B.D. 8087 from January 25th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

Spiritual knowledge can never be proven .... Nevertheless, you can become firmly convinced that what is presented to you is truth if you receive it spiritually, if it was gained through the 'working of My spirit' in the human being, for then you will know that it did not originate from people but that the human being was taught by My spirit from within .... The fact that it does not appear conclusive to people will nevertheless not let you doubt it, for they will also not be able to provide you with any counter-evidence which invalidates the knowledge gained through the spirit. Thus it is only decisive whether spiritual knowledge has been acquired through working of the spirit .... And such an examination is due to everyone who strives to live in truth. Therefore I choose light bearers for Myself .... to people who are to receive spiritual knowledge from Me directly .... only ever people who lack all knowledge about it, who are not burdened by knowledge which they would first have to repel in order to be completely free to receive the 'truth from Me' .... And this examination will certainly be possible as to whether the recipient was able to demonstrate prior knowledge, whether he drew his wisdom from books or whether he was influenced by conversations with fellow human beings .... But where all this is eliminated, where no spiritual knowledge whatsoever was previously recorded, there one can speak of a completely empty vessel which I Myself therefore now chose in order to fill it with the spiritual current of My love .... in order to convey truthful knowledge to it, which is announced to it by the spirit from Me, Who can never be mistaken .... Such knowledge will be recognized as truth and thus also find convinced faith, for such knowledge is strength of love from Me which will also not fail to have an effect. But most people don't take the trouble of a serious examination .... They reject it without thinking about the way unusual knowledge has reached earth and whether it is within the realm of earthly-human ability to be able to acquire extensive knowledge without any study .... They do not think about it and yet they would have the most convincing proof that forces are at work which they themselves cannot explain without faith .... For if they recognize supernatural powers then it would also be easy to fathom in which realms these powers are to be sought, for the content of knowledge would instruct them about it, which they could not refute .... Yet since the human being's will is free, his thinking cannot be influenced by force either; yet the willing person will look for an explanation and also find the right one .... For he allows himself to be captivated by spiritual knowledge if he seriously examines it. Because it originates from Me it will also work as strength where open hearts are found .... And these again will be able to believe even without proof because they feel the truth in their hearts. For this reason, however, spiritual knowledge cannot be transmitted in a school-like manner, for it will remain dead knowledge without persuasive power as long as My spirit cannot work in the person himself .... so that he will be instructed by Me Myself through the spirit again. The intellect will never be able to fathom spiritual knowledge, yet the intellect will always be able to deal with knowledge which has reached the human being by spiritual means .... And as soon as a heartfelt bond with Me exists the human being's thinking will also be guided correctly and he will recognize and accept the truth without any evidence. For the intimate bond with Me also guarantees My working in him, and he will become wise through My spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The human being's duty is to scrutinise spiritual information ....

B.D. 8364 from December 28th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

The fact that you had been wrongly instructed cannot be used by you as an excuse, for you have been placed by Me into the position of using your intellect and therefore it is also your duty to scrutinise what you are being taught .... As soon as you receive the information of a God and Creator Who created and sustains everything that you can see around you, and also you yourselves, you only need to turn to this Creator in thought and, truly, I will also guide your thinking such that you will be able to understand, if only you want to understand. And you will always be sent such thoughts from the spiritual kingdom which relate to Me and to yourselves, which make you question what kind of relationship you have in regards to Me, your God and Creator. And such thoughts ought to be picked-up by you and reflected upon ....

You should at all times be conscious of the fact that every person who only uses his intellect can be mistaken .... Thus you must also ask yourselves whether the people who are instructing you, who present you with knowledge which they, in turn, receive from other people or which they have academically acquired, are free from error .... For doubts will certainly arise in you and then you do well to contemplate them. But in that case it only depends on your own will whether you yourselves desire the truth .... since only this will shall determine that pure truth will be imparted to you .... If you, however, accept everything that is presented to you without thinking about it, you will never find the path to Me, for then you will only possess pure intellectual knowledge which will never be able to touch your heart and will not benefit your soul in the slightest, since it will neither lead to the correct realisation nor motivate you to seriously improve yourselves .... It is and will remain mere worldly knowledge, even if it concerns spiritual problems. For only your intellect is affected and this is not being used to think about the information so that it can deal with it, and subsequently it won't be able to recognise what it was offered.

And if you are prevented by law to reflect on it, then you should also recognise the foolishness of such law and become wary and on account of this alone start to doubt the truth of the teachings imparted to you. Not everything needs to be wrong, yet you should obtain clarity by starting to think about it and turn to the One Who is your God and Creator and Who alone can grant you clarification. Hence you ought to try to attain living knowledge and not content yourselves with dead knowledge, which remains dead as long as it doesn't influence the human being's soul by stimulating it into improving itself eagerly, which first and foremost consists of kind-hearted activity .... For as soon as a person lives a life of love his thinking will also be enlightened, and then he will no longer be satisfied with teachings which do not completely correspond to the truth .... The light of love within himself will no longer let him unreservedly accept everything he is offered but will cause him to scrutinise it, because love is a divine principle and can never tolerate error or untruth beside itself ....

Hence, at that moment an active desire for truth will set in and the truth will subsequently be imparted to the person, no matter in which way .... For anyone who desires the truth will receive it .... Anyone who desires the truth will also ask for Me, Who is the Eternal Truth and I will also reveal Myself to him, that is, I will convey the truth to him in some form or other, which he then will accept and make use of without hesitation ....

Every person has to aspire towards his own perfection, and he also has the ability to do so, for truly, it only requires the connection with Me and a prayer in spirit and in truth for My help to successfully travel his earthly path. And this prayer will be granted to him .... he will constantly be inwardly urged to do deeds of love and he will also gain the light which will let him recognise the right path that leads to perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Test all things and keep what is good ....

B.D. 8037 from November 9th 1961, taken from Book No. 84

The will to serve Me is assessed. Then I will assign to a person the work he is capable of accomplishing and which will always be a blessing for him and his fellow human beings. But they, too, must pay attention to the inner instructions; they may not act according to their own will, which can easily happen if they want to be renowned for their activity and thus very easily endanger their vineyard work. The most profound humility and a feeling of personal inadequacy must always make them take flight to Me, so that they will hand themselves over to Me .... They must only ever strive to fulfil My will, and truly, they will feel My will in their heart and work accordingly. And everyone who wants to be of service to Me must examine himself in order to support Me and My kingdom convincingly .... For the vineyard work consists of sowing good seeds in the field of people's lives: of proclaiming My Word wherever this is possible. And in order to be able to pass something on, the human must possess it first .... thus he first must accept the seed from Me Myself, and this requires willingness and a certain degree of maturity of soul. Only then will he be able to hear My Word within himself and carry this as the pure Gospel into the world. Where My pure Word can be conveyed to Earth this degree of maturity has been attained; the human being receives the right seeds which he can unhesitatingly spread according to My will .... But it will always be left up to you to scrutinise whether the spiritual knowledge has originated from Me Myself, whether the 'working of the spirit' in a person can be spoken of. And your heart must give you the answer, for you will feel when I speak to you, providing you sincerely desire the truth .... providing you want to hear Me. I will always express Myself such that your soul will profit from the information you hear. I will admonish you with kindness and mention My commandments of love, I will caution you not to waste your life, which will always happen if you live without love .... I will enlighten you about your purpose of earthly life .... I will emphasise Jesus' act of Salvation and advise you to take the path to the cross .... I will dispel your spiritual darkness by kindling a light in you. And that means that I will convey knowledge to you which can only be imparted upon you by My spirit. Make the test as to whether you profit from it spiritually .... whether they are empty Words without meaning which leave you unimpressed, which any person can say, or whether they radiate wisdom .... For every Word which comes forth from Me Myself emanates My love and wisdom and touches the human heart such that it will escape the spiritual darkness, that it will kindle a light in his heart, that the human being will learn to recognise Me Myself in My nature, that he will receive an answer to the inner questions concerning spiritual spheres and which occupy him as a human being.

My spirit will always express itself when I Am able to address a person directly, and this spirit speaks to the spirit within the person, which is part of Me. This Word is received and conveyed by the recipient to his fellow human beings .... This process is something extremely significant; after all, it gives evidence of My presence to you if you hear My Word within you .... And because My Word is blessed with My strength, it will also have a powerful effect on the people to whom My messenger brings it .... But you should not forget that in the end time even this extraordinary activity of love of Mine will be feigned by My well disguised adversary in order to undermine My working .... that he, too, will try to express himself through suitable vessels and that he will be successful if a soul's state of maturity does not permit My presence as yet but that the person will deem himself called to serve as a vessel, because forces in the beyond instilled such thoughts in him and he accepted them in spiritual arrogance and wrong judgment of his spiritual state. In that case I cannot speak through him; instead, My adversary, who often also hides himself behind My Word, will avail himself of him; for he will go to any length in order to achieve his goal .... to keep people in spiritual darkness. But you must always earnestly conduct this examination by calling upon My support, for you ought to test all things and keep what is good .... And you must always become enlightened; otherwise you cannot speak of a 'divine' Word .... And light signifies increased spiritual knowledge which corresponds to truth and which only I Myself, the Light of eternity, can convey to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Touchstone of truth: Jesus Christ and His work of redemption

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Touchstone of divine revelations: Jesus' act of Salvation ....

B.D. 8479 from April 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

How far have people distanced themselves from the truth, it is so difficult to introduce them to it because they are still awash with wrong thoughts and unable to let go of them. They accepted everything and made it their spiritual possession which they can hardly get away from. And precisely this wrong thinking, the adherence to error, is the immense spiritual adversity people find themselves up against. No matter how often I correct misguided teachings again, no matter how often I convey the purest truth to Earth, it does not gain acceptance because people's wrong thoughts repeatedly oppose it, because there is no will for the pure truth and everything is deemed to be true which merely seems to be a message from the spiritual kingdom. In addition, especially Jesus' act of Salvation cannot be properly grasped by humanity as yet; they don't know its profound significance and reason and thus concepts developed in due course which no longer correspond to truth but which are not abandoned either .... Time and again I say that the reception of pure truth requires entirely empty vessels which need not be purged from wrong ideas first, but that the pure truth must enter such a vessel entirely unimpeded .... Only then will it be possible to provide a correct explanation, and only then can one speak of the 'transmission of truth through the spirit'. However, for as long as Jesus' act of Salvation is still argued about, as long as there is not complete clarity about the fact that Jesus' soul came to Earth in order to accomplish a work of redemption, a unique act of mercy on behalf of the sins the human race had committed .... as long as people don't know the magnitude of the original sin they are burdened with and that they actually take the path across earth because of it .... they will not fully understand the fact that One has redeemed this immense guilt of sin through His death on the cross .... that they can therefore release themselves from their guilt if they acknowledge Him as the divine Saviour in Whom I manifested Myself as a human being, and the person must take the path to Him of his own free will and appeal to Him for forgiveness .... This free will must be present, otherwise he cannot become redeemed .... Thus, every human being can find forgiveness if only he wants it himself .... And what does 'forgiveness of guilt' mean? It means that it will be completely deleted, that it was paid for by the One Who took the guilt upon Himself .... that the human being will then be completely free and all effects of the offence will be removed, because Jesus, the man, had accepted the effects upon Himself through His immense suffering and the most bitter death on the cross .... Every suffering a human being was able to endure was accepted by Jesus, the man, of His own free will and He truly atoned for the guilt, the atonement He rendered was sufficient for Me in order to wipe out the immense original sin which led to My living creations' fall, as well as to forgive the sins which were committed by the human being in earthly life on account of his state which was burdened by the original sin ....

I Am indeed a God of righteousness and demand restitution for all guilt, for I cannot let any being enter My kingdom of light and bliss until it has been redeemed .... This is why a being's wretched state can last for an infinitely long time depending on its will to accept the blessings of Jesus' act of Salvation .... It will truly have to suffer accordingly, either in the kingdom of the beyond or through a renewed banishment in matter for another infinite time .... However, since Jesus, the man, has accomplished the act of Salvation, every soul which turns to Him, acknowledges Him and avails itself of the blessings of the act of Salvation, will also be redeemed .... And that means that its guilt will have been deleted, that it will be completely free from its guilt and able to enter the kingdom of light .... And if the soul has not found Him on Earth it will still be able to find Him in the realm of the beyond. Redemptive work is constantly carried out on the part of the world of light, the path to Him is pointed out to every soul, everything is done in order to help the wretched beings, and only totally hardened souls will descend ever lower and, at the end of a period of Salvation, can expect to be banished into matter again .... As long as you humans have not recognised the significance of Jesus and His act of Salvation for all spiritual beings which had become sinful, you will not get rid of your guilt either .... But do not believe that you may take the path across this earth for as long and as often as it takes you to come to this realisation .... Why do you cling to this hope that you will be able to catch up on what you neglected to do, or to atone your own sins? You will never be able to atone for the original sin yourselves, even if you lived a thousand lives on earth as a human being .... Because of this alone the pure truth needs to be conveyed to you, for each misguided thought is misleading and you allow it to be followed by constantly more wrong thoughts. You can believe that an enslaved soul also has to put up with enough agonies in the beyond in order to do penance for the sins it committed on earth. But you will never be able to cope with your original sin by yourselves, and as soon as you allow yourselves to be redeemed from it by Jesus Christ .... for which your free will must always impel you .... your earthly guilt will truly also be forgiven, because for this I Myself died on the cross. And believe that I do not convey opposing teachings to the people on Earth .... There is only one truth, and this truth I try to convey to people, and every person who sincerely desires the truth will also recognise it as such, for I will not leave anything unsubstantiated, I will provide you with understandable explanations and instruct you comprehensively so that you will also recognise error if it is offered to you. Time and again I highlight Jesus Christ's act of Salvation only to show you the path you need to take in order to reach your goal. And it is wrong to say that you cannot reach this goal during one life on earth, for Jesus Christ died on the cross precisely for the purpose of enabling you to return to Me in one period of Salvation ....

However, if you ignore the blessings of the act of Salvation, it may well be possible that you will have to take the infinitely long process through the creations again .... Yet I will keep denouncing the misguided teaching that you may return to Earth as often as you like, because it will lead to completely wrong thoughts and because only truth can lead you to the goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Testing the truth of spiritual good ....

B.D. 8595 from August 24th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Without hesitation you can and should stand up for everything what is imparted to you through My spirit, because what comes from Me can only be pure truth .... And that spiritual material comes from Me is also to be checked by you at any time and also to be recognized when you check in good will, therefore also desire truth. The spiritual material, which is offered to you, enlightens you about My will, and it gives you information about Jesus Christ and His work of redemption .... If you are therefore informed about it, if the meaning and purpose of your earthly life is explained to you, then such spiritual knowledge can never come forth from My adversary, who only ever endeavours to keep you ignorant about it so as not to lose you .... Nor can you ever intellectually fathom all deeper knowledge yourselves, which therefore especially includes Jesus' act of salvation .... because you will only ever intellectually process knowledge you already know. But whether this corresponds to truth, that you do not know, because I reserve all spiritual knowledge for Me, because I hand it out to those who really have the earnest desire to know truth, and who turn to Me Myself for supply of it. People certainly know about Jesus death on the cross through tradition if they believe in it .... but they know nothing about the cause, about the reason for His earthly life and His mission, as long as the meaning and purpose of an earthly life as a human being cannot be made comprehensible to them either .... which is only possible if a certain spiritual maturity enables the instruction through the spirit .... For in order to understand Jesus' work of redemption, the knowledge of the spirits' apostasy from Me and of My plan of salvation, of the process of return, must also be known to people. If all this is not explained to them beforehand they will also be unable to understand why Jesus and His act of salvation must be acknowledged if the purpose of earthly life is to be fulfilled .... For otherwise they reject everything as a legend and doubt His existence, or they regard His life and end as a purely worldly event without any spiritual meaning. That is why the work of My spirit in man will just give information about this, and again the results can then also be assessed as truth, because I have given the knowledge about Jesus as touchstone .... For My adversary will never inform people of the fact that Jesus, the son of God, took on flesh to lead people back to the father .... in order to redeem them from their original sin, their former apostasy from Me .... There are only two solutions: imparting purest truth on My part or one's own intellectual activity .... which, if it deviates from My mediations, will be influenced by My adversary and this will always be expressed in the denial of a 'redemption through Jesus Christ'. If a person convincedly stands up for this redemption then he is also mentally guided by My spirit. But when messages reach earth unusually, which inform you in detail and understandably about the act of salvation, then you can unhesitatingly accept Me Myself as the origin of these messages and also represent the spiritual knowledge with conviction .... Then you will also mentally stand by it yourselves, for My spirit always pours into a vessel which, through a life of love, is also able to distinguish truth from error and whose thoughts are constantly guided by My spirit. You humans, who are still completely ignorant, you need only have the good will to be instructed truthfully, and I will take care of you and also kindle a small light for you, so that you will quickly understand what you now experience through the supply of spiritual knowledge .... you need only not reject it hastily but think about it, and truly, you will be happy when everything is explained to you in an understandable way, you will be able to believe, and yet it will not be blind faith, which I will never demand from you humans .... You are to think, only ask Me Myself for right recognition, and truly, I will send you a bright ray, in whose light you will recognize and understand everything. For this reason I therefore convey My word to earth and enlighten you humans, because I want you to take the path to the cross, to Jesus Christ, which, however, is not to happen through compulsion or blind faith, but you are to come to Him voluntarily and with knowledge .... Then you return to Me voluntarily, because I and Jesus am one, I Myself came to earth in the man Jesus, because of My creatures, which became sinful in free will, which no longer acknowledged Me as their God and creator and therefore became unhappy. If they now acknowledge Me again in Jesus then their return to Me is accomplished, but without Jesus they cannot come closer to Me, and that is why every teaching will be true and start from Me, which substantiates the work of redemption of Jesus Christ for you and only pursues the purpose that you yourselves voluntarily go the way to the cross and ask Him that He redeems you from your original sin and opens the gate to the kingdom of light for you again, which is closed to you since your apostasy from Me ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Test the spirits ....

B.D. 8228 from July 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

You humans should believe that I will keep sending you the truthful information about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, for you have to recognise and acknowledge Him .... the divine Redeemer .... as Son of God and Redeemer of the world Who had sheltered Me within Himself. But the mission He had to fulfil on earth cannot be proven to you, yet I Myself will convey the correct information of Him to you through My spirit, and this in itself will be proof to you .... For what historically cannot be demonstrated to you, shall be taught to you by My spirit .... And thus you also know that it is I Myself Who reveals this to you .... that you can 'test the spirits' by all means, for as soon as you are given information about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation you will know that it is the spirit of God, which can only impart the pure truth. You are entitled to scrutinise the origin of all spiritual knowledge, and I Myself have shown you the criterion, for no opposing spirit will ever proclaim that 'Jesus Christ has come in the flesh ....' And once you have got the proof that it is the activity of 'God's spirit' then you can also accept everything proclaimed by this spirit as truth.

My working within the human being, which expresses itself so distinctly as the transmission of My Word, cannot be interpreted or explained as personal intellectual thought, but it can be even less described as My adversary's activity, for then people only demonstrate that they themselves do not recognise the Father's voice, that they do not belong to My Own who completely hand themselves over to Me, but that they are intellectually still too active themselves or they would feel that they are addressed by Me, their Father of eternity .... For My transmission of the Word into a human heart .... be it directly or through My messengers .... will not fail to have the desired effect. It touches the heart as soon as it opens itself and is willing to be addressed by Me; and that necessitates that the person listens to Me impartially and thus is also willing to let himself be permeated by My spirit, by My light of love ....

However, if a person undertakes a purely intellectual examination of the spiritual knowledge he has received from Me, then he will hardly be able to recognise His Father's voice, for it will not touch his heart, and only this is capable of taking the test. You shall not blindly believe what you inwardly reject .... Yet when My revelations are conveyed to you then you will never have a feeling of resistance, providing you desire to be addressed by Me Myself .... rather, My Words will so touch you that you would not want to miss them anymore, and you will also be fully convinced of the truth, because you are now able to feel Me Myself .... The content of divine revelations will always consist of God's human manifestation in Jesus and the act of Salvation, and this shall always be the clearest evidence of the truth, for My adversary would never inform you of the fact that Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself on the cross on your behalf, in Whom I Myself accomplished the act of Salvation .... My adversary will never try to encourage you humans to believe in Jesus, he will never preach love to you, which likewise is the substance of My revelations, for only love unites you with Me and he will prevent everything that could establish this unification.

You have to know about his nature, which is pure hatred and wants to corrupt you .... And you will be able to recognise his activity by the fact that he will do everything to demean My divine revelations and to darken your spirit so as to prevent you from recognising Me .... However, you need only appeal to Me for illumination of your spirit, and truly, I will help you and change every ambiguity into brightest realisation, if only you seriously desire it. My adversary only ever seeks to cause confusion, but he will only be successful where the desire for the pure truth is not yet prevalent; but where it exists he has lost all power, for I Myself radiate the light which agreeably touches everyone who wants to be enlightened ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessing of doubting

Doubt, too, is God's help towards truth ....

B.D. 3770 from May 14th 1946, taken from Book No. 48

The fact that you humans come into conflict with yourselves is sometimes necessary in order to lead you to complete clarity about that which still rests within you as an unsolved problem. For only when you can defend something with conviction from within it will be of lasting value to you. And that is why you have to get into doubt and disagreement so that the process of right thinking can start, which always presupposes serious questioning. And therefore, come to Me so that I enlighten your spirit, so that I organise your thinking and introduce you to the truth. For the latter only emanates from Me and anyone who wants to know the truth must want to receive it from Me, he must consult Me and ask for My clarification. I Myself hand out the most precious gift, the eternal truth, because I Am Truth Myself .... but only to the one who desires it. In order to desire the truth, however, a person must be in doubt as to whether he possesses the pure truth, otherwise he will never desire it. He who believes himself to be in the truth holds on to his knowledge with tenacity; he who doubts the truth of his knowledge allows himself to be taught. And thus doubt is also a help from My side, since I recognise every person's will and his desire for truth and guide his thoughts accordingly .... Thus I will inwardly enlighten every person who asks Me for it because I, as the Eternal Truth, only ever aim to guide all people into truth. Yet as long as people are not convinced that the Eternal Truth takes care of their living creations Itself, as long as they do not believe that I Myself Am working in the human being, they will not take the direct path to Me even when in doubt but will try to solve the problem intellectually and cannot come to the right conclusion without My help. And if a person has made himself worthy of My help through loving activity, if I have guided his thoughts correctly, the result of his thinking will not be recognised because people precisely lack faith in My working in the human being, who has shaped himself into love .... thus they doubt anew, they argue again, for different results emerge through intellectual thinking alone and the disputed question remains unresolved. Only the person who has received the answer through My spirit is fully convinced of its truth .... he has found the right answer, which only My spirit could convey to him, which emanates from Me and cannot offer anything other than pure truth, and let this speak to you.

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

The blessing of doubting .... Truth ....

B.D. 6874 from July 18th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

The fact that doubts creep into your hearts time and again is insofar favourable as that you will think about the questions that move you and subsequently can also be influenced by the beings which try to clarify your doubts. However, only such doubts are meant by this which befall a serious seeker, which motivate a person to keep searching and asking for more .... and not those doubts which makes indifferent people feel justified into rejecting the information offered to them because they don't actually desire it, who will therefore never acknowledge a bearer of truth. Their doubts are merely excuses and an escape into darkness again. Serious seekers, however, are not instantly satisfied and their doubts can become a blessing for them since they do not stop questioning, and precisely this provides the beings of light with the opportunity to mentally influence them time and again until their thinking becomes clarified and what previously had still been doubtful to them will become a conviction. The thinking human being will generally not be superficial either by simply dismissing what does not seem credible to him, but he will dig deeper before he completely rejects a teaching he has received. Thus doubt can lead to clarification as well as protection against the acceptance of errors if a person endeavours to know the truth. This is why a person should not be condemned by voicing reservations, for they only testify to genuine seriousness. But he should also consider the possibility and not rest until he has completely gained an inner conviction so that he can either accept the information as truth or safely dismiss it as error. And doubts help him in order to gain this conviction. A person who deems himself knowledgeable cannot be instructed anymore, for he is no longer receptive to the currents from the world of light, he only uses his intellect but he doesn't hear what is whispered to him by enlightened beings.

However, someone who doubts listens within, he asks questions and then certainly also believes that he is able to solve these doubts himself in an intellectual way, but as soon as he seriously strives for the truth he can rely on the fact that his thinking will be guided correctly, for the serious seeker of truth has this guarantee, because God as the Eternal Truth will also allow Himself to be found by him. This is why the human being determines the value of knowledge he acquires himself .... since it only depends on how seriously he desires the truth. And for this, too, he should give account to himself, for everyone knows that 'people can err' .... that he therefore cannot rely on knowledge he has received from other people, and that he therefore must also be willing to relinquish that knowledge if he can receive the 'pure truth'. And he can only ever desire and receive pure truth at the source of the truth. Hence he must inform God of the knowledge he received previously and appeal to him for clarification as to what extent it corresponds to truth. And God will truly grant this appeal and perhaps even place doubts into his heart, for the transmission of pure truth can only take place if the person opens himself in order to receive what he desires from the highest source: the pure truth from God .... This mainly concerns spiritual knowledge, but even earthly thoughts will be guided correctly in a person who has taken this path to God, to the source of truth. And the profound inner certainty, the firm conviction, which he will then feel is the best assurance that he has taken the right path, for no objection to the contrary will be able to shake his point of view, he will also be able to maintain it towards his fellow human beings without doubting it again .... unless new problems arise which he will also safely be able to solve again in the same way .... For God gives the truth to all who merely desire it sincerely but withholds it from those who rely on their own strength, who try to intellectually ascertain that which is known by God alone ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Doubts about the truth of the predictions ....

B.D. 7755 from November 25th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

Even in you, who want to serve Me, thoughts of doubt often arise when you are to proclaim the approaching end .... You are certainly willing to believe and the correlations are also obvious to you so that you believe an end of this earth is possible. Yet you are not fully convinced of this because you are not yet able to cite a parallel for such an event, because no such event has yet been reported through tradition which resulted in the destruction of all creations on earth. And it must be that nothing of this kind is known to you, so that there is no compulsion of will in the last days, so that people can freely decide to which lord they hand themselves over. And you, My servants, who want to work for Me and My kingdom, you should only ever firmly adhere to My word .... you should believe that My word is truth and that I will by no means let you receive knowledge through the spirit which does not correspond to the truth. You should believe with complete conviction, and you can also do so if only you are willing not to spread error and thus appeal to Me Myself for protection from error .... For then I will truly neither let you think nor speak erroneously. But you, in turn, will feel inwardly urged to pass on the predictions conveyed to you by Me, you will feel it your duty to speak of them, and I Myself will instruct you to speak what I Myself would speak if I lived amongst people and could address them directly. Don't be afraid to speak untruths as long as you are willing to serve Me, to be active as My servants in the vineyard of the lord. For if it were an error you wanted to spread, you would most certainly feel a clear resistance within yourselves and .... keep silent .... But I want people to know what awaits them and what events they are facing, for they should not remain unaware, they should have the opportunity to prepare themselves for it. But they will always hear the opposite from the worldly side, for the world is My adversary's kingdom and My adversary always tries to influence people such that they expect earthly gain, earthly progress and earthly prosperity from the future and don't remember their God and creator. But I want them to disregard everything the world offers them and only think of their soul's salvation. And therefore you should present everything to them as transient, you should announce to them that everything will be taken away from them and that they can even lose their physical life .... that great earthly adversity awaits them or spiritual adversity in the kingdom of the beyond if they don't accept your proclamations as credible and adjust themselves to it. And therefore I constantly encourage you, My servants, to inform people of the predictions which I convey to earth through My spirit, because humanity is in great danger if it does not change before the end comes .... I will admonish and warn all people to remember their souls and not to give up the souls' salvation for the sake of earthly goods .... For everything will pass away when the time is fulfilled .... and the soul will only possess what it has acquired in spiritual possessions. You humans still have a short time of grace where you can still acquire spiritual wealth, but the time will soon come to an end ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Conditions for receiving the truth

Conditions for receiving the truth ....

B.D. 6377 from October 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You are mentally introduced to truth but only ever if you fulfil the conditions in order to be able to be taught in a spiritual way. You can certainly accept knowledge from people .... But you will only be able to examine and assess its truth when the spirit is active in you, when it can reveal the pure truth to you itself. Therefore, by fulfilling conditions you must prepare yourselves such that you are able to hear the voice of the spirit within you, that you are able to order your thoughts correctly and make a right judgment. This would certainly be possible for every person, and therefore every person could stand in truth, yet most lack the will to subject themselves to the conditions, for it is required: the convinced acknowledgement of God .... thus a living faith. And from this it follows that love must also be kindled in the human being, because only this will result in a living faith. Furthermore, the human being must desire the truth .... For he can only ever be considered according to his desire, because all compulsion of will on God's part is eliminated, but the imparting of truth would always be faith-determining, thus the freedom of will would be limited. Moreover, only a person who desires truth fulfils the further requirements of asking the giver of truth and then also listening within himself. For only the truth-hungry human being occupies himself in thought with those questions which can now be answered for him by the spirit .... These are indeed quite natural processes which actually did not need to be mentioned because every success in thinking is always preceded by searching and questioning. But all conditions must be fulfilled if the success is to be right, i.e. correspond to the truth. Thinking and searching alone does not guarantee certain truth if 'faith in God' and 'love' are missing .... because the earth is a dark area, because the battle between light and darkness constantly rages in this area and because the darkness consists of people's thinking being confused, that the light of truth does not penetrate as long as love is not kindled in people's hearts. A person without love can neither receive nor recognize truth .... As a being without knowledge the human being has to turn to the 'light from eternity' so that it will send him a ray .... Therefore he must also believe in a God as the original source of light .... as the origin of this knowledge, as 'truth in Himself' .... And the human being must now approach this God for the transmission of truth. Then God will also express Himself to him through His spirit, which will now 'guide him into all truth', as He has promised. All of you humans can approach Him for this and you would all be considered by Him, all of your thoughts would be correctly directed and a bright light would shine over the earth .... But who of you humans believes this and establishes the connection with God through love and faith that he can receive the truth directly from Him? Who of you humans fulfils the conditions which truly do not demand anything impossible from you? Only a few desire the truth and listen within themselves to what the spirit from God proclaims to them .... and only a few therefore stand in the light and can now carry the light further so that their fellow human beings can also kindle a little light from it which shines into the darkness of the night. This is why error and lies will always dominate people, this is why truth will only rarely be found amongst people .... This is why the battle between light and darkness is constantly being waged, yet a light will also constantly shine into the darkness which will also be victorious in the end, which will completely displace the darkness when the end has come .... when a new day dawns which will shine brightly, revealing the truth ....

Amen

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Condition for receiving truth: to give up knowledge of mind ....

B.D. 8424 from February 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

The will to know the real truth is the only decisive factor as to whether the human being comes into possession of it. But as long as he resists it himself, as long as he is not willing to give up his existing knowledge, of which it is not proven to him whether it is pure truth, he makes himself unfit to receive pure truth, for this requires a completely empty vessel, because truth cannot exist next to error. It is therefore difficult to convey knowledge to a person whose heart is already filled with spiritual knowledge which he has gained intellectually or which he accepted without examining its origin. Nevertheless, the attempt can and should be made to also convey the pure truth to those who can also appeal to the intellect if the person is of good will. For I want to help everyone to become free from error, which, however, cannot happen compulsorily but requires the human being's free will insofar as that he takes notice of the spiritual knowledge offered to him without resistance. Then it is up to him what he wants to accept or reject from it .... Time and again I emphasize that the earth is a dark area which is only illuminated by weak rays of light, and that people themselves have to move into the area of these rays of light in order to feel them beneficially .... Yet how many people believe themselves to be in right thinking, and they now represent their own thought system to fellow human beings and thus carry ever more error amongst people .... Yet every human being can err, and this certainty should therefore also always give rise to doubts about one's own intellectual acuity, for every such doubt has a beneficial effect, because then there is still the possibility of being able to be enlightened, which is no longer possible towards a fully convinced person, for he closes himself off to the pure truth. This alone should make people think about the fact that there are so many different schools of thought which deviate from each other that no representative of these can provide evidence for the correctness of them .... but that there must be one truth .... and that this can only be received from the eternal truth itself ..... And whoever takes the path directly to it is also guaranteed to arrive at the truth. If a person receives knowledge directly from above .... i.e. that it is imparted to the spiritual spark in the human being by the eternal father-spirit .... then no counter-evidence can be produced for this knowledge, and the truth-desiring person's intellect will not be able to oppose it either, because everything is justified in such a way that it gives light and no longer allows darkness to exist. However, the correct recognition of truth always requires 'freeing oneself' from intellectually gained spiritual knowledge, because God's adversary can work as long as God Himself has not been approached for the truth, and the former's activity always consists of confusing the human being's thinking because he fights against all truth, since he only remains unrecognized in darkness .... And thus it is up to you humans yourselves how far you move in truth. Everything is offered to you and you yourselves have to decide what you want to accept or reject .... And the right decision can only be made when you no longer think and judge on your own authority but entrust your thinking to God so that He will guide you into the right realization. And this request must be made in spirit and in truth, you may not pretend to be truth-loving or truth-desiring as long as you are not willing to surrender what you have acquired in spiritual knowledge ..... For only the eternal truth itself lets you receive spiritual knowledge which completely corresponds to the truth, and if you already possess a few grains of truth beforehand, these will certainly remain with you or be returned to you .... But your willingness to empty your hearts to receive divine-spiritual thought material will be rewarded by the eternal truth itself letting the spirit flow into you, which can convey nothing but pure truth to you .... But who also accepts those teachings? .... Who does what he is asked to do? .... Each one thinks himself wise and prudent and sometimes represents the greatest error as truth .... And he tries to transfer this to his fellow human beings who gullibly accept his knowledge again. And the darkness grows ever stronger and even the flashing sparks of light are not noticed, for anyone who desires light must strive towards the light .... Anyone who desires truth must strive towards the eternal truth, then it will not be denied to him, then the eternal light itself will shine down to earth and illuminate the human being's heart who has established the bond with Him, who acknowledges God as the being Which alone can distribute the truth and Who will also do so, so that light will shine on earth and people will recognize the right path in the light of truth which leads to Him, from Whom the human being Himself once originated ....

Amen

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Condition: faih in God

Faith is the first condition for truth ....

B.D. 1134 from October 12th 1939, taken from Book No. 20

Regardless how conscientiously a person endeavours to know the truth, its certainty is not guaranteed as long as his striving is not based on profound faith. Without the latter, everything presented and accepted by people is interspersed with error .... In contrast, the slightest thought in faith will also result in purest truth. And then a person should pay attention to the abundance of thoughts flowing to him, if he, in faith of God, deliberates on any subject .... In a manner of speaking, he will be grasped and most profound knowledge will be imparted to him, and he can be assured that it will be purest truth, for this is the fundamentally inherent way of thought transference that a person questioningly turns to the teaching enabled beings when merely a thought desiring clarification arises in him. The only way for a correct instruction is the questioning desire, which will be instantly answered. Who is the only one to clarify all things? Only the divine Creator Himself, and He does this by giving the beings of service to Him the task of informing every living creation of what they desire to know. Every person’s train of thought is the result of a more or less strong will for truth. For God Himself is the truth .... If a person desires the truth with complete faith in God then he also desires God Himself. This desire of the person’s spirit for God also establishes the connection with the divine spirit, and thus the spirit in the human being will be instructed by the divine Spirit Itself and can therefore only receive purest truth .... However, where, vice versa, the same desire prevails but without faith in God, the Deity cannot make contact with the person’s indwelling spiritual spark and thus the adversary avails himself of the opportunity of transmitting his will to the person and leads him into error and wrong thinking. The inner link with God safeguards every communication .... anyone who calls upon God, opens his heart and listens to the answer will only be able to hear absolute truth, for God is willing to give wherever a faithful heart requests divine gifts, and truth is always and forever a gift from above ....

Truth can only come from above but never arise from the abyss .... And thus people are wise to consider the divine Lord in every question, for truth can only be provided by the One Who is Truth in Himself .... And again, no earthly child will appeal for it in vain, since the Father in Heaven will always guide His children into truth .... Hence the spiritually perfect beings must also manifest themselves as bearers of truth to those who want to receive truth .... they must not encounter any opposition if they want to express themselves and this, in turn, requires profound faith in God again, in spiritual strength and their transfer of thoughts to the human being. Faith is therefore the first condition without which a truthful conveyance of knowledge is unthinkable .... Once a person has found this simplest of solutions, whereby his correct thinking is guaranteed, he will neither be tormented by doubt nor downheartedly and hesitantly scrutinise such transmissions for their truth .... but he will unconditionally accept what the spirit imparts to him, since his attitude towards God assures him correct thinking after all .... By comparison, a person who constantly longs for worldly things will not desire truth .... He instinctively feels that worldly pleasures and the fulfilment of cravings cannot be the purpose of earthly life .... but does not want to admit to it, and thus he also shies away from strictly searching for truth in all aspects of life, and precisely this deliberate avoidance of truth results in the fact that the prince of lies gains power over his soul. The eternal Deity can send little help to such a soul since the same opposition will also result in the same evil influences again, because God, the eternal Truth Himself, wants to be acknowledged and therefore faith is the first condition in order to attain the truth ....

Amen

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Faith in God .... revelation .... truth ....

B.D. 5706 from June 24th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

I want to be acknowledged as God and creator, as your father from eternity. I must first demand faith in Me from you humans; you must have gained the inner conviction that you emerged from the strength and might of a being Which works and rules in all perfection, under Whose will you are but Which draws close to you with never-ending love because you emerged from His love. I must demand this faith, for only it places you in the right relationship with Me, firstly in the relationship of the creature to the creator, to Whom you submit yourselves, and then in the relationship of the child to the father, Whom you love and towards Whom you strive. I don't want to know you forever as beings isolated from Me, I want to be closely united with you, I want to achieve the aim I set for Myself when I called you into being: to work and create with perfect divine beings whom I can make infinitely happy as My children, whom I love and whose love I want to possess in full measure. Faith in Me, Whom you cannot see and yet can recognize, is the basic condition, the first step on the path to becoming a true child of your father, for in order to strive towards Me I must first be recognized, I must be so conceivable to My living creations that they can love Me; yet I can only reveal Myself to them as a supremely perfect being if they believe in Me, that I am real and true .... And they can gain this faith, for they need only desire to know the truth about their origin, about their being and about their destiny .... Where I recognize this desire in a person there is also a right ground for a strong convinced faith in Me .... and there I reveal Myself in many ways .... through creation, through everything the human being sees around him, I reveal Myself to them mentally, I bring the truth close to them in every form, I guide him onto the right path where he will surely find what he desires: information about Me as God and creator, as father from eternity. Every person can believe if he wants to .... but only when he believes in Me can I have an effect on him, because you, as a human being in the stage of free will, must be spared all coercive spiritual influence so that your development will not be endangered. But once the human being has attained faith of his own free will he will also experience the strength and power and love of the one in Whom he believes, for as soon as he acknowledges Me he has taken the path of ascent where he will constantly receive help from above to reach his aim. Believing in Me, i.e., in My existence, can also result in lively intellectual activity, for I have given the human being the intellect for this purpose, so that he can draw conclusions from the existence of that which is apparent to him as creation .... By virtue of his intellect he can already recognize a power above himself to which he is at the mercy, which disregards human will, which is stronger than the human being himself. Yet whether he is able to love this power, whether he wants to strive towards it, is up to his free will, and depending on this will this power also reveals itself to the human being .... For I want My creatures to become blessed, to establish contact with Me in order to reveal Myself to them as a God of love, wisdom and power .... as a father Who longs for His children ....

Amen

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Condition: working in love

Love is the key to truth ....

B.D. 2218 from January 21st 1942, taken from Book No. 31

Activity of love inevitably results in realisation, and thus actions of love are the only way to truth. This is what the earthly children need to know first and foremost. They will never ever attain the truth in any other way. If they receive knowledge which appears acceptable to them without actively living a life of love, then it will be a work of deception by Satan, or, if they are offered the truth, they will not recognise it as such and thus reject it. The pure truth will indeed be offered to many yet dismissed precisely because people are lacking love .... But people like that cling to falsehood with tenacity and it is impossible to explain to them that they are mistaken, that they are being led astray by wrong teachings. Love is the key to truth, without it the access remains blocked ....

Truth, however, is everything that comes from God .... Truth cannot be intellectually ascertained but is received from God through the heart. The human being can certainly receive the truth mentally, yet then he will always experience the desire for God .... This desire, however, is love and love takes effect in deeds of selfless neighbourly love .... Only this testifies to love of God. And then the person will think correctly, that is, the thoughts he receives will correspond to the truth. They arise from the heart even though the person believes himself to have reached an intellectual conclusion. But an unloving person's thoughts will never correspond to truth, for then truth-fighting forces will exercise a strong influence on such people's thinking, since through their lack of love they open their hearts to such forces, thus they gain access and use their power by confusing people's thinking.

God is truth, God is love .... one without the other is unthinkable. Consequently, there can only be truth where there is love .... Countless errors have come into the world due to people's heartlessness, and the truth has been displaced. It can only spread amongst humanity again if it changes itself to love, and therefore love has to be cultivated first before a person can attain realisation. All studies are futile if a person lacks love, for whatever knowledge he gains thereby .... will either not correspond to the truth or it is dead knowledge, in as much as it will not further the soul's higher development as long as it does not affect the heart, as long as it does not result in an activity of love. And this is why all spiritual knowledge has to be assessed by the guideline of love .... it has to flow from a helpful heart and teach helpful activity in turn, then it will be truth, and God Himself will be the source of such knowledge ....

Amen

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Love degree is measure of truth ....

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

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

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Truth not without love ....

B.D. 7658 from July 28th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

People must strive towards Me in all seriousness of their own accord, they must inwardly feel the need to unite with Me, then they will also be guided into right and true thinking and learn to distinguish truth from error. But as long as this serious will is missing, they cannot be given clarity, which is the right of the one who wants to reach Me. The fact that so much error is widespread in the world is largely people's own fault because they did not observe the commandments of love and therefore My adversary entered their hearts, who mentally misled them and they did not recognize the error as such. And thus people will always be far away from the truth who live without love .... But it will be bright in those who take My teaching of love seriously, who make an effort to live a life of love and therefore also awaken their spirit to life. Nevertheless, it is also difficult for them to free themselves from error as long as it is presented to them as truth by those who acknowledge them as leaders .... Yet I only ever value their degree of love .... If they sincerely desire the truth, it will be supplied to them .... If they are unable to separate themselves from their previous knowledge then they will one day come to enlightenment in the kingdom of the beyond in a flash .... But their nature must always have shaped itself into love in order to attain the right realisation, for I evaluate their way of life according to their love, and according to their love will be the degree of light in which they enter the kingdom of the beyond. And thus pure truth is the share of the one who changes to love. For My adversary has no power over this, and error is also recognized as such by him. In the last days before the end love has grown cold among people, therefore they will be receptive to everything that contradicts the truth, whereas they will host the truth and persecute every bearer of truth. And this is a sure sign of the end .... Only a few live in love and only a few walk in truth. But the masses will always stand behind My adversary, error will be accepted as a matter of course and not recognized as error. But then you should also know that the time is fulfilled, for this is the spiritual low, that My adversary has gained dominion over people and that they believe him, i.e. the one who fights against the truth because he is My adversary .... The light fights against darkness, and the darkness is already so deep that the light has difficulty penetrating because people themselves prefer darkness .... But anyone who desires light will also see its rays, for that is where I direct My ray of love-light and it will strike people's hearts and touch them beneficially, and they will no longer want to miss the light. And this light is My word from above .... the pure truth which everyone may receive who seriously desires it and who lives in love. Therefore, first make an effort to live a life of love, and you can be certain that I consider everyone according to his love .... for anyone who has love is not in possession of the adversary, he belongs to Me, and to belong to Me also means to receive My light, whether on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... To belong to Me means to be enlightened and to inwardly distance oneself from misguided teachings which My adversary has spread in order to separate people from Me .... But the loving human being recognizes Me and strives towards Me .... And he will also reach Me, for love unites him with Me, love brings about the final union with Me, and love also recognizes Me as the Eternal Truth ...._>Amen

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Condition: serious desire for truth

Fulfilment of divine promises .... Truth ....

B.D. 7767 from December 9th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

You are guided into truth by My spirit .... Since I spoke these Words to you humans Myself it must therefore be possible for you to live in truth and thus you cannot say: No one knows what and where the truth is .... You just have to seriously think about the problem of how you can arrive at the truth. A truth exists which is irrefutable, which comes forth from Me as the 'Eternal Truth Itself' and which will never change. And you have to approach this primary source of truth yourselves by wanting to get hold of the truth from its origin .... from Me Myself .... I know everything, I know all correlations, nothing is concealed from Me, and I also want you, as My living creations, to know everything .... I want you to become as illuminated as I Am .... I want you to know where you came from and the goal you ought to reach. Your fellow human beings, however, are unable to inform you of this unless they have received this knowledge from Me.

However, many people claim to be knowledgeable and also try to convince their fellow human beings of what they have acquired through intellectual study. But their intellectual conclusions do not correspond to the truth as long as they have not approached Me directly for enlightenment of their thoughts .... as long as they have only applied their intellect .... And then the justifiable objection can be raised: No human being knows what and where the truth is .... But God knows and therefore also the person to whom God imparts the truth .... And I have told you that My spirit will guide you into truth, and My Word is and will remain truth ....

But far too little attention is paid to this Word of Mine, the great promise I thereby gave to humanity is not being recognised .... For they have no interest whatsoever to be instructed in the 'truth' but unreservedly accept everything as truth that is presented to them by their fellow human beings, or they reject all credibility of it. And that signifies a major spiritual decline. For every person must possess spiritual knowledge, and therefore everyone should want to have the right spiritual knowledge. This determination alone will take him closer to the truth, for I will not let a person live in darkness if he desires to become enlightened .... I will intervene Myself and direct his thoughts such that he will start to search and take the path to the right source .... I Myself will offer the truth to him, if not directly then through My messengers, which he then will also recognise as My messengers, for I only require the desire for truth in order to be able to distribute it, because I want people to live in the truth, because I want them to be instructed through My spirit, if only they are of good will. But then a person will no longer doubt the truth of what is imparted to him by My spirit, and he will also remember My Words 'But the comforter, which is the holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you ....'

Hence you also have a criterion insofar as that you will hear the same Words from Me through the spirit which I spoke to people when I lived on earth .... And thereby you can recognise who speaks to you and then also believe with conviction that it is I Myself Who makes His promise come true, Who instructs you through His spirit .... And it will remind you of many a Word I spoke to people Myself. And then you should also seriously consider every one of My Words because they are God's Words which will never pass away, even if heaven and earth shall pass away .... And if you thus believe these Words of Mine unreservedly then you will penetrate the truth ever deeper, for then you will live accordingly, and you will experience the effect that you are not just hearers but doers of My Word .... You will experience the effect of love which is preached to you through My Word time after time and which will grant you enlightenment, so that you will grow in realisation, so that you will attain the knowledge again which you had lost .... so that you will completely live in truth again because you have entered into association with the Eternal Truth Itself .... Which guided you into the right knowledge, as I promised you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Truth comes from within .... desire for it ....

B.D. 6814 from April 25th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Seek the truth within yourselves .... What is offered to you from outside need not always be truth, but you yourselves will not be able to judge it as long as you cannot be informed from within. Many things can be offered to you as truth, and even the greatest untruth is often disguised in such a way that it is accepted as truth. But first of all it requires the serious will to be offered truth .... Only then will you be able to examine what is offered to you and recognize it for what it is. The will to come closer to the truth is also at the same time the will to come closer to Me, because I Myself am the truth from eternity .... If I now recognize this desire in a person, then the possibility is already given to mentally guide him, thus to make knowledge accessible to him in the form of thoughts, to let him recognize correlations, thus to guide his thinking truthfully .... So then he stands .... still unconsciously .... with the one Who alone can provide him with information, and then he will oppose every misguided teaching with inner resistance but be open-minded towards the truth, for then he will have a certain ability to judge, he will be instructed from within .... My spirit has become effective in him, and he will now no longer be so easily deceived if he receives knowledge from outside which does not correspond to the truth because it did not originate from Me .... Every person is capable of testing who is only serious about not falling prey to error and lies .... who seriously desires truth. For the human being carries all wisdom within himself because he harbours the divine spiritual spark which knows everything and also wants to impart knowledge to the human being if he gives him the right to do so, i.e., desires to know. The human being is only isolated from Me as long as he behaves in this isolation himself .... He can give up his defensive position against Me at any time, and as soon as he thus desires to be connected to Me he also causes the spiritual spark within himself to secede .... And then the bond is already established, the isolation is lifted, for now the human being hears the voice of the one Who is the eternal truth and Who therefore also instructs him truthfully. But the desire for truth will always prove a certain degree of maturity, for love and truth cannot be thought of without each other, because they are My fundamental nature, because God - love and truth - are one and the same and because therefore only the person who acknowledges Me and lives in love can stand in truth. For the latter also seriously strives for truth, he seeks to penetrate knowledge which cannot be proven and which therefore can also never be fathomed purely intellectually .... (25.4.1957) And therefore truth cannot be transmitted to you humans in a scholastic way either .... For as soon as the preconditions are not fulfilled, as soon as the prerequisites for receiving the truth are not present, the human being will not recognize it either, even though it is offered to him. It has to resonate in him, as it were, for it is present in every human being, i.e. the spiritual spark in the human being, as a part of Myself, is also the truth, and what it emanates cannot be anything other than truthful knowledge. Only when you humans have grasped this will you also know the reason for the lie and error which is widespread in the world and which people accept far more willingly than the pure truth, and you will also understand why it is not possible to impart truthful knowledge to all people in a scholastic way. For the resistance towards it will remain as long as the human being closes himself off to the expressions of the spiritual spark dwelling in him or denies it any expression through an anti-divine attitude, through unbelief and unkindness. Everyone has the same right, the same claim to truth, but this must also be so desirable to him that he fulfils the conditions which are attached to the supply of truth. But anyone who thoughtlessly accepts all spiritual knowledge conveyed to him from outside, without desire for truth and therefore also serious examination, is closer to the one who is My adversary and thus an enemy of truth, who will always fight against Me by going against the truth .... He, too, will influence your thoughts but always meet with resistance where the bond with Me is established through loving activity and where the desire for the pure truth predominates. For My spirit will always be active there, the 'comforter', Whom I have promised to send to you and Who will "guide you into all truth" ....

Amen

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Sincere desire for truth guarantees truth ....

B.D. 7629 from June 22nd 1960, taken from Book No. 80

Understand that it only requires a sincere desire for truth in order to be able to receive it .... Yet this sincere desire is rarely to be found, even though every person claims to strive for truth. But this, too, is just something people say without spending any thought on it, given that the desire for truth ought to arise from deep within the heart and not leave the person again .... he should dread nothing more than falling prey to error, and therefore he has to approach Me in his heart and appeal to Me to impart the truth to him. And it will be given to him .... If, however, the human being has received knowledge and holds on to this knowledge without ever having checked that it is true, then it will also be difficult to offer him the truth if it does not correspond to his knowledge, for he will refuse to let go of his knowledge in exchange for the pure truth .... In that case he lacks the inner desire for truth, and he will also be incapable of examining it because he fails to make contact with Me, because he fails to appeal to Me for spiritual enlightenment in order to be able to form a correct opinion. This is why it is not always possible to convey the pure truth to earth, this is why so much spiritual information is assumed to be true although it cannot lay claim to it. And yet it is endorsed as truth .... especially if it originated from the spiritual kingdom, if people believe that they definitely have received the truth. But since the recipient's sincere desire is a prerequisite for the conveyance of truth, the 'origin from the spiritual kingdom' does not always guarantee the truth of what is transmitted to earth .... rather, it necessitates serious examination. And this has to be conducted with Me, with My support.

For the spiritual kingdom also shelters beings of darkness or imperfect beings which still uphold the incorrect knowledge they have taken across from earth and which they just as eagerly endorse in the kingdom of the beyond as they have done on earth. The human being is unable to detach himself from what he loves even in the spiritual kingdom. And that is significant for his process of development, since it can last eternities until such a soul has liberated itself, until it finally starts to accept the truth. But it can influence people in the spiritual kingdom detrimentally if it finds willing people to whom it can mentally transmit wrong information or through statements made to people who consider themselves mediums who consciously establish contact from earth to the spiritual kingdom. Such contact can and will only be beneficial if the human being is governed by the sincere desire for truth and always appeals for support through My spirit .... Then there will be no risk, then the person will build a firm wall around himself which ignorant beings cannot overstep and only the world of light will have access to him, which will truly only impart the truth from Me because it works on My instructions and because it is My will that you shall be taught the pure truth ....

And everyone should examine himself as to what extent he wants the truth .... He shall fear error and always pray to Me for protection from it and his appeal will be granted, for I Myself want you humans to live in truth; I Myself want you to receive it, hence I will also provide you with the opportunity, always assuming that the same will for truth is inherent in you which is your certain protection from misguided spiritual information, from erroneous thinking and wrong interpretation of what you are offered. For the truth-desiring human being will also have the right power of judgment, because I convey it to him at the same time as the truth and therefore he is also able to examine the value of the spiritual information. I Myself Am the Truth, I Myself want to enter into contact with My living creations and thus I also want My living creations to live in truth .... And I will protect them from the influence of beings which try to spread error and disguise themselves as beings of light in order to deceive you into becoming victims of misconceptions. The close bond with Me also guarantees correct thinking, correct instruction, it guarantees you the transmission of truth through the spirit .... For the spiritual spark inside of you is part of Me, and it will truly instruct you correctly .... You should all endeavour to be directly taught by your spirit so that you won't need to abide by transmissions from the spiritual world which you cannot verify because you don't know the spiritual state of those who receive such channelled messages .... for there is always a great danger of interference by beings who lack realisation .... But wherever My spirit is at work you will know that I speak to you Myself and that I really impart the truth to you because I want My living creations on earth to live in truth .... because only through truth can they attain Me and therefore also bliss ....

Amen

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Condition: free will

God’s word must not force to acceptance .... free will ....

B.D. 4460 from October 13th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

I inform you of My will but I do not force you to fulfil it. For I want you to live in accordance with My will out of love for Me, that it is therefore your free will how you live your life and that you then also bear the responsibility for your soul which determines your will. But in order for you to know My will I constantly make sure that it is conveyed to you, and thus you receive My word .... How it is conveyed to you depends again on your attitude towards Me. It is brought to those from outside who have not yet found the right attitude towards Me, so that they establish the right relationship to also be able to hear My word inwardly. Mentally it happens to those who are searching and send their thoughts into infinity .... My word comes to them in the form of thoughts which they regard as their own origin but which always conform to the proclamation of My will through the written word. Still others desire to hear Me, they believe and hold silent dialogue with Me, and I can reveal Myself to them through the inner voice. Thus My word is conveyed to them in purest form, it is My imprinted will which manifests itself to those who want to be active as labourers in My vineyard, who are therefore to pass on My imparted word to their fellow human beings on My behalf. Thus I take care that the gospel is spread throughout the world, that all people receive knowledge of My will which they are to fulfil if they want to become blessed. Yet I leave everyone their freedom of will .... And therefore My word must always be presented in a form that it does not necessarily influence people, and therefore it can certainly be easily recognized as My word but it must never be conclusive, thus it must force people to accept it as being of absolutely divine origin. And therefore I have to let you doubt again and again so that you have to use your will yourselves, which should freely decide to accept or reject what is offered to you from above as pure truth. For My word must never make you unfree, it must not determine your faith if your faith is still too weak. The word itself shall strengthen your faith, of your own free will you shall struggle for strong faith and draw the strength for it from My word. But as long as you still have weak faith I cannot lead you to strong faith through obvious evidence, for you should believe but not know, i.e. you should attain knowledge through faith but not eliminate faith through proven knowledge, because then it is no longer possible to speak of free decision. Fulfil My will .... live in love and you will also be able to believe and need no proof .... Establish the right relationship with Me .... Pray for strong faith, ask Me to help you, then you will already prove the right faith through your prayer and you will experience a strengthening that every doubt in you will disappear .... you will be able to believe because you have the will to do so and I help everyone who strives towards Me of his own free will ....

Amen

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Free will is decisive ....

B.D. 8052 from December 1st 1961, taken from Book No. 85

The human being must be able to decide in all freedom of will .... The fact that he cannot always carry out his will should not lead to the assumption that he has no free will, for his innermost thoughts and will are decisive for the direction of his will. But in most cases he will not be hindered by Me in the execution of his will. For I want him to experience the effect of his will himself in order to recognize whether he was right or wrongly directed. And with merciful foresight I also know how to direct the effect such that it will bring salvation to the affected person's soul again, yet this does not change the fact that the human being has to answer for the direction of his will as soon as he has caused harm as a result, always on condition that he recognizes in himself the adverse divine aspect, that he is therefore not in union with Me but still exposed to the adversary's influence .... which he himself certainly recognizes insofar as he does not consciously unite with Me. A person who seeks My presence is also inwardly driven to think and want correctly .... A person who lives without any faith whatsoever is influenced by My adversary .... he is in bondage to him and will rarely do and think as it is My will .... Thus his will will also be wrongly directed and he will have to answer for it .... And yet, it is possible that people believe to be of service to Me and yet their will is wrongly directed. In that case, however, the bond of the heart has not yet been established, a foreign relationship still exists internally, the human being outwardly fulfils forms which are intended to feign a close bond .... Thus he regards himself as a vineyard labourer and yet he is not yet accepted by Me as a servant .... as long as the heart bond is missing. Then, therefore, it can only be spoken of as a 'worldly occupation', although it concerns ecclesiastical organisations, and then the degree of love will be decisive for his will and his thinking .... And even then the adversary can still have supremacy, he can influence the intellect and it can then be active in a damaging way: that he mixes spiritual knowledge, which corresponds to truth, with his own intellectual thinking and thereby thus contaminates the originally pure truth, that he changes it because the adversary has an influence on him .... because his bond with Me is not yet intimate enough to protect him from wrong thinking .... It is always the human being's free will which is not curtailed by Me, and therefore it is also possible that pure truth .... emanating from Me .... and that it is always the human being himself who determines whether and to what extent he stands in the truth .... But for a distortion to be prevented by Me would be a disregard of free will .... Moreover, every person is able to direct his thinking correctly himself, because he only needs to turn to Me, as truth itself, because he only needs to seriously desire it in order to then also receive it guaranteed .... Again, this is your free will, which is also certainly inherent in a person who seriously seeks the bond with Me, who has the right relationship as a child with Me and who therefore will also always direct his will as it is right before Me. And therefore no person can shift the responsibility away from himself who believes to have been wrongly instructed .... for it is up to him whether he is satisfied with such instructions or whether the desire for truth prevails in him, which will certainly also earn him such .... The human being's will is free .... Neither My adversary will be able to force him, nor will I Myself exert My influence on a person, because the free decision of will in the human being's earthly life decides his fate in eternity. And this applies in particular to the human being's spiritual course of development. His earthly destiny is also so controlled that he can also let his right will prevail, even if restrictions are imposed on him in the implementation .... But spiritually he decides his state of maturity himself in free will, and he will always think and want correctly if he strives towards Me, if he establishes an intimate bond with Me and has therefore surrendered to Me, so that I Myself can now guide and lead him and he will also attain perfection ....

Amen

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Accepting od rejecting the truth

Accepting the word of truth requires faith and labour of love ....

B.D. 2162 from November 23rd 1941, taken from Book No. 31

The spirit from God only gives truth and what it proclaims to man can be accepted as such without hesitation. However, only the believer will be able to judge whether and when the spirit from God is at work, for the unbeliever does not recognize such spiritual activity at all. The believer makes an effort to live in love and is therefore already able to recognize God where He expresses Himself. And the fact that so many people who want to be believers resist the divine word, which is the result of the working of the divine spirit in the human being, is indicative of the shallowness of their faith. They can certainly follow everything their church tells them to do, but if they do not have love, everything is just an empty form and they still walk in darkness of spirit. Then they also do not recognize the light that shines for them, for only love in a person's heart sharpens the power of knowledge. And where the will to do good and right before God is rooted in the heart, that is also where recognition will be, for the divine spiritual spark awakens to life in those people and drives them to love .... And this divine spiritual spark seeks connection with the spiritual power that flows to the human being through the imparted word of God. The spark in a person's heart must always be awakened in order to be able to recognize divine spiritual activity, and good will and loving activity are prerequisites for the awakening of the spirit. The human being will now unhesitatingly accept as truth what is now imparted to him. Where divine truth is resisted, the human being will still try to fathom spiritual knowledge with his intellect, and in this way he will never penetrate divine wisdom. And what the human being has acquired intellectually will not penetrate the human heart as strength either .... again, it will only be empty words that move a person's intellect, but not his heart. For what is to speak to the heart must be born of the spirit, it must be spiritual knowledge which is received directly from the spiritual kingdom and then passed on by a person of love and faith .... For this word will carry the strength within itself, it will touch the human heart and stimulate the human being's will into action; it will be effective because it is strength from God. Divine spiritual strength must be effective if the human being does not resist its effect through unbelief or lack of love. Man's faith and love inevitably attract God's love, and God's love expresses itself in strength, which now flows to man. Recognizing what is good and true, wanting what is good and true and also being able to carry it out, this is brought about by the power from God, which is imparted to people through the divine word ....

Amen

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Justification for rejecting the truth .... God as judge ....

B.D. 4499 from November 30th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You cannot justify yourselves in any way if you are accused of having rejected the truth, for you were entirely free to accept it if you had the will to do so. The truth will be conveyed to you, for I will make sure that it is conveyed to each individual, albeit in different forms, and depending on his willingness to accept it his knowledge of the pure truth will be expanded. But anyone who shuts himself off cannot gain anything, he can only lose the little he possesses. He who is weak in faith will gain increased faith by receiving the pure truth, but he who rejects it will also lose his weak faith .... "He who has much will still be added to, but he who has little will also still have the little taken away from him..." This is how these words are to be understood. The human being does not lack the power of judgment when it comes to recognizing the truth as such, for since I Myself want you to know the truth I will also enable you to recognize it, only your will has to be willing to accept the truth from My hands, and you declare this willingness by making it your business to examine what is presented to you, by mentally dealing with it, by considering the pros and cons and thus expressing the desire to accept the truth if you recognize it as such. And then I will guide your thinking correctly, then you will only win but never lose. And you will be held accountable for how you have behaved towards the presentation of My word, the pure truth. I truly constantly give you the opportunity to gain knowledge of My will, again and again you are referred to My word, you can accept it everywhere if you desire it yourselves. Yet because you are material My word is troublesome to you, after all, it warns you against striving for matter and admonishes you to overcome it. But you attach your heart to the goods of this world and therefore don't want to know anything about what comes from the spiritual world .... Your will fails or is wrongly directed where it could just as well be rightly directed. And for this you will be called to account and no-one will be able to say that they have remained ignorant of My word and My will ....

I will be your judge where I wanted to be your father because you reject My love and do not listen to My word. But I can only act as a judge if I find fault with you, and this consists of you not acknowledging Me as father and therefore also not respecting My word. You have therefore deprived yourselves of the right of childship, then I can no longer act like a father towards you but have to face you as a judge and condemn you because of your will which has turned away from Me. And thus I urgently warn you against disregarding My word, a gift which My great love offers you, which you do not deserve as creatures still resisting Me but which I nevertheless give to you in order to help you recognize Me and learn to love Me. But if your rebelliousness is still so pronounced that you flee from My voice or try to drown it out, then you are not My true children either, then you still belong to My adversary, and therefore I hold court over you .... And you will be found guilty, your rebelliousness will result in Me turning My back on you, that the distance between Me and you will become ever greater and this will result in a hardening of your substance, that you will become matter again which prevented you from accepting the spiritual, My word from above. And you are judged because you yourselves did not want it any other way ....

Amen

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Feeding the truth ....

B.D. 6441 from January 1st 1956, taken from Book No. 69

It is the only truth which comes to you as proof of God's love, it is His word which He Himself imparts to you from the height .... And you can fully believe this word and evaluate it as His direct, irrefutable address. What is then conveyed to you through God's word you can represent as purest truth and bask in the light of truth yourselves, and you need not fear being led into wrong thinking through it .... And by recognizing the truth from God you will also be able to make a right judgment about the value or unvalue of spiritual knowledge which is brought to you from outside; you will be able to recognize whether it also originates from God or has flowed from another source .... You are able to distinguish truth from error, for a light shines upon you which chases away all darkness and also allows you to recognize all rubbish which could pollute the pure spring water if it is not removed. What God Himself gives you is pure and clear like purest spring water, and you should protect it from all contamination because otherwise it will lose its strength and effect. And you will need nothing else but the water of life flowing from that spring in order to let your soul recover and keep it healthy, in order to put it into a state that it can enter the kingdom of light after the death of the body. You therefore only need the pure truth from God .... in order to attain eternal life. This truth is given to every person who seriously desires it, because God's adversary cannot enter it precisely because of the desire for truth, which is the same as the desire for God .... But where this is not present the adversary has free access, he can work there unhindered, and his activity will always be to spread darkness over the human being and to extinguish the light where he is able to do so .... And therefore he has easy access to people's hearts because their desire for truth is seldom present, which results from the fact that they let themselves be caught up in a net of lies and error and make no effort to free themselves from it, that they thoughtlessly accept what is presented to them as truth and don't ask themselves whether what is offered to them is entitled to be judged as truth .... With them the adversary of God has an easy game .... He can always make the veil that is before their eyes thicker .... He can always put more error and lies before them, which will again be accepted thoughtlessly .... It is no water of life, it is a death potion which these people accept, which poisons their souls and lets them enter the kingdom of the beyond completely darkened .... They lack all light and powerlessly fall prey to eternal death, because only truthful light can awaken them to life, because truthful light can only come from God and they have not approached Him for it. Error is far more widespread in the world than the pure truth from God .... because this is not requested but people always have an open ear for that .... For the adversary conveys such thoughts and teachings to people which are pleasing to the ear, which they like to hear and which constantly increase error and therefore the darkness grows ever greater. Yet people are considered according to their will, and therefore God can abundantly provide for you who desire the truth, and He will always give you light so that you can penetrate the darkness .... He will enlighten you when errors want to force their way into your thinking .... He will not allow your light to be dimmed but always let it shine brighter the deeper the darkness is around you which you want to escape .... And the brightest light is His word which He Himself sends to you from above, which He imparts to those who love Him and keep His commandments .... as He has promised ....

Amen

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Spirit working of God

The working of the spirit .... Guarantee for pure truth ....

B.D. 2877 from September 10th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

All efforts on this side to penetrate the depth of divine wisdom can only be successful if the spirit within the human being has come alive and thus can accept the spiritual transmissions from the beyond .... if, through loving activity, the human being's soul develops the ability to hear the inner voice of the spirit, which then would like to convey the received messages to the soul. For only then can pure truth be conveyed to a person, because the spirit in the human being cannot err as it is part of the divine spirit. The human being has to muster the will to silently listen within, he must make an effort to keep all external impressions at bay and lend his ear to the spirit in a completely conscious state; he must try to prevent himself from becoming weak and falling into a state in which he can be taken over by an unknown will, even though it does not exclude the possibility that the unknown will is good and belongs to a being which likewise would like to impart the truth to the person. In a few cases these spiritual beings are indeed under control so that nothing but pure truth can be transferred. However, the human being as such is not capable of checking as long he himself is unable to hear the voice of the spirit, which also expresses itself mentally to the human being. But at all times he should strive to attain a state in which he can hear the voice of the spirit such that it can be repeated word for word, that it can be heard in a completely conscious state and also be conveyed to fellow human beings. This is the working of the spirit which God promised to His Own .... He promised to stay with them in the Word, and the Word must come forth from Him directly, it must originate from Him, even if it is transmitted to earth by His messengers. Then it will incorporate profound wisdom, it will be the pure truth which can never be infringed upon, which can never be refuted, because the inwardly heard voice of the spirit cannot be drowned out by any other means. To receive the inner Word in a conscious state by using one's own free will is the only guarantee for the pure and unadulterated truth .... Anyone who hears this Word is in heartfelt union with God, Who is Truth Himself and thus must also be the Giver of truth. Consequently, all spiritual results must concur with this divine Word which is the obvious manifestation of the spirit which works in and through a person and through this person also reveals itself to a fellow human being. And he, in turn, will be able to examine the truth of the spiritual gifts if he, through a life of unselfish neighbourly love, has awakened his spiritual spark and thus recognises that the offered gifts are true. Wisdom and truth can only ever be present where the spirit of God is working in a person, and therefore a value has to be attached to such proclamations which only divine transmissions can lay claim to .... God Himself is speaking to people, and His Word is truth ....

Amen

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Various spiritual activities: wisdom, seeing, prophecy .... (Konnersreuth)

B.D. 4470 from October 26th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

My spirit can only become effective where people have aligned themselves with My fundamental nature, where they have shaped themselves into love. The individual's life, which denomination he belongs to and which origin he has, is irrelevant, and therefore everyone can cultivate different habits, everyone can practice different customs and traditions, everyone can have been educated in different religious doctrines .... as soon as he lives a life of love according to My will he can also be filled by My spirit and achieve supernatural things. However, the working of the spirit is of a different kind insofar as one person is imparted profound wisdom, profound spiritual knowledge, while the other is able to see spiritually, thus he can see and experience things which are most closely related to the spiritual kingdom, to Me Myself and the host of pure spirits. Thus he can look into the spiritual kingdom, which is the last aim of all human beings. With others again the gift of prophecy is the working of the spirit, so that they are able to look into the future and see the coming events taking place before their eyes. These, too, are filled with My Spirit, so that they must speak to their fellow men about their visions and about their prophetic gift. To see past, present and future things is the sign of an already high degree of maturity of the human being who is deprived of every concept of time as soon as he directs his gaze spiritually and thus now dwells spiritually in spheres far away from earth, his present sphere of activity. Such people are to be believed as long as their life is an exemplary life of love. Then no other than beings of light can make themselves known through them, then My spirit works in these people, for they are united with Me through love and can never stand apart from My will and act and think according to their own will. Love is therefore the surest sign of My presence, love is the guarantee for My working, no matter in which form the working of the spirit is expressed.

Thus My spirit can and will also work where a person was educated in the wrong direction of faith, where his thinking was steered into the wrong path by incompetent teachers in whom My spirit could not work and impart the pure truth to them. However, a person who thus thinks wrongly can nevertheless experience the working of My spirit through a right life of love, yet in a different form than through the transmission of truthful knowledge, for this would sometimes contradict the teachings of faith imparted to him and be of little use to the recipient. Thus My spirit works first by allowing the human being to gain insight into spiritual spheres which visually convey the truth to him, so that spiritual events are presented to him which correspond to the teachings of each individual denomination, which correspond to the truth, so that the working of the spirit will therefore only ever result in truth, even though the form is different ....

(27.10.1948) People shall be given evidence of the truth of what is taught but can no longer be proven by documents, then the working of the spirit will extend to past results and it will make them visible to the person in whom it can work so that he will bear witness to things which can no longer be proven otherwise. Such people will see the past and the future with spiritual eyes, and they must always be granted the working of My spirit, which necessitates a profound, strong faith which can be found where love is present. Truthful knowledge cannot be conveyed from above to earth everywhere, because the acceptance of it requires a completely neutral heart which is free from a specific teaching, which, as it were, offers no resistance through its own spiritual knowledge which contradicts the truth. It must unconditionally accept what is offered to it from above. And therefore the human being may not be bound by knowledge which was given to him from outside and which does not correspond to the truth .... And therefore spiritual working in this form is rarely possible, because mostly the seekers have already joined a school of thought, whereas people outside of every school of thought are rarely seeking, rather they have no faith at all, but faith in Me and My working is the first prerequisite for My spirit to become effective in a person. A person who lives in love but is weak in faith likewise opposes My direct working in him through the spirit, otherwise I could express Myself far more through the human mouth; yet they don't want to acknowledge a direct working, a transfer of My word to a person, because they lack this faith. And thus I can certainly arrange their thoughts and give them understanding for the only truth, I can also mentally introduce them to knowledge which they cannot accept from outside, yet they will always regard their thoughts as their own and not want to see My working in them. But where My spirit can work in an obvious way, where love and faith enable a direct transfer of My word to a person, there the power of the spirit clearly appears, and there all people should seek clarification, because then they can be certain of the fullest truth, because it is I Myself Who gives them this clarification through a person's mouth and hand. And I will always make sure that a source of truth gives living water to those who are thirsty; I will always make sure that bearers of truth walk the earth who can be true guides for their fellow human beings, who only impart to them what they have received from Me, who have prepared themselves to be the receiving vessel of the spirit and are therefore constantly instructed by My spirit in the truth, so that they will pass it on and be active in teaching according to My will ....

Amen

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Difference between the 'working of the spirit' and 'psychic' receptions ....

B.D. 8416 from February 19th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

You should always bear in mind that the truth is intended to be distributed everywhere, therefore I must convey it to earth in all places, and this is always possible as soon as a person fulfils the requirements which the 'working of My spirit' in a person are based on. First, the willingness to be of service to Me has to motivate a person to enter into heartfelt contact with Me, and he will indeed be accepted as a labourer in My vineyard, since he is living a life of love otherwise he would not offer himself to Me as a co-worker. Hence, love is likewise the precondition that I can choose him as a suitable vessel into which My spirit can pour. Another requirement is the strong and living faith that I speak to My child as a Father, when it desires Me to speak .... And a further indispensable prerequisite is that he is permeated with the desire to be taught the absolute truth and that he therefore turns to the Eternal Truth Itself in order to receive it .... Now you will say that you humans are meeting every one of these requirements and that I should therefore be able to give My Word directly to many people .... Consequently, you will also gullibly accept messages from the spiritual world although they cannot be rated as the 'working of the divine spirit'. For many people have an overwhelming urge to make contact with the supernatural world, and since all of you humans are surrounded by inhabitants of the world beyond, you will surely find it understandable that they will also make use of every opportunity to make contact with you in order to express themselves to you.

It is indeed difficult for you to recognise the difference between such communications from the spirit world and the genuine 'working of My spirit' .... Yet the one thing I want you to consider is that I merely want to assist your soul to become perfect on earth .... and that therefore the contents of My imparted spiritual knowledge through the working of the spirit will be the Gospel of love .... furthermore, that you, in order to find redemption on earth from your original sin, need to receive the knowledge about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation .... about the cause and spiritual reason for His mission .... and about My human manifestation in Him .... And you need to be enlightened by Me about your origin and your goal and about My eternal plan of Salvation, through which I will one day reach the goal I set for Myself when I created you .... This extensive knowledge can only be conveyed to you through the 'working of My spirit' in you, and therefore only those people can claim to be true Word-recipients whom I have initiated Myself either directly or through My messengers of light, through perfect beings in the spiritual kingdom which absorb the light ray of My love and forward it on My instruction. And thus everyone believing himself to receive My Word should first seriously question whether he received this knowledge from Me, whether he can state with conviction that he was 'initiated' by Me into the truth, into a knowledge which was previously still unknown to him .... The information about My plan of Salvation can only be conveyed to people by Me directly, for anyone who only accepts it intellectually from other people will not understand it, even if it corresponds to the truth, because it requires spiritual enlightenment in order to comprehend it .... And I certainly convey this knowledge to earth in a clear and fully understandable way in all countries on earth, and it will totally concur, because only pure truth can come forth from Me and this will never contradict itself .... And the recipients of such extensive knowledge should do everything in their power and try to distribute it.

And this can always be used as a guideline for proclamations from the supernatural world, for as soon as they fail to impart to people the profound knowledge of My eternal plan of Salvation they do not originate from Me but are expressions of those spirits which are not yet entitled to teach because they are not yet permeated by the light which they should forward on My instructions. It is particularly important to know in which way such messages are conveyed to a person, whether he, in a fully conscious state, mentally or audibly hears clear Words or whether a spiritual being speaks through the mouth of a person in a psychic state, who surrendered his will and is therefore unable to test which spirit takes possession of him. This examination must always be carried out first, for although truthful messages can be received in a psychic state too, such momentous and extensive knowledge which provides complete clarification about My eternal plan of Salvation will never be conveyed to people in this way .... Then partial truths may well be imparted but to the same extent misguided teachings can also slip in, such as the wrong description of the Deity in Jesus, Whose correct portrayal is, however, of utmost importance. And as soon as people are taught wrongly, especially in this respect, they still live in error and every error has a disastrous effect on the human being's soul. I don't keep clarifying this time and again for no reason, because Jesus Christ's act of Salvation and My human manifestation must be fully understood by you humans .... For the purpose of your existence on earth is that you will be free from all guilt when you pass into the kingdom of the beyond. And only if you possess a truthful explanation about this act of Salvation by Jesus Christ will you consciously take the path to the cross, you, who once denied Me your acknowledgement, will consciously acknowledge Me again of your own free will ....

But precisely as long as this problem of My human manifestation is not yet solved by you, you will still live in spiritual darkness .... And if you are now being taught by those in the spiritual realm which are instructed by Me to teach you and to convey My Word to you, then these beings of light will first of all provide this significant knowledge, and thereby you will also recognise the working of My spirit in you .... Then you will not need to be afraid of being used by other spiritual forces, which certainly will also disguise themselves and claim to be your guides and yet do not have the knowledge themselves as to be able to enlighten you. However, you humans don't know how My adversary influences people as well as the still immature beings in the beyond, and you don't know that he will try everything in his power in order to undermine the pure truth and to make people believe that they know the truth. Their skilful disguise will cause much harm, because people allow themselves to be used and are far too gullible themselves .... For they lack the right judgment, and they confuse the transmission from the supernatural spheres with the 'working of My spirit', which irrefutably grants truth to those who are instructed by Me to spread the truth throughout the world. And you should accept this truth and comply with My will, you should not just be listeners but doers, and then you will no longer need to doubt and question but know that you possess the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Heart and mind thinking

Emotional and intellectual thinking .... Truth ....

B.D. 2302 from April 14th 1942, taken from Book No. 32

Every human being deems himself as living in a state of realisation if he advocates an opinion he formed intellectually. Nevertheless, this opinion need not always correspond to truth. God gave the human being intellect and free will, but He also gave him a heart .... As long as the intellect wants to find a solution for a spiritual question without the heart, he will hardly come close to the truth, for the truth comes forth from God and can only be received by the spirit and not from the body which is, after all, of matter. Intellectual thought is merely a function of the body .... but the heart is the seat of all emotions, the heart also shelters the divine spark of love and therefore the spirit, which is a part of God. A thought born in the heart, thus originating from the divine spiritual spark, can therefore always claim to be based on truth, for the spirit only imparts purest truth .... But whether the thought was born in the heart or is merely a product of rational thinking depends on the heart's ability to love. The more deeply the human being is able to love, that is, the more he strives for unity with God through loving activity, the clearer the thoughts will arise from his heart and enter the person's consciousness. For these thoughts are spiritual strength which flows forth from beings united with God and into the heart of someone who likewise unites with God through his activity of love. Whereas intellectual thinking is merely the function of physical organs, thus the utilisation of the human being's received vital energy, which can also be used by the person who exists without love, i.e. whose heart has little ability to love. Intellectual and emotional thinking should thus be separated. The latter will always arrive at the truth, whereas intellectual thinking need not always be the truth, even if one can speak of well developed reasoning power.

Only love is decisive, i.e. determinant of the truth. The human being has little information about the nature of thought, and therefore the difference is not clear to him. The thought born in the heart only has one thing in common with intellectually gained spiritual knowledge, both have to reach the brain in order to penetrate into the person's consciousness, and this makes the human being assume that every thought originates in the brain, that it therefore was intellectually achieved. Nevertheless, the mental knowledge of a loving person, hence a person whose life is a constant activity of love, has to be entirely differently judged than the purely intellectual thinking of someone with little capacity to love. The former will come close to the truth, whereas the latter offers no guarantee for truth and knowledge. For God reserves the truth for Himself and only distributes it to those who acknowledge Him, desire Him and demonstrate this through activity of love. Consequently, that which flows forth from a loving heart can be accepted as truth without hesitation, for such thoughts are subject to a certain surveillance through knowledgeable spiritual beings, whose responsibility is the transfer of thoughts and which therefore diligently watch that the person will think correctly. For through his activity of love the human being acquires the right and the claim for the light beings assistance, which now guard the person from thoughts which contradict the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Intellectual research .... truth ....

B.D. 1918 from May 15th 1941, taken from Book No. 28

It will not be possible for anyone to get behind the pure truth in terms of research, for truth is something purely spiritual which cannot be fathomed intellectually. Truth is inseparable from the eternal deity, therefore it must also be something unfathomable in itself like the eternal deity itself. But something spiritual can never be fathomed through a purely physical function, and it is a purely physical function when the intellect alone wants to approach the solution of problematic questions which concern the great riddle of creation or everything that lies outside the earthly, when therefore man wants to eliminate God and solve such questions through sharp thinking. The result of such research cannot correspond to the truth, because the truth is God, without God there cannot be truth. And because truth is something divine, it can only be offered by God Himself, and only to those who approach God for it, who ask for His help, His spirit for every enquiry. God wants the truth to be spread, He also wants to send it to those who still err, but then they must be willing to accept it .... However, those who live without God, who do not recognize Him and consequently do not believe that they need a supply of strength, are still in league with the power which fights against the truth. This power will try to determine the human being's will to reject the pure truth, and the person who lives without God will give in to its insistence and stubbornly oppose the pure truth with evidence which betrays precisely this sinister influence. Without God, man cannot attain the truth because he is then subject to the prince of lies, whose endeavour is to undermine the truth. However, purely intellectual activity corresponds to the human being's free will, i.e. it will produce results that correspond to the human being's will. Therefore, if a person researches purely intellectually, i.e. without entering into contact with good knowing powers through prayer to God, then his own will is active but not the divine will .... However, one's own will is still opposed to God, it has more contact with the opposing power and is therefore also seized and directed by this power, namely towards that which is opposed to God. Man cannot walk the right path without God, he will always err because his guides want to lead him astray, but it is completely up to him which power he chooses to guide him. As such, man himself is incapable of walking the right path without any guidance; he is incapable of fathoming the truth on his own, i.e. without the support of spiritual power .... However, he has the right to request spiritual strength and he has the free will to decide in favour of good or evil strength. Even the belief that he does not need support is an influence of evil forces. It is the spiritual arrogance that is part of the evil power and through which he already grants this power the right over himself. Consequently, a person can only be guided into the truth when he consciously entrusts himself to the eternal deity and, in the awareness of his own spiritual poverty, requests the good spiritual power in order to be able to recognize the truth as such when it is offered to him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The truth speaks to the heart ....

B.D. 6120 from November 26th 1954, taken from Book No. 66

What speaks to the heart is good and must be regarded as divine .... but what only appeals to the intellect will also be the product of the intellect and must therefore also be tested for its value. But if a person's heart is turned towards God, his intellectual thinking can also be right .... But most of the time the intellect is dominated by the God-opposing power, and therefore not everything that is the result of intellect needs to correspond to truth. Although this is only about knowledge which can or should have an influence on the human soul, it is about religious knowledge which can be purely intellectual knowledge or knowledge imparted to the heart by God's spirit, but which will also speak to the heart again. If such knowledge is imparted to you humans you should first examine its value, and you will also be able to do so if, in your desire for truth, you observe how the knowledge appeals to you .... whether your heart feels it to be right and good and you would like it to be truth .... or whether you start to think because the thought material imparted to you occupies your intellect more than your heart. Pure truth will touch every person who desires truth like a gift that makes him happy .... Untruth, on the other hand, will leave an impression as if you have to defend yourselves against rape .... yet only for the person who wants to walk in the light, whereas the effect on worldly people is the opposite .... that the truth touches him unpleasantly but the untruth is acknowledged by him. From which it is already evident that spirit speaks to spirit and intellect to intellect .... thus every spiritually striving person lets his heart speak, but the worldly person only the intellect .... The spiritual aspirant therefore has a reliable guide, for he will only ever be addressed by that which is helpful to his soul, whereas the intellectual person often does not even use his intellect properly for examination and therefore it is easy for error to slip in. For spiritual knowledge in the world has also become purely intellectual knowledge, often only the intellect deals with problems which extend into the spiritual realm, and yet the human being claims that his results are evaluated as truth .... This is why the following advice applies here: What speaks to the heart is good and true; yet it must also speak to the heart in order to be recognized as good and true .... For only the heart is receptive to truth, only the heart understands the language of the spirit which emanates pure truth and thus makes itself known to the human being through the heart ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Different schools of thought

Different schools of thought .... Where is truth? ....

B.D. 6627 from August 21st 1956, taken from Book No. 71

All spiritual disagreements could be resolved if each supporter approached Me Myself with his opinion and awaited My explanations .... Then there would truly be no conflicts, then all people concerned would have to re-unite because they would all simply receive the same answer from Me. The fact that so many divisions have occurred, that so many schools of thought have been formed, is certain proof that this path to Me had not been not taken, that people had only used their intellectual thought and this can never produce the same results, because My adversary can all too easily intervene and confuse the intellect where I Myself Am not called upon in order to enlighten it. A few advocates of their point of view have done this, and therefore their opinion will more likely correspond to the truth, but it is not accepted by those who have ignored Me.

And thus the law, the truth, will repeatedly shine through but too little attention is given to its light and conflicts are not resolved. They will always surface because intellect is more highly rated and intellect can alter the worst distortions such that they are deemed to be wise and are then endorsed again. If you humans now considered the many different religious doctrines and schools of thought, then this itself should make you doubt the truth of what everyone supports, since there can only be one truth .... Thus .... if the truth really was amongst the various schools of thought .... all others would have to be wrong. But which one is true? .... Each one claims to have the truth and yet it cannot be recognised or it could not be doubted and abandoned in favour of another. Do consider this .... Do consider that the truth belongs to Me, do consider that you are My children, whom I love .... Thus I will not withhold the truth from you .... thus it will also have to be recognisable. Therefore, as long as you humans do not know but merely assume that you live in truth you will not possess it.

However, this does not apply to those of blind faith who have never formed an opinion of what they are expected to believe, rather I address the leaders, the representatives of individual denominations or schools of thought who in turn seek to convince their followers of the truth of what they represent. I speak to those who use their intellect and come forward in order that their still undecided fellow human beings should join them. I speak to those who certainly would be mentally capable of recognising the pure truth if they let their heart speak at the same time, if they offered the spirit within themselves the opportunity to express itself but have so far refrained from doing and are thus misguided in spite of having a highly developed intellect. All these would be surprised to get the same results if they followed the right path to Him Who is truth within Himself and can and will only ever give the truth ....

The many denominations and different schools of thought provide alarming evidence that the ‘working of the spirit’ is alien to all those in charge at the top, who do not work together because they represent conflicting opinions .... And if they were to permit the working of the spirit they would soon realise that there is no need for an external organisation, that the human being has to look for the truth within himself and that everyone will recognise the truth who allows himself to be taught by his spirit, who takes the path to Me, abides by My will and listens to Me .... But then he can claim the right that his ‘faith’ has become ‘certainty’, and then he will also convincingly support the religious doctrines. And all those of the same spirit will also be taught the same by their spirit and thus know that pure truth can only be found in Me Myself, that it makes everyone indescribably happy who has found it and that all disagreements will be resolved when it is explained by the only One in authority to do so ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Various schools of thought .... There is only one truth ....

B.D. 8990 from June 6th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

In every school of thought you will find something that corresponds to truth, yet you will encounter far more misguided points of view and therefore you must examine everything and establish its origin .... not everything can be endorsed as truth. The vast number of existing different schools of thought all deviate from each other. And this alone should make you think, for there is only one truth and this originates from Me directly. Pure truth, however, will only ever be gained through the working of the spirit in the human being, for this reason it is imperative to establish first where My spirit was able to take effect and thus also has taken effect. Then the contents must concur with My direct message from above .... But who can claim to have the working of My spirit in him? Who has the guarantee that pure truth is received by him and conveyed to him? This question is clearly answered to you: Anyone who, without having any previous knowledge, attains knowledge from within himself about My eternal plan of Salvation, about the meaning and purpose of his existence, about My reign and activity throughout the whole of infinity, anyone who can substantiate everything and knows all correlations .... is enlightened by My spirit, and his knowledge corresponds to the full truth against which the contents of every spiritual movement must be examined, and every teaching which contradicts this knowledge can be rejected .... This certainly provides you with the opportunity to subject the knowledge you have attained until now to scrutiny, but who makes use of this indication in order to take possession of the pure truth himself?! Each school of thought refuses to let go of its own point of view, and thus a vast number of erroneous teachings were able to slip in through My adversary's influence, although every spiritual movement contains a grain of truth as well. However, they all agree not to accept anything which really is the truth! .... For precisely this process of the 'working of the spirit in the human being' is alien to all schools of thought, and so only rarely do people believe that I make Myself known to anyone who fulfils the conditions I attached to it. This condition requires the human being to live a life of love, because love unites him with Me and, as a result, I Myself can speak to him .... This condition could be met by any human being and he, too, would know the truth and think correctly. And all those who comply with My easy commandment will also be convinced that the truth is conveyed to them when they receive such gained knowledge through 'the working of the spirit'. Yet their number is small precisely because people lack love .... Consequently, being members of any kind of spiritual movement will not benefit you if you diligently advocate its teachings .... you are nevertheless spiritually dead for you do not recognise the truth, which alone can advance you on the path towards ascent .... And as long as you are unaware of the actual purpose of your earthly life, the knowledge you possess is wrong and can never lead you to higher spheres. This can only ever be achieved by love, which all of you can practise but are unwilling to do so because your selfish love is still too strong and thus the truth still remains inaccessible to you, i.e., you don't recognise it as such .... And you will live in error, just as you will enter the spiritual kingdom with this error, where it is far more difficult to release yourselves from it, for you will not accept the truth over there either, even if it is offered to you. It therefore always depends on your degree of love as to whether your thoughts come close to the truth, and this is why you need only ever be given the teaching of love so that your thoughts will be right, so that My spirit will be able to express itself in you, so that you will recognise and accept the pure truth which will assuredly guide you upwards towards your perfection .... For darkness will always fight against light, yet the world belongs to the prince of darkness and only the person who detaches himself from him can enter My kingdom. And I will truly help everyone to recognise Me and the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

There is only one truth .... Feeling of heart ....

B.D. 4786 from November 23rd 1949, taken from Book No. 54

You are certainly free to join any school of thought, yet you must always remember that there is only one truth, that, because different schools of thought also teach different doctrines, only one can be true, therefore an examination should never be avoided, which anyone can carry out if he earnestly wants to. Truth is guaranteed where divine revelations are conveyed to earth; therefore they can always be used for comparison. And truth only exists where it agrees with the teachings of the divinely imparted Word. However, if a direct revelation is not available for comparison, then it is absolutely essential to appeal to God for assistance, in which case the human being will surely make the right decision, that is, he will either decide or reject what he is duty bound to believe by a school of thought .... Sincere desire to know the truth and a prayer to God in spirit and in truth assures him that he will correctly recognise what is truth and what is error. And his heart will either encourage or warn him against joining a school of thought, but he must also pay attention to his feeling and not act against it. No spiritual organisation on earth is devoid of error, because the pure truth, which originally motivated the founder to advocate it and to win fellow human beings over, will be changed by people time and again. This is why every seeker in all schools of thought will experience doubts, and for good reason, so that he will pursue the truth himself, and, through earnest deliberation and in connection with God through prayer and kind-hearted activity, awaken the spirit in him, which will then instruct him truthfully and guide him into true knowledge. A person can therefore find the truth in any spiritual movement providing he genuinely wants it. A blind person needs to entrust himself to someone sighted, and since only God can see they must be a spiritually awakened leader instructed by God, who can offer true support to the blind, who will guide him and also help him gain his vision if it is wanted by the blind himself. However, a blind leader will not be very beneficial; he will also lead everyone entrusted to him astray as long as he has not gained the ability to see of his own will. But a person who has not drawn his wisdom from divine revelations is a blind leader .... a blind leader is someone who has received his knowledge from likewise poorly sighted people again and thereby did not become enlightened but travels his path in the same darkness as before. God takes care of everyone who desires truth. Lack of knowledge, error and a dark spiritual state can only be found where the desire for truth does not exist because this is the prerequisite for God, as the Giver of truth and as the eternal Truth Himself, revealing Himself to a person, for anyone who desires it will be offered the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The true church of Christ

The true church .... Sects .... Working of the spirit ....

B.D. 7072 from March 24th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

The fact that so many schools of thought or faith exist and that people are usually admitted into them without their own will should make you humans think. The child’s will does not determine the faith it is ‘born into’, and therefore it is similarly not a persons own merit or own fault to be educated in a particular school of faith .... And if now either one church or the other would be the ‘only beatifying ....’, if only one or the other would be right before God or pleasing to Him, then people who were born into other schools of thought could rightfully feel disadvantaged by God that the ‘true church’ was withheld from them due to their birth. But it is by no means the case that a human being can come to the truth without their own effort, and again it is completely unimportant into which school of thought he was born into .... Because every human being has to struggle for the light of truth himself. And it is equally certain that truth cannot be implanted through education unless the person has gathered the right foundation within himself on which the truth can take root in order to now become and to remain his possession. But this aforementioned fact should also make those people think who maintain their affiliation to a particular school of thought and deem themselves to be ‘living in truth’ ....

It is a presumptuous idea to believe to possess the privilege for the kingdom of heaven .... But many people have this presumptuous idea because all members of sects are utterly convinced to possess the exclusive truth .... And yet they have mostly taken on board what they in turn were taught by those who equally fanatically deemed themselves infallible. And none of them have spent any thought on how God Himself regards those who do not belong to their school of thought ....

As long as a school of thought is only based on love for God and other people and Jesus Christ’s act of Salvation it can also produce true Christians to whom the light of truth will soon shine as well .... For if God’s commandments of love are fulfilled while believing in Jesus Christ the divine Redeemer, the human being is becoming active himself, and then he has voluntarily joined the ‘community of believers’, the church which Jesus Christ Himself founded on earth ....

And every human being has to make this personal decision for himself,. or: the fundamental religion is the fulfilment of the commandments of love and as long as this is ignored the person stands outside the church of Christ, outside of the truth, in spite of belonging to a school of faith which pretends to be the ‘only true’ and ‘beatifying’ one.

No human being can acquire beatitude merely by belonging to a particular school of thought or through actions demanded by it .... Only truly unselfish love for other people and thereby also demonstrated love for God leads to beatitude, and this can be practised in every school of thought, which will then also lead to the knowledge of pure truth. However, as long as there are separate communities, as long as each one tries to win members for itself who have to prove their membership by accepting what they teach themselves .... as long as these members’ freedom of thought is restricted they are mere supporters but not living (24.03.1958) Christians who can consider themselves to belong to the church of Christ ....

But as soon as a person becomes ‘alive’, which thus only requires the condition of a life of love, he also realises the extent of truth a school of thought can claim for itself. Then he will certainly be able to instruct his fellow human beings better than the leaders of the schools of thought but he will not be able to transfer his insight to his fellow human being either, instead his fellow human being has to fulfil the same conditions which will lead to the realisation of the pure truth: He first has to become a ‘living’ Christian through a life of love because this results in a strong faith, and then he also belongs to the church of Christ, which He Himself has built on the rock of faith.

It should make sense to every thinking human being that God will never depend a person’s beatitude on the school or community of faith he belongs to, since the simple fact that people are born into and attached to such communities without volition should make them think .... provided they still have enough faith to acknowledge a God and a purpose for the human being. For atheists such thoughts are not worth discussing anyway because they dismiss every school of faith. But to those who all too eagerly support their opinion and repeatedly try to prove their truth by quoting words from the scriptures which, however, they only interpret rationally, apply the words that only love alone activates the spirit within the human being. In that case, however, the spirit will also instruct them in accordance with the truth, and therefore misguided teachings will also be highlighted from which the person has to liberate himself if he wants to be a living Christian, a follower of the true ‘church of Christ’, which does not exhibit any other outward characteristics than just the working of the divine spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Characteristic of the church of Christ: The working of the spirit ....

B.D. 5174 from July 19th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The church of Christ is not an organisation, it is the unification of all spiritually striving people from all denominations who believe in Jesus Christ and live a life of love, for not the creed provides the evidence of their belonging to the said church but the spirit which speaks through the people who are its members. Surely you will understand that it can never ever be enough for God that a person joins this or that school of thought, either because of its name or also due to being impressed by the customs and traditions which every organisation and denomination exhibit, but that God only evaluates a person's attitude which can vary in every denomination, i.e., more or less corresponding to God's will, more or less heeding the divine commandments. And yet, the only decisive factor as to who may count himself a member of the church of Christ is whether a life of love has awakened God's spirit within the human being .... The church of Christ is a purely spiritual organisation which makes no concessions to the world whatsoever; it is only based on a human being's spiritual life, on the conscious will to attain the spiritual goal which is the human being's task on earth. The church of Christ unites all believing, that is, inwardly convinced followers of Jesus who accept the divine teaching of love as their law of life, who acknowledge Christ's act of Salvation and through conscious unity with Him know no other endeavour but to develop the strength of the spirit .... who thus are enlightened by the divine spirit, which will always be the evidence of belonging to His church.

The church of Christ needs no other external characteristic in order to be recognised as His true church, which He Himself founded on earth, apart from the spiritual rebirth, which is verified by the expression of the divine spirit in the human being. And this, in turn, is recognisable through enlightened thinking, through the realisation of truth, through realising the purpose of the human being's life, through strong faith and its resulting extraordinary working, be it by healing the sick, by averting great earthly adversity, by the influx of the divine Word or the commanding of the elements for the benefit of other people. A power, which is of divine origin, will always emerge once the human being has achieved spiritual rebirth, and he will belong to the church of Christ, which is outside of every ecclesiastical organisation but which can number people from every denomination as its members. It is a spiritual community of profoundly devout people whose leader is Jesus Christ Himself, with whom every member must enter into heartfelt contact in order to be admitted to His church. For His church is something that is alive, it is not a dead structure which exists in the world by name yet lacks all spirit. His church is based on living faith which was brought alive through love .... This is why love and faith are the first condition in order to belong to His church, why people from all denominations belong to His church, whose living faith arose from their love for God and their neighbour. All these people are being united by Jesus Christ in the church He established on earth, and He also bestows them with the gifts of the spirit depending on their maturity, ability and purpose of activity on earth for His kingdom. Wherever God's spirit is working there stands a pillar of His church which is and will remain insurmountable for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Working of the adversary against the truth

Foreign Gods .... ceremonies .... bowl - core .... truth ....

B.D. 5671 from May 9th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

I would like to convey the truth to all people in order to help them attain beatitude, yet I usually encounter resistance because My adversary is just as anxious to spread untruth in order to strengthen himself and his power. Anyone who knows about the correlations, about the battle between light and darkness, about the opposition of My former bearer of light, who knows about the conditions which bring about the union with Me, will also know why the truth is always under attack, why the great spiritual darkness is on earth, which is synonymous with complete lack of knowledge, with people's confused thinking and misguided views. He will also understand that My adversary constantly seeks to increase the darkness, that he does not cease to blind people and that no means is too bad for him if he can undermine the truth through it.

And he will always use such means which appear good and pious because he first deceives people so that they shall not recognize his activity. Precisely those people he fears losing are exposed to his deceptive intentions, and he will have an easy time with them if they are indeed outwardly but not deeply inwardly united with Me, if they therefore have an inclination towards externalities which often accompany religious activity, so-called worship which, however, is more idolatry because too much attention is paid to dead matter and because the 'shell' touches the human being more than the core. Understand it .... where the human being sinks into his inner self, where he shuts himself off from the world and focuses his eyes on Me alone, there no illusions can deceive his senses, there no spirit of lies can find entrance, for there I am and protect My children from My adversary's error and deception. But where this inner gathering is lacking, where the eyes rest complacently on externals, where ceremonies are performed, where the spiritual forces itself out of the realm of matter, there the influences on the soul are also impure, and they make the soul susceptible to all kinds of illusions and dazzling lights, for everything that enters human hearts from outside brings impure currents with it and, as it were, denies Me access to the heart, which is now filled with such spiritual currents emanating from the one who is lord of matter and who also wants to assert himself in people's hearts .... And this one also expresses himself so obviously where he is given the opportunity that he can be recognized by people devoted to Me but is acknowledged by the superficial followers as the representative of My kingdom .... He has great power, and especially in the time of the end, but he always needs people's approval for this, he cannot express himself in an area which is inhabited by Me, but certainly where the world is still in the foreground.

There is his kingdom, there he wreaks havoc wherever he can. And there is only one remedy .... the intimate living connection with Me, which eliminates all his activity and makes it impossible. Where I Myself am put on the back burner, where, as it were, other gods exist next to Me, he has already won the game, for he then intervenes as one of the gods, precisely because he wants to oust Me, because he has declared war on Me, because he wants to dethrone Me, but he will never succeed. For I am the truth and I will convey the truth to people who are of good will .... These will always know to distinguish truth from error and lies because they are in living contact with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The adversary's activity behind a mask ....

B.D. 8433 from March 8th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

The adversary will fight using all means during the last days before the end .... And neither will he shy away from availing himself of My Words and portraying himself as an angel of light which intends to bring salvation to people. And in their spiritually unenlightened state people will not recognise who approaches them and takes possession of their thoughts .... They will believe blindly as long as they hear pious words which, however, can be voiced by every spirit, because they are mere words which it does not believe in itself but which it uses in order to deceive people and to lead them astray. These dark forces don't shy away from any lie and often introduce themselves to people as elevated and supreme beings of light in order to deceive them and to stifle their doubts regarding the truthfulness of their statements. And you will be surprised in which way My adversary will continue to influence people through his accomplices during the last days .... For he wants to imitate Me .... Just as I Myself convey the pure truth to earth he, too, will try to impel people to listen to him by disguising himself as an angel of light. And people's obsession with making contact with supernatural spheres, with receiving extraordinary information and thus with entering a realm which is outside of this earth often provides My adversary with the opportunity to push himself forward and to be of service to people in order to confuse their thoughts, so that they are no longer able to recognise the pure truth if it is offered to them, because they, too, want to push themselves forward and regard themselves as recipients of the truth. The adversary plays an unscrupulous game but people themselves support him, for usually it is mere curiosity rather than a genuine desire for truth which motivates them into establishing contact with this spiritual world, which emanates blatant error in order to undermine the pure truth and which does not provide people with enlightenment. Only deceptive lights keep flashing up which so dazzle the eye that it cannot recognise the pure truth anymore. However, I Myself Am unable to do anything else but to repeatedly point out his cunning and trickery to you, for you yourselves give him the reason which makes his activity possible. For as soon as you strive towards Me with profound sincerity and desire the purest truth from Me I would truly not let you fall into his hands, and you would realise brightly and clearly that you are only being deceived by evil spirits, and time and again I have revealed the attributes to you by which you can recognise them ....

Just test them concerning My 'human manifestation in Jesus Christ', ask them to explain this mystery to you and you will realise that they will fail because they are still unenlightened themselves, that they don't know anything about Him and His act of Salvation and that they only avail themselves of His name in order to deceive you, yet they don't mean the name of their God and Creator of eternity, which they cannot voice in awareness of what it signifies .... They certainly make use of Jesus' human name, because they only ever speak of a human being but not of God Himself .... And you will truly not meet many people who, as bearers of light, will be able to enlighten you about this, because they received this clarification from Me Myself. But then you will also be able to make a judgment and accept the light from them without having to fear that you will be wrongly instructed .... And you can believe that a person will not know the truth as long as this problem of My human manifestation in Jesus is still unresolved .... Anyone who does not recognise or has not recognised Him as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world in Whom I manifested Myself in order to be able to be a visible God for My created beings will never .... be it on earth or from the beyond .... be able to inform you humans truthfully, for he himself does not yet have the truth, the correct realisation, and therefore he is not a right leader and teacher for people on earth either .... However, you humans are easily inclined to accept everything you receive from the spiritual kingdom as truth, because the desire to hear something extraordinary dominates you, thus it is stronger than the desire for the pure truth .... Yet in order to entrust you with an extraordinary task, which consists of receiving the truth from Me directly and of passing it on to your fellow human beings, you still lack too many prerequisites which facilitate a transmission of the pure truth .... requirements which I cannot exclude as not to endanger the pure truth. For you still move within a world of spirits yourselves which you attract through your desire for something extraordinary and, as a result, you are not guarded against influences from My adversary's sphere .... Neither do you free yourselves from this influence: instead you place yourselves at the disposal of these forces time and again which you, however, would definitely repel through heartfelt devotion to Me in Jesus Christ, through devotion to your Father and Redeemer, Who is your refuge and protection against everything that is unspiritual and that wants to encroach upon you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

False Christs and prophets ....

B.D. 8487 from May 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Beware of false Christs and false prophets .... I warned you about those when I lived on earth because I knew of My adversary's activities, of his snares and unscrupulous machinations whereby he tries to pull you humans into ruin. He is using all means, and this especially during the last days in order to increase the darkness in which humanity languishes. There will be people everywhere who claim to be knowing and initiated into the secrets of creation, who demand people's recognition and faith in their spiritual experiences and who are but My adversary's tools, because they support and spread spiritual knowledge which completely contradicts the truth. False Christs and false prophets will appear in large numbers .... They will all wear the cloak of divine messengers, they will all claim to possess knowledge and to be in contact with the highest representatives .... They will pretend to be messengers of light and yet walk in profound darkness themselves, and therefore they will only ever spread darkness amongst their fellow human beings. They cannot emanate light because they don't possess light themselves, yet their mannerisms are so self-assured that people do not dare doubt the divine mission of those who, nevertheless, in reality work for My adversary. But only people who live in truth themselves will be able to recognise this and they, in turn, will be described by them to be false prophets .... And it will be difficult to convince oneself of the true prophets' divine mission, yet it is not impossible .... The fact that true prophets exist is proven by My warning against false prophets ....

However, you need only ever seriously desire not to fall prey to the latter and truly, you will also know whom to turn to. For My messengers will bring you a message which will touch your soul in a comforting and helpful way, which will affect you like a nourishing meal and refreshing drink, which you will continue to desire and thereby become noticeably strengthened for your earthly life's path. Whereas the alleged knowledge conveyed to you by wrong teachings cannot convince you of the truth and does not result in any illumination or stimulation of your soul .... It is and remains barren knowledge which you will find barely credible and of little use to you. It is more likely to cause you dread and fear because you are unable to detect a loving God therein, Who behaves like a Father with His child. False prophets will never be able to offer people pure truth, and the adversary's only intentions are to undermine the truth, to entangle people in error. His most eager endeavour consists of withholding from people the truth about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, about God's human manifestation in Jesus, or to confuse their thoughts such that they won't take the path to the cross and thereby their earthly path remains unsuccessful for their souls .... And no means is too evil for him to use, because Jesus defeated him through His crucifixion, and he is trying to regain the fruits of His victory again .... Souls who turn to Jesus are lost to him; consequently he will try to give an entirely wrong description of Jesus so that they do not see any reason why they should take the path to the cross. The truthful portrayal of the act of Salvation also has a redeeming effect, and this means that My adversary will lose his followers, what he tries to prevent by cunning and trickery. And you humans can truly and easily recognise every false prophet yourselves by the fact that he withholds the knowledge of the Salvation through Jesus Christ from you, and thus you are entitled to dismiss him as a 'false prophet' .... And especially during the last days you can notice increasingly more often that most diverse descriptions of spiritual subjects are given by those who present themselves as prophets of truth. Yet in one instance they all agree, that the salvation through Jesus Christ .... the sacrifice on the cross by the man Jesus to redeem the immense guilt of sin .... is doubtful, because the belief in this signifies a loss of followers for My adversary and he does not want to lose them ....

Jesus Christ has been argued about for centuries, because time and again false prophets arose who had already proven their affiliation to My adversary and were influenced by him to act against Jesus .... Although they were unable to completely dispute the earthly life of the man Jesus and thereby remove the knowledge of him entirely, the real purpose of His earthly existence .... His redeeming mission .... was repeatedly portrayed as a misguided teaching which removed people's hope of ever being released from their guilt of sin unless they themselves made

Amends .... unless they thus believed these false prophets. Yet no human being will ever be able to release himself from his immense guilt of sin without the help of Jesus Christ; no human being will ever succeed in perfecting himself by his own strength without Jesus Christ, because the original sin absolutely prevents this .... Hence 'self-redemption' is impossible, irrespective of how sincerely it is aspired to, because the human being's will is too weak and would fail time and again .... Regardless of how you are instructed .... if Jesus Christ is not portrayed as the Son of God and Saviour of the world, in Whom I embodied Myself, you are not taught the complete truth, and you will not become eternally free, since only truth will set you free. And I Myself transmit this truth to you, I Myself, your God and Creator of eternity, the greatest and most perfect Spirit in infinity .... I transmit the revelations to you directly and guide you into truth, because I want to give you the light of awareness again, which you once gave away voluntarily and which will be returned to you providing you willingly accept it, providing you let yourselves be taught by Me and surrender to Me with love, thus also fulfilling My will .... providing you change yourselves to love and accept your original nature again in which you were happy beyond description. Only One can promise all this to you, and only One can help you to achieve it, and this One is Jesus, Who is completely merged with Me, thus He and I are one .... God from eternity to eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Battle of the dark forces against the truth ....

B.D. 6526 from April 19th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Where My flow of grace can flow abundantly to earth the battle between light and darkness will break out particularly fiercely, for multitudes will gather around the source where they can refresh themselves with the water of life, and likewise the forces of darkness will be driven there by My adversary in order to prevent life-awakening nourishment from being offered to the souls. For this reason you, who serve Me and accept My word from on high, will certainly feel resistance but far more strength will flow to you from the beings of light which shield you from those dark beings, which hinder them and are also able to do so because your will and also the will of the souls surrounding you gives them a right to do so .... Nevertheless, the dark forces do not slacken in their fight against the light, and they always find willing people who work on their behalf where they themselves get nowhere .... people they can influence to take sides against you, who are enemies of truth and seek to intersperse My pure word with error. They want to contaminate the pure spring water with poisonous additives on behalf of My adversary who gets a willing hearing from them and can therefore use them as his henchmen. But the bright beam of light reveals everything, and the serious will and the desire for truth is the safest protection against those forces. Therefore you should not be surprised if time and again your fellow human beings attack the pure truth from Me .... And countless souls are worried about your standing firm because they recognise every cloudiness and yet long for light .... And they are grateful when the ray of light becomes ever brighter around you, because every temptation passed strengthens the light around you, and now you are helped on all sides as soon as dark forces are on the advance again. The battle between light and darkness must be allowed, for it concerns the free decision of you and also of the souls in the kingdom of the beyond .... Nevertheless, so many graces are available to the willing that he can emerge victorious from this battle. And My adversary is enraged about this and seeks to achieve his goal through cunning. But no matter how cleverly and cunningly he disguises himself .... he can be recognised and will be recognised by all those who are serious about their souls' salvation, about truth and about My love .... And therefore no-one needs to fear falling into his hands or not being able to cope with his attacks if it is only his will not to fall under his sway, for this will alone is enough for Me Myself to be with him and he is under safest protection. But prepare for ever stronger attacks from his side, for he, in his delusion, will not slacken to take action against Me and you, and he constantly lies in wait at the places where I have opened up the fountain of life for all those who come along the path hungry and thirsty .... He tries to deny access to all of them but he cannot prevent it because figures of light accompany the wanderers who long for the source of life .... But My adversary flees from the light, he does not dare to enter its glow .... But since My word is the light from on high, it cannot be extinguished or dimmed by him and his followers unless people themselves are of his mind and work for him .... But even then the light is still stronger than the darkness, and it exposes anyone who with evil intentions approaches the fountain of life, which I have opened up for all those who desire the light, Me and the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Some examples of errors and their lessons

God wants to be loved and not feared ....

B.D. 8348 from December 5th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

I do not want you to look upon Me as an avenging and punishing God Who ruthlessly condemns and inflicts hardest punishments on all those who act in opposition to Him .... I do not want to cause you to fear Me as a stern Judge because I only want you to love Me .... I want to gain your love, therefore you should also recognise Me in My nature and give no credence to those who provide you with a completely wrong image of Me which will never be suitable to awaken love for your God and Creator Who is also your Father and wants to be recognised as Father .... Every doctrine which portrays Me as a God of revenge and an eternally wrathful Judge is wrong, for such misguided teachings will only ever increase the distance between you and Me, because as long as love for Me is not in you, you cannot come closer to Me either .... My fundamental substance is love and you emerged from this love .... But this love remains unchanging and constantly requests reciprocated love .... It can neither change itself nor vanish, and therefore My love will apply to you for all eternity. It will follow you into the deepest abyss in order to release you from it again .... but at no time ever will I throw you into this abyss, I will never ever condemn that which originated from Me, even if it opposes Me and rejects My love. But this love will do whatever it takes in order to encourage you, My living creations, to come close to Me again .... My love will seek to attract your love until, one day, you yourselves will turn to Me with burning love and try to find unity with Me. And then your fate will be unlimited bliss as it was in the beginning before you rejected My illumination of light. My nature has been wrongly portrayed to you humans on earth, at best you fear Me if you acknowledge Me as a Power which brought everything into existence .... but you dare not come to Me like children and appeal to Me for something because you are unaware of My greater than great love for you which wants to give itself away yet requires you to approach Me voluntarily ....

However, I do not merely want to be recognised as a God of power but also as a God of love and therefore I constantly reveal Myself to people who experience hardship or sad events an untold number of times in earthly life and are time and again helped to overcome them .... They would certainly be able to recognise Me as a loving God Who knows everything and time after time is willing to help .... For I come close to every human being in earthly life, by just paying attention to it he would be able to detect a higher providence in his earthly life, in his destiny, in all experiences he encounters. But I also reveal Myself to people through the Word, I speak to them and also give them a sign of My great love by admonishing and warning them, by offering advice and comfort, by plainly explaining to them their purpose of life and promising them strength and assistance for their earthly progress so that it may lead to the goal, to unity with Me .... For the Father longs for His children who emerged from His love .... and love will never abandon its children. However, for as long as the human being fails to recognise God's love because false doctrines only taught him to fear God .... he will not establish the right relationship of a child to its Father either, and his return to Me will be at risk. And you can reject every doctrine as error if it causes you to be frightened of your God and Creator, for I take pity on the greatest sinner and try to help him, but I do not worsen his state of torment which he precipitated himself .... I do not condemn but lift all fallen beings up again .... I do not punish, instead the being punishes itself as a result of its guilt of sin and I try to bring him redemption. And what you consider divine Judgment is only a just compensation and helpful act on My part, because every transgression against My eternal order must have a lawful consequence, in which case I only ever help that which has become disorderly back into order again, because My love and wisdom recognises this to be beneficial, for I want to give Myself away and Am only able to do so within the scope of My eternal order .... And whatever you humans regard as sad only ever helps you to fit into My law of eternal order again one day so that I will then also be able to bestow gifts upon you once more, so that I will be able to make you happy with My infinite love, as it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Teaching of re-incarnation is misguided .... Law ....

B.D. 2873 from September 7th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

The divine laws are eternally unchanging, and all higher development in the physical as well as in the spiritual kingdom takes place in accordance with these laws. Physical and spiritual creations of the most diverse variety exist. And their only purpose is to guide the spirit which is distant from God back to Him. Yet every stage of development is as different as are the individual creations. Thus they will always be inhabited by spirits whose degree of maturity matches their nature. There will always be a progressive development as long as the spirit moves through the physical creation in a compulsory state .... However, a standstill or decline of development can occur during the final stage of the physical creation as human being .... but at the end of human life the spirit will irrevocably enter the beyond where no further physical creations exist. But even in the spiritual realm a standstill or decline can occur because the being retains its free will which is, however, considerably weakened if it has only achieved a low degree of maturity. Similar to earthly life, higher development in the spiritual realm also depends on activity, and this activity is and has to remain completely ambiguous to people on earth as they cannot comprehend its significance but which, on the other hand, depends on earthly creations.

In effect, people believe that every activity necessitates earthly, i.e. physical, creations. Consequently they support the view that the soul will return to the realm where it formerly had neglected its higher development, that it will return to earth to carry on where it had left off .... that it can repeat its interrupted progress of development anytime until final perfection .... And this assumption leads to a teaching which does not comply with the truth but which finds approval everywhere and is therefore widespread .... to the teaching of re-incarnation on earth .... Only few people understand the disastrous effects of this teaching for humanity if it is not disproved and corrected. This teaching, in a way, overrules the divine law that, in accordance with the plan of divine wisdom, everything must advance if it wants to progress. Re-incarnation on earth would be a regression for the soul approved by God, thus it would completely contradict the divine law which commands and demonstrates consistent progress. Although the being itself can indeed voluntarily descend but God’s will would never return it to a state which it had already overcome once before. And it will never be permitted to arbitrarily repeat a course of action which it had previously failed. For it still has thousands upon thousands of opportunities to develop further but they always take place on different creations and under completely different conditions ....

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

Doctrine of damnation is misguided teaching ....

B.D. 7910 from June 4th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

Do not fear to become lost when you carry Me in your heart .... do not believe that an avenging God will punish you for your sins, that He has no mercy, that He will condemn you forever .... I Am a God of love and mercy, and will always help you to ascend from the abyss into which you plunged yourselves of your own free will. As a result of your sins you have placed yourselves into a wretched state; you created the state of suffering you find yourselves in .... Yet I will always support you to find your way back out of the abyss, time after time I will help you to become blessed again as you were in the beginning. You wanted the evil yourselves and drew it close to you, the effect of your past voluntary aspiration and action could never be happiness but has resulted in a miserable state ....

But your God and Father loves you because you came forth from His love .... and this love will never cease. Hence it will always endeavour to encourage you back, it will do everything to grant you a blissful fate, but it does require your free will. Since you once left Me voluntarily, since you once burdened yourselves with a grave sin, you also have to return to Me of your own free will again, you have to realise your guilt, you have to regret it and ask Me for forgiveness .... and everything will be as it was in the beginning, you will be blissfully happy in your relationship with Me .... Thus you may always believe in a God of love and mercy .... for although I Am also a righteous God I will nevertheless not leave you to your self-chosen destiny or inflict punishments on you .... It is therefore wrong to say that I condemn you for your sins .... instead I meet this attitude with the act of My love and compassion: My sacrificial death on the cross on behalf of your sins. If I wanted to condemn you eternally for your past guilt of sin My act of Salvation truly would not have been necessary. But I gave you the proof of My love and mercy .... I sacrificed Myself, I died for you, I surrendered My life on the cross for your guilt of sin ....

From this alone you can see that the doctrine of eternal damnation is a misguided doctrine, because My act of Salvation proves the opposite .... it gives evidence to you of a God of love and mercy, Who sacrifices Himself in order to redeem your guilt, Who therefore will not ever eternally condemn you .... A punishing God is not the true image of Me and My Being, I Am love and will never plunge My living beings into even greater misery than they already experienced through their apostasy from Me .... I want to regain them and therefore took their guilt upon Myself in order to redeem it, because I took pity on the destiny of the fallen souls and I wanted to help them to ascend.

But the living creation .... the human being in the last stage on earth .... can also refuse to accept My mercy and remain obstinately far away from Me, then he will stay wretched indeed and create his own fate of damnation which, however, he can stop at any time by merely approaching Me, by acknowledging My act of Salvation and by calling upon it .... He will always find in Me a loving Father Who wants to help His child, Who Himself longs for His child and will at all times support him .... He merely respects the free will of the child and does not force it to return. But then it will suffer an unhappy fate until the voluntary return to Me has taken place ....

I AM a God of love and mercy .... But righteousness, which is part of My perfect nature too, does not permit Me to provide you with a blissful fate since it was your own fault that you became sinful .... You first have to accept the atonement of your guilt through My salvation, you have to acknowledge Me in Jesus Christ and want to belong to those for whom I shed My blood on the cross .... And truly, you will no longer speak of a God of wrath, Who condemns you mercilessly .... You will experience My love on yourselves, for He Who took your past guilt of sin upon Himself and atoned it, wants to unite with you again and permeate you with His strength of love, and you will be and remain blissfully happy for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The true description of the act of Salvation ....

B.D. 8731 from January 20th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

I only ever want you to know that you can only return to Me on the path of truth, and therefore you also have to accept it from Me, because I Am Eternal Truth .... But then you will steadily follow the path which will be shown to you because you will clearly understand why you are living on earth and where your true home is. When you are taught the truth you will also learn about your origin and all previous events in the spiritual kingdom which will then make your earthly life explicable, you will recognise its meaning and goal and then try to achieve it. But if you are given erroneous information everything will be incomprehensible to you and give rise to all kinds of questions which will then be answered wrongly again .... And then your earthly life will be mostly lived in vain since My adversary will keep you in the dark and will always prevent you from searching for truth or from sincerely requesting it.

The essence of what you should know is and remains Jesus Christ's act of Salvation. If you are truthfully informed, your perfection, your return to Me, is guaranteed because then you will make use of the blessings which the human being Jesus acquired through His crucifixion. All weakness of will shall vanish, you will seriously strive for perfection and be relieved of the original sin's burden which had pushed you to the ground so much that you could not get up by yourselves. And I will always endeavour to convey to you the truth about the act of Salvation because you need to know of it if it is to be of benefit to you, if Christ is to have shed His blood for you too, which compensated for your great sin of guilt .... Because you consciously have to claim the blessings, you consciously have to accept Him as the divine Redeemer, surrender your guilt to Him and ask Him for forgiveness, because He and I are One. Once you rebelled against Me .... once you refused to acknowledge Me and now you have to acknowledge Me in Jesus as your God and Father and long for unification with Me again.

There is no other way to return to Me than the path to the cross, and only this pure truth will lead you there, only truth can give you the knowledge of how significant Jesus Christ's act of Salvation is for you and why you have to pay heed to it. And if, due to My adversary's influence, this truth is mixed with inaccurate spiritual knowledge, Jesus Christ's act of Salvation will also be described wrongly, it will be devalued precisely because it is understood wrongly, which is My adversary's objective. He will always strive to keep people in spiritual darkness, and thus he makes sure that the truth is infiltrated by error in order to prevent people from becoming enlightened, from recognising and walking the right path in this light.

It is his intention to render the act of Salvation entirely ineffective, to take all relevant knowledge from people, to portray Jesus as a rebellious human being in a secular sense who therefore had to suffer death on the cross .... It is his intention to argue every spiritual motive and thus destroy people's faith in a mission by Jesus so that they will not take the path to Him under His cross and instead deny Him as a Saviour of humanity sent by God. And thus humanity suffers an unimaginable disadvantage, for only He can help their great spiritual need ....

By excluding Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation people will live their earthly life in vain, they will stay in spiritual darkness and therefore also part of him who is My adversary and My enemy. But where he works I Am always active too, and where he corrupts truth I will constantly send it down to earth. And pure truth will always find its way to where it is desired. The adversary will not be able to prevent this since the desire for truth applies to Me and thus the human being has already passed his final test of will, he has chosen Me and will therefore also receive from Me .... And what I give will always be of utmost value and therefore also help the human being reach his goal.

But you humans should not forget that only the truth can have beneficial consequences because wrong spiritual knowledge can never result in salvation for the human being's soul. Hence you only ever have to desire the truth, you should not be satisfied with spiritual knowledge the end result of which is unknown to you, and therefore you always have to ask Me to enable you to recognise that which is lawful and true and to protect you from misguided spiritual knowledge. And truly .... I will always fulfil this request, after all, I want you to return to Me and therefore I will also show you the right path to walk .... And then you will also reach your goal safely ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Error to be corrected again and again ....

B.D. 8391 from January 23rd 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Every spiritually directed thought allows My working on and in you, and I can instruct you, I can increase the light in you, I can give you food and drink and thus draw you ever closer to My heart, for you must come close to Me yourselves in order to be able to receive delicious gifts from My hands. And I still have much to offer you, there is still much error in the world which I would like to correct if I find open hearts which are willing to listen to Me. For there truly could not be such a great spiritual low if people moved in truth, yet error confused their thinking and they are therefore completely unenlightened and therefore also live a completely wrong life. So much has been presented to people as truth and they unhesitatingly accepted knowledge which originated from My adversary whose only endeavour is to keep people in spiritual darkness. People's free will itself time and again gave him the opportunity to bring untrue spiritual knowledge to them and to displace the pure truth. And if you humans only consider the one thing, into what absurd forms My legacy was forced, what garment was given to My pure gospel, which I Myself founded on earth .... If only you consider in what schematic functions people see and recognize 'their church', how everything has become a form which is supposed to earn people eternal bliss .... and if you consider how little people themselves do to acquire an inner light in order to clearly and distinctly recognize what My will is and in what My church founded by Me consists .... For a long time they have been plodding along as 'followers' in organisations and don't even think about whether this can bring them eternal bliss .... And this indifference towards the most important thing, to fulfil the purpose of their earthly life, was brought about by My adversary, yet people themselves conceded this power to him, and it is difficult to light a light for them so that they could see a true picture of why they live on earth. Such a light has certainly been lit by Me time and again, and I have never left people to their fate, even though free will had shaped it this way .... Yet time and again this same free will also rejected Me Myself, and people held on to the wrong spiritual knowledge, they did not take the opportunity to kindle a light for themselves, for the bond with Me became ever weaker because they were unable to recognize Me correctly in the many misguided teachings and the image they received of Me was not suitable to awaken love for Me in them. Yet they need only have asked themselves whether a God of love, wisdom and might would have erected such a structure which was presented to them as a 'beatifying church'. Every clear mind, which would have examined in good will to do what is right before God, would also have recognized the nonsense ..... But people allowed themselves to be driven, only rarely did a person reflect on himself and think self-willedly because he desired the truth .... The majority, however, unhesitatingly accepted everything as truth, no matter how clearly the workings of the opposing power could be recognized .... And the more time went on the less people dared to doubt the truth of what was, after all, a structure of lies of the greatest magnitude, otherwise the effect could not have been that almost no one possessed a living faith anymore, which comes to life through love .... For love was certainly also taught but all other teachings were given priority .... so that the building could hold up .... But if love had been preached as a priority, this alone would have been enough for the light to ignite in people's hearts, which, however, would also have meant the downfall of a human work which is certainly presented as My work but which can never be My will and My work, which results from people's spiritual low level as it is in the present time .... in the time before the end .... is evident .... Time and again I have explained what is to be understood by My church founded by Myself. And people will also be found everywhere who belong to this church of Mine .... Yet precisely these are not recognized because they possess the clear realization through their love and faith .... the emblem of My church .... that all worldly works of construction, even if they believe to lead people to spiritual life, are not wanted by Me. For they are far more likely to hold people back from spiritual life than to promote it .... For lies and error cannot have a spiritually beneficial influence, rather they can only lead people away from the right faith and then also present Me to people in a distorted way, which is the adversary's intention. If only people could free themselves from doctrines imposed on them which never originated from Me .... they would only take the direct path to Me Myself and sincerely request that I Myself introduce them to all truth, that I help them to follow their earthly path in accordance with My will .... I will truly not let any such request go unheeded and help everyone to the light who earnestly desires it. For every person should also consider that he bears responsibility for himself, that he cannot pass it on to those who have taught him wrongly, for I step into everyone's path and bring Myself so close to him that he would be able to recognize Me. For I only want people to pray to their God and creator, to call upon Him as father and, like true children, to trustingly expect the father's help .... And truly, I will reveal Myself to this child and it will be able to recognize Me, for the light I will now kindle in it will shine so brightly that it will no longer be oppressed by darkness or doubt, and it will take the path which leads to Me, home into the father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The fight against error

Combating error .... darkness .... truth ....

B.D. 3984 from February 23rd 1947, taken from Book No. 49

Unusual hardship necessitates unusual help, and unusual hardship is when people walk along in error, for error is darkness, error is ignorance of truth and therefore a path which can never lead to the aim. But the aim is God, and if God cannot be reached, if this is made impossible, urgent help is needed. Error must be fought and the pure truth offered in return, for only truth is the path to eternal life. Therefore, truth must take an unusual path so that it will be recognized and heeded as such .... It must so obviously reveal the divine outcome that people will stop and pay attention to what is offered to them, only then will they weigh it up against error and allow themselves to be taught that they have to take a different path in order to reach the aim. However, as long as they hold on to error the blessing of truth remains hidden from them .... the strength which harbours and emanates divine truth .... People must first observe the commandment of love, only then will they be able to recognize the pure truth and free themselves from error; for the recognition of truth as such and thus the rejection of error requires strength of judgment which is the result of unselfish activity of love. And so that the human being will take it seriously, because it is necessary for the pure truth to permeate earth, God conveys this truth to earth in an unusual way through His word, which He imparts to a person through the voice of the spirit, and He urgently admonishes them to be lovingly active .... so that the darkness will disappear, so that the path which people should take and which will safely lead to the aim will lie brightly and clearly before them. People live without seriously considering their soul's development, and yet many believe that they can fulfil their earthly task by fulfilling certain duties and customs which, however, do not increase their soul's maturity in the slightest. And this is the error which is extremely damaging for people's souls and therefore cannot be fought seriously enough. Only the fulfilment of the divine commandment of love contributes towards increasing the soul's maturity, and as long as love is not practiced all spiritual progress is impossible. But error, by which countless people are ensnared, must also be branded as error, otherwise it cannot be discarded and replaced by pure truth. As long as people believe that they can gain God's pleasure by obeying human commandments, as long as they consider them important and only pay attention to and try to obey the divine commandment of love secondarily, they will waste energy without making any progress. For error does not lead to God .... i.e., even if people excel in obeying humanly decreed commandments, they will not come one step closer to God as a result but they have to fulfil His commandment which demands love for their neighbour and which does not require any external confirmations but is only a matter of the heart. To use all strength for activity in unselfish neighbourly love is in accordance with God's will, and anyone who strives for this will also be in possession of the pure truth and recognize error as such, he will try to discard it and attain maturity of soul, he will reach his aim of coming close to God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Accepting truth is a commitment .... Errors ....

B.D. 8555 from July 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

You are supposed to spread the truth .... That is the task you accepted voluntarily and which you should now put into practice if you want to serve Me as My disciples in the last days. But to spread the truth also includes fighting against error as soon as an error becomes evident to you. I keep telling you that you cannot be tolerant where it concerns the pure truth from Me, that you should support it firmly and not, due to alleged tolerance, allow for a continued existence of error .... You should denounce it as error and not shy away from proceeding against it, because it is My adversary's doing and will never serve to provide benefit for the human soul.

And especially you, who recognise the error because you have been instructed in the truth by Me Myself .... should not shy away from it, because you have the right to fight it. You are sent by Me amongst people as bearers of light with an ample supply of spiritual knowledge that justifies your actions against error because you are able to refute and decry it as a work of My adversary .... He is at work where error exists because only purest truth originates from Me, but he constantly tries to undermine the pure truth.

The human being has free will which will be seized by the direction of its choice. If he looks for contact with Me he will be given pure truth indeed, and he should work with it too, i.e., he should pass it on to his fellow human beings whose thoughts remain misguided as long as they are not educated by Me Myself as the Eternal Truth.

My adversary will try to work in the same manner and will also be successful with people who are not aware of the great responsibility, who do not understand what it means to receive purest truth and to pass it on .... who do not fear error as it should be feared and who therefore do not inwardly resist when My adversary tries to convey error to them. My adversary will also disguise himself as an angel of light but he will not be able to deceive you, My bearers of light. You will recognise his activity and then should also take action against it, since this is the task which you have volunteered to do for Me.

Wherever you recognise wrong thoughts you should enlighten your fellow human beings about the pure truth, you should help them to let go of the error and realise what is right. Show them their wrong opinion clearly and openly, so that they, too, will arrive at the truth and deliver themselves from My adversary, who is still able to influence them because he still somehow has a claim on those he plunged into error due to their similar inclinations .... It is not advisable to abandon such a misguided person, rather, he should be helped to recognise his error and agree to accept the truth, only then will he derive a benefit from it himself, and only then will he, too, be a true vineyard labourer for Me.

A bearer of truth cannot be tolerant and leave his fellow human beings in error due to kindness .... He should clearly point out that the other person does not think correctly, that he was influenced by My adversary irrespective of how the error was imparted to him .... For the adversary will always be able to interfere with a person's thoughts who is not so intimately in contact with Me that I can protect him .... But it is certain that I Myself do not transmit spiritual knowledge to a person which does not correspond to the truth, and this has to be clear to the person, otherwise My love, wisdom and might could in fact be doubted .... It follows that a direct transmission of My Word to a person cannot have taken place if it is associated with error ....

You humans cannot be careful enough and always have to fear the adversary's influence as long as you do not give yourselves to Me completely and ask for My protection, which I will truly grant everyone who sincerely wants to live in utmost truth and pass it on to his fellow human beings in turn, if they are destined by Me for this truth .... Error is true poison for the human soul, consequently you should take action against it and repeatedly oppose it with truth, since you received it from Me because it is necessary that light should shine into the darkness .... Your free will allows the influx of misguided thoughts, for if you would inwardly resist them in the awareness only to serve the pure truth, misguided mental concepts could not become established in you .... But I can never acknowledge that something which contradicts the pure truth has originated from Me .... You therefore should only ever make sure to spread purest truth and declare uncompromising war on error, and you will act in accordance with My will and on My behalf ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spreading the truth

Condition for right representatives of God: working of the spirit and truthful knowledge ....

B.D. 4515 from December 17th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Anyone who wants to call himself My representative on earth must also instruct his fellow human beings in accordance with the fullest truth. Thus he must possess it himself and therefore be introduced to the pure truth by My spirit through My word. He cannot teach if he has not grasped the meaning himself, if it is not fully comprehensible to him how My word is to be understood, which can only be understood in a deeply spiritual way. Hence he must be so inwardly devoted to Me that I Myself can work in him through My spirit, only then will he be a true representative of My name, then he can be active for Me and My kingdom and work for the blessing of his fellow human beings on earth. But it is not enough for a person to say to Me: "Lord, lord ...." if he confesses Me with his mouth and wants to express his bond with Me through words .... I only look at the heart, but My eyes penetrate it and not the smallest corner remains hidden from Me. I know every thought of the human being and therefore also know the innermost life of the soul of every person who calls himself My representative on earth .... And in accordance with My eternal order I cannot deviate from the conditions I have attached to the working of My spirit in the human being. I cannot enlighten a person's thinking who has not shaped himself to receive My spirit; he will always walk in ignorance, My word will be and remain incomprehensible to him, and consequently he will not be suitable as a teacher for his fellow human beings as long as he has not established the heartfelt bond with Me through loving activity, which then also results in the working of the spirit. And since I am therefore well able to see through people's hearts, I Myself choose the suitable hearts which are suitable as receptacles for My spirit and pour the truth into them .... I Myself train them as teachers because it is urgently necessary that people are enlightened, that My word is conveyed to them in its purest form, that they find the truth if they look for it. And I will also always support these My right representatives on earth with My strength so that they can teach without hesitation and are always active in My will. The truth shall be spread and I bless everyone who contributes to it, who shapes himself such that I Myself can work through him .... that he is truly My representative, who can proclaim My word and make My will known to people and thereby bring light to all people who walk in darkness and desire light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spreading the truth .... Love life ....

B.D. 8381 from January 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Carry the truth further .... Time and again I give you this instruction, and therefore you will only ever fulfil My will if your activity consists of receiving spiritual knowledge from Me and making it accessible to your fellow human beings. And you can believe that you no longer undertake anything on your own authority, because time and again you intimately unite with Me for the receipt of My word and this bond also guarantees you right thinking. And I cannot address all people directly, for as long as they are still in contact with the earthly world their hearts are not yet able to hear Me Myself .... For this requires seclusion from the world, for only then can I express Myself and make Myself understandable to them. But how rarely does this detachment from the world take place, even if people are serious about taking the right path .... But in order to truly serve Me as a bearer of light and truth, such complete devotion to Me must have taken place that the world is no longer respected .... which, however, only very few people succeed in doing, for the world will always push itself forward and intervene in people's thinking. And this should also be taken to heart by these people who certainly believe that they are spiritually active on earth but who also make too much use of their intellect due to worldly influences and demands which require the human being to think intellectually and thereby call purely spiritual activity into question .... Anyone who wants to serve Me must be completely committed to it, and he may no longer make any concessions to the world .... But then I can also be present in him and protect him from all unspiritual influence, and then the pure truth is also guaranteed, which he now receives directly from Me. And this truth shall then also be conveyed to the world, for it is not the sole property of the recipient but has been given to all people through him. And it can contribute again to the fact that the fellow human being also distances himself from the world, that My presence is so desirable to him that the world seems so stale to him and he gladly gives it up in exchange for spiritual goods from Me which will make him exceedingly happy .... Although the examination of spiritual goods first requires a life of love which enables the human being to think correctly, which also enlightens his intellect and both his heart and his intellect accept the spiritual goods .... For without love the human being himself still belongs to My adversary, and he will not allow any light but try to dim or extinguish it. But where I Myself have already been able to illuminate the spirit because the human being has kindled the light of love within himself through loving activity, the examination of spiritual knowledge which has originated from Me will also be easy and lead to the right success .... The examiner himself will feel addressed by Me and will not oppose My word with any doubts. And you can fully believe My word, for it preaches love to you first and foremost .... It also presents to you the effect of a right life of love as well as the state of death in which a loveless person finds himself .... Therefore only eternal love itself can impart such a teaching to you, and it does this in order to win you over for itself, in order to show you the path which leads back to Me again, from Whom you once approached your exit in light and strength .... Love is My primal element .... I Myself am eternal love .... And this love obviously expresses itself to you humans in order to save you from a renewed fall into the abyss .... And this love will truly also turn the pure truth towards you, for only truth can lead you to beatitude, only truth can dispel darkness, and only in truth will you find the path to Me .... And when I give you the task to pass on this truth you need have no qualms that you act arbitrarily in choosing those to whom you convey the spiritual knowledge from Me, for I Myself place the right thoughts into your heart, I Myself inwardly urge you to pass on what people need in order to successfully cover their earthly path .... And every work you now do is for Me, and it will also be blessed to you by Me .... For whatever can still happen to bring salvation to the souls in their adversity will also happen, because I love you from the beginning and will love you for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Office of the truth bearer .... false legal concepts ....

B.D. 6494 from March 7th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

And you will constantly have to fight with the sword of the mouth, you will have to use all your strength and perseverance for My word which is conveyed to you from above; you will have to represent it as pure truth because this is the task which was given to you at the same time as the transmission of My word .... You will only rarely find faith, for people have formed their own opinions which they don't give away so easily because they lack the profound realization which can only be gained through a life of love. And therefore not many people are suitable to fulfil such a task, because the resistance is too great and will constantly increase against the pure truth and a strong will is required to nevertheless administer the office of a bearer of truth with its obligations. And these consist of passing on what he receives from Me. Truth bearers were certainly active at all times, because I never failed to convey the pure truth to earth .... and this truth was always opposed. But it was not yet the time when satan was allowed to rage as he is allowed to do before the end .... even though he always wreaked havoc in people's hearts .... Yet the faith in God, in Jesus Christ as redeemer, was a living one, and this faith also brought about redemption, so that the winning of souls for the spiritual kingdom was recorded at all times, which, however, is becoming less and less in the present time, for no life in the sense of the awakening of the spirit can be found amongst people anymore, apart from a few exceptions which nevertheless do not inspire imitation .... And precisely this dead state amongst humanity gives My adversary cause to rage against Me because he now believes to be standing before the aim. And the fact that satan's activity is evident amongst humanity can be ascertained again and again by those who want good and strive for good aims, for they will encounter resistance everywhere and will be able to pursue wickedness everywhere. Sinful was humanity at all times, but sinful activity was also detested at all times .... by the large part of humanity, whereas now sin has taken over and is no longer recognized as 'sin' .... For people are no longer afraid to openly violate My commandments of love for God and neighbour, and what is openly wrong is regarded as right. People have wrong concepts of law and no sense of responsibility towards a higher judge .... And in such a world it will be difficult to proclaim My gospel of love, and the purest truth from above will be opposed by unbelief and displeasure, precisely because humanity is under the influence of My adversary who confuses people's thinking and masterfully knows how to belittle Me and the truth but to constantly lift himself up more, to transfer himself and his attitude to people and thus to deepen the darkness. And therefore I kindle a light everywhere which shall illuminate his activity and lead him out of the darkness .... But the bearers of light will always be opposed, again and again attempts will be made to extinguish the light. Yet I will not leave people without protection and help who oppose My adversary's activity, who desire light and want to reach their aim on earth .... And I constantly warn and admonish people who are still undecided and have not yet found the right path, for I still want to rescue from his power all those who are of good will so that the end will not approach and they, too, will still fall prey to ruin. And I can only help them by informing them of the truth, which will also be recognized by anyone who has not yet fallen prey to My adversary, who has a living faith in a God and saviour and through this faith has already separated himself from him of his own will .... This one will accept the light and now also faithfully walk the path which certainly leads to Me and to eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unquestioning faith of the servants of God .... protective wall - truth ....

B.D. 4021 from April 10th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

You, who are to bring the gospel to people, you must firmly adhere to My word and unconditionally believe that I impart purest truth to you. For if I need servants on earth to pass on My word, which I offer to you from above, I choose such people for Myself who love the truth and therefore resist the evil forces through their will for truth, thus they are not subject to their influence. I want to train you to become teachers so that you can carry out your mission and teach your fellow human beings the truth. Thus you must first receive pure truth from Me if you are to pass it on. So what is more understandable than that I Myself protect My word from erroneous transmissions, that I surround My servants on earth with a protective wall of good beings which prevent the ignorant forces from interfering with My servant's thoughts? The pure truth shall be spread and therefore I convey it from above, from the kingdom of light, down to earth, so that it can be offered unadulterated to those who desire it. And thus you can accept the announcements from above with complete faith as purest truth, for they originate from Me and it is My will that they be passed on because the time is drawing to a close. For I want to warn and admonish people of what is coming, I want to open up every possibility for them to prepare themselves because it will come suddenly and unexpectedly even for those who know. And therefore I announce to them that they will have to experience much adversity and tribulation .... I announce to them the spiritual battle they will get into shortly before the end, how they will have to withstand as My confessors if they want to become blessed. And I announce to them that I will still manifestly express Myself beforehand in order to still win over people who are weak in faith or undecided as to which side they should turn to if their decision is demanded of them. This statement is the last admonition before the end, and countless people will lose their lives, yet My wisdom and love has decreed it since eternity because I foresaw the spiritual low humanity is in at the end and because I also know about the effectiveness of the means I use. Yet I don't leave people unwarned and thus prepare them for it by announcing the coming event, which I have done through seers and prophets since the beginning of this redemptive era. And you humans shall believe My word and know that everything will come as I have proclaimed to you. You shall know that the day is very near and that it will bring an uproar on the whole earth, for it is too powerful and will result in severe consequences for people, where I will speak loudly and clearly and be audible to all .... I want to help those people gain faith in Me who live without faith, and I want to help those who are weak and indecisive to gain strength of faith, and therefore I announce My intervention which consists of an exceedingly great natural disaster whose consequences are incalculable. But it is the time of the end, and this will also irrevocably approach within the shortest period of time. And therefore I will not leave any means untried beforehand by which I can still win people for Myself, and I instruct My servants to eagerly mention it, which is proclaimed to them through My word and is the purest truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spreading the truth in the hereafter

Conveying spiritual truths in the hereafter ....

B.D. 1600 from September 6th 1940, taken from Book No. 25

The imparting of spiritual truth is likewise extraordinarily significant in the kingdom beyond. It is also a power which flows through the being struggling to ascend, and enables it to work on itself and its perfection. Hence, the being in the beyond receives this strength in the form of knowledge; and therefore, every opportunity is utilised in order to receive strength, for increased knowledge is increased light, and distributing light is again the only means of final redemption, thus the being first has to stand in the light itself, that is, in knowledge, before it can pass it on. Hence, knowledge represents spiritual goods which all beings in the beyond endeavour to increase as long as they have attained realisation, that is, as long as they have recognised God and the truth, and now want to increase their state of maturity to the degree that they come close to God, for it allowes them to receive the light from Him directly. This requires painstaking work, the beings have to strive .... to bring relief to the suffering souls, precisely by imparting spiritual truths which proves to be the only relief; they have to try to penetrate into divine wisdom, and willingly pass on what they have gained for their souls in order to make others happy with it as well. Eager activity is the task of the souls striving upwards, and as soon inactive souls join this activity, they also start the ascent upwards, because every being is met with willing help once it expresses its intention to strive upwards. And therefore, strength will always be sent to the beings as soon as their will demands ascent. But this strength is the spiritual nourishment, the divine Word, which brings enlightenment to all living creations on earth and in the beyond .... Every being that declares itself willing to receive the divine Word, will be touched by the divine flow of strength, and the more it gives of that strength to those who hunger for it, the more will be imparted to it in return .... it will be able to give without emptying itself, it will be allowed to call undreamt-of treasures its own, to hand out as it pleases and yet always receive more and more .... That is the miracle of divine love, that it constantly increases. It is an immensely comforting thought for you humans to be able to help your loved ones in the beyond in a way which provides them with great relief .... if you willingly receive the Word of God where it is offered to you and, through thoughts of love, you call upon the souls in the beyond so that they can likewise hear, then you impart strength to them and they feel this to be indescribably beneficial, since they can hardly make up their mind without help, for their will is weak and listless. And yet, the will has to determine their actions and thoughts. But you humans on earth can stimulate their will through your love. The soul feels every gift of love in the form of strength, that is, a will striving towards the good. And therefore, you will always bring help to the souls if your love determines you to want to help. Every call, every thought you give to the souls in the beyond will have a beneficial effect for them, and rarely will a being, even though it dwells in the darkest spiritual night, reject the love of an earthly human being which follows its soul into the beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Activity of the beings of light .... Spreading the truth ....

B.D. 7623 from June 16th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

In the spiritual world there are the kingdoms of light and darkness .... For the spirits' apostasy from Me created the kingdom of darkness, whereas previously everything was light and there was only beatitude for the beings. And the bliss consisted of the flooding of all beings with light, for light constantly emanates from Me as the original source of light, and every being was permeated by My divine light of love. When, as a result of the spiritual being's apostasy from Me, it also rejected the light of love because the spiritual being closed itself to this radiation, it fell into a state of darkness, it lost all realisation, the beings' thinking became confused and the darkness became ever more dense the further they strove away from Me, the stronger their resistance to Me and My illumination of love became .... The kingdom of darkness arose which encompassed all those beings who had thus turned away from Me of their own will, who could no longer be enlightened by Me because they were in resistance to Me and thus also outside My circle of love .... And this kingdom of darkness will exist as long as there are still unredeemed spiritual beings, because darkness is simply the state of being distant from God, because there can be no light outside of Me, Who is the original light from eternity .... As soon as a being has found its way back to Me again, as soon as its will turns towards Me and has striven for and attained the former perfection, it will also find itself in the kingdom of light again, for it has entered My circle of love again and allows itself to be permeated by My strength of love as it once was .... And then it is also blissful again, as it was in the beginning. It is in the light, i.e. in fullest realisation, it knows everything, it knows all correlations, it knows its destiny, My will and now also seeks to comply with My will in everything, because it has entered My will itself through its approach to Me .... thus it can no longer act other than in My will. Then it will also be active as My co-worker itself, then it will pass on the light which now constantly flows into the being through Me, for it sees in it a delightful activity, it sees in it its task to bring light into the darkness in order to also help the being in darkness to bring it redemption from its torment. For the being suffers from darkness, even if it has voluntarily thrown itself into it, yet its original state was light, and only then can it feel bliss again when the divine light of love shines through it again. The light can now shine dimly and it can shine super-brightly, i.e. I can only illuminate a being dimly if its degree of love and maturity is not yet very high .... However, I can also grace it with the highest abundance of light, according to its maturity .... but light remains light .... Anyone who has once received light, who is once again struck by My transmigration of love, will also attain a certain realisation, and this will and must correspond to the truth, because My transmigration of light of love is nothing other than placing the being into a state of light in which it attains the right realisation .... thus false knowledge could never be imparted to it through My illumination. For wrong knowledge is darkness of spirit, but then one cannot speak of a spirit of light if it is still in the state of darkness. Hence a being of light can never pass on wrong spiritual knowledge, only its realisation can still be limited .... which, however, excludes the fact that such a being seeks to spread something untrue, instead, it then restrains itself, for it only ever transmits light from Me to where there is still darkness. It will then do so to a limited extent but never give itself away to pass on knowledge which does not correspond to the truth. Thus untruth will never be conveyed to earth by a being of light, but beings of darkness can disguise themselves as beings of light, and then caution is always advised. But you can recognize these beings as soon as they convey untrue teachings to earth. You only need to pay attention to what they proclaim to you and how the transmission to earth happens. Every being of light will want to convey the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation into the darkness, for salvation through Him is what people should strive for during their earthly life .... And finding this redemption is their earthly life task .... For it then transfers the being into the state of light again .... Every being of light only ever fulfils My will, and thus it also has to proclaim according to My will if it wants to be active as My messenger. And My will is only ever that you find salvation through Jesus Christ during your earthly life. Therefore, anyone who proclaims on My behalf is also qualified to do so as a bearer of light, that is, his degree of light is so high that he has fullest realisation and cannot convey any error. Anyone who has not yet reached this degree will not be allowed to teach in such a way that people on earth receive instructions through the spirit .... And you should check whether the 'working of the spirit' underlies the conveyances which reach people from the spiritual kingdom, for then the same truth will and must always be the evidence that My spirit is at work. If contradictions can be ascertained, then caution is also advised, because unspirits can easily intervene if a person declares himself willing to be a medium who cannot yet demonstrate the degree of maturity which allows My spirit to 'work' in him. And often teachings are spread through such mediums which are completely erroneous and therefore require an awakened spirit in order to be exposed as error. For Jesus Christ's act of salvation is invalidated by such teachings which try to make credible a repeated life on earth as a human being, which can arbitrarily be put back again and again until the human being's final perfection. For such teachings belittle the significance of the divine act of salvation and can therefore also be recognized as misguided teachings by anyone who seriously strives for truth. A spirit of light will never convey such a teaching to earth because it does not correspond to truth, because a soul of light only teaches according to My will and everything it imparts to other beings is only ever the pure truth from Me, for it is permeated by My light of love and cannot pass on anything but truth. And a spirit of light is also only admitted to instruct people when it stands in brightest realisation .... when it receives My flow of love-power .... My divine word .... through him and thus he only announces to people what I Myself want to announce to them ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Connection with God through prayers in spirit and in truth

Condition to the truth - path to God ....

B.D. 3132 from May 25th 1944, taken from Book No. 41

Only a few people take the straight path to reach the truth, the direct path to God, Who offers it to them unreservedly. People do not become small and humble in the sense of the word and bow before Him in the realization of their own inadequacy and weakness. They overestimate their intellect and their own strength. And so they believe that they can acquire the truth through research and pondering. But they forget that spiritual truths are only handed out by God Himself, that no human being can take them for himself but that they have to be given to him, and that the giver of truth considers those who come to Him like begging children and ask Him for His gift of grace in a feeling of spiritual poverty. Man should wrestle and pray .... wrestle against the enemy of his soul, who wants to make him incapable of recognizing God by feeding him error, by taking possession of his thinking, thus this wrestling requires a strengthened will .... and pray for strength, grace and truth. The gift of grace, which God conveys to earth, fully enlightens the human being so that he need only follow the path (prescribed to him) in order to be introduced to the truth. And even if people try to reach it in various ways, they have to take this one path .... the path to God, otherwise they will never be able to penetrate the profound knowledge, even if knowledge is intellectually made accessible to them through fellow human beings. It will only gain life when its spirit is enlightened by God and this requires humble prayer. Therefore, faith in a being must first be present Who, as the giver of truth, connects Himself with the human being if he strives for a connection with Him. Faith in this being is a prerequisite in order to be able to be introduced to the truth. However, if this faith is not present then the intellect will only be active in a negative way, i.e. it will draw conclusions which deviate from the truth, because then it will be a welcome object for the forces of darkness, which will then take it upon themselves to confuse its thoughts. God can only express Himself where He is acknowledged .... but acknowledgment is faith .... And this initial faith in a perfect being will soon experience an all-encompassing expansion, for as soon as this perfect being is asked to enlighten the spirit, to convey the pure truth, it will also become possible for the human being to believe everything that is mentally presented to him, for this is the characteristic of truth, that its conveyance is accompanied by the strength of recognition, that the human being therefore recognizes the truth as such and that this is convinced faith. If a person tries to attain knowledge intellectually he is indeed just as convinced of the truth of his intellectual results as every representative of a school of thought proves, yet the person who seriously struggles for truth must also seriously ask himself whether prayer to God in all humility of heart for the pure truth and the right knowledge has formed the basis of his knowledge .... For God is the giver of truth, and God also distributes it to the one who consciously turns his will to Him and expresses this through heartfelt prayer. This is a condition from which God does not deviate and which is therefore the touchstone where various results claim the right to be recognized as pure truth ....

amen

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What is prayer in spirit and in truth? ....

B.D. 8466 from April 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

This is your actual task, that you enlighten those who are mistaken, that you give truthful answers to those who ask questions and that you thus bring light into the darkness .... For humanity walks along in darkness, their thinking is misguided and therefore they do not recognize the right path which leads to Me .... to the final perfection. Truth alone can bring about this perfection, but never error or lies .... And if you, who want to serve Me, want to give clarification you must first receive it from Me yourselves, because only I can convey truthful knowledge to you .... And therefore you should come to Me with all questions which move you, so that I will answer you and thus train you to become teachers who will now work beneficially amongst their fellow human beings .... When you pray to Me it is only important that you intimately unite with Me, that you don't call upon a distant God like a being Who is inaccessible to you, Who certainly has great power and therefore you hope for help from Him .... from Whom, however, you consider yourselves far away but would like to make use of His power because you are in need .... Such a call gives Me no pleasure .... But if you see your Father in Me, Who lovingly cares for all His children .... if you now converse with your Father in all humility, if you trustingly present your adversity to Me and thus have entered into an intimate bond with Me through your trust, then this is a prayer which I hear because it is a living call from the child to the Father .... Such a prayer has nothing veiled, nothing secret, it is also nothing formal, but something deeply felt in the heart .... Hence it is a true prayer where the child's heart exposes everything before the Father, where it spreads itself out before Him and confesses its weakness and helplessness and is therefore also valued by Me as such, for it demonstrates profound humility and love for Me and I can now pour out the cornucopia of My grace in abundance. Then you will pray in spirit and in truth, and then you can also safely hope for fulfilment, for as soon as you are devoted to Me with love you will only address such requests to Me whose fulfilment will not harm your soul, because your love for Me enlightens your spirit and your thoughts are already far more turned towards the spiritual kingdom than towards the world and its illusory goods .... But now consider the nature of the prayers which are mostly uttered by people. Consider that a true prayer in spirit and in truth requires a 'withdrawal into the quiet chamber', by which I only want to be understood that at the moment of prayer the human being must mentally withdraw into the chamber of his heart. And no matter how short the prayer is, if it is only a call to Me in adversity .... But this call has to come from the heart, and then a prayer truly needs no learned words or a certain form .... for I understand the babbling of a child and don't want to hear any high-sounding words which have already been born again by the intellect or which are taken over by other people .... This is why a mass prayer can only have a beneficial effect if everyone prays silently in his heart, even if everyone has the same request, for as soon as masses say the same prayer aloud they have to use a specific form, and then it will not be possible to have a confidential dialogue with Me which alone guarantees the fulfilment of the request. You humans can achieve a lot through right prayer but for the most part you don't pray right .... As soon as you believe in a God your heart shall impel you to unite with this God in thought, and then you will speak to Him like a child speaks to its father, and then you will pray correctly, you will pray in spirit and in truth, whereas formal and general prayers usually lack the intimate, confidential bond with Me, which, however, is entirely human, because external impressions always have an effect and therefore the withdrawal into silence is required. But you cannot expect any particular blessing for the souls from loudly spoken formal prayers, from general prayer actions, except for those people who are able to completely close themselves inwardly and pray in their heart .... who don't listen to what their fellow human beings say aloud .... I only want to explain all this to you so that you will understand why so many prayers remain unanswered and why I require of you a prayer in spirit and 'in truth' .... Only the core is ever valid before Me, not the outer shell, and I see into a person's heart and cannot be deceived by lip prayers or daily habits which are performed soullessly. However, if a person calls loudly to Me in his heart's distress, then such a call is also proof that it is not just a form but deeply felt internally, and this is how it is also valued by Me, Who always endeavours to help in order to prove the Father's love to My children .... because I also want to win your love. And therefore you should always give account to yourselves when you pray whether you first establish a child's heartfelt relationship with the Father or whether you are satisfied with a habit, with a form, with prayers which cannot reach My ear. For prayer to Me is also an immense gift of grace, because you can thus establish the bond with Me at any time and thereby also provide the evidence of having passed the test of will, which is the purpose and goal of your earthly life ....

Amen

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Prayer in spirit and in truth ....

B.D. 4746 from September 22nd 1949, taken from Book No. 54

A heartfelt thought of Me, a short prayer sent up to Me in spirit and in truth, is pleasing to Me and will be granted, just as I will always draw close to those who communicate with Me in thought, for I feel in contact with them because they try to find Me in absolute truth and therefore I can also let Myself be found by them. Formal prayers, however, are not pleasing to Me because they kill the spirit, they become monotonous conversations I can never listen to, since only the lips speak to Me and not the heart, hence these words will not reach Me because they don't arise from the heart but are merely uttered by the intellect. Anyone who wants to be heard by Me need not voice any words, I know how he feels in his heart, what he thinks and feels, yet only his conscious direction of thoughts to Me makes Me inclined towards a person, who thus recognises his Father in Me and believes that I will help him. He will be helped .... whereas a prayer can last forever without being successful.

In that case it will be a lip-prayer which I condemn because it can never be heartfelt, because it is not a prayer in spirit and in truth but only a formality which lacks all inner feeling. Communal lip-prayers are an abomination to Me, they literally make it impossible to establish such heartfelt contact with Me since each person will, understandably, have different thoughts, just as each one has different problems which, however, are not touched upon, thus the prayer is everything else but a confidential dialogue with Me which I, however, require in order to be able to grant the petitions. For only the intimate dialogue with Me expresses a person's faith, the confidence of assured help, which is the prerequisite in order to be able to grant people the help. And therefore you should withdraw into your closet if you want to pray, you should withdraw within yourselves and allow for My presence with heartfelt thoughts which show your love for Me .... Then you will pray as is pleasing to Me and then your prayer will surely be granted ....

Amen

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Answering prayer in spirit and in truth ....

B.D. 4951 from August 15th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Ask for My help in every adversity and you will experience the fulfilment of My promise: Ask and it will be given to you, knock and it will be opened to you. For I truly give you, who pray to Me in spirit and in truth, everything you ask for if it will bring salvation to your soul. Likewise, I will also give you information or an answer if you ask Me, for I will place the answer into your heart, i.e. you will feel what I want to tell you as an answer if only you pay attention to your inner voice after heartfelt prayer to Me. You can confidently entrust everything that moves you, everything that makes you undecided, to Me and I will take care of you and share every worry with you. No prayer will go unheard which is directed up to Me in spirit and in truth. Therefore, if you believe in Me, in My love and omnipotence, and let your prayer ascend in this faith, you must also trust Me that I will hear you in a way which is good for you. You therefore need receive no other answer than this: I know everything and already guide you correctly, I lead you and give you the right thoughts as soon as you only commend yourselves to Me, thus choose Me as your leader. If you let Me Myself be your advisor in every spiritual as well as earthly matter you cannot but act and think correctly. And therefore pray in spirit and in truth before every decision you want to make, and then decide as your heart drives you, i.e., as you feel it to be right, for this feeling is the answer I send to you after heartfelt prayer for My support. I only let every adversity come upon you for the purpose that you join Me all the more intimately so that I can make Myself known to you through My help, which you will then also regard as My help if you have prayed intimately beforehand. Lift up your eyes to Me from where help comes to you in spiritual as well as earthly adversity ....

Amen

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"I am the way, the truth and the life ...."

B.D. 5309 from February 3rd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

"I am the way, the truth and the life ...." From Me comes the truth, I show you the right path through the truth, and this leads to life, to eternal bliss .... There is no second way but through truth, there is no second life apart from Me, and there is only one Who can promise you life .... Who purchased it for you on the cross. I lived and fought for the truth, and I died an agonizing death for the only truth, so that every one of you humans can recognize it as soon as he believes in Me. My path is easy to follow for anyone of good will .... I have preceded you on it .... it is the path of love which infallibly also leads to the recognition of truth. Since I only preached love I constantly showed you the path; since I Myself lived out the teaching I was also able to proclaim the pure truth, for everything in Me was light and bright, I knew everything and was therefore also able to impart the right knowledge to you. But you can only receive the truth from Me because it originates from Me and therefore also leads back to Me again. Anyone who wants to possess the truth has to request it from Me, Who am the eternal truth Myself .... Without Me you will remain in spiritual darkness and take the wrong path, a path which leads downwards ....

You humans know that I have an adversary who wants to destroy where I build, who wants to extinguish the light, who wants to spread darkness over people so that they cannot recognize Me. This adversary tries everything to obfuscate the path to Me, to eternal life, so that it shall not be found .... And this adversary is an enemy of the truth, just as he is an enemy of Me .... For the truth reveals his plans, his activity and his detestable nature. Consequently, he takes action against the truth and his efforts will always be directed towards making Me Myself unrecognizable to people. He will work against Me wherever he can. Thus he is the antichrist who will stop at nothing to push people away from Me. The antichrist first works against the truth .... From this it follows that the pure truth will always be fought against .... that the representatives of the pure truth will be attacked, whereas the servants of the antichrist will be recognized as proclaimers of truth and masses will stand behind them, where the bearers of truth will only be isolated because action will constantly be taken against them. The path to truth is narrow, and it is only trodden by a few .... The masses of people walk on broad paths, and this alone shall be a sign to you who leads these masses .... Anyone who wants to follow Me on the narrow path of truth will not have many followers, for most shy away from the arduous path. But I Myself lead the way and I Myself am love, and anyone who follows Me must also have love within himself, and then the path will appear bright and clear to him and he will walk it unconcerned about the hardship, for his aim is Me and eternal life .... Do not seek the truth where the masses are .... I Myself walked My path on earth and was always surrounded by only a few, while most people rejected Me because I brought them the truth and it was unpleasant for them, because My adversary stood behind the masses and worked against the truth and only ever fights against it where he can. But anyone who stands in the truth recognizes his activity and it will never deter him .... For as soon as he follows Me he takes the right path and will live for eternity ....

Amen

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The truth cannot be prevented ....

B.D. 6251 from May 6th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Never ever will I allow the path to truth to be blocked for those who want to take it .... Never ever will My adversary have the right to forcibly influence those, for this right has been taken away from him through My death on the cross. He can no longer prevent you if you want it yourselves that you reach the aim through truth .... the eternal union with Me. For this reason everything can be done on earth by the hostile power which is directed against the truth .... I Myself will ensure that it is conveyed to those who strive for it .... for I truly don't need people for this, I can impart it directly to those who strive for it or let it reach them through My servants, and such spiritual knowledge is truly inviolable on the part of the adversary of truth .... No earthly or spiritual evil power can rob a person of what is imparted to him through the spirit, for My spirit works outside of earthly laws, My spirit only requires the deep, serious desire for truth in order to be able to work in a person. Therefore no counteraction needs to be feared where I Myself am active .... even though people are oppressed from outside. No human being need fear falling into darkness, into spiritual darkness, if action is taken against the truth. The right light comes from within, the right light is ignited by love, and as long as no earthly power is able to forcibly invalidate the will to love .... as long as no power is able to stifle the human being's desire for truth, it is impossible to eradicate truth itself, for it will always arise again in the heart of the one who strives for it .... And anyone who has turned his will towards Me will also always strive for the truth, because I Myself am the truth .... So let it be said to you that My adversary cannot displace Me Himself, no matter how much he fights against the truth, against the light which enlightens human hearts .... He will succumb to Me, for My light will blind him so that he will fall to the ground when I let it shine in all its strength .... But I still leave it up to you humans how brightly the light shines, nor do I make it dependent on your will which determines the luminosity. You yourselves must strive for the truth in order to be able to warm yourselves in its shining light, I will not push Myself forward with the truth if you don't develop a desire for it yourselves .... and thus you don't have to fear My adversary but only yourselves if you remain lukewarm and indifferent towards the truth and thereby make yourselves My adversary's friend because you fulfil his desire. Then you will never attain the truth .... but the sincere seeker cannot be prevented from receiving it by My adversary; I Myself will instruct him, and I will truly also know in what way, in what form I can offer it to him .... And no power will be able to prevent him from receiving the truth directly from Me, Who Myself is the truth, the light from eternity ....

Amen

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Only truth leads to the goal ....

B.D. 9029 from August 11th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

You can travel a long path on earth and still not reach the goal if this path leads you astray. For this reason, I constantly send messengers of light to cross your path, even though you can reject them and ignore their advice when they show you the right path .... And I always do this because My love does not want you to be misled .... If only you paid attention to the fact that you will never go anywhere without warning, that one side will always advise you to act virtuously and with kindness, then you would always receive light, you would realise that you are living in error, and then the risk of unnecessarily prolonging your path of ascent would be over .... Then I would always be able to give you strength for constantly new loving activity, and you would soon be brightly enlightened so that you would be able to cover your earthly path without worry in order to reach the right goal. Erroneous belief is the only stumbling block for your assured progress, because error is My adversary's activity, who will do whatever he can in order to fight the pure truth .... And as long as you are subject to his rule you will resist the truth. However, I gave you common sense which you should use in the right way by pondering what reason your imperfection .... which you should be able to recognise .... could possibly have. And as soon as you seriously think about it you will also receive a satisfactory response, and although you will only believe it to be the result of your thinking you will nevertheless not be able to refute it with such compelling substantiations to the contrary that you will be fully convinced by these. For a silent admonisher was given to you which .... if you are honest with yourselves .... can be recognised as My voice ....

Everything will be easy for you if you only recognise a God and Creator above yourselves and willingly submit yourselves to Him. Then I Myself will guide you, and truly on a path which will not appear laborious to you, for I Myself Am the support for you which you should hold on to, which you will not lose again, for I will guide you until you have reached your goal. I only expect this belief of you, otherwise you will walk lonely and forsaken through earthly life and become a plaything for the one who wants to lead you toward the abyss. You only need to be offered the pure truth, which shines like a bright light and will make you very happy .... For truth comes forth from Me, and sooner or later it will be offered to every person, yet it has to be voluntarily accepted because it cannot be imparted by force .... Not even My adversary can force you to reject the truth .... your attitude towards the truth and thus also towards Me is entirely up to you. But one day you will be triumphant over the one who wanted to lead you into error when you are able to confront him with the truth. And then you will be illuminated again as you were in the beginning, when you possessed brightest realisation and were blissfully happy. Therefore, take notice of My messengers who stand by the wayside and still want to kindle a small light for everyone, and listen to them without objection, even if you can't instantly agree with the contents of their message you should nevertheless think about it and let Me, your God and Creator, be part of it .... and I will truly guide your thoughts right and also always draw your attention to any error, so that you won't accept it without checking it. Thereby you already testify to wanting to know the truth, and this will be taken into account. For the greatest evil is the fact that the earthly world is only based on error, since it shelters the spirits which once fell away from Me and which My adversary plunged into wrong thinking .... so that they will not be released from it until the pure truth prevails, but which the human being has to do himself by using his own free will. For this reason there is only a little light amongst people but everyone can attain light if he has the serious will and hands himself over to Me with complete trust so that I can guide him into truth .... so that he then will also receive it according to his will ....

Amen

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