Our spiritual home I: Life in the kingdom of light

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

2113 - Belief in a continuation of life.... Consequences of earthly life in the beyond....

4307 - "I want you to be blessed...."

9009 - The human being’s true home....

Time and the concept of space in the hereafter

7474 - Concept of time and space....

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

Entrance of the soul into the spiritual realm

1559 - Gate to eternity can already be passed through before death....

1067 - Entering the afterlife.... influence of the beings of light....

1812 - The spiritual world.... paradisiacal state....

5916 - Swing up of the soul into spiritual spheres....

Mansions in the father’s house

5449 - In My Father's house are many mansions....'

6022 - In the Father’s house are many mansions....

3808 - Abodes in the Father's house.... Eternal home....

The stars

1919 - Celestial bodies.... Various luminosity.... Purpose of those....

7601 - Contact with inhabitants of other worlds.... ‘In My Father’s house....’

8987 - Diversity of the celestial bodies....

Blissful or unblessed state of the soul after death

7126 - Knowledge of the blissful as well as the wretched state....

4801 - Blissful condition of mature souls and the state of imperfection in the beyond....

6598 - Beatitude or renewed banishment depends on free will....

1387 - Entrance to eternity.... many stages.... kingdom of light - darkness....

Preconditions for entering the realm of light

2556 - Preconditions for entering the realm of light....

2900 - The path to eternal bliss....

8400 - The soul's entry into the kingdom of light....

8784 - No beatitude without Salvation through Jesus Christ....

Jesus Christ is the gateway to the kingdom of light

6367 - Opening the gate to bliss....

7404 - Kingdom of light.... Jesus Christ....

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

5878 - Door to the kingdom of light is Jesus Christ....

Blissful state in the kingdom of light

3670 - Spiritual creations.... Beatitude.... 'Eye hath not seen....'

4578 - Bliss in the spiritual kingdom ....

5666 - Bliss in the kingdom of light .... Pleasures and delights ....

7846 - Remembrance.... rejoicing in the kingdom of light....

Value of spiritual knowledge in the hereafter

5801 - Worthlessness of earthly knowledge in the beyond....

5554 - The blessing of spiritual knowledge in the beyond....

2753 - Spiritual treasures.... thoughts.... beyond....

6003 - Value of spiritual treasures in the beyond....

Activity in the kingdom of light

1158 - Eternal bliss.... activity, not rest....

2450 - Acquiring graces in the afterlife.... activity in spheres of light....

8977 - Bliss.... light kingdom....

Teaching activity in the hereafter

8276 - Teaching in the afterlife requires truth....

3212 - Spiritual wealth.... activity in the afterlife....

5624 - Blessed lot and activity in the spiritual realm....

7953 - Only beings of light are permitted to teach....

Redemptive activity in the hereafter

6809 - Experiencing the work of redemption in the hereafter....

6662 - Redeeming work in the beyond....

7386 - Great work of redemption in the beyond.... Jesus Christ....

8903 - Enlightenment about light beings....

Love working in the hereafter

2181 - Light.... labour of love in the hereafter.... work of redemption....

2903 - Higher development in the hereafter.... working of love....

7309 - Power supply in the hereafter requires loving will to help....

Creating and designing in the kingdom of light

4291 - Creating and shaping in the kingdom of light.... no man's eye....

7976 - Light beings create forms for the spiritual....

1394 - Final destiny create and revive.... union with God....

Influence of the beings of light on people on earth

1484 - Work of the beings of light.... disappointments.... renunciations....

2156 - Power current from the realm of light....

3700 - Thought transmission from the spiritual kingdom....

5676 - Working of the light beings.... truth - error....

Influence of the beings of light on the souls in the darkness

2119 - Radiance of love....wrestling of the beings of light for souls....

2486 - Luminosity of the beings of light.... veiling....

2509 - Activity in the afterlife and possibility of ascent....

7948 - Wrestling of the beings of light in the realm of darkness....

Reunion in the kingdom of light

4781 - Reunion in the beyond in a mature state....

5365 - Reunion in the beyond in the kingdom of light....

6312 - Reunion in the beyond....

Blessed community and joint work in the hereafter

4504 - Spiritual attachment.... souls without earthly binding....

6821 - Androgynous beings.... Beyond....

6851 - Reunion and associations in the beyond....

4989 - Working together in the kingdom beyond.... help the unknowings....

Cooperation between the beings of light and humans

2282 - Cooperation with the beings of light for redemption....

5272 - Cooperation of light beings with humans.... lightbearers....

Childship to God

5522 - Childhood of God only on earth.... further development in the hereafter....

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

2746 - Becoming a child of God.... their activity in the hereafter....

4026 - Nature of light luminaries.... Angelic spirits.... Childship to God....

4008 - Childhood of God.... Jesus Christ becoming one with God....

Union with God

1831 - Union with God....

4812 - Bliss of the soul only in union with God....

7627 - Unification.... Blissfulness of the images of God....

Heavenly bliss

1090 - Eternal home.... deeds on earth.... activity of love....

1792 - Heavenly bliss .... Eternal glory ....

2233 - Heavenly bliss ....

1957 - See God face to face....

6625 - Consider the time after death....

7772 - Admonition to constant connection with God....

5370 - Tests of faith to fortify belief....

Belief in a continuation of life .... Consequences of earthly life in the beyond ....

B.D. 2113 from October 14th 1941, taken from Book No. 30

Caring for the salvation of the soul is not being taken seriously and yet it should be the most important thing, for this is the human being's only purpose in life. Nevertheless, the human being cannot be forced to do so, it can only ever be presented to him again that he will have to accept the consequences of his activity on earth after his earthly life, that he, if he neglects his soul, will have to endure a far more meagre and agonising existence than the most impoverished and excruciatingly painful earthly life can be. The human being is only living for the present, and he believes that this present will be over with his physical death. And therefore he won't make any provisions for the future. And yet he is only on earth for the sake of this future ....

The belief in a continuation of life after death cannot be forced onto him, consequently he cannot be offered any obvious evidence from the beyond so as not to restrict his freedom of faith. But if the human being would just have the good will to know the truth, the spiritual world would make itself perceptible to him, then he would heed the smallest sign, and the belief in a beyond would come alive in him. But the human being is generally not at all interested in knowing anything about an 'afterwards'. He lives on earth and is satisfied with this certainty, always providing that he won't know or feel anything anymore after his physical death. And he doesn't consider that only the external form has become lifeless, because the spirit .... the true life .... has escaped from it. He fails to consider that it is unable to die, that it is immortal, that it only leaves its external cover behind on earth in order to enter its true home. And he fails to consider that he is shaping the spiritual kingdom for himself on earth, or .... that it will correspond to his earthly life .... that it can be a dark, unfriendly and depressing or a radiantly bright and joyful environment for the human being's soul. He doesn't consider that he will remember his unused earthly life with severe unbearable regret .... since he will never be able to say that the knowledge of it wasn't communicated to him.

Every person will receive instructions in this regard, yet not everyone will accept these instructions because he is unwilling, and the will cannot be compelled. Then they will only tend to their body, they will only pay attention to its well-being, whereas the soul remains ignored. Humanity's adversity is immense, and consequently the physical adversity has to be extensive too, so that the human being will look within himself and become aware of the irrelevance of all earthly things and also of his body, so that he then will send his questions into infinity after all and as a result be guided into thinking differently ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"I want you to be blessed ...."

B.D. 4307 from May 20th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

I want you to become blessed .... My aim is not earthly bliss, for earthly life is only short compared to eternity. But you shall be granted an eternal life of bliss, and this eternal life shall be the price for your probation on earth. Nothing on earth shall seem desirable to you anymore, your gaze shall be directed towards life after death, and if you can give up everything with a light heart you will be ready for eternity. Your heart must be able to detach itself from earthly things, you must be able to sacrifice what is dear to you on earth, you must strive with all your heart and soul for what belongs to the spiritual kingdom, goods which are denied to you by the earthly world, which no-one can offer you but Me alone and which I offer you because I want to make you blissfully happy. Learn to value spiritual goods and despise earthly goods .... and be certain that I will provide you with the earthly goods you need in order to be able to fulfil your earthly task. Make yourselves completely My own and I will take care of you in every way, I will provide for you earthly and spiritually and not let you go hungry, yet in order to become blissfully happy your soul first requires spiritual nourishment which will ensure its life in eternity. You humans put earthly needs first and believe that you cannot exist without over-anxious worry .... But I know that you lack spiritual nourishment much more, and you have to strive for this yourselves because I cannot impose it on you due to freedom of will. Earthly food and earthly drink only ever sustain your body for a short time and can never prolong your earthly life if I call you away from earth. Spiritual nourishment, on the other hand, ensures your eternal life .... And what you have once received in spiritual nourishment will never ever perish or become ineffective; you take it with you into eternity and build your life on it. In order to be able to live eternally in beatitude you also have to carry out a pleasing activity and therefore need capital with which you can work, which you can distribute to those in need, you need spiritual wealth which does not diminish but always increases the more you give of it. And I want to give you this spiritual wealth so that you will become eternally happy. But you can only accept it if your heart is completely empty, where My treasures can spread out, for spiritual treasures are not compatible with earthly treasures, a heart cannot contain both, and it is up to you which goods you want to keep your heart free for. But if I love you and want you to become blissfully happy, I, as a wise father, must also advise My children and help them to cleanse their heart chambers of unsuitable goods which displace the true treasures and make it impossible to receive them. And thus I will help you to detach yourselves from what the world offers you, what your heart still desires but is a hindrance to you for eternal life .... And therefore consider all earthly failures as an aid on My part to detach yourselves from the world and its illusory goods, recognize My care in it which only applies to your final aim of making free, exceedingly happy beings out of you who will know no more sorrow and worry in eternity but will only ever be blissfully happy and live .... i.e. be continuously active in loving activity. I want you to become blissfully happy, I want to be able to provide you with spiritual nourishment because you need it for eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The human being’s true home ....

B.D. 9009 from July 6th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

Do not be offended if My Word is also rejected as incorrect, because pure truth can only emanate from Me Myself. And that you are taught by Me Myself can be easily established as soon as people of good will have scrutinised the spiritual information they received from you. Although it is not possible to provide any evidence because people are completely unfamiliar with the spiritual information which, for reasons of religious liberty, cannot be reinforced by proof but everyone of goodwill can feel the certainty within himself to be on the right path. Thus he is also able to believe without proof, and yet he will know that what he believes is right .... However, this world and the spiritual kingdom are two entirely different realms which are only connected to each other through faith. Nevertheless, when you receive the kind of knowledge from the spiritual kingdom which cannot be gained intellectually, you humans can accept it without hesitation as a sign of the reality of this realm, because regions are made accessible to you which only I Myself can truthfully explain to you ....

Hence it is not a sign of a keen intellect if a person wants to deny this kingdom just because he himself does not know anything about it. But every human being could acquire this evidence of a spiritual world if he would ask Me for it, although he is usually prevented from doing so by his intellect which only wants to know what can be verified. And therefore he cannot go beyond the boundaries of his intellect, he creates his own limitations, namely by his unbelief which prevents him to think about anything beyond the earthly realm, to seriously think about problems which cannot be solved, in order to then ask the Creator Himself for an explanation. However, because he has to believe in a Creator in order to do this, only the devout person will be able to establish contact with Him, and the unbeliever will remain content with the world he can see and which is the real world to him. Yet consider the results a person could gain were he, apart from his keen intellect, also deeply devout, who would turn to Me with every question which I would duly answer .... But there are only a few of them, most people shun such contact with the spiritual kingdom since their fellow human beings would then regard them as supernatural people who do not fit into the structure of the earthly world.

And yet, if only you knew how beneficial the work of such people can be, how important the knowledge is which they receive from above, you would do anything to benefit from their knowledge since it is the path that leads you humans from the earthly into the spiritual kingdom .... which is every person’s true home and which one day will receive you all, irrespective of whether you are fully mature or not. I Myself offer you an incredible blessing by speaking to you in order to unite these two realms, in order to give all people the opportunity to take the step from the earthly into the spiritual kingdom, and you reject this blessing because your intellect opposes it, because you do not want to let your heart speak .... However, your heart cannot speak to you because you lack love .... For this reason you are constantly reminded to love, because only your love for Me and your fellow human being can soften your heart and you become more willing to listen to Me. I only ever just ask for your love in order to then give you knowledge which would surpass your intellect, which would make you truly happy. Because taking a glimpse into spheres which are otherwise closed to mortals will please every person and provide him with the tranquil joy of a knower who no longer walks in darkness but to whom everything has become light and clear ....

And especially the fact that people are able to elevate their thoughts into previously unknown spheres should convince you of the truth of such knowledge. Hence you should acquire this knowledge for yourselves, always remembering that you yourselves will inhabit this kingdom one day, that you are merely temporarily living on earth and sooner or later will enter your true home. Then you will establish the relationship with Me again, Who followed you into the abyss, Who waited until you, as human beings, were able to consciously unite with Me again, in order to then make you happy once more by giving you the knowledge which previously used to belong to you in great measure .... But then you will not be far from your final homecoming, you will return into your Father’s house which you once left voluntarily ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Time and the concept of space in the hereafter

Concept of time and space ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Entrance of the soul into the spiritual realm

Gate to eternity can already be passed through before death ....

B.D. 1559 from August 8th 1940, taken from Book No. 25

To whom the gates to eternity open, his earth life does not necessarily need to be finished, because he can also in this life already be allowed to gain insight into the kingdom, which exists outside of earth life, he can know about everything, without being raptured from earth life .... For the human being can still attain a state of maturity on earth which allows him to gain insight into the eternal kingdom. To be able to connect with that kingdom outside of earth and its inhabitants is proof that the gates to eternity are not always only passed through with bodily death, but that for some earthly children there are no barriers at all which prevent them from entering the kingdom of eternity. They live on earth and yet are equally at home in those spheres, because the divine spirit in them overcomes every obstacle, and can be present everywhere and at all times .... thus it dwells in the kingdom of eternity even when the body is still held on earth. Such an earthly child will not even be afraid of death .... the physical death which terrifies people. It will be equipped with the knowledge of eternal life that it only longs for the moment when it can give up all ties with earth. The spirit will move into its true home, it will now constantly be there where it could only stay temporarily during its earthly existence, and thus only found entry into those regions when the human being's will permitted it. But now he can permanently be there where his longing on earth let him wander. And thus, the human being has overcome the horrors of death if he consciously tried to penetrate that region during his earthly existence, which is the abode of all spiritual substances after the end of earthly life. He is no longer frightened by the uncertainty of the afterlife, neither does he regard the afterlife as something doubtful, he is in knowledge, and that means that he also recognises the working of the beings of light and hands himself over to these beings of light, precisely because he recognises the consequences of ignorance and wants to liberate himself from an unworthy state, which is his fate on earth, before he works on himself in order to be able to enter into contact with the spiritual beings in the beyond. The human being is far better off whose faith allowed him to recognise divine love and mercy, and who longed for this love and mercy, for it was already granted to him on earth .... The earthly child was allowed to look into an area which bears witness to the infinite wisdom of the Lord, it was allowed to distribute spiritual knowledge on earth itself and thus tear down the barriers which separate the earthly human being from those beings of light .... it was allowed to enter through the gates to eternity already on earth .... For it received something which was offered directly by those beings who inhabit this kingdom of light, and thus death loses all its horror for those earthly children who only want to serve God and who, in their service to God, became true conquerors of death.

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Entering the afterlife .... influence of the beings of light ....

B.D. 1067 from August 23rd 1939, taken from Book No. 20

The gate to eternity should not frighten anyone, that is God's will .... But man's will all too often takes a different path and makes his entry into the hereafter an hour of deepest anxiety and abandonment instead of an hour of blissful joy. And yet God's goodness has shown him the right path countless times in his earthly life. But because the will of man may not be touched, the father in heaven only ever restricts Himself to indications of all kinds, but not that man must necessarily take a path that leads safely to the goal. And so the human being can organize the hour of separation from the bodily shell according to his own will for joy or for suffering, and he will not be eternally hindered in his will. What effort and endeavour it costs on the part of the beings of light who look after every human being to constantly guide the earthly child onto the right path .... if it does not consciously pursue its high goal .... can be seen from the fact that these beings constantly surround the earth and constantly let their spiritual strength flow to the earthly beings. If people would willingly surrender to every impulse of the heart it would be easy for the beings caring for them to shape people to highest perfection; yet how rarely does an earthly child live in the clear realization that it should only live on earth for its perfection, and how rarely does this result in a complete integration into divine will .... People are far more likely to struggle with the thoughts that want to impose themselves on them, which want to influence people in that direction .... What they should do in order to live in a God-pleasing way mostly does not appeal to them; they do not think of the end of their body and the therefore imperfect state of their soul but only of the body and its well-being, and it is therefore incredibly difficult for the beings of light to exert any influence on such earthly children, and thus the help which can be offered to them is very little, although it is available to them unmeasured .... But man believes that he does not need such help because he believes himself to be strong enough to carve out his own life and does not really think about the actual purpose of life. Behold, this is the great mistake of mankind, that it trusts its own strength too much .... and is therefore proud and arrogant .... True faith must be manifested through humility. The less a person trusts himself, the more he desires help .... And it is truly the right help to hope for from the beings standing in the light .... The earthly child has to struggle unbelievably and its strength would weaken prematurely if spiritual help were not always ready for it .... And this spiritual help also warns against too quick a judgement if it appears as if the lord chooses spiritually pre-trained people for His work on earth, i.e. people who are well-instructed by perfect beings. This view could confirm people in their opinion that God's will assigns this or that office to a person and that it is therefore irrelevant how far a person's spiritual maturity is .... Oh no, every human being must struggle with all his strength .... firstly for knowledge .... and this struggle is particularly difficult and should therefore be emphasized .... and then to make his will compliant and to submit to the divine will without resistance. Only he who offers his will to the lord will be chosen for an office which is of very special importance .... But every person's struggle should lead to the fact that the human being should hand himself over to his spiritual helpers and thus allow himself to be guided by them onto the right path which leads through the gate to eternity, thus to heavenly bliss with utmost certainty .... and you will not need to shy away from the hour of death but it will only mean a release from the physical shell for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The spiritual world .... paradisiacal state ....

B.D. 1812 from February 15th 1941, taken from Book No. 27

The death of the body is the conclusion of life on earth and the beginning of life in eternity. These are two fundamentally different worlds .... The one, which belongs to the past and is also transient in itself, i.e. in constant change, is the world of God's visible and tangible works of creation .... a world that is matter in contrast to the world beyond, where material creations do not exist but are only imagined by imperfect beings until the moment of final overcoming. The body of flesh required earthly, i.e. material, creations, as it itself was also such a creation. However, as soon as the outer shell of flesh falls away and the soul passes over into the spiritual realm, it is completely independent of visible works of creation, provided it has reached a certain degree of maturity. The present world is a world of desires .... Every soul finds what it desires, and thus life in eternity will be a paradisiacal state for the human being, provided that the soul wishes to dwell in paradise. For it can also desire that which is still very humanly earthly. But then the state cannot be called paradisiacal, for earthly desires eliminate such a state. In higher spheres, however, earthly-material things are no longer desired but are regarded as belonging to the past, and instead only spiritual good is sought. Spiritual good, however, are for the first time the currents of power which the being in eternity perceptibly feels and recognizes as necessary for higher development and longs for. In this world nothing is tangible or physically visible, but only visible to the spiritual eye, i.e. everything consists of ethereal substances, it is only recognizable in the life of feeling .... the degree of love of the being will, as it were, determine the spheres which are now the soul's new abode. For when the soul is willing, it also receives, and now receiving and giving is a blissful activity for the being. It does not desire something tangible, but only something delicious, which is expressed in the life of sensation. And thus life in eternity is a constant influx and distribution of divine strength, only spiritual things are desired and received and the emotional life is developed to an unimaginable depth, so that bliss can take on ever greater proportions, thus there is neither a standstill nor a decline in what is the epitome of eternal life .... of eternal glory ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Swing up of the soul into spiritual spheres ....

B.D. 5916 from March 28th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Enter the spiritual realms as often as you are able, seek to detach yourselves from earth and let your soul soar into that kingdom from which it originated and to which it will also return again when your earthly life is over. In that kingdom it will truly be offered what it cannot find on earth .... Food and drink, the right means to shape it so that it can permanently reside in the spiritual kingdom and be happy. As long as you stay on earth the soul is still deformed, and it shall change, it shall become again as it was in the beginning .... an image of God .... And as long as it stays on earth it can certainly achieve this transformation, however, what it lacks has to be imparted to it, and it also receives it through God's love, but from the kingdom which is meant to be your former home. And therefore, the more often the soul rises there the more abundantly it will return again in order to carry out its work of transformation on earth precisely with the help of that which is imparted to it in the spiritual kingdom. Earth does not hold such treasures, they can only be fetched from the kingdom of light, in those spheres which are certainly made accessible to you but have to be entered in free will. And every soul on earth has the opportunity to ascend into these spheres and to fetch much strengthening nourishment from there, which it then uses in earthly life in order to make itself suitable for a permanent stay in those spheres. Yet no soul will be forced to take this flight of fancy .... but it can undertake it voluntarily as often as it wants. And therefore it is lovingly admonished not to let any opportunity for this flight of fancy pass by, again and again to free itself from earthly heaviness and to rise into the realms of spiritual friends who want to help it into light and strength. And every mental connection with this kingdom, every prayer, every spiritual question is a wandering into the spiritual spheres from which the soul never returns without a gain. The more often you humans withdraw into silence, the more often you detach yourselves in thought from the earthly world and thus mentally know where light and bliss are, the more you will also be cared for by the inhabitants of this world of light and provided with spiritual gifts which will help you to transform your soul .... thus shaping it such that it can enter the kingdom after death which it aspired to on earth .... that the inhabitants of the kingdom of light come to meet it and receive it .... that it has now regained the state in which it was full of light and strength as a divine creature .... that it now returns as a child to its father of eternity .... that it is now active in His kingdom according to His will and filled with His strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mansions in the father’s house

In My Father's house are many mansions ....'

B.D. 5449 from July 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

In My Father's house are many mansions .... Can you understand the meaning of My Words? That I promise you a dwelling in My Father's house but at the same time want you to know that a suitable abode is prepared to accommodate every one of My living creations .... that I want to tell you, that what you have not yet achieved on earth you can still strive to achieve in My kingdom, because I have countless possibilities to improve your development in the spiritual kingdom. I have not just the earth at My disposal, but all My creations are places to attain full maturity for the still imperfect soul until it has finally developed to the point that, in heavenly bliss, it will be able to take possession of the most magnificent spiritual creations, for wherever it stays is in 'My Father's house', in the sphere of My infinite love, and it will always stay where the Father has prepared a dwelling place which corresponds to its degree of love and its ability to reign and work in the realm to which it was assigned by Me.

In My Father's house are many mansions .... No being is homeless, the eternal home accepts all souls, yet this home has many different aspects .... it can exhibit the most magnificent flower gardens and wonderful palaces, but it can also include infinitely vast barren regions which take ages to wander through .... yet even in these barren regions paths branch off which lead to areas full of flowers, and it just depends on whether the ramblers pay attention to these paths, whether they attentively try to find a way out from this barren region and also take this way out .... Everyone will be accepted in My eternal home, and everyone has the right to take ownership of a dwelling. But what it consists of is entirely subject to their will.

And therefore I say: In My Father's house are many mansions .... For every human being, every being, prepares its own place of abode depending on the degree of its perfection. Yet no matter how poor his dwelling is .... through his will and his work it can really quickly be transformed, and the most delightful homesteads can arise if only the soul has the desire for it and diligently strives for fulfilment. In that case it will be supported by countless helpers who will create and work with the soul, and it can become a paradise-like dwelling place where previously was a barren and bleak region .... One day every soul will return to its true home, but as long as it is still imperfect it will feel homeless, although it will have already entered the kingdom from whence it once had come. However, I have many schoolhouses, and higher development will advance for sure, even if it often requires a long time .... One day the lost son will return home and reside in the mansion he once owned, he will stay in the Father's house where all children are gathered around the Father, he will be lovingly received by the Eternal Love, Which will give him a seat next to Himself ....

Yet infinite times will still pass by until all My children have found home again, until they can take up residence in My house; infinite times will still pass by, yet I will not abandon any one of My children .... The Father's love attracts them, and not one of My children will be able to resist this love forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

In the Father’s house are many mansions ....

B.D. 6022 from August 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

In the Father’s house are many mansions .... The mansions I have prepared for all souls correspond to their maturity at the time of their earthly departure. Accordingly they are very different and are abodes for the souls for as long as they are content with them, although they can be changed, which is the soul’s own responsibility. The soul’s surrounding in the spiritual kingdom depends on its character at the time of its physical death .... radiant, bright, offering the spiritual eye a magnificent vision of breathtaking harmony which fills it with happiness beyond description .... or bleak and cold, squalid and disturbing, turbulent, dreary and depressing, causing the soul unhappiness and wishing it to leave this environment. And yet it can only be offered what it had acquired for itself on earth, it cannot be moved into blissful realms to which it had never aspired nor can it be given light because this would consume the soul due to its immature state. Nevertheless, every soul has the option whether it wants to improve its environment.

And to awaken this wish is the work of innumerable spiritual beings of light which descend into poorly lit mansions to inspire their inhabitants to improve their fate and their surroundings. Yet even this has to happen such that it does not force the soul’s will but results in its own desire. Hence they do not perceive the beings of light as such, instead the beings of light join them by using the same cover as the souls and request to be admitted, then they seek to guide the souls’ thoughts to change their present situation .... The souls’ will has to be motivated to improve their fate; and as soon as the will is motivated the soul suddenly finds itself amongst needy souls who request its help, and now it depends on whether it listens to their appeals, whether it is willing and attempts to help them ....

The stronger its impulse to help the more alive it will feel and darkness gives way to a faint twilight which gladdens the soul immensely and increases its will to love. Imperceptibly its environment assumes another shape as the twilight shines through until everything appears clearly to the soul’s eyes and its state seems to have improved considerably .... Yet it is always up to the soul’s will whether it continues to be helpful or whether it contents itself with its present situation .... which, however, worsens again if it stops making an effort.

Every soul will find what it wants; and if it longs for light, for love and supreme happiness it will certainly achieve its goal and arrive in extremely charming regions where everything is enlightened and where it can settle for as long as it wishes .... Because it also gives what it requests for itself, and this love changes the soul’s nature, the love which it receives from the beings of light if it is not entirely obstinate and refuses to ascend from the poorly lit depth and resists all assistance and indignantly rejects every suggestion. Then it also has what it wants .... darkness, which will become incessantly more agonising in order to motivate the souls to change their will.

And for that reason I spoke the Words: ‘In My Father’s house are many mansions ....’ Although the condition of every soul is taken into account no soul is forced to remain where it is sent after its physical death .... it will be admitted wherever its will takes it .... it is able to arrange its own surroundings according to its will and thus it can elevate itself from the lowest realms into radiant heights .... providing it takes notice of those whom it encounters as messengers from above, although not recognised by the soul as long as it is without light itself but so touched by their will to love that its own love gets kindled and therefore the path upwards becomes clear .... Eternal love Itself descends into the abyss to elevate what will not resist .... I also redeem the souls from the darkness and countless beings of light take part in this work .... They all help to build those mansions to improve the fate of the souls; they all radiate light and love and entice countless souls from the darkness into their region .... where there is light and strength and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Abodes in the Father's house .... Eternal home ....

B.D. 3808 from June 22nd 1946, taken from Book No. 48

And I will bring you into My Father's house .... So I have given you this promise you may be happy in the knowledge that one day you will enjoy the delights of eternal life as children of God, for My Word is truth and My promise will be fulfilled if you do My will .... All hardship will come to an end for you, every earthly worry will fall away, and in freedom of spirit, unbound by earthly matter, you will be allowed to dwell in those realms which belong to the kingdom of the blissful spirits and which are exceedingly glorious. On earth you cannot grasp the bliss which is granted to the souls in that kingdom, and yet you should believe My Word and live such that you will be able to move into the Father's heavenly abodes after your passing away on this earth .... the abodes which the Father's love has prepared for His own and which will truly be the abode of those who have become My own through their will and a way of life in love .... Why then do you still worry about your physical well-being if you know that your earthly life is only a short transition to true life in eternity? Only use your earthly life to shape your souls correctly and your fate in the beyond will be incomparably blissful, for you will be given everything your heart desires .... But make sure that the heart's desire is not for the body, because it will pass away, but what remains eternally is only spiritual good, thus desire this with all your heart. Then your soul will dwell in exceedingly beautiful regions, it will move in creations which you would not be able to imagine on earth, and it will be in its home, in the Father's house, where the Father's closeness will make it eternally happy and His love will provide it with everything which will increase its bliss. For My love for you, My children on earth, is immense and I will prepare a blissful life for all of you if you return to Me of your own free will. For there are many abodes in My house and they are all waiting for you so that you can enter them and behold My glories which I have prepared for you. Live on earth with love and My love shall be bestowed upon you in the spiritual kingdom .... Give to your neighbor with love whatever he needs physically or spiritually, and My love shall give to you in the same measure, for as you measure out, so shall it be measured to you in My kingdom. And if you believe in My promise, then the short earthly life that you are still granted, will be bearable for you, despite all hardship, despite whatever is taken from you on earth .... I will consider you a thousand fold in My kingdom if you voluntarily give yourselves to Me and thus detach yourselves from matter in order to receive spiritual possessions .... For the time of your earthly misery is short, but your life in eternity lasts forever, and there will be no end to the bliss in My Father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

The stars

Celestial bodies .... Various luminosity .... Purpose of those ....

B.D. 1919 from May 16th 1941, taken from Book No. 28

What provisions many infinitely stars have, is unknown to man, and a statement of that is only to give in faith and also to accept in faith only as truth, for a proof can not be provided, as long as the man belongs to the earth. The stars have the same missions as the earth .... to give the spiritual beings further development opportunities, but they are so different and completely differing in nature from the earth, but all serve the same purpose, to put immature beings in a higher ripeness. And this task is always decisive for the quality and design of each heavenly body. Each star is thus revived for the first time, from such beings still needing visible works of creation, because they still lack the maturity of soul. The way of activity of those beings on a star beyond earth is not to make people understand. However it differs totally from the earth task of beings, because this task requires matter, while the other heavenly bodies are creations, where neither earthly laws of nature apply, nor by there living inhabitants are required works, which are equal on earth. Only man imagines something similar, as long as he can put nothing else for it. That is the only way clarification can come to man, indeed it is divine will, that also clarification will be given to mankind .... Where your eye can see, you find divine creations, but you do not see the spiritual, that is saved therein. This spiritual gets through infinitely many stations, before it is associated the One, from Whom it is originated. (05/16/1941) It may be enough to go through the visible creation work of God, to re-enter the spiritual state of perfection, in which it once was, then it does not need any more school of spirit. It may be united in the kingdom of light with equal spiritual mature beings and thereby develop ever higher. But countless souls do not use earthly existence, as they could, then they leave the earth in defective maturation and are unable, to enter into the kingdom of light. Those must now be given a further development opportunity, because God’s creation is infinitely great, and the educational institutions of the mind are truly enough. Each site corresponds to the state of maturity of souls, who stay in her now. They differ from each other only in the different light intensity, that’s to say, they are more or less bright, because the luminosity of each heavenly body is dependent on the maturity of the inhabiting beings, because their maturity level is decisive for the light beam, that they receive. There are stars, that are lightless, because completely ignorant beings inhabit them, who are also not willing to receive the light, that’s to say, they close themselves to the teachings offered to them. But knowledge is light .... These lightless stars are most densely animated, because countless souls divorce from the earth, who have taken no spiritual knowledge in themselves, and therefore these can be assigned only to those celestial bodies, where still is darkest night. However they usually feel the darkness as torment, and then there is given the possibility, that they desire and look .... And then the higher development may also be used in those souls, and they can be put into some more enlightening areas, that’s to say, on celestial bodies, which have a low degree of luminosity. But the same law obtains for all the stars .... that the beings are active in love .... because it earns light, that’s to say, now light in form of knowledge is streaming to the light beings engaged in love. There are stars, that have an incredible luminosity. Thus there are the souls, that have brought through their God-pleasing way of life on earth and their service in love in a high blessed maturity or they were endeavoured to make up for their failed task on earth on other stars and are now light carrier, also receive constantly light and can distribute. These spiritual beings need no stay in visible creations. They are now empowered by their high degree of maturity, to create and design, and do that now for their own felicity. Consequently, those celestial bodies are fulfilled with exceedingly charming creations. These are no earthly creations, so consisting of matter and therefore solid form, but they only correspond to the stay of the beings in spiritual regions, as well as the lightless stars involve no material creations, but are also perceptible to the beings, because everything there is available, what the beings desire in their dark state. Before their spiritual eyes even earthly creations purchase, because their will, their desire let be the creations visible, but not exist in material reality. And that means a pain for the being, to stand in desire for something never be palpable or perceptible, but only have an imagination ahead oneself. It is thus made clear to him the transitoriness of earthly things, so that they learn to overcome the desire for it by themselves, for having overcome without this, the being can never enter into luminous spheres. But in the state of perfection the creation and design of things is something else .... These are spiritual creations, that have no connection with earthly desirable things. The different stars are therefore home for in different maturity standing souls, who are separated from the earth. And there are millions and millions of stars from such different luminosity, that truly every soul finds the corresponding home on degree of maturity, to be able to develop further, that therefore only the will of the being is decisive, whether it travels the passage to the altitude in a shorter or longer time. God does not abandon a being and gives him again and again development opportunities also outside of the earth, so in the hereafter. However the unused earth life is never completely to compensate .... because only on earth the being can reach by right will a state of perfection, that gives him the highest heritage of the heavenly Father .... the childship to God .... There are infinitely many degrees of felicity, which the beings can achieve by path of the higher development in the stars. Never however they will be able to enjoy the felicity, which is prepared for a child of God. For this purpose God gave man life on earth, that he, as long as he has free will and thus strength and grace are unmeasured available, can achieve the highest for himself .... the childship to God .... For what this word means, you all can not believe .... And yet you must walk through life on earth without the knowledge of the meaning of that, so you are striving in complete free will on earth to union with God, to get one day the most blessed creatures in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Contact with inhabitants of other worlds .... ‘In My Father’s house ....’

B.D. 7601 from May 17th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

Countless heavenly bodies circle the universe, and they all have the task of helping immature souls reach maturity ....

So now you can understand the Words: ‘In My Father’s house are many mansions ....’ And every star receives the souls whose state of maturity is suitable to its conditions; in other words, the potential for maturity differs on every star and the souls are placed accordingly. But the living conditions, too, are always different, because the stars’ nature and consistency vary. A detailed description cannot be given to people on earth because much would be incomprehensible to them and requires spiritual knowledge in order to be understood. But for all souls, whatever their degree of maturity, suitable stars exist for maturing, where souls of good will are able to ascend. For even there the spiritual beings’ free will is taken into account, even there spiritual constraint is not applied, although the respective living conditions constrain the beings to the extent that they have to accept them or they could not survive in their world. And everywhere the beings will receive a light which reveals the purpose of their existence .... Whether they accept and utilise the light is up to them but it is decisive for their ascent. And all these works of God’s creation are ‘mansions in the Father’s house ....’

Hence all spiritual essence will one day achieve the degree of maturity which will enable it to exchange physical creations with purely spiritual ones .... which you humans are unable to perceive with your physical eyes. Because everything that is visible to you are creations which shelter beings which are still immature, since perfected beings are active in the kingdom of light and no longer require ‘visible’ creations for their abode. But the distance between all these works of creation is vast and they are not within reach of each other either .... The inhabitants of all these worlds are tied to their planet, to the star on which they live .... They are only able to change their abode after reaching a certain degree of maturity, and not arbitrarily but in line with God’s fundamental law .... to which all His creations must submit, including the beings who are allocated to them. It is therefore foolish to assume that the inhabitants of these worlds could arbitrarily depart from them and approach other worlds without fearing their own destruction. Because the living conditions are different on all stars and these cannot be excluded arbitrarily. However, during the last days even such plans are being worked on.

(17.05.1960) God’s opponent takes advantage of people’s gullibility by feigning that they can have contact with inhabitants of other worlds and that these, for apparently good reasons, also want to make contact with the inhabitants of earth. He intends to undermine the belief in an end of the old earth and thereby prevent people from preparing themselves for this end .... But people should be informed that earth is a planet on its own which has no connection with other worlds, and that any connection with other worlds can only be spiritually established .... Hence the human being is, in fact, able to make contact with inhabitants of advanced worlds, with the kingdom of light, by way of good and appealing thoughts for help at times of spiritual hardship .... which will then be given to him spiritually .... but that it is not advisable for him to call on beings on other stars whose spiritual degree of maturity and their ability to offer spiritual help is unknown to him. Physical help is definitely out of the question, as God’s adversary would like people to believe that these beings could exert their influence on the inhabitants of earth before a final destruction. Only God can provide the right kind of help when the time arrives which is feared by you humans, and if you believe it He will grant this help to everyone who asks for it.

And He truly has enough angels who exclusively comply with and implement His will, and they will also take care of people when the hour comes .... But God’s adversary has found fertile ground in people’s gullibility onto which he can sow many bad seeds. People would rather accept his misguided instructions than pure truth, which shows the value of his seeds. Because error is always accepted over truth, the human being will always seek to gain advantage from error and reject the truth, which does not promise him any profits. The end is near, and it will come without fail .... Every teaching is wrong which questions an end or provides people with a way out that does not correspond with God’s will .... For God Himself will lead everyone out of danger who entrusts himself to Him, who takes refuge with Him, who belongs to His Own who need not fear an end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Diversity of the celestial bodies ....

B.D. 8987 from May 31th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

The area, which is unfathomable for your mind, you can still enter, as My spirit can work in you .... Then there are no limits for you, for My mind is My portion, and I Myself know all, nothing is unknown to Me, and so I can also convey the same through My spirit, I can open up you into all areas .... But it depends on your maturity level, how far you can take insight into the secrets of creation, and depending on your level of maturity I can teach you, although even the smallest knowledge corresponds fully to the truth. But it’s up to you, to increase the maturity level, to be able to penetrate deeper what only love always realizes. For love bands closely together with Me, and then you shall also be filled by My spirit, you shall be able to see the whole creation lightly and clearly and capture all contexts. You will also know about the kind of creations, their purpose and their respective destination. You will also know about the diversity of the stars, which are so versatile, because they also carry all different mature souls and .... since I had countless ideas and them could carry out .... I therefore also formed every star after each other thoughts (laws), but which should all be for the return of the once fallen (spirituals). I’m not a being, Who is limited, Who gives up or uses up in His strength .... I constantly create and always new ideas emerge from Me and take shape .... I have so many mansions, where the development of those beings on the way back to Me is going on, My creations are countless and ever more creations arise out of My love, because I prepare new joys again and again for all of My beings, as more and more all of them climb to height, when they are on this way once. And so the people on earth are .... once when they have reached to a small glimmer of insight in the afterlife .... now also ascend and a throwback to the depth is excluded. Countless celestial bodies are to accommodate for these souls again, always appropriated to their level of maturity, that is always more increasing and thus also forces a change of their residence again and again .... You humans can see countless celestial bodies from earth, though those are for you to look .... but are innumerable. And there are still countless celestial bodies in the whole of creation, that are invisible for you, so that they also far exceed your estimate capacity as a human being .... So you only can watch the whole creation in the brightest light, because then you also know no longer limiting. But then your bliss doesn’t know limits, for you know the determination of any star and also to the state of maturity of its inhabitants, and you will always seek to increase it, to put them all in the same condition, in which you yourselves now dwell: in intimate union with Me Myself and constant streaming by love .... But a condition of your ascension is, that you possess a glimmer of knowledge .... And that means, that the truth has already penetrated you, because before that you move in the dark or walk in light twilight .... that you can not seperate from heresies. And the number of them is large .... This condition is probably is tried to be changed by light beings, but as long as they are rejected, there is no hope, and a throwback to the depth is still to be feared. But as well as there is just some love in them, they will not be closed from the intentions of the beings of light, which point them again and again to Jesus Christ, then they will also get off of their error and accept the truth, and the way up for them is safely. For these people the knowledge could have been developed already on earth, if they had attended to the voice of the spirit in themselves, because having already the knowledge on earth, opens the people the door to the kingdom of light, and they will certainly find back their way into Father’s house, in order to unite with Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blissful or unblessed state of the soul after death

Knowledge of the blissful as well as the wretched state ....

B.D. 7126 from May 21st 1958, taken from Book No. 76

You cannot imagine the happiness in the kingdom of Light, neither can you imagine the torments which the souls have to endure in the realm of' darkness. Yet time and again you are informed of both through My Word, thus you are not entirely without knowledge. However, whether you believe it or not, is up to you, nevertheless it will determine your own fate when your soul leaves the body and enters the kingdom of the beyond. For as soon as you believe what you are told time and again by My Word you will also live your earthly life accordingly, for no believer will irresponsibly live for the moment, everyone will make an effort to live according to My will, even though his weak will can often make him fall ....

On the other hand, however, his way of life should not purely be determined by the fear of darkness or an expectation of beatitudes in the kingdom of light, for this by itself would not influence the state of his soul very favourably; but the devoted person will dwell on it and be impelled from within to lead a God-pleasing life, only a person possessing a so-called conventional faith is calculating, who certainly has knowledge of My Word but who more or less only fulfils everything due to outside pressure, due to commandments or regulations, and complies with these commandments for the sake of the promised reward or feared punishments. True faith, however, will establish the connection with the One in Whom the human being believes. And then he will also feel responsible towards Me and try to live in accordance with My will on earth .... because he wouldn't want to sadden Me and also because he feels My love for him and would like to prove himself worthy of this love ....

Yet the knowledge of the blissful as well as the wretched state which a soul can expect after physical death shall enhance the human being's sense of responsibility; he shall know that he is not living his earthly life pointlessly, he shall not be able to say that he had not received any advice about the consequences of a right or wrong way of life. And at the same time he shall also be informed of the purpose, which consists of the said state the soul can achieve. Hence he also has to know what this state entails. However, evidence of this cannot be given to you, yet time and again a seriously striving person will indeed receive verification from the beyond which then will no longer force him to believe, because only a devoted person may experience such or it is intended to serve those of little faith as merciful evidence, whose weak faith needs a little support but who voluntarily want to live according to My will on earth.

Yet someone who is observant will also experience and see things which he can accept as proof, but no manifestations from the beyond may compel to believe, and therefore only individual people will ever be able to describe experiences which extend to the life in the beyond. And these individuals will only be believed by equally spiritually-striving people again, whereas unbelievers will ridicule them and portray them as liars or fantasists and accordingly derive no benefit for themselves either. But the world of the beyond reveals itself too, the kingdom of light as well the realm of darkness .... but never such that humanity will be compelled into belief .... this is why phenomena of all kinds can always be disputed or every single individual can make of them what he wants .... And the individual person's loving way of life will once again determine the right realisation; the loving human being will be inspired into ever more eager striving and also be supported in this by the world of light, and he will no longer doubt that there is a continuation of life after death which corresponds to his conduct on earth .... And he will try to achieve the highest goal, for he will remain in constant contact with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blissful condition of mature souls and the state of imperfection in the beyond ....

B.D. 4801 from December 24th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

Blissful conditions have been prepared for you in My Father's house. There you will find everything that gives you joy when your soul has become free from all earthly desires and ready for the spiritual kingdom. But you can only understand these blissful conditions, the joys for your pure, spiritualised soul, when you already strive for spiritual values on earth, when the earth and its possessions cannot attract you anymore. They are spiritual pleasures which give the soul unspeakable delight. They are pleasures which touch the feelings of the soul like earthly pleasures touch the body, bringing the soul great happiness because it no longer has any earthly desires. Like on earth, the soul will also experience beauty in the beyond and, like on earth, it will also experience feelings of happiness but far more profoundly. It will consistently long to increase its spiritual riches and this longing will indeed be granted. It can see and hear indescribable creations and will continually draw wisdom and strength from it .... It will move in the most delightful surroundings for which there is no earthly comparison because earthly creations are poor and barren in contrast, and therefore the human being lacks the imagination for the wonders of divine love which the Father allows His children to see. And since every being is in contact with like-minded souls the bliss will increase considerably and the light will become steadily brighter.

On the other hand, the state of the imperfect beings in the beyond can be described because it does not differ much from that on earth so that the souls still believe that they are living on earth, and this for a long time. Just as people on earth live for material things and cannot understand how spiritually aspiring human beings can withdraw from the world and still be happy, they also live in the spiritual world with the same desire for material things which will be granted to them but in a way that the achievement of their wishes cannot make them happy until, after a long time, they have become aware of the worthlessness of material things and begin to detach themselves from them. But the spiritual kingdom of light with its inhabitants will be closed to these beings .... It is another world of which they will have no understanding as yet nor could they exist there because the abundance of light would consume them. But disguised beings of light are always amongst them, who try to teach them and attempt to direct their will to liberate themselves from earthly lusts and to help them strive for something higher so that they also can enter, often after a long time, the kingdom of light. Souls with the same degree of imperfection can enter the beyond yet will need different lengths of time to mature fully .... it all depends on their hearts' ability to love, which, sometimes will change faster in the spiritual kingdom than on earth, but they can also take a very long time to overcome their errors and bad habits. However, these immature souls are always faced with known concepts, while in the kingdom of light the soul will meet completely unfamiliar conditions where seeing and hearing result in blissful happiness and the wonders never end. Herein is the promise of Jesus fulfilled: 'Eye has not seen and ear has not heard what He has prepared for those that love Him' ....

Amen

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Beatitude or renewed banishment depends on free will ....

B.D. 6598 from July 18th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Whatever you may desire on earth, your wishes shall be granted .... For you will receive whatever you desire once your life on earth is over. If you desired spiritual possessions, the spiritual kingdom will provide them to you in abundance, if earthly commodities had been your wish then the earth will accommodate you again .... the matter you aspired to will become your cover once more as it had been an incredibly long time ago .... But you will always have created the fate yourselves which is granted to you after your passing away .... If, however, the grace is bestowed upon you to be recalled before the end of this earth, then a short time will still be granted to you during which you can still discard earthly desires, during which spiritual wealth is offered to you once again which you need only seize in order take possession of it for the sake of your salvation. Yet once again it depends on your free will whether you still make use of these final blessings or let them pass you by unused in order to then be embodied into earthly creations once more because you asked for it. But you can only be blissfully happy in possession of spiritual wealth .... This is My constant admonition and call for caution which applies to all people as long as they still live on earth .... You will all have to bear the consequences of your earthly life, for it is the law of divine order which cannot be revoked by My love and I cannot, for the sake of 'grace', bestow beatitudes upon those who live their lives on earth contrary to My will, contrary to My eternal order .... who are merely the servants of the world and therefore deprive themselves of the expectation of a blissful spiritual kingdom .... As long as this earth continues to exist My flow of divine grace is still open both on earth as well as in the beyond, and all wrongly thinking and living souls will be offered blessings but they shall all keep their free will ....

However, as yet there is still the possibility of a change of will, all those who are misguided .... be it on earth or in the beyond .... still receive kind-hearted advice to consider their actual task; as yet the spiritual world eagerly endeavours to gain access to people's thoughts on earth, just as beings of light approach the souls on the other side, and they all only strive to direct their thoughts correctly, to turn their eyes towards Me and to awaken a desire for light in them, so that they will not walk past the fountain of grace where it opens itself, from which they can draw to benefit their souls. But even this time of grace will come to an end and then the day will come without fail when every soul receives what it desires .... And anyone who never paid attention to spiritual wealth will be left empty-handed and will have to accept a dreadful fate .... Then the period of Salvation will have come to an end, then an infinitely long night will start for the souls whose will was wrongly directed .... But inconceivable bliss will be granted to those who made an effort to reach Me and learned to despise earthly commodities .... The kingdom of the beyond, however, will likewise be only a kingdom of bliss, for all wretched souls will have to go through the excruciatingly painful process of development again, but only in order to one day attain the freedom again which they had misused in this earthly life. Sooner or later all beings will be able to make a free decision again and it will depend on them whether they prolong their time of agony or enter into beatitude again within a short time .... But all will receive help to reach the goal, for I pour out My blessings without limitation, and anyone who makes use of the blessing will be relieved from all adversity and pain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Entrance to eternity .... many stages .... kingdom of light - darkness ....

B.D. 1387 from April 21st 1940, taken from Book No. 23

The gate to eternity has to be passed through by every human being .... and likewise every being which has once taken the path on earth also has to go through the embodiment as a human being, consequently every being is once faced with the task of shedding its earthly shell and passing bodilessly into the kingdom of the beyond. But how different this transition from the earthly realm into the eternal kingdom can be. This transition does not always mean redemption for the being, i.e. liberation from all fetters, although all earthly body weight falls away from it. However, the bondage it now feels can be far more burdensome than the earthly shell ever was for the being .... But it is also possible for an immensely free, happiness-inducing state to replace the previous earthly life and for the being to be relieved of all torment, all fetters and all suffering. For example, a person living in poverty on earth can expect the most marvellous fate in the beyond and nothing will remind him of his earthly state, for his life from now on is light, freedom and unspeakable happiness. Again, many a person exchanges an earthly life in full comfort, joys and physical pleasures for a miserable existence in the beyond, where he lacks everything that could make his present life bearable. And this change is unspeakably bitter for the being as long as it realizes its own guilt and regocnizes its unused life on earth as well as the endlessly long life on earth before. For now the memories of the many previous stages it had lived through emerge in it, and the more it realizes this the more agonizing its state becomes, while the liberated being likewise sees this spiritual development and praises and glorifies God above all else for His kindness and care which made its final liberation possible. Thus the transition into the kingdom of the beyond will reveal an inconceivable number of spiritual levels. The beings who awaken in a radiant fullness of light will only be few, but the dark forms will be indescribably many and the awakening for them terrible. For their sojourn is just as dark and lightless as their state of soul, they enter those spheres which correspond to their state of maturity .... They have never desired light during their life on earth, and they have now been granted the fate they aspired to on earth. They are not treated unjustly but receive what they asked for .... They are in an environment that completely fulfils what their spiritual state demands. But correspondingly blessed are those who already desired the light on earth, for it shines for them in all its fullness and power. The striving of the spirit on earth now has an effect in the beyond, for the human being has previously accumulated wealth, which now brings about his blissful state. Now there is no other difference between the beings than that of the strength of light .... But woe to those beings who lack the light, who have never desired it and are still fleeing .... Oppression, sadness, indignation and darkness is their fate, and this cannot be changed at will as long as the desire for light is not awakened in the being. The being has to suffer, i.e. it is deprived of something although its will does not desire it .... it feels the torment of darkness and yet does not try to escape it because this darkness simultaneously inhibits the will, and this through its own fault. Only the desire for light lets the will become active, but rarely does a being in the beyond desire light which has rejected it on earth. This is the regrettable fact that the human being's attitude on earth rarely changes in the beyond, that the being often remains in the same rejection for an inconceivably long time .... and that it cannot be forcibly guided towards realization .... but that the beings then also have no opportunity to behold the spiritually mature since they would be unable to endure its abundance of light in their imperfect state .... that therefore no visible evidence can be given to them again which could change their wrong attitude. For such proof would again only judge them, i.e. lead them forcibly to realization. In every state, no matter how devoid of light it may be, the being must try to free itself, it must want to become free and only then will it feel light around itself. Yet everything full of light sees and regocnizes the glory of God .... It sees things it was previously unaware of, it sees the correlation of all creation, it is in the knowledge and is therefore also close to God .... for God is the light Which illuminates all these beings. And so the entrance to the life beyond is always a separation of light and darkness .... a separation of the beings who were in the desire for God and those who only knew the world and its goods .... The former consciously desired the light, the latter the prince of darkness, and thus everyone will receive what he desires during his earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Preconditions for entering the realm of light

Preconditions for entering the realm of light ....

B.D. 2556 from November 20th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

Only the soul enters the kingdom of light which has made the divine will the guiding principle of its way of life on earth in intimate union with God, which has purified itself of all impurities through this way of life and has worked in love on earth. The gates of paradise have been opened to it, the goal of its longing has become of it in the most radiant fullness of light, it is united with God .... This state requires a way of life that is pleasing to God, it requires the human being's full will to reach God. And as soon as this will moves the human being his life will also be such that it corresponds to divine will, for a will devoted to Him is reluctant to do anything that is not good, and thus the human being matures in his soul .... The soul assimilates itself to the eternal deity, and this signifies the worthiness to dwell close to God and to receive His emanation of love. This blissful state can be bestowed upon a person when he dies on earth. The soul can be raptured from the heaviness of earth and taken up into the heavenly realms if it was serious on earth about the soul's higher development .... if the person's life corresponded to the divine commandments .... if he has practiced love, i.e. if his earthly life can be called a labour of love. The degree of man's love also determines the degree of happiness in the hereafter, for just as he has measured out to his neighbour, so will God measure out to him. Only that person can receive God's emanation of love whose heart is capable of love itself, who has therefore likewise given love. Without loving activity on earth there is no bliss, for God's love only floods the soul which has shaped itself through loving activity in such a way that it can receive God's emanation of love, which presupposes a soul capable of love and active in love. Lack of love is also lack of bliss and therefore a state of darkness, because bliss consists of the soul being flooded by the brightest light. People on earth are no longer aware of their lightless state, for the degree of maturity of their souls is so low that they are unaware of a state of light, which signifies a state of bliss for them, and therefore they do not consciously strive for this state either. They live well but have no desire to ascend. And thus they do not know the benefits of light either, but they do feel comfortable in the state of darkness. And therefore they also do not know about the strength and power of love, which can bring them unspeakably great happiness in the beyond. And without this knowledge they will not transform their life into a life of love and thus never be honoured with God's radiance. Consequently, these souls come away empty-handed and they cannot attain eternal bliss in the beyond until the spark of love has become a flame within them and thus a bright light shines in the darkness of the spirit. Only then does the soul come to know the happiness of eternal bliss, which increases according to the soul's will to love, which is expressed in diligent loving activity towards the needy souls in the beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The path to eternal bliss ....

B.D. 2900 from September 28th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

The path to eternal bliss is arduous and difficult for people who are weak-willed. Again and again they must struggle and ask God for strength to strengthen their will, again and again they must try to detach themselves from the world and its charms, for only a heavenward gaze makes the ascent to the heights easy and effortless. As soon as man always keeps the goal in mind, the union with eternal love, all earthly pleasures fade and man no longer looks back. For at the end of the path the father spreads out His arms and lovingly draws His child to His heart, and all hardships, all difficulties, all struggles and confusion are over, they have sunk into nothingness in view of the glories that now await the earthly child. And the earthly path only lasts a short time .... Soon all suffering will be overcome, while on the other hand the earthly joys will also pass and the time of earthly happiness is also only short, only to be exchanged for a joyless, meagre time in the beyond, if the earthly child's struggle and will was not directed towards union with God during earthly life. His path was neither stony nor thorny; he chose the broad path, which, however, led far from the goal. He forfeited eternal glory for hours of enjoying earthly pleasures because his will was too weak to seriously strive upwards and to take hardship and obstacles upon himself during his earthly life. You humans only have to keep the goal in mind, then you will walk the path of hardship without grumbling and complaining, at the end of which the valley of eternal peace awaits you. And the path will become easy for you if you constantly pray for strength, you will be able to receive refreshment and strengthening from the hand of the heavenly father Who wants to lead His children back to Himself, into the father's house .... He will not leave you unprovided for, He Himself will be your support and guide on the narrow path upwards, He will lead you safely over all dangers and cliffs, and His love will surround you and protect you from falling. And if only you see Him, you will feel neither obstacles nor hardship, you will walk lightly over them because you are carried by His love .... And therefore you should not become discouraged if you feel anxious as to whether you will be able to walk the path undeterred. Only your will has to be prepared to strive towards the goal, you have to set the union with God as your goal and, feeling your weakness, you have to sincerely pray to Him for an influx of strength .... Then you will also be seized by His love and guided with complete certainty .... The path upwards cannot offer earthly pleasures, it cannot be covered like a walk, for the goal can only be reached by renouncing those, and this requires self-conquest and a firm will, it requires constant struggle and longing for God .... Only then will you not find the path so arduous, you will walk it full of faith that God will come to meet you, that He Himself will guide you and stand by you in every danger .... But only one thing is necessary, that your will is turned towards Him, that you strive to reach Him as well as your goal, that you push towards Him in love and He can therefore draw you to Himself forever ....

amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The soul's entry into the kingdom of light ....

B.D. 8400 from February 2nd 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Every spiritual request shall be granted to you .... I have given you this promise because My love will fulfil everything that will benefit your soul. And thus you can also rest assured that you will enter the kingdom of light and bliss after your physical death if you have lived your life on earth in accordance with My will, if you have demonstrated your love for Me through your activity of unselfish neighbourly love .... and if you have lived your life on earth with Me by having allowed Me to be your constant companion ....

'He that believeth in Me hath everlasting life ....' And anyone who lives a life of love also believes in Me with a true, living faith, and he will therefore be granted a blissful life in the spiritual kingdom .... And realisation will indeed come to him in a flash, he will move within true thinking and his happiness is such that the soul with its light, by which it is permeated, will also be able to delight the souls which still linger in darkness and long for light .... by making others happy it will find its own happiness, and so it has to have a bright light shining within itself first ....

You humans cannot possibly imagine this beatitude nor the nature of the activity, but you may well believe that these souls will no longer desire to return to earth .... especially since they know that no human being will remain on earth and every soul will soon meet its loved ones again. Therefore they should not grieve either but only ever strive to achieve a high degree of love which will facilitate their spiritual vision, because this degree is necessary for souls to meet again immediately after their passing away from this world .... otherwise the souls will first have to strive for and attain this degree in the beyond.

Yet the fact that people will meet again one day is absolute truth, and it will be an exceptionally joyful moment when the union takes place in the spiritual kingdom. You humans, who are affected by harsh strokes of fate, should always bear in mind that whatever happens to you in earthly life is only founded on My love and wisdom .... Stay mindful of the fact that I don't want to cause you suffering but greater beatitudes, which you often gain through suffering .... And you should not doubt it but humbly accept everything and, truly, the blessing will not fail to materialise itself. And if, one day, you look back on your earthly existence, you will be filled by profound gratitude and love for Me, Whom you recognise as your Father, Who only has His children's fate at heart, which will await them in the kingdom of the beyond ....

Be aware of the fact that you won't stay much longer on this earth, and that you therefore will have to accept a greater amount of suffering in order to reach the goal of voluntarily uniting yourselves with Me. And every prayer you send to Me will come from the bottom of your heart and therefore will also be answered by Me .... You will often send your thoughts into the kingdom which is your true home, and will also be allowed to receive currents of light and strength from this realm, you will keep in constant contact with those who merely went ahead of you and who .... if you possess a high degree of maturity and light .... will support you to also achieve your goal while you are still on earth .... For a soul which is already permitted to spread light will also be able to transmit the light to you humans, and that means that you will then live within utter truth, for where light exists no error will be able to sustain itself because it will be recognised as such, and the path of anyone living in truth must lead to the goal without fail.

And believe that I know every thought in your heart, and thus I also know what you still need and take care that it will be imparted to you .... And even if I occasionally use painful means they will nevertheless liberate the souls from their physical constraints and they will merely exchange earthly life with a far more beautiful life in the spiritual kingdom, where they will be of loving service to Me and therefore also enjoy beatitudes which earthly life cannot offer .... For they have entered the eternal truth from whence they once originated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

No beatitude without Salvation through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 8784 from March 19th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

You humans should bear in mind that I want to help you attain the degree of maturity in earthly life which enables you to enter the kingdom of light after you pass away from this earth .... Indeed, sooner or later you will all enter this kingdom, yet the time it will take until then can still cause you inconceivable pain if you enter the realm of the beyond in an entirely unspiritual state and the gates into the realm of light are still closed to you. Although My mercy and grace apply to every single soul even if they lived a sinful life on earth, I cannot provide it with anything else than that which My justice permits, consequently, in the spiritual realm it can only ever take possession of spheres which correspond to its way of life and will still have to endure inconceivable suffering and agony in order to redeem its guilt of sin. And if it fails to find Jesus Christ in the beyond, its suffering will be endless; it will continue to descend further and will finally have to accept the fate of renewed banishment, because there is no other atonement for the original sin than through Jesus Christ. None of you realise the full significance of the act of Salvation .... And precisely this accounts for your immense spiritual hardship .... I want to help My living creations to find the path to the cross while they still live on earth, for this will guarantee the soul an entirely different fate .... For to attain forgiveness of the sin of guilt before the human being's death is the most worthwhile goal to strive for .... as it opens the gate into the kingdom of light and the soul will be able to enjoy beatitudes in abundance .... However, the human race is not aware of the immense significance the act of Salvation holds and My adversary makes a diligent effort to keep you ignorant .... And even if people believe that the man Jesus had lived on earth in the past, exemplifying to people the most perfect way of life and calling upon them to emulate Him, they still don't want to believe that an exalted mission had been the reason for Jesus' life on earth .... They don't want to believe that it concerned an act of greatest mercy, that Jesus, through His crucifixion, wanted to redeem and indeed redeemed an immense sin, which could not be expiated by any other means than through an act of greater than great love and an inordinate measure of physical suffering .... which thus bridged the vast gulf between the kingdom of light and the realm of darkness. From then on everyone was able to cross this bridge providing he believes in Jesus Christ's act of Salvation as well as My human manifestation in Him. This human manifestation is another enigma which can only be understood by a spiritually awakened person, because people's state of sinfulness rules out all understanding for it, thus a person must first have an affirmative attitude towards Jesus' act of Salvation, appeal for forgiveness of his sin and in heartfelt contact with Him be taught by the spirit within, which can only express itself after the forgiveness of the original sin has taken place .... In that case My human manifestation in Jesus will be understandable to him, for he can be guided by the spirit into all truth and informed of all spiritual correlations .... Hence he can attain the realisation again which he once lost through his rebellion against Me. He will only gain the knowledge of all these correlations through his spirit. This knowledge can nevertheless be presented to a person, and if he received a truthful account about Jesus Christ, His act of Salvation and My human manifestation in Him, then the truth can also convince a person and make him take the same path, the path to the cross .... And he will better understand what he previously was merely told by an enlightened fellow human being. This is why I consider the spreading of the pure truth so important. It is, after all, My will that this truth shall also reach people who live a good way of life but who do not believe as yet, who will subsequently feel addressed by the truth and affected by the strength of truth and thus can also attain faith.

If you humans realised how much you could improve your fate on entering the kingdom of the beyond if you were redeemed from you guilt of sin by Jesus Christ, you would also grasp why I keep highlighting this problem, why I repeatedly explain the spiritual correlations and try to stimulate your intellect to think about it; for merely the slightest will to fulfil your purpose of life on earth is already sufficient for Me to guide you and create every opportunity for you to gain realisation .... And the final knowledge, especially, can only be granted to you through the working of My spirit, for under My adversary's influence people will always want to negate the most important thing: the Salvation from all guilt through Jesus Christ .... They certainly make concessions by admitting to His existence and also portray Him as a human being who attained highest perfection in His earthly life. Yet they do not want to believe that it concerns an entirely different problem .... that without Him the human race would forever remain separated from its God and Creator and that the souls' development in the beyond could not progress, instead they will remain in a sorry state as long as they are burdened by the original sin. Therefore they lead a wretched and pitiful existence until they find the divine Redeemer on the other side, until they comply with the light beings' efforts and without resistance allow themselves to be guided to Him, Who will lift them up from the abyss and forgive their guilt of sin as soon as they appeal to Him for it .... Thus they must first believe that Jesus Christ redeemed the human race through His act of mercy, through His death on the cross. Only this substantiates Jesus' mission on earth, but not purely His way of life .... which certainly is part of it, since no person can become blessed without love, and the teaching of love was the essence of every one of the instructions He gave to people, who He wanted to save from spiritual darkness, from the shackles of the prince of night.

People lived in profound ignorance, they did not recognise themselves as living creations of a supremely perfect Being, they did not notice their imperfection and only loved their own Self, and their selfish love impelled them into sinfulness, into sins they might well have been able to atone for in the beyond, even if it had meant an infinitely long time of suffering .... Yet these sins were not the reason for My descent to earth in the human being Jesus .... instead, it concerned the immense original sin of the past apostasy from Me, which no human being would have been able to atone for, even if he spent eternities in a wretched state .... This sin was the reason why I Myself came down to earth and accomplished the act of Salvation in Jesus, the man .... For Love Itself redeemed the guilt, and the Love was in the man Jesus .... Time and again I will inform you humans of this through My spirit, time and again I will try to explain to you the greatest mystery of all, and I will send out My disciples during the last days in order to proclaim the truth about Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Redeemer of the world, Who sheltered Me Myself within Him and He and I are, and will remain, as One for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Jesus Christ is the gateway to the kingdom of light

Opening the gate to bliss ....

B.D. 6367 from September 29th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Follow Me into the kingdom I have opened for you .... Walk the same path I walked and you will reach the aim, the union with the eternal love, a life of eternal bliss .... I walked this path consciously as a human being on earth because I was drawn by eternal love, which I did not oppose because I was devoted to My heavenly father with all My love .... The love for Him was in Me and grew ever greater the longer I stayed on earth, and through this love which filled Me I also recognized the unspeakable hardship of fellow human beings who completely lacked love and therefore lay powerless on the ground, bound by a power which was devoid of all love .... My love brought this knowledge to Me .... and the knowledge increased My love again, for now it also applied to the unhappy brothers who once stood in the light and had fallen abysmally into darkness .... I became ever more powerful through the influx of love and therefore felt strong enough to fight against the one who held My brothers captive, for I knew that My heavenly father would never withdraw My strength of love but only increase it because I wanted to bring His children back to Him, to whom His love also belonged but whom His adversary had in control. But the battle against him meant an unheard-of sacrifice of love .... I had to defeat him with an act of love through which his power was broken .... I had to sacrifice something for all fallen brothers in order to ransom them from their tormentor, I had to pay the ransom, for he never released the souls which had belonged to him since the fall into the deep .... and so I gave My life on the cross .... My overflowing love prompted Me to do so, and I longed for the father's love .... And He gave it to Me, filling Me completely, and so the father took complete possession of Me .... And everything I now did, the 'father' accomplished in Me .... And so I walked the path to the cross, as a human being, but driven by the 'love' in Me, which could not help but bring salvation to the fallen who languished in great need .... And My way of the cross led directly to the father .... the gate was open and it remains open for everyone who walks the same path as I do .... the path of love .... Walking the path of love means constant approach to eternal love and thus also the entrance into the kingdom of light and bliss .... For the loving human being is filled with the power of God, and he will be able to free himself from the bonds if he follows Me, if he looks to Me, if he carries Me in his heart, if he loves Me, just as the man Jesus loved Me .... For through love he then draws Me to himself and receives unlimited strength to walk the path of following Jesus .... There is no other way to Me than that of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... He was My son, Whom I sent down to earth, Who, with a heart full of love, constantly yearned for Me and My love and in Whom I, as the eternal love, could then also embody Myself .... He accomplished the work of salvation because His love was for you as His fallen brothers .... And for the sake of this great love I have opened the gate to paradise, to eternal bliss, through which all of you can enter who follow Jesus Christ, the redeemer of humanity .... who walk the path of love that irrevocably leads to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Kingdom of light .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7404 from September 5th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

Anyone having entered through the gate into the kingdom of light will rejoice and be glad and eternally thankful to Me, Who had led him such to reach his goal. Anyone who is able to enter the kingdom of light is thus redeemed from sin and death, for both signify darkness, and an unredeemed soul will never be able to enter the kingdom of light .... It first must have found the only One Who is the gate into the kingdom of light: Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer. And holding on to His hand the soul will also enter this kingdom, for He will deliver it from its burden of sin, because He died on the cross on behalf of all souls which were in darkness, thus in sin and death .... He made

Amends for the burden of sin on behalf of you humans; He made the sacrifice of atonement on your behalf to clear the path for you into the kingdom of light, so that you will be able to enter into eternal beatitude. Beatitude only exists where light can be found, and light can only be found where sin and death don't exist anymore. Sin, however, will be cancelled by Jesus Christ Himself as soon as He is asked to do so, as soon as you humans appeal to Him for forgiveness ....

Consequently, there is also salvation for the souls in the kingdom of the beyond, a change from darkness into light, because even the soul in the beyond may still call upon Him, for as soon as it calls upon Jesus Christ it will call upon Me Myself, and for the sake of Jesus Christ I will then be able to forgive its guilt of sin which had kept it separate from Me for an infinitely long time .... The sacrifice on the cross was made for all humankind, and any unredeemed soul only needs to take the path to the cross in order to be delivered from its guilt of sin. And to be delivered from sin means unity with Me and thus unlimited happiness.

But absolute truth is also part of it .... Hence a soul will not yet be able to enjoy supreme blissfulness as long as it is still far removed from the truth, for the truth and I are one, otherwise one could not speak of light. Light is realisation, the correct knowledge of everything, and as long as a soul is still ignorant in the kingdom of the beyond it is not yet in the kingdom of light, for as soon as it is permeated by light it will also instantly experience profound realisation.

If a soul therefore refuses to accept the truth when it is offered the same, then its state of bliss will still be imperfect too, in that case it will not have recognised Jesus Christ properly as yet, and the whole redemption will not yet have taken place which, however, would have been the result of a heartfelt appeal to Jesus Christ .... And for this reason countless souls still exist in twilight, they are not wretched but they cannot be called blessed for a long time yet. Their attitude towards Jesus Christ is not how it should be to enable Him to open the gate into the kingdom of light for them, and these souls will still need many instructions as well as intercession in order to gain the right kind of understanding for it.

As long as they are unable to let go of wrong ideas, of all kinds of misguided teachings, they cannot expect to become completely permeated by light either; but their own will shall decide the state they are in. People who consistently rejected Him on earth will also, time and again, let their will of rejection come to the fore in the beyond, when it would simply suffice to sincerely appeal to Jesus Christ for help .... For this shall certainly be granted to them as soon as their appeal in spirit and in truth reaches Him .... Then all darkness will fade away, the light will so clearly and brightly set the soul aglow that all spiritual darkness will disappear, that the soul will experience brightest realisation and never ever be able to lose this knowledge of the most profound correlations again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

B.D. 5878 from February 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The door to the kingdom of light is open to everyone who chooses the path through Jesus Christ. Without Him, however, the kingdom of light is closed to you and you walk in darkness or in such poor twilight that you do not feel well and therefore are not blessed. Wherever Jesus Christ is preached you will be pointed to the right path, for He Himself has spoken the words: "I am the way, the truth and the life ...."

And again and again He will step into your path if you have once passed Him by without paying attention to Him .... Again and again He will point you to the truth, to His act of salvation, He will offer Himself as your guide on your earthly path of life, He will woo you with love and patience, He will not turn away from you unwillingly if you don't want to listen to Him .... He will follow you if you are in danger of straying into the abyss and then entice you again and call you to turn to Him and return, so that you enter the path which leads to the right aim, to eternal life. Only He is the gate through which you can enter beatitude, and if you reject Him on earth you will receive a dark kingdom on the other side, everything is shrouded in darkness, for the light which illuminates everything is missing .... Jesus Christ, from Whom the light proceeds .... But in this kingdom of darkness you must call for Him .... then you can also be redeemed from your torment, yet it is difficult for a soul which rejected Him on earth to call for Him of its own free will .... because it did not believe and this faith cannot be given to it in the beyond either. It is difficult for such souls because they are only weak in knowledge, because darkness confuses their thinking and often directs it wrongly .... because they possess too little light of their own which could now stimulate their will to call upon Him for salvation. The rejection of Jesus Christ on earth has an extremely painful effect in the beyond, for the soul lacks everything .... strength and light .... it cannot recognize and is too weak-willed to acquire knowledge. But the divine redeemer's mercy still sends help to such souls even then .... Even in this kingdom of darkness they are pointed to the cross of Christ, which expresses itself in such a way that suddenly a thought of Him appears to the soul like a flash of lightning, that suddenly a glimmer of light touches it in the form of the cross which, however, immediately goes out again but can nevertheless leave a glimmer of realization in the soul, that it reflects on Jesus Christ and promises itself redemption from Him .... that it calls upon Him in its thoughts and presents its adversity to Him .... that it thereby expresses its will to believe in Him, only that it needs help in order not to change its mind again. And then it will also receive help, then the darkness will imperceptibly subside, a slight twilight will let it recognize a path which it will now follow and which will lead it into ever brighter regions .... as long as it does not drop the thought of Jesus Christ .... which, however, immediately becomes dark again when it no longer remembers Him .... The soul must freely want to go out of itself to Jesus Christ, then every obstacle will recede before it, then a light will shine to it, which it will soon recognize as the Christ light that sent it the first thought of Him .... Faith in Jesus Christ is the gate that leads to blessedness .... And blessed is he who still on earth finds Him, the divine redeemer, Who Himself is the Way, the Truth and the Life .... Blessed is he who with this faith enters the kingdom of the beyond, for to him the gate opens to the kingdom of light, to eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blissful state in the kingdom of light

Spiritual creations .... Beatitude .... 'Eye hath not seen ....'

B.D. 3670 from January 28th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Everything that is visible to you testifies of My might and strength and love. Yet My strength of love also produced invisible creations which will delight you in the spiritual kingdom, but only when you have achieved the degree of maturity which allows for spiritual vision. Then you will indeed marvel at My love's works of wonder, they will enchant your eye, nevertheless they will also be comprehensible to you, for then you will recognise Me Myself as strength and love, then you will already be so pervaded by it that you will be able to understand that it is the primary cause of every creation, and then you will forever glorify the One Who employs His will for constant works of love.

The spiritual creations are inconceivable to people on earth, they are the epitome of proportion, perfection, beauty and versatility, they are exceptionally magnificent formations and their ever changing appearance makes them increasingly more wonderful to behold and they will never tire or oversaturate the onlooker's eye but forever cause immense happiness and gratitude towards Me, the Creator of heaven and earth. Indeed, earthly creations occasionally also appear lovely to a person and let his heart beat faster in the realisation that he is facing the eternal Creator, Who is almighty and full of love. However, the most beautiful creations on earth are but a pale reflection of the spiritual creations which are incomparable, since it is not possible for My love be so evidently visible on earth because people have not yet changed themselves into love.

But I can bestow the abundance of My love to souls which have become love, My creative love can reveal itself to them and I can show them and bestow on them what I have promised 'Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him ....' And the more profoundly a being is able to love the more glorious will the creations become .... Profound love gives them an insight into My reign and activity in the spiritual kingdom, they are no longer opposite Me as imperfect beings, but have become what I Am Myself .... love .... they are full of might and strength themselves, and in highest perfection are able to create and shape in harmony with My will through My strength.

No comparison can be given to people on earth about their activity in the spiritual kingdom since it is subject to completely different laws and spiritual activity has nothing in common with physical activity, with work on earth. Yet it is a blissful activity, an activity which signifies supreme happiness for the being which has become love, which can think, feel and want, which is able to see and hear, which feels like an individual being and yet is extremely happy in unity with other beings because it thereby increases its strength and love and intensifies its ability to be active. The inhabitants of the spiritual world exist in a state of utterly blissful harmony, a state which is constantly aspired to as soon as the soul has attained realisation on earth or in the spiritual kingdom.

I would like to place all beings into this state because I love them and would like them to behold the glories of My kingdom. For the activity of My love constantly applies to My living creations' happiness, My love is infinite and wants to give and delight, and thus I want to make My living creations worthy of being allowed to stay in spiritual creations; yet they themselves have to want it, they must shape themselves into love of their own free will so that they can be made indescribably happy in the spiritual kingdom for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Bliss in the spiritual kingdom ....

B.D. 4578 from March 2nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The bliss of those who discard their physical shell and are allowed to enter the kingdom of light, their eternal home, is beyond your grasp. Having left all sorrows behind, they are no longer weighed down by difficulties nor plagued by enemies. Fear and sadness are unknown to them; their eyes only see beauty, exceptionally charming surroundings, magnificent formations of My creative will, and figures of light approaching them in order to introduce them to the kingdom of peace and beatitude. And in this environment they may stay and occupy themselves according to their own will. Their bliss rests in this freedom after a state during which their souls were still constrained and surrounded by earthly matter. Their hearts are able and willing to love and they are so aglow with love that this alone makes them happy already, for they find constant fulfilment. They join souls which resemble themselves, that is, which possess the same degree of maturity, and these associations increase their bliss, because unity out of love also increases the individual being’s strength as well as the urge to be active which results in joint kind-hearted activity which makes them exceedingly happy since the activation of strength results in increasingly more strength. The influx of strength, however, is a feeling of utmost delight, for it is the evidence of being close to God .... My living creations feel Me and, depending on their degree of maturity which enables the permeation of light, also get to see Me Myself in a way which is endurable for them. Their inner bliss intensifies, for their longing for Me increases constantly and is always granted .... No-one on earth can understand what that means, because earthly love is just a pale reflection of spiritual love and already the most desirable on earth, in the spiritual realm, however, it surpasses all other glories the soul is offered, because it signifies the constant influx of light and strength and therefore also the constant nearness of God. However, once My living creations have entered the kingdom of light, I Am the epitome of bliss for them and they will never ever abandon Me again. Then everyone will receive the reward for the love he showed Me on earth .... I constantly increase their happiness, I permeate the soul with My love and provide it with constantly new delights .... because ‘what no eye has seen and no ear has heard, that is what I have prepared for those who love Me .... ’

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Bliss in the kingdom of light .... Pleasures and delights ....

B.D. 5666 from May 3rd 1953, taken from Book No. 62

A blissfully happy life awaits My Own in the spiritual kingdom when they depart from this earth, when they have concluded their course of life and are able to shed the earthly form for good. Everything that had weighed them down will fall away from them, they will feel free and light and be received into the kingdom of light whose occupants will come to meet them in order to guide them into their own sphere .... It is impossible to describe to you humans the delights they will experience and how the kingdom they now inhabit is designed .... It entails extrasensory shapes and concepts, it is an entirely different sphere for which nothing on earth could be used as a comparison and yet the souls quickly find their way around, they know that it is their true home, for the soul will have received its past awareness again and will be abundantly happy because it will recognise the infinite love and grace with which I had guided it from beginning until it has reached the goal. A person on earth cannot feel these beatitudes which await him there, being still earthbound he only has limited feelings and he would die were the soul able to behold these glories while it is still on earth, but now he can enjoy them ceaselessly without fading away. However, through love for Me and his fellow human being the human being on earth makes himself more or less receptive for the emanations of light, in which he then can constantly move in the spiritual realm and experience immense happiness. It is the happiness of reciprocated love which, however, always impels loving activity as well, because the soul now wants to give as it receives, because it cannot help itself but to provide happiness to those who are still unhappy .... A person’s will on earth guarantees the souls ascent, nevertheless, it must be serious, it must turn to Me deep within the heart, it must not merely express itself with empty words which I always recognise as empty, which are not spoken in spirit and in truth and which are not felt either if the mouth does not voice them. But anyone who has a serious intention will reach his goal. And the promised beatitudes awaiting him shall also make him humbly bear the suffering, for this only raises the degree of beatitude in the spiritual kingdom, otherwise the soul will still have to go through dark spheres and will require a long time before it can enter the kingdom of light. And no being which longs for Me and My love need truly do without Me .... I will illuminate it and place it in a state of supreme bliss, I will change all suffering and misery into pleasure and delight, I will recompense a thousand fold what a person takes upon himself because He loves Me, and I will royally reward those who fight for Me and My kingdom on this earth .... I have prepared a fate for them in the house of the Father which will make them eternally happy.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Remembrance .... rejoicing in the kingdom of light ....

B.D. 7846 from March 9th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

One day you will be able to look back and follow your whole course of development when you have entered the kingdom of light, and you will not be able to praise My love and grace enough and thank Me when you realize how I only ever endeavoured to create spiritual progress for you so that the path to Me became ever shorter and you were able to reach Me one day. But during your earthly life as a human being your recollection has to be taken away from you, for you have to pass the last earthly life test in free will, but this would make the recollection of your past life in the creations of earth impossible, for you would turn to Me driven by fear. Yet this would not be enough for Me, for I want your love .... I want your voluntary return to Me which will then also prove your love for Me. Nevertheless, I instruct you about your infinitely long process of development, only you are not forced to believe this, and even if you believe it you don't know about the torments and the state of wretchedness during the time when your will is still bound .... you don't let yourselves be impressed to such an extent that you now change your will out of fear. Your nature alone will always be decisive as to whether you change it into love .... Accordingly, your desire for Me and the guarantee for your voluntary return to Me. But again, it is good if the knowledge of the state of torment in the bound will is presented to you, for it can make you think, and it can also convince you of My infinite love and patience which does everything to win you back again .... The knowledge can cause you to lead your way of life responsibly and make an effort to fulfil My will, of which you also take notice as soon as this knowledge is also presented to you. But it is always your free will how you adjust yourselves to such knowledge which informs you of a long course of development before the embodiment as a human being. And that is why only few people consciously live their earthly life. For only a few accept such knowledge, only a few allow themselves to be taught by My messengers, and I can only speak to very few in order to impart this knowledge to them. Yet the jubilation in the kingdom of light will be indescribable when the soul has completed its earthly life, when it has voluntarily taken the path to Me, when it brightly and clearly overlooks everything and thus also overlooks its long course of development .... Then My greater than great love will become apparent to it, then the love for Me will also flare up ever more hotly in it, and then it will also want to show its gratitude, and it will want to take part in the work of redemption in order to help the still struggling spiritual being to attain the same happiness and the same abundance of light in bliss again .... For love impels it to constant activity, love is meant for Me and also for the still wretched spirits, and love does not rest, for it wants to make everything happy and know everything blissfully that once came forth from Me .... And therefore My love is also constantly endeavouring to return the spiritual substance, and it truly does everything to make the path easier for you, which is of utmost importance especially in the human stage, because free will decides and I constantly influence this will in a good sense but without forcing it. But once I will also certainly reach the aim that you return in free will; but you yourselves can also endlessly prolong the time you need for this if you fail in earthly life as a human being and turn your will wrong again .... yet as soon as you keep to My word, which is offered to you again and again, you can also be certain that you will reach the aim .... For then you will also receive the strength to ascend, and then you will also fulfil My will of your own accord and rightly pass your final test .... And you will thank Me and praise and glorify Me eternally when you are allowed to enter the kingdom of light where you may behold Me face to face ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Value of spiritual knowledge in the hereafter

Worthlessness of earthly knowledge in the beyond ....

B.D. 5801 from November 4th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Don't value your earthly knowledge too highly for it is of no use to you in eternity. It can certainly be useful to you for the duration of your earthly life, but if you don't use it to acquire spiritual knowledge by going through earthly knowledge towards the realisation that you are God's living creations, and then strive to attain the complete truth of God, it will not be of any benefit to you when you enter into the spiritual kingdom. Yet even spiritual knowledge which was gained by purely intellectual means has to be considered earthly knowledge .... which indeed refers to spiritual problems but which was acquired like all other earthly knowledge through study for the purpose of a professional occupation ....

Even if you memorise the Book of the Fathers, even if you try to interpret the divine Word again on the strength of prophetic sayings, even if you intellectually master every sentence, it is of no greater value than any other knowledge of a non-spiritual content. For in the end the soul will only retain as its share the wisdom it had gained through unselfish loving actions .... The soul will only keep what the spirit within was able to impart to it. And this doesn't require worldly studies, sharp intellectual thoughts or a remarkable memory .... For the spirit will provide it when it is needed .... And of what benefit is wealth which you cannot use over there .... it is lifeless knowledge, it gives you no light, and you cannot even demonstrate the truth of this knowledge as long as your spirit does not impart to you the correct insight and ability to discern ....

However, you have to approach your inner spirit yourselves; you have to enable it to express itself .... Only then will you become enlightened and you will also spread brightly radiating light on entry into the spiritual kingdom. But blessed is he who allows himself to be taught by the spirit and at the same time tries to broaden his earthly knowledge .... Many thoughts will come to him, he will also receive earthly knowledge as long as he first strives to acquire spiritual possessions .... And he will make truly beneficial use of all knowledge when his earthly life has come to an end .... He will be able to share everything he owns in the spiritual kingdom, for once again he will be able to prominently and instructively influence people who, like himself, are searching and striving in their desire for God and the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The blessing of spiritual knowledge in the beyond ....

B.D. 5554 from December 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

My spirit is revealing spiritual knowledge to you which will, one day, make you indescribably happy if you work with it in the spiritual kingdom for the benefit of those who are still unaware .... Until people have reached the state of enlightenment pure truth is rarely to be found amongst them on earth and therefore not in the kingdom of the beyond either. For light stands for wisdom, the knowledge of pure truth, and every erroneous thought is a shadow obscuring the light, even if a soul is already translucent. But until the last wrong thought has been banished the light will still be cloudy at times, and the soul first has to make itself completely accessible to the truth, it must have acquired the correct information before it will be able to work with it as a bearer of light in the spiritual kingdom.

Being able to enter the beyond with spiritual knowledge is therefore an immense grace, since it is the equivalent to wearing a bright gown of light which shines everywhere and distributes light in turn. Then it can instantly carry out its real function, it can educate the ignorant and be of immense help where there is still darkness or twilight. For it will also be confronted by doubters and liars in the spiritual realm, nevertheless it will be able to enlighten them with its knowledge. Since this knowledge is the result of the revelations through My spirit it will have a power of conviction which a being can rarely resist unless it is a representative of the prince of darkness and flees from the truth. For such beings will also cross the path of someone who knows in order to extinguish a light in the belief that they are able to do so. And beings like that can only receive clarification from a bearer of light who has received his knowledge from Me ....

For this very reason My revelations, My Word, contain tremendous strength which can even pull down strong walls, for I will address these souls Myself if you lend Me your mouth, if you, due to My will, bring the Gospel to the souls in darkness in the same way as you have received it from Me. For it is the pure truth, and this will even convince a soul hitherto steeped in wrong thought since it feels an inner happiness, it more or less perceives the truth like a good deed, its understanding of it begins to develop, it can no longer doubt what it effectively receives from Me .... The strength of My Word will have a noticeable effect, the soul will suddenly become illuminated, and what it had so far failed to understand will suddenly become clear and will be joyfully accepted. Just as misery and confusion caused by misguided teachings are great, so gladdening and intelligible is the truth .... And truth will always be found where My spirit can be effective, what I reveal to people through My spirit will always be truth. Therefore you should remain aware of the abundance of blessings you receive from Me and work with this gift of grace, pass on My Word, carry light into the darkness, illuminate everyone, give them the truth which you have received from Me Myself, and work for the benefit of those who are still living in spiritual darkness ....

Amen

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Spiritual treasures .... thoughts .... beyond ....

B.D. 2753 from May 25th 1943, taken from Book No. 34/35/36

Spiritual knowledge is a possession of everlasting value, it is something permanent which cannot diminish but only increase; it is a treasure which every human being can cherish and which can never be taken away from him. And people should desire nothing else but this good, and yet it is sought after only very little. Anyone who possesses it knows how to appreciate its value, but if he wants to help his fellow human being to the same good, he will be rejected in disbelief and his gift will be ignored. Spiritual goods cannot be arbitrarily transferred to a fellow human being if the latter does not desire them. He who desires spiritual good will be allowed to receive it; it will often be offered to him in a marvellous way and it will bring him rich treasures. Nor will it ever diminish even if the human being gives it away, his spiritual wealth will not be diminished by giving but rather increased, because the offering of spiritual treasures is a labour of love which inevitably results in love and grace again, which is tantamount to an increased supply of spiritual thoughts. And this is why the human being should strive for nothing other than spiritual wealth and only fulfil earthly things to the extent required of him, for it is unwise to increase earthly possessions as they lose all value at the moment of death. What is desirable on earth will only ever serve the body for comfort, but spiritual thoughts touch the soul and can therefore only benefit the soul; and therefore spiritual treasures must also be received by the soul and be perceived as a blessing. spiritual possessions will also never be dead possessions, i.e. possessions which remain unutilized, which as dead possessions are of no benefit to anyone, but their owner will constantly be active and work with these spiritual possessions. He will constantly give it away and at the same time increase his possessions, he will always be able to receive new goods so that his possessions are never used up. And all it takes is the human being's will to raise these spiritual treasures and to acquire wealth which is of eternal value, which is everlasting, because its origin is the spiritual kingdom, which is eternal and everlasting. And people could be immeasurably rich if they used their will correctly to receive spiritual knowledge, for it outweighs all earthly things many times over. And the true value will only be recognized in eternity, where only the spiritual riches count and the poverty of the one who only strived for earthly possessions will be truly recognizable. Again, the soul's will has to be prepared to accept spiritual possessions, otherwise its fate in the beyond will be very poor and sad. But if it lacks the will, spiritual possessions cannot be offered to it, whereas in earthly life such is made accessible to every human being and the human being's will only has to decide whether he accepts it. Hence the human being on earth is much better off, since God's grace repeatedly gives him the opportunity to acquire spiritual treasures, that he is constantly influenced by the beings of light to turn his thoughts towards spiritual things, and that he is also imparted spiritual thoughts by his fellow human beings if he does not completely reject them. And the events around him can also cause him to let his thoughts wander into the spiritual realm .... He is always and everywhere offered the opportunity to unearth spiritual treasures and increase his possessions, if only he is willing. In the beyond, however, his will must demand, otherwise nothing can be offered to him, and this will must first prove itself through willingness to help, thus through loving activity. Only then does it depend on when his spiritual poverty can be remedied through spiritual possessions .... And only then can the soul work with its wealth and give happiness as well as feel happiness. It can be incessantly active, it can give out and receive spiritual good and be happy ....

Amen

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Value of spiritual treasures in the beyond ....

B.D. 6003 from July 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Increase your spiritual possessions as much as you can, for they are riches with which you can work in the spiritual kingdom for your and the ignorant souls' happiness. They are treasures which cannot be taken from you if they are not the result of your intellectual thinking but heavenly supplies which were imparted to you through the spirit. For everything, even that which is thought, can have its exit in the spiritual kingdom if the prerequisites for it are given .... And the gates to the kingdom of light will open to anyone who can demonstrate spiritual wealth, because this signifies light, realization and also love .... without which no human being can reach the light. For your activity in the beyond consists of enlightening the ignorant and leading those in the dark to the light .... that you lovingly try to bring redemption to those who are still bound, who dwell in utmost poverty and hardship in a desolate region, who are therefore wretched. They shall be led to beatitude by you, for in your love you will always want to distribute your wealth, you will want to give and receive the more you distribute. Spiritual wealth, however, can only be called spiritual knowledge which was gained through the working of the spirit .... which is therefore conveyed to the human being as a result of loving activity, be it directly or also through mediation or through right thinking guided by the spirit .... The human being's love must always enable him to receive spiritual knowledge which originates from Me and can only ever be conveyed to someone who lives in love .... Pure intellectual knowledge will not last in eternity, for the souls will lose this in the kingdom of the beyond if they lack love .... And thus you should always endeavour to live a life of love on earth, because then you will gather spiritual treasures for yourselves which can never ever be taken away from you, which will make you happy and give you the opportunity to work in the spiritual kingdom for your and all souls' bliss whom you want to redeem ....

Amen

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Activity in the kingdom of light

Eternal bliss .... activity, not rest ....

B.D. 1158 from November 4th 1939, taken from Book No. 20

Detached from the heaviness of earth, the being which has complied with God's will is now presented with a sight in the beyond which cannot be described to man on earth, for he cannot comprehend what God's love has created outside of earth and what joys the father has prepared for those who have proved themselves to be children of God. Incomparable joys await them .... and the more diligently the child on earth worked to fulfil God's will, the brighter the light it now approaches. The soul has now escaped the chaos of darkness, it enters a sphere which is bright, light and clear and closed to the demons of the underworld, and therefore they can no longer influence the souls now standing in the light, so that they can no longer be bothered by evil power. And this state is so exceedingly beneficial and joy-inducing, for the soul's struggle is over .... in it is peace and around it radiant light and indescribable bliss. For all beings who dwell in the same sphere contribute to increasing bliss. The love of these beings has reached a degree that they are now worthy of the nearness of the lord, for they desire by virtue of this love, and the fulfilment of their ardent desire is beyond all measure blissful and of such a kind that the love-receiving being has to pass on everything it receives itself to all beings in the universe in an undiminished way. For the love of the father in heaven does not dry up, it flows uninterruptedly over to all creatures and therefore also reaches all His creatures unceasingly by way of innumerable perfect beings, i.e. beings standing in light and in truth, which are recipients and transmitters of this divine power of love at the same time. Only in a state of perfection is the being able to endure this divine abundance of love, and only in a state of perfection is it able to pass on this strength of love, and thus the latter is also the task of these beings in the beyond, that they are mediators of all strength from God .... that they constantly work in accordance with the will of the eternal deity. People often have such a wrong concept of life in eternity that they imagine it to be contemplative rest and everlasting enjoyment, and yet eternal life is a state of busy activity, all happiness, all state of bliss is expressed in restless activity, in constant help for the release of everything unredeemed, and a state of rest would be tantamount to passing away and ruin. However, the earthly state of toil and oppressive worry cannot be compared with that labour in the hereafter .... eternal life in perfection is completely unaffected by any forces that could be a burden. Only the close union with the divine lord and saviour requires this activity, and only the father's will is fulfilled, as it were, by all those standing in the light carrying out the activity in His will as His children. And thus the human being can never imagine a state of rest as the epitome of eternal bliss, for everything that lives has to be active, and thus eternal life is a perpetual conscious working and carrying out of the divine will ....

Amen

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Acquiring graces in the afterlife .... activity in spheres of light ....

B.D. 2450 from August 16th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

The time of earthly life rich in grace comes to an end with the human being's death, for then his soul returns to the spiritual kingdom and is either richly blessed with spiritual possessions or poor and meagre, depending on whether it has utilized the blessings which were at its disposal during earthly life. As soon as earthly life is over the supply of grace ceases insofar as that the being now has to struggle for it itself, that it therefore only acquires new favours through its right attitude towards God .... that it is therefore granted divine grace, i.e. with His help, if it professes God, thus acquires His emanation of love through the will to work with love. This is a favour in the truest sense of the word, since the test of earthly life should actually bring final perfection to the human being and now God, out of greater than great love, will not deny the being His help in the beyond either, in such a way that He grants the being an insight into the suffering of other souls and thereby wants to cause the former to help these suffering souls. Through this will to help it acquires God's grace again, which God hands out unmeasured in order to save the souls from darkest adversity. And the soul thanks its creator when it has become knowledgeable, i.e. when it can receive God's emanation of love, for then it is full of bliss and praises and glorifies God uninterruptedly .... (16.8.1942) The spheres of light are now accessible to this soul, they are its constant environment. It no longer has to fear a decline, it can only enter ever brighter spheres of light, but no shadow will ever cloud its bliss .... And now its otherworldly activity begins, which brings it supreme satisfaction, for it only carries out what deepest love impels it to do, and therefore its present activity is blissful. A loving soul is only anxious to give happiness, thus to hand out what makes it happy itself, and since it has gone through the state of lightlessness itself and felt the agonizing lack of freedom, it wants to help the souls in its love who have to endure the same fate. For now it also knows that it thereby fulfils God's will; it feels as if it is permeated by the divine will and carries it out without resistance. And yet it does not curtail the freedom of will of the souls it wants to lead upwards. Hence its work is laborious and requires utmost patience, yet its love will not let it tire, and the effort will also be rewarded, for it feels utmost bliss when the soul listens to its whisperings and begins to detach itself from the world. This work on the souls in the beyond and on earth is redeeming activity, the significance of which the human being on earth only rarely realizes, for only the knowledge of eternal bliss makes the necessity of such activity understandable. But as soon as the soul in the beyond is in the realm of the divine emanation of love, it also knows about its task and its importance, and it now fulfils it with a devotion that is only based on its love. love and beatitude are inseparable, the soul has to prepare beatitude with love because it constantly receives beatitude, and it has to help the still bound souls to remove all obstacles which prevent access to beatitude .... The soul must pass on the knowledge through which the unfree souls also attain freedom and can now likewise enter spheres of light, eternal bliss ....

Amen

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Bliss .... light kingdom ....

B.D. 8977 from May 19th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

All of you are My creatures, emerged from My love, and this love does not decrease; it is and remains in the same strength and will always take care of you, also when you have separated yourselves from Me will-wise. Love is My original substance, and therefore everything created is radiated through by Me Myself and therefore can also not become less. But what does love want at all? Nothing else than to give itself away and to fill what again wants to receive love .... Everything has been called into life by love; love power is every work of creation, and therefore also everything is imperishable what has Me Myself as origin .... But what do you imagine as 'love'? It is and always remains the desire for unity, only it can also be a wrongly directed love to which this desire of yours applies .... But the desire for it is in you to possess what you love .... If you now have emerged out of a love pure beyond all measure, then also My desire for you is according to this love. I just want to make you happy, create happy states for you, therefore give back to you everything what you had given away voluntarily. It wants to put you again into the state, which, since you are products of this love power, was a state of highest bliss. And when you now lack every possibility of comparison in the state of imperfection, then you also cannot imagine what this happiness consists of. You will always be considered according to the degree of love in which you stand yourselves, and with increasing love you will also be allowed to feel always greater happiness. These blisses consist of (in) innumerable spiritual experiences, in a kind of creative activity, in seeing spiritual creations, in constant desire and constant fulfilment, in hearing My word .... All this triggers a bliss for which you humans lack any concept .... For My infinitely profound love always wants to make you happy, to give you something that you once possessed ....

(19.5.1965) But the highest happiness will always be for you the passing on of My flow of love power, because there will always be lightless places, which you are to cover with light .... And to pass on My love power means to supply truth to those, which you possess in all fullness, which is also supplied to you unlimitedly and in it consists your happiness, which is still completely incomprehensible to you, because to pass on light into darkness is to a degree happy, because it constantly increases and is no longer given by such a being. The soul will always want to help, and it will always also find souls in need of help, and this help is happy for it and will still never be carried out for the sake of its own happiness, but always only love drives the soul to this help, but love is in every soul of such strength that it alone already prepares happiness, which is immeasurable .... So bliss is not 'striven for' by any soul, that it could be felt as reward .... For no soul desires it, but the exceeding love drives it incessantly to an activity which is bliss in itself, whether it consists in creating and shaping or in dispensing the truth .... it will always be felt as 'bliss' because it always consists of the beatification of other beings, thus it is no longer possible to speak of its own 'reward'. The spiritual world offers you so many glories, but which originally were your share and which you are now only allowed to take possession of again, which therefore make you immeasurably blissful .... It is therefore the original state in which you were, and you now stand as man in a very defective state, so that an 'eternal happiness' is presented to you as desirable. But you cannot form a picture of what is to be understood by this happiness, yet this much you should know that you no longer want to return to that defective state where you have not yet fully grasped the love which you only ever want to radiate to those beings which need a light. For to be able to make yourselves happy again will be the greatest bliss for you, and you will always have the opportunity to do so when you can be struck by My ray of love yourselves, which you can always pass on to the areas where there is still darkness, and it will then be the task for you which makes you happy yourselves ....

Amen

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Teaching activity in the hereafter

Teaching in the afterlife requires truth ....

B.D. 8276 from September 18th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Once you have entered the spiritual kingdom and only a small light can shine for you, then you will know how necessary it is to be in possession of the pure truth, for every error will darken the light like a shadow, and no radiant light will shine through you until you have completely penetrated the truth .... Thus you will also need guides over there who will supply you with this light, who will stand in the truth themselves and also be able to instruct you in it. And until then you will not be able to carry out the delightful work over there yourselves of giving light to other souls, for you first have to stand in truth yourselves before you are allowed to engage in a teaching activity which makes you unspeakably happy .... Every erroneous opinion still darkens the sphere around you, and you can be grateful if you don't need to enter into darkness, for then you won't know the cause of the darkness and therefore won't try to remedy it either. But if you have already let the light of truth shine in you on earth then your entry into the beyond will be truly blissful, because a brightly radiating light will receive you, because you may now dwell in a sphere where all burdens fall away from you, where everything lies before you in clarity, where you may now distribute what you possess, because you can show many spiritual treasures which you acquired on earth through love. For love also places you into the state of pure truth, and if your life on earth was a life of love and all deeper knowledge was alien to you, it will be imparted to you in a flash upon your entry into the spiritual kingdom. And if you live a life of love on earth then you will also easily be able to recognize error and your thoughts will be turned towards the truth .... No wrong spiritual knowledge will burden you in the kingdom of the beyond and cover the light, for only pure truth is a true light, which you will recognize after your death. Therefore I Myself try to convey the truth to you on earth already, for to know the right knowledge is already bliss, which increases when you can impart your knowledge to other souls because love impels you to do so. And therefore even the souls in the beyond, which are still weak in will, eagerly accept the truth from My mouth when I instruct you, because they are allowed to participate, for I will not deny Myself to any being which desires to hear Me Myself. Light must become everywhere where My adversary still seeks to spread darkness. He is the lord of darkness, and his endeavour will constantly be to withhold the pure truth from people but to make error and lies accessible to them, and countless people depart from this earth in a lightless state because they did not resist the darkness, because they did not desire the truth which would certainly have been supplied to them if the desire for it had been present .... It is about the soul's fate in the beyond .... Only love will earn it a blissful fate, because love also guarantees the entrance into the kingdom of light, where the soul can now be active for its own happiness by carrying light into the darkness again itself. Yet the battle of darkness against the light will not cease, and the human being's free will decides the victory .... In the last days, however, it will be particularly fierce because the adversary does not want to lose his followers, but the light will expose him and his activities and he will use all means to keep people in darkness .... The fact that I Myself fight for the souls and time and again kindle a light for them so that they will find the path to Me, Whom they will also recognize and learn to love in the light, is understandable, for My love wants to help them attain beatitude, and My love therefore wants to repeatedly convey the pure truth to people and uncover and correct existing misguided teachings. And I will always point people to My commandments of love, I will always admonish them to live a life of love, because then only they will be able to recognize the truth and their state of light will increase, so that they will then also end their earthly life in a high degree of light and love and enter My kingdom, where they will then be blissfully happy in the light and also be able to radiate it into the darkness again ....

Amen

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Spiritual wealth .... activity in the afterlife ....

B.D. 3212 from August 4th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

By using spiritual strength the human being can create wealth on earth which will bring him supreme happiness in eternity, for through this spiritual wealth he is able to be redemptively active in the kingdom of the beyond for his own happiness. He is himself a bearer of strength and light and can therefore also distribute what he already possesses in abundance, and his love can be active. This is a blissful state which is completely independent of earthly activity, thus it does not require any material creations but only spiritual wealth .... a truthful knowledge which he can now impart spiritually to the ignorant souls in the spiritual kingdom and also to people on earth. The human being should gather these treasures on earth, he should try to penetrate truthful spiritual knowledge, and therefore he should practice love, because spiritual knowledge can only be attained by way of love and thus love is the only path to beatitude. In the beyond the spiritual beings' activity only consists of working in love, of distributing spiritual gifts, and therefore the being first has to possess these gifts before it can work in love. Now the greater a soul's spiritual wealth is at its demise the more blissful it will now be, for an extensive field of activity is at its disposal, and it can bring infinite blessings to souls which are without knowledge and therefore also without strength and which therefore are in a state of hardship which they can only remedy when the spiritual treasures are at their disposal. And thus a soul of light can constantly alleviate hardship by giving away from its wealth. Yet it constantly receives new wealth, for its activity of love is rewarded again by God through the supply of ever new strength of love .... wisdom and bliss .... The soul can constantly receive this strength and constantly distribute it. And it will be exceedingly happy in teaching the ignorant. The spiritual hardship on earth is caused by the fact that too little love is practiced and therefore the pure truth is not recognized, the spiritual treasures are not striven for and therefore no-one wants to be active in distributing these treasures in order to remedy the spiritual hardship. He who possesses nothing himself can also give nothing .... but what people offer each other is not spiritual goods but pretence, as well as they are (not) earthly goods. It is spiritual knowledge which does not correspond to the truth, which is therefore spread by God's adversary in the world in order to mislead people. Spiritual possessions which are meant to make people happy must be unconditional truth, only truth is spiritual wealth, and only pure truth can cause bliss upon entry into the spiritual kingdom, only truth carries the soul into spheres of light and otherworldly activity in love presupposes the possession of truth. And therefore the human being on earth should only strive for pure truth and make himself worthy of it through unselfish activity of love. Then he will be able to collect spiritual treasures on earth which will make him a blissful being as soon as he departs from earth and can enter the kingdom of light ....

Amen

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Blessed lot and activity in the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 5624 from March 13th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

A truly blissful fate awaits you if you enter the kingdom of the beyond richly blessed with spiritual possessions. Then you will immediately be able to tackle tasks which make you happy yourselves, you will feel an abundance of strength and want to pass it on because you also know that there are beings which are completely powerless and whom you can help. And your will will turn towards these unfortunate ones, and now your actual activity begins to redeem bound unhappy souls by imparting to them the spiritual good you possess yourselves, by working with the treasures you have acquired on earth through a life of love .... You possess strength in abundance .... and you see the torment of the powerless souls, for your eyes are opened to the fate of those who dwell in darkness .... You can see them in their unhappy state, you can join them but without being recognized by them as belonging to another sphere .... Your will to help becomes overpowering in you, with perseverance and love you try to encourage these souls to work themselves and to acquire the strength for it through love .... The will of such a soul to help the suffering souls will already provide them with strength, and your constant effort will be to stimulate this will, because you cannot help them otherwise if their will opposes it. Yet new strength will always flow to you and therefore you will not tire in your redeeming activity. You all have souls close to you whom you can help, and that makes you happy that you can hand out and thereby receive ever new strength, that ever brighter light surrounds you and that you may carry the light wherever your love urges you to help. The actual activity cannot be explained to you humans, but no soul is idle which stands in the light and thus has spiritual wealth to show. The union with beings of the same degree of light increases their power to help, and together they now pursue their work of redemption to also carry out difficult rescues, for which the strength of the individual soul is not yet sufficient. What it has acquired on earth in spiritual goods increases more and more in the spiritual kingdom, for it distributes and receives ever more of it the more it gives .... A comprehensive knowledge fills it, and knowledge is light .... Therefore it does not fear darkness either, because it can always radiate light if it wants to .... But its abundance of light remains hidden from the souls of darkness until they long for light themselves. But the soul of light sees everything, for it the darkness is no danger and no terror, only a merciful love fills it when it sees the powerless souls which cannot free themselves from their unhappy situation. And where there is love, there is also salvation .... For this reason the light is constantly brought into the darkness and the soul is worked on with love and patience until they seek to change, until they themselves want to receive light too .... Then the rescue work will have succeeded, for now the soul can be given what it lacks, the soul of light can give itself away, and it will be all the happier the more willingly its help is accepted. For it leads the souls to God which have been lost to Him for so long as they languish in darkness ....

Amen

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Only beings of light are permitted to teach ....

B.D. 7953 from July 31th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

The spiritual world constantly endeavours to bring help to those people who desire help from the beings of light .... For all beings of light act in accordance with My will, and if I want to help people then it will often take place through My angels, through all spirits of light, whose happiness consists of implementing My will. But all these beings do not act in opposition to My will, because due to their spiritual maturity they completely entered into My will already, because they want nothing other than to comply with My will, in other words: My will is their will too, since they possess an abundance of love and wisdom and recognise that My will only intends that which is right for My living creations and therefore they unconditionally submit themselves to My will. And thus it is understandable that they will indeed impart the full truth if they are permitted by Me to bring spiritual enlightenment to people .... if they have the task to instruct people mentally, to proclaim the Gospel to them in the form of My Word, which I also convey to you through these beings of light .... but the Word which originates from Me will always be the same, because they receive My illumination of love and then pass it on again. For their bliss consists of their uninterrupted connection with Me, of the flow of My Word which is heard by them directly and which they pass on again according to My will. Thus beings of light can never disseminate untrue spiritual knowledge, and only beings of light are permitted to teach you humans if you have asked Me Myself for the truth, if you demonstrate your desire for truth to Me through your appeal for it. In that case you can only be taught the truth, for I will protect you from the intrusion of immature spirits who want to impart wrong teachings to you because they act on behalf of My adversary .... but which will never gain entry to people who desire truth .... And therefore you can safely accept the Words offered to you by beings of light as My Word, for they are merely the mediators of the pure truth from Me, which they themselves receive in form of a direct address ....

For My Word sounds in the kingdom of the blessed spirits in order to make them incredibly happy .... But then they will also work with it because the love of these beings constantly endeavours to bring light into the darkness, and My Word is the light which penetrates the darkness .... And if you humans want to receive the pure truth from Me you need only make heartfelt contact with Me and appeal for it .... You can rest assured that I will grant this wish to you, and then you can also accept that everything given to you is given by Me Myself, even if it is conveyed to you through beings of light, for My strength of love, My Word, shines into them and through them down to you humans again, since these beings care for you with greater than great love and will also prevent misguided thinking from influencing your thoughts. They push all immature spirits away from you on My instructions, so that the pure ´Word of God´ is not distorted, so that you humans may receive it in all purity and as accurate as it originated from Me. Nevertheless, the fact that My adversary is also at work and makes an effort to sow evil seeds everywhere cannot by denied .... Yet this will always be determined by people themselves, i.e. by their will, who allow themselves to be accessed by these forces, who thus do not entirely hand themselves over to Me and only strive for the pure truth .... who use their own will and allow themselves to be taken possession of by still unenlightened beings .... This is why a person should practise rigorous self-criticism as to what extent he has entered into the right relationship with Me .... And he should only ever hand himself over to the good forces, to the beings of light and the implementers of My will, he should appeal to Me for protection from being besieged by everything unspiritual .... he should only ever want to be addressed by Me Myself, Who is the primary source of truth and Who therefore will only ever bestow truth upon those who desire it .... However, I know and see through his heart and all his thoughts .... And thus I also know the substance of his innermost nature .... and accordingly he will receive, accordingly he will be surrounded by forces of light or of darkness. Yet the eternal light of love will always shine into a receptive heart which utterly opens itself to Me so that I can fill it with light and strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Redemptive activity in the hereafter

Experiencing the work of redemption in the hereafter ....

B.D. 6809 from April 19th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

No matter how the suffering and agony of My crucifixion and My death on the cross are described to you, you cannot measure the work of mercy and love I have accomplished for you .... But one day you will also be allowed to witness it, one day you will be able to experience everything for yourselves in retrospect, and only then will My infinite love be revealed to you which motivated Me to accomplish this act of salvation. For as soon as you have reached a certain degree of light there will no longer be any concept of time for you, and thus you will also be able to experience the past as present .... And you will be overwhelmed by an event which no human mouth is capable of reproducing and which no human intellect would be able to grasp if it were also described to you correctly. For the sufferings and torments were immeasurable .... because I, although human, suffered unspeakably from the filth of sin, which contradicted My pure, divine nature .... As a human being I nevertheless harboured the fullness of the eternal deity within Myself, thus I could not at the same time grant access to the adversary, who, however, approached Me via My tormentors and therefore caused Me to defend Myself to the utmost, so that My body and soul had to suffer torments which you humans cannot comprehend because the contrast between immaculateness and sin is hardly comprehensible to you .... My body, however, was still earthly oriented, it felt all sufferings and torments in excess, the soul resisted its oppressors and multiplied the torments many times over, (suffered the torments even far more), for it looked into the deepest hell, it faced the greatest depravity, it saw into abysses which made it shudder, and all its fears and terrors were still transferred to the body, so that truly every other human being would not have had to suffer the death of the cross, because he would have already lost his earthly life under the hands of his tormentors .... Yet I also took pity on them, for I knew that they were under My adversary's control and thus were acting out against Me on his behalf. And therefore I wanted to take upon Myself the greatest measure of suffering, therefore I wanted to complete the act of salvation in order to also bring salvation to those, in order to also release those from his control .... What took place on the day of My crucifixion on earth takes place again and again in the spiritual kingdom, evident to all souls which stand in the light and again and again praise My love and mercy in view of the sacrifice of atonement for the whole of humanity .... But not that the process is constantly repeated, but that all spiritual beings full of light experience the past retrospectively as present .... that past, present and future are apparent to them at all times, because there is no longer any limitation for the being of light, thus also every concept of time is switched off .... Even if you humans on earth try to imagine the work of mercy of the man Jesus it will only ever be a weak comparison to what you will one day be able to experience yourselves .... For you can certainly visualize the external events but not the nameless suffering which Jesus' soul had to endure and which only becomes comprehensible when a soul stands in the light and knows about the horrors of darkness .... when it knows what it means to have to exchange the kingdom of light with the kingdom of darkness and to now be at the mercy of all demonic powers. The soul of the man Jesus came voluntarily from the kingdom of light and sought to compensate for all counter-influences with love .... But even this love could not prevent the adversary from taking possession of His body, from testing all the powers of hell on Him. And therefore He patiently took upon Himself even the most severe suffering: He took the path to the cross .... He endured abuse and maltreatment and forced His soul and body to endure until death on the cross. For the burden of humanity's sins was immeasurably great, and therefore the work of atonement also had to be immeasurably painful. I Myself was in the man Jesus, I Myself gave Him the strength but I did not determine His will, only that I, as love dwelling in Him, was the strength which enabled Him to carry out the sacrifice on the cross. And therefore the sacrifice on the cross is not to be judged as a human work but it was offered for you humans by Me Myself in Jesus Christ .... And therefore you will only be able to grasp the great significance and the immense suffering when you yourselves experience it in retrospect in the spiritual kingdom in order to then also praise and glorify the one Who redeemed you from sin and death ....

Amen

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Redeeming work in the beyond ....

B.D. 6662 from October 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

And you will be able to participate in the work of salvation, for this will be your activity in the kingdom of the beyond when you are sufficiently mature enough to be assigned an activity. You will bring light into the darkness, because you have experienced yourselves how agonising it is to live in darkness and how much happiness the light has given you. No redeemed soul will be inactive, and therefore every soul will be integrated into the host of those who carry out redemption work .... For they all are motivated by their love to help those who are wretched in returning to God, for Whom they are now tirelessly active and work because they share His will and are full of love for Him. And thus the deliverance of all souls is guaranteed, even if infinitely long times will still pass by until all spirits have found their way back to God, from Whom they once separated of their own free will. But this free decision will also determine how long the salvation process will take for each individual soul .... The soul is also able to offer resistance and delay its return to God for an endless time, but already redeemed souls will always take care of them, therefore no human being on earth and no soul in the kingdom of the beyond will be completely without help, which also explains the fact that time and again they will be offered the opportunity to enter the path of return to God, because it will be shown to them.

If, however, a human being adamantly rejects every incentive to enter the spiritual path during his earthly life, then small openings of light will repeatedly be provided to the souls in the beyond which will make the path visible to them, because the soul of light takes pity on the souls which wander around in profound darkness .... And thus begins the redeemed beings' activity of helping these poor souls achieve salvation too. Hence no soul is without a sphere of activity, just as no dark soul is without guidance, only the free will of the latter determines the success. But once the work of redemption has been successfully achieved on just one soul, then another redeeming power will have been gained again to help the dark world, which in turn can and will accomplish inconceivable work, since it is now full of love and, due to its gratitude, willing to render the greatest possible help. And every soul has its adherents with whom it will work particularly diligently, even if it will meet with resistance for a long time .... But its love will not diminish, and love will always liberate, because no being will be able to resist love forever.

Indeed, it would be possible for complete salvation to take place on earth already, because Jesus Christ has suffered and died on the cross so that people are able to receive strength, that they are able to partake in the graces of the act of Salvation if they want to .... But Jesus Christ has not compelled people's will either, and it is up to the will to either make use of the act of Salvation or to ignore it .... But whatever was neglected on earth can be continued in the beyond, because redemption work is carried out there as well, and even then an appeal for His grace and mercy can still be sent to Jesus Christ .... And every soul having found Him itself, having been redeemed by Him from sin and death, will also draw attention to Him, it will inform every unredeemed soul of His love, it will direct their thoughts to the great act of compassion by the human being Jesus and thus try to lead every as yet unredeemed soul to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... And its steadily growing love will also be successful, for love will achieve everything, and love can't help but participate in the act of Salvation, which began with Jesus' crucifixion and will not end until all still unredeemed souls are delivered from every constraint and thus have also attained life and beatitude, until the complete return to God has been accomplished, until all spirits that have emerged from God have returned home into their Father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Great work of redemption in the beyond .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7386 from August 5th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

A great campaign of redemption is in progress, for wherever beings of light were allowed to incarnate on earth they also advocate the proclamation of the Gospel amongst their fellow human beings. And their efforts are supported by the beings from the world of light which influence people's thoughts in every way, making them receptive for the divine Word as soon as it is offered to them. At the same time a great work of redemption is also taking place in the beyond, where beings of light dare to descend increasingly more often and aim to carry light into the darkness. Nevertheless, it always depends on whether the beings' are willing to accept the light or turn away from it if time and again flashing sparks of light intend to show them the path to a source of light .... If they follow this path then the darkness could quickly recede and radiantly bright light would surround them .... but if they ignore it they will still be engulfed by thick darkness for eternities, and they will be banished again in the creations of earth. But whatever can still be done to save all these souls will truly be done on part of the world of light .... and wherever on earth there is still a chance to bring people light, the bearers of light will truly not pass it by, since they are embodied all over the world during the last days in order to work for the benefit of people and to show them the path to redemption ....

Nevertheless, it is not an easy beginning, since the voice of the world is much louder. Where God's Word is proclaimed there will only ever be just a few people, whereas the world has countless more followers who rather choose darkness than light and therefore cannot find redemption during their earthly life either. But all souls will be fought for, since every effort is also being made in the kingdom of light above to direct people's thoughts towards the kingdom that is not of this world. The world of light in the spiritual kingdom is constantly trying to radiate light onto the darkened human race, and thus time and again contacts are being established from the spiritual realm to earth, and people willingly fulfil the light beings' suggestion as to what is necessary and beneficial for their fellow human beings' salvation. And they will comply with the light beings' influence .... which is recognisable by their diligent work in the vineyard of the Lord, by the proclamation of the Gospel, by the distribution of the divine Word, by spiritual conversations, explanations and constant references to Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer.

His name will be mentioned time after time, and their enthusiasm will not lessen but increase, because everywhere some seed will also fall on good ground .... because Jesus Christ Himself will seize the people who direct their steps towards Him, who turn their eyes upon Him and thus wish to be redeemed by Him. He will never leave these, be it on earth or even in the beyond .... a heartfelt call upon Him will always be heard and the soul will be granted what it desires. A heartfelt call is evidence to Him that He is acknowledged by the soul, and then its fate in eternity will be assured .... This is why every work of redemption is blessed by Him, and Jesus Christ Himself is participating in every work of redemption, Who only requires the person's free will in order to accomplish His act of Salvation on the soul, so that it will be released from sin and death and in this freedom be able to enter eternal beatitude ....

Amen

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Enlightenment about light beings ....

B.D. 8903 from December 31th 1964, taken from Book No. 93

I know it, which questions are raised by you men and I want to answer all those who earnestly desire the truth .... The degree of light is completely different in which men leave earth life, provided that they have found redemption through Jesus Christ. And depending on the degree of light is also the degree of knowledge, which is after all the effect of the divine love-light .... The souls, which can only show a small degree of light, are only able to pass on a small knowledge, but which corresponds to truth. The soul can therefore only impart to the souls still staying in darkness what helps them for the beginning to take the way to Jesus Christ. But the soul, which once has entered the kingdom of light, will not be satisfied with only a weak ray of light .... it will acquire ever brighter light for itself through loving activity on the suffering souls, which it will also constantly receive, for My word also constantly sounds in the areas where I am conscious souls stay, which will receive according to their desire. And so in the hereafter this activity is a truly happy one, because every soul, which has found redemption through Jesus Christ, will also constantly increase its love towards Him and now take part in the work of redemption, for which opportunity is constantly offered to it. I always speak of those souls whose degree of light is not yet so high, but which could enter the kingdom of light through the redemption of Jesus Christ. But endless many stages there are, and the highest degree, which you men can certainly also reach on earth, is the degree of childship to God, which is certainly difficult, but not impossible to reach. You can now imagine that the love radiation of such a child of God is so powerful that one can rightly speak of 'My child', which can create and shape in most intimate connection with Me according to its will, which is now also Mine. All of you can reach this aim, yet only a few will strive for the highest degree of light, but then they will also be able to draw the strength directly from Me and pass it on. And from them infinite many light beings are fed with light. (31.12.1964) But the souls are according to their degree of maturity quite differently receptive, and therefore they can just as differently radiate the truth .... the light .... further. But that they stand in the light, therefore are in possession of pure truth and cannot teach the other souls wrongly, that is the privilege of those who have found redemption, otherwise they would still be in darkness of spirit or in a state of twilight. They must therefore have previously acknowledged Jesus as God's Son and redeemer of the world, in Whom God embodied Himself. Every soul must fulfil this condition to have entered the kingdom of light. And that is why those souls who want to be active in redemption are expected to fulfil this condition, no matter in which degree of light they stand .... the work of salvation will always be emphasized as a matter of priority in order to lead every soul to Him, because it cannot find redemption otherwise. It is always the work of redemption, the reference to the divine redeemer, which is to help the souls out of darkness to find their way out of their unhappy state, and a small glimmer of knowledge will now shine for them as soon as they deal with it, because the sign of the cross will also flash up for them, which confirms to them the rightness of that what the beings of light announce to them .... But that every being of light possesses the knowledge about it has to be emphasized because otherwise it would not have entered the kingdom of light .... And the fact that it passes this knowledge on to those who still walk in darkness is likewise undeniable .... But how then would messages from the hereafter be to be explained, which do not have that enormous work of redemption as content? Here also a light must be given to you, for you do not know how many beings claim a teaching office for themselves, whose will is not hindered by Me .... These are the souls, which already on earth were active in teaching, whose degree of love certainly put them into a brighter state, which therefore now want to further express themselves according to the teaching represented on earth .... but which themselves have not yet found redemption because they did not believe in it. And there are very many of them whom I can neither let pass away in darkness nor in twilight because they lived their life on earth according to their best conscience, but who also in the kingdom of the beyond do not abandon their teaching activity, who only always divest themselves of their knowledge, but which still has a very small measure and deviates considerably from truth .... who only see a human being in supreme perfection in Jesus but don't recognize His mission and therefore don't influence their listeners either to imagine Him as the shell of the supreme spirit of God of infinity .... who therefore cannot yet stand in supreme knowledge because they have not yet found redemption through Him .... Just as the word of God was offered to them on earth, just as they themselves understood it, so they also pass it on, but always again to such souls who arrive over there in the same condition, who only expect a confirmation of what they themselves represented on earth. These are the 'masters' who all believe to stand on a high level, who also led an irreproachable way of life on earth, but who themselves resisted the thought that God Himself should have embodied Himself in a human being .... and who did not ask Me in all simplicity of heart for the supply of truth. With their error they now enter the kingdom on the other side and from there also still seek to instruct men, and these will mostly be such souls, which represent the views of the religions known to them according to their own attitude towards it. If they had kindled their love on earth to a bright flame their thoughts would also have been enlightened .... They truly would have recognized Jesus' mission .... but since love was only weak they could not find illumination of spirit, but I also could not let them pass over in such wretchedness as those souls who end their earthly life completely loveless. And so the most different degrees of light in the hereafter are determining for the handing out of purest truth .... of knowledge, which again puts all of you into the state, in which you stood in the beginning. And this knowledge experiences its crowning with the knowledge about the work of redemption of Jesus Christ, which all those will experience as present, who have found full redemption and are therefore immeasurably happy ...._>Amen

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Love working in the hereafter

Light .... labour of love in the hereafter .... work of redemption ....

B.D. 2181 from December 11th 1941, taken from Book No. 31

The soul will find a light-filled environment in the beyond if it has led a God-pleasing way of life on earth and shaped itself into a being of light. Then it will be free from every shackle, it can stay wherever it wants without any worries, light will surround it everywhere and its state will be a blissful one. The world full of light, which is now its abode, is by no means a work of creation from earthly matter, but what the soul now beholds are spiritual creations that are unimaginable to man. They surpass everything seen so far in beauty of colour and form. They are creations that man's boldest imagination cannot conceive, and yet the soul feels at ease in this environment because it only finds what it has longed for in the spirit. It no longer longs for the earth it has left but recognizes its true home and earthly life appears to it like a dream that has come to an end. And now the extremely blissful state drives it to activity by wanting to communicate to all beings the same thing that makes it so extremely happy. It knows that light means bliss in the beyond, and it also knows about the endless darkness of the unredeemed souls and would like to break through this darkness and likewise place the souls into a state of light. This urge for redeeming activity is inherent in every being of light and therefore makes this activity blissful, thus the soul will always be willing to help without any calculation. It gives because its heart urges it and now receives in the same measure as it gives again. And its own feeling of happiness increases the more it brings its light to the ignorant souls or people on earth. Light is her surroundings, light is herself, and light brings every teaching that is conveyed again in love. The kingdom of light is everywhere where the beings of light stay, but the beings of light also always have access to the beings which still languish in darkness, only that they do not approach the immature beings in their fullness of light but cover themselves, that they do not let their light shine because the beings of darkness could not tolerate it. Yet they nevertheless carry out their activity by imparting knowledge to the beings of darkness if they allow themselves to be taught. And now the latter enter the circle of light of those who have lived a life of love and now work in love again on the souls which still lack all light ....

To stand in the light means to be knowledgeable .... The knowing person is God-connected, and the souls in the beyond who stand in the light are likewise close to God so that they receive His light radiation .... i.e. they are nourished by His wisdom. The process of light transmission is incomprehensible to people because no earthly comparison can be made. In the spiritual kingdom God's will is sufficient for the most incomprehensible processes to take place, and such a process is also the emanation of light, the uninterrupted flow of light and strength and transmission to the perfect being. The contact with God has to be established first, thus the being has to have found the intimate union with God in order to be able to receive His flow of light and strength. And the union with God takes place as soon as the beingness works in love. Love work in the hereafter will always be the imparting of spiritual knowledge to the ignorant, i.e. to beings standing in darkness. This activity of love constantly results in an increased supply of light and strength, and thus love will become ever stronger towards the unredeemed souls because God's love has seized the beings of light and the flow of love will inexorably flow over to them, resulting in an ever more diligent activity of love. Now, understandably, the state of darkness of those beings on whom the activity of love is being carried out must also change into light. First the darkness has to give way to a slight twilight, until then faint rays of light also break through this, and the soul begins to recognize its surroundings more clearly and its desire for light steadily increases. The light beings' activity of love can increase to the same extent, and this is the work of redemption which certainly began on earth but will continue in the beyond and still take eternities before the last being is led out of darkness into the light, thus all spiritual beings are finally redeemed ....

Amen

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Higher development in the hereafter .... working of love ....

B.D. 2903 from September 29th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

With the last embodiment as a human being the soul completes its course of development on earth and enters a new phase of development, which now only takes place spiritually and again according to the soul's will. Thus, in the beyond, just as on earth, the soul's will determines its relationship to love, for love is also the only path to progress in the spiritual kingdom. love, however, can only be practiced on other souls .... Souls in need of help must also cross a soul's path in the beyond to whom it can turn its willingness to help, otherwise it would never be able to mature spiritually. But the souls' plight in the beyond consists of the fact that they walk along in complete ignorance, in spiritual darkness, and according to their ignorance their surroundings are also desolate, poor and very distressing and they now feel unhappy and abandoned. And now the beings can help them, whose degree of maturity is higher, and reduce their misery by informing them of their state and of the possibility of an improvement of their situation. The soul must take the other souls' hardship to heart, it must try to encourage them to think, it must try to influence their will to undergo a task, and it must inform the soul that only the lack of love makes them suffer and that they can only attain a freer life in the beyond through loving activity and that this is also the only way to attain the degree of maturity in the beyond which was not achieved on earth. If the soul is willing, then it will also feel happiness in every little deed of love. It does not help the compassionate souls because it thereby improves its own state, but it does so from within only out of the urge to help them, and in the same proportion it itself is introduced to a deeper knowledge, which it now also learns to recognize through its activity of love. And now it constantly ascends, for it feels great happiness in every activity of love, and its state thereby becomes ever brighter and freer, it develops upwards because its own will has decided to be lovingly active and this is the only way to still reach maturity in the beyond ....

amen

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Power supply in the hereafter requires loving will to help ....

B.D. 7309 from March 15th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Everyone should strive to perfect himself as long as he lives on this earth, for once he has entered the kingdom of the beyond in an imperfect state he will have far less strength than on earth, and for the time being he will have to acquire strength through loving activity which, however, also requires strength again, whereas on earth he has the vitality at his disposal which he can use according to his own will, thus also for loving activity. Consider that only loving activity will ever bring about your perfection, that your soul can only mature through loving activity, regardless of whether on earth or in the beyond .... Consider that you always need strength for this .... You are to be pitied if you arrive over there in a powerless state and are now dependent on the help of people on earth or the beings of light in the spiritual kingdom in order to regain some strength for the time being. People can impart this supply of strength to you through loving intercession, but that is why you should also gain the love of your fellow human beings on earth, who will now include you in their intercession so that you will gain strength. The beings of light will also come to your aid but they cannot arbitrarily convey strength to you .... You must be willing to help other souls in their adversity with this supply of strength, and precisely this will to love must awaken in you yourselves, only then will you receive the necessary strength to work with love. There is certainly much adversity in the kingdom of the beyond, yet anyone who has passed by his fellow human being's adversity on earth will also be little affected by it in the beyond, because his self-love is still too great and he only thinks of his own adversity. For this reason it is far more difficult to attain a higher degree of perfection than on earth, and therefore you humans should not be indifferent but make good use of the vitality at your disposal for your salvation in the beyond .... You can truly gather many treasures on earth if only you diligently carry out works of unselfish neighbourly love, and you will enter the spiritual kingdom full of strength and light and thus immediately be able to utilize your spiritual treasures as helpers for the wretched beings who failed to gather spiritual wealth on earth and who are therefore dependent on loving help in utmost adversity. For only love can bring them help, even if their own will first has to be willing to accept this love and likewise help their suffering companions again, who, like themselves, failed to acquire spiritual treasures on earth. The adversity is great in the kingdom of the beyond, and anyone who therefore knows, who believes the reports about it, should still try to attain maturity of his soul on earth, and when he enters the spiritual kingdom he will be happy to have followed these admonitions, for he will never be able to make up for what is extremely easily possible for him on earth with good will .... He will certainly still be able to attain light and beatitude, but it will take much longer and require great effort to take only a few steps further, whereas earthly life had sufficed to enable him to attain the highest degree .... the degree of childship to God .... which, however, he will no longer be able to attain in the kingdom of the beyond. Therefore live in love, do everything to bring your soul to perfection while still on earth, and one day you will be blessed in abundance and, as true helpers, also be able to carry out redemptive work in the beyond for those who, through their own fault, have remained in darkness and can only reach light and freedom with great effort ....

Amen

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Creating and designing in the kingdom of light

Creating and shaping in the kingdom of light .... no man's eye ....

B.D. 4291 from May 2nd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You will be seized by an indescribable longing for My presence once your soul has entered the kingdom of light, and the fulfilment of this longing is bliss. You will feel love for Me to an ever increasing degree and therefore also sincerely long for unity with Me, and so that you will find fulfilment I will draw close to you and you will feel My closeness as a blissful feeling of strength, as an increased impetus for activity, as an inner urge to make yourselves happy by distributing what you possess. In order for you to be able to distribute, I constantly provide you with spiritual wealth, I impart profound knowledge to you and therefore place you in an everlasting state of happiness which offers you variety in every way. You will be allowed to see and hear what you will never be granted to see or hear on earth. You will be blessed .... What love can offer you, that you will receive, for My love for you is boundless and constantly intent on turning happiness towards you. Yet you will only ever be spiritually considered, for earthly goods no longer appeal to you in the state of perfection. The desire for earthly goods is a sign of a lack of maturity of soul which can never earn you a state of light. But you will hunger and thirst and always have the desire to be satisfied, and your desire will always be satisfied by My love .... Shape yourselves on earth such that you only desire spiritual goods, try to overcome all matter, only attain spiritual gifts, and you will already be able to enjoy the state of bliss on earth, for as soon as earthly things are overcome I will never ever leave you, then My presence will be assured to you and with it the supply of strength which you will feel as bliss, which will impel you into constant activity for Me and My kingdom. Giving and wanting to please is right love, giving and wanting to please characterizes the degree of neighbourly love, and thus only the urge for pleasing activity can be called love, although the human being's desire is also for things which are only purely material; yet this love is a perverse love which does not lead to Me but distances itself from Me. I want to draw your attention to the fact that only love which has Me as its aim, which therefore expresses itself through unselfish neighbourly love, is strength-inspiring. Love for the world will never put you into a state of bliss which approximately equals that of the beings of light. And never will the desire and fulfilment be as blissful as in the spiritual kingdom, where I alone am the object of your love and longing ....

(2.5.1948) Do you now understand why I constantly court your love? Why do I want to win you for eternity? I don't want to improve your lot on earth but I want you to be happy for all of eternity. You shall work together with My angels as beings of light and develop an activity which gives rise to wonderful things, which brings about creations of wondrous design. And thus you shall be allowed to use My might and strength without restriction, but this first requires unity with Me. I want you to become blessed through the use of My strength. I want to give unlimitedly, and you shall be so filled with My strength that you can create and shape like Me according to your will, which is then also My will. The integration of your will into My will is the first condition to find unity with Me, yet you will always think, want and act in free will if you have subordinated it to Me; you will never be active in a feeling of compulsion because this would impair your beatitude and diminish your perfection. In the kingdom of light My will fulfils all beings which nevertheless are active according to their own will, and all beings only have one aim .... to dwell close to Me. Yet it is impossible and incomprehensible for the human being to specialize life in eternity, to take cognizance of the activity of the individual beings, because this eludes all conception of human thought. The spiritual kingdom is a different world than the earthly one, and therefore the latter is also not to be mentioned comparatively. Only a certain degree of maturity of the soul makes the human being able to see and to receive and reproduce spiritual impressions. But if the soul leaves the body and enters the kingdom of light it will understand My infinite love and marvel at all the glories of which the human being on earth cannot imagine. Then My word will come true: No human eye has ever seen and no human ear ever heard what I have prepared for those who love Me ....

Amen

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Light beings create forms for the spiritual ....

B.D. 7976 from August 26th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

You, too, will be granted the bliss of creation when you use the strength and light .... the power and wisdom .... in My will again, when you will be perfect and able to work like Me in free will, which is always also Mine .... Then love will drive you to creations of all kinds, for then you will also create forms in your love for the still immature spiritual in which it can mature, and you will find your beatitude in it yourselves .... For you yourselves emerged from My creative power as My images .... Your nature corresponded to My fundamental nature, all divine characteristics and abilities were within you and you were also able to use them in the same way as Me; you were able to create and shape yourselves until you fell away from Me, until the moment when you freely rejected My strength of love and thereby deprived yourselves of all abilities and were therefore no longer able to create because My strength of love no longer shone through you or because you yourselves no longer wanted to accept it and thus became powerless. But this state of imperfection will not last forever, for My aim is and remains to restore you to your original state, which, however, has to be achieved by your free will alone. My overwhelming love for you, which only ever wants your bliss, guarantees that you will receive My support in every way. And as soon as you have entered the original state again My strength of love will flow through you as in the beginning, and you will use it again in wisdom, because you have now become love again and therefore also want to help the still unredeemed to attain the same beatitude which will now be granted to you .... And you will constantly be creatively active .... Whatever you set your mind to you will also be able to accomplish, and creating and shaping will make you immeasurably happy. For as a human being you don't know what abilities are within you which only lie idle because you lack the love which gives you strength and wisdom .... But one day you will know everything, and you will create the suitable cover for every particle of soul, you will lovingly accept everything that still has to travel the path through the creations of earth .... You will also recognize its degree of maturity and your creations will correspond to it, which will therefore also make you immeasurably happy because you recognize their purpose and support the spiritual in its upward development through your will of love, which is active in creating and shaping. As long as you live on earth as a human being you lack this degree of maturity, that you recognize everything, that you know about every work of creation, about its nature, composition and purposefulness .... Yet once you have this realization you will already have reached a high degree of maturity yourselves, where you may behold miracles upon miracles and even move in the midst of these miracles .... And all these miraculous works are My thoughts and ideas which I let become form .... always for the happiness of the spiritual in every degree of maturity .... only that once these forms envelop the spiritual, which is to mature in them, and that then the spiritual itself can create such forms and its strength and wisdom can now express itself in creations of the most versatile kind. And only then will you pay far more attention to all creations, only then will you recognize My great love and wisdom, and your love for Me will become ever more powerful, which means a constant increase in your strength and therefore also an increase in your bliss. And you will behold things which you would never dream of, for My glories will have no end, which are intended for all those who love Me .... and I will make My creatures eternally happy .... they shall create and shape with Me in My kingdom, they shall enter the father's inheritance as My children .... they shall be immeasurably happy in and with Me ....

Amen

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Final destiny create and revive .... union with God ....

B.D. 1394 from April 27th 1940, taken from Book No. 23

This is your final destiny, to revitalize everything that exists in creation, to constantly create and shape something new in accordance with God's will. And this will mean bliss for you, you will revel in supreme delights and radiant light will be your fate. For only now will you be able to grasp the eternal deity in its greatness, only now will you be as it is the father's will .... Become perfect as your father in heaven is perfect .... What now presents itself to you is supreme bliss, for the father withholds nothing from His true children. You will therefore be in a state that includes everything in itself .... purest love and therefore light and strength to the highest degree, i.e. knowledge and power to such an extent that nothing can be unrealizable or unfinished for you. And now consider the divine creative will and that you likewise carry this will within you and can therefore create and shape it entirely at your own discretion .... Thus the being is in a God-like state, it has completely united with God, the unification has taken place, it is no longer an individual being but completely merged with God, yet the consciousness, the thinking of an individual being remains with it, and this increases its bliss. The unification of infinitely many beings in a state of maturity is an increase of spiritual strength, and the individual being is thereby able to achieve incredible things .... It can therefore utilize the power from God at any time without limitation and will always work in accordance with God's will, but always according to its own thinking and discretion. The union with God .... the union with spiritual power is no restriction of the own freedom of will, only with a perfect being the will is not different than the divine will is. For everything has its origin in love .... every work of creation arose in purest love, for the being can only be creatively active when it has completely moulded itself into love. Thus all creations emerged from love, and everything that has its origin in love must carry divine will within itself because God is love Himself. So everything that is united in God must also be in the same will, because divine love is the basic element of everything that is created. The creation of new beings and the creations beneficial to these beings must therefore trigger unimaginable delights, for love gives birth to everything and love is the epitome of bliss. And divine wisdom is required in order to mould all creations according to plan .... But light and knowledge are likewise inherent to perfect beings, for otherwise the being could not be perfect. The union with God has therefore brought perfection to the being and it now certainly works on its own authority, i.e. according to its thoughts and feelings, but receives light and strength, i.e. wisdom and power, continuously from the divine creator .... it therefore carries out God's will for its own happiness because this is its actual purpose ....

Amen

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Influence of the beings of light on people on earth

Work of the beings of light .... disappointments .... renunciations ....

B.D. 1484 from June 22nd 1940, taken from Book No. 24

The forces of heaven and earth unite in order to serve the lord in all devotion, and thus countless connections are established which again signify a counteraction of the evil power. Thus, where love is active, the evil power is weakened, for it can no longer be active to the same extent and exert its influence on the person to whom this redeeming love applies. For this is where the beings of light begin their activity by mentally instructing the human being of all dangers to the soul and thus the human being now pays more attention to his soul life. The activity of the beings of light is not always visible but it is noticeable wherever people's thoughts are occupied with God. The greater the worldly adversity, the more likely it is that the beings of light will succeed in mentally influencing people and the greater the number of those who seek God and thus also find Him. The activity of the beings of light is a diligent one, for it is carried out with utmost love and patience. The being of light will never abandon the human being who is entrusted to its protection and will always express itself in a way that reveals its constant care. The human being will go through many dangers which will always remind him to think of his soul's life .... And all these dangers and hardships are to a certain extent aids for the beings of light to direct the thoughts of the human being towards the eternal divine. Once they have succeeded in doing so, their work is easier and more successful, for then there are no obstacles to the mental exchange between beings of light and human beings and the possibilities for success are greater. Divine love gives the being of light great power over the earthly child entrusted to it insofar as that it can assign the events to it in such a way that they promise success, for the being of light's love is so great that it truly only allows the human being to experience earthly adversity and danger for the sake of the soul's advancement, in the realization that such is most likely to contribute towards the soul's progress. And the beings of light are again familiar with the earthly life of the souls entrusted to them, they know every impulse of the soul, every earthly and also every spiritual desire, and try to take everything into account so that the soul draws its advantage from it, which now also causes that man must be denied much of what he longs for, because in the fulfilment lies a great danger for the soul. And now it is also understandable why earthly life brings the human being far more disappointments and renunciations than fulfilment of his earthly wishes. These are the greatest danger for the soul, for they often prevent the spirit from rising to those heights which first bring the soul the success of spiritual maturity. They hinder the soul's mental development through the beings of light, they hold the human being's thoughts back on earth and prevent them from flying upwards, and this is always detrimental to the soul's progress. However, the light beings' love is so great that they cannot leave the earthly child in this danger and therefore remove the obstacle, even though this causes the human being pain and grief. Yet one day the soul will regocnize the love of these beings and thank them for everything that has promoted the state of maturity and brought light and realization to the soul ....

Amen

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Power current from the realm of light ....

B.D. 2156 from November 19th 1941, taken from Book No. 31

Powers are constantly flowing to people from the kingdom of light and humanity could truly be redeemed in a short time if it utilized the powers flowing to it in accordance with divine will. However, only a few people utilize this power from the kingdom of light, but they progress more quickly in their development. Thus it is also possible to mould oneself into a being of light during one's life on earth as long as the human being has the serious will to do so. He is not incapable, only mostly unwilling. If the unwillingness is now to be changed into a will devoted to God, then the human being must be given the knowledge about the effect of the wrong as well as the right will in earthly life and in the beyond. The wrong will on earth is an obstacle to receiving strength from the kingdom of light, and without strength the ascent upwards is impossible, thus the fate in the beyond after bodily death is a state of hardship and torment according to his state of imperfection, whereas the right will allows strength and grace to be requested from God and this ensures his ascent upwards, thus after death he is granted a free, carefree life in strength and bliss. The knowledge of the consequences of his earthly attitude can determine the human being to turn to the giving beings of the kingdom of light of his own accord and to call upon them for help in his earthly weakness and adversity. And now the strength can be imparted to him. The beings of light only need good will .... the will to do what is right and thereby come closer to God. This will provides the human being with an influx of spiritual strength and he can then accomplish what his will strives for .... he will approach God in thought, in action and in speech. He then cannot accomplish anything that goes against God's will; he can only become weak if the request for strength, the prayer, becomes weaker; but time and again he will find his way back to God and feel that he is on the right path if he abandons himself to God and His grace. The human being's resistance makes the influx of strength from the kingdom of light impossible, for the strength can only become effective where it is accepted without resistance. And this is why the bearers of strength on earth ...., i.e. the people who willingly receive the flow of strength from the kingdom of light ...., should make people aware of the effect of this strength as well as of the shortcoming of a powerless earthly person, so that he will now make up his own mind and likewise request the gift of strength which is absolutely necessary for the transformation of his nature as long as he remains on earth ....

Amen

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Thought transmission from the spiritual kingdom ....

B.D. 3700 from February 28th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

Every idea is a spiritual emanation, it can merely originate from different sources, i.e. it can be transmitted to you humans from the kingdom of light but also from the kingdom of darkness, it all depends on your will. As expected, the kingdom of light will radiate truth, whereas the kingdom of darkness will transmit entirely earthly, material thoughts to people with the intention to spread them. From an earthly point of view, mental activity is indeed the function of organs, but they actually only receive and process the transmissions from the spiritual kingdom which affect the organs. Because the origin of every thought will always be found in spiritual spheres, since the work of the spiritual kingdom’s inhabitants is to influence people mentally, and thus they endeavour to pass on their own ideals to people. And thus valuable but also worthless, even harmful, ideas can flow from this kingdom, and it is up to the human being himself to evaluate the importance of what he receives .... By using his will he can guide his thoughts into the right or the wrong direction, and the beings in the spiritual realm will always eagerly support his will. The human being has to be informed how he can contact the beings of light if he wants to acquire pure truth, if he wants his thoughts to be right, just as he should be informed of the cause of wrong thinking in order to protect himself from it. Hence he has to be taught that the transmission of mental concepts from the spiritual realm is the result of his conduct, which is more or less in accordance with God’s will and thus more or less induces the beings of the spiritual kingdom to hand out truth or untruth ....

Just as the human being’s will behaves towards God the spiritual beings’ behave towards the human being, and this is reflected in the transmission of spiritual knowledge, in thoughts and the intelligence of the human being. Because the beings of light are only able to come into contact with people who give themselves to God, who aspire towards God, or the influence from the kingdom of light against his will would inhibit the human being’s will. Whereas the forces of darkness can likewise only get access to those of God-opposing will and who show this in their heartless behaviour, thinking and talking. Because these beings’ influence is powerful but only effective if the human being abandons himself to them. However, if his will is turned towards God he can protect himself at any time from these forces by calling upon the beings of light and by requesting God’s help. This person’s thinking will always be guided right because the beings of light will not meet with opposition as they impart their spiritual knowledge to him.

The forces of darkness usually try to draw people’s thoughts towards earthly matters and to prevent their desire for spiritual knowledge, or to distort it and then offer it infiltrated by lies and errors so that they find themselves in complete ignorance and falsehood, because every spiritual being only gives what it has itself .... The kingdom of darkness will never offer the truth since, due to their obstinate will, no light is shining for the beings. These forces will always endeavour to maintain a person’s materialistic attitude, and they will always meet with his approval as long as his will is not turned towards God. People’s thinking will only be right and their ideas only correspond to the truth where the beings of light are able to work. And thus God’s most important commandment has to be fulfilled first .... the human being has to live with love .... Only then can he also tell his fellow human beings that his mental concepts are true and from the realm of light. Only then will he fulfil the first condition given by God so that he can guide people into truth himself and he need never fear to go astray, i.e. live in error, because he is then under the direct influence of the beings of light who work on behalf of God by transmitting wisdom to those who finally have relinquished their resistance to God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Working of the light beings .... truth - error ....

B.D. 5676 from May 14th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

You will truly be given a light if you desire it: The mission of the spiritual beings standing in the light is and will always be to look after the children entrusted to them and to guide them into true thinking. And thus everything will be done on the part of this world of light to help chase away darkness, to remedy ignorance, to uncover error and lies so that people's thoughts will always be guided by truth, because they know that only truth can lead to Me. But there is great darkness on earth .... This also explains the great apostasy from faith, which is often offended by error and turns away from everything, even from the truth .... However, the beings of light have little success with completely faithless people, for they rarely turn their thoughts to the spiritual kingdom and therefore the beings of light cannot intervene with them and thus cannot bring them enlightenment either. But they should nevertheless also arrive at the truth, therefore they must sometimes be led other ways, they must be stimulated to think, and this can only happen again in a completely natural way, that they are drawn into spiritual debates where they themselves are prompted to express a judgement and then the world of light also intervenes. Wonderful results can come about as long as the human being is of good will. Before the end of this earth there is spiritual chaos on earth, error is already so widespread that it is spread as truth, and a bearer of truth rarely has a chance to penetrate and find followers with the light which has Me as its starting point. For error is already too deeply rooted in the human being and does not want to be abandoned either. And thus error and lies can only be recognized by bearers of light, by spirit-awakened people who have been introduced to the pure truth by Me and now also have a clear sense where truth separates from lies. Yet these few no longer penetrate with the truth because there is such spiritual confusion amongst people at the end of this earth that My adversary has an easy time influencing them and therefore uses every opportunity to confuse their thinking even more and to hand them over to error and lies. But then it is quite far from Me to want to win people over through miracles and signs. For these would only be suitable to lead to blind faith, to a compulsive faith which is completely worthless .... People can only redeem themselves through love. Only through love can they attain truth, light, right thinking, because only love awakens the spirit in the human being which then also introduces them to truth. Thus people can only be admonished and stimulated to love, which is also what the influence of the world of light on people is aiming at .... Hence love is first of all what every supernatural phenomenon should point to if it wants to improve people, and then people themselves would gain strength of knowledge and be able to separate error from truth .... Anyone who preaches love is an emissary from Me, and My messengers from the spiritual kingdom who influence people will only ever pursue the one aim of encouraging people to be lovingly active. The darkening of people's spirit is the result of unkindness; if this is changed into activity of love it will also become bright on earth and in all human hearts, and then the spiritual hardship will truly have decreased, then the beings of light will be able to carry out their ministry, people will be mentally instructed in truth, i.e. they move in right thinking and knowledge, they reject error without hesitation and accept the pure truth wherever it is offered to them, then they themselves will be of enlightened spirit as well as living in love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Influence of the beings of light on the souls in the darkness

Radiance of love ....wrestling of the beings of light for souls ....

B.D. 2119 from October 17th 1941, taken from Book No. 30

The omnipotence of divine love seizes everything that has emerged from it and never lets it fall completely. And thus everything full of light, which is permeated by God's love, will always and constantly turn towards that which still resists receiving the divine radiation of love; for without its will the power of love cannot become effective. God is always and constantly willing to give, but that which has emerged from Him is not always willing to receive. And therefore the will to receive must first be stimulated in the being, and this is the activity of the beings of light, which in tireless love and patience undergo the work of bringing divine love close to the beings of darkness. The beings of darkness do not know about the light and the blissful state of those who dwell in the kingdom of light. And since they know nothing about it, they do not strive for the heights. If the knowledge of it is conveyed to them they reject it because they cannot yet believe, for their present state is so bleak that a kingdom of light is completely inconceivable to them. And yet the beings of light repeatedly try to encourage them to create a change in their state. They present them with the possibilities of moving to a brighter environment and try to influence the being to strive for it. Divine love wants to radiate through everything and constantly struggles for the souls of darkness in order to break their resistance, and therefore these beings often have to be pushed through agonizing situations into a state which lets the will become active in them to flee from it if they do not listen to the ideas of the beings of light. The slightest expression of will attracts the beings of light, which admittedly cannot come into contact with the dark beings in their fullness of light and therefore approach them in an envelopment. As soon as the souls are willing, they also feel the proximity of the beings of light beneficially, and then their influence is also stronger and their endeavours successful. The beings of light now spur the souls on to activity of love. They instruct them in a way beneficial to them and give them advice how they can escape the lightless stay, then leave them again to their loneliness so that what they have heard can work in them, and according to willingness the being will now impart what it has heard to other beings and the work in love begins, which is redeeming and also makes the being receptive for the love currents, which now continue to flow to it. For once the will for light has become active in them then the will to help will also become stronger in them .... They do not keep their knowledge to themselves alone because it moves them deeply .... And thus the radiation of love becomes effective in them, they receive love from the beings of light and pass it on to souls who, like them, are in need. And as soon as a divine ray of love has found a willingness to receive it, it ignites and grows into a flame. Love revitalizes, i.e. it drives to activity .... The being will now be active, it will no longer remain powerless and inactive but will search where it finds souls in need and be diligently active to show them the path to the light. The ray of light of divine love penetrates into the deepest depths; only those who resist it remain untouched, although divine (love) concern is also constantly directed towards them. For everything is born of love, and everything that has distanced itself from it should return to love ....

Amen

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Luminosity of the beings of light .... veiling ....

B.D. 2486 from September 30th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

In the spiritual world the being's knowledge corresponds to its state of maturity, i.e., as soon as the being has moulded itself to perfection through loving activity on earth or in the beyond, divine wisdom has flowed to it in the form of spiritual strength. He is aware of everything in creation, of God's reign and activity in the spiritual kingdom and of the purpose of all beings .... He has become knowledgeable and his state is therefore a state of light. But since the degree of perfection can vary, the beings will also be in different fullness of light; thus the spheres in the spiritual kingdom are not the same either, i.e., the light radiation emanating from the beings is of varying degrees of radiance, consequently the effect on the beings without light is also different. This effect can be so strong that the beings without light cannot tolerate the abundance of light, i.e. the spiritual substances could be completely dissolved by it and this therefore makes an unhindered working of these beings of light impossible. The work of the beings of light consists of teaching those who are completely without knowledge. The being of light therefore has to try to adapt itself to the state of the beings without light, it is not allowed to come close to this being with all its luminosity but it has to dampen its light as it were so that the being without light is not blinded and now becomes completely unsuitable for receiving the light, i.e. the knowledge. The adjustment to the state of darkness is necessary for the time being so that all shyness is removed from the being and it can express itself without inhibition, for only then can the being of light work successfully ....

(30.9.1942) They have to dampen their fullness of light, they have to hide it under a cover so that they can approach the souls in need of light without endangering them. Nevertheless, they are in a brighter light than those souls in order to let the blessing of light flow out on them. As soon as the lightless soul feels the benefit, which also depends on its will to receive light, it will also listen to the ideas of the beings of light and repeatedly desire their proximity. It will allow their teachings to have an effect on it and then likewise make use of them by passing on the knowledge it has gained to souls which are likewise in need of light and thus suffering. For the lack of light is a state of suffering, a state of lack and discomfort which the soul feels agonizingly. The more the soul concerns itself with helping the suffering souls, the more willing are the beings of light, which now approach those who want to receive ever more brightly and radiantly and impart light and strength, i.e. divine wisdom, to them. Depending on this knowledge, the soul's degree of light has now also increased, for knowledge is light which expresses itself in the beyond, in the spiritual kingdom, in radiant brightness and luminosity ....

Amen

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Activity in the afterlife and possibility of ascent ....

B.D. 2509 from October 13th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

Souls whose level of maturity is still very low lack all strength in the afterlife. They therefore experience nameless torment. They are aware of the strength they had at their disposal on earth. Their lot is therefore worsened and they realize that they are incapable of improving their situation. The state of suffering cannot be described to people, it is a state of extreme poverty and most agonizing discomfort. And in this misery they are joined by souls who try to shake them out of their lethargy and first of all show them the agonizing nature of their condition in order to awaken in them the will to do something to improve their situation. The nature of this activity is incomprehensible to people, it is a serving occupation which, however, has no earthly basis but which is adapted to the spiritual kingdom and therefore cannot be explained to people. Nevertheless, it is an activity which requires the soul's will; it is an activity which it can carry out when the will to help is aroused in it. Only the will to help brings about an improvement in the soul's situation and therefore also progress in its spiritual development. However, it is extremely difficult to motivate such weak, lowly souls to make themselves useful in order to help other souls. In most cases these souls are so absorbed in their own suffering that they have no sympathy for the suffering of other souls. They carelessly pass them by, indeed they often inflict suffering on each other, and their nature is unloving towards each other. But then the soul feels even greater agonies, and these increase to the point of unbearability in order to make the soul compliant when the beings of light approach it in their disguise. The resistance is often great, but on the other hand the souls perceive the participation in their adversity as a benefit, even if they are initially hostile; they then do not want to miss the participation and desire it, and this is already a small step forward which the beings of light eagerly utilize. And this work on the immature souls requires much love and patience on the part of the beings of light. But the success is also so gratifying that they constantly endeavour to bring redemption to these poor souls. As soon as the soul has become more compliant, the work of the beings of light can begin on it. They now show it that it worsens its fate through unkindness but can improve it through love. They try to stimulate it to help by showing it the suffering of the other souls and now work towards the soul helping them. They leave the soul's will free so that it should carry out the helping activity of its own accord. And if the soul does this then the ascent also begins for the needy souls, for the other souls also benefit from it because they themselves do to their fellow-suffering souls what is done to them. The redeeming activity in the beyond is an uninterrupted labour of love of inconceivable importance, so that the souls which have failed on earth can still develop upwards in the beyond and enjoy the happiness and bliss of heaven ....

Amen

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Wrestling of the beings of light in the realm of darkness ....

B.D. 7948 from July 24th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

In the spiritual kingdom, too, there is an incessant battle for the souls, for My adversary rages there as well, and he seeks to prevent the souls from taking the path to ascent .... In the spiritual kingdom too the adversary seeks to push the souls away from the light and envelop them in ever denser darkness .... Yet forces of light are also active in the spiritual kingdom which help every soul if it only has the slightest will to come out of darkness into the light. Thus even these souls in darkness are not without protection, only the will has to awaken in themselves towards the light, towards ascent, towards freedom .... And this is the battle between light and darkness, that the beings of light constantly endeavour to push the bad forces out of the darkness and to influence the souls in such a way that they themselves want to escape the darkness .... This happens in every way, only the beings of light cannot approach the souls in radiant brightness but they have to appear in the same state as those, so that the souls gain confidence and express themselves .... And then intercession on the part of people is of immense help because the souls' will to resist is thereby weakened if it is not completely broken, which then considerably facilitates the light beings' work .... But the love of these beings does not abandon the souls which are handed over to their care .... They themselves stand in the light and are thereby also blissfully abundant .... and thus their love drives them again and again to release the unhappy souls from their state and to bring them the light. And they usually succeed, only in the case of completely hardened souls does the adversary have the upper hand, and then it can also lead to renewed banishment at the end of a redemption period when the soul, instead of ascending, sinks ever deeper and then a renewed dissolution of the spiritual substances is inevitable. The redeemer's work in the spiritual kingdom is carried out ever more intensively, for the beings of light are aware of the coming earth upheaval, they know about the danger of a new banishment of incorrigible souls, and they truly do everything to spare them this fate, because they know about the agonies and the infinitely long time until they can walk the earth again as I-conscious beings. And the activity which makes them happy consists of helping the souls to salvation, of bringing them the light, of leading them to Jesus Christ, Whom they must first have found in the kingdom of the beyond if the kingdom of light is to be opened to them. For this reason your work of redemption on earth is blessed, for every soul which has already found Him on earth need not fear the darkness even if it cannot yet demonstrate a high degree of light when entering the spiritual kingdom; but it need not fear a decline, it has escaped the adversary's power and will be granted help in every way so that it can ascend to the ascent. My adversary truly makes extensive use of the power he possesses in the end, and he oppresses everything spiritual which strives towards Me .... And he will try by all means to prevent that what still belongs to him also takes the path to Me .... But the beings of light let their love radiate and achieve much with it, even if they have to respect the souls' free will. Love fights against hatred, and love is truly a great strength .... And thus you humans on earth can also push everything unspiritual away from you through love, you can also successfully wage the battle against darkness if you let love break through, if you only ever oppose evil with love .... For the adversary succumbs to love, he flees it, and then he leaves you when love becomes overpowering in you, which is why you can also bring help to the beings in darkness by virtue of your love, because they surrender when such a ray of love touches them .... And then they are also saved, and My adversary has lost power over these souls, for anyone who has once felt the strength of love has his resistance broken, and now it is not difficult for the beings of light in the spiritual kingdom to help them upwards, and they are saved for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Reunion in the kingdom of light

Reunion in the beyond in a mature state ....

B.D. 4781 from November 14th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

Souls in the spiritual kingdom recognise each other when they have the same degree of maturity and at a certain degree of maturity are receptive to light, which thus gives the ability of spiritual vision; whereas souls in darkness are unable to recognise each other, although they had been associated on earth. In that case they are in fact able to perceive beings and interact with them but identification is out of the question, for they no longer have physical characteristics, and spiritual vision requires a certain degree of maturity. But an enlightened soul is able to locate and approach a soul it had known on earth, it just will not be recognised by the latter. For this reason enlightened souls are able to help, but under cover, so that their emanation of light will not forcefully influence the imperfect beings. Therefore, souls having departed from earth in an immature state will meet and be approached by helpful souls in the spiritual kingdom because they had been connected by love when they were still on earth. Nevertheless, the soul has to be voluntarily receptive to their instructions and advice. It can be guided to the right path, but then it will have to walk it by itself ....

Whereas two souls with the degree of maturity that renders both receptive to light, even though of different intensity, have the ability of spiritual vision and will recognise each other with indescribable joy. They will then join to work together, complementing and teaching each other and always communicating with love, which delights the soul immensely. Thus there is a definite reunion in the spiritual kingdom, but it can take considerable time until a soul has entered the spheres of light and only then will it meet its loved-ones again, realising that they had often already been close as its advisor and guide on the path of ascent. The bliss of meeting again is indescribable and compensates for much suffering that the souls had to endure in the beyond before they came to the light. But with the help of a light-soul's love the goal will definitely be reached, for love is the strongest power that can still help the unredeemed, which will also ensure its entrance into the spiritual kingdom, into the kingdom of light and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reunion in the beyond in the kingdom of light ....

B.D. 5365 from April 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

It is an incomparably happy moment when the soul passes away from earth and enters the kingdom of light, the spheres where impurity no longer exists, where the soul is embraced by a flow of joy-inducing light, where it is approached by exceedingly beautiful beings who show the soul an extent of love which almost overwhelms it. The emanations of light correspond to the soul's state of maturity, thus always to a degree that they will indeed cause inconceivable bliss but not consume the soul, which could indeed be caused by an excess of light if a soul is not yet receptive to it .... In infinite expanse it sees the most marvellous creations, for now its spiritual eye is able to behold spiritual creations which no longer consist of matter and yet arise just as real and are by no means self-deception.

And amid the beauty it sees it will find its loved ones who had passed over before in the degree of maturity suitable to the kingdom of light .... People cannot imagine the bliss of such reunion, yet in the spiritual kingdom the soul is able to take in profound impressions without fading away and can consciously experience the bliss it receives from God. In its heart it will sing His praises and give thanks, just as it will, if the kingdom of light has become its home, always come aglow with love for the Father, Who has prepared all these blessings for the soul ....

Its co-operation with souls who have the same degree of maturity increases its strength and willingness to be active, and it applies this to far less mature souls to help them attain the same bliss. In merciful love it takes care of those it knew well on earth, who still dwell in lower spheres, who neglected their spiritual development on earth due to their unbelief and unkindness, and who are therefore still wretched in darkness or twilight .... It certainly can identify these souls and also approach them and offer its help, yet it will not be recognised in turn, and thus its help is frequently rejected ....

Yet a light-soul's love and patience will constantly approach these souls and sooner or later gain influence. The bliss it receives through God's perpetual emission of love, the incomparable creations of the kingdom of light and its co-operation with beings to whom it is attached with joyful love provide it with the constant desire for redeeming activity. It finds its own happiness in giving what it receives itself; its longing for God finds constant fulfilment and it cannot but want to make others equally happy.

It is impossible to describe the splendours of the kingdom of light to people on earth, because only a fully matured soul can endure the abundance of light and therefore also understand the beatitude, which the as yet imperfect person does not appreciate. However, he can and should believe that there will be a reunion in the kingdom of the beyond, that death is not the end of the soul's actual life, and that these souls will recognise each other when they have attained a certain degree of maturity which, however, many souls still do not possess. And therefore it can take a long time for many a soul until it will experience the happiness of a reunion with its loved ones, yet the desire for this is frequently the reason to strive for ascent. The souls' strength of love is constantly at work to release the souls from the abyss and to help them achieve beatitude, to help them enter the kingdom where they are surrounded by radiating light, where they can behold God and every hardship has come to an end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reunion in the beyond ....

B.D. 6312 from July 15th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

There will be a reunion in the spiritual world, you humans can be certain of that .... But whether a reunion with your loved ones can be granted right after your departure from this earth depends on your soul's degree of maturity as well as on your loved ones' souls; if this maturity is not yet sufficiently developed to enable spiritual vision it will have to be acquired first, which could take a long time. Not until the soul has achieved a certain degree of maturity can it assimilate spiritual impressions. Hence the soul has to be enlightened to see who is approaching and although a less mature soul also knows itself to be surrounded by beings, it will not be able to recognise them as long as it lacks spiritual vision. After all, the beings' happiness consists of their ability to communicate with those who were close to them on earth .... The souls which are already enlightened as a result of their maturity will therefore always approach their loved ones, either to interact with equally mature spiritual beings or to assist the weaker souls in achieving maturity too ....

Consequently, the more mature souls have the ability to recognise the weaker souls but not vice versa .... because weaker souls should be inspired to strive and not be compelled on account of proof .... since it would always be proof if they were approached by a soul of light which it recognises as one with whom it had been linked on earth .... And thus the joy of reunion once again is a gift of mercy and the share of the mature spirit, who feels unspeakably happy as a result and, in turn, does everything to help the immature souls to reach the same degree of happiness .... They support them in the most loving way and never tire in encouraging them .... yet always unknown by them because they approach them in the same cover, in the same garment. The longing for the souls who were near to them on earth draws them closer indeed and can be an enormous advance, and when the moment of recognition comes the souls are infinitely grateful and happy .... And only then do they realise the care which had been given to them and in turn attend in the same manner to the souls which still languish in darkness .... they now help them to ascend because every soul longs for those who were once close to them on earth.

There will be a reunion, but the time when this is possible is up to you .... If you have already gained this certain knowledge on earth you will do whatever it takes to at least achieve the degree of maturity on earth which will allow you to enter the realms of light where you will be welcomed by those you love and who can instantly recognise you; or where you can, without being known, begin your work of deliverance on these souls .... Just take care that you don't pass to the other side without knowledge .... take care, that you have already found God in Jesus Christ so that you .... redeemed by Him .... can enter the spiritual realm .... Then this entry will give you much happiness because of the joy of reunion .... However, if you have not attained maturity on earth you may have to wait a long time .... because everything can only take place in accordance with law, your freedom of will has to be observed even in the spiritual realm so that you too may be greatly blessed one day ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessed community and joint work in the hereafter

Spiritual attachment .... souls without earthly binding ....

B.D. 4504 from December 5th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

A spiritual bond can exist where no earthly ties exist but where the souls are so attuned to each other that they complement each other and live in fullest spiritual harmony. Such souls can find each other without being physically together, but then the human being is not aware of the fact that his soul has entered into such a spiritual union, for the souls find each other without the body's involvement, it is a purely spiritual coexistence of which the human being as such knows nothing. However, as soon as the bodily cover falls, the souls strive towards each other and complement each other in the spiritual kingdom and never leave each other again. Such souls are now forced to lead a double life on earth; for the first time they fulfil the actual earthly task of enlivening their body and stimulating it to spiritual destiny, and at the same time they also help their like-minded soul to spiritualize its body so that the union of both souls can take place, which is only possible when both souls have left the physical cover. Before that, however, they can unite, as well as the body in the state of rest releases the soul .... So then the soul lives its second life .... it dwells in different surroundings, in a completely different life situation, it gives and receives love because it feels completely connected with the other soul. They strive upwards together, for as soon as a soul has spiritually found a second soul it is already advanced in its development, otherwise there is no harmony but only opposing defence ....

(6.12.1948) A person can certainly feel lonely because he is not aware of the soul's bond, yet this feeling of loneliness contributes to the soul's increased maturity again and the further it progresses in its development the more it can spiritualize itself, thus already on earth it can succeed in often dwelling in spiritual spheres and being raptured from earth. The soul then lives a life separate from the body, the body does not participate because its functions are switched off when it is in a state of rest. But it takes the soul's abilities and achievements with it into those spheres and can therefore be a great blessing if it possesses much spiritual wealth itself, but it can also gain much because the soul connected to it also has spiritual wealth according to its state of maturity, which they can now exchange and thereby make each other unspeakably happy. Where such spiritual bonds exist every danger of flattening, of stagnation or decline is over, people constantly strive upwards, and this striving also lets them find each other even if they are unknown to each other as human beings. They strive towards a common aim, and in this striving the souls feel attracted to each other .... For the soul does not sleep but constantly pursues the light in its urge to ascend, and it often only reluctantly returns to its physical shell which, however, it does not completely leave in order to continue its path of earthly life until it is allowed to leave its material body and now completely unites with the soul to which it feels attracted ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Androgynous beings .... Beyond ....

B.D. 6821 from May 2nd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

I will give you what you need for the maturing of your souls .... And in the last days I will also give people the kind of knowledge which, although it is not absolutely essential, should also reveal My love and wisdom to you, which will explain much that is incomprehensible to you and could cause you to doubt Me .... I Am revealing to you My detailed plan of Salvation because the end is approaching and unbelieving humanity should still receive a slight opening which lets the light shine through if people do not refuse to accept this knowledge. I Am lifting a veil which was still enshrouding people, I Am revealing secrets to make it easier for people to believe in Me .... And therefore I Am also always willing to answer questions which are put to Me either openly or in thought on earth or in the spiritual kingdom. For I want to give light to everyone who wants to escape the darkness ....

Consequently, I have also occasionally given explanations which the human being on earth does not yet need but which will become self-evident to him in the spiritual kingdom if he has prepared himself for the spiritual kingdom .... Then he will receive the understanding in a flash as soon as he desires it. One of these questions concerns the 'gender' of the beings which I created, which already has been the cause of much deception but which is of little relevance to people during their earthly life.

There is no being that does not incorporate both principles of gender within itself .... They are merely distributed differently in each being, so that one is governed by the male and the other by the female aspect. But perfection requires the complete balance of both principles, neither shall be more or less .... Only then will the state of perfection have been achieved, hence a perfect being can either be called androgynous or male and female in one. The male principle must have aligned itself completely to the female and vice versa, only then will the being correspond to My nature .... it will have become My image .... This alignment will either already be achieved on earth or it will take place in the spiritual kingdom, where the being will be constantly subjected to tests in which the male and female principles have to prove themselves in turn .... Hence it is entirely irrelevant whether the being is embodied on earth as a man or a woman, because the alignment with the opposite principle must irrevocably take place. However, this is not meant in an earthly-perceptible way in as much as the man or woman should acquire the characteristic features of the other, but the alignment is an entirely spiritual matter .... it is a person's integration with divine law, which therefore also requires different degrees of willpower and this can be easier for one and more difficult for another person.

And therefore it follows that there is indeed a division of the sexes on earth but in the spiritual kingdom the being's own earthly shape will merely surround it as an aura, thereby also identifying the individual. Consequently, one can speak about a closer relationship of spiritual beings who, having the same degree of maturity, feel attracted to each other. But one cannot speak of a union between different sexes, since every individual will be a perfectly androgynous being. However, where the alignment of the different principles has not yet taken place the characteristic features of the different sexual beings will also be more apparent, which is particularly noticeable in the spheres where the separation from the earthly-physical world is not entirely complete ....

But such sexual differences do not exist in higher spheres and therefore it is wrong to speak of relationships which resemble those between a man and a woman on earth, because the blissful unity of two beings is based on spiritual similarity, on the same degree of maturity and complete spiritual agreement. This will always be more prevalent amongst beings who have aligned both principles within themselves and whose bliss is therefore beyond imagination when they associate with similar beings to create and work together ....

But the being's earthly progress is neither an advantage nor disadvantage irrespective of whether the human being is a man or a woman .... Resistance to Me can be equally strong, and surrender to Me can be carried out by both .... The separation of the male and female principle is merely to make every being's acceptance of divine order easier, thus accepting the characteristics of perfection increasingly more. My wisdom is certainly able to make this assessment and therefore I gave every being the outward appearance which offers the guarantee of achieving its best possible alignment. But the beings' happiness in the spiritual kingdom is beyond measure when both principles within themselves have become orderly, and therefore they are also able to put themselves in the position of every yet unsaved being and support it in its fight against itself and its anti-divine characteristics, which first have to be put right.

And then again, the happiness in the kingdom of the beyond .... although it cannot be compared .... will match the happiness on earth which unites two people with heartfelt love when compatible beings find each other, whose deepest love for each other will give them the kind of happiness which is known by you humans as a marriage made in heaven. However, worldly standards or worldly concepts can no longer be applied in the kingdom of the blissful spirits, where the greatest happiness is triggered by deeply felt love for Me, which will always be reciprocated by Me again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reunion and associations in the beyond ....

B.D. 6851 from June 14th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

When souls which had been united in love on earth meet again in the spiritual kingdom they can unite and work together if they have the same degree of maturity .... otherwise one partner has to strive for the same degree which, however, will be eagerly supported by the other. And then both souls will be supremely happy to be able to create and work together, although their sphere of activity is now entirely different than on earth. The spiritual bond delights the soul far more than the earthly one, they are remarkably helpful and of service to the still unhappy beings, which are now recognised and loved as brothers by the more mature souls, and therefore everything is done to deliver them from their wretched situation. And for this reason they care especially lovingly for souls which had been close to them on earth and entered the kingdom of the beyond in a still immature state .... The already mature soul can indeed recognise its lifetime partner in the beyond, but he will be unable to see the former and often wanders about in desperate search for his loved ones ....

Especially the desire to see their loved ones again is a significant factor for attaining maturity of soul, for the desire draws the loved beings close to the soul, which then will tirelessly endeavour to bring it to the degree of maturity which will at last result in a reunion, even if it is just for a short period of time. Then it will strive ever more eagerly to reach perfection. It is, however, lamentable, if two souls, having been closely united by love on earth, enter the spiritual realm in a state of darkness .... if they so disbelief in a continuation of life that it would not occur to them wanting to see the other one again. Such souls will not meet each other and thus wander about feeling incredibly lonely. And even if they think of the one they had loved on earth, he nevertheless cannot make himself noticeable because he is wandering about like a shadow himself, unable to see or recognise other souls. Yet the souls of light are also taking care of these .... But they hardly can get through to them due to their unbelief .... They don't accept any advice to improve their state, they are completely lethargic, and only the thought of people they once loved is keeping them alive. Yet the love which thus united two people on earth is also a blessing for them in the beyond .... because a soul of light is capable of awakening in the soul a beneficial wish for the other, and this loving thought in itself can already ignite, irrespective to which level this wish relates, but it can be unselfish and therefore provide strength. And this strength subsequently expresses itself such that the soul will listen to the light beings' instructions, whose advice promises to be beneficial for the soul which is loved.

Immature souls still remain in the vicinity of earth, hence they merely feel separated but not as having passed away from earth, hence they try to overcome the apparently spatial separation and as a result also accept the advice of spiritual friends. And it is a great blessing if such souls are also granted intercession by people, as it will have a comforting influence on them and the gift of strength will result in a transmission of light, so that their thinking begins to become clear and realisation will gradually dawn on them. But they will never be able to experience the happiness of a reunion as long as they have not found Jesus Christ .... All efforts by the beings of light are leading towards motivating them to turn to Jesus Christ for help .... For the state of darkness is the state of the unredeemed, the state of those who have entered the kingdom of the beyond without Jesus Christ and who therefore have to find Him there first of all. Love can also prompt a soul to appeal to Jesus Christ that He might take care of its adversity; and if such an appeal on behalf of the other soul is rising up to Him, He will truly consider this love with kindness .... then these souls will be approached by loyal helpers on His instruction .... And even these souls will be allowed to experience a reunion on day, and they will praise and thank the One Who had delivered them from their hardship ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Working together in the kingdom beyond .... help the unknowings ....

B.D. 4989 from October 28th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Heartfelt love unites the spiritual beings in the kingdom of the beyond who no longer dwell in darkness, and therefore they also work with united strength as soon as they want to accomplish something for which their own strength is insufficient; that is, they can certainly already be recipients of strength in the beyond but still to a limited extent as long as they are not yet perfected, that is, beings of light which are in direct contact with God. Nevertheless, they can already be active according to their reception of strength. But if they work in unity then everything they want is possible for them, yet their will is always equal to God's will. The common love of the spiritual beings mostly extends to the souls on earth and in the spiritual kingdom which still dwell in darkness. They seek to bring help to them, and where they do not succeed on their own they unite for joint work and also have great success.

(10/28/1950) All their efforts aim to bring light to the beings still in darkness, thus to enlighten them about their present and future state, but they can only do this in the form of mental transmissions. It is often difficult to exert mental influence on souls, especially those still on earth, because they turn more towards earthly life and also believe little in a continuation of the soul as well as in beings which are in the spiritual kingdom and want to have contact with people on earth. Then the strength of a loving soul is often not enough and it seeks help from equally mature friends in the kingdom of light. It is a process of extraordinary importance to transfer thought currents to the human being without forcing the will .... it is an application of strength which is not allowed to break any resistance. And that is why these thought waves play around the human being's soul again and again and seek to gain entrance into the human heart, which emotionally turns towards such currents once it has opened itself. The opening of the heart is usually a consequence of miserable situations in life, of sorrow and suffering and disappointments of all kinds .... This is why people's fate in life is often a chain of such sorrowful events, all of which are only intended to open the heart voluntarily when it is touched by currents from the kingdom of light, so that it will then be receptive for the thought currents imparted to it by the beings of light as an effect of love. This is why these beings often intervene in life's fate in a decisive way, yet not according to their own will but according to God's will, Who has entrusted people to them as His charges and thus also gives them the authority to influence them in such a way that their spiritual development is successful. And the light beings' work on the imperfect souls in the beyond is just the same, they have to be considered according to their respective state and their course of development in the beyond is also incumbent on guardian spirits who are in knowledge and therefore also see every possibility which could bring help to the souls of darkness. The process of development in the beyond can go further upwards, but it can also go backwards, because even then the being's will is still free. Thus the will can only be influenced completely without constraint, which can only be judged by a being of light and which is incumbent upon it according to God's will. But just as people on earth often unite in their work against God by adopting each other's views and also representing them to their fellow human beings, so united activity must also take place in the spiritual kingdom so that the human being's will on earth remains free and yet it is possible for it to change. Consequently, it is a perpetual battle of light against darkness which, however, is not fought with hostility and the will to destroy, as it is on earth, but is only waged with spiritual weapons by the beings of light struggling for people's hearts, so that they voluntarily submit to their influence, so that they allow themselves to be guided in their thoughts and actions, so that they turn their thoughts away from the earthly world and towards the spiritual kingdom in which they shall one day lead the right life which will make them eternally blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Cooperation between the beings of light and humans

Cooperation with the beings of light for redemption ....

B.D. 2282 from March 30th 1942, taken from Book No. 32

It is an incomparably happy activity to participate in the work of redemption in connection with the beings of light, for anyone who has already chosen this work on earth has overcome the earth, that is, he has passed the test of will, which is the purpose of his earthly life. Through the connection with the spiritual full of light he is now also able to receive emanations from the kingdom of light, i.e. strength to work on earth in the form of the divine word. The divine word imparts the strength to the person who wants to be redemptively active and likewise to the soul to which the redemptive activity applies. Thus the contact with the beings of light in the form of mental questions and answers must have such an effect that something spiritual flows to the human being .... something that the world can never offer because it does not possess it .... This is the wisdom from God .... the pure truth. This is spiritual knowledge which the beings of light possess in abundance and want to give to people on earth. However, since they are only allowed to give it to an earthly child who is willing to receive it, they first endeavour to awaken the will to receive in a person, to influence him mentally, to make themselves available as mediators between God and people and to encourage him to follow their influences, thus to do everything that is a prerequisite for receiving the light and strength from God. Only rarely do people follow these whisperings. But where a person is willing, the beings of light are constantly active, i.e. they are ready at any time to make themselves known to the listening person. For the adversity of the time requires extraordinary activity on the part of both the beings of light and the willing earthly people who have offered their willingness to serve God and asked for a task for the redemption of souls. The strength to accomplish this task continues to flow to them, but the human being must not tire, i.e. become weak-willed .... He must not slacken in his spiritual work and turn to the world again. However, this is rarely to be feared, for anyone who has once made contact with the beings of light will no longer want to miss the transmission of strength and can only become a little weak temporarily in order to then continue his activity with increased fervour. And the human being need never fear being abandoned by these beings of light .... A person's co-operation on earth is so important that the beings of light make use of every opportunity when they sense the person's willingness and thus increase his will through the spiritual gifts they convey to him. And the human being will join the beings of light ever more intimately and also utilize the strength flowing to him according to the will of the beings of light, which is also God's will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Cooperation of light beings with humans .... lightbearers ....

B.D. 5272 from December 14th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

All the powers of heaven are working to help people in their spiritual adversity. For the great hardship on earth is evident in the spiritual kingdom, and since they also know the cause of it, they want to intervene to help. The earth lies in darkness, only occasionally do small lights flare up, but their light does not reach far and is caught by the night. People of bright spirit are only to be found in small numbers on earth, but the whole of humanity is of darkened spirit, night envelops it, the material world is predominant and the spiritual world can only radiate a faint glimmer of light, although its light is extremely effective, yet it only shines where the will for light is present .... Where darkness is preferred to night, there the light does not push itself forward. But the powers of heaven intervene, they send such bright rays of light down to earth that night is chased away where these rays of light are received, the kingdom of light establishes contact with people on earth. But the beings of light need the will of the people for this, which is expressed in the desire for enlightenment. The gates to the spiritual kingdom open up to the one who wants to know, or also .... there are no boundaries between heaven and earth where the human being is willing to lift these boundaries, where he consciously enters into contact with the kingdom beyond. There human cooperation with the beings of light is possible. The human being as such is imperfect as long as he still dwells on earth and will not reach the source of light by his own strength if he is not granted help from above, if he is not shown the path which leads to the source of light. And thus the messengers of the kingdom of light are constantly anxious to hand over guides to earthly wanderers, to illuminate the path for them and thus to precede them as bearers of light. Soon they will give the light themselves into the hands of those who let themselves be guided, and soon there will be new light bearers again who show their fellow human beings the right path which leads upwards. The spiritual kingdom works together with people on earth, yet the same work is always done, darkness is fought and light is carried on .... what is impossible at night can be done in the light of day, and people must constantly be active if their earthly life is not to have been an idle one. The night, however, gives no opportunity to work, for only light reveals where and how work is to be done. But light can only come from the kingdom of light, since the earth itself is a dark body to which light has to be brought .... i.e., people on earth are imperfect creatures who should develop upwards, and imperfect creatures are also lightless as a sign of their imperfection. But they can accept a great deal of light and become a body of light themselves if they appropriate the abundance of light from the spiritual kingdom, if they are willing to accept what comes to them from the kingdom of light .... if they want the darkness to depart from them and they approach the radiant morning through their will .... if they themselves seek the light and therefore also give the beings of light an opportunity to supply it to them .... Then the forces of heaven work unitedly with the people on earth, they fight unitedly against the darkness of night and also manage that the morning dawns and with it the radiant light of the sun .... the divine knowledge, touches the heart of people who want to escape the darkness of spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Childship to God

Childhood of God only on earth .... further development in the hereafter ....

B.D. 5522 from November 1st 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The maturing process is always promoted by God, yet in the stage of free will the spiritual can also offer resistance, and then God's will steps back and the human being's will decides. If the human being's development does not progress or even regresses, then the human being's will has resisted God's effort to help him progress, and then the spiritual substance in the human being, the soul, must also bear the consequences .... a state in the beyond which is adapted to the still undeveloped spiritual .... without light and without strength. Resistance to God is always a lack of light and strength, because light and strength emanate from God alone and resistance to God always means a rejection of His flow of strength of love. This state can certainly also be changed in the beyond, but again only by giving up resistance against God, that is, by willingly accepting what is also offered to him in the beyond, but likewise without coercion. But on earth a great grace of God has been disregarded, His loving help has been rejected, and understandably this has consequences which can never be entirely revoked, which is why an improvement of the state of misery can certainly be achieved in the beyond but the same will never be achieved as was possible on earth .... the childship to God .... Furthermore, it is not possible to arbitrarily return to earth again in order to make up for what was missed .... The human being's free will has made a decision on earth, and life in the kingdom of the beyond is in accordance with it. Yet God's great kindness and mercy helps all beings to become blissfully happy, and this bliss is possible in so many degrees that the being's will is always taken into account. In order to attain a higher degree of beatitude a repeated embodiment on earth is not permitted, yet a soul, driven by love and its greater than great will to help, can request a re-embodiment from God in order to carry out a mission on earth which applies to the salvation of earth souls .... This also results in an increased degree of maturity which, however, has to be acquired through an extremely difficult earthly life. Moreover, the soul which now embodies itself on earth is already in a certain degree of light, so that one cannot speak of an ascent development of a still imperfect being which now wants to make up for what it missed through a repeated earthly life. For God also gives the soul the opportunity to ascend in the beyond, yet the conditions for ascent development must be different, because it left the granted allocation of grace, which earthly life as a human being was in itself, unused, because it failed in free will and therefore can only achieve beatitude under more difficult conditions. Countless spheres exist and countless degrees of beatitude .... All souls can become blessed and increase their degree of bliss through their own will. But the highest beatitude of a child of God remains denied to the soul which failed on earth, for it is possible to attain this degree on earth using God's grace in free will .... The childship to God is the crowning of an earthly life which is led entirely according to God's will, in most faithful love for God and neighbour .... childship to God is the heavenly father's gift to His children who made use of earthly life to divest themselves of the last dross, who, through a right life of love during earthly life, become what they were from the beginning .... divine beings full of light and strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Becoming a child of God .... their activity in the hereafter ....

B.D. 2746 from May 19th 1943, taken from Book No. 34/35/36

Man should strive forwards and not remain at his stage of development. The short earth life has been given to him for perfection; his soul is to mature in order to get rid of its last outer fetters. The human being who is not aware of this, who closes himself to the knowledge of it when it is offered to him, does not use his earthly life energy for the actual purpose and therefore lives earthly life in vain. Although he has the opportunity to also mature in the beyond, he will never be able to make up for the time he missed on earth, for the spiritual success of a properly utilized earthly life is completely different from what he can achieve in the beyond through an arduous ascent. A life on earth in accordance with God's will earns the soul childship to God, it can attain the highest perfection on earth, it can shape itself into a being of light which may enjoy all the glories of eternal life .... Becoming a child of God is only possible for beings who have lived their earthly life in the most faithful fulfilment of God's commandments, in the exercise of most unselfish neighbourly love and righteous conduct before God out of love for Him. The childship to God is the entitlement to all children's rights, and the child of God has restored the right relationship as it existed in the very beginning .... It will be able to create and mould the being out of its own strength, it will be perfect as the father in heaven is perfect .... A being will never reach this degree of perfection if it did not live on earth in accordance with divine will and thus developed upwards. It can certainly rectify its deficient state in the beyond, it can still work on itself and become light and a recipient of strength, thus also achieve a high degree of bliss, but its activity in the beyond is completely different from that of the true children of God ....

They receive power directly from God and their abundance of light is unimaginable .... Their will is equal to the accomplished deed, because with the power flowing to them from God they are able to do everything they want and can therefore create and shape like God. They themselves are a part of God, having emerged from His strength and returned to the original strength and, by merging with the original strength, have become an extremely powerful angelic being, because the will and the thought have remained with it and it is therefore a free, self-aware being of light which is now extremely creatively active. Every thought becomes an act because it conforms to God's will and the strength to carry it out is constantly at its disposal. Creating and shaping is the most delightful activity because it is likewise based on deep love, love for the unredeemed, to whom the spiritual beings full of light, the children of God, again give new possibilities for redemption by constantly letting new creations arise as a cover for the still unredeemed spiritual beings so that they can develop upwards. The children of God are imbued with profound wisdom, they know the purpose and goal of every work of creation, and they also know the degree of maturity of every being which is allowed to embody itself in creation on earth, and thus they also know the most appropriate means for its maturing. And they can apply every means themselves, they can will it and also accomplish it, they can let every thought become a work, they are completely unhindered in their work, always filled by God's strength, and their will is equal to God's will .... And they are also in complete harmony with each other because love is everywhere in the kingdom of light, which is the power from God. God's love radiates through all beings and impels them to ever more intense activity, it urges the beings of light towards each other, towards unification, and since all are animated by God's equal will to allow new creations to arise in order to redeem the imperfect, divine strength flows uninterruptedly into the universe. It constantly generates new creations which are received and realized by the beings of light as God's thought and which therefore again testify to God's unsurpassable wisdom and His greater than great love, because the creators and shapers of those are in closest union with God, who always and constantly fulfilled His will on earth as well as in the beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Nature of light luminaries .... Angelic spirits .... Childship to God ....

B.D. 4026 from April 20th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

In what wealth the eternal deity radiates His strength of love into infinity, can not be gauged by a man, as long as he is still on earth, because he only knows the him visible creations, which make up only a tiny part of the whole creation. But God sustains all creation by donation of His strength of love. Therefore countless works of creation are carriers of His strength, countless celestial bodies carry in them embodied beings, whose life is safed by inflows of His strength. And all these beings He gives Himself to recognize as creator and sustainer, as they stand in a certain level of maturity, that gives them strength of knowledge. Mostly they are beings of high intelligence, not to be compared with the people of this earth, who are probably at a lower stage of development, however can achieve the highest possible aim, the childship to God, which is not possible to gain on other creations. However in the knowledge they are more advanced than the people of this earth. They are led by spirit beings from the realm of light and set in high knowledge, they also have the ability, to use such information, and are mentally very active, because in them the concept of level symmetry is highly developed and they feel every unevenness as lack of maturity and see deficiency of value of the creatures. And they try to compensate this by transferring knowledge, given to them in a way, that it is recognized and accepted by them as of divine origin; so the beings are connected to God, Whom they recognize as supreme spirit of eternity, love and try to adapt to His will. Their way of life is also according the will of God so far, as he is not led in unkindness, but always brotherly love connect the beings among one another, who see their highest duty in it, to hand out those, who do not own, what blesses those. So they are also in a way in the light .... (04/20/1947) and nevertheless they are beings, who have to mature yet, who have to walk the path to perfection yet, because what they have, is not acquired by their own will-power, but given to them as a precursor to this free test of will, so they take another course of development than the people on this earth, whose soul substances had to develop up from the depths of their past apostasy from God. There are also original spiritual beings, who were not disloyal to God, but so far have not tested their will yet, than that they are presented all the charms of the enemy by God and they are expected to make this resistance. Only then a being has taken the path to the highest perfection, if it has passed this test on earth. Countless creations exist, countless maturity levels can be achieved by life on these creations, countless possibilities are opened up the spiritual beings, and all are schools of spirit, but different in their effectiveness and their conditions. And God’s creative will has no limits, and His thoughts lead continuously to action, to form, and His strength of love animates continuously these forms, which are only consolidated thoughts by His will. All beings of light creations are lucky, and yet the state of luck is different and limited, but suffering is only companion of the soul on earth and to a greater extent in beyond realms, where the souls dwell, who have not passed their test of earthly life, who failed in free will; while the beings of light stars God never seriously resisted and therefore suffering is kept from them, until they also take the path on the earth for passing the test of will, to achieve the highest degree of perfection. God’s love, light and power fulfill the whole infinity, and incomprehensible to humans are the versatilities of creations, the life of the residents and the development opportunities, that are offered to the spiritual, to be inexpressibly blessed .... The whole universe is filled with the power of God, the visible and the invisible world is product of His love will, it is created for maturing of the still imperfect spiritual and for the upward development of which, what got lost in the depth and has to return to God. But the earth has a special provision .... it offers the only possibility of its embodied spirit, to achieve the childship to God, the highest degree of perfection; and therefore also pure angelic spirits must go this way, to be children of God, which requires to pass a test of will, which can only be placed on earth. But than most blessed beings abide nearby God, which are perfect and can create and design in free will, which is also God’s will, using the power by God .... as it was primordial determination ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Childhood of God .... Jesus Christ becoming one with God ....

B.D. 4008 from March 26th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

The human being's spiritual aim should be the attainment of childship to God, for he is given the opportunity to develop into a brightest being of light during his life on earth and to depart from earth in complete union with God. This is the becoming one with God, which Jesus Christ also achieved on earth and which all people can attain if they strive for it in all seriousness. It is not beyond a person's strength, it only requires the strong will to live as Jesus Christ lived on earth, in unselfish love for one's neighbour. Unselfish neighbourly love is what Jesus preached to people, and it is and remains the core of Christian teaching, it is the content of the gospel which His disciples were to spread in the world. But the effect of a Christian life of love is something incomparably glorious .... the human being has become a child of God, His heir, and he enters into all the rights of the father .... it can create and shape like Him and use its strength in supreme bliss, which it fulfils through the intimate union with God. There are certainly innumerable degrees of bliss, of light and strength; depending on the degree of maturity the souls are in a blissful state if they are only recipients of light and strength, thus once they have found entrance into the kingdom of light. But a child of God is infinitely more blissful, for it has reached the degree of perfection which allows closest proximity and connection with God. It no longer feels separated from Him, it feels one with Him and yet is aware of its individual existence, it still possesses its free will which, however, has completely aligned itself with God's will, it is a blissful state of togetherness, a constant desire for and granting of God's love, it is blissful harmony, unceasing blissful activity and perpetual striving upwards, for perfection has no limit, and constant striving also belongs to bliss because it is never unsuccessful. And the human being can already reach this highest degree of happiness on earth if he has the serious will. But only a few strive for it, only a few humbly accept the fate which is imposed on them in order to be able to mature in a short time. For despite eager activity of love the soul has to be purified through suffering if it wants to be able to receive the light in all its fullness .... It must struggle on earth and endure much suffering and deprivation, it must walk the path Jesus walked on earth, love and suffer, it must carry the cross until the end .... Then the soul will merge with God, it will become one with Him, it will be His child and remain so for all eternity ....

Amen

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Union with God

Union with God ....

B.D. 1831 from February 26th 1941, taken from Book No. 27

It is a holy desire to be united with the divine lord and saviour. There is truly nothing that equals it; there is no more blissful state of happiness than union with Him, and this union should therefore also be the epitome of every desire. What belongs to the earth should be joyfully given away and the most blissful exchanged for it; man should willingly take upon himself all the suffering of the earth and always think only of the sweetest reward .... the union with God, which outweighs all suffering and all torment .... which ends all hardship and this earthly tribulation. This union is something so unimaginably blissful that everything difficult before seems small in comparison and .... if man knew about it .... he would patiently accept much more suffering in order to be honoured with this heavenly grace. And yet every human being should endeavour to bring about union with God even without this knowledge. Love for Him and for his neighbour should place him in that state which is the precondition for the highest happiness .... For he then likewise shapes himself into love, and he must then inevitably come closer to eternal love, the beingness in him must merge with the original power, and thus he must again be where he once was .... in God .... A union with the highest entity must now also earn him everything that is a divine part .... light and power .... And this means eternal glory, happiness and peace. For to stand in the light means to know everything, to have escaped the darkness and henceforth to be allowed to be redemptively active for one's own happiness. And to be allowed to participate in divine power means to be able to shape and create like Him, to be able to give and distribute, to act and think in accordance with divine will and thus to lead a life that fulfils all wishes, for union with God is the ultimate goal of every being. And people can already achieve this blissful state on earth if they mould themselves into love. They can still receive this inconceivable grace at the time of their earthly life by hearing the resounding word in their heart .... To constantly make the divine will on earth the guiding principle and to always only endeavour to come closer to Him lets the heart become love, but the loving human being cannot help but give love, therefore God also gives to him, namely Himself in the word .... And when the earthly child is able to hear the divine voice resounding in the heart, the union with God has taken place and can no longer be disturbed eternally. For what God has seized with His love He will never let go of Himself, and therefore the human being cannot help but commit himself with his life to his divine lord and saviour, to His name and His teaching .... He will confess Him before all the world and bear witness to it of divine strength, for this flows so obviously into such a person that he can prove to the world the power and strength of the right faith, which he now represents to people who seek his life .... For he does not fear the death of the body, for he has found eternal life through union with the lord ....

Amen

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Bliss of the soul only in union with God ....

B.D. 4812 from January 4th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Bliss only exists in connection with Me. On earth the connection with satan can indeed trigger a feeling of happiness in the human being but then it will always be physical pleasures which delight the human being but in which the soul has no part. The soul only finds happiness and peace in unity with Me, because it is spiritual substance which originated from Me and thus never loses its feeling of belonging to Me, it is just not aware of it as a human being in a state of imperfection. The spiritual cannot be satisfied with worldly pleasures, and if the soul is pushed back from the body because of matter then the soul's cover, which is spiritual in itself and now sinks into a state of death or sleep as long as it is surrounded by matter and dominated by it through the human being's will, condenses. The soul could certainly defend itself but it is too weak and gives in to the body's desire. But it will never be blissful as long as the body finds fulfilment of its desires. My nearness triggers the highest bliss in it. It strives towards Me as soon as it has once felt My presence, as soon as it has once found union with Me through loving activity, since I am present in every work of love and thus it draws Me to itself when it works with love. And it no longer wants to miss this bliss and only strives ever more eagerly towards Me. What a soul finds in union with Me compensates it for all adversity during its long course of development on earth and for all suffering during its earthly life as a human being. Yes, it is grateful to Me for these because they had brought it the union with Me. It will never have to give up the happiness of a union with Me, for a relapse is never possible. It can certainly exchange the kingdom of light with earth for a short time for the purpose of a mission on earth, but compared to eternity this is only a single moment where the soul is, so to speak, left to itself again but constantly longs upwards, for My kingdom, because it unconsciously feels what it left there. Nevertheless, it takes upon itself the embodiment on earth as a necessary work of love, for it is aware of its mission and also serves people of its own accord in order to likewise help them to become blissfully happy. Such a soul always stays with Me in spirit, it is only for its own sake that it is deprived of recollection as long as it lives on earth. Yet satan has no influence on such a soul, for it has much spiritual strength, it has much love for God and its fellow human beings. And this love always makes it seek contact with Me on earth, for Whom it longs until it is united with Me again ....

Amen

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Unification .... Blissfulness of the images of God ....

B.D. 7627 from June 20th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

The final aim of your earthly life is the union with Me .... You should have found unification with Me by the time the hour of your death approaches, you should pass over into the other realm without fear and dread, you should only change your abode and move into your parental home which you had left eternities ago .... You should have found your way home to Me and be happy again, as you were in the beginning. This is the purpose and goal of your earthly life, and to arrive at this goal should be your constant ambition, since it is achievable for you. I Am not demanding the impossible from you. You are My children, you came from Me and it has to be your natural ambition to return to the Father, because your Father’s love draws you and because, after all, you were originally created in My image .... The unity with Me, therefore, has to be more in accordance with your whole being than the distance .... For this reason you have never been happy being so far away, and you cannot be happy again until we have been united, because being united with Me also means being enlightened by My love again, which is equal to unimaginable bliss. You are My creations and belong irrevocably to Me ....

You deserted Me due to your misguided will and misguided thinking .... But as soon as your will and thought are in the right order once more you will also look for unification with Me, you will do everything to decrease the previous distance and indeed succeed during your earthly life because I long for this unification Myself and therefore will help you too .... because My love pulls you and you cannot resist this love when you have accepted the right order again ....

And you can expect a truly marvellous fate indeed when you have united with Me .... The realm of light is once again open to you, you can work in strength, light and freedom in accordance with your will which, however, is also My will .... You will be able to enjoy the kind of pleasures you have never dreamt of .... you will see and hear what your eyes and ears have never seen and heard on earth for I have prepared immeasurable happiness for those who are Mine, who love Me and therefore have united with Me forever. Because love embraces Father and child with a heartfelt bond .... love, which should be kindled within you during your earthly life and which then radiates through the human heart, establishes a connection with Me as Eternal love .... the human being can then accept his original essence again and becomes what I Myself have eternally been: love ....

And thus the human being who has transformed himself into love once again has to be inseparably joined to Me, he has to be enlightened by My love as he was in the beginning, he has to be so close to Me that we are completely merged by love, and therefore his return to Me must have occurred, which was always the purpose and goal of his earthly life .... And this relationship can no longer lead to a return to the abyss .... The being has passed its test of volition, it has transformed itself from ‘God’s living creation’ into ‘God’s child’, it has achieved perfection on earth, it has regained all qualities and abilities which it once had renounced due to its desertion from Me .... And I have achieved My goal .... My eternal plan of salvation has been successfully completed by that being, i.e. what I could not ‘create’ has nevertheless been achieved by this plan of salvation: God-like beings .... Children, whose own free will and not My omnipotence, has turned them into perfected beings .... Only now have I proper ‘children’ who are My images in every way .... who can create and work by My side and within My will and yet use their own will which, however, completely corresponds to Mine because this is intrinsic to perfection.

You humans can achieve this goal because I Myself long for the unification with you and truly will do everything to guide you to the goal if your will submits to mine .... if you willingly accept My guidance, if you fully and consciously strive for unification with Me and live in love on earth .... Then every gesture of love shall bring you closer to Me, then you will allow My presence within you, and then union has to follow because ‘whoever lives in love lives in Me and I in him ....’ Consequently, love is the bond that locks us together and then is eternally inseparable ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Heavenly bliss

Eternal home .... deeds on earth .... activity of love ....

B.D. 1090 from September 12th 1939, taken from Book No. 20

Follow Me into the spiritual kingdom, which is your home and which shall one day arise before your eyes in incomparable beauty. Behold, nothing on earth can replace what will be offered to your senses if you leave the earth, and likewise you will one day be offered a substitute in the beyond for everything you gave away on earth for My sake .... a replacement, however, which far surpasses everything beautiful on earth, for eternal bliss is still unimaginable to you, unimaginable both in its nature as well as in its tremendous effect, for not in the remotest way can happiness on earth be compared to this heavenly bliss .... not in the remotest way can man visualize the wonders of creation, which to see makes a being standing in the light so unspeakably happy. And just as nothing in the universe stands still, so too will seeing in the beyond always offer new impressions, an eternal change of these will prevent the being from becoming tired or indifferent, it will look and look and sink into ever new delights and sing thanks and praise to the creator of heaven and earth for all eternity. And in an unlimited period of aeons of years the spiritual state of My beings will be so exceedingly high that they will come ever closer to Me and I will present Myself to them in a visible way .... I know no barriers between My beings and Me if they do not erect them themselves .... Every child can partake of these delights on earth if it overcomes these very barriers and approaches Me with all love and humility. Yet in the life beyond the possibility of making contact with Me is not so easy, for the deeds of earthly life are always taken into consideration, and if these do not correspond to My will it is incredibly difficult, for every feeling of inner peace, of inner bliss, is always based on a certain degree of loving activity, and thus a being which has not complied with the latter at all cannot lay claim to happiness in the beyond. Nor could it behold the beatitudes because it is not receptive to light either due to the lack of love and therefore correspondingly meagre merit on earth and thus has by no means yet reached the state of light which promises it full vision in spirit. The only way to eternal bliss is through one's own heart. If this is switched off and only the head and intellect are instructed to solve this or that question about the beyond, then this question remains closed to the earthly child and thus also the spiritual vision, which is only then opened up to the earthly child when it is to form itself into higher abilities which, however, are always conditioned by eager striving for perfection. And therefore the earthly child must often bear in mind that in order to attain eternal bliss it should use its path of life in such a way that it educates itself to love .... that love determines everything it does and thus the degree of love always remains the key in order to be able to pass through the gate to eternity with the prospect of an exceedingly glorious beyond which promises all the delights and joys of heaven to the one who formed this love on earth and, as a being thus formed, found the path to the eternal home ....

Amen

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Heavenly bliss .... Eternal glory ....

B.D. 1792 from January 28th 1941, taken from Book No. 27

Staying in bright surroundings makes the being indescribably happy; everything of a depressing and burdensome nature has been removed, it is no longer subject to any aggravation by immature spiritual beings, no shadows or dark states exist which could frighten it. Joy, harmony and brightly shining light abound everywhere. And heartfelt love and gratitude permeate the being which feels close to God, even if it has not yet entirely merged with God. Nevertheless, it may receive light and strength from Him, and thus it is already partaking in the eternal glory. It may accomplish a pleasing occupation; it may be active according to divine will by passing on to other beings what it receives itself. The beings constantly require the divine gift of strength for their higher development, and the beings of light are such stations of strength by constantly passing the strength from God on and thereby creating an inconceivable state of bliss for themselves. No human being on earth can either understand the light beings’ activity nor the process of re-directing the strength to the beings in need of strength and has therefore no idea about it; consequently, the thought of an eternity in blissful happiness is a fantasy to him that he would like to dismiss and thus he refuses to accept it as real. He measures everything with the yardstick that can be applied to earthly processes, but does not bear in mind that other laws apply outside of earth, that processes take place which cannot be grasped in a worldly way. After all, Earth is one of the most insignificant works of Creation and thus its inhabitants cannot imagine anything else but what they find on earth, for people’s imagination cannot go beyond this. And in order to even roughly imagine the kingdom of light, people must be very far advanced already, yet even then they will barely be able to grasp the truthful description since completely new knowledge must be revealed to them, and the human being is rarely receptive for this. This is why these realms can only ever be described as eternal glory, for they are glorious and lovely to look at beyond all measure and place the being in a state which can be called highest bliss and, yet, the human being cannot imagine what it really is. The words ‘heavenly bliss’ and ‘eternal glory’ will therefore always cause serious doubt in people as to the truthfulness of such words, because they don’t want to accept something as truth which is not understandable and explainable to them. On the other hand, however, it is impossible to initiate them and to allow them to gain an insight into the kingdom of light until they do their best in order to become bearers of light and strength themselves. They can certainly still achieve this on earth, yet it requires strong will and profound love for God, but then it will be much easier for them to understand these spheres which shall be their abode one day, for then they will have become brightly enlightened themselves.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Heavenly bliss ....

B.D. 2233 from February 12th 1942, taken from Book No. 31

Any comparison intended to illustrate the beatitudes of Heaven to people would be inappropriate, for nothing on earth can even roughly describe these joys, nothing can be likened to them should an attempt be made to reveal a picture of them to people. The souls’ infinite happiness in eternity is not caused by something tangible, this is why a person cannot imagine anything either, instead, he must content himself with the Lord’s promise ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which I have prepared for those who love Me .... ’ The knowledge of the delights of eternal life would, in fact, be extremely disadvantageous for the souls’ maturing, because the human being shall become prefect and thus he must be good of his own inner accord and not for the sake of reward. What a perfect being can expect in eternity will make it so incomparably happy, that the human being would do anything as well as suffer anything were he to know the degree of bliss; were he to know what this bliss consists of. He can only be informed of the fact that the feeling of love is decisive in the beyond, that no happiness is thinkable without it, that love connects everything and that this creates a state of bliss which is inconceivable for people on earth. For there is vanishingly little love on earth, compared to the light beings’ degree of love in the beyond; consequently, the human being cannot imagine that love is the epitome of bliss, even though love on earth, that is, the kind-hearted activity and the feeling of love, is already experienced and desired as something delightful on earth, once it is known to the human being, for only divine love causes happiness, the love which is giving, hence unselfish. Desiring love only brings happiness if the object of the desire is God and His love .... because this desiring love simultaneously results in fulfilment, since divine love flows to every person desiring it. If love for God already causes happiness on earth, how much happier will the being be in eternity if God, in His infinite love, comes close to it and satisfies its burning desire .... The delights of this fulfilled longing are indescribable and cannot be expressed in words since it is a purely spiritual process providing the being finds union with God and receives His emanation of love. Consequently, no human being can imagine what eternal bliss is like as long as he still lives on earth, for God keeps this knowledge concealed from him until he has gained the spiritual maturity in order to gain an insight into the spiritual kingdom which will reveal the eternal glory to him if it is God’s will.

Amen

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See God face to face ....

B.D. 1957 from June 17th 1941, taken from Book No. 28

It is a state of supreme bliss in which the beings who are allowed to behold the face of God find themselves, and this state cannot be described to people on earth either, as earthly comparisons cannot be made and human words are too small to even come close to describing that glory. It is a state of supreme contentment with oneself, it is a feeling of security in the lord. It is a never-to-be-repeated degree of brightness that allows those beings to sense the closeness of God. And the presence of God is the epitome of the highest bliss in an infinite number of gradations. The eye of the lord rests in infinite gentleness, goodness and love on the creature devoted to Him, and all the angels of heaven hover around Him, and the God-seer is in the midst of this host of blissful spirit beings and is cared for with infinite love by the beings who are all allowed to behold the face of God. The lord's love brings Himself to His earthly children as a gift .... The souls who were constantly allowed to draw divine truth from the inexhaustible source, from God Himself, will very soon be able to enjoy the happiness of beholding Christ, for they are initiated into the divine activity of love and it does not seem impossible to them that God Himself shows Himself to the beings in the beyond .... However, no-one really understands how this act can take place; but that it is can be proven by those profoundly devout people who still have a mission to fulfil and who have gained God's love through their will to serve God. And they will teach you humans and give you back the impressions they have received from the spiritual kingdom. They will have the gift of using the right words and it will become apparent to people how everything that is proclaimed in word and scripture will be fulfilled .... "You will see God face to face ...."

Amen

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Consider the time after death ....

B.D. 6625 from August 18th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

One day you all will have to lay down your earthly body and your soul will be assigned another abode .... Not one of you will escape his fate, everyone can expect his physical death with certainty. Thus you know that your life on earth is limited and that no-one can prevent his body's death when his hour has come .... Yet in spite of this certainty you live your life on earth as if it would never end. You always plan and work for the future without knowing whether you will still experience it. You don't take this into account but it is a fact; you only create and work for your short life on earth which does not last. You yourselves, however, will not perish, your soul stays alive even after your body's death, and your soul is your real Self .... Hence there is, in fact, no death for you, only a change of location ....

If you think about this very seriously then you will act prudently by taking care that this said later location will make you happy. Then your concern will include the time when you no longer live on this earth but continue your life in the kingdom of the beyond which, however, is created corresponding to your conduct on earth. You would all be more diligent if you believed this. The more you worry about the upkeep of your body, the less you believe that you will go on living. You cannot receive evidence for this because your earthly life must not be determined by fear which, however, would be triggered in you, who do not strive to ascend voluntarily, by the certainty of a continuation of life after death. Voluntary aspirants are indeed certain of it, they believe .... but precisely because they strive to ascend. And a striving born out of fear will not lead to perfection. Therefore it cannot be proven to you humans that there is life after death. But everyone can awaken the belief in it himself simply by seriously considering it and wanting to do what is right.

People's attention will therefore be ever more obviously drawn to the fleeting nature of what they value too highly. People are snatched away in the midst of their lives, and from this everyone could learn to regard his life, too, as a gift that could be taken away from him any day .... And he would only have to pursue the thoughts arising in him in the event of a fellow human being's sudden death .... He would only have to pursue the departed soul into infinity .... He would only have to think more often of him, who did not cease to exist but merely changed his abode .... And truly, hands would extend to him from the spiritual realm to draw him up.

Yet even if the human being lacks the certainty of life after death he should nevertheless expect the possibility and time and again visualise this possibility when other people die and question what his own fate might be if he were to be called away suddenly. For as long as the human being cannot prove that there is no continuation of life after death .... which will never be possible .... he should always make provisions. And he will never regret if he, on earth, not only considers his body but also his soul, if he gathers a few spiritual treasures on earth which then will help him to advance in the spiritual kingdom. Then the soul will reap what the person has sown on earth, and blessed is the soul which has made provisions on earth for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Admonition to constant connection with God ....

B.D. 7772 from December 14th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

So first of all strive to supply your soul with the right nourishment so that it does not need to starve while the body is abundantly provided for. Therefore strive so that I Myself can give it the food, so that I can water it with the water of life. And know that you don't have much time left but that you can still provide your soul with much nourishment if only you unite with Me daily and ask Me to take care of you in earthly and spiritual adversity .... You should only find the path to Me and then you can also be certain that I will not leave you, no matter what may come .... And a time will come upon you when you will need much strength and can receive it daily if you make sure that I Myself feed and water your souls .... if you let Me speak to you, that I distribute the bread of heaven to you and you now become strong in spirit .... I can only speak to you if you unite with Me, but then I can also send you strength and you will let everything come to you without fear and anxiety and only ever trust in Me. Again and again I say to you: Maintain the connection with Me, don't detach yourselves from Me, always let Me be the content of your thoughts .... And you will truly feel the blessing of it, nothing will particularly affect you which could weaken you, for you possess the strength from Me which lets you endure and overcome everything. But if you let your soul live in want, if you only pay attention to the body's desire, you will soon become weak and anxious, then your body will also have to endure all adversity which affects you. The soul needs nourishment, it shall still mature in the short time of earthly life, and it can also do so if I Myself can administer the nourishment to it, if you come to Me yourselves and appeal to Me for food and drink .... if again and again you desire to hear My word and now truly provide the soul with the right nourishment. For I keep telling you again and again: You don't have much time left .... The end is coming ever closer, no matter how improbable it may seem to you .... The signs are so obvious if only you look at the spiritual low of people who live unbelievingly and completely earthly minded and don't think of their souls because they don't believe in the soul's continuation of life after death .... These people are in the majority, because even people who want to be 'christians' do not have this belief and therefore do not care for their souls. And this spiritual low also irrevocably entails the end of the earth where a separation of spirits will now take place .... And therefore I admonish you again and again to make good use of the short time you humans still have until the end .... And 'to make good use of it' means to give the soul what it needs to mature: food and drink, the nourishment which I Myself offer it through My word .... ‘To make use of it' means that you humans immerse yourselves in My word, that you live according to this word on earth, that you fulfil My will, which is made known to you through My word .... And truly, you will not need to fear the end, you will come to life which you will never lose again for ever ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Tests of faith to fortify belief ....

B.D. 5370 from April 20th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You are persistently subjected to tests of faith but only in order to fortify your belief, for as yet it is still as weak as that of a child compared to the demands that will be expected of you in the coming time. Time and again you will therefore experience adversity during which you should prove yourselves insofar as that you should turn to the One Who alone is able to banish your problems. The adversity will disappear like a formation of clouds if you trustingly hand yourselves over to the heavenly Father and commend yourselves to His grace. Thus you have the certain means to master every adversity, you need only tell Him your problems and sincerely appeal for His help .... and you will be helped .... But first you need to mature this firm faith so that He can and will help you .... Such faith will banish all adversity. However, this requires your awareness of His presence, your bond with Him must be so close that you will never feel alone, but that you will always sense that He, your Father of eternity, is walking next to you and then you will be completely convinced that He will help you .... A life without a fight, without earthly or spiritual adversities would not improve your spiritual development, for your strength only gets fortified through battle, strength is only put to the test through opposition and finally becomes victorious. This is why earthly adversities cannot be excluded, they are effectively merely tests to build up your strength, which you need to cope with in order to become strong in faith. For you will require great strength of faith during the coming time, when only that person will remain calm and confident who became so steadfast through his strong faith that he is aware at all times that he is in the heavenly Father's care and therefore stands above everything that is approaching. Nothing happens in your existence which He is not aware of, and nothing can happen to you without His will .... but whatever comes upon you is His will and is always beneficial for your soul .... Firmly commit these words to your memory, then you will always feel cared for by the heavenly Father's love, and you will not doubt his help for one moment if you are in trouble. Everything is beneficial that turns your thoughts to Him, Who is merely waiting for your call in order to be able to help you. It is His will that you should turn to Him, He wants to be your constant companion, He wants to be asked for advice in every spiritual or earthly adversity, He always wants to help you but is only able to do so if you, through your faith in Him, have also freely professed Him .... But then you will be in good care, then you will be able to await even the most difficult destiny, it will turn out for the best, you will receive earthly help and spiritually derive the greatest blessings from what the Father sends to you in order to win you over forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna