What develops upwards is also exposed to particular temptations from the underworld, for the battle of darkness against everything full of light and striving towards the light is waged with perseverance and requires tenacious resistance. And this is why the human being should regard every spiritual battle as proof that he, too, belongs to those striving upwards and that these battles only test his will and also strengthen it. No struggling person will remain without help, and his soul will be protected by beings of light who well see this battle and are always willing to help because they know about the human being’s weakness but also about their will to overcome it. They, too, demand their tribute for their help, but they want to give more than they receive from man …. they only demand attention in order to impart a knowledge that makes them happy. And this knowledge in turn helps them to defend themselves against the forces of the underworld, i.e. to emerge victorious in the battle against evil forces. For the weapons of evil forces are ineffective against a knowledgeable person, because he recognizes their cunning and can take victorious action against them. A certain danger only exists as long as man is seized by indifference and he neglects to fight against it, and this state is dangerous because God’s adversary is immediately prepared to seize man’s indifferent will and then the fight becomes an ever more difficult one which man has to wage. For this is the human being’s strength, that he immediately surrenders to God and appeals to Him for protection and he will also take this path due to the knowledge he has received. This is why God’s adversary has little chance of winning over a soul which strives towards God, even if the temptations approach it in the form of spiritual defeats which always occur when the human being believes himself to be strong enough and makes less use of God’s help. God always wants to be consulted, He always wants to stand by the human being as a guide in all situations in life, but He also always wants to be called upon, and if the human being neglects this, God seemingly withdraws from him and lets him get into trouble in order to chain him to Himself again, in order to be called upon again from the innermost heart, so that through this call the forces of the underworld are displaced and the ascent upwards can now take place without effort. For God wants to make it easy for people, yet the weakness of will makes the path to ascent difficult ….

Amen

The spiritual eye sees through all earthly shells and is therefore also able to see the activity in the spiritual kingdom, which also includes the spiritual activity of all beings which are still bound on earth. Everything that is not visible to the human eye can be seen with the spiritual eye, and time and space is no obstacle, but beyond time and space the human being, who is able to see spiritually, sees the things that were there, that are now and that are still to come. He sees the activity in the spiritual kingdom, but he also sees earthly events which must result from this spiritual activity as it is determined in the plan of divine wisdom. Yet only a few people have the gift of spiritual vision, God only reveals the future to a few people, for general knowledge of it would jeopardize people’s higher development, i.e. it would leave them idly awaiting what is to come. Those few people, however, have the task of informing their fellow human beings of what presents itself to their spiritual eye so that they familiarize themselves with it. The gift of foresight is to a certain extent the right of those who establish a spiritual connection with the forces from the spiritual kingdom. This connection can be a conscious, but also an unconscious one; the human being can open his heart to the currents from the spiritual kingdom through his will, thus declare himself willing to receive mental instructions, and these people will then also be given the second sight …. to see with spiritual eyes events that lie in the future. But people are also unconsciously recipients of spiritual messages, namely when the way of life they lead makes them receptive to spiritual impartations, that is, when a certain willingness to serve their neighbour …. a selfless activity of love allows the working of spiritual forces, so that bright dreams or clear pictures reveal coming events to them, which the human being can then consciously reproduce as he has received them. And these visions are only observed and valued by those who are likewise of a loving heart, while others reject them as irrelevant and improbable. However, the soul must always have reached a certain degree of maturity, even if it is not outwardly recognizable …. spiritual forces must be able to work, and these must convey the images to them on divine commission, i.e. the giving forces must themselves want to receive and pass on the knowledge about it in God-connectedness. Looking into the future will only ever influence the development of the soul, but should never bring about earthly advantage. In the same way, spiritual vision, the penetration of the material shell with the spiritual eye, will only be granted to man if he no longer strives for any earthly success, if he only tries to penetrate the secrets of creation in deep faith and humble devotion to an all-wise and loving creator and if he wants to pass on the impressions gained to his fellow human beings in order to promote their salvation. Deepest love for God and deepest love for his neighbour can earn him the gift of spiritual vision, but his experiences and knowledge are again only credible to people who are on the same track …. nothing is acceptable to the man of the world that he himself cannot see or grasp. spiritual vision therefore requires a God-pleasing way of life and a willing heart that wants to pass on spiritual gifts …. However, a person is not always able to reproduce the images he has seen to his fellow human being if the latter does not have the same spiritual capacity, i.e. if his state of maturity lags behind that of the person looking …. The beholder must absorb the images completely uninfluenced by external influences, he must be inwardly free of other impressions, so to speak, and thus be willing to allow only spiritual influx to affect him. He must surrender himself completely to it and not allow any external influence to enter. And he does this when his will only desires the pure truth, when he recognizes God alone as the authentic source of truth …. Then the images will also completely correspond to the truth and he will also be able to reproduce the visions in exactly the same way …. But the same condition also applies to the person who receives the account. His own wrong thinking or erroneous thoughts, which he does not want to surrender, also change the image described to him …. Therefore, only the reproduction by the beholder himself is truly valuable, or else the fellow human being must also have a high degree of maturity of soul, so that he cannot receive the image in any other way as it is conveyed to him. spiritual vision refers to both future and past events which are or have been happening on earth but which are always related to higher spiritual development. Things of the future are only predicted by seers if they are to prepare people so that they remember their soul …. while the seeing of past things by seers is, so to speak, only to confirm that a spiritual connection exists between God and His creatures and that it has always and at all times existed …. and that therefore also the traditions may be believed, which are to be displaced into the realm of fables and legends due to the length of time …. What has happened on earth since eternity in order to guide mankind towards realization will be confirmed to people again and again by seers …. and what will happen again in the future for the purpose of spiritual higher development will likewise be revealed by God to humanity through people who are able to see spiritually or who receive His word by way of a direct connection with spiritual knowing powers ….

Amen

Those to whom God imparts His word receive the knowledge of the truth in a form that leaves no room for doubt compared to those who have gained insight into the spiritual realm through dreams or visions or who gain knowledge of future events through such, for the latter now express in their own words what they have seen and are often unable to find the right words. Moreover, only their perceptions or predictions are rarely believed because people want proof. The direct word, however, speaks for itself and can also be passed on in an unbiased way as soon as the recipient wants to serve God through it. The direct word also gives complete clarity in questions of faith, in questions of doubt, whereas what was seen clairvoyantly can be interpreted in different ways and this was also done depending on the spiritual direction of the seer or the one to whom the spiritual image is conveyed. For the knowledge previously possessed is always taken as a basis, but rarely will someone be willing to renounce this knowledge and now accept the knowledge offered to him from the spiritual kingdom ….

Amen

A bright light falls into the darkness on earth …. And the light spreads a bright glow, it penetrates the darkness, disperses it and will finally displace it completely. The bright morning will dawn, the spiritual night will disappear and with it the suffering and sorrow, which are only the consequences of spiritual darkness. And that is why the earth will still have to endure suffering and sorrow as long as it does not yet desire the light. But to whom the light shines, his mind is also turned towards it and he only needs suffering and sorrow to a small extent. However, once a person has become a bearer of light, his soul is a receptacle for the divine spirit, which radiates the light to people who are hungry for light and especially to those whose will it is to instruct their fellow human beings in the pure truth. They can go through earthly life in peace, they will always be guided correctly if their will is directed towards spreading the extraordinary light. Earthly adversity, which the human being can avert through intimate union with God in prayer or by reading His divine word, is only permitted for the purpose of strengthening the human being’s faith, so that he always takes refuge in God and thus an intimate relationship is established between the human being and God. For only in this way can the human being become a bearer of light and thus a disseminator of the divine word. If the human being establishes this intimate connection of his own accord, he no longer needs earthly hardships and plagues, for he has become light within himself, he cannot help but spread the light everywhere, he feels the urge within himself to pass it on to his fellow human beings and to lead them to profound faith. And he now helps to dispel the darkness and will be blessed by God, he will be protected by Him and guided safely to the heights. Man is in great need of light, of wisdom from God, precisely because of his lightless state. God will therefore protect the bearers of light from spiritual and physical destruction. He will also not send such earthly events upon him which could hinder him in his soul’s work of spreading the teachings of light, i.e. which could prevent all spiritual work. God knows about every human being’s soul and He also knows about people’s spiritual hardship on earth, and He will do everything in His power to remedy the spiritual hardship in order to convey the pure truth. He will grant very special protection to those whom His will has chosen to become bearers of light and who have declared themselves willing to take on this task of their own accord for the benefit of their fellow human beings ….

Amen

Your life should be an activity of love, and no matter what you start, love should always be the driving force and you should always be in inner contact with God. And you are connected to God when you are active in love …. And you always and constantly have the opportunity to do so, you will always be able to give your help to fellow human beings in need, be it physically or spiritually. Every good word, every helpful deed is a labour of love if it comes from the heart, i.e. if it is done voluntarily in the urge to help. And God sees the will of your heart, He knows your disposition and also judges your deed of love accordingly. And thus you fulfil the greatest commandment to love God above all else and your neighbour as yourself …. For as soon as you do good to your fellow human beings, as soon as you stand by each other like brothers and serve each other, you also prove your love for God, for in your neighbour you also love the one Who created him; you love the father, from Whom you all emerged as His creatures. And you draw ever closer to your eternal outcome, you draw near to God, from Whom you once separated yourselves …. Through love you return again to the one Who is love in Himself, and thus you now also fulfil your task on earth by shaping yourselves according to God’s will, by shaping your heart through loving activity into a worthy reception of the divine spirit of love …. In order to grasp this, you must know that your soul should unite with the spirit within you, which, as a divine spiritual spark placed within you, awaits its awakening through loving activity …. Only when this spiritual spark within you has been awakened can it become effective, that is, it can instruct you from within, and if you remain in love you will draw the divine spirit to you, which will unite with the spiritual spark within you …. And thus your soul can contain the eternal deity, the divine spirit, in all its fullness if you endeavour to shape it according to God’s will …. by working on your soul, i.e. by fighting against evil thoughts and desires and striving for a righteous, pure and loving way of life …. This is all that God asks of you during your life on earth. And in order for you to be able to do so, He provides you with His grace without measure, His help, His strength …. but which you have to request in prayer, which you have to ask for so that it can come to you, for it will only flow to you through consciously desiring it, because you thereby express your will to God that you are longing for Him …. Then His love seizes you and He will never let you fall …. He teaches you through His spirit within you and introduces you to the truth ….

Amen

God’s greatness will only be revealed to man when his spirit is awakened, but even then it is still incomprehensible to him as nothing can be offered to him for comparison and man as such is incapable of unveiling this mystery. For God’s greatness cannot be measured by earthly standards, nor is it a changeable concept; God will remain the most perfect, most holy being for all eternity, as He has been since eternity …. And yet this perfect being will take care of the most insignificant creature, since it was created from His hand, through His will of love. And yet the eternal deity appears to people as a being Which acts within narrow limits because It holds the individual person responsible for what he does ….

(29.8.1942) God’s gift of grace, however, enables the human being to carry out what God demands of people. But what He demands of people is based on His eternal wisdom and love, and the human being cannot understand during his life on earth to what extent these demands correspond to God’s wisdom. This can only be explained to him in parables and images as long as the human being is receptive to it. And this receptivity is again dependent on whether and how man establishes a bond with God. Accordingly, man will also be able to penetrate the essence of the Godhead. God cannot be explained intellectually, and neither can He be comprehended intellectually …. But the more the intellect is active, the more unclear the concept of the eternal deity becomes to man, and he can also become completely confused, because the recognition of the eternal deity is not dependent on the sharpness of the intellect, but on the feeling of the heart. Thus, the person capable of love will form an emotional image of God that corresponds more closely to the truth than the image that the person forms of Him by virtue of his intellect. But the person capable of love will also be satisfied with the idea he has gained in the correct realization that, as long as he still walks on earth, the greatness of God can never become comprehensible to the human being, yet he will not find His reign and activity incomprehensible either, he will not apply the standard to earthly circumstances, to earthly effects and earthly events, he will not intellectually ponder and investigate but only blindly believe that everything God does and allows to happen is good and wise …. And through this faith he will penetrate deeper into the essence of the eternal deity than can be done by thinking about it, if the human heart is less deeply in love. God is love and can only be understood through love. God is spirit, and therefore only spiritual enlightenment can be given …. Consequently, that which is proclaimed through God’s love to the spirit of the one who seeks to shape himself into love must also be recognized as truth. The serious will to do the latter is absolutely necessary, for spiritual endeavour is not the intellectual desire to justify the supernatural, but working on oneself, educating oneself to love activity, gentleness, peacefulness, patience and mercy …. The latter is led into the truth and to recognize it, while the former only ponders and researches without coming to a completely satisfying result ….

Amen

General immorality accompanies the time of people’s unkindness and the fact that people no longer show any consideration towards their fellow human being’s feelings and thus no longer exert any kind of self-restraint is also a sign of spiritual deterioration. And a generation without manners and without meaningful morality is heading for disaster …. Admittedly, people find this incomprehensible, since they consider decency a mere human addition and that the times justify giving full expression to all instincts. And their points of view are encouraged by the completely wrong opinion that moral laws merely prevent people from enjoying life and therefore must be abolished. No nation will ever survive if it does not want to accept any laws as a guiding principle which give people moral stability so that they will live their life within the framework of a certain social order …. These are unwritten laws which people have nevertheless accepted until now, because they have all recognised both the necessity as well as the blessings of such laws and, for the sake of human order, have submitted to them without argument …. These laws are increasingly more forgotten or they are knowingly discarded by people because they prevent them from living up to their sensuality. This clearly shows a decline of spiritual development, for the more sensual a person is, the less he strives towards God; he desires the world, that is, everything that gives pleasure to the body, and for the sake of the body disposes of all consideration towards his fellow human beings. As a result, the human being falls prey to spiritual forces which had lived a life of uninhibited pleasure on earth, which indulged their cravings and thus had led a sinful life. These spiritual forces exert tremendous influence on these people and use them such that the human being pays less and less attention to the unwritten laws, that he unreservedly indulges himself in an easy way of life and that no limits exist for him than the fulfilment of his lust. This attitude towards worldly pleasures will never be conducive to spiritual development, for anything the body demands will always disadvantage the soul. Besides, spiritual aspiration will be laughed at and ridiculed, and this without all inhibition, because people will have lost all sense of decency and good manners …. Hence, the individual person’s point of view will not be respected either but will be deemed hostile and therefore be discarded, often in the most shameless fashion. For immorality and spiritual deterioration go hand in hand. People indeed speak about being enlightened and, yet, they are less enlightened than ever before …. They speak of spiritual advancement and, yet, they remain far behind, for they don’t understand it as the progress of the soul, instead, they only mean a wrong way of thinking, which they nevertheless find worth striving for. They try to construct a new morality for themselves which aids and abets an easy way of life and intend to portray it as ideal. And thus new laws will come into being and old laws will be revoked, and humanity will change accordingly and lose every guideline for a virtuous, God-pleasing life which is intended to improve the human being’s soul ….

Amen

A time of endless confusion has dawned, which is clearly recognizable spiritually and earthly. What people start earthly will bring little success and this will discourage people. However, spiritual endeavours will also be hindered and this will also endanger faith, i.e. those who are weak in faith will stop in their endeavours and likewise become discouraged. And yet this is permitted by God because precisely those who strive spiritually are facing a battle which requires full strength and they therefore have to become strong and this can only be achieved through temptations of all kinds. A strong faith will be demanded of people, the believers will be fought against with all means, and thus the strength of resistance must be great and the human being must be deeply rooted in faith in order to be able to stand firm. And therefore this time of turmoil can also be called a blessing, for it is meant to urge people to make a clear decision …. They are not yet in agreement about how they feel about God, they have not yet seriously considered these questions or left them unanswered because they do not recognize them as important. But now this very question will come to them so often that they will have to give it serious consideration. And the answer will depend entirely on how the coming time affects people. The concept of God can be clarified more easily for those who are severely affected by it, and they will then also join Him firmly and irrevocably. Equally, however, people can also want to deny a divine creator due to the severity of fate. But the human being is always prompted to reflect and the decision is therefore not a forced one but a free one insofar as the human being thinks for himself and makes his judgement, and he now gives an account of his actual relationship with God and can therefore be said to have made a free decision. This will be brought about by the coming time, which is therefore also necessary for humanity, which no longer respects its God ….

Amen

You go through a school of the spirit when the divine word is made accessible to you and you take it in and try to benefit from it, for then you will inevitably have to mature, you will have to increase in realization and it must become light and clear in you …. You will understand what was previously incomprehensible to you, you will realize God’s infinite love, which leans towards you and offers itself to you in the word. And no matter what wisdom you possess, nothing is equal to the word which reaches you directly, for it is the strength from God which flows to you directly and which therefore also has an extraordinary effect. And as soon as you believe that God Himself speaks to you, you also desire His word, and only then can you receive it, for God wants to be consciously desired in order to be able to express Himself; He wants to be recognized as a loving father Who always and constantly bestows His gift of grace upon His children; and He wants His children to also desire His expression of love, His word. For it is the most delicious thing He can offer you as long as you still dwell on earth. The divine word enables you to fulfil your earthly task, it makes you wise and educates you to love, it shows you the path to God, it helps your soul to ascend, for it helps you to shape your soul in accordance with God’s will. And that is why you cannot successfully cover the earthly path without the word of God, you need it for your spiritual development. God’s love, however, knows what you lack and it comes to meet you, offering everyone that which will help him to ascend. It descends to you itself; it shows itself quite obviously, so that your faith becomes a deeper and more intimate one, for you will use it in the time to come. You will hunger for His word and thirst for His grace, and you will be allowed to refresh yourselves at the spring from which the living water flows …. you will be allowed to draw incessantly, and you will be refreshed and strengthened if you take the divine drink; you will be satisfied by the word of God, by the bread of heaven, which is offered to all those who ardently desire it, who love God with all their heart and prove this love to Him through unselfish love for their neighbour …. God Himself draws near to them in the word, as He has promised ….

Amen

Which spiritual forces manifest themselves to people, if their activity is openly visible, must be seriously scrutinized by those who think righteously and want to walk in truth. There is a connection between heaven and earth, i.e. between this world and the beyond, which need never be interrupted if the human being is willing to maintain it. And indeed, the powers in the beyond always express themselves through those people who comply with their will, who are therefore of the same spirit so to speak. Thus the spiritual substance full of light will always express itself through noble, good people, whereas the dark forces will make use of people who are dark in their disposition, who are incapable of good movements, for they are also willing to serve the evil forces, thus they willingly carry out what they demand of them. But these evil forces will never be able to approach people whose nature is good, i.e. turned towards God …. There is no power which is so strong that it could displace the spiritual being full of light; but the beings of light are constantly at the side of the person who is turned towards God, and thus the dark powers have no access, which is why an evil being from the beyond could never express itself through a person who only strives for the good and whose way of life reveals good, noble impulses …. The gift of clairvoyance is a manifestation of spiritual forces from the beyond, i.e. the human being is given enlightenment by knowing spiritual beings about things which the human being cannot otherwise fathom because they are beyond his scrutiny or knowledge in terms of time or space. The human being who is able to see such things therefore has a power at his disposal which is not his own as a human being, and this power is supplied to him from the spiritual kingdom. The spiritual beings have this knowledge at their disposal as soon as it concerns things which still belong to earth, and they can therefore give information to men on earth because they are not hindered in time and space. So they can, since they are no longer physically hindered, turn to where these earth-bound beings, be they human beings or dead objects on earth, are and therefore mentally give information about them to the person questioning them. On the part of man only a refined receptivity of his senses is necessary to be able to receive these explanations, and he can switch on this intensified sensory activity at any time, therefore concentrate on receiving the mental whisperings from the spiritual world. The human being must therefore recognize spiritual forces for the first time, with which he can connect at will. However, as long as only purely earthly matters are to be clarified, which have nothing to do with the higher development of the soul, the clairvoyant person does not need to show a high level of spiritual maturity either, but merely recognizing spiritual forces and using them by willingly listening to their whisperings is enough. But then he is never certain that he will also be influenced by forces that are still imperfect, and that he will therefore also make mistakes. But the results will always be striven for out of earthly interests, but spiritual progress will never be brought about as a result. The latter depends on the degree of maturity of the one who can see hidden things. If he himself is deeply spiritual, then he will also be able to have a spiritual influence on the people who make use of his help. Then he himself will have a wealth of knowledge at his disposal and he will use this knowledge for the salvation of his fellow human being. For then he will also be supported by beings of light when he tries to fathom things that would otherwise remain hidden from people ….

Amen

How small man is, and how wise and powerful he thinks he is …. He believes he can reject divine gifts and wants to superimpose his own wisdom on them. And he does not consider that his intellectual thinking is also a gift from God, which he misuses if he does not use it in such a way that he learns to recognize God. God is the origin …. but he values himself too highly, he does not want to accept anything above himself, otherwise he would also have to value his wisdom less than he does. But he smiles loftily when he is offered knowledge that far exceeds his own …. he smiles because he believes himself to be knowledgeable and therefore also capable of passing judgement. And therefore he cannot increase in knowledge because he does not desire it …. And God therefore distributes wisdom to those who feel lowly and ignorant, who would like to increase their knowledge and who recognize a being above them Which knows everything, thus also about the spiritual poverty of His living creations, which He can remedy …. And blessed are those who feel poor in spirit, who do not call worldly knowledge their own, which makes them arrogant in spirit …. blessed are those who are hungry for the wisdom from above, who want to draw from the fountain that God Himself has opened …. this spring is accessible to every human being, yet mankind passes it by with disdain …. But the living water that flows from this spring is the most delicious thing available to man …. It provides him with a treasure that far surpasses all earthly goods. For wisdom from God is a gift of grace that a person will never want to do without once he has received it …. Wisdom from God has eternal value, wisdom from God makes man indescribably happy, and wisdom from God gives strength to strive for the heights …. Worldly knowledge, on the other hand, fades and is worthless, i.e. it is only useful for the time of the earthly change and also only brings earthly advantage. spiritual knowledge, however, is of little use for earthly life and yet the human being will not give it up once he has found it. And those who reject it thereby testify to their merely worldly attitude and their little desire for truth, otherwise they would have to recognize it as a precious gift and would also strive for it ….

Amen

Bring Me every sacrifice and I will reward you for your willingness to sacrifice …. You should not set your heart on what you possess on earth, but you should endeavour to free yourselves from any desire for it. You should free yourselves from everything that holds your senses captive, and the desire of your heart should be for Me alone, then a transformation will take place in you which you will find blissful, for I Myself will then take possession of your heart …. Your longing for Me will steadily increase and yet this longing will be blissful for you at the same time, for I will reciprocate by fulfilling it …. For as soon as you press towards Me, I take hold of you and draw you towards Me …. I love you, and you also experience My love as quiet, blissful contentment, as a feeling of secure security, as a feeling of awareness of strength and inner freedom. Love for Me makes you soft and devoted and yet also strong and free …. because I Myself unite with you, who have overcome every desire on earth and only desire Me alone. The longing of your heart shall belong to Me, I alone want to reign in it, and therefore you must surrender without hesitation what still entices you, i.e. what is still part of the world. You will truly exchange far more glorious things if you make sacrifices for My sake, for My love will compensate you for everything, My love will royally reward you for your sacrifice, for with My love I give Myself to you, and this for eternal times …. For once My love has taken possession of you, you remain inseparably united with Me, you have reached your goal on earth and I can bestow upon you the most precious gift …. you are allowed to hear My voice, you are allowed to talk to Me all the time and always expect My answer …. you are in intimate union with Me, and this is unspeakably happy and blissful, and you will never again desire earthly possessions, you will never again long for the time of earthly fulfilment, you will only strive for spiritual possessions, you will only desire Me and My word, and My love is your highest fulfilment …. Therefore try to detach yourselves from the goods of this world, give up everything that still belongs to the world, call upon Me for help if you are too weak, and give Me your heart as My own so that I can take abode in it and remain with you for all eternity ….

Amen

You hear the voice of the lord in various ways …. Thankfully accept everything that is offered to you and only pay attention to the spirit of love within you. For you will be given according to its strength. And therefore do not doubt if the different form of receiving gives you food for thought. For the degree of love in you determines this form, i.e., the expression of the divine spirit will appear the more obviously the deeper the human being is permeated by love. A weaker activity of love, however, can also result in divine spiritual activity, only in a less convincing way, so that it is not immediately recognized as spiritual activity, although the result, the mental activity, corresponds to the direct revelations which a person who is deeply imbued by love may receive …. The pure teaching of Christ will always underlie all revelations. Therefore, as soon as the directly received word and also the thought activity of the truth-seeking person corresponds with the pure teaching of Christ, it is also possible to speak of the working of the divine spirit …. For the directly received word can only ever be called the pure teaching of Christ from the heavens, and any change, i.e. any teaching that deviates from this pure word of God, can be regarded as a human addition and therefore rejected. The spirit of God will always guide people correctly, both in their thinking and in their actions and speech. He will also bring together people who are serious about the truth, who strive for what is right and want to serve God …. because their innermost attitude, which is expressed in dialogue with God, is decisive. These people will also be honoured by God’s revelations and they will be full of conviction to think rightly and to know the truth ….

(8.9.1942) The working of the spirit will therefore be recognizable wherever people seriously concern themselves with penetrating spiritual spheres …. where there is a serious will to fathom the truth and where God is consulted through prayer. For there the thought activity will always be under the control of knowing spiritual beings, thus those searching people will be prevented from thinking wrongly and the right thoughts, which correspond to the truth, will constantly be conveyed to them by these beings. For this is the working of the spirit in the human being, that thought activity is organized, that the human being has to think logically and clearly and therefore need not fear erroneous opinions. He will always be able to distinguish truth from error, and he will not need a human being to do so but will become knowledgeable through himself, so to speak, because he regards his thoughts as having been gained by himself. But it is always the strength of the spirit which permeates him, which impels the spiritual spark in him to express itself, thus to make itself known to the soul, so that the human being as such accepts the gifts of the spirit, thus he is instructed in the pure truth from within. But it is always a condition that man practices love, otherwise the spirit out of God cannot work in him. However, where a life of love is lived, the spiritual knowledge must also be the same, the thoughts and views must agree, and thus all their thoughts must be recognized and valued as the working of the spirit. And that is why people who are active in love and capable of love will always be of the same spirit, for God will always express Himself through such people, only His working is often not recognized for what it is …. as the outpouring of the Holy spirit …. For people no longer know what they should understand by this. They themselves are so far removed from love that God’s working in them has become impossible, and without this working of God in the human being they know nothing of the truth, even though they believe themselves to be in the knowledge. And they do not recognize what corresponds to the truth as such until they are likewise enlightened by the holy spirit, thus until God Himself works in them through His spirit. For God has indeed set limits for people who do not live in accordance with His will, but He does not withhold knowledge from those who fulfil all preconditions in order to be enlightened by His spirit ….

Amen

Divine love seeks to enlighten people and people don’t accept the light …. However, the human being has free will, therefore he cannot forcibly be guided into realisation; thus the grace of God flowing to a person is not used because his will resists it. Consequently, the will must come first …. God’s grace can only become effective if the human being is willing to let it take effect in him. The world is in spiritual darkness, for although God constantly wants to help people with His grace, they pay no attention to it and remain dark and unenlightened …. For this reason people must learn in different ways how little they are enlightened by God’s spirit …. They themselves must come across contradictions on the part of those they presume to possess truth and light …. They must see themselves confronted by questions the answers to which are beyond their knowledge, so that they will then take the path towards realisation of their own accord. For God’s love and care constantly guide His living creations such that they can find the truth if the will for it arises in them. The gifts of the spirit are truly the only guarantee for pure truth, and anything that does not concur with it can unhesitatingly be rejected as falsehood. Spiritual gifts must be interconnected; they must provide clear and understandable explanations about God’s activity and reign in the universe, in the earthly as well as in the spiritual realm …. But they must also be accepted as such, that is, their divine origin must be acknowledged if they are to effect a person as a manifestation of God’s strength. For the gifts of the spirit are gifts of grace, offered by God’s greater than great love to people to make the path of ascent easier for them …. But these gifts of grace can only be effective if the human being accepts them as such, if he does not offer resistance by rejecting them but faithfully allows their effect on him, and this requires his will. If, however, he offers resistance, that is, if he inwardly rejects them, the effect is out of the question, otherwise a person would by guided into light, i.e., into knowledge, against his will, which would curtail his freedom of will. Grace is an endowment, thus it is a gift the human being is not entitled to; nevertheless, God expects people to respect His gift of grace, he expects it to be appealed for and gratefully received if it is to take effect as grace …. Consequently, it is also right to say that God’s grace comes first; however, if the grace is ineffective people will not feel it as grace either ….

Amen

A gift which allows divine love to flow to earth cannot be effective in people who close themselves off from God’s love through an unloving way of life. They are indeed also offered the gift of grace, which is evident from the fact that everyone can hear the word of God even if he has neither desire nor understanding for it. However, whether it penetrates the heart, i.e. whether it is accepted with the heart at the same time as the intellect, again depends on how the person’s will adjusts to it. Therefore, the will also determines the fullness of the gift of grace, it also determines whether the word of God only resounds in the ear or speaks to the person’s heart …. For only the word speaking to the heart awakens to life, i.e. it stimulates activity in oneself, in one’s soul. Consequently, the divine word is a means by which man can mould his soul in such a way as is necessary to be able to unite with God. Every aid to higher development is therefore a grace …. But whether grace is utilized is up to the human being, and as long as the word of God does not bring about this transformation of the soul, the human being’s will remains inactive and he will also lack divine grace, even though it is fully at his disposal. There is also no other means for a person to receive the supply of grace than by fervently praying to God for grace …. This prayer is answered, for now the human being already testifies to his will to allow grace to take effect in himself. And God is always willing to grant the human being grace because He wants His living creations to return to Him again and without His help, His grace, the return to God cannot be accomplished. But God does not force the will, He leaves it completely up to the human being to make use of His grace. Yet only few make use of God’s gift of grace, only few people allow the word of God to speak to them, and only few people realize that this divine word contains the abundance of divine grace within itself …. that God, in His infinite love, only imparts the word to people because He wants to help them to easily cover the path of ascent. And that is why only a few make use of the gift of grace which is given to them unmeasured and allow His divine word to speak to their heart ….

Amen

What is propagated through the human mouth is irrelevant unless its origin can be established beyond doubt, that is, unless it can be proven to be the working of the divine spirit. This is often so difficult and therefore every teaching must also be seriously examined as to how far it can be accepted according to feeling, for the heart will instruct that person correctly who strictly adheres to the truth and therefore only wants to accept such. What appears acceptable to him after serious reflection can also be regarded as truth. However, he must criticize himself as to whether he really desires the pure truth. People often just do not want to part with old traditions, but they do not account to themselves whether and to what extent such a tradition is credible. They therefore accept without examination what they should first form a judgement on through reflection. This applies to doctrines of faith as well as to the way of life and extraordinary work of people …. Everything that has been spread about it is unconditionally considered to be true, and the result is that no opposing view will assert itself since all reflection about it is prevented. But God demands this of people, that they allow the desire for truth to become active insofar as that they themselves endeavour to separate error from truth. Only this desire also develops the ability to recognize what is right and reject what is wrong. Man has no excuse for not being able to do this, for this ability is only dependent on the desire for truth. But how can the truth be conveyed to them if they are not capable of logical reasoning but only firmly and rigidly believe what is handed down to them without scrutinizing the truthfulness of the latter …. Their erroneous opinion can be refuted in the most convincing way, they persist and become ever more deeply entangled in erroneous teachings, for they lack the will and pure truth cannot be conveyed to them against their will or they do not recognize it as such. And there the endeavours of those who strictly adhere to the truth are also unsuccessful, for where the will resists, God’s love can only have little effect ….

Amen

Everything in the universe is governed by God’s will, only on earth is the human being’s will apparently involved where it concerns events which only have an earthly effect, which are therefore merely subject to human will. An earthly activity is assigned to man during his earth life, and he must let his will become active for it, i.e., he must use the life power, which constantly flows towards him, and let the will become action. Everything that the human being now carries out must also have some kind of consequences …. man’s activity must be constructive or destructive, consequently the human will is decisive for the effect of any deed, as long as the divine will does not intervene to prevent this effect, if it harms the fellow human being, if it serves the salvation of the soul of man. Thus the human being can certainly strive for a certain effect of his actions and therefore his will is directed towards this effect; however, divine will is decisive as to which course an intended action takes. And thus every world event takes place in accordance with divine will, regardless of whether it is initiated or carried out by people. People have little understanding for the fact that their will is eliminated although it is the cause of every earthly event. And yet this is the best proof of the fact that no-one can say in advance exactly what the outcome of this or that event will be and that they often have to reckon with a completely different outcome than that which corresponds to their will. Thus God seemingly leaves people free will, but as soon as this is misused with God’s opposing intention, as soon as the human being’s will expresses itself destructively, His will is immediately recognizable, which only allows the destruction if it is beneficial for the salvation of the soul. For divine will controls everything, both the universe as well as the spiritual kingdom …. Divine will cannot be eliminated, even if it appears that the human being determines earthly events through his will. But as he uses his will he will have to answer for it one day. Whether he allows his will to become active in a constructive or destructive way is decisive for his spiritual development, although God opposes His will and prevents the effect of human will ….

Amen

Putting it to the test would provide people with the best proof of what they are capable of by virtue of their will, if it is directed exclusively towards the work of love …. The word of God gives people clear guidelines on how they should live so that Jesus’ promises to people can be fulfilled. And one of these promises is: “You will accomplish even greater things ….” But he also taught people what they should do and that they should live a life of love …. Man’s will must now become active, man must decide to serve in love, then the divine promise will be fulfilled in him that he is able to achieve extraordinary things …. And every human being can test this, he can as it were convince himself of the truth of what is presented to people as divine word. It would be so simple and convincing, and yet this test is not carried out because the human will is too weak …. Nevertheless, man rejects the divine word with a certain superiority …. He is free to provide himself with proof, but he does not do so because his weak will prevents him from leading a life of love. For the latter is absolutely necessary if the power from God is to manifest itself obviously through a person. An activity of love is necessary if the human being wants to become wise and therefore obeying the divine word is the first condition, for this word teaches love …. love for God and his neighbour …. But the person who leads a life of love also feels the power of God in himself. He is able to achieve extraordinary things and his spirit teaches him rightly. He becomes wise, and he also wants to pass this wisdom he has gained on to his fellow human being by imparting his knowledge to him or by drawing his fellow human being’s attention to the conditions for directly receiving the divine flow of strength. And thus he must propose to him to put it to the test, he must show him the path he has travelled himself so that it can also be travelled by his fellow human being. And if he then believes him and allows his will to become active, the power of the spirit will also begin to work in him. He penetrates into the deepest depths of wisdom, the divine power flows through him and makes him able to see with spiritual eyes and to hear with spiritual ears. He has now become convinced because he has believed and because his faith has caused him to live as God requires of people through His word …. It has become bright and clear in him, he has become knowledgeable, through his life of love he has proven to himself that the promises of Christ, the divine word, are inviolable, that they will be fulfilled in every person who follows His word and lives a life of love in accordance with God’s will ….

Amen

In carnal pleasure you humans see the fulfilment of your physical desires, and thus you indulge in earthly pleasure. But what helps the body to feel good is of little benefit to the soul, for the soul can only develop progressively if it does not give in to physical desire, that is, if it voluntarily renounces everything the body demands for its fulfilment …. Man should practice love …. and he must therefore always help his fellow human being in every need of body and soul. True love will always want to give and must therefore also be prepared to act in love when a fellow human being is in need. This attitude is also decisive for the maturing of the soul. To a certain extent, the degree of love is assessed by God when two people connect purely physically. A person can have an educating and ennobling effect on his fellow human being in every situation, and the will to do so is decisive as to whether a physical union is a blessing or cannot exist before God …. Divine love, mercy and patience exercises the greatest forbearance with people, and especially with those who present their weakness to God and appeal to Him for strength …. For as long as the human being belongs to earth, his earthly desires are also greater and therefore more difficult to overcome. Yet the more the human being struggles to suppress earthly desires, the more noticeably he gains the strength to resist earthly desires without violating the commandment to love his neighbour …. For love is the first condition …. The loving person will always keep only the good of the other person in mind and will therefore do everything that is asked of him, because love is always the giver and the loving person never thinks of himself. Giving love will always be pleasing to God and therefore the degree of willingness to give is decisive for the soul’s higher development ….

Amen

We must fight against error, for it has been brought into the world by those who want to suppress the truth. But the truth is God, and he who is in favour of God must also stand in the truth and abhor falsehood. A lie is everything that is directed against the truth; a lie is the work of the one who is furthest away from God and who also wants to distance people from God. The lie is the product of darkness, it shuns the light because it cannot exist where the truth, the brightest light from the heavens, shines. And that is why the lie must be fought, because the lie is deliberate error that cannot be abhorred enough. He who walks in truth will also recognize error and fight against it, for truth does not tolerate error walking alongside it. The prince of lies, however, uses all means to prevent the truth from breaking through. He cloaks the lie in such a form that it is difficult to recognize by those who do not exclusively seek the truth …. For to them the lie presents itself as truth. And man does not recognize it for what it is because he does not yet have a deep desire for truth. And so error breaks through and asserts itself until a truth fanatic declares war on it …. For the latter recognizes error as the work of the adversary and detests it …. And since he fights for God, he can also expect support from God, since God wants the truth to be spread in the world. For where there is untruth, there is darkness, and darkness is ignorance, and the darkness is to be displaced by the light; the knowledge of the pure truth is to be spread. All the error scattered by the adversary among men shall give way to the pure truth, and the truth shall lead to God, Who is truth in Himself …. And every person who serves God should stand up for the truth, he should have an enlightening effect, he should expose error and instruct people where alone the pure truth can be sought and found …. For only through the truth can man come to recognize, only through the truth can he come to the right faith, and only through the truth can the soul develop upwards. But where the lie dominates a person’s thinking, the person himself is also misguided, for the lie never points to God but rather distances the person ever more from the one to Whom he should return. And thus error prevents the human being from reaching his destiny, he can never reach the goal which is set for him on earth, for he will never strive for that which is the purpose and goal of earthly life since he lacks the knowledge of it. Where there is a lie, there the adversary has the upper hand and the soul is endangered. And this is why God trains His fighters so that they take up arms against the lie, so that they stand up for the truth and ruthlessly denounce error as a product of the adversary. For only in this way can the truth be spread by displacing the lie with the truth …. But he who stands in the truth should not be afraid to stand up against the lie, for it is his task to lead his fellow human beings out of the darkness of the spirit into the bright light …. And to stand in the light means to know the pure truth, because only the truth can lead people towards God ….

Amen

The most significant moment in life on earth is the moment when the spirit unites with the soul. For this moment is decisive for the whole of eternity. The fate of the soul is, as it were, decided, its eternal life is assured. A soul that begins to unite with its spirit has escaped the opponent of God, it has overcome matter, it therefore only strives for spiritual goods and seeks to form the connection with the spiritual spark within itself ever more intimately. The human being has now irrevocably decided in favour of God, and now the soul also remains His property, it remains eternally connected to Him. The unification of the spirit with the soul takes place when body and soul no longer have any common interests, when the soul kills the desire of the body and only gives in to the desire of the spirit within it …. when the soul therefore only strives for the spiritual goal, when the body also ceases its desire and allows the soul to pursue its spiritual goal unhindered. The unification of the soul with the spirit is therefore the beginning of spiritual higher development, because man fulfils his task by only paying tribute to the world, but placing the spiritual life in the foreground ….

Amen

The extent to which the world is still in error can be seen from the erroneous view that is widespread among mankind that a spiritual revolution can be brought about by means of a planned reorganization in the religious sphere. This view underlies the whole endeavour that intervenes in all existing schools of thought in order to suppress or dissolve them. And people do not consider that spiritual endeavours must be carried out without any compulsion if they are really to be felt deeply within. As soon as spiritual freedom is prevented, i.e. the human being is hindered in his endeavours or he is forced into a spiritual direction, there can be no question of the human being’s spiritual development, for this requires complete freedom of will. Consequently, spiritual development can never be achieved in a schematic way. The world, i.e. worldly-minded humanity, does not strive for a higher spiritual development of the soul either, but only seeks to eliminate what exists and wants to put something new in its place to equalize …. The new is supposed to surpass everything that has gone before, as it were, it is supposed to displace all teachings that have been offered to people up to now, and so the teaching of Christ is also supposed to be displaced and thus replaced by humanly compiled ideas …. by the knowledge of misguided people who now want to spread error amongst people again. Mankind has already distanced itself very far from the truth but it still clings to a certain extent to the old traditions which still contain truth …. But now even these are to be discarded, and what is offered to people as a substitute for them does not contain a shred of truth but are the ideas of earthly-minded people who lack all light and who walk the earth in spiritual darkness. They themselves live in error and now try to spread it …. And they find little resistance because humanity itself is in deepest darkness and therefore does not recognize what is truth and what is error. And it recognizes even less that such a spiritual upheaval can never take place, for people try to displace the word of God, but this is imperishable and will exist as long as the earth exists; Consequently, the battle against the teaching of Christ, which is nothing other than the word of God, is hopeless, for God will never allow a school of thought to gain the upper hand which opposes the divine teaching of love, and therefore people can make plans as they like, they will not achieve a satisfactory result because they take action against God and His word itself and therefore have to constantly lose, for God and His word are imperishable; but what people allow to come into being has no permanence and therefore has to disintegrate into itself ….

Amen

People have to realize how little they consider the shaping of their souls and how little they are therefore able to accept spiritual currents and let them have an effect on them. And the consequence of this is that their earthly life does not bring them any spiritual progress and that life after death is corresponding, i.e. that the soul, as an imperfect being, can neither feel God’s closeness nor His emanation of love and thus life in the beyond is joyless, which is tantamount to an agonizing state, because only God’s closeness triggers the feeling of happiness, which is the epitome of eternal bliss …. This deprivation is agonizing because it is synonymous with powerlessness and a life of powerlessness is a life of inactivity and cannot really be called life. And there is no other means to come to the contemplation of God and therefore also to the supply of strength from God than that the soul must make up in the beyond for what it neglected to do on earth …. to mould itself into love and thus into all the virtues it neglected on earth. Only a perfect soul can attain the vision of God, and therefore all faults and weaknesses must first be discarded, the soul must change, it must mould itself such that it becomes like God, because the vision of God requires union with God. On earth this work of reshaping the soul is an easy one because the human being can do anything he wants due to the constant flow of life energy towards him; and people do not use this for the transformation of their souls but only for earthly activity which is useless for the life in the beyond if it does not consist of loving activity. Only the activity, which is at the same time a serving in love, contributes to the reshaping of the soul, and this serving love activity is mostly only then carried out when the fellow human being is in need. But people no longer pay attention to the small needs of their fellow human being, and this causes God to send a general need over humanity in order to help, awaken or strengthen the impulse in them. For only active neighbourly love shapes the human soul in such a way that its state in the beyond is a happy one, that it is able to receive God’s radiance and can taste eternal bliss in the sight of God ….

Amen

The power of the spirit is constantly at work as long as the human being feels drawn to the eternal deity, i.e. as long as he has the desire to intimately connect with God and receive His grace. However, the power of the spirit is not always equally effective because the desire in the human being is also expressed to varying degrees. The strong desire to love God leaves no room for any other thought in the heart, and therefore the spirit from God can also fill the heart because it is granted unhindered access to it. However, as soon as the desire is weakened, i.e. the person also has worldly thoughts in their heart in addition to the desire for God, the work of the spirit is restricted …. it cannot work unhindered and is therefore not felt to be exceptionally effective. But its work remains until man pays more attention to the world than to God …. But once the spirit from God is effective, worldly desires will never prevail, for the human being no longer wants to miss the divine gift and repeatedly struggles to devote himself to God without restraint. spiritual food satisfies man far more than fulfilment through the world, and therefore anyone who has once received spiritual food will hunger for it, even if the world with its temptations repeatedly pushes its way forward and wants to make man weak. Contact with the spiritual world, which is established through heartfelt desire for God, is the source of deepest wisdom for man, and once he has drawn from it, nothing else will satisfy him completely, and therefore he will thirst for this water again and again, and as soon as he thirsts, he will also be fed from the fountain of eternal life …. God does not leave people in spiritual adversity who long for Him, yet at times He allows them to feel the adversity in order to increase their desire for Him so that the spirit can express itself more strongly again, for God knows the state of every individual person’s soul and thus He also recognizes the soul’s weakness and the decrease in spiritual hunger, and thus He allows the human being to go hungry at times in order to make him aware of his adversity if he disregards the heavenly father’s grace. And in such adversity the child flees to the father again and establishes an even closer bond with Him. And God’s strength and grace will flow to him again and there are no limits to the working of the spirit ….

Amen

Nothing outweighs the spiritual teachings on earth which are imparted to people from the kingdom of the beyond, for they alone guarantee purest truth, and only truth helps the human being to attain maturity of soul. If the soul is to be able to fulfil the task in the beyond one day, it must possess knowledge itself which it should then pass on to the ignorant souls on earth as well as in the beyond. It can only acquire this knowledge if it accepts the spiritual instructions offered to it by knowledgeable beings from the beyond. The giving beings know the truth and therefore instruct people truthfully. And therefore every gift is extremely valuable, thus it is to be regarded as spiritual wealth, the significance of which the soul can only realize when it has entered the kingdom of the beyond itself and now carries out its activity. For now it distributes what it possesses, thus it passes on the knowledge which was imparted to it and introduces the souls to the truth …. an activity that is a labour of love and unspeakably blissful for both the distributing and the receiving souls. However, the path to truth can only be travelled through loving activity, i.e. only activity in love brings in pure truth, because truth emanates from God, i.e. has its origin in God’s love. People who are devoid of all love will therefore also be far removed from the truth because the bearers of truth in the spiritual kingdom cannot find access to these people, for they can only communicate themselves to those who are able to receive the pure truth through loving activity ….

And now the beings express themselves according to the heart’s ability to love. Everything in the spiritual kingdom only endeavours to spread the truth, for the spiritual kingdom is a kingdom of light. But the earth and also the still earth-bound spheres in the beyond are places of darkness into which the light has to be carried, i.e., truth has to be spread because error and lies, thus unconscious and conscious untruth, have the upper hand. But the truth cannot be arbitrarily guided into these dark areas, but through a connection, which is established out of love for the neighbour with the spiritual kingdom, the word of God, which is pure truth in itself, must be made accessible to men, in order to now be able to be propagated through the mouth of man. And this is necessary because humanity walks completely in error but no longer recognizes the error …. Divine love looks for a human being to whom it can reveal itself, but this need not be anything extraordinary because every human being is originally destined to hear the divine voice audibly. However, only a few people make use of this favour. On the other hand, this is the only way to receive eternal wisdom. God as the word brings Himself close to people so that they can draw all wisdom from Him. And God is the truth …. Untruth could never be spread when God Himself speaks to people …. What is taken over by people can be permeated by error, but never what God Himself directs to earth, what arises without external help and only has the thought activity of a person who affirms God, is capable of love and desires truth as a reason. For that which has arisen through thought activity requires spiritual strength, and the nature of the spiritual strength merely depends on the human being himself as to whether he strives towards the eternal deity, whether he longs to ascend and establishes contact with the spiritual kingdom …. or, through worldly desire and unkindness, allows access to those forces which are still far removed from God. But God, as the eternal truth, resists those forces as soon as a person’s will is turned towards God and the truth ….

Amen

The worldly attitude harbours the greatest danger for the soul, for it is held back from spiritual striving, it is demanded to take the body into consideration …. thus the will, the thinking and feeling of man is only directed towards creating all comforts for the body. And consequently the soul is prevented from willing the spirit within it, the spiritual is therefore disregarded and the soul either stops in its higher development or it regresses if the physical desire predominates and the human being turns more and more towards the world. For the spiritual realm will never be compatible with the earthly realm …. Worldly fulfilment will never bring salvation to the soul, man can never walk above and below at the same time, he will always have to do one at the expense of the other. And people do not consider this …. All their endeavours are directed towards the comfort of the body, and the soul must live in want as soon as the body’s desire is fulfilled. But in what error do people walk when they believe that they fulfil their duties to God by following external ceremonies …. What God demands of people is a living faith in Himself and His word, which must also result in acting in accordance with the word of God. This word teaches the transience of everything earthly, and it gives knowledge of the meaning and purpose of life on earth and of the state of the soul after bodily death …. According to the word of God, life on earth must now be lived in order to shape the state of the soul after death into one full of light. And therefore everything that is earthly, i.e. transient, must be disregarded and only the imperishable soul must be considered as long as the human being remains on earth. However, the soul cannot develop progressively as long as it is prevented by physical desire from uniting with the spirit within itself. And the latter can only happen through working in love …. The neighbour must be considered more than one’s own body, the human being must put aside his own “I” and be absorbed in loving his fellow human beings …. However, he who thinks only of himself is still so earthbound that it is difficult for him to detach himself from the earth …. Selfish love is the greatest obstacle to ascent, for selfish love is the opposite of neighbourly love, and only neighbourly love is truly redeeming, only neighbourly love signifies spiritual progress for the soul, and only neighbourly love shapes the human being in accordance with God’s will. But every action that lacks neighbourly love is a purely formal act, something external that has no inner value and does not contribute in the slightest to the soul’s transformation. Only love redeems, and if a person does not practice love, his soul will be lost for eternity ….

Amen

Originally the beingness was full of light, it had emerged from God, it was perfect, i.e. powerful and mighty, because it was similar to God …. It was in the same will with God, i.e. its free will was turned towards God …. It was equal to God …. But because it was equal to God it also had to be able to create something equal, thus something being-like emerged from it again, beings came into being by virtue of the will of the being that had emerged completely from God, but by utilizing the strength flowing to this being-like from God. And the fact that the being drew the strength from God was the cause of the rebellion against God, for the being considered itself so powerful that it believed it could create the same out of itself …. that it therefore wanted to eliminate God as a source of strength …. This was arrogance on the one hand and an abuse of the will on the other, and both were directed against God. The fact that the beingness now opposed God could only result in a weakening, but never in the withdrawal of the power it received. The being now considered itself capable of being able to create out of its own strength …. And God let it create …. What was originally from Him could continue to use His power at its own discretion …. the power was not withdrawn from it, although the will of the creator turned against God. But now beings came into being with a will already turned against God, beings were created which signified a counter-current to (against) God and which therefore had to be regarded as children of satan …. i.e. as beings created by a will opposed to God using the power from God. Thus the once perfect beingness (being) fell away from God and was subject to a being which was once the bearer of light and which had now changed its light into darkness. For as soon as it separated itself from God, as soon as it opposed God, it was completely devoid of light. It therefore plunged from the highest height into the deepest depth, it turned from a God-like being into a being completely alien to God, which distanced itself further and further from God and was now active as a counter-power …. Countless beings emerged from this being, all of which were God-opposing ….

(22.9.1942) And thus the strength from God was misused, it was utilized in order to create something which was opposed to God, and this created being increased because the once perfect being’s power was unlimited, thus it was able to create without diminishing the strength it received. But the created beings were now products of the one who let his will become active, although the power from God made the emergence of these products possible in the first place. Consequently, the same will was in the created beings as the creator carried within him …. the will of the being was likewise God-opposing, because the creator had placed it into the created beings, for the beings he created corresponded entirely to his will and his image; thus they had become what they were, so to speak, involuntarily …. So they had to be given freedom of will by God before they could be called to account for their anti-God attitude. And they were now given the right of self-determination by virtue of which they could decide completely freely in favour of their creator, from Whose will, or in favour of the one from Whose strength they had emerged. This free decision only turned the being into a perfect being as soon as it turned to God …. Yet the creator’s will was already too firmly rooted in it, and thus the being decided in favour of the latter of its own free will, it thus made itself complicit in the rebellion against God, and now it also belonged to the fallen angels who now also had to atone for the open rebellion against God …. And so the will, which God had given to the beingness for free decision, was bound, so that now the beingness turns to God in a certain state of compulsion, to then receive free will again in a higher level, to consciously decide for or against God ….

(23.9.1942) In the last embodiment on earth this free decision for or against God is demanded of the being, because in this last embodiment as man it is equipped with all gifts, which make a free decision possible. It is now presented with knowledge about God as well as His adversary so that it can turn to anyone completely unconstrained, depending on its will …. God does not demand anything impossible from people, He only demands their will, which should turn to Him completely. But He has to demand this will because the beingness was once created out of a will opposed to God and because the power from God was used for it. If the will is now turned towards God then the being is a divine creature and can dwell eternally close to God …. But as long as the will still resists God, the being is the product of the opponent of God, for the will determines the degree of divinity or distance from God …. The will is the actual beingness, and therefore the will must strive towards God in order to let the beingness become the being of God. Thus the will in earthly life as a human being has to turn to God, the human being has to recognize the source of the strength which created him in God and strive towards this original source of strength, then the being will have freely chosen God and brought itself into a state which aligns itself with the essence of the eternal deity and thus also brings about an approach to God which is unspeakably blissful for the being …. It has consciously decided in favour of God, and this free decision makes it His creature, His child, which is invested with all the rights of a child …. The spiritual being, which once fell away from God, has found its way back to the father, from Whom it can no longer separate itself and thus remains united with Him for all eternity ….

Amen

The effect of a God-pleasing way of life can already be recognized on earth by the person’s inner contentment and spiritual maturity, which is expressed in profound spiritual knowledge. This knowledge is the privilege of the one who is righteous and lives in love, for his way of life corresponds to God’s will and therefore God will also bless his life. He will bestow His grace upon him in abundance, He will make him knowledgeable and give him the peace of mind which He has promised to people. As soon as a person fulfils God’s will or strives to fulfil it, he will be blessed by God and his state can always be called free and full of light, for then he will no longer need any means of education which oppress him and his heart will have become quiet in God. But then he will also accept every event from the hand of God with submission. He knows that everything is only authorized by God out of his immense love for humanity, and he neither complains nor grumbles. And this pious devotion earns him God’s full love again and He gives the human being what he needs for his higher development, for He recognizes his will to always do what is right …. And God only demands this will from the human being, for then He recognizes his attitude and his love for Him, and in accordance with this love God considers His living creations, for nothing remains hidden from Him ….

Amen

There is truly no greater task on earth than to be of service to God and to fulfil His mission, which consists of receiving His word and passing it on to fellow human beings. Anyone who has the word will also find the right path which leads to God, and therefore the word of God has to be brought to people so that they will find their way to Him …. And God’s will is that all people come to Him, and for this they need His word …. And that is why God trains His servants who receive His word from Him and are now also busily active in spreading this word. This is an activity that will always find God’s favour because it presupposes love for fellow human beings …. However, anyone who has the word must also be active in love, since loving activity alone makes a person receptive to the divine word. And again, the divine word must stimulate loving activity, for the human being cannot avoid passing on this precious gift because his heart itself feels it to be blissful and happiness always makes it communicable. However, the task of passing on spiritual possessions is also to a certain extent a responsible one, for only the truth should be spread and therefore the minister of God must also ensure that he only passes on pure truth. He is chosen to separate the truth from the lie and he will also be able to do so as soon as he himself loves the truth …. He will immediately recognize every error as error. But now he must also stand up for what he himself recognizes as truth, only then will he serve God, Whose will it is that humanity should be well instructed in the truth and thus walk in truth. God can never allow error to co-exist with truth, for error is not His work but that of the adversary. Consequently, everything that is untrue must be fought against, and this task is given to the human being who, by receiving the divine gift, has the clearest realization that he himself stands in the truth. Pure truth is such a precious commodity to him that he will never again be satisfied with teachings that do not correspond to the pure truth. Consequently, he will also not want to fob off his fellow human being with teachings which he cannot substantiate because he lives in love and recognizes the pure truth as such. He will always endeavour to have an enlightening effect and this endeavour will always result in God’s blessing. For He wants the truth to be spread on earth, because only through pure truth can the human being ascend. But the human being’s endeavour will also be supported by God. He will guide man as it is right. For if he wants to serve Him, he will place himself completely under His protection …. He consciously places his earthly life at the service of his fellow human beings. And where love for one’s neighbour is active it must inevitably be possible to achieve success, the human being must become knowledgeable himself and he will also constantly work with this knowledge by training himself as a teacher and trying to enlighten his fellow human beings with merciful love in order to help their souls to ascend ….

Amen

The fact that people are moving further and further away from God is largely due to the fact that they are no longer being instructed correctly, i.e. in the truth. For only the truth leads to God, but every error increases the distance from Him. And mankind is already too far entangled in error, and that is why the spiritual flattening has also progressed so far that it brings about such conditions to which people are now exposed. This spiritual flattening has a deeper reason than humanity realizes …. An unprecedented error has caused people to turn away from faith, to slacken in their spiritual endeavours because they did not want to and could not believe what they were asked to believe. The divine wisdoms are probably only comprehensible to those who have made themselves receptive to them through their way of life, yet every willing person feels a certain strength emanating from the divine word, even if he is not yet able to fully understand it. However, if the divine teaching is distorted, i.e., if people are offered something as God’s word, as truth, which no longer corresponds to the truth, then the person who thinks rightly in his heart will feel repelled by it and reject it …. or he will accept it and poison his entire thinking because what he is offered is untruth. And a teaching that is not of divine origin can never bring spiritual success …. it can certainly be followed, but this following cannot be called spiritual endeavour, for something is carried out more mechanically without establishing an intimate connection with God. And such a teaching results in distance from God rather than intimate union. However, if this teaching is very widespread, then a general spiritual flattening is also understandable, for the pure truth enlightens people and stimulates them to spiritual endeavour, whereas everything that deviates from the pure truth suppresses spiritual endeavour. words can certainly be used which echo the pure truth but they will never have the power which the divine word carries within itself, nor will they have the effect of …. the maturing of the soul and thus a light-filled, i.e. knowing state …. They will only remain words without power and effect, the souls will remain in a certain standstill until the pure truth displaces this erroneous teaching. Only then will humanity reduce its distance from God when it recognizes the pure truth and establishes the bond with God in order to receive divine wisdom …. Only then will it abandon the erroneous teaching because it feels the power of the divine word and can now also believe with conviction ….

Amen

Living faith makes nothing seem impossible, since everything can be founded in the love, wisdom and omnipotence of God. God’s love grasps everything, wisdom recognizes everything and omnipotence brings everything about …. and so there is nothing that is impossible for God to accomplish. And the knowledge of this is brought about by living faith, for anyone who can affirm the eternal deity deep in his heart has no other concept of this deity than that It is a loving, wise and omnipotent being, and thus he will also be able to believe that nothing is impossible for this being. And if this being now seizes a human child in His love then it also corresponds to His divine wisdom that He now works through this human being because He deems it necessary. And His working will always be something extraordinary which is not possible for the human being as such …. His working will be an expression of strength which reveals a powerful being …. However, where love, wisdom and omnipotence can be recognized, the eternal deity must also be recognized, but it can never be concluded that the working of evil beings is possible who neither know love nor can distribute wisdom nor have the power to work supernaturally. For the latter requires strength. But if evil beings had this power at their disposal without being able to be prevented by God, then truly no human being would stand in the truth anymore because it would be completely prevented by those beings. But God is omnipotent and His power is truly able to protect those people who faithfully entrust themselves to Him. If He did not do so, then either His power would be small or His love …. But if a person believes that God is love and that He possesses all power in heaven and on earth, then He can never grant His adversary the same power by leaving people defencelessly at the mercy of this power. God knows His own and He loves them because they adhere to Him, because they strive for Him …. And He works through them …. The power of the adversary, however, only extends to those people who deny God, who live a life of unkindness and are therefore extremely distant from God. And by this you humans will recognize whose power manifests itself when a person accomplishes extraordinary things …. whether his soul is turned towards God and he endeavours to live in accordance with divine commandments and whether he wants to help his fellow human beings …. These are His children, whom He loves and through whom His wisdom and omnipotence are revealed. And these stand in the truth because, where God Himself is at work, only the pure truth can be the result. And those who have a living faith will also recognize the truth as truth because it testifies to God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence ….

Amen

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

The gift of eloquence is given to all those who want to fight for God, if they are needed in the battle of faith. For they will go to war with the sword of their mouth against the enemies of faith, they will have to bear witness to the truth of the divine word, they will have to stand up for Jesus Christ as the son of God and saviour of the world and confess His name before the whole world. And therefore they will have to speak without shyness, for this will be their only weapon they are allowed to use, but they can constantly be assured of divine support, for God will not abandon His servants who declare themselves willing to fight for Him. And thus He will put the right words into their mouths and they will be able to speak, and every word will sound convincing and also convince all those who earnestly desire the truth. And they will be able to justify everything and therefore make it easy for people to believe if only they muster the will to do so. And they will defeat their opponents with words, they will be able to convincingly refute all objections and therefore also find followers who believe the words and then join the army of God’s fighters. And those who fight for God will always remain victorious, even if it initially seems as if the opponent is gaining the upper hand. For God first trains His fighters, and if they now speak according to His will, they are also called to fight for His name, for God Himself leads His fighters into battle, He makes use of them in order to speak through their mouths and lead people to faith.

Amen

Whoever has decided in favour of God also remains in His grace, because every adversity in life is grace, which should promote his ascent to the heights. Only through constant struggle can a person mature until his life has become one of uninterrupted service in love. Every resistance increases his willpower if he tries to overcome it …. it increases his urge to be active, without which life would be a decline, because activity alone is the epitome of life. Without resistance, however, the urge to be active would also slacken and earthly life would not lead to the success which is its ultimate purpose …. to the maturity of the soul, which can only mature through struggle and constant activity …. provided that the activity is a service in love and is not carried out in a destructive sense. But anyone who strives for God will never disregard the commandment to love his neighbour and thus also try to overcome every adversity in life without harming his neighbour …. thus his struggle for life will be carried out in compliance with the commandment to love one’s neighbour. And this is decisive as to whether all hardships and adversities of life, which God imposes on people out of grace, also work as grace, whether they are overcome as touchstones on the path of earthly life and therefore benefit the human being’s soul. For grace must also be recognized as grace. However, anyone who strives towards God will humbly accept everything imposed on him by God, and for him every suffering will only be a proof of God’s love, which should bring him maturity of soul ….

Amen

The will brings forth the deed. The will is therefore decisive although only the deed is the verification of the will. Without the will the deed cannot be carried out; but even without the deed the will has to be justified before God because it manifests the human being’s nature, the impulse for good or for evil. In order to implement the will the human being has to use the energy of life which flows through him, thus he can accomplish good as well as bad deeds, but to do so he always has to use the strength which God Himself has given him. Consequently, if he commits a bad deed he accomplishes it with the help of divine strength and thus does something for which he is accountable before God. He has, in fact, used his will to increase the strength of God’s adversary with the strength he receives from God because every bad deed is surrender to the evil power and therefore increases it. The human will turns away from God and towards the evil power with every deed which opposes God and bad intention.

If the human will is good, i.e. directed towards God, then he will always use the energy of life to benefit other people. He will be constantly occupied with helping others, i.e. he will allow his will to become a deed. If the deeds are the result of love, i.e. if love causes the human will to become active, then his will is turned towards God. Therefore the will has voluntarily chosen God and every deed resulting from this will is justified before God, and God evaluates this deed in accordance with the ‘will to love’ ….

Amen