Desire brightness of spirit so that it can be brought to you, so that the light from the heavens may shine for you in the darkness of earthly existence. And if the light now radiates to you, do not avoid it but consciously let it have an effect on you so that you feel its benefit and only desire this light more and more. And then you will regocnize everything around you and within you …. In amazement you see one veil fall around the other, creation reveals itself to you radiantly bright and clear, testifying to God’s wisdom and omnipotence, and you will know …. The majority of people still walk in the deepest darkness of spirit. They do nothing to improve this lightless state, they are content with an existence that deprives them of everything that signifies light and brightness. They do not desire to be flooded with light; they go along without recognizing God’s work around them, they walk dark paths that tell them nothing of God’s glorious works of love and omnipotence. They see nothing because there is no light shining for them to see the work of God. They know nothing of God’s love, they know nothing of the purpose of creation, they find no connection between all things which earthly life illustrates to them …. They only ever see the earthly purpose of all things, but not the spiritual one. And so they walk in the darkness of the spirit …. And that means a standstill of spiritual development and an unimaginable deficit when earthly life is over. You will never find the right path, you will not reach the goal because you do not regocnize the path in the darkness, and thus your path through earthly life will not result in success for the soul. Therefore you must not wait idly until a ray of light reaches you but you have to long for light and watch out for the slightest glimmer and follow it, and this glimmer of light will become stronger and stronger, it will soon illuminate a passable path for you and your spiritual adversity will then be remedied, for now you need never fear that you will go astray or that the light will become weaker. For those who once sent the light to you are watchful so that you will never lack it again. And you will look around you liberated and always regocnize God’s reign and activity wherever you walk. The divine bearers of light always remain around you, for in their love they want to impart the light to all beings which makes them so exceedingly happy, it only has to be desired and therefore willingly received. He who now promises you the light, it is His will that you draw from the divine source of grace which His love has opened for you …. For light is knowledge …. knowledge of divine truth …. And God Himself offers you this truth in unlimited abundance. Whoever therefore desires to stand in the light of the divine sun of grace will be imparted divine truth without measure, and the truth will be full of strength and power, divine love itself will express itself, and what is from God must also be strength and light in itself …. And thus all knowledge of divine truth means walking in radiant light. The path of the earthly child is brightly and clearly marked out if it has received divine truth within itself, it will be able to see and spread a radiant brightness around itself, and anyone who likewise wants to receive divine truth through the earthly child will be allowed to receive this light again. For what God sends to His own on earth is not limited, and therefore the human being can distribute it to his fellow human beings, the light will therefore not shine less brightly but spread immeasurable brightness if the light which comes from the heavens and is intended to lead people back to God is respected. light is synonymous with life, but darkness of spirit is indisputably the concept of the lifeless. And he who stands in the light will live; and this life will be the most marvellous thing granted to God’s creature …. An incomparable eternal life is promised to the child of God who has received the truth from God and thus has travelled the earthly path in the desire for light …. For God Himself was active in him, Who is the light, the truth and the love Himself ….

Amen

If the will of man subordinates itself to the divine will, then that transformation takes place in the soul of man which liberates the spirit. The transformation of thinking has now taken place, the will, which previously rebelled against the creator, has now become soft and submissive; the human being regocnizes the creator’s wisdom and love, and he knows that only God’s love ever determines every event, and thus he humbly submits to everything that comes upon him. And now the spirit is free, which was previously inhibited by the will striving against God …. A transformation of the whole person now takes place. To a certain extent, he now lives in a sphere that was previously alien to him …. The spirit within him gives him knowledge of his true home, and now that the human being’s will is no longer an obstacle, he is also able to visualize this home, for he allows himself to be guided by the spirit that announces itself to him. The weak-willed human being can also be easily guided, both by good and bad power, but the weakness of the will does not contribute to the complete liberation of the spirit …. For the weakness of will is always utilized by the opposing power and strengthened in a God-resisting sense. The human being must submit his will to the divine will with full awareness …. This also requires a certain strength of will which turns towards God …. while the weakness of will makes the human being fickle but does not always decide in favour of God. Submitting one’s own will to God will always involve a certain struggle, for man is far more likely to demand that which is opposed to the divine will. Thus, if he wants to serve God, fulfil His will and unconditionally submit himself to the divine will, he must be in constant battle with his desires, with himself and everything that appears beneficial to the body. Yet this constant battle with himself also leads him closer to victory …. Once he has succeeded in completely conquering his will and recognizing only the divine will, divine love gives him far more precious things than he has given up. He slowly slips from this earth into the spheres of the spiritual …. He regocnizes more and more the worthlessness of everything he has given up and the precious treasure he has now unearthed …. God Himself offers him something that cannot be acquired earthly in any other way. He imparts to him divine truth, profound knowledge and the highest power of realization. And so the human being begins a second life, as it were, which differs considerably from the previous one, earthly life recedes into the background and the love, wisdom and omnipotence of God is revealed before the human being’s spiritual eye …. Man gains insight into divine activity and the meaning and purpose of creation becomes apparent to him. For when man has sacrificed his will, he has fulfilled the actual purpose of life. He has regocnized his origin from God and now no longer resists Him but turns to Him with full awareness and free will …. He has given up his resistance, which for millennia had caused the being to flee from God, and now seeks to achieve the final union with Him …. And thus the subordination of one’s own will to the divine will is absolutely necessary for the soul’s final redemption ….

Amen

In infinity the spirit often awakens and becomes extremely active if it is joined by spiritual beings from that world, for the combination of spiritual power also increases the urge to be active. Unimaginable powers are also active in unimaginable worlds …. it is like a huge, immeasurable workshop of industrious workers who fulfil their assigned task in the will of the eternal creator. When the spirit of man now rises to those heights, he also joins the activity of all spiritual beings, he joins the chain of countless spiritual creators. The sojourn on earth only exists purely physically, while the spirit is unbound and can dwell wherever it pleases. The more sensitive it is now, i.e. the easier it can create the separation from earth, the more intensely it is touched by the spiritual current to which it turns. It is difficult for an earthly person to achieve a state of complete detachment if spiritual strength does not help him and thus imposes itself on him in such a way that he is only allowed to accept what is offered to him, provided that the will to accept is strong. This is therefore a kind of spiritual activity that gifts of knowledge are imparted from spirit to spirit. This is particularly necessary where such knowledge is only scarcely available, but since it is absolutely required by a being for spiritual maturity …. And this is particularly significant in the vicinity of earth, for earthly people who are in the higher development of the soul lack the knowledge of divine truth to a great extent, so that therefore all perfect spiritual beings look after people and constantly endeavour to increase their knowledge. spiritually active people, i.e., those who cultivate their inner life and place it before the earthly life of the body, will therefore often mentally soar to those heights and want to receive the knowledge offered to them by their carers. And precisely this constant instruction of people in need of knowledge is spiritual activity. spirit to spirit tries to find and communicate with each other, and as far as spiritual has merged into common work the power of penetration is stronger, and it now also becomes understandable that the perfect beings can never remain in inactivity as long as they find objects to which their activity applies …. and that this will always be as long as the world exists. This fusion of spiritual strength through the will of the giver as well as the receiver must therefore produce results which are again only of a pure spiritual nature but remain imperishable and therefore increase the knowledge, the spiritual in itself. For knowledge is spiritual strength which can therefore be passed on …. knowledge is light, which again casts its rays in all directions …. in other words, the activity of the spirit has a light-bringing effect again. And thus it will be understandable that only the knowledge of divine truth is valuable in earthly life …. For this alone is of lasting value insofar as that it is also in the life beyond again that which alone is to be desired and thus passed on …. The flight into infinity will bring the same to every being which desires truth, precisely that divine truth which every perfect being carries within itself and thus gives as light and strength to the one who desires it. And this is why the activity of all spiritual beings is of extraordinary importance, for without it the spirit in the human being would not be able to draw from the source of truth …. for everything that is perfect is divine, and thus God Himself opens the source so that anyone desiring food and drink can enjoy it ….

Amen

The endeavour of the friends on the other side to keep foreign whisperings away from you is in vain if your will does not resist them at the same time. He who keeps the knowledge of supernatural things hidden from you as long as you humans do not yet have the maturity of soul will certainly regocnize the time when you may be offered such things. And therefore the human being is only then capable of judgement when his spirit unites with the instructing beings in the beyond. Unimaginable concepts make the human being’s mind ponder, and the desire for clarification will fill you, yet the human being’s spiritual state precludes a sufficient explanation unless spiritual vision introduces the human being to that kingdom …. You must drop all doubts if the lord reveals Himself to you …. but also exercise all caution towards explanations of incomplete spiritual beings. And you can examine this and thus leave yourselves to the judgement trustingly; if what is offered seems invigorating and joyful to you then you know that the lord Himself has sent it to you. But inner dissatisfaction, the feeling of uncertainty, a silent defence or denial of what is offered is always a silent warning from those who only want to convey the purest truth to you and watch over all your thoughts so that they are not misguided. And thus you must always separate the pure truth from that which was certainly received with the best of intentions but offered uncontrollably from the kingdom of the beyond. You must not believe that the beyond reveals itself to people in whom the desire for enlightenment is only focussed on the fate of the departed. To serve the lord in love does not mean to reveal the reward and the horrors of the afterlife and thus, through such descriptions, to determine the human being to the right way of life on earth. If the human being lives in love, his spirit itself will proclaim God’s will to him, yet God will not allow anyone who never feels the urge for truth in himself to unlawfully gain insight into the afterlife …. Thus the spirit of the God-truly-seeking person will adopt everything that God Himself wants him to regocnize as truth, and it will therefore be irrelevant and without value what only triggers the slightest rejection in a person …. Remaining in silent reverence towards the divine word and listening to the inner voice guarantees purest truth …. But what is offered to you from another side, do not place in the circle of your contemplations, so that it does not cloud the clear view and hinder the presentation of the pure truth ….

Amen

The regulated exchange of thoughts from spirit to spirit is a continuous teaching of man, whose knowledge still shows gaps and who one day is to be enabled to likewise appear teaching in earthly circles. The world beyond is still unexplored by people because only a few have been able to impart the purest truth. Man has indeed always endeavoured to lift the veil which is spread over it by God’s wisdom and to fathom things which were of interest to him, however, these efforts are rarely based on the pure desire for truth, the urge to know about divine activity, it was rather a certain earthly thirst for knowledge which drove such research and therefore the results were not always free of error. For the human being, whose thirst for knowledge is based on earthly impulses, very easily runs the risk of being used by the opposing side to spread errors; for everything that is dear to the human being to hear is put into his mind by the opposing forces. Thus the conclusions or results will always correspond to what the human being has imagined …. and these ideas in turn correspond more or less to the truth, depending on whether the desire for truth about spiritual things is predominant or only minimally present in the human being. If, however, a constant communication with spiritual power is initiated …. if a person has succeeded in awakening the divine spirit within himself through his way of life so that it now instructs the person, then this awakening of God’s spirit in the person already presupposes the deepest desire for truth, and the invocation of good spiritual strength, the prayer for God’s blessing and grace, protects the now receiving earthly child from every error, and thus the results of such regular instruction correspond to the truth, and these can now be confidently built upon and every train of thought can take its starting point in them. It is true that the human being is very easily in danger of stumbling, i.e, to take account of his wishes, and these wishes can also take on an earthly colour at times, but then the spirit of God in the human being will not express itself or will do so with great difficulty and thereby immediately lead the receiving earthly child back onto the right path, but the spirit from God can never consciously lose itself in error, and a person who is concerned with serving the lord God will never give up his desire for truth for reasons of self-love and give himself over to accepting untruths and writing them down …. For a person who is given such a task is well aware of it; his endeavours are only for the spiritual benefit of his fellow human beings, and thus the spirit of God in man refuses to bring error into the world. Thus a pure spiritual connection from earth to the beyond will be the safest protection against misguided teachings, for the one in this connection seeks the truth and the giver is likewise the bearer of truth, since the seeker of truth only ever attracts such as spiritual teachers. Consequently, nothing untrue finds entry into this circle, for the desire for truth itself creates the boundaries that an untrue being cannot cross. Therefore, as long as the endeavour of the person being taught is only to serve God and the truth, as long as the human being only strives to receive divine grace and thereby mature in body and soul, as long as no success whatsoever causes him to utilize his received gifts earthly, but only the motive of love for God and his neighbour determines him to establish this connection with the beyond, then the giver of what the human being receives will also be God Himself and every result will therefore be purest truth ….

Amen

A heavenly friend is staying close to you and tries to communicate with you mentally. All gifts of the spirit have to be offered in love and also received in love, and he now endeavours to establish a very intimate contact so that he can communicate with you uninhibitedly. He has been assigned to you by the father as your companion for the days on earth and therefore always and constantly looks after you. You owe it to His care that your will turned to this task, and now He tirelessly tries to make you accept that which your heart has not yet completely absorbed. Although you have the will, you still lack the understanding for one of the most important teachings of faith which has only touched you vaguely so far but which must be regocnized in depth. The lord is now sending you news through your intimately connected teacher on the other side ….

Lightless is the state of a being that is unredeemed …. for redemption is liberation from darkness …. redemption is liberation of the spirit from bondage, and redemption is spiritual rebirth. Redemption is the state of the free versus the state of the bound. All guilt on earth presses man down to a burdened being, every sin binds man more and more to the earth, to the bound …. Jesus Christ, however, redeemed mankind from the guilt of sin, i.e. He lifted the banished state of mankind, He took this banishment upon Himself, as it were, and gave Himself as a sacrifice of atonement for it through His death on the cross. The work of redemption is therefore the greatest work of mercy. It was thereby made possible for man to leave the banished state through his will; it was left up to him to free himself from it or to live eternally under the pressure of the burden of sin. His will alone was sufficient to redeem himself from all bondage and to be able to enter spheres of light, whereas previously the human being was powerless and had to carry the immeasurable guilt that weighed on him until the divine saviour also took pity on these souls and through His death also gave them freedom. Christian doctrine, however, demands a full admission of one’s own guilt before the grace of the work of redemption can redeem this guilt. Man must first have regocnized his sinfulness, he must know about his desolate state in order to be able to appreciate the divine mercy that now declares itself ready to redeem this guilt of sin …. In the realization of his guilt of sin the human being must ask for the graces of the work of redemption and thus consciously place himself in the circle of those for whom the lord died on the cross …. His soul must want to be free and ask the heavenly saviour to have taken care of it …. Furthermore, recognizing its guilt, it must renounce all evil and strive to lead a life pleasing to God. It must ask for mercy and thus consciously avail itself of the lord’s work of redemption ….

Amen

The demands that God now makes of man are the same today as they were at the time of Jesus’ walk on earth. The lord gave His blood for all sinners, and so He also took upon Himself the guilt of sin of all. Every person was entitled to the graces of the work of redemption if he regocnized it as such. And the lord still demands the same today. The divinity of Jesus and the infinite love of God for mankind must be regocnized, that He has redeemed all their sins with His blood. The gift of God, the redemption of the guilt of sin, was an undeserved gift that only the immense love of God offered mankind. But this gift can never again be given to a person who consciously rejects it. Man must regocnize his unworthiness, he must be aware of how low he has sunk through his sin and how far he has distanced himself from the eternal Godhead …. recognizing his unworthiness, he must implore the father in heaven for mercy, confess his unworthiness to Him and, for the sake of the work of redemption, for the sake of Jesus’ immense love, ask for deliverance from his guilt of sin in the deepest faith in Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer. If man now presents all his sins to Him, if he becomes small and lowly before the merciful love of God, if he now begs for mercy in the deepest humility and places himself and his guilt of sin before the eternal judge for judgement, the lord will grant mercy for justice …. For the sake of His son, He will cancel all guilt and, full of mercy, incline Himself to this child who has consciously asked for the grace of the work of redemption and decided to follow Jesus …. For whoever desires to be redeemed for the sake of Jesus will also endeavour to shape his way of life according to the will of the lord. He will take the divine saviour as his model, he will strive to follow Him, and the work of redemption will not only be an act of one-time forgiveness of sins for him, but the occasion for a completely new life …. All guilt will be removed from him and with it the power of the adversary will be broken to ever exert great influence on such a person who consciously gave himself to the lord and saviour by entering the circle of those for whom the lord laid down His life ….

Amen

Practicing the purest, most unselfish charity is unspeakably valuable for the soul’s development. This activity on earth already brings it a high degree of maturity, and at death the soul regocnizes the blessed path it has travelled. A person should always be willing to serve and give …. He should always put the welfare of his fellow human beings before his own welfare; his innermost instinct should prompt him to do all works that serve the welfare of his fellow human beings. He should think of his body and soul, help him in earthly need and seek above all to remedy his spiritual need. Practicing love in earthly life is the noblest task of man and the true following of Jesus. For it includes everything that God requires of him …. The person who practices love will become gentle and patient, he will also be peace-loving and merciful, for if he loves his fellow human beings, all these virtues are inherent in him, for love is divine and therefore also ennobles the nature of man. If a person considers the poor state of soul of an erring person, he will take pity on him and let his active help become active …. he will give what the other person lacks and introduce him to the truth, for his power of cognition will always allow him to find the right thing to do in order to successfully overcome the misery of such an ignorant soul. Taking care of the fellow human being’s soul’s salvation is the greatest work of mercy, for it spares him the unspeakable suffering which awaits an imperfect soul in the beyond. And patience and love must always prevail, for this work is arduous and therefore requires the greatest love and patience if success is to be achieved. The path to the heights can only be travelled through love; love can never be eliminated, for God is love …. Seeking God without love will be without success, for eternal love can only be found through active neighbourly love …. Yet precisely love is so little respected and people’s state of soul is therefore so low that these souls will inevitably suffer greatest hardship. And if the soul is to be spared this hardship in the beyond, then the human being must still be afflicted on earth so that love will unfold in him, so that one person will endeavour to make the earthly misery bearable for the other and thereby reduce the hardship of the soul. For the soul needs other means than the body for its well-being. Only the works of love benefit the soul; everything that the body denies itself in favour of the fellow human being will help it to rise. And therefore people should always endeavour to suppress their self-love and allow everything that seems desirable to them to go to their fellow human being. And thus, if a person strives for the maturity of his soul, he should also not neglect to help his fellow human being to mature his soul by willingly and joyfully giving him his knowledge of the truth …. by instructing him about God, His infinite love and mercy and about man’s actual task on earth. And if he has succeeded in rescuing a soul from the darkness, he has been truly selflessly active in neighbourly love, and this earns him the most glorious reward, for the spiritual hardship among humanity is far greater than the physical tribulations. And therefore practice love so that you have a redeeming effect on earth ….

Amen

Enormous obstacles are placed in front of the soul if the human being has an aversion to spiritual food. He piles up the bulwark higher and higher, which he is supposed to remove, and this manifests itself in ever greater worldliness, in keen interest in all earthly things, while the soul is only poorly thought of. Such people spend by far the greater part of their life in inactivity of spirit, for they spend all their thinking only on what is tangible to them and cling to it with extreme tenacity, not realizing that everything comes to an end with their departure from this world. They call concern for their soul’s salvation useless and fruitless, or they cling to sham faith and sham worship and are convinced of their infallibility so that they believe they need no instruction. And what could be offered to them for their souls they let pass by unnoticed …. This depresses the soul and it anaesthetizes itself with self-chosen pleasures to which no spiritual value can be attributed. And so the hour of death will come and with it the realization that it has rejected the greatest grace the lord has bestowed on people. This realization is extremely bitter, for the event can never be reversed and thus the soul cannot be given a degree of maturity afterwards either if the time on earth was not used as far as possible. The lord leads every human being into the proximity of divine activity, the human being himself is always the decisive factor as to whether he utilizes this opportunity and thus matures spiritually or takes no notice of it at all and thus remains spiritually on the same level. And if people would consider this, that they enter the beyond unprepared as it were, and then think of the many days which could have brought them spiritual progress if only they had been willing, then they would now have to muster all willpower to make use of all opportunities. For it is difficult to make up for what the human being failed to do on earth, even though the soul will still be given opportunities to ascend in the beyond. However, it is never possible to achieve the perfection in a short time that earthly life can bring to a willing person. Only he who strives continuously, i.e. who first considers his soul before he does something to his body, will be able to reach a very high level already on earth, which requires an unimaginably long time in the beyond. For earthly life is a blessing for the human being, it has been granted to him for the soul’s complete redemption, yet it is not always utilized such that the human being can enter the kingdom of light, which promises unimaginable delights, immediately after his passing away. What the human being did not want to hear on earth he will have to accept in the beyond if he does not want to remain inactive on the lowest level as an unfinished spirit and be dependent on the mercy of the beings of light or the prayers of people still on earth …. And this is the fate of those who reject what is offered to them from above and make no effort whatsoever to improve the state of their soul, for they are faced with an almost insurmountable task when realization finally comes to them ….

Amen

Imagining Jesus’ death on the cross with all inwardness is so infinitely blessed for the soul that strives for the heights. It was the moment of greatest physical weakness and spiritual strength. Jesus saw His end coming and His spirit was already with the father, but the greatest pain still forced the body to earth and the soul suffered torment in excess because of the darkness of those who were responsible for His death. The suffering of the dying man on the cross was unspeakable, and only a deeply feeling soul can even begin to imagine the humiliations that increased His soul’s suffering. He heard the most bitter reproaches from the depths of hell, His body was ostracized …. the whole world was dark and lightless, and the greatness of the guilt of sin lay as a tremendous burden on His shoulders …. He bore this burden and sent up the words: “Father, forgive them ….” His soul was love, the most ardent, self-sacrificing love for all these people who were to blame for His unspeakable suffering. He drank the cup to the brim, His body grew weaker, until at last His soul parted and soared up to the father …. Jesus’ death on the cross is of such incomprehensible significance for people, and yet this greatest work of love and mercy receives so little attention …. Only the person who is in love is able to measure the greatness of it, but for people without love Jesus’ death is meaningless, because they lack any feeling for the sacrifice Jesus Christ made in immense love. For the divinity of Jesus …. the fullness of God’s spirit in Him, withdrew from Him at the hour of death and the man Jesus accomplished this deed to redeem people from all guilt of sin. Consequently, the human being suffered, the hour of death was tasted by him without any relief, the body and the soul suffered unimaginable pain …. for only in this way could the work of redemption be accomplished so that humanity’s suffering would diminish …. only in this way could all guilt of sin be cancelled, so that excessive love bore the suffering that this guilt of sin inevitably entailed. The world no longer has any understanding for this greatest work of love of a human being, it passes it by carelessly, indeed it seeks to devalue it by attaching no more importance to it than to the act of an idealist whose motives were only later justified in the way that christian doctrine does today. But it is precisely the redemption of man that is called into question, the idea of redemption is rejected and thus Jesus Christ is only regocnized as a world-historical person, but a spiritual connection with the whole of humanity is denied after His death. And this completely wrong thinking of people has made it necessary for the lord to take pity on people again, to convey the pure truth to them so that faith in the redemption through Jesus Christ will not be lost among people but will come alive in them again ….

Amen

The spirit of man sinks into immense depths, whose distance from God becomes so evident. He has taken earthly existence upon himself in order to conclude an endless change through the form and is regressive, for he lacks the will to find and regocnize God. And his will will always deny everything that allows God to be regocnized and affirmed. Thus his walk on earth is only a transition to a new form of the banished state, to lifelessness in the beyond, which is likewise used by all forces wanting to serve God to reshape his thinking in order to prevent the unspeakably agonizing walk through all matter …. the renewed path of education …. and to lead the soul to its right destiny. However, this endeavour will be far more difficult in the afterlife, as the lightless state entails a hardening of one’s own will and any attempt can fail because of this will. Only a person’s prayer on earth can save him from the final downfall, as he will noticeably realize this and it can be the first and only reason to change his mind. On earth a power dwells in his soul, as it were, which forces him to rebel against everything divine and which has its origin in the kingdom of darkness. It strengthens him in the feeling of his own arrogance, it always lets his thoughts take that direction which again leads to God-rejecting results; it takes him so captive that all counter-force remains ineffective because the own will resists this power and submits to this power. Thus, the objection as to why God created man in this particular way and not otherwise …. Man has the right to determine himself and his thinking, and everyone is offered the opportunity to switch to a different way of thinking. However, one’s own will must be active …. However, if this is stronger and therefore not prepared to subject the previous thinking to an examination, then every endeavour of good spiritual strength is unsuccessful. Such a person’s concept of God is, as it were, completely eliminated from his thinking, for he is not comfortable recognizing a power to which he would have to submit himself. In his imagination, creation is the result of a power that also arbitrarily brought man into being as the product of ever-constant natural forces, but does not grant these living beings any deeper purpose. He therefore sees the time on earth as being, so to speak, without a plan, without any purpose in the worldly sense, but dependent on the intelligence of every human being, i.e. to be mastered arbitrarily according to ability. And this is why such a person’s every endeavour will only be for worldly improvements; he tries to promote a certain kind of well-being and calls this an activity of love, yet this love only applies to bodily needs and is always guided by the motive of increasing his own well-being. For everything that makes the course through earthly life more bearable only appears valuable to him, and again he believes that man himself can bring about the improvement of earthly existence through the right attitude towards it. However, the extent to which the wrong spiritual attitude is the reason for a more difficult earthly life is beyond his knowledge, i.e., he does not want to understand it, since this concession would also require a different way of life from him, which again does not correspond to his desire for the world and his thinking. And such people remain far behind in their spiritual development, for all trials, all suffering and all other help sent to them will not result in a change of wrong thinking as long as the urge for truth does not become powerful in him and the transience of everything earthly becomes conscious to him …. Only then would it be possible for the will to become more compliant and less hostile. This is why fighting and praying for such souls should not cease, for as long as the human being dwells on earth he can be granted help and it can be received and utilized, whereas in the beyond he lacks all strength to do so and only the human being’s prayer can provide him with relief if his will does not demand upwards ….

Amen

Choose between matter and spirit …. decide in favour of the state of the banished or the state of freedom …. If you are in realization, this decision will not be difficult for you and therefore seek to first attain the right realization …. And if you have the will to do so, the eternal deity will certainly not withhold the right realization from you. For you should only want your thoughts to be right, you should only ever strive for what is true and righteous, then you will also regocnize it and thus also very well be able to make your choice between matter and the spirit. Everything material pulls you down, for matter is part of evil, matter is everything that is distant from God …. while the spirit soars upwards because it is of God. So when you seek spiritual things, you are removed from all earthly heaviness, you approach your actual destiny. Matter and spirit are therefore the opposite of each other …. one must be defeated by the other, and that means redemption, i.e. life …. or damnation, i.e. death. If the spirit triumphs over matter, then it has completely redeemed itself from all bondage and is free …. But if matter is victorious, then the spiritual is banished for eternity, it is in the power of the adversary, who wants to prevent redemption from matter and only ever strives for the increase of matter. And thus both can never be satisfied at the same time …. the spirit cannot liberate itself and at the same time pay homage to matter, for the life of the one always means the death of the other. And therefore it is completely impossible for a person to develop into spiritual maturity who still strives for earthly possessions, for the desire for that which as matter harbours all immature spiritual substances cannot possibly be fulfilled and at the same time the spiritual substance in the human being can reach maturity, for this spiritual substance can only unfold once the fetters have been broken. And bondage is all matter, i.e. everything that harbours undeveloped spirituality. Matter is therefore the shell that must first be broken so that the core can become free. He who does not sacrifice the shell cannot reach the inner fruit, and thus the spirit’s covering must also be burst first, i.e. all earthly desire must be sacrificed so that the spirit can now undertake the flight upwards unhindered. And this is the most difficult decision for man …. to consciously give up the one in order to be able to receive the other. The separation from matter is often so difficult for man that he keeps the spirit mercilessly bound within himself. He only sees the apparent value of material things and gives up infinitely precious things in return …. He does not know the advantage of spiritual awakening, he does not know about the spiritual success of a soul that despises the world and its goods …. and therefore does not strive for it. But if his longing for truth has also brought him the right realization, his striving will now only be for the increase of spiritual good, for he will now learn to despise matter and eagerly seek to ascend, for nothing on earth holds him back anymore, his spirit soars upwards, and the thus liberated spirit will also succeed in completely separating itself from everything that hindered it from ascending. The human being has decided of his own free will …. matter means nothing to him, so he has completely overcome it, the spirit is liberated and can enter the spheres of light ….

Amen

People often reject a wise and just creator because the unspeakable suffering on earth does not want them to believe in an author Who is supposed to be love Itself. And they do not think about the extent to which people themselves are the cause of all suffering and hardship. The cause of everything is always to be found in the actual cause, and here too the human being must realize that both the suffering and its effects are the consequences of a completely wrong direction of will. The freedom of will must always be considered first. Without this free will, man would not be what he should be …. a being that can become perfect out of itself in order to one day be able to create and work like God …. He would be a directed being, nothing more like an animal determined by the will of the creator to carry out his activity. It is therefore impossible for the first time for beings to be placed perfectly in the world …. but must first mould themselves into what their destiny is. And therefore free will cannot be taken away from the being. It can only be influenced to act in this or that way. The fact that people now misuse free will in a way that is completely detrimental to them, that they use it to distance themselves further and further from God instead of drawing closer to Him, is decisive for all the side effects of their earthly life. They could very easily make this a bearable, less painful life for themselves if they used their will correctly, for their only task is to bridge the separation from God, to reduce the distance from Him, to come closer to God again, from Whom they distanced themselves when the spirit detached itself from the original spirit. Everything spiritual that emerged from God was of its own free will …. it initially separated itself from God in self-conceit, but should reunite with the creator of all things, with the original spirit, the original power, and this is, since free will must be left to it, not possible other than on the way of suffering …. of the banished state …. for only suffering reduces self-conceit …. suffering is bondage, and recognizing bondage makes one humble. The being cannot reach its perfection in any other way than in deepest humility …. So the being that thought itself powerful and dominant and rebelled against God as the source of all light must be brought down to the deepest humility in order to then be able to cover the path to the heights with ease. And the world is less than ever humble and desirous of God’s help …. it is more than ever under the control of the one who brought about the apostasy of all spiritual beings from God, and now all spiritual beings rebel against God to the greatest extent by people consciously denying Him and in heartlessness comply with all demands of the adversary but no longer respect the commandment of love, which in turn has to be fulfilled if the spiritualization of the human being is to take place, which only makes the being into what it is supposed to be according to divine destiny. And thus the will is wrongly guided, and this wrong will is now to be shaped correctly, and this is only possible through suffering, since all other attempts to reshape it have been unsuccessful, but God’s love and mercy will not abandon people to their self-chosen fate. For His wisdom truly regocnizes what is beneficial to the soul of man for its perfection ….

Amen

Man pays too little attention to what happens around him, and he cannot be convinced in any way that everything fits into the divine world order according to a wise plan, that everything must come as it does, even though man’s will is often the direct cause. A distinction must be made between God’s programmes according to His will and God’s permissions of what the will of man himself has caused. It is so difficult to make people understand this that God can never give His consent if man makes dispositions that go against His will. But since He again does not hinder the human being’s free will, those measures which are an unmistakable work or influence of evil must now be moulded by God such that they can still result in a certain degree of success for the human being’s soul. And this again leads people to the conclusion that it is God’s will that works which unmistakably betray the influence of evil plunge whole nations into misery and hardship. If God did not allow such things and thus wanted to mercilessly destroy or render harmless the perpetrators of suffering and misery, then man would be deprived of any possibility of distinguishing between good and evil, for then only the good would have to assert itself, while all evil would immediately be destroyed. Thus God allows the evil power to run riot and only ever protects His own from being at the mercy of this power by averting all harm from them. And therefore, even if the evil forces work without ceasing, this work will always be weakened in its consequences, the human being will always derive a benefit for his soul if he offers the evil forces sufficient resistance and asks for God’s help. For if God did not want to oppose it with His love, the adversary’s temptations would truly be overwhelming and the human being could very easily succumb in the battle against them. However, every event is permitted by God so that the adversary’s activity can be regocnized clearly enough and man can learn to abhor it. But then man should also regocnize his own powerlessness if he believes that he can master everything in life through his own strength. Man needs God’s grace, and the more threatening the events approach the earthly child from the outside, the sooner he will be able to ask for grace …. And so even the most difficult event is favourable for the soul in a spiritual sense. Only the person who sees every event as God’s providence and finds himself in it devotedly, always desiring divine help when it seems insurmountable to him, and thus remains in closest union with God, will truly master earthly life. Satan’s activity will therefore not always be able to express itself as it is intended, but the lord God will also intervene to prevent it and avert or weaken its effects, for if His power did not also extend over such evil forces then everything on earth and in the universe would truly already be destroyed, for the evil one’s destructive urge is immense, yet he is powerless in the face of divine will. However, the lord allows him to work to such an extent that it characterizes humanity’s complete downfall …. And if a person pays attention to what is happening around him, he will realize how far satan’s activity goes. And he will learn to detest it if only a spark of divine spirit slumbers within him. Thus even the most base deed can again cause a person to find God and, recognizing the contemptibility of evil, raise his hands to God in prayer for deliverance from such violence. And God will answer such a prayer, and then it is precisely satan’s activity which has brought about the return to God, i.e. an event which was devised by diabolical power against God’s will has been permitted in order to allow the human being to find the path to God again ….

Amen

It is a matter of solving such important problems for you humans that all things must be discussed, as everything is connected to a certain extent. Nothing a person does is unimportant if the effect of it can be linked to the soul. And so something can seem to be for the good of the human being, or it can be inconsequential from a human point of view and yet be extremely serious for the development of the soul. And just now all grievances degenerate in such a way that the soul is in extreme danger. The continued life of the soul is unscrupulously disregarded, only earthly existence and its improvement is always taken care of and thereby more and more damage is done to the soul. It is a state which necessitates divine intervention, and this can only happen in such a way that people realize the futility of their endeavours, that all success they have achieved so far with regard to the increase of earthly possessions will be null and void within a short time. They must realize how impermanent and worthless everything that has been their purpose in life up to now is, so that they tear their hearts away from it and strive for something that has lasting value, i.e. is imperishable. For every admonition to reduce worldly endeavours and to turn all care to the soul is in vain, thus only a powerful call of admonition and warning can be successful …. and this is the only help which can still be offered to the soul. And furthermore, the spirit must also be guided to regocnize those aspirations which inevitably lead to the complete decline of the human soul. These are the irresponsible decrees which concern everything that signifies spiritual enlightenment …. and stop the spiritual striving. These dispositions, which are of a very different nature, have the effect that the human being is increasingly more eager to fulfil earthly requirements and neglects the soul to the same extent, that these dispositions are therefore directed against the requirements which are placed on the soul for higher development …. that whoever follows these dispositions can never consider the soul in a way which is beneficial for it. The human being is placed in an extremely perilous situation because, on the one hand, he has to comply with worldly commands and, on the other hand, he wants to listen to God’s voice and thus has to choose between God’s and human commandments. And this will be extremely distressing for him if he still thinks about his soul at all. And only the lord Himself can help him in this adversity, and he must not lose this trust in divine help or he will want to lack all protection during this time. You will learn to understand these words if it is demanded of you, if you are weak in faith but have not yet completely separated yourselves from God. The fulfilment of these commandments will completely go against the teaching of Christ, a completely new moral teaching will shape people’s thinking even more, and it will be permitted to the human being which will have an extremely damaging effect on the soul. And precisely the soul’s great hardship will cause God to make huge changes to the present living conditions, for then there will still be hope that the human being will regocnize God’s will and strive to fulfil it, whereas humanity will only regocnize the will of the worldly rulers and fulfil their desires. The danger lies particularly in the fact that even those who still have faith adopt concepts of justice which go completely against God’s sense of justice …. that their power of judgement is already weakened, that they are no longer able to regocnize what is right and wrong and therefore affirmatively set themselves up to act in a way which should arouse all their abhorrence. Such a person is now doubly shackled …. he first has to fight against a completely distorted way of thinking before he can begin the real work of his soul. And countless people are in this danger whom God wants to help in an extraordinary way so that they will still regocnize their immature spiritual state as long as they are still on earth ….

Amen

And lead us within {not into} temptation …. You must fear sin at all times, for it is always and constantly lurking around you. And therefore you should be vigilant and not forget to pray, you should call upon God often so that He may protect you from every danger to your soul. The enemy’s cunning and deceitfulness is to be feared, he sneaks up on the earthly child in every form in order to exert his influence. And he will always organize sin in such a way that it irritates the person and he forgets all good intentions. And therefore you should watch and pray …. vigilantly so that he does not outwit you and pray for the strength to resist him. And if you take refuge in God Himself He will reward your trust and declare Himself willing to protect you, and He will prevent the adversary from continuing his scheming against you …. And if the human being’s will is strong he will lose, and this will cause him to try again under a different flag. And that is why the lord says: “Ask Me for help, I will grant it to you.” The very thought you send up in prayer will erect a wall around you which the enemy cannot tear down, for God certainly leaves the adversary free to use his power in order to thereby also incite the human being’s will to resist, but if the divine saviour is likewise called upon to save a human child and if you therefore raise your hands in spirit and in truth you can always be assured of His help, for He Himself has told you how you should pray …. He will strengthen you and give you strength to resist, but He will also turn away the enemy’s temptations from you, for it is the father’s will that you use the prayer which He Himself has taught you. It includes all petitions that are almost exclusively for the salvation of your soul. If you sincerely present these requests to the father in heaven, He will consider you according to your worthiness …. And thus endeavour to become worthy of divine grace so that it may overflow upon you and you may thus receive strength from God. And the lord promises you His help, therefore make use of it and thank the creator of heaven and earth for His infinite love and kindness which cares for every human being. And the adversary’s influence will become less and less, he will tire of the constant battle and, if he does not notice any success, will let go of you …. So you will be “delivered from all evil ….”

Amen

Only the inner connection with the heavenly father will introduce you to the truth and the knowledge of divine wisdom. Once this connection has been established, only the same truth can ever be conveyed to people, for the working of the spirit is not different but must always result in the pure truth. Thus all those who submit themselves to the lord God must also be of the same spirit, for the spirit from God guides them towards the truth and also gives them all the same realization of it. Consequently, anyone who endeavours to enter into union with the giver of truth must also be instructed in it, and therefore people will also agree in their views who have turned to God Himself with complete devotion in order not to go astray. Yet often the human intellect alone tries to explain the word which God sent to people through visible signs of His working. The representatives of the divine teaching then choose a form of expression that is more familiar to them and also have no intention of wanting to reshape the word, yet the meaning of it can become different if they were not likewise enlightened by the spirit of God. What a person does purely intellectually will rarely be free from error. But to have asked for God’s assistance and help secures all endeavours and is also the fullest guarantee for proper success. So the improvements (not false) need not be false doctrines, even though they obscure the meaning; man need not be led into error by them, only he lacks the understanding of that process which is extremely significant for life on earth …. for the outpouring of the Holy spirit and its visible work …. The work of the Holy spirit is regocnized far too little, and this is also the reason for the changed word, which arose from ignorance of this most significant process, without, however, being a false doctrine. The lord protects His word so that it will not be distorted, and He also gives every sincere affirmer the fullest knowledge and clarification so that what is right will not remain hidden, and He therefore also brings together those for whom the divine will is above all else so that they may enjoy the blessings of the divine word and the father’s will will be revealed to them. For he will grasp the word of God in its deepest wisdom who strives to fulfil the will of God and thus does not withdraw from the working of the divine spirit. The spirit from God guides him into the purest truth and also allows him to regocnize every error, for God, as the truth Himself, always wants to separate the lie from the truth and make the pure, unadulterated word accessible to people on earth, therefore He allows people to receive it again and protects it from every error ….

Amen

It is like an unbroken chain, it is an endless series of events that reveal the demonic activity and therefore also the shackled state in which humanity finds itself. Every thought, every action betrays the influence of evil, and this has a tremendous effect on souls who are unable to free themselves from such shackles. And so this demonic activity also brings about a complete disintegration of faith because the human being himself offers no resistance. It is incredibly bleak to see how everything that reminds us of God is given up, how faith in the divine saviour dwindles more and more and how all humanity’s thoughts and desires are only directed towards that which is part of the dark power. The doctrines of faith are already concepts from the world of fantasy and the human being feels superior to these teachings; he lives his earthly life and everything spiritual is unwanted ballast to him. And so it is inevitable that the power of God has to oppose these demonic forces, that it puts a stop to satan’s goings-on. Without divine help the spiritual decline would progress and ultimately lead to complete ruin, yet the father in heaven remembers the few whose will is still undecided, who have not yet finally surrendered to Him. And in order to save these, He allows that judgement to come upon the earth which is unimaginable in its consequences. He wants to send humanity news of His omnipotence once again, He wants to direct their thoughts towards Himself so that they will call upon Him and He can help them. He still wants to wrest those souls from satan which have not yet completely fallen prey to him so that humanity will not be completely lost …. It is a mighty event which is supposed to bring about all this, and it only depends on the human being’s will as to how he allows this event to affect him. It can mean his liberation, but it can also mean his final captivity in satanic power. Once again, it is up to man to choose between good and evil …. to choose between light and darkness. And God provides him with all the means to regocnize, if only he wants to. The immutable law of self-determination cannot be overturned at will, man himself must now also determine his future fate, he must declare through his will which path he wants to take, upwards or downwards. Only the eternal deity can come to his aid in such a way that it lets him see the transience of what he has striven for so far. And thus an apparent work of destruction can be of immeasurable advantage for the human being’s soul as soon as he turns away from earthly possessions at the right time and strives for spiritual possessions instead. A tremendous change of habitual life can also bring about a change of thinking, and this is the last possibility to straighten up the whole of humanity and to let it find faith in God again. The endeavour of the present time is to eradicate all faith …. since earthly life was only given to man for the purpose that man should develop himself and his soul through faith, life must also be taken from him if he does not fulfil this actual purpose. For an earthly life without faith only entails a regressive development of the being. And this is inevitably the consequence of such aberrations of the whole of humanity that God’s omnipotence and rule appears in order to still save what is willing and to completely destroy what is completely under satan’s control. For the earth is an educational station of the spirit …. but where it is not regocnized as such the beings should no longer be allowed to stay on it, for they deprive themselves of this grace ….

Amen

Only those who unhesitatingly abandon themselves to the guidance of the spirit beings looking after them will feel the power of these beings in manifold ways. It is a certain sympathy for the fate of each individual human being. In their love they endeavour to make people’s earthly existence beautiful but they always have to submit to divine will and cannot change or improve fate on their own authority, for they always have to consider the human being’s immature state of soul and their excessive love would be very little suited to deny earthly people what they long for. However, they always try to offer people a substitute for what divine wisdom denies them. This is now to be understood in such a way that the spiritually perfect indeed subordinates itself to the will of God, but takes the will of man into account insofar as that it gives him every conceivable help in earth existence, especially then when man devotedly submits to divine will. For now it is no longer a disadvantage for earthly life if he regocnizes that everything is divine providence and therefore must somehow be a blessing for the human being. (interruption)

The spiritual beings in the beyond are in closest contact with people and so they know about every stirring of the heart, and it is now their task to strengthen every stirring which is turned towards God as far as possible, as well as to intervene to hinder where the stirring of the heart could lead to a relapse from God. This alone is decisive and therefore determines destiny. Provided all thoughts of the earthly human being move in a God-pleasing way, the course of life will also correspond to the innermost wishes, for it is no longer the world that is desired but God, thus the quiet course of earthly life can no longer be an obstacle to the soul’s higher development. It is now up to those spirit beings to examine to what extent earthly pleasures could still be a hindrance to the human being, and thus they direct the individual events according to the extent of the desire for God. Whatever could reduce or limit this desire must be withheld from the earthly child until the will for God excludes everything else in the heart. God Himself is love, and so man’s deepest love must also be for God. All earthly desire must have union with God as its goal; only that which promotes this union with God must be striven for. Then all human-earthly desire has lost its significance and can then also no longer be wrong before God. And the beings in the beyond will know how to prevent everything that could jeopardize the final union with God in a person who strives to ascend, for the desire for worldly happiness is froth-inducing even if it appears desirable to the human being for a short time. If he has now completely overcome it, i.e. has set himself the goal of uniting with God as the only desirable thing, this also brings with it a loosening of earthly restrictions; man is granted many things which he had previously eagerly striven for but was wisely denied …. but now there is no danger whatsoever for the earthly child that it could result in separation from the father. And thus the earthly life of the God-minded human being need not be joyless at all as long as these joys no longer jeopardize the striving upwards, i.e. are not sought for their own sake. However, if the danger has not yet been completely overcome, the beings in the beyond will ensure that the human being’s desire is first clarified and all earthly desires are extinguished so that the soul will not be in danger of falling flat. However, anyone who earnestly seeks God need not fear any danger if he entrusts all his ways to God and asks Him for His guidance …. Then he will be guided correctly and reach his goal ….

Amen

The needs of the body and the soul are completely different. For its preservation the body needs those nutrients which are again taken from the realm of the earthly …. therefore, earthly things must be nourished with earthly things in order to exist, i.e., it is divine will that the human being’s earthly body is also to a certain extent dependent on God’s creations which are at his disposal and which again fulfil their earthly task by serving to maintain the human body. So man can never free himself on his own authority from these otherwise seemingly insignificant works of creation, he inevitably needs them and is therefore in certain dependence on everything that contributes to the preservation of his earth life. And this is wisely arranged by the eternal creator. He has thus established the connection between everything spiritual, everything is needed in creation and consequently nothing is without purpose …. The spiritual in every work of creation always pushes towards the spiritual of the one it is meant to serve. And the connection of everything spiritual is always connected with the liberation from the old form. So serving the spiritual also means its redemption ….

The merging of the spiritual of the one and the other form also means increased activity, i.e. being of service to the human being who needs this work of creation. Man’s body needs many things in his life and all these must be supplied to him in order to either achieve the inner structure or also to serve the outer shell to protect it. Everything that man needs in his earthly existence is provided for in God’s creation ….

In particular every spiritual substance is withdrawn from matter as soon as it is taken up by living beings as food, therefore for the preservation of the outer form. This spiritual substance now joins the spiritual of the living being, so that in a certain period of time the spiritual again attains maturity to change into another form, which again sets greater tasks to the being. Increase of the spiritual through fusion of individual entities and maturing of these through service in God’s intended sense is always and constantly the purpose of the change through all works of creation. And in the last stage as man now likewise the body, the outer form, and the soul …. the spiritual in man, must be provided with supply of spiritual substance for the purpose of perfection, and indeed now no longer what is taken up by the body as food benefits both …. the body and the soul …. but it is again up to the will of man whether the soul also receives spiritual nourishment at the same time. And indeed, this nourishment must be offered to it in addition to the purely bodily nourishment and must also be thought of at the same time as the soul receives the latter, so that the latter also serves the increase of spiritual substance in addition to the preservation of the body. The human soul can therefore be considered in two ways …. the spiritual in the form can be extraordinarily increased through the right reception of natural food and drink, and this increased spiritual can again reach an extraordinarily high degree of maturity through the supply of spiritual food …. through the word of God …. reach an extraordinarily high degree of maturity, so that the outer form has now fulfilled its last purpose, therefore the spiritual no longer needs such for higher development, but has reached the goal that was set for it for the earthly career and therefore soars up into light heights without any outer fetters. Extraordinarily much can be achieved in the last stage of development, but free will is always the reason for this, since it is now up to the human being himself to shape his soul, everything spiritual in him, but the success of the endeavour is also extraordinarily valuable, for it is complete liberation from the form ….

Amen

You should not argue about which ways are right before God, if only you have the will to reach God. The divine will provides you with the bread of heaven wherever you desire it. And whoever accepts it as the bread of heaven into his heart will also be nourished, and this spiritual nourishment will lead to eternal salvation. Establishing intimate contact with the divine saviour and redeemer is the sole emblem of Christ’s church, and thus everyone will be a disciple of Christ and follower of His teaching who only regocnizes the saviour, loves Him and unites himself with Him eternally. And he can now reach this in various ways, where the light of realization shines for him …. But first he has to establish the connection with God, for this is the only purpose of his earthly life, to unite with the father-spirit of eternity. Thus, those people who earnestly seek God will also reach Him, even if they take different paths, for they always see the divine lord and saviour at the end of their path and strive towards His figure of light …. On the other hand, a certain path is not a guarantee that it will lead to the goal if it is only travelled because of a tradition but the figure of light is not consciously longed for. For this path will drag on endlessly, it will always appear to lead back to the starting point, for the right goal has not yet been regocnized …. Everyone considers the path he is travelling to be the only right one, and it can also be the right path for the individual if it is only travelled in order to finally come closer to the eternal deity. Every path becomes practicable through this desire, and every path leads to the goal. However, it must not be misjudged that great energy is often wasted on the completely unimportant fulfilment of requirements which are in no way conducive to the connection with God and which could therefore be better utilized; i.e., that too little thought is given to the actual purpose of earthly life, namely union with God, whereas completely irrelevant commandments decreed by people are followed with utmost importance and the actual task, union with God, is not always placed before all endeavours, but such a deepening into God’s greatest love and grace is often even put out of question. And thus the desire for the lord alone will always be the decisive factor as to whether the earthly child is on the right track, but not the various schools of thought, none of which need exclude this desire for God. Yet if you are given clear instructions from above you would do well to accept them, for they will lead you on the most practicable path towards your eternal home and you will clearly see the saviour’s figure of light before you, so that you will courageously and undauntedly take the path which corresponds to divine will and you will not run the risk of going astray, for the lord and saviour Himself will come to meet you and, guided by His hand, you will safely reach your goal ….

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Everything in relation to God has to result in success for a person providing he complies with or makes use of it …. It will have to lead to God …. but only if all requirements are actually adhered to. Formality, however, will not lead to success. It is merely easier for one person and more difficult for another to reach the objective, in as much as the latter has chosen to walk an exceptionally difficult path, whereas the other path is easier but can be an equally joyful service to God. Hence the human being is submitting himself to conditions which were not required of him by God. It is helpful to become aware of the individual teachings which were added by people to the teaching of Christ. First of all, attendance at church was made a duty, which is not always spiritually beneficial but can also be soul-destroying.

The idea that the human being will turn more towards God by going to church is extremely misguided; instead he is far more at risk of turning what should be a profound inner experience into a habitual act. The true aspirant will look for God everywhere, his church attendance will certainly not harm him but he can find contact with God anytime and anywhere and will not need a particular place for it. Therefore it would only be necessary to hear God’s Word if it is not made accessible to the person elsewhere, and this will only find God’s complete agreement as long as the purpose of attending church is just the said imparting of the divine Word. All other ceremonial activities are embellishments which were more than less added by people and nowadays motivate the concept of a service to God, although something entirely different than attending such practices, which have nothing in common with the real work of the soul, is meant by serving God.

It is entirely unimportant and inconsequential whether and to what extent the human being will comply with the requirements which are prerequisite of belonging to the Roman-Catholic church. The church founded by Jesus Christ on earth has nothing to do with external appearances. In spite of its external manifestations its profound principles can certainly be recognised, and thus they need not be obstacles to recognising Jesus Christ’s true teachings and to living accordingly. Alternatively however, these external manifestations are not necessarily needed in order to be a true Christian in accordance with God’s will. It is not difficult to see that people are put off precisely because of the many formalities, and Jesus Christ certainly did not consider that the achievement of eternal bliss depended on the fulfilment of humanly decreed commandments such as attending church regularly, taking part in an action which is likewise a humanly devised theatrical play that is of no benefit for and has no influence on the human soul.

People should consider that the Lord on earth objected to outward appearances, that He did nothing in order to emphasize His Word effectively, with the exception of miracles, which intended to prove His Divinity to people. However, He has never done anything that could justify or somehow substantiate the above actions today but they are mere humanly introduced formalities which have no other deeper meaning than what people had assigned to them. And this can never correspond with divine will, thus it cannot be required of people as evidence for complying with the teaching of Christ ….

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Thus God’s will was ignored and this resulted in a dire state of affairs which is seriously endangering the faith. Only few people understand the most important point, and these few certainly comply with the specified commandments but at the same time they are so in touch with the Lord that they are drawing strength from this bond which, however, is attributed by them to the fulfilment of those commandments. This misguided notion will not, in fact, harm their souls, but this strength can also flow to a person without outwardly recognisable ceremonies providing the heart seeks and initiates a union with God. Whereas ceremonies without a heartfelt union will not result in any kind of blessing.

It is also important to raise the question of childship to God. In accordance with dogma only a member of the Catholic church can lay claim to calling himself a child of God. This is a completely wrong point of view which cannot be justified. Anyone who tirelessly works to improve himself and thus strives for perfection, anyone who is always strictly examining himself and his actions, who is always trying to fulfil divine will, takes the childship to God seriously and will be regarded by the Father as His child. But obligations and their fulfilment will never be as valuable as a voluntary joyful service to God. Coercion will never activate one’s own will.

Fulfilling the commandments in a state of duress is not particularly commendable before God, but the least voluntary surrender to his Creator is an extraordinary step forward for a person’s soul. And thus God has in fact always made His will known to humanity, but He has never commanded that His will should be fulfilled as a duty, because it is only of value to Him if the human being rises above himself and for the love of God accepts a certain amount. Because only then will the human will bend down and consciously strive to bond with the Father in heaven, only then will the child’s relationship with his Father be initiated. The human being, like a child, will endeavour to be obedient to his Father in heaven, the child will love its Father and try to please Him and shape himself in a manner that the Father will affectionately draw him close to His heart, and thus the person is consciously striving for childship to God ….

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Think of the people who are always trying to be righteous and just but who do not belong to any particular school of thought. Their will is directed towards God, thus towards good, they merely lack the correct understanding, but this has to arise from deep within their hearts, and as with them, so also with every member of a particular school of thought. And this inner understanding is absolutely necessary for every human being, an outwardly manifested faith is of no use to him without it, alternatively however, inner understanding without such faith will also establish the person’s correct relationship with God, the child’s relationship with the Father. And this has to be striven for first. Although this requirement can probably be more easily understood and fulfilled due to the religious dogma of a church, non-affiliation to a particular church will not exclude it. Thus it should also be understandable that this relationship to the Father has to be established first in order to speak of a childship to God …. that the latter is not ensured by an affiliation to this or that church, but that the deep inner feeling of heart is always the crucial factor.

The concept of ‘affiliation’ can be very flexible but it cannot depend on mere appearances, such as the fulfilment of commandments which were added by people to the divine commandments …. the regular church visit, the stereotyped prayer, and the attendance of an act which can only have symbolic value unless it is brought to life by the most profound unity with the Father. However, it is considerably more valuable if the human being has a longing for God without being impressed by such formalities, because it will be easier for him to come closer to the Father. Trustingly, like a child, he will hand himself over to Him. He will not need to remove as many barriers as rigid teachings and mystical actions establish before a person’s spiritual eye, which give rise to the sense of distance from God in the first place, that God can only be reached in a roundabout way …. which is not easily overcome, when, in fact, a heartfelt thought of and the desire for Him will already give the earthly child the blessing of His loving affection. And besides, innermost emotion alone will reduce or increase the separation from the Father and not external actions which could also lack personal feeling ….

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The heavenly father will not leave you in the adversity of your soul if your prayer reaches Him believingly and trustingly, for it is His will that your faith becomes strong and that you fearlessly face every danger. And so the spirit from God conveys the following to you: Let everything come to you and do not be afraid, nothing will happen that goes against the divine will, for the lord always protects His word and does not abandon it to destruction. Every attempt will certainly be made to deny divine activity, but a natural explanation will not be found either, and therefore every endeavour on the part of the opponent is without success, the key to the solution and the inner conviction to finally reject it is missing. The seer’s gift will be regocnized and the content accepted as truth by those who approach an examination seriously. And so rely confidently on God’s wise guidance and place yourself in His protection; there are resistances that must be overcome in order to allow other souls to gain insight into God’s work.

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Regard everything that comes upon you as a providence of God and do not attach any particular importance to it, for it is again only a means to an end. A significant test has already taken place and there is an unspeakable amount to be gained from it. Undeserved suffering will come upon you, but it will be bearable insofar as you will be given courage and strength from above. And those days will mean spiritual progress for you and will therefore not be without success. And signs and wonders will happen …. The divine guidance will be visible to all of you if you take note of His word. What is written will be fulfilled, that the lord Himself will dwell among you who believe. And your heart will rejoice and exult, and you will endure everything for His sake. The day is not far off when you will see His face full of kindness and gentleness. And the image of the lord will be deeply engraved in your heart, and this is your strength …. Henceforth you will be immune to all weak faith, and you will only desire to serve the lord and gain His love. And so you will be willing fighters for the lord and take upon yourselves all adversity that arises from it. And the lord will bless you with great strength and you will be able to work in His name …. And this will also strengthen you in the face of the world, and it will respect the signs from above. Some people who have scoffed at everything extraordinary up to this point will become thoughtful. And this will be the beginning of the lord’s obvious work on earth. And many more signs and wonders will follow ….

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A little while longer and an almost unbearable hardship will befall the earth. This is the beginning of an epoch in which man will again become more aware of his actual purpose, because this trouble lets him find God, but also lets him remain with him in more distant times. And this adversity will express itself in very different forms, yet higher powers will always be the cause, thus the human being will never be able to avert or reduce the adversity by his own strength. And thus people will find the path to God sooner than before, and this is why the lord imparts His word to the human being so that he will have a foothold in this time of adversity, so that he will be strengthened by this word and draw strength from it for the time of severe trials. And again it has to be said that only where the divine word is received …. where the light from heaven shines …. a noticeable relief from earthly hardship will come to light. Man will be able to reduce his state of suffering if his will is directed towards God. This is the first and last reason why God allows such hardship to pass over the earth. And no country will be spared from it, all people will have to endure suffering because the meaning and purpose of suffering is the return to God, because the thoughts which have separated themselves from God shall turn to Him again. Yet the lord promises His protection to those who love Him …. And if faith in this promise is strong, a person will emerge from all tribulation unscathed in body and soul. The father in heaven Himself takes care of this child and guides it through all dangers. It is now clearly evident that only turning to God brings salvation from the most severe adversity, however, not all people bow to divine will, not all people draw the consequences and reduce their distance from God …. Rather, their will is increasingly focussed on regaining earthly possessions and restoring their former state of life. And so the great adversity has not brought about any change in their thinking, the will to matter, to evil, has become considerably stronger, but the thought of God has been minimized or completely eliminated. Trying to bring the word of God to such people is unsuccessful. There is no other way to convince them of the transience of earthly possessions, and if the complete decay of entire stretches of land has not made them realize this clearly enough, any reference is in vain …. The inclination towards matter is greater and can hardly be overcome on earth. Again, however, the desire for this cannot at the same time trigger a desire for God and His word. Consequently, the human being will reject the latter. And this state is far more desolate than before because even the last means of help has failed and the human being cannot be hindered in his free will. These are the souls that satan has completely in his power, only prayer for such people can exert a transforming influence, provided that deep love for those unfortunate people wants to free them from the misery of the soul ….

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Cast all your cares upon the lord …. And if you are troubled, remember His death on the cross. In His immense love He took your suffering upon Himself, He died for your suffering so that it would become less, for His love for you motivated Him to give Himself in order to redeem you. And this love also wants to protect you again from suffering and pain if you remember Him and ask Him to take care of you. And so look upwards full of trust and place all your worries at His heart, for His power is great and His love even greater, and if His love takes hold of you, His will is sufficient to redeem you. Therefore do not fear or doubt, be faithful and courageous; know that the lord Himself is with you if you call upon Him through your thoughts; know that He will hear your prayer and spread His hand over you in protection if enemy power wants to harm you. And your faith will banish all danger, your faith will make you victorious and your faith will give you strength …. For God is …. and God is love …. Love will help you, for it is stronger than the opposing power. And where you have to suffer, you do so for the lord, you place yourselves at His disposal and He chooses you as His instrument …. Your suffering shall give birth to love and faith again, it shall awaken dead souls, your suffering shall be the cause, as it were, for the enlightenment of the misguided and ignorant. Yet if you present your suffering to the lord, He will stand by you and transform your suffering into profound love, and you will patiently and joyfully take up the cross of Christ, you will carry the cross for the lord and help to redeem …. you have become pioneers and lead souls from darkness to light; you increase the number of those who know and make your sacrifice by suffering for the sake of Jesus. And this will be a blessing for you, for countless people are suffering spiritual hardship. Helping them is a labour of love, and if it can only be achieved through suffering and you take this suffering upon yourselves, then this is a labour of love for erring people. And the lord will grant you all favours, He will give you strength, strengthen your faith and make you eager representatives of divine truth ….

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The urge of the heart is decisive for people’s actions and every deed will therefore characterize the person’s inherent disposition. However, it is important that a person is able to carry out what he intends to do …. Often, however, he is somehow prevented from doing so. His will then always remains the measure of his disposition, not what he carries out, if the latter does not correspond to his will. A person can therefore perform a good deed by force under some kind of influence, but it cannot be credited to him because it was not born of his inner feeling and because he would never have done it without this compulsion …. just as, conversely, the will to do a good deed that cannot be performed is credited as a good deed. And so here again the lord judges in strictest justice, He regocnizes people’s hearts, He knows every emotion, every thought, and nothing can remain hidden from His eye …. If you humans now devote yourselves to the belief that all good thoughts are valued as accomplished deeds, this will ennoble your thinking, you will begin to always give an account of your innermost feelings, of all words and thoughts …. you will even look at every good deed with a critical eye and always ask yourself whether it has fully corresponded to your thinking. And this is work on the soul, constant self-observation, constant striving upwards and acquiring an extremely strongly developed sense of truth …. all of this is conscious work on the soul. Man must first educate himself to love by constantly endeavouring to help his fellow man …. he must have a certain spiritual superiority over everything that could trick him into accomplishing something that does not correspond to his innermost heart’s urge …. he must therefore, if bad influence wants to push him towards the apparent fulfilment of his life’s career, oppose it with all his will and listen to the inner voice that prescribes his right way of life. He must therefore be prompted by his will to serve God to do every good deed, he must make it his concern that will and deed always coincide, that the deed never deviates from the will, but that will and deed always move in the same direction and his inner being is now always and constantly moulded until the will has become completely one with the divine will and the deed is valuable before God ….

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The unconscious state of prejudice against everything supersensible is often the cause of blindly walking through earthly life, for understandably only a certain realization can illuminate the path, but this realization can only be gained again through research …. however, everything that lies outside the earth can only be explored again by making use of those forces that are called supersensible, so these must not be eliminated, but the work of such forces must be regocnized. A conscious effort must be made to connect with them in order to become clairvoyant for life on earth. And this requires a certain devotion, but at the same time it also requires the will of the human being to connect with the spiritual. For this endeavour has nothing in common with the earthly desire to possess. He who seeks to fathom supersensible things will not expect or aim at any earthly advantage but will only think of his soul; he will furthermore abandon himself to those powers and thereby regocnize that they are knowing and thus want to accept any teaching from them. He will feel the superiority of these powers and subordinate himself to them, and now the powers in the beyond can also exert their full influence on such a willing earthly child. A person who surrenders to these forces must therefore have a great advantage in spiritual terms, for he is, so to speak, at the source of all knowledge, and even if some things still seem inexplicable to him, he nevertheless accepts everything supernatural and has the deepest understanding for spiritual truths ….

All too often wrong and right concepts of the supersensible mix, and that is the cause that the right understanding can only be found there where one has the will to accept what is right. There the will for truth is present and accordingly also the spirit in man is active, and when this spirit now points him to what exists outside of the earth-bound, then man also regocnizes such indications as truth and now also grasps the work of spiritual powers on the other side much sooner, and it now no longer appears supernatural to him, but natural …. Only now does the supernatural explain to him everything that was previously incomprehensible, and he senses that he is only now standing in the truth as he surrenders himself to those forces. Only now does everything seem to make sense to him, and the state of prejudice against the supersensible gives way to a state of complete affirmation of it. He has now crossed a boundary that he believed he was not entitled to cross or that he simply did not want to admit existed …. He has thus crossed over into another realm that his mind previously refused to accept …. He now wanders through this realm in all directions, he repeatedly encounters new areas which are foreign to him and whose exploration stimulates him and makes him happy in his life on earth. For only now is the meaning of earthly life understandable to him, only now does he know his task, and all this gives him an increased zest for life (because) the supersensible is no longer separate from what his senses grasp. Only the spiritual connection with life outside the earth …. the recognition of it …. allows man to consciously immerse himself in the most diverse problems, whereas previously all these problems remained unresolved or were dismissed as unsolvable if they really arise in the heart of man …. but for the most part do not affect the person at all, for he does not waste his thoughts on things that seem unimportant to him. And therefore he will remain completely unimpressed and ignorant who is prejudiced against that which is not tangible or obvious to him …. He blocks his own path to all knowledge, for the latter cannot be found without spiritual strength …. But spiritual power is something invisible and intangible to man …. spiritual power is independent of the earth and its laws, spiritual power cannot be felt with the senses of man, but can be received with the heart at any time. It can therefore never be fathomed by the senses …. it is supersensible. It belongs to that realm which is infinite, which is more than the earth. It is the spiritual power of the stream of life that flows through everything that is …. that emanates from God and is supplied to everything that is God’s creation …. And the earth is only a particle of the whole creation; it must therefore be understandable to man that this earth cannot be purpose and goal at the same time, that rather the goal of the beings inhabiting the earth must be another world …. a world which their senses cannot yet grasp, which is therefore supersensible ….

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Desire the divine spirit in all simplicity and listen to what he reveals to you …. and take this into your heart, willingly obey everything he tells you to do and thank the lord God for his great grace that he honours you with his word …. then you shall spend your life on earth, and it will be pleasing in the sight of God. Only he knows how to live right who always heeds the instructions from above and does not take a single step without having asked for divine protection. For the lord will lead him safely and on the right path towards his eternal home. And if you desire the divine spirit, your earthly existence will be light and bright, for you know its purpose …. Your thinking will be orderly, you will strive towards what is right, you will start and end everything with God, for you regocnize God and live to please Him …. therefore your will is the will of God …. you have subordinated it to the divine will …. And thus you approach the eternal deity and earthly life brings you final redemption. But you will not become free if you revile the spirit from God, if you do not loosen the shackles and bring liberation to the spirit within you. For the divine spirit can never express itself without man giving freedom to his spirit; the light can only shine when it is ignited and the divine spirit can only speak to man when his voice is respected, thus the spiritual in him is awakened. spirit must strive for spirit, i.e., man must stand up for the teaching of Christ and obey it, he must be active in love, then his spirit unites with the divine spirit of love. And this results in a union of eternal duration, for the love which now takes effect in the human being loosens all fetters of the divine spiritual spark within him and this now pushes towards its source, the spirit of love of eternity. And thus every beginning from now on is able to have a redeeming effect, i.e., the awakened spirit of God urges the human being to follow the christian teaching, and since this places the commandment of love for God and neighbour above everything else and love always has a redeeming effect, this has to make itself felt in spiritual life in such a way that the unification of spiritual strength manifests itself in mediations …. in wisdom-filled teachings, where giver and receiver strive towards each other …. where both the giver and the receiver are willing to exchange spiritual strength, where the receiver gives love and thereby receives love again in increased measure, namely in the form of knowledge …. This striving from spirit to spirit is so extremely profitable for the human being. For only in this way can he receive something that cannot be offered to him in any other way. Everything spiritual is accessible to man if he desires it …. But always only by way of love. Without love, however, access is blocked, and if the human being wants to acquire wisdom he will always reject what is right and accept what is wrong without hesitation, for his senses are still directed by the spirit of unkindness inherent in him. Love, light and wisdom are inseparably connected, and if the human being is lovingly active according to God’s will, light and wisdom will likewise be in him, for one is inconceivable without the other. And he will constantly increase in wisdom whose actions are full of love, for by carrying out unselfish deeds of love he will increasingly come into contact with the spiritual substance, which is in knowledge and whose love is again greater than great …. so that it therefore distributes unlimited wisdom to an earthly child willing to love …. If a person therefore wants to stand in the brightest light and the right realization, if he wants to be taught divine truth, he only has to practice love and send his spirit upwards, and everything that is likewise full of love and full of wisdom will communicate itself to the demanding earth child. The fountain of life will open and be refreshment for those who desire strength and nourishment. And so the spiritual in man must seek to multiply …. it must flee its earthly environment and join the spiritual, which has already entered the eternal home …. It must try to reach where its actual home is …. the human being must regocnize that living earthly life is not the actual purpose and thus fulfil the right purpose …. strive for union with spiritual perfection in order to finally be able to unite with the father-spirit of eternity ….

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Infinite space requires infinite creations, and every creation testifies to God’s activity, it testifies to His omnipotence and wisdom and His unceasing will to love. And all creations are alive, i.e. in a state of constant change …. i.e. in a certain activity that never allows them to remain at the same stage. There is nothing in God’s work of creation that is not in constant higher development as long as it is subject to divine will. This must be regocnized beforehand in order to really grasp the significance of the stage where free will enables the being to promote its higher development or also to shape it regressively …. It must be considered that through incomprehensible times the path always went upwards …. that the constant change of the works of creation guaranteed a progressive development …. and that now, after an inconceivably long time, the free will of man can be the cause of both the highest perfection and the standstill or decline of spiritual development. Only a short span of time God gives the being the freedom of its will after an endless long walk on earth in bound will …. and this short time is decisive for eternity …. For even if the being still has the opportunity after its earthly progress in the beyond to attain the degree of maturity which is required for entry into spheres of light …. it will never reach the degree of perfection which a properly utilized will brings on earth. It is so extraordinarily significant how the will is utilized on earth …. whether the freedom of will, which God gives to the being, is used for the complete approach to God or strives again towards matter and the being desires everything that it has already so to speak overcome through the course through all works of creation. This is tremendously significant, for life on earth as a human being is the conclusion of the being’s eternally long sojourn on earth ….

Each stage of development was a step closer to perfection, the being has served in every form and thereby always attained that degree of maturity which was the prerequisite for the realization of the next form. Now, however, with the last outer form as a human being he is given a certain freedom to utilize this form according to his own will …. The human being can continue to strive upwards as well as nourish the downward drive within himself, he will not be hindered in his endeavour. However, the success of right and wrong endeavour is so far apart …. The right use of the will brings highest happiness, but a wrong will likewise deepest downfall, and each state must be taken upon itself after the decease on earth …. The possibilities of education of the spiritual being are indeed also available in the hereafter, but such a state of happiness can never be reached as it is granted to the person who strives rightly on earth when he dies. For the earth has been chosen by the eternal creator to be able to bring the last perfection to willing beings, the earth is undeniably the place where the human being’s soul can be purified and rid itself of all its dross ….

Consequently, the stay on earth has highest significance for the being insofar as that it previously stood in furthest distance from God and can be in closest proximity to God after the end of the earth orbit …. unless the being on earth wilfully increases the distance from God again. The long path has therefore brought a certain perfection of the spiritual state, which can still be increased in the last stage, but can also be reduced. The perfection of the spiritual in earthly life, however, entitles the being to the inheritance of the father in heaven …. Anyone who attains childship to God in earthly life is therefore a true child of God, i.e., supreme bliss is his inheritance, he can create and shape his highest pleasure and dwelling in God’s proximity is an unceasing state of happiness …. whereas beings who did not seriously strive to come closer to God on earth can certainly perfect themselves in the beyond and likewise still become blissful, yet they will never reach the degree which shapes the being into a child of God. There is always the great danger that the beyond will not bring redemption to the being either, as long as its will, just as on earth, resists all those forces which want to help it …. The danger is obvious that it will develop regressively and that the distance from God will become ever greater …. and finally the being will approach the banished state ever more, consequently the course on earth which has lasted for inconceivable times will have been in vain, thus the being will have to go back again and bring it unspeakable agonies of being unredeemed once more. These are unimaginable sufferings which the being cannot be spared so that it again reaches that degree which earns it again the favour of embodiment as man. For the final perfection can only be achieved by consciously striving towards God …. It has to turn to God of its own free will and it can never be forcibly guided, otherwise it would not be able to attain the degree of childship to God, which requires most devoted love and deepest longing for God and which is again only the result of a completely free will. The being is therefore entitled to the highest grant of heavenly bliss on the one hand and the possibility of sinking into the deepest night on the other …. And both is left to him …. it can choose for itself and thus its will can decide how life in eternity is organized …. For they are always concepts of eternity …. both life in bliss and the state of being banished in form. For the latter likewise cannot be called temporally limited for man …. the stay in the form is likewise eternal for human concepts, even though all beingness once approaches final redemption ….

Amen

It is the Lord’s will that everything which lives subordinates itself to His laws, consequently nothing can happen that is not according to divine will as long as it concerns events which affect a person by providence for the purpose of inner experience. The human being’s will can never oppose divine will, he will never succeed in abolishing or changing what God has determined, for such is not within his power. The human being’s will has to fall in line with it, he must effectively agree even if it does not correspond to his will, since this coercion signifies his guarantee to be able to achieve the highest goal, that is, he is thereby given every opportunity towards higher development …. Nevertheless, whether he makes use of it or not entirely depends on his will. But were the human being be able to shape his own destiny this guarantee would not be given, for he has no idea what his spirit needs and in which way it can be set free. Therefore, God Himself determines the fate of every individual person and arranges it such that His will cannot be counteracted because of lack of understanding or a rebellious will. And thus the divine Creator demonstrates with His laws the most loving care for His living creations; His wisdom recognises the state of every individual and He always aims to bestow upon everyone the greatest possible means of help through dispensations of providence which ensure spiritual progress.

The fact that so many opportunities remain unused is not due to the Creator’s will but is entirely due to the human being if he pays too little attention to his inner life. Yet this person could also be granted a different life but he would never use it for the benefit of his soul, therefore he should never consider his immature state of soul to be the result of his earthly destiny …. For even if God gave him the freedom to shape his own destiny he would remain on the same level since his will does not strive towards ascent. The same applies to those entities which, in full possession of their will, populate the world of the beyond and which are therefore free from all earthly weight. They, too, are subject to a certain law which they have to submit to. If they are perfect, they can only want that which is God’s will …. And in the state of imperfection, the fate of the beings in the beyond is, like in earthly life, allotted to them such that it is most likely to contribute towards the soul’s purification, realisation and advancement. Once again, divine will applies, and once again it is left up to them to submit themselves, i.e. their will, to divine will or to resist it, but they can never change this will or make it ineffective. One will rules all …. Everything that subordinates itself to this will of its own accord is redeemed …. yet damned are the beings which want to oppose the divine will …. For this intention will only end with their downfall. Divine will can never ever be excluded. Even where human will is at work accomplishing things which contradict divine will, it is only with God’s permission that this human work succeeds in order to thereby bring help to a soul in spiritual distress, as nothing could ever happen which would be entirely against His will. For His wisdom, love and omnipotence determines everything that happens …. And this wisdom, love and omnipotence only ever wants what is best for every one of His created beings …. And therefore it is impossible for any being to oppose this will. Only the shaping of its soul is left for the being to manage itself …. This is not compelled by the Creator in the slightest, and thus the being can use its free will according to its own discretion ….

Amen

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

Amen

The consequences of a deluded world view will make themselves felt in a very short time. The desire to deviate from the normal way of life, the rejection of divine laws, the unnatural behaviour of those who profess the new world view, all this reveals a new school of thought which will have serious consequences. For it cannot be denied that a new era has dawned that is essentially different from the past. A planned rethinking is being striven for, which, however, aims at a completely reversed world order, because that which previously served the spiritual well-being of man is now to be eliminated as far as possible, i.e. made as inaccessible to man as possible. On the other hand, every material question will be subjected to an in-depth examination and thus the earthly in human life will be regarded as that which should inspire the highest vigour and be striven for as solely valuable. Man has always thought too little of his spirit, and earthly life and everything conducive to the body has always dominated his entire thinking, yet God and His work have always been regocnized by mankind …. Now, however, the spirit is detaching itself more and more from the eternal deity …. Man has familiarized himself with the idea that a deity does not necessarily have to be affirmed …. that a rejection of the eternal deity does not mean the cessation of existence …. Man believes that he can walk the earthly path even without this deity, and so he seeks to free himself from what he has hitherto regarded as a lack of freedom, as an inhibition of his feelings. He seeks to break the strings that still chained him to a being that was to determine his fate …. He seeks to free himself from that which, deep down, makes him believe in his creator. The state of being completely independent in earthly life seems more desirable to him …. he neither seeks help from nor an approach to a higher being, he wants to be completely free from everything that could dominate him …. So he builds a building for himself that lacks the existing foundations …. and this building will collapse like a house of cards …. He tries his hand alone at a work that cannot stand without divine help …. For all trains of thought of a person in such a wrong spiritual direction are erroneous …. What people try to remove are precisely the foundation walls which secure the firm building …. It is the foundation that must inevitably be in place if the entire structure is to stand. And no stone of this foundation will be allowed to be missing, thus also a world view which does not want to accept the eternal creator as what He is …. as an entity Who directs and guides the destiny of each individual person …. Who embodied Himself in Jesus Christ in order to redeem His creatures …. but will never be a blessing for humanity, for the building which the world now wants to erect for itself will collapse without foundation, for the master builder from eternity will not allow Himself to be mocked and will not allow Himself to be ignored. And so people may want to free themselves from God and Christ …. they will call out to Him in the utmost hopelessness and, when God Himself shows Himself to them, regocnize their error ….

Amen