It remains a futile endeavour to try to make the meaning of the work of redemption clear to the world, for anyone who desires the world and only gives it his attention, his thoughts and desires, will never have an understanding of anything spiritual. The work of redemption, however, is a purely spiritual matter, for it only touches the life of the human soul. The worldly man, however, has little regard for the life of his soul, he only has the well-being of his body in mind and all his endeavours are only aimed at increasing earthly goods and earthly pleasures. Trying to make him understand the value and meaning of the work of redemption is unsuccessful because he lives without faith. Worldly life and spiritual endeavour are completely separate. Worldly endeavour is the will turned towards God’s adversary, spiritual endeavour testifies to the desire for God. The adversary of God will never lead his followers to the divine saviour, rather he will do everything to keep the knowledge of the work of redemption away from them, thus influencing them to reject it. Only when a person learns to despise the world and its goods does he occupy his thoughts with the divine redeemer and come closer to the question of God’s incarnation. And it will always be faith in Jesus Christ where the world has lost its appeal, where it appears to man as a vain dazzle and is therefore despised. For the thought of redemption can only take hold in the human heart when this heart is free from earthly desires, when it seriously concerns itself with spiritual things, when the state of the soul worries the person, when he therefore wants to bring help to the soul. Only then does the meaning of the work of redemption become understandable to him, only then does he want to make use of the grace of the work of redemption, and he now consciously seeks contact with the divine saviour, presents all his sins to Him, asks Him for forgiveness of his guilt and commends himself to Him and His grace. Then he has turned away from God’s adversary and his will consciously strives towards the divine saviour and redeemer ….

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The surroundings in which a soul that has departed from life in faith in Jesus Christ now lives are indescribably charming. It can be called a paradise in comparison to the valley of the earth, it is an extraordinarily beautiful region, which is also reminiscent of earthly realms, although it has an incomparably happy effect on the soul. What seemed particularly attractive to the soul on earth it will certainly find in its present surroundings, only far more beautiful and perfect. The soul can lead the same life in the beyond as on earth, as long as this has brought it redemption; thus as soon as earthly life was not an obstacle to spiritual maturity it can dwell in the spiritual atmosphere and therefore its happy state can consist of the joys it longed for on earth. However, advanced souls in particular usually no longer desire such a sojourn. They are already too alienated from the world because they were spiritual seekers. Hence the soul’s present environment will be the kingdom of light, and the children of earth have little access to this kingdom, i.e. it cannot be visualized to them. They are unimaginable creations of a magical abundance of light which are devoid of all earthly works of creation. The soul is guided into the new home in a truly caring way by the beings of light coming towards it, everything around it is radiant light, and the spiritual eye sees the strangest creations of gigantic beauty, always adapted to the previous perception, so that therefore the soul must be happy because it sees and hears and is allowed to possess what gives it greatest happiness. And it will never enjoy happiness alone, but beings will always be together with it, which have the same feeling, the same spiritual maturity and are to fulfil the same tasks. This spiritual concurrence of the sentient life of several souls delights the soul to the utmost. The souls that are spiritually on the same level unite intimately and thus form a harmonious whole without any discord or spiritual conflict. Rarely, however, can it be assumed that such a soul will see again many of its relatives who have gone home before. For rarely have they all had the same spiritual endeavour, and thus the surroundings of these souls are also quite different. And according to their fullness of light they also stay close to earth, i.e. with the souls spiritually related to them. Hence all these souls can also find earthly creations around them, however, only those souls will desire them which are still attached to earth and its possessions. Hence the descriptions of such spiritual reunions should not always be regarded as erroneous, it is just that this sphere should not be considered a goal for a striving soul …. What is comprehensible to people on earth is also still very earthly, very human …. but what goes beyond that is again not so comprehensible to people. These spheres are so overwhelmingly beautiful and harmonious that their inhabitants do not like to come back to earth and also rarely approach their relatives, because this proximity is an unfamiliar atmosphere for them, which they leave again as quickly as possible and turn to their actual home, which offers them so many marvellous things and where through the union with spiritually mature beings ever more radiant light is spread, and this is therefore unimaginable for the children of earth, who themselves still pay far too much attention to the world than that they could penetrate into the purely spiritual area. How life in eternity takes place after death can only be conveyed to very few through spiritual vision, but this much is certain, that only rarely the same connections are made in the beyond that existed on earth. For in the rarest of cases the same spiritual attitude, the same spiritual maturity and the same eager striving towards God can be found in people who belonged together on earth, consequently, only the same spiritual relationship of maturity will result in the unification of the beings in eternity, but these can be human souls who are complete strangers on earth who find each other there in order to be unutterably happy by practising works of love which, in turn, apply to the still imperfect beings on earth and in the beyond ….

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Under the influence of positive forces the development of all beingness has to be an upward striving one, because inflowing power has to lead that what is to perfection. And so the course of development of the being is always guaranteed as long as spiritually mature powers take care of it, while all immature spiritual influences the course of development in a negative way, because then the beingness separates itself from the source of power and becomes weaker in itself, therefore declines. For now a separation takes place in that the spiritual substance joins again with that which had already been its abode before, with matter, which is the most secure means of the spiritually immature beings …. And this connection must inevitably mean separation from the spiritual world, for both cannot exist at the same time. One must always be realized at the expense of the other. Thus, if good spiritual strength is denied access there is also no possibility to ascend, for then opposing forces immediately take possession of the being and pull it down into their realm …. just as, conversely, the being ascends incredibly quickly if no power is granted to those forces, whereas good spiritual strength is desired and therefore also received. Every good thought, every deed of love, every pious prayer and the will directed towards God are requirements of good spiritual strength, thus they already cause the effect of this and thus inevitably already result in the higher development of the being. The desire for earthly good, earthly pleasures, self-interest or unkindness, on the other hand, are unmistakably the work of evil forces; they can never lead upwards, but certainly into the abyss, because they have no constructive but a destructive influence on all beings and can therefore only mean decline for this spiritual being. And so it follows that everything good increases the spiritual in itself, but everything bad has a destructive effect. It also follows that every spiritual endeavour must be successful because the good spiritual is attracted by it, so to speak, and an increase of that which is spiritual substance in itself must take place. For the good strives towards each other, just as the bad seeks to unite, but both paths will be completely opposite, thus must lead to the highest height or the deepest depth, depending on whether the good or the bad forces are allowed access ….

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The work of the spirit of light is unmistakable, even if it wants to be denied from all sides. Nothing the adversary undertakes is of substance, even if he also wants to feign light. It is only vain dazzling work that gives no semblance of itself, while the light from the heavens shines far around. As soon as the human being exposes himself to the rays of this light it will beneficially affect him, and where it does not trigger this effect on the human being it is the human being’s will which does not allow the effect because arrogant thinking, ignorance and false zeal have clouded his vision and weakened his power of realization. For not recognizing God’s work presupposes these human faults …. A fervently pleading thought, a plea to God for right thinking will also bring man clear recognition of what is the work of good or evil forces …. The light from the heavens will not fade, it will retain its luminosity, it will shine into the furthest corners, and those who do not escape its radiance will always be warmed by its rays. But the adversary’s work of deception will soon be extinguished, it will not penetrate the darkness, it will not last, what comes to people as deceptive light from below. And at the time when satan is intent on causing the greatest confusion among people he will certainly want to ignite his sparks everywhere by trying to spread lies; yet the light from the heavens will brightly illuminate his activities and thus the human being will clearly recognize where there is light and where there is darkness if only he is willing to serve God, for his eyes will be sharpened and his soul receptive to the benefit of the light from the heavens ….

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Deep remorse must precede the forgiveness of the guilt of sin; it is the precondition that must be imposed in order to make the earthly child realize the magnitude of his wrongdoing in having sinned against God. He who loves God above all things cannot sin, so sin is always a lack of love, and out of this man transgresses against God. At the same time, however, sin is the fulfilment of the will of the adversary, who always wants what is contrary to God’s will. So man has placed the will of the adversary above the divine will, he has obeyed him but resisted the divine will. The human being must therefore recognize the magnitude of his wrongdoing, then he will also regret it if he has love for God, and then he will also be able to ask God for forgiveness in his heart so that he will now also be forgiven. The confession of sin, the request for forgiveness, is not a formal act, but it rises from the bottom of the heart to the ear of the heavenly father …. And that is the divine in man, that he can recognize when he is good, that he does not grope in ignorance if only his will is turned towards God. He is mentally made to recognize what is right, and if he now acts in accordance with this recognition, then he acts in accordance with the divine will. If the evidence of forgiveness of sins is demanded before the world, before the eyes of fellow human beings, then this is a sign of too weak faith in God’s love. For God looks into the heart and He truly does not need to give outwardly perceptible confirmations of the forgiveness of sins …. His love often gives visible signs that He has forgiven the earthly child’s sins, but the signs must not be taken as mere proof of forgiveness. “If you see no signs, you do not believe,” says the lord, “but blessed are those who do not see and yet believe.” Whoever begs God for mercy in spirit and in truth recognizes his unworthiness and lifts his hands up to the father in prayer. He will be helped out of the distress of his soul, for he wants to go to God, and so God will always help him in the way that serves him. Insofar as man takes his path directly to God, God also comes to meet him. His servants instruct him and show him the right way, and it is better that the human being leaves himself to the spiritual beings in God’s service than that he seeks help from those on earth who call themselves God’s servants and who are still far removed from true divine service. For not all of them are real servants of God, who indeed fulfil the office of such. And if they are truly men after God’s own heart, they must nevertheless not condemn the earthly child who entrusts himself directly to the heavenly father in complete faith …. And this faith will also make him recognize his sinfulness, his lowliness and his need for help …. and he will ask the father for mercy from the bottom of his heart. And that is why God now obviously approaches him and allows His grace to flow to him as a sign that no prayer sent up to Him in spirit and in truth will go unanswered ….

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The righteous will never need to be ashamed of his behaviour, even if he does not always win the approval of his fellow human beings. For the principle of the righteous is to be able to take responsibility for everything he does towards his fellow human beings and also towards God. God will always approve of his actions, but not his fellow human beings, because they only want to recognize what benefits them. However, it is not always possible to derive personal benefit from a righteous act, just as fellow human beings do not always derive earthly blessings from it. But righteous thinking benefits the soul to a great extent, for it demonstrates the inclination towards truth as well as the will to do good. For only he who wants what is good will also call a righteous mind his own. Every righteous act will therefore result in God’s blessing, the righteous-minded person will earn God’s favour and his neighbour will be granted what the unrighteous-minded person sometimes denies him. Acting justly towards one’s neighbour always means doing or giving him the same thing that man himself demands …. Justice can be taught to man well by forcing him from childhood to put his own wishes second and to fulfil first what is necessary for the good of his fellow man. He must be urged to do so by his love, and he must resist resorting to means that can be called obviously unjust. He must always act according to the best of his right and conscience. He must not favour one or the other, but must ask for divine assistance, then it will be impossible for him to do something that goes against justice and he must therefore not fear earthly power either. For the one Who gives people such commandments will also guide the human spirit into correct thinking so that he will always know what is right and wrong and what corresponds to divine will. And he will follow the inner voice which truly advises him right ….

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Those who feel called to work for the lord are subject to spiritual guidance. They are looked after and guided and directed in all love. For if they declare their willingness to be of service on earth, they must be constantly instructed in order to be able to fulfil their ministry. They have a mission to fulfil and this consists first of all in passing on the wisdom that is passed on to them. But then they must also be prepared at all times to allow themselves to be used as the lord’s instrument without resistance; if the lord wants to work through them, they must completely surrender to Him, give up their will and thus carry out the divine will and thereby allow God’s work to become evident to the world. For God’s immense love seeks to win over the followers of the world and seeks a way to their hearts. And a believing earthly child must now form the bridge, since God cannot reveal Himself to them in such a way that He is recognized by them. A will devoted to God is immediately seized by spiritual beings who are responsible for the care of worldly people. They use every opportunity to come to their aid and can achieve great success with the help of this willing earthly child. But they now have to be careful to first transfer their strength to the willing human being so that he can then pass on earthly what was previously imparted to him supernaturally. This is why the spiritual beings are concerned with the perpetual training of those who offer their service to God. They try to make them understand that only continued work in itself results in that state in which God can work through the human being. God can only take possession of a person’s will when he has turned to Him of his own accord …. However, he will only completely submit himself to Him when nothing ties him to the earthly world anymore. Thus the human being must first sever all ties to it; he must voluntarily give up everything that could prevent him from uniting with God; he must give incessantly, for only in giving does he receive, because God Himself unites Himself ever more intimately with him. And if he has thus become love, if God can enter his heart, He can now also work in and through this person. He can now cause him to accomplish things which cannot be carried out earthly, for the human being then no longer does this of his own accord but God Himself is the performer. God now works through the earthly child and makes His greatness known to those whom He wants to win for Himself. And thus heaven and earth unite, i.e., the highest beings from the kingdom of light take care of enslaved humanity and try to bring light to it, and for this purpose they make use of a human being whose will is completely absorbed by divine will and is therefore well suited to serve as God’s instrument. However, he must be deeply devout and recognize God as the highest, most loving and wisest being so that God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence can express itself through this earthly child and guide humanity towards realization ….

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Regulated instruction in the spiritual field provides people on earth as well as the souls in the beyond with comprehensive knowledge, which is also necessary if the being wants to fulfil the task assigned to it as soon as it has entered the kingdom of the beyond, for great work has to be done and this mostly applies to those souls which are ignorant but not unwilling to hear the word of God. These are therefore now supplied with the knowledge they lack and for which they are receptive. If they have a desire for clarification, it is given to them immediately, and every answer stimulates them to eager reflection, and only rarely …. and that in cases of blatant rejection …. souls in the beyond do not pay attention to what they receive, and then these souls do not remain in the vicinity of light-giving beings but are banished to a place where the light-giving beings stay away, where there is profound darkness and correspondingly little-knowing beings reside. These souls can spend endless times there if their desire for knowledge is not aroused. However, the souls who are constantly being taught by beings of light do not leave these beings alone in their distress. They seek them out and give them a description of the activity of loving beings towards people on earth and the souls in the beyond. And such descriptions can cause the ignorant beings to attend an instruction. They then look at the process with still worldly feelings; they see that there are connections between earth and the hereafter, and since they themselves are still very attached to the earthly, they believe to be able to establish the connection with their loved ones likewise. And this causes them to return to the place of instruction time and again, and thus they are also witnesses to how radiant with light the recipient of messages from the beyond is during the time of reception and how beneficially the light emanation is felt by the surrounding beings, i.e., how delighted the souls in the beyond participate in every instruction of the earthly child because their knowledge is thereby increased and they can make countless even poorer souls happy again with this knowledge. Only those who have knowledge can fulfil the task assigned to them, for ignorant beings cannot give anything themselves but only the giving being will be able to redeem itself. But again, only spiritual possessions can be passed on and therefore they first have to become the being’s property, that is, they have to be willingly received by it so that they can be distributed …. For the latter is a serving in love, whereby the being redeems itself. Thus, anyone who receives much can give out much, and therefore the souls in the beyond are tireless listeners to all instructions which take place from the beyond to earth, and knowledge is imparted which, in turn, is the basis for activity with love, for this is the working of love, both on earth and in the beyond, that this knowledge is spread so that light will be given wherever beings are active for each other with love ….

Amen

The path to God is difficult for many people to pass because another path seems more appealing to them, i.e. the path they want to take seems to lead them to the right destination. However, they are unaware of the goal that has been set for them as human beings. And thus they strive for something that does not even remotely come close to the task they have been set for their earthly life. Their strength, their thoughts and endeavours are directed towards solving problems which are extremely unimportant for the salvation of the human being’s soul. They are eagerly in favour of a violent transformation of existing laws, they grant all rights to one person while completely denying them to another, and they call this serving the nation. The last resistance to such reorganizations is to be broken by force, supposedly for the blessing of a nation. The right of free expression is taken away from those who think legally, and only those who endeavour to think in the same direction as those who are responsible for leading the masses are recognized. This direction is therefore decisive, and thus countless people are pushed onto a path that cannot be called the path to God. For this path has many stumbling blocks, it is not the path that leads over thorns and undergrowth but inevitably to the heights. It is a path that may seem to lead straight ahead, but which is always further away from the right goal, from the right knowledge of God. For anyone who wants to recognize God properly must acknowledge all His creatures …. He cannot grant one creature more right to live than another. Anyone who wants to recognize God correctly must regard everything in creation as His work and therefore not least also human beings, who are likewise His product and also have a purpose …. He must respect God’s wisdom, which truly does not bring creatures into the world without a plan. It is therefore not up to people to determine the value of the individual, i.e. to present a certain class of people as valuable and the other as inferior in the eyes of the world and to make their decisions according to this attitude, which are completely contrary to God’s will. The miscalculation consists of the fact that God Himself can intervene in every human destiny if He wants to; and He will also do so if people’s actions take on such forms that there is great danger of completely overlooking the right path to God if the wrong path is taken by all those who deem themselves clever and wise …. and those are ridiculed who choose the narrow path to God in right realization …. Then God Himself will express Himself and His voice will also be heard by those who walk the wrong path, so that they can now decide to leave it and enter the right path which leads upwards …. to God ….

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In a general state of helplessness, it will become apparent how much calmer those people remain in whose hearts deep faith and trust in God is rooted. Where all help seems impossible, they still hope in the help of the lord. And God will never let this hope go to waste. He sends them His help, even if it is not recognizable as such on earth. But He never leaves such asking and trusting people in the distress of their souls. Even if they see the approaching end coming, then He suddenly gives them the inner realization that their earthly career has ended and that they are now exchanging earthly life for a far more beautiful life, so that they therefore gladly and joyfully give up earthly life and no longer ask for its preservation. They now realize that they are fulfilling a mission, that their earthly departure is intended to help other souls to ascend again, and their knowledge of God lets them make the sacrifice with a light heart, but it only appears as a sacrifice to their fellow human beings. Faith and trust make even the most difficult hour easy; always entrusting oneself to God with faith, letting the heavenly father rule at His discretion and expecting everything to come without fear gives the greatest strength. And humanity will need this strength in the coming time, life will be almost unbearable for people who lack faith and therefore also strength. A supernatural activity will be recognized, for earthly power cannot change the disaster that will befall people. However, humanity is reluctant to turn to a supernatural being in prayer and devotion and yet it is the only way to improve the difficult situation. And the earthly burdens will virtually admonish us to pray, and good for the one who does not close his mind to this admonition and finds the path to God by taking refuge in Him. But humanity is very arrogant and even in the face of severe suffering it does not want to bow down. It has no faith in an ever-helpful being and therefore does not call upon this being either. And so the human being sees himself as a creature who has no one more powerful than himself, and a completely wrong direction of thought is built on this wrong basic idea. A calculation can never be correct if a mistake is made right at the beginning. But God still wants to guide this wrong thinking correctly, He wants to make people aware of Himself, He only wants them to believe in Him, to recognize Him as the most powerful spirit of heaven and earth …. And He therefore proves His power to them …. He draws the world’s attention to an extraordinary event, which in turn can only be explained by God’s omnipotence. He throws the forces of nature into turmoil, the lawgiver from eternity overturns certain laws of nature, He expresses Himself to a certain extent through natural forces, but He wants to be recognized and understood as an entity, i.e. to be called upon by people in prayer, because this call of God testifies to faith. Prayer will not be used all too often, for people certainly want to accept a natural power but never believe that a supremely perfect being could make contact with earthly creatures, and therefore they do not use prayer either despite constant inner indications. And now they are in twofold danger of having to lose earthly as well as spiritual life, for anyone who lacks faith in the power and strength of prayer cannot be granted spiritual or physical help, his soul is in a pitiful situation if he loses earthly life and enters the beyond without any faith. For the soul will be just as dismissive of the teachings in the beyond, for the realization of the eternal deity cannot be made accessible to it in any other way than on earth, it will have to bear unspeakable suffering in the beyond and only then will this be taken away from it if it accepts the divine teaching which it rejected on earth …. It will be an infinitely long path it will have to travel in the beyond until it achieves what it could easily achieve on earth, until it longs for God and expresses its will to subordinate itself to the divine will through its desire …. until it is allowed to approach Him in deepest humility, to Whom it was arrogant ….

Amen

The most significant moment in earthly life is the realization of one’s own weakness and the attention of divine grace. Man will never recognize the latter as long as he believes himself to be strong. Only the feeling of weakness enables him to make use of divine grace, i.e. he desires something that takes away his feeling of weakness, and he then recognizes this tangible help as grace, as a gift, offered to him by God in love. And this realization is so significant for him because now, by asking for grace, the human being also consciously establishes a connection with God and this proves both his faith and his desire for God, which will certainly result in the soul’s higher development. divine grace is a means of ascent, divine grace is furthermore already the fulfilment of prayer, it is proof of God’s love; and where this expresses itself the human being need not fear that he will ever be forsaken by God. He need not fear a spiritual decline, but he need not fear earthly either, for the plea for divine grace will never remain unanswered, and standing in divine grace the human being will overcome everything. For divine grace is power that God bestows on people without their merit. Divine grace is not distributed according to worthiness, but all people can receive it without restriction, they only have to desire it and therefore ask for it. However, grace cannot be distributed unasked for. God will only ever draw people’s attention to it or try to encourage them to desire His grace, but He will never give His grace to people who never believe they need it. These people are arrogant; they do not know that they are nothing if God wills it, but they believe that they can master everything in the world by their own strength. God has to show these people His strength, He has to make them helpless so that they then call upon Him for His grace, for then He will impart it to people and only then will the human being’s soul begin to mature. But before that the walk on earth was without great spiritual success, although earthly man certainly found joy and physical satisfaction. Only what benefits the soul has lasting value, but not what the body desires and receives. And if the human being always and constantly asks for grace, the influx will never dry up, and living in divine grace brings the soul unimaginable blessings and is therefore the first and most important thing that must be recognized. For only now does the human being consciously work on his soul if he continuously requests divine grace so that it can flow to him unmeasured ….

Amen

Anyone who does not close himself to the voice of the heart must inevitably do what is pleasing to God, for this voice only sounds where the human being strives towards God, i.e., as soon as he has turned away from God, the inner voice keeps silent …. but not that it also speaks and could persuade man to do evil. The person who gives in to the urging of evil forces …. i.e. does what is contrary to God’s will …. will never again hear inner cries of admonition or warning. He has silenced the voice within him by not obeying it when it admonished or warned him. So if the voice in the heart sounds, it is always the divine voice, and what it tells man to do will always be right before God. A person can therefore never act wrongly if he respects his inner voice and obeys it, because he has the will to do good and therefore cannot act wrongly. Only if he has not yet freed himself from worldly desires, if he wants to fulfil earthly desires, then the enemy will tempt him through these earthly desires, and he will hold all earthly pleasures and desires against the urging of the heart. And then the danger is that the inner voice is not heeded. Then the body has gained the upper hand over the heart. And man’s will has turned towards that which it should overcome. So that will always be the measure of when the divine will is fulfilled, whether the body and its desires are complied with or whether what the human being does and thinks is of benefit to the soul. And the voice of the heart will always demand that a person do what is beneficial to the soul, but will never sound in favour of the body’s desires. Anyone who seriously wants to fulfil God’s will will also hear the inner voice clearly enough, he will always know what God requires of him, he will just sometimes lack the strength to carry it out …. but then he only needs to pray and the strength will come to him. His will and his prayer can do everything. However, if he lacks one of the two, his life is a struggle and a fight until he asks sincerely and wills wholeheartedly …. The will of man can accomplish everything if it is united with the divine will. And prayer should therefore apply to the still weak will, for what is incomprehensible to the human being becomes clear to him if he regards himself as a work of God’s creation which is inseparable from its creator. And therefore the being is also in constant contact with Him and need only want to feel this connection …. through the divine voice which constantly instructs the human being what he should and should not do …. Yet whether he listens to it depends solely on his will, for God certainly admonishes and warns all His living creations but He does not force them to obey Him ….

Amen

And it is My will that a power should be formed on earth which shuns all violence and only exercises its rule with love. And I will call this power into being, I will give it My blessing, I will let it become great and the world shall recognize that it is appointed by Me. In the foreseeable future someone will ascend the throne, that is, I will give him power over many countries, I will appoint people to elect him as their prince, as their ruler, and he will gain the love and esteem of all nations, he will be without falsehood and give Me alone the honour, and therefore I will bless his work on earth …. But before this comes, an unspeakable tribulation will befall the earth, for the adversary still reigns and his influence seeks to destroy. He determines all evil powers to tremendous activity, and thus the earth will be stirred up, all evil spirits will gain the upper hand and earthly measures will be taken which likewise indicate satanic influence, and the worldly ruling power will live without God, and thus the exercise of power will also be …. lawless, brutal and shying away from the light of truth, and humanity will recognize the evil influence ever more clearly and feel the secret desire within itself that this rule may be replaced by a power in accordance with divine will. God has planned this change, but the time has not yet come, for satan’s activity must first be revealed, even to those who are completely committed to it …. For only when the evil is recognized will it also be abhorred, and only then will the good striving of the ruling power be recognized and appreciated accordingly. For God wants people to be governed wisely, even by worldly power; He wants the same relationship to exist on earth between the people and their ruler as God demands of people for Himself …. Man should willingly submit to the power that has been given to him as authority by God. Where the people are governed wisely, they will also be devoted to the authorities and will do everything to establish the best understanding …. the authorities, i.e. the ruler, will always be regarded and honoured as the divine representative, and this relationship between the people and their ruler is in accordance with the divine will, so He will bless both the ruler and the people, because both make the divine will their guiding principle and live for each other ….

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The demon rules the world and its influence is noticeable in the actions and thoughts of mankind. Without shyness, it now commits the most despicable acts. It gives no account of what it does, but outdoes itself in the means of harming its neighbour. For it is the spirit of unkindness that drives them to act and think in this way. People are devoid of all love and this low level of their soul is reflected in their actions. They will never be constructive but always destructive, be it earthly or spiritually. They will want to suppress the truth and spread lies, they will suppress every spiritual trend but approve and favour everything that is hostile to faith, they will not respect property but try to seize it unlawfully. They will not shy away from any means that promise earthly advantage, even if they are despicable, for evil does not ask for justice and fairness but proceeds illegally and with violence. And people are already completely under the spell of evil, they have placed themselves under its power through their desire for earthly possessions, through their unloving nature and their self-love, and therefore the demon has good success with such a kind of humanity. For they fail to ask God for help against the enemy’s power. Instead, it agrees to everything that the evil power demands, and so the divine moves further and further away from it. The separation between God and people becomes more and more visible, indeed, open action is taken against God and His followers. But where the activity of God’s opposing power is so visibly evident, God also expresses Himself just as visibly in order to guide humanity back, He gives extraordinary evidence of His omnipotence and love by awakening people everywhere who proclaim His will to humanity. Yet how few realize this gift of grace and how few comply with the divine will …. What the world does, and thus through it the adversary, is accepted without resistance; however, what God offers people in His great love is first subjected to scrutiny and then often rejected because it is of no earthly benefit. And so the good fights against the demon in man, and if God did not want to help and clearly illuminate the adversary’s work, humanity would be in danger of complete ruin. But God sets limits to the adversary’s work …. He gives the inhabitants of the kingdom of light the task of taking care of misguided humanity and guiding it in such a way that it clearly recognizes the evil as evil and now seeks to serve God with the greatest devotion. And the power of evil will be broken and it will no longer have any influence on the thinking of people who have God within themselves, who love the truth, who believe and testify to their union with God through loving activity …. For these people recognize what is bad and want what is good, and thus they are stronger than the demon, for they have found the divine lord and saviour and the evil power bounces off them without effect …. love is predominant in them, because love is the demon’s fiercest opponent ….

Amen

Anyone who looks to the powers of darkness for an explanation for a process that is good spiritual work is under the compulsion of those very powers of darkness. Man gives those powers power over him through too weak faith. He offers little or no resistance and therefore the opposing power is strong. The endeavour of the latter is to enlarge his kingdom and where work is done for the salvation of erring souls, there the dark forces are particularly active in order to destroy the work of good forces. It takes a strong will to remain superior to those forces. And therefore the human being must fervently pray for God’s grace, for the strength to resist and for the realization of what is right or wrong before God. The heavenly father sees the struggle of His earthly children and stands by them in their adversity if only they do not switch Him off and try to master the difficult situation with their own strength. The struggle between the good and the bad forces is tremendous at this time, for the opposing power is offering everything in order to gain control. However, countless beings of light are also close to earth and their work is equally unimaginable for people. They strengthen the will of God-focussed people so that they will not waver despite the greatest resistance …. (interruption)

Everything that is still bound in form pushes towards liberation. The being is compelled, and it feels the compulsion as torment. However, the compulsion which God exerts on the being by taking away its freedom of will is by no means decisive for the being, but only beneficial insofar as the desire to escape this very banished state becomes strong in it and it now decides to do something it previously refused to do …. that it is ready to serve. So serving also means becoming free. The being that has no real will to do so must also put up with the shackles, it must suffer, and so again the state of suffering cannot be spared the being as long as it refuses to enter into a serving relationship. It must therefore carry out an activity in humility that reduces the state of suffering of another being. It must take upon itself something that the other being should bear; it thereby redeems itself and also the being it serves. The more willingly now the being enters into a serving relationship, the more God loosens the bound will of it, to finally take away every fetter of will from it and to now leave the redemption to it itself, by giving it free decision, that it is therefore no longer forced to serve, but must do this voluntarily, to become free of the last form. Voluntary service, however, also requires knowledge of its meaning and purpose; the being has to be made aware of what earthly life means to it. It cannot be left in ignorance about the meaning and purpose of life, but everything worth knowing must be presented to it before it can be called to account for what it omits to do on earth. It would be of no value if the being were only forced to be of service again, it must be free to serve or also to withdraw from this service. Through the long course on earth before the embodiment as man the being has been shaped in such a way that it is in a certain maturity, therefore has very well the ability to recognize what divine will is. Yet it has to fulfil divine will of its own accord, it cannot be forcibly induced to act and think as a human being, otherwise this would not be a complete redemption, for the will of the opposing power would not yet have been completely defeated. The divine in the human being has only attained sole dominion when the adversary is completely defeated; there must not be the slightest connection between the human being and the adversary, the human being’s desire must rather only be for God, and this desire for Him also determines the human being to serve; He does everything God wants, he has given up all arrogance and moulded himself into love and humility, thus he has redeemed himself from all influence of the adversary and is now also completely liberated from every form which binds him, for the being has now become what it has to be in order to unite with God again …. it has reached its original state …. it is what it was from the beginning …. light and power in from God ….

Amen

The inability to judge spiritual results is again a consequence of inner rebellion against God …. A person need not be a public denier of God, and yet his inner feelings can be directed against everything that reminds him to believe in Him. For if his soul is still at the furthest distance from God it still harbours secret resistance, even though it entered embodiment on earth with the will to free itself from every form. This soul is still too much controlled by the demon, by its greatest enemy, who wants to win the being back for his kingdom. He rebels against the soul, as it were, against everything divine, he holds the dazzling work of earthly life against it, and he tries to present the earthly path to it as the last stage of existence. And now the soul wants to utilize everything for earthly enjoyment. But knowledge of God can only be gained by putting earthly enjoyment to one side. Man must despise the latter, and he must not become a slave to that which is part of God’s counter-power. He must be able to detach himself from everything he holds dear and convey this to his fellow human being in willingness, if the latter lacks it; only then will the influence of evil diminish and thus also the aversion to the divine. An open denier of God can be confronted even more easily by speaking openly about something he rejects. However, it is difficult to give instruction to those who do not openly show their rejection, but carry it all the more stubbornly in their hearts, for they will only rarely respond to it, will neither affirm nor deny it, they will also, being under bad influence, think little about it. And for the sake of such people God expresses Himself clearly, albeit in a way that is not very favourable to them. A natural event often gives even worldly-minded people cause for reflection. They then sometimes begin to visualize the end result of their way of life and the question arises in them: What is everything for? …. Without purpose there is nothing …. What is the purpose of life on earth? …. And then a change of thinking can set in, because at the same time the inclination towards earthly good has become weaker through the realization of the transience of that which the work of destruction has brought to them. For God’s love seeks to win all His living creations for Himself and His kingdom, and anyone who does not recognize God’s love in a carefree earthly existence has to experience hardship and sorrow in order to come to the realization of what he has neglected …. He must transform himself and his thinking, he must become love in order to be able to recognize the highest love ….

Amen

Man’s thoughts move in the direction that corresponds to his will. And it can be concluded from this that the human being can also be held responsible for his thoughts. He therefore makes himself ready to receive such spiritual transmissions which his will does not oppose. He utilizes the power of beings in the beyond who want to give, and depending on whether his will is open to truth or lies, the giving beings are also good or evil. Thus, if the human being feels pushed into thinking, he offers too little resistance to the spiritual power that wants to express itself, and this power now gains the upper hand; good and evil forces want to take possession of the human being. What the human being wants is decisive. Just as he himself is, just as his nature is, so are the beings that approach him. If the human being wants good, then the good beings also approach him, just as the evil will also attracts the evil beings who now want to communicate with him. But a human being is never taught by beings against his will, the will is always the decisive factor for the knowledge he now receives. The thoughts are therefore transmissions from the kingdom on the other side, which the will of man requests. But the will is completely free, it can request what it feels drawn to, but this also results in consequences, and the consequences are now to the advantage or disadvantage of the soul. Thus the will is responsible for the soul’s damage, for all thoughts conveyed to the human being, which are transmissions of lower spiritual beings, cannot but have a negative effect on the soul, and thus the soul’s higher development is jeopardized, whereas every imparting of good spiritual beings must also result in good things again and the will is the reason for spiritual progress. And that is why the striving for truth, the desire for God, depends on human will, every thought is born of human will, i.e., it is only the result of the human being’s decision of will. The thoughts will always be of such a kind that they are in favour of the human will, or also, the human will decides in favour of such thoughts which are founded in his nature. The human being will therefore be called to account if his will strives for thoughts which cause harm to his soul, because he was also free to recognize and desire the good ….

Amen

The individual being covers the earthly path according to its destiny, i.e., one being cannot arbitrarily fulfil the activity or task of another being, since precisely these tasks of the beings in the different embodiments are also different. This is an order in creation which cannot be overturned, that every single creature is destined to an activity which again contributes to the preservation of the whole work of creation. Nothing is without purpose and meaning, so the task of every being must also correspond to this purpose and meaning. Whether it is recognized as such by people is sometimes questionable, for the human being does not possess the knowledge of the correlations in the work of creation, but if he acknowledges God as an extremely wise creator he should not be in any doubt, for nothing in creation can be without purpose which the wisest creator has created. Every individual being is destined to walk its earthly path in isolation for a certain time and then to mature through the fulfilment of the task assigned to it. In the higher development of the beings also lies the possibility of uniting with other, equally mature beings, which now again receive a new shell in order to enliven the earth again as individual beings. And this process of development continues until finally the outer form of innumerable spiritual beings, which were allowed to unite, has become the human body of flesh and now the whole is faced with the greatest and last task on earth to shape itself in such a way that it can leave the earth once without any outer form. Again the being …. the human being …. must now carry out an activity which can bring him the state of maturity, and this activity, which can bring him final liberation, is a conscious activity in love …. Admittedly, the human being also has to fulfil his earthly task independently of the spiritual task of shaping himself into perfection, and earthly activity also contributes towards the preservation of what God has created. But it is only ever the means to an end, for the first and most important purpose of earthly life is the shaping of the soul, which has to be carried out separately from earthly activity. And this always requires the being’s connection with God, for without this it can certainly fulfil all earthly duties and carry out its activity as intended; but the soul can never shape itself according to God’s will, for this requires extraordinary strength which is indeed unmeasured at the being’s disposal but which has to be requested by God, thus the connection with Him has to be established first, which is the first and last goal of all beingness in creation. For the former separation from God was the cause of the emergence of the work of creation, therefore the union with God must be the goal and purpose of everything that God allowed to come into being. The being’s course on earth must ultimately lead to unification with Him, provided the being in the final stage as a human being does not once again misuse its free will and distance itself from God again of its own accord ….

Amen

The slightest will towards God is enough for spiritual help to be sent to a person, and it is therefore wrong to assume that a struggling soul will not find favour in the eyes of the heavenly father, even if it has failed. Whoever seeks Him will certainly find Him, for the father in heaven does not apply the same standard to the transgressions of His earthly children as people on earth do. He does not make it so difficult for His children to find Him, for He Himself comes to meet them and stretches out His hands to the child who longs for Him. And this is why people must be careful not to portray God as so merciless that He could leave in the power of the adversary those who have the will to come closer to Him. Will is the only thing God demands of people. Whoever surrenders his will can always be sure of His help. For no matter how strong the adversary is and how cunningly he works, God’s protection and love are far stronger and can completely liberate a person from that power. But people must want to come to God, and they must do so wholeheartedly …. Then God Himself takes possession of the human heart …. Anyone who seriously wants to and therefore also seeks to serve God by fulfilling His commandments …. whoever is therefore truly active in love will not fearfully shy away from the power of evil, for his faith and love will give him the strength to stand up courageously against the adversary’s hostilities. He will always recognize the stronger power in God and trustingly hand himself over to Him. The call of the divine saviour that comes from the heart banishes all power from the underworld, and that is why deep faith in the work of redemption is the dividing wall against the work of satanic power. Recognizing Jesus Christ as redeemer also means erecting barriers between oneself and the adversary. And where the human being tries to separate himself from evil, the good forces are immediately ready to increase the human being’s strength, they likewise protect the struggling human being who is driven to God by his heart. And that is why a truly struggling person who wants to come close to God will never be without protection against the temptations of evil, for God is love and love seeks to redeem, but it will not stand idly by and watch as people consume themselves in love and longing for God and yet remain captivated by evil power. The will to God is already the rejection of the adversary, and the will is always assessed as to how far it turns towards God …. But every help is granted to man so that his struggle does not remain unsuccessful ….

Amen

The upheaval that will take place both spiritually and earthly is so enormous that we can speak of a turning point in time. The attitude of the whole of humanity towards God has brought it about that a divine intervention can now be expected. There is the necessity of a free decision of men; they must come into such trouble that they are forced to approach a higher being for help, provided they still have a little faith in this highest being in them. And now it will be decided who still has enough faith to take refuge in a higher power …. The right attitude towards God is the only decisive factor in life on earth. And humanity is now in the greatest danger because its attitude towards God is tantamount to rejection. Only something that touches them exceptionally can make them find the right attitude towards Him. And this will always be a turning point in the life of the individual when he spiritually awakens, i.e. when he comes into closer contact with the eternal deity through conscious reflection on infinity and its creator or by calling upon the highest God-being for help. God-willed is the right relationship with Him established of his own accord, that the human being seeks and struggles for realization, that he tries to come close to his creator. However, where the human being’s own impulse is lacking, God wants to come to his aid by directing his destiny such that he needs help and is then prompted to turn to Him for help, so that the connection between the human being and God is also established, even if only as a result of an emergency situation. However, the human being’s thoughts are always directed into other directions, and this alone is a spiritual turning point, for the human being effectively distances himself from earthly things and pays more attention to the unfathomable …. he ponders the meaning and purpose of existence, he gains a different view of his life and yet his thoughts wander into the realm of the eternal. And now it will again be decisive to what extent earthly hardship stimulates people to love each other …. spiritual realization will be correspondingly important, for anyone who shows love to his fellow human being will also receive God’s love and draw him to Himself. And that is why earthly adversity must always result in a certain change of thinking, because it can only be remedied through loving activity. And this is the last means God can use in order to educate humanity to love, thus enabling it to progress spiritually ….

Amen

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

Amen

Everything that can be described as a labour of love is conducive to the soul’s higher development, thus every labour of love is spiritual progress. But then also every overcoming of earthly desires as well as the resistance against all evil is to be seen as such, for the latter means a weakening of the opposing power and an increase of one’s own strength. Man must inevitably reach the heights if he only longs upwards, towards God, and wants to escape the depths by believing in Jesus Christ, the divine saviour and conqueror of death. For anyone who asks God for strength in faith in Him will also receive it, and every influx of strength from God has to increase the soul’s state of maturity and signify the being’s spiritual advancement. And again only the strength of will is decisive as to whether the path upwards has to be travelled with great struggle or without a fight. For when the will is still weak the adversary also struggles to turn the will towards himself again and then it requires inner struggle to become master of the adversary. A strong will, i.e., a will which is unconditionally turned towards God, is not a field of attack for the adversary and therefore the spiritual resistance will not be so great. Yet the human being can easily overcome all opposition if he is active in love, for then God Himself will support him. He does a work for his neighbour which reduces his hardship, thus God distributes the same, He also reduces his hardship and helps where the human being is in danger of failing. And therefore the human being who is active in love must inevitably ascend, his state of soul must reach a certain maturity, for he is in love and therefore also in God, …. for God Himself is love ….

Amen

God has often denied the human being the gift of speech in order to make him small and humble, for an exceptionally well-developed gift of speech will usually also make the human being arrogant. It is also a work of the adversary that he often makes the eloquent person submissive to his will and then uses him as a representative of everything that is directed against God. For a good speaker will find considerably more followers than a person who lacks the words to make his opinion known. The man who lacks words, on the other hand, will usually think more deeply, and thus the pure truth will also be more easily recognized by him, while the eloquent man speaks more superficially about everything that moves him and, since he likes to hear himself speak, uses his eloquence to talk ramblingly about trivial matters, so that his speeches are of no particular value. A certain self-love is often to be found in such people, and therefore they will never accept other people’s opinions, but will only be satisfied if their opinion is recognized. And that is why they talk incessantly, to please themselves, but without conveying anything of value to their fellow human beings. If they wanted to use their gift of oratory by speaking for the lord, spreading the teachings of Christ and helping erring souls onto the right path, then they would use God’s gift properly and it would only bring blessings for humanity and for the speaker himself. But precisely such people want to hear little of this and are more willing to speak against what is God’s will, for where self-love is represented there is a lack of realization of the truth and they are therefore of little faith, which is why they cannot represent with conviction what they themselves do not understand and therefore do not believe. And therefore God has to awaken people and give them the gift of speech so that they should stand up for Him and His name and confess God’s activity in the world. And these will speak according to His will, they will fight with the sword of their mouth, and their gift of speech will convince people because arrogance no longer speaks from those proclaiming the divine will but their wisdom was received in deepest humility of heart. And so the value of the spoken word can be recognized by whether humility or arrogance speaks from the speaker, and the effect on fellow human beings will be accordingly. The blind and ignorant will accept the speech of the arrogant, but those who see, to whom the light of the spirit already shines, will recognize divine truth if it is offered to them by speakers who want to serve God. If a person wants to pass on the word of God to his fellow human beings he will be able to speak as if with the tongues of angels, the words will be put into his mouth, as it were, and he will be able to speak like the greatest speakers and represent what he speaks to people with full persuasiveness. And thus the gift of speech can serve to reproduce the adversary’s whisperings, but it can also be a divine gift of grace in order to represent divine wisdom. And the characteristic of both speakers will be love for one’s neighbour or self-love ….

Amen

Every world catastrophe is preceded by signs so that humanity can recognise its approach, for God at all times has proclaimed them through His Word, and by paying attention to these signs you will know that now the time has come; and thus you also know that you have to prepare yourselves so that you will not be heading towards total destruction. Whatever God does, and thus also allows to come upon earth, is determined by humanity’s will, that is, human will does not directly draw the catastrophe near but its wrongness is the reason for it. Human will is misused on such a scale that a world catastrophe has to be the inevitable consequence of it, for this misguided will can only be directed onto the right track by something completely unexpected, effectively by something unnatural. Hence, the more the human will moves into the wrong direction the more urgent becomes the divine intervention, for precious earthly time is passing by without providing the being with the necessary higher development. Misused will, however, can never support higher development but only prevent it.

The events of the time, the ever increasing unbelief, the anti-Christian efforts and the messengers of His Word which are spiritually awakened by God ought to remind you that the time has come which the Lord mentioned on earth. And thus you shall be diligent and consider your soul’s salvation. And regardless of how implausible it seems to you that a disaster is intended to occur on earth, just bear in mind that nothing is impossible for God, that everything can happen if it is God’s will. And the fact that it is God’s will is based on people’s own behaviour, on their wrong attitude towards Him. If earthly life is given to people for a specific purpose but they fail to live in accordance with this purpose then they will let a divine gift of grace go by unused, and God will warn them just once more with stern Words which no one can ignore. Human will alone is the reason for a work of destruction of inconceivable proportions and when the Lord proclaimed this He foresaw people’s wrong will. Yet it is His will to win back misguided humanity and therefore He applies the last resort, which certainly seems to be an act of infinite cruelty, nevertheless, it is only motivated by divine love and mercy, for countless people will attain realisation, and they will be saved for all eternity ….

Amen

To hear the living word is an extraordinary grace that must be constantly asked for, as it cannot be imparted without being asked. Just as the desire of the earthly child rises from the depths of its heart to the heavenly father, it will be considered according to that very desire. But the path to Him must have been travelled first, prayer must establish the bridge from the human being to God, the open vessel must have been provided so that the divine gift of grace can flow into it. And thus God offers Himself to people in the word, for God is the word from eternity. He unites Himself with every person who seeks Him and longs for Him, yet not always so obviously, for He distributes His gift in such a way that it corresponds to its purpose. People must be offered extraordinary proofs of His love at times in order to strengthen faith in those who doubt or to convert complete unbelievers to faith. Everything that belongs to the daily phenomena of life loses its effect …. Even in this form, the word of God offered to people would soon become commonplace and thus make no impression on most people. Hence this process is only outwardly recognizable if it is divine will, i.e. if it is necessary to provide erring humanity with evidence of God’s visible activity, but then the earthly child will be allowed to hear the divine word at any hour, in any place and in any situation in life if only its will establishes the connection with the heavenly father and it attentively listens to what the father reveals to it. Hearing his voice should be a heartfelt desire, nothing else should be longed for and every available time should be used to serve the lord and at the same time receive the highest grace ….

Amen

It is indescribably commendable to spread the Word of God. That which is conveyed to people through God’s grace shall not remain the sole property of the individual but shall be passed on to the many people who require it for their soul’s salvation. Humanity is in serious trouble, it is so distant from God that it does not even recognise His will anymore and goes through earthly life in complete ignorance. However, the human being needs to know what God expects of people, consequently the information has to be imparted to them. And for this reason earthly children who are willing to be of service to Him are chosen by God with the task of making His will known to people. He Himself instructs them first so that they can subsequently pass on their knowledge to fellow human beings. The human race would perish without active help, and active help can only be found in the Word of God. But at the moment everything is rejected by people if it admonishes them to remember God or if they are taught about God in the usual traditional way. This is why God gives His Word to people again …. He provides them with an explanation about their purpose and their task …. He wants to come closer to them through His Word, He wants to familiarise them with everything pertaining to the creation; He reveals to them the correlation of all things and gives them the commandments, which are the basic conditions for their ascent to God. And willing people shall help to distribute the divine gift; they shall diligently strive to make the divine revelations accessible to the human race; as God’s eager servants they shall always and forever make His activity known; they shall let their fellow human beings partake in the delectable gift of grace, so that the divine Word will find acceptance among people, that it will strengthen their faith and motivate them to do whatever it takes in order to live in a God-pleasing way …. thus to fulfil the commandments of love for God and their neighbour. Only when a person has knowledge of God’s will can he be held to account if he does not live up to them. Admittedly, uninformed people cannot be held to account but neither can they utilise their life on earth and attain a higher degree of spiritual maturity, for they would have to be extraordinarily lovingly active of their own accord, that is, love must be within them, but in that case they will also know the meaning and purpose of earthly life and their task. For God imparts His Word to everyone who desires it, it is just not always outwardly noticeable except in the shape of mental transmissions. But those who receive the Word such that they are able to write it down are particularly responsible for the distribution of this Word, for they receive much grace and shall therefore also share it. They shall proclaim the Gospel to all those who do not reject it ….

Amen

The hour of death has become the subject of insurmountable fear for many people, they are anxious and afraid of every thought of it, and this is always a sign of insufficient maturity of soul. The soul unconsciously recognises its deficient condition and perceives that the death of the body is the end of its earthly existence …. it intuitively senses that it has not made the best use of its earthly life, hence the human being finds the thought of death frightening. The uncertainty after death disturbs him, he is full of doubt about life after death yet he is not entirely convinced that his life is finally over either. And precisely this uncertainty about the ‘afterwards’ makes him anxious about the hour of separation from this world. The more mature a human being is the less he is affected by the thought of death, the reason for this rests in the realisation that the real life does not start until after the death of the body. Prerequisite for entering the spheres of light is the ability to surrender the earthly life with an easy heart as then the human being is no longer attached to earthly possession, he has overcome matter ….

Everything the human being leaves behind on earth are earthly possessions which should no longer be desired but gladly and joyfully abandoned. Everything the human being holds dear on earth he should be able to give up with an easy heart, then his departure from the world is easy. There should be nothing to hold a person back or the release from earth would always be a fight. Consequently every desire should be overcome at an early stage so that death can approach the human being at any hour and never take him by surprise. Equally decisive for the physical ending of the human being is the will for God because anyone who longs for God is happy when his earthly life comes to an end. Spiritually he is already in those spheres and just yearns for the hour which finally takes him where the spirit wants to go, to his true home. Hence the hour of death can mean anxiety, fear and horror for one person, while for the other it can be the granting of what he had long dreamt of and hoped for. It is the release from every form for him, it denotes his entrance into the eternal kingdom, into everlasting glory ….

What the human being regards as death can be his entrance into eternal life if he has lived life consciously, i.e. with God, and is therefore mature for life in eternity …. However, it can also really signify death, the soul senses this and fears the hour that will inevitably come when the time of earthly life, which God has designated for the human being, is concluded. Every human being should therefore think of the hour of his death and in view of it live his earthly life consciously, i.e. to improve his soul that it may achieve the degree of maturity which guarantees an easy and painless passing over from earth into the eternal kingdom ….

Amen

I am with you every day and you can always expect My grace. The path of suffering on earth is the rungs of the ladder upwards. Rung by rung you must try to climb and therefore also accept every suffering I send you. For one day you will be grateful to Me when you look back on your earthly path, for My love is always your constant companion, and if you keep this in mind you will look forward to the coming time full of confidence and everything will seem bearable to you, for you know that I will carry it with you as it were. Every pain shall mature you and bring you closer to Me …. But if you need My help in prayer, you shall not be deceived. I know about your needs and only wait for you to come to Me so that I can help you. And therefore only let Me rule at all times and do not be unbelieving but believing. For the need is not greater than the helper, and what appears to you as suffering I will change into joy if you believe and let Me rule ….

Amen

Every person is unfree who feels that he belongs to the church …. i.e. who holds on to a certain tradition …. without finding inner satisfaction in it. He does what he is supposed to do according to the rules, but has neither the firm belief that he is coming closer to God through his actions, nor does he himself establish a connection with God, precisely because he lacks faith. Moreover, it is precisely these people who think little about God and the right faith. They have, as it were, been forced into something that prevents them from having their own opinions. And such faith is of little value before God, for it is not true faith but merely the mechanical fulfilment of humanly decreed commandments without any human thought. To believe without doubt that God is …. that He is an exceedingly loving being Who wants to transfer His love to all creations …. and then worship this being, have complete faith in Him and now follow Him in every way …. by fulfilling His commandments, loving Him above all else and his neighbour as himself …. this brings every human being closer to God and also earns him His undivided love. This person then lives his life consciously following Jesus, he lives the pure Christian teaching, he belongs to the true church of Christ, because he is a believer according to divine will. He keeps away from humanly decreed commandments and instead eagerly endeavours to make himself a bringer of blessings to humanity by being willing to serve God and thus stand up for the true faith, which the world has already completely lost …. For only now can what is right be proclaimed to the world again; only now can the truth be commanded from above and faith become a living faith again because God Himself speaks to people and tells them which path is the most practicable and still leads to the goal …. How little the world adheres to what alone is right before God and what is to be understood by the true church of Christ. Yet how eagerly it often follows what is demanded by the earthly church …. and yet what has so little value before God because it does not contribute in the slightest to the higher development of the soul ….

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The secret of divine reign and activity in creation is hidden from you humans, that is, you will not outwardly recognize how the development of all beings takes place, how spiritual and earthly activity are related to each other and what possibilities of development the beings have in order to prepare themselves for the final goal in eternity. To a certain extent this must also remain a secret as long as the human being has no deeper interest in revealing this secret …. but he is not prevented from penetrating into something unfathomable for the general public. There are barriers in place, but man can tear them down if he wants to. A curtain has been drawn, as it were, to conceal something that humanity would not be able to grasp. However, anyone who wants to take a look behind the curtain is not denied this; on the contrary, he is given the greatest possible information, he is allowed to lift the veil that is spread over the reign and work of God as often as he wants. There is a wise reason why God withholds this knowledge from the general public. The empty knowledge …. that only the human mind, but not the heart, would receive would have no spiritual value whatsoever and would only lead to an unprecedented confusion of human thinking. Spiritual activity can only be grasped with the spirit, and again, nothing in creation can be understood until the spiritual purpose is made clear, for the earthly work of creation is based on spiritual causes. The will to get to know the deep meaning of everything that is created also results in the opening up of knowledge; the human being then learns to recognize the earthly purpose of the works of creation as secondary and to attribute the deeper meaning to the spiritual purpose. And now he lifts the veil because he wants to become knowledgeable …. The will is the basic condition. Something should not be spread out before the eyes of the non-willing, which would make the knowing-willing unspeakably happy, but would be received by the former completely unimpressed. What now remains a secret to the latter is like an extremely informative book for the knowledge-seeking person, into which he can immerse himself at will and draw the deepest wisdom from it. He now begins to understand the spiritual currents, he recognizes the work of God, he recognizes the connection between the individual works of creation and their purpose; and now he also understands his mission. He now lives consciously, whereas the ignorant person lives his life uselessly, i.e. only fulfils his earthly task …. He walks outside the curtain, he passes by it and does not know what glories are hidden behind it. Divine love does not withhold the knowledge of His work and reign from any human being. God only sets conditions. So man sets the limits for himself. If he fulfils the conditions, the gift that is now offered to him is also unlimited …. Otherwise, however, he excludes himself, he closes the eyes that could see and the ears that could hear …. He does not avail himself of divine grace, to his own detriment. This spiritually gained knowledge could now be imparted from person to person, but even now the curtain would be drawn again, for the human being who does not seriously want it also lacks the power of cognition. Thus the will is again necessary in order to be able to understand what is presented to him about God’s activity and reign in creation. Man can pass his earthly life without having gained the slightest knowledge about this divine secret, but one day it will be revealed to him when he has reached the heights in the beyond. But he will undeniably progress faster in his higher development if he already acquires the knowledge about it on earth, for now all his thoughts and actions can become a blessing for him because he lives life consciously, because he utilizes the spiritual currents and thus is in close contact with the spiritual strength and its giver, who has therefore, as it were, reached the goal which was set by God for every work of creation …. consciously turning to God …. which is the goal and purpose of all creation. The knowledge of everything makes it easy for man to turn to God, the slightest will towards God also imparts knowledge to man, therefore the will must always first become active, but then man can record greatest spiritual success, because he becomes knowing and also enters into intimate contact with God through the knowledge and its imparting ….

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God’s love allows perfect spiritual beings to enter into contact with imperfect earthly people. In His will threads are spun from the hereafter to earth, and yet little attention is paid to these connections. It should be the greatest experience for a person when he is informed that God Himself expresses Himself and reveals His will …. However, it hardly touches most people and only a very small number recognize this process as something unusual and are delighted by God’s obvious gift of grace. It is like an impenetrable fog that has spread over people’s souls and the rays of the spiritual sun are unable to break through this fog. And again, it is as if people are resisting recognition. They don’t want to be led out of the darkness into the light at all, they don’t feel their state of soul to be so deficient that they want to remedy it; they feel comfortable in their ignorance and therefore don’t desire knowledge, and that is extremely regrettable, for the most precious gift of grace passes them by unused. And even those who seek God lack the right understanding, for they are not unbiased. They have become entangled in the views they have gained and can no longer get away from them. They are aware of divine activity, but their hearts do not hunger for divine wisdom and so they cannot receive it either, or they do not recognize this miracle as such. They regard the received wisdom as a product of human thought and therefore do not attach deep value to it. Nor do they depart one iota from the teachings imparted to them by men, and these cannot be completely united with the divine teachings. However, they refuse to abandon the old false doctrine, and therefore no matter how obvious God’s utterances may be, only those people will believe who are completely uneducated in spirit, i.e. whose degree of knowledge is insignificant and who are therefore not respected by the world. They will have a finer sense and also clearly recognize the bond that God’s intimate fatherly love has forged with people on earth. And this bond is unbreakable …. God’s love gives rise to something that will endure throughout eternity. He wants to bring salvation to many people through it, to lead them to realization and to living faith, for anyone who recognizes God’s visible activity in this process must inevitably also attain profound, living faith; this is the surest sign of the divine mission, that it requires faith in an unsurpassable deity and that this faith will result in the greatest success. If the human being can muster this faith then it will also be easy for him to acknowledge and understand God’s activity, for then he will also recognize a kingdom outside of earth and the connection between the two is by no means impossible for him, because then he will also believe in God’s infinite love and find in it the reason for everything that exists. God gives His word to people, and this is the surest sign of His love, and blessed are those who accept it in profound faith and respect God’s will, which He reveals through it ….

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Nothing in the world can be detached from the power that sustains everything. Because without this power there is no existence. A detachment from the all-sustaining power would therefore be tantamount to ‚no longer being‘. And so everything that exists must bear witness to a power that has no other origin than God Himself. For something must exist where the power emanates …. there must be a source of power. What the source of power is called is the same as long as it is only recognized once. To be able to imagine an entity as a source of power is only the consequence of recognizing it. As long as man is aware in his innermost being of a power that sustains the work of creation, he does not deny the eternal deity, for he recognizes that very power as something divine, even though he does not clothe it in a form. He must only always affirm the connection with every work of creation and thus also regard himself as such a work of creation, which is, as it were, in the closest connection with that all-sustaining power. But insofar as he disputes the connection of the creating power with the created things, to which therefore man also belongs …. i.e. he considers created things, once they have come into being, to be independent of the creating power, then he denies God, no matter what he imagines the term ‚God‘ to mean. For then he presents everything in creation as an inherently conditional event that has just come into being without a plan, without meaning and without purpose. He then denies the entire work of creation a wise reason, a connection between the individual creations and a purpose. Then he recognizes no purpose in what he sees, but sees everything merely as the product of a process that is constantly and continuously repeated, but which cannot be evaluated in any depth, i.e. to which neither reason nor purpose can be attributed. In his view, what is, has arisen of its own accord and has neither a designer nor a controller above it; it therefore has neither a deeper meaning nor a specific purpose other than that which man himself has given it. He denies any possibility of a connection between the one work of creation and the other, and for him man as such is only a completely isolated creature which, depending on its ability, should now fit into the whole of creation and extract the greatest possible advantages from what is around it. And then he gives every work of creation, including the human being, just the short span of time of its existence and is convinced that after this short existence on earth it will dissolve into nothing again and pass away …. Such a view is totally erroneous. If the eternal deity, in accordance with this view, were to cover creation with His power, i.e. sever the connection with the works of creation, as man imagines, then suddenly there would be nothing more, for insofar as the power that sustains everything is withdrawn from the creature, its existence is over. Thus, even without being acknowledged, God continues to grant His strength to the human being who denies Him …. Earthly, therefore, the erroneous opinion has little detrimental effect, but spiritually the disadvantage is unimaginable ….

The more stubbornly man persists in his view that creation certainly betrays a natural power but is not the working of an exceedingly perfect being, the more the spiritual in him seeks to detach itself from the all-sustaining power, and the will to distance itself also reduces the supply of strength, so that this spiritual remains unredeemed. Not wanting to recognize an essential deity is a rejection of the strength which God wants to impart to people. The human being has lost all sense of belonging to God, despite his long earthly life he is still in the most blatant rejection of Him; he denies Him because his spirit does not want to acknowledge Him, which is now expressed through a completely erroneous view of the work of creation and its origin. Whoever believes himself to be completely independent of the creating power, i.e., whoever does not feel closely connected to this power, is also not so insofar as he deprives himself of the supply of strength which results in spiritual realization. Denying God must result in spiritual decline, for the human being exalts himself if he believes that he can shape his earthly life completely independently …. God’s adversary will always support such people by trying to reinforce this erroneous opinion and thus want to determine the human being to rebel against the assumption that an essential deity rules the universe and determines the fate of the individual person. This person then perceives such a thought as a burden and oppression and therefore rejects it and believes that he can free himself from the deity if he rejects It. And he sins against God anew because he does not utilize the grace of embodiment as a human being, thus he can hardly establish the connection with God and thus lives his earthly life in vain ….

Amen

There must be no confusion about the fact that only the spiritually advanced human being can establish contact with the forces in the beyond with the result that divine wisdom and unlimited knowledge will be imparted to him. If connections with the beyond are established without the necessary spiritual maturity, then such opportunities are also utilized by immature beings in the beyond, and the result is conscious and unconscious deception by evil and ignorant forces. We can only warn against such connections, for they bring neither spiritual advantage to people nor to the beings in the beyond but are a great danger to them. People may call upon good spiritual forces at any time for protection, help and also for spiritual instruction. And they will always be ready for the children of earth. But then a silent call in thought is also sufficient. But if man seeks to establish a visible connection with the expectation that the powers on the other side express themselves recognizably, then a certain spiritual maturity is precondition that now knowing powers make themselves known, and indeed the powers will express themselves, which are desired and called upon by the earth child hungry for knowledge. Spiritually immature people have no desire for the pure truth but only seek information about earthly questions, and their whole thirst for knowledge only consists of finding out as much as possible about earthly life, about the future and about earthly successes. And thus such wishes are granted by likewise earthly-minded beings in the beyond. Understandably, however, such communications cannot result in success for the soul, and therefore they would have been better omitted if they did not stimulate the human being to think about life after death and the actual task during earthly existence. Then also such connections can mean an advantage for the soul, provided that man does not immediately reject such thoughts, but they are now the cause that man goes into himself and now changes his life accordingly. Then such a carelessly established connection will also have brought blessings if the human being then seriously establishes the mental connection with the good, knowing forces, since he now believes in them and calls upon them in complete faith in their working ….

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It remains a futile endeavour of the world to completely detach people from Christ, that is, to alienate His name from them and to eradicate His teaching. Although it will appear as if the worldly power is to succeed in this, it will only be able to force people to deny Jesus Christ up to a certain limit, but then it will also work for it to the same extent as against it. And Jesus’ disciples will also have a power at their disposal that far surpasses worldly power. Only by invoking His name will they accomplish things which are impossible for worldly power, and this will increase the number of Jesus’ followers, and then people’s faith will come alive and the reputation of worldly power will diminish to the same extent as faith in Jesus Christ will grow. And the earthly power will not look upon it with favour, it will rather try with all its might to shake the faith in Jesus Christ; it will adopt a threatening attitude and threaten the harshest punishments to those who stand up for the spreading of the divine word and thus profess to be followers of Jesus. These will have to bow to earthly power and will be subjected to great tribulations. But even if it may seem earthly, as if all power is on their side, they will be unable to do anything against the power of faith of those who fight for God. These will manifest themselves through obvious signs and wonders that God Himself works in and through the believers. And where the believers no longer know what to do, there God Himself will appear and tell people what they should do, and people will speak when and how God wills it, and all measures which the world and its representatives take in order to eradicate faith in God, in the divine saviour, will be weak human work. They will have little success and this will increase their indignation to such an extent that they will make decrees upon decrees, but without real success, without reaching their goal. Many will certainly fall away from faith in Jesus Christ during this time, but those who stand firm and profess Him will endure the harshest trials; they will no longer surrender what they possess because Jesus Christ means far more to them than what earthly power can ever offer them ….

Amen

Man can seldom be persuaded to accept a teaching which appears to him to be annoying, and therefore it must be offered to him in such a way that any discord is avoided. It must first be objectively justified and the human being must recognize that only God’s love gives such a teaching for the sake of his ennoblement. Man is shown what he should do and how he should be in order to become perfect …. He must be instructed, commandments must be imparted to him and he must willingly submit to everything that is demanded. Then the teaching from above is successful, then it brings him what its purpose is …. the degree of maturity of the soul, which is a prerequisite for entering eternal life. The teaching of Christ now encompasses all the commandments, the fulfilment of which contributes to the shaping of the soul according to God’s will. People are given guidelines to which they must adhere; they are taught by God what is right and what is wrong, what they should do and what they should not do. And if they now want to live in a way that is pleasing to God, if they want to serve Him and gain His love, they must adhere strictly to the fulfilment of these commandments, even if they do not particularly appeal to them. The fulfilment of God’s commandments will always require self-control, it will demand renunciation or overcoming, and the human being will always have to give up something if he wants to fully comply with the divine commandments. Because fulfilling the commandments always means self-denial. God has issued these commandments because people strive for precisely the opposite of what God wants and expresses through His commandments. He must therefore impose a certain compulsion on people, they must, as it were, fight against a strong desire within them, which they would not do, however, if it were not demanded by God, and the consequence of this would be that they would give in to the inner desire and their state of maturity would be highly jeopardized. God has laid down in His commandments everything that is necessary for people to observe, and He has summarized these commandments in His commandment of love: to love God above all things and your neighbour as yourself. Whoever faithfully fulfils these two commandments will do everything that God tells people to do through the ten commandments. And so the divine teaching will only ever exhort us to love, and anyone who endeavours to live in love will also live entirely in accordance with the divine teaching. He will not need to be given any special commandments, for he will, out of himself, because he lives in love, also show his love to every person; he will shy away from everything that goes against the divine commandments, for since he has already moulded himself into love, he cannot do anything other than give love and will always live his life in accordance with the divine teaching ….

Amen