It is an urgent commandment of neighbourly love to inform fellow human beings of their task on earth if they have not yet fully grasped it and are in danger of developing regressively. The shaping of the soul remains unnoticed by such people and therefore no influence whatsoever can be exerted on him before he knows his actual purpose on earth. Every opportunity should therefore be used to enlighten the fellow human being, for his soul is in greatest need.

The human being should place complete trust in divine guidance if he wants to be a believer. Nothing is thoughtlessly permitted by God but destined to be carried by the human being for the soul’s higher development, and as long as he now humbly submits to everything God sends him, every event will be of benefit to him. The trials imposed on the human being will either make him waver or strengthen him in faith, but they are part of the battle of life which has to be passed if it is not to have been waged in vain at the end of earthly life. Only a life which was a constant struggle for the human being will bring spiritual progress to the soul, and consequently the blessing will only be recognizable in eternity. But then it will also become apparent what loving guidance was given to the human being on earth and that he had to take this path, that it was the only right one in order to be able to record spiritual progress. How often man grumbles and complains and wishes for a life of carefree and easy living. And he does not know how foolish such wishes are, how often their fulfilment can endanger the soul. That is why everything should be received from the father’s hand in faithful trust. For the more faithful a person is, the more likely he is to present his misfortune to the father in heaven and the more convinced he is that God will help him. But God only requires people to believe in His love and trust in His mercy. And He will give His love and mercy to everyone who comes to Him in such adversity. And thus, if faith is strong and withstands all external challenges, the earthly course will be successfully covered and the soul will rejoice and be glad when it is released from its physical shell and can now reap the fruits of a properly utilized earthly life. The struggle on earth has certainly come to an end now, and yet the being is not idle in the beyond, for the salvation of countless souls depends on diligent activity again …. And thus this is yet another battle which the being now has to fight again, namely with those forces which still harass the souls in the beyond which did not muster all their will on earth in order to overcome all opposition …. Their struggle continues and the souls still fighting in the beyond are assisted by immense forces so that the oppositions will finally be overcome and the soul will find peace ….

Amen

The urge for truth fills all people who strive towards God, and that is why God is also close to these people. He meets them by proclaiming the truth to them or having it imparted to them by bearers of truth who are in God’s service both on earth and in the beyond. The bearers of truth must therefore constantly receive and pass on the truth, they must always be willing to receive as well as hand it out, then they will constantly connect the person longing for the truth with God. For what they receive is from God, consequently they also convey the divine to the one who allows himself to be taught, and thus every process of spiritual communication is a union with God which lasts as long as divine teaching is received. And this union with God is tantamount to a transmission of strength which has an inconceivably beneficial effect on the human being’s spiritual state. For what is offered to a person can never be taken away from him, even if his intellect has not yet fully grasped it and he is not yet fully aware of what he has received. The divine gift, once imparted to an earthly human being who is willing to receive it, will remain with him for all eternity. But man must always be willing to receive, if what is offered to him is to carry blessing. For if it is passed on out of love but unwillingly listened to, it remains ineffective, i.e., it only resounds in the ear but not in the human being’s heart, and even the intellect cannot grasp it. For the willingness of the heart is absolutely necessary. If God Himself offers a gift, He also demands that His gift be honoured. He will therefore no longer be present where there is no desire for God and therefore no desire for the truth. Then the word of God is only an external word that remains without effectiveness and power. However, divine love nevertheless tries to come close to those people by manifestly revealing Himself …. It is His will that the word should also be conveyed to them, that people should try to explain something to themselves intellectually so that, if they do not succeed, they will nevertheless seek the origin in a supernatural power and try to come closer to the divine. The ignorant will become wise, but the unwilling will always remain in the same ignorance. But as soon as an earthly child opens itself and listens to the voice within itself, everything that is instructive becomes active. The process of spiritual mediation is merely a product of the will. The beings in the beyond are always willing to give but the human being is not always willing to receive, consequently he alone determines the teaching activity of those beings and therefore also the abundance of divine gifts …. He himself has it in his hands what is offered to him. And therefore it is of utmost importance that the human being makes his heart willing to receive. He should joyfully and longingly receive the gift, then precious things will be offered to him …. And this testifies to his love for God, and God draws close to him as soon as his heart longingly beats towards Him. And His spirit fills him and his thoughts flow towards him in an incomprehensible way …. The God Who thus draws close to people tries to draw them to Himself and influences them with profound love …. He wants to be desired in order to then be able to give out unmeasured …. He wants to be loved in order to be able to give love …. He wants to teach in order to make people wise and thereby happy, and He wants to make contact with them because they are His creatures by whom He wants to be recognized as creator ….

Everything around you will pass away; the spirit from God will announce this to you and you shall receive His message in the deepest faith in God’s love, omnipotence and wisdom …. The voice will sound audibly to you when the day has come that calls you to action for the lord. What lives on earth is in great danger, for the great event is being prepared that will end countless human lives and will be the time for you to dedicate yourself to the task the lord has set you. And you will need great strength and should draw it from His word. And when the earth will shake, then you should seek the connection with Him Who is close to you and Who will protect and guard you. And then you will experience great things and divine strength will flood through you …. For the lord equips all those who want to serve Him with great strength. The events of the time will cause you great excitement and then the day is not far away, then take notice of how God announces Himself to you …. His spirit will constantly be with you, you will hear His voice if only you want to hear it, and you will be knowledgeable and speak without shyness, for the lord Himself speaks through you. And then remain in love, for then you will become ever more perceptive and be able to proclaim God’s will to your fellow human beings …. God Himself draws near to you and His will has chosen you so that you proclaim His word to those who are of good will ….

Amen

The path of the flesh must be travelled by every being that wants to become free from bondage. Until the being has completed its earthly life in embodiment as a human being it cannot enter the spiritual kingdom free and unbound. But the beingness will also strive for embodiment as a human being in order to finally become free from the constraint which every external form means for the beingness. And that is why it takes up the earthly battle with full consent. It feels up to the task and is not afraid of it, and therefore the souls will push themselves to be conceived into the flesh in order to be able to fulfil their final task. They have previously been shown the path on earth and also the degree of maturity they can attain through this earthly life. Furthermore, the measure of grace is also presented to them, which enables them to mature, and therefore the soul does not hesitate to start the last course, even though it is now deprived of the awareness of the soul’s pre-formation and now begins its earthly existence in complete ignorance. The more willing to serve the soul was before, the more it is now up to the earthly demands, i.e., it will also master earthly life, since it has declared its willingness to redeem itself through service. Admittedly, the human being will now come into situations in life where the will to serve will be shaken in him; he will get to know life with all its joys and comforts, and now the soul must prove to itself whether it is still willing to serve. For it must go through resistance and prove itself in the face of this resistance. So it now puts the previously cherished will into practice, and only this earns it liberation. The will to serve earned it the grace of embodiment as a human being, but the active will releases it again from the final form …. If, however, the will does not become active, then it has to a certain extent illegally acquired embodiment as a human being; it has not fulfilled what it promised to do. And it is itself the sufferer, for the hour of liberation from spiritual fetters has by no means struck for it, even though it is seemingly freed from its outer form through the death of the body. Nevertheless, it takes the form with it into eternity, i.e. it still feels the shackles of the spirit just as agonizingly as before the earthly body. And it has to feel the shackles until it decides to serve in love …. No being can be spared the path on earth in the flesh; but it cannot be spared serving in love either, and if it does not do the latter on earth it only prolongs its bound state and in fact its time on earth. For the immature soul will not be able to separate itself from earth until it has fulfilled its serving activity, even though it has already left earth. But the will to serve will often only be very weak in the beyond. And it will require twice as much strength to realize this will. And therefore it is far more difficult to finally become free than on earth, where the slightest will brings the strength from God to the person and he can effortlessly fulfil his earthly task …. to serve in love in order to become completely free from the form ….

Amen

Whatever earthly life may bring you, never forget Him Who is your father from eternity, Who loves you dearly, you who are His children and Who therefore wants to help you attain eternal bliss. How incomparably blissful the thought must be for you that you are always cared for by this love …. that God’s eye watches over you and that His arm protects you from all hostile force. And if you are full of faith and entrust all your sufferings to Him, He will also take them from you and lead you through every danger, for His love does not want you to suffer. But if you do not reach your goal by other means, He will use the last resort, suffering, to help you. For a life of happiness and joy on earth means spiritual decline for you. But whatever comes, faith in His help will banish every disaster that tries to approach you from outside. You can face every trial fearlessly if you are a believer, and the adversary cannot test himself on a deeply believing person. Consequently, suffering is no longer necessary for him and so it will be taken away from him if he prays earnestly for it. And God knows about all people’s hardship, God knows about every individual soul’s maturity, He knows about their earthly suffering and He will send active help when it is necessary. You just have to constantly try to establish contact with Him, you have to seek contact with Him in prayer, then you will also feel the power of prayer. You will be granted inner peace and then you will confidently hand over your earthly suffering to the father in heaven and all suffering will be transformed into joy, for your faith alone has helped you. The father knows all the sorrows of His children. But He also wants the children to approach Him for help, He wants them to flee to Him in all adversity in order to then be able to give all His love to these children so that they will recognize Him, so that they will long for Him, and then He will give His help in abundance to those who believe in Him, who love Him and confidently expect His help in faith in His infinite love ….

Amen

You humans should realize that you are facing an important decision. And thus utilize this time to come to clarity within yourselves …. For not much longer, then all freedom will be taken away from you as soon as it concerns external things whose destruction is intended. But what you treasure in your heart can never be taken away from you. Your spiritual possessions are inviolable and even the harshest intervention need not make you fear. For it is only about outward appearances …. As soon as you stand by Me in your heart, you will have in abundance what your soul needs. You will be allowed to receive spiritual possessions from Me Myself if you hunger and thirst for the food of heaven, for I constantly teach those who long for My word. And even if it has been withdrawn from you outwardly, no-one can take the spirit of truth from you …. For it emanates from Me and returns to Me again, and it is beyond the reach of human will and human influence. And as a result everything that is apart from Me will oppose Me and harass those who carry My spirit within themselves and want to destroy what I build up. Yet their actions and goings-on are reprehensible and should not frighten people who are united with Me. I protect them and will not let anything perish that is to remain. And therefore trust Me and believe that I will truly not abandon anything to destruction which My will has allowed to come to earth …. And even if it seems as if the adversary is more powerful …. I set the limits for him if his activity is directed against Me. But My own should stick together, they should not fear a power which is subject to Me, they should recognize their lord in Me and be and remain at My service, for I need them as My fighters if the battle against Me is obviously waged. For where people work against Me I will also use the forces that are devoted to Me to fight against those who rebel against Me. But anyone who trusts in My strength will remain invincible and will not need to fear any earthly decrees as long as he does not waver in faith ….

Amen

Only few people are able to put themselves into a state that they are receptive for the supply of strength from God, i.e. to consciously receive it. And therefore the transmission of the divine word is likewise only rarely possible, otherwise a sure proof could be given to humanity of the truthfulness of the received word, since this would always and everywhere harbour the same content. But only a few prepare themselves to listen to the inner voice. And they will therefore only rarely be believed by their fellow human beings. The transmission of the divine word is a process which requires the greatest willpower, for everything which assaults the human being from the outside must be rendered ineffective. The human being must, as it were, flee from a world of thoughts which takes a completely different direction and allow such thoughts to flow into him which are otherwise far removed from the earthly-minded human being. And this act requires the greatest devotion …. It is the flight into the spiritual kingdom which must first be carried out before the treasures which this spiritual kingdom harbours can be lifted. As soon as the human will carries out the flight to the heights, the source of truth will also open up to it …. and the living word …. the power of God that has become form …. now flows to man and is received by him. Countless messengers of God are ready to give and would like to distribute their knowledge, they would like to instruct the ignorant, and where they find a person willing to receive, they guide his thoughts so that they move in truth. The beings find their happiness in being allowed to hand out something divine and therefore they are tireless, even though this is an activity which requires utmost patience and love. Yet as long as the human being’s will strives towards the truth a connection is created which can be utilized inexhaustibly, and the beings of light help the struggling human being to carry out the flight upwards as often as possible. For the spiritual gift can only be received where it originates …. i.e. in the spiritual kingdom. Hence the human being must first willingly separate himself from his earthly environment, he must switch off earthly thoughts and only desire spiritual possessions, then these will be conveyed to him unmeasured as long as the connection from earth to the spiritual kingdom remains established …. For this is God’s will that it be given to him who wants to receive His word ….

Amen

Once the human being has chosen God, he has already fulfilled his earthly task, since from that moment onwards he has the will to serve God and to keep His commandments, even if this will is frequently still weak and the person often still transgresses. Nevertheless, with his desire to comply with divine will his past resistance to God has become null and void, he has recognised his origin and desires to return to it and his free decision has been made. From now on he is supported by forces who strengthen his will and increase his knowledge, and since these forces are already as one with God, he is consequently seized by God Himself and can no longer descend into his past guilt of sin, the sin of rebellion against God …. He has voluntarily handed himself over to God and will forever remain loyal to Him. Regression will be impossible, for the human being now strives consciously towards the goal of final unity. And then every hour on earth is merely a matter of maturing …. an increase of light, of knowledge, and this manifests itself in greater activity of love, in redeeming love …. Once the human being has released himself from the enemy’s will, he proceeds with the active work of redeeming his fellow human beings, all other earthly work seems pointless and meaningless to him and all his thoughts and intentions relate to the work of helping his fellow human being’s soul. And only then will he accomplish the most valuable work …. he will join the activity of the light beings of the beyond and will work in a redeeming way …. But anyone who already takes part in the act of redemption on earth works with God for Him ….. His will as well as his work will be blessed. Although it then requires immense grace it will nevertheless be conveyed to the person so that he will subsequently be able to cope with every task posed to him. Redeeming the soul signifies that the person’s hitherto dark state changes into light …. Spiritual darkness is ignorance, light, however, is knowledge ….

Consequently, the unredeemed souls must be offered knowledge in order to place them into this state of light. This task can therefore not be fulfilled by someone who has not yet become a bearer of light himself, even if he has great earthly knowledge at his disposal. The degree of worldly knowledge of a person wanting to do redeeming work on earth is therefore entirely unimportant …. The knowledge he wants to pass on has nothing in common with worldly knowledge. He is expected to convey divine wisdom to his fellow human beings but this can only be received by a person who had first shaped himself in a way that he can accept light and strength from God. Then he will be a labourer in the vineyard of the Lord in truth, for he will try to turn a fallow field into fertile soil. He will try to make the souls likewise receptive for the strength from God, he will try to impart spiritual knowledge to them and thus change the state of darkness among humanity into bright light. And since this is the ultimate goal of embodiment on earth, everything that contributes towards spreading light among people must understandably be good and right. This is why the resolve to accomplish this great task will be blessed …. It will be strengthened and invigorated so that the person can achieve the task he had set himself. The beings of light in the beyond are likewise instructed to grant their help where it is needed …. by imparting strength to the person on earth and always directing his thoughts to this great assignment, so that the earthly light bearer won’t tire in his work. For the redemption of the spirit is the reason and purpose of life on earth. And God, in His wisdom, knows every person’s spiritual state, He will truly furnish someone wanting to do redemptive work with His strength and shower him with grace, for his will to be united with God enables him to do the kind of work on earth which corresponds to divine will. His spirit will be flowing through him and, furnished with light and strength …. with knowledge and power …. he will cope with his final earthly task and bring souls to the Lord, thus he will work in truth as a labourer in the vineyard of the Lord ….

Amen

Many people are indeed called to serve God, yet only a few people respond to God’s call, and these few are therefore the chosen ones to whom God gives a task which is tremendously important and who are therefore showered with divine grace. For they consciously give themselves to God and are therefore easily guided by Him because they offer no resistance to His divine guidance. For they believe in God and eagerly endeavour to fulfil His will. But God’s will is to proclaim the truths of faith to people …. It is God’s will that a link should agree to receive His word, to build the bridge from earth to the beyond, and as such He would accept every person who would like to offer himself to Him out of love for his fellow human beings. For He needs many labourers for His vineyard. However, the will of man usually strives against the divine will and so only a few will agree to work for Him …. So only a few are chosen, i.e. only a few receive God’s grace so obviously that it is recognized as grace. And this explains why people cannot really imagine which forces are at work in the creation of these writings, i.e. why they express themselves in such a way that the result can be visible to all people. Whatever God gives and in whatever form, it will always remain incomprehensible to people as long as they do not fulfil such a task, which is a conscious service in love, but which can never be expected of a person who is in the midst of earthly life. Even if God calls him to spiritual activity …. he will not hear the call …. And if he hears it, he will not want to give up the earthly world and therefore will not be able to answer the call. Only someone who surrenders everything will be chosen to work for the lord, for he must listen within and can only do so if nothing ties him to the earthly world anymore, if he fully surrenders his will and submits himself to God for constant guidance. He is now constantly looked after by the beings who take care of him on God’s behalf, and his unrestricted devotion to God now earns him a gift of grace of incomprehensible value …. He is taught without interruption, he is given a light so that it shall shine far and wide. Thus he has now become a mediator between God and people who, in their blindness and stubbornness, are no longer able to hear the voice of God within themselves and who nevertheless need active help, whose soul also sighs for redemption …. A single person who offers himself to God for service can have a tremendously beneficial effect for humanity, for whom the lord chooses He also provides with His grace and strength to a great extent, so that he may be an efficient labourer in His vineyard, so that he may provide help in love where it is needed ….

Amen

A so-called awakening of the spirit will always take place when self-refinement has taken place through active neighbourly love. Every labour of love purifies the soul and thus breaks the shackles of the spirit, for the spirit slumbers in man as long as the covering is still thick. Now, however, strength can be implored through heartfelt prayer for this act of detachment of the spirit; although this will always happen on the path of active love, a person who prays will also be more easily able to work with love. For a person who prays has a certain humility within himself and therefore serving is not difficult for him either. Every prayer conveys strength, and what a person requires great willpower for, he can easily master after fervent prayer. The power of prayer is immense and yet it is not recognized enough. This is why people sometimes have to struggle a great deal before the spirit in them is released, whereas fervent prayer leads them almost effortlessly to the heights. Prayer in spirit and in truth unites the human being with God, i.e. he himself seeks the connection to Him, and since God Himself is love, the human being’s feelings must now express themselves in love …. But a work of neighbourly love likewise draws God as love itself …. But love frees the spirit in man so that it can unite with the spiritual outside of itself, from which light and strength, i.e. knowledge and power, is imparted to it. Only then can the human being’s nature become as it corresponds to divine will and the soul will mature and develop upwards in earthly life ….

Amen

Anyone who entrusts himself to the Lord Jesus Christ in the ensuing time need not fear abandonment when confronted by difficulties. The adversary’s power has indeed never had a more destructive influence upon believers than will be the case now. Incredibly harsh measures will be taken which intend that the human being should abandon the Christian faith, that he should deny Jesus Christ and adhere to a new course which represents completely different fundamental teachings to those of Jesus Christ. And much will be accomplished by these measures, many people will lose the knowledge of Him if they do not courageously stand firm against those who deem themselves mighty. There is One Who is much mightier and those who trust in Him need not worry. The Lord will give them everything, they will be knowledgeable and wise and speak, where necessary, with full conviction on behalf of their Lord and Saviour, they will be able to counter every contention; because the spirit of those who fight for Christ is awake and will manifest itself in the hour of need. Even if everything earthly seems to disappear, the Word of God, which He Himself gave to people on earth, will continue without fail. For God says ‘My Word shall not pass away in all eternity ….’

On account of this Word a fierce battle will commence, but this battle is not related to world events …. It is a battle which merely concerns the acknowledgement of Jesus Christ. This battle will indeed claim sacrifices, but anyone who wants to be strengthened by divine grace will also receive the strength to willingly endure even those sacrifices. He will readily speak on behalf of Jesus Christ and will no longer fear but undauntedly face events. And the Lord needs people who sacrifice themselves for Him and are always prepared to do God’s will, because it is a critical time and requires full commitment. It brings events which can only be endured with faith in Jesus Christ but which also enable the human being’s soul to mature fully and bring him the greatest reward, because only the devout human being will unite with the divine spirit which will teach him and provide him with strength through God’s Word …. and repeatedly exhort him to remain faithful to the Lord and Redeemer ….the Divine Saviour …. when the world opposes Him and wants to remove Him from the hearts of human beings ….

Amen

The path of the flesh has to be taken until the end, that is, every being also has to experience the embodiment as a human being. The earthly path prior to this cannot be deliberately shortened or interrupted. However, in the stage of free will the human being is able to use his free will and therefore also end his earthly life as a human being arbitrarily without being prevented. But the consequences of such interference in divine will are awful. A person like that is still immature, that is, he is without recognition or he would not take this step which deprives him of a great blessing …. to be able to improve his character until God Himself ends his life. Nevertheless, he will become aware of his wretched action in the beyond and his remorse will be beyond description.

If it is God’s will to end a life, irrespective of whether the person is still young and not ready for eternity, then God recognises the necessity of it and terminating the earthly life is an act of grace, either to avert peril from the soul or to offer this soul an opportunity in the beyond that will raise its state of maturity within a short period of time. The forcible termination of life is, however, spiritually a great step backwards, for the being is suddenly without strength to improve itself and depends on the mercy of the beings of light or people, that is to say, if they don’t help it will forever remain on the same level of imperfection. The soul first has to come to realise this in the beyond which will trigger an indescribable state of remorse. But if the soul is willing it will use every opportunity to be helpful, yet its struggle will be too difficult for words. In a manner of speaking, it has to carry on bearing the earthly suffering in the beyond, which it had wanted to escape; the same things it had thrown away are still clinging to it and torment it dreadfully.

Yet God is not without mercy even towards a soul which had disregarded His will, providing the soul is not entirely obstinate. After some time, which to the soul seems to last forever, it will also be given tasks in the beyond which will ease its situation. And then it will have to use its will again. If it agrees to help suffering souls in the beyond it will soon notice an obvious improvement in its circumstances. But this may well be after the time God had designated for its actual earthly life, thus it will not have arbitrarily shortened its earthly path after all and will still have to linger in the state of suffering in the beyond, that it thought unbearable on earth, until God takes pity on the soul.

Hence its intervention in divine will was entirely pointless; it deprived it of the grace to mature fully on earth but by no means ended the ordeal of earthly existence. Consequently, such souls are pitiable, for it will take a long time until they are redeemed and the awareness to have thrown God’s blessing away is so agonising for the soul that it is in a sorry state in the beyond. Such souls are especially in need of people’s prayers. Only people’s love on earth can relieve their torments and impart the strength to improve their fate by using their will, in as much as the soul in the beyond is prepared to be of service and thereby, after an apparently endless time, will be able to change its lightless abode which, understandably, is its share (fate?) until it is saved by God’s love and mercy ….

Amen

It is possible for every human being to rise into spiritual regions if his will strives to do so. He will probably not succeed easily at first and it requires a certain amount of practice, which in turn is necessary to test the individual’s endurance and patience. However, for those who persevere there are no obstacles and the spiritual realm opens up to them in every way. And once he has made this flight, he will inevitably be drawn there again because the spiritual spark within him constantly urges him to unite with the spiritual beyond the earth and because that is where his true home is. Nothing material is taken over into those regions. What is earthly remains behind, just as only spiritual good is received …. but that this spiritual good is allowed to come to earth is a great favour of God, which only few people can measure. The spirit returns from those regions with the richest blessing, it returns with a treasure that can also be passed on to other people. It only requires a certain willingness to participate in the spiritual good from above. Spiritual good wants to be received spiritually, and until a person can decide to separate himself from the earth and its goods, until he can completely detach himself, it is impossible to impart this good from those regions. Although the fellow human being can receive it without any special preparation, it will only become effective if the separation from the earthly is striven for first, otherwise it will only be heard with the ear, which remains without any effect and meaning for the human being’s soul. When spiritual substance is conveyed to earth a state of complete detachment of the spiritual from the body must have occurred, the spirit must be able to rise up unhindered and leave the earthly behind. It will now be able to absorb all impressions of the spiritual realm and thus return to earth with abundant treasures. But to what extent he can make what he has received understandable to the soul depends on the will of man and on the work on his soul. It must be shaped in such a way that it is receptive to the wisdom which the spirit within wants to impart to it from that kingdom. The receptivity is again a favour of God, which man has to ask for, which he therefore has to strive for by asking for the divine power for it and for his part lives as God wants it to be able to give him the power. Thus the gift of being able to receive spiritual possessions will not come to a person arbitrarily, but he must have consciously or unconsciously made himself worthy by fulfilling God’s will and now become capable of receiving spiritual wealth. The will to become receptive and worthy is already a significant step upwards, for then the human being also requests the strength from God for it and he can now be seized by divine grace. He will easily succeed in sending his spirit into those regions, and likewise the soul will become increasingly more able to receive what is imparted to it by the spirit, so that the human being can become aware of what he has seen through the spirit. This is a process which is of utmost importance for the soul’s higher development, which is an immeasurable grace from God and entails immeasurable blessings for all people who strive to ascend, i.e. who have the will to reach God ….

Amen

So life is given to you on a trial basis. If you pass the test then a life of bliss is your lot …. however, if you fail in earthly life you will have to remain in a state in the beyond for which the word ‘life’ is not appropriate, for the strength which presupposes life, i.e. constant activity, has been taken from you. And this should stimulate you to extreme activity in earthly life, for the inactive state in the beyond is an unimaginable torment for you. You lack all strength, i.e., you are completely incapable of bringing about a change in this agonizing state. Only the change of your thinking and the letting your will become active will now give you the strength. And this will and right thinking is much easier to put into practice on earth; earthly life is as it were adapted to the demands made of you, thus it is also not difficult to fulfil. What you seriously want you can put into practice because the strength to do so is at your unmeasured disposal. And right will also demands strength from God, thus there are no limits to it. But right thinking will be taught to you by those who are instructed to bring salvation to people, i.e., who impart the divine word to them, which gives you the clearest knowledge of divine will …. i.e. of your actual task on earth. No one will therefore be able to say that he was not capable of doing so. He only always has to consider that he can do many things if he only wants to …. If the rightly-used will determines your life in the beyond, then your constant prayer must be for the right knowledge, for what a person recognizes as right he also strives for and carries out. This is the test of life which the human being must pass, that his train of thought takes the right direction. However, anyone who still carries wrong thinking over into the beyond will find it infinitely difficult to detach himself from it and change over to right thinking. The struggle over there is far more difficult, the inner resistance greater and the influence of evil forces on the thinking particularly strong, for they have free access to it through the wrong will, which they try to strengthen. And they confuse the mind even more than on earth and are not prevented by God, otherwise it would be no merit of the soul if it resisted them. For only bliss in the life beyond depends on this. Therefore, as long as you still live on earth, strive for the right realization …. Seek God, then you will also find Him, and the search for Him testifies to your right will. You will then never lack the strength to carry out the right will, and this will ensure you a life in eternity, i.e. a dwelling in constant activity for your own happiness ….

Amen

Spiritual fellowship should be cultivated insofar as that people come together who are truly willing to serve God and who, through the resulting maturity of soul, become enlightened in spirit so that one person can impart to the other what the divine spirit has proclaimed to him, be it through revelations of an extraordinary nature or also through the mental influence of the beings of light …. It will always be a blessing if such people exchange their thoughts and thus attain ever brighter light, for in truth the spirit of God is at work in all these people who are united by their love for God to work for Him together. The more willing they are to serve, the purer the truth can be conveyed to them, the clearer they will hear the divine voice and the more beneficial these spiritual unions will be for the individual. God has always commissioned His disciples to walk in two or three ….

(16.6.1941) The power of the spirit was stronger in each of them, and at the same time the disciples were able to form themselves in their way of speaking, if they emptied themselves mutually and thus also took a stand on what was revealed to them by the spirit of God. Spiritual fellowship should therefore be cultivated, and it will always be beneficial if the spirit of love reigns in it. However, every disagreement is a danger as soon as it leads to hostility. Then the adversary will understandably be able to express himself through the heart of the one who has become unloving, and there is a danger that his words will nevertheless be believed. What is united in love can only express the purest truth, whereas unkindness opens the gates to untruth …. If a work is to come into being which is to endure, which is intended as a source of strength for the whole of humanity, then it is also understandable that this work should not be jeopardized prematurely, which, however, would easily be the case if the power of the holy spirit cannot be equally effective with everyone in the congregation and thus the value of the divine gift is not properly grasped and appreciated. And this is why the lord makes use of an instrument that is without any bond during the reception of the divine word, which is then also intended to bring about blessing in intimate fellowship, yet only those who receive the word in full faith and are also able to grasp it in all its depth and wisdom through their profound faith can be counted as belonging to this fellowship. The power lies in the word itself …. those who feel it are pure of heart and belong to the congregation to which God Himself gives His blessing, for all of them open their hearts to the influx of divine power, which is the word of God. Those who live in the lord also recognize the outflow of divine love, and they will unanimously represent the word to their fellow human beings …. But those who have the spirit of unkindness in them, who lack humility and who nevertheless feel called for external reasons alone, these will not recognize it as a divine gift and will take a stand against it. Yet their influence will be too small to destroy what God Himself wants to build up for the blessing of humanity ….

Amen

It will be and remain impossible to provide evidence for claims made by the world beyond about otherworldly activity, for only earthly things can be proven with earthly things, but supernatural things are and remain something that only has to be believed but can never be proven. And thus it is also impossible to establish a correct doctrine about things that cannot be proven. Only in the context of a lecture can a person be given a presentation that corresponds to the truth but can never be presented as irrefutable truth as long as the person demands proof. He can certainly recognize it as truth …. then the inner voice gives him information about it and proves him right. However, if a person wants to have intellectual evidence for it and fathom the truth with pure common sense without the help of the holy spirit, he will never be able to recognize the truth as such. And otherwise it is not possible to provide evidence that leaves no doubt as to the truth of what was brought about by the working of the spirit. However, there are people who are firmly convinced of the truth of what they have heard through otherworldly forces …. for whom these forces are more credible than people who deal with questions concerning the beyond in a purely scientific manner. With the latter, the origin of their wisdom is instruction or experience or in-depth study which, however, never guarantees complete truth, whereas those spiritual forces teach people who carry as little of their own wisdom as possible and who therefore accept without resistance what the divine spirit imparts to them. For the origin of this wisdom must and can only be God Himself. However, what God teaches requires no proof and should therefore be believed without resistance even without proof ….

Amen

Coarse matter is the last obstacle which the soul has to overcome in order to finally become free. The change through all forms now comes to an end with the death of the body of man, but the desire in the hereafter is still for the same things as in earth life, as long as the soul on earth has not completely overcome matter. But now a change is taking place. The desire for it is strong …. it therefore has the effect that everything he longs for is before his eyes …. within reach …. and when he wants to satisfy his desire, it has disappeared before his eyes. The agony of being unsatisfied is unimaginable, but it is the only means by which man can learn to overcome matter. As soon as he begins to realize that everything is only reflected before his spiritual eye, he curbs his desire, thus begins to despise earthly things, and only then does he think about his sad situation, and only then can he reach the heights. This battle against matter should be fought as far as possible in earthly life by suppressing the desire for the goods of the world at an early stage and striving for spiritual good. It takes thousands of years before the soul has changed through matter, and its former cover presents itself to it once again in earth life in everything that now surrounds the human being, so that the soul now finally separates itself from that which was its abode for endless times. And it will not pass the test if it allows itself to be captured again by that which it is supposed to give away of its own free will. If it does not succeed in doing so then matter will torment it anew in the beyond, but in a way which means pain and agony for the soul, whereas in earthly life overcoming it only requires its will and can be replaced by spiritual possessions which are likewise offered to it and …. if this is accepted …. the desire for matter is stifled by itself. „You cannot serve two masters“, it says, and this also applies to spiritual and earthly good, i.e. to what is offered to the soul from above and what is accessible to it on earth as matter. He who desires the one forfeits the other, and in order to possess the one, the other must be sacrificed. But if the soul takes the desire for earthly goods with it into the hereafter, the change on earth was in vain. It stands where it stood at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being, and in order to purify the soul from the last dross, painful means are required, and the life in the beyond is only a state of unspeakable agony ….

Amen

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

Amen

Divine justice is very often questioned by people , because God allows things to happen on earth, what is an obvious injustice. And it still must not be waver in the belief of God’s justice, although therefore the man doesn’t find the right explanation. What God is doing or lets happen corresponds always to its purpose. What He Himself is doing, is mindful very wise, and the man can not really fathom, why everything has to come so, as it comes. However, what people do, is also allowed by God, if it is not good and noble, not to curtail the free will of man. And the latter is reason to doubt the justice of God …. The will of man is determinative for his actions, and God allows this will great freedom. Well, now the man can begin or do a lot of, what is wrong before God. But would God punish any injustice, when it will be done for the sake of divine justice, so soon only good actions would be recorded on earth, but also the man as such would not be free, that’s to say, he could and would not act according to his urges, but only the fear of punishment would decide any action. And yet God can not be denied justice, because every action finds its expiation or its reward, just mostly in a different way, than it pleases the people. Because it connects a wise purpose with any action or utterance of God. Even where God punishes, He lets be this punishment an educational aid for the misguided people. And God is infinitely merciful and patient …. He will delay again and again, to give people the possibility to redress the injustice on their own or at least to recognize it as wrong. Because if man repents his way of behaving or he himself has the will to act and to think otherwise than previously, God is ready to forgive him. But the recognition, that he has done wrong, must have become alive in the heart, so that this influences his future thinking and acting favourably, then God’s mercy will be sure to him …. So mercy of God takes the place of justice …. but this never turns off God’s justice. The man should recognize his injustice and search to ennoble himself, because this is the purpose of life on earth. But he has to answer for any action, because God is righteous, but also wise, and He will never intervene early in the course of development of man on earth for the sake of justice, which however never excludes, that man will be judged by law and justice one day ….

Amen

Every being longs to become free because the unfree state is agonizing for all spiritual beings. But in the embodiment as a human being the spiritual certainly feels its lack of freedom, but not the body and the soul. The soul is likewise initially without realization of its situation and consequently only listens to the body’s desires. The body, however, feels free, and indeed the freer the more it can take the world, i.e. earthly pleasures, into account and therefore hardly imposes any restraints on the body. Thus the soul yields to the body’s urging and the spirit remains unheeded. And so the spiritual in man must endure the banished state until help comes from the soul. For only the soul can help it by thinking more of the spirit within itself than of the body. And that is why being on earth, although it is supposed to bring liberation to the spirit, is the greatest danger for the soul as long as it has not yet freed itself from the desires of the body. Consequently, the body fights with the spirit for supremacy over the soul …. And this is the struggle of light with darkness …. The beings of light wrestle with the powers of darkness for the soul …. for the spiritual that has distanced itself from God and is not yet fully aware of it that it belongs to the eternal light …. to the deity …. Provided the soul has attained realization, it will voluntarily turn to God. The dark forces, however, prevent the soul from attaining realization by all means. And the body will be the greatest obstacle for the soul to turn to the spirit. As long as the body is still placed in the foreground there is little possibility for the soul to become aware that it comes to the realization of its situation …. i.e. its distance from God …. Only when it no longer pays attention to the demands of the body does it begin to think about the actual purpose of life on earth. Only then does the adversary lose power; the dark forces no longer have so much influence on the soul …. It turns away from the body and towards the spirit within, and once this bond is established, it becomes bright and clear within …. Thus the spirit within it has triumphed and gained dominion over the soul, which is now completely united with the spirit and the inevitable consequence of this is the liberation of the being. Yet the battle is unspeakably difficult and requires the full commitment of all good forces as well as the human will, which alone brings about the soul’s decision. The will of the human being alone is decisive as to where the soul turns …. the will can decide in favour of the body, but also in favour of the spirit, but only the latter will bring the being final liberation from the form ….

Amen

Just a little while longer and you will remember the Words I spoke on earth that the world will become chaotic in every respect. Soon you will realise where heartlessness between people will lead to. If you still harbour a spark of love within yourselves you will recognise the opponent’s power, who incites everyone to conflict with each other. His activity is demonic, and as a result people also behave demonically in their unkindness. And thus I will intervene and by means of apparent disorder nevertheless restore order again, so that humanity’s real purpose is made clear to them. When people in their delusion destroy everything, such an act of destruction from above is absolutely necessary so that the injustice will be clearly revealed and humanity will recognise it as such.

And there will be acute distress, and in this distress people’s pleading prayers will rise up to the Father in heaven, which is the purpose of My intervention, so that people will look for Me, so that they will remember Me again and take refuge in Me.

For there is no other way left to achieve this, only the harshest adversity will make them take the path to Me, and only the harshest adversity will yet be capable of changing humanity. But My spirit will be with all those who are loyal to Me. They will recognise Me in everything that is happening and faithfully await My help …. And they will speak on My behalf and try to explain to their fellow human beings the error of their lives and refer them to Me. And then, depending on their attitude towards Me, I will also take care of their hearts, and wherever a devout thought rises up to Me I will send comfort and help. I will bestow My love upon all those who recognise their wrong and thus call to Me appealingly. For I love My living creations and only want to save them from greatest danger …. from a danger which will far exceed the earthly suffering they will encounter. And I will permeate all those with My spirit who are willing to be of service to Me, so that they will be able to comply with their task and not waver in their faith when the time of affliction arrives ….

Amen

Man is incapable of shaping his life on his own authority; he will always be dependent on the will of the one Who created him. He is seemingly endowed with gifts that make him believe in his own power. He feels exalted, wise and strong and is convinced that he can master life himself and that he also determines his own destiny. He is able to act of his own free will and thus, through this will, apparently becomes the creator of his life on earth …. But the actual controller of his destiny is God Himself …. For his path on earth has been determined since eternity. He walks it exactly as God has determined, and as he has moulded it in his instinct for freedom, so it was determined, since nothing can happen without the divine will. So the walk through the valley of the earth always corresponds to the divine will in its outward manifestations …. Only the inner life of man is left to his free will …. and even if his fate in life is predetermined, each one will bring about the soul’s higher development if this is his firm will. Conversely, however, his path through life can correspond entirely to his will and desire; it need not bring him the maturity of the soul if he does not live in accordance with his purpose. But the latter is only to be understood as the utilization of the possibilities which are offered to him for the higher development of the soul during his earthly existence. This is completely up to him. God gives every person such opportunities, regardless of how he organizes the individual’s path through life. And if these are utilized, life on earth will also be successful for eternity. However, a person cannot arbitrarily give this earthly life a twist without divine approval. And it may seem as if it depends on him alone how the fate of his life plays out. God allows the human being free will, and this will often goes hand in hand with divine will, i.e. the human being undertakes something and God allows this because it does not go against His will either. And then the human being is inclined to believe that he alone was decisive for his fate on earth. And the more he is convinced of this the more he loses his faith in a wise controller of destiny. And yet he is completely powerless in the face of it, and he does not realize that he is merely carrying out divine will if he believes that he can intervene decisively in his earthly life ….

Amen

The state of remoteness from God is a state of weakness, even if a person believes that he is in full possession of his power and can do with it as he pleases. However, he will only be able to achieve earthly success …. if this is within the divine will …. but not any spiritual success, and only the latter is decisive for eternity …. Earthly life is soon over and earthly success has no lasting value. Whatever a person begins who is distant from God, he will not find the support of the good forces, for they do not give their help to a beginning that is aimed at the increase of matter. But what is done in a state far from God also contributes to increasing the power of the one who opposes God. If the human being sacrifices his will, i.e. if he submits it to God’s will, then the desire to come closer to God has awakened in him and now he also has the strength to …. His state of weakness is overcome, and the more he surrenders to God without resistance, the more so. He is now approaching the original state, the state in which the being was in full possession of the strength from God, but which can never be with a being that has distanced itself from God as the source of strength. The earthly change without God can therefore never bring spiritual success to man, because there are only two possibilities, to establish the connection with God and therefore good powers to receive the power, which is from God, or to turn the will towards the opponent of God, which makes the supply of power from God impossible. However, anyone who does not recognize God is far from Him …. and correspondingly closer to the adversary, who will always inspire him to act against God. And the person who is far from God also follows this suggestion …. And he therefore voluntarily gives himself over to his power and remains a weak creature, incapable in every way of developing spiritually …. He is completely weakened, and this through his own fault, since he was free to turn to God instead of the adversary and he uses his will in a God-opposing way. Distance from God is weakness …. closeness to God is strength and vigour …. and the being is free to choose its state ….

Amen

The spirit of God blows where he wills …. These words are again easy to misunderstand, in that the divine will is made a prerequisite for the working of the spirit in man and this can easily lead to the assumption that it is not man but God who determines the reception of wisdom from God. The will of God underlies everything that is and everything that happens. Thus the divine will must also give its consent when the spirit from God unites with the spiritual spark in man for the purpose of teaching and imparting spiritual truths. Hence God’s will will certainly be the first prerequisite if the spirit expresses itself in the human being …. but it is not within divine will to cause a person to carry out a task without his will which can only be fulfilled through spiritual activity …. Spiritual activity can never ever be achieved in a state of compulsion, spiritual activity is solely dependent on the human being and spiritual activity requires an exceptionally high degree of maturity …. It must have been preceded by self-refinement, but this in turn is striven for by the human being’s will and God gives His strength and blessing for it …. The working of the spirit depends on the person’s attitude towards God …. Those who resist Him, who work against His merciful guidance through a will that is completely opposed to the divine will, will never feel the working of the spirit within themselves. Thus the desire for God must always be present, the human being must affirmatively attune himself to the eternal deity, then the spirit of God can also become effective in him …. And then again God chooses the people who are willing to do what He reveals to them through His spirit …. He chooses those who are suitable as instruments, for they are to fulfil an office. And again the will of man is decisive to spread what he has received. For if the spirit expresses itself from God, then He wants to speak to all people through those people. The recipient of the divine word is the organ of speech of the one Who gives His word to man. However, not everyone realizes his task and carries it out by passing on the precious gift from heaven to his fellow human beings. And God knows the will of man. The spirit from God certainly pours out over everyone who desires Him sincerely and it will guide his thinking correctly, yet where it obviously works for the salvation and blessing of humanity …. where people should clearly recognize that the spirit from God descends upon a willing earthly child, there God chooses the bearers of the divine spirit Himself. He allows divine content to flow to those whom He deems worthy of receiving it and who have submitted their will to His will of their own accord. It is certainly God’s will that all people should shape themselves in such a way that they are worthy of His gift, yet people’s will often goes its own way and these are not suitable as God’s instrument. But God, Who knows the hearts of all, will make Himself known where He finds the willingness to serve Him and thus the spirit of God will blow where God wants it ….

Amen

Life or death in the beyond is the success of life on earth, and therefore the responsibility of the human being is immense, as it is not a state of short duration that can be ended at will, but lasts eternally or for an unspeakably long time. In earthly life everything is limited, both in time and space, and therefore man cannot grasp the meaning of the word ‚eternal‘. He cannot even remotely imagine what it means to live constantly and permanently or to be lifeless. And therefore he often does not take his earthly life so seriously, regardless of the fact that he thereby determines the endlessly long life in eternity. The soul, which is entitled to live in the beyond, has fulfilled its task in life and now takes on a new task in the beyond which, however, no longer means a duty for it as on earth but triggers supreme bliss and thus signifies a blissful state. And thus the soul which was inactive on earth finds the same, except that on earth it preferred the state of inactivity, whereas in the beyond it is condemned to be inactive because being active signifies happiness and the soul has no claim to it. And eternal times can pass before it is admitted to happy activity, for a soul which has been inactive on earth finds it unspeakably difficult to change. For the first time it is so devoid of light, i.e. it has no knowledge whatsoever, neither about the cause nor about the possibility of a change of its desolate state, and therefore it remains in inactivity, i.e. it has no will to be liberated from it. Without its will, however, it cannot become active, that is, it cannot enter the kingdom where everything lives. It is so often presented to the human being in earthly life that he has a responsibility towards his soul, that he determines the fate of his soul in the beyond through his way of life. Yet he does not heed this advice because he does not believe …. The unbeliever can in no way be given knowledge of what awaits him after the death of his body, but no human being can say that he has heard nothing about it. For he rejects everything that reminds him to think of his future life as long as he himself is not active in love …. Every loving person will also believe. Anyone who is concerned about the fate of his fellow human being in earthly life will also be convinced that life cannot end, and he will now, even if unconsciously, live on earth for eternity. For anyone who is active in love will also be guided in his thoughts and he will not be in a lightless state …. He will therefore know his task both on earth as well as after his physical death in the beyond. But he who only lives for himself, who on earth only has the one urge to create comfort for himself and passes by the misery of his fellow human beings, will never accept as truth what is presented to him about life after death. And consequently no light will be kindled in him, he already walks on earth in the darkness of the spirit and this cannot be any different after his death …. It is dark around him and also dark in his thinking …. And only where there is light is life …. But darkness is death ….

Amen

The worldly wise often give a detailed explanation of the results of their research but fail to realize that truthful results can only be achieved through spiritual research. Earthly evidence is only ever valid where earthly research is concerned but lacks any foundation in the case of creations which lie outside the earthly realm. And these people cannot understand that earthly wisdom is not sufficient for such creations. God sets limits to human research and human knowledge which can only be entered with God’s approval. However, He grants this permission to anyone who wants to enrich his knowledge …. i.e. He gives him clarification about problems which are unsolvable for earthly people. God Himself distributes this gift, God Himself introduces the person to knowledge and requires deep faith and a desire for truth …. Then every question will be answered and every problem solved. However, man has the ambition to excel, i.e. to outdo his fellow human beings in knowledge, and this is then a somewhat noble motive for his research. Consequently, success will also be correspondingly low. Wanting to fathom the truth for the sake of the truth is pleasing to God, but wanting to fathom it for the sake of success will never produce infallible results. Therefore, the results of the research of the worldly wise are rarely to be believed. Rather, error is often spread, which requires great spiritual knowledge to refute. But God stands by those who fight against such error on earth in order to make humanity more receptive to the pure truth ….

(23 June 1941) Only what comes from above, i.e. what God, as the truth Himself, gives, can be regarded as truth. Man, in his delusion, believes himself to be infallible. His entire thinking and research is based on a completely wrong biology, and he is so convinced of the correctness of his conclusions that a contrary opinion cannot arise. But if he were to accept such an opinion, then a whole edifice of thought would collapse, and this could well confuse man’s thinking as long as he does not recognize in God and His work a power that is wiser than all the wise men in the world. How inconceivably small is man, and what problems he is capable of solving …. All the wisdom of the earth is not able to penetrate into supernatural things …. And supernatural is everything that is outside the earth, regardless of whether they are visible or invisible to man. There are no limits to the spirit, but there are limits to the human intellect. And all purely intellectual research is to be assessed as misguided unless divine spirit has been requested to do so. How quickly people believe they have found the key and how far they are from the truth. Such wisdom may well apply to the earth, but it can never be harmonized with extraterrestrial creations, even though these appear to be closely connected to the earth as mother stars. What belongs to the earth is accessible to human enquiry, but beyond that the intellect fails if the spirit in man does not become active at the same time. Those who abandon themselves to God in order to be taught by Him will learn more of the purest truth in a short time than years of study by worldly researchers can give them. For everything spiritual wants to be grasped spiritually …. But what is outside of earth is only spiritual, only visible to the human eye as luminous or lightless bodies, but which in reality do not consist of tangible, earthly substance, but only seem to be form through the radiation of the more or less perfect spiritual …. This explanation is almost unacceptable to all worldly researchers, and it is therefore an almost hopeless endeavour to make the pure truth accessible to them. And yet the truth about it has to be conveyed to earth, for through their apparent wisdom people are increasingly distancing themselves from the truth and therefore also from faith …. For the more they want to investigate for themselves, the more they switch off the eternal deity. They consider themselves wise enough to be able to analyse the power from God and fall deeper and deeper into error. But the spirit from God gives enlightenment to every person who desires pure truth for the sake of truth ….

Amen

Everything spiritual has eternal value and eternal duration …. everything earthly passes away with the death of the human body. Joys and sufferings pass away and therefore need not be taken seriously. However, what has been spiritually achieved or missed is decisive for the stay in eternity and therefore significant for the soul of man. Spiritual endeavour will now always relate to the human being’s inner life and to everything that is separate from earthly matter …. which therefore has nothing to do with a pleasurable earthly life or any physical desires but completely eliminates the body and only touches (concerns) spiritual questions and spiritual experiences. Spiritual endeavour is everything that is connected with God, i.e. that concerns life that does not end with the death of the body ….

For only that which belongs to earth is transient, thus also man’s thought material, which only comprises earthly things. Whatever knowledge the human being has absorbed that was of value for earthly existence, for the human being as such, is completely worthless from the moment he enters the beyond. It belongs to another world, it is therefore useless for the new world. And if the human being now considers what spiritual possessions will then remain to him, he will be able to understand why he should strive for spiritual good on earth …. spiritual treasures on earth. For he is in the greatest poverty if he has not likewise received spiritual possessions on earth. And in most cases it is precisely the person possessing earthly knowledge who will concern himself little with spiritual questions and thus also pass over into the beyond correspondingly poor in spiritual treasures. And it is then unspeakably bitter for such a soul to have to recognize its lack …. whereas, conversely, some souls possess spiritual wealth which had no knowledge worth mentioning on earth because they only focused their attention on the soul’s maturing, because earthly questions did not affect them that much and their desire was not for earthly possessions and earthly knowledge. This soul also retains the success of earthly life in the beyond, it does not need to give anything away because it is spiritual good that it has gathered and because this good is imperishable and cannot be taken from it in eternity. While earthly knowledge is no longer of use to anyone in the beyond, the soul who possesses spiritual possessions can be indescribably blessed with it …. it can give it to ignorant souls and itself finds its most beautiful reward in being able to help those who enter the kingdom of the beyond in utmost poverty, whereas the people who strived for earthly knowledge also found their reward on earth, honour, reputation and earthly wealth …. which all comes to an end with bodily death. For they can carry none of this over into eternity. But how short is the enjoyment of earthly pleasures …. and how endlessly long is life after death …. For what illusory happiness have men used their mental activity and what inconceivable bliss have they forfeited, which could easily be attained through spiritual endeavour. And if man would first concern himself with that which has a connection with God, then his earthly knowledge would be imparted to him effortlessly at the same time, as soon as he strives for it out of love for humanity, i.e. he would like to serve his fellow human being through earthly knowledge. This earthly knowledge alone has value and at the same time brings him spiritual wealth. For his will to serve his fellow human beings will be valued when the earthly knowledge has become obsolete …. Yet the spiritual hardship of those who only absorbed earthly knowledge for the sake of their earthly success will be indescribable in eternity, for they will stand naked and bare in an environment where what they possess is of no value whatsoever. And it takes a long time until they decide to receive what they lack from loving souls …. until they decide to do what they should do on earth …. to collect spiritual goods in order to be able to pass them on in love to those who, like them, have failed to do so on earth ….

Amen

What God has given to people so far has only ever been accepted by those people who had an exceptionally strong desire for truth within them, because they recognize it as God’s word. And consequently, the pure word of God will rarely break through. In a time of tribulation and distress, the word of God comes down to earth …. at a time when it is supposed to bring comfort to people, when it is supposed to give them strength for the change on earth. Yet humanity rejects it or passes it by in indifference. They pay no attention to it and therefore it cannot take effect on them. God, in His boundless love, repeatedly descends to earth Himself in the word. He wants to approach people, to make them aware of Himself, He wants to speak to them and impart strength to them, yet they close their hearts and do not grant Him access. And that is why the tribulation on earth will become ever greater. The suffering will increase until it is unbearable, a time of deepest misery will come so that people will come to their senses and then seek God so that He will help them. And then the word of God will find an isolated entrance among them and now also become effective in all its power. There are countless possibilities how it will be offered to them …. from person to person as well as in direct contact with God, as long as the person confidentially and humbly dialogues with the supreme being, as Whose creature he feels himself to be. This reception of the divine word is truly the best, but it also presupposes a certain maturity of soul, i.e., a self-refinement must have been striven for before the human being is able to hear the voice of God within himself. And only rarely does a person mould himself in accordance with God’s will, which is why hearing the divine word directly is only rarely …. This is why people should listen to those through whom God imparts His word to them, and they should therefore receive the word through mediators, for it always remains the pure word of God, which is blessed with His strength …. And they should only ever endeavour to live according to this word …. Then they themselves will very soon be mentally instructed and guided in such a way that they will be able to mentally receive all wisdom from God. The divine word will be balm in the most difficult times, it will be refreshment for those who threaten to collapse without strength, it will be the anchor that is the last salvation when the little ship of life threatens to sink. For all strength flows from this word …. And whatever the world may think of it, it will never be able to destroy it or render it ineffective …. For it is something spiritual that can never fall prey to destruction. It can be mentally conveyed to people and is therefore beyond the reach of any earthly power. The divine word has eternal duration, and anyone who accepts it as the highest good and makes it his own will likewise secure a life of eternal duration for himself, for spiritual good is imperishable and anyone who possesses it is likewise imperishable …. All earthly measures can never affect the word of God itself, but they can make people unwilling to accept it, and then they deprive themselves of the greatest treasure, so to speak, if they give away the divine word for earthly advantages …. What is directed against God and against His commandments is given to people by the adversary and is therefore never to be obeyed, even though it is an order of earthly power …. Give to God what is God’s …. and the worldly demands should be fulfilled as long as they are not directed against God …. Whatever is required of you by the authorities you should do, but if it is against God or His commandments, you should obey Him Who is above all, for He is your lord, to Whom all things are subject …. But the divine word demands love …. love for your fellow human beings …. and all your actions should be born of love. However, if something else is demanded, the lawgiver is not assigned to people by God, but he took a power for himself, which can, however, be taken away from him if he does not submit to the divine will …. God is the power Which alone is to be recognized, and the earthly power which fulfils the divine will will also be supported by God in all its measures and actions. A visible blessing will rest on everything it begins. And there will be a higher development of soul and spirit where that power rules …. for it works with God, as it were …. But then, as the most certain characteristic, the pure word of God must also be allowed to be spread, spiritual fellowship must be able to be cultivated, a peaceful state must unite people who are of the same mind, and the power of the divine word must be effective everywhere among humanity, i.e., people who accept the word must be in closest union with God and constantly live in love, i.e., be incessantly active in love ….

Amen

The path to perfection leads over stones and thorny undergrowth. There is no broad, easy path leading towards it, and that is why man must humbly accept all the inconveniences of life, suffering, sorrows …. i.e. his cross, if he wants to reach the heights. And yet the cross that is imposed on him to carry can seem easy to bear if he walks the path with his eyes turned upwards …. if he only ever remembers his lord, Who out of love for humanity also took humanity’s suffering upon Himself, Who therefore helps to carry the suffering of everyone who sees his saviour and redeemer in Him. Christ’s bearing of the cross was the symbol of what He was willing to do …. He wanted to suffer in order to reduce humanity’s suffering, and whoever therefore looks to Him, whoever takes refuge in Him in all adversity, the lord takes away the heaviness of his cross ….

It is the divine creator’s will that the messages from above should be heeded in the soul’s adversity, for they emanate the strength and comfort the human being needs. The human being should withstand every test and he must first learn to overcome himself, i.e. he must become small and humble and accept in childlike faith what God has sent him from above in His infinite love and mercy. The words from above must resound deep in the heart, then a power will emanate from them that will allow the person to easily overcome any resistance. What is received with the heart conveys the strength from God to the human being, and if God Himself allows His consolations to reach the earth he should utilize them so that he will benefit from the blessing of divine mediations.

You thereby indirectly serve your creator by becoming able, through the strength you have received, to likewise point your fellow human beings to the power of the divine word …. For God has given it to you so that you may spread it. And if you are in danger of becoming lukewarm He will send you tests to strengthen you again so that you will also be able to fulfil this task of passing it on to your fellow human beings. So whoever feels the strength himself will be able to represent the word of God with conviction. That is why you should seek to acquire the most delicious …. divine wisdom that God Himself offers you. Take frequent notice of the content of the messages from above, let them speak to your heart and refresh yourselves at the source of the clearest water, which shall be your refreshment at all times. And if earthly suffering weighs you down then open your heart and let divine blessings flow into you and you will soon realize that God Himself strengthens you and makes you resistant to all trials of body and soul …. For you are to fight, but not idly expect God’s help …. And overcoming yourselves is part of the battle …. God gives you help and comfort through His word at all times, provided you take refuge in Him and His word in prayer ….

Amen

Matter is closely connected to the earth and will therefore never be able to detach itself from it. Matter is something tangible and visible, therefore something earthly, in contrast to the spiritual, which belongs to the supernatural kingdom. Something spiritual will always move away from the earth, whereas matter is closely connected to the earth, since the earth itself consists of earthly substances, therefore of matter. Consequently, matter belongs to the earth, i.e., matter strives towards matter, while the spirit in man as well as all undeveloped spiritual pushes towards the same spiritual. The spiritual kingdom is to be understood as everything that lies outside the earth, i.e. everything that is not matter and where no matter could exist. The limits of existence are wisely determined and these limits cannot be ignored. Everything that is to be recorded as belonging to earth will never be able to detach itself from earth, for all immature spiritual substances were banished into matter during their apostasy from God and cannot free themselves from it until they have reached a certain degree of maturity, which requires a longer or shorter time. Consequently, the spiritual is also close to earth for a correspondingly long time …. (interruption)

The rest of proclamation no. 1669 was presumably lost with book 29, proclamations no. 1970 – 2019.