Every attempt to come closer to God will be blessed by Him as the desire for it will become ever stronger and this will also guarantee fulfilment. Life will be a constant struggle, for the human being shall test his strength through resistance, and thus even a willing person’s desire will often diminish so that he will try to overcome this state through increased willpower. For only then will he be able to stand up for Him as Christ’s fighter on earth. For this battle requires the greatest willpower, patience and perseverance. He must have overcome himself before he can serve God as an overcomer of his fellow human beings. But once a person has a desire for God, he is also devoted to Him and endeavours to do what is pleasing to God. And his good will will be recognized and strengthened by Him, only he will have to become active again and again, and thus patience will be exercised at the same time if he does not become discouraged but repeatedly seeks contact with God, even if it is difficult for him. The struggle of man is evaluated by God. The more resistance, the more meritorious it is for him if he finds the connection with Him and obviously receives His grace. God wants to be longed for, He wants to be requested because this testifies to love for Him, and only love for Him earns the fellow human being love in return, which expresses itself in the form of an influx of strength. And this is why the earthly child should struggle incessantly so that it can receive this most precious gift, the flow of strength from God. For this stream of power leads the being ever closer to God. Whoever feels this stream of power must already be in the circle of light of the divine radiance, otherwise he could not be touched by it. And what this means is not yet grasped by the human being on earth …. what it means to already be allowed to be a bearer of light and strength on earth and to be able to pass on divine strength, which flows to people in the form of His word, to fellow human beings and thus to be able to pass on the strength from God as it were. Where this great grace is offered to a person, no struggle should seem too difficult for him, for if he struggles for inner strength and vigour for his will, he will reach his goal …. He will always be able to accomplish with ease what at first seems difficult to him, he will feel the strength from God and his desire for union with God will become ever more intimate, and God will also fulfil this desire ….

Amen

Recognizing the truth is rooted in a living connection with God. For intimate dialogue with God will result in Him instructing the human being Himself. But divine instruction can only be truthful, and divine instruction will never be demanded in vain by man …. What he wants to know will be answered by God as soon as the human being turns to Him inquiringly, and once he has established contact with God he will also ask for what he deems worth knowing. For he is aware of his ignorance and perceives this as a shortcoming which he would like to remedy. But in God he recognizes the power Which is full of wisdom, love and omnipotence …. And he now turns trustingly to that power, presupposing love, which will not leave his request unheard …. He turns to God to be considered by His wisdom in the firm belief that this is possible …. And God does not disappoint him …. He does not let him ask in vain, for He wants the human being to become knowledgeable, He wants to impart truth to him and guide his thoughts in the right direction. God truly teaches the earthly child in the right way, but it must come to Him of its own accord and desire His wisdom, and the child that goes the way to God does not return to earth empty-handed. While receiving the truth he is with Him in the spiritual kingdom because he consciously connects with Him. It now receives spiritual goods in the realm of the spiritual …. be it mentally or in the form of the divine word. However, outside of this intimate connection the truth will never be offered to the human being, for even where the truth is passed on through the human mouth it will only be recognized as truth by a likewise believing person who strives towards God, thus he will also have to be in contact with God. And it is truly irrelevant which earthly knowledge the human being possesses. If he connects with God, all earthly knowledge will be surpassed, for the divine teacher also gives the ability to recognize wisdom as truth. His fatherly love places the thoughts into the human being’s heart in such a way that he realizes them clearly and stimulates the will to accept them, and the spiritual knowledge thus received is imperishable. It is received by the spirit, and this grasps all wisdom because it is itself a part of God. As soon as the human being unites with God in prayer or through deep intimate reflection he detaches himself from earth and the divine spiritual spark in him leaves the earthly shell, now there are no earthly limited enlightenments for him …. He grasps everything; even problems that seem unsolvable to man are explained to him in an easily understandable way, and the consequence of this is that his knowledge will tower high above all earthly human wisdom. And now the spirit takes the gained wisdom back to earth, i.e., it tries to impart what it has heard to the soul as well. And this will again only be possible if the soul also seeks union with God more often, if it enters into intimate contact with God. Every spiritual communication presupposes love for God, and this love determines the human being to ask God and to ask Him for an answer. And a loving and longing heart will find fulfilment. God speaks to him and initiates him into His nature, His working, His love and His omnipotence. And man must become knowledgeable as he is taught by God Himself ….

Amen

A person becomes aware of his lack of strength as soon as he is a believer, for then he recognizes himself as a weak creature without God’s grace. Consequently, a believer does not need to be particularly reproached for his own weakness, for he will rarely consider himself capable of reaching God through his own strength. The believer sees in God the most sublime and perfect being and is aware of his lowliness and weakness. He will therefore always ask God for the strength for his earthly life, for his ascent to the heights. He will ask God for grace because he knows that he cannot ascend without divine grace. However, if a person lacks faith, he does not see himself as a powerless creature. Rather, he is firmly convinced that it is up to him alone to achieve what he sets out to do, be it earthly or spiritual success. For the most part, he only strives for earthly success and spiritual endeavour is unimportant to him. For him, however, it is a real danger if spiritual success is only justified by a gift of grace. For since he regards himself as powerful, he has no concerns that he would be incapable of moulding himself according to God’s will and therefore makes his spiritual maturing dependent on whether God has chosen him, i.e. whether He has bestowed His grace on him …. i.e. has destined him for bliss. And thus he switches off his free will, which allows him to ask for grace. He has no deep faith and therefore cannot and will not believe this teaching when he is reproached for his powerlessness …. on the other hand, he waits for divine grace to take hold of him without his intervention, if this is the divine will. True faith allows the person to pray in the right way, full of humility and submission to God’s will, yet it is always his own will which prompts him to pray, whereas the unbelieving person does not become active himself but waits for what he should ask for, i.e. request from God. And this attitude can be the result of the fact that a person is taught that he is unable to do anything without the divine gift of grace and therefore does nothing to become worthy of this grace …. The teaching that man can do nothing of his own strength does not determine him to ask for the supply of strength, but it determines him to wait inactively, and it is therefore better to hold up to him only the weakness of the will, so that he endeavours to remedy this weakness and now struggles in prayer to strengthen the will. For the strength can be given to him by God, but the will cannot be forcibly stimulated into action. He must strive towards God of his own accord, then divine grace will also come to him and he will recognize his weakness in the face of the eternal deity ….

Amen

People truly fall behind in their spiritual development if they do not endeavour to show inner humility, for then they lack grace, and without grace their will to ascend is weakened. For then their nature is still arrogant and still favoured by God’s adversary. Anyone who lacks inner humility will also rarely accept a divine teaching if it is imparted to him by his fellow human being, for his arrogant spirit will defend itself against it through the influence of the adversary. And divine teachings strengthen the power to resist as soon as they are willingly accepted. Consequently, that person’s power of resistance is only slight. There is still too much of the spirit in him which is to be overcome, the human being still has too many shortcomings which characterize his imperfection. Nor will he be meek and patient as long as he does not want to bow down to the one Whose approach he is supposed to strive for. For God cannot unite with a being that still harbours the arrogant spirit of its creator. Man must wage a constant battle with this arrogant spirit within himself, he must educate himself to humility through service, he must strengthen his will to do what seems unfeasible to him …. to bow down and serve where he wants to rule. He must take an example from his divine saviour, Whose life was one of service in love, service in the deepest humility towards His fellow human being. If a person endeavours to follow Jesus then he will also practice inner humility, he will fight all arrogance, he will incessantly ask for God’s grace to do so and the strength to carry out his plan will come to him …. he will serve and thereby develop to the heights ….

Amen

Remember the souls who dwell in darkness and help them through silent prayer. You all have souls in the beyond who need your help and ask for it as soon as they come to your mind …. You are all able to help them through your intercession. These souls are in a situation where they cannot help themselves because they lack strength, and therefore they turn to you for help, that you may take care of them and reduce their hardship through heartfelt prayer. You are entitled to this strength, you can give it to these unfortunate beings and they implore you to do so. God’s love and grace always leaves a possibility open where help can be offered to the suffering souls in the beyond, since the souls themselves are unable to free themselves from their agonizing situation …. He only makes this liberation dependent on the love of man. The more intimately the thoughts follow a deceased person into the beyond, the easier it will be for him to liberate the soul from its inactive state in the beyond, for every loving thought means an allocation of strength for the soul which it uses for diligent activity. And therefore the soul predominantly stays where it knows people who were fond of it, for it hopes to receive help from them, since only love can offer them this help. As soon as a soul remembers a person on earth, this is a silent request for their intercession. But how many people heed their request? …. How quickly people turn their thoughts away again, towards earthly life, and leave the struggling souls in their great need. And yet people should contribute to the redemption of all spiritual beings, they should try to imagine the suffering of those unredeemed souls full of mercy and never let a soul pray in vain, for it can no longer be helped other than through intercession. Countless souls are close to earth and predominantly close to people from whom they expect help. For their part they seek the opportunity to force themselves into people’s minds and only fear that they will ignore them and leave them helplessly in the same situation. For every soul languishing in spiritual darkness in the beyond is helpless, thus it can only be offered help if light is imparted to it, if the divine gospel is proclaimed to it, for the knowledge of it signifies light, the knowledge of it brings relief to the soul since it will immediately pass this knowledge on and thus likewise serve with love. Yet in order to be able to serve the compassionate souls with love it has to possess spiritual knowledge itself which it wants to impart. But their state of darkness is completely unsuitable for passing on spiritual knowledge, and therefore the soul asks for light, they ask for knowledge, and you humans on earth can impart this to them and rescue them from their great adversity by sincerely appealing to God for grace and strength for these suffering souls …. And if the heart’s love sends such a prayer of supplication upwards, God will answer the prayer and likewise give the souls in the beyond the opportunity to lovingly occupy themselves, and then the soul’s spiritual ascent will begin, for it will receive strength through the earthly person’s love and use this strength in accordance with divine will ….

Amen

The unredeemed being constantly needs help because it is powerless of its own accord. Consequently, beings must again constantly be ready to help these powerless beings, and this is the activity of all those beings who have placed themselves into a certain state of maturity through loving activity. These beings are now active in a redeeming way, for they help the unfree to become free from their bound state. The activity in the beyond is therefore a redemption of the spiritual from bondage …. And thus the work of redemption, which was not carried out on earth, is started or continued in the beyond, and countless beings participate in it, namely all spiritual beings which already receive light by distributing light again. The bearers of light in the beyond give their love to immature beings in the beyond as well as to those on earth, for their only endeavour is to impart light to them, that is, to guide them into knowledge …. For only he who is in the light is free …. he who is knowledgeable is also free of every shackle, because knowledge, light and love cannot be thought of without each other and always signify a state of freedom. For knowledge, light and love are synonymous with power, but power also presupposes freedom, just as powerlessness and lack of freedom are also synonymous. power must therefore join powerlessness, or else the bearers of light and knowledge, because they are full of love, must grant their support to the powerless beings, they must supply them with what they lack. This puts the beings in a state to utilize the power imparted to them and to free themselves as well. And this liberation of the unfree spiritual substance from the state of complete powerlessness and bondage is a constant activity in the beyond …. But it is also the most beautiful task of man on earth, which brings him highest spiritual advantage. For the sooner the work of redemption is tackled, the greater the successes will be. The supply of strength from beings of light on the other side has the effect that the human being on earth can already cast off the shackle, that he becomes free from the oppressive force and thus can likewise shape himself into a bearer of light through the transmission of light, knowledge and love, thus becoming a recipient of strength who can again be active in a redeeming way in earthly life or also in the beyond when he leaves earthly life. Everything that is redeemed should assist the unredeemed, and as soon as the being undergoes this task it is free itself and joins the kingdom of light. The task in the beyond is extremely gratifying for the beings of light, for in their love they know of no other more satisfying activity than to help those who have to suffer because they are still unfree, thus to redeem them from their agonizing state. Thus the work of redemption which Jesus Christ accomplished on earth with His death on the cross was the beginning, and all beings which follow Jesus …. which therefore, like Jesus, live a life of love and help the beings which need their help, participate in this work of redemption …. it shares light and knowledge by virtue of its love and thus liberates that which is still bound from its bondage ….

Amen

The spiritual bond ensures man’s ascent to the heights. This is understandable because the inhabitants of the kingdom of light constantly support the spiritual, which is not yet perfected. That which is full of light tries to influence people, and the influence will always be effective when people turn towards their givers, when they therefore try to unite with the spiritual beings. Only a conscious turning away makes the endeavour of those beings ineffective. The spiritual influence is of greatest importance for the earthly human being. He can indeed also be influenced by evil beings but only if the human being surrenders to the evil forces without resistance, and this is the case if he does not consciously desire good spiritual strength …. In order to make contact with good power, the human being must allow his will to become active, he must desire its influence, its protection and its help …. Bad forces, however, do not need to be desired, they are already ready for their bad work as soon as the person is indifferent and does not defend himself against their influence. They are there at all times and oppress the person who does not resist them through the desire for good. The connections of the bad forces with people are initiated by them, while the connection with the good forces must be sought by the person, i.e. consciously established. The good forces are constantly ready, and this readiness brings man the greatest spiritual success, while the bad forces need the readiness of man in order to be able to work, for the bad forces are spiritually lower than man and can only unfold their power when man is willing. Human resistance renders them powerless and impotent. However, their strength and power only consist of confusing the human being’s train of thought. The evil beings cannot express themselves or influence the human being in any other way, whereas the good spiritual forces can help the human being in every way, even apart from influencing his thoughts. For they also have the power to guide the human being in earthly life and also to shape events in a way that is favourable for the human being, thus to intervene in earthly life in such a way as is beneficial for the human being’s soul’s higher development. They act in accordance with God’s will, consequently they will always influence the human being as God tells them and as is necessary for them to reach maturity of soul. But only then may they look after the earthly child, i.e. turn their help towards it, when it connects with these good beings of its own accord, when it recognizes their strength and voluntarily turns to them and requests their effectiveness …. Then the influence of these beings on the human being is tremendously successful. They take care of the human being with the greatest love and perseverance and always and constantly help him to cover the path upwards unhindered, for they turn all their love towards the still imperfect, upward striving spiritual ….

Amen

Bring every sacrifice to the lord of heaven and earth so that He can consider you according to your love. The soul mostly desires the world, it desires that which is beneficial to the body, and this prevents it from making contact with the spirit within it, it prevents it from fulfilling the spirit’s desire. But advantage can only bring it the fulfilment of what the spirit within it tells it to do. As soon as the body urges you to fulfil its desire, you should resist it, for only then can the spirit unfold in you, and what the spirit imparts to you outweighs all earthly pleasures and joys. But the spirit which expresses itself in you, if you give it the opportunity to do so through your will, is a spark of the divine spirit of love, it is an emanation of God, thus a part of Him, and this divine spark of love shall become a brightly shining flame in you, and this requires nothing more than that you constantly feed this spark so that it can develop into a bright flame. You must constantly give so that you can receive, i.e. give up everything earthly in order to receive spiritual things. Thus your soul only has to obey what the spirit in you demands and disregard all the body’s desires. It must sacrifice what pleases the body and in return it may receive undreamt-of spiritual treasures that compensate for every sacrifice. He who gives, receives; but he who takes, will likewise be taken away. Spiritual good, however, outweighs every sacrifice, for it is more valuable than any earthly riches. The giving of spiritual goods is always an act of love, God closes the earthly child to His heart full of intimacy, He therefore distributes His love, and the human being receives something extremely precious when this love is clothed in an external form, when God imparts His word to the human being. The divine word is therefore a visible sign of God’s love for mankind …. However, the divine word can only be received when the human being gives …. when he gives up what has previously given pleasure to the body. Man must sacrifice in order to be able to receive, because sacrifice testifies to love …. If a person gives up something that seemed valuable to him, he proves this love and God rewards his will. He now bestows His grace upon the human being, for His love is infinite and He does not want the earthly child to suffer but to receive, yet nothing earthly may appear more valuable to him so that he desires it …. Then he will deny divine love access to his heart. Then the human being prevents the working of the divine spirit, and then the human being’s heart is not yet receptive for the gift God wants to offer him …. for he can only receive from God if he gives away what belongs to the world ….

Amen

Only that man gets closer to the problem of the creation of the world, whose thoughts are turned to God, because he thinks about the origin of the universe, about the infinity and the Creator of all things. He will not draw fast conclusions, he will presume and ask questions in mind, and mentally the response will be sent to him, as he pays attention to his thoughts. The slightest willingness to be thaught by knowing strengths, God rewards in the way, that He commissions them to guide man’s thoughts in the right path, and also his thinking will correspond to the truth, and he will take wisdoms from himself. He is taught by the Spirit of God, and therefore man is in truth …. The world is the product of the divine will to love. It is the thought of God, which has become a form. All tangible and earthly visible belongs to the earth, the realm of matter …. But out of this the spiritual world is not visible to the human eye, but also comes from the divine creative strength. Because the universe has innumerable creations, whose elementary bodies are spiritual substance, that can not be perceived by the human eye, because this can only see earthly matter. Could the human watch these spiritual creations, he would get a great knowledge, but his free will would be in danger, because what he would see, would be decisive for his whole life on earth. But the knowledge for that reason must remain hidden for him, so that he can walk his earthly life completely unaffected. God’s will, wisdom and love purchased creations continously, that appear to man only as very distant heavenly bodies, so he supposes them in the same nature as the earth. However these heavenly bodies are of such diverse design and for the habitants of the earth completely inaccessible. Nevertheless the human mind can rove into these creations and he takes down to earth, what he sees and hears. And this is an extraordinary grace of God, for man as such will never be able to get into that realm, and therefore the knowledge would lack him completely. But his spirit teaches him in the following manner:

There is nothing in the universe, that does not have its origin in God. Consequently everything must proclaim the divine wisdom, that’s to say, it must correspond to a plan, designed by God in His wisdom. So nothing is useless in space, though it may appear to man. Now the heavenly bodies correspond their purpose exactly like the earth, although they are designed differently. Everything in the universe gives the still unfree spiritual possibility, to develop to the height. That is the only purpose of any work of creation. But now there is by no means to accept, that therefore all works of creation exist from the same substance, so that only the earthly substance, the matter, can be the admission station of the undeveloped spiritual, because this assumption would imply, that everything in the universe is from the same earthly substance. It would also require, that all the stars were inhabited by the same beings, by people, but this always means a persistence in the same state, that’s to say in the undeveloped state lifelessness, meaning inaction. It would also mean constant darkness, and so should be all the stars lightless creations. But the higher developed beings would feel this creation as unbearable complusion, for they would find no receiving willing beings for their output of light, so the pursuit of God would never find fulfilment, if the being would not be released from his earthbound condition and would come into free regions, where an action without cover of complusion is possible. So also creations must exist, which mean no complusion for the being. But every earthly substance is a complusion for the spiritual therein, consequently (this must be eliminated), and there must be creations, that can only be explained purely spiritual, because they are only purely spiritual substance. They exist, but not visible to the human eye, but perceptible only with the spiritual eye. Therefore they are to be regarded as spiritual creations, which means, they can be beheld only after the earthly life, that they contain the spiritual beings, who have travelled the earthly life and should develop higher. But the state of ripeness of the beings is different, consequently the creations must be different, which now serve the beings to stay ….

Amen

For the higher development of the spirit the serving activity is the decisive factor, namely a certain activity is required by the being according to the domicile, and this again corresponds to the nature of the heavenly body, that has those beings as inhabitants. Earthly visible and tangible substance conditions also an activity, that achieves visible and tangible substance again, and therefore the soul, the spiritual, must be in a wrapper, that is tangible and visible. But activity can exist also only in a purely intellectual working, that means not be bound to any form or earthly creation and yet likewise be a serving in love, so the being comes to perfection. Consequently the maturing of these beings does not have to be made dependent by earthly creations, that means material creations. Rather the upward-development can be able to go ahead faster and easier in spiritual regions. However the activity in a spiritual environment is hard to describe to people. It is not to make them understand, because the human can not imagine life without physical exterior shape, but with God nothing is impossible, and therefore He created things, that appear unacceptable to the human mind, which should be explained as non-existing by human terms, but they are not possible to imagine out of the universe and therefore are also not to be denied. And these are the heavenly bodies, that are visible by the people as stars in the sky. These stars are endless lengths away from each other, they are always a world of them own. God’s omnipotence, wisdom and love attestes each creation, but man does not comprehend the nature of the stars, as long as he is on earth, it is nothing imaginable for him, what is not made of earthly substance. But the spiritual in man is also a completely independent substance from the earthly matter, and this leaves behind all material tangible or visible on the earth, as soon as it comes in the spiritual realm through the gate of eternity. And so the stay of the soul after physical death is not a creation of earthly substance, but the countless stars are meant to it, that are visible for the human eye as luminous celestial body, but in reality they can not be seen by the human eye, because they are no earthly creations, but they were still created by God for the higher development of the imperfect spiritual ….

Amen

The human being requires vital energy for every activity, thus activity signifies life. If this strength is withdrawn from him he will be incapable of reshaping himself or other things …. he will be lifeless. But as soon as the human being has become lifeless, the external shape will nevertheless change within itself. It will dissolve, and this process will last until all substances are taken in by a new external shape again, i.e. once the spiritual substance has escaped the form, the remaining form will certainly be released from its previous purpose, nevertheless, it must find a new purpose …. it must contribute towards increasing some other external shape. The substance dissolves in order to be joined to a new external shape. This process once again requires a longer period of time …. Hence the old shape seemingly dissolves; in reality, however, the spiritual substances which the external shape also consists of enter into contact with other spiritual substances and form a new external shape because the spiritual substance, which had solidified into an external shape, must likewise undertake the path of higher development on earth, for it is still at the beginning of its development. As soon as spiritual substances are placed into this new external shape again, it will begin its function of service, thus the shape will awaken to life …. for activity is life. Each work of creation receives the flow of strength from God so that it can actively be of service, no matter in what way, and every activity results in higher development for the spiritual substance in the form. Consequently that which is alive …. thus active …. must advance in its development without fail. Only the state of death signifies a standstill of its development. But all matter shelters life within itself, for it constantly changes, albeit over various lengths of time. Even the hardest form, through external influences relating to light radiation …. thus the activity of the bearers of light …. will be stimulated to be active, although this is not noticeable to the human eye. But life also stirs in this shape and accomplishes changes which therefore confirm its life. Matter can therefore not be called entirely dead, although for the human being it appears to be lifeless. And yet, a state of lifelessness exists and this occurs in the stage as a human being …. In this stage the being receives the greatest flow of vital energy which it should use for actively being of service. And despite of this it is possible for the human being to spend his life on earth in complete idleness …. as soon as he does not use the vital energy in order to fulfil the task which is the purpose of his earthly life …. if he neglects or refrains from doing what will gain him higher development …. if he avoids accomplishing acts of love …. the pursuance of activity for which God provides the human being with the flow of vital energy …. Then his higher development will come to a standstill. This signifies a state of lifelessness, of death, and this is the worst state because it can only be remedied by the being itself …. but since the state of death is a state of weakness, the being will no longer be able to release itself from it because it rejected the strength it had previously received …. Death of the external shape merely signifies a transformation into a new form, thus, in a manner of speaking, a further possibility for higher development of the spiritual substance which the external shape consists of. But to be spiritually dead is the most horrific state, because the final grace which is at the being’s disposal has been left unused …. because the flow of vitality God conveyed to this being has not been used for helpful activity and the being remains on the same level of development it was in at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being. Spiritual progress without activity is impossible; the being becomes weak as a result of its inactivity and enters the beyond without strength ….

Amen

Man can live and yet be dead in spirit, and likewise he can lose his bodily life and awaken from the sleep of death to eternal life. And both are up to him, he decides for himself about the death or life of his soul and yet attaches so little importance to this favour of a free decision during his life on earth. The state of death is an uncomfortable thought for every human being as soon as he is in the midst of life. And yet very few people do anything to make this thought less uncomfortable. They can do it with ease by living in such a way that there is no more death for them, that they are born again to eternal life. And then death has lost its sting for them, and the moment of departure from earth can be the most marvellous moment, without fear and terror or anxious uncertainty about one’s future fate. Giving up earthly life need not be painful, the soul can detach itself from the body without any agony as soon as it has not paid attention to the body on earth and the union with the spirit was its endeavour on earth. Then the spirit has already hurried ahead into the spiritual kingdom during its lifetime, for it recognized this as its true home. It will now also describe this home to its soul in such a way that it also has a longing for that kingdom, and thus nothing keeps soul and spirit back on earth. But the body of such people is also in a certain state of maturity and no longer pressurizes the soul. Consequently, the soul easily detaches itself from it and enters the realm of peace …. But where the body has not yet given freedom to the spirit within itself, it will still exert the greatest influence on the soul, and since the body is attached to earth it will also transfer this desire to the soul, and now the soul only sees that it has to leave the stay on earth it has grown fond of, and since it cannot stop or avert the hour itself, it is overcome by a great fear of the ‘after’. For in the hour of death it clearly recognizes what it has done wrong and this burdens it extraordinarily, and the hour of death becomes a torment for it, for it enters darkness where bright light could shine for it. And its state now is desolate and full of horror. Man has lived on earth only for his physical well-being, and so he now reaps the fruit of his life. The body and the soul suffer great agony, for the soul cannot enter the kingdom of light, consequently it is condemned to inactivity, whereas the souls in the kingdom of light are allowed to be active without interruption and the activity alone is already infinitely blissful. Life or death is the fate of souls who leave earthly life, and life or death is determined by the human being himself during his earthly life. And blessed if he still lets his will become active in time, that he learns to despise the world and restlessly works on himself. Then the hour of death will also be welcome to him, for for him it means awakening to eternal life …. for him it is not an hour of terror but the final redemption from a bound state ….

Amen

Only a few people will be found who courageously and openly stand up for Him in the time of the battle against Christ, for their faith in God’s help is too small and thus people fear for their life and their freedom, and in the end they even give up their faith because they love their life more than their soul. And only a few will dare to speak as they think, and only a few will ask for God’s help and confess Jesus Christ before the whole world without fear. But these few are strong in faith. They know that the time has now come which the lord announced during His walk on earth, the time when He will descend to earth again to save mankind from the deepest misery. They know that their fellow human beings are in great need and that help has to be brought to them, and they clearly recognize their task on earth and try to fulfil it. Thus they must speak freely and openly so that the thoughts of their fellow human beings are stimulated and prompted to make a free decision. They are not allowed to anxiously ask about the effect of their actions, they must frankly and freely confess God and therefore fulfil His will first before they fulfil any other obligation. And now they will be put to the test …. The divine word will be picked apart in such a way that nothing will remain and even the believer will be beset by doubts as to the authenticity of Christ’s teaching. And in this spiritual adversity He will express Himself and bring strength to those who become fickle because He recognizes their will to serve Him. And now man is only a tool in the hands of God. For he carries out what God wants, he speaks and acts according to God’s will, and he does not fear the world and its power but places himself under divine protection. And that is his strength, for he who goes into battle with God will defeat all resistance; he will be strong where others become weak, he will speak where others remain silent, he will work even if it is forbidden, and he will know that he is acting rightly and that he cannot act differently, for the inner voice tells him what he should and should not do ….

Amen

Remain in Me so that I can unite with you. Your life shall be a continuous activity of love. You should do everything as a matter of innermost impulse, and this impulse shall be love, the most beautiful and sacred feeling, which you should allow to dominate you. Anyone who lives in love is engrossed in Me, anyone who lives in love remains forever united with Me, for he is what I Am Myself …. he is love, as I Myself Am love …. Then peace will be within you, for the marriage of your spirit with Me has taken place, it is no longer outside of Me but in Me, for it is My share for eternity. Then I Myself will be with you and where I Am there must be peace and love and harmony. And if you live in unity with Me, your life on earth will neither be conflict nor worry, for then I will fight on your behalf and take your worries upon Me, for I love you because you are My Own since the beginning. But first you must completely hand yourselves over to Me, you must sacrifice everything to Me, you must so love Me that you willingly sacrifice everything for Me, and you must prove this love to Me by striving to treat your fellow human beings in the same way as you would like to treat Me. I want you to prove your love for Me through your love for your fellow human beings …. It is My will that you should help each other, that one is willing to suffer on behalf of the other, that you serve each other with love. Then your activity of love on earth will be blessed, it will result in the most magnificent reward. I will be with you and place you into a state of profound peace and silent beatitude. For this is the promise I gave you, and My Word always remains the same ‘He who remains in love remains in Me and I in him ….’

Amen

He is wise who does not take offence at the weaknesses of his fellow human beings, for those who do so are weak themselves, and they succumb to a test that has been put to them to test their patience and willpower. For strength lies in overcoming oneself, and so whoever is strong will not be agitated by the weakness of his fellow man, it will not make him discouraged and will not be a cause for impatience. And he who trains himself to be patient will also be able to convince his fellow human being if he is lacking, and thus exert a good influence on him; but he will never achieve this as long as his nature is agitated, for this also triggers agitation in his fellow human being and determines him to contradict. Forbearance cannot be sufficiently preached to people, and they should constantly be in control of themselves so that the power that strives for their spiritual decline does not gain control over them. Man is in this danger as soon as he becomes weak, for God’s adversary uses weakness to bring man down. He wants to cause him to act and think in an unloving way, and often a small cause is enough for him to achieve his goal. Therefore, constant vigilance is required and constant wrestling with oneself. The struggle with oneself strengthens man, the struggle against one’s fellow man makes him weak. Everyone should bear this in mind and behave accordingly if he finds himself in a situation where he is put to the test. His fight should only be a fight against unkindness, but otherwise he should listen patiently to what provokes him to speak back. He will grow stronger inwardly and judge his fellow human being’s weaknesses leniently, thereby maturing spiritually, for only by overcoming himself will man progress in his higher development ….

Amen

The way on earth is decisive for life in the beyond, but only rarely is it accorded serious significance, rather a life in the beyond is considered doubtful, but earthly life is given a different purpose …. the transformation and increase of that which is accessible to man in creation. Man regards himself and his activity as necessary for creation, but not creation as a means to an end, which only came into being because of him. And consequently his thoughts and endeavours are in no way profitable for his soul if he is not a deep believer and life after death has become a certainty for him. His way of life will correspond to his faith, yet the unbeliever does not use his life on earth to reshape himself but to reshape that which surrounds him, i.e. he moulds his earthly life into a comfortable and enjoyable existence, he moulds his appearance, his living conditions and only seeks increased joy of life. And for this purpose he creates and moulds things which again serve to increase his well-being for himself or his fellow human beings. But they pay no attention to the spirit in man and therefore leave him in a shackled state. Consequently, they neither recognize the meaning and purpose of creation nor that of their earthly life. They are unaware of their task, of the course of all beings through creation, of the soul’s development and of the consequences of a failed earthly life. They do not know about the state in the beyond, about the suffering on the one hand and the happiness on the other, which is the result of a wrong or right earthly life. And this ignorance is the greatest obstacle on the path upwards, for ignorance is darkness of spirit, and darkness prevents them from finding the right path. And that is why it is so necessary that these people are offered enlightenment, that they are instructed about the purpose and goal of earthly life, that the life in the beyond is presented to them vividly and that their thoughts and intentions are turned and directed towards life after death. It is necessary that people receive information about this so that they turn away from their purely worldly endeavours and steer their earthly life in other directions, that they remember their soul and decide to start working on their soul. For the time on earth is short, but the time they have to spend in darkness in the beyond is infinitely long if they have not accepted the light on earth which is offered to them time and again through God’s love ….

Amen

The turning point in earthly life is the moment when the soul gives the spirit within itself the freedom to vibrate upwards in order to make contact with the spiritual beyond the human soul. The earlier this process begins, the sooner the human being reaches the degree of maturity which is the precondition for receiving light and knowledge. The human being is ignorant as long as the spirit in him is not yet active, as long as the divine spark slumbers in the human being, for the spiritual cannot reveal itself to the human soul; it is as it were incapable of grasping a spiritual communication, for its kingdom is earth, matter …. and the spiritual is still completely alien to it. Only when the spiritual spark within itself becomes active and tries to impart knowledge from the spiritual realm does it begin to comprehend. Man will have no understanding of that which is not earthly visible or tangible as long as he does not concern himself more closely with it. However, he only does the latter when what is earthly visible and tangible is no longer sufficient for him, i.e. when the fulfilment of physical desire seems unattractive to him, i.e. when he disregards the body and longs for higher knowledge; …. when he suddenly recognizes a shortcoming in his current state …. when the life he leads is not enough for him and he turns his attention to things he cannot fathom with mere common sense. Then he ponders, i.e. he sends his spirit upwards, and now the spirit connects with the spiritual outside itself, which corresponds to the nature of man. In other words, if the human being is good and noble, truth-loving and longing for God, then his spirit connects with the spiritual that was in the same endeavour, that embodied the good, the true and the divine …. But which, in contrast to man, already stands on a level of perfection that enables it to teach the spiritual that entrusts itself to it. What the spirit therefore now receives are wisdoms which only concern the spiritual kingdom, which therefore can certainly be imparted to the human soul, but which do not concern earthly questions but merely promote the spiritual higher development of the human being. However, this higher development only appears significant to those people who are able to separate themselves from earthly experience, but to others it is an empty concept, for their souls simply do not realize that they can lead a life apart from the earthly, which seems much more appealing and purposeful to them. Only when the soul releases the spirit within itself can it initiate the soul into the splendours of the spiritual kingdom, and then the soul will likewise strive to ascend, that is, it will longingly desire the results of the spiritual flight upwards, into the spiritual kingdom. For it recognizes the value of what the spirit tries to convey to it, it recognizes it and tries to make itself worthy of the attention from the spiritual kingdom …. Thus the human being now consciously strives for realization, for light, and the conscious striving also brings him light, the human being becomes knowledgeable and his earthly life brings him the right success …. the higher development of his soul, which is the purpose and goal of earthly life ….

Amen

An unusual task also requires unusual strength, and in order to be able to receive this strength, the human being’s striving must also be unusually great, i.e. the human being’s will must always and repeatedly be prepared to fulfil the divine will. A one-off agreement and willingness to serve God is not enough. Man must always place himself at God’s disposal anew in order to be able to receive power from God anew. For man’s will should become stronger, man should consciously seek the connection with God, because only this means the separation from the world, which only then ensures the ability to receive divine strength. Once the human being declares himself ready and this would be sufficient for the later task, further development would be guaranteed even if the human being’s will were weak or turned towards God’s adversary. And every human being will be exposed to this state from time to time and has to be, because the adversary’s struggle for the soul will also start and God will not deny him this either. Thus the human being would then no longer fight against his enemy but against God Himself, and this would result in a certain higher development which, however, would no longer be caused by free will. Spiritual freedom is only possible when the human being has completely freed himself from the evil power that wants to dominate him …. But a detachment from this power is at the same time a union with God …. The union with God, however, must be striven for by the being itself, consequently the innermost drive in the human heart must long for God, and this longing must become a permanent state, because the divine power flows to the human being in accordance with the longing. If the human being is to fulfil a task which requires extraordinary strength he must always be in contact with God, he must always and constantly open his heart so that God’s love can communicate itself to him, thus the will must be incessantly active, he must time and again submit himself to God the lord, he must regard himself as an empty vessel which constantly fills itself with the strength which is absolutely necessary for extraordinary activity. Unusual work, however, will always be to wrest from God’s adversary the souls that still cling to him. Unusual work is furthermore to pass on the spiritual knowledge received by a person to fellow human beings who have not yet formed themselves sufficiently to receive spiritual knowledge directly. For they will almost always resist it if it is brought to them, since the ability to recognize the truth also presupposes a desire for the truth. And such people must now be influenced with all love and patience so that they are willing to think through what they have heard. Then it can also be received by them. Therefore, the transmission of spiritual truths to fellow human beings requires people who are extremely willing to be of service and who are driven by the realization of humanity’s spiritual need to be willing to help. They must place themselves at God’s disposal time and time again, as such a task can only be accomplished from the innermost drive and could therefore never become a mechanical act. Only when the human being is fully and completely absorbed in this task can God work through him in such a way that He makes use of the human being’s will and the latter must now act in accordance with God’s will. This state, however, presupposes profound love for God and his fellow human beings, and thus the will is constantly active as soon as it is driven by love. However, as long as the human being is still struggling and the transformation of his soul is not yet complete, he requires an immense supply of strength but must also acquire it, i.e. he must ask for it in constant union with God. A person must, as it were, live for his fellow human beings and form the bridge from them to God. A person must recognize adversity and try to avert it by shaping himself in such a way as is necessary in order to receive God’s strength …. And he now has to use the gift of strength for his fellow human beings again, for a person’s love, which is expressed in his activity for his fellow human beings, is able to transfer much, thus also the gift of strength from God to them, if his endeavour is not openly resisted. The will to serve God enables man to redeeming activity, and this will be successful if deep love changes his nature to gentleness, patience and peacefulness, for he may only fight with these weapons if victory is to be on his side. But it is a difficult beginning to lead humanity on the same path that brings it the power supply from God. Therefore, the human being who wants to serve God constantly receives strength in the form of the divine word as soon as he proves himself worthy of it, and the human being increases in wisdom, his will is strengthened, his ability to pass on the divine teachings also grows and his love becomes ever deeper, and this is decisive for his earthly task …. Only love brings him the love of God to such an extent that he submits himself ever more willingly to God and finally becomes completely absorbed in His will ….

Amen

The perpetual exchange of spiritual good (thoughts) from giving spiritual beings to human beings and from these to fellow human beings is so infinitely valuable and contributes enormously to the transformation of human thinking. There is no easier way to guide humanity into the right knowledge. For this is the most revealing and truest explanation of that which still causes man to question. Yet this path is not often travelled, even when it is shown to people …. And this is why the truth can only be found very rarely amongst humanity, for those who distribute knowledge on earth are mostly not in contact with the spiritual givers, consequently they only teach what they have received from worldly teachers. However, this offers no guarantee of truth. However, if a person presents the pure truth to his fellow human beings they deem it unacceptable, and as a result spiritual exchange is only very rarely possible because the reference to it is ignored. Countless beings in the beyond are ready to give, they are not listened to and their gift is not desired. The spiritual strength they would like to radiate to earthly people in need of strength is not received, and this is an inconceivable disadvantage for the whole of humanity, for nothing can replace this loss, nothing can favour spiritual development as much as the imparting of truth, which absolutely has to be conveyed to the human being if his soul is to mature on earth ….

Every possibility of exchange is prevented as soon as the human being’s belief in otherworldly forces and their working is taken away from him. This faith, however, cannot be maintained by coercion, nor do these forces only express themselves where faith in their working is particularly strong, for faith is the prerequisite that the human being listens inwards, and only then can he hear the voice of those spiritual givers. However, the spiritual friends cannot express themselves in any other obvious way if the freedom of faith is not to be infringed upon. For a person who would be forced to believe in otherworldly activity would also be forced in his actions and thoughts and could therefore never reach the degree of perfection. On the other hand, however, the exchange with spiritual forces is absolutely necessary for this, for their mental influences stimulate the human being to consciously work on his soul. But this work has to be done and is neglected where the mental influence cannot take place due to unbelief or open resistance against the working of otherworldly forces. For it is up to the human being how he decides, thus earthly life will also be left to him even if he does not use it for the salvation of his soul ….

Amen

An immeasurable abundance of divine grace flows to the person who gives himself to God and desires His strength. For he is seized by God’s love because he has now recognized that he belongs to God. God has never detached Himself from the being which became apostate, but since the being itself renounced God, thus distanced itself from Him, God’s love could not flow towards it. Now, however, the being returns to God of its own accord and opens itself to the flow of love, which now overflows into it in all its fullness. It means imparting light and strength when the being enters the circuit of divine emanation of love, light reaches the person in the form of knowledge, thus the state of light will always be the spirit’s brightness, and therefore anyone who stands in the light will also let this light radiate far and wide so that it breaks through the spirit’s darkness. The endeavour to bring light into the darkness requires strength, and this strength is likewise given to the human being. He will now be able to accomplish what his will strives for, namely to give to his fellow human beings that which makes him happy, for now that he has become seeing, now that he is in the light, he knows about the happiness of the one who is in knowledge and tries to pass this knowledge on. God blesses this endeavour, for His love applies to all His beings, even to those who have distanced themselves from Him, and since they do not request to return to Him of their own accord there is only the possibility that they will be led back through people who are devoted to God and who make it their task to help them. And God imparts His grace to them. He trains them to become His true representatives on earth, He makes His will known to them and introduces them to the truth so that they can now represent the truth and proclaim the divine will to those who are still on the wrong track. And anyone who wants to serve Him will truly not remain powerless; he will be able to achieve things which can only be accomplished with the strength from God and which will make the person happy who gratefully accepts this gift, who therefore allows himself to be taught by the one who offers himself to God for service. And so the light shines far and wide. And it will penetrate the darkness, it will illuminate the night and the darkness will have to give way, for love for God determines the human being to hand himself over to Him, and love for his fellow human being determines him to pass on what he has received, and he is able to do both through divine grace, which flows to him in abundance as an outpouring of divine love ….

Amen

Divine spiritual activity requires undoubted faith, because divine spiritual activity is the influx of power from God, which understandably can never be granted to a person who is not a full believer. What the spirit from God imparts to man is often incomprehensible to the human mind. Faith, however, affirms everything, even if the intellect cannot grasp it. But if God makes Himself known through the spirit, then He also wants what He gives to be accepted in faith, for His gift is too precious to be given to those who are weak in faith and would therefore doubt the divine truth. To the believer nothing seems impossible, nothing incomprehensible and nothing impracticable, consequently he accepts every teaching without doubting its truthfulness. Unbelief, however, sets limits; he who stands in unbelief will always raise objections because he does not know the working of the spirit in man, because he knows nothing and because he judges according to his worldly understanding. For the unbeliever will never be able to receive the truth directly, but it must be conveyed to him. Consequently, because he cannot believe, he will reject the communication of the one who allows the spirit from God to work in him, for he is not yet capable of receiving divine truth. Faith must be strong, only then will the human being become such that he submits himself to God in deepest humility. He must believe in God, only then will he endeavour to live in a way that pleases Him. In order to fulfil the will of a power, the power must first be acknowledged, and this is faith …. The human being is inclined to contradict, and he will continue to contradict until the spark of the spirit awakens in him, and then it will enlighten him, and truly in the same way, for the spirit from God cannot proclaim anything other than truth ….

(18.11.1941) The believing person recognizes the truth as such, but the unbeliever is convinced that he is being offered untruth and he rejects it. But he also does not have the desire for the truth, otherwise the will to reject would not be so great in him, for the ability to believe is only the consequence of the will to believe. If the human being wants to come to knowledge and finds it difficult to believe, God’s love constantly endeavours to help him because his will is decisive. He is mentally instructed, and mentally many wisdoms are brought to him, which he examines again and again, and his will to reject becomes weaker and weaker. This is also an activity of the spirit, only in a different form than the direct communication of wisdom from God, which presupposes full faith. Yet the will for truth is already an affirmation of the eternal deity, thus an unconscious faith, and God increases and strengthens this as soon as the human being is serious about it. If the direct expressions of the spirit are now made accessible to that person he will not immediately affirm them but they will give him cause for reflection. And he will recognize that what is offered to him does not deviate from his thoughts, he will recognize the harmony of what he received mentally and what is now conveyed to him. And thus he learns to believe because he wanted to believe, for he himself unconsciously strives towards God. And God does not let him strive in vain, God lets Himself be found when He is sought and comes to meet him Himself in the form of truth, which he will now recognize as such. The strength from God constantly flows to people and the spirit of God constantly works in those people who shape themselves accordingly so that He can work in them, for God wants to spread the truth, He wants to snatch people from spiritual darkness, and where the spirit of God is at work there is light and brightness ….

Amen

Nothing remains hidden from man that he desires to know, only he must take the right path. He must turn to where he can be given truthful information. Worldly knowledge is piecemeal, but what the world cannot give him God can impart to him, and truly without error, because God cannot err and only wants to make pure truth accessible to His living creations. It is not God’s will that man’s knowledge is limited …. It is not His will that he should go through earthly life in ignorance, yet He will not give knowledge to those people who have no desire for it and therefore do not appreciate the divine gift …. The knowledge about His reign and activity, about His love for the creatures and about the purpose of the whole of creation is something so precious that nothing earthly can outweigh it. And all people are free to acquire this knowledge. However, God will never impart such exquisite good to those who only pay attention to the world and its pleasures. He distributes where spiritual good is desired, but withholds the gift from those who are not capable of receiving it. Man himself can therefore determine the degree of his knowledge, and he will understandably remain ignorant until the desire for truth awakens in him. Even if God were to give the truth to those people, they would still not recognize it as such, which is why the person who wants to teach them and guide them into a different way of thinking has a difficult time. Those who constantly strive will also awaken or grow in their desire. But he who remains in spiritual inertia, who is content with the knowledge that has been imparted to him by man, sets the limits to his knowledge himself. He cannot be offered the truth because he does not open his heart and ears, but closes himself off to the wisdom of God. There is nothing that remains closed to man if he turns to God Himself for enlightenment. Yet he knows nothing of the divine working of the spirit, he knows nothing of the connection between the creator and His living creations, he knows nothing of His love, and thus it is incomprehensible to him that and how he can establish contact with Him. Yet he is just as inaccessible to instructions, for his will is strong; he is influenced by God’s adversary and therefore he rejects and remains unteachable. The spirit of truth requires a receptive heart, but the will to reject makes the working of the divine spirit impossible, consequently he will remain in spiritual darkness who feels no urge within himself for the brightness of the spirit. Divine gifts are precious and should be desired with a prayerful heart and received with a grateful heart; but where the prayer for the communication of truth does not precede it, the worthiness to receive it is lacking. And man remains ignorant, even though he believes he has earthly knowledge ….

Amen

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

Amen

You will feel the strength which God imparts to you through His word less physically and yet you will become free, for the soul’s shackles will be broken as a result and it will be able to hear the voice of the spirit within itself. You should constantly struggle and ask for the grant of strength, and therefore the body will not feel it, so that the human being will not become lax in his endeavours. If he requests strength from God, he will inevitably receive it, and he who requests strength from God can never be regressive. For God will not let anyone ask in vain for a gift that will benefit the soul. If you humans receive the strength from God in the form of His word, then the spirit in you has also awakened and can make itself understood by the soul, i.e., the soul is able to receive the spirit’s instructions. It is therefore already in a certain freedom and uses this freedom to unite with the spirit, which also wants to unite with it. Only when the soul is united with the spirit has it reached the degree of maturity that results in a light-filled beyond. Soul and spirit were not united at the beginning of embodiment. The soul knew nothing of the divine spark it harboured within itself. It only became aware of it through the activity of love because only then did the spirit express itself. The goal and purpose of life on earth is the unification of soul and spirit …. which can only be achieved through love. Loving activity gives strength to the soul, thus it can feel the working of the spirit …. it can receive its teachings, it grasps the wisdom imparted to it and can therefore also pass it on. All of this requires strength, which it can request from God through heartfelt prayer or acquire itself through constant labour of love, through which it likewise strives for strength from God. The spirit in a person will always motivate him to love, as he himself is a divine spark of love …. If the soul is now active in love, it unites itself intimately with the spark of love within itself, and the more intimate the union of soul and spirit is, the freer the spirit becomes, which uses the freedom to receive spiritual good from spiritual regions, which it then feeds back to the soul. And everything is strength from God …. And thus divine strength flows to the human being with every transmission of spiritual knowledge. It causes the soul and the spirit to unite and strive for the same …. union with God …. Although the bond between soul and spirit is not perceptibly realized by the human being, he also increasingly joins the spirit’s desire, i.e. he does not hinder the soul if it wants to enter into union with the spirit within himself and submits to its will without resistance. For now the spirit dominates the human being’s thinking, feeling and willing and his earthly life must now be an ascent to the heights ….

Amen

Earthly life is given to you as a trial. If you do not pass this test then your fate after your departure from earth will continue to be a bound one, for the will cannot be forcibly directed such that you do that which redeems you from bondage. Redemption can only be found through the surrender of your free will, because free will once resisted God, and in earthly life you humans often have enough opportunity to sacrifice your will. The body will constantly push for the fulfilment of its desire, and then free will has to kick in and resist the body’s desire out of love for God …. then it will consciously strive for its redemption. So all earthly pleasures and the temptations of this world are only a means to an end, so that man lets his free will become active and surrenders everything because he wants to submit to the will of God. The redemption from the form, from the unfree state, outweighs every sacrifice that man has made on earth. He now does not need to fear a renewed bondage as soon as he departs from this life, but his state will be a free one, it will mean redemption from every cover. Thus the will cannot be directed towards God by force, and only few people voluntarily give up their former resistance against God. Mankind is therefore in greatest danger, for earthly life passes quickly and it has not been lived appropriately. People continue to submit their will to the opposing power, which is responsible for their bondage. And this is the reason for an intervention on God’s part which is intended to draw people’s attention to His will so that they will free themselves from the adversary’s control and take refuge in God ….

Amen

Receiving the divine word will enable the human being to fulfil the task which is the purpose of his earthly life. God has assured His grace and strength to those people who are of good will, and they demonstrate their good will when they hear Him …. if they accept His word and endeavour to obey it. The will is decisive, and the good will leads decisively to God, because the strength that flows from His word leads back to Him. It pushes the person who is willing into the circuit of divine love, and what has once felt God’s love can never again be without this love …. It follows the course of higher development in constant readiness to receive God’s love. And love flows to every receptive heart, again in the form of His word. For God’s word is the outflow of His never-ending love …. God’s word is the epitome of grace and power …. God’s word is the influx of Him Who Himself is the word from eternity. God Himself descends to earth in the word, and He floods everything with strength that surrenders to the effect of this word. Only the will is required to receive it in order to be flooded with its power. The recipient must inevitably develop upwards because a decline is no longer possible where the power of God Himself is at work. Only where there is resistance is the word of God ineffective. For there it passes by the ear and heart of man, the power cannot penetrate because the heart closes, and man remains untouched, and he feels nothing of the blessing of the divine word. To desire is to receive …. And therefore the will of man must first become active before the power from God can flow to him. But where the will has turned towards God, the human being can never be without strength, and this strength flowing towards him connects the human being with God, it lets him recognize his origin and inevitably draws him back to the place from where he started …. it leads him towards his primordial beginning, to God, from Whose strength the being has emerged ….

Amen

The universe is governed by divine laws, which have been the basis of the work of creation since eternity. No opposing power will be able to overturn or change these laws, and this lawfulness often determines people to deny an essential deity. And this has its reason in the fact that man himself as a being is unstable, that he often changes his will, that he arbitrarily does one thing and then another depending on his thinking, which likewise testifies to a certain arbitrariness or instability. Man, who due to his imperfection does not yet have a sure sense of when his actions and thoughts are so good and wise that they no longer require improvement, applies the same standard to the divine creator, Who in His supreme perfection and wisdom recognizes and has recognized the meaning and purpose of every work of creation since eternity. Consequently, His creations need no improvement but are eternally subject to the laws which God considered wise and good that He has based His works of creation on. The eternally unchangeable therefore does not correspond to the human idea of an entity, consequently man usually uses the expression ‘natural power’ for what he imagines ‘God’ to be. However, everything is given up to a force without will, because a determining will must be denied to a force alone, while the recognition of a will also requires the recognition of an entity. A force has an elementary effect, and a will is recognizable when the force is stopped. Creations would therefore constantly come into being but would never change in themselves if only the power but no will were active. The will, however, first shapes what comes into being …. But then the will also determines an entity, just as man as such would be an entity-less creature …. something mechanical …. and, although he could be active, he would be without will. Only the will makes the created an entity, just as the creative power in connection with the will must be addressed as an entity. The lawfulness of nature allows man to deny will, as the same effects of the expression of power have always been recognizable since eternity. However, man’s work of creation is only slightly affected by this regularity. Although the external forms differ only slightly from each other, every human being shapes himself, i.e. his inner life, as well as the external living conditions through his will …. as long as one does not want to recognize an entity that controls every human destiny …. Man would then be more than that power if he can overturn the lawfulness of things through his will, if he can mould and shape himself, as a work of creation of this natural power, at his own discretion, if he can even reshape natural creations through his will and his activity through precisely that will which is the characteristic of an entity.

The power that is not directed by the will would have an unrestrained effect and no order would be recognizable, because all lawfulness must have been established by a will that is stronger than the power, i.e. that controls the power. Will would be impracticable without power, but power without will would not be the origin of a lawful creation, i.e. one that testifies to a certain order. Will and power together, however, characterize an entity that is wise and omnipotent …. which can therefore be called the source of power. Wisdom and will have given every work of creation a task …. The power without the will would certainly be able to bring things into being, but without any connection with each other and without a purpose for each other. A creation arising from power without will would be a confusing jumble of things without purpose and goal …. therefore a will, which was utilized in highest wisdom, must have been active in the emergence of creation. And where will and wisdom can be recognized, it will be difficult to deny the deity as an entity. The concept of an essential deity makes striving for God understandable, while the idea of ‘natural power’ excludes striving for it, but at the same time also renders the most important thing, prayer, obsolete. For an entity can certainly be invoked with faith in prayer, but never a power, because prayer and the hope of fulfilment also presuppose faith in an entity that can fulfil any prayer …. However, in order to be able to pray correctly, the human being must have faith in an essential deity, Which is indeed inconceivable to the human being but Which expresses Itself through precisely that force of nature which is an emanation of God, Who, according to His plan and through His will, caused those things to come into being in the universe which betray the wisest creative spirit …. the characteristic of an essential deity ….

Amen

People heedlessly pass by the divine word and therefore walk powerlessly on earth. But without the imparting of strength they will not reach their goal. And time and again God meets them with His love and offers them the most precious thing, His word, which is supposed to make their path upwards easier, which is supposed to give them strength and enable them to live according to God’s will. What the giving of the divine word means for people is beyond their comprehension …. that God Himself speaks to people, to beings who originally turned away from Him …. who rebelled against Him in wrong will and arrogance …. that He turns His love towards them and wants to make it easy for them to make amends for their former sin, that He shows them the path of return to the father and makes His will known to them …. that He promises them grace and strength if they comply with His will, practice love and request His strength …. He makes Himself known to people, His love, strength and grace expresses itself by descending to people in the word. And people carelessly ignore this gift of grace. They do not recognize God’s love, they do not recognize His work and thus spurn the supply of strength, which is incomparably valuable and cannot be replaced by anything. God’s love and patience is infinite, time and again He tries to bring salvation to people, time and again He draws close to them and desires entry into their hearts …. Full of love and gentleness, He speaks to them through the voice of the heart, He speaks to them through the mouths of willing servants, He speaks to them through suffering and earthly hardship …. And people do not listen, they close their hearts and ears and continue on their way, which leads astray. The voice of the heart grows fainter and fainter until it is no longer heard. For in order to hear God’s voice, man must be willing, but he lacks the will for God. And this is the time when God will raise His voice so that every human being has to hear it …. where humanity has to be shaken up so that it no longer pays attention to God’s quiet admonishing voice …. For God does not want to let people perish because they are His creatures which have emerged from His love and carry His spirit within themselves …. He does not want to abandon them to the adversary so that they do not lose their life in eternity, so that they do not fall prey to eternal death …. His love and mercy for humanity knows no bounds, and where His softly spoken word is not heeded His voice will resound loudly and audibly so that those who have not heeded Him will tremble. And what God has proclaimed through His word will be fulfilled. For God’s word is truth, it is unchanging …. And thus the time will come when God will reveal Himself powerfully and mightily in the raging of the elements, when the forces of nature will begin to stir and bear witness to God’s will in such a way that He must be honoured …. And those who did not want to hear His word will now hear the voice of God and will no longer be able to shut themselves off from it. It will be a time of terror and hardship but it is unavoidable if people are not to face visible destruction. For they will not heed God’s gentle warning and will challenge God’s severity where His love has been rejected ….

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The spirit from God only gives truth and what it proclaims to man can be accepted as such without hesitation. However, only the believer will be able to judge whether and when the spirit from God is at work, for the unbeliever does not recognize such spiritual activity at all. The believer makes an effort to live in love and is therefore already able to recognize God where He expresses Himself. And the fact that so many people who want to be believers resist the divine word, which is the result of the working of the divine spirit in the human being, is indicative of the shallowness of their faith. They can certainly follow everything their church tells them to do, but if they do not have love, everything is just an empty form and they still walk in darkness of spirit. Then they also do not recognize the light that shines for them, for only love in a person’s heart sharpens the power of knowledge. And where the will to do good and right before God is rooted in the heart, that is also where recognition will be, for the divine spiritual spark awakens to life in those people and drives them to love …. And this divine spiritual spark seeks connection with the spiritual power that flows to the human being through the imparted word of God. The spark in a person’s heart must always be awakened in order to be able to recognize divine spiritual activity, and good will and loving activity are prerequisites for the awakening of the spirit. The human being will now unhesitatingly accept as truth what is now imparted to him. Where divine truth is resisted, the human being will still try to fathom spiritual knowledge with his intellect, and in this way he will never penetrate divine wisdom. And what the human being has acquired intellectually will not penetrate the human heart as strength either …. again, it will only be empty words that move a person’s intellect, but not his heart. For what is to speak to the heart must be born of the spirit, it must be spiritual knowledge which is received directly from the spiritual kingdom and then passed on by a person of love and faith …. For this word will carry the strength within itself, it will touch the human heart and stimulate the human being’s will into action; it will be effective because it is strength from God. Divine spiritual strength must be effective if the human being does not resist its effect through unbelief or lack of love. Man’s faith and love inevitably attract God’s love, and God’s love expresses itself in strength, which now flows to man. Recognizing what is good and true, wanting what is good and true and also being able to carry it out, this is brought about by the power from God, which is imparted to people through the divine word ….

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The pure spiritual exchange of thoughts between the human being and the instructing beings in the beyond produces results which are tremendously informative and impart knowledge to the human being which can never be conveyed to him earthly. And that is why it is far more advantageous to get in touch with these instructing beings than to entrust oneself to earthly teachers, because the latter do not necessarily have to stand in truth and will still want to have their knowledge regarded as truth, while the beings in the beyond convey purest truth to earth as soon as man desires such. Even spiritual truth has to be offered with love if it is to be accepted by the heart …. However, love for one’s fellow human being is not always the reason why the instructor tries to impart his knowledge to him. The beings in the beyond, however, are so full of love for people that they want to offer them the truth and only look for people who are willing to receive this truth in order to spread it on earth. Thus, where love for fellow human beings is active, God protects both the giver and the receiver from error, for then God will give the person the realization of what truth is, even if the instructor has acquired his knowledge through worldly study. For if the human being is capable of love then he unconsciously opens his heart to the influence of the spiritual world and this guides his thoughts correctly. Love is always a certain security for right thinking. But the spiritual connection with the beyond is nevertheless preferable to earthly study, for the human being is taught everything by those beings since nothing is foreign to them, instead, their knowledge extends to all areas and consequently they can also impart their extensive knowledge to people on earth. They only need people’s attention and it depends on this what wisdom is presented to them. The beings in the beyond are always ready to give but their ability to receive the truth is not always the same. However, spiritual gifts may only be offered where the human being has the sincere will to receive them. And the human being’s will will be increasingly more inclined towards the truth the further he has penetrated the knowledge …. i.e., once the human being allows himself to be instructed by the beings in the beyond his desire for ever deeper divine wisdom will also increase, and then his ability to recognize what is offered to him as truth and to accept it directly will also increase. This ability is a great grace that God bestows on the person who believes in Him and recognizes His working. For the powers in the beyond first have to be recognized before they can express themselves, i.e., faith in the working of powers in the beyond allows the love of these powers to become active and they are willing to provide the earthly child with exhaustive information about all questions which the human being now mentally asks them. Hence every human being can become knowledgeable, yet as long as he lacks the belief that God makes use of these powers in order to initiate the human being into His reign and activity, such cannot be revealed ….

Amen

The extent to which people have distanced themselves from God can be seen from their rejection of spiritual mediation. They consider the possibility of a divine revelation to be completely excluded and therefore do not approach the content in the first place, thus they neither recognize a God of love nor of omnipotence if they reject it so quickly. And so they are empty words which people only repeat when they speak of a God of love …. People do not know what divine love is capable of, and the fact that love drops nothing is equally incomprehensible to them. People are so distant from the eternal deity and therefore God’s working is incomprehensible to them and cannot be made comprehensible to them by force, and therefore the human being’s task to convey the divine word to them is often not easy to fulfil; it requires infinite love and patience, and the first endeavour of the person who wants to serve God must be to present God to his fellow human beings as a being Whom they are not allowed to look for in the distance, that they should not consider anything improbable and therefore should not doubt His working either. If they succeed in transferring this belief to their fellow human beings, this is already a success that promises further success. People want proof as long as they cannot believe. But once they come closer to this thought that they are constantly cared for by God’s fatherly love, then they pay attention to all the twists and turns of their earthly life, and they sense the closeness of God and believe even without proof. Only then can the word of God be brought to them and it will only bring them confirmation of what the heart now feels. And again, their attitude towards the world is decisive as to whether they want to be convinced of God’s love and omnipotence. For those who are fully devoted to the world do not want to recognize any being that is apart from the world, to whom they should sacrifice the pleasures of the world. For they find in the world and its pleasures the full fulfilment of what they long for. Only renunciation leads them closer to the eternal deity …. To whom the world denies itself, God draws near, and blessed is he who receives Him. God directs the steps of those who want to serve Him to those people who are to be introduced to the knowledge of God’s love and His working …. And thus He brings Himself close to them, for He knows about the willingness of their hearts and leaves no stone unturned to turn them towards Himself. Sometimes only a small hint is enough for a person to become a believer, but sometimes extreme patience and love is required in order to lead him to faith. And this is why God’s servants need great strength, which they must constantly ask for in prayer, for their ministry is not easy and the resistance is often very great ….

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An unredeemed soul’s path of suffering is impossible to describe to people, and yet they should know that it must endure an inconceivably hopeless state because this knowledge is intended to impel people into helpfully supporting such souls, hence they are constantly admonished not to forget these souls. They will thank those people a thousand fold who ease their agony by praying for them. Souls in the beyond which leave people behind on earth with whom they were lovingly connected have an advantage compared to those which did not acquire love for themselves on earth. Loving thoughts and devout wishes follow the former, or such souls receive strength through heartfelt prayer, which can substantially improve their situation. Every loving thought is soothingly experienced by the souls and awakens love again, which then will manifest itself towards equally suffering souls. However, souls which lived without love on earth must starve and suffer unspeakably. They are quickly forgotten or they are only thought of unkindly, and this has appalling consequences on their state in the beyond. Every kind thought of people on earth for the souls in the beyond alleviates their torments, every bad thought increases them and the souls themselves are unable to defend themselves or enforce people’s love for them.

Now the soul is perceptively affected by love or heartlessness which either ease or impede its struggle towards ascent. Souls which entirely lack people’s love on earth have to completely depend on themselves in utterly dark surroundings and suffer indescribable hardship. These souls should be particularly considered on earth in prayer so that they, too, feel the blessing of intercession, so that they feel the strength of love within themselves and thus an inner change takes place. For as soon as a loving thought fleetingly touches such lonely souls they notice it and turn towards the place of origin of this thought, they come close to the person who mercifully thought of them and observe him and his characteristics, his actions and his train of thought. They will never harass a person who is good to them either, although they themselves are rarely capable of good feelings. Yet they dwell on the reason why their state of suffering eases when they are close to these people and they sense noticeable relief through the prayer on behalf of the struggling souls in darkness. And they learn to recognise that love is the only means for improving their situation. And once the soul has gained this realisation then it will also become gentle and helpful towards other souls and they will have escaped the bitterest hardship. People on earth would be able to redeem infinitely many souls from their hardship if they tried to imagine the helplessness of these souls. For if they feel a spark of love within themselves their great suffering should move them and arouse their will to help these souls. People should include these poor souls which lack the strength to help themselves in their prayer, they should call upon God for grace and mercy for these souls, they shall give them their love and never think heartlessly of a deceased person so as not to increase his pain. For then the soul will be in great danger of becoming completely hard and every good inclination in it dying …. But the souls should be redeemed and people on earth can contribute an awful lot towards achieving it ….

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If you scrutinize the teachings that are given to you from above, always apply the standard to what was imparted to you through scripture and the word about the lord’s walk on earth. He preached love and lived accordingly. And what you are commanded from above is likewise recognizable as God’s word if it preaches love and impels people to follow Jesus. What is offered to you from above is only the knowledge of things which testify to God’s infinite love, His wisdom and His omnipotence. This knowledge should prompt you humans to strive for perfection, it should guide you to faith and teach you to love God, for only through love will you reach the highest goal, the union with God. Everything that contributes towards the growth of love in you is from God, consequently the revelations received by a person who wants to serve God with love must also be of divine origin, for he is only driven by love for God and his will is inclined towards Him. But what God makes his own is no longer subject to the power of God’s adversary, unless worldly interests take him captive again. Then he too is in danger of succumbing to the temptations of the world. But then God resists the forces that want to cover the earthly child with spiritual knowledge. But He also resists the opposing forces that try to influence man’s thinking in such a way that he writes down things that do not correspond to His will. For God does not let those fall who have only become weak, but He helps them to regain their strength and to submit their will to God. God gives what He deems necessary, even if it seems incomprehensible to people …. But He will also clarify the incomprehensible when the time is right. The proclamations should lead to faith and love, and it will be easy for the willing person to become faithful and loving if he seriously endeavours to obey the divine word …. He will recognize that it is the same word which Jesus proclaimed to people on earth and he will feel urged to live accordingly for the sake of the promises which seem more valuable to him than earthly possessions. And so he strives for spiritual good. But God rewards the zeal of the one who endeavours to live to please Him. And He gives him clarity of spirit, He is his spiritual and physical guide during his earthly life and He gives him the fullest realization of his actual destiny ….

Amen

Anyone who comes together on earth to work together for God will also have the same realization, i.e. he will know the truth and stand up for it. In order to be worthy of the truth, the will to do good must be strong in a person; he must want to live to please the lord and make every effort to ennoble his nature. Then he recognizes all untruth with the clearest certainty and separates himself from it; he accepts the truth with conviction and is completely imbued with it. He also has the gift of peeling out the core and recognizing it as divine wisdom, and disregards the outer shell. He finds the context of what is presented to him as truth and can therefore also be active as a teacher. For in order to be able to teach, a person must be completely penetrated, i.e. he must have absorbed the truth with his intellect and his heart. Only then will he be fully committed to spreading the truth among people. In order to be able to spread the truth, a person must be able to refute every objection. For where there is untruth, it will also be defended, and then every refutation must be carefully considered. And this requires great knowledge, which God imparts to those who want to fight for Him. And that is why God’s fighters are often led into situations where they are supposed to serve each other by leading each other upwards through apparent contradiction. For this tempts them to speak against each other and yet can lead to a clarification of both sides’ views if both people have the will to serve God. God is already preparing them for their earthly task. Every human being who offers himself to God for the redemption of souls from spiritual adversity is right for God. Consequently, the truth will fall on very differently prepared ground but will always remain the same truth, and the human being must acknowledge it himself, otherwise he will not be able to fulfil the task he has been given. To be taught and to be able to teach again is unspeakably blissful already on earth, but this happiness is rarely striven for. However, since it is urgent for the sake of humanity that the divine teaching, which is purest truth in itself, is imparted to people, God offers the truth in an extraordinary way to those who want to serve Him, and this is an influx of spiritual strength to the souls willing to receive it. The truth will break through, and even if this is a difficult beginning at first, for God’s wisdom is strength, and the strength from God penetrates, and thus the teachers will always have the same knowledge and the same truth and will now be able to pass it on to their fellow human beings, for God allows the adversity of the time to have an extraordinary effect so that it will be made easy for His own to find the path to Him, into the eternal home ….

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Only love redeems, and only the teaching that preaches love can be addressed as a christian teaching, i.e. as the teaching of love of Christ, the divine saviour. christianity is therefore the effect of a teaching on people …. i.e. all people who truly live according to the teaching of love are followers of this teaching, i.e. representatives of true christianity. A person can also call himself christian if he knows nothing of Jesus Christ and yet lives his life in a truly christian manner, in the most eager observance of the commandment to love God and man. Conversely, however, christian thinking can be denied to anyone who does not make the divine commandments of love the principle of his way of life. And at present the world, i.e. humanity, can hardly be called christian, because love has become alien to it, and even the outward confession of Christ is often not decisive for christian thinking if the person is not at the same time active in love. The christian doctrine of love can also be followed by people who still have a negative attitude towards the act of salvation, however, they will not remain in their opinion for long, for where love is at work recognition is no longer far …. and the human being first realizes that he can never reject Jesus Christ; and only then does he consciously live christianity …. He does what Jesus demanded of people in His time …. he lives in love and is therefore a follower of Jesus. But the current lack of love is the reason that humanity is moving further and further away from God, thus also from the divine redeemer, that christianity is therefore in danger of disappearing from the world because people do nothing to free themselves from their lack of love, and thus they will also deny Jesus Christ as redeemer of the world, for those who do not practice love themselves do not acknowledge the one Who was pure love in Himself …. (interruption)