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Books 17–18 · BD 0873–0907

Books 17–18 · BD 0873–0907

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Sensual love ….

B.D. 0873 from April 19th 1939, taken from Book No. 17

So today, for the strengthening of the spirit, you shall receive one more proclamation concerning love, and namely from a specific point of view. People often describe something with the word ‘love’ which, in itself, is indeed love too, yet it is far removed from what is preached to people …. the practise of which shall be the human being’s first and last task. It concerns the love of the senses, which you so often want to understand as the concept of love. Yet you should know that you are more likely to destroy true love if you don’t resist sensual love, for it is a game of deceit by the adversary. It is, as it were, his means by which the human soul only too often falls into his trap. The human being completely submits himself to the control of evil if he does not resist his physical lust. This is the love which endeavours to possess, yet it will never ever be able to refine the human being and therefore cannot lead to union with the highest Entity either. So the human being must be very much on his guard that his soul and its progress will not be at serious risk due to purely physical longing …. he has to consider that it is far more difficult to suppress this lust once he has become addicted to it, and that all love on earth which purely applies to earthly interests therefore can never be right before God …. for love which is not giving but merely aims to fulfil earthly desires is likewise set to accomplish earthly success and consequently not intended by God. For God only considers a heart’s innermost feeling. If this is truly selfless and only ever wants to give love, regardless of its own advantage, such deeds of love will also result in the reward inherent in them …. they will lead to heartfelt union with the divine Saviour ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 17 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Otherworldly teachers on behalf of the lord …. abuse of spiritual power ….

B.D. 0874 from April 20th 1939, taken from Book No. 17

In order to be able to teach the truth the beings in the beyond need the lord’s instruction, for otherwise an enormous abuse of spiritual strength would be committed and humanity would be offered spiritual strength in excess, but in a completely wrong sense, i.e. no control would be possible as to the intention with which the teachings from the spiritual kingdom would be conveyed to people. And thus people would suffer incalculable damage because it would be impossible for human beings to fathom where truth separates from lies. In order to be able to administer the office of a teacher in the kingdom of the beyond a spiritual state of perfection has to be reached, so that the teaching being itself is instructed in all truth and can now make use of its spiritual strength to convey it to people. In many cases of hitherto complete ignorance of an earthly child the knowledge it now has is unimpeachable proof of the influence of spiritual strength …. But this strength must now also express itself in impeccable instructions if all doubts of people are to be overcome and a divine working is to be recognizable. And therefore not everyone is permitted to proclaim the truth to people on earth, instead this work is incumbent upon a spiritual circle which conscientiously and responsibly carries out this work and which is destined for this purpose by God Himself …. And thus the human being is allowed to devote himself to this conviction, that he is under the protection of those who themselves stand in truth, all doubts will be invalidated and he will listen with double attention to the whisperings of the spiritual forces beyond, for he knows that the power of evil is insufficient to have an equal effect on the human being where only the will for truth is present ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 17 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Pure-spirit connection from the earth to the spiritual world …. proximity of the spiritual beings ….

B.D. 0875 from April 20th 1939, taken from Book No. 17

Thus do your otherworldly friends unite and impart to you the word of the lord:

It is difficult for us to establish a purely spiritual connection between the earthly children and the spiritual world in this time of need …. for there are countless hostile forces on people’s side to awaken or deepen their aversion to everything spiritual. Everything which only feels the longing in its deepest heart to be guided into truth will also be so led by God’s wisdom and love that it will deeply inwardly ask itself whether all events in life do not have to enter its life according to a wise plan of the creator as has just been the case up to now.

These people can be assured that their life rests in God’s hand and that in the end they must take the path through the earth valley in the way divine love intended for their best. Countless people are still not aware of the responsible task of earthly life. They therefore have the completely wrong opinion that a righteous life on the outside would suffice …. they even often have the wrong idea that a temporary harassment of the believers can only have a positive effect by gradually refraining completely from all spiritual activity. If, however, the human being slackens in this, the danger of a complete flattening is to be feared, and especially now the importance of making use of spiritual strength must be emphasized …. It must be emphasized again and again that the human being is only equal to all hostilities where he first establishes the connection to the heavenly father. He can only go through life completely calmly and carefree when he has handed himself over to the divine saviour in childlike trust and entrusts every further step to Him, for without this devotion life will be much more difficult for him to bear in the adversity that still awaits people on earth. We all endeavour to make this known to people in constant spiritual work and meet with so little understanding and yet only have one aim in mind, to make this time easier for people and to give them advice for later times, if they are still completely unteachable at present. One day everyone will be offered the opportunity to recognize divine truth …. whoever willingly and undauntedly reaches out and joyfully accepts the lord’s words will be instructed by the lord in all truth and will also be active on earth in order to bear witness to the divine strength which is inherent in him. However, far too little use is made of this privilege and it is therefore extremely difficult to influence people mentally as long as they are occupied by the world, its duties and pleasures and pay no attention to the announced events. It truly requires unlimited patience and perseverance on the part of the spiritual beings in the beyond to make such souls compliant, and only very rarely do people accept such announcements for what they are …. as divine truth …. and therefore remain in spiritual darkness for long periods of time until, through the patience of their spiritual friends, they finally turn their attention to the divine mission and let the salvation of their soul be their concern ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 17 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Efficiency of the soul …. renunciation …. preliminary stages …. light spheres ….

B.D. 0876 from April 21st 1939, taken from Book No. 17

In an indescribably long past the soul was given tasks which demanded complete fulfilment, and only in this way was the course of higher development covered. If the soul’s entire nature has reached the highest level of efficiency through the constant transformation of its cover, it must now also be given a task of equally great extent or responsibility in earthly life, which it can only fulfil if it endeavours to use all the abilities at its disposal and devotes itself eagerly to this work. It will be of immeasurable advantage for it if it makes use of every opportunity and overcomes everything difficult, for this alone promotes its state of maturity, that it willingly takes upon herself what is imposed on it for its own perfection. Thus, for example, it will take a certain time until the soul has freed itself from all earthly desire, and it can only achieve this if it practices renunciation, if it only ever considers that giving in to the body’s desire is always detrimental to the soul …. if it equally considers how much the soul has to live in want when the body is considered and thus has to muster every ounce of resistance in order to help the soul. The human being bears responsibility for his soul because, on the other hand, he also has the ability to refrain from or do everything that is helpful to the soul …. and, in turn, it only depends on the human being’s will to use these abilities correctly and, if the body demands something other than what is in the soul’s best interest, to offer it the right resistance. For only in this way can the earthly task be completely fulfilled. And the human being has to fight this battle every day and every hour, and he should not tire, because it’s the highest stakes …. it’s about eternity …. This concept is incomprehensible to you humans, for you do not grasp the word in its deepest meaning. But you should know that you receive infinitely more than you give …. but that on the other hand you cannot receive in the state you are in now on earth …. that you would not be able to endure the glories if you had not first shaped yourselves in such a way that you could partake of them. Just as the soul had to form before in order to animate the human body …. just as its present condition is completely different from the previous stages, where the course through innumerable individual beings only brought about unification in an inconceivably long time in order to now embody itself in the human being …. the soul must now also try to reach the state in earthly existence that it can leave the dark stay in matter and rise into light regions, in order to be able to endure the very abundance of light, which is the epitome of bliss …. In order to receive the highest delights and enjoy unlimited bliss, the body’s desire on earth must be met with the greatest resistance …. Then the soul will use its abilities in the right way by only ever striving for life in eternity and only regarding earthly life as an educational station ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 17 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

God's childhood …. end aim of life …. state of light ….

B.D. 0877 from April 21st 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Don’t forget that you are called to become children of God and that you shall also enter into the same rights as a child if you prove yourselves worthy to be called children of God …. And therefore it is necessary that you recognize what your activity will consist of one day in the beyond …. It is necessary in order to make you understand with what eagerness you should strive for your higher development and how you should make use of every opportunity which can earn you the childship to God. To be a child of God means to completely submit to the heavenly father’s will, to be devoted to Him in all love and humility and to set the final union with the father as your first aim, so that the father in heaven will likewise turn all His love towards the earthly child, instruct it in all wisdom and let it gain insight into His creation, and this for the purpose of ever further perfection, which is indispensable in order to be rightfully called a child of God. The lord has destined all His earthly children to become children of God, yet only very few grasp the true meaning of this word and do not know how unspeakably significant it is for the human being, establish the child’s relationship with the father as early as possible …. He will soon, through heartfelt devotion, receive a vivid representation of both the earthly task and the activity in the state of light and recognize the ultimate meaning and purpose …. The human being, with fullest knowledge of his emergence and higher development, will pursue his aim with tenacious resistance …. He will strive to become a child of God on earth in order to recognize his actual task in the beyond and likewise try to fulfil it with all his strength. For the fulfilment of the earthly task is not the only and final purpose of life and the entire embodiment of the human soul. Rather, this purpose is to be sought and found in pure spiritual striving …. And this, in turn, is intended to enable the human being to overlook the whole of creation in the beyond and to contribute to the revival of this creation in many ways. Once the earthly being has become certain that an eternal, unchanging deity has also assigned it a mission for later and that it can then still create and strive undiminished, but in a spiritual way, earthly life will take on a completely different form and will also be used much more beneficially for the soul’s salvation, for it will recognize its final aim and henceforth endeavour to serve God as the eternal father and to prove itself worthy of God’s childship ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Trials according to state of maturity …. deep faith in earthly hardship ….

B.D. 0878 from April 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

It is true that the human being enters into a relationship of dependence on God as long as he walks on earth, in that his course of life is determined by events of all kinds, which he cannot oppose. Nevertheless, he is given the free will to act and think. By virtue of his free will he can also shape his life’s destiny insofar as he can be spared trials if he takes the right path of his own will which leads back to God, and then the trials will not be so necessary and the human being will be the master of his own life and will have to fear less resistance. However, it remains to be considered that people only rarely live faithfully on earth according to divine commandments …. Everyone has to fight against cravings of some kind, and therefore there are few who make an effort to live righteously, which is why the earth and with it the human being cannot be left without testing. Only the conscious striving towards God, the desire for unification with Him, presupposes that spiritual maturity which no longer requires strokes of fate of a severe kind. And if these are permitted for the rest of humanity for educational reasons, the father in heaven protects His own from severe adversity and oppression, and thus even in the midst of the most dreadful events an earthly child can remain unaffected if only it has reached this state of spiritual maturity and consciously participates in humanity’s redemption through works of love. Yet again and again the human being needs the strongest faith …. where he fears and doubts and does not stand in deepest faith, such events, which still have to come upon humanity, will in turn also cast dark shadows over the doubting human child …. For faith alone protects it from every danger …. And if the whole earth were in danger of shattering and perishing, deep faith is the supporting point which gives the right child of God support and does not let it get into adversity and danger. And in the hour of trouble, therefore, remember the words of the lord: “I am with you all days ….” If the lord Himself assures you of His support, then you should not despair in hours of adversity but always be faithful and fully trusting of help from above, and then every adversity will pass you by like a shadow …. And know, that you still have to struggle for your soul’s state of maturity as long as the hardship and worries are tangibly pressing you …. The more devoted you are to the lord and saviour and long for union with Him, the more distant earthly suffering will remain for you, for the soul no longer needs it for its salvation ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Wrestling of the soul …. prayer …. free will …. matter ….

B.D. 0879 from April 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The soul has to overcome unspeakable difficulties before it has become master of all matter. For it is in battle with matter until it consciously strives for help, and again, it will only do the latter when it has overcome its desire for earthly possessions, thus it has, as it were, already declared war on matter. But in order to be able to overcome it needs the support of helpful spiritual beings which it makes serviceable to itself through prayer. But it still has to struggle a lot and has to be restlessly active itself, for the soul can only mature through its own work, and the support of spiritual friends only consists of conveying the necessary strength to the struggling soul, but which it now has to utilize itself in realization of its earthly task. Thus a complete transformation is undoubtedly within every person’s power once the will has decided to do so …. People sometimes believe that they cannot do anything themselves and only ever have to carry out God’s will, and again it should be pointed out that the human being is not subject to any coercion from the divine creator in a spiritual respect, that instead all freedom of will is left to him if it concerns his soul’s salvation. His thoughts will indeed be directed by the spiritual side towards spiritual problems, he will receive enlightenment in many questions, yet his will will be completely free to decide whether and to what extent the transmitted thoughts will be accepted and taken to heart. And likewise, the human being is free to gain the necessary strength through prayer in order to meet the most difficult demands. Consequently, the human soul undoubtedly has to fulfil a great task which consists of taking care of its transformation so that it will lift itself out of the darkness of spirit …. so that it will liberate itself from the fetters of matter, and this through love …. it must constantly be active to shape itself …. it must reject everything ignoble, it must strive for perfection and always be mindful of the fact that it only has a short time at its disposal which should serve its transformation …. it must also know that it is at the greatest disadvantage if the time on earth has not brought it maturity, and therefore only strive for one thing, to be constantly active to constantly wrestle and detach itself from everything that appears desirable to it in order to finally conquer matter and thereby free itself from every shackle which prevents it from ascending into light spheres ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Checking this work …. obstacle and its removal ….

B.D. 0880 from April 23rd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In the utmost perfection of form of the sentence structure of this scripture and at the same time in its profound spiritual content, the one who examines the work should be able to recognize the divine working and measure the divine love by it, which in this way draws close to the people on earth. To a certain extent the conclusion can be drawn that there is no obstacle which separates people on earth from the heavenly father if it is not erected by them …. and that this obstacle can be removed at any time by the human being’s active will and the father in heaven reveals Himself to him. The most peculiar counter-arguments and objections will be made and people will try to find a natural explanation because they consider such a connection with the spiritual world, which can be established by people themselves, to be absolutely impossible, yet anyone who is of sound mind …. who lives in union with God himself, will also recognize the voice of the one Who guides and directs him. If he recognizes that nothing in life is coincidental he will also recognize the working of spiritual strength in divine guidance …. he will accept it without hesitation if he commends himself and his soul to the father in heaven and does not presume to judge on his own strength …. With God everything, without Him nothing …. Whoever chooses Him as his guide through earthly life will truly be guided correctly and will not be in danger of going wrong, and thus every step is predefined and leads safely to the aim. People often fail to recognize the extraordinary evidence of divine love because they lack the power of judgement which, however, can only be attained through profound faith. Anyone who is still blind in spirit because faith and love are dead in him will never be able to pass a just judgment, for he is still too attached to the world and only grasps what is part of the world but not the divine mission, which is purest spiritual knowledge and therefore only recognizable to the spiritually striving, fully believing earthly child, which lives on earth in love for the father and should be strengthened and refreshed by Him for this path of life. For the father hears when His child calls to Him and does not let its prayer go unheard ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Father words …. union with Him ….

B.D. 0881 from April 23rd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Whenever you send your call to Me I will answer your prayer. And your soul felt the benefit which brought it My nearness and gratefully received it. Everything that pays tribute to the world is excluded from this benefit, they are satisfied with earthly pleasures and don’t desire My love and My closeness and are therefore not worthy of being made happy by Me. But I will always remember all others …. who make Me their confidant, who desire to stand in My sun of grace and seek direct contact with Me, these already possess Me, for their love unites them with Me, and anyone who loves Me with all his heart also receives Me into his heart. Whereas the most glorious gift on earth cannot come close to providing the soul with such happiness as the union with Me, which is of eternal duration. For I no longer let go of those I seize with My love, and from then on they walk under My love. And I desire nothing more than to possess their hearts completely, for they are My children and as such shall love their father in order to be loved by Him again for all eternity ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Miracle of creation …. similar formations …. repetition ….

B.D. 0882 from April 24th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Visualise the greatness and majesty of divine creation, and then look more closely at the inner composition of a seed which, as tiny as it is, contains creation in infinite miniaturization …. This is incomprehensible to you humans, for you cannot even remotely grasp how strangely the composition of all miracles of creation again leans on the greatest work of creation …. how the same thing appears again and again, only in different proportions which, however, are again in harmony with each other. With physical eyes you can already see in plant life how often the smallest forms have similarities with the creations of nature. How much more would you recognize with the spiritual eye the same law in all tiny creations, from the grain of sand to the animal world …. that everything again and again clearly recognizably confirms a certain building work, again and again in the same relationship to each other and repeating itself innumerable times. In every work of creation God’s omnipotence and wisdom has visibly come into operation …. Looking at such a work of art only gives rise to the thought in the human being that he is not remotely capable on earth of gaining an insight into the whole of creation, but that he is only allowed this insight to a very small extent and that he is then only able to see the outer shell with bodily eyes, but not the extremely fine construction which only illustrates the miracle of every work of creation. A snowflake is often a cause for reflection, for it is already such an artfully assembled thing that it is worthy of closer observation, and a structure of form that dissolves again in a few moments …. Whoever looks around him with open eyes in nature will not tire of observing the manifold wonders of divine creation, but only with spiritual eyes will he recognize the meaningful composition of the whole and then stand before even greater wonders. It is futile effort and therefore does not lead to complete success to try to analyse all these miracles in a purely scientific way …. people only ever succeed within a certain limit, yet to exceed this limit is only possible in a spiritual way and will neither be humanly proven nor acknowledged, for ultimately everything spiritual can only be recognized with the spiritual eye, and the divine creator has only given people the gift of seeing rough matter with the physical eyes ans letting what is visible to them affect the spirit in such a way that it stimulates it to think …. And then it is solely up to him to educate himself in such a way that he can penetrate matter and, as it were, also see the inner components in their composition, form and nature through the outer shell in order to then, overwhelmed by God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence, love and praise Him for all eternity ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Love lives up …. love redeems ….

B.D. 0883 from April 24th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In the realization of his earthly task the human being will always take the right path, for it will always be his endeavour to make use of all means at his disposal which the lord’s grace grants him and thus also to use earthly life correctly. Now all striving upwards on earth only has the right value when love determines all action and thinking, for only love enlivens, yet without love every action remains a dead beginning, i.e. it is dead for eternity, even if it earns temporal reward on earth. Love must fill the heart and move the will to be active, then all activity on earth has the success that the soul’s state of maturity takes its progress, that, as it were, only now the soul draws the benefit from what the body does. And since it is only a matter of shaping the soul on earth, since this is the final purpose of the whole earthly life, to be able to leave the earthly body of flesh as complete as possible when it dies, the greatest attention must of necessity be paid to the earthly task …. The human being must be mindful of the fact that he himself has striven for his embodiment and has entered earthly life with the firm intention to use it in such a way that all slags will be lost and leaving the body in all purity in order to unite himself with the divine spirit …. It must also not forget that higher development is never possible without earthly life and that it therefore also has to willingly accept all difficulties in order to place itself into that state which results in liberation from all matter. It must unhesitatingly devote itself to the eternal deity and thus bring love within itself to its highest development …. it must love everything that has come forth from God, as the eternal creator of heaven and earth, and through this love it must now work for the benefit and best of its neighbour and for the glory of God …. The more intensively it strives for union with the divine saviour, the closer the saviour will be to this soul, and it can expect without any doubt that it will become a true child of God and one day in eternity will also find infinite happiness through Him as a child of God and will be granted divine fatherly grace forever …. for anyone who loves and does all his works in this love is entitled to the glory of God and is eternally in His grace ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Father words …. lightning ray …. guide ….

B.D. 0884 from April 25th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

I want to teach everywhere and awaken people’s spirit, for the need is unspeakably great. Countless souls are constantly in danger who disregard the word of God and do not account for where their faithlessness shall lead. They remain in darkness of spirit and pay no attention to the bright ray that could bring them light. And so it is time to send a ray of lightning so that they will be frightened in the deep night and desire light. A new time shall dawn and My word shall be made accessible to people in all purity and understandable to everyone who desires truth. The sun of the spirit shall rise and spread brightest light, and anyone who wants to escape darkness shall be allowed to walk in the light …. Therefore hear My voice: Heed the signs which proclaim the approach of the new time …. and remember My words that all your striving is in vain if you do not see in Me your saviour from all adversity …. Whoever chooses Me as his guide will truly go through earthly life correctly guided, but whoever wants to reject Me will soon lack the knowledge where to turn …. He will get into great adversity, and earthly goods will not offer him a substitute for what he gives up …. for only I can give him the strength to live, and the soul’s adversity will be indescribable if I don’t provide it. And in this adversity I will remember those who are willing and give them a visible sign of My love. The whole of humanity will take notice and behold this sign, and it will be left up to everyone to interpret it according to his will …. Whoever recognizes Me in it will have his soul saved, but whoever also rejects this sign or pays little attention to it, his spirit will only remain more densely enveloped and no ray of light will shine for him …. He will remain in the night and his soul will perish. Yet I will give great strength to My own, they shall become strong in spirit and never deny Me …. the visible sign shall be a confirmation of My care for them, they shall recognize My greater than great love by it and rise up by it in the tribulations which will approach them from outside …. They shall not fear anything the world could prepare for them but in utmost trust hand themselves over to their divine saviour and redeemer Who holds their fate in His hands and does not allow them to suffer damage to their soul. Anyone who carries Me in his heart will pass all tests and grow stronger in the face of adversity and emerge victorious from all battles which apply to his soul, for he has chosen Me as his guide ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Recognition of the truth only possible through love for God …. sharpness of mind ….

B.D. 0885 from April 26th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Thus hear the voice of the Most High: The strength of My word will flow through all who willingly hand themselves over to it, and thus the world is also unable to pass the right judgment because it is listened to and examined without inner life and without love for Me. And thus people certainly desire clarity but can only receive it with a believing heart, for where the world and its interests are placed in the foreground the soul is poorly minded of it …. The further the human being distances himself from Me the more difficult it will be for him to recognize the truth, and he will, as it were, scrutinize without spiritual assistance, for he does not demand it in his will of rejection. Intellectual acuity alone is not suitable to test something which, however, is immediately recognized as truth by the profoundly devout person, for the divine spirit has come alive in the latter, whereas the former is still in deep night and spiritual darkness. If you want to recognize Me, you must be with Me but not against Me. Your will is decisive …. Your lack of knowledge can certainly be remedied if you ask for right knowledge, but where you refuse you are still far away from right knowledge. Love moved the son of man to sacrifice Himself for humanity, and this love will now also appear again and give light where light is desired …. And all can stand in the light if they don’t think themselves too sublime to pray for it. No human being has the right to make assertions which not only touch upon the earthly tangible, for without My help he lacks the right knowledge to do so …. Earthly knowledge is not enough to solve the last great question, yet with My help this area will also be opened up to you and you may confidently accept the explanations given by Me as purest truth, yet you must first have the will to make contact with Me, then you may also draw from the source of eternal truth. You all need strengthening from above, but this cannot be offered to you on the human side, no matter how great the effort is to scientifically penetrate the unknown kingdom …. And thus human knowledge alone will not suffice to examine a work of strange origin if you don’t request My help for it …. but cannot do so if you don’t want to acknowledge Me. I only have one aim in mind, to restore faith to humanity …. nor do I want to condemn anyone who has been wrongly guided so far, I only want to erect a barrier where spiritual decay has already progressed so far that the human being believes himself to be stronger than the eternal deity …. where he believes that the highest competent authority is his intellect …. where every attempt to instruct another person is unsuccessful, and such a person can only be instructed in such a way that he is confronted by his own powerlessness and turns to a higher being in search of help …. I will always listen to a plea in profound humility, yet if this plea applies to earthly possessions and the only necessary thing, the care for spiritual possessions, is disregarded, this desire cannot be pleasing to Me and I cannot give My blessing where the spirit is not respected. How shall the ray of light of spiritual truth penetrate a heart which only strives for earthly things, and how shall such a person make contact with Him without profound faith in the redeemer so that he will be guided into truth? The human being must always remain aware of his own inadequacy and in this take refuge in the great spiritual strength, and if he does so in all humility and in the will to then also help his fellow human beings through his enlightenment, if he allows himself to be guided without resistance and wants to be a righteous servant of God and his fellow human beings, then he will also be given the right realization, only the motive of wanting to know must not be ignoble, no earthly interests may be decisive but only the will to thereby serve the soul and to help alleviate the spiritual hardship on earth. Then the blessing from above will not fail to materialize, and those who seriously desire the truth will recognize it ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Spiritual waste …. self-conceit …. shackles ….

B.D. 0886 from April 26th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

So pay attention to the words that come to you today: All spirit that has separated itself from God in self-conceit can only be purified through torment, and indeed it will now be convinced of its inherently helpless state, which stands in blatant contradiction to its self-conceit, which has brought about its apostasy from the eternal deity. Nothing else can bring about the return to the father of the universe than the walk through thousands of years of fetters which make him aware of his powerlessness and yet let the desire for final liberation from these fetters grow ever stronger, so that he then even takes the earthly fetters upon himself with full will for a time in the realization that embodiment on earth is the only possibility to become free of these fetters. And thus the spiritual being has every opportunity to improve the unworthy state, to atone for the offence against the eternal deity in an indescribably long time, so to speak, and at the same time to take the feasible paths which lead to unification with the eternal deity again. When the human being imagines how dreadfully agonizing the distance from the father is for a divine being and earthly life is often not used in any way to reduce this distance, but he only entered into embodiment on earth for this purpose, when the return to the father cannot be achieved in any other way, when, despite this, countless beings keep seeking embodiment again and again with the intention of using earthly life correctly and willingly submit to every trial of life, it will soon be understandable why the lord is so extremely loving towards the earthly children and would like to make their path of life easier and for this reason sends them nourishment from above in order to guide the spirit out of God back to its original purpose. And all striving for divinity is blessed from above so that the human being will be protected from error and recognize the right truth ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Power of prayer …. love power ….

B.D. 0887 from April 27th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The power of prayer is not to be misjudged if the human being wants to cover the path of higher development in the shortest possible time, for prayer is the conscious connection with the heavenly father, prayer is the conscious utilisation of divine grace. Through prayer the relationship with the father is established and humility, faith and childlike trust are thereby expressed. And prayer is the surest help, for the lord considers everyone who turns to Him in prayer in the soul’s adversity. And thus the human being completes his path of life in the right way and has not spent earthly life in vain, for he fulfils his task with divine strength, which he has always used through prayer. Thus, on the one hand, full trust in help is necessary to fulfil the earthly task completely, but on the other hand, the will to make oneself worthy of this divine help, for he who takes should also give …. He who makes use of God’s help should also show the father in heaven through his own actions and thoughts that it is his will to serve Him and to live according to His will. Prayer, which ascends from the heart to the father, always appeals for strength from God, and the soul will feel grateful when this strength flows to the earthly child in such great measure that the striving for perfection becomes easy and also leads to success. For God constantly gives if only His gift is requested. However, anyone who does not need divine help, who believes he can get by without all grace from heaven, is weak because the earthly burden weighs him down and he lacks the strength to lift himself up. It is the lord’s will that you make use of this strength, for it is at your unrestricted disposal, yet you cannot be provided with this strength if your will rejects it or does not desire it because you do not have the faithful trust that your path of life can be immensely successful as a result …. And thus the struggle of a person who does not want to acknowledge the power of prayer will be incredibly difficult, and he can only perfect himself through an extraordinary activity in love. But without the conscious connection with his creator this is an unspeakably difficult start, for the strength of love in him has to become so strong, and thus he has to unconsciously draw on the strength from God by doing of his own accord what is pleasing to God and thereby be blessed by the lord and granted His grace. Yet anyone who lives in love will soon recognize the father …. And anyone who has found the father will ruefully remember the unused time when too little strength was imparted to his soul through his resistance, for the time on earth is only short and should be utilized in the most imaginable way in order to reach the state of maturity in the shortest possible time and to be able to leave earthly life as a being of light one day ….

Amen

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Thought currents …. Prerequisites for easy acceptance of spiritual knowledge ….

B.D. 0888 from April 27th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In order to perceive the thought currents clearly and distinctly, the external human being must be completely governed by the spirit; the separation from the earth must have taken place and the union with the beyond must have been established, only then will the human being’s thoughts be able to move in spiritual spheres, and the voice from the spiritual world will sound distinctly and audibly in the person’s heart. However, as long as the body is held captive by earthly fetters which prevent the soul’s escape from the body into spiritual spheres, the spirit in the person cannot become active. Therefore, a long struggle must precede first in order to achieve this detached state …. in order for the body to achieve a state of being gentle and patient and of allowing the soul’s every flight into higher spheres. Thus, the first condition in order to be able to accept spiritual knowledge easily and without effort is that the spirit must not feel impeded by anything. It certainly requires considerable self-denial in order to accomplish, yet the pleasure of the reward will be accordingly great. All opportunities will remain unused if the expansion of the divine spirit in the human being is not taken care of first. People’s spirit will forever remain gagged if they take no action to liberate their soul for good …. As yet the soul is still constrained and therefore cannot grasp the spiritual deeply enough, thus it requires all your will to desire receipt from above so that your will can be complied with; nevertheless, the soul can liberate itself much sooner where love for the divine Redeemer flares up in a heart, for that is where the spirit clearly strives for unity with the eternal Deity. But where the writer or recipient is seized by a certain spiritual lethargy it will be difficult for him to establish contact and it must, in a manner of speaking, be laboriously achieved through perseverance, otherwise it can never lead to the goal which, however, should be all people’s ultimate striving. And the spirit will understandably be in serious difficulties, for it will be prevented from reigning and taking effect according to its purpose ….

Amen

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Earthly events …. temporal phenomena …. inertia of the spirit ….

B.D. 0889 from April 28th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

With unchanging strength the beings in the beyond consider you, and thus they impart an announcement of importance to you today: At certain intervals of time the father in heaven directs events on earth into ever new directions …. events occur which overturn everything that had gone before …. inventions of all kinds cause other ways of life …. people pursue other aims and thus the human being’s train of thought is changed in a certain way …. science always has new areas to research and thus innumerable changes come about which are precisely intended to influence people’s thinking. There is a wise reason for this. In the usual regularity of life, mental activity would very soon tire and such lukewarmness of spirit would set in that the soul would be in grave danger ….

Everything that happens in the world keeps the spirit active and never lets it fall into inactivity. The human being will arm himself with all his power of resistance when the events storm him like surging waves. He will have to fight for his earthly well-being and that will keep him tirelessly active. And again, only an active person can also be spiritually active at the same time, for divine strength will be inherent in him as soon as his earthly activity is aimed at reducing any deficiencies and he thus takes upon himself the work for his neighbour’s well-being out of love for him. In times of spiritual hardship the lord resorts to all means, and it is not to be feared that the father in heaven will let the prayer of a person demanding advice and help from Him go unheard. The father demands profound inner faith and an undoubted belief …. He will then also bless those who do not take offence at the phenomena of the time, but rather devoutly and faithfully fulfil their assigned task at all times, draw the greatest spiritual benefit from all events and always remember that the world is only a means to an end and that only a pure spiritual attitude protects the earthly child from sinking into chaos, for its field of activity is assigned to it according to the soul’s need, and thus a constant change of all events has to occur so that the earthly child will not tire of working on itself and its soul and find all spiritual stimulation in daily life, so that it will not fall into spiritual sluggishness but be industrious and striving, so that it shall bear everything with surrender which the eternal deity has wisely imposed on earth and also its inhabitants for the best of their souls. For no event, no matter how small, is without purpose, it is only little or not at all recognized by the human being in his earthly condition ….

Amen

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Look into beyond …. faith – maturity …. free will ….

B.D. 0890 from April 29th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

A wise decision by the heavenly father denies the earthly children a conscious vision of the beyond, for the complete knowledge of this would impair people’s freedom of will, since their striving would now be based on a state of compulsion and therefore a completely free spiritual being would not be able to develop, but this is absolutely necessary if it is to be able to fulfil its eternal purpose in the beyond. Therefore it is also not permissible that people, as long as they live on earth in blindness of spirit and an immature state of soul, are given a clear picture of the work of the spiritual beings in the beyond, for this would be just as unsuitable to stimulate the human being to work on his soul. Therefore the announcements are also given in such a way that they do not oblige the human being to accept them but it is entirely up to the individual’s will to accept them as truth or to reject them. All efforts of the spiritual beings in this respect only extend to an earthly being which is already in a certain state of maturity, so that it will pay more attention to its inner life and its striving upwards will be facilitated accordingly. Then a certain faith is already a prerequisite, for without it it would be completely impossible to receive spiritual gifts, only the temporary weakness of faith still has to be overcome, yet the freedom of will remains completely untouched, for its will is already active in itself of its own accord if the earthly child cultivates such a connection from the beyond to earth and endeavours to maintain it. However, it is unspeakably valuable for the earthly children to make use of all gifts arising in this way …. to accept them in profound faith and consequently to likewise draw from a life- and grace-giving source …. Again, faith is a prerequisite, for such gifts will only be received by a believing person, thus faith will never ever be a compulsory state, whereas such a gift from heaven still appears unacceptable and doubtful, if not completely unbelievable, to the faithless person. For there is a boundary between heaven and earth which can only be crossed by a person of profound faith. Consider this when you consider the peculiarity of such gifts …. know that the father in heaven considers everyone according to need, according to worthiness and according to merit …. but that He would also like to bestow His grace upon people who do not yet recognize Him, that it is therefore also possible for the spiritually immature person, to make use of the evidence of divine activity given in love and kindness in order to attain maturity of soul …. but that he must be free to shape himself in complete free will into what is his final destiny …. as a being of light which, as a child of God, has to fulfil the most glorious task in eternity ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Spirit of God …. divine original force …. love ….

B.D. 0891 from April 29th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

All spirit has come forth from Me and all spirit shall return to Me …. And all earthly wisdom is of no avail where My love is active, where the spirit of God has once been awakened …. for I have all power in heaven and on earth and what I will comes to pass. If I want all creatures to obey Me, they will not be able to oppose Me, but then the being would no longer be free. But if the human being wants to come to Me himself, I can take hold of him and draw him to Me and he will truly no longer want to return …. The longing for Me will increase immeasurably and I will fulfil it and kindle all love in his heart, for it is My spirit which longs for Me, it is My living creation to which I gave life and which I love with all My strength without beginning and without end. Take this well and try to understand the intimacy of My love …. What has been Mine from eternity must remain Mine for all eternity, for it is divine elementary strength which let you come into being, and nothing can get lost in the universe but only be separated from the father of the universe for an infinitely long time. And with longing love I await everything that has gone forth from Me. I let creation come into being for the purpose of final reunification with the beings which are exceedingly dear to Me …. I hear the slightest call and am ready to help where My creations desire their father and creator, I gave Myself to My children and made the greatest sacrifice for them through My death on the cross …. I offer them all graces and guide and direct them and assure them of My protection in every adversity and danger, for My love cannot leave them …. And I wrestle for every soul and don’t want to abandon them to the evil power without a fight, for in My love I see all their suffering if they fall prey to it …. And those who love Me again are My children in all truth and My fatherly care applies to them without ceasing. I want to give those who serve Me the delights of heaven to taste while they are still on earth, and if they feel Me Myself in their hearts they will be indissolubly united with Me and unspeakably happy while they are still on earth. For I will take possession of them and they will never walk alone, even though they will be abandoned and rejected by the world and its servants …. They have chosen Me and chosen Me as their leader, and I will reward their love and draw close to them and remain with them for all eternity ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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World of peace …. leader of the people ….

B.D. 0892 from April 30th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In the world of peace only one law applies, which is love …. Whoever willingly submits to this law is in God and God in him …. Whoever strives to give peace to the world must live in love, i.e. to constantly endeavour to help, to comfort, to alleviate hardship, to ward off oppressors and to do everything in order to awaken love in people again, and this is the greatest necessity in order to restore people to true life, for spiritual knowledge is only rooted in love …. Only someone who loves will be able to receive the spiritual nourishment the lord God offers people. People will therefore first have to live in love before they are worthy to receive …. and first have to be active in love in order to recognize the truth of it. Whoever serves the people as a leader must, as it were, exemplify the right life, he must be active in love and only ever let love become the motive of all action. For whatever he undertakes must never have the opposite effect; it must not give rise to hatred or unkindness, for then the life of the soul of the one who persists in hatred would be endangered. Truthfulness and justice must guide action and love must condition everything. He who lives in constant threat cannot be open to love, he will go through life in bitterness, and this cannot be beneficial to the soul …. But he who gives to people, and does so constantly, who does everything to win people’s true love, also awakens love continually and will also conquer all hatred and all discord, so that a world of peace will surround those who are truly willing to love and give. Man therefore has the right to apply the standard to the individual’s way of acting, whether and to what extent this produces love or only seeks certain advantages in earthly relations. Anyone who fulfils all his tasks and does not seek his own advantage …. who is only ever driven by love for the people to be active for their good, his deeds must also have such an effect that a state of calm, a deep inner happiness takes hold of people, they remember their leader’s heart with love and can now devote themselves to the care of their inner life in all tranquillity without having to fear being in constant danger, which is caused by greed, envy and unkindness and results in the very decline of everything spiritual. And by this you will know whether the world of peace is in you and around you and what your inner life is like, and you will be able to judge whether the tasks of a leader are fulfilled correctly for the blessing and salvation of his people ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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New creations …. unchanged laws of nature …. synchronisation …. rhythm ….

B.D. 0893 from May 1st 1939, taken from Book No. 18

You do not know how great God’s creation is …. how unspeakably extensive and varied the lord of heaven and earth has shaped this creation and how new creations keep coming, filling inanimate space and again calculated for the further development of living beings. It is the ultimate purpose of all creation to lead the spiritual closer to God, and this will remain so for all eternity. For it is the creator’s will to maintain what He created …. What once came forth from God in all perfection must have the same state of light in order to be able to return to its place of origin again. Furthermore, it must have lived through every station of development, it must have travelled through every work of creation in order to one day be able to let the same formations of creation come into being, since this is the task of all beings of light in eternity. Thus God has set an aim for the being to strive towards. He has made this aim dependent on a certain degree of maturity and in turn made the state of maturity dependent on his spiritual striving …. And therefore, again, all creation only ever serves the purpose of stimulating spiritual striving, and this the more attention is paid to creation and its many thousands of miracles. Whoever passes by them dully and blindly, his spirit can never be awakened, for he still dwells too much on this earth with body and soul and does not ask for the outcome and the end …. Whoever, however, contemplates the divine creation and realizes that centuries and millennia do not bring about a change in the laws of nature …. Whoever lets his gaze wander over the infinite variations of the divine creation and then considers again that everything is alive …. then, considering this thought, the question must also arise for him, for what reason is the purpose of all life on earth …. He cannot answer this question with empty phrases if he is serious about answering the question, but he must pursue it and can ultimately only answer it spiritually and exhaustively …. for the course of the world remains eternally the same, the laws of nature are likewise not subject to any temporal change, it is and remains, as it has been from eternity …. always in the same rhythm, in the same regularity and in unchanged synchronization, as it is the will of the creator from eternity. And people on earth are powerless in the face of these laws. They can certainly make use of unexplored forces and do so to a great extent, however, they can by no means cause this strength to have a different effect at their own discretion, they cannot arbitrarily utilize a strength for an activity other than that determined by God through the laws of nature, instead, they must adapt themselves to these laws of nature in the most exact way if the strength is not to be expressed in a damaging way. And every infringement punishes itself, for every non-observance of the laws of nature results in the destruction of all matter, but never in the building up and increase of everything that appears visibly or tangibly to him, which is in the human interest. The human being is already creatively active on earth but must always submit himself to the divine creator and His will in all actions …. His task in the beyond, on the other hand, is to constantly form new structures through his will in the knowledge of all laws of creation and their purposefulness, which, however, completely corresponds to God’s will in the state of light …. and to see in this creating and creating a blissful state which is far more blissful than your human judgement. And in order to achieve this final aim you should be constantly active on earth and strive for perfection with all your strength ….

Amen

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New task and activity in the beyond …. glory …. love ….

B.D. 0894 from May 1st 1939, taken from Book No. 18

To become free from all matter is the task of earthly existence. If the lord has given you this task and you make use of your earthly life and strive to fulfil the task with all your will, you will become free from everything that is impure and thus shape yourselves into a being which, after discarding the body of flesh, may truly pass into the kingdom of the beyond in light and brightness. And only now will the soul be introduced into the new activity, and this according to its ability to again spiritually influence the beings which still dwell in the darkness of spirit, both on earth as well as in the beyond. The new task corresponds completely to the previous activity in spiritual life. The soul will have to be extraordinarily active again in order to be able to fulfil its waiting work in the beyond, and therefore it is of extraordinary advantage if its life on earth was likewise a life of work, if it also always made use of it earthly and never gave in to physical indolence …. for much more diligent work is to begin, after all, it is a matter of fighting spiritual hardship and bringing help wherever the soul is not properly respected and thus an agonizing state is its lot. On the other hand, the being will be offered such wonderful glories in the beyond that the child’s relationship with the father will find tangible reward …. All the happiness of love will flow through the being, and its devotion to the saviour will therefore mean unlimited happiness, yet the poor struggling souls will always be thought of in equal measure, and just as the soul now receives love from God, it also constantly passes on love …. it turns it towards those who are still without realization and in turn seeks to ease their torment and likewise draw them up into the regions of light and peace. And therefore nothing is unsuccessful which has its origin in love …. nothing is done in vain which had love as its driving force, and love inevitably has to have a redeeming effect, both on earth as well as in the beyond ….

Amen

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Inner peace ….

B.D. 0895 from May 2nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Enlightenment of the spirit is inner peace …. He who has been enlightened is seized by a feeling of security and tranquillity, for it is he who has already partly overcome matter and only turns to the spiritual. And thus he will never let himself be disturbed by earthly things to the extent that he goes through life peacelessly and impatiently, on the contrary, he will find himself in the happy state that nothing touches him unusually any more. He will certainly live through everything but with little involvement of the heart …. he will also not suffer particularly from events which would otherwise have shaken his whole being, on the contrary, he will accept everything as a side effect of daily life which is only intended for him by the divine father for the purpose of further perfection. And nothing can disturb the inner peace which only becomes more and more tangible the more the earthly child endeavours to fulfil the will of the father in heaven. For now the soul no longer has to suffer so much under the pressure of matter, it lives according to its true destiny and the battles of the opposing power are no longer to be feared so much, therefore the soul is in a state of rest with regard to all earthly events, while it, however, is ever more spiritually active. Earth and its desires are in contradiction with spiritual life and both can never be fulfilled at the same time. Earthly life with its demands will also always cause restlessness and peacelessness, whereas spiritual life and striving gives the soul a state of rest, i.e. only towards earthly experiences. This will always have the effect that the human being’s spirit will be insensitive to all earthly difficulties and the human being can fulfil his actual task without disturbance as long as he desires to be allowed to dwell in spiritual regions. He will also be relieved of a certain worry, for spiritual support is granted to him in all adversities and worries, both of the body as well as of the soul, and he will well perceive this support, and his inner peace will only rarely be disturbed by incidents which would otherwise have shaken him out of his calm. It is mostly worldly worries which worry the human being and make earthly life unbearable for him, however, anyone who faithfully offers them up to the father in heaven, who asks Him in the spiritual realization that He is lord over all events, who therefore transfers these worries into the spiritual kingdom, will visibly be released from them, and the peace of heart will have the upper hand again and what seems to be a burden to the earthly child and could impair his spiritual striving will be banished. And thus all your striving should only ever be directed towards considering your spirit …. you should pay no attention to earthly demands but only ever long for and request the brightness of the spirit, and the heavenly father will carefully guide you through earthly life and keep everything difficult away from you so that you will find and keep inner peace in order to be able to promote spiritual life all the more diligently and thus lead your soul into the state of light ….

Amen

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Exhortation to spread God’s word ….

B.D. 0896a from May 2nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Without hesitation you shall carry out what you have resolved to do. It is the work of a moment which can destroy everything that has existed up to now …. but a short period of time can also suffice to awaken spiritual substances in a person, and thus every day should be used for the spreading of the divine word …. Everything depends on the will of the human being, whether the days on earth pass usefully or unused. Therefore, the concern for the salvation of your fellow human beings’ souls should also constantly spur you on to diligent work, and nothing should stop you or make you fearfully hesitate, for where the spirit from God was at work divine strength is also at work and protects those who faithfully entrust themselves to the lord and saviour from every danger. What was given for the salvation of humanity’s soul shall now also find its way into many a human heart …. Therefore rely on the help from above, and provide the ignorant or those hungry for knowledge with spiritual refreshment so that their thoughts will wander into the beyond and demand an answer from there, which will then also be joyfully given to them, and if this task is now no longer doubtful to you, also dispense with it in the shortest possible time, and consider without fear those who are inclined towards your work and still desire clarity on earth. For all is the work of the lord, and nothing happens without His permission …. (interruption).

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Exhortation to spread God’s word ….

B.D. 0896b from May 3rd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

You shall partake of all spiritual strength and your striving shall be crowned with success. And I will show you the way again and again, as often as you take refuge in Me …. Consider every event as a pointer from above and don’t let your spirit tire of rising into spheres of light, for only from there can enlightenment come to you. An indescribable darkness still surrounds the souls of your fellow human beings, and help shall be offered to them so that they strive for the right realization. And so I now want that the erring souls are thought of without interruption and that all means are used to bring them redemption. The further course of life will prove to you what a benefit right knowledge can already be on earth and how an inconceivable desire for truth is awakened in the human being if only he receives the impetus and has taken a direction of thought which is beneficial for his soul. And for this reason the earthly burden shall also become easier to bear for people who have their salvation at heart. To fulfil the commandment of neighbourly love correctly also requires concern for the soul’s salvation, for alleviating earthly hardship is certainly a task in earthly life but only of deepest significance when spiritual hardship is controlled at the same time. People are helpless and abandoned, even if they live an apparently comfortable life on earth, as long as spiritual spheres remain closed to them and their souls are still shrouded in darkness. And so, no matter how lightless their spiritual state may be, they will be offered the right light and also spread a bright glow, and blessed are those to whom this glow spreads comfort and who desire to continue to stand in the light, they will become enlightened and the spiritual adversity will be remedied ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Divine grace ….

B.D. 0897 from May 4th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Hear the divine voice: In the struggle with himself man must grow stronger and seek to pass all tests of life. Spiritual strength is at his disposal at all times and he is constantly surrounded by spiritual friends who are ready to help and only await his call. And thus your thoughts may only ever turn to them in supplication and you will escape every adversity and danger …. And now receive: Divine grace and with it the mercy and love of the father in heaven are available to every person to such an extent that he can become completely free from all earthly fetters and every desire which still applies to material life. The father in heaven gives and gives, and His grace is not exhausted, only it must not be carelessly passed by on the human side, but it must be consciously desired and received. Only then will the earthly child be able to cope with every challenge, for it is not the sole conqueror of it but the divine strength itself communicates itself to the earthly child and the human being is able to easily overcome what previously seemed insurmountable to him. The human being cannot grasp the term ‘grace’ in its deepest meaning …. It is such an extraordinary bestowal of divine help, it is a continuous transmission of spiritual strength, it is the evidence of everlasting love and divine mercy. And if the human being lives in God’s grace he is surrounded by invisible protection …. he desires the granting of divine strength and is, as it were, seized by it, so that all his actions and thoughts are determined by divine will …. God’s grace helps him to be active in God’s will …. Only a fully believing human being can consciously receive God’s grace because he believes in God, in His strength and His direct connection with people and in the great love which thus expresses itself through the granting of grace …. He desires and receives and thus takes the outpouring of divine love into himself, and this, in turn, must strengthen him himself and increase his faith and love for the creator and at the same time, however, also allow him to offer resistance to all afflictions on earth, for the strength from God is stronger than all hostility from the world. “Ask and you will receive ….” And this applies especially to the grace that is constantly granted to you, without which you will hardly be able to master earthly life. To ask for divine grace means, as it were, to constantly seek contact with the father in heaven, and this contact alone must impart strength to you, for then you will seek the spirit from Whom you originated …. you will turn to Him in search of help, Whose creature you are …. you will recognize your origin and willingly submit to divine strength …. and thus it can also be conveyed to you, and to such an extent that earthly life will appear more bearable to you and you will be able to fulfil your earthly task without stagnation …. for those who love God and desire His strength to whom He communicates indefinitely …. And those who consciously commend themselves to God’s grace may also receive the unlimited supply of love which the father in heaven intended for His earthly children in order to make the struggle on earth easier for them, for everything depends on His grace, and blessed are those …. who ask for grace, for they will be visibly protected on earth and need no other help than that which comes from above …. which is God’s love and mercy ….

Amen

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Life without love …. early calling home ….

B.D. 0898 from May 4th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The divine mission is exceedingly gracious, and man increases his knowledge of things which otherwise remain hidden from him, and so today an explanation is intended for you which is connected with the passing away of the one who occupies your thoughts. Therefore take note: The conscious immersion in spiritual problems undoubtedly promotes the development of the soul, and therefore every spiritual seeker is at an advantage over those who pay no attention to extraterrestrial questions. But now a change takes place in the heart of the spiritual seeker …. He certainly sees himself close to knowledge and yet remains somewhat defensive, and that is because he strives more intellectually than with the heart …. i.e., love is not yet right in him, love has not yet become truly active in him, and thus a true life of love, which leads to the awakening of the spirit of God, has not yet set in, and thus the human being certainly tries to come closer to the truth with good will, he also acknowledges God as the most adorable being, he tries to come close to Him and yet he lacks the right warmth, which originates from love …. The human being is certainly ready with all his senses to receive God’s grace and yet he cannot get rid of the thought in his deepest heart, that an eternal deity will never manifest Himself visibly fort he poor creature’s sake …. And this is a lack of faith which would be remedied immediately if the human being wanted to cultivate love with all devotion …. Anyone who lives in love is so close to the eternal deity that he feels its breath …. Anyone who lives in love is completely absorbed by God, because God Himself is in him in all works of love …. And anyone who lives in love must come to true knowledge, for love itself informs him of this. But too little attention was paid to love in life because too much attention was paid to one’s own love. And thus the soul must now be offered a new opportunity to practice love, and this can very well be put into action over there in the beyond. For its spiritual knowledge is great and will make its task easier for it if love also comes alive in it. And thus the will will already be blessed, for this will will help him to be active and thus he will enter into a new contract with the heavenly father …. he will instruct those who are poor in spirit, he will convey to them what is his spiritual property, and he will consider all the poor for whom neither the love of earthly people nor his own good deeds will make the beyond bearable …. he will pass on what he has received in abundance and will let love become active for all these poor people, what he has missed on earth up to now and therefore still was a further step towards his own perfection, if he should go this way on earth without the right love …. He wanted to, but he did not grasp the power of love …. and was therefore called home to fulfil his task in the beyond and to contribute towards the redemption of erring souls with active love …. for the lord still needs many labourers for His vineyard and what He decrees is always wise and just ….

Amen

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Death hour ….

B.D. 0899 from May 5th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In view of the approaching death the human being’s spirit brightens up in a flash and it suddenly becomes clear to him how far he had been of wrong faith …. for until now a force had wrestled him down which he was not willing enough to resist; But now he realizes that his will alone would have been enough to resist this force, that he was thereby able to escape the spell of the evil powers, but instead did nothing to free his soul, this realization is very depressing and turns the hour of death into an hour of struggle …. he is now struggling against them with all strength and trying to free himself from the chains and the human being does not know how beneficial such an hour can often be for the departing person …. how he sometimes succeeds in being stronger than the opposing power, and through his great desire for the divine saviour and redeemer he can already banish it and the entry into the eternal kingdom can be a peaceful and blissful one. And once the battle of life is over, an immense spiritual struggle for perfection in the beyond will certainly still begin, and the soul will still have a lot of catching up to do, yet once it has recognized on earth then the striving in the beyond is a conscious one, the soul seeks to make up for the wrongly used earthly time in extremely strenuous activity, it only ever has the desire to give, for it has completely become love and solves the task set for it. For this reason a timely demise on earth can actually only be joyfully welcomed if the soul of bright spirit has recognized the purpose of earthly life and the final liberation from matter has now become its greatest aim. For this is God’s will that every spirit is active for the other, and that, if this will was not fulfilled on earth, the same struggle for the erring souls must begin in the beyond, for only then is complete redemption possible ….

Amen

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Thought activity …. Spiritual good and spiritual power ….

B.D. 0900 from May 6th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

So give ear to the voice that sounds within you: That which man’s wisdom investigates is earthly spiritual good, i.e., a result is brought about through bodily functions, which can certainly also be attributed to a current of force, but in a purely material sense. Only the influx of power is utilized, which applies to the body, i.e. to pure matter …. the bodily activity of the organs is stimulated, so to speak. They carry out their assigned function, and since no spiritual motive is the driving force …. since it is merely a matter of research into natural processes, the result will also be of the same kind, thus a purely rationally considered and therefore provable result …. Man will be able to precisely calculate the purely natural function of the human body, he will also not need to give wrong conclusions but he will only ever solve purely human or earthly problems by virtue of his brain centre, for this ability was given to him by the divine creator …. Yet where the great question has to be solved, which is a riddle to every human being, there human intellect will be of no avail and all bodily functions will be inadequate, and human science can make the most imaginable efforts …. it has no access whatsoever to the spiritual realm …. it will have to recognize that all explanations, no matter how wise, about the nature of the human being are invalid in view of the fact that every human being should nevertheless have the same disposition, since all human beings were also created organically the same, and that the tiny differences, which the scientist would like to put forward as the cause of the different thinking and feeling life do not, after all, give any indication of the completely different abilities of the human being …. that there is obvious evidence for the latter, but that the blatant difference of human beings, physically and organically, does not exist to the same extent as the effects appear in the different people. And so it remains to be considered that scientifically all assertions can certainly be proven, but that the thought material of man has not yet found complete explanation, when it is taken into consideration that man is also able to think differently than only that which is visible in the material world, therefore also explainable …. The thought is in itself only the expressed will of man …. The will in turn is the main factor in life; when it becomes active, life first forms itself. Thought will therefore take that direction which the will prescribes for it. If now all spiritual life, thinking, could be explained simply in this way, that the bodily organs incessantly exercise their functions and that now these functions are merely a mechanical exercise of the small and smallest components necessary for the construction of the human body, which man then so wisely calls molecules …. then this in itself cannot be denied, but it is always only the second explanation, which nevertheless does not exclude the fact that thought is spiritual power which has nothing in common with the constitution of the body …. for hundreds and thousands of people can demonstrably have the same bodily constitution, yet the same brain activity can never be proven to them, which, however, should be the case according to the opinion of the wise researchers who try to deny everything spiritual. They will never succeed in forcing people to think a certain thought, and so if thinking is free it must be left to the individual human being to occupy himself spiritually at will …. which would not be the case if the human being’s thinking was dependent on his physical constitution, if the human being was, so to speak, forced to think in a certain way because the body allegedly carries out its function according to a law which is based on its structure and the interconnection of the innermost and finest cells. Thought activity is certainly in itself connected with the actual life of the body, yet only insofar as the life of the body is necessary in order to also be able to express this thought activity to people, yet whether the earthly life, the life of the body, is also over …. the thinking of the being will not cease, for the functions of the body are not absolutely necessary for this …. and only then will it be understandable to the human being how far spiritual good is dependent on the body and its nature …. and the worldly researchers will recognize their error ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Checking this work …. receptivity for direct word ….

B.D. 0901 from May 7th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

It is of utmost importance to examine with a certain caution and not to unconditionally accept anything that is also offered to the human being …. as long as this commandment is the human being’s own good, i.e. has come into being as a purely earthly work without recourse to divine help. Such a work cannot be accepted cautiously enough, since human error must always be taken into consideration and thus the truth must often be doubted. However, this precautionary measure does not apply to announcements which directly reach people from above and everything which is transmitted to people in this way by spiritual forces can undoubtedly be accepted. It is only the human being who is sometimes unable to grasp the correct meaning, be it that his train of thought digresses from the actual content or also that he has not fulfilled certain preconditions through which it is possible for him to penetrate divine wisdom. Nothing can be explained so exhaustively that it can also be understood by a person who refrains from all spiritual striving, for this is not in the spirit of the divine creator …. It will be recognized by anyone who is interested in the truth and at the same time endeavours to fulfil the demands made on him …. However, anyone who only wants to receive a purely scientific explanation has to be content with words which seem incomprehensible to him, and he first has to make an effort to find the right attitude before the meaning of the words is also comprehensible to him. Thus the lord always and at all times gave …. easily understandable words to those who desired His word out of the love of their heart, yet incomprehensible to those who only desired to know but did not adhere to the content of the gifts from above, thus did not follow the divine word either. To them they were only dead letters, without meaning and without effect …. And it went down in value, what they could not understand through their own fault lost its value. However, those who thoroughly study the word of God …. who make every effort to turn the word into action, will fully understand what is imparted to them and the slightest doubt will be removed if only they faithfully submit it to the lord. And it is enough for you to know that all strength from God is at work to help you attain profound faith and that nothing will be left undone in order to eradicate even the last doubt in you, so that the devotion to your saviour will become ever more intimate and make you receptive for the divine word in direct form …. and you thus reach the state of complete detachment of the soul from the body. Then no message will be incomprehensible to you anymore but you will receive everything at the same time with the ear, the heart and the spirit …. And this is the surest guarantee of the truthfulness of the divine words, yet your faith should already be so strong beforehand, for the saviour can approach anyone who believes firmly and unshakably and make him happy through His presence and His word ….

Amen

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Divine protection …. way of suffering …. prediction of world event ….

B.D. 0902 from May 7th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

This is My will that you obey the one Who gave you life …. and never rebel against what I send to you. For I truly overlook your situation, I see your spiritual hardship, I see the path of suffering your soul has to take if it does not pay attention to Me …. And I want to spare you this path of suffering I have to give you another suffering to bear which is far less than the one in the beyond, and you have to bear it in submission and be willing to comply with Me when I demand your commitment …. And you will soon realize that I only have your well-being in mind, and anyone who willingly offers his service to Me will truly be spared suffering. After all, his striving is already aimed at unification with the father …. And I will consider him with all My might and I will him protect against the hatred of enemies, and this shall be proof to you that no worldly influence can harm you. It will only result in ever more lively spiritual activity, and your faith will grow stronger, your love will become powerful, and My grace will flood you, for I take My disciples into account in abundance …. I make sure that they do not feel any suffering that comes from outside, but recognize Me and My working tangibly and seek and find unity with Me. What will shortly happen is premeditated and will also contribute to the fact that your writings will be believed, for My working there as well as here is clearly recognizable to the one who only wants to recognize it. And all the world will become perplexed and turn its gaze upwards. For it is a renewed manifestation of My will to once again send instructions to people in all love and grace, the observance of which is of utmost necessity if you don’t want to become a victim of world events. You have not awakened the spirit within you …. And if you remain in spiritual darkness you will not be able to reach Me …. And again I admonish you, don’t let the time go by unused, because the suffering of the earthly time ist to be called small compared to the suffering that awaits you over there when you have to leave earthly life unprepared. And who of you knows how close the hour of death is to him? …. Who of you can judge how significant a single day in earthly life is for life in eternity ….

And how as a result of this your striving for spiritual goods is fulfilled to the best of your ability if you only really desire such things. For I have immeasurable treasures in store for you and thus for everyone who willingly entrusts himself to Me in prayer, so that he will receive what he asks for. If you recognize this correctly you will be in safe hands, for I will not abandon those who have taken the path to Me and now see their final aim in Me. And thus I urge you to use all the strength you receive, for you will need it in difficult times, you will require great strength and spiritual refreshment, yet everything shall be given to you, for My will commands and requires you, yet My love gives and My source of grace is inexhaustible …. Therefore, don’t fear the coming time but appeal for strength and I will give you abundantly so that you can work with Me and in My name when the time has come ….

Amen

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Truth bearer …. prince of lies …. error ….

B.D. 0903 from May 8th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The most peculiar opinions will contribute towards humanity being completely misled and wrongly instructed, for everyone will want to express himself and yet will not be informed but only express his human intellectual knowledge. And thus it is to a certain extent impossible to attain truth through all these opinions unless such is sought and found by spiritual means. Certain currents can be felt, namely by those who endeavour to break the spiritual dark …. they will involuntarily abandon themselves to these currents, their will is turned towards truth, and those who are bearers of truth in the spiritual kingdom grasp it with their strength, and this communicates itself to truth-desiring people. But the counter-currents also make themselves felt, influencing people who are averse to everything spiritual and subject to the prince of lies …. And it will be a battle, and the world will want to assert itself and scientifically prove everything, announcing death to the spiritual …. But only he who is active in the spirit will live …. All earthly efforts only apply to the body and its well-being, and what lies outside of earth, what lies in the realm oft he spirit …. The world cannot explore such things, for they are not tangible or visible, yet it is well audible the spirit in man …. And therefore man has only the task of awakening his spirit in order to also be able to recognize the spiritual kingdom and his preceptions will then indisputably lead to the right result, and no differences of opinion will disturb the spiritual inquirers and those living in God …. the spirit from God protects against error if the human being completely hands himself over to Him, yet the spirit of lies takes hold of the others and many opinions will come to light, and that will be the downfall of the soul …. Incredible chaos will herald the time of which it is written ….

Amen

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Admonition to resist ….

B.D. 0904 from May 8th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The more willingly you comply with My instructions the more you will be blessed …. Those who seek Me I will bring together, for I choose My fighters who shall lead the way in battle for Me. And thus bear in mind that everything is subject to My guidance, that no step is taken in vain and everything has to take its course according to a wise plan in order to serve a specific purpose again. The one who ends human life well knows why he does this …. And whoever serves Me with all his heart will recognize the purpose of all events …. I only desire love and complete trust from you, and if you give this to Me you prove that you want to serve Me …. And so take note that all further ways are likewise under My protectorate that you may well refuse since your will is free, yet in your desire for love and profound faith you will always recognize My will and act accordingly. Likewise, you will receive information if you are to hold a special office, for I have an assignment ready for you which is well suited to spread My word amongst humanity. I bless those who serve Me and give them all My strength, I guide you and smooth your paths so that you will not waver and never tire of proclaiming My work to the world …. I approach you so extraordinarily, and always and constantly seek Me in spirit, then I will be close to you and provide you with My grace …. The more willingly you surrender to Me the more noticeable My nearness will be to you, and I will keep all suffering away from you if you desire Me and My word and pass it on to those who hunger and thirst for divine refreshment. Peace shall enter your heart, you who receive My word within you, and it shall remain with you, just as I remain with you in the word for all eternity ….

Amen

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Task that requires the free will of the human being ….

B.D. 0905 from May 10th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

You shall hear what shall give you comfort: Only a few are granted the living connection to the father of the universe, and these few are chosen by Me to fulfil a great mission. Very often people have the need to enter into direct contact with Me, and I always consider them according to their worthiness …. and this in turn depends on the degree of love longing for Me …. and thus I forcefully seize those who can sacrifice worldly desire for My sake, for they are closest to the state of liberation from all matter. Now it goes against My will if everyone feels called to hear the divine voice who is still very far away from Me in his heart …. but on the other hand it is completely wrong to reject all announcements of this kind, because those who believe they know Me and My work so well that no intervention on My part seems possible to them are incredibly self-conceited. So many weak beings certainly have to fear the danger of being influenced by God-removed spiritual beings, yet then a certain earthly interest will always be the root evil …. who, however, renounces everything earthly in the will to serve Me, will also never ever need to fear establishing a wrong connection, for I protect such earthly children from error and evil influence. And I want you to consider how extensively divine love has revealed itself to you. Behold, worlds can pass over it before such a task can be solved, which requires the human being’s free will and at the same time requires him to withstand all external resistance …. Time and again people themselves will want to destroy what My love wants to build up for them …. And I cannot force people through extraordinary evidence which would put their will into a state of compulsion. A completely free will has to complete this work …. he must, as it were, conquer the world by being stronger than all the temptations of this world. Again and again people waver in their faith and yet only a strong rock can let the living water flow out …. And the rock must be exposed to such notable onslaughts and must offer them resistance, only then can this rock open and the source of truth spring from it. Many are certainly called to do so, and every earthly child is right by Me who submits to My will, yet none of them will withstand when the temptations approach from outside, and thus their faith is weak, they want to put Me to the test and thereby confess their lack of faith, and if I don’t provide people with extraordinary grace they will become discouraged and leave Me, and the hardship on earth will constantly increase and become more threatening. And those awakened by Me are weak and timid …. and they think to serve Me by trying to turn My labourers away from Me …. And I especially remember them now and want to let them participate in the working of My love …. and thus they reward Me for My love ….My children can no longer recognize My love, they are looking for Me in the distance, where I am very close to them, and they attach such infinite importance to grasping My word with visible gestures, and yet they are bearers of this word and shall proclaim My profound love for humanity …. And I consider them with great strength, because they are active according to My will and bring large numbers of sheep to Me, yet they do not yet grasp the depth of My love. They erect a barrier between themselves and the world, they don’t allow the few who are of the same mind to cross this barrier either, instead they deny them access. And My love has to watch and cannot intervene to help, for the human being’s will is free and may not be touched by Me. The hardship of souls is unspeakable and therefore I give My word anew, and this to those who were unconscionably abandoned to the arbitrariness of those who withheld the book of the fathers from people. Thus I constantly consider My own, i.e. those who love Me and in this love desire Me. And I pay no attention to the laws which people make for themselves and from which they now do not want to deviate one iota. General knowledge will indeed want to reject that knowledge which surpasses the wisdom of the fathers, but I set no limits and give as people’s spiritual state of maturity requires. All knowledge about things I have explained to you was far away from you, My dear child, and this alone should suffice to recognize divine activity, for what otherwise takes the human being a long time has shortly been conveyed to you in the noblest form. And in this certainty you will also let your faith become as strong as it needs to be in order to continue your task as an industrious servant of God ….

Amen

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Forgiveness of sins ….

B.D. 0906 from May 10th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Those who see their father in Me are free from all guilt, for if they devotedly take refuge in the father they will also realize that He is the kindest and best being and that they can expect forgiveness of all guilt from Him. And thus it is indisputably far better if My children recognize their relationship with Me and childlike ask and humbly desire My grace, for this is an admission of their weakness and unworthiness and is more useful than a public confession of their sins before people …. Who carry My word within them can be certain at any time that I will absolve them of their guilt of sin if they are serious about not grieving Me and only fall prey to their weakness. In humble prayer for strength to remain in My will also lies the silent assurance to serve Me alone, and if the father sees the child’s good will His love is also constantly willing to forgive if it has been lacking. Yet you humans on earth only rarely desire the forgiveness of your sins from the bottom of your heart, for at the same time as this request the resolution must mature in you to never fall back into the old error, and you often fail to do so. And thus a special act of forgiveness of sins will not be necessary if you truly entrust your heart to Me so that I will bless it and grant it with My love …. You will recognize from the start by the inner peace of your heart that your guilt of sin has been taken away from you, for I only want you to acknowledge Me as savior and redeemer …. that you are willing to partake of the graces of the work of redemption …. I want to be able to say of you that I died for you …. I only want your assurance that you are willing to acknowledge this act of salvation, and then I will remove all guilt from you and redeem you from the power of evil …. I want to draw My children to My heart with heartfelt fatherly love, and if you also only have the desire to be united with Me you will detest sin, and the slightest relapse will be enough to recognize the wrong and sincerely ask for forgiveness. I will give you everything you ask for, for My fatherly love is constantly willing to give to the one who is worthy of receiving …. And thus every sinner will also be considered, he will receive forgiveness of sin if he turns to Me, his father in his heart trouble …. to his savior and redeemer. I really don’t want to leave him unrefreshed and unconsoled and will not condemn him for his sin, for the father in heaven is infinitely loving, wise and just ….

Amen

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Gagged will …. freedom of will ….

B.D. 0907 from May 11th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The entire universe has to obey My will, and thus I direct every star and every grain of sand according to the law which has existed from eternity and emerged from My will and became a reality through My omnipotence and wisdom …. This is an incontrovertible fact which no other being can shake, for every being is also subject to this law, because it is likewise something created by Me, always and constantly controlled, which emerged from My will of love and thus is enlivened by Me and My strength …. And thus there is no being and nothing in the universe which does not carry My will within itself and thus has to comply with it. Only in a certain state of maturity do I withdraw My will from the being to the extent that I leave free will in its actions and thoughts …. that I certainly determine its path of life and shape and shape all life and experience around it such that it is conducive to its higher development, but that I give it complete freedom to shape its inner life and thus in no way have a determining effect on the being …. And this is of utmost necessity, but it must also explain to you why the overwhelming spiritual adversity could occur on earth and how I cannot compulsorily influence the human being’s will if the law of eternity is not to be overturned. Only free will can bring about the final redemption of the being, otherwise the spirit out of God would be gagged in Itself and thus rage against Itself. In order to grasp this you must be in the state of light, for it is so overwhelming and cannot be made fully comprehensible to you humans on earth. Only one thing should become clear to you, that the human being’s struggle on earth is such a difficult and significant one precisely because I have to respect the freedom of will and thus can only intervene in all other events in order to make this will of yours so submissive, that it enters My will of its own accord …. Yet then the earthly path will also be a blessing …. But humanity recognizes My will less and less and therefore cannot be left without help either, and if I send them help from above they reject it and let their will rule again without submitting it to Mine. And the struggle for My children will become increasingly more difficult because they lack love …. For where love is there will also be recognition, for there I can work directly …. whose will is docile and entirely subordinate to Me and therefore no obstacle will be placed in the way of My working from above there, for anyone who seeks Me will find Me, and anyone who is active in love will also grasp My love and mercy …. The human being feels infinitely small compared to My omnipotence, he humbly and pleadingly takes the right path which leads to the father of all, and his own will has brought him salvation through love ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 18 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

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