Use your will such that you let it become active and surrender yourselves to the firm confidence that the lord will guide you if you ask Him to do so, then you will inevitably also have to fulfil the lord’s will, for He will guide you such that you can easily comply with His will if you completely abandon yourselves to Him. It is of incalculable value to entrust yourselves to divine protection, for His love is the greatest guarantee that you will be well protected. His love seeks to keep everything difficult away from you. If you want to completely enter into His will, only God will ever be recognizable in your actions, for it is He Who now expresses Himself through you. You only need divine strength in order to work according to divine will, and this is the certainty of divine activity, that you wholeheartedly desire to be in closest union with God …. so that you will never be able to separate yourselves from Him and regocnize Him everywhere …. For everywhere you will see Him, great strength will always emanate from Him, your courage will be strengthened and you will overcome all obstacles …. (interruption)

In a quiet hour of contemplation you will realize that all earthly desire is an obstacle to a deep and intimate union with God. And once you have regocnized this, all danger is over. Only he who can give everything will receive everything. The grace of being allowed to receive the divine word is incomparably more valuable than the fulfilment of earthly longing, and therefore anyone who indulges in earthly wishes and desires loses unspeakable graces. However, only covetous love is an obstacle to ascent, so this should be fought with all our strength.

It is of extraordinary importance to establish contact with the heavenly father, and for this the will is required first, it must turn to Him completely, it must express itself in a way that visibly reveals the desire for God. The human being’s will will always be the only thing required by God. Divine love constantly endeavours to reveal itself to the human being in such a way that the human being consciously strives for this love, i.e. desires to be seized by it. And this desire is the subordination of the will to the divine will. For a desire for union with God is, as it were, awakened in the human being, which is the reason for the reorganization of his previous way of life. For he who has previously walked without God has acted according to his own will, which was therefore turned away from Him. But to have regocnized God means entering into the divine will, a complete submission to everything God demands of him, and it also means an unquestioning abandonment of the previous way of life. It is therefore only understandable that the human will must first declare itself willing to submit itself to the divine will before God now announces His will …. It is understandable that the human being’s will has to be surrendered time and again in order to be able to receive this proclamation of His will; it is understandable that every earthly desire weakens the will striving towards God and thus the desire for His word also diminishes; and it is understandable that everything has to be fought against which could diminish the strength to receive. For divine gift is more precious than anything the world can offer. Divine gift harbours the love of God, and is there anything more beautiful than being allowed to receive the proof of divine love? The heart’s longing is likewise satisfied, only in such a way that the body does not feel it so pleasantly, but the soul is extremely delighted by every connection with God’s love. And thus the human being should remember his soul and grant it the great happiness of divine love, but not pay attention to the body and its desires, instead he should unreservedly integrate himself into God’s will in order to be able to receive divine expressions of will. The love which prompts God to His fatherly care for His children should be desired in the deepest heart, for to be allowed to stand in this love is the most beautiful thing a person can desire on earth. His heart should beat towards the father in heaven, the child should long for the father, then it will also happily receive the outpouring of His love …. the divine word, which establishes the most intimate connection with Him and is therefore the visible evidence of His love. Can anything more delicious ever be offered to you than that the heavenly father Himself leans towards you and desires to speak to you? …. And if He obviously offers you His love, it only requires your will to receive this love. You may only want that your thinking is guided by Him, and from now on you will only fulfil His will, carry His will within you and also use your earthly life in accordance with the divine will ….

Amen

That is your greatest mistake, that you think yourselves to be in full possession of all strength and believe yourselves to be able to master earthly life alone. And thus you reject the thought that you are in need of help and therefore could also call upon Him for help one day. And therefore your attitude towards God is negative, you don’t regocnize Him and thus His constant activity is not apparent to you. And this is an extremely dangerous attitude, for you thereby reduce the strength God gives you for your physical life. He has to diminish it in order to let you regocnize your own powerlessness, He has to let illness and physical suffering come upon you so that you regocnize a higher power in it. The supply of strength from God will be allocated to you as you intend to utilize it. The strength from God is at your disposal unmeasured for your spiritual maturing, but if you do not request it and only need it for the sake of earthly life you will only be able to receive what is absolutely necessary for earthly life, yet all spiritual supply of strength will be withheld from you until you consciously request it. And this lack of strength can only lead you to spiritual decline, for you do not strive for progress and only think of physical well-being. Divine strength has been given to you throughout immemorial times without your will being necessary. But in earth life the will itself must become active to consciously request the power which is at your disposal because otherwise man would be an unfree being which would again be dependent on divine will. The union with spiritual strength is the actual higher development of the spiritual …. To now impart spiritual strength to the being without request would mean to forcibly promote the higher development of the spiritual, and this is completely impossible according to divine law, for such a course of development could never result in God-like beings. The being can reach the highest through its will, but without letting it become active all progress is impossible. Consequently, the human will must always be influenced so that it turns towards God, submits itself to Him and thus also desires strength for spiritual well-being. But people’s spiritual state is devoid of light, they do not regocnize the need for help from the eternal deity, they constantly only think of earthly needs and reject every spiritual admonition. They are so far away from God and do not want to regocnize Him nearby and yet believe themselves to be far more advanced in their knowledge because they believe themselves to be unencumbered and free, whereas they want to persuade the spiritually aspiring to be restricted and burdened. And this is also how the young generation is brought up, that they believe themselves to be powerful and strong and capable of carving out their earthly life according to a well thought-out plan. And they lack the supply of strength from God, for they do not desire it. But when the day comes that teaches humanity otherwise, boundless misery and fear will befall people who regocnize their own power as null and void and are at the mercy of powers they cannot withstand. Then the human being will have to decide to perish or to stretch out his hands imploringly towards Him Whom he has so far misjudged, so that He may help him and leave him earthly life for the purpose of the soul’s higher development, whose degree of maturity is very low. Yet blessed is he who regocnizes this in the hours of greatest need, God will stand by him and save him ….

Amen

The spirit of heartlessness rules the earth and its inhabitants, and the opponent has become victorious over countless beings whose lives are devoid of all love. And countless people are thus driven into the chaos he has caused and which became feasible precisely because of this heartlessness, which aroused inconceivable hatred and discord amongst people. People have lost all common sense for they are guided by the spirit of darkness, and this also keeps people’s thinking enslaved or distorts it such that they no longer know what they are doing. Humanity has indeed rarely subordinated itself to the opponent’s will so thoroughly as is the case now, and therefore the countermeasure will have to be exceptionally harsh too, if a higher spiritual state is to develop and people’s present-day spiritual delusion remedied again. And so this spiritual hardship requires divine intervention, and divine love and wisdom are aimed at using an event for the sake of removing this hardship which, admittedly, makes humanity doubt divine love and wisdom but which is nevertheless the only option left to save people from certain ruin.

People remain irredeemable; they cannot be persuaded in any other way to accept the faith and they comply even less with the commandment of love for God and their neighbour …. And then again, the human being has to acquire the right way of thinking if he is to be spared the adversity of the approaching time and his earthly life left to him. For the divine intervention will befall people with elemental force, no one will be prepared for it who has not united himself with God beforehand. And there will be a panic which only God Himself can avert again if He is sincerely called upon to do so. Yet people will lack the faith in God. For even those who live with faith and love will be stricken by anxious doubts since they, too, will very clearly hear God’s voice. Their spirit will certainly take refuge in God, yet their soul will fearfully and with dismay await the events which are yet to come. They will barely be able to comfort their fellow human beings and will have to struggle for faith themselves, yet God will support them so that they shall not waver in their faith. But those who don’t recognise God will look for rescue on earth and find no help.

They have to change their thinking or become victims of the elements which are instructed by God, the Lord Himself, to serve Him. There will be indescribable confusion, since only the most extreme adversity can still bring about a change in hardened sinners …. only the fear of losing their earthly life will make people soft and submissive and willing to pray. However, without prayer no gift of help can come from above, for only prayer provides the certain guarantee that God Himself will take care of His earthly children and release them from all anguish. And the hour will seem awfully long to people who see everything they found desirable up to now fall prey to destruction. And yet, people cannot be spared this hour since all of God’s love and kindness has been rejected and there is no other possible way out of the spiritual adversity. Again and again God’s forbearance has postponed this event, but finally His prophesy shall be fulfilled …. For the time has come when extreme weakness of will and unbelief can only provoke this catastrophe. The time is near which the Lord has announced through His Word when He lived on earth and referred people to this time of apostasy from God. For His Word is eternal truth and will come to pass, down to the very last letter ….

Amen

The constant battle with the adversary strengthens the power of resistance, insofar as resistance is offered to his temptations at all. He is always more eagerly at work to force the soul down, but all attempts fail because of the human being’s right will. And this right will is the will turned towards God, which is the best weapon against all assaults by the enemy. The will turned towards God also paralyses the power of the adversary and he therefore tries to divert the will in another way towards his lures. He knows the weaknesses of mankind, he also knows how to utilize them in such a way that the temptations have a weakening effect on man and all power of resistance must be mustered in order to be able to master them. Yet those temptations are only a danger if they stifle the desire for God, but if this is predominant all attempts by the adversary will fail. For then God stands by the one who desires Him and helps him to free himself from the force that wants to bind him. And in such hours of temptation it is particularly important to take refuge in prayer, that is, to confess to the lord that the longing is for Him and that all earthly pleasures are willingly surrendered out of love for Him. This battle is certainly a difficult one, which the human being has to wage against his own feelings, but God knows why He sends such trials to His own, He knows the degree of love for Himself and now wants to strengthen it by making Himself more difficult to reach and thus stimulating the human being’s will to increased activity. Man then proves his love for God, he proves that it stands up to earthly love. Man will rarely be able to free himself completely from the feeling of inner abandonment if divine help is not close to him. He will have to go through severe inner conflicts as long as there is still earthly desire in him. And he can only overcome this by utilizing divine strength and requesting it in prayer, but then he will victoriously overcome everything, he will turn ever more exclusively to God and strive for union with Him, for love always urges for union. This is the divine feeling which should be inherent in all beings so that only the right union …. the union with the good, should always be striven for. God stands by the earthly child struggling with itself and guides its thoughts correctly, and when these thoughts find each other again in heartfelt prayer to Him, all danger is overcome …. the cunning of the adversary has failed …. love for God has won the victory ….

Amen

Full of mercy the lord looks at His creatures who tear each other apart and outdo each other in cruelty. He would like to draw their attention to the horrors of their actions, He would like to show them the spiritual consequences so that they will reflect and henceforth provide all people with love and justice, yet all their efforts are in vain, they will not turn away from the path they have taken and thus all those who take pleasure in the raging of the nations against each other bear the same responsibility. For they are the real culprits, for their attitude is drawing the inevitable closer, as a powerful counter-attack is needed to make people realize the disastrous consequences of their actions. There are only a few whose hearts beat differently and who regocnize the adversity of the time, and these must place themselves at God’s disposal if they are to be able to act in an earthly instructive manner, thus also having received corresponding spiritual gifts from above. And the lord makes use of these few in order to announce the coming events among people. If these few then unite with each other in faithful trust they will certainly be instructed by God, yet it requires their complete devotion, then these servants will be initiated into the plan which the divine creator has determined since eternity …. They will experience the day and the hour when God’s power expresses itself, and they will see themselves in the midst of the event and now completely sacrifice their entire will to the lord so that they may be active in the salvation of countless souls who are in danger of getting lost in the night of the spirit. And there will be great anxiety among people when the servants of God inform them of the lord’s will ….

Amen

It is the spiritual bond among yourselves that supports you in your striving for the heights. You should pass on everything you receive and thus work for the lord. The proclamations from above will thereby be spread, and they will also be accepted with joy wherever there is a desire for them. It is immensely instructive to receive these proclamations, for the human being is introduced to knowledge which provides complete information about God’s reign and activity in the entire universe and the spiritual life of His living creations. And if the human being now imagines that only God’s infinite love imparts such knowledge to him, then he must likewise lovingly pass on what has been imparted to him to those fellow human beings who are in need of truth and hungry for truth. God Himself therefore brings His creatures together in such a way that each one carries out the mission which God Himself determines. His earthly child who wants to serve Him must often let the spirit from God speak within itself and therefore also do everything to pass on what it receives. They must develop an unusual gift of speech and always turn their thoughts to God, then they will be visibly guided in their train of thought and can therefore safely appear as teachers, for it is their will to serve God. And the true service of God consists of His word being spread and thus finding its way into humanity. This precious word, the lord’s greatest gift of grace, must be received with gratitude if it is also to have the effect on the earthly child which God intended it to have. And this power manifests itself in that realization comes to the human being when he surrenders himself to the divine word with the will for truth. The imparting of truth from God will be a difficult work for people, yet much spiritual support is at their disposal. And it will turn out that all these proclamations penetrate the human heart far more easily than the book of the fathers, which certainly contains much wisdom but requires the strictest purification, and thus its strength is easily lost, which can be regocnized from the infinitely many additions which are merely the work of man. If the teacher on earth has to fight resistance that prevents him from imparting the divine word, he must first draw strength from this most holy word. He must try to free himself as far as possible from those teachings that have not yet been sufficiently explained to him and try to harmonize everything that is already his spiritual property with what he has been given …. but what cannot be reconciled with it must be unhesitatingly dropped as something that has not yet been clarified. He must therefore not regard life in embodiment as a human being as the beginning of life on earth, but he must know that his soul has already travelled an endlessly long path and that divine grace now gives it the opportunity to become what its destiny is, a child of God …. Only the explanation of the soul and its task provides the fullest insight into the necessity of all world-historical events, for otherwise the forcible separation of the soul from the body would signify an unheard-of cruelty on the part of God or presuppose a different moulding of the soul, which the divine creator incorporates into the human being at birth, but which could again be perceived as injustice. Extremely erroneous conclusions can be drawn if the course of the soul is not regocnized beforehand, and then the pure truth cannot be conveyed to people who are unwilling to accept this teaching of the soul’s gradual development until embodiment as a human being. They can never be given information about the actual purpose of creation and the purpose of life on earth. For what God puts into man, what He Himself has created, is perfect. Something perfect, however, needs no task in order to reach the heights, for the perfect has already reached the heights. So what would be the point of going through earthly life if the being …. the soul …. is already perfect!? But the soul that embodies itself in the human being is far removed from perfection, i.e. it did not originate from God as it was at the beginning of its embodiment. Consequently, it must have already travelled a path beforehand, and the human being must be informed about it so that he can first understand the task of the human being on earth. Thus the teaching which is offered to people from above and which first gives a clear picture of the importance of earthly life and the state of the human soul before embodiment has to be accepted without hesitation. And this knowledge should be spread and the teaching unhesitatingly accepted as truth, and then people will regocnize their responsibility in earthly life and shape their lives in accordance with divine will ….

Amen

The soul of man is irresponsibly acted when it is kept in a certain bondage, i.e., when it is hindered in its higher development. And this is then the case when the will of man exclusively turns towards the earthly, when therefore this will is weakened by the adversary and therefore the soul is no longer able to express itself freely and unbound. But this unfreedom of the will is again its own fault; it is the result of self-conceit, which prevents man to turn to God in prayer for power, therefore, in short, a result of earth life without prayer. Because man has been allotted free will at the beginning of his earth assignment, which could cause him both to good as well as to evil. But he is also allowed to make use of prayer. He is free at any time to ask for help, and when he uses this prayer, also the power to resist becomes greater; therefore the will is truly free and not bound through the power of the adversary.

The man who is without prayer will always be able to muster less power of resistance; he therefore hands himself over to the power, which wants to harm him, and the result of it is that his soul gets into a completely unfree state, that it is held on to earth, that it always does and wants what it is told to do by bad power. It is in a bondage from which it can free itself with difficulty when it also now still does not use prayer because it has also lost the knowledge about the favour of prayer; it is completely without help and exposed to the influence of evil because it can no longer use its will in the right way. And such a wrongly directed will can only still be effectively counteracted through love; when a loving being on earth or also in the hereafter comes to the help of such a forced soul and therefore sends up prayer to God instead of it, the fetters of that soul will loosen; it will suddenly feel the power of resistance in it and willingly hand itself over to better powers, and this can cause a change of its thinking and wanting, which is expressed in a changed walk of life. Souls, which alone can no longer find their way back to God, must receive a supply of will power through intercession in love, if they are not to be lost without salvation, because they cannot be compelled to other thinking and wanting. And this intercession is a weapon, which effectively fights the adversary. Because it cancels his exclusive power over the soul. The soul feels the loosening of its fetters, and the will now also becomes active in it to completely escape from this power. It certainly feels weak, but desires help, which can now be offered to it, because the desire for help is an unconscious prayer, which also finds hearing, by the light beings wanting to help it now direct the thoughts so that man now also consciously makes use of prayer and so increases the power to resist, therefore can free himself out of the state of bondage. So the love of fellowman can contribute enormously much to the redemption of an erring soul when it takes the completely weakened will into account and for its part now lets the will become active to help that soul. The power of a prayer for the soul of man is immense and the only means to redeem it from the power of the adversary …. .

Amen

(This translation was created by an „artificial intelligence“ using the original documents ‘Word of God’ received through the ‘Inner Word’ by Bertha Dudde.)

All imperfect spirit causes some disorder in the world because all order is perfected spirit, it behaves in accordance with divine will, and God’s will is order and perfection. The disorderly condition can never be something divine, therefore, the beings who are in God’s ordained state …. that is, who are within divine order, must carry the divine will within themselves, that is, they have to live in accordance with God’s will first if they want to come closer to God. Immaturity, however, aspires towards God’s opposite goal, it conforms to the will of the one who wants to destroy all divine order. However, this disorder can only be evoked when the imperfect spirit is in possession of free will, that is, when it is embodied in a human being, since prior to that divine will determines every activity of the being and therefore this activity has to be orderly too …. which is expressed throughout the entire work of creation which exists in God’s ordained order and cannot arbitrarily be transformed by a God-opposing will. Earthly life, however, is at the mercy of the human being …. And thus the human being creates his own state of order or disorder, all depending on the attitude of his free will. A life in closeness to God with the surrender of one’s own will must understandably proceed orderly, it must completely correspond to divine will. The human being obviously cannot violate God’s will as long as he subordinates himself to it. Consequently his conduct also has to be in line with God’s ordained order, he can’t help himself but aspire to what God wants ….

Hence, whatever is directed against this order has to collapse as a result, as it signifies disorder. All order incorporates within itself the guarantee of continuation whilst it is in the greatest interest of the representative of disorder, the adversary, to destroy everything, and for that reason he provokes an enormous disorder. It is now also understandable that human thought becomes completely chaotic when it expresses itself in some destructive form or another during earthly life. The impulse of preservation will always be divine, the impulse of destruction always satanic. Whoever complies with the inner urge to destroy, consciously submits his will to God’s adversary who wants to annihilate God’s work of creation and who uses the immature spirit to triumph against God. He besets the spirit, he tries to weaken the human being’s will to act in a God-opposing manner, i.e. to disregard and attempt to destroy what God in His wisdom has created. And this is contrary to divine order. Everything in existence serves to mature the imperfect spirit. Every desire to destroy any kind of creation interferes with God’s will, Who gave all spirit a certain length of time and will only release it from its form when the spirit within the form has matured, i.e. when it has become capable to live through the next stage of embodiment within God’s ordained order.

A being which is prematurely disturbed in the process of higher development wants to escape its form or take its abode in an external form that is unsuitable for its state of mind and this, since it lacks the necessary maturity, would be the start of an unimaginable disorder which would have horrifying consequences on earth as well in the entire universe. Because everything would be at the mercy of the immature, God-opposing spirit. There would be an open contest against God which would rage against all divine wisdom if God didn’t prevent it. For that reason, i.e. to maintain divine order, the will of the immature being prior to incarnation as a human being is constrained, whereas the danger in earthly life is that the opposing will results in an unparalleled chaos, a confusion of human thought which can cause the most incredible disorder.

And all virtuous spirits fight this disorder because God Himself uses no coercive measure as hindrance and allows the immature spirit complete freedom of will, nevertheless, it will always be a sin to oppose God’s will. The being violates divine law …. which in itself is order …. when it enjoys changing this order into disorder. Because it then subordinates itself to the will of the adversary who longs to destroy everything that God has created …. He will not succeed, nevertheless merely the determination to do so is the greatest offence against God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence, it is rebellion against God and therefore results in the most dire consequences. The spirit who rages against Him cannot enjoy freedom as long as it defies divine will and divine order. As long as it refuses to fit into God’s ordained order it is not free ….

Amen

Every faith makes demands on man, and when he fulfils these demands, he acknowledges faith, i.e., he positions himself affirmatively to it. He is therefore believing when he complies with the demands, but rejects faith when he ignores the demands. Who now believes in God, will also make it his business to fulfil what God demands of him, provided he also loves the being, which is for him the concept of God. But faith and love are inseparably connected with each other because to believe in God means to also recognize him as a being, which is the epitome of deepest love, highest power perfection and unimaginable wisdom. And man must love something so perfect, and he will also do out of this love everything what God demands of him. Therefore faith is the first prerequisite for a successful earth life. And without faith man can never record even the smallest success for his soul. Because only faith in God lets man recognize his origin, and the awareness to have started from exactly this divinity lets him again strive for unification with it. And this striving for the union with God is the actual purpose of earth life …. Without faith however man is not prepared for any spiritual work. He does not open his heart to spiritual power, which wants to be helpful to him, because he does not affirm such power at all. But again faith cannot be awakened in man compulsorily, but he is to adjust himself out of free, inner conviction affirmatively to him. And so God can only indirectly come to the aid of man by him stimulating his thoughts and man now asks himself questions about things inexplicable to him. When man does not want to recognize his exit out of God, another explanation of his existence will satisfy him just as little, so that he now sends this question into infinity, from where it will now also be answered for him. Different thoughts will now flow to him, and again it depends on his will, to which thoughts he gives …. ear. Faith must slowly become alive in him. But this again depends on whether man is lovingly active. Man can, also without being believing, unconsciously strive towards good, and such a man will also undoubtedly find to faith. An unloving man on the other hand will never ever give access to such thoughts, which lead to faith. Unkindness always results in greater darkening of the spirit, and man is still so far from the right faith. The firmness and depth of faith is again a gift of favour from God, which is then imparted to the believing earth child when it intimately asks for it, because through a deep, unshakable faith unimaginable powers are at the disposal of man, and such a measure of favour must be consciously asked for before the love of God imparts it to the earth child. Therefore man must already be believing, i.e. recognize God and want to fulfil his demands and then declare his readiness to accept for extraordinary supply of favour. He must do more than is demanded of him. He must stand in fullest conviction that no thing is impossible for God, and now put …. this faith into action to do what is the will of God, regardless of his human powerlessness …. he must desire the power out of God to supply unbelieving men with the proof of the existence of a God being, which is full of love, wisdom and omnipotence …. .

Amen

(This translation was created by an „artificial intelligence“ using the original documents ‘Word of God’ received through the ‘Inner Word’ by Bertha Dudde.)

The teaching of Christ is a structure, which is only based on inwardness and lacks all outwardness. Therefore only that can always be considered teaching of Christ what has such an effect that the nature of man shapes itself according to the will of God. The outer form on the other hand does not contribute to the change of the nature; it leaves the inside untouched. When Jesus instructed his own in his teaching, he gave them no regulations or instructions in which outwardly recognizable form they were to spread these his teachings among men. He therefore did not make the following of the teachings dependent on externals, but the divine word was only to be taught, accepted and followed purely and simply …. .There were also no hints given about a building, which was to remain in existence powerfully and mightily for eternal times. Jesus only illustrated the activity of the disciples and their followers who wanted to serve God by giving Peter the power of the keys to loose or bind according to his knowledge. He thereby called him to stand up for his divine teachings and to spread them there where men were willing to receive them, but to deny them to those who were still too much held captive by the spirit of the world because these did not recognize what was offered to them. And therefore Jesus made the spreading of his teaching dependent on the will of men …. to receive what you bind will also be bound in heaven …. what you loosen will also be loosened in heaven …. . These words are only the confirmation of it that the Lord on earth instructed his disciples to spread his divine word, and so the disciples recognized men as being willing to receive the divine word, to introduce them to the divine love teaching, the obeying of which earns complete release from the banishing form. But where the readiness to receive the divine word is lacking and this is only accepted as empty sound, the act of becoming free cannot occur, and therefore the same banished state will be the lot of him in the hereafter, who does not believe the word of his servants on earth. But his servants on earth are, who spread the teaching of Christ on earth among men without all externals, only in the endeavour to serve the Lord God and to help mankind. These his servants will therefore be able to be active redeeming because they strive …. for nothing more than the redemption of men out of the banished state. But they will also recognize that men will not be eternally liberated when they do not accept this inner teaching of Christ and live according to it. They will also enter the hereafter in the banished state. The teaching of Christ is something so deeply inward that it cannot be replaced through forms and externals, and therefore he will also remain bound who keeps form and externals, but remains untouched inwardly and therefore does not follow the teaching of Christ according to the will of God. Everything divine lifts you up, everything human pulls you down …. The teaching, which Jesus imparted to his own on earth, was divine and must therefore also lead to redemption out of the deep. But when the work of men disfigures this pure teaching, when more respect is paid to the work of men, the teaching will lose power, because only the pure divine is powerful, and this power has a redeeming effect, while everything human weakens the will of man and this explains the bondage, as long as man just accepts the teaching of Christ in a form, which deviates from what the Lord himself has taught on earth. The Lord has mentioned to His disciples whose nature was …. full of inwardness and there will also continue to be His disciples on earth who form themselves inwardly according to His will …. because they will become enlightenment to recognize the pure teaching of Christ and to spread it according to the will of God …. .

Amen

(This translation was created by an „artificial intelligence“ using the original documents ‘Word of God’ received through the ‘Inner Word’ by Bertha Dudde.)

Every thought, which is meant for the God-being, will lead up. Nothing is arbitrary when man’s spirit is concerned with God, but then the will has become active to strive up. The will must be used before; the thoughts must be directed towards the all-dominating power of a being, which is still incomprehensible to man. Therefore the will must become active to grasp this incomprehensible, and he must send his spirit for this into regions where enlightenment becomes available to him about the questions, which occupy him. But the desire for it will be differently strong, and this is the explanation why also the wanting to penetrate into deepest truth produces the most different successes …. why therefore the results of those wanting to know God are not always the same. Many a man is content to know that there is an eternal divinity, while others seek to fathom it and desire nothing more than to get fullest enlightenment about this problem. These will also get enlightenment because every demanding thought will be fulfilled by the light beings, which stand in knowledge and therefore are allowed to instruct man through mental transmissions of their knowledge. The more therefore man seeks truth the more detailed it will be offered to him, but without enlightenment the heavenly father never leaves his earth child desiring light. To recognize the eternal divinity in its highest perfection, the state of greatest maturity belongs, which the being on earth does not reach, however such is given to man desiring light, so that his spiritual state becomes more mature and it is therefore possible for him to find understanding for all divine work. And so he is therefore slowly introduced into the knowledge about God …. love in him towards this God …. being love but is power …. and so the power now goes to him to be able to solve deeper and deeper problems about the eternal divinity. To a certain extent he is given the ability to recognize that what is the origin of all life …. “Seek and ye shall find …. ” God himself gives us the promise that every search for truth will be successful …. “knock and it shall be opened …. unto you” we must desire truth to be able to receive it because God opens his ear to every voice which penetrates up to him out of the deep and gives to man what he asks for in spiritual relationship. God wants that the thoughts of men are meant for him; he wants that light becomes for them in the darkness of spirit; therefore he will also guide men so that they come closer to this light. He has given men the ability to think about the most different problems; he will therefore leave no question unanswered, which is meant for his divine nature. Because light and truth is what earth beings lack, but God, as eternal truth, wants to spread light everywhere, and he just wants to see the desire awakened in man for exactly this light. Then it flows to him in all fullness …. .He himself speaks to the earth child standing in the desire for truth and enlightens it; he makes himself known; he helps the weak earth being by him seeking to explain everything to him comprehensibly and therefore his spirit is opened to the reception of deepest divine truth. He gives man the power to grasp divine wisdom; he thereby increases the desire, and man is introduced into the knowledge about divine being, as far as it is beneficial for earth time, because God wants that men recognize him; he wants that they seek to investigate him; he wants that men desire pure truth, then he imparts all wisdom to them …. .

Amen

(This translation was created by an „artificial intelligence“ using the original documents ‘Word of God’ received through the ‘Inner Word’ by Bertha Dudde.)

The magnitude of the Almighty will become apparent at a time when the elements of nature rage and cause indescribable damage. Then the hour will have come when people’s spiritual decline becomes visible for nothing will remind them of God, nothing will move them to pray, for they will have lost their belief in a God and thus will not call upon Him in their need. Hence humanity cannot stay on earth any longer, for it fails to consider its actual purpose of earthly life and only contributes towards destroying the faith of the few people who are not yet entirely estranged from God, causing them to abandon God as well. God’s love, however, will prevent the latter from being harmed and will therefore forcibly terminate the lives of those who threaten to endanger the souls.

And there will be great distress when the raging of the elements begins. It will be like a storm which threatens to destroy everything; people will be unable to defend themselves against it for they are like fragile stalks which get bent by the gales …. They will want to flee yet be unable to escape the elements, without God’s help their resistance will be too feeble, yet a heartfelt call to God will restrain the power of the elements, and anyone who entrusts himself to God in his peril will be saved. But God will be very close to you during this disaster, He will affect everyone’s thoughts and for the last time offer you His hand so that you may take hold of it and let yourselves be saved …. Yet He cannot force your will, you must voluntarily acknowledge Him and desire His help. There is no other way to lead humanity out of spiritual darkness into the light other than through an event caused by natural forces which create such turmoil in people that no one can escape it. Confronted by these natural elements they will have to recognise their helplessness; they will have to lose all other help so that they realise the end of their physical life, only then will there be a slight prospect that they will remember the Lord Who is entitled to all power and Who controls heaven and earth.

God’s living creations separated themselves from Him and have remained separate from God for an infinitely long time, yet a moment of extreme crisis and danger can bridge this separation. The soul can return to God, and as a result will even thank God for the indescribable suffering which brought it to its senses. Yet this moment when the soul directs its will towards God cannot be forcibly induced by God in spite of greatest love. God’s love has tried everything to bring salvation to the souls and point them to the path of ascent. Yet people’s will was strong and God cannot break this will but only affect the human being such that he changes his will himself and turns it towards God. This natural event is thus the final attempt to influence the human will in the most favourable way. But this natural event will also be so powerful that His Own will need great strength in order to remain firm in faith; and everyone who pleadingly sends his thoughts up to God will also be given this strength, for the Father knows the adversity of His children and will lovingly support them if they are in danger of wavering. For His kingdom on earth shall remain, and extensive work will have to be carried out in order to proclaim the divine kingdom to those who had found God and desire His Word. And this is the time the Lord is thinking of by making His Word accessible to people already …. the seed shall fall unto good ground and yield rich fruit on the field which the Lord first wants to purge from all weeds ….

Amen

Hear what the spirit from God wants to announce to you: Worlds will pass away, but the word of God will not pass away until all eternity. Because the word is divine truth, and truth remains. And so God again speaks to men, the necessity is given to announce the will of the creator to his creatures. But God wants to give men the last possibility to reflect; he wants to give men, to whom it is difficult to believe, a quiet suggestion to deal with the thought of him; he wants to make himself known to them in another way and help men to also find to God outside of tradition and to unite with him deeper and more intimately. This transmission of the divine word is an extraordinary grant of favour, caused by the great misery of the time, by the great distance from God. Unimaginable suffering means being separated from God, if man has decided earth life and enters the hereafter; and to avert these sufferings from the soul, God enters into such obvious connection with men and lets his word go to them, which is a proof of his infinite love towards men staying in deepest darkness. And still also this love is not quite recognized. Only few men receive the divine word as what it is; only few feel the great love of God in this word and now let this love have an effect on their souls. But most do not recognize it and consequently are also not touched by the power, which flows out of this word. And they will always and constantly deny because the adversary kindles the will to reject and mentally likewise has an effect on such men and illuminates everything refuting and denying. And therefore an enormous resistance opposes man receiving the divine word, which requires an indomitable will to break. But the will towards God helps to overcome everything; the will towards God is power because God himself shares such with him who desires him himself. And so the divine word will never be endangered as long as the will of man is turned towards God, and it is therefore impossible to want to destroy a word received so wonderfully, if this is striven for. Because this would be a beginning against the strongest power, which still let such work come into being through your will. The divine word must again be received by a willing earth child to give power to those who need such power out of God. Because the coming time brings severe trials over men in which only the divine word is comfort and power. The Lord wants to help all good on earth so that it does not feel the hardness so painfully and also does not waver in faith in God. When at the same time with the divine threat of punishment also the supply of power out of God is assured to men and it is up to every man to make use of this power, it is again up to the will of man to make the coming suffering bearable for himself when he pays attention to the proof of divine love and takes refuge devotedly in the protection of the divine saviour. His life is in God’s hand, and it will be just as imperishable as the divine word, which goes to men, who are of good will …. .

Amen

(This translation was created by an „artificial intelligence“ using the original documents ‘Word of God’ received through the ‘Inner Word’ by Bertha Dudde.)

Who entrusts himself to me, to his soul I give peace, and I direct his mind that he recognizes me and my guidance …. .

It is of greatest importance to know that all spiritual gifts form themselves according to the will of God and that no own thought activity is the cause of the transcripts, which appear unclear or incomprehensible. Everything what is written down has its justification for it and is always adapted to the spiritual maturity of men to whom these writings are once to be a rennet. It is indeed apparently the own thinking that is the cause for different announcements, however these are already based on an intention or a connection, which men do not quite recognize now. These proclamations can be accepted as truth without hesitation, because just the ignorance in some areas let such come about. God knows the purpose of every scripture and gives it as it will be needed one day. The strangest doubts arise in man and again and again cause doubts about the truthfulness of the transmissions from above, and still they are completely groundless because an army of spirits on the other side watches over the work and does not allow that erring beings intrude and enforce truth with error. Consequently it is impossible that announcements can contain other than truth. It is furthermore impossible that the thoughts of man are sometimes arbitrarily active against divine will, and it is therefore impossible that a being standing in wrong thinking can take part in the mental transfer to earth man. However the receiving man must always and constantly be vigilant, and therefore he is again and again stimulated to brood about such problems, which have the appearance of error. Because man deals more thoroughly with such questions, which still do not appear to be quite clarified to him, and mentally the enlightenment will come to him, so that he no longer opposes doubts to the received announcements and therefore has enriched his knowledge, so that he can refute every counter-reflection in this respect …. .

Amen

(This translation was created by an „artificial intelligence“ using the original documents ‘Word of God’ received through the ‘Inner Word’ by Bertha Dudde.)

It is a great danger and a great injustice that you attach your heart too much to mammon and thus do not detach yourselves from matter but endeavour to increase it. And your thoughts and aspirations will only ever be directed towards the increase of earthly good, and thus you are also not aware of the signs which announce the approaching judgement. You live in a world of desires, of wanting the treasures of this earth, and you forget that these pull you down again towards the banished state. Earthly life was given to you to give you the opportunity to free yourselves from such desires, but you use it to increase yourselves, you allow yourselves to become ever more captivated and do not consider the dreadful consequences. And your thinking is blinded, for you no longer regocnize the root of all evil, you are unable to distinguish between lies and truth, you rejoice in every earthly success and your spiritual state declines. You cannot become light where you yourselves feel comfortable in darkness. For you fight against the light, you close yourselves to the instructions from above, and you rage against yourselves if you do not pay attention to God’s voice which would like to inform you of your wrong direction of will. You only accept that which corresponds to your love, and since your love is for the world and its possessions you take offence at the fact that these are labelled as evil. And you reject the word of God, which is supposed to be your salvation from greatest adversity, you only pay attention to earthly events and don’t consider that these events are the result of wrong thoughts and desires. And what you could easily overcome if your will were turned towards God will now cost you a bitter struggle, you will have to surrender it unwillingly and you will be seized by horror in view of the values which are doomed to destruction. And if you then regocnize the worthlessness of earthly possessions you will be saved, but woe betide those whose heart cannot yet part with the world’s goods …. They can no longer be saved on earth, for they are still too attached to matter and still too distant from God to want to regocnize His reign. The one who fights all earthly desires will be at an advantage, for he will also regocnize clearly and lightly the meaning and purpose of all events for the further development of the soul. But he who only ever sees the world and only wants to avert the damage in a purely earthly way still lacks the right realization, his thinking is erroneous and he will move further and further away from the truth, for he neither seeks nor desires it but is firmly attached to that which is part of the adversary. His train of thought is erroneous and therefore all conclusions will also be erroneous until he stifles his desire for earthly possessions and only desires spiritual possessions. Only then can he become enlightened and only then will he regocnize the cause of humanity’s physical and spiritual decline ….

Amen

In order to reduce the distance from God the human being has to be aware of his distance from Him and thus experience the separation as oppressive or painful, then he will strive to change the unsatisfactory state and thus consciously work on himself in the realization that his own state of maturity has to be raised in order to reduce the distance from God. Self-knowledge is therefore the first condition for conscious soul work, but this is least likely to be found in people, for they do not consider themselves flawed and therefore do nothing to improve their spiritual state. It is extremely difficult to shake the feeling of excellence in people, and yet this is just as necessary, for only a person who regocnizes his own shortcomings will do anything to remedy them. And again, the will for truth is absolutely necessary, for the truth-loving person gives account to himself of his thoughts and actions, and he exercises criticism, thus it is understandable that the person whose heart strives for truth is close to the right path, for his train of thought is guided such that he regocnizes himself and consequently also strives for a change in his nature. And thus, when he regocnizes his shortcomings, he becomes small and humble, he wants to rectify them and appeals to God for strength, and thus he is already approaching the eternal deity, for he wants to go to God …. He regocnizes his unworthy state and wants to escape it …. He feels that he is incapable of doing so on his own and thus requests divine grace, and now the distance from God becomes ever smaller, for when the human being receives the strength from God, which he requires for his spiritual well-being, God’s love also takes hold of him and makes his heart capable of love …. And love in turn brings him ever closer to God, love finally cancels out the distance from God completely, love establishes union …. The course on earth has now finally brought about that man has given up his will striving against God and has rejoined his father from eternity of his own will, thus is redeemed from endless long bondage ….

Amen

Without a violent intervention it is no longer possible for people to turn back, for their thoughts and intentions are directed towards the wrong goal and their spirit of God is therefore gagged so that it is almost impossible to regocnize the endangered situation. Thus they can no longer rise up by their own strength, they lie bound on the ground and need some kind of help, and this can only be offered to them in such a way that they are enlightened in a flash that they have taken the wrong path. And for this to happen, people’s thinking must be forcibly torn from its usual path, they must be confronted by forces they had not previously reckoned with and it must be made clear to them what a helpless, powerless creature man is when God withdraws His help from him. They must be forced into a situation where they take refuge in prayer so that they can then be offered noticeable help and can find faith and trust in God if only they are willing. For otherwise they will not find their way back to faith, and God therefore still tries to change human thinking in this way. Only a situation which, from a human point of view, is hopeless, makes the human being think of a higher being, if he has denied such thoughts so far. However, in many cases even this world-shaking event will be unsuccessful in spiritual terms. The completely hardened earthly human being will not regocnize any divine providence in it, he will accept it without changing his attitude towards God in the slightest …. he will, if he still regocnizes God, curse Him because of the apparent injustice or completely deny divinity, and for these there is no other way of salvation, they are completely lost for eternal times …. Thus no compulsion whatsoever is exerted on people’s thinking, instead they are only guided towards the right way of thinking through extraordinary horrors and suffering and it is entirely up to them to take an affirmative or negative attitude towards God, yet the slightest will towards God earns them increased willpower so that they can very well carry out the spiritual ascent if only the thought of God comes alive in them and they request and hope for strength from God. The lord pays attention to the slightest stirring of the heart and is ready with His gift of grace. It is therefore made easy, so to speak, for people to regain faith in God, but the horrors and suffering must help to make people compliant, for then the resistance against God is not as great as with a completely unbending, stubborn person who only sees himself and his earthly advantage threatened by divine intervention and rebels against the power that has such authority. But God especially seeks to come to the aid of those whose divine service has so far only been formal and who lack any inwardness. He wants to help them to find the inner connection with the highest being, He wants them to surrender to Him in all intimacy, that they prove their hitherto outwardly known faith anew by seeking refuge with Him Whom they have not yet fully regocnized. He therefore now gives them the opportunity to experience inwardly and put into practice what they had previously outwardly advocated; He therefore wants to shape their faith into a living one in order to let them now also get to know the strength of such faith. He wants them to join themselves intimately to their father in heaven, Whom they have only ever called upon in empty words. God wants to be called upon in spirit and in truth, and this adversity on earth will lead many people to turn in spirit and in truth to the one Who alone can bring help. And then the earthly disaster will have become a blessing for them, for they will have made contact with their creator and He will never let them go …. He guides their thoughts to the right realization and leads them through the night to the light ….

Amen

Finding inner contact with the divine is always a consequence of love awakened in the human being. It is impossible that a human being can unite with God who has not first manifested the will to affirmatively attune himself to the eternal deity through loving activity. From this it emerges that only through love can a union with God be achieved, that therefore the union with God presupposes having become love. It is also understandable that God, as love itself, will be there where true love becomes active. Thus, in a work of love, the human being senses the presence of eternal love as an increased impulse to love and a blissful awareness of strength. This is hardly perceptible in a purely physical sense, but the soul feels it unconsciously, so to speak, in inner peace and heightened joy of life, which, however, is not directed towards earthly interests. It seeks to explore God and infinity …. Once it has become active in love, it will feel prompted to think about God and the spiritual. For it is the consequence of the heart’s love that the eternal love now reveals Itself to the human being and turns his train of thought towards Itself. And the human being feels at ease in the spiritual atmosphere that now surrounds him. He senses the divine where It approaches him, he allows himself to be seized by the strength of divine love, he tries to shape himself such that he is worthy of this divine union, and from then on he remains anxious for the salvation of his soul since he regocnizes that the human being’s goal should be union with God. He by no means needs to withdraw from the duties of earthly life, he just has to be careful to prioritize the work on his soul over earthly endeavours, then earthly activity is likewise conducive to the soul’s higher development. If he starts and ends everything with God and only ever strives for closeness to God, all earthly activity will be a blessing for him, for he will now consciously serve his fellow human beings through his earthly labour, and he can effortlessly master it if only he always desires the strength from God and constantly practices love. For now he does everything with God, Who is with him in every labour of love. He has detached himself from the realm of darkness and consciously entered the realm of light …. And light always means closeness to God …. His spirit must now also have awakened, thus the light must be synonymous with knowledge, for God is wisdom and love …. If God as love is connected with man through works of love, wisdom must also communicate itself to man in the same measure. A loving earthly being must simultaneously be a knowing being, for if God reveals Himself to the human being through love, He does not exclude wisdom, and the human being who has united with God through love will always stand in knowledge ….

Amen

From now on, your life will be dedicated to the service of the lord, and all the gifts you receive will strengthen your will and give you the strength to work for the lord.

Amen

So accept the following today: Every being must go the way of the flesh in order to decide in it in favour of or against God. He is therefore given two possibilities, which he is free to choose. If both were equally desirable in their external effects, then it would certainly be easy to decide in favour of God, but the path to God is a laborious one, full of privation, while the path downwards promises earthly pleasures and successes, thus appears more desirable to the being, and therefore it must now fight if it wants to take the path upwards. But this is divine law, that the being has to stand in certain resistance to its inner desire, that it has to gain what is infinitely precious and needs its willpower for it, which however is increased according to need and demand, so that the being can reach the goal when it wants to. It is not able to do anything with its own strength but the strength from God will not be withheld from it if the being desires it. Therefore nothing more is demanded than the will. Because the being once misused its will to fall away from God, it now has to surrender this very will, i.e. use it in order to return to God again. And for this the embodiment as man was given to him. The path of the flesh is striven for by all beings as long as they still dwell in the bound form because they know that it signifies the last course on earth. They therefore joyfully take it upon themselves, know in advance about their task and long for this embodiment in the hope of finally being able to free themselves from the bound form. However, they are also aware of the responsibility of being on earth but consider their willpower to be sufficient to fulfil their task. Yet they underestimate the cunning and power of the adversary …. They do not consider that he uses all means to make the spiritual world submissive to himself and his plans again. God’s love, however, surrounds its creatures and provides them with all the means to resist this power. But the free state in the flesh entails many dangers. The adversary uses precisely the freedom of will by holding out to the being on earth all the splendours which the being can now acquire by virtue of its free will and which appear extraordinarily desirable to it after the unfree state before. And the adversary tries to determine the being to use its free will to create an extremely pleasant life for itself …. and again this means apostasy from God. And there resistance is to be offered of its own accord. The human being should not be hindered in his freedom of will during this short time of life on earth, but he should regocnize through his reason and his intellect the great danger of a pleasurable earthly life. And this is pointed out to him through the word of God, which is offered to every human being …. This holds before his eyes the glories of eternal life on the one hand and the perdition on the other, and man can now decide for himself which path he wants to take …. For God gave him reason, understanding and free will so that he would not be ignorant of its great significance during his life on earth. Therefore, life as a human being is also responsible. It was given to him for a specific purpose and must therefore also be lived consciously in accordance with this purpose. Although he is at the mercy of the adversary’s power he nevertheless has divine strength and grace at his disposal to such an extent that he can resist this power if he uses his free will correctly, i.e. if he has decided in favour of God ….

Amen

It is obvious frivolity to look at life on earth only from the point of view of what is beneficial to the body. It is difficult to begin to make such people understand the true purpose of earthly life, for they will never want to exclude physical enjoyment and will therefore be inaccessible to other views and teachings, since the content of life is sufficient for them if it consists of earthly pleasures. But the awakening of an erring person will be terrible. For the body will soon no longer be able to cope with the demands of earthly life, it will regocnize its weaknesses and infirmities with increasing age, and nothing will remain of the earthly life that was taken so seriously that will endure when its outer form, the physical shell, begins to become frail. He must now realize that even the most beautiful earthly pleasures lose their appeal when the body no longer possesses its youthful vigour. So life must now also seem dull and empty and useless to him as long as he is only concerned with his body. And again it is a gift of favour when man’s body approaches decay faster and faster, because only now there is hope that man gets in touch with his spirit and takes contact with the powers which lovingly take care of man who has now become thoughtful, present to him the uselessness of the previous way of life and try to move him to seriously occupy himself with the spiritual, with the higher development of the soul. The human being is still given ample opportunity to suppress or fight physical desires if he is willing, i.e. if he subordinates himself to divine laws and only allows this will to prevail. However, it is far more meritorious if a person fights earthly pleasures while he is still young and full of zest for life, for the sooner he will attain knowledge, realization, for then his striving will have become active in fullest freedom of will, he will not have been forced to renounce them through physical hardship but will renounce these pleasures of his own accord, and his spirit will have done so, which can now unite with its own kind, as well as its soul, which is determined to think and want differently, will thank it with all intimacy, for only it knows about the right purpose of earthly life, it also regocnizes the dreadful plight of the imperfect spiritual beings torn away from this life, but which first has to be brought before the human being’s eyes if he is to be able to free himself from the power which hinders him on the path upwards ….

Amen

The alleged act of forgiveness of sins is only the symbol of what the Lord taught on earth. It is not at all necessary to fulfil a formality because the forgiveness of sin depends entirely on how guilty the human being feels before God and on confessing this to Him in heartfelt prayer by appealing for His mercy and forgiveness of his guilt. Formality is once again only a danger to the soul because an act will be mechanised which is, or should be, far too intimate to be made outwardly identifiable. The act of public confession of sins can lead to superficiality, in as much as the person more or less follows a routine act without being so internally united with God that he has a need to confess his guilt of sin to Him. Everything you do for the sake of your soul’s salvation should be alive, and a ceremony like that can easily result in a lifeless act because not all people are infused by God at the same time in order to reveal themselves to Him in all their weakness and guilt of sin. But this is a prerequisite for the forgiveness of sin, all external acts are mere symbols of what corresponds to God’s will but not the accomplishment of divine will.

When the spirit of God draws your attention to the danger you place yourselves in, you should not oppose it but be grateful to your Heavenly Father with all your heart for guiding you correctly, because you waste a lot of strength by fulfilling external formalities, which you should use for your inner progress. A heartfelt thought of devoted love will bring you infinitely more blessings than the eager fulfilment of ecclesiastical commandments, which were given to people without God’s approval. The representatives of these teachings once again took refuge behind a humanly evolved doctrine about the infallibility of the head of the Church in regards to spiritual laws.

Everything given to people from above is purest truth; however, through His messages from above, God is only expressing His will but He will never want to control or use coercive measures to make people obey. Because this would be in complete contradiction to divine love and wisdom’s emanated law of the beings’ voluntary deliverance. A humanly decreed commandment is an interference with divine ordinances …. commandments which impel people to commit actions, although officially their own will is prerequisite, will never be considered right by God. The human being’s will cannot routinely carry out its activity, in that case it is no longer free but already bound by the will of the person who, as a result of such commandments, allocates a specific time for people to perform their duty.

This is an immense human error which threatens to stifle the developing delicate seed of inner longing for God, unless a human being’s loving actions become particularly dynamic and spiritual enlightenment suddenly makes him realise God’s true will. Only then will he be able to liberate himself from a teaching which, due to human contribution, already deviates considerably from the teaching given to people by Jesus Himself on earth. The human being usually strives to fulfil his obligation, and this is the greatest danger for the soul …. For it does not consciously strive for perfection since it is effectively given a plan which it aims to implement, and by following the groundwork done by other people it is neglecting its own psychological task but is convinced that it is living a life which is pleasing to God, the Lord ….

Amen

There are forces at work between heaven and earth which express themselves in such a way that this becomes visible to people. And therefore these forces cannot be denied. But it is not possible to specialize them with only intellectual thinking, one is confronted with an elemental force whose cause cannot be determined, and one is therefore content with the word natural force for all those processes which are certainly visible to man but cannot be explained. Nor can these forces be explained to people who do not try to penetrate the spiritual realm, for everything earthbound cannot accept or understand an explanation of them. Natural force is the visible expression of the divine creator’s will; natural force is something conditional in itself, it is cause and effect at the same time …. it is an expression of power of the eternal deity that is inconceivable to human concepts ….

Natural strength is God’s visible working for people, it is the evidence of an incessantly active being Which awakens to life, shapes and moulds in Its own full power …. And this expression of strength is simultaneously a means of informing the imperfect being of the existence of a deity, for the being is confronted by an inexplicable activity which presupposes a supremely perfect being …. This activity transcends human abilities and therefore cannot be explained humanly either, as it is based on forces that are inscrutable to human understanding. However, the expression of God’s strength is taken for granted by people and does not always lead to the realization of a divine being, and elemental forces are not able to convince people of a being Who is their originator. Neither the emergence through this power nor the passing away through natural elements proclaims to them a creator Who is inherent in love, wisdom and omnipotence. Man accepts the results of an active being indifferently, but at the same time denies the being itself, whether the knowledge of such a being is obviously brought to him …. he denies it …. He believes himself to be close to the truth when he regards everything around him as a self-acting and constantly repeating transformation of what is apparent to him as nature. He will therefore never be able to deny an extremely wisely regulated activity in everything he sees around him, but he is unwilling to regocnize this activity as the expression of a deity because this simply seems unacceptable to him as an entity, yet he will never be able to give himself a satisfactory explanation about what has come into being around the human being without earthly (human?) intervention. He will certainly ponder, but if he denies the eternal deity he will never be able to receive an answer to his pondering questions, for in order to be able to lay claim to a power this power must first be regocnized. But the denial of this power excludes recognition, for that which is not regocnized cannot reveal itself. God can never give people a more convincing proof of His existence than creation, yet anyone who does not want to regocnize the wise creator in creation is not receptive, and thus he must continue to be left in error; God cannot reveal Himself to him and he will walk along in darkness, and the eternal deity will remain an unimaginable concept to him ….

Amen

The forces of heaven and earth unite in order to serve the lord in all devotion, and thus countless connections are established which again signify a counteraction of the evil power. Thus, where love is active, the evil power is weakened, for it can no longer be active to the same extent and exert its influence on the person to whom this redeeming love applies. For this is where the beings of light begin their activity by mentally instructing the human being of all dangers to the soul and thus the human being now pays more attention to his soul life. The activity of the beings of light is not always visible but it is noticeable wherever people’s thoughts are occupied with God. The greater the worldly adversity, the more likely it is that the beings of light will succeed in mentally influencing people and the greater the number of those who seek God and thus also find Him. The activity of the beings of light is a diligent one, for it is carried out with utmost love and patience. The being of light will never abandon the human being who is entrusted to its protection and will always express itself in a way that reveals its constant care. The human being will go through many dangers which will always remind him to think of his soul’s life …. And all these dangers and hardships are to a certain extent aids for the beings of light to direct the thoughts of the human being towards the eternal divine. Once they have succeeded in doing so, their work is easier and more successful, for then there are no obstacles to the mental exchange between beings of light and human beings and the possibilities for success are greater. Divine love gives the being of light great power over the earthly child entrusted to it insofar as that it can assign the events to it in such a way that they promise success, for the being of light’s love is so great that it truly only allows the human being to experience earthly adversity and danger for the sake of the soul’s advancement, in the realization that such is most likely to contribute towards the soul’s progress. And the beings of light are again familiar with the earthly life of the souls entrusted to them, they know every impulse of the soul, every earthly and also every spiritual desire, and try to take everything into account so that the soul draws its advantage from it, which now also causes that man must be denied much of what he longs for, because in the fulfilment lies a great danger for the soul. And now it is also understandable why earthly life brings the human being far more disappointments and renunciations than fulfilment of his earthly wishes. These are the greatest danger for the soul, for they often prevent the spirit from rising to those heights which first bring the soul the success of spiritual maturity. They hinder the soul’s mental development through the beings of light, they hold the human being’s thoughts back on earth and prevent them from flying upwards, and this is always detrimental to the soul’s progress. However, the light beings’ love is so great that they cannot leave the earthly child in this danger and therefore remove the obstacle, even though this causes the human being pain and grief. Yet one day the soul will regocnize the love of these beings and thank them for everything that has promoted the state of maturity and brought light and realization to the soul ….

Amen

This is what I demand of you, that you only desire Me and allow nothing to prevent you from establishing contact with Me. For if you are opposed and yet remain faithful to Me I will seize you with all My love and remove all obstacles so that your path to Me will be clear. For you should not slacken in prayer and therefore I sometimes have to make it difficult for you to reach Me, otherwise you will not call upon Me for help and yet I want to hear My children’s call, they shall loudly announce to Me that they desire Me and My spirit …. And I will strengthen them so that they lose all sense of weakness …. I will be with them and express Myself in such a way that they will regocnize Me ….

Amen

A person’s will is extremely strong when it comes to resisting something as long as he regocnizes that it is not to his liking, but very weak when it seems doubtful to him what is good or bad for him. Therefore, in order to overcome all dangers, it is also necessary to regocnize them, because then the will also becomes correspondingly stronger. The human being has certain inhibitions that come to the fore precisely when he is required to put up full resistance or full commitment. And this is always the influence of an evil power that wants to prevent the human being from resisting. And to fight such inhibitions is man’s constant task, then the supply of strength from God is not hindered or interrupted and the will will be strengthened again and again to carry out what is God’s will.

The problem of detaching yourself from earth-boundness when receiving the word is still troubling you. Too many impressions of earthly life still hinder you and these do not allow the spirit to soar. The world of the pure-spiritual regocnizes your will and your effort and is willing to help you, but they cannot influence this will and must therefore now wait patiently until you detach your thoughts from all earthly things and willingly abandon yourself to them. The will upwards is certainly strong, but it does not yet completely separate itself from the earthly and is therefore an obstacle to effortless receiving. The lord has set you a great task which requires an extremely strong will to accomplish. And therefore a constant battle must be waged against everything that could weaken your will. Only that which serves this task should be important to you. Your spirit should continue to strive upwards and seek to unite with the spirit from God, for in this way alone you prove your love for Him Who has given you this task. Earthly children who want to serve God are no longer allowed to cling to earth, they must willingly detach themselves and give up everything that seems desirable to them, they are not allowed to divide themselves into service to God and service to man, insofar as the latter corresponds to their self-love …. but they should give everything in order to gain the fullest love of God …. Give everything …. in order to possess far more marvellous things than the world can ever offer. Every thought turned towards God gives man the strength to fight against earthly desires; the will turned towards God earns him grace upon grace. And he will now also be able to easily detach himself from earth and easily and effortlessly find the connection with the world beyond if he completely disregards the world and only desires God and His love. For this is man’s greatest danger, that he divides his love with the world and its pleasures. The one must be overcome in order to possess the other. For by loving the world, man gives in to the temptations of satan, who uses all means to turn him away from God again. It therefore requires a strong will to resist, and the stronger the temptation, the better. Then the person must not hesitate for long, he must be aware of the great danger that losing this battle means for him, he must try to remind himself of the preciousness of what he can lose for the sake of this temptation and this must prompt him to put up extreme resistance …. and he must not forget to pray, for when he prays he expresses his will to do what is God’s will ….

Amen

Thoughts will continue to flow to you from the kingdom of the eternal and inform you of God’s infinite love, for He Himself will shape them in an understandable way, adapted to your state of maturity and the mission you were given to accomplish. It is unspeakably difficult to send these thoughts to earth if the recipient is uninitiated into spiritual knowledge, for then he does not regard them as coming from the kingdom of the eternal one but often rejects them as his own fantasies, and thus it is a futile labour of love by the spiritual beings to persuade the human being to accept what is offered …. But the one who is in knowledge accepts what is offered to him and makes it his spiritual property, and the beings imparting knowledge can remain in uninterrupted contact with the receiving earthly child if it does not slacken in its will to serve God. The mental results are only spiritual property as long as they concern purely spiritual questions …. Earthly questions, however, are solved by the physical abilities coming into effect …. The organs therefore carry out their assigned function, but completely separately from the spiritual activity of the human being, insofar as this is practiced at the same time. However, the spiritual results correspond to the truth, whereas the physical, i.e. earthly results, need not necessarily be truth, for they are born out of the human being’s will without spiritual protection, whereas spiritual questions, if the human being desires the truth, will also be answered truthfully by the beings who are responsible for instructing such earthly children who strive for spiritual knowledge. However, if the help of these beings is also requested for earthly questions then the human being can also trustingly accept the earthly mental results as truth, for then he completely hands himself over to the beings wanting to guide him, and these can now distribute the gifts of the spirit at their discretion and also include earthly problems in their activity. But every thought activity, which neither demands spiritual power nor applies to spiritual questions, is purely human use of the organs which God has allocated to the body, and therefore the results are very often to be contested or refuted. The body alone can carry out an activity for which it does not require spiritual strength, but only the strength that God gives to the human being to maintain the body. However, if it requires spiritual strength to do so, the truth of everything that can now be recorded as mental results is guaranteed. And thus the beings of light always and constantly endeavour to make the significance of the mental whispers clear to people in order to motivate them to open their hearts so that the knowing beings can communicate …. that they listen within and accept everything they are offered in faithful trust …. (interruption)

What the earth child receives is strength from God, for the beings of light now transmit this strength, which they previously received, to the beings who desire and gratefully accept it. And strength from God is a particle of Himself …. power from God is spiritual substance, which again increases the spiritual in man …. power from God is the link between God and His creatures …. and to be allowed to receive this strength is an unimaginable grace, for God Himself and His love express themselves in every gift of strength that makes the earthly child happy. The strength from God has to be desired in order to be received; it does not come to the human being unsolicited, and therefore the beings of light first try to awaken the feeling of weakness in the human being so that he can then ask for strength and thus receive it …. After praying for strength, the person must open his heart and thus be ready to receive it. He must consciously receive the divine influx into himself, he must be full of love and full of desire for God and His strength, he must prepare himself so that God can work on him, then every influx of strength can penetrate the heart unhindered and this will be felt as strength of faith and will, as increased love, increased knowledge and unrestricted devotion to God …. And when the human being realizes that he came forth from God, that he is guided by God’s love, that he can achieve incredible things in faith in God and that he can shape himself in accordance with divine will, then he will know his purpose of earthly life, he will live in love and every thought will be directed towards his creator. And all this is strength from God, which has an inconceivable effect because it emanates directly from God and is imparted to the desiring human being through beings of light. This power is nothing earthly tangible, nothing earthly to be proven and nothing temporally limited, but it is only pure spiritual product, which is only felt by the spirit, therefore rejected by worldly people as something completely foreign, as fantasy. And yet this power is the most precious thing on earth that a person can acquire, for it flows from the divine source of grace and flows unmeasured to the person who thirsts for it. It is the power from God His spirit, which introduces man to all knowledge. This spirit imparts the divine word to him as the greatest gift of grace, so that the living water flows from this source, which in turn is only the expression of strength of divine love …. “Whoever drinks of this water will never thirst for eternity ….” Thus the lord promises eternal refreshment to the earthly child who receives His word, and therefore the strength that flows from His word must outlast all earthly things and have an effect in eternity …. And the father in heaven extends this unimaginable grace to those who open their hearts and grant Him access in the word ….For the word of God is eternal …. it will never pass away, for divine power is eternally indestructible and should always and constantly be desired for the uplifting of the spirit and for the fulfilment of everything that God demands of people. For God is a God of love Who gives His living creations the strength to fulfil what He requires, and people should thank this God of love without ceasing ….

Amen

The human being lacks the right realization as long as he has not yet penetrated spiritual knowledge, for only this brings him closer to realization. Earthly knowledge certainly contributes towards mastering earthly life and fulfilling its requirements, but it does not have the slightest influence on the state of the soul, which should be given the same care as the physical state but which is taken more seriously in earthly life. spiritual knowledge is the soul’s nourishment, it is the only thing beneficial to the soul which gives it strength to fulfil its task in life. He who cultivates spiritual knowledge need not worry about his soul, for it now receives sufficiently what it needs for higher development, whereas earthly knowledge again only brings success to the body and favours an earthly life of well-being. The human being must realize that all endeavours in earthly life must serve a useful purpose after all, and thus the true purpose of earthly as well as spiritual knowledge must be examined as to how far it corresponds to the human being’s desire and is therefore worth striving for. Earthly knowledge contributes to the increase of earthly well-being, but the latter is the greatest danger for the soul if it takes the body’s desire into account, i.e. wants, feels and thinks what increases the body’s well-being. The soul’s danger lies in the spiritual stagnation that inevitably occurs when the body alone is respected. But the body only has a short duration of existence, afterwards the soul stands empty and without merit at the gate of eternity, and unspeakable torments are the consequences of the wrong will, of the striven-for earthly knowledge, which does not bring it the slightest relief in the beyond. However, anyone who strives for spiritual knowledge already attains a high degree of maturity on earth, for the spiritual knowledge imparted to him impels the soul to take care of its higher development. It pays no attention to the body and constantly endeavours to use earthly life in accordance with spiritual knowledge, which will already bring it greatest success on earth and will be indescribably redeeming in the beyond. For to stand in spiritual knowledge means a penetration into God’s reign and activity; it means to have knowledge of God’s current of power, of God’s love, omnipotence and wisdom, of the radiation of His spirit, of the purpose and meaning of all creation and the favours which man can gain for himself if only he wants to. The knowledge of all this is the motivation to consciously work on oneself; it allows the physical desire to recede into the background and the desire for God to become the purpose of life. spiritual knowledge therefore promotes the state of the soul and puts the human being in a position to mould himself into a being of light already on earth. spiritual knowledge first benefits the soul but does not leave the body unnoticed either, for it will now also be given what it needs if the soul is thought of first and the bodily desire for the sake of the soul is disregarded. And the departure from this world will be an easy one and lead the soul towards eternal glory, for it will pass over with an unimaginable wealth, it will take all the treasures it has acquired on earth through spiritual knowledge with it, as it were. It possesses something that can never be taken away from it again and the entrance into eternity will mean happiness and eternal bliss for it ….

Amen

All light requires a light source …. must therefore be generated somehow. It therefore requires a system, a station, where something must be constantly active in order to generate light and thus also power. And furthermore, this light and power plant must be under the control of an extremely prudent conductor who forwards the generated power as intended, i.e. directs it to its actual use. When something is produced, it cannot be passed on in a haphazard or inexpedient manner, but it must correspond to a purpose, and so the product of uninterrupted activity must also be directed to its proper destination, otherwise all activity is useless and lacks any justification. Thus the light is produced firstly to serve humanity, which needs it, but then also to make the creative power accessible to people, which saves them untold trouble or supports them in their duties and endeavours to serve their fellow human beings again. In a way, it is a relief to be able to fulfil the tasks assigned to them; they can carry out the work incumbent upon them effortlessly, but still fulfil their task. They are therefore relieved, although they are willing to serve, through the use of this power …. and they are able to fulfil all their tasks by making use of the light, which is again needed for every activity. Thus light and strength will always be indispensable if a demand is to be fulfilled ….

This process of generating and utilizing light and strength, which is perceptible everywhere in earthly life, takes place in the same way in infinity …. The light that floods everything is the result of the uninterrupted activity of countless spiritual beings, which does not consist of earthly imaginable work but finds its explanation in spiritual activity. Light and strength therefore constantly flows from these beings into the universe and has its origin in a power station which has the eternal creator Himself as its master …. For He Himself is the producer and giver of all light and all power, He is the source of light and power …. from Him emanates everything that signifies creation and existence. And it is passed on through countless beings closely connected to Him, who receive light and power and transfer it to everything visible in creation ….

Amen

In order to be able to receive light and strength nothing else is necessary than to be a creature of God. God feeds everything that has come into being through His will with His strength, because without this supply of light and strength the being would have to perish, i.e. it would have to cease to be what it is. For everything created is condensed power that has become form …. It is something that has emerged from His will, that carries His will within itself, that therefore can never ever shape itself differently or be subject to another will. Since light and strength are constantly generated by God’s immense activity of love, new creations must also constantly arise. The flow of power from God must again and again condense into form, it must continue to exist and be preserved by receiving ever new power from God. For if God were to withdraw His active will, i.e. the emanation of His willpower based on His inconceivable activity of love, from His creatures they would cease to exist, since they are in themselves merely will that has become form. However, what is of God remains in eternity. For the power that flows through everything created is imperishable, it can only be channelled into ever new visible form, but this form can likewise only be reshaped but not completely dissolved. For it too is power from God, which became according to its task through divine will for the sake of a specific purpose. For nothing has come into being without purpose and plan in the whole of creation, and since every being receives the light and the power from God in order to be at all, it is therefore light and power in its original substance; it has taken its start in God, can eternally be nothing else than divine radiation and therefore also never pass away. It can only move infinitely far away from God in its cycle but nevertheless has to continue to receive light and strength in order to be what it is as long as it belongs to the visible work of creation. And after aeons of years all strength emanating from God will end its cycle and return to its starting point. Light and power will merge again with the eternal primordial light, with God, the father of all light ….

Amen

It remains a constant battle against the power which wants to bring about the apostasy from God, for it uses all means to seize people’s will again and therefore great resistance has to be put up in order to successfully counter it. And therefore the human being’s soul is constantly in danger as long as it is fickle and thereby grants the enemy a certain amount of power over itself. It certainly proves its will towards God through deeds if it dedicates itself to the task set to it despite inner reluctance and also openly professes its faith in God, yet joyful service can only be regarded as victory, only then will the adversary give up his endeavour and the human being will then effortlessly reach his goal. The world must be completely overcome, only then is God’s spirit so close that everything appears comprehensible to the human being which previously seemed incomprehensible to him. For only now can he instruct him and be active in enlightening man ….

Amen

There will be one powerful detonation after another in the space of a few hours, and this will happen early in the morning and continue until the next morning, and people will fear for their lives and their possessions.

They will be headless and without any support, for they will not heed the repeated admonitions that come to them beforehand; they will be paralyzed by the work of destruction that they never thought possible. It is an incomparable chaos which that voice from on high calls forth. However, great work must first be done. Serious dangers, which seriously threaten earthly life, must be brought home to people in order to give them even small indications of its transience. A temporary change in living conditions must also cause people to reflect on how impermanent earthly life and everything connected with it is …. And then, if possible, the word of God must be made accessible to him so that he is now able to regocnize the connection between everything earthly and the divine will, if he wants to. Only then will he pay attention to the signs and begin to take a stand on them, i.e. he will decide in favour of or against God. If it is now possible for him to detach his heart from earthly possessions and to regocnize a higher purpose in his life, then the visible intervention of God will be visible proof of the justification of his innermost feelings …. to regocnize earthly possessions as worthless, but to strive for the knowledge of divine truth and a deep faith as the only desirable things. And this realization allows him to face the great divine mission calmly, so to speak. The soul regocnizes the necessity of it and accepts it humbly and calmly. And now it will become apparent how deeply the divine word has penetrated and what strength the human being is prepared to draw from it. The most important thing is that the human being establishes a certain connection with God, that he allows God Himself and His strength to have an effect on him by accepting the divine word and that he now moulds himself according to this word. If man would hear the word of God and live according to it beforehand, such a violent intervention would not be necessary, but this is the only means to move people to accept the word of God. God regocnizes people’s spiritual state and uses the last resort in His love so that humanity is not completely lost, which is inevitably the case without God’s word. Many a person will want to rebel, he will try to preserve his life with all his might, he will not want to bow down and never acknowledge a higher power, yet he will also regocnize his powerlessness, and good for him if he still acknowledges a lord above him in the last hour and hands himself and his life over to Him …. if he, too, allows himself to be seized by divine love by pleadingly stretching out his hands …. For God truly does not allow anything to come upon people without purpose, and He will help everyone who regocnizes the divine lord in this mission and submits himself to Him and His will ….

Amen

The train of thought of a man who denies God can never lead to a right result because all preconditions are missing. The evil beings are connected to such a person through the same attitude, since they also rebel against God. The power of such beings who reject God is now likewise active and tries to express itself where the same attitude and the same will exist and is also accepted there without resistance. But the thinking of those beings is wrong, for correct realization would also lead them towards God, make them love Him and be submissive to His will. Consequently, this wrong thinking must also be transferred to the human being …. The truth, however, can only be experienced by beings turned towards God. A being united with God is in the light, i.e. in the realization of truth, and therefore only hands out truth. Dark beings, on the other hand, are in error and can also only spread error. And thus the truth can only be found through God, since God Himself is the truth and thus He Himself has to be desired or regocnized in order to be in purest truth and deepest knowledge. Therefore, it is impossible that an unbelieving, God-rejecting or God-denying human being can ever solve the great problem that the whole of creation is for mankind. To solve it, man must be a believer …. He must seek God in order to be guided to the truth about the eternal deity. The adversary apparently works with the same means. He, too, tries to influence people’s thoughts and to awaken in them the conviction that they have come close to the truth, and the consequence of this is people’s self-assured attitude, who are without faith and try to explain everything in creation in a completely opposite sense to the truth. They are without any knowledge but so imbued with their opinion that they believe themselves to be completely superior and reject every instruction a believer wants to give them about God and His working. The former expresses the arrogance that separates everything impure and imperfect from God …. However, pure truth can only be attained through humility, for standing in the truth is a great gift of grace from God, which can only be given to the humble, for he regocnizes his distance from God and longs to return to Him, and his desire is fulfilled by being given light …. And light is knowledge …. light is truth …. Thus the true believer need not be put off if counter-objections are made to him by unbelievers, for no matter how convincingly they are put forward they cannot correspond to the truth, because the originators of these thoughts are themselves the greatest opponents of the truth; because they fight everything that signifies light and because they are opposed to God Himself and therefore can never stand in the truth ….

Amen

The spiritual flattening of the present time requires extremely sharp measures to remedy it. And it is therefore intended that unusual phenomena will increase, which have the purpose of establishing a mental connection with knowing powers through questions which are directed towards infinity and the great riddle of the Godhead. These phenomena will always fall outside the framework of everyday life, certain laws of nature will seem to be overturned, things will happen that give rise to different opinions, and humanity’s thoughts will be forcibly directed towards them and it will endeavour to find the most natural explanation of things. The more willing a person is to regocnize and confess God, the closer he will be to the truth and soon correctly grasp this phenomenon as an indication of the coming time and the beginning of a spiritual turning point. However, a person who does not have the slightest connection with God will hardly regocnize this. His intellect will look for another explanation but will not come to the right conclusion. In his view, all spiritual immersion is a point of view that has been overcome and he believes that the time has come that signifies the end of all spiritual endeavour. He seeks to explain everything objectively and intellectually, and what is inexplicable to him is presented as an unexplored force of nature. And now the necessity of a divine mission arises, which shatters such wrong thinking, i.e. changes it completely. However, this cannot be achieved by force either, and therefore these programmes must again be conditioned in the force of nature. They must again leave the human being free to decide, for the forced change of thinking would not be of value to the human being. He who now endeavours to judge fairly will find it easier to regocnize, for he has the will to work. And the extraordinary programmes will result in great hardship, and the hardship should in turn force the human being into true perception, it should eliminate all untruthful thinking, for it is precisely in hardship that the human being is prompted to abandon all pretence and all untruth and only strive for the pure truth. And then only right thinking is possible, then the events can still bring in unimaginable benefit, which only the soul regocnizes. Then these programmes will not have passed him by unsuccessfully, provided they have changed the human being’s thinking and turned it towards the eternal divine ….

Amen

Individual people’s views of life are very different, because they are always the product of the individual’s spiritual direction. However, the human being will undoubtedly take an affirmative attitude towards life, i.e. regocnize it as somehow meaningful, if he regards himself as a creature which has a task on earth. The human being, however, to whom it seems unacceptable that all creation is a means to an end and that he, as a human being, is effectively the cause of every work of creation, will find the whole of life pointless, and the thought of being able to end his earthly life on his own authority is pleasant to him because he takes offence at all those events and sufferings which are imposed on people from above. He has no real evidence for the assumption that his soul’s life ends with bodily death, and yet he accepts this with such certainty that he organizes his life on earth accordingly, that is, he lives without any sense of responsibility because he considers it impossible that he will ever have to answer for it. He has no real evidence and yet presupposes this assumption for his life on earth. His view of life is based on the assumption of non-existence after death. He has no motivation, no faith that teaches him to think differently. Only irrefutable evidence of life after death would change his previous view of life, but this cannot be given to him because such an awakened belief would have no value before God …. So he cannot receive positive knowledge about the soul’s continued existence, he just has to ‘believe’ the teachings about it, he has to bring himself to this belief, for which he has sufficient means at his disposal. Only when he has gained this conviction does his view of life begin to waver. He will now make comparisons, he will no longer want to regocnize that which he had previously advocated, he will welcome a change in external living conditions which will help him to completely abandon his wrong opinions and to view earthly life completely differently. And thus the willing person struggles through it himself if only he pays attention to this problem, which stimulates him to solve and thus inspires him to spiritual research. Once the human being has overcome this obstacle the danger is over for him, for now his thoughts will always be directed towards eternal truth and he will now also accept earthly life devotedly and patiently, for he knows that earthly life is only granted to him for a short time and that he has to make use of this time and sever the connection which taught him wrong thinking. Now he realizes how erroneous the results of such distorted thinking are. Faith in God is the foundation on which every building should rest, yet without faith the truth cannot be conveyed to the human being and thus he cannot attain that view of life which affirms everything, i.e. which is the path to the right realization ….

Amen