The word of God is comprehensible in its form to all those who are offered to receive it. It proclaims the will of God in simple, plain words and is therefore shaped in such a way that it can be received by both the heart and the mind without being incomprehensible. Whoever therefore hears the word of God, that is, voluntarily surrenders to its effect, his heart will not remain untouched by it, and it will noticeably feel the blessing that emanates from the divine word if it is now also obeyed, for in the latter alone lies the guarantee of success, of the perceptible power from God. However, the divine word remains incomprehensible to those who only allow it to have a purely external effect on them, who hear it but remain unimpressed because they are not prompted by an inner desire to receive it and they have no interest in the connection with God which is established through the heartfelt hearing of the word. It may also seem to them that the divine word is given in an incomprehensible way. It will never be clear and easy to understand until the desire to enter into contact with God by receiving His word comes alive in a person. This desire is therefore first necessary in order to be presented with the divine will. Then the meaning of God’s word will also be understandable to him at all times. For God gives in a way that is useful to people, since His purpose in imparting it is to further the soul. And the word of God in its form should outlast time, it should always work in the same way and always remain comprehensible to people. It must therefore correspond in its structure to the demands that are placed on it at all times. It must therefore outlast all linguistic transformations that each time brings with it and thus be able to be understood at all times by those who desire the divine word. God’s gift of grace is always offered to people in such a way that the will for it is a prerequisite in order to grasp the deepest meaning of God’s word, just as, conversely, the deepest problems can be easily solved by people who hunger for the truth. With His word God simultaneously gives the strength which will be felt by the person whose heart longs for the gift of God. And this strength expresses itself in the understanding of the wisest teaching, so that every human being can penetrate divine knowledge, whether he has earthly knowledge or not. Blessed are the poor in spirit …. their heart is easier to grasp, and it puts up no resistance to the teachings which bear witness to God. They gratefully accept faith where the one who wants to be wise doubts and ponders how far the teachings correspond to the truth. And God demands faith …. He wants His word to be received, for He offers people a good gift, He Himself is present in the word and thus He will also offer it in such a way that anyone who wants to understand can understand it. Whoever desires it will receive it, and whoever possesses it is close to God, always and forever, for He Himself is His word …. And when He imparts His word to His children, He Himself descends to them in order to refresh and strengthen them on their earthly path of life ….

Amen

People should be educated to think correctly and that alone is a task which requires helpful beings both on earth as well as in the beyond. If humanity chases after completely wrong ideals, if it strives for exactly the opposite of what is the actual purpose of earthly life, then it is therefore thinking wrongly and it is now the task of those who think rightly to instruct them and to give them information. However, any help is usually rejected, and therefore a reorganization of thinking is extremely difficult to achieve. Every assertion has to be substantiated to people with evidence and they will not allow themselves to be convinced until this evidence has been given to them. But now the spiritual can never be proven, on the other hand, in order to think correctly, man must make use of spiritual help, therefore believe in spiritual working. Only then can this working appear in such a way that the human being’s thinking is organized, i.e. that it is right. Therefore, in order to educate people to think correctly they must be informed that spiritual beings look after people, that they have an influence on all earthly events in the life of the individual and that they are always and constantly willing to assist the human being with love, to advise him, to give him strength and to guide him on his earthly path. Only when the human being has familiarized himself with such thoughts will he, if he is in need of help, try to make use of these beings surrounding him and abandon himself to their guidance. And then these beings can have an unhindered effect on people’s thinking. And their thinking must now be right …. The spiritual work cannot be proven to him even now, but he himself senses it and no longer needs proof, for if he thinks correctly it is easy for him to believe …. However, it is extremely difficult to teach people this conviction in an age that denies and fights against everything spiritual. Mankind lives in a completely different world, a world that is the complete opposite of the spiritual world …. In order to make the leap from this world into the spiritual realm, the human being must first undergo great emotional upheavals, or else he must be so imbued with love that the spiritual realm automatically becomes his home, towards which he strives. Without earthly hardship and without love, however, the human being does not regocnize anything supernatural, his thoughts will always stray far from what is right before God and it is difficult to steer them towards recognition. In order to think rightly, faith is necessary …. faith in God and in spiritual activity …. But if this faith is not present, then a person can never take a direction of thought that leads to the right realization. He will always go the wrong way, he will grope and search and yet constantly err. Only when a person prays, when he regocnizes his own inability, will there be light around him, for then he will ask for the strength he previously refused to acknowledge …. And now his thinking will be clear, he will suddenly realize that without spiritual strength correct thinking is impossible. He will realize that orderly thoughts are a gift of divine love which can only be received by someone who consciously desires divine love …. who therefore acknowledges and makes use of the strength from God ….

Amen

The awareness of having accomplished a noble deed will always give the human being a feeling of inner satisfaction, because he regocnizes his purpose and has thus fulfilled his task. And thus everything that is pleasing to God will make the human being free and happy, but what goes against divine will will depress him as long as he regocnizes the injustice, that is, as long as he himself knows that he has done wrong. In the same way, a battle waged for justice and righteousness, waged for the sake of a good cause, will not go against the divine will, for it is always the good, the divine, which is to be promoted by it, as long as greed and injustice are not the cause of the battle. Fighting for a righteous cause will always meet with God’s approval, because it is the human being who is supposed to stand up and take care of spreading what is right and good. And this will always be the case if injustice has resulted in grievances that need to be remedied. However, man must always allow the same rights to apply to his opponent …. He must also grant his opponent what he himself desires, he must not only claim the power and the right of the strongest, he must try to settle every dispute mildly and wisely like a father and only then fight with a weapon if his reproaches are not heeded for the good. Then justice is on his side. And so a person will be forced to distinguish whether a fight breaks out of a sense of right and justice or hatred and greed if he wants to fathom the justification for it. He will have to consider how far the measures of the person challenging him to fight correspond to divine commandments, for if God’s blessing is demanded, the will of the person fighting must also be to fight for God and His commandments, His demands that He makes on people. God’s blessing can only be asked for a cause that is God-willed, but never for a beginning that visibly bears the stamp of evil. Fighting for justice and righteousness will always be in accordance with God’s will. How different is the concept of right and justice …. that is what needs to be clarified …. People’s erroneous thinking has given rise to a view that threatens to suffocate any sense of justice. Right is what corresponds to the commandment of love …. Right is what God has made known to people through His commandments …. What is right is what does not violate divine order, and divine order is always the divine will …. Therefore, all righteous behaviour must correspond to the divine will. But God wants people to love Him and their neighbour as themselves. If all actions are based on this commandment, man will always be right and just. “Vengeance is Mine”, says the lord …. So if a neighbour has sinned against a person, the latter should not take revenge but leave it to the lord, but in most cases the desire for revenge is the cause of a fight, combined with greed for possessions and a thirst for power. But this cannot be right before God. All divine commandments are then disregarded, the fight is not waged against an evildoer in a righteous manner, but the one fighting adds a far greater offence to the existing one, so that he in turn retaliates, often in the cruelest manner. And to call upon God to strengthen his power is presumptuous, for he expects God to approve an injustice and bless a beginning that is born out of bad thoughts that have their origin not in love but in hatred towards fellow human beings. You humans must therefore be discerning and always apply the standard of how far the commandment to love God and one’s neighbour is observed by those who quarrel with one another.

Amen

It is tremendously important to know about the transience of everything earthly and about the responsibility towards that which is imperishable. People lack the evidence for the immortality of the soul, they therefore try to minimize or deny everything which presupposes precisely this immortality of the soul, and thus they take little account of this immortality. And this is the result of not realizing that a spiritual life can be lived alongside the earthly life and that only this spiritual life brings the human being everlasting success. The spiritual life alone is important, although it is apparently only the accompanying life of earthly existence …. Earthly life can certainly be lived without any connection with the spiritual, but this is completely unsuccessful for eternity. However, once a person focusses his attention on the immortality of the soul, if he takes this factor into account, he already consciously assumes responsibility for the soul. And his efforts will now be directed towards collecting spiritual treasures, for he now regocnizes everything that is earthly possessions as worthless because he knows that none of it is permanent but must pass away according to divine law. Thus he clings to that which he regocnizes as imperishable, i.e. he seeks it first in order to make it his own …. And the imperishable is spiritual …. Thus he seeks the spiritual and also finds it, for God supports this endeavour because it corresponds to the actual purpose of earthly life. Once the human being has knowledge of what is worth striving for in eternity, his sense of responsibility towards the soul will become increasingly stronger and he will live a second life, as it were, which is completely separate from his actual earthly life. He establishes spiritual connections, he lets his thoughts wander upwards into the spiritual kingdom, he communicates with spiritual beings, confides in them, asks for information and advice, he lets himself be taught by them, and he does everything to increase his spiritual knowledge …. He therefore consciously strives for the imperishable, and he will learn to despise earthly life, i.e. everything that is transient, to the same extent. He is therefore still on earth, but detaches himself from the heaviness of earth and is far more often in the spiritual realm than on earth. Therefore, the human being must first be given the knowledge of the worthlessness and futility of everything he can see and grasp, and at the same time spiritual knowledge must be presented to him so that he can now decide for himself which life is more appealing to him …. He must surrender the treasures of the world, he must try to satisfy his desire other than with earthly pleasures. He must willingly surrender these in order to receive spiritual pleasures. He must realize for himself that only the imperishable, the soul, must be considered during earthly existence, but that both cannot be satisfied at the same time, thus in order to receive imperishable good, earthly good can also be desired. The one must be given in order to receive the other …. The human being must make a decision, he must allow his will to become active, and this can only apply to either the earthly desirable or the riches of the soul …. Man must choose between perishable and imperishable good ….

(2.7.1940) And he will be blessed whose spirit regocnizes the value of imperishable good …. For it will now also become apparent to him that striving for it also brings the human being closer to God at the same time. And he will feel the bond with God if he disregards the transient and only seeks to enrich himself with spiritual possessions. His state of soul is considerably freer because matter, i.e. earthly desirable things, is no longer desired and is therefore overcome, i.e. the shackles of the soul have been loosened through the desire for imperishable, for spiritual good. And this freedom is incomparably fruitful. In its now unbound state it is inconceivably lively and seeks the connection with likewise spiritual things. And the union with this imparts wisdom and light …. in the form of knowledge, which he now wants to bring back to his soul. Thus the human being is guided into truth and the soul now shares in all spiritual wealth. For it receives, as it were, the spiritual strength which has come to the spirit from God through augmentation with spiritual substances. A soul thus permeated by the divine spirit must irrevocably ascend, for its goal was to reach the highest possible spiritual level, which is now achieved by overcoming everything that belongs to earth, thus is transient and therefore worthless for eternity. This increase of the spiritual means liberation from the form, and therefore the soul of man is united with the spirit out of God, it is truly immortal, i.e., it lives in eternity ….

Amen

The commandment to love God and one’s neighbour comprises all the commandments that God made known to mankind through Moses, and thus man observes each of these ten commandments if he fulfils the great commandment to love God and one’s neighbour. It is extremely important to be informed about the origin of these ten commandments, because there are so many speculations about them that can easily lead us to doubt divine love. At that time, conditions among fellow human beings were all too characteristic of their lack of love. And the one God was no longer remembered; the inclination to the world, the love of mammon, of all earthly pleasures was indescribably great, and they respected neither their fellow man’s property nor what they owed to their God and creator. They surrendered themselves willlessly to satan’s power and paid homage to everything that was his share. And God brought terrible misery upon the people who had forgotten Him, forcing them to repent. They regocnized their low spiritual state and therefore asked God for help from their physical and spiritual affliction. God then made His will known through Moses in a form that illuminated all the details in order to clearly show the people the wrongness of their way of life. The legislation at Sinai was so obvious that even the most hardened sinner regocnized the power and greatness of God and now had to regocnize God’s will, which demanded a deep inner conversion from him. He gave His laws through Moses with an iron voice, through which He harshly illuminated people’s way of life and reproached them for their sinful behaviour. For this did not correspond in the slightest to the divine requirements, and mankind was so blinded at that time that every commandment had to be given to them in order to make them realize their wrongdoing. What contributed to their physical well-being they took for themselves without a second thought, without considering the well-being of their fellow human beings, and thus they did not acknowledge the eternal deity through their behaviour …. they did nothing to please God, but everything to harm their neighbour and seek their own advantage. The spiritual low became so obvious that God took pity on them and sent them news of His power and omnipotence and of His love, which demanded the same from His creatures …. And Jesus Christ taught the same on earth, He placed love for God before everything else and added love for one’s neighbour as confirmation of love for God to this greatest commandment, and thus anyone who respects these two commandments, which every person’s purpose in life should be to fulfil, will fulfil the divine will ….

Amen

Without the gift of inner enlightenment you go through earthly life ignorant. Although you believe yourselves to be knowledgeable because you have been endowed with intellect and reason by the eternal creator, you can only use them in an earthly sense as long as you do not ask God to enlighten your spirit. spirit and intellect are therefore not the same thing; a person can use his intellect without having awakened his spirit within himself. He can achieve the greatest earthly successes through his intellectual thinking and yet walk along in the deepest darkness of the spirit. And in the same way a spirit awakened to life can be extraordinarily active in a person so that it is also recognizable to the outside world, and intellectual thinking need not be used at all …. The human being can now express himself extremely wisely, i.e. bring great knowledge to the attention of his fellow human beings, for which no special intellectual work was necessary. So a well-developed intellect is not absolutely necessary in order to be receptive to divine wisdom. In fact, the human intellect is often an obstacle to the reception of spiritual knowledge, for this wants to penetrate the human heart unhindered but encounters resistance when only intellectual thinking is involved, because earthly wisdom always strives towards divine wisdom as long as the human being does not regocnize the awakened spirit of God as the giver of wisdom. What the spirit from God teaches man does not require the intellect, but the human intellect must also be active in order to utilize what has been taught by the spirit of God. Then man must use the gift of God and thus all abilities given to him are only useful for the higher education of the soul, then these are used according to the will of God. The human being has been given intellect in order to reflect on his earthly existence and its purpose and actual destiny. However, it is least used for this purpose. All intellectual thinking mostly revolves around earthly problems; all mental activity is aimed at improving earthly life, and thus the intellect alone is active, but the spirit from God is not yet at work ….

(4.7.1940) Its working is only the result of human efforts to explore spiritual fields, and again these efforts must be based on a deep desire for truth and the knowledge of the eternal divine, but these researches must not be undertaken for the sake of earthly advantage. The spirit from God is by no means perceptible to the human being who is only interested in earthly problems. He claims his intellectual thinking, i.e. the function of his body, for a work which again only appears to be beneficial to the body. And this function is now carried out entirely according to the will of the human being, while …. thus the spirit from God is at work when it is a matter of solving spiritual problems …. the human will is only involved insofar as it leaves itself to the divine spirit; but now the spirit from God orders the thoughts, thus guides the mental activity towards the right realization. The human being is therefore willing to make use of a power that is not unconsciously available to him. And he must bring this power to unfold within himself through active loving activity …. He can therefore increase his intellectual thinking with the guarantee of the full truthfulness of what is the result of his thinking, whereas the activity of the intellect alone is no guarantee of absolute truth. The human being therefore has it in his own hands to considerably increase his knowledge, always with the guarantee that it will be conveyed truthfully if he not only lets his intellect speak but also his heart, for the divine spiritual spark in him can only be awakened emotionally, and this feeling, which has to be cultivated in order to awaken the spirit of God, is love …. Without being active in love, the awakening of the spirit of God is impossible, so pure truth and increased knowledge will always be the result of an extremely active activity of love. spirit and intellect will therefore only be able to work together when the researching human being has already shaped his nature into love and his research is now aimed at solving spiritual problems, although even then earthly thought activity will likewise be guided by God’s spirit and thus also guarantee truth ….

Amen

And justice will prevail …. Even if it seems that injustice dominates everything, the hour will come when it will be revealed which spirit is the driving force behind that which fills humanity with wonder and admiration. The sense of justice is unmistakably extinguished, and yet most people lack this realization. And this characterizes the present time that no human being strives to do justice to his fellow human being, and thus the lack of love among people is also great, the spirit of discord dominates them, they only seek to harm each other and do not ask for right and justice. And God allows people freedom of will, He does not hinder them in their thoughts and actions until the injustice has assumed such proportions that God’s justice opposes it. And then the actions of the wicked will be brightly illuminated, for they will be handed over to the judgement of the one who disregarded all justice. For God is extremely wise and just …. He cannot allow evil to rage with impunity and abandon the good to it, He must come to the aid of the righteous and expose the shameful deeds of the unrighteous …. He sets a limit to their activities, and this is soon reached …. And people will breathe a sigh of relief who had to suffer for the sake of injustice …. who have an inherent sense of justice and yet had to bow to the force that forced everything down. For whatever resisted it was abandoned to it …. But the victory of justice will be regocnized everywhere and give rise to faith in God, who judges and punishes people according to merit …. Who allowed the adversary’s activities until the deepest hopelessness, but now puts an end to his raging and intervenes with His omnipotence. And this time is imminent. Mankind is suffering from the arbitrariness of criminal violence, it is powerless in the face of it …. Yet God Himself will free them from it and bind satan anew so that humanity’s faith in God’s justice, love, wisdom and omnipotence will arise anew. For He hears the prayer of those who call upon Him for help in greatest need, He does not let them call in vain and sends them the saviour at the right time …. He comes to their aid in a way that clearly reveals His righteousness and He banishes the evil force ….

Amen

Every undisturbed hour should be used to work for the benefit of the human race …. Spiritual wellbeing should take precedence over earthly interests, because there is no time to lose. The demon likewise makes use of every opportunity to spiritually damage the human race, and so the opposing power must constantly be at work in order to prevent his actions; good spiritual forces must unite in their work against this power, and thus neither indifference nor carelessness may arise, which would only serve the adversary’s purpose. For then he will only intensify his activity, he will also weaken people’s determination and wear them out if they do not diligently work against him …. What’s more, it is a transgression against the commandment of neighbourly love if people slacken in the battle for the salvation of souls which are in need of help. It should be your greatest concern to help those who are approaching their spiritual downfall. Don’t leave them in their spiritual darkness and turn away from them indifferently, for they need your help. They are weak and no longer able to release themselves from the power of the opponent. In their dark and lightless surroundings they do not recognise their soul’s adversity and therefore do not desire light. Even so, you should make an effort to kindle a small light and bring these poor souls a tiny glimmer of it, so that they will take notice and pay attention to your activity. You should leave no stone unturned in changing their indifference of spiritual knowledge into interest; you should show their thoughts the right path, your should educate them and beseech them to remember their soul and to understand the meaning of life; you should try to persuade them to have faith in Jesus Christ and explain that a life of love on earth is far more beneficial than only to live for selfish love, for the fulfilment of earthly wishes. You should not withhold anything from them which made you find the path of ascent; you should acquaint them with the teaching of Jesus Christ and the fact that they can only ascend through kind-hearted service. You should do everything possible which can guide these souls out of the spiritual night into the light of day. Then you will be kind-heartedly active in the truest sense of the word. This is the most unselfish neighbourly love because it only applies to a fellow human being’s salvation of soul. This task requires infinite love and patience, for it is very difficult to persuade the beings in darkness to accept the Word of God; they will staunchly resist it, because the opponent himself is your strongest adversary and incites people’s will into most powerful resistance. Nevertheless, a person’s love can be victorious if these souls are tirelessly and patiently fought for with these very means of love …. Not the external person but the soul needs to be paid attention to, which is in a pitiful state and can no longer muster the strength to release itself from the opponent’s shackles. Hence the love of an enlightened person, that is, someone who knows the truth, will recognise the adversity of such souls and not slacken in his effort for them. He will try to help them through heartfelt prayer, he will present this soul’s hardship to the Father in Heaven and appeal to Him for strength to accomplish the redemptive work, if his own strength is not sufficient and the person’s will begins to tire before the soul has been won over for eternal life. Therefore you should constantly be active with love, and give all your love to your fellow human beings’ souls which suffer adversity. Don’t let yourselves be depressed by failures but always desire the strength from God, then you will be able to solve the most difficult tasks, you will snatch the souls from the opponent and lead them to the heavenly Father, and these souls will be grateful to you for all eternity ….

Amen

The spirit’s union with the Father-Spirit is the most sacred act a person’s life on earth can result in, for nothing more beautiful can happen to him. However, only a few people will attain perfection on earth, which is the prerequisite for marriage to the Lord. Hence a person must have become pure love and denounce all earthly pleasures, then divine Love Itself will fulfil his yearning, which cannot be compared to earthly happiness nor can it be physically felt to the same extent as spiritually. An earthly environment also requires earthly feelings …. Marriage to God, however, is a spiritual process which can only be felt spiritually, it only manifests itself in an earthly way such that the human being is no longer quite as suitable for earthly life and constantly dwells in higher spheres. Consequently, this spiritual marriage will rarely take place as long as the human being still has to fulfil his earthly task, because this prevents the merger for obvious reasons. It keeps the person on earth and constantly draws the spirit back to earth and its duties. On the other hand, however, the person’s will is the decisive factor, and thus someone firmly determined to attain God can reach his goal as well and still do justice to his earthly task, providing he requests the spiritual strength he is entitled to and uses it to deal with the earthly work, thus providing the earthly child with time and peace to send the spirit entirely unimpeded into higher spheres where it can unite with the divine Father-Spirit. The process of unification may demonstrate itself in various ways, because every person feels differently, therefore that which is given to a human being as supreme happiness must also be perceptible in different ways. Spiritual marriage can gain the person the audible Word, that is, the moment when the voice within the heart sounds as clearly and as audibly as a small bell is the moment of spiritual union with God. And this voice triggers an inexpressibly blissful sensation, for God’s love will have taken complete hold of the earthly child and will draw it to Himself. But the union may also take place without any visible evidence …. so that the living creation, being aglow with love for the Lord, will feel seized by divine Fatherly love and be blissfully happy, yet this is physically not perceptible, instead, it merely expresses itself in the ability of spiritual vision. This is a very happy state for the earthly child but often makes it incapable of complying with earthly requirements which, however, leaves it unaffected, since it feels that its physical end is close. Spiritual marriage to God is almost always the sign of an imminent passing away from the world, but it will only be understandable to those who are also spiritually striving, whereas a purely earthly inclined person will merely pass an incredulous and unfriendly judgment, because his intellect is incapable of grasping a purely spiritual process ….

Amen

The united efforts of the good spiritual beings will succeed in slowly reshaping the thinking of people who are of good will and allow themselves to be guided without resistance, for they pay attention to all events around them and seek clarification about them, which will now be given to them mentally. Moreover, the beings of light try to bring together precisely such willing people so that they will expose themselves to each other and exchange their thoughts, which will again give rise to lively reflection and thus lead the human being ever further along the path to realization. It is of inconceivable value that the human being mentally forms a certain opinion which is then promoted accordingly by the spiritual forces in the beyond and thus the human being can be guided into truth as long as he does not resist these endeavours. What is now mentally presented to people answers many a question or silences many a doubt. It will always appear acceptable to the human being, thus he will willingly surrender to these mental influences and his thinking will gradually change in accordance with divine will, which wants to impart its wisdom to people. All events in life contribute to this, but the prerequisite is that the human being does not offer resistance to the teachings from above. People who always deny, who immediately reject every thought, who always oppose the opinions of others and never want to be instructed, will also withdraw from the influence of those knowing beings of light and they will not succeed in reshaping their thinking. For spiritual resistance is wrong will and this cannot be broken but must turn to the right itself. Consequently, the influence of the beings of light on such people is only slight as long as their free will resists it. And often such a person can become a danger for the otherwise willing fellow human being, so that he joins the opinions of the erring person and thus also withdraws himself from the influence of the beings of light. Yet these struggle tirelessly and patiently for the souls of those who are not yet completely convinced, and their love is so powerful that it leads to success ….

Amen

The source of knowledge is inexhaustible and the power that flows from it is unimaginable. And if you men only want to draw, you will be allowed to refresh yourselves at this source. Yet you must thirst for it, for the refreshment is too delicious to flow to people without being honoured. What God Himself offers you cannot be anything other than delicious. And that is why you should desire it from the bottom of your heart, you should not give room to any other desire in you and only long for the divine gift. And you will soon only desire to be fed from heaven, for nothing equals the food and drink from above. And you must try to strengthen your longing for it by overcoming obstacles; every obstacle must drive you to increased longing. Therefore your life, you who want to receive the gifts of heaven, cannot pass by monotonously and undisturbed. The path to the source, which is to refresh you, is arduous but promises you the most marvellous reward if you do not tire and try to advance despite obstacles. You should never forget that God Himself opens up this source for you, that it is He Who wants to refresh and strengthen you on the path through earthly life; that His infinite love has the most delicious things in store for you and wants to give them to you and only requires your willingness to receive them in order to be able to give them to you without measure. Man must sacrifice in order to be able to receive. Everything in him which desires earthly fulfilment has to be fought against, he has to deny himself every bodily pleasure if he wants to be spiritually considered …. He must want to give everything in order to be able to receive everything, for only then will he completely detach himself from matter and can now also enter the spiritual kingdom unhindered, which is now the fulfilment of his longing. If the human being desires earthly things he must often be denied them for the sake of his soul, but if he desires spiritual things his desire will be fulfilled without measure. For God sets no limits, He always gives if His gift is desired …. Yet it is only possible to grasp this gift in all its value and to feel it in all its deliciousness when every earthly desire has been stifled, when the human being’s mind has completely turned to the spiritual and thus his soul has united with the spirit, for now the living water flows unstoppably from the spring and is refreshment and refreshment for the thirsting soul ….

Amen

Humanity is approaching a crisis that is not without danger, for there is great danger if it is not regocnized as such and countered accordingly. Very few people can imagine how tremendously the spiritual low is affecting the organization of the earth’s surface. It is incomprehensible as long as man does not realize what tasks the whole of nature also has in the process of higher development of all spiritual things. Every being has to receive strength from God, so this strength is also channelled into everything that is visible to people as a work of creation. At first this is only necessary for the preservation of what God has created. But the actual task is that the spiritual unites itself and therefore reaches a higher degree of maturity through the increase in itself. This unification takes place naturally, i.e., divine will determines the individual entities to unite with others by assigning all His creations their purpose, which now also has to be fulfilled because the entities are forced to do what God has given them as a task. But the stage of free will is a great danger for these beings which are still in the bound state insofar as men can use their will in a way opposing God and now bring the bound beings into great trouble by prematurely ending the not yet finished course in a form, therefore certainly free the being from the respective form, but it has not yet reached the state of maturity, which is precondition for the next form. So the now unbound spiritual is so to speak deprived of its activity, which it had to perform before, cannot yet enliven the next form and therefore has to be compulsorily inactive, which is an agonizing state for the being. For now its course of development is inhibited, a stagnation has occurred which the being cannot remedy on its own …. It now has to struggle mightily in order to be incorporated into a new form again, and this struggle happens in such a way that it puts tremendous pressure on the being that is still in the form, i.e. it impels it into faster activity; that therefore the unbound spiritual substance transfers its urge for activity onto the still bound spiritual substance and this is now extraordinarily active …. which is expressed in an unnatural way, i.e. in increased activity. So this is apparently an irregularity …. a deviation or a change in the existing laws of nature, but is nevertheless in accordance with divine will, since the wrong will of man himself is the cause of it and the right compensation must be granted to the entities which are therefore hindered in the course of development …. The effect of this increased activity, however, will again be perceptible to the human being, and in a way that is less favourable to him. What was originally intended to grant the spiritual beings a long stay will now release the spiritual within itself at an unusual time due to the increased activity. Extra-legal natural phenomena will therefore have extraordinary consequences …. These are the disasters which are caused by nature, which therefore certainly do not depend directly on the will of man, but indirectly are nevertheless the consequences of the wrong will. If people’s spiritual state is so low that they have no connection whatsoever with God, that they neither regocnize their task on earth nor the meaning and purpose of creation, nor the higher course of development of all beings and their own infinitely long earthly path, they will not shy away from intervening arbitrarily in this creation, which has a purpose other than that of exploitation by human hands, and this intervention, which has dreadful effects precisely on those beings which become free at an early stage, now entails unavoidable consequences which justly have to be borne by people again, even though it often does not seem comprehensible to them that they are the actual cause of these devastating disasters due to their wrong, God-opposing will. And now the earth has to expect such a violent liberation of the spiritual; through the behaviour of mankind this process is accelerated; the spiritual having become free by force pushes to always more active activity both outside as well as inside of the earth, and God does not hinder this activity because man himself has intervened unjustifiably and therefore ended an embodiment granted by God to the being in love against God’s will. Everything spiritual that suffers injustice is allowed to acquire its right, thus the disasters, although seemingly completely contrary to natural law, are in accordance with His will and must therefore be regocnized and assessed as divine transmissions. However, people who live in accordance with God’s will, who subordinate their will to the divine will and are therefore well informed of God’s love, omnipotence and wisdom, can confront any mission from above with composure …. Even if the catastrophe means their physical end, they will lose nothing on earth, but the glories of God will be revealed to them and they will sing praise and thanks to their creator for all eternity ….

Amen

Do not reject what seems incomprehensible to you. And if the working of the spiritual power seems doubtful to you, nevertheless withhold your judgement until you have informed yourselves thoroughly and that again with the help of divine power, which you should implore in prayer. For the human mind is truly not sufficient, and without prayer only the human mind is active. There are so many things that you will not be able to fathom intellectually, and yet you cannot claim that there is no explanation for them …. It must only be sought there, which lies outside the human intellect …. in the spiritual working of those forces which exist just like you, only not visible or tangible to you. However, the latter does not exclude the existence of those beings, for to see with bodily eyes and to hear with bodily ears is also only something earthly conditioned which comes to an end when you leave this earth. spiritual vision, however, is a result of spiritual endeavour, thus it presupposes a certain degree of spiritual maturity, consequently these beings and their activity cannot be visibly perceived. But to want to reject them completely is human error. Those spiritual powers can only be affirmed when the human being has the will to be enlightened about them. This will already makes something appear more credible to him which he otherwise cannot accept as truth, whereas an immediate rejection characterizes that he is not at all willing to fathom something supersensible. The will to know also influences the ability to believe …. However, the will to investigate these spiritual forces is now very minimal amongst people, and the consequence of this is that these forces can only rarely express themselves in such a way that these expressions could be given to them as evidence. Hence the knowledge about these powers is becoming less and less and the willingness to accept them therefore increasingly rarer …. For people always try to explain all extraordinary phenomena intellectually and thereby make the working of the beings impossible. spiritual things want to be researched spiritually …. but intellectual research demands tangible evidence …. The spiritual, however, cannot be proven tangibly. But insofar as the human being uses his intellect less and sincerely asks God for enlightenment and now emotionally expects the answer, it will come to him and no longer appear unacceptable to him, and this is already the working of those spiritual beings which cannot be regocnized in any other way than through the willingness of the will …. through faith ….

Amen

The transience of what you humans deem desirable has to be proven to you, only then will you learn to despise matter and only then will you be able to work on yourselves and your perfection. For matter still hinders you far too much, it distracts your thoughts from the actual task of earthly life and thus your time on earth passes by unused. But God has mercy on you and He tries to control the adversity of your souls. And although His programmes on earth result in great earthly hardship, it is nevertheless again proof of His greater than great love in order to spare you far greater hardship one day. Therefore regocnize this His love, whatever He may send upon you. Know that He is only ever anxious to avert far greater adversity from you, but that you cannot be completely spared suffering because you do not do your soul’s work yourselves. You live your life regardless of its consequences and thus you do not use it according to its actual purpose. And this results in your spiritual decline which, however, God wants to prevent out of love for you, who are His living creations. But you strive for spiritual decline when you try to increase matter, for then you desire that which you are supposed to overcome …. You desire that which was previously your state, thus you are regressive, whereas it is your task to free yourselves from desire and to overcome all that which is banished in form. In order to make it easier for you to free yourselves from it, God wants to make you aware of its transience and cause you to seriously reflect on your actual task on earth. He removes all obstacles from your path which impede your ascent, yet without earthly hardship your higher development is jeopardized. You cannot be spared suffering because free will has failed. For if you voluntarily surrender everything that is part of the world, the mission from above will not painfully affect you but is merely a confirmation of what your soul has previously regocnized. This is why only the person whose heart could not free itself from earthly desire will ever have to suffer; he will feel painfully if he has to experience the downfall of what seemed desirable to him. And yet such suffering cannot be kept from him, for it is the last attempt to change his desire. If he regocnizes God’s will and His love in it, this work of destruction will also be a blessing, for it made him regocnize his actual task. And this task will now be easy for him, he will no longer have to overcome such great obstacles since God Himself has reduced them for him because he himself was too weak to fight against everything that hindered him on the path upwards ….

Amen

You should all draw strength from this Word of Mine. Consider that I Am coming down to you Myself in order to grant you support in your battle of life …. realise the fact that I will not leave My Own without comfort and strength if they are in need of it. Don’t be content with only using My strength once, but want it all the time and it will flow to you in abundance. And thus I want to inform you yet again that you will be in desperate need of this strength, because the hour is not far-off which will deprive you of all sense of security, the hour which should bring you close to Me if only you would think of Me in your adversity. Then you will definitely raise your hands to Me in prayer and appeal for My help, and it will be granted to those who respond to My call, which you can only perceive in your heart. You will feel My presence, you will realise the gravity of the situation you are in, and that will make you take refuge in Me.

Remain faithfully devoted to Me in this adversity and it will pass you by. And draw strength and comfort from this Word of Mine in advance …. Accept Me in your hearts beforehand, lessen your resistance to Me by consciously handing your will over to Me, and don’t doubt but believe, for this faith will keep the immense adversity at bay even if you are in the midst of the event. For the sake of the world My omnipotence has to be clearly recognisable to everyone, for the sake of the world this major event will come upon you, revealing to you My will and My omnipotence. And its effect can only be eased with those who believe and trustingly confide their hardship in Me, for My will controls life and death, and My will lets people suffer if it is necessary or spares them if they hand themselves over to Me.

And My will shall also shape happenings such that events shall only mildly affect My Own who are loyally devoted to Me. For it has to befall humankind in order to lead them back to Me, as far as it is still possible and the souls are not yet entirely hardened and deluded. I Am concerned about these souls and therefore use the last means, which appears to be cruel and yet offers the only prospect for their salvation. In order to make this hour bearable for My Own I give them comfort and strength through My Word in advance. Anyone who allows himself to be influenced by it will not fear the occasion. He knows about My love and care and puts his complete trust in Me …. he will not anxiously await the day but be fully confident of being led through all horrors. For I know My Own and My Own know Me ….

Amen

The being united with God regocnizes its destiny, for it is aware of its origin and strives towards the final goal, the union with God. It is therefore already willing in the last stage to give up its resistance against God, and this will earns it the fullest love of God, which now expresses itself in such a way that man is directed towards the last aim, that it can cover the way upwards unhindered. Such a path of earthly life is not so arduous, for since the will pushes towards God and the being is willing to serve, the struggle is no longer necessary, which is actually only intended to direct the will towards God. But if the human being now seeks union with God on earth it has given up all resistance and therefore never needs to fight against the adversary’s attempts to regain the will. He has now returned to God and only lives life in order to completely purge himself of what is still earthly about him. For the will to God can certainly be very strong, but the world can also still take a person captive. But the desire for it must be completely overcome before the complete union with God can take place. And therefore earthly life must be used to free oneself from all desire. If the desire for God is predominant then it will not cost much effort, but if the desire for the world is still strong then the human being will still have to struggle and therefore he will have to suffer who is not yet closely enough united with God and will be allowed to walk the earthly path quietly and peacefully, whose desire is only for God and the union with Him. And so the state of suffering is at the same time the best control for one’s own desire …. If a person still has to suffer, he is not yet completely purified. But God helps him to free himself from earthly desires and, through suffering, points out to him the wrongness of his desires. He wants to make it easy for the human being to still eradicate the last earthly desire, He wants to direct the human being’s thoughts towards Himself through suffering so that soon only spiritual thoughts will move him and there will no longer be any obstacle to the final union with God. And thus you will only be able to ascend if you frequently unite with the heavenly father, if you long for Him above all earthly things and desire nothing but His love and grace in order to be allowed to dwell in His presence from then on. Then this will be granted to you to such an extent that you can become what your destiny is …. true children of God who carry His will within themselves and thus have shaped themselves according to God’s will …. you will unite with the most perfect and highest being from Whom you once emanated ….

Amen

Submitting to the lord’s will in all humility will make you worthy of His grace. And therefore accept everything the lord sends you without contradiction or inner rebellion. For if God considers you with suffering, He also proves His love for you; only because He loves you dearly does He allow you to suffer, since otherwise you can never come to Him …. But He wants you to find your way to Him. And therefore you will only force the world when you have submitted yourselves to the lord, for if you surrender your will and live in His will you will have the greatest strength at your disposal and you will overcome the world and every adversary who approaches you in order to bring you down. And therefore entrust yourselves unconditionally to the divine lord, He will guide and direct you on all paths. Everything that comes from God is active in restless activity and strives to return to Him. For a life of rest and inactivity is not an upward endeavour but a slide into darkness. Life lies in activity alone, and therefore everything that wants to live is active, whereas being inactive of one’s own free will is the greatest danger of being forced into inactivity. The danger is so great because the human will then becomes weak and this weakened will is utilized by the adversary, who increasingly prevents the human being from being active for his own liberation. The will to be active is always an affirmation of the strength that flows towards the human being. If he utilizes it then he will also be incessantly active, if he rejects it then he is also incapable of being active because he is unable to do anything by his own strength. The will to be active also continuously earns him the strength, and this strength in turn lets his will turn ever more consciously towards God. If the human being endeavours to work on himself and his soul, his will will be constantly stimulated and he will see the earthly task in restless activity, he will not remain inactive because he regocnizes inactivity as a standstill but wants to progress upwards. However, the lightless state weakens his urge to be active, i.e. living in ignorance will also have an inhibiting effect. However, the power of realization comes to everyone who longs for God and prays to Him. For the lord does not leave them in the darkness of the spirit …. Whoever prays to God fervently will be filled with realization, strength and grace will flow to him, his urge to be active will be increased and he will consciously strive upwards. His will will be constantly active, and to be active means to become free from all compulsion; to be active means to consciously receive the power from God and to utilize it according to God’s will …. and to be active according to God’s will means to redeem oneself from the power of the adversary ….

Amen

You place too much significance on the infallibility of the head of your church, and yet you are hugely misguided. It was not God’s will that His church should be arbitrarily formed by people and in accordance with people’s will. Everything right and proper to maintain and spread His teaching was given by Jesus Christ Himself on earth to his disciples. He made the distribution of His teaching conditional on the individual’s will to accept it or not. His gave precise guidelines which applied to everyone who wanted to accept His teaching. These consist of the promises which were made on condition that people comply with the requirements of the Lord’s teachings.

He always respected the free will of the human being. The human being should make his decision voluntarily and without external pressure and thus fulfil God’s will. And to these people He promised eternal life …. Thus He only requires faith in Him and His Word when He says ‘I Am the way, the truth and the life …. I Am the means, the law and the fulfilment …. anyone who believes in Me will have eternal live ….’ His love wants to give something unimaginably wonderful …. eternal life. And for this He only requires people’s faith and their will. However, it is not His will to burden humanity, who is already living in a constrained state on earth, with new sins …. The restraints of someone who truly believes in Jesus and His Word will be loosened, however, someone who does not believe is already punished enough by his constrained state because he has to remain in it for an eternity. Anyone who disregards the Ten Commandments given to people by God Himself, anyone who defies them, commits a sin, i.e. he disobeys God Who is love, because he disobeys the commandment of love. He does nothing to liberate himself from his state, instead he does everything to make it worse. Fulfilling these commandments is the only means of release, while infringing against them is the very opposite.

The dogma of infallibility, however, became a new lawgiver for people in as much as the God-given Ten Commandments were increased by several more, so that the new ecclesiastical commandments more or less were added to God’s commandments and failure to comply with these laws was considered to be as sinful as acting in opposition to the God-given commandments. And this error has an appalling effect. Because people now burden themselves with entirely irrelevant yet duty-bound actions which are quite unrelated to the commandment of love for God and their neighbour. And now they only focus their whole attention on keeping these ecclesiastical commandments and on releasing themselves from presumed sins …. Thus the sum total of their soul’s task consists of complying with commandments decreed by people or to do penance for the guilt of the alleged infringement. And the soul’s dreadful bondage, which can only be resolved by love, is ignored by them ….

If these commandments had been necessary, truly, the Lord Himself would have given and preached the fulfilment of these to His disciples on earth first …. Thus people tried to improve Christ’s teaching arbitrarily and did not hesitate to give themselves divine approval for it. By deeming themselves to be enlightened by the Holy Spirit while still in a state far removed from it, they now decreed laws which could not be in accordance with God’s will. These laws considerably reduced people’s sense of responsibility for the God-given commandments due to the fact that the newly decreed commandments were now given the greatest attention, to an extent that humanity now observes them purely automatically and believes that it follows Christ’s teaching when it fulfils its imposed duty.

The truly enlightened human being is chosen by God to put a stop to this deplorable state of affairs, i.e. to reveal it. However, God can never have enlightened those who had decreed or approved such commandments. The infallibility of the head of the church is a distorted image of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Anyone inspired by the Holy Spirit will always have recognised the error of this set of laws but worldly-ecclesiastical power prevented them from correcting this momentous error. For these commandments did not come forth from the spirit of love …. Lawmakers had little interest in reducing the work for the struggling souls to achieve their final release. Rather, their motive for establishing these commandments was a craving for increased power and the will to lead people into a certain state of dependence, since at the same time the failure to observe the commandments was deemed to be a grave sin. True servants of God have always recognised this deplorable state and have wanted to confront it but the teaching of infallibility of the head of church is already too deep-rooted that it could be easily removed. And only someone looking for pure truth and asking God Himself for the truth and the spirit of inner enlightenment will be able to liberate himself from it ….

Amen

Everything that surrounds you bears witness to Me …. Everything is life from Me and spirit from Me …. And above everything hovers My spirit, My will, My power …. I am above everything …. And what manifests itself to you is the same as what is around you. So I am with you and My love embraces you. And so I look down on you who desire to be close to Me. And I bless you and give you My word ….

The spirit of eternity will always dwell where He is desired. He is without time and space, He outshines the laws of nature, He is in all fullness with everyone who calls upon Him. He who abandons himself to the spirit from God must fulfil His will, for he is relieved of his responsibility …. The spirit from God loosens what was bound, and it organizes the hearts of the willing, it makes them ready to receive divine love …. And this is the working of the spirit, that you are inflamed with love for God, Who has chosen you to work for Him. The power of the spirit enlightens you, the power of the spirit gives you courage and a strong will, the power of the spirit lets you regocnize and defend what is right, and the power of the spirit lets you feel the closeness of Him Who is power and love in Himself. It protects you from error when you speak for the lord, it strengthens your wisdom in every matter of dispute, the spirit’s power will never be withdrawn from you who have offered yourselves to serve the lord. And all wisdom will come upon you when you speak on His behalf; He will guide your thoughts, mould your words and give you the gift of speech when the hour has come for the lord to work through you. And His spirit will constantly flow into you, the strength will not diminish, you will need it for Him in order to proclaim His name before all the world. And God’s will determines you to a task that serves His glorification …. He wants to put the wisdom of the world to shame and proclaim the deepest wisdom through your mouth, and serving Him should be the sole purpose of your life on earth. And He who leads you will not leave you alone, even if the enemy rises up against you en masse. He will strengthen your courage and open your senses to all spiritual currents. And He will give you power over those who want to destroy you, for He will determine your will, which you sacrifice to Him, and you will now do what His will dictates to you and thus be His instrument on earth ….

Amen

Some gladness in receiving the following message is a prerequisite: the living faith is the rock upon which Jesus wanted to see His church built …. a faith so profound and steadfast like that experienced by Peter while the Lord was close to him. Thus Peter was an example for anyone who wanted to belong to the church of Christ. Because without this faith the teaching of Christ, i.e. His Gospel, could not be received …. Only faith affirms Jesus Christ and accepts Him as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world …. If people were to accept what the disciples were spreading across the world they first had to believe in a God of love, goodness and compassion, in a God of omnipotence and wisdom, in a God of justice …. Only then could His teachings penetrate them as divine will, hence profound faith was a prerequisite. All His disciples were profoundly faithful, and therefore they accepted His teachings very quickly and endeavoured to do justice to the divine will which He had revealed to them. And by doing so they penetrated the knowledge of divine truth ever more, and this also developed their ability to teach in accordance with God’s will which would never have been possible if they had lacked faith. Thus the Lord says ‘upon you I will build My church ….’ And His church is the community of those who want to follow Jesus Christ; His church is the small community of those who firmly and steadfastly believe everything the Lord has said and done on earth; who, for the sake of this faith, make an effort to fulfil God’s commandments, who desire eternal life and thus live earthly life in accordance with God’s will …. The church is a community of believers ….

And when people are profoundly faithful no power in hell could ever disturb this faith and exercise control over such utterly devout people who only seek God and acknowledge Him as their Lord and Creator. Profound faith in God will always overcome the power of the adversary, because anyone who lives in faith also lives in love, and love is the adversary’s harshest opponent. Hence nothing is more understandable than the Lord using the most devout of His disciples as an example, that He makes firm faith a prerequisite of belonging to His church …. that therefore Peter exemplified this faith and that Jesus Christ wants to count all those to His church who are also profoundly devout …. It is so easy to understand these words, and how are they understood by the world ….

Amen

The adversary’s greatest deception consists of clouding a person’s thoughts and making them comply with his plans.

If, however, the person humbly asks for the divine spirit, his thoughts will be right and he will clearly recognise the meaning of these Words. He will also recognise that the will to dominate had to disable the working of the divine spirit, that his thinking was misguided and therefore a false doctrine had to develop, which seriously distorted the divine Word. And God did not stop the human being, He did not interfere with the person’s free will …. He had taught the Gospel to His disciples and instructed them to pass it on by saying ‘Go and teach all nations.’ …. His disciples’ profound faith was the guarantee for the working of the Holy Spirit, and hence the disciples could not teach anything but the truth. Thus the assurance of truth for a teaching servant of God will always be found in his profound, thus living, faith ….

He will be a true follower of Peter and the church which Jesus Christ Himself founded but which was not ever supposed to represent a worldly power, instead it was meant to be spread only spiritually throughout all the nations on earth.

God has never given people the task to establish an institution on earth and then, within the context of humanly decreed commandments, to also include the pure divine teachings yet more or less demanding the compulsory fulfilment of the commandments, which is in opposition to divine will. The human being should accept Christ’s teachings within himself and endeavour to carry out God’s will with complete freedom of will. This doctrine should be offered to people by truly devout teachers wanting to serve God, who are then enlightened accordingly by God’s spirit when they proclaim this teaching.

However, the spirit of God can never express itself where a structure of worldly power has evolved and where the reinforcement of this power has been the sole purpose for the many regulations and commandments which were supposedly decreed with the help of the Holy Spirit, thus leading to the creation of the doctrine of the church leaders’ infallibility. The Holy Spirit is constantly at work to disprove these misguided teachings and to offer people clarification, but time and again human will is strong enough to reject the pure truth and to adhere to misguided teachings. And the human being’s will cannot be compelled to accept the truth, nor can it be compelled to acknowledge God as the giver of the knowledge which is presented to him as truth. It has to be up to himself to recognise the truth; however, much help for this is at his disposal …. Anyone with just a small desire for truth will be guided to it, and anyone willing, i.e. anyone seriously interested in walking the right path on earth, can at any time in his prayer ask for the strength of insight ….

Amen

It is of no value whatsoever to take care of spreading a doctrine which no longer corresponds to its original state. And therefore it is precisely those people who teach on earth who will have to be enlightened, for they are advocating a teaching which is no longer what it originally was. A certain amount of caution is indeed necessary so that not every teacher feels that he is in error, for anyone who lives in accordance with God’s will can likewise distinguish truth from falsehood and he can teach correctly accordingly, even if he belongs to a community whose teaching already deviates from the pure teaching of Christ. His will to serve God in all humility protects him from erroneous teaching, for he stands in grace and the wisdom of God is shared with him insofar as he speaks for God. His words will always be blessed by the lord, they will also leave a deep impression on those who hear them, while teachings that are not God-ordained will only find favour where man’s will for truth is not significant. There, delicious gifts can also be offered without being regocnized by people for what they are. However, the teaching forces should receive the pure truth, for it is up to them to instruct many people and it is necessary for them to be able to distinguish truth from untruth. And yet they can only be given information about it in this way, and they will still reject it if they are not seeking and strictly truth-loving servants of God. They have offered themselves to preach God’s word to people, so God must protect His word from any distortion. And He will do so if the listener sincerely asks Him to stand in the truth and thus faithfully receives the word of God. God will give him the truth and a wealth of knowledge …. For it is His will to guide people into the truth, and thus He must carefully guard both the teacher and the listener against error, and therefore His word constantly reaches those who have the will to be proclaimers of the truth from God …. The lord reveals Himself to them in such a way that they regocnize the truth and then commit themselves to it …. that they teach those who are in error and thus spread the divine teaching purely and unadulterated ….

Amen

The spirit from God conveys to you a proclamation of immense importance, and He therefore needs your whole will and joyful acceptance of this message ….

There will be little success with those whose train of thought is misguided and who are nevertheless firmly convinced that they are in the truth and in knowledge. And the father in heaven wants to help those, for they were misguided through no fault of their own. They trusted their spiritual leaders on earth all too much and allowed themselves to be guided according to their will. This is indeed a certain weakness of will and a misuse of one’s own intellect, which God has given to man for his time on earth and which he should use as strength. But since already in earliest youth unqualified people seized the train of thought of such weaklings and thus directed it according to their own judgement, the human being was inevitably pushed into a wrong direction of thought and can now hardly free himself from it, since those people found ways and means to impose a certain spiritual bondage on those entrusted to them, which was to eliminate their own thinking, which was desired by them. And the lord takes pity on these enslaved people and tries to help them in various ways …. by first causing them to think for themselves through earthly hardship. He tries to bring them enlightenment and is close to them. Yet He demands a willing concession from them that they likewise allow their free will to become active. This is absolutely necessary, since the free will also received the educated teaching, it must now also test what is now offered to it for its truthfulness and thus accept or reject it. For God cannot switch off His sense of justice, He must accept everyone’s attitude. Since he previously allowed himself to be ruled by a foreign power, switched off his own thinking and unconditionally accepted what was offered to him, God must now also demand the same for the teaching which He Himself offers to people from above …. He must be instructed a second time, so to speak, and in a completely new spiritual direction. But he must now use his intellect to scrutinize what is presented to him. If he is a believer, that is, if he has God in his heart, he will soon regocnize which side is the pure truth. If the will is active in him to fathom it, God will also equip him with sharp reasoning and he will succeed in freeing himself from the compulsion that has been exerted on him up to now. An unbelievable number of errors have arisen through precisely this influencing of people by ignorant earthly teachers who only want to serve God in name only, and the human being must absolutely free himself from this influence in order to now turn his thoughts towards the pure truth. The strangest of occasions can be the occasion for a person to learn to regocnize the unfoundedness of those teachings hitherto considered to be true and, even if only purely inwardly, to begin to separate himself from what is eternally only an obstacle for him …. Once he has regocnized the error, his own mind joins in and prevents any further influence by erroneous teachings. And then the person who was responsible for changing his thinking has an easy game if the other person is willing. But it is unbelievably difficult when the adversary has already succeeded in completely confusing the human being’s thinking, when he can no longer distinguish between divine and human activity if he is given clear evidence of the former. God will then have to send them the most severe suffering so that it will have the desired effect and people will use their intellect correctly ….

Amen