What appears incomprehensible to man, he would certainly be able to grasp when seen in the light of the spiritual, and it is also only possible to give him clarity on the way of the spiritual, because his train of thought can only then be so directed that one thing after the other becomes understandable to him, that he can now affirmatively adjust himself to what he previously considered unacceptable. The basic idea of all being is love. Everything originated from love, everything is animated by love, and love is the key to recognizing everything that exists. love is the gateway to eternity, just as love was the exit …. Everything came into being out of love, and everything that has separated itself from eternal love is to become love again …. And if the human being now wants to attain realization, if he wants to know the truth, if he wants to find the solution to every problem that touches on divine things, spiritual questions or creation, then he must inevitably first shape himself into love, only then can he stand in realization. The knowledge of truth depends on a person’s degree of love. And if every truth were presented to man, if he were given information about everything he desires to know, and he did not have love, then he would understand nothing of it, he would deny everything, he would reject it as greatest error, because he cannot understand, because the light of cognition is not kindled in him, which again only love accomplishes. That is why this little flame must first be nourished, which glows in him under rubble and ashes …. Man must be prepared to serve in love …. There is no other way to penetrate eternal truth, and the person who desires truth must therefore practice love at the same time in order to be able to receive it. But love is something spiritual, it is something that expresses itself in the life of feeling, it comes from the spiritual kingdom, just as it also leads into the spiritual kingdom again. As soon as the human being combines this spiritual with earthly activity, that is, as soon as he expresses the feeling within himself in such a way that he now carries out an activity which is recognizable in an earthly way, he receives something spiritual again, and the activity of love of the beings in the beyond expresses itself …. The human being is introduced to the knowledge of divine wisdom. He may now walk in the light. It is imperative that love expresses itself before a spiritual connection can be initiated, because a person who lacks love will not hear the softly spoken inner word either. People without love are worldly minded, they have no desire to experience what the world outside of earth is like because they simply reject it. They also do not want to know anything about continuing to live in the spiritual kingdom because their love is wrong and only applies to themselves and their increased well-being on earth. If this is presented to them as worthless in any way, this affects their self-love, which they do not want to give up, and they therefore reject everything that could point to a life outside of earthly life. love for God and fellow human beings will always illuminate the spiritual state, but self-love will extinguish any light that wants to shine in the spiritual night. The human being’s power of cognition will also be corresponding, for he who is active in love will receive the truth and with it the power to recognize it as truth. For the others, however, everything will remain incomprehensible, and no matter how clearly it is offered to him, he will not grasp it. In order to increase his knowledge the human being has to make use of the spiritual beings’ love, who are willing to hand out truth to the one who, like them, is lovingly active. For everything that stands in love seeks to unite, consequently man must increase in knowledge when he endeavours not to let up in his work in love. The gates of heaven will open to him and all wisdom will be taught to him in accordance with God’s will, Who wants to spread the truth on earth and therefore blesses the connections from the beyond to earth ….

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As insignificant as external influences may often appear, they are nevertheless decisive for a person’s spiritual life, and indeed they often bring about spiritual excitement which causes the person to go within himself and seek closer contact with God. This always results in spiritual progress, for every connection with God is a step upwards. Every thought that is directed towards God is a willingness to receive strength from God and this always promotes the soul’s state of maturity. Therefore, all hardships in life, whether they are physically or spiritually perceptible, must always mean progress for the soul as long as they are a reason for the human being to take refuge in God. Every danger can therefore be a blessing, every suffering a benefit for the soul. But the person who only mentions God with his lips and never asks for His help is unstable. Everything that is imposed on him as a test will crush him or he will overcome it …. as he thinks, by his own strength but with the support of evil power …. For this is immediately ready if the human being disregards the eternal deity. The adversary of God needs this state in order to work on his part, and this with success. The human being will be able to chalk up an earthly advantage and attribute it to his strength and ability, but for his soul this means a shortcoming. Similarly, spiritual endeavour can also be under the adversary’s influence if the human being is exposed to temptations to test his strength of resistance and now wants to gain clarity purely intellectually. Then the adversary will illuminate everything in such a way that the person will go astray in his train of thought …. Whereas a heartfelt thought towards God allows the adversary’s activities to be clearly recognized and sharpens the power of realization so that all doubt disappears and the temptations remain ineffective. Man should never believe that his strength is sufficient, whatever demands are made of him …. He should always ask God for an influx of strength, for the adversary’s cunning is too persistent; he will use the slightest change of weakness to unfold his power; he will come in the most diverse guises, seemingly strengthening the person in his opinion, but always trying to influence him, to switch God off in order to steer the soul towards himself. And therefore God’s help should always and constantly be requested even before the soul is in danger of being influenced by the opposing power. For the struggle becomes all the more difficult the later the human being takes refuge in God, Who provides him with unlimited strength ….

Amen

The inability of spiritual realization is based on man’s lack of will to take a stand on spiritual questions. Earthly problems can also only be solved when man deals with them again and again and thus endeavours to penetrate them. Solving spiritual problems, however, requires deepest immersion and the will to receive information about them. Every answer first requires a question, the question in turn testifies to the desire for knowledge, and the desire for knowledge then also guarantees the power of cognition, without which the human being is incapable of absorbing the truth as such. However, where a certain lack of will results in indifference, enlightenment would not be heeded at all, and thus the strength certainly flows to the person when it is desired, but it cannot be imparted to the person who does not desire it. The spiritual currents want to be heeded, they do not flow to people indiscriminately but only those who willingly open themselves will feel them and only they will recognize the blessing of spiritual enlightenment. However, people who do not feel the urge to become knowledgeable remain completely unimpressed. They hear, and yet the words do not penetrate the heart. They are incapable of grasping the context of things, their minds do not take in what is conveyed to their ears because their senses and desires still belong to the world and spiritual questions seem unimportant to them. Consequently, worldly-minded people will turn away from those who are spiritually active, they will harbour an aversion to everything problematic, for it seems pointless and futile to them to delve into thoughts which, in their opinion, can never be solved in such a way that no doubts remain. All that remains for them is conjecture, which they give little credence to, and since they lack the power of realization but this cannot be given to them until they themselves desire it, it is not possible to convince such people either. And that is of greatest disadvantage for all these people, that spiritual truths cannot be made accessible to them, that they are always and constantly groping in the dark and their spiritual state cannot be illuminated because they lack the will to walk in the light. They strive after a will-o’-the-wisp, the splendour and magnificence of the earthly world, and they are blinded by this will-o’-the-wisp. However, they overlook the gentle yet brightly shining light of realization, but it cannot be forcibly made accessible to them, thus people will have to remain in spiritual darkness until they themselves desire the light of enlightenment and it can now be offered to them ….

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The power of evil is immense and yet it cannot achieve anything with a person who consciously strives towards God, for through his will which is turned towards God he will oppose this evil power which will render the adversary powerless, since his power will crumble in the face of such a will. He will indeed always be exposed to hostility from that side, for the adversary hopes for a weak moment when he will gain the upper hand again; yet good beings are equally prepared to protect and strengthen the human being if he threatens to become weak. And thus the struggle for souls is a constant one and therefore earthly life is also a constant battle, for the human being senses this spiritual struggle for his soul, and he is drawn into it and can bring the battle to a decision through his will. But anyone who surrenders to the evil forces without a fight is gambling away his life …. For the adversary mercilessly makes him his servant, seemingly granting him an earthly advantage, but only to get him under his control. However, the fate of an apostate soul in the afterlife is indescribable. Such a being unites all bad instincts in itself, it seeks to inflict harm wherever it can. It is without love and only focussed on itself, it wants to rule and resorts to the cruelest means in order to gain control over other souls. It is in the darkest surroundings and yet knows that its state is not enviable, and this infuriates the soul even more and intensifies its rejection of God, Whose power it certainly senses but Whom it does not want to recognize. For the soul still has the same attitude towards God in the beyond as on earth, it does not want to humbly bow down but to be right in all things; it wants to be recognized and suppress everything that comes close to it. And such a desire can never lead to salvation. But it is also understandable that such souls strongly oppress people who have higher goals, that they spare no means in order to distract them from their spiritual endeavours and that they therefore always and constantly oppress people, that they put obstacles in their way in order to make them waver in their faith and in their firm trust in God’s help. People are exposed to severe trials by which they are supposed to testify to their will that they nevertheless turn to God and long for Him. And these evil powers are so hostile towards an earthly child striving upwards, for they recognize in him an adversary who wants to turn many souls away from him. They try to dissuade him from his endeavours, they want to make him unenthusiastic and offer him earthly pleasures, above which he should forget his actual task of spiritual striving …. And time and again the human being must wrestle and submit his will to God, he must always appeal to God for strength and grace, he must call upon Jesus Christ for protection against all evil and abandon himself to all good spiritual forces, then the struggle of the evil power will be unsuccessful and the temptations will become weaker and weaker the more intimately the human being turns to God, for God will now send him strength in abundance so that he will steadfastly resist all temptations ….

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The right solution to the problem of Jesus‘ transfiguration after His crucifixion also explains Jesus’ Words ‘The Father and I are One ….’ at the same time. God sacrificed Himself through a human being Who overcame every human aspect for love of God and Who therefore shaped His soul such that God was able to take abode in Him in all fullness. His external form, His body, totally complied with the soul’s will and was likewise only disposed towards the Divine; thus every substance was God-inclined spirit, so that it no longer needed the process of development on earth and was therefore able to enter the spiritual realm in all perfection after the body’s death. All perfected spiritual beings unite with the Elementary Power and, through a most heartfelt fusion, become as one with It. The process of development of the spiritual beings which had once fallen away from God lasts for an infinitely long time and, through countless levels, will also lead to ascent in the beyond but the external form, the less developed spiritual substance, always remains on earth and releases the soul which, as a spiritual being, will subsequently seek to join beings of equal maturity in the beyond. The external form dissolves and the individual spiritual substances affiliate with similar ones in order to continue their process of development …. However, Jesus’ body, on account of its purity and actions of love, had already attained spiritual perfection and the inconceivable suffering on the cross had been the final process of purification for the body’s spiritual substance so that, in this utterly cleansed state, it was able to join the perfect soul and no longer needed to stay on earth, and therefore the spirit of God, the soul and the body united, thus became one.

Jesus, the man, was the mediator between God and people …. but now God and Jesus Christ are One …. they should not be thought of as two beings next to each other but it is only one Being Which absorbs everything that is perfect. Jesus’ divinity cannot be imagined in any other way than the eternal Deity Itself, Which merely affiliated Itself with the external shape of Jesus, the man, i.e. His spiritual substances were allowed to merge with the elementary Power, because at Jesus’ death they had already reached a degree of perfection which is the prerequisite for the closest unity with God …. By despising earthly pleasures and, as a result of strict self-discipline, Jesus’ body had overcome all matter and therefore no longer required a further process of development. All spiritual substances in the physical form were able to join the soul and leave the earthly valley together with it in order to enter the heights of light. From this moment on this soul was surrounded by the most brightly shining light, consequently Jesus’ body and soul had to leave the earth in a transfigured state, for a being that is completely merged with God also had to receive light and strength from Him and thus emanate it in the same way as the eternal Deity Himself, because it was One with God, therefore also light and strength in abundance. This process of light emanation usually remains concealed from people, yet God’s infinite love for people allowed the transfiguration of Jesus to occur visibly in order to give them a sign of His power and glory, to strengthen the faith of those who were to proclaim His power and glory to the world and in order to provide people with the evidence that Jesus had conquered death …. that from now on death no longer exists for people who follow Him and make an effort to take the same path on earth. Jesus’ transfiguration has been a much disputed subject for humanity and was usually rejected as a myth, because people lack all spiritual understanding for the ultimate goal of every being …. for the final union with God …. for becoming one with Him …. However, Jesus says ‘The Father and I are One ….’ For the union had taken place in Him already, His soul was shaped such that it was able to accept God and thus had already become a recipient of light and strength from God, thus He was able to teach all wisdom and work through divine strength. He was as perfect as His Father in Heaven and able to create and shape like Him …. His nature was love, His Words were love, and thus He worked by virtue of His great love for people. For everything in existence and everything that happens can only be accomplished by love …. His life on earth was a constant succession of works of miracles without pomp and splendour, but He concluded it in radiant light …. by transfiguring Himself before the eyes of His Own and ascended to Heaven, to eternal glory ….

Amen

How rarely is the importance of divine teachings recognized. It is as if people regard all supernatural activity as foolishness, and they consider serious reflection on it to be human weakness or lack of character. The divine is unacceptable to them, but conversely they are not afraid to approve of human reorganizations and support them. And they cannot be helped in any other way. All attempts to make them think fail and time is irretrievably lost for their souls. What lives on earth is meant to follow the path of higher development, and it will also cover the path as long as divine will controls the being. But as soon as the own will is active in the embodiment as man, the course of development upwards is endangered, because the being rebels. It wants to go its own way and rejects every hint, every advice from God. But without this it walks in the wrong direction, and the only possibility is therefore to illuminate this wrong path in such a way that they recognize the fate of those who fall by the wayside, who sink down exhausted and powerless because the path was endless and left no goal in sight. These are the people who go along enjoying life, but who nevertheless recognize their worthlessness and cannot find any real satisfaction in their lives …. who now go to the end of their lives listlessly and bitterly, but no longer have any purpose in life. They do not believe that life has a continuation after death, so they see no goal for themselves and live out the rest of their earthly existence in complete lethargy of spirit. They can certainly still fulfil their earthly work, but this only happens purely mechanically without them finding any meaning and purpose in it. They have given up all struggle because they do not know what they should fight for, and such people should serve as a warning example to those who have not yet finally decided to reject faith, who are therefore still faced with the decision to live life with or without God. They are to be shown the desolation of such a life, which has brought nothing but discouragement and a complete emptiness, because they lived life without God and were therefore devoid of any emanation of strength from Him and their path could therefore never lead them upwards ….

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The desperate situation of a person whose only desire is for the world and its goods only becomes clear to him after his death. For what he now desires is unattainable for him, and yet the desire for it torments him unimaginably. The greed for it is far greater than on earth, precisely because it remains unfulfilled. He has no desire for spiritual possessions, he only endeavours to attain what seemed desirable to him in earthly life and conjures up all these things in his thoughts. Such covetous thoughts are now also fulfilled, i.e., everything he desires is there, however, no longer tangible but only in his imagination, so that his greed rises to the highest and yet always remains unfulfilled. These are true tantalus torments until he becomes aware of his desperate state and overcomes his desire, i.e. until he realizes that he is chasing after phantoms that remain eternally unattainable. Only then does he begin to think about the hopelessness of his state and to consider the possibilities of a change, and he now also finds support from the beings from the kingdom of light, who first need that state in order to be able to intervene helpfully. But the desperate situation of a soul can last for endless times until it finally comes to recognize it. And as long as it is close to earth it cannot detach itself from its familiar surroundings and therefore often transfers its own desires onto weak-willed people of the same disposition. It tries to stimulate them to do what it considers to be the only desirable thing. And therefore it cannot be emphasized enough that prayer for such souls is a help to them in their agonizing situation, as it weakens their desire for earthly possessions and at the same time the soul feels the strength of such prayer, as it begins to reflect and can thus take the first step into the spiritual kingdom. The prayer for the deceased should always apply to their still weak will and thereby give them the strength to strengthen this will so that it demands to rise ….

Amen

Accept in all humility every gift offered to you from above, then you fulfil God’s will and serve Him. What He has intended for you merely requires your unlimited devotion to Him and your will to obey Him. Countless souls on earth are struggling for knowledge, they cannot find the way to God alone and urgently require help. And you shall take that help to them by bringing God’s love and kindness, which expresses itself so obviously, to their attention. And as you give so you may receive. And your soul will be able to receive ample nourishment and need never starve. The bread from heaven will never be withdrawn from you as long as you feed the needy. Time and again it will give you renewed strength and always and forever make you happy. Barren and dry is the earth without the living water, empty and joyless the life of the soul without refreshment from heaven. And you shall help these souls: offer them the refreshing drink and take every opportunity to distribute God’s precious gift because it will remedy a great need. Truth will be spread, the light will shine brightly and in turn attract souls seeking to escape the darkness. And God will bless your effort, He will give you strength to carry out your mission, He will guide you in your task and provide you with all the help you need to work for Him ….

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In view of the difficult time, that is in store for the people, The Lord sends following pronouncement: Go into yourself and do not reject the admonitions of The Lord. The weakest will, to follow these, will already be blessed by Him, for it brings strength to you, to endure, what comes over you. Consider, that you have no other help in the great distress than God The Lord. Seek Him still before and ask Him for mercy, so that then He can stand by you, but do not let be spoken the warnings in the wind. Because the help can only given to you, if you ask for. Who imagines himself so strong, that he does not believe to need God’s help, whose spirit will be confused recognizing his appalling situation. But this man, who feels weak and implores to God, will surmount the severity, because he will be given the strength by God. Therefore hear the divine voice itself: Who pays attention to My words, who will need nothing to frighten, because I Myself am with him. And who possesses My word, can see everything to fall into ruin around himself, he himself will be admist the decay, watched over by My love. Because the elements will stop before Him, the storm will change and reduce its strength, the earth will make itself feel only softly swaying, and the life of those will not be at risk, who connect themselves with Him, that’s to say, who do not completely decline My word. And that is the sign of the truth of My word, that the one is out of danger, who lets speak My word to him, who only brings a little faith to My activity. Because so, as I come down now in word to you, who want to hear Me, so then I Myself will be near you and will protect you with My strong arm against the all-destroyed power of the elements, that ever do only My will and therefore will be banished there, where the children of earth live, who devoted to Me. Who only approves of Me in the heart, whose spirit I will direct to recognition, and his dedication to Me will also be his salvation. He will call on Me in the distress and so I can be with him. And therefore do not fear, but believe only …. Do not let your neighbour without warning, because that is true charity, that you draw his attention on what is coming and put it to his heart, that he should also turn to Me in the distress, to get My help. Because I only want your faith in Me, I want you to lift up your hands to Me, that you call for Me in distress, and that you ask Me already for mercy before, so that I recognize your will. And I will instruct all My angels, to keep away the heaviest suffering, because it is enough for My will, and you are surrounded by a rampart of beings, who serve to Me, and if it will also romp around you and over you, no hair of yourselves will be bent, because My love keeps watching over you and My protective hand passes you through all dangers ….

Amen

The beingness fulfils its destiny insofar as it decides to serve: for serving in love is the ultimate goal of everything that has emerged from God. Serving is then no longer a state conditioned by humility, but love now turns serving into a state of supreme bliss. All beings of light need the influx of divine strength, and to now be able to give to the beings what they lack is immensely blissful for the beings whose state of perfection enabled them to become recipients and carriers of the divine influx and who, in their love, only ever want to hand out and thus serve out of greater than great love. Every creature that they are allowed to flood with their power of love is, as it were, entrusted to them for their happiness and protection. And they take special loving care of the children on earth who have expressed their will to receive strength from God. They are always ready for them, they will not let any call go unheard, their will to serve is never ending, they want to constantly give and help those who need help. For this is the love that wants to redeem, that wants to liberate something bound, that therefore serves the bound being so that it becomes free from the control of its conqueror …. Love does not ask for reward or success, it is only willing to serve, and it is the serving that proves deepest humility on earth, in eternity of unspeakable sweetness; it is not a degrading state, it is a royal bowing down in deep love, raising what lies on the ground and leading it up …. This serving is equal to ruling, because deep love is the driving force. Therefore, on earth, serving in love will be the only way to perfection, although on earth humility must be added to it in order to live in the grace of God. Man must descend to the deepest depth of his own accord in order to reach the highest height …. But all beings will feel the serving state the less humiliating the further they progress in higher development, for the more the being shapes itself into love the more happy it is for it to be aware of being able to help because it recognizes the adversity of the unredeemed being as well as the unspeakable happiness of the being which receives divine strength and is allowed to continue distributing it ….

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Man’s relationship with God often takes on forms which God can never approve of, and then divine intervention is necessary and therefore also understandable. For the human being can only successfully cover his earthly path if he recognizes the eternal deity as the highest and most perfect being and himself as God’s creature and his attitude towards Him is accordingly, i.e. if he considers himself dependent on Him and then asks for His grace. Then the right relationship is established, the relationship of the child to the father, which always finds its way to Him when it desires His help in spiritual and earthly needs. It is so immensely important that the human being has this attitude towards God, for only this will result in God’s grace, since a pleading child will never go unanswered. Every human being is entitled to God’s love and kindness if he desires it as His child, for God’s love wants to distribute but also wants to be recognized as father and creator from eternity, otherwise He would distribute His gifts indiscriminately, even where God is rejected or not recognized as the giver. Where the right relationship between the child and the father is established, the child will also be able to feel the power and strength of the father and therefore also be completely convinced of the deity, Who is almighty and wise, because God reveals Himself in His grace to those who love and honour Him as their father. He understands all the needs and worries of people on earth. However, since no being can mature without suffering, earthly life cannot be free of such suffering either, but where a person raises his hands to the father like a child in supplication, God is immediately willing to grant him help, for a father does not leave his child in need and He fulfils the requests of His children the more sincerely they call to Him. However, anyone who sets himself apart from God, who can never call to Him in childlike pleading, who seeks God in the distance or can never speak to Him in intimate dialogue, his higher development is also called into question, for only in the most intimate relationship with Him is the human being able to achieve incredible things. And even if he believes that it is in his power to turn everything that life brings with it for the better, he will nevertheless be faced with having to ask for help one day, and good for him who is then able to establish the right relationship of a child to the father, so that his prayer will not go unanswered and he may receive the supply of strength from God in his weak faith, which will then also make him clearly recognize how small the human being is compared to the eternal deity and how deeply humble he has to approach Him in order to stand in His grace ….

Amen

How rarely the spirit of God can express itself in a person is evident from the fact that only a few people completely agree in their views as far as they concern God and His creation, His reign and activity on earth and in the beyond. The spirit from God will always teach people the same, for God only gives purest truth and distributes it where it is desired and the preconditions have been fulfilled which result in the working of the spirit of God in the human being. However, since such an activity is so rarely recognized, the subtle voice within is not respected and the spirit from God cannot express itself either, even though the human being is worthy of receiving divine wisdom through his way of life. His spirit certainly strives towards God but he does not try to establish a direct connection with Him …. He does not desire to hear the divine voice and therefore cannot hear it. And even where its attention is drawn to the obvious working of the spirit in the human being it perceives this as presumption and attributes the divine working to the activity of a power hostile to God. And so the will is not ready, and man cannot be forced. He absolutely has to initiate the contact with God himself, he has to give himself to God and surrender his will to Him, then God Himself will suggest to him the thought of establishing such a connection. He will also mentally instruct him as to what he must do in order to hear the divine voice within himself. Provided the human being surrenders his will to God, he will do everything God wants …. And if God wants to spread the pure truth, He will convey this pure truth to him. Very few people take the direct path to God, but if they wanted to do so, they would clearly know what they should do to please Him. And even if it were something completely foreign to them, they would do it without amazement and without hesitation. But how rarely does an earthly child offer its services to the heavenly father and ask Him for a task on earth and how rarely can they therefore be called upon to do such a task which requires the human being’s free will. And because God is so rarely asked to impart the pure truth, He can only give it out so rarely. But where this is the case, the same truth can always be found and the working of the divine spirit can be proven beyond doubt. Having God Himself as a teacher must result in purest truth, and where this truth is not obviously made known to the world it is mentally conveyed to people who love God, serve Him and keep His commandments, and the divine giver has to be recognized through the correspondence of thoughts. And this will result in the fact that this teaching will soon prevail, that it will spread and that divine activity will always and constantly be recognized. But it will also result in people no longer looking for God in the distance but seeking and finding Him within themselves. And if the human being recognizes the working of forces in the beyond and establishes contact with them, it will be possible for the spirit of God to express itself and it will present everything to the listening child in such a way that it will willingly accept it and be prepared to serve God for all eternity ….

Amen

To fathom the mystery of eternal love is beyond human ability, and thus it will never be possible for a person to imagine God as love Itself, for God is an entity for the believing human being but love is a feeling …. Entity and perception, however, are two concepts that can certainly belong together, where one can mean the complement of the other, but which are difficult to think of as the same …. God is only conceivable as love insofar as the highest, most perfect being must also be in the highest degree of love, consequently God and love cannot be separated from each other. And this explanation is also the only one that can be given to people, but it does not reveal the secret of eternal love. For any thought beyond this is wrong because human thoughts are unable to fathom this miracle. And it must be enough for man to imagine divine love as something incomprehensible which can only be grasped with the same, i.e. that only the loving man penetrates into a mystery and he then only ever applies his own degree of love as a yardstick, since a ‘more’ is simply not comprehensible to him. Only when he has succeeded in transforming his own being into love will it be easier for him to imagine God as love Itself, but as a human being he will never fathom it completely. He is certainly able to imagine God as an entity, even if this entity is not conceivable in human terms either, yet the human being always imagines an entity as something physical (a form), even if it is not visible to the eye as such. Love, however, cannot take on a form in his imagination, and as soon as it were given a form, it would have to be addressed as something essential again. And therefore the attempt to introduce the human being to this mystery is completely pointless, it would only lead to erroneous trains of thought which could prevent the human being from recognizing the eternal truth. The human being, in his limitedness, will certainly be able to fathom everything that is related to earthly life, but to understand the spiritual requires (even) an activity of love. Then its essence also forms itself into love and when the soul separates itself from the body only the essence remains, which is now also love in itself, therefore is then also not to be seen as two different things, but could only become what it is through love …. thus again essence and love are the same thing.

(23.12.1940) However, the one Who is love in Himself only becomes conceivable as an entity because the possibility of comprehension for the human being only lies in the essence …. Although he also feels love, even if in the smallest measure, he cannot imagine the eternal deity as something that is only expressed in the life of feeling. For he would only regard this as belonging to the entity, but not as the entity itself. Love is a power, and God is power, therefore God and love must be the same. And again God must be recognized as an entity, otherwise the basic concept for the existence of the eternal deity would be missing. Only when the being has approached the eternal deity is it possible to merge the two concepts into each other, and then the being will completely realize what it cannot yet comprehend. On earth, however, it lacks this ability as it can only absorb what can be united with earthly laws, otherwise it will remain misunderstood ….

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The world can expect an extraordinarily significant change of era. For good spiritual beings will descend to Earth and achieve a radical change of thinking by means of extraordinary events which correspond to God’s will. The battle between the various schools of thought will be waged on an immense scale with the result that a separation of those who argue for and against God will take place. No particular signs will precede this time; the human being will merely be more frequently referred to supernatural things, he will effectively be motivated to think about it and thus be obliged to form an opinion about questions which are beyond earthly things. And then he will follow this or that school of thought and become a fighter for his point of view. And thus begins a new time, a time when on one side spiritual enlightenment and on the other side profound spiritual darkness will separate people from each other …. a time, when the spiritual striving of the former will clearly show itself in their attitude towards earthly possessions, which the purely worldly-minded person eagerly aims to increase but which will be despised by the others. And then humanity will go through a change of thought. The spiritual world will embody itself in God-inclined people who will be able to see brightly and clearly and endorse with utter conviction what the spiritual world is imparting to them.

However, they will have to fight for their spiritual freedom. Those who are in favour of God will be ostracised and subjected to constant threats, for the majority of people will be godless and have great power since they are being supported by the reigning authority. And yet, the virtuous spirits will win; they have great strength because they fight with the weapon of love. The new era is intended to result in spiritual progress, the soul shall derive substantial benefits from it, humanity shall become more open towards the truth and allow itself to be guided more by love; a conscious striving towards God shall characterise people who concede to the power of the spiritual forces; people shall enjoy a peaceful disposition despite external pressures and apparent obstacles, for they know that they are on the right path and therefore feel secure and well-protected under divine guard and thus pay less attention to the hostilities from the human side. They are strong in faith, confident in hope and powerful in love. And those who still doubt will lift themselves up on the latter, for the profound and living faith is more convincing than a lot of talking.

Jesus once struggled on earth for the souls and at that time, too, started a period of spiritual strive; in those days people also had to make a decision to profess or deny Christ. This time the question will be equally decisive as well. Then the human being will also have to decide as to whether he will acknowledge Jesus Christ and thus profess Him before the world or whether he will reject him. And the answer to this question will once again determine his higher development. For only someone who professes Him will derive a benefit from his earthly life for the soul. And the divine Word must be spread again; diligent disciples must once again distribute the Gospel throughout the world, and prior to this an incredible amount of work has to be done by instructing these disciples so that they will teach according to divine will. And the signs of the forthcoming new era can already be found in the fact that this divine teaching comes to people directly from above, that they are therefore given the teaching of Christ again as unspoilt as it was at the time of Jesus on earth, accompanied by miracles and extraordinary happenings, for there will also be miracles during the coming time which noticeably express the divine will, yet these miracles will only be understandable to those who have already experienced the working of the spirit within themselves and who therefore ever more intimately join Jesus Christ and profess Him before the whole world ….

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Infinite trust in divine guidance makes your earthly way of life easy, for you accept everything with a certain calm providing you bear in mind that it was determined by God in this and no other way due to His boundless concern for your soul. Every burden life imposes on you is necessary for the maturing of your soul, and the more you are in need of it the more burdensome it will be. Thus, you should first shape yourselves according to divine will and the suffering will gradually lessen and will finally entirely be taken from you. Practise love, meekness and patience, practise compassion, peacefulness, and always appeal to God for strength to do so and you will rise above everything with ease, you will be a blessing for your surrounding neighbours for they will strive to emulate you …. And your earthly life will become easier, you will have emerged victoriously from the battle against evil and through your appeals for strength have come closer to God. If you want to reach God you must completely hand yourselves over to Him, always pray ‘Father, Your will be done ….’ You thereby give evidence of your trust in His guidance, you sacrifice your will to Him, you humbly submit yourselves to His will and acknowledge Him as your Father, and then you will have become as it is pleasing to God …. patient, gentle, humble, peaceful, you practise love if you also compassionately turn towards your fellow human being and try to make him live in the same way. It will refine your nature and the soul will become light and bright for it will become ever more capable of absorbing divine light and of spreading it as well.

Therefore, don’t complain if you have to suffer, bear everything patiently and know that you still need to suffer, that your soul is still distressed and that God in His love wants to help you and release it from its still oppressing shell ….The soul is still struggling for its freedom; it is still constrained by a force which refuses to set it free. Its own will is still too weak, and in order to strengthen its will it must call upon God for strength. If it fails to do so of its own accord then God must encourage it through suffering to turn to Him for help …. And it often takes an unbelievably long time before the soul takes the path to God, and just as long it will have to suffer and endure a depressing state. And yet it would be so easy to release itself from it, however, it often gives way to the adversary’s urging and revolts against its fate, it grumbles and complains and therefore cannot be released from suffering either …. And your mistake rests in the fact that you do not recognise God’s love and are grateful to Him that He wants to lead you into higher spheres …. If you believe in His love it will also be easy for you to confide in Him and every day, regardless how distressing it may be, will be a blessing for your soul and beneficial for your spiritual higher development ….

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The inhabitants of the spiritual world are inconceivably active and accomplish their task with such dedication and perseverance that it will lead to success. Time and again they approach the people entrusted to their care and try to induce them into asking questions in order to subsequently be able to convey the answer mentally, and therefore it is of great importance that people use every opportunity to exchange their opinions. For only then will it be possible for the spiritual beings to move into action by inspiring people with questions and answers, that is, by whispering these mentally to them, so that ever deeper problems will be raised and thus enable the friends in the beyond to start with their instructions. Such exchange of thoughts can be incredibly successful, for it also stimulates a reflection on them afterwards, and the mental instructions can then be continued according to the desire for clarification. For this reason it will be extraordinarily gladly welcomed by these spiritual beings if a person’s will always keeps making new spiritual contact, for all efforts on this side will be recognised in the world of the beyond and made instant use of, and then it will only depend on people’s will to what extent they will then be open to instructions.

Threads from the beyond to earth are being constantly woven, and if an earthly child helps to establish such connections it makes the task of the beings in the beyond substantially easier, for the door to the heart needs to be slightly open, and this happens when a person has a question on his mind and expects an answer. Then the heart will carefully listen to the voice within itself, then the being in the beyond will be able to express itself and can expect to be heard as well. And if therefore the person takes advantage of every opportunity to discuss spiritual problems with his fellow human beings he helps at the same time to open the door of his heart and clears the way for these spiritual beings to the innermost part of the heart. This assistance is exceptionally significant since it can, after all, be the first incentive towards a complete transformation of thought …. From that time on the person can remain in heartfelt contact with the benevolent beings of the beyond and extensive information can be imparted to him by them if it is the person’s will to know the truth and therefore listens to the whisperings of these beings, which now comply with their task with the most devoted dedication ….

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Only that which contributes to the redemption of the soul is of importance in earthly life. The prayer for strength for this will always be answered. God’s love tries to present to you humans the hardship of your soul by letting the body feel earthly hardship and worries. Yet its suffering is minimal in comparison to the torments of an unredeemed soul, and again, the agonizing state is willed by the soul itself, i.e. the being itself has brought it about and must also overcome it itself. No being can do this for the other, only help it through love. This is what people do not want to understand, that God is not the author of torment and suffering but the being itself, but that God cannot arbitrarily end the state of suffering despite His greater than great love, because then something immature would remain which would have no justification to live in eternity in bliss. In order to be allowed to dwell in God’s presence, the being must be perfect and its free will must have overcome everything imperfect …. But the imperfection was its own fault, in that the free will turned to that which was the opponent of the perfect. In order to become perfect, the being must turn its free will back to the perfect. If it does not do so, then nothing but an agonizing state can be its fate, for it is then distant from God, and this means suffering and agony for the being. God is merciful, kind and loving, but also just. In His love, kindness and mercy He can certainly open up all possibilities for the being to develop into perfection, but He cannot circumvent justice by sparing the being suffering and giving it eternal glory in an imperfect state. But neither can He allow the being to become perfect without its will, since perfection is inconceivable without free will. Every state of suffering, whether on earth or in the hereafter, is only a side effect of imperfection, because it is at the same time supposed to be the means to remedy it. If a person’s prayer is directed towards the soul’s state of maturity, then he will receive unmeasured strength and it will become easy for him to overcome earthly suffering, for then he will have grasped the meaning and purpose of it. Therefore do not think so much of what seems unbearable for the body, think of the fact that the soul has to suffer far more under its unfree state, and try to help it by requesting the strength from God in prayer to be able to help it, i.e., that you do everything to ennoble your nature, that you are lovingly active also in trouble and suffering, that you thereby loosen the fetters around the soul, so that now also the fetters of the body, the suffering, can be loosened and peace is granted to you inwardly and outwardly. For God does not send suffering upon you to enslave you, but to set you free ….

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People need mediators between themselves and God because they themselves are not in contact with Him but God, in His love, does not want to leave them without assistance. And this is the reason why a direct connection from the beyond to earth is permitted in a form which should eliminate all doubt of divine activity. The first reason is therefore to be found in humanity’s plight, but furthermore the truth is so little represented on earth and it is only possible to convey it to earth in this way. The teaching of Christ has undergone changes through human influence over the course of time and must therefore be brought back to humanity as it was in the beginning. And so the necessity of divine activity can already be seen from this. For God as the eternal truth cannot tolerate that something is spread as pure truth which no longer corresponds to it. Thus knowing beings have to transmit the truth to earth and look for a willing human being who declares himself ready as a mediator and accepts the spiritual gift in order to pass it on. The conscious will to serve God now enables this person to perform an extraordinary function …. to listen with a spiritual ear and to collect the results in order to be able to use them as spiritual goods. Thus something purely spiritual arises in earthly form, eternal wisdom is channelled to earth through divine love and therefore spiritual darkness is banished and the spiritual state of humanity is illuminated. And yet, the majority of people carelessly pass it by, and that merely because they do not want to recognize such an obvious manifestation of God. Unless someone proclaims God’s activity with full conviction as a spiritual experience, he will hardly find believing followers among people. And so God endows them with great strength and allows them to achieve extraordinary things and thus wants to turn people’s faith towards Himself. And so God gives people the truth and the proclaimers great strength. He lets them recognize when it is God’s will to use this power, and then God Himself works through these people and draws their attention to the divine gift offered from above. And now it will turn out that word and deed agree, that everything proclaimed through divine truth can shape people such that they themselves become bearers of divine strength, thus that they can now also work through this strength, and that accordingly the human being can accomplish everything if he accepts the divine word imparted to him and obeys it, since the same strength is inherent in it. Then the divine word will be accepted by many, for it will provide them with the evidence that God’s word is truth in itself. But the will of the earthly child must always precede, it must be willing to believe and to a certain extent testify to its willingness to do what is demanded of it by the divine word. Then he will feel the strength of the word in himself as his desire for it will increase; and the will to be of service to the lord will also enable him to work for Him. And thus God proves to humanity the truthfulness of what comes to people from above as truth ….

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Exacting revenge is not right before God, for then the human being will share the guilt because he gave way to an evil desire in him and is no longer pure at heart. Every feeling of unkindness is an obstacle towards ascent, the inner battle, however, is an advancement. As soon as the human being is antagonistically inclined towards the fellow human being and ponders retaliation he hands himself over to the power of evil and has to comply with its will, which always intends to increase unkindness. And this puts his state of soul at risk, for once he has given in to the enemy’s desire it will be difficult for him to practise love, for the thought of revenge poisons his feelings. What his fellow human being has done to him is far less than what he is now doing to himself, for his fellow human being’s wrong-doing consisted of causing him physical damage but he is damaging his soul and puts it into new fetters with every act of unkindness. He has no other benefit by doing so other than to satisfy his feeling of revenge and thereby hands himself over to the opponent’s control, and to then return to activities of love is extremely difficult and can only be possible if he realises and regrets his wrong-doing. The vindictive person, however, is pleased with his action and far removed from a state of remorse. The human being shall repay evil with good, this way he will weaken the power of evil, acquire love and release himself as well as his opponent from the influence of evil, for his opponent will experience this as a beneficial act, providing he is not entirely obstinate, and will regret his action. Vengeance, however, is God’s responsibility. And God is righteous, He truly administers vengeance according to merit …. He beholds the human being’s heart and nothing remains hidden to Him. And it is His will to reform people and to make them realise their wrong-doing, just as He blesses those who patiently endure the other person’s wrong-doing without rebelling against it or thinking of exacting revenge. ‘Vengeance is Mine’, says the Lord …. He thereby makes His will known to leave the responsibility of vengeance to Him, so as not to cause damage to your soul, which will be much greater than your fellow human being can ever inflict on you ….

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If you visualize the extraordinary grace that the lord Himself condescends to you and teaches you His wisdom you will have to sing His praises and honour and thank Him without ceasing. However, you will never be able to fully appreciate this grace, for you do not know how immeasurably high He stands above you earthly children and what abundance of love prompts Him to take care of the beings who are tiny creatures in relation to Him. And that is why you accept this great grace so calmly and often do not appreciate it according to love. And it is often only a momentary surge where the greatest delight should make the human being shudder. But God constantly sends this grace to people in order to give them the opportunity to ascend, in order to reduce the beings’ great distance from Himself. He therefore gives His word to people on earth, He allows them to become listeners to this word, He makes knowledge accessible to them which is not of this world …. He opens up an area to them which cannot be entered earthly, i.e. there will be no teacher on earth who can give full information about it unless he has previously drawn this knowledge from the very same divine source. And the more a person desires this knowledge, the richer he will be given, the more he will be allowed to receive. But this grace is so immeasurable that it is understandable that it must be a blessing to mankind. God will never offer anything to the world that could lose its value or ever be called less useful. What is of God must also stand the test of time and eternity. His word cannot be weakened by men, even if times pass. The fact that God embodies Himself again in the earthly children who willingly serve Him is so powerful that you humans are unable to grasp it …. The fact that He lovingly bends down to them and shows them the most practicable path upwards is a work of immense mercy, for He thereby does more than the beings deserve. In His love He overlooks the human being’s apostate will and only sees his weakness. And thus He comes to meet them with an effective means, He tells them what is not right and advises them what they should do …. He imparts an extraordinary gift of strength to those who are not completely opposed to Him …. He shares divine grace with those who ask Him from the bottom of their hearts. He reveals Himself to them, He makes Himself known, He is close to earth, and anyone who wants to establish contact with Him will also receive the evidence of His closeness, of His strength and His love …. For He wants to be recognized by them, He wants to be desired by them, and He then also wants to hand out according to this desire …. He wants to shorten the beings’ earthly path, for once they have found the lord they no longer need the burden of the body on earth and can therefore conclude their earthly life as long as they comply with divine will of their own accord and thus live in a way that is pleasing to God …. And this is what the lord aims to achieve through this great grace, that people, in order to become worthy of it, endeavour to live their life according to the divine word so that He can then reward them with truly divine gifts …. that He can give them the knowledge of His love, His omnipotence and His wisdom and this signifies light and strength for people, thus the state of the being still on earth becomes a freer one and it therefore approaches redemption ….

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You should be grateful to the lord for everything, for it all only proves His love. Whatever each day may bring you, it is ordained by God and always for your own good, even if it seems incomprehensible to you. For the spirit from eternity directs and guides everything, and His guidance is truly wise and loving above all else. And nothing is without meaning and purpose. And therefore trust the divine guidance and only ever try to recognize divine activity of love in every earthly emergency and every day will be a blessing for you ….

As long as the human being resists good spiritual influence his nature is unsteady and depressed, sullen and dissatisfied or even indifferent, careless, pleasure-seeking and intent on earthly pleasures. For he does nothing to fight it, he leaves his will to the workings of ignoble spiritual forces, which now do their utmost to keep him away from the influence of good power. And therefore it is also very difficult to bring spiritual knowledge closer to such people. What now repels is the will of those evil beings which completely dominate the human being, and thus the evil in the human being fights against the good which wants to help him. And this battle of the spiritual makes itself felt in great inner dissatisfaction. The human being certainly realizes that he is not in a perfect state and yet his will is too weak to remedy it as long as he leaves it to the opposing power. And the battle will continue until he has completely abandoned himself to one or the other power. Surrendering to the good spiritual forces will soon bring him inner peace and a conscious striving towards God will be the result …. But to give himself completely to the bad powers will likewise bring him a pleasant life, but only in an earthly sense, for this evil power now fulfils every desire of man to keep him away from spiritual thoughts, the adversary gives him fulfilment of earthly desires and thereby binds him to himself with firm bonds. The struggle for such souls is extremely difficult and can only be successful if the good beings succeed in arousing in them an aversion to what they ardently desire …. and thus the person begins to reflect on the value or lack of value of what he possesses. Then there is again an opportunity to influence him mentally, and the battle of the pure against the impure spiritual begins anew. However, a person only learns to recognize the worthlessness of possessions when he sees how quickly they can perish …. And therefore God Himself often intervenes when the adversary has succeeded in his game of intrigue and he has thoroughly materialized the human being’s mind …. Then God sets His will against it and lets fall prey to destruction what holds man’s heart captive. He takes people’s possessions in various ways by determining the forces of nature to obey His will, or by allowing the work of satan himself, who drives people to destroy the works of creation, to become a blessing for the individual person after all, provided that the person sees the suffering that now affects him as divine providence and resigns himself, thus now also begins to recognize the worthlessness of earthly possessions ….

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Everything in the universe serves the being for higher development, but what has reached the degree of maturity is completely independent of every work of creation. The purpose of every work of creation is to lead imperfect spiritual substances towards perfection, i.e. to present them with tasks whose fulfilment signifies spiritual progress. And these tasks will always be understood as serving in love. But now the works of creation are of different kind, and therefore also the respective tasks must be of different kind, i.e., the being will have to carry out that activity, which earns it spiritual progress. And therefore the different works of creation are completely different from each other both in their design as well as in their conditions of stay, but always adapted to the degree of maturity of the beings inhabiting them. The more willing the being is to submit to God’s will in serving activity the greater tasks are set for it and the sooner it is allowed to take those creations as its abode where a high spiritual level lets this abode become a beautiful and blissful one. For a conscious service in love will also mean a walk in the light and this will always trigger a state of happiness. But serving in love consists of the being wanting to pass on the abundance of light …. but light is knowledge …. thus the being walking in spheres of light imparts its knowledge to the as yet ignorant beings and thus, as it were, irradiates the beings lacking light with its light. Thus, light-giving creations must always be in a certain connection with lightless creations …. the lightless creations must be dependent on those that radiate light, and in this respect the beings of one work of creation serve the beings of the other. The process of light transmission is therefore actually a transmission of knowledge, but it appears externally through the emission of light and luminosity to lightless works of creation. The emanation of light is a perpetual activity of the beings capable of light insofar as they send the light in the form of thoughts to the still ignorant beings, but every thought is light and strength, however, it does not need to be accepted by the being in need of light either, thus the transmission of light cannot be carried out and the state of darkness continues to exist. The beings of such works of creation, to whom the light does not penetrate because they do not desire it, are still very distant from God, their knowledge is small and their will towards God very weak, and the beings already dwelling in the light have no power to force them to accept the light. Consequently, their abundance of light predominantly illuminates those works of creation whose inhabitants turn towards the light, who desire the wisdom from God and who therefore willingly allow themselves to be instructed and thus accept light in the form of spiritual knowledge. The teaching activity of such beings, who therefore inhabit luminous creations, is now to a certain extent also the explanation for the light radiation from such celestial bodies …. A luminous body, a sun, will always illuminate countless non-luminous creations, and this is an activity of love by the beings in the beyond, which are already highly mature and want to pass on the light they are constantly allowed to receive to the beings still walking in darkness, which therefore inhabit creations which correspond to their spiritual state, i.e. which are still far from being light bearers themselves but receive light and luminosity from other works of creation ….

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In a state of realisation the human being no longer regards his thoughts as having been acquired by himself, that is, that they came from himself, but he sees them for what they really are …. the emanation of spiritual beings which want to share their knowledge with the human being and which try to impart it to him for as long as it takes until he has accepted it as mental knowledge. Every thought is therefore spiritual strength, hence something spiritual, which has paved its way from the kingdom of the beyond to earth in order to be received by the human being’s thinking apparatus of which he subsequently becomes aware. Consequently, the human being’s thinking must correspond to the spirit of the being which takes possession of the person …. or to which the human being concedes. The spiritual beings’ emanation of strength is enormous, yet good and evil beings alike are anxious to send these emanations to earth, and this emanation will always be received by likeminded earthly beings. Thus, every person will always be given those mental transmissions which correspond to his nature …. whatever is desired will be distributed, and thus truth will be offered to someone who is hungry for truth but lies where lies are at home. Therefore, the nature of the human being’s thoughts will be as the human being wants it, since the spiritual beings will endow him according to his will. The human being cannot produce anything of his own, he is entirely incapable of letting thoughts arise from within himself, precisely because thoughts are spiritual strength, but that this strength will first have to be given to him from the spiritual realm. Only the ignorant person believes himself to be the originator of his thoughts. He merely repeats the opinion of those who are of this world, namely that thinking is merely a function of certain organs, that it happens entirely without outside influences, that therefore all thoughts of a person are his own, that they are not based on direct or indirect influence …. and that therefore good or bad, profound or superficial thoughts always originate in the human being himself and are therefore his own merit. In so doing, he denies the spiritual strength because he does not acknowledge such at all. For this reason, such people cannot easily be convinced of the truth either, if it was mentally imparted, because they still don’t properly understand the process of thinking and are therefore unable to believe. The actual nature of thought is still something incomprehensible to them and will also remain so until they recognise their own inadequacy where it concerns finding a solution to profound problems …. when the train of thought fails if the human being should give a final explanation by himself. Only when he trustingly turns to the spiritual beings with a desire for truth and appeals to them for clarification will he experience for himself how spiritual strength in the form of thoughts flows to him and he will realise that he cannot be the originator of such thoughts but that something spiritual is imparted to him by spiritual beings from the kingdom of the beyond ….

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Every thought which turns towards the spiritual is an overflow of divine flow of strength onto the human being, which is channelled through countless spiritually mature beings and conveyed to people by them. It is furthermore spiritual work insofar as the beings in the beyond fulfil their activity of love by passing on light and knowledge, that they therefore endeavour to impart to the still ignorant human being in the form of thoughts what they themselves possess in abundance but which the human being still lacks. These currents of strength do not reach people arbitrarily but always only as a result of the human will to receive them, i.e ……. the human being’s will shapes the direction of thought, thus it can desire spiritual knowledge but it can also only respond to earthly questions, and accordingly the human being will now be considered by spiritual strength or give himself the desired answer. Self-thinking is merely a function of the organs intended for this purpose, it is a utilization of the life force that is available to every human being, which he can use as he pleases, but which does not benefit him if he uses it for worthless things …. for things that are worthless for eternity. If he now uses the strength in order to increase the wealth of his soul, in order to thus receive information about his spiritual life, his destiny and his task in life, then spiritual strength will also be added and these currents of strength, which he himself had to be active to receive through his will, will be imparted to him. But then the success is unimaginable, for the human being is, as it were, drawn into that world. If he gives in to those thoughts he is also himself in the realm of the spiritual, his thoughts are far removed from the earthly, for they go back to where they started. The earthly-minded person will never receive this strength, for this would make him knowledgeable against his will …. The power from God is synonymous with light and knowledge. Whoever receives it must also increase in knowledge. But if knowledge were imparted to a person against his will he would not be able to grasp it, and this explains why even the word received from above, which provides the human being with information about every question, remains incomprehensible to the person who does not desire knowledge and is therefore also rejected, for it only comes to him as a mere word but not as divine revelation, and he only hears this word with his ears but not with his heart. So his train of thought is only focussed on earthly things. He is therefore purely intellectually active, i.e. only the power that was given to him to exist, to live, is at work in him, but it is not sufficient to grasp divine wisdom. If this is to become comprehensible to him, he must make contact with spiritual forces consciously or unconsciously …. He must ask them for their assistance or want other, i.e. spiritual areas to be opened up to him …. This will is an unconscious request for spiritual strength, and it will be complied with by his thoughts now taking that direction which leads to truth ….

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A world-shattering natural disaster will replace the horrors of war, and humanity will have to endure far greater hardship than it has had to endure so far. And this has been determined for eternity for the sake of the salvation of countless souls. The further humanity distances itself from God, the closer this event is, and only the infinite patience and long-suffering of God gives a period of grace (?) in which unspeakable suffering will still oppress people in order to turn them towards God before the event, so that He can then grant them succour. And hell will be unleashed on earth during this time, and unimaginable misery will befall people, and there will be no end to the lamentations, for the forces from the underworld will poison people’s minds in such a way that they will rage and mercilessly attack each other. And the lord God sees humanity’s behaviour and abhors it …. And He puts a stop to it in a way that clearly reveals His will to those who want to recognize it. He will send the same upon people what they inflict on each other and it will no longer depend on human will to determine the end of what now fills the world with horror. It will have to accept it and will not be able to avert it, and an adversity will come upon earth which people will find unbearable. And yet they will have to bear it, they will clearly feel the hand of God and will not be able to rebel, and only resignation to their fate can make this easier ….

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Man’s genius is also a certain danger for him, because he sacrifices his inner life to it. The certainty of being on a higher level can often have a pernicious effect, because a person is arrogant and believes himself to be superior to his fellow human beings in every respect in terms of knowledge and power of judgement. However, arrogance is the obstacle to recognizing the truth. Only where humility of heart adorns a person does the truth find entrance, for divine grace flows to them. On the other hand, where the opinion has formed that earthly visible abilities also contribute to recognizing the truth, there is a certain arrogance and therefore also a lack of cognitive power. Anti-religious endeavours promote the abandonment of any belief in what has become common knowledge through tradition. As a result, even that which is of divine origin …. the doctrine of a God of love, omnipotence and wisdom is often given up without hesitation …. And the human being’s current attitude is objectively justified in the most convincing way, yet always based on the erroneous view that life ends with bodily death. And therefore the building now erected will lack the foundation walls and therefore not withstand an onslaught of evidence from a deeply believing person …. however, this evidence is just as stubbornly rejected so as not to expose the self-constructed building to the risk of collapse. If the highly developed human mind does not bow in humility to the unfathomable deity, it will only generate erroneous views and strengthen self-conceit with these views, resulting in a regrettable state of mind. Such a person can only be made to recognize his weakness and insignificance through suffering. His intellectual acuity and judgement must be shown to be deficient, as they are no antidote to his own powerlessness when God Himself expresses Himself through the forces of nature. Then every human being becomes small, no matter what talent, what intellectual knowledge he calls his own. In an earthly emergency, which proves his own powerlessness, only the inner relationship, the attitude towards God, is of importance, and this determines his further life on earth and also spiritually. All other qualities of the human being, which can only be assessed in purely earthly terms, will not come into play and every preconceived opinion will waver, for it will not stand up in the face of the catastrophe which surpasses all human imagination and which God sends in order to give precisely those people the opportunity to think right …. to believe in Him …. ….

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When the lord’s love visibly expresses itself in times of spiritual bondage and He descends to earth in the word, this signifies a breaking forth of the spiritual sun through dark clouds …. The love of God Himself is the sun that brightly illuminates the day, for God’s love wants to conquer the darkness of the spirit, it wants whoever desires it to walk in the light of the spiritual sun. This sun illuminates everything, it tolerates no darkness, it tolerates no shadow, it radiates bright light everywhere and is therefore extremely beneficial for the earth traveller who previously had to search his way with difficulty in the darkness of night. Light is life, darkness is death …. light is vigilance, darkness is sleep …. In radiant sunlight, everything that previously slumbered in darkness will awaken to life. And for all beings, the light of the sun means fulfilled longing. For in the darkness it suffers and longs for the light. And He Who is the light in Himself breaks through the darkness and takes the path to earth; He looks for a vessel which is suitable for receiving the light and ignites a flame there which shall shine far and wide for the blessing of humanity …. Divine wisdom shines down on the earth like a sun and revitalizes with its light what previously lay in deep slumber …. How unspeakably graciously eternal love considers lost humanity …. How it should rejoice at the light that comes from the heavens and how gratefully it should allow itself to be illuminated and warmed by the rays of the spiritual sun …. But humanity is spiritually blind, it pays no attention to the light, it pays no attention to the beneficial, revitalizing ray of divine love, it closes its eyes and maintains the state of darkness, it flees the bright light because it cannot tolerate the light, it is not ripe for divine activity, it cannot tolerate the sun’s beneficial warmth, its radiant light …. It feels at ease in the dark night, and so two worlds can exist on earth at the same time, a sunny, extremely lovely valley where divine love offers people everything they desire …. and a valley where darkness, drought and barrenness offer people a meagre existence and this is to be understood purely spiritually. For where the sun of the spirit does not shine, the earth is devoid of light and nothing can grow and flourish, i.e. all beings are in distress …. But where God Himself sends His rays to earth, there will be light and sun, there will be life and joy, there the soul will awaken to life and ripen into delicious fruit in the rays of the divine sun of love ….

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It is indisputably better to confess before the world to belong to the church of Christ than to be subject to the adversary’s will and to deny Christ. For whoever is powerful in the world has nevertheless no power to stop what God will send against him. Whoever denies Christ, denies God, even if he mentions His name as proof of his faith …. For if he is profoundly faithful he will also recognise the Deity of Christ, because then he has love and love affirms Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Saviour of the world. This insight is the result of profound faith. However, unbelief prevents the human being from recognising the Deity of Jesus. Therefore, where Jesus Christ is rejected there is evidence of the human beings’ unbelief and such people belong to the world which openly opposes Jesus Christ. And the world will demand to reject Him completely, it wants His name no longer mentioned, it wants to erase all memory of Him and raise subsequent generations in ignorance; it wants to destroy everything that refers to Him and thereby suppress the knowledge of Him and His works. And thus the battle erupts ….

Those who follow Him will defend His name, confess Him to the world and readily speak on His behalf and of His teachings …. They will be pursued and yet patiently endure persecution for His name’s sake, they will receive strength from above and the more they are attacked the more eagerly they will proclaim His teachings. God’s power will visibly be with them, his love protects them and the mighty of the world will have to realise that their power is futile. They will have to acknowledge a greater power Whose work is evident. They become outraged and now strive to impose their will by any means and for that reason they shall be punished by God’s hand …. For when human beings arrogantly want to fight against God Himself they are completely controlled by the adversary and then God will put an end to this …. Hence the time will come when laws upon laws are endorsed and people will be placed into a position to choose for or against Christ …. The supporters of the world will let go of Him for mere rewards; they will gain earthly advantages and sell their soul. And many will give up what should be their holiest possession …. the divine Redeemer and Saviour of the world …. Yet those who suffer persecution for His name’s sake will be blessed a thousand-fold because He Himself will approach them and lead them into battle and victory will be where He Himself is in command. And even if it seems as if the enemies’ intentions might succeed, the battle only lasts a short time, but those who fight for the name of Jesus will be victorious ….

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Desiring the divine spirit in all simplicity brings greater success than scientific studies without the right faith. In a time of research in every field, those who are scientifically educated and have great knowledge, which they have acquired through proper study, will be held in high esteem before the world. The more diligently he pursues his goal of absorbing the spiritual knowledge already available to him, the wiser he believes himself to be. And yet an earthly child can be far superior to him in wisdom who turns to God Himself in deep faith in order to be instructed by Him. For this child will far surpass any intellectual enquirer in wisdom. There are problems that cannot be solved with the intellect alone and yet can also be solved if God Himself is approached to solve them. And all it takes is a person’s humble devotion to Him and a trusting request for clarification, for this requires the working of the spirit and the spirit from God will guide him into truth. And likewise, a believing person who tries to fathom the truth intellectually will clearly recognize when existing explanations are erroneous. Deep faith will be a better teacher than earthly teachers who lack faith. That is why the results of worldly research can also come close to the truth if they have been obtained intellectually but in deep faith. For such researchers have also been assisted by the divine spiritual power and guided them into correct thinking. However, worldly research can be completely bypassed if the human being connects himself in all simplicity, i.e. in the simplest, most unpretentious way, with God, Who is the eternal truth Himself …. His faith enables him to receive the divine word, and thus God Himself is the teacher of a believing earthly child, and He gives him more wisdom than earthly teachers can ever give him. Academic perseverance, diligence and intellectual labour do not bring about the results that faith, love and humility of heart produce …. God has all wisdom ready for the children of earth who desire it and want to serve Him …. And He imparts all knowledge to them if they willingly open their hearts in order to receive wisdom from God. Yet this process cannot be made credible to the world. It only accepts what can be explained with reason, but rejects what it cannot explain in worldly terms. And anyone who sees with worldly eyes will not find an explanation either. But the believer knows that nothing is impossible with God. And thus God destroys the understanding of the wise, and He rejects the wisdom of the wise …. Yet He gives unlimited consideration with His word to those who devotedly entrust themselves to Him, and He speaks through the mouth of those who want to hear Him ….

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To live means to be continuously active …. The state of inactivity is, as it were, a persistence in lifelessness; it is something will-less, bound; it is a standstill of vigour, and all these are the signs of death. Everything that is alive, i.e. active, brings about something new, in that what is does not remain in the same state but is constantly changing, otherwise it could not be called life …. while what is dead remains unchanged. However, that which appears dead in itself can also harbour an inner life, i.e. it can harbour a power that drives the apparently lifeless to activity …. thus only the outer form can be called lifeless as long as it is not allowed to be active …. while the force, the spiritual in the form, is willing to be active because it no longer likes being inactive. This will of the dead, which desires to live, is like the awakening from the deepest night. And this becomes outwardly noticeable in almost imperceptible changes that now come to light …. Life begins when the previous form is remodelled, i.e. becomes active in itself. The activity of such seemingly lifeless forms is not recognizable to the eye because it initially takes an infinitely long time, so the form is seen as lifeless. However, once the will of the spiritual in this form has been turned towards becoming active, the dead state is also overcome and every second now brings about changes, even if they are minimal. And the life that thus begins is also the beginning redemption of the spiritual from the form. For to be active also means to serve …. it means carrying out something that corresponds to divine will, and divine will has assigned a meaning and purpose to every activity. And if the purpose is fulfilled, this is serving …. consequently, whatever wants to live must be active, i.e. serve. If, however, the will to serve is completely absent, then we can only speak of something dead, for then the beingness in the form still remains in resistance. It cannot decide to serve, is will-less, inactive, thus completely lifeless, although the form harbours spirituality within itself, which is, however, still full of rebellion against the power that has determined it to serve. This beingness is still devoted to God’s adversary and he prevents it from serving. Hence God also takes away all power from it to be active because this activity would again only apply to God’s adversary. And the beingness will not be released from its lifeless state until it has expressed its will to be of service itself. Only then will the external form be loosened, that is, it can change within itself, and it is possible that it will completely reshape itself after an inconceivably long time and that this will also happen visibly to people, so that life is now also recognizable externally …. thus the form can no longer be called lifeless since it now testifies to constant activity, thus to life ….

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The innermost instinct instructs the human being correctly as long as he strives to fulfil God’s will. And thus he need not fear doing something wrong, for the intelligences embodied in him, the substances of his soul, instruct him to think and act. The soul must now, as it were, will as God wills, since the human will has consciously subordinated itself to the divine will. An own will that is contrary to God is then ruled out. It is impossible that a human being who wants to fulfil God’s will can do something that does not correspond to the divine will, only his will must be turned towards God in all seriousness, not just thoughtlessly spoken words outwardly intended to testify to a will subordinate to God. Whoever seeks to come close to God will always endeavour to live in the divine will, and everything he does and thinks is conditioned by (in?) his now present will. The beingness in man is now determined by divine spiritual power, i.e., the spiritual outside of man seeks the connection with the spiritual in man and as it were transfers his will, which is in harmony with the divine will, to the spiritual sheltered in man. This immediately recognizes the will and obeys it without contradiction …. the human being therefore acts out of his innermost impulse, which is the working of spiritual forces from the beyond. What the human being now begins may sometimes give the impression of not being right, and yet the human being should not allow himself to be put off …. it is right, but not always immediately comprehensible to man. For insofar as he turns to God and thus establishes the right relationship with the father as His child, the father also protects him from wrong thinking and from every wrong action. He does not allow His child to go astray, He carefully guides it along the right path, even if this path still seems impassable to the child so that it fears that it has gone wrong. The human being must then prove his firm faith and deep trust in God that God can never allow something to happen which is detrimental to His creature’s soul if the latter asks God for help for the sake of his soul. The heartfelt prayer ‘lord, Thy will be done’ is complete submission and yet at the same time the utilization of His care, for now the earthly child has completely handed over its life, its actions and thoughts to the heavenly father in the belief that it will now be cared for and guided by Him Himself. And God will not let this faith come to nothing …. And from the very beginning the human being is relieved of his responsibility, for God Himself now determines the thoughts and actions of the one who has sacrificed his free will to Him in deepest love and devotion ….

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Everything in the universe bears witness to the love, omnipotence and wisdom of God. What is, became through love, for love is the origin of all creation. It is the power that was the precondition for the emergence of creation and that became form through the divine will. Every work of creation therefore reveals God’s never-ending will to love, but at the same time also an unsurpassable wisdom that underlies His thoughts placed into the universe as works. Countless creations have come into being, each work is a world in itself, as it were, and yet all creations are interrelated, complementing each other in the wisest order and created for each other. Countless variations reveal the wisest creative spirit in every work of creation …. there is nothing that is defective or not fit for purpose …. there is nothing that is imperfect or in need of improvement. Everything is of the highest wisdom and extremely perfect …. What His wisdom considered and His love wanted, His omnipotence brought to fruition …. There are no limits to the possibilities of realization where God’s will is active. Everything is at His disposal, His power surpasses His creative will and therefore He can realize everything He wants. He is therefore the unlimited ruler of all creation, for what He was able to create must continue to be subject to His will, since His will called it into being. Therefore, where God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence work together, new creations must come into being and these must again bear witness to God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence, i.e. whatever has love as its designer must radiate love, i.e. be recognizable as a work of love …. What God’s wisdom allowed to come into being as it is must likewise appear extremely wise and surpass every human imagination …. just as divine omnipotence must speak from every work of creation, because without it nothing that is created could come into being. But where the love, wisdom and omnipotence of God was once active, there is no passing away of it, and therefore the term ‚eternal‘ inevitably belongs to it. What God wanted in His love, determined in His wisdom and allowed to come into being through His omnipotence can never pass away …. God’s creation is imperishable, i.e. that which has the love, wisdom and omnipotence of God as its producer must be so perfect that it is destined for eternity. It can only experience an outward change through divine will, which however again requires the love, wisdom and omnipotence of God, this change therefore never means a dissolving of that what is, but only the reaching of the aim, which God has set for the work of creation from the beginning, that therefore, since all works of creation correspond to a purpose, that purpose can only be reached through a remodelling of the work of creation. God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence are irrevocably the origin of all that exists and therefore must inevitably be recognized, whereby man now proves his faith in a God being Who is perfect beyond all measure ….

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The diversity of what God has created requires an extremely wise government, because every creation must fulfil its task, and everything must also be preserved and cared for. And the seemingly transient must become visible again in a new form. And so God directs and guides everything according to the wisest plan, and this guidance in the work of creation means even more than the creation of things themselves. What exists must live, i.e. be active …. Activity must have meaning and purpose. being active requires power, which must be constantly supplied to all creation. Nothing happens without a plan, nothing that is not founded in God’s wisdom and love. And everything is guided by His will …. The divine will is the sceptre, it is expressed in everything that happens …. in everything that is and in everything that lives …. Everything must submit to His will if it does not want to forfeit His love and grace through its resistance and be banished from His neighbourhood. But submitting to His will is by no means a humiliation …. On the contrary, it is a sharing in His power and glory, whereas resisting is weakness and powerlessness and therefore results in a deplorable state. Creation harbours within itself the essence that strives towards God again and therefore submits to the divine will, albeit under a certain compulsion …. but it has already declared its willingness to comply with the divine will and was therefore added to the works of creation, which divine will brought into being for a purpose. There are countless worlds in the universe, and all of them have the one will before them …. which unites the deepest love, highest wisdom and greatest omnipotence in itself ….

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The bridge leading from earth to the beyond is very rarely travelled and yet it would be the most natural path to God …. People have been made so aware of their distance from God that they now only seek Him in the distance. They thereby create an even greater distance for themselves by rejecting every possibility of being able to approach Him, i.e. they consider every explanation of this to be implausible. It seems much more credible to them that God leaves His small creatures unnoticed, that they only enliven His creations for a short time and that the eternal deity is too sublime to take care of the children of men in such a way that He enters into contact with them. However, such connections can only come about if there is faith in them. Through His act of salvation Jesus Christ Himself has built the bridge from the eternal kingdom to earth, and anyone who longs for God and for those regions where His spirit’s true home is may enter it. Yet how rarely is the bridge entered, it is not recognized as such, and the grace which Jesus acquired for people is ignored and not desired. The beings of the beyond constantly try to guide people towards it; they try to direct their thoughts upwards and thus want to make contact with them in order to draw their attention to the great grace and awaken in them the desire to speak to God themselves …. For then they have entered the bridge that leads from earth to the beyond …. Every prayer is a conscious connection with God, it is the silent dialogue of a child with its father …. Every thought of the beyond is likewise the stepping onto this bridge, for wherever the human being longs to cross over into spiritual regions, there is an access to that bridge which connects the beyond with the earth through divine will. And it is by no means presumptuous to want to take the path to the father directly. He will come to meet His child who has taken the path to Him in faithful trust, for He is close to those who desire to be close to Him and He is distant to those who believe themselves to be far away from Him. Faith establishes the connection, and where there is no faith, where the possibility of a connection is doubted, there the human being erects barriers for himself, for him this connection is not possible either. Yet what a blessing it is for humanity when God Himself obviously descends to earth and clearly marks the bridge so that the human being can find faith more easily if only he has the good will to do so …. Time and again He gives evidence of His care for His living creations. He wants to dispel their erroneous opinion that He is unattainable for people …. He courts their love because He wants to make them happy with His love …. And thus He makes Himself known to them in an obvious way, and He admonishes them to take the same path, to use the bridge which leads to Him, which He, in His immense love, kindness and mercy, has built from the kingdom of the eternal to earth in order to shorten their long pilgrimage on earth, for their sojourn in spiritual realms will, as it were, transport them away from earthly life ….

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The human being finds himself in lack of freedom of thought if wisdoms are transferred to him which are human results, that is, if intellectually acquired knowledge is conveyed to his fellow human being again and, as it were, presented to him as irrefutable, so that his train of thought is led in a direction which deviates from the truth but he himself does not even consider that he might be thinking wrongly. To a certain extent this direction of thought has now been forced upon him, and it is now difficult for the beings in the beyond to convey such thoughts to him which make him doubt the correctness of those wisdoms which have been imparted to him in a scholastic way. This is where the earthly children with the right knowledge should intervene helpfully by undauntedly trying to explain the error of those teachings. They must stimulate such misguided people to think for themselves, they must try to prove to them that a wisdom that comes from heaven …. that was gained without any prior knowledge …. is indisputably more credible than that which was devised by human understanding and passed on by human will. And mention must be made unflinchingly of divine activity, for only knowledge acquired in such an extraordinary way will find acceptance if the human being recognizes that his own knowledge is inadequate. But usually his resistance will increase as he does not want to give up his previous knowledge. However, pointing out to them that they have a duty to reflect on the knowledge they have been given can sometimes lead to success, for then their spiritual friends will be able to impart many a thought to them. Without spiritual help, however, they will hardly find the path to truth, for in order to acquire it a person has to be mentally active himself; however, he must not allow himself to be forced into thinking or accept something as truth without having acquired it as spiritual knowledge through his own mental work ….

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Everything that is offered to you for transcription is God-ordained from above. A circle of teaching spiritual beings has been commissioned to instruct you and there are certain conditions which both the teacher and the one being taught have to observe. The individual proclamations are accordingly, i.e. only those teaching beings whose requirements are conscientiously fulfilled by the earth child can come into action. The spiritual beings are subject to divine laws, i.e., they act according to divine will, thus they cannot arbitrarily disregard the conditions and still teach the earth child. And so the teaching beings will always be ready who are allowed to teach the earth child according to divine instructions. In addition to educating the recipient, every instruction also aims to constantly instruct the ignorant souls in the beyond, and therefore topics are often chosen which are particularly worth knowing for them, which therefore sometimes do not particularly satisfy the earthly child but are extremely important to the souls in the beyond. For every proclamation gives light and enlightenment, every proclamation is preceded by a question on earth or in the beyond. But God often also uses people to ask questions so that He can answer them. For only through perpetual questions can man enrich himself in knowledge, but especially when God Himself is his teacher and has assured him the favour of answering every question asked. For now it is of utmost advantage to utilize these privileges in order to fill every gap in human knowledge and to gather spiritual wealth, for the human being need never fear that erroneous or incomprehensible proclamations will be conveyed to earth, which therefore could result in something other than real good, even if they initially appear erroneous, for God’s messengers can proclaim nothing other than the truth to the earthly child who wants to receive truth ….

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