The path through matter is an endlessly long captivity for the beingness, and therefore liberation must mean redemption for the being. The more oppressive the constraint was, the more blissful is the liberation from the form, and therefore it is of greatest value when man can completely separate himself from material things, for the sooner the soul can get rid of its burden and soar upwards. To become free from form means to become free from desire, that earthly things no longer seem desirable to him and he has therefore overcome all matter. And then it is easy for the spirit to unfold. Matter is the obstacle to spiritual endeavour. It is there, actually for man, but is nevertheless to be overcome, i.e., the inclination for it must be torn out of the heart, because if man desires something earthly, then he again so to speak establishes the connection with this earthly through his wrong love and therefore forms himself regressively. His desire is for an outer form which he has already overcome, and the immature spiritual hidden in it now seeks to increase by drawing the already advanced spiritual into its sphere and this again means increased desire for matter …. (1.3.1941) The stay in the form should be a compulsion for the spiritual, so that it seeks to become free of it. But once it is free of this outer form and has also gone through further forms in the further phases of development, it is no longer allowed to carry a desire for those outer forms which it has already overcome. Rather, it must learn to despise them, i.e. they must no longer mean so much to the human being that he desires them. But where the desire for matter is still very strong, one can speak of an overpowering of the immature spiritual, to which the human being falls victim. The human being’s will is weak and allows himself to be dominated by the spiritual in matter, thus he again falls prey to the activity of satanic forces which hold matter up to the human being as a deception in order to prevent the endeavour towards God, the conscious prayer, and this force also succeeds …. Then matter absorbs the already more mature spiritual substance again, so that the immature spiritual substance increases within itself, which detracts from the spiritual substance which is in the process of higher development, thus signifying spiritual decline for the human being. Such a person will constantly be under the spell of what he desires. It will become increasingly more difficult for him to free himself from it and he will gradually become a slave to that which he should dominate, i.e. overcome; then the power which should be defeated will begin to rule and the result will be that the human being will rarely be able to free himself from this power, that he will still pay homage to it in the beyond by striving for earthly possessions and thinking little or not at all of his soul. In the most favourable case he can therefore remain on the same level. However, the danger is very obvious that the desire for earthly goods is so great that God corresponds to this desire and the spiritual is once again incorporated into this form which fulfils its sensing and thinking …. that the being has to travel the same path and once again feels the external form as an oppressive burden until it has finally freed itself from the desire for it …. until it has finally overcome matter and desires only spiritual good ….

Amen

Anyone who makes it his task to preach the gospel to his fellow human beings, who uses every opportunity to promote the kingdom of God, who always bears in mind the great suffering in the beyond, which is approached by souls who did not find God in earthly life, and therefore wants to help people as far as he is able, is doing the greatest work of neighbourly love and will one day reap a great reward in eternity. The purpose of all creation is the redemption of the spiritual, and if man contributes to redemption he fulfils the greatest and most important task of his earthly life. If the divine will is conveyed to humanity through the human mouth, it is possible to constantly instruct people within the framework of the natural, and countless souls can participate in this instruction, both giving and receiving. The giver thereby practices love, and the receiver prepares himself for loving activity, for the receiver, having recognized the value of the gift, will do the same …. he will want to give where he can, because again love urges him to do so. And thus all spiritual beings participate in the work of redemption, and it is truly the most beautiful labour of love to be active on behalf of people’s souls. This is the field which is constantly to be cultivated, the field from which the weeds are first to be removed and good seed sown so that ripe fruit can one day be harvested …. And a person should never let a field lie fallow, he should never pass by a person who is in spiritual need, for his soul begs for help and thanks him a thousandfold if he grants it this help. As long as the human being dwells on earth neither the hardship of a struggling soul nor the happiness of a redeemed soul is apparent to him, yet once he has entered the kingdom of the beyond he will recognize how much a person can contribute towards reducing the spiritual hardship on earth and helping the souls to attain beatitude in the beyond. And that is why the time on earth should be used for soul work; the spiritual kingdom should be constantly promoted; the name of Jesus and His teaching should be fought for and everything should be done to remove the state of darkness in humanity. It is not necessary for servants of God who are sanctioned before the world to proclaim the gospel. Every person can do this if only he has the will to serve God and bring souls to Him. For this will will enable him to always teach what is beneficial to the soul for its salvation …. God will give the person who wants to be redemptively active the right knowledge, put the right words into his mouth, lead souls to him who need his help and give him strength to work for Him, for if he offers himself to Him for service he will be accepted as a labourer in the lord’s vineyard and the work will always be assigned to him in such a way that he can manage it …. For the lord needs many reapers when the harvest will be ripe, and He accepts everyone who offers himself to Him for service ….

Amen

The visible world consists of a hardened substance, is taken from the spiritual, is intended to serve the spiritual as an abode and dissolve again into spiritual substance as soon as it has fulfilled its purpose. Thus everything that is visible is given a task, and it also fulfils this task as long as the human being has no influence on it. But by virtue of his will he can also be obstructive, he can cause the spiritual substance to dissolve before the time allotted to him by prematurely destroying a visible work of creation, before it has therefore fulfilled its purpose. And then the human being acts against divine order, for he violates laws given by God Himself, he interferes with divine destiny, he prevents the spiritual substance from maturing, and this in turn seeks compensation for the injustice it has suffered, since such an interruption prolongs its course of development and it has to endure the state of suffering correspondingly longer. This prematurely released spirituality oppresses people and, as it is still immature itself, in a way that also has a damaging effect on souls. Everything that is visible cannot have a damaging effect on people, for it is banished in form, but once it has become invisible to people the spiritual has control over them, albeit in various ways. That is why destructions, no matter of which kind, always have a negative effect for man, and it is now understandable that the spiritual state of men is on the one hand a result of the destructiveness of these, but that conversely the latter will increase again because the spiritual beings feel well in freedom and believe to be able to flee from the bound state. Thus much becomes invisible, and just as much imperfect spirituality hopes to be able to escape the form forever, and therefore it urges men to use their free will in such a way that they destroy visible creations, because it believes to be able to keep freedom through this. However, this is soon taken away from it again, and now the spiritual substance is in great distress, for it feels the new compulsion even more agonizingly than before, and its agitation is expressed in the most diverse ways but always in such a way that people are harassed in its environment …. that the human being’s soul feels tormented in an often unbearable way, that it loses its courage to live, is exposed to physical illnesses, is intolerant or even openly opposes God …. And these are always the effects of such malicious destruction of divine creations, which have serious consequences and bring the greatest earthly and spiritual disadvantage. For they are actions against the divine order and therefore they must have a detrimental effect on the body and soul. For forces opposing God are always at work and try to control people, to abuse their free will and to destroy that which God allowed to come into being for the higher development of the imperfect spiritual ….

Amen

Countless beings have to fight with their outer form so that they reach the maturity the being needs for the last earthly path of life in the flesh. The fight with the respective outer form earns it spiritual progress, without the fight the being would always remain on the same level. Overcoming the form is therefore a victory over it, and every victory increases strength. In this case the spiritual unites with the spiritual; thus an increase of spiritual substance takes place, which now again receives a new shell in order to continue the course of development. Every such reshaping is at the same time a gathering of spiritual substances that dwell unbound in the atmosphere and long for the form again for the final liberation. The latter have become free through the violent destruction of solid form and now need a new place to mature further. And in most cases such freed beings return to the plant world, provided they have already reached a certain degree of maturity by carrying out a serving activity in their previous form, otherwise they are allowed to revitalize a form that is somehow beneficial to humanity. The more willing the being is to carry out a serving activity, the less time it takes for the new outer form to be defeated again, and the faster the course through plant regions goes, for there the outer form can already be changed in a very short time, and it becomes less and less burdensome for the being. But some natural disasters always have to release the spiritual for the first time, and again the spiritual has to be in a certain state of maturity that the earth life change can now start through the living creation and this is so to speak the last course which the entities have to cover so that they become completely free of every outer form. And only then can the being overcome the obstacles of its own free will and reach ascent through constant struggle ….

Amen

Love is life, love is power, love is cause and love is goal. Love is the epitome of all that is divine, for God is love in Himself. Love is furthermore a state of rapture, a state of awareness of power, a state of activity and the most intimate devotion …. Love is the influx of divine strength, therefore a union with God, which can take place in the most varied degrees, therefore never reaches its climax, but constantly takes place more intimately and therefore more powerfully. Where love now reigns, where every activity is dictated by love, the most blissful state must take hold of everything that enters the circuit of love’s activity. For love cannot help but trigger happiness, because it transmits the most divine to everything it grasps. However, where the working of love is resisted, love remains ineffective, for everything divine must be accepted willingly, otherwise a state contrary to God would result, a state of compulsion and influence. But to live in love, to be filled with love, is a God-like state and can never be associated with a lack of freedom of will, for everything that opens itself to God receives …. what resists or closes itself off comes away empty handed ….

He who is love in himself also constantly gives out love, but can never stay and give where there is not love as well. Therefore love will always find itself to love. However, where love is missing, there is no life, no light, no strength and no bliss, but spiritual death and darkness. What is, became through love, consequently, where love is not, there must also be a state which is equal to non-being insofar as neither strength nor light flows towards the beingness, it therefore remains in inactivity and darkness …. a state that cannot be called life ….

(6.3.1941) Only love is fulfilment, and where it is not, there is emptiness, misery and torment, for love brings the being into contact with God, and this means a merging of that which was originally one but separated from eternal love. To be far from God means to wander restlessly without realization of its outcome, without knowledge of the glories which grow out of the union with the original power …. to be far from God means to be exposed to all that is impure and lightless and to be hindered and oppressed by it in every way. It means complete powerlessness and lack of will towards these forces …. it means captivity and endless bondage of the will …. And there is no other solvent than love, for it alone provides the being with the strength to liberate itself, it alone gives knowledge and is therefore the path upwards …. For love accomplishes everything, it redeems all that is bound, it strengthens all that is weak, it illuminates the darkness, it helps to overcome and thus weakens the power that previously held the being bound. Love is the divine fluid that completely dissolves all resistance, that is unimaginable in its effectiveness, that therefore nothing can resist. To live in love means to live with God Himself, thus also to be master over all forces of darkness …. But loving with God guarantees eternal light and eternal glory ….

Amen

These are the preconditions for the working of the spirit in man, that he endeavours to live according to divine will, that he educates himself to humility and peaceableness, that he is prepared to serve God and the neighbour, and that he is active in love and thus forms himself to become an image of God. The spirit from God in the human being enters into an alliance with the divine spirit outside himself, which is an emanation of God; however, everything divine requires a receptacle which is worthy of receiving such precious contents, and therefore the first condition is that the human being is pure of heart, that he detests what is not good and noble …. that he strives for truth and hates lies …. that he does not harbour dishonest thoughts, keeps away from all unkindness, is just in thought and deed and serves in love …. Then his heart shapes itself in such a way that it is worthy and therefore also capable of receiving the divine spirit, for then the spirit in the human being is free and can connect with the spiritual beyond itself, which stands in perfection and therefore receives the emanation of strength from God and imparts it to the spirit in the human being. The sending out of the Holy Spirit is therefore the transmission of divine power through spiritual bearers of light and power, i.e. perfect beings who have found union with God and now constantly receive and pass on light and power …. Everyone who asks for the spirit from God from the bottom of his heart and in deepest humility will be allowed to receive the divine spirit, the holiest from God, as long as he endeavours to live in such a way that he is worthy of the most delicious gift of grace. He must recognize God as the highest and most perfect being, Who is powerful beyond all measure and wise, and thus believe …. He must ask for His love and grace, i.e. demand what God wants to hand out …. and he himself must be active in love so that God’s love can communicate itself to him …. And God will overshadow a person who thus moulds himself with His grace …. He will give him unmeasured what is a divine share …. His spirit …. He will guide him into right thinking, enlighten his spirit and give him strength to recognize what is right. He will enrich his knowledge, and creation will be revealed to him brightly and clearly. He will know the meaning and purpose of it, he will penetrate into the spiritual kingdom and only then will he realize the significance of his life on earth. But man himself must do one thing …. he must willingly open his ear if the spirit from God wants to make itself known to him …. The heart, his spiritual ear, must declare itself ready to receive and thus prepare itself by closing itself off from all the world, by focussing only on God and pleadingly awaiting the divine gift …. And on gentle wings the spirit of God descends upon those people who are willing to hear the divine word …. For when they turn their hearts upwards they listen to the word that comes from above and which resounds in the heart so delicately and subtly that it can only be heard when love for God sharpens the spiritual ear, when all worldly desire falls silent and the longing of the heart is only for the divine gift. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit is therefore dependent on man himself, on his will, his faith and his love …. Where the will is turned towards God, where faith in divine activity is strong and where love for God and neighbour establishes the connection with God, there the spirit from God will enlighten people and introduce them to all truth ….

Amen

The spiritual possibilities of help are unlimited, and if the human being entrusts himself completely to the forces in the beyond he will be able to achieve the greatest success. The earnest will for perfection and the call for the help of the good spiritual powers guarantees these successes, for this is the activity of the mature beings in the beyond to instruct the immature, ignorant but willing earthly child, and thus these beings continue the work of redemption by opening up every possibility for the seeking and desiring human being to attain perfection. And the human being could now go his earthly path without any worries if he has profound faith and recognizes the activity of the forces in the beyond. Unfortunately, however, this deep faith in the most devoted assistance is rarely present, and a lack of faith makes every attempt more difficult or weakens success. And therefore, where the work of the powers in the beyond is hindered by a lack of faith, the human being must struggle incredibly if he wants to come to realization. He must as it were now do everything himself what the spiritual powers would have gladly and joyfully taken from him, he must constantly ask that he receives strength and favour from God. This will not be denied to him, for God now instructs His servants in the beyond to help the earthly children and to guide their thoughts correctly. Thus God Himself gives His permission for these beings in the beyond to help the human being, albeit completely unrecognized. However, this makes the process of mental transference extraordinarily difficult, for people simply do not carry out the task which results in the soul’s higher development …. They do not hear the divine word directly …. They only need the will to God, and if this is strong, it breaks all obstacles, and then God Himself places the gospel into his heart. However, a person can praise himself happily if he consciously endeavours to make contact with the beings in the beyond and entrusts himself to them unreservedly. The slightest call is enough and these beings are now, as it were, responsible for man’s development. For now they use his will in such a way that they themselves enter the human being mentally and now he cannot think and act differently than the beings in the beyond want him to and therefore his life now has to bring spiritual success. With the call the human being has already given his consent to allow the spiritual power to work and he is now relieved of responsibility as long as his heart longs for God, i.e. the will has become seriously active to live pleasing to God. Then he must inevitably ascend and his earthly life will truly not be lived in vain ….

Amen

This is given to you as confirmation that everything will be fulfilled as God’s spirit has revealed to you. The world does not believe that the decisive hour is close at hand, it believes that the time which the Lord had revealed on earth has not yet come, and therefore it will not face the event in nature well prepared. And for this reason the Lord repeatedly reminds people not to forget about Him. But God’s spirit does not err and when it speaks every word should be believed and fearlessly passed on because the speaker uses the language of God. He only repeats His will. And those whom He selects have the right knowledge. They accept and reiterate what is His will. Their human thought is guided to perceive what corresponds to the truth. Their power of judgment is sharpened, their love for justice and truth protects them from erroneous thought and when they speak, every word corresponds to the truth. And thus take the following message:

Every world event is related to humanity’s spiritual condition. Admittedly, the reasons are mere earthly disputes, and therefore its development and its effect are seen from a purely worldly point of view. However, that the world event is primarily the consequence of humanity’s spiritual low level, so to speak, and simultaneously should be a means to elevate same is beyond the understanding of worldly minded people and therefore they don’t want to believe it either, in spite of all the signs. Hence the event in nature will find them unprepared and they have no opportunity to protect themselves or to escape. Consequently it is foolish to ignore God’s advice when it is offered to people. It is the divine Creator’s will that the conflict, which presently involves half the world, shall remain undecided because human beings shall not obtain their presumed right by force of arms. God gave people the commandment to love each other and this commandment is no longer heeded. Humanity inflicts every imaginable evil on itself and therefore also has to be struck severely; God Himself has to take on this office of judge that they should recognise a Lord above themselves Who knows of every injustice. That is why you should not invalidate God’s voice; you should not question the truthfulness and not determine for yourselves the moment when this prophesy shall be fulfilled …. The world is in serious trouble and can only be saved by this natural disaster which will follow immediately after the great decisive battle (offensive), which will indeed decide a tremendous struggle between nations but which lacks all noble causes and is merely a battle for power and importance …. And this battle will be stopped by a higher power, and it will come to pass as it is proclaimed ….

Amen

People show little understanding for a process which is of profound significance if they do not utilize the results of a mental connection with the beyond. It is extremely valuable for a person to be instructed by spiritual knowing powers in the will of God, and it is an undeserved favour if these instructions may also be received by fellow human beings, thus they are effectively offered the same as an earthly child who devotes himself to God …. so that every person can share in this undeserved grace. However, hardly any notice is taken of it, and this proves that the process does not seem extraordinary to them at all. On the other hand, however, nothing unusual can obviously be communicated to people if they are not to be forced into a compulsory faith. And by believing too weakly people deprive themselves of a grace which, if it were utilized, could bring them the highest maturity of soul. If a person recognizes divine activity he will also commit himself with full conviction and then God’s grace will flow to him. But those who ignore the messages from above, i.e. who do not make the content their own, will only receive a limited flow of divine strength. And their thinking will be misguided, for they rely on the judgement of eloquent people who reject it out of arrogance because they cannot and do not want to understand that they themselves were not called upon for a task, since their degree of maturity appears higher to them or they want to feign a high degree of maturity. People must therefore try to pass on to each other so that God’s grace is utilized properly. And the way of imparting must be shown to fellow human beings time and again, their own inactivity must be described to them and also the ignorance which preceded this realization. For only when they are convinced that a mysterious process is taking place here, which is earthly unsolvable, are they inclined to familiarize themselves with the content, and then the game is won, for they cannot raise any objections against the content, they find themselves in the train of thought, and now they start to think about some things, or they ask questions, whereby they now mentally desire instructions and thus enter into contact with knowing powers themselves and this is the actual purpose, that the knowing beings in the beyond find access to people and can now carry out their actual task on them …. to mentally instruct them themselves ….

Amen

The truth-seeking person certainly allows himself to be taught but first subjects everything to a thorough examination before he accepts what he is given. And that is his right, for he has been given the intellect to apply it and only then decide what he considers worthy of acceptance. But what he subjects to scrutiny must come from a source that seems to him to guarantee truth, i.e. the will to accept truth must let him draw from this very source …. he must therefore, on the assumption that he is being taught truthfully, choose teachers from whom he presupposes knowledge, otherwise there can be no question of a desire for truth. However, a person will never want to seek information where he suspects ignorance or untruth. And likewise, if a person allows himself to be instructed spiritually, he must first be convinced that the teaching powers are both knowledgeable and truthful. They must never doubt that they are knowledgeable and only want to transmit the purest truth, then what is offered will also always be thought through and can then be accepted as spiritual property. And then the human being will also recognize very clearly that he is living in truth. Conscious or unconscious deception is then ruled out and all doubt must disappear from the heart, even where the commandments cannot be subjected to scrutiny because the human being can neither be provided with evidence nor can he convince himself as long as he lives on earth. In the latter case it is therefore only commanded to unconditionally accept everything that is imparted to the human being from above, i.e. from knowing forces. For God Himself holds His protective hand over a person who desires the pure truth, and He will not allow him to go astray as long as he takes the path to the truth about God, no matter how much it may appear to his fellow human beings that forces are at work which lack knowledge. God does not arbitrarily let the messages go to earth if they do not correspond to His will. Nor does He allow the ignorant forces access to a person whose will it is to stand in truth, and therefore the human being can also receive the chapters which appear incomprehensible to him with complete certainty without having to fear that even the slightest error has been made. For what would perfection be like if those forces working on God’s behalf were denied love of truth and knowledge …. Access would then not be denied to the ignorant forces, and then the writings could not be believed either. And therefore do not doubt when the spirit from God expresses itself and gives explanations in a way that is not entirely comprehensible to you, which you can only accept but never prove. Man can err, but God never errs, and therefore what is imparted to people by invoking God and His strength from above can never be untruth ….

Amen

The willingness to serve God presupposes love for Him, for the human being recognizes a being above himself to Whom he feels subject, but to Whom he is also devoted and willing to do anything for this being, thus he feels love for God. Since the human being now offers his service to God of his own free will, this is a conscious turning towards and longing for Him. It is an awareness of his belonging to God, and thus the separation from Him is already overcome, even though the human being has not yet reached the state of perfection which he is able to attain on earth. The love for God, however, has awakened in him and the will to live to please Him …. There are no special characteristics which, purely outwardly, already reveal the bond with God, for everything that works outwardly does not stand up to the many tests which God allows to come upon precisely those earthly children who want to enter His service in order to steel their will. These trials should increase the inner desire for God, the human being should entrust himself to Him in greatest adversity and always see his father in Him, his ending and also his end. And he can only do all this if he is deeply inward, if everything external does not cling to him, if only the longing to be united with God fills him ….. therefore, love for God must be inherent in him, it must determine his every action, thought and speech. And an earthly child who is in love, i.e. who carries God in his heart, will not be able to be anything other than lovingly active, and thus the bond of love will become ever more intimate. God Himself assesses the feeling that a person has for Him in his heart and He truly knows best to what extent a person’s heart is shaped to receive the divine lord. Man attaches great importance to a visible expression of God …. He always wants to have proof and therefore only believes when there are so many obvious miraculous signs that doubt is impossible. But God does not want people to believe only when He works signs and wonders …. He wants the divine word to be accepted without signs, He wants man to recognize it as the word of God, for man’s merit is indisputably higher if he accepts the truth from the heavens without it being proven to him by signs. Man is then also more easily inclined to believe that his love is not yet great enough to be honoured by God with the inner word. The lord looks at the hearts of His own, and whichever He now finds without fault, He will make unspeakably happy by taking up residence in it Himself. For He assured people of this when He walked on earth, that He would come to be united with His own on earth. And His own will also recognize Him when He comes. But first their faith must be so strong that they recognize the lord in the word, for then they will already be intimately united with Him and when He Himself appears their love, which they have already proven to Him before, will be crowned ….

Amen

The concept of eternity is incomprehensible to man as long as he still dwells on earth; but at the moment of death his soul is free and he now understands the incomprehensible …. There is no law of space and time, there is no physical limitation, everything is like an endless sea that embraces past, present and future; the spirit is free of all restraint and also master of time and space. Wherever it wants to be, it can be there, whatever it imagines is present to it. Nothing prevents it from dwelling in regions that are bright, light and clear, provided the soul has reached a degree of maturity that allows it to soar into regions of light. It leaves behind everything that seemed desirable to it on earth, it takes part in the emanation of light from God, it immerses itself in the flood of divine love, it hears the choirs of heavenly hosts, it has entered through the gate of eternal life into a kingdom of light, which is a different world than the earthly world. It turns towards the light, it seeks union with spiritually perfect beings and thus increases its state of bliss. And thus life in eternity is a thousand times more desirable than even the most beautiful earthly existence for a soul which has lived its life in a manner pleasing to God and is now called away into the eternal kingdom. God knows what degree of maturity a person can reach on earth and calls him to Himself if his soul is in danger or if the person has fulfilled His requirements …. And people should always leave it up to God when His love concludes a person’s life, people should always be grateful to God when He redeems a soul from its external shackles. A silent submission to God’s will should always fill people who are destined to experience severe earthly suffering due to the passing away of people close to their heart. For if they love them they should only consider the state of light and rejoice and be glad that this soul has travelled the path on earth and has now finally come to an end. And every prayer should only be for the attainment of maturity of soul, for this is the prerequisite for a state in the beyond which is enviable and compensates for all earthly suffering and torment. However, people who lack maturity of soul are to be pitied, for they still go through a hard school in the hereafter and must now first travel the path of purification, often in the most sensitive way. The struggle of life is easy to name compared to the suffering that now awaits the soul in order to reach that state which grants entry into the spheres of light. Unspeakable efforts still have to be made until the soul has loosened all fetters and can soar upwards without any ballast. For everything impure that still clings to the soul holds it back to earth as if with chains; it longs for it, shares in the suffering and pain of its loved ones and is thus hindered in its flight upwards. And even if it longs for the light, it still does not have the maturity to be a bearer and giver of light, and it is now a long path in the beyond, which it also experiences as a long time, since the laws of time and space have not yet been completely abolished and thus the concept of ‘eternity’ is still inconceivable to the soul. He who enters the light only leaves behind on earth what he has overcome and he truly does not long to return …. But he who leaves earth in a lack of maturity of soul is still very close to earth and tries to get in touch with his loved ones. He suffers, just as people on earth suffer from the separation from each other, and yet this separation is only so short and can be completely bridged as long as the soul already prays and pleads on earth that light and grace may flow to it through God’s love and that the time will be used in accordance with divine will …. For its death will be an easy gliding over into eternal realms, and it will gladly and joyfully leave behind everything on earth which hinders its flight upwards ….

Amen

The inner urge to do a good deed should never go unheeded. It is the divine voice that prompts the human being to do so, it is the quiet admonition to increase the maturity of the soul, and this will always be promoted if the human being does what the inner voice advises him to do. If a person looks around him with open eyes, he will see countless opportunities to be active in love. But he should not pass them by, thinking only of his own good and leaving his fellow human being alone in his need. Man can always be helpful, and he will never lack the strength to do so if only his will is good and he is in love. Only then will the human being fulfil the purpose of his earthly life and shape himself and his soul progressively. The path to the height wants to be paved with stones of love, then it will always be passable. Every good deed leads to many others, for love awakens reciprocal love, and if people all helped each other, love and thus God Himself would truly be among them; humanity could then only be good because it walks with God and God with it. Love redeems and frees people from the power that oppresses them, and that is why love should always be the driving force behind all thoughts and actions. Whoever has a heart full of love for his fellow human being will also be constantly active in love, he will try to reduce suffering, he will provide active help, he will help to carry everything that is difficult and always be a blessing to those around him. The world is a valley of suffering, and it has to be, as it is intended to give man the opportunity to develop in a serving way. Only then will he live his life consciously, i.e. he will recognize his purpose in life, which will only be fulfilled through constant service in love …. and only then will he attain maturity of soul, which is the prerequisite for entering a light-filled beyond, for only through service in love will all dross fall off, the soul will become free and it can now take the path upwards unhindered, it will come ever closer to its actual purpose, it will become love itself and push towards that which is also love …. It has allowed the voice of God to speak within itself, has obeyed it and has thereby come into closest contact with the One Who is love Itself ….

Amen

In a time of tribulation, those who strive to always act well and nobly will come to living faith. These will be visibly guided and come into contact with deeply believing people, and the word of God will be imparted to them in such a way that it appears acceptable to them and they therefore hear it with the heart and not just with the ear. And then their own thinking sets in. The human being enters into contact with God, has an inner dialogue with Him, and he is now mentally instructed and given an answer to every serious question addressed to God. The faith that is now inherent in such a person is deep and alive, and only such faith can bear the right fruit. He now discards everything that is still somehow connected with forms, with external actions that are carried out mechanically, and strives with complete conviction for the higher development of the spirit; he recognizes the purpose of life and now tries to bring his earthly life into harmony with what is demanded of him through faith. And God places the knowledge of His requirements into his heart Himself, He lets him clearly recognize what His will is; He also lets him recognize the worthlessness of what is human work and He reveals Himself in so many things and on all occasions so that the human being’s faith is strengthened, his will becomes increasingly more active and his heart pushes ever more intimately towards the eternal deity, which is expressed in an activity of love which ennobles and reshapes the human being so that he becomes increasingly more mature and comes closer to God. Once someone has found the right attitude towards God, that he consciously unites himself with Him, sacrifices his free will to Him and asks for His love and grace, he can no longer go astray …. God’s love seizes him and draws him to Himself, it gives him grace and strength, and all spiritual powers of help are at the person’s disposal if only he is faithful and desires God’s help. The way of life will then also be in harmony with the demands that God places on people. He will cultivate the commandment to love God and his neighbour as the first commandment and must therefore also attain the spiritual maturity which is the purpose of his earthly life. For every act of love leads upwards, every good work is a building block for eternity. And living faith is the most precious thing a person can call his own on earth …. If suffering and tribulation have led the human being to a living faith, he should be deeply grateful that God has led him through sorrow and adversity, which have only brought him the best, for only now can the human being speak of higher development; only now is it possible for him to reach spiritual maturity, as he now lives his earthly life consciously ….

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Hallowed be Thy name …. voice these words with deep devotion and, every day, remember the overwhelming love of the One Who gave you life …. and how His spirit is in you when you are in contact with Him …. You should pray to Him, speak to Him with profound faith, and profess this faith in Him by mentioning His name, by calling to Him in prayer, by praising and glorifying Him and by forever thanking Him …. And when you voice His name you should be conscious of the fact that you are speaking to the highest and most perfect Being Which you should approach with profound veneration, appealing for Its love and grace. When you become aware of how small and tiny you are compared to Him, when you lift your eyes to Him in silent reverence and entrust yourselves to Him, you will voice His name with profound depth of feeling, He will signify the most holiest of Beings and you will humbly go down on your knees to Him …. For it is the Lord’s will that you should also mention His name; it is His will that you should profess Him before the world. It is not enough that you only acknowledge Him in your hearts and only quietly enter into contact with Him on your own. It should become public knowledge that you want to belong to Him; you should pronounce His hallowed name with faith and courage, profess your love for Him and stand up to all external temptations to renounce Him. Voicing the divine name is extremely beneficial, for His name incorporates strength and each person can acquire this strength, provided that he entrusts himself to Him and passionately mentions His name …. by sincerely praying “Hallowed be Thy name ….”

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Let the little children come to Me and do not hinder them …. Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest …. Can I give you more assurance that you will not be lonely and forsaken than through these words of Mine? I am the father of the wise, the friend of the poor, the comforter of the afflicted and the defender of all who are oppressed …. Whoever takes refuge in Me can truly be relieved of every worry. And that is why you should come to Me in every adversity and present your concerns to Me, I want to be present always and everywhere where you need Me and My help, I want to guide you on all your paths towards Me, I want to turn away suffering and turn it into joy, and thus you will not be abandoned and helpless in the suffering that I allow to come upon you as a test. I desire your hearts, I want you to unite yourselves intimately with Me, I want you to be strengthened in your faith in Me and My love in the forthcoming time of adversity …. I want you to be able to stand up for Me with full conviction, that you can represent Me before the whole world. I want My love to be revealed to you so that you feel Me close to you …. I want you to become calm in your suffering, that you devotedly and faithfully entrust yourselves to Me so that I can visibly work on you, so that you realize My power and strength, so that I live in your hearts, so that you commune with Me as with your brother, so that you do not fear but believe. For My love is greater than all adversity, My arm is stronger than danger, and what means great suffering for you will bring you a state of maturity which you can never reach otherwise. And so I call out to you: Believe, love and trust …. Become like little children who carelessly leave everything to the father because they know that His love only wants the best for His children …. And come to Me in all distress, I will help you, and you shall never call upon Me for help in vain, for I hear the prayer of those who recognize Me as their father and plead with Me in all distress ….

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As soon as the earth’s core begins to move, an enormous roar will fill the air, for the earth’s surroundings sense the outbreak of the spiritual substances in the earth’s interior and is hugely affected by it. As a result of its sudden freedom, the substance, which hitherto was banished into the hardest of forms, becomes extraordinarily active and influences the already more mature spirits such that the most remarkable changes in nature ensue, since the released spiritual substance, still being at the beginning of its development, tries to shape its process of development according to its own discretion. It would like to embody itself in creations which require a higher degree of maturity. But the spiritual substances in the form object to this, and thus a battle is also fought between the already more mature spirits and the still immature ones and this results in a turbulent eruption which can be heard in the world. This will be the start of that which shall horrify the whole world …. The spiritual substance inside of earth desires light and pushes towards the surface, and the sudden change from the region of the totally unredeemed into the realm of spirits which are already nearing redemption is well suited to cause the most incredible events in nature which people cannot explain in an earthly way, nevertheless they all have their reasons …. The influx of spiritual beings, having decided and thus agreed to become helpfully active, fills the space around the earth – where the eruptions took place – with this urge to be active, which cannot flourish as yet, and incites the still unbound spirits in the atmosphere into exceptional activity, so that such natural catastrophes are accompanied by inconceivable storms and outbreaks of natural forces, the intensity and effect of which are inconceivable to the human being. As a result he will also be entirely deprived of his thinking ability, he will be so hard pressed by the spiritual substances that he will lose all rational judgment of the event and in this weak and passive state he puts up with everything.

Once the spiritual substance can manifest itself in some form or other and has allowed its urge of doing something to break through, the eruptions on earth will subside. That which wants to be helpful separates itself from that which remains in opposition to God, rises to the earth’s surface, and joins a working spiritual being so that the latter’s activity will be carried out with greater strength than before. All these beings are as yet still unbound and they therefore rage in quite a disastrous way. They are stronger than the already bound spirits in the plant and animal world, these spirits cannot offer sufficient resistance and are unable to defend themselves, so that their external form is destroyed by the unbound spirits, and thus many creations are being dissolved by these very natural forces. And this happens with divine approval, for when the time has come which God has set for the termination of such catastrophes, He will place this liberated spiritual substance in external forms again and assign them their work …. Thus all kinds of entirely new creations will arise again …. that which lives will cease to exist and new life will arise ordained by God …. This is why such natural disasters will not last long. The more unrestrained the released forces rage, the sooner will they be banished again; otherwise it would result in total destruction which, however, is not in accordance with divine will. Only a change of what is in existence, that is, what is intended by God, is allowed, but not the destruction of what exists. Nevertheless, the changes are so enormous that the human being is faced by a divine expression of God which must shake him to the core, if he is not purely worldly minded and merely regards the process in a materialistic sense. If the voice of God does not speak to him during such events, then even the most powerful natural phenomena will fail in their purpose for his soul, and then the spirit in him will still be very far behind, with hardly any other possibility for the spiritual advancement of people who do not realise God’s magnitude and omnipotence in such natural catastrophes.

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The power of the divine word will penetrate when the battle against Christ is waged with all means. People are still allowed a certain freedom of thought, but the world will want to subjugate this too by preventing any spiritual direction that affirms Jesus Christ as the saviour of the world, i.e. by deliberately withholding all knowledge about it from people. And this leads to an obvious battle that can only be fought with the sword of the mouth. Anyone who courageously and unhesitatingly pronounces the name of Jesus and stands up for Him, even if he is in danger of losing his life, will be full of the spirit. And then it will be shown that the divine word truly has great power. It will be received with true hunger where it is proclaimed to people …. those who hear it will feel the power in themselves and it will truly do them good, for a person is in want unless God Himself takes care of him and sends him feasting and refreshment. The pure word of God, reproduced by people who have received it directly from Him, will resound so convincingly and effectively to those who carry Jesus Christ in their hearts and yet are not able to separate themselves completely from the world. They will come to clarity of thought when the divine word is preached to them, for God has endowed this word with His strength so that anyone who willingly hears it and accepts it into his heart will be permeated by this strength and will only take sides with this word in the future. And then it will become apparent that nothing of it can be refuted, that everything that will be conveyed to humanity through the bearers of this word can be accepted unconditionally. The followers of Christ cannot emerge victorious from this battle without the word of God, and indeed the spiritual superiority will be there where the pure truth, the light from the heavens, is taught. Nothing will be able to refute the bearers of this divine truth, they will uncover every ambiguity, illuminate every error and denounce every untruth, and even if they are persecuted by the representatives of God’s opposing power, they will find each other and work together, and no power on earth will be able to withstand them, for God Himself is with the fighters, and the victory will truly be where the truth …. the gift of God …. is recognized, preserved as the most sacred good and publicly represented before the world ….

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In view of the spiritual hardship, the lord Himself descends to earth again to help humanity. This is proof of His infinite love and mercy, He does not abandon people to their fate but seeks to save them from the power of the enemy. Faith in this is the first condition for recognizing the word received from above as truth. Those who lack this faith cannot be given any other proof of the truth. It is also a sign of the times that those who want to serve Him fight against Him and that they believe they are serving Him when they reject and condemn this word. The love of God is taught, but where it expresses itself is not recognized …. The words of holy scripture are only read with the mind, but not with the heart, and their interpretation is therefore often completely at variance with the actual meaning. And when God takes pity on humanity and wants to guide its spirit towards realization, He encounters fierce resistance and the outpouring of His love is disregarded and rejected as coming from the realm of demons. And thus God can reveal Himself time and again, the human being’s will stands in opposition to His love …. the human being’s will destroys the effectiveness of the divine word, for God’s love cannot be forced upon people, it has to be recognized as such in free will. And therefore the power of the divine word cannot be expressed in them either, for they themselves resist this effect of salvation and do not allow themselves to be grasped by divine love. And God does not exert the slightest compulsion on the human being’s free will …. What he does, thinks and speaks is entirely up to him; yet he will inevitably recognize the voice of God if he devotedly entrusts himself to Him and asks Him for strength and grace to do what is right and to recognize the truth. The will to stand in the truth and the will to serve God also enables a person to examine without prejudice. But this will must be present, otherwise a test with the right result is impossible. What God gives to people can also be recognized as truth as soon as the person asks God for enlightenment of spirit. However, only mental understanding is not enough to test what can only be grasped with the spirit, what the spirit from God imparts to the spirit in the human being …. Anyone who therefore examines without having intimately connected with God will hardly be able to distinguish truth from lies and his judgement will therefore not be authoritative ….

Amen

Although matter is constantly changing, it should not be considered dissolved as long as it can still be useful in some way. Only when it is completely useless has the spiritual in it overcome it, and it often takes a very long time before it can leave the old form to fulfil new tasks in a new form. Thus the earthly course through matter is an unspeakably agonizing imprisonment of very different durations for the spiritual substance, and the knowledge of this can determine the human being to shorten this state if everything is put to use in order to help the spiritual substance to serve, because matter harbours the spiritual substance within itself for an unspeakably long time, which is never allowed to serve, which is therefore left unused as a dead possession. And it is now also understandable why the human being should not attach his heart to possessions, for the greater his love for the goods of the world, the less opportunity it gives him to serve. The spiritual in such unused matter is now condemned to inactivity against its will. It is ready to serve and is not allowed to do so and suffers unimaginably as a result. If a person now dwells in the environment of matter, which therefore has to remain inactive, this has an effect on the soul of the person, which likewise falls into a certain inertia and does little to fulfil its task in life. If the soul were filled with the urge to be active it would want to give and thus divest itself of its possessions, which would result in an immediate start of activity of the spiritual in matter and thus signify the beginning of redemption. But everything spiritual, which is helped to activity, again helps man to his own higher development, which is why a man attains soul maturity considerably easier, who is in the midst of always active matter. Thus, increased earthly activity will at the same time favour the release of the banished spiritual, provided that what is now created is again something useful to man. If matter lying fallow is now destroyed by God’s will, then this again means a help for the spiritual therein insofar as it can now form itself again elsewhere and now the possibility exists to come more quickly into serving activity. Destruction of possessions forces people to make use of such matter that has not yet been authorized for activity. And this is always an advantage for the spiritual in it. Increased possession is therefore a danger, whereas the destruction of it, insofar as it is God-willed, can be a blessing for the unredeemed spiritual, which has declared itself willing to serve but was kept away from the serving purpose through human greed and love for matter. The outer shell is then forcibly dissolved, the spiritual is released from it, but only to be banished anew into the form, but now sooner finds the opportunity to serve, as otherwise endless times can pass before it is allowed to serve. So many things are created by human hands and human will which are completely useless and pointless and from which every serving function is taken away. Man should endeavour to help this spiritual substance by assigning some purpose to such useless things so that matter will one day, albeit after a long time, be dissolved, for only through service will the spiritual substance therein become free ….

Amen

Only the human being is capable of utilizing his free will, i.e. he is the only creature that is in a state of imperfection and yet has free will. This is a privilege which he can only fully appreciate once his carnal shell has been removed and he has entered spheres of light. Only then will he recognize God’s infinite love, which gave him the opportunity to use his will as he saw fit. The time of earthly change in free will is indeed a great danger for him if he misuses it, but it can also bring him the highest maturity of soul if free will is utilized correctly. And that is why every good deed is valued particularly highly if it is not caused by some kind of compulsion but is carried out in complete free will. However, once the human being has given himself to God as his own, his will is also always and constantly equal to the divine will, and then his life on earth is no longer responsible, since God Himself accepts the human being once he has sacrificed his will to Him. Giving up his own will is actually the turning point in his life. What was a compulsory state before the embodiment as a human being is to be striven for in the stage of free will …. the complete subordination of the will to the divine will. Thus the human being is to divest himself of what is actually the prerogative of the human being over all other works of creation. What the being has desired in the endless time of captivity, when it languished in bound will, it is now to give up voluntarily, only then it can become truly free and enter the light, because the giving up of the will first means spiritual freedom, because it entails becoming perfect. The being must stand in deepest humility towards God, then it will reach the highest height, for it then accepts the divine will and now carries out everything that brings about the union with God. Free will was the cause of the apostasy from God and must now also cause the return to Him again …. Since the being carried out the separation from Him of its own free will, it must now likewise seek union again of its own free will. This is indispensable because every state of compulsion is something imperfect, the being can therefore never again be judged but must first form itself. Equally, however, he must also retain the possibility of being able to use his free will in the wrong way, since this characterizes the state of freedom. But man always has the opportunity to remedy the weakness of the will by requesting spiritual power. Countless beings stand by him when he threatens to fail. They mentally present to him the great danger of spiritual regression and thus urge him to use free will correctly. No being is therefore incapable of subordinating its will to God …. it can fulfil the task it is given on earth by virtue of its free will if it surrenders this will of its own accord and is now relieved of all responsibility for earthly life ….

Amen

Man can only be allowed to enter the spiritual kingdom when his faith is so strong that there is no longer any doubt for him about the soul’s survival. This belief about the continuation of life after death also presupposes a kingdom which exists outside of the earthly. And only now does the desire awaken in the human being to know about that realm, to be informed about the whereabouts of those souls, both the perfect as well as the imperfect souls. If such a desire is awakened in the human being, then the questions and contemplations that follow are the cause for instructions in this area. For no question that a person asks spiritually remains unanswered by the knowing powers. Only the human being needs to expect the answer and heed the voice within himself. The human being, who often withdraws into his innermost being, is surrounded by beings from the beyond who all want to make themselves known to him and can likewise only be heard if the human being recognizes the presence and activity of these beings. But no being can express itself without the will of God, and it again depends on the degree of maturity of man which powers now make use of his will, and accordingly knowledge is now also imparted to him. Insofar as pure curiosity causes a person to make contact with otherworldly forces the spiritual results will hardly fully satisfy him …. so he will soon abandon his endeavour and turn back to the earthly world …. However, if the human being’s desire for truth is predominant then the forces of knowledge surrounding him will be willing to answer every question and provide him with information about everything outside of earth. And the explanations will be given to him in such a way that they are understandable to him and a picture emerges in his mind’s eye according to the teachings. These explanations can only be given pictorially, for the human being is incapable of visualizing the spiritual kingdom as it really is. However, he will form the images himself according to the maturity of his soul. The strength of faith brings these images ever closer to the truth, i.e. the deeply believing person will mentally imagine something that is very close to the truth. The believing person will also look for the deceased who are close to him in this kingdom, and if one or the other expresses himself he will only ever make people aware of what is authorized by God …. And thus fullest faith can also be given to those proclamations, even if they do not describe the life in the beyond in detail or in depth, the human being only has to desire the pure truth, and he has to desire it for the sake of the pure truth, then everything will be conveyed to him which appears worth knowing ….

Amen

It is a serious mistake to assume that God’s Word is completed and to reject every divine revelation as fabrication of evil forces. Good and evil forces try to influence the human being. All good influences fulfil God’s will, evil forces act in opposition to divine will. Ignorant forces cannot and would not want to transmit good thoughts, due to their state of darkness they are still subject to God’s adversary and therefore more susceptible to his influence than to the influence of the beings of light. However, as soon as they become aware they will give themselves into the care of the beings of light and submit to divine will, they recognise their lack of knowledge and now confer the information they receive from the beings of light to others. This has to be clarified first to disprove the erroneous assumption that forces of the beyond arbitrarily express themselves where such revelations are bestowed on humanity. The Lord Himself has taught on earth and made His Word accessible to people. It was His will that this Word should be recorded for future generations. With His Word He has announced to the people the working of His spirit. At the same time He has given the assurance that He will stay with them in His Word eternally …. ‘I will send you the Comforter, the Spirit of truth ….’

However, there is no saying of the Lord which indicates that His Word must be considered to be complete …. It was supposed to remain unchanged and therefore not one Word should be added or taken away from the Gospel which might change the meaning of the divine Word that the Lord had given to the people. But human wisdom attempted to change and to improve …. The will to render God’s Word more comprehensible often distorted or obscured its meaning with the result that even His announced working of the spirit can no longer be understood properly and hence it is not acknowledged either. Humanity has completely lost the knowledge that God speaks and wants to speak to human beings time and again, that the audible Word of God in direct union with Him is, after all, what the human being should aspire to on earth. Instead human beings are deterred by the expression of divine will in this manner. God Himself approaches them in His Word yet they no longer know Him …. The Word is no longer alive in people, they are reading the dead Word but cannot grasp its meaning. A spiritual drought has set in, the well of living water is on the verge of becoming dry. And once again God brings forth a flow of living water from the rock in the wilderness …. He allows streams of living water to flow from the innermost being of those who, in longing for the deliciously refreshing drink, open their hearts and ears to receive His divine Word. And thus the Holy Scriptures are fulfilled …. Indeed, the Lord’s Words during His life on earth would be invalid if God would no longer reveal Himself and not be with people in His Word. The human being has no authority to ascertain that His Work is finished; by taking this authority he only proves his ignorance and lack of comprehension of the written Word. He would thereby invalidate the numerous references to the working of the spirit and not understand the meaning of the divine Word himself. Consequently he belongs to those who are themselves misguided and who want to convey their misconception to other people, whilst not recognising the pure truth and therefore withholding it from their fellow human beings. God’s love is limitless and never expends itself …. This love will always and forever express itself through giving, and anyone living within love and requesting divine love may receive it at all times. God is love, God is the Word …. Whoever desires God’s love receives His Word and may receive it eternally ….

Amen

People’s spiritual state requires active help, both from the beings of light and from people on earth who have attained a certain spiritual maturity and are now able to help their fellow human beings in their time of need. The commitment of their whole person is necessary for this. But if he recognizes the danger his fellow human being is in he is also prepared to make any sacrifice as long as he himself is in love, which is the prerequisite for a spiritual degree of maturity in which he can be active in a redeeming way. The beings of light are likewise concerned about earthly people and try to bring every possible help in the form of earthly suffering, which is intended to make people reflect and turn their thoughts towards eternity. And thus every event which painfully affects people should be regarded as a necessary means of help to remedy the spiritual adversity. It is only a very small part which carries God in its heart, yet most people only smile at the mention of the divine name because they completely lack faith. As soon as life is bearable for the human being he does not worry about spiritual problems, he is so fully occupied by earthly life that thoughts about God and his purpose of earthly life only very rarely arise and are also quickly discarded again, for they make him uncomfortable as long as earthly life still brings him fulfilment. But if fate intervenes in this life with a rough hand, then earthly enjoyment seems trivial to him and his thoughts begin to wander in other regions …. Suffering leads man closer to God, and therefore he cannot be spared it at a time when mankind is far from God. Where the influence of the beings of light is too small, where the human being is not heard by his fellow human beings, God tries to make people compliant through sorrow and suffering, He does not want them to perish but wants to save them from eternal death. And humanity will still have to endure this, it will still see unspeakable suffering come upon earth, often seemingly unbearable and causing much pain, yet God’s love ordains it this way in order to help human souls, God’s truth knows the paths that lead to Him and nothing that happens is without meaning and purpose. Therefore, whatever may come, man must always know that sorrow and hardship, worries and agonies are the only means to snatch the endangered souls from ruin. For the struggle for souls must not slacken, everything must be done to bring them help, and not an hour should be hesitated when it comes to helping the lost people. For time is pressing and therefore God’s hand will intervene ever more noticeably so that people in need will find God and their souls will not be lost ….

Amen

Once he has gained knowledge, man does not need any assurance of the credibility of what is imparted to him from above, because at the same time as the divine gift he receives the ability to clearly judge what is truth and what is a lie. For he is given a task …. to pass on what he receives. And in order to be able to do this with full conviction, he himself must be a deep believer; he must not be in any doubt as to the truthfulness of what he receives. However, the prerequisite is always that he himself desires the pure truth …. If a person wants to give, he will also receive …. And only that which is presented with all the power of conviction will be accepted as truth. Since it is God’s will that the truth finds entrance among people, He needs servants devoted to Him who spread the divine word. And thus He equips them with the power of realization so that they will be able to accept what is offered to them as spiritual property and then also stand up for it towards their fellow human beings. And these people will no longer be able to spread anything other than truth. They will always clearly feel what does not agree with the pure truth and reject it, as well as on the other hand they will defend the pure truth against all opposing attacks. The assumption that a person can err if he declares himself willing to pass on the truth to his fellow human being is erroneous …. God’s omnipotence comes into action there by preventing every false utterance as soon as a person wants to work for God. God’s omnipotence now expresses itself in such a way that the human being will only speak and pass on what corresponds to the truth; he is therefore prevented, so to speak, from speaking such things that are still beyond his knowledge. And if he is determined by people to speak about it then he will freely admit that he is not yet informed about it and thus refrain from making any judgement about it. Thus, the human being will only want to pass on what he himself has accepted as truth and recognizes as such …. He will be knowledgeable, but will not want to appear knowledgeable where God has not yet granted him full insight. There are areas which the human being cannot pass through so quickly, which remain an unknown land to him for a long time, and indeed until the spirit in the human being succeeds in detaching itself from the body without any inhibition, until the human being has become even more receptive in order to be able to receive completely new wisdom, which requires a state of complete detachment from earth. And until this state occurs, the human being can hardly be taught about things that are beyond his knowledge. But a person will refrain from passing judgement for just as long because, in his love of truth, he does not want to pass on anything that is still unclear to him. For if God chooses a person to proclaim His word, then He also protects him from spreading something untrue and gives him the power of knowledge to the same extent as he desires the truth ….

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People’s spiritual attitude is so different that often the slightest cause is enough to set them against each other, and this will always be the case if they cling too tightly to a teaching which is only a variation of the teaching proclaimed by Christ. As soon as this pure teaching of Christ is moulded into a form, people then see the form rather than the core, and they regard every deviation as undermining the christian teaching. But if only the core is respected, people will remain closely united because they now live according to the teaching of Christ …. But those who set their hearts on form cannot tolerate the slightest change and regard such changes with hostility. They also believe that they are working for the kingdom of God, but they are incapable of doing so because they only teach what they have been taught by people without being able to defend it with full conviction as they lack their own experience. Anyone who wants to pass on God’s word to people must have received it from God himself, otherwise he will only speak empty words that do not penetrate the heart because they are not blessed by God with His power. The knowledge imparted by people can likewise become a living word if the connection with God is established and God Himself explains this word to the person, thus it is no longer received with the ear but with the heart. Such a person, however, will use his knowledge in order to instruct his fellow human being but will never want to separate himself from him if he thinks differently, that is, if he believes that he is in error. Living faith always brings people closer together, whereas dead faith leads to separation, because living faith lets the heart speak, whereas dead faith lets the mind speak. The heart affirms, the mind denies, where divine things are concerned …. For the heart is closer to the divine, but the mind remains more attached to the earth. The knowledge received in school very often does not agree with the divine wisdom offered from above, and there will always be conflicts between people as long as they want to examine purely intellectually. Intimate contact with God also gives people clarity of thought and what appeared to be a stumbling block is now transformed into nothing …. And so such conflicts can be resolved immediately if everyone turns to God Himself and asks for clarity. When two people argue, one of them must be in the wrong; they just don’t realize it …. And if people are serious about the truth, they leave the clarification of disputes to God Himself, but not that they fight each other or become attached to outward appearances that are irrelevant. The pure truth is only little represented among men because it was not enough for them and was surrounded by the works of men. Once the work of man is touched, there is great indignation, and man tenaciously seeks to preserve the outward appearance and pays no attention to the inner core, which is presented to him in all purity and without human trappings. Rather, the gift of God leads to disputes among people, and parties are formed for and against the teaching that is to be imparted to humanity in all purity. However, only those people who pray fervently for enlightenment will recognize this …. For they alone are in the right mind and will accept or reject as it is divine will ….

Amen

The unredeemed being’s hunger for light determines the duration of its bondage. As soon as the being perceives the light as a blessing and longs for it, it moves towards its final liberation. For now it strives towards God, thus gives up its rebelliousness and has escaped the enemy’s control forever. And this state must have occurred before the being itself can become a recipient of light and strength, because then it will no longer misuse the light and strength it receives from God but will likewise utilize it for the redemption of the bound being. Everything that is bound needs help, it cannot become free by its own strength and the beings that are in full possession of the strength must give it some of it. But they can only do this when they themselves are in the light and have experienced the state of liberation as redemption, for only then are they constantly active to redeem what is still bound. And now the unredeemed being’s desire for light and liberation is again decisive as to the abundance of light it can receive, for it must not be supplied to it arbitrarily and indiscriminately so that it is not used to increase the power of evil. For the unredeemed spiritual, whose will is too weak, is still too much influenced by the evil power and therefore turns the received power towards God’s adversary as long as it complies with his will. But if the being desires the light then it longs for God and uses the strength it now receives in a God-pleasing way, and then the moment of liberation is not far away. The desire for light will therefore always be connected with the will to come close to God, for the being also unconsciously senses that God and light cannot be separated from each other. It will never be in bondage to God’s adversary if it strives towards the light …. And therefore it can now also be given unlimited light and strength, for it will no longer misuse this but only utilize it for its own ascent. Thus, if the being receives light and strength in the form of the divine word it is already in a state that it has become a bearer of light and strength, thus it can pass on what it receives to beings in need of light and strength again. And now again the desire of those for light is decisive whether they make use of it or not. A weak-willed or stubborn person, for example, will never be able to receive strength through the imparted divine word if he does not let it have an effect on him in his desire for it. If he does not desire it, then it remains ineffective and therefore cannot be misused to increase evil power. The greater the desire for it, the more noticeable the effect. For standing in the light is such an incomprehensible, blissful state that it must be longed for with full awareness ….

Amen

I will grant the prayer of anyone who confides in Me with complete confidence …. A life without struggle does not achieve maturity for the soul, the human being has to fight, and he can only be spared the battle if he puts his whole life into My hands of His own accord, if he entrusts himself to Me and faithfully relies on My help. Then he is the way I want My human children to be …. he acknowledges Me as His Father Whose omnipotence and love are so great that He will not let His child remain in adversity. And he never walks alone but always calls Me by his side …. he is not anxious and doubting but full of confidence, he is not frightened but he has faith …. And I do not disappoint his faith …. Anyone who believes in Me like that will not ask in vain, I will help him and grant his expectations, and thereby his faith will become ever more profound and unshakable …. he will feel at peace for he fear nothing anymore, he knows himself to never be alone and forsaken …. The prayer’s strength will sense whom the prayer is intended for …. It will result in spiritual clarity and strength of faith, people will sense that they receive strength and turn their spiritual vision upwards …. I Myself will send a flash of realisation into the hearts of those for whom My children faithfully pray. Whatever they request will be granted to them, and My love watches over those who are weak and in need of help so that they will not fall or go astray. For those who pray for their loved ones on earth and plead on behalf of their soul’s salvation transfer the strength of prayer to them, and thus these can receive grace, for intercession is an act of neighbourly love, intercession is the most effective means to help them …. Then My spirit will seek to unite with them and will lead them towards realisation …. What a person cannot achieve of his own strength can be achieved by a faithful prayer which is sent up to Me on his behalf. And I will take special care of these souls, I will not leave them in ignorance, I will overshadow them with My grace, with My spirit, for a human child’s love will not beseech Me in vain for My assistance. And thus be unconcerned, everyone takes the path he has to take in order to attain perfection …. as it happens it is good for his soul’s higher development. And if you faithfully put your trust in Me I will guide you through all adversities towards your eternal home ….

Amen

Contact with the world beyond is a stumbling block for many people, for they are unable to separate the purely spiritual connections from the purely earthly desire to experience something of life after death. While the former is God-willed, the latter does not correspond to God’s will, but will never be counted as a sin against a person as long as it is not misused to the detriment of fellow human beings. Only the own state of soul can be harmed by a connection with the immature being, and that is what is to be warned against. People believe that every connection with the spiritual world is wrong before God, and this attitude deprives them of the greatest grace to request and receive the transmission of strength from those beings. All good spiritual beings impart this strength, consequently the connection with them should be established …. All bad spiritual beings seek to harm the human being, so contact with them must be avoided. Everything that is earthly minded attracts the like-minded in the beyond …. The will directed towards God, however, attracts the spiritual, which is of the same will as God. And so man himself draws the boundaries through his desire. He erects a dividing wall between himself and the evil spiritual world insofar as he desires God. In their ignorance people mostly reject everything that comes from the spiritual realm, always fearing the evil influence. They also close themselves off to any explanation in this regard by pointing out that people are forbidden to question the dead and do not realize that the meaning of this word is completely different from the one they subject it to …. Whoever wants to teach must be knowledgeable; no wisdom can be expected from the ignorant. So questions should be asked of those who are in knowledge, but not of those who walk in darkness. The knowing and ignorant state is also to be found in the hereafter. Those who are in the light, i.e. who are connected to God and receive His radiance, i.e. who receive strength and wisdom, will be knowledgeable …. those souls who are still distant from God and therefore cannot receive light either are ignorant. But light is knowledge …. and if the soul lacks light, its knowledge is also deficient and therefore it will not be able to distribute it because it possesses nothing itself ….

The soul is dead in spirit, for only when it is knowledgeable does life in eternity begin for it, and thus such a soul cannot be questioned about the truth, for it can never give a truthful answer. This is why questions concerning eternity should not be asked of the deceased either, because a correct answer requires a degree of maturity, but a person never knows whether and when the soul of the deceased has reached this degree of maturity. Earthly questions, however, should likewise be avoided, for God Himself has spread a veil over things which lie in the future, and wanting to penetrate into an area which God has veiled from people in His wisdom is wrong before God. Consequently, it is not the desired connections with the beyond that are to be condemned, but only the purpose of them, if it is a purely worldly one. All beings are connected with each other, hidden from the human being only as long as he is not spiritually searching …. in order to induce him to search. But the beings make themselves known to the questioner and seeker, and even ignorant souls push themselves towards such rallies but only find access where only curiosity is the driving force behind the attempts to make contact with beings in the beyond. People who desire truth, who devote themselves to God and strive upwards erect a wall around themselves through their attitude towards God which is impenetrable for such immature beings and therefore need not fear being harassed or instructed by ignorant beings. The good spiritual is powerful and mighty, whereas the bad spiritual is powerless against it and only has influence on those people who have no spiritual striving in them but are only devoted to the earthly world and its pleasures. And people should bear this in mind before they make hasty judgements and want to declare something as contrary to God which betrays good spiritual strength and brings unspeakable blessings to humanity if it is recognized for what it is …. as an expression of good spiritual beings who carry out the divine will, i.e. are active on His behalf ….

Amen

It is divine will that the human being should freely decide which path to take …. that he is free to go either way, upwards or downwards, and that he himself now decides without any compulsion. For only this has value before God, what he thinks and does freely out of himself, to which he gives his consent completely uninfluenced. For this reflects his whole being. He is neither forced to do one thing nor the other, but what his heart drives him to do is decisive for eternity. And thus neither external living conditions nor divine destiny determine the human soul’s higher development but only his free will decides this, and thus every human being is given the same opportunity to reach the state of maturity on earth if he utilizes his free will correctly, i.e. if he uses it to draw closer to God. For if the will is directed towards God he will also always subordinate himself to God in his thoughts and actions and do everything that brings him closer to the eternal deity, and then his higher development is also guaranteed. Man is indeed taught what he should do; his thinking is guided in the right direction, but the free decision is up to him. He will also always be free to do and think differently than is divine will …. because complying with this in a state of compulsion will not bring him any spiritual progress and therefore only that which a person does out of his innermost drive is to be valued. If he only fulfils the task prescribed to him purely dutifully, then it also only has the value of a fulfilment of duty which, however, cannot earn the person a higher degree of maturity, whereas the slightest act of neighbourly love in free will, i.e. without incentive or reference to a reward, will place the soul in a higher degree of maturity because the gift of free decision was used in a God-pleasing way. A person can apparently carry out great works of neighbourly love but if he does so under a certain amount of compulsion or under the influence of other people, he will nevertheless not reap a great reward, for only the degree of love in which the deed was accomplished is decisive, i.e. to what extent a person’s love determines his will to act. A person capable of love also allows his will to become active, for he who is in love also desires God out of his innermost drive, thus love, free will and approaching God always go hand in hand. Where there is one, there is also the other, but the state of compulsion, no matter from which side it is exercised, is always an obstacle to the maturity of the soul. Thus, divine will may be taught, but it may never be forced to be obeyed by coercive measures, for this would not be any kind of spiritual progress ….

Amen

Only that which contributes to the perfection of the soul can correspond to God’s will. And this is the standard to be applied as to what is important to observe in earthly life. It is of no value for eternity to accomplish things which do not signify a possibility of progress for the soul, for then the human being will utilize the strength given to him for higher development in the wrong way and thus the time granted to him for this purpose will also be lost. If the human being subjects his thoughts and actions to scrutiny he must always be able to bring them into harmony with divine will, i.e. they must result in spiritual maturity, and therefore external actions are not necessary which are not expressed works of love, thus they will benefit his neighbour ….

A sequence of good deeds guarantees the maturing of the soul, the soul strives towards perfection, consequently the human being then fulfils the divine will when he carries out what brings him closer to God. The distance from God was the cause for the emergence of that which surrounds man. Now this is to contribute to reducing the distance. What is now undertaken to achieve this goal is in accordance with God’s will. But what is merely an end in itself, what serves earthly well-being or contributes to the increase of matter, increases the distance from God and therefore cannot be God-willed …. (interruption)

People attach too much importance to the measures which are taken on earth and do not consider that it depends on God’s will that these measures can be carried out. God will certainly take people’s free will into account and not always intervene in human determinations which do not correspond to His will, yet it is within His power to undo what people allow to come into being …. However, man himself cannot do anything to secure his fate, even though he obeys everything that is demanded of him by man. However, if he first fulfils God’s requirements he need not attach such great importance to earthly regulations, he will then be guided by God in such a way that he will not violate earthly law and earthly authority, or He will know how to protect him from the worst consequences of an unknowing violation. And therefore the human being should not worry about his earthly fate as long as he is willing to be obedient to the supreme lord and ruler, for then He will grant him His protection as it serves him. Conversely, however, all precautionary measures are of no use, for earthly power cannot protect a person against divine decisions, which can destroy every human precaution. In times of need, trusting God is the only security against calamities that approach people from outside ….

An apparently secure external life situation does not yet guarantee real protection in times of hardship and tribulation, which God Himself sends upon people. For all people are exposed to such messages from above, no matter how favourably they are fated on earth. And therefore hours will come for every person when his own strength and power will no longer suffice but he will have to seek refuge in prayer …. where neither his fellow human beings can help him nor can he free himself …. where there is only one path that will lead him out of the chaos …. the path to God Himself …. But this path will never be travelled in vain, for God is always ready to help. Consequently, only the person who asks the heavenly father for help in full faith will be entitled to lead an easy life on earth. God fulfils this prayer as long as it arises from a deeply believing heart and the earthly child entrusts his need to God. On the other hand, the person who only recognizes an earthly power but not a being that he has not yet seen will inevitably come into extreme distress …. The earthly power will now fail, and spiritual beings, guardian angels and servants of God will take care of all those who humbly accept everything and only send up a silent plea in the firm belief that they are not sending it up in vain. This firm faith actually brings fulfilment to the person, whereas the plea to earthly power goes unheard; and whether the person is of rank and standing is only an outward appearance but has no deeper meaning. And so the human being need not feel any fear as long as he lives in God, regards himself as His child and endeavours to live in accordance with His will. Nothing will need to frighten him, for in all situations in life the father in heaven will be tangibly present with the person who loves God dearly. Whatever may approach you from the outside, you should neither quarrel nor fear for your fate, God will grant help to all those who only ever have Him before their eyes and in their hearts. People will still be faced with great decisions in order to decide in favour of Him or the representative of earthly power. Earthly power is completely powerless, whereas God’s power accomplishes everything and can and will save everyone who believes in it from his distress ….

Amen

The resistance that people often put up to the divine word is the result of a certain spiritual arrogance. Only the person who believes himself to be knowledgeable rebels against accepting a different knowledge. He does not want to separate himself from his previous view, but this does not correspond to the word of God imparted to man by knowing powers. The more distant a person is from God, the more he rejects it and the more this word deviates from his view, and he is not easily prepared to give it up and receive the divine word. So for the time being there is a lack of will …. On serious examination the human being would probably recognize that his knowledge is still incomplete and therefore could not withstand the spiritual transmissions. However, where the will to seriously scrutinize is lacking, clear evidence is also inappropriate and pointless. What is completely understandable and clear appears incomprehensible to him, for the strength of the divine word only communicates itself to the person who also has the will to accept God’s gift. This power makes it possible for every word to touch the human heart, so that the human being feels God Himself in every writing, in the word that God Himself gives to people who are devoted to Him. Resistance, however, renders the human heart incapable of judgement. Although the human being uses his intellect to help him, this alone will not come to the right conclusion. Thus, if he himself is incapable of accepting what he has heard as truth, he should ask God Himself for enlightenment and that which previously seemed unacceptable to him will be revealed to him as clear as day, for God gives knowledge to everyone who asks Him for it. Most of the time, however, people presume to be able to judge for themselves, and this is a certain spiritual arrogance, for man cannot actually do anything, he cannot do anything without having asked for God’s help. He sets human knowledge and human experience against the pure word of God, which are more or less erroneous depending on his attitude towards God. He perceives every correction as a personal attack and confronts it in a fighting mood, he now eagerly defends his opinion but pays almost no attention to the opposing opinion …. And consequently, the power of the divine word cannot take effect and enlighten his spirit …. So he remains in the dark, even though the light is brought to him …. For the knowledge of pure truth is light …. But he who closes his eyes when light is offered to him cannot be given enlightenment, he remains in rejection and can only be convinced of the truth of what is offered to him when he himself has the will and the desire for the truth ….

Amen

The demon of hatred and discord is up to mischief and determines people to commit the most unloving acts. Its influence is so strong that people no longer recognize the magnitude of their injustice, they rage against each other and inflict the greatest suffering and misery on each other, they mercilessly destroy their neighbour’s property, they do not spare the life of the individual, they end it prematurely, are unjust in thought and action and fear neither an avenger nor his retribution. And so humanity is completely under the spell of the evil one, it does everything he demands of it, but nothing that is in accordance with God’s will. And this is of utmost importance for the course of development of the spiritual, for it is in regression; the spiritual is in danger of striving towards that which it has already overcome …. It wills evil where it should will good …. And God’s mercy turns to this spirituality. He presents humanity with a tremendous earthly experience that may well be able to banish the spirit of unkindness and awaken the feeling of love in people’s hearts. Unimaginable suffering can trigger the will to help in people …. A person can ignore his own suffering in the face of the misery of his fellow human beings, and then he has escaped the power of evil. Then something divine has come to life in him that tears the power out of the adversary’s hands, then the influence of the demon on the human being has become ineffective, because love and compassion now drive him to help his fellow human being and thereby redeem himself …. The willingness to serve will give him the strength to be able to carry out every act of help as soon as love impels him to do so. And great demands will be placed on people who want to be of service. There will be such indescribable misery in the world that only the willingness to help one another can remedy or alleviate this misery. But if a person is active in love then there will also be a certain faith in him, for the love he now gives to his fellow human being will establish a connection with God in him. He will sense the eternal deity, even if he still lacks the concept of it …. But he is turned towards God and is seized by God’s love if he himself performs works of love, driven by the inner urge to help his fellow human being in his need. Once again there will be a separation between those who have awakened from the darkness of night and those who have not yet escaped the spell of evil …. who now do everything again to compensate themselves for the horrors of that dreadful event …. who try to rebuild what has been destroyed and act in a selfish way …. who do not want to help their neighbour but are only concerned about their own advantage and thus willingly open themselves to the influence of the evil power. No salvation can be brought to them, neither temporally nor eternally, for they are children of satan and their fate is eternal darkness ….

Amen

The human being has to have an inherent sense of justice or he would be unable to pass judgment on apparently heartless conduct. Anyone who deems himself so exalted that he will not tolerate any objection because he believes himself infallible will never think righteously either, for he does not allow others the same rights he claims for himself. A substantial difference has to be made between people. Anyone being strictly critical of himself and his actions will also always make an effort to judge other people fairly. However, anyone who only looks for faults in his fellow human beings and believes himself without error will regard all conduct from a superior point of view, and thus his judgment is wrong.

Every human being can err; every human being can make mistakes …. Yet he has to know himself, then he can fight his faults and improve himself …. But anyone who does not recognise a fault in himself will not strive for perfection either.

When he acts unkindly he will not be aware of it, he will not hold himself to account and is incapable of judging his actions fairly. He lacks a sense of justice; he will always consider his own actions beyond reproach but try to demean his fellow human being for the least mistake. It has to be clear to the human being that he has no right to accuse a fellow human being of a degrading action as long as he does not live up to a high moral standard himself. He should always consider his own shortcomings if he wants to criticise the failings of other people.

But someone with an inherent sense of justice will not hastily judge someone else, for he will try to put himself into the same situation and then also understand the failings and faults of the other person. However, in order to be able to do so he has to be truthful, he has to see things as they are …. he should not rate himself too highly and underrate his fellow human being, for then he will apply a different standard to his own faults than to the other person’s faults, and that excludes all righteous thinking and judgment.

It is exceptionally valuable to firmly call oneself to account, then the human being will stay true to himself and not do his fellow human being an injustice out of selfishness by unfairly condemning his conduct and putting himself above the other person. And thus the human being should first look at himself and his behaviour before he criticises his fellow human being and elevates himself as his judge ….

Amen

In the worldly power the spiritual embodies itself, which is destined to rule on earth in order to again be a guide for many people on earth. The ruling power can likewise fulfil tasks on earth in the will of God if it humbly submits to Him, i.e. asks His blessing for everything it has to carry out according to its power …. Then the ruler will be a just and wise leader for the people, for God’s will will then be revealed through him. The spiritual power of such a ruler is therefore likewise prepared to serve, and it has been given an office for earthly time which prescribes the leadership of many people. But now the leader must fulfil this task in such a way that the people entrusted to him derive an advantage from it, both earthly and spiritually. The ruler must not abuse his office by harming people in body or soul. Those entrusted to him must not suffer any earthly or spiritual disadvantage as a result of his ruling power, they must be happy and content under his rule and their state of mind must improve, then the ruler will exercise his power in accordance with divine will. And he then serves on earth even though he rules. For he gives an infinite number of people the opportunity to mature spiritually and at the same time he also exercises neighbourly love towards those for whom he makes earthly life bearable. However, if he abuses his power in order to oppress his subjects, if he tries to take advantage of them himself, if he uses violence, i.e. unkindness, against them, if he does not respect their property or otherwise causes them any physical or psychological harm, then his rule is not service which is God-willed but he is influenced by the adversary who fights love and only allows unkindness and hatred to speak. Then the people who are subject to such a ruler are endangered in body and soul. For unkindness will lead to unkindness again. People will inflict on each other what is inflicted on them by this power. Whoever is in danger of losing property will also want to take his neighbour’s property, every injustice that the ruler inflicts on his people will be imitated, and people will harass and antagonize each other because they are following the example of the one who is supposed to be their leader. As he leads them, so these people go, they are, as it were, in bondage to him as long as they do not yet fully recognize him. They do the same as he does before them and believe themselves to be in the right, even if it is an act of unkindness. And the spirit harboured in such a ruler is far from redeeming itself …. It is still too much under the power of the opponent and does what he wants. And then the people are misled and in great danger, for the souls are likewise dominated by evil power. And that is why people must be made to realize that if they have a leader who does not carry out God’s will but is in the service of evil, so that they may learn to judge his deeds and refrain from imitating them. A ruler should always be a shining example for his subjects, he himself should live in such a way that no blame can fall on him, he should acknowledge God and always seek His will, he should be a strict and just but also a kind judge who influences his people in love and tries to influence them so that they follow him gladly and willingly …. Then he will have great power over his people and use this power for good …. Then he will lead his people as God wills …. He will be their counsellor in earthly as well as in spiritual need, he will only be concerned to administer the office given to him justly and wisely, he will lead the people on the right path, he will pray to God for strength for his earthly task, and God will help him to be a just and loving ruler for his people ….

Amen