The conscious rejection of bad thoughts is the surest means to lift the state of mind, for then those forces will be resisted which exert all their influence in order to turn the person away from God. This certainly requires the human being’s whole will, and if this is weakened by giving in, i.e. giving in to such thoughts, the human being has to suffer, i.e. a gloomy mood takes hold of him, which presses and burdens him. And evil triumphs, for its influence becomes ever greater, the human being’s will and his power of resistance ever weaker. Such hours are a certain danger for the soul, and again man must free himself from them. He must pray, fervently and full of confidence that God wants to free him from this situation. The human being’s will is also part of prayer, but if the soul struggles to be released from this situation the good forces of the beyond will help it, providing the human being turns to them for help, providing he himself desires to be free from this pressure. However, the human being usually becomes apathetic and does not defend himself, and the more difficult his liberation from the power of darkness is, the more necessary the struggle becomes and the more unbearable the state of suffering. Firm faith is the best means, and the human being can abandon himself to the good forces in complete peace of mind if only he affirms their power and strength. They will certainly help him and will not tolerate the bad powers gaining the upper hand over him. Giving in when bad thoughts arise is a lack of faith, because bad thoughts are directed against the divine commandment …. Anyone who firmly believes fulfils every commandment God has given to people, but anyone who is weak in faith will also disregard the divine commandments, and thus his thoughts will be directed against these commandments, he will be devoid of all love, thus harbour unloving thoughts, and this is what the adversary aims to achieve. For in this way he gains control of the person. In such a state it is often difficult to find his way back to the path of love; the human being has committed an injustice if he harbours unloving thoughts, and he must now make up for this injustice by struggling in prayer, compelled by suffering, for the attention of divine love, which every unloving thought had repelled. The will towards God will let the human being recognize his wrongdoing and it will then also become easy for him to pray to Him …. but the will itself has to become active, it cannot be judged, i.e. forcibly directed towards God again ….

Amen

It may seem incomprehensible to people that God’s justice does not intervene where the actions of humanity clearly bear the stamp of evil. But this is due to the fact that every instinct must be given the opportunity to fulfil itself, that a person must be free to do both good and evil, otherwise no deed could be fully valued. God will never prevent a being from doing what it wants. It bears the responsibility for its actions itself and must therefore also accept the consequences. The gates upwards as well as downwards must be open to him, only then can man speak of a free decision. However, if God were to prevent evil or immediately destroy the practitioners of evil, good would not be able to prove itself. Man would then have to be good, because nothing else would be possible, and this would truly not be satisfactory, because it is precisely by overcoming evil that strength is tested. But evil is also to be redeemed one day, so it cannot be destroyed. The spiritual battle is immense, and good is always exposed to the hostility of evil, but can only grow stronger from it. And so the good also increases in strength, while the evil decreases more and more and must therefore ultimately also be redeemed. Destroying something completely would put God’s wisdom to shame, because what God has once created is so wisely considered by Him that it can no longer fall prey to destruction. Man’s work is certainly in need of improvement and can sometimes be destroyed again as unsuitable; but what God has created will endure for all time and can only be at a distance from God. And that is why all His love and care is focussed on drawing all beings closer to Himself again. But it can only reach this goal in complete free will. But in order to be able to be active in free will, the being must have both possibilities of a decision. If evil did not exist, then the being would inevitably profess the good, but this would not be a merit, but simply a matter of course, which would result from the lack of resistance. Recognizing good and evil is given to every being, so man must also have the right to decide. In order to be good, he must have recognized evil and detest it, only then does he acquire divine grace, and then evil will no longer be a danger to him ….

Amen

Man’s greatest error is to consider himself transient, for this view determines him to a completely wrong way of life. It must be taken into consideration that earthly life is only a means to an end, whereas people who think so wrongly regard earthly life as an end. They try to gain everything from earthly life that it offers but fail to recognize its actual purpose. Anyone who believes that his earthly life ends with bodily death will understandably not endeavour to reshape his nature, for he considers this to be useless and pointless. And thus the actual task of man remains unfulfilled. However, teaching such an unbelieving person to believe in life after death is a difficult task and can only be successful if he can be persuaded to reflect and can then be mentally influenced by beings of light. But a person’s love often brings marvellous successes to light, indeed, love is the only means to change wrong thinking. If a person departs from this world who was active in devoted love for an unbelieving person, his thoughts will follow him beyond the grave …. He seeks to maintain the connection with him by trying to imagine the departed person alive …. he now has the will to affirm his continued existence, even if he cannot yet do so inwardly, but then the mental transmissions are much easier to convey to him; at first he plays with them, but slowly he absorbs them and in the end is no longer able to separate himself from them, because he longs for reunion with the deceased loved one. It is not uncommon for unbelieving people on earth to be cared for in love in this way, for the beings of light often bring together people who are very close to each other in love in order to decisively influence their faith through them. If a person is capable of love, i.e., if he can show deep love for a fellow human being, then his state of soul is not hopeless either, his thinking can be directed into completely different directions through this love, for as long as the human being lives on earth he has countless possibilities to achieve realization. The first and most important thing, however, is the belief that the soul lives on after death. Thoughts of an afterlife must determine his entire way of life, and this requires deep faith, which a person can gain through the loving support of a fellow human being if it is not possible otherwise. The beings in the beyond will support all efforts, for they will struggle with patience and love to guide the erring human being into realization ….

Amen

The teaching of the immortality of the soul is not accepted by many people because they compare it to earthly transience. In their opinion nothing on earth is permanent, everything passes away, and hence they believe that they are no exception to this natural law. The earthly body decays indeed, that is, it seemingly disintegrates and passes away. But the human being does not consider that the apparent disappearance is only the means of transition into a new form. On reflection he will have to conclude that everything earthly serves some purpose, and he will observe that even the most insignificant creations are somehow related to one another and therefore not without purpose.

When such a work of creation fades away numerous other creations absorb the remainder of the first, which thus serves them and continues to live on in the new creations. He only has to seriously observe an outer transformation and he would have to admit that the inner life cannot vanish either. And he should at least grant the human being this inner life too …. he has to make it clear to himself that the human soul, the emotional life, cannot be discontinued arbitrarily …. that this emotional life is the essential significance of every embodiment. The outer form is of no use unless the inner core is acknowledged by humanity.

The construction of a human being always requires the same components: body, soul and spirit. The body …. the external form …. performs the functions which are determined by the soul. Consequently the body is just the agent through which the soul’s will is accomplished. At the moment of death the soul no longer needs an agent for service as it did on earth …. i.e. in the visible work of creation …. because it changes its environment and moves into regions where nothing externally visible needs to be done. The body, which was just the instrument for the earthly path during which the soul should have formed itself into the carrier of the divine spirit, becomes unnecessary.

The spirit, the third component of the living being, lies in fact dormant in every human being and only becomes active when the will of the soul pays more attention to the spirit than to the body, that is, when the soul considers the earthly demands less important than the demands of the spirit, which always amounts to earthly needs becoming secondary. Although body, soul and spirit belong together they nevertheless can have separate goals. The soul can direct its will more towards the demands of the body, but it can also disregard those and make its will available to the spirit within itself. And it is precisely this direction of will that decides its life in the beyond, i.e. the state the soul finds itself in after the earthly life, which can be blissful or distressing. The earthly life, the function of the body, is therefore just a temporary condition for the soul. The soul impels the body to all actions on earth but it has by no means ceased to exist when the body cannot perform its function any longer. The soul has indeed left the body because it moves into regions where it no longer requires an exterior form.

But to consider the soul dead as well would be a completely wrong concept of its essence …. because the soul is something that cannot pass away. Indeed, when the human body is dead the soul can no longer determine it’s functions; it can, due to a lack of maturity because it had not given enough consideration to the spirit within itself, also fall into a state of inactivity; but it can never ‘cease to exist’. Because the soul is something spiritual that is everlasting, while the body consists of earthly substance, of matter, and is therefore subject to constant change and finally disintegrates into its components as soon as the soul has left the body ….

Amen

From the hour of spiritual rebirth the human being is under the constant care of the beings in the beyond who, serving the lord God, take care of him. Once the human being has consciously made contact with the spiritual world and his endeavours are now directed towards leading a life pleasing to God, he will, so to speak, end his earthly life because he strives for the soul’s progress rather than worldly success. He has therefore become a new person, he has new goals in mind, his whole life has changed, he pays more attention to his soul life, he tries to mould himself according to divine will. And so this is the spiritual rebirth, where the spirit in man awakens, where he can unfold freely in order to make contact with the spiritual beyond himself. Now it is easy for the beings on the other side to influence the human being to do what is good, i.e. righteous before God. But he must not offer open resistance to those forces that favour him. He must not, if he is urged to do a good deed, oppose this urge with his will out of petty earthly concerns and then do, think or speak something else against his inner conviction. Once he has submitted himself to the divine will, he must also faithfully entrust himself to the eternal deity. Then he is also relieved of all responsibility for his earthly life. For all spiritual beings who want to serve God now determine the human being’s way of life. The human being certainly still has to struggle so that his state of maturity increases, but he need never fear that his spirit could fall back into darkness and push the human being back to a level he had long since overcome. This is prevented by the beings of light in the beyond as long as the person prays for strength and vigour of faith. For this prayer repeatedly expresses the will directed towards God, and the human being cannot do wrong as long as he turns to God Himself. Man is not perfect and therefore he will still be accused of many a weakness before the world, i.e. before worldly people, and he himself will often not be satisfied with himself either. But he can never fall into the abyss, so the rebirth of the spirit remains, despite external shortcomings and faults. Prayer only has to be used even more sincerely and more often so that the strength for good is increased and this strength can now reach people through effective beings of light who take care of people and help them when they are in need of their soul ….

Amen

Although the human being may not be prevented from making a free decision, a person longing for God will open his heart to the mental transmissions of the beings in the beyond and their influence will penetrate him. Even the inner battles he has to endure are only permitted to strengthen his faith and to increase his desire for God, and the human being need not fear to completely fall prey to the power of evil. The love of the beings of light no longer permits this and their power wins the day. Once he has attained realization, the human being must first meet God’s requirements, he must experience the state of imperfection as torment and want to remedy it, then his strength will also be increased and he will quickly overcome such states of depression and apparent distance from God. But once a person is born again in the spirit, he no longer belongs to this earth. He knows that it is only a transition to the actual home of the spirit and accepts all suffering and every trial with humility. He longs with all his instincts for redemption from the form; he has taken the path to God and will not depart from it. But he often has to clear the stones and obstacles out of the way that make this path an arduous one and require the whole will of man. The surrender of the will is spiritual rebirth …. What has remained bound to another will through endless times enters a new stage …. The will turned away from God gives up its former resistance and the being demands to return to God. It surrenders its own will in order to now want to think and act in accordance with the divine will. It recognizes God above itself and wants to serve Him …. And God protects such a being from relapsing, He helpfully stretches out His hand to it and pulls it up …. And its path of life will lead upwards from that very hour, towards the light ….

Amen

The law of self-determination is of the greatest importance for the being, for it was thereby granted a certain freedom which only makes perfection possible. As long as the being is under the influence of God’s adversary, it is completely dependent on him, both in its attitude and in its activity. The attitude will always be directed against God, just as the activity will likewise always contradict the divine will. However, the being could not be called to account despite its attitude directed against God as long as it was forcibly at the mercy of the evil power …. Only freedom of will justifies subsequent responsibility. And so God took away the adversary’s power over the being and thus placed it freely in the spiritual world and left it free to decide for or against Him. It should not feel any compulsion from any side, but God wanted that the beingness wanted to return to Him of its own accord and therefore gives it utmost freedom on earth and also knowledge about the meaning and purpose of earthly life, advantage and disadvantage of a wrong attitude. He holds the joys of the beyond before him on the one hand as well as the agonizing state of remorse on the other, and He thereby wants to make the decision easy for the being itself, but this has to be made by the being itself. As soon as God took away the adversary’s power over the beings created by his will, He also loosened His power towards these beings …. He placed the beings in a position to be able to decide freely, but the latter remained up to them. And so it is divine will that nothing in the universe should be in the bondage of the spirit …. although the stage of free will in man is directed by God, this nevertheless has nothing to do with his self-determination. The soul, the beingness in the human being, remains completely free and can now decide in favour of the earthly, in favour of matter, which is part of evil, because it harbours the unredeemed spiritual in itself …. or also in favour of the spiritual in itself, which after the free decision enters into union with the light-filled spirit, which was from eternity. All coercion of the soul is ruled out and consequently one can also speak of self-redemption, since precisely this will, the free decision, results in either redemption or being bound. And thus every being has to bear the responsibility for its life in eternity itself, since it can turn to God in complete freedom, to the outcome of its strength, or also to God’s adversary, who allowed his God-opposing will to become active during the creation of those beings ….

Amen

The innermost instinct for truthfulness can be followed by a person and also not …. This is likewise an act of self-determination in the stage of free will; no one forces man to decide otherwise than his innermost instinct. This drive, however, is the expression of the spirit within him. When God set the beings free from the power of the adversary, this was not an act of violence in itself but a release from the power. The spiritual felt this, and it used the freedom, however again to fall away from God, i.e., it did not make use of the freedom offered to it to finally return to God, but subordinated itself anew to the will of the adversary, and so now the freedom of its will was taken from it by being banished into the form. It now had to act according to God’s will, but the slightest giving up of resistance against God brings relief to its state and now awakens the desire in the being for complete freedom, which at the same time is expressed in the will to serve. Thus the being itself makes the final decision by being able to enter the stage of free will as soon as its bound will decides to serve. The being therefore retains the right of self-determination …. The power was certainly taken away from God’s adversary throughout immemorial times, but the being was never brought to God through compulsion, but this return to the father has to be accomplished by the being itself, and its will is complied with insofar as the fate in eternity completely corresponds to this will …. Whoever wants to be with God will be allowed to stay close to Him, whoever resists God will have to suffer inconceivably due to his distance from God. And both the separation as well as the unification has been brought about itself, thus the being has made use of the right of self-determination to which it is entitled.

Amen

What contributes to the increase of matter need not be directed against divine will as long as love for one’s neighbour is the driving force behind earthly activity. Man should fulfil his earthly task and this will also bring him material advantage. This is not against divine will. The only thing that matters is how he now utilizes the earthly good he has gained. If he only has his own physical well-being in mind, then he will enjoy the possession for his own sake and jeopardize his soul. However, if he uses it to alleviate the need of his neighbour or uses his possessions to provide physical or spiritual help where it is needed, God Himself will bless and increase his possessions, for this is in accordance with His will. A person can gain an incredible advantage for his soul if he is always restlessly active with a view to the soul’s higher development. His earthly activity is then at the same time redeeming, for it is carried out with the right realization. It no longer supports the evil power in the beyond, but its effect is weakened by redeeming matter and again enabling a new moulding for the spiritual in it, but at the same time the now won possession is used in such a way that it again remedies earthly misery. The success of earthly activity must always favour a work of love, then it is God-willed and the activity will be blessed. But anyone who is only intent on making his earthly life bearable, who works restlessly for the sake of earthly advantages, who only loves his own ego and this love is the driving force for earthly activity, who constantly increases his possessions for his own pleasure, simultaneously increases the power of evil, for he does not release the immature spiritual substance from its form but prolongs its bound state and hands himself over to those forces which influence him unfavourably by seeking to increase the inclination for what the human being has long since overcome …. Then man rejoices in his possessions and contributes neither to his own redemption nor to the redemption of the bound spiritual substance, but binds himself and the spiritual substance in matter anew through his desire for earthly good ….

Amen

The downfall of a cultural centre is imminent and this is a sign of the lowest mindset of the people who are responsible for it. No human being is without fault and suffering and misery has become a necessity in order to make humanity reflect on itself, however, the instigators of this suffering will find God’s punishment and they have little mercy to hope for, for thousands of innocent people are suffering and they are being deprived of the life which was supposed to bring them spiritual progress and is now being prematurely ended. The day is not far off when God will stretch out His punishing hand and prove His omnipotence to humanity. He is there where there is greatest need and where He is approached for help in faithful prayer. But countless lives will be lost, for the adversary is raging and destroying everything in order to cause immense confusion among humanity. And he will succeed in doing so but the injustice will come to light so clearly that no doubt will remain as to which power will express itself on earth. And that is the time when world events will change …. The hour of the visitation has now come, the hour when God Himself speaks to people with a voice of honour …. so that He may be heard by the world. And now there is unparalleled chaos …. Those who love each other will be torn apart; the suffering will be great and a time of greatest distress will befall people, before whose eyes a work of destruction will take place that can only be explained by the reign of an eternal deity. It takes a strong faith to then remain devoted to God, for the magnitude of the adversity makes the weak in faith waver even more, for now they even doubt God’s omnipotence and justice because in their blindness they cannot comprehend that the lord’s ways are different from the ways of man. And this is a severe test for them, and in anticipation of the things God sends upon people …. because they strive for the same but do not pay attention to people’s spiritual life but only earthly motives cause them to act diabolically …. humanity will first have to turn to God for help and ask Him for mercy when the day has come. And thus God will turn that which the adversary strives for into the best for the souls loyally devoted to Him. And that which has existed for thousands of years will be destroyed; the world will experience a spectacle which will remain unforgettable for people, for this day will rob countless people of their possessions; people will no longer have inner peace, they will time and again remember that event which is imminent and which can be mitigated in its consequences for those people who are devoted to Him through God’s love and mercy. For they have been given a ministry after the time of destruction …. In order to be able to fulfil this office, they must be strengthened in faith by the arrival of what has been announced beforehand, because faith is first necessary in order to be able to work successfully for the kingdom of God and build up what the adversary has destroyed ….

Amen

The slightest call of good forces promotes the power of decision, for they stand by the human being in all situations in life as long as they are called upon for help. For it is their task to impart strength to the beings in need of it, yet the being’s consent is necessary in order to want to receive strength, and therefore the mediators of strength cannot be active without a call, otherwise the person’s increased activity, which would be the result of this influx of strength, would not be carried out of his own free will. God’s emanation of strength has to be requested again and again by those beings as long as the being is not yet united with God in order to be able to receive light and strength directly itself. However, the will towards God puts him into the state that he can be amply given by beings willing to give and standing in love. But since such help is available to man at any time, he is to use it always and constantly, by just letting his will become active to a silent request for power. This can be carried out by every person, even if his will is weak, and his strength of determination will immediately be noticeably increased, the lack of will will be removed and the human being will enter a state where he can more easily overcome what previously caused him difficulties ….

Amen

Progressive development requires striving upwards, it requires the soul to detach itself from matter, to give up its own will and to utilize divine strength …. Man must give up one thing in order to be able to receive that which is valuable for eternity. It is inevitable that the soul must first overcome the inclination towards matter before it can occupy itself with the spiritual, for spiritual experience is inconceivable as long as the human being is dominated by earthly possessions insofar as his thoughts and desires are only concerned with their increase and the earthly pleasures made possible by them. Spiritual experience requires a detachment from everything that delights the body …. Only those who have completely overcome the body can raise their spirit to the heights, and only then is higher development assured. However, in order to have the strength to overcome earthly desires, this strength must be requested, for without support he himself is too weak. That is why the human being must not forget to pray. Prayer for strength for the salvation of the soul is always welcome by the father in heaven. Entrusting the need to Him in heartfelt prayer, asking Him for help and then patiently waiting to see how God sends His help to the person on earth is the right preparation for the spiritual experience. And if the human being then listens to the inner voice, the divine will will be made known to him clearly and distinctly …. And now it is up to the person himself to what extent he submits to divine will. If he needs any spiritual help then he only needs to raise his thoughts to God and he will receive this help, often in the most marvellous way. Surrendering his will to God is unspeakably blissful, for such a person is relieved of all responsibility and all his thoughts and actions must now also correspond to divine will. The slightest offence will make the path to God more difficult to pass, for man thereby creates obstacles for himself which often block the narrow path upwards and it costs him great effort to clear them out of the way. God is constantly giving …. He distributes His grace to make it easy for His earthly child to reach Him. And if it prays, it will also very soon know what it should do in order to lift its state of soul …. and if the will is good, then it will obey everything God asks of it ….

Amen

A considerable time will pass before humanity’s mind will be occupied with thoughts concerning the salvation of the soul. Everything spiritual is still a concept of the improbable for them, they are not yet willing to surrender their earthly interests. And self-love is an obstacle to recognizing what is most important in earthly life …. the soul’s higher development. The degree of love is decisive for recognizing the truth. However, anyone who loves himself more than his neighbour is still a long way from recognizing the truth. For self-love is nothing divine, it strives for earthly goods and can therefore never have redeeming power. The human being only becomes free when he puts his own ego aside and his actions and thoughts are only directed towards making his neighbour’s earthly lot bearable, then his soul becomes free from its covering and it no longer regards earthly life as the most important thing but concerns itself with spiritual life, with life after death and its actual earthly task. The human being will always reject every spiritual truth as long as his soul has not yet broken through the shell around him. One is the consequence of the other, and anyone with realization will try in vain to break through the barriers in order to help his fellow human being, and yet he should not become discouraged, for God Himself will help where the human being’s strength is insufficient. There is no other way to change such people’s mind than through drastic changes which make them realize the futility of what they previously aspired to as important. And the coming time will bring this about so that many a person will become thoughtful if he pays attention to what is happening around him. He will see changes take place, he will see people pass away and his view of life will be strongly shaken. And he will be blessed who draws his conclusions from this, who does not pass it by thoughtlessly and remembers his true purpose …. to help all those who need help …. For these redeem themselves through the love they give to their fellow human beings, for they become seeing …. They enter into contact with the eternal deity, Who is love Itself, and now the scales fall from his eyes. God wants to help those people and therefore He sends them a little light so that the darkness of the spirit in them can be broken through. Yet people often flee from the bright light and remain in the darkness, which is part of God’s adversary. And therefore the love of the fellow human being has to be prepared time and again to give them enlightenment, and every thought will be blessed which applies to such poor in spirit. Asking for their souls while they are still on earth will earn him the help of the beings in the beyond, for they will not let up in their endeavours and what talking cannot achieve can be achieved through faithful prayer …. All previous views can be shaken and the human being can be guided into a completely new way of thinking, and now the soul strives ceaselessly upwards. It is necessary that God Himself intervenes, because only that which seems quite strange and extraordinary is still given attention, for without a violent shaking of earthly life the human being’s mind will hardly turn to spiritual problems. And therefore the soul is in greatest danger. But the moment will be dreadful, yet it is inevitable, for the gentle hints will not be heeded and the time on earth will pass and bring the soul neither redemption nor realization ….

Amen

The human being moulds himself through his inner life, i.e. if he reflects on himself and subjects his actions and thoughts to strict scrutiny, he now also tries to live in such a way that he can stand up to himself, and this results in self-improvement. So this also means spiritual progress or higher development of the soul. It is now quite irrelevant to what extent the human being subjects himself to certain external forms. His attention must only be focussed on living in a way that is pleasing to God, i.e. everything he says, thinks or does must correspond to the divine commandments. God demands nothing more from people than that they love Him and express this love by doing good to their fellow human beings and also by living in such a way that the desire for God can be recognized. Every thought directed upwards testifies to love for God, for what the human being desires will also repeatedly arise in him as a thought. If the human being now testifies to his love for God through an everlasting desire for Him, God will also satisfy this desire by likewise showering the human being with His love, and now the human being cannot help but be good. For divine love, which he himself ardently desires through his longing, envelops him and he can no longer act without love …. But man should mould himself to love, so he fulfils the first and greatest commandment …. he gives love and thereby receives love again, so he must become love himself. But a person can never reach spiritual maturity unless he acquires divine love through works of love. God’s love can only take hold of a person who practices love himself. Every service of love, however small, also requires a certain attitude towards God …. the human being must want what is good, i.e. at least unconsciously affirm the being Who is the epitome of good, of perfection. Affirming the good will also result in striving for the good, and the eternal deity will also approach such a person and reveal Himself. And the right attitude towards God will soon determine his thoughts and actions, i.e. spur him into loving activity, so that God can therefore also bestow His love upon him, which means that the human being must now mature in his soul because God’s love cares for him and will no longer let him fall. God requires the human being to prove his love for Him, yet it is not enough for Him that he affirms or enthuses …. Man should demonstrate his love for God in works of love, and as he now distributes to his neighbour, so will he be distributed again …. what he does to his neighbour in love, God will repay him a thousandfold …. The degree of love in which he performs the works of charity is always decisive. God’s love will take care of man to the same degree, for since God Himself is love, He must be present in every work of love. Consequently, man must become love, so that all his thoughts and actions are determined by love for God and his neighbour ….

Amen

It seems impossible to people that a natural disaster could have such an impact that people are forced to adopt a completely new way of life. And yet they are on the brink of it. This change of life will be unspeakably difficult for many a person, for whatever earthly activity he undertakes will be associated with obstacles of every kind and it will require immense love and patience in order to be able to carry it out. And yet everyone will have to double their earthly activity, for much will be demanded of those who work their way out of the unimaginable chaos through the labour of their hands. These people know love, they are willing to help and are now looking for the right opportunity to fully utilize their strength in the service of the one Who sends all suffering upon people, but Who can also take suffering away from people if He wants to. And that is why God will stand by those people with His help if the burden seems unbearable to them. Yet only a small proportion of humanity will be full believers and recognize the divine voice. The fully believing man only sees in the natural events the confirmation of the scriptures given from above. As soon as the great natural catastrophe shows its signs, he is doubly concerned to mould himself according to the will of God and to pray …. For his inner voice tells him when the time has come. He sees himself faced with great tasks but the human being must have finished with everything that still delights his heart, then the natural disaster will not cause him any significant damage, for its purpose is that the human being learns to separate himself from earthly possessions …. Whoever voluntarily gives up the latter will again receive from God what he needs for his life ….

Amen

Incomparable strength emanates from a person whose heart enters into the most intimate connection with God and who receives divine strength through this connection. This power communicates itself to all those who come into contact with such a person, only they must be like-minded, i.e. they must also strive towards God. For a person who rejects God will never be able to receive strength from God. If this strength expresses itself visibly, i.e. if it obviously comes into its own, then this is an expression of the divine working of love. God wants to confirm the credibility of His spoken word through a visible sign. It is of far greater value if people accept the word of God unconditionally, if they want to believe without signs and proofs. For then their spirit would already be so far advanced that inner knowledge would have taught them to think correctly, that they would recognize what is truth and what is a lie, because the spirit of God is at work in them, thus the power from God expresses itself …. Man believes himself to be a being that is completely isolated from God, and with this belief he would render every prayer invalid. This view fills every believer with horror, for prayer is the first thing that results in God’s love, His closeness and His emanation of strength …. Prayer is the connection between God and man …. It is the request of divine power and its intervention is at the same time the guarantee for the fulfilment of all spiritual requests …. But now mankind will often experience signs and proofs which are so extraordinary that only the eternal divinity can be recognized as the origin of such extraordinary phenomena, and the connection with God can no longer be disputed. The human being becomes thoughtful through such evidence of His strength and is now more easily willing to recognize it as divine activity. And then the possibility exists that people allow themselves to be seized by God’s infinite love, that they participate in the transmission of strength and thus enter the circuit of divine love. And such phenomena are to be expected in the coming time because the necessity exists if help is to be brought to men in their spiritual trouble. The human being usually loses his self-assurance in the face of extraordinary events and this is necessary so that he is receptive to the thoughts which are conveyed to him from the beyond. A silent affirmation of spiritual strength and asking questions in thought is a prerequisite for transmitting the answer and at the same time already a quiet admission of his dependence on God, for he sends his questioning thoughts to a power in the universe Which is knowing …. Which is therefore superior to him, and willingly opens his heart to the answer from above. God’s love wants to bring about this state of man, and since man no longer reflects on himself, He tries to push him towards it through phenomena which cause him to question …. And this will often be the case in the time to come, that people who are devoted to God will be given strength and will now be able to accomplish extraordinary things in order to induce their fellow human beings to believe. Faith is not to be forced and therefore this activity will not necessarily have to be obeyed. The human being can also remain completely unimpressed and naturally try to explain such unusual phenomena to himself if he is completely unwilling to recognize a deity. But then he opposes divine merciful love and cannot be grasped by it, which is to his own spiritual disadvantage ….

Amen

As insignificant as it may seem to you humans that changes are taking place in nature, this is nevertheless of utmost importance, for these are the signs of great events. Every process must have both a spiritual as well as an earthly explanation, i.e., what takes place in spiritual life must also be able to be explained logically in earthly terms and again have its foundation in purely natural processes …. Thus the release of the spiritual from the solid form must be connected with a natural phenomenon that is understandable to people, and this natural phenomenon must again be able to be explained in earthly (human) terms …. and this for the purpose that man is not forced to accept the event, which takes place for the sake of the spiritual beings, as a divine mission. An extraordinary process for which no explanation could be found would force people to believe, and such a belief is not desired by God. But where man can give himself an explanation, he is not so easily inclined to see a divine mission in a natural disaster. If he does so nevertheless, then his faith is completely free and therefore right before God. Now the great world catastrophe is preceded by innumerable signs, but only a small part is heeded by the believers, and so the world is still in for great surprises. The spiritual explanation of a world catastrophe is easy to understand for the believer. But he must also accept it without it being proven to him. The earthly explanation, however, will also be understandable to unbelieving people because they have the opportunity to test it. And so in the near future the phenomena will increase which announce a violent change of the earth’s surface. The deviations from the laws of nature are still small, but divine decree also cancels the law of nature when it appears necessary. Every event has its destiny, and so many natural phenomena trigger a sudden catastrophe, which takes place by divine will within the framework of the natural, precisely in order not to force people to believe. When the interior of the earth begins to stir, this is always preceded by certain displacements of the earth’s surface. The earth will therefore show increased masses of water in places, which seek an outlet and cannot find it anywhere. Consequently, they push upwards and create an outlet for themselves with elemental force. This is the prelude to the coming catastrophe, which is purely natural ….

Amen

It is by no means by chance that the earth’s surface vegetation has changed as far as it involves stretches of land where human will and activity played a determining part. This particularly applies to forests or tree plantations which have fallen prey to human destructive will, which will not remain without influence on the climate as well as the condition of the soil.

Such deforestation represents a great danger to humanity if it takes place before its time, that is, before the spiritual substances in the plant creations have sufficiently matured to animate the next form. For these prematurely released spiritual substances don’t leave the place of their interrupted stay without claiming appropriate compensation by pestering the spiritual substances in their vicinity and, in their unconstrained state, frequently express themselves undesirably, from which they are not prevented by God either. Thus people in those areas will have to suffer extraordinary storms and devastations which will also severely impair the growth of the entire plant world. But where there is very little vegetation other disorders also manifest themselves. The water conditions leave much to be desired, that is, the absence of a constant supply of water turns the earth’s soil into sand. And thus such stretches of land can become barren and desolate, and although people believe they have no influence over it they are nevertheless the actual cause of whole stretches of land becoming barren and excessively dry.

The danger is now that this will not be recognised and that people will thoughtlessly sacrifice constantly more areas of land to their greed for profit, for this is usually the reason why whole areas waste away. If the human being destroys creations for the sake of earthly gain it is a deliberate acknowledgment of the evil power. For the sake of money and monetary value he interferes with the divine plan of creation which gave everything its function and not least of all the whole world of plants on the earth’s surface. But such interference also has to have an appropriate effect, albeit these consequences are not so immediately recognisable but require a certain length of time.

Storms and tempests will alarmingly increase, floods will make plant cultivation difficult, and this will result in a decline of vegetation and simultaneously restrict the spiritual opportunities of development for the substances which want to take abode in the plant world corresponding to their degree of maturity and are thus prevented from doing so, which will result in constantly new storms and tempests ….

Amen

The spiritual decline is so obvious that it only requires some attention to recognize the necessity of God’s help. It is not just indifference or a spiritual flattening of humanity, which would be tantamount to a spiritual standstill, but it is more a resistance to every influence of spiritual forces which want to help people to mature their souls. It is a blatant rejection of divine forces, a fleeing from the realm of good spiritual currents and therefore an extremely significant step backwards in spiritual terms. And therefore humanity is in the greatest spiritual danger. But God does not leave them to their self-chosen fate but He uses all means to make people aware of their dangerous situation and to move them to make contact with the good spiritual forces so that they can receive help from this side. And this is currently the most important task of the beings of light, to gain access to people’s hearts. For only then can a higher spiritual level be reached in humanity, provided that the beings of light can assert themselves and thus the teaching forces can constantly influence the earthly people entrusted to their care. It is only a question of time how the spiritual world will manage the spiritual higher development …. In other words, without the intervention of the eternal deity, eternities could pass before people’s thinking would change, since people believe that they have made great progress in recognizing things that lie beyond earthly life. However, recognizing the eternal deity does not require a particularly well-developed intellectual activity, but only a kind, loving heart. The latter, however, can only be found in isolated cases and consequently people are standing on a dead centre …. they seek to develop their intellect further and further, and this leads to the opposite of what should be achieved. The human being is inclined to throw everything overboard that only leans on spiritual activity. He rejoices in his intellectual thinking but cannot achieve the slightest thing with it unless he opens his heart at the same time, i.e. pays less attention to his intellectual thinking and thinks and acts more according to his feelings. Only then will the strength grow in him, and only then will he recognize the frailty of what was previously presented to him as truth. Only then can the spiritual depression of humanity be remedied. Through God’s intervention people’s thinking will be changed, for what the heart has already recognized will now also be affirmed by the intellect, and then it will be easy for the beings in the beyond to introduce people to the right knowledge, for they act with divine approval …. they carry out the teaching activity and it merely depends on the human being’s will that his spiritual low is remedied ….

Amen

The most unmistakable sign of spiritual shallowness is the inclination and desire for the goods of this world. If humanity only knows this striving, spiritual wisdom can hardly be spread among it, for it has nothing to do with earthly success and is therefore not desirable. But it can never be assumed that spiritual striving could be utilized in an earthly way. Only where all desire for matter is suppressed can spiritual endeavour be crowned with success, i.e. the working of the spirit in man can also become visible. However, if humanity is only interested in increasing earthly prosperity, the working of the spirit in the human being is forbidden of its own accord, and the consequence of this is spiritual darkness, often to such an extent that the working of the spirit is regarded as human machination instead of a divine manifestation of strength and is therefore given little attention or faith. There are only very few courageous children of God who nevertheless represent what they have become aware of through spiritual experience, but these few will speak as if with the tongues of angels, even though they will be called to account by the earthly authorities for their opinion …. Nothing else is to be expected at a time when people are almost on the brink of destruction. And so the believers alone will not be able to do anything about them and will almost become despondent until the lord Himself unexpectedly expresses Himself, and this in an obvious way. People’s spiritual shallowness is recognizable by the ignorance that speaks from every word, providing they take part in a conversation that digresses into the spiritual. They lack all concepts and they do not dwell on what they have heard for long either but regard the time spent on it as a waste of time. Consequently, they will never make any progress as they lack any knowledge, but in their stubbornness they do not accept any instruction either. There are only a few exceptions who immediately recognize the truth when it is offered to them. The desire for earthly possessions will not dominate their thoughts as much, even though they still regard it as the most important aspect of earthly life. These are people for whom earthly possessions, however great they may be, are no longer enough and who therefore, of their own accord, occupy themselves with thoughts which reach into the kingdom of the beyond. If spiritual truth is then presented to them, the good forces in the beyond will help them by influencing their thoughts and thus guide the person towards realization. The word of God must be proclaimed everywhere, even if the resistance is very great and seemingly no progress can be achieved. Where the divine word is offered, people with good will can also recognize it as the word of God because it speaks to them themselves. There the spiritual low is also not so alarming, i.e. not completely hopeless, because these people are willing and accessible to an instruction coming from above ….

Amen

Man’s attitude towards the eternal deity is decisive for his moral worth and the maturity of his soul. Without question, the decisive factor here is man’s inner feeling, not his outwardly characterized attitude. However, this inner feeling will only be expressed when a person’s calm is shaken, when he finds himself in situations in life where he cannot maintain an outward appearance, but lets go of any mask. Only then can we speak of a person’s nature, and only then will it be decided what position he takes towards God. A person can present a completely different outward appearance without, however, being condemned for it, for he cannot openly display his innermost nature; conversely, however, he can also feign a noble nature towards his fellow human beings which is not in harmony with his inner nature. And therefore man will not be able to make a fair judgement of his fellow human being so easily …. But God knows people’s shortcomings and weaknesses as well as their value and will. And He wants them to renounce appearances, He wants them to recognize themselves and reflect on their true nature …. Everything that is good and noble recognizes God in all situations in life and takes refuge in Him in times of need …. and thus the human being learns to pray correctly, i.e. in spirit and in truth …. He does not just speak mechanically to himself, but the supplication of his heart rises up to God and the bridge is entered which leads over into the spiritual kingdom. Countless people, however, who were previously careless and superficial, who only spoke of God and were otherwise distant from Him, now seek Him and they also find Him, because the transience of the earthly has shaken their self-assurance and taught them to think differently. Man is easily inclined to judge, but God is long-suffering and merciful …. He seeks to save what has not yet completely fallen to the adversary, even if His means seem cruel and incomprehensible to people …. (interruption)

The less people understand the nature of the deity, the more incomprehensible it seems to them that the great suffering they experience and have to bear is not a punishment but must be seen as an act of the greatest mercy. This is only understandable if God’s infinite love is taken into consideration …. the love that wants to draw and guide everything to itself and which is not recognized. It does not let the beings fall, and thus it prevents people in their blindness from completely separating themselves from God, it wants to spare the beings the agonizing fate of souls remaining separated from God and therefore uses a means which certainly appears cruel but which is most likely to result in people uniting with God. For now He can provide them with far more marvellous things than just earthly happiness and earthly pleasures …. God has prepared the delights of paradise for the few who love and serve Him. But He can never bestow these delights on beings who keep away from Him. And it pities God that His creatures should live in want, that they should not share in the eternal glory. And because people make no effort to enter the path that leads to Him, He comes to meet them by knocking on their hearts in suffering and seeking admission. How long they are hardened and do not want to hear His voice also determines the degree of suffering of these people. And at the moment people’s spiritual state is so low and therefore this requires very special measures on the part of the eternal deity so that the purpose may be achieved. And thus the lord directs world events brought about by human will such that the human being’s soul can thereby attain spiritual maturity even though the body has to endure unspeakable hardship. For the body is transient, but the soul passes over into the spiritual kingdom. The suffering of the body ends once, but the suffering of the soul does not end with the death of the body. And what therefore appears to be cruelty is an authorization by God, based on His infinite love. For man can attain eternal bliss through suffering; but rarely does he take the path to God as long as his earthly life runs smoothly. In the greatest distress, prayer rises to the father in heaven, in spirit and in truth. And thus the father can also hear the prayer and send His help. And one day the soul will truly sing praises and thanks to God that He has thereby averted greater misery from it in the beyond. But humanity will not realize this until it seeks the explanation in God’s great love ….

Amen

It is a tremendous task to bring the light of knowledge to humanity in a time that can be called completely dark and lightless. It is a mission that requires the greatest strength of will, and therefore only those people are suitable for it who are devoted to God and offer themselves to serve Him …. who feel weak in deepest humility and ask God for strength, who allow themselves to be led like children and yet have a strong will when it comes to fighting for Him …. who fearlessly confront their enemies because they confidently trust in God …. who do not take a single step without asking for divine grace and thus approach a task that requires deep, unselfish love strengthened in spirit. They themselves are in the light and can therefore also spread the light among mankind. There is great need among people and they require active help, but they often stubbornly reject this help, and then God’s fighters must repeatedly commit themselves to their task with extreme patience. They must never slacken in their endeavours, they must fight with the sword of their mouth, i.e. constantly seek to proclaim the divine word …. they must ask God Himself for support and thus request the strength from God, the holy spirit, so that they always teach what is right and thus spread the light …. And they must never become discouraged, for where human effort is unsuccessful, countless spiritual beings stand by them, and through united endeavour the teachers will nevertheless reach their goal. But anyone who stands up for God and His teachings, who tries to spread them amongst humanity, will have a carefully trained spirit, he will only be able to teach what corresponds to the truth and thus in truth bring the light to people, for his love for his fellow human beings enables him to receive the divine word and he is now a suitable instrument of God who is allowed to be active in a redeeming way. Such servants of God, who pass on what they have received from God, are an unimaginable blessing for humanity. It is the only salvation for countless souls who are still languishing in darkness. The darkness can only be banished through the word that comes from above, for this word is light in itself. And anyone who allows the divine word to speak to him and moves it in his heart will be allowed to walk in the light. For he is willing and the strength will be imparted to him to also recognize as truth what he is taught. However, the darkness of the spirit is more favourable to the unwilling and they cannot be forced to accept God’s word. And yet even these must not be ignored; time and again an attempt must be made to bring them a little light, to spread a small glow in order to awaken in them the desire for light. And therefore love has to become active, for only love can redeem the being from darkness, only love is able to awaken counter-love and only love will be victorious …. And the great adversity on earth can only be remedied through people’s love for each other, which thus expresses itself by preaching the gospel to those who walk along in the darkest night without knowledge of divine love and mercy, of God’s wisdom and omnipotence ….

Amen

The explanation for their unbelief rests in people’s confused thinking. When people join a school of thought, which can be called utterly wrong in comparison to the pure teaching of Christ, it is misguided thinking, and the less it corresponds to the truth, the more serious are the consequences. Thoughts which are opposite to the truth must, understandably, detract from true belief and prepare the ground for unbelief. However, a person will be unable to grasp a clear thought but will disjointedly believe one moment this and another that, i.e. he will deem it to be the truth. And thus his train of thought is confused, he will hardly recognise what is right as truth and this state is scarcely satisfactory. It cannot result in a person’s spiritual progress but instead will cause him constant anxiety and he will keep insisting on his point of view for a long time. He will walk past the pure truth because he excludes God. Hence he will try, by way of his own thinking, his own strength, to fathom what is incomprehensible to him, and his thoughts will therefore be led astray. Or his will for truth is not strong, consequently, it cannot be offered to him either, whereas the person who desires knowledge for its own sake will receive brightest wisdom. Belief and unbelief are based on opposite conditions. In order to have faith, the human being must have a childlike relationship with God. He must totally hand himself over to the eternal Deity …. he must consider himself small and insignificant and recognise in the eternal Deity a Being of profound perfection …. For this is faith …. The atheist, however, negates everything, he deems himself intelligent and wise and no instruction gets through to him. He will never subordinate himself to a higher Being because he denies His existence. Thus he is high and mighty; consequently, the preconditions are entirely different …. the believer’s thoughts are clear and righteous, while the thoughts of the unbeliever lack order and therefore cannot reach a correct conclusion either. Spiritual clarity can never be given to an arrogant person since he does not pray for grace, therefore he cannot receive it. Without divine grace, however, the human being cannot think correctly. But the human being’s will is frequently too weak in order to seek help from God Himself, and thus he will live in ignorance until he prays for spiritual clarity and then humbly waits for divine grace ….

Amen

The pure truth will always be recognized by those who are hungry for truth. But man must also earnestly endeavour to profess it when he has recognized it, for the truth is to break through. As soon as a person affirms God, he must also affirm the truth, for God is the truth. If God now reveals Himself through the truth, it is not enough for the human being to silence the doubts within himself; it is not enough for him to affirm it, but he must now defend what has been given to him to his fellow human beings. And this is often not easy if he previously held a view that was generally accepted and now has to admit that he was wrong and must first renounce this wrong view. This takes effort, and yet God requires him to pass on what he has received. The state of complete ignorance is most suitable for a person to be instructed in the truth …. Blessed are the poor in spirit …. However, anyone who has previously received knowledge that does not fully correspond to the truth has far more to give if he wants to receive eternal wisdom. He must make a distinction between the fact that he has previously received the work of men and that God’s gift is now imparted to him …. he must give away without resistance what people have previously taught him and leave it to God Himself what He wants to give back to him. And the person will receive far more than he gives. And on closer inspection he will receive the same back, only purified and without the ballast that people have added to the pure truth. What he gives away in terms of doctrines of faith will lose significance for him, but what he receives and now recognizes as purest truth will be immensely meaningful. For it is truly not important to pass on unchanged a traditional teaching that does not fully correspond to the truth, but it is of the utmost importance to take care of the dissemination of a teaching that is recognized as truth. And as long as disputes arise about it, the human being has not yet fully penetrated the truth and therefore also has the duty to ask God Himself for the truth. God’s love withholds the truth from no-one, yet it is difficult to give an explanation corresponding to the truth to those people who believe themselves to be in the truth. And so there will still be uncertainty because they themselves create the unclear state through a certain spiritual arrogance. They see themselves as the bearers of truth and this is completely unfounded. Man can deceive himself as long as he lives on earth …. he only has to have the courage to admit a recognized deception. But he must make this sacrifice in gratitude for the grace of being given the purest truth. This is the demand God makes of man and therefore also a measure of the love man has for his creator and father ….

Amen

As soon as a fear of death takes hold of the human being, the spirit has not yet become active in him, and thus the soul has not yet decided in his favour but still takes too much account of worldly pleasures. Thus the soul has not yet fulfilled its earthly task and this depresses it when it thinks of its near end. For unconsciously it feels that it will then have a limit. Through the direct connection with God knowledge can be imparted to the soul, but always only through the fellow human being, since its own spirit is not yet awakened. The human being can now make use of this imparted knowledge by endeavouring to live in accordance with divine requirements. Then he will soon be able to hear the voice within himself, the expression of the divine spirit in the human being, and from that moment on his state of soul will also lift, which will be noticeable through complete indifference towards earthly pleasures and enjoyments. Then man gladly gives away what belongs to the world …. then all fear of death is also invalid. For what he no longer considers desirable has lost its appeal and no longer binds man to this world. He who despises the world never has to fear the hour of death, he enters quietly and painlessly through the gate to eternity, he longs for his true home with its glory and understandably gives up everything for it. If therefore the fear of the hour of death still oppresses man, then he is not yet completely free of earthly desire, and this must first be overcome, man must turn more intimately to God, spend his life in active neighbourly love; he must pray often and intimately that God helps him to a peaceful hour of death, he must devote himself completely to God, entrust his needs and worries to Him in faith and then leave the future to Him. And the inclination towards the earthly will dwindle, the desire for the spiritual, on the other hand, will grow, and the anxiety before the hour of death will give way, for the human being will then mould himself as he should be in order to be able to enter into eternal life ….

Amen

Those who confess Me will be honoured by Me with the inner word. And the word will reach them in accordance with their receptivity. And therefore you should not doubt or even reject it as long as the meaning of the word corresponds to My teaching. And you must always make it your guiding principle that I convey nothing else to people through My word than the commandment of love for Me and for fellow human beings …. And thus, as soon as love is taught, none other than I Myself can be the giver of the word. All other concerns must remain silent, yet I leave every person the freedom of his will. Yet I always want to be consulted where important decisions have to be made. I do let people have their will, even if they oppose Me. But when it is necessary to spread My teaching among humanity, I must also ensure that this teaching is offered to them in a pure and unadulterated way. And therefore I want to eradicate what has crept in as erroneous teaching. And I will explain it in such a way that it is easy to understand. But the human being, if he accepts My word, often puts his own feelings and opinions into it, yet I do not oppose him so as not to force his will. And thus he certainly writes down My word, i.e. the content completely corresponds to the truth, yet he clothes this truth in a form which betrays his feelings. And this external form often makes humanity suspicious and is enough to doubt the credibility of such divine revelations. But the spirit does not speak untruth once it expresses itself through a human being, even if the human being’s thinking is sometimes erroneous. As soon as he abandons himself to the working of the divine spirit, he is protected from any erroneous writing. The more the recipient can refrain from his own judgement, the more he is therefore uninvolved in the creation of the writings, the clearer the divine word will sound to him and the word will come to earth as God Himself deems it good. And therefore the human being must try to eliminate himself as far as possible so that I Myself can express Myself without putting humanity in doubt through an obstacle on his part …. For I do not want people of faith to take offence at this. Yet whatever form it may take …. the content will always be inviolable as soon as the will to serve Me allows the working of the spirit in the human being ….

Amen

Without divine grace, man is incapable of accomplishing even the slightest thing for the salvation of his soul. Man is weak, i.e. he lacks all strength as long as he walks without God. He can certainly lead his earthly life and do so with earthly successes, but his soul is empty until it asks God for His grace. For the grace of God is power …. It is the power that is needed to carry out what God’s will is. God therefore makes His will known to people and at the same time gives them the means to be able to fulfil His will. And man can reach his goal, the maturity of the soul, without great effort if he wants to …. But this is completely up to him …. The will to request the strength will not be forced, but the strength cannot come to the human being without being requested either. Man can achieve everything with God if he prays fervently. Therefore, he will also receive unlimited grace, since it is God’s will that people should make use of His grace in order to attain spiritual maturity. If the human being spurns the most precious thing, divine grace, then his will is in the power of the adversary who wants to stop the human being from making contact with God. And if he pleads for God’s grace, he establishes the connection with God, and that means lost territory for the adversary, for then he can no longer rule over the human being. For the person himself, however, it means salvation from eternal ruin. For from the very beginning God Himself stands by his side, since the human being has entrusted himself to His strength and power through prayer for grace and God will never disappoint such trust. If the human being only ever implores divine grace, he will no longer need to fear for his soul, for God shares His grace unmeasured with those who desire it and pray to Him in spirit and in truth. However, He will withhold it from those who deem themselves too exalted to approach the divine creator for an easing of their earthly task. Their reward is the world’s recognition, and thus they also believe they can master everything by their own efforts. They will lack any strength to do anything that brings spiritual success. On the other hand, the inclination towards matter will be increased, for if they believe that they do not need God’s grace they are children of satan, who puts all these thoughts into the human being’s heart in order to increase the distance from God. And it will be easy for him to achieve this. Living in the grace of God ensures the highest spiritual success, because now the human being no longer does anything on his own but does everything in accordance with the divine will. Divine grace is God’s help, divine grace is strength, and divine grace is, as it were, the outflow of God’s infinite love, and where this comes into action spiritual success must be recorded. And therefore always and constantly ask for divine grace so that it can come to you as soon as you need it ….

Amen

Everything proceeds towards deliverance because it has to follow the path of higher development. When the spiritual essence separates itself from matter it has overcome the latter; but the spiritual essence has not always matured enough that it no longer needs an earthly (transformation) form and in that case it will re-enter a new form, which also consists of matter. However, when the soul, the spiritual essence within the human being, leaves the body, the earthly transformation has come to an end; that is, the soul escapes its last form on earth and enters, liberated from all matter, a new and entirely different realm than earth. The body, the final earthly form, is now destined for disintegration again; i.e. the spiritual substances which constitute the earthly body, also have to take the path of higher development, since these substances are still at the initial stage of development, and for this purpose they will join divine works of creation again whose purpose is, after all, the higher development of the spirit. This can happen in various ways but it always has to include the possibility for active service. Consequently, the substance has to join a work of creation where it has to perform some kind of task and serve by fulfilling this task, since the substance can only develop through service. If the opportunity to serve is taken away, the path of higher development is interrupted, which is an extremely agonising condition for the spiritual substance. The time of spiritual suffering can seemingly be shortened but the spirit substance will not thank the human being who intervenes in its progress of development and prevents its service. As soon as the natural decomposition of a human body is prevented by accelerating its process of disintegration by cremation or by chemical means, the path of the spirit is far more painful and has to be so, because this process opposes divine order, it opposes the purpose which God has given every work of creation. It is an unauthorised action by people which does not concur with God’s will. The human body should be returned to the earth as is its purpose ….

“From dust you have been taken, to dust you shall return” …. providing God’s intervention does not determine otherwise by ending a human life in other ways than the human being’s natural physical death. When the soul has freed itself from the body …. i.e. from the spiritual substance which forms the body …. the body’s job to serve the soul is fulfilled. But until it has completely disintegrated it still has other opportunities to be of service, even if the human being finds this difficult to understand, while an accelerated disintegration procedure will not allow the remains to carry out even the slightest act of service. Hence it is completely wrong to assume that the human body will join the soul as a result of this kind of purification process. The external form’s spiritual substance has indeed the same function and eventually unites with countless other substances of soul and likewise walks the path of development on earth as a human soul …. but this cannot happen the way people erroneously believe. All substances are given an appointed time for their development which the human being cannot shorten at his own discretion by means of an external process …. if he does not completely use the only option of spiritual higher development on earth, i.e. that he, by his conduct, his right attitude towards God, his faith and his wholehearted actions of love, acquires a degree of maturity which can also shorten the physical form’s earthly lifespan; however, it must always be left up to God’s will which helpful task He will still assign to it ….

Amen

The life-giving influx of divine power flows through all works of creation and is therefore the primordial force and the source of all life. The divine will, which brought everything into being, now also ensures the existence of all that exists. The meaning and purpose of creation is the return of all that is spiritual to God as its origin, consequently the spiritual flows the power from God in order to be able to accomplish the return to Him. If now the spiritual substance would refuse to accept the strength it would also have no possibility of development, for without the supply of divine strength the works of creation could not exist, thus the spiritual substance would not be able to change either, and consequently it would remain in the same state as it was when it fell away from God. And the beingness would refuse to receive this strength if it had to determine it itself, for it emerged from the adversary’s will and his will was also transferred to the beingness even though it had received the right of self-determination from God. And thus the spiritual substance had to be incorporated into the work of creation against its will, that is, its will was bound, and this for its redemption from the adversary’s will. The resistance against God remained but the being is powerless against the divine will. What the being did not recognize in its delusion it must learn to recognize in an infinitely long process through creation …. the infinite love of God …. Every work of creation betrays this love of God, and when the beingness now feels the power from God against its will, i.e. enters the circuit of divine love, the stubborn resistance begins to weaken and the bound will now turns to the eternal deity of its own accord. And God increasingly loosens the still bound will and gives the being more freedom the more its will complies with Him by fulfilling the task assigned to it, i.e. by being willing to serve. It certainly cannot refuse to carry out the serving activity which is destined for it, since it is in a certain state of compulsion, but if at the same time the will of the spiritual being is willing to do so, it gives up its former resistance and progresses in higher development. Thus the being will feel God’s love in every external form, yet it will only recognize God’s love in its final stage as a human being …. i.e. the connection of all things with God and itself as His living creation …. And that is why it can only be given back its free will as a human being. The misuse of it is a step backwards, the right use of it is progress in his higher development. And this is divine love, which lets nothing fall, even if it stands in blatant defence against God. But how much more intimately does divine love embrace the beings which try to approach Him out of their own impulse …. for whom the earthly way of life has brought the realization of the eternal deity and Its infinite love …. Every endeavour towards God is pleasing to Him, provided it is truly, i.e. inwardly felt. And what merciful love He shows to the being that errs and yet is willing …. He tries to lead it to the right realization as long as it does not resist Him. And all earthly torments aim to purify the spiritual being which does not completely entrust itself to God’s guidance and is therefore still wavering in the right realization. God’s love wants to be recognized through love, and busy loving activity therefore also brings the human being closer to divine love. Serving God in free will means giving love to one’s fellow human beings …. recognizing divine love will become easy for them and, looking back, at the end of their physical life they will understand the infinite love of God, which banished the beingness in order to set it free.

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Whoever believes in Me has eternal life …. Behold, it was My will to take away the sting of death so that My children …. the people who cling to Me …. will not have to taste the horrors of death, for faith in Me painlessly detaches the soul from the body and it soars upwards. And for this I gave My life on the cross so that My children would not taste death …. My earthly body willingly bore all pain so that My children would not have to suffer, so that through their faith in Me they could painlessly enter eternity …. So he who believes has eternal life, for his faith is the concession of his desire for Me. The child has overcome the separation and found its way home to the father …. And therefore I bless all those who believe …. for they are in truth My children to whom I open the gates of paradise. And so whoever has gone home in the deepest faith in Me, his creator and saviour, whoever has loved Me and striven for Me, I will receive him into My father’s house; I will lead him into the kingdom which I have prepared for all who believe …. For whoever believes in Me will also strive to keep My commandments, and I will bless his will …. The death of the body is therefore not to be feared, it only clears the child’s path to the father, and My love draws the soul upwards. As soon as the soul separates from the body it will be guided upwards by My servants into a region which is full of light and clearly the soul’s future abode. And that is why you should not grieve on earth, for what the soul leaves behind on earth is void. I gave you life in order to take it from you …. and I take it from you in order to be able to give it back to you in all glory ….

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The broadcasts from above can only be grasped in their full depth when a certain spiritual aspiration of the human being becomes noticeable. There are an infinite number of people who are alienated from spiritual experience, and therefore an inner rejection of these messages will be the first manifestation, for two worlds are still wrestling against each other here. That is, the inhabitants of each world seek to gain supremacy over the human soul. Now this can be an easy struggle if the inclination towards one world is not very great, but it can also mean a tremendous inner struggle for the soul if the soul has certainly partly overcome the desire for the earthly world but the spiritual realm is still completely alien to it. Then the battle between the two realms is a very fierce one, for the soul itself is still too undecided. It does not want to make a complete decision for the earthly world because it recognizes the frailty, the transience of everything that surrounds it …. The spiritual kingdom, however, is not believable enough for it and God’s adversary uses all means to strengthen its unbelief, for he will always harass the soul where it is weak and vulnerable. And therefore it will become difficult for those people to recognize, they will often not want to and not be able to find the transition from earthly to spiritual experience, for the evil power will deceive them with more appealing images which seem more desirable to them and they will overlook the narrow paths which lead to recognition. And then the transmissions from above are also powerless and ineffective, for spiritual things need to be seen with spiritual eyes, spiritual truths need to be received with the heart …. the spiritual ear …. if they are not to remain without impression. If a person wants to pray in his distress, if he wants to submit his inner doubts and questions to God for an answer, the decision would be easier for him, because then he grants access to those forces that guide him into realization and introduce him to spiritual experience. However, the human intellect alone is usually active and the heart is switched off. And now man sees through a fog …. a mirage is feigned to him by the forces of the underworld …. his power of judgement is weakened, he stretches out his hands longingly towards that illusion and passes by the fresh, clear source of knowledge without refreshing himself …. And man does not know what marvellous power this source contains. And he will not be able to feel this strength in himself until he desires to ascend of his own accord, until he recognizes everything earthly as void and worthless and leaves himself without resistance to those good forces which are from the spiritual realm and thus can only offer him spiritual gifts …. Only then will he pay attention to such gifts, only then will he be able to realize how mercifully God provides for people on earth in order to make their path upwards to eternal bliss easier ….

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The soul should develop upwards and must be able to detach itself from the world and its joys and sorrows at any time. Only then will it have overcome matter. For only then is the will to ascend stronger than the world, only then can it mature and receive spiritual wealth when it no longer desires earthly things. The more difficult it is for it to soar into the spiritual realm, the greater is its merit when it nevertheless manages to fly upwards. For by overcoming the resistance it gains strength, provided it implores divine assistance. The will of the person who decides to ascend will truly be rewarded. And what the soul gives up, it receives back a thousandfold; what it gives is earthly-transient, but what it receives is spiritual good, which has eternal value. And therefore the human being should desire this spiritual good from the bottom of his heart, only then can it be offered to him ….

The meaning and purpose of life on earth is the higher development of the soul, and this will always have to mean a struggle for the soul, because without struggle there is no progress. Something always has to be overcome in order to achieve success. Whose life now passes without a struggle, his spiritual maturity is questioned, thus his life would have been lived uselessly. This is why man will never be granted a completely carefree life on earth, for this would be a lack of divine love for him. But God has only one goal, to educate spiritually mature beings, and therefore has to put them into a constant state of struggle so that they have the opportunity to mature. Yet people do not recognize this as a proof of God’s love but mostly accept the fate imposed on them unwillingly. Yet struggling and suffering in submission only earns them the reward of higher development …. Accepting everything as God’s mission and seeking to overcome it with the help of divine strength brings the soul to that state of maturity which is the goal of life on earth. For only then does he bow to God’s will, only then does he submit himself and his will to his creator, and only then does he recognize earthly pleasures as a danger that he had to overcome in order to come closer to God. For the demand for strength brings him the radiance of divine love and unites him more intimately with God. Man can therefore only find union with God if he surrenders to Him without resistance, by giving up everything for the sake of one goal …. to reach God …. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak, and as long as the soul considers the body and thus turns its will towards it, the spirit is gagged, which wants to ascend …. Thus the soul must fight against the flesh, it must not respect its desires, but give freedom to the spirit. The soul must willingly separate itself from the body in order to unite with the spirit, even if it costs a struggle and seems unattractive. And that is the meaning and purpose of life, that man daily resists the desires of the body, so that he becomes its conqueror and gives the spirit in him the freedom to soar up into the spiritual regions, to receive spiritual goods there, and thus to gather imperishable wealth for eternity ….

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So trust in the goodness and love of the lord. Entrust your suffering and your worries to Him and surrender yourselves to His grace and mercy. He who gave you life also knows what serves your soul for its salvation, and you must entrust yourselves to His love. For if you pray fervently …. in spirit and in truth …. so not only your lips speak, but you feel deeply in your heart what you say, you will also find favour before the lord …. For He does not want you to suffer, but that you find your way to Him and come to Him with every request. He wants you to be intimately united with Him; He wants you to come to the father like a child; He only wants your heart …. He wants you to speak to Him at all times, He wants you to entrust your needs to Him and faithfully expect His help. For He loves you as a father loves his children …. He wants to give you a life of eternal glory, and thus you are to purify yourselves during your earthly existence and therefore have to take the cross and suffering upon yourselves. And you should always remember that Jesus Christ carried His cross in order to reduce people’s suffering, and anyone who devotedly carries his cross on earth is, as it were, carrying the cross for his saviour and redeemer. He is already participating in Christ’s work of redemption on earth. Yet suffering is never greater than the helper …. and if you become timid, the father in heaven will strengthen you again if only you ask Him sincerely to help you …. Make every sacrifice out of love for Him, and one day you will be rewarded a thousandfold. But do not fear the world …. For God is greater than the world …. God’s power also reaches where man’s power fails. And if you call upon God for help, He will grant it to you, for only His infinite love determines Him to send you suffering from time to time so that He may win your hearts and you may enter into intimate union with the one Who is the father of you all ….

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Only one thing is necessary, that you recognize Me as your origin …. Then your thinking will truly be right, for then you will also have the right realization. If you see your origin in Me you will also be drawn back to Me, for then you will feel that you belong to Me …. And then you will inevitably have to reach the place where you consider your home to be. Then all desire will only be for Me, all striving will have Me as its goal, you will recognize the light in Me, you will seek and find the truth in Me, you will always and constantly desire Me and want to stay close to Me, and this will will also make it possible for you to bridge the separation from Me and establish the connection, thus you will try to unite yourselves with Me. And thus your earthly life will bring you the right success …. For I want to be recognized by you as what I am …. as the only goal worth striving for, as the eternal truth, light and strength, as eternal life and eternal love …. And once you have recognized this you are close to Me, for I am wherever I am affirmed and I remain eternally with those who want to be with Me, for they recognize their origin and thus there is no longer any separation between them and Me. And then their transfiguration can take place, then they will have reached a degree of maturity which allows them to become recipients of light and strength and thus be able to leave earth with divine approval, for then they will have fulfilled their earthly task by recognizing the endless time of separation from God as the highest and most perfect being as an unsatisfactory state and thus sought to bridge it, because only then will the being reach its goal when it is completely one with Me again, just as it was from the start and will remain so for all eternity ….

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