Accept the christian doctrine within yourselves and do not search in an area which is unfathomable for you and which can only be entered by those whom I have chosen for it. Admittedly, everything shall be made accessible to you and if you struggle in faithful prayer to gain knowledge I will give it to you, for you shall become knowledgeable in order to be able to pass this knowledge on to those who, like you, hungrily desire the truth. Yet what I give you corresponds to your earthly life, i.e., the prerequisite is always worthiness, that is, the shaping of the soul which harbours My spirit within itself, and the sincere will to serve Me. Anyone who tries to remedy spiritual hardship with the knowledge he has gained about his neighbour, i.e. who wants to raise humanity’s spiritual state to a higher level, will be driven to his spiritual research by pure neighbourly love and he will be considered unlimited. However, anyone who tries to penetrate an area out of pure ego desire, i.e. who only links a certain intention to it, i.e. the goal of the research is merely the human being himself …. if he only researches and questions for his own sake, then the human being is not completely free from earthly desire. For he does not desire the truth for the sake of the truth, but his purpose and goal is merely the overthrow of the existing and the desire to display an extraordinary seeming maturity, and this does not meet with My approval. To assist one’s fellow human being and to introduce him to the right knowledge must lie within the human being’s will in order to recognize the pure truth. However, if his own heart is not yet receptive to divine truth then it will hardly be able to distinguish the spiritual state of the person himself. He believes himself to be knowledgeable and yet is far removed from real knowledge. And what he believes to possess is incomprehensible in his way of speaking. Man ventures into areas for which earthly knowledge is inadequate. He makes assertions that he can never prove; it is a high degree of spiritual arrogance. However, humility should lie dormant in the depths of the heart, which now attracts the work of the holy spirit …. The spiritual ear, the heart, should listen, receive and pass on. But man should not seek to touch that which is also offered as a divine gift to those who believe they are standing in the pure truth. They will soon recognize the invalidity of their views if the events of world affairs follow one another in such a way that the credibility of what was previously spread by unqualified people, namely by those who, due to a lack of maturity of soul, are unable to receive the pure divine word and therefore only reproduce what was received without God and can therefore never be the pure truth ….

Amen

There is no other path to the heights than that of service. So he who serves develops to perfection; what was previously deficient and imperfect is brought to a progressive state through service, i.e. the being progresses to the heights as long as it serves. The willingness to serve is decisive for the being’s degree of maturity. The being will now always strive to become free and therefore also consciously want to serve, because it thereby promises itself complete freedom. If the being enters into a union with an external form which is of little benefit to humanity, then the serving function will not be utilized too much, which is a great disadvantage for the spiritual in the external form. For every sojourn in the form is intended to give the being a certain degree of maturity. As soon as the form is needed, it also has a task to fulfil, it must therefore serve. The serving state is a surrender of one’s own will to the will of the other; and that which is allowed to serve must also have declared its willingness to prove itself useful, as it were, otherwise no serving activity can be assigned to it. But there are also works of creation which apparently have no mission to fulfil, and then man is easily inclined to believe that such works of creation never hold the spiritual standing in higher development, but are dead and spiritless, therefore unlived by the divine spirit, unlived by the great love of God. But this thought is completely wrong, there is no work of creation which would be without spiritual life, just as there is no work of creation which would not have its purpose, even if it were still hidden to the human eye or not yet comprehensible to his intellect.

b. Every work of creation has its purpose, every work of creation is somehow needed. God’s love, out of His wisdom, has created all things for a serving purpose. And nothing is without meaning and purpose, otherwise it would not be divine creation. Nothing was created without a plan and nothing is useless either. The smallest work of creation fulfils its mission, the tiniest living being its function, and everything is for the preservation of what God has created. And when man understands this, when he can imagine everything created as a necessity, he also understands the eternal deity, i.e. he realizes its existence, so he begins to believe …. he recognizes the omnipotence and wisdom of God and then also senses the omnipotent love, as every work of creation bears witness to this. God must be recognized as the origin of all creation, only then can the human being be guided into realization, only then will he have an open ear and heart for the truth, for the teachings which God Himself gives to people, which are intended to enlighten him about that which is beyond earthly life, about the human being’s relationship with God, his task and his goal, about his outcome and his final return to God ….

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Knowledge of God can only be found in a relationship of service, because the desire to serve requires love, but love is the key to recognizing the eternal deity. He who wants to rule will hardly recognize God, for he lacks love, otherwise he would not want to rule. If people serve each other like brothers, this excludes ruling. One will show love to the other, and God will recognize them; He will be in their midst, for where there is love, there is God Himself. The servant relationship, if it is not established by force, will therefore result in the greatest blessing, for it ensures union with God …. Serving in love always presupposes freedom of will; a person will do something of his own accord to help his fellow human being, help him bear his suffering or keep it away from him. And this serving in love brings him the knowledge of God …. But recognizing God means receiving wisdom from Him …. recognizing God means being informed about God’s work, His power and His glory …. recognizing God means knowing about His infinite love, goodness and mercy, and whoever serves in this way will be introduced to this knowledge by God. He will give to man as he gives to his fellow human beings, for serving in love is giving …. Whoever conveys earthly or spiritual goods to his fellow human being serves him in love, for he seeks to lift his fellow human being’s state of want and to help him in earthly or spiritual need. The human being therefore takes pity on his suffering or needy fellow human being because love is active in him. And so God also takes pity on man and turns the same love towards him again. And so He now penetrates into all depths of wisdom, for divine love Itself approaches the human being and floods him with Its love …. But the radiance of God is His power, His spirit …. This communicates itself to the human being and therefore he must become knowledgeable. He must receive wisdom because eternal wisdom unites Himself with him; he must receive strength because the strength from God overflows into the human being, and he must become love himself because divine love continues to flow towards him as long as he himself serves in love, thus distributes love, and God Himself is present in every work of love. And anyone who therefore intimately unites himself with God must recognize Him ever more, he must penetrate ever deeper into the essence of the eternal deity. And thus anyone who is active on earth as a servant will attain the deepest realization of God, for his nature will be love ….

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Believe and persevere in prayer …. It is a particularly high task which you have been given for earthly life, and a far higher maturity of soul depends on its fulfilment than a person can otherwise achieve on earth. And God will give you the strength you need if you do not forget Him and ask for His help. What is life on earth …. Just a fleeting moment in eternity. What are the sufferings and sorrows on earth compared to the bliss that awaits you if you walk in faith and live in God. But to live in God means to stand in love …. Living in God means making Him your own, putting Him first in all your thoughts and actions and doing what He asks of you …. give love to your fellow human beings …. Those who live in God will no longer take any notice of themselves, but will only ever be active for others, because God is love …. To live in God therefore means to be completely permeated by divine love. But anyone who is lovingly active is in intimate union with God …. He is in Him, just as God is in everyone who shapes himself into love by practicing works of love. You must learn to regard the fact that you are now faced with tasks which require great love and a willingness to make sacrifices as a favour, a favour which is to earn you the soul’s higher development. You must never believe that the lord God brings people together indiscriminately in order to bring suffering upon them, but that He wants to mould you into a higher maturity of soul. Often the tests are so difficult that you are in danger of failing, and yet such tests must be put to you, for they will strengthen your strength. Wherever you have to overcome resistances, your soul will take the course of higher development as long as you are active yourselves in order to master those resistances. Earthly life will soon be over, in eternity you will be rewarded many times over for the sacrifices you have made for your neighbour. And you will be thanked by the soul of the person you have done good for. Yet you must do what you do in patience and love …. You must resign yourselves to all strokes of fate, you must always and constantly desire help from your spiritual friends, who will always stand by your side where you need them. You must call upon them so that they can stand by you in every adversity of soul and body. And if you only ever have God before your eyes and in your heart …. if you firmly and unshakeably believe that He is the lord, to Whom everything is subject in heaven and on earth …. if you seek to gain His love, you will also have the power, and you will become master over all adversities, you will increase in strength and vigour, and your lot on earth will now also be an easier one. For he who overcomes the trials has nothing to fear forever, for his faith and his prayer will help him in all adversities, even though it may seem as if the trials are insurmountable …. you always have a helper at your side, if you desire His help …. But He has great power and will truly also use His power if danger threatens you …. Therefore believe and persevere in prayer ….

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In order to educate himself to gentleness and patience, the human being should visualize his fellow human being’s soul, which is in dire straits due to the human being’s wrong will; and he should now be willing to help this soul. You humans should always imagine the soul’s imprisonment, then you will face these people full of compassion and try to influence them with all love and patience in order to cause their will to loosen the soul’s fetters and thus give it greater freedom. Impatience and vehemence, however, strengthen the wrong will and the soul gets into ever greater trouble. For good and loving endeavours always awaken good impulses in a fellow human being, and only in this way can he be helped in the distress of his soul. And the soul thanks all those who help it to loosen the fetters, for it now becomes increasingly easier for it to determine the will for good, while the shell around the soul thickens if the fellow human being meets it in unkindness, because such only causes obduracy and likewise unkindness. If the soul feels a slight loosening of its fetters, its resistance to that which is good also diminishes. For the shackle is the power of the adversary, but it can be weakened by the will to do good. If a person is shown love and patience, his will will also turn towards the good, for everything that has love as its cause is good for him, only he must also recognize love as such. Impatience and vehemence will never suggest love and therefore likewise trigger agitation in the fellow human being. This causes great distress to the soul. But you have the opportunity to remedy such hardship and, through your nature, through love, kindness, patience and gentleness, to trigger soft emotions, thus contributing to the soul’s liberation from evil violence ….

Amen

The deepest depths of divine wisdom are revealed to the earthly man who desires them and keeps God’s commandments. There is nothing that remains hidden from him, for God sets no limits as long as man himself does not draw the line by ceasing his desire. What God gives is valuable beyond all measure, it remains for all eternity, it is spiritual good and therefore imperishable. Although it also concerns earthly things, i.e. material things, i.e. creations that have earthly matter as their basic substance, the knowledge of it also belongs to the spiritual realm, for every earthly creation also has its spiritual significance. In order to be able to grasp everything, instruction from the side of knowing spiritual beings is necessary, who, with untiring patience and perseverance, make it their task to initiate the ignorant human being, thus to give him knowledge of God’s activity and reign. However, in order to be receptive to the mediations of these beings, certain preconditions must be fulfilled. Thus people could draw without ceasing from a well which would constantly provide the clearest water, yet only a few people fulfil the conditions in order to receive the drink which God Himself offers them from the divine father’s hand. What God gives is the deepest, purest, noblest good, and therefore it is also of eternal value. Whoever wants to receive the divine gift must make a great sacrifice. He must first renounce all desire for the vain goods of the world. Only in an empty space can something understandably be saved. The heart of man must also be an empty, blank page. But then man must beware of outward appearances. He must indeed affirm an eternal, supremely perfect being, but faith is enough if it is felt deep in the heart with truth and conviction. Then God will reveal wisdom to him which no earthly teacher will ever be able to present to him so clearly, and the result will be that ever more radiant light will surround the human being, i.e. he will have profound knowledge and will not have received it from God in isolation from Him but in closest union with Him and thereby have become the bearer of divine wisdom and strength ….

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The concept of eternity would be abstract if it were to be applied to any earthly works of creation. There is nothing in the world that is visible to the human eye to which the term ‚eternal‘ could be applied. Although some works of creation can have an infinitely long duration of existence, they will ultimately pass away, i.e. become invisible to the human eye. One can then use the expression ‚eternal times‘, but never the word ‚eternity‘. Because eternal means never ending …. always existing …. i.e. being imperishable. But everything visible is transient and also has to be, because it is only visible when the spiritual has taken up residence in it, but a certain time is set for the spiritual to mature, so it must finally leave the work of creation once, after which it is no longer visible. The duration of all visible creations is limited and must therefore have an end, consequently the concept of eternity only extends to the non-visible, i.e. spiritual realm. This is without beginning and without end …. It will never cease to be, even if endless times pass over it, for the spiritual is imperishable. Consequently, everything visible must cease to exist in eternity, i.e. the material visible will no longer be found in eternity, in the spiritual kingdom. Even the imperfect beings will soon realize that what they believe to see is no longer pure reality, and it will not take too long for them to recognize their wrong views, that everything material is presented to them as illusion. And these immediately vanish like vapour before the eyes of the one who just desired them. Only then does the concept of eternity become comprehensible to such souls …. Only then will the being realize that it depends on its spiritual state of maturity whether the certainty that spiritual life will last forever is blissful for the being or whether the thought of a never-ending stay in the spiritual kingdom will become torture for it. For the being will only be happy when it is only able to see with the spiritual eye, thus when it has also transcended time and space ….

Amen

Life demands total commitment, and this in every way. Earthly demands are made which place an immense burden on the human being if he wants to fulfil all requirements at a time which can be called critical. Spiritually, however, the human being should likewise muster all his strength in order to fulfil the purpose of his embodiment on earth. It is now easily understandable that one or the other must suffer damage …. that where only the earthly is respected, the human being spends himself completely in this direction, especially since two completely opposite directions also require completely opposite attitudes. Only the spiritually striving person will be able to establish a certain balance, for this striving will also simultaneously provide him with the strength to fulfil the earthly task. Whereas the earthly-minded person, who only endeavours to comply with the demands of the world, will not be able to cope with this either, for in the end these demands will exceed his strength because the new age will bring a tremendous change. Something will be demanded of the human being which is beyond his strength and he will not be able to defend himself against it and will ultimately succumb if he does not come to his senses and hand over the earthly burdens to the one Who is lord of all …. Even in these difficult times the human being has the opportunity to lead an easier life if he does not exclusively live an earthly life but first becomes aware of his actual earthly task, which is far more important than an earthly life of well-being and the fulfilment of earthly duties. The world approaches man more and more threateningly, it demands its tribute and hits him hard who does not willingly bow to its demands. And for the human being this means either an extraordinary burden on the earthly side or a constant threat. Both, however, result in the spiritual task remaining ignored and thus earthly life does not bring progress but rather a step backwards in the higher development of the being …. And yet the human being has it in his own hands to make earthly life easier for himself as long as he no longer regards it as the most important thing but focusses his attention on the only important thing …. to the maturity of his soul …. From the very beginning, earthly life takes its regular course, for even that which the human being perceives as contrary to his good life is necessary for his higher development, thus right and good, even if it appears otherwise. And no matter how unrealizable the earthly demands may seem, the human being will overcome them as long as he pays attention to the maturing of his soul first and thus enters into and maintains contact with God, Who will help him to overcome even the greatest difficulties with ease, Who will not leave anyone without help who prays to Him fervently in every spiritual and earthly adversity ….

Amen

The God-opposing will was the cause of the apostasy from God, and this God-opposing will was therefore the antithesis of God, i.e., the essence of the opposing will strove away from God and towards the very power which had kindled this opposing will, which therefore consciously opposed God. And this was an entity which was of divine origin, thus a highly perfect being which, however, was also free to oppose God, since freedom of will is absolutely part of perfection. It is now to be understood that the beingness that came into being through the will of this power also had to carry the free will within itself, i.e. it was forced into a degree of imperfection through no fault of its own. Therefore God gave this being the right of self-determination, so that it could again freely choose its master. And now, of its own free will, the beingness decided in favour of God’s adversary. Consequently, it was no longer blameless, for in order to be able to decide this being, which carried darkness within itself as a sign of distance from God, had to come into contact with the light in order to know about it …. But it waged a battle against the full of light in order to draw the full of light down to itself, and this was an open rebellion against God. So the beingness became sinful …. And in order to be able to be free again from this sin of the former rebellion against God, everything was created …. heaven and earth, all world bodies …. the entire creation. And now the beingness walks through this creation always only towards the one goal of coming close to God in order to become full of light …. in order to become what it once has been but spurned. Creation harbours the beingness within itself, which is even further or closer to God, but all beingness is removed from the influence of God’s adversary as long as it goes through the individual works of creation. However, the being cannot be systematically guided upwards because then it would only be a directed being, i.e. it would have reached its state of maturity without will, which would exclude the degree of perfection. Consequently, its will has to be tested anew as to whether it decides in favour of God or His adversary. Thus he must be given free will for a time and at the same time God’s adversary must be allowed to enter and influence the being again. But likewise also the influence of the light beings is allowed so that therefore the being can really freely decide in favour of God or his opponent. And both now develop their activity and fight for the being, which has to pass this test of will as man on earth …. Before Christ’s act of salvation the adversary’s influence and power was immense and the will, although free, was extraordinarily weakened by precisely this power of its creator. And divine love took pity on him …. However, God could not intervene by force in order not to make the perfection of the being an impossibility. So He had to come to the beings’ aid Himself …. As the representative of these enslaved beings He had to take up the fight against the one who had bound the will of men through his power …. He had to fight against him, but he had to fight with means that were the only ones that could break the power of the adversary …. He had to fight with means of love, for the adversary was powerless against them. And out of love for people the God-man Jesus allowed Himself to be nailed to the cross and thereby overcame death …. i.e. the bound will and at the same time the one who had bound the will …. And from the very beginning the path was clear for everyone who, like Jesus, wanted to take this path, for he must likewise take the path of love, but also in faith in the divine saviour of humanity. The human being who is in love will also be able to recognize and affirm Jesus Christ as redeemer, for he is, as it were, in the closest union with Him if he is in love, i.e. if he is lovingly active on earth. The adversary has little influence over him and therefore cannot deprive him of the knowledge of Jesus’ divinity. Consequently, Jesus Christ will be recognized as the son of God and redeemer of the world by all those who have freed themselves from the power of God’s adversary through loving activity. However, those who reject Him are still under his influence and therefore also still bound by his will …. They can only become free from it if they …. if they are too weak to offer resistance on their own authority or to lovingly …. fervently ask for the favours of the work of redemption. The will to take the right path to God will also give them the strength. For Jesus Christ laid down His life so that this will would be strengthened, so that the human being, if he wants to free himself from the opposing power, can also do so if he confesses Jesus Christ ….

Amen

Every activity that is for the benefit of the human soul is beneficial. For if the human being considers how short earthly time is compared to eternity, and if he further considers the minimal success he can achieve on earth …. but if, on the other hand, he imagines the value of spiritual endeavour in eternity and the happiness of the soul, which can show spiritual wealth, then he will not hesitate for long and take up the work on his soul. And only then will he pursue the right purpose of earthly life. And what a person does for his and his fellow human being’s soul is already blessed by God on earth. He will stand by him in earthly adversities, He will always be willing to support the work on the soul and earthly life will always correspond to the desire for spiritual maturity. And therefore people should believingly and trustingly abandon themselves to divine guidance, for if they are serious about spiritual progress every day will bring events which are conducive to this spiritual progress. And man truly need not fear …. The more faithfully he devotes himself to God, the more successful his life on earth will be for eternity. And if the human being places his life, his earthly activity and his spiritual work at the service of his neighbour, if he therefore lovingly works to help his neighbour to spiritual maturity, he will already receive abundant blessings on earth …. He will not need to suffer hardship, he will escape severe affliction, he will banish his fellow human being’s suffering and now also be relieved of his own suffering, suffering and misery will only pass him by like a dream, and God’s blessing will rest on everything he starts, for he is driven by love and concern for the human soul, consequently, his soul will also be granted relief on earth. And so man can confidently look forward to the future …. If sorrow and worry still weigh him down, he himself is not faithful enough. He still sees too much of the earthly events around him, he pays too much attention to worldly things, and that is why these things also come to him as a test of his faith. If he learns to overcome them, i.e., if he ignores them, they will no longer burden him and now he can eagerly devote himself to the actual work of preparing his fellow human being’s soul for eternity ….

Amen

Violating the commandment to love one’s neighbour is also a sin, but a sin that the being only commits in the stage of free will, as a human being, and therefore must not be confused with the former sin …. of rebellion against God …. For this is a lack of love which is not a conscious rebellion against God Himself, because the human being neither recognizes God correctly nor his actual position towards God and his fellow human being. He does have a sense of good and evil, and as he fulfils the urge to evil more, he thickens the shell of his soul, thus adding further injustice to the former injustice and thereby making it more difficult for himself to free himself from the great guilt of sin of his former rebellion. The human being is therefore born in a burdened state in order to become free from it and can only increase his burden through sins that are committed without love. As a result, he can regress, whereas the purpose of life on earth is to rid himself of the last remnants of his former offence against God after an infinitely long journey through creation …. This great sin is the reason for his life on earth …. Without this sin, there is no justification for a being’s existence in a world that offers suffering and sorrow, tribulation and hardship to the embodied being. All this is merely a means to an end. But as soon as this great sin is not recognized or denied, every work of creation, including man, would be unfounded, and creation would then betray neither wisdom nor love. The sin of unkindness, however, would be too small to result in eternal punishment, but a life lived in a manner pleasing to God would never be able to earn eternal reward, as neither would be in proportion to the merit or sin of man on earth. The former apostasy from God, however, is such a significant spiritual event that man cannot grasp it, but only by believing in it can he solve the task on earth …. to restore the right relationship with God as it was from the beginning ….

Amen

An immeasurable abundance of divine grace flows to you humans when the word of God is imparted to you, commanded by the lord Himself, Who descends to earth in order to give strength to those who desire Him and His word. God hands out a gift whose value you cannot measure, a gift which is so delicious and refreshing …. and yet only a few receive this gift. Few open their hearts and ears and draw from the fountain of wisdom. Yet God offers this gift to all people, and wherever He finds a willing earthly child He commissions it to spread His word, for He wants the truth to be conveyed to people. And now you humans will understand that God only transmits the truth to earth in order to help humanity, which is entangled in lies, to become free from the latter. For where the lie is, there is also the kingdom of the adversary, and this kingdom is to be wrested from him, the truth is to reign there. God’s great love wants to help people and He comes to them despite their rejection of everything spiritual. He gives them something they do not deserve, He sends them messages through a mediator, the content of which must convince every person if he is willing to hear and accept the truth. These messages only provide purely spiritual information about the activity and reign of God and the beings of light, they furthermore instruct the human being about his actual task on earth and also give a picture of what is happening in the world, and for the sake of their significance these messages should be conveyed to the whole of humanity. Anyone who now undertakes this task of spreading the divine word imparted to him amongst his fellow human beings will be immensely strengthened, and he will be able to do something which would be completely impossible without this influx of strength, he will be able to speak according to divine will, he will receive the gift of speech as soon as he stands up for Jesus Christ, the divine saviour. This is a task which requires complete commitment, which requires a strong will and which requires constant dialogue with God …. it is a task that can only be accomplished if the person is deeply rooted in faith, i.e. if he entrusts everything to the father in heaven without any worries and only ever obeys the divine commandments; for by doing so the person will grow upwards …. He will hear what other people cannot hear, he will look ahead, i.e. God will show him in pictures the development of things that are taking place in world events. And when the human being announces this to his fellow human beings, there will probably be disbelief and doubt at first, and yet this will give many people food for thought as soon as the announcements are evidently fulfilled. Then countless people will still confess Him Who made Himself known through a human mouth, they will only now appreciate the divine gift and endeavour to live in accordance with His divine word and thus try to ennoble their nature. And then God’s grace will have become effective …. a human being has contributed towards bringing light into people’s hearts, and this light will emit a bright radiance and illuminate everything that does not escape its revitalizing rays. For God descended to earth Himself in order to bring light to people so that they will walk on earth with the right realization and thus make use of the divine grace which is at their unmeasured disposal.

Amen

It will not be possible for anyone to get behind the pure truth in terms of research, for truth is something purely spiritual which cannot be fathomed intellectually. Truth is inseparable from the eternal deity, therefore it must also be something unfathomable in itself like the eternal deity itself. But something spiritual can never be fathomed through a purely physical function, and it is a purely physical function when the intellect alone wants to approach the solution of problematic questions which concern the great riddle of creation or everything that lies outside the earthly, when therefore man wants to eliminate God and solve such questions through sharp thinking. The result of such research cannot correspond to the truth, because the truth is God, without God there cannot be truth. And because truth is something divine, it can only be offered by God Himself, and only to those who approach God for it, who ask for His help, His spirit for every enquiry. God wants the truth to be spread, He also wants to send it to those who still err, but then they must be willing to accept it …. However, those who live without God, who do not recognize Him and consequently do not believe that they need a supply of strength, are still in league with the power which fights against the truth. This power will try to determine the human being’s will to reject the pure truth, and the person who lives without God will give in to its insistence and stubbornly oppose the pure truth with evidence which betrays precisely this sinister influence. Without God, man cannot attain the truth because he is then subject to the prince of lies, whose endeavour is to undermine the truth. However, purely intellectual activity corresponds to the human being’s free will, i.e. it will produce results that correspond to the human being’s will. Therefore, if a person researches purely intellectually, i.e. without entering into contact with good knowing powers through prayer to God, then his own will is active but not the divine will …. However, one’s own will is still opposed to God, it has more contact with the opposing power and is therefore also seized and directed by this power, namely towards that which is opposed to God. Man cannot walk the right path without God, he will always err because his guides want to lead him astray, but it is completely up to him which power he chooses to guide him. As such, man himself is incapable of walking the right path without any guidance; he is incapable of fathoming the truth on his own, i.e. without the support of spiritual power …. However, he has the right to request spiritual strength and he has the free will to decide in favour of good or evil strength. Even the belief that he does not need support is an influence of evil forces. It is the spiritual arrogance that is part of the evil power and through which he already grants this power the right over himself. Consequently, a person can only be guided into the truth when he consciously entrusts himself to the eternal deity and, in the awareness of his own spiritual poverty, requests the good spiritual power in order to be able to recognize the truth as such when it is offered to him ….

Amen

What provisions many infinitely stars have, is unknown to man, and a statement of that is only to give in faith and also to accept in faith only as truth, for a proof can not be provided, as long as the man belongs to the earth. The stars have the same missions as the earth …. to give the spiritual beings further development opportunities, but they are so different and completely differing in nature from the earth, but all serve the same purpose, to put immature beings in a higher ripeness. And this task is always decisive for the quality and design of each heavenly body. Each star is thus revived for the first time, from such beings still needing visible works of creation, because they still lack the maturity of soul. The way of activity of those beings on a star beyond earth is not to make people understand. However it differs totally from the earth task of beings, because this task requires matter, while the other heavenly bodies are creations, where neither earthly laws of nature apply, nor by there living inhabitants are required works, which are equal on earth. Only man imagines something similar, as long as he can put nothing else for it. That is the only way clarification can come to man, indeed it is divine will, that also clarification will be given to mankind …. Where your eye can see, you find divine creations, but you do not see the spiritual, that is saved therein. This spiritual gets through infinitely many stations, before it is associated the One, from Whom it is originated. (05/16/1941) It may be enough to go through the visible creation work of God, to re-enter the spiritual state of perfection, in which it once was, then it does not need any more school of spirit. It may be united in the kingdom of light with equal spiritual mature beings and thereby develop ever higher. But countless souls do not use earthly existence, as they could, then they leave the earth in defective maturation and are unable, to enter into the kingdom of light. Those must now be given a further development opportunity, because God’s creation is infinitely great, and the educational institutions of the mind are truly enough. Each site corresponds to the state of maturity of souls, who stay in her now. They differ from each other only in the different light intensity, that’s to say, they are more or less bright, because the luminosity of each heavenly body is dependent on the maturity of the inhabiting beings, because their maturity level is decisive for the light beam, that they receive. There are stars, that are lightless, because completely ignorant beings inhabit them, who are also not willing to receive the light, that’s to say, they close themselves to the teachings offered to them. But knowledge is light …. These lightless stars are most densely animated, because countless souls divorce from the earth, who have taken no spiritual knowledge in themselves, and therefore these can be assigned only to those celestial bodies, where still is darkest night. However they usually feel the darkness as torment, and then there is given the possibility, that they desire and look …. And then the higher development may also be used in those souls, and they can be put into some more enlightening areas, that’s to say, on celestial bodies, which have a low degree of luminosity. But the same law obtains for all the stars …. that the beings are active in love …. because it earns light, that’s to say, now light in form of knowledge is streaming to the light beings engaged in love. There are stars, that have an incredible luminosity. Thus there are the souls, that have brought through their God-pleasing way of life on earth and their service in love in a high blessed maturity or they were endeavoured to make up for their failed task on earth on other stars and are now light carrier, also receive constantly light and can distribute. These spiritual beings need no stay in visible creations. They are now empowered by their high degree of maturity, to create and design, and do that now for their own felicity. Consequently, those celestial bodies are fulfilled with exceedingly charming creations. These are no earthly creations, so consisting of matter and therefore solid form, but they only correspond to the stay of the beings in spiritual regions, as well as the lightless stars involve no material creations, but are also perceptible to the beings, because everything there is available, what the beings desire in their dark state. Before their spiritual eyes even earthly creations purchase, because their will, their desire let be the creations visible, but not exist in material reality. And that means a pain for the being, to stand in desire for something never be palpable or perceptible, but only have an imagination ahead oneself. It is thus made clear to him the transitoriness of earthly things, so that they learn to overcome the desire for it by themselves, for having overcome without this, the being can never enter into luminous spheres. But in the state of perfection the creation and design of things is something else …. These are spiritual creations, that have no connection with earthly desirable things. The different stars are therefore home for in different maturity standing souls, who are separated from the earth. And there are millions and millions of stars from such different luminosity, that truly every soul finds the corresponding home on degree of maturity, to be able to develop further, that therefore only the will of the being is decisive, whether it travels the passage to the altitude in a shorter or longer time. God does not abandon a being and gives him again and again development opportunities also outside of the earth, so in the hereafter. However the unused earth life is never completely to compensate …. because only on earth the being can reach by right will a state of perfection, that gives him the highest heritage of the heavenly Father …. the childship to God …. There are infinitely many degrees of felicity, which the beings can achieve by path of the higher development in the stars. Never however they will be able to enjoy the felicity, which is prepared for a child of God. For this purpose God gave man life on earth, that he, as long as he has free will and thus strength and grace are unmeasured available, can achieve the highest for himself …. the childship to God …. For what this word means, you all can not believe …. And yet you must walk through life on earth without the knowledge of the meaning of that, so you are striving in complete free will on earth to union with God, to get one day the most blessed creatures in eternity ….

Amen

God’s wisdom and love determine the divine will, and therefore everything that reveals the divine will will also testify to God’s love and wisdom. An expression of God’s will can never be contrary to divine love, and it can never bring about something imperfect that could call divine wisdom into question. But if God’s wisdom and love are decisive, people should not worry at all, whatever life may bring them. For God knows everything, He loves His creatures dearly and will always consider them according to the state of their soul. For His wisdom overlooks everything, He knows about the past just as He knows what is to come, and He will always arrange it so that people can find their way to Him if only they want to. If people always bear in mind that every event is based on divine love and wisdom, no lamentation would escape their lips, for then they would not be able to worry either. But every worry is a doubt about God’s love and goodness and also a doubt about His omnipotence and wisdom …. Every worry is a lack of faith …. But God wants to be recognized as the wisest, most powerful and most loving being and therefore demands faith in Himself. Anyone who believes unconditionally places his life at the mercy of the eternal deity, who rewards the person for his faith. What divine love and wisdom does will never be to the detriment of the human being as long as everything is received humbly from the father’s hand. The human being must be firmly convinced that the most divine and loving being will take care of him and that the human being is therefore already in good hands because God cannot help but show love to His creatures. Only love cannot be properly recognized by man. But he should never doubt that even suffering and affliction lead to higher development and he should therefore bear it quietly and devotedly, for what God sends has already been considered by His love and wisdom since eternity ….

Amen

God was before the creation of the world, for He is from eternity and He will be for all eternity. This mystery will remain a mystery to people, for beings whose existence takes place in the midst of matter cannot grasp that which is outside of matter, thus completely independent of it. Yet material creation is only a small realm of beings which require things that have become form in order to be able to rejoin the spiritual realm …. The spiritual realm, however, has no space and time limits …. it is always and everywhere …. because in it is God, and God is always and everywhere …. The only explanation that could be given to you humans is to present thought as a parallel to this, the thought that is nothing visible and nothing tangible and yet constitutes the greatest thing in human existence …. What would man be without thought …. a machine-like being that would have to be called dead despite external activity …. Thought is only the living thing in man, and yet it is something for which man cannot give himself an explanation. It is through his thought activity that man has become a free being, as it were, for neither compulsion nor external influence can determine man’s thought …. Thought is his sole property, which can never be taken away from him; for thought is something spiritual, something that has nothing to do with matter per se, which therefore also remains when the being has become free of all matter. So man can be in the midst of matter and still switch off everything around him and dwell in the spiritual as soon as he lets his thoughts run free. Even if the thought turns to earthly things, it nevertheless remains something spiritual, because the thought itself is nothing material, it is spiritual power, which is only utilized wrongly. As soon as the human being, unimpressed by his earthly material environment, lets his thoughts wander, no matter where, the beingness in the human being moves in the spiritual kingdom, and thus it will now be understandable that everything material, everything visible, can disappear and yet the essence remains …. that the thinking beingness does not need a material environment …. that it only matters to which goal the being’s thoughts turn ….

Nr. 1922 ? Light can only be perceived as light where darkness is the opposite …. darkness again can only be recognized as an agonizing state where light is offered, this must be recognized in order to drive the being to activity or resistance ….

(This paragraph appears in the manuscript as the last paragraph of Nr. 1921 d. ed.)

Everything that is full of light will be willing to draw the dark entity into its circle of light. It will want to give it what it possesses itself …. This is serving in love …. The beings of darkness, however, want to destroy, they want to pull the beings of light down, they want to take the light away from them …. and this is a battle in unkindness. However, unkindness can only be countered by love, for the only successful means of the beings of light is love. This love is often brought to its highest development where the spiritual resistance is particularly great. Thus the resistance drives love to increased activity. And this is synonymous with an increase in strength. Time and again the beings of light will succeed in leading beings from darkness to light through love, and these beings will then likewise participate in the activity of love, thus the strength of love will increase and more and more beings will be snatched from the dark state. This battle of light with darkness is something purely spiritual, it is a battle which is only carried out mentally, for to bring light to the beings in darkness, to illuminate their state, is tantamount to ‘spreading knowledge amongst those beings’. The state of darkness is a state of complete ignorance of God and therefore ignorance of the truth …. thus a state which is agonizing in eternity, because only by recognizing the truth does an undreamt-of happiness open up to the beingness, but the ignorant state excludes all bliss, on the other hand it ignites all evil instincts. The light beings’ activity of love now consists of mentally trying to transfer the light in the form of knowledge to those beings, which can be successful with untiring patience and love …. It is therefore purely spiritual work which the being of light accomplishes and which also only has a purely spiritual effect insofar as that the thinking of these beings now refines itself, that they increasingly distance themselves from evil thoughts, from unkindness, that they suppress the feelings of hatred in order to finally enter into contact with the beings of light and can now be instructed ever more easily, thus they are introduced into the kingdom of light and thus the battle of light against darkness was not without result. Love will always remain victorious, even if it takes a long time and such battles are not always visible on earth because they only take place mentally, i.e. the transmission of light is precisely the imparting of truth to people’s thoughts. This is a purely spiritual process which signifies spiritual life …. the redemption of the beings from darkness to light, which is the activity of love of the beings of light and at the same time the cause of the state of bliss of these beings of light ….

Amen

Listen to the Word of comfort: remain courageous and strong in pain, do not waver in your faith, take refuge in prayer and do not deem yourselves abandoned, even if your world threatens to fall apart …. Faith moves mountains, and what seems impossible to you is made possible through firm faith, and if you call upon Me for help with full confidence, your prayer will not remain unanswered. Each person’s path of life is predestined, thus he must travel it because the maturing of his soul depends on it. He would certainly travel this path willingly and gladly were he to know its necessity and the agonies in the beyond if he were spared this path on earth. Therefore never consider your earthly afflictions, for they will pass. Consider the infinitely long time in eternity, which would be far more painful without the suffering the human being has to endure on earth. And thus do not let yourselves become depressed by suffering and sorrow, instead, become stronger in faith for Me Who loves you and therefore often must painfully intervene in your life in order to save you for eternity. Never forget that I Am your Father, your friend, your brother and protector …. And come to Me with all your problems, hand yourselves willingly and without resistance over to My guidance and you will truly be guided well. Just do not let doubts torment you, counter them with profound faith and hope …. because My Word is truth, and if I promise you My help, you need not be afraid.

Amen

The spiritual remains in a position of defence against the forces that want to force it under their will as long as this will is not good and noble. I.e., if a person is influenced by evil forces in such a way that his thinking does not correspond to divine will, and if this person now tries to influence other people again who are under good influence, then the good spiritual will protect the person from the working of these evil forces by taking up the battle against the spiritual, which wants to determine him to act and think in an ignoble way. Thus the battle will be fought in the spiritual world so that the human being will not succumb to the evil influence and then the battle of the full of light for the human being’s soul will be more difficult. The evil forces can express themselves in many ways, but always in such a way that the human being is tempted to do something which does not correspond to divine will. However, the human being’s will to walk on the right path gives the good spiritual forces the right to intervene to help where necessary. And therefore the connection with these beings should also be maintained because the human being thereby grants these spiritual beings the right to intervene as protectors. For the human being himself is too weak to successfully fight against the influence of these evil forces. The adversary will not allow souls to be wrested from him without a fight. He tries again and again to destroy what has been built up by the beings of light. He often comes under the guise of deepest piety and tries to lead people down a different path. He apparently wants the same thing but his goal is completely opposite, for he wants to extinguish the light which the good spiritual beings try to spread among people. And for this he makes use of all willing souls …. i.e. he speaks through people themselves …. and they are all too easily willing to comply with his request, for they don’t recognize the intrigue of the one who wants to overthrow the souls …. And so they are his willing servants, they carry out what the adversary gives them in their thoughts …. And if the good forces did not want to protect the human being by sharpening his senses and strengthening his will to reject what those forces want to instil in him, the human being would be exposed to this intrigue and therefore in great danger. In this way, however, he will be able to resist more easily, he will also recognize where the activity of evil forces starts and he will avoid these people of his own accord wherever possible …. or put up so much resistance to them that the opposing force will weaken or look for more willing creatures who can be oppressed without resistance. And so it is again decisive whether the human being’s will is directed towards God …. For only those can be assisted by the beings of light …. The will towards God is the first prerequisite in order to find good spiritual support in every situation in life, in every battle and in all temptations, which are precisely the effect of evil spiritual forces on the human being ….

Amen

Nothing can happen on earth without divine will, so this will must be the first basis for everything that happens, be it good or evil. Even what people do to each other would not be possible if divine will prevented it. And yet it would be wrong to claim that God wills evil because He allows it to happen. It certainly does not meet with His approval, but God does not hinder the will of man so that he can develop freely and thus decide. Only in this freedom of will can the last stage of embodiment be covered, consequently it must not be curtailed, but this would be the case if every evil deed were prevented before it is carried out. For then there would only be good in the world, but the possibility of ascent would be taken away from man. The performer is therefore only rarely prevented from acting according to his will, unless he is a struggling person who prays to God and whom God’s love protects from rash deeds. Otherwise, every freedom of will is granted to him, even if it entails much earthly suffering. It is therefore to be seen more as an authorization by God, because God does not oppose His will. These events are more the result of human will, to which God sets no limits. The deed can therefore be carried out, but need not always be effective. How the evil deed affects the person is solely divine will and depends on the necessity for the maturity of the soul of the person to whom the evil deed is directed. The more a person strives for spiritual maturity, the more ineffective all actions will be that evil human will has intended for his fellow human being. Consequently, he who has no spiritual aspiration whatsoever will have to suffer more, but the person who cares about his soul’s salvation will remain unimpressed. And thus the divine will changes all things in their effect according to people’s state of maturity. Thus, in the end, even that which is born of evil will serves as a means of education, again in accordance with the human being’s will to allow himself to be educated, for the spiritually striving human being is aware of his inadequate state of soul and asks God for the attainment of his soul’s maturity, consequently he also humbly accepts what is sent to him, which, however, never excuses the evil will of the one who carries out evil deeds against his fellow human being. God does not prevent the opposing force from using all means to weaken the human will or to stimulate it to commit evil deeds …. He does not prevent man himself from doing what his will drives him to do. Yet He protects His own from overly violent attacks by those who are under the adversary’s influence …. He does not prevent evil deeds but gives people complete freedom …. However, man is never defencelessly exposed to unrestrained attacks. His own will can weaken the effect or even cancel it out completely if he turns to the one Who is lord of all. Whose will alone is sufficient to avert all evil from him, and Who also does so when he prays fervently: “Deliver us from all evil ….”

Amen

You are to follow Me and thus teach love and be a good example to your fellow human beings through your life. This is My commandment which I give to all those who want to serve Me, that you spread My word and lead a way of life yourselves according to My example. And then the gospel will arise anew, My word will come alive again in the hearts of the people to whom you proclaim this word. There is only one truth and I teach you this so that you pass it on to those who desire the truth. And if you yourselves live in love, the promises will be fulfilled for you; that is, if you live according to My word then everything I have promised you must truly come true. And by this you recognize the truth that I Myself am with you in the word, you who long for Me. Where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in their midst. And I guide your thoughts, I put the words into your mouth so that you now only speak what corresponds to My will, so that you proclaim the pure gospel to your fellow human beings, so that you pass on the pure truth to them. And because it is My will that the truth shall arise and be spread amongst people again, I instruct My disciples and train them to become true proclaimers of My word …. Once this has happened, you who want to serve Me shall fulfil your mission. It consists of you speaking fearlessly wherever just one person desires My word in order to strengthen his weary body by wanting to receive nourishment for his soul. The time will come very soon when you will begin this mission. You will then have to entrust yourselves completely to Me, for the world will want to hinder you in your endeavour but I will give you the strength to resist it and then you shall speak as your heart dictates …. For I am with you Myself and I will truly know how to prevent you from speaking something other than I want you to speak, other than ( ……. not legible ed.) eternal truth …. And then you will be persecuted for My sake …. you will be spurned, you will have to suffer for My name’s sake, and yet this shall not hold you back from working diligently and promoting My word. For anyone who joins you will likewise participate in the work of redemption, for he, too, will try to save his fellow human being’s soul from eternal ruin. And if you carry out works of love and repay evil with good, you will also win the hearts of those who were previously hostile towards you. And they, too, will recognize the truth of what you, My servants on earth, proclaim to humanity. And thus My church will grow ever larger, for people will feel the power of My word and no longer want to do without it. They will receive it with a hungry heart and drop their old faith without hesitation for the sake of that precious word which I Myself give to you so that you shall proclaim Me to people ….

Amen

As soon as you end your earthly life, a change takes place around you and your surroundings. The bodily eye is extinguished; what you now see you see with the spiritual eye, and this is now able, depending on the soul’s state of maturity, to grasp what is around it …. It will be able to take in everything if the human being has striven spiritually on earth and therefore the soul has already attained a certain degree of maturity; …. but it will see little if the soul is still immature. For then its spiritual eye is still closed. And thus it is still dark and lightless around such a soul. Like shadows it sees everything and it now wanders around in a desperate state, like a person deprived of sight who cannot find his way anywhere. It is a sad situation and the soul is now far from seeing its surroundings as a divine realm. It wanders around restlessly until, after a long time, it comes across souls in the same state …. The souls can and do complain about their suffering, depending on their realization …. They will complain and grumble or remain in complete apathy in despair. And yet meeting with such souls is the only way to improve their condition by counselling each other and considering the means to get out of this lightless region. And as soon as this desire is aroused in them, beings of light appear in a cloak of their light form and give them advice on how to improve their situation. In this desperate state, souls seize every opportunity if they are not completely obdurate and they then end up in ever darker regions instead of coming to the light. There is so much misery and suffering in this lightless realm that many a soul feels the desire to help and now does everything in its power to alleviate the suffering. Then their activity of love begins, which they had neglected on earth. And with this activity of love, the spiritual eye also begins to become capable of scooping …. The soul will be able to recognize more and more around itself, and thus it will also become more knowledgeable, for it now sees what spiritual knowledge brings in, has a desire for ever brighter light, thereby enters into contact with beings of light, receives extended knowledge from them, passes on the knowledge in its urge to help and is thus constantly active in love …. So it now strives upwards, it becomes ever brighter and clearer around such a soul, and soon it has escaped the dark realm to be constantly in the light. Once the soul has made up its mind to love through the suffering of the souls surrounding it, its condition is no longer hopeless. But it is bad for those souls who remain in their inactivity, who only think of their own dreadful condition and who are completely unaffected by the suffering of others. They cannot be left in this state either, otherwise other emotions could never develop in them. Therefore, their state becomes more and more lightless, their agony more and more unbearable, so that they finally try to escape their surroundings, so that their own suffering also awakens compassion for the suffering of others. For the soul can only redeem itself through loving activity, i.e. free itself from darkness and ascend to the light. In such a state the soul is particularly in need of the prayer of people on earth …. for this gives it strength and strengthens its will to ascend. These souls are so pitiable and can be helped extraordinarily through prayer with love; yet how many souls have to do without prayer …. who have never been lovingly active on earth, few good thoughts follow them into the beyond and that is why their state is so exceptionally bleak. And yet the struggle on the part of the beings of light for such souls does not let up …. And even the souls which have already progressed further take care of them and try to help them, for the beings of light constantly descend into darkness in order to redeem what is not entirely irreconcilable ….

Amen

This is life, that you are constantly active in love. For this is the state which testifies to your will towards God. God is love in Himself, He is life in Himself, i.e., He is strength which never lies fallow, which stimulates everything to activity …. He is strength that continues to increase through never-ending activity. Consequently, everything that enters into contact with God, consciously or unconsciously, must likewise be active. For it receives the strength from God which causes it to be active …. but power from God is love, and he who stands in love must be active, therefore live …. For every state of inactivity is death. Every state of inactivity is a resistance against God, a making oneself unreceptive to His strength and therefore lack of love. It is also a standstill, a persistence in the same imperfection, it is a distance from God and therefore something negative, something opposed to the divine …. It is a state of complete lack of will, because the will will always be active, in a good or in an evil way. The being can also be active in a bad way, but only in the stage as a human being, therefore the being is alive even then, although this life is only a purely physical, but not a spiritual life. The spirit is dead as long as it is not active in love, for only this activity is true life ….

Amen

Life will therefore always mean activity, whereas death is the state of inactivity. However, inactivity does not necessarily have to have an outward effect as long as the human being remains on earth. The vitality of the spirit is not obviously recognizable but it rather appears as if the human being is exceptionally active who does not bother with spiritual work. However, this liveliness is only related to earthly activity, to what is supposed to be secondary labour. Earthly activity can indeed also be beneficial, but is valued at zero if spiritual endeavour is not connected with it at the same time. Earthly work must first contribute to freeing the spirit in the human being, and this can only be achieved through loving activity. So what the human being does out of the desire to help, both earthly as well as spiritually, are works of love which give the spirit the longed-for freedom, which therefore help the hitherto dead to live …. Every work, however, which does not have the purpose of a spiritual redemption, which therefore merely applies to the preservation or improvement of the earthly, i.e. physical life, is, despite apparent activity, completely without influence on the development of the spirit, and since earthly life is soon gone, the success of it is then exactly the state of inactivity, out of which the being can no longer free itself as on earth, but needs loving help. A being must now first let its love become active in this lifeless soul so that strength is supplied to it …. The lifeless being itself must be willing to become active where it can help through love …. only then does the lifeless being awaken to life, only then is the dead state overcome, only then does the being enter into actual life …. for only activity of the spirit is life ….

Amen

A purely spiritual connection is the only way to lift the veil which God has spread over everything that lies in the future. The human being’s future destiny should remain concealed so that he can shape himself according to divine will without being influenced, and it would hardly be necessary to announce a forthcoming event to him as long as the attainment of his soul’s maturity is important to him. However, if too little attention is paid to the latter, the human being runs the risk of not living his life profitably and he must be warned or made aware of this danger in some way. He must be made aware of the possibility of a quick end and thus his sense of responsibility must be awakened. And at the same time the permanence of everything that is around him or fills his aspirations and thoughts must be questioned; thus the possibility of a sudden disintegration of the earthly must be presented to him so that he recognizes the wrong path on which he is walking. And thus God allows people to gain an insight into coming events …. He gives them knowledge of what He has decided in His wisdom for the sake of the salvation of such people who are idle in their souls. He lets people receive information by way of a pure-spiritual connection, as it is not possible otherwise in order not to curtail people’s freedom of will. The results of a pure-spiritual connection can be believed but also rejected as implausible, whereas every other announcement, if God Himself would impart it to people in an obvious way, would cause horror and rather make people incapable of a changed way of life. The coming events must be announced to people in such a way that they are free to believe or not. People should be warned, but not forced to change their way of life. They should only consider the possibility of an extraordinary event and adjust themselves accordingly. Thus people awakened or chosen by God must receive the news of such future events by way of a pure spiritual connection and pass it on to their fellow human beings. They are now completely free to believe it and to prepare themselves accordingly or to reject it. However, God will never allow an extraordinary event to befall humanity without having warned them first. The more unbelieving people are and the more they ignore their actual task on earth, the more powerful God’s announcement will be fulfilled. The necessity of divine intervention is so obviously recognizable at present, as the soul’s higher development is completely disregarded and the human being only lives for his earthly task, earthly pleasures and his physical comfort. Consequently, he will also reject such spiritual proclamations and, despite warnings and admonitions, be completely unprepared when the proclamations come true because they correspond to the truth and were conveyed to humanity beforehand on God’s instructions. And therefore the prediction will be fulfilled in the time to come, a powerful natural event will shake humanity out of its sluggish existence without faith, out of its spiritual sleep and unspeakable danger of the soul ….

Amen

The constant teaching and therefore also the constant listening into oneself will bring great success. The teaching forces give the human being a spiritual treasure trove of knowledge which can never be used up, for whatever is given away will only contribute towards teaching and thus towards the increase of spiritual knowledge without, however, diminishing the spiritual property of the former. And this is divine will and His gift of grace, which the human being can utilize and increase as he sees fit. But this good must always be used profitably; man may never be in the belief that it is enough that he enriches himself with it; he then runs the risk that the source of knowledge dries up, that he is then also no longer allowed to draw and that therefore the flow of divine favour stops. For it is also divine will that the spiritual knowledge is spread, and the human being himself must utilize every opportunity to spread the gift entrusted to him, i.e. to pass on the knowledge he has received himself. For this is only then a work of love for one’s neighbour. Admittedly, this is again a gift of grace that people do not deserve as long as they themselves do not desire it. And yet they should at least be informed of it so that they can decide for themselves whether they want to strive for it or reject it. And therefore the admonition is sent to them again and again to remember their soul. All spiritual work brings spiritual, i.e. eternal success, for it is permanent and what a person has once absorbed can never be taken away from him again. Spiritual activity is therefore the only important thing before God, all reservations should remain silent towards it, for anyone who absorbs spiritual possessions fully fulfils his earthly task as long as he also passes these possessions on to his neighbour with love. Thus he need never fear that he has not utilized his time sufficiently if he commits himself to spreading that which God Himself imparts to him and which must therefore also be the most important thing because God Himself gives it to him. The receiving of the messages from above is connected with a task, i.e., the receiving depends on the will to fulfil this task, thus the intention must then also be carried out. Receiving and giving is what makes the gift of God what it is …. For this develops the person’s own intellectual activity, and only in this way does the person come into the blessing of what he has received, otherwise it remains dead words, without power and influence on the person. For what the human being receives only becomes spiritual property when he himself has absorbed it with his heart, i.e. when he has mentally worked through the content of what he has been offered and now affirms it. Only then can he pass it on as living truth; he can defend what he says with conviction and likewise stimulate his fellow human being to think so that he too is receptive and accepts the divine gift as food and drink ….

Receiving the divine word also includes the willingness to fulfil a mission that requires sacrifice. For in order to be able to distribute the gift of God, man must be able to give up everything earthly, because he is to present the same to his fellow man. He must be exemplary in his earthly lifestyle, i.e. live according to the word that he now proclaims. And this requires the willing surrender of all earthly pleasures, it requires a strong self-conquest to fight against everything that offers earthly enjoyment. For the more easily a person surrenders these, the more receptive he is to the precious good that is offered to him from above. And therefore the deeper he has penetrated himself, the more convincingly he can spread it. Only when a person makes sacrifices is he able to serve God, and then the work will be assigned to him in such a way that he can manage it. But then success will not fail to materialize. The work of the teachers in the beyond will spread far and wide through the cooperation of people on earth and the divine word will thus be spread wherever people are receptive and endeavour to follow the example of the transmitter and thus surrender what earthly possessions mean in order to exchange spiritual possessions in all their fullness ….

Amen

Change in nature takes place in a certain order. As a result, people are inclined to believe that the laws of nature are the same …. a certain order in time, space and form that always repeats itself. And this regularity is probably something that gives him food for thought, but which he cannot explain. He does not accept the only explanation that a supremely perfect being has given these laws according to His will and that everything in nature must now conform to these laws, that nothing arises by itself, so to speak, but is only brought about by the will of this supreme being. But again, no other explanation for the laws of nature can be given to him. They therefore reject any thought of it or any explanation of it ….

People do not find the connection between life and becoming in nature and God. For them the process of awakening in nature has become something quite self-evident that it does not stimulate them to think how the elemental force, the highest and most perfect being, relates to it. And it is precisely this indifference which man displays towards the greatest question which makes it impossible to have an enlightening effect on people’s thoughts, for no answer can be given until the question has been asked. For God attaches this condition to the distribution of truth, that it is desired. Consequently, a problem must first occupy man’s thoughts before the answer is given. The forces of nature are indeed effective in themselves, but always only the outflow of divine love; i.e., everything that God sends out into the universe in light and strength expresses itself visibly in the very works of creation that they are in constant transformation …. This is most clearly recognizable in the plant world, which constantly renews itself over a certain period of time and does so in the most varied of ways, so that people would have very clear evidence of God’s activity if they paid attention to this reshaping and wanted to find a reason for it. Everything certainly comes into being before people’s eyes and they enjoy it, yet their will is not strong enough to fathom the process as far as this is possible. They do not realize that everything that comes into being or is developing is dependent on a force, otherwise they would have to affirm the source of the force, but they would rather reject it. Every expression of force presupposes a source of force; the source of force, however, must always be sought outside it, since the radiation of force is always sent into the vicinity of the source of force. The regularity of creation, however, suggests a planned designer, for nothing is arbitrary but in the most perfect order, whatever the human eye is able to see. Every change in nature takes place in a regularity that must betray a wise legislator and therefore a most perfect lawgiver. And if a person merely pays attention to the ever-recurring creations in nature he should be certain that there must be a controller of what has come into being, and thus it should be easy for him to believe in a supreme divine being, for otherwise the thinking human being would not be able to give himself an explanation which would be sufficient and credible to accept it as truth ….

Amen

Every form is animated by spiritual substance. These are the little particles which, when united, result in the human soul, and this spiritual substance is in constant higher development. As soon as the spiritual now leaves the respective form, it has become its overcomer, i.e., the stay in exactly this form has helped it to free itself from something that was a burden to it. It felt this burden partly in the envelopment, which took away all freedom from the spiritual, but partly also in its own inadequacy, in its lack of maturity. It also sought to become free of this and strived for the height …. Leaving any form is therefore first an overcoming of it, but then also a weakening or ever decreasing resistance to God. Resistance to God is an immature state, for it entails all other offences against God. Whatever does not resist God fulfils His will, i.e. it lives and constantly remains in the divine order because it is of the same will as God. And it is therefore in a certain state of maturity, which brings it close to God. But what still resists God is also distant from Him, for everything impure still clings to the spiritual through precisely this resistance. The spiritual must therefore first free itself from this impurity and to do so it takes the long path through creation. And since it now always does something that corresponds to divine will, it gives up its former resistance and purifies itself …. (interruption)

The current stage of human existence is more or less the same as the state of the spiritual substance within every external form, namely the substance will always have to fight the oppositions which are most powerful within itself, therefore the human being has to fight against evil instincts within himself during his earthly existence. These are exceptionally well developed the more opportunity the spiritual essence has had to indulge itself during a preliminary stage. These instincts of the preliminary stages have left their mark on the spiritual essence, i.e. the human being has to fight particularly resolutely against such instincts …. while the human being who previously had completed his task willingly and consequently is already in a certain state of maturity will enjoy an easier life.

The will to serve liberates the substance correspondingly even while it is still surrounded by a form. And this now submissive substance will live in a form which outwardly also shows the being’s willingness. Hence the soul’s degree of maturity can be assessed by its external shape. In the embodiment as a human being only those substances of soul unite who share the same nature; but accordingly will also be the fight on earth because many substances of soul united and influence the being in much the same way as in the previous form. The sooner the being can learn to overcome the imperfections the less it will resist and can already become patient, willing and active during the preliminary stages …. However, if it holds on to an instinct within itself it will also have to suffer it as a human being and this determines his character ….

Amen

The human being’s course of life corresponds to his nature, i.e. faults and imperfections adhere to his soul from which it should free itself during its earthly life. These faults and imperfections are not the same in every person because every substance of soul has previously lived in a different external form in which certain good or bad peculiarities had developed to a greater or lesser degree. Consequently people’s nature will be quite different too and likewise require different methods of teaching to promote what is good in them and to overcome what can be regarded as inadequate or bad. It would now be completely wrong to assume that all souls are formed alike at the moment of their embodiment on earth. There are in fact many differences and the human being assigns these differences between the beings to ‘heredity’. Outwardly it may indeed appear as if the children would have to accept a certain burden during the course of their life, namely peculiarities of their being which can either be helpful or a hindrance to their spiritual development but for which they could not be held responsible, because they reason that their ‘genetic make-up’ is not their own fault and that it therefore requires more strength to combat and to overcome these inborn defects.

The human being has to combat all his defects and improve himself to acquire maturity of soul. And if specific instincts are predominant in him he should understand that human nature is not determined by parental disposition but that the human being had allowed precisely those weaknesses and imperfections to become part of his nature during the infinitely many embodiments before the human stage, during which the being felt comfortable and did nothing to liberate itself from such faults and flaws. And now on earth it may well have the will to do so but it has a certain weakness. It considers its deficiency as its just right because it regards them as its inheritance without fault of its own. And yet it was its own volition to join people whose nature resembles its own during the time of its earthly life.

Precisely this similarity of nature had attracted the soul seeking incarnation, consequently one generally speaks of heredity even though the physical parents had no share in the nature of the souls in their care during the time on earth. Hence every soul has to deal with the task of higher development itself. This task can never be done by another human being, not even by the physical parents. Likewise, the parents are not responsible for the disposition of their children even though it may appear as if the children have to endure parental heredity. Every being is responsible for itself, although the human being as such should be educated to improve himself as long as he is still in the care of his physical parents, because every person has to accomplish the work on his soul himself otherwise he will not be able to liberate himself from his past guilt of sins ….

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The demon seeks to destroy what God builds up in His love. He tries to arouse mistrust and doubt in people’s hearts and uses people who think they are clever and wise and who also seem to be clever and wise; for their objections are heeded and considered important. And now all willpower is required to withstand such objections if a work that is extremely important is not to be jeopardized. Every objection that is based on intellectual considerations is unjustified if the work of the spirit is called into question. It cannot be right, because the truth is where the work of the spirit appears. However, if the truth appears to be untruth, i.e. unacceptable, then it must be seriously examined whether the person is willing to accept it and what determines him to reject what is commanded. A person should test everything and keep what is best. But there are things for which there is no evidence, which therefore can hardly be completely fathomed on earth other than by spiritual means. But through whom should people be informed about this if God would not do this …. Where is the pure truth to be sought if not from God Himself …. So the doubter must first give an account to himself of his attitude towards God …. Whether he recognizes God as the truth, whether he asks God Himself for the truth and whether he can stand before God, i.e. whether he has shaped himself in such a way that he is worthy to receive the truth from God Himself. For that alone is decisive, whether his thought material was gained from knowing or ignorant beings. If God is to give him an answer to his questions, he must first have turned to Him in prayer …. Consequently, a person who asks for the right knowledge will also have the right knowledge, but if the person only allows his intellect to speak instead of his heart, he will be answered by the one who tries to confuse people’s thinking, who now endeavours to raise all kinds of objections in order to prevent the truth. And this is why it is so extremely important to unconditionally believe the transmissions God sends to earth, for they alone guarantee purest truth. And the spirit from God will truly instruct people correctly who request the truth from God ….

Amen

Set My will against the earthly demands …. First fulfil the commandments I have given you before you comply with worldly demands. However, if the worldly ruling power likewise puts My will before its regulations, if it likewise acts or decrees laws which correspond to My commandments of love, it will be blessed by Me and this blessing will visibly rest on everything it undertakes. For a ruler who is accompanied by My blessing will lead his people wisely and righteously, he will fulfil his earthly task and again bestow incomparable blessings wherever he exercises his office. But the commandment of love has to be placed in front of every action, then the ruler will also be wise, then his example will also bring success. And thus people should only ever pay attention to being lovingly active and always consider their fellow human being in accordance with this love, for now he must also increase in knowledge, he will now be able to fully affirm what he previously only recognized emotionally, for the inner voice will teach him to occupy himself thoroughly with divine wisdom. Only then can it be brought to the human heart, only then will what the human being has heard become his property, only then can he also represent it to the world …. then he first subordinates his own will to God’s will and, as a sign of this unity with God, he courageously confronts the regulations issued by the ruling power. Resistance can only be offered where Jesus Christ is recognized as the sole lord of heaven and earth. Firm faith in the divine redeemer makes the human being free and strong, and by virtue of this strength he opposes the decrees from the human side with his faith and will have the greatest success, he no longer fears earthly jurisdiction due to the realization that there is one Who controls all human destinies …. Who will also now appear again when earthly legislation tries to invalidate everything that has so far been taught to people as the greatest commandment …. to love God above all things and one’s neighbour as oneself ….

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Spiritual standstill sets in when the human being’s will is too weak to overcome obstacles. No further progress can be made anymore. Although everything depends on God’s grace, the human being must participate in order to become richly blessed, he must use his will and appeal for strength, then he will strive towards ascent. No way exists which excludes the human being’s will, and thus he must activate his will first. No person can be released from this. Were God’s grace designated to come first, the human being would be released from actively using his will. And this is an error which, in turn, results in further errors. God’s grace and mercy certainly take hold of a person by providing him with every opportunity for his final deliverance. For it is an inconceivable grace on the part of God that the human being may travel the path of earthly life in order to return to Him again …. But in the stage of free will, only free will is decisive as to whether or not he will receive further blessings; otherwise life on earth would not be a probationary period which the human being has to pass. God wants to convey the pure truth to earth. Thus He must clarify where people are mistaken or have erred. He must rectify that which hitherto has been misunderstood, for He wants to separate the truth from the untruth. If the human being resists God’s effort to guide him into truth he also actively uses his will but in a God-opposing way and he can never become enlightened. God gave the human being the ability to think things through and to make a free decision. This is God’s grace again, nevertheless, the free decision depends on the human being’s will in turn, thus a person must want God’s grace to take effect in him …. His will opens the heart to become receptive for God’s grace, and his will must also make use of God’s grace …. It is this clear realisation which lets a person develop a sense of responsibility in the first place, whereas the hitherto wrong attitude that the human being is incapable of doing anything without divine grace …. that this motivates the human will in the first place …. weakens his urge to be active. In that case one could not speak of a person’s free will, if God Himself were to influence this will by conveying His grace. Unlimited means of help are certainly at a person’s disposal, thus it is made easy for him to let his will become active, yet the latter must be done by the person himself of his own accord. The actual purpose of life is for a human being to make a decision for or against God of his own free will …. Consequently, God will never precipitate this decision by determining the human being’s will, for this would truly defeat the purpose of life on earth. This is why people are repeatedly informed so that they will pay attention and release themselves from that which is mistaken, and from those human ideas and human interpretations which became erroneous without consciously intending to spread error. Yet precisely this interpretation, that God Himself determines the human being’s will, carries much weight for it leads to wrong thinking. Neither the Deity can be properly recognised nor does it strengthen the human being’s sense of responsibility …. He will ultimately only rely on divine grace, which seizes the person depending on divine will …. which flows to him, providing that God has intended to bestow grace upon him. But in that case he could not be held accountable if he does not reach the goal given to him at the beginning of his embodiment. The crucial point can only be found in free will; however, anyone who argues the human being’s free will regards himself as a puppet which is always and forever guided by a higher Power without taking any kind of active part in it. God’s wisdom and love prevents a restriction of will, otherwise higher development would be impossible for the human soul and the long process on earth would be unnecessary if God’s will were to select the aspirants for God’s kingdom by conveying His grace to them, which people would subsequently seize and thus be safely guided by it into the kingdom of heaven.

Amen

What was primordial is still and will remain for eternity …. And what remains is divine, what is has distanced itself far from the divine, and what was can only have been divine again. But the human being, who does not grasp this wisdom, has no connection with the primordial, nor does he know about the final goal of everything spiritual, yet he is in the midst of the present, which is distant from God and yet does not want to recognize Him either. And therefore he must be led to recognize, he must learn to believe what cannot be proven to him. He must form an image for himself which will now more or less correspond to the truth. That there is a God Who created and maintains everything is the first thing he has to believe, and this is also partly proven to him by the fact that he sees creation and its development and also knows that humanity is uninvolved in its emergence and existence. Consequently, believing in it will not be so difficult …. It will be impossible for him to form an exact picture of the nature of the deity until he has unconsciously recognized God as a being Which is powerful and wise by fulfilling His commandments …. For only that person will fulfil a commandment who affirms the lawgiver and grants Him the right to give laws, who therefore submits to Him …. Now he stands in the grace of God, which means that he now has the power from above to penetrate deeper into the essence of the deity. By submitting he has broken the spell, he has given freedom to the spirit within him, for he has become humble, and he who lives in humility also lives in love …. The spirit of arrogance is also the spirit of unkindness, but only he whose heart can feel love will be humble. And love brings him closer to God, and so recognizing will always be easier …. But now the human being also knows his outcome, for he knows that he is a creature of God. And at the same time he also realizes his goal, he strives to return to God in order to no longer separate himself from Him in eternity …. But the human race of the present is devoid of all love and humility. In self-conceit, they consider themselves superior and above childlike faith in a God. And since they lack the simplest faith it is not possible to guide people towards realization, and thus they will never know their final goal and consequently also not their task. And earthly life no longer corresponds to the actual purpose, thus God will take it away from people who oppose Him and in their hearts reject the eternal deity …. (interruption)

The path through earthly existence is the only possibility to shape the being to such an extent that it can recognize God in the stage as man and is therefore able to imagine something being-like and to make contact with this being-like. The being must now also utilize this ability in order to establish the connection with God. being able to recognize and wanting to affirm …. that is the purpose of the being’s stay on earth. The former is a gift of grace from God. But the being must want to affirm the deity as man himself. God can never release him from this, as otherwise the purpose on earth would be missed, which consists in the activity of the will. But the realization of the origin and the goal also allows the will to become active, consequently God’s grace is indeed indirectly helpful to the human being to also will …. but the slightest resistance to it renders divine grace ineffective, and resistance is wrong will. The will will always express itself in the embodiment as man, only often the other way round, i.e. in a God-opposed sense, although everything that surrounds man bears witness to the divine creator and this therefore should be enough to also let the will become active in the right way. If God’s grace would also direct this will in divine order then the world would be redeemed, for then there would truly no longer be a being to whom divine love would not want to bestow this grace. Hence all people would have to come to realization during their earthly existence and all people would have to strive towards God …. Or God would have to be denied excessive love and mercy if He let one or the other being fall and therefore did not cause them to want the right thing. Such erroneous views often arise among people, and it is far more difficult to remove such an error from the world than to spread it in the world. But in order to be able to recognize God, the lie, the error, must absolutely be eliminated, because a confused thinking of man does not contribute to directing the will towards God. God has to be recognized as infinitely loving, wise and omnipotent, only then will faith be present, only then will love for this supremely perfect being become active and out of this love also love for His living creations. Only then will man be able to recognize and will God correctly of his own accord, and only then will he be able to redeem himself completely from the bondage that was the result of his wrong will ….

Amen

A full measure will be granted to the one who does not measure himself anxiously when it comes to alleviating his fellow human being’s hardship. For if he is driven to do so by the love of his heart, if he does so without the slightest self-interest, he is also entitled to receive divine love, and this is truly not limited …. God will always want to give, only the human being has to make himself worthy of the divine gift and do the same, i.e. also be willing towards his fellow human being. But anyone who worries that he might deprive himself and therefore only meagrely measures out to his fellow human being has no need of God’s gift and will be treated with utter contempt, for this is divine justice. Man is very often offered the opportunity to be lovingly active so that he can make himself worthy of the attention of divine love, because without this man remains a miserable creature, and even if he outwardly boasts in self-conceit, because if he does not have divine love he will walk restlessly and dissatisfied on earth, because he lacks the most precious thing when he lacks love. And he will not come into contact with his fellow human beings either, since only love connects everything. Anyone who does not like to give must expect to lose all his possessions one day, for they will be taken from him by force majeure, which is only a means of training him to love, since he can only receive if he gives away what is dear to him. Anyone who shares his possessions with his neighbour, who is always willing to give, will visibly feel the divine grace, for God will fulfil His promise and everything that is willing will receive the blessing of this promise; he will be allowed to receive unlimitedly, he will never need to worry about what the coming day will bring him. For God Himself will always be there where humanity is in spiritual or physical need. God wants to hand out, and He blesses all those who are already so mature through love that they gladly renounce that which is seemingly indispensable for earthly existence, for God will richly reward those what they do out of love for their fellow human being ….

Amen