Anything a person’s innermost feeling objects to does not comply with God’s will either, providing his willingness to serve God determines his thoughts and actions. He is exposed to the most varied temptations from the adversary’s side. Every weakness of will is used by him in order to cause him harm. Yet an earthly child devoted to God also feels the most subtle impulses directed against it, and therefore everything the human being affirms in his innermost heart will be right, and that which fills it with discomfort will be wrong. Even that which benefits the comfort of his body will make him feel slightly uneasy if it does not comply with divine will but corresponds to the adversary’s will instead, for this reason the human being should pay attention to the gentle voice in his heart and always follow it. Each action originates from a thought and the thought is the influence of a good or evil power on the person. The thought is the spiritual flow of the power the human being hands himself over to. And the thought is followed by the deed with the use of God’s strength …. If a positive thought comes to a person, that is, if he receives the mediation of good spiritual beings, he cannot do anything but execute these thoughts by availing himself of the indwelling strength and activating his will. The more unresisting good spiritual forces find a person, the more diligently he performs his occupation, the more he utilises his thoughts, and this is tireless work, it is constant activity. And if the human being lets the good thoughts take effect in him, if he listens to the good spiritual beings, he can only carry out good deeds. However, unscrupulous people also accept the transfers by evil forces and also activate their will by committing bad deeds. Yet they will not be prevented from doing so. If they do not heed the inner voice then all efforts by the good beings are in vain, their influence is minimal, consequently they withdraw from people until they look for God again of their own accord and thus He allows Himself to be found by them. If a person’s striving for perfection is great, he will also recognise whether the inner voice gives him the right advice and he will also feel what he should reject, for God gives the striving person the right understanding, and he should only pay attention to his innermost voice, for he will be guided right at all times.

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The moment of spiritual rebirth is immensely uplifting for the soul and yet only slightly perceptible to the body, since spiritual rebirth is a union of the soul with the spirit within itself and signifies a separation from the body. The body has little part in this act of union and therefore this is often very difficult as long as the body has not yet become still, i.e. as long as it still puts up a certain resistance to the soul if it wants to enter into this union with the spirit. And yet heartfelt prayer gives the soul the strength to carry out its will. And prayer should therefore be used as an antidote when the body’s desire is too strong and the soul threatens to become weak. The spirit in the human being also struggles for the soul and would like to bring it the delights of union, and if the soul then does not comply with its urging, the body gains the upper hand and its desire is fulfilled …. The spirit in man cannot force the soul, just as the body cannot exert any compulsion on it. It is up to the soul what it chooses. The decision in favour of the spirit, however, earns the soul a spiritual reward, whereas only earthly rewards await the soul if it decides in favour of the body. The spiritual reward is a total transformation of its thinking, eternal truth and knowledge, i.e. light …. The earthly reward is the goods of this world, which are impermanent and transient with the physical death of man. The person who is born again in the spirit no longer needs to fear earthly death, for his life lasts forever and he only lays down the earthly body in order to enter eternal life without any outer shell. He is therefore reborn into a new life in which there is no more death. However, the rebirth of the spirit excludes earthly pleasures and worldly enjoyment, because spirit and body cannot be considered at the same time. The soul can only decide in favour of one or the other. He who is therefore only worldly-minded will never be able to speak of the rebirth of the spirit. He must avoid everything worldly and completely separate himself from it in his heart, only then can the soul enter into union with the spirit, and the complete fusion of both results in rebirth, which is unimaginably blissful because it makes the human being worthy of receiving the wisdom from God, because it makes him a bearer of light and consequently a link between God and people. To be able to be a mediator who is allowed to announce the divine will to fellow human beings is a grace of utmost importance and associated with a task whose fulfilment again guarantees highest maturity of soul, and again only few people make themselves worthy of this grace, and only few people offer themselves to God for service and ask Him for an earthly task for the benefit of fellow human beings. But God provides these few with His love and grace in abundance, and they may request this grace and love at any time …. God will always listen to their requests and provide them with strength so that they are able to fulfil their task, so that the power of the spirit may work in them for the blessing of humanity ….

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What is useful for earthly life is not always beneficial for the shaping of the soul, instead, human endeavours are often precisely suited to prevent or unfavourably influence the work on the soul. And therefore man should have understanding for the fact that failures are granted to him by fate, he should know that with a permanent favourable situation in life a certain carelessness takes possession of the soul, that the spiritual striving becomes less and conversely the desire for the world awakens again or increases. It is precisely carelessness that makes people strive for more …. for the fulfilment of the enjoyment of life …. while worries and hardships weaken the desire for it and man is absorbed in the spiritual. Man’s constant struggle on earth stimulates him to reflect, and reflection is the beginning of spiritual connection and therefore also the beginning of spiritual influence. Through contemplation, man places himself in the power of otherworldly good or evil forces, depending on the object that prompts him to contemplate. If man reflects, this is already his will to receive enlightenment …. A carefree life, however, brings so many earthly things close to man, which then steer his train of thought in the wrong direction. Only when the human being has completely closed himself off from the world, when spiritual striving moves his whole thinking, can he be granted a life of carefree living, for then it will make little difference to his thinking and striving and his soul’s work will not suffer any interruption or unfavourable influence …. What puts you humans in a bad mood is often unspeakably beneficial for the soul, as it gives the human being cause for introspection, especially when he himself suffers from his bad mood. Then he will try to give account to himself and, if he is honest with himself, will also look for the cause in himself and then make the best resolutions to change. The most important thing in life on earth is always to recognize oneself. To judge oneself mercilessly, to criticize oneself severely and not to stop asking God for strength to refine one’s nature is absolutely necessary for conscious soul work. And when a person feels unburdened, he often slackens off; slacking off, however, is a stagnation that is far more likely to lead to regression than to progress. Human life must therefore bring disappointments, failures or more or less severe suffering and hardship for the sake of shaping the soul ….

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People cannot really imagine how necessary it is to immerse themselves in heartfelt prayer. Thoughts should be directed towards God, man should utilize every opportunity to establish a connection with God. He should see in God the holiest and most perfect being and, although not worthy, turn to this being full of confidence and faith and present all his needs and sufferings to Him …. in the simplest and most natural way, for this pleases Him. He should create a state between himself and the father in heaven that can be called familiar and childlike. No request should seem too small for him to present to the heavenly father; he should call upon Him in all his needs, and he should know that God’s love will not let the child ask in vain, that only the intimate relationship should be established which gives the father the right to regulate the life of the earthly child. God wants to be recognized by people, He does not want to be regarded as a distant, unapproachable being, He wants to possess the earthly child’s love in order to be able to consider it with His infinite love …. He wants His living creations to confess Him so that they thereby become free from the opposing power; He wants them to no longer feel separated from God but to unite ever more intimately with Him so that the state of being distant from God is removed …. And in order to achieve this, the human being often has to go within himself, he has to seek and find God in his heart, he has to mould his thoughts in such a way that they have God as their goal. He must desire the divine word, i.e., he must want God to speak to him and that He instructs him and makes His will known to him. And the divine will must be his guide in earthly life …. he must always strive to fulfil this will. God’s word is the emanation of His fatherly love, and those who hear and obey it are in truth His children who will feel His love the more intimately they unite with Him. For man is on earth in order to enter into this union with the father in heaven, in order to re-establish the original relationship, which was the most intimate communion ….

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Receive everything from God as it is sent to you. There will come times when you will be weary and despondent and when your faith threatens to weaken. But then just stick to prayer and implore God for strength, and you will overcome the weakness of faith and all earthly hardship. For God needs strong fighters for the battle against the world, and man only becomes strong by overcoming himself. And therefore make every sacrifice to God; try to abstain from every worldly pleasure; remain deeply inwardly connected to God and recognize His great love in that He imposes trials on you by which you are to mature. For the day is drawing ever closer that calls you to action. God stands by you in every adversity, and so it must not weigh you down. For once God has seized you with His love He will not let you fall, and this faith should become so strong in you that you will face every earthly adversity without fear and only ever take refuge in Him in prayer. What God sends upon people will shake everyone’s peace, and even the believers will doubt His love and think that God has abandoned them. Yet He invisibly stands by their side and only demands confidence and hope in His help …. and He will not disappoint them ….

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The state of remoteness from God can never have the effect that the human being is good and noble, but he will always feel drawn to where God-opposing forces are active, he will take pleasure in evil, he will completely correspond to the will of the one who stands at the greatest distance from God. To be distant from God means being low and lowly, it means imperfection, ignorance and powerlessness …. And therefore a being in a state far from God can neither be good and noble, nor wise, powerful and perfect. It will bear all the characteristics that the antithesis of God embodies. He who seeks to change his state far from God must try to flee from the opponent of God; he must avoid that which puts the stamp of his affiliation with him on him. He must raise himself up to meet God …. he must try to get close to God. And thus he must do what is contrary to what he has done so far when he was under the influence of God’s adversary …. He must change his whole being, he must strive for perfection, he must desire knowledge and ask for strength …. He must fight the characteristics of the power far from God and mould himself in such a way that he is worthy of closeness to God. For closeness to God is the most precious thing a person can achieve on earth. For just as the state far from God binds the being, so it becomes free through closeness to God, and freedom is the desirable goal of all spirituality. He who is far from God is also bound; but everything that is not free feels the compulsion and would like to free itself from it …. As soon as the being feels the state far from God as agony and wants to flee from it, there is also the prospect that it will reach its goal. Only what feels comfortable in the state of being far from God will never become free from the power of the one who opposes God. It cannot become free because the downward inclination is still too great in it; it will be incapable of noble action; it will also be incapable of love, and everything it does will be more in accordance with the will of the evil power. But God wants to change the state far from God, and where the being does not strive for this of its own accord, He gives it further opportunities …. He tries to induce the human being to do good deeds so that he thereby feels the strength of divine love and no longer wants to be without it. And then the ascent upwards begins, then the desire for closeness to God starts to awaken in him, and the human being turns away from God’s adversary of his own free will because the desire for God becomes active in him, i.e. stimulates his will to turn to God for help …. And the human being will not call in vain if his prayer is for higher spiritual development ….

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The distance from God remains an unbridgeable gulf for people who do not recognize Jesus Christ as the son of God and saviour of the world, because there is no way for them to change their condition. For this is a state of weakness and powerlessness. But the power to strive upwards can only be imparted to man when he avails himself of the graces of the work of redemption. Before that, he is still in the bonds of the one who is far from God and has no will to come close to God. His power and influence over man is still too great for man alone to be able to escape from him. And Jesus Christ died on the cross for all people who lacked the strength to free themselves from the adversary, and He thereby acquired the grace for them …. i.e., through His death He imparted the supply of strength to those who recognize Him and want to be liberated by Him from that power which is distant from God. One’s own power, i.e. the power that God grants to every human being to live, can do nothing compared to that power, but the power that Jesus Christ acquired for human beings through His death on the cross can do everything …. It can therefore also change the state of being far from God into a state of being close to God, as long as it is desired and utilized from the heart. The divine saviour can therefore not be excluded, His work of love, which He accomplished for humanity, cannot be disregarded or denied, for this means willing submission to the power that wants to destroy everything. And if humanity surrenders its faith to the divine saviour it will stand where it stood before Christ’s descent …. in extreme remoteness from God …. for it is completely under the control of the evil one, it carries out everything he demands, it is, as it were, one with him through its will. Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross was the means to bring help to enslaved humanity against its jailer. But if it does not want to be redeemed, it remains in its unredeemed state, i.e. far from God, and thus completely enslaved to that power. Without Jesus Christ and faith in His work of redemption there is no freedom from the power of the adversary of God, and the state of being far from God can never be changed ….

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From time to time humanity needs an extraordinary influx of help from above, for the spiritual low is having a threatening effect and, if God did not want to help people, the whole of humanity would tear itself apart in mutual hatred and unkindness. As soon as love cools down among people, they are capable of anything, and it is this spirit of unkindness that is the cause of the great suffering on earth. If God did not want to come to people in His love and give His wealth of love to those who are still in love, the earth would truly soon only be the scene of the worst deeds. But where unkindness is banished the voice of God is perceptible, and this voice informs that there is a God Who lovingly takes care of people. God Himself makes Himself known in the word, God Himself lets spiritual nourishment flow down to earth, and this is a means to reduce unkindness amongst people. Many a person will be perplexed by the proclamations if he is serious about scrutinizing them. And if the recipient has earnestly persevered in prayer for grace and enlightenment, it will be easy for him to return what God has revealed to him. And this is the task of those who are able to hear God’s voice. They should speak what God has spoken to them; they should spread the divine word in the world; they should practice living this word, i.e. prove by deed that it has penetrated the heart, and if the giver and teacher himself follows what he preaches he will find faith among people and thus also be able to work for the blessing of humanity. And this is God’s will that His word should be spread through the mouth of man …. It is His will that those on earth who share the same aspirations should unite …. He wants them to give each other strength and comfort in the coming time, which will bring severe suffering to people but which will also let them recognize God’s help ….

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Hear the divine voice: people cannot imagine that My love would like to bring them salvation from deepest adversity, and they are completely unaware of the fact that they are lost without My help since they are travelling a path which leads to ruin. Nor do they have any desire to be guided onto the right path and therefore their state is hopeless unless I take pity on them and inform them of the great adversity they are in. I know about the fate they are facing …. I know of the great suffering that awaits them in the beyond when they depart from earth after a wrongly guided earthly life, and I have mercy on humanity …. There is spiritual drought on earth, it is an ominous time when everything good threatens to succumb; all forces from the underworld are active in order to permeate the world with evil, in order to cause that which still professes Me to fall away. And thus I have to help My living creations, I have to try to remedy the spiritual adversity, I have to send them food from heaven which shall be their constant nourishment and which strengthens their weak will …. I must instruct them of my word, I must bring it to their knowledge in a way that eliminates their will to reject it …. I must express Myself so that they recognize the word of God. I must let them feel My love by trying to make them understand what they can no longer grasp …. that I Myself descend to them in the word! I must teach them to believe again and present My teaching to them in all purity and impart strength and grace to them if they are willing to accept My word. And love for humanity prompts Me to do what is absolutely necessary if humanity is not to perish. And thus I Myself am with them and teach them, for they need My word ….

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I have no other goal than to end this greatest of all hardships …. I do not want to leave the world in misery, for they are My creatures who are heading for destruction. I want to give them clarity and make Myself recognizable to them; I want to bring them the truth and I want there to be light in their hearts. And that is why I descend to earth, offering My word to those who want to receive it. And I meet with resistance …. For My love and My working is no longer recognized and the world resists the transmission of what it receives. People do not know about My greater than great love, they measure with the yardstick of their own feelings and the hardship on earth is getting greater and greater. For only those who recognize Me as love understand that I make Myself known to them. Yet where there is no love there is still deepest night …. But I want it to become light and inform you that everything determined for writing corresponds to My will, that it is offered to you by those whom I have chosen to instruct you. I hereby announce to you that the hour is not far off when I will call you, for the time is pressing and the darkness is great. Give love to all people who are around you and thus let Me be with you in love and let My strength flow into you, then people will recognize that I speak to them through you and they will believe My words ….

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Only where there is love is there also light, and where love works for each other, there will also be understanding. For a loving person will succeed in searching the deepest depths of his heart and will discover the light that shines within him. And he will be knowing, even though he is in a completely ignorant environment. And everyone can reach this knowing state if he wants to. Only unkindness sets barriers which cannot be crossed, and thus unkindness is always the cause of spiritual darkness. Worldly knowledge is not affected, but spiritual knowledge is. However, God’s mercy also allows spiritual knowledge to reach those who do not descend into the depths of the heart themselves …. He also offers it to them where it is not desired in order to awaken the desire for the light …. It is then often difficult to accept it as divine truth because the person has not travelled the actual path to attaining knowledge and because his faith in God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence is not strong enough. He does not recognize God in His greatness and he does not know about His infinite love for people. And therefore it does not seem possible to him that this love expresses itself towards His earthly children. And his lack of faith prevents him from recognizing what God is doing to him …. Love and faith are the pillars of the teaching proclaimed by Jesus Christ …. Recognition is also rooted in love and faith. Faith in God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence makes everything seem possible, because it is founded in love, it is decided in His wisdom and carried out by His omnipotence. Who therefore stands in faith and at the same time is active in love, his heart also grasps the extraordinary working of those spiritual powers, which stand in God-like will, which are therefore mediators of the divine power current. And therefore it is understandable that people’s lack of love makes God’s obvious activity necessary. Faith is to be renewed or strengthened as a result, otherwise the wisdom, the divine truth, cannot be conveyed to people. God’s will, however, is that there should be light amongst them, and thus He first seeks to deepen their faith, and this is again only possible if a process occurs where evidence ceases to exist, thus He allows supernatural working to be assumed. Evidence cannot always be offered to people and they should learn to believe without it. He will also be able to do so if, in case of doubt, he approaches God Himself for clarification or strengthening of faith. The willingness to believe is already a considerable step forward, the ability to believe is then the consequence of the will to believe. For God also gives the one who wants to believe the strength to carry out His will, and what still seems unacceptable to him today can already be understandable to him tomorrow if the path to God is travelled by him and not only the intellect tries to fathom something that seems extraordinary to him. God wants to be approached for the truth. But a person should never feel called upon to try to clarify something that seems extraordinary without divine assistance. If he asks for it, it will soon become clear to him whether and to what extent divine activity is the cause of an unusual event. Faith and loving activity are therefore absolutely necessary if a person wants to make a judgement that corresponds to the truth. However, anyone who lacks either of these will also be imperfect in his thinking. He cannot grasp the truth and is therefore incapable of scrutinizing what is commanded to people by God ….

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Love is a powerful weapon in the battle against evil, and he who fights with this weapon will be victorious. He who stands in love cannot be harmed by the evil power, he is protected against all attempts by the enemy to harm him. And thus the human being’s first endeavour should be to practice love, then he will be exposed to few temptations, for the enemy will not bother a loving person because he knows that his efforts are unsuccessful. And therefore the person who is active in love will lead an easier life on earth, he will not be exposed to such severe suffering or adversity, for if he is in love he is already turned towards God and no longer needs suffering to reshape his thinking. Love and God are inseparable, to be lovingly active means at the same time to reduce the distance to God, it therefore means to come ever closer to God. And where God Himself is in man through love, the enemy will understandably not be able to be there, i.e. man will not be exposed to his oppression. Practicing love is the first and most important commandment, because only the loving person is entitled to divine love. The affection of divine love, however, is the only thing that man should desire on earth, for divine love fulfils everything for him, it gives him earthly and spiritual good, it gives him peace of mind, it gives him strength and grace, it introduces him to knowledge and keeps him away from all impurity that surrounds man and oppresses him …. Divine love has only one goal, to move its creatures to join the creator from eternity …. therefore love will always favour the union with God and consequently mean the detachment from the power that is against God …. So where love is, there cannot be the adversary of God, therefore the loving human being cannot be at the mercy of the adversary’s activities either. He protects himself against him if he lives in love …. He thereby pushes towards God, and God grants him His protection against all evil ….

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The conscious union with God through prayer results in a separation of the spirit from the earth. The thought activity now turns with full will towards the spiritual kingdom, and only now divine wisdom can be offered to the earth child from above. The separation from earth must first have taken place because the receiving of spiritual messages requires the will of man and prayer testifies to his will. The more intimately a person prays, the more clearly he realizes the divine gifts, which now come to him in the form of thoughts. The intimate connection with God through prayer is absolutely necessary because this makes the working of evil forces impossible, for a being which consciously makes contact with God is no longer harassed by those forces. They only seek to gain influence when the human being’s thoughts turn to earthly things again, i.e. when contact with God has been severed. In the spiritual world there are likewise laws which exclude an arbitrary giving of spiritual good, and therefore man himself must first become active before spiritual good can be distributed to him. Man’s activity only consists of preparing to receive. This work cannot be bypassed, it must be carried out by the one who wants to receive and consists in the fact that the human being in deepest humility gives himself to God and asks for His gift of grace and then sinks into his inner being in order to await this gift. As soon as this is disregarded, the giving beings cannot distribute, and thus a stagnation occurs which can be remedied again through heartfelt prayer. The ability to receive therefore mostly depends on establishing heartfelt contact with God, but the human being does not always succeed in doing so if his thoughts are focussed on earthly things. The earthly kingdom belongs to that power which wants to prevent the union with God. It will therefore try everything to prevent or disturb this union. The human being’s will, however, can thwart such attempts and will also then reap its reward accordingly, which consists of imparting spiritual gifts, for these make the human being happy if he is serious about spiritual higher development ….

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Only a few people turn their attention to the signs of the time, yet these few know that the time has come which Jesus revealed, for it is coming to pass as it is written, and they realise that every period of time has been preordained for eternity …. There is no doubt that that a terrible catastrophe is about to befall earth …. God’s love is infinite and so is His mercy, and whatever will come upon earth is only based on His love. For without this happening humanity would be doomed. God knows of the many misguided people, of their wrong will, of their heartlessness; He knows that humankind is in a state far removed from God, and He takes pity on their spiritual hardship. He has no other objective but to change this pitiable state of humanity, to remedy it, to save people from utmost distress. And He foresaw humanity’s adversity and, during the time He lived on earth, announced what His love and mercy would bestow upon people in order to save them. Yet humanity cannot and does not want to believe, for it no longer recognises God, it laughs and scoffs instead of taking stock of itself and continues on the path which is leading to disaster. And the hour will come when the extent of adversity will be immense, when the elements of nature will rage such that people will be incapable of thinking and taking actions, yet there is no other possibility for people to recognise their weakness; there is no way which could persuade humankind to turn to God without such suffering, and if it is not to go entirely astray it must accept this event which has been predetermined for eternity and will come to pass as the Lord proclaimed ….

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The teaching of predestination has to be clarified most decisively if people are not to be pushed into wrong thinking and completely mislead. It is a genuine danger to people who accept what is offered to them as a religious dogma without seriously reflecting on it. This teaching destroys every impulse in the human being; by suppressing the aspiration to ascend, the human being becomes inactive and completely surrenders himself to the actions of forces which now have power over him. The person does nothing to resolve this obvious inertia because he believes that God’s grace will reveal itself to him when He so pleases. This assumption is proof of his missing faith in God’s infinite love and mercy, it is an assessment of the Eternal Deity in accordance with human understanding, because it infers that God’s love depends on the worth or worthlessness of the person.

God’s mercy includes all human beings; and divine love is only ineffective where human will offers resistance, but it is always concerned with turning this will towards itself. God is certainly pleased when people ask for Him, whose will thus enables the bestowing of grace. But His care and love is always concerned with those who do not yet want to be seized by His love. However, it would be completely wrong to assume that God’s gift of grace is given arbitrarily, that receiving it can neither be prevented nor encouraged by the human being; it would be completely wrong to use human limitations in respect to the giving of God’s love, i.e. by assuming that it depends on God’s pleasure in the person. In that case the human being would be a lamentable creature, because he is in an imperfect state of maturity which would have to exclude God’s benevolence; he is still sinful, i.e. his will is still striving towards God. God’s benevolence is not aroused until the will turns towards God and this motivates God in giving His grace in abundance to the human being. But God will never impart His grace to the human being whose inner will is still in opposition to God. A person can indeed openly oppose God but his soul can nevertheless desire God, in which case the forces of the underworld are strongly influencing him to revolt against God, and then divine grace will help him to achieve victory over these forces. This is undeniably caused by divine grace, it has helped the person whose heart had desired God. A human being who would receive divine grace without his will or in opposition to his will would be a predestined being, he would have to mature by means of grace. But such maturity excludes free will and would therefore never result in perfection ….

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Whoever makes it his task to spread the gospel among people will never need to fear earthly power, for he is an instrument of God who, through his willingness to serve, has also acquired the right to His protection in earthly needs. God’s love accompanies him on all his ways and His spirit guides him correctly. For God needs people who stand up for Him before the whole world, who proclaim His word to those who believe and are to persuade those who have no faith to repent, and thus He will also protect them so that they can fulfil their task. And they should courageously and undauntedly carry out what their inner voice commands them to do. They should not become faint-hearted when dangers approach them from outside, for nothing is so great that God cannot control it; every power finds its master in God, and the person who trusts God gives himself to the strongest power and no longer needs to fear any other power. The demon certainly tries to gain the upper hand and he oppresses people immensely, but the power from God, which flows to those who carry Him in their hearts, is also extraordinarily effective. For He loves His children beyond all measure, and those who are willing to serve Him He embraces with the omnipotence of His love so that they are willing to sacrifice everything and even lay down their lives for Him. And so confidently place your life in God’s hand …. He will protect you if your hour has not yet come, or He will fetch you to Himself into His kingdom when you have fulfilled your task and no longer need the earthly change. Giving up your earthly life for His fellow human beings is truly the greatest sacrifice of love you can offer to the lord of heaven and earth, yet He does not demand this of everyone who fights for Him. He protects you as long as you serve Him in faithful love and proclaim the gospel to your fellow human beings. For this is unspeakably important in the adversity of the time, that people recognize God and unite with Him in prayer …. If you speak to them of His love and mercy, if you try to persuade them to believe through your faith, you will win souls for God and wrest them from the adversary. And then you will be redemptively active in this world and fulfil the most beautiful earthly task, for you do not live in the earthly world but in the spiritual kingdom …. You do not think of the present but of the future, which is eternal …. Then you will have passed the probationary period on earth, and if you now lose your life in service to the lord, He will give it back to you a thousand times more beautifully ….

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Whatever man resists remains incomprehensible to him until he has given up his inner resistance. He can only recognize the truth when the power of knowledge comes to him, which is again the result of the desire for truth. However, a desire for the truth presupposes a certain willingness, i.e. the opposite of resistance. Willfulness will always trigger a humble feeling, while resistance is paired with arrogance. Humility earns man grace, but arrogance keeps it from him, and without grace man cannot mature his soul. Without grace, however, he remains blind in spirit, ignorant and without light. But where divine grace flows to man, he becomes seeing, knowing and radiant with light. Resistance is therefore wrong will, which must be corrected. If the human being gives up resistance, i.e. if his will is turned towards God, then many things will appear acceptable to him which he had previously rejected as unacceptable, and this is brought about by divine grace which then flows to the human being when his will consciously acknowledges God. This is why people raise objections against divine revelations until they have declared their will for enlightenment. For then they are ready to listen for the answer and their intellect grasps it from the moment the desire for the answer is aroused in them. Without a question the truth cannot be given to him; and if it were offered to him the human being would not be able to receive it and therefore he will walk along in the darkness of the spirit as long as he does not desire the light ….

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The stream of life, whose original source is God Himself, will never run dry, and therefore the earth will harbour living beings as long as it exists, and again the earth will exist as long as spiritual beings are still in need of maturing. Every living being receives power from God, and therefore every living being is a power station from where the power can always be passed on or diverted. The passing on of the power from God is the same as contributing to the increase of that what exists in creation, no matter whether it is still seemingly dead creation, therefore earthly matter, or living creations, the power from God must always be used for the increase of that, otherwise the earth would remain what it was, therefore could never reshape itself. But the earth is in a state of perpetual change, visibly, if man himself brings about this change or if natural elements are active which bring about a lawful transformation. Invisible, however, are the changes which affect matter which appears to be dead, for these often take an unthinkably long time so that man cannot observe them and they are therefore not noticed in a short time. But since the stream of life flows from God to every work of creation, nothing can remain unchanged, for everything that is in creation is alive, and life never means remaining the same, it means constant change in itself. Living beings, however, are obvious carriers of power from God, for they never remain in the same state. There is therefore a force within them that drives them to be active, no matter in what way. And this force is the stream of life from God ….

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Everything that is alive is therefore connected to God …. what appears dead or lifeless is also connected to God, yet the spiritual substance therein does not yet recognize its affiliation with God and consequently does not sense the strength it receives. The moment it gives up its resistance to God it becomes aware of this strength and can also utilize it, for then the desire for activity sets in and it is allowed to carry out an activity which results in its maturing. Maturation without activity is therefore inconceivable, just as right activity without higher development is inconceivable in the stage of free will. It is true that free will can also be the cause of an activity that is not conducive to the soul’s maturity. Then the power out of God is abused, and such an abuse can result in endless times of lack of freedom of the being, so that therefore the being never gets away from the compulsion, which an earthly work of creation means for the spiritual in itself. Progressive higher development can therefore be recognized in everything that is alive, that is active …. stagnation or decline will be recognizable in those works of creation which remain in the same state, i.e. which appear dead to the human eye. Yet the human being can contribute towards allowing these works of creation to become active in some way, then the strength from God will begin to take effect, i.e. the being in these creations will be tormented by its dead state and long for life, and this is the beginning of higher spiritual development. From now on the being strives upwards because it serves and serving is also an activity ….

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A purely spiritual exchange produces purely spiritual results, thus the will to accept spiritual knowledge has to precede the transfer of such by the giving forces. This is therefore a request for beneficial spiritual strength, consciously or unconsciously …. consciously through prayer for enlightenment, unconsciously through questions posted by a person which touch upon spiritual matters and which are consequently answered by knowledgeable spiritual beings. If, however, the human being is more in contact with the earth, that is, if he desires clarification about purely earthly things, he can give himself the answer in a solely intellectual way. The intellect is likewise a gift of God but it cannot be compared to spiritual activity by the forces in the beyond, which are in a state of perfection and merely pass on God’s flow of strength, for what they pass on is profound realisation and the knowledge of spiritual things which the intellect as such would never be able to ascertain. Earthly questions, however, can be fully solved, as then the strength of God becomes active, which flows to every living being and which even that person who has no spiritual questions at all to settle, may possess. Consequently, the mental knowledge of every earthly striving person can be very extensive and yet need not signify light for him. For this knowledge will be extinguished at the moment of death, whereas the transmissions from the spiritual kingdom remain the property of every soul, for it is everlasting knowledge, thus purest spiritual strength, which is sent by God through mediators to earth. The best evidence for this is the fact that such wisdom is offered to people without mental activity, whilst earthly solutions without exception necessitate mental work, thus using the energy of life from God ….

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The human being cannot be compelled to get in touch with spiritual forces, but it is a deliberate act of free of will. Consequently, he must also have the opportunity to be mentally active if he does not establish a connection with knowledgeable forces, only in that case is his activity limited insofar as he can only solve earthly questions. Then only his physical organism will be active; he will use the energy of life which flows to him entirely independently from support from the beyond, as long as he does not appeal to these forces for it. The thoughts the person is now thinking have no spiritual value at all, thus no value for eternity, they are not spiritual but earthly, i.e. transient knowledge. However, mental activity can also touch upon problems which lie beyond worldly things, but the human being, due to his will and his attitude towards God, resists the influence of knowledgeable beings from the beyond with the result that his thoughts will utterly contradict the truth …. Hence, only those spiritual forces will express themselves which are requested by the human being’s will …. But at all times spiritual forces are at work as soon as spiritual questions are raised, whereas earthly question only need the vitality which flows to him, even though the person believes that his intellectual thinking always solves every problem. Ignorant or lying forces will certainly let the person believe that he has gained the result by purely intellectual means, since it is their intention to deny all spiritual activity, in order to also destroy the belief in divine working. Consequently, the human being considers himself the originator of every thought, and the forces supporting him will encourage this opinion, and only a person aspiring towards God understands the nature of thought. He feels the currents which flow to him from the kingdom of light. He willingly allows himself to be influenced by the good spiritual forces. And therefore, only the person aspiring towards God will know the truth, for that which flows to him in the form of thoughts is from God …. purest truth will be imparted according to His will through bearers of light to the human being, because God is the Truth Himself ….

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Everything that has God as its goal is good; consequently, the human being, whose endeavour is directed towards God, must also ennoble himself, because drawing closer to God results in everything that is necessary to become perfect …. The human being will shape himself in such a way that God will consider him worthy of His closeness, and in turn the closeness to God will give him the strength to develop ever more perfectly. For he who strives towards God …. who desires to come close to God will also stand in love. But love also conveys the love of God to him, and this in turn is strength that man feels and that makes it easier for him to become perfect. Divine emanation of love is the imparting of strength, and as soon as the human being is honoured by the gift of strength from God, he is also able to shape himself in accordance with divine will. The human being can then no longer do anything that goes against His will, for love protects him from it. The human being feels a strong urge to be good because the will towards God eliminates all evil desire. For to the same extent as man draws closer to God through his desire, he distances himself from God’s adversary, and everything that was once evil must now be good in him. The adversary no longer has any influence on such a person. But God now works in abundance, for man increases in strength and grace the more he unites himself with God. And where God’s grace is at work, the human being must inevitably reach the heights, he must become perfect and mould himself into the image of God ….

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The living word guarantees the purest truth and should therefore be accepted unchanged. However, anyone who cannot fully acknowledge it should pray for inner enlightenment so that the power of realization may be imparted to him. But he should never reject or doubt the truthfulness of the word, for what people have previously offered him can certainly be wrong, but never what God Himself offers from above. And if God is not recognized as the giver of the word, God should be called upon as the highest authority for clarification, then God will truly not leave people in the dark as to what corresponds to His will. For God’s word comes down to earth not only for one individual, it is to be offered to all people, and thus it must also be acceptable to all people. And it will also be acceptable to all those who were previously wrongly instructed …. He who already has the truth also recognizes it as such, and where disputes are still raised both disputants cannot stand in the truth; one must err and join the opinion of the one who has received the word from God Himself …. Yet in most cases the divine origin is denied, but then it can be concluded with certainty that he still lacks the realization that the spirit from God is not yet active, otherwise he could not express himself differently, since the spirit from God only ever conveys the same truth. And so it remains to be examined what is the reason that erroneous thinking still holds the human being captive. If the will is turned towards God then the human being has to completely give himself to Him, he has to completely renounce himself in order to be able to receive …. He must surrender what he previously possessed and listen to what God now wants to impart to him …. And the divine truth will be offered to him clearly and comprehensibly, for only now will the spirit of God express itself and guide him into knowledge. However, anyone who adopts other people’s erroneous views and is unable to separate himself from them will encounter contradictions if the pure truth is conveyed to him by enlightened people. And therefore pray first for divine grace, pray in all humility for spiritual enlightenment and thoughts will flow to you clearly and understandably, and light will shine where you previously still walked in darkness …. For God wants the pure truth to be spread amongst people, thus He will give enlightenment to those who endeavour to live according to His will, He will impart the power of knowledge to them so that they will become knowledgeable and see ….

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The spiritual gifts imparted to people are extremely valuable and enlightening at a time when error and ignorance prevent people from thinking correctly. People often get caught up in an opinion without being able to give the right reasons for it, but they cling to it tenaciously and it is difficult to free them from it or to refute their opinion. It is better if they have not formed an opinion and can now be offered the truth, but trying to talk them out of a preconceived opinion meets with stiff resistance and is therefore often unsuccessful. Yet as soon as they are offered spiritual knowledge which was conveyed to earth from above even those people become suspicious if they seriously endeavour to stand in truth. Intellectually they cannot argue against it, and in their hearts their own voice admonishes them to confess it, and it only depends on their will that they will not resist and accept the divine gift as a gift from God. The power of the word is inconceivable, it flows through the person who surrenders to its power, and it also causes the resistance to diminish the more attentively the person scrutinizes the word. And once the inner resistance is given up the power of the word becomes ever stronger until it finally completely captivates him, and then the desire for it becomes ever greater and then it starts to become bright and light, for where the resistance has been overcome the word can work with all its power. Through the word, truth is spread and ignorance and error are banished …. And time and again God brings people together who are to help each other, who are to be enlightening and offer fellow human beings divine gifts, for He recognizes the individual’s need and knows what means He has to use in order to help them. And if people want to be helped they will have escaped the state of darkness in no time, they will recognize and strive for the truth, and therefore it will be offered to them and made accessible to them such that they will accept it without resistance and sincerely thank God for the enlightenment of spirit. They only have to allow themselves to be guided and not want to take a different path on their own authority, for the slightest resistance will render the strength of the divine word ineffective and then the person will not recognize when he is offered the truth ….

Amen

The spirit of discord dominates the world, and this spirit can produce nothing other than discord and lack of love. Love will never be able to develop where people treat each other without love. On the other hand, hatred and vengefulness will blossom to the highest level. And this means ever greater destruction of what is the possession of the other. It also means that the human being regresses more and more in his spiritual development, which is the purpose and goal of earthly life, that he sinks deeper and deeper and finally departs from the world in a state that can or must be called almost more immature than at the beginning of his embodiment on earth. For unkindness is the opposite of that which leads upwards. Humanity is caught up in a terrible delusion; it believes itself to be called upon to suppress or completely eradicate the weak and sees this as the right of the strongest …. It rages against the divine order, which associates the weak with the strong, so that the latter may test itself against it, but in a different way than it does …. For the strong should be the giver and provide for the weak and needy, he should stand by them in their need and powerlessness; the strong should not abuse his power and strength to oppress the weak, but protect them from oppression. But where there is unkindness, the divine order is no longer respected. Everyone only loves himself, he seeks to increase his own well-being and to enrich himself with the possessions of the weak, who cannot resist him enough. And this state of affairs is intolerable in the long run, for it always has a destructive effect, but never a constructive one, just as everything that is directed against the divine order means downfall. A constant struggle can certainly be observed in nature, which always results in an increase in the power of the strongest. This battle certainly leads to the perpetual remodelling of the external form of the being, but then it is God-willed because God Himself directs the will of the creature and every process is necessary for the higher development of the spiritual in every form. But man has overcome all these forms, and free will is given to him during the time of his walk on earth, which he is now to use for the higher development of the soul. He should fight, but only against himself and the evil instincts within him. He should strive for what is good and noble and try to overcome everything that is low, and this is constant fighting …. And he should help his fellow human being in this fight against himself. And so man must suppress every desire, he must learn to despise what the world presents to him as desirable, so that he does not seek to increase his possessions, but gladly and joyfully gives them away. If he does this, he will soon be able to cast off his earthly shackles and enter the kingdom of light unencumbered …. But what goals are people currently pursuing …. All his thoughts and endeavours are only aimed at increasing earthly possessions; he wants to possess, whereas he should renounce …. He clings tenaciously to earthly possessions and seeks to gain them even by unlawful means, as he exploits the weakness of his fellow human being and overcomes him by virtue of his strength. And this is the result of unkindness, which is now particularly evident in humanity and which is the cause of unspeakable suffering …. for love can only be reawakened through such ….

Amen

Human free will is the reason for everything people inflict on each other, which so often results in unspeakable suffering and yet is permitted by God. Although His almighty power could indeed prevent it but it would be a restriction of free will if the human being was prevented to carry out what he wants to do. If God took his free will away the human being would be forced back into a state of compulsion. It would be impossible for him to test his free will during his period of life on earth. A human being has to be able to accomplish what he intends to do, only then can it be said that he has the means of self determination during life on earth. Only when the effect of free will, in a bad sense, is directed against people who are consciously connected with God and who pray to Him for protection, will God prevent the latter from being harmed by bad will, but then the bad will is judged as an accomplished act.

At the moment an endless number of people are subjected to the same ill will, thus they also share responsibility for the suffering of the time …. if they approve of actions which result from it. They will not be free from guilt until they reject acts of evil. Condoning an act of evil makes them partly responsible for the suffering that results from it. However, what countless many people consider right, although it is the greatest wrong, will not be reversed by God because people need to understand their wrongdoings themselves or they will always do the same again without recognising their wrong as such. Nevertheless, this does not mean that God’s justice will not intervene when humanity’s activity becomes so extensive that humanity itself is in danger. But even this intervention is merely to let people’s free will become active again and, in view of the huge suffering, turn towards good …. so that the human being now, of his own free will, strives to make up for what he, due to his previous approval, either directly or indirectly has caused himself. God must permit humanity’s actions, He does not want to determine the will of a human being before making his own free decision. However, when he has finally decided, God will reduce the effects where necessary and permissible without interfering with the free will of the human being ….

Amen

The more lukewarm a person is, the stronger the influence he has to fear from the adversary. He then neither offers resistance nor strives for God’s strength and is therefore in the greatest danger of becoming weak and succumbing. He should always bear in mind that the ascent to the heights is arduous and that a slackening of his willpower very easily results in a step backwards, which requires renewed effort in order to catch up. The adversary is vigilant, i.e. he does not miss a single moment of a person’s weakness, but the latter should also be vigilant so that he does not expose his soul to the danger of being oppressed by the adversary. And the weaker he feels, the more fervently he should pray for strength. But even if he begins to become lukewarm in prayer, the adversary’s power over him is great. And yet he cannot be spared the struggle against this power. Spiritual beings certainly stand by him, but their help has to be requested because they cannot become active without the call. And in hours of weakness of will the human being often omits this call as well, and then he is defencelessly at the mercy of the adversary’s power. And he has to fight the battle against him himself, which is often very difficult. And it is always the weakening of prayer that causes his willpower to weaken. The more often and more intimately a person unites himself with God, the less he is exposed to the influences of the enemy, because both at the same time, the power from God and the power of the adversary, cannot be effective. But the power from God is always stronger and excludes every activity of evil forces. In hours of need, of lukewarmness and weakness of will, a heartfelt call for the support of good beings suffices and the work of those beings will already be stopped. Only the will to do good must still be present in the human being, and soon the fervour of prayer will also increase again and the human being will have escaped the danger ….

Amen

Purity of heart is the guarantee that a person is in the truth. He who does evil also thinks evil; but he who endeavours to remain clear and pure for God must also think accordingly. The man who is pure of heart will always abhor everything that is contrary to the divine, he will be able to search in the depths of the heart because no filth prevents him from seeing, and wisdom will likewise rise up to him because it finds no obstacle. And everyone will be pure of heart who lives in and with God, who remains connected to Him, who lives his life consciously, i.e., who recognizes his earthly task, gives himself to God and always endeavours to fulfil His will. He will no longer want to and be able to live without God and every dishonest thought will stay away from him; if he has become weak he will sincerely ask God for forgiveness because his heart recognizes the wrong and does not consciously want to do wrong …. He will endeavour to take the right path and pray to God for strength and grace. Purity of heart must therefore also result in a person’s correct thinking, for since the heart is the receptacle of truth from God, as soon as a person endeavours to shape and maintain it in a pure and receptive state, untruth will no longer be tolerated in it, it will be abhorred like all impurities and therefore rejected, because a person who is pure of heart has a desire for truth. And the desire for truth is also fulfilment …. Desire for truth is also desire for God, Who is truth Himself …. Desire for God, however, eliminates the work of the opposing power. Those who are pure of heart recognize the lie, they can therefore also no longer be misled, i.e. out of ignorance accept something as truth which contradicts it …. They will reject it, even if they cannot justify it intellectually. But their heart resists it because, due to its purity, it has a mimosa-like feeling and judgement for the spiritual good that seeks entrance. Unfair thoughts and actions dull the heart’s sensitivity, and therefore those who profess the world and its pleasures will not stand in the truth either, for the desire for it also gives rise to thoughts and desires that are not exclusively for God, but for the one whose kingdom is the world …. And these thoughts will not be truthful and pure, they will awaken and favour those instincts which man is supposed to overcome, and thus will only be and remain a danger to the purity of the heart and an obstacle to receiving the pure truth from God …. But those who lack the truth also lack the light, and they do not find the path that leads to God ….

Amen

The consequences of the rebellion against God must be borne by the spiritual itself, which thereby sinned against God, or the spiritual must submit to God in order to restore the former state. So the spiritual must either feel the lack of freedom as agony or acquire freedom again by being subject to God. The unfree state, however, can never be ended by the spiritual being on its own authority other than by subordinating its will to the divine will. Consequently, there can only be a persistence in the banished state or a release from it. The former is a will that resists God, the latter a giving up of resistance to God. In a manner of speaking, the giving up of resistance is an escape from the unfree state, which means agony for the being, and therefore it has to go the endlessly long earthly path in order to finally be able to feel love for God, so that the being then turns to God in joyful longing …. It no longer has to experience the bound state as mere torment but it must apparently also bring it happiness and joy, and yet the human being has to long for God, only then will he no longer be judged, i.e. he will be forced to make his decision in favour of God but completely free will will determine him to seek union with God, and only then can he become completely free from his constraint. For now he submits himself to divine will and re-establishes the original relationship, and the once apostate spiritual substance is now with God again and united with God for all eternity ….

Amen

It is God’s will that no other power should be feared when it comes to proclaiming His word to people. Times will come when this will be strictly forbidden; times will come when the gospel will only be passed on in silence and secrecy because people fear earthly power and are therefore timid and fearful. People should also work in silence. But if they offer themselves to God for service, then they should also recognize God as the only lord and serve Him in such a way that they speak loudly and fearlessly and proclaim His word. Only then will they be the true champions of Christ and win souls for Him from the adversary. The commandment to love one’s neighbour is the greatest, and fighting for the souls of fellow human beings is true love for them. This will be a time of struggle that calls for courageous fighters who are devoted to God, for the world will proceed mercilessly and spare no means of violence in order to bend the will of those who follow Christ and confess Him before the world. But God’s grace will be effective to the same extent, supernatural strength will flow through those in conflict, they will patiently accept what is imposed on them, and the more intimately they unite with God, the less they will feel the earthly hardship or scourging of the body. For in this time everyone who gives himself to God will be blessed and he will be able to accomplish things that are beyond earthly possibility. And trust in God’s help will banish all fear and worry, and the person will be able to speak and answer without considering his words. For it is not he who now speaks …. God uses the servants who are devoted to Him and works through them …. He drives the will of those to act and speak as it is His will. Whatever may come, God stands by you who are to proclaim His word. He gives you His strength, He makes you knowledgeable, He guides your every step, and whether apparent earthly violence threatens to destroy you …. nothing can happen to you against God’s will. He has given you a great task, and as long as you endeavour to fulfil your task, you are working in His pay. And He is the lord of heaven and earth, He is the most powerful one to Whom everything is subject, He can destroy in an instant what opposes Him, and if He does not do so then love for all His living creations determines Him to do so, for He does not destroy what is of Him but He tries to win it back forever. And for this He needs people who fearlessly stand up to those who are devoted to the hostile power. The word of God should be proclaimed loudly, it should not be suppressed or only offered in small circles, but the world should hear it and recognize what strong faith can do. It should recognize that there is a power that is stronger than earthly power and that man is inviolable if he entrusts himself to this power. For the world will experience things which may well be enough to persuade people to believe as long as their will is good and they strive for the truth ….

Amen

Every spiritual gift should be received with gratitude and must therefore be recognized as a divine gift. The ignorant person, however, does not know how to appreciate it and this is the reason why he indifferently accepts what should deeply move and delight him. And a gift which is received so indifferently has little effect on the human being’s soul. Therefore it remains an unsuccessful attempt to want to convey the truth to these people, for they lack the receptivity, i.e. the power of realization, which again can only be given to the demanding person. It is irrelevant on which spiritual level he stands if the divine gift of grace is offered to him; if it is only received with a hungry heart then he will soon be guided into realization, for a desiring heart opens itself to the spiritual influx and thus it can flow over unhindered, and the result is that a wealth of knowledge will be made accessible to the human being which can never be attained by earthly means. The desiring person will receive, but the indifferent person will come away empty-handed even though he is offered the same, for the desire for spiritual possessions can never be eliminated or the human being’s free will would not be active. Thus the human being need only want to receive the power of realization, then he will soon be able to make a decision as long as spiritual truth is offered to him, and then he will also be grateful from the bottom of his heart that he is worthy of divine grace ….

Amen

Being seized by God’s love and considered with His grace always eliminates erroneous human thinking. The human being’s will must first have recognizably turned away from God so that he falls into disgrace, only then is it possible for untruth to take possession of his thinking. However, as long as a person’s will only strives for what is right, as long as he fears God as a righteous judge and always endeavours to live for His pleasure, the gates are closed to untruth; it will not find a heart willing to receive it, and in this realization everything that is conveyed from above to a person who is visibly in God’s grace may be accepted as purest truth. God loves all His children and wants to protect them from untruth, yet they mostly withdraw themselves from His protection through their willingness to be God’s adversary. However, if a child consciously submits to the father, trustingly surrenders to Him, desires His love, His grace and the truth, the father will truly not leave this child unprotected …. For this is the right relationship of the child to the father, which God wants to be established between His earthly children and Himself. This contact between the child and Him is free of outward appearances, it is the living connection which the human being enters into with God and an extremely beneficial act of will which is far more valuable than customs and traditions introduced by people which are intended to feign true worship of God and yet prevent people from entering into heartfelt and sincere contact with Him. For an intimate connection with God requires seclusion from the world, it requires a complete detachment from everything earthly …. Man must go into his innermost being, free and unhindered by external influences, and now pray very fervently: “Father, here I am …. take hold of me with Your love and grace and let me be blessed in You ….” Every external influence, to which the human mind is still receptive, makes such an intimate connection impossible, because the human mind remains turned towards the world. He sees and hears things that belong to the world but which do not touch the innermost essence of God, even though they are supposed to visualize Him. And this focussing of the senses on outward appearances turns the union with God into an empty form. The human being believes himself to be connected to God when he attends actions that have nothing to do with the deep inner worship of God, and he loses the desire for a truly inner union with God, and this is a great danger for him ….

Amen

The human being’s knowledge will always remain inadequate as long as he resists the influence of the knowing forces in the beyond. The human being has an inner rejection of that which is not tangible or visible to him, and this aversion often determines him to resist everything spiritual, so that he cannot decide to scrutinize something either because the origin seems inexplicable to him. But this attitude results in the fact that the truth can never be made accessible to him, that he travels the earthly path in ignorance and thus also enters the spiritual kingdom in an inadequate state of maturity after bodily death. As a result little spiritual knowledge can be imparted to him, he therefore always remains on the same level when he is not exceptionally active in love. Only the latter can bring about a change in thinking. Increased activity of love can bring him increased knowledge and truth, for then those spiritual forces will likewise have an effect on the person without his knowledge …. A lively activity of love earns him the divine emanation of love, and this signifies a bestowal of divine strength …. by perfect beings serving Him, who, as bearers of light and strength, likewise lovingly exert themselves and transfer the divine flow of strength to the people who are therefore in love. Increased love will therefore replace the conscious request for spiritual strength and suddenly the human being will become knowing and seeing and recognize and affirm everything he previously wanted to reject. However, if the person is not active in love of his own accord and stubbornly resists spiritual influence by fleeing all instruction or mediation by his fellow human being, then it is difficult and often quite impossible to introduce him to knowledge, and then his life will bring little spiritual success. Such a person often needs great spiritual upheaval so that he will be stimulated to reflect and then unconsciously avail himself of the help of beings in the beyond, and then it depends again on his attitude towards God …. Accordingly, good or bad spiritual forces have an effect on him. And therefore it is extremely important to inform these people of divine activity, to make the eternal deity accessible to them so that they can seek contact with It themselves and then be mentally instructed by God. Anyone who recognizes God can never be lost, for he receives spiritual impartations because he recognizes God, and he will be looked after by giving powers without his knowledge, and thus he, too, can receive light if he does not offer open resistance.

Amen

The independence of human thinking is to be appreciated where earthly questions and their answers are concerned, but the greatest danger is where spiritual problems are to be solved. Man endeavours to prove the correctness of his thinking and he will also succeed in doing so in purely earthly results of his thinking. However, spiritual matters cannot be proven with evidence, consequently nothing can ever be intellectually declared right or wrong as far as spiritual questions are concerned. The many-sidedness of earthly understanding requires proof of what is put forward as doctrine. Spiritual knowledge, however, cannot be forced into a fixed doctrine because proof cannot be provided. But just as one cannot prove the truth of what has been gained as spiritual thought, so one cannot prove that it is untrue, for even the highly developed intellect cannot penetrate an area that remains closed to it as long as it does not utilize spiritual strength to do so. One will only ever be able to speak of ‘faith’; faith, however, is a matter of the heart, not of the intellect. Through faith, man arrives at a knowledge that he can never acquire intellectually. But it is not possible to prove this knowledge, nor can he be proven wrong about what he believes he knows. And since no proof can be provided, it must also be left to the fellow human being to appropriate the knowledge of the believer. The acceptance of this wisdom is a completely free matter of will. On the other hand, however, his fellow human being does not have the right to make him out to be a fantasist or a liar, for he cannot provide any proof of this either, and his intellectual thinking, no matter how sharp and clear, is inadequate in the face of spiritual truths. The believer accepts these, the unbeliever refuses …. The believer has travelled a path that the unbeliever can also travel if he wants to …. But then he must gather the same knowledge, and only then can he convince himself of the truth of what he previously rejected. Belief or disbelief determines the degree of knowledge or complete ignorance …. But where faith is lacking, even the sharpest reasoning is of no use; it leads astray. Human wisdom investigates earthly problems and yet does not penetrate into areas that lie beyond the earthly. Deep faith, however, lifts the veil of what is hidden and the deepest secrets are revealed to man. And even if nothing can be proven …. the likewise believer will unconditionally recognize as truth that which is imparted to him by a believer. The same knowledge will be made accessible to him, he will defend with blissful certainty what he recognizes as truth, and intellectual wisdom will not be able to convince him of the opposite because his heart will confirm that he is thinking correctly. Thus the truth can only be conveyed to his fellow human being, yet in order to be able to accept it as truth he must likewise shape himself into a believing person who desires truth, only then will he recognize the value of what is offered to him and then he will not allow himself to be put off if the truth is intellectually refuted and presented to him as untruth or doubted. Impressions presented purely intellectually should therefore not be evaluated, but the feelings of the heart should be heeded, for this is more credible than wisdom acquired on earth ….

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The mission which God spreads for the benefit of souls is a favour for mankind, which would only then be grasped in its greatness if man could gain an insight into the fullness of light of the spiritual kingdom and by this measure the state of darkness on earth. The spiritual darkness is unimaginable and the transmission of light has become almost impossible. The bearers of light are ignored, if not persecuted and reviled, and yet they could illuminate the darkness with the light of eternal wisdom and redeem human souls from an agonizing state. These souls stand in the greatest distance from God …. and God approaches them again because His love does not want to leave humanity in this state. He allows an event to pass over the earth which may well be able to banish the darkness where only the slightest willingness of a human being can be found. The realization will come to him like a ray of light that he is going the wrong way; he will turn to God and ask Him for help in greatest need and thus desire His nearness …. The nearness of God means light …. A short time will come when the bearers of light …. the bearers of the divine word …. will be willingly listened to and now have the opportunity to spread the divine word. People will hear …. and those who receive the word with their hearts will also act on it. But there will only be a few of them, because as soon as the need has been resolved, the majority of humanity will flee back into darkness …. He is entangled in the love of matter and seeks fulfilment there, and thus he disregards the divine word and the darkness around him is as great as before. Yet for the sake of those who gain sight God allows the darkness to come upon the earth, for it is these who are seized by His grace since He recognizes their will, which is not bad but only weak. In order to lead them to realization, in order to consciously turn their will towards Him, a very difficult time is necessary, such as the one the earth is now facing. It is a matter of rescuing these souls, it is a matter of spreading the light in the darkest regions, it is a matter of overcoming the power hostile to God and of releasing those souls from the enemy’s control which are too weak to fight against him …. A ray of light will break through the darkness and make those who open their eyes and hearts see. Now mankind dwells in the deepest darkness and does not recognize Him …. The radiant light of the world, earthly splendour and wealth are enough for it, and it pays no attention to the gentle light from the spiritual kingdom. But the day will come when everything that prevents people from recognizing the divine light will be destroyed. And then a light will shine for them whose light they only need to follow. Yet anyone who ignores this light will remain in misery and deepest darkness will envelop them …. for God’s grace cannot take effect in them because their will opposes God ….

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The further a person distances himself from God, the more difficult it will be to convey the divine teaching of love to him, for the distance from God also results in a cooling of love, and thus he will also reject Christ’s teaching, which only preaches love. It requires great love and patience on the part of people to make the purpose and goal of earthly life clear to him, for in most cases his will will determine him not to accept anything that is offered to him. The state far from God is always a state of willfulness towards God’s adversary, consequently the human being will never want to accept what speaks in favour of God. Whoever now takes it upon himself to bring light to such people must be prepared for objections and refutations of all kinds, he must not immediately become despondent but must exercise utmost patience and perseverance and try to establish a very close connection with good spiritual forces so that they are mentally guided by them and can withstand every onslaught from the adversary’s side. It is an extremely rewarding task to win an apostate for God, yet beings in the beyond, who are in charge of the earthly children, will also endeavour to help him, and they will support the person in his endeavour and give him the right thoughts and words so that he will no longer fight alone but will be supported by spiritual strength. And thus a person who denies love in himself must be led to the right realization through love; he must charitably feel that which he would like to reject and thus no longer be able to remain in his strict rejection ….

(2.9.1941) He must take pleasure in what is offered to him because it is offered to him in love, and first receive it with his ear, so that it then also finds entrance into his heart and he now thinks about it. Then already the attempt on him has not remained unsuccessful. This is the beginning of reducing the distance to God, and the slightest willingness will be rewarded by the support of spiritual friends. For these only long for the hour when the human being’s mental activity is directed towards supernatural things in order to be able to exert their influence accordingly. But the human being, who is unwilling and rejects everything, finds no connection with them and their work remains unsuccessful, and the human being’s life passes by without having brought him any benefit for his soul. The spirit of unkindness has destroyed all faith in him, and only through recognizable activity of love for him can the heart of such a person be made receptive and he likewise be stimulated to activity of love. It is true that God’s adversary will also struggle in order not to lose him, and that is why the battle waged by Christ’s fighters for souls far from God is not easy. Yet where the will is, there is also the power …. for this is at the disposal of the person who wants to use it for God. And the fighter makes use of the divine word, which is blessed with power. The word of God, commanded in love, must be effective where satanic influence does not obviously hold the human being captive ….

Amen