Wise is he who thinks himself small and powerless and asks for God’s help …. For grace will be granted to him, and he will increase in light and knowledge. For the source of light is God, and when God is called upon for His grace, the human being desires to draw from the source of knowledge, he desires the light, and thus God can distribute according to desire. Man has the privilege of being allowed to ask God for His grace at any hour, he may always come to the father like a child and entrust himself to Him, and he will never ask in vain as soon as he desires spiritual possessions. For God wants to impart the truth to people and the only condition is the desire for it and prayer to Him. And He sets no limits, but the truth and the knowledge of it is given to man without limit as long as he desires it. Yet humble prayer is always the prerequisite that divine grace flows to the human being, which manifests itself in the transmission of the divine word which introduces the human being to the truth. Man must feel small and weak, only then does he come humbly to God and is then honoured with divine grace. But anyone who remains arrogant is still very far from light and wisdom. And he will hardly become a bearer of light as long as he does not humble himself and transform himself into a humble being. For only the humble will receive grace ….

Amen

The doctrine of the trinity of God has already given rise to the greatest fragmentation of believers and will be a constant source of offence as long as it is not corrected, i.e. offered to people in an acceptable way. Spiritual darkness gave rise to it …. spiritual darkness found an interpretation of the words “Father – Son and Holy Spirit” that was enough to confuse people’s thinking. It is also a doctrine of faith which had to be accepted unconditionally because the human being who thought about it could not arrive at a satisfactory solution, thus he would have had to decisively reject it. And this was prevented by forcing the acceptance of the doctrine of faith. The doctrine of the three-personal God is unacceptable to any thinking person …. It is already impossible for man to imagine God as an entity, because for him an entity is the concept of a solid form, without which it is incomprehensible to him. As soon as man imagines the deity as a person, he gives the solid form a shape …. This is in accordance with man’s ability to comprehend, but completely deviates from the truth. Establishing a doctrine of a three-personal deity only serves to weaken the divine essence and to create a distorted image of the eternal deity through humanly limited imagination. The concept of the trinity of God can only be explained where the prerequisite for understanding is given through the desire to fathom divine wisdom by way of faith and love. People who are neither deeply religious nor in love would only want to dissect this concept purely intellectually, and this cannot lead to the goal, i.e. no result can be achieved that comes close to the truth. However, many things are understandable to the believer because he is mentally instructed from the spiritual kingdom. Faith and love are the preconditions for the knowledge of God’s love and wisdom, of God’s work and reign …. They are also the prerequisite for receiving the truth …. They are therefore given truthful knowledge of God’s love, which has brought forth everything that exists …. They are instructed about the connection of all things, the primordial beginning, the purpose and the goal of all that is, and thereby they recognize the infinite wisdom of God …. They are informed of the power that flows through everything, of the omnipotence of God, of His will, which is constantly active, and of the connection of every creation with this power. The believing, loving person grasps all this wisdom, for if he is believing and loving, the divine spirit flows through him, i.e. he receives the power from God directly and thereby becomes seeing and knowing. Thus he now also realizes that the mystery of the eternal deity can only be fathomed if God Himself can work in the human being through His strength, for spiritual things can only be grasped spiritually. God is spirit, and the strength from God is likewise spiritual …. If this now flows to man, then he can also penetrate into otherwise unfathomable territory, because then it is not man who solves this question, but the spirit from God in man. However, the mystery surrounding the nature of the eternal deity will remain a mystery to a person who only thinks intellectually …. And so the doctrine of the trinity has now also been interpreted by the human mind, and thus the doctrine of a three-personal God emerged …. God can never be personified, He can only be visualized to man in the form of Jesus Christ, so that people on earth create an image of God for themselves by imagining Jesus Christ in all His glory …. The eternal deity is love, wisdom and power. – Love is the producer of all that is …. It is the father of the universe, it is the primal force without which nothing that exists could exist …. Everything has emerged from love, and everything that has turned away from it is to become love again …. Love is God Himself. – What has emerged from love reveals His wisdom …. Love is God Himself, His wisdom testifies to everything that has arisen from Him, His creations, and therefore what is from the father is His son. – And God’s will, His power, which brought everything into being, is His spirit …. God the father, God the son and God the holy spirit are in themselves the essence of the eternal deity …. love and wisdom and willpower. “The divine will of love took form”, these words are the same in their meaning as “Father, Son and Holy Spirit”. For the love of God allowed the will to become active and created …. God’s love and spirit embodied Himself as wisdom …. The spirit of God caused the son to emerge from the father. – Anyone who believes and is in love grasps this wisdom and for them the trinity of God is resolved. But in what error do people walk who lack faith and love and yet have accepted something as a doctrine of faith that remains unacceptable even to the wisest sage. For those who imagine a person-like deity still lack all spiritual knowledge. They apply something purely earthly to spiritual beings which is completely excluded from the spiritual kingdom. The idea of a three-personal deity is misleading, although the addition is used …. “they are one”. Man is forced into confused thinking as soon as he stops himself from thinking about it. But God does not forbid people to think about it …. God wants to give him clarity and it is not His will that he should be blinded by human influence, only that he should choose the right path that leads to realization. And they are truly not called to instruct the ignorant, who are ignorant themselves and try to compensate for their inability to receive spiritual knowledge through intellectual thinking and intellectually established teachings. God is spirit and can only be fathomed spiritually ….

Amen

They are always questions of eternity which are answered for man in the spiritual exchange with the hereafter, because the knowledge about it alone is important. However, what is beneficial for a better understanding will not be withheld from the human being, even if it concerns earthly matters. In order to be able to be instructed in detail he must first know that all things are connected and that the final goal of all creations is and remains the perfection of the spiritual within them. What exists on earth only ever serves as an abode for the beingness so that it can mature and come closer to God. Man should know about this course of the beingness on earth and also about its meaning and purpose. And he should regard all creations as his equals, as an external form which, like him, harbours something spiritual within itself. The knowledge of this then also determines his thinking and his faith. Anyone who only looks at the works of creation or tries to fathom them out of purely worldly interests will not approach the spiritual world, thus also the question of eternity, because his thinking is only focussed on the material world. He will then never be able to initiate a purely spiritual exchange with the beyond and thus also have to do without the pure truth, for this only comes to those who hunger and thirst for it. But these have largely overcome matter and thus the truth can now be offered to them; a picture will now be developed for them which sufficiently explains everything the human being needs to know ….

Amen

Depending on his receptivity the human being will now acquire this knowledge. But the knowledge will always concern things which are related to God and infinity, and the received knowledge will always contribute towards bringing the human being closer to God, for as soon as the human being receives enlightenment about divine activity and reign he will also bow before Him in reverence, and this also means drawing closer to God. Consequently, the human being must first acquire a certain knowledge before he can find union with God. He must be initiated into the divine doctrine of love; he must know that everything has its origin in God’s love and that he himself is a creature, having emerged from God’s will to love. He must also know about the purpose of creation and about man’s task during his existence on earth. Only the human being who has acquired such knowledge now consciously works on the shaping of his soul, and this earns him the union with God. Whoever wants to achieve union with God without knowledge must be immensely active in love so that he comes close to God through love. He must try to replace the lack of knowledge with unselfish love, for then his soul will be pleasing to God and realization will come to him in a flash when he departs from earthly life. He will therefore also possess the same knowledge because this is absolutely necessary for the task that awaits him in the beyond. For now the imparting of knowledge to ignorant souls is the activity he has to carry out. To be in knowledge on earth means to be able to carry out the mission already on earth, that is, to pass on knowledge to those who are without knowledge. And this mission is exceptionally beneficial, for it brings great spiritual advantage to both the giver and the receiver. And this is why it is also of utmost importance when the human being asks questions in thoughts which touch upon that area which is earthly inaccessible. Such questions will be answered to him by knowing powers and thus contribute towards increasing his knowledge so that he, for his part, can be active in teaching again …. so that he can already be active on earth in a redeeming sense towards his fellow human beings ….

Amen

To violate the divine commandments is sin, for it increases the distance from God insofar as that He cannot be where there is unkindness. Everything that goes against the commandment of love will also result in a cooling of divine love and thus be detrimental to the spiritual being itself because it will thereby fall into an increasingly unfriendly state. As a human being this state now has the effect that the power of God’s adversary over him becomes ever greater, that he is forced by him under his will, that his thoughts and actions will always be as he wants them to be, thus always opposed to God. And this is unimaginably agonizing for the soul, for it is still so far away from its final liberation that it takes the bound state with it into the spiritual kingdom. For only love can redeem the being, consequently unkindness has to bind. And whoever is therefore unloving towards his neighbour violates the commandment of love and will therefore never be free from the bondage which the former rebellion against God has brought him. That is why God has given people the commandment of love, which they only need to obey in order to thereby come closer to God and be able to enter the spiritual kingdom as a blessed being. Man can sin against the commandment of love by acting contrary to the divine doctrine of love or by omitting actions that are supposed to demonstrate love for his neighbour. Man should not only protect his neighbour from harm, he should benefit him, i.e. do everything to him that seems desirable to him, only then is the connection with God established, because God Himself descends to a loving person and honours him with His closeness …. And this means spiritual freedom for him. The human being frees himself from the power of the adversary, for the power of God, which passes into the human being through His closeness, is stronger than the power of God’s adversary …. And the victor will therefore always be the person who connects with eternal love itself through works of love. He will break the shackles and become free from every compulsion that God’s adversary wants to exert on him. The commandments of love must not be ignored, for they are the means of release from the endless time of bondage. And at the same time they are the bridge to the connection with God …. For he who is active in selfless love thereby comes ever closer to God and overcomes every distance from Him …. He fulfils God’s demand and will also be allowed to receive the reward from God, which consists of God uniting Himself with the one who serves Him in love, i.e. who likewise sees God’s creatures in his fellow human beings to whom he wants to do good. Eternal bliss is only the result of unselfish loving activity, just as, conversely, damnation is also the result of unkindness, and everything that is directed against God or His commandments is unjust before God, i.e. sin ….

Amen

It is like a dividing wall that the good builds around itself when its desire is directed towards God. Evil tries to tear down this partition and uses unfair means to do so …. It fights in secret and often under the guise of goodness and piety. And then it is necessary to be doubly vigilant so that it is recognized as evil. Forces turned away from God remain close to the person striving towards God and perceive the slightest lukewarmness on his part to direct his thoughts towards things that lie beyond the divine. And now the human being only needs to be weak, then he will take in the thoughts which are whispered to him and his thinking will no longer exclusively move along a spiritual path. And then the human being has to fight with himself again in order to overcome those thoughts. Only then will his heart drive him more powerfully towards God, for the soul senses the apostasy as something burdensome and seeks to be free of it again. However, every spiritual battle manifests itself depending on the victor …. If the adversary has the upper hand, then the person will strive for external things and strive for earthly success …. He will interrupt his spiritual endeavours and thus pay tribute to the world …. But if the power of the spirit is active in him, earthly temptations cannot change his will …. He is inwardly calm and purposeful; he despises what approaches him and would like to cause him to think in an earthly way; he remains faithful to God and therefore there are no distractions for him, his will is always and constantly directed towards union with God …. And it means spiritual progress to have withstood the temptations and to have an increased desire for God. He has therefore erected the wall of partition that prevents evil from reaching him. He is immune to temptation and also recognizes the forces that seek to oppress him in the mask of goodness. For his feelings are mimosa-like …. he will always sense the impure and defend himself against it; but those who allow themselves to be taken captive by it are still impure themselves, in their hearts the desire for the world is still too great and what approaches them with beautiful words and expressions they do not realize as bad and wrong, and so the adversary has an easy game. But if a person is vigilant and asks God for help, his eyes will be sharpened and he will act in accordance with God’s will. It remains a constant battle for him, only less noticeable, as his desire for God applies …. Yet the battle is permitted by God so that the human being himself will test his strength in it, so that he will ask God for the strength he lacks and thus take refuge in Him …. And thus his attitude towards God will always be decisive as to who remains victorious, the good or the evil ….

Amen

The greatest power lies in the conscious call to God. Everything can be achieved by a person whose attitude towards God is such that he enters into contact with Him when he is in earthly or spiritual adversity, for he can be relieved of all worry. Another, Whose power is the greatest, now cares for him. God has provided His children with a bridge to Him, prayer. Whoever uses this bridge always and constantly has the opportunity to present his worries and troubles to Him; and to be able to present worries to God also means to become free of them, for God relieves every person of suffering, the more willingly the more trustingly it is presented to Him. Once man has freed himself from the feeling of unbridgeable distance from God, once he feels like His creature, once he recognizes that he belongs to God, then his prayer is also right, for he will now speak to his creator, his father from eternity, like a child and come to Him confidentially in all his needs. Man is powerless …. whatever he begins, it can only be completed as desired if God gives His consent. So if man wants to become master of his worries and suffering by his own efforts and disregard divine help, his endeavours and striving will be unsuccessful if God does not give His approval. After all, all success is dependent on God, and understandably God will help the person who comes to Him directly and asks for His help. The right prayer testifies to the right filial relationship that God wants to be established, and then the father’s love comes into action and He fulfils every request of the person …. The relationship with God should be free of any outward appearance, as well as free of exaggerated submissiveness, which is expressed in posture and gestures. The relationship between child and father should be an intimate one, childlike and submissive in obedience, but intimate love should bind the child to the father. Such an intimate relationship must also bring the child fulfilment of every request, for God is love, and love denies His child nothing that brings him joy. The child will also be allowed to make earthly requests as long as it has recognized that the father’s love considers the child in a way that is beneficial to it …. This realization has the consequence that the fulfilment of every request is left to the father, that the child prays “Father, Thy will be done” and that he now trustingly abandons himself to the father’s love and humbly receives from His hand what is intended for him. Faith and trust in His goodness and wisdom should form the basis of every prayer, then the earthly child leaves the fulfilment of its requests to the heavenly father, and then the prayer is as it is pleasing to Him and He will answer it ….

Amen

The person who gives himself to God has nothing to fear of spiritual decline, he will always develop upwards, but this can only be achieved through constant struggle, since struggle increases strength of will and a strong will is absolutely necessary for someone who wants to serve God, i.e. fight for Him. Demands are placed on him that can only be fulfilled with a strong will. It is necessary to resist, because the world’s desire will always be in opposition to what God demands of people. And so man must not only be able to resist his own desires, but also the desires of those who belong to the world. To give himself to God means to want to remain completely in His will, and this willingness earns him God’s love and grace, and thus God Himself will always be active where the human being’s will threatens to become weak. Then He will stand by him and strengthen his will through the transmission of His strength. But the influx of divine strength also signifies progress upwards, it signifies the helpfulness of beings in the beyond who likewise take care of the human being and protect him in every adversity and danger. Spiritual regression is only to be feared with open resistance, with open rebellion against God. But striving for God excludes such a state of innermost rebellion against God, for the striving human being is in the state of realization, and thus he also knows that God is the most perfect and lovable being, and he recognizes his own lowliness, and this lets him become deeply humble and submit to God’s will in everything. Rebellion, however, is the result of spiritual arrogance, arrogance the effect of spiritual darkness, thus ignorance of the nature of God ….

By recognizing his smallness, man becomes great, for he receives the most precious gift from God, His grace, and this makes him abundant …. for to be allowed to live in God’s grace means to mature spiritually, i.e. to be able to receive light and knowledge and thus come closer to God; he who stands in the light is in the realm of divine love’s radiance, and his share is light and strength from Him. To be able to receive divine power is bliss already on earth. It is something spiritual that can never pass away, which the human being retains as his property for all eternity. On earth, this power expresses itself in a vast knowledge …. in a knowledge of things that are otherwise hidden from earthly man. Knowledge is the basic condition for happiness in the spiritual kingdom, for without knowledge a person cannot become blessed. Without knowledge his stay in the beyond is without light, and without knowledge it is also impossible for him to be active in love. Before he starts his redeeming activity on earth as well as in the beyond he has to receive knowledge, and blessed is he who already strives for it on earth …. who desires to be informed and does not resist the influence of beings of light in the beyond to want to transfer their light onto the human being. Those who give to him are in the knowledge and always want to be lovingly active; yet the human being is not always willing to accept the precious gift. Those who believe themselves to possess do not ask for this gift. His arrogance prevents him from doing so. But he who feels poor in spirit will be considered without reservation. What he thinks he lacks, he will desire and also receive, and his spiritual treasures will increase, and there will never be a decline, for he who has become knowledgeable has overcome. He no longer has a desire for the world and earthly goods …. He only has a longing to be allowed to enter the spiritual kingdom and to be active with God and for God …. to give what he has received and to be happy in giving and receiving ….

Amen

The world and its customs will never be completely changed. Everything that pleases the eyes or the senses is the weapon of the one who means the world, and he will fight with these weapons as long as the world exists. Only those who free themselves from his power will also free themselves from actions that are unimportant or hinder the moulding of the soul. This is the influence of evil, that it weakens the feeling for truth and lies and that even struggling people are subject to this influence as long as their will does not deny everything that bears witness to the opponent’s activity. The teachings from above certainly give a clear picture and the human being could change accordingly, yet his senses demand impressions from outside until the truth offered from above fills all his thoughts and aspirations, only then will he have detached himself from the demands of the world and recognize them as extremely meaningless and insignificant. They are only a danger if a person neglects his inner organization for their sake, if he finds it difficult to detach himself mentally, if he attaches too much importance to the fulfilment of external actions and is then prevented from entering into intimate union with God, i.e. if he does not succeed in making himself completely insensitive to external impressions and entering into his innermost being and making contact with God. This is far more difficult in an environment that is intended for his senses than when a person withdraws into “his little chamber”, i.e. to be alone with God uninfluenced by external impressions. The intimacy of prayer will undoubtedly be deeper where all external impressions are removed, so union with God will be easier to establish. Man must realize that God is everywhere where man wants to be with Him …. that no particular place or environment is needed to bring about union with God …. He must realize that it is more pleasing to God if He is remembered at every hour and in every place, for God will be wherever man’s thoughts seek Him …. but He is most likely to be present when a person is closed off from the world, when he succeeds in forgetting everything around him. Then he easily finds the bridge that leads into the spiritual realm, into which nothing that belongs to the world can be carried …. Praying inwardly means detaching oneself from everything earthly and connecting with the purely spiritual …. And so it is understandable that heartfelt prayer is often called into question where the eye and the senses are offered too much that is worldly ….

Amen

Everything changes and nothing remains as it is …. Consequently, everything that creation harbours is also alive. On the other hand, there is a state that can rightly be called lifeless …. This is the spiritual stagnation that can be found where materialism prevails. Although lively earthly activity can be recognized there, spiritual activity is switched off. And the consequence of this is that all spiritual development is impossible, thus the soul remains in the same state it was in before. But inactivity is a sign of death …. What is dead is motionless, it is as it were without any life, it is something worthless that has no purpose or goal and therefore remains unnoticed. However, we cannot speak of a dead being as such, because as long as the power from God flows into a work of creation, the ability to live is also in it. But God does not withdraw this power from any being, even if it does not use it according to divine will. But God withdraws His love from a spiritually inactive being and this results in a standstill, and a cooling of divine love results in the hardening of the spiritual (the spiritual substance?). This fate is unspeakably sad, for only the state of uninterrupted activity is blissful, whereas remaining in the same external form is depressing and even more depressing when the being discards its external form and enters the spiritual kingdom and no longer has the opportunity to be active …. when it is forcibly pushed into a lifeless state through its own fault. The being can remain in this state for eternities without being able to receive help because it is stubborn and rejects all help, thus if it does nothing to end its state of inactivity. In earthly life the being will not feel this dead state because earthly activity does not let it recognize the spiritually dead state. Consequently, it will not be remedied either since the being lacks the will. And if the being’s will is already bound on earth, this is even more so in the beyond. There it can be given advice from all sides, the being also lacks the strength to will …. it is apathetic or completely obdurate …. But both characterize the distance from God and therefore the bound, unfree state, which expresses itself in inactivity and lack of will. This is the state of death, of darkness, in contrast to the state of life, which is eternity’s brightest light and signifies constant activity ….

Amen

The awareness of his own lack of strength determines the human being to entrust himself to a strength-giving power and to request such a power, and therefore the feeling of weakness is always an advantage, even though earthly it is considered to be the greatest disadvantage. The world, i.e. the people who live in the world, only seeks to fulfil earthly tasks and requires more or less strength and willpower to do so. It sees a decline in these as a shortcoming and now seeks to fathom the causes of this, namely …. as the influence of the adversary …. it believes it has found them in spiritual endeavour. And that is why it is fighting against it with all means at its disposal. Precisely that which alone is beneficial and successful for the soul is seen as a disadvantage and is therefore fought against. It is assumed that the belief in a higher power and in its assistance or imparting of strength reduces the human being’s earthly endeavours accordingly, that the human being’s own development of strength thus diminishes and he expectantly abandons himself to the working of that power and one tries to prevent this by trying to destroy the belief in a higher power, especially the belief in the imparting of strength without one’s own effort. The world seeks to invalidate the strength and power of prayer. It demands precisely the opposite …. extraordinary strength or development of the will without the help of a power from above, because it regards physical strength or intellectual thinking alone as valuable, which is capable of mastering earthly demands. Such a view, however, prevents any spiritual endeavour. For spiritual progress can only be achieved through the mediation of grace and such grace can only ever be gained through prayer. Prayer, however, presupposes the recognition of a power that can and wants to impart grace and strength, and this strength should also be requested. Man should not only try to overcome the feeling of weakness through increased earthly activity, but he should turn to the one Who alone can change this feeling through His grace, through the imparting of that which man lacks for spiritual higher development. For the highest earthly development does not bring a person spiritual success; only when he feels small and weak does he take the path to God, and only then does he fulfil the actual earthly task, which may bring him little earthly but all the greater spiritual success ….

Amen

The desire for spiritual food is a condition for receiving it, and if you offer yourselves, you will hunger and thirst for it. Consider this when worldly measures are directed against you and you seem to lose everything that has so far offered you spiritual nourishment. Consider that the word of God is offered to you more precious than you have ever possessed …. consider that they want to take human work from you and that the pure divine word from above is offered to you in return; that you therefore lose nothing but receive far more precious things, but that you first have to feel a deep longing for it before God Himself feeds you. You will still be put to great tests so that you will have to decide which spiritual direction you want to follow. And then it will not be easy to profess Christ and His word …. in view of the fact that His word will be made inaccessible to people, and even the believers will start to doubt because God allows His word to be denigrated. But He knows why He allows it …. for you lose nothing but gain infinitely more, He gives you the unadulterated word in all purity and with the word also His blessing. And anyone who longs for the food of heaven will be allowed to savour it, for God Himself is in the word with those who long for Him. And He will protect this word and not abandon it to the evil will of those who want to destroy everything that betrays christian thinking. The word that comes from above gives knowledge of His will again; it will be comfort and strength for people in the most difficult times, it will spread from mouth to mouth and it will be greedily received by those who have had to give up everything that was previously precious to them. God knows about this time of need and takes precautions by quietly allowing what the world is planning to destroy to come into being …. What comes down to earth is of divine origin, it is spiritual good that the world and its followers can never destroy …. But what they destroy can no longer claim to be unadulterated and pure truth. That is why God does not hinder their plan, for before this plan was conceived, God foresaw the will of mankind. And He provides people with His word anew so that they need not live in want if earthly power deprives them of it in the time to come ….

Amen

The utilization of divine grace also presupposes the will to come close to God, and since this will earns man everything he asks for, God’s grace also comes to him unmeasured. For the willing person also utilizes grace, as this again increases willpower. In endeavouring to live in a way that is pleasing to God, his heart is also willing to love and, thanks to God’s grace, also able to love. So for the time being man needs nothing more than to recognize God and himself as His creature, unworthy and small in relation to Him, and to ask Him, then he also asks Him in the right way and this humble request is granted. But in order to recognize God, it is enough to delve deeply into the divine creation, to contemplate the works of wonder and to relate oneself to them. Serious thoughts about this will certainly lead him to the conclusion that he himself is in an affirmative attitude towards his creator, and then the desire to come close to Him will awaken in him. Then God’s love will take hold of him and help him to reach the height …. It is only ineffective where the human being remains in the will to reject. For his attitude towards God is up to him. As soon as the spirit of arrogance prevails in him, the influence of God’s adversary, man blindly passes by the marvellous works of divine creation. Consequently, he does not take the right attitude towards his creator either. He wants to deny Him because he does not want to submit, or his attitude towards God is neither humble nor demanding. He does not request God’s grace, consequently it cannot be granted to him, for he is endowed with gifts for the time of his life on earth as a human being which can and should bring about his free decision …. If he does not use this gift, i.e., if he does not use his thinking and willing in the right way, then he also decides, but not in favour of God but against him …. And then he makes the bestowal of divine grace impossible. Without this, however, it is also not possible to reach the heights. The will of man is the deciding factor; it cannot be directed by God. Man himself must freely decide in favour of God, only then is his spiritual ascent guaranteed ….

Amen

You only stay on earth for a short time and in this short time you have to decide which life you want to lead in eternity. For your life on earth is decisive for eternity. It is only a trial existence, and it is up to you alone whether you pass the test, whether you use earth life in such a way that it earns you a life in all splendour in the spiritual kingdom or your fate there is a sad one. What you decide in favour of in earthly life will be granted to you after death. Thus every human being will then reap the reward for the work he has done on earth. Earthly labour will already find its reward on earth and will therefore not be valued for eternity. Only spiritual work will bring eternal success, for the soul will take spiritual possessions with it into the spiritual kingdom, whereas earthly work and its reward will remain on earth when the soul departs. And anyone who has nothing to show in terms of spiritual possessions has not passed the test, he has not utilized his earthly life, he has been inactive in a spiritual sense even though he was rich in worldly possessions on earth. He did not realize the purpose of his earthly life and therefore did not live consciously. The purpose of life on earth is to mature spiritually. But if earthly abilities are trained and only value is placed on how man can acquire earthly wealth, then the probationary period passes without bringing realization to man. However, the failed earthly existence can never be made up for, and what a person has failed to do on earth can hardly be made up for in the hereafter. The remorse in the hereafter is indescribable when the soul finds itself poor and meagre where it could experience a bright and radiant entry into the spiritual kingdom. Time and again the human being is informed of his task and his goal, but the words go unheard in people’s ears because they are not aware of the consequences of their negligence. As long as they live, they do not think about their task, but in the hereafter they regret every minute they let pass by unused ….

Amen

It is a certain spiritual arrogance to feel called upon to introduce a spiritual new order, i.e. to want to eradicate the existing and replace it with new teachings and commandments which are certainly intended to serve humanity’s best interests but which only bring physical advantage but no spiritual advancement. This is indisputably an influence of evil power, for this plan is directed against God and against the divine teaching, and anyone who recognizes it is likewise subject to that power, otherwise he would recognize the will directed against God by the fact that the divinity of Jesus Christ is denied. Christ brought salvation to the world, and if He is denied, the world falls back into the state of spiritual darkness in which it once was. And it is precisely this spiritual night in which it walks that causes God to rekindle the light and use all means to make people reflect. For it is spiritual darkness to presume or approve of wanting to improve something that God allowed to come to earth through Jesus Christ …. a teaching which only preached love and which alone can promote spiritual advancement, and it is presumptuous to now want to improve this teaching and to substitute it with something new which no longer corresponds to the divine commandments. In His infinite love God still allows the effect of this endeavour to be a blessing for those people who are in danger of neglecting the divine teaching of love and who focus too much on outward appearances. They will be prompted by a strong shaking of their previous thinking to take a stand on the core of Christian teaching. What is taken away from them, they can easily give away as long as they have faith in the divinity of Jesus and therefore also adhere to His teaching, which has only love as its guiding principle. So even those measures that are taken to bring about the downfall of something that exists will only serve to deepen faith, even though this is not the intention of those who enact such measures. Externalities, however, are worthless and should therefore not be mourned. This only leads to clarification of the innermost feelings, it leads to reflection and can therefore be a blessing for those who are lukewarm. Nevertheless, the intention behind the endeavour is reprehensible. To feel called upon to bring about a spiritual upheaval is a lack of humility and therefore also a lack of knowledge, as long as any earthly advantage is to be achieved as a result. The world, however, does not seek to increase the splendour of the light but to extinguish the light because it illuminates its activities, for the driving force behind this is the one whose will is directed against God ….

Amen

The human being’s departure from earth is such a significant process because all physical forces fall away from him in order to be replaced by spiritual forces, or …. where this is not possible due to the soul’s lack of maturity it means a powerless state for the soul. Both the influx of spiritual strength and the loss of it are perceptible to the soul, for it feels, just as in earthly life, the lack and the abundance of what is now flowing towards it as agony or as happiness. It feels transported into a state that is free of any physical heaviness, but its sensations determine the degree of well-being. After a short rest the soul will either be active or it will remain in an agonizing inactivity and will not be able to free itself from it. The unredeemed soul lacks strength and the realization of this is unspeakably oppressive. It is bound, it is in a situation in which it does not feel well and cannot free itself from it. It has a desire for earthly things and this desire remains unfulfilled. It is in a joyless gloomy place and wants to escape from it, but it holds it back as if with chains in the place where it is staying. Its whole state is discomfort, because it is not deprived of its sensory faculty, because it can only see with spiritual eyes, but these are still very weak, so that it is unable to see anything and is therefore in a completely lightless region. And the powerless state is extremely agonizing for it because it still knows about the state on earth and therefore knows that it has gone backwards. And now it depends on how the realization of its situation affects its will, which it likewise still possesses unchanged. Its situation is so bleak that it is forced to reflect on it; it can now either apathetically accept everything although it does not like the state …. The powerlessness can be so great that its will is likewise inactive, that it does nothing to change the situation, i.e. that it does not muster the will to change it. Then it will always remain in the same situation until the soul can no longer endure the agony and longs for other surroundings. But it can also remember in bitterness and hatred the one Who imposed this state on the soul. It can quarrel with its fate and allow all its bad instincts to break through in thought and will. Then it itself aggravates its condition and it becomes ever more lightless and ever more bound. For now it is beset by the forces of the underworld, which seek to win it over completely. On the other hand, however, beings from the kingdom of light also approach it, albeit in disguise, and try to persuade it to become active itself in order to transform its dark state into one full of light. And again the will is decisive as to which urge the soul gives in to. A longing thought upwards already brings it relief and can be the beginning of the path upwards. The will alone is decisive, and it will either bring deepened agony or redemption of the soul and at the same time cause the supply of strength …. The powerless being only needs to want that power flows to it, then this will also be imparted to it …. However, as long as the will is inactive and does not strive for such, no change in its situation in a favourable sense will occur. The supply of strength alone determines the soul’s state of happiness in the beyond. A soul that receives strength immediately upon entering the spiritual kingdom is a blissful creature. It can now do nothing but be active, for the supply of strength increases its urge to be active. It feels so happy that it does not want to and cannot carry the happiness alone, that it is in need of communication and wants to give of its strength to the unhappy souls, because its feeling is full of deepest compassion for the still immature souls who have to live in want. And it stands in the midst of the light, and this also allows it to recognize …. both the delights of bliss and the suffering of unredeemed beings. It now wants to carry light over into the realm of darkness, it wants to help the souls in need and now starts its activity by seeking access to the unhappy souls and tries to mentally influence them to free themselves from their lethargy and to strive, i.e., like it, to help those who are still deeper in spiritual night …. If it succeeds in this, then it has kindled love in the immature souls, and then their work on themselves begins. The desire to help is the only way to improve their situation, and once the will has become active in this direction there is only one ascent for the soul, for it will receive strength to the same extent as it needs it to help other unhappy souls. Love is the only redeeming power. Without love there is no way out of the powerless state; but once love breaks through, the agonizing, lightless state will soon be overcome, the surroundings will become increasingly brighter and clearer for the soul, the desire for light will become stronger, and accordingly the strength will flow to it, which triggers the state of bliss in the soul and is again the impetus for the highest activity …. to redeeming activity in the beyond ….

Amen

Every objection must be refuted with God’s help. Man must always be ready to call upon God in his heart, he must never rely on his own strength, he must start everything with God, i.e. ask Him for His blessing and thus also let the teachings of his fellow human beings be preceded by heartfelt prayer. Then he will feel equal to every objection, he will, driven by the spirit of God, use the right words, realize in a flash what is still unclear to him and now be able to answer or explain every question in an understandable way. Intellectual thought alone will not suffice to clarify questions concerning spiritual life. However, since the opponent whose objections are to be refuted only raises them intellectually, every objection can be refuted with the help of spiritual strength, for spiritual activity is stronger and renders all intellectual acuity weak and inadequate. A person who lacks spiritual knowledge will always dispute the truth. Since he still belongs to the world it is unacceptable to him and his will resists it because the truth would determine him to a different way of life. And that is why it is an extremely difficult beginning to introduce people to the truth. And all means are used by the one who is the lie in order to prevent people from accepting the truth. In the same way, however, God’s love is constantly intent on conveying the truth to earth and spreading it. But anyone who undertakes this task will always be in a struggle. Nevertheless, he will have great strength at his disposal, provided that he utilizes it extensively …. He must commend to God the soul of the one to whom he wants to impart the truth, he must pray for this soul, he must ask God for grace so that He will make it easy for him to recognize the truth, that He will impart the power of knowledge to him. For prayer for the souls of fellow human beings, for their spiritual need, is unspeakably blessed. And even if the human being resists and tries to refute everything, his resistance will become weaker and weaker the more selflessly the light bearer endeavours to illuminate his fellow human beings’ spiritual night. For God now stands by him …. He speaks to people Himself, so to speak, and if the heart is not completely hardened the listener feels the strength of what he now hears and it is no longer difficult for him to accept what is offered to him …., i.e. he moves it in his thoughts, and now the spiritual forces have access to the person’s heart and continue the spiritual work they have started by trying to influence him mentally. The resistance subsides, the thirst for knowledge and the desire for truth grow, and the ground is now well prepared for the forces in the beyond, which are responsible for the care of these people. How these beings struggle for the souls entrusted to them on earth …. And how difficult it is sometimes to gain access to those who are still too attached to the world or have been pushed into wrong thinking by worldly influences. The spiritual hardship of the time is overwhelming and the will to reject spiritual truths is strong and almost unbending …. But a loving person sometimes succeeds in changing the thinking of his fellow human being with ease if he sincerely asks God to bless his endeavour and now approaches a task with increased strength, which is certainly difficult but extremely urgent, because only in the pure truth can the path be found that leads upwards. God allows the truth to come to earth in order to make it accessible to the whole of humanity; consequently, He will also bless every endeavour which is aimed at spreading the pure truth among fellow human beings ….

Amen

By submitting your will to the divine will you give up your spiritual resistance against God and you recognize and confess that you belong to Him. Thus the purpose and goal of earthly life is that you finally return to God and despise God’s adversary. However, in order to recognize that you belong to God you must first be given the knowledge about Him and His activity as well as about the nature of God’s adversary. You must learn to recognize the effect of the forces of both powers in order to then be able to decide in favour of one of the two powers. However, as soon as one power prevents you from recognizing the effect of the other power, you can no longer speak of a decision. But this is what the adversary is planning in order to increase his power. He takes action against God Himself, he tries to influence people’s thinking in such a way that they doubt the eternal deity, that they are inclined to believe in a coincidental emergence of creation without the will and the unfolding of strength of a higher power. The ability to recognize God is therefore prevented; a power takes possession of you unlawfully; it takes what it fears to lose as soon as free will decides. This battle is unlawful and the effect on the human being is tremendously detrimental. Man would therefore be the one to suffer if God did not want to come to his aid. He must try to strengthen faith in Him and His strength to the same extent as the adversary wants to weaken it and awaken it where the latter has already undermined it …. And God does this in such a way that He chooses people who are firm in faith and have the will to serve Him …. that He gives them a task which signifies a counter-work for the adversary …. that He builds up what the latter destroys …. God allows these people to find contact with people who are in danger of succumbing to God’s adversary. They now counter them with arguments which seem worthy of consideration to them, and through reflection people now come closer to the essence of the deity. The greatest danger has been removed that the eternal deity will be completely rejected. But now the adversary has another weapon, which he also uses without hesitation …. He touches the divinity of Jesus, he tries to take away people’s faith in the saviour and thereby put them in a powerless state …. Man cannot grasp the significance of this endeavour as long as he does not understand the significance of the work of redemption ….

He will only come to a clear realization when the guilt of sin has been eradicated, for sin and darkness belong together, and brightness of spirit and purity of heart cannot be thought of without each other either. A being born of sin (which has arisen through the will of a power opposed to God) must first be purified before it is admitted to the light, i.e. to closeness to God. Purification of the heart, however, is equal to the forgiveness of the guilt of sin; the stain of guilt is removed from the being. However, this first requires full acceptance of the guilt, because only when a guilt is recognized as such does the will to be free of this guilt awaken. The latter is a redemption of the unfree, which requires immense willpower, since the human being cannot even measure the extent of his guilt, which the being has brought upon itself through the apostasy from God. And it would take endless times before a being had paid off its heavy debt to God; redemption would require (often infinite) endless times, for it is not the sins which the human being committed in earthly life which have to be atoned for, but the open rebellion against God was the actual sin. But this sin is immense, it cannot be grasped by the human mind. The incomprehensible magnitude of guilt moved Jesus Christ to His work of redemption …. In His love, the God-man Jesus recognized the pitiful state of humanity and wanted to take it upon Himself …. He wanted to suffer for people in order to spare them the great suffering of atoning for their debts …. He wanted to tolerate pain in order to reduce their pain. He wanted to restore people’s fullest freedom of will, He wanted to redeem them from the agonizing state of a sinner before God …. And so Jesus Christ took the guilt of all people upon Himself and offered God the sacrifice on the cross as atonement …. He gave Himself out of love for humanity, which without this sacrifice the rebellion against God would never have been able to atone for this guilt of its former rebellion against God itself. Only when man is able to recognize God will he be able to appreciate the love that moved the God-man Jesus to lay down His life for people on earth …. He cannot grasp it on earth, but he should not reject the greatest work of love, even if he cannot yet appreciate its greatness ….

(16.9.1941) It was the work of the greatest love for fellow human beings …. No being before and after has taken such a sacrifice upon himself, no one has carried out such an act, which completely originated from free will, which he also could have averted by virtue of his will. Yet His love for His fellow human beings was so strong that He was in intimate union with God precisely through this love, Who is love Himself …. that the deity was able to take abode in Him in all its fullness without, however, consuming the human body, which is otherwise the consequence of the intimate union with God. But the body still wanted to suffer for the sake of sinful humanity …. He wanted to atone for this …. In His wisdom, which was the result of His deepest love, Jesus recognized the spiritual low of mankind and also knew of its consequences. However, this was so serious, so extremely painful, that He took pity on it and wanted to compensate for people’s lack of love through His immense love. Only the will to help them in their greatest need determined His actions. He was driven by love, which was indeed divine, but the man Jesus took the suffering of the death on the cross upon Himself and drank the cup of suffering to the brim …. He suffered unspeakably and died an agonizing death …. His will was to bring redemption to mankind, to help it in the battle against evil, to free man from the guilt of sin of the former rebellion against God, for the sake of which He walked on earth …. Man is still bound by the will of the adversary, and his strength is too weak to be able to free himself from this bondage. Jesus wanted to increase this weak power through His work of redemption; He wanted to give people a weapon in the fight against this violence …. They were to counter it with the love of Jesus, so that it would let go of them and thus the path to the heights, to freedom, would not be so difficult for them. But the work of redemption and the divine redeemer Himself must also be recognized if the sacrifice of the death on the cross is not to be made in vain for the individual …. he must consciously place himself in the circle of those for whom Jesus Christ died on the cross, otherwise he has no share in the graces of the work of redemption ….

Amen

Man needs a reminder, for he is very often in danger of forgetting himself and his endeavours, and then he must be warned or admonished against bad or too good actions. And this is also a favour from God, a means of upliftment that God gives him in His love. God does not abandon man to his self-chosen fate. If he threatens to go wrong ways, then the admonisher in him will make himself heard loudly and he will always speak against it and advise him to leave what he intends to do and to endeavour to do good deeds. And the will must now be active to follow this inner voice. Although this will often involve an inner struggle, no spiritual progress can be achieved without a struggle. Listening to the voice within is extremely important and will soon bring the human being’s soul a state of maturity, for it is the divine voice which sounds within the human being, which only needs to be heeded and will then also bring certain success. Yet at present this inner voice is paid little attention to, it is drowned out by the voice of the world, for the latter audibly reaches the human being’s ear, but the inner voice sounds so softly that it has to be heeded, that everything external has to fall silent if its sound is to be heard. But the voice of God can only be heard by those who want to hear it, the voice of God will never sound loud and audible to the world but will only sound softly and delicately in the heart, and therefore anyone who wants to hear it must withdraw into his innermost being and now pay attention to what God wants to say to him. Listening inwardly is the only thing God requires of people in order to give them information. Very often a person is inclined to heed the voice of the world, and if God does not always want to take the path to people, the voice of the world would soon drown out the inner voice and the shaping of the soul would then be called into question. For it is absolutely essential for the soul’s development that the human being makes contact with spiritual strength as far as possible, since the inner voice is likewise the effect of spiritual forces on the human being, and that these, if they express themselves, must also be heard, otherwise their strength will remain ineffective. God’s love constantly endeavours to make the human being’s path on earth as easy as possible; if the human being makes use of the means of help which are abundantly offered to him by God then it will not cost him a great struggle to ascend. For as long as the human being is willing, God is also willing to give him every help in order to make his time on earth a blessed time, if the human being gratefully accepts God’s help and pays attention to what God wants to tell him ….

Amen

A perpetual remodelling of the outer form results in the maturing of the spiritual within it. The change is therefore God-willed if it makes this maturing possible, i.e. gives the spiritual the opportunity to serve. An external form can also come into being through human will which has no real purpose to fulfil, which is therefore then merely a change of form but does not give the spiritual substance the opportunity to serve, which means a standstill in its development and is therefore understandably agonizing for the spiritual substance. Such creations will only ever serve the human being as a feast for the eyes, i.e. they will satisfy his senses and only serve to arouse desire in the human heart and likewise hinder the higher spiritual development of the human being. The destruction of such forms for the purpose of reshaping them for useful things is always God-willed, for it is a liberation of the spiritual from an agonizing situation. However, such objects are sometimes kept away from destruction by human will as long as the human being enjoys his possession. Only when he despises the object, i.e. does not feel any joy of the heart about his possession, is the damaging influence of the spiritual in it ineffective. And then the human being will also have no qualms about destroying it, i.e. transforming it into something useful. Objects that fulfil no other purpose than that of sensual and carnal pleasure have come into being under the influence of evil because they are a welcome means for it to hinder the higher spiritual development of the human being …. If they fulfil a purpose at the same time, then this means a small advantage for the spiritual within them. Any transformation of an external form into things that are needed gives the spiritual increased opportunity to serve, i.e. to mature, and will therefore always correspond to divine will ….

Amen

As long as the souls of the deceased still think of and desire earthly possessions and pleasures they will stay within the proximity of earth. Through their longing they are connected with everything they desire and will always stay close to it. Even in the beyond they cannot easily detach themselves from what they loved on earth, with the result that they find it difficult to strive to ascend in the beyond. Spiritual maturing becomes questionable while earthly desire is still captivating the soul, for desire generally excludes giving until the soul desires spiritual nourishment. Receiving this will also awaken or increase its urge to give. But if it is not yet receptive to spiritual sustenance it will not be offered to the soul, for then it has not yet completely separated itself from earth and would never recognise the value of what is desired in the spiritual kingdom as the most precious possession. However, the desire for earthly possessions shows a lack of maturity of soul, and thus earth is surrounded by numerous souls in an inadequate state of maturity, which cannot detach themselves from what seemed dear and desirable to them in earthly life. Such souls can only be helped by prayer, for a loving prayer lets them feel something which they haven’t felt until then …. they receive a flow of spiritual strength, which triggers in them something entirely different than the fulfilment of earthly longing. This influx of strength makes them feel extremely happy and they gradually turn away from the goals they had sought after until then. And thus a human being on earth can bestow upon the deceased immense help and a tremendous labour of love if he often forwards a prayer to them, which initiates a detachment from earth and its formerly loved surroundings. All earthly things are a hindrance to higher development, only when the longing for it is fought will spiritual matters step into the forefront, and only then will the ascending progress in the beyond begin, and the sooner the spiritual endeavour starts in the beyond the less the soul will have to fight, for the earthly longing will constantly lessen, the soul will distance itself from earth ever more, and it will have overcome matter when it feels the desire for spiritual possessions …. Then it will not just desire but also want to give, and this is the beginning of the ascent to the pinnacle ….

Amen

Without overcoming himself the human being cannot ascend, for only the human being who overcomes himself, who constantly fights against the ignoble in his nature, will shape himself such that he can approach the eternal deity and partake of His love and grace. He has to carry out the changes of his nature himself, he has to work on himself and thus take care of the reorganization of his soul, only then will the spirit from God be able to unite with the soul. But once this moment has occurred, when the union of soul and spirit has taken place, then the working of the spirit can also be clearly recognized …. Then the spirit in the human being drives him to lively activity for God …. Man’s endeavours are now constantly directed towards the spiritual realm, while earthly life has lost its attraction for him. Although he still carries out earthly activities, his creative urge is directed towards the expansion of God’s kingdom on earth, and it is his activity for this kingdom that gives him inner satisfaction. Spiritual work has now become his purpose in life, and he now also recognizes the necessity of this for his fellow human beings. What he has recognized as a treasure he now also tries to convey to his fellow human beings, and this undertaking requires perseverance and strength of resistance and can therefore only be carried out by a person who is serious about serving God, who recognizes the hardship of his fellow human beings, who is aware of their great distance from God and wants to remedy this situation. And his willingness to serve is accepted by God, it testifies to his love for God and his fellow human beings. But it will only be successful when the spirit of God is at work in the person, for only then will he be able to help his fellow human being in an enlightening way, otherwise he will be unable to give anything that will benefit him. For only the truth will benefit him again and therefore the one who wants to give must be in the knowledge. But this knowledge is imparted to him by the spirit from God so that he can now pass it on to those who want to receive it. Only then do they likewise begin to mould themselves according to God’s will, to change their nature and to make themselves receptive to the spirit from God. For all higher development must be preceded by the transformation of the innermost being, without this the maturing of the soul is not possible ….

Amen

He rewards the slightest will towards God with His love. The human being does not know that the father eternally longs for His living creations which were brought forth by His love, which originated from His strength, thus which have His divine love as their origin …. And therefore he also does not know with what intimacy the heavenly father cares for His living creations, how He carefully directs all events such that they shall lead the human being back to Himself …. how He does not abandon any being but is only intent on offering them His love …. He does not know that creation has only one purpose, to lead His creatures back to their original state, and that therefore everything came into being as a result of divine love …. so that God regains what had been lost to God’s opposing power. And when the human will now decides in favour of God, even if only for moments, God’s love takes possession of the human being and the being is saved from eternal ruin. God’s love is immense and yet it cannot seize the being against its will. For since it emerged from His strength, it was originally a free being that was not subject to any compulsion. However, as soon as it is permeated by God’s love it cannot be anything other than pure love itself, and it would thereby become unfree if the being’s will were directed differently, i.e. if it were directed against God …. Consequently, the will first has to turn towards God before God’s love can seize it, but then the being shapes itself into love of its own free will, and then the divine gift of love will be infinitely blissful for the being, thus the being will return to its original state, it will be like God because it has become love, just as God is love Itself …. And therefore God will always try to influence the human being’s will so that he decides in favour of God …. He will do so by sending light to people, by trying to convey the truth to them, by bringing Himself close to them so that they will learn to recognize and love Him and then also make an effort to fulfil His will. Then the human being’s will consciously turns towards God, and then he enters the circle of light of the divine emanation of love …. he is seized by God’s love and can now never ever detach himself, for his own will has sought the connection with God, and God blesses this will by letting it become ever stronger, by imparting grace to the human being and lovingly taking care of him until he enters the kingdom which has been his home since the beginning ….

Amen

The so-called theory of heredity also tends to misguide people’s thinking. For people always assume that they want to find a purely earthly explanation for the various developments both in terms of the body and in terms of character. The structure of the body, therefore the purely material outer form, can indeed be scientifically researched, and this research will only ever lead to clarifications of the material composition of matter, but it will never be possible to connect character traits or the shaping of the soul with the results, for these are not dependent on matter, therefore a certain spiritual development will never be the result of a certain material composition. The material composition is completely irrelevant for the spiritual higher development, therefore also the knowledge about it is a so-called dead science, which remains without any spiritual value and only makes extraordinary demands on the thinking of men. There will be a lawfulness to be observed in all created things; this lawfulness will also be ascertainable in the human body, but the knowledge of it should only lead to the realization of the eternal deity, Which is supremely wise and omnipotent. Then this knowledge will be a blessing for mankind. However, just as the purely material composition of God’s creations is used to infer the essence …. the thinking, feeling and willing of a living being, if character traits are considered to be an effect of certain material bonds …. i.e. the combination of various earthly substances …. then man’s train of thought is misguided, and then such research is not only worthless, but misleading and therefore reprehensible. The physical constitution of the human being has no influence on the soul’s formation, so a high level of spiritual maturity will not be the result of the union of two people recognized as physically perfect, but spiritual maturity can be achieved just as easily and often even more easily by a weak body that does not meet the requirements of the theorists. Something purely external can certainly be inherited, which can be explained by the laws of creation, but this is irrelevant for the spiritual formation, and therefore such research is without any value ….

Amen

The distance from God means an insurmountable gulf for the human being if he does not utilize the grace of prayer, for he will never come close to God …. Prayer first testifies to the human being’s will to approach God and it increases the supply of strength which the human being needs in order to be able to carry out his will. But a person who never seeks contact with God in prayer will never be able to receive grace and will therefore be powerless. Prayer is the bridge that leads across the gulf to God. Those who do not believe they need this bridge will find no other way across …. God’s infinite love has given man this possibility; the gulf is therefore no longer insurmountable for those who make use of this bridge, who therefore seek a path to God and walk on it …. And it should be used, without interruption, because it leads directly to God. Man can speak to God, Who is beyond this gulf, and he will be heard by Him …. God will not let any supplicant go back unheard who has taken the trouble to ask God Himself for His support …. Prayer is only the expression of the will turned towards God, for anyone who still resists God does not take refuge in Him in prayer, for he does not recognize any power over himself. This is why it is justified to worry about such people that they will never find God if they are unable to pray sincerely …. They burn all bridges behind them as soon as they feel too exalted to send up a silent prayer. No help can be offered to them in any way; neither grace, nor truth, nor strength can be imparted to them, for prayer is the first thing needed for everything …. Grace cannot be given to a person unasked and therefore no imparting of strength can take place …. But truth can just as little be offered to him, because truth is again God Himself, but God is not recognized as the giver of truth …. because a giving being is asked for the bestowal of His gifts. Therefore, prayer can never ever be switched off, and it is the most precious gift of grace that God has made available to every person …. Every human being can make use of prayer, but God must be recognized and union with Him must be striven for, then the gulf is overcome, it is made passable and the human being is granted access to God as soon as he prays sincerely ….

Amen

It is something purely external that people take offence at as soon as they condemn earthly dispositions simply because they complicate or impair earthly life. As long as it does not jeopardize a person’s spiritual life, such dispositions are irrelevant and can even contribute to its advancement. Thus, all measures need only be considered and considered in the right attitude towards God and it will be recognizable that God wants to remove another grievance by doing so, even if something else is being striven for on the human side. The will of man is directed towards the destruction of the existing. As soon as the decrees are directed against spiritual endeavour, this intention cannot be approved …. God, however, uses such measures to simultaneously remedy a spiritual deficiency. He does not prevent the human will from carrying out such measures so that those people will now find the right attitude towards God who previously joined a spiritual direction purely mechanically, who were, so to speak, followers without any deep thought of their own. Now they are faced with the decision and have to take a stand towards God in their hearts, and only now something comes to life which until then was mere form …. And thus even decisions that are born of evil will can mean a spiritual advantage for the human being, as soon as they cause him to reflect in the first place. Consequently, God does not prevent the human being’s will from such endeavours which seemingly destroy something spiritual but in reality result in increased spiritual activity in those who seriously seek God or were in danger of becoming lukewarm and careless. For what a person wants to do is permitted by God, only weakened in its effect if people who are faithful to Him are put in danger as a result. Or the right path is shown to those who are in danger of losing God. And if the human being’s inner life is thereby deepened, even the harshest earthly measure can be a blessing for him ….

Amen

The path to the heights is easy and carefree when God Himself is man’s companion. Then there are no obstacles, for God leads His protégés past all dangers, He leads them through thorns and undergrowth without them paying attention to them, He does not let them go astray, but He leads them safely and quickly to their goal. The path to the heights is only arduous when man wants to walk it alone. Then he is often in danger of stumbling or straying from the right path. But as soon as he abandons himself to divine guidance, he can walk on earth without hesitation, his path will be the right one, because if God is called upon as a guide, He is also ready to lead. Invisible to the physical eye indeed, but constantly effective and perceptible to the human being’s heart, who now walks so safely because he knows that God is always with him. And wherever he now directs his steps, wherever he sets his feet …. God Himself has guided him and therefore everything he undertakes is right. It will correspond to divine will, for if he surrenders to God without resistance, God’s will will be transferred to him and he will have to carry out God’s will. And the human being no longer needs to worry, for God determines today and tomorrow, He determines the day and the hour when what is intended in His wise plan will come to pass. He determines the people who are to fulfil their mission, He influences all those who joyfully submit their will to Him; He does not determine them against their will, yet those who are willing to serve Him feel the divine will in their heart and willingly fulfil it. Thus He can make use of those people for His work on earth. They continue on their path undeterred because they know they are under divine guidance and are courageous and powerful …. They also guide their fellow human beings onto the right path, because those who are under divine guidance know their task. They seek to help their fellow human beings and likewise move them to choose God as their leader. And whoever walks upwards guided by God must lead to the goal …. to the eternal home, to the father’s house …. to the kingdom that God has prepared for His children in all its glory ….

Amen

Every communication from the spiritual kingdom is meaningful and must therefore be recognized as soon as the plea for enlightenment to God has preceded it. For God answers, albeit in the most diverse ways. He considers His own according to their feelings, He also allows them to gain insight into the spiritual kingdom if this is beneficial for the salvation of their soul. His spirit works wherever He finds a receptive creature, and the inevitable consequence of this must be spiritual brightness in the human being. But once the light shines in a person there is no relapse into darkness, for the light is so bright that it breaks through all spiritual darkness and the darkness must give way. The eternal truth shall be spread everywhere among people; it shall also find entrance where people have blocked its access. The ray of light is to penetrate everywhere, the pure gospel is to be carried everywhere. And this is the task of people who are honoured by God to receive the truth directly or indirectly. Where human will sets limits, God will tear down the barriers, God will once again make use of human will to remove a deficiency, the effect of which is spiritual darkness. The resistance is often very great, for the darkness of the spirit has the effect that the striving for the light is prevented. But the spiritual forces exert all their influence against it and seek out people on earth to co-operate. And where the connection is established in all intimacy with the spiritual-lightful world, there are also the highest spiritual successes to be recorded. They will be refreshed with the living water and what is offered to them they may pass on so that the field will also be made fertile where there is still drought and barrenness. Often violent upheavals must take place and people’s thinking must be directed differently than before. Above all, every person should retain spiritual freedom, i.e. be able to accept and reject what he wants, what his inner voice tells him to do. To this end, however, he must also be given the opportunity to create where he wants. Spiritual compulsion means regression, and those who force people into it are bound by the adversary, whose intentions and endeavours are to undermine the truth. “Seek, and ye shall find ….” says the lord …. so people must not be forbidden to seek. Truth comes from God to the sincere seeker, for God blesses everyone who desires the truth. And thus He will first break the chains where spiritual freedom has been curtailed, He will restore many people to the life in which He originally placed them, He will impose duties on them where they can develop their strength and thereby make it possible for them to serve in love …. a service that differs completely from what they have previously understood by service. For true divine service consists of active love of neighbour …. This service to God also brings spiritual enlightenment to people, i.e. knowledge and strength from God. And so man can always consider himself to be in the right place where he can somehow give something to his neighbour, whether earthly or spiritual good. This alone is the right divine service, for he then serves in love when he is active in a redeeming sense …. when he seeks to remedy physical or spiritual hardship, for then he is active in a redeeming way. He constantly gives love and thereby awakens counter-love again …. and love alone only redeems on earth and in the hereafter. God wants to see deeds, not just words; man must be given the opportunity to be lovingly active when and where he wants …. he must not be restricted in his spiritual freedom, only then does he fulfil his earthly task according to divine will and he uses the power from God, which constantly flows to him, in the right way ….

Amen

Unadulterated pleasure in life is the goal and endeavour of every person who still lives in darkest spiritual night on earth. And as soon as he achieves it he will enjoy his life to the full and only live for his body while his soul goes without, and if the human being is satisfied with purely physical pleasures his state can be called exceedingly imperfect. It testifies to a purely materialistic attitude, for then the human beings will merely be an empty shell, he cannot be deemed any more, that is, more highly advanced than a creature which lacks intellect and free will, for the latter is not being used or is used in a completely wrong way by the person. The gifts which distinguish the human being from the animal are intended to achieve the soul’s higher development; their use shall merely manage to achieve the soul’s transformation. The human being, however, only uses these gifts to enhance his body’s well-being, and thus he is misusing them. In this case the circumstances of the individual person are not important, for the striving for the pleasures of life in itself is a misuse of his received energy of life and the gifts bestowed upon him by God’s love. As to whether he will find fulfilment in his life does not change the fact that his desire worsens the darkness of soul, for his thoughts and intentions impede the soul’s actual task. Hence the person’s life can remain empty and deprived of earthly pleasure and still not gain him psychological higher development because his desire is orientated towards earthly pleasure. Fulfilment is often denied to them in order to redirect their thoughts and intentions towards spiritual experiences, and yet they fail to find the path into the spiritual kingdom. Their highest goal is and remains earthly happiness …. And such an attitude will not reduce their distance from God, thus it is the cause of a deficiency which will have far-reaching consequences at the end of their earthly life, and this deficiency can no longer be rectified once the soul has left its earthly body.

On the other hand, a short time on earth can suffice to make up for what had been neglected if the human being takes the shaping of his soul seriously. This is why ever more opportunities will approach the human being in his latter years of life which he only needs to make use of and which, if he is willing, can bring him incomparable blessings, for God will not leave misguided souls without help even if the human being does not acknowledge Him, i.e., even if through his attitude towards worldly pleasures and earthly possessions he turns towards God’s adversary. He struggles for his soul until his death. Time and again He is willing to help and guides him such that his thoughts will be turned to spiritual spheres. And time and again his will is given an opportunity to make a decision. For divine love is such that it will not let go of whatever wants to withdraw from Him. Even so, God will never decisively intervene in the human being’s will but so evidently bring those people together who can complement each other, i.e., He brings badly informed people in contact with those who can serve them in a giving and instructive way. This task is often difficult as long as the world is still alluring, which weakens the will for the acceptance of spiritual truths. Yet occasionally just slight attempts will suffice to make a human being receptive to them …. namely, when the world gives him very little …. Unfulfilled desire can also lead to overcoming the desire, in which case it was richly blessed. Then the person’s struggle with himself, against his own craving, was made easy for him by denying him the satisfaction. And this, too, is God’s grace, which can lead to the right decision of the free will. One day people will thank God for what they so bitterly and harshly condemn, if it was successful …. or they will suffer bitter regret if their will ignored this grace as well ….

Amen

Without serving activity, no being can redeem itself. This applies to beings in bound as well as in free will. Serving activity is always the prerequisite for reaching the state which lets it become free of its outer form. And the more willingly the being subjects itself to serving activity the faster it can change the outer form until the last outer form, the flesh body of man, surrounds the soul, and now again serving in love is the task, which the soul must fulfil to also flee from the last outer form and to be able to enter the spiritual kingdom unencumbered. Serving in love is the only thing that frees the soul from its unfree state, and it is precisely this that people pay so little attention to. In their hustle and bustle they no longer find time for other people, they forget the actual task because they consider themselves to be too much the centre of attention. And therefore they remain bound, for only service in love redeems. In the preliminary stages the beings are determined by divine will to be of service, they are in a certain state of compulsion so that they have to carry out the activity God has assigned to them. As a human being, however, divine will is excluded insofar as He allows the human being to think and act according to His will. And therefore he is not forced into a serving activity but he has to be active in a serving way of his own free will. The drive to do so must be present in his heart, love must therefore be kindled in him, for only this drives him to be of service to his neighbour. Without love, however, he lacks the drive and the human being will then not fulfil his earthly task. And the whole of humanity suffers from this ….

To be active in love requires the greatest overcoming of oneself as long as the human being is not yet in love. But once the flame of love has been kindled in his heart he cannot help but be active in love, for love is strength, but strength can never remain inactive, it will always stimulate activity, thus it will always want to express itself in a way that makes his fellow human being happy. And so the human being serves the one he wants to make happy and thereby frees himself from his former guilt …. because he wanted to rule in arrogance …. Serving therefore means for him a liberation from an endless time endured bondage and at the same time makes the outer form unnecessary, so that therefore the soul can discard its last outer form, because it has thereby proven that it has given up its former attitude against God, that it is no longer against God, but has become love, therefore stands in God-like will, consequently has completely overcome the separation from God, therefore has become one with Him. Union with God means spiritualization, thus earthly deformation has now become unnecessary and every burden has been removed from the soul. But the union with God can only take place in love. The works of love bring about a rapprochement with God, since God is present in every work of love. But anyone who has set himself the goal of drawing closer to God is already in love, for he desires to be united with Him because he loves God. And thus, through this desire, he is also free from opposing violence …. He has redeemed himself through love ….

Amen

There is no more significant process than the spiritual union of the human being with God, and the human being will derive the greatest benefit for his soul from this union; thus this process is, as it were, necessary for the soul’s shaping according to divine will. The human being consciously unites with God, i.e. he strives for God’s presence and fulfils the conditions which are a prerequisite for God to approach the human being …. Then the union with God must take place and thus the spiritual communion takes place. The eternal deity Himself takes up residence in the heart of the person who longs for this communion …. But what does it mean to fulfil the preconditions that are a prerequisite for intimate union with God? …. Only one thing can bring about union with God …. love in the heart of man. For love is the original substance of the eternal deity, and when a person’s heart is filled with love, the same is in him that is the essence of the eternal deity. People who are far from love are also far from God, because love and God are the same thing. But in order for people to become love, i.e., in order for a being distant from God to experience the divine feeling of love, the human being’s thoughts must be directed towards an object …. to an object …. that is lovable and thus kindles the feeling of love in him. The eternal deity Itself has to make the human being aware of Itself, It has to initiate him into the mystery of love, It has to make the human being aware of Its strength and power and of Its relationship with creation and the creatures. And this prompts God to reveal Himself to people in the word …. But now it is up to the human being to accept this word, i.e. to heed and obey it or to reject it. But the word is the outwardly recognizable divine activity, it is God’s strength which has become form, it is outwardly audible and yet inwardly effective, it is the outwardly perceptible …. the flesh …. the inwardly effective, the blood …. which signifies true life ….

God now constantly brings His word close to people and wants to awaken love in people through the word. He wants man to accept the word and endeavour to live accordingly …. But living according to it means: giving love to all creatures that are around him. He wants people to eat His flesh with a hungry heart …. that they eagerly receive the divine word …. and have an ardent desire to fulfil the divine will …. that they drink the blood, the power that flows to them, as they hunger for the word. He wants to give them true life through His flesh and His blood …. For if they obey His word they are active in love, and as soon as they give love they also receive love, for now eternal love Itself draws near to them and fills their hearts with Its presence …. And then the union takes place, the communion …. “He who abides in love abides in Me and I in him ….” And he who opens his heart when I desire entrance will be able to shelter Me in all fullness …. My spirit, My strength flows through him and he is intimately united with Me, so intimately that he can speak of My presence, that he has received Me completely within himself because he has fulfilled the prerequisites which earn him My presence …. Thus says the lord and wants to enlighten people truthfully ….

how He wants His word “Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood ….” to be understood. He wants to point people to spiritual communion, which alone signifies union with God and which can never be replaced by an outward act. Giving oneself to God in deepest love and proving this love for God to Him through active neighbourly love will inevitably result in God Himself turning towards man full of love, that a blissful union takes place and divine power flows through man. For love seeks to unite …. the love of God and the love of man press together. However, this process does not require any external actions, for these only give rise to misconceptions insofar as the human being makes the personal presence of the supreme being, the eternal deity, dependent on immensely misleading external actions, which, however, can be completely devoid of the inner spirit of love and then completely exclude the presence of the lord. God only sees the degree of love of the human heart, but not humanly added forms, which only have the consequence that the form is respected more, and are often even carried out completely without love, and the union with God, the communion, can then never take place. Being united with the lord is the most precious thing a person can achieve on earth, and this is truly only striven for very little …. However, people often think they are united with Him and are still very far away from Him because they still lack the love that alone brings about union with God. Yet anyone who offers his heart to God with the most heartfelt love, who is constantly active in love, will inevitably draw the eternal deity to himself and is most intimately united with Him through love, even if he ignores the external form of a spiritual connection …. For God looks at people’s hearts and pays no attention to form ….

Amen

It can be unhesitatingly stated that the earth will be afflicted by powerful natural disasters; indeed, these catastrophes should even be mentioned so that people will know that the respective events are not determined by coincidences. There is no such thing as a coincidence, everything is predetermined, and everything takes the path of higher development. And the forthcoming natural disaster will release countless beings and provide them with opportunities for new forms. At the same time, however the disasters are intended to affect people such that they will look for a connection with God. People only consider the latter very rarely now, this is why God wants to bring Himself closer to them again if only by means which cause fear and terror in people; but if events are proclaimed in advance a person will recognise the correlations and then entrust himself to the Power Which is able to help him. The forces of nature are the only means which can shake up the most unbelieving person and lead him back to faith. Yet they never last long and likewise the will to believe only lasts for as long as a person is in danger of losing his life.

However, the eternal Deity will never intervene with anyone such that a person is forced to believe …. Even in greatest physical adversity He will allow him his freedom. He certainly fights for the still imperfect souls but He does not compel them. And therefore natural disasters will also have to occur within some conformity to law, they just happen more or less violently depending on the necessity for those endangered people who lack correct realisation. And for that reason they shall be informed of the forthcoming events …. Humankind shall become utterly helpless and with childlike trust call upon God for assistance; prior to this it shall already be informed of the dreadful time it is approaching, and if it is only of weak faith all announcements will be accepted with indifference since it will most likely assume that the announced event will not happen. And yet, people will remember it if their body and soul are in peril. And this is intended, for as horrendous as the effects of a natural disaster might be it always entails a shock to human thinking and this can also have a beneficial effect on people’s faith, providing they had received the knowledge beforehand. For the whole of humanity is facing a turning point of life. And blessed is he who recognises God’s will in everything sent. Then he will truly not be able to behave differently than according to His will and only ever see the great adversity of his fellow human beings and look at the disaster as a means which can ease this hardship …. And this disaster is imminent …. it will come like a thief in the night …. And it will just as quickly be over again, yet the result will be inconceivable ….

Amen

The slightest resistance to divine grace results in its diminution, for God’s grace cannot be effective where it is rejected. Whoever desires to stand in divine grace, his measure is inexhaustible. This is why prayer for God’s grace is extremely successful, as it testifies to the will to receive divine grace, and this also means receiving it. In cases of deepest spiritual need, God’s grace is also made accessible to people who do not ask for it, for God’s merciful love leans towards them and tries to make them receptive even against their will. But they cannot be forced to be receptive; however, the divine help is sometimes so clearly evident that the person feels touched by it and offers no resistance, and then the grace begins to take effect …. The person perceives it as a blessing and now desires it. Divine grace is help in every form …. The human being will be able to recognize it if he is willing; he will feel the influx of strength which expresses itself in increased strength of will; he will become more capable of love; he will take notice of what previously seemed insignificant to him; he will make contact with people who can influence him favourably; he will long for light, for spiritual food, and this will be brought to him. All this is grace, an aid to the attainment of maturity of soul …. But he must always allow it to become effective in him. The fact that God imparts it to him does not yet condition his willingness to receive it. Only the latter is decisive. However, the path upwards can never be travelled without divine grace, and therefore it is certainly true that man can do nothing without divine grace …. conversely, however, divine grace is also ineffective without the will of man. And this will remains free. The greatest and most obvious bestowal of grace will never have a determining effect on the human being’s will; he must decide for himself and can always accept or reject it. And this cannot be otherwise if an eternal law is not to be overturned. God loves all His children and He will also make everything available to them in order to lead them back to Himself. But if He also wanted to determine the will, then it would be easy for Him to bring everything that exists into a state of maturity. Yet these would then be directed beings which exclude godlikeness, for free will belongs to perfection. And that is why even God’s grace, which is the means to achieve perfection, cannot eliminate free will. The willing person, however, is allowed to make use of all aids and will thereby also easily reach the heights. Resistance to God’s grace is also resistance to God Himself and willingness towards God’s adversary. And then the influx of divine grace cannot possibly influence him if his will is still turned towards him. Whoever wants to receive from God must also be able to give …. but whoever gives his will to God will receive unmeasured and now also be able to mould himself according to God’s will. For God loves all His children and wants to help them to ascend, He wants to win them back and liberate them from the opposing power ….

Amen

There are countless moments in earthly life when God knocks on people’s hearts and desires entry …. where He comes to them in the word, either through the mouth of man or through the voice of the heart. And not one person can say that God has not taken notice of him. He desires entry into every human heart in order to be able to take effect in it, for the transformation of the soul can only take place with the help of the power from God, which flows to the human being in His word. Thus the word of God must be listened to so that the human being comes into possession of the power from God through his life according to this word. It is the expression of His will which God sends to man through His word. If man now does the will of God, he no longer opposes his creator but recognizes Him. He therefore enters into the right relationship with God, he no longer goes against Him but with Him …. He unites himself with God, he submits himself to Him and from now on no longer does his own will, but the will of God. Although the human being still walks on earth, he is already an aspirant of the spiritual kingdom, for he has passed the probationary period on earth, which was only given to him in order to find union with God in it. Divine love itself now approaches him and remains in close union with him, it continues to feed him with the word, which is the bread of heaven for him. For God now refreshes the human being with the food of heaven, He gives Himself to him in the word and is therefore constantly with him. He imparts the knowledge of truth to him, and He turns the human being into a bearer of light who can and will work again out of his love, who is now likewise willing to love and wants to pass on divine gifts. And willing fellow human beings will now also be allowed to feast at the lord’s table …. they too will be offered the bread in the word, without which man does not have the strength to walk the earthly path leading upwards. And those who hunger and thirst for the gift of heaven will be satisfied. It will be an uninterrupted giving and receiving of what God Himself hands out to those who grant Him admittance into their hearts. God Himself wants to be active in them, therefore He desires admittance again and again. If a person does not hear His knocking, if he does not want to listen when the divine voice sounds softly audible …. His voice becomes louder. Then He comes to people in the form of suffering and wants to make Himself known and offer them His help. He only ever demands that they listen to Him, that they heed His voice, that they do not close their hearts to His admonishing voice. For without His word the human being cannot live his earthly life according to divine will, for without His word he lacks all strength ….

Amen

Being in the knowledge gives a person complete certainty, and this is absolutely necessary in order to be able to stand up for what he is spreading with conviction. It is a beautiful task to spread the truth among people; however, it is also difficult and can only be completely fulfilled when the person himself no longer has any doubts. For many things will appear unacceptable to fellow human beings. However, nothing that is offered to people as truth can be proven, so it can only be accepted by faith. But faith will understandably be awakened or strengthened when a strong faith (deep believer) stands up for what is offered. But it will also be easy for the person who is in the truth to recognize, for he will be taught by the spirit of God and this will impart to him not only the truth but also the strength of faith and understanding …. and all doubt in the person will disappear, everything will be understandable to him, he will grasp the context and what he himself recognizes as truth he can now also pass on to his neighbour without inhibitions. He himself knows, and all objections from opponents of the truth only testify to their ignorance. Faith would only be shaken if real knowledge could refute the truths received through the spirit …. but this will never be possible because the spirit of God is constantly at work and both the power of cognition and the knowledge imparted are constantly increasing. There are things that human wisdom will never be able to fathom, where no evidence to the contrary can be provided and both acceptance and rejection depend solely on the degree of realization of the person …. But the power of realization is likewise something which is imparted to man by God, which man can now call his own who turns to God Himself. Thus he will also be able to accept the truth and he will know that he is in the right state of realization. The other, however, will certainly defend his opinion but will never have the full inner conviction that what he advocates is the right and only true one. The power of cognition and truth are inseparable, and he who has the truth also knows that it is the truth ….

Amen

The giving powers require undivided attention in order to be able to impart spiritual gifts to you, and therefore every earthly experience must be eliminated. The soul must detach itself from it and only turn its thoughts to the spiritual realm. All earthly events are to a certain extent also connected with the spiritual experience as far as they influence the human being to act and think and this again determines the work on the soul. Then every earthly experience is also a blessing for the soul. In most cases, however, people are only impressed by them in a purely earthly way and do not derive any spiritual benefit from them. The further a person has progressed, the less he is affected by external impressions and thus they are no longer decisive for his spiritual development. And this is what we should strive for …. A spiritually striving person should accept everything as a providence from above, which only serves his benefit, even if it appears different from an earthly perspective. The chaos of the present time can only be effectively intervened in by showing people the powerlessness of their will so that they realize how little influence they have on the shaping of their earthly life. They should recognize another will to which they must submit themselves at all times; they should sense this will as a force which is powerful …. (interruption)