It is incomprehensible when a person supports a traditionally adopted teaching which would barely stand up to serious scrutiny. Only someone hungry for truth scrutinises every teaching and will indeed be successful insofar as that he will be able to differentiate between misguided teachings and the truth and correspondingly decide for or against existing doctrines. He will accept what he recognises as truth and retain it as a precious possession. But he will also disassociate himself easily from that which seems untrue to him, he will consider it worthless and thus he will not hesitate to give it up, to reject it. And only then will he value the doctrine and be imbued by it. And since it came alive in him he will stand up for this teaching, whereas traditionally adopted teachings are lifeless possessions, for they are accepted and kept due to some sense of duty. The person dare not voice his own opinion and strictly adheres to the teaching people imparted to him. Such a doctrine cannot lead to spiritual maturity in a person, for only that which he recognises as truth refines his nature. But in order to recognise the truth of a teaching the person must weigh up all pros and cons. If this is his serious will, he will recognise the truth and his work will begin …. to enlighten his fellow human beings as well. However, a person can only endorse that teaching which he himself regards to be true. Hence he must have examined it first before he can pass a teaching on. A certain sign of the value of a teaching is when it can be imparted to a fellow human being with complete confidence. If a person is so penetrated by it that he is capable of imparting a teaching understandably and acceptably then it can also be assumed that he has seriously examined it himself, for he cannot explain something that is still unclear to him, nor would it stand up to serious scrutiny and would therefore be discarded by himself as worthless. Thus, when it is being discussed, the battle of words will be won by that person who had formed an opinion about a doctrine and thought about it himself. He will find it easy to inform his fellow human being because he will have mastered the content of what he wants to pass on, whereas an adopted doctrine becomes more a game of words, because it cannot stand up to closer inspection and is therefore not suitable to be passed on. In that case people can only ever adhere to the wording of a teaching; however, the meaning of the wording causes confusion among people, just as, vice versa, the imparting of a teaching which was recognised to be true will lead to bright light and realisation in a fellow human being. This is why the acceptance of traditional religious doctrines must be warned against time and again, for they offer little or nothing at all to people. But something that should make people happy must be equally acceptable for all people, provided they are permeated by the desire for truth and see in it a mission to pass on what is imparted to them. They are fully capable of differentiating between truth and lies, thus a thoughtless acceptance of established traditions will be out of the question ….

Amen

God’s will reigns in heaven and on earth, and His love and wisdom determine what happens on earth and in the hereafter. Everything is predetermined, but conditioned by the will of people as far as earthly events are concerned. It is therefore wrong to assume that human arbitrariness could overturn divine laws …. it is wrong for people to believe that they have influence over earthly events. For God’s will must first give its consent before human will can take effect. And God also gives His consent and does not hinder human will. But He then directs every event according to His will. And so people are completely free to think and act …. but what God does not want does not happen because His will is decisive. Man must have this realization in order to surrender himself to God completely carefree …. he must know that nothing can come upon him if it is not the will of God …. he must know that what comes upon him finds its explanation in God’s omnipotence, love and wisdom and can be a blessing to him and that the will of his fellow human beings can certainly be an indirect cause for shaping his earthly life but that it nevertheless remains up to God what effect this human will has ….

(2.10.1941) If the will is good, then it will also conform to the divine will, for then it is good forces which influence the human being, and indeed in such a way as it is God’s will. Then the human being’s will will always express itself in such a way that it corresponds to what God has decided in His wisdom. For all good is divine, it is the expression of the divine will. The evil will, on the other hand, strives for that which is directed against God. However, in order to be able to carry it out, man must utilize a power that comes to him from God …. the life force that enables him to carry out his will in the first place. Consequently, even a bad deed can only be carried out if God allows it, otherwise He would have to end the life of the person if He wanted to prevent it …. or else He directs other events in such a way that carrying out a bad deed becomes impossible. But the human being’s will will then be judged equal to the accomplished deed. However, if God allows man to turn his will into action, then this action is an event …. an event in human life which again serves the souls for higher development …. For evil is not always recognized; it can also have good educational consequences by provoking disgust and favouring the pursuit of good actions and thoughts. And God knows the effect of every bad deed and therefore allows it because His love and wisdom are constantly directed towards the still imperfect souls, which need the most diverse means of education in order to mature …. He certainly allows the bad, but He never calls it good …. He cannot approve of what is born out of evil will, but since He gave man free will for the time of his earthly existence, he cannot be hindered in this will. But it would be a hindrance if the power to carry out his will were taken away from him. On the other hand, world events have been determined since eternity, for God directs the consequences of every evil deed in such a way that He, in His wisdom, recognizes it as beneficial for the souls. And human will gives rise to this, but God arranges it according to His wise judgement. And man is completely uninvolved in the effect, although it appears as if people themselves determine world events. God’s wisdom never allows this to happen, and in the realization of this the human being should accept everything because it is necessary for his spiritual state. He should not rebel against his fate …. He must abhor what he recognizes as wrong, he must never approve of what evil human will has caused. But whatever happens, he must regard it as God’s providence, who allows the evil will of man, i.e. its effect, to become a school of the spirit. If a person is good, i.e., if he detests bad deeds, then he will not need any painful means of education, and then everything difficult and seemingly insurmountable will pass him by without affecting him in any extraordinary way. However, very few people are so perfect that they are completely free of guilt. This awareness should also allow them to endure the fate that is bestowed upon them. Only when a person completely surrenders his will to God, when he has become silent in God …. then he no longer needs such means of education, and then suffering and sorrow will pass him by and he will hardly pay attention to what is happening in the world ….

Amen

This is the adversary’s activity, that he awakens or strengthens people’s will to reject all teachings concerning Jesus Christ and the act of salvation. And once he has achieved this it is also easy for him to completely destroy faith in God as creator and sustainer of all things, for those who reject Jesus Christ as saviour willingly hand themselves over to his power and are therefore likewise opponents of God, since the adversary can impose his will on people without encountering resistance. Once faith in Jesus Christ has been taught, where people have been informed of Him and His act of salvation, the human being can no longer detach himself from Him without putting his soul in extreme danger. A lack of knowledge relieves him of responsibility, yet having knowledge also obliges him to accept faith in Jesus Christ, for the transmission of Christ’s teaching is a favour from God which was offered to him due to the soul’s certain state of maturity when it was embodied as a human being. Countless people lack the knowledge of this because their souls are not yet receptive to this greatest of all graces. Not all souls are shaped in the same way because the course of higher development in the bound will is not the same for all beings, and therefore the being in the stage as man must first have reached a certain maturity of soul before the knowledge about Jesus Christ and His work of redemption can be made accessible to it. It should indeed be offered to all people as long as they are on earth, but people who are still lagging behind in their spiritual development are often still too burdened by lower instincts to be receptive to a teaching which is intended to develop divine instincts in the human being ….

The instinctive life of such people must sometimes still be called animalistic, and in such a low spiritual state a teaching which only demands love is incomprehensible to them and therefore unacceptable. Their course of development is not yet completed with earthly life because they have still carried over too strong instincts from the preliminary stages into earthly life and need a considerably longer time to overcome them. The concept of unselfish neighbourly love can sometimes not be made comprehensible to them in this life, but this does not exclude the possibility that they can likewise only be redeemed through love and that the work of redemption then only begins in the beyond. But Jesus Christ also died for these people, and the knowledge of the work of redemption will also be imparted to them in the beyond if it could not be made accessible to them on earth. The spiritual state of maturity before the embodiment as a human being determines where and under which living conditions the human being may take up residence on earth. God knows about the former resistance and the will of each individual being and accordingly places it where it has the most opportunities to mature its soul. Understandably, where the teaching of Christ is offered to people, the path to the heights is much easier to travel, but on the other hand, this grace also obliges …. If God deems a person worthy of being able to avail himself of the grace of the work of redemption, then he will also be called to account if he disregards this grace …. if, when he is informed of Jesus Christ’s work of love, he does not recognize it and denies Him, i.e. denies His divinity. Then he is visibly under the influence of the adversary, whose endeavour it is to get the beingness under his spell again. And he also succeeds if the person is willing to reject Christ as the son of God and saviour of the world. He thereby forfeits eternal bliss …. for without Jesus Christ the soul can never be redeemed ….

Amen

The present spiritual state necessitates an intervention from above, and this is the only explanation when an unforeseen event causes terror and turmoil in the world. At a time when humanity only pays attention to earthly life, the adversary has it completely under his control and this manifests itself in blatant unkindness, in offences against the divine order and in an opposing attitude towards the eternal deity as well as spiritual striving. And God foresaw this spiritual state of humanity, and He has always pointed out that He will reveal Himself in an extraordinary natural event which, from a purely external point of view, is a catastrophic work of destruction but which nevertheless can also bring salvation to countless souls who are in danger of losing themselves to the powers of the underworld. Man is currently abusing his free will in such an obvious way that God wants to warn him to continue on his chosen path. He makes him realize the frailty of that which alone seems desirable to him. And He seeks to direct his thoughts to other, more enduring things. Life will approach people in a form that seems almost unbearable to them. But this is the only possibility of help which at the same time also gives the beingness which is still banished in the solid form the possibility to become free and to start its course of development on earth in another form. The human being, as the most highly developed creature, will perceive this work of destruction as cruelty, but the still immature being welcomes it as an act of liberation from agonizing encapsulation. The human being in realization knows about the context of things, he knows about the necessity of such an intervention on the part of the deity, and therefore it is also understandable to him that only divine love expresses itself, even if nameless misery comes upon humanity as a result. For otherwise it can no longer be saved from destruction. The physical death of the body can still be an awakening to eternal life, but physical life on earth in peace and contentment can result in spiritual death. And people on earth cannot grasp what this means, and if they knew then every means would be right for them to save themselves from eternal downfall. But ignorance can only be banished if people willingly open their eyes and ears when God reveals the truth to them through a human mouth …. but in their blindness they prevent all spiritual activity and thereby block their own path to truth and knowledge. And there is spiritual darkness on earth which in turn requires that a ray of lightning illuminates people, that light is kindled so that those who are willing find the right path …. For these God lets the word come to earth beforehand, which draws their attention to the will of God and to the coming time. For God announces it to people beforehand so that they will not experience the day unprepared which has been determined since eternity ….

Amen

Blessed is the man who has found God. His life on earth has not been lived in vain. The world cannot offer him what God Himself gives him, for the world only hands out earthly goods, and these are transient. God, however, gives spiritual treasures, and these retain their value for eternity. And what a person has once received in spiritual goods he can never lose, nor can it be taken from him, it will not diminish even if he gives it away. And thus God rewards people for their devotion to Him, He bestows divine gifts upon them, He makes them unimaginably happy, for even if the body feels little of it, the soul, however, finds every gift of strength in the form of knowledge extremely beneficial and grateful, and it remains in constant contact with God because it no longer wants to miss the blissful state. And this is a state of freedom and security in the lord that no worldly pleasures can outweigh. And yet this precious good is only rarely sought after, and it is not recognized as such; and even if it is offered to people, they do not know how to appreciate it. They pass it by carelessly, and therefore they cannot be fed with the bread of heaven, which only those who desire it ardently can receive. And even if they do not harm themselves with the pleasures of the world, their life is to be valued very low and the end will be the bitterest poverty of spiritual treasures. For man can only take spiritual goods into eternity, he must leave earthly goods behind. And that is why man should first collect the goods which he can take over with him, and he should think of his soul, which must live in want when its spiritual goods have been withheld. Spiritual possessions, however, can only be gained once the human being has learnt to recognize and love God, for then he will only strive for union with Him and he will be granted something delectable …. he receives love from God, which expresses itself in the gift of knowledge …. He now already lives in the spiritual kingdom although he still dwells on earth. But his soul continuously draws from the divine source of grace …. and richly enriched he will then enter the eternal kingdom ….

Amen

It is an extraordinary mission to be fulfilled by the human being whom God has chosen for this purpose. The spiritual adversity of the time requires such people who are actively working for the kingdom of God; it requires people who establish the connection from earth to the spiritual kingdom …. who declare themselves willing to act as mediators between God and people who are in knowledge, i.e. to whom the knowledge of the truth can be imparted. For in order to reduce the hardship of the time, the truth must first be spread among people. And this is a task that requires great love and strong faith, for a person must withstand the world’s fiercest hostilities, he must not waver or falter if his mission is to be successful. He must be prepared to lay down his life for the truth at all times, he must not fear earthly power, just as he must not respect the suffering of the body. His faith must always be stronger and overcome everything. This mission can only be accomplished if the human being is in the most intimate connection with God, if he constantly receives strength from God through this connection. For God alone is his strength, his might and his power, through which he can carry out everything he wants. Wanting to instruct people in the truth is a beginning which requires great perseverance and patience, for the often stubborn resistance has to be broken, which is understandable since spiritual darkness makes people unable and unwilling to accept the truth. Time and time again, a person must try to bring light into the spiritual night of his fellow human beings. He must be a good example to people through his own way of life and its effects, he must always try to influence in love those people who lack understanding, and he must not fearfully consider the consequences that could arise for him on earth as a result of his actions …. The spiritual need of the time requires active help and courageous fighters for the kingdom of God. And people will be anxious about the measures that will be imposed on people who serve God. They will willingly bow to the demands of those who impose such measures, and therefore the battle must be fought doubly eagerly by those who offer themselves to God for service. Visible support will not fail to materialize and will increase and strengthen the strength and courage to carry out the mission assigned to them. Because it is about more than earthly life, which is over after a short time …. it is about eternal life, which every person is already shaping for themselves on earth …. However, the knowledge of the torments on the one hand and the incomprehensible happiness on the other should determine the person who is called to take on the most severe suffering in order to spare his fellow human beings this and to help them attain eternal glory. And he should fulfil his mission with complete dedication …. for God Himself is always at his side ….

Amen

The influx of divine grace is clearly recognizable when the human being’s desire for spiritual nourishment awakens. Then God’s love comes into action by the human being’s thoughts being extraordinarily influenced by good spiritual beings who thereby carry out God’s will and want to help the human being’s soul. As long as the human being does not consciously oppose it, this influence is successful and the soul willingly follows into the kingdom which the friends in the beyond want to open up for it. This process of mental influence is a favour which God bestows upon the person who trustingly turns to Him in prayer for His help. And every questioning thought to God is an unconscious prayer which already finds an answer. Conscious prayer, however, also earns a person divine grace, i.e. help in spiritual adversity. Once the desire for spiritual food has awakened in a person, it will always remain in him, even though a soul hungry for truth will always be satisfied. “Ask and it will be given to you ….” God wants people to call upon Him in prayer and He assures them that their request will be granted. However, as soon as a person desires spiritual possessions and sends his prayer for such upwards, he will never be short-changed and yet his desire for them will never be satisfied, for God’s grace makes him constantly desire spiritual nourishment. And thus he will also be constantly provided for. Spiritual nourishment, however, is knowledge of the truth. The fact that the human being is instructed in the truth is God’s greatest grace, for God offers the human being a precious gift …. He offers Himself, for God is the eternal truth …. And as soon as the human being desires the truth, he also desires to be united with God, and thus God also accommodates him, for He leaves no desire unfulfilled which applies to Him. Whoever desires Him will no longer make a wrong request, for the will for God also earns the human being His deepest love, and God’s love gives …. It gives everything that man lacks …. light and strength …. And both flow to people in the word, which conveys His love and grace to those who hunger and thirst for the divine gift of love, for they will gratefully receive it and also pass it on …. they are in the grace of God, they are seized by His love because they have found God ….

Amen

A gift that is of divine origin is imperishable. Everything that comes from God remains in its original substance because it is spiritual strength, it is the product of the emanation of love from God. It cannot perish because spiritual strength, once radiated, remains the same forever …. power that stimulates activity …. The form in which this power expresses itself is the same; it always remains imperishable. If God now reveals Himself, He also sends spiritual power to earth, for He is Himself in the word …. but God is strength …. And therefore it is understandable that He does not reveal Himself in the word in order to abandon this word to destruction. What His will allows to come into being has its reason and its purpose. For God does nothing arbitrarily, but everything is premeditated since eternity and testifies to His wisdom and love. And because His programmes are indestructible, they will also fulfil their purpose. Only rarely can the pure word of God be channelled to earth and therefore a work rarely endures. But the will of God is sufficient if what this will has brought to earth is to be preserved. And even if the word is hotly disputed, people will never be able to invalidate it, for its power flows into everyone who seriously scrutinizes it. And God Himself will see to it that only those who seriously scrutinize will gain insight, for He knows what is necessary and everything is good as He allows it to happen. In the time to come hardly anyone will be unburdened and everyone will need encouragement but will not want to look for it where alone it should be sought. Yet if the pure word reaches him he will experience it as strength which stirs him up inwardly and stimulates him to reflect on spiritual problems …. and which, on the other hand, seems to him like a gentle encouragement from on high. And anyone who reads the divine word attentively will fall under its spell, even if they have previously been hostile to it. For the word is power, and the power works as soon as the human being is without resistance towards it. And God will protect His word from falling into the hands of people who are immature in their judgement or still in the power of the adversary …. The word comes to earth in the face of great spiritual adversity; it is a means to remedy it; it is the help God sends to His own and is the lifeline for all who are in danger of drowning in the whirlpool of the world …. And this word should not be able to stand the test of time and be arbitrarily destroyed? God is Himself in the word with men …. This faith eliminates all fear of earthly measures …. God is the word and His love is infinite that He wants to come to people to help them …. However, He cannot make Himself known more visibly than in the word. But where His word flows down to earth, His spirit of love is also active there, and He will never let pass what this spirit of love has created. For God is strength, His working is an outpouring of strength, and human will is unable to dissolve the strength into nothing ….

Amen

You should subordinate yourselves to the Lord in every respect, that is, you should always be willing to do that which is pleasing to God. You should only ever accept His will and whatever the inner voice then advises you to do will be right, for God Himself manifests His will to you through the inner voice. Thus, you carry out your will, so to speak, and yet it goes hand in hand with God’s will. In that case, you no longer need to worry, for then you will live on earth under the protection of your spiritual friends who will mentally inform you of divine will. And spiritual striving will always be first required of you, although your earthly work ought not to be neglected, yet if you offer your services to God it is His will that you are at all times at His disposal, that you serve Him when He calls you to do so …. And you hear His call when you listen within. To be of service to God means to be ready for Him at all times and to follow His call. However, the call from above sounds gently and subtly in your heart, and in order to hear it you must practise humility, love, gentleness and peacefulness. Thereby you shape the heart’s ear which will perceive the most subtle call and you will always know when the Lord is in need of you …. Then He will no longer call you in vain, for then you will hear His voice and hurry to be of service to Him ….

Amen

Bear in mind that you are the living creations of the one who opposed God, that you were called into existence by the will of the God opposing power and that you are therefore children of sin …. God did not withhold His strength from this spirit who once emerged from His strength as a perfect being, hence he made use of God’s strength and, by drawing on divine strength, let countless beings arise from his will, and this was your beginning …. You are the products of a wrong will and yet of divine origin, since only God’s strength made you become what God’s adversary wanted. And this is why you are subject to him as long as your will still strives for the same …. separation from God …. for this was the fundamental idea, the motive for the apostasy from God …. to be free from His power …. to be free and to rule over the beings. And thus the most illuminated being created by God descended into the deepest abyss …. it rebelled against God and tried to instigate all beings having emerged from his will to also rebel against God …. And his created beings succumbed to his will although they were able to freely decide which lord to acknowledge. The beings were in his power because they surrendered their will to him, which was subsequently abused by God’s adversary by binding it and thereby enslaving the originally free living creations …. However, everything that emerges from God’s strength has the urge for freedom, and in order to return this freedom to the beings God seized the beings from their maker’s power …. He placed them in a free state into the spiritual world and gave them the right of self-determination …. The beings, however, also abused their freedom and also became sinful by taking the opponent’s side. But divine strength is the fundamental substance of the beings, and divine strength must flow back to God without fail. And thus God wrestles for these fallen-away beings so that they will find the path to Him and offer Him their will ….

Human intellect cannot comprehend that nothing can ever be lost which emerges from God; it cannot understand what an enormous task it is to lead that which had distanced itself close to God again …. Nor can human intellect accept that the power of God’s adversary was so great as to create beings, and that divine strength did not intervene to change his will, so that he would have had to acknowledge God as Lord above himself and also order his products to approach God and comply with His will …. Human intellect cannot comprehend that infinite times pass by before the transformation of these living creations’ thinking takes place and they recognise God …. And therefore God informs people through spiritual channels of the knowledge of which power was active during the creation of the beings who are now experiencing their embodiment on earth …. These beings voluntarily aspired to be in opposition to God and would never ever return to God again had they been left in the state of free will; and since they had been created by the wrong will, the wrong will was also within them and this consequently had to strive contrary to God, for they did not know the power which was responsible for their aspiration. And thus the beings were subject to their creator, they were something imperfect, enslaved and therefore alienated from God, which could not correspond to His will and nature.

God, as the most perfect Being, could not tolerate anything near Him which did not correspond to this state of perfection. Nevertheless, it was not the beings’ own fault because they did not recognise the light as yet since they had emerged from darkness. God’s love helped these beings and informed them of the light …. He gave them freedom of will by removing His adversary’s power over the beings and thus freed the beings from his control. The imperfectly created beings, however, could not be changed by divine will to become perfect but had to decide for themselves, they had to strive towards God’s presence of their own accord and distance themselves from the adversary. Due to their freedom of will they had been placed into a position to decide since they now knew about both powers. Yet their wrong will predominated and the beings turned towards their maker again and lost themselves to the darkness …. And God took pity on them, for the state of those without light was painful. His love wanted the beings in a happy state. And so He removed the beings’ will and let them take an infinitely long path in a state without willpower which should lead them into perfection. And for this purpose God let the creation arise …. God shaped forms which were designed to shelter the passive beings …. Thus God created heaven and earth …. a spiritual and an earthly world, which was destined to be an abode for the imperfect beings until they had become perfect …. Now the beings were forced to discard their arrogance and bow down to divine will. They had to endure a state which represented a constraint for the spiritual being which formerly enjoyed its freedom. It was deprived of its freedom because it had abused it …. However, the path through the works of creation will bring it closer again to its previous freedom until it finally receives its freedom again when it is a human being, in order to then pass the test as to whether it will use its free will in the right way. There is indeed a great risk that the being will not pass the test, yet such a test has to take place because the return to God is only of full value in free will …. thus it signifies that the being will come closer to God. The strength from God which was once used by the adversary for the creation of the beings will have flowed back to its origin, and at the same time the God-opposing will have changed into a God-resembling will, thus the being has become perfect as soon as it shares the same will as God …. The being, which had no knowledge of God when it was created, only recognised God’s adversary as its lord; but now it has freed itself from his power and found the path home to its Father, from Whose strength it emerged ….

Amen

These are the favours of the work of redemption, which Jesus Christ has acquired for men, that they are able to overcome their weakness of will, that they are no longer unable to resist the enemy of their soul, that power and favour flows to them unmeasured when they desire it, and that the slightest will towards God also lets them feel this power from God and that this is expressed in increased spiritual striving. The state of humanity before the redemption through Jesus Christ was pitiable …. it lacked any will to ascend, for people did not believe in life after death and only focussed on earthly advantages and physical comfort. They did believe in a God who could mould their earthly life according to His will, and so their pleas were only for the improvement of their earthly existence. No attention was paid to the soul and its moulding, and this resulted in a worldly-minded humanity to which spiritual striving was alien. This was the work of the adversary, who still had too much control over people’s will, but who also drove them to be unkind to each other. For the sake of earthly well-being all means were right for people, and their thoughts and endeavours were evil and unloving. And at this time the lord descended to earth …. At this time lived the man Jesus, in Whose heart the desire for God was overwhelming and Whose goal in life was union with God …. Union with God was only possible in the most intimate love, and Jesus gave love to all people, He was inexhaustible in His love, and He took eternal love into Himself. Jesus saw people’s weakness and that they lacked the will to do good …. He knew that only love could bring them salvation and He preached love to all people in order to snatch them from the power of the adversary. (But the will of the adversary was stronger and so he repeatedly forced the human will down).

By completely subordinating His will to God’s will, by praying “Father, not My will but Yours be done ….” Jesus Christ made God’s will His own, He surrendered His will to God and took away the adversary’s power over His will, and thus through His death on the cross He broke the adversary’s will and likewise took humanity, for whom He died, away from the adversary’s will, for the man Jesus suffered death on the cross in order to thereby set people free from their tormentor. And God accepted the sacrifice, and He gives increased strength to every person who wants to avail himself of the grace of the work of redemption and likewise surrenders his will to God …. For anyone who follows Jesus will also have the desire to flee from the one who wants to bind him. But if he does not recognize Jesus Christ, he belongs to those who are still bound by the will of God’s adversary. He still has power over them and their own will is not strong enough to escape this power. He will always bend under his will and can therefore never be free. Jesus made the sacrifice for people who were too weak on their own (themselves?) …. He opposed the will of the enemy with His strong will and the adversary could not withstand this will. For Jesus claimed the power from God, which flowed to Him through His intimate connection with God. And anyone who recognizes Jesus Christ as the divine redeemer will likewise be able to make use of God’s strength, for this is the grace of the act of salvation, that the human being’s will becomes strong in order to be able to resist …. that the human being receives the strength he needs to ascend. Jesus Christ has shown people the way that leads to the heights. This is also a grace, that man can take Him as an example so that he can live his life on earth according to His example …. in love and righteousness …. And anyone who is serious about following Jesus, who endeavours to shape his soul according to His example, who is constantly active in love, who patiently takes up his cross and only ever prays: “Father, Thy will be done ….”, will be strong and will escape the enemy of his soul. For by recognizing Jesus as the son of God and redeemer of the world, he has a right to the graces he has acquired from Him. The path upwards will become easy for him, he will never need to walk it without guidance, for the image of the saviour on the cross will always shine before him, and he knows that Jesus Christ died for him and that he has been spared immeasurable torment as a result. He knows that nothing will be too difficult for him because Jesus has given him strength through His death on the cross. He knows that his will will not waver when he asks Him for mercy, and he knows that the power of the adversary has diminished, that he can overcome him if he wants to, because the strength comes to him through his will. If this will is turned towards God, then the love of God takes hold of him and frees him completely from the power of the adversary. Before, however, man’s will was so weak that he was not freed from that power. And Jesus took pity on this weakness of will …. He set His strong will against God’s adversary and defeated him. And he who recognizes Jesus Christ will likewise defeat him because he consciously makes use of the blessings of the work of redemption ….

Amen

Love is the greatest miracle …. it is power and effect at the same time …. it is a power that rules everything and serves at the same time …. it is the antithesis of hatred and unkindness, just as God as love Himself is the antithesis of those who harbour hatred against Him. Love is the origin of all life, and there is nothing that love has not produced. Even the antithesis of God was created out of divine love, but as a highly perfect being that allowed itself to become imperfection through its will. Since God is eternal love, everything that comes from Him must also be good, because love can never give birth to anything bad. Thus everything good emerged from God. But love also did not allow anything unfree to come into being, because unfree is something imperfect and can therefore never be of divine origin. Where God’s love is active, only the most perfect things emerge. But what is imperfect does not have love as its origin, or it has been pushed into a degree of imperfection through unkindness. The degree of love therefore determines the degree of perfection, i.e. the lack of love will always result in imperfection …. be it on earth or in the beyond, the law of love remains irrevocable everywhere, all creations are subject to it. The state of the being also depends on this law, and life or death also depends on the degree of love. Love should be inherent in everything that has emerged from eternal love, then it will rule and serve at the same time, it will be able to create and shape again by virtue of its love and find unimaginable happiness in it …. But as soon as unkindness and hatred supplant love, something imperfect emerges from the will of the creator, which is neither happiness-giving nor happiness-inducing. And it will be of an arrogant spirit, it will again harbour hatred and unkindness. But love is powerful and its effect unimaginable. It takes up the battle with unkindness, it gives incessantly and thus seeks to win over that which is unkind in itself, it seeks to transform it into love and bring it back to a state of perfection. It does not stand idly by and watch the destructive effects of unkindness, but instead uses its strength to counteract it and build …. And love is the strongest power …. it overcomes everything and ultimately also leads that which has arisen from unkindness back to love, i.e. to God ….

Amen

The adversary fights with all available means to separate man from God once and for all, but he is powerless against one thing …. against love …. Wherever this weapon is used in battle, the adversary fails and man has defeated him. This is understandable, because where there is love, there is God. Trying to fight against God will always be unsuccessful. And so evil can only be overcome through love. If bad instincts break through in a person and he endeavours to be lovingly active, he will suppress the bad in himself, it will be easy for him to master his desires, because the love in him is more powerful. It is the most effective antidote for bad habits and vices of all kinds …. it banishes bad thoughts and desires and triumphs over every influence of the adversary. And therefore his work will always come to an end when love becomes active in a person. Love must therefore be practiced first if the human being wants to break free from the shackles of the enemy. Even the will cannot do as much as love can, for love is the power which redeems the human being, which sets him free from bondage; love is the power which is stronger than the adversary, thus it must also liberate the human being from his control and therefore be the most effective means of release which God has entrusted to people so that they make use of this means in order to finally become free ….

Amen

The human being’s innermost feeling is the guiding principle for his way of life. As long as a person asks questions he neither negates nor affirms anything, and then his inner voice will speak to him to which he only needs to pay attention in order to be on the right path. Being able to affirm is often very difficult as long as faith is lacking, yet only the will makes the decision. If it is good, then the human being will unhesitatingly accept what he is told by his innermost feeling, for with his questioning he opens his heart to the influence of friends in the beyond. But a person whose will is still controlled by the adversary keeps his heart closed to these suggestions. Thus he opposes and rejects them, that is, he negates. Paying attention to the voice of his heart will only ever be done be a person who is willing to do what is right, for he asks questions and waits for an answer. An unwilling person lives without asking questions relating to spiritual knowledge, because he negates everything of a spiritual nature, i.e., a life beyond the earthly life. And someone who does not ask questions cannot receive an answer. A person’s thinking mostly revolves around earthly things, and he considers the time spent on spiritual research a waste of time. In that case, however, he is still so materialistically inclined that he lacks the sentiment for the gentle voice within himself. Therefore he will not pay attention to his innermost feelings either. Thus his inner voice will predominantly sound where the love for the world, the sense for all earthly things, for matter, begins to diminish …. Only then will a person occupy himself with deeper thoughts with the result that he will often question himself …. so that he then, in a manner of speaking, will also give himself the answer which, however, was actually mentally transmitted to him by spiritual friends …. For as soon as his will is good and does not reject God he will receive the truth mentally and he can confidently believe his inner voice …. hence his innermost sentiment …. and subsequently do what he is impelled to do. Only the will must aspire towards that which is good …. he must want to do what is right then he will invariably also be shown which path he should take ….

Amen

Spiritual contact can always and forever be established, yet rarely in such obvious ways that the working of spiritual forces is clearly recognisable. If such contact from the beyond to earth happens then it is also for a purpose and this, in turn, explains that the contents of the proclamations which are conveyed to people from above are carefully safeguarded. All reservations regarding their credibility must be put aside, for that which is intended for the whole human race and not just for an individual human being is not being arbitrarily or indiscriminately imparted to a person. The least contradiction in the contents would cause people to reject it. And since it is God’s will to offer them a pure teaching He will also prevent the information from above being interspersed with errors. The giving forces are not arbitrarily permitted to teach; they receive their instructions from God and cannot add to it of their own will, for they only carry out the divine will. They are living in truth themselves and, understandably, will not distribute untruth. Ignorant beings, however, are powerless …. They are certainly able to harass the thoughts of people which are on the same level of imperfection as they are but they lack the ability to dictate correct manuscripts …. For worldly abilities are excluded in the beyond as soon as the state of maturity is imperfect …. The process of transmitting spiritual proclamations in this way is an act of spiritual transference of strength …. However, only a being of light is able to distribute spiritual strength, because it is also a recipient and bearer of strength. But ignorant beings or beings with inadequate knowledge also lack strength, consequently, such transcripts cannot take place because they are, after all, the outcome of emanation of spiritual strength in the first place. People’s allocated vitality is not enough to produce documents of spiritual content in such a short space of time.

Thus spiritual forces are undeniably at work, and other forces apart from the knowledgeable ones are incapable of giving something they don’t possess themselves. Knowledgeable forces, however, are united with God, that is, their will is God’s will, and whatever they undertake is done on God’s instructions. Were they able to do so, ignorant forces would spread error all over the world in this way and the spiritual chaos would be incalculable. Immature beings are certainly able to mentally influence likewise immature people which results in a completely wrong way of thinking, a completely wrong attitude amongst humanity, but this has always been achieved through deliberation. However, people who receive transmissions without deliberation are experiencing remote effects of spiritual strength, that is, spiritual beings with extraordinary strength at their disposal pass these on to a receptive earthly child which only offers its will, i.e. which keeps itself open as a receiving terminal. This process is visibly recognisable, because the results exist …. they came into being without any means of help, they cannot be explained as a product of human intelligence, for intelligent thought is unable to produce such content within such a brief time span. Consequently it has to be the working of a force which originates from outside the earthly sphere. And if a force is being acknowledged then only good beings can be the givers, for they alone can distribute and forward strength because they are permeated by strength themselves, since they are recipients of strength from God, thus they also share God’s will. The fact that the process is extraordinary is very soon ignored and the content is most harshly criticised …. This, however, cannot be refuted and that itself should be enough to infer a giver who cannot be found in the realm of evil. The adversary truly uses other means than to refer humanity to that which is good and noble …. He does not preach love but hatred …. he does not try to bring enlightenment but intends to confuse people’s thinking. But here is wisdom clearly and understandably presented to people which only informed forces are able to convey, and all knowledgeable beings work on the instruction of God ….

Amen

Nothing is permanent, everything passes away that is visible to the human eye. But its inner life is imperishable, for it is the spirit of the spirit of God. It emerged from the power of God and must inevitably return to the power of God; it must join, it must unite with the original power because it once wanted to detach itself from it. However, it is not possible to detach itself from the original power insofar as the power of God cannot be divided. But the will to detach itself from it existed, and therefore the will must now again first desire the union in order to then also be considered to have returned to the original power. The spiritual, which came into being out of the power of God and the wrong will of the opponent of God, were beings, which likewise carried free will and the consciousness of an individual being in them; they had emerged out of the love radiation of God and should originally be infinitely happy as perfect beings; they should likewise carry the divine, the will to love, in them and again create and form. However, the wrong will of their creator likewise placed the wrong will in these beings, and consequently the beings that were meant to be full of light turned into beings of darkness …. Everything in them changed into the opposite, love turned into hatred, the being became arrogant and domineering, it did not seek to please but coveted …. Everything divine turned into the demonic, and so God-opposing beings were the product of the wrong will of the being that God once destined to be the bearer of light. It was therefore only possible to lead these beings back to the original power by means of a change of will …. The wrong will had to change and turn again to Him from Whom it had once turned away. Initially the being did not change its will but decided in favour of its creator. And therefore the being’s will was bound. It could no longer use its free will and had to remain in a kind of forced state until the will (the being) decided on an activity which it had once rejected …. until it served in love where it once wanted to rule in unkindness …. The forced envelopment now offers this beingness the entire creation, which only came into being for the purpose of banishing the God-rejecting beingness. These creations visible to the human eye will constantly pass away, i.e. change (within themselves), as long as they harbour the essence which has to cover the path of higher development within them. However, progressive development can only be achieved through the dissolution and passing away of the external form, for only then will this form release the spiritual. The spiritual, however, longs for its liberation from the form, for its original state was freedom and it perceives lack of freedom as torment. The desire for freedom now also determines its will to submit and to do what is demanded of it. And so the will once opposed to God slowly turns towards God, even if in a certain state of compulsion, but the last test of will is put to the being in its last embodiment as man on earth, where free will is given back to it so that it can use it for a free decision. And this free decision determines his life in eternity. He is free to return to God once and for all as well as to fall away from God again …. And God only intervenes in this final decision insofar as He gives the being every conceivable opportunity to come to realization and also imparts strength and grace to it unmeasured if the being is willing to accept them. However, the being itself has to make the final decision if it wants to reach the most luminous state again, which was destined for it from the start ….

Amen

‘Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there Am I in the midst of them ….’ What promise lies within these Words of the Lord! He announces His presence to those who meet in the name of Jesus. Thus it is His will that people should come together and remember the Lord …. It is His will that they should encourage each other to believe, that they help each other and speak about Him, that they therefore carry Him in their hearts and always mention His name. Then He will want to be with them, if only invisibly …. He wants them to be aware of His presence although they cannot see Him …. And therefore it is divine will that people should congregate in small circles in order to hear the divine Word. Yet He adds to this …. two or three …. People should consider that the Lord did not accidentally speak these Words …. they should consider that even in these Words rests a profound meaning. Communal prayers with many people cannot be God’s will, for something that should be a deeply inner experience turns into a mechanical action. For no formalities take place where only a few people are gathered, and these penetrate the divine Word ever deeper because they discuss each other’s points of view and also make a serious effort to live according to this Word. And this good will already draws God to them; this is why He gladdens the believers with His presence. But during large communal prayer meetings an exchange of thoughts is impossible. Each person is involved with his own thoughts and they don’t always relate to the spiritual kingdom. People don’t always deal with questions of eternity; often they are also very earthly-minded …. God will therefore never be amongst these for He is only present where He is most sincerely aspired to. And there will only be a few in such a community who have the earnest will to be good and therefore appeal to God for the strength to be able to live up to their will. These will be gladdened by the Lord. But there are not many of them …. Most people merely fulfil a duty and their belief is more a formality and the divine promise can never be granted to them. This is why people should abide by the divine Word, they should meet in small circles and draw strength from God’s Word, but they should never ever believe that it is pleasing to God when such gatherings are demanded as a matter of duty, since this excludes the profoundly heartfelt bond with the Lord unless his will is so exceptionally strong that the human being disregards all external impressions affecting him. Then the Lord will be with him too. Yet someone who complies with mere formalities has no living faith, thus he will not assign to these Words the significance which are actually inherent in these Words ….

Amen

The willingness to serve God will inevitably also result in God’s grace, for God wants to use this willingness for the blessing of people, and He will therefore also provide the one who wants to serve Him with all gifts which enable him to fulfil his task. If help is to be brought to people then this is only possible through another human being, for extraterrestrial forces cannot make themselves obviously noticeable because freedom of faith would then be infringed upon. But they nevertheless work, only in a way that does not compel faith, and for this they make use of a willing human being who has faith. He now already receives favour insofar as that spiritual food flows to him, which the spiritual beings constantly offer him on behalf of God. This is an unusual favour which imparts strength of faith to him and makes him striving and knowing. The human being now establishes an ever more intimate connection with God and constantly draws from His fountain of love. For he receives enlightenment wherever he desires it. He learns to recognize and thereby love God more and more, and love for God expresses itself in active neighbourly love, and thus the nature of the one who offers himself to God for service is also ennobled, for he will always endeavour to do what is pleasing to God and work on himself in order to become worthy of God’s love and grace. To want to serve God is already an activity of the will in the right way, and God never lets this person fall. The will towards God is enough that God takes care of man in love and care and constantly imparts his power and favour to him, because man lives his earth life for this purpose, and he passes the test when he longs for God, when he acknowledges him and now declares his willingness to serve him. He now only has to be strengthened in his willpower and therefore apparently has hours when he feels heedless of divine grace. But in order to be able to fulfil his task he must be so strong in faith and have an exceptionally strong will, otherwise he would not be able to overcome the many resistances that arise for someone who wants to serve God. So he must also fight beforehand, so that his faith and his will may grow stronger. He must fervently pray for divine grace, he must always establish the connection with God, for only in this way can he mature for his task, the fulfilment of which is so extremely necessary but also beneficial for humanity. God assigns the human being the task he is able to fulfil, and the greater willingness He finds in an earthly child, the greater tasks He can set him. He can use it as His tool through which He can express Himself, but in a way that seems natural to people. He will accomplish things through His instruments which will make it easy for people to believe if only they are willing. And because God needs mediators between Himself and people, He will also bestow exceptional grace on anyone who offers himself to Him as a mediator …. God blesses his will and allows him to become a bringer of blessings for humanity ….

Amen

Worlds will pass away and arise, and new beings will always animate these worlds, and time and again God will convey His word to them, for only through the word will it be made known to them that God created everything and why He created it …. But the word of God will never change, it will always be the same word because it always and forever reveals the truth …. And the divine word will always be the guiding principle according to which the beings in the stage of free will have to act in order to take the path of their perfection …. The word of God will always show them this path and the same law will apply for eternity …. the law of love …. which inevitably has to be fulfilled in order to reach God. And this process will take place for eternities, for countless beings still have to take the path of higher development and countless creations still have to arise for precisely these beings. And the strength from God will always and forever flow to the beings which animate God’s creations …. Love will always and forever be active in creating forms for the still imperfect beings …. Light will always and forever fight against darkness and love will compassionately incline towards the imperfect in order to lead it upwards. For countless beings have emerged from the power of evil and these beings are in greatest need. They have already suffered for eternities and still have to spend eternities in the form before they can enter the kingdom of light. Yet God’s love is boundless and incomprehensible, and it constantly creates new possibilities in order to ease the unredeemed beings’ fate. He takes care of every being and leads it towards the light. He never tires of caring for that which is far from God …. and as soon as the being is in the stage of free will, He brings Himself towards it in the word. And even if eternities pass by, the divine word will always be the bond between God and people …. the divine word will be the source of strength for the beings striving to ascend. And no power will succeed in destroying the divine word …. The word will continue to exist for all eternity, always in the same truth, testifying to love and preaching love, promising grace and handing out grace, making happy and redeeming and finally leading to God. For God protects His word from destruction and brings it to people again and again in all purity as soon as human will has distorted it …. The divine word is truth, and truth remains eternally unchanging …. And even if worlds pass away, God’s word remains forever ….

Amen

The human being’s resolve determines his actions and thoughts. He can certainly be opposed by another person’s will and he can be prevented from implementing his own will, but then two equal forces will be fighting each other and the stronger resolve will be victorious; but this does not deny freedom of will. So therefore the human being himself inhibits his fellow human being, and this is in accordance with God’s will as soon as the human will prevents his fellow human being from implementing heartless actions. In that case a strong will is a blessing for a fellow human being. Vice versa, however, it is very wrong to misuse a strong will by preventing a fellow human being from carrying out kind-hearted activities and spiritual striving and curtailing his own resolve. Such a battle against each other is based on heartlessness and can never be in accordance with God’s will. The motive impelling a person’s will into action is therefore always the decisive factor. The will remains free even if it is prevented from being implemented, this is why the will is judged and not always the deed …. if a person’s will had no intention to accomplish a deed but was forced by his fellow human being into doing so. No human being on Earth should elevate himself for the sake of dominating his fellow human being, for this contradicts the right relationship between people in the eyes of God. Even those with great earthly power at their disposal should treat their subordinates like brothers; they should use their will by using their ruling power with love, by only ever striving towards that which is good and thus also trying to persuade their fellow human beings to make correct use of their will, that is, to only do deeds which are pleasing to God. But as soon as a ruling power forces people into carrying out deeds which contradict the commandment of love, it also binds their will, i.e. it makes it impossible for them to use their free will and thus it must also bear the responsibility for all forcibly undertaken deeds. Hence, free will, in an earthly respect, is not curtailed by God, instead, only people disable each other’s freedom of will. Yet a violation of will is only possible in an earthly way. In a spiritual respect no power on earth is able to influence freedom of will. No power on earth can force the human will into a specific attitude towards God, no power on earth can prevent its inclination towards God but neither can any power incline it towards Him if it is still in opposition to Him. The human being must use his own will to form his opinion of God and what he decides to do is entirely up to him. The will’s apparent lack of freedom in an earthly respect can occasionally have a favourable effect on his opinion about God, for where he considers his freedom to be inhibited a person often looks for a spiritual balance …. He activates his free will where it cannot be prevented, and thus an external coercion can still be of benefit to him, since the actual purpose of life merely consists of the decision of will for or against God which, however, will never exclude the fact that it is wrong to use the strength of will between people to inhibit another person’s will. Were the commandments of love observed, every person would want that which would benefit his fellow human being and all intentions of dominating another person would be eliminated. Unkindness, however, impels people into taking ever more severe measures against each other …. The strong person will always use his will and override the will of the weak which, in a manner of speaking, is the influence of the power that once misused its free will for the apostasy from God ….

Amen

Every thought emerges from the depths of the heart and only then makes its way into the organs intended for it, by which it is perceived and expressed as a thought. For before the thought becomes conscious to man, it must be born in the heart, i.e. in the innermost part of man. What moves him deeply, he feels in his heart, and this feeling gives rise to the thought, although it cannot be felt with the heart, but it is born out of the life of feeling and is only now transmitted to the brain, which receives the thought and holds it, so to speak, until it comes to the person’s consciousness. Man believes that thought originates in the brain, that it arises there through organic activity …. because he knows nothing of the nature of thought. And therefore the explanation that thought originates in the heart will not be credible to him. But it will become more comprehensible to him if he regards the heart as the centre of his feeling …. if he also endeavours to regard the thought as a feeling. The simplest solution, however, is that spiritual currents pour like lightning into a receptacle and are held by the human will …. Thus the thought is spiritual power that is diverted to the brain via the heart, held there, or where the will is too weak, immediately dropped again without having penetrated the human being’s consciousness. And it always depends on the will whether a thought is seized by the organs intended for this purpose, for as soon as the human being is willing they first come into function and receive the thought emerging from the heart and process it, that is, it is added to the already existing thoughts, thus it is, as it were, incorporated into already existing thought material and can now be switched off or switched on at will, depending on the human being’s will. For man’s organs of thought are so constructed that every feeling of the heart is reflected like an image …. (13.10.1941) And as soon as the human being’s will pays attention to the image it will be retained, i.e., it will be imprinted into the finest retinas especially intended for this purpose and thus be visible to the human being at all times, that is, he will be able to visualize it if he wants to …. This is the so-called memory. When impressions or images are brought back to a person’s consciousness a long time later, then the organs of thought are active …. Among the innumerable retinas covered with images, they find out what the human will wants to imagine, and thus impressions long past, which first moved the heart of man before they were formed into thoughts, can be brought back to memory at any time, because once they have been received by the will of man, they remain as impressions until innumerable impressions make the images unclear …. that is, the memory becomes so weak that they no longer come clearly to consciousness. Spiritual impressions will now displace earthly impressions and images …. If the heart is receptive to currents of power from the spiritual realm, the human will is also ready to convey and retain the thoughts that are now born in the brain. For it feels the stream of power favourably, and it strives to see the resulting images quite often and clearly. As a result, these images will become particularly sharply engraved, so that they soon fill the person’s entire mind. power and thought are thus one concept, except that it differs whether only the life force flowing to the human being or the power conveyed from the spiritual realm is the origin of the thought …. But the thought is always born in the heart, because all power first flows to the heart and is transmitted from there. However, the human will can prevent the transmission to the brain or the thought can be pushed back before it can express itself visually …. And therefore the human being is also responsible for his thoughts, for his will determines which thoughts are clearly memorized and his will determines which thoughts are repeatedly brought to consciousness ….

Amen

Everything divine and sublime is pulled down by people, and they take no offence at mocking or laughing at things that are serious and sacred to their fellow human beings. And therefore it will be easy for the earthly power to take up arms against everything spiritual. It will not encounter difficulties if it wants to carry out drastic changes in the spiritual field. On the contrary, it will find approval in all its orders. And this proves the disinherited state of humanity, it also proves the necessity of intervention on the part of the eternal deity. The world and its followers will not be prevented from carrying out what it is planning because this will eliminate other abuses. But God will bring help through His intervention to those who are faithful to God and to whom the harsh measures apply; for they will find themselves in a situation where they will be pressed to the utmost and in danger of becoming weak. For people know no mercy because they themselves are completely far from God. The slightest contradiction is punished with the harshest penalties and the world finds this right and just. For it only sees the earthly and therefore approves of it when people are deprived of the opportunity to be spiritually active on the grounds that their time could be used more profitably if they were looking for a field of activity. And thus the believers will be forced to find themselves in silence and their plea will rise up to the father that He wants to take care of their need. And God will hear them …. He will strengthen His own with comfort and strength, and as small as the circle of true believers will be, they will nevertheless achieve the greatest spiritual success. For man will then more than ever take refuge in God and not want to give Him up. For only then will faith come alive. What was previously still form will either be completely surrendered or defended with tenacity because it will now be recognized as the most precious thing man possesses on earth. But people are always given knowledge of God and His working, and what the human being previously only believed has now become an irrefutable certainty to him, and since the human being now knows, he is not frightened by earthly measures, he continues on his path undeterred and remains faithful to God. And God needs these few to work for Him in the coming time ….

Amen

Caring for the salvation of the soul is not being taken seriously and yet it should be the most important thing, for this is the human being’s only purpose in life. Nevertheless, the human being cannot be forced to do so, it can only ever be presented to him again that he will have to accept the consequences of his activity on earth after his earthly life, that he, if he neglects his soul, will have to endure a far more meagre and agonising existence than the most impoverished and excruciatingly painful earthly life can be. The human being is only living for the present, and he believes that this present will be over with his physical death. And therefore he won’t make any provisions for the future. And yet he is only on earth for the sake of this future ….

The belief in a continuation of life after death cannot be forced onto him, consequently he cannot be offered any obvious evidence from the beyond so as not to restrict his freedom of faith. But if the human being would just have the good will to know the truth, the spiritual world would make itself perceptible to him, then he would heed the smallest sign, and the belief in a beyond would come alive in him. But the human being is generally not at all interested in knowing anything about an ‘afterwards’. He lives on earth and is satisfied with this certainty, always providing that he won’t know or feel anything anymore after his physical death. And he doesn’t consider that only the external form has become lifeless, because the spirit …. the true life …. has escaped from it. He fails to consider that it is unable to die, that it is immortal, that it only leaves its external cover behind on earth in order to enter its true home. And he fails to consider that he is shaping the spiritual kingdom for himself on earth, or …. that it will correspond to his earthly life …. that it can be a dark, unfriendly and depressing or a radiantly bright and joyful environment for the human being’s soul. He doesn’t consider that he will remember his unused earthly life with severe unbearable regret …. since he will never be able to say that the knowledge of it wasn’t communicated to him.

Every person will receive instructions in this regard, yet not everyone will accept these instructions because he is unwilling, and the will cannot be compelled. Then they will only tend to their body, they will only pay attention to its well-being, whereas the soul remains ignored. Humanity’s adversity is immense, and consequently the physical adversity has to be extensive too, so that the human being will look within himself and become aware of the irrelevance of all earthly things and also of his body, so that he then will send his questions into infinity after all and as a result be guided into thinking differently ….

Amen

Faith moves mountains …. and if you speak Jesus’ name in faith, you will receive everything you ask for. “If you ask the father in My name, He will give it to you ….” However, you must have a deep, unshakeable faith in His love and omnipotence, for only your faith makes prayer effective. Prayer without faith is only a form; only faith revitalizes prayer, and the answering of prayer also depends on faith. And if you now sincerely pray that the father in heaven will send you His spirit so that you will hear His word, the spirit of God will descend upon you. Yet it depends on the strength of your faith how you hear His divine voice. He will speak to you audibly when you no longer harbour any doubt. Your faith must be so strong that you do not doubt for a second that God will fulfil your request, then nothing will be impossible, for what God wants will happen, and if you believe, there is nothing that God cannot accomplish. Jesus possessed this strong faith and He wanted to transfer it to all people, and so He gave them the promise that every request would be granted if they asked the father in His name. And only faith in this promise is required of people. They do not know what an assurance Jesus Christ has given them …. They do not realize how easy it is for them to obtain everything from God if they only believe firmly. Jesus Christ offered Himself as an intercessor with the father, i.e., the man Jesus was so strong in faith that there was no unfulfilled request for Him by virtue of this faith. And since He knew that people were still weak in faith, they should make use of His strength of faith and ask the father in His name …. The spirit from God can only work where firm faith is a prerequisite …. Weak faith makes the effect weak, and it is always the person himself who determines the clarity with which the transmissions from the spiritual kingdom reach him through the strength of his faith. Undoubted faith will let the words resound clearly and audibly in the heart, but as long as it is still subject to fluctuations the transmission is also more difficult on the part of the giving beings. And therefore you have to struggle for strong faith and pray that God may strengthen it, for you can accomplish everything if you let go of all doubts ….

Amen

To enter the kingdom of light requires a degree of maturity that allows the soul to endure the fullness of light, i.e. the divine radiation of love floods the soul and makes it unimaginably happy …. An immature soul, however, would be consumed by the fire of love because it has not yet become the same power. Only when the soul has likewise moulded itself into love can it bear the stream of light of divine love. And now this power drives it to perpetual activity …. However, the way in which the activity of a soul that has become a being of light takes place cannot be explained to people on earth. It is an incessant giving and receiving of strength; it is a process that can only be described as a constant redirection and transmission of the power of love from God. In an indescribably harmonious environment these beings of light merge for each other, uniting in love where increased release of strength is required, caring for the powerless beings in tireless love, leading them to the light and only ever guiding beings from darkness upwards. There is no more blissful process than the transformation of dark beings into bearers of light …. It is a process which lasts for inconceivable times but which does not let the being of light tire, for the goal is unimaginably blissful and the redeemed beings join up again with their spiritual guides and givers of light when they have likewise become bearers of light. And thus the first giving being becomes ever more light and powerful and can now unite with higher beings again through its degree of light, and this is tantamount to an ever more intimate union with God …. There are no limits to ascension in eternity. The being will be able to reach ever greater fullness of light without ever reaching the final goal. The measure of the emanation of love from God will never be limited, the being will always be able to receive more and strive for this ‘more’. There is no stopping, there is no being satiated, which eliminates the desire for more. The giving being will receive and give away its wealth of love …. it will constantly desire and receive again …. However, the emission of light never reduces the degree of light of the giving being, for as the being continuously receives, its fullness of light becomes ever stronger, and thus the being comes ever closer to God. It is united with God through receiving His emanation of love and yet constantly strives towards God …. desire and fulfilment is the perpetual state of happiness of beings who have entered the kingdom of light …. who are themselves blissful and want to lead to bliss ….

Amen

Greatest upheavals are still ahead of the world, and this in every respect; both earthly and spiritually a completely new time will dawn, a time of unrest and struggle, a time of destruction and reconstruction. Human lives will be destroyed, the successes of earthly endeavour will crumble into nothing, creations made by human hands will be destroyed and catastrophic natural events will change the surface of the earth …. And spiritually great changes will likewise be expected, for the world will also declare war on the existing spiritual direction, it will also intervene destructively in every way. And God will let people have their way as long as their work of destruction only applies to the outer shell …. God Himself will only intervene when the core is in danger …., i.e., when the divine teaching of love is to be eradicated, when humanity is completely misguided in its thinking and recognizes the measures of the world, then there is a danger of spiritual decline and then help is needed. But the time will come when events will come thick and fast, when spiritual and earthly demonic activity will be recognizable, when nothing will be left as it was and innovations will be introduced which will mean a complete overthrow of what exists. And then man should use his power of judgement, he should think justly and act justly …. he should recognize what is good and abhor what is clearly the work of satan …. He should ask God for help, for strength and grace and righteous thinking; he should stand up for what he believes to be right and not, by tolerating injustice, make himself complicit in actions which he can prevent, which are inflicted on people who are unable to defend themselves. The spiritual battle will take form of those people giving up their resistance who are not particularly strong in faith and request their strength from God. It will particularly shake those people from whom traditional traditions are taken away and who attach too much value to them …. Yet God allows what can still have a beneficial effect, but He will intervene Himself if people are in danger of losing their faith in a righteous God. God foresees what is to come and His activity is accordingly …. He also prepares the battle, He also assembles His army, but His weapons are different to those used by the world. The world wants to destroy, God builds the same, and the world will only ever be able to destroy that which has been created in a worldly way. Yet spiritual possessions are inviolable even for those who possess great earthly power, for God Himself gives spiritual possessions and divine gifts cannot be destroyed by earthly power. But what falls prey to people’s will to destroy is not from God, and therefore such destructions should not be valued too highly …. even if they appear to be in favour of spiritual striving. But where the world’s battle is directed against God Himself, God Himself will also face the adversary and his defeat will be terrible …. For whatever may come upon humanity, those people will emerge victorious who remain faithful to God and do not fear the world. For there is a power that is stronger than earthly power; people should be subject to it and fear it alone ….

Amen

The events in the life of a human being do not happen by coincidence, instead everything is divine providence and has been predetermined since eternity. Every person’s life has been outlined in detail, and if it appears as if human will is playing a part, then only because God has known the human will since eternity and therefore He also knows how the person is using his freedom of will. And in accordance with this will God had shaped human life even before it began. Thus the individual cannot change his life in a completely different way than that which God has determined, just as, on the other hand, no coincidences play any part in the planning of earthly life. Therefore, irrespective of whether changes in life are favourable or unfavourable, everything should be accepted with gratitude and submission, because they only intend to achieve the soul’s higher development, they are only more opportunities for its maturing.

It is completely misguided to assume that a person’s will or action might have been able to prevent this or that. Irrespective of how the human being’s will decides, the results always correspond to God’s eternal plan, although this does not absolve the human being from his responsibility if he uses his will wrongly. God has already taken this person’s misguided will into account, i.e. the consequences of this turn into opportunities for ascent again. This sequence, however, does not relate to the person’s misguided will, i.e. a person’s misguided will can certainly accomplish a deed, the effect of this deed, however, is not decided by him but by God …. And thus God co-ordinates every event, He lets the occurrences follow each other in such a way that they benefit the person’s soul, and a human being cannot do anything to prevent the plan that God devised once and for all. There is no such thing as chance, no matter how miraculous events appear to be, the course of every single person’s life is always God’s will …. Because God will always allow for the person’s free will, and as He has known this since eternity He has shaped his life in accordance with this free will ….

Amen

God does not withhold the power of life from any human being, even if it is not always utilized according to His will, yet since God has given the human being free will for the time on earth He must also grant him the strength to use this will, and this in every direction. He will then not prevent him from carrying out God-opposing plans by withdrawing His strength but He will also let the flow of life flow to him for this purpose, otherwise free will would be completely pointless. Only that the human being who receives this stream of life and does not utilize it for spiritual striving is wasting something precious, that he could achieve wonderful successes with this stream of strength which would last for eternity, and instead he uses it for a completely insignificant physical life which remains worthless without spiritual striving, no matter how brightly it shines on the outside. The human being who uses the life force to seek connection to spiritual strength will understandably be able to achieve extraordinary things, for the life force already enables the human being to achieve extraordinary feats in earthly relationships, how much more so if the human being now also utilizes the strength of spiritual friends in the beyond in addition to this life force. This power is also available to all people, but can only be acquired through conscious request, while the life force is also available to people who have little or no connection with the spiritual world. And every gift can be used according to free will. But the life force is taken from him when the predetermined earthly life has been covered by the human being. Then he can stand empty and ignorant at the gate to eternity, for he has disregarded a grace …. he did not request the strength from God in order to be able to use his will in the right way, for spiritual strength was also at his disposal, but he was content with the life force and did not yet use it in the right way either. And this is tantamount to regression, for he is still on the same level as before the embodiment on earth. He accepted a gift from God without using it, because he was supposed to work with this gift, but he only used it for the comfort of the body. God does not take the power from him for the duration of his life, but how he should use it is not prescribed to him; one day, however, he will have to answer for not having respected the divine gift ….

Amen

The omnipotence of divine love seizes everything that has emerged from it and never lets it fall completely. And thus everything full of light, which is permeated by God’s love, will always and constantly turn towards that which still resists receiving the divine radiation of love; for without its will the power of love cannot become effective. God is always and constantly willing to give, but that which has emerged from Him is not always willing to receive. And therefore the will to receive must first be stimulated in the being, and this is the activity of the beings of light, which in tireless love and patience undergo the work of bringing divine love close to the beings of darkness. The beings of darkness do not know about the light and the blissful state of those who dwell in the kingdom of light. And since they know nothing about it, they do not strive for the heights. If the knowledge of it is conveyed to them they reject it because they cannot yet believe, for their present state is so bleak that a kingdom of light is completely inconceivable to them. And yet the beings of light repeatedly try to encourage them to create a change in their state. They present them with the possibilities of moving to a brighter environment and try to influence the being to strive for it. Divine love wants to radiate through everything and constantly struggles for the souls of darkness in order to break their resistance, and therefore these beings often have to be pushed through agonizing situations into a state which lets the will become active in them to flee from it if they do not listen to the ideas of the beings of light. The slightest expression of will attracts the beings of light, which admittedly cannot come into contact with the dark beings in their fullness of light and therefore approach them in an envelopment. As soon as the souls are willing, they also feel the proximity of the beings of light beneficially, and then their influence is also stronger and their endeavours successful. The beings of light now spur the souls on to activity of love. They instruct them in a way beneficial to them and give them advice how they can escape the lightless stay, then leave them again to their loneliness so that what they have heard can work in them, and according to willingness the being will now impart what it has heard to other beings and the work in love begins, which is redeeming and also makes the being receptive for the love currents, which now continue to flow to it. For once the will for light has become active in them then the will to help will also become stronger in them …. They do not keep their knowledge to themselves alone because it moves them deeply …. And thus the radiation of love becomes effective in them, they receive love from the beings of light and pass it on to souls who, like them, are in need. And as soon as a divine ray of love has found a willingness to receive it, it ignites and grows into a flame. Love revitalizes, i.e. it drives to activity …. The being will now be active, it will no longer remain powerless and inactive but will search where it finds souls in need and be diligently active to show them the path to the light. The ray of light of divine love penetrates into the deepest depths; only those who resist it remain untouched, although divine (love) concern is also constantly directed towards them. For everything is born of love, and everything that has distanced itself from it should return to love ….

Amen

People carelessly pass by the most precious thing that is offered to them. They do not feel the breath of God that touches them, they feel nothing of His power, and so they also pay no attention to what His love offers them. They feel neither hunger nor thirst for spiritual nourishment, and therefore they do not desire the food of heaven. And divine love repeatedly offers them His word because they are in dire need of it. For anyone who does not know the word of God, who does not hear it, knows nothing of God’s love, of His will and of His promises …. and he goes along completely ignorant. That is why God repeatedly brings His word close to people, because He wants them to learn to recognize Him. And time and again His love strives for people, for they are His children who are in great need if they do not recognize and love Him …. He wants to convey His love to them and can only do so if they are active in love themselves …. He wants to teach them love, but they do not accept any teachings …. He wants to awaken their spirit, He wants to point them to eternity …. He wants to introduce them to their sinfulness and point them to the work of redemption, to His death on the cross. He wants to tell them the meaning and purpose of life on earth and therefore people need His word, which they should hear, accept and obey …. Yet humanity rejects it. It is offered the most precious thing but does not recognize it as a divine gift. People carelessly let it slip past their ears, smiling when it is mentioned. And thus it cannot take effect on them, they cannot test the power which the pure word of God emanates to those people who long and hunger for it. And the devotion to it becomes ever more urgent if the lack of strength among humanity is not to increase constantly. And that is why God now expresses Himself so obviously that people who receive knowledge of it should take notice. And the signs and wonders will increase, for God wants to make Himself known to people because they no longer recognize Him …. He approaches them with love and wants to awaken love, He wants to make people aware and therefore lets a little light flare up which shines so brightly that it spreads a bright glow …. And every person is free to make use of the light …. Yet anyone who avoids it, who avoids its ray of light, must continue to walk his path in darkness, for he rejects the divine love which wants to help him in his adversity …. For God certainly offers His love to everyone, yet this love remains ineffective if the human being resists and disregards God’s love. His spiritual hardship cannot be remedied and he continues to languish in dark spiritual night ….

Amen

The most enormous and seemingly unsolvable problem is the incarnation of Christ. People who have no faith, i.e. who do not strive spiritually, will not deal with this problem. It does not affect them because they do not recognize Christ and His work of redemption. The fact that God Himself descended to humanity seems incomprehensible and impossible to them because they have not yet penetrated the essence of the eternal deity due to their lack of faith. The problem cannot even be approximately explained to these people, for in order to grasp the spiritual, spiritual research must be carried out, and one spiritual explanation can only make the other understandable …. The human being as such is a creature which only animates the earth, it is spiritual in an external form, it is a being which has embodied itself in a shell which was shaped by God’s will into precisely this human form. God’s will therefore allowed the external form to come into being again through processes that are based on the divine law of nature. In accordance with God’s will, people act in order to create a new external form, and God animates this external form with the essence, with the soul, and only then is the human being a living creature. The soul of the human being harbours a spark of the divine spirit of love within itself again, but this cannot express itself in every human being if the soul of this person does not bring it to awaken. For the spirit rests inactive in the human being for as long as the soul allows it to slumber …. It can only awaken when the soul is lovingly active. But once the spark of the spirit has awakened in the human being, it pushes incessantly towards the spirit of which it is …. it demands to return to the spiritual realm …. to God, for it is power, it is spirit from the spirit of God …. But as long as he still has to dwell in the human envelope he tries to connect with the spiritual outside himself and to increase himself by incessantly absorbing spiritual substances and thereby increasing the influx of the divine emanation of love. However, this is only possible if the soul has decided to be active in love, for love gives the spirit freedom and it now utilizes this to unite with spiritual strength. But spiritual power is God; therefore the outer form, the human body, can become the abode of divine power to an unimaginable extent when its soul has formed itself to love and thereby supports the work of the spirit. He can receive God within himself, thus be completely permeated by the spirit of God, and this is the highest that man can achieve on earth by virtue of his will. The man Jesus possessed such a powerful will ….

His strength of will and His immense love united, and so His soul released the spirit in Himself. The man Jesus only did what love commanded Him to do and He resisted all unkindness. Consequently, the divine spark of the spirit within Him became active and He united with the spirit outside Himself …. The divine stream of love flowed inexorably towards Him, the power from God …. His spirit …. filled Him and since His life was an uninterrupted labour of love, He united Himself ever more intimately with God, Who is present in every work of love. The divine work of the spirit was His wisdom and His power, which were expressed in His teaching and the miracles He worked. The spirit of God, who was in Him in all fullness, guided all His steps, His deeds and His words …. Jesus was the man who had become love …. But love is God …. So the man Jesus had become perfect, just as His father in heaven is perfect. The outer form had become the receptacle of divine love itself; the spark of the spirit had blazed up into a flame that could no longer be extinguished. And now the activity of the man Jesus could only be everlasting love, for a human being who is in intimate union (with God) with divine love itself constantly receives love and gives love from …. Jesus was human and harboured the eternal divinity in His human body …. Or else God embodied Himself in a human being …. He descended to earth and chose an external form for Himself which willingly received the spirit of love within itself, i.e. which caused the divine spiritual spark to awaken through love and thus granted God, as love Itself, admittance. And God had known since eternity about the strong will and the immense love of this human being, and this motivated Him to choose him as the saviour for humanity, for the act of salvation had to be accomplished by a human being whose love took all suffering upon itself, a human being who had shaped himself into perfection through his great love, who was God and human being in one …. The suffering and agony of the death on the cross was endured by the man Jesus for humanity …. But God Himself embodied Himself in this man …. (eternal) divine love filled Him and took up residence in Him in order to work through Him for the whole of humanity ….

Amen

The awareness of having the right knowledge also gives a person the right to pass on what he recognizes as truth to his fellow human beings. He must therefore never anxiously ask whether and to what extent this truth is desired. He must try to convey it to his fellow human being, and only stubborn rejection releases him from the duty of passing on what makes him happy. It is a time of struggle, and only those who are not afraid of the struggle will be victorious where it is necessary to fight for God and the truth. Since people have little desire for the truth, the truth cannot come to them directly, but through mediators it is possible to awaken the desire for the truth in them by offering it to them for acceptance. If a person rejects it, then it is his free will, which cannot be forced, but equally his will can also decide to accept it. Thus the attempt must be made without hesitation to guide ignorant people into knowledge. And this is the task of the one who wants to serve God …. As soon as he submits his will to God, he no longer does anything at his own discretion but is guided and directed according to God’s will. And so he does not need to be timid about his task, for since he serves, he is relieved of all responsibility …. “Take and eat, this is My flesh …. Take and drink, this is My blood …. Do this in remembrance of Me ….”, thus says the lord, and His word shall be obeyed for all eternity. His will is that people always remember Him when they eat physical food. He blessed the bread and wine beforehand, and so people should do the same …. They should call down the blessing of God on everything they eat, so that the food may give them physical and spiritual strength …. and He wants them to do the same, because then their own will becomes active, because they then desire the blessing of God when they call it down of their own accord …. So whoever eats the bread and drinks the wine, remembering the lord that He may bless the food, receives spiritual strength at the same time as the bodily food, and now he eats the lord’s flesh and drinks His blood …. For if spiritual strength flows into his soul, it will crave spiritual food …. And spiritual food is the word of God …. So whoever eats bodily food in the right way, i.e. in fervent remembrance of the lord, will hunger for the food of heaven, which is strength and spiritual nourishment for his soul. For if man’s thoughts are with God, he cannot but desire His divine word, for the intimate connection with God is speech and rejoinder …. it is question and answer …. And the starving child gratefully accepts the food that the father offers him in His love …. His flesh and His blood …. spiritual food that strengthens man and gives him strength for his upward endeavours. The words “Do this in remembrance of Me” therefore apply to the blessing of that which serves man as bodily nourishment. Everything a person eats can only serve the body if it is savoured without remembering the giver …. In addition to the body, however, it can also give strength to the soul, but then every food must be blessed by God, and this blessing must be asked for through heartfelt remembrance …. For he who thinks of God will also desire Him, and his thoughts will be a silent prayer, a longing for His love and the bestowal of His grace …. A heartfelt thought of God includes all these requests, for a heartfelt thought testifies to love and therefore the desire for union, and God only wants this love of man …. He wants them to think of Him always and constantly. That is why He demands an act in His memory …. He demands that the human being allows all bodily food to become food for the soul at the same time by asking the lord for His blessing. If he eats bodily food without remembering the lord, he eats bread and wine …. But if he asks for His blessing in fervent remembrance of Him, he eats His flesh and drinks His blood, for spiritual nourishment now flows to him …. These words have also been misunderstood and a correct explanation is not accepted. Human wisdom and human will allowed earthly actions to emerge from these words, and they did not recognize the true meaning. Consequently, the desire for the truth is also weak because spiritual nourishment can only be offered where the truth is desired. People are starving, and only because they think too little of the lord and because they only give all nourishment to the body, but the soul in man goes out empty …. therefore the soul also does not feel spiritual hunger in order to request spiritual food. When you eat and drink, you should always remember that the lord blessed every meal before He gave it to the disciples and said the words: “Do this in remembrance of Me ….”

Amen

The unutilized time on earth can never be made up for in the beyond, although an ascent upwards is also possible there. The process of change on earth takes place in a short time, whereas in the beyond an indescribably long time is required in order to place the soul into the degree of light which results in creating and shaping. On earth the will towards God and heartfelt prayer is enough that power is imparted to the soul, because the power is at its disposal unmeasured, while in the hereafter the being is powerless in the stage of imperfection, so that it can no longer do anything out of its own will. For what helps it to become free from oppressive envelopment requires strength. It does not possess this strength and therefore cannot change its state at will, but must first acquire the strength through its will. But the will is weak precisely because the being is imperfect. In earthly life, however, the will towards God is sufficient for its strength to be increased as soon as the human being believes in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation. For Jesus Christ acquired this increased willpower for people through His death on the cross. Everything man does is an expression of strength, so man can constantly use and utilize strength because it constantly flows to him. He can therefore carry out the works of love, which liberate him from his bondage, at any time, as soon as he only wants to, even if he is still imperfect, which the imperfect on the other side cannot do. For even if it wants to help and give love …. it can only do so when it receives love itself and can therefore pass it on. And this love, which therefore becomes strength, must first be given to it by willing beings …. either by people through prayer …. which, however, is an act of the human being’s free will and can certainly be desired but not forced by the beings in the beyond …. or by beings of light which are able to give and which can only distribute it when the being has the desire to help and to be lovingly active. Thus the will to be of service has to be present first before the transmission of strength can take place, and in its wretched situation the being first thinks of itself rather than of the suffering souls. On earth the human being utilizes the strength for some kind of activity, and thereby he is always and constantly serving without consciously subordinating himself to serve. His soul can therefore also form itself unconsciously when it inwardly drives him to do good and he does not resist this drive. And thereby the strength in him is increased and his earthly life can be unimaginably successful because every good deed gives him renewed strength and lets him consciously strive towards God. In earthly life, therefore, the human being can do whatever he wants because he is not hindered by a lack of strength. Whereas in the beyond the will does not yet simultaneously mean receiving strength, but only the will to help gives him strength. The strength which is now imparted to him benefits, as it were, the beings to whom he wants to give help, and through the will to help he now also acquires the love of the beings of light, and only then will he also be considered by them. The ascent upwards certainly starts with the moment of loving activity of an imperfect soul, but it needs an inconceivably long time before it reaches the same goal, which the human being can easily achieve on earth since he can immediately put his will into action as he does not lack the strength to do so. Will and strength are absolutely necessary for the transformation of a still dark being into a being of light.

If the being is now without strength then its state remains unchanged, i.e. the same as it was when it departed from earth. The will turned upwards earns it increased strength as long as it remains on earth, whereas in the beyond the granting of strength is linked to a condition …. with the passing on of this power to souls in need of help. The being must therefore desire the power for other souls …. A wanting to work in love must be the cause for requesting the power, then this power will also be supplied to it. The willingness to work in love is therefore a prerequisite for the supply of strength. But in earth life man can dispose of the power even if he does not use it to be active in love. And this is why the human being can achieve undreamt-of spiritual progress on earth as soon as he utilizes the strength at his disposal in accordance with divine will. He can completely shape himself into a being of light and, upon his entry into the beyond, attain a degree of light which will bring him unimaginable heavenly delights, and a being which leaves earthly life in spiritual darkness will need an infinitely long time to shape itself into a bearer of light, although it will also receive help in the beyond from the beings of light which are constantly active in order to guide the dark towards the light ….

Amen

It remains incomprehensible to people that spiritual knowledge is the result of the right way of life before God …. that therefore it is not the striving for knowledge through systematic schooling which makes a person knowledgeable but that the latter can be completely eliminated and yet profound knowledge can be gained if the human being, instead of striving for scholastic wisdom, endeavours to live according to God’s will …. that therefore the right wisdom is not acquired mentally but that the heart and its feelings are decisive if the human being wants to become knowledgeable. Man can certainly acquire human wisdom by way of the intellect, but this is only applicable to earthly life, thus also only useful for earthly life, but can never increase spiritual knowledge in the slightest. Spiritual knowledge is completely independent of earthly endeavour, of earthly eagerness to learn and the successes or results gained in this way. And this is why a person whose thoughts and actions are not based on his love remains spiritually ignorant, even though he fills his life exclusively with intellectual research, for he always remains outside the spiritual kingdom and his knowledge of it is inadequate; for him this kingdom is an unenlightened realm, a realm which is unrecognizable to him in its darkness and which he therefore does not try to explore as it does not exist. Consequently, he does not acquire spiritual knowledge, he does not desire it and does nothing to make himself receptive to it. He therefore does not consciously work on himself, he neither seeks to ennoble his nature nor to consciously walk according to God’s will, and thus his heart will also not be receptive to spiritual wisdom if it is imparted to him by his fellow human being. A person who feels and acts in a good and noble way is different in his whole thinking than a person who spends his life in unkindness towards his fellow human beings and in self-love. The former will pay attention to everything that brings him closer to the divine creator …. he will recognize the activity of a power in, around and above himself and come into contact with this power, and thus he will be made mentally aware of God’s will, i.e. he will recognize the divine order and know that only life in the divine order will bring him closer to the eternal deity. And if he has the will to come closer to God, God will also come to meet him, and that in the form of knowledge. Thus, living according to God’s will will always determine man’s knowledge. Even if the human being does not consciously strive for divine wisdom but he will not be able to think other than correctly if it concerns spiritual things, things which lie outside of the earthly, which do not concern the body but its soul and spirit. And he will affirm these thoughts without reluctance, he will feel with a certain certainty that his thoughts correspond to the truth and announce them to his fellow human beings, for his spirit will tell him that he is thinking correctly. And where people who are active in love and strive for what is good come together the exchange of thoughts will result in complete agreement, and from this alone it is evident that they all live in truth, that they have mentally received the same information and that they can therefore rightly call themselves knowledgeable. And the more people endeavour to shape themselves, i.e. their soul, the deeper they penetrate spiritual knowledge. Soon there is nothing left for them that is unclear or incomprehensible. For a well-formed soul is constantly active in love …. activity of love attracts God …. and God, as the eternal truth, distributes it to the human being as proof of His love for him. And thus the human being will truly be well-informed and have great knowledge at his disposal when he concludes his earthly life …. But the one who acquires earthly wisdom through study or research, who absorbs humanly gained wisdom, will not always find himself in the truth. It can certainly also come to him if his attitude towards God is in accordance with His will, but then it can never be attributed to intellectual pondering or research, only his way of life will give him the knowledge of truth …. And the human being takes this knowledge with him into eternity, whereas earthly knowledge remains behind or rather fades into nothingness and a person who is held in high esteem on earth can enter the beyond poor in spiritual possessions as soon as he attaches too much value to his earthly knowledge and does not fulfil the preconditions which earn him spiritual knowledge on earth ….

Amen

The path to the eternal home is long for the one who does not walk it with God, for he goes so many wrong ways before he reaches the path that leads upwards, and the time of his walk on earth has been in vain if the goal was not the eternal home. To walk with God means to have a guide who directs every step and to whom a person can completely entrust himself. And then he can go his way without worrying, he will not go astray, even if the path is sometimes arduous and seems difficult to pass. God protects him so that he does not stumble; He takes him by the hand and leads him over rocks and stones, through thorns and undergrowth, again and again onto the right path that leads safely to the goal. And this path is short, as long as man walks with his eyes turned upwards, as long as he walks with God ….

Let every person’s preface be:

(Lord, be with me and guide me …. do not let me take a single step alone …. lord, let me always recognize you, let me always be your protégé …. stay close to me in every need and take care of me …. help me to pray fervently to you, my faithful God …. grant me grace and the strength of faith and a pure mind at all times and turn my gaze to you, to my eternal home …. )

Amen

All beingness pushes towards the light and flees the darkness as soon as it has once felt the favour of the light. And since the final purpose of all creation is to redeem the spiritual substance from darkness, the benefit of light must first be shown to it so that it will now strive towards the light of its own accord. It has to be permeated by light, and this is the task of the light-giving celestial bodies which God let come into being for this purpose and which always and forever send their light into the universe for the revitalization of all that which holds beingness within itself. These givers of light now fulfil their task …. they penetrate every work of creation with their rays of light and there is nothing where the rays do not find their way. Even the seemingly impenetrable solid form feels this irradiation beneficially and thereby awakens to life, i.e. it becomes active within itself, even if it is not visible to the human eye, for the rays of light cause life to stir everywhere and nothing remains unchanged through the activity of that which awakens to life. What is active develops a force, and where a force expresses itself, something new arises …. So the rays of light contribute to the multiplication of what is …. And this is the development of all beingness, that it constantly changes its outer shell, that is, it always gives life to new forms, and this is brought about by the radiation of light. The celestial bodies, which send light into the universe, thus contribute to the redemption of the beingness, for they loosen the outer form at every stage, they bring about the dissolution of the solid form, even if it lasts for inconceivable times, they revitalize the plant kingdom, which awakens to life in a particularly obvious way through the light radiation, i.e. is in a state of constant change. They are also felt to be unusually beneficial by the beings that undergo earthly change in animal life …. And finally, they are indispensable for the being in the last stage, for the human being, who is unable to live without light …. Light is always channelled to the beingness that is still languishing in darkness, and it always instinctively pushes towards the light, for the beingness only feels comfortable in the light. In the human stage, however, in addition to the light necessary for life, the beingness can also feel the benefit of spiritual light and likewise strive for it …. Yet the latter is up to him, for this is decided by his free will as to whether he desires the influx of light from the spiritual kingdom ….

(25.10.1941) The being in the stage of free will will likewise strive for the light which continues to flow to it for the preservation of its physical life. For it also needs the light for earthly activity. As soon as the being’s surroundings are light and bright, it is also willing to be active. The being constantly fights against the darkness by trying to break through it through its own production of light as soon as the influx of light is lawfully interrupted. And this is also within the range of earthly ability. The light that the human being needs earthly can also be produced earthly where it is lacking. And he will utilize this ability as far as possible, for the human being desires light as long as he carries out an activity which he does not need to hide from the world. Yet he does not need the light from the spiritual kingdom for his earthly activity, and therefore not every person endeavours to enter the circle of emanation of this light but this only depends on the strength of the desire to come closer to God. Spiritual light will flow to that person who opens himself to receive it. Spiritual light certainly flows to every person but only penetrates him if he wants to let it penetrate. For spiritual light is knowledge of the truth, which is certainly accessible to every human being but is not desired by every human being. People do not need this light to carry out earthly activities, consequently only those people pay attention to it who recognize God as the eternal light and want to come close to this light. These strive for the truth, they are hungry for knowledge and open their hearts to every ray of light which is imparted to them from the spiritual kingdom in the form of knowledge. For to them, ignorance is a state like the darkest night, which they seek to break through and into which they want to bring light. They want to banish the darkness, they want the light to penetrate everywhere where a shadow of ignorance can still be recognized. And this desire for the light also makes the darkness flee, for where there is desire, the light flows in unstoppably. There the gates are open so that the light can penetrate unhindered. And light will always triumph over darkness, but in the stage of free will the human being himself has to decide whether light or darkness accompanies his earthly life. His will alone decides, his striving for the light lets him dwell in the light …. The desire for darkness, however, denies the light access to the human heart, and this will is decisive for eternity …. The abundance of light depends on this will, which one day can make the being in eternity infinitely happy or also lack it, for there will always be bliss where there is light and the lack of light means an agonizing state for the being ….

Amen