It is Satan’s work of deception when something is portrayed to people as a rescue mission but which, in reality, is a work of utmost heartlessness …. when people believe a most bitter injustice to be right …. when noble motives are feigned which are based on low and selfish thoughts. Satan will use words of love to appeal to people, and he will be very successful since, due to their heartlessness, people have become unable to recognise the foul play of Satan, who wants to lure them into ruin. He will always use means which appear to be good and noble. He will never fight under his true banner but always conceal his true character behind the mask of good. And therefore it is particularly important to stay alert so that people, who always want to do what is right, will not become victims of this pretence. The human being should never judge by outward appearances. Word and action have to correspond, and where love is truly shown the work of God’s adversary need not be feared. Satan, however, will never do a good deed since it is his goal to fight everything good and noble, consequently he tries to incite people into harming each other.

But God will never be a passive observer where His adversary is deluding people’s thinking in order to keep the souls from the pure truth. And thus, where God’s adversary is actively spreading error under the cover of love and humanitarianism, God is at the same time providing information about the true nature of the one who is now presiding over humanity. God will still leave him in full authority for a while, which he will use extensively, but the time for his destructive action on earth is limited because the true face of Satan shall be revealed and his actions exposed. Anyone whose will is turned towards God will recognise Satan’s work of deception and turn away from him in disgust; however, many will allow themselves to be deceived by him and they will find it difficult to see through the intrigues of evil powers.

But as a warning you all should know that every promise of earthly advantages suggests the work of evil forces …. that good forces will never be involved in an endeavour which is to serve the improvement of earthly life, for this would result in the aspiration for matter which, however, should be overcome in earthly life …. But this is what God’s adversary aims to achieve first and foremost …. to enslave people with matter, to motivate their desire for it in order to once again bring them under his control. And thus the activity of Satan is revealed by his attempt to increase what the human being should gladly surrender ….

Amen

Every spiritual thought establishes the connection with the world beyond, every spiritual thought is an expression of strength by spiritual friends whose activity consists of imparting strength to beings which are without strength. For knowledge is strength, and the beings in the beyond, who are in knowledge, also want to transfer the knowledge to people in the form of thoughts, thus they want to give them answers to questions which they mentally address to knowing forces, even if they do not consciously request the answer. People ask questions unconsciously as soon as they think about something that is beyond their knowledge. If he then lingers on a question for a longer period of time, the knowing forces come into action …. They whisper the answer to the person mentally, i.e. thoughts jump to the person, and since he is not yet informed about the nature of the thought, he sees himself as the originator of this thought and the result as his own intellectual product. Nevertheless, he builds on this thought again …. so he remains in contact with the giving beings beyond …. he is instructed by them, while he believes that he has intellectually solved the problem that prompted him to ask the question. What the thought really is cannot be explained to people so comprehensibly, and that is why precisely these proclamations often meet with resistance. Their own thinking is placed under the origin of the work, and therefore the credibility of that which is beyond doubt is also doubted. And only when man realizes the essence of the thought does he attach deeper value to these mediations. And yet, the human being will be able to feel the imparting of strength himself, for when he receives thoughts which correspond to the truth his soul feels this beneficially and it impels his will to impart the result of his thinking to his fellow human beings, and thus the human being now also acts as a giver of strength by passing on the knowledge which, in essence, is strength from God. power stimulates activity, consequently no-one who receives power can be inactive …. Every thought imparted to a person from the spiritual kingdom will cause him to speak about it, and thus the human being unconsciously places himself at the service of the mature spiritual by contributing to the spreading of what knowledgeable forces have imparted to him. Consequently, the earthly world is constantly in contact with the spiritual world, for the latter seizes every thought and tries to answer it as soon as the questioner dwells on his question for a longer period of time ….

Amen

The fate of everything which is visible to you is to be transient, and yet it cannot be called senseless and futile, for the transience of every single work of creation is simultaneously the prerequisite for the emergence of new life. This should be understood spiritually as well as physically, for as soon as life escapes from one form, something new comes into being out of the external form in combination with other dissolving external forms, and the escaped spiritual substances united with equally mature spiritual substances animate new external forms once again, and thus new creations keep coming into existence as soon as old creations appear to dissolve. Coming into being and passing away is the eternal cycle which aims to achieve constantly higher development. Coming into being and passing away, however, only affects that which is visible to you …. the spiritual substance concealed within is everlasting; it continues to exist for all eternity …. Consequently, everything visible, the material form, will in fact release the spiritual substance after a specific time, the spiritual substance itself, however, enters into a new form, i.e. into earthly matter, until it no longer requires it …. Only then will true life begin which will never end but last forever. The cycle of spiritual substances through the form will take eternities, since this time is so infinitely long for human understanding that one can indeed speak of eternities. And yet it is but a fleeting moment compared to the never-ending eternity in the state of freedom. Everything visible strives towards the state of freedom, whereas all free spirits look after that which is visible again, that is, after the banished spirits therein and provide them with new possibilities for liberation. Thus the free spirits let visible creations emerge for the bound spirits which the bound spirits have to overcome in order to release themselves. Bringing such creations into being is the activity of the spirits which, in a state of perfection and in harmony with God’s will, use the strength of God for creating and giving life to many different kinds of works of creation.

Therefore, coming into being and passing away depends on the will of the free spirits again which, however, due to love for the unfree spirits and in profound wisdom, only create what is most beneficial for the latter in accordance with divine will. This is why the emergence and disappearance of visible works of creation will always demonstrate some regularity, because it is implemented with profound wisdom and nothing in creation arises at random or without meaning and purpose. Such a well-planned work of creation must, therefore, also offer the highest opportunity of development for the immature spiritual substance; the passing away of visible things has to be just as necessary and successful as their emergence; passing away need not signify an end to what exists but only a transformation, because that which emerged from the divine creative power cannot cease to exist anymore even if it looks like that to the human eye. Consequently, only a constant transformation of that which shelters spiritual substance takes place, just as the spiritual substance keep changing by growing, since the spiritual substance having escaped the form unites with other substances of the same kind and therefore continues to need ever new external forms in which it can achieve the degree of maturity which will result in the unification with equally-matured spirits again. The apparent breaking down of visible creations therefore signifies spiritual progress, i.e. the merger of spiritual potencies, and thus the passing away of all visible things, is just as necessary as the emergence of new creations. And even if infinite times pass by, the love of the free spirits will nevertheless offer the still bound spirits every opportunity of development and subsequently even these spirits will be free one day and help the as yet unredeemed spirits again. And for this period visible Creation will exist too, which constantly changes because only through continuous change is it possible for the spiritual substances to develop further ….. Coming into being and passing away …. Without it there will be no salvation …. For all bound spirits will only be free when they awaken to eternal life, when they have travelled the path on earth through the creations, through constantly changing their external form, through continually coming into being and passing away ….

Amen

The inner urge for truth is the sign that the human being feels that he belongs to God, for as soon as he longs for the truth his spirit is active in him and the human being recognizes his origin, he feels himself to be a spirit of God’s spirit, he feels himself to be His created being and longs to return to his creator and father of eternity. He who longs for the truth has already detached himself from the hostile power whose endeavours are directed against the truth. Truth is of divine origin, and he who desires to stand in truth seeks to establish a connection with God, Who is Truth Himself. He will detest everything that does not correspond to the truth and will only be anxious not to fall prey to error; he will also avoid appearances and everything that could conceal the truth. For the desire for God in him will not allow him to make concessions to the prince of lies. Once someone desires God, God’s love will not let him fall, and therefore it will not tolerate that God’s adversary takes possession of people’s will and thoughts and thus spreads untruth in the world through them. And so anyone who strives to come closer to God will inevitably stand in the truth and also recognize the truth as such, for this is the gift God offers to anyone who desires Him. No wrong thought can arise in a person if he gives himself to God intimately because he has a desire for God. His thinking will be directed towards the right realization, he can never err, for it is God Himself Who conveys the truth to him, Who in a manner of speaking offers Himself to the earthly child in the form of knowledge which desires Him and the truth. And as soon as the human being stands in the truth he also begins to become like God. A person who denies God will never strive for truth, he will not harbour a desire for knowledge and light, nor will he ever occupy himself with thoughts which are related to God …. He is not thirsty for knowledge and therefore no enlightenment can be given to him. Truth is like a drink of fresh water, clear and refreshing, for truth is a gift from God, and what is from God must be delicious and also have a beneficial and refreshing effect on people. But the truth also unites the human being with God, for being instructed in the truth also means coming ever closer to God, because God and the truth are one. And thus the human being need never fear that he will walk in error as long as his endeavours are directed towards God, for God knows the heart’s desire and will not grant error access where truth is striven for and where the human being’s will is turned towards God ….

Amen

Every spiritual instruction brings the earthly child an unimaginable blessing as soon as it is preceded by earnest prayer for God’s grace and thus makes His gift of grace possible. God wants to bestow His grace upon the human being, and it is an incomprehensible grace when He wants to make him knowledgeable and impart His teachings to him. But man is not always ready to receive His grace; he is not always willing to be taught or to accept what is offered to him into his heart. However, divine grace can only become effective in man when he desires it, i.e. requests it through fervent prayer. The teachings which God sends to people are so extraordinarily informative and enlighten the human spirit …. Everything he was previously unable to understand becomes comprehensible to him, his striving to ascend is made considerably easier because he recognizes the meaning and purpose of earthly life …. He realizes his outcome and also his goal …. and he can now complete his earthly life according to his knowledge, i.e. profitably for eternity. This is an undeserved grace, a gift which is based on God’s love but which will never be granted to a person who does not respect such a gift of grace, who does not desire it, who therefore does not consciously request it from God through prayer. And therefore so many people come away empty-handed, they cannot be given divine wisdom, they cannot receive His instructions, for they do nothing in order to partake of divine grace; they do not implore Him for such, even though God wants to offer it to them time and again, thus informing them of His greater than great love and mercy through the mouth of a human being. The reference to this should move people to trustingly turn to Him in prayer for the transmission of His grace. They are to come to the father like children and present their weakness and spiritual hardship to Him, and they are to request strength and vigour from Him so that He can now hand out His grace in abundance, so that He can instruct them and impart purest knowledge to them. Then richest blessings will be their reward, they will mature spiritually and increase their knowledge, they will be able to collect and distribute spiritual possessions as long as they walk on earth and one day they will be able to enter eternity with rich treasures. And they will resist every temptation, for if knowledge is imparted to them then strength will also flow to them, for knowledge is light and strength …. And thus they will also be able to offer resistance to every temptation. The more they make use of His divine gift of grace the more fervently they will long for God and the more eagerly they will strive towards Him. What they desire, they will not let lie fallow. They will also want to bless their fellow human beings with what has become dear and valuable to them; they will pass on the teachings they have received in love, and if this work is accompanied by heartfelt prayer, it will be blessed ….

Amen

It is true wisdom to absorb God’s word, for nothing else can bring him the success that comes from divine wisdom. Life on earth only lasts a short time and this time is mostly used for the fulfilment of earthly tasks and the increase of earthly good. And the human being believes himself to be wise if he can achieve great success in this. And he completely neglects to take care of his spiritual well-being, and at the end of his life he is faced with a shortcoming which lets him recognize his failed earthly life. Wise is he who thinks of his soul first, who gathers spiritual wealth and disregards earthly advantages …. Wise is he who allows the divine word to have an effect on him, i.e. he who fulfils what is demanded of him by the divine word, for he constantly increases his spiritual wealth; he considers his soul and thus fulfils the most important earthly task …. He helps his soul to mature and acquires eternal life for it, i.e. a joyful state in eternity which can be called incomparably marvellous. Spiritual riches are not valued very highly on earth, they are not tangible to the human being and are therefore not striven for, and at the gate of eternity the human being then stands poor and merely opposite those who have not valued earthly life too highly and were poor in earthly goods but are now approaching an eternity full of light. The divine word was their constant companion, the divine word replaced a thousandfold what they lacked in earthly possessions; the divine word taught them love and, if they obeyed it, also brought them love, and thus the divine word brought them closer to God Himself and consequently they only aspired to the kingdom of God. The soul longed for its true home, for it only recognized earthly life as a transitional stage which was intended to bring it spiritual maturity. And thus he is infinitely wiser who allows God to speak to him through the word, who listens to Him and obeys His word, who despises earthly possessions and only strives for spiritual possessions, who strives for spiritual knowledge and does not attach great value to worldly knowledge, for he shapes his soul on earth and thus fulfils the actual purpose of earthly life …. he feeds his soul and gives it spiritual nourishment through the divine word ….

Amen

Worldly events often lead people to assume that they are too weak to offer resistance where God demands it of them. He is timid in his faith because he assumes that such events have already exhausted man’s strength and that he will now fail where he is supposed to prove himself. It will certainly cost an inner struggle, man must not allow himself to be defeated without a fight, he must put up a certain amount of resistance, as this will increase his strength. And he must also realize that he is needed, that God has given him a task which he cannot easily evade. Yet to the same extent as he is needed he will also receive strength from God, and therefore he need not despair even if the task seems impossible for his weak strength. For God Himself appears when the human being faithfully trusts in His help; he even has to doubt his own strength at times, for only when he recognizes his own weakness will the human being pray as is right before God. But such prayer is absolutely necessary if a person wants to receive full strength. A prayer born out of man’s weakness will deepen his humility, and thus man will now also be richly blessed with divine grace. But as long as a person still has the opportunity to make use of God’s grace, he must also allow his faith in increased strength to grow strong, for it is divine grace that the lord stands by all those who are in danger of faltering. He needs strong fighters for His kingdom, and if a person really has the good will to be accepted into the army of His fighters then God will also give them the strength they need for their mission. For this cannot be accomplished without divine help, yet the human being should also struggle so that he will grow stronger and not feel defeated too quickly. God’s grace, however, is absolutely necessary, and it will flow to the person the sooner the more humble his heart is. God’s infinite love will not let anyone fall, and once it has taken hold of him, his life’s destiny will play out as God, in His wisdom and love, deems right and good for the person’s spiritual development. And even if it seems as if the strength to resist is diminishing in man …. He intervenes when the time is right, for He does not jeopardise His work and does not allow it to be jeopardised by people. He only demands the human being’s devotion so that His work will not be resisted …. He will strengthen the weak will of man but never forcefully change the will opposed to Him …. Therefore, as soon as a person’s heart beats towards God, he need not fear that he will weaken. God will pour out His spirit on the one who declares himself willing to serve Him; and where the spirit from God works, the endeavour must succeed. The human being will fulfil the task with the support of divine grace, which will now flow to him in abundance ….

Amen

The last Judgment will suddenly and unexpectedly come upon people. And it will slay every creature on earth, for the earth will change in itself. Everything that can be called alive will be destroyed by a blistering firestorm which will change the appearance of Earth beyond recognition to people who presently inhabit it. Yet it shall be proclaimed to them since a few will be amongst them who will live on the old as well as on the new earth, and they shall testify to the miracles God performed on them. For they will experience the destruction of the old earth in the flesh and yet not be affected by it, for the Lord will approach them, and He will lift them away from the earth. These few are strong in faith and devoted to God in love, they live according to God’s will and are placed under tremendous pressure by those people who lack all faith. And thus they are in utmost danger and will be rescued by the Lord Who will come and fetch them Himself. And a separation will happen; good will be separated from evil, the faithful from the unbelievers …. God will seize Satan’s power over the spiritual substance by banishing it into the solid form again …. And thus the earth will be shaped anew ….

Nothing will remain in its old form because the time has come to an end which God gave to the spiritual beings for liberation from the form …. It will be a new era in the period of salvation which will be realised with surprise by the people who will be returned to this newly shaped earth in order to become the root of a new generation. They will know about the old earth and will now live on the newly shaped earth …. They will recognise the greatness of God, His wisdom and omnipotence and His infinite love, for their eyes will be presented with a scene which they will absorb with amazement and reverence. It is a realm of peace, delightful and graceful to behold with a most manifold array of exceedingly charming creations, yet completely divergent from those of the old earth. And people will cheer and rejoice elatedly for having been granted the great blessing of inhabiting the new earth. And the horrors of experiencing the last Judgment will fade from their minds, even though it had not affected them. For God will let the event that brings destruction to everything living on earth happen before their eyes, yet they will emerge from it unscathed because God will move them in the flesh to a place of peace until He has accomplished the work of reshaping and then He will return them to Earth again. Then love, peace and harmony will unite the people who were allowed to experience this process of transformation; they will praise God, give thanks to Him and worship Him with profound reverence, they will live according to His will and God will bless them and let a new generation come forth from them which cannot be oppressed by the adversary for a long time, because all power has been taken away from him. And this will be a time of peace and of union with God, for God will stay in their midst because love dwells within these people ….

Amen

The people of the present do not recognize where they are drifting. They are alive and yet dead in spirit. They find no connection with God because they do not seek Him. The earthly world means everything to them, but their train of thought does not go beyond that. And therefore every day is spent uselessly in a spiritual sense …. higher development is called into question, indeed, a spiritual regression is often recorded which has tremendously serious consequences. And even if people are made aware of their actual task on earth, they do not listen to such ideas because once again the world and its demands seem to be the only important thing to them. And thus their earthly course is a misguided one, for these people the earth is not what it should be …. And God’s love and wisdom does not allow people to misuse their earthly life, to give it a different purpose than God has determined, for His instructions are wise and unsurpassable. But if the human being no longer recognizes God’s wisdom he also disregards His instructions and this can only lead to the downfall of that which is supposed to develop upwards. But an upward development can only take place when the human being makes contact with the spiritual and ignores the world. But humanity is disenchanted, it hurries and chases after earthly goals, it is incapable of a spiritual connection because it is unwilling, for striving for the spiritual seems worthless to it since it does not result in earthly success …. And this is spiritual decline …. This is a state which God does not stand idly by but which He tries to remedy by shaking people out of their spiritual lethargy through events which strongly shake people’s thinking. God has all power, and He will truly also prove His power to people so that they will learn to recognize Him and seriously try to think about the meaning and purpose of earthly life. And thus He will first take away from people what has occupied their thoughts up to now …. earthly goods and earthly pleasures. They should first recognize the worthlessness of this in its transience and, after times of disappointment, reflect on the only thing of value …. about the relationship between man and God …. He seeks to awaken in them the desire for imperishable good by abandoning to decay everything that has dominated their thinking up to now. And this is the purpose of the coming events which God inevitably has to let come upon people so that they will still utilize the rest of their lives for the salvation of their souls, which so far had to do without all care ….

Amen

He Who is love in Himself gives you the following proclamation: To be active in My kingdom is a task which requires courage and determination, for working for Me will result in the world’s hostility. Whoever now has the will to fulfil this task in order to help humanity will truly not need to fear that he will ever lack strength. And I will strengthen him and let him find spiritual superiority if he is exposed to such hostilities. And then he will act courageously and powerfully, he will not timidly consider the consequences of his resistance but he will know that he fulfils My will, and this certainty will make him calm and confident of victory. Every thought that touches Me unites him with Me, and where I Am present there is truly no defeat to be feared. I only want that My presence is remembered with faith, that man takes refuge in Me when danger threatens him. For every thought calls Me and I Am immediately ready to help My child because it remembers Me. And I will truly not leave anyone in need and distress who wants to serve Me and needs My strength and support …. And if the call now goes out to you to make mention of My working then no counter-speech shall hold you back, then confess freely and openly that you are active for Me and do not be afraid …. but believe that I am close to you and put every word into your mouth and that you therefore cannot speak falsely but express what I want to say to people through you. I have to make use of a willing person who completely submits to My will; I cannot speak to them directly because people have become too unbelieving and do not make contact with Me. I also have to consider the inhabitants of earth in an earthly way, that is, I cannot approach them spiritually and thus cannot offer them anything spiritual either …. But if a person is willing to listen to Me then I can impart My strength to him so that he will then carry out what I instruct him to do …. that he will speak what I want to speak to people …. that he will act as I would act if I Myself were in their midst. Whoever is therefore willing to work for Me, I will give him My strength in abundance and he will freely and without hesitation proclaim that he is in My pay. For I need courageous fighters who are so fearless that the world will take notice …. I need fighters who unite and are not frightened by the actions of worldly rulers. I will send an army of My angels to meet them if the battle threatens to become tough, and one of My fighters will never be defencelessly at the mercy of the adversary. After all, I Myself am with him and My strength is truly invincible and My love for those who stand up for Me and fight for My name is immense. And whatever may come, I know everything and everything has to happen as I deem it to be good and beneficial for the souls …. I still try to save many souls and for this I make use of those who offer their services to Me of their own free will, for I can only use them as My instruments. And I reward their devotion with My love …. I let My strength overflow into them and take away all anxiety …. I give them a courageous heart …. I place in this heart the confidence that I am always near, and fearlessly they will now speak and confess Me before all the world ….

Amen

Let it be My concern as to how I convey the truth to people, for you truly do not have the ability to judge My reign and activity …. You cannot appreciate the compelling need to express Myself in a way that is extraordinary. Nor do you know the depth of My love which prompts Me to help you in the spiritual adversity in which you humans languish. Everywhere I open the source of wisdom and I reveal Myself to people. I approach everyone who has Me as the goal of his endeavours. I am always ready to introduce him to the truth, but I make one thing a condition …. deepest humility and recognition of one’s own weakness …. Thus the admission of his state of being far from God is, as it were, the prerequisite that the human being seeks to remedy his distance from God and that, since he feels himself too weak, he sincerely asks for grace …. Whoever therefore deeply and humbly begs Me for grace, I will come to meet him and give him My grace. I give him what he lacks, I enlighten his spirit so that he may recognize Me and thus learn to love Me …. And as soon as he loves Me, I shower him with My grace, with My love, and I make him knowledgeable in the most diverse ways. But who of you humans would want to dictate to Me in what way I should make you happy? …. Those who believe themselves to be in the truth must not contradict each other, for I share the same truth everywhere …. There must also be no spiritual ambiguity, for where I offer the truth there will also be understanding for it and there will be light in people …. If I now express Myself, a light will be kindled which has luminosity …. thus the truth will be offered which is comprehensible to everyone and therefore the light shines far and wide …. But I never offer the truth in a form which is only comprehensible to a few, provided that the recipient strives for the truth. The will for truth also guarantees fullest understanding if the truth is drawn from the source which I Myself open to you humans. If you accept My gift then you draw from the source of wisdom, from the inexhaustible fountain which My love offers you, who humbly ask for My gift of grace ….

Amen

Depending on your worthiness and willingness to serve I will consider you and you may all hear My word if you take it seriously and shape yourselves accordingly. The willingness to be redemptively active on earth earns you My love, and since I want to redeem all My children on earth I bless everyone who helps Me on earth, where I can only work within the framework of what is humanly possible in order not to influence people’s free will. I can only express Myself through the human mouth …. Although it is I Who speaks through such a person who consciously serves Me …. yet only recognized by believers who are in love and therefore recognize My activity of love. And this labour of love of Mine consists of instructing people and imparting the pure truth to them so that they will spread it and thus break through the spiritual darkness. And spiritual enlightenment will then also result in the soul’s transformation. But where the connection with Me through loving activity is missing I cannot express Myself there. They can neither receive the truth directly nor can it be imparted to them by My servants, for they do not recognize the truth as such. And consequently, even clear evidence would not lead to realization, for the thinking of people who live without love takes a completely wrong path. Spiritual beings, who are likewise without love, impose themselves on such people and try to misguide their thinking. Thus I cannot instruct them or I would have to force them, i.e. put them into a state of compulsion, into a state where they accept and spread the truth without their own will. But I do not force a will which does not voluntarily surrender to Me, and even where I make use of a person for the unconscious reproduction of what I impart to him, his conscious devotion is a prerequisite beforehand. But man on earth cannot prove a greater service of love to Me than when he contributes towards the redemption of souls which still err …. if he spreads light amongst humanity, i.e. if he conveys the pure truth to them. And thus I will also honour this person with the pure truth, I will give him light as I deem necessary, even though he is completely without earthly knowledge …. I will instruct him in My teaching, I will train him as My pupil into a teacher who will thereby be able to utilize the received knowledge and impart it to his fellow human beings in My place; …. for as soon as he now speaks in the will to serve Me he will speak according to My will, for I Myself speak through him and thus convey the truth to earth without restricting people’s freedom of will, since every person is free to accept or reject what they are offered …. They are free to recognize it as a gift from God or to see only human work in it, for I do not force people who do not recognize Me of their own accord ….

Amen

The environment in which the soul lives through its embodiment on earth is irrelevant to its higher development. It is also completely irrelevant which earthly abilities the human being possesses and on which level he stands in earthly knowledge. A person can have the highest earthly merits, he can be well versed in all earthly fields and abilities, he can also have a high degree of knowledge, and yet he can be significantly lower spiritually than a person who does not have all these merits in earthly life and is spiritually very highly developed; indeed, spiritual maturity is often far more recognizable where all earthly merits are eliminated, for these people are more inward and more connected to God because they are not affected in their soul’s work by any external influences. It sometimes seems as if a well-formed soul can only dwell in a well-formed body, as if truth can only be where wisdom is taught or received, and as if the degree of knowledge depends on a person’s more or less highly developed intellectual thinking, and yet precisely these apparent advantages can be an obstacle which calls the human being’s maturing into question …. A person whose thinking is otherwise sharp and logical can make the greatest errors in spiritual matters, but error will never lead to spiritual progress. Only a life of love brings such progress, and therefore a person does not need to have any worldly recognized advantages and can still stand on a very high spiritual level because love is inherent in him, but only love truly elevates a person. The will to serve God can be just as strongly developed in a person who is earthly quite small and lowly, for precisely this will attracts God as eternal love, but this first helps the person or his soul to spiritual maturity, and thus a well-formed soul can develop far more easily in a person who does not divide his attention between spiritual and earthly experiences. He has it a little easier, so to speak, because the temptations from outside do not assail him in such a way, whereas the man of the world who has extraordinary abilities but does not use them for the salvation of his soul can lag far behind that soul ….

Amen

Suffering should make you humans realize that you are still walking wrong paths on earth, that you are not yet purified in your thinking or that you are still far removed from God. As soon as you do not work on yourselves, as soon as you believe that you no longer need an education, you stand still in your spiritual development, and then God has to send you suffering so that you become aware of your shortcomings and join Him closely in prayer. Then only a small amount of suffering will be necessary for you to seek union with God and He can take it away from you again as soon as your thinking is right …. Most of the time, however, humanity is far removed from God, and then it cannot find its way back to Him even through suffering. Then people rebel against the power they are powerless in the face of, and the greater the suffering they have to bear. For if God takes away their suffering, they fall back into their old mistakes and arrogance, they recognize neither God nor their imperfection, and so they do not strive towards God by trying to shape themselves into perfection. There are only very few people who can be spared suffering because they consciously work on themselves, and there are only a few to whom God can draw near to help them bear the suffering, so that such suffering cannot pass them by for the sake of humanity. And therefore the earth will be afflicted in such a way that one sorrowful event will replace the other, and a great affliction will come upon people whose life on earth does not correspond to divine will. For the harsh adversity will change the human being as it appears unbearable to him, and that is the purpose of suffering. God is always ready with His help if people call upon Him, and they can make even the greatest suffering ineffective in a short time through heartfelt prayer. Yet how rarely do people find their way to Him, how rarely does a deep, childlike prayer rise up to the father in heaven so that He can turn to the supplicant and fulfil his request. People become hard and closed-minded when they could achieve everything by trustingly asking …. And that is why they increase the extent of their suffering, they drive themselves deeper and deeper into suffering and misery, so to speak, and they do not recognize God’s love in this, which wants to help them ….

Amen

Activity of love inevitably results in realisation, and thus actions of love are the only way to truth. This is what the earthly children need to know first and foremost. They will never ever attain the truth in any other way. If they receive knowledge which appears acceptable to them without actively living a life of love, then it will be a work of deception by Satan, or, if they are offered the truth, they will not recognise it as such and thus reject it. The pure truth will indeed be offered to many yet dismissed precisely because people are lacking love …. But people like that cling to falsehood with tenacity and it is impossible to explain to them that they are mistaken, that they are being led astray by wrong teachings. Love is the key to truth, without it the access remains blocked ….

Truth, however, is everything that comes from God …. Truth cannot be intellectually ascertained but is received from God through the heart. The human being can certainly receive the truth mentally, yet then he will always experience the desire for God …. This desire, however, is love and love takes effect in deeds of selfless neighbourly love …. Only this testifies to love of God. And then the person will think correctly, that is, the thoughts he receives will correspond to the truth. They arise from the heart even though the person believes himself to have reached an intellectual conclusion. But an unloving person’s thoughts will never correspond to truth, for then truth-fighting forces will exercise a strong influence on such people’s thinking, since through their lack of love they open their hearts to such forces, thus they gain access and use their power by confusing people’s thinking.

God is truth, God is love …. one without the other is unthinkable. Consequently, there can only be truth where there is love …. Countless errors have come into the world due to people’s heartlessness, and the truth has been displaced. It can only spread amongst humanity again if it changes itself to love, and therefore love has to be cultivated first before a person can attain realisation. All studies are futile if a person lacks love, for whatever knowledge he gains thereby …. will either not correspond to the truth or it is dead knowledge, in as much as it will not further the soul’s higher development as long as it does not affect the heart, as long as it does not result in an activity of love. And this is why all spiritual knowledge has to be assessed by the guideline of love …. it has to flow from a helpful heart and teach helpful activity in turn, then it will be truth, and God Himself will be the source of such knowledge ….

Amen

Every spiritual question remains unresolved as long as the human being does not affirmatively attune himself to the eternal deity, for it is spiritual forces which have already found union with God that are responsible for answering such questions. Understandably, they will not convey the flow of strength from God to a person who does not recognize the giver of strength. But spiritual knowledge is strength from God, strength from God can therefore only be received by a person who recognizes God, otherwise the whole world would be in knowledge, since the beings imparting light and strength would not deny the flow of strength to anyone on earth. But God sets conditions for the reception of truth, and the first condition is that the human being consciously decides in favour of God, that he believes in God as creator and Controller of all things, Who is supremely wise, kind and almighty. Faith in a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence also allows the human being to find contact with the creator of eternity and thus also establish contact with granted spiritual beings which are allowed to dwell in the vicinity of God in a state of perfection in order to constantly receive and pass on His divine strength. These beings constantly endeavour to help earthly people whose faith is still shallow. They try to make people think so that they send their thoughts upwards questioningly. Only then can they give an answer, i.e. mentally instruct people. But people who do not believe in God cannot realize how much more difficult it is for them to raise spiritual questions. They do not recognize anything spiritual and therefore do not direct their thoughts in that direction which they reject in their innermost being. But again, no answer can be given to people if they do not ask, for it is only through questions that the beings are able to mentally convey answers to them. Only through the question does the human being open his heart and only then can the flow of strength flow to him, for only then has he established the connection which God makes a condition. Man must recognize God in order to be able to recognize Him …. he must bow to Him in deepest humility in order to be able to receive His grace. But if God conveys the truth to people, if He wants to make them knowledgeable, then it is an immense grace, and this grace has to be consciously requested, thus the human being first has to acknowledge, by mentally asking questions, that there is a creator from Whom he assumes that He can answer his question by virtue of His wisdom and also wants to answer it by virtue of His love …. And he must humbly ask this now recognized creator for clarification, for knowledge and truth, then he will not open his heart in vain …. He can now be instructed by the knowing powers in the beyond and they will not let him ask in vain …. They joyfully share out what they themselves receive from God, they give because they are in love and giving makes them happy. And what they give is purest truth, since they are only the executors of the divine will, but God offers nothing other than purest truth to the one who expresses the desire for truth through his mental questioning ….

Amen

Numerous beings descend to earth from the kingdom of light and inform people of God’s will. Yet only a few people recognize their activity, only a few know about the great spiritual hardship, about God’s love and care for His living creations. Yet God will bring these few together and they will receive messages from the kingdom of light in various forms, for God will consider them according to their task which they have been given for earthly life. Yet all will be offered the same truth and therefore it will also have to be scrutinised, for what is offered from the kingdom of light will always and forever be the same …. Truth from God …. And so these beings of light constantly transmit divine wisdom to earth, where willing people are ready to receive and also agree to pass on what they receive. The world full of light is constantly active to banish the state of darkness, and this can only happen in such a way that divine truth is conveyed to earth, which now gives people the right light and favourably influences their earthly life. For when man has become knowledgeable he also lives according to this knowledge, thus according to divine will. He knows everything and thus his state is no longer without light …. But where a light shines, the dark night is broken through and there can never again be darkness there. And thus the truth, which is offered to people from the kingdom of light, will also kindle a light wherever it is granted access …. But by this the truth will also be recognized as such, that it will illuminate the human being’s spirit, that the scales will fall from his eyes and he will understand everything that was previously unclear to him, and he will now be urged to pass on to his fellow human beings what makes him profoundly happy because it has imparted brightness of spirit to him. To be honoured with the truth is an immeasurable grace, yet it can only come to the person who opens his heart to the teachings of the beings of light …. but at the same time shows so much love to his fellow human beings that he wants them to share in his spiritual wealth. And thus humanity is informed of God’s will because, as it were, God’s messengers proclaim His will to people. For only by fulfilling the divine will is the light transformed into a brightly shining flame and its bright light illuminates the darkest night. But God wants to displace the darkness and put the light in its place …. And so the work of the beings of the kingdom of light is a constant battle against darkness …. And everywhere the light is kindled so that the spiritual night is broken through and the day full of light dawns, which displaces the night ….

Amen

Read the Bible and you will see that the spirit of truth has been pushed aside in a most obvious way. God’s Word has been withheld from you so that those of you who are looking for truth shall not recognise it. The records are carefully maintained but to what extent these records comply with Christ’s teaching is not scrutinised. And how often has the divine Word been changed, how often has God’s Word been wrongly interpreted and how rarely was the wrong interpretation objected to. This deception of humanity cannot be emphasized often enough; after all, it has been the cause of all divisions and religious conflicts. When Jesus lived on earth He spoke about the kingdom of God, about a kingdom which is not of this world …. He did not speak about a worldly power, nor did He speak about an ecclesiastical power, about an organisation, He did not speak about men who were meant to rule His Own on behalf of God either …. He merely said to His disciples ‘Go and teach all nations ….’ He gave them the task to instruct people in His teaching of love and He promised His assistance if they remained in His spirit …. For as soon as they taught love they had to live within love themselves, thus the Lord Himself, Who is love, was with them. But where love rules all dominating control is unnecessary …. where love rules one person serves the other and where love rules commandments are superfluous unless the commandment of love given by God Himself is preached to people. Anything that teaches love complies with divine will, but the addition of further commandments is not in accordance with God’s will because the basis of any command is a dominant force …. But people should live together like brothers, they should merely submit to God’s will if they want to acquire the kingdom of God. By no means should they rebel against the worldly power which God has indeed appointed for the sake of keeping order where it is violated, however, His kingdom is not of this world ….

He alone is Lord and Master in His kingdom, and He certainly needs no one on earth to represent Him and exercise their power over other people. But which Word of the Lord during His life on earth specifies such power?

(26.01.1942) He has lived a life of love, He gave love and taught love …. True love, however, excludes the need to rule …. The stronger should not rule the weaker even where the fulfilment of divine commandments had been taught. Because an enforced action is not to be very highly valued, regardless of how noble and good it is. Not until a person uses his free will are these actions done before God. And thus God only demands the human being’s free will. But at no time are people on earth entitled to add their own commandments to the divine commandments. And even less may people be obliged to obey these commandments by threat of temporal or eternal punishment. For then a commandment would be observed to avoid punishment, which otherwise would have been ignored. Thus the fulfilment of such commandments cannot possibly have great value before God and for eternity. When Christ’s disciples complied with His instructions and spread the Gospel throughout the world God’s activity was clearly visible because in the name of Jesus they healed the sick, they expelled evil spirits and performed miracles in order to reaffirm what they were teaching. God’s spirit was with and within them; everything they achieved was the divine working of the spirit. They proclaimed the teaching of Christ, the divine teaching of love, and simultaneously exemplified love to their fellow human beings. Thus, they eliminated the desire to rule, for they were like brothers among themselves and served each other with love. This was the office Jesus Christ gave to his disciples for their future work …. He did not appoint one of the apostles as a person in charge, as a leader to whom all should succumb. However, what developed at a later time completely differed from what the Lord Himself stood for. An ecclesiastical-secular power came into being that also structured every commandment of love, which no longer corresponded to what Jesus Christ Himself had taught the people. Although servitude in love was demanded, it was no longer practiced by them. And this was of most decisive significance because what Jesus had condemned during His life on earth surfaced again …. people were commanded to do what they should have done voluntarily. And reputable men of distinction called themselves successors of the apostles who had met the duties of their office in greatest poverty …. and a structural establishment displaying enormous splendour called itself the only beatifying church, which Jesus Christ had supposedly installed with the words ‘You are Peter, the rock ….’

(27.01.1942) These words were interpreted thus by people who desired power; but these words do not by any means allow for the interpretation that Peter is the founder of an ecclesiastical power and that the heads of this church are the successors of the apostles …. those very apostles who, without status and distinction, only proclaimed the Gospel, the divine teaching of love, to the world. Peter was the most devout of them and Jesus emphasized his strong belief with the words ‘You are Peter, the rock, on this rock I will build My church.’ He calls the community of believers His church, because those who want to acquire God’s kingdom have to join together with innermost faith and thus constitute His church. Such is His will, and He expressed this will with those words. However, it is not His will that eminent and exalted dignitaries should believe themselves to be the head of such a community and thus also exercise their power …. that untold customs and ceremonies let the truly essential part become unimportant; i.e. that due to the countless formalities, which are given too much merit, the divine teaching of love remains unnoticed, and that therefore the apostles’ real task of spreading the Gospel throughout the world is no longer recognised. There can indeed also be men after God’s heart amongst those rulers, and God will truly not deny His spirit and His mercy to them, but then their wisdom is not the result of their position or the exalted office they fill but due to their right way before God …. These then are Peter’s true successors because they are strong in faith, and from the strength of faith they draw wisdom, for then they are like a rock from whence the living water comes forth …. Then they are true representatives of the church of Christ, which is the community of believers ….

Amen

God has set a limit to knowledge only for the person who is content with it. It may seem as if he can never exceed this limit, but if he is serious about knowing more, there need be no limit for him. However, the extent to which he desires more knowledge is up to him, i.e. he himself determines the limits of knowledge through his will. As soon as the human being fulfils the preconditions which guarantee him the transmission of knowledge, he has used his free will in the right way, for he is now given profound wisdom without restriction. But if he is inclined to believe that God Himself has set limits, then he is content with what the world knows and he feels no urge within himself to exceed the limits on his own authority. He is content, and this is always a step backwards, for man only progresses in constant endeavour. It must be understandable to him that God, as the Truth Himself, also wants to guide His living creations into it and that He is therefore always willing to hand out the truth but that He cannot impart it to everyone who has no desire for it. It is a precious commodity which people can acquire if only they want to, but which must also be desired if it is to be offered to people. However, the fact that it is not given to all people indiscriminately does not justify the assumption that God withholds the knowledge of His reign and activity from all people, that He wants to leave His living creations in ignorance. He will always mentally inform them, and it is solely up to the human being’s will as to whether and to what extent he wants to be instructed by the beings who can provide him with information. Yet precisely this human will is very small and weak. Since the human being first has to fulfil conditions in order to be introduced into the spiritual kingdom, his will first has to become active to work diligently on himself. And this seems impracticable to most people and so they don’t even try …. And these are the limits which the human being sets for himself because he does not have the will to go beyond these limits. And they don’t realize what they are ruining for themselves …. he does not know what bliss he can bring himself through increased knowledge, through the knowledge of things that would otherwise remain hidden from him …. he does not know what spiritual riches he could acquire if he so desired. God’s boundless love, however, still provides people with His knowledge because He wants to spread the truth among humanity …. He gives them enlightenment through the mouth of man as to how man can attain increased knowledge in order to stimulate them again to make the attempt themselves because He wants to impart to them the most precious good for the salvation of their souls. Thus He informs them that the human being should not be satisfied with the knowledge spread throughout the world …. And He admonishes them to break through the barriers because they can do so if only they want to. He wants to impart undreamt-of knowledge to them and only needs their will to do so, which should prove itself by the human being fulfilling the preconditions which are necessary in order to be guided into the deepened knowledge about God and His power and glory ….

Amen

In their inconceivable selfishness humanity will destroy itself if God does not use an effective countermeasure in order to reduce this selfishness. The human being only thinks about himself and the fate of his fellow human beings generally leaves him unaffected. His thinking and behaviour is accordingly only ever calculating to obtain the greatest possible advantage for himself, which spiritually has a tremendously detrimental effect. Hence every day spent striving for earthly advantages is lived in vain. And at the present time only a small number of people in the world keep their spiritual progress in mind. But they do not indifferently ignore their fellow human beings’ adversity. Instead, they try to alleviate it where possible and make sacrifices themselves, for they consider other people’s hardship more than their own hardship. And it is for their sake that God still hesitates to apply the last resort, because His love would like to spare people unspeakable suffering where it is possible to persuade them into actions of love without suffering.

God’s intervention, however, will result in great suffering, for precisely this suffering is intended to change people’s hearts, in view of their neighbour’s misery and adversity they are supposed to forget their own hardship, thus fighting their selfish love and only ever striving to alleviate their fellow human beings’ misery. Only then will their earthly life be spiritually successful for them. Yet regrettably, especially now people have extremely distinct earthly desires, they crave for the commodities of this earth. Every thought only relates to the question of how they can attain them. As a result they take no notice of world events and even less of the signs which announce the working of God. They don’t pay any attention to the happenings which accompany the spiritual decline. They don’t see the infringements which are already deemed acceptable, nor do they pay attention to the wrong concepts of ‘right’ and ‘justice’, and therefore they don’t object to the spirit of the times either, the opposition to everything relating to religion …. rather, they consider everything to be right, which can clearly be traced to the opponent’s influence.

And this is why God asserts His influence, that is, He so evidently counteracts this spiritual shallowness that it can be seen by those who want to see. For He assumes all power …. He renders people powerless; He lets them feel that they, by themselves, are incapable of preventing God’s intervention, that they will have to endure it without being able to change it in the slightest. And then they will only be able to change their character if they are willing to do so. They will be provided with endless opportunities to kindle the spark of love within themselves, to feed it into a flame and then become appropriately active with love …. If they don’t make use of this last possibility they cannot be helped on earth anymore; for those whose selfishness is too extensive will not be able to recognise their real function even then, they will fear for their life and their possessions and, if possible, try to replace what they have lost. In that case God’s intervention will have been in vain for them, then they will have to bear the consequences of their unspiritual state, since this is what they want, for they cannot be forcibly released from their selfishness ….

Amen

It is God’s will that His revelations should be spread so that people learn to regard every world event as a divine mission or divine permission for the sake of their souls; so that they learn to recognize the correlation between it and people’s spiritual state. Only through the word of God, which He Himself imparts to people, can this correlation be explained to them, for people first have to be instructed about the spiritual adversity and its effect on their souls in order to be able to understand which countermeasures are necessary in order to remedy this adversity of people on earth. The knowledge about the meaning and purpose of creation, about the grace of embodiment and about the consequences of a right as well as a wrong life on earth makes everything understandable that is otherwise incomprehensible to people. And there is only one way to convey this knowledge to people, as it cannot be offered to them in any other way. For as soon as a person wants to instruct his fellow human being he would not find faith in him, even though he only speaks the truth, because humanity is already too disenchanted, that is, it has distanced itself too far from the truth to be able to recognize it as truth. People are so earthly-minded that they only laugh in a lofty manner at everything that is imparted to them as spiritual teaching. This is why it has to be built up on an earthly basis, i.e. spiritual teachings have to be conveyed to people in a way that arouses their interest; they have to be able to convince themselves of the working of a power even if they do not want to recognize this power. And therefore they must be informed of this working, they must be informed of the content of the proclamations so that they can convince themselves that they correspond to the truth when world events develop according to the proclamations. The unbeliever will nevertheless persist in his unbelief because he is free to believe or not …. He will consider everything a coincidence and also try to influence his fellow human beings. Yet many people will also reflect and change their opinion, and God knows about these people and wants to help them because they cannot find their way out of the confusion on their own …. And so He reveals Himself to them, and blessed are those who recognize Him and believe His revelations …. They will be saved from spiritual hardship because they are willing to be taught ….

Amen

Tireless patience on the part of the beings of light is required to guide people into the right way of thinking. Through free will, the human being is also able to allow his thoughts to arise in accordance with this will. This means that it depends on his will which thoughts he grasps or drops, and now the endeavour of the beings of light is to guide the will of man to accept the right thoughts and to call them into consciousness by dwelling on them. Thus the thoughts are controlled, so to speak, and if they are found to be right they are brought to the human being again and again until he has familiarised himself with them and is now affirmatively attuned to them. However, the beings of light often encounter resistance insofar as the human being allows himself to be mentally captivated by the world and its stimuli …. that his thinking exclusively relates to the earthly and every spiritual thought which arises in the heart and is to be guided from the heart to the brain is immediately rejected, that the human being therefore rejects the spiritual, and then the beings of light have to bring the thought to him again and again with tireless love and patience until the human being finally pays attention, wonders and becomes thoughtful. The beings of light have to work in this way because their task is to spread light, i.e. knowledge, among people. Since they are already in love, which determines their activity in the beyond, they are tirelessly active, for they know about the happiness of the knowing being as well as about the sad state of the ignorant being, and since they are active in the beyond in a redeeming way they are always willing to impart light and knowledge. If they do not succeed straight away, they try again and again. However, the human being must not put up open resistance by quickly suppressing all thoughts that arise, even if they seem acceptable to him. And this is the case when the world exerts too strong an influence on a person. The adversary then also fights for the human being’s thoughts, i.e. for his will, and he will also be victorious if the human being does not reflect on himself and lets his thoughts wander into the spiritual kingdom of his own free will. Then it is easy for the beings of light to exert their influence, and the human being will now be instructed by them in thoughts and these will correspond to the truth ….

Amen

The path through earthly life is only a phase in eternity and yet it cannot be eliminated, for it only gives the beingness the state of life, whereas otherwise it would eternally remain lifeless, that is, in a state in which the beingness would be unable to recognize, since it is without light, and could not be active because it is without strength. This is a state of death, a state of agony and banishment, but which the beingness feels because it is aware of its existence. For it is spiritual, emerged from the power of God. But the spiritual was originally destined to work in the happy awareness of its power, i.e. to be active for its own happiness …. to stand in the highest realization and to lead an eternal life in fullest freedom, which it has forfeited through its own fault, in bondage to the will of the adversary of God. If the beingness is now to be led to its actual destiny and brought close to its original state again, then it must cover the path through the works of creation, since without this a transformation from death to life is not possible. However, this earthly path has to be travelled unconsciously of success, the being has to take this path completely uninfluenced because its will is supposed to change of its own accord …. is indeed bound for the time being insofar as that the will of God prescribes its course of development to it, however the being also decides to serve itself, otherwise the possibility of higher development is not given to it …. The change of will is the actual purpose of the earthly course, which has to be carried out in full awareness in the last stage as a human being, i.e. the free will has to consciously turn to God. Only then does the being emerge from its former bound, lightless and agonizing state into the state of freedom and realization …. into the state of bliss and eternal life. Life or death …. Each state is created by the beingness itself, depending on whether it has changed its will or remained in it …. For even the endlessly long earthly path can be travelled in vain if the will of the beingness does not want to bow down to God but turns towards its adversary. Then the earthly course has not brought the being redemption. And the state of death is its fate in eternity. Even then the will of the being can still change this state but this is a far more difficult process of change, often of unimaginably long duration, because the state of death is also a state of completely weakened will, but this will can just as little be directed upwards as in earthly life. The beingness, which in earthly life was always and constantly able to strive upwards through a constant supply of life energy in every stage of development, is now completely powerless and does not use its will. It is at the mercy of the will of the evil power and does not defend itself against it because it also lacks the power of resistance to do so. Nevertheless, it is aware of its agonizing situation. It suffers without being able to create a remedy for itself, which it could certainly create through its will. But again these agonies are the last possibility to still change the will, for the being can no longer be influenced in any other way. It must feel the agonies as unbearable and the favour of a ray of light must be sent to it in a flash, which can then stimulate its will and change it. This is the last favour which God grants to the unredeemed being, that the beings of light are allowed to join it and try to influence it. Where this last favour is disregarded, there the being is irrevocably doomed to death, i.e., the beingness is so God-rejecting that God’s love withdraws from it and it sinks into complete lifelessness, that it is again what it was before primeval times, a solidified mass …. the hardest matter …. which remains like this for eternities before it is again allowed to start the renewed process of change as an outer shell of the spiritual, which starts its course of development on earth ….

Amen

The conscious endeavour to unite with God inevitably results in the soul’s higher development, for striving towards God, the desire for Him, already signifies the bestowal of grace, and grace also results in progress, i.e. a higher degree of maturity of the soul. Anyone who receives grace will never remain at the same stage of development, for grace is synonymous with the supply of strength, and divine strength draws the human being towards God. The influx of divine strength can only take place when a connection with God has been established, thus the will for union is already fulfilment, for God will not deny Himself to His earthly child if it desires Him …. He gives him everything when he surrenders his will to Him. The will turned towards God results in union with God and consequently also in a constantly increasing degree of maturity of the soul, which now recognizes light and clarity, i.e. becomes knowledgeable and active in love and thus can be called light-receiving and light-emitting. It receives light and strength from God, which it receives in the form of knowledge, and it passes it on to its fellow human beings by passing on the knowledge. And so she now works with God and for God …. Whoever has a desire for God will, as it were, join the army of His servants and fighters, for he will now willingly submit to every task God sets him. Whoever longs for God himself will also show others the way to Him if he knows the way himself. And therefore love for God must have an effect in love for fellow human beings, for as soon as the human being is capable of love, i.e. the spark of love in him flares up into a flame, this flame always seeks new nourishment …. it must seize something and, as it were, consume it …. Love for God will always express itself in love for one’s neighbour; this is simply not possible otherwise, because the loving person has ignited the divine spark within himself and this fire can never be extinguished, and every work of love is the union with God, which is again recognizable in the work of love. Consequently, the soul’s degree of maturity must also constantly increase and a relapse can never take place. God does not allow this to happen because the human being desired Him of his own free will, because he himself surrendered his will and thus the union with God could take place, which brings him grace upon grace and thus the influx of light and strength from God ….

Amen

Jesus Christ was the proclaimer of truth and will remain so for all eternity. And those who follow Him will also find themselves in the truth as soon as they ask Him for it, thus they will have the strong will to know the truth which Jesus Christ proclaimed to people on earth. But this will has to express itself such that the human being opens his heart in order to listen to God’s voice, that he therefore has to ask God for heartfelt prayer and then awaits the answer which is given to him. God leaves no such prayer unanswered, for those who desire to stand in truth are His true children to whom He reveals Himself, whom He gladly instructs so that they may stand in the right knowledge. What people teach is rarely pure truth unless they have received the truth from God …. But how seldom do people allow themselves to be taught by God, and how seldom is pure truth to be found, even though the teachings are presented as truth. Even where people have the will to pass on truth, error is often spread because they are not in union with God, because they do not establish the contact which is indispensable in order to receive the grace of the power of realization. Intimate contact with God is the only guarantee that the human being is in truth, that he receives truth and is able to distribute it. However, the human being’s will is only completely subject to divine will when he only allows himself to be guided by God …. when he does not allow himself to be determined by people to do this or that, but when he completely surrenders himself to God of his own accord …. when he feels compelled in his heart to make contact with God and offers himself to Him as His servant without any external influence, from the world or from his fellow human beings. He must be driven by love for God to be active for Him, and God rewards this love …. He accepts him as a labourer in His vineyard …. and trains him first so that he can carry out his ministry well. He instructs him, He introduces him to spiritual knowledge, for his activity consists of spreading this knowledge …. This is the seed that is to be sown in the field, which is to bear fruit and one day bring a rich harvest …. and these are the labourers in the vineyard of the lord, who are constantly active in sowing the seed, which is the pure truth from God, into the hearts of men, so that it may sprout in good soil …. for only good seed can bear good fruit; only pure truth carries the power to shape man into a child of God …. The bearer of pure truth was Jesus Christ, and His teaching was the pure word of God; it was the divine teaching of love that He now imparted to His disciples and appointed them as His first labourers in His vineyard. For they were deeply united with their divine teacher, and they therefore repeatedly received the pure truth from God Himself in order to spread it, as it was God’s will ….

They were to proclaim the pure truth to people, and so He promised them the working of His spirit. As soon as the spirit of God was able to express itself through the apostles, they inevitably proclaimed the pure truth, for it was no longer the apostles who spoke to people but God Himself, and thus Jesus Christ, Whose body and soul had united with the eternal deity, was still among them. The truth had emanated from God, it had been conveyed to earth through Jesus Christ, and it is still being conveyed to earth as soon as the spirit of God can work in a person who gives himself to God in deepest love, who affirms Jesus Christ and desires the power of the spirit. This is the living word that God imparts to people who believe in Him, love Him and keep His commandments …. It is the power that emanates from God and overflows into everyone who desires the truth for the sake of Christ. Christ, as the bearer of truth, was in intimate union with God, and so man must also unite himself with God in deepest intimacy if he wants to receive the truth from Him …. wants the spirit of God to descend upon him and guide him to the right realization. And thus he must become love, for in constant labour of love he draws closer to God and now shapes himself in such a way that the spirit of God can work in him and through him. This process is absolutely necessary in order to receive truth, thus only those people could teach and spread pure truth to whom truth flowed in this way, to whom the spirit from God imparted pure truth. However, there have always been people who claimed the right to teach but who themselves were not taught by God but took their knowledge from sources which had to be denied divine spiritual activity. Consequently, their teachings no longer corresponded to the pure truth and the teachers themselves were not accessible to any higher wisdom, for they did not accept the teachings from heaven when they were offered to them. And gradually, the teachings of Christ were completely distorted under humanity …. But since Jesus Christ is and will remain the bearer of truth for all eternity He time and again seeks access to people’s hearts, and where He finds a receptive heart, a heart which subordinates itself to His will, which opens itself to His words, there He teaches again in the spirit of truth, there He tries to kindle the fervour of love, He tries to stimulate the will to eager activity of love and thus to shape the soul such that the spirit from God can become effective in it. And once again pure truth flows to people, for Jesus Christ Himself descends to earth in the word and reveals Himself to those who listen to Him, who love Him and desire His word ….

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It is a spiritual incapacity, a lack of spiritual knowledge and cognitive power, when a person believes himself to be in the truth, who has received his knowledge from people without ever having thought about it himself. To believe means to consider something to be true that cannot be proven. Nevertheless, everything that is asked to be believed must be seriously thought through; but if everything that is taught is blindly accepted, then this is not a living, convinced faith, but merely a planned transmission of a teaching and a thoughtless acceptance of it. And such faith truly cannot stand before God. It is not enough if objections to doctrines of faith are refuted with idioms that have been memorised, i.e. adopted, but do not substantiate a doctrine in a meaningful or convincing way. The truth must be clearly and irrefutably substantiated, it must speak for itself, as it were …. However, something cannot be truth that has been established as a doctrine of faith incoherently and without justification, and every thinking person has the duty and the right to demand clarification if a doctrine of faith is incomprehensible or appears unacceptable to him. If this clarification cannot be given to him by people in a satisfactory way, then he should ask God Himself for clarification, and only when this is given to him mentally, when he himself can affirm the doctrine of faith in his heart, can we speak of convinced faith. God does not demand blind faith …. for then the words ‘I believe’ would only be empty words …. yet a person can also have deep faith in something that cannot be proven to him as soon as his heart affirms it. This, however, is only the result of reflection, and reflection on every doctrine of faith is required because otherwise a person would have to believe everything that is presented to him. Now that the adversary is intent on enforcing every truth with error and God does not oppose his plan, the human being has the duty to examine the truthfulness of the teachings he receives, i.e. to think them through and only then accept what seems acceptable to him. And now it is up to him whether he asks for divine assistance. This request will give him the power of knowledge, for without God’s help his power of judgement is truly too small. If his will is good and thus turned towards the truth, he will know very well whether he is being offered the pure truth or error ….

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Although the battle of the beings of light only consists of tireless loving activity, it nevertheless has to be called a battle, for its goal is to defeat the darkness, i.e. to gradually displace it with light. This battle requires great love and patience because the opposite side puts up the greatest resistance to this struggle and therefore repeated attempts must be made to defeat this resistance. But there is nothing which would be too arduous for the beings of light or which could weaken their love; compassion for the lightless souls will always impel the beings of light to utmost activity, which expresses itself in constant teaching and wanting to convince, for they know about the agonizing state of the beings which are still under the adversary’s influence and would like to change it, because they cannot help but do good to all beings and therefore also want to remedy their lack of knowledge. Consequently, they have to fight against ignorance. They must fight against every false teaching, against every false interpretation of the divine word …. They must also try to change the lethargy of souls into an eager observation of those who approach them. The beings of light exert their influence on the imperfect being as long as it does not stubbornly resist. The lightless being’s hardship and agony will always find the compassionate love of the beings of light, i.e. the love of these beings will always be willing to help them. However, resistance prevents the beings of light from approaching lovingly, thus the imperfect beings forfeit their own assistance if they reject it. Redeeming activity has then become an impossibility for the beings of light. Nevertheless they do not let up in their endeavours insofar as that they pay attention to every impulse in which the being is accessible to a ray of light, and they use such impulse for renewed work of love. But since love is an incomparably stronger weapon in the battle for the beings, countless beings are wrested from darkness and brought to the kingdom of light, for love is able to accomplish extraordinary things and only the rejecting will, i.e. the conscious submission to the will of the dark power, eliminates the activity of love of those beings of light. The battle of light against darkness lasts forever, yet the kingdom of light is constantly expanding while the kingdom of darkness is diminishing in size and power ….

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The spirit of lies rules the world, and anyone who desires the world and its goods is enslaved by this spirit of lies. For only there can he assert himself, only there will homage be paid to him by being listened to and affirmed. In contrast, the spirit of truth will only find admission among people who try to detach themselves from the world and its goods, who have no desire for them whatsoever but turn themselves and their thoughts towards divine things, who consider their actual purpose and affirm a spiritual life. That is where the lying spirit is denied access. For God Himself will grant his protection to these people, and He wrests them from the one who brings lies into the world. People who hold on to the world thereby profess their affiliation to the one to whom the world is his power, for they desire that which is still his share …. unredeemed matter …. which still shelters much of the evil spirit within itself. And since he wants to win the world entirely for himself he uses every opportunity to increase people’s greed for matter, hence he presents himself in a desirable way …. He uses lies to do so, for the truth would enlighten people and make them lose the longing for earthly possessions. And thus he aims to intersperse every truth with error, he tries to lead people into erroneous thinking, he seeks to obscure their spirit, that is, to entangle it in earthly passions and cravings, so that the spirit within themselves is surrounded by the most dense layers and unable to offer the soul the slightest clarification. And he aims to pull down everything divine, stifle everything noble, obscure the truth, eradicate love, spread hatred and strife and gradually shape people such that they become like him; that they will adopt all those qualities which characterise evil.

The love for truth dwells only in very few people, and they despise the world. However, their goal is God, Who is the Truth, and they seek to obtain spiritual values which last for eternity. And thus they lift themselves above the world and the prince of lies has no more influence on them. And yet he wants to oppress them and to this end uses those who, on the surface, also strive for the truth, that is, who appear to look for truth but inwardly are devoted to the price of lies …. who love themselves and their life and try to make it as comfortable as possible, who live in the midst of the world and yet try to deny their connection with it …. who, without the inner urge to renounce the world, pretend to live a life of self-denial before the eyes of their fellow human beings and thus are fond of lies. These are used by the opponent as his instruments, by letting them speak under the cover of truth, as the prince of lies wants. And thus lies are mixed with truth, and humanity accepts everything that is presented as truth and yet is the greatest untruth, for it cannot recognise it because it doesn’t desire the truth, and since the lie corresponds to their desire more it is accepted without hesitation. Yet the spirit of truth will establish itself as soon as people willingly separate themselves from matter …. as soon as they desire spiritual wealth and strive towards God …. And he will defeat the spirit of lies, for anyone who recognises the truth will stand up for it and try to spread it, and the lie will be displaced and with it the one who came into the world through the lie will be overcome ….

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The working of the spirit is unmistakable where the concepts of truth and lie are so clearly distinguished, thus God or His adversary can be recognized as the origin of what is offered to people. The spirit from God will always declare war on all untruth, since it is the pure truth in itself …. the emanation of God, Who is the truth Himself. Truth and falsehood are such opposites that the origin must also be two completely opposite entities. And the person who is in the truth will always feel connected to God, i.e. strive for the good from within, while the follower of the lie is in bondage to the will of the power that ignites all evil instincts in people. Just as the concept of truth can only be associated with God, a person who associates himself with God will never have to fear untruth or error, and consequently truth can always be assumed to exist where people are willing to turn to God. However, it is not the words but the actions of those who believe themselves to be knowledgeable that are decisive. A person who cannot do enough in his deeds of love will also irrevocably stand in the truth, for the spirit from God directs his thoughts towards the right realization. But lies will be represented by those people who do not act lovingly themselves, for their thoughts are influenced by the power that opposes God. The latter will always try to mix truth and lies …. The human being will neither desire the truth nor recognize the lie as such, but will accept without judgement everything that is offered to him, even consider everything to be good, even if it obviously suggests bad powers. For he does not detest lies, since he is blind in spirit and, due to his loveless nature, is still very much related to the one who himself is devoid of all love. Nor will he feel the urge within himself to want to recognize what is true and right because he desires nothing that is from God as long as he is still in the power of God’s adversary. The working of the spirit is then understandably not possible, for the spirit from God can only express itself where the truth is desired, because God can only offer divine things to those who endeavour to come close to God. But the lie emanates from the adversary and also leads back to him, for everything that is a lie means distance from God and therefore drawing closer to His adversary. The person who desires the truth will recognize all characteristics of truth as well as those of lies and he will very soon know where he should look for the truth and where he can avoid lies. For the human being who desires truth gives himself, i.e. his thinking, to God, Who then enlightens him with His spirit, i.e. directs his thinking, so that he can clearly recognize and distinguish truth from lies ….

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Any comparison intended to illustrate the beatitudes of Heaven to people would be inappropriate, for nothing on earth can even roughly describe these joys, nothing can be likened to them should an attempt be made to reveal a picture of them to people. The souls’ infinite happiness in eternity is not caused by something tangible, this is why a person cannot imagine anything either, instead, he must content himself with the Lord’s promise ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which I have prepared for those who love Me …. ’ The knowledge of the delights of eternal life would, in fact, be extremely disadvantageous for the souls’ maturing, because the human being shall become prefect and thus he must be good of his own inner accord and not for the sake of reward. What a perfect being can expect in eternity will make it so incomparably happy, that the human being would do anything as well as suffer anything were he to know the degree of bliss; were he to know what this bliss consists of. He can only be informed of the fact that the feeling of love is decisive in the beyond, that no happiness is thinkable without it, that love connects everything and that this creates a state of bliss which is inconceivable for people on earth. For there is vanishingly little love on earth, compared to the light beings’ degree of love in the beyond; consequently, the human being cannot imagine that love is the epitome of bliss, even though love on earth, that is, the kind-hearted activity and the feeling of love, is already experienced and desired as something delightful on earth, once it is known to the human being, for only divine love causes happiness, the love which is giving, hence unselfish. Desiring love only brings happiness if the object of the desire is God and His love …. because this desiring love simultaneously results in fulfilment, since divine love flows to every person desiring it. If love for God already causes happiness on earth, how much happier will the being be in eternity if God, in His infinite love, comes close to it and satisfies its burning desire …. The delights of this fulfilled longing are indescribable and cannot be expressed in words since it is a purely spiritual process providing the being finds union with God and receives His emanation of love. Consequently, no human being can imagine what eternal bliss is like as long as he still lives on earth, for God keeps this knowledge concealed from him until he has gained the spiritual maturity in order to gain an insight into the spiritual kingdom which will reveal the eternal glory to him if it is God’s will.

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Every struggle for existence contributes to the higher development of the soul if the human being overcomes the resistance, i.e. unfolds his strength in order to remain victorious in the struggle. Fighting is a utilization of the strength that flows to every living being from God …. The life force to which every human being is entitled is used correctly when it is needed to defeat all resistance. A life without resistance would not demand any development of strength, thus it would not require any utilization of the life force, and then the soul would not be able to make any progress either, for the latter can only be possible with God’s support …. i.e. through the influx of divine strength. At every stage of development before the embodiment as a human being the being has to endure this battle, it has to defend itself, for it will always be pressurised in a way which results in its development of strength. And it will always defeat the weaker one, and this is permitted by God’s wisdom because it creates new opportunities for higher development. Thus it is also God’s will that the weaker one succumbs in this battle, because every creature only develops higher and never reaches the degree of maturity on earth which would make a new deformation superfluous. So the creature will continue to fight with the stronger one until it has passed into its final form as a human being. Then, however, its battle is no longer a purely external one, i.e., one person is not allowed to destroy or defeat the other by virtue of his strength so that ultimately only the strong could still assert itself on earth, but the strong must use its strength in a different way …. it must support the weak, it must help the strong to overcome resistance so that it serves the weak. Then the human being uses his strength well, he utilizes it according to divine will, in that he certainly fights the resistance but does not want to completely defeat the weak, for otherwise he misuses the strength from God, he then uses this strength for a work that goes against God’s order and against His divine love. He sins insofar as he treats something striving upwards like him unlovingly by wanting to deprive it of the opportunity to develop higher …. and he uses his strength to dominate the weaker. The human being should try to become master of the oppositions, but he should not try to overcome what opposes him as if outwardly, for it is truly an act of greatest development of strength if he tries to recognize everything in love, even the weak, as also a creature of God and he now only fights against that which harms his spiritual higher development and thus overcomes it ….

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People will only realize the power of the divine word conveyed from above when the need on earth is so great that they can only draw comfort and help from it. If no earthly power can bring them help, then there is still one who is ready to help. And this one then comes to people in the word and brings them refreshment and strength when they are in danger of succumbing. He has blessed His word with His power …. people will sense this and receive His word full of desire because the power from God will flow to them tangibly. And they will need this power, they will also come together in hidden places to receive food and drink from heaven because it can no longer be offered on earth. They do not want to do without and praise God with a grateful heart that He takes care of their need and provides them with spiritual strength, which is indispensable to them. For their hearts hunger for it, they hunger for the words of love and grace, for God’s word gives them knowledge of His care and everlasting helpfulness, and the word penetrates deeply into the hearts of those who desire to hear it, it gives people confidence and hope, it deepens their faith and increases their love, it spurs on their endeavours and connects them with the spiritual world, and this connection makes the transfer of strength from God possible and also makes it effective. Divine strength cannot remain ineffective as soon as it is received with a grateful heart; it must have a beneficial effect, it must have a revitalising effect on people and cannot be replaced in any way by human gifts, for what people offer will only ever be able to have a physical effect …. but the word of God is strength for the soul, it strengthens and revitalises the soul even if the body is meagrely provided for and thus has to suffer hardship. But if the soul suffers, then the suffering is excessive, and only the divine word can banish this suffering and give the soul rest and peace. This is why the longing for divine comfort will be great in the coming time and increase to a heartfelt desire, and God will satisfy this longing and provide comfort and help to people through the word, He will convey strength and grace to all those who unite with Him by accepting His word. He will not let them go hungry but will satisfy their hunger, and whoever is thus fed by the lord Himself will not lack strength in the time to come …. he will always look upwards, from where help will come to him ….

Amen

In order to come to the right realization, man must not be denied the freedom of thought. But this is taken away from him if he is given a certain guideline, i.e. he is influenced insofar as that certain views and opinions are held up to him until the person’s thinking moves in the same direction. This is a certain compulsion, an elimination of free thinking, which does not remain without effect in people who are unable to resist. Such people can never come to knowledge because they are rendered incapable of thinking for themselves and are therefore also without judgement. The human being should have the opportunity to decide in every direction and he must therefore also be able to move in every spiritual direction until he reaches his own decision. Therefore, he must neither be told nor denied what should be brought close to his train of thought, what he wants to accept or reject. For only then will it be possible for him to come to realization through reflection. He must be allowed to follow every school of thought, otherwise he could neither be called to account nor gain any spiritual advantage if he thinks wrongly or rightly. And that is why it is the greatest injustice to want to exert a determining influence on people in spiritual matters …. It is wrong before God and people to forcibly direct people’s thinking towards completely wrong views and teachings …. It is wrong to want to base the education of young people on completely wrong ideas and a completely wrong school of thought. Young people must be given the opportunity to decide freely which ideas they want to accept …. They must be granted freedom of thought and be given the knowledge of different schools of thought so that they can make their own decisions without the determining influence of their fellow human beings. Where freedom of thought is infringed upon, the human being is labelled an unfree being; what has been given to him by God is taken from him by people …. Spiritual influence can only be approved of if unselfish love can be recognized in it, which wants to protect people from harm to their souls. However, where a certain spiritual blindness is brought up out of selfishness, where a person is kept ignorant for selfish motives, fellow human beings who strive for this ignorance or achieve it through coercion are greatly to blame. Spiritual freedom must be preserved for every human being, and therefore he must also be given the opportunity to examine every school of thought, i.e. to take note of it and consider the pros and cons. Only then can a person decide freely and form his spiritual state accordingly …., but this is never possible if his spirit is gagged, i.e. if he is forced to think as his fellow human being pleases ….

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The more undauntedly a person works on himself, the more successful his endeavour will be, for then he will have the sincere will towards God, and this will also result in the allocation of strength which will ensure spiritual progress again. The soul’s work requires overcoming oneself, and therefore it can only be achieved if the human being constantly practices self-denial. What is beneficial to the soul will always mean a renunciation or sacrifice for the body, and therefore a strong will is needed that is more focussed on the soul than on the body. Spiritual success can only be achieved by setting aside the body, and precisely this is so difficult for people because the body will always push forward with its desire, whereas the soul usually has to be content if the human being’s will considers it sparingly. And therefore the soul can only progress in its development when it is given more consideration than the body. Thus the human being cannot do enough in caring for his soul, he must constantly practice love, and this will then also result in wisdom …. the realization …. in its wake. And as soon as a person recognizes, he cannot help but submit to the divine will, i.e. do what is beneficial for his soul. The divine will will also be revealed to anyone who only strives to fulfil God’s will, and then he will willingly separate himself from matter, from the goods of the world …. and consequently he will not pay attention to what pleases the body either, and he will only ever be intent on collecting spiritual possessions, for earthly goods will no longer seem appealing to him. And that is only the blessed state for humanity, that it leaves the world and its goods unnoticed and turns to spiritual experience. Then people think, hear and see differently, i.e. always remembering their souls, and only this is spiritual progress, which is based on a certain renunciation, on overcoming oneself, on an inner struggle against that which is part of the adversary. And anyone who earnestly strives towards God will gladly and joyfully give up what is of benefit to his body, for he exchanges something more valuable in return …. an increased degree of maturity of the soul ….

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The more sincerely you desire My word the more willingly I will come to meet you, and the grace of receiving My word is proof of My love for you humans who are in great distress of soul. I know your hardship, I know of your weakness of faith and I also know that you are willing …. Hence My love descends to you and brings you help in your soul’s adversity by revealing Myself to you. And now you have to recognize that I bring you the truth, for no-one will be able to refute what I offer you, that is, no-one will have evidence for his counterarguments. You must realize that the knowledge I give you is incomparably valuable in contrast to the knowledge the world offers you …. And thus you may trustingly abandon yourselves to My words, you may accept them without doubt and not burden your hearts with anxious questions and doubts, for I will prevent every untruth from finding its way into your hearts and sharpen your power of judgement so that you will not accept anything which contradicts the truth …. because you only want to receive truth. The will to serve Me eliminates every wrong thought because I understandably protect everyone from wrong thinking who places himself at My service, for if he is now active for Me I will truly not let him carry out anything which is not in accordance with the truth, which I Am Myself …. I need people precisely to spread the truth …. Consequently, I must guide these few into the truth who want to work for Me …. I must impart to them the spiritual knowledge which they are to pass on to their fellow human beings. Consequently, I have to take the greatest care that everything is received in an unspoilt and pure way which is to be spread in exactly the same way. And therefore do not trouble yourselves with doubts but believe that you will be well instructed in the truth …. believe that I Myself watch over every word which is now sent to people as My word …. believe that My ministering spirits in heaven will likewise take it upon themselves to offer every help to the receptive person, that they will keep everything untrue away; for an earthly child who desires the truth will be allowed to receive it at any time. And therefore cast all heavy thoughts away from you; accept what My love offers you …. For truth will always be there where it is desired and where I Myself, as the giver of truth, hand it out to those who entrust themselves to Me with complete faith. I Myself Am the truth and will therefore also know how to protect against erroneous thinking who want to spread the truth in My name ….

Amen