Worlds will pass and come into being again, and the teaching of Christ will always be preached on earth, where the spiritual has to pass its last test of will, and again and again a limit will be set for this spiritual, i.e. a certain period of time will be granted for the redemption of the spiritual by God since eternity, in which the teaching of Christ can be spread over this earth. The teaching of Christ is the divine teaching of love, which could always and in all places be taught to men and which was also received everywhere according to the willingness of men to do good. If the human being is active in love, then he must also become knowledgeable, for knowledge then does not need to be imparted to him by people, but he will be introduced to the truth by the spirit within himself; i.e., His thoughts will then be turned towards God and the idea of redemption will no longer be unacceptable to him, thus, by accepting the divine teaching of love he will also come close to the divine saviour Jesus Christ, for active love has redeemed him from his unfree state, he has become a follower of Jesus through active love, even though he still lacks the knowledge of Christ’s incarnation. Jesus Christ must be recognized as the son of God …. Anyone who lives in love knows that through love he shapes himself into a child of God, and thus he also knows that the man Jesus became perfect on this earth through His life of love, that He thereby completely merged with God, that He was an aspirant of childship to God, Who had fulfilled all conditions on earth and was therefore perfect, just as His father in heaven is perfect …. If the human being lives in love, even without knowledge of Christ’s act of salvation, he will likewise feel himself to be a child of God, and then he will have travelled the same path as Jesus, he will have followed Jesus and found the connection with God …. And if such a person is introduced to the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His work of redemption, he will inwardly fully acknowledge it, for he cannot help but recognize the one Who became love when He still walked the earth. Spreading christianity in the world therefore means spreading the divine doctrine of love preached by Jesus Christ in the world …. But this teaching of love was indeed spread, but not followed, and even if endless times were to pass …. lovelessness has become so rampant that any activity of love would be suffocated if God had not set limits in foresight of the disinherited and God-distant state of people. This period of time was of particular importance because the lord embodied Himself on earth in order to teach people love. And even His personal presence on this earth has brought no other success than the present …. a humanity devoid of all love. This era will therefore come to an end, but this does not exclude that the gospel will be preached again on the new earth …. that the divine teaching of love will be proclaimed again and that people will be taught to believe in Jesus Christ as saviour of the world …. For those who live in God will be raptured from this earth and returned to the new earth. And in these people faith in Jesus Christ is so strong that it is truly sufficient to transplant this faith into the new human race as the original doctrine of christianity ….

The first people of this new earth will have the unadulterated word of God, and thus the teaching of Christ will be pure and unadulterated and will also be followed, because love is inherent in all those whom God raptures and leads back to the new earth, thus they are in truth christians …. people who are true christians and live according to the divine teaching of love. And now Christ’s teaching will be spread throughout the whole world, for wherever people live on the new earth they will have profound faith and love, for God only chooses such people to revitalize this earth. The old earth, however, no longer harbours many people who are full of faith and love. And their number will no longer increase either, on the contrary, the danger is even greater that it will decrease if God does not intervene to prevent this apostasy of His own. And even if God wanted to delay the end of this earth, humanity would never improve and turn to love, and God’s patience would be in vain. And because God knows about the deep spiritual state of humanity, He ends an era and it will be fulfilled as it is written …. Not one stone will be left upon another …. For God’s word is truth and His will governs the world ….

Amen

Spiritual contact with the spiritual world increases performance in both earthly and spiritual activities. For the spiritual beings then support the human being with their strength. In love they are always anxious to promote the salvation of the soul of man and therefore do everything that can be of use to the soul. This is why they also support the human being in his earthly activity in order to facilitate his spiritual endeavours. They also encourage him to constantly exchange spiritual thoughts and thus constantly support his spiritual development. Without the help of these spiritual friends the human being is in a very difficult situation, for he is then constantly influenced by evil forces, i.e. earthly distractions prevent him from spiritual striving, and earthly activity is also often unfavourably influenced by them in order to make the human being unsuitable for the work on his soul. As soon as the human being makes contact with good forces he need not fear a decline, for these only require the human being’s willingness to make use of their help and then they will be willing to help in any way. And therefore he should always request their help by quietly calling upon them and willingly surrendering to their influence. For God Himself has given them to people as guides through earthly life as soon as they are willing to be guided by them. Yet in order not to jeopardize the human being’s free will the spiritual beings are subject to laws which only make their help possible when the human being himself has expressed his will to allow himself to be helped by them. And that is why the human being’s will must first become active and make contact with them. For the love of these beings is immense and they will not leave anyone in need who confidently entrusts himself to them. And people will mature spiritually and also have constant support in earthly adversity, because it is God’s will that people on earth shall be granted all help as soon as they do not oppose it themselves ….

Amen

God is love, and He will be full of mercy towards all beings which still carry a spark of love within themselves, because this spark of love is His share from eternity and God will not let anything get lost which is from Him. And therefore His care is eternally directed towards this spiritual substance, which He tries to guide into the circuit of His love so that the spark of love will increase and long for Him, for its place of origin, of its own accord. However, the increase of this divine spark of love is an act of the spiritual being’s expression of will, i.e. its will has to become active in order to receive God’s emanation of love and to let it take effect in itself. But if this will fails then the beingness rejects God’s love; it does not use what is offered to it in love. The spiritual rejects God’s love and thus God Himself, and then divine love ceases to work …. it withdraws from the being, and that means complete solidification of that which was still able to live under the influence of divine love, i.e. could be active. This solidification of the spiritual thus occurs through the will of the spiritual itself, which is devoid of all love and thus no longer has any connection with God. And yet God does not let it fall completely, i.e., after an infinitely long time He gives it the opportunity anew to make itself worthy of God’s love and to re-establish the connection with God. For His love lasts forever, and even the time of complete darkness and banishment in hardest matter is an act of God’s love, because thereby the desire for light and freedom is to be awakened in the being, which is the first condition in order to ever reach it. But light and freedom is the state of happiness which must be desired, i.e. striven for, in order to one day be the fullest happiness of this being. A forced being would never be able to attain the degree of bliss, for complete freedom of will is the prerequisite for supreme bliss. But God in His love wants to grant this bliss to the being, and if the being itself, in lack of realization, resists the granting of this bliss, then its will can only be changed through the millennia-long captivity, which again only has God’s love as its reason. For God cannot but be full of love for that which is of Him, for if His love ceased, the created would also cease to be. Consequently, God’s love for His creatures can never be denied as long as this beingness can still embody itself in creation, even if for the time being in the hardest rock. For His love always seeks to promote the ascent of the spiritual, and He truly knows when and how this is possible and when the possibilities remain unutilized in the stage as a human being. And then His infinite love determines Him again to destroy that which has become futile due to human will …. For the being then has to suffer the hardest captivity again in order to be able to reach bliss in fullest freedom one day ….

Amen

The seed that falls on good soil will bear fruit, and therefore it will not be in vain if a person whose heart is capable of love is told of God’s work, even if he is still dismissive of it. God’s love prepares things that will inevitably shake people’s thinking. He knows people’s hearts and tries to make them receptive to His later work. And so He first fertilizes the field that is to receive His seed, and He cleanses it of the weeds, which are the distorted teachings of Christ …. the many errors that hinder the good seed from flourishing …. He who has first freed himself from such false teachings will have a heart receptive to the truth from God, and he will be an even more zealous advocate of this truth. For what he receives with his heart, he accepts with full conviction …. It becomes alive in him and is not a dead word, and then he also commits himself to it and all doubt has disappeared from his heart. God’s love turns to those people who do not reject Him, and to them He leads His servants so that they speak in His place and make mention of His work. And He blesses their beginnings, and thus He is constantly concerned about those people who still lack realization. But often the mouth of man does little, and then the lord Himself speaks and His voice will be heeded …. But he who is already prepared will also come to realization more easily, and therefore people should work undauntedly on those who are still reluctant but who are of good heart and can be compared to the soil which is to receive good seed so that it bears rich fruit ….

Amen

Only that has lasting value which brings salvation to the soul, which earns it entry into the kingdom of light after death on earth. And only such good is to be striven for on earth. Thus only the deeds of the spirit are truly beneficial, i.e. what the spirit in the human being demands of the soul. But at the same time the body makes demands on the soul, namely what is to its advantage, i.e. what makes earthly life pleasant and attractive. And it is up to the soul to decide which demands it wants to fulfil. Consequently, the soul alone is also responsible for the wealth it gathers on earth. If it treats the body sparingly, the spiritual wealth will grow and this will bring it spiritual freedom. But if it listens to the body, then it itself will have to starve as soon as it detaches itself from the body. The spirit within it constantly urges it to gather spiritual wealth, and it hears its admonition and guidance all the more clearly and distinctly the less it respects the desires of the body. However, it must then also endeavour to follow the spirit within itself, otherwise its admonitions become weaker and are only barely perceptible to the soul. Then the human being is in danger of neglecting his actual task if his soul, i.e. all thinking, feeling and willing, only strives for earthly pleasures, i.e. only seeks what the body desires. For all these things are transient and have not the slightest eternal value. But life on earth is given to man so that he should create such values for himself that last, because the real life only begins when the body falls away from the soul. The human being who has suffered on earth for the sake of his soul, who only complied with the demands of the spirit within himself, will truly find a rich treasure in the beyond which will compensate him a thousand fold for what he gave away on earth, for only then will the soul live the right life, only then can it enjoy the fruits of its earthly way of life, whereas an earthly-minded soul will have to live in want and will enter the beyond inconceivably poor and naked and think of its unused earthly life in remorse. For this was given to it so that it should gather imperishable treasures for eternity ….

Amen

Only a few people are able to put themselves into the state which is necessary in order to be receivers of light and strength from God. For these must kill the will for the world but allow the will for God to become ever stronger, and the latter is only possible if the human being is profoundly faithful, that is, he must turn to God as a result of faith, for neither the advantage of a connection with God nor the disadvantage of life without God can be proven to him …. In a sense, he must strive towards a goal that can only be justified by faith. And only few people will pursue such a goal because they cannot be given any guarantee for the correctness or truthfulness of what they believe. And yet it is precisely this belief that brings tremendous success …. Faith in a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence is of inestimable value, for through such faith a person moulds himself into what he must be in order to be able to receive light and strength from God. The deity that he recognizes accepts him …. It draws near to him and overshadows him with its grace …. It draws him to itself and turns a weak, powerless being into a being full of strength and power …. By recognizing the eternal deity, by believing in a power that is extremely strong, wise and benevolent, man becomes a co-recipient of what this power emanates, and he detaches himself to a certain extent from the humanity to which he belongs on earth …. He can still be in bodily life outside of where his body dwells …. He can connect with a world which is outside of earth, he can make contact with beings outside of earth, and he can even make contact with God Himself through his profound belief that there is a world outside of earth and that there are no barriers between himself and the spiritual world, its inhabitants and the supreme being …. For if a person believes in God’s love, he also knows that this love inclines towards him full of mercy …. he knows that this love has created him for the sake of a purpose, and he now seeks to fathom the purpose in order to be able to fulfil his task. And thus his will becomes active, and the deeper his faith becomes, the stronger his will becomes …. But God deepens this faith and will through the influx of His strength, for He will send it in abundance to a person who strives towards Him, and thus the person who detaches himself from the earthly world for the sake of his faith will be richly provided for …. he receives and is richly compensated for what he gives up on earth ….

(29.3.1942) But man’s endeavour is mostly the increase of earthly wealth and thus unsuitability to receive light and strength from God. For he does not fulfil any conditions and therefore his soul is not shaped as it has to be in order to receive the outpouring from God. And the consequence of this is that the higher development of the human race is also called into question, since this is inconceivable without the transmission of strength from God. Mankind constantly remains on the same level, if it does not even develop regressively. It does not utilize the grace of embodiment on earth and thus remains in the state far removed from God which it had to show at the beginning of the embodiment of the soul. The whole process of higher development through human will has come to a standstill because faith in a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence is weak or completely lacking. And this is why people urgently need help, namely in the form of instructions from a fellow human being in whom this faith is still strong and who can thereby transfer the strength from God to those whom he himself receives by virtue of his faith. Such a mediator has to fulfil an extremely important task which he again can only carry out if God Himself assists him and increases his strength so that he can awaken or deepen the faith of his fellow human beings through extraordinary activity. And thus he must constantly be prepared to act as a mediator between God and people, and this requires all his will and serving devotion. Yet it is the most beautiful task a person can fulfil during his earthly existence …. to bring light to humanity, which lives in deepest spiritual darkness, and to snatch it from this darkness. And the few will always be allowed to enjoy God’s grace, God will stand by them and increase their strength, He will strengthen their faith, He will seize the soul, which offers itself to Him, in His love and lead it safely upwards, because it fulfils its right purpose of existence …. it is already redemptively active on earth and thereby a candidate for the kingdom of God, which is not of this world ….

Amen

The beings descend to earth from the kingdom of light and stay close to people who open their hearts to God’s emanation of love. As soon as the human being connects with God in thought or heartfelt prayer, his heart is opened to these emanations and now the beings of light can work and impart the emanation from God to the earthly human being who is willing to receive it. They are animated by God’s will, they think and want nothing else than God wants, and thus they will also now provide the human being with light and strength in accordance with God’s will. The light beings’ activity towards earthly people consists of constantly influencing their thoughts and trying to direct them towards spiritual things, thus spiritualizing their thoughts, i.e. distracting them from earthly things. As soon as the beings of light succeed in doing so a soul is won for eternity, for a person who once occupies himself with spiritual thoughts finds no pleasure in earthly experiences, and thus he has also overcome the desire for matter and his soul is approaching a state of maturity, for it unites itself with the spirit within itself which is constantly in contact with the beings of light as givers of strength and light. The soul participates in the gifts offered to the spirit by the beings of light …. It receives light and becomes knowledgeable. This is a great success which the beings of light achieve when they have spiritualized a person in such a way that his thoughts constantly occupy themselves with spiritual questions, that they strive towards God and attach little value to earthly events. For such a spiritualized person will now likewise try to influence his fellow human beings and thus facilitate the light beings’ activity on earth by drawing his fellow human beings’ attention to the value of spiritual striving, thereby turning their thoughts towards spiritual things and thus working in cooperation with the beings of light ….

Amen

It is an incomparably happy activity to participate in the work of redemption in connection with the beings of light, for anyone who has already chosen this work on earth has overcome the earth, that is, he has passed the test of will, which is the purpose of his earthly life. Through the connection with the spiritual full of light he is now also able to receive emanations from the kingdom of light, i.e. strength to work on earth in the form of the divine word. The divine word imparts the strength to the person who wants to be redemptively active and likewise to the soul to which the redemptive activity applies. Thus the contact with the beings of light in the form of mental questions and answers must have such an effect that something spiritual flows to the human being …. something that the world can never offer because it does not possess it …. This is the wisdom from God …. the pure truth. This is spiritual knowledge which the beings of light possess in abundance and want to give to people on earth. However, since they are only allowed to give it to an earthly child who is willing to receive it, they first endeavour to awaken the will to receive in a person, to influence him mentally, to make themselves available as mediators between God and people and to encourage him to follow their influences, thus to do everything that is a prerequisite for receiving the light and strength from God. Only rarely do people follow these whisperings. But where a person is willing, the beings of light are constantly active, i.e. they are ready at any time to make themselves known to the listening person. For the adversity of the time requires extraordinary activity on the part of both the beings of light and the willing earthly people who have offered their willingness to serve God and asked for a task for the redemption of souls. The strength to accomplish this task continues to flow to them, but the human being must not tire, i.e. become weak-willed …. He must not slacken in his spiritual work and turn to the world again. However, this is rarely to be feared, for anyone who has once made contact with the beings of light will no longer want to miss the transmission of strength and can only become a little weak temporarily in order to then continue his activity with increased fervour. And the human being need never fear being abandoned by these beings of light …. A person’s co-operation on earth is so important that the beings of light make use of every opportunity when they sense the person’s willingness and thus increase his will through the spiritual gifts they convey to him. And the human being will join the beings of light ever more intimately and also utilize the strength flowing to him according to the will of the beings of light, which is also God’s will ….

Amen

Inner peace will be granted to you who strive to fulfil My will …. No suffering and no worry will oppress you, you will enjoy heavenly delights in a lovely region for which you still lack all understanding on earth. For you cannot comprehend what I have prepared for those who love Me …. I give them My love and that means the most blissful state for them …. it means My love fulfilment of all wishes and a life in power and glory …. And I want to offer this blissful state to all My creatures, I want to guide them all into the land of peace and let them share in the glory of eternal life. I would like to withdraw them from the world and lead them to the spiritual kingdom so that they will forget their earthly hardship and merge into eternal bliss, for My love embraces all My living creations …. the more intimately the more they desire Me and sacrifice their will to Me. For they will make My will their own and henceforth serve Me ….

Amen

God has withheld the knowledge about the glory of eternal life from people because it would influence their actions and thoughts insofar as that the human being would be unable to be anything else but good in order to attain the eternal glory for himself. In that case, however, he would never be able to become perfect, for perfection presupposes a good way of life of one’s own accord but not for the sake of reward. If a person is good of his own accord, that is, if he shapes himself into love, the knowledge of the eternal glory will indeed be revealed to him on earth already, depending on his soul’s degree of maturity. His ability to conceive things in the spiritual domain will be awakened, and figurative impressions will be imparted to him which his spirit will pass on to the soul. This is the spiritual vision which presupposes a certain degree of psychological maturity. Then these people will not be harmed by the knowledge of the eternal glory, i.e., it is only the consequence of their correct way of life before God. Even if a person is informed of the fact that life after death is incomparably beautiful and full of delight for a human being who shapes himself into love, this reference is nevertheless not coercion, because it is up to the person to believe it or not. And then again, it will only be believed by a person who makes an effort to live according to God’s will, whereas the other one lacks faith. Consequently, spiritual vision can only be attained by a profoundly faithful person living up to God’s will, for the glories of eternity will only be revealed to him. But this vision, which is proof of his soul’s maturity, will always be granted to a person shortly before the completion of his physical life, for he will not be required to stay much longer on earth since he will have fulfilled his purpose and established a heartfelt relationship with God. Only for the sake of humanity does God not call Him to Himself, so that it will be offered a small testimony of the truthfulness of the divine Word ‘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 …. ’ For earthly eyes cannot behold such things; the spiritual eye, however, can only receive these impressions when a specific degree of perfection has been reached. What the spiritual eye then beholds is difficult for a person to describe because it exceeds the earthly human being’s comprehension and Words cannot even roughly explain it. Even so, the imparted impressions should be enough for his fellow human beings to become profoundly faithful and encourage them to live a God-pleasing way of life. However, if a human being opposes this with his will, not even the most glorious description of the eternal bliss would manage to change it, for the realisation and the knowledge of life in the beyond in a state of perfection is the result of a God-inclined will. But God does not change this will by force; instead, He will allow it to remain free.

Amen

People’s spiritual state prevents them from recognizing the truth as such, and it is therefore arduous work to make this truth accessible to them …. It is difficult to preach the gospel to them, that is, to make the divine teaching of love accessible to them, for they will always set the world and its demands against it and consider them more important, and under such circumstances they lack all understanding for spiritual endeavour. The only important thing is regarded as foolishness or imagination, and that alone is proof of how far people are from the eternal deity, how deficient their state of soul is. It is also proof of how alien the word of God is to people. They also only recognize it as the work of men, their faith can almost no longer be called faith, they only repeat words without realizing the meaning of these words. And that is why these words cannot gain life and therefore cannot become effective. If salvation is to be brought to these people, they must first be forced to renounce their faith. They must be given the opportunity to take a stand on doctrines of faith so that they openly express what they reject or what they take offence at. As soon as a person errs, his opinion must be set right, for he can only be convinced by speech and refutation. It is even easier to change an opponent’s mind than to present the gospel to a person against his will, because the willingness to listen to it must be absolutely present. However, converting mere worldlings is usually unsuccessful. Every spiritual hint is dismissed unwillingly, and thus worldliness will still reign supreme and only few people strive for the kingdom of God. For people’s state of being distant from God makes them incapable of clearly judging what is brought to them. But as soon as they practice love they reduce their distance from God, and now many things are understandable to them which they previously could not grasp. And therefore people must first be taught love, they must be urged to observe this first and most important commandment, and only then will they have understanding for the word of God, for if they live in love God will come close to them in the word, and that is His strength, that the human being’s spirit will be enlightened, that he will now mentally penetrate the meaning of the word and he will now affirm the divine teaching of love. He is now rescued from the adversity of his soul, through his activity of love he has reduced his distance from God and thus must also come to realize ….

Amen

The realization of a wrongly lived earthly life is unspeakably bitter for the soul, which is now without a body, and usually puts it into a state of remorse which is agonizing and at the same time discouraging. For it now sees itself deprived of every opportunity to make up for what it has missed, because it feels that it is powerless. It is not yet aware of the possibilities for higher development in the beyond, for the knowledge of this is only a consequence of a complete change of heart. What it lacked on earth was love, which expressed itself in good deeds, and this lack of love is the cause of its now agonizing state. If it wants to reach the heights in the hereafter, it must first awaken the feeling of love it lacked. The hardship of the souls suffering with it must have such an effect on it that it becomes willing to serve and tries to alleviate this hardship for them. Before that, however, an improvement of their situation is impossible and often unimaginably long times pass before such a soul decides to serve in love. These souls’ selfish love is usually so great that they only think of their own suffering and have no sympathy for the hardship of other souls, and then they cannot be released from their present state, for the law of love has to be fulfilled, this is and remains the first condition for spiritual progress. And yet the path upwards can be climbed so easily if these souls make contact with each other and try to alleviate their hardship together. For the will to do so already provides them with strength, which is imparted to them by the beings of light who respect every loving feeling and are immediately willing to help them. This mutual help does not consist of earthly activity but rather of exchanging their experiences and wanting to enlighten them. Understandably, the latter is only possible if the soul has knowledge, for it must first possess what it wants to give. And this knowledge is still very limited in such a soul, hence the willingness to help is also very minimal. Thus the soul must have the desire to increase its knowledge in order to be able to help the other souls. Then knowledge will be imparted to it in accordance with this desire, it will be offered the opportunity to participate in teachings, and if it is not completely hardened by its own hardship it will seize every opportunity, for by accepting such teachings it will also experience an increase in strength and a lessening of its own hardship. Once the soul has taken this path, it will inevitably strive upwards, for it is then happy to be able to give and will now share in the other souls’ hardship, i.e. it will try to help them. This teaching of the souls, which are even less knowledgeable, is a happy state which drives them to ever more active endeavours; consequently, their soul’s distress comes to an end at the moment when they compassionately turn to the souls suffering with them. And people can contribute infinitely to this change in their thinking and will, which brings liberation to the soul, if they sincerely remember in prayer those who are unable to redeem themselves from the agonizing state of self-love by their own efforts, if they impart strength to these souls through their prayer and thereby make the path upwards accessible to them. A soul redeemed through prayer thanks the human being a thousandfold for having granted it assistance in complete weakness of will and wrong thinking. And with it the many souls who are likewise relieved of their great need through this help ….

Amen

The divine spark in man is love. God has placed love in every human being’s heart and has now given him a task on earth …. to let this divine spark of love flare up into a bright flame which then consumes everything around it. Love is therefore inherent in all people, but to which things this love turns is up to the person, i.e. the human will determines the goal of his desires, i.e. the object of his love. Spiritual desire and earthly desires characterize right love, i.e. love that is pleasing to God, and wrong love. For love is the desire for union. If something is brought to a person and he seeks to possess it, then love has already been kindled in him. And both will be brought to him so that man can decide. Earthly goods and temptations of the world are offered to him, but spiritual goods are also made available to him so that the love in man can now decide which object it takes as its goal. And love grows accordingly. The desire for union thus gives earthly life its content in the first place, for the human being now strives for possession of …. spiritual or earthly, depending on whether faith and the desire for God are strong in him. Love will therefore be the driving force behind all actions and thoughts. Worldly love is the same as unkindness, because worldly love excludes love for God, worldly love only strives for its own possessions and never turns to its neighbour …. Self-love, however, is the opposite of neighbourly love, so this love expresses itself in unkindness towards fellow human beings. For every human being will love himself, even though his thoughts and actions towards his fellow human being must be called unloving. Initially, two desires will fight within a person, and then it is important which desire within a person gives in to. If the love for the good is predominant in him, then he will soon overcome the desires for the world, for the good has its origin in God, consequently the human being strives towards God and therefore his love turns towards Him. And this love expresses itself in love for his neighbour, and it will flare up into a bright flame. But wrong love will have transient possessions as its goal; it will therefore also be unstable, it will always discover new things which it desires, and this wrong love will turn people away from God and lead them towards his adversary. The divine spark in the human soul will then not be nourished but rather suffocated in impure instincts …. pure love is replaced by a desire that is likewise regarded as love, but with the difference that its goal is not God but his adversary, so that we can speak of a perverse love. But this wrong love is now the characteristic of the spiritual low of mankind. For he who has God as his goal, thus seeks to unite with Him, loves God and is close to Him, thus spiritually more mature than those who are distant from God due to their wrong love for the world. For spiritual maturity can only be achieved through union with God, and anyone who strives for this is in the right state of love, he has ignited the divine spark of love within himself and tries to mould himself into love ….

Amen

The essence of the eternal deity cannot be grasped by the human intellect but is more comprehensible to a loving heart, for in order to fathom God the human being has to be filled with love, since love is the fundamental substance of the eternal deity and like can only be comprehended by like. If the human being shapes himself into love then nothing will be strange or inexplicable to him anymore, and thus he will also be able to penetrate the essence of the eternal deity, for it is his spirit which introduces him to knowledge and his spirit can give him complete enlightenment because he himself is part of the eternal deity …. God is in Himself light and power, that is, omniscient and omnipotent …. He is omnipresent …. He is love in the highest potency …. He is a being Who unites all merits in Himself, Who is therefore supremely perfect …. He is unlimited, i.e. bound neither to time nor to space, nowhere is His beginning and His end …. What He wills happens …. He knows about every creature in the world, and His spirit rules the whole universe, and thus the spirit of God always and everywhere expresses itself …. love, wisdom and power …. this is the beginning. Love gave life to everything that exists. Wisdom gave every work of creation its task, and the power of God ensures the existence of what love brought into being. Without power, the love and wisdom of God would be an empty concept, for nothing could be realized because it requires power. Power, however, would not allow anything perfect to come into being if wisdom had not been the determining factor in creation, which gave every thing purpose and goal, otherwise nothing perfect could be conceived. But God is supremely perfect and therefore everything that has come into being from Him will also be perfect and have a certain spiritual order. The essence of God is something exceedingly perfect and yet inexplicable to man, for earthly laws completely switch off and man is not receptive to the knowledge of supernatural laws. Therefore, he will only be able to explain and affirm the essence of God when he has left his earthly body shell and has himself entered the realm of the spirits. Then all earthly thoughts fall away and the soul is now better able to fathom the essence of the eternal deity ….

Amen

The greatest mystery is the love of God, and this mystery can only be revealed through love, that is, only a person who is actively kind-hearted himself is capable of understanding divine love. Each loving spiritual thought is an emanation of God, Who is Love in Himself. And the willingness to accept such a thought, that is, to direct it from the heart, where it is born, to the brain, hence to effectively take possession of it, is the willingness to receive this emanation of love from God. For the heart’s willingness is the prerequisite for God’s love to become effective …. God is Love …. This is a mystery and it will remain a mystery for people for as long as they belong to this earth and often still in the beyond. For they associate the concept of love with a Being. In their eyes it is a characterisation of a Being, and yet Love is the Being Itself …. Love is something spiritual which does not explain the character but is in itself a Being …. love it that which is good, divine, when the word is used in relation to people …. whereas God Himself is only imaginable as Love, yet it will only become understandable to those people who are so permeated by love themselves that they, during their activity of love, also feel the closeness of God. For what they feel is only love again, and yet they are close to God, because God and love are one and the same. Everything that shapes itself into love is in heartfelt contact with God, i.e., shaping oneself into love is adapting the hitherto imperfect to the perfect. Love is something perfect …. God is perfection, thus love and God must be one and the same. But lack of love is a degree of imperfection; it is also a state of distance from God, because God without love is inconceivable. For this reason loving activity will always trigger a feeling of happiness, and this is the proximity of God which can be markedly felt by the soul, consequently, all increased activity of love will also manifest itself in an increased feeling of happiness, inner peace and firm self-confidence, because all this is divine, i.e., the evidence of God’s closeness which can only have a spiritual effect, thus in emotions of the soul and not in the body’s well-being. God’s proximity in turn generates love, for since God is Love in Himself, His presence must manifest itself in a feeling of love again. And this love flows back to God as its origin …. the person having shaped himself into love, that is, his soul, unites with God …. Love flows to love, and thus the unification takes place between the being with the Primordial Being, Which in Itself is only Love ….

Amen

The revealed word of God, i.e. the word which is received directly from God, bears the stamp of divine love within itself, for this word is the direct emanation of the one Who is love Itself. Thus the recipient of this word need have no concerns that he will be harassed for the sake of the word as long as he accepts the divine revelation. Both spiritual and earthly opponents cannot use their power and strength, for this breaks against the power of God. Temptations can certainly approach the recipient of the word in the form of threats, but these threats can never be carried out because God Himself watches over His instruments as long as they have not yet fulfilled their mission. Man’s will to be of service to God is the greatest protection against those forces. He thereby forms an impenetrable wall around himself, as it were, which none of the opponents can break through, for anyone who is a recipient of strength from God can also offer resistance through precisely that strength which flows to him directly. Every attack must remain ineffective, and only weakness of faith can reduce the power of resistance. But as long as the spirit from God is obviously at work, the proof is given that God’s love is inclined towards His servant and His love and omnipotence will protect him from all danger. Moreover, the divine word can only rarely be conveyed to earth because this depends on a person’s willingness to serve. But the necessity of transmitting the pure truth to earth is understandable to every thinking person, and God’s power would truly be very small if His will were not sufficient to remove a person willing to serve from the hostility of his opponents. He will be able to carry out his ministry carefree because he is the executor of divine will and he serves a cause which is beneficial for the spiritual well-being of humanity, that is, which is intended to bring salvation to its soul. As long as the human being is willing to serve as a mediator between God and people he, although still on earth, is a co-worker of the beings of that kingdom where earthly power does not reach, and thus he is also beyond the reach of earthly power because the divine power now directs and determines his path of life according to His eternal counsel. And thus his earthly life will now take place according to divine will, for he consciously subordinated his will to it, he allowed himself to be seized by God’s love, he allowed himself to be permeated by it, and he now constantly receives divine strength against which earthly power can no longer prevail. Only when the human being has fulfilled his earthly mission will his activity on earth be stopped, but never by people, instead God Himself determines the end by recalling him from earth so that he can continue his redeeming activity in the beyond, where a new task awaits him ….

Amen

People are waging a battle against each other that is far worse than world events at present …. These are the different schools of thought whose representatives fight all the more stubbornly the more their views are refuted. And this constant battle against each other only results in each one having to be suppressed by the one Who alone is the truth and Who wants to guide the truth to earth. For if people advocate a school of thought which does not correspond to the truth, this is a distancing from God as truth Himself. Every spiritual battle is only justified if the one fighting is recognized. Then he should also stand up for what he has recognized as truth. It is true that every representative of his school of thought believes himself to be in the state of realization and therefore also believes himself to be entitled to fight. But there is one thing a person does not consider …. that the origin of his knowledge is decisive for the truth of it …. As long as people do not have the same opinion, different sources of their wisdom must also be inferred. And this source is therefore the first thing that must be subjected to criticism. Pondering and enquiry have usually preceded every acquired view, and pondering and research have produced different results …. Therefore, pondering and research can never guarantee correctness, but the guarantee of truth must be sought elsewhere. As long as people think differently, they are still far from the eternal truth, for in the truth all must find each other. In order to think alike, however, the basic attitude must also be the same, i.e. the attitude towards God must first be examined. If the attitude towards God is right, then the thinking must also be right, for God as the eternal truth will guide man’s thinking correctly if man recognizes and desires Him as truth. The right attitude towards God is therefore a prerequisite for right thinking, and thus only the person who affirms God with full conviction of his heart can stand in the truth. However, a person only affirms Him if he establishes a living relationship with Him …. when he recognizes himself as a creature completely dependent on Him and desires union with Him, i.e. wants to unite with Him, because he perceives separation from Him as an offence against God. This spiritual foundation is the first prerequisite for right thinking ….

And man will also move in truth in accordance with it. Thus the human being’s knowledge can only be assessed once it has been gained in the profound connection with God, which can only be re-established if the human being believes in a being which is extremely loving, wise and powerful …. which is therefore supremely perfect. This convinced faith is a living affirmation of the eternal deity …. But the love, wisdom and omnipotence of God will be an explanation for the most extraordinary things. From this point of view, everything can be considered possible. But the person who is not yet in the truth will reject everything that the person who is in the truth justifies with divine love, wisdom and omnipotence because he lacks faith in such a perfect being. Consequently, he does not connect with this being and cannot be taught by Him …. And those who teach him are people who are not above human error. Their opinions can be speculations, but they can never make a statement of irrefutable wisdom. Rather, a person standing in truth will easily succeed in refuting them because nothing is foreign to him and he is introduced to the deepest wisdoms through the intimate connection with God. And thus people who advocate different schools of thought should always first take the trouble to clarify their attitude towards God, and then it will emerge who is closest to the truth, for it will inevitably be where the deepest belief in God is rooted in the human being. For this person is in union with God, and he can also consider himself taught by God as soon as he approaches God Himself for the truth, thus he receives his knowledge directly from the one Who is truth in Himself. The will for God and the desire for truth are the guarantee that God Himself will express Himself and distribute the truth. And thus people should not fight each other but scrutinize and then accept what inwardly appears acceptable to them. And if the will for truth is strongly developed in a person, he will also very quickly realize ….

Amen

That which you believe to own must first be acquired, because you cannot call something your own as long as you are satisfied with the formality. The teaching of Christ has been forced to become a formality, and this formality is now incorrectly called Christianity. Consequently, people who comply with this formality call themselves Christians. They presume to possess the teaching proclaimed by Christ, they believe to be followers of the church of Christ and yet they can be a long way from it if they do not live in accordance with the teaching of Christ. Now then, if you want to be true Christians you have to make an effort to delve deeply into the divine teaching of love which Jesus Christ has proclaimed on earth. Only then will it become your possession, then you will own something wonderful, and only then may you call yourselves Christians.

Today’s Christendom is not widespread because there are only few people left on this earth who live in harmony with Christ’s teaching, and they are found everywhere, i.e. in every denomination and school of thought are people to whom the divine teaching of love has become the guiding principle for their earthly way of life. And these are the true Christians, they neither observe external appearances nor do they depend on specific organisations created by people, which claim to have been founded by God. Spiritual attachment is indeed very beneficial for the soul’s development, whereas a formal unification is rather more a hindrance since it incorporates the danger that the formal unification will be more observed than the teaching, which should constitute the core of every spiritual endeavour. And for this reason the very formality, i.e. the structure, which has developed as a shell to enclose the core, will become rotten and collapse ….

Everything built by people in the course of time will vanish, and then it remains to be seen who can claim the right knowledge, profound faith and the pure teaching of Christ as his own …. The human being now has to prove the depth of his Christianity and to what extent he has become dependent on the formalities which are mere human work and therefore cannot continue to exist either. Because everything made by human beings does not last, and only what is of God will remain …. But God through Jesus Christ gave the divine teaching of love in a pure and unaltered form to humanity, and it will also remain as such. However, anything which was added or changed by people is approaching its disintegration. And thus no school of thought which deviates from the teaching of Christ will continue to exist. For this reason God permits the fight against the different schools of thought even though it is not His will that everything revealing spiritual endeavour on earth should be fought against. But His eternally true Word will be sent to earth with all the more clarity, it will be made accessible to people time and again as the pure teaching of Christ, so that they can make it their spiritual possession and then shape themselves into real Christians if they live in accordance with this teaching ….

Amen

The urge for truth and righteousness is always decisive for the soul’s higher development, for they are already God-focussed and therefore must also be seized by God’s love. And since they strive towards God they will not offer any resistance but claim the divine favours which are offered to them through God’s love. The desire for truth and righteous thinking also makes it easier for a person to recognize what is right, and thus he will also tackle the work of transformation himself and always make an effort to live according to God’s will. And every attempt is already equal to the accomplished deed, because it testifies to the will towards God and God strengthens his willpower as soon as his will strives towards Him. And as soon as he thinks righteously he will also observe everything God demands of him through His commandment of love towards his fellow human beings. And thus he has to develop himself upwards, he lives his life consciously and thus fulfils the right purpose of earthly life, for he will be of service since he recognizes God and his love for God will constantly increase. He will try to harmonize every action with love for God and his neighbour, and this is a conscious work on his soul which has to earn him the degree of maturity ….

Amen

The merciful time of earthly life is approaching its end and therefore the struggle of the two powers against each other is getting stronger and stronger, as each one still tries to win many souls for itself. And this time can also be recognized by external signs so that people pay attention and know that the time is near which was proclaimed in word and scripture. And he who pays attention to the signs will not be surprised but will prepare himself for the last judgement, for the end and the decision. For God announces the time beforehand and this is a renewed grace for humanity. His love and mercy applies to His creatures until the last hour, and He accepts every sinner who still finds his way to Him and asks Him for mercy; He is constantly willing to hand out favours which only people need to make use of in order to escape the final downfall. Yet only a few people will call upon Him for mercy because God is no longer recognized and humanity completely lacks faith in Him. And therefore the final judgement is inevitable …. it has to come and destroy everything that still lives on earth in order to make a new shaping of the earth possible, so that the work of redemption of the still immature spiritual beings can be started again in accordance with divine will. For the beingness, which had not yet reached the last stage as man, is hindered in its higher development, and therefore new possibilities must be offered to it, in which this beingness can mature further. The era that now begins is once again like paradise, for people live in peace and, through their love for each other, create a harmonious and pain-free earthly existence on which God’s blessing visibly rests because people fulfil His will and their hearts beat towards Him. The time of struggle is over and a time of service has dawned, in contrast to the time before, which only brought struggle because humanity no longer wanted to decide to serve. And the new human race will glow with love for God and this will cause God to dwell amongst them, for He is where love is …. The degenerate being, which has abused its will again, will also be banished once more, its free will will be taken away from it again and people can no longer be oppressed by the adversary, who used these weak beings in bondage to him in order to have an unfavourable effect on believing people. This power has now been taken away from him and people can now develop upwards more easily and attain a degree of maturity on earth which was previously impossible to achieve. The battle of the world full of light has now come to an end for a short time, for these beings of light no longer encounter resistance but people voluntarily surrender to their influence and now live according to divine will …. in love and in spiritual connectedness ….

Amen

It is no easy task to lead fellow human beings to faith if they have already completely surrendered to it. And yet the attempt must be made so that all people are once again forcefully made aware of the dreadful consequences of an earthly life without faith in a just, wise, omnipotent and extremely loving creator. Even people who have so far maintained their traditional faith will abandon it in the face of the great natural disaster and its consequences. And then it is absolutely necessary to speak of God’s love, which had to intervene for the sake of human souls, and of the immense danger if man’s thoughts and endeavours are only directed towards matter. Initially people will still be allowed to speak but then very strict regulations will stop the teaching activity, and this will be the time of apostasy from God and people will find little ear if they want to re-establish the old faith. And therefore God will endow His servants with great power and signs and wonders will occur in order to strengthen the believers and to lead the unbelievers back to faith. And therefore do not become fearful or of little faith, but build firmly on God. For God knows about this time and He has prepared everything so that you, who want to serve Him, can recognize from the course of world events when the hour is to be expected which will bring the decision about the life and death of the individual …. about life and death, i.e. faith or faithlessness …. It is no longer a long period of time that God gives, for the day is approaching that will set the world on edge. And after this catastrophe humanity will be more receptive and more willing to accept the truth from God if it is offered to it. And then begins the earthly task of those who want to serve God. Then they should preach and not allow themselves to be held back by the voices of violence. For God offers them favours in extraordinary measure, so that man can carry out much, as soon as he is only willing to help suffering mankind. And so the teachers will be able to prove their words and deeds, for humanity will no longer believe words alone unless it sees proof. Prepare yourselves for this time so that you do not weaken and betray the lord …. You will truly need great strength for this, but if you connect with God in prayer beforehand, strength will come to you when you need it most, for God does not abandon those who want to work for Him. And thus He will also bless your endeavour and increase your will, and thus strengthened you will be able to resist the battle of the spirits and your work will not remain without success ….

Amen

The meaning and purpose of life on earth is the final liberation of the soul from the form. God asks nothing impossible of His creatures, and if He has given man this task for the duration of his earthly life, then He also provides him with all the means to be able to fulfil this task. And yet people fail and let the time and the favours of their embodiment pass by unused. And this lack of will moves God to an intervention of immense significance. He destroys that which prevents people from fulfilling their actual destiny. This is the earthly possession which holds people’s thoughts and will so captive that they do not fulfil their earthly task. Earthly possessions need not be a hindrance in any way if they are properly utilized on earth. On the contrary, it can still help the soul to become free if it overcomes the desire for it and uses its earthly possessions in the service of neighbourly love. Then the soul has conquered the greatest resistance on earth, i.e. it has freed itself from it because it has overcome matter. But if the possession still increases the desire for it, it is a shackle for the soul that prevents any liberation. In earthly terms, what God has decided in His wisdom is a work of destruction of immense proportions and robs people of their anxiously defended possessions. It therefore frees him from a shackle, and now the ascent upwards could be easier for the soul as soon as it derives the right benefit from this divine mission if it recognizes the transience of it and now turns its attention to the goods which are imperishable, therefore have eternal value. The will of man now decides, and man is responsible for his will. What was robbed from him earthly can be replaced a thousandfold if he resigns himself to the divine will and desires spiritual gifts as compensation. In view of the great misery that the divine intervention entails, many a person will come to realize that the earthly good should not be striven for and only serves the human being to test his will. But at the moment people are completely devoted to matter, and the work of destruction will hit them all the harder, and their thoughts and endeavours will be to regain the possessions. And so this divine intervention will be followed by a time which will obviously characterize people’s spiritual state. With increased willpower they will try to shape earthly life again in such a way that it corresponds to the body and its comfort, and the shackles of the soul cannot loosen and release the soul. Only a few will go into themselves and follow the divine voice which sounds to them admonishingly and warningly and stimulates them to think about the actual purpose of life on earth. For the sake of these few, God allows the great suffering to come upon people, which could help everyone out of the misery of their souls. But man’s will is free and he can decide according to his own choice ….

Amen

People still move in the freedom of their will, they can still be active by utilizing their life force and gather the possessions they desire, and this is a grace from God which they cannot yet fully comprehend …. They can shape their future entirely at their own discretion, and thus they create their own fate for eternity, either freedom of spirit or the opposite, renewed imprisonment of that which already possessed a certain freedom. And people live their lives without any sense of responsibility. And even if they are preached to time and again, they do not heed such words because they do not believe them. They do not use their freedom of will for the soul’s higher development and this is a spiritual regression which is severely penalized after the human being’s death. And thus, since the human being misuses the freedom of the spirit or does not utilize it properly, his soul returns to a state of bondage …. It has to move again according to God’s will through endless times so that it feels the agony of the bound will and longs again for its freedom. The spiritual in man was originally created free and will always long for this original state. But as long as the resistance against God, i.e. the own lack of love, is still so great, also the will for freedom is only small in the being and can only be awakened or strengthened by pressure and compulsion from outside. This is why there is no other way for the being to ascend than the agonizing path through the works of creation in bound will. For only when the being desires freedom out of itself will the will also become active in it, and only then will the ascent upwards begin, for only then can light and strength be supplied to it, through which it can attain freedom of spirit. Mankind of the present time, however, no longer respects its freedom and therefore does not utilize it. And therefore it also forfeits its right to live on earth as it ignores one of God’s favours. It is therefore by no means an act of injustice if people’s stay on earth is shortened or taken away completely, for they do not want it any other way, which they openly demonstrate by abusing their free will. Yet God still allows a short period of grace to follow His last admonition, and people who make extensive use of this period of grace can allow their free will to become active by living in accordance with divine commandments and submitting their free will to God, thus giving up their former resistance against God. And that is why the divine teaching of love has to be made accessible to people in this short time, they have to be urgently reminded once again of the dreadful consequences of a wrongly led earthly way of life. God’s love and His constant care for His living creations must be preached to them, but this also requires a will turned towards Him in order to be able to have a corresponding effect. And therefore this time is particularly important for the spreading of the divine word, the observance of which is to be urgently taught to them so that it can become effective. And this is the last time of grace, which precedes the last judgment and which therefore cannot be taken seriously enough ….

Amen

Regulated activity is a blessing in that it protects people from the vices of idleness. This is by no means meaningless, for idleness is the greatest danger to the soul’s higher development. It is, as it were, a return to the state of inactivity that the beingness had to endure in the bound will in the initial stage of its development …. thus an abuse of free will, which permits busy activity. Activity is life, inactivity death …. Thus the beingness, the soul, favours the state of death and at the same time puts itself in danger of falling into the most diverse vices. For as soon as a person is inactive, the desires of the body come to the fore; it wants to extract from life whatever earthly pleasures and joys are possible. And this is of the greatest harm to the soul. The state of activity, on the other hand, is only a danger to the soul if the human being is so materialistically minded that he wants to increase his earthly goods through his activity. Nevertheless, being active is serving …. And thus the human being unconsciously fulfils the task assigned to him for his time on earth. For although he carries out this serving activity without love, matter itself is nevertheless changed again, i.e. the spiritual in it is helped to serve through the constant transformation which every activity entails …. be it directly or indirectly through teaching activity. And that is why idleness should be fought most diligently and people should be encouraged to be industrious, because every activity is a blessing as long as it is not carried out to the detriment of fellow human beings. For this is true love for man, to protect him from spiritual decline. The hardships of earthly life are not even remotely comparable to the disadvantage that arises for the soul from an earthly life in which, out of apparent consideration, the demands that exist in regulated activity are kept from the human being. Man can only mature through the latter because he can never be spared serving. But he who wants to serve must be active …. But idleness excludes service; rather, man claims serving activity for himself, which is always a blessing only for the one who serves ….

Amen

The walk through earthly life is a conscious and unconscious serving, but always activity if this walk is to be a bearable one. If it is not possible for the beingness to serve, then this is a state of death, indeed caused by its own will, but unspeakably agonizing. In the stage as a human being, however, the beingness is free to be of service or to be inactive. And this does not have as agonizing an effect as in the previous stages, but it is all the more serious because the inertia places a tremendous burden on the soul. The soul perceives inactivity as an obstacle to ascent. It feels it, but is more turned towards the body and fulfils its desires. And just as it neglects its task on earth, it will also not fulfil the demands made of it in the beyond in order to change its agonizing state, which is the result and effect of its earthly life. It will not recognize its state of inactivity in the beyond as the cause of its suffering and therefore will not be willing to escape it either, yet it will still feel the torment of its lack of freedom. Moreover, as on earth, it will crave distractions and the fulfilment of earthly desires, but will never be prepared to help those who suffer like it in servant love. This state is extremely hopeless if the soul has no inner drive to be active, which is a consequence of its idle way of life. On earth power is constantly flowing to people and this should be utilized, it should be utilized for serving activity, for only through such activity does the soul redeem itself and also help the still immature spiritual substance in matter to develop higher. However, as soon as the human being indulges in idleness, he misuses the strength he receives without gaining any benefit for his soul. This would only be a standstill if idleness were not at the same time the danger that man falls into vices which mean a regression for him. For now the adversary of God comes into action by holding up all the comforts of earthly life to the sluggish human being and urging him to chase after them. Indulgence, gluttony and carnal desires tempt him to commit many sins, weaken the body and soul and make them unfit for resistance. The desire for earthly goods is increased and the soul is now kept completely away from its actual earthly task if it does not give in to the urging of the spirit, which makes suggestions to the soul to give up this way of life. If the soul still has this strength of will, then it is saved, but this requires great willpower and heartfelt prayer to God for help and strengthening of the will. In most cases, however, the desire for the world goes hand in hand with idleness and the person pays no attention to the spiritual task. And the soul must bitterly atone for such a wrongly led way of life in the beyond, for it will not be spared the torments of the state of inactivity. It has to endure it until it longs for activity of its own accord, which can take an inconceivably long time ….

Amen

Living faith is what people lack, but it is the most important thing, because without living faith a person does not establish a connection with God. In order to strive for God and to desire union with Him, He must first be affirmed in the heart. He must be felt as existing, therefore man must believe in Him that He is and is in the closest connection with His creatures. Only this living faith results in consciously striving for Him. And so faith is absolutely necessary and it can never be replaced, for without faith the prayer to God for strength and grace is futile. He who does not recognize God does not call upon Him. But God’s call for strength cannot be avoided because man alone has too little strength for higher development, but this is the goal of life on earth. Living faith means being able to stand up for something with full conviction, which cannot be proven, and then also to live according to this conviction, i.e. to put it into practice. In most cases, however, people only have a dead faith, that is, they only affirm with their mouth and recognize everything that is demanded of them to believe; but as soon as they are supposed to live according to their faith they don’t have the strength to do so because they are unable to pray, that is, to request help. And if they now seriously think about it then they realize that their inner being, their heart, is not at all in an affirmative mood, that they therefore have no living faith at all. But without this faith the human being fails in life, for now he lacks every foundation, he cannot understand the meaning and purpose of creation either, for everything that is related to God cannot be proven but must be believed, i.e. affirmed with the heart, and humanity lacks this living faith …. It may talk about the deity and supposedly profess it, but it actually only affirms the existence of a creator, since creation requires one. However, it does not recognize the connection between all things and therefore also not the relationship between man and the creator. However, the right relationship between man and the creator can only be established when man is convinced of a being Who leans towards him in love. For now he seeks to win this love for himself through prayer and devotion to his creator. Prayer, however, presupposes faith in a power Which can do anything It wants and wants everything that is good …. So the being must be omnipotent and loving …. The belief in such a perfect being can only be called a living one, for this belief only stimulates activity …. the human being likewise strives for perfection because he has the desire to come closer to the eternal deity, Which he now recognizes, but this requires the will to become active. However, where living faith is lacking, the will also remains inactive, or it sets itself a false goal …. it strives towards the world and the human being does not establish a connection with the being Who created him. The lack of faith is therefore the cause of the most diverse schools of thought, which aim to teach man’s independence from the power that created him and which can therefore be called the death of a living faith. For the purpose and goal of earthly life is the conscious striving for the eternal deity, the desire for union, but this presupposes a living faith …. a faith that is a matter of the heart but can never be gained intellectually. God can only be felt, and as soon as the heart affirms Him, faith is also alive, for now the human being also establishes the right relationship with God according to this feeling, and a conscious striving for perfection is the result of this right attitude towards God. However, anyone who tries to fathom God intellectually is outside of faith, even if he tries to present himself as a believer through words. Living faith stimulates activity in the transformation of the soul, whereas formal faith lacks such and therefore cannot be called living, for everything that lives must be active or stimulate perpetual activity ….

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Fateful is the battle for spiritual supremacy which will flare up to an extent not experienced by the world before. Evil spirits want to forcefully displace the virtuous ones and this is indeed a course of action which divine love no longer wants to watch passively and decisively will end the battle Itself. All attempts aim to cause the spiritual aspirants such severe difficulties that they discontinue their striving, that they turn towards the world so that the world can then claim victory, so to speak. If the world would succeed to eradicate the belief in an existing Deity and in the divine Saviour Jesus Christ then it would have gained victory over the other believers, and the outcome of such a victory would be grave, because then all of humanity would be heading for disaster since all further spiritual development would be out of the question.

This battle has been fought many times before yet never in such relentless way as it is now planned. Because the adversary himself is at work now, and he stops at nothing to assume control over humanity and will find willing agents, i.e. people who are willing to do anything, and thus believers will experience tremendous difficulties. Harshest measures will be taken for no reason at all against those who in their heart still believe in God and the divine Saviour, by attempting to make their lives unbearable. For they are superior to the unbelievers and scorners and can contradict every contention, and since God wants to use these willing people who are exposed to the particular onslaught by the worldly power during the coming time, He will not permit that His servants shall be tormented to the point that they will surrender their faith …. on the contrary, He will endow them with great strength and reinforce their faith, and they, for their part, will now enter the battle, they will fight for the name of God and both camps will find their supporters. And then the battle will erupt with full intensity, the virtuous spiritual world will struggle for supremacy over the bad elements and the world apparently wins because it succeeds to intimidate people into parting with their faith because they do not believe that they can endure the events. And during this hardship God’s love is consistently concerned for the human race. He will closely guard His small flock and not permit that it should fall victim to the powers who are so obviously fighting against God ….

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Every human being deems himself as living in a state of realisation if he advocates an opinion he formed intellectually. Nevertheless, this opinion need not always correspond to truth. God gave the human being intellect and free will, but He also gave him a heart …. As long as the intellect wants to find a solution for a spiritual question without the heart, he will hardly come close to the truth, for the truth comes forth from God and can only be received by the spirit and not from the body which is, after all, of matter. Intellectual thought is merely a function of the body …. but the heart is the seat of all emotions, the heart also shelters the divine spark of love and therefore the spirit, which is a part of God. A thought born in the heart, thus originating from the divine spiritual spark, can therefore always claim to be based on truth, for the spirit only imparts purest truth …. But whether the thought was born in the heart or is merely a product of rational thinking depends on the heart’s ability to love. The more deeply the human being is able to love, that is, the more he strives for unity with God through loving activity, the clearer the thoughts will arise from his heart and enter the person’s consciousness. For these thoughts are spiritual strength which flows forth from beings united with God and into the heart of someone who likewise unites with God through his activity of love. Whereas intellectual thinking is merely the function of physical organs, thus the utilisation of the human being’s received vital energy, which can also be used by the person who exists without love, i.e. whose heart has little ability to love. Intellectual and emotional thinking should thus be separated. The latter will always arrive at the truth, whereas intellectual thinking need not always be the truth, even if one can speak of well developed reasoning power.

Only love is decisive, i.e. determinant of the truth. The human being has little information about the nature of thought, and therefore the difference is not clear to him. The thought born in the heart only has one thing in common with intellectually gained spiritual knowledge, both have to reach the brain in order to penetrate into the person’s consciousness, and this makes the human being assume that every thought originates in the brain, that it therefore was intellectually achieved. Nevertheless, the mental knowledge of a loving person, hence a person whose life is a constant activity of love, has to be entirely differently judged than the purely intellectual thinking of someone with little capacity to love. The former will come close to the truth, whereas the latter offers no guarantee for truth and knowledge. For God reserves the truth for Himself and only distributes it to those who acknowledge Him, desire Him and demonstrate this through activity of love. Consequently, that which flows forth from a loving heart can be accepted as truth without hesitation, for such thoughts are subject to a certain surveillance through knowledgeable spiritual beings, whose responsibility is the transfer of thoughts and which therefore diligently watch that the person will think correctly. For through his activity of love the human being acquires the right and the claim for the light beings assistance, which now guard the person from thoughts which contradict the truth ….

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Spiritual success is minimal if people have formed a wrong view and are not prepared to surrender it. For then there is no striving from the innermost impulse and a maturing of the souls is impossible. A spiritual direction which does not completely correspond to the truth can never result in higher development, thus progress, and the human being will always remain on the same level. He has adopted an opinion and is now content with what has been presented to him intellectually. And he would now have the duty to likewise examine it intellectually, which he usually does not do. For an examination and an intellectual thinking through would make him recognize the flimsiness of some teachings. However, he usually accepts what is offered to him as the truth and then holds on to it with a tenacity that he would reject if he were to seriously scrutinize it. And yet he has no guarantee of pure truth. But what is not truth cannot bring him spiritual success either, for only pure truth simultaneously conveys strength, without which the human being cannot reach the heights. And that is why a person who is not in full possession of the truth always remains on the same level. A spiritual direction which does not fully correspond to the truth radiates neither light nor strength, i.e. the human being is ignorant although he believes himself to be knowledgeable and also powerless in spiritual relationship …. He lacks the strength to recognize as well as to be spiritually active, and if the human being tries to shape himself according to his spiritual direction he only ever pursues an earthly purpose, i.e. he only educates himself for this world, for earthly life, but does not think about life after death and therefore spiritual progress cannot be recorded. And from this point of view, a spiritual direction has no value as long as it does not correspond to the truth because it has no effect on the human being’s soul. Only the intellect is kept active and only thought activity is stimulated, but the heart remains untouched, and thus the knowledge the human being now calls his own is dead if it does not correspond to the truth. And thus earthly life will bring him little success if he is not exceptionally active in love. For only loving activity leads him towards the right knowledge …. And as soon as a person is lovingly active he will also soon recognize a wrong spiritual direction as wrong and thereby come closer to the pure truth, because love is the first prerequisite in order to attain realization and thus brings spiritual maturity to the soul. Truth can be advocated to a loving person because it also appears acceptable to him and the person does not resist it because he also recognizes it as truth. For where there is love, there will also be recognition ….

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Only a philosophy of life affirmed by Jesus Christ and therefore based on the divine doctrine of love will be a blessing for a nation and guarantee its spiritual as well as earthly flourishing. A nation which adopts such a philosophy of life remains profoundly united with the One proclaiming the divine doctrine of love, it will mature spiritually and not be subjected to such great afflictions since it makes every effort to live according to God’s will and therefore does not require much suffering in order to change. A population which models itself on the divine Redeemer, which acknowledges Him and thus has an affirmative attitude towards Him, does not merely live a worldly life and will therefore not only be interested in material goods but also strive for spiritual possessions, it will live an inner life and strive towards ascent for, due to its faith, it is more knowledgeable, because faith requires loving activity and the latter leads to knowledge. And knowledgeable people consciously live their lives with God, that is, they will never turn away from Him and pay tribute to the world. Hence they will have conquered matter already because, having been seized by the love of God, they see their goal of life in the union with Him. Consequently, a nation which has released itself from matter is highly evolved but will never try to assert itself against other nations. It is peaceful and willing to help, it won’t seek to increase its power or try to make an impression, it lives its life quietly and in seclusion, hence, it will have little esteem in the world yet be held in high regard by God. Such a nation will never be able to understand that a different way of thinking could ever establish itself which negates everything of divine origin, which therefore also excludes the divine doctrine of love and wants to replace it with human teachings. Yet the latter will not last long and the nation which adhered to the latter will go under, for nothing will remain that is not of divine origin, which must also include a philosophy of life without Jesus Christ. And even if people wage a battle against Him, they will never be able to destroy His teaching, the divine teaching of love, and a worldview without Christ will destroy itself, just as a nation having adopted this point of view will sooner or later cause its own downfall ….

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The inner value of every human being emerges from his way of life and not from his words. It is often difficult to decide whether a person has established contact with God or is still completely distant from God, for his words do not always correspond to his innermost feelings; however, the person’s attitude towards his fellow human beings is decisive and his development progresses accordingly. There are often expressions which reveal a will turned towards God and yet do not provide information about the relationship with God, and yet these expressions can lack the right depth of heart. Conversely, however, a person can glow with the deepest love for God without ever saying a word about it or allowing his fellow human beings an insight into the feelings of his heart. And that is why a person should be careful not to pass judgement, because it can very often be a wrong judgement. But God looks into the heart, He knows its degree of love, He knows its desires …. But He also knows when the words do not correspond to the feelings and what value should therefore be attached to such words. And it is a certain spiritual inferiority when beautiful words are supposed to replace the lack of feeling …. It is understandable that people with hardened hearts also try to cover up their shortcomings and want to feign love where it does not exist. But at the same time these people lack the desire for truth, for if they desired to receive truth they would also be strict with themselves, i.e. they would only act and speak in accordance with their innermost feelings. And this lack of desire for truth is also the obstacle to recognizing when a person is offered the truth. However, a person’s way of life betrays his innermost feelings and thoughts. A life lived in serving love will be recognizable as good and in accordance with God’s will even without words, and a person who seriously wants to examine himself will seldom err. For he will see the right relationship with God established and know that the father in heaven is well pleased with the one who is intimately united with Him ….

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It does not correspond to My will to disregard the blessings of the church, for I Myself founded the church so that My word may be taught within the church, so that My word may be brought to people on My behalf for the salvation of their souls …. But what is My church? …. Who belongs to My church and what blessings have I promised to those who belong to My church? …. Time and again it has to be explained to people that I have only spoken of My faithful followers and that even today I still understand My church to be those people who are deeply devout, that is, who come together in faith in Me and form a congregation. A congregation of believers …. that is the right meaning of the word “My church ….” I Myself founded this church when I chose My apostles and sent them out into all the world; I gave them the task of proclaiming My word to those who believed. And to these believers of Mine I promised My blessing …. My support, My Spirit …. I have given them the promise to be in their midst if they believingly receive this word of Mine. And My presence signifies the distribution of My love, for where I dwell My love must also be felt, which expresses itself in the transmission of strength, thus in the bestowal of My grace. And thus I bless everyone who receives My word with faith in Me, for he will also live according to My word and consequently be honoured with My grace. Thus I bless the believers who, in union, form My church and, understandably, I cannot approve of it if My blessing is valued lightly and the union of the believers is thus called into question, for anyone who does not believe My promises cannot belong to the circle of My believers either and thus to the church which I founded and which presupposes profound faith. The blessings of My church are the foundation of faith, for if I am with My own with My support they will be permeated by My love and grace and then also be able to believe firmly and unshakably and be true followers of My church, for the spirit within them is pushing towards My father-spirit. And therefore My church is nothing external but something deeply internal, which is why it need not be outwardly recognizable. My church has to unite truly believing people so that the blessings of this church will have an effect on these believers and so that My true church can also be recognized by them. And anyone who belongs to this church of Mine does not disregard its blessings either, for he believes in Me, My love and My strength and wants to receive them from My hand …. love, strength and grace …. My church is the community of believers whose shepherd I am …. And My will is that they recognize in Me their shepherd, that they hear Me when I let My voice be heard …. that they feel Me when they receive My word and then willingly follow Me, i.e., strive to fulfil My word and put it into practice ….

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It is the spirit that characterizes My church and this spirit can be expressed in every denomination, for it will always fill the people who strive towards Me. However, I have not founded any denominations but only a church, a community which is to be based on profound faith. Anyone who wants to join My church must therefore be deeply devout and long for Me …. I only look at this, but not at the denomination to which a person belongs. For only then is a person able to pray in spirit and in truth. He establishes a connection with Me which is free from all outward appearances, for faith and desire reduce the distance from Me and the person enters a bridge which My love has built to earth …. He speaks to Me, humbly and trustingly, and he desires My nearness. Thus the spiritual spark in him, which is My part, connects with Me, its creator and source. And now the spiritual connection is established, the separation from Me is finally overcome. The human being belongs to My church and is therefore a member of the church of Peter, which was built on profound faith, for only genuine, profound faith has initiated the intimate relationship with God, but where faith is lacking, the human being can never pray to Me in spirit and in truth. Consequently, everyone will belong to My church whom faith has caused to enter into a living bond with Me, which must be established if My spirit is to flow through him. My spirit, however, is the life of the church, for a church which is not permeated by My spirit cannot be My work, it can never have been founded by Me. And My spirit will be everywhere where love is …. thus, where love is taught and love is practiced again, My spirit will also be recognizable there. Consequently, My spirit has to express itself in people of all denominations because there are truly loving people in each one and My spirit flows into them. But the working of the spirit will be recognizable by the increase of light and knowledge. To be enlightened is an obvious sign of the working of the spirit. And consequently, My church, i.e. its true followers, will be in knowledge, for through their profound faith and desire for Me they will make themselves receptive to this knowledge, they will not oppose the working of the spirit. Wisdom from God or wisdom from people …. these are the characteristics of the churches, i.e. the individual denominations and their followers. In every denomination there can be people who have been taught by God and also those who have absorbed human knowledge. Consequently, only those who have also received wisdom directly from Me through the working of the spirit, which is the emanation of My spirit, can count themselves among My church …. And this church of Mine will never perish …. it will remain forever, for there will always be people who have faith and love and who harbour a burning desire for Me, and I will remain with them forever …. I will constantly dwell among them in spirit, as I have promised ….

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It is a certain spiritual arrogance when a person who has not been taught by God believes himself to be knowledgeable. The knowledge he has received from people is mostly the result of intellectual thought using established teachings and this knowledge can correspond to the truth if these teachings originate from the working of the spirit in the human being. Such teachings will also always appear as truth to people who, through their way of life, bring themselves back into a state which also allows the working of the spirit in them …. However, as soon as the latter has become impossible due to the non-fulfilment of the conditions which are a prerequisite for the working of the spirit in the human being, the pure truth will be interspersed with error, because then the human being will also allow those forces which fight against the truth access to himself. But then the person will likewise believe himself to be in the truth and will stand up with conviction for what is no longer pure truth but error due to the work of God’s adversary. If this person were enlightened by the spirit of God himself, he would have to recognize where the adversary’s activity begins and thus he would have to absolutely reject that which is not divine spiritual activity. Yet he will not be able to replace the working of the spirit with intellectual enquiry alone, which he nevertheless believes, and this is spiritual arrogance, this is spiritual arrogance which again prevents him from penetrating the truth. However, the human being usually places intellectual thinking above the working of the spirit, and thus he will never allow himself to be convinced that the latter alone is the guarantee for pure truth, and he will value the knowledge of those more highly who have adopted spiritual knowledge and try to fathom it intellectually themselves. Intellectual thought can never be equated with the working of the spirit, for it is always human working in contrast to divine working, which understandably has to be assessed quite differently. But as long as man does not recognize the working of the spirit, he cannot be given complete enlightenment about questions concerning eternity. For man can never answer such questions, but the spirit from God can, which makes itself known to man and explains to him the things which are completely beyond human knowledge and human intellect. The spirit from God, however, never errs and can also never be explained by the working of evil forces, which is why knowledge gained through the working of the spirit indisputably surpasses intellectual knowledge and is the only guarantee of pure truth ….

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The thought activity of a soul forming itself into love is subject to divine protection, and if the human being wants to be good he will always willingly take up the right thoughts if they rise from the heart and desire to be held in the human being’s brain. The will of the person striving for love affirms the good thoughts and rejects the bad thoughts, and God strengthens this will because He recognizes the person’s striving and seizes everything that wants to turn to Him, thus He meets the person who has Him as his goal. The good person cannot think wrongly as soon as his thoughts are born in his own heart, i.e. everything that is unclear to him and triggers questions in him will awaken truthful thoughts in him and can therefore be called his own acquired thoughts. However, if human teachings have preceded it which deviate from the truth, the soul will not give itself unreservedly to the eternal truth, which is God Himself …. it does not desire enlightenment, but believes itself to be enlightened …. Thoughts are not born in the heart but have been implanted in it …. man’s will cannot free itself from it, and man’s love does not exclusively turn to the eternal deity but also belongs to that which gave rise to human wisdom …. So man is not yet free from earthly love. But man must be prepared to give up everything he possesses if he wants to receive eternal truth. This, however, compensates him for everything he gives. The activity of thought is left up to him and is therefore not forcibly steered in a certain direction as long as the human being wants to be active himself. Only when he also hands over his thoughts to God’s guidance, when he asks for His protection and blessing and recommends every thought that comes to him to His care and grace, will his thoughts be guided by God and inevitably move in the truth. And the human being need not fear having to surrender something pleasing to God, for as soon as he is already in the truth, it will come to him again as thought material. But the heart refuses to allow that which does not correspond to divine truth to ascend to the brain …. i.e. the human being then rejects such thoughts purely by will (emotionally?) because he can no longer fully affirm them. And God separates truth from error and gives the person who surrenders to Him in full faith the knowledge of what is truth and what is error. Whoever wants to draw wisdom from the books of the world will never attain wisdom; but whoever approaches God with heartfelt love for the truth, his wisdom will surpass everything that has been gained intellectually. And thus a characteristic is set when a person moves in the truth …. But the same truth is always offered to those who ask God as the eternal truth for the right knowledge ….

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The slightest resistance reduces the effect of the emanation of strength from God, because the fullest will is needed in order to be able to receive a gift from God, otherwise the supply of strength would be given to the being against its will and thus signify a forced higher development. Only the life power necessary for the preservation of the being is given to every man also without his will, but he can also leave this life power unused for the higher development, and he must therefore first let his will become active for the utilization of that life power coming to him. Weakness of will is a shortcoming for which the being itself is held responsible, for the strength to carry out its will is constantly given to it as long as the human being remains on earth, thus whatever the human being wants he can also carry out if it applies to the transformation of his soul. For this only requires a life of love …. but every human being can mould himself into love as long as he has the will to do so. He can be good towards his fellow human beings, and that is all that God demands of people as proof of His love for Him. And in order to be good, a person only needs to want to be good and then he will be able to do so, because God gives him the strength to do so by giving him life and preserving it. He demands nothing but love from people, for people emerged from love and, after an endlessly long period of separation from the one Who is love in Himself, they are to return to Him again, and they can only do so through love. The emanation of strength from God is a bestowal of divine love, thus an act of grace which requires the ability and willingness to receive, for the emanation of love from God can only be bestowed upon those who prove themselves worthy of God’s love, who desire it and thus open their heart to the divine flow of love. Divine love does not deny itself to them, it gives itself to them in the word, which is and will remain the greatest proof of God’s love for people for all eternity ….

Amen