It is difficult to make people understand what gift of grace comes to them through the mediation of the divine word, for the word is the connection between God and people who are still distant from Him …. the word is, as it were, God’s approach to people who have not yet made any effort to come to Him. The person who receives the divine word has indeed established this connection, but the word does not only come to earth for him, but through him to all people, even to those who have not yet sought God’s closeness of their own accord. This is an act of mercy that is incomprehensible to people. Man should decide in favour of God of his own free will and of his own accord and strive for union with Him. Yet his will is very weak and the adversary’s activity is strong, and he tries to win the human being’s will for himself. And the human being would be lost if he were not helped by the word of God. Everything he fails to do of his own accord is made clear to him through the word. He is urgently admonished to allow his will to become active after all; the significance of a properly utilized will is presented to him and the path he should take on earth in order to finally become free for eternity is clearly outlined to him. God’s infinite love expresses itself, it descends to earth itself and gathers its little sheep …. This word would truly not be necessary if people wanted to shape themselves into love of their own accord, for then they would also take the right path without any guidance, they would become knowledgeable and, by being active in love, would also directly receive the strength from God to live their lives in spiritual endeavour. But the will to love is very weak and therefore the realization is also minimal. And a lack of strength is the result, as the strength is a gift from God that is conditional on the will of the person. Only activity of love of his own accord and acceptance of the divine word allow the strength from God to flow to him. However, in order to be able to fulfil the earthly task in accordance with God’s will, the human being needs the strength from God, and therefore God constantly seeks to convey this to people through His word and to stimulate them to activity of love through it. Without these constant admonitions people would be lost, for they are still too exposed to the influence of God’s adversary, whose endeavour is to remove them completely from God. And thus two powers wrestle against each other and try to win the souls for themselves. But the human being’s will is free and can decide in favour of either power, and they would inevitably fall prey to God’s adversary if God did not come to their aid through His word, which He repeatedly conveys to earth in love and greater than great mercy ….

Amen

Times of adversity are also times of grace, for God in His love constantly endeavours to bring salvation to people and uses all means to make Himself known to them so that they will find Him and be saved from death and ruin …. …. every suffering is a mercy because it is a means God uses to change people’s thinking. God knocks on people’s hearts, He brings Himself close to them and waits for them to call upon Him, to let Him into their hearts so that He can then continue to work with His grace and love. For God’s love never ceases, it is not limited like human love, it is without end and is eternally only for His living creations, which are of Him and shall return to Him for their own happiness. The fact that people do not recognize this love is only the result of their state of being far from God, which blinds them to the divine. God takes this state into account and considers people accordingly, but He never leaves them without help, and everything He sends over them in order to lead them towards Himself are favours offered to them by His love in order to win them back forever. And as long as the human being has not become completely hardened and loveless, these favours are not ineffective either. But they must always leave the human being’s free will untouched, i.e., all coercion must be eliminated, the human being must be free to want to let the grace have an effect on him, his will must not be determined in any way to lead a different way of life, otherwise the being would be unfree and this would eliminate the soul’s higher development. And this is why suffering is tremendously beneficial, because it often causes the human being to turn to God of his own accord and thus utilize a grace which God’s love offers him ….

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Every matter is given a certain time of existence for the maturity of the spiritual within it, which cannot be shortened at will by the spiritual itself. Only the will of man is free to free the spiritual from matter or to shorten the duration of its stay at will. For it is up to man to remodel matter and to create new things again and again, which again become a stay for the spiritual. So it is so to speak left to the free will of man how long the spiritual is allowed to stay in a certain form. And this will will always also be the will of God as long as man’s activity is meant for the remodelling of matter and as long as the purpose of such newly formed forms is again a serving. Everything that is produced out of matter through human will has to serve humanity again, then the duration of the outer shell of the spiritual corresponds entirely to God’s will. However, if an external form is dissolved beforehand by human will and the newly created work is not given a serving task, then this is an interference in the divine order …. The course of development of the spiritual is interrupted or the spiritual is forced into an activity that serves no creature on earth for the best, the spiritual is prevented by human hand from maturing through service. At the same time, however, the human being presumes to destroy creations prematurely and thereby help the spiritual in these creations to become free prematurely, which has an extremely detrimental effect on spiritual life as a whole. For the spiritual substance senses very well that it does not yet have the necessary maturity for its next embodiment on earth and therefore tries to let off steam with people, which does not have a favourable influence on them. The spiritual cannot revive a new form until the old form has been completely overcome. Consequently, a great deal of spiritual substance will be released from its outer shell in the time to come and can harass people until its time is over and the new form can now take up residence …. (25.4.1942) The still immature spiritual, whose course of development was interrupted through premature destruction of matter, the cause of which is the unkindness of men, uses its freedom in a way, which is not to the advantage of men. It remains in the destroyed matter for as long as there are still undestroyed parts in it and awaits its new moulding. But where the material has become unusable, the spiritual seeks another place to stay …. it initially oppresses people, depending on how great their desire for possession was. And indeed, it repeatedly presents itself to this person as that which the person has lost and seeks to awaken their desire and stimulate the will to create the same thing in order to be able to embody itself in it again. And this often means an agonizing state for people because they lack the opportunity to do so. And this agonizing state is the expression of that immature spiritual substance which wants to take revenge on the human being for its interrupted development. But as soon as man uses all his strength to get rid of this destroyed matter, the harassment on the part of the spiritual also ceases, just as man’s whole attitude towards matter is decisive as to how long the spiritual stays near it and harasses him. The greater the desire was and still is for matter, the greater influence the spiritual has and the more it uses its influence to increase the human being’s desire. Where it is not possible through human activity to bring things into being that harbour this spiritual substance in themselves again, there it oppresses other creations ….

It tries to unite with such and to influence their activity, which manifests itself in phenomena which deviate from the natural, thus in irregularities which are particularly evident in the plant world. Immature beings interfere with the divine order without being prevented by God, so that people realize that every work of destruction, every premature destruction for ignoble motives, also has a destructive or unlawful effect again. The spiritual, which becomes free prematurely, is not powerless and in the free state can always press or influence the spiritual, which stands on the same or higher level of development, and it uses its freedom in such a way that it joins this spiritual and wants to be active as it were, therefore now two intelligences want to express themselves through a work of creation. Admittedly, these are only ever attempts, for the spiritual in the form resists them, but for a short time it is disturbed in its regularity and this results in deviations which, although not serious, are nevertheless noticeable. For God certainly lets the spiritual in this way seek and find a balance but protects the other works of creation from significant changes through such entities which are still completely immature. But people should recognize from this that every offence against divine order has the effect of overturning the divine order again, and this to the detriment of people …. be it through delayed growth in the plant world or bad harvests or also weather influences, which likewise often cause such spirit beings that have become free to run riot in nature …. in the clouds or in the air. Very often the human will itself is the cause that prematurely destroys works of creation and thereby even influences the plant world unfavourably, for the released spiritual being does not remain inactive but looks for new deformations and a new field of activity, even if it does not yet have the necessary state of maturity for this until it has found an outer shell corresponding to its state of maturity and can continue its course of development ….

Amen

Without the spirit of God, even the deepest wisdom remains hidden. You must first have awakened the spiritual spark within you before the knowledge of God and His reign and activity can be revealed to you. Awakening the spiritual spark within you is your task in life, for your higher development as a human being begins with the awakening of the spirit within you. The soul begins to unite with the spirit, which is the purpose and goal of life on earth. But uniting the soul with the spirit must also bring knowledge to the soul, which is previously ignorant, since the spirit in it knows everything because it is a part of God. The penetration into divine knowledge, however, gives the soul a certain freedom, for darkness of the spirit is a bondage …. the soul is narrowly limited in its knowledge, whereas the transmission of wisdom from God is a state of light and strength for it, i.e. a state of freedom. This becomes understandable when the actual task of the soul is considered. The soul should overcome matter, i.e. it should disregard the body’s desire for worldly things, which are matter …. it should strive for union with the spirit within itself. Therefore the latter must appear desirable to it and the spirit must offer it something that it can oppose to the body’s desire …. And this is the wisdom from God …. Now the soul also feels that it still lacks this, that it is therefore in a state of ignorance, in a state of imperfection, of limitation and lack of freedom. And it feels that it can change this state through its will, that it can change it into a state of knowledge and therefore also of freedom and perfection as soon as it seeks the connection with the divine spiritual spark in it, which, as part of God, is something perfect …. It feels that this connection redeems her from her lack of freedom, because it becomes light and bright within her, because it is led from the state of ignorance into the state of realization. Knowledge is freedom, knowledge is light and knowledge is strength …. and all of this is conveyed to the soul by the spirit in the human being as soon as the human being awakens this spiritual spark within himself. The awakening of the spirit, however, is an act of free will, and therefore it also depends on the human being himself whether the divine secrets remain a secret to him or whether he is introduced to the deepest knowledge by the dormant spark of God within him, the spirit from God …. And he must express his willingness through activity in love, then the spirit in him awakens to life …. and he introduces the soul of man into a realm that is otherwise inaccessible to man …. He imparts divine knowledge and sets the soul free ….

Amen

The gifts of the spirit are to be valued as the purest truth. They must be unreservedly recognized as purest truth, for the spirit from God cannot err and will only impart the truth to the human being because what it imparts is of divine origin. Consequently, the human being will never be considered other than truthful if the spirit from God is active. But whether the spirit works from God can be recognized by the fact that spiritual possessions are imparted to the human being which merely benefit the soul, thus excluding any earthly advantage. Furthermore, the way in which spiritual possessions are imparted is to be regarded as proof of its working …. Teaching forces, which no longer belong to earth, impart knowledge to people which far surpasses all school knowledge. And this knowledge is offered (received?) in the form of transcripts that arise effortlessly and correctly …. So there are undeniably forces at work that possess such knowledge themselves. These forces are constantly in contact with the spirit in the human being and convey extraordinary knowledge to the human being’s soul through this spirit, thus they increase his possession of spiritual possessions without the intervention of a fellow human being. Spiritual possessions can only ever be imparted through the spirit, for even if they are acquired through study they can only really be addressed as spiritual possessions once the human being has taken a stand on them and his mental activity is once again guided by the spirit within himself …. it only now becomes comprehensible to man. The spirit must always become active in him in order to be able to receive spiritual knowledge, i.e. spiritual things can only be grasped by the spirit. So what is to penetrate the spirit in man must emanate from the divine spirit …. and what emanates from God, i.e. has its origin in Him, must again be received by the divine spiritual spark in man …. The body as such can never receive what God has intended for the soul (the spirit) …. just as, conversely, the soul (the spirit) can never receive anything that has not emanated from God through the spirit. Spiritual goods are merely a share of the spirit, which is why only perfect beings can ever be donors of spiritual goods and the spirit in a person is only capable of receiving these spiritual goods from them ….

Amen

You humans cannot assess the extent of your guilt towards God and therefore the full significance of Christ’s act of salvation cannot be made clear to you until you have penetrated spiritual knowledge. And that is why the will to reject is often so strong, because the idea of redemption is not compatible with the feeling of freedom, which is strongly developed in the human being. Thus he does not recognize the bondage of his will as long as he lacks the knowledge about it …. consequently, neither does he recognize the one Who redeemed him from bondage because he does not experience the bound state on earth as torment, since he has free will after all. He does not realize that he would not be able to free himself from this bound state for eternity if Jesus Christ had not accomplished the work of redemption for him through His death on the cross. He does not know about the power of evil, which has great influence on his will as long as he remains on earth, and that, although his will is free, he falls prey to this influence because he himself is too weak to be able to resist it. And he does not know about the consequences, about the dreadful consequences of a failure of this free will …. He does not know that the adversary will put him back in chains for eternity and that he will have to languish in unbearable agony in the beyond if he has to atone for his former injustice against God Himself, for he does not know the extent of his guilt …. But Jesus Christ recognized this as a human being, i.e., through His way of life in love the human being Jesus had penetrated into the deepest knowledge of the original state of all beings, of their immense transgression and its consequences, that He recognized the human being’s weak will and his lack of resistance towards the enemy of his soul. And He wanted to help people develop a strong will which would be able to withstand the enemy’s temptations and utilize the time of his life on earth for his final liberation from him and his power, i.e. his influence. And in order to purchase this increased willpower for people, He gave His life on the cross. His blood was the purchase price that was to bring people redemption from the greatest adversity, which He probably overlooked in His perfection and therefore wanted to avert from every single person. His immense love wanted to reduce the suffering of the unredeemed souls in the beyond, for He knew that no human being could free himself on earth from the dreadful guilt that the being had brought upon himself through his apostasy from God. The realization of this guilt impelled His will to extreme activity and He accomplished a work which no human being had ever been willing to carry out before because it required profound love and which no human being had ever been able to accomplish before either, for this act of salvation required immense strength of will which the man Jesus brought to its highest development through His activity of love and His way of life. And the whole of humanity was to share in this work of redemption. He died not just for one generation, but for all people who, as unredeemed beings, have to go through life on earth in order to finally become free. But the willingness to be redeemed must precede this in order to be able to share in the blessings of the work of redemption. The human being must recognize the act of salvation as well as the divine redeemer Jesus Christ if he wants to belong to those from whom the dreadful guilt against God was taken away through Jesus Christ, Who gave Himself as atonement in order to reduce the guilt of sin of all beings and to bring them redemption ….

Amen

The relationship between man and God should be the same as the relationship between a child and its father. Then the child’s love is the driving force to do what the father asks, and then the father can also consider his child as a loving father does. The child should come to the father in the most faithful trust and present his needs to him in the firm confidence that he will be helped, because a good father does not leave his child in need and misery and is always ready to help. This intimate relationship with God presupposes faith in a loving being, in Whose power it lies to avert all evil from man, and God blesses such faith by not leaving unfulfilled the prayer that is sent to Him in such faith. The more heartfelt the child’s devotion to His father is, the more lovingly the father will take care of the child, for the human being has now established the original relationship of his own accord, of his own free will; he has fulfilled the purpose of earthly life by bridging the separation from God, as the original spirit from which he emerged, and by God’s grace he has placed himself into a state which will result in his union with God as soon as he leaves earthly life. And this can only be achieved by consciously recognizing and voluntarily submitting to a power Which inclines Itself towards earthly people in fatherly love. The relationship between child and father must be established because this was the original relationship in which the being that emerged from God was free and unimaginably happy ….

Amen

Contact with the spiritual world is so extremely fruitful that it should always and constantly be established and always be striven for anew. It cannot be sufficiently pointed out to people to put themselves in contact with the giving powers of the spiritual kingdom, for if they abandon themselves to these powers their higher development is guaranteed. Where people lack the strength to do so, they are always ready to transmit it and only require the willingness to receive it, but this can only happen when the person establishes a conscious connection with the giving forces. These beings are also subject to certain laws and certain preconditions have to be fulfilled if these beings are to be able to take action. But as soon as the human being believes that the spiritual forces can influence his way of life, as soon as he wants to let the influence work on him, the spiritual beings have a certain freedom. They are now allowed to consider the human being at their own discretion, and since they are extremely willing and helpful, the human being is abundantly provided for by them and truly does not need to live in want. The forces in the beyond often make themselves known to people and want to encourage them to establish a connection with them. They use every opportunity to direct their thoughts towards the kingdom which lies beyond the earthly, and as soon as a person occupies himself with such thoughts, i.e. he stays with them for a longer period of time, they are already able to influence him through mental transmissions. But if the working of these beings can be made credible to a person so that he establishes the connection with them himself, then a measure of knowledge flows to him mentally which also no longer lets him feel the earthly heaviness in this way, thus signifying strength and grace for the person. And the spiritual powers can hand out unmeasured, they set no limits as long as the human being does not set such limits. They are always and forever ready for the earthly child longing for them because it was entrusted to their protection and they are allowed to consider it for the time of the earthly career according to their desire. And if they maintain contact with those spiritual beings they will never be without assistance, for the spiritual beings are very capable and in their love they are also always ready to give. Yet people have to initiate the contact themselves, for they may only offer their spiritual gifts to those who make contact with them through thoughtful questions or desire them in faith in their strength through heartfelt prayer to God or silent invocation of those powers which God has provided to them for the time of their life on earth ….

Amen

The lord’s temple is the human soul when it has moulded itself into love and can now take God Himself into its abode. And this temple is pleasing to God, for now the human being truly serves God, because his activity of love has made him a servant of humanity, and God rewards such love with His nearness …. He comes into the heart of the person who has adorned it as a temple of the lord. The presence of God is the most precious gift for man and therefore also sanctifies the heart that may harbour Him. It has become a temple of God, where God Himself lets His voice be heard by the person in whose heart God has taken up residence. Hearing the voice of God makes man the happiest creature on earth, and he now knows that God is supremely good and holy, that His love is boundless, which leans towards man …. Man himself has become the temple of the lord, and the union with God has taken place …. This is a blissful union, a union of that which once emerged from God with its creator, and such a union must result in supreme bliss for the human being. And this bliss must be the result of a way of life in love, for where there is love there is God …. and where there is God there is unsuspected bliss. As soon as a person has moulded his heart into a temple for the lord, he is a child of God who enters into all filial rights. And so he may also speak with the father from mouth to mouth, he can hear Him at close quarters, he can hear His voice, ask Him and desire an answer, and he will be happy beyond all measure to know that the lord is within him at all times. For whoever’s heart the saviour has chosen as His temple will never lose His grace and love, for divine love has seized him and will never leave him again. His spirit has united with the father-spirit and therefore there is no more relapse. Man has passed the test of earthly life, finally freed himself from the power of God’s adversary and of his own free will decided in favour of God, Who now rewards his willingness with His boundless love, with His presence, with His voice, which now sounds to him wherever and whenever he wants to hear it. And thus man’s heart has become a temple which harbours the holiest within itself, the divine lord Himself, Who has taken up residence in him as He has promised ….

Amen

Anyone who desires to drink can draw from the fountain of truth. God will not deny the drink to anyone who is thirsty, and so anyone who desires it will be allowed to receive the truth. But God’s wisdom also foresees in which way the received spiritual knowledge, which is drawn from the source of truth, is utilized, and this determines Him to give this truth sometimes veiled so that it is not misused, i.e. so that it does not weaken the human will, which would then fail, i.e. become inactive where a certain goal is to be achieved. Thus a person can receive knowledge which completely corresponds to the truth and yet is not yet entirely comprehensible to himself, because complete clarity about it would make him act differently than would be beneficial for his higher development. Nevertheless, the human being is in the truth. It is just that his attention is focussed on earthly effects, whereas spiritual development alone is decisive. If the human being has now received knowledge through God’s direct instruction then this knowledge can be believed insofar as it was merely conveyed to earth in order to enlighten people, that is, to introduce them to the knowledge. Then the knowledge is offered in such a way that it gives unveiled information about important questions and problems which God wants to answer for people. And the recipient will never accept an unclear instruction, for it is God’s will that there should be light in the human being’s soul. Consequently, only the person who has a clear intellectual thought will be destined to receive the truth again, who therefore does not mentally distort the divine instructions or pass them on unclearly. In some cases differences of opinion will arise and then the one who has received the knowledge directly should defend it, for as soon as spiritual knowledge has passed into human possession it is no longer safe from defacement, i.e. from being changed by human will. And thus pure truth can no longer be inherent in a work where human hands were involved in its dissemination. For it is not always enlightened people who have been entrusted with such a work and it is therefore nothing unusual that discrepancies can be found, i.e. small deviations in the text or form of what is made accessible to humanity as divine revelation. However, it is irrelevant as long as a completely different meaning does not emerge. Yet God watches over the truth and also gives the sincere seeker and truth-desiring human being the understanding to recognize what does not correspond to the pure truth. For God Himself is the truth, consequently nothing can emanate from Him which contradicts the truth, only the human being can understand something differently because his power of realization is still deficient ….

Amen

The human being’s disposition does not release him from having to justify himself for his actions and thoughts. For every person has strength and grace at his disposal to overcome every bad inclination if only he wants to do so. Besides, the soul brought characteristics into its human embodiment which it certainly could have discarded during its previous forms and as a human being is now allotted tasks which correspond to its present disposition, i.e., which offer the soul the opportunity to emerge victorious from its battle against this disposition. Yet in order to succeed free will always has to become active and this, too, will be strengthened by God in accordance with its attitude towards Him. If a person musters the will to appeal to God for help in his battle against himself, against his own weaknesses and faults, then the strength to release himself from them will indeed flow to the person. Admittedly, this requires a considerable struggle but it cannot be spared to him, because during its preliminary stages the soul had exceeded its designated limits …. i.e., the spiritual substance which stayed in already less restricting forms used this lack of restriction to the absolute limit. It effectively developed its instincts to the highest degree which it then, in its embodiment as a human being, has to reduce again and this requires greater willpower. Likewise, the spiritual substance can have tempered itself during the preliminary stages, hence not made full use of its designated limits, with the result that it now has a less difficult battle of higher development on earth. But the disposition has at all times been taken into account through the living condition in which the being, according to its inclination, also has the opportunity to master them. Indeed, many a person seemingly has to fight harder, yet nothing impossible will ever be expected of him since unmeasured strength and grace is always at his disposal, but it has to be requested by him, because the soul has used its previously granted freedom in the wrong way and this does not relieve it from its responsibility ….

Amen

It is an unusual gift of grace when a person can enjoy the direct mediation of the divine word. And yet this person must first have shaped himself in such a way that God honours him with such mediation. This is by no means an act of will circumcision, for the will of man must likewise have previously declared itself ready to receive the divine word. Therefore, the word cannot reach him if his will resists it or is switched off. In that case God used an unwilling instrument to express Himself. And then the working of the spirit is switched off, therefore the spirit from God cannot manifest itself obviously and there can be no question of God’s emanation. The unconscious state does not correspond to God’s will …. Good spiritual beings often express themselves through such people if they place themselves completely under their influence, and then the expressions are also to be believed. In most cases, however, weak-willed people are pressurized by strong-willed evil forces, so the strong will is transferred to the former, and then the person only repeats what is whispered to him by those forces. Whereas a person who surrenders to God’s influence of his own free will can only receive purest truth because the spirit from God is active, which also manifests itself through clearly understandable utterances that beneficially affect the person. The lack of freedom of will greatly reduces the value of what is offered and therefore those revelations must be scrutinized with the greatest care before they are rejected or accepted. And the truth-loving person who asks God for enlightenment will also feel in his heart what he should accept as truth and what he should reject. For God does not allow those who want to stand in truth to go astray, He makes the truth accessible to them and at the same time enlightens them in order to persuade them to accept what is offered if they are willing, or He sharpens their power of judgement where what is offered does not fully correspond to divine truth. He does not leave people in the dark who have the desire for light. And if they are in danger of making a wrong judgement, He warns them and protects them from making a wrong decision. But this shall not remain hidden from you humans that God, in His love and wisdom, chooses many instruments for Himself and reveals His will to them for the salvation of humanity’s souls. Yet He always chooses earthly children whose spiritual state of maturity allows God to approach them in a conscious state and reveal His will to them. For the working of the spirit is not an influencing of an unwilling creature but a gift of grace offered to a person who consciously surrenders to God and wants to receive His gift. The working of the spirit is an overflowing of divine strength into the human body, which can now achieve extraordinary things through this supply of strength and is thus also introduced to profound wisdom through the spirit within itself, which unites itself in a fully awake state with the spirit outside itself and now receives the truth from God according to divine will ….

Amen

The mental activity of an enlightened person is orderly, that is, his thoughts are not erratic and incoherent but clear and logical, and if he then wants to convey these thoughts to his fellow human being he will also be able to understand them as soon as he, too, strives spiritually and desires truth. For this is brought about by the forces of truth, that the truth is offered in such a way that it can be understood if the will for truth is present. Now, however, different degrees of maturity are to be found and consequently also different receptiveness for the truth, if this is imparted by the spirit beings, which stand in knowledge. The intimacy of the connection with God increases the receptivity as it also corresponds to the person’s degree of love. And now the human being, whose life is a labour of love, will pay attention to every movement within himself and thus hear the voice of the spirit within himself. Consequently, he can be taught by the spirit within himself and be introduced to all wisdom from God. And whatever knowledge is now imparted to him by the spirit within himself he also grasps, for the spirit does not make itself known in an incomprehensible way but instructs the human being time and again until he allows the knowledge offered to him to become his spiritual property and is now able to pass it on in an understandable way. It is therefore never possible to speak of the working of the spirit if the spiritual gift remains incomprehensible …. A person can intellectually absorb something and want to pass it on …. he will offer it to his fellow human being incoherently as long as it is only his intellectual thinking …. whereas the gifts of the spirit are offered in context because the givers of these …. the spiritual forces, which let the radiation of God, light, i.e. knowledge, flow to the spirit in man …. ensure that their gifts are received as they are given by them. If the human being is willing to pass on the received spiritual knowledge to his fellow human being, the spirit’s activity is unlimited, i.e. the spirit from God now guides his thoughts and his words so that only that which is beneficial for his soul is imparted to his fellow human being, and this is always the pure truth. Pure truth is where the spirit of God is at work and it will also be where the human being’s will declares itself willing to pass it on …. For God Himself instructs people who want to serve Him and trains them as teachers so that they can pass on the same truth to their fellow human beings because they don’t want to receive it directly. And He equips them with a clear power of knowledge and judgement, for their task is too important not to be under His protection …. The truth is to be conveyed to earth through people who are completely devoted to Him, and thus He also grants them His special protection ….

Amen

The forces of darkness constantly wage war against the world full of light, and the various spiritual currents have such an effect that people are often harshly oppressed as soon as they fall prey to such currents. Where truth threatens to assert itself, where people’s way of life increases their power of realization and they are now willing to accept it, there the dark power rages unusually …. It utilizes every opportunity to bring down the souls that are slipping away from it and seeks to render the bearers of truth harmless, which the beings of light in turn prevent. Nevertheless, the beings of darkness are given a certain freedom to test their power on the will of man. But the human being also has power at his disposal as soon as he entrusts himself to the good forces and asks them for help. This spiritual battle is nevertheless of the greatest importance, as the more relentlessly the battle flares up, the more an unimaginable flow of power is channelled to earth by the beings of light. Such a struggle can result in great spiritual success insofar as this flow of strength is felt by many people who open their hearts willingly, who therefore surrender to the influence of the beings of light without resistance and now become seeing and knowing …. thus recognize the truth and joyfully accept it. And these souls escape the power of the one who is the prince of lies. They turn away from his work in disgust and consciously strive towards the one Who is the truth Himself. It has become light and bright within them, and the beings full of light are now constantly endeavouring to expand their knowledge and ward off the dark forces from them. And once the human being’s heart has opened itself to the truth the adversary has lost his game, for no matter how many times he struggles for such souls, the beings of light are always ready to protect them from this influence, and their strength is truly greater because God’s strength can be conveyed to the truth-desiring souls through the beings of light ….

Amen

Nothing will replace your spiritual wealth when you leave this earthly life, and therefore do not worry so much about earthly things but always remember the shaping of your soul. Earthly activity should certainly be carried out conscientiously, but where a person is given a spiritual task, this takes precedence over earthly activity. There is nothing more urgent than caring for the souls of fellow human beings, and earthly activity is often only a means to an end in order to bring souls in need close to the one Who can and wants to help if His help is not resisted. Earthly activity must by no means be an obstacle to the exercise of care where this is necessary, for countless people are willing to do the former, but few turn to such an activity which is beneficial for the soul of their fellow human being. Think of the hardship the souls on earth are currently experiencing and also recognize the necessity of your activity, for God Himself wants to work through you and you should place yourselves at His disposal faithfully and unreservedly …. You should always be ready for Him if He needs you, and you should not worry that you are neglecting your earthly task as a result …. For the soul is more important than the body, and the work it does will always be blessed by God ….

Amen

The process of change on earth requires uninterrupted activity and is therefore a state of life. As long as the being is in this state it progresses in its development. The course through life on earth aims at a detachment from form. The instinctuality of the being, i.e. its will, also determines the form, for although the will is bound for this time, the form enveloping it always corresponds to the nature of its will …. solid, insoluble form conditioned by hard, unbending …. easily destroyed and easily overcome outer form is the result of an already softer will that is ready to serve. And the activity of the spiritual, which harbours itself in the form, is also corresponding. If it wants to serve, then it will be allowed to be incessantly active and can quickly and easily overcome the form enveloping it. The state of inactivity, however, is like an agonizing imprisonment. The spiritual is completely free and powerful in its original state and is now deprived of freedom as well as power, it is chained, and this through its own resistance, through its own will. Until it gives up its resistance to God and turns its will towards Him, it cannot be released from captivity and therefore cannot develop its strength and be active. It must bow to the will of God …. itself once a being with free will and the right to self-determination …. And yet this agonizing state is only a means to return the spiritual being to its original state so that it can use its strength and will again, but in a way which corresponds to divine will and yet brings the being itself a state of supreme happiness, whereas previously, due to its distance from God, the being no longer felt His emanation of love and only harboured unkindness and hatred towards everything good and was therefore unhappy. For the fulfilment of its instincts only triggered increased hatred and increased unkindness. In the bound state the beingness is now harmless and can no longer use its power in a negative way, but it is withdrawn from it until it decides of its own accord to use it for serving activity. And now the ascent of this fallen and therefore bound spiritual begins. It is always admitted to activity as soon as it only changes its will, and therefore the movable creation is only inhabited by the spiritual, which has given up its hardest resistance and now strives upwards. Whereas the immovable in creation, the dead appearing matter, does not yet betray any happy activity of the spiritual in it, although it too already fulfils a serving purpose …. but from this it is evident that the spiritual seeks to flee from form, i.e. is now willing to serve. Any willingness of the spiritual to serve earns it a less oppressive deformation, which it must now overcome itself. If its willingness to serve diminishes, then the possibility to serve is also immediately taken away from it. This is also the explanation for the fact that objects that man needs are always and constantly in use, while the same objects often remain unused for long periods of time …. The spiritual in them is determined by its more or less resistant will and now also has a longer or shorter stay in exactly this form. And so even then the will of the being is still decisive, even if it is bound, because the will to serve must come from the spiritual itself, otherwise it cannot develop upwards ….

Amen

God’s will is decisive for every event in the world, even if it is caused by human will. Only what God wants or what He allows can happen or be carried out, and yet man is responsible for his will. God knows both about the will of man since eternity and also about the effect of it, and yet He does not prevent people from putting their will into action, but according to these deeds His will also intervenes so that the salvation of the soul can be promoted thereby. Earthly events usually also have an earthly effect, and the fact that God allows these earthly effects is often incomprehensible to people. But God’s concern is for people’s souls …. where these are in danger, He intervenes, but only in such a way that people’s will nevertheless remains unaffected. He does not prevent them from carrying out their deeds, even if they are evil, i.e. only born out of unkindness. And this makes people doubt the existence of a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence. But a violent intervention will make them doubt this existence in exactly the same way, for as long as they do not realize that people’s freedom of will may not be curtailed if they are to become what they are meant to be, they will not understand that God’s intervention is only necessary for the sake of spiritual development, for once again they will only look at earthly events and their effect on earthly life.

(8.5.1942) But it is always divine will that everything that happens can somehow benefit the soul …. that therefore, although the body is in danger, the soul can remain unharmed or derive great spiritual advantages from it, depending on its will. God’s love for His living creations is so great that He truly would not allow anything to happen which would hinder people’s ascent upwards, which is the meaning and purpose of earthly life. But on the other hand He also allows the opposing power every opportunity to develop so that free will decides for itself. If this free will is turned towards evil, He will nevertheless not make the human being unfree because this would be contrary to divine order. However, in accordance with this will turned towards evil, He now allows what this will has caused to take effect. And the effects must indeed be extremely painful on earth if they are to result in spiritual progress, otherwise humanity would not learn to detest evil and would fall prey to this power more and more. The spiritual state of people is decisive as to whether and when God Himself intervenes and puts an end to the activity of the evil forces. If people’s will turns to God, then the power of evil is broken and it finds no place where it can work successfully …. God does not hinder it, but people themselves can hinder it, and consequently they themselves, through their consent or rejection, promote or hinder what happens. Bad deeds can never be God’s will, but they can only be carried out if His will does not oppose them …. And thus He allows that which is caused by people’s own will so that they change their own will as a result and thus come closer to their actual goal, i.e. turn towards God. However, this does not exclude God Himself from intervening if He deems it necessary …. For even the activity of the evil power is subject to limits which it must not exceed …. But if the human will is still turned towards it, then the divine intervention will also have an extremely painful earthly effect on people, for once again it is the soul which is in danger and which is to be liberated by this intervention. Hence, if only world events and their effect on earthly life are taken into account, it will hardly be recognized by people that God’s will is decisive, and consequently God will be rejected by those who do not grant earthly life a deeper meaning and purpose because they cannot recognize a wise and loving guidance which wants to achieve an approach to Himself through suffering and tribulation while respecting people’s freedom of will ….

Amen

In the spiritual sphere, the state of light is decisive for the bliss of the being. And this state of light cannot be arbitrarily created or intensified but is the result of loving activity on earth or in the beyond. Loving activity cannot be bypassed, it is the first condition for a sphere flooded with light, which is intended to bring bliss to the spiritual …. Love must be cultivated in order to attain wisdom through love; and as soon as the soul becomes knowledgeable, its state is one of light, for light is knowledge …. Only knowing beings can be blissful, for to be in knowledge is a state of perfection which earns the soul eternal bliss. Everything imperfect is insufficient and must also result in an imperfect, meagre state, i.e. the soul, which is imperfect, will experience this as a lack of bliss …. It is ignorant and therefore without light, and its surroundings are meagre and oppressive. Spheres flooded with light can therefore only be an abode for souls who are perfect, i.e. who possess everything that shapes them into perfection, and that is first and foremost knowledge received from God. For this knowledge only comprises spiritual truths which God conveys as an emanation of Himself to all beings which are worthy of it, i.e. which have decided in favour of God through loving activity and striven to be close to Him. But every emanation of God is light and has to express itself again as light. It must radiate again and send out its luminosity to all spiritual beings that approach this light. Without knowledge there is no state of light in the beyond and also no light-flooded environment for the soul. As soon as the human being practices love on earth, God’s love radiates through him and imparts the wisdom from God to him …. i.e., the thoughts of a loving person will always correspond to the truth, and when he departs from earth he recognizes the correlation of all things, the divine reign and activity and the purpose of all beings. And thus he stands in the light and can let this light radiate again onto the beings which still lack light. If the light is already made accessible to the human being on earth, he can already let his light shine on earth, i.e. pass on the knowledge to those people who want to accept it. And this is always a state of bliss, for imparting the truth from God to fellow human beings presupposes love, and every activity carried out with love is blissful for the practitioner. Love, knowledge and light are therefore inconceivable without each other, which is why the human being, if he fulfils the divine commandments, inevitably also becomes knowledgeable, thus his soul is in the light, even if it is not always outwardly recognizable. These people have a treasure within them that they do not dare to unearth. Their spirit knows them right, yet their earthly environment prevents them from letting the light shine, and thus it shines with increased brilliance as soon as they have ended their earthly life, for now the soul recognizes its task, which consists of passing on the knowledge …. The ability to already be able to teach on earth is a grace which has to be consciously requested but which is also granted to every person who wants to carry out this activity on earth. Then the spirit in man expresses itself obviously, i.e., it instructs the soul in such a way that it is trained as teaching power and it can already on earth penetrate into the deepest wisdoms from God, what is the right of every man, who out of love for mankind would like to help it to reach out of darkness to the light. This willingness must precede, but then the reception of wisdom from God …. of light and knowledge …. is unlimited. For God blesses every person who takes part in the battle of light against darkness …. who wants to lead his fellow human beings to the light by passing on the knowledge he himself has received ….

Amen

Man’s degree of love is decisive for his spiritual higher development both on earth and in the beyond. Higher development is an increase in wisdom and strength, thus the life of love, i.e. a life of active love, must bring knowledge and strength to the being …. the being must become the recipient of light and strength from God and thus be in the circuit of God’s emanation of love, Who is light and strength in Himself. Thus the activity of love will only have a purely spiritual effect, no earthly success can be recorded, but only the soul is the recipient of the goods which the life of love brings in. Consequently, these possessions are also the soul’s share in the beyond, and the soul’s degree of maturity depends on the abundance of possessions which the human being has acquired on earth and takes with him into the kingdom of the beyond. For if the soul has received much, if it has great wealth to record, then it will also be able to distribute accordingly …. it stands in the light itself and can let the light radiate, i.e. pass on light and strength for its own happiness. And again, this is an activity of love that brings it an increased degree of maturity, and so the soul strives ever higher, in the light towards the primordial light …. The abundance of light accessible to it is incomprehensible to the human being, yet light is the epitome of the spiritual kingdom which has God-connected beings as its inhabitants …. And it is God’s immense grace that people on earth are already allowed to participate in this abundance of light, that they can receive light and strength if they are willing and open their hearts, that the light flows to them in the form of knowledge and this in turn gives them the strength to develop themselves upwards, i.e., to be able to work with increased love ….

Amen

The grace of embodiment as a human being is only granted to the being when it is willing to take this final path, i.e. when its will decides to do so. As soon as the being has travelled the path of development in all previous embodiments it has thereby reached the degree of maturity which is the condition for the last embodiment as a human being, which is indeed also different and therefore also requires different living conditions in the last stage. And the beingness …. of the soul created through the union of different substances …. is presented with the life on earth, which it has to live through for the purpose of final liberation, and it is still up to it whether it wants to take the path on earth or not. Fully aware of its earthly task it now takes earthly life upon itself, ready to conquer all resistance in this state and to free itself from the form. It is also aware of the fate it has to endure, but beforehand it only sees the external conditions of life, not its spiritual development, and feels completely strong enough to master life on earth. According to its state of maturity, which could be reached in the most varied gradations before, but always allows an embodiment as a human being, earth life is now granted to it, and more or less sorrowful and full of renunciation. For the soul has to be offered the final opportunities to mature in such a way that it can shape itself into a being of light in this short earthly life if it utilizes it. But its living conditions will always be such that it has the opportunity for active love activity, and its maturing will depend on how far it fills its life with love work. In all living conditions it is offered the opportunity to do so; the human being can also be willing to help and be of service if he lacks knowledge, who therefore knows nothing of the effect of his way of life in eternity. The soul only needs to decide in favour of good or evil on earth, and it can do so in every situation in life, even in the most primitive circumstances. The earthly circumstances, however, are conditioned by its development in the preliminary stages. If the being has previously been exceptionally instinctive, it has to fight against its instincts in earthly life and needs appropriate living conditions in which the soul can purify itself.

The soul is in no way disadvantaged in its possibilities of higher development, although it appears that earthly conditions are a hindrance to it. The obstacles which earthly life offers to every individual person have to be overcome, and some souls need greater obstacles, and therefore the external living conditions are allocated to them in such a way that they serve them. God knows about the shaping of every soul during its embodiment as a human being, He also knows about its strength of will, and His love tries to make the course of development easy for every soul. If the soul endeavours to make use of every opportunity, then the destiny destined for it will also be easily bearable for the human being and God will shorten its path through life as soon as it endeavours to mature spiritually. God’s love brings people together in such a way that they can serve each other, that one can instruct the other, that one can give to the other what the latter lacks, and thus spiritual gifts are also offered to every person, albeit in the most varied form and to the most varied extent. Yet what is offered will always suffice to show him the right path he should take, and his willingness alone is decisive as to what advantages his soul will derive from it. The knowledge about God is likewise made accessible to all people …. if not from person to person then the spiritual beings are active and give him mental instructions, and it is always up to him to accept spiritual gifts or not, i.e. to believe or reject what is conveyed to him mentally or through people. And since God has given every human being intellect and free will, he is also responsible for how he utilizes both. All good will is recognized by God and help is granted to him accordingly. This help has already become his before through endless times, and the beingness also knows before its embodiment that the power and love of God assists it …. However, life on earth has to be lived without any recollection in order not to jeopardize the human being’s free will. Yet no soul embodies itself without knowing about its earthly course, and with full will it takes this last embodiment upon itself in the desire to finally become free from every external form ….

Amen

Jesus Christ overcame death, that is, He broke the power of evil …. Its influence on the human being’s will was so strong that he could not free himself and succumbing to this power meant death for his soul, for the souls who had to completely submit to it were so far removed from God that they were completely outside the sphere of the divine emanation of love and thus had to do without all strength, which resulted in a state of complete inactivity, i.e. lifelessness. The state of death is a state of agony, for death does not mean extinction. The being is still subject to evil power and must constantly do its will by oppressing all beings that still want to turn towards the light. It is only able to carry out evil but incapable of any good impulse and action, for it receives the strength to act evil from the power of darkness, but it completely lacks the strength from God, so that the soul would be unable to accomplish anything even if its will wanted to turn towards good …. Before Christ’s descent, the whole of humanity was in this state. The power of God’s adversary was so great that it forced their will under itself, so that even those people who wanted to be noble and good could not carry out their will because the powers of darkness constantly harassed them and prevented them from doing good wherever possible. It was a struggle between light and darkness, in which the darkness usually prevailed and gained more and more power over the creatures whose will was bound by the power of the one who raged against God. And death and darkness were the fate of those who departed from the world …. And Jesus Christ took up the fight against the power of darkness. He resisted the adversary of God, He opposed him with a will that was stronger, which the adversary could not subjugate, and He freed Himself from its power already in earthly life …. For God’s strength was with Him, which was able to flow towards Him because His earthly life was a life of love, thus He was in the realm of God’s emanation of love and was now able to receive God’s strength unmeasured. And thus He showed people the path they also had to take in order to free themselves from the power of the enemy of their souls …. He had overcome death, i.e. the state of being bound by the will, and thus also the one who had bound the will …. He had overcome death, which was the inevitable consequence of succumbing to the will of the adversary …. the state of powerlessness and therefore inactivity, which is unspeakably agonizing for the being …. In order to redeem all His creatures from this unfree state, He accomplished the work of redemption by opposing His will to the will of the adversary, by being willing to give up His physical life in order not to allow the dark power to gain the victory. He completely subordinated His will to God’s will and thereby deprived God’s adversary of all power …. He overcame him and thus the death of souls ….

Amen

The blessing of spiritual work cannot be overlooked, it has an effect in all regions on earth as well as in the beyond. The circle of those who participate in the teachings in the beyond expands from day to day, and thus you are always surrounded by receptive souls who simultaneously accept the knowledge imparted to you. It is an uninterrupted activity, for they do not hesitate to pass on the spiritual knowledge they have received to those who are entrusted to their love and care. The spiritual knowledge thus offered can therefore be imparted to countless souls, and the spiritual work which can be constantly accomplished through an earthly person’s willingness to receive spiritual gifts is inconceivable. For these teachings from the beyond to earth attract countless souls who pay close attention to the process and are now much more willing to be taught in the same way. The beings of light, which instruct the earth child, always distribute their gifts in such a way that they can also be understood by the newcomers, for these are again assigned the souls to teach who already have deeper knowledge. But it is always a joy and a state of well-being for the souls in the beyond when they are allowed to participate in the teachings, because their state of light improves with every spiritual gift according to their willingness to pass it on. And thus new souls can always be guided towards the light, they can be led out of their lightless, dark environment into light twilight and now, through constant teaching, become acquainted with the benefits of the rays of light until they themselves are full of desire for the light and eagerly participate in all teachings which are constantly accessible to them through the love of the beings of light. In the beyond, earthly activity is ruled out because all activity is only directed towards the transmission of spiritual gifts. But this is carried out all the more eagerly the deeper the being is in knowledge. The word of God is received with far greater desire and more heartfelt gratitude in the beyond than on earth, for the souls which have now left earth are extremely pleased about this connection from the beyond to earth and also want to benefit from this connection for themselves. Their endeavours are serious and therefore they are also lovingly cared for by the beings of light by allowing them to attend every connection. For all those who hunger and thirst will be satisfied and their food is the word of God, which His love offers them in heaven and on earth ….

Amen

All matter is accompanied by something spiritual, i.e., the actual essence of matter is the same substance as the human soul, and the knowledge of this should stimulate people to perpetual activity, to constantly transform matter or help to do so. All beingness strives for liberation, it wants to escape the form and can only do so by overcoming this form, i.e. by willingly serving the form until its dissolution. The human being is now permitted earthly activity, i.e. through his activity he can reshape any material into things that serve his fellow human beings, i.e. that are intended to fulfil their purpose. In this way the human being constantly helps the spiritual substance in the form to free itself from it, and that is why earthly activity is extraordinarily beneficial and absolutely necessary for the further development of the spiritual. However, things created by human will must also be given the opportunity to serve, otherwise the spiritual substance’s stay in this form will be unnecessarily prolonged, which is agonizing for the spiritual substance and does not benefit the human being either, for it increases his desire for possessions. The human being strives for something that he has already overcome and should now finally overcome as a human being by freeing himself from the desire for it. The sooner an object is allowed to serve, the sooner the beingness can free itself from it, revitalize itself into a new form and thus develop to the height of its destiny. Every activity that gives rise to things that serve the welfare of fellow human beings or other creatures is blessed by God, and the human being will also feel the blessing in himself, for the spiritual substance liberated by human hands is well-disposed towards the human being that helped him to become free and will in turn assist him according to his ability. Everything that makes up the human being’s environment is constantly changing, nothing remains in its old form for eternity, a change is constantly taking place, often imperceptible to the eye, and as soon as the human being contributes to it in the will to create something corresponding to a purpose he makes himself meritorious for the beingness that animates matter …. Man serves, and the spiritual serves in that which man lets come into being through his will. But man’s will must always also be prepared to serve, i.e., he must not let things come into being through his activity which are detrimental to his fellow human being. Otherwise the spiritual within will also be forced into an activity which is not favourable for its spiritual development. The spiritual is indeed forced into a task against its will, and it has to fulfil this task, and that is why not the spiritual but man in his freedom of will is called to account, but the spiritual itself strives for its speedy release from such forms because it feels the adversity of its task. Only serving activity makes truly free, and only such activity should be carried out on earth if the human being wants to redeem himself and also the spiritual in matter …. Love for fellow human beings must always be the determining factor and the created things must always serve them for the best, then the spiritual will also be able to fulfil its serving task until its form dissolves ….

Amen

The gift of teaching must be sincerely prayed for, for the will to carry out this teaching activity is the first condition and must be manifested through heartfelt prayer to God. The teacher must be specially trained for his task, i.e. a person cannot carry out this activity arbitrarily …. Every person can certainly preach love to his fellow human being and urge him to lead a right way of life, but in order to be able to teach his fellow human being, the person himself must first have been introduced to a knowledge which he can now pass on. And this knowledge encompasses many areas which are again closely connected with each other but which people do not recognize. It also requires a well-developed intellectual thinking in order to find any connection and to be able to utilize the knowledge accordingly. For the world will only ever want to accept what is a worldly product, i.e. what has been gained through research and pondering. However, this does not always correspond to the truth, and if the truth is to be spread, then well-trained forces must be able to refute what is not the truth. They must be able to explain the connection between all things logically and clearly, and in order to be able to do this, they must be in contact with the giver of truth himself, because otherwise they cannot prove the correctness of their teachings …. They must not build on existing spiritual knowledge, as this can also be doubted, but must have their knowledge from the ground up from a source that remains inviolable even for doubters and mockers. However, they must not be forcibly guided into knowledge either, instead they must have acquired it entirely of their own free will so that people shall recognize what they are capable of through the correct use of their free will …. And therefore heartfelt prayer must also precede it and God must be assured of the willingness to be active for the spiritual well-being of fellow human beings …. Such a will and the prayer for strength now also results in a planned teaching. Knowledge is made accessible to the human being which he must first acquire himself, i.e. which he must incorporate into his thoughts in order to be able to apply it at any time when he needs it. The gift of teaching is also a gift of grace from God, for it requires a sharp memory, lightning-fast comprehension and logical thinking …. But where the will is expressed for this teaching activity out of love for fellow human beings, God bestows this gift and the human being will now be able to carry out this activity, he will be enabled by God to carry out an extraordinarily important task, for the truth shall thereby be spread on earth …. the meaning and purpose of creation shall become clear to those who cannot blindly believe, the human being’s task on earth shall be understandable to them and they shall have the opportunity to can believe if they want to, as soon as they study the teachings in depth which are now offered to them through an instrument of God. The intellect should also be allowed to be active, and therefore the truth has to be offered to people in such a way that the thinking person can also become convinced that what is offered is the truth. And this is only possible if the context of all things can be explained to him, which again is only possible through a person who has been instructed by God himself for the very purpose of being able to have an enlightening effect. And all prior knowledge must be eliminated, for even where truth is advocated, error is also currently being taught, since God’s adversary found fertile ground everywhere for the seed he wanted to sow amongst humanity …. And people are unable to separate truth from error without the help of the divine spirit …. Consequently, they should surrender what they possess and receive the pure truth in an unbiased way, which God sends to humanity once again ….

Amen

The beingness strives for the last embodiment on earth because through this it promises itself final liberation. And therefore it now has to pass the last test of life as a human being, deprived of all recollection of the previous stages, so that the passing of this test of earthly life only depends on the decision of its free will. He receives the knowledge about his task on earth, either through instructions by human beings or mental instructions by knowing spiritual beings, and the human being’s will is now faced with decisions which can bring him closer to God or increase his distance from Him. If he knew about his previous life his actions and thoughts would be under the impression of that previous life and then one could not speak of a free decision, because the constraint in the many forms, which the beingness has overcome, would have such a burdening effect on the soul of man that it would now lead its way of life under a certain compulsion or the fear of having to live through the previous stages once again. But then the being could never reach a degree of maturity for which free will is a prerequisite. Consequently, the soul must be deprived of its past memories in order not to make it unfree and therefore unsuitable for its higher spiritual development. However, during the time of life on earth the consequences of a right as well as a wrong life are nevertheless brought to man’s attention, only this happens by way of instructions which cannot be proven but only have to be believed, so that again the freedom of will remains, since proofs would likewise have a determining effect on man, thus man would again act under compulsion. All knowledge can be made accessible to the human being, and yet divine wisdom cannot be proven but requires profound faith and therefore cannot be regarded as a means of coercion by which the soul is forced onto a certain path without its will. God constantly gives people knowledge about the consequences of their earthly walk, but always in a way that nevertheless allows them to act freely …. He brings Himself close to them but does not force Himself upon them …. However, no matter what they decide they have to accept the consequences, for God has granted them a measure of grace for the time of their earthly life which only needs to be utilized. He does not leave the soul helplessly to its own devices but gives it every conceivable assistance so that it will cover the earthly path correctly. And thus the time of embodiment as a human being is a real time of grace for the being which can result in its complete liberation from the form if the being does not oppose it with its will and rejects the grace granted to it by God’s love …. Then it has decided of its own free will in favour of God’s adversary and left its last embodiment on earth unused, and then it has to wrestle and fight in the beyond in agony and self-reproach in order to make its self-inflicted fate bearable and to be able to record spiritual progress ….

Amen

And therefore it is of great importance how earthly life is utilized, for as soon as this is decided a completely different struggle for ascent begins as it was granted to the being on earth. Life on earth continued to give it strength which it could utilize at will, whereas the being’s life in the beyond is only blessed with strength when the being has reached a certain degree of maturity, but before that a completely powerless state is the soul’s fate until it has reached this degree of maturity. And the latter is unspeakably difficult and would also be completely impossible if God’s grace did not still come to meet it in the form of rays of light which bring it moments of realization in order to awaken the being’s desire for light. Again, God only seeks to change the being’s will in order to then also give it the opportunity to carry out its will. However, the conditions in the beyond are much more difficult to fulfil. A powerless being is also so weak-willed that it requires greatest effort and patience on the part of the beings of light to determine the being to let its will become active itself. But a being in the stage of darkness will never long to return to earth in order to make up for its misguided way of life on earth, i.e. to put it back in accordance with its actual task on earth. For only this will would earn the soul another stay on earth. But the immature soul’s will only applies to material earthly life but never to spiritual higher development, for once it has become active in it then it also knows that only serving in love promotes its higher development, and it truly has enough opportunity for this in the beyond. For a tremendous amount of work has to be done if the souls are to be given light in the form of knowledge. It is the activity in the beyond which people on earth cannot comprehend and yet which is unspeakably important …. What was neglected on earth has to be made up for in the beyond, and just as spiritual help for fellow human beings on earth is an act of love, so the beings’ activity in the beyond is also an uninterrupted labour of love …. a constant distribution of what the souls lack …. a distribution of light and knowledge to the souls who dwell in darkness. This activity requires free will just as on earth. The being must be willing to be of service, then it will progress in its development. Once it has overcome the lack of will it will work diligently on itself. It will certainly also remember the unused time on earth in deep remorse but now sees a sphere of activity in front of it which requires all its willingness to help …. The soul now thinks more of the suffering souls around it than of its own state, and only now does it fulfil its task with devotion, and its own state becomes ever more light-filled because it now receives light and strength in order to pass it on. However, once it has become a recipient of light and strength it will never want to return to earth unless a task is to be carried out on earth which requires the embodiment of a being of light on earth …. It must always be taken into consideration that in the state of darkness the soul also lacks realization, since it has neglected its spiritual development on earth …. But if it recognizes this, it will also see the possibilities in the beyond which will ensure its ascent. However, a renewed embodiment on earth would only be granted to the soul if it would desire it in full awareness of its immature state and for the purpose of maturing the soul …. thus if free will would urge it to live on earth again in order to attain a higher state of maturity. But this already presupposes a certain knowledge and therefore also a certain degree of maturity, i.e. the ability to love, which then impels the soul to participate in the work of redemption in the beyond, because it recognizes that every strength is also needed for this and that it now willingly places its love at the service of this work of redemption ….

Amen

Righteous in thought, righteous in speech and righteous in action …. this should be the life of anyone who wants to unite with God in spirit. Man should avoid all pitfalls, he should always remember how easily he can fall into the snares of those who seek to corrupt him. And he should be vigilant, because the enemy is always lying in wait and takes advantage of every weak moment. Therefore watch and pray, lest you fall into temptation, for the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Do not covet what is the portion of the world, but seek only spiritual good. And make every sacrifice so that you may become strong in spirit and easily surrender what belongs to the world ….

Amen

It is an unmistakable God-opposing influence if such an obvious gift of God’s grace is not recognized for what it is …. as the work of God-connected forces, as an expression of God’s will …. This is all the more regrettable because the spiritual adversity of the time is the reason for God’s extraordinary activity, thus the reason for the supply of the divine gift of grace to earth, but humanity does not recognize the necessity of it, consequently it is not aware of the adversity it is in and, since it does not recognize the adversity, it does nothing to escape it. It does not look for the reason for its spiritual depression where it can be found …. And therefore it will not apply the lever where it is needed …. And this is the adversary’s activity of spreading everything in the world as truth that has no claim to it …. It is also his work to weaken judgement and cloud clear insight. And even if divine gifts are offered, they are not recognized as such, even where the will to serve Him is present …. People strive towards God but do not recognize His word. And therefore God Himself approaches them in a way which imparts realization to them in a flash. For He does not leave them to His adversary but takes up the battle with him. He sends them news from another side which appears more credible to people but which is now accepted because the divine working is now unmistakable. And now the correspondence of what was offered through God’s great love will also convince people who were previously unaware of God’s working in the human being. And God still reserves this for Himself …. But He will come when it is commanded that He visibly expresses Himself …. He will come when even those people are in danger of going astray and deviating from the truth …. And this coming of His is imminent, and it will shake those people to such an extent that they will suddenly become enlightened and recognize both the necessity of God’s activity as well as the adversary’s activity …. They will become aware and also overlook the spiritual need and the infinite love of God, which brings help to those who want to come to Him. For He needs fighters and looks for them in the ranks of those who willingly offer their services to Him …. But if they want to serve Him, they must first be in the truth. They cannot fulfil the task of spreading the truth if they themselves are in error and do not recognize it. Thus the adversary must first be revealed and unmasked, the human being must see what havoc he is causing so that he will turn away from him of his own accord and now gladly accept the divine gift of grace because it is now comprehensible to him and therefore no longer arouses his will to reject it, but he now professes it and stands up for it with complete conviction …. because his heart can affirm everything God offers him from above ….

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Earthly powers can do nothing against divine power, and wherever they try to assert themselves against the latter they will experience a disgraceful fiasco. For it is God’s will that His power should also be recognized by those who only fear earthly power. And thus a time will dawn when the human being will be rendered lawless who does not want to bow down to a power which does not respect the lord over heaven and earth …. People who live in faith in God will recognize that this power demands something that is against the commandments and will now refuse to obey it …. It will be a hard time, for the earthly power will proceed with all severity, and so man must decide in favour of God or that earthly power …. He who loves his earthly life will betray God and be despised by the world …. But he who loves God more than his life will be reviled by the world, and contempt, lawlessness and persecution will be his lot. For earthly violence seems to triumph …. But only for a short time …. only until humanity clearly recognizes who controls this earthly violence …. Then God Himself steps into action …. He proves His power, He proves that He is lord over heaven and earth …. that the earthly power does nothing against Him but is overpowered by His power. For now the time has come when humanity recognizes that it is powerless against the forces of nature, when it has to acknowledge a controller, a will which masters every earthly will, i.e. renders it ineffective …. The time has come when all plans and calculations will be overturned by divine intervention, when people will be unable to do anything, no matter how great their earthly abilities or powers. They will become small in the face of what divine will sends upon people …. they will recognize their powerlessness and want to feign power by acting all the more cruelly against the confessors of God and denying them all rights. But God stands by them, and the more unjust the action against them is, the more the will of God and His unrestricted power becomes apparent. The powerlessness of those who deny God, who dishonour Him and deny His omnipotence becomes apparent. And those who think they are great will become small, those who think they are mighty will be weak, and those who fully trust in God will feel the power of faith in themselves and be mightier than the rulers of the world …. For faith can do everything, for God does not allow a strong faith to be put to shame and He proves Himself to be the power to whom everything must be subject in heaven and on earth ….

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Divine justice will become apparent by the very event which is destined to humanity in the forthcoming time, for the countries whose leaders start the blaze that will extend all across earth will be severely struck. The blame of these countries shall be revealed by the approaching event which human will can neither avoid nor lessen. All people on earth shall recognise that God’s justice leaves nothing without punishment and that He intervenes once the measure of injustice has been reached.

God gave people free will which is now so abused that it requires retribution, so that righteously thinking and behaving people recognise the hand of God and despise what is sanctioned by the former. The conflict of nations will have spread wide and far and the fire will not be easily extinguished. As a result, God will end this blaze Himself by removing people’s opportunity of continuing the struggle through a natural event of unimaginable extent. He will render powerless what previously was strong and mighty, and He will prove that His will and His might are stronger. And anyone who is not yet completely enslaved by God’s adversary will also recognise where he has gone wrong and make an effort to lead a righteous way of life ….

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The effects of people’s low spiritual level will be recognizable during this intervention by God …. Everyone will only think of himself and only a few will also think of their fellow human beings in their own suffering and want to help them. And yet help will again be demanded by those who consider themselves powerful, and they will use their power and take measures that will increase the suffering even more, for the weak will not be able to defend themselves and will have to oblige the strong and alleviate their hardship, while they will remain without help even in the greatest tribulation. And this again proves the great lack of love, which was the cause of divine intervention and will not be remedied by it either. But the time will only be bearable for those people who faithfully and trustingly abandon themselves to God, who call upon Him in prayer and ask for His help and grace. They will receive God’s support, and no matter how burdensome the external adversity may seem to them, they will not succumb but feel God’s protective hand over them. And the power of faith will become obvious, for the believer will have the strength to master the difficult earthly life and need not fear earthly power, whereas people without faith almost threaten to break under the measures of those who try to improve their own fate with the help of those people who are unable to resist them and almost perish as a result. Yet it will become obvious to the world that earthly power is ineffective, for God will let His voice be heard precisely there where He Himself is not respected enough …. where honour and fame alone are desired and faith is only tolerated in appearance. And all believers will be afflicted, and this signifies the beginning of a new era. And in order to make it easy for people on earth to believe, He announces beforehand what is in store for the world so that they will confess Him when everything comes to pass as it has been proclaimed ….

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Jesus’ suffering and death on the cross was the greatest sacrifice of love ever offered by a human being on earth. It was not a sacrifice of atonement by a guilty person, it was not a deserved punishment, but a sacrifice that was made for the sins of other people out of the deepest love for this …. It was a voluntary sacrifice of atonement that was intended to redeem fellow human beings from their well-deserved punishment …. The death on the cross was unspeakably agonizing, and yet Jesus chose it because His body wanted to suffer out of an immense love for humanity. He wanted to do something that people were not capable of, He wanted to take agony upon Himself in order to spare His fellow human beings. He knew that people’s fate after death was suffering and torment as a just punishment for their apostasy from God, i.e. for their will which was opposed to God, and in His love He wanted to reduce this suffering and torment by imposing it on Himself, thus He voluntarily bore suffering so that they would not have to bear it. And thus He chose the most agonizing death …. death on the cross and offered up these unspeakable torments to His father in heaven. He brought Him the atoning sacrifice by suffering and dying for sinful humanity …. And this sacrifice was pleasing to God. For Jesus was pure and blameless, He was without sin …. There was not the slightest guilt in Him, but He chose death, which atoned for the most serious crimes, which was unspeakably agonizing and dishonouring …. He had His pure body crucified by people who were followers of satan in their far-from-God state, and His soul also suffered unimaginable torment along with His body as a result. For His pure soul perceived every sinfulness as torment; the soul, which had become love, suffered from unkindness …. and yet it took this torment upon itself in order to make people’s fate more bearable. The sacrifice was made to God in merciful love and God accepted it favourably …. The man Jesus had to completely renounce His love for the world before He could make this sacrifice, He had to free Himself from every desire, He had to be willing to give up everything of His own free will, only then was He able to make this sacrificial death …. His love was so great that it was only for His fellow human beings and not for His own body. And because this immense love motivated Him to make such a sacrifice, God accepted it …. And so Jesus redeemed humanity from eternal death through His suffering and death on the cross, which surpassed every other death in pain and agony, because His love was so great that He was prepared to endure everything for the sake of humanity, which without His work of redemption, without this sacrifice on the cross, would have to suffer for eternities if it wanted to atone for its incomprehensibly great guilt of sin itself ….

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In the world of light, loving activity is perpetual, for the beings of light undertake any spiritual work that promises them the slightest success. They are constantly willing to help, for in their love they always want to give, to make happy and to stimulate happy activity. And since their love does not diminish but deepens more and more, their activity must also increase. And their activity consists of spreading light, i.e. knowledge …. Consequently, knowledge has to be constantly conveyed to earth through the world full of light, which has the effect that people everywhere are taught the truth by receptive and willing earthly children, that it is offered to them from above, thus without earthly help or contact with earthly-knowing people. And what the beings of light impart to people goes far beyond the framework of book knowledge, for this wisdom touches upon problems which a human being would never be able to solve correctly, and the givers of this wisdom, the beings of light, impart their gifts to people such that they can fully penetrate the truth from God if the will becomes active in them. And the beings of light try to influence this will such that people only want what they receive from divine wisdom. And since the beings of light are constantly active the body will soon feel this insofar as that it will no longer desire earthly possessions but that the spiritual knowledge it has gained will appear so desirable to it that its willingness and ability to receive will become ever greater and consequently ever more profound divine wisdom can be conveyed to earth. People who endeavour to live according to God’s will will also be mentally guided into the complete truth, and when the battle against spiritual striving and faith breaks out many people will defend their faith in accordance with the truths they have received, for the beings of light will proclaim the same truth everywhere. As a result, it will spread amongst humanity …. People will be of the same mind and thus spread the same, for they will not want to communicate anything to their fellow human beings other than what is conveyed to earth in direct teachings from the beyond …. humanity, if it is willing, will be guided into right thinking by those beings of light who take care of those who are willing to accept the truth with profound love.

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The substances of soul demonstrate in their composition an extreme finely constructed formation that would strike the human being as enchanting if he could see it. There is nothing that is not present in this creation …. Everything in creation can be found in miniature in the soul because the individual substances had animated every work of creation and therefore also retained the shape of these previous forms, who multiply by continuous association and therefore constantly change and perfect the overall image. A human being’s comprehension would not suffice to imagine all these works of creation, yet one day he will, overwhelmed by the wisdom and omnipotence of the Creator, behold the image that reveals to him the most amazing magnificence. The least and most insignificant work of creation holds again thousands of miniature creations within itself which in turn also exhibit everything that is represented in God’s great work of creation. The human soul, however, is carrier of all these creations, i.e. it is composed of countless substances, each one has already fulfilled its task in creation and hence was permitted to unite for the last and greatest task …. to complete the infinitely long earthly progress as a human soul. No other work of wonder in all of God’s great creation is so extraordinary beautifully shaped as the human soul …. And it is proof of its perfection when the soul can behold itself as in a mirror and perceive its own glory, i.e. when it sees itself in the most radiant light in many thousand-fold shapes and formations, and thus the contemplation of itself causes it unimaginable happiness because the vision of the entire work of creation is an overwhelmingly beautiful experience for the soul. And the soul’s contemplations will never end because the image reshapes itself time and again; constantly more enchanting works of creation emerge since God’s wonders are endless and so is what His love provides to His living creations who are perfect and thus enlightened …. They always and ever feel His love and as a result experience ever increasing happiness …. There will be no conclusion, no limit of what the spiritual eye may behold …. And nothing remains unchanged, which denotes a state of bliss for the being which progressively increases and therefore requires constant transformation of the being’s spiritual vision ….

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Jesus Christ‘s body no longer opposed its soul; it demanded nothing for itself than the soul wanted, which had completely united with the spirit …. This was the state of Jesus, the man, when He had accomplished His act …. It was a state of utter dedication to God and total renouncement of everything belonging to the world …. His body, being entirely spiritualised, was totally independent from the earth and its laws, i.e. the spiritual substances of His human body had merged with those of the soul and effectively subordinated themselves to the spirit’s will, which was most closely united with the Father-Spirit, and thus the earthly body together with the soul became one with the eternal Deity …. This fusion was so extraordinarily significant and entails such far-reaching consequences which the soul is incapable of understanding as long as it hasn’t found the union with God itself. It was an act of immense self-denial, profoundest love and boundless dedication to God …. The soul of Jesus, the man, simultaneously drew its external shell, the body, into the sphere of God’s emanation of love, and both His soul and His body were permeated by God’s spirit of love, by His strength and His light …. Jesus, the man, was full of strength and light …. He was powerful and wise, and every creature obeyed Him, the whole of Creation complied with Him, for God was in Him in all fullness since neither the soul nor the body offered Him resistance any longer, and this boundless dedication also resulted in God’s boundless activity …. Now it was God Himself Who manifested Himself in everything Jesus did and said. God’s love takes hold of everything that hands itself over to Him, it permeates every creation as soon as its inherent spirit does not offer any resistance to the divine love …. Wherever this resistance is removed there can only be the love of God, therefore …. since God is love …. God can only be where He finds no opposition resisting Him …. Everything of God is divine as long as it offers no resistance. Only resistance turns God’s creation into something external to Him until it relinquishes its resistance of its own accord …. Jesus, the man, was utterly devoted to God and thus no longer external to God but fused with Him, thus One with God …. and therefore totally transfigured, because the union with God is a state of bright light …. And when Jesus Christ passed away from this world He took His body along with His soul into eternity, for nothing adhered to Him anymore which required further development, both body and soul were perfect; every spiritual substance was so inclined towards God that it was permeated by God’s light and love, that it was like God, because it had completely united with the eternal Deity ….

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Everyone is allowed to receive the gifts of the spirit, and yet so few people make use of God’s offer of this delicious gift of grace. They do not realize what a valuable gift they are missing out on and how much richer they could be. For nothing can replace what the spirit from God offers them …. He gives people clear realization, he introduces them to the knowledge of divine truth, he helps them to loosen their bond with the world and instead establish a connection with the spiritual beings full of light in order to be able to have a constant exchange of thoughts with them. He always directs and guides them towards God and organizes their mental activity so that they have to think correctly and thus think rightly and truly as soon as they ask spiritual questions or try to fathom divine reign and activity. People are always in union with God if they desire the working of His spirit. Power will therefore always flow to them when God pours out His spirit upon people. They then immediately receive the emanation of strength from God, they switch off all resistance and open themselves, i.e. their hearts allow the strength to flow into them …. The effect of this, however, is knowledge …. For any supply of power from God means increased knowledge of things that lie outside of earthly life …. And this spiritual knowledge is the soul’s wealth, it is the treasure which the soul will utilize one day if it wants to fulfil its task in the beyond. Spiritual wealth is the only desirable thing on earth, and spiritual wealth can be received by the soul unmeasured …. God Himself has promised people His spirit and therefore no-one will desire it in vain. However, the spirit of God can never become effective where there is no desire for this precious gift. What God offers people should be asked for longingly and received gratefully …. It is not withheld from anyone, but neither is it given to anyone without a heartfelt desire. No human being can be given the divine gift of grace who would not respect this gift, for the working of the spirit requires attentive listening within, the human being must pay attention to the subtlest impulses within himself and thus adjust himself to consciously receive a gift which is of divine origin …. The spirit from God must be granted access to the spiritual spark in the heart, or the divine spark within must be given the freedom to connect with the spirit from God …. Contact must be established with the beings who are light and recipients of strength, so that light and strength can now overflow …. The divine gift of grace requires profound faith in the working of the spirit in the human being, it requires loving activity and heartfelt devotion to the greatest spirit of heaven and earth so that His strength can overflow because it will no longer find any resistance, for the working of the divine spirit is the sign that the creature having emerged from God has finally united with Him again after a long separation from Him ….

Amen