The will to serve God is manifested through every preparation for spiritual activity. And God blesses this will so that it can be put into practice, for the human being needs strength in order to realize his will, which is now given to him by God in accordance with his eagerness to serve. Spiritual work is so extremely necessary as the spiritual development of countless people depends on it, for spiritual activity is receiving and passing on the truth from God. Spiritual work is also carried out by the person who spends a lot of time thinking about spiritual things and who shares his thoughts with his fellow human beings …. as soon as he himself has the right attitude towards God, i.e: Anyone who, in faith in God, thinks about His nature, His activity and His works of creation, to which he himself belongs, his thoughts are also correctly guided by God Himself, and every exchange of thoughts with likewise believing people will result in spiritual success insofar as that time and again questions will be asked mentally or expressed which will be answered mentally by the beings of light …. And thus the truth will also find its way into people who are spiritually active. Conscious educational work results in a great blessing, i.e., if a person is willing to have an enlightening effect on earth and shapes himself into a bearer of truth then he will always be active for the benefit of his fellow human beings, and God blesses such a willingness to be active through the flow of extraordinary strength …. He will therefore never lack strength where it is needed. A person who has the will to do what is right before God will always turn towards the light, i.e. he will be truth-seeking. For this will alone gives him the strength to recognize which path he has to take. And this realization soon spurs him into action. It drives him to communicate what he has recognized to his neighbour, and thus the spiritual work begins. God allows Himself to be found by everyone who seeks Him …. He gives an answer to everyone who seriously asks …. He gives strength to the weak and perseverance to the striving …. Only the will must be given by man himself. But God also strengthens this when he turns to Him. And even the intention to place his activity at the lord’s service testifies to God that his will is turned towards Him and results in the fact that the human being can now also carry it out, for he will always be able to accomplish what he wants if it serves the salvation of his fellow human beings. Nothing is impossible to accomplish if the strength from God flows to the human being, and the strength from God will always be available to the person who expresses his will to be active for Him. But the activity for Him consists of bringing souls to Him, thus God will always give His blessing to this ministry, i.e. distribute His strength and His grace. For the spiritual hardship on earth is great, and wherever a person wants to control this spiritual hardship, wherever he wants to help his fellow human beings’ souls, he can always be certain of God’s supply of strength so that he can carry out every spiritual activity for the benefit of his fellow human beings ….

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The soul’s separation from the body is usually a painful experience for the body because a certain degree of maturity is necessary for a painless separation, which is rarely achieved by the person. The human being’s hour of death will always make him aware that he no longer will be able to strive, that he no longer will be able to achieve anything by himself when he has left the human shell. And depending on the state of his soul the hour of death will then become more or less difficult for him. As long as the human being is on earth he still has the choice to purify himself, and the soul in the beyond will thank its Creator for having been given this opportunity before its departure that it will not have to suffer as much in the beyond. Since God is righteous the soul has to accept its fate in the beyond and needs far greater suffering to attain the degree of maturity. Nevertheless it is not possible to enter the spheres of light without it, consequently this higher degree of maturity has to be achieved through suffering and pain and thus a long struggle before death should always be viewed as an ascent. It is true that people only see the state of suffering, which contributes towards their fear of death since the hour of death seems unbearable to them, and yet it is only bestowed upon the human being by the greatest love to provide for him a brighter light in the beyond.

And this love is the foundation of everything …. God only sends suffering and pain to earth for the purpose of removing a person’s physical desires, that he then will pay more attention to his soul and attempt to perfect it. Every suffering which results in this is blessed by God …. Time on earth passes quickly and with good will can be used to abandon everything worldly, then the soul shapes itself in accordance to God’s will and at the end of its earthly life requires no further exceptional suffering to enter the kingdom of light. However, suffering always contributes towards higher maturity and is therefore a blessing for the human being who otherwise would have to dispose of his errors and failings in the beyond which would also be rather wretched …. thus his suffering cannot be prevented even though the hour of death apparently proceeds silently and without pain. God knows every human being’s state of soul and his willingness to fight all impurities; hence He complies with the human being by offering him the opportunity to accomplish his goal …. by allowing the hour of death to be his last opportunity for arriving in eternity purged and purified ….

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The God-opposing forces influence the thinking of people who live their lives without God …. who neither recognize God nor are lovingly active of their own accord …. who neither seek God nor have the desire for spiritual knowledge …. who therefore only belong to earth, i.e. who are filled with purely material thoughts. They are also taken into consideration according to their desire, they are seized by forces which are likewise distant from God, and their thoughts are directed such that they deviate further and further from God and cause the human being to increase his lack of love as well as his desire for earthly possessions. This is understandable since God’s adversary strives to gain the spiritual for himself and only succeeds in doing so if the human being strives for the same, namely matter, which still harbours something distant from God. Hence the thoughts of these people will exclusively be of earthly content, for as soon as something else is brought to their attention the evil spiritual forces are particularly active by trying to make them realize the uselessness of the earthly world ….

The opposing power of God can have a successful effect precisely on this person’s world of thoughts in so far as he likes to occupy himself with what belongs to the world because he mostly strives for earthly goals. And the earthly goals are always opposed to the one great goal which has been set for the human being for earthly life …. the approach to God …. For this demands that everything that is earthly desirable be put second. The opponent of God, however, tries to place all these things in the foreground, he tries to awaken the desire for them in the human being and to influence him to only strive for those earthly goods. The mental activity of such people will now only be directed towards these goods and then the opposing force will have won the game. They do not ask spiritual questions and every attempt of good spiritual power or knowing people fails because their will submits to the will of the opposing power. The more materialistic humanity is the greater influence this power has, which is evident from the fact that wrong thinking and wrong will are far more prevalent, that the majority is earthly minded and only few people strive spiritually. Consequently, higher development can no longer be recorded. A total spiritual standstill occurs, the consequence of which is a decline in spiritual development as soon as humanity is no longer guided towards realization. Humanity must be brought closer to the concept of God …. It has to be forced into a situation where it considers the possibility of God’s existence and where it learns to regard earthly possessions as impermanent, and then a struggle will start again between both the good and the bad forces which mentally guide people onto the right path, i.e. to lead them to realization …. And the will of man is decisive …. If he turns back to earthly goods and what the world offers him, he has once again given himself over to the mental influences of the forces that oppose God and recognizes their rule …. Then his thinking is still wrong, it corresponds to the will of God’s adversary and increases the distance from the one Whom the human being should strive for during his time on earth. And then God’s adversary will have won the victory and regained the souls which had already escaped his influence and power due to the infinitely long course on earth …. And the being’s last embodiment as a human being did not bring it any progress, but instead earned it renewed captivity throughout eternity ….

Amen

And this is significant, for only the path through earthly life can abolish the separation from God, and only the time of embodiment as a human being can result in the being’s conscious union with God. And precisely for this reason it is also significant to which things the human being’s thoughts turn during his time on earth and which powers are granted access. Thought transference is the weapon with which the spiritual leads the battle …. Light and darkness seek to transfer power to people in the same way, precisely in the form of thoughts, and both powers are successful depending on the person’s will, his nature and his attitude towards God. Every God-affirming person will shape his nature such that he strives to be good, and thus his will is inclined towards the good, the divine, and the result of this is receptivity for spiritual emanations of strength which the good, i.e. light-filled beings want to impart to people. The transmission of thoughts by the beings of light can therefore take place without resistance, without hindrance, the human being’s thinking moves within the truth and never needs to be doubted …. However, the same receptivity is also characteristic of people who, through their distance from God, turn to the opposite pole of God. They can receive the emanations of evil spiritual forces in exactly the same way because they open themselves to them through their desire for worldly things, which are part of that from which the human being should turn away. Such people will always live a life of heartlessness and their hearts will willingly accept the currents which impel them towards increased heartlessness. And thus the thoughts of such people will not bring them closer to God but increase their distance from Him. Then darkness will triumph over light …. The beings of darkness are supported by the human being’s will itself; no obstacles are placed in the way of their expression of strength and thus they can also become effective, which is expressed in people’s completely wrong thinking and therefore in humanity’s spiritual low, which can only be remedied again through external influences, i.e. through severe suffering and tribulation, through which people are forced to take a stand mentally and this can still lead to a change in their thinking. For man cannot be led into right thinking against his will. His will is decisive and the events which come upon him and which, as sorrowful as they are, can still have a favourable effect on the human being’s soul are also in accordance with his will ….

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The lack of trust in God will become quite obvious when people find themselves in great earthly adversity because they lack profound faith …. faith in a power which can change every event in the world through its will. The believer surrenders to this power with complete trust because he knows that the love and omnipotence of God wants to help him and can help him, and thus the full believer has an advantage over the unbeliever because he is often spared anxiety and worry, whereas the unbeliever lives in constant anxiety and worry because he has no one to turn to who can relieve him of this. Trust in God therefore requires deep faith, but at the same time trust in God determines the depth, i.e. intimacy, of prayer. For he who is full of trust in God will come to God in all the needs of body and soul and ask Him for His help …. He will call upon Him in his heart, and thus the fervent prayer rises up to God. And the father in heaven hears this because His love for His children is so great that He does not want to leave them in suffering and sorrow. But where there is a lack of full confidence that God can and wants to help, prayer will only timidly rise up to God and the help will be correspondingly weak. It is therefore absolutely necessary to penetrate to a strong faith, because it only results in heartfelt prayer to God and thereby the connection with God is established much more easily. In strong faith the human being feels closer to God and he is able to pray in spirit and in truth, i.e. to speak to Him unbiasedly, and the sooner his prayers will be able to be answered, for a prayer sent to God in profound faith and full trust must necessarily result in fulfilment, because God Himself has promised people that He will give them what they desire …. “Ask and you shall receive ….” And what God has promised will always and forever remain pure truth …. So if He has given people the assurance that He will help them, they can also believe without doubt that He will do so and now let their confidence grow strong. And from that hour on earthly life will also be easier to bear, for what the human being’s own strength is not sufficient for he will be able to do with the support of God’s strength, which the fully believing human being can and will request, because God Himself has placed it in people’s hearts to ask Him if they need His help. Strong faith can also be requested and God will also answer this prayer, for if a person asks for spiritual possessions he will never make a wrong request ….

Amen

No spiritual forces can express themselves which are under the influence of the evil power as long as the spiritual is still in bound will, because the opposing power of God is powerless against this beingness. It can only test itself on the soul of man, therefore on the spiritual, which is in the stage of free will, and also does this in the most extensive way. Thus people will always be oppressed by the power opposing God, but they will never be able to influence creations which harbour the as yet undeveloped spiritual substance. These creations are solely subject to God’s will, and everything that takes place in these creations can be attributed to His divine activity. It is therefore totally erroneous to attribute phenomena to satanic power which run counter to divine order, i.e. which come to light in the creations. Every change in God’s creation is also caused by His will, for the power of God’s adversary never extends beyond that which God has brought into being through His will in visible creations. And therefore the effect of that power can only be expressed in the human soul …. It can indeed, by influencing the human will, cause it to act destructively in creation, but then man will always be the executor, he will therefore, as it were, do something on behalf of the evil power which the latter cannot carry out itself, namely somehow act contrary to the divine laws of nature. If it is therefore assumed that the power hostile to God can gain faith in people by carrying out things which require divine power, then God would first have to give this power to His adversary, and this would not correspond to the nature of the eternal deity, Which, full of mercy and love, inclines towards all Its living creations and wants to help them in their spiritual adversity. For it would truly not be a help if people were misled in their faith and were even less able to recognize God. It would then be almost impossible for people to believe that God would hand His creatures over to the adversary, that He would not only abandon them to the adversary but push them towards the one from whose power He wants to liberate them. Yet God’s love lasts forever …. He helps humanity and He will always stand by it in the battle against evil, but He will never put His living creations into such trouble that they suspect God in the activity of the one who is His greatest enemy and adversary. The God-opposing power will always be recognizable by people who think and act lawfully, and thus they will not experience the adversity of considering God’s adversary to be God Himself either, unless they are so devoted to him due to their completely wrong way of life on earth which deprives them of all power of judgment …. But these are no longer His children but children of satan because they are subject to his will and completely oppose God ….

Amen

False Christs will arise and perform signs and miracles in My name …. This is what I announced to you ahead of time and My Words are true. Yet you try to explain these Words wrongly if you assume that the same power dwells within an evil force, an emissary of Satan, which made Me work signs and miracles during My life on earth. Heaven and Earth are at all times subject to My will, they are governed by My will, and this will of Mine upholds every creation, because a will that is contrary to Mine would signify the decline of everything I let arise if I granted him power over it. And yet, signs and miracles will be performed, but they only ever appear as such to those people who are his followers, for they are spiritually blind, they don’t know the true correlation of all things, and they will consider everything as signs and miracles which seems extraordinary to them but which every human being would be able to accomplish by mustering all his willpower. You are all in possession of abilities which you need only develop in order to accomplish many things. Yet your weakness of will prevents you from developing your abilities, and therefore something seems to you a miracle which, however, is within the scope of possibility for every single person …. And thus all signs and miracles, which I mentioned to you, will be understandable to every enlightened person, yet those who still live in spiritual darkness will conclude that it is supernatural strength. And they will grant divine strength to those who are My opponents yet appear in My name in order to deceive humanity. The darker the spiritual night is which enshrouds people, the easier it will be to make them believe in miracles, they will accept every extraordinary activity by evil forces as such, yet the extraordinary working of light …. of people whose will is inclined towards God …. will not be acknowledged by them, and this alone is already a sign that people are under the spell of the one who seeks to fight against God. And yet they will make use of My name …. that is, they will proclaim themselves as Messiah, they will promise people deliverance from every adversity through them and their teachings, for they will only try to win them over by describing themselves as representatives of the One Who has all power over Heaven and Earth. And everyone is a false Christ who preaches a wrong teaching in My name …. and who tries to confirm this teaching through extraordinary working which, however, can never be looked upon as a miracle ….

Amen

My true followers are permeated by My spirit and when they perform signs and wonders in My name I Myself work through them …. And their way of life must be like My life on earth as a human being, thus it must be a life of loving activity, and if they now preach My teaching and call upon Me to confirm what they teach they will also be able to work like Me, thus perform miracles by which people will recognize the truth of their mission. But if people come in My name and want to bring salvation to the world …. if they claim to be Christ but do not also live as Christ, their signs and wonders will not be genuine either, i.e. they will not work with the help of power from Me, but people will know how to utilize the powers of nature but not openly confess their ability, instead they will leave people in the belief that all power is at their disposal as God’s emissaries so that they can find a large following and increase their earthly power. For the false Christs and the false prophets only seek recognition, fame and honour from people. They strive for worldly wealth, power and prestige, they do not give God the honour but seek to supplant Him and put themselves in His place …. And by this you humans shall recognize their activities, that they may preach in My name but do not perform signs and wonders in My name which could truly be called miracles. For everyone will be able to perform false miracles, yet only those people want to perform them who are completely without faith, thus they are in closest contact with the prince of darkness who uses his power in order to make the human being’s will submissive to his will. And this use of the will accomplishes things which seem miraculous to the human being as long as he himself is in spiritual darkness ….

Amen

You humans will only recognize the abundance of grace flowing from the directly received word of God when you are deprived of every opportunity to receive the word of God elsewhere. There will come a time when nothing will remind you of the activity of spreading the doctrines of faith that have been openly offered to people up to now …. a time will come when people will only meet in secret in order to hear about God’s love, His will and His activity, and people will have to fear that these meetings will be counted as a crime. And this is the time which God foresaw and which caused Him to work extraordinarily in order to be able to give these people the bread of heaven in a direct form. As people want it, He lets it happen, yet He comes to the aid of those who have to suffer because of this will …. And what is taken from them by people is given back to them by God Himself, He Himself comes to people and feeds and strengthens and comforts them …. He does not tolerate that they have to starve, but He gives them food which is imperishable, He feeds them with the bread of heaven, He supplies them with food which is a direct transmission of strength from God. For He knows that people need such; He knows that they come into situations where their faith is in danger; He knows about their weakness of faith in the face of such dangers and therefore He offers them His word which silences all fear and worry. For He Himself descends to earth in the word and is therefore in the midst of those who believingly accept His word. And so people will endure everything with faith and undaunted and still be happy. They will allow themselves to be reviled, they will bear every persecution with patience and only recognize the truth of the divine word in them, and their strength will increase, their faith will become ever deeper and more unshakeable. And they will no longer fear the world if they have submitted themselves to Him Who also rules over the world.

Where the word of God is offered, there the lord dwells in the midst of men, and He refreshes and strengthens them for the battle they are to wage for His name’s sake. The time is near when the adversary prepares himself for this battle, when he determines the will of men for unscrupulous action against all men who stand in faith. The time has come when the evil spiritual forces will look for people who are in bondage to them and through whom they can work unhindered …. And it will be their greatest ambition to prevent everything that favours spiritual striving and to destroy everything that points to God or acknowledges Jesus Christ as saviour of the world …. in other words, to prevent any knowledge of divine wisdom and to use satanic cunning to assert themselves …. And the followers of the world will be at their will; as they are already distant from God they will have no qualms about giving up everything spiritual and content themselves with earthly pleasures, thus paying homage to God’s adversary who wants to elevate himself to the throne …. He will reign for a time, but the power of faith will be revealed in those who resist him and recognize God as their only lord …. For what the opponent of God offers them will only ever be worldly goods that will not last …. He will promise honour and glory to the people who are willing to serve him and threaten the others who are true to their faith. And so he sets himself against God …. He is His adversary, His enemy, who does everything in his power to gain supremacy over the human soul. Yet he will not succeed with the souls which are devoted to God …. Only where unkindness prevails will he celebrate triumphs and present himself to them as God, and their blindness will recognize him. But God protects His own from his influence by imparting His strength to them even when God’s adversary wants to prevent this …. He sends His word to them and is with them in the word itself, dispensing strength and grace and blessing those who are faithful to Him and want to serve Him. For one thing is necessary in the coming time …. that the divine word is spread, which He Himself sends to people and which He has blessed with His strength ….

Amen

The whole of humanity is facing its spiritual downfall, for the same state, the state of heartlessness, exists everywhere and the desire for earthly possessions is predominant everywhere, and this characterizes the human soul’s spiritual immaturity. Spiritual striving, on the other hand, is usually eliminated and therefore the deficiency is only very rarely compensated for, which is certainly possible if knowledge is made accessible to the human being and he now consciously strives to perfect himself. This conscious endeavour can bring a person great spiritual success. However, all knowledge is prevented …. he is offered something as a divine mission which, however, testifies to very inadequate knowledge, and therefore this teaching will not stimulate people to consciously work on themselves either, and it is precisely the conscious work on themselves which earns the soul its degree of maturity. If this is now prevented then there is also the danger of a complete flattening, for people lose all knowledge because they only pay attention to world events, and therefore it is of incalculable blessing if spiritual knowledge is cultivated outside the existing organizations, where people educate each other to love, to mercy, to gentleness and patience. When the divine word spreads from mouth to mouth, every organization is superfluous, because then man has everything he needs …. He only needs to follow it, then the knowledge opens up to him, and the knowledgeable person also begins the work of transformation in himself, i.e. he seeks to adapt to what is required, and as a knowledgeable person he can therefore also guide his fellow human beings correctly and likewise spur them on to participate in the work of transformation. Very few people go to God with all their worries, precisely because they do not want to and cannot recognize an eternal deity. And thus it has to be explained to them through fellow human beings that they only have duties towards the body insofar as their earthly life depends on it …. It has to be explained to them that they have to put the work on the soul before everything else, so that they no longer consider the body as before …. Only then do they begin to become knowledgeable …. And they can now pass on this knowledge, first in the closest circles and then also in public, even if this is prevented by earthly power. Yet it is necessary to come to humanity’s aid because it is in incomprehensible distress and can only be helped by way of complete freedom of will …. through instructions which they can now accept and reject and thereby escape or succumb to spiritual downfall ….

Amen

The most daunting problems can be solved effortlessly with the help of spiritual strength. What seems impossible for the human being alone he will be able to accomplish if he utilizes the spiritual strength at his disposal; and where there are limits to earthly knowledge there are no limits for the human being who makes use of spiritual strength …. Man can do nothing without the supply of strength from spiritual beings and yet he only rarely recognizes the givers of this strength because, on the one hand, he lacks the knowledge about it and, on the other, he does not want to accept anything that he cannot see or prove earthly. However, this dismissive attitude is a shortcoming that results in a reduced supply of strength, for spiritual forces can only come into action where they are recognized and thus consciously requested. However, the working of spiritual forces cannot be proven to people, they can only be informed about it, but only in such a way that they are not forcibly led to believe in spiritual forces. Spiritual power is a divine influx, i.e. divine emanation, which pushes everywhere where it finds no resistance …. However, the divine emanation must be something effective in itself, i.e. it must accomplish something …. whoever is permeated by it must be able to accomplish something that surpasses earthly abilities, for the power that flows directly from God to His creatures must enable the human being to do something that he would otherwise not be able to do. Consequently, the human being can accomplish things which seem extraordinary and yet can be explained in the simplest way by the flow of strength which God has intended for every human being but which is only very rarely utilized. And therefore there need not be anything extraordinary for the human being, for everything is explainable if he accepts that God gives the human being everything he lacks if the human being wants to receive it. If he believes that God is omnipotent, that He is therefore able to do everything and that God is the most loving being Who would like to give His strength to people, then it will no longer seem strange to him that he, too, can receive strength from God, and then he will consciously desire it, i.e. request it …. Only then can the spiritual forces come into action, i.e. serve as mediators between God and people, i.e. receive the strength from God and pass it on to people who, through prayer, make themselves receptive to this flow of strength again. And as soon as faith is strong, the human being now also uses this power for extraordinary work …. He will be able to accomplish what is otherwise impossible for him, he will penetrate areas of knowledge which are otherwise closed to him and he will be able to achieve things which surpass human strength, for spiritual forces are always at work, a power can always be utilized for which there are no limits to the possibility of implementation. For it is divine power, the emanation from God, which turns God’s love towards all His creatures and only their willingness is needed to receive it ….

Amen

Only that can correspond to God’s will which has the commandments of love for God and one’s neighbour as its guiding principle, for if the human being lives in accordance with these commandments he will never violate divine will. Consequently, a change on earth which is not based on the divine commandments, which therefore contradicts God’s will, must be useless for the soul because it does not bring it any higher development. The soul is therefore in a state of immaturity which can only be remedied through the bestowal of grace, and this is given to it through the presentation of the divine word which informs the soul that it is in danger and is living its earthly life wrongly …. This grant of grace can now be accepted but also rejected, depending on its will; but it is the only means that the human being changes his earthly life and submits to the divine commandments. And for this purpose the consequences of a wrong way of life have to be presented to him, as well as the life in the light which awaits a soul which has submitted itself to God’s will. Yet these consequences can never be proven to the human being such that he has to believe, consequently, the origin of the divine word can always be doubted if the human being wants to …. He will counter that what is spread as divine word is always human work and never allow himself to be convinced that a human being has drawn from a source which was made accessible to people through God’s great love in order to impart knowledge to them which corresponds to the truth …. They will only be able to understand and believe this if they lead a right way of life, a life of love, which brings them realization. Then it will no longer seem surprising to them that God Himself is the source Who lets living water flow to people …. then they will also be able to believe without proof what they are taught about the consequences of a wrong way of life and live according to God’s will of their own accord. They will lead a life of love and know that they can then also constantly draw from the stream of life, that they will receive divine wisdom from His hand. Thus a life of love will always be decisive for the soul’s degree of maturity because it increases the degree of knowledge and the soul’s illuminated state depends on knowledge. Consequently, the commandment to love God and one’s neighbour cannot be eliminated and must be fulfilled first so that the consequences of a life of love will manifest themselves in increased knowledge, and therefore people must be encouraged to love and this again through the divine word, which admonishes and educates people to love. As soon as the unbelieving person, who wants to deny God as the origin of His word, is active in love himself, all doubt will disappear from him. He will have to regard the word as an expression of God, for his heart, which is capable of love, accepts it and at the same time gives him the understanding for it. And it is now no longer possible for doubts to take hold of the human being as soon as he lives a life of constant labour of love. For now that God draws him to Himself, Who is love Himself, he also recognizes His word, His voice, and he accepts without contradiction and without hesitation everything as truth that is offered to him through God’s love …. what is imparted to him as divine word. The divine word educates to love, the activity of love earns the human being knowledge, and increased knowledge again increases love for God and His living creations. And ever brighter light, i.e. an ever more clairvoyant state, will be the fate of the one who is lovingly active on earth. And therefore wisdom can never be sought from the worldly wise if they lack love, whereas they will, however, recognize the truth as such if they live a life of active neighbourly love at the same time. For they will also acknowledge God as the source of His word, they cannot do otherwise because they have already united with Him through a life of love and thus also recognize His working ….

Amen

And that is why man is also responsible for how he lives his life, because he is given knowledge of His will through the word of God. For God also speaks to people in other ways than just through direct communication …. He directs the thoughts of each individual so that they can recognize God if only they are willing. He has created countless marvellous works around the human being, all of which bear witness to His creator, thus repeatedly directing the human being’s thoughts towards Him. These thoughts can be rejected or dropped. Once they arise, the human being is not forced to dwell on them, thus even now the realization of the eternal deity depends on the human being’s will to affirm Them, for the willing human being continues to spin out such emerging thoughts and thereby gives the beings of light caring for him the opportunity to influence him, i.e. they direct his thoughts towards the right realization and stimulate him to ever new mental activity. Therefore, a person can be far closer to the truth without any external influence, without the transmission of the divine word by fellow human beings, and has, so to speak, acquired it through his own thinking because he has not resisted the activity of the beings of light who have mentally instructed him. Thus every work of creation, every event and experience around the human being is suited to lead him towards the realization of the eternal deity, for God Himself speaks to people through all of this in order to then confirm it through the directly spoken word which He sends to people, so that the human being can repeatedly obtain confirmation from the latter that his thoughts correspond to the truth. Then he will not deviate from the truth as long as he surrenders to God’s working through the beings of light without resistance. As soon as he feels an inner resistance and gives in to this feeling, thus unwillingly faces what is offered to him, he has already fallen prey to the opposing power which instils this will in him, thus wants to turn him away from God and the recognition of Him …. As soon as the thought of a supreme and most perfect being, to Whom the human being has to answer for his way of life, is annoying or unpleasant to him, the adversary of God already has an effect on the human being. And then the beings of light increasingly come into action insofar as that they now send the word of God to the person in danger through the human mouth. He is now warned and admonished, and that which does not want to agree with him mentally is urgently presented to him, but the decision is left up to him, for he has to live his earthly life in fullest freedom of will, otherwise it cannot earn him the final spiritual freedom. But God offers the being all possibilities, all favours and means of help which it only needs to make use of as long as it lives on earth in the embodiment as a human being ….

Amen

The turning point in life is the rebirth of the spirit …. it is the moment when you become conscious of the spiritual strength flowing to you through My love. As soon as you feel yourselves inseparably united with Me, as soon as you become conscious of the fact that you cannot exist without Me, as soon as you feel My presence and this consciousness determines your whole life, the spiritual spark in you strives towards its Father-Spirit and you have woken up to the real life, you are reborn in spirit …. And from now on you strive towards Me consciously, your intentions and thoughts are inclined towards Me, your actions correspond to My will. And I take hold of you and draw you up to Me …. I won’t let you go anywhere on your own anymore, I will go with you wherever you go, I Am around you and pay attention to every thought looking for Me …. I hear your heart’s every question, every appeal for help, every sigh for My love and I will help you, even if you don’t feel it instantly …. My love for you is boundless and My care never-ending, and thus I won’t leave any one of My living creations without help. And I particularly take care of My children, for they are My children who have found Me and confide in Me of their own accord …. They have all My love …. Spiritual rebirth is like the rising sun …. it appears increasingly more radiant in the firmament until it is in the sky in full splendour, permeating My works of creation with light and warmth, giving life to new creations and keeping them alive …. Standstill no longer exists for a spiritually reborn person. He will become increasingly brighter and shining since he is, after all, permeated by My strength of love, by My spirit …. And thus he gains ever more light and strength and likewise illuminates everything in his surroundings.

Spiritual rebirth is the awakening to eternal life, and the spiritually reborn person will likewise be able to awaken the lifeless to life, for wherever his light is shining it penetrates the darkness with its bright radiance, and where there is light there is life …. where there is light I Myself Am present, and I bring life to all those who desire it, who consciously want it from Me, who likewise turn to Me with yearning, thus, who acknowledge Me. I give you My Word and thereby the visible sign of My love, I give you strength, which will manifest itself in increased longing for Me again, for this longing is the sign that My Father-Spirit draws the spiritual spark in you to Himself …. and thus you shall be happy when you yearn for Me, for My spirit strives towards you in the same way. And your hearts cannot let go of Me again, for I do not let them do so once they have given themselves to Me …. I Am the Spirit of Truth, I Am Life, I Am Love and the Primary Origin of everything in existence. Whomever I grant My love will exist from eternity to eternity …. He will live and know the full truth; there is no deception and illusion where he is; he will be what I Am …. a spirit, full of power and strength from Me …. He will radiate love and be incredibly happy for being able to impart My spirit to the living creations again, for being able to bring what was once lifeless to life …. He will resemble Me in everything, for My spirit permeates him and thus he cannot be any different than I Am, a being full of love, strength, wisdom and power …. And thus you will be the most blissfully happy creatures in eternity, united with one another and always near to Me …. And you will receive what you desire, for you will only ever desire My love, and this will permeate you continually, so that you can work for your own infinite happiness in My kingdom, which everyone who unites with Me in time and eternity can share ….

Amen

An immense conflict between the nations will find its end according to divine decree. This will by no means correspond to the nations’ wishes; in fact, they will be horrified when they realise the outcome which entirely opposes their expectations. Yet human will is powerless wherever God expresses His will. And every day prior to this still signifies a gift for people if they use these days for the salvation of their soul by turning away from the world and towards God before God manifestly reveals Himself. People have already been affected by indescribably harsh suffering and yet it only brought a few closer to the Deity, for humanity pays no attention to that which is given to them by God but only to that which it is offered by the world …. Thus it does not make use of God’s grace; instead it constantly tries to increase its earthly possessions. And even where people’s belongings are destroyed they will only wholeheartedly strive to regain what they lost. And thus their struggle against each other becomes more and more bitter and can no longer be resolved in an earthly manner but has to be brought to an end by God if it is not to lead to a complete breakdown and utter godlessness.

For people lack faith in a just and wise God, otherwise they would already see by the world event to what extent humanity has distanced itself from God and why God permitted such a world event to take place. For God’s will does not prevent people’s will from accomplishing that which they precipitated by their heartlessness. However, the forthcoming event will raise great doubt about the existence of a Deity Which Itself destroys that which it created with Its Might …. But these doubts will only surface in people who do not act with love …. whereas the loving person will be enlightened and know that nothing can happen without God’s will, thus he will recognise that God had sent the event …. And he will know that nothing will come upon the earth without purpose and reason and that everything can benefit the soul in some way or other. He, too, will be severely shocked by the scale of the event but he will also realise that the human race must be shaken out of its faithless existence so that it will take stock of itself and give its way of life a different direction in order to come closer to God. And blessed is he who will still derive a benefit for his soul from this forthcoming event, for he will lose nothing but only gain, even if his earthly possessions have been destroyed …. He will have found God through it and gained infinitely more than he had lost ….

Amen

You humans should not disregard spiritual nourishment, for it is the most important thing in earthly life that the bread of heaven be given to you for the nourishment of your souls. The physical body cannot exist without food, likewise also the soul, but it needs food even more urgently because it is immortal and the lack of spiritual food results in an unimaginably agonizing state, which is far worse than the passing away. Every building substance for the preservation of the body is supplied to it through earthly food, and yet the preservation of it only has the one purpose to grant the soul a stay so that it can fulfil its earthly task. But in order to be able to fulfil this, the soul must be supplied with food, which gives it power, and this food is the bread of heaven, the word of God, which the love of God offers it as food on its way through the earth valley. And no soul will need to hunger and thirst that desires such. Myriads of God-serving beings hand out the divine gift, the bread of heaven, to people on earth. They stand everywhere along the path of the earth traveller and offer it to the hungry and thirsty so that they can feast on it and continue on their way strengthened. And the bread of heaven is the word of God …. it is the most delicious gift of grace that God has in store for you humans, and you will receive its strength when you are in great need. Just as a fresh drink refreshes you, so the divine word will always refresh and strengthen you, for this is Jesus’ promise that whoever drinks of the water He offers people will thirst no more for eternity …. And His word is truth …. God Himself is the fountain from which the living water springs …. God Himself is the bread of life which He offers to you humans for the nourishment of the soul so that you may receive it and strengthen yourselves …. And therefore the spiritual food is to be desired first. Earthly food will then be given to you at the same time, for God will not let those who are physically destitute think of their soul first, which He also promised with the words: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all other things shall be added unto you ….” You never need to worry about your physical well-being, nor do you need to worry about the form in which food will come to you if this does not seem possible on earth …. God’s word is truth and if you believe in it, His promise will be fulfilled. He will always provide for you, spiritually and physically, as soon as you unite with Him and want to receive His gifts. Yet you must desire the spiritual food first, for your soul needs it on its path upwards, and for the sake of your soul God has given you earthly life, which also requires earthly nourishment. Thus God will truly give you what you need to maintain the body if you endeavour to maintain the body for the sake of your soul. And the spiritual food, the word of God, will also be able to sustain the body, for this is strength from God which flows directly to the human being through His word, and this strength sustains everything, it also sustains the body as soon as earthly nourishment is withdrawn from it. For it is the power of God that sustains every work of creation that has emerged from this power. Hence, if the human being receives God’s direct emanation of strength he will not need any other nourishment and yet will be able to survive if this is God’s will. And it will be God’s will in the time to come that the power of the divine word will be revealed through extraordinary manifestations, which will flow to those who firmly and steadfastly believe and keep God’s commandments. For if a person is willing to consider his soul first and desires the bread of heaven for it, he will be satisfied both spiritually and physically, for God’s love is unchanging and His word is truth: “Do not worry about what you will eat and drink, but seek first the kingdom of God, and everything else will be added to you ….”

Amen

Spiritual knowledge ceaselessly flows to you from the spiritual kingdom which you need only accept in order to possess it. Your will is decisive as to what kind of spiritual knowledge you take hold of, for you can make the spiritual transmission of light as well as that of darkness your possession, depending on your will. The human being’s thinking apparatus is so delicately constructed that it is being activated by every emanation, i.e. as soon as thoughts surround him like waves it becomes active by accepting what he agrees to, which is thus favoured by the person’s will. For this makes the decision …. it effectively accepts part of it whilst rejecting everything else, depending on its attitude towards that which is good and divine or towards the power which is hostile to God. For the influx of thoughts from both powers, from the illuminated or spiritually dark forces, is either beneficially or unpleasantly experienced by the person, who therefore accepts the one and rejects the other. Hence, it depends on his basic attitude towards God which mental information the human being’s will allows to take effect in himself, for once his thinking apparatus has received it, it will constantly remain at his disposal, for it will always rise to the surface as soon as the person wants to deal with it. If, therefore, the human being’s will is directed towards God, the mental knowledge will be accordingly so, i.e. it will only consist of such communications which flow to him from the realm of light, which thus do not contradict the divine will.

The human being will predominantly concern himself with spiritual things and disregard worldly matters, he will feel a spiritual hunger and thus accept from the spiritual transmissions that which corresponds to his desire while disregarding everything else. And so every person forms his own mental knowledge; it will be imparted to him from all sides, that is, good and evil forces endeavour to open their world of thought to the human being and make him inclined to accept their offer. If the human being unites himself with God in thoughts or in prayer he will, understandably, also accept the mental information given to him by forces which are united with God, and these forces will prevent the opposing power from influencing him, and this, once again, is expressed through the human being’s will, through its affirmative or negative attitude regarding the offered mental knowledge. This is why someone with the desire for God can be assured that he thinks correctly, for through his desire for God he makes himself receptive to the spiritual influx of good forces and feels that the mental information given by the opposing power is wrong and merits its rejection. The virtuous spiritual forces diligently train his power of judgment and watch out that the willing human being shall not fall prey to evil influences ….

Amen

God’s extraordinary activity of imparting His word to people testifies to His infinite love for His living creations, for it is an act of greatest mercy since humanity is already in a state which excludes the direct attention of His word. As soon as people live according to His will and are therefore turned towards God they are also able to hear His word, for this is the prerequisite for receiving the divine word, that the human being consciously devotes himself to Him. However, humanity is currently so distant from God that it could never hear the voice of God. The distance from it to God is so great that such a connection can no longer be established which requires the ability to hear the divine word. The spiritual state has sunk so extraordinarily low that it would exclude such an extraordinary work if God’s love did not want to have mercy in order to bring the last help to mankind. And for this purpose He uses a mediator whose will is turned towards Him and who likewise wants to help his fellow human beings …. For the will turned towards God also gives him the realization of the spiritual plight of his fellow human beings. And thus God is obviously at work and forcefully demonstrates to humanity what hardship awaits them if they do not change and endeavour to come closer to Him. For His love for His creatures is boundless …. He seeks to bring them salvation, He seeks to clearly and understandably reproach them with their purpose of life on earth and to determine them to avoid the illusory splendour of worldly life and to acquire the true light of the soul as long as they dwell on earth …. And thus He gives them His word against their will and therefore also has to leave people enough freedom of choice to be able to reject it, which is why the word has to be offered in a form which does not turn the acceptance of it into compulsion. His immense love would otherwise allow the word to reach every individual in order to save their soul, but this is impossible due to the human being’s freedom of will, otherwise God would overturn His own laws and act against Himself …. A person’s love, however, can build a bridge from humanity to God, and every person is free to enter this bridge and familiarize himself with the divine word. And on this bridge God Himself descends to earth and reveals Himself to humanity, i.e., He gives it knowledge of Himself, His reign and activity and the destiny of every individual person, his beginning and his goal. And the knowledge of this is such an incomprehensible grace, for it makes it unspeakably easier for people to work on themselves, which they should tackle of their own accord if they want to become perfect and enter the kingdom of peace …. divine love descends Itself and tries to bring Itself closer to humanity, It comes to meet it even though it has already decided in favour of God’s adversary through its desire for the world and its goods and thereby makes itself unworthy of God’s love …. Yet His love never ceases and remains eternally turned towards that which has emerged from Him ….

amen

An unusually hard time will force you to make a decision insofar as that the path to God will remain open to you, Whom you can approach for help in adversity, but on the other hand faith in God will be forcibly eradicated and now you will be required to decide in favour of or against faith, i.e. in favour of or against God. The name of God will indeed be mentioned, i.e. He will be acknowledged as creator of all things, but otherwise you will deny everything God asks you to believe …. that He is full of love, wisdom and omnipotence and that the meaning and purpose of the human being on earth is different from what people imagine it to be, and that the human being’s life does not end with physical death …. True faith requires a different earthly life from man, and because such a life does not appeal to people, they want to eliminate all faith from the world. But this means spiritual decay for humanity, which God wants to prevent or save from what wants to be saved. He wants to bring them into situations where they absolutely have to establish a connection with God if there is only a little faith in people in order to make them realize the frailty of what people teach. He wants to manifest Himself to them so that their weak faith will be strengthened again, and therefore earthly adversity is unavoidable because it is the only way to awaken the thought of God in people or to strengthen their faith. If they establish contact with Him in their adversity then God will also reveal Himself, for then the human being’s free will will have decided in His favour and he will have escaped the greatest danger of completely losing faith. The forthcoming time will bring so much suffering that people without faith will be close to despair if they are not already completely distant from God and make their lives bearable by exploiting their fellow human beings or by unjust actions which are the result of their complete lack of love. These will mock all faith and make life extremely difficult for the few believers, for they are the willing organs of the one who strives for people’s spiritual downfall and who therefore also carry out what the power that opposes God demands of them …. who take physical action against the few people who still stand firm in faith. This battle of the demon against faith will be so obvious that people will have to recognize the truthfulness of what is proclaimed to them beforehand. And this alone should determine them to resist the demands of the power that opposes God. Then the suffering that comes upon the earth will have had a beneficial influence and will have forced people to make the right decision. But woe to those who give ear to the ideas of the adversary and surrender their faith. Although they will now be less harshly afflicted on earth, they have sold their souls. For the sake of the short time on earth that brings them fulfilment of their physical desires, they will have to live through an unspeakably agonizing time in eternity …. But God’s love still tries to avert this agonizing state through exceptionally severe suffering on earth, which is far easier to bear than the suffering in eternity ….

amen

Faith in Christ’s work of redemption has become so weak among mankind that it is therefore in great danger. And God has known about this weakness of faith since eternity. The number of those who are deeply imbued with the divine saviour’s most holy mission is small to mention, for many confessors of His name only do so outwardly and will also give up this shallow faith if they are forced to do so. Christ’s work of redemption was a work of love which can only be understood through love, which can only be truly grasped by people who live in love themselves and who therefore know that love is capable of the greatest sacrifice. But anyone who is far removed from love will never be able to understand the greatness of the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for humanity. The suffering and death on the cross can only be empathized with and experienced with all its agony by people whose hearts are capable of love, whereas the unloving person will have no understanding for the agony of Jesus’ sacrificial death. And since humanity is now devoid of all love, it has also lost faith in the work of redemption, and this is the explanation as to why faith in Jesus Christ is to be eradicated in the world. Only love can recognize Him as the son of God and redeemer of the world …. But he who lacks love rejects Him, for his God is always the prince of darkness, and his power is recognized through the desire for the world, which makes people incapable of any activity of love. And it will be difficult to live in the midst of a world without love and to keep faith in Jesus Christ …. It will be difficult to withstand the temptations of the world and it will be difficult to defend faith in the divine love of the saviour and to openly confess His name before the world. And yet this will be possible for people who live a life of love, for they are permeated by His spirit and will be victorious over the world and its fighters if they are closely united through love with the one Who is love Itself. They are deeply imbued with divine wisdom and know about the great guilt of the spiritual being as well as about the incomprehensible grace which was acquired for them through Jesus’ death on the cross …. They also know that only the profound love for their fellow human beings motivated Jesus to sacrifice Himself for them, and thus they recognize Him in their hearts and are now also able to represent Him and His act of salvation before the world and confess His name aloud. And these few will take up the battle which the world announces to them; they will not be afraid because the divine saviour, Who gave His blood for people in order to redeem them from the power of the adversary, stands by their side …. He will once again take up arms against the followers of Christ and a battle will break out that can only be fought in deep faith in Jesus Christ. And unkindness will come to light more than ever, and once again love will have to suffer but will also be able to bear all suffering …. Christ will be nailed to the cross again, so He will be denied by humanity, to whom His death on the cross was supposed to bring salvation from the greatest adversity. And only love will confess Him, only those people who are able to love will remain faithful to Him, for the divine saviour Himself will give them the strength to resist their enemies and they will be and remain victorious even if they lose their earthly life, for they were in truth followers of Jesus and, if necessary, will also seal their loyalty to Him with their physical death …. For in them faith is alive in Jesus Christ as the son of God and saviour of the world ….

amen

The power of faith will be revealed in such a way that even the most dismissive people will be taken aback. The believing person will be the living testimony to the truth of what he advocates, for he will accomplish things which run counter to the laws of nature …. he will acquire the power of Jesus Christ at His call and the lord Himself will now work through him. For the human being will find himself in situations where only strong faith in God will sustain him, and God will not allow this faith to be put to shame. And thus the believers can look forward to the coming time undaunted, they will be protected by the Most High despite all tribulations, and where earthly measures seem unbearable they will be given the strength to become masters of them. And this time has also been planned since eternity; humanity shall recognize that God is with those who stand by Him, they shall recognize the truth of the divine word and be able to convince themselves of what the power of faith can do. The believing person will have a weapon against which the adversary will be powerless, for even the forces of nature will be subject to his will as soon as he needs them for his protection or as proof of the truthfulness of the divine word. And he will be able to banish evil if it wants to harm him. He will be visibly protected by God, even though his earthly destruction is planned. And this time is also announced in word and scripture, for God foresaw the time and the necessity of His obvious working through people, and thus He uses those who are faithfully devoted to Him and equips them with great strength so that His promise will be fulfilled: “You will do even greater things ….” and “Whatever you ask the father in My name He will give you ….” And the adversity will produce a strong faith, for the followers of Jesus will come into great distress, and the word of God will be their only source of comfort and strength …. And from it they will draw, and strength will noticeably flow over them …. Undaunted and confident, they will accept everything, always assured of God’s help, which is assured to them through His word …. And so the word has life, it comes true because it is awakened to life, because people live exactly according to it and therefore the promises must also be fulfilled in them, as it is proclaimed beforehand. And anyone who calls this profound faith his own it will be crushed the earthly power, for he will always oppose it with the power of God and be fearless and assured of God’s help …. And so he will be invulnerable to it as long as he is a fighter for God ….

amen

God’s word, which comes from above, testifies to God’s strength, to His love and wisdom and is therefore a gift of grace because God offers it to people who have not yet reached the state of maturity required by the influx of God’s strength. And that is why the willingness to receive is required before the word of God can take effect on people, i.e., before it can be felt as an influx of strength. It can certainly be heard by all people, that is, it can be made accessible to them and yet pass the ear of the individual without effect, then the person is not willing to receive it and it remains ineffective for him. It is therefore up to every person how he adapts himself to the word which guides God’s love to earth, but his willingness to receive it is always a prerequisite for the grace and strength to flow through him. And the heartfelt devotion to God ensures that the word becomes effective in a way that helps the person to spiritual maturity …. Anyone who receives the word of God without resistance will feel its effect in increased activity of love, he will feel urged to carry out actions which correspond to the commandment of love for God and his neighbour, he will have an ever-growing desire for divine nourishment, he will become able to see, i.e. grasp what was previously incomprehensible to him, and the knowledge of spiritual truths will make him happy. Thus the stream of strength will flow through him and influence his activity on earth, his way of life in a God-pleasing way. And yet, the same word can also remain ineffective with people who are inwardly closed, who are still distant from God and do not have the will to reduce their distance from Him. It fades away in their ears and leaves no impression, for an inner resistance makes the heart incapable of receiving the flow of strength and thus the human being’s soul remains completely untouched by it. God therefore gives incessantly, but people do not accept, and therefore the maturing of the one who rejects it is questionable because he absolutely needs the strength from God for it, but this can only be given to him through the word of God. His activity of love is insignificant and so he does nothing to change his spiritual state …. He neither recognizes God’s love nor His wisdom and omnipotence, he passes by everything blindly and yet is always the cause of his blindness because he does not take in what is offered to him, because he does not let the word speak to his heart which God directs to earth and because he does not follow what is suggested to him …. For his will alone is decisive as to whether the power and grace of God becomes effective in him. But God’s love constantly offers His grace to people, the strength from God constantly flows to earth and God constantly tries to help people in their distress …. For His love no longer ceases ….

amen

The time of grace will soon be over and humanity’s mind will not change. People become more and more unloving and fall deeper and deeper into satan’s trap nets so that they tear each other apart and are devoid of all love. And God uses every means to snatch them from this spiritual low …. He takes away their earthly possessions in order to detach them from matter, and He tries to make them think through all kinds of tribulation. He puts them in situations where they should turn to Him for help; yet every means fails and the spiritual state is not remedied. And the time is not far off when God’s rod of chastisement will hit people, for the time of grace is approaching its end. And that is why the earth still has to endure unspeakably severe suffering because this suffering is a favour as soon as it does not pass the human being without a trace and brings salvation to the soul. Yet the human being’s will cannot be forced, and if the suffering does not let him find the right path there will no longer be salvation for him and he will belong to those who will feel the lord’s power on the day of judgment and thus be found to be unfit. And people cannot grasp what this decision means. They cannot imagine that their soul will again have to endure a state of unspeakable agony for thousands of years. But God, Who knows this, will leave no stone unturned in order to spare them this fate, but He cannot forcibly turn the will of man towards good. But the coming adversity will be so great that the natural feeling will be awakened in every human being to help his fellow human being if he has not completely renounced all love. If he is still capable of love, even if only to the smallest degree, then he will awaken in the face of this adversity and also act lovingly. However, anyone who still passes by this adversity without being willing to help has extinguished every spark of love and there is no longer any possibility of ascent for him. They are so distant from God that they are outside of God’s emanation of love, which therefore means the same as that the spiritual substance hardens again into hardest matter …. And now the change on earth begins anew in greatest agony of being bound …. If the unspeakable suffering comes over the earth beforehand, then this is still an act of God’s mercy because He wants to spare the souls the unimaginable suffering of another earthly change. But it is not recognized as such, rather the suffering is a cause for increased rejection of God because people, in their blindness, do not recognize the spiritual connection. Yet enough information is given about it and therefore the lord raises up prophets and lets everything be announced to them in advance, He does not let the time approach without indications, He constantly sends admonitions to people and informs them of the meaning and purpose of the earthly change …. Yet they close their ears and reject the divine gift of grace without hesitation, and therefore there is no longer any salvation for these people, no way to keep them away from the abyss if they do not listen to the final admonitions and warnings. They can only ever be made aware that the spiritual low is the cause of the coming suffering and that this must first be remedied before the suffering can be stopped by God. Anyone who remembers these admonitions and warnings when the last time of grace dawns, the time of the most painful life on earth …. will still be able to avert the worst from himself in the last hour through God’s call; he will not belong to those who are condemned to endure a state of utter helplessness and unimaginable torment for eternities ….

amen

A measure of grace is available to the human being during his earthly life which enables him to become completely free as soon as he is willing to let this grace take effect on him. Thus, every human being can already attain the state of light on earth if he wants to, yet he himself determines the amount of grace he receives through his will. God’s love sets no limits, but the human being himself does so through his attitude towards Him, which now increases or decreases the influx of grace. And so his state of light also depends on how the human being desires and utilizes the grace he is entitled to. If divine grace is now left unutilized, it nevertheless exudes itself as strength onto the works of creation whose spiritual substance is not yet in possession of free will and is felt beneficially by these works of creation. divine grace is the emanation of God’s love, and all beings willing to receive it will feel the influx of the divine emanation of love as strength. Thus the rejection and non-utilization of divine grace on the part of the human being will result in a faster higher development of that spiritual substance, which is not yet in the stage of free will, for this equalization is God’s will. The spiritual substance is now pushing towards its final embodiment on earth as a human being in order to make extensive use of the flow of grace at its disposal for its liberation. Thus the spiritual substance, which is still in bound will, effectively participates in that which is intended for the already more mature spiritual substance as soon as it does not utilize God’s gift, and this manifests itself in a faster reshaping of the external forms, in faster passing away and becoming …. God takes account of the will of the bound, which is now ready to serve and therefore strives for the stage of free will. He takes it into account by giving the beingness the opportunity to reshape its outer shell more quickly …. which now appears again in increased utilization of everything the human being needs to lead his life. Thus the human being himself unconsciously gives the spiritual being surrounding him the possibility of a faster higher development in the form, but this is always only the result of the willingness of the spiritual being to serve and such was again unfolded or increased by the power of grace emanating from God. And therefore, in times of spiritual depression the spiritual in the form will always strive more eagerly for its final embodiment because it pushes towards the flow of grace which is guided into creation by God but not utilized by the beings of free will ….

amen

What a privilege the state of free will is for the being, it only realizes after the death of its body, when its bodily shell has been taken from it. Then it is either in a state without light and strength and cannot change anything itself …. then it thinks back full of remorse and longing to the state on earth in which it did not make proper use of the freedom of will …. or it is in a state of light itself and gratefully remembers that God left it the freedom of will and that this gave it the state of light. Recognizing the unused time on earth will be very bitter for the being in the beyond, for it means, as it were, a step backwards for the soul to no longer possess something which was free to it in earthly life. And it cannot re-acquire free will at will, instead, in the beyond it first has to do what the willpower gives it …. it must want to use its soul for the benefit of other helpless souls, only then will the being regain the state of being able to use its will. But often an inconceivably long time passes, whereas in earthly life high spiritual successes can be achieved in a short time if the will is used correctly …. In the beyond the soul realizes that both were at its disposal on earth, freedom of will and strength to carry out the will, whereas now it has to struggle for strength and the supply of it is again dependent on its will, i.e., that the desire for strength does not supply it with such, but that the will to use this strength correctly must first be there before it can flow to it. And this will must comply with the commandment of love, only then will the strength be available to it to work in the beyond. There is no restriction of strength for earthly life if the will desires to use it, yet the human being only rarely utilizes this grace he is entitled to …. He accepts the life force, but is content with little where there is much at his disposal. The realization of this triggers an agonizing state of remorse, which torments the being until it can now constantly receive strength through the will to use the strength conveyed to it by beings of light for the souls suffering with it in order to help them. Now an activity of love sets in and thus the ascent upwards. It tries to make up for the deficiency which its earthly life has earned it, and it lets its will become active and now fulfils the task which the human being should already fulfil on earth …. to be active out of free will in love …. For only activity in love makes the being completely free. Every bound state is a torment, whereas freedom means bliss. In earthly life the state of constraint is already loosened insofar as the being has free will and can shape its spiritual state in the beyond according to this will and therefore final freedom or renewed constraint is the soul’s fate after bodily death ….

amen

The spiritually seeking human being experiences a certain lack of freedom as long as he cannot intellectually free himself from human teachings which don’t correspond to the truth. Such doctrines prevent him from cognition and thus he thereby erects his own limitation of knowledge because pure truth cannot be given to him until he has liberated himself or …. if it is given to him he does not recognise it as such. Although God moves indeed towards the seeking human being, He wants to be unreservedly accepted.

Misguided opinions, however, are barriers erected by the human being which, in a manner of speaking, still signify a partition between God and the person. Every false doctrine that the human being won’t give up is such a barrier which still separates the person from God. God will now stimulate the human being to pull the barrier down, i.e. other people will shake his convictions by unfavourably criticising his misguided teachings and the person will thus become inclined to quash these. If he does, he will soon gain insight because now he is taught by God Himself Who will send him the right thoughts, which the human being readily accepts. But as long as he holds on to his misguided opinions he cannot become enlightened. He finds no connection, and therefore his knowledge is patchwork and not sufficient to teach other people either, for someone can only give that what he owns himself and not what he is lacking. However, the more willing a human being is to walk the right path, i.e. to live in accordance with divine will, the more certainly God will guide him towards cognition, it just takes a long time to remove those obstructions which make it impossible to achieve cognition.

One must try with great patience to disprove another person’s false opinions. The love of a fellow human being can achieve this as long as he knows the truth and thus can also impart the truth. The human being is always victorious when truth is on his side because the truth is of God and God cannot be defeated. Anyone seeking God will find Him without fail because He makes Himself known to anyone who sincerely endeavours to find Him ….

Amen

A person’s life on earth can be called a school of the spirit, and if he utilizes all possibilities he can be full of knowledge at the end of his life and thus be able to carry out the new task in the beyond …. This task consists of being a useful member of the community, which is again responsible for the work of education …. the education of ignorant and immature souls on earth as well as in the beyond. For ignorance is an unfree and deficient state that must be remedied. This task must be borne by deep love, because it is arduous and requires infinite patience. The knowledge must be conveyed to the ignorant on God’s instructions by beings who are capable of it, i.e. who are in knowledge themselves, thus the former must consciously want to serve God through it, then they can be admitted to teaching activity. The earth is a schoolhouse in which every human being can attain maturity if he does not resist the education on the part of those teaching forces. Everything is made clear to him through creation, and his thoughts will always be directed towards realization, but they can also go their own way, thus the work of education can also be unsuccessful for the individual person or his soul. Then this work must be continued in the beyond, often with great difficulty and resistance. However, the being is not a useful member in the kingdom of the eternal until it is likewise willing and able to be active as a teacher, for unspeakably many souls still have to be educated in the school of the spirit, and this also requires many forces which are willing and able to pass on the knowledge. The spirit in every human soul is able and willing to receive all knowledge, yet it is often held captive by the soul so that the connection with the divine spirit outside itself is made impossible …., which is therefore to be understood such that the spiritual beings, which would like to impart the knowledge on behalf of God through mental emanations, are hindered in their endeavour by the soul, by the human being’s will, which denies these thoughts access to the spirit within it. This is exactly how the endeavours of the knowing forces are resisted in the beyond and their teaching activity is prevented. But as long as the soul lacks knowledge it is also unhappy, it is immature, knows nothing, recognizes nothing and is blind in spirit, and if a soul in need of help approaches it, it cannot offer it anything because it possesses nothing itself. This is a shortcoming that has a painful effect and yet is not taken into account in earthly life, otherwise people would make it their business to successfully pass through the school of the spirit. They do not realize how much they need the knowledge and how their own fate and that of many other souls depends on this knowledge, for only the imparting of knowledge brings with it a state of happiness, and the being can only impart knowledge once it has first acquired it in the school of the spirit. Life on earth can be entirely sufficient to give the human being the right realization, thus he can have absorbed a degree of knowledge during this time which will ensure him a happy state in the beyond, because he is now able to impart his knowledge and, as a teaching force, once again fulfils a task which is assigned to every soul, for this task is the epitome of the act of salvation, because through its fulfilment the darkness is banished and all beings are guided towards the light ….

amen

Every spiritual exchange of thoughts results in success for the soul, for it enriches it with knowledge or corrects errors and thus spreads the truth, and therefore it is extremely valuable insofar as that people are thereby stimulated to think, whereas instructions from only one side easily tire people because their thoughts digress and mutual exchange cannot take place, which has an invigorating rather than tiring effect. This is undoubtedly more valuable, because only what gains life can have a favourable effect on the soul ….

The spiritual world can only be fathomed through mental questioning, since the answer is given by the spiritual beings themselves, and the human being should utilize his time to often indulge in mental instruction, that is, he should often let his thoughts wander into spiritual realms and expect an answer. As soon as the human being discusses this with his fellow human beings, the flight of thought into the spiritual realm is greatly favoured, for speech and counter-speech repeatedly direct the human being’s mind towards the spiritual realm. No proof can be given to him on earth that his thoughts correspond to the truth, however, the agreement of the results of the thinking of those who strive spiritually and whose goal of research is the world beyond is greater certainty for the truth than earthly evidence. And they walk their path with convinced certainty, always guided by those beings whose care they are entrusted to and who also bring people together so that they support each other on this path, for if they walk together they cannot go astray …. The spiritual exchange of thoughts between like-minded people promotes the maturity of the soul, it increases the knowledge and also the zeal for spiritual activity, for they also put the teachings and admonitions which they receive mentally from the beings of light into practice, spurring each other on and encouraging them to work on their soul. And time and again they try to draw people into their circle, for this is the clearest proof of a true spiritual attitude …. of a right connection with God and the beings of light …. that they want to give to their fellow human beings what they themselves receive …. Therefore, they cannot keep the thought material inside themselves but are driven to work with it, to pass it on and to persuade their fellow human beings to accept what seems valuable to them. This exchange of thoughts is doubly valuable as it is the best opportunity to also bring other people into contact with the spiritual world, which they now establish by reflecting on what they have heard, by asking themselves or their fellow human beings questions which they seem to be answered by them but which are indirectly already the transmission of the spiritual thoughts of the beings of light in the beyond. If people give themselves over to these contemplations, which reach into the spiritual world, they have nothing to fear from misguided enlightenment as long as they are seriously willing to come closer to the truth and have God as the goal of their endeavours. The inwardly affirmative attitude towards God protects them from false transmissions, for it results in the exclusive working of those beings who are united with God and thus in truth. Mental research and pondering with a heart turned towards God is the surest guarantee for right, i.e. truthful thinking, for it is not they who give themselves the answer but knowing powers come into action in the form of mental transmissions which therefore have to correspond to the truth. If people come together who are of the same spirit, that is, who seriously desire the truth and recognize God in their deepest heart and desire Him, their thoughts will not deviate from each other either, and only people who are distant from God will raise counter-objections, or there will still be an apparent uncertainty in one or the other in order to clarify certain questions, which will be remedied through mutual exchange of thoughts and should only give rise to more thought again. And therefore it is very beneficial for spiritual development that people come together in order to let their thoughts wander into spiritual territory together, for the mutual exchange of these thoughts is immensely beneficial for each individual, for it brings him the confirmation of the truthfulness of what he thinks, which cannot be offered to him in any other way ….

amen

The weapon of the worldly scholar is the presentation of evidence, and by using this weapon he will always be able to assert himself in the world, that is, his wisdom will be irrefutable as soon as he can provide the evidence for the knowledge he has gained. By comparison, spiritual knowledge cannot be substantiated with proof, it cannot be scientifically gained nor systematically conveyed to people, for spiritual knowledge is not the product of a person’s intellectual thought but the product of a loving heart. Spiritual knowledge has therefore nothing in common with earthly wisdom and can therefore not be judged by worldly scholars either, for spiritual knowledge is entirely alien to them; they are completely incapable of all criticism as long as they have not been accepted into the circle of knowledgeable people as a result of their wholehearted activity of love. And thus the worldly scholar will not be able to use his wisdom as evidence in order to disprove spiritual truths. For he will have to admit a shortcoming, he will have to admit that his worldly knowledge is not sufficient in order to penetrate spiritual areas. However, the spiritual knowledge gained through activity of love will revoke earthly wisdom as soon as this wisdom refers to areas which lie beyond the earth. Spiritual knowledge will yield different results than those gained by worldly scholars; consequently, the spiritually knowledgeable person will bypass and regard all presentation of evidence as unreliable and similarly regard people’s reasoning power as untrustworthy; and thus people who have penetrated spiritual knowledge do not hold worldly knowledge in high esteem. They consider it unsound since it does not contribute in the slightest to leading people into realisation and because divine wisdom can never ever be gained through it. But, moreover, despite the presentation of evidence the wisdom of the worldly wise will turn out to be wrong. For people who have never paid attention to the divine spirit, whose thoughts were therefore never spiritually inclined, will have to realise that people without worldly education have superior knowledge to them, and thus they will also have to acknowledge the truth of what contradicts their researches and subsequent results …..

They will have to realise that intellectual activity alone is no guarantee for correct wisdom …. ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring the understanding of the prudent to nothing ….’ And this is in accordance with the worldly researcher’s spiritual attitude towards God, since no person can know the truth without spiritual enlightenment; and without acknowledging and striving towards God a person cannot become enlightened, since the latter is a flow of strength from God, which can only happen to vessels which are open for this influx, otherwise the flow of strength cannot find a receptacle. All spiritual products for which the spiritual strength from God was not requested or used are worthless, and they will time and again be superseded or dismissed, for intellectual thought does not stop after one result because it is never completely convinced of its truth. In contrast, spiritual results developed in unison with the divine spirit always and forever remain unchangeable because they correspond to truth and are also recognised as such by people who sincerely struggle for truth. A purely intellectual person remains far from the truth, he neither desires it nor does he recognise it when it is offered to him, and thus he will become neither wise nor truth loving. Therefore his weapon, the presentation of evidence, will be taken out of his hand, for his presentation of evidence cannot prevail against spiritual results, which are God’s direct emanation, since his opponents fight with a weapon he does not possess ….. What has been announced through the working of the spirit will visibly manifest itself and thereby provide the evidence that truth only exists where the spirit of God is desired, and that this truth far surpasses the knowledge of the worldly wise, so that people realise that wisdom does not depend on human intellect but solely on the right attitude towards God and a corresponding way of life ….. For only then will the strength from God, His spirit, be desired and also be able to take effect ….

Amen

For those who love God, everything will work out for the best. You certainly worry about your daily life and you even disregard your soul, you only think of your earthly worries and are still little convinced that they are only sent by God so that you should remember Him. God tries to win your love and comes to you Himself in the form of suffering and adversity, yet you do not recognize Him …. every suffering, every worry can be a rung on the ladder upwards for you if they direct your thoughts towards God; then everything will be for the best. You will overcome them with ease, you need not fear a failure of your strength, for the one who imposed them on you will also help you carry them if only you remember Him with a silent plea for His help and grace. Man’s heart is often despondent where it could be joyful and cheerful, for the adversity is never so great that it could not be remedied with God’s help. God masters everything, everything is subject to Him. His will rules, and thus He can certainly also take suffering away from man if He wants to. And that He wills it lies solely in your hands …. If you present your worries to Him and ask for His help He is always willing to do so, for He loves you and is concerned for your well-being, for your spiritual well-being, which is only then your share when you are united with Him. And therefore He wants you to establish this connection, that you unite with Him in prayer, that you call upon Him so that He can be and stay with you. And if you become lukewarm and are in danger of forgetting Him, He has to lead you back to Himself through suffering and sorrow until you can no longer be without Him and surrender yourselves to His love and care. The walk on earth with God is much easier despite apparent external afflictions, for divine love gives you strength. His love turns to those who carry Him in their hearts, whose thoughts seek Him and whose pleas reach His ear. He will always be their helper in every adversity, He will stand by them in earthly needs and worries, and He will let everything serve the salvation of their souls, for spiritual progress, which is the meaning and purpose of life on earth …. For His love constantly seeks to awaken reciprocal love, and anyone who intimately turns to Him will be seized by His love …. And whatever now also comes over man …. it is His will and only serves him for his perfection ….

amen

There is no more valuable service to God than to save the souls of fellow human beings from spiritual death, for then the human being is truly serving God because he is helping to return to Him what has emerged from God. God’s love is constantly turned towards His living creations, and everything came into being for the sake of these creatures, and God is constantly active on behalf of these creatures, and His reign and activity only aims at one …. the return of the spiritual substance which once fell away from Him. If the human being now strives towards the same goal …. of winning back the souls of fellow human beings for God, then he thinks and acts in accordance with God’s will, he consciously serves Him by subordinating himself to the divine will and, as it were, being active as His labourer in the work of love …. that he thus makes the same goal his life’s task, to lead erring, i.e. God-turned-away souls to Him. Then he serves God in truth, he carries out His will and performs the greatest labour of love for his fellow human beings, for he saves them from eternal death, from the state of complete lifelessness and unimaginable torment …. Man cannot measure how important and valuable his spiritual co-operation is, how many souls he redeems from misery through his active help. And yet the thought must spur him on to eager co-operation, that he joins God’s activity of love, that he carries out on a small scale, as it were, what is constantly taking place in the great work of creation through the beings of light which are in closest union with God …. The divine power current is passed on, His radiation of love, as soon as the human being, driven by love for his fellow human beings, wants to help them …. If he gives love to his fellow human being, then the power of God flows over to him and can become effective by awakening love again. And then the person comes closer to God, his soul longs to return to God …. Then the human being has succeeded in winning the soul of his fellow human being for God and kept it away from unthinkable suffering, he has accomplished a work of love in the full awareness of serving God with it and is therefore a faithful co-worker of the lord who knows no other goal than to work with God and for God in order to win souls for eternity ….

amen

It is only love that leads man upwards, and it is only through love that a transformation takes place in him that is necessary in order to move from the depths to the heights, to the light. Nothing else can redeem him, nothing else can replace love, and nothing else but love can lead him closer to God …. And even if a person lives his life on earth in fulfilment of duty and strict observation and fulfilment of the demands placed on him, nothing guarantees his progress but love alone. For this transforms the soul and makes it willing to open itself and give freedom to the spirit within. And the working of the spirit ensures the soul’s higher development …. the maturing without which a life in eternity is inconceivable …. But love is God Himself …. So God must be in everything and with everything that man begins …. And the human being has completely accepted Him in himself if he lives in love, and then his life on earth must bring him perfection because God Himself is in him and can work according to His will. God and love are one, and therefore God can only be found through love, although He is sought intellectually. The knowledge of God and the belief in Him, that He exists, does not bring the human being closer to the eternal deity …. he will only consciously strive for Him through activity of love, then the serious will to come close to Him will be present and only then will the right realization follow, which is imparted to him by way of the heart …. And thus love is indispensable in order to be able to enter the kingdom of God …. Love overcomes everything, it remains victorious even in the most difficult battle, because the one who lives in love has God Himself at his side, Who is in him through the human being’s activity of love. A person’s degree of love determines when God, as love Himself, takes up residence in him. He can only dwell where love has accomplished such a transformation, where the human being has moulded himself according to God’s will …. He must be humble, meek, peaceful and patient from the heart, and all this is brought about by love …. For he puts God and his fellow human beings before love for himself and will always think less of himself; he will demand nothing for himself but will always give …. he will not condemn, but understand and forgive …. he will not seek contention and will suppress all arrogance …. he will have understanding for the weaknesses of his fellow human beings and therefore practice patience. And thus his nature will change and mould itself in accordance with divine will. And God Himself can take abode in such a moulded soul …. Hence love will dwell in the human being in all its fullness, he will no longer be able to do anything else but be lovingly active because God Himself will now direct all his actions and thoughts, He Who is in him …. And where God is, there can be no depth, no darkness and no unfree state; where God is, there is light and freedom, where God is, there is peace and bliss …. love has redeemed man ….

amen

The gift of preaching the gospel requires love for people if divine words are to flow from the preacher’s mouth, for then he is the organ through which God Himself speaks to people, whereas otherwise it is human words that he speaks …. words that are learnt and only reflect the knowledge that man has absorbed in a scholastic way. As soon as a person is active in love, the spirit from God works through that person, and then he can only speak what the spirit from God imparts to him. Therefore, a preacher who is not active in love can never successfully stand up for the gospel, for the words he speaks are only empty; they lack life and therefore cannot awaken to life. And that is the reason why the divine word passes by the majority of people without finding an echo in them. They are not true proclaimers of the divine word, not servants of God, as they should be in order to be able to work successfully on earth. Their ministry is also connected to material interests, and if the human being is not exceptionally active in love he will not be able to provide the kind of information which is necessary in order to attain realization. However, he will always comply with the external forms he has been taught by human beings and he will feel like a servant of God who is destined to preach the gospel to his fellow human beings …. …. The gift of preaching is a consequence of the most intimate connection with God through loving activity and prayer …. There are then no limits to the work of the spirit in man, and now it is not man who speaks, but the voice of the divine spirit that makes itself known through the mouth of man. “Do not worry about what you are to say, for My spirit will give it to you at the same hour ….” And what a person speaks and thinks is the gospel that he should pass on, for it is God’s word, imparted to people by His spirit. And anyone can carry out this teaching ministry if he has acquired the right to the working of the divine spirit through labour of love. But only these are to teach …. Worldly study never replaces the work of the spirit, and if the activity of love is not practiced at the same time, the words offered to people will be and remain literal; they will not penetrate the heart and awaken it to life unless the listener is gripped by deep love for God and enlightened by His spirit, so that the word comes alive in him. The office of preacher is to be taken as infinitely important and yet will be equated with a worldly task even by those who are to fulfil it. Like worldly offices, it is forced into time and form, it is exercised habitually and no longer out of the deepest inner need …. Man must be urged by his spirit to speak, and for this he needs neither a specific place nor a specific time, but only hungry people who want to refresh themselves at the source of divine wisdom, who desire the bread of heaven …. The gospel is to be preached to them, the divine doctrine of love, the fulfilment of which alone allows man to attain wisdom. The more intimate the connection of the preacher with God is and the more willingly the listener receives his word, the clearer and more comprehensible this word will reach the ears of the listener, because he now desires and hears it with his heart and does not let it fade away at the ear. The preacher should be God’s instrument, i.e. surrender himself to God so that He can work through him unhindered …. He is to be the receiving vessel for the spirit from God, which is to pour out on people …. He is to pass on this flow and show the way to those who do not establish the connection with God themselves …. if he himself lives and works with God and for God, he should also lead his fellow human beings to Him and give them knowledge of God’s love, which is to be achieved again through loving actions …. He should educate people to love, because without love no human being can be saved ….

amen

The gifts of the spirit are unsurpassable, nothing can replace or devalue them, and every recipient can be called immeasurably rich, for what the spirit gives him remains his possession for all eternity. The gifts of the spirit are a divine legacy, promised by Jesus Christ to everyone who believes in Him and in this faith keeps His commandments. And this divine legacy will always and forever be valid, God will constantly pour out His spirit onto the willing people on earth who desire this gift. And thus they will be taught by God …. And whoever is instructed by the divine teacher, his knowledge cannot be surpassed. And consequently, anyone who receives the gifts of the spirit from the divine teacher must become wise, and these are the foundations of Christ’s church, they are effectively the foundation of faith, for they receive the gospel directly from God, which they are now to pass on again and which is intended to lead people to faith …. The divine teaching of love is therefore to be passed on, and this is made known to people in all details through the work of the spirit, so the source of the teaching of love is God Himself …. it is His strength, His spirit, which conveys this teaching of love to people in the form of instructions which all have the sole purpose of shaping the human being such that he can likewise receive the gifts of the divine spirit. For when the spirit of God becomes effective in the human being, he takes the sure path to his perfection. For he consciously walks the path with God, since God Himself is present in every gift of the spirit. He is Himself in the word, which is given to people as a spiritual gift …. And God can never be replaced, He cannot be surpassed …. He is always and forever ready to bestow this gift of grace and offers Himself in the word to those who fulfil His commandments, for He has promised this spirit of His Who guides man into all truth ….

amen

Listen to the pleas of the dead …. Do not refuse them your intercession when they remind you of themselves, and know that without your help they have to suffer indescribably. The fate of an unredeemed soul is extremely sad, and you don’t know whether a soul is redeemed or whether it is suffering in this painful state and requires your help. You can only help these poor souls with prayer because then they feel your love and this gives them the strength to improve their own fate. They change their will, and this is first and foremost necessary to initiate a transformation of their sad situation. The souls are grateful for even the least amount of support because they completely depend on you or on the mercy of the souls who have already attained a higher degree of maturity. But these are only permitted to help them when the souls’ will requests a change of their present situation …. However, the will of such souls is weak if not completely inactive and therefore they often have to languish for an infinite length of time if they do not receive support by means of intercession which gives them the strength to change their will, i.e. to activate their will. If you could understand such souls’ suffering you would not let them ask in vain …. because every thought of a deceased is their way of bringing themselves to your attention and a call for help in need.

Humanity is very unkind to each other and without belief in life after death. That is why it does not remember its deceased and thus they suffer greatly. Time and again they push themselves into the thoughts of the human being to induce him to pray for them. There is immense hardship in the beyond and even the souls of unknown deceased come close to those who compassionately remember the poor souls …. because they experience every gift of prayer as beneficial, as an increase of strength and will to ascend. Deeply compassionate people on earth are always surrounded by needy souls who are hoping for their help. Even the resolve to help such souls is a gift of strength to them and every loving thought which includes them strengthens their will. And then helpful beings in the beyond can come to aid these souls by conveying the strength which is necessary to lessen their overwhelming suffering. Human beings do not really know how to value prayer as a gift of mercy. They can achieve everything by right prayer because God Himself has offered this blessing to them and imposes no restrictions. However, the soul cannot help itself in the beyond but depends on help. And you should give them this love and help to save them from the most painful condition and to facilitate the start of their self-deliverance …. Once the soul has overcome the point of weakness then its aspiration only strives upwards and its greatest need is remedied. However, it has to receive the strength for this by means of loving intercession because only the action of love leads to the redemption of the soul. If the soul itself is too weak to do works of love the human being should lovingly support it so that it receives the strength which it needs for its progress. For that reason you should not forget the needy souls …. because they implore you to help them ….

Amen

The human will is not always resistant to the temptations of the power hostile to God, even if it does not recognize them, and this is usually the case when worldly life pushes itself too much into the foreground. Then, to a certain extent, the world with its charms captivates the will and its power of resistance diminishes, even though it fights against it. And the enemy lies in wait for such moments in order to prevent the strengthening of the will through small temptations and to turn to it through the desire for the world. And if a person is not very careful, he falls prey to these temptations and the enemy has won the game. But if a person wrestles with this weakness of will, he will also have great spiritual success as soon as he overcomes the world and seeks to serve God. Then he will also be given strength and can now use his will for the honour of God …. Jesus Christ is to be called upon in every weakness of will, so that He transmits the strength directly to the person, and now the person can be active and he will become master of the temptations. Every weakness of will means decline or standstill, but overcome weakness of will means a victory over oneself. Man must indeed fight, but it is about a high reward …. He knows about the success of a properly utilized will as well as about the failure, and therefore he offers all his strength and requests such through prayer in order not to fail in his last test of earthly life. And these struggles have to be in order to be an antidote against lukewarmness and indifference, for where the human being is in danger he becomes vigilant and looks after himself, and where the will threatens to fail he has to be stimulated to resist, and this through all kinds of adversities which have to be overcome and therefore require the will to become active. But God knows about the innermost will and directs everything in a way that is most beneficial for the human being ….

amen