Every religious doctrine should be examined before it is accepted. God demands this from you in order to reduce the adversary’s influence, because then you will also understand how he works yourselves. His objective is to infiltrate the divine truth with inaccuracies, but the human being can certainly become aware of it if he seriously examines what he is offered with the desire only to accept the divine, the truth. The opponent uses human will, i.e. he influences people to arbitrarily add other teachings to the divine teaching and to pass them on as God-given teachings. But human work is not without error and consequently the pure divine teaching is spoilt too, and even more so the less people scrutinise and think for themselves. And once again it is the opponent’s doing that human doctrines inherently prevent their scrutiny and contemplation …. that people are therefore required to accept each religious doctrine unconditionally and scrutiny of it is made out to be wrong. This furthers the activity of the prince of lies very much indeed. But God requires people to have a living faith, i.e. a faith of heart, a faith which affirms with full conviction what it is taught. Anyone who seriously thinks about it will be able to affirm every divine truth wholeheartedly, however, he will never be able to accept the action of Satan. He will soon recognise it as human work and, having found it to be worthless, thus abandon it with an easy heart. Examine everything and hold on to the best ….

And because scrutiny inevitably has to entail the recognition and rejection of every error, the adversary knew how to prevent the examination of religious dogma by establishing a teaching which was intended to eliminate human thought and which thus has resulted in very nasty consequences …. This concerns the teaching of infallibility of the head of church, which apparently relieves the human being of every responsibility yet leads him into deep spiritual darkness if it is accepted and regarded as divine truth. Because any misguided teaching could then be added as divine truth without permitting criticism or rejection. And thus the door was opened to every error …. a field had been made available to the adversary’s activity on which he could scatter his seed widely ….

People’s obligation to believe the teaching of infallibility of the head of church means that every additional teaching or rule set up by the head of church has to be approved or accepted without criticism, and thus the human being’s thought and choice are eliminated, even though they are indispensable if the human being is to give account of his relationship to God one day. Every person has to answer for himself, consequently he has to make his own decision with complete freedom of will …. However, in order to make a decision he has to be able to examine and consider what he should decide on …. It should not be the case that an individual person decides and this person then demands of thousands and thousands of people to follow his decision, subsequently expressing this demand in the form of a commandment …. (a doctrine) …. which is undeniably the case if every church commandment were to be acknowledged as in accordance with God’s will, because its foundation is the (alleged) infallibility of the head of church. These teachings are now unreservedly accepted without the human being clarifying their meaning and purpose, resulting in routine actions which are unrelated to free decision, profound faith and deeply felt closeness to God ….

A church service evolved which, in reality, is not a service to God. Customs were introduced which are more or less formalities …. The adversary’s actions succeeded in alienating people from the truth under the guise of piety, to stop them from using their own thoughts and thus their free decision too, since all this is suppressed by God’s adversary due to the dogma of infallibility. Because once this teaching has been made plausible to a person he will no longer need to have an opinion about it. Thus he accepts without scrutiny, he need not make a decision because someone else has already made a decision on his behalf and free will is not utilized. Instead, the person has to believe what is given to him as religious dogma if he does not want to come into conflict with the particular religious dogma, which the church makes out to be so very important, that the head of church can never err or take wrong measures when he makes a decision concerning the church.

God only values free decision-making, but this has to be made by the person himself and thus the pros and cons of religious dogma have to be considered by him. Only what he can affirm in his heart can be called faith, and not what he finds himself compelled to affirm …. Because religious dogma intended by God will bear up to every scrutiny and will be even more convincingly accepted the more the human being delves into it …. However, anything that is not of God does not stand up to scrutiny and will be rejected by every person who seriously struggles for knowledge ….

Amen

Every transmission from above is spiritual good as soon as the person takes possession of it, i.e. receives it with heart and mind. Before that, however, they are only words that are only meant to gain life through the human being’s will. If the human being only examines it with his intellect then he will not want to accept everything and the knowledge of it will not bring him any spiritual advantage. But if the heart is active, i.e., if he is capable of love, then it is not the intellect that tests him but the spirit within him, and this accepts without hesitation everything that is offered from above. And then the soul’s knowledge will lead to progress. For then the word comes alive, it stimulates activity, it becomes a permanent possession, it is spiritual good that endures for all eternity. The gifts God offers can never be worthless, they can only be unrecognized in their value, and this is the case as long as the human heart is not receptive due to a lack of loving activity. Nevertheless, it is also imparted to people who still have little love, so that they intellectually accept the divine mission and thereby should be stimulated into loving activity. Thus the will must first become active again to put the word into action, then the human being appropriates the spiritual good by now also becoming aware of the meaning of what is offered to him. The gift of grace can therefore have the highest spiritual value and result in the highest spiritual successes, but it can also remain completely unrecognized as a dead word because the human being does not desire to live spiritually. Nevertheless, it does not lose its value and can exert its effect on a person at any time if he himself contributes to making use of this effect. What at first appears incomprehensible and unbelievable to him can be affirmed by him both intellectually and with the heart through his will to loving activity and consequently be received as spiritual good at any time because it can never lose its intrinsic value. For the transmissions from above come from the realm of the spiritual and will only have an effect if they are conveyed to the spiritual spark in the human being and it is then left to the latter to utilize it …., i.e., to impart its knowledge to the human being’s intellect so that he receives it and the human being then lives in accordance with this knowledge ….

amen

No special previous knowledge is necessary if love impels a person to instruct his fellow human being in order to win him for the kingdom of God. This is the highest and most beautiful goal a person can set for himself on earth, and for this endeavour he is assured of God’s blessing and therefore also of His strength, which enables a person to carry out an activity which serves the salvation of souls. Every spiritual endeavour is blessed, every prayer for spiritual possessions is answered and every spiritual struggle takes place under divine assistance, and therefore every fighter for God will have to be victorious …. The strength from God will always flow to him, and this for every activity which the human being wants to carry out for God and his fellow human beings. If he makes himself available to God as a transmitter of eternal truth, he will also be enabled by God to recognize the truth himself and then be able to pass it on. For divine truth cannot be attained in a scholastic manner through earthly teachers because it remains a dead word for as long …. as long as it is taught scholastically …. until man has brought himself to a certain state of maturity where the word takes on life. But once the human being has reached this state, i.e. has shaped himself according to God’s will through active loving activity, he will receive divine truth from God in all purity and clarity and he will penetrate the deepest knowledge without the help of people who have earthly knowledge. For he is filled by the spirit of God, which reveals all knowledge to him and introduces him to eternal truth. However, this always requires an activity of love on the part of the human being towards his fellow human beings and the will in his deepest heart to help his fellow human beings out of spiritual hardship. Anyone who recognizes this need is already aware of the purpose and goal of earthly life and sees the disregard of divine will on the part of people. He knows about the dreadful consequences, and now love drives him to turn them away from his fellow human beings, and this is the driving force of his endeavour to impart spiritual knowledge to his fellow human beings. God needs such teachers so that people are encouraged, but not forced, to change their way of life while respecting their free will. Every instruction that is transmitted from God to man and from man to his fellow human being is only for the soul …. Only the salvation of the soul, which is in danger, is to be secured by these teachings. And thus a person must offer himself for teaching activity who does not strive for worldly but only purely spiritual goals, only then can he carry out a task and receive the strength from God to do so, which now consists of the ability to be able to teach. For spiritual knowledge is not gained through regular study but through a righteous life of love before God; spiritual knowledge will come to the person who surrenders himself to Him in heartfelt closeness to God, who wants to serve Him and who declares himself willing to undertake any task which is aimed at saving erring souls. The lord accepts him as a labourer in His vineyard, as an instrument through which He Himself can now work …. For he is suitable for his task of imparting the knowledge to people which can cause them to live a right way of life, which will give their souls the degree of maturity …. that they will walk in love on earth again and stand in the right knowledge and in truth …. And “blessed are the poor in spirit ….” who have not lost all faith through earthly knowledge …. For earthly knowledge is more likely to shroud the soul in spiritual darkness than to enlighten it …. Earthly knowledge therefore need not be present where spiritual truths are taught. For in order to be able to offer the latter to fellow human beings, the spirit from God must be at work, and its activity is only dependent on the human being’s will …. on his labour of love for the salvation of his fellow human beings ….

amen

The gulf between man and God is unbridgeable as long as he himself does not make an effort to come closer to Him. The distance cannot be reduced if the human being is not aware of it. However, he neither feels connected to God nor distant from Him because he does not recognize the connection between the creator and His creatures, and consequently he does nothing to change a state which is contrary to God …. He feels no separation from God because he does not believe himself to be originally united with Him. And this ignorant state is so extremely detrimental to the human being’s soul. For it does not strive to escape it, but feels at ease in it. And the gulf does not narrow but rather widens because the human being, who does not feel connected to God, does not lead a life of love either and therefore does not attain knowledge. And he rejects all advice, he ridicules and mocks it and does not do the slightest to bridge the gap. And therefore salvation can hardly be brought to these people, for they reject divine words spoken through human mouths; they do not pay attention to the events around them or do not attach the significance to them which it has; consequently, they remain behind in their spiritual development. For God must inevitably work in them with His strength, but this is completely impossible where the will and the desire for God do not form a bridge to Him. These people will certainly complete their earthly life but will not be able to demonstrate spiritual success, for their life will be completely separate from God, turned towards the world and without any spiritual endeavour. And at the end of their earthly life they are still just as distant from God as they were at the beginning of their embodiment on earth as a human being. God tries to remedy this state by seemingly isolating Himself completely, i.e., He leaves people in their self-chosen darkness and does not express Himself until they expect a sign from Him as proof of His existence …. And then He sends them this sign, but in a way that is not very satisfying for them …. He proves His power to people but otherwise leaves them untouched so as not to restrict their free will. And the human being must try to connect himself with the power which he did not want to recognize. Only then will he build a bridge across the gulf and only then can God Himself show Himself to him, give him strength and grace and help him to ascend ….

amen

The grace of the last embodiment on earth is not recognized by people and therefore also not appreciated. The infinitely long duration of the earthly change comes to an end through this embodiment, and this time is truly short. It is sufficient for the complete transformation into a being of light and also does not place too high demands on the human being’s will if it is weak and could not offer enough resistance for long enough. However, the human being does not use the time for his liberation and lets this last grace pass by unused, mostly out of ignorance of his destiny. However, all hints, explanations and admonitions are untrustworthy to him and he therefore pays no attention to them. However, since he is given free will as a human being, he can live his life on earth …. the last embodiment as a human being …. he will only have to answer for it one day because he will never remain without any knowledge about how his life on earth should be. For if the human being rejects a favour granted to him he must also bear the consequences according to divine justice. There is no other path to final redemption, it has to be travelled in freedom of will and faith, and for this purpose God has granted him this last embodiment as a human being. If this time is not recognized as a gift of grace then this is solely due to the human being’s will, who resists everything that is demanded of him to believe and consequently also does not act according to this belief. The possibility of being able to recognize God is given to every human being; wanting to recognize Him is up to him, i.e. he cannot be forced to do so. His way of life therefore only depends on his free will; he can certainly live life but not utilize the graces of this life, and then the embodiment as a human being on earth was unsuccessful and in vain. With the death of his body he indeed gets rid of his outer shell, but he takes the consciousness of this shell with him into eternity and suffers far more under the bound state than on earth, while a properly utilized time on earth would have earned him complete liberation, therefore complete freedom. The disregard of this grace has an extremely painful effect, and the time on earth in free will is followed by a time of complete lack of will, which the being feels agonizingly and yet cannot remedy …. unless it fulfils what the human being should fulfil on earth …. it wants to become active in love in the beyond …. This will alone gives the soul the strength to work on its liberation. However, the unutilized time of grace on earth can never be completely compensated for in the beyond. Yet God has prepared incomprehensible bliss for those who live their earthly life according to God’s will …. they are in truth His children, to whom He has promised the inheritance of the father ….

amen

The nations will rage against each other without mercy and inflict the greatest possible damage on themselves. People will be gravely affected by this and suffering and grief will be their constant companions. People’s heartlessness is immense and will even keep growing, and thus they will draw divine intervention ever closer to themselves. There is not much time left before it comes to pass what God has revealed to people through his spirit, and yet, people will be taken by surprise, for in their unbelief they don’t believe that they will be affected by it themselves. They don’t believe that their spiritual hardship is such that it will necessitate this intervention and that the time for it has come. For they don’t try to understand each other, everyone just wants to achieve his own advantage and harm his fellow human being. And this is the beginning of an unimaginably meagre time …. Ideals will be lost which can never be replaced again …. The time has come of which the Lord has spoken on earth, and the said intervention will result in such appalling suffering that people will believe they are incapable of enduring this forthcoming time.

And yet, no-one will be able to escape but, in fear of their life, everyone will hear Gods voice speaking loudly and clearly to humanity. The extent of the destruction will make many people equally poor, great demands will be made on people’s love, for only active neighbourly love will be able to handle this misery while raising the spiritual low at the same time. For a loving person will not leave his fellow human being without help and this activity of love will lead to spiritual growth. Every day until then shall be valued, and there will not be many more of them …. The day will come surprisingly soon which will signify a major change in many ways …. And despite their inner upheaval only devout people will remain calm and recognise the real state of affairs. And in their awareness of humanity’s spiritual hardship they will try to also lead their fellow human beings to have faith. For the event will happen for the sake of their souls, and if a person then cares for his soul God’s intervention will also have borne fruit. Yet again, there will only be a few, for their spiritual blindness will prevent people from realising ….

Only a few people will derive benefit for their souls from this event which will repeat itself three times in short intervals. It will deprive people of their thinking ability for it will be so huge that all considerations will fall by the wayside and everything will turn into chaotic confusion. Only His children will be manifestly protected by the Lord, for He will later need them to work for Him. Those who trustfully pray to Him in advance for strength and support will also receive strength and support from Him if they require it. And even if it looks as if everything is lost …. He will direct all events and will know why He allows such a disaster to befall humanity, and He will also put a stop to it when the time is right. The strength of faith shall demonstrate itself in the aftermath. For this event will signify to the devout a confirmation of the divine Word, and then they will support the faith with utter assurance and conviction, and they will be invincible. The less people are burdened by earthly possessions the more receptive they will be for the divine Word, and therefore God will destroy anything that impedes their path of ascent. Afterwards there will be inconceivable misery amongst people, and yet they would be able to lessen it for themselves if they were willing to help each other.

And God will bless all active neighbourly love, and He will help people to endure the earthly hardship. For whatever God takes away He can also replace again if the human being needs it. Yet his heart ought to detach itself therefrom, he should not consider earthly possessions the most important things on earth but realise that they are unimportant and transient and that the bond with God is the only strength and comfort-giving means in order to endure even the greatest suffering. This event has been destined since eternity, it shall, after all, be the last opportunity for salvation for countless people on the wrong path, who only live for earthly things and therefore need to be shaken up in order to seriously reflect on the purpose and goal of earthly life. Yet only a small fraction will derive benefit from it, while the others will re-establish the old living conditions with increased vigour, and they will use any means to acquire earthly possessions again. And this is the time when the new beginning shall be opposed by God’s Word, when people will separate into those who will give up everything just to be able to remain loyal to God and those who will reject everything of a spiritual nature and instead desire the world and its possessions with increased longing. And then the forces of light will clearly be fighting against the powers of darkness ….

Amen

Throughout thousands of years the being had to endure compulsion, and this state was extremely painful because the being was originally created in freedom and was now completely deprived of freedom. The path through earthly life was therefore constantly subject to a law of compulsion, or also …. God’s will determined both the nature of the external form and the activity of the being that travelled the path on earth. And this endlessly long earth walk ends with a short time of freedom, a time where the being does not feel the compulsion so much, where it can also use its will as a free, independent individual being according to its own judgement. This time need not be agonizing in any way if the being uses its will correctly, i.e. in a way which corresponds to the goal and purpose of its earthly life, thus it favours higher development. Then the being will neither need to suffer nor feel its outer shell as a constraint and in a short time will also be released from it and finally be free. But if the change on earth is painful, then the will of the being itself is the cause. It goes the wrong way and must be rebuked through suffering. Nevertheless, freedom of will remains with it until the end of this earthly walk in the flesh. But whether it receives its final freedom after the end of bodily life depends solely on its life on earth. It can be free of every shackle; both physically and spiritually every cover can fall off it and the being can therefore find itself in complete freedom …. But it can also still take over fetters into the spiritual kingdom insofar as every earthly or material desire means a fetter for the being; then it can under certain circumstances again have to bear the pressure of such fetters for endless times, according to its will to free itself from this desire. Although the being no longer feels a physical shackle, the shackles of the spirit are all the more agonizing, for they oppress the being extraordinarily. For since the being’s original state was freedom and power it was not subject to coercion, whereas now it cannot yet freely determine and act, which the being will certainly realize in the beyond after its earthly life, which had brought it free will. And therefore it suffers from the unfree state, albeit in a different way than in the stages before the embodiment as man, where it walked on earth in a certain state of compulsion. For in this state every activity and form was prescribed to the beingness and it could not resist, but now the state of compulsion is eliminated, it is not forced to any activity but rather hindered by the lack of strength. And this lack of strength is particularly agonizing for the once freely created being. The being therefore strives for spiritual freedom as soon as it realizes that its original state was a state of freedom and strength. This realization, however, is only the result of its rightly used will. The being in a bound state always strives to be released from its present form because it perceives it as torment, but it knows nothing about its original nature and its destiny. In the state of free will the constraint of its external form is less oppressive, but it is given the opportunity to recognize, and it now depends on its will to attain full realization, which then also guarantees its final release from the form. This last test of earthly life is only of short duration but is completely sufficient to let the being come to realization if it does not put up resistance. But this short time on earth is also extraordinarily responsible, for it decides about life and death in eternity …. i.e. about freedom or constraint …. about strength and power or powerless lifelessness …. For the latter is the fate of those who did not allow their free will to become active on earth in accordance with God’s will. For eternities it had to walk through creation according to His will for the purpose of its higher development, and the short time (in the short time = ed.) of freedom of will it now has to strive for and continue this of its own accord …. If the being fails, then its will is still turned away from God and it therefore cannot dwell near God, therefore cannot receive the power and the light from God, consequently its state is a powerless and lightless one, which unspeakably depresses the once freely and perfectly created spiritual. Whereas the beingness, which has reached its original state again through a will constantly turned towards God, can work in spiritual freedom and unlimited power and abundance of strength for its own happiness. And the decision about this is placed into the hands of the human being on earth, his earthly life and his will determine which fate the soul, the beingness from God, will one day be granted ….

amen

Every wrongdoing will generally result in just punishment on earth already, so that the human being can learn to recognise the wrongdoing by this alone. For as soon as he must suffer what he has done to others, he will become conscious of his guilt and might feel despicable about himself. Therefore this punishment is atonement and educational means at the same time and can entail a double blessing. According to divine justice every wrongdoing must be atoned for, consequently it would have to be atoned for in the beyond if it is not recognised and regretted on earth and if it has not found God’s forgiveness. The battle for supremacy, for power, honour and esteem lets humanity nowadays use means which can never be approved of, and thus it amasses guilt upon guilt, which it must also rightfully atone for in earthly life, if it is not to endure indescribable suffering in the beyond as a result. And this is likewise a cause for the distress which is presently happening on earth. With every approval of an evil deed the human being becomes complicit in it …. Thus he does not recognise his wrongdoing as yet and must therefore endure the same suffering in order to become aware of it. For not only the accomplished deed is sin, but also the approval of it, as this betrays the person’s attitude, his instinct for wicked deeds. This also explains why so many people are affected by adversity and destitution even though they are not the implementers of despicable deeds …. However, as long as they do not see any wrong in them, their disposition is not virtuous; consequently they must be educated and experience the results or effect of evil deeds for themselves. In this case the will counts as an accomplished deed and leads to retribution which, at the same time, is an educational means in order to make people stop and think about the iniquity of their actions and to change their thinking accordingly. For each evil deed gives birth to constantly new evil deeds, and these result in increasingly worse suffering as just punishment ….

Amen

This is the most important commandment of neighbourly love, that you should not leave your fellow human beings in the misery of their souls. All earthly hardship comes to an end and is therefore not to be taken so seriously. But the hardship of the soul remains, even if the human being ends his earthly life, if he does not try to remedy it on earth. And where his own strength is not sufficient to do so, you should help him, otherwise you will not feel love in your heart and thus not fulfil the divine commandment of neighbourly love. For such a soul is weakened and unable to muster the strength to redeem itself. It is dark and without light, it is ignorant and unfree …. and you should change this state into a knowing, light-filled and free one. And therefore you have to teach these people, you have to give them a clear picture of how they should walk their earthly path, you have to introduce them to the same knowledge which makes you happy and which you have already absorbed within yourselves. The immersion into the spiritual gifts directly sent to you by God must make every soul happy, and conversely, a hapless state will mean spiritual hardship for the soul because there is no light and brightness in the human being. And thus, if your fellow human being languishes in spiritual darkness, you will be doing the greatest work of love if you show him ways and means to banish this darkness. Souls in need do not have the strength to approach the light, so the human being has to carry the light towards them. He must venture into the darkest areas in order to illuminate them with his light …. For light is a blessing even for those beings who are still completely ignorant, and light remedies the soul’s adversity, thus people must be offered wisdom so that they will become knowledgeable and receive light and strength. This is the only way to help the soul to mature as long as it remains on earth. Admittedly, the human being feels little when the soul is in need, for he focuses more on the body’s needs and is content if he can fulfil them. And because he does not feel the soul’s need, he does nothing to help it. The person striving for spiritual possessions, however, knows about the soul’s hardship in the beyond and about its lack of maturity, and he should use his knowledge and help the erring person by lovingly trying to persuade him to strive for spiritual possessions as well and by showing him the worthlessness of earthly possessions. Caring for the soul of one’s fellow human being is the true exercise of neighbourly love, for it can save the soul from eternal ruin. And if a person asks for strength for this labour of love, he will never make a wrong request. He will receive strength to the same extent as he wants to use it for the salvation of souls ….

amen

Absolute determination is required of those who stand up for law and justice. They should openly confess their innermost feelings and not be afraid of the judgement of the world; they should abandon all timidity when it comes to awakening a sense of justice in their fellow human beings. Mankind is afraid to speak the truth openly and usually agrees with the judgement of those who are powerful and respected. It distances itself from its own judgement as soon as it deviates from that of the former. And this is an admission of weakness, a lack of self-confidence and a sign of discouragement. But God needs fighters who face their opponent without hesitation to fight …. who think justly themselves and therefore also presuppose a sense of justice in their fellow human beings so that they can speak freely and openly …. For only through such can He Himself speak to people, otherwise man would have to speak against his feelings if he were to agree with the opinions of others who deviate from righteous thinking. God also demands full commitment to His teaching from man, and this teaching places love as the first commandment as the condition for a right way of life. But where this commandment is disregarded, justice and righteousness cannot be practiced, because this is also based on the love of one’s fellow human beings. He who lacks love seeks only his own advantage and excludes righteous behaviour and thinking. And his behaviour must be denounced in order to educate him to be just. Consequently, his faults and weaknesses must be fearlessly held up to him so that he may learn to recognize himself and make an effort to live a righteous life. But if his injustice is tolerated without objection or even approved of, he will be strengthened in his wrong view and can never come to the right realization. If, however, a person wants to serve God, he places every word, every action and every thought at His disposal and asks for God’s guidance and strength, and then he will be able to speak uninhibitedly and fearlessly stand up for what he recognizes in his heart as truth, as righteous before God …. he will try to influence his fellow human being to agree with his opinion, he will educate him to clear judgement and instil in him a sense of right and justice so that he, too, can stand up for it wherever it is appropriate ….

amen

Complete detachment from the form also requires complete abandonment of the resistance against God, for even if the soul apparently loses every external constraint at the death of the body at the end of its life, it nevertheless does not need to be finally released from its constraint, for it can take the awareness of its bound state with it into eternity, which signifies precisely that state of torment for it. The environment of the soul is then still the same as on earth, i.e., once it stays where it has stayed on earth because it is still bound to earthly matter with all its senses; but then it will always create its environment itself according to its desire. It can therefore still be completely surrounded by earthly matter, even if only in its imagination, is therefore still subject to earthly laws according to its feelings, i.e., it has the same desire, the same cravings as on earth, but also the same resistance to overcome, so that it recognizes its powerlessness and constraint as on earth, while the completely free state is also a state of fulfilment, where no more obstacles are set against the being and it feels this spiritual freedom extremely blissfully. The soul has certainly cast off the physical shackle with the bodily death, but it does not yet have the awareness of its freedom until it has reached the degree of maturity which earns it spiritual freedom. And therefore it often does not know about its passing away from earth. It believes itself to still be in its body and it often takes a long time before it realizes it, depending on its willingness to serve …. which, however, is only very weak, for mostly such souls are only seized by selfish love and seek satisfaction of their desires for themselves. But since they never find such, it begins to dawn on them after a long time that in reality they no longer possess anything and only ever strive for illusory possessions, and only then does the process of complete detachment from earthly matter begin, although this is still very protracted. And only the detachment from matter, the overcoming of it and the complete mental detachment loosens the shell of the soul and signifies the beginning of its final liberation from form. However, an unthinkably long time can pass before the being can enjoy the freedom of the spirit ….

amen

True faith does not ask for proof and yet remains unshakeable, for the voice of the heart tells it that it is not mistaken, and thus it needs no proof. And such faith will not waver, no matter how much the adversary shakes it …. Man will neither doubt nor allow himself to be deprived of one iota of what faith teaches him. On the contrary, he will strengthen his fellow human beings in their still weak faith and stand up with full conviction for what he has recognized as divine truth. And this is how faith should be when all the forces of the underworld unfold their activities and fight against faith. Then they shall find strong resistance in those believers who are faithful to the lord. And this resistance will break them, i.e. the believers will be victorious. The lord points to that time with the words: “He who believes in Me will have eternal life ….”, they will overcome death, they will be stronger than the opposing power, for they believe in the one Who has given them this promise, they believe in Jesus Christ, the son of God and saviour of the world. Consequently, He also stands by them in every earthly and spiritual adversity, for this is how He rewards the love and faith of His living creations who recognize Him as their creator. He fills them with His love and with His (grace) power, and this is able to make man deeply faithful, thus man comes through his deep faith to the love of God and through this again to power and grace. That is why the blessing of true faith should be preached to people, for they will need it in the coming times. And blessed are those who then have the right faith, for they will not fear the world but will be convinced of the divine might and strength and love and therefore always know one Who will take care of them in every adversity and Who will stand by them in the battle which will break out for the sake of faith …. a battle which is of utmost importance, which will be waged with all means and demand countless sacrifices in spiritual as well as earthly terms. And God Himself is preparing this battle of faith …. He first strengthens the people who profess their love and loyalty to Him, He announces the time to them and informs them of the signs which precede the battle of faith ….

(4.7.1942) For it is His will that the believers prepare themselves for this time and ask and wrestle for strong faith …. He therefore gives them strength through His word. He brings Himself so close to them that they feel Him and their faith is thereby strengthened. And His spirit floods them and gives them the realization that everything happens for the sake of people and that what comes must also be endured because it is inevitable. The will to believe must be present, then the human being need not fear that he might ever lack strength if this strength of faith is required. For then God is with every individual who calls upon Him and brings him help in his adversity. But a convinced faith is not fearful and despondent, but courageous and strong …. A person may send his thoughts to God in prayer and trust, but he does not doubt that he will be helped, for he knows that he is protected by the promise of Christ: “He who believes in Me will have eternal life ….” The believer, however, does not value earthly life highly and only strives for eternal life. And he is certain of all earthly help from God, because he places his life and his fate in God’s hands. A true faith is also able to give much strength to his fellow human beings, for it is a testimony to the fact that man overcomes everything more easily and therefore an incentive for those to emulate him ….

amen

Joyful service in love is the true service of God, but only this is to be understood by it. Every human being is God’s creature, and when one serves another, he also shows love to the creator, as it were, and serves Him …. The spiritual world can be incessantly active if access to the human being is opened up to it through active love, and can now also work in love again, i.e. hand out what it receives from God and receive again what it wants to hand out. For serving in love is also the first commandment in the beyond, but it is also a truly joyful activity, just as on earth serving in love likewise triggers the happiness of inner contentment and true joy in people. Labouring charity is therefore true service to God. Where love is lacking, serving God is inconceivable, and therefore everything else that is otherwise understood by the word service to God must be rejected. Anyone who wants to serve God can only do so by wanting to please Him, by doing what has been God’s will since eternity …. that he lives in love and thereby confirms his origin, that he therefore recognizes his origin from God and now also endeavours to act as God Himself acts …. that he constantly gives love to every creature of God. Then he is of the same will as God because he has become what God Himself is …. love …. And then he can also do the same thing that God does …. to radiate His power of love to the creatures so that they can exist …. This only becomes understandable when the spiritual life is taken into consideration, which is independent of the life of the flesh, the physical shell. This spiritual life can only awaken when love becomes active in the human being, for then the human being receives God’s emanation of love and now shapes himself according to divine will. In the same way, the being to whom the human being’s love is directed is thereby also prompted to work in love …. For love awakens counter-love, and again a heart opens itself to God’s emanation, and this becomes effective in the human being as increased love, which returns to God again, thus demanding that which was created by God to return to its creator ….

This is the original purpose of the being, to work in the spiritual world in the closest union with God. It has distanced itself from God, but God does not let anything fall that has emerged from Him and always seeks to guide it towards Himself again. Every work of love is an approach to God and consequently a serving in love is the original purpose of the beingness, because serving in love is blissful and at the same time a ruling in the purest form …. It is a redirection of strength, a conveying of that which emanates from God, which is received by the spiritual being full of light and supplied to the spiritual being hungry for light …. This divine emanation, however, is love, which can now be received by the spiritual being, but which can also emanate unnoticed. If it is received by the being, then this expresses itself in such a way that this again becomes active in love, and thus the power of love increases perpetually, and every truly loving man contributes to the fact that the power returns again to God. If a person now serves another in love, he also offers his love to the creator from eternity, for man is the image of God, he is a divine product and therefore may not be lost. God’s love belongs to every single creature and He tries to convey His love to them so that they recognize Him, and for this He needs a person who educates his fellow human beings to love, for only through love does man come closer to God. He should preach love and practice love …. by practicing love he establishes contact with the eternal love Itself, and thus he clears the path for the beings in the beyond to reach people so that they can now work directly. This is a work of mercy which should not be disregarded …. He also serves these beings by facilitating their work. And if someone connects his fellow human beings with the beings of light, there is no limit to their activity. The human being has now served in love and thereby also rendered a service to God, for His care is always directed towards the redemption of the unfree spiritual beings and since this is only possible through active neighbourly love, the human being thereby also serves God by contributing towards the redemption of the unfree spiritual beings ….

amen

The spirit that dispenses wisdom can only be of divine origin, and therefore this spirit can never err. Consequently, everything that has arisen through the working of the spirit is to be believed, even if it is difficult to accept. It only remains to check whether what has come into being is the working of the spirit or a human product. And this is very easy to determine. It must first be considered what purpose the human being is pursuing by informing his fellow human being of it …. whether earthly advantages are to be achieved through it or whether he is merely driven by spiritual will. It must also be examined whether what has been created touches on spiritual or earthly issues, the nature of the creation must be taken into account and the attitude of the person whose spiritual activity is to be examined towards God …. A work can never come into being purely intellectually, which is only purely spiritual in content, without the help of God, i.e. the working of His spirit. For the will to solve spiritual problems already results in the working of the spirit, and if this will is turned towards God then the human being inevitably has to think correctly, i.e. accept the thought material from the spiritual world which flows to him from the likewise God-connected spiritual world. And so the only question that remains is why various results could be disseminated, all of which were presented as the work of the spirit. There is a difference to be made as to whether a person is called to receive and spread divine spiritual gifts or whether he believes himself to be called to do so …. whether he acquires an office himself before he has established an intimate connection with God, before he is born again in the spirit. The rebirth of the spirit must have preceded before the spirit can become effective in man. But the rebirth of the spirit did not always precede this, and yet spiritual questions were raised and answered using the world’s intellect, and thus doctrines arose which differ from one another and which all claim to be recognized as truth. Spiritual problems were therefore only solved intellectually, but they can only be solved truthfully by the spirit of God …. However, the spirit of God can only be effective if the human being is born again in the spirit, if he is in intimate, simple union with God and longs for nothing other than to receive divine truth in the deepest awareness of his belonging to God and in the ardent desire for final union with Him. The purest truth flows to him, and the results of such people must inevitably coincide. People cannot judge the degree of devotion to God, but God sees it and He chooses those who are to serve Him because He recognizes their will and their willingness to do so. There must be an intimate relationship between the human being and God, for this intimate relationship is a prerequisite for the working of the spirit in him and through him. However, the intimate relationship can only be established in appearance before people, by those who believe they are called and yet are not. For neither intellect nor rank, neither denominations nor ministries are decisive for the working of the spirit, but only the condition of the heart, which does not remain hidden from God. Consequently, wisdom and truth cannot be sought and expected where human will has made a vocation out of it, for the vocation must come from God alone, and the person will be called who makes himself worthy of His grace through loving activity, who loosens the shackles of the spirit through loving activity, thus opening his soul to the spiritual influx from outside. God chooses these as His co-workers by imparting the truth to them so that they can pass it on again by teaching. And anyone who is thus taught by God will have the same knowledge and not deviate from it. Yet these people will mostly be found outside of those who claim the right to teach …. They will not belong to those who believe to have acquired knowledge through study; they will be found in the ranks of those who walk their earthly path unnoticed; they will not hold or strive for offices; they will not desire the world and its goods but will acquire the greatest grace through voluntary renunciation …. to be allowed to receive the word of God and to be taught by God Himself …. The rebirth of the spirit is therefore indispensable beforehand, the state must have occurred that the human being consciously seeks union with God, that he wants to serve Him because he feels himself to be His creature and desires union with Him in the realization that this is (was?) his original state and his original destiny. This realization makes the working of the spirit in him possible and also makes the human being receptive to the truth, for without this realization the truth would be incomprehensible to him and it would never be recognized as truth. truth can certainly be imparted, i.e. passed on, at school, but in order to be able to grasp it, the spirit of God must be able to work in the human being, which first requires loving activity. However, people who feel called to teach are not always active in love and capable of love, thus also incapable of teaching, for they can only pass on what they possess. However, they lack wisdom, just as they lack love. And what they hand out can never be addressed as divine truth, for God reserves this for Himself, offering it to those whom He chooses because they prove themselves worthy of His grace ….

amen

The mental activity of an unbeliever produces completely different results than that of a believer. For the most part, the former’s thinking only moves in the earthly realm, for the more unbelieving a person is, the more he is connected to the world and its goods. Thoughts of something supernatural are so far removed from him, and if they are brought to him, he rejects them as fantasy; they are also unacceptable to him, for he regards the world as a matter of course that has no other connection with the individual creatures than that man should make use of all its comforts and derive the greatest possible enjoyment and advantage from it. This attitude makes him completely incapable of thinking his way into spiritual areas, and such people can hardly be taught a different view of life on earth. The aim and purpose of this remains for them only increased well-being of the body and unrestricted enjoyment of life. And yet God does not leave these people without warnings either by often weakening the body in such a way that they recognize from it that a power against which they are unable to stand is opposing them …. Admittedly, they also try to explain this to themselves as a natural phenomenon, and then they must receive stronger indications in the form of other suffering and misery which they are unable to banish by their own strength. The fate of an individual’s life cannot be arbitrarily shaped by him, earthly happiness cannot be forced, and man cannot decide on life and death either, and as soon as he is seriously threatened he recognizes his complete powerlessness. And now he plays with the thought of a higher power that wants to make itself recognizable. And only then do his thoughts wander into the spiritual world, depending on his attitude towards his fellow human beings. A person who only has selfish love will hardly attain realization, but a person who does not completely isolate himself from his fellow human beings, who takes an interest in them and supports them, even if only to a small extent, will more easily come to recognize the eternal divine, only it will take a longer time before a completely unbelieving person acquires a different view, and it is a blessing for such people if they are granted a long earthly life which can still bring about a change in their thinking. For when the body’s strength begins to diminish, the desire for the world and its possessions will also diminish, and then the beings of light will try to enter and have an effect mentally and the will to reject will no longer be so strong. But then a complete change of lifestyle is necessary if he still wants to make up for his spiritual deficiencies on earth and attain the necessary maturity of soul. God’s help is available to him at all times and the human being can do anything if he only wants to ….

amen

I show mercy to all of humanity and want to give them My love …. yet who still respects Me? Only a few strive towards Me, they seek Me and want to live to please Me, they court My love and want to do everything I ask of them. And these are My children …. I am close to them, albeit in a different form for each one. Yet they will always recognize Me and want to serve Me. That is why I dwell among them and take pleasure in those whose thoughts seek Me and who unite with Me in prayer. And thus they shall have an obvious sign of My love so that they will abide in Me and recognize Me as the lord and creator of heaven and earth …. They shall hear My word in all purity and with the word also the certainty that I Myself am with them. This word is a pledge of My love, it testifies to you humans that I dwell on earth again and that I speak time and again to those people who want to hear Me and are devoted to Me in love. And this word is imperishable, just as everything that comes from Me is imperishable. Thus you will recognize by this whether you possess divine or human work, that it outlasts everything and withstands every will of destruction …. And if you now ask yourselves what I demand of you in return, then you can also give yourselves the answer …. nothing but that you give love to all those who cross your path. For with this love you fulfil the first commandment …. You respect Me and recognize Me, you believe in Me, who taught you love and laid down My life for you in love. But in the same way you are to give up what is dear to you, you are to see in Me alone the substitute …. “You shall have no gods beside Me ….” You shall desire nothing but My presence, so that I may dwell among you and you may feel My nearness. This is again a commandment to which I do not force you, but which I give you freely, because only love should determine your actions, not My commandment …. The spirit of love should be in you, then you will always think and act in accordance with My commandments. And if love is in you, you will not need any commandments, for I gave them to people who were devoid of all love and disregarded everything that was supposed to earn them My love. Their love was only for the body, for the sake of which they disregarded every commandment. And in order to limit this physical desire, in order to put a stop to self-love, I gave a commandment that they should remember Me on one day, that they should sanctify one day, abstain from all physical labour and live according to My commandment. Working with love and constant thoughts of Me and putting aside one’s own physical desires, that is true sabbath sanctification. A person who is filled with love for Me has also overcome matter and no longer strives for the increase of earthly possessions; consequently, he does not desecrate the sabbath through physical labour if he performs it for the benefit and piety of his fellow human being. And everyone who lives according to My will, who strives towards Me and loves Me so dearly that he does not want to contravene My commandments, is a member of My congregation, even if this is not outwardly recognizable. You humans are caught up in error and interpret My commandments in a wrong way …. you act according to the word, not according to the meaning of My words …. well with the best of intentions to serve Me with them; yet this results in misunderstandings and pitfalls which cause many a person to fail, and you do not serve Me as a result. Listen with a loving heart to the voice within, which will certainly guide you correctly if you are for Me and not against Me …. All My commandments shall only kindle love in you to its highest blossom, but if love is in you then you truly do not need My commandments, for then you will act in accordance with love, you will also show love towards your neighbour, you will not harm him in any way, you will subordinate all your thoughts and actions to My will and then you cannot sin, i.e. be unloving. Observe the commandment of love, then you will observe all My commandments …. And if you hand yourselves over to divine guidance, you truly need not fear to think or act wrongly. But whatever you do, it is always your will and your love that is valued, not the deed itself. If you also sanctify the sabbath outwardly, this will also please Me if you believe you are fulfilling My will …. But no one will ever be guilty of sin who does not keep the outward form but inwardly also strives to fulfil My will; he fulfils My commandments because he wants to be for Me and not against Me ….

amen

Do not be afraid of those who want to kill the body but cannot kill the soul, for they cannot harm you spiritually but only oppress the body. But the body passes away and if the soul in it belongs to God, it will awaken to eternal life after the death of the body, for only then will its actual life come. And if you bear this in mind, you will also be the right fighters for God, you will confess His name before all the world and not fearfully and despondently pronounce the name of the lord. If your soul is dedicated to God, the world can calmly take your body, it can threaten you with death, and this will not affect you, as the death of the body brings you closer to eternal bliss. But if you do not want to lose your earthly life, you must surrender your soul and betray the lord Jesus Christ …. But earthly power cannot prolong your life by one day if God’s will has decided otherwise. For He is the lord over life and death, He is the one to Whom everything must be subject in heaven and on earth, and if it pleases Him, He will end life, but He will not let a hair of His head be touched by those who still need His will on earth. Earthly power can do nothing if the divine will does not allow it, but the divine will can accomplish everything, and thus He can also protect those people who surrender to Him. And let this comfort you and fill you with confidence that you are protected by the one Who needs you to work for Him, His will can prevent the earthly power from carrying out what it plans …. but the earthly power can never influence God’s will, and thus it is powerless if God opposes it with His power …. Therefore do not fear but believe …. be fearless and determined when it comes to spreading the divine word, for the lord will protect your body as well as your soul until your mission on earth is fulfilled ….

amen

It is intended by divine decree that a time of unspeakable suffering will come upon the earth for the sake of human souls. It will only still be possible to save them through much suffering, and thus humanity will have to endure much sorrow and hardship which shall result in a change of thinking. And many righteous people will have to suffer for the sake of these souls, and this will serve them again for the spiritual higher development and perfection of their souls. They are, as it were, forced to sacrifice their state of suffering, which they cannot completely escape, to their fellow human beings, i.e. if they bear it without grumbling and complaining and resign themselves to everything, they are, as it were, sacrificing all suffering to those who are in need of purification. The righteous must suffer with the unrighteous and often bear the consequences of the latter’s way of life, but his spiritual maturity also allows him to recognize the necessity of what God sends upon people, and so he resigns himself to his fate without complaint. He is already imbued with the will of God and does not oppose Him in his thoughts and feelings. Rather, he tries to make his fellow human beings understand the meaning and purpose of the difficult trial and to persuade them to distance themselves from the world and devote themselves to the care of their souls. He reproaches them for their wrong way of life and its consequences and helps those who are too weak and yet have good will. The righteous must suffer with the unrighteous, but the suffering will be bearable for him because he will not go his way on earth without God. He will receive strength and not feel the suffering as severely as his fellow human being in need of purification, and thus he will humbly submit to divine will. And if he has to give up his life then he will be granted twofold favours in the kingdom of the beyond so that he will not lose the favours of earthly life if he has not yet reached his state of maturity. Then he will have laid down his life for his fellow human beings and this will be rewarded to him. For God gives to all according to their merits, and every undeserved suffering results in the richest blessing, as soon as a person humbly submits to everything God sends him ….

amen

Countless souls are close to earth whose state of maturity is still very low and who therefore still harbour the desire for earth because the higher spheres are still inaccessible to them. These souls are often still unaware of the fact that they no longer belong to earth, that is, they still don’t know that their physical life on earth has come to an end, and therefore they still remain in their old environment and want to talk to people without, however, being heard by them. Sometimes it can take a long time until they realise that they have nothing to do with the Earth anymore. It takes a long time until they find themselves in their new environment and finally stay away from Earth. This stage of ignorance is not very satisfactory for the soul, for it finds no understanding and help anywhere because it turns to people who cannot help in the way it desires to be helped. Only the realisation that it has passed away from earth for good and that people can only offer their help through prayer motivates the soul to reflect on its present state and to consider the possibility that it might be able to change this state itself. Then it will pay attention to every opportunity which raises its degree of maturity. Only then will it take stock of itself and try to hold itself to account, which will often result in bitter remorse that it did not use earthly life in accordance with God’s will. And during this remorseful mood it is often visited by beings of light which approach it under a cover so as not to be recognised as beings of light. These draw the soul’s attention to the suffering of other souls and try to awaken its compassion for them. Then it will depend on its inner attitude as to whether the beings of light will provide it with strength or leave it to its fate again until its compassion for the needy souls outweighs its own suffering and the beings of light continue their influence anew, and then with successful results. Earth is surrounded by countless souls which, in a manner of speaking, still live on earth, but unknown to those people who define everything they cannot see and touch as non-existent, and who therefore refuse to believe that the souls of the deceased surround the people who stay behind. For they can only be seen with spiritual eyes, however, the physical eye is blind, consequently the souls are unable to make themselves known by any means, because people do not react to them, since they are dependent on the divine natural laws in which God Himself has placed them. They only see and hear with physical organs, but the souls of the deceased require spiritual vision.

And so there is no connection between the souls of the deceased and people on earth, in a purely worldly sense; only an entirely spiritual connection exists, and this can only be established if the human being on earth is willing to harmonise with the souls, that is, if the human being on earth believes in the soul’s life after death and as a result of this belief tries to communicate with these souls. Consciously getting in touch with the spiritual world is the prerequisite so that contact can be established between people and the souls in the beyond, which makes a mutual understanding possible. And then it depends on who is more knowledgeable, the human being or the soul in the beyond. For the informed participant shall instruct the uninformed one. If the soul in the beyond is in a very immature stage, then the human being can convey his knowledge to it by speaking to the soul, which the souls can understand and hear very well. But, if a human being lacks knowledge, he will be instructed by knowledgeable spiritual beings once his will desires this instruction.

And thus you humans on earth can very beneficially influence the souls which are close to earth, since the state of their maturity is usually inadequate, with little knowledge and therefore not much strength. By transmitting the knowledge with loving thoughts they can be helped insofar as it enables the souls to detach themselves more easily from earth and at the same time turn their attention to equally suffering souls in the beyond. This can awaken love in them and they will subsequently be introduced to further knowledge by the beings of light, which recognise the souls’ change of heart, and then, on their part, helpfully support the souls.

Amen

The conscious utilization of divine grace brings the highest spiritual success. As soon as the human being requests God’s grace in prayer his soul professes its faith in God, and divine strength will constantly flow to a God-focussed being, since without this strength the soul cannot ascend. But God wants to draw the beingness up to Himself and will therefore always be willing to help this beingness to reach its goal. The human being may only want to receive in order to then also receive what is necessary for his higher development. But prayer proves the human being’s will towards God, and thus he can be offered every means of help …. divine grace …. and the ascent to the heights is made easy. But people do not very often avail themselves of the grace they are entitled to …. They do not connect with God in prayer in order to ask for His strength for their way of life and therefore cannot mature spiritually either, because the gift of grace cannot take place if it is not consciously desired. God’s love and grace is indeed constantly and indiscriminately at work in people insofar as they repeatedly find themselves in situations where they could seek contact with God in prayer, yet this presupposes faith in a power Which is willing and able to help, and humanity lacks this faith and thus does not desire the influx of strength from an entity Which it does not recognize. But it is easy to believe in this entity if a person thinks about it seriously. Thinking, however, is left to his will and therefore lack of faith is inexcusable …. One can never speak of not being able to believe, (but) rather faithlessness is a not wanting to believe, which therefore also makes the influx of divine grace impossible because it is not consciously requested in prayer. And that is why a person who cannot pray is a miserable, pitiful creature who can only be helped through loving intercession so that his mind will change and he will come to realization …. A fellow human being can be granted grace through a person’s intercession, yet he is free to make use of it, for a being which would like to receive divine grace against its will would also be pushed into a higher degree of maturity against its will, which would not suit it because the being senses its lack of freedom, thus it feels that its state has been changed beyond its will and that this does not signify happiness for the being. The favours which are at man’s disposal are inexhaustible, but man’s will must consciously request them. The granting of grace without prayer is impossible, even though the whole of earthly life is to be regarded as a great favour, for it was granted to the being through God’s greater than great love so that it can come close to Him. Yet even this grace can remain unsuccessful if the human being is not aware of the fact that earthly life, the embodiment as a human being, is a grace …. if he only values earthly life purely earthly and therefore only utilizes it earthly and disregards all spiritual higher development ….

amen

The spirit of God descends from bright heights to bring light into the darkness of the earth. And he fills the hearts of those who desire to walk in the light and want to pass it on. To walk in the light means to be knowledgeable, to be in the eternal truth, to be in the right mind and to receive divine wisdom …. So the spirit of God always and constantly shares the truth from God with people …. He enlightens them and gives them knowledge in all areas and answers to all spiritual questions. The spirit from God never errs but gives the eternal truth in a clearly understandable way to people who desire to receive the truth. And there are no limits to this reception, for divine gift can be received without limit since it is something perfect and a limitation or restriction is never in harmony with perfection. However, divine spiritual activity can only manifest itself where a person strives towards perfection, for this is a prerequisite that the being is seriously concerned with coming close to the eternal deity …. who therefore consciously strives for a state which excludes imperfections and faults …. The will to become perfect is therefore the first condition if the spirit of God is to be poured out on the human being. And the human being must now allow this will to become active and endeavour to live a way of life that is desired by God …. he must live a life of love and closeness to God, he must fight all bad instincts, strive for all that is divine and good and thus shape himself such that he becomes a receiving vessel of the divine spirit, that its working encounters no obstacle and it can pour out in all fullness into the vessel that opens up to him …. into the heart of the person striving for perfection, who longs for wisdom from God. The spirit of God works everywhere and unmistakably where man consciously wants to serve God, because God needs bearers of truth on earth who offer to pass on the truth …. Only a few people recognize the significance of this task and therefore only a few people offer themselves to God for this service, and again the will must decide to serve of its own accord. This willingness to serve results in the bestowal of favours which the human being can hardly measure, for God’s love seizes him and trains him for a task which is of immense importance ….

(10.7.1942) The fight against the lie, against error on earth is to be waged and in its place the pure truth from God is to be spread among men. For this purpose error has to be eliminated and therefore first recognized as error. And this, in turn, is only possible if truth is confronted with error, i.e. truth can displace the lie. The truth must speak for itself in such a way that the error is gladly surrendered for it. The lie and the error belong to earth, but the truth comes from above and has to be conveyed to earth, and this by willing beings who serve God …. In the same way, however, truth must be received on earth by people who are willing to serve. Only the subordination of the will to divine will results in the fact that the strength from God, His spirit, can flow from being to being and therefore also to earth. And this influx of strength manifests itself in the human being as increased knowledge, as realization of the eternal deity …. The human being is introduced to divine truth, and this through the spirit from God, which descends upon those people who longingly and believingly desire the working of the spirit for the purpose of enlightening those people who are still completely ignorant ….

amen

It is a state of complete lack of light in which humanity walks as long as it is not in the truth. People themselves do not feel this during their earthly life because it offers them enough things which appear desirable to them. But if they leave earthly life without first having gained realization, i.e. without having recognized the truth, then their fate is the darkest environment, and this is an extremely agonizing state which requires great effort in order to be changed into a state of light. God’s care therefore constantly applies to His creatures so that they may still reach the light …. to knowledge …. and He wants to have this spread on earth through people who receive His emanation, His spirit, without resistance. He communicates Himself to them and thus turns them into light bearers, who in turn can now also spread the light …. distribute it to the people who walk in lightlessness. They must therefore become knowledgeable themselves in order to be able to pass on knowledge, they must be instructed in the truth in order to be able to teach the truth again. And this truth is imparted to them by the spirit from God …. It descends upon people and fills their hungry hearts. Every person capable of love takes part in this instruction, for he will accept without reluctance everything that is now conveyed to him by those bearers of light, yet it is imperative that loving activity precedes it before the divine word, which is truth, can become effective in those who receive it. And therefore the truth can only take hold where a life of love is lived, whereas people who ignore this remain in the same ignorance and darkness of spirit ….

amen

Realization is the knowledge of the correlation of everything that emerged from God, of the original state and destiny of all beings, of God’s activity in the universe and of the activity of the beings in the spiritual kingdom …. As soon as the knowledge corresponds to the truth, man stands in the light, since this is the prerequisite for man to come to realization. Only the knowledge of pure truth can result in a state full of light, but all error is shadow and darkness …. God, as the eternal truth and as eternal love, wants to guide the spiritual substance, which emerged from Him, towards the light and thus lead it into truth, which is tantamount to guiding all the strength which once emanated from Him back to Himself as the original strength, the source of all being …. He wants this beingness to rejoin Him in order to place it in an unimaginably blissful state. However, the union can only take place when the being has become the same …. truth and love …. because this constitutes the state of perfection and something imperfect cannot unite with God. Love and truth …. one without the other is unthinkable, just as God would be unthinkable without love or without truth. If God now wants to educate people on earth to love, then He must also absolutely guide them into the truth, He must make knowledge accessible to them and keep this knowledge free from all error …. He has to purify the knowledge people have acquired from what is untrue, otherwise people’s hearts cannot be permeated by love either, because every error is an obstacle to the divine emanation of love which the human heart is supposed to receive in order to increase the divine spark of love. The human being can always and constantly receive knowledge, for it can also be offered to him by human beings. Eternal truth, however, can only be conveyed to people by God in order to be passed on from person to person again. However, the origin can never be denied and the knowledge itself will speak for itself, for it is wisdom which otherwise eludes human knowledge and is perceived as truth by every human being who tries to mould himself into love and desires the pure truth ….

amen

People can certainly receive scholastic knowledge but it will always be partial knowledge, it will relate to these or those areas but always completely separate from each other, furthermore, the knowledge will mostly relate to earthly things, and where it relates to spiritual things only assumptions will be taught which cannot be proven. And this school knowledge constitutes the whole of wisdom, for people do not dare to go beyond it, i.e. they cannot intellectually fathom what is hidden from worldly wisdom and they do not believe that knowledge can also be imparted to them spiritually. And so they make do with what is offered to them by human beings. Spiritual knowledge, however, is not piecemeal but encompasses all areas and enlightens people about the connection between all things …. However, such extensive knowledge can only be offered by beings who possess even the richest knowledge …. to whom it flows incessantly and who are therefore able to pass it on. And this stream, which pours out over the truth-desiring spiritual substance in the beyond and on earth, is the spirit of God, which unites itself with every spiritual substance which strives towards God. Thus, as soon as a person on earth opens himself to the influx of the divine spirit, profound knowledge can be imparted to him which far surpasses earthly knowledge but which is and has to be pure truth because the spirit from God can never err. And such a person’s task is to spread this knowledge as divine truth so that untruth and error are suppressed and spiritual darkness is banished amongst people …. For knowledge is light, and light is life and bliss …. But if the creatures are to become blessed one day, they must inevitably be redeemed from the spiritual night, which is the task of the human being, who is called by God to be a bearer of light on earth ….

amen

God’s ways are inscrutable. He directs and guides every person’s steps through His counsel, always for the person’s own good, even if he does not recognize it; and even the smallest event has its purpose, for nothing that affects the individual is without purpose and meaning. And if you humans bear this in mind and have faith in divine guidance, you will endure your earthly life more easily and also benefit from it. Everything is based on God’s will and the more devotedly you submit to it, the more beneficial it will be for you. What is often incomprehensible to you humans can bring about the greatest spiritual successes, and therefore God often puts people in situations which shake their entire thinking and turn it towards realization …. The individual’s path through life will always have his spiritual development as its goal, and when this goal is reached the soul thanks its creator for all the pain and suffering it had to endure. And if the human being is incapable of change on earth, then the soul’s detachment from the form must be a painful process for it so that it will still be purified as a result. But a change of attitude can eliminate this process of detachment, God’s will can prolong the human being’s life if the prerequisites for it are given, if the soul decides to live life only for the sake of spiritual maturation. For spiritual development is the meaning and purpose of life on earth and every event is only a means to reach the goal. As soon as man loosens his ties with the world of his own free will, he comes closer to the eternal divine, and then his life is only an ascent to the heights, and physical suffering contributes to this. The world with its attractions and temptations must be overcome, then earthly life can no longer harm the soul, and then it can also be preserved for further spiritual development. For God is extremely wise and extremely kind …. God allows what is beneficial for the soul, even if it seems incomprehensible to the human being, for He alone knows what the soul needs and what will bring it spiritual liberation ….

amen

Every one of God’s messengers, i.e. every person who offers himself to work for Him and is now entrusted with a task by God, must first of all make himself worthy of the supply of grace which this task requires through loving activity. Thus the will to serve God must also be put into practice insofar as the person himself lives his life in a way that is pleasing to God. He must then live in love, and he thereby draws closer to God, which he now tangibly feels as increased strength to work for Him. In order to fulfil his task of spreading the word of God among people, he must be undaunted and courageous in the face of his enemies. He must fearlessly represent the divine mission, i.e. he must not feel hindered by human regulations, but must first fulfil God’s demand as soon as these run counter to human regulations. The strength to do so then comes directly to him. For the battle of faith requires counteraction, a commitment to faith and standing firm in the face of the demands of those who want to eliminate faith from the world, which will never be possible without the power of God. But those whom God chooses as His fighters will never lack strength. They will not fear the world and will therefore fulfil the divine requirements …. They will speak where necessary and try to make their error clear to people, they will stand up for the faith with conviction and also want to pass it on to their fellow human beings because they constantly want to give, because they recognize the spiritual need of those who live without faith and want to bring salvation to them. They do not fear worldly measures because they recognize another more powerful lord above them to Whom everything is subject …. because they strive to fulfil His mission and are therefore also certain of His protection because they feel safe in His protection …. They serve God and not the world, and thus God will also give them what they need and what the world cannot give them …. the power of the spirit …. He sends them His word, which outweighs all earthly treasures …. His word, which is His direct emanation and therefore imperishable …. And from this word the messenger of God can now constantly draw strength, he will never need to despair if he receives the strength from God directly, if the divine word imparts it to him and shapes him into a powerful fighter for God. God needs such fighters so that He can speak to people through them …. He needs people through whom He Himself can work, who therefore only fear God and not people, who are powerless in the face of God ….

amen

Consciously immersing oneself in a spiritual state requires increased willpower and must therefore be practiced constantly and continuously, which is why the human being should not desist from it in order not to become lukewarm and incapable for a task that requires such immersion. Man must practice switching off all thoughts if he wants to hear the subtle voice within himself; and furthermore he must listen attentively inwards. The spirit of God is always ready to offer divine gifts, but the soul is not always able to receive what is offered to it. And as soon as the soul does not open itself completely, the spirit cannot impart the divine gift to it, or the soul only hears unclearly and not quite understandably what the spirit wants to tell it from God. However, the spirit is willing and has precious gifts to hand out, which is why the soul should make use of every opportunity to receive precious gifts. For this means spiritual wealth for the soul, which is everlasting. There are no limits for the receiving earthly child if only the human being’s will is so strong that he completely detaches himself from the earthly world. As soon as he succeeds in this, the spirit from God can already express itself and now instruct the human being. Listening inwards requires the greatest self-conquest, for all thinking must be eliminated so that only spiritual good can be channelled from the heart to the brain. And this grace is the result of a right way of life before God and of increased activity of love, and therefore the more actively a person practices neighbourly love the easier he will be able to switch off his thoughts. The clearer and more comprehensible the thoughts will flow to him until the human being reaches the state without effort where the thoughts flow to him unstoppably and without pause and can likewise be returned, for then the working of the spirit will be so strong that it will inevitably result in rich knowledge for the human being. But before that the human being still has to struggle and pray very much, and indeed the more the more difficult it is for him to enter into intimate contact with God and His beings in the beyond. Through heartfelt prayer he can request the strength from God which he needs for his soul so that it can hear the voice of the spirit within itself and thus receive the divine gift ….

amen

The spirit’s effectiveness is weakened if the human being’s will is not strong enough to resist external influences. The spiritual spark in the human being certainly receives the influx from the spiritual kingdom but it is unable to make the spiritual gifts comprehensible to the human being’s soul, or alternatively, the human being’s soul is incapable of hearing what it is offered because the will is not exclusively focussed on the divine gift. And this until he has mustered the strength to turn away from everything that appears desirable to the body. Every connection with the spiritual world is an act of complete devotion to it, therefore the earthly, the bodily desire must be put aside, and where the will for it cannot be mustered, there an unhindered work of the spirit is not possible, otherwise the favour of God would flow towards man against his will, but which must be completely turned towards the receiving of this favour. The will of man alone is decisive, for it testifies to the degree of love of the heart. Love for God is always expressed in the human being’s will, and so the will to receive will also be in accordance with the human being’s love for God. If the heart pushes towards God, then the will is also strong to overcome every obstacle; but if the will is weak, then the heart’s desire for God is also not great, and therefore the currents from the spiritual kingdom cannot become so effective that they can be imparted to the soul. Heartfelt prayer certainly increases the strength of will, but this intimacy is also dependent on love for God, so that it is therefore understandable that the ability to receive is not always the same if the human being does not always have the same will to love and activity of love. The human being must constantly want to give, for then he will also constantly be allowed to receive, for the former testifies to his love for God, his will turned towards Him, which is the prerequisite for the spirit to be able to work out of God. And the deeper and more intimate the devotion is, the more comprehensibly the soul hears what the spirit wants to convey to it, for it then loosens every bond with the earthly world and accepts the gifts from the spiritual world. Spiritual gifts are precious commodities that are to be desired and received accordingly and therefore require the undivided will of the human being in order to be able to take possession of them. The greater the human being’s will to receive, the greater is also the spiritual will of the spiritual beings who can impart the spiritual gifts to him but who are also subject to divine laws, thus they can only work with the person’s fullest agreement, which is expressed in a strong will ….

amen

People’s endeavours at present only apply to matter, and this means a standstill of spiritual development. There is a danger that the human being will regress if he will not come to recognise his state of poverty, for God’s adversary is trying to pull the souls down in order to win them for himself completely. And the more he succeeds the harder it becomes to escape from him again and turn towards higher spheres. The human being’s will is weakened and can only change with God’s help, which categorically requires calling upon Him for help. And this makes prayer therefore the first and most important requirement …. As long as the human being is still able to pray he is not hopelessly lost, since every call for strength in spiritual adversity will be answered, and if the human being can no longer recognise the spiritual adversity he is in, which is also due to the adversary’s influence, and thus ignores the blessing of prayer, he will then be led by God into situations which will make him realise his own helplessness in earthly difficulties, so that he will then take his refuge in prayer and call upon God in his adversity. He is always ready to help, He will not deny His support to any petitioner, He gives strength to the weak and alleviates every adversity, but He wants that His help shall be consciously desired; He wants the human being to come to Him as a petitioner, because this is the admission of his lack of power and strength, which God has to demand of the being which had once, in arrogance, in conscious awareness of its power, turned away from the One from Whom it had received its strength.

The being shall become a recipient of strength again as it had been in the very beginning, nevertheless it shall work with and not in opposition to God, and therefore it first has to realise that it is an utterly weak being without God’s love, in order to motivate it to join God again, from Whom it had voluntarily distanced itself. Therefore the unity with God has to take place in free will again, and therefore the being cannot be given strength against its will. But it is expressing its will through prayer, through the desire to be given strength, which God will always fulfil. For He only wants to be acknowledged as the Giver of strength and that the being abandons its former resistance through prayer and willingly seeks to unite with God again, so that it then can be permeated by God’s strength and thus become a recipient of strength once more, as it was originally destined to be ….

Amen

Active neighbourly love is no longer practiced by people because everyone only strives for their own well-being, i.e. selfish love is too strongly developed. This attitude of people is contrary to the original nature and the original purpose, for the being emerged from love and its activity should be an act of love …. it emerged from the all-encompassing love of God and should radiate love again …. Human love, however, is small and narrowly limited, it only extends to one’s own body, it is therefore not blissful but only demanding …. It is not giving, but always demanding, and it will never be equal to divine love. Active neighbourly love corresponds more to the original state and the original determination of the being, and therefore only through it can the being free itself from self-love and come closer to the original state again. It is selfless and only wants to please, and consequently it must be of divine origin, that is, it must flow from a heart that feels connected to God and can therefore receive God’s emanation of love. Divine love constantly distributes, just as active neighbourly love is a constant distribution of what the person himself possesses or receives. Self-love, on the other hand, does not give but takes everything for itself, it does not make happy and is in no way divine, but rather proves that it belongs to the one who rejects divine love and has fallen prey to unkindness. In His immense love God created human beings in order to restore the beingness to its original state, in order to give it back what it had once lost because His love constantly wants to give and the hapless state does not correspond to His feeling of love. However, the beingness can only receive His emanation of love again and therefore only be in a happy state when it has shaped itself into love, when it distributes love itself in complete unselfishness. Only then will its feelings, thoughts and actions correspond to its original state, which was a state of deepest and purest love and the being was therefore similar to God and could be close to Him. But this state should also make the being happy again, for it is the final goal of all beingness that emerged from God, and it can only be achieved if the human being practices love, if he unselfishly distributes to his fellow human being what he himself possesses and what he himself deems desirable. For giving love is divine, and thus it must also mould the giver into a divine being, it must stimulate the heart to ever more eager loving activity and reduce the distance from God ever more …. The loving person must find union with God through his activity of love and be seized by divine love, which radiates through him more and more until the being has completely become love, until it is again what it originally was …. a spiritual being that has emerged from divine love, that is in the closest union with God, that can work and create like Him ….

amen

The core of Christ’s teaching is the divine doctrine of love …. The spiritual was bound because it had distanced itself from eternal love and had therefore become unloving. It travelled its earthly path in accordance with divine will, i.e. it served, albeit in a state of compulsion. For service is a consequence of love as soon as it happens voluntarily …. Thus the spiritual, which wanted to approach God again, also had to be given the opportunity to serve voluntarily, i.e. to develop love, which is now possible in the human stage. This serving must be carried out in love without any compulsion, which is why the being also lacks the knowledge of the bound state beforehand in order not to be influenced by this knowledge. But in the stage as man he must nevertheless receive knowledge about his task, and that in a way that leaves his will of faith free. Thus this knowledge can only be conveyed to him in the form of teachings which he can now accept or reject depending on his will, which therefore cannot be proven but only have to be believed. The most important thing he must recognize is love, its effects and its blessings, so that he can practice it himself and feel the effects on himself. His further spiritual development is solely dependent on love and therefore the knowledge of it must be made accessible to people, they must be taught love, which Jesus Christ did by preaching love to them in word and deed and setting an example of a life of love. Only love can redeem the being from bondage, and this cannot be sufficiently held up to people, they cannot be sufficiently admonished to live a life of love, and that is why Jesus Christ commissioned His disciples to go into the world and bring the teaching of love to the nations …. They were to show people the right path, the path of love, which everyone must take if life on earth is to bring them spiritual success, which is the goal of all spiritual …. complete liberation from the form. The teaching which preaches love is of divine origin, it is the teaching which Jesus Christ Himself proclaimed to people on earth, which God therefore conveyed to His living creations through Jesus Christ. And this teaching can never ever be eradicated, only the observance of Christ’s teaching is disregarded by people, and therefore they also have no objection to the teaching of love being completely eradicated because its requirements and commandments are inconvenient and obstruct earthly desires. The divine doctrine of love preaches detachment from matter, man should willingly give up his possessions to his neighbour, he should therefore overcome his own desires and divest himself in favour of his neighbour. This requires true love for one’s neighbour, and man should educate himself to this love …. Humanity, however, strives to increase earthly goods, and to a certain extent it now acts contrary to the law of love by wanting to take earthly goods from its neighbour and acquire them for itself. This is legally permissible, i.e. the human being does not always commit injustice when he increases his possessions, but the feeling of love in him is thereby killed, whereas self-love is strengthened and thus spiritual higher development is made impossible. Love for one’s fellow human being, however, would diminish the striving for earthly good, and since humanity sees the only thing worth striving for in increased possessions and physical well-being and this alone means progress for it, it wants to suppress the divine teaching of love. It does not want people to be hindered in their worldly endeavours, it sees in this divine teaching of love a restriction of earthly vitality and now fights with all means against the alleged reduction of vitality, which for it means the divine teaching of love. And so humanity is in a tremendous spiritual danger …. to withdraw more and more from the life of love and to fall into ever tougher spiritual fetters from which it can no longer free itself, for love alone is the solvent …. where this is suppressed, it is quite impossible to become free. The world will fight against the divine teaching of love and cause the greatest spiritual damage among those who belong to the world, but it will never ever displace the teaching of Christ, for everything will pass away that is the work of man, but the divine teaching of love …. the word of God, which Christ Himself conveyed to earth and sent out through His disciples to all nations …. will remain, for it came from God, was taught and lived on earth through God in Jesus Christ and is repeatedly conveyed to earth by God in all purity …. And that which is of God is imperishable, therefore the divine teaching of love will not be able to pass away for all eternity ….

amen

All spiritual coercion has to be condemned because the human being’s action resulting from it cannot be valued by God.

Only complete freedom of will determines the value of people’s actions. Therefore they should be informed of Christ’s teaching, but they should not be duty bound to lead a specific lifestyle as a result of rules and regulations, which they will then dutifully and habitually observe. People should certainly be educated to think and behave correctly, but they should only ever be shown the rights or wrongs of their actions. They have to be advised to practise love but they should never be urged into actions by rules which do not match their inner will. Only the commandment of love should be observed and therefore also taught …. because anyone who fulfils the commandment of love shapes his heart such that it will want to carry out of its own accord those things which correspond to God’s will. However, commandments which oblige a person to conduct his life in a certain way, even though a failure to comply with them does not demonstrate heartlessness towards other people, are not given by God, i.e. they are outside of Christ’s teaching, because this teaching only preaches love which, however, does not aim to achieve the fulfilment of divine commandments by means of external force.

The human being has to be able to shape himself in utmost freedom of will if this transformation of thought is to be of value for eternity. Freedom of will, however, is restricted as soon as a dutiful transformation is demanded. Every good deed which does not arise from the heart, i.e. which is not accomplished by the inner urge to carry out an action of love, will only be valued for what it is in reality …. an implementation of duty without warmth of heart. And there is great danger that the human being will give too little account to himself about his thoughts and actions because he believes to have done what he was meant to do on earth, and this belief has its foundation in the commandments which people had added to the teaching of Christ. Only the divine teaching of love is to be understood as the teaching of Christ, but never humanly decreed commandments which aim to achieve something else than just true actions of love ….

Where love is taught love also has to be practised, and actions of love should be understood to be everything that is beneficial to other people. Thus the human being is merely expected to do good to his fellow human being, and therefore the divine teaching of love will only expect people to fulfil those requirements which protect their fellow human beings from damage or are of benefit to him. When the human being considers the wellbeing of his fellow human being he is living within love, because it is urging him to help other people. This is the true activity of love which is required from people by God and which was constantly practised by Jesus Christ on earth. However, if people are demanded to do something, even though failing to comply by no means damages or injures other people, then this is due to humanly decreed laws which should not be confused with the teaching of Christ.

Nevertheless, there is great danger that the commandments of love will be ignored in favour of these humanly added commandments and that the significance of Christ’s teaching of love will not be recognised, which is evidenced by the fact that humanity, ignorant of its true value, wants to replace Christ’s teaching of love completely. Because it pays more attention to commandments which more or less enslave the human being because they represent spiritual coercion to him.

The world takes offence to this and is now attempting to fight against and replace everything, including the pure teaching of Christ, which is only preaching love. Everything added by people to the divine teaching of love was only done to infiltrate the pure teaching of Christ with error, because it is deviating from what Jesus Christ has left to people as His Work. However, only what is of God will remain …. but human work will pass away ….

Amen

Nothing shall shake your faith, and thus you will have to struggle for firm faith even before the time that will make great demands on it. And therefore you must be subjected to trials so that you will not waver in times of adversity. For then you will have no other support than faith alone, but this will also help you to endure and overcome everything, for if you call a strong faith your own you will never stand alone but your father in heaven will always be with you. He is your constant companion to Whom you can entrust yourselves without hesitation, Who guides you correctly and protects you from wrong actions and thoughts. And if you act and think correctly, everything will work out for the best. Therefore, constantly ask for strong faith, fight against your weakness, always remain devoted to God and hand yourselves over to Him in deepest humility and love, and you will never have to do without His support and will become strong in spirit ….

amen

The God-opposing will was the cause of the spiritual being’s apostasy from God, therefore the God-like will for the spiritual being has to mean unity, i.e. union with God, and from this it is obvious that the will of the apostate spiritual being has to be changed first if it is to be able to unite with God again. This transformation is the meaning and purpose of life on earth, but it has to take place without compulsion and therefore takes place in the form of a slow higher development. The beingness is deprived of its right of self-determination, i.e. it has to subordinate itself to the creator’s will as long as it covers the path on earth before the embodiment as a human being insofar as it has to be active in the preliminary stages in the way God prescribes for every work of creation. This is by no means a state of complete lack of will, but the beingness has already expressed its will before, and that is why it was now given the task which corresponds to its will. It is only a state of compulsion insofar as, once it has expressed its will, it can no longer counteract it but must now carry out the activity to which it has previously committed itself. It is, so to speak, induced to serve, but it has previously declared its willingness to serve, otherwise it would not be permitted to serve. Thus the will of the beingness already turned more and more towards the eternal deity, the resistance was given up and the union with God was so to speak unconsciously striven for. But the beingness still has to pass a last test of will, where all compulsion is eliminated and the being can decide completely freely and consciously whether it gives up the will opposed to God or still persists in it. And this is the time of embodiment as a human being, which every being can now utilize of its own free will. In this time it is only about the will, whether it turns away or towards God. And it will now be understandable to people that one can only speak of a successful change on earth when the once God-opposing will has completely changed, that is, when it completely subordinates itself to divine will and thus reduces its distance from God …. For the latter means an approach to God in a conscious state, it means a complete change of the spiritual, which once turned away from God in free will and now uses this free will again to unite with God …. The spiritual now restores its original state without being forced to do so by God, and this signifies the redemption of the spiritual from the cover which God has added to the spiritual as a fetter in order to lead it back to Himself; for the spiritual it signifies a free, inconceivably blissful state which corresponds to its original purpose and is therefore the goal of all unredeemed spiritual ….

amen