Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him …. God has withheld the knowledge of this from people, He merely expects their faith in the glories of the beyond, in fact it cannot be shown to them as long as they live on earth, because what God has in store for His children is nothing of an earthly nature, it cannot be perceived with earthly eyes and felt with earthly senses. Nevertheless, His Word is truth …. and thus the soul can expect an exceedingly happy state in which it can see and experience the most wonderful things. Nothing on earth exists which could be used as a comparison and even roughly correspond to the truth. It is a state of blissful happiness; it is a continuous view in the spiritual world whose inconceivable diversity reveals itself to the spiritual eye. All spiritual beings are united with each other in utter harmony and equilibrium; there is constant activity of love, a coming together and complementing of each other, a continuous service to God and reception of spiritual strength, a continuous giving of happiness and increase of strength of love …. It is an indescribable bliss, merely one look at this glory would prompt humanity to live a completely different way of life, yet this would not be judged in the same way as a right way of life before God without knowing the reward. The human being shall be good of his own innermost accord if he wants to partake in these joys in the beyond. Nevertheless, God made this promise to people, and as soon as a human being accepts it as truth, as soon as he believes, the knowledge about this blissful state in the beyond will no longer be a danger to him, for then he will be so united with God that he will strive to be good of his own accord and will not feel obliged to live a good way of life because of promises. For God has prepared these glories for those who love Him. Love for God is the condition, but this must be born in the innermost heart and only the degree of love will be judged, not a deed which is accomplished for the sake of reward. But where love is present, the reward is not thought of …. Where love is present, there must also be happiness and bliss, for God Himself is love, and God’s presence is the most wonderful and happiest state for the soul, love is the fulfilment; God’s love is the epitome of heavenly beatitude.

Amen

The greatest worldly knowledge must pale in comparison to the knowledge the human being has received through the working of the spirit; and again, the worldly knowledge must also correspond to this knowledge if it is born from a believing, God-affirming and God-aspiring heart whose life is an activity of unselfish neighbourly love. Consequently, these people will also always move in truth when they think about spiritual problems, for they do not answer their questions by virtue of their intellect but their thoughts arise from the heart and will therefore always be truth because the spirit of God instructs them. If the knowledge is gained in a different way, i.e., if it has also been gained through thinking but with a worldly sense, without recognizing a divine being Which is closely related to the human being and consequently also without requesting the strength of a divine being, then it will hardly correspond to the truth, for a person with such an attitude is rarely capable of love and active in love. As soon as he is lovingly active, however, he is already close to recognizing the eternal deity, and then a small impulse, a right instruction, is enough to move this person to right thinking. The rejection of an essential deity need not always be a denial of the deity, for by recognizing the deity as a force of nature this deity is also affirmed; however, it is difficult to bring the force of nature into closer connection with the human being’s work of creation, Which guides and directs each individual’s destiny …. And therefore it is not possible as a human being to establish contact with a deity for Whom the concept of an entity is ruled out. Without establishing this contact, however, the flow of power from God cannot be channelled to the human being, which determines his spiritual development …. It cannot become light in him …. Only the life force necessary for the preservation of life comes to him, which also includes the function of the brain, the purely intellectual thinking. But this alone will never be able to produce truthful results in purely spiritual problems. The eternal deity reserves the solution to these problems for Itself and offers it to those who establish contact with It in all faith, who therefore entrust themselves to this deity as feeling inseparably connected, because they recognize themselves as being in constant dependence despite their free will and now, as a result of their realization, call upon God as an entity and desire the truth. Thought activity without a heartfelt appeal for God’s help can never result in pure truth. But where there is love, this realization is no longer far …. however, anyone who lacks love is far removed from the truth. For the working of the divine spirit is switched off there, and without God no truth can be brought about ….

amen

The responsibility the human being bears towards his soul in his earthly life must be made known to him, and this happens through instruction in the divine teaching which is offered to the human being as the teaching of Christ and which shows him the clear path he has to take. The knowledge of this must be imparted to him, otherwise he could not be held responsible. He must know that the body is capable of doing everything but that it does much at the expense of the soul; however, only the soul needs to take responsibility for itself and therefore it must muster the strength to deny the body what is beneficial to it but detrimental to the soul. And the soul alone determines what the body does. For the body without the soul is dead, so it is the soul that gives it life, because willing, thinking and feeling emanate from the soul, i.e. it is, as it were, the epitome of the soul. If now the thinking, feeling and willing is only turned towards the body and only its desire is fulfilled, then the soul must live in want, and its meagerness will become apparent when it has to answer for its life on earth. For the body passes away and therefore does not need to bear the consequences of the wrong way of life, while the soul has to suffer according to its earthly life. And this must be presented to man on earth so that he does not act out of ignorance but is rather aware of his responsibility. And this knowledge is imparted to him by the Christian teaching, which prescribes to man exactly what he should and should not do, which clearly and distinctly expresses God’s will to him and which presents to him everything that is man’s task on earth. If the human being lives in accordance with this Christian teaching, he will turn his attention to the shaping of his soul and pay less attention to his body, and he will never again need to fear future responsibility. He has then, so to speak, fulfilled his earthly task, namely moulding his soul, which requires the body to be set aside. And as soon as the body is valued less, the soul takes the course of higher development, namely it pays more attention to the spirit within itself and is instructed by it in everything that is beneficial for the soul to know and which brings it an increased state of maturity. And then it no longer needs to fear responsibility, it lives earthly life in accordance with God’s will because it respects His voice which speaks to it through the spirit in the human being. For as soon as the human being allows the teaching of Christ to have an effect on him, he will do everything that Jesus Christ demanded of humanity. He will work in love and serve God and his neighbour, he will not ignore what God puts to the heart of man through His word. He will make the divine teaching of love the guiding principle for his earthly life and try to mould himself into love, his will and his deeds will be in accordance and always turned towards the good, and he will never fear responsibility, for he lives his earthly life according to Jesus’ example, he tries to follow Him and is intimately and faithfully united with God. He has overcome the body and its demands, and the soul has united with the spirit in him ….

amen

The right path that leads upwards is only travelled by a few people because it seems too difficult for them. But these few will certainly reach their goal, because the will to overcome even the greatest obstacles will be royally rewarded. However, it is not always the prospect of reward that drives people to walk the right path, but their heart urges them to do so, and therefore the path is not as difficult for them as it seems. It only requires perseverance and patience, and he can receive both if he only strives to fulfil God’s will. God does not force anyone to walk the narrow and arduous path, and at the same time He will show him a practicable path that can bring him equal success if only he always walks in love. Then he will not be granted a thorny life. He will be able to lead an easier life and still reach his goal, as love will drive him to think and act. He will not have to endure so many trials and he will also be given extraordinary strength. God’s guidance will be very clearly recognizable because he will responsibly hand himself over to this guidance and God’s adversary will no longer have any power over him. The path on earth is only difficult if the human being falls into doubt due to a lack of love …. Then he does not entrust himself to divine guidance and he has to fight very hard against the obstacles placed in front of him, and thus his path upwards will be increasingly more difficult if the human being does not have the right attitude towards God ….

amen

The probationary period on earth is of utmost importance for the human being or his soul insofar as that it finally leaves earth at the end of it, irrespective of how far the soul has developed upwards, but the soul’s degree of maturity is now decisive for its new environment and activity in the beyond. The work on earth is finally over, even if it was unsuccessful for the soul. In a way, a time of grace has ended, whether it was utilized correctly or incorrectly. But both have serious consequences in the afterlife. The time on earth is only short and yet decisive for eternity, for although the soul can still continue to develop in the beyond, it can no longer achieve the development that a properly utilized earthly life could bring it …. It cannot attain childship to God, for this requires a way of life lived on earth which completely corresponds to God’s will. It requires a degree of maturity at the time of the human being’s death which already allows him to enter spheres of light, the human being must already shape himself into a being of light on earth, which is also entirely within his power if he musters the will to do so. Thus he must fully utilize the grace of embodiment as a human being, he must consciously strive towards God and already seek union with Him on earth through prayer and loving activity …. …. It is nothing impossible what God demands of people, for the allocation of His grace, the granting of His help, also corresponds to His demand. Only the will of man is required …. and this usually fails. Consequently, the beings in the beyond cannot be granted the highest because they did not strive for it on earth …. Becoming a child of God is the most blissful state, which makes the being in the beyond infinitely happy, because it earns the being the inheritance of the father. It can create and mould the being with God through His power …. If the soul has lived a life of love on earth, then the separation from God has finally been overcome; it is close to God, it has found its way back to its origin, it has become one with Him. And earthly life was given to the soul for this purpose …. However, God does not abandon the spiritual substance which has not utilized its time on earth in accordance with His will and also gives it constant opportunities to ascend in the beyond. And thus even these souls can still reach a bright and happy state which, however, is different from that of a child of God. For a child of God also becomes a giver of strength, as it were, because it receives God’s direct emanation within itself, because it is in closest contact with God, and it can now constantly distribute this strength since it is permeated by God’s strength itself. To be a child of God means to be completely merged with Him, consequently also to be able to dispose of His power and strength …. Mankind does not realize what this means and therefore does not grasp the significance of life on earth, which can bring something unimaginably blissful to the soul and yet is mostly lived regardless of it …. The higher development which is still possible in the beyond is an act of God’s greatest mercy, Who has given earthly life to the being for its final purification and higher development …. But Who, in His greater than great love, still enables beings whose will failed on earth to ascend in the beyond in order to give them happiness and light, yet still depending on the being’s will. However, these beings cannot attain the bliss of a child of God unless they travel the path on earth once more if they are granted this grace by God which is linked to a task on earth …. Then the soul will have to struggle once again, although it will be protected from a complete relapse by the beings of light, because it must have reached a certain degree of maturity in the beyond before it will be granted this great grace through God’s great love. The fulfilment of its task, which applies to the salvation of fellow human beings, can now earn it that degree of maturity on earth which makes it a child of God. Yet it is always left up to the soul’s will as to how it utilizes the renewed granting of the grace of embodiment on earth ….

amen