God’s commandments are disregarded and humanity only pays homage to the world and thus to the one who rules the world. And because it does not recognize the creator of heaven and earth, because it does not fulfil His will and subordinates itself to His adversary, it is heading for destruction, for it distances itself more and more from God and can therefore be given less and less of His strength …. But powerlessness is downfall …. lack of strength is unspeakably painful for the spiritual, which cannot continue its course of development but remains bound because it cannot free itself without the supply of strength from God. But the distance from God is synonymous with the withdrawal of strength and therefore a lifeless state, which the being only realizes after the end of earthly life. It is an unspeakably sad time for the spiritual, which the wrong will of man lets remain in the bound state, and cause of this spiritual trouble is the lack of love …. the acting of men against the divine commandments …. Too little love is practiced for the neighbour, yet the love of self is increased and therefore also the love for the world is strengthened, and therefore things cannot get better on earth, people cannot be spared suffering because they themselves want it that way. And such a time of unkindness necessitates God’s intervention because His commandments are no longer obeyed. God demands that people love their neighbour, and He also sees love for Himself in this …. “Whatever you do to the least of My brothers, you have done to Me ….” He Himself calls all people His brothers …. And He wants people on earth to act like brothers towards one another. He wants to measure their love for Him by this. And people do not listen to His voice, they pay no attention to His word and ignore their fellow human being’s hardship with a lack of love. And thus they shall feel the same hardship, they shall have to bear the same fate, suffering shall shape everyone if he is still capable of change, and they shall learn to regard their neighbour as a brother and serve each other. But this can only bring about great earthly hardship and therefore God has to let such happen on earth so that love is awakened in people and spiritual decay is prevented where the possibility of a change of will is still possible. And this is what the coming time is supposed to bring about, which will still bring infinite suffering because otherwise humanity can no longer be led to love and without love it will be completely lost. And this is to be expected in a short time …. For humanity is moving further and further away from God and can only be led back to God by way of great suffering if it has not yet completely fallen prey to God’s adversary and continues to persist in unkindness. But then the hour of judgement is not far away, the day when there will be a final separation between good and evil …. between those who live in love, who recognize God as their lord, and the followers of the world, who are devoid of all love ….

Amen

A heartfelt community of souls should unite people with each other so that they will strive upwards together and spur each other on to live a life of love and profound faith. True community is conducive to the maturing of souls, yet people must strive for it of their own accord, they must feel urged in their hearts to give their love to their fellow human being and thus seek each other out in order to cultivate a spiritual exchange of ideas, in order to give and receive what they possess or desire in terms of spiritual possessions. As soon as coercion is exercised, i.e. a community is formed according to plan which people are supposed to join, its value is diminished, for it then lacks the intimacy which constitutes the value of a community in the first place. And this is why such endeavours will rarely be of benefit to the soul which are supposed to be works of love but which, at best, are merely prescribed actions which are supposed to testify to a sense of community …. which are supposed to be works of neighbourly love but which are carried out without an urge of the heart …. which are only done in order to feign outwardly a community which, however, lacks the inner spirit of love. Rather, this is a mechanical performance of certain duties that have nothing in common with active neighbourly love, because it is not the deed itself that determines the value of an action, but the degree of love in the heart of the person who performs it. However, a person is in danger of ceasing to act in love if he is systematically encouraged to do so in a community. An intimate community of souls, on the other hand, promotes loving activity of its own accord and people feel urged to do good deeds because they are not demanded of them but are carried out entirely of their own free will and therefore only have real value before God ….

Amen

Every spiritual activity requires a God-like will, i.e., as soon as a being, be it on earth or in the beyond, is spiritually active, its will is turned towards God, thus it is no longer opposed to God but subordinates itself to His will, whereas a being which does not yet subordinate itself to Him either has no urge for spiritual activity or lacks the strength to do so because it still stands apart from the one with Whom it should unite itself. To stand in the will of God means to do what God wants, to work and create in full agreement with God …. And this activity always aims to redeem the still bound spiritual …. And this activity can be carried out both on earth as well as in the beyond and will always be and remain the most important thing as long as the spiritual substance is not yet completely redeemed, thus in time and eternity this will be the activity of that which is in a free state, that it also helps the bound spiritual substance to become free. To be spiritually active means to bring light to the beings which still walk in darkness, it means to spread the truth so that they now turn towards the light, so that they become active in love …. This is the greatest activity of love, to show the unredeemed spiritual beings the way to the light …. God’s greater than great love knows no other goal than to guide the spiritual into freedom, and all beings who want to fulfil His will, who join Him, will likewise have no other goal and consequently also no other will than to help the unredeemed spiritual. On earth the human being testifies to his will for redemptive activity by passing on with love what was offered to him and helped him attain a certain spiritual freedom …. by thus helping to spread light and truth …. In the beyond the activity of the spiritual is likewise aimed at spreading the truth, only that this activity is a mental instruction, thus it is to be understood as a purely spiritual activity. This transmission of thoughts therefore has to correspond to God’s will because the being in the beyond cannot carry out anything other than God’s will if it is united with God itself. The beings in the beyond, which are distant from God, thus still completely opposed to Him, also influence people’s thoughts but never in a spiritual respect, instead they determine them to think in an earthly, i.e. material way and never direct their thoughts towards God but away from Him …. Hence this influencing of thoughts cannot be called spiritual activity, even though the wrong thinking also emanates from beings which no longer belong to earth. Yet their will is not the same as God’s will and their strength is only slight, so that they only have an influence on those people who likewise oppose God’s will ….

Amen

Divine love and mercy applies to all creatures on earth and in the beyond. It is an incessant labour of love in the spiritual kingdom, which only has the redemption of the spiritual as its goal. And full of mercy God leans towards every single soul that is still unredeemed. For it is in spiritual distress as long as it is not yet aware of its faults and shortcomings and therefore does not try to rectify them either. Then His mercy seeks to guide this soul towards realization in order to give it the happiness of spiritual freedom. The intimate love with which He embraces His creatures is incomprehensible to people because they themselves are too little capable of love and therefore simply cannot grasp the degree of divine love. Only the person capable of love begins to understand the mystery of divine love when he himself allows his love to become active. For now he also feels the bliss that active love triggers. And this blissful feeling lets him sense the divine power of love, by which he himself as well as every creature on earth and in the universe is seized. And as soon as he feels seized by divine love, he surrenders to it without resistance. But love and mercy belong together …. God’s love belongs to every being that makes itself worthy of His radiance of love through works of love …. But God’s mercy is also there, where the eternal divinity is not respected, for He does not let these beings fall, but He constantly courts their love …. He also turns to those who are outside of divine love. He tries to draw them into it, in a manner of speaking He pushes them towards the life of love by sending His spiritual co-workers to them time and again and thus encouraging them to reflect on themselves. He also informs those of the divine word who still turn away from God. He therefore tries to motivate them into loving activity so that the concept of ‘love’ slowly dawns on them and they now practice it of their own accord and also become capable and worthy of receiving the divine emanation of love. For the more a person is now active in love, the more mature he will be and the more perceptibly he will also feel divine love if he himself accomplishes a work of neighbourly love. For God’s love and mercy gives the human being a sign so as not to leave him in spiritual distress, for He longs for His living creations and especially for those who are still far away from Him. He does not leave them to their self-chosen fate because He knows that the lack of realization makes people act as they do in their lack of love. And that is why He wants to come to their aid, for His love lasts forever ….

Amen

The forces opposing God are extraordinarily active in poisoning people’s thinking and distracting them from God, from recognizing the truth, and this is the cause of the war of annihilation which they wage against each other. They shy away from nothing and have no qualms whatsoever about handing themselves over to these forces by participating in or even agreeing to this war of annihilation, and they are completely taken over by these forces and what they ask people to do they willingly carry out. And so the evil power itself works through the people who hand themselves over to it through their way of life, through their attitude and their actions. This is synonymous with spiritual decline, with the uselessness of life on earth …. with the death of the soul …. And the adversary wins soul after soul as soon as he wins people for his shameful plans, and he utilizes their inclination towards matter, their greed for earthly possessions in such a way that they completely fall prey to him, that they only strive for earthly possessions and lose their souls for their sake, that they sell their souls in order to enrich themselves with transient, worthless possessions …. And this is the time when God puts a stop to the adversary’s activity …. What people do not shy away from, He makes them urgently aware of by now affecting them Himself, by seemingly favouring the work of the one who strives for destruction. However, He wrings the power out of His adversary’s hands …. It is now no longer up to people to carry out the work of destruction as before, but God Himself intervenes destructively by virtue of His will and His power …. And people cannot resist His will, they cannot stop Him and must powerlessly submit to God Himself taking the reins and world events now taking their course in accordance with His divine will. What people themselves previously carried out will now happen without their co-operation and cannot be ended by human will either but will have to be endured by them until God Himself ends it. And now the adversary’s activity and the divine power will become apparent. Anyone who recognizes the latter in the event is not yet completely lost, even though he will be severely affected, for anyone who tries to find the explanation for every event in God and His will will now also live his earthly life accordingly and use it for the benefit of his soul. But he who does not recognize the arm of God in it will only see the earthly decay, he will only look at the earthly destruction with a worldly eye, and he can no longer be offered spiritual salvation. He is still completely captivated by matter and only looks at all worldly events from the point of view of the loser or the winner. He has fallen prey to evil power and the demon has taken possession of him and his soul ….

Amen

The state of the beingness in the form is agonizing as long as it resists God. This is to be understood in such a way that no compulsion would oppress the beingness if it did not rebel against God, that therefore the beingness itself creates this agonizing state, but can also free itself from it at any time when it gives up its resistance against God. And thus it follows that the higher development of the spiritual substance, that is, the return to God, does not always take the same amount of time but can take place quickly or slowly depending on the spiritual substance’s will, which is an explanation for the ever new generations of human beings who all inhabit the earth for the purpose of their spiritual maturing and yet walk the earthly path at different times. Creation has always and at all times been the shell of the spiritual, and always and at all times this spiritual was more or less opposed to God, and therefore the spiritual, which was already more turned towards God, covered its earthly life path in a shorter time and could therefore also go through the last stage as man earlier. However, this spiritual substance did not always remain turned towards God in its embodiment as a human being but often developed regressively again, which is why there have always and at all times been people who lived earthly life in the furthest distance from God and also had to leave it as completely immature. But often a short time in the beyond was enough for these spiritual beings to come to realization and then strive towards the light with increased zeal. Whereas the spiritual substance, which was allowed to embody itself as a human being in later times, had previously remained in opposition to God for a long time and therefore only after a long time was it granted the grace of embodiment as a human being. And this beingness very often failed in its last test of earthly life, where it was now supposed to finally give up its resistance against God of its own free will. That is why the lack of love is also becoming more and more prevalent, but this does not exclude that also in these last generations people turn to God with particular intimacy, in whom the spiritual pushes towards the last redemption. But in most cases this spirituality will have a difficult stand insofar as it has to assert itself against the God-rejecting spirituality which does everything to stop its course of development. Consequently, this spiritual substance has to fight and cover a more difficult course on earth as a human being than the spiritual substance was destined to do in earlier periods. But it is its will that determines the nature and duration of these struggles. The will has to become strong that the spiritual substance tries to free itself from its constraint, it has to make up in earthly life what it previously lacked in will during the stages …. As a human being he must strive towards God, Whom he previously resisted, and he must consciously carry out this battle, just as he once consciously opposed God. The embodiment as a human being will therefore make greater demands on him the later it takes place, i.e., …. each period of development is determined in its duration …. it is limited, i.e. it is ended by God’s will when the specified time is over. And this period of time is calculated such that the God-rebellious can also live through the time on earth as a human being, only increased demands are placed on it if the spiritual substance still wants to mature in the last period, thus if it wants to completely give up its resistance against God. The spiritual substance, however, which does not give up its resistance against God in this earth period, remains in it for endless times and needs to stay in the solid form again, for it has not developed higher but rather undergone a regression which requires a renewed binding in the solid form ….

Amen

The time of development was so measured for the spiritual that it was completely sufficient for the liberation from the form, because what does not want to bow before God in time also disregards every further possibility of higher development, and only the hardest form can still awaken the urge for freedom, but by no means the last embodiment on earth, where the spiritual no longer feels its fetter so oppressively. Through the inconceivably long time of being bound its rebelliousness has indeed been broken insofar as that it has decided to serve, thus it could now go through the many stages of higher development, however, it gave up this will again in the last stage as man and used no possibilities at all to finally free itself …. It resists God anew, which is now expressed in increased lovelessness …. And that is why this time of redemption comes to an end …. The spiritual enters a new period of development, it is therefore banished again and now forced to inactivity, which it now feels doubly after the state of partial freedom it had already achieved. This spiritual turnaround, the spiritual regression, also necessitates a new moulding of creation, which is to serve this spiritual being again as a residence. It necessitates a completely different form and composition of that which is now intended for the spiritual as an external form. For this spiritual substance will not cover the same path on earth but will require stronger restraints as well as different activity as soon as it is allowed to do so again. And consequently the earth, which now comes into being, will have to show new creations, which completely deviate from those of the old earth. The earth will be shaped differently and offer the spiritual countless new possibilities to develop upwards. Such a remodelling of the earth has been planned since eternity, for God has known since eternity about the rebellious will of people who will inhabit the earth at the end of this redemption period. But before that He still uses all means to persuade the spiritual to give up its resistance in order to spare it a renewed bound state through endless times. But the last means are suffering and earthly hardship to such an extent that people have to take the path to God if they are not completely hardened in spirit and completely renounce Him. But then any return to God is impossible, the spiritual substance has to undergo a renewed process of change, for even in the beyond there is no possibility of development for this spiritual substance since it lacks all love, thus also all realization, and only the realization in the beyond makes spiritual progress possible. The souls, however, which end their earthly life in utter lack of love are in deepest darkness and can no longer reach the light, and the only path which leads to embodiment as a human being again after an infinitely long time and thus can bring final liberation after all. Yet this renewed path on earth is so agonizing that the most severe suffering on this earth, which people have to go through, can only be regarded as a mercy, as it can save the spiritual substance, the human being’s soul, from another earthly path if it is recognized for what it is …. as a means used by God to bring the spiritual being that has fallen away from Him back to Himself ….

Amen

What abundance of grace a person can draw from the directly received word of God, he will only be able to judge in the time to come. Without this word, he will be helpless and despairing, but as soon as he allows the divine word to take effect on him, all despondency and weakness will leave him. For now he will feel the closeness of God, he will sense God Himself in His word and all earthly concerns and worries will disappear. And the word of God will be able to replace everything a person lacks, it will strengthen him physically and spiritually, for divine love reveals itself in the word and speaks to those who are in need of His encouragement. And people will often feel compelled to read the word of God, they will hunger for the light of life and their desire can only be satisfied through the word. And thus the divine word must be made accessible to all who desire it, for God Himself wants to speak to all of them. And those who recognize His voice are also in love, for the spirit in them is drawn to the father-spirit and this spirit can only be awakened again through love. And thus God wants to be with those in the word who also make themselves worthy of His love through loving activity towards their neighbour; God Himself descends to them and gives them the drink of life, which gives them strength again to continue their earthly path with benefit for the soul. For people will need strength to remain faithful to God, they will use His encouragement and in great adversity always remember Him Who can alleviate all adversity on earth through His will. And let this be said to you first, that you will experience great hardship for the sake of your faith, you will have to stand up for God before the whole world if you want to gain His love …. For God constantly wants to give to you, but you must also receive what He wants to offer you and gratefully remember Him Who, in view of the coming adversity, prepares the gifts for you which shall help you to endure this adversity ….

Amen

True faith is capable of much. All thoughts must be focussed on the fact that divine love leaves nothing unfulfilled that a believing person asks for because God is omnipotent, and once a person has adopted this strong faith he completely surrenders to the divine will and now his will no longer deviates from God’s will …. And God can now accomplish everything through this person. The human being will now also want nothing other than what God wants, and therefore his strength is now also divine, i.e. he is permeated by God’s will and therefore also by His strength at the same time, and everything is possible for him. True faith knows no doubts, it acts as its heart dictates. Consequently, he cannot want and carry out something that contradicts God’s will, because the spirit within him would never ever tell him to do something that runs counter to divine will. The human being is in no way compelled to act and think, for if he is unbelieving his thoughts move in completely different areas and he will never think of God and therefore also not want to accomplish things that go beyond natural strength. But if he is a believer, his thoughts will be inspired and then they will also correspond to God’s will. And thus the divine will itself drives the human being to carry out what enters his thoughts. But God needs people with such strong faith that He can work through them. They should surrender to God’s emanation of strength without hesitation and now willingly allow themselves to be used as His instruments, they should sacrifice their thoughts and senses to Him and now surrender to their innermost thoughts what they demand of Him. For this is the voice of God, which calls such a believing and willing servant to do what is to bring spiritual salvation to the world. And the believing human being will fulfil God’s will without hesitation because he perceives it as divine. And thus he will be able to accomplish things which are beyond the realm of possibility, for he is not the performer but God Himself through him ….

Amen

Faith in Christ’s work of redemption is only a living faith when every doubt in a person disappears that Jesus Christ died on the cross for humanity out of love for it …. As soon as Christ’s death on the cross is only seen as the execution of a judgement on a human being, i.e. only taken note of in purely historical terms, the human being only acknowledges a fact without realizing the meaning of the word ‘redemption’. In order to understand the meaning of this word, he must first be convinced that the man Jesus possessed great power which enabled Him to avert the painful death on the cross from Himself. Furthermore, he must be in no doubt that Jesus was full of love and that He wanted to make a sacrifice to His fellow human beings in love …. that He therefore did not use His strength, which He could dispose of at any time, in order to offer humanity a sacrifice of love …. that He wanted to suffer for humanity in order to spare it unspeakable suffering …. that He therefore wanted to ‘redeem’ it from its suffering through His death on the cross …. and that He therefore switched off His divine strength and power and suffered and died in human weakness …. When a person clearly realizes this, faith in the work of redemption comes alive and the desire to belong to those for whom Jesus Christ gave His life on the cross awakens in him. And in his heart he calls upon the divine saviour to have mercy on him and to take care of his weakness. The man Jesus had become knowledgeable through His profound love, while humanity was in spiritual night through its great lack of love, and Jesus knew about people’s spiritual low and its effect, and it took pity on Him …. He tried to help humanity, He tried to bring it light and therefore taught it love, which alone could lead people to the light …. But He found little favour with them and they therefore remained in their darkness. Jesus, however, foresaw their terrible suffering and He knew about their lack of will, which made it impossible to change their way of life …. He wanted to help them, He wanted to strengthen their will and give them power. And so He offered Himself to God as a sacrifice of atonement in order to transfer the power that was fully at His disposal to the people who now wanted to receive this power from His hands. Thus He acquired the blessings of the act of salvation for humanity, which can now be received by anyone who believes in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation …. who is therefore aware of the great significance of Jesus’ death on the cross and wants to share in the blessings Jesus Christ acquired for people, for he has a living faith in the divine saviour and entrusts himself and his soul to His divine love ….

Amen

The knowledge of a person taught by the spirit of God is so extensive that one would have to conclude that God is working in an extraordinary way. The human being is introduced to the most diverse fields which, however, are all closely related to each other, and it is of particular importance that the human being is aware of the connection, otherwise his knowledge is only piecemeal. But the working of the spirit can be recognized by the fact that a coherent knowledge is offered which is beyond the reach of human wisdom. For research-wise the human being can neither fathom the time before his embodiment as a human being nor after his death on earth, but if he is to be given information about it he has to be instructed by spiritual forces whose existence cannot be proven research-wise. And he must allow forces to work on him which cannot be explained intellectually in any way, i.e. which cannot be ascertained through world knowledge. The mental connection with these forces must precede that they can be effective in order to be filled as a human being with a knowledge that far surpasses human knowledge. And the serious examiner will have to recognize that he cannot acquire the wisdoms which are now offered to him coherently, for they alone give him information about the meaning and purpose of earthly life, about the meaning and purpose of creation, about the beginning and the goal of what his eye sees. And he does not perceive this wisdom as conjecture but as irrefutable truth, and thus his knowledge can constantly increase because he need not reject it as error or fall into perpetual doubt. For once the human being has received this knowledge he is also convinced of its truth because the power of realization comes to him at the same time as the truth. The spirit from God only works where the prerequisite is given that the human being is capable of receiving the truth, i.e. is worthy, and then he will also recognize everything offered to him as truth. Earthly knowledge will never exceed the limits of what is accessible to earthly research and can still be attacked because human research produces different results. Only the spirit of God is able to give real enlightenment about things which lie outside the earthly realm but which must also be clarified in order for knowledge to be complete, for only then can a person call himself knowledgeable ….

Amen

As long as the human being is still in a defensive position towards God and the good forces, he also lacks the strength to lead a God-pleasing way of life, for he is then also incapable of love and thus without an influx of strength. But he cannot develop progressively by his own strength, for this must be accomplished by love, which again supplies him with love, i.e. strength from God. Thus, loving activity will always mean an approach to God, but without loving activity the deity will be unattainable, thus the human being will be distant from God. Lack of strength is therefore the cause when a person does not live his life in accordance with God’s will. He is still under the spell of the adversary, who wants to prevent him from turning to God. However, this influence on the human being is permitted by God because his will must freely decide in favour of God or His adversary. For no matter how much he is oppressed, his will remains free, and if he constantly becomes weaker, this is solely his fault because he does not use this free will in the right way. He can remedy any weakness himself by praying for strength. But then he must turn to God Himself, he must therefore turn towards Him and away from God’s adversary, then the strength will flow to him and then he can also work good through this strength. The powerless state is welcome to God’s adversary, he finds no resistance if he impels the human being to do things which contradict divine will. And he then completely lacks the will to carry out good deeds. Thus, as long as he is under the adversary’s spell, only prayer will help him and he will have to wrestle with his weakness of will until he calls upon God from the bottom of his heart for help …. If he takes the path to God he will receive help, for now he proves his will that he wants to join God and free himself from the influence of His adversary. And he will receive help …. Heartfelt prayer never remains unanswered, and therefore heartfelt prayer helps in all spiritual and earthly needs. For now he will receive strength and his walk on earth, his actions and thoughts will be blessed by God. Only the will is required. No man is helplessly left to himself as soon as he only desires help. However, in order to request help, God must be recognized as an almighty and loving being, and this is what a person does when he asks Him for help. one pleading thought alone is enough to give him the strength to pray more fervently for support, for assistance in his weakness of will. This is the battle the being has to wage on earth, this is the struggle with evil power in order to approach God, this is the decision of free will in favour of or against God ….

Amen

Nothing can replace divine grace …. how immeasurably rich the human being is to whom God grants His assistance, His grace, he will only recognize at his death by the degree of maturity of his soul, which corresponds to this grant of grace or its use. The measure of grace granted to him on earth is determined by the human being’s will, for God’s grace is available to him without limit. However, the extent to which he makes use of it is entirely up to his will …. Consequently, he can raise his own level if he utilizes divine grace, i.e. he can constantly make use of God’s help and thereby mature spiritually. Without divine grace, however, he remains at the same stage of his development, and at the end of his life he perceives this as a state of poverty and immaturity of his soul. For without grace he can do nothing, everything he lacks comes to him through God’s love, and this is grace …. It is a gift that man does not have to claim, but which God’s love gives to him in order to help him, and where man needs any help, God’s love is ready to grant it to him …. if the person requests divine grace. But the latter is not heeded …. God distributes unlimitedly and man can receive unlimitedly, yet he rarely pays attention to the gift of grace and therefore remains weak and incapable of his spiritual higher development, when he could only ever draw from the divine source of grace …. And it is an agonizing state of remorse when he realizes in the beyond what riches he has squandered through his will, when he realizes how little he has valued God’s help and how little he has respected and desired His gift of love, the divine grace. Yet grace can never be granted to him without his desire, and therefore the human being is responsible for the maturity of his soul, which he can attain without effort if his will requests divine grace but which remains withheld from him if his will fails …. He is responsible for the lack of spiritual wealth because he has forfeited it himself as long as divine grace was available to him, for there is nothing that could replace it, there is nothing that will earn him spiritual wealth if he does not avail himself of God’s help, His grace. The human being is powerless on earth and unable to develop himself upwards …. because God’s help is irreplaceable ….

Amen

Words cannot express how loving and supremely good the eternal deity is. It becomes difficult for people to believe this in view of the many sufferings which befall the earth, because it is incomprehensible to them that they, too, are only the expression of divine love, that they are caused by love and that they are only intended to shape the human being such that he can receive the divine emanation of love in all its fullness. God’s love is unchanging, it always and forever remains the same, and if its effect is painful, then the human being himself is the cause of this, who lives differently than is required in order to be able to receive divine love in its blissful power. However, if the human heart has been moulded in this way, then the soul is extremely happy, then it is close to its original state …. For it has emerged from God’s love, it is a product of His divine will to love. This is why God never lets go of that which is from Him but constantly stands by it, He tries to shape it and lead it to its original state in the same way as it once turned away, thus became apostate from divine love. This process of transformation is again only the effect of God’s eternal, unchanging love …. Everything that exists emerged from God’s will to love, and therefore divine love can never turn away from His created beings, even if they believe they are separating themselves from Him. It cannot leave the spiritual that has become apostate to Him to its own devices, otherwise God’s love would be changeable and unstable. And therefore everything God does for the purpose of regaining it must also be based on His love, even if it gives the appearance of unkindness. God’s wisdom also determines which form God uses in order to achieve the return of the fallen spirit to Himself. Where wisdom and love co-operate there must also be success. And this success will also inevitably occur if the being gives up its own will and unconditionally surrenders to God’s love …. if it therefore reduces its distance from God of its own accord, that is, if it no longer resists God’s love. And the being also gives up its resistance as soon as it recognizes love in God, as soon as the belief comes alive in it that the creator of all things is love in Himself and it feels itself, as His creature, seized by His love …. which can only happen when it lives in love itself and thus begins to comprehend the mystery of divine love …. Then it strives towards this eternal love in order to one day completely unite itself with the one from Whom it emerged ….

Amen

Every human being can gain insight into the divine depth of wisdom if his spirit unites with the spiritual from the regions of light. Receiving wisdom from God is not withheld from any human being, since it corresponds to divine will that people should become knowledgeable. Humanity’s spiritual hardship is the result of its ignorance, for the soul’s state is lightless and darkness means torment for the spiritual. The human being does not feel this in earthly life because he pays more attention to his body and endeavours to give it everything he desires. The soul, however, is unhappy as long as it is not in the light, i.e. is knowledgeable. And man can remedy this lightless state if he seeks to attain knowledge. However, world knowledge is by no means a substitute for spiritual knowledge …. Worldly knowledge again only benefits the body, it brings him earthly fulfilment, for it increases earthly goods, reputation and fame and brings earthly success …. spiritual knowledge, however, is the wealth of the soul …. spiritual knowledge comes from God and leads to God …. spiritual knowledge is part of eternity and is imperishable. God’s will is the leading back to Himself of all spiritual things that have fallen away from Him. Consequently, He also wants the spiritual to be led to the light, to be redeemed from its lightless, ignorant state and guided into the deepest knowledge. But wisdom is only with God, and thus the human being must receive it from God, he must be willing to penetrate the deepest depths of divine wisdom and he must also make himself worthy to receive the wisdom from God, he must strive towards …. the height, towards the light. In the kingdom of light every desire for truth is perceptible and the beings of light are immediately ready to hand it out because this task is set for them in the beyond and they fulfil it with joy and devotion. The human being sends his spirit upwards, the beings of light instruct him according to his desire, and the spirit in the human being returns to earth again with the richest gift, and he is now also prepared to impart this gift to the soul, that is, he must now try to impart the received knowledge to the soul and motivate it to listen within and to pay attention to the thoughts which now come to it as if from within. And every human being can do this, he need only want to become knowledgeable and desire pure truth, then God’s will will be revealed to him, and if he tries to shape himself in accordance with this divine will his thinking will also correspond to the truth, for God sees the human being’s will and, depending on this will, He deems him worthy of being guided into wisdom. And people’s spiritual state could be more enlightened if they had the desire for truth within themselves …. But they are far more comfortable with ignorance, the darkness of the spirit. And only a few desire to stand in the light and in the truth. Knowledge is light, but the light only shines where it is kindled in free will, for even the beings of light are subject to divine will and they only share the truth where God’s will is respected …. And therefore the truth can only be there ….

Amen

Every thought is formulated by the will of man, so in a certain respect man is certainly responsible for the nature of his thoughts, but he is not to be regarded as the originator of the thought. The thought is first transmitted to him, not that it arises through him. It is only that man first gives the thoughts that come to him the expression that mostly corresponds to his nature. And that is why he believes himself to be the author of the thought. Admittedly, he also determines which thought material can be conveyed to him because this is decided by his will, for the will can just as well refuse to convey the thought material it receives to the brain and thus allow the human being to become aware of it. But if the will has decided to accept the thought material also intellectually, it now also gives it the form, i.e., the influx of strength from the spiritual kingdom becomes what the human being understands by thought. For thought is spiritual power that is expressed in coherent sentences. That is why we speak of one’s own thinking, because the human being himself forms the sentences, because he first formulates what is spiritually imparted to him in such a way that it becomes comprehensible to his fellow human being. And this formulation of the thought corresponds to his nature; it will always be as the human being himself considers it to be generally understandable, because he would like to pass on what he has received and seeks the most suitable form for this. It can therefore be generally said that the human being thinks for himself because he will only express what is comprehensible to his nature, but he does not realize that every thought flows from an originator as a force, that he himself only forms these thoughts in a way that suits him …. This formulation is again an activity of the brain, i.e. utilising the life force that is given to every human being. For this ability is given to him by God, quite independently of the creative power, thus on his own authority, to appropriate a spiritual treasure by being guided from the heart to the brain and to utilize it intellectually, thus to shape the thoughts he receives through his will in such a way that it takes on a personal character, so to speak …. and it is now regarded as his own product ….

Amen

Every spiritual question will be solved for you if you trustingly turn to the heavenly father and desire an answer from Him …. You live in a time of error, your thinking has been misguided and you are no longer able to separate truth from lies, for you do not call upon the one Who alone can provide you with information. Yet God comes to meet you in His love, His spirit wants to enlighten you, He wants to guide you into correct thinking. The basic principle of your life should be to fulfil God’s will …. If you are inspired by this desire, you must also lend Him your ear so that you can hear His will; you must willingly open your heart so that you can hear His voice …. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; whoever opens to Me, I will come in to him ….” Open your heart, let Him in, and now present your questions to Him, and He will not leave you without an answer …. He will tell you where you are going wrong and what you should give up or keep. But you pay too much attention to what people teach you, you no longer have your own judgement, you allow yourselves to be offered spiritual food by those who would need it themselves …. you allow yourselves to be taught by people who are not called by God to do so, and you accept their words without hesitation …. but you do not recognize divine gifts. You should certainly advocate what you are completely convinced of, but you must have gained the conviction yourselves, you must think everything through and examine it, and if it stands up to serious scrutiny you may advocate it …. You must consider the pros and cons of every teaching, you must take a stand on it and decide in favour of that which you can affirm in your deepest heart …. Only then will every teaching come to life in you, whereas before it remains merely something that has been learnt and is of no value for the maturing of the soul. The serious will to scrutinize must awaken in you, for God never demands of you that you accept something without scrutinizing it, even if He Himself offers it to you. He gave you intellect and you should also use it; He demands this of you so that you will not fall into the snare of the adversary who wants to entangle you in his misguided teachings. But you are in this danger if you unhesitatingly accept everything that is demanded of you to believe. God truly informs you of His will and if your will is turned towards Him you will not oppose Him, i.e. you will decide in favour of what is right out of your own inner drive and you will not need to fear acting contrary to His divine will. However, in order to do so you must think for yourselves, that is, you must allow your spirit to become active within you. You have to separate yourselves from the world and give freedom to the spirit within you so that it can soar into the heights of light; the desire for truth must be strong in you so that you want to wrest it from the spiritual world, you must desire it from the bottom of your heart …. And your desire will truly be fulfilled, the truth will flow to the spirit within you which will be offered to it from the spiritual kingdom, because it is God’s will that the truth shall be imparted to those who desire it. Yet if you accept everything offered to you by people without hesitation and without judgement then your knowledge is not worth much, for then you are merely repeating what you have been taught. However, it is not your spiritual property, for it will only become such once you have taken a stand on it yourselves and can then convincingly defend it. But then you will possess a wealth which is everlasting and which will truly make you happy …. But the error you have acquired cannot be permanent, one day you will have to give it up and your knowledge will then only be small, and therefore increase it while you are still on earth …. Ask God to instruct you Himself and listen to the voice within you which instructs you according to truth …. For God is truth and He wants it to be spread on earth, that light may shine where there is still deepest darkness ….

Amen

It is not coincidence that increased indications in nature suggest an eruption of the elements, for God sends these signs in advance in order to prepare people for an exceptional natural event which will suddenly and unexpectedly take people by surprise and result in inconceivable misery. People are meant to associate these indications with His Word, for Jesus Christ already mentioned this time when He lived on earth, because He wanted to point out to people the eventual consequences of their way of life. This time is now approaching; people should heed the signs which announce the event …. They should not ignore anything that deviates from the framework of natural law. God announces Himself, that is, His intervention in the existing world order, it is not His will that people should experience anything unprepared which should and can advance them spiritually if the correlation of all happenings is explained to them. For this reason God constantly refers to the forthcoming time and informs people that the time has come which necessitates divine intervention. Then it is left up to every individual person himself what he makes of this warning …. If he believes, he will adjust his life accordingly, he will make contact with God and humbly entrust his destiny to Him …. They will not be in as much danger as those people who lack all faith in an intervention. The latter will not prepare themselves either, instead, all references and admonitions will bypass their ears unheeded. And the natural event will be dreadful for them.

For profound faith gives a person the confidence that they are protected by God in every danger; yet an unbeliever will have nothing to hold on to if he does not recognise a Lord above Himself at the last minute and commends himself to His mercy. God sends His messengers long before the event already in order to stimulate humanity’s thinking, and these indications can be recognised by everyone who wants to recognise them. They will give rise to thought because they don’t just occur once but repeat themselves often and at regular intervals, so that they will have to be noticed by everyone. But every person usually devises his own explanation and this depending on his attitude towards God. As soon as he associates these phenomena with God’s will, he pays attention to them and thereby benefits, since he prepares himself for the time ahead, which is of great advantage for his soul. What God has proclaimed in Word and Scripture will irrevocably come to pass, only the point in time is unknown to people …. For this reason they should pay attention to the signs which God had mentioned. And thus they will know that the earth will be facing severe tremors which will cause incredible suffering to the human race …. Then it is up to every person to shape himself such that he can brace himself for the coming time …. He should persevere and appeal for strong faith so as not to weaken in view of the work of destruction which is in store for humanity. And God will take care of every person who pays attention to His Word and consciously expects the divine intervention ….

Amen

Man pays no attention to divine wisdom when it is offered to him, but he accepts the knowledge of the world unquestioningly and thereby reveals that he is more attached to the world than to God. For a person who truly loves God, who strives for the eternal deity with all his senses, is not satisfied with the knowledge that the world offers him. It leaves unsolved the great questions which fulfil him and which can only be answered by the one to Whom nothing is alien …. about the relationship of man to God, about the purpose and meaning of creation, about the beginning and goal of all creatures …. These questions can also be answered by people, by worldly wise men, but they will never be able to substantiate their views, they will only speculate and draw conclusions, which, however, always spring from purely worldly thinking and deviate greatly from the pure truth. And neither the questioner nor the answerer will be convinced that they are standing in complete truth …. But if a person is far from God, he will be satisfied with the answer of a worldly wise man, for this is more acceptable to him than divine wisdom. And so only those people will profess the latter who are in close union with God, to whom the eternal deity has already come closer through loving activity and who therefore also recognize what is of divine or human origin. These people are knowledgeable because they are fully convinced that they know the truth and their knowledge is not piecemeal but completely coherent and complementary. Worldly knowledge, however, will assert itself because it is considered authoritative by the majority, whereas spiritual knowledge finds little favour and the unbelieving person, who is distant from God, lacks the gift of judgement, consequently he cannot affirm anything he does not understand. The knowledgeable person, however, should take this incapable state into account, he should patiently try to pass on the pure truth, he should defend it and not allow himself to be put off if success is not immediately noticeable. For God’s love gives the human being many opportunities to come to realization, and suddenly this realization can come to him that he then very well perceives the truth as such and is no longer reluctant to accept it …. For whatever the wise men of the world offer him will always only be inadequate piecemeal work and will not be able to satisfy a serious thinker permanently. For only the pure truth makes a person pause in his search, and once he has found it, he perseveres with it because he now knows that he stands in the truth ….

Amen

Life on earth is given to you to detach yourselves from form …. What this means will only really become understandable to you in the spiritual kingdom, where every cover is a hindrance to you because it always means a shackling of the spirit. And the spirit is bound as long as there is still an earthly thought, an earthly desire in the soul, for it is bound to a certain environment which it creates for itself through its desire. The free spirit, on the other hand, is master of time and space. Where it wants to dwell, there it is; spiritual territory is accessible to it, for its will alone is enough to move it to where it wants to dwell. His will can accomplish everything, he is no longer hindered by anything, therefore completely free. Once it has become free it no longer has to fear a decline either, but it does not completely distance itself from the spiritual, which is still languishing in bondage, because it urges itself to help it to freedom too. And the still unfree soul only feels the benefit of becoming free when its earthly desire begins to subside …. Then its ascent will also begin, but before that unthinkably long times can pass where it does nothing to become free from the form, which no longer consists of earthly substances but burdens the soul in such a way that it feels it as compulsion or pressure. It often has to walk arduous paths which it hardly believes it can overcome, it has to endure hardship, albeit in a different way than on earth, yet the suffering does not weigh it down any less than on earth. And it could have easily averted this painful state on earth, for it was given the opportunity to become free from the form …. This awareness is agonizing and increases its torment, for it certainly recognizes its state of suffering but not in what way it can still free itself from it in the beyond. For this realization is only the result of its will to want to help; only when it disregards its own suffering and takes the hardship of fellow suffering souls to heart, when it wants to help them, does it realize that this is the only way to become free itself, that the activity of love is also necessary in the beyond in order to illuminate the dark surroundings and to reach somewhat brighter regions, and it becomes easier and freer for the soul the more willing it is to serve the other suffering souls …. The free spiritual essence assists it by instructing the soul and giving it advice, yet even unrecognized by its abundance of light, for just as on earth the ascent upwards has to be striven for of completely free will and all compulsion has to be eliminated. Yet the free spiritual essence does not abandon the suffering souls in their adversity but tries to help them wherever and however it can ….

Amen

In the period of eternity it is irrelevant in which phase of development, i.e. in which redemption period, the spiritual substance covers the earthly path, for the time before and also after is so infinitely long that the time of constraint in the form can only be assessed as a moment. Nevertheless it is not indifferent for the spiritual itself, because the sooner it is liberated from the oppressive outer form, the sooner the glories of the spiritual kingdom are made accessible to it; thus while it previously belonged to the negative forces, it has now become a positive force, which is why the time of liberation cannot be striven for seriously enough. For an unthinkably long time it worked against God, but for eternities it is now active for God and with God …. But as long as the spiritual is bound it feels like an unfree being and suffers, and moreover it has a different concept of time and space during this time than afterwards in eternity as a free being. And so this time of bondage seems unbearably long to it, and this feeling of time is likewise divine permission in order to strengthen the desire for freedom in the spiritual being. Thus it is irrelevant when the spiritual being embodies itself on earth, it will always experience this time as extremely long lasting and suffer from it; afterwards, however, as a being of light it appears to it as a fleeting moment …. As an imperfect being in the beyond, however, it still suffers from the same estimation of time …. often the time of suffering even seems never-ending to it as soon as the being is condemned to complete inactivity. For the greater is its agony because the prospect of a change in its state would reduce the being’s torment. Only the imperfect being will therefore always have the awareness of time, on earth as well as in the beyond, while the perfect being is neither subject to the law of time nor space. Everything is present to it at all times, thus the perfected spiritual being knows no past, present and future but all this is only a concept …. The being can experience everything at the same time, which is incomprehensible to people on earth. However, it will no longer be able to regard the time of suffering beforehand as a time of suffering but only as a purification process which was indispensable and therefore inevitable but which it no longer perceives as agonizing because suffering and torment are no longer an option for the being of light. In the state of freedom the being is so extremely happy that it only regards the time of trial on earth as a necessary stopover which has brought it this unspeakably great happiness ….

Amen

The smallest events in earthly life have their purpose, even when it is not evident to the human being. There are no coincidences but only divine providence, because every person’s path of life has been predetermined in detail, although always in accordance with the will of the human being, which God has foreseen since eternity. This is of such immense importance that people should know of it, yet this very teaching often results in misguided thoughts …. in as much as the human being now believes himself to be exempt of all responsibility for all events, since everything has to happen in accordance with God’s eternal will anyway. The blessing of embodiment also includes free will for the human being, and now he can behave and think according to this very will. Thus he lives his life as he wants; however, he also needs to have the opportunity to test his will, i.e. to choose between good and evil. Consequently, only the will to spiritually transform his soul is completely free, while the will of the human being in relation to earthly matters is effectively still constrained …. although by virtue of his will he can in fact determine earthly events but he can only carry them out, the result, however, will never depend on him alone.

The result of human volition is governed by God, and namely in accordance with the wisest plan in a manner that it can benefit the development of the soul should the human will once again be thus inclined. Consequently, God’s will can prevent every human being’s plan, or he first has to have God’s approval before it can be carried out. But this approval will even be given by God if an action does not correspond to divine will, so that the freedom of will is not reduced. However, whether or not it is as successful as the person had hoped for does not depend on the person. Everything comes to pass in accordance with God’s will, and whatever journey of life lies ahead of a person is God’s will, Who offers the human being the opportunity to achieve maturity in a manner that his soul can benefit from it. On the other hand, however, the human being has to answer for his will if he wants to do something bad, even if divine intervention prevents an outcome. Corresponding to the person’s will, which God has known since eternity, he is confronted by all events as God has ordained. He has used the will of people, which is known to Him, as a guiding principle for their earthly life and now effectively gives this will free rein, while protecting those people who are devoted to Him from all adverse results of other people’s bad will ….

Amen

Spiritual nourishment gives the human being the necessary strength to resist evil and to work on his soul. And therefore he need not fear that he might ever lack strength if he needs it, that is, if he has the will for spiritual ascent. The will will always also earn him the strength which can be supplied to the human being through the reception of the divine word. His spiritual hunger will be satisfied at all times and he will no longer want to miss the nourishment of the soul once he has been fed with it. For it is a divine gift, it is the expression of His love, it is the supply of strength and vigour which, once he has received it, the human being will be deprived of. Yet God does not arbitrarily withdraw this divine gift from him, and thus the soul’s nourishment remains constant as long as the human being himself does not disregard the gift of grace. Now, however, love dictates that he should also offer his fellow human being spiritual nourishment, to feed him likewise, so to speak, so that he can cover the earthly path in accordance with God’s will. Only then will the human being prove himself worthy of God’s love. love should impel the human being to give to his fellow human being what has become indispensable to him; he should pass on the strength and grace in the realization that without spiritual nourishment his fellow human being will have to starve and that God allows the gift of grace to reach earth for all people …. For people must constantly wrestle with evil forces and need strengthening in order to be able to fight through their battle. The spiritual food has been offered to man by God out of love, and it should be passed on to fellow human beings with the same love, only then will the recipient of God’s divine gift of grace make himself worthy and fulfil the first commandment to love his neighbour as himself ….

Amen

Every hint from above should be heeded, for God does not convey His word to earth without purpose. As soon as the human being recognizes a connection between heaven and earth, as soon as he can relate all events to spiritual guidance, his earthly life will be easier to bear and his state of soul will improve, for then he will not regard his own earthly life as pointless and purposeless but will be aware of his task. The certainty that God’s will is decisive for every event determines him to also submit himself to this will, to let himself be guided by it, and he endeavours to live according to God’s will. And then he also pays full attention to the divine voice, His word …. And so he lives his life consciously …. Man in his ignorance needs the word of God. As soon as he begins life on earth as a human being, he lacks all understanding, all knowledge of divine things. He first has to be slowly introduced to the knowledge of it, and he is enlightened about it from the human side, provided that his fellow human beings themselves are in contact with God, that they themselves strive for God and have knowledge of His reign and work …. that they believe …. Then the child will also be led into this faith. However, if the fellow human beings themselves are without faith and they also transfer their unbelief to the child, the latter is nevertheless not left to the opposing power but God Himself takes care of him and helps him to gain realization by shaping his path of life such that his thinking is stimulated, thus he is instructed intellectually and can be led to the same result …. that he learns to believe in a God Who holds his fate in His hand …. that he learns to believe in a destiny, in a task, which the human being is intended to fulfil during his earthly life. God leaves no human being without help, He leaves no one to his own devices or to unbelieving fellow human beings …. He has given man understanding and the ability to think, which can also lead him directly to realization if the education of his fellow human beings fails. Man must only muster the will to stand in the truth …. He must not allow himself to be driven but must be active himself, he must desire to know what is true and to do what is right …. Then God makes Himself known to him and He guides him so that he can reach his goal ….

Amen

The blindness of people goes so far that they are no longer able to distinguish where justice ends and injustice begins. Every man judges according to his feelings, and these feelings correspond to his way of life, his inner disposition and his attitude towards God and the world. The one is the consequence of the other, it is the life of man that determines how he judges the actions of his fellow man. And consequently, injustice is no longer recognized and abhorred as such but is tolerated and approved of, for humanity no longer lives in accordance with divine will but deviates far from God’s commandments, from the commandments of love. But when it is pointed out to fulfil God’s commandments, even this indication is regarded as injustice, while man can practice open injustice without the disapproval of his fellow human beings. And those are condemned and publicly denounced. And that is the wrong thinking of people, the deviation from the right path …. But the right-thinking person will no longer be able to defend his right, he will have to bow down as soon as he fears earthly power. And yet he should not allow himself to be deterred, he should do and speak what his heart tells him to do, he should know that if he fights for justice and righteousness he is standing up for God, Who Himself is the most righteous being and demands the same from people. He should know that his silence is tantamount to tolerating injustice, that he must speak if he can thereby prevent injustice. Nor should he allow himself to be deterred by the threats of the world where it is necessary to protect the souls of his fellow human beings from error or false teachings. For these again result in countless wrong or unjust actions. Everything that a person can justify to God or that his conscience allows him to do with the strictest self-criticism is right …. But whoever recognizes God Himself as the judge of his actions and thoughts will also be rightly guided by the voice of conscience, which God has placed in the heart of every human being as an admonisher and warner ….

Amen

Humanity’s conduct cannot be reconciled with the teaching of Christ, for this requires actions of love, people’s relationships with each other should be like that of brothers. But at the present time all people face each other with hostility, outwardly often united yet in their hearts only ever bearing their own advantage in mind and regarding their fellow human being as an opponent, because they either feel harmed or disadvantaged by him. The human race is completely devoid of love and therefore also opposed to Christianity, opposed to the divine teaching of love, which it no longer wants to comply with. For it requires effort to practise love, it requires a separation from material things, a shelving of one’s own wishes and cravings; it signifies a sacrifice of that which is dear to a person …. Selfish love must be fought against; the human being must educate himself to become modest to enable him to help his fellow human being by giving to him what he gives up. This sacrifice can only be made out of love and therefore love must be practised …. Yet only rarely will a person make this sacrifice for his fellow human beings …. Each person only thinks of himself, this is why he finds the teaching of Christ inconvenient and supports people’s intentions to eradicate it …. Where heartlessness exists, the battle against the divine teaching of love will be waged without hesitation. And this heartlessness is widespread throughout the world, people outdo each other with brutalities they inflict upon their fellow human beings, and thus the whole world can be held responsible for the immense world event which purely arose from humanity’s heartlessness and which results in ever greater cruelty and must therefore be described as the activity of hell, as the activity of demonic forces. And yet, people do not recognise their low spiritual level. They only look at the purely external consequences of the world event and not at the spiritual state of those whose great heartlessness also incites their fellow human beings to act with unkindness. And as long as this deplorable state of affairs is not recognised, it cannot be remedied either; as long as the human being does not recognise heartlessness as the greatest evil he will not make any effort to live a life of love, i.e., he will not treat his fellow human being with kindness …. And neither will he approve of Christ’s teaching, he will reject it, because his compliance with it will not gain him any earthly advantage. However, he will also act accordingly …. love will be pushed aside again and only result in greater heartlessness …. One person will endeavour to destroy the other without inhibition, he will no longer be able to distinguish between right and wrong and thus exceed himself in bitterness and cruelty, and all love will grow cold, lowering the spiritual level to the extreme, and a world without love cannot survive, it is doomed to destruction and with it everything which does not strive to redeem itself through love ….

Amen

In order to become wise it is imperative for a person to live a life of love, actions of love must absolutely come first if he wants to receive divine wisdom. Wisdom without love is unthinkable, this is why people deeming themselves wise will be mistaken if they lack love. This must be taken into account first if a fellow human being wants to correctly judge the value or irrelevance regarding a person’s supposed knowledge. Wisdom can only be found where the source, the provider of it, is wise himself …. where wisdom can be conveyed because the Provider Himself is Wisdom. All thoughts of wisdom are therefore emanations of the One Who is Love in Himself, on account of which these thoughts must also be accepted by a loving heart, otherwise they would not be recognised as wise thoughts. For wisdom is something spiritual which can only be received by the person’s indwelling spirit, but the person’s spirit only begins to function if it is stimulated through actions of love. Without love everything is dead, even the supposed knowledge which only touches upon earthly things is without spiritual value or is misguided knowledge that can never be called wisdom. People can certainly possess worldly knowledge, which also corresponds to truth, but it will only concern things which are irrelevant for the soul, that is, for its higher development, yet this knowledge will be extinguished at the moment of death, thus it is transient and without value for eternity. Nevertheless, the world will only accept this as knowledge because it can be proven, thus it is effectively irrefutable. Spiritual knowledge, however, will not be acknowledged because no evidence can be presented for it. Yet only a person in possession of spiritual knowledge is wise, since he will take it along into eternity. He will gain this wisdom through selfless actions of love because both are divine and that which comes forth from God will never vanish. The more closely a person unites with God through kind-hearted activity, the wiser he must become, because the divine gifts flowing to him are not offered to a limited extent, instead, the person can receive them without restriction and thus he will become wise because he lives a life of love.

Amen

The path of truth can therefore only be found in love, and where love is lacking, a person takes a wrong path that leads them away from the truth. For to be wise means to possess knowledge that corresponds to the truth. But being wise also means having imperishable knowledge, for knowledge is worthless if it sinks into nothingness at death. Imperishable knowledge, however, is only the knowledge of things that lie beyond the earthly, and this knowledge is rarely sought, whereas the human being seeks to fathom everything of this world and sets his honour on being considered knowledgeable. This knowledge can indeed be beneficial insofar as it enables the human being to work with it in love. Such knowledge can be an asset in the hands of the one who possesses it if he utilizes it in such a way that he helps his fellow human beings and is therefore lovingly active …. Then he also acquires goods for eternity with earthly knowledge, and these are imperishable, even if he does not take the knowledge with him into eternity …. With spiritual knowledge, however, the human being can likewise help his fellow human being by directly imparting spiritual possessions to the soul, thus likewise accumulating imperishable possessions, both for himself as well as for the fellow human being to whom he imparts spiritual possessions. And only that person is truly wise who works and creates for eternity, who therefore already gains clarity about spiritual things on earth and then lives his earthly life in accordance with this realization. His knowledge is indestructible and extremely valuable, even if it is not properly valued by people due to ignorance. Worldly knowledge, however, mostly only helps to increase earthly possessions and is therefore overvalued on earth without benefiting the soul unless it is utilized for the benefit of a fellow human being, i.e. it is valued with love for him. And so love must always dominate the human being at the same time if the human being is to be truly knowledgeable or if worldly knowledge is also to bring him spiritual success. Without love, however, all knowledge is dead …. and without love a person’s knowledge is usually far removed from the truth ….

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Everything on earth points to the decline, to the spiritual downfall. And that is why it has become necessary that humanity’s attention is drawn to the end, which will still come as a surprise to all those who have faith. But people are to be warned and admonished to repent beforehand, the end is not to come upon them unannounced, and therefore God will announce it long beforehand through people who are called to predict the coming time with its horrors and hardship. They will not find much credence among their fellow human beings, they will rather be ridiculed and their words will not be greatly respected; yet God will not allow any judgement to come upon humanity without informing them in advance but leaving them the freedom to accept this announcement, thus to believe it to be true or to reject it. It is not a long time which will still pass after the announcements until they are fulfilled, and yet it would suffice for the return to God, it would suffice for the transformation of thinking as soon as the human being would only be willing and want to heed God’s serious admonitions. Yet only a few recognize the emergency and take it into account …. Only a few go into themselves and tackle the work on their soul …. And these few will look forward to the divine intervention with composure and conviction and await it strengthened in faith …. For they recognize that the scriptures are being fulfilled, that everything must come to pass as it is written. For the spiritual decline can no longer be stopped, only those whose will is not completely enslaved by God’s adversary and who can therefore still benefit from the coming interventions for their souls shall still be saved. God’s mercy applies to these weak earthly people, it tries to bring them help and therefore comes to meet them in the word, instructing them and drawing their attention to what is to come. But only a few accept the divine word, only a few are believers and take it to heart …. And that is why only a few will be able to be helped when the time comes that signifies an end for people who have not first united with God ….

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Over the course of time changes occurred on earth, both in the interior as well as on the surface of earth. These are the result of the uninterrupted rotations around its own axis which caused shifts, and the elevations and depressions they created are still changing even now, that is, they are still shifting locally. Thus the Earth does not retain its external shape but has already gone through the most diverse alterations, even though its structure has remained the same. In contrast, the Earth’s interior is constantly active and also triggers changes on the surface of the earth from within. This can be noticed in the vegetation which, throughout millennia, has also changed and will never remain the same, even though these changes do no happen over a short period of time and therefore cannot be observed by people during their life on earth. These changes generally occur so slowly and are barely noticeable to the eye, and therefore require a very long time. However, every now and then unbridled activity erupts in the interior of the Earth and sudden transformations manifest themselves which cause immense destructions on the Earth’s surface and signify fear and horror for people. In that case the hitherto solid form dissolves and, incapable of withstanding the elements’ violent activity inside the Earth, is pushed with enormous force from the inside of the Earth to the surface where it spreads out and, in a completely new environment, tries to adapt itself to the existing mass of earth or to creations in nature …. Such elementary eruptions also understandably result in a complete transformation on the Earth’s surface …. They destroy the existing environment, revoke people’s established order and result in inconceivable chaos which causes severe confusion and anguish in people because they are unable to cope with such eruptions and are thereby thrown into entirely different living conditions. However, a transformation of the Earth’s surface has become necessary, although it can only be spiritually explained, since, from an earthly point of view, there is no recognisable progress in such a transformation, only a destruction and annihilation of what exists. But spiritually it is hugely significant.

The spiritual substance from within the Earth pushes upwards; it wants to start its process of development in the form. And it will need to live through countless phases until the spiritual substance can reach the final stage of its embodiment on earth. Having been bound in the hardest form for an unimaginably long time, the still undeveloped spiritual substance is given a certain amount of freedom so that it can release itself from this solid form, which it subsequently does with elementary force. People experience this manifestation of strength as a natural disaster which is, depending on its extent, more or less devastating for them. Although all spiritual substances will be constrained again, at first they will nevertheless inundate the plant and animal world and, to an even greater degree, people, by disturbing their tranquillity and posing a grave danger to them. It takes a very long time before such a change on the Earth’s surface takes place, because it cannot happen arbitrarily, but only with God’s permission, which He gives when the higher development of the spiritual beings grinds to a halt …. That is, when the being is in possession of free will and free will is no longer made use of. Then a balance must come about, and this happens when the still immature spiritual substance pushes the already further advanced spiritual substance into further phases of development, so that the latter will soon attain possession of free will. For this reason the Earth will always have to expect such changes from time to time and in different places, which have their natural origin in the constant activity of the elements in the interior of the Earth. Hence, the enlightened person understands natural disasters, for he not only realises the earthly, but also the spiritual necessity for this very same occurrence, and will always look upon them as God’s reign. He is aware of the necessity for higher development of the spiritual substances as well as of the beings’ low spiritual state, which animate the earth in the final external form, and of the opportunity for their deliverance …. Yet such natural events, which result in immense destruction, are incomprehensible to unenlightened people and neither do they recognise the spiritual nor the earthly value. Consequently, they will be horror-struck when the Earth’s interior begins to move and they find themselves utterly helpless and at the mercy of the raging of the elements. Nevertheless, that which was decided from the very beginning will come to pass without fail as soon as the Creator of Heaven and Earth deems the time to be right.

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The earth is in perpetual rotation around itself and never stays in immobility. This is also the explanation for the development of the earth from the original liquid mass to the solid earth body, which now has become whereabouts for creatures of all kinds. But the core of the earth is always still liquid and is also so long unsuitable for any creature as stay, until it has solidified. Breaks now this liquid mass a path to the surface through eruptions, so this is synonymous with a complete destruction of all creatures on this surface, and therefore such eruptions are feared by people and animals, because it brings their complete destruction. The divine wisdom allows therefore those only in cases of extreme necessity, this means, first the will of God must precede by each outbreak, before it can take place, and this is justified in His love and wisdom …. The forces within the earth must be constantly active, because this activity means for the earth, that means for all beings on the surface of earth, possibility of life, as well as the earth is total solidified, any vegetation stops. This inner activity of spiritual forces is thus already a certain serving for the redemption of the spiritual, and therefore it must also even be given the possibility to these forces, to begin their course of development on earth, even though immemorial time must pass, before this spiritual can begin the change of form on earth. Every natural disaster can also be an end of the career on earth for the most higly developed being, for the human, but it is at the same time the beginning of an earth period of incomprehensible long time again for the very immature spiritual, and therefore to be regarded as God’s will. All creation is only for the purpose, to develop the spiritual to the height …. If now a higher development of the soul is no longer aimed by the humans, the purpose and the aim of earth life are disregarded, so God ends this life and at the same time He gives the possibility of an ongoing development for the spiritual, standing in the beginning of development …. He annihilates as it were, to let raise up new creations through the work of destruction, which involve the spiritual in itself again, to that one was granted the grace of going on earth. Because nothing happens without sense and purpose, where God’s love and wisdom reigns ….

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The time of earthly life rich in grace comes to an end with the human being’s death, for then his soul returns to the spiritual kingdom and is either richly blessed with spiritual possessions or poor and meagre, depending on whether it has utilized the blessings which were at its disposal during earthly life. As soon as earthly life is over the supply of grace ceases insofar as that the being now has to struggle for it itself, that it therefore only acquires new favours through its right attitude towards God …. that it is therefore granted divine grace, i.e. with His help, if it professes God, thus acquires His emanation of love through the will to work with love. This is a favour in the truest sense of the word, since the test of earthly life should actually bring final perfection to the human being and now God, out of greater than great love, will not deny the being His help in the beyond either, in such a way that He grants the being an insight into the suffering of other souls and thereby wants to cause the former to help these suffering souls. Through this will to help it acquires God’s grace again, which God hands out unmeasured in order to save the souls from darkest adversity. And the soul thanks its creator when it has become knowledgeable, i.e. when it can receive God’s emanation of love, for then it is full of bliss and praises and glorifies God uninterruptedly …. (16.8.1942) The spheres of light are now accessible to this soul, they are its constant environment. It no longer has to fear a decline, it can only enter ever brighter spheres of light, but no shadow will ever cloud its bliss …. And now its otherworldly activity begins, which brings it supreme satisfaction, for it only carries out what deepest love impels it to do, and therefore its present activity is blissful. A loving soul is only anxious to give happiness, thus to hand out what makes it happy itself, and since it has gone through the state of lightlessness itself and felt the agonizing lack of freedom, it wants to help the souls in its love who have to endure the same fate. For now it also knows that it thereby fulfils God’s will; it feels as if it is permeated by the divine will and carries it out without resistance. And yet it does not curtail the freedom of will of the souls it wants to lead upwards. Hence its work is laborious and requires utmost patience, yet its love will not let it tire, and the effort will also be rewarded, for it feels utmost bliss when the soul listens to its whisperings and begins to detach itself from the world. This work on the souls in the beyond and on earth is redeeming activity, the significance of which the human being on earth only rarely realizes, for only the knowledge of eternal bliss makes the necessity of such activity understandable. But as soon as the soul in the beyond is in the realm of the divine emanation of love, it also knows about its task and its importance, and it now fulfils it with a devotion that is only based on its love. love and beatitude are inseparable, the soul has to prepare beatitude with love because it constantly receives beatitude, and it has to help the still bound souls to remove all obstacles which prevent access to beatitude …. The soul must pass on the knowledge through which the unfree souls also attain freedom and can now likewise enter spheres of light, eternal bliss ….

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The conditions for reproducing the divine word, for spreading it among fellow human beings, are the same as those Jesus set for His disciples when He sent them out into the world. They had to be filled with His spirit in order to understand His divine word, which He preached to them, and thus be able to teach like Him. They had to lead a life of love so that the spirit of God could become effective in them, they had to serve one another as brothers and seek to fulfil the divine will at all times. God also makes all these demands on people who now want to serve Him again and carry His divine gospel out into the world. A life of love is also prescribed for them, because without such a life the spirit from God can never express itself …. They must be active in serving, devoted love for one another and constantly submit to God’s will. Then God takes possession of their will …. He unites Himself with those who want to be His instruments on earth …. He gives them instructions through the inner voice and now they can carry out God’s mission …. They can be active in teaching and have an infinitely beneficial effect on earth. However, only a few people fulfil these conditions and so little attention is paid to a task that is nevertheless extremely important and significant. It is therefore understandable that the few people who devote themselves to God also enjoy His special protection so that they can fulfil their task on earth unhindered. They will certainly also be disturbed at times, i.e. they will always have to expect threats from the worldly jurisdiction and these will also make them somewhat anxious from time to time, yet the working of the spirit in them will not suffer any loss and therefore faith and confidence in divine protection will also become strong in them, so that they will not allow themselves to be influenced in the slightest in their thoughts and actions and calmly complete their mission …. They will fearlessly and unhesitatingly inform their fellow human beings of the divine will, they will help spread the word of God among humanity, they will not feel hindered by humanly decreed commandments or prohibitions but the divine will alone will be decisive for their actions. And God will protect them, He will not allow their faith to be put to shame or He Himself will intervene where necessary. A will turned towards God will be guided by Him correctly, thus the human being can only think and carry out what God tells him to carry out mentally and what is beneficial for the salvation of his fellow human beings. Thus it will also always correspond to His divine will if His word is the first guiding principle for earthly life, if it is followed first, even if it is not entirely in harmony with earthly requirements. God is lord over heaven and earth, His word is truth and therefore His word should be obeyed first …. And therefore God will protect everyone who submits to His authority and His will, for He needs these people for the spiritual well-being of their fellow human beings. He needs them as executors of His will, and therefore no fear and worry shall oppress people who offer themselves to God of their own free will, for God constantly stands by their side so that they spread His word amongst people who urgently need the truth for the salvation of their souls ….

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The divinity of Jesus is so often the controversial question which people who believe in Him as the son of God are asked to answer …. Once again, this question can only be answered correctly by people of faith; Jesus’ divinity can be explained to them, whereas people without faith cannot muster any understanding for it since they neither recognize the existence of a wise, omnipotent and loving deity nor His activity. And thus it will also remain incomprehensible to them that God can let Himself, i.e. His spirit, emanate to people as well as to all beings which emerged from Him …. They do not realize that there is a connection between the creator and His creatures which can never ever end. Nor do they realize that this deity, Which can be always and everywhere, can also shelter Itself in all its fullness in a human external form …. that a human being can thus be permeated by His love, as it were …. permeated by His strength …. And that this human being then harbours so much divinity within himself that his whole being is also permeated by the spirit of God and now his truly divine nature allows him to become a child of God. And this will remain incomprehensible to him as long as he sets himself apart from the teaching of Christ, i.e. as long as he does not take the path that Christ took on earth …. the path of love …. For wisdom only comes through love. The loving person grasps this immediately, he needs no lengthy explanation because the power from God, His spirit, is already at work in him, because he is in the circuit of the divine emanation of love and consequently the effect of a right life of love is also understandable to him. Jesus Christ, however, led such a life of love on earth, and consequently He also stood in the midst of God’s emanation of love …. He was seized by God’s infinite love, He was radiated through by His spirit, and a strong will flowed through Him …. But love, spirit, power and will are the essence of the eternal deity …. Thus Jesus, too, had become like God, He was His image, He Himself was a divine being, He was the son of God Who could no longer be regarded as an individual being but was completely one with His father from eternity, Who recognized His unity with His father, strived for complete union with Him and, through His life of love, had already found union on earth ….

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Just as the divine creative will is revealed in nature, God’s spirit is also revealed in the people brought into being by His creative will. What came into being from Him and from His power is only something perfect if it is aware of its origin, if it knows about the creating power and about Its perfection. It must, as it were, feel Its power in itself, and it must know about the origin of this power and about its effect. Thus the being that has emerged from God must be given the gift of cognition, it must be able to imagine something that corresponds to the truth and these ideas must be made accessible to it. The created being possesses this ability in its stage as a human being …. It can think, act, want and feel …. it can recognize and therefore also become perfect if it uses its abilities correctly, and it can perceive God’s revelations to itself through correct use …. it can be enlightened by His spirit so that all realization comes to it and the human being now becomes knowledgeable …. God reveals Himself to people through His spirit. It is the depth of love which moves Him not to be grasped by man, for he lacks any measure for the greatness of creation, for the countless living beings which animate the great creation. And he therefore also lacks an understanding of the insignificance of the individual being compared to the infinite creation. Yet nothing in this infinite creation is too small, too insignificant for eternal love to grasp …. Every being is governed by divine will, cared for by His love and flooded by His strength, and God reveals Himself to every being if it wants to receive His revelations in a certain state of maturity …. But not always in the same way. But He speaks to all people through creation. He allowed everything around man to come into being and gave him the gift of thinking …. the mind. So the language of creation can very well be understood by every human being, and God can be recognized in it by all people. And if the human being now uses the gift of thinking correctly, i.e. makes the knowledge gained through creation the basis of his intellectual thinking and struggles for further knowledge in the feeling of belonging together with the power Which brought creation into being …. if he thus consciously connects himself with this power in the desire to extend his knowledge, he now unconsciously fulfils the conditions which are required for further revelations of the creative power. The desire for truth is only felt by a person in a certain state of maturity, and therefore this desire is also fulfilled in the most understandable way for the human being. The direct revelations of the divine spirit require special conditions and are mostly connected with a task for the fellow human being. Although these revelations obviously testify to divine activity, they are nevertheless offered in such a form that they can also be rejected by a person who does not desire truth, for the acceptance of divine revelations requires his willingness. This is why creation as such will not force people to recognize a powerful and mighty deity, but only the human being who wants to recognize will perceive God’s language in creation, for the countless miracles of creation need not make any impression if he ignores them or only regards them as necessary for human life. God can therefore never reveal Himself to him, for if He were to do so in an obvious way without man himself applying for it through his way of life and his desire for truth, freedom of faith would also be called into question, which is not at all God’s will. spiritual development in particular has to be striven for completely freely of its own accord, but spiritual development is absolutely guaranteed if the human being makes himself worthy of God’s revelations, for these are His word spoken to people out of love which He sends to them. Through this word He informs them of everything that is useful for the human being to know. And what He now presents to them makes it clearly recognizable again how infinitely great and kind the eternal deity is, how It is only ever concerned about the well-being of that which has emerged from It and what God’s activity in the universe consists of. And as soon as the human being has knowledge of this he also consciously strives towards the eternal deity and desires the influx of strength which flows from God to every being and is felt by the human being, he strives towards perfection in order to be able to unite with the strength Which gave rise to everything that exists out of greater than great love ….

Amen

The coming time will bring a tremendous change of the existing living conditions and people will be forced to lead a completely different life in the midst of disorder and dreadful chaos, for the forthcoming natural disaster will cause immense destruction and it will take a long time until the former order can be restored again. Every person will have to content himself with a most basic way of life, he will be unable to lay any kind of claim to a comfortable life and be exposed to deprivations and tribulations which seem almost unbearable to him. And yet he will often ask himself the question of why he is subjected to this aggravated life and be unable to give any other answer than that the state of his soul needs this test. And if he comes to this conclusion by himself he will also try to adapt to the aggravated living conditions and as compensation envisage an easier life in the beyond, in which case it will also become more bearable on earth, for he should come to the realisation that everything that befalls people corresponds to God’s eternal counsel. And then he will also have a compassionate heart for his fellow human being, he will help wherever it is feasible and those who believe in God and are striving towards Him will mutually ease the adversity. For love dwells within them and this helps to endure and overcome everything because it provides the human being with strength from God, Who is love Itself. The human being’s attitude towards their neighbours’ hardship will determine how long he has to live in poverty and difficult living conditions on earth himself …. He can improve these by being willing to help his neighbour, for then God will also provide him with the opportunity to put his will into action by giving to him what he needs himself so that he can also share it with those who, like him, live in most wretched conditions and thus lead a tough existence.

The individual person’s intelligence will not be decisive since it will not be able to accomplish much because all previous living conditions will have changed and only utmost patience and a willingness to make sacrifices will make life bearable amongst each other. For it depends on this which kind of fate God will bestow upon the individual to endure. God Himself is love, and this love does not want people’s suffering but their happiness; except that this happiness cannot be granted to them as long as they themselves do not recognise that God is love. However, in order to learn to recognise Him a heart has to become loving, and love generally awakens through great adversity and distress. And thus God has to send those upon humanity in order to fan the spark of love in every person’s heart, and depending how he will then prove himself he will also be considered on the part of the eternal Deity. And so he can very quickly prepare a tolerable life for himself again if he also does everything on his part to ease his fellow human beings’ adversity. And he will truly be offered enough opportunity to let his heart speak …. He will be able to be lovingly active in many different ways …. Spiritually as well as earthly demands will be made on him which he only needs to fulfil in order to also reduce his own hardship and make his life more bearable ….

Amen