Mankind demands irrefutable proof of the correctness of what is conveyed to it through revelations. However, this proof can never be provided because the human being is supposed to take a stand on it in complete freedom of faith, for a forced faith, which would result in irrefutable proof, could not bring about a free decision by the human being in favour of or against God. But man can create for himself the irrefutable proof of the truth of the revelations by seeking to arrive at hearing the same revelations in himself by the path of love, so that he then believes of his own free will and no longer allows this faith to be robbed from him. This is the most convincing proof, and every person is free to put it to the test. But only a few take this path because it seems incomprehensible to them that truth can only be won through love. And therefore humanity can only be helped in such a way that the predictions announced to people through divine revelations will be fulfilled. This proof is indeed an extremely painful one, for it brings unspeakable suffering and misery upon people. Yet anyone who is not completely hardened in spirit will recognize the truth of what God allows to come to earth and will pay more attention to His word than before. But God cannot speak even more clearly to people in order to persuade them to believe, in order not to curtail their freedom of faith. And that is why the number of those who recognize His word for what it is will be small; in them is the will to believe and their hearts are capable of love. They also believe without proof, they affirm in their hearts everything that is imparted to them through the word and are therefore also able to stand up for this word, and their eloquence is a proof that should be regarded as evidence where this is required ….

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Every spiritual question is resolved for the person who turns to the eternal deity Himself and asks Him for an answer. Yet the human being must also pay attention to his thoughts, he must dwell on the question for a longer period of time and listen inwards, he must pay attention to which thoughts come to him and to what extent they appear acceptable to him. For the requested answer will force itself into his mind so that he feels it to be right. Asking questions is necessary because it causes the human being to mentally deal with it, and only then can he receive an answer because this is likewise mentally conveyed to him. God withholds knowledge from no-one, but as long as the knowledge is not desired it cannot be given to him. Spiritual knowledge, however, can only be offered spiritually; it cannot be proven either and therefore cannot be handed out as a fixed teaching. spiritual knowledge must be acquired through a God-pleasing way of life, through the right attitude towards God and spiritual endeavour. But then the divine gifts of knowledge are unlimited. Where the human being’s will is willing to accept this divine gift, all knowledge will be offered to him, every question which touches upon spiritual problems will be answered, and therefore the human being should not cease to request the divine gift; he should ask and plead, he should listen and give thanks for every answer which is now given to him through God’s great love. Receiving divine wisdom is a proof of God’s love, because it gives the soul the opportunity to mature while it is on earth. And God offers His gifts in such a way that they stimulate further endeavour. And He wants to stimulate the human being’s thirst for knowledge, He wants to prompt him to constantly ask new questions, and thus the knowledge offered to the human being by spiritual beings who carry out God’s will by being active as teachers is inexhaustible. To get in contact with God must also inevitably result in increased knowledge, for He Himself hands out the truth, and He gives as long as people desire the truth, His word, which makes the human being knowledgeable who desires to be knowledgeable. Every exchange of thoughts with spiritual beings, i.e., every mentally asked question as well as the mentally received answer is in accordance with God’s will, and therefore the human being can constantly increase his knowledge, for those beings in the beyond will always be willing to answer people’s questions and impart spiritual knowledge to them, as it is God’s will ….

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God’s source of grace is inexhaustible and also accessible to every human being, and the earth could be without suffering if this source of grace were more respected. People urgently need God’s grace, His help, on their path through the valley of the earth, and no traveller on earth would have to cover this path without grace if only he wanted to receive it. Yet people disregard God’s grace, they quench their hunger and thirst at worldly fountains and pass by the source of divine love, and thus they continue on their path without strength, which therefore cannot lead to the right goal either. And this is why God allows adversity and suffering to come upon people so that they often threaten to sink down by the wayside, so that they need comfort and strength and then find themselves seeking help at the fountain of life where God offers them help in all love. His gift of grace is extremely valuable, but its value is not recognized ….

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It is of incalculable value when God conveys His word to earth to strengthen people and thereby tries to make them realize the responsibility of their earthly existence. This favour is always and forever offered to the spiritual, which is in the stage of the last embodiment on earth. God Himself establishes the connection with people and teaches them …. What this means cannot be assessed by the human being as such …. that the eternal deity, the highest, most loving and most perfect being, reveals Himself to His living creation in order to show it the path to Himself so that it can become eternally blissful …. This is a grace of such unprecedented greatness, yet man does not value it accordingly and therefore does not make proper use of divine grace. His word, which He offers to people in His love, is therefore the fountain of eternal life, the source of grace, in whose clear water body and soul can heal and be moulded for the eternal kingdom …. But man is free to claim the graces for himself or to disregard them. For God does not determine any being but only seeks to direct its will in love. He gives, but where His gift is disregarded He also leaves the human being free of will, and thus the divine gift can only become effective where the human being does not close himself to this grace of his own free will, where he asks for support from above and this is now fully granted to him through the mediation of the divine word, which signifies strength and knowledge for the human being and without which the soul cannot develop upwards ….

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What is the world and its matter …. this question occupies many people and yet they are unable to solve it by virtue of intellectual thought. Everything visible is matter, i.e. substance that has solidified as a form. The substance, as it were, only became visible due to hardening since previous to that it was invisible, that is, spiritual substance. Spiritual substance is God’s emanated strength which, in accordance with His will, becomes what it is as soon as God has intended it to become a specific form. This form, in turn, is the unification of innumerable substances; hence it is a structure that can be dissolved to release every single substance again, if it is God’s will. Consequently, any form can be destroyed, matter is something that has no eternal existence because it is merely the cover for spiritual substances which are intended to evolve and as a result don’t stay in these covers forever. Although matter itself is also spiritual substance, i.e. in accordance with God’s will solidified spiritual strength, it develops by means of continuous dissolution, dispersion and re-shaping so that it can, after an infinitely long time, occupy such a form itself too. Thus everything visible is spiritual strength that is still at the beginning of development, whereas the more mature spirit is invisible to the human eye and uses a visible form to live in.

Hence, in every form lives something spiritual, a being which is unconscious of itself but which longs for the unification with similar beings to increase the fullness of strength with this union, since every being strives for perfection. As soon as matter dissolves, i.e. when a form disintegrates, the released spiritual being strives towards equal spiritual beings which merge to give life to a new form. This process forms the basis for the uninterrupted becoming and passing in nature, it is therefore the cause of constant life and death in nature …. The spiritual substances pass through the whole of creation, partly alone, partly merged in immense numbers. Corresponding to these are the size and kind of the forms that surround them. Everything that encloses these spiritual beings is matter. But matter itself consists of spiritual substances which are at the beginning of their development and thus can be visible to the human eye because only the already more mature spirit is invisible. Consequently, everything visible must be considered to be imperfect, i.e. spiritual substance which is very distant from God, which is starting its way of development. The spirit concealed within the visible form has already travelled this way and now strives towards God. Therefore a destruction, i.e. a passing away or dissolution of the form, or the transience of matter, corresponds to God’s will because it enables the spiritual substance to continue its development ….

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Spirit and matter are opposites insofar as the spiritual unites while matter dissolves. The spiritual escapes the form, but matter itself evaporates, i.e. its substances disintegrate and disperse in the spiritual kingdom; matter has therefore gone the way of all earthly things, for it is without existence, it passes away as soon as the spiritual in it no longer needs it. The divine creative will, however, lets new works of creation arise time and again from these spiritual substances, thus the material world, i.e., the creation visible to man will never cease to exist because in it the spiritual has to cover its course of development. But there are also invisible creations, i.e. those in which the spiritual does not need a solid covering, i.e. is no longer bound in matter. These creations are spiritual formations which therefore can only be seen spiritually and which are therefore only inhabited by beings which are in such a degree of maturity that they are able to see spiritually. These creations are different from those of the material world. They would be declared non-existent by people on earth because they are not tangible or visible to them, yet they are in closest contact with the visible world. For from these worlds the earth, i.e. its inhabitants, are spiritually influenced to overcome matter as such and to put themselves into a state which can be reached regardless of matter. What comes from this spiritual kingdom will always point towards separating oneself from matter, that is, to seek union with mature spiritual beings and to despise matter as worthless because it is transient. For the pursuit of matter makes man incapable of looking into that spiritual realm and thus also incapable of dwelling in an invisible world. The material world is a world of struggle, the spiritual world a world of peace …. Matter is material, formed from spiritual substances that have not yet recorded any developmental process, but are now beginning to do so, i.e. they have been assigned a task by God to be a covering for the spiritual that strives upwards for as long as it is needed. However, at the bottom of it all, matter is the strength that once emanated from God, which God’s will allowed to become form in order to redeem the fallen spiritual substance through it ….

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It is incomparably valuable to enter a state which results in contact with the spiritual kingdom, because only through such a connection is it possible to be guided into truth. And therefore it is, in fact, God’s will that this contact shall be upheld as long as the human being strives for the truth. Only the desire for truth justifies such a connection, for the purpose of a connection from this side to the beyond is to convey the pure truth to earth. Nevertheless, every person believes that he wants the truth as soon as he makes contact with the beyond. But it is often only curiosity, hence, the desire to receive information about the kingdom of the beyond, without being aware of the task that the received knowledge should be passed on to uninformed fellow human beings. For he who receives shall give as well. If a person’s selfish love is strongly accentuated, he will only accept the knowledge from the spiritual realm for himself. This does not correspond to God’s will, for all actions and thoughts should be based on the commandment of neighbourly love. A loving heart receives and distributes again what it receives …. However, if a person is unwilling to give, he will also lose the right to receive gifts. If he nevertheless maintains contact with the beyond, there is no guarantee that he will receive pure truth, for then beings will also push close, which, on account of their selfish love, are still far removed from the truth. Hence, not all proclamations need to correspond to truth if they were received by a person who has not offered his service to God, that is, who has not declared to Him his will to work for Him and the distribution of the pure truth. This conscious intention to be of service to God protects the human being from untruthful spiritual gifts, for God only conveys the truth to earth for the purpose of distribution amongst humanity. The reception of spiritual gifts must be the result of a loving heart, love for his fellow human being must first make the person capable and worthy of receiving spiritual gifts. But people with a very low degree of love can also establish contact with the beyond; they will also constantly receive messages from the spiritual kingdom, but these will always correspond to the being or the soul’s degree of maturity of the person who establishes the connection. Every person having declared himself willing to receive messages from the spiritual kingdom will be taken possession of. All spiritual beings want to express themselves, and they do so according to their degree of maturity, that is, according to their knowledge. But the partition between truth and untruth is erected by the human being himself through the degree of his desire for truth. The desire of anyone striving for the pure truth will be met by bearers of truth, by beings of light which are united with God. They can only impart pure truth and also protect the recipient from accepting error, for they have so much strength that they can push all imperfect beings away from the vicinity of a person who only desires the truth and wants to receive it in order to distribute it to the human race living in darkness.

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Dark forces can never again assert themselves in the spheres of light, and this knowledge is therefore so important because it refutes many misguided teachings. As soon as the spirit of God is active in a person, i.e., as soon as God Himself obviously works through a person by transmitting His word to earth through him, a wall of separation is also erected so that evil forces remain separated from that person as long as the spirit of God is at work, so that a contamination of the divine word through erroneous teachings is excluded. Consequently, the forces of the underworld cannot express themselves in the usual way, that they confuse the thoughts of man and make him receptive to their teachings. And that is why they try to touch the truth of the divine word in other ways …. They scatter dubious thoughts into the human being’s heart as soon as the spirit from God is no longer directly active. They try to convey knowledge to him in the form of truth which contradicts the knowledge received from God and thus undermine the strength of faith, they bring dubious thoughts into his heart and constantly endeavour to shake the strength of faith. Yet the beings of light are constantly concerned for the human being who has declared himself willing to accept the truth from God. The will to serve God earns the human being the strongest protection from the beings who are full of light and power and can also work accordingly …. divine wisdom is unfathomable for people who only research without love. It is inconceivable to want to penetrate it systematically and therefore wisdom cannot be taught but must be recognized through loving activity. No human being can therefore put himself into a knowing or seeing state through training, but only the love of his heart makes him capable of seeing and knowing about hidden things. Intellectual knowledge can certainly be attained, but never wisdom, which must be born in the heart through active love, which is therefore an expression of the divine spiritual spark resting in man towards the soul of man. Man can certainly be pointed by teachings to the path on which he can reach the truth from God. But he must walk the path himself if he is to become enlightened and come to realization. And therefore only through the working of the spirit will the human being be introduced to the truth, for this working of the spirit is the result of loving activity, which is why only those teachings which are imparted to people through the working of the spirit can lay claim to complete truthfulness and consequently everything can be rejected which does not correspond to this wisdom conveyed to people from above. For the truth is where God obviously works ….

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The human being must train himself to be patient, for this virtue is absolutely necessary if the soul wants to participate in the work of redemption in the beyond. The soul is often resisted more than on earth if it wants to persuade the ignorant and suffering souls to accept admonitions and instructions, and only through utmost patience can it win these souls for itself and then start its work on them. The state of suffering of these souls does not contribute to their willingness to accept, but rather they reject the souls who want to help them, for they still lack all patience as they are imperfect. The already more mature soul, however, must not allow itself to be put off, it must try again and again with tireless patience to get in contact with them, it must lovingly stand by their side and try to change their initial aversion, it must repeat every unsuccessful attempt and thus approach these souls again and again and present to them their painful state and at the same time suggest to them what they should do in order to improve their state of soul. Only extreme patience and great love will bring about success. But this success is unspeakably happy for the helpful being and spurs it on to be constantly active in the spiritual kingdom. The soul that has once tasted this happiness, that has seen into the depths of the kingdom beyond, will never cease to work for the redemption of these beings. Its own state of light enables it to pass on light, and love for the imperfect beings constantly drives it to do so. Yet the gentlest mind is required if the mature soul wants to achieve success. This is why patience has to be practiced on earth, the human being has to be gentle, peaceable and always willing to help his neighbour, then he will also be able to fulfil his task in the beyond, which consists of winning the spiritual beings which are distant from God and making the possessions accessible to them which alone are valuable for eternity ….

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Everything earthbound flows towards the light as long as it is not yet in the stage of free will. Consequently it is in a progressive development upwards, for the spiritual substance, which is sheltered in the works of creation, is confronted with ever greater tasks which it has to fulfil, and thus divine will is also constantly fulfilled by it. Yet in the last stage of the embodiment of the spiritual substance God withdraws His will insofar as that He now lets the human being decide for himself whether he wants to be of service or not. Indirectly His will indeed determines the course of life of the last outer form, the human being, but thereby only creating increased possibilities for him, which are to stimulate him to serving activity. Nevertheless, the human being is free to carry out such an activity, for he can also live out the urge to be active in other ways by carrying out an activity that never demonstrates serving love, but instead harms his fellow human being or only benefits himself. In that case, therefore, the human being acts contrary to divine will, but he is not prevented from doing so, since it is precisely this free decision of will that is the purpose of the final embodiment on earth. But then the human being does not strive towards the light either, instead he remains in the same state of development as at the beginning of the embodiment or he develops regressively …. depending on whether his actions lack love or are completely unloving. Thus, while higher development is guaranteed in the preliminary stages because the being serves in every work of creation, albeit in a certain state of compulsion, this is called into question in the final stage of higher development, for it depends on the human being’s free will, on his desire for light, which is expressed through his actions and thoughts. If the human being is capable of love he will inevitably strive towards the light and develop progressively; the unloving human being, on the other hand, will not use his earthly path of life to further develop his soul and thus this final path is completely useless for him. But he cannot be forced, since the free decision in favour of good or evil is the meaning and purpose of earthly life and he therefore has to let his will become active himself without any compulsion or influence. Yet divine will directs his course of life such that he is repeatedly offered the opportunity to be of service, but his free will will not be curtailed, which is why one day he will also have to answer for his deeds on earth as well as for their omission ….

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You truly need My help because you no longer recognize Me. You seek Me in the distance and do not know that I am so close to you and accompany you on all paths. But I cannot speak to each one of you because you do not heed My voice. And so you go astray, for I can only guide you if you entrust yourselves to Me and ask for My guidance. I am indeed always with you and wait for your call of petition so that I can seize you; yet how seldom do you need Me and how distant you are from Me as a result. Your plight is truly indescribable, for even if you speak My name your heart is not with you and I do not respect words alone …. And so a great transformation is now taking place on earth and you shall all be witnesses to My power and greatness. What I have proclaimed in word and scripture will be fulfilled, for the hour has come even though humanity is not yet prepared. For My mercy turns to those whose will is good and who are too weak to decide. I want to come to their aid, even if they do not want to recognize help at first if they see a work of destruction that is beyond their imagination. I know their hearts and therefore I stand by them in their greatest need …. I will reveal Myself to them and thus they will recognize Me and thank Me that I have taken care of them in this adversity. My love truly does not want you to suffer, yet you pay no attention to My gentle voice and admonitions and if I do not want you to be completely lost then I will have to deal with you severely and pull you back from the abyss towards which you are heading. And therefore pay attention to what is coming, remain in prayer so that I can stay with you at all times and always take refuge in Me if you are in danger of succumbing. For My will is able to avert the most difficult things from you, you who fight for Me, My love directs and guides everything, and even if it may seem to you that I have completely abandoned you …. This, too, is merely a sign of My love so that you will call upon Me in times of need and I will be able to give you what you ask for. For you are My creatures and therefore I love you and want to save you from your adversity. And whoever wants to serve Me shall be blessed by Me ….

Go within yourselves and try to purify your heart, fight against unkindness and irascibility and become full of kindness and gentleness. Consider that you are rejecting Me through your way of life if you lead it completely contrary to My commandments …. consider that you are unable to hear My voice and that you are moving further and further away from Me …. consider that your spirit cannot come alive if you lack love, that you destroy every connection with good spiritual forces and you hand yourselves over to the forces of the opposing power, that I cannot work in you, that you cannot receive the emanation of My love and go through earthly life in poverty. I do not want to leave you in this adversity and therefore I have to deal with you harshly if you do not listen to My gentle persuasion. I have to let an adversity come upon you which is so great that there is only one way left for you to flee to Me and to ask Me for salvation if you don’t want to be lost for eternity. My hand must be firm because a gentle hand will not be able to restrain you. And blessed is he who still recognizes the hand of the father in heaven at the right time in this adversity, blessed is he who finds his way back to Him, who as His child requests help from the father …. The father’s love accepts all and turns suffering into blessing. And I bless those who serve Me in this adversity, who stand by Me even in suffering and try to help their fellow brothers and sisters spiritually and also physically …. I bless all those who allow Me to work through them, who contribute towards revealing My will, who persevere in their faith in Me when everything around them threatens to totter. I will stand by them in adversity, I will strengthen them and not let their confidence be put to shame, I will pour out My spirit upon them so that they proclaim God’s closeness and His love and mercy …. And anyone who believes their words will noticeably realize My strength and the adversity of the time will be bearable for him. But it has to come …. People bring it upon themselves through their way of life, through their lack of love and their unbelief …. And therefore know, you My believers, that the day is drawing ever closer which will show people the power and greatness of their creator, but also know that He will protect everyone who trusts in Him and who desires to be His child …. For My love encompasses all of you who love Me and strive to fulfil My will ….

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The spiritual low will become particularly apparent when a general adversity will affect people and therefore turning to God is the only thing that could bring them help. But they will not take this path because they lack faith in a loving and merciful God. And this faith alone allows them to endure the most difficult things. But where faith is lacking, there will be indescribable chaos …. fear and worry will make people despair who do not know of one Who is close to them. And people will fear for their lives and no one will come to their aid …. yet they will not remember the one Who can help them. Their hearts are empty and so is their spirit, they only see the earthly horrors and hardships, they see everything around them falling apart, they see their possessions being lost and they have no consolation, no hope and no explanation for the terrible misfortune that affects them, for they do not realize the necessity of that which shakes their whole thinking. They will leave their neighbour in need without help, for they are only concerned with saving their property and keeping their lives safe. And it will turn out how distant people are from God, how they only pray to Him with their lips when they call upon Him or mention His name, but only very few will seriously remember the creator and commend themselves to Him and His grace, and these few will be mocked and ridiculed by their fellow human beings. In their distance from God, they lack all faith in an almighty, wise and loving creator. They only know the world and it is threatening to collapse …. And the spiritual low of people is clearly recognizable, because they are only attached to earthly life and do not think about their soul and life after death. They fear losing their lives and are therefore extremely worried, but they do not think about their spiritual hardship, which has a far more bitter effect in the beyond than the most difficult fate on earth can have. Yet the adversity is unavoidable, for the spiritual low will not lift without it, but God remembers the few who find Him in this adversity and are saved by it for eternity ….

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Divine spirit floods everything visible and invisible because everything has emerged from God. However, the divine spirit only becomes manifest in the human stage, because before that the beings lack the understanding and realization of God and His work. Only the human being has the gift of recognizing God, and consequently the working of the divine spirit can only be revealed in the human being. The spirit of God is in everything that is visible to man, and it also makes itself known to those who have already progressed so far in the knowledge of God that they can also understand the divine working of the spirit. The spirit of God obviously descends upon them, i.e. they accomplish things through the spirit of God which are otherwise not possible for a human being, thus the spirit of God works through these people. But the heart of the person through whom the spirit of God works has to be without slags, the person’s whole nature has to have changed to love, he has to submit himself to God, i.e., only strive to fulfil His will and consciously want to serve Him. And the spirit of God descends upon them, it increases their knowledge by informing them through the soul of God’s reign and activity, of the primordial beginning and ultimate goal of all beings, of the meaning and purpose of creation and the human being’s earthly life. Once man has been introduced to the truth by the spirit of God, once divine wisdom has been imparted to him, he is now able to fulfil a task in the service of humanity …. The task is to convey God’s will to people as a mediator …. God wants to speak to people through the mouth of man. The recipient is to express to people what he has heard through the voice of his heart. God needs man for this task and therefore fills him with His spirit. Only a knowing person can be active as a teacher, and thus he is trained by God to become a knowing person so that he can then pass on his knowledge. The spiritual spark in man is in constant contact with the spirit from God, which is the emanation of God and which floods everything that seeks to mould itself into perfection …. The divine spiritual spark in man is therefore increased by the influx …. its power increases; but power and light are one, and light is knowledge …. And therefore man must become knowledgeable as soon as he is flooded by the spirit of God …. But man should utilize his knowledge, he should pass it on to his fellow human beings, for he is destined to do so as soon as the spirit of God works through him. For people urgently need the spiritual influx, which is now channelled to them through a mediator, because they do not shape themselves in such a way as to be able to receive it directly. The will to fulfil this task is to a certain extent also the prerequisite that spiritual gift is offered to a person, although the person himself also has to be diligently active in shaping his soul and only the will to do so enables him to take on the office of mediator. For the spirit of God can only work where all requirements are met, because the gifts which the spirit from God offers to people are extremely precious and therefore cannot be given indiscriminately to every person who is not worthy of them ….

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The form in which the divine word is conveyed to a person depends both on the recipient’s receptivity as well as on the purpose associated with the directly received word of God. The transmission of the divine word requires the willingness to fulfil a task on earth, and the form in which the word of God is offered to people will also depend on this task. And there is a reason for this. God knows both the time of development as well as the spreading of His word, He also knows into which hands the writings will come, and thus also the spiritual state of those for whom the divine word is to be refreshment and comfort …. And thus the gifts are offered from above in such a way that they are understandable for everyone to whom they are made accessible. If the word of God is easily understandable then people will not be reluctant to accept it as God’s word, and since the meaning and purpose of the spiritual proclamations is that they are offered to all people on earth, a form must also be chosen which every person can understand if he has the right will to do so. But there will always be offence taken at the form of the proclamations, namely by those who do not want to accept them as divine revelations and try everything to make them appear untrustworthy because of their form. But these people would still reject them even if the form were completely acceptable to them because their way of life does not allow them to recognize the divine word, the direct revelations. The person who lives in accordance with God’s will, on the other hand, feels the power of the divine word, and for him there is no doubt that God Himself speaks to people through a mediator. The receptive person’s state of maturity likewise determines the form of the gift which is imparted to people as a gift of grace. And thus a person who has already completely become love will also reproduce the divine word in its most perfect form, but the word, even in its simplest form, is not inferior to it in its inner value, rather it is much easier to understand for the people to whom the word is to be conveyed. divine gift is always flawless, regardless of the form in which it is presented, but it is always taken into account the circumstances and the capacity of humanity so that all people, regardless of their earthly knowledge, can enjoy it, which will be particularly necessary in the coming time ….

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It is the powers of darkness that are now at work. Their power is so great because people place themselves under their control and that is why they can also rule. They poison people’s thinking so that they distance themselves from what is good and true and are therefore enslaved by these powers. This is a complete turning away from God, because God is the true, the good, which people disregard. The powers of the underworld thus occupy people, and therefore their behaviour towards each other cannot be anything other than bad. The demonic influence goes so far that completely different guidelines are set up for people’s way of life, which people recognize gladly and without hesitation. And what is wrong will be declared right, what is against the divine commandments will be permitted, and every person will be able to do whatever he wants if only it serves his own advantage, and unkindness will take on ever greater proportions and thus also people’s actions in which the influence of evil is visibly expressed. And thus the good spiritual, the forces which are subject to God’s will, will have to take up an intensified battle in the spiritual kingdom against the forces of the underworld. And on earth likewise the people chosen by God …. the people who strive to fulfil His commandments because they recognize and love Him …. will have to go into battle against the representatives of evil power, against those who deny God and live their lives contrary to divine will. And this battle will be a fierce one, it will be carried out by the latter with all ruthlessness, because it is the endeavour of the evil one to destroy everything that affirms God, to completely eradicate faith in God and to introduce a different teaching on earth which better corresponds to the thinking of humanity which has become unloving. And the battle will be difficult for the believers, but God Himself will stand by their side, for this battle has been planned since eternity …. God fills those who want to belong to Him with His spirit, He gives them extraordinary strength, for He Himself works through people who willingly offer themselves to Him as an instrument. And therefore believing people are able to do far more than their opponents, even if they are supported by earthly power. For fighting with God must irrevocably (inevitably) lead to defeat. This battle has to take place because a separation is to take place amongst humanity; everyone has to realize that he has to make up his own mind. And that is why the human being will experience things which will cause him to reflect and urge him to make a decision. And blessed is he who takes the right path, blessed is he who recognizes God’s power in the extraordinary events and stands by those who have faith …. Although he gives up the world and its goods because he is now without rights, he exchanges far more in return, the goods that will last for all eternity ….

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Even if a person were to speak with the tongues of angels in order to spread the word of God, he will encounter resistance and find no faith. But therefore do not grieve yourselves, you who devote yourselves to this task. Consider that you fight for Me and therefore also receive wounds for Me …. furthermore, consider that I, too, found little favour on earth, that My word could not convince humanity either, and thus My word will always and constantly be an apple of contention, and people will be at enmity for the sake of My word. I want to bring peace to humanity but it does not accept peace …. I want to offer them comprehensible knowledge but they do not listen to Me, instead they are hostile to My representatives. And therefore they cannot partake in the gift I offer them from above, even though they desperately need it. I am the word and I descend to earth …. I want to offer Myself to people, but they do not accept Me …. I stand at the door and knock, but they do not open to Me …. And in their hearts is night, they do not see the light that wants to shine for them, they close themselves off to the ray of light that wants to penetrate, and so they remain in darkness. And there are very many of them who no longer recognize My love and also turn My servants away from the door who want to bring them the gift of their lord …. What unspeakable misery there is among mankind who, in their spiritual blindness, still shy away from the light; and what effort and patience is needed to open the eyes of these blind people. And where My love fails to achieve this, My power must intervene. People do not hear the words of love, but they must hear the voice of My power, for they cannot escape this voice. I am the word and I want people to listen to My word; I want to reveal Myself to them and thus, if they pay no attention to the revelations I send to them through the mouth of a human being, they shall hear Me Myself and My voice will resound mightily …. I will speak through the forces of nature and I will force them to pay attention to Me because no-one will be able to close their ears to this word. You humans do not believe that I reveal Myself, you do not believe that I am lord over all powers in heaven and on earth …. you only believe what can be proven to you earthly and what you want to believe of it. And because you yourselves are distant from God you deny that God can be closer to one of you and reveal Himself to him …. Yet you forget that I can provide you with the evidence at any time that it is I Who determines every law of nature and Whose strength is truly so great that everything is possible for Him …. And thus I have to reveal Myself to you in this work of destruction, for nothing is by chance and what happens, happens through Me …. No human being is able to hinder this will of Mine, and no human being is able to stop an event which has been determined since eternity because I have known from eternity about people’s wrong will, about their distorted thinking and their blatant rejection of My word. I have known about people’s spiritual low since eternity and have used all means to remedy it beforehand, yet when all means fail I Myself come in the raging of the elements and speak to people, and anyone who does not yet heed this voice is lost for eternity ….

Amen

And this is God’s great mercy that He draws people to Himself through His grace, that He offers them His help because they fail without it, because they cannot find the way into the father’s house if God does not come to meet them. The father wants to fetch His child home but the child does not recognize the father until He stretches out His hand and draws it to Himself. And this mercy is the outflow of His love. He seeks to lead back to Himself what has emerged from Him, for it is a part of Himself. It should turn to Him of its own free will, yet since it no longer recognizes its origin it is too weak and therefore needs His love and grace and His greater than great mercy …. And the coming great suffering is also a work of God’s mercy, it is a grace which is intended to help people return to God. But people will not recognize it as mercy and therefore it will also remain ineffective …. Suffering will not be able to bend people, for they are far from God and do not know of His great love and mercy. They are His creatures and no longer recognize the creator, they are His children and do not long to return to the father’s house because they walk along in spiritual blindness and do not want to accept the light that God sends them on their path through life out of great mercy ….

Amen

It is God’s will that you should live in peace with each other, that you help each other with love and bear your suffering together. If you live up to His will, your life will be a peaceful and blessed one, suffering and sorrow will remain at bay, for then your way of life will benefit your soul …. You will practice neighbourly love and thereby prove your love for God to Him, and your conduct will be pleasing to God. But how do you relate to each other at the moment? …. You are fighting each other, you are damaging your neighbours, and heartlessness has reached highest perfection. Hence you must suffer, you must endure much adversity which shall teach you to bear the suffering together and to help each other. The will of God must be complied with; otherwise the human being violates divine law. The life of a person who adapts himself to divine will can only be a peaceful one, just as everything on earth will be harmonious and peaceful if people accept God’s will as their own. But as soon as a person opposes this divine will, a certain disorder will prevail in his life which is not pleasant for him, for the human being testifies to his wrong will by acting in opposition to divine will. Compliance with divine will, order and peace are cause and effect, but likewise suffering, grief, discord and earthly chaos will be the consequences of acting in opposition to divine will …. Therefore God gave His commandments so that people should know God’s will. He provided certain guidelines for people’s way of life on earth, according to which the human being shall conduct his life, and He also informed people of the results if a life does not correspond to these guidelines. The divine commandments were given to benefit people so that he who lives up to them may receive eternal life. Non-compliance, however, will result in the soul’s death. Divine will must be observed because, as long as the human being or his soul opposes this will, he still testifies to his apostasy from God, he is still opposed to God. Consequently, his life on earth must be an unpleasant state of affairs for him so that it will impel him into changing his will, so that he joins God, Whom he previously had not recognised. For this reason earthly suffering is unavoidably necessary for someone who ignores God’s will or utterly opposes Him. God only requires the human being’s will to subordinate itself to divine will, so that the human being will do what God, through His commandments, expects him to do, then he will fulfil God’s will, and then he will be granted a life of harmony and peace for the soul among the chaos and confusion of the world that was caused by unkindness.

Amen

Deep darkness weighs on humanity and the sign of this is wrong thinking and arrogance. He who is arrogant in spirit does not examine whether he is in the truth, and if he is thus mistaken, he does nothing to free himself from it. He who seeks finds …. but he who believes himself to be infallible does not seek the truth and will therefore never find it. To possess the truth means to walk in the light, but error is darkness. This is why God occasionally lets a light shine so that it breaks through the darkness and the benefit of a ray of light is shown to people, i.e. pure truth is offered to a person from the kingdom of the one Who is truth in Himself …. And where there is truth, error is also recognized as such …. The light shines brightly in the darkness …. And now people are free to remain with the truth or to return to error, i.e. to sink back into the night of the spirit. In most cases, however, people flee the light …. the truth …. They do not want to let go of what they possess as spiritual property, even though it contradicts the truth, because they are arrogant in spirit and do not want to recognize anything that goes beyond their knowledge. And that is why it is so difficult to bring the truth to people. If they were to examine everything with a childlike mind, consider everything and then accept what stands up to their scrutiny, their knowledge would be much closer to the truth. But as it is, every bearer of truth is attacked out of the instinctive feeling that his knowledge is greater, and thus humanity remains in darkness, it extinguishes the light because it shies away from it. And even if God repeatedly lights a little light to shine for humanity, it does not recognize the blessing of it and carelessly passes it by or only eagerly endeavours to obscure its bright shine. The ray of light is a blessing for people who desire to walk in the light and they gratefully accept this blessing, but there are only a few of them, they are predominantly people who lack worldly knowledge, for worldly knowledge is likewise a light which shines brightly enough for them …. But it is not capable of breaking through the darkness of the night. But because they believe they possess a light, they do not desire to illuminate their spiritual state, and so humanity continues to walk in darkness, which has an immeasurably painful effect on it ….

Amen

Souls whose level of maturity is still very low lack all strength in the afterlife. They therefore experience nameless torment. They are aware of the strength they had at their disposal on earth. Their lot is therefore worsened and they realize that they are incapable of improving their situation. The state of suffering cannot be described to people, it is a state of extreme poverty and most agonizing discomfort. And in this misery they are joined by souls who try to shake them out of their lethargy and first of all show them the agonizing nature of their condition in order to awaken in them the will to do something to improve their situation. The nature of this activity is incomprehensible to people, it is a serving occupation which, however, has no earthly basis but which is adapted to the spiritual kingdom and therefore cannot be explained to people. Nevertheless, it is an activity which requires the soul’s will; it is an activity which it can carry out when the will to help is aroused in it. Only the will to help brings about an improvement in the soul’s situation and therefore also progress in its spiritual development. However, it is extremely difficult to motivate such weak, lowly souls to make themselves useful in order to help other souls. In most cases these souls are so absorbed in their own suffering that they have no sympathy for the suffering of other souls. They carelessly pass them by, indeed they often inflict suffering on each other, and their nature is unloving towards each other. But then the soul feels even greater agonies, and these increase to the point of unbearability in order to make the soul compliant when the beings of light approach it in their disguise. The resistance is often great, but on the other hand the souls perceive the participation in their adversity as a benefit, even if they are initially hostile; they then do not want to miss the participation and desire it, and this is already a small step forward which the beings of light eagerly utilize. And this work on the immature souls requires much love and patience on the part of the beings of light. But the success is also so gratifying that they constantly endeavour to bring redemption to these poor souls. As soon as the soul has become more compliant, the work of the beings of light can begin on it. They now show it that it worsens its fate through unkindness but can improve it through love. They try to stimulate it to help by showing it the suffering of the other souls and now work towards the soul helping them. They leave the soul’s will free so that it should carry out the helping activity of its own accord. And if the soul does this then the ascent also begins for the needy souls, for the other souls also benefit from it because they themselves do to their fellow-suffering souls what is done to them. The redeeming activity in the beyond is an uninterrupted labour of love of inconceivable importance, so that the souls which have failed on earth can still develop upwards in the beyond and enjoy the happiness and bliss of heaven ….

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The Gospel must be proclaimed throughout the world, the teaching of love has to be made accessible to all people and this happens in various ways. Those having been taught by God are called to enlighten other people in the first instance, thus to convey the received teachings to them …. to proclaim the Gospel to those who want to accept it. It is a richly blessed mission to work for fellow people’s salvation of soul, to instruct them according to God’s will and to motivate their conscious work of improving their souls. And this work is expected by God from everyone who has been taught by God Himself. And God constantly teaches those people who willingly open their hearts to Him, He preaches the Gospel to them which they hear within themselves through the inner voice. And this Gospel does not divert from that which has been traditionally handed down, from the Holy Scriptures …. And this is another possibility of receiving the divine Word, and again it teaches love, the love for God and one’s fellow human being and for the one who faithfully accepts this Word. And thus everyone has the opportunity to be instructed in the Gospel as soon as he, with the right faith, desires to know God’s Word. It will also become understandable to him, for the will to penetrate divine wisdoms also gives a person the power of realisation, which enables him to regard the divine Words as the Word of God and thus can also be taught by God if he devoutly and hungrily reads the Holy Scripture and not just accepts the Word but seriously tries to grasp its meaning too. Yet the divine Word can also be spiritually conveyed to a person, however, this way is only known to a few people and yet it is the easiest for everyone. This is the direct communication in the form of thoughts, a mental transference of the divine Word, of the Gospel, to people which, however, always requires the person’s willingness to receive. If, therefore, a human being desires to be initiated into the divine teaching of love the Gospel will always be proclaimed to him in one way, because it is God’s will that humanity shall be instructed and live in truth ….

Amen

The willingness to receive is only in accordance with God’s will when body and soul completely abandon themselves to the spirit, i.e. when the body remains completely unnoticed by the soul or when the body wants the same as the soul …. only to hear the voice of the spirit within itself. The less the body hinders the soul, the more clearly the soul hears what the spirit wants to convey to it. The soul then tries to come to an agreement with the spirit. This bond is incomparably valuable, the soul is in a sense free, it is no longer bound by its body but closer to its actual purpose …. it lives in the spiritual realm, although it still dwells on earth. And the body is completely inactive during this time until the soul revitalizes it. As soon as the human being can establish this degree of receptiveness it will be easy for him to receive spiritual messages and also to take a look into the kingdom which is the spirit’s home. And in order to reach this degree all that is required is heartfelt prayer to God and complete devotion to Him, providing that the recipient’s life is a selfless labour of love. Then the human being experiences a change in himself, he feels removed from earth, he is seized by God, and the body gives up all resistance, it bends under the will of the soul, which strives towards the spirit, and therefore no longer represents an obstacle for the latter. Often this connection can only be established with the greatest overcoming of itself, the soul does not yet completely push towards the spirit within itself, it still allows itself to be influenced by the body, i.e., it still pays too much attention to its desires …. it is not yet as ready to receive the spirit’s messages as it needs to be in order to accept them effortlessly. And then the soul must struggle for firmness and endurance, it must fight against its body, it must also switch off intellectual thinking and only allow itself to be guided by the voice of the heart, it must be able to forget the world in order to find itself again in the spiritual kingdom …. And it must often practice this flight to the heights in order to be able to free itself from its physical shell at any time, in order to be able to hear the voice within itself at any time, in order to receive precious messages from the spiritual realm …. (14.10.1942) If the soul is unable to hear the voice of the spirit within itself, then its preparation is either not in accordance with divine will, i.e., the soul cannot completely separate itself from the earth and that which is earthly, or the spirit cannot express itself to it because its ability to hear is not yet developed. And the latter is the case if the soul has not yet changed to love. Then it will remain silent in it if it listens, for the voice of the spirit sounds so finely that every discordant tone which sounds in a still immature soul drowns out this voice. The soul must have shattered the shell around it, which a God-pleasing way of life brings about. Then it can hear the subtlest sound within itself and consequently also transmit it to the intellect, i.e. reproduce it as a human being. Divine wisdom is hidden in every human being, i.e. the divine spiritual spark slumbers in every human being, which, because it is part of the eternal divinity, can also penetrate divine wisdom and impart it to the human being. But whether the soul makes itself receptive to what the spirit wants to impart to it depends on the human being’s will, whether he moulds himself through loving activity. The human being must therefore want to listen and be able to listen …. He must declare himself willing to receive the messages from above, but he must also be deemed worthy by God to be given spiritual messages …. So every human being can certainly strive for the divine working of the spirit, i.e. desire it, but at the same time he must fulfil the conditions that are set for the working of the spirit. The working of the spirit of God is indeed a gift of grace, yet it does not come to a person without his worthiness and God-centred will. As soon as the working of the spirit of God begins to diminish, this is only due to the human being who is slackening in his spiritual endeavour or who is too closely connected to the world, which is an obstacle to his flight of ascent. It is in the divine will that the human being constantly struggles so that he does not become slack in his striving towards Him. And therefore obstacles will often make the path impassable for him, and he then has to try to overcome these obstacles with increased effort, he has to pray for strength if he lacks the strength to do so; he has to unite himself more intimately and more often with God in thought, he has to present his adversity to Him and look forward to His help with faithful confidence. God demands a strong faith, a faith that never wavers, even though temptations approach him …. Confidence in God’s help should be so strong that nothing is able to make people look to the future with worry and fear …. God’s love and God’s omnipotence should always be before the eyes of a person whose faith begins to waver. And such a deeply believing person will also be able to receive God’s spiritual gifts; he will despise the world and live a life of closest closeness to God, and his spirit will manifest itself to the soul where and when it desires it ….

Amen

Spiritual hunger will always be satisfied and the soul will never need to starve, for God opens the source of life to every person, from which the living water springs. Jesus gave this promise to people on earth, yet the meaning of His promise has not been properly grasped by people, otherwise it would not seem impossible to them that God conveys His word to earth through revelations which come to a person from above. Divine love knows what people are lacking and does not want them to go hungry. And thus the source of life will never run dry, people will always be able to refresh themselves with its water and the human being himself will be able to become a never-ending source if he earnestly strives for it and calls a deep faith his own …. For this is what Jesus promised with the words: “He who believes in Me, out of his loins will flow rivers of living water.” He was thus announcing the work of the spirit, the hearing of the divine word in the heart, the water that awakens to eternal life …. every human heart can become the fountain of eternal life, and the source of divine wisdom that flows from a believing heart is inexhaustible. The water that awakens to life is the living word of God, because it can only flow from a person living in love, from a heart that has thus become active, i.e. a living heart …. The word of God has life and awakens to life …. For when it is received in the heart, it is not a dead word. It is not an empty letter, but is felt by the spirit in man and born through the soul in the heart of man. And therefore it must also have a revitalizing effect …. i.e. stimulate activity, which is life. The word of God is the direct emanation of God’s love, which must therefore also express itself again as love in the human being to whom the divine word flows …. It must therefore give birth to love again …. The divine word is not limited, it flows from an inexhaustible source like water, which knows no beginning and no end, which flows from the source as long as it is not wilfully caused to dry up. And so the word of God will also flow from the heart of anyone who lives a life of purity and love in deep faith, and the person will now be able to constantly draw from the living water, he will constantly hear the divine word within himself …. rivers of living water will flow from his loins, as God has promised ….

Amen

Throughout infinitely long periods of time earth has evolved such that it can be home to countless living beings and therefore complies with its true task as a place of education for the spirit …. During this time of evolution the living beings still had a different nature, they were more or less akin to the evolving earth as far as any living being was at all able to live. There were numerous developmental periods and from a certain point onwards earth was able to shelter living beings on its surface. However, as earth evolved the more these increased in number, and thus the development of earth’s external form advanced as well as the living beings, which were assigned to earth for the purpose of higher development. It took an inconceivably long time yet this process of evolution was necessary because the spirit within, on the surface and above earth first had to prove itself during the condition of constraint, which the spirit in every work of creation is subjected to. During this time of development the spirit passed its test and could slowly evolve into a living being. The living conditions were considerably more difficult but it asserted itself and gradually evolved into some kind of human being which, however, was completely different from the present day human being.

The being was still constrained, i.e. it acted instinctively, to some extent it was still guided and did not have its own free will and intellect. Although outwardly the being resembled the human being, it was still on the level of the animal world in every other respect and lived in accordance with divine natural law and therefore instinctively, without consciousness of its actions. This being was not accountable yet, its life was subject to the law of compulsion, motivated by its inherent instincts, which in turn expressed themselves in the beings in accordance with divine will. These living beings were compatible with the primitive conditions of the earth’s surface, but to a certain extent they contributed towards the earth’s development by multiplying themselves and with their unconscious actions accelerated the changes on the earth’s surface, which became increasingly more suitable to shelter more evolved living beings until the first human beings, equipped with free will and intellect, were assigned to live on this earth. They could make use of everything on earth and, instructed by God Himself, live or were supposed to live a conscious life, which was the actual meaning and purpose of their embodiment on earth. However, now the human being was also answerable to God for his actions and thoughts. He had achieved a certain degree of maturity which enabled him to live in keeping with God’s will and in view of this ability he now was also responsible how he used his life, since it was up to him to utilise all his gifts. However, he was informed of the consequences of his life during this incarnation on earth and thus he is able to make use of his free will ….

Amen

No other age has had as highly evolved beings as the present one and yet this higher development is used for the wrong reasons …. The present-day human being has passed through countless stages of development and now, during the last stage, has many abilities which he can use extremely successfully …. One of these abilities is to place himself into a spiritual state. Anyone who has acquired this ability can already claim to have considerable maturity because he now also lives in the other realm …. However, he does not take his impressions from this realm to earth because they are only absorbed by the spirit who will not pass them on until the human soul is suitably qualified to understand the experience in the spiritual realm and can then be relevantly instructed. The more the soul questions the spirit within itself for information the more it receives. Thus humanity could indeed be on a high spiritual level if it took advantage of everything at its disposal during earthly life. Instead, people are content to live their earthly lives but fail to consider their spiritual state. Consequently their innermost being is approaching the pre-historic condition once again, in which they ignored their soul and just lived an animal life which excluded any higher development. They no longer live earthly life consciously, they are similarly driven – namely by spiritual forces which want to suppress all spiritual higher development. And thus they are approaching the pre-historic state once more but are now fully responsible for their actions because free will and intellect were given to them by God for the purpose of spiritual progress ….

Amen

The human being is the highest evolved living being on earth and therefore is also given a task which matches his degree of maturity. He is able to fulfil this task if he wants to, and precisely this will is tested (is supposed to prove itself), is meant to make the decision. For only the will determines whether the human being completes the task, whether he uses his abilities and lives expediently during his final embodiment. He is by no means forced to do so and therefore earthly life will give him countless tasks to carry out. Thus the actual task is not particularly emphasized, instead he should carry it out as part of his earthly activities …. to shape himself into highest possible maturity on earth …. If he ignores this task he nevertheless goes on living his earthly life, but his soul’s imperfect degree of maturity remains. And for this he has to justify himself before God, because he was only given his earthly life to perfect his soul. Hence he misused it if he merely performed his earthly activities for his own advantage, or he disregarded it and thus disrespected God’s mercy. The earth was his home and he was allowed to incarnate as a highly developed being; he was already in a state of maturity with many abilities of his own yet he lived his life no more consciously than the pre-historic human being. He only used his intellect and volition for an earthly activity of no lasting value, and he used God’s strength to do so …. he merely used it for worldly ends, to increase his own comfort such that it only increased other people’s desire to do the same. And thereby the earth became unsuitable for the soul’s higher development, i.e. the world predominates and keeps such hold of the human being that he completely forgets his soul. Hence the time has come which necessitates a change if human beings should get to know their true task and live correctly again. The earth has to change again, it has to become again what it once had been and should be …. a place of education for the spirit where the world does not predominate but is purely the means to an end …. The world has to be created again, it has to be restructured, it has to shelter human beings who consciously strive towards their final maturity, who use all their God-given abilities purely for the attainment of their souls’ maturity because they realise that this is the true purpose of their embodiment on earth ….

Amen

Faithfully entrust everything to Me that weighs you down …. Admittedly, I know all your difficulties, I know all your problems, yet you shall find your path to Me, you shall come to Me like children to the Father and appeal for His support, and I will help you …. And therefore you should not worry for I will take all your worry upon Myself if you ask Me to do so …. How weak is your trust, how weak your faith in My love, when you doubt that your prayers will be granted …. Ask, and it shall be given to you …. This is the promise I gave you, and you, who are of little faith, shall restore your weak will in this promise; bear in mind that My Words are the purest truth and that they must come true, and thus you should present your petitions to Me without doubt, so that I, as your loving Father, can give to you according to your faith. I only look at the strength of your faith, and this is also the guarantee that your prayer will be granted. If, however, your faith is shallow, the prayer you send to Me will not be as profound and heartfelt as is required for Me to answer it. For I do not pay attention to the words but certainly to your devotion to Me a profound faith causes. I only read the mirror of your soul and know your depth of faith and how heartfelt your prayer is. And where such heartfelt prayer can be heard I Am always willing to help. Faithful trust in the answer to your prayer will therefore always lead to the right result, for I will never disappoint a person’s strong faith. But I will certainly bless those who always remember My promise and present all their worries and difficulties to Me. My love will prove itself to them, for they will attain everything from Me. However, as long as they still waver in faith I will retain the answer to their prayer, for I want them to join Me with all their heart and confide everything to Me. Weak faith, however, prevents a sincere connection with Me. But I want to be recognised as a loving Father Who will not let His child remain in adversity ….

Amen

It is the most valuable gift which God imparts to you when He instructs you in His will, for He thereby gives you a means to acquire eternal bliss. How ignorant you would walk through life without this gift of grace …. and how little would you be able to develop yourselves upwards without the knowledge of the meaning and purpose of your embodiment on earth. And that is why you must pay attention to these gifts and utilize them as the most precious commodity; you must allow the divine word to become the guiding principle of your life; you must never listen to what the world tells you but only accept the voice of God, His word, into your hearts and live your life according to this word. Then you will also make yourselves worthy of this divine gift of grace and you will mould your soul according to God’s will. His word is His grace and mercy, His word is His love and kindness, His word is His power and glory, His wisdom and His spirit. And he who receives His word cannot perish, for he must inevitably mature and develop himself upwards, and therefore the word of God is a gift of grace of immeasurable value which cannot be replaced by anything, for only through the word of God can people become blessed ….

Amen

In a world of discord, people must inevitably fall into confused thinking; for the cause of discord is lack of love, and where there is a lack of love, man is also far removed from the truth. This wrong thinking can never benefit the soul; the soul cannot mature as long as it does not think correctly, i.e. as long as it is not in the truth. And therefore love has to be cultivated first, only then will the human being also think correctly and only then can he give information about problems without being wrong. As soon as disputes arise in the spiritual field people are only allowed to express their opinion if they endeavour to live a life of love, and no attention needs to be paid to the opinion of a person without love. And this also applies to all teaching people. As soon as they are in love they spread truth, often even unintentionally, in so far as the people listening to them will understand it as it corresponds to the truth, even if the teaching person was wrongly instructed. However, a loving person also recognizes error when it is offered to him, provided that his desire for truth is strong and he wants to serve God by spreading the truth …. Anyone whose spirit has been set free through loving activity is also called to teach his fellow human beings. In the world without love, however, the spirit is not yet free, unkindness keeps it in fetters, and therefore the person whose spirit is still bound is far from the truth and will therefore never be able to pass on the truth to his fellow human beings, but what he conveys to them is permeated by error, if not complete error. From this it can be seen that only a few people are in the truth because only a few people are also active in love. This is such a bitter realization that these few have to fight a difficult battle if they want to guide people into the truth, because they first have to preach love to them, for only then can a person recognize the truth when his heart has become capable of love …. And transforming loveless humanity into love is truly a task that can hardly be accomplished unless God Himself takes care of humanity. The more unloving people are, the more difficult it will be for the truth to prevail, and it will always be fought against by those who believe themselves to be in the truth but do not practice love themselves enough. Test the teachers to what extent they stand in love …. and check whether these teachers are only passing on learned wisdom …. Truth must be felt, it cannot be learnt in a scholastic way …. And what is passed on only becomes wisdom once it has been absorbed by the heart and mind at the same time …. and a person is only wise when the knowledge shines like a light within him and makes him happy. The teacher must be in love and the person being taught must likewise receive wisdom with a heart capable of love, only then will it be possible to speak of true wisdom. And humanity lacks this love, and therefore it also lacks wisdom, the truth from God …. Yet it believes itself to be knowledgeable and rejects everything that opposes its knowledge. For until humanity has changed to love it is content with adopted teachings which it believes to be the truth because it lacks all power of realization ….

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God is moved by the deepest love and compassion in the face of people’s great spiritual need. And He seeks to come to their aid in many ways. Where faith in Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer, threatens to dwindle He Himself approaches people, giving them undeniable signs by which humanity shall recognize Him. He expresses Himself through people whose hearts have completely become love, He uses their physical shell in order to work through them before people’s eyes. This sign of His greater than great love should lead people back to faith in Him, it should make them wonder and draw their attention to extraordinary phenomena which cannot be explained by human beings. And God has chosen those who give themselves to Him without restraint, who only endeavour to live according to His will and who accept everything from His hands as a gift of grace, be it joy or suffering, for they offer no resistance to His working. And thus the divine saviour takes complete possession of their heart, He descends to earth again and the human being, whose body is a cover for the divine saviour, now experiences the miracle of Jesus’ death on the cross …. For he suffers as Jesus suffered on the cross …. he feels all torments, and even outwardly these torments are recognizable in order to allow people to gain the faith that is to be taken from them. God is extremely fond of people who accept the greatest suffering for the sake of their fellow human beings, but this love is God’s gift in return, because the earthly child also shows Him the most ardent love, a love that endures everything for Him, for the divine saviour, that is also prepared to suffer in order to bring a sacrifice of atonement to its fellow human beings. Understandably, such a person capable of love will also lead an exemplary life, he will honour God in all things …. He will do everything that he considers to be the divine will. He will also observe the commandments given by man because he regards them as divine and wants to fulfil the divine will at all costs. And therefore he is also suitable as an instrument of God, and divine love now expresses itself through this. Divine love brings countless people together and they all experience a miracle that goes far beyond their imagination …. they see the suffering and death of Jesus repeated in a weak person who patiently accepts all suffering and is happy to be allowed to suffer for Jesus Christ. And so God awakens people’s faith to new life through the love of that human child. He proves to them the truth of the traditions, He proves to them that Christ’s death on the cross is irrefutable and thereby leads many people back to the true faith ….

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Anyone who is able to look into the spiritual kingdom has had his spirit awakened, and through the connection with the spiritual beyond he accomplishes things which his fellow human being regards as a miracle. However, it is only spiritual work which is possible for the same person who, through a God-pleasing way of life, can utilize the spiritual forces with which the spiritual spark within him unites. The way in which these powers work is determined by the human being himself through his will or his intellectual thinking. He can therefore carry out certain things that seem worthwhile to him mentally; he can want something that he has mentally planned and he carries out these thoughts. This is spiritual activity, whereby the human being directs these forces to himself through his will and the spiritual forces comply with this will because the God-pleasing way of life makes their activity possible. But there is also a spiritual working where the will of man is excluded, where God’s will alone expresses itself, where the human body is only a form which harbours the divine spirit within itself. These forms are therefore only the shells which conceal the deity from the human eye, but which in turn the eternal deity uses to reveal Himself to humanity in order to lead them to recognize the eternal deity. What this form now does can no longer be judged in human terms, but must be measured by the standard of divine activity. Every event, every manifestation and every miracle reveals a divine power that works directly. Therefore, the form must be perfect so that it is suitable as a receptacle for the divine spirit, as the dwelling place of the divine lord and saviour. This worthiness can only be achieved through the deepest love for the eternal divinity, through the deepest inner feeling and conscious subordination of the will to the divine will …. This subordination of the will to the divine will must be demanded if God himself wants to work through a human being. The human being who gives himself to God must therefore do everything he deems right before God, he must, as it were, make God’s will his own by completely giving up his own will. At this stage of devotion he will be able to see through everything and therefore know everything and also be able to do everything, for now the divine spirit works itself …. God needs such people in order to work through them. He wants to come to the aid of humanity, which threatens to slacken in faith, He wants to bring Himself close to it, He wants them to be pointed towards the divine saviour and to lose all doubts about Christ’s act of salvation. Deep unshakeable faith and devoted love for the saviour can shape a person’s soul in such a way that God can take abode in the person in all His fullness. And then every state is possible, suffering and pain, happiness and bliss. And the human being can fulfil the task given to him by God for his life on earth …. For God foresees the will and the deep love and strength of faith of such a person who devotes himself to God and accordingly allows the destiny of life to play out for him as it is His will. God chooses him to do extraordinary things in order to draw people’s attention to Himself. Everything divine appears in the process, and now it is a matter of proving faith. A person who is so intimately connected to God that he hears the inner voice also sees the events of the past, present and future. Such experiences are therefore to be believed. God Himself works through these people and this will always be suitable to increase the strength of faith. Extraordinary activity is based on a special piety, and this can certainly also extend to external formalities, yet the heart will always be involved, thus the person will be filled by profound love for the saviour, which is expressed by the fact that he fulfils everything that is demanded of him …. he always acts out of love for God, he makes every sacrifice to God. And God recognizes this love and sets it as an example to the whole of humanity, because every action, every word and every thought is only the effect of this deep love for God. So God’s love turns to this earthly child …. He takes it to Himself in His kingdom when its last hour has come. Everything a person does, thinks and speaks is always aimed at complete union with God and must therefore also be good, i.e. pleasing to God. Everything that brings about union with God must correspond to divine will, and therefore He shows people the path they should take in order to find the final union with God. And He Himself descends to earth and works through people whose life is an uninterrupted labour of love and who are therefore seized by divine love and accomplish great things ….

Amen

Those of you who are not yet living in truth will have to surrender much of your spiritual wealth because the time will come when you shall witness the collapse of much that you had deemed indestructible. You will realise that human work will not last even if it had managed to survive for a long time. You will find it inconceivable that divine providence will initiate a work of destruction which simultaneously will denote a major spiritual change and strongly disturb the thoughts of people who believe themselves to know the truth. And you won’t be able to find any other explanation than God’s unmistakable demonstration that you are misguided. This mistake is already too deep-rooted in you that you could liberate yourselves from it and therefore God wants to help you …. He wants to show you that everything has to yield to His will, including that which has survived for thousands of years. God gave human beings free will, subsequently He had to withdraw His will where human will opposed it. Thus he did not prevent the structure of an establishment which did not correspond to His will. However, His will was secretly respected and observed, unnoticed by the world and therefore little known, yet resisting hostile interference. But humanity was pleased with this structural work which asserted itself with much pomp and splendour and which found many followers. But one day even this work will come to an end and this end will happen in full view of all people ….

A building deemed indestructible will tremble and result in an event which will claim many victims in every sense. God’s intervention will shock people’s thoughts. But God wants to prove to people that all human creations deteriorate and that everything which comes from God directly will continue. He wants to inform people that they are misguided, He wants to make them receptive for the pure truth. And in view of the disastrous change many people will stop and think, they will question the credibility of their previous teachings because the breakdown has robbed them of all faith. And this event is not far away, the whole world will be involved and, if they are faithful, recognise an obvious sign sent by God to the people on earth for the salvation of their souls ….

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God considers people according to their faith …. This is to be understood in such a way that people take spiritual ownership of what their faith teaches them and thus also fulfil everything that is demanded of them through faith. In this fulfilment God values the will of man, which is therefore good, because he leans towards God …. Man wants to do what is pleasing to God, what faith teaches him. And if this God-centred will determines his thoughts and actions, this is also pleasing to God, even though the person is not in the truth, i.e. he has been instructed in a false faith. This is why people who lack the right faith will also be blessed if they only strive for a way of life that is right before God and always do what seems right to them before God. They will always be given the opportunity to accept the right faith, the pure truth will be made accessible to them. However, if he believes that he cannot accept it because he believes himself to be in the truth, he will nevertheless lead a right, God-pleasing way of life and this will be recognized before God because the person wants what is good, because he wants to fulfil God’s will. And so every action he performs will also be recognized according to his will …. And every ceremony, which in itself is completely worthless, becomes an act pleasing to God through the will to serve God with it. Thus, a good person can gain God’s favour through any act as soon as he performs it for God’s glory, as soon as he believes he is serving God with it, even though the act itself has no deeper value. On the other hand, a certain ceremonial act is worthless if it is not based on this God-centred will. And likewise, a person can strive towards God with all his will without such a ceremony, and this will is valued just as highly by God, that person can even be far closer to God who disregards all outward appearances but consciously wants to serve God. But just as man’s faith is, so too will God’s work appear in him, because God will not let man’s faith be put to shame as long as it is not directed against God. However, it is wrong to assume that only the person who strictly fulfils all outward appearances lives in a manner pleasing to God. Nothing externally recognizable determines the right value before God, only the will that God sees, regardless of whether the person carries out the actions that are demanded of him through faith ….

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Every petition reaches the ear of the heavenly father if it is sent to Him in spirit and in truth. In other words, every thought must be felt in the heart, the spirit must speak to the spirit …. the spiritual spark in man must rise up to God, to the father, from Whom it has taken its origin. Prayer must not just be a mumbling of lips, it must rise up from the heart to God in all truthfulness, without falsehood and without pretence, simply and humbly …. This is a prayer in spirit and in truth, which God will answer at any time. A prayer can consist of beautiful words, and yet it can go unheard by the ear of the father in heaven because it lacks any intimacy, because it is only an empty form without deep feeling of the heart. And such a prayer is worthless before God, just as everything is worthless before God that is merely form without inner life. As long as the heart is not involved, the spirit in man knows nothing of it and therefore also seeks no connection with the divine spirit, to whom the prayer should be directed, even though he tries to feign a connection with God through words. He thinks differently, as he speaks, and acts differently, as he thinks …. And that is why his prayer is not true, it is not what it should be before God …. a simple, deep, heartfelt plea that is assured of being heard. And that is why God demands that the human being should withdraw into his closet when he wants to pray …. that he should forget everything around him in order to dialogue only with the father in heaven. If no external impressions distract the human being he will be able to connect deeply with God, and then he will present his request to the father in heaven without inhibition and yet in all humility and confidence, he will ask Him in a simple way, he will speak to Him reverently and yet full of trust, he will pray to Him in spirit and in truth, just as the heavenly father wants to be worshipped in order to be able to fulfil all His children’s requests, as He has promised ….

Amen

Many words of the Holy Scriptures are wrongly interpreted by people and thus they are misled into believing something which is far removed from the truth. As a result of these wrong interpretations teachings developed which were passed on from person to person time after time so that the error kept spreading and became increasingly more difficult to be recognised as such. God has always given His Word to human beings in relation to their spiritual level, and it was always comprehensible to anyone who wanted to understand it correctly. However, as soon as His Word was deliberated upon rationally …. as soon as the human being tried to ascertain its meaning purely as a matter of research without the sincere will to shape himself, i.e. his soul, by means of the divine Word, the Word became difficult for people to understand …. Their thoughts went astray.

In view of these conditions teachings developed which corrupted the divine Word in as much as they did not correspond to what Jesus Christ had preached on earth. God’s Word is certainly quoted, however it is given a completely different meaning and now humanity does not understand His Word in a corresponding manner but human explanations have changed the meaning. Consequently, the divine Word became spoilt and in this state it was presented to people again as divine Word, who will now not accept anything else and eagerly defend this spoilt Word. And it is extremely difficult to bring the pure truth to them and to convince them that they are defending something entirely human …. that they are making a cult out of an entirely human product and that this human product is unreliable. Until they have come to this conviction themselves they will also claim that the truth is error, and the advocates of truth will find it very difficult to associate with them because they will not be open to any instruction in this regard, they will present themselves as the guardians of truth and not accept any instruction which they deem as coming to them from the kingdom of darkness.

And thus light argues with darkness, but the light is not recognised until a serious pursuit for truth paves the way amongst people and they have a sudden, blinding realisation that they merely believed in misguided teachings. And then there will still be time for all people who deem themselves small and ignorant before God since they will be granted the grace to attain realisation, because then they will no longer wilfully reject but eagerly accept the truth …. which they subsequently will recognise as truth ….

Amen

Every mission for God first of all requires a willingness, for it is usually a task which requires the person to overcome himself, which can therefore only be carried out if the person is aware of this requirement and yet has the will to do so. Carrying out a mission for God will always mean a battle with the world and therefore requires courage and determination, which a person musters if he loves God, i.e. wants to serve Him. But only a few people consciously want to serve Him, because only a few people renounce the world and the battle with the world becomes easier for them as a result. As long as the human being allows himself to be taken captive by the world, he is unable to fight it, i.e. only those who despise the world do not find the battle so difficult because they gladly renounce what the world takes from them in this battle. But man’s will to serve God and thus to take on the mission is richly rewarded by God insofar as he is given strength to fight against the world. And therefore he need not fear being incapable, for the will also makes him capable. God’s working through a person who devotes himself to Him will obviously manifest itself, yet a person who withholds his will from God will never be able to achieve anything extraordinary. No human being will ever be compelled to fight for God and against the world who does not voluntarily offer himself to do so. But those who have the will to fulfil the divine will, who therefore submit themselves to God and offer themselves to Him as an instrument, will be seized by His strength and grace if they are to start their mission, if they are to stand up for God before the world. They will no longer be in doubt as to what they should do or say, they will act out of themselves and with the feeling that they must act in this way and no other. They will not be fearful or faint-hearted, they will follow without reluctance the inner voice that guides and directs them and prompts them to think what is right before God. Voluntary devotion to God assures them of God’s grace, and God’s grace is help in all things, in all ways and at all times. And that is why a person can surrender himself in full faith to his lord and saviour, his creator and father, once he has offered himself to Him for service …. He will be seized when the hour of work has come for him, he will be filled with divine strength and be full of love for Him, he will no longer ponder or be indecisive, but his path of life lies clearly and distinctly before him; he walks it, driven by the spirit of God, and now carries out the mission as it is God’s will ….

Amen