In just a few moons the world will be in a state of great turmoil. The spiritual regression has its consequences in so far as an event occurs which is to stop this development and reverse it. There is no other means, for people have been affected by severe suffering and even this has not been able to direct people’s mind towards the spiritual, but this is absolutely necessary for spiritual development. For the world still holds them captive as if in shackles and they view every experience with a purely worldly attitude. Only when people realize that everything in the world is transient, only when they pay less attention to the world, will they turn their attention to the shaping of the soul. And only then will the development of the spiritual progress. But now a standstill has occurred where there is no decline in development. And always experiencing the same would not bring about a change, and therefore something has to happen that can bring about a change in thinking. Nothing in the world remains at the same stage of development, everything develops slowly upwards, and only man sets a limit to its development through his will. And yet he has the task of increasing this development to the highest degree on earth. And he can also do this by using his will correctly. But he uses his will to bring about a standstill by not paying attention to his task. His will fails and the earth no longer fulfils the purpose for the spiritual being in the last stage of development. It is no longer needed in any way because its actual purpose is disregarded; consequently, earthly life is unlawfully utilized by people and this must result in divine intervention. God has to make them understand that they are not living their life according to His will, He has to direct their thoughts towards the end so that they give an account of their life and remember the approaching death. And that is the purpose of this last admonition from above, that a horror takes hold of people and they are thus pushed into a different way of life, which can awaken spiritual striving in them if they give in to the inner urge and use their will correctly. Yet the human being must always recognize this intervention as a divine mission if it is to be successful for his soul. He must believe that the creator of heaven and earth Himself is at work, that He, as lord over the forces of nature, commands every element and that it is therefore His will when the earth is afflicted by a natural disaster so great that the whole world is thrown into turmoil. The whole world should reflect on this, all people should ask themselves why the creator is sending such a visitation upon the earth, and whoever gains the right realization from this will no longer be endangered in his higher development ….

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Countless souls have to cover the course of development on earth once again, and this is the worst thing these souls still have to face, since they have already led a life in a certain freedom and are now bound anew in the solid form. The latter is so agonizing that the eternal deity takes pity on them and uses all means to spare these souls a renewed earthly life. Yet God has to leave one thing to people …. free will …. And therefore He cannot forcibly guide the souls upwards, instead, higher development is left to the human being’s will, and this will usually turns away from the spiritual goal, which is expressed in his purely worldly life, a life which is lived completely without God. Such a life cannot result in the soul’s higher development, and if it ends earthly life in an unchanged low degree of maturity then higher development in the beyond will also be questioned. There is the danger that the soul develops regressively and consequently distances itself further and further from God, i.e. the spiritual hardens and is banished again in the most solid form for the purpose of its further development in order to cover the course on earth once more until the stage as man, where free will is given to it again. It must be left to the human being how he adapts to his spiritual development …. but the consequences in both the earthly and the otherworldly life are corresponding. Having to walk through creation again is so dreadful that God tries to guide people into realization in a different way and at the same time to turn their will towards Himself so that the soul already has the desire for Him when it enters the beyond, for this desire is necessary in order to be accepted by God. And this is why God lets something come over the world which lets people seek refuge with the heavenly father so that they have a desire for Him and can now be given according to this desire. And yet even this catastrophe will only awaken a small proportion of people. Only a small part will seriously utilize the rest of their lives. And thus countless souls will have to cover the path through creation again when people no longer remember their soul and therefore cover the long earthly path in vain, so that they are now on the same level of development as before at the beginning of their embodiment as a human being ….

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Nothing can be lost in the universe, because everything is power from God, which is imperishable. This immortality is therefore inviolable as soon as God is recognized as an eternal being. But immortality is also an explanation for the meaning and purpose of all creation, for since nothing is lost, creation must absorb everything that has emerged from God in order to return to Him again after an infinitely long time. And consequently, creation itself must also be something imperishable, even though it is constantly changing …. It may appear to the eye to be transient, but it is essentially imperishable spiritual substance, i.e. power that has emerged from God. God’s will moulded this power into something objective, and His wisdom and love gave this objective a purpose, because all power must change into activity if it is to become effective. Thus creation is also in perpetual activity, it does not remain lifeless but testifies to constant life because it harbours the power emanating from God which drives it to constant activity. Only the activity is apparently inhibited, i.e. reduced to a minimum, in the works of creation which are visible to the human eye as solid form, as rock. Nevertheless, this form is also in constant activity, for it too does not remain in the same state but is in a constant state of change. However, any change is not a transience of the old, but rather it remains in its original substance, only forming itself anew. And even that which is no longer visible to the human eye is still, because that which is of God cannot eternally pass away, but flows back to God again. Yet the fact that the strength becomes form is based on God’s wisdom and love, because thereby the strength in itself increases and thus becomes increasingly more effective in the work of creation, which God’s love allowed to arise in order to receive the strength constantly emanating from Him ….

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People have allowed religion to become a constant source of controversy. Man’s relationship with God, his task on earth and the eternal deity Himself are understood so differently and each school of thought wants to reject the other and be recognized as the only right one. And time and again people have set themselves the task of penetrating this area in terms of research, and the result has been different schools of thought which fight each other again. People believe that they can solve problems with their intellect and disregard the working of the spirit …., i.e. they do not try to put themselves into a state which alone will bring them complete enlightenment. And he will also walk in darkness for as long as he does, because without the enlightenment of the spirit truthful enlightenment is unthinkable. And the more people argue with each other, the more confused their thinking becomes and they are unable to distinguish between truth and error. And that is the time when earthly and spiritual chaos arises from which people can no longer find their way out through their own strength. The pure truth will still be found in secret but when it is brought to humanity it will not recognize it and therefore not accept it. However, as soon as an erroneous opinion tries to break through under the guise of truth, people are willing and accept it. And thus the error spreads quite alarmingly, for the few people who know the truth are ignored and therefore cannot refute the error because they are not offered the opportunity to do so, because those who believe to possess the truth, who presume to investigate with an unenlightened spirit and present their findings to their fellow human beings as truth. And God allows this because people’s will has become weak, which therefore does not desire the pure truth ardently enough so that it is not immune to error either. But as long as the human being errs his soul cannot develop upwards. But this is the real task on earth. Only a striving for truth, for God, allows him to mature spiritually. And love must also be connected with the pursuit of truth. love, however, is likewise hardly taken into consideration, and without love no connection is possible with the one Who is truth Himself and Who alone can distribute the truth. Hence, what is currently being taught to people lacks love and therefore also truth and can therefore never help the human soul to salvation because the spirit from God cannot order the thoughts of people who believe themselves to be called to bring enlightenment to their fellow human beings and have not yet fulfilled any prerequisite which results in the working of the spirit in the human being ….

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Anyone who is able to penetrate the deepest depths of divine wisdom need no longer fear that his soul will be lost, for he is seized by God’s love which irrevocably draws him to itself. And when the human being is granted trials on earth his soul will only turn even more inwards and enter into union with the spirit, which inexorably pushes upwards. And ever greater knowledge is his share, for the spirit from God knows no bounds and the human being constantly draws from the source which offers him divine wisdom. This is God’s great love that He allows the human being to participate in His light while he is still on earth, that He lets the rays of His eternal light fall into the human being’s heart so that it will become bright within him. And light is knowledge, light is divine wisdom, which can never be surpassed and yet remains the same forever …. The truth from God …. Once the light has cast its rays into someone’s heart, he will know no more darkness, for his knowledge cannot be taken from him; it is like the dawning day, which only ever increases in brightness. The walls that prevented the light from entering have been torn down and now the stream of divine love flows inexorably into the human being, who therefore increases in wisdom and therefore also in strength. The body does not always feel the power, but the soul constantly drives the power upwards, and every day brings it progress …. it strives towards the eternal light, it matures under the influence of this light, and it no longer needs to fear a decline, for its desire is eternally only for union with the primordial light …. with God …. And where there is knowledge, there will also be love, for wisdom is inconceivable without love. Knowledge drives man to activity of love, and this in turn increases his knowledge. And God, as eternal love, draws the soul to Himself which lives in love and crowns it with His gift of grace …. He lets them see into the spiritual kingdom while they are still living on earth. And He increases their knowledge of what is outside of earth …. He lets them participate in the eternal glory, He lets them gain insight into the kingdom of peace. And the soul retains its knowledge as long as it still dwells on earth, and it utilizes it in the service of its fellow human beings and also tries to transfer the knowledge to them. For only when the human being is knowledgeable is he in the kingdom of light. And it is God’s will that humanity should become light, that it should strive for brightness in the heart, that it should desire light …. for divine wisdom ….

Amen

Every spiritual question is answered by the knowing powers, for this answer contributes towards the increase of knowledge. And that is why man is to entrust everything that is unclear to him to the knowing powers so that they can now mentally enlighten him. Both the question and the answer are heard in the beyond, and the souls in the beyond are likewise eager and await the answer in order to enrich their knowledge. The form in which the answer is received by the questioner depends on the ability to hear spiritual messages. Everyone could probably hear the answer through the inner voice, but this voice is rarely heeded. But where the question is asked consciously and the answer is received just as consciously, there knowledge can be increased indefinitely, and the souls in the beyond also make use of such an opportunity by asking questions themselves, the answer to which the knowing beings in the beyond convey to a person who is receptive, who writes it down so that such an answer can also be conveyed to fellow human beings. The more inquisitive a person is, the more richly he will be considered, and he alone will never be given information, but countless souls will draw from the fountain of knowledge with the person, as it were. The more consciously a person asks questions or abandons himself to questioning thoughts, the clearer the answer will come to him, for through this questioning he proves his desire for truthful knowledge and this desire will always be satisfied. The questioning person will always be considered, for God wants to hand out the truth, He wants people to become knowledgeable and He will consider everyone who is hungry for knowledge according to his desire. The souls in the beyond likewise eagerly accept knowledge and this signifies spiritual progress for them, which is why they participate in every question and listen to every instruction or answer with keen eagerness and utilize it according to their state of maturity. For they perceive the increased knowledge as a state of happiness and as a constant motivation for their activities in the beyond ….

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Spirit and body have one thing in common, that they want to possess the soul, that they seek to mould it, but in different ways. The body tries to mould the soul according to the world because the world itself seems to be the only thing worth striving for and therefore it tries to transfer its desire to the soul. The spirit, on the other hand, has a different desirable goal; it wants to occupy the spiritual realm and seeks to mould the soul according to this realm; it therefore seeks to shape it in a different way …. according to the divine will. Thus the divine will is opposed to the desire of the body …. The body strives for matter, whereas the spirit is completely removed from matter …. Its will and endeavours are only aimed at aligning itself with the eternal divinity, it only knows one desire, the union with God and the eternally light-filled state. Thus it also tries to determine the soul to join its desire, it tries to induce it to the same will, it draws the soul to itself, so to speak, and thus detaches it from the world, which for the body means giving up its desires, thus overcoming matter, the world, which is the opposite of the spiritual world. If the spirit succeeds in winning the soul for the spiritual kingdom, then the soul has passed its test of earthly life, for this means a turning of the will towards God and a turning away from the one who is lord of the world. The body still belongs to this world but if it joins the desire of the soul, thus willingly yields, if it wants to unite with the spirit, the spiritual substances, of which the body consists, are also ripe for the next moulding, and they cover the course of development in form considerably faster because they have given up their resistance. The spirit in man has overcome the body, and the body has declared itself defeated …. The body has left the soul to the spirit, thus the spirit has taken complete possession of the soul, the soul has united with the spirit. And now all thinking, feeling and willing is only determined by the spirit, and it must therefore be right, for the spirit is part of God and it will always determine the soul to do and think that which corresponds to God’s will. And this is the state the soul should strive for …. in union with the spirit towards God and strive for union with Him in order to seek and find eternal bliss in the contemplation of God ….

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These are the signs of the confusion of human thinking, that everyone believes he is living a God-pleasing way of life and therefore makes no effort to perfect himself. The right way of life must show a certain humility, and the humble person will always strive to become worthy of God’s love and grace; he will never believe that he is as pleasing to God, because humility shows him the great distance between him and God. But anyone who lacks humility is still far from godliness, because he also lacks grace …. The humble person asks for grace, and thus he will also receive it, he asks for God’s help on his path through life, he asks for help to attain maturity of soul, he feels weak and incapable on his own and thus requests God’s grace in prayer …. And God gives His grace to the humble …. But he who is arrogant in spirit believes himself to be close to God without being so, he does not recognize the distance from Him and therefore does not try to reduce it either; he does not see his shortcomings and faults and therefore does not try to remedy them either; and since he does not feel weak, he does not ask for grace either. And so he will come away empty-handed because grace can only be granted to him if he desires it. And that is why there will be no spiritual progress where all self-knowledge is lacking because people do not take their spiritual development seriously. They will not strive for something they believe they possess and they believe they possess it because they are not true and honest with themselves. For if the desire for truth is strongly developed in them, they will give an account of their actions and thoughts to themselves, and they will recognize their shortcomings and mistakes and thus attain humility. For a person becomes humble when he takes a hard look at himself and considers his spiritual poverty …. But then God is also ready with His grace, because it is now consciously requested by the humble person, and only then will he lead a God-pleasing way of life ….

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People carelessly pay no attention to the signs of the time, nothing seems unusual to them, and they accept every happening without realising its significance. And they do not believe the proclamations about the impending natural disaster either, for they think that the time which is mentioned in the Scriptures has not yet come …. They do not accept any kind of explanation because the thought that people of the present time should be the victims is inconvenient to them. Therefore the forthcoming event cannot be made plausible to them either and they will be taken by surprise and be unprepared when the day arrives. And these are the people to whom the Lord says ‘I will come like a thief in the night ….’ They will be fast asleep and will have made no preparations, and their souls will suffer serious hardship when they are recalled from earth. They will not be able to call upon God anymore because the magnitude of the disaster will deprive them of every thought …. God’s love will not let anything happen to humanity without informing them first …. And He warns them a long time in advance yet He will not force people to believe these warnings.

However, anyone who pays attention to the signs will not find it difficult to believe. And anyone who is in contact with God will also feel God’s admonition in his heart. He will become aware of the signs of the time himself and he will try to attain God’s grace, that is, he will appeal for it and commend himself to God’s mercy …. Only a short time separates you humans from this event, and you should use this time so that you can expect it with composure …. You should not entertain the thought that you are perfect and have no need of mercy, you should humbly entrust yourselves to God’s love and always believe that your last hour has come …. you should listen to the admonitions of those who, as representatives of God, bring you His Word; you should know that the hour is not far away and always be ready. And God’s love and mercy will help you during the hours of adversity. He will remember you as you remember Him …. He will spare your life if it is helpful for you, or He will remove you from the earth and grant you a better life in the beyond if you are worthy of it …. But woe to those who approach this hour unprepared and lose their life …. Their fate in the beyond will truly not be an easy one. And God wants to protect people from this by announcing the forthcoming events to them and admonishing them to turn around if their way of life does not correspond to His will. And thereby He will demonstrate the Words of the Holy Scriptures ‘I will come like a thief in the night, therefore watch and pray ….’

Amen

A world of battle will smother love and this signifies the spiritual breakdown of that world. For where love is present there is also peace. Combatants, however, shelter the spark of hatred in their chest and hatred wants to destroy and inflicts countless wounds to the opponent. But since every work of destruction entails the devastation of the divine creation and is therefore a violation of the Creator’s will, God will never be able to sanction such works of destruction, and thus the battle will never correspond to divine will …. unless a battle is waged against blatant heartlessness, for a righteous cause which will be a blessing for the world. Hence, love for one’s neighbour must be the driving force for a battle. Without it people would have to endure suffering through no fault of their own, which a responsible ruler’s sense of justice wants to stop happening. In that case a war is justified, and God will lead him to victory for the sake of these suffering people. Every evil deed will result in evil deeds time and again, and thus a battle evoked without justification will give rise to countless evil deeds again. Once the heartlessness has reached its climax, humanity will be ready for its downfall, for humanity’s conduct is not only directed against their fellow human beings but also against God, by destroying God’s creations. Apart from the dreadful earthly consequences every act of destruction also has inconceivable spiritual results which affect the human race itself. Every work of destruction interferes with divine will insofar as that it destroys the divine order, thus it callously destroys the works which God’s wisdom and love had created, which must therefore understandably have a direct effect on the perpetrators themselves. God is righteous and His punishment will come upon the guilty, and guilty are those people whose actions only ever express heartlessness. Love will never be able to prevail among people who fight each other and aim to cause damage in order to render the other incapable of fighting …. Everything came forth from God’s love; consequently, love was the divine creative power. Lack of love must therefore signify the ruin of what God’s love created …. And thus the heartlessness is directed against God. It is something that God can never approve of and therefore He cannot support a battle which will drive heartlessness to perfection. God is love …. and anything that lacks love is part of God’s adversary.

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The person who exercises an educational ministry and leads the souls entrusted to him astray bears a tremendous responsibility. As soon as he is active as a teacher, he must also be completely convinced of what he is teaching, otherwise he must not transfer his knowledge to others. This is especially true for teachings that relate to spiritual matters, i.e. that are intended to educate the soul. If he is convinced of the truth of these teachings, then he also has the right to defend his conviction. However, in order to be convinced, he must have thought through the teachings himself and taken a stand on them with the full will to stand in the truth. Then he will also be able to justify his educational ministry before God, because he is now acting to the best of his knowledge when he fulfils this ministry. However, as soon as he only passes on knowledge that he himself has received in exactly the same way without being fully convinced of the truth of it, he is guilty of the educated thinking of the people entrusted to him, for he is, as it were, imposing knowledge on them that may be far removed from the truth. But he has the task of watching over their knowledge, he must protect them from error or from teachings that are so unclear that they only confuse their thinking, for this is his office, which he is to administer conscientiously. But he can fulfil his office with peace of mind if he takes refuge in God, if he asks Him for enlightenment and His help, thus entrusting the souls of the people entrusted to him to God so that He may protect them from error or wrong thinking. He must be aware of his responsibility and only want to represent the pure truth, then God will also strengthen his will and his power of realization, and he will only pass on what he can fully affirm, what is therefore regarded by him as truth. And that is why it is of particular importance for a teacher that he intimately connects himself with God and asks Him for His help and blessing, because not only his salvation but also that of the pupils entrusted to him is in danger if divine grace does not make his activity a blessed one, if God does not give him the fullest realization as to whether and when he is in the truth. For one day he will have to answer for himself and he will be called to account for the souls to whom he should proclaim the truth ….

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People cannot measure God’s great love. Everything that happens is based on His love, for everything has the redemption of the spiritual as its goal. But this redemption means light and glory for every single being. God’s love and kindness applies to every creature, and therefore He also wants every creature to be happy one day, He wants it to participate in eternal bliss, and this goal is the reason for every event in the universe. And if people wanted to imagine God’s great love and kindness as their motivation they would also bear suffering more devotedly, they would realize that not God but they themselves are the cause of the suffering which oppresses them as long as they walk on earth, for people’s way of life also determines the degree of suffering and hardship. Only those who are convinced of God’s love accept all suffering and trials from His hands patiently and humbly. And as soon as man lives in love, the love of God is also comprehensible to him. God’s goodness lasts forever …. And He will never let a being fall which has failed against Him, but it pities Him to see that mankind deprives itself of happiness and peace; and He therefore seeks to change them so that they may come into the blessing of all that His love and goodness has created for the redemption of the spiritual. And therefore God is constantly ready to help, He wants to assist the spiritual substance which has become weak through its own fault so that it will free itself from the bonds, from the captivity of the spirit, and He will come to meet it with His grace …. And this grace will never ever run dry because His kindness and love will never ever come to an end, and even if eternities pass, He will not leave any of His creatures to their own devices but will always and forever be concerned that it will find its way into the father’s house and return to the eternal love from Whom it originated ….

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God’s love for humanity will not diminish as long as the earth exists, and time and again humanity will be offered the opportunity to redeem itself on this earth. The length of time this redemption requires is entirely up to the human will, how it attunes itself to God’s love. If he recognizes it, he will also strive to attain it and thus do everything that God tells people to do. And by fulfilling the divine will, souls mature and reduce the great distance between themselves and God. God loves His living creations, the human beings, and wants Him to be recognized as a loving being Who does not abandon anything that originates in Him. As soon as a person realizes this, he lives his life consciously and also tries to push his fellow human beings into the circuit of divine love, and he himself tries to live a life of love because he knows that only through love is it possible to conform to God and that this conformity is absolutely necessary in order to acquire God’s love. To live in the love of God means an increased reception of strength and an unceasing ascent upwards, for the love of God draws to itself everything that does not defend itself, i.e. resists. God’s love for humanity is so great that truly everything would be seized by it if it did not offer this resistance. Yet God’s love is only effective if it is not resisted. It is therefore God’s endeavour to weaken all resistance in order to then completely remove it. But the human being offers resistance as long as he still has a desire for the world, i.e. as long as he does not give himself undividedly to his spiritual task. For so long he can only receive the life force that flows to every being as long as it remains on earth. But the power of love can never be imparted to him, because it would not be utilized properly, therefore misused, as long as the striving of man is not directed towards God alone. Every turning towards the world means resistance against the eternal divinity, i.e. exposing this power of love at his disposal. God’s love is therefore the only thing worth striving for in earthly life, for with the reception of God’s strength of love his strength increases immeasurably and the human being will be able to accomplish everything because God Himself can work as soon as the human being unconditionally hands himself over to Him, thus he himself offers his love to God and is then seized by God’s love, which will never let him fall. Time and again God approaches people, offering them His love, and time and again He tries to awaken in them the awareness of being inseparably united with this love. Once this awareness has awakened in man, he himself does everything to show himself worthy of this eternal bond. He desires God’s flow of love and pushes towards it; and God increases everything longing for Him through Himself, He gives strength where strength is required, and thus His love always expresses itself as strength which masters everything …. which breaks the soul’s resistance if the human being’s will is turned towards God, but which also signifies an overcoming of earthly hardship for the human being. For where God’s love has taken hold of a human child, it walks the path of earthly life with His support. It overcomes matter, it despises the world and only strives for complete union with God …. with the eternal love that was its origin ….

Amen

God created what is presented to your eye out of great love. He brought it into being for the wisest purpose …. His will became active and His power expressed itself in the emergence of creation. Thus love, wisdom, will and power can be recognized in all His works of creation, for love, wisdom, will and power are the origin of all created things. They are the essence of Him who is the creator of all things. God is love, God is wisdom, God is will and power …. What emerges from God, what His creative spirit realizes as thought, must correspond to a purpose, otherwise it would not be wise …. It must be a labour of love, i.e. it must have something pleasing as its goal …. and it must have the spirit of God in it, which is will and power. Thus what is created must harbour something essential that strives towards a happy goal. And creation must be a means to an end, a means to achieve a happy state. And God’s infinite love wants to prepare this happy state for the beingness, because the beingness had once forfeited this state and God’s love wants to offer it the opportunity to regain His love and with it eternal bliss. And thus God allowed will and strength to become active and He formed things with the wisest, most loving care, which are now the abode of the spiritual substance and the means for its constant higher development ….

Amen

The ultimate purpose of creation is to draw closer to God …. God seeks to lead back to Himself everything that once emanated from Him as power but is permanently subject to His will. The will of the beingness in creation is still directed against Him, and only when it bends its will under the divine will has the harmonization with God taken place and the purpose of creation been fulfilled. But the harmonization with God results in eternal life, which is a state in everlasting fullness of light and strength, a state of happiness and eternal glory, which God’s great love had originally intended for it, but which also presupposes a certain degree of perfection, which the beingness must have reached through its own will. God’s works of creation give the being abundant opportunity to develop to perfection. And God’s love never leaves it without support, but the being’s own will also has to become active without fail, the being has to decide for itself and therefore cover a probationary period where all freedom is given to it and it can therefore also decide in freedom of will which final goal seems desirable to it; for despite His greater than great love God does not force any being to belong to Him but leaves it complete freedom of will, but still tries to reveal itself to them that their will decides in favour of Him in order to secure them a life in glory. For His love does not want to let anything get lost that originated in Him. And His wisdom recognizes the right and only purpose-fulfilling means which allowed His will and His power to become something visible …. He created heaven and earth for the final redemption of the spiritual, which had become unfree beings through its former rebellion against God Himself, so that it can now regain its freedom ….

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The wonders of creation should constantly stimulate man’s thoughts and direct his mind towards God, for it is God Himself Who speaks to him through creation if he wants to hear His voice. Wherever the human eye looks, God’s activity can be recognized, for no human being is able to create the same thing on his own which creation constantly brings before his eyes. And when man thinks about it, he listens to the language of God, for the results of his thinking are His answer. God Himself reveals Himself to people through creation, i.e., in all works of creation the working of a power can be clearly recognized, Which is supremely wise and therefore is to be thought of as a supremely perfect being. Thus, as soon as creation awakens or strengthens faith in the eternal deity, the human being has listened to God’s revelations; he has gained the firm conviction that the creator is a being of supreme perfection Which is in the closest connection with creation. And this conviction is faith …. Creation is therefore suitable to make man deeply faithful, but he must let it speak to him. He must look at every work of creation with the will to affirm the one Who brought it into being. And this will helps him to recognize, information is given to him, and thus the eternal deity expresses Himself and informs him of His reign and activity. This can happen mentally as soon as the human being turns his thoughts questioningly towards creation …. But he can also be instructed by a fellow human being to whom God reveals Himself in direct form for the purpose of spreading the truth among his fellow human beings. But God speaks to all people through creation, and all people can understand this language if they are seriously willing to listen to the creator …. It is therefore always dependent on the will of man as to whether he recognizes God or not. The possibility is constantly given to him, for God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence are revealed in all things. However, His revelations need not be heeded because God does not force the human being’s will to seriously concern himself with something he does not desire. But then his knowledge of God will also be deficient, he will not be able to affirm God with conviction because he has never taken a stand on it. It is therefore never a rejection on God’s part if a person finds it more difficult to believe, but always only human fault, for he disregards the opportunities available to him to become a believer because he does not want to see God where He reveals Himself …. in creation, which is an obvious testimony of a creative, loving and wise power ….

Amen

Take note of this, that you are in the greatest danger if you do not believe My word. You have an arduous path to walk and I want to strengthen you for this path. Without this strengthening you will lose yourselves, you will be powerless and let yourselves be driven wherever the enemy of your souls wants you to go, you will not be able to put up any resistance against him, for you are unable to do anything without Me, without My word, and if you reject it you reject Me Myself, for it is I Who comes to you in the word because I know that you are in danger. But how can I help you and give you strength if you flee from this strength? …. You will have to fight unspeakably and your adversary will gain the upper hand, for without Me you are weak. And what you have to face requires all your strength of faith; you have to stand so firmly in faith that nothing will be able to shake it. But how will you strengthen your faith if not through My word? …. What hardship you are facing and what difficult times lie ahead of you …. For this has become necessary for the sake of humanity, which has almost given up faith in Me and is to find it again through suffering and hardship. And for this coming time of adversity I offer you the means of strengthening by revealing Myself in the word, by drawing close to you Myself and letting My word flow to you directly …. And you do not respect this gift of My love, you have no desire for it because you are still too much in the world. My word rejects the world, but you do not yet want to surrender the world …. My word teaches you to love your neighbour, but you only love yourselves and have no heart for your fellow human being in need. You are only tempted by the world, which you can grasp; but you have no understanding for the gifts that come from heaven, or you only want to utilize them in an earthly way, or you ignore them. And you jeopardize yourselves with it, and thus you will lack My strength when you need it because you ignore the warnings and admonitions beforehand. You will get into great distress and no longer know a way out. You will lose the ground beneath you and no longer be able to call upon Me because the forthcoming events will be of incomprehensible force and you will already have lacked faith in a kind, righteous and almighty God Who can turn all suffering into joy and Who can give you whatever you need. For you do not listen to My word, which announced the coming events to you long beforehand. You reject Me Myself with My word and I cannot come to you until you call Me …. And therefore I warn you once again …. listen to My voice, to My word, and believe that you need it for the salvation of your soul as well as for your earthly life, for difficult times still lie ahead of you which you can only overcome with My support, with My strength, which flows to you in the word which emanates from Me and is imparted to you through a human being. For I have blessed this word with My strength and I will protect those who accept My word as I have promised ….

Amen

The living connection with God will never bring untruth to the human being and therefore every utterance of the divine spirit can be believed. The gift of foresight is also a manifestation of the divine spirit, so this must also be recognized as truth. The closer the connection with God is established, the more clearly a person will be able to predict the events of the future, and he himself will have no doubt that these predictions will be fulfilled. God’s plan has been fixed since eternity and every event is the result of people’s will applied correctly or incorrectly. And that is why the things of the future are also clearly visible to the spirit in man, and he is able to make it known to man through the soul if he has the order to do so from God. Both the dream and the inner voice become conscious to the human being so that he can convey the event to his fellow human beings. But only a few people recognize in it an announcement of the coming event. And the foresighted person is rarely recognized, i.e. his announcements are rarely believed. People should be made aware of this so that they can prepare themselves so that events do not take them by surprise. He wants to give them the opportunity to organize their life so that they can surrender it at any time if it is God’s will. And so He presents them with the possibility of an end so that they seriously tackle the work on their soul. This is the purpose of the announcements, thus only love for people determines God to announce through a willing person what His wisdom has decided since eternity. And thus He announces to them that He will intervene in the chaos of devastation in a short time, that He will take care of people who are on the brink of destruction, who will be put to severe hardship by human will and who deem their end to have come …. And God will prove to the world that His will is stronger, that He can render people’s will ineffective and that He will intervene if humanity is in danger of completely succumbing to demonic influence. He will reveal Himself because they no longer pay attention to Him and therefore He announces Himself to humanity in advance so that they will recognize Him …. And this time is no longer far away …. A wrestling of nations is approaching its end, but in a different way than people expect. For God’s will is decisive and His intervention puts an end to the battle, which takes on ever more destructive forms and therefore requires God’s intervention ….

Amen

People must realize that earthly life is only a means to an end, but never an end in itself. Only this realization spurs them on to strive to reach the goal for the sake of which man walks on earth. Consequently, the belief in the soul’s survival after death must be conveyed to him, the immortality of the soul must be explained to him, even though this cannot be proven to the human being. Knowledge must be made accessible to him which makes the doctrine of immortality understandable to him, so that it now becomes easy for him to believe even without proof. Only then does he regard the earth as a means to an end and orientates his whole life towards survival after death. Only this thought allows him to look at earthly goods with different eyes, for he now learns to assess their transience and focusses his attention on the things that last for eternity. And what he now does, he brings into connection with the life beyond. As soon as the human being believes that life has no end with death he thinks about what kind of life after death may be; thus he sends his spirit upwards, i.e. to regions which are the soul’s abode after the end of earthly life. And in these regions he is now given information, namely mentally, so that the human being now full of conviction regards himself as a traveller on earth whose course of life will soon be over and he tries to make productive use of this short time on earth. The belief in immortality is therefore inevitably necessary if the human being is to begin the work on his soul, just as this belief also prevents the human being from living a purely worldly life. However, there is no irrefutable proof of the soul’s survival. This, too, is a teaching that can never be proven, but which can become the deepest conviction through diligent reflection, just as everything spiritual is not to be proven, so that the free will of man is not restricted and faith is therefore an unconstrained one ….

Amen

Only spiritual gifts can be offered from the realm of the spiritual, and so it is understandable that this gift brings no earthly advantage but only brings salvation to the human being’s soul. Spiritual gifts are nevertheless more valuable because they have eternal value. It effectively opens the gates to the spiritual kingdom for the person who accepts this gift and organizes his earthly life accordingly. The spiritual kingdom, however, is the true home of that which the human embodiment has requested for the purpose of its maturing. And this embodiment as a human being is only a temporary state. But the real life only begins in the spiritual kingdom, where no earthly shackles oppress the soul anymore, where light and freedom replace the darkness and lack of freedom in earthly life. The inhabitants of the spiritual kingdom know about the unfree state of the human being on earth and they endeavour to help the human being attain a state full of light, a stay in the spiritual kingdom. However, the human being’s soul must spiritualize itself, i.e. seek contact with the spiritual within itself. It cannot do this on its own and therefore the spiritual beings assist it by imparting strength to it in the form of spiritual teachings …. thus offering it gifts of the spirit which are nourishment for the soul, so that the soul thereby matures and joins the spiritual beyond itself more and more. And it acquires the right to the spiritual kingdom by seeking to follow everything that is recommended to it through the spiritual gifts, by living as it is advised, by thus forming itself according to these spiritual gifts. The human being has to walk the earthly path, there is no other way to reach the goal and there is no other means to mature on earth than the supply of the divine word, which is therefore offered to people as a spiritual gift. This word has to result in the soul’s maturity, for the spiritual beings transfer the strength from God to people, which they constantly want to receive from Him and pass on in their love, because this signifies an exhilarating activity for them, to be able to hand out delicious gifts to those who need them. But people on earth all need this supply of strength from God, and this is why God also wants to convey it to all people, this is why He tries to make His word accessible to them through a mediator …. He instructs the beings of the spiritual kingdom to instruct people who offer themselves to God as mediators so that through them His divine word will be spread on earth, thus strength and light will be conveyed to all those who desire strength and light. These people now receive spiritual gifts from the spiritual kingdom, and the earth with its possessions loses its significance for them; they flee from the earthly kingdom as soon as they receive spiritual gifts, and thus they mature themselves and also help their fellow human beings to mature their souls by imparting the spiritual knowledge to them as well if they desire it. And the more willing people are to listen to the spiritual teachings and shape their lives accordingly, the more the spiritual kingdom will spread throughout the world. But to the same extent that they increase in spiritual wealth, they must also despise the world and its goods, for both together can never be given to people. They must decide in favour of the spiritual kingdom or the earthly world, and they will be considered according to their decision ….

Amen

No force on earth is able to stop or avert the events that must affect people for the sake of their spiritual development. For all human will is powerless in the face of divine will, and thus it will come to pass as God has determined since eternity. And only he who bows to God’s will, who accepts everything from His hand in a spirit of submission, will derive benefit for his soul. Spiritual development continues to decline and people only walk the earth as living beings who fulfil their functions but have severed all connection with their creator. They are only concerned with collecting earthly successes and disregard their actual task, the higher development of the spirit. Thus they make unjustified use of the vital energy, since they do not utilize it in accordance with divine will but strive for and accomplish things with it which only mean an increase of matter, which they are actually meant to overcome. Consequently, people must be deprived of the opportunity to live, for they abuse the grace of embodiment on earth granted to them. A spiritual low is to be noted, which hardly lets expect an upliftment; and this low is cause for a great upheaval on earth, which extends to all areas. People will be torn from their accustomed lives and thrust into completely new circumstances …. they will have to struggle with the greatest difficulties and suffer unspeakably. And this changed way of life can have a beneficial effect on them if they seriously think about it and try to fathom the cause. However, all suffering and misery can also be in vain if a person rebels and only endeavours to restore the old earthly way of life. Then God’s mission will have been in vain for him and there will be no further opportunity on earth to further his spiritual development. But earthly power can do nothing against this powerful event, it is powerless in the face of divine intervention and must bow to God’s will. Consequently, all will be affected, great and small, poor and rich …. all will have to recognize the transience of the earthly, no-one will be able to protect themselves from it and no-one will find help anywhere other than from God …. And those who are highly respected on earth will call for help just as much as the poorest and most unappreciated on earth. For all people are equal before God, and He seeks to win everyone for Himself through His intervention. He wants to show everyone the way to Himself and that is why He allows everyone to come into trouble. He takes everything from people because He wants to make them weak and helpless, for only in weakness does he find the path to God and only helplessness allows him to pray. And God can only come to the aid of those who pray because they consciously desire His help. God knows no other goal than to direct everything towards Himself, and He truly uses the right means to achieve this goal, yet He leaves people free and therefore the success will not be very great, for the majority of people do not recognize God’s loving hand but only see the work of destruction which, however, has been caused by humanity itself having become unloving, they only see the decay of earthly things but not themselves as the cause of it. And the earth will still exist for a little while so that humanity will find itself again and return to God. (Yet it will never perish, it will absorb all living beings,) It will be reshaped and harbour new living beings again, it will carry the people who withstand the final test and, as children of God, have acquired the right to revive the new earth …. The earth will end a period of development, it will once again harbour the spiritual beings distant from God in the new works of creation, and a new period of redemption will begin, as it has been destined since eternity ….

Amen

The will of the father in heaven is that His servants completely abandon themselves to Him, that they allow themselves to be guided without inner resistance, that they carry out everything they feel urged to do, and that they commend themselves to Him and His grace at every hour. The spirit in them will guide them and they can always be assured of divine protection. For the hour of work is coming for His servants, and this hour shall find them prepared. Only those who connect with God daily and hourly in fervent prayer will have the strength to stand up for Him when this becomes necessary before the world. He will also recognize God in the raging of the elements and his faith will become strong when he hears this voice of God. There is only a short time left and you who want to serve God should make use of it. You should work on yourselves and never miss an opportunity to do a labour of love. For by doing so you will become stronger, because the power of divine love will then flow to you and the clearest thoughts will dictate that you act as God wants you to. The deeper you are in love, the less doubtful you will be about what you should or should not do. Let everything come to you and always trust in your heavenly father, Who will guide your every step as soon as you entrust yourselves to His guidance. The coming time needs strong representatives of His word, and these must themselves be deep in faith in order to be able to devote themselves courageously and undauntedly to the service of God. But as soon as the hour has come, you will also noticeably realize the power of God, for you will act and speak without restraint and also fear no earthly power. For the spirit within you will drive you to do so, and you will heed his voice more than the voices of the world. It is a great task which you are to fulfil and yet its fulfilment is unspeakably necessary for the salvation of fellow human beings’ souls, for if the divine word is not made accessible to them through the mouth of a human being they will face spiritual ruin, for they will no longer seek the word where it was previously offered to them. The word shall be proclaimed to them elsewhere, they shall hear it from the mouth of a human being who has received it directly from God, and this word shall appear more acceptable to them as soon as they are willing to listen to it. And for this God needs His representatives on earth to convey His word to people after the great upheaval which humanity will soon experience. For everything corresponds to God’s wise plan and everything happens as it has been destined since eternity. And so the bearers of His word will also have to be ready to fulfil the task they are given with zeal; they themselves will need great strength which, however, will also be at their disposal if they are willing to serve the lord. For God Himself wants to speak to them through a human being and lead them back to the right path which leads to Him, to the eternal home opposite ….

Amen

Renouncing the world requires willpower, i.e. divine support, if the human will itself is too weak, i.e. if the world is still tempting for him. It is a grace acquired through suffering and renunciation if man can easily detach himself from the world and its goods, i.e. from matter. But this grace must be striven for, i.e. man must want to remain untouched by the attractions of this world. This can happen consciously; but even then this will is present when the human being abstains from all desire, when he resignedly submits to the renunciations which are intended for him by fate. The temptations will approach him again and again, and then the conscious will must set in to abstain from earthly pleasures, then his willpower will become stronger and stronger and he will have become the conqueror of matter. To the same extent that he renounces the world, he matures in his soul, for he will always try to compensate for the lack of earthly pleasures with spiritual goods …. If he has not yet consciously striven for spiritual good, he will become thoughtful about the world, about the earth, its purpose and the purpose of his earthly life. And he will easily penetrate into spiritual territory, because no earthly fetters hold him back from the flight upwards, into the spiritual kingdom. And what is now offered to him outweighs the earthly joy many times over …. What he previously gave up with renunciation is now no longer attractive to him, and his desire is only for spiritual goods, the possession of which makes him unspeakably happy and lets him dwell in completely different spheres, even though he is still on earth. But both goods can never be received by man at the same time. The earth and the spiritual kingdom are two separate worlds, which can only make man happy by renouncing one of them. The spiritual world demands complete renunciation of what is desirable on earth in order to then lavish man with goods that are incomparably more valuable than earthly goods. As long as the human being is still tempted by things of this earthly world, he is not yet receptive to what is offered to him from the spiritual kingdom. Therefore, he must first detach himself, i.e. free himself, from earthly desires …. he must be still in God, no longer desire anything from his earthly life, he must trustingly surrender to God and receive from His hand what God wants to offer him …. Then he will be able to receive spiritual goods according to the strength of his desire. For as soon as a person is willing to give earthly goods, he is free from self-love, which has changed into unselfish love for his neighbour, he is willing to give because he no longer demands anything for himself. Thus the renunciation of the goods of the world will always result in an activity of love, for as soon as he receives a spiritual gift it urges him to pass on spiritual as well as earthly goods, because he is now in God’s activity of love and cannot help but likewise work in love. And therefore the human being must constantly fight against the temptations of the world, i.e. he must try to overcome the attractions of the world, because only then can he establish the bond with the spiritual world, which now brings him goods that will also last in eternity ….

Amen

Blessed are those who entrust themselves to Me in full faith. I want to assign them the task of being redemptively active already on earth. I want to introduce them to the truth and send them My spirit, I want to spur them on to utmost activity of love so that My spirit can always and constantly work in them, I want to equip them with knowledge and train them to become true representatives of My word, to become fighters for My name and wise teachers of their fellow human beings. I want to equip them with all gifts so that they can stand up for Me and My word and I want to give them the strength to also work in My stead. Yet for this I require the deepest faith in Me, in My love, wisdom and omnipotence …. Only the fully believing person can receive this power from Me to the extent that it is necessary in order to accomplish things that are beyond the strength of a human being. The power of faith accomplishes everything, and therefore faith must be so strong that My power passes into the person who stands up for Me and he now works instead of Me. It is the gifts of the spirit which make the person fully believing, it is My word which stimulates the person to increased activity of love, and therefore My word alone is able to bring faith to such strength that I Myself can work through the person, for anyone who has My word and lives accordingly …. who listens to Me and endeavours to live a life of love will be enlightened by My spirit and then he will also recognize Me as the most powerful, wisest and most loving being …. And to recognize means to believe …. He who has recognized Me believes in Me and his faith will never waver …. And I need such faith if a person wants to work for Me on earth and help redeem the souls of his fellow human beings. It is a task that requires love and perseverance, yet anyone who is devoted to Me because he believes in Me will not tire of working for Me and love will spur him on to help where help is needed. And there is great need on earth because people no longer recognize Me, they no longer believe in Me. If faith is to be brought back to them, then they must be taught. They must be offered knowledge that slowly leads them back to faith. They have to be taught the truth, because truth alone can guide a person into realization, and the truth has to be offered to them with love so that it does not arouse their will to reject …. People have to be made to think and admonished to love, and anyone who follows these admonitions will now also learn to recognize what he previously rejected …. he will learn to believe in a creator Who approaches people in His love in order to help them …. This task is of such great importance that I bless everyone who undergoes it and is willing to work for Me as a representative on earth. Countless souls are in need and can be guided correctly through the love of a fellow human being who is active on My behalf and fully entrusts himself to My guidance, for I direct and guide him so that he can fulfil his mission on earth in accordance with My will ….

Amen

Man will always have to struggle as long as he remains on earth. No ascent upwards can take place effortlessly, for this is the destiny of the spiritual being in the last embodiment as a human being, that he has to assert himself in the face of opposition, thus reach his goal by fighting. A life without struggle will not result in spiritual progress, therefore the human being should also recognize the possibility of spiritual higher development in an existence rich in struggles and opposition, he should not weaken but assert himself, thus overcome all resistance, only then can one speak of a successful earthly life. Earthly success is worthless, but if the soul achieves success through these hardships and struggles then it has gained much for eternity, then it has passed the test of earthly life, which is the only purpose of earthly existence. But the human being always has God’s grace at his disposal, which helps him to victoriously overcome every battle. And consequently, life need not be very difficult despite struggle and resistance if the human being requests God’s grace, for then he will receive the strength to overcome all opposition. As soon as he walks his earthly path with God, no struggle is too difficult for him; he masters all obstacles and constantly ascends in his spiritual development. For God imposes nothing on man that is insurmountable for him. He gives him His help in equal measure if the human being desires it; He carries the burden for him if He is asked for it; He is always ready to help if the human being calls upon Him. Thus man must stand in faith, for faith alone determines him to call upon God …. But if faith is weak, then prayer will not be sent to Him with full confidence either, and God can only consider the person according to the depth of his faith. Even undoubted faith must be prayed for if the person does not feel strong enough; a constant struggle for strong faith must begin and prayer for God’s grace must support this struggle …. And God will not let a pleading earthly child call in vain …. He guides the human being such that his faith will be strengthened, although he will not remain without struggle, for his will shall be strengthened to resist, because he can only mature spiritually when the will overcomes all resistance it is given ….

Amen

Free yourselves from the bonds of the world and you will achieve the greatest success, for what the world offers you only lasts for a short time, but then you will recognize your shortcomings, for you have only lived for the world and have no other success to report than to have stood in worldly honour. A life on earth in limited circumstances, a life of simplicity and unpretentiousness, on the other hand, can bring you spiritual goods of incalculable value. You always have to remind yourselves that earth is only a short time of preparation for the actual life in eternity, you have to consider that you cannot take any of the earthly goods with you, that reputation and fame are invalid in view of death, that earthly knowledge is worthless in eternity. You must also consider that the body passes away and with it the comforts it desired …. Only the soul remains, whose state corresponds to the pursuit of spiritual possessions on earth …. And if you go along on earth in utmost unpretentiousness and think of your soul at the same time, then you are to be called abundant when you enter the beyond, for only now does life on earth have an effect. And this state is of eternal duration as soon as it is a state of light, but it means endless agonies for the soul which refrained from spiritual endeavour on earth and only strived for earthly success, earthly well-being and earthly wealth. As soon as the world still entices you, as soon as you expect success from it, this will always happen at the expense of the soul, for where the soul earnestly strives and struggles for perfection, there the desire for the world dies …. Where the soul seeks God and wants to live to please Him, the pleasures of the world are ignored. This is the right life on earth, although man should fulfil his duty, i.e. use his vitality for the benefit of his fellow human beings, as it is the divine will. For God has given every human being his task for earthly life, the fulfilment of which contributes to the attainment of maturity of soul, so that love for one’s neighbour is the driving force and the human being is willing to place himself and his strength at the service of his neighbour. Increased enjoyment of life, however, reduces the soul’s success, for spiritual striving ignores the world, but worldly pleasures make spiritual striving impossible. And therefore choose and decide what you deem more precious, earthly possessions, wealth and reputation and an eternal life in darkness or an unnoticed earthly life in simplicity, which you use to shape your soul in order to then be able to enter a light-filled beyond, which will richly compensate you for all privations …. People only think about the present, and they try to gain everything from the present, and yet life on earth passes by quickly and they are faced with eternity, which they could shape into a marvellous one for themselves if they did not value the present, the time on earth, so highly. Therefore, try to free yourselves from what the world offers you …. For it is vain dazzle, it is poison for your soul and a constant obstacle to your soul’s work. Seek God alone in this world so that you will have found Him when you enter that world which is the real life for the soul. For God is your bliss, and His love seizes you who, for His sake, disregard the earth’s goods ….

Amen

The spiritual eye recognizes the processes in the spiritual kingdom and can therefore also see the beings’ activity, that is, it can gain an overview of the activity of those beings which extends both to earth as well as to the creations outside of earth. Yet only rarely does the human being on earth have the ability to see with spiritual eyes because this requires a high degree of maturity. And this is why people usually have a completely wrong idea of the beyond, of the kingdom which is outside of earth and which receives the souls of those who have ended their earthly life. And because their knowledge is inadequate they form a wrong idea, for the knowledgeable person realizes that the spiritual kingdom also makes demands on its inhabitants, only the activity is different from that on earth. And as soon as he would be able to see spiritually he would also be able to recognize the nature of the activity and explain to his fellow human beings what the activity of the beings in the beyond consists of. But divine love nevertheless wants to inform people of it, it wants to impart knowledge to them which is intended to contribute towards eager activity of love on earth. For this activity in the beyond is likewise an extremely busy activity of love. The spiritual kingdom harbours more or less God-connected and God-distant beings which live a life full of light or without light in eternity …. they are beings who constantly enjoy bliss or lead a pitiful life in agonizing poverty. And the spiritual being full of light tries to change the latter state in order to likewise lead the beings of darkness to the state of happiness. And this endeavour requires an extremely lively activity, a constant work of love in untiring patience and perseverance. An activity like on earth is out of the question, because the spiritual kingdom is not a material world, it is only a world of thoughts and wishes, it is a spiritual world where nothing physical, visible or tangible exists, but everything is only present in the thought world of the being and the thought is again the epitome of the love power from God flowing towards the being. It is a rich knowledge possessed by beings whose fullness of light testifies to their union with God. And this knowledge also constitutes the being’s state of happiness, for through knowledge everything is bright, light and clear. The state of darkness is therefore a state of ignorance, which depresses the being inconceivably, so that the light-filled being takes pity on it and wants to help the being of darkness. On earth the loving human being alleviates his fellow human being’s hardship with earthly gifts, in the beyond such gifts are no longer possible, and thus only spiritual gifts can be offered to the being in need, which suffers due to its lack of knowledge. Thus only a mental transfer can take place, and this is the activity of the beings in the beyond, that they try to increase the thought material of the beings without light and direct it into such channels that this thought material corresponds to truth. And this can only happen through perpetual teaching, through a transfer of that which gives joy to the giving being itself …. through a passing on of divine strength to the completely powerless beings which desire strength ….

Amen

The belief that the souls rest after death is only justified in so far as immature souls remain in a state of complete inactivity due to lack of strength. However, this is not a condition of comfortable rest but a state of torment, confinement and helplessness and therefore not a condition worth striving for. The souls in the beyond are only permitted to be active in a certain state of maturity when they receive constant strength to work. But then they use this strength without restriction. However, since their activity does not depend on earthly matter it also has to be different than the work on earth; it cannot be compared to the latter since the conditions in the spiritual realm which require or permit an action are entirely different. There is a steady flow of teaching and passing on of spiritual knowledge, it is a purely spiritual process which bestows much happiness and bliss on the giving souls and reduces the receiving souls’ torment by becoming recipients of strength …. It is indeed a labour of love but it can only be compared to earthly activity while the souls in their state of darkness still believe themselves to live on earth, where, due to their own desires, they create imaginary surroundings and in this imagination also have to perform kind deeds.

However, the more enlightened the soul becomes the further it distances itself from earth in its thoughts and now its actions no longer depend on earthly matter, not even in its imagination. The work of these souls in the beyond, in the spiritual realm, thus consists of purely spiritually conveying their received knowledge. Every giving and strength-receiving soul has entrusted protégées on earth or in the beyond for which it cares lovingly with tireless dedication. It has to try to mentally guide its protégées into the truth, it has to influence their thoughts and thus create clarity but without forcing the will of those souls, and this requires immense patience and love. Because two completely isolated beings, who can act and think entirely independently, are facing each other and thus correct thinking may not be forcefully transmitted if the still immature spirit is not to be prevented from gaining an equally high degree of maturity. Spiritual knowledge has to be given to uninformed souls in a way that it is accepted without resistance and awakens their longing for more gifts. The receiving being consequently has to accept it entirely voluntarily, only then will the transmitted knowledge become strength and enlighten. And this act of transmission is an effort which can only be performed with love because it is usually rather laborious.

But the state of a soul condemned to inactivity is so pitiful that the beings of light constantly try to help them, that they willingly accept the most arduous work to release these souls from their situation. However, on the other hand it adds to their happiness when their labour of love is successful because this work draws unimaginable circles, since every receiving being in turn will pass on its knowledge in the awakened urge to likewise help the souls of darkness and thus do redeeming work ….

Amen

Life and death, becoming and passing away …. is the eternal cycle according to God’s wise plan. Only the spiritually enlightened person realizes the great mystery that finds its solution in this eternal cycle. What is must pass away in order to become again, and again and again things are formed anew, because an eternal existence in the material world is not possible. And what is must pass away because it is still imperfect, and it must arise again in order to become more perfect. For only the outer shell disintegrates, but what the shell harbours is spiritual, i.e. imperishable, which escapes the shell in order to enliven a new shell. And this spiritual must become perfect …. This is the basis of all becoming and passing away. And that is why nothing in the material world can remain unchanged, for it harbours nothing perfect within itself, since it only came into being in order to offer the imperfect the opportunity to become perfect. Once the spiritual has reached the degree of perfection, it can leave the material world, the earth, and enter the spiritual realm. Becoming and passing away is therefore necessary for the higher development of the spiritual, and that is why all passing away should be welcomed and all becoming and arising should make people happy …. The passing away of every form means an overcoming of it for the spiritual hidden within, and overcoming is victory …. If the human being has come to this realization then nothing frightens him anymore, then he also only sees death as a bridge into the spiritual kingdom. For now the spiritual, the soul, leaves its last shell in order to be able to enter the spiritual kingdom carefree. But one thing must have preceded …. a conscious striving for spiritual maturity during life on earth. As soon as man’s gaze is directed upwards, as soon as he knows the meaning and purpose of embodiment on earth, he consciously strives upwards. He wants to become perfect as soon as he has recognized God and knows about his outcome and his goal. And for him death means overcoming the last form on earth, from which the soul now finally escapes and therefore also from the material world. The shell passes away, but the spiritual awakens to new life, to a life that lasts forever …. (17.11.1942) But people can also lead a life unconscious of the purpose, and this through their own fault …. as soon as they value matter too highly and thereby stifle every spiritual thought within themselves which would make them realize their actual task on earth. Then they no longer use their last external form for the purpose of maturing the soul. And then death is the end of their development on earth, and the upward development in all other works of creation comes to a standstill in this last phase of earthly life, a standstill occurs in the development …. And then the entry into the spiritual kingdom is not an awakening to eternal life but a state of death, a state of lifelessness is the soul’s fate from now on. Becoming and passing away on earth has come to an end for this spiritual being, it has gone through all stages in always constant higher development, but in the stage as man it has failed; it has interrupted the development itself because this stage had given it free will and man abused free will. And then, understandably, entry into the spiritual kingdom must mean great torment and disappointment for him, for only the perfect is entitled to eternal bliss ….

Amen

Only a few people realise the seriousness of the time, and therefore the coming events can only be made plausible to a few. As long as they merely strive for the well-being of their body they will only pay attention to happenings which are related to it and cannot and will not understand a change of world events caused by spiritual urgency. For spiritual experiences are unfamiliar to them and all such references are deemed insignificant and unimportant, if not entirely wrong, by them. To announce the coming happenings to them at present will have little success and yet, they, too, shall be warned so that no-one will live to see the day in complete ignorance. For what they do not want to believe as yet can suddenly appear credible to them and motivate them to direct their mind towards God and call upon Him in distress. Spiritual thoughts are often inconvenient to a person since they only undermine his earthly life; as a result, he discards them when they surface and thus he cannot come to realisation either. As soon as a fellow human being wants to inform him and convey spiritual gifts to him he declines or ignores the gift. And thus he will not use the time which still separates him from the great natural event, so it will take him by surprise and completely bewilder him. And yet he cannot be helped in any other way but by mentioning the momentous change even though he is not fully capable or willing to take it in. For even the certainty that the prophesy will fulfil itself can already lead the person to sudden realisation.

God’s love comes to meet every person, and He sends his admonitions and warnings to everyone, for He knows people’s weaknesses and wants to help them when they are in trouble. But most of the time people won’t let themselves be helped because they don’t think they need it. And yet they suffer immense hardship for they have no inner contact with God, they have distanced themselves from Him and therefore won’t listen to His voice which is speaking to them through a human mouth. They do not recognise it as God’s voice and thus it will not affect them because they close themselves to its effect. Every day they live on earth in ignorance of spiritual life is a lost day and there are not many more, for the great earthly adversity has not yet come to an end and humanity is facing a bigger one still, which is inevitable for the sake of people’s spiritual development. It will cost many people’s lives and bring their opportunity for development on earth to an end. God wants to help them while there is still time and He sends His servants and representatives to them so that they will speak in His name and remind them to consider their souls and strive for higher spiritual development. And if they listen to them they can more easily endure what will come to pass, because they will realise that nothing that happens on earth is without meaning and purpose and that spiritual development is the ultimate purpose of earthly life ….

Amen

Only the soul enters the kingdom of light which has made the divine will the guiding principle of its way of life on earth in intimate union with God, which has purified itself of all impurities through this way of life and has worked in love on earth. The gates of paradise have been opened to it, the goal of its longing has become of it in the most radiant fullness of light, it is united with God …. This state requires a way of life that is pleasing to God, it requires the human being’s full will to reach God. And as soon as this will moves the human being his life will also be such that it corresponds to divine will, for a will devoted to Him is reluctant to do anything that is not good, and thus the human being matures in his soul …. The soul assimilates itself to the eternal deity, and this signifies the worthiness to dwell close to God and to receive His emanation of love. This blissful state can be bestowed upon a person when he dies on earth. The soul can be raptured from the heaviness of earth and taken up into the heavenly realms if it was serious on earth about the soul’s higher development …. if the person’s life corresponded to the divine commandments …. if he has practiced love, i.e. if his earthly life can be called a labour of love. The degree of man’s love also determines the degree of happiness in the hereafter, for just as he has measured out to his neighbour, so will God measure out to him. Only that person can receive God’s emanation of love whose heart is capable of love itself, who has therefore likewise given love. Without loving activity on earth there is no bliss, for God’s love only floods the soul which has shaped itself through loving activity in such a way that it can receive God’s emanation of love, which presupposes a soul capable of love and active in love. Lack of love is also lack of bliss and therefore a state of darkness, because bliss consists of the soul being flooded by the brightest light. People on earth are no longer aware of their lightless state, for the degree of maturity of their souls is so low that they are unaware of a state of light, which signifies a state of bliss for them, and therefore they do not consciously strive for this state either. They live well but have no desire to ascend. And thus they do not know the benefits of light either, but they do feel comfortable in the state of darkness. And therefore they also do not know about the strength and power of love, which can bring them unspeakably great happiness in the beyond. And without this knowledge they will not transform their life into a life of love and thus never be honoured with God’s radiance. Consequently, these souls come away empty-handed and they cannot attain eternal bliss in the beyond until the spark of love has become a flame within them and thus a bright light shines in the darkness of the spirit. Only then does the soul come to know the happiness of eternal bliss, which increases according to the soul’s will to love, which is expressed in diligent loving activity towards the needy souls in the beyond ….

Amen

World events certainly continue on their course, but in completely different ways. divine will turns it around because human will does not do so, and the battle, which was evoked to a great extent through unkindness, would never come to an end. There is only a short time left and during this time the lack of love will increase many times over, i.e., the most unbelievable cruelties will take place and people will take little offence because they only ever look at the earthly consequences and affirm them. Countless people will come into hardship and misery and need God but will not find the path to God, instead they will nurture hatred within themselves and repay evil with evil. And that is why an event is planned that will leave no human being unscathed where God expresses Himself. Everyone will be affected, each in a different way …. everyone will be torn out of their usual life and will have to exert themselves with the utmost vigour in order to control the great misery and make life bearable. But life will go on for those whom God allows to live. But it will become a burden for many people who are not in contact with God, for only such contact makes life on earth bearable …. What people will experience is unimaginable, for the natural disaster through which God expresses Himself is so powerful that it will mean a single work of destruction and will be the end of time for many people. And the survivors will initially be unable to help and yet feel compelled to do so because the disaster is so great that anyone who is not entirely without love will feel compassion within himself. For it is necessary to bring help to all the unfortunate. It is partly the instinct of self-preservation which drives people to move and be active, and the power of faith will also enable people to accomplish the most difficult works. But the unbelievers will torment themselves unspeakably because they lack strength and the immense labour requires it. The hardship will be great and yet bearable with God’s help …. And that is why the way is to be shown to people beforehand so that they can enter it when they are in need. World events are still taking their course, people are still making plans and thinking of a better future. And everything will turn out differently than they expect …. What still stands today can fall or experience the greatest changes …. And human will can do nothing but turn to the father and creator in faithful trust and commend itself to His grace. For God is ready to help if only He is called upon. And only with divine support can life continue in a bearable way after severe suffering if the human being does not want to sink into extreme unkindness and obtain unjustified relief by taking advantage of his fellow human beings. God’s love warns them beforehand and He shows them the right way to guide His children through the difficult time ahead. And no-one needs to be afraid or remember the time with dread if he is deeply faithful and stands in love …. And therefore strive for strong faith and remain active in love, and you will lead earthly life to the end, for you will never lack strength if you sincerely ask for it from God ….

Amen

Nothing is too small for the eternal deity not to take notice of it or not to allow the power to flow to it; and nothing could do without this power from God. And that is why everything must be in connection with the original source of power, with God. There must be a constant redirection and supply of power from God to everything He has created. The created must continuously absorb the divine power, because otherwise it would cease to be. Only under this condition does that which was created by God continue to exist, and only under this condition is the work of the divine creator to be regarded if it is to be recognized as His work. For His love and wisdom gave all created things a purpose and a goal. In order to achieve the goal, it must fulfil its purpose, and this requires a power …. the power of being able to carry out what was given to it as a task. Without a task there is nothing in God’s work of creation, consequently everything must also receive His power, and consequently the receiver of power, i.e. every creation, must be in contact with the giver of power so that the transfer from God to the created can take place. And again this allows the conclusion that a constant change of power must take place because nothing has the same purpose but the purposes assigned to the creations are so numerous and different that also different currents of power make these purposes possible and so a perpetual change comes about, therefore the perpetual becoming and passing away is explainable insofar as that the creations only then fulfil another purpose or carry out another activity when they have changed. And that is why not the tiniest creation remains without power supply from God, and this power supply entails a general change, because the power from God lets nothing remain inactive, but produces a constant change. And that is why the connection of God as the creating power with His smallest work of creation may not be denied, otherwise these creations would either not exist or would also remain eternally unchanged if the same supply of power of these creations would always and constantly be part of it, therefore the power necessary for the emergence would not be increased in itself. Power from God must absolutely stimulate activity, therefore have a life awakening effect, so that the work of creation can only then pass away when God withdraws His power from it, because then all activity ceases, therefore a state of death sets in. But there is nothing dead in the universe, in the divine creation, because everything is a recipient of power. Consequently, everything must change within itself, albeit over different lengths of time …. God grasps everything with His power, He leaves nothing out, nothing is too small for Him; for everything that exists is from Him and can never lose its connection with Him. It can only erroneously assume this and in a stage of development reject strength so that it cannot flow towards it to the extent available to it. But it is always flooded by the life force, which also flows towards it without its will to receive it, for this life force is the primordial source of all creation, it is the power from God which conditions every being ….

Amen

Mankind does not crave spiritual nourishment and this is a sign of self-conceit, for they feel so strong and secure that they do not believe they need any kind of energy supply. They are not hungry for spiritual food because they are not deprived of anything …. and they lack nothing because they are content with what they possess and because they are also unaware of the benefit of what they are entitled to but cannot be given without being asked …. because they do not value God’s grace for what it is. For it is a grace when they are offered something that means strength and vigour for anyone who feels weak and small. Humanity, however, only feels its physical weaknesses, needs and worries, and it does not believe that it can remedy these with spiritual food, with the word of God, because it lacks faith in its strength. It lacks faith in the effect of the divine word and therefore also in the strength that a person can draw for his soul from divine food. And therefore it does not respect this food, which is offered to it in the form of the divine word …. it disregards the divine word and the soul must hunger and starve, even though earthly wealth surrounds the human being. What the soul needs is completely independent of earthly fulfilment, it can starve in the midst of wealth and possessions, yet it can be abundantly provided for in utmost earthly poverty if it accepts spiritual nourishment, the gift of God, which promotes its spiritual development. And this is why earthly possessions should not be valued too highly, for they can also hinder a person’s higher development if they are not properly utilized, if they make a person forget his spiritual hunger and the soul is disadvantaged as a result. Spiritual food, i.e. the word of God imparted to people out of immense love, is only desired by those for whom earthly goods seem worthless and who therefore strive for something that is imperishable, i.e. of eternal value. These hunger for the bread of life, they starve without it, and their desire is deep and inward; and God satisfies such hunger through His word …. He gives them food for their souls, He feeds them with spiritual food and quenches their thirst with the living water that flows from the loins of those who are deep in faith and love. And this spiritual food will also be imparted to people when earthly food is withdrawn from them, when demonic influence determines people to deprive each other of the earthly food necessary for life …. when people’s lack of love has reached the highest degree that they fight each other like bitter enemies. He will live who calls a deep faith his own, for he will receive the spiritual food …. the word of God, which He has blessed with His power ….

Amen

Every spiritual verbal dispute has a beneficial effect, for as soon as the human being expresses an opposing opinion he takes a stand on the matter in dispute and thus his train of thought is stimulated. However, spiritual forces can reveal themselves to the thinking person, i.e. knowledgeable beings can try to influence him mentally, but this is not possible if the person does not take a closer look at a problem which is to be solved. It will indeed be a battle between the knowing beings and those who stand in ignorance and want to transfer such to the human being. Yet time and again the human being will be referred to what knowledgeable beings have imparted to him, and with good will these objections will stick and then become more and more the human being’s spiritual property if he thinks about them for longer. That is why opposing views can often contribute to clarification; the disputants will dispose of themselves, i.e. both opinions will be expressed, and the bearer of truth will always be able to chalk up a small success. Because once a question has been raised and a position taken on it, it always stimulates people to think about it. In addition, however, the bearers of truth will also be able to defend their view skilfully and convincingly, i.e. beat the opponent with words that are not to be dismissed as empty words …. He will be able to justify everything he says and thereby make his opponent unable or unwilling to fight, he will win because good, knowledgeable forces support him, he will speak convincingly because he knows the context of the whole and therefore not only expresses his opinion in a learned way, but also feels what he represents. And the more willing and truth-loving the opponent is, the quicker he will agree with the other person’s opinion because he will then find the right thoughts and be convinced of the truth of what his opponent represents. Because arguing means encountering resistance, and resistance is a test of strength …. As soon as a fighter finds no resistance, the dispute comes to an end …. But God trains fighters for His kingdom, He wants man to fight against that which does not correspond to His will …. He wants man to defend before himself and the world what he considers to be right. So he must fight against what seems wrong to him. And since God promises His help to His disputants, the disputant must also be successful if he stands up for God and thus respects the divine will …. For God Himself then stands by his side, He speaks through the human being who is devoted to Him, thus God Himself fights, He tries to spread the truth but always also lets untruth have its say so that it will be recognized as such and cause the adversary to put up fierce resistance. For only then can he succeed in awakening doubt in him as to the truthfulness of his views, and if he starts to think about it he can be granted spiritual support and mentally introduced to the truth ….

Amen

I reward the slightest willingness to serve Me with My love, for if you surrender your will to Me I will seize you and you can never ever go astray now, for you have declared your willingness to work for Me. And whatever you start now must correspond to My will and therefore also find My favour. I do not force anyone but I give you freedom, and whatever you decide will be considered by Me …. I will be with you as you want to be with Me …. You alone determine the extent of My love, for as soon as you open yourselves it will flow to you; as soon as you make your heart receptive I will take possession of it, yet you cannot receive Me unprepared because I cannot dwell in a heart that does not beat towards Me. I am drawn to you, yet you must also push towards Me …. I will not erect a barrier if you do not build one yourselves …. I am always there for you, yet you must call Me because otherwise I cannot consider you …. yet if you have a desire for Me then My love is certain for you because I have loved you from the beginning …. Let Me dwell in your hearts and do everything in order to achieve this goal, for then you will be mighty and powerful, you will be wise and you will stand in the light, for I Myself will permeate you with My light and My strength. And then you will know everything and be able to do everything because it is I Who fills you with His spirit, Who thus works through you …. If you believe these words of Mine and strive to accept Me into your heart you will easily overcome the earth with its hardship, for you are now striving towards your actual destiny, you are striving towards unification with the one from Whom you once separated yourselves. And I support you in this endeavour, I give you strength so that you will not become paralyzed, I illuminate the path to Me so that you will not go astray …. And I Myself will come to meet you and draw you to My heart …. And then you walk the path upwards together with Me and you must reach your goal …. I Myself look for My little sheep who go astray and I fetch them back from the abyss, for I am the good shepherd Who cares for His sheep; I do not leave them to their fate but I follow them if they have strayed from the flock and are in danger of getting lost. For My love embraces all My creatures and I will not let any of them perish in the maelstrom of the world …. But only when they recognize Me will they strive towards Me with the same love. And only then can I enter the heart when the human being has prepared himself for acceptance through a way of life in love, when his will is to serve Me in time and eternity and when he demonstrates this will to Me through his co-operation in the redemption of the erring on earth …. I will bless him and take up residence with him ….

Amen