Every material thought helps to increase matter and is therefore a hindrance to the soul’s progress. For as soon as the human being desires matter, the soul is returned to a state which it has long since overcome. It therefore enters again into the bond with this material, it joins again the still immature spiritual in matter, and this always means a step backwards for the soul. Thus the human being must be able to detach his thoughts at any time, he must seek contact with the spiritual, which is on a higher level, and he is not allowed to sever the contact once it has been established by desiring that which is part of the adversary of God. He will always pressurize the human being’s thoughts, he will present himself to him in the pleasures of the world, in earthly pleasures or earthly possessions, and he will want to tempt the human being to only pay homage to such pleasures in order to distance him from God. And it is up to the human being to decide in favour of or against God. And if he now leans more towards the world, he increases matter through his consent. It is the thought spiritual power, which is now used in the wrong way, when man occupies himself mentally with that, what he is to overcome. He certainly is to fulfil his earth task in the midst of matter, but always only in such a way that he helps to redeem matter, that he leads it to its actual purpose, i.e. causes it to serve, that he therefore uses all matter for the benefit of fellowman and he thereby likewise works serving. But as soon as he desires matter for himself in order to create a pleasant life for himself, his love is for the still immature spiritual, which he tries to chain to himself but does not want to redeem it. This is a false love, it is a greed for possessions which is never beneficial to the soul, for the human being strives downwards instead of upwards, he seeks union with that which he has long since overcome and thus shapes himself regressively. But if he helps the spiritual in matter by enabling it to be of service, he shortens its course of development considerably, he helps the spiritual to overcome its outer form …. Matter is then not increased but diminished, while the spiritual within is set free to begin the battle against matter again in a new material shell. If a person’s love is for matter, i.e. the outer shell, then it must be fought …. however, if it applies to the spiritual in the shell then love will have a redeeming effect, it will help the spiritual to freedom, whereas love for matter banishes the spiritual far longer in the form because it does not want to renounce it and such love means long times of imprisonment for the spiritual, which cannot flee from matter because it is made impossible for it to overcome matter ….

Amen

Faith and love lead to eternal life, to bliss. But one is inconceivable without the other. Those who live in love are intimately connected to God through love, which is God Himself …. So he also recognizes God in everything that surrounds him …. He sees Him as the creator of all things, Who can accomplish everything He wants and Whom His immense love destines to work in all wisdom. And so he believes in a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence …. he believes that he is His creature, emerged from Him and inseparably connected to Him …. And he also recognizes his purpose and his goal, for love makes him wise, he cannot think otherwise than good and right because he stands in love …. And he recognizes his thinking and knowledge as truth, he is convinced of it, thus he believes …. And again, a person who believes in a loving, wise and omnipotent creator of heaven and earth cannot help but live in love, for this realization, this convinced faith must result in an activity of love, otherwise it is just empty words if the person affirms his faith …. words that lack life …. For if a person does not perform works of love, then there is no wisdom in him either, and thus he lacks the power of knowledge. He lacks faith, even though he wants to testify to it through words. So faith is dead, because living faith inevitably entails a work of love, because whoever recognizes God must also love Him. And God will love him again, and this means that the human being now feels urged to work with love because God’s love flows towards him as strength which impels him into action. However, faith can vary in strength and therefore the loving person must also struggle for strong, unshakeable faith …. For a weak faith also jeopardizes the work of love or reduces it. The deeper a person’s faith is, the more eagerly he endeavours to keep God’s commandments, which demand unselfish love for his neighbour. The strength of faith thus determines a person’s activity of love, and therefore one can confidently doubt a person’s faith or describe it as a dead faith if he ignores the commandments of love, even if he tries to feign a deep faith through words. For faith and love cannot be thought of without each other, because he who stands in love must also believe, for love is power from God, which also leads man into realization. But recognizing something means believing in the truth of it. The human being capable of love will therefore also have profound faith, for God Himself guides him into realization, that is, He enlightens him so that he can now believe with full conviction that his faith is a living one, that he works with love because he believes ….

Amen

Humanity will experience ever greater hardship because the time given to the spiritual for redemption is pressing. An accelerated process of development must be possible, which is promoted by excessive suffering and misery. Time is drawing to a close and there are still countless people who have no spiritual aspirations whatsoever and therefore pass through earthly life completely uselessly. To a certain extent they must be urged by external circumstances to think seriously about earthly life, which they would never do if life passed them by in monotony and without suffering and hardship. As long as they do not make contact with the spiritual world through heartfelt prayer, through requesting spiritual strength, the spiritual success of their embodiment on earth is to be doubted, or earthly life would only have to be a continued labour of love, but then the human being is also unconsciously in contact with the spiritual world. The time of redemption of the spiritual is coming to an end …. Man cannot grasp what this means and yet he should be informed of it so that he understands the cause and purpose of the great adversity which God allows to come upon earth. This period of redemption has spanned an infinitely long time and time and again the spiritual was offered the opportunity to develop upwards. But God’s wisdom also set a limit to this redemption period, but also increases the number and kind of development possibilities so that the still immature spiritual can come to final maturity before the redemption period has ended. And as long as the spiritual does not resist it can reach the last stage of development. But the will of this spiritual is weak and it fails if it is not influenced in a way that urges it to make its own decision. Earthly suffering is supposed to exert such an influence on the spiritual, and that is why God does not leave this last possibility untried in order to help the spiritual, which without such does not use the embodiment as man. Earth life passes, but with it also the possibility that the spiritual in man liberates itself. On earth it can still do this out of its own strength; but as soon as earthly life is over the spiritual, the soul, lacks strength and is in greatest danger to develop regressively, which results in eternities of being bound again. The greatest suffering on earth, on the other hand, can be called little, and therefore people should take it upon themselves because it is the only way to spare the soul the torments of the beyond, which are far greater and last for eternities, because it is more difficult to attain spiritual freedom in the beyond. For this is certain …. nothing comes upon humanity which is not founded in God’s love and has God’s wisdom as a prerequisite …. And that is why the coming immense suffering must also be regarded as a proof of God’s love …. as a final means for the redemption of the spiritual, which is in danger of losing itself completely ….

Amen

Great is the goodness of God, for He condemns nothing, but He wants to redeem what is bound by its own guilt. He wants to win for Himself what resists Him, He wants to forgive because weakness is the cause of sin. He is full of mercy and infinite love, and He turns this towards His creatures, rejecting nothing and destroying nothing, but drawing everything to Himself in immense love …. Yet His creatures no longer recognize Him and therefore they distance themselves ever further from Him Who, in His love, leaves no stone unturned to win them back. God’s goodness and love can only become effective if His creatures want to belong to Him. He constantly courts the love of His creatures but He cannot force them to love Him, for all creatures are free in their will as to how they should approach their final perfection. For the ultimate goal is union with God, which, however, has to be striven for in complete free will. God’s love draws everything to Himself as soon as it surrenders to Him without resistance. divine mercy also helps the weak who want to withdraw from God’s love, it condemns nothing, it seeks to lead the lost back onto the right path, for God’s goodness lasts forever …. And even if the beingness refuses and resists God’s infinite love …. God will never let it fall, but He will try to redeem it, He will give it freedom, because His love and goodness will not let it languish forever in a bound state. God’s love is so great that nothing can perish because God’s love will not let it fall, and this love will never diminish, for that which has emerged from this love cannot be lost but returns as love to eternal love again …. and even if it is separated from God for eternities, it always and forever remains the strength of love from God, whose ultimate purpose is to return to its source. World events are founded in God’s infinite love, for everything that happens is an act of love in order to lead the beingness back to God, from Whom it believed it could separate itself. And even if time on earth is not enough to lead the spiritual substance back to God, God’s love and kindness will not stop struggling for the resisting spiritual substance, for God is infinitely merciful and loving …. He descends into the deepest depths and seeks to redeem, He mercifully stretches out His hands to the fallen and pulls it up from the abyss, He hears the call for mercy and leaves no being in the bonds of evil. For everything has emerged from His love, and this love encompasses everything until it has finally returned to Him, Who is love Himself ….

Amen

The Lord warns you to ‘Take heed that ye be not deceived by false prophets ….’. He thereby wants to remind you to test everything first before you accept it as truth. ‘Test the spirits whether they are of God ….’ Consequently, prophets will also emerge from the darkness who assume the right to spread their teachings in the world as truth. Then it will be up to people to scrutinise their sermons. And they will certainly be able to do so if they want to know the truth and appeal to God for enlightenment. For God gave them an indication as to what to look out for; He announced to them in advance that false prophets, false spirits, will express themselves. But they will deny Christ, they will not acknowledge Him as the Son of God, as the Redeemer of the world, they will doubt Jesus’ divinity and therefore not live in love, for love recognises and professes Jesus Christ. And thus you will recognise false prophets by the fact that they act entirely without love, even though they seek to win people over for themselves with sweet words and enticing speeches. They promise to save the world and want to deprive it of its faith in Jesus Christ, they want to seduce you and of whom the Lord cautions you. They preach love yet their actions are completely devoid of love and their words are deceptive and hypocritical; it is not the spirit of God which speaks through them but the spirit of the one from below instead …. However, where Jesus Christ is professed in the world, that is, where the spirit of God expresses itself, you should listen to it …. For it will preach the same love which revealed itself to the world in Jesus Christ, it will show you the path to God, it will teach you the love which alone will lead to God …. it will try to impart the blessings of the act of Salvation upon you and constantly refer you to Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer, Who came into the world in order to take your sins upon Himself through His death on the cross. Jesus Christ came in the flesh; He took the path on earth in order to show you how you can liberate yourselves from the bondage of the world, from the adversary’s bondage …. He took the path on earth for your sake, for your Salvation …. You ought to follow him and to this end you must acknowledge Him …. Hence you can recognise a true prophet by the fact that he will lead you to Jesus Christ, in that case you can give credence to his words, for the spirit which testifies to Him is the spirit of God …. Yet reject the voice of the one who opposes Christ, for he speaks on behalf of God’s adversary, who wants to lead people into sin and guides them towards their ruin …. Test the spirits to see whether they are of God …. However, if God sends His servants to you who testify to Him, then listen to them and comply with their teaching, for they are His representatives through whom He speaks to you Himself so that you will find the right path to Him ….

Amen

It is up to man himself to decide what position he takes towards God. He is a part of God, inseparable from Him, but whether he recognizes this affiliation to God as a human being is up to him. He can believe himself to be completely isolated in the universe, without any connection to the power that created him …. but he can also feel connected to it, and his earthly life will correspond to this position. He is by no means compelled to profess God, to enter into intimate contact with Him and to allow himself to be permeated by His strength of love, but it is entirely up to him which relationship with God he wants to establish. He can also remain completely independent of God insofar as he does not consciously strive for or request a gift of strength. He can lay down his earthly life in the belief that he can organize it according to his own will …. He will then not recognize God, he will not believe in Him as the most loving, wisest and omnipotent being, nor will he establish a bond with Him but feel completely free and reject a power that controls his destiny. However, his attitude towards God will always be decisive for his spiritual development, for his life in eternity. For as soon as he rejects God, he cannot utilize the flow of strength that enables him to reach the heights …. He will certainly live but his spirit will remain unawakened, for the spiritual strength from God cannot join the spiritual spark in the human being, it will remain dormant and the human being will live his life completely uselessly, for he will not fulfil his purpose in life, the higher development of his soul …. For God must be recognized and the connection with Him established so that the strength from God can be imparted to the human being, which is absolutely necessary if the soul is to mature. Whereas the human being who enters into intimate contact with God, who consciously requests His strength in prayer and thus recognizes himself as a creature which remains dependent on God’s love and grace as long as he remains on earth, can receive this strength unmeasured. The right attitude towards God will result in the child establishing the right relationship with the father, it will always be able to ask the child and therefore constantly receive it, the strength from God will constantly flow to it and it will consciously fulfil the purpose of earthly life …. namely to draw closer to God, to reduce the distance from Him and to shape his soul such that he can enter the spiritual kingdom as a child of God when his earthly life is over. The right attitude towards God earns the human being the right success, an eternal life in light and strength and bliss …. whereas the soul comes away empty-handed, which thought itself independent from God and consequently remained without strength on earth ….

Amen

When the day has come the lord Himself will intervene in the chaos of devastation, which will take on ever worse proportions due to human will. And this intervention will bring about that a wrestling of nations will come to an end, indeed against the will of men to whom this end seems to be little successful. The world is caught up in error, it believes that it can determine the earthly development itself and does not consider the will of the power Which rules everything in heaven and on earth. It does not consider that It will express Itself in due course, i.e. that It will oppose people’s will if the latter completely acts against divine will. As soon as the most powerful will is no longer recognized and heeded, He expresses Himself, and this in a way which has a sensitive effect on people, i.e. which directs their earthly life into other directions and destroys all earthly plans and hopes. Humanity must be reminded again that it is powerless in the face of the creator of heaven and earth, that His will alone governs and that humanity’s unloving behaviour will result in just punishment. People stop at nothing and seek to destroy each other. This completely contradicts man’s destiny to lead a life of love on earth …. Divine justice now intervenes in human will by striking humanity with the same thing that its will has turned into action …. by giving free rein to the elements of nature and allowing them to accomplish a work of destruction of far greater magnitude in order to show people a higher will.

Because people have lost all faith in a higher power. And because they fear no power over them, they unscrupulously resort to the most unloving means in order to create their supposed right. They misuse their free will, which was given to them for labour of love, for redemption from the bonds of the one who is devoid of all love. But they serve him, they carry out his will, in a manner of speaking they give themselves to him as representatives on earth, they are in bondage to him and he controls them completely, and thus he uses them to destroy that which God allowed to come into being …. to destroy creations of all kinds. God gave every thing its destiny, but God’s adversary drives the people who are in bondage to him to destroy these creations prematurely so that they cannot fulfil their destiny. And people willingly carry it out, they outdo each other in unkindness and fear no power which could call them to account. Mankind is disillusioned, it is so far away from God that only a violent intervention can guide its thinking differently, and so it calls upon this divine intervention itself. God, in His goodness and gentleness, does not yet allow it to be a judgement, for He has mercy on humanity, which is deeply shackled …. He does not want to destroy, but to bring help, and His wisdom chooses the only means that may be very painful, but can still bring success. He shows Himself in His might and strength, He speaks with an iron voice, He expresses Himself so powerfully that the human being is forced to reflect, yet God does not force the human being’s will and therefore only a small part will recognize Him in this natural event because it wants to recognize Him …. But God’s adversary takes possession of the others, they serve him and are lost for eternity ….

Amen

God’s wisdom is eternal, His spirit foresaw everything, He knew everything and He brought order into all things, into every event, as it corresponded to His purpose …. And this divine order is so incomparably wise that the slightest disturbance of it must have a damaging effect, i.e., that every will which is directed against the divine order also means a work of destruction for any creation which has emerged from the divine will in His order. God’s wisdom can never be equalled and it will therefore never be surpassed, whereas any attempt to change the existing divine order will only result in a destructive disorder that lacks all wisdom. As long as the divine order is observed, i.e. remains untouched, everything is good and beautiful and in utmost harmony, because God’s work is unsurpassable …. But where divine wisdom is opposed by inadequate knowledge and seeks to assert itself, divine order is overturned, which is like destroying what God has created, be it a visible or invisible product of His unsurpassable wisdom. Man, likewise a product of His wisdom-filled power, lives in accordance with divine will if he respects divine wisdom and never sets his will against it, i.e. uses it in a way that violates divine order, for this is sin, it is a rebellion against God’s will and a disregard for His wisdom. It is an arrogance which cannot have any other than destructive consequences, for if the human being wants to overturn the divine order in his deficient wisdom, chaos must inevitably arise which is like a work of destruction, for something can only continue to exist if the creative power is respected through unconditional integration into the existing order, which is based on God’s unsurpassable wisdom ….

Amen

The path through earthly life requires much willpower but people will never lack it as long as they make contact with God, that is, as long as they appeal to Him for grace and strength. Every person receives vitality, which at the same time means that he can now carry out whatever his will impels him to do. The power of life is not withdrawn from any human being as long as he still dwells on earth. It is able to accomplish much of what the human being wants and this often makes him inclined to believe that he can master everything, that he must succeed in everything he sets out to do. Yet he has to ask God for this increased willpower and he will never make a wrong request, for God sets no limits to a person’s abilities as soon as he unites himself with God and thus utilizes God’s strength. Without God’s support the strength is limited and it will only suffice for a life on earth without special requirements. An earthly life with God corresponds to divine will, for now God’s strength can be revealed in a person who requests this strength and therefore allows God Himself to work through him. This man can let his will become active and nothing will be impossible for him. However, as soon as the human being is not yet united with God, his earthly life is far more difficult, for then he can only accomplish those things which God in His wisdom allows him to accomplish, i.e., the life force flowing to the human being is wisely allocated by God according to his degree of maturity and his earthly task …. He can increase it himself through heartfelt prayer, but he must make do with it if he does not take recourse to prayer, for through lack of strength he should be able to establish a connection with God and ask for strength. Again, people who are distant from God can also have extraordinary strength at their disposal. This is also based on God’s wisdom, as He determines each person’s destiny and how it can best lead to the maturity of the soul. Exceptional vitality gives the human being ample opportunity to be lovingly active, whereby the strength is still increased; but as soon as the human being stands outside of love and nevertheless has great strength at his disposal, this is given to him by God-opposing power, for he is supported by evil forces which try to win him over for themselves as a result. And since the will of these people themselves decides in favour of evil, God does not prevent the supply of strength from below. It is always the will of the person himself that determines how he is provided with strength, for he can increase it at any time through his prayer. God constantly sends His flow of strength to earth, which can now be received by anyone who opens himself, i.e. enters into contact with the giver of strength …. This supply of strength available to every human being only needs to be utilized in order to be able to cover earthly life easily and effortlessly, for he will now be able to carry out whatever his will decides to do because the strength from God accomplishes everything ….

Amen

Your path on earth turns into an extremely tragic one because you yourselves are the cause of it. The time of your redemption is approaching its end, yet you are not using it for your soul’s salvation, and your fate afterwards is so agonizing that God wants to spare you it and He uses all means to make you make use of the remaining time of your redemption. God’s plan has been determined since eternity, and He also knows since eternity that only few people use this last time according to His will. The human being’s will cannot be forcibly influenced but it must remain up to him how he utilizes his earthly life for the salvation of his soul. And that is why you are facing an experience which will hit you hard and take away all joy of life. And yet God’s love is the reason, for it wants to help you, it wants to create opportunities for you to change your way of life of your own accord, it wants to give you eternal life but you have to acquire it of your own free will. But as soon as earthly life no longer offers you any attractions it will be easy for you to prepare yourselves for eternal life. God will take away your earthly enjoyment of life so that you will desire eternal possessions. As soon as you recognize His love you will be helped, and therefore God will let His servants announce the change of your life to you, He will send you warnings and admonish you to humbly accept your fate and to derive the right benefit from it. For life on earth only lasts a short time, but the life afterwards lasts forever. And that this is a life of happiness for you is the purpose of the coming severe suffering which will affect the earth. God knows about all the hardships you are facing and yet this is still the only way to prepare yourselves for eternal life. Do not let this last opportunity pass you by unused, resign yourselves to the inevitable, ask God for strength and mercy and commend yourselves to His grace. Lead a life with God and it will be bearable for you; help each other and endeavour to always live in love and you will receive strength unmeasured. God’s love and wisdom only ever seek to promote your spiritual progress, and if you bear this in mind you will know that everything God sends to you is necessary for the salvation of your soul and humbly bear your suffering and God will bless you ….

Amen

The task that still lies ahead of you, which you have offered yourselves to God for service, will be made known to you when your work for the lord is necessary. But first you have to become strong in faith yourselves, you still have to withstand many temptations which will be given to you by the world. And you must become knowledgeable yourselves in order to then be able to pass on the knowledge to people who are still blind in spirit. Your special task is to preach the word of God, to teach people love, to persuade them to believe and to confirm your words through extraordinary work …. For God Himself wants to make use of your shell in order to reveal Himself to humanity. People should learn to recognize what the strength of faith can do, they should see that God’s word is truth, that the human being can accomplish extraordinary things as soon as he desires God’s support, i.e. is in closest union with God through a way of life which is pleasing to Him. They should learn to recognize the value of true faith, which makes people free and cheerful because they are no longer attached to earthly possessions, because they have recognized their transience and because striving for spiritual possessions has become their highest purpose in life. And you have to prove this faith to your fellow human beings, you have to believe so deeply yourselves that nothing can make you waver. And this will be necessary because you will be harassed for the sake of your faith, you will be reviled and people will want to prevent you from working for God. Yet even then the strength of faith will prove itself, for you will fear nothing that threatens you from the world because you know that God Himself protects you, that under His protection you are immune to all attacks of the world …. against threats of earthly violence. For God needs you as His fighters, He has given you the task of standing up for His word before the world and He trains you for this ministry beforehand …. But your work will only begin after the divine intervention, when people will need comfort and encouragement and when they are to be taught the faith they lack. Difficult times will precede your work and you will often need divine strength yourselves so that you will become strong and inwardly mature for your task. Yet God will stand by you, He will protect those who want to serve Him and His strength will constantly flow to you as soon as you take refuge in Him. For there are only a few who consciously place themselves at God’s service and these few can always be sure of His help …. He stands by them in every danger and He guides them on all paths so that they reach the right goal …. Thus they will also fulfil the task according to His will which is given to them for the sake of the salvation of their fellow human beings ….

Amen

In order to be able to establish a connection with the spiritual forces, the human being must also believe in their existence, he must first recognize them before he can establish contact with them. And this includes first of all the belief in the survival of the soul. The soul was also decisive on earth that power flowed to man, therefore the soul must also be able to be a receiver of power in the hereafter, according to the degree of its perfection. This belief precedes the working of the spiritual forces, for only where the human being is convinced of it can these forces appear, for only then does the human being connect with these forces in thought and they can then express themselves. However, it is very difficult to provide people with proof of this working as long as they themselves are still not very spiritually minded. And that is why they will rarely make the attempt themselves to ask those spiritual beings for their emanation of strength and transmission. Until the belief is deep that such is possible they will not establish the connection. And the doctrine of the ‘resting of the dead’, which questions all activity of souls in the beyond and therefore also denies spiritual activity, contributes considerably to this unbelief. This is such an erroneous doctrine that has detrimental consequences of the greatest importance …. The spirit can never rest, it can remain unawakened as long as it does not sense any activity of love in the human being’s soul which enables it to work. And likewise, the spirit will be constantly active in the beyond as soon as it has acquired the right to do so on earth or in the beyond. And the knowledge about the work of redemption, which continues in the beyond, is also the explanation for the tireless activity of the souls, whose degree of maturity is high. The human being has to be given the knowledge that he can believe in the working of those souls, and again, the imparting of this knowledge from the spiritual kingdom is only the result of faith in the working of spiritual forces. But God accommodates people by letting this knowledge be imparted to them through a willing person in whom the working of those spiritual forces becomes evident …. He informs them of it so that they can now establish the connection themselves as soon as they allow themselves to be convinced of it. Everyone can test it himself, and if he seriously endeavours to fulfil the preconditions which entail the working of those powers he will have great success for his soul ….

Amen

Man must not be forced to believe because otherwise perfection would be impossible, for something forced is something imperfect …. Therefore, freedom of faith must be left to people, and that is why God can neither lead them to faith through evidence nor cause them to believe through miracles. He can only impart certain teachings to them and try to influence them to use the gifts of the intellect so that they can decide for themselves for or against the teachings imparted to them, whether they want to accept them in their thoughts and affirm them with their heart …. Then their faith is free and therefore also beneficial. As soon as people are pushed into a certain school of thought, as soon as they are systematically educated into a belief, this belief is worthless as long as the person himself has not mentally taken a stand on it. An acquired belief cannot yet be called faith; it is the attitude of the heart towards it that determines whether a person may call himself a believer. He must also be given complete freedom as to how he decides, for he alone is responsible for this decision, he must not be pressurized by people, nor is he given compelling evidence from God which causes him to have to believe something. The only guide is the inner voice, the divine help, which gives the person small hints so that he can easily find the right faith. As soon as God’s love expresses itself through a person in an extraordinary way, this will always happen in such a way that the person is nevertheless not forced. He will also always be able to find a natural explanation if he lacks the will, thus he will never need to accept something against his will under the impression of such extraordinary working which he cannot inwardly affirm. And therefore it is irrelevant in which school of thought a person is brought up, for only his own thinking makes him responsible, because this thinking forms the belief in him according to his will. The truth-desiring person will reject of his own accord that which does not correspond to the truth and thus arrive at the right faith in all freedom of will. But so that he can come to the right decision through reflection, the truth must also be presented to him by people who are in the truth themselves. He has the duty to examine everything before he accepts it, and through this examination and reflection he takes a stand on it, and he can now also make a decision, he can choose which of the teachings presented to him appears to be the truth. This is only faith if he can then stand up for it because he is firmly convinced of it within himself …. And such a conviction cannot be forcibly taught to a person, but is gained through his own reflection, and only such a belief corresponds to God’s will ….

Amen

The body passes away and with it the earthly suffering. However, the soul remains and continues its life in the afterlife in accordance with its life on earth. The suffering on earth is therefore not to be valued so highly because it comes to an end, whereas the suffering in the beyond can last for eternities before the soul comes to realization. But it can also move completely timelessly in the spheres of light, for the soul only has the concept of time in the stage of imperfection. In the state of perfection it is outside of time and space. The concept of time is therefore the indicator of the soul’s maturity, as long as it still has the feeling of being dependent on time and space, it has not yet reached its goal, it has not yet entered the spheres of light, in which every concept of time and space disappears. This is incomprehensible for the world because it is still completely subject to the laws of time and space; in eternity, however, the latter is eliminated and it is an unimaginably blissful state to be able to dwell everywhere and to know everything that was, is and will be. This freedom of the spirit constitutes its state of bliss, for the soul can move wherever and whenever it wants without ever being limited in time or space. The immature soul, on the other hand, is still bound to time and space, depending on the degree of its imperfection. It is certainly no longer physically hindered and can stay wherever it wants, but it is still bound to a certain environment by its earthly desire, thus it puts this shackle on itself because it does not know the free state and therefore strives for it too little. Time and space always imply a certain limitation and therefore cannot correspond to perfection. But as soon as the soul has freed itself from them, it recognizes the bliss of this and never again longs for the previous state. For having overcome time and space also means being able to work unhindered wherever and however the soul desires. It is no longer bound to time and space, it has freed itself from the laws which God gave to the imperfect beingness; it has therefore come close to the lawgiver from eternity, it has united itself with the one Who is lord over time and space, and consequently it likewise rules the whole universe, i.e. it can dwell wherever it wants and this at any time because the law of time and space has been abolished for it as soon as it has come close to God. For this is the state of freedom and perfection, that the being is completely unbound, that it no longer feels subject to any other law than the law of love, which, however, no longer oppresses it but only makes it feel infinitely happy ….

Amen

The divine stream of power which is transmitted to others through a person will never remain without effect as long as it is not consciously fought against. It will break through and even a slight resistance will soon weaken, and many a person who previously wanted to close himself off to Him will be willing to accept it. And once the power from God comes into action, it must lead the souls upwards who abandon themselves to its effect. The divine influx will also be perceived as beneficial because it spreads a radiant brightness in the human being’s heart like a light, because his thoughts are organized and the power of realization is conveyed to him with this divine flow of strength, so that he now sees brightly and clearly the correlation of what was previously still dark, i.e. unclear, to him. The human being only needs to will and he will be filled with God’s strength, which flows to him in various forms …. in increased knowledge, increased faith or increased loving activity. His will is grasped by God and guided correctly as soon as his inner consent to be guided by God has preceded it. Only devotion to God’s will is necessary in order to be able to receive His strength, and then the human being will be able to do everything and his higher development will be guaranteed. Without the divine supply of strength people have to struggle in their weakness, and if they do not open themselves God wants to convey the strength to them through a mediator, which also requires the will to receive but is often easier than for the human being to make himself receptive for the direct supply of strength from God. For people’s faith is still too weak and their faith should be strengthened. For consciously striving upwards can only be realized with God’s constant support, thus with the constant transmission of strength. And this flows to people through the word of God, which He Himself offers them as a source of strength from which they can constantly draw …. light and wisdom, strength of faith, power to resist all temptations and complete trust in God. Man needs this supply of strength because he himself is too weak, but it is made dependent on his willingness to receive the flow of strength. And where it is not consciously desired, God brings Himself close to the human being in order to awaken the desire for Him and His strength in him. And for this He needs a mediator who speaks for Him and acts on His behalf, who informs them of God’s will to love, of His gift of strength, who, as it were, receives God’s emanation of love, His divine flow of strength, and tries to pass it on to his fellow human beings so that the divine strength can also become effective in them ….

Amen