Request strength from Me for your earthly path of life …. Know that you are weak creatures without this strength and that you walk through earthly life without will or with wrong will if you rely on yourselves and don’t believe that you need My help. And therefore I call out to you: Do not stop requesting the strength you lack in prayer so that I can help you. I could certainly let this strength flow to you unbidden in order to make earthly life easy for you, but then you would only live it for your physical comfort, you would take and enjoy what the world offers you and completely disregard your spiritual development. However, this would not correspond to My wisdom and My love, for earthly life would then not be able to produce any creatures similar to Me. You would forever remain on the same level, for the will for the world would eliminate all spiritual endeavour and this process of development would have to continue in the beyond under extremely difficult conditions. And My love for you wants to prevent this. It therefore constantly admonishes you as long as you still walk on earth. Through My word I call to you time and again: By utilizing My grace, My means of help, try to place yourselves into a state on earth already which will bring you close to Me, which will secure My emanation of strength for you …. call upon Me so that I can stand by you if you need help; and you will always be in need of My support …. Earthly life is a constant battle if it is to help you reach spiritual maturity …. Earthly life is a battle or a service in love …. If you do the latter, then you will not have to fight so hard, because then you will fulfil your purpose in life on earth …. you are preparing yourselves for eternity by serving in love. However, if you neglect to serve in love, you will have to develop yourselves upwards through suffering and hardship, through struggles of all kinds, you will have to recognize your own weakness in order to find Me in prayer …. You cannot mature without Me, you absolutely have to establish the bond with Me in order to be able to receive the strength from Me which enables you to mature. And you must constantly work on yourselves, you must strive to fulfil My will and thereby shape your soul into My image …. You must be humble, merciful, gentle and patient if you want to become like Me, draw close to Me and receive My emanation of love. And in order to be able to accomplish this work on yourselves you must call upon Me for help …. I always stand on the path with My gift of grace and offer it to you, yet you must reach out for it, you must request and thankfully desire and receive My gift of grace, then you will powerfully cover your earthly path of life and this path will lead you upwards …. to Me and to your eternal home, where every battle will come to an end, where through serving with love My living creations will revel in supreme bliss because they are now most intimately united with Me and My emanation of love will always and forever make them happy ….

Amen

The spirit, Who is from eternity, takes part in the smallest events in the entire universe. He is infinitely great, and yet the smallest is close to Him, He is unimaginable in His love and goodness, in His power and might …. He is perfect, and perfection leans towards the tiniest, otherwise it would be a lack of love and every lack proves imperfection. For even the tiniest thing is His creation, even the tiniest thing has emerged from His eternal power of love and also remains eternally in His love. And it is this immense love of His that allows no separation and …. if this is striven for by His created being itself, He lets the latter, seemingly standing isolated in creation …., recognize the lack of strength and power which the separation from God entails, so that it now tries to rejoin God of its own accord …. Nevertheless, the connection with God always and forever remains, only not recognized by the being that wants to separate itself. And this is already a sign that the human being, that is, the being in the state of free will, no longer has any connection with God of its own accord. This is a state of complete ignorance, a state of imperfection, for the more perfect the human being is the more God-affiliated he feels …. affiliation with God is undoubtedly his because he is also in realization. And as soon as he feels that he belongs to God, he also understands the connection of every work of creation with God, for he sees everything as God’s will having become form, Who did not arbitrarily let something come into being but created and shaped it in the most wisely planned manner and gave it purpose and destiny. Consequently, He will constantly look after His creations and creatures, He will collect the tiniest creations buzzing around in the universe and bring them back together to their final destination, He will not leave the tiniest creature unnoticed, otherwise He could not be called perfect, otherwise He would not be love. But people who are distant from God neither recognize God’s love and wisdom nor His perfection, because these would have to be related to a being and they lack faith in a supremely perfect being. They believe themselves to be distant from God, they deny any connection and now also try to explain everything with their opinion. And consequently, as people who are distant from God they will also be distant from knowledge, from realization, for God and truth are one, and the human being can only be guided into realization if the pure truth is imparted to him. He therefore does not know the purpose and goal of what creation harbours, and consequently he sees everything as standing completely isolated in the universe, which is not subject to any higher will …. In other words, he does not recognize any connection between the creator and the created works. And thus they also lack any belief in an essential creative power, because a being that is attributed will and wisdom would also have to be recognized as having a planned, purposeful creation, which, however, also requires constant contact between the created being and its creator. For even the creative, active human being will seek to improve his creations until they fulfil the purpose for which they are intended. And until then, the creator cannot isolate himself from the created. All visible creations in the universe are shells of imperfect beings which strived away from God, were banished in their individual substances in matter, in solid form, and now have to cover the earthly path in order to attain liberation from this form, i.e. to strive towards God again, from Whom they believed they could distance themselves. And God looks after each of these bound beings with infinite care on this endlessly long earthly path of life. Nothing is too small and too insignificant for Him not to be seized by His love. But He cares all the more for every person …. He directs every single destiny, His will precedes every event, and without His will or His permission nothing can happen, without His will or His permission nothing can dissolve or be lost as long as its course of development is not yet finished ….

Amen

I am the origin of all things, and if you want to deny the origin you do not recognize Me as a creating power and therefore also not as a powerful being Which can produce out of Itself what It wants. You then believe that everything created came into being on its own without the influence of a power Which has a will. And thus you do not believe in a designer and sustainer of what is visible to you either, instead you regard nature as well as all creation as products which came into being by themselves and which are therefore not subject to any determining power, which are thus not governed by any will. And this completely erroneous view makes you incapable of believing in a being Which is intimately connected with that which It has created through its own might and strength. For if you do not recognize the origin of creation you will not seek a connection with the creator either, thus you will neither love nor fear Him and never work on yourselves in order to come closer to Him …. With faith you also lack love and therefore also truth, for you do not call upon the creator of heaven and earth, Who alone can provide you with everything you lack …. Without faith in Me you will not come closer to the truth, and to believe in Me means to recognize Me as the creator of heaven and earth, to regard yourselves as My products which are inseparable from Me, even if they appear to be isolated in creation. I am from eternity to eternity, and everything that is from Me is imperishable, thus likewise eternal in its original substance. The visible form, however, does not remain eternally; it is transient, even if endless times pass before everything visible has spiritualized itself. This visible form is certainly transient for the human eye as soon as the spiritual escapes from it in order to revitalize a new form for the purpose of further development. If you acknowledge Me as the origin of all things then you also know that all strength which emanated from Me has to flow back to Me, that the apparent transience of creation is therefore the process of reclamation of the created being which did not want to acknowledge Me as creator and sustainer …. which therefore isolated itself and tried to break off the connection with Me. He who recognizes Me also seeks to remain connected to Me; he believes in Me and becomes knowledgeable through faith. He knows that creation, the visible, is only a means to an end but that it will not last forever because it is only the shell of the immature spiritual substance which is to reach maturity. But he who has no contact with infinity, who certainly recognizes creation but not its author, his intellect will never fathom the origin and goal of creation …. He believes himself to be knowledgeable and is blind in spirit …. And his thinking is erroneous …. He lacks faith in Me as creator and sustainer of all things, and without this faith he cannot unite with Me and therefore also cannot merge with Me as the primordial power, which is the ultimate goal of everything that is visible to you ….

Amen

The grace of inner enlightenment will always be the result of unselfish activity of love, thus such must always have preceded where God comes to people through His spirit in the word. He pours out His spirit upon those people who completely endeavour to live according to His commandments, who are therefore lovingly active and thereby intimately unite with God so that He can use them as His instruments and He now speaks through them as if He dwells in their midst. God speaks to people and conveys the gospel to them, He instructs them about His will and introduces them to extraordinary knowledge, He enlightens their spirit as He promised during His earthly life.

But man must also be prepared accordingly so that the spirit of God can work in him. He must then listen to the inner voice that makes itself known to him at all times. He must switch off everything earthly from his thoughts and fervently long for the connection with the spiritual world; he must make himself ready as a receiving device for the radiation from God, which flows uninterruptedly into the universe. To a certain extent the whole spiritual kingdom is involved insofar as that the spiritual beings, which are perfect and therefore God-connected, receive the radiation of God and now pass it on into the human heart, so that the soul can now be imparted what the spirit in it receives from the spiritual kingdom. The more intimately a person joins God through loving activity and humble prayer, the more clearly and understandably he hears the voice of God within himself to his inexpressible joy and happiness. For what he has received, he may keep and, as it were, utilize by passing it on to his fellow human beings. And this passing on will also be under the protection of the divine spirit, because the human being is likewise enlightened in spirit if he wants to teach his fellow human being, so that he cannot pass on anything false but only hands out the pure truth, because the spirit of God protects him from erroneous teachings. How easy it is for a person to acquire the pure truth and how little use is made of this favour …. God has promised His spirit to all those who love Him and keep His commandments …. But His commandments are to love Him and your neighbour with all your heart. The fulfilment of these commandments entails unimaginable blessings, for the human being no longer only walks on earth, but can enter the spiritual kingdom at any time and take the treasures of the spiritual kingdom with him to earth. Everything earthly falls away from him as soon as he enters the spiritual kingdom. And God’s love takes pity on the earthly child’s ignorance and He guides it into all truth …. And only truth can make the human being happy, only truth can guarantee his soul’s higher development, for truth is strength from God which unites the person to whom it flows with God. And therefore the human being first has to be active in love in order to receive the truth, in order to be enlightened by God’s spirit and to be able to recognize brightly and clearly what truth is …. God sends out His spirit upon all people who live in love and desire to hear God’s voice; and He introduces them to the truth through His spirit ….

Amen

The right faith and the right worship brings man closer to God, for man recognizes God and seeks to fulfil His will …. he lives in love …. and the latter entails all blessings, the former far distance from God is reduced and the purpose of earthly life has been achieved by the human being …. he has found his way back to God of his own free will. And truly, nothing extraordinary is demanded of people, for they don’t need to do anything of their own strength but the strength from God is at their unmeasured disposal and they only need to muster the will to utilize this strength. Yet how often does the will of man fail and he does not reach his goal …. But even then, God’s merciful love is still ready to show the soul that is still far from Him the path that leads to Him. Even then God will still take care of it, albeit in a form that is often not recognizable as God’s love. But the soul has to give up the open resistance, otherwise God’s love withdraws and this means a decline, a hardening of the spiritual substance, which results in an extremely agonizing state. Thus the being has to suffer as long as it does not profess God of its own free will and proves its love for Him through love for its neighbour …. The more willing the being is to establish the connection to God, the less suffering it needs for its development and its existence on earth will be a peaceful one. And likewise, a generation which serves each other in love, thus likewise seeks union with God, will live in peace and quiet on earth and have little need of earthly suffering, for it fulfils its actual purpose on earth, it strives to ascend …. just as, conversely, unspeakable suffering will oppress a people which lives without love and does not try to bridge the distance to God through a corresponding way of life in love and true faith. For such a people must be afflicted so that it may come to recognize. Only unkindness and unbelief bring about a painful fate which more or less affects the individual, for God does not abandon these people but seeks to change them through it. If a person tries to distance himself from Him through unkindness, God will use harsher means but leave him free will. He therefore has to gain closeness to God himself through a right way of life on earth, for it is only the result of a life of love which the human being has to live of his own free will. Yet he is constantly offered opportunities to practice love and he can mature if he does not resist, i.e. if he uses his will in the wrong way …. to unkindness. Then his soul hardens more and more and distances itself from God, and it does not utilize its earthly life, i.e. its last embodiment as a human being, so that it has to go through a new process for its redemption, which again requires infinite times. And therefore God tries all means to make this renewed banishment unnecessary because it is unimaginably agonizing …. Yet the human being’s free will is the final deciding factor …. And thus all suffering on earth is merely a means to change this free will so that it will strive towards God and the human being will redeem himself from the bound state by living a life of love as long as he still lives on earth.

Amen

The fact that humanity has regressed is evident from the fact that it takes no offence at the extent of unkindness which characterizes the present time. Hardly that it even takes notice of it, because as long as people are not affected themselves they only take cursory notice, but never take an open stand against it. And this does not testify to love for fellow human beings, on the contrary, it is proof of a regression which needs no other evidence. Love should be striven for on earth and precisely the opposite is the case …. people outdo each other in cruelty, which can soon no longer be surpassed. And if this state is not to extend to the whole of humanity, then God Himself must put a stop to it before everything is destroyed by unkindness. And this period of time will soon come when the old will fall. The earthly destructions, i.e. the destructions caused by human will, bear witness to people’s disinherited state, and it is difficult to believe that these people could still convert, for they have already fallen too deeply into the adversary’s nets. Only deep prayer to God provides these souls with the necessary strength, and with good will they can still free themselves in the last hour. And in this time of need God sends out His messengers to strengthen the souls, who convey the word of God to people, admonish them time and again to love and show them the consequences of the right as well as the wrong way of life. As long as they have not yet completely fallen prey to the adversary, they will heed this word, which can also be conveyed to them mentally. They will learn to detest their fellow human beings’ lack of love, they will endeavour to cultivate love themselves and thereby also be educated to become knowledgeable creatures …. for God needs servants on earth and the flock of His fighters is truly not large …. And yet God allows people’s destructions, He allows them to suffer unspeakably, to have all possessions destroyed or taken away from them, because these destructions will have an indescribable effect and are a better means of education than the divine word is if it is not received with a heart willing to love. For man respects such destructions, but not always the divine word. For even the unkindness of people can still be used by God as a means of education, so that they abhor the behaviour of their fellow human beings and endeavour to live differently themselves, and this is already a step towards improvement. Only one thing can still save people from spiritual decline, that they recognize themselves in the mirror of humanity’s great injustice, that they seriously strive for a change and direct their thoughts towards the actual purpose on earth and towards their end …. that they think of life after death and commend themselves to their creator by recognizing their own weakness …. Then God will have mercy on them and guide them through the confusion of time, He will give them all help and make them receptive for His word, which will be offered to them time and again during the last days so that they will gain realization. For there is only a short time of grace left which has to be utilized. Yet only a few will find the path to God, for heartlessness has taken over and this is the surest sign of the end, of spiritual and earthly decline ….

Amen

The incarnation of a soul can take place when all substances, which have taken the earthly path within the many diverse creations and are thus developed, have joined together. The soul substance of every work of creation has to be present in order to incarnate …. i.e. the human body becomes the cover for a soul which contains all works of creation in miniature within itself. The previous infinitely long earthly progress has resulted in the unification of all these substances who then await their last embodiment. They will be assimilated as soul into the human outer shell to experience the last stage of development. This incarnation is of varied duration due to the different substances’ state of maturity, which have had a certain amount of freedom during their preliminary stages already albeit they had acted under compulsion in accordance with God’s will. However, in the last stages before embodiment as human being this compulsory condition was gradually eased so that certain instincts could be lessened or even increased. This subsequently resulted in a higher or lower degree of maturity which, in turn, determines the duration of the last embodiment as human being. As soon as all soul substances have united as a human soul they strive for the last embodiment on earth, because they know that the human shell is their last physical cover and that they can be free from all earthly restrictions afterwards. For that reason the soul will only spend time where it is offered an opportunity to incarnate. Understandably it will incarnate where people’s nature adapts to its own degree of maturity, i.e. where people have the same instincts and attributes that match its own nature.

However, this does not exclude that a differently inclined soul would not try to incarnate with unfamiliar natured people in order to hasten its embodiment. But then it often has to struggle with added difficulties during its earthly life as its nature is not taken into account and it is unable to fulfil the expected requirements. Nevertheless, since the soul knows the path of its earthly life in advance it is not stopped if it makes this choice itself, since it has the resources at its disposal to achieve its final maturity in every embodiment. Due to its earlier many diverse shapes it has every aptitude within itself at various degrees and can increase or reduce them at will. Thus it is not incapable and the strength to do so is likewise given in accordance with its will. However, if it strives half-heartedly it will remain in the same state of maturity prior to its incarnation as a human being, in that case the incarnation has not resulted in higher development. Although at the time of death it will shed its physical cover but its desires and instincts, which it was meant to overcome during its earthly life, still connect it to the material world. Therefore it has not taken full advantage of its earthly incarnation, and when it realises that it has wasted the right to become a child of God and can no longer achieve it either, it experiences an indescribable state of remorse; even though it still has infinitely many opportunities in the beyond to arrive at the contemplation of God. Yet one day an incarnated soul has to give account before God how it has used earth’s opportunities and what spiritual progress it has achieved at the time of death, because the embodiment as human being is a mercy that cannot be valued highly enough; it is a gift which the human being should cherish appropriately by doing whatever advances his development because he cannot return to earth again once he has left it ….

Amen

The human will to live is very strongly developed as long as his soul’s maturity is still very low, which is quite understandable since the world still captivates him and pretends to fulfil his wishes. The human being finds it extremely difficult to give up his earthly life as long as he lacks faith in life after death, because the latter makes him look at all life on earth differently. A profoundly devout person merely looks at earthly life as in intermediate place, as a school which he has to attend in order to be admitted into the kingdom where real life begins. And this faith will also give him the strength to overcome all obstacles and difficulties of earthly life, whereas the unbeliever often breaks down and discards his life assuming that he is able to permanently end it himself. Anyone with profound faith will gladly give up his life if it is demanded of him because he directs his attention towards the life after the death of his body and his longing towards the union with God, since he feels that this is primarily the true life. As long as the human being only pays attention to the earth and its goods he inhibits his aspirations to ascend, he desires the world with every fibre of his being and the thought that he will have to leave this world one day is intolerable and depressing to him.

And this reveals his state of mind because his love for the world diminishes his love for God and other people, and thus the person is still spiritually immature, i.e. his soul has not yet united with the spirit within himself, he is not yet aware and knows nothing better than his earthly life. In that case he finds every thought of death appalling, he wants to live to enjoy, he desires worldly goods and disregards spiritual values. And this spiritual low level cannot be criticized enough since the human being is now in great danger to lose his earthly as well as his spiritual life. If he does not use his earthly life to find a connection to God he will live in vain and it is better that he should suffer the loss of his earthly life than to fall into deepest love with matter, which amounts to spiritual death. Earthly life is a mercy given to the human being for higher development and for rising above matter in order to enter the spiritual kingdom …. However, if the human being’s real task on earth is disregarded he chains himself to matter and forcibly has to be pulled away by the termination of his earthly life. As long as the thought of physical death is intolerable to a person he is not paying any attention to his real earthly task. The will to live is so strong in him that he will do anything to protect and lengthen it in the belief that his life is in his own hands, and yet again he feels fearful of having to lose it prematurely. Only in view of the beyond, in the belief of the soul’s life after death, the terror of death begins to subside and then the human being understands that his earthly life is a mere preliminary stage for the real life which will last eternally ….

Amen