The spirit of lies rules the world, error is no longer recognized and the pure truth is opposed …. And this state of affairs must have dire consequences, for it is directed against God, Who is truth Himself. Everything untrue bears the stamp of God’s adversary, everything untrue poisons people’s thinking; its goal is not God but the world. And by this you also recognize the prince of this world, that he influences people in such a way that all striving is for the world and its pleasures. They are not spiritual goals which are pursued because people are misguided and have no real knowledge of their purpose on earth. Only the pure truth can enlighten them about this, yet they flee from it and cling to lies and error. And this is a state of darkness which cannot lead to spiritual blossoming …. If only people would consider that there is only one possibility for the progressive development of humanity …. for an increased spiritual state of maturity, which can replace the time of depression …. if they would accept the pure truth, which is offered to them from above, and now arrange their life accordingly; if they would live as God demands it and as He announces it to men through His word; if they would let themselves be introduced to a knowledge, which guarantees them a spiritual maturing, because it increases love for God and for the neighbour and because it stimulates the souls to eager work on themselves …. The pure truth is simple, clear and understandable and everyone can accept it, it can only result in spiritual blossoming. However, people resist it and cling with extreme tenacity to distorted teachings, which often lack profound meaning and do not reveal divine wisdom. This is why the spiritual state must constantly sink deeper, for people themselves do not prevent this, although they should see where these teachings have led and how low people have sunk. They should realize that only error could have brought this about, for pure truth will never produce such successes that humanity could move so far away from the light, from the state of knowledge. A time is to be expected when an even deeper spiritual decline will take place and a turnaround can only occur when the truth is accepted by people …. Only then is a spiritual blossoming possible …. As long as humanity believes itself to be living in truth and yet is still far removed from it, a constant decline is to be expected which will end in spiritual and earthly chaos where lies and error will prevail until God, as the eternal truth Himself, removes all power from His adversary and a new kingdom will arise where only truth reigns.

amen

Words of faith and love have to be offered by those who have knowledge themselves if they are to be effective for their fellow human beings, otherwise they will be without strength and fall flat on their ears. And that is why the gospel can only be offered by those, for they alone are able to give the words power because they themselves have become recipients of power through the knowledge imparted to them. And this is the characteristic of a true representative of Christ on earth, that he can clearly explain all correlations as soon as people desire an explanation, that he can substantiate everything and that his explanations radiate wisdom, whereas the false representatives of Christ, who are not in truth themselves, only adhere to book knowledge which, however, mostly lacks context. However, as soon as they themselves are imbued with the truth of what they preach, the words of faith and love will also fall on fertile ground, if love for one’s neighbor determines a person to proclaim Christ’s teaching of love. It is not so much a matter of outward appearances as of educating people to love, for only through loving actions does a person attain faith, truth and therefore also knowledge, provided he does not resist the latter by tenaciously clinging to a false teaching despite an inner urge to reject it. The gospel should be proclaimed to people, Christ’s pure teaching of love should be made accessible to them …. yet what is currently being offered to them is indisputably no longer the simple, clear and understandable teaching which Jesus Christ Himself gave to people on earth, but everything bears the stamp of earthly thinking. The divine has been interspersed with human accessories, the spiritual has been combined with earthly goals, and thus a church has been formed which has little claim to having been founded by Jesus Christ. And the battle will constantly be fought against the additional human work, whereas Christ’s teaching of love is the legacy of Christ to every denomination, which will always and forever be acknowledged and therefore also promoted. Whoever sees an organization in the church of Christ is not yet in the right knowledge, but he can nevertheless be a true representative of His teaching of love and work for the blessing of mankind, only he himself cannot mature in knowledge and therefore also not impart the right knowledge to his fellow human beings. He cannot answer the many questions which a person who seriously struggles for God and the truth will ask when the difficult time of the battle of faith has begun, which demands a clear attitude from people but which he can only gain through knowledge which corresponds to the truth. The knowledgeable person who can offer his fellow human beings truthful enlightenment in an understandable way will be far more successful, he will be more likely to find faith, a faith that is convinced and will survive the difficult turmoil in the battle of faith. For only a firm conviction gives a person the strength to persevere to the end. And conviction can only be gained through the pure truth, but never through teachings permeated by error, even if they are offered by believers, i.e. by people who strive towards God, i.e. who are of a will turned towards God. Error will always have a corrosive effect, whereas truth has a unifying, complementary and thus knowledge-increasing effect. And increased knowledge gives the human being spiritual freedom, it gives him strength in the face of the world and ensures his ascent, it ensures a state of maturity which can never be achieved by those who are not in truth, i.e. in the right knowledge. They lack strength and their struggle is much more difficult if they have to prove themselves, if they are to stand up for their faith before the world ….

amen

The blessing of the divine revelations will only then be recognizable when everything has been taken from people which was their signpost to God. People can still draw the drink everywhere which they need to strengthen themselves on their path of earthly life, they can still receive the divine word everywhere, yet human will will let the source dry up for them, people will want to determine which spiritual nourishment their fellow human being should consume, and human will will be destructive but not constructive, for that which will be built up does not correspond to God’s will and is therefore to be assessed as a work of destruction which only accelerates the spiritual decline and thus fosters chaos. And this process of destruction is already beginning, it is the actual cause of the emergence of this work, it is the reason for the divine revelations which therefore signify God’s counteracting action. The individual human being cannot fathom the unspeakable hardship the whole of humanity is in and how this hardship will increase if the human being’s free will is gagged by people who are in the service of the one who fights against God, who tries to displace Him in order to increase his power and strength. It is an unequal battle, for the number of his followers exceeds the number of God’s fighters many times over, and therefore God comes to the aid of His followers in an extraordinary way by obviously getting in touch with them, by sending them extraordinary strength through His word, which is the emanation of His love and thus has to have such an effect that the human being can muster the strength to resist, no matter how hard he is pressed. And this divine word, which God Himself conveys to earth, clearly and vividly expresses God’s will, it further imparts knowledge to people which helps them to attain maturity of soul and which comprehensively and clearly reveals to them the meaning and purpose of earthly life, its destiny and God’s reign and activity. And this knowledge should enable him to endure the severity of the battle because, on the other hand, a feeling of the futility of perseverance would cause his resistance to flag. God truly knows what the human being needs in this spiritual adversity and He therefore prepares everything in order to provide people with relief and to give them the means to free themselves from God’s adversary’s power. The will turned towards God also makes them receptive to the strength from God, and therefore God tries to stimulate the will in the human being through His word to submit to Him …. He seeks to win the love of man through His word in order to be able to let His love radiate upon him, which is again perceptible to man as strength …. He seeks to strengthen his trust and faith in His wisdom and omnipotence so that he will stand firm against all hostilities from the world. And this is why the transmission of the divine word to earth is so extraordinarily significant, and only the forthcoming time will make people who strive towards God realize with what love God cares for His own and what means of grace He bestows upon them in order to let them find the path to Himself ….

amen

Every spiritual exchange has beneficial consequences as it gives the beings of light in the beyond the opportunity to mentally influence people who, stimulated by the exchange, think about it time and again. And through them they receive answers to questions which they effectively ask themselves and also believe they can answer themselves, yet this answer is the whispering of those beings of light whose activity is to mentally instruct the protégés entrusted to them. The human being should only contribute to the fact that spiritual questions are chosen as the content of an exchange of thoughts, then they already fulfill a task which is important for the salvation of the soul of the individual. Even if they seem to have little success, the beings of light can bring it about, for with tireless patience they now try to impart knowledge to the human being. They take every opportunity to guide the human being’s thinking in such a way that it comes ever closer to the truth and that the human being becomes ever more convinced that he has found the right result. In this respect the human being on earth who initiates spiritual conversations is a co-helper of the spiritual beings, whose work can now be considerably more successful. On the other hand, such conversations also contribute to the clarification of questions which were still disputed and this alone is spiritual success. The truth-seeking person can be firmly convinced that he is being led towards the truth, even if he does not immediately recognize this. And God gives everyone answers to spiritual questions according to his abilities, i.e. to the extent that he is receptive to them, and thus he can mature in the truth even if it is not obvious to him, he just has to want to be offered the truth …. This will is a prerequisite which, however, is also crowned with success ….

amen

Unteachable are those people who believe themselves to be knowledgeable, for they are inaccessible to all instruction. They do not demand what they believe they possess and therefore no wisdom can be imparted to them if they lack the will and the desire for it. A strict examination would make them suspicious, however, this examination must take place impartially, the human being must be willing to accept or reject to the best of his knowledge and conscience, but he must never only want to seek what he can reject. And he must exercise the strictest criticism of himself. His will must be to serve God by wanting to serve the truth, by wanting to reject what is false and recognize the pure truth in order to pass on only the pure truth again. And an already existing knowledge is an obstacle to such a serious examination insofar as it holds the person too captive. He does not want to surrender it if it contradicts what he is supposed to examine. And then there is only one way to induce him to accept the pure truth, that he himself comes into doubt through events, that his previous knowledge no longer gives him a foothold, that he is no longer able to harmonize it with his thinking. And thus strong trials are necessary for those people, trials which shake his faith and make him doubt as long as he lacks the truth …. For erroneous teachings will not be able to provide exhaustive clarification and therefore have to be corrected and only then will the human being be inclined to acknowledge what he previously rejected and he will be suitable for an unbiased examination ….

amen

The life-giving stream of power, which has its origin in God, is continuously supplied to all creatures and works of creation in order to ensure their existence. This supply of the flow of strength is a process which does not appear visibly and yet can always and everywhere be felt by its effect, for without God’s supply of strength all life would die, all works of creation would disintegrate and everything that exists would cease to exist. But as soon as the human being has attained a certain spiritual maturity he will also be able to see the flow of strength, and he will be able to perceive the changes which take place in the works of creation, he will be able to see through the works of creation and observe the inner processes which take place through the flow of strength; he will be able to recognize the way in which the flow of strength takes place and thus recognize all spiritual activity with his spiritual eye. And his astonishment will find no end, for he sees these currents of power take their start in the spiritual kingdom and their effect comes into effect on earth, he sees an immensely busy activity in the universe, which connects the spiritual with the earthly kingdom and which takes its course in greatest order and regularity. This spiritual seeing through matter can extend to all creations that are accessible to the human eye; but it can also encompass spiritual creations beyond the earthly, as long as the degree of maturity of the seer is very high. Then every connection is clear to him, for nothing is veiled to him anymore, although the soul still dwells in the earthly cover. Yet its earthly life will not last much longer once it has reached this spiritual degree. And a person who has this spiritual vision is also able to clearly and comprehensibly convey his impressions to his fellow human beings, for his degree of maturity enables him to do so but only a few are receptive to it. (22.9.1943) The spiritual seer has full knowledge himself, and that is why he also knows about the connection and the meaning and purpose of the individual works of creation, he also knows about the connection of these with God, and he recognizes the power current, which enlivens and constantly flows through everything, as the source of power, which has its origin in God. This spiritual vision is no longer an earthly state and is therefore only attained by a few, because it would not be beneficial for a person who is not yet mature and fully mature people are rare on earth. Yet in individual cases God already allows this state on earth in order to reveal Himself and His greatness to those who love Him and strive for perfection on earth. Spiritual vision is therefore a glimpse into the spiritual kingdom, into the reign and activity of God, which, however, is difficult to make comprehensible to fellow human beings. For only in a completely detached state can the beholder absorb it, but as soon as he wants to reproduce it earthly, words fail him, for these are supernatural processes for which man has no imagination. It is a magical pulsation, a changing interplay of forces that is indescribably sublime and meaningful and that reveals the wisdom, omnipotence and love of God. It is an image that makes the beholder fall into blissful rapture and pushes him ever closer to God, Who reveals Himself to him in such a great and overwhelming way. And his longing will soon be fulfilled, for the spiritual observer will not remain on earth much longer once he has attained this degree of maturity. For he is only able to communicate himself to very few people …. because a certain degree of maturity is likewise required for understanding …. who, in turn, shall only be spurred on by his descriptions to reach the elevated degree of maturity already on earth, because this will earn him childship to God and make him the most blissful being of light one day in the spiritual kingdom ….

amen

The time span in which a redemption period takes place depends on the resistance of the spiritual bound in the form. A redemption period can be of short duration as soon as particularly difficult conditions are set for the spiritual, which it now has to fulfill in every form. The more difficult these conditions are, the faster the spiritual overcomes the respective form. The entire path of earthly life, including the last embodiment as a human being, can then be covered in a very short time so that the being can reach maturity in the final stage and leave earth as a being of light …. However, a renewed earthly progress can also be unsuccessful again, since the last test of earthly life inevitably has to be passed in free will in order to attain final freedom …. but this free will can also fail as in the previous earthly life and thus the being has to cover this path through creation again and again, hence the development of such a being can take eternities, because every failure of free will results in a renewed binding. And as soon as the being has failed several times the conditions become more and more difficult, and the duration of an earth period always depends on the being’s steadfastness and also on how often it has already gone through an upward development out of the solid form up to the human being. The fact that the being often fails is solely its will, which does not make use of the grace which is abundantly available to it for every earthly path. Thus the being will never be able to argue that it cannot muster the strength, but it is always up to its will whether and how it uses the strength, the grace, and the respective period of development, which can bring liberation to the spiritual being, is correspondingly long if its will strives for it. Therefore the process of redemption will repeat itself again and again. Again and again the beginning of a period will be a paradisiacal state, and the end will always be a separation of the good from the bad …. and a renewed banishment of the latter in the new creations of the earth, which is to serve the spiritual for its final maturation. And the periods of time have to become shorter and shorter because every new creation has to impose tougher conditions on the spiritual, which lead to ever faster deformations and therefore also to a faster embodiment as a human being. For since the spiritual does not want to give up its former resistance, God uses ever harsher means to break this resistance. And such an epoch of redemption will now shortly come to an end in order to start anew, with a new creation which will place such more difficult conditions on the spiritual substance banished in it in order to drive it into the quickest possible deformation so that it will finally be released from it and can enter eternity as a spiritual being in a free state ….

amen

The sun of the spirit is rising, everywhere it sends its rays which are to awaken to life, everywhere it warms the hearts of those who enter its circle of light, and this is a sign of the approaching end as it is proclaimed …. The truth will shine like a flash of lightning, it will ignite and no longer need light because it is the light itself which comes from the heavens. The spiritual night that lies spread over the earth will be displaced by the rays of the rising sun, for the light is stronger than the darkness …. God Himself enlightens hearts with His light, with His word …. And therefore do not be afraid, you who want to belong to Him, you who call upon Him in the trouble of the soul, do not be afraid, for His love snatches you from the darkness, He lets the rays of His love fall into your heart so that you learn to recognize Him, so that His light awakens you to life. In this hour the lord of heaven and earth reveals Himself …. Take up the battle that will set you free from the bonds of the earthly world; let Me be your commander, fight with Me and for Me, and you will emerge as conquerors of death. Do not fear the world, do not let it lure you, whatever it wants to prepare for you; think of My love, which can give you far more glorious things and destroy all promises of the world. And therefore let yourselves be guided by My fatherly hand, bear your earthly life for a short time in patience and submission and take up your cross, which My love will help you carry when you are in danger of flagging …. I am the sun whose light you need …. I am the light that shines for you in the night …. I am the truth and the life …. You will live if you stand in the truth; you will be able to escape the night of the spirit and be happy when My sun of love shines through you, warms you and makes you happy with its bright light …. In many hearts I flare up like a twitching flash of lightning and try to ignite them, but he who flees fearfully will not feel the power of My fire of love, he will remain cold and close doors and windows so that no ray will fall into his inner being, and deep night will remain around him. A flash of lightning will shine from the rising to the falling …. where people are, there I appear, and to all I make Myself known, to all people I seek to bring light, the knowledge of pure truth …. I reveal Myself in all places so that people can recognize that I am and want to draw them to Me …. From the rise to the fall My word resounds in the hearts of loving people who desire truth and strive towards Me, and I announce the near end to all …. And that is why I first illuminate the path for them which leads to Me, to My fatherly heart, so that it is not dark and lightless but of radiant brightness and which they therefore cannot miss if they do not close their eyes and prefer to walk in darkness. And wherever a ray of My eternal sun shines there is a blessed land, there you humans should gather, there you should let My rays of light have an effect on you, you should accept the truth, the light from the heavens, and unhesitatingly abandon yourselves to the working of My grace …. Have I not given you the promise to send you My spirit? My spirit is brightest light which must break through the darkest night, My spirit is the radiance of Myself, Who is the original light from eternity …. and My spirit will shine in the hearts where it is granted entrance …. My spirit is not localized, it is everywhere where there is a desire for light, but it cannot shine where man shuns the light because he feels comfortable in the darkness of the spirit. I, as the eternal light, also radiate light …. My spirit, which I pour out on people who want to receive it and strive towards Me. And if My spirit enlightens them they will likewise be bearers of light, they will rise like the spiritual sun in the sky of life, they will send out their rays, they will bring light and warmth to all those who want to escape the dark night, and they will awaken to life what is dead and lifeless and awaiting revival. For they have accepted the light from Me, they have opened their hearts and granted Me entrance. I have kindled a bright flame in them and let the spiritual sun shine for them, which will never lose its glow ….

amen

Examine yourselves, exercise the strictest criticism of yourselves as to how far you submit yourselves to God’s commandments and whether your thoughts and actions correspond to God’s will …. You must bear one thing in mind, that you do not disregard the divine commandment of love, you must always and constantly make this your guiding principle, that you are active in love in the most unselfish way. You have a task to fulfill on earth, to mature your soul, and you can only do this by leading a way of life which is pleasing to God, thus fully complies with His will. And therefore you must make an effort to discard all selfish love, you must only ever strive to make your fellow human being happy by renouncing your own wishes, you must show him the love which Jesus Christ taught you …. pure, selfless love which is also willing to make sacrifices and does not strive for its own advantage. Such love is pleasing to God and will bring you spiritual progress; you will fulfill the purpose of your earthly life and you will receive God’s love in return, Who can only radiate His love to you if you are active in love yourselves. And this divine love will make you happy, it will replace a thousand fold what you give on earth, what you voluntarily sacrifice to Him in order to help your neighbor. And thus you should always try to make yourselves worthy of divine love by living entirely in accordance with His will. You do not sacrifice, but you receive, only that it is other goods which unselfish neighborly love earns you, that they are not earthly goods or pleasures of the world, but purely spiritual goods which God now imparts to you. For this alone is true wealth, which is everlasting and which you will never have to give away once you have received it. God’s love considers your soul and tries to make it happy. And what you receive from His hand is truly far more valuable than what the world can offer you, what you strive for in terms of earthly fulfillment …. God’s love has no measure and can flow to you in all abundance so that you can already enjoy the bliss on earth which arises from your bond with Him. And therefore strive for this bond as long as you work on earth, for the strength of desire is the measure of its fullness …. Live in love, help at all times and desire nothing for yourselves, take part in every adversity of your fellow human being, try to alleviate it through active help, be the spiritual and physical leader of those who need guidance on earth, make every sacrifice if you thereby accomplish a good work and selflessly step back if you can thereby improve the situation of your fellow human beings …. Live in love, keep the divine commandments and thereby make yourselves worthy to be a candidate for the kingdom of God, which God has promised to those who love Him and prove this love to Him through unselfish acts of love for their neighbor ….

amen

The result of inadequate research will always be negative when it concerns the scrutiny of spiritual products, since the will for rejection already predominates and this resolve is influenced by the opponent of truth. The will to advocate the truth once a person has realised it is absolutely essential for recognising the truth. Yet, precisely this will is lacking in him and, consequently, his reasoning power will be clouded and he will either be not suitable to examine or his judgment will no longer be reliable. Every serious examiner must undertake this task impartially; he must sincerely look for the truth and be willing to accept the recognised truth without prejudice. Then he will only reject that which he cannot inwardly affirm, and he will be supported by beings which want to help him know the truth and will guide his thinking correctly. For this reason, only people who do not follow a specific school of thought are suitable to examine spiritual results, otherwise their thinking is no longer unbiased, for the teachings intended to be scrutinised will clash with the doctrines of their school of thought and then it will require an exceptionally firm will in order to become completely free from the latter. And so the most convinced followers are often gained amongst people whose thoughts are not committed to teachings of a different school of thought, because they will scrutinise everything without resistance and subsequently also penetrate deeper into the spiritual information offered to them and consequently also recognise it as truth, because the truth speaks for itself as long as it is not interspersed by error which clouds a person’s understanding. Then the bearers of the pure truth and the followers of other schools of thought will, understandably, oppose each other, because the latter are convinced of their points of view and therefore don’t examine other spiritual gifts seriously enough but, on the other hand, always feel affronted as soon as they are confronted with views which were offered from the spiritual kingdom. There will only ever be individual people with the will and the ability to scrutinise spiritual gifts, and therefore only a few people will recognise the truth in them. Nevertheless, the attempt should be made everywhere to persuade people to examine the gifts from above, so that people will take notice of them and that it will awaken their desire for truth which can also train their ability to weigh up the different points of view against each other and then choose that which is right. Then it will still remain up to a person’s free will to form his own opinion of the spiritual gifts …. for he will not be forced by any means to accept or to reject them ….

Amen

In order to be able to perfect himself the human being has to go through difficult inner battles because he has to test his strength of resistance in them. Spiritual maturity can only be attained through a correctly applied will, and therefore this must be tested time and again, and this requires soul struggles; the human being must be confronted by temptations which only have the one purpose of being overcome so that the spirit becomes increasingly freer. The giving up of one’s own physical desires has to be achieved and only the soul is to unfold, and therefore the will has to be strong, and a perpetual struggle against oneself is a necessity which necessitates the maturing of the soul. It is not an easy task, yet the fulfillment, the victory over oneself, is a reward, a success which is worth all efforts and overcoming, for the free spiritual state is so blissful that the human being has truly given up nothing but is only the recipient, for what he gives is of no lasting value, but the freedom of spirit remains with him eternally. People cannot be spared these struggles, for only through constant struggle does the soul purify and steel itself, and only then is it suitable for the free spiritual state, which presupposes a complete overcoming of matter, of earthly desires and cravings. And therefore the temptation has to approach the human being time and again so that he proves his power of resistance, so that he seriously works on himself and lets his will become active …. All spiritual progress consists of overcoming oneself, be it by giving up one’s own desires towards God or one’s neighbor, if the human being overcomes his desire for the sake of the latter and makes a sacrifice. He must always put his ego aside, he must strive upwards, he must strive for spiritual good and renounce every earthly pleasure, then he consciously strives for the perfection of his soul, then it will become easier and easier for him to withstand every temptation; desires and cravings will become weaker and weaker the more he has become victorious over himself. And the spirit within him will become freer and freer, for nothing will hold him back and he will be able to strive upwards unhindered. Temptations of all kinds are cliffs and obstacles that must be overcome if the right path is to be continued, which leads to the goal. And the world will still provide the human being with manifold incentives to test his will, inner battles of the soul will have to be fought again and again if earthly life is to bring constant progress, if the soul is to be able to mature through its own resistance. The goal cannot be achieved without a fight, the human being must always be prepared to face his adversary who, in all the temptations of the world, approaches him time and again and tries to make him fall …. Man must constantly be on his guard lest he succumb, and therefore he must fight without ceasing until he has defeated himself ….

amen

You still have an arduous path to travel and have to prepare yourselves for your ministry if you want to serve Me. And therefore I demand that you use all your strength, I demand that you overcome yourselves and test yourselves beforehand so that you will become firstly strong and real instruments for Me in the last days of the battle. And this battle will be difficult, it will be waged against you with all severity, and you will only survive it if you call upon Me for help. And therefore you must remain closely united with Me, you must not allow yourselves to be taken captive by the world, you must constantly draw strength from My word, and you must not become lukewarm and lethargic but wrestle for perfection with utmost zeal. You have to use every hour to work for Me, and every word should testify to Me and My love, you have to make your spiritual striving your purpose in life, you have to constantly feel like My co-workers on earth who have to accomplish great work, and you must not miss any time, for it is pressing towards the end and therefore requires eager activity. If you want to serve Me then your whole endeavor must only be directed towards helping your fellow human beings in their spiritual adversity, to lead their souls to Me, to instruct them and to convey My will to them. You have to take such care of this soul work that nothing can turn you away from it, and you have to sincerely ask for My blessing for it so that I will lead you by the hand and guide your steps towards those whom you are to win for Me. And your love shall constantly be meant for the erring souls, and wherever you can help them you shall be ready in serving selflessness. And if you speak then submit yourselves to My spirit so that I Myself can then speak through you and be able to win My little sheep. I take part in every experience if you submit it to Me, I pay attention to the smallest impulse in you which is meant for Me and strengthen your will, and I also let temptations approach you so that you shall overcome them and thereby increase your strength of resistance …. For you will need it in the time to come, you will have to struggle for deep, unshakable faith and join Me ever more firmly if you want to stand firm and remain victorious in the battle which applies to Me and My word and which you are to fight out …. And therefore prepare yourselves, strengthen yourselves time and again with My word, do not let up in striving upwards and constantly strive for perfection …. then My grace and My blessing will accompany you and My love will provide you with unlimited strength ….

amen

The adversary will rage mercilessly amongst My own and therefore My judgment will also be merciless …. For now the spirits will separate, there will only be people who profess Me and those who completely deny Me and who declare war on everything that is faithful to Me and points to Me. And then the hour will have come when a separation will take place, when the shell of every spirit will be mercilessly destroyed, which only harbors that which opposes Me, which will be banished in a new, harder shell for an inconceivably long time. This judgment has to take place, otherwise even that which is attached to Me will still be lost, for satan works with all the power at his disposal for the sake of the last free decision. And My love comes to the aid of all people but cannot become effective where it is rejected. And that is why humanity sinks ever deeper in order to finally completely fall prey to the adversary and therefore start its renewed path of development in endless distance from Me so that it can one day become blissfully happy. It is an apparent act of cruelty which nevertheless aims to win back the apostate and which therefore cannot be avoided because there is no other way to win him back. Whoever resists Me distances himself further and further from Me and this means that his spiritual substance cools down, that it hardens into solid matter. The spiritual substance now has to taste all the agonies of being bound so that it will strive upwards, towards freedom, of its own accord and give up its resistance against Me. For I love My living creations and will not allow any of them to be lost forever. Yet where My love is not recognized My power and wisdom has to express itself recognizably, and this will happen on the day of judgment, when My own will be liberated from greatest earthly adversity, when I Myself will come to judge the living and the dead who believe in Me and will therefore live forever and who are My adversaries and therefore have to succumb to spiritual death until they acknowledge My love and desire it, only then will they awaken to life too. Endless long times will pass in greatest agony of bondage, for that which opposes Me has to be bound so that its influence will no longer harm those who are turned towards Me, who remain faithful to Me even in greatest earthly adversity …. And this judgment is no longer far away …. And the suffering and tribulation, the terror and hardship that will still befall the earth beforehand are the last means to help the apostates to recognize Me and to strive towards Me. Yet anyone who is already enslaved by My adversary no longer recognizes Me, he is blinded and sees the world and its pleasures as the final fulfilment of his earthly life. And everything will be destroyed before his eyes and he himself will sink into the abyss, for he was striving to displace Me because he handed himself over to that power which wanted to corrupt him forever ….

amen

Only complete spiritual freedom can guarantee higher development, whereas spiritual bondage has extremely serious consequences. And this is why the human being must try to free himself from the control of those who want to make him spiritually unfree insofar as that they want to impart a school of thought to him and force him to accept it. Every doctrine that is put into a form and made compulsory for people is a spiritual bondage that cannot be warned against enough. People’s thinking is illegally forced into a path that need not lead upwards, and acceptance of the teachings is made dependent on punishment or reward. The human being should be able to decide completely freely about himself; the teaching of love of Christ should be made accessible to him, but then he should be given complete freedom as to how he wants to relate to this teaching of love. Only then can it take effect in the way Jesus Christ taught it …. that the human being recognizes it as the divine teaching by the promises and their fulfilment as soon as he makes an effort to follow them. But if the fulfillment of the divine will is made a duty for him, then he will never again feel the blessing of the promises in himself. He will certainly live in accordance with the commandments, but he will not be driven to do so from within, instead his actions and thoughts will have been brought up and will therefore not bring about the spiritual progress he should consciously strive for. The human being must be completely independent and be able to develop freely both upwards and downwards, he must not be prevented from doing evil, just as he should not be driven to do good, for he should freely decide for good or evil himself, he should develop all good abilities within himself of his own accord and try to fight the bad within himself, then he will live in spiritual freedom and his upward development will no longer be endangered. But to want to impose a spiritual direction on a fellow human being, to want to determine him to adhere to it, is a great danger for the soul insofar as it now allows itself to be driven and does not take a mental stand on it itself. It then certainly fulfills what is made its duty but is constantly in a spiritual bondage, in a relationship of bondage to those who want to transfer their thinking onto others …. And such spiritual bondage will be striven for; people will be offered a doctrine and to a certain extent forced to profess this doctrine and only a few will resist and defend their spiritual freedom. Only a few will recognize it as the work of God’s adversary and not allow themselves to be determined, and this refusal will initiate the battle of faith, and the freedom of faith will be infringed upon, the human being will constantly live in danger of being treated as an outsider and opponent who wants to preserve his spiritual freedom and believes himself entitled to make his own decision in matters of faith. And thus those will be regarded as enemies who are reluctant to accept ideas which are supposed to contribute towards people’s ennoblement but which lead people astray. For truth can only be gained through free, uninfluenced thinking which is only turned towards God alone. However, it can never be the result of thinking which is forcibly directed towards a certain path, because the truth has to come from within, whereas this thinking is fed to people from outside. For even divine truth, which a person hears through his inner voice, must be recognized as truth by his fellow human being from within, even if it is presented to him as a teaching …. He must also come to terms with these teachings himself in complete freedom of will before they are recognized by him as truth, before his heart gives him information about them. Spiritual freedom is always the condition for spiritual progress, whereas spiritual compulsion leaves the human being’s soul unimpressed and only controls the intellect, thus forcing the human being to think in a certain direction which people deem good and favorable for their plans. And it cannot be warned enough not to surrender spiritual freedom. The human being should decide for himself without any external influence because this alone is decisive for his higher development and every compulsion means a standstill or decline ….

amen

The will to do good and to belong to God is the only decisive factor for good forces to approach a person and try to influence him. A will turned away from God will never draw these forces to itself, and evil forces will never gain power over a person striving towards God. It is so understandable that God does not allow the latter to fall prey to the power of evil that He Himself spreads His hands protectively over them who long for Him. The beings of light are powerful enough to ward off all evil from a person who demonstrates through his thoughts and will that he is averse to evil. The adversary’s power is indeed great but he only gains control over the human being if the latter places himself into his hands by thinking and acting in opposition to God, and then he disguises himself as a figure of light in order to beguile people whose will is still of a dark spirit and who do not recognize the adversary under the mask of good. But the one who strives for God is not blinded by the deceptive light. He sees through the activity of the one who comes from darkness …. for the beings of light enlighten him about it, they illuminate his spirit and allow him to gain insight into the weaknesses and infirmities of people who fall prey to this deceptive spirit. The person striving towards God should indeed constantly watch and pray so that he does not fall into temptation, and temptations are also permitted in order to test his willpower, to strengthen his power of resistance, but God will never allow the tempter himself to approach the person in such a form that he can no longer recognize him if his thoughts and will are right. And in the same way the beings of light form a protective wall around the earthly human being entrusted to them, who abandons himself to their guidance by consciously striving towards God. The power of evil over him is therefore only slight and only then a danger when the human being himself lets up in his striving and turns his desire towards the world and its goods and pleasures. But then a struggle of good and evil forces starts for his soul, and the power of the beings of light is truly greater and protects the human being from complete apostasy. But the will of man himself is always decisive, and that is why the opponent of God does not need to be feared where this will is meant for God and the union with him. The activity of the forces of light and darkness can certainly be distinguished and thus also recognized by its results, for evil forces will not determine people’s good actions and the beings of light will not determine people’s evil actions, and therefore you will recognize by the fruits under which influence a person is and thus also have to acknowledge an activity of light where every thought of the human being only applies to the one goal of serving God and living according to His pleasure. For this striving alone already reveals where God Himself is at work, for through the desire for God the human being draws the divine strength to himself, and God will not let the faith of the one who fully trusts Him and proves this through heartfelt prayer, through active neighbourly love and a will devoted to Him come to nothing ….

amen

The path to eternal bliss is arduous and difficult for people who are weak-willed. Again and again they must struggle and ask God for strength to strengthen their will, again and again they must try to detach themselves from the world and its charms, for only a heavenward gaze makes the ascent to the heights easy and effortless. As soon as man always keeps the goal in mind, the union with eternal love, all earthly pleasures fade and man no longer looks back. For at the end of the path the father spreads out His arms and lovingly draws His child to His heart, and all hardships, all difficulties, all struggles and confusion are over, they have sunk into nothingness in view of the glories that now await the earthly child. And the earthly path only lasts a short time …. Soon all suffering will be overcome, while on the other hand the earthly joys will also pass and the time of earthly happiness is also only short, only to be exchanged for a joyless, meagre time in the beyond, if the earthly child’s struggle and will was not directed towards union with God during earthly life. His path was neither stony nor thorny; he chose the broad path, which, however, led far from the goal. He forfeited eternal glory for hours of enjoying earthly pleasures because his will was too weak to seriously strive upwards and to take hardship and obstacles upon himself during his earthly life. You humans only have to keep the goal in mind, then you will walk the path of hardship without grumbling and complaining, at the end of which the valley of eternal peace awaits you. And the path will become easy for you if you constantly pray for strength, you will be able to receive refreshment and strengthening from the hand of the heavenly father Who wants to lead His children back to Himself, into the father’s house …. He will not leave you unprovided for, He Himself will be your support and guide on the narrow path upwards, He will lead you safely over all dangers and cliffs, and His love will surround you and protect you from falling. And if only you see Him, you will feel neither obstacles nor hardship, you will walk lightly over them because you are carried by His love …. And therefore you should not become discouraged if you feel anxious as to whether you will be able to walk the path undeterred. Only your will has to be prepared to strive towards the goal, you have to set the union with God as your goal and, feeling your weakness, you have to sincerely pray to Him for an influx of strength …. Then you will also be seized by His love and guided with complete certainty …. The path upwards cannot offer earthly pleasures, it cannot be covered like a walk, for the goal can only be reached by renouncing those, and this requires self-conquest and a firm will, it requires constant struggle and longing for God …. Only then will you not find the path so arduous, you will walk it full of faith that God will come to meet you, that He Himself will guide you and stand by you in every danger …. But only one thing is necessary, that your will is turned towards Him, that you strive to reach Him as well as your goal, that you push towards Him in love and He can therefore draw you to Himself forever ….

amen

A time of unusual events will keep people in constant turmoil because now the time of the most difficult battle is dawning and the harbingers of the end times are making themselves felt. As it has been proclaimed before, so it will be fulfilled. The chaos will become ever greater, the earthly hardship will increase, people will lose all hope, a tribulation will set in and the spiritual low will sink ever further because people will become ever more unloving and harm themselves in every way. Selfish love will prevail and only one’s own advantage will be considered in every action, and the hardship will become ever greater as a result. And events will come thick and fast, things will happen that no one thought possible before …. satan will rage amongst humanity and try to corrupt it, and people will offer their hand to the greatest abominations, they will stop at nothing out of self-interest and animalistic desires, they will take revenge in a way which is inhuman and they will have no inhibitions whatsoever. And this is the time when great demands are made on people’s sense of justice, when they have to decide for right or wrong, when they should draw sharp boundaries, when the divine commandments are transgressed …., when they should therefore not tolerate what violates these commandments, i.e. they must not approve of it by remaining silent or even consenting to it. It is the time when divine intervention is unavoidable in order to put an end to blatant unkindness, for this degenerates into the worst cruelty. What has never happened on earth before will now take place and the events will follow each other in quick succession because there is not much time left until the end. But this is terrible …. And that is why God first still shakes people’s hearts and tries to make them think, and thus He allows them to participate in the fate of the whole of humanity. He will not prevent people from tearing each other apart, and the world will experience things that are unimaginable in their magnitude and cruelty. For it is the time of the end and this time of horror can only be surpassed by the last judgment which, however, will not come upon the earth on the part of human beings but is merely an act of divine justice in order to put an end to the nameless injustices ….

amen

Through the grace of the divine work of redemption, the will of man is decisive as to whether he receives the power to exercise it. Whoever acknowledges Jesus Christ as the redeemer of the world, whoever regards His death on the cross as having been suffered for the whole of humanity, whoever believes that the man Jesus, Who had an abundance of power and strength at His disposal through His work of love, freely offered the sacrifice of atonement to God in order to redeem people from their guilt of sin …. anyone who, through this faith, places himself in the circle of those for whom Christ died on the cross …. need only want to come to God, to reach the goal for the sake of which he is on earth, then the strength will also come to him for the sake of Jesus Christ and his path will be the right one before God. Faith in the work of redemption builds a barrier to the adversary which he cannot tear down, and a person can never go astray and take the wrong path, he can never fall prey to the forces of darkness if this faith is alive in him …. “He who believes in Me has eternal life ….” Jesus Christ has broken the adversary’s power through His death on the cross, He has bought a strengthened will for people so that all those who believe in Him and have the will to do what is right before God can feel the grace of the act of salvation, the strengthened will upwards, which now also gives them the strength for a right way of life on earth. Only the human being’s will should freely decide for or against God; but where Christ is rejected as redeemer of the world and son of God, there the will will also be fickle, for the adversary still has his full power over him and will not allow the human being’s will to be carried out. But man himself is too weak to resist, for he is still in the bonds of the power that works against God. The human being in his weakness would have completely fallen prey to its power had Jesus Christ not made him free through His act of salvation, but he must also acknowledge this and thereby acquire the justification that Christ also died for him …. And thus he must claim the graces of the act of salvation, then he will be victorious over that power which wants to distance him from God. The will for God and faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer of the world is the only decisive factor, and then a person need never fear to miss the right path. God Himself will lead him by the hand, Who embodied Himself on earth in Jesus Christ in order to redeem people who are of good will ….

amen

With the last embodiment as a human being the soul completes its course of development on earth and enters a new phase of development, which now only takes place spiritually and again according to the soul’s will. Thus, in the beyond, just as on earth, the soul’s will determines its relationship to love, for love is also the only path to progress in the spiritual kingdom. love, however, can only be practiced on other souls …. Souls in need of help must also cross a soul’s path in the beyond to whom it can turn its willingness to help, otherwise it would never be able to mature spiritually. But the souls’ plight in the beyond consists of the fact that they walk along in complete ignorance, in spiritual darkness, and according to their ignorance their surroundings are also desolate, poor and very distressing and they now feel unhappy and abandoned. And now the beings can help them, whose degree of maturity is higher, and reduce their misery by informing them of their state and of the possibility of an improvement of their situation. The soul must take the other souls’ hardship to heart, it must try to encourage them to think, it must try to influence their will to undergo a task, and it must inform the soul that only the lack of love makes them suffer and that they can only attain a freer life in the beyond through loving activity and that this is also the only way to attain the degree of maturity in the beyond which was not achieved on earth. If the soul is willing, then it will also feel happiness in every little deed of love. It does not help the compassionate souls because it thereby improves its own state, but it does so from within only out of the urge to help them, and in the same proportion it itself is introduced to a deeper knowledge, which it now also learns to recognize through its activity of love. And now it constantly ascends, for it feels great happiness in every activity of love, and its state thereby becomes ever brighter and freer, it develops upwards because its own will has decided to be lovingly active and this is the only way to still reach maturity in the beyond ….

amen

Only divine influences can motivate the human being to act kindly, the forces from below will never teach a person to love or try to make him decide to live in a God-pleasing way. ‘By their fruits ye shall know them ….’ which powers people hand themselves over to. And this should suffice you, who are doubtful. Which spirit should teach you love if not God Himself? …. Love is divine and will therefore never be endorsed by beings which are averted from God …. And once love is taught and practiced the adversary’s power will be broken, hence he would deprive himself of a weapon if, for the sake of a mask, he first tried to encourage actions of love; he himself would put the best means into people’s hands to realise that he and his activity are averted from God …. But he tries to deceive people, to weaken their every power of judgment, and he indeed wraps the cloak of love around himself, he presents himself as good and noble and then influences people to act contrary to love …. He presents himself as a representative of good and only tries to attain advantages for himself and his own kind which, however, are only purely earthly recognisable and are always achieved at the expense of other people. He does not urge people to accomplish works of love even though he approaches people under the guise of love …. Nor does he pursue spiritual goals, and thereby you also recognise the working from above or from below ….

As soon as the transformation of the innermost being into love is being taught you must acknowledge the divine origin and know that only messengers from heaven convey such teaching to you. For the human being redeems himself by means of love, by means of love he liberates himself from the control of God’s adversary. He, however, tries to tie people to him again and impels them to commit the most heartless actions, he incites them to openly wage battle against God, against everything that is good, he tries to divert people’s thoughts from doing good and only to strive for material things, and his influence aims to destroy everything that testifies to God and of God. And thus he first seeks to encourage people’s selfish love, he will never preach neighbourly love to them …. for only in this way will he gain souls for himself. However, divine love reveals itself by teaching people unselfish love, by showing them the path which leads towards regaining the original state which consisted of the purest form of love …. And this is why everything that teaches love must be of divine origin, it must inevitably testify to God, because God Himself is love and He tries to lead everything that once had fallen away from Him back to Him, which is only possible if the human being becomes love himself, wherefore the light beings’ every effort applies only to one goal, to instruct people of the teaching of love and to help them to attain God ….

Amen

The believer does not need any proof for his faith because the essence of the eternal deity, i.e. His love, wisdom and omnipotence, is reason enough for everything he is asked to believe. God’s love is the first thing that is recognizable everywhere, it is, as it were, the cause of all things that are visible because they all have a purpose which always consists of a useful purpose …. This proves love for the created, for the purpose is always the preservation or existence of the same …. And profound wisdom can always be recognized where love has become active. And the omnipotence of God is proven by every work of creation …. Whose love and omnipotence cannot be doubted, Whose existence is enough to give rise to a deep and unshakeable faith in people even without any proof. For the proof that the creator provides to people is convincing enough to make them believe everything else that is taught through His messengers, through His true representatives on earth. As soon as God is recognized as the creator of all things, faith in His love, wisdom and omnipotence is also unlimited, and in humble devotion man regards himself as a creature which His will called into being by virtue of His love, and he seeks to become worthy of this love by doing everything his creator demands of him …. He accepts His commandments and endeavors to live according to them; he believes in his immortality, in his continued existence after bodily death; he believes that he must fulfill his destiny in order to become blessed; he believes that everything that happens, what is and what is yet to come, are means for man to reach his final goal …. reunion with God …. he believes that the love of God has embodied itself in Jesus Christ in order to make man’s path on earth easier. For he always and everywhere sees the love, wisdom and omnipotence of God, and nothing seems unfounded to him. And therefore his faith is deep and lively, it drives him to restless activity on himself, he tries to refine himself because he recognizes himself as imperfect, and he lives according to God’s will because he believes …. And thus he also acknowledges the divine revelations as God’s word, for again it is faith in His love, wisdom and omnipotence which justifies them, and therefore it is also easy for him to submit to the divine commandments because he has no doubts, because he always has only the goal in mind, which God’s love has set for His living creations, because he acknowledges God’s wisdom with which He tries to guide His living creations towards the goal, and because he recognizes the most powerful creator of heaven and earth in everything that surrounds him and therefore God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence is proof for him which makes him believe with all firmness ….

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God’s love and mercy will not let any being fall, no matter how badly it has transgressed against His love, for it is His product, His creature, which emerged from Him. divine works are indestructible, therefore imperishable, but changeable in themselves insofar as that the will of the being determines its nature, but the will is not prevented by the original freedom to develop upwards or downwards. Consequently, the nature can likewise change from the divine image into the opposite, i.e. it can take on the nature of the one who was once God’s most glorious creature and separated himself from Him and thus deprived himself of all perfection. The being is therefore still the same, but deficient in the divine gifts it once possessed …. It is imperfect and has thus become similar to God’s adversary. Nevertheless, it remains a divine creature which is never ever expelled from His love but constantly remains in God’s care, even if it does not recognize or want to acknowledge it. God’s goal is always and forever to lead the imperfect back to perfection, to cause it to change itself, even if eternities pass over it. For since the being created by God can never ever cease to exist, it is always and constantly given the opportunity for this transformation because God’s love and mercy does not want to leave it in its imperfect state, which is also a state of poverty and lack of freedom and therefore can never make the being happy. God’s love, however, wants to make everything that has emerged from It blissful; It wants it to be able to be creatively and formatively active according to its own will which, however, if the being is perfect, completely joins the divine will; and It wants the being to be placed into a blissful state as a result and to be able to enjoy the delights of the eternal contemplation of God …. Yet in its state of imperfection the being does not acknowledge God’s love and does not submit to His will. It resists Him and often remains in its state of imperfection for eternities. And yet it has to give up its resistance in complete freedom of will, it has to change itself and cannot be changed by God’s will, i.e. it cannot attain perfection in a state of compulsion. And this is why God, in His love and mercy, tries to influence the being such that it becomes soft and compliant. And He uses means which seem to question His love but which are only determined by His love because they promise success, namely to bring about the human being’s gradual transformation. And if the being is particularly stubborn and does not give up its resistance even by such means, His love is always intent on its redemption and His wisdom finds new ways to achieve the being’s transformation …. He lets a new earth arise, with more difficult living conditions, and He continues to woo the love of beings who want to refuse Him …. He is only anxious to carry out a continued purification, to achieve an upward development of the beingness and to reduce the gap between Himself and His living creations, for His love belongs to His living creations always and forever. If God apparently withdraws from His living creations then this is only a means to win them over for Himself because He wants to let them recognize their lack of strength and thereby wants to cause them to seek contact with the original source of strength as powerless beings. For this is already an abandonment of resistance, it is already a conscious striving upwards, it is an activation of the will, the beginning of the upward development. And God constantly tries to change this will, i.e. to turn him, who has turned away from Him, towards Himself again. And His love, His mercy and patience will never cease, He will always and constantly woo the love of His living creations, He will use every means which can lead to success, and indeed the more effective the more resistant it is to God. And thus, through its resistance, through its conduct towards God, the being itself determines the means and ways God uses in order to break its resistance, yet they are only ever evidence of His love and mercy, for He thereby only aims to finally regain that which once apostatized from Him because He wants to make it eternally happy ….

amen

An uninterrupted course of development on earth and in the beyond shapes the being into perfection, into a light receiver and light bearer, which is now active in such a way that it utilizes the strength it receives again for the redemption of the still unfree spiritual substance. The process of redemption lasts until the being itself can receive light and strength, thus it can use this strength in spiritual freedom and thereby increase it. Then the being itself is perfected and it can unfold unlimitedly. It can rise higher and higher in knowledge and thereby also extend its sphere of activity into the immeasurable, it can constantly increase the supply of strength and become ever more perfect, which is why the bliss of giving out also constantly increases. The receiving being has to give because its love is constantly increasing, which impels it to renounce the imperfect and which also lets it feel the bliss of being able to help. But the activity of the spiritual full of light is different, also according to the fullness of light, which flows towards the being, why also the state of happiness must be a graduated one according to the degrees of light. Thus the being can constantly strive, it can constantly increase within itself through unification with equally mature spiritual substances, through the influx of light and strength from God, which is again the result of its activity …. the distribution and activity of love …. The influx of the divine emanation of strength provides beings with unimaginable bliss because the epitome of every feeling is love and because the activity of love in itself triggers a happiness which can increase immeasurably. Love determines and governs everything …. It connects with each other, it looks for objects which it can make happy, because love urges to constant activity and because it wants to externalize itself, thus transferred to all beings, which are to a certain extent dependent on the power current of divine love. For the supply of the power current means life, while without love every creature is dead. Thus the beings of light are the promoters of all life, for even earthly creation could not exist if it were not constantly fed from the kingdom of light with the power from God, which animates and sustains everything. The supply of strength is therefore transferred to the beings of light in the spiritual kingdom so that they can share in the unspeakable bliss, since the receiving and distributing of the divine gift is based on love for the unredeemed and therefore the being of light has an unlimited area at its disposal where it can work, both on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom. And thus its love becomes ever more radiant and penetrating because it also increases more and more of its own accord through the union with the beings of light ….

amen

Only the will for truth allows a person to recognize error. So many people walk along in error because they thoughtlessly accept what is offered to them as truth and therefore they are also unable to distinguish truth from error. And this is a danger which cannot be warned of enough, because only the truth can bring people to the maturity of their souls. It must be pointed out again and again that only the desire for truth can bring it to a person. For even if it is offered to him, he will not recognize it as truth as long as he does not desire it out of his innermost drive. The slightest will to know the truth will bring him to realization, for his thoughts will now repeatedly come across error, he will not reject these thoughts but pursue them; the truth will also come to him mentally, and by weighing both against each other it will become increasingly clearer in him, because the truth makes him happy but error repels him …. And this reflection must first begin before a person becomes certain, before he can accept and advocate the truth with conviction. Erroneous teachings will not satisfy him, he will take offense at them …. But the desire to stand in the truth must always be a prerequisite, otherwise his willpower is too weak, i.e. it is held under the spell of the prince of lies who campaigns against the truth. People are mostly indifferent and have no capacity for judgment of their own because they are indifferent. They hold on to what they have accepted without examining the extent to which it has come to them unadulterated; and this indifference has serious consequences. For the time of earthly life passes by uselessly, because only pure truth brings spiritual progress if the human being is not exceptionally active in love, whereby his thinking is brought closer to the truth. Nevertheless, his own will has to awaken to reject everything that is wrong, he has to seriously consider the religious doctrines imparted to him if they are to benefit him, i.e. if they are to be of value for the soul’s higher development, otherwise imparting them would be of no value whatsoever. He should be able to benefit his soul, and therefore they also require an examination, an opinion, so that they now stimulate the soul to life, to activity, without which a spiritual higher development is unthinkable. And this serious examination must be connected with a desire for truth, thus the human being must hunger for true knowledge and inwardly resist error. Because he seeks God, he must only want to acknowledge the divine, and he must therefore also completely abandon himself to Him, Who is the truth Himself and therefore also the giver of pure truth. And then he can abandon himself to the spiritual influences without worry …. he will be correctly guided in his thinking, he will be able to distinguish truth from error, which God Himself now offers him ….

amen

The spiritual beings full of light constantly take part in the development of the unredeemed and exert their influence on them. Thus people are also surrounded by beings which belong to the kingdom of light, but whether they can make themselves heard depends on the individual’s will and his attitude towards God and his way of life. A person who is distant from God will never be accessible to the beings of light and their whisperings, for the voice of the world will drown them out. But if the human being is connected to God, then he is also in contact with the beings of light and opens himself up to their spiritual currents of power. The beings of light are aware of the adversity of the time and seek to bring enlightenment everywhere. They often make use of willing people who now feel driven to engage in spiritual conversations. For they can only transfer their power, their knowledge, to those people who open themselves, i.e. who allow their thoughts to wander into spiritual regions. As long as the human being dwells on earth in thought, that is, as long as he only pays attention to earthly things, the beings of light cannot express themselves mentally, even though they dwell in close proximity to the human being who is entrusted to their protection. They do influence events, they bring people together or prevent them from coming together and intervene in people’s destinies, often even very painfully, because they only pursue the one goal of stimulating them into mental activity in order to then be able to exert their mental influence. For their nature is love, and this love causes them to work tirelessly in order to help the still unfree souls attain spiritual freedom. And therefore it is particularly welcome to them when they have spiritual co-workers on earth, people who are united with God and therefore already have knowledge and use every opportunity to talk to their fellow human beings about spiritual matters. For now they, too, can intervene in the questioner’s train of thought, they can give him the right answer through the mouth of the person who gives them the opportunity to do so. For even if the spiritual beings of light have great strength and power at their disposal they still have to observe those laws on earth which have to remain in place for the sake of the still immature beings and can only express themselves within the framework of the natural, which is also the case when a human being speaks in His place …. Yet this human being’s thinking must be entirely under His influence, which is also self-evident due to his attitude towards God. God Himself works on these people through His messengers, through the beings of light, as soon as the human being, in love for God, also submits himself to His will and thus offers no resistance if God wants to make use of him in order to help the still ignorant people on earth. The spiritual beings full of light are therefore always close to earth and especially close to people who are in contact with the spiritual kingdom precisely because of their will and their love for God …. And they now work together with these people in order to help the erring souls to attain knowledge, to attain spiritual freedom ….

amen

The transformation of matter often takes an infinitely long time, for only when it dissolves does it release the spiritual substance which is banished within it. The human will can accelerate the dissolving of matter, but only a small part of it is at its disposal, namely the shell of the spiritual, which is not in stubborn resistance against God. God knows about the resistance as well as about its abandonment since eternity and has also instructed the spiritual to stay where it will be redeemed according to his will. And this again explains the different nature of the earth’s surface and its vegetation, the duration of some creations, the frequent eruptions in certain parts of land, the possibilities of utilizing earth treasures and the different creative power and ability of men. The spiritual, which is willing to give up its resistance and to serve, must always be given the opportunity in the same proportion to dwell in a matter that fulfills a serving purpose. Furthermore, the will of men must also be stimulated to produce useful objects from hard matter. Thus men must need such objects and accordingly live again in conditions where they are necessary. There must be a constant balance between forces that want to be active and needs …. Matter must therefore be needed for creations of a serving, i.e. purpose-fulfilling nature. Only then is a perpetual transformation of the outer form of the spiritual possible. However, an immeasurable amount of spiritual substance is banished into creations in the most solid form as well as in the already mature plant world …. which remains unchanged for an unthinkably long time, i.e. only undergoes minimal changes in itself, which does not fulfill a serving purpose that is recognizable to people but is not without significance for other works of creation and their development. This matter harbors the most resistant spiritual substance and has been destined to be its shell since eternity in recognition of its stubbornness. It probably also undergoes the process of development, only in a slower form. Human hands contribute little to the transformation of such matter and it is mostly only changed by divine intervention, by forces of nature, storms, heat and rain and eruptions, which bring about a dissolving or changing of the outer forms over long periods of time. And that is why earth upheavals have to take place again and again, the earth has to be reshaped in its outer form as well as the spiritual within the earth has to be given the opportunity from time to time to come to the earth’s surface in order to be able to start its course of development there. And this is why the earth can never remain unchanged, for it is matter whose final goal is dissolution, which indeed takes eternities but happens again and again in certain periods of time as a compelling necessity for the spiritual substance bound in the solid form, which has to be set free one day in order to be able to develop upwards ….

And now the path of earthly life begins for the spiritual substance through countless external forms, each of which it has to overcome through serving activity until the dissolution of this form. And even if thousands of years pass over it, the process of development on earth still comes to an end once, because nothing on earth is permanent, because everything has to change and experiences a change partly through human, partly through divine will. Certain laws must indeed prevail, i.e., nothing may be destroyed unlawfully, just as the creations which have come into being through human hands may not harm the next person, otherwise the spiritual in matter will be forced into unkindness and this will have an effect on the people themselves who have caused it to be so active. The will to serve is the beginning of ascent, and the spiritual must testify to this will again and again by willingly fulfilling its earthly task in every form, which it certainly complies with in the law of compulsion, but through its willingness to serve significantly shortens the time of stay in the respective form and can now change it all the quicker. The course of development of the spiritual is therefore an endless chain of deformations of the most varied kind, and the willingness of the spiritual therein determines the duration of each individual form. And that is why the whole creation must change in itself; nothing can remain as it is, but it must constantly take on new forms. And every form has to fulfill a serving purpose, otherwise the spiritual in it cannot mature to the last outer form, to man, who then has to pass the last earth life test in free will to now become free of every outer form and to be able to enter the spiritual kingdom as free being ….

amen

By virtue of the spiritual strength which can flow to a person he will be able to accomplish things which appear supernatural as soon as he uses the strength correctly, i.e. allows his will to become active in order to accomplish them. The will can only then become action when the strength joins it …. faith in the divine spiritual strength will now allow stronger strength to be requested, and then the human being need only want the strength to unite with him, that it enables him to carry out the deeds, and he will be able to accomplish everything with the support of spiritual strength. It has been the original state of the spiritual to be active creating and shaping, and at any time it can reach this original state again when its will is strong enough. Its imperfection now means at the same time weakened will, which therefore never strives for this original state. But as soon as the human being realizes his shortcomings, as soon as he strives upwards again, towards perfection, his will also increases in strength, and now he consciously opens himself to the strength which has flowed through him from the beginning and which is now again at his disposal unmeasured according to his will, which, however, has to be turned towards God. The strength of will also determines the amount of strength flowing towards him. And thus the human being can accomplish everything as soon as he submits his will to God with complete devotion to Him. Then God’s will is also his will and he is now able to achieve supernatural things through his faith …. This faith, this strengthened will and the fullest devotion to God will come to light in the time of the battle of faith through signs and wonders. The adversity of the time will give birth to a strong will in the believers so that the strength of the divine spirit will obviously express itself, for they will completely hand themselves over to God, abandon themselves to His guidance and His working. And God Himself will now be able to work through His own …. the human being will accomplish things which would otherwise be impossible for him …. Miracles will happen through and to people, which will spur them on to believe again because they confirm the power of faith, because they testify to God and to the divine teaching …. People are imbued with the spirit of God and therefore nothing they want will be impossible for them, they will be able to put everything into practice by virtue of faith. For their striving towards God has reached a degree that people can no longer deter them; their faith is of that strength which can move mountains and God Himself is with them …. He will not let their faith be put to shame …. It is God Himself Who works through people because they have completely surrendered to Him and there is no longer any obstacle which could make God’s work impossible …. because people strive for perfection and this will alone enables them to achieve great things ….

amen

Imagine the hour of your death and ask yourselves whether you are well prepared for eternity …. Consider your relationship with God and how you have used the pound He has given you for your time on earth …. Ask yourselves whether you could stand before God’s judgment seat, whether your earthly life is right with God, whether you have shown love, and whether you are ready to depart from earth at any hour without fear of having to give account to God …. Consider that your strength will also come to an end with death and that you cannot do anything by yourselves if you depart from this earth with an immature soul. Ask yourselves whether you are satisfied with yourselves and can depart from this world in peace …. And exercise the strictest self criticism, and after that make an effort to perfect yourselves ….

Make use of every day that is given to you, as long as you are on earth you can still achieve a lot. You have the opportunity to purify yourselves even now, because you have the strength to do so and can increase it with actions of love …. Keep death in mind and recognise yourselves as a weak creature who cannot delay for an hour once God has determined your hour of death. And with deeply felt sincerity ask God for His mercy, for His grace, for His support, that He will give you His love and with His love also the strength which guarantees your ascent. Keep only this goal in mind, that you may awaken to eternal life when your earthly life is over, and then live in accord with this goal, carry out God’s will and always think that every day could be your last day on earth …. Then you will prepare yourselves, you will live consciously and without fear pass across into the kingdom of peace, your true home ….

Amen

Christ’s legacy, His teaching of love, will remain as long as the earth exists, even if it is fought against from all sides. God Himself brought this teaching to earth through Jesus Christ, He made His will known to people, He sent His word to them through a human being Who heard the divine voice in Himself and Who, as the mediator between God and people, was therefore able to make divine will known to them through His teaching, which commanded love for God and for people. God Himself was the teacher, for He Himself spoke through Jesus, in Whose human shell He dwelled in all His fullness, and therefore it is not the teaching of a human being but a divine teaching which can never ever be displaced, for the words of God are imperishable, they remain for all eternity …. As soon as the battle against the teaching of Christ begins, the battle is against God Himself, and this can only lead to a defeat of the greatest significance. Not to accept Christ’s teaching, not to fulfill His divine commandments is already so serious for people that they have to atone for endless times, that they have to endure an agonizing state in the beyond for eternities; but there is also a redemption for these souls, the divine teaching of love can still be made accessible to them in the beyond, change their will and cause them to accept it. Yet the open fight against it on earth is a sin which is directed against God Himself, Who Himself preached the teaching on earth through a person associated with Him; it is a disregard of Himself, it is a denial of His deity, a rebellion against It, it is a compromise with His adversary and the most serious betrayal of His love …. It is the fight against the divine teaching of love which Jesus Christ preached on earth, a total union with the forces of the underworld, it is a diabolical beginning which God cannot leave unpunished …. God sent His son to earth in order to convey His word to people because they were no longer able to hear it themselves and because His word is absolutely necessary if people are to be saved, if they are to find their way back to Him from Whom they came forth. He wanted to bring Himself close to people again through His word, He also wanted to impart the power to them with His word …. and He made use of a human shell for this purpose, a soul that stood in the light through its immense love. He Himself took abode in it and thus was Himself in the word in the midst of people …. He communicated with them and preached words of love to them …. He taught them through Jesus so that people would not be restricted in their freedom of faith and will. Yet what He imparted to them was His word, the expression of His deepest love and mercy for people, it was the signpost to Him, for without His word no-one could be saved …. Jesus Christ was the mediator because only a soul that loved God and its neighbor intimately could receive the word from Him, and thus He offered Himself as a mediator because His love for His fellow human beings was immense and He wanted to help them. Mankind will never be able to undo this act of mercy, and it will never succeed in suppressing Christ’s teaching; it can only resist accepting it and thereby sink into the deepest depth of ruin. For God protects His word, He will keep it pure and always ensure that it is given to people from above in an unadulterated way if human will has distorted it and people are in danger of losing faith as a result …. for Christ’s teaching cannot be replaced by human teachings. Nothing better can be set against it. And much less can it be eliminated if a person wants to reach maturity. But the battle will be against the educated teaching of Christ, because the pure truth, which was imparted to people from above, is inviolable and will assert itself as long as people will be on this earth in order to then impart the knowledge to people on the new earth again and to inform them of God’s will, of His divine teaching of love and of Christ’s act of salvation ….

If people now try to suppress the divine teaching of love, which therefore testifies directly to God, which is His work, because it came forth from Him, then they destroy themselves, for fighting against God must end in complete defeat, in a complete downfall. But that which is of God remains for eternity. It will be offered to the people of this earth again and again in the same form because what is from God is also unchangeable, because it is the pure truth which can never experience a change. Only human accessories will be fought again and again from above. Hence, where the battle will be against it, God Himself will grant His support and He will bless those who take action against additional human work for the sake of pure truth …. But now the time of the end has come when the spiritual substance which is distant from God will try to take action against God Himself under satan’s rule, when therefore everything which is of God and testifies to Him shall be wiped out. God’s adversary tries to displace Him and spares no means in order to achieve his goal. But this is the sign of the approaching end, that people declare the most bitter battle against Christ’s teaching of love, that they deny His divinity and thus have to learn to recognize God’s might and strength, the might and strength of His teaching of love and the might and strength of faith by their own destruction and the miraculous salvation of those who are imbued with faith in Jesus Christ as God’s son and redeemer of the world ….

amen

In the spiritual kingdom the activity of love has the same effect as on earth …. in an increased supply of strength, thus also in spiritual progress, for all activity of love paves the path to God, and closeness to God is the ultimate goal of all beings. Hence love is likewise preached in the spiritual kingdom, that is, the beings of light draw the unredeemed souls’ attention to the fact that only love will bring them liberation, and they also provide them with every opportunity to develop themselves in love. No soul can develop itself upwards other than on the path of love, yet this is far more difficult in the spiritual kingdom than on earth as long as the soul is still ignorant, thus not yet enlightened. For then it only touches its own fate, it does not see the hardship of other souls because it is still very much in self-love, which is to blame for its ignorant state. And this self-love prevents it from selfless loving activity, for then the soul regards itself as the center, it feels unhappy, and unjustly so, for its self-love conceals its own faults, whereas it recognizes all faults of other souls and feels elevated above them. And so it cannot feel any love for its suffering environment. It is hard and unfeeling and takes no interest in the other souls, and as long as it does so it will also feel its hardship bitterly, which will only diminish if love is kindled in it and stimulates it into loving activity. And it often takes an infinitely long time until the soul softens and is willing to help of its own accord. And yet it cannot be stimulated into loving activity other than through instruction from the beings of light, for it has to decide of its own free will to be helpful, it has to put aside its selfish love, disregard its own hardship and try to alleviate the suffering of fellow-suffering souls, then its hitherto powerless state will change, the soul will feel the influx of strength and become increasingly more capable of helping and working with love. Its state will now become increasingly freer and it will realize that it is becoming increasingly lighter around it, it will be able to see things which make it happy, its knowledge will increase and its will to reach God will become ever stronger …. And thus her activity of love also becomes eager, for she recognizes the power and strength of love, she recognizes her goal and strives towards it …. she seeks to come close to God and to redeem herself through love ….

amen

The will to be of service liberates the spiritual from solid form, from the hardest matter, and opens up the possibility of higher development for it. And this liberation from form is a process which always becomes obvious and which is mostly connected with powerful expressions of the forces of nature which God uses to destroy hard matter. After an infinitely long time the spiritual substance is released from its first cover, the form is burst so that the spiritual substance disperses into countless tiny particles, that it certainly still remains in the same matter but which is now assigned a serving activity, either again as matter for new creations by human hands or also in smallest reduction for the reception of plant substances, depending on its nature and the strength of the will to serve. This is, so to speak, the beginning of the development, which now takes place again and again in a different external form. A work of destruction is always God-willed if it takes place without human influence or if a destruction of matter is undertaken in order to be able to form things that fulfill a serving purpose. It is therefore only dependent on God’s will when the spiritual begins the path of development, for this spiritual has then expressed its will of its own accord for serving activity. But the spiritual in the solid form can also become free through human hand and human will, through exploitation of the earth, through the lifting of treasures which the interior of the earth holds; and this process of dissolving or liberating matter is also wanted by God; but it is always a prerequisite that this exploitation is for the benefit of mankind, that therefore the lifted treasures are destined to serve men, to cover their needs of life, and are therefore necessary for life. Then the liberation of the spiritual from the solid form is equivalent to the process of destruction by natural forces, by eruptions that stir up the interior of the earth and bring it to the surface. Such eruptions will mostly take place where human hands have little access, indeed, such eruptions will often create an area that can be made habitable by people so that the spiritual, which is now willing to show itself, is offered the opportunity to carry out a serving activity. The spiritual in the last stage of development, the human being, is always in direct contact with the spiritual beginning its earthly career. The former needs the latter and thereby gives the latter the possibility of higher development. Mostly earth eruptions bring men into a trouble, which lets them become immensely active, and so increased possibilities are given that the spiritual having become free can take its stay in new formations, because the activity of men is necessary to form things, which again fulfill a serving purpose. But through divine will also the spiritual comes to its serving purpose, whose coverings are not accessible to human hands. It serves in nature again and again among each other, because everywhere possibilities are created by God that the spiritual can mature in every form, once it has expressed the will to serve ….

amen

It is much easier to submit to the desires of the world than to fulfill the divine commandments, because what the world demands of people is also the desire of man himself, i.e. it appeals to the body of man and is now also sought by him. The divine commandments, however, demand renunciation of what the body desires in favor of the neighbor who is now in need. Thus the body’s desire has to be put aside, it has to renounce for the sake of the soul, then the human being lives his life on earth in accordance with divine will, which brings him spiritual success. The fulfillment of the divine commandments is therefore an overcoming of oneself, an overcoming of all bodily desires and a constant sacrifice of what is dear and valuable to oneself …. It is not easy, i.e., it requires a constant supply of strength, because man must resist temptations in order to test his free will, because the body’s desires threaten to make him fickle again and again and he constantly needs strength to resist them. But without inner struggle no spiritual progress can be achieved, and without temptation there is no merit in remaining steadfast. And so the world will always want to push itself forward, the divine commandments will always demand a willingness to sacrifice, while the world tries to make the enjoyment of earthly pleasures the human being’s purpose in life, and it takes a strong will, a deep faith and a conscious striving towards God to surrender the world and to find complete satisfaction in the fulfillment of the divine commandments. The strength from God must enable the human being to do the latter, it must permeate him and make him feel God’s love, then his activity of love will also increase, it will make the human being himself happy, he will no longer feel it as a sacrifice but unselfish neighbourly love will make him happy, and he will no longer miss the world but willingly give it up for what he exchanges for it …. for the love of God, which now flows to him in the form of strength and which surpasses all earthly pleasures many times over in value. Then the body will no longer desire the world either, but it will participate in the soul’s work and find satisfaction in it, for a loving soul has conquered its body, it is dominated by the spirit within itself, and the body also submits to its desire, it spiritualizes itself like the soul, as soon as God’s love can become effective in it through unselfish neighbourly love ….

amen

The will for good will also let increased strength flow to the soul to overcome the body’s wishes, for the human being’s free will is always taken into account, the currents of strength will always be stronger or weaker according to this will, the transmission of strength through the bearers of light on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom is of such varying strength because the soul first has to open itself in order to receive it, and this opening is only ever the result of the will. And thus the will, which is turned towards the good, thus towards God, will accept every flow of strength without resistance, the human being will be willing to receive what God’s love offers him. And then the soul can also mature, it can, unhindered by the body, join the spirit within itself, it will not have to fear any counteraction because the body also joins this striving and is no longer so accessible to the temptations of the world, even if they still often approach it in order to test and increase the strength of will. And thus the less resistance is now offered to the light bearers’ activity the more successful the soul’s earthly change will be, for it will start to loosen its fetters, it will strive towards the freedom of spirit and only use the last days of its earthly life to overcome matter, which will also result in an easy detachment from form once its earthly life is over. But man can determine himself, he can turn to every power, the good as well as the bad, he is not hindered, but only guided in loving care, so that it is easy for him to turn to God. But whether he develops the good in himself depends on his will, and therefore he is also responsible for his will, he is as it were the shaper of his will and must also take the consequences upon himself, for it is also brought home to him in all situations in life that and why he should decide for God in the last stage of his development. He is never without knowledge about it, for if this knowledge does not come to him from outside through instructions, through the divine word, he can also hear it from within through the voice of his conscience, which originally instructs him loudly and audibly but which can also be silenced by his own will. However, if the soul succeeds in rendering the body without will, i.e., to completely align its desire with the soul’s desire, then the soul will use all its will for good, then it will constantly strive upwards and receive the imparting of strength from the spiritual kingdom which will result in its spiritual perfection, for the strength from the spiritual kingdom inevitably leads to ascent ….

amen

Life will bring about great changes if it remains with you humans, for under the existing circumstances you will hardly change your way of life, you will hardly establish contact with God and prepare yourselves for the near end. You only regard the suffering on earth as a temporary state and therefore do not seriously attempt a total change, always in the hope of being able to lead a tranquil existence in peace and quiet in the foreseeable future. And you do not consider the great danger that such a peaceful way of life would mean for your soul. For you would care little about your spiritual development and the approaching end would find you completely unprepared because the world with its pleasures would still completely dominate you, thus you would not yet have overcome matter when you have to take your last test of will. And therefore you have to be made aware of the near end. Your thinking has to be guided into other directions, you have to be torn out of the tranquillity of everyday life and be faced with new tasks which require your serious participation. You have to mature through the adversity of your fellow human beings, i.e., it has to prompt you to do loving deeds, it has to awaken in you the will to help them so that you will come to the realization through this will that this will to help is actually your task on earth and that you will now make an effort to comply with this task. This change in your thinking will only bring about a change in your living conditions, for as long as these are in order the human being is afflicted by a certain inertia and will no longer do anything for the salvation of his soul. He would leave himself and also his fellow human beings without spiritual nourishment, for he would know nothing of their blessings and thus he would remain without strength and grace …. And therefore a time will dawn which will completely deviate from the previous living conditions, which will affect and touch every person because nothing will remain as before but everything will undergo a change which is so immense that it will also have an effect on the person, sometimes to his advantage and sometimes to his disadvantage, as soon as he does not humbly submit to the change. For God truly knows what serves humanity …. He knows about their adversity and He knows the means to remedy this adversity and He will also use them in order to avert the danger of a complete failure in the last days where possible ….

amen

If you want to pass the test of earthly life, take part in all your fellow human beings’ hardships and worries and persevere in prayer …. i.e, always and constantly request strength from above, without which you are incapable of accomplishing even the smallest thing for God’s pleasure …. for you are weak creatures as long as you lack maturity of soul, you do not have your own strength at your disposal but must request it from God, Who certainly intended it for you in the beginning but did not prevent you when you deprived yourselves of this strength. You rejected a gift which made you extremely happy and now you have to struggle to receive this gift again. And that is why you have to pray and practice love, and both will earn you strength depending on the intensity of your prayer and the depth and unselfishness of your love for your neighbor. If you disregard this, your struggle on earth will be unspeakably difficult if you desire to ascend, or you will be supplied with strength by God’s adversary, which will indeed make your earthly life easier but can never lead you upwards but will inevitably drive you towards the abyss. Use the power of prayer …. Stay connected to God and open yourselves to His radiance of power. This is of such great importance and yet is so little recognized and followed by people. You should only ask for spiritual possessions; but the strength from God is spiritual wealth and therefore you may always and constantly request it; and God will not leave your prayer unanswered, for His concern is for your perfection, for which you absolutely need the strength, because without it you are weak creatures which cannot help themselves on their own. And then you will also be able to carry out works of neighbourly love, you will be driven from within to constantly do good, your heart will take an interest in your neighbor’s fate, it will be soft and sensitive to the other person’s hardship and you will always be willing to help and try to alleviate the hardship. Spiritually and earthly you will want to help them and also be able to do so if you request the strength from God, which He will not deny you. For only through works of love can you mature and fulfill your earthly task. Therefore, do not let up in prayer, remain in constant contact with God, pray for strength and power for your earthly life and trustingly hand yourselves over to the father in heaven, Who leads His children through suffering and adversity towards the light ….

amen

Anyone who professes the pure truth, who accepts without hesitation what is offered to him from above and who therefore considers himself to be taught by God Himself, no longer has to fear a decline and his soul need not fear what is to come. His faith will give him strength, for faith in God’s working will become particularly strong in him if he is beset by unbelievers who want to prove their earthly power to him. Then he will trustingly call upon the one Whose word he heard long before; he will turn his eyes to where the truth was conveyed to him. He will approach the spiritual beings who instructed him for their special protection, and he will arm himself against all attacks of the adversary with the power of the divine word; because he recognizes the pure truth he will also be able to stand up for it, and he will stand undaunted in the midst of battle and fear nothing, whatever is undertaken against him. And God has opened up this source of strength for people in order to give them security in the battle against the greatest enemy of their souls. Yet understandably, only the human being who has already penetrated the knowledge of the origin, the former fall and the complete redemption through the divine word will approach the coming time completely calmly. Nothing frightens him anymore because he knows that people make no effort of their own accord to shape themselves such that God is pleased with them, and therefore he also knows that there is only a short time left until the near end and that this time will not be used properly by humanity and that it therefore has to be made aware of God’s working through obvious evidence. And this is why God brings the truth closer to people in a way which, admittedly, only appeals to those who do not doubt that the heavenly father cares for His children with love and who therefore acknowledge His obvious working without hesitation and therefore feel the power of the divine word in themselves. These will be the spiritual leaders for people when the battle against faith breaks out, and they will also successfully represent the true faith to their fellow human beings, for anyone who has once correctly recognized the truth and never doubts God’s love and grace will inevitably come closer to God, he must mature through the truth which has its origin in God ….

amen