I will give you what you ask for if it is good for the salvation of your soul …. But the truth is the most necessary thing for the salvation of your soul, the truth is the surest path to Me and thus also to eternal life. And therefore I will not deny any of My living creations the truth if it desires it and asks Me for it. Yet how I convey it to a person, how it is most beneficial for him, I truly know best how to judge. Yet you should not doubt My love, My wisdom and My omnipotence. I truly only have the goal of drawing you to Me, and only those who know the truth can reach this goal. Thus I must also convey the truth to you according to your receptivity and willingness. Whether you are able to hear it within yourselves, whether you come into possession of it through fellow human beings or whether you receive the truth from the scriptures …. you will always be able to draw on it if only you hunger and thirst for the truth, which is your source of life. For it is always I Myself Who offers you the truth if you ask Me for it and have the rock-solid trust that I will answer every prayer which is not for earthly things but for the soul. Why should I let you walk in darkness when I Myself am the light and want to shape you into beings of light as long as you live on earth? …. Believe in Me that My love cares for you and guides you, regard everything in life as a means which My wisdom uses to lead you upwards towards the original light …. and believe that I am able to do everything, that I can also guide the most ignorant into the purest knowledge. And believe that only your prayer, your will for truth is necessary that you will also be given it. Every spiritual exchange of thoughts promotes your development, and every silent thought is a further step towards Me, Who is eternal truth Myself. For what longs for truth in you is My share, it is the spark in you which has emanated from My spirit in order to become effective in you. And this spiritual spark will not let you go astray but will enlighten you if you ask for it. Therefore you need not ponder and doubt but only hand yourselves over to Me with complete faith, then I will guide your thoughts correctly so that you will certainly recognize the truth, so that you can easily distinguish it from error and thus discard the latter. And you will be free from the pressure which error exerts on your soul because it binds it and the spirit cannot develop freely in it. Truth alone will lead you to the goal, to eternal union with Me, for only through truth will you recognize Me and then you will love Me such that you will make an effort to please Me. But if you walk in error then the path to Me is not really recognizable and you deviate from it and the goal vanishes from your eyes. Yet do not worry that you might not be pleasing to Me if you pursue the truth …. I Myself place doubts in your heart so that you may rid yourselves of them in silent prayer to Me, for only when you doubt do you search, and once you have absorbed the pure truth within yourselves will the doubts also disappear and your faith will be strong and unshakeable. And the more you are held captive by error, the more you will have to struggle for the truth and the more doubts will arise in you. Yet you should never doubt My love, and this love will stand by you in every spiritual adversity, it will always and constantly teach you and guide you towards the pure truth until you are convinced of it and can truly believe in it ….

amen

The soul perceives every influx of spiritual strength although the body does not feel it. And this is why the human being himself cannot assess his degree of maturity, because only the spiritual matures in him and therefore the body does not undergo any change and thus does not show any spiritual progress at all. And this is why the human being as such still often has to fight against purely physical cravings and weaknesses, whereas the soul has already freed itself from them. But then it is dominated by the body and thus bound to it again, which the soul does not like. Although the soul constantly accepts strength and will also quickly become the conqueror of the body, it will make it aware of the danger of its desire and will usually succeed because the spiritual strength becomes effective as soon as the soul is in need. However, no human being can mature without temptation, for his strength should grow through resistance, and resistance for the soul is every temptation it has to endure …. The body continues to demand for itself what is part of the world until the soul completely masters the body, i.e. makes it inclined to its striving. Then it can finally regard matter as overcome, for the spirit in it is now stronger, and it determines the soul and the body and is willingly listened to. But the influx of strength has to take place in a way that only touches the soul, otherwise the body’s will to resist would immediately be broken in a certain coercion, as it would then be an unconscious striving for reward but not a striving out of itself for perfection, which would then move the human being to suppress earthly desires and physical pleasures. This is why the influx of strength only has an effect on the soul, inexorably driving it to activity in love, to renounce earthly pleasures and to constantly work on itself, without the body being affected in its actions and desires. But since the soul needs it to carry out the actions which the spirit in itself instructs it to do, it gradually loses its connection with the world and its pleasures, for it will always carry out what the soul demands of it, even if at first with hesitation and with senses still directed towards the world. But the strength of the spirit is stronger and the resistance of the body is broken as soon as the soul completely surrenders to the spirit within itself, then it also determines the body to join its desire and striving, and all danger of a worldly flattening is over. The fewer battles a person has to wage against the temptations of the world, the higher his state of maturity …. If he succumbs in the battle with the world, this is a standstill in his development until he has pulled himself up again, until, through renunciation, he again enables the soul to be supplied with the strength that excludes failure. Nevertheless, the temptations of the world are necessary and also beneficial, for man should test his strength against them, and every struggle against them, every victory is progress towards the heights. The soul should remain in perpetual struggle for perfection, it should not let up in prayer for support from spiritual friends, it should always remain aware that its thoughts and aspirations also reduce or increase the influx of strength, depending on whether it is turned towards the world or the spiritual kingdom. But the body has been given to it so that it may overcome it, for only through temptation will its strength grow if it is seriously willing to become perfect ….

amen

The trials and affliction imposed on a human being are rarely recognised as a means to attain highest perfection. God knows every individual person’s degree of maturity, He knows their hearts, and He truly does not miss the slightest movement which speaks for or against Him. And therefore He also knows which degree of development each human can still reach, and accordingly He will bestow suffering or strokes of fate upon the person if the possibility still exists to thereby raise the soul’s maturity. Before its embodiment as a human being the soul knew full well what would happen to it during its life on earth, it entered its final embodiment in full agreement by hoping it would emerge from it victoriously. It beheld its pleasures as well as its sufferings on its path of life and yet did not let them frighten it from going, since, on the other hand, it also knew of God’s help and His grace and foresaw the possibility to completely outgrow matter and dispose of its shell for good. For this reason so many a soul accepts a particularly difficult earthly fate, because it also foresaw the consequences of a correctly lived earthly life and knows the final goal and deems it reachable. Yet in earthly life it loses its past awareness, and therefore it fails to make use of the opportunities and is in danger of not reaching its goal. And therefore God provides it with help by creating opportunities on earth which enable the soul to mature fully. And then the human being will have to surmount greater opposition, as suffering and sadness are given to him on earth for which he has to appeal to God for strength in order to overcome them. A life without battle would always keep him at the same stage of development and he would have lived his life in vain. It is not that he has to atone for his sins on earth, like it is wrongly taught, but it only matters that he moves from the abyss, in which he still finds himself, to higher spheres, that he transforms himself into a being of light, that he works at improving himself by discarding everything which still prevents him from receiving an undreamt of abundance of light.

He must effectively purify a still opaque shell through suffering and misery, he must remove every impurity from it so that the light will then be able shine through it, for this purification has to take place of a person’s own will, it cannot be implemented by God without the human being’s will. Suffering and love are the only means to be cleansed from all impurities, and a great extent of suffering is the expression of great divine love at the same time, which wants to help the person to become such that God can make him infinitely happy in eternity. Sorely afflicted people on earth are therefore especially seized by His love, even though it seems incomprehensible to them. Life on earth is short compared to eternity, and one day the soul will look back with gratitude and praise on its short time on earth in which the suffering resulted in its higher maturity which it would never have attained without suffering. A person on earth has immeasurable blessings at his disposal so that he can endure even the worst suffering if, in heartfelt prayer, He draws strength from God, for He has assured him of this. He will let no-one leave Him without having strengthened him who confides his adversity to Him in firm faith so that He can and will help him. For the suffering is never greater than the One Who imposes it, Who has truly enough power to help people in every need. Therefore, always keep His love, wisdom and omnipotence in mind if you are burdened by severe suffering and you will feel comforted and patiently wait for His help ….

Amen

God uses the most effective means to win souls during the last days because His love still wants to bring salvation to the weak. Yet people are so far removed from faith that they try to explain even extraordinary working naturally rather than believing in God’s strength, and therefore they will also pay little attention to the miracles in the last days, which are likewise only means to revive or strengthen faith. People of the last days are completely secularized, they don’t believe in life after death, in a power Which holds them accountable and thus also not in an extraordinary manifestation of this power, they don’t believe in the power of prayer, in a connection with the spiritual kingdom, and therefore they cannot be made aware of the last judgment either since they will only mock and reject such references. They believe to be completely enlightened and reject every spiritual conversation, which is why they also know nothing of the phenomena of the last days which are now taking place before their eyes and yet remain without impression. Yet even among these people there are those who have no opinion of their own and are, as it were, followers, and God remembers them and tries to draw their attention to them through all kinds of misfortunes. He informs them of His will through His word and makes them think about the events which move the whole world and clearly reveal the divine will. For if they are given indications of the end times from several sides they will pay attention to their arrival and they will not completely close their ears when God’s will is made known to them. There are only a few of them, and yet God also courts these few, for He tries to win every soul in order to spare it a repeated walk on earth. The means God still uses as the last appear so unloving and cruel that it is difficult to present them to people as God’s proof of love, and yet they can only be explained by God’s great love …. For as soon as the end is imminent there is no more opportunity to mature on this earth, and the fate of souls which cannot be taught and which sin against the eternal deity anew through their will is such an extremely agonizing and merciful one that every saved soul is eternally grateful to its creator for the means His love has used. He sends His messengers to the weak, He tries to persuade the hardened to give up their resistance against Him through extraordinary suffering, and He tries to make the decision easy for those who are still undecided by providing proof through faithful people that faith carries strength within itself …. by letting them accomplish extraordinary things by calling upon His name and by bringing Himself close to people, revealing Himself to them in the word and announcing the end to them. He woos His living creations with all love, which are in danger of completely falling away from Him, and He uses every conceivable means, but He does not force them to comply with His ideas but leaves them complete freedom. Yet they will also have to bear the responsibility if they push away the loving hand which wants to seize them time and again before the end ….

amen

Redemption is only possible through love. This law applies both on earth and in the beyond and must therefore be fulfilled by all beings, otherwise they will remain eternally bound. The characteristic of redemption is light and strength. As long as the being is still without light and strength it is unredeemed, it has not yet regained its original freedom and therefore also not the ability to work in fullest knowledge. For the being, which however originally stood in all perfection, the imperfect state also means a state of misery and agony, but which it has caused itself through its will, through its lack of love. And only through love can it become again what it was from the beginning. Therefore, love can never be eliminated and must be the basic principle, so to speak, without which there can be no higher development. But if love is disregarded, the course of development must inevitably be hindered, for an influx of strength and light is then impossible, and where this is missing, a chaotic state is the result. For in darkness everything becomes confused and the lack of strength makes the beingness incapable of freeing itself from the state of imperfection. Light and strength, i.e. knowledge and power …. are the signs of redemption. An unredeemed being therefore cannot give out anything because it possesses nothing itself; it therefore cannot be active in love in the beyond either, and this state is extremely agonizing. On earth, however, the being has strength at its disposal even in its unredeemed state, a strength which is admittedly not the sign of being redeemed but which is granted to it as an extraordinary grace in order to be able to redeem itself. It is the life force flowing towards him which enables the human being to work with love in order to gain possession of light and spiritual strength. This is why earthly life is a special act of grace, because God conveys something to the beingness which it is actually not entitled to in its will of rejection against God …. He gives it the strength to work, even though receiving strength is only a part of the redeemed. This act of grace is immensely significant, and yet it remains unrecognized and unused …. That which has become weak through apostasy from God receives strength for self-redemption, which it only needs to use properly in order to be able to return to its original state of freedom, knowledge and power. God gave the beingness a life which it did not deserve, He gives it strength and constantly provides it with opportunities to be lovingly active, thus to use the life energy flowing towards it to work with love and thereby redeem itself. Yet the being does not make use of this extraordinary gift of grace, it continues to live in heartlessness and ignores its task in life, which is intended to bring it light and strength in the beyond. But there all supply of strength is cut off as long as it does not feel love within itself. And therefore the course of development in the beyond can only be continued under very difficult conditions if it is not completely interrupted or continued downwards by the will of the being itself. For a regression can now occur where the being is completely devoid of light and strength and, due to its lack of love, distances itself ever further from God. Without love there is no redemption, but love has to unfold freely in the being, and God gives it every conceivable opportunity to do so. And even if the process of transformation into love takes eternities, it cannot be circumvented because higher development means an alignment with the eternal deity, Which is pure love Itself, and therefore love has to be developed in the spiritual substance if it is to become again what it once was …. a free, light-filled and powerful being that is allowed to dwell in God’s presence ….

amen

The earthly battle will come to an end and instead the battle will break out which is directed against faith and against everything spiritual. This has also been announced before so that men recognize when the end is near because this fight precedes the last end. Both men as well as God demand the last decision, only that men demand that faith is rejected, while God demands that he is acknowledged and this decision has to be made absolutely. The battle for faith is even more important than the battle for earthly possessions and earthly power, for now it will be shown to what extent humanity is still connected to God, to what extent it makes use of the strength from God and thus resists the world’s desire. It will become apparent what immense strength is hidden in faith, i.e., how much more powerful the person is who deeply believes and thereby also lives in accordance with God’s will, for he need not be active on his own but is always in contact with God and can make use of God’s strength if he is to stand up for God and faith in Him for the sake of his fellow human beings. And this is why the coming battle of faith will be unavoidable, after all, a final clarification is to be achieved by a separation of spirits, i.e. of good and evil people, who will appear particularly conspicuously in the end. Then there will only be people who live in love and strive to grasp God with all their senses, and those who ridicule and persecute everything that points to divine striving, who deny God, who are utterly hostile towards His followers and who will not shy away from any means in order to achieve the goal of displacing God from people’s thoughts. And there will no longer be any undecided or fickle people who have not yet finally made up their minds, but anyone who is not for God and the faith is completely against Him and must be addressed as an opponent of God. And this final separation of spirits has to take place so that a time of spiritual blossoming can follow again, which admittedly only starts on the new world but nevertheless begins after the completely disinherited time before the end of the old earth, for people who are in love and in truth will find each other and pass the short time of the battle of faith together and still prove the strength of faith to the unbelievers on earth, so that a few will still be offered the last opportunity to cross over into the camp of those who are faithful to God ….

(22.6.1944) And before the end has come a clear separation will have emerged between the people who belong to God and the apostates, whom God will now judge according to law and justice. Yet only a battle of faith will bring about this separation, and this has to be carried out with all tenacity, and it will make great demands on people who want to remain faithful to God, for the adversary’s way of fighting is brutal and ruthless and can very easily persuade those people to apostatize who are not completely firm and feel certain of protection from above. Yet God remembers their need and He is always ready to help …. He will reveal Himself to His own in great adversity and strengthen them to resist until the hour of deliverance from danger has come for them. The spiritual battle is far more significant than the battle of nations against each other, for in the latter people only lose their temporal life, they lose or gain earthly possessions, whereas now it is about their soul life, which is imperishable and therefore has to be valued quite differently. No battle is too difficult and no sacrifice too great if it is for the salvation of the soul for eternity. And since people do not ask themselves the decisive question as to whether they should strive for God or the world, the coming battle of faith will have to confront them with this question, and the decision will be difficult for those people who have not found God of their own accord and yet do not want to betray Him. The spiritual battle will require great strength which, however, can only be received from God Himself. And the human being must now seriously seek the connection with Him if he wants to survive this battle. Yet the end will inevitably come, and it can be recognized by the fact that people will become devils because of their faith, for they will try to take the life of those who give themselves to God, and they will now take action against God Himself. And this is the end …. A spiritual turning point is imminent but the old earth and its inhabitants will not experience it. A reshaping of the earth’s surface is necessary so that a new period of redemption will start again with people who have a higher degree of maturity. And that is why there is a time of peace on the new earth where all struggle, spiritual or earthly, is eliminated because people live in love and know His will in most intimate union with God and eagerly strive to fulfill it. His will, however, is to live in the divine order …. in love for God and neighbor ….

amen

To be spiritually dead is the most terrible fate, both on earth and in the beyond. On earth the human being does not feel this fate as long as he is spared the pleasures of the world, that is, as long as he forgets his soul and is therefore also unaware of its lifeless state. For only his soul is affected by it, while the body creates earthly pleasures for itself as long as it is alive and does not feel the inactivity of the soul, its powerlessness. Only when the soul enters the kingdom of the beyond, when it has shed its physical shell, does it become aware of its lack of strength and with it the dreadful fate it now has to take upon itself because it has not used its earthly life to awaken the spirit within itself to life. Now the opportunity is taken from it, it can no longer be active of its own accord but is in a state of complete powerlessness from which it cannot free itself. It lacks all knowledge, it is shrouded in complete darkness, its environment, its state of soul, is devoid of light and therefore it is also completely incapable of working with love, for this requires knowledge, and knowledge is light …. Although these souls are still cared for by the beings of light in the beyond, yet since they already rejected everything on earth which pointed towards the spiritual kingdom they are not accessible to the ideas of these beings of light either, and they often remain in utmost (renunciation) poverty, in a pitiful state, in the same darkness for eternities. And as long as they do not want to be lovingly active in the beyond the lack of strength will not leave them either, because loving activity first triggers the supply of strength and loving activity first has to be exercised again in free will and this will has often sunk to the lowest level due to the influence of God’s adversary …. On earth man has the power of life at his disposal so that he can awaken his spirit to life at any time. He can end the state of death at any time, he can be active in love because the power of life is at his disposal for this. And as soon as he is active in love his spirit awakens to life, and this means receiving light and strength. The spiritually dead human being knows nothing of things of the spiritual kingdom, he knows nothing of God’s reign and activity, of His love and wisdom and omnipotence, he knows nothing of his low level, of his former destiny and his apostasy from God; and this ignorance makes him a spiritually inactive creature, for it cannot work according to its destiny but is condemned to inactivity because it does not liberate itself from it. The spiritually dead human being does not allow anything that surrounds him to have an effect on him, he only sees with the eyes of the body and tries to live out his earthly life in every way, regardless of the spirit which is given to him as a companion in order to guide him correctly. And at the end of his life the human being can look back on a long, earthly enjoyed life and still be dead in spirit, and this death is far worse than the death of his body, for his soul does not pass away, it enters the kingdom of the beyond through the gate of death, It is aware of its existence and yet completely without strength and light, powerless to act and in completely dark surroundings, and it feels this unusually agonizing because it now desires the previous state of life on earth, where it could work and act according to its will, with all its senses and it is not fulfilled. It is dead and yet has the awareness of its existence, it is powerless and knows about the happiness of possessing strength; it is ignorant and therefore has no means to free itself from its state, for it can only receive something in the beyond if it gives itself …. The human being on earth cannot imagine the torments of a spiritually dead soul because he is still in the midst of life energy which he can receive for as long as he remains on earth and because he can be active according to his will. And it already means great suffering and affliction on earth if a person is partially deprived of this vitality, i.e. if he becomes incapable of working and creating due to illness …. This state, which is intensified many times over, is the fate of those who pass over into the kingdom of the beyond spiritually dead, who did not awaken the spirit within themselves to life through correctly utilized life energy, through working with love, who lived on earth without living spiritually because they valued earthly life too highly and did not think of their actual purpose, which consists of shaping themselves according to God’s will so that the spirit within them will come alive and can promote their upward development ….

amen

The knowledgeable person will be able to refute every objection raised by the unbelieving person in order to justify his unbelief. For once he has received the right knowledge, the divine wisdom, he will be able to refute every wrong opinion because every doubt will have been resolved and every question answered and he will therefore be able to counter the unbeliever’s objections with his own knowledge. He can now utilize his knowledge, he can enlighten himself, correct errors, answer questions; he can teach and impart wisdom, which, however, will only be recognized as (truth) wisdom if the listener has a serious desire for truth. For in order to win an unbeliever to faith, the teacher must be able to dispel all doubts in him, he must make the divine truth accessible to him in such a way that even the intellectual person cannot close his mind to it if he seriously reflects on what he has heard. He must try to logically justify the knowledge he wants to pass on to his fellow human being so that even the critic cannot completely reject it but must take a stand on it. The knowledge he has received himself obliges him to pass it on, but it also enables him to do so, so that he only carries out something for which he has been prepared by the supply of truth from God. Admittedly, opponents will arise who will even want to powerfully shake his knowledge, for wherever the truth is spread God’s adversary will also try to assert himself in order to stop it. Yet anyone who stands up for the truth for its sake, who does not seek to gain earthly honor and fame, will not need to fear any opponent, for he only speaks on God’s behalf and he now also stands in God’s power if he represents His word. What God previously imparted to the human being in His love in order to educate him as a bearer of truth irrevocably remains his spiritual property, even if he has not yet completely mastered it mentally, yet if he carries out the teaching activity the thoughts will flow to him as he needs them in order to speak for the truth. And his words will also be convincing if the partner has also sought a discussion for the sake of the pure truth. However, they will fall on the ears of someone who only raises objections out of a desire to argue and is not interested in refuting them. Yet the representative of the pure truth will soon realize this and use his words sparingly, for he only shares his knowledge where it is desired because God places it in his heart, because it is precious knowledge which he, too, could only receive through heartfelt desire for it ….

amen

Countless souls pass over into the spiritual kingdom in an immature state when they die, and their fate is therefore not very enviable. The kingdom of light is closed to them and they are in an environment which is adapted to their immature state …. but which is not at all suitable for them, for in these souls selfish love is particularly strongly developed, which is why they practiced little love for their fellow human beings on earth and were unable to achieve a high degree of development. This selfish love now makes them feel their inadequate fate with particular difficulty, for they will not be able to satisfy it anywhere. Although its own desire presents it with everything it desires, as soon as it tries to grasp it it realizes that they are only illusions, and this realization is all the more agonizing the more it desires earthly goods. It has not yet overcome matter in earthly life and takes the desire for it with it into the beyond, and consequently it does not feel the need to hand out and make the souls who share its fate happy, because it had little sympathy for the suffering and worries of its fellow human beings on earth either. And yet God still grants these souls favors and gives them new opportunities for development so that they can still reach higher maturity in the beyond. For due to their inclination towards earth, which is characteristic of all immature souls, they still predominantly stay close to earth, and they can now see the destructions carried out by human hands, they recognize the worthlessness of earthly goods, they see the earthly hardship on earth and can even feel prompted by it to express their will to help. And thus the earthly hardship contributes to a change of thinking in individual souls, and they overcome ego-love and are now at the beginning of their higher development in the beyond. This grace is still granted by God to countless people today, so that people’s lack of love will indeed bring about their earthly end, since earthly life is not used for the souls’ higher development, but that the now departed souls are nevertheless allowed to stay close to earth in order to change their attitude through people’s suffering and misery, in order to realize the worthlessness of earthly possessions and to suppress their desire for them. However, if self-love is exceptionally strong, then this earthly hardship will not contribute to the change either, then the desire will only become ever more intense for the goods of the world and the being’s own imagination will make it believe all the things it longs for. But then the state is also exceptionally agonizing, and the soul is in greatest danger to develop regressively and to no longer use the last grace in the kingdom of the beyond. This danger is great, and yet the death before the last end is still a blessing for such immature souls, for then there is no longer the opportunity to mature in the beyond despite a low degree of maturity. Premature death is therefore proof of divine love, which still wants to bring salvation to such souls since they have failed in earthly life. It is a last resort to change into love, and God leaves no means untried in order to still bring salvation to all beings before it is too late. Yet how it uses these means is left up to its free will ….

amen

The spiritual forces which are acknowledged by the human being’s will always assert themselves, and thus the individual’s train of thought is also influenced by these forces. Now man has to seriously account to himself whether his will is turned towards the good or the bad, because according to his desire, his thinking and will, he is supported by spiritual powers which want to win him for themselves. His way of life is decisive as to which spiritual forces join him, furthermore, his attitude towards God determines which power these beings have over him, for a heartfelt prayer to God for help will displace the enemies of his soul, even if the human being has succumbed to temptations and allowed himself to be carried away by deeds which betray the obvious influence of evil forces. The evil spirits often take advantage of man’s weakness and determine him to do deeds that are not right before God. But if a person musters the will to connect with God in prayer, he soon recognizes the wrongness of his thoughts and actions and frees himself from the forces oppressing him by calling upon God for help against the tempter. On the other hand, the person whose aspirations are always for the good will be guided and also protected by good forces, so that he cannot be oppressed by the evil spiritual forces and the good forces can now successfully work on him by guiding his thoughts and imparting many spiritual riches to him, but also by determining him to eagerly work on his soul. He will always and constantly seek contact with God and thereby also brightly and clearly recognize what is contrary to God’s will. Thus he will also keep away from people who act contrary to God’s will, and likewise he will also keep spiritual beings at bay due to his will to be good. He can resist and close himself to the whisperings of evil powers because a thought turned towards God already puts a stop to their activity, thus the human being is never defenceless against them, just as, conversely, the power of those spiritual beings is great if the human being himself is willing to enter into contact with them by turning away from God, through wrong thoughts and desires for the world and its possessions, which are merely lures on the part of the enemy of his soul in order to turn him away from God and incline him towards him. Man can resist, he is strong enough to do so as soon as he unites with God in prayer. But if he turns God off, he abandons himself to the forces and gives them power over him, from which he can then hardly free himself. Just as man’s thoughts and aspirations are his spiritual environment …. for man himself determines these and he must also take responsibility for his thoughts, feelings and will because it is his completely free will to which forces he surrenders himself. For no spiritual being’s influence is so great that he is forced to act and think against his will. He enjoys God’s protection if he calls upon Him and thus establishes the connection with Him, otherwise he hands himself over to the forces of darkness and this is also his free will ….

amen

The divine sun of grace continuously sends its rays down to earth, and whoever desires to stand in its circle of light will feel its rays beneficially and live. But only he will live, for it is the life of the spirit that is awakened and encouraged by the divine sun of grace. Mankind lives along without knowing about the benefit and the effect of the rays which are guided to earth through God’s love, and therefore it is dead in spirit, it does not know true life even though it believes itself to be alive. And this state of death can only be changed through the light of the divine sun of grace, yet without this it remains dark night in people’s hearts, and spiritual depression, hardship and tribulation are the side effects of such darkness. But blessed is he to whom the desire for light comes in such adversity, who follows a ray which, like a faint glimmer of light, shows him the way to where the sun of grace shines brightly and radiantly and warms and enlivens people’s hearts. Every ray exerts its effect, and once someone has felt it, his desire increases and he never withdraws from the effect of this ray, for he now knows what life means and no longer returns to his previous dead state …. The divine sun of grace, however, is the word of God, which emanates from God, testifies of Him and leads back to Him …. it is the spiritual rays that have their origin in God and also inevitably return to Him …. They emanate in the universe and seek to gather that which is far from God in order to bring it back to God. The word of God is the expressed emanation of God, the spiritual power which audibly expresses to people what God’s love wants to convey to His creatures. And what emanates from God must be life-awakening, thus whoever receives His word, whoever does not withdraw from His strength, must live. Just as the natural sun sends its rays to earth in order to ensure its earthly existence, in order to guarantee earthly life for all creatures, so the divine sun of grace is absolutely necessary for the dark spiritual world which is still embodied in the earthly creation. But man especially needs its rays to enliven his spirit, for he too cannot bring light into the soul of his own accord, it has to be conveyed to him so that it becomes light in him and he gets to know the right life, so that his soul becomes active and creates and works in love. For everything that lives must be active, and what is inactive is dead in spirit. God in his infinite love knows about the happiness of uninterrupted love work; he knows about the happiness of eternal life, which means constant activity under supply of power from him. And this is why He tries to place people into a state of bliss through this supply of strength, yet always respecting their free will. This is why the divine sun of grace does not shine everywhere but only where it is desired …. That is why the word of God only sounds to those who desire it, even if it is offered everywhere. For the word of God is like a light that shines where its rays are granted access, but which can never shine if it is placed under a bushel. People must pursue the rays of the divine sun of grace, they must not flee from them if they want to feel the warmth and strength and at the same time the love of God, which bestows this blessing upon them in order to awaken them from death to life. God’s love never ceases and His source of grace never dries up, He lets the sun shine on the righteous and the unrighteous …. He sends His word everywhere …. but whoever avoids the sun and feels comfortable in the shadow of darkness, He cannot give him life …. he remains dead in spirit, he remains in night and darkness ….

amen

God’s voice sounds down to earth from bright heights, and love reigns in these high regions, and love speaks to people and tries to change them into love, because again only a soul which has become love can enter these bright heights. And therefore the soul has to be shown the path as to how it can shape itself into love, and God Himself shows it this path through His word …. Thus, wherever love is taught, wherever the human being is encouraged to act with love, wherever love for God and his neighbor is suggested to people, God Himself is at work there and He speaks through those who spread the divine teaching of love. And you should listen to them. You need not fear falling prey to error, you need not fear hostile forces which want to divert you from the truth but you can without doubt regard God Himself as the giver, because love can only be preached by people who receive their knowledge from the heights of light. Love is of divine origin and no human being or spiritual being will ever use words of love if he stands apart from God and is therefore far removed from love. Yet anyone who teaches love will always be in contact with bright heights, and God Himself will place the words into his mouth so that they will not remain without effect, for it is His word which the human being passes on if he preaches love. Yet people have to pay attention to one thing, that only pure, selfless love is divine, whereas craving love is not entitled to be addressed as divine love. Divine love wants to give, and the divine doctrine of love only ever commands love for God and one’s neighbor, but love for oneself should never predominate because then desire sets in, which suffocates pure love ….

Wrong love always has something material as its goal, it seeks to possess something which still contains immature spiritual substances and is therefore earthly, it arises from the desire for earthly goods, for increased well-being of the body …. And such love cannot be divine, for divine love only has God as its goal, just as it can only emanate from God. A conscientious examination of his feelings will confirm to the human being that love for earthly things diminishes love for God, whereas selfless, pure love strengthens love for God. And therefore pure, selfless love will make you happy, while earthly love triggers desires that call for constant fulfillment. Love continues to radiate down to earth from bright heights in the form of gifts which are intended to help the soul to unite with its spirit, i.e. to return to bright heights again. But wrong love separates the soul from the spirit, it prevents its awakening and development and thus pushes the soul into the abyss; it is a selfish love which should not be called love as such because it is not divine but the characteristic of the one who is without love and therefore tries to weaken love through constant activity. God tries to change people to love through His word. His adversary tries to appropriate this love through the world, the human being himself can now listen to God’s word of his own free will and thus receive the divine emanation of love in order to return to God again through it. However, he can also fall prey to the world, which lures and shines with its false rays and turns the human being’s love into selfish love; then he inexorably strives towards the one who is devoid of all love ….

amen

No love can be born out of (in?) a world of hatred, and therefore people will always act hostile towards each other and thus accelerate their own downfall, for unkindness means the end of what God has created, unkindness favors destruction in every way. It is the driving force of the will to destroy, and since God has given human will the freedom to carry it out and it receives strength to do so from below, the human being goes on a frightening rampage and this must result in an accelerated downfall. A world of hatred and unkindness is extremely distant from God and can no longer receive His strength, to which it closes itself off. Consequently, there can no longer be any existence for this world, and thus the spiritual reason for the downfall of the old earth is given, and countless spiritual beings take action on God’s behalf and bring about a powerful eruption, for these spiritual beings want to leave their old abode, they long for liberation in order to start the earthly course of upward development in various forms. Earthly it means the shaking of the earth in its core and a total change of the outer form, the passing away of old creations and the emergence of completely new forms, which grant the still immature spiritual beings a stay. It further means the end of innumerable men and every living creature; it means a destruction of the works of creation through divine will because God wants to give the spiritual again the opportunity in new works of creation to approach him, to decrease the over great distance and to change first in bound and finally in free will. Hatred and unkindness destroy, but God’s love restores …. Nothing shall be lost, and what through wrong will makes itself unreceptive to the power it receives will pass away and must remain in another form until its will has changed and it desires the power from God. For without this no being can reach ascent, without this no being can become happy, because only the power from God gives life and life is only the final goal of every being ….

amen

The human being’s will can bring about a complete transformation of his nature if he requests the strength to carry it out from God and then lets his will be followed by action. For the strength is certainly at his disposal as soon as it is requested, but the human being’s will must first express itself, because a change of nature can only take place in free will if the human being makes contact with God as the giver of strength. It is therefore absolutely necessary to acknowledge God, the human being must admit his weakness to Him and thus submit to Him and humbly ask Him for His help. Then the will which has turned away from God will have turned to Him again and every deed it now accomplishes will contribute towards its transformation, for a will turned towards God can no longer do anything which is contrary to God because the strength from God underlies its activity. The connection with God is his surest protection against committing actions which are opposed to God’s will. And this is why heartfelt prayer for strength must always result in spiritual progress, whereas a person without a request for strength cannot record a change in his nature, for he is too weak to carry out his will as soon as he arrogantly believes himself strong enough to do so.

He will indeed be able to carry out earthly deeds by using the life energy constantly flowing towards him, but these will only bring about a change of soul, of his essential nature, if they consist of loving activity, and this already demonstrates a will which is turned towards God, which will then also strive for unity with God. Consequently, a person who carries out unselfish deeds of love will also affirm his attitude towards God, he will be able to receive strength from God as a result of his activity of love, and the latter will then be an unconscious request for the strength at his disposal, whereas the conscious request, the prayer for strength, determines his thoughts, will and actions to work with love, so that this likewise signifies spiritual transformation. But a person can be incessantly earthly active without his activity being an activity of love, then this activity in no way contributes towards the transformation of his nature, because only vital energy flows to him but not the spiritual strength which reshapes his nature. And such a person absolutely needs prayer, he has to request this strength, which first requires his will to shape himself such as it is his task on earth. This will, however, requires that the human being recognizes a meaning and purpose of his earthly life and that he believes in an entity to Whom he has to answer. If he lacks this faith then he will never muster the will to change his nature and request the necessary strength to do so. Then he will live his earthly life completely unsuccessfully if he does not practice love of his own accord, which inevitably leads him towards realization, so that he finally establishes the right relationship with God after all, tries to adapt himself to Him and requests the necessary strength for this from the highest and most perfect being. As soon as only the will turns towards God, God also takes care of the human being, since this is already the beginning of the change of the being whose will, which is turned away from God, is the cause of his embodiment on earth. Yet the human being can increase the strength flowing towards him beyond measure as soon as he desires it and asks for it. Then he will never lack the strength to work towards his perfection, he will be able to continuously accomplish deeds of love and thereby assimilate himself to the eternal deity, and he will always more and more consciously make contact with God, for this is the characteristic of the strength from God, that it impels the human being into constant activity and leads him towards God, so that his spiritual development will proceed unhindered and he will reach his goal as long as he remains on earth ….

amen

The person who offers to impart spiritual knowledge to his fellow human being takes upon himself an immense responsibility, for he is then not responsible for his fellow human being’s earthly life but for that of the soul, which is immortal, which can attain eternal life through its will if the right knowledge is imparted but can also fall prey to spiritual death if error is imparted. And therefore the one who wants to teach must first stand in the truth in order to be able to spread it …. he himself must know about the great danger that spreading false teachings means for the soul. And he must know and also fulfill all preconditions which guarantee him the pure truth. God Himself imparts this knowledge to him if he is of serious will. He instructs him in the most comprehensible way as soon as it is His will to bring the truth to his fellow human beings for the salvation of their souls. But he must also be aware of the responsible task he has taken on so that he constantly strives for the pure truth in order to be able to receive it. Thus the human being must carry out his ministry fully consciously, he must be so moved by the truth himself that he is urged to pass it on to his fellow human beings, he must not become lukewarm and lethargic because this would weaken his desire for truth and thus signify danger. The person who wants to teach has, so to speak, the spiritual fate of those who receive knowledge from him in his hands, and he must remain mindful of this during his teaching activity. That is why the conviction must first take root in his heart, he must himself penetrate so deeply into the truth that he can also represent it fully and completely to his fellow human beings. And only this state enables him to work for God, and it is the result of a will fully turned towards God. Through unconditional devotion to God he will now change himself such that he can become the bearer of light, of pure truth from God. The will must emanate from the human being himself, then he will also receive the strength from God to put the will into action. Thus the human being who has the salvation of his fellow human beings’ souls at heart will also be able to help them, he will be able to teach them by imparting the spiritual knowledge to himself which he can then pass on. The teaching activity should not be understood as a profession in the earthly sense, but in complete unselfishness fellow human beings should be offered what God has previously offered to the teacher himself, he should only be driven by love for God and for his neighbor, for the unredeemed human being, and this will only be the case if he himself knows about the human being’s task on earth, that is, if he has been qualified to receive the truth from God through his own God-pleasing way of life and a will completely subordinate to God. Then he will take his teaching ministry seriously and only strive to expand his knowledge in order to pass it on to his fellow human beings unchanged. Then he will also be aware of his responsibility and seriously strive for truth of his own accord, and then he can also safely impart the spiritual knowledge he has received to those who desire it, he can teach love to those who are still ignorant and thereby guide them onto the right path which leads to God, to eternal life. And therefore only the human being who knows no other goal than to serve God and who reveals this to Him through his constant will to receive spiritual possessions, who therefore constantly and permanently maintains the connection with God and is now introduced by Him into the right knowledge, into the truth from God ….

amen

The human being’s course of life corresponds to the soul’s state of maturity at the time of its embodiment on earth, that means, God so delineated its earthly life that it provides the soul with the best possibility for higher development. If the human being has the interest of his soul at heart he will indeed make use of every opportunity and reach his goal while he is still on earth, he will adapt himself to the eternal Deity by living a way of life according to God’s will. But he can also let all opportunities pass by without making use of them, and this signifies spiritual standstill, a deficiency in his development. And this shortcoming shall be balanced out again, therefore life often makes great demands on him which require all his strength if he wants to comply with them. He is effectively offered another opportunity to practise neighbourly love insofar as something is expected of him which requires all his will but which presupposes helpful neighbourly love. If he lives up to these requirements he must activate his will and work for the benefit of his fellow human beings. And this activity can lead to the soul’s maturity, because its driving force is neighbourly love and this is the most effective means to attain maturity of soul. If the human being practises neighbourly love from an early age, he will use every opportunity offered to him for his spiritual advancement, for then he will also brightly and clearly recognise the meaning and purpose of his earthly existence.

If, however, he is half-hearted and sluggish and if his heart is hardened towards his fellow human beings’ suffering, then he will also let every possibility for development pass by, he will only think of himself and ignore his fellow human beings’ hardship, then he will also live in complete ignorance of his actual task on earth and therefore will not consciously strive to ascend. It is possible that the soul, prior to its incarnation as a human being, can already have been exceedingly willing, and this willingness led to its earthly life in which it can attain a very high spiritual level, for according to its will God provides it with the opportunity to become active. Thus the human being will find life relatively easy insofar as his soul will not offer resistance but willingly strive to fulfil the commandments of God because it receives strength as a result of its willingness. For it is the strength of love which results in activity of love again. A willing soul does not resist carrying out loving deeds because love dwells within it and because a loving heart will constantly stimulate loving activity. And therefore he will be offered an abundance of opportunities, regardless of how he uses them. The less a person resists his inner urges the sooner the soul will mature, for then it will be constantly driven to carry out deeds of love, and thus the soul gradually changes into love, it complies with its task on earth, and every experience contributes towards its higher development. For the soul’s earthly life is predetermined depending on its will, which it can therefore cover with great success …. so that it will attain the maturity on earth which allows it to enter the kingdom of light immediately after its physical death ….

Amen

The greatest grace is the transmission of the word of God in such a form that it can be communicated not only to one person but to the general public. A process that is so extraordinary must be recognized as a special grace, as a work of God’s love for humanity that is accomplished for its salvation. And anyone who seriously reflects on this must be deeply touched by God’s love and filled with great gratitude, for he knows that he himself is also touched by this love if he takes the opportunity and allows the word of God to penetrate deep into his heart. Yet in most cases this gift of grace is not recognized. No attention is paid to the extraordinary process or to the profound wisdom that the imparted word contains. For the human being’s intellect tries to explain everything in earthly terms and he sees the cause of the spiritual results in the recipient’s special ability to write down his own thoughts because he himself lacks faith in a loving being Which, in Its wisdom and omnipotence, tries to help people. For this faith is absolutely necessary in order to recognize the divine gift of grace as such. And this is why the word of God cannot be spread like a world view because earthly questions are not raised and discussed but faith is lacking for spiritual instructions and thus the word of God does not belong to the world but to those who are outside of it, i.e. who have already overcome it to such an extent that only the spiritual world seems desirable to them. And this is why the divine gift of grace receives so little attention and recognition, for humanity sees and hears with the eyes and ears of the body and these still belong to the world, which is why they only pay attention to what is useful for their earthly life and what they therefore also want to advocate and spread. However, God-seeking, believing people will recognize the word of God. They sense the divine care and know that they are being guided, and thus it is also understandable to them that a creator will not leave His living creations without help if they are in need. And they also recognize that they are in need by the fact that there is no spiritual striving amongst humanity and that this can only be achieved through the word of God if people are willing. For the word of God is the binding agent which can bring people who are distant from God back into the right relationship with God. It is the path that leads from the earthly kingdom into the spiritual kingdom, it is the source of strength that enables people to live in accordance with divine will. And to a believing person it will not seem impossible that God expresses Himself in an extraordinary way, for he also recognizes the extraordinary nature of His working and is happy about it. And now his faith and his love for God will deepen and he will strive towards Him ever more eagerly. Thus he allows the grace flowing to him through the word of God to take effect and his soul matures, he increases in knowledge and shapes himself into love ….

amen

The passing away of a form does not mean its end but only a change, a change of that which is visible, thus a new cover of that which is invisible and needs a visible outer form. And this change is always a progress, it is the sign of a solved task, of the fulfillment of an activity assigned to the visible, which the spiritual has carried out in it. And therefore the spiritual substance will welcome the passing away of the external form, it will willingly relinquish every old external form, because every new shell is a stage of higher development, a step towards perfection which earns it freedom, the release from matter, which signifies compulsion for the spiritual substance. But the period of a stay in every form is fixed by God, and only the pausing of this period brings the spiritual the maturity it needs to enliven the next outer form. But if this time of development is interrupted, which can only happen through the will of man, then the spiritual is disturbed in its course of development, it is illegally prevented from maturing, and although it willingly flees from every form when it has overcome it, the violent interruption of its development is no redemption, but the spiritual is outraged that it is determined completely against its will by human will to leave its old cover, without having reached the degree of maturity, which is the condition to enliven the next form. It is now to a certain extent in freedom, and it cannot use this freedom because it lacks strength, which the spiritual only receives in the last stage as man and only then can carry out what it wants itself. In the preliminary stages, however, it only has enough strength to carry out the activity assigned to it in the specific shell. But if the cover has been unlawfully destroyed then it can only express itself by joining the spiritual in another form, that it therefore as it were drives the spiritual in it to increased activity, which is also temporarily not denied to it by God, until it is again bound in a new outer form and allowed to new activity. The maturing of the spiritual is favored by the frequent change of its outer form, but never by violent destruction, which rather delays the maturing and thereby prolongs the course of development. The divine order will thereby be overturned, which will never remain without disadvantage, and indeed, people themselves will feel the consequences of this, but they will not account to themselves that they themselves are the originators of every miserable situation in life which is connected with the creation of nature. For the prematurely released spirits oppress such creations of nature, and these in turn become extraordinarily active, which leads to complications within the works of creation which are more or less severe depending on the unlawful destruction of that which God allowed to arise for the purpose of the maturing of the spirits. For even if the passing away of any form corresponds to divine natural law, the duration of that form may not be arbitrarily shortened unless such destruction is carried out with the intention of creating new opportunities for maturation by giving the spiritual substance increased opportunity to be of service, and this destruction and transformation of the old form is an act of unselfish neighbourly love, i.e. it is carried out for the benefit of fellow human beings.

Such a dissolving or destruction of the old form also corresponds to God’s will and one can no longer speak of a premature release of the spiritual. For new external forms arise through the will of man, which are not purposeless, and the spiritual in it is confronted with new tasks, through which the development progresses. The spiritual is therefore indestructible, but not visible to man; but the visible can certainly dissolve and the old form disintegrate, but it is also power of God, which does not pass away, but is only withdrawn temporarily, until the will of God has again reshaped it to another form visible to man. Time and again new acts of creation are the reason for God’s love in order to help the spiritual substance reach perfection, and a perpetual becoming and passing away is the visible sign of a constant upward development until the spiritual substance is allowed to enliven the last form, the human body, which can earn it its final release if its free will uses it correctly, thus it voluntarily fulfils its serving earthly task, for which it is offered ample opportunity ….

amen

The more lively faith is, the more intimate the connection with God will be and the more noticeable the supply of strength will be that allows people to endure everything that is imposed on them. For the coming time will make great demands on all people and the believers, too, will have to pray earnestly for strength. And it will come upon them like a storm which threatens to overthrow them, and only intimate contact with God will allow them to stand firm. Yet the adversity is never greater than the one Who sends it, Who is also always willing to help if He is faithfully called upon for assistance. Yet for the sake of the whole of humanity the coming adversity is inevitable and understandably the believers will not remain unaffected by it either, only they can reduce it themselves through faithful prayer. People are driving themselves towards the climax, they will stop at nothing if it brings destruction to the one they regard as their enemy, and thereby they plunge themselves into great guilt which cannot be atoned for in any other way than that they themselves have to suffer from what they want to inflict on others. And that is why the adversity will affect everyone, for there are guilty people everywhere, even if there are believers in their midst who now also have to take the heavy fate upon themselves. Their faith will strengthen them and the more lively it is, the easier it will be to bear the hardship. And they will also be able to influence their fellow human beings and lead some of them back to faith in God. For this is why God sends the adversity, so that it will still have an educational effect on the few who can still be saved. And that is why the great coming adversity is a mercy before the end, it is still a means to win souls who become thoughtful through the heavy pressure, through tribulation and misery and seriously seek to change. The living faith of fellow human beings should help them onto the right path, it should also help them to believe and allow them to come into contact with God …. And the believers should always bear in mind that they are needed in this time of need, that God does not call them beforehand in order to have living witnesses on earth in them who stand up for Him and His teachings, who are obvious evidence of God’s power flowing from a deep faith and who are to speak and work on earth instead of Him among those who are far from God. Only people can act as mediators on earth, only people can receive and pass on the word of God, because God Himself cannot obviously express Himself in order not to endanger freedom of faith and will. And these must be people who are able to believe in a living way themselves and who do not allow themselves to be depressed by suffering and tribulation but always provide the unbelievers with the proof that the strength of faith flows through them and makes them resistant to all earthly tribulations. They must take the adversity of the times on their shoulders, they must arm themselves with the strength that comes to them from fervent prayer to God. They must always and constantly be ready to serve God as a willing instrument when and where He deems it good, and they must therefore humbly take everything upon themselves and patiently wait for the help of the one Who has assured them of His support, Who will not leave them in adversity if they faithfully trust Him ….

amen

You all have to comply with the commandment of the hour, and this is: intimately unite with God, for only with Him will you be able to assert yourselves in the world. It is more urgent than ever that you seek Him, that you approach Him and appeal for His grace and blessing, for the adversity will be great and no one will be able to help you but the one Who rules over heaven and earth. And therefore you should unite yourselves with Him, and that with all eagerness, for it is not much longer that you will need extraordinary strength. And then you will no longer be able to muster the will to approach Him when everything around you threatens to collapse. Therefore call upon Him beforehand and ask Him to increase your strength, to take all weakness from you, to have mercy on you and not let you fall in the temptations which will threaten every believer on the part of the earthly world. The heartfelt prayer beforehand will be answered as long as it only applies to spiritual well-being, and people need not fear that God will not take care of their worries and hardships …. He will show Himself to those who need strength as soon as they have already been in closest contact with God, for He rewards their love …. They are His children whom He will gently lead out of all dangers. And therefore believe in Him, believe in His might and in His love which looks after you uninterruptedly, and believe that He directs everything such that it is good for you, even if you don’t recognize this straight away. If you vividly imagine God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence, a deep inner peace will enter your heart, for then you will also know that nothing can come over you unless it helps the soul to mature. And no matter how it comes about, it is God’s will to which you should submit yourselves so that you will no longer oppose God but, in deep, true filial love, appeal to Him for His support, which He will truly not deny you ….

Amen

God’s power is unlimited and also extends into the realm of the one who is His adversary. This spiritual world is also subject to Him and yet He leaves His adversary great freedom by not taking away his power over the human being’s soul, yet only up to a certain limit. The human being is not defencelessly at the mercy of evil, for he can oppose it with his will and his love, and then God’s adversary is completely powerless. And God stands by the human being in every way if he turns to Him for help. But the latter retains power over the human being if he himself grants it. But God allows this because the human being must become active himself if he wants to become perfect. His paths must remain free both upwards and downwards, he must avoid evil of his own accord and strive towards good. Therefore evil must also be able to influence him and therefore cannot be completely banished in the world. But if the human being’s will is too weak and he does not ask for God’s support he hands himself over to the power of the evil one, and he uses it in such a way that he tries to completely displace God, that he tries to cast a spell over all beings on earth and is active in a way which now determines God to oppose His power and to defeat His adversary for a long time, to bind him, i.e. to take away his power. For the entire spiritual kingdom is subject to Him, and even that which does not voluntarily submit to Him must bow to His will and His power. And when the time has come all power will be taken from him. His opposition extends to separating the spiritual from God, to transfer it into endless distance and to get it under his control. The spiritual, however, must strive towards God of its own will if it wants to come close to Him. It is neither forced by God nor can God’s adversary force it towards Him, but every power seeks to win it for itself, only with opposite means. And the adversary has also received permission from God to influence the essence, the human being’s soul, but always on condition that the human being also has knowledge of the eternal deity and of His rule and activity and can therefore freely decide for one of the two powers, for good or evil …. But as soon as God’s adversary abuses this permission by wanting to deprive humanity of the knowledge of God and His working, God’s unlimited power will come into action and He will take all power away from him for a time, so that the spiritual being which strives towards God is unhindered, thus it can return to the one from Whom it originally originated. God’s power is unlimited, and even if the adversary unfolds his power and appears to be successful, this power is still first given to him by God and He can take it away from him as and when He wants. Only one will rules over heaven and earth, and it rules in all wisdom and love …. But the power which expresses itself in opposition to wisdom and love is never divine and therefore also does not exist …. it must bow before the Most High if He demands submission, if freedom of will is abused in a way which exceeds His authority …. if the adversary of God takes action against Himself and wants to drag all spiritual things with him …. Then God lets him feel His power, He binds him and renders him harmless for a long time ….

Amen

There is no more reliable source of wisdom than the word of God, for truth emanates from God and He Himself conveys it to people through His word. Therefore, anyone who constantly draws from this source need never fear to be in error, for the reception of the divine word is an expression of strength by spiritual powers. But only beings of light have strength at their disposal, and they will never spread error since they live in truth themselves and also want to offer it to people on earth with their love. Only a process of transmitting strength can convey the divine word to earth in such a form that it is also obviously present to fellow human beings and thus remains as an obvious working of God, Whose love for the unredeemed wants to provide a means for it to become free and gain eternal life. Therefore, that which visibly arises must come forth from beings which can receive and distribute strength, which presupposes that they receive this strength from God, thus they are, as it were, only the executors of divine will. Consequently, the word originally came forth from God and therefore has to be pure truth, it has to contain profound wisdom and have an extremely beneficial effect …. It must guide people into knowledge, make them knowledgeable and reshape them according to divine will. For this is made known to people through the word of God, and if the human being seeks to fulfil God’s will of his own free will he changes himself, i.e. his soul, into love …. And this is the purpose of his stay on earth, that he conforms to the eternal deity, that he changes his God-opposing nature and submits his will to God’s will. And the word of God guides him to this end, it is, so to speak, his signpost on his earthly path of life, it is the means which inevitably leads to the aim if it is followed, because the human being now changes the state of ignorance, which was his share due to his past apostasy from God, into the free state of knowledge, which is the prerequisite for acquiring eternal life ….

Divine truth will always contribute to the human being’s perfection as soon as he allows it to have an effect on him, i.e. does not close himself off to knowledge. And truth will always be where God Himself can work, where He finds a receptive and willing heart. The ability requires a righteous way of life, the willingness the desire for truth. Both, however, are again the effect of the divine word if it is offered to the human being through intermediaries and he accepts it without resistance, for truth will always be recognizable by its effect, that it leads to God from where it originates. Hence the word of God is the soul’s source of life, it is the spring from which it can constantly draw, from which the clearest water flows which strengthens and refreshes the soul. It is the most necessary thing for the soul on earth, which cannot be replaced by anything and which is therefore always and constantly conveyed to earth by God’s infinite love, since without it people would have to live in want of their souls and their fate would not be life but death in eternity. But only God is the source of pure truth, and only there can truth be received where God is acknowledged in His love, wisdom and omnipotence and His word is consciously requested. Only then will the word of God be recognized as truth and be unsurpassable in its effect ….

Amen

That is the secret of eternal love, that it is the basic element, that it is strength and thus divine original substance, thus also the epitome of the divine being. It is, as it were, something material in spiritual form, thus the substance of a being which can only be thought of as pure spirit and thus does not possess love as a characteristic but is pure love. For the still material human being this is inconceivable and incomprehensible and therefore a mystery until he has changed himself into love, until through his change he feels permeated by a current of strength which lifts him up and invisibly chains him to the eternal love Itself, until he feels intimately united with God in the working of love. Then the secret of eternal love is not yet revealed to him, but the essence of the eternal deity takes more and more shape …. the human being recognizes that love is inseparable from God, that everything which exists has its origin in it, that therefore the visible and invisible world is only an expression of this immense love …. that love is therefore in itself a strength whose effect is unlimited. Love will therefore be regarded as the substance of the eternal deity, because it is simply inconceivable without love ….

Only the human being who shapes himself into love on earth gains an idea which approaches the truth by now seeing God in everything which has emerged from His strength of love, and he now recognizes the creator in His creations. For the latter always remain products of the elementary power, and the elementary power is love, thus God Himself. And therefore the created must also be imperishable because God cannot destroy Himself. And the creations must be in the closest connection with the creator, because a power cannot be divided, but divine love is to be addressed as the original substance of all creation, as power …. as eternal deity, Which is therefore also present everywhere in Its beingness where the strength of love, a work of creation, is evident. Love, strength, creation is always the same …. never-ending emanation of that which is the original substance of the eternal deity. God is strength and entity at the same time, He is love Himself and emanates love, He is a spirit from eternity, Who becomes material as love, as strength, which now appears, otherwise the spirit of God could never be felt.

This is a mystery which remains veiled from the human being until his transfiguration, although it is revealed to him through God’s infinite love …. But the human being as such does not grasp it until he has changed himself into love ….

Amen

People will experience serious psychological conflicts as a result of worldly laws, and this time is not far away. They will be required to openly declare their faith, and God allows this to happen because it is necessary that people should give serious thought to the question of their salvation which they had disregarded so far. He allows them to be put under pressure by the earthly power, to experience serious difficulties due to their faith, so that they have to make a clear decision regarding their belief. He allows every human being his freedom, that is, God will not force anyone to acknowledge Him if he is not warned by his inner voice to remain loyal to God and thus feels the inner urge to confess Him before the world. God will indeed allow this inner voice and observer to speak where there is still doubt and the human being is weak-willed. He will help all those who are hitherto undecided, He will send them devout people and through them touch their hearts, He will come close to everyone in His Word, in suffering and in need; He will reveal Himself to them, and with the good intention to recognise God and to fulfil His will a human being will also know how he should decide, because then the beings of light, who care for him, will also guide his thoughts right. But many people will discard what should be their most precious possession …. their faith in Jesus Christ as the divine Saviour ….

They will choose the world without hesitation and cause serious distress to their souls. And God cautions them in advance by confronting them Himself through His servants …. by teaching them to know the strength of faith and thus giving them remarkable evidence which can result in faith if they are not entirely opposed to God. And for that reason He will allow the battle against the faith, He will allow it to assume shapes which indicate the depravity of people because He Himself wants to speak during this time in order to save those people who need a convincing reason to believe. Therefore He will not prevent the earthly power when it openly advances against people who confess God. And then people are forced to make a decision, and this decision is vitally important for the souls as it will determine the soul’s fate in eternity, whether it will awaken to life or to death after it departs from this earth. To help people make the right decision God will try beforehand to make them understand, He will try to influence them through His earthly and spiritual servants who will help them if they are uncertain what they should do. But He will not force their will and therefore it is necessary that people are compelled by earthly means to make a decision in order that the freedom of their actions is guaranteed ….

Amen

God does not command the will of men, but He puts a stop to their deeds if He deems it necessary. And therefore people are active in a way which completely contradicts divine order. And they are not prevented from doing so by God, so that they shall realize for themselves where it leads to if they do not submit their thoughts and actions to God. And what they do, they do out of themselves, without connection with God, in the feeling of their own strength and the conviction of right thinking, when they use their strength to act against the weak. This is a thinking and acting which does not correspond to the commandments of love for God and neighbour, and consequently the human being violates the divine order. His freedom of will will not be curtailed, his actions will not be prevented, so that the human being himself will recognize by the consequences that he has erred, so that he will change his thinking of his own accord and submit to the commandment of love for God and his neighbour. And therefore the will can develop uninhibitedly, it can initiate deeds which border on the satanic without being gagged by God, it can express itself in the wrong direction and achieve devastating effects without God forcibly guiding this will into the right path. However, God sets a limit to the procedure, namely when He Himself is completely ignored, i.e. when people only work with God’s counter-power, when they listen to it and thus overturn the divine order, which is the preservation of all created things or dissolution for the purpose of serving activity. Then God will put a stop to it, in accordance with the depravity which humanity’s actions prove. But then people who are not guilty, who recognize God and strive to live in His order, will also be most painfully affected. But it is understandable to them that God intervenes and that He lets His power become apparent. They humbly accept everything imposed on them for the sake of their fellow human beings, who must be visibly and tangibly affected if they are to change of their own free will. Nevertheless, free will remains with people if God does not take their earthly life away from them. They must let their will become active of their own accord, and happy is he who then uses this will correctly, who uses it for works of neighbourly love, who observes divine order and seeks contact with God, for God’s intervention has become a blessing for his soul. But every indication of this is in vain where people are already so hardened that they only think of themselves and their well-being and therefore abuse their strength. Their will is unbending, the human being is not accessible to any idea and therefore does not shy away from any deed, even though it undeniably betrays satan’s influence. People will be capable of actions which endanger their fellow human being’s soul and body, and therefore God will express Himself by not binding their will but by preventing the effect of their will …. by opposing His will to people’s will and this signifies a work of destruction of dreadful proportions. For His love and justice will not tolerate that the weak perish and the strong seize what is not his due. His love also does not tolerate that people’s souls are enslaved and that they are in danger of losing themselves to the lords of the underworld. And therefore He lets His voice be heard and calls people to come to their senses and strive towards Him, so that they refrain from their plan to destroy everything that is weak and to raise themselves above them ….

Amen

God, in His love and patience, has granted the spiritual substance an extremely long time for redemption, which would have been fully sufficient for the spiritual substance’s final return to Him if the human being had made use of it in the last stage as is his duty. The fact that he now fails, that he does not take his spiritual higher development seriously and only lives for earthly life, is his completely free will, and therefore the human being must also accept the consequences. He cannot throw off the fetters of matter but has to remain in it again for an infinitely long time because he himself desired it on earth. This is an unspeakably agonizing period of time for the spiritual, which was able to move in complete freedom in the beginning and already had to cover this agonizing course of development once in order to begin it again …. It is such an agonizing state that God still gives it every opportunity to free itself before the end, before the expiry of this redemption epoch. And He uses the most effective means, He forcibly detaches people from matter in order to make it easy for them to overcome, He takes away their possessions and places them into the world completely carefree, so that it would now be easy for the human being to turn away from matter and only strive for spiritual good. But in the last days man is so rooted in matter that he strives even more eagerly to gain possession of earthly goods again, and that he craves and strives for them more than before. And thus he will be granted what he desires …. He himself is incarnated into matter, and his freedom of will is taken from him again for an endless time …. But the human being does not listen to any such idea, and therefore no help can be given to him because he cannot believe and does not want to believe. Recollection cannot be given to him since the development upwards would then take place under a certain compulsion if he knew about the agonies of his past earthly life and this would cause him to completely change his thoughts and actions. However, unconditional freedom of will must bring about this change, otherwise it would be worthless before God. And therefore God still uses all means, He allows the end time to be painful for every human being in order to kill his desire for the material world, in order to direct his gaze into the spiritual kingdom, away from matter and towards God …. And therefore He also allows the appalling misery caused by human will, because this can contribute towards stifling earthly desire and achieving the highest spiritual success in the desire for God. And therefore hardship and affliction will increase the more it approaches the end …. People will be deprived of what seems desirable to them, they will have to give everything in order to be able to receive spiritual good, if it is imparted to them by God’s messengers on His behalf …. Yet free will will never be touched, and therefore the harvest will not be great. Yet God’s love will use every means to help the unredeemed spirits before the last hour has come in order to protect them from a repeated embodiment on earth, which is exceedingly painful ….

Amen

The human being’s most powerful weapon against all evil is love …. Anyone in possession of love is protected by God Himself, because He dwells in him and truly everything must give way to His power. Evil takes flight from this weapon or allows itself to be overcome. For love is its most effective foe which it cannot bear up against. Love subjugates everything that comes into contact with it, if it does not visibly escape from it. This is why love will always be a person’s most effective weapon; he will always be successful in battle and need not fear anything if he uses this weapon to fight with …. This should be heeded during every situation in life, during every dispute and above all during the final time of battle, when love itself will come under attack. For God’s adversary will very strongly insist that even kind-hearted activity should be suppressed and thus made impossible to accomplish. He will put pressure on people into passing laws which will restrain the kind-hearted actions expected by God. He will not shy away from using people to declare something to be wrong, which alone corresponds to God’s will, he will demand unkindness where God requests actions of love, because he can only triumph over people if they no longer use this weapon of love. And this denotes a great danger for the human soul which must be fought against completely consciously. Therefore God admonishes people to continuous kind-hearted activity, He explains to them the blessings and the strength a person can draw from constant actions of love. He must not let himself be misled by secular laws and only ever do what his heart tells him to do, for without love he will descend into darkness and the adversary will have reached his goal …. Love is divine, and he who remains in love carries God within himself and need not fear any power, regardless of how much it threatens him. He who remains in love inwardly resists the intentions of the world which is governed by the adversary. And this resistance cannot be broken by anyone, for the adversary’s power is too weak to affect the strength of love. Love may not be banished or it would mean total downfall. Only those who love will live; heartlessness, however, will inevitably result in the soul’s death. It is the adversary’s intended goal to pull all the soul’s striving towards the light into darkness. But he has no power over the one who lives a life of love, and he who lives in love shall also give love to his neighbour, so that he will recognise the strength of love and likewise strive for it by practising love wherever the opportunity presents itself to him. Only someone having shaped himself into love will be strong in the coming time. He will not be afraid of anything, he will try to balance each onslaught with love and he will erect a wall around himself which no-one will be able to pull down. Love is the mightiest factor on earth, it is the key to wisdom, it is the bridge into eternal life, it is the guarantee for God’s love, and thus it also signifies light and strength, and both are life …. enabling the soul to be active in all wisdom for all eternity. Only love leads to the goal, only through love will the soul in the human being attain the original state again, only love brings God closer to him and may therefore never be excluded. And at no time ever should people give in to the laws which inhibit their activity of love and which is therefore always the work of the one who, as God’s adversary, is devoid of all love and therefore fights against it ….

Amen

The gift to teach as a servant of God must be consciously requested, by which the human being declares his willingness to be active for God and on His behalf. For in order to be able to carry out the teaching ministry he has to be pre-educated, he first has to have absorbed what he is to teach himself; he has to be imparted a body of thought which enables him to teach, he has to be able to think skilfully and logically, and this requires a training which can only be carried out by God Himself or by His spiritual messengers. And the human being must declare himself willing to do so, he must let his will become active and constantly accept instructions until he has attained a degree of knowledge which is now also sufficient to instruct his fellow human beings again, to refute objections, to correct errors and thus to spread the pure truth from God. Anyone who offers himself to God for this office, who is willing to serve Him and his fellow human beings, will also be accepted by God, because it is extremely necessary that people are guided into truth, and because only a few people are able to muster the will to accept mental instructions until they can call clear knowledge their own. For they must have strong faith, they must unconditionally accept what is offered to them, above all they must consider direct instruction from God possible, otherwise they would not listen to the inner voice which announces itself to them …. They must believe in the working of the spirit in the human being, otherwise it cannot be effective. And they must work tirelessly on themselves in order to increase their ability to hear the inner voice; they must do everything that requires a strong will so that they will now also be able to utilize what is offered to them, for the gift of being able to teach is now the result of their strong will, which God blesses and rewards by training the human being so that he can carry out his ministry as a teacher when it concerns proclaiming the gospel to fellow human beings. For God wants to convey His word to the world through His faithful servants on earth, He wants to give knowledge to all people through people who have received the knowledge from Himself and thus can now carry out their mission correctly for the blessing of humanity, which is seeking and willingly allows itself to be taught by them without resistance. For by the way a gift of grace is offered people will recognize where it originated from, and their willingness to accept or reject what is offered to them will be correspondingly. And therefore God needs servants on earth who offer themselves for it, and He imparts strength and grace to them, He instructs them and conveys His word to earth, He enlightens their spirit so that they understand what is offered to them and can transfer it to their fellow human beings in the same way and thus the truth is spread on earth, as it is God’s will ….

Amen

The more impressively the strength of love is presented to the human being the easier he will grasp the essence of the eternal deity, for he will then strive to test this strength, he will always and constantly practice love and consequently also be permeated by the eternal strength of love. But where God’s love can become effective wisdom is not far away either, knowledge also flows to the human being there, he is guided into knowledge and God’s nature also becomes more understandable to him, even though he will never grasp the last on earth, even though he will never be able to fathom God’s nature in all its depth. Yet this is how far he penetrates in order to recognize God as an elementary power which is active everywhere in the universe and which only expresses itself in love. For everything that has been created and everything that takes place in the earthly and spiritual kingdom is based on His love, thus love is the elementary power which visibly expresses itself to the human being who changes himself into love and now enters into tangible contact with the elementary power. Only the loving human being can understand it, only the loving human being feels the strength of love in himself, and only the loving human being likewise enters the stage of emanation of strength, for God’s strength of love flows towards him and makes him a bearer of strength who can now also distribute again what he receives. God is love, in God everything has its beginning and its end because it emerged from the strength of love and has to flow towards Him again. As long as the human being is without love he is also without strength, he is so unlike the essence of the eternal deity that he no longer has any connection with Him, that the flow of strength which emanates from God does not touch him and this means spiritual death for the being, because only where strength is there is also life. If love is presented to the human being as a redeeming principle, as a source of strength, as a direct emanation of God, Who is love in Himself, then he can open himself to this influx by virtue of his will by becoming active in love himself and thereby drawing God to himself, Whose emanation of love he can now feel as a pleasing feeling of strength which drives and enables him to always work again with love. This becoming aware of strength is also the awakening to life of the spirit, for as soon as the human being has once received, thus felt, the strength from God, his striving will be directed towards constantly receiving it, because the previous state of weakness now appears unbearable to him and he no longer wants to fall back into it. And the desire for God’s love, for His strength, is also a guarantee for him that he will not go away empty-handed; for God provides everyone who wants to approach Him with the strength of love, after all, this desire already proves his love for Him. And in his desire for God the human being will also give love to everything that surrounds him, he will practice neighbourly love completely unselfishly, for this is the strength of divine love, that it shapes him into love who does not close himself off to it through his will. God’s nature is love, He shares Himself with all who do not oppose Him, and He considers those who bend their will to Him. He rewards their love for Him through richest knowledge, for He guides them into truth and makes everything understandable to them so that they can mature in realization, so that they can grasp the essence of the eternal deity and strive ever more eagerly towards it by constantly being active in love …. For God Himself now works in them as soon as they practice love, God Himself takes abode in the one who has shaped his heart into love; he is inseparably united with God, Who is love Himself, because he has changed himself into love, because he has re-entered the original state, because he has returned to the one from Whom he originated ….

Amen

Man has the gift of being able to judge, and he should also use this gift. It is his right and also his duty to observe what is going on around him and to take a stand for or against it, otherwise he will leave the gift of understanding unused and this will be detrimental to his soul, which should mature in everything. A conscientious examination also gives the human being the right to judge, but it is also absolutely necessary for this. A conscientious examination also enables him to pass a just judgment, because then the will to possess the true is recognizable and this will is always blessed, thus the human being is provided with the power of realization and can now judge correctly and justly. The blessing of divine revelations remains reserved for many people because they do not acknowledge them. Conversely, however, many things are recognized and falsely represented as coming from above, even though their divine origin must be denied. This is immensely misleading when it is spread as spiritual knowledge and prevents people from recognizing the truth. If the human being is completely free of prejudice, he will very soon recognize the spirit in what is to be made accessible to people as truth. He will sense where others have to use their intellect in order to reach the same result, and then it is the voice of the heart which instructs the human being and warns him when untruth touches his ear, but which also lets him recognize what is right, which is helpful to people for their salvation of soul ….

The truth of the inspired proclamation can easily be recognized by the fact that it contains divine wisdom. The content of the proclamations must go far beyond human thinking, thus they must contain summarizing explanations which make the essence of the eternal deity clear to the human being, they must make God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence recognizable, thus they must be profound in their content and clear in their structure. Their content must be teachings which reveal a high knowledge of the teacher, but on the other hand they must be held in such a way that they are comprehensible to every person who wants to understand them. The gifts which are offered medially often lack the depth of knowledge, and they also do not contain wisdom which increases the knowledge of the human being, because they lack coherence. But as soon as they have an improving effect on people they cannot be denied a spiritual giver who strives towards God; he is just not yet in the degree of light which allows him to teach people. But he seeks to impart his knowledge and uses people for this who surrender their will to unknown powers, which is therefore also not denied to him by God because people bypass the direct path, the path to God, the prayer for the working of the spirit, which gives them the most certain guarantee that erring beings can no longer instruct them. The strength of will is necessary to receive the truth from God, but not that the human being relinquishes his will, which can now also be appropriated by beings who want to assert themselves without being instructed by God to teach people. It is a welcome opportunity for these beings to transfer their still inadequate knowledge to people. Admittedly, they are prevented from imparting error by people’s will to live in a God-pleasing way. But as soon as the human being himself clings to an error they will take up his thoughts and return it in detail; they will, in a manner of speaking, use human thinking as a foundation on which they now build, and thereby erroneous teachings arise which are now no longer recognized but eagerly advocated as truth imparted from above, although they originated from their own thinking and will. For the human being himself is the cause of such teachings, firstly through his will and his thinking and then through the devotion of the will, which can now be used by every being that has access to the one who avails himself of his will. The laws of the spiritual kingdom are fixed, they are clearly and unambiguously presented to people through the working of the spirit, through the inner word …. As soon as the human being tries to penetrate an area outside of this lawfulness which is otherwise closed to him, he must also reckon with the fact that he will not be offered unconditional truth, even though he reduces the danger of falling prey to evil beings through his own striving towards God. Yet the guarantee for unconditional truth is only given to him if he subjects himself to divine law, if he wants to receive the truth from within, from the spiritual spark within himself which is part of God and which will never ever teach him wrongly ….

People should contact God Himself, they should ask Him for the truth, for enlightenment of the spirit and then faithfully wait for the fulfilment of their requests. Then God will instruct them through His messengers or directly through the inner word. However, both results must agree, otherwise the divine origin can be doubted, for God’s messengers teach nothing else but God Himself, because they always and constantly only fulfil His will. Wanting to receive the truth in a fully conscious state after heartfelt prayer also guarantees God’s working through His spirit, and the human being does not need a fellow human being who surrenders his will in order to serve the beings of light as an organ. For the beings of light can mentally communicate themselves to the human being as soon as he surrenders himself to their influence. The human being should practice consciously listening within so that he will always be able to hear God’s voice. The mental instructions are therefore far more valuable because they earn the human being profoundest knowledge who desires such and humbly requests it from God. But if God speaks to people through pure spiritual beings then these will announce the same as what is conveyed to people through the inner word, but the proclamations will never contradict each other. And this is the characteristic of the divine mission, that the human being increases in knowledge which he can now also pass on in the most comprehensible way, that he can therefore, as a disciple of Jesus, spread His teaching amongst his fellow human beings, that he preaches love to them, thus teaches love and practices love, otherwise he cannot receive the truth himself. For the reception of divine truth presupposes activity of love, and therefore truth will always be found where love is practiced, because then God Himself can work in the human being and His activity truly guarantees purest truth ….

Amen

What the spirit of God reveals is hidden from science, and therefore the gifts of the spirit cannot be received by a school unless the human being asks for the working of the spirit and the spirit makes itself known to him through those who are to teach on earth on God’s behalf, who are called by Him to spread the spiritual knowledge which they have received directly from Him. But it follows from this that all truth originates from God, that it cannot be offered to people by any other means, that therefore everyone who wants to know the truth must be taught directly or indirectly by the spirit of God. It also follows that the origin of every source must first be examined before it is recognized and the human being is allowed to draw from it. God’s working must be established without a doubt in order to be able to represent a mediated spiritual knowledge as pure truth. If this origin is not proven, then the knowledge can only be acknowledged when it fully and completely corresponds to the word of God, which He Himself directly conveys to earth through the inner word. For pure truth can never originally come from outside, it has to be placed by God Himself into the heart of the one who deeply desires it and humbly asks God for knowledge. It must be born out of him himself, i.e. the spiritual spark in the human being must make itself known, which cannot err because it is part of God’s spirit, Who is truth Himself. And thus a precise characteristic is given which should always form the basis of the examination of spiritual knowledge, for God has always and everywhere guided His word to earth which is conveyed to those who sincerely desire truth; seekers are always guided on the path so that they can take notice of God’s word which was directly conveyed to earth and which they should now also examine like everything else which is offered to them as spiritual knowledge. And the true seeker of truth will also recognize it as God’s word, because the word speaks for itself, because it touches his heart and revives his faith with strength and now also urges him to accept it as God’s working. But rarely do seekers take the direct path to God, rarely is their faith so strong that they call upon Him for enlightenment of the spirit, for the ability to recognize the truth. And this is why so many other paths are taken which certainly also have the same aim, i.e., whose followers all have the will to recognize what is right but who neglect to call upon God Himself, as the giver of truth, for His support and guidance, and if they do so they don’t expect His answer in which form He wants to impart it to them but try to penetrate the spiritual kingdom themselves by disregarding laws which God has given …. by not consciously listening but believing that they can receive unconsciously, which results in the fact that mature and immature spiritual beings can make themselves known to whom such an expression is not forbidden by God. And it depends on the human being’s will which beings use the will given to them for spiritual manifestations. Often it is not a conscious intention of the spiritual beings to mislead but their own ignorance, yet it is a welcome opportunity for the beings to seize a weak will in order to be able to transfer their inadequate knowledge to people, since these beings are not yet permitted to teach in the beyond. As soon as a mature, knowledgeable being expresses itself in such a way it will only point people to the working of the spirit, it will convey the truth to them which shall have the purpose of educating people to directly receive the divine word, His instructions through His spirit. But it will not prevent other beings from approaching people as well, as soon as they do not follow the instructions in order to attain the pure truth. For then people will only want to listen without being active themselves; they will not fulfil the conditions under which they are offered the truth and consequently also have to reckon with falling prey to erring beings, even though God takes every individual’s desire for truth into account, so that this human being’s soul will not suffer harm who has the deepest desire for God and is therefore also considered in accordance with this desire. But where many are together the same striving and desire for truth is not to be found, and the externalizing beings, which take account of every person and want to impose their own thinking on those who are in the same degree of maturity and give their thoughts the same direction, are also corresponding. For the will of individual people also determines the spiritual beings approaching them. And the proclamations which reach earth from these beings through a person who gives his will can also be interspersed with error because the giving being itself does not yet fully live in truth but wants to be active, which is now made possible for it through the person who gives of his will and the degree of maturity of the listeners, who again also determine the nature of the proclamations through their mental attitude, through their degree of desire for truth. As soon as they cannot completely free themselves from erroneous views, beings with the same imperfect or wrong knowledge will again and again push themselves close to them, for they will look for objects to whom they can impart their thought material, and the human being’s will itself will always determine the extent to which he walks in truth. Therefore it is imperative to take the only certain path in order to reach the truth …. intimate prayer to God for the supply of them, a way of life in love and a complete surrender to divine love, which truly will not let his prayer go unheard …. However, the human being must now consciously listen within himself, he must also pay attention to everything that approaches him from outside but always let the voice of his heart speak which warns him to accept something wrong and urges him to accept what God sends to him through fellow human beings if he himself is unable to hear the direct answer from God. Constant practice, however, brings him to the aim …. he will be taught from within, through his spirit, and that in all truth …. Even erroneous announcements from the kingdom of the beyond, received in an unconscious state, can therefore be of value insofar as they stimulate the human being’s mental activity, increase his desire for truth and thus let him consciously seek contact with the beings of light which will faithfully assist him if his will is good. But this commandment should always apply: “Examine everything and keep the best ….” If you want to have the guarantee of pure truth, then completely hand yourselves over to God and ask Him for it, and He will send His spirit to those who ask Him for it …. And thus you will always be offered the opportunity to acquire the truth, yet examine the sources critically, and even more critically if what you are offered from different sides deviates from each other …. For the truth from God must always and constantly agree wherever it is offered to people. And every different teaching is an occasion to make you think about it and to deal with it mentally. And if you ask God for help in doing so He will guide your thoughts correctly, you will recognize what you can accept as truth and what you can reject as error ….

Amen

People allow themselves to become beguiled by the adversary’s mask and do not recognise his game of deceit. For this reason he is gaining ground everywhere since God does not set him a limit as long as the human being himself grants him power over his will. But he is using this power in every respect by means of increasingly bigger works of deception in order to mislead people. They could certainly see through it if they were striving for righteousness and justice …. But such endeavour is the last thing on their mind, everyone is merely interested in themselves and their advantage and no-one questions to what extent the next person has the same right. It is selfish love by which the human being delivers himself to the opponent and which also blinds and disables him to become conscious of his activity. But if the human being himself does not resist he will fall prey to this control and all clarity of thought will be lost to him. Because the goal of God’s opponent is to confuse people’s thoughts so that they will increasingly fall away from God and become unable to withdraw from his lure by themselves, that he will rage and unreservedly pull them into ruin without meeting any resistance, because only the human will is decisive and this is too weak. (Because) The adversary represents the world and therefore is a friend of those who are attached to the world.

But he is approaching under the cover of piety, and thus people allow themselves to be beguiled by him. He feigns goodness to them but his actions are evil, since he propels people into heartlessness, into self interest, into pursuit of earthly wealth, into increased physical comfort, and all this is a decline of the soul’s development, it is a disregard for the real purpose of earthly life, the maturing of the soul. And people do not recognise it because they are enslaved by the power which aims to separate them from God. Yet even this enemy of souls takes the name of God in his mouth, he wears this cloak in order to remain unknown, and his cunning is successful and puts untold people under his spell. But woe unto them when his cunning is revealed, when the mask drops and his true face appears …. Then they can only save themselves from his power with great difficulty, for they had left Him, Who is Lord of all creation, Who can redeem the human being whose will is willing to be redeemed. But the enemy’s cunning consists of first removing a person’s belief in the help of the divine Redeemer as well as in His Divinity Itself. And those who are spiritually blind will follow his banner and voluntarily separate themselves from their soul’s Saviour. Humanity, however, does not recognise the dark power’s activity, it sees light where there is utmost darkness, because making believe that there is light even though it is darkest night is also an act of Satan’s deception. And they flee the true light and do not accept the cautions and warnings which are given to them by the appointed messengers …. They worship an idol whose power in fact merely consists of weakening the human will but who is powerless when this will turns towards God.

And you will recognise this idol by the fact that he will not do anything to increase your faith in a loving, wise and all-powerful God. That the name of God will indeed come forth from his mouth, but he will not give him authority by deliberately calling on Him, that he will ignore love and for this reason is far removed from God, the eternal love, that he will not acknowledge Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer, and thus he is an obvious opponent of Him, who will put humanity, which is in need of redemption, into bondage once again if it follows him and puts itself under his banner ….

Amen

Worldly acquired knowledge is not sufficient in order to act as a spiritual teacher. And therefore people cannot be called upon for scrutiny or clarification of spiritual scriptures or results if they only possess purely worldly knowledge and then entirely rationally try to ascertain what kind of value should be attached to these spiritual results. Such intended dissemination will always be unsuccessful, because spiritual knowledge can only be gained under certain preconditions, but without knowledge such scrutiny is not possible. However, if these preconditions are met on part of the examiners, then the same preconditions apply again to those who are interested in the results of the scrutiny. These preconditions are: sincere striving for God, for truth and for living a way of life according to divine will, for a life of love …. In that case, however, the human being need no longer investigate but God Himself will guide him into truth …. He will not need earthly knowledge and will still become knowledgeable, the spiritual sphere will be normal and familiar to him, he will not consider it outlandish as a critic and researcher; instead, he will live in this kingdom himself which will no longer belong to the material world but will be purely spiritual. Anyone who wants to investigate the spiritual kingdom can only do so if he completely hands himself over to God and puts the world second. But anyone who purely scientifically tries to examine spiritual subjects as a matter of worldly striving will not come to any results; the area will remain unfamiliar to him, he will purely gather existing results but never provide a truthful explanation because he lacks all conviction himself, which he can only gain by seriously striving for truth without any material or worldly interests. For this reason the world will be unable to employ teachers who research occult fields and pass on their knowledge, for this would be a purely intellectual activity without involving the heart. But spiritual areas can only be investigated by way of the heart. Although the intellect is not entirely excluded, the mental knowledge is conveyed to him from the heart, and this activity of heart requires great love, which not every worldly researcher has. If people therefore believe that they can scientifically fathom knowledge which originates from God, they will always have to take incorrect results into account, for the divine truth, the knowledge about spiritual things, is not a commodity which everyone can lay claim to who does not pay the correct purchase price for it ….

God truly will not deny it to any person, yet the striving for God, for highest realisation, for perfection, must drive the person to obtain this knowledge. Then people will be able to achieve greatest success if they pass the gained knowledge on to their fellow human beings with the same aspiration to help them attain maturity of soul. God will always and forever remain the Provider of truth, and God looks into the hearts of people who strive towards it and distributes His gifts of grace according to worthiness and desire …. His spirit descends upon those who love Him and strive to live according to His will. Consequently, these conditions must have been fulfilled first before the human spirit can become enlightened and clearly recognise the correlation between the eternal Deity, Creation and the living beings, and thus can derive knowledge from it which he can also advocate as truth and pass on to his fellow human beings. But such a person will not pursue earthly goals; he will not try to acquire earthly success, honour and fame through his knowledge but only conduct spiritual research for the sake of the pure truth, and if he wants to pass it on to his fellow human being then only as a result of an inner urge to also give him the happiness he does not yet possess. However, the worldly interested investigator will never ever attain the right realisation …. His result will always remain patchwork, he will add to already existing mental knowledge, he will intellectually try to find a connection and he will be mistaken as long as he does not have God as a teacher, but He will not enlighten him as long as he still belongs to the world. For the spiritual kingdom is subject to laws which are impossible for the beings of light to violate, but which they do not want to violate either since their will acts entirely in accordance with divine will. The laws must be complied with both by the Giver as well as the taker, and one of these laws is: Nothing can be achieved without God but everything with Him …. God, however, is love …. Subsequently, someone who wants to be taught by God must strive towards Him with all senses, and to strive towards God means to be active with love. Hence it will never ever be possible to penetrate the truth without love …. And if the worldly investigator is not lovingly active, his thoughts cannot correspond to truth either, because it contradicts the divine law, the requirements God expects of a person and which he must first meet without fail, before the pure truth can be offered to him. And even if he comes across this pure truth in his research, if he scrutinises the knowledge that was conveyed to devout people through God’s love …. he will not recognise it as truth, because his thinking is still clouded by the influences of the enemy of truth, to whom he grants power over himself through his lack of love.

God is Truth, and only through love can it be found. Even if the human being searches and investigates incessantly, he will not reach the goal by intellectual means and will therefore also be completely incapable of offering truthful results to his fellow human beings. His points of view will not be convincing and will give rise to doubts and arguments as soon as they form a serious opinion of them. Conclusions can certainly be drawn from existing spiritual information, so that a spiritual kingdom, the activity of spiritual beings, cannot be denied; nevertheless, in order to penetrate the spiritual realm, the knowledge of it is not enough if the preconditions are not in place which allow the human being’s soul to enter the spiritual realm. This sphere can therefore never ever become the subject of worldly research, and worldly research is everything that is approached without heartfelt devotion to God, without unselfish acts of love in order to gain possession of the truth, in order to explain a field so that it will be completely clear to humanity and on which a solid teaching can be based, so that therefore the gained knowledge can be structured in a way so that it is accessible to humanity and enriches its knowledge. This will never be possible, for the spiritual kingdom remains closed to those who do not seek God deep within their heart and testify to this through their love for Him and their neighbour ….

Amen

The giver of truth is opposed by the prince of lies, and he truly has great power over people who are indifferent to the truth but all the more receptive to its work. Error and lies are always accepted more willingly, truth, however, finds resistance and rejection, and this is due to the fact that the adversary of truth speaks to people’s liking, that thus what he offers people prefer to listen to and they gladly give up the truth in return, for truth demands renunciation of the pleasures of this world, but error and lies favour the latter and will therefore find much more favour than truth. And yet, the truth will defeat the lie, for the truth is God Himself, and no adversary will truly be able to withstand Him as soon as He seriously takes action against him …. The merciful time of self-redemption comes to an end and with it also the power of God’s adversary. For his power rose and fell with the spiritual being’s strength of will, which was able to freely use its will in the last embodiment on earth. As soon as this will resists him, the power of the adversary is also broken. The more the time of redemption approaches its end the weaker people’s wills are and therefore the more they are under the control of the one who fights the truth in order to gain power over the spiritual. For truth strengthens people and gives them the power to resist. This battle between truth and lies, light and darkness, knowledge and ignorance is particularly obvious in the last days before the end, for the person who represents the truth will be fought by his fellow human beings whom the adversary of truth already has in such control that he will determine them to take the unnatural action of raping people’s thinking. He will use cunning and power, power towards those who know the pure truth from God and defend it, and cunning where people have not yet grasped the truth in all its depth and yet are willing to serve it. And God will stand by both, distributing strength and enlightening the spirit, so that people can resist that approach. God does not force people to accept the truth but only offers it to them, leaving it up to their free will whether and to what extent they make use of it. But in the end only the truth will remain and every error, every lie and at the same time the prince of lies will be banished. He will no longer find an opportunity to poison people with it, for only the truth will remain, everything else will perish, just as the old earth perishes, and with it everything that lives on it, with the exception of those who walk in truth and are raptured beforehand through God’s love …. Truth lasts forever, but lies are transient, for only that which has its origin in God is eternal …. And no matter how much the world is permeated by error and lies at the moment, no matter whether lies and error dominate people’s thinking, they will not prevail, for God Himself works in the same measure and He distributes the truth wherever it is desired, and like an avalanche the truth will grow and carry everything away as soon as God, as the eternal truth, declares war on His adversary …. Worldly speaking, error does gain the upper hand, but only for this earth, which does not last forever. And since the time of the end has come, the lie and error will once again rage in all their strength, he will want to destroy the truth, and the means God’s adversary uses are indicative of his opposition. And therefore God Himself binds him and takes away his power for a long time. And during this time truth alone will reign and lies and error will be banished amongst people. They recognize God and His working, they know about His love, wisdom and omnipotence, they know that He is the truth Himself, and they surrender to Him in all humility of heart and their thinking is right ….

Amen

Every spiritual gift triggers happiness as soon as it is recognized as such. And this judgement must be made by the heart, in association with the intellect, but not by the intellect alone. Consequently, the will to reject must not resist the heart and grant the intellect alone the right to judge. Then the effect of strength will never be felt, for it does not tolerate resistance, i.e. the strength becomes ineffective where it is opposed. God’s love does not compel, and compulsion would be any proof. But it would be proof if the divine gift would always and in all cases trigger a feeling of happiness, even if the human being is not willing to acknowledge it. This feeling would then force him to accept the gifts from above, and thus no human being would then stand outside of their working, which would mean that a change in people’s thinking would result in their higher development in a short time, yet always compulsorily, thus without their own will. Such higher development would not correspond to God’s wisdom, and therefore the human being will not feel any effect in himself who only lets his intellect become active where his heart should carry out an examination. But he will lose a great grace, a grace which could promote him very quickly if he let it take effect in himself. Therefore it is very difficult to persuade people to accept the divine word as long as they do not have the will to believe that God is the giver of it, thus as long as they doubt such activity on God’s part. The mere assumption that God could express Himself in an extraordinary way would weaken the will to reject, and he would examine it impartially and thus let his heart speak, which truly advises him correctly. For the strength from God would touch the heart so beneficently that it would recognize the divine origin by it and accept it unconditionally. The human being is completely free to decide how he will respond to the gift offered to him from the spiritual kingdom. All compulsion of will is eliminated, and therefore the gift of eloquence will also be reduced to an unwilling person so that the human being will not be influenced against his will, for God in His love certainly offers Himself but does not impose Himself. The conveyance of His word to earth is in any case an act of grace which humanity does not deserve, since only rarely does a person have the will to establish such an intimate connection with God that the strength from God can flow over to him and that …. the word of God …. can only be offered where it is desired. Yet God is satisfied with the will of one person who desires the truth in order to pass it on to those who are in need of it. And thus humanity is given a delicious gift and does not recognize it …. It does not make use of a gift which comes to it undeservedly, it does not take hold of the father’s hand Who seeks to snatch it from darkness …. it hesitates where it should accept immediately in order to make use of every day, in order to mature in realization, in order to make the word of God its guiding principle for its earthly life. The gifts of grace will increase in the last days but the human being’s freedom of will will always be respected, thus no gift will ever appear such that the human being will be determined to acknowledge it as divine. Anyone who opens himself to the gift of grace, who in profound faith in God does not deny its significance for spiritual development, will feel profound happiness, yet anyone who does not believe such an effect of God’s love to be possible because he is unbelieving or only calls a dead faith his own will remain empty and unimpressed. And therefore only individuals will feel the effect of the gift of grace and mature in their soul because they are of good will ….

Amen

In the spiritual world there are many gradations, many degrees of bliss, which are recognizable as radiations of light of varying strength and correspond to the souls’ degree of maturity. As soon as the being, the soul, has entered the kingdom of light, happiness and bliss are its share because it can receive God’s emanation of strength, which always means bliss, even if the soul can only be considered to a small extent according to its maturity. But happiness increases according to the being’s activity of love, which always means an increase of its strength, thus an increased radiating through of divine love. And the being can be active without restriction, it is in a state of life, of freedom and constant love under constant use of the power out of God, because the divine power continuously flows towards this being and the power reception triggers deep happiness in it. But the being is now continuously active, it works in love again by passing on the strength and making countless beings happy with it and promoting their spiritual progress and at the same time developing itself into ever greater perfection, which again results in an increased influx of strength from God. And ever more luminous are the rays of light which now surround the being. There is no limit in the kingdom of light, and spheres of light are everywhere where the beings have attained the degree of maturity that they can receive the divine emanation into themselves, that they are permeated by His strength of love. But since the abundance of receiving strength corresponds to the degree of maturity, the spheres of light will also have different intensities of light, for the more perfect the being is the closer it is to the eternal deity Who, as the original light, radiates an inconceivable abundance of light onto all beings. But since the perfect spiritual knows no limitation the being can always come closer and closer to the eternal deity, thus it can constantly progress, it can directly receive the emanation of love and yet it is not completely united with Him as soon as it has not attained childship to God. For this means complete merging with the original light, it means unlimited reception of strength and thus highest bliss. Every being in the kingdom of light is unspeakably happy and yet can always feel even deeper happiness the more it expresses its own love and thereby increases its reception of light and strength. But the being, once standing in the light, knows no limits in the beyond, and this awareness is just so extremely happy that the being can strive for ever higher perfection and that divine love is likewise unlimited in its emanation of strength. But receiving strength from God is always to be valued differently than the final union with Him, which earns the being the childship to God, for it is one with God and its activity in the spiritual kingdom is different from that of the beings of light. They create and shape entirely out of themselves and are exceedingly happy, because this activity requires the highest degree of love and therefore increases their bliss immeasurably ….

(22.7.1944) The entry into the kingdom of light therefore already takes place as soon as the soul has attained the maturity which allows light to shine through. But then there are innumerable degrees of perfection and thus also innumerable stages of bliss, which is why the soul can enter ever new spheres of light which always and constantly increase. For there is no limit to what is perfect. The soul floats higher and higher, it approaches the original light, and yet it is not completely one with the original light if it has not acquired the right of childship to God on earth. But it has found union with God from the moment it feels His radiance of love, when it is so purified that it can receive rays of strength and light within itself. For from now on it also has eternal life, it can be active, thus work in love, and it can ascend to immeasurable heights, it can receive light and strength from God and, through union with equally mature spiritual beings, increase them and be inexpressibly happy. But just as the abundance of light is inconceivable to man on earth, so there are also no possibilities of comparison for the bliss of the beings which have found entrance into the spheres of light. For as long as the human being lives on earth he is an imperfect creature, he only sees and hears with the eyes and ears of the body and cannot imagine the spiritual world which is devoid of all matter, which only exists spiritually and can therefore only be seen and understood by the spiritual being in the human being, by the soul, but only when the soul has reached a certain degree of maturity. And therefore humanity cannot form an idea of the spiritual kingdom, it can only believe, and this only if it is willing and allows itself to be taught without inner resistance. But it can strive to receive enlightenment and then many things will become comprehensible to it. For then the first rays of light will already begin to take effect, and just as a slow maturing of realization, of light, i.e. of knowledge about the pure truth, is recognizable on earth from then on, so the development of the being in the kingdom of the beyond will also increase …. it becomes more and more perfect, it joins God more and more …. it is unspeakably blissful …. But childship to God is a higher degree of perfection, and it includes infinite delights. It is the right of those who already strive for God on earth with all their senses, who love Him with all their heart and want to serve Him in most faithful devotion, who accept suffering and earthly hardship in submission, who strive to fulfil His will and are always and constantly lovingly active, for they already seek to assimilate themselves to the eternal deity on earth, and therefore God’s love takes hold of them and paves the way for them to reach Him …. Yet their fate on earth is not easy, they have to pass many tests, they have to fulfil tasks on earth which require great strength and a firm will to reach God. Yet divine grace is available to these souls without measure so that they will reach the aim if only they strive for it ….

Amen