In the state of freedom of will the being would not have to fear God’s adversary if only it would live in love. Then it will have defeated him, because God’s adversary is utterly defenceless against love. Hence, the human being would also be able to free himself from temptations and challenges, for they have no influence on him as soon as he acts with love. The latter, however, depends on a person’s free will, and therefore the human being himself is the reason for an earthly existence which is either a constant battle or helpful love …. God knows every person’s heart and gives the human being what he needs, but He also lets a person go short if he does not require His help, His comfort and His counsel because he inwardly opposes Him and therefore does not exercise love, which demonstrates his God-devoted will …. God and love are one and the same, and therefore a loving human being is also united with God and thus has to be superior to God’s adversary. If the human being is willing to actively engage himself in neighbourly love he will not be quite so besieged by the temptations of the world; he effectively has already overcome them which, however, does not rule out that he will have to endure suffering, because suffering is not only intended to lead a person to God whose will is still turned away from God but it shall also purify the person who strives towards God. However, the suffering in these two stages is experienced differently. The former revolts against it because he does not want to bow down to a Power Which restricts his enjoyment of life …. He still desires the world and experiences all suffering as disadvantage, as an inadequate enjoyment of life and thus a constraint he refuses to accept. And it can require a lot of suffering before he has surrendered, and this kind of battle is the adversary’s work, who still uses the world and its pleasures to gain the human being for himself, who continues to place all these before his eyes in order to intensify his desire and thereby alienate him from God. But if the human being is actively helpful, then the suffering will merely serve him to become perfect, to achieve maturity of his soul, then God’s adversary will have little control over him, then he will turn away from the world and due to his suffering join God ever more closely.

This difference has to be recognised when the disparity of suffering is being considered, when good and bad people are affected by it …. people, who are still completely averted from God and those who seemingly no longer require suffering in order to find Him …. Each time the suffering serves a different purpose, yet the final purpose is the complete union with God. The greatest danger for the human being is his inclination towards the world and his lack of love, for then he will still be wholly enslaved by the one who wants to ruin him. And then he will need strict teaching methods in order to change. Only when his inclination towards the world subsides can love ignite in him, and then the suffering can take on different characteristics, yet it cannot be entirely spared to him as long as the soul is not totally purified. Practising neighbourly love is therefore a decisive factor for his degree of development, it is a decisive factor for the intensity of his suffering, for wherever love is practised, and thus where God is present Himself, the suffering will be more bearable because the human being will be able to receive God’s emanation of strength and therefore the suffering will not depress him as much. He need not fight anymore but only bear it and wait for God’s help which will remove all suffering from him when the time is right. The human being must be helpful or fight, and namely in accordance with his will and his ability to love …. Being helpful will come easily to him, yet fighting will require great strength if he does not want to succumb to the power which will use whatever it takes to pull him into darkness and which will continue to exert an influence on the human being as long as he lives without love, for then he is still far removed from God. Only love sets him free from this power, only love makes him strong, for the loving human being is united with God and receives his strength from Him in order to defeat the adversary ….

Amen

You should preach love and always point people to Me, Who am love Itself. Then you will fulfil your mission on earth and be true instruments for Me who represent My teaching in faith in Me. Again and again you should point out to people that they inevitably have to strive towards Me if they want to fulfil their purpose of earthly life. You should try to make them understand the worthlessness of that which holds their physical senses captive, and you should announce to them the near end which they have to fear if they don’t change to love but remain in worldly love. For this will bring them spiritual death. I instruct My servants on earth to constantly warn and admonish them because I want to help people who still live blindly through earthly life. And My servants now speak instead of Me …. and anyone who hears them hears Me, but anyone who rejects them also rejects Me. But it is up to their will and I do not force them to listen to Me. But I call out to you: Do not tire in your wooing, for it is bitterly necessary that people hear you. Talk constantly about the love they lack; explain to them that this lack of love causes great suffering for humanity and that they therefore cause it themselves …. and point out to them that everything which is contrary to My commandments is unkindness. Even an injustice suffered does not entitle a person to do wrong again, i.e. to repay like with like …. If a person commits an injustice, then the other person must not take this as an example, but he should contribute to the injustice being remedied, and he can only do this through love …. It is important that people are informed of the fact that even unkind thinking or agreeing with unkind actions of others is a lack of love which endangers their souls and at the same time also influences their earthly life unfavourably, for where love is not there I cannot be either, and where I am not there is adversity and darkness, bodily and spiritual. And pay no attention to the speeches of those who do not acknowledge you, give them what you possess and leave it up to them what they want to accept from it. But distribute your gifts with love, for My love gave them to you and love should motivate you to pass them on. Even if your love is not acknowledged, be patient and bear in mind that a strong opposing power fights with you and makes use of people who still cling to the world and have little capacity for love. Yet know that I Myself am also constantly active with them, that I direct their fate in life and leave no means untried in order to help them to seek and find Me. And therefore don’t tire in your work for My kingdom, and take every opportunity where you can preach love and announce the near end to your fellow human beings, for your cooperation is necessary and I will bless it to you …. I will lead you to those who need your help, to whom you should be active by preaching love to them, because without love no-one can become blissfully happy ….

Amen

I will inform all people of the forthcoming end, for I will also draw My adversaries’ attention to it so that they will not be able to say one day that it remained hidden from them. But if they close their ears, if they mock or laugh at what touches their ears in the form of prophecies, My warnings and admonitions will be in vain, for I will not force anyone to believe. But they will tremble when the end is near, for they will recognize their wrong thinking and also the hopelessness of their situation. Humanity no longer wants to accept anything offered to it from the spiritual kingdom; it is so earthly-minded that it lacks all feeling for spiritual good, but I cannot offer people more than what they are willing to accept. I cannot force them into faith through obvious miracles because they are My living creations which were originally active with utmost freedom of will and which would completely lose their freedom through compulsory faith and thus remain imperfect for all eternity. I can only express Myself through human mouths and must leave it up to them whether they want to recognize My word through unconditional desire for truth and unselfish activity of love. For now My word will sound to them and they will recognize the giver of the word in every admonition and warning, and thus they will also heed it. But what willlessness dominates people especially towards these spiritual announcements. They take nothing seriously and believe that God will direct events according to their will and calculation. And how little they therefore do to shape their nature …. And the hour will come without them being prepared for the near end …. They only follow world events and draw their conclusions from them …. But I will startle them and show them that I rule the world and that I truly rule in a way that serves you humans …. And everything will take place according to My plan from eternity …. as I announce to you humans through My servants on earth …. And people will now have to realize that I was only concerned about their well-being, that I wanted to save them and only found resistance from them. For only the will towards God unites their souls with Me. But the will towards Me also gives them the understanding for My word, for My action and activity in the last days before the end. And only then will My word be obeyed as soon as it is still time, for what I announce literally comes true, because I convey knowledge to earth through the spirit which fully corresponds to the truth …. And therefore everything I announced to you humans a long time ago has to come true so that you will know when the end is near ….

Amen

An extensive sphere of action is available to the person who wants to work for the kingdom of God. For wherever there are people, there is spiritual need …. Only a few people consciously strive for the kingdom of God, but the majority are without knowledge and faith because their will is wrong. But God does not force the will …. If the human being is to be guided into faith and knowledge, then his fellow human being must helpfully assist him until his will has changed, and this can be achieved by the word of God; and therefore people must be active who bring the word of God to those who need it. That is why God’s servants will always and everywhere be able to be active. They will never lack work, and God will supply them with people according to their worthiness. For again a distinction must be made between weak-willed people and those whose will is indeed strong but turned towards God’s adversary. Bringing the word of God to them will mostly remain unsuccessful, but the weak-willed urgently need help. It is not an easy task, it requires patience and love, for the ignorance, which is the result of faithlessness, makes those people indifferent towards their souls, and thus they cannot easily be persuaded to accept the divine word. The weakened will does not reject but does not accept either, instead it often remains apathetic, and that is why God’s servant has to try again and again for his salvation until the will strengthens, until he decides to take a stand, for or against. This is why the work in the vineyard of the lord is arduous and yet pleasing to God, for God needs representatives of His teaching on earth through whom His word is conveyed, because He cannot express Himself obviously in order not to curtail the freedom of faith and will. And therefore God also constantly stands by His servants on earth …. They will not take a path without His guidance once they have offered themselves to Him for service. They are never left to themselves but every word, every work and every thought is guided by Him, they are always under His protection, even though they themselves also have to fight against opposition for their own sake, in order to still mature in strength to resist. For God needs their strong will, which is meant for Him alone. His servants must have this strong will, otherwise they are unfit to work for Him because God’s adversary is constantly at work to stop or destroy the work for the kingdom of God. Resistance will therefore always and constantly hinder the servant of God’s work for the kingdom of God, and only the strong will will then stand firm; the strong-willed person does not let himself be distracted, he always tackles the work again, he does not fear the enemy, he is constantly turned towards God and can therefore also constantly receive His strength. And anyone who places his strong will turned towards God at His disposal, who only wants to live and fight for God, will always be certain of His grace and blessing, and the difficult circumstances of life will not be able to knock him down, for he is a support, a pillar on earth, which is so necessary for the kingdom of God that God Himself strengthens it and protects it from collapsing. He will be able to work and constantly enjoy God’s protection even if the world wants to prevent him from being active for the kingdom of God. For His kingdom will continue to exist but the earthly kingdom will perish, and therefore every work which is meant for the eternal, imperishable kingdom is blessed, and every servant of God will receive power and strength in order to be able to work ceaselessly for Him ….

Amen

All creations must be regarded as gathering points of spiritual energies, yet they are obviously expressed in the works of creation which betray life, where constant activity therefore proves these energies. Thus forces are recognized in these creations which are active in them, yet the origin of the strength is understood differently …. and not infrequently completely independent of the works of creation. The fact that God Himself is the source of strength from Whom all life originates is usually denied …. as well as man cannot believe in a simple-minded way. A force is indeed acknowledged, but it is presented as emanating from itself and founded in itself. For intellectual thinking only reckons with things that are demonstrably present, but not with those whose existence is not proven. This is a stage of spiritual ignorance, although earthly man is regarded as knowing. The strength which is given to every living being is clearly recognizable for the time being, since without it the being would be lifeless. But this power is also in every other work of creation, otherwise it would slowly dissolve, just like the cover of a living being after its death. But as long as it exists and is visible to people’s eyes, it is also the bearer of spiritual strength which must of necessity have its origin somewhere. For this strength is indestructible …. it can flow towards or away from a vessel, but it can never evaporate into nothing …. The coming into being and passing away of creation obviously testifies to the inflow and outflow of this life force …. so the force must have its exit somewhere. And this exit is the centre of power, it is God Himself …. no matter what concept man has of God. If every work of creation were itself the producer of the power which animates it, then the work of creation could never ever pass away as such, because a power does not cease to be …. Therefore, the human being as such would also have to be eternally imperishable if he himself were capable of life on his own, independent of a force donor. For since he is the bearer of a force during his life, but force is eternally indestructible or indissoluble, he, as the self-generator of this force, would already be immortal as a human being …. But if the force flows out of him, then it flows back from the original source, or a new receptacle is fed with it, but again from the original source …. Otherwise death and birth in human existence would have to be directly separated, or at least the death of the human being would at the same time cause the birth of a new being. A source of power must always be recognized from which the power radiates in a certain regularity and feeds the respective receptacles. And everything that is visible or tangible in creation must be regarded as receptacles. Every work of creation is a source of strength, every work of creation draws strength from the centre of strength and thereby becomes alive, i.e. it can carry out an activity which is its duty, an activity which is the purpose of existence and requires a constant supply of strength. How one names the source of power, how one imagines it, is unimportant, as long as it is recognized and the dependence of all created things on this source of power is recognized. Then the human being, who is equipped with intellectual thinking, will also be able to grasp the correlations, which he will never be able to do as long as he believes himself to be independent of the power which sustains him. The power always and eternally remains what it is, it does not change, does not need itself and does not lose its efficacy …. it is there and cannot pass away of its own accord …. And since constant death and constant passing away is evident in creation, this must be caused by an outflow of this power …. therefore this power must also have once flowed to creation …. but the source must be sought elsewhere than in the created things themselves …. But the source of power is from eternity and will remain for all eternity …. The source of power is God Himself, a being Who stands in supreme perfection, Who is full of strength, power, love and wisdom, and Who continually pours out this power on everything created by His love according to an unsurpassably wise plan ….

Amen

It is an extremely significant process when the human being’s soul unites with the spirit within it, for then the turning point has, so to speak, occurred; the material existence has been overcome even though the human being still dwells on earth, and the spiritual world is predominant for the last part of his earthly change. The soul can now accept every manifestation of the spirit, it is able to understand it, and it uses its ability in the most extensive way …. It allows itself to be taught and thus enters the state of knowledge. The spirit in the human being is constantly anxious to impart the richest knowledge to the soul in areas which are otherwise closed to the soul and which it can only enter with the help of the spirit. However, every material bondage is an obstacle in order to attain this knowledge, consequently the soul must first have overcome matter, for the soul’s unification with the spirit is a purely spiritual process which does not tolerate any earthly bondage. Matter has such an effect on the soul that it is incapable of hearing the voice of the spirit within itself. The soul has to be completely detached from matter and completely abandon itself to the spirit within itself, it has to surrender itself completely without resistance to its strength, which now becomes effective in it as strength from God. And thus the soul is guided into knowledge, divine wisdom is imparted to it because the spiritual spark in it is part of the divine spirit, whose gifts are of highest value and which therefore must help the soul to perfection. The soul will now be educated according to divine plan, it will be introduced to knowledge which signifies spiritual progress for it ….. For the more the soul stands in knowledge the freer it becomes and the more able it is to utilize this knowledge. And thus it now engages in love by passing this knowledge on to its fellow human beings. Knowledge which the human being receives from his fellow human being first has to be tested for its truthfulness, knowledge, however, which the human being draws from himself, which the spirit in him has imparted to his soul, carries the unconditional truth within itself, and the soul feels this and therefore represents such knowledge full of conviction. And this knowledge will also not remain without impression on fellow human beings, because it is presented full of conviction and fully comprehensible to everyone, because it carries truth within itself and this also captivates the fellow human being as soon as he seriously desires truth. And this is why the unification of the soul with its spirit is so significant, because it not only helps one person to the truth and thus to maturity but has a beneficial effect on wide circles, because the truth breaks through and is also recognized as such by people who strive for it again but have not yet established the unification of their soul with the spirit themselves. However, this unification will not be difficult for them as soon as they have the serious will to do so, and this will is stimulated again by truthful instructions from a person whose spirit is awakened ….

Amen

You shall prepare the way for Me so that when I knock they will open the door for Me, so that My voice will be recognized and they will recognize the lord in Me Who sends His servants ahead to announce Him. You shall constantly speak of My love and care, and you shall mention My grace so that people joyfully and longingly expect Me, who accept My gift of grace and who want to be cared for by Me and My love. For this is why I send you ahead to inform them that they are prepared for My coming and joyfully look forward to Me. I want to make Myself known to them through human mouths in order to then be able to speak to them directly through human mouths …. they shall be admonished to love through human mouths in order to then be able to take abode in them as love Itself. I want to come to them Myself, yet I can only do so if they are lovingly active, and therefore you should encourage them to be lovingly active, you should try to explain My being to them, which can only approach love …. You should advertise for Me by trying to persuade your fellow human beings to change into love, because then I will have a right to them, because I Myself, as love, can now make contact with them and I have now won them for eternity. Although I Myself also approach every person they don’t recognize Me and therefore you should work for Me and use every opportunity to speak to them of My love, which does not pass anyone by but wants to be desired by them in order to be effective …. You shall smooth the paths for Me so that I will no longer find any obstacles when I come Myself but open doors to their hearts through which I can now enter in order to remain in them forever …. And thus you should work for Me tirelessly and full of devotion, for if you bring souls to Me which seek to come close to Me through love, your activity on earth will be a blessed one, you will serve Me and one day receive the highest reward, because you proclaim Me to those whom I want to win and to whom I Myself can come if they have shaped themselves into love ….

Amen

A direct revelation of God is characterized by the father’s direct word to His child, and this word is to be believed as soon as the recipient of the word is a person who stands in faith and love, who therefore strives towards God. However, the prerequisite is not always given that wisdom can be offered to a person, be it that he does not listen inwardly persistently enough or that he is also captivated by teachings which do not entirely correspond to truth, so that he would regard every corrective teaching as the work of God’s adversary. And therefore divine revelations only extend to personal admonitions and warnings but must nevertheless be recognized as such. A person’s desire to be in personal contact with God and the belief that this is possible are the first preconditions for God to reveal Himself fatherly. In which way depends on the human being’s ability and willingness to receive and also on the task he has been given for his earthly life. If he is to be active as a teacher again and places himself at God’s disposal for this office, the divine revelations will take place like an instruction and thus also contain profoundest wisdom, because the human being himself must first have knowledge at his disposal before he can spread it. However, this requires complete non-resistance, i.e. the spirit of God, the giver of truth, must never meet with resistance if it conveys the truth to the human being. Resistance, however, is every false doctrine if it is not unconditionally surrendered and makes room for the truth …. But a person can be deeply religious and fully convinced that he knows the truth, his way of life also corresponds to God’s will …. yet he is incapable of spreading the pure truth as God’s servant because he does not possess it himself …. because he does not ask and desire an answer and expects it but believes himself to be the bearer of truth and therefore erroneous thinking cannot be corrected. He can certainly hear God’s voice because he loves Him and a loving heart is capable of receiving the divine spirit, yet the spirit of God gives the human being according to his desire …. comforting, admonishing, warning or educating father words to the human being, which express His love for the earthly child, or even wise instructions and profound knowledge to the person who is open to it and makes himself worthy of it. The human being’s desire is decisive, and therefore everyone will be considered as he desires …. The fatherly encouragement is enough for one person and he ends his inward listening, while the other listens in his thirst for knowledge for every word which divine love gives him ….

God does not limit His gifts, He gives as long as it is desired; but the human being himself sets the limits, for as soon as his desire diminishes, as soon as his will is no longer active, thus he stops consciously listening within, the inner voice also no longer sounds, the supply is interrupted and can only take place again when the human being, by listening within, declares himself ready to receive the divine gift. And therefore the human being himself determines the measure of knowledge and also the way in which it is offered. A person permeated by spiritual knowledge will mature extremely quickly, and therefore it is decidedly more advantageous to be offered this knowledge by God Himself than to acquire it through study, for the latter need not be unconditional truth, after all, people are the transmitters and they are never free from error …. But anyone who holds on to this spiritual knowledge adopted by people and does not even consider the thought that he may also have been imparted error is not to be given profound knowledge, for he would not accept it as truth but conclude that it is from erroneous givers if it does not correspond to his old knowledge …. And therefore only those people are to be educated as bearers of pure truth who are completely free from erroneous spiritual knowledge and who therefore constantly desire to be taught by God Himself in order to receive guaranteed pure truth, for God can now consider them in all abundance and make them His representatives on earth, and it is these who are now to teach and pass on the profound knowledge to their fellow human beings because they are capable of doing so and have the firm will to help their fellow human beings …. These will be abundantly endowed with knowledge, the divine teacher Himself instructs them and trains them so that they can now teach in His name, always and everywhere where people are open to the pure truth ….

Amen

Your heart should be pure and without dross if you want to receive Me in it. And thus you should make an effort to ennoble yourselves and only carry good thoughts within yourselves; every ignoble impulse should stay away from you, you should treat each other with peace and love, you should not allow any resentment or hatred to arise within yourselves, you should always be willing to help and use your strength to work in love; you should often pause in prayer and also remember the deceased, you should practice mercy and bear your fellow human beings’ weaknesses with all patience and not want to excel but serve in humility and meekness wherever you can accomplish a work of love. For only then will you become like Me if you make an effort to follow Me in everything, if you constantly work on yourselves and discard all faults and weaknesses. Then I can take possession of your hearts and dwell and work in you …. This is an exceeding bliss already on earth, for if I Myself am with you there will be no more hardship, no more earthly suffering and no more pain …. For your body no longer feels anything, only before the world it still appears sensitive for the sake of people who do not yet grasp a high degree of maturity which allows My presence. And thus I am also not obviously recognizable, yet the earthly child which has fulfilled the conditions to revel in My presence feels My nearness and is exceedingly blissful. It hears Me and is happy about My voice …. And every person can achieve this happiness if he eagerly strives for perfection, if he does everything to gain My pleasure and shapes his heart into love. For then he will inevitably draw Me close to him and I will take abode in his heart and never ever leave him. But if you have shortcomings and don’t make an effort to get rid of them, you create an obstacle for Me and My activity, and then I will remain eternally inaccessible to you. You must seriously want and request the strength from Me to carry out the will, and you must do everything in order to progress in your development, you must examine yourselves and fight your faults, you must compete in good and constantly strive to perfect yourselves, then My love will assist you and strength will flow to you …. your striving will be successful …. you will be able to receive Me Myself into your heart, and this signifies beatitude already on earth and eternal unification in the spiritual kingdom. For unification with Me takes all earthly hardship away from you, it makes you free and powerful, it relieves you of earthly heaviness, and knowledge opens up to you which makes you happy and stimulates you into utmost activity of love. For then My voice will continue to sound to you and I will teach you and determine all your ways, your actions, your thoughts and your will. Yet I do not force you but your heart, which is voluntarily offered to Me, carries the same will within itself, it has completely subordinated itself to My will, and therefore the human being can no longer think and want differently …. and this is the great bliss of being one with My will …. Therefore, strive for this union with Me with all diligence, work on yourselves and shape yourselves into love, so that I can be with you in all fullness, so that I can take abode in your hearts and you will no longer be lonely and forsaken …. so that My love can make you happy and My strength flow to you, so that you no longer walk the earthly path alone but have a constant companion in Me ….

Amen

“And the gates of hell shall not prevail against them ….” the small flock of My believers, for they will remain faithful to Me even in the greatest earthly tribulation, their faith will be so profound and unshakeable that even the powers of darkness will shake it in vain and they will not succeed in gaining victory over them. For My own will have Me as their commander and even hell, whose power is otherwise not to be underestimated, will be powerless against Me. But strong faith is like a wall which withstands all onslaughts, and all belong to My church who call this strong faith their own …. Anyone who believes in Me with all firmness need no longer fear anything, no matter from which side it may come. Admittedly, there are always bad forces which try to shake this strong faith and it requires the will to resist. But anyone who has faith also knows about My love and My omnipotence, and therefore he does not fear any adversary but confronts him courageously, he defeats him with My strength. But he draws strength from his faith in Me, he knows that I stand by his side, he trusts in My help, and I reward his profound faith …. My help is certain for him. And thus the believer will emerge victorious from the last conflict, he will survive the end while the faithless perish; he will feel the strength of faith and also be able to prove it to his fellow human beings, while the unbelievers will be weak and helpless in the face of the downfall of earth which, however, the believers need not fear, for they will remain unscathed where thousands upon thousands lose their lives. As brutally as the battle will be waged beforehand that one can really speak of hell, the latter will not celebrate any triumphs, for no matter how small the number of believers is, it cannot be defeated because the deep, unshakeable faith prevents this. For the believer fights with Me and I am his surest protection …. “The gates of hell will not prevail against them ….” I have given this promise to My church, and My church consists of profound believers who are in living contact with Me and will also always feel My nearness, who recognize Me in the word and are therefore also fearless because they feel the strength of My word and oppose this word to the enemy of their souls. He will certainly still rage furiously before his dominion is wrested from him and he will use all means, he will open all gates and appoint his accomplices to bring the human being to fall; he will want to take away his secure faith but every effort will be in vain …. Those who believe in Me are My children, and these I do not leave in the distress of the soul …. I give them strength and fortitude to endure, I help them to join Me the more intimately the enemy wants to separate them from Me. And he will struggle in vain against the bulwark which is and will remain strong faith for all forces of the underworld which will never be able to tear down this bulwark because it is built on a firm foundation, on a strong rock …. on convinced faith which can never ever be lost once the human being has gained it. For convinced faith recognizes Me and also hopes and builds on Me. And the person of convinced faith will not let Me fall, he is faithful to Me on earth and will remain faithful to Me until the end, and no power of the underworld will ever have power over him, not even the worst hell, i.e. the prince of the underworld is powerless against the one who asks for My help by believing in Me ….

Amen

The divine spiritual spark in the human being is his actual life, consequently, one can only speak of rebirth when the spirit in the human being has been awakened, when it can start to become active and thus the spiritual life begins …. In that case the human being is spiritually reborn, for his physical birth only makes sense and serves its purpose when spiritual rebirth has taken place. The divine spiritual spark has consciously been acknowledged by the person’s soul even if the person is not yet able to rationally differentiate between the two concepts of soul and spirit. For the process of unification of spirit and soul can happen without a person’s knowledge, since this is only conveyed to him when it occurred. Only then will the spirit explain to the soul what the unity of the spirit with the soul means, and only then will the soul strive towards ever closer union with its spirit and will accept the most valuable knowledge from it. And from then on the human being will be alive, that is, he will utilise his knowledge and consciously work for the kingdom of God; he will eagerly work at distributing the obtained information and at imparting the knowledge to his fellow human beings …. Life is continuous activity …. Admittedly, the human being is certainly physically alive without having awakened his indwelling spiritual spark, that is, he is active in an earthly way and thus works for his earthly life, for his body and for earthly goals. But this is not the true life, the life which is everlasting, the life Jesus had spoken about and which He promised to anyone who believes in Him …. True life is the never-ending life of the spirit, the attainment of which is the purpose of life on earth. This purpose will only be achieved when the human being’s spirit has come to life.

Spiritual rebirth is the most worthwhile goal to strive for, because it will yield indescribable gain for the human being’s soul. That which is offered by the earth is impermanent and only benefits the body but never the soul. In contrast, what the spirit offers the soul will refresh it and quench its thirst, it is its nourishment, thus it is strength for living; it is a precious commodity which can no longer perish, which induces happiness and encourages diligent activity and therefore can be called the elixir of life, because death, which previously had threatened the soul and would be its inevitable share had rebirth not taken place, will no longer be possible. The carnal body is the shell which harbours the divine spark and it is up to the person’s free will as to whether he bursts the shell, whether he strives to awaken the Divine within himself to life. If the soul, the bearer of the will, turns towards the divine spirit by trying to penetrate the shell, by trying to liberate itself from all earthly wishes, from bad habits and vices, if it tries to dissolve the shell through activity of love, the divine spiritual spark will start to move, it will make contact with the human being’s soul, it will help it rise above itself, it will constantly whisper advice and instructions and thus guide the soul as soon as it allows itself to be guided. From then on the divine spark in the person will take the lead and this will truly be right …. Then the spirit and soul will no longer oppose each other but pursue their goal together …. they will strive towards the eternal home and pay no attention to the body, the earth and everything of an earthly nature, even though the human being still lives on earth. The human being is alive, even if earthly matters are of no further interest to him, for his spirit is alive and is constantly active. The human being only works for the spiritual kingdom, for the kingdom of God, he works at improving himself and his fellow human beings, he is incessantly active, for the indwelling spiritual spark will not allow him to rest, that is, to rest idly, as it is harmful and synonymous with death …. with a state which is painful in eternity and should therefore be feared as the worst fate that can befall the human soul. However, once the spirit has come alive then death will no longer exist, for the spirit is immortal and also draws the soul into eternal life, into everlasting glory ….

Amen

My Word can only be directly conveyed to a few people, because only a few believe that I speak to people Myself and because this faith is absolutely necessary for Me to be able to express Myself in a person …. People lack faith in My work, in My omnipotence and love, and thus I cannot make Myself known to them in the Word either, for in order to be able to hear My Word the human being’s spirit has to be alive, but this is part of Me, and thus it cannot manifest itself in the Word where I Am not acknowledged, where faith in Me is insufficient. Yet those who hear My Word and to whom I can speak directly are needed by Me on earth, for they have to accomplish a great mission …. They shall let faith in Me arise anew amongst people, they shall strengthen those who are still weak in faith, they shall proclaim Me, speak of My love, omnipotence and wisdom, they shall bring Me close to people and refer them to the Word which they are able to hear themselves. And thus they shall speak on My behalf where My voice is no longer heard …. I Myself want to speak through them because divine activity is not acknowledged, but it is imperative that people should be informed of My will, that they are admonished to live according to My order, that they are informed of the dangers which result in a way of life in opposition to My order, and that love is constantly preached to them so that they will reduce the distance from Me and thus become capable of believing and of hearing My Word themselves. The number of labourers in My vineyard is not large, for people seek earthly reward for their service; but those in My service have to work for spiritual reward and this remuneration does not appeal to the former. Yet the few who are of service to Me receive far more than they relinquish, for they are the servants of a Lord Who has all the treasures of heaven and earth at His disposal, Who has the power to give everything and Who, in His love, provides His Own with an abundance of everlasting gifts which outshine everything that the earth is able to show. Those who want to serve Me can be certain of My love, and I prove this love of Mine by speaking to them like a father who speaks to his child, yet in a way which benefits its soul. For not all people are capable of enduring My loving Word if I include My full abundance of love, not all are mature enough as to hear Me audibly; yet merely their will to help Me enables them to grasp My Word, regardless in which form I transmit it to them.

My Word is the token of My love, but My Word is also the evidence of My omnipotence for a person who is still weak in faith. For I, being invisible to you humans, manifest Myself through My Word which is eternal truth and will also be recognised as such as soon as you believe in Me. But through My Word I also want to provide evidence for the unbelievers by predicting things they will experience and which will thus enable them to recognise My truth. At the same time, I will give them the evidence of My omnipotence too, because the forthcoming occurrence will not be accomplished by people but will be entirely My work and therefore will help many people to believe in Me. This is why I instruct My servants to mention My predictions far and wide, for My love applies to those who are incapable or weak in faith, and in order to help them I will visibly manifest Myself after announcing it in advance. I grant the grace of hearing My Word to those who want to receive it, who desire Me and My Word with all their heart and who humbly submit themselves to My will. This grace, however, enables the person to mature if he allows it to take effect in him …. And My Word is the most effective means of grace, since the soul of anyone who has My Word and lives accordingly is already bound to become fully mature on earth. You should therefore be grateful that you may hear Me through a person who allows Me to speak to him, i.e. who believes in Me, in My work, My love and omnipotence and who therefore listens within to what I say to him. You should not hear him but instead hear Me in every Word that reaches you, you should let the grace take effect in you, you should become strong in faith and try to motivate your fellow human beings to gain faith as well by informing them of the heavenly Father’s concern for His children who have distanced themselves and are no longer able to hear His voice. But you should receive My servants as My messengers who want to convey the grace of their Lord to you, who want to bring you peace if you are of good will …. Pay attention to their words and you will hear My voice, comply with it and submit yourselves to My will …. My servants, however, are blessed and prepared by Me for their work in My vineyard ….

Amen

God’s grace and mercy is granted to all who are in distress of soul. For His love embraces all His living creations, and His love seeks to lift up the fallen, He seeks to comfort the suffering, to help the erring to the truth and to strengthen the weak, so that the soul will recognize that there is ne Who is full of love and to Whom it should now turn in love …. And therefore His grace and mercy comes to the aid of all people who only want to be helped. For no human being is too far removed from God not to be loved by Him, and no person who wants to accept His grace needs to do without it. For God’s love and patience knows no bounds …. But if the person’s resistance to God is so great that his will of rejection is strong, then God will withdraw His love and patience, then He will not prevent the being from acting according to His will, which will lead him towards the abyss. The whole of humanity has reached this stage that it closes itself to God’s grace and mercy. Then this means a slow cooling down of God’s love, i.e. His creatures’ insensitivity to His emanation of love, and …. since love sustains everything …. a perishing of creation. Yet God’s mercy and grace remains eternal, and it also helps the one who has completely fallen away from Him to ascend again, only in a way which is not recognized as grace and mercy. For even the most agonizing state …. the state of banishment in the solid form or the state of greatest torment in the beyond …. is a means of helping the fallen one to rise again. If God’s mercy, the eternal love, were to withdraw completely from the fallen beingness, the material creation would also cease to be, for God would no longer need it as a form for the spiritual, which is to develop upwards …. The spiritual would remain in eternal darkness in the spiritual kingdom. But God’s love is eternal and unchanging …. It does not rest until that which once came forth from It has completely united with It again in order to prepare the bliss of Its nearness for it. And this love always finds new ways and means to win over that which resists it. But in its state of resistance it must eternally lack divine love which, although it flows towards it, it cannot feel and which therefore also remains ineffective in it. But as long as the human being stays on earth he can constantly receive His love if he only wants to. God’s mercy and grace comes close to even the most distant human being in such a form that he can change, that he can give up his resistance against God and come close to Him again. And His mercy and grace will become more evident in the time to come. It will one day throb on all hearts and bring news of God’s infinite love, admonishing them to give up their resistance against Him and warning them against remaining in rejection, for the end is no longer far away when God’s love will seemingly withdraw from everything that lives on earth …. Yet the spiritual darkness is so great that God’s love is no longer recognized, and every day thickens this darkness, although a bright light shines …. the divine truth which descends to earth as a ray of light and could bring recognition to people if they would expose themselves to the effect of these rays of light. But they flee the light, and therefore the end has come for people who are of dark spirit, so that they can start the renewed earthly path in order to one day reach ascent after all ….

Amen

This is the power of prayer, that you connect with God and thereby open your heart to receive strength. You enter the bridge to Him, and He comes to meet you, and He distributes what you lack, what you can only receive from Him …. strength from God …. For you need this and it can only be supplied to you if you request it, if you acknowledge God through prayer. For through prayer you prove your faith in Him, in His might and His love, otherwise you would not pray to Him. And faith is the first prerequisite for God’s strength to flow to you and become effective, for only by believing in Him and His might and love do you open yourselves to the influx of His strength and thus consciously receive it. You do not resist it and your soul will feel this strength as stimulation, as striving for perfection. This is the blessing of prayer, even if it is an earthly request which God does not fulfil for the sake of the soul’s salvation, the soul nevertheless benefits from the strength which arises from the connection with God, it benefits its spiritual progress, for every connection with God carries its blessing within itself, not always outwardly recognizable but beneficially felt by the soul. As soon as an earthly child prays it has escaped the power of God’s adversary; a praying person is seized by God’s love and is under His protection. A praying person is humble and therefore also receives grace, for if the person is arrogant he does not pray or his prayer is formal without deep feeling, for right prayer involves humility of heart, the admission of weakness and submission to God’s will …. But God gives His grace to the humble …. And being in God’s grace must result in spiritual success for the soul, for receiving grace always means being certain of God’s help which he needs for his ascent. As soon as the human being prays he reduces the distance between himself and God, he draws closer to Him and God does not withdraw from him. He bends towards the child pleading with Him full of love, and every approach to God strengthens the soul because strength radiates from God to the being which desires such. And that is why prayer is the first thing to be able to mature spiritually, the conscious contact with God is an unconscious profession of faith, and the believing human being can constantly be certain of God’s help, even if the help is offered to him in a different form than he desired. But prayer never has no effect on the soul, because it will always receive strength from God without which the human being can never mature, and because this strength is the most exquisite good that can be conveyed to the human being on earth, it nevertheless provides him with the spiritual maturity which is absolutely necessary for eternal life ….

Amen

The human being is at greatest risk if he indulges in self-satisfaction, if he deems himself psychologically highly developed and does not know himself. For he lacks humility which he, however, will have to demonstrate to God if he wants to receive His grace in order to continue maturing. Only someone who deems himself small will strive to ascend, only someone who feels weak will appeal for strength, and if he humbly approaches the heavenly Father in prayer strength can be given to him.

The human being should constantly work at improving himself and he can only do so if he considers himself imperfect, if he is aware of his faults and weaknesses and tries to discard them. Every step towards perfection must be laboriously fought for, since fighting one’s own faults and weaknesses requires fighting against oneself, against one’s cravings, one’s leaning towards the world, towards material possessions, against one’s evil instincts which make it difficult for the soul to release the spirit.

And this battle is an easy one as long as the body still makes demands which impede his psychological maturity. But first of all the human being must recognise himself; he must know what God wants and to what extent his will is still in opposition to God’s will; he must know that God requires a complete transformation into love, and he must contemplate what this change into love means …. that no evil thought should arise in the person and thus no evil deed may be carried out, that every movement of the human heart must be virtuous and gentle, that all bad habits should be fought against and that the human being must train himself to become gentle, peaceful, patient, compassionate and humble. He must constantly observe himself, and time and again he will find weaknesses and flaws if he takes his work of improving himself seriously …. he will not be satisfied with himself as long as he lives on earth, for he will not become so perfect on earth that he would have nothing to criticise about himself anymore. He must strive for perfection as long as he lives, and he will only do so as long as he is aware of his imperfection as a result of his stringent self-criticism and as long as he is absolutely determined to take the path of ascent …. And thus he has to remain profoundly humble and consider himself and his work small and even more sincerely request the gift of grace so that God’s strength will flow to him and enable him to carry out the work of improving his soul, because God giveth grace to the humble ….

Amen

People on earth enjoy the privilege of being directly instructed from the spiritual kingdom, and thus they can penetrate the eternal truth if they make use of this privilege, i.e. if they accept the instructions. God Himself instructs His messengers to bring light to earth because it lies in complete darkness. And where a willing earthly child is found which accepts this light, direct instruction from the spiritual kingdom can also take place. And such an instruction has extraordinarily many advantages, after all, the human being has the guarantee of pure truth, which can never ever be given to him by people. For human intellectual thinking is out of the question as soon as spiritual results continuously arise in an extraordinarily short time. But if spiritual activity is recognizable this activity must inevitably take place on God’s instructions or in accordance with God’s will, because forces which oppose Him would never make the divine plan of salvation and redemption comprehensible to people. God-dedicated spiritual forces are active which want to help people in their great spiritual adversity, and they can only offer purest truth because every untruth, every error, is far from them as soon as they have the spheres of light of the spiritual kingdom as their abode. And the fact that they are beings of light who express themselves in an instructive way is evident from the fact that only teachings full of light, thus teachings which illuminate people’s thinking and impart wisdom to them, are conveyed to earth, that light shines into the darkness prevailing there and chases away the darkness …. thus people become knowledgeable and this knowledge can be transferred to their fellow human beings again. Light, however, must flow from a ray of light, light cannot come from darkness but it must come from spheres which are full of light, which are therefore subject to the eternal deity Itself, whose inhabitants stand in the light because they are close to the eternal light ….

The instructions from the spiritual kingdom are therefore immensely valuable for people because they are the key to the knowledge of God and to the recognition of themselves and their task. They are a sign of God’s great love, Who does not want them to walk in spiritual darkness and thereby forfeit light and strength because they see no way to reach it. He wants to show them the way, He wants to instruct them about everything that is connected with their existence …. He wants to impart the pure truth to them for their own benefit, for the attainment of eternal bliss …. Anyone who therefore accepts the spiritual instructions must also take the right path which leads upwards, for God Himself calls him and guides him if he allows himself to be led. For it is certain that God offers His creations every opportunity to learn to recognize Him, but that He does not force any of His creatures into recognition. But if spiritual knowledge is offered which has a noticeable spiritual origin, which thus comes to earth from the spiritual kingdom, the human being’s free will will be appealed to in order to be adapted …. If he wants the good and his desire is directed towards God then he also acknowledges the spiritual origin; but if he lacks the ability to recognize it as God’s mission then his will still inwardly rebels …. he does not seek God but is content with what earthly life offers him …. he knows no spiritual striving and God’s grace is not effective in him. The giver of what comes from the spiritual kingdom can easily be recognized by the spiritual gifts themselves, which only concern God and His rule and activity, His love, wisdom and omnipotence, His act of salvation through Jesus Christ and the divine plan of salvation and therefore can never come from God-opposing forces or have arisen through human thinking. For even the latter is guided by God Himself as soon as it deals with things which reach into the spiritual kingdom, and then the intellect alone is no longer active but the spirit of God expresses itself through such people. But if a gift from the spiritual kingdom is conspicuously offered it is a privilege which cannot be valued enough, for God obviously takes care of humanity which is wrongly guided in its thinking and therefore lives in spiritual darkness …. He gives it light so that it will recognize the path which leads to Him ….

Amen

Recognize God’s guidance, and give thanks and praise to Him …. For your fate in life is based on His will, and therefore everything has to happen as it happens. And therefore bear everything with patience, accept everything with gratitude, be it joy or suffering, for both will be for your best if you acknowledge it as God’s providence and submit to His will. You will still have to endure the suffering of time for a little while, for the end will not leave anyone out, yet the father always and constantly holds His protective hand over His children and guides everything to the good, no matter what may come. Adversity is never greater than the Helper, and it is truly easy for His might to change the greatest adversity into happiness and to ease the earthly fate of the person who is in hard distress. But he must believe in Him and His power, in His love and seek to attain this love …. He must strive to live according to God’s will so that God’s love will also express itself. And even if earthly adversity seems insurmountable, firm faith and unshakable trust in God’s help will banish it, and thus the human being himself has the surest means to avert it as soon as he appeals to the father in heaven, Who will not leave His children in adversity ….

Amen

What is hidden from the world is revealed by the spirit of God to those who have detached themselves from the world and desire to hear God’s voice. And His revelation is truly of inestimable value, for it is profoundest wisdom which the spirit of God conveys to them, and this wisdom paves the soul’s path to eternal life. And as soon as the spirit of God can become effective in the human being he is in constant contact with God, the highest spirit of heaven and earth, and consequently he must now also increase in knowledge and light, because God, as the eternal wisdom and the original light, constantly emanates wisdom and light. And His revelations are inexhaustible, and the human being can always draw from the source of wisdom and enrich his knowledge because God does not set him any limits. But if a fellow human being wants to understand these revelations, if they are conveyed to him by a person enlightened by God’s spirit, he must first absolutely have the will to penetrate the pure truth and make himself worthy of it through a life of love. Only then will the imparted spiritual knowledge become comprehensible to him, otherwise it will either pass unimpressively by his ear or remain misunderstood or be completely misinterpreted. For God certainly gives His revelations to the recipient in an understandable way, yet this understanding is due to the working of the spirit in the human being, and where this cannot become effective the human being lacks understanding as soon as he does not fulfil the condition first. For this reason no person who is not called to do so should ever try to interpret divine revelations as long as he is not in contact with the spiritual kingdom and its messengers. These can certainly influence his thinking and try to guide it correctly, yet a certain training on the part of the spiritual beings is necessary in order to grasp spiritual truths, which requires the human being’s will who then submits to the conditions imposed on him. For as soon as he is instructed by the divine spirit he will become light and bright, and every gift will supplement his knowledge and increase his spiritual wealth. For it is only purely spiritual truths, it is knowledge which is meaningless for the earthly world because it does not earn the human being any earthly, material goods, because it only concerns the spiritual kingdom and simply appears unacceptable to worldly people. Yet it makes everyone happy who strives spiritually, who despises the world and makes an effort to live a life of love …. For he knows the value of spiritual goods and may never ever give them away for the highest goods of the world ….

But it is an unspoken rejection when a spiritual gift is accepted apathetically, when the intellect does not become active, thus the human being does not take a mental position on it and the gift does not touch the will at all and stimulate it to activity. But then he will never have knowledge in the spiritual field either, for he can never gain it through the world. And his own intellectual thinking is not enough to penetrate the depths of divine wisdom. There is only one possibility …. through the working of the spirit in the human being …. to be guided into truth, into spiritual knowledge. If this possibility is not used then the human being will remain ignorant and lightless, even if he has great earthly knowledge at his disposal. But the spirit works from within, for even what is conveyed to the human being from outside has to be made comprehensible to him from within, so that truth can never be transferred to the human being in a scholastic way but the working of the spirit is also an essential part of this scholastic knowledge if it is to be recognized by the human being as truth. The right source of spiritual knowledge always remains the word of God, yet this also has to be explained by the spirit of God, otherwise it can be misunderstood and thus also passed on incorrectly. But if an explanation meets with any resistance on the part of the pupil, then the meaning will also remain dark to him, for he will close himself off to the ray of light which wants to shine through him. Thus every erroneous teaching that has taken root in a person is caused by his own will insofar as he has thoughtlessly accepted a teaching imparted to him from outside and now holds on to it as truth. In this way he makes himself incapable of the working of the spirit, because he does not pay attention to its voice, since he believes himself to be standing in the truth …. But the human being must always listen to the inner voice if he wants to be taught by the spirit of God. But then knowledge will be made accessible to him which will fully compensate him for the effort of listening inwardly …. For the truth from God is a most delicious commodity which can now never be taken away from him but which constantly increases the more the human being gives of it and the easier it is for him to detach himself from what was previously offered to him as truth …. For God demands unconditional acceptance of His teachings, and any resistance reduces the possibility of penetrating divine truth ….

Amen

God’s activity comes to light in an unmistakable way as soon as the spiritual need of humanity requires it. God is a God of love, He does not separate Himself eternally from His creatures, to whom He has given a free life that brings them the highest freedom and perfection. However, as soon as they are in danger of losing this free life, as soon as they enter a state which means for them to sink into complete bondage, God Himself will obviously confront them, yet only recognizable to the one of good will …. He does not touch freedom of will but seeks to arouse its will …. And thus God will be recognizable to some people but remain unrecognizable to most because they lack the will to do so. God does not abandon His living creations to their fate as soon as weakness of will has caused them spiritual adversity, yet every individual person is the shaper of his future life according to his will. It can be a life in fullest freedom and highest bliss as well as a life which can rather be called death, in bondage and greatest torment. God’s love wants to avert the latter and therefore appears wherever there is still the possibility to change a person’s mind. And it expresses itself in the most diverse form, depending on the human being’s degree of development and maturity. The eternal deity manifests Itself, but only to deeply believing people, for whom this manifestation no longer means compulsory faith …. However, It also expresses Itself perceptibly where faith is only weak, and it is up to the human being himself how he evaluates this …. He only needs to believe that God’s love does not leave any creature in spiritual hardship, then God’s diverse activity will also become explainable to him, and then every extraordinary phenomenon will gain in significance. And thus He also makes Himself known to people in the word, which He Himself conveys to people in an extraordinary way …. This is a process of such far-reaching importance that it has to be explained again and again. God speaks to people, and that in fullest truth …. However, the human being has never been content with His divine word but has tried to add to it on his own initiative, and the consequence of this was that the pure word of God, as it was originally given by Him, is interspersed with human words which were certainly added in the best sense but which always impaired the purity of the divine word. People of unenlightened spirit are unable to separate the pure word of God from the additional human work, and thus it is always a danger for them if they are not assisted by enlightened people who first have the task of clarifying ambiguities, refuting erroneous teachings and extracting the divinely pure word if contradictions arise. For God, as the eternal truth Himself, is not pleased with error and lies, and again and again He seeks to substitute truth for them. Again and again He conveys the pure truth to willing earthly people who willingly offer themselves to Him for service, He comprehensibly and patiently informs them about questions which are still unresolved or give rise to different opinions. He trains those servants so that they speak in His place where it is commanded in order to spread the truth. Thus He obviously expresses Himself, for He visibly lets a work come into being which informs people of His love, His activity and His wisdom …. He makes this work accessible to people and thereby gives them grace upon grace …. Yet the human being’s will remains free, he is not forced to acknowledge this divine truth as such; however, he only derives grace and blessing from it if he faithfully accepts what is offered to him in love. His will determines, but not the will of God …. consequently, the human being’s will also determines his future state, his life in eternity …. whether this is a happy life or spiritual death for him …. Never again is God’s will decisive for the human being’s course of development and degree of maturity, but solely the human being’s will. Divine will certainly guides him towards all possibilities which are favourable for spiritual progress, yet the human being has to exploit them himself in free will, he is by no means compulsorily driven to do so but only guided in fatherly love as soon as he allows himself to be guided. The acceptance of the divine word offers the human being an exceptional opportunity to mature, thus this is a gift of grace from God which can bring him the greatest success if he uses it. Thus the will must first become active again if God’s grace is to take effect in him. And in order to stimulate this will God appears extraordinarily by revealing Himself to people in a way which deviates from the everyday …. by switching off a person’s intellectual thinking and yet writing down spiritual wisdom which reveals God’s will and is intended to help people to live a way of life in accordance with His will. Depending on his faith the human being will draw blessings from these proclamations, especially in the last days when this divine word alone will give people strength and comfort and is certain proof of the divine dwelling amongst people. And thus God visibly manifests Himself through His word, He speaks to them, audibly by all who are enlightened by His spirit because they love Him, desire the truth and also consider His working possible, for these will listen inwardly in silence and receive God’s grace and become partakers of its blessings because free will decides to accept it and thus allows the divine grace to be effective. And it is these who acquire the kingdom of God, who enter the kingdom of light after their death, into eternal life, which signifies unceasing activity and unimagined bliss in the proximity of God ….

Amen

The sun of the spirit shall rise and chase away darkness …. where there is darkness there shall be light, where there is lack of understanding and ignorance there shall be enlightenment by the word of God, for it is God Himself Who instructs people if they want to receive His word. And He truly gives them these instructions in the right form, in accordance with their will for truth and according to their receptivity and worthiness. And this is His word: Try to think of the divine will as the fundamental principle according to which everything takes place in heaven and on earth …. try to let this divine will apply first, and then you will only look at every event from this side, that the divine will cannot be uninvolved in it, for without (His) God’s will no other will can come into effect …. even if it is completely adversarial. Every will, whether good or evil, must first be sanctioned by His will before it can come into activity, thus the divine will underlies every happening, which, however, does not mean that God approves of what the evil will gives birth to. Nevertheless, even the evil will could not be if the human being were not enabled by God to want, thus every will is founded in God’s will …. But God never determines man to want good or evil, but the direction of his will is left up to him, and this is free will …. The fact that the human being can want is God’s gift, God’s destiny or also a grace of God …. but what he wants is his own destiny, in this God leaves him complete freedom, even though he can also be prevented from carrying out what he wants. Nevertheless, his will has been put into action, he has declared the direction of his will to God, and it is this direction of will for which he has to answer. And the divine commandments are the standard for good or evil will. Thus God will never try to influence the human will to violate His commandments, but He will put the thoughts into his heart to take a stand on one of the commandments …. Thus good and evil will always approach him, the will in the human being will also be stimulated according to divine determination …. however, it is up to the human being how he decides. And God will cause him to express his will through earthly events, and therefore earthly events approach him in a way which is most favourable to his decision of will. And this is fate, his predetermined course of life, which takes all his predispositions into account and gives him the greatest opportunity to let his will become active in the right direction. Freedom of will is very often misunderstood, for it is related to the execution of earthly activity, and a prevented execution of what the human being wants is called unfree will …. The possibility of execution is completely independent of the will itself …. This is free, i.e. the human being himself determines the direction the will takes, and the freedom of his will will never be touched by God …. However, freedom of will can be misused for God-opposing activity as well as for God-opposing thinking. Even then the human being makes use of the strength from God, i.e. the life force which flows towards him, and consequently, in a certain sense, of God’s approval, because without His will nothing can happen and without His will the human being would also not be able to think. And yet, it cannot be said that God has determined the human being’s will for his thinking and acting. Even if God Himself placed the will in the human being, He nevertheless did not direct this will to good or evil deeds. And this has to be kept apart, otherwise free will would have to be denied and the human being could never have a claim to perfection. People usually relate the freedom of will to purely earthly actions, thoughts or events, and they often experience that they are very unfree because actions, thoughts and events do not always correspond to their will. Then the will of God obviously expresses itself and they eagerly contest the doctrine of free will. But even then ‘will’ and ‘possibility of execution’ are still different terms, because the human being can always give the will the direction he likes. In spiritual terms, however, the will will always be able to be carried out, for what the human being wants he also receives the strength for, except that his will also determines the origin of the strength, that the strength is supplied to him from above or also from below, thus he hands himself over to the strength which his will inclines towards. But even then God gives His approval, i.e. He does not hinder the human being’s course of development although it leads away from Him, because He has given the being the freedom of will and will not eternally revoke this freedom if it lives out the last stage on earth as a human being, which shall earn it the final maturity.

Amen

I do not command the human will but leave it its freedom. I certainly remain constantly active in him by constantly supplying him with the strength to want, think and act as an independent being. And thus I am the originator of his life as well as of his thinking and wanting. For once something has emerged from My hand I must also constantly put it into the state of being able to fulfil its purpose, which underlies every work of creation, every product of My strength of love, otherwise My working could be denied wisdom, which, however, undeniably appears everywhere if the human being has reached a certain level of realization and has an open eye for My rule and working. But if I constantly supply all created things with vitality in order to be able to exist, then understandably all life, all activity, is dependent on My will and consequently also all organic activity of the human being, which only My will allows to come into operation, and thus it is I Who works in the human being …. both the will and the accomplishment; for I gave the human being this ability as the highest work of creation on the visible earth. Without this gift, however, the human being would not be a free, independent being and thus would not be able to develop himself upwards. Yet I also gave him freedom of will, i.e. he is free to use the gift of will and accomplishment in every direction, and he will never be forced by Me to take this or that direction, he will only be lovingly guided on his path of life such that he will be faced with decisions, because this is the purpose of his earthly life, that he will use his free will correctly. I want to make blissful creatures out of all people, yet beatitude depends on the will for good …. Deciding in favour of the good in all freedom of will brings the soul the highest bliss …. But if the human being is good as a result of being influenced by Me, then he is no longer a free, independent being, and without freedom there is no bliss …. It is free will which should always and constantly be safeguarded, both in the earthly as well as in the spiritual kingdom, if all beings are to shape themselves in My image one day. And the question of free will is so extremely important that the human being will always be given an answer to it, so that his thinking will not be in error and thus the doctrine of salvation will become completely incomprehensible to him. I always instruct you humans in truth if you trustingly turn to Me Myself for clarification of such questions, and I convey this truth to you if you don’t hear it yourselves, for your knowledge is inadequate if you are wrongly instructed in crucial questions and then want to build on it. The freedom of will must never ever be denied, otherwise you will reduce yourselves to machines which have to willingly accept everything I, the lord of creation, want …. My will is indeed decisive, yet I never determine the individual being’s course of development, just as I never push its will into a certain direction and thus impair the freedom of thought, instead, the decision is left to the human being himself, and as his decision is, so is his state of maturity …. I bestow the blessings on every individual person unmeasured, and thus his will to accept My blessings alone is decisive as to what extent they can take effect on him and what strength he now has at his disposal to put his will into action. My love applies to all My living creations, and therefore I also allocate the same measure of grace to all living creations, yet how they use it is up to them, for I certainly command heaven and earth but I do not force human will ….

Amen

And it will come as it is written …. A spiritual change is imminent but only after a state of extreme confusion, earthly and spiritual perplexity, clearly recognizable satanic activity and utmost earthly and spiritual hardship. For all this must precede so that a new spiritual life will emerge from it, which will now be led by those who assert themselves in these end time, who place spiritual life above earthly life and do not allow themselves to be determined to fall away from God. They will experience the new time, the spiritual transformation and thus also the transformation of the old earth, and God’s greatness will become apparent to them, His wisdom, omnipotence and love. The eternal deity is apparently far away from the human race in the last days, but in truth it is closer than ever, for He courts every human soul, and that is why all the suffering on earth is necessary, because it is the last means of winning them. And suffering is also a sign of God’s love, Who knocks at the individual’s heart in order to make Himself audible to him. And when the last time has come there will be no end to suffering and affliction, so that the human being will close himself off from the pleasures of the world, so that he will turn his thoughts towards eternity, so that he will learn to despise the earth and only recognize its spiritual purpose. And then an unspeakably sad process will take place, carried out on the faithful who faithfully stand by God …. This will signify a final onslaught against the faith, a disenfranchisement will be introduced which shall expel all believers from the circle of the general public; a time of unspeakable suffering will come for these believers, yet it will only appear so to fellow human beings, for the believers themselves do not feel the suffering to the extent it appears, since the strength of God will assist them and make them able to bear the fate imposed upon them. Depending on the depth of faith is also the depth of suffering, which indeed appears unbearable in the eyes of the world but is not such a great burden for the believer that he is unable to bear it. But the world tries to celebrate triumphs, people will be more materialistic than ever, they will chase after worldly pleasures, they will unscrupulously take what seems desirable to them without consideration for their fellow human beings, and they will heap injustice upon injustice, sin upon sin and offend against the divine commandments because they no longer acknowledge God and testify to this in the openly waged battle against the believers. And it is only a small flock that lives scattered amongst people who recognize the near end and eagerly await it. For they know that the end also brings with it the coming of the lord and faithfully wait for Him Who shall bring them salvation from deepest adversity. And God blesses their profound faith by revealing Himself to them wherever the adversity is great and people need strengthening. He is with them at all times, for every believing thought calls upon Him. Yet He still remains invisible, He only appears visibly in individual cases until the hour has come when He raptures His own, when He lifts them up in a living body before the work of destruction on earth takes place. And then the great earthly adversity will be over, for the believers can no longer be harassed if they take possession of the new earth again in order to start a new redemption period as the tribe of the new human race. For all evil has been banished and thus rendered harmless ….

Amen

The spiritual collapse is inevitable if Christ is no longer acknowledged and people no longer establish the right relationship with God, for then they are helpless and in greatest spiritual hardship because they are heading towards their downfall. Spiritual decline also results in earthly collapse, for everything dissolves as soon as it is deprived of its spiritual foundation. Nothing can exist without God, but where the spiritual is completely pushed into the background God is no longer acknowledged either, and this is the worst thing people can do, that they deny God, for thereby they also accelerate their own downfall, and they weaken or lose their power of realization for the time being, they don’t recognize the adversity they are in. They are only concerned about meeting earthly demands and give up everything for the earthly world which could lead them spiritually upwards. And the result is a spiritual and earthly collapse and a terrible end bodily and earthly. Faith in Jesus Christ could prevent this, yet without Him humanity no longer finds the strength to change, and it sinks ever further and thus inevitably draws the end closer, because without God nothing can exist …. (13.9.1944) Satan’s power is overwhelming because people themselves grant him power over themselves, yet only the human being can be victorious over him who, through Jesus Christ, has a strength of will which nothing can resist. But where faith in Jesus Christ has been lost, there God’s adversary rages with increased violence. And his weapons are hatred and unkindness, which have a destructive and devastating effect in every way but only ever through the will of man, since God’s adversary has no power over the other works of creation. And thus he makes use of the will of the people in bondage to him in order to destroy and annihilate, in order to release the spiritual substances banished by God in creation against God’s will. And this spiritual that has become free, standing in a deep degree of development, now also exerts a devastating effect on its surroundings, be it the natural world, plants and animals, or also human beings. An unparalleled chaos arises, a chaos which is not suitable for the spiritual upward development of the human being and also of the still bound spiritual in creation, and this chaos would lead to the final destruction of what is accessible to human will if God Himself does not assert His power and put an end to satan’s activity. From the time when people presume to take action against God Himself, i.e. to declare war on everything divine-spiritual and in particular to eradicate faith in Jesus Christ amongst people, God’s activity also becomes evident, the more noticeable the further this battle against God has progressed. For if people are to retain the possibility of higher development, they must also retain the knowledge of God, Who descended to earth in the man Jesus to redeem humanity, otherwise people would be completely defenceless and powerless at the mercy of satan’s rage and inevitably have to perish, spiritually and also earthly. The decision, which is the purpose of earthly life, could no longer be demanded of them, since they would only come to know the one, evil, and the good, divine, would remain hidden from them. But as soon as satan takes action against God Himself, God lets him feel His power …. He wrests from him his own and binds him for a long time …. And this binding happens in such a way that he, together with the people in bondage to him, who were his servants on earth, who carried out in hatred and unkindness what he demanded of them, is banished again into the new creation, into hardest matter, which remains his imprisonment, so that he cannot oppress the good spiritual, for whom the path to ascent is now facilitated for a long time. Spiritual ascent development certainly requires strength and resistance, it requires a decision between good and evil, and therefore good must always be opposed by evil, so that people can decide, so that they can let their free will become active. However, on the new earth people all stand under the sign of the cross, they are followers of Christ from the bottom of their hearts, they are in closest contact with God, they have already made up their minds through the extremely difficult time of battle before, during which they remained faithful to Him, and for the time being they don’t need any opposing force against which they are to assert themselves. And as long as they remain in this intimate bond with God, God’s adversary is also bound, whose shackles will only be loosened again by the human being’s will. For as soon as the connection with God begins to weaken, the human being’s senses turn to matter again, which contains the fallen spiritual substance …. and with their desire they loosen its bonds, and thus God’s adversary slowly becomes active again through the human being’s will …. And the spiritual battle, the battle between light and darkness, begins anew …. And Jesus Christ must always be the centre of attention if the battle against darkness is to end victoriously; for the light on earth and in the beyond is the spiritual being redeemed through Jesus Christ’s blood, and only the one who acknowledges Jesus Christ as redeemer of the world and son of God can irrevocably attain the light, otherwise satan’s power is so great over him that he drags him down into darkness to eternal ruin. And the denial of Christ will always lead to earthly and spiritual collapse, because then humanity will make a pact with God’s adversary, because it will completely distance itself from God and this will mean the dissolution of every form which will no longer fulfil its purpose, the purpose of the soul’s higher development, and which will therefore pass away through God’s will, i.e. change itself, so that God will assign it a new purpose again. For God’s power will overcome every opposing power, He will bind the adversary when his hour has come ….

Amen

I give strength and grace to every earthly child who asks Me for it. For I want it to reach Me because I love it and woo its soul without ceasing. And therefore I will not let any of My children go without if they express their will to come close to Me. I know that the human being is too weak without My grace, My strength, and therefore I give it to him unmeasured, and he may make use of it at any time if only he wants to and opens himself to My supply of strength. I constantly bring Myself close to him, and his heart will also feel Me if it glows with love for Me itself. Yet as long as the human being dwells on earth, as long as he has to fulfil his duties and meet earthly requirements, it is not suitable for him to sink too much into the shower of My love, for this makes him unsuitable for earthly life, it transports him into supernatural spheres and renders him incapable of his earthly task. And therefore the human being will not physically feel the attention of My grace and love in an extraordinary way and therefore at times believe himself abandoned by Me. Yet the child which hands itself over to Me will remain in My love forever. It will also always be allowed to receive My strength and grace in the form of My word which is constantly conveyed to it. And although the process of transmitting My word takes place without any mental excitement I am nevertheless with the earthly child with My love, and I bless it by considering its soul, as it is beneficial for it to reach maturity. As long as the human being stays on earth he is also bound by earthly laws, and My emanation of love must still reach him with moderate brilliance, otherwise it would destroy him and he would no longer be able to fulfil his earthly task, because then his longing for the spiritual world would be too strong in him and he would want to leave earth forever. And this would, to a certain extent, be a curtailment of free will, it would be a coercion, a higher development in compulsion, because the physically noticeable effect of the supply of strength would spur the human being on to highest striving for the sake of the bliss he feels …. But the human being should strive upwards completely uninfluenced, he should fulfil his earthly life and seek and strive for Me without any compulsion, he should prove his love for Me through his way of life, he should believe in My word that My love is constantly with him, and he should see My greatest love in the fact that I make him happy with My word, which earns him eternal beatitude as soon as he departs from earth and enters the spiritual kingdom. And then he will be allowed to tangibly receive My love, then he will revel in bliss, and his constant longing for My nearness will be fulfilled without restriction. Then I will be able to embrace My child with the hottest emanation of love, for then it will be able to endure My emanation of love and be unspeakably blissful, because it is also capable of love itself, because it has changed itself into love on earth through the uninterrupted influx of grace and strength ….

Amen

Anyone who makes the world his friend will have no share in the spiritual kingdom, for the earthly world prevents the human being from seeking contact with the spiritual kingdom, and without this connection there is no spiritual progress, thus no higher development of the soul. The human being is earthbound as long as he stays on earth, but he can still detach himself from it, he can overcome the earth as long as he only pays as much attention to earthly things as is necessary to fulfil his earthly task. Then he will be able to join the spiritual kingdom all the more eagerly and fully receive its treasures, the spiritual wealth which promotes his higher development. Spiritual treasures and earthly treasures can never be acquired at the same time, but only one at the expense of the other. And the human being must be clear about what he would rather give up and what he would like to receive. He will often be confronted with the decision, temptations will approach him, the world will entice him with earthly joys and pleasures; yet the spiritual kingdom will also send its messengers and make itself desirable to him, and then the human being must decide in all freedom of will which treasures he desires. Spiritual treasures are far more valuable than earthly treasures, for they outlast earthly life and ensure a blissful life in eternity. Earthly treasures and joys, on the other hand, are only temporarily gratifying, only to flatten out and leave an emptiness in the heart, for the soul feels that they do not contribute to its salvation, to its spiritual development. And therefore earthly pleasures are a danger for the souls as long as they fill the human being’s heart and deny him the entrance into the spiritual kingdom. And yet the human being has to be confronted with such decisions, he has to learn to decide, he has to realize that he can only take one path, upwards or downwards. If he is seriously willing to acquire the kingdom of God he will always remain close to God in prayer and in loving activity, and then God Himself will take the lead and guide the earthly child through all dangers. He only needs the human being’s complete devotion in order to be able to look after him with fatherly love, and He only wants what is right for His children. He wants to make them blissfully happy, and He will safely guide them towards the eternal home where glories await them which outweigh every earthly happiness a thousand fold. And therefore the human being should overcome himself, he should not worry about his life on earth but about eternal life in the spiritual kingdom. He should give up everything that prevents him from connecting with that kingdom, he should be strong in renunciation and even stronger in desire, yet only spiritual goods and be willing to sacrifice earthly goods for them. Then his higher development will not be questioned, for anyone who desires the world will also receive the world’s goods; but anyone who longs for the spiritual kingdom will be given from this kingdom in abundance …. He will be instructed and strengthened, he need not fear a decline, he is always and constantly in contact with good spiritual forces, and his earthly body no longer desires anything for itself but joins the soul’s desire which wants to gain eternal life and therefore sacrifices everything that means a danger to its spiritual development …. For the human being only received earthly life as a grace for this, and therefore spiritual development must never be disregarded ….

Amen

The course of development of the spiritual is interrupted by divine will …. What was in constant upward development for infinite times and now fails at the end, i.e. comes to a standstill or declines in development, that is prevented from further decline and is bound again. Because a decline or standstill of development can only happen in the state of free will, while the bound will always means an ascent development, indeed in a state of compulsion, but also most extensively adapted to the will of the beingness, which is apparent to God at all times. The binding of free will now again necessitates new external forms, which are in accordance with the hardness of the opposing will and now again have to hold the spiritual within themselves, which starts the course of development anew. In God’s eternal order and lawfulness there can only be an upward development where His will is active; and only the human being’s free will can overturn this order. To a certain extent God does not interfere with the human being’s free will, He leaves him complete freedom as to how he uses the last embodiment on earth for his spiritual development. However, if there is a danger that all spiritual ascent development will be prevented, that the spiritual being which strives towards God will also be dragged into a state of lightlessness, then the divine will will put a stop to it by depriving the spiritual being which acts against His will of its free will …. by binding it again in the firmest form in order to give it every opportunity to change its opposing will, which irrevocably has to happen once, even if eternities pass by. For every decision must take place in free will, and free will always presupposes a stage of maturity where the spiritual can embody itself again as a human being. Eternities pass for the beingness which again and again lets this free will become active in a wrong way, and that is why ever harder and more difficult tasks have to be given to it so that it finally gives up its resistance against God and turns to Him in the state of free will. Understandably, therefore, at the end of a period of development the God-opposing spiritual will always start to rage extremely strongly because it feels that it will soon be deprived of its power and because it now seeks to gain control of the light because it believes it will thereby reduce God’s power. And this battle with the light takes on such forms shortly before the end that only a violent intervention by God protects what is full of light, for the adversary’s power has become tremendously strong due to humanity’s voluntary support, and this always signifies the end …. For God will take away his power as soon as the battle against the light comes to light undisguised, as soon as people who strive towards the light are to be forced to turn towards darkness. Then satan’s fight is directed against God Himself, and then he finds in Him his master …. The binding in form robs all dark spiritual of all strength and power. It cannot now be active in any work of creation according to its own will, but must now be active according to God’s will, it must serve in a state of compulsion and thereby cover the course of higher development, it must in an infinitely long time bring itself again to the state of maturity which earns it the last embodiment on earth …. as a human being, using free will. As long as divine will alone is decisive there is no regression, and therefore the spiritual being must mature as long as it is in bound will, although the strength of the opposing will also determines the external form and therefore also the extent of the torments of being bound. Only when God withdraws His will from the being insofar as He gives it the freedom of its will, thus allowing it to determine itself, is there a danger that the upward development will come to a standstill or decline, and this again up to the limit which God has set …. Then He will interrupt the course of development for the spiritual being and it will have to start it anew in a new earth period which is again intended for its final redemption if it is utilized correctly in the last stage. For only the perfect can get rid of its external form and only through the right use of its freedom of will can the spiritual in the human being become perfect ….

Amen

When you humans have concluded your earthly life and entered the spiritual realm, the time of your earthly life will appear like a mere moment as soon as the memory of the infinitely long time before your embodiment as a human being is returned to you. And then you will also understand that the last stage of your soul’s development has been an great mercy, and anyone who has used it and achieved admission into the spiritual realm, anyone who need not reproach himself for having allowed the graces of earthly life pass him by, is blessed. The remorse in the beyond is all the more painful when the soul realises that it is no longer able to put right what it had avoided or neglected on earth, when the soul becomes aware of the inconceivable suffering of the infinitely long earthly path and how easy the short life as a human being had been in comparison, which it did not value correctly …. The soul’s regret of a wrongly lived earthly life is so agonising and depressing that this in itself causes the soul to do penance and worsens its painful situation; yet physical life with its many opportunities to mature is over now and the soul has to accept the consequences of its earthly way of life. It has to continue its process of development in the beyond but with far more difficulties than on earth as long as it is not allowed to enter the realm of light.

You humans do not know the distress of such a soul in darkness and the merciful love it requires to receive help. You all should have compassion on such souls, you should think of them with love or they can never be redeemed because they are too weak without help, because only love will give them strength and the souls hope and ask for this love from people …. since the spirits of light can only help these souls when they are willing to help other souls. But in order to awaken this willingness to help their will has to be strengthened, and only the strength given to them by people’s love on earth can achieve that. Lost souls, i.e. those who have not used their earthly life correctly or who lived entirely without spiritual aspiration on earth are in greatest need because they have no strength whatsoever and entirely depleted willpower. To help these souls is one of the greatest works of love which the human being can perform. He should constantly pray for such souls, he should mentally inform them that they ought to act with kindness even in the beyond, time and again he should urge them to love, he should mentally communicate with them and with his love give them strength, which is comforting to the soul as it alleviates its state of suffering. And the souls will be eternally grateful to people whose loving help will release them from their agonising situation as soon as they can take part in the redemption work themselves, as soon as they can reduce the suffering of other souls by bringing them spiritual knowledge which, however, they first have to acquire themselves.

Due to their will to help their greatest need is remedied and their remorse will lessen at the same rate as their willingness to help grows. For then the soul understands that it is needed in the spiritual realm and in its enthusiasm forgets its own suffering …. It strives to gather spiritual values in order to share them again; it has created for itself a new sphere of activity and tries to make up for what it had neglected to do on earth …. to give love …. And now it can continue its process of development in the spiritual realm, thanks to the help of people’s loving thoughts on earth for which it will be eternally grateful ….

Amen

You should always pray …. And lead us through the temptation …. when the world tries to discourage you from your spiritual striving and you are at risk of succumbing to its attractions. Since this temptation comes upon you in order to strengthen your will, you will always be subject to this temptation in order to demonstrate your will and you will always be successful if you take refuge in God’s protection, if you call upon Him for the strength to resist. Time and again the opponent will attempt to alienate you from God, and his ways of doing so are dangerous, because they appeal to people’s senses and therefore the soul will always have to fight in order to resist him. Nevertheless, God’s help is assured to you if you confide in Him and appeal for His guidance ….

Amen

People are repeatedly reminded of the transience of earthly things, and they are constantly confronted by death when many people pass away prematurely and when they are helpless in the face of events which cause suffering and despair to human beings. Yet they will not change their mind nor think about the real reason for suffering and untimely death. Thus the suffering becomes ever more painful and humanity will observe world events with horror and turn numb at the size of the disaster that engulfs it. Humanity, however, is asking for it, since the despair of the time leaves people entirely indifferent and they derive no gain for their souls. And therefore God applies the harshest measures to disturb their lethargy, because in spite of people’s earthly and bodily suffering their souls remain uncaring, they remain indifferent to the blows of fate or they would attempt to change in the knowledge that their spiritual attitude is the cause of the increased suffering on earth.

Hence many people have to depart prematurely from this life because a longer life would be detrimental rather than beneficial for their souls as they would lose their faith completely and only take care of their physical life. In spite of their inadequate state of maturity God therefore allows the loss of countless human lives to prevent their regression, to give them the opportunity to fully mature in the beyond, because the situation on earth does not remain hidden from them, they can observe the developments and become aware that due to the neglect of their soul’s salvation, due to their wrong way of life, due to their lack of faith and unkind thoughts, human beings themselves are responsible for the severe suffering on earth.

In addition, people who are called away by God prematurely can still become aware when faced with death, they can still truly unite with God, they can still become purified due to intense suffering, and thus achieve a higher degree of maturity which they would not have attained during a longer earthly life, and then a premature parting from earth is a blessing for them. And irrespective of how much earthly suffering exists, it is only a means for the benefit of souls …. yet few people understand this as such. The magnitude of hardship is intended to direct their path to God Who can and will banish every distress if the human being faithfully awaits His help. However, when even the immense suffering is unsuccessful, when human beings forget about Him and are in greatest danger to finally strive towards the abyss, God shall end many an earthly life and permit apparently inhuman disasters because He forever considers the human souls and aims to save these even though the body will perish as a result …. because God never does wrong but only what is good and a blessing for the human soul ….

Amen

The human being can derive a spiritual benefit from every situation if he tries to associate it with God’s will and considers it to be in line with his development. No matter what happens to a person, God has known this person’s will from the start, and thus he shapes his life according to His will, but He also always uses the person’s own will as the basis of his destiny …. thus human will is in accordance with divine will insofar as God determines and directs the destiny of life such that the human will nevertheless comes into its own, or, in other words …. God gives His approval to anything the human being wants, yet the consequence of what human will accomplishes corresponds to His plan of eternity and serves the person as an opportunity for maturing, since the consequence of every thought, word and action cannot be enforced by the human being’s will. Thus a person can apply his will at all times, he can want to shape his life’s destiny according to this will but he can never predetermine the outcome with certainty, for then so-called destiny will come into force …. everything takes place according to God’s wise and predetermined plan of eternity …. Nevertheless, free will cannot be disputed, the human being will always remain an independently thinking and wanting being which also has the vital energy at its disposal to put his thoughts and intentions into action. Whereas the direction of his entire earthly life, which God reserves for Himself, only relates to the creation of opportunities for the maturing of the soul. For since the human being’s meaning and purpose on earth concerns the transformation of his will, of his inner being, since earthly life was given to him for his soul to attain maturity, God, in His love, will also always show him the means and ways to achieve it, and He will place him into life so that he can always and from every event derive a benefit for his soul. However, if life on earth entirely corresponded to the person’s will his soul would never mature, especially if he were materialistically minded and only looked to benefit the body.

Consequently, God has to reduce or redirect the effect of what the person deliberately strives for and puts into practise in order to launch a constant battle for the person, for the human being only matures through struggle. Even so, divine will adapts itself to the human being’s will, He allows him to carry it out and does not curtail his independent thinking and activity, yet He helps where human will intends to accomplish something detrimental for his soul, so that this accomplishment will not result in the desired worldly success but that he, by his failures, should learn to recognise the will of a higher Power, because recognition of This is already an advantage for the soul. However, in a spiritual respect God does not impose limitations on the human being’s free will …. in a spiritual respect his will shall remain sacrosanct and the effect, too, will be accordingly. For the effect is already the maturity of soul, which is never raised or reduced through divine will but entirely depends on the human being’s free will. Every earthly situation can be used by the human being to mature spiritually if only his will strives to gain an advantage for his soul. And then God will always grant him …. blessings upon blessings …. for if free will has turned to Him by striving to improve the shape of his soul first then God will only arouse this will increasingly more and also give him the strength to remain strong in the face of opposition. Thus, in a spiritual respect, human will is entirely free, but even in an earthly respect free will can be spoken of, even if destiny is shaped according to divine will, since God has known the human being’s direction of will for eternity and, accordingly, how the course of his life will proceed. Wanting and accomplishing and effect must be distinguished …. the human being can want and accomplish according to his will, yet the effect is God’s privilege, on account of which the human being subsequently believes himself to be constrained and subject to his destiny or he refuses to acknowledge a Controller of his destiny …. Yet all happenings in Heaven and on Earth are subject to the Guidance of the One Who upholds everything, Who is in charge of everything in His supreme wisdom ….

Amen

God’s will determines in which degree of maturity a human being is called from his earthly life into the spiritual realm. This is also an apparent injustice which could further the opinion that God selects certain people to become blessed while others have to suffer being distant from God. And yet this attitude is totally wrong …. because divine love and wisdom always knows the human will and therefore cuts a life short when higher development on earth is doubtful.

During the state of constraint before embodiment as a human being there is only progressive development until the spiritual substance’s degree of maturity is ready for this last embodiment. But now the human free will makes its own decisions and development can continue, remain static or even regress; and again it depends on whether the human being as such has already improved his initial degree of maturity and is in danger of coming to a standstill or whether he has remained on the same level as at the beginning of his embodiment and is in danger of regressing. In that case it is always due to God’s mercy that the human being is recalled when he has arrived at the highest level of his development on earth, i.e. when God’s love protects him

from regressing or from failing to advance his soul during a longer lifetime …. because his guilt will increase the longer he uses his embodiment’s time of grace without making proper use of it.

The human being can advance during his younger years and then stop, his development up till now comes to a halt, and then God will recall him and give him further opportunities to mature in the beyond …. But the human being can also change his will in later years and his yet inadequate development can experience a sudden improvement and thus he can attain a higher degree of maturity even though for a long time he had ignored his soul until then. In that case God will give him a long life, because God knows the human being’s will since eternity and shapes his life accordingly …. For every human being’s destiny is considered by God’s love and wisdom and does not depend on God’s arbitrary use of power ….

God would not withhold the opportunity to mature on earth from any human being if he is willing to use it. But people pay little attention to His mercy and are unwilling to accept the relevant information. And because God knows since eternity which humans are particularly resentful to Him, because He knows when a person has reached the highest degree of development on earth, the duration of his earthly life has also been established since eternity and varies, depending on what divine wisdom deems best and most successful. God will never cut short an earthly life if the human being could still achieve higher maturity because God’s love is forever concerned that the human being should attain highest possible maturity on earth; He would never withhold an opportunity from a human being which would result in complete maturity. But He knows since eternity the human will’s every inclination and protects the soul from complete desertion, i.e. from certain regression if He would not end that earthly life.

For that reason anyone who constantly strives will reach old age while, at the same time, old age is proof of steady higher development even if this is not evident to other people. A long earthly life is always a mercy but even a short life is evidence of God’s love, which is forever active although it is not always recognised by the human being ….

Amen

The believing christian, i.e., the person who lives on earth in full faith in the divine redeemer and His work, will feel great relief in the coming battle of faith, for the graces of the act of salvation will obviously flow to him …. the strength of will and thus also the strength to overcome the adversary, which can be described as everything that is carried out in the battle of faith as measures against the believers. Faith in Christ is the strongest weapon, and the fear of the enemy will be far away from anyone who deeply and firmly believes in Him. For His protection and love surrounds His own, the people who are faithful to Him and take all adversities upon themselves for the sake of His name. And He will also help them in earthly adversity and distress, He will supply them with what they need for their body. He will give them the strength to persevere, He will supply them with His word directly or through intermediaries, and He will also protect the recipients of the word and grant them the gift of speech which will always and everywhere smooth the way for them if earthly power calls them to account. And daily and hourly He will be ready with His help and guide them through all dangers of the body and soul …. But those who lack faith in Christ will be much troubled by the battle of faith. These are people who are not entirely distant from God, who certainly believe in a higher power to which they will one day have to answer, who also acknowledge this power by being afraid to deny God, but who have no connection with Christ, who doubt His act of salvation, who therefore deny Christ as redeemer of the world and son of God …. these will experience severe hardship if they have to make a decision, for they will lack the strength to endure everything that is done against the believers. And their distress of soul will increase if they see the strength of the christians’ faith and yet cannot believe in Jesus Christ with conviction until they have penetrated the knowledge of the significance of the act of salvation. And therefore the believers in Christ will have the task of instructing and lovingly helping them to believe in Jesus Christ. And therefore, through the word of God from above people will again and again be guided into the right realization, and as soon as they have the will to help their fellow human beings they will also be given the gift to be able to speak when the adversity of the time and of people requires it. For faith in Jesus Christ cannot be eliminated in the end time …. He alone gives people the strength to persevere and fearlessly take up the fight. Yet these fighters of Christ will not be defeated despite the adversary’s great power, for Jesus Christ Himself leads His army and He truly provides it with the best weapons which guarantee complete victory, even though the flock of His fighters is small and severely antagonized by the adversary. But anyone who enters this battle without Jesus Christ will be in danger of being overthrown, he will not be able to resist and maintain the little faith in God he possesses …. he will become fickle due to the hardship of life which the profound believer has to take upon himself. And in the end he will fall away, for he is powerless as soon as he does not make use of the grace of the act of salvation. But in order to do so he has to be able to believe in Him, he has to unite with Jesus Christ in full faith and appeal to Him for strength and grace for the sake of His merciful love …. It will be a difficult battle for the believers but never hopeless, for where God contends there is victory …. but God and Christ are one …. And you humans, who are instructed by God Himself, are to help your fellow human beings attain this faith, this knowledge, so that it will be easy for you to enlighten those who are still profoundly ignorant. This is your mission to which God has called you and which you should always and constantly carry out so that the final battle will also be successful for many people who still lack profound faith …. For God has mercy on every soul which does not resist Him, and therefore He sends His messengers to meet it so that it will be helped ….

Amen

Inadequate spiritual knowledge is a sign of remoteness from God, for as soon as a person has reduced his remoteness from God through love his knowledge will also increase, i.e. his thinking will correspond to the truth as soon as it is directed towards the spiritual kingdom, as soon as it touches things which are related to his soul’s life. And therefore a loving person will often be able to answer spiritual questions with a conviction who need not possess earthly knowledge, for he will be instructed from within and this will not deceive him. But anyone who practices little love and is therefore still distant from God will also be able to give little enlightenment, for the spiritual realm is completely alien to him. And love urges activity, and if the loving person can be spiritually active he is happy in the distribution of spiritual knowledge which corresponds to truth. And then he is also close to God, for this urge to spiritual activity is a sign of the working of the divine emanation of love. Yet this inner urge is lacking in the human being who never lovingly engages in activity, he does not feel the strength of divine love which stimulates him into activity, and therefore he behaves completely apathetic if spiritual stimulation is given …. For he possesses nothing he could give and therefore cannot be happy in giving either …. He is still too far from God and therefore does not feel the strength of love either. Spiritual knowledge is a wealth which only the connection with God brings to the human being. But anyone who is still distant from Him is spiritually poor, he lacks knowledge of the truth and therefore cannot distribute truth either, and therefore he remains poor, and his knowledge also remains inadequate, because this is only the result of the working of love. And thus inadequate knowledge can always be concluded to be distant from God or to have a loveless life, because the thinking of the one who is close to God through activity of love becomes enlightened and the human being can now distribute spiritual good. And therefore an ignorant person should first be admonished to live a life of love, his attention should be drawn to the blessing and consequences of a life of love and the spiritual advantage should be made clear to him, so that he himself will strive to acquire spiritual wealth, so that he will reduce his remoteness from God through a life in accordance with God’s will, through a life of active neighbourly love. And his knowledge will increase and make him able to distribute spiritual good as soon as he listens to the ideas of spiritually enlightened people and works on himself by shaping himself into love. Love and wisdom are inseparable …. only the loving human being will become knowledgeable, and only the knowledgeable human being can distribute spiritual gifts again with love, he can make himself and others happy with them because he possesses the truth which is absolutely necessary in order to be able to be enlightened.

Amen

The miracles of nature’s creation remain mostly without impression on people because they always repeat themselves in a regularity and this turns the miracles of nature into something commonplace which they only pay little attention to. These people also do not hear the language of God in nature, Who expresses Himself to all people through His creation and thus makes Himself known. And therefore it is not easy to make them believe that an essential deity wants to make Itself known to people in the works which have emerged from It. For since they don’t pay attention to the works they don’t think about the creator of these works either, and therefore they are completely without faith, i.e. they lack the convinced belief in an almighty, wise and loving God …. The soul’s higher development is the human being’s first and last aim on earth, and thus an earthly life which has not earned the soul an increased degree of maturity is completely pointless lived, for earthly successes are not in proportion to the grace of embodiment as a human being. Nor do they come close to the miracles of creation which, after all, were formed by the wise and loving creator for a specific purpose …. i.e., earthly successes would be very minimal in relation to the things which came into being for the sake of a purpose. However, anyone who passes by the miracles of creation indifferently does not think about the meaning and purpose of these either, because he does not acknowledge a creator of them, and again, he does not acknowledge Him because he does not take the works of creation into closer consideration. Otherwise he would inevitably come to the conclusion that his earthly life was given to him to achieve an aim. As soon as the creations of nature are observed attentively, a constant higher development can be observed in them, and this in itself should cause the human being to think that he himself must also constantly develop upwards if his earthly life is not to be lived in vain. An observation of creation necessarily results in a question and answer game in which man is always the questioner and God, through nature, is always the answerer. And such a dialogue must give information to the human being who earnestly desires Him. For God wants to reveal Himself through creation to people who have not yet recognized Him otherwise. He first shows them His work before He reveals Himself as the master of the work. And the human being can very well recognize the infinite wisdom, omnipotence and love of the creator from the work and thereby also come to believe in the creator of heaven and earth. And this self-acquired faith is incomparably more valuable and unshakeable than the faith transmitted to him by fellow human beings, which must first become a convinced faith through its own opinion. By observing the wonders of creation, by intimately immersing himself in nature and its daily miracles, the human being enters into direct contact with the creator Himself, and he gains insight into His rule and activity and thus into His essence, because he can recognize love, wisdom and strength in everything that surrounds him, and love, wisdom and strength are the epitome of His essence …. And this highest and most perfect being reveals Himself to people through His works …. He lets people, as it were, take a look at them in order to confront them Himself, for every work of creation must have a creator and upholder as Whom He then wants to be recognized, for the creator expresses Himself in the work, and if the human being attentively observes a work he will always have to conclude that it is also the creator and upholder and also recognize Him in His works. But if works come into being and have come into being which man cannot copy with his own strength, as the creations of nature undeniably testify, then it must be concluded that the creator of these works has a strength at His disposal which is incomprehensible to man. Therefore he must be able to affirm the omnipotence of God in his deepest heart …. In the same way, the human being contemplating the wonders of nature also recognizes all creations as being founded in deepest wisdom, and he must conclude from them God’s greater than great love for human beings. And thus he slowly penetrates the truth, and he truly does not need people to teach him intellectually about it, for a dialogue with God, a question and answer game in nature alone will earn the human being rich knowledge with which he can work again. Only then will he recognize that the creator has a purpose with His creation, thus he will now think about the purpose, and if he thinks legally he will try to live in accordance with this purpose, and then he will also be seized by God’s great love and the pure truth will be presented to him. And thus the miracles of creation contribute much towards the human being becoming a living believer, for the inner conviction has to be gained such that the human being draws conclusions, weighs up all pros and cons and now possesses clarity of thought …. It is now rock-solid certainty to him what seemed to be only legend to his fellow human being, for the miracles of nature speak for themselves, they testify to God, to His supremely perfect being, to His love, wisdom and omnipotence …. they make him a believer.

Amen

Throughout every single phase of development the spiritual substance is kept in a constrained state until it has acquired the necessary maturity for its final embodiment as a human being, hence …. if it failed its previous phase of development as a human being it has to start in the confines of hard matter again and cover the path through the mineral, plant and animal world until it can become a human being once more. However, spiritual substance which has not reached the final stage in this period, but is nevertheless released by God due to the last destruction of earth, will be bound in outer forms which correspond to its maturity again, i.e. the interrupted process of development of the past period will continue in the new phase of development …. on the new earth …. For this reason the new earth will contain the most diverse creations again, however, they will be entirely new and different forms from those on the old earth. And thus new wonders of creation will come into being which the first people living on the new earth will undeniably acknowledge as miraculous, as a testimony of God’s glory, as evidence of His love, omnipotence and wisdom. People will be extremely amazed at what the new earth has to offer and in admiration will praise God, love Him and give thanks to Him with all their heart. And the souls will continue with their development ….

But the substance constrained in solid matter is tormented by its restriction and tries to escape. Depending on the resistance of its will it shall either succeed or fail, but God takes the will of the substance into account and thus the material of the new earth is of utmost solidity and stability in order to soften the inherent spirit’s will that it should finally surrender its resistance. Consequently, the slightest change of will shall loosen the form …. in earthly terms this means that although the solid matter of the new earth is indeed exceptionally hard it is also very brittle and thus can easily break or shatter as soon as God’s will intends a release from this captivity. Similarly, other creations will also have a shorter lifespan, because the transformation of the spirit substance shall proceed at a faster rate, which can indeed be possible but nevertheless depends on the spirits’ willingness to serve. The spiritual substance is merely intended to achieve its final embodiment as a human being faster than in previous phases of development as long as its will is not entirely opposed to God. For this reason the first human beings on the new earth shall experience miracles upon miracles, they will be so affected by them that their love for God and their unity with Him will grow ever more and they will live in His grace, but they will also understand these miracles, they know that they are only the expression of God’s infinite love Who wants to retrieve all spirit and offers it every opportunity to change its will.

And this shall continue for a long time until the initially constrained spirit substance within the plant and animal world has reached the stage of embodiment as a human being …. Then people’s understanding for the wonders of divine creation will gradually fade, the inclination towards matter will be awakened again and, due to their own longing for possessions which still contain immature spiritual substances, Satan’s influence on people becomes stronger again. Subsequently, the unity with God will diminish and the battle between light and darkness, which in the beginning had disappeared because everything living on earth of its own free will was enlightened, will increase again …. For the evolutionary process of the spiritual substance is always the same during every period …. the spirit has to live within the hard form until it is willing to walk the path of service through the creations, which amounts to less constraint, and then it has to serve until it has achieved a certain degree of maturity which results in a condition where it should serve of its own free will but, unlike during the previous stages, it is no longer forced to do so. And at this stage it should not fail otherwise the whole earlier process of development has been in vain. The human being’s volition determines whether this will be his last earthly embodiment or whether he has to repeat the evolutionary process, whether he will turn towards the light in the last stage or allow himself to be captured by dark forces and has to be banished again into hard matter for ages to come ….

Amen

I turn My love to the least of these, if he prays to Me for mercy …. for his humility pleases Me, and everything that seems small I exalt …. And therefore everyone can and may come to Me, I will not deny Myself to anyone because I love you, you who are My living creations. But you must not exalt yourselves or you will lack grace. As long as you stay on earth you are imperfect and in need of My grace, My help and My love. And as soon as you are in need you must also feel small towards Me and testify to this in humble prayer. For I want to make you happy, I want to give you what you lack and thereby gain your love for Me. But you will never be able to love the giver from the heart if you feel exalted towards him. But true love knows no exaltation, and thus I want to be loved from a humble heart, in childlike submissiveness, in order to be able to consider you as a father, in order to be able to love you again like a father loves his children. Therefore you should always establish a childlike relationship with Me so that I can draw close to you with love, for as soon as you humbly ask Me in a childlike way you also give Me the right to look after you in fatherly care, and then I can provide you with everything you need for soul and body. And My grace will help you to ascend, for this is now abundantly at your disposal. Therefore, anyone who feels completely poor and weak will receive, for he opens himself through his prayer for grace and thus receives the grace which My love now provides him with in abundance. However, anyone with an arrogant spirit does not feel in need of help and his prayer is certainly external but it does not come from the heart, and I cannot approach him like a father because he has not yet established the childlike relationship with Me. And he will also hardly establish the right relationship with his fellow human being, he will also believe himself superior to him, he will not be to him like a brother to a brother but he will only demand because he deems himself greater than his fellow human beings. And this does not please Me, for love requires love, and true love knows no distinction, it does not exalt itself but also takes hold of the lowest in order to elevate it …. And thus I also love the lowliest with an intuition and help him to ascend, for the humble always finds grace before My eyes ….

Amen