A believing congregation can be a great blessing in the midst of unbelievers, for if it lives out the word of God and God’s promises are fulfilled in it, the believers will be a living example of Christ’s teaching of love and at the same time proof of the truth of His word, which will also enable the unbelievers to come to faith if they are of good will. And this believing congregation is Christ’s church through which His word is spread, for anyone who lives by faith, who fulfils the divine commandments, thus who takes Christ’s teaching of love as the guiding principle of his life, will also try to persuade his fellow human being to do the same; he will hold the word of God up to him, he will preach love to him, he will try to strengthen his faith and try to incorporate him into Christ’s church, the community of believers, in order to win his soul for the kingdom of God. He will thus work for the kingdom of God …. And thus a believing congregation can have a very beneficial effect and also prepare fellow human beings for the coming battle of faith. It can provide them with the evidence of the strength that lies in faith and the rich knowledge that a life of love brings to people, and thereby they will be stimulated to cultivate faith and love, and thereby strengthened and thus able to offer resistance if the battle of faith also approaches them. One person will have to lift himself up from the other, and the believer will also muster the strength to be a support for the weak believers. And a believing congregation will stand like a bulwark against the onslaught of the world, of faithless people. For the word of God imparts great strength to the believers. The divine will is proclaimed to people through the word of God, Christ’s teaching of love is conveyed to them, and anyone who fulfils God’s will by living in love will also be permeated by God’s strength, and God’s strength is insurmountable, thus the believer can face the coming time without worry and also impart strength to those who join, who join the congregation in the will to do what is right before God. The believer will not lose his faith, for whatever spiritual knowledge he possesses which corresponds to the truth he will never ever give away, and this spiritual knowledge has also earned him a profound faith which is now alive, i.e. which carries out works of love through which the human being’s spiritual knowledge will increase ever more. Such faith will be unshakeable and therefore also remain in the final battle. Many weak believers will be strengthened by it and unbelievers will change and come to faith, because the strength of faith will be revealed if profound believers request it in order to provide their fellow human beings with the evidence that the word of God is truth and deserves fullest faith ….

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Souls in spiritual distress are surrounded by good and bad forces and therefore need not despair in their soul’s distress, but neither should they be indifferent lest the bad forces gain control over them. The struggle of the spiritual forces for the soul does not diminish, and as soon as the human being himself favours the bad forces due to weakness of will, but the soul strives towards the light according to its nature, it now gets into hardship which, however, is a warning and admonition of the good forces at the same time. For this adversity should cause it to turn to the good forces for help, which it would never do if the soul were spared the adversity. For the beings of light can only assist the soul when they are called upon …. This divine law cannot be overturned. The light beings’ love is so great that they are always willing to help and would help any soul in need. But the strength of the beings of light is also so strong that it can overpower every dark power, thus render it harmless, thus there could never be a distressed earthly child if God had not given this law that the help of the beings of light depends on the human being’s appeal. But the human being only sends such a plea upwards if he feels the soul’s distress perceptibly. And since the transmission of strength from the spiritual kingdom to the human being is necessary for his soul to mature, the soul has to get into this distress as soon as it is in danger of falling prey to evil forces due to its weakness of will. Hence the battle between light and darkness, which is waged for his soul, must also have a noticeable effect on the human being in order to make him take action, i.e. to stimulate him to appeal for strength, otherwise the soul would never be able to progress in its development. Distress of the soul is therefore inevitable as long as the human being does not receive God’s strength through extraordinary loving activity. A person who is constantly active in love will only rarely experience spiritual hardship because the beings of light can constantly influence him and are no longer bound by divine law, for the loving person has broken down every barrier so that the strength from God can constantly be conveyed to him. And that is why a person in spiritual adversity should make an effort to give love, thereby he nullifies the influence of the evil beings, and in combination with prayer for strength and help he will very soon resolve the soul’s adversity, for the forces of light have now become victors again and can now give abundantly to the soul. Loving activity and prayer remedy every weakness …. the human being becomes the conqueror of the forces which want to harm him, he strives of his own free will towards the light and flees from darkness …. his will has been strengthened by temptation as soon as he has resisted it. And every victory is a step upwards; the sincerely striving human being will emerge victorious from every temptation, yet he, too, will be harassed by dark forces as soon as he allows moments of weakness of will to arise in him. Yet he can always be certain of the support of the beings of light who hear his plea for strength and are always ready to help him ….

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Spiritual hunger will set in when people no longer consider earthly life worth living, and then the time will have come when God’s servants will be able to work successfully. And then every opportunity must be used to bring people closer to the kingdom of God, to proclaim God’s word to them and to inform them of His will. Their faith in God has to be awakened or strengthened, and they have to be urged to pray, to make contact with God Who can only then distribute His strength which they need for their development. And God’s servants will be willingly listened to at first, for the world appears transient to people and their desire is temporary for things which are permanent. And people will be of lively spirit and eagerly receive the word of God. But this willingness will only last a short time and therefore it is to be evaluated in every way. And everywhere the love of God is to be mentioned; everywhere men are to be pointed to their earth tasks; they are to be stimulated to love work, so that they soon feel the blessing and the power of it. They are to be made aware of the fact that they have to prove themselves in the coming faith struggle if they want to acquire eternal life. And thus they are to work diligently for the kingdom of God, for very soon this free state of faith will be put to an end by measures and decrees which will prevent or completely make impossible all spiritual courtship, all spiritual activity. And from this time on humanity will be in greatest danger, i.e. it can also avert this danger from itself if it complies with the desire of the worldly authorities. Then it has nothing to fear from them, but it sells its soul, and this is imperishable …. But the soul of man senses it and fears and dreads the coming time. And therefore it is also particularly open-minded because it unconsciously feels that the word of God secures its existence in happiness and that it is the only source of strength from which it can strengthen itself in times of adversity. And every endeavour which is not meant for the attainment of His sanctified word has thereby become invalid. For the divine word alone gives people the necessary strength to withstand all measures which are directed against faith and thus against God ….

Man’s desire for the food of heaven will be great, but only in those who recognize God in the divine intervention, in the unleashing of the forces of nature, who see this process as a visible sign from God that He condemns man’s behaviour and wants to lead them onto a different path. They will raise their hearts to God and desire His word because it gives them comfort and strength, enlightenment and incentive, because only now will they recognize the connection between everything that is happening in the world and the spiritual state of people. And these shall be given the bread of heaven, even though it is a somewhat heavy fare at first for those who are still weak in faith. Nevertheless it helps them according to their will upwards. And so that this will is trained, that it keeps good and evil apart and decides in favour of what is right, the lord’s labourers are to be constantly active, and they are not to let themselves be discouraged when they encounter resistance, and they are to walk on undeterred, offering the bread of heaven to their neighbour and handing out food and drink wherever the needy wait for nourishment. For the time of this free activity is short …. Satan works with great haste and spares no means to oust God …. Therefore the battle against this free activity begins shortly afterwards. And the measures are of drastic importance, after all, they are intended to stop all spiritual striving and to change people’s thinking from the bottom up …. And now he who eagerly received the word of God will prove himself, for he will no longer want to miss the heavenly food, he will no longer be able to exist without God’s comforts and strength; he will stand firm because he will desire ever more and also receive what will give him strength to resist everything hostile to his soul. The more diligently the labourers of the lord are active in the time of need, the more successful their work for the kingdom of God will be. For once they have been able to offer the word of God with conviction, it will also take root and can no longer be eradicated from the hearts of those who are willing to receive it. And once the seed has fallen on fertile soil it will also blossom, grow and flourish and bear good fruit …. And therefore God needs numerous labourers, He needs people on earth who voluntarily place themselves into His service, who allow themselves to be instructed by Him and are now constantly active in order to make use of every time and opportunity where they can successfully work for people’s salvation of soul, where they give people what they urgently need through the supply of the divine word …. light and strength …. realisation and firm will to resist when the time of decision has come ….

Amen

The consequence of sin is also its punishment. This is to be understood in such a way that every sin has its consequences, which in turn have a corrupting effect on the sinner, which is why we can speak of a just punishment. However, this punishment is not inflicted on the human being by God, but he himself has incurred it because he has given the direct cause for it. However, the consequences of sin can also take a long time, but they inevitably come, only then they do not affect man himself, but his children and children’s children, so that they have to bear a punishment that was inflicted generations before. This is an apparent injustice on God’s part, but it always concerns souls who need particularly difficult living conditions to mature and who have chosen particularly difficult living conditions for their path in life. They bear, as it were, undeserved suffering and are also in spiritual contact with the souls of those who are to blame for this suffering. Thus they are influenced by those souls to pay off a debt which has followed them into the kingdom of the beyond and which would require an excessive amount of time to pay off in the hereafter. And God accepts atonement from children and children’s children …. If the human being can pay off his guilt on earth himself, there are countless ways to do so, i.e. the human being has to deal with the consequences of sin; he will then, in a manner of speaking, have to suffer the same fate he has caused others …. he will have to bear the suffering he has caused others; the effects of sin will always affect him again and he will not be able to defend himself against it. But then he spares his descendants all these sufferings which he himself has caused. But if he enters the kingdom of the beyond with this guilt he will not find peace there until he has again persuaded the people close to him on earth through mental influence to atone for his former sin on earth, which then earns them an earthly fate which clearly reveals the sins of the fathers. Atonement for the sin committed is accepted from children and children’s children in order to awaken a sense of responsibility in people, as well as to make them underestimate the magnitude of a guilt …. Sinners suffer immense agony in the beyond if they see people on earth atoning for their guilt, and therefore the guilt is atoned for twice and accordingly paid off more quickly, just as, conversely, a person who knows about his fathers’ sins does not bear the punishment so heavily because it seems just to him and his soul thereby reaches maturity more quickly on earth. However, it is extremely easy for a sinner to be released from his guilt if he lays it at His feet in profound faith in Jesus Christ, if he sincerely asks Him for forgiveness after he has sincerely repented of his sins and endeavours to amend them …. Then the consequences of his sins will also be absent, he will not need to fear that his guilt will have to be paid off by his descendants …. He will be freed from his guilt for the sake of Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for the sins of mankind ….

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Immediately after physical death the soul leaves the body and moves into the spiritual kingdom which, depending on its maturity, can be close to or far away from earth. This should not be understood in a three-dimensional sense, the distance is the result of the difference between the spheres which indeed belong to the spiritual kingdom because they are away from and outside of the earthly-material world and the immature soul has to travel a long path in time before it arrives in the spheres of light. By comparison, a mature soul arrives in these spheres as fast as lightening after its physical death since it requires neither time nor space to overcome the distance from earth into the light spheres. It only needs the strength which its state of maturity has acquired.

However, imperfect souls cannot separate themselves as swiftly from earth, partly because they are too weak to elevate themselves and partly because their senses are still attached to earthly matters. They do not want to leave earth and thus remain close to earth for a long time, mostly within the surroundings they used to occupy during their lifetime. Subsequently they cannot always feel their change from the earthly into the spiritual kingdom either. Their surrounding still appears earthly to them and the souls are frequently unaware that they are no longer physically alive. Nevertheless, they find it strange that they cannot establish a connection with the people on earth any longer, that they cannot make themselves heard and are ignored by people. This condition gradually makes them aware of their situation, they come to understand that they no longer live on earth but that they are beyond earth in the spiritual kingdom. But as long as the soul is still earthly minded it cannot remove itself from this surrounding; it is still grounded and experiences this as a painful condition because everything it desires or believes to possess is unattainable.

And now it slowly has to overcome its desire for earthly possessions; only when it has succeeded in doing so will it gradually move away from earth, the spheres will take on a different appearance, and depending on the soul’s maturity it will no longer see earthly but only spiritual creations, i.e. the spiritual vision of the soul will be able to see spiritual creations which the immature being cannot see even though they are present. But when a mature soul departs from earth it can instantly distinguish its surrounding in the spiritual realm since its maturity has acquired the ability of spiritual vision. Such a soul will also recognise the souls it meets in the beyond whilst immature souls are unable to do so, i.e. they only recognise souls who walk in darkness like themselves, who are in the same imperfect state. However, beings of light are invisible to them, and even when these disguise their light and come close to them they cannot perceive them …. Spiritual vision only develops during a certain state of maturity but then the souls are also surrounded by light, while those who are unable to see due to their undeveloped spiritual vision are surrounded by spiritual darkness.

However, the earthly items they desire are visible to them; nevertheless they are mere illusions which do not really exist but which appear due to the soul’s longing, only to disappear again like a mirage as soon as the soul wants to touch or use them, because their fleeting nature should make the soul understand that it ought to strive for higher values than temporary earthly possessions. Consequently, no beings of light will come close to the soul as long as it still desires such belongings, since earthly minded souls will not listen to the beings of light when they arrive in disguise to bring the Gospel. In this situation they can only be helped by the prayer of another human being, only then will they turn away from matter and look for an alternative in the spiritual realm. Then beings who are willing to help will meet them, instruct them and direct them to the path of ascent. And the more willingly they accept the light beings’ instructions the sooner they will acquire spiritual vision and are thus delivered from darkness …. they have entered the spheres where they may receive and give light. They have travelled the path which can take a short but also a very long time, depending on the soul’s determination for material possessions which keep it attached to earth until they lose their appeal, and are then introduced to the pure truth by the beings of light in order to work for the kingdom of God in the beyond by sharing the knowledge with needy souls who are still living in spiritual darkness ….

Amen

My love constantly flows to My living creations with undiminished strength, and this love also directs people’s destiny on earth. My goal for everything that happens is always spiritual maturing. Nevertheless, I play a part in every happening and its effect. I always and forever accompany the human being, perceptibly for him if he hands himself over to Me, or unnoticed, if he does not seek to be in touch with Me. My love for My living creations will never lessen, and thus you humans must always consider this love as the reason whether you encounter joy or sorrow on your earthly path, for I truly know best what helps your spiritual maturing. And therefore you should never feel despondent or be disappointed by your destiny, for since it was determined by My love it is good for you, even though you experience it painfully at times. My love applies to you for eternity, yet you fail to understand this as long as you have not changed yourselves into love; My love constantly remains the same, and the depth of My love expresses itself in My plan of Salvation, which forms the basis of every happening and every work of creation. If I did not want to save you from spiritual hardship, if I did not want to draw you to Me because I love you, the whole of Creation would not exist, for its only purpose is your approach to Me. And just as the whole of Creation arose from My love for the spiritual beings which had deserted Me, just as I let inconceivable and incalculable works arise for you in order to regain these spiritual beings, so the earthly life of the spiritual being in the embodiment as a human being is directed by My love and every detail of life is predetermined, so that you will reach the final goal of uniting yourselves with Me again. Yet you must know and believe that you are always and forever surrounded by My love and must also recognise this love in suffering, in living conditions which you find difficult to bear, in earthly failure, in sickness and misfortune of all kinds.

Were My love not to recognise that this is beneficial for you it would truly not come upon you. But I use means which can be successful for you, because My love for you is greater than great but you are in danger of being lost to Me if I spare you whatever disheartens you on earth. Put your trust in Me and My love, which will never end …. And completely hand yourselves over to My guidance, let Me take care of you in every earthly adversity and only consider your soul’s salvation. Work diligently for your soul, strive towards My kingdom which is not of this world, and leave every worry about your earthly existence to Me. It will not be much longer, and you should make use of every minute by striving spiritually. I alone know every person’s course of life, and it will be travelled according to My will, thus every anxious worry is unnecessary, because you cannot change what I have determined, thus you cannot improve anything through your anxious worry either. Just be kind-hearted to each other, help where you are able to help, and where your strength fails you put your trust in My help, for My help is always ready for you and will not leave you in trouble any longer than is beneficial for your soul. And even if you deem your destiny harsh, you should not doubt My love. After all, can anything come upon you without My will? And My will is determined by My wisdom and love, which forms the basis of everything that happens. Even evil is sent to you by My love for the good of your soul if you don’t oppose My will and humbly accept and bear everything I send to you without resisting …. And therefore don’t worry and don’t despair, My love is always with you, because it can never ever become less than it was for eternity …. Just strive so that you will be able to feel this love by living a way of life according to My will, by practising love and thereby becoming capable of receiving My strength of love in you. For whether or not you make yourselves receptive to My illumination of love is entirely up to you …. However, your life will be far easier if you know yourselves to be guided and cared for by My love, if you feel Me and in everything recognise My love. Therefore remain united with Me through prayer and loving deeds, and you will receive strength on your earthly path of life and need not fear anything, regardless of what comes, for I Myself will guide you until the end of your life ….

Amen

God’s voice will resound impressively and decide the fate of the nations, for God Himself will pass judgment through the forces of nature. And no-one will be able to oppose His verdict, for it will be fair and strike the people who are responsible for having caused great misery and don’t want to admit their transgression. It will be an exceptionally sad event in which countless people will lose their lives, yet the event is unavoidable because people can no longer be shaken by anything that is accomplished by human will, consequently they will have to be disturbed by an event which cannot be averted or stopped by human will and which will generate enormous terror because everyone will be faced by death and has to brace himself for his demise. And this event draws ever closer, day after day passes by but humanity will not change, and God’s forbearance still hesitates in order to continue granting people the opportunity of turning back before His voice resounds. Yet then worldly events will slowly come to an end because the natural disaster is in the making, because the earth’s interior will be plunged into a state of turmoil and will only be waiting for God to liberate the forces of nature and allow them free reign. For people cannot stop, thus God intervenes and puts an end to it.

Appalling activities will come to a halt but the consequences will be much worse, for people will experience dreadful adversity and be at a total loss in the face of the unleashed forces of nature. They can neither escape nor impede or lessen their raging, they are at their mercy and only have one Saviour to Whom they can entrust themselves in their urgent need, to Whom they can call for help and Who has the power to help them. Yet only a few acknowledge Him, only a few feel that they are guilty and humbly await His judgment in recognition of their sinfulness. And these few will also be taken care of by God in the hours of destruction, which are sent by divine will because there is no other way of removing the spiritual adversity and the earthly hardship is constantly increased by human will. And because people will not put an end to it God will determine the end of a battle which affects the whole world. And a cry of horror will resound across earth which will paralyse people, for the magnitude of the catastrophe will make everyone pay heed and tremble in fear of a repetition. It is God’s intention that the whole of humanity shall take part in it, that it shall listen to His judgment, that it shall recognise those who are guilty and God’s righteousness. For every fighting party still believes itself to be in the right, only power is being valued and not the law, and God’s blessing cannot rest on actions which are detestable because they oppose the divine commandment of love …. And God will punish people in the same way as they act themselves …. except that His work of destruction will be far more powerful so that they will thereby recognise Him. For even the still constrained spirits express outrage at being torn out of divine order and experience this state as painful, for although they were released through human will they are unable to enjoy their freedom since it is not the freedom of perfection, instead the spiritual substances will be deprived of the opportunity to be active and are incensed about it.

And they will work wherever the opportunity presents itself. But above all they will join other still constrained spirits and try to persuade them to also burst their shell and will help them with it. Thereby they want to force people into becoming constructively active again and provide them with the opportunity to enter new creations in order to continue their process of development. And God will not stop the spirits which will be released through human will; He will also give His consent when matter moves within the earth’s interior, when the spiritual substances strive towards the light and try to burst their forms. God will briefly withdraw His will and give the spirits’ will free reign which, however, due to their complete immaturity will mean a work of destruction on an enormous scale. And thus human resolve will be confronted by another will which is stronger than the former, which seemingly lacks all divine love and wisdom and finds God’s full approval …. Yet humanity will not bow down to God, it will not stop its battle of annihilation, it is possessed by demons and allows itself to be driven by them, it is more and more enslaved by the evil power and proves this by its works and actions. And in order to put a stop to this decline, God’s will and omnipotence steps into obvious action. He will shake the earth and with it the human race so that it may come to its senses and change. For it is the last time which can still be used for the souls. And this is why God’s voice will resound powerfully, and He calls to people: Stop your raging which drags your souls into ruin; change your ways before it is too late and remember the One Who rules over heaven and earth, Who is your Creator and Provider and Whose love you trample under your feet …. Consider your end, for it is soon about to happen ….

Amen

What serves the body for its preservation will at the same time mature spiritually, for it fulfils its assigned purpose and thus follows the course of ascent development. And that is why every object, every matter, is assigned a task, and this task must be a useful one, it must signify a work of love for the work of creation to which the object is applied, the latter must require precisely these things for its preservation, then one can speak of a serving purpose of matter. And the human being should promote the maturing of the spiritual in matter by contributing to the transformation of it into useful objects, by creating and shaping according to his ability, by producing things which serve fellow human beings or other works of creation according to their nature. The human being himself should be active in serving neighbourly love, and he should also help matter to serve, so that a general process of redemption takes place, which always presupposes a serving activity. And love must underlie everything. For as soon as something is created to the detriment of fellow human beings or other works of creation, the spiritual substance will not be redeemed but forced into God-opposing actions, and it can never develop upwards but, after its release from the form, it has to animate the same form again until this form has fulfilled its serving purpose …. This means a prolonged stay in a shell which becomes a torment for the spiritual. And the spiritual takes revenge on the human being who let the form come into being in order to harm his fellow human beings; it takes revenge in the most diverse ways, however it will always afflict the soul more than the body, the human being will spiritually sink into the depths of darkness, just as conversely a human being who helps a lot of matter to be of service and thus contributes towards its redemption will be supported in his spiritual striving by the spiritual which has been released through human help. The human being can contribute a great deal to the redemption of matter, but he also finds support himself through it in his ascent development. For a great deal of matter is dependent on human help, it is waiting to be processed, to be transformed into useful objects in which the spiritual can now fulfil its serving task, as is its destiny. For this reason a regulated activity, a constant utilization of matter, will always carry its blessing, just as idleness does not correspond to God’s will, for the human being does not fulfil his purpose, he does not serve in love …. An idler will also not feel love within himself, otherwise love would drive him to activity. He will also not achieve spiritual success because the latter only causes love …. love for his fellow human being, which expresses itself in service. A serving task is inherent in every work of creation, even if the spiritual serves it in a state of compulsion; but the human being is free to be active in a serving way, yet he has countless opportunities to contribute to the preservation of the works of creation, just as he also has countless opportunities to prove himself useful to his fellow human being. And thus he can express his love, he can be active in creating and shaping and create countless things which fulfil a serving purpose …. He can contribute to the higher development of the spiritual, which is embodied in the forms his hands have created, and this spiritual will thank him eternally ….

Amen

To be continuously instructed also gives the obligation to continuously use the knowledge which the human being receives. And therefore he should put spiritual work, work for the kingdom of God, before all other work and not worry about his earthly duties, for God Himself reduces these in order to relieve His servants if they are to be active for Him. Only the human being himself must not slacken in his zeal. He must always imagine the great spiritual hardship which can only be remedied through active activity on earth and in the beyond, through activity which brings light, so that people will be shown the right path which leads out of darkness into light. The beings of light of the spiritual kingdom are constantly active in order to guide light to earth, yet on earth only a few people open themselves to the rays of light of eternal truth in order to receive them into their hearts and then distribute to their fellow human beings what they themselves possess. Yet these few are called to bring light into the darkness of night …. And these few should use all their strength for this task, they should have no qualms about insufficiently fulfilling their earthly task, for they have a task which is far more important, for which not many people make themselves available and which should therefore be given priority over every other activity. Divine love directs their tools such that they can fulfil their task at any time, and thus they should only carry out what they are, so to speak, driven to do from within; they should always and constantly entrust themselves to divine guidance, and their course of life will be regulated and the paths of spiritual work will be opened. For countless souls are in need, believers and unbelievers …. For the believers also need comfort and strength, and the supply of pure truth, of the divine word, is also extremely significant for them, because the spiritual darkness in humanity oppresses them, even though they stand in faith. The word of God is strength from above which strengthens the soul, and all people on earth need this strength; and if people cannot receive the divine word directly, if they are unable to hear the divine voice within themselves, the word has to be conveyed to them. And this is the activity of those who are recipients of the divine word, who should constantly receive a precious gift of grace and therefore also constantly distribute it, because this is the purpose of the direct imparting of the divine word to earth. The receiver has to give in order to be able to receive all the more abundantly; he has to convey the word of God to the needy and therefore be diligently active in the work for the kingdom of God. And the blessing will not fail to come, for every industrious labourer in the vineyard of the lord is worthy of his reward …. Earthly the proclaimer of the divine word will be cared for and protected so that he can work in silence, and spiritually it will help him to progress, for he will be measured out as he himself measures out. For time is pressing and there are only a few workers who are willing to devote themselves to God’s kingdom, who can receive His word and thus spread the pure truth amongst people. And they should be constantly active and only ever strive to fulfil God’s will first ….

Amen

Fear and terror will befall people in view of the end and their helplessness, for all but the few who are faithful to God lack faith in a loving, wise and omnipotent God, in a continuation of life after death and in a spiritual kingdom. They only believe what they see and see its downfall, and thus their condition is hopeless. They have valued earthly life too highly and now realize their powerlessness to prolong it by just one hour, and the imperfection of their souls terrifies them, for they fear death. They feel it unconsciously that the soul is approaching an exceedingly agonizing state, that there is no existence of extinction for the soul, and in their inadequate maturity of soul they must therefore fear the end or come to faith …. The believing human being looks forward to the end with peace of mind, for he knows that he is protected as long as he lives on earth …. and even life after his death does not frighten him, after all, it is the actual life for him which was the purpose and aim of his earthly life …. Yet the last days will be dreadful, for all the forces of darkness will unite and rage against the light on earth in order to drag it down into darkness. And the believers will be in extreme distress from which death will appear to them as redemption. And that is why they long for the last hours, they anxiously await the recall from this earth and hope for the coming of the lord, which precedes the last judgment. And from this they draw the strength to resist …. But satan rages until the last hour has come …. Men excel in cruelty and act outrageously against the believers …. Then judgment comes upon them …. flames burst forth from the earth and consume everything they seize. And the people see death before their eyes, which they cannot escape. Yet their hardship and fear do not outweigh the amount of sins they have incurred during the time of persecution against those who are faithful to God, for this amount is overflowing and can only be paid off through the banishment in solid matter, so that the beingness in this matter will pay off the guilt through the long time of imprisonment. And no human being will escape his fate, which he has created for himself through his way of life …. The fear and horror will be overwhelming for the guilty …. the bliss at the coming of the lord will be the same for the believers, and all misery on earth will come to an end for a long time. People cannot imagine what will happen at the last judgement. The power of God punishes everything that is contrary to Him …. Satan himself will be bound and with him all powers that were in bondage to him. And the earth at that time will be a place of living devils, fully in the power of their lord …. Yet they did not follow him forcedly but voluntarily, and therefore also all God’s opponents who will now feel the wrath of God ….

They have to atone for their sinfulness, they have to endure unspeakable torments because they are in extreme remoteness from God and this means total powerlessness and hardest imprisonment, a state which is unimaginably agonizing for the once powerful spiritual that can move in freedom, since it does not lose the consciousness of existence. And yet, even this act of banishment in the most solid matter is an act of grace by God to help this spiritual to become free after all, to give it the opportunity to reach the original state again. But the magnitude of the guilt of sin also determines the measure of the torment; the torment is indeed a punishment, an expiation for the sins, but at the same time a corrective, a means for the transformation of the spiritual being, which is completely distant from God, into beings which strive for God. The fact that this means is of such harshness, which appears cruel to people, is humanity’s own fault in the last days on this earth, because the spiritual, which is already in the stage of free will, regresses to the utmost depth, despite all God’s accommodating help which wants to prevent the spiritual from doing so. People make a mockery of God’s love, they pay no attention to His word, to His servants and prophets, they let all earthly events pass them by unimpressed; their free will turns downwards towards the one who fights against God and thus they become like him. This can only result in a complete banishment from God, and this complete banishment is always a state of greatest agony because only closeness to God makes the being happy and distance from God completely contradicts the being’s original state. If God wants to give the fallen being the opportunity to return to Him again, it has to go through the agony of distance from Him so that it will change of its own will and strive towards God again. Initially, however, it is so opposed to God that it cannot muster this will, and therefore its stay in solid matter lasts an infinitely long time. But God knows when the stubbornness of the will begins to weaken, and then He also loosens the cover of the spiritual, and the quicker the more yielding the spiritual shows itself in form. This is the only way by which the spiritual can again reach the state of free will, which now again confronts it with the decision. For this must absolutely be made in complete freedom of will. Therefore also the coming judgement is only an act to regain the spiritual, although it is connected with a hard atonement for the measure of sin, which men burden themselves with in the last time before the end. An upward development, that is, a change of will on this earth, no longer exists, and therefore all life will end. A time of God-connectedness and guiltlessness begins again for the few whom God takes from the earth before, whom He has destined for the procreation of the human race, after all other people have been deprived of bodily life, so that they can no longer harass the few good, God-loyal people. For this is the end, that God separates the good from the bad, that He rewards the good and punishes the bad …. that the former may lead a paradisiacal life on the new earth and the latter are condemned to endless imprisonment ….

Amen

The higher spiritual aims a person sets himself, the more strength is imparted to him, for he thereby expresses his will, which is turned towards God. The human being who strives spiritually will never be without love and therefore also not without strength and grace. And therefore his aim is also attainable, for through love he is able to do everything. Even abilities he lacks can be imparted to him if he needs them in order to progress spiritually. All weakness will fall away from him and he will be able to accomplish what he sets out to do and unstoppably progress upwards. For his strength is love …. And therefore no person need feel powerless who lives in love. But if he does not lack strength he also does not lack knowledge, and knowledge is a sign of progress, thus of spiritual maturity. But where there is a degree of spiritual maturity there must also be light and brightness, and the light shines into the darkness …. Thus every receiver of light must also radiate its light to its surroundings, it can never conceal the light otherwise it would have no effect. And therefore a recipient of light will also have to emit the light, the wisdom from God, i.e. he will feel urged himself to send it into the darkness …. to pass on the divine wisdom. But he will only do so when he believes himself to be sufficiently permeated by light. For light has the property that it shines brightly and illuminates the darkness around it ….. Therefore the spiritual light …. the knowledge which corresponds to truth …. cannot be kept hidden by a person who is illuminated by it himself. It will fill him in such a way that he opens himself and lets it emanate …. As long as he does not do this, he himself is not yet so permeated by divine truth that it makes him come alive. For life is activity, and only when he is constantly active does the strength of love express itself, he himself becomes alive …. he now remains in a constant receiving and giving, and through giving he increases the wealth of receiving and pours it out again to the destitute, the ignorant, whose lightless state brings his love to unfold, so that he gives without restriction. And therefore even the most incapable will acquire the ability to distribute light; he will be able and also want to do so, for if he receives light himself he must stand in love, thus he must want to, and love gives him strength so that he can also let the light radiate ….

The more the spiritual takes possession of a person the less earthly minded he will be until he is finally so fulfilled that he only lives in the spiritual kingdom although he still walks on earth. And then he absolutely has to radiate his fulfilling light to his surroundings, for he will act and speak impelled by God’s spirit; he will not need earthly ability but become able through God’s spirit, which is now working in him. But this only ever appears when it is necessary to enlighten erring souls, when a field is to be cultivated for the reception of good seed. Then the human being filled with God’s spirit will only express himself when he realizes that help can be brought to his fellow human beings through the proclamation of the divine word, while the human being’s nature otherwise remains unchanged towards his fellow human beings. Thus a servant of God does not need to be a skilful speaker, he will be able to speak and also do so if God’s spirit working in him deems it necessary and successful, for it guides him, his thinking, speaking and acting. The human being’s natural inability is not an obstacle, it is only transformed into ability in the moments of spiritual radiation so that the human being can be active for the kingdom of God. Light and strength always want to express themselves and assert themselves, light wants to penetrate darkness, strength wants to invigorate and strengthen the weakened …. and where both are active, human dispositions are no obstacle …. But light is wisdom, thus the outflow of the divine spirit, strength is the outflow of divine love …. And once a person has attained wisdom through loving activity, he must be permeated by light and strength and thus also able to let both flow out again to his surroundings. And therefore every serious spiritual aspirant will be able to give to his fellow human beings what he himself possesses, what he has received as a result of his activity of love. And this is especially true in the last days for which God has awakened people whose will and way of life has earned them extraordinary blessings so that they can mature more quickly on earth because they show themselves worthy of it. These people will be trained by God for their later activity, they will first be instructed in divine truth and as soon as they are knowledgeable they will be employed for the kingdom of God …. And God will also endow them with the ability to work for Him …. He will provide them with everything they need for their task in the coming time. He will spiritually direct their lives and help them to overcome earthly desires; He will alienate them from earth so that they can strive unhindered towards the ascent in order to then also be able to work like this when the time has come. For what God teaches He instructs, and what He instructs shall also be active for Him, and thus He enables every person who wants to serve Him as a labourer in His vineyard ….

Amen

An unusual mission also requires unusual training, and this is given to that human being by God Himself, whose soul offers itself to God for this mission. This extraordinary task consists of giving people a living example of the working of the spirit in the last days, in the coming battle of faith, of providing them with proof of the connection between the earthly and the spiritual world, of God’s direct connection with people on earth. This is no easy task, for the human being has to work very hard on himself in order to attain a degree of maturity which allows for this evidence. He has to live according to God’s will in order to be able to be used as His instrument, and he has to absorb great knowledge in order to be able to testify to God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence. The imparting of this knowledge happens through regular instructions which the human being has to accept of his own free will. He must want, i.e. desire, wisdom from God, otherwise it cannot be offered to him. Hence the mission is entirely dependent on his free will, and it is this will which now also enables the human being to accomplish the task given to him, for only a strong will will stand firm and steadfastly pursue its aim in the last days of the battle of faith. The knowledge which is presented to the human being on God’s behalf and by God Himself gives him clear knowledge about the original beginning and final aim of every work of creation and thus also of the human being himself. But as soon as the human being has this knowledge he strives towards God, and through a life of love he unites himself with Him. And now light and strength can flow into him …. the spirit of God can work in the human being, thus the human being himself can testify to God’s love, omnipotence and wisdom. But such a testimony can help the unbelievers to believe. And this is the purpose, it is the task incumbent upon the human being who is trained by God Himself for His mission. He should use all his knowledge and insight to change unbelief into faith by passing on his knowledge, by serving his fellow human beings as an example of the success a life of faith can result in and how closely the human being can unite with God if he has the right faith, thus also lives out what the right faith demands. In order to impressively prove the truth to fellow human beings a person must be able to present himself as an example, he must always be able to establish a direct connection with God, and the success of such a connection must be obvious to fellow human beings, then it will be made easy for them to believe, and this is an extraordinary help for the unbelievers which God grants to those who only listen to His servants, thus who do not reject them unheard. And yet, it is a mission which requires a strong will, for in order to reach this degree of maturity, that he, as a true servant of God, is suitable for this work, he must constantly strive upwards, he must constantly let his will become active, for he will not be influenced or forced into knowledge against his will but he must acquire it himself, he must strive for every divine instruction of his own free will, request it and put himself into a state that he is able to hear God’s voice. It is an extraordinary process which, however, is also extraordinarily effective if only it is heeded. The human being’s will earns him knowledge, and this knowledge in turn is intended to stimulate his fellow human being’s will to reach the same state of spiritual maturity.

People can only be placed into a bright state by transmitting wisdom from the spiritual kingdom, for light comes from the heavens but earth is in darkness as long as the light from the heavens does not touch it. Darkness is ignorance, darkness is a state without any spiritual knowledge and therefore a state of remoteness from God, for God Himself is the light, God is wisdom, and thus nearness to God means knowledge of pure truth. And thus this truth has to be conveyed to people who are distant from God so that their distance from God will be thereby reduced …. provided that the human being has the will to approach Him. But what is currently offered from person to person on earth is no longer the pure truth, instead, it is often contaminated by erroneous teachings and additions which do not correspond to the truth. As a result the ray of light is clouded, it no longer has the strength of its original effect, it is a twilight in which people wander about, undecided about the path they should take and hardly recognizing the right one. And it is extremely difficult to bring a bright ray of light into this twilight, for people do not like to accept a light bearer, they feel comfortable in their state of twilight and fear that a bright ray of light could reveal what they would like to keep hidden. And therefore the paths of a light bearer will not be very paved by people, and if God Himself would not lead him by the hand his attempt would be unsuccessful, the light would be extinguished before it could exert its effect. And that is why it requires a strong will, a constant connection with God, the eternal light, a constant reception of light and strength in free will and a profound unshakeable faith to be able to carry out this mission with God’s help. And where God finds such a will and a joyful devotion to Him, there the supply of knowledge from the spiritual kingdom to earth can also proceed, and all spiritual beings of light are willing to convey this knowledge, the spiritual truth, to the human being on God’s behalf. Thus a work had to begin which appears extraordinary for people on earth but which also initiates an extraordinary mission …. to bring pure truth to people, to offer something purely spiritual to earthly-minded people in order to thereby guide them into the right realization. This is an extraordinary undertaking and yet it has to be tackled in order to bring salvation to the erring souls which do not completely close themselves to the effect of the rays of light before the end has come, which is imminent ….

Amen

After the death of its body the mature soul will rise like a cloud of light from the earthly realm into the spheres of the beyond, and then it will have overcome all matter, then it will be free from every bondage, it will be again what it originally was, a free spiritual being full of light and strength. It is only visible and recognizable to the equally mature spiritual being, which is therefore able to see spiritually, whereas it remains invisible to the immature spiritual being, thus it cannot be recognized by it either. And therefore there can be no reunion between the mature and the immature spirits, thus between the souls departed from earth, which enter the beyond in different states of maturity, until the imperfect spirit has attained a certain degree of maturity which opens the spheres of light to it. The imperfect spiritual substance can indeed be recognized by the beings of light, for they see everything and nothing is hidden from them; thus they also know every soul which is still in spiritual darkness, but they cannot be recognized by them. But the souls’ longing for their loved ones is sometimes so strong that it is a driving force for higher development in the beyond as soon as the soul has entered the stage of recognition and knows about the possibility of ascent in the spiritual kingdom through loving activity. Then it is restlessly active because the desire for souls close to it constantly drives it upwards. For it recognizes its own kind and therefore knows that it will also see its loved ones again, and this awareness gives it strength again and again, and this strength is supplied to it by precisely those beings which are the aim of its longing; they can convey strength to the souls, yet unrecognized by them. If they approach them to give them helpful advice, then they cover themselves because the immature souls cannot bear their abundance of light. Thus they see themselves surrounded by beings who are, however, alien to them and who seemingly do not belong to any other sphere of light than themselves. But since they assist them with advice and deeds the imperfect souls are grateful and favoured by them and they follow their advice. And thus the mature beings draw their loved ones towards them until they have reached a degree of maturity where they become receivers of light. Then they are also able to see spiritually, they recognize their surroundings, they recognize the beings of light of equal maturity, and their bliss constantly increases because they can unite with those, because they see their loved ones again and now in turn assist those again who languish in the darkness of spirit. Only when the degree of maturity is reached which allows spiritual seeing is the soul free from all burden, for then it too stands in the light, in the realization of pure truth and in love. And every activity it now carries out is blissful because only love impels it to do so and loving activity always triggers bliss. Merging with equally mature souls which complement each other in most intimate harmony is the actual bliss, for it is most intimate love which seeks and finds union. And love is always blissful if it applies to the purely spiritual, for it is giving, not demanding. And yet this love culminates in the desire for God, in the final union with Him. And this desire will always be fulfilled, for the being may desire God at any time and it can also count on the satisfaction of its longing at any time, for God constantly gives, He constantly distributes His love and thereby makes the inhabitants of the spiritual kingdom the most blissful beings …. Their bliss is inconceivable, for love and light fill those spheres where the beings are allowed to dwell close to God, Who is eternal love and the source of light Himself ….

Amen

To be close to the primal light means light and strength in all abundance …. for the primal light, the eternal love itself, continues to radiate light and strength, and recipients are all beings who have found union with the eternal love through love. All these beings are permeated by light, for everything about them is purified spiritual substance which can receive God’s permeation of love unhindered. Consequently, these beings are also light and strength, and since they constantly receive they also constantly give away light and strength, because this is their activity in the spiritual kingdom, to pass on light and strength. And the being will always be able to receive its spiritual substance accordingly …. For this spiritual substance can have many different characteristics, depending on the being’s degree of love. Pure, selfless love is the prerequisite for God’s emanation of love to touch a being, yet the radiation of light and strength can take place in infinitely many gradations, for the being can attain ever higher perfection, thus let the strength of its love take effect ever more intensively, which is why there is no limit to beatitude in eternity but it can increase because the being can always approach God and be seized ever more intimately by His love. There is a constant flow of light and strength from God into all spheres of light, and understandably the light and strength is strongest at the original source of the flow, which is why the highest bliss is also there, which prepares the beings for both receiving and giving. However, the beings of light have no self-love whatsoever and therefore the passing on of light makes them extraordinarily happy, for their love has to be active and thus they always consider the spiritual, which is in a lower degree of maturity and strives upwards. The final union with God is the aim of all spiritual which stands in recognition, thus has already found entrance into the spheres of light. The bliss of receiving therefore drives them again and again to help people who dwell in darkness, who are still devoid of all love and therefore languish in greatest adversity. They are without light and without strength and therefore also without bliss, and this pities the souls of light. They try to help them by informing them of the power and strength of love, by trying to persuade them to help other souls in need. For without love no human being can become blissfully happy, and without love no soul can purify itself, but without purification no light can be received either …. This mission of the beings of light is to participate in Christ’s act of salvation, which Jesus began on earth and which is continued in the spiritual kingdom by all beings who have united with Him through love …. For only the redeemed can come close to God, only the redeemed can receive His emanation of light and strength and therefore become blissfully happy ….

Amen

My will is made known to you who devote yourselves to Me and want to serve Me …. For I Myself speak to you now and always, as I have always spoken to people who, through the working of love, made themselves able to hear My voice. I was amongst them in the word and will always dwell with people in the word until the end of the world. For I have promised My own that I will reveal Myself to them if they love Me and keep My commandments …. that I will guide them into truth and that they shall receive My spirit …. But My spirit is My word, My spirit is Me Myself, and thus I Myself am with those who love Me and keep My commandments, and therefore they can also hear My word directly from Me, for I reveal Myself through the inner voice and make My will known to them. And thus My disciples heard My voice, I was with them in the word after My act of salvation had been accomplished; they heard Me even though I was not physically present amongst them, and they recorded the word because this was My will. In all purity they reproduced what they had heard through the inner voice, for My word resounded in them clearly and distinctly so that they always and constantly knew about My will. And they conveyed this word to humanity so that My will would be proclaimed to all, so that they could comply with this will and thus become blissfully happy. But time has not preserved this word of Mine pure and unaltered, not everything is My word which is conveyed to people as such. It has been changed by additional human work, which can only be separated from the pure truth, from the word conveyed by Me to earth, by those who are able to hear the word again themselves through loving activity and the will to serve Me. My word will never be able to pass away, pure truth will always exist, it will remain until all eternity …. but the work of man does not last …. What therefore falls prey to human will of destruction, what becomes powerless and ineffective due to decrees and commandments, that is human accessory; for what is from Me is everlasting and will outlast everything. But I strive for a purification of that which is offered to people as My word and no longer fully corresponds to the word which is from Me, which My disciples have received from Me …. And therefore I direct the word to earth again, I reveal Myself anew and choose My disciples again whom I guide through My spirit into all truth. For I will always be amongst people in the word and hand them the bread of heaven, and especially when they are starving and lack spiritual food, food which shall revive their soul …. Then I open the spring from which the living water flows; I feed and water people by offering them the nourishment from the heavens …. My word …. My flesh and My blood …. Who wants to stop Me from doing this? …. Who wants to accept My divine working of the spirit as finished with the word that was commanded to My disciples? I remain with you until the end of the world …. this is My promise …. Why should I not speak to My own if their heart desires it? And you humans need My word which shall repeatedly make My will known to you. For the word has lost its strength if it is no longer purely offered to people, just as My disciples once heard it from Me …. But you humans need the strength which flows from My word, and thus I will give you the pure truth again, I will descend to earth once more in the word and will resound wherever people who are willing and able to love offer themselves to Me for My service and listen within in order to hear My word. And you should listen to them, for they convey the purest truth to you, they inform you of My will and initiate you into knowledge which only I Myself can convey to earth through My word …. And therefore believe that I speak to people again and again and am with them in the word ….

Amen

Man is given the freedom to think and act according to his will. Consequently, he must also take the effect of his thinking and acting upon himself, his thinking will earn him truth or error, depending on his will, his acting reward or punishment …. And he can make no one responsible for it but himself. But in order for his thoughts and actions to take the right direction which will bring him truth and reward, God, in His love, comes to his aid by giving him instructions, by informing him of His will which the human being should use as a guideline for his thoughts and actions. Thus He puts Himself in contact with the human being through His servants on earth and in the beyond by imparting His word to them through them, by giving His servants the task to proclaim His will to people and to preach the word of God to them. Thus He gives them enlightenment about good and evil, about right and wrong, but He leaves it up to the human being what he wants to decide. The human being is initially without any knowledge of what is right before God, but he can gain this knowledge if God’s word is imparted to him. However, he is not forced to accept it but only encouraged to do so, and again his free will decides; yet he can never say that it has to decide in one direction, he can never say that he lacks all knowledge of God’s will, for God always informs him, only in different ways. For since God gave the human being free will, the possibility to make a decision absolutely belongs to it, and this again presupposes knowledge of God’s will, otherwise the human being could not be held responsible. So He will not withhold this knowledge of divine will from him either …. But how he attunes himself to it is up to him. But the state of knowledge, the degree of truth he now finds himself in, and also the measure of bliss in the kingdom of the beyond is corresponding, for both are the consequences of his free decision of will …. thus the human being himself shapes his life in the beyond through his will ….

Amen

The thoughts and words of all those who are enlightened by the spirit of God will be in complete concord, for they are all educated by God’s spirit and can endorse the same truth, because they received the latter from God through His spirit. But the concord of thoughts does not depend on people belonging to the same school of faith, they need merely spiritually be on the same path, i.e., their life must correspond to God’s will by actively practising neighbourly love. This awakens the indwelling spirit to life which can subsequently instruct them, that is, guide them into truth. But people who are spiritually awakened by the spirit of God will mostly pursue different goals than those which are generally required by ecclesiastical organisations. They will not keep to external formalities so much but make the heart of the matter, Christ’s teaching of love, their guiding principle of life, hence, they will live their life according to this teaching of love, although in their obedience to the church they belong to, they also fulfil its laws. But the fulfilment of ecclesiastical commandments does not help them to become spiritually awake, only the fulfilment of the divine commandments, which require love, does that, this is why someone not belonging to an external church community but living a life of love can also be spiritually enlightened. For he belongs to the church of Christ, which comprises the community of believers, to the church which was founded by Christ with the Words ‘Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church ….’ This community of believers can be composed of the most varied ecclesiastical organisations, for there will be truly devout people who practise love in each one and in whom the spirit of God can work. But they will be of like mind, they will endorse the same direction of thought, muster the same understanding for spiritual problems, strive towards the same goal, because the spirit of God guides them into truth, and this can never contradict itself. And the hallmark, the characteristic of the church of Christ, rests in the fact that all members are of like mind, but that they do not advocate externally acquired spiritual knowledge imparted to them by fellow human beings; instead, they have received the truth themselves from within, for even externally imparted mental information must first become a person’s possession through the working of the spirit before he can endorse it. However, earthly ecclesiastical organisations demand unconditional acceptance of teachings which were conveyed to them from external sources; they devise a code of belief the rejection of which they portray as sin, thus people are not permitted to voice any opinion.

This is not faith …. it is not spiritually attained mental knowledge, which can be endorsed with full conviction if the person has not formed an earnest opinion of it first. The spirit of God can therefore not work in those people, since due to their lack of serious deliberation they do not provide it with the opportunity to answer their questions, to instruct them and to correct errors …. Hence the working of God’s spirit is made impossible; it cannot express itself because it is not approached for an explanation. Therefore, such people will also agree in their opinions and thoughts, nevertheless, they only dutifully repeat what is demanded of them but do not uphold personally gained thoughts which were born in them of their profound desire for pure truth …. Thus it is not their own mental knowledge but is adopted from other people and therefore not their own spiritual spark’s working …. Yet the working of the divine spirit is also credited to results which are far removed from truth, because people have no idea when and where the spirit of God is able to work …. because they associate the working of the spirit with a person of reputable position or distinction …. The spirit of God works wherever He wants …. but only where a heart willing and capable of love allows for this working, where God’s prerequisites are fulfilled in order to be able to impart the pure truth to people through His spirit …. And these prerequisites can be fulfilled by all people, irrespective of which school of thought they belong to and what position they hold on earth …. Consequently, the truth can only be found where the spirit of God is at work, but it will always concur. As soon as different spiritual results and thoughts emerge, this cannot be considered the working of the spirit, and then there must be an investigation into where the preconditions had been disregarded. For the spirit of God always instructs people in the same truth, which is eternal and unchanging …. but which will, time and again, be conveyed to earth in purity where people, through a selfless life of love, awaken their spirit, which will then instruct them from within ….

Amen

Every human being is personally responsible for his soul, and thus he has to justify himself for every bad deed as well as for every omission of a good deed. He can neither blame other people for his guilt nor can he have it compensated by others, but he has to make

Amends himself on earth or in the beyond. And likewise, he alone is able to raise his state of maturity, it cannot be given to him as a gift, but he has to make an effort to live his life in accordance with God’s will. Thus he has to accept the care for his soul’s salvation himself, because no other human being can relieve him of this. Subsequently, he also has to inform himself of God’s will and accept His Word, which reveals the divine will to him. And then he has to let God’s Word take effect on him. He therefore should not blindly believe what people want to present to him but first has to compare it with God’s Word, and only if it completely corresponds to the latter may he submit himself to its influence.

If the human being is responsible for himself he is also responsible for his own mental concepts. Consequently he is duty-bound to scrutinise whatever is offered to him, because this is precisely what he is answerable for. He cannot excuse himself with having been offered errors and thus he became unable to find the truth, but he has to make his own effort to discover the truth, which will also be offered to him if he asks for it. Since God will hold him to account one day He will first give him every opportunity to be able to recognise and live up to what is right. However, when the human being relies on what is given to him by other people he is bypassing all personal responsibility, he tries to unload it on the other person who has educated him. Yet God has given him intellect and the gift of thought, and by using this gift he can chose for himself what is right and wanted by God and act accordingly, consequently he can also be held to account ….

Therefore, academically imparted spiritual knowledge, thus including teachings accepted by the person in the form of formal education, cannot suffice to gain complete knowledge of God’s will as long as it does not, by way of his own reflection, awaken and increase a sense of responsibility in the human being …. And on serious reflection the human being will realise which teachings were given by God to people and which teachings have been added to them by people. Thus, in order to be answerable in the future, the human being first has to deal with the received knowledge and in doing so, providing he has a desire for truth, he will also be able to distinguish between truth and error. Whereas a dogmatic teaching will stifle his sense of responsibility in him, indeed it will have to stifle it, because the faith in it or the fulfilment of what is demanded will become a purely mechanical matter and the person no longer feels responsible for what he believes to do conscientiously. Because whatever he does is done by him with a certain amount of obligation since it is demanded of him …. It is not an act of free will, albeit he is also able to refuse or ignore the demand, but the inner urge is missing which should be the reason for every action, for everything demanded by God from people.

The human being should be conscious of the fact that God only values what he does for love, that his thinking and actions should therefore only be governed by love and that every lack of love is a sin against God, Who is love Himself, and that the human being has to be answerable for this. Thus, whatever he is ordered to do, whatever he is duty-bound to do, negates free thought and action. And the human being effectively only gives account to the world, i.e. to those who have imposed a duty on him. For this reason the soul cannot benefit greatly if the human being does not act and think from within. Consequently, since no person can ever assume responsibility for another person’s soul but the human being has to accept this for himself, he is also obliged to scrutinise whether his thoughts and actions coincide with God’s will, and therefore he has to know God’s will, which is imparted to him through His Word. And thus God’s Word has to be the foundation and not human interpretations and additions; and in order to examine this, in order to be accountable one day, a deeply felt relationship with God is necessary, Who will then mentally reveal His will to the person who has the desire for truth ….

Amen

The renewal of the world can only begin when the old world is completely destroyed, and thus the word will also be fulfilled: “Not one stone will be left upon another.” This is to be understood spiritually and earthly, a total spiritual upheaval will take place, and therefore a spiritual disruption, a state of dissolution, must also occur first, just as nothing will remain in existence earthly which was before. And both will be accomplished by human will itself. Earthly creations will be destroyed by human will, earthly institutions and circumstances will be untenable and thus many earthly changes will be made which will finally have the effect of the dissolution of matter. And this dissolution will also be observed spiritually, for initially all schools of thought will go against each other, one will be opposed by the other, the earthly authorities will take action against each one, and finally the battle of faith will break out which wants to make all spiritual striving impossible …. People want to eradicate all faith in something imperishable, spiritual and in a higher power …. And God also allows this, because all this must precede the spiritual change, because something new is to emerge from the chaos, something pure, purified, strong spiritual, and this requires the final destruction and dissolution of the old world …. Not one stone will be left upon another …. If the human being is attentive he recognizes the decay and therefore he also knows that the end is not far away. And even if everything threatens to sink into spiritual and earthly chaos, the human being should save himself from it, he should stand firm and not let this decay spread to himself. And even if everything around him sinks, he should keep his head above water; he should always stretch out his hands upwards, he should let himself be drawn by divine fatherly love so that he will not sink when everything sinks …. He should want from the bottom of his heart to experience the new world, to emerge unscathed from the spiritual and earthly chaos, healthy in his soul and full of hope for a new time which is spiritually and earthly peaceful, because God Himself is close to the people who survive this last time of dissolution …. For the evil will perish, it will no longer be able to rage on earth and thus will also no longer afflict people who are united with God through love …. And therefore the world will renew itself, it will no longer be the old earth, for not one stone will remain upon another, and the old earth must undergo this process of transformation, it must become a new earth, also purely materially, creations must pass away and new ones arise, because the spiritual renewal also necessitates a renewal of earthly creations at the same time …. nothing can remain as it was before because a new purpose is assigned to the creations and therefore the old creation has to completely dissolve according to God’s eternal plan of salvation …. Everything will be changed but will not perish eternally, it will take on a different form because the old form no longer fulfils its purpose …. And this has to happen because it has been determined since eternity …. and because humanity’s will has reached a point where it is far more destructive than constructive, and this is a violation of divine order. Therefore this must have such an effect that earthly and spiritual chaos arises, and this is the end of the old earth …. But out of this comes a new world …. a world of peace, a spiritual and earthly paradise …. in which love reigns, because the eternal love Itself dwells amongst people who remained faithful to It even in the most difficult battle ….

Amen

Everything that God’s will has brought into being is indestructible. Human will can indeed seemingly destroy a work of creation accessible to it, but it is only a change of the external form, for the actual life, the life of the spirit in the shell destroyed by people, remains and visibly appears before people again in a new external shell. So, to a certain extent, outer creations can fall victim to man, but this never results in a perishing of their inner life. But works can also come into being through God’s will which are intended to testify to His might and power, His wisdom and His love for the purpose of the human being’s spiritual upward development. And God also protects these works from the human will to destroy in order to prove His power and strength through them. These are works which also come into being in an extraordinary way and which are therefore also recognizable as visible work of God. If these works would not withstand the human will to destroy, they would also miss the purpose, so to speak, because they are meant to be recognized as divine gifts and must therefore be imperishable. Such an imperishable work of God is His word, which He directs to earth in an extraordinary way …. The divine word is intended to be the basis for people according to which they can arrange their lives if they want to ascend. The divine word announces God’s will, and only few people are able to hear the word of God themselves through their inner voice. Consequently, it has to be conveyed to them, it has to be accessible to all fellow human beings so that they can receive the divine word within themselves again if they are willing to listen to God. The individual human being who is able to hear God’s voice cannot spread the word of God to the extent that all people receive the will of God. God, however, does not convey His word to earth because of a human being but through a human being for all who want to hear it ….. And therefore this has to happen in a form which enables the spreading of His word …. in the form of transcripts which reproduce in detail what the recipient of the divine word is able to hear through the inner voice …. And this transcript is His work, His manifestation of strength, the evidence of His love, wisdom and omnipotence …. And this work of His is everlasting so that it may fulfil its purpose which is assigned to it.

It is not human work, it is not human thought that is written down, but the human being’s intellectual activity only sets in afterwards in order to mentally assimilate what is received, and consequently a spiritual power is at work, which the human being may call whatever he wants. But it testifies to a supernatural working, and what comes into being by supernatural means is also immune to natural action by human hand or human will. The purpose of this work is a purely spiritual one, and therefore spiritual forces are also the originators, but these are always the executors of divine will. But what comes into being in divine will remains until it has fully and completely fulfilled its purpose. Countless people are still to be informed of God’s word which guides His love for earth, and therefore this word must still be made accessible to many people, which can only happen by spreading the scriptures which contain the word of God. But once God has conceived this plan He will not let it be thwarted by human will, He will not let what flows forth from Him fall prey to people’s arbitrariness …. but He will protect His work for the sake of people who desire it and derive the greatest benefit from it. And therefore a protective wall will always be drawn around a visible gift of God which shall make Him and His working recognizable. It will not be touched or affected by anything, by worldly measures as well as by natural phenomena, for what has emerged from God’s strength asserts itself against the world and also against nature, for God is lord over everything, He alone determines the beginning and also the end, He determines the coming into being as well as the passing away, and therefore that which has Him as its origin cannot perish, just as He also protects all who are mediators of His word, who receive it and pass it on to their fellow human beings, as is His purpose. For people shall be instructed by God’s will, they shall hear His word in order to recognize and learn to love God and to live according to His word in order to unite with God through it ….

Amen

The divine spark in the human being can become an enormous flame and then it consumes everything that comes into contact with it …., i.e., the flame of love constantly needs new nourishment, it draws everything into its sphere; it ignites and radiates warmth, it purifies and crystallizes what is impure, it enlivens and awakens, it illuminates and radiates everything and does not rest until that which is seized by it becomes a flame like it. And then the human being can leave the earth, for then he will have reached his aim, he will have joined the eternal deity, Which is pure love in Itself. The divine spark of love in the human being has made contact with God, Who is love Himself …. Yet it usually takes a long earthly life in order to completely change into love …. the fire of love is usually not ignited in the human being, the spark glows but it does not have the strength to take hold and let the flame flare up brightly. And therefore it has to be continuously stoked so that the spark will not go out, and it has to be nourished …. love in the human being has to be stimulated to activity …. A fellow human being’s extremely strong will must take possession of his soul, his love must be so strong that he transfers it to it, and thereby the spark will also be kindled into strong embers of love, so that both flames can merge and now shine brightly …. Once this flame has been kindled it can never go out, instead it will become ever brighter and more radiant because it will always find nourishment …. souls in need who are now seized and consumed by the flame of love. For a loving person will not leave those souls in need, and every assistance is a renewed ignition of the divine spark, the flame in the heart will become ever greater and soon there will be nothing left in the human being’s surroundings which will not fall prey to the flame. Yet the flame of love has a beneficent effect, it is gentle yet full of ardour, it will not hurt or harm anyone but it will delight, awaken and mature, but it will not leave anyone out either, for the flames of love spread very quickly once they have been kindled ….

The divine spark in man cannot be extinguished, but it can be buried if it is not yet big enough …. Then it will continue to glow under the cover of unkindness, but it is too weak to break through. If, however, a small flame of love comes from outside, then the divine spark breaks through and connects with the flame of love, and the flame is enough to consume what is still a shell, a cinder that prevents a bright fire. For the divine spark in the human being always drives him to love activity from within. The human being’s will can therefore kindle the spark into the strongest flame, and this flame always takes the direction towards God, towards the exit of love and light. For God’s love is an eternal fire which blazes in brightest embers and wants to absorb everything …. every little flame which has united with the eternal fire has reached its aim …. But countless sparks of divine love are still wandering around, they glow unceasingly but find no nourishment to ignite and blaze brightly …. Their surroundings are poor in light and love, rarely does a tiny flame twitch through the night; but where it lights up, the divine spark has broken through, and the tiny flame promises to become a bright flame, for it cannot be extinguished because the flame of love penetrates every obstacle, consumes it and its flame constantly increases. Yet the divine spark is a part of God, the flame of love is an emanation of eternal love, and therefore it can never be completely extinguished, it can only shine sparsely and sporadically where the human being’s will keeps itself away from every activity of love, where he does not let the divine spark in him become a flame through active neighbourly love. And that is why humanity walks along in the darkness of night, and its little flames only shine sparsely now and then. And yet the night can be illuminated as bright as day where, through industrious activity of love, little flame after little flame is ignited, which come together, become a great flame and shine in fullest luminosity …. all of which strive heavenwards towards the great light, the eternal flame, with which they seek to merge in order to be close to the primal light, the eternal love ….

Amen

The body should help the soul to spiritual maturity by giving itself up, by suppressing every desire and only allowing the soul’s desire to come into its own, which, if the body releases it, completely surrenders to the spirit within itself, thus giving in to its desire and its urge. The more the body joins the soul’s desire the more the soul’s material external form spiritualizes itself, and then it no longer needs to cover such a long earthly path, whereas a completely materially attuned body still needs a long time after its physical death before it has overcome its desire. The spiritual substances of the outer forms of those souls are, as it were, refined, they are no longer so grossly material, although they are still earthly matter. The soul drags him over into the realm of the spirit to which it has granted all dominion over itself, and the body follows it willingly, it renounces everything that otherwise seemed desirable to it, it is completely without resistance and therefore also no longer turned towards the world. And a person will mature faster if body and soul are subject to the spirit within. The latter now rules them in love and wisdom …. what he demands the soul and the body carries out, and this contributes to spiritual progress. For the soul will be able to hear the voice of the spirit because the body is ready at the same time by keeping every disturbance away from the soul, by putting itself into the state that the voice of the spirit expresses itself. For the body must completely detach itself from the world, it must close its bodily ear and leave the listening to the soul so that it will then convey it to it. The less the soul is hindered by the body, the more audibly the voice of the spirit sounds to it. But the body also has great success. It overcomes matter much more easily, it is, so to speak, strengthened by the food which the soul receives, it spiritualizes itself more and more, and the soul takes spiritual substances of the body into itself when it leaves the world. The earthly material components of the body will not have to go through such a long process of maturing, sometimes they will even be admitted to the formation of a new human soul where they can completely spiritualize themselves. Where soul and body push towards the spirit, such spiritualization is guaranteed if God’s eternal order is also paused in the upward development of the spirit. However, the course of ascent development can be considerably shortened when the spiritual’s resistance is broken, i.e. when the spiritual itself gives up all resistance, which is always the case, when the body detaches itself from everything it otherwise strives for, when it facilitates the soul’s spiritual striving by joining it and seeking to break every earthly fetter through conscious devotion and submission to the spirit within itself, which now draws soul and body to itself, and a rapid ascent development of both is now the result ….

Amen

You cannot expect changes for the better in your living conditions as long as you don’t change your will as well as your conduct in life yourselves. Your perception of the purpose of your earthly life is completely wrong and you would never even think about it if you were given a carefree life of peaceful monotony or worldly pleasure. But you have to become aware of your true task on earth, and therefore you will be motivated by difficult conditions in life to think about it because only then can the knowing beings, who are responsible for your spiritual care, mentally suggest an answer to you. And these difficult conditions shall worsen if they don’t succeed in stimulating your thinking because in that case you won’t live consciously, i.e. you won’t strive for spiritual development, which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life. And therefore you shall have to endure worldly hard times and should not expect improvements as long as you don’t improve yourselves, i.e. as long as you don’t accept divine will as your guiding principle of conduct. Because God can only educate you such that your will becomes active by itself and you would only need a small amount of suffering if you thought of your own accord and shaped your life in accordance with its purpose. And you continue to be burdened by very hard conditions because you are not making any preparations for change.

The earth will see much suffering; hopelessness and anguish shall tire and exhaust the people, and yet they could provide themselves with an easier earthly life if they only recognised their suffering as a caution from God, who warns them in that manner to change their lives for their own sake. Because soul and body shall die on the path they are walking. God wants to save the soul and therefore puts the body under pressure, He wants to show you the right way if only you were willing to listen to Him, when you, because of a harder life, turn your thoughts to Him, when you question yourselves about the meaning and purpose of your existence and wish for a mental response ….

And if you listen to Him, if you heed His warnings and live accordingly, then He shall relieve you of your difficult living conditions …. He shall save you from all evil, spiritually as well as earthly, because He only asks you to consider Him and carry out your true purpose in life …. to strive for progress and not just concern yourselves with earthly life …. Then He shall take your worries from you where it benefits your soul, because God does not want you to suffer if you consider your spiritual well-being first. He must save you from eternal destruction by all means which, however, you shall suffer if you live a carefree earthly life and achieve worldly fulfilment …. then your soul will be lost and you won’t achieve your goal on earth, you won’t strive upwards and therefore will have lived your life in vain ….

Amen

The graces of the work of redemption extend to all people who have faith in Jesus Christ. These are therefore also assured of the forgiveness of their sins as soon as they recognize them, repent and ask for forgiveness. For those who believe in Jesus Christ also know that they are sinful, otherwise they would not acknowledge His work of redemption. Consequently, they stand under the cross of Christ, they feel complicit in the suffering and death which Jesus took upon Himself, and they humbly bow before Him to ask for forgiveness of their guilt. But these people are constantly striving for their soul’s maturity, and thus they will also take refuge under Christ’s cross again and again if they are exposed to temptations in the battle of life or even succumb to them from time to time. For they know that they are weak and that therefore the danger of sinning is immense if they don’t constantly pray for strength and call upon Jesus Christ to strengthen their will. They know that they can come to Him at any time; they also know that God is long-suffering and merciful, that He knows about His children’s weaknesses and that He is always willing to forgive them if they have sinned and repentantly approach the cross of Christ. For the work of redemption was accomplished for all people and for all times …. His graces will always be effective on those who believe in Jesus Christ, and all guilt will be cast upon Him who took it upon Himself and atoned for it through the death of the cross. The work of mercy is so great that people are not able to grasp it …. Yet only those who unite with Him through faith can ever participate in it. And this is why the hardship on earth is overwhelming, indeed often unbearable, because humanity has lost this faith, because it does not flee to Him with its guilt of sin but is burdened itself and now also has to bear the burden. Their guilt cannot be paid off, it constantly grows and lies all the heavier on people who lack all faith in Jesus Christ. And it will become so great that the guilt will crush people, that they will collapse under it and no longer be able to rise, for they do not seek forgiveness of their guilt, and God’s justice cannot redeem them if they do not desire His grace and accept to be redeemed from their guilt. A human being sacrificed Himself in supreme love and through His death offered an atonement to God which is sufficient for eternities that sinners find forgiveness before God for the sake of this sacrifice …. for He was the purest being, He was without any guilt, and therefore His sacrifice outweighed the sins of the whole of humanity. Yet His sacrifice of atonement has to be acknowledged by people, they have to be willing to accept the grace thereby gained or they will eternally be unable to be released from their guilt. Sin drags people down, Christ’s death raises them up again …. Sin is the death of the soul, but under the cross of Christ it comes to life again …. Every person is sinful as long as he still walks on earth; but in faith in Jesus Christ and His work of redemption he finds forgiveness, he finds eternal life, which would be lost to him through sin. The forgiveness of the guilt of sin is therefore of utmost importance, it can only take place through Jesus Christ, it cannot be replaced by anything else, and therefore every person who lacks faith in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation will have to languish in sin. For even if he lives a life of strict self-restraint and purity on earth, the sin of his former rebellion against God, which was the reason for his life on earth in the first place, will still remain with him …. For this sin caused him to have a weakened will which is unable to offer resistance against the earthly temptations and temptations which make him sinful. For Jesus Christ offered His sacrifice in recognition of the profound hardship, in recognition of the weakness of will in which humanity finds itself due to its former sin …. And in order to redeem them from this He gave His life on the cross …. for He was full of love, and love seeks to bring help, love will always be redemptively active ….

Amen

Spiritual arrogance prevents people from recognizing the truth, for the truth is given by God to those who think themselves small and lowly, who stand in deepest humility and can therefore be appreciated by His grace. However, as soon as a person believes himself to be knowledgeable without having received the instruction from God Himself, he exalts himself, for the knowledge of man is small …. Even if he receives the pure truth in school he will only recognize it as truth if God Himself can work in him through His spirit. But God’s spirit only works in the humble person who asks for the truth because he feels poor in it …. But anyone who believes himself to be knowledgeable does not ask for it, and anyone who believes himself to possess the truth does not strive for it. And this spiritual arrogance is a great obstacle for him, for he will not be able to recognize the truth if it is offered to him. But people who believe themselves to be called as proclaimers of the divine word are mostly spiritually arrogant. For they have acquired knowledge in a scholastic way by using their intellect, and they now believe that they are able to instruct their fellow human beings according to this knowledge. They feel spiritually superior to them and have often not yet established the bond with God which guarantees them right knowledge, i.e. truthful knowledge. Consequently, they are not taught by God and therefore not called by Him to the mission they have set for themselves. But if a true servant of God gets in their way, a person who is taught by God and called by Him to work for Him, then he denies him any authorization, which he, however, claims for himself. He does not want to give away the intellectual wealth he has acquired through study, but this intellectual wealth makes him spiritually arrogant, he himself claims an office which must be offered to him by God if he is to be entitled to administer this office. He lacks the inner humility which he receives from spiritual activity, for only through the latter does the knowledge he has received in school become comprehensible to him, it only becomes true knowledge as soon as he recognizes it as truth. The humble person who feels poor in spirit need not fear that he will walk in error, for the spirit teaches him because it can become effective in him. For God gives His grace to the humble …. He favours him with rich knowledge, He makes him able to recognize the truth, He makes him His servant, His representative on earth …. thus He appoints him to work for Him. But the knowledge of the spiritually arrogant person will never fully satisfy his fellow human being …. it is offered just as it was offered to him …. scholastically and intellectually thought through but not received from the heart through the working of the spirit in the human being. And therefore it cannot come alive either, it cannot awaken to life, but it is received as a word which only sets the intellect but not the heart into activity …. The spiritually arrogant person does not speak to the human being’s heart, and therefore he will not have the success that a right servant of God has …. a person who is deeply humble and asks God for His grace ….

Amen

You should never tire of working for My kingdom, for time is pressing and much work shall still be done before the end comes. And you shall be active supports for Me on earth, you shall prepare the ground for Me and not leave any opportunity unused where you can supply the field with good seed. Thus you should speak wherever you find an open ear …. For My sheep are also in great distress because they are no longer able to recognize Me in the hustle and bustle of the world, in the chaos, misery and affliction. And I will make Myself known to them, I will bring Myself close to them, and you shall be the mediators. You must not be afraid to speak of My working so that they will also receive information about how I consider My own if they join Me and enter into contact with Me. They shall be strengthened in their faith, they shall lose all doubt about My love and justice, they shall always and everywhere recognize My hand in every event, and they shall know that nothing can happen without My will, that therefore even evil is permitted by Me because I associate it with a purpose which is beneficial for the soul if the wrong human will accomplishes something which contradicts My commandments. You shall enlighten people about their purpose of earthly life, about their task on earth, about their wrong way of life and its consequences. You shall reproach them with what I have to say to them, for I make use of you because they would not be able to bear it if I spoke to them Myself. You shall admonish and warn those who act against My will, and you shall strengthen and comfort those who want to belong to Me and threaten to become weak in the adversity of the time. I reveal Myself to you in order to restore people’s faith that I dwell amongst them, in order to remind them of My promises which will truly come true because My word has to come true …. Yet even My own become weak and fickle and seek Me in the distance, Who is close to them. And therefore I bring you together with them so that they hear My voice through you, so that I can also speak to them and they hear Me, so that they recognize in Me their father Who loves His children, so that they see the good shepherd in Me Who does not leave His sheep without care …. And so you shall influence all according to their will, their state of maturity and their love …. You shall always and everywhere proclaim My word which you receive from Me, which demonstrates My love for you and testifies to My omnipotence and wisdom. You shall speak in My stead, for they need My word which I now want to convey to them through you. And if you give in to your heart’s urging, if you speak where you feel compelled, if you don’t shy away from openly informing them of My working, you will be successful, for My blessing rests on you and your work …. You will not preach to deaf ears but people will listen to you and take the words to heart …. and help will be brought to the souls in their spiritual hardship ….

Amen

Every human being should contribute his share to salvation, and he can also do so if only he gives an example of a life of love. For by doing so he also encourages his fellow human beings to live a life of love as soon as love is shown to him at all times. Only love is redeeming, and only then can humanity be released from its spiritual and earthly distress if it decides to live a life of love. This will loosen the soul’s cover, and at the same time the suffering on earth, which is often a means to stimulate the human being into a life of love, can also be alleviated. But people do not heed admonitions and warnings, they continue to remain unkind, their thoughts and actions are far removed from love, and thus they create an unbearable fate for themselves on earth, they are themselves the cause of suffering and misery directly through their unkindness and indirectly that they need a sharp antidote in order to change. But if the individual human being endeavours to live a life of love he will banish suffering for himself and his surroundings, for God will reduce it because He will come ever closer to him to the same extent as the human being practices love, because He will now keep suffering away from him or help him to bear it if it is necessary for the sake of his fellow human beings’ souls. And every work of love attracts God, with every work of love the human being creates a weapon against suffering, he can now easily overcome it and thus increasingly recognizes the power of love. But above all, a life of love loosens the cover which still surrounds the soul …. And this is incipient redemption …. it makes itself able to receive God’s radiation, His spirit, it gives life to the spirit within itself, the cover is broken which prevented a rapprochement between spirit and soul …. If a person lives a life of love for his fellow human beings, then the spiritual spark in him can connect with God’s emanation, and where this can work, the spiritual spark in the soul of his fellow human being will also try to break through his cover by urging the person to do good works and trying to make himself heard …. Thus a good example will always inspire imitation, for this is the strength of love, the strength of the spirit which is awakened through love and which is constantly active and also seeks to make contact with the spiritual spark in the fellow human being. For the spiritual spark in the human being is part of God, and everything divine strives towards each other; but where the divine breaks through in the human being, there is also redemption …. The earth-bound soul becomes free, it casts off all shackles and comes closer to its original state again, the state of complete freedom …. And only love can bring this about …. Therefore, every human being should only practice love, to bless himself and his neighbour …. He should set a good example and know that he will not only break the soul’s bonds but also reduce earthly suffering, but that increasing unkindness also means an increase in earthly suffering and that humanity will fall into an increasingly dark spiritual state from which nothing but love can redeem it ….

Amen

The spiritual food must be taken in by a hungry heart or it will remain ineffective. God offers nourishment to the soul, but just as the body craves earthly food, the soul must also crave heavenly food, and the degree of craving also determines the degree of effect. A hungry soul is the right receptacle for spiritual food, it will process the food from the heavens and also feel what strength and power flows towards it with the heavenly food. It will not need to starve if it only asks for it; it will also not need to restrict itself because the soul will never be surfeited with spiritual food if it fully opens itself to take spiritual food and drink. But then the body no longer seeks earthly pleasures, its desire for them diminishes the more the soul strengthens itself at the source of eternal life. For now earthly life no longer means so much to the human being that he constantly wants to provide the body with earthly pleasures. His thoughts and aspirations are the spiritual realm, spiritual nourishment and strengthening of the soul. And such a desiring person will be well provided for spiritually and also physically, for he will want for nothing because he puts the salvation of his soul before the well-being of the body and does not allow himself to be satisfied with earthly nourishment, which the body certainly needs but which contributes very little to the maturing of the soul. But if the human being desires spiritual nourishment, the physical nourishment will not be without influence on the soul’s development, for then it will draw spiritual substances from everything the body consumes, which will join it and increase its spiritual strength …. Spiritual food is offered to people by God Himself directly or through His heavenly servants who are in full possession of spiritual strength and continuously distribute food and drink to those who are in need and joyfully receive their gift. Anyone who hungers and thirsts will not reject the bread of heaven either, he desires it with all his senses, for he believes that he will pine away if he is not fed, and therefore he will not indifferently receive the delicious gift which is offered to him from above …. He will ask and give thanks for every gift and never ever pass by the lord’s table, for he is offered a supper which seems more delicious to him than all the goods and pleasures of the world. And he is always invited to partake, the bread of heaven is always offered to him through divine love if he has a desire for it. And anyone who has once tasted the heavenly food will not want to miss it again, for it is exceedingly delicious and places the soul into a state of maturity, for it makes it capable of working for the spiritual kingdom …. Heavenly food gives strength and endurance, courage and determination …. The human being will become strong in faith, diligent in loving activity, fearless in confessing his faith before the world and therefore active for the kingdom of God …. For all weakness will fall away from him if he accepts spiritual food which God Himself prepares for him and offers him in His love …. the bread of heaven which touches the human soul extremely effectively …. His word, which is supplied as spiritual nourishment to those who desire it and accept it with a longing heart from His hand, which is always willing to give ….

Amen

Great is the number of those who oppose Me, who have no spiritual connection, i.e. who only move their thoughts in earthly orbits and therefore don’t listen to the messengers of heaven so that their thoughts could be directed towards the eternal aim, and these offer a welcome field of attack for My adversary …. For they give ear to the whisperings of his powers. And thus he wins them over for his camp and appoints them to fight against Me. I will still take care of them until they proclaim profound enmity to Me. Where I still know a weak soul I give it the opportunity to come to knowledge, and I don’t cease to woo these souls, I bring My word close to it, I let My messengers step into its path, and I use every opportunity as soon as it is not completely averse to Me to change its thinking. But such souls are in the majority and they will dwell and rage under the influence of My adversary to the horror of My children. And the number increases daily, for the undecided also still fall away, who are not yet in the depth of faith and who live lukewarm and sluggishly, even though they are still devoted to Me according to the word, yet in their heart they are still far from Me and therefore cannot resist the temptations either. The world will tempt them more than their happiness, and thus they surrender Me when they are confronted with the decision. And it is only a small group who remain faithful to Me until the end. For their sake I will shorten the time, for even if the tribulation becomes increasingly stronger it will not move any of My adversaries to give up their enmity against Me and come into My camp. And therefore the time shall be shortened for My Own sake so that they will not become weak and fall prey to the enemy of the souls, so that their suffering will not last longer than is necessary for the completion of the last event on this earth. And I will stand by them in the great adversity and strengthen them through My presence, I will dwell amongst them visibly and invisibly, and they will feel My nearness and remain strong until I come and deliver them from their adversity. And then it will be the end for every creature, for only My own will be preserved, while everything else will perish, i.e. be banished anew in the creations of the new earth for the purpose of their spiritual ascent, so that even that which has apostatized to Me will find its way to Me, albeit after an infinitely long time ….

Amen

Nothing should stop you from striving for perfection, and therefore you should not want to achieve earthly aims but only think of your souls and your earthly task, which alone is important since it shall earn you life in eternity. Therefore, if the world approaches you with its demands, then ask God for the strength to enable you to fulfil what is earthly demanded of you, yet know that God likewise makes demands of you and that their fulfilment is far more important, because earthly life was only given to you for the purpose that you strive upwards, that you become perfect and that you must not neglect this task if earthly life is to bring you success for your soul. The human being should never shirk his duties which earthly life imposes on him, for he should use his vitality in helpful neighbourly love; he should be constantly active, for only constant activity contributes towards the redemption of that which is still bound and wants to serve. But if he puts the work for his soul before all earthly work he will not do wrong, on the contrary, he will contribute to the redemption of the bound to a greater extent, and spiritual activity outweighs earthly activity many times over. Anyone who always strives to walk the right path on earth, who only wants to think and act in accordance with God’s will, will always place his strength at the service of his neighbour, and what appears to be most important to him he will do first …. If spiritual work seems to him to be unpostponable because he recognizes the hardship on earth, he should give in to his heart’s urge and be spiritually active. For the will to work for the kingdom of God also gives him an intensified feeling for what is necessary, and the soul’s work should always be placed before all other work, after all, it is the actual purpose of earthly life. But as long as the human being walks along without realization, earthly fulfilment of duty is advisable and in accordance with divine order. But once the meaning and purpose of earthly life has become clear to him, earthly life recedes and spiritual life has priority, because this is imperishable and understandably work for eternity is more important than activity that only brings earthly success. The more mature the human being is, the easier it is for him to separate himself from earth and its goods, the less he demands worldly pleasures, and thus he must also then put worldly demands on hold, i.e. only comply with them as far as is absolutely necessary. Nevertheless, he should practice the activity of love, he should bring love to its highest development and thus let every earthly activity become an activity of love at the same time, so that he now fulfils both …. that he fulfils his duty on earth and yet strives for perfection. And he should use his strength as a labourer for the kingdom of God …. he should set himself an aim by trying to lead erring souls to God, he should help them to realize and thus be spiritually active …. then he will have double success …. he will help himself and his fellow human beings to maturity of soul and use his vitality for redemptive activity ….

Amen

Only someone who directly receives strength, be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom, can give strength, for the giving of strength is only a consequence of receiving, but this in turn is the effect of a life of love. A work of love can therefore also donate strength because God Himself expresses Himself in loving activity, thus a transfer of strength also takes place. This is to be understood in such a way that only good deeds have a beneficial effect, even if this is not immediately recognized, but that a person who is intrinsically unloving and whose actions are not based on love can never ever be a blessing. He can indeed seemingly have great strength at his disposal but this is only increased vitality which flows to him from God’s adversary because he is in bondage to him, but it is not divine strength which enlivens, spiritually promotes and leads upwards. Only God supplies this strength to people, and this strength can therefore only be gained through loving activity, through a direct connection with God. Likewise, spiritual strength can only be transmitted by people who are capable and willing to love, because only such people are recipients of strength. And it follows that the strength of the divine word only becomes effective when it is offered to people in love, otherwise it remains a dead word. It is different, however, when a loving person desires the word of God from the bottom of his heart and turns to God for the supply of truth and strength from God. Then the transmitter of the word can be a silent instrument of God, then God Himself conveys His word through it to the desiring person and it will be received by him as a source of strength. For then it is God Himself Who distributes His gift, as He can also convey it to the human being through the scriptures which, however, only come alive when a loving, truth-desiring person asks God for it. The receiver and the giver must be in love if the power of the word is to become effective ….

A gift which is offered without love is only a form which is not enlivened by the spirit, it is something dead which understandably cannot awaken to life and also does not generate counter-love. Because the human being cannot receive strength through his lack of love he is also incapable of giving it away, and thus the state of powerlessness is everywhere where love is not cultivated. But lack of strength is also darkness …. Light is missing where there is no transmission of strength through love activity. And light is knowledge …. Therefore the state of lovelessness must at the same time be a state of ignorance, a lack of knowledge which corresponds to truth. And therefore unkindness has also expelled the truth, and it, in turn, can only be regained through loving activity …. But truth is the pure word of God which is conveyed to the person who is active in love, and he will also be permeated by strength and be able to distribute light and strength again. And if love for his neighbour impels the person to spread the word of God, he will also be able to present it vividly, and then it will also awaken his fellow human being to life, for this is the strength of the divine word, that it will not leave an impression if it offers love. And that is why God’s servant himself must stand in love if he wants to be successful in the vineyard of the lord. He must recognize the spiritual hardship on earth and want to help people, then he will receive the strength to shape His words such that they are understandable and acceptable to people. Then the inherent strength of the divine word will flow into the listener, it will increase his willingness to receive, his understanding and again his activity of love …. he follows the divine word and makes considerable spiritual progress …. And this is achieved by love alone …. But without love every work is unsuccessful for its spiritual ascent development. And that is why so much work on earth is in vain. For even those who feel called do not recognize the necessity of loving activity and the powerlessness of the word which is offered without love. And this is why God Himself calls His servants on earth to whom He repeatedly demonstrates the strength of love, which results in inconceivable blessings and therefore may never be switched off if the human being tries to achieve spiritual success, for only love redeems, and only love leads to God ….

Amen

My own will have to unite closely if they don’t want to become weak and discouraged in the last days. They must lift each other up and encourage each other, they must unitedly appeal for My help and faithfully expect it, they must make use of every opportunity to listen to My word, to practice love and to hold an inner dialogue with Me, so that they will always be able to go about their daily work strengthened and meet the demands of the world, insofar as they cannot be circumvented. For the time will be hard for everyone, and anyone who does not draw strength from Me, who does not let the strength of My word take effect on him, will find it unbearable and push him to the ground. But I always have the giver of strength ready for My own …. My word, which is offered to you from the heavens …. Whoever has this will also be able to endure this time, he will not pay attention to the tribulation and will not feel the hardship so tangibly, he will always be led out again, for I Myself will spread My hands over him so that no harm will come to him …. I Myself will lead him by the hand so that his foot will not stumble, and I Myself will lift him up and comfort him with My word if he is despondent and his heart wants to tremble. And therefore My word will be the only source of strength, and you must come together for My word, you must let Me speak to you at all times, in adversity and tribulation, in anguish and distress, you must listen to My voice and do what I ask of you …. Always and constantly give love, for hardship can only be alleviated through loving actions. For then you will draw Me to yourselves and with Me you will overcome everything …. And if you also oppose your enemies with love you will also be able to achieve spiritual success, for where you give love you win the hearts and thus weaken the adversary’s power. And you will have many opportunities to do so because adversity puts all people in a position to ask for help. Then you will have to prove yourselves, you will have to set a good example for each other and practice love practically, and I will give you the opportunity to be helpfully active so that you spur on your fellow human beings and educate them to love. And every circle shall know that it is protected by Me, which unites in spiritual striving, which is willing to serve Me and eagerly accepts My word …. I will always be in the midst of people who have Me as their aim, I will obviously come to their aid in adversity, I will lead the individuals to each other so that they can serve Me together, I will grant them all protection so that they will never need to fear, for the adversity will never be greater than He Who lets it come upon humanity …. Anyone who acknowledges Me as lord and creator of heaven and earth need only lift his thoughts to Me with faith and trust and I will not disappoint him …. His faith is also a guarantee for My help, his faith calls for My presence and his faith reveals My fatherly love …. he will not call upon Me in vain, he will find an answer in every adversity …. And therefore approach the coming time undaunted, let Me rule and don’t be afraid, for My love and omnipotence will end the time and lead you, My faithful, through to eternal bliss, and you will thank Me and praise Me that you were allowed to live through this time of grace, for it will bring increased blessings to those who remain faithful to Me …. a paradise on earth and a blissful life one day in eternity ….

Amen

The fullness of divine grace will flow to people in the last days if they are in particular need of it. There is nothing insurmountable for the human being if he avails himself of divine grace, and this grace will not be withheld from anyone who requests it in prayer, who calls upon God for help. And it will only depend on whether the human being opens himself to the influx of divine grace, whether he sends a requesting thought to God or completely rejects Him …. and thereby closes himself off to every gift of grace. If he only enters into contact with God through his will turned towards Him, he will also be able to dispose of grace because he will then be entitled to it without measure. But if he stands apart from God, then God’s grace cannot be given to him either, because this requires the will of the human being, the acknowledgement of God through prayer. Even a thought turned towards God is enough for Him to lovingly draw close to the human being and bestow His gift of grace upon him …. but this can never be offered to a person who is hostile towards God, because then God’s grace would be a means of coercion for that person’s transformation. Although grace is always an undeserved means of help, a gift which is given to the human being through God’s love, this gift nevertheless requires the human being’s will to accept a gift, and God demands this will in order not to make him unfree. In the last days people will be able to avail themselves of an abundance of grace, for the greater the hardship the more lovingly God will consider those who approach Him in supplication, and He will also grant grace to those who are still hardened in spirit. But they can only become effective if the human being himself is willing to accept them. And therefore only the small circle of those who are faithful to God and carry Him in their hearts will recognize the fullness of grace. These will receive an exceedingly rich reward because they ask and wait for their request to be fulfilled …. because they bring all hardship before Him and ask for strength for their earthly path of life. Their pleas will not go unheard …. They will be helped in every adversity, in all situations and at the right time …. And this is grace, that God obviously helps His own, that He strengthens and comforts them, that He always lets them find a way out of earthly adversity, that He takes care of their physical and spiritual needs and that He sends them His word …. He will obviously work and speak to people through His instruments so that they will become powerful and courageous and withstand all temptations. He will bring people together that they may stand by one another and strengthen one another …. And all this is grace, they are aids which are to bring them spiritual maturity and make the difficult time before the end bearable. Yet anyone who does not desire them has no share in the bestowal of grace either, for the flow of divine love only takes hold of those who turn to Him, but the others are outside the circuit of God’s love, and this through their own fault. For God does not reject anyone who approaches Him, He does not withdraw from anyone who acknowledges Him, He constantly distributes His gift of grace to anyone who wants to receive it. But he who rejects it will go away empty-handed and will have to pay bitterly for this at the end of his day. On the day of judgment he will fall prey to destruction, from which divine grace can save him if he accepts and uses it in the knowledge that it alone can save him from eternal ruin ….

Amen

The spiritual had a long way to go before it was admitted to the last test of life, to embodiment as a human being. It had to go through many deformations, it had to submit to divine will, it was deprived of its freedom, and thus forced, so to speak, it covers this earthly path, but with the final aim that it becomes finally free again. The embodiment as a human being is to be the last test in which the being has to prove itself in order to attain final freedom. That which it did in the state of compulsion …. serve …. it should now do of its own free will, uninfluenced, only pointed out …. it should be active in service of its own accord, stimulated by love. If the being is now willing to walk this serving path in love, it can overcome its last form in a short time, and it can enter the spheres of light where it can again work freely and unhindered in bliss. This is the aim and purpose of the change through creation …. Since the aim requires the being’s free will, the being can understandably also fail if it does not use its free will properly …. it cannot reach the aim but take a wrong path which leads far away from the aim. Then one walk through creation is not enough but it has to cover this path again in order to reach the aim, sometimes even several times, until it has finally regained its freedom. And every walk through creation requires new possibilities to mature, again and again other conditions are set under which the being covers the course of development to the height. And this is the eternal plan of salvation, which only becomes comprehensible to people when they know about the primordial beginning and final aim of the spiritual through the awakening of their spirit. Only then will they be able to grasp God’s infinite love and mercy, His greatness and omnipotence and His exceeding wisdom. But they will only recognize God in the kingdom of light when all veils will fall from their eyes and they will look back on the course they have travelled on earth …. when they know about the eternal creator’s infinite loving care for His living creations, about their tenacity in the unredeemed state and the glories of the spiritual kingdom …. Everything that is only has the purpose of returning the spiritual to Him, which was once lost to Him through the will of the adversary, but to whom He likewise gave full freedom …. The mature spiritual substance knows about its shortcomings and its distance from God beforehand and is eternally grateful and devoted to God that He did not leave it in this state but tried to achieve its reclamation by all means; it knows about its own opposition and about God’s overwhelming love, and it now almost perishes in love for Him Who saved it from the spiritual abyss. And even if the earthly path lasted infinite times, even if it brought the being immeasurable agonies, the being itself thanks its creator that He allowed it to take this path, that He gave it the opportunity to reach the final aim and to attain the vision of God. For this bliss outweighs everything the being has suffered in its opposition …. And therefore every new creation is a proof of God’s love Who wants to guide the spiritual being, which does not yet recognize Him, into knowledge in order to make it blissfully happy for all eternity ….

Amen

Humanity is unmistakably heading towards spiritual decline, for it is only pursuing an earthly aim …. the improvement of physical life, earthly circumstances and the increase of earthly possessions. But all this is contrary to the actual purpose, for the human being’s purpose is to overcome earthly desires and only strive towards spiritual aims, thus to develop spiritually upwards. But if the spiritual decline is obviously recognizable, the last means must still be used to stop it or to hold individual people back from it. And therefore the earth experiences an excessive amount of suffering from which people should derive their benefit …. to refrain from earthly desires and cravings and instead strive spiritually. As soon as suffering fulfils this purpose it has not been imposed on people in vain, and the blessing of suffering cannot be denied. For only now does the human being pursue his aim, and only now does the soul mature, i.e., it seeks union with God and shapes itself according to His will …. Yet only a small part of humanity will consciously strive for this union with God and develop upwards despite spiritual decline. The majority of people, however, are not open-minded, and they also reject every instruction as to how they can reach the aim and what aim is set for the individual. But God still gives him the opportunity to change until the last end, and He often enough shows him the transience of earthly possessions, so that the thinking person now lets his thoughts wander into the spiritual kingdom and can also receive an answer from it. And many people will stand apart from their possessions and learn to value earthly goods less, and every detachment from them chains them more to the spiritual kingdom, which now begins to offer them a substitute as soon as they are given meagrely by fate and their earthly wealth falls prey to destruction. Then a new phase of earthly life also begins for the human being …. he has reached the crossroads and has decided on the right direction, he strives towards truth and with it towards the eternal deity, Which now confronts him everywhere, even if previously still unrecognized. Then his soul will be saved from spiritual downfall, for every striving towards God will be successful and protect the human being from spiritual decay, and the end will not take him unawares ….

(26.11.1944) For the end is imminent …. And therefore it is far more important to make provisions for his soul than to want to shape earthly life in his favour. Earthly life should only be used for spiritual striving, for working on one’s soul, spiritual relationships should be cultivated, spiritual conversations should be held and the hardship of erring souls should be remembered, everyone should try to change himself into love and thus live as if every day were the last. The connection with the spiritual world should be maintained, i.e. thoughts should always be directed into the spiritual kingdom in a searching and questioning way, from where the answer will also be mentally conveyed to him …. All precautions should be taken for a speedy passing away, however, only with regard to the spiritual afterlife, but not for the world, for it will not exist much longer and any concern for the body’s well-being or for earthly possessions is useless …. For it is coming to an end …. Whether the end is to be expected quickly or less quickly is irrelevant, for every day is important and therefore should not be taken lightly, no-one should put off until tomorrow what he can already do today, for he does not know whether he will still experience the end which is imminent. And therefore God admonishes and warns you long beforehand so that the end does not take you by surprise, so that you are not completely unprepared for it and have to fear it. For God wants to save you, He wants to protect you from another earthly life, He wants to help you so that you will not belong to those who will be condemned in the end, who will become completely unkind and therefore belong to satan. For this reason He sends His messengers to you beforehand and informs you of what awaits you; He does not leave you unwarned, He speaks to you through His messengers again and again and admonishes you to remember your soul, He shows you how transient earthly possessions are and thereby helps you to detach yourselves from matter. He brings His word close to you and thereby enlightens you about sin and its consequences, about the consequences of wrong will and a life without love …. But He also informs you of the blessing of a rightly used will, of your final aim and the joys of eternal life …. He wants to draw you over into the spiritual kingdom where there is light and bliss and therefore imparts the knowledge to you through His word. But it is up to you whether you evaluate His loving care for you and change yourselves into love …. Yet the end will come irrevocably, and blessed is he who prepares himself, who leaves the world and only strives to attain the spiritual kingdom …. For he will not need to fear the end because he will continue his life in eternity in light and bliss ….

Amen

The more devotedly you submit yourselves to God’s will the clearer you will also recognize His will, for He places the knowledge of it into your heart. Whatever you want, whatever you feel impelled to do, is also His will, and therefore your life will now also be peaceful because you no longer doubt or hesitate to do something but confidently tackle everything, for God’s will is active in you and this will always express itself in serenity and certainty. Devotion to God is therefore a prerequisite for a peaceful way of life, for an earthly life which is lived in mental balance, in contentment and happy tranquillity, for then God will direct this life, He will guide the human being and He will reward devotion to Him with His caring love which will always surround the earthly child. Anyone who has sacrificed his will to God also accepts everything as God’s mission, he does not rebel because he is firmly convinced that it is good the way God determines it, because he is of the same will and no longer resists divine will. And this concordance of his will with divine will is already strength-giving on earth, for the human being consciously opens himself to His emanation of love, which will always make him happy when the human being gives himself to God in prayer. Then God Himself can work in the human being, His will can drive the human being’s will to spiritual work. And everything the human being does is God’s working in the human being, Who can therefore become effective in him because the human will no longer opposes Him. And then the human being is relieved of all responsibility, he has to be good, he has to develop himself upwards, he has to be able to record spiritual successes, also towards his fellow human beings, because all his wanting, thinking and acting corresponds to God’s will, because he has given his will to Him out of inner impulse and uninfluenced. Then the human being on earth has already reached his aim …. he has submitted himself to God and completely relinquished his former resistance, he does not take a step alone but always with God, Who now ushers him into His eternal kingdom ….

Amen