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Natural disaster …. Good and bad people will fall prey ….

B.D. 3348 from November 27th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

In their hour of greatest need many people will call upon God, yet not every call will come from the heart because the danger they are in will disable their ability to think, and thus they will merely address God with their lips and their prayer will fade away unheard. Only those who will be able to send their thoughts to Him, if only for a few moments, will be supported by God, either by rescuing them from bodily adversity or by still offering blessings to their soul before the end. Death should not always be considered the greatest evil, for if a person facing death has found his way to God as a result, it will have been an effective means for his salvation, which is more valuable than the preservation of physical life in spiritual darkness. And this is why countless people will soon lose their lives, partly as a warning to their fellow human beings and partly for the sake of their own spiritual hardship. But righteous people, too, whose life has come to an end according to God’s will, will also be recalled from this earth. For where God Himself is recognisable, where the forces of nature, which are subject to God, are in turmoil, that is where His will determines who shall fall prey to this event …. Mature and immature people will have to leave this earth, yet if a soul has recognised God before its death its spiritual progress in the beyond will be guaranteed and the finished earthly life will only be a blessing. And the earthly adversity will be severe and still offer everyone the option of finding God …. for the natural event will announce itself in advance …. Unusual signs will indicate an unusual event so that every human being can still change his mind ahead of time, and through fellow human beings he will also be informed of the highest Authority, the Controller of heaven and earth, so that he will still have time and opportunity to join Him through heartfelt prayer ….

Yet then humanity’s distance from God will be revealed for only a few will accept Him, only a few will turn to Him for protection and help in their fear and affliction. Most of them reject Him consciously and unconsciously; they watch the spectacle of nature only in hope of a speedy end and therefore the hour of adversity will hit them even more severely because they feel totally abandoned since they have no faith at all. However, even many of those who are distant from God will remain alive, to whom God will still offer the opportunity of gaining realisation afterwards …. Good and bad people will lose their lives, and good and bad people will stay alive, for this natural disaster is not a separation of the spirits as yet but only a last admonition prior to the final Judgment, from which all people shall derive psychological benefits. Even so, it is up to them how they will evaluate the last admonition …. they can gain realisation before or after the disastrous night but they can also keep their former frame of mind, and thus the big event will not have made any impression on their souls. And so, after that God-opposing people will actively aim to destroy all faith in God, and they will refer to this natural disaster as the strongest evidence of His non-existence, they will emerge as the greatest deniers of God from an event which was intended to lead them back to faith, and thus the battle will visibly erupt between those who became strong and faithful as a result of this event and those who survived it despite their unbelief; and thus everything will approach its end after the short time of grace granted to humanity before the last Judgment ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 43 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

No knowledge, i.e. spiritual truth, without the will of man ….

B.D. 3349 from November 28th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The fact that spiritual knowledge is not imparted to the human being against his will is only advantageous for him, for then he would not use it properly and his guilt would only increase because he would then leave a gift of grace unused. He would also get into a state which would be equal to the compulsion of faith …. for knowledge would then force him to believe as soon as it is extraordinarily imparted to him, and a forced faith is worthless before God. Thus it inevitably first requires the human being’s own will that God introduces him to truth, to spiritual knowledge, which is intended to promote his higher development. Therefore the knowledge will only become effective in him when his will demands it. He can certainly also acquire it beforehand through external transmission, through instruction by fellow human beings or through intellectual absorption from books and writings. But the will also has to be involved, the desire for truth has to dominate the human being, otherwise that good remains incomprehensible to him, thus it means no light for him. For if God were to impart light to the human being without his desire, then the striving towards God would be prevented but the human being would suddenly be placed into a state of knowledge, because divine wisdom …. the knowledge which corresponds to truth …. always means light for the human being. He would grasp everything, recognize the connection of all things and all events, and he would now also increase his degree of maturity …. thus he would inevitably become a mature being, but this would exclude his becoming perfect, for perfection requires complete free will. As soon as the human being is knowledgeable he is also permeated by light, thus flooded by divine strength; divine strength, however, can only be supplied to the beingness which consciously desires it and opens itself to the reception of strength. But the latter requires the will of man. If the will is not active, then also every supply of strength comes to a standstill, because God’s radiation requires complete lack of resistance in order to become effective. But the human being is only then without resistance when he has placed his will completely under God’s will, and that is a conscious activity of his will. Only then is an upward development possible, and only then will knowledge be felt by man as knowledge, as light and power from God. Thus knowledge cannot be imparted in a school-like manner, for even knowledge transmitted from person to person presupposes the human being’s activity of will if knowledge is to come alive in him.

And therefore it is impossible to place the whole of humanity into a higher level of realization and thereby remedy the spiritual low, for this would happen against people’s will and therefore would not result in their perfection either. And therefore truth, even if it is offered everywhere, will only assert itself sporadically, and that is where the will sets in and the desire to possess it. Knowledge against the human being’s will only contributes to making him arrogant and domineering, for then it only touches the intellect but not the human being’s heart, yet only where the heart and intellect are willing to let the knowledge take effect on them will the human being’s transformation, his change into a being according to God’s will, also begin. As long as the intellect alone processes the knowledge, this is only a body of thought that is inanimate from the spirit of God. It sets the activity of the intellect in motion and can also only be passed on again to the intellect of the fellow human being. The human being’s will is only involved insofar as he strives for knowledge for the sake of earthly advantage …. He wants to be considered knowledgeable, to gain earthly goods and honour and fame with it and to outdo fellow human beings with his knowledge. And then knowledge, even if it is offered to him from a source which guarantees pure truth, can never contribute to the human being’s ennoblement, for the heart remains uninvolved and the spirit in the human being does not stir, for it is unawakened, it still slumbers in deepest encasement. Then the knowledge, despite its content, cannot be addressed as spiritual knowledge because it was not imparted to him by the spirit within or he did not absorb with his spirit what was offered by the enlightened fellow human being. Mostly, however, the worldly-minded person will reject that spiritual knowledge because earthly success seems too small to him but he still strives for such. The working of the spirit can never be eliminated in the transmission of pure truth, of spiritual knowledge, and therefore the human being’s will has to be active, otherwise the knowledge would be without strength and therefore of no significance for the human being’s spiritual ascent. And therefore humanity walks in ignorance, and it cannot attain knowledge as long as it is not willing to possess and strive for it itself …. For the will is the first thing that causes God’s grace to flow to the human being. But if the will is willing then the source of grace opens and the human being can constantly draw and take in the living water, the eternal truth ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 43 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Primordial beginning – end aim …. redemption process ….

B.D. 3350 from November 29th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The knowledge of the primordial beginning and the final aim of every work of creation is already to be recorded as spiritual progress, for only in a certain degree of maturity can this knowledge be offered to the human being. If this knowledge is imparted to a still immature human being he will reject it, it will not be comprehensible to him, and thus it remains completely without impression …. His state of maturity is not sufficient to let him recognize the truth, and consequently he still remains on a low level of maturity, i.e., he remains without realization of truth. The human being’s degree of maturity is increased through unselfish activity of love, therefore a loving person will not reject this knowledge even if it is completely new to him and contradicts his previous thinking. For pure truth will always appear acceptable to a person who is in love, because it originates from God and the human being himself is in contact with God through his way of life. But God-connectedness enlightens his thinking, and this will come closer to the truth. Only with the knowledge of the primordial beginning and final aim of all created things does the soul’s state begin to become full of light, for now the human being grasps the connection of all things, of all events; he grasps the connection of the creator with His creatures and of the spiritual kingdom with the earth. His knowledge becomes ever more extensive, his love for God constantly increases, for the knower must love God and want to belong to Him because he begins to recognize His great love. Knowledge is always an inner wealth, it moves the heart, it impels the soul to constantly increase this wealth, for once the human being has penetrated knowledge he is no longer satisfied but constantly desires to increase this knowledge. Spiritual knowledge makes the soul happy, it will always uplift the soul and therefore be aspired to by anyone who, through love, has reached a certain degree of maturity which enables him to receive spiritual knowledge ….

And once he has been introduced to this knowledge he can also be active in redemption and thus intervene in the process of redemption which wants to bring everything back to the state which was the original nature of the spiritual being …. highest perfection, freedom and power and love …. The knowledge of the primordial beginning and final aim of the spiritual in every work of creation, which can come to the being’s consciousness again in the last stage as a human being, is already a degree of light, a partial state of freedom and strength. The human being is no longer in a dark spiritual night, nor has he completely fallen prey to God’s adversary, he has already freed himself from his power through the working of love and only wrestles with him in moments of weakened will, for spiritual knowledge is an emanation of light and strength from God which enables him to escape his control …. Although spiritual knowledge appears unacceptable to the still completely immature human being and will therefore mostly meet with rejection, it should nevertheless also be brought to him so that it first stimulates his intellectual activity, so that it moves him to reflect. And depending on his willingness it can encourage him, it can spur him on to attain the degree of spiritual maturity which makes him capable of receiving knowledge which flows out of the spiritual kingdom and promotes spiritual ascent development. Light must be brought into the darkness of night, otherwise the human being could never be led out of the darkness, otherwise he would never find the right path that leads upwards. But only the knowledgeable can bring right light, only they are able to instruct the ignorant, and only where a certain degree of maturity has been reached can right knowledge be represented …. light from the heavens that shines radiantly …. the knowledge that provides comprehensible and comprehensive information about God’s entire plan of salvation, about the meaning and purpose of creation and earthly life, about God’s infinite, never diminishing love, about the binding and redeeming of all spiritual beings that once fell away from Him and about the final aim, eternal life in the spiritual kingdom. This knowledge is infinitely gratifying as soon as it is received in a certain degree of maturity, and although it is not yet fully effective it can nevertheless lead to the fellow human being striving to also reach the aim, a higher degree of maturity of the soul. For as soon as the human being knows what he once was and what he shall become again, he also attaches a different meaning to his earthly life, and he lives consciously, i.e. always with an aim in mind which he eagerly pursues. Then there will no longer be darkest night around him but the rays of light will break through and announce a day, a bright, clear day, which he can use for eager work, on which he can work in strength and freedom and thus participate in the great work of redemption ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 43 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

God's love and mercy …. depth ….

B.D. 3351 from November 30th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

This is the great mercy of God, that He lifts up to Himself the weak and fallen and lets it taste the delights of heaven. He does not leave it in the depths, but He Himself descends into the depths to offer His hand to the fallen and to lead it upwards. And that which does not openly resist Him also covers the path from the depth to the height, it changes, even if in an infinitely long time, into love and enters into intimate union with eternal love. However, it is not of its own strength but God’s strength that works in the spiritual being striving upwards, and the fact that God supplies it with this strength is a grace …. It is proof of His never-ending love which will always and forever turn towards that which has emerged from Him. This love can never turn away from the created being but will always and forever apply to it, and this love demands an alignment of the being with God …. because such an alignment, a union with eternal love, triggers inconceivable beatitude. For this reason God will not condemn anything forever, only eternities can pass before the being has established its alignment with God and therefore has to languish in an agonizing state far away from God …. Eternities can pass where the being lacks all knowledge of God and this means a state of utmost darkness for the spiritual, which originally could dispose of strength in light and freedom which made it blissfully happy. And God wants to return this beatitude in the state of perfection to it again because His love and mercy know no limits. And therefore He first turns His grace towards him …. He gives him strength to live and to strive …. For this is a gift, since the being does nothing of its own accord to earn this supply of strength, instead, the being receives the strength and often does not even use it for the purpose this strength is intended to serve. The being fell through its own fault by turning its will towards God’s adversary, yet it would never ever let its will become active in order to ascend again if God did not want to grant it His grace. God’s love and mercy, however, does not leave the being in its self-inflicted state but He tries to help it ascend. And therefore He distributes grace upon grace which the being can use in the last stage according to its will. But freedom of will is often a danger because it is misused, because the will is used wrongly and this does not mean higher development. Yet again and again God’s love is willing to impart His grace and His strength to the being …. because He does not want to leave in the abyss what does not strive upwards of its own accord …. He grasps what wants to be grasped, He does not force the beingness to follow Him, but again and again His love approaches it in order to motivate it to accept His help itself. For the created by Him was destined for beatitude and therefore remains in the abyss because it does not know about the beatitude of God’s nearness …. because this is the characteristic of the sinking, that it lives in ignorance, that complete night surrounds the being and it cannot find its way out of its state of darkness by itself. And therefore the light itself comes into the depth, although not shining in its fullness, yet awakening a foreboding in the being so that it strives towards the light …. And this is grace which is never withdrawn from the being, the path to the light is always shown to it, only different in measure and effect according to its degree of maturity. But it is always the life energy which flows to the fallen being until it has reached a degree of maturity that it becomes aware of this life energy, that through it it can be active in free will, thus it can now also consciously strive upwards. For God’s love continuously surrounds the beingness and helps it to reach its aim …. God’s mercy seizes the unworthy and gives it new possibilities to become worthy of His love. And even if the beingness threatens to sink again and again because it opposes its own will to God’s love and mercy …. it will be lifted up again and again, again and again God will place it on a level where it can start its ascent to the height itself, for He leaves nothing in the abyss …. His love never ever separates from His creations, and His creations are all beings which came into being with the help of His strength, even if His adversary’s will was active during their creation and placed its God-opposing will into these beings. His love does not cease to lift and raise what has fallen, and His mercy determines Him to use ever new means in order to redeem the beings from darkness and to be able to introduce them into the kingdom of light, from which they have fled of their own free will in ignorance of their nature and their purpose. Yet God will lead them to this destiny again, even if endless times pass by …. for His love and mercy leaves nothing eternally in the abyss, He banishes nothing forever from His proximity which has belonged to Him since eternity ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 43 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Childship to God …. Tremendous suffering on Earth ….

B.D. 3352 from December 1st 1944, taken from Book No. 43

In order to gain childship on earth the human being must shape himself into love and thereby enable himself to already establish union with God on earth, so that he will enter the spheres of light in a completely mature state when he passes away from earth. Hence his soul must have become so purified through kind-hearted activity that God Himself can take abode in it and his spirit unites with the Father-spirit. In that case the human being will have fulfilled his task on earth completely and achieved his goal and, as a being of light, will have found entry into the spiritual realm, where it will subsequently create and work. However, this degree of maturity necessitates a complete renunciation of material possessions …. This fusion with the eternal Deity is impossible as long as a person still clings to matter, since his heart is not entirely cleansed from cravings and therefore not yet prepared for the acceptance of the divine spirit. Then the human being will have to accept much suffering in order to accomplish the soul’s final refinement, and therefore much suffering will be imposed upon extremely benevolent and devout people so that the soul’s refinement can take place. Where people are burdened by particularly harsh suffering and nevertheless profound faith is displayed, the soul might have chosen a particularly difficult life for itself in order to attain the final goal on earth, the childship to God. This goal must be aspired to and reached on earth and will always necessitate the most arduous living conditions, because the soul must enter the kingdom of the beyond completely pure and unadulterated and this calls for a particularly effective process of purification. Suffering is always the means of help in order to attain the spiritual goal …. It shall lead towards God if the soul is still disinclined towards God, or it shall purify and crystallise the soul, so that it can come close to God as the purest being in order to be able to enter into the most blissful union with Him. Suffering and love must always work together towards deifying a person on earth; consequently, a loving human being should not fear suffering but humbly take it upon himself bearing in mind the high goal he can reach on earth, for he has chosen his earthly path himself in realisation that it will help him attain highest maturity if his will does not offer resistance.

Nevertheless, the delights of the childship to God make up for all suffering in earthly life a thousand fold. And the time on earth is short, it is like a moment in the span of eternity …. And as soon as a person is profoundly faithful he also can always receive the strength from God to endure everything that is imposed upon him, for then he will send his heartfelt prayer to God and God Himself will give him strength and make him a conqueror of life on earth …. God Himself will fetch His child if it has passed its test of earthly life and departs from earth as a pure being …. But his life on earth will always be characterised by love and suffering, because without it the soul will not be totally purified for admitting God into the human being’s heart. This heartfelt bond with God must already take place on earth, otherwise the soul will not stand firm against the temptations of the world nor would it achieve total purification through suffering because it would lack the strength to bear the latter without complaining, and all grumbling or resisting still indicates a lack of complete submission to God’s will. However, the soul must become as one with God …. It must have the most intimate bond with Him, it must want the suffering itself and also gratefully accept it as a gift from God in realisation that it pulls down the last barriers between God and itself and that only an overcoming of them will result in the highest bliss …. to become a child of God with all rights and duties …. This is every person’s goal on earth but only a few attain it. Only a few are in such intimate contact with God through love that even in suffering they recognise His greater than great Fatherly love which would provide them with the most blissful fate in eternity …. Their fate on earth is not an enviable one, yet in the kingdom of the beyond they occupy the highest level …. They are in God’s immediate vicinity and therefore indescribably happy, for they can act independently according to their will, which is also always God’s will …. They can create and shape and, time and again, contribute towards the redemption of that which, still being distant from God, requires the most varied creations in order to advance their development. And this is the most blissful fate which fully compensates and makes up for the suffering of earthly life and should therefore be all people’s goal on earth ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 43 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Promoting the kingdom of God ….

B.D. 3353 from December 2nd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Promote My kingdom without interruption and don’t let yourselves be deterred by opposition or apathy. Humanity, in its dark spiritual state, is unable to recognize My gift and in it the one Who speaks to them; moreover, it is constantly influenced by a power which wants to distance them from Me, and their souls are weak and surrender to its influence. And consequently they reject what is offered to them by Me through you …. Yet your will shall not flag, your patience shall always come forth and your love shall have mercy on these souls. You shall help them in their spiritual adversity and again and again bring Me and My word close to them, for it will be a straw to which they will cling in the great adversity which still lies ahead. And depending on their willingness they will find their hold on it. What you sow can take root and yet still grow and bear fruit if the soil is well worked beforehand. And therefore I need you as My labourers on earth, for you should make the cultivation of the field your concern, you should not leave any opportunity unused where you can have an effect, you should take the spiritual hardship into account and allow the adversary’s influence to be an explanation for people’s repeated resistance. Yet your love and patience should not be diminished by this …. they are all My living creations whom I love, and they stray into darkness, they cannot release themselves because their will is still controlled by My adversary and because they are too weak to release themselves from him. Their souls are in great distress and their intellect cannot grasp this; and you shall help them to take a path full of light and therefore constantly advertise My kingdom. You shall proclaim My love to them and present My constant care for their spiritual well-being to them; and you shall preach love to them which brings them close to Me, so that they can also receive My strength …. the strength to detach themselves from the enemy of their souls. As soon as you can stimulate them into loving activity your work will not be unsuccessful and constant progress can be hoped for. And no matter how much they object at first, a seed will still remain in their heart which will sprout and spread in the time to come. And you should always remember this when you encounter resistance and the work for My kingdom seems fruitless to you. I am constantly at your side with My strength, and I Myself guide you to those who need your help, who are to be introduced into My kingdom and whom My love constantly surrounds, so that they will find their way back to Me, so that they will recognize Me and call upon Me in their adversity. And as soon as you can make them believe that their appeal to Me will not go unheard, you will be diligently active for My kingdom, for this faith can finally lead them back to Me in hours of greatest adversity, and then I can work Myself and make Myself known to them and have won them for eternity. For My love never ceases, and this love seeks to win every soul for My kingdom ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 43 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Mental influence by beings of light ….

B.D. 3354 from December 3rd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

As soon as a bearer of light in the beyond, an enlightened being, has managed to be heard by a person it will always stay close to him in order to influence his every thought, thus in order to instruct him constantly. Yet the human being’s will is always decisive as to whether the light being’s endeavours are successful. For although the being is powerful and would be able to take complete possession of the person’s thoughts his freedom of will is not restricted, hence the information is never conveyed to him against his will. Consequently, the light beings’ teaching activity requires extreme patience. Time and time again they have to direct a person’s thoughts to a specific subject which they are ready to explain, and they may not become impatient when these thoughts digress. Their love for people has to be considerable in order to repeatedly muster understanding for their failings and not stop trying to arouse people’s interest in spiritual knowledge. For this reason a person in intimate contact with the beings of light will also have a different mentality; despite the fact that he is not yet being instructed in an obvious manner he will spend much thought on spiritual subjects, and this contemplation will satisfy him since it will result in an agreeable answer. And then the beings of light will be able to move into action, they are always able to enter a person’s train of thoughts, they are able to transfer their thoughts to people …. Yet it depends on the individual’s receptiveness as to whether their effort and patience are successful, for the more willing he is the more attentively he listens within, that is, he takes notice of his thoughts, he will not discard them instantly but think them through, and only then can they become effective, thus move him into action …. to do what he was mentally advised to do.

If the human being has paid attention to these transmissions then the desire will also arise in him to tell his fellow human beings what he has heard, what he has spiritually received, for whatever moves him will also urge him to pass it on. And this in turn prepares his fellow human beings for the light beings’ work on them, for as soon as another person listens to what he is told he also starts to think about it, and the being of light will again be able to intervene and provide food for thought in the form of mental questions and explanations.

All people are entrusted to such beings of light, all people are surrounded by them, and they pay attention to every thought. And as soon as the thoughts turn to spiritual matters, hence to things which are unrelated to earthly life, which do not concern the body but the human soul, the beings of light try to direct the thoughts onto the right track …. by mentally whispering the correct information, the answer to questions raised, so that they, having arisen in themselves, will be considered and, with good will, also be assessed. For the thought only becomes valuable when it is put into practice, when the mental advice is implemented accordingly. Yet the light beings’ efforts are often in vain with many people because they only aspire to purely earthly things and have no interest in spiritual work or spiritual knowledge. In that case the beings of light are grateful for every support by way of a human mouth …. For the beings of light can neither visibly appear nor introduce people to the right knowledge against their will, but it is always the person’s own will which allows or rejects the light beings’ work on him. And the beings of light are subject to laws, because the human being’s free will has to remain unaffected as not to make it impossible for the person to attain perfection.

For this reason the right knowledge can only be made accessible to people once they employ their own will, by willingly accepting the influence of the being which, as a representative of light, makes the knowledge available to them. Only then will the light beings surrounding a person be able to do their work, they will be able to instruct him mentally and provide him with information about every question that moves him. Then he will always be spiritually guided and looked after, and his thoughts will be led onto the right path, for the beings of light have much strength and authority at their disposal providing the human being’s will does not resist their influence ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 43 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Ability to know and love God …. restriction of freedom …. state of ignorance …. free will …. power of life grace of God ….

B.D. 3355a from December 3rd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

God has certainly given people the ability to recognize Him but made this dependent on the individual’s way of life, which he can lead according to his will. Thus the state of knowledge, of light, is also the result of his correctly used will, just as a wrong will results in a state of ignorance, of ignorance. Then the human being will not be able to make use of the ability given to him, he will indeed be able to think but with wrong results; the essence of the eternal deity will remain incomprehensible and unfathomable to him because it is love, omnipotence and wisdom and the human being with a wrong will will neither accept one nor the other because it is simply incomprehensible and therefore unacceptable to him. But if the human being does not recognize the eternal deity he cannot love it either, and therefore he does not seriously strive towards God either, for the spirit only seeks unity with that which it loves. But God wants people to love Him, to desire Him and strive for complete unity, and therefore He first tries to guide the human being into realization, and for this He requires free will, because everything achieved through compulsion is detrimental to the human being’s soul. Love is absolutely necessary, only love brings knowledge to life, only through love is knowledge happy, and only through love is knowledge utilized. But the human being’s love is a matter of will, and a human being is never forced into loving activity. But the ability to think remains primitive as soon as God recognizes that the human being’s will is not turned towards Him and He withdraws His love and grace. Then his thinking will produce results which do not correspond to the pure truth which God Himself offers. Then the ability to think will only have an earthly effect, i.e. he will only use the gift of intellect to brood over earthly matters. But then one cannot speak of spiritual knowledge, and thus he will not use God’s gift, the ability to recognize and love Him for the sake of His unsurpassability ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 43 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Ability to know and love God …. restriction of freedom …. state of ignorance …. free will …. power of life grace of God ….

B.D. 3355b from December 4th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Due to its distance from God, into which it has fallen as a result of its past apostasy from God, the being as such is no longer able to recognize God and therefore also incapable of loving Him. And it would never lose this deficient state, it would always remain in the same lack of realization if God did not want to grant it a gift of grace in the last stage of its embodiment on earth …. the strength of life, together with free will, which enables it to learn to recognize God if it uses it correctly, thus to enter a brighter state. The beingness itself does not feel its lack as long as it is completely without knowledge. Yet it cannot feel bliss either, instead, evil instincts prevail in it which drive it to constant rage against itself, i.e. which make its dark spiritual state ever more impenetrable and the being is thereby fettered, thus deprived of all freedom. But the being feels the restriction of freedom as agony, but it does not understand that it is only the consequence of lack of knowledge, because every connection remains hidden to it. And it is this ignorant state which first has to be remedied if the being is to cover the ascent to the height, to complete freedom and fullness of strength. However, knowledge, the realization of God and His reign and activity, cannot be imparted to it against its will, instead, the being must use its freedom of will itself so that its nature will change fundamentally, so that it will emerge from darkness into light and thereby regain its final freedom. The whole existence in the embodiment as a human being is to be regarded as a grace, for it is granted to the being even against its will, i.e., the being’s will has been directed by God until this embodiment, the being is in a certain state of compulsion …. in subordination to God’s will, which is expressed in natural law …. to a degree of maturity which earns him freedom of will in his last embodiment, combined with the ability to recognize what is going on around him and the connection between everything created and its eternal creator. This grace is granted to every human being, but whether he uses it depends on his will; because free will once turned away from it despite the realization of the eternal deity, it is imperative that this will now also becomes active in order to rejoin it, which can only happen after the realization of the eternal deity, because this is the prerequisite for the beingness to also be able to love God. And without love the union can never take place. Every human being on earth is offered the opportunity to recognize God and to learn to love Him, yet as long as his will still opposes God the state of darkness, ignorance and lack of knowledge cannot leave him. He first has to break the shackles himself through his will, he has to try to break through the cover himself, only then can he use his ability and penetrate knowledge and truth …. into cognition. And only then will he be able to love God with all his heart and strive for unity with Him, Who will make him the most blissful being for all times ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 43 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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