Book 61 · BD 5545–5578b
Complete devotion to God ensures paternal care ….
B.D. 5545 from November 30th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
Consider yourselves My protégés and an inner calm will engulf you. All responsibility is taken from you when you faithfully give yourselves to Me and leave Me to rule your lives. And I will guide you well indeed …. You should call on Me in times of earthly as well as of spiritual need but then faithfully await My decision because you don’t know what is good for you; I, however, do know and treat you like a loving Father who only wants the best for His children. Therefore let yourselves be guided by Me and don’t be worried, because I will truly guide you well ….
An earthly child’s complete surrender to its Heavenly Father is a monumental event since it will achieve everything due to its faith in Him. This faith is not yet present where doubt and anxious worries about the future still depress a human heart, the human being has not yet handed himself over to Me and is therefore still carrying a heavier burden than necessary. I know all your worries, no thought escapes Me, I know your innermost feelings and thus I also know what a person needs …. And that is what I want to give to him …. But I also want to give him the faith which is still absent and thus I will not take his worries away until he has found faith and entrusts all problems to Me. But then they will leave him, then he will have no more doubts and reservations, then he will be fully at peace and certain of My help ….
Therefore, as long as the future worries you, as long as you still have anxious thoughts, you are not yet sufficiently united with Me to feel as My protégés because this perception eliminates all fear and worry. You might as well be indifferent about earthly demands as you are unable to master them without My help. Therefore, trust in Me and everything will turn out for the best. And if you cannot see the best in something then trust Me anyway because I can see what is good or bad for you, I rule with love and wisdom and only want the best for you. But only total surrender to Me, complete surrender of your will to Mine, safeguards My paternal care and you can stop worrying. You should always remember that, no matter what happens, nothing can happen without My will or My permission. And whatever happens is good because I watch over every human being, but even more so over those who want to serve Me and who, as My workers, also enjoy the protection of the custodian of the house …. Whoever takes flight into My arms like a child will be accepted as a child and he will enjoy the Father’s protection and all His love …. Your earthly lives could be easy if you heeded My Words and handed your problems over to Me, Who loves you and wants to help you achieve inner peace and a living faith, Who is with you whenever you call upon Him ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
Translation handled by Heidi Hanna
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Spiritual compulsion …. Doctrines …. Truth ….
B.D. 5546 from December 2nd 1952, taken from Book No. 61
Spiritual freedom must be maintained, the human being may not be forced to think in this or that direction, he must remain at liberty to join any school of thought, only then will My will be complied with, for it concerns the free decision of will, which every person must make by himself without having been influenced in a compelling way. For this reason I will never ever sanction compulsory faith which expresses itself through dogma, which inhibits people’s thinking and denies them any possibility of testing and of choosing …. Thereby the human being is impelled to think in a specific way and comes to completely wrong conclusions if the preconditions are wrong …. He can hardly find the truth which is only gained by a person who seriously desires it. The truth is made accessible to a person in earthly life because he is capable of thinking and only his will makes the decision as to whether he thinks correctly. He might well think correctly but he must always be active himself, that is, he must form his own opinion about everything that is presented to him from outside, and that requires his own intellectual activity and, even more importantly, his desire for truth, i.e. the will only to accept the right information. This will is absolutely respected by Me, it is always complied with because I, being Truth Itself, also want to make Myself accessible to My living creations. But I can never convey the truth to a person who does not want it, who only ever accepts what he receives from external sources. Every person must examine for himself, for error might just as well have been presented to him as truth, and the person is responsible for what he decides to accept. It is a mistaken objection to say that the majority of people are incapable of scrutiny …. The intellect alone is not decisive but the will to think correctly certainly is, in which case the person’s intellect will also form a positive or negative opinion, because I Myself will intervene if he desires to know the truth. By comparison, highly developed intellectual thinking can easily fall prey to error if only the intellect is inclined towards the pure truth without involving the heart and will ….
Consequently, it is wrong to accept knowledge without examining it, to acknowledge teachings and to decide on a spiritual direction without scrutiny …. which already follows from the fact that not only one school of thought exists, but that ever new offshoots verify that an examination must take place as to which school of thought the truth can be found in. For every advocate of his school of thought has used his intellect to choose it but has no guarantee that it is the truth if he does not seriously deliberate on it and calls upon Me for support through My spirit …. Anyone who chooses this path can be certain that the pure truth will be conveyed to him, and he will also be able to endorse it as such with inner conviction. However, every individual soul is responsible for its decision, and the result will be according to its will …. But as long as people are pushed into a specific direction of thought, as long as individuals deem themselves called to present knowledge to their fellow human beings which they want to be accepted as truth but which they would reject themselves were they seriously to examine it …. so long people will be in a dreadful state, for only truth helps the souls to mature fully, they can only find their way to Me through truth and only through truth can they be released from sin and its consequences, for the truth comes from Me and leads back to Me again. But that which is not from Me, that which can be recognised as error with proper scrutiny, comes from My adversary, and he will really not help you to gain beatitude, he will not guide you to Me, he will try to push you aside, to darken your spirit and to make you dependent on him …. Only truth will make you happy, and you will only receive the truth if you appeal to Me Myself for it, if you are serious about receiving the truth from Me …. But this always presupposes your own action and no-one can bear the responsibility for you, no-one can relieve you of the decision which you must make yourselves for the sake for your soul’s salvation ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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True Christianity ….
B.D. 5547 from December 5th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
A faithful Christian must also live according to his belief, that is, he must follow Jesus Christ, Who exemplified to people the right kind of life on earth and thus requires faith in His act of Salvation in order to be acknowledged by Him as a Christian. The Christian doctrine must be followed from the heart, for Christ requires love from people, a love which lacks self-interest and has therefore a redeeming effect, a love which is willing to make sacrifices, a love which Jesus demonstrated through His death on the cross. Thus, to be a true Christian means to shape one’s inner nature into love in the belief in Jesus Christ, for the human being is incapable of this change of character without faith in Him. He can indeed believe in Him and yet not live in love …. In that case, however, it is merely a conventional faith, an intellectual faith, which may well give credence to the existence of Jesus, the man, and perhaps even His crucifixion, but which has no idea about the significance of the sacrifice the made by the man Jesus on behalf of fellow human beings. For the understanding of this only comes to him when he practices love, because only then will his spirit give him the right understanding through his heart …. This is why ‘being a Christian’ first means to live a life of love, then the human being will also testify to Jesus Christ as the Redeemer of the world. However, a person lacking unselfish love will never be a Christian, even if he declares himself as such before the world …. For the concept of Christianity is not a question of believing that Jesus existed, the point is that the person lives as Jesus Christ had lived on earth in order to be able to rightfully call himself a Christian. This is why there is no true Christianity in this world anymore, despite churches and doctrines, for the spirit of Christ is missing. People are unredeemed because Jesus Christ can no longer be effective where love does not exist …. And love has completely grown cold among people …. Whether poor or rich, whether high or low, they all lack love, the most important aspect of Christianity ….
People no longer make use of Jesus’ act of Salvation; they stand outside the circle of those who died on behalf of Jesus Christ. They certainly see the cross because they cannot deny Jesus Christ, the man, and His crucifixion, but it has become utterly irrelevant to them, they merely speak words without meaning and strength, because only love reveals the understanding in the first place but love has died away. For such people Jesus Christ died in vain on the cross and yet they call themselves Christians …. Not one of them realises the significance, not one of them makes the effort to be a true Christian, and many people contemptuously look down on those who, in their eyes, are heathens or unbelievers because they are not part of an official church or community …. And all these will one day have a dreadful awakening if they depart from earth in an unredeemed state and are required to give account of their way of live, if their degree of love is so low that it emits no ray of light on entry into the kingdom of the beyond …. Then they will have to look for the Redeemer of humankind first and will hardly find Him, because they will have lacked the right faith in Him and yet, without it they will never be able to become happy …. Oh, if only you humans knew what you are giving away on this earth because of your half-hearted attitude towards the most important things …. if only you knew how bitterly you will regret it one day …. You will never be able to become blissfully happy without love …. You must travel your path on earth as true Christians, you must follow Him, that is, keep His commandments, only then will your faith in Him be a living one, only then will you profess Jesus Christ before the world …. You will stand up for Him and, having been redeemed by Him, also be able to provide your fellow human being with the right explanation as to the fact that and why He has to be acknowledged, as to fact that and why eternal life is not possible without the redemption through Jesus Christ and that only the right way of life in the spirit of Jesus will be valued before God and not the outwardly displayed Christianity which, in truth, is no Christianity at all ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
Translation handled by Heidi Hanna
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True Christianity …. Following Jesus ….
B.D. 5548 from December 5th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
I want to provide you with an addition so that you realise how exceptionally important it is that you acknowledge Jesus, the son of man, as God and Redeemer of the human race …. My love for you humans did not want you to stay in sin, isolated from Me, which caused your wretchedness. I Myself was unable to approach you since in your state your were incapable of enduring My presence or you would have perished in the fire of My love. Nevertheless, without Me it was impossible for you to be saved, and therefore I had to approach you in a concealed way, certainly influencing you with My strength of love yet in a garment which would not frighten you, from which you would not have had to escape …. in a garment which was similar to your own …. I had to approach you as a human being …. First, you should understand that the reason why I had to come to you was to help you. Then you will also understand why I came in a form similar to yours …. Yet even this stay of My Divinity in a human being had to proceed according to law, which was certainly possible but it was unknown to you …. that My spirit of love was able to manifest itself anywhere as long as the basic requirement had been fulfilled …. where love was present. Thus Jesus, the human being, offered Me the opportunity to manifest Myself in Him by living a life of love, for I can only be in My substance where love exists …. Divine love wanted to help you and therefore chose a form in which it was able to take abode without contravening the law of eternity which, however, would have happened had I embodied Myself in a sinful human whose love and will were opposed to Me. Love wanted to help you and since Jesus, the human being, was full of love He accomplished that which was of help to you …. He atoned for your guilt. Being a God of justice I was unable to simply write off an offence which had not been atoned for yet, but I was able to accept atonement accomplished on your behalf but only if it was carried out voluntarily and for love. This is what Jesus, the man, did and thereby became your Redeemer …. I, the eternal Love Itself, was in Him and therefore love made the said sacrifice …. I Myself died for you on the cross, for I Myself was in the human being Jesus.
You ought to look at the act of Salvation from this point of view, then you will also understand that you can only receive salvation if you believe in Jesus Christ as the Saviour, but this requires you to comply with His teaching, to follow him, otherwise your belief is a mere play of words, for true faith will only be brought to life through love …. If you want to be known as Christians then you must make an effort to live a life of love; you cannot adopt this name for yourselves if you live in complete opposition to His teaching, and His teaching requires love for God and for the next person. Thus, to be a Christian means to conduct yourselves in a Christian spirit, like the human being Jesus did on earth, to practise selfless neighbourly love and to always remember that you can only be redeemed by acknowledging Him as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world …. and by demonstrating this through living a life of following Jesus ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
Translation handled by Heidi Hanna
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Spurning the power of God …. (His word) ….
B.D. 5549 from December 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
God’s strength must not be spurned if the human being wants to reach his aim on earth, which is the purpose of embodiment, the maturing of his soul. It is indeed a free decision of will to tackle this work, the human being himself must strive for perfection, yet the most important thing is the supply of strength from God in order to be able to turn the will into action. For even the best will is incapable of doing anything on its own, since the being is still imperfect, thus without strength, whereas in the state of perfection the will is already sufficient to be able to be creatively active. But the power is with God …. The state of imperfection is remoteness from God, i.e. lack of strength …. God, however, does not deny His strength to any being which desires it, because the desire already expresses the will to come closer to God again …. But without the application of strength the human being is completely incapable of taking a step forward, and then his will to approach God is also absent. This is why a spurning of strength from God is also a sign of resistance which the human being has not yet relinquished, which is why every person who rejects the word of God, God’s direct transmission of strength, thereby admits that he still remains in resistance to God and does not desire to receive strength from Him. And such a person cannot progress in his development, his soul cannot mature, it remains at the stage of the beginning of its embodiment …. In His word God Himself comes close to people and imparts His strength to them, and then it is easy to reduce the distance from God, for the distance is bridged by God’s love, and a flow of strength flows into the human being’s heart who accepts His word into himself and lives accordingly, who thus now puts his will into action with the help of the strength from God which now makes the striving possible for him in the first place. But to reject strength from God means to once again offend against God’s love, to reject a gift of grace which the human being does not have to demand but which is offered to him undeservedly through God’s great love, which can change his state of misery into a blissful state in a short time, which can lift him up from the depths of the earth …. And understandably, such a rejection of a gift of grace will result in the human being being deprived of grace for a long time, that he will become increasingly distant from God, that his lack of strength will have an ever increasing effect and that he will fall prey to God’s adversary without resistance, from whose power only God’s strength can deliver him …. God wants to be called upon for strength, for help …. But He also comes to those who do not call upon Him, but He does not force Himself upon those who reject Him. Yet their state is hopeless, for no human being can free himself from satan’s power by his own strength, and no human being will ever possess strength unless he accepts it from God Himself, the original source of strength from eternity ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
Translation handled by Doris Boekers
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Serious reminder to work on the soul ….
B.D. 5550 from December 7th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
Without hesitation you should tackle your soul’s work, for you don’t have much time left. When I call these words to you again and again, then see the urgency in it, see My love for you and see the danger you are in. I cannot give you obvious signs, signs which you have to believe, because this would not benefit you but would only be a compulsive compliance with My will for fear of what you now believe …. that the end will come and with it the downfall. I want to save you, i.e. protect you from this downfall, and therefore I cannot interfere with your free will, I can only persuade you and make you aware of what will irrevocably come but need not be feared by you if you are in a more mature state. You humans on this earth, remember the responsibility you bear for your souls, for the imperishable within you. One day you will bitterly regret it if you don’t listen to Me and My words, for then you will no longer be able to make up for what you can still do now. And you will have to suffer greatly if you lack spiritual riches, if you arrive in the beyond naked and poor …. And no matter how short your time is on this earth, no matter whether you are called away before the end …. every day could bring you treasures if only you wanted to use it properly. Why don’t you tackle your soul’s work, enter into intimate contact with Me, appeal for My grace, ask Me for strength to be able to carry out what I have given you as your earthly task; hand yourselves over to Me, i.e., completely submit your will to Mine, want to walk rightly before My eyes …. From now on live life with Me so that you no longer leave Me out of your thoughts, so that you constantly think of Me around you, and My love will take hold of you and also help you where you are too weak on your own …. only want Me Myself to take care of you …. want you to fulfil your earthly task, and I will guide and lead you, I will no longer leave you alone, and your will will become ever stronger to enter Mine, and then every danger will be over for you, then you need not fear the end or a quick death …. And then your soul will be saved and it will go towards a new life in the spiritual kingdom ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Miracle-work of the child Jesus ….
B.D. 5551 from December 9th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
I want to teach you what you want to have clarified, for I want you to have the correct information first before you instruct your fellow human beings, which is the task of those of you who want to serve Me. I want you to understand everything yourselves before you pass your knowledge on, for the other person is frequently not very patient, he desires an explanation, especially when he has doubts, and then you should also be able to provide it informatively. The problem of God’s human manifestation in Jesus gives rise to most questions, because so far it has been explained such that it causes increasingly more confusion instead of illumination. My earthly existence as a human being did not differ in any way from that of other people, I just gave room to the development of love in My heart where others increased their selfish love and instead of ‘giving’ they ‘desired’.
The spark of love smoulders in every human being’s heart, but it can ignite into a bright flame just as it can be smothered. This, however, also differentiates people from each other, for love leaves its mark of divinity on everyone, whereas selfish love is My adversary’s image who exalted himself and thus fell. Love is therefore the Divine in the human being, which appears only as a very tiny spark at the start of earthly life but has the capacity to expand infinitely. The spark of love was already recognisable in the infant Jesus because a soul of light had embodied itself in the child, which indeed had left all of God’s glories behind in the spiritual kingdom yet not its love, and this strength of love expressed itself at times when the spiritual spark made contact with the eternal Father-Spirit, which happens with every loving child, but in Jesus it was intended to be obvious to people so that they would believe in the Divinity of the child Jesus. The working of the spirit is not prevented in an infant like that, it just rarely, if ever, surfaces because the human being’s intellect and free will first have to strive for the working of My spirit themselves, which only consciously happens when he is old enough to make use of the intellect and will in freedom of thought.
The explanation for the miracles of the child Jesus, for the unusual events, can only be found in the high degree of love, for Jesus’ soul came from above, it was a soul of light and love which was then wrapped in a human form and also prevented from its hitherto unrestricted work and activity in order to do justice to its human external form. The infant Jesus possessed a high degree of love …. yet the earthly-human nature asserted itself too …. the world, that is, My and His adversary also exercised his influence on this earthly-human nature since he was allowed to do so for the sake of the test of will. And then My spirit remained silent, for even the human being Jesus had to take this test of will, and the work of His soul’s deification had to take place under the same conditions as with every other human being, albeit due to His love My spirit was and remained in Him.
Yet the highest degree of love had to be attained by the human being Jesus’ own will …. and therefore My spirit withdrew during these years, it did not insist and impel Him, it allowed the human being Jesus complete freedom until, as a result of His intensified love, the ever increasing abundance of My spirit manifested itself as wisdom and might …. as outstanding knowledge and miracle-working. The human being Jesus had been chosen for this mission since eternity. A supreme being of light descended to earth; one of My children, living in magnificence, started His earthly progress, and thus this soul already had to permeate the earthly form of the infant Jesus, and everything remarkable in His youth was entirely natural and understandable, yet for people living in darkness equally incomprehensible, and so a cover was spread across the radiant light in later years and the actual mission began …. the deification of an earthly human being by means of love. I was indeed at all times able to work through My spirit in the human being Jesus, for all conditions to do so were given; yet for the sake of Jesus’ mission everything divinely-spiritual withdrew, and this mission was accomplished by Him as a human being, Who took His strength entirely from His active love, which was just as difficult for Him to develop as for every other human being, because My adversary truly did not let his influence go to waste since, after all, Jesus’ victory meant the adversary’s defeat. But My adversary was unable to affect Jesus’ free will, and this was wholly and completely aimed in My direction. And therefore He succeeded in accomplishing the work, for His will arose from His love for Me …. Love, however, is the strength which is stronger than death and therefore He also defeated the one who had brought death into the world …. Love was victorious and will remain so eternally ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Interpretation of the words of Christ …. feeding the pure gospel ….
B.D. 5552 from December 11th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
Christ’s words, which He spoke on earth, can be interpreted in many ways and must be recognized as eternal truth despite different interpretations. For this reason, however, the interpretations must also correspond to the spiritual meaning which Jesus placed in His words, otherwise they are to be described as erroneous and contribute to the pure gospel being distorted in its meaning. And therefore there is a certain responsibility in wanting to interpret the scriptures according to one’s own intellectual thinking when the spirit of God cannot work and enlighten the human being’s intellect. But the working of the divine spirit is the result of a life according to God’s will …. And so the person who feels called to interpret scripture must ask himself before his conscience to what extent he is fulfilling the will of God …. The interpretation of the gospel, of the words of Christ, must be carried out by the spirit of God Himself, then they will also correspond to the truth, for the word of God, the teaching of Jesus Christ, is a teaching of the spirit, it is a teaching which only concerns the spiritual kingdom and is intended to promote the human being’s spiritual development. Consequently, worldly intellect alone cannot grasp God’s word in its profound spiritual meaning but the spirit in the human being must be active, which now directs all thoughts spiritually and leads the human being to the true understanding of Jesus’ words …. If the word is only interpreted in a purely literal way, then contradictions can often be found, which, however, immediately disappear with a spiritual interpretation. But if they are wrongly interpreted they endanger the teaching of Christ, i.e. they often give cause for rejection, because again only the intellect judges and contradictions create a will to defend oneself. And thus it can be explained that Christ’s teaching is often rejected because the teachers themselves could not be instructed by the spirit within themselves, because they themselves accepted and passed on a wrong interpretation which sooner or later had to lead to rejection, because only truth gives light but error always increases the darkness people suffer from. And once again the whole of christianity is in danger, the recognition and acknowledgement of Christ as redeemer of the world is weakened to the same extent as the truth is weakened, because only through truth does man become light and because only through truth does the courage to confess the saviour and redeemer strengthen, Whose work of love and mercy is so immensely significant that people would also fully confess Him if presented and explained correctly. People walk in darkness due to their sinful state and are not led out of darkness. They cannot find the way themselves because everything is dark but the right light can only be brought by God Himself through His spirit. Where His spirit works, there is light, and there is also a deep faith in Jesus Christ and His work of redemption. But where teaching activities are carried out without the working of the spirit, only error is presented to people and darkness cannot depart from them ….
And thus it will now be understandable to you humans why God directs the gospel to earth again in its purest form …. They are His words which never change, which always and forever remain but have not been explained in their meaning by human wisdom …. Now God Himself gives the explanation of His word; in a comprehensible and most loving way He seeks to introduce people to the truth. He speaks the same words to people again and enlightens the spirit of those who listen to Him …. He wants light to shine because deep night is spread across the earth; He wants you humans to recognize what you lack; He wants you to be instructed in truth and now also recognize and acknowledge Jesus Christ, the son of God and redeemer of the world, because you can only become blessed through Him, because His gospel has to be accepted by you as He Himself proclaimed it to you ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (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)
Radiance of God's love is bliss …. restriction in life ….
B.D. 5553 from December 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
I embrace all My living creations with My love, yet whether they feel My love is up to each individual creature as to what extent it accepts My will, that is, whether it relinquishes its former resistance against Me. It can accept My illumination of love or also reject it. Accordingly, the creature will also become aware of My love or will not be able to feel it. In the state of compulsion the being certainly submits to My will, i.e., it cannot offer Me any resistance but it is not aware of what My strength of love signifies …. It lives well and is active but it lacks the feeling of happiness about its activity. But as a human being, in the stage of free will and the ability to think, it is up to him to allow himself to be permeated by My love or to close himself off to every influx of divine strength of love …. And then it creates the state of bliss or the state of blisslessness for itself, but the human being can only understand this once he has been touched by My love. For My illumination of love touches the soul and it feels happiness even if the human being has no purely physical perception. But as soon as the human being is aware of being able to enter into intimate contact with Me and thus establishes this bond, he is also filled with a quiet bliss, a peace is within him which cannot be given to him in any other way than through the supply of My strength of love. The human being feels secure in Me, everything unsteady falls away from him, he has allowed himself to be seized by My love and now also feels it in a way which is beneficial for him as long as he dwells on earth. He can only endure a certain amount in the earthly body if he wants to remain suitable for the earthly task given to him, and only when he has matured is he able to receive more, otherwise beatitude on earth would be obvious to some people and would mean a compulsion of faith for fellow human beings. But My living creations, the people on earth, shall freely strive towards Me of their own accord, they shall open themselves for My ray of love, they shall hand themselves over to Me without the slightest resistance in order to then be allowed to experience My whole fatherly love, which is unlimited and only ever wants to make people happy. Every person can feel it but he must give up all resistance, for all My living creations emerged from My love, My love will never ever change or diminish. And therefore it applies to everyone, yet it waits to be able to express itself, which is solely up to the human being’s will ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
Translation handled by Doris Boekers
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The blessing of spiritual knowledge in the beyond ….
B.D. 5554 from December 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
My spirit is revealing spiritual knowledge to you which will, one day, make you indescribably happy if you work with it in the spiritual kingdom for the benefit of those who are still unaware …. Until people have reached the state of enlightenment pure truth is rarely to be found amongst them on earth and therefore not in the kingdom of the beyond either. For light stands for wisdom, the knowledge of pure truth, and every erroneous thought is a shadow obscuring the light, even if a soul is already translucent. But until the last wrong thought has been banished the light will still be cloudy at times, and the soul first has to make itself completely accessible to the truth, it must have acquired the correct information before it will be able to work with it as a bearer of light in the spiritual kingdom.
Being able to enter the beyond with spiritual knowledge is therefore an immense grace, since it is the equivalent to wearing a bright gown of light which shines everywhere and distributes light in turn. Then it can instantly carry out its real function, it can educate the ignorant and be of immense help where there is still darkness or twilight. For it will also be confronted by doubters and liars in the spiritual realm, nevertheless it will be able to enlighten them with its knowledge. Since this knowledge is the result of the revelations through My spirit it will have a power of conviction which a being can rarely resist unless it is a representative of the prince of darkness and flees from the truth. For such beings will also cross the path of someone who knows in order to extinguish a light in the belief that they are able to do so. And beings like that can only receive clarification from a bearer of light who has received his knowledge from Me ….
For this very reason My revelations, My Word, contain tremendous strength which can even pull down strong walls, for I will address these souls Myself if you lend Me your mouth, if you, due to My will, bring the Gospel to the souls in darkness in the same way as you have received it from Me. For it is the pure truth, and this will even convince a soul hitherto steeped in wrong thought since it feels an inner happiness, it more or less perceives the truth like a good deed, its understanding of it begins to develop, it can no longer doubt what it effectively receives from Me …. The strength of My Word will have a noticeable effect, the soul will suddenly become illuminated, and what it had so far failed to understand will suddenly become clear and will be joyfully accepted. Just as misery and confusion caused by misguided teachings are great, so gladdening and intelligible is the truth …. And truth will always be found where My spirit can be effective, what I reveal to people through My spirit will always be truth. Therefore you should remain aware of the abundance of blessings you receive from Me and work with this gift of grace, pass on My Word, carry light into the darkness, illuminate everyone, give them the truth which you have received from Me Myself, and work for the benefit of those who are still living in spiritual darkness ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Freedom of will …. Jesus Christ ….
B.D. 5555 from December 13th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
I do not command the will in you, I allow it its freedom …. Nevertheless, I arrange everything such that your will is always given the opportunity to direct it correctly; thus it can enter into My will, for this possibility is the purpose of all events in earthly life. I will not send anything to the human being which would hinder his right direction of will, his right attitude towards My eternal order, yet his decision is completely up to him. You must know this in order to be aware of your responsibility, for nothing is intended to push you into a wrong decision but everything is intended to enable you to pass your test of will. And again, you humans can only be directed to Jesus Christ, Who will certainly help you to make the right decision of will as soon as you call upon Him for His support. The only danger of spiritual failure, of a decline on your path of development, is the weakened will, and you can strengthen this at any time in faith in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation. And thus the human being who consciously places himself under Christ’s cross, who therefore makes use of the blessings acquired through the death on the cross, will also always make the right decision, he will not think, want and act differently than in accordance with My will, because he now, as it were, walks the path of Christ, whose aim was Me, his father from eternity. Your counter will is broken with the devotion to Jesus Christ, Who now comes alive in you and prevents you from wrong wanting and thinking, Who pulls you upwards by virtue of His infinite love. And yet, your will remains free, for of your own free will you have to profess Him, of your own free will you have to make use of His help and His blessings; you will not be urged but neither will you be prevented from taking the path which He has taken and which certainly leads to Me. But once this free will has turned to Him you need no longer fear a relapse, for He Who redeemed you through His blood will never ever give you up once you have made the decision for Him …. Anyone who is weak-willed still lives without Him and therefore will hardly reach his aim …. For My adversary still works on a weak will, and often with success. Nevertheless, he cannot be forced upwards or downwards …. Therefore you bear the responsibility yourselves until you have handed it over to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, until you hand yourselves over to Him, Who then truly sets you free from the adversary’s power, Who strengthens your will so that it now decides right ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Spiritual adversity: untruth …. false picture of God ….
B.D. 5556 from December 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
You will only be able to control the spiritual adversity if you spread the truth, for the spiritual adversity consists of the fact that humanity walks in error, that it is blind in spirit, that it lacks the right knowledge …. that it lacks the truth. For as soon as they correctly recognize the correlation between the eternal creator and people, as soon as they know the purpose of their earthly life, they will already have a certain degree of love, because then they will already love Me as their father of eternity, Whom they will learn to recognize as supremely perfect, as wise, powerful and supremely good when they are taught the truth about Me. Truth presents Me in such a way that they can love Me, but error gives a distorted image of Me so that people may fear Me but are unable to love Me. For if I am portrayed to them as a God of vengeance, as a God of wrath, as a God Who punishes sinners, then this is a distorted image of My nature, Who is, after all, love Itself. If I wanted to keep people under compulsion by means of commandments I would not be a God of love either, not a father Who wants to let His children work in complete freedom, but I would be a tyrant Who only ever uses His power and strength and behaves differently towards people than a father does towards his children …. For My only commandments are My commandments of love which, however, cannot be fulfilled compulsorily either, because love requires the human being’s free will again. I do not plunge people into the abyss but they are in it and I want to pull them up to Me …. not I do condemn people eternally but they keep themselves distant from Me and are therefore in a dreadful state, and I want to redeem them from it by virtue of My love …. But how do people present Me? Also on the part of those who believe to be active for Me and My kingdom? What useless formalities are demanded of people and how insignificant is the most important thing seen …. the life of love, which alone is valued by Me …. The teaching of Christ, the divine teaching of love, which the man Jesus proclaimed on earth, is certainly still preached today, yet they are only words which fall on people’s ears, they are words which are no longer spoken vividly enough by the proclaimers because they lack the power of persuasion which alone My spirit can bestow upon them if the proclaimer lives in love himself. But My spirit must first be able to work if My word is to penetrate people’s hearts, and where My spirit works there will also be truth. But love has grown cold amongst people and therefore truth can no longer be found, nor is it recognized as such by people when a bearer of truth wants to bring them light. And the path to Me cannot be found, for it does not go via misguided teachings. You first have to learn to recognize Me in My nature in order to learn to love Me, and only the pure truth which originates from Me gives you light …. But then the spiritual adversity will also be remedied for all people who are of good will ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Earthly task: Volition …. Wrong endeavour ….
B.D. 5557 from December 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
You had to walk a difficult path before you reached the point when you were able to make the last test of will …. Your soul, which had previously been dissolved into countless sparks of soul in order to endure a process of maturing in a constrained state, has assembled itself again …. Once again you have attained your self-awareness and as individual beings you are about to make a free choice: to choose the Lord to whom you want to belong …. This decision is the purpose and goal of your earthly life, and this decision has to be made of your own free will. It cannot be made by someone on your behalf nor can it be delayed, it has to be made without fail by the end of your life, because this decision will determine your fate for eternity. Your attitude towards this task during your earthly life is therefore immensely serious …. it can result in light and bliss but also in death and destruction, and you alone determine this through your will. But you are hardly bothered by it, even when you are informed of the reason for your earthly life, even when your eternal fate is described to you as either glorious or dreadful. Because you don’t believe that sooner or later you will have to be accountable for your will. However, you cannot be forced to believe it, consequently the belief is rarely found amongst humanity and people only rarely accomplish their goal of deciding for the right Lord. Yet disbelief has its price ….
People increasingly forget their task in life, their every consideration merely concerns the world regardless of the fact that they will soon have to leave it. They face again what they leave behind. The memory of their past course of suffering through the material forms was taken from them because they will have to make their decision with freedom of will and may not choose the right Lord out of fear …. Hence there is an imminent danger that their decision will be detrimental to them, that they will devote all their senses to matter and by doing so also choose the lord of this world, to whom they will fall victim once more and whom they will also have to thank for being banished into hard matter again due to their wrong decision. Because they should turn their eyes towards heaven, they should strive to ascend and turn away from the world. Then the right choice was made, then the course through the whole of creation was successful, then earthly life will result in the being’s culmination, then the soul has found the right Lord and will hasten to meet Him …. Then the person has passed the test of will on earth and can discard the heavy earthly body and enter eternity as a pure spirit, then the former long earthly progress on earth has not been in vain …. The being has found its way back to its source, it has recognised the Father and surrendered itself to Him for all eternity.
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Care of people by beings of light ….
B.D. 5558 from December 16th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
The gate of heaven is wide open to you and the spiritual beings eagerly await you because they want to share the happiness of being close to Me. But they also fear for you because they see that you make no effort to enter the path which leads into the kingdom of heaven. Each one of you is entrusted to spiritual beings who are concerned about your soul’s salvation and do everything to direct your thoughts towards Me …. They constantly surround you and try to influence you, they guide you towards each other such that you are stimulated by your fellow human beings to exchange thoughts, and their constant endeavour is to induce you into loving activity, to create opportunities for you where you can practice unselfish love so that you mature in your soul. But they can only ever gently urge you but never force you to act as is right. And therefore you humans can feel in spiritual care, yet your will must also be ready …. You must approach the gate of heaven, you must desire that it remains open to you and that you don’t miss the path into the kingdom of heaven. For even if the love of your spiritual friends is overwhelming it must not affect you contrary to your will, according to divine law it must limit itself precisely in accordance with your will, for its effect of strength would suffice to shape you entirely according to My will, but this will not lead you to perfection. Therefore, the spiritual beings looking after you sometimes try to achieve their aim differently by imposing painful events on you with My approval which are intended to turn your thoughts towards Me. And I give these beings of My kingdom free reign because they are only active in My will and want to fulfil their educational tasks for the people entrusted to them, so that therefore every event is well established in My plan of salvation from eternity, but also the activity of My children, the beings of light in the spiritual kingdom, is included, for everything serves the redemption of the still bound spirits, and people on earth are in need of care, of help given to them by spiritual guides, so that their path of ascent will become easier. The luminous spiritual works with Me and in My will, it works with love and with wisdom …. And therefore everything that happens in human existence is purposeful. But whether it is evaluated solely depends on the human being’s will, for this is free ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Truth light effect …. error no bliss in the hereafter ….
B.D. 5559 from December 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
The knowledge imparted to you through My word has a particularly beneficial effect on your soul because it is, as it were, like rays of light which touch it, which are therefore stronger than the surrounding cover and are able to penetrate it …. For the soul’s adversity consists of the fact that it is dark within it, that no light can penetrate from outside and that darkness paralyses all will to activity. The soul’s adversity consists of ignorance which deprives it of all knowledge of My Being, which it experiences as a dark state and which can precisely only be remedied when the knowledge of pure truth is supplied to it. And thus the person who has knowledge will always feel at ease in contrast to someone who still walks in ignorance, for it is not his intellect alone which has a plus to record but the soul is even far more grateful for it because it perceives the imparted knowledge as light, as a premonition of a state which is its aim on earth. The intellect wants to know everything explained, but the soul feels the happiness of being knowledgeable because this has an effect as light. This is why erroneous knowledge cannot benefit the soul, for no matter how much intellectual knowledge the human being accepts …. if it is not the pure truth, the soul will not derive any benefit from it, instead, the shells will thicken and ever greater darkness will spread to its sorrow. But such a soul will also not be willing to love and do nothing to change its state, i.e., the human being willingly accepts error through his direction of will, through his way of life, and does not recognize it as such, he brings his soul into this lightless state himself, because without love no wisdom, no light, can reach the soul either, but love is only the strength which loosens the soul’s cover so that truth, the light, can now flow into the soul. A person who possesses knowledge which has brought him the right realization is therefore also active in love, because this is the prerequisite for receiving My word, which has imparted truth to him …. regardless of whether My word was offered to him directly or indirectly. And thus you humans can only ever be seriously advised to practice unselfish neighbourly love so that you can receive My wisdom in abundance, hear My divine words of love and thereby attain realization. Without love all words only remain an empty sound which fades away in the ears or which the intellect certainly allows to have an effect on it but which does not penetrate the soul. And thus a life of love is irrevocably necessary in order to help the soul into the light, in order to give it the knowledge which reduces its state of adversity and allows it to become active in its ascent. Without love it cannot receive the right knowledge, without love it is also unable to recognize the knowledge imparted to it as truth or error …. Without love it remains dark within itself and takes the wrong path because no light illuminates the path which leads to the aim ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Compulsory state …. free will decision ….
B.D. 5560 from December 19th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
Through endless times you moved in a bound state, you were deprived of all freedom of will, you were subject to divine law and had to act as God wanted, as it had to happen according to natural law in order to comply with His plan of eternity. You were not free …. because your soul was bound in its individual substances in the works of creation, the whole of creation is, so to speak, the shackle which held your soul captive, the whole of creation is the bound spiritual substance which is still in God-opposing will and therefore cannot expect freedom until it itself weakens in this resistance against God. But one day the time will have come for all bound spiritual beings when they will no longer be in a state of compulsion, when they will be granted a certain degree of freedom, when they will be able to think, want and act as self-conscious individual beings without being prevented from doing so; one day the time will have come when they will have regained free will and can now use this free will without hindrance. But then there is a great danger that free will will be used wrongly …. that resistance against God will rise up in the being again so strongly that it will turn away from God again instead of striving towards Him. The walk in bound will through the whole of creation was a consequence of turning away from God, it was a consequence of the resistance once given to God. But once this course is finished, and then freedom of will is given to the being again, because it is to prove the abandonment of its resistance against God freely out of itself in order to then be able to approach unimagined beatitudes. But if the freedom of will is abused, if a turning away from God is carried out again or the resistance is maintained, then there is only one way out for this being …. to walk through creation again in a state of compulsion, so that the resistance will finally be broken …. Every being has to give up its free decision of will once, namely in the stage as a human being, since it is endowed with intellect and, through God’s great love, is also given the knowledge of what the rightly directed will consists of. If it fails during this time of earthly life, God will nevertheless not abandon the spiritual being, yet since He cannot compulsorily direct it according to His will, since He cannot compulsorily guide the being back to perfection because this contradicts His law of eternal order, because something that is divine and should become divine again can never be thought of without free will, again and again He creates new opportunities for it to reach its aim, yet always within the framework of legality …. which also includes a repetitive course through creation which keeps the beingness bound until its resistance decreases, which will certainly be achieved because God’s adversary is deprived of that influence on the bound beingness …. He has no power over the spiritual, which is bound in creation, and that is why it also ascends with certainty …. But a free decision of will requires that the opposing power can also influence the being, and that is why in earthly life the human being is exposed to afflictions from his side; but at the same time great means of grace are at his disposal so that he can truly make a right decision. Hence every person bears full responsibility for his will, for God does everything in His love to make the decision easy for him. He will also be given knowledge about his earthly task, certainly in different ways but always in such a way that he can take a stand on it himself ….
(19.12.1952) He can think about it, but he can also refrain from it, but then he cannot excuse himself with not having known anything about his earthly task, for only the slightest desire for it will be granted to him. The human being will never be deprived of something which can contribute to a favourable decision of will, but neither will he ever be coerced. After the infinitely long course before in the state of compulsion the time of earthly life can be called exceedingly short, and yet it is enough for the human being to be able to decide in the right direction, to return to God, Whom he now recognizes as his father of eternity, or to sink back and turn to God’s adversary again of his own free will …. And for the latter it is still a mercy if he is called away prematurely so that God’s adversary does not completely take control of him. Then the soul can still come to realization in the beyond and free itself from the shackles of this power through God’s great love and mercy. But anyone who still does not accept the redeeming help and sinks ever deeper will have his will bound again and will have to take the renewed path through creation, and this will continue until the soul finally takes the right path, until it once decides in free will as a human being for the father of eternity from Whom it once took its origin ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Serving in a state of compulsion …. and in love in free will ….
B.D. 5561 from December 20th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
Through My grace and mercy you humans have come considerably closer to Me again, for your soul was once at the greatest distance from Me and would not have returned of its own strength, since the distance also resulted in a lack of strength. It is so easy to understand that only love leads you back to Me, but that you completely lacked love due to your former turning away from Me. Hence you can only return to Me if you let love revive in you again, and since you would never have done this voluntarily because My adversary’s principle was in you …. unkindness …. and this therefore meant eternal separation from Me if I did not find a way …. a way which, as it were, forced you to serve …. you had to earn a reward through this service, even if you didn’t do it voluntarily, a consideration which consisted of you being allowed to come closer to Me again; for your service was a building purpose, you contributed to the preservation of that which served you to return to Me. Even forced work has to be compensated somehow …. You therefore expected to be entitled to ever more and more strength being supplied to you …. which increased to such an extent that you were allowed to utilize it again after an infinitely long time according to your own, i.e. free will …. You were granted the stage as a human being where you should also use the life energy you receive to be of service, yet of your own free will, which always means an activity of love. Thus you were educated, as it were, through the long path of development to be of service, even though it happened in a state of compulsion, and you can now prove this education in earthly life by voluntarily doing what you had to do before …. You would never have voluntarily served in love in the state of greatest distance from Me, and I could never have forcibly transferred you into the state as a human being …. a slow upward development had to take place, for your own sake you should become again what you once were …. beings full of strength and light, with all the divine qualities you possessed in the beginning. But the epitome of strength and light, of highest perfection, is love. What you once voluntarily gave away you must acquire again, you must completely become love if you want to become perfect. And love serves …. and finds its happiness in it …. Therefore, what the being did not want to do when it fell away from Me, it had to do for an infinitely long time as fulfilment of divine law. Only in this way can it direct its own will to look for opportunities to be of service, which will then be valued by Me and rewarded with the state as a human being of free will, which can bring about a complete change to love and thus return to Me …. because love means unity with Me and therefore also light and strength in all abundance, thus unlimited beatitude ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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"Receive and eat, this is My flesh …."
B.D. 5562 from December 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 61
I have prepared the bread of heaven for all who will receive it from My Hand …. For I said to My disciples: “Take and eat, this is My flesh; take and drink, this is My blood …. do this in remembrance of Me ….” So I distributed and commanded them to distribute likewise in My Name …. How simple are these words to understand, and how are they interpreted. I broke the bread …. as a sign that I wanted to give them a nourishment, a nourishment that should not preserve and strengthen the body but the soul. The bread of heaven must be supplied to you humans, the manna which is to satisfy your hunger, which is to supply you with a strength you need to reach beatitude. I gave the bread to My disciples and they should do the same …. distribute what they had received through My love and grace: My word, which is in truth My flesh and My blood, for I Myself am the word from eternity …. And if I now convey My word to earth, if one chosen by Me receives this word of Mine directly from Me, then I hand him the bread of heaven at the same time with the order to distribute it to his fellow human beings, to those who are hungry and thirsty and are fully satisfied and watered with My word …. Do this in remembrance of Me …. A testimony shall be given of Me with the proclamation of My word …. For I must be recognized and acknowledged by people as redeemer, and people must remember Me in full faith that they have only been redeemed through Me, otherwise My act of salvation will not have the redeeming power for them through their own guilt. I demand faith in Me as redeemer of the world, and therefore My word can only be proclaimed correctly when I Myself am proclaimed to people, when people testify of Me through My word. The meaning of My words can only be grasped if My spirit can work in you humans,
(22.12.1952) which is the strength flowing to you from Me if you accept My bread from heaven …. I, in turn, can only give you this bread if you make contact with Me, and you establish this contact through love …. You can certainly receive My word with your ears but only when you are willing to obey it will the spirit of love awaken in you, and if you then come to Me, to the lord’s table, with this spirit of love within you in order to take supper with Me, then My word, which is now offered to you, is a right food and a right table, then you will receive My bread and My wine in truth, you will eat My flesh and drink My blood, you will receive Me Myself within you, Who enters everyone who joyfully opens the door for Me when I knock, for the spirit of love is already working in him. But then you will also understand every word I spoke to people when I lived on earth, for then I will enlighten your spirit, I will give you an understanding for all correlations, I will make the spiritual meaning accessible to you, whereas otherwise you would only grasp the literal sense which will truly not bring you much blessing, for then you will only possess dead knowledge which is the same as worldly knowledge even though it touches spiritual things. Then you will certainly stubbornly hold on to Jesus Christ’s words and believe to testify to Him through them. But I demand more from you, I am not satisfied with a form which is an apparent fulfilment of My words and yet does not come close to the profound meaning of what I said to My disciples: Receive and eat, receive and drink …. this is My flesh, this is My blood …. do this in remembrance of Me ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Let there be light ….
B.D. 5563 from December 24th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
Let there be light …. Light came into the world because it was dark on earth and people could no longer find the path out of their spiritual darkness. There came the light from above to illuminate all those of good will …. God sent His Son to earth so that He could also bring them salvation with the light. And thus He entered into a world of hatred and unkindness and the people did not recognise Him as Light and Saviour. But His love for the wretched human race was so great that He wanted to deliver them from the darkness, that He wanted to release them from Satan’s chains, who had caused the darkness through sin and pulled all beings into the abyss with him, where there was neither light nor freedom. The Son of God came as Redeemer for the enslaved human race …. The infant Jesus was born …. a soul from the kingdom of light had chosen a human form for Itself and came as an innocent baby into the world in order to start His earthly life, which ended with the greatest act of love and compassion in order to redeem the sinful human race. The adversity on earth was huge; the path to God was even obstructed to the righteous, because the sin of the spirits’ past apostasy from God, which encumbered every human being, made the return to God impossible, since God’s righteousness required an appropriate atonement for this sin which no person was able to render in earthly life. God’s adversary triumphed, for all souls living on earth as human beings belonged to him …. He had pulled them into the abyss with him and would no longer release them …. And the righteous cried to God for help ….
They called for a Saviour. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, redeemed the world from his power, He paid for the sin of guilt with His death on the cross …. Yet even this act of Salvation had to be accomplished in free will, the atonement had to be carried out voluntarily, just as the sin against God was once voluntarily committed …. And therefore the being of light was unable to bring redemption to people, instead only a human being sacrificing himself voluntarily for love on behalf of his fellow men was able to accomplish this atonement, and therefore it had to be born on this earth as a human being and grow up with all human characteristics amongst his earthly brothers …. because the human will alone was decisive for this act of love, since a light being’s love would have redeemed humanity long ago, were this to correspond to the law of eternal order. Thus, the being of light set aside Its Divinity, It became a human child with all human weaknesses and characteristics which He then consciously had to fight against in order to strengthen His will, so that He then sacrificed Himself without coercion as Redeemer of the human race in order to achieve the atonement for its sins …. And all angels in heaven hailed this infant and bowed down to Him …. The soul took abode in His body and spread a bright light …. The light came into the world …. God sent a Redeemer from above to people, the Saviour Jesus Christ came to earth in order to redeem the human race ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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The Father's voice ….
B.D. 5564 from December 25th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
You should recognise the Father’s voice in every Word that is sent to you from above. It is My spirit which speaks to you, it is My strength which flows to you, it is light from My light which shines upon you, it is the Word which My infinite love forms for you so that you can understand Me, so that you shall fulfil My will, so that you shall be comforted in times of need and be instructed in all truthfulness. Only I can impart this truth to you …. your God and Father of eternity, Who instructs you so that you learn to know and love Him. For I want your love …. This is why I speak to you, who are unable to see Me and therefore don’t strive towards Me either if you have no knowledge you can believe in. But it is My will that you should believe in Me and therefore I do whatever it takes in order to help you attain this belief …. I reveal Myself to you …. You humans are unable to judge the full significance of this gift of grace, the Lord of infinity, the eternal God and Creator Who brought everything into being which is visible to your eyes and Who created an infinite number of works which are invisible for you …. He lovingly draws near to you, He speaks to the individual person but through them also to all people. He reveals Himself to you …. And only a few people recognise My voice ….
But these few are spiritually enlightened, for anyone who is able to hear Me, who recognises Me Myself in the Word I convey to earth is also permeated by the strength of My spirit and therefore looks at all happenings, at everything around him and his experiences with completely different eyes …. My spirit illuminates his thinking and also provides him with clarification about all correlations; he is no longer able to doubt, precisely because he recognises Me Myself if I address him through My Word. Where My spirit is working, knowledge can be found and knowledge is light which penetrates the darkness …. But where on earth can you humans still find light? People live in darkness, they are spiritually unenlightened, they don’t stop to think, and were they to think they would not come to any reliable result …. The darkness which exists on earth can only be dispelled by light from above. However, I Am always willing to kindle a light in you, I Am always willing to permeate you with the strength of My spirit if only you were willing to accept the Words of My love, if only you opened your hearts to Me in order to let the flow of My love pour in, if only you humans desired to hear Me …. It is My wish that you should learn to love Me, therefore you must listen to Me, you must accept My revelations and you will become enlightened, then you will penetrate the mysteries of My eternal love, My eternal plan of Salvation, you will recognise yourselves and your earthly task, you will recognise Me and grant Me your love, and you will yearn to hear the sound of My voice forever ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Confused thinking – Spiritual adversity …. Free will ….
B.D. 5565 from December 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
People’s thinking has become confused. And spiritual adversity has to be understood as meaning that they are without realisation, that they are far removed from the truth and therefore are also distant from Me, because they live without love, since love inevitably unites them with Me and the truth. How else could they be helped if not through constantly admonishing and motivating them to love …. But they cannot be commanded to love, it can only be presented to them as the most important commandment which has to be fulfilled without fail if the human being wants to reach his goal on earth. The human being has to know that he will not even move one step forward without love, yet it cannot be forcibly demanded or it would not be love, at best it would just be an act intending to feign love.
You humans should not forget that love is something divine, and that I gave you the commandment of love in order to show you the path towards the deification of your nature …. But by no means will I ever exercise the least amount of compulsion on you which, however, is implied in the true sense of the word ‘commandment’. And thus I allow you to decide everything, you may exercise self-determination; I can only instruct you such that you will take the right path of your own accord …. And therefore I constantly endeavour to guide people into right thinking, to instruct them correctly, to convey My Word to them through servants who are wholeheartedly devoted to Me, to explain the pros and cons of everything so that they themselves will make the right decision and carry out what will lead them to the goal …. so that they will live a life of love and become again what they had been in the beginning. Yet I meet with unyielding resistance …. People don’t accept My loving instructions, their thinking is so confused that they are no longer capable of understanding simple, clear information about the correlations …. and neither do they want to understand them ….
My loving Words bypass their ears and don’t reach their hearts, therefore the strength of My Word can no longer be effective on people …. The spiritual adversity is huge because people’s will has to remain free and they are no longer motivated from within; they have no desire for correct explanations, they are comfortable in their spiritual darkness, they don’t desire any light …. and if the light comes to them they won’t let its rays enter their hearts, they turn away and towards deceptive lights which flare up everywhere along the path …. And full of compassion I look upon My living creations unto which I would like to bestow happiness and who will not accept anything from My hands. I see them wander about, each one on other paths but not entering the path which indeed leads uphill, but with certainty towards Me …. I also see those who are looking for Me but who will not accept advice where I can be found, who have to travel many paths before they will find the right one …. I would like to spare all of them their wasted journeys, I would like to make their ascent to Me easier, I would like to provide everyone with a guide ….
Yet I can only ever call to them with enticing Words: Come to Me, all ye that labour, and are heavily laden, and I will give you rest …. I can only call but not force them to take the right path …. They don’t listen to My call of love because they can’t recognise My voice as long as they are without love. And this is what I describe as spiritual adversity, the fact that there is indeed help and that it is more than abundantly bestowed upon you by Me, but that you humans don’t want to accept it and therefore determine the end yourselves which you are approaching; I Am able to help you, I also want to help you but you yourselves have to want to be helped …. For your will is free and shall forever determine your fate ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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God's commission to His disciples ….
B.D. 5566 from December 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
I send My disciples out into the world to spread the gospel of love, the gospel of the spirit, the proclamation of My word which teaches people love …. You humans on earth urgently need such a message of salvation, you urgently need information about your wretched state and advice and admonitions so that you can escape a huge danger …. You need enlightenment which corresponds to the truth, the gospel must be brought to you anew so that you will feel touched by its strength, so that the doctrine of salvation will also let your soul recover, so that a new life will enter and express itself in increased activity of love. Let the water of life flow into all hearts, My divine proof of love, My word …. It shall awaken you to life …. And therefore I instruct My servants everywhere to proclaim Me and My word, for spiritual hardship is everywhere, everywhere there are desiring souls and those who need to be saved, who are to be informed that they are in danger so that they become alert and don’t walk along completely blind. And I consider people according to My discretion …. as they are willing to accept I distribute My gifts; I offer them to everyone according to his will to accept, I try to make the bread of heaven palatable to everyone, yet everyone needs differently prepared food, although it always remains the same food, the food which is beneficial to the soul, which alone awakens the soul to life. I will never hand out different truths, I will never instruct My disciples to impart different knowledge, different teachings, to people, I only ever hand out the same truth, only the form in which I present it is not always the same, because people’s thinking, the individual’s conceptual ability and ideas are different. But the truth is and remains eternally unchangeable …. And this is how My servants can be recognized who are active on My behalf, that they represent the truth conveyed by Me, that they are of the same spirit because they receive the truth from Me directly, that they lovingly endeavour to bring light to people who walk in darkness and that they also eagerly spread this light because they themselves stand in the light and feel its strength and truth …. Only a light bearer can radiate light, only a person introduced to truth by Me can spread the truth and thus as My disciple carry the gospel out into the world …. But these will also be recognized as My messengers by anyone who desires to stand in the truth, for he desires Me and I will truly bring the light to him and no longer let him sink back into darkness ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Impending turning point ….
B.D. 5567 from December 31th 1952, taken from Book No. 61
You can announce a new era to all people, for you are facing a turning point …. And it is also My will that you, My servants on earth, will always mention this announcement of Mine, I want people to obtain the knowledge of it even if they do not want to believe it. Their thoughts shall be guided to the forthcoming event, to the time which will even strike an unbelieving person as abnormal. They shall learn about a vast change in their living conditions, a very clear reference to the end, which will follow soon afterwards. They shall learn of this change because it could revive their faith once it happens, if they follow world events and all the signs you foretold them will be clearly evident. A new time is approaching and I don’t announce it to you humans for no reason …. The path you are taking is still far away from Me; only rarely, if ever, do I play a part in your life. Nevertheless, I want you to come to Me, to call upon Me, to always let Me lead the way, and not live your life without Me …. This is why I call you time and again until you hear it so distinctly that you will heed My call …. For this reason My servants on earth shall inform people of what is awaiting them …. that everything will happen differently than they wish and hope for …. Soon the last phase before the end will start, soon the final battle of faith will erupt but it will be preceded by a powerful upheaval of the Earth which should make all people think and which will nevertheless only be recognised by a few as a final call of warning and admonition from above. You humans should believe that you will still have to travel a difficult path but, with My strength, it will be possible for you, therefore I want to offer you My strength in advance, even to those of you who do not believe in Me as yet …. Call upon Me in times of need and you will manifestly experience My help, but do not succumb to the forces of darkness, don’t curse and complain if you are painfully affected by that which will and must come without fail …. Think about it when a decision for or against Me is expected of you. Consider the fact that I can give and take but only ever give to you that which will benefit you for eternity. Don’t let yourselves be enticed by all kinds of worldly promises, you will lose everything again …. but what you acquire spiritually will remain with you and give you eternal pleasure. You are facing a change in the world …. you are approaching a turning point both in an earthly and spiritual way, you humans are at the centre of a momentous event; hold on to Me, your God and Father of eternity, and you will remain safe while everything around you will perish, for I Myself Am your strength and power, I Myself Am Lord over life and death …. Anyone who is with Me, who stands by My side, truly need not fear anything, for he will live in eternity.
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Right directed desire …. (new year)
B.D. 5568 from January 1st 1953, taken from Book No. 61
What you strive for will become yours …. All of you who desire Me, you will also reach Me, for I draw you to Me as soon as only your will is meant for Me …. But you who desire the world’s goods will become its slaves, they will dominate you and finally take you completely captive so that you will remain bound in matter for an infinitely long time. However, if earthly possessions are taken from you, who have only directed your senses worldly, then accept this as an undeserved grace, for you can still find salvation from this bound state, you can still come to your senses and turn away from earthly possessions and strive towards Me in the knowledge of the imperishable. And therefore remember the value of what you strive for …. No matter how tempting it may seem to you …. give it up if it is transient, and seek to acquire that which has eternal value …. For your will will be valued, what you earnestly desire will be given to you. The earthly lifetime is short and especially short for the presently living human race …. And even if you are fulfilled in everything earthly, this earthly life is no compensation for the life in eternity which you will have acquired on earth. Earthly wealth will certainly earn you spiritual poverty if your wealth is not blessed by Me because you use it according to My will, in unselfish neighbourly love. But then your heart has long since freed itself from the desire for it, then you have long since overcome matter, which should also be your aim. But as long as you still desire riches spiritual treasures are little to be found with you, and then earthly wealth is a danger for you which you don’t recognize. This is why I warn you against it, this is why I assure you that you will receive what you desire and that you should therefore direct your desire correctly so that hard matter will not one day become your fate of immeasurable torment. Remember these words of Mine and strive towards the right aim, direct your thoughts spiritually, seek Me and My kingdom, seek to acquire goods with which I want to bless you abundantly if only you desire them in your heart, and always be aware of the fact that your life on earth will not last forever but that life after the death of your body is ordered according to your innermost desire …. that you can enter the spiritual kingdom in full possession of light and strength, blessed with spiritual possessions, but that you will also have to bear the consequences of your striving on earth poorly and miserably, without strength and blindly, for endless times and will only attain spiritual possessions with difficulty, and this will never happen without loving help, because you alone lack the strength to improve your lot. Therefore make good use of earthly time, acquire what is abundantly at your disposal but requires your free will. And recognize as worthless everything that only creates comfort for the body but leaves the soul unprovided for. Use the time well, for it will not last much longer, the end is closer than you think; therefore create and work while it is still day, for the night will come when you will no longer be able to work ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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When is pure truth guaranteed through the working of the spirit? ….
B.D. 5569 from January 3rd 1953, taken from Book No. 61
You can be confident that the truth is imparted to you, for God Himself, the eternal Truth, is instructing you, as it is written that you, in order to know the truth, must be taught by God. Therefore you should not doubt as long as you desire the truth and appeal to God Himself for it. And your most certain sign is the fact that you previously did not have the slightest knowledge, but that the knowledge you now possess was not imparted to you externally and yet, its profundity and wisdom surpasses all intellectual knowledge. You need not fear that you are instructed by forces which do not know the truth themselves, for God hears every call and answers it directly or through messengers of light, who work according to His will and only pass on divine knowledge, thus the pure truth. But forces trying to cause confusion are also at work, forces, which influence people who entitle them to do so by holding on to erroneous information, who therefore do not allow themselves to be instructed entirely without resistance. In that case doctrines can be spread which contradict divine truth …. The spiritual spark within a person is inseparably connected to the eternal Father-Spirit and its share is truth, because God Himself is Truth. If you are thus taught by the divine spirit within you, then you accept knowledge that arises from within yourselves, knowledge, which you can never acquire intellectually. So if you receive knowledge from within which enlightens you about spiritual correlations, knowledge, which clearly and logically explains divine-spiritual issues, then a source of this knowledge must be in you which cannot be scientifically explained, instead, it is the indwelling divine spiritual spark itself which is part of the eternal Deity …. And nothing but truth can be drawn from this source …. However, the intellect can be influenced by forces, as it is possible for a human being to purely intellectually try to penetrate the spiritual realm and be likewise inspired …. that is, he can be affected by surrounding thought currents, which also originate in the spiritual realm, but the realm from which they originate cannot be controlled. Earthly knowledge can merge with spiritual emanations; a person’s intellect can want to think in a specific way, and according to this will the forces intervene and support him …. And then there will always be a danger that the person will not want to let go of certain opinions or previous knowledge and instead allows spiritual forces to intervene by continuing to work in the same direction, which leads away from the truth ….
It should never be assumed that messages from the spiritual realm are always supervised by an elevated being of light if the preconditions are missing …. unreservedly requesting the pure truth, which always necessitates deferring one’s own will. Benign spiritual forces must always fit in with divine will, and this always respects the human being’s freedom of will. Consequently, where a person’s will does not allow for unlimited influence by these forces, they may not push themselves in front, they must respect a person’s will, and that means that they may not deny access to those forces which a person himself calls out to on account of his own will. Holding on to wrong information always offers evil forces the opportunity to speak. For this reason, self-criticism cannot be exerted stringently enough where the pure truth is concerned. And all of you must be instructed by God …. God Himself wants to convey the pure truth to you; He gave you this promise …. Therefore, approach God if you want to receive the pure truth …. appeal to Him for clarification, appeal to Him for enlightenment of spirit, present your questions and considerations to Him and He will truly grant what you are asking for …. He will convey the pure truth to you, directly or through messengers of light, but then they will always instruct you according to His will, their words can be accepted as God’s Word, because they are bearers of light, bearers of truth from God, thus also devoid of all error …. Call upon God Himself and He will hear you …. His Word is truth, and anything that does not tally with this Word does not originate from Him, even if it seems good to you …. Only one truth exists, and this is God Himself …. However, since the battle between light and darkness is constantly waged, you must also take God’s adversary’s influence into account and thus be vigilant and check. He creeps in wherever he can find cover and tries to cause confusion …. He will always endeavour to demean, question or present Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation such that a redeeming result will fail to materialise …. so that the human being will lose faith in the One without Whom no beatitude can exist. This is why he tries to confuse the concepts, even where the will is good but the complete dedication to God has not yet taken place. Take all your love, your every wish, all your doubts, adversities and worries to God …. and He will give you what you need, He will teach you and guide you into eternal truth, He will protect you from error and always be with you with His love ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Counteracting of satan where spiritual striving is ….
B.D. 5570 from January 4th 1953, taken from Book No. 61
God’s adversary will always be at work where God and His kingdom are being worked for. For it concerns his power, which will diminish to the same extent as the souls turn towards the kingdom of God. And his activity will always aim to plunge people into doubt, to present them with untrue knowledge and thus to make use of people who are not in truth themselves, for they willingly represent error, and error is good ground for God-opposing forces. Anyone who works for the kingdom of God will find many opponents, for His kingdom is not what people seek and desire …. His kingdom requires turning away from the world and its pleasures, and only a few are willing to do so, but most remain faithful to the world and thus also to the one who is lord of this world. But he who proclaims the kingdom of God often meets with resistance, and his work is often unsuccessful …. But this is a sign that he wants to bring divine things to people, that he is opposed by the majority of people. They want to see success, they want to acquire tangible goods, they want to stand high on earth, and the kingdom of God does not offer them all this …. and what it does offer they do not demand …. spiritual goods that will follow them into eternity. The world will become ever more prominent, the lust for pleasure and the wellbeing of the body will be indulged in excessively, and to the same extent the desire for the life of the soul will dull until finally a pitiful spiritual body leaves the earth which cannot enter the kingdom of God …. Wherever there are spiritually striving people the opposing forces start to move, for God’s adversary knows that he does not have much time left. But his activity before the end is frightening, for people enter his net with open eyes, they prefer to follow him rather than the messengers of God who proclaim His kingdom to the nations of the world …. For God does not come forth obviously in order to leave people free will, but He can be recognized if people want to recognize Him. For His messengers bring His word to people, His messengers proclaim the pure teaching of Christ again, His messengers admonish people to love and want to help them not to blindly walk into ruin …. God and His kingdom are no longer recognized, His messengers are rejected, and people’s way of life is not according to God’s will, it is not based on the commandment of love for God and one’s neighbour …. because someone works against it who always succeeds where the eye is directed towards the world, because he is listened to rather than the proclaimers of God’s kingdom. Nevertheless, the labourers in the vineyard of the lord shall not grow weary nor fear the powers of darkness …. And even if there are only a few who desire light, they will receive it and again radiate light, and rays will also fall into the darkness and there again show individuals the way that leads to the kingdom of God …. The work of God’s servants will not be done in vain, for He Himself is behind it with His strength of love and He blesses every activity which is carried out for Him and His kingdom …. And His kingdom will remain when the world kingdom passes away, His kingdom receives all who seek it, who did not desire the world but gave themselves to God, Who now opens His kingdom to them in all glory ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Formalities, ceremonies …. True church service ….
B.D. 5571a from January 6th 1953, taken from Book No. 61
Search for the core and take no pleasure in the shell …. I urge you to remember that no external formality will bring you humans one step forward, that only your inner life needs to come to life, that only spiritual aspiration will result in spiritual success. As long as you still value formalities, as long as you still allow yourselves to be captivated by ceremonies, you are still not looking inwardly, for as soon as your spiritual eye turns inwards everything outside of you will seem like a shadow to you. You close your eyes and turn away from external splendours and ceremonial acts because then you will see the true light in yourselves which is emanating from Me, which I will ignite in every person who is truly striving to establish the right bond with Me, who is working to improve himself …. who genuinely and truly is looking for Me …. I will let Myself be found by him, and then he will also understand why I want to be called upon in spirit and in truth …. Just consider that My kingdom is not of this world …. Consequently, everything of this world is a barrier to the spiritual world, to My kingdom, where material things no longer exist. Consider that all matter is still controlled by he who rules the world, and that it is his work which offers you eye dazzling material brilliance and splendour in order to darken Me inside of you, in order to keep you from true spiritual endeavour. Consider that he will use everything which still belongs to him in order to endanger you. Anyone who genuinely seeks to contact Me should go into his closet and call for Me there, i.e. he should withdraw into silence and turn his thoughts inwards, and he will surely find Me. But a person will hardly be able to collect his thoughts where the world confronts him so visibly, where his eyes can only ever behold without true inner prayer ….
I cannot be found where I Am proclaimed in a manner which is mere idolatry, because homage is being paid to the idol which is still animating matter …. My kingdom is not of this world …. My Words are so clear and everyone should be able to understand them, and anyone who sincerely strives for Me and My kingdom will understand them too. But you will not find My kingdom in this world, which still belongs to My adversary …. Let go of all external things if you want to be of real service to Me, just hold on to My teaching of love, follow it willingly and you will serve Me in a way that will truly please Me ….
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Formalities, ceremonies …. True church service ….
B.D. 5571b from January 7th 1953, taken from Book No. 61
In every church where I Am proclaimed you will learn the basic doctrines which can guide you into eternal bliss. If you only hear them and let them fade away they will be of little use to you; but if you allow them to penetrate your heart the seed will be fertilized and grow, soon covering the whole field, your heart, with abundant vegetation. Life will be awakened in you and Christ’s doctrine, My Word, which was made known to you, will yield glorious fruit. Your soul will mature and you will move towards perfection. Therefore every church which makes My Word accessible to you can help you to achieve maturity. However, the prerequisite is your acceptance of My Word, and you are offered this Word when the teaching of Christ is imparted to you, which also informs you of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Saviour of the world …. You humans are only able to achieve beatitude through Jesus Christ, consequently you also have to know of Him and His act of Salvation. And since you can only gain perfection by fulfilling His commandments of love, you also need to be instructed in His doctrine ….
As to where and how this doctrine will be imparted to you is irrelevant, but it is very important that you receive it. Therefore I will bless everyone who proclaims My Word, who tries to bring Me closer to people, who bears witness of Me, Who lived on earth as the man Jesus and brought salvation to humanity. Thus everything that will help to acquaint people with My suffering and death on the cross, with My human manifestation and act of Salvation, that will help to encourage them to follow Jesus, to live a life of selfless love for other people, is in accordance with My will and blessed by Me, irrespective of which school of thought aims to achieve this. However, anything exceeding this, anything not in accordance with My teaching of love, anything which is a burden to people because it interferes with human free will, anything which contradicts My simple way of life on earth, anything which was added to My divine commandments of love at a later time, will incur My displeasure and is not right for the development of true members of the church, which I Myself established on earth. Because where love is taught it also has to be applied by the teachers themselves …. i.e. where there is suffering it should also be alleviated …. And whoever receives material wealth from Me should also use it in the service of neighbourly love, he should ease suffering to the best of his ability.
If this first commandment is disregarded, no blessing can be expected either, even if My teaching of love is proclaimed. For then they are nothing but idle words which have not yet achieved a change of disposition, thus My Word has not yet penetrated the heart, the person’s heart has not yet come alive, My Word will have fallen on stony ground and therefore not be able grow. Nothing other than a life of love will enable you to acquire an eternal life of bliss, and My Gospel will only be truthfully proclaimed to people where this doctrine is preached quite firmly. And the true church service takes place where My teaching of love is given full expression, which is pleasing to Me and which will result in inconceivable blessings for you ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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He knows that he has not much time left ….
B.D. 5572 from January 9th 1953, taken from Book No. 61
The present time is very much influenced by My adversary, although it doesn’t mean that I withhold My might, My love and mercy. Yet people themselves grant him more right through their will, their attitude, their actions and words. Hence they distance themselves ever more from Me and are unable to feel My emanation of love, which could release them from My adversary’s influence. It is the time of the end, the time of which it is written: he knoweth that he hath but a short time …. And this is why he rages particularly conspicuously and yet will not be recognised by people. And My adversary fights especially vehemently where people quite clearly strive for Me …. This should always be an explanation for you when the spiritual aspirants come into conflict with themselves or their environment. Spiritual aspiration, that is, looking towards Me, is an abomination to My adversary, it fills him with hatred and a fury of annihilation, it inspires him to carry out the most shameful plans and the consequences can clearly be felt amongst My Own, amongst those who loyally want to serve Me, amongst those who receive light and shall spread it throughout the world. For he will interfere with his deceptive light, the light from above irritates him and he tries to extinguish it. He fights for every soul he is at risk of losing, and since the majority of people follow him voluntarily every soul which recognises and detaches itself from him makes him very angry.
This sign of the times is understandable to the person who knows the reason and purpose for bringing this earthly period to an end, who knows about the battle between light and darkness and the approaching end. And the closer it gets to it the more vehemently will he rage and cause confusion amongst My Own, for he uses every trick, every lie, he makes unscrupulous use of all weapons even if they result in the death of the soul he fights for. He will appear wearing a mask and will often be difficult to detect, he will also turn up in the midst of My Own and deceive all those who allow themselves to be deceived by his disguise …. And I will not stop him, for he has power and strength until the end of this world and can put it to the test, yet to the same extent I, too, Am on hand with My gifts of grace which, if they are used, will ensure victory over him on the day of Judgment. What has been proclaimed to you humans long in advance has to come true …. And this includes the raging of Satan in the last days before the end …. But there is always a path for all of you which will lead out of the confusion, there will always be a refuge for you to which you can hasten whenever you are in peril …. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest …. Bring all your suffering, your anxious questions, your fears and problems, your considerations to Me. I Am always available to you, I want to help you and give you strength if you are weak, I want to lead you out of the tribulation of your souls …. Anyone who seriously seeks Me need not be afraid to fall into My adversary’s hands, since I Am already present to someone who desires Me.
Just a little time longer and the flame ignited by My adversary in order to conceal himself in this blaze will flare-up high; his time is not over quite yet, thus he will still work to the utmost extent, and he will make good use of this time. All the same, it will come to an end when it is My will. For I truly reign over heaven and earth, over the good and the bad world of the spirit and nothing can happen without My will or My permission. And it is My will that he shall be bound for a thousand years …. that his power and control over the human race will be taken away from him for a period of time; it is My will that people shall live in peace one day, that those who have proven themselves to be My Own will be released from his domination; it is My will that My Own shall be victorious over him, thus I will not abandon them even in times of fiercest battle, I will always be present and not allow you to be pressed by him above and beyond your strength. I only ever want to be allowed to be present to you, that is, you should always continue to love despite all temptations from his side, because then I Myself can be with you and he will have to retreat from you, whom he then will have lost to Me for good ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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God's blessing on vineyard work ….
B.D. 5573 from January 10th 1953, taken from Book No. 61
You offer Me a heart full of love if you are willing to serve Me. And thus you can also work together with Me, you are capable of working in My vineyard because it is love which impels you to this work. There are not many people who consciously offer themselves to Me for service …. Consider the people around you who pretend to believe and yet only establish a bond with Me when they have earthly needs. But the extent to which the prayer is directed towards Me in spirit and in truth also determines the value of the bond with Me …. Serious striving also establishes a connection in spirit and in truth …. But people are too earthly bound and I am a foreign concept to them, a concept they have not yet come to terms with through reflection and therefore do not establish a living connection with Me which alone results in spiritual success. Anyone who is only able to commune with Me in silence, who seeks Me in thought and strives to come close to Me, will awaken to life, for he already connects himself with spiritual strength which impels him to continue on the chosen path until the final aim, until unification with Me. This is why only a few people consciously offer themselves to Me as servants in My vineyard, and this is why I bless these few in particular, because I need labourers on earth, people who are in contact with Me and their fellow human beings and can now give or impart to them what they do not yet possess, because I need people who carry out on earth what I Myself would like to do but cannot do, so as not to inevitably lead people to faith. You humans cannot assess how urgent this help is, yet it is an act of love towards your fellow human beings if you supply them with what they lack …. And it is, in turn, a great grace for you if you receive from Me what is helpful to you and your fellow human beings for the salvation of your soul. What shall help you to become blissfully happy has to be supplied to you, and this can only happen if a person consciously unites with Me, opens his heart and receives nourishing food from Me directly …. But he can pass this delicious food on to his fellow human beings if love impels him to help them in spiritual adversity. And I bless him for this will to help, because it is extremely necessary that people are helped who cannot establish contact with Me themselves, thus cannot be fed directly either and yet so urgently need strength for their earthly path in order to reach the final aim for which they are on earth. There are only a few who recognize people’s spiritual hardship and want to help, there are only a few who have love and faith and can therefore be taught by Me Myself in order to spread My gospel to the world. But where there is only the slightest will for it I Myself will prepare people and then place them in a field of activity where they can successfully work for Me and My kingdom. And I will keep them with My love, fill them with My strength, give them light, thus knowledge, and protect them from the attacks of the one who is against Me …. Anyone who wants to serve Me stands in love for Me and his neighbour, and this love is the strength which enables him to always fulfil My will …. This love eternally unites him with Me and will always let him think and act as it is My will ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
Translation handled by Doris Boekers
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Igniting the spark of God in man ….
B.D. 5574 from January 11th 1953, taken from Book No. 61
The spark of God in man must be ignited …. And this happens through love. You humans all have the divine spark within you which characterizes you as part of God, yet it is seemingly isolated from Me, for I have placed you as independent beings apart from Me so that you, of your own accord, of your own free will, will seek unification with Me again, because this unification only proves that you are full of the divine spirit through your own will. For I can give you everything but not direct your will, which is free. And only what you accomplish of your own free will makes you divine beings, My image …. Previously you were indeed created by Me in all perfection, yet you had to prove this very perfection by striving for it in free will, and therefore I externalized you as free beings and seemingly isolated you from Me …. And yet you remained inseparably united with Me through the divine spark within you, which was My share …. Now understand: You yourselves, i.e., your free will should only ignite this spark, and then you will also realize that you are not separated from Me but that you yourselves, as part of Me, are indissolubly united with Me …. This realization will spur you on to consciously establish the connection with Me. The spark of God within you flares up and the fire of love which ignited it increases. But love constantly pushes towards the original source of love …. the spiritual spark pushes towards the father-spirit from eternity …. What was placed outside unites with Me again …. The being in free will has become what I achieved but what I could never create in this perfection.
You should awaken the divine spark within you to life, you should carefully nurture and increase what was placed within you …. Love alone achieves this, for love is the fire which ignites the spark of God, love is of divine origin but it is not subject to any compulsion, love is your freest feeling which you can both stifle and revive, love is the binding agent between Me and you which, however, you have to generate yourselves, which cannot be given to you. Love is the evidence of the desire for Me and therefore also the surest means to establish unity with Me. Thus you only need to develop love within yourselves and thereby awaken the spiritual spark within you to life, which will then constantly strive towards Me as My share, which will constantly impel you into loving activity and thus also safely achieve unification with the eternal father-spirit ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.
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Opportunities for attaining the childship to God ….
B.D. 5575 from January 12th 1953, taken from Book No. 61
You will truly be compensated for all adversity you have to endure on earth and you will joyfully realise what you have gained by your state of suffering on earth which My love recognised as being beneficial for your soul and which therefore was only inflicted on you because of love. You humans should believe that you all still need opportunities to achieve maturity, that a person’s soul on earth is very rarely so crystallised on leaving its body that it can pass into the spiritual kingdom as My child …. believe, that only few people would achieve the degree of childship to God which grants them the Father’s inheritance if I did not create opportunities for them through a state of illness or suffering which can completely purify the soul and at the same time signify the removal of all guilt still on earth. But I know every person’s ability and willingness to love and thus also his degree of maturity …. I really also know best who is already so close to Me that I can accept him as My child …. Yet according to the law of eternity the soul has to be completely free of impurities, because the highest degree of beatitude, the childship to God, can only be reached on earth, because it is no longer possible for the soul in the spiritual kingdom to reach perfection, an ascent towards childship to God …. This is why the soul will still be offered the opportunity on earth to perfect itself, which a sorrowful and difficult earthly existence can achieve. Love and suffering lead the soul to perfection, love and suffering let it mature, love and suffering enable it to partake of the highest pleasures and the sweetest togetherness with Me …. the child unites with the Father and eternally remains joined to Him …. Earthly life, however, is limited, it is but a fleeting moment compared to eternity, and no matter how sorrowful it is, the beatitudes at the Father’s heart make up the suffering a thousand fold, and the soul looks back with gratitude and realises the overwhelming love of the Father, Who wanted to grant it this infinite happiness and therefore let it suffer on earth ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (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)
Evidences of connections to the spiritual realm ….
B.D. 5576 from January 13th 1953, taken from Book No. 61
Nothing is more important for people at present than that the truth they urgently need is conveyed to them. And therefore it is also permitted that spiritual forces express themselves through human mouths in order to first give people proof that a connection from the spiritual kingdom to earth is possible …. Only then will they be willing to believe divine revelations and examine them themselves according to their desire for truth. There is a connection from the spiritual kingdom to earth, and this knowledge spurs them on to gather knowledge, at first purely intellectually. But there is always a possibility to build on a gained knowledge and thereby come to the truth, to the right knowledge. People’s spiritual blindness is the greatest danger, the supply of truth is therefore an urgent need, even though the human being’s will must first be positively adjusted in order to achieve an advantage for the soul. Truth can certainly be directly conveyed to the willing, truth-desiring human being, yet without the slightest realization the human being does not require closer clarification, an area must first be proven to him before he seeks to enter this area …. And this evidence can be provided to every person, and spiritual forces always declare themselves willing to influence them, even to appear from time to time, in order to merely motivate people to believe in a kingdom which exists outside of earth and which will also receive them one day after they have discarded their earthly body. Only this belief will give their thoughts a different direction and result in striving for spiritual perfection, and therefore the kingdom of light with its inhabitants first has to be made credible to people before they strive for it. The beings of light are particularly concerned about this in the last time before the end of the world. This is the only explanation for the many unusual phenomena which will occur more and more frequently and which are all only intended to strengthen the foundation of faith in an otherworldly kingdom, so that then all statements, all revelations, will be given more attention, so that a transmission of pure truth from above is possible, so that people will be shown the path which leads into this spiritual kingdom. For what people say about it has long since lost its power of persuasion …. The truth must come from above so that it is also recognized and accepted as truth ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (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 spirit in the man Jesus …. following ….
B.D. 5577 from January 14th 1953, taken from Book No. 61
You humans can be full of the divine spirit if you live as followers of Jesus. As a human being He was no different from you, His life was only a struggle and fight against the desires which He felt like you but wanted to suppress out of love for Me. His life was a life of love for His neighbour, whom He knew was in need and wanted to help. What He achieved you humans could also achieve if you were serious about receiving Me Myself in all fullness. His soul was indeed from the kingdom of light but it did not recognize itself as such until the man Jesus was permeated by My spirit of love. At times My spirit did speak from Him, then the man Jesus spoke with supernatural wisdom and astonished his fellow human beings …. Yet as soon as My spirit hid itself again Jesus felt just as human as they did and His occasionally brighter spiritual state confused and frightened Him; He was closed but turned towards Me with ever more intimate love which then also gave Him the light about His earthly task …. The man Jesus had to wrestle with all powers which were against Him, He had to experience and suffer everything only a human being can suffer, for He preceded you humans on the path which you should and can also take with His help. I helped Him Myself with My strength of love, which He constantly requested and acquired through His life of love. And this unusual supply of strength of love enabled Him to accomplish the work of salvation …. You humans, too, could accomplish unusual things if you wanted to acquire My strength of love yourselves through loving activity; yet you lack the will which, however, was overdeveloped in the man Jesus, yet again only as a result of the love He developed within Himself. As a soul of light His soul felt the great spiritual hardship of the environment, and therefore its will to help was so strong and inspired the man Jesus to work in love …. You humans also see spiritual and earthly hardship around you, and if you wanted to help, you would also receive the strength …. because the will is taken into account …. And you, too, could be full of the divine spirit, because every work of love could result in My strength of love and thus My spirit could become effective in you. The following of Jesus would truly not be demanded of you humans if it could not be fulfilled. For again and again it has to be emphasized that Jesus walked His path on earth as a human being and that all divine attributes were His humanly acquired merits, that the deity did not determine His path of life but that the human being subjugated the deity to Himself …. well understood: that the love of Jesus, the human being, moved Me to the unlimited expression of love, because I am powerless against love, because I Myself am love from eternity …. The man Jesus has conquered Me Myself with Me, He has done what I Myself had to do …. what My fundamental nature demands …. to let the power of love take effect …. And every human being who works in love forces Me into self-emptying …. Yet this compulsion is the most pleasing feeling for Me, Who always wants to give Myself away but can only give Myself away according to My law of eternity where love meets Me. Love must unite the being with Me, then it is filled by My spirit, by My strength of love, and then it can work in and with Me, then the human being has taken the path of following Jesus which leads to unification with Me ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (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)
Free will …. (after talking about "fasting and praying" ….)
B.D. 5578a from January 16th 1953, taken from Book No. 61
People’s will is free …. Therefore they should also do what they deem right and not fear any displeasure on My part as long as they have Me before their eyes and in their heart. A person cannot sin if he seeks to serve Me, even if his actions deviate from My will, for then he does not recognize My will but does not consciously act against it. And I look favourably upon him and his activity. A special flow of strength emanates from people who completely bow down to Me, who listen to the voice of the spirit within themselves in deep humility and silent devotion …. And the environment can also feel this current of strength if it opens itself to it …. Thus the will of fellow human beings is necessary if an emanation of strength is to be evident, just as faith must be there where the strength is to become effective. If fellow human beings can be inspired to transmit a flow of strength to themselves through conscious contact with the source of strength, they will also experience the blessing which emanates from the source of strength. And this is the only explanation for the immense evidence of divine strength, the countless healings of the sick and spiritual awakenings, which first require the will to stand in the flow of grace and strength of eternal love. Unimagined strength can unfold as a result, for everyone who pushes towards Me is accepted, and My love shines down on every person who seriously seeks Me and obviously comes to meet Me. My radiance of love, however, signifies strength which now expresses itself as the human being hopes. I want to be recognized and therefore do not hide Myself from those who believe in My might and strength and want to be touched by it. But I can only make Myself known to those who are no longer strangers to Me and who prove this through intimate union with Me through love and prayer. Whoever recognizes Me will also love Me and want to feel Me in this love …. Anyone who unites with Me in heartfelt prayer will also not be a stranger and unloving towards his fellow human being with whom he seeks communion, and thus the prerequisites are given which allow for an obvious working of Me. And thus I bless people, and My blessing means healing and strengthening, My blessing means life and light …. Where many expect My strength many will receive strength, for I always distribute according to desire …. But the same can also happen to individual people without the masses taking notice …. Will alone opens hearts to Me, and everyone can prove his will in a different way. The will allows My obvious working or prevents it …. which, however, should not mean that the human being only needs to request a miracle in order to experience this miracle. The will which causes Me to express strength must be intimately and fully turned towards Me, which also necessitates profound love for Me and for the neighbour. Then it will be fulfilled in public or in silence. And such a will is also willing to give, to sacrifice and to help, and this is its strength and the guarantee that I will not fail Myself ….
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (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)
Free will …. (after talking about "fasting and praying" ….)
B.D. 5578b from January 16th 1953, taken from Book No. 61
A community can lead to great blessings but it can also easily fall flat, the will of the individual is always decisive as to whether spiritual success is achieved. Anyone who voluntarily tries to shape himself in such a way that I Myself can take abode in him, I will also always reveal Myself to him for the blessing of those around him who have the same will to make contact with Me again. Each person is solely responsible for himself, for his soul, and therefore no person can be spared the work on his soul, and this work consists of discarding faults and weaknesses and acquiring the virtues which stamp him into a divine being. This work of the soul cannot be done mechanically through the performance of formal actions which, for example, lack love …. On the other hand, success can be increased if the human being carries out planned self-education, if he consciously fights against all kinds of cravings and vices, if he renounces everything that is a danger to him and does that which brings him closer to Me, if he is celibate and avoids that which, as part of My adversary, can also hand him over to the adversary. Anyone who has much cause to sin should avoid these occasions; anyone who fears danger should avoid it if he feels too weak to be able to offer resistance …. But anyone who only practices love again and again will become strong in spirit and also be able to cope with every temptation. For love cannot be replaced, no matter how much a person mortifies himself …. Love is the solvent of the spirit and its strength, and where love is present every desire is also displaced, the ‘ego’ recedes and the fellow human being comes to the fore, and the strength of love works miracles which now understandably also have the strength of faith as their reason, which can be so great in people of open will that My spirit is prompted to express strength in excess. Everything is good that leads to self-shaping towards love …. The person who can renounce himself fights his self-love and transforms it into love for his fellow human being, to whom he would like to supply that which he renounces himself in order to help him …. Then love underlies self-emptying, and then it is beneficial for the individual’s spiritual development, then the human being lives in love, then he voluntarily renounces that which is still indispensable to the other. And I bless him for it …. but I also bless every spiritual striving, every proof of will to live to please Me. For anyone who strives towards Me will also irrevocably reach Me, no matter which path he takes. The will towards Me is the guarantee that he will reach Me. Therefore it is up to every person in which way he fulfils My commandments of love for Me and his neighbour if only his firm will is to fulfil them and he therefore unites with Me in prayer …. Then I will always meet the supplicant, then My spirit will be active in him and his activity will always be recognizable according to the degree of love, according to the strength of love which fills the person who wants to work for Me and for My kingdom ….
Amen
Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 61 (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)
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