Book 63           NR.  5759 – 5858

received by  Bertha Dudde  between 1.9.1953 and 21.1.1954

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BD 5760                received  03.09.1953

Dulling the inner voice by rejecting the spirit ....

You should not resist the spirit if it wants to express itself .... and it wants to speak if you are inwardly urged to entertain spiritual thoughts, if your thoughts keep occupying themselves with that which does not concern your body but the soul .... if you have to think of death, of a continuation of life after death, of God, of your responsibility towards Him, of your own shortcomings, of mistakes and weaknesses, which you yourselves experience as such and which cause you to feel inwardly dissatisfied and anxious. All these are expressions of the spirit in you which would like its voice to be heard, which demands your attention regarding all these things, as they alone are of importance for eternity .... All these thoughts don’t deal with the earthly world but point to the spiritual kingdom, and these thoughts ought to be heeded, for they don’t arise in the human being for no reason. They are gentle admonitions and warnings, it is the inner voice which is just not recognised by a person as a voice and which tells him the same, that the person should take stock of himself and not live indifferently, that he should not merely live an earthly life because he thereby causes indescribable damage to his soul. The admonisher within the person will not keep silent but very often will be ignored, for the voice from outside is louder and drowns out the inner voice if a person is too worldly minded. Then he will become insensitive to the subtle voice which sounds in him, he will only have eyes and ears for the world and be in great danger of entirely losing the ability to hear this voice .... thereby losing all faith and no longer being capable of contemplating spiritual thoughts.

Every person, even a worldly person in the midst of life, has moments of calm when he can take stock of himself if he wants .... Every person will occasionally be drawn into conversations pertaining to spiritual problems; in every person the spirit, which is part of God, tries to express itself .... For God touches all people, and He does so time and time again, because He wants to divert them from purely earthly matters towards spiritual ones. Yet anyone who resists the spirit, who pushes all thoughts away, who remains unreceptive to all inward instructions, prevents the working of the inner spirit at his own peril. For he loses all contact with the Divine, he himself destroys the bridge .... he remains on earth and will never be able to enter spiritual spheres even when his earthly life has ended .... For his soul is so materialistically inclined that it will be unable to leave the earthly sphere .... it is hardened just like matter, which occupied its sole thoughts and intentions in earthly life .... And for this soul the path will be an infinitely long one before it reaches the sphere of the spirit .... for it is considerably more arduous to travel than on earth ....

Amen

BD 5764                received  08.09.1953

Ignorant and misguided people’s attitude regarding truth ....

It is difficult to enlighten people as long as they are convinced that they know the truth. A completely uninformed person will gladly accept knowledge offered to him, and if it appears to enlighten him it will make him happy. But someone who believes to know the truth is difficult to convince that he is thinking incorrectly, and it is even more difficult to convey different spiritual information to him, because he holds on to the former and is only receptive for other knowledge when he begins to doubt. And thus, you can always identify amongst you fellow human beings those who are completely without faith and live a purely earthly life, and those who deem themselves religious, they even eagerly support their faith and yet they are defending something that is far from the truth.

The former are in the majority and, due to their total unbelief, in dire straights because they don’t look for contact with the world which is their home as well as their goal, whereas the believers still occupy themselves with spiritual issues despite wrong teachings and misguided views which only need to be rectified, and they will often be offered the opportunity for this on earth as well as in the beyond, yet the direction of their thoughts is always determined by their free will. But complete unbelievers should be offered spiritual information, they should be motivated to reflect on it, the reality of the spiritual world should first be made plausible to them, and they can also be won over if the spiritual knowledge is presented to them intelligently.

The more a person has distanced himself from ecclesiastical belief, the more difficult it is to introduce him to church doctrines, even if they correspond to the truth .... Yet somehow every person can be approached, it just requires extensive knowledge to win such people, which in the end nevertheless leads to where God can be found .... These people must learn to believe by way of deliberation, and then they will attain a profoundly living faith if they seriously want the truth. For their unbelief need not always demonstrate their complete remoteness from God .... They might have been pushed into unbelief on account of misguided teachings which their intellect refused to accept and which resulted in their rejection of everything .... And these people must be helped again by their intellect to recognise the truth, then they will become convinced supporters of the truth themselves and remain firm in their conviction ....

Heart and intellect must be able to accept spiritual concepts, for the truth, which originates from God, can also stand up to all intellectual scrutiny and does not only demand blind faith .... whereas misguided spiritual concepts, misguided religious doctrines, will not withstand a serious examination by the intellect and therefore blind faith is demanded for these teachings, which is never God’s will .... It is much easier for the sceptic to arrive at the truth than for those people who don’t want the truth because they believe to possess it .... who do not use their intellect but accept everything without investigating its origin ....

Amen

BD 5766                received  10.09.1953

The urging of the spirit ....
Discontentment ....

You are certainly urged by My spirit to comply with My will, yet you are not being forced into doing so because compulsion would damage your soul. If, however, you completely and utterly sacrifice your will to Me, if you consciously surrender your opposition to Me by only wanting to do My will, then you will be unable to do anything else but to live according to the order which is My fundamental principle of eternity .... Then you will no longer consciously infringe against this order, you will always conduct yourselves as I ask of you, you will no longer sin consciously. In that case you willingly comply with the urging of the spirit, you allow yourselves to be guided by it and thus you will be guided by Me, and that truly righteously. Yet you should and indeed can do more than just avoid sin and abhor injustice; you will also be induced by My spirit accordingly, but if you don’t give in to its urging then you will not be content with yourselves even if you have not sinned, for although you don’t infringe against the commandments of love for God and your neighbour .... you nevertheless don’t eagerly comply with them and your soul will feel neglected and depressed, for it senses that it is not making any progress in its development ....

Every discontentment with oneself is an expression of a depressed soul. You humans should not always remain on the same level, you should make an effort, you should do whatever it takes to advance your higher development, and you should continually work at improving yourselves, and this is what the spirit constantly stimulates you to do .... If you follow its encouragement you will also sense an inner calm, for then you will have fulfilled My will and this feeling makes you happy. I certainly take notice of your will to accept My will and assess it correctly, yet you should also try to put into practise what you promise Me .... Seek to give ever more love, to perform selfless works of love, try to base your whole life on love, then you will live in harmony with My spirit within you, and then you will only listen to My spirit and ignore whatever the other side says to you. Let the spirit in you rule supreme, completely submit yourselves to My will and always strive for perfection .... And your heart will be so filled by peace that it will reveal Me and My presence in you , for then you will be aware of My presence and can only live in absolute harmony with Me and My spirit ....

Amen

BD 5767                received  11.09.1953

The souls’ great hardship in the beyond ....

Souls which lack light suffer incredibly great hardship in the beyond. To describe this condition to you humans on earth would truly suffice you to live your own life differently, but that would be the end of your freedom of will; driven by fear of the same destiny you would inevitably make an effort to behave differently, thus indeed comply with what is expected of you but not of your own accord, motivated by free will. Yet you shall know about the soul’s fate, it shall be imparted to you, and then it is still up to you to believe it and to draw your own conclusions from it ....

On entering the kingdom of the beyond these souls have lost everything they loved on earth, they own nothing, for they can only take across what they had spiritually acquired, and this is what they are mainly lacking. Since they had lived a godless way of life they are engulfed by utter darkness and totally powerless, yet they are not insensitive, for their environment is causing them torment and terror, and these torments and terror will also be experienced by a soul which had fearlessly and powerfully implemented on earth what had subsequently plunged it into darkness .... These indescribable sufferings will then either awaken the soul’s desire to escape this condition or increase its evil instincts so that it will also look for satisfaction in this realm, which means that it will completely submit itself to the forces of darkness. Yet even the souls which had not left their earthly life in such sinfulness, but whose life had been devoid of love and indifferent towards all spiritual notions, are in a very difficult situation, for they, too, are extremely tormented by darkness, although this will, from time to time, give way to twilight if the soul is not yet entirely hardened, so that it will ask for light, for only the desire will enable the soul to attain the light.

But all souls are lacking the strength to want what is right .... and according to the law of eternity they cannot be given help if they don’t desire it themselves. God’s act of compassion is certainly not over once the soul has left the earthly body, but what it failed to use on earth even though it had owned it in abundance, it first has to acquire in the beyond, and it is too weak to do so .... Just always imagine them as extremely weakened, helpless beings which suffer indescribably and depend on help in order to get released from their suffering .... you would be overcome by pity for these beings if you were able to see their hardship. And you all know souls in the beyond of whom you don’t know in what state they had entered the spiritual kingdom .... you all have lost people through death who had been close to you .... At least remember the souls who had been dear to you and help them, for even the smallest work of redemption on these souls will result in further redemptions, and you will have contributed much towards it.

You can only help them through loving thoughts and prayers, through intercession on behalf of these souls which, admittedly, will not release them from their torment but it will give them strength on account of which the soul will be able to change its will and strive towards the light. It cannot be released from its painful situation against its will, but in order to want what is right it needs your intercession, a prayer given with love, as soon as it enters your thoughts. For you should know that the soul is asking for your help as soon as it enters your thoughts, that you are constantly surrounded by souls hoping for your help, and that you should not resentfully suppress thoughts of the deceased if you don’t want to add to their agony .... The fate of these souls remains hidden from you as not to impair your free will; you and the deceased souls occupy two worlds which are separated by a dividing line; you cannot look into their world and yet it exists and you are able to send much love from your world into theirs, the effect of which expresses itself in a way and to an extent that countless souls will be able to escape their situation. Often remember these poor souls and don’t ignore them in their adversity, for what you do for them in merciful love will be richly rewarded to you, in as much as that you will receive spiritual help on earth from all souls which have come out of darkness into the light ....

Amen

BD 5769                received  14.09.1953

Satan bound ....
The new earth ....

The power of evil will be broken for a long time, Satan will be put into chains .... a period of peace will replace the time of battle in the universe, no being of darkness will be able to oppress the people on earth; Satan himself and his followers will be bound for a long time, and people on the new earth will not loosen his restraints because they are closely united with God and no longer strive for anything else but Him, Who will then taking loving care of them, both spiritually and physically. This period of peace on earth will make up for the time of indescribable adversity during the last days on this earth, which is granted to those people who are and want to remain faithful to God. It will truly be a time of battle for them since they will be spiritually and physically persecuted and barely able to defend themselves against their pursuers, who will even threaten their lives if they refuse to submit to them. But time and again these people have been promised through seers and prophets a time of peace, a time when no one will be in danger anymore from any side, when body and soul may enjoy the wonderful works of divine love, when a blissful peace will fill their hears through the presence of the One Whom they love and for Whom they have suffered.

Everything will be peaceful, creations and living beings alike will live in perfect harmony, and even the bound spiritual substance will progress and quickly surrender its resistance because it will sense the nearness of the One to Whom it shall surrender again, and because people’s spiritual emanations will soothingly affect the bound spirits within the creations. People had already passed their test of will, therefore a decision will no longer be necessary on the new earth, since people belong to God with body and soul and cannot be separated from Him anymore. But everything pertaining to Satan will languish in darkness; it is banished again into hardest matter and unable to influence the souls striving towards the light, it has to submit to God’s will and is deprived of its power for an infinitely long time. Satan himself is weak since everything which had supported him and his power is bound and thus withdrawn from his influence.

In the midst of his world he is without strength, until people’s wrong will shall once again provide him with power, but this will only happen after a long period of time, after the first generations of earth, the inhabitant of paradise, their children and children’s children, have long since entered the spiritual kingdom .... when a rift occurs again in the direction of the emerging generations’ will .... Then people will once again let themselves become captivated by material things and through their desire will then also loosen the chains of the one who is lord of this unredeemed world. Then the state of paradise will also come to an end, the time of peace will once again be superseded by a time of battle between light and darkness, for then the struggle for people’s souls will start again until another developmental period expires, yet with the result that innumerable beings will have achieved their spiritualisation and Satan’s power will get increasingly less until he, too, will have to surrender one day which, however, will still take an inconceivably long time and countless periods of Salvation ....

Amen

BD 5771                received  17.09.1953

Guests at the table of the Lord ....

Come to My table and you will receive food and drink as nourishment for your soul .... What more do you need than what serves to strengthen your soul? What can you be lacking when your soul is provided for .... when you first strive to benefit your soul .... Then you completely fulfil your purpose of earthly life and the body will also have what it needs as long as it is inhabited by the soul. And I surely know how long your soul needs its cover, how long you have to live on earth as a human being to achieve the necessary maturity for your soul. And for that time the body will be sustained too. Therefore, if you desire something from Me only for your soul you will receive plenty, your soul need not starve and the body will have in abundance too because you first make the effort to carry out My will, to receive My Word, to listen to Me, and therefore you are guests at the table of the Lord who are ready to receive. I forever want to give you food for your soul, I want you to feed yourselves with the bread of heaven, to accept My Word which provides strength for your soul to ascend.

And I want you to ask Me often for this, I want that you are always willing to listen to Me when I talk to you .... I constantly invite you to be My guests whom I want to refresh with bread and wine, with My flesh and My blood .... with everything that the soul needs to increase in light and strength .... And that is why I always send forth My servants to call people from the street into My welcoming house .... All are called to come to Me and be My guests if they want.

But My house is away from the broad road and thus they have to leave it if they want to find Me but they will never regret it because on the broad road they will never find the delicious refreshment they are offered at My table. And they always long for more, the more often they have been My guest. Yet they have to come to Me voluntarily because, although I send them messengers, I will not force anyone to come to My feast; however, those who refuse to follow My call will remain empty-handed since the world cannot offer what My love wants to give to them .... My Word, which is strength and light and life, to guide them into blissfulness ....

Amen

BD 5772                received  18.09.1953

The church of Christ ....

Anyone who professes to belong to the church of Christ shall also live like a Christian, otherwise he is no credit to it. When, in time, belief in Jesus Christ is professed then the true followers of His church will become obvious, for the strength of faith, which is necessary for the avowal of His name, can only be gained through living a way of life by His example, a life of discipleship to Jesus, and he, therefore, is a member of the church founded by Jesus Christ. However, many people will pay lip service, they, too, will belong to churches which claim to have been founded by Jesus .... If they live according to divine will by fulfilling His divine commandments of love then their strength of faith will be strong as well and they will stand firm during the final battle of faith and profess His name before the world ..... But there will only be a few of them, only people who live a life of love will be able to muster this strength of resistance against worldly powers who plan to eliminate everything that is associated with a belief in Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer. And only then will the human being prove that he is a Christian, only then will he be able to consider himself a member of the church founded by Jesus Christ, which subsequently will also profess Jesus Christ before God, the Father, as He predicted ....

The church of Christ no longer numbers many followers, and the more love grows cold amongst people the smaller the flock of true Christians will become, because love must definitely be practiced in order for people to be regarded as true Christians and to provide a fellow human being with a shining example of the true church on earth, which does not require any official affiliation with a denomination but only a life according to the divine commandments, which first of all call for love, but which then will also exhibit the certain characteristic that demonstrates the founder of the church .... the working of the spirit in all members .... The church of Christ is not an externally recognisable building, it is only the union of profoundly believing people who are in most intimate contact with the founder of the church, with Jesus Christ, and thus are also enlightened, guided and permeated by His spirit and are also truly able to work remarkably with the spiritual strength. Strong faith and profound love prove the affiliation with the church of Christ and only its followers will survive the final battle of faith, because they will fight with Jesus Christ Himself and will, therefore, also be victorious over the one who opposes Christ, over God’s adversary and his vassals .... For Jesus Christ will appear in power and glory on the last day and fetch His small congregation to Himself into the kingdom of peace, but He will place his adversary into chains and with him all those who are enslaved by him ....

Amen

BD 5776                received  26.09.1953

Who admires the world also honours Satan

Whoever renders to the world also renders to Satan. Those words are harsh and will hit all the worldly people in a sensitive way because nobody wants to be accused of having ties to Satan and yet, the world is his kingdom and everyone who is enslaved to the world is thus his servant.

It is true, you people are placed in the midst of the world, and it is true, you have to take a stand in the world as long as you live on earth; however, the degree of participation of your heart is decisive as to how much you are subject to the world.

It is the innermost striving, the desire of the heart, which is judged and if it is aimed for the world you are then certainly enslaved to the one who its ruler is. For then your thinking is merely directed earthly while you ought to strive for the spiritual and you therefore need to overcome matter i.o. to obtain possession of the spiritual. You cannot avoid the world but, rather, you must overcome it. That is to say, you are standing at the start of your earthly life as a human being in this material world which belongs to the opponent of God, with which [the world] you must take up the fight i.o. to then emerge as a victor and thus to enter that one world which is spiritual, called the kingdom of God.

The walk through the earthly life, through the earthly world, you do have to go but you ought to rid yourselves from your bonds which have to be considered as chains of satan; as long as you are in the spell of the world, as long as you look with desire at everything you ought to overcome, that is.

The material world is his kingdom, it holds the fallen spiritual belonging to him but of which he is not in charge as long as it is bound into the works of creation by means of God’s will. The human being, however, he can influence because in the condition of a free will he needs to be subject to every influence i.o. to make a decision, to give the test of will, which is the reason and purpose of his earthly life. And this influence is truly made use of in a frightening manner by the opponent of God.

He does not want to lose the spiritual by means of a free decision of its own. That’s why he lures man unto his side by illusions of all that which appears desirable to him [man] but which belongs to his [Satan’s] world, which separates him from God, which makes him turn away from the destination that he is to reach on earth.

He [satan] is lord of matter, lord of the earthly world and everyone who serves the world serves him. Everyone who desires the world and involves with earthly goods involves with Satan and they need to be told this truth; they cannot, out of a false consideration, be dealt with gently by withholding this truth. They are connected to satan and whose servants they are; of that one’s lot they will also take part when the day of retaliation will come.

There are two lords wrestling for your souls and both of them offer you their kingdom. But the one [of them] is transitory [will pass away], the other one will last forever. Your very self, however, is immortal and if, on earth, you have not acquired the immortal kingdom there will remain nothing but utter darkness surrounding you after your body’s death, which will unsparingly torment you .... [This is] the kingdom of Satan which cannot offer you anything else, but whose [number of] followers you have increased by means of your desires on earth.

Separate yourselves from him as long as you walk on earth, give up that which belongs to the world, strive for the intellectual wealth [in Jesus], the only one of which will guarantee you an eternal life, a life in light and power and bliss!

Amen

BD 5778                received  28.09.1953

False Christ’s and prophets ....

In the last days the pure truth will be particularly attacked, which is the work of Satan who, being God’s adversary, wants to undermine the truth by confusing people’s thoughts so that they cannot recognise the truth as such any longer. And his methods and tactics are so well devised that even people whose will does not oppose Me often do not want to see the situation clearly .... but who could see it if they sincerely only wanted the truth. Especially during the last days true and deceptive lights will flash at the same time, and a genuine will for truth is necessary in order to be able to differentiate between them, because it will be difficult to understand the matter .... Because many false Christ’s and prophets shall arise, as was foretold .... which is also a sign of the end time .... From this follows that they will fight in the same manner, that they will therefore present themselves as messengers from above, that they will speak the words of Christ and foretell the future to people .... but that they are representatives of the one who fights against the truth .... to lead people astray so that they cannot recognise the truth anymore. Thus you don’t always have to search for these false Christ’s and prophets outside of spiritual life since even the representatives of misguided teachings within the ecclesiastical organisations are false Christ’s and false prophets .... everyone offering vague, misleading explanations has to be included, as well as all those who try to prevent the pure truth from being given to people, hence all those who adhere to distorted teachings and restrict people’s freedom of thought by withholding from them what could have a clarifying effect ....

Everything that is untrue is the work of false Christ’s and prophets, and to make a distinction irrefutably requires the sincere will for truth, which also has to be willing to surrender what the person has always endorsed .... if it does not comply with the truth. Hence you humans can only protect yourselves from the actions of God’s adversary during the last days before the end if you place yourselves into the safe hands of God, Who is eternal truth .... if you pray to Him with sincere will for truth that He should protect you from error and then open your eyes and ears .... Then you will emotionally recognise what you should accept or reject .... Then false Christ’s and false prophets will not be able to dazzle you with a deceptive light .... Then the rising of a soft glow in your heart will give you reassurance that you live in truth, and then you will also maintain this truth with conviction and support its cause during the last battle on this earth .... and you will be true defenders of Christ ....

Amen

BD 5779                received  30.09.1953

Battle of faith ....

The battle of faith still lies ahead of you and I want to find you prepared for this battle .... For this reason My great concern beforehand is to strengthen your faith and to introduce you to knowledge which totally explains to you what lies ahead of you, what is still to come before the end. You must believe in this end so that you can also understand everything, so that you can also understand the battle of faith, which is extremely significant for every individual person. It will not simply be a battle which will result in victory for one or the other of the fighting powers after a certain length of time .... It will be a battle which Satan’s followers will wage against God .... a battle which will not involve earthly possessions but spiritual wealth, a battle in which the souls must decide which side they want to support, although people will also be adversely affected in an earthly way, yet only the soul will triumph or lose, and therefore the outcome of the battle will extend to eternity .... And therefore I will do whatever I can before in order to prepare people for this battle, in order to strengthen them and to inspire them with courage of conviction .... I will seek to increase the army of My fighters, not, because I want to win but because I want them to reap the fruit of a victory themselves, because I don’t want them to descend, to become enslaved by My adversary anew and to remain captive again for an infinitely long time .... At the moment you humans pay little attention to faith, you are rather indifferent towards that which is important .... towards spiritual striving .... you must first be shaken up in order to form a serious opinion about faith .... And that will happen as soon as the battle of faith erupts, for then everyone will be requested to profess Me before the world or to deny Me, to give Me up. And only then will you stand up for Me, if your are conscientious, or abandon Me without hesitation .... for the sake of earthly advantages .... And since the end is very close, this decision is necessary, not before Me, since I know your will; however, you shall be encouraged to think about it once more because you won’t do so of your own accord unless you are forced to do so by the earthly authority .... A few certainly exist who will dwell on it before and who, therefore, will also receive My obvious help by making it easy for them to understand, yet they are only a few, and since I would like to increase their number I will let them point out the end .... Yet these few will barely find credence, for those without spiritual aspiration do not consider an end of this earth possible, yet the manifestations of the last days will not fail to impress the still undecided who could become thoughtful and return to the faith if they are instructed correctly. Correct and truthful instruction can lead to great success where spoilt religious doctrines caused the apostasy from faith, where people are not unwilling to believe but took offence at misguided teachings. They can be won over again for Me and My kingdom, and for the sake of these few many more signs will still occur which will announce the near end and which will not remain without effect on them. The right decision of faith will only be made if such strength of faith exists which accepts all physical disadvantages resulting from it, for the human being with the right realisation knows what it is about and he will gladly give what is taken away from him so as not to endanger the life of the soul. It is the final test of will on this earth; the decision to profess Me before the world regardless of the earthly consequences will determine your fate in eternity. And only a strong and convinced faith will pass this final test, only a strong and convinced faith will stand firm until the end ....

Amen

BD 5785                received  10.10.1953

Constant contact with God ensures success ....

Request My support in everything you undertake .... Don’t start anything without Me, take no path without Me, always let Me lead the way, then I will be your goal which you will safely reach. And so you shall also come to Me with all spiritual concerns, and you will always receive the right advice, for then you will be guided by My spirit .... you will not be able but to think and behave correctly and successfully work for Me and My kingdom .... And it will always seem as if you speak and proceed of your own will. For I don’t manifest Myself so evidently that you would feel compelled to comply with My will, and yet it is My will which is now expressing itself through you. If you first commend every work, all mental or spoken words to Me, you may also be assured of My influence, yet this very first contact with Me is necessary in order to feel My will in you and to think, speak and act accordingly. And therefore you need not worry that you will not be able to carry out the work for Me and My kingdom as long as you don’t consider it an occupation but only ever want to be of service to Me, and thus as My servants remain in constant contact with Me in order to receive My instructions. For the latter occurs through your heart into which My spirit will place sensations which will cause you to act in accordance with My will .... And then all your beginnings will be blessed ....

Amen

BD 5788                received  13.10.1953

The church of Christ ....

A person who seriously strives for Me will also reach his goal .... I Am the way, the truth and the life .... Anyone who seeks Me has already entered the path, and he will be guided by Me into the truth which will give him life .... However, anyone who seriously looks for Me will not try to find Me in a specific school of thought for he will know that I can only be found in his heart, that his heart alone is the crucial factor as to whether I Am present where I Am proclaimed .... My doctrine of love can be preached everywhere .... but whether the human being will find Me everywhere is entirely determined by the desire of his heart and .... whether it is genuinely searching for Me .... The Words can ignite everywhere and awaken the yearning of love for Me, but only after they have ignited will the right path have been entered. And then the person will also be capable of discerning the pure truth .... he will accept and strive for that which alone leads to the life which lasts forever. Once the heart has been captured by My Word the connection to Me will have been established and My presence will be assured to him .... Then he will no longer belong to any school of thought but to My church, which I Myself founded on earth and to which any church organisation can lead which proclaims My divine teaching of love, which demands faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world.

Therefore, do not fight each other if you all strive for Me, for then I will guide you on the right path, on the path of truth, which leads to eternal life. Then everyone belonging to My church will recognise which teachings differ from the pure truth and he will also be able to guide the blind who, unaware of the danger, walk along byways which do not lead to the goal. And if these blind people are also genuinely searching for Me, then they will also allow themselves to be led and be grateful for the help because they recognise My guidance, because .... anyone who seriously tries to find Me .... will also be seized by My love and feel this love of Mine .... I Am the way, the truth and the life .... anyone who endeavours to reach Me, whose heart is turned towards Me, cannot go astray .... And even if he is still caught up in the greatest error, thus still far away from the truth .... he will nevertheless end up in My church which I Myself founded on earth, because his desire for Me, his faith in Me, is the foundation on which My church is built .... For only a profound and living faith will strive for Me, only a profoundly faithful human being has his heart’s desire directed towards Me, and I will truly let Myself be found by him ....

Amen

BD 5796                received  26.10.1953

Overcoming matter ....
Spiritual kingdom ....

As long as your thoughts and wishes merely apply to the world and its commodities you will hardly inherit My kingdom, for My kingdom is not of this world .... My kingdom can only be attained by relinquishing everything you humans still find desirable .... My kingdom necessitates the overcoming of matter, you will only be able to liberate yourselves from the form and enter My kingdom if you detach yourselves from everything that belongs to My adversary. This material world is his realm, albeit he has no influence over matter as such ....

But the greater is his influence over people, who shelter the spiritual essence as soul within themselves, which has now reached the stage of development where it can escape his dominion, where it can release itself from every external form with its correct use of will. Then he will exert his influence to excess by attaching a person to matter in order to direct their will wrongly so that he will strive again for something he had long overcome already. The material world is your greatest test of will, for you should renounce it, you should voluntarily do without everything you consider desirable in the course of your earthly life, you should strive for the spiritual kingdom, thus you should choose and decide for My kingdom or the kingdom of My adversary.

He will tempt you with his commodities .... but consider that these goods are transient, that they by themselves can perish or that they will have to be relinquished by you at the hour of your death .... You cannot hold on to them forever, sooner or later you will irrevocably lose them .... Think of this and therefore start early by producing, working and acquiring possessions which cannot be taken away from you, everlasting possessions whose value will only be truly recognised in eternity, after the death of the body, which then will be the soul’s wealth and make it infinitely happy.

Your longing for matter makes you blind for spiritual possessions, you are unable to recognise them for what they are because your thoughts are only focussed on earthly things leaving you insensitive to spiritual currents, for My kingdom is not of this world, but My kingdom will come to everyone who desires it .... Therefore detach yourselves from what prevents your entry into My kingdom .... Free yourselves from the longing for earthly possessions, go without and abstain for as long as you live on earth in order to then receive in abundance My possessions of love in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

BD 5797                received  28.10.1953

The end will come without fail ....

You cannot delay the end anymore .... The time limit has expired and only a few days remain until the end .... just enough time deemed necessary by Me in order to still bring deliverance to those who are still able and willing to change. For My eye sees everything and My ear hears all, and thus even the most subtle impulses of a human heart are known to Me .... And since My love applies to all My living creations I will still come to the aid of those who take hold of My redeeming hand and whose will has always been known to Me. I come to help everyone who allows himself to be helped .... And thus, in the end no-one will be able to say that he was not offered My redeeming hand .... For I feel sorry for every creature which, at the end of this earth, will have to suffer the hard fate of imprisonment in the creations of the new earth .... since it had already reached the state of free will and has to be bound again for an infinitely long period of time. Therefore I will truly use all means prior to this in order to direct those people’s hearts to Me who do not want to acknowledge Me as yet. I truly will leave no stone unturned which might result in a change of human hearts .... Yet I must leave people their free will and cannot force them to come to Me.

But the end will come without fail .... when My act of Redemption has been accomplished on this earth, when the few who will still accept help have been helped .... And that is only a short time .... during which much work shall still be carried out in a redeeming sense .... during which the world of light will exceedingly diligently work to penetrate the darkness, during which people’s thinking will be influenced in every way in order to make an end of the earth plausible. And everyone who contributes towards spreading the light assists in accomplishing the redemptive work. Everyone who works in a redeeming sense will be abundantly supported by Me, for I will bless everyone who helps to rescue souls from the dreadful fate of a renewed banishment in the matter of the new earth. And regardless of how low the degree of maturity is .... if the human being recognises and acknowledges Me at the time of his death .... his advancement in the beyond will be assured .... Yet to be entirely without faith at the end of the days enslaves the human being to My adversary, and he will have to share his fate on the day of Judgment. You humans must believe in Me if you want Me to take mercy upon you ....

Amen

BD 5798                received  29.10.1953

Disbelief regarding the announcements ....

You humans give no credence to references regarding the end .... you live in the world and don’t want to accept that which is readying itself outside of the material world and which will, with certainty, come to pass in the time designated by Me. I cannot plant the belief into you, it has to emerge in you yourselves; I can only ever help you by directing your eyes to the events of the time which should truly make you attentive. For I announced the signs of the last days through seers and prophets, who only proclaimed in My will what they saw happening in the last days. And even now I can only ever draw your attention to it, I can only ever admonish you again to take notice of what happens around you .... And then you will certainly recognise the hour you live in. For I will not let you experience the end without warning, it will not come upon you without being announced; yet as soon as you don’t give credence to these proclamations it will take you by surprise, because My Word fulfils itself because it is the only truth. Even if progress is promised to you on the part of humans .... it will not prevent the end either, and it will only become clearly apparent where no faith exists anymore, where only the world in which My adversary has gained the upper hand will be taken notice of. And that, too, is a sign of the approaching end ....

For it will be as in the time of Noah .... People will live in sin, they will only indulge themselves and try to get what they can out of the world .... but they will pay no more attention to Me. And if only you observe people’s attitude towards Me, towards your God and Creator of eternity, then you will also be able to discover therein a sign of the last days .... The reason why people no longer have faith is due to their lack of love .... Love has grown cold amongst people .... and, therefore, faith has died away as well, for even those who call themselves religious, who don’t entirely deny a God and Creator, have no living faith, otherwise they would prepare themselves for the end, otherwise they would unhesitatingly believe the indications of the end... All admonitions and warning are in vain for those to whom they are addressed .... And even if I knock very loudly and clearly at the door of their heart, even if I scare them through unexpected events in their lives or their surroundings, they will only look at them in a worldly sense and won’t recognise My voice, even if it clearly speaks to them .... And the more the end approaches the more determinedly they reject the references, the fact that a higher power will intervene seems ever more improbable to them .... but the more ready people will be for their downfall .... And everything will come to pass as I proclaimed ....

Amen

BD 5799                received  30.10.1953

The coming of the Lord ....
Rapture ....

You will see Me coming in the clouds .... the spiritual kingdom will come down to you; because those of you who remain true to Me until the end can already be counted as the inhabitants of the spiritual kingdom, although you are still in the flesh .... since you will have attained the maturity which allows you to behold Me face to face .... However, I will come to meet you enshrouded in clouds .... for you will as yet be unable to endure My abundance of light even though you will be able to see Me without fading away. Only My faithful followers can understand the process of the rapture and My return to earth and it is therefore also credible to them. And even if I repeatedly try to substantiate and explain these final events .... the people on this earth will not accept anything unusual and unnatural because they lack the understanding for spiritual things and thus nothing of a spiritual nature can reveal itself to them .... Consequently, they will not be able to behold Me either although you, My faithful follower, will jubilantly and longingly stretch out your hands to Me .... They will not see anything .... Yet the process of the rapture will not remain hidden from them and will fill them with incredible horror .... For it is also unnatural that you will float towards Me, that I will draw you to Myself and thus your bodies will leave earth alive towards higher spheres, towards the light. However, the unbelievers will not see the light, because the light will not enter where it still meets with resistance. For the process of the rapture could still convert those people who had been informed of it even though they had not accepted it .... a brief thought at the last moment could still prompt a person to call to Me, and he would be saved from the devastation .... This is why I allow the rapture to proceed visibly in order to truly make use of every possibility for salvation. Nevertheless, people’s hearts are already too hardened as to be able to recognise My love .... You, however, shall see Me .... and all suffering will be forgotten, for then you will no longer be inhabitants of this earth but of My kingdom instead, because the place of peace which will admit you will no longer remind you of the old world .... My coming has been announced to you humans since My Ascension to Heaven .... and time and again I have been expected by My Own .... But My coming is also the end of this earth and I Am only to be expected at the end of a period of salvation, because ‘My Coming’ signifies the end and ‘the Rapture’ the beginning of a new era .... and all preconditions which necessitate the disintegration of earthly creations must be recognisable first .... For neither My return to earth nor the rapture of My Own can take place until the final day of Judgment has come for people .... precisely because both phenomena would denote an enforced faith for people who are still alive and because I do not let anything unusual happen in order to make people believe in Me .... Only the final end on this earth is intended for that, and only the final end necessitates a separation of the spirits .... Then I Myself will come to My Own and take them away, so that they will be freed from the immense adversity and receive their reward for their faithfulness .... and rejoice and praise the One Whom they will then behold in all His glory ....

Amen

BD 5800                received  31.10.1953

Creation of the human being ....
The fall of man ....

The fallen spiritual substance needed an endless time for its higher development, and an endless time was also required for My individual creations, which more or less had to evolve in line with the indwelling constrained spiritual substances in order to hold ever more mature spiritual substances. Time and again new forms were created, and time and again these forms were assigned a task .... Hence, earthly creation did not arise in an instant but infinitely long periods of time passed until the spiritual substance of all degrees of maturity found the appropriate external form, since the constantly increasing maturity also necessitated constantly new creations which could accommodate it. But as long as the spirits were subject to the law of compulsion My creative activity meant: Creation of earth as a place to mature for the lowest fallen spirits, which had to acquire the level of maturity that would return free will to the constrained spirits again, which they had abused in the past .... But now an external form had to be created for this fully matured spiritual essence, so that it could test its free will again in this form ....

This work of creation was the human being, who differed from all previously arisen creations such that he, apart from free will, was also endowed with intelligence and reason .... with a faculty of thought, with self-awareness and with the ability to interact with his fellow human beings through language, because coexistence provided the necessary conditions for the test of will. The human being’s external form already existed in its last stages in the state of compulsion and was destined to receive countless fully matured substances of soul, but these living beings still acted in a compulsive state as required by natural law, and therefore they were not responsible for their actions .... They only had very limited ability of thought but as receptacles for the spiritual essence, which was fully matured after an endless time of development, they were also works of creation formed by My wisdom and love for this spiritual essence. But only the living beings who possessed free will, intelligence and self-awareness were human beings .... and only then started the plan of spiritualising the latter .... This required that the living creations .... the human beings .... were educated by Me .... that they should use their ability of thought, their intelligence and their free will in accordance with My instructions and by virtue of their free will could then live and work on earth .... that they could shape themselves into Gods but also act in opposition to My advice and My will and regress to the abyss from where they had ascended .... I created the human being ....

Having attained a specific degree of maturity I gave the spiritual essence an external form in accordance with My love and wisdom, and the task the human being subsequently had to carry out .... The external form only became a living being after the spiritual essence had entered it .... the composition of innumerable minute particles which, as ‘soul’, gave life to the form. For the spiritual essence is a constantly effective strength and was in fact constrained and incapable of unrestrained activity during the preliminary stages, during the endless process of development. However, in its ultimate external form, in the human being, it can be active again. It can unfold its inherent strength and through unity with Me increase it without limitation .... The first human beings had My strength at their unrestricted disposal, they were extraordinarily well equipped in view of the fact that their test of life on earth should have resulted in their leaving their earthly form completely spiritualised in order to return as true children into their Father’s house again .... But the test of will, which I demand of every created being, was required of them. The first human beings’ passing of this test would have enabled all subsequent generations to reach the final goal with ease.

By creating the first human beings I had created beings for Myself who, in spite of their inadequacy .... i.e. their lack of perfection as a result of the apostasy from Me .... could nevertheless have attained realisation of Me Myself since they recognised themselves as living creations .... Thus, due to their ability of thought and their free will, they were able to recognise My will and act in accordance with it .... I had created beings for Myself with whom I could communicate despite their distance from Me, who could hear My Word and let it take effect on them, which was impossible in the earlier state of constrained will .... Thus the human being was the first earthly work of creation which carried a fallen original spirit in himself, and he was then meant to help this original spirit to return to its original state in order to work and create in eternal unity with Me as a free spirit again .... This was the task of the first created human being, and it will remain the task of all people until the end, until the final spiritualisation of all fallen spirits ....

The test of will the first human being had to pass was not too difficult .... Yet for the sake of this test My adversary also had to be allowed to exert his influence on him .... And the human being succumbed to this influence .... He deserted Me for the second time, and this was the first fall into sin on this earth .... the original sin which is known to humanity, even if it does not know of the apostasy of the spirits from Me .... But only the latter explains everything .... For the first human being could not have fallen had he been the first created being externalised by Me, as he would have been in full possession of strength and light since only perfection can emerge from Me. In that case he could not have been influenced by an opposing force.

But the reason for his fall is to be found in the apostasy of the spirits and thus in the still immature human soul which could indeed have passed the test but was not obliged to pass it ....

Nevertheless, the human being was in possession of intelligence and free will and therefore also had to accept responsibility for his soul .... And thus the human being has to do penance for his guilt .... My adversary kept his authority over the spirit embodied in the human being, and that means a laborious path of struggle and suffering during every human being’s earthly life with the goal of freeing himself from his control .... The human being is able to achieve this goal because Jesus Christ came to help humanity which was weakened by Adam’s fall into sin, and therefore salvation is assured to everyone who recognises Him as Son of God and Redeemer of the world and follows Him willingly .... The first human being would have been able to build the bridge on which all his descendants could have reached Me .... but since he fell, humanity had to remain in Satan’s bondage for a long time until the arrival of the Saviour, until Jesus Christ descended to earth in order to build a bridge into the spiritual kingdom by way of His suffering and death .... by way of His crucifixion ....

The decision of will demanded of My first created being .... of Lucifer .... was by no means to be regarded as a commandment; rather, it was entirely left to the being’s choice to direct its will either way, and the direction of its will was totally based on its yearning for power and dictatorship. It was certainly aware that it had originated from Me but believed that it could also rule on its own because it could not see Me .... It recognised Me as its source but it did not want to acknowledge Me .... And this will was not placed into the being by Me but the being itself had changed the free will I bestowed on it .... This was the difference between the first fall of Lucifer and the first human being’s fall into sin .... because the wrong will was still in the human being and therefore I gave him a commandment which he should not transgress .... a commandment he could easily have kept had the opposing spirit not influenced him. The opposing spirit’s influence on the human being was so strong because the human being was still part of him .... since he had not yet regained perfection, which would have made a fall impossible.

A perfectly created human being could not have fallen, that is, he would not have been able to violate this commandment, because the perfect spirit in the human being would have prevented him from every God-opposing action .... But the creation of the human being was only the consequence of Lucifer’s fall and his followers, or it truly would not have been necessary for Me to give the spirits, who had been brought into life by Me, an external form as a cover. The human form, however, contained the fallen spirit, and therefore the human being Adam was already burdened by the past sin which he nevertheless could have pushed away had he kept My commandment .... It would have been possible for him to redeem the inherited sin .... his fall delayed the fallen spirits’ return to Me for an infinitely long period of time again. Yet is has become possible through the act of Salvation by the man Jesus Who did, without any commandment on My part, what the human being Adam should have done .... to completely accept My will and through a life of love unite with Me again on earth and achieve full possession of strength and light ....

Amen

BD 5801                received  04.11.1953

Worthlessness of earthly knowledge in the beyond ....

Don’t value your earthly knowledge too highly for it is of no use to you in eternity. It can certainly be useful to you for the duration of your earthly life, but if you don’t use it to acquire spiritual knowledge by arriving through earthly knowledge at the realisation that you are God’s living creations and then strive to attain the complete truth of God it will not be of any benefit to you when you enter into the spiritual kingdom. Yet even spiritual knowledge which was purely gained intellectually has to be considered earthly knowledge .... which indeed refers to spiritual problems but which was acquired like all other earthly knowledge through study for the purpose of a professional occupation ....

Even if you memorise the Book of the Fathers, even if you try to interpret the divine Word again on strength of prophetic sayings, even if you intellectually master every sentence, it is of no greater value than any other knowledge of a non-spiritual content. For in the end the soul will only retain as its share the wisdom it had gained through unselfish loving actions .... The soul will only keep what the spirit within was able to impart on it. And this doesn’t require worldly studies, no sharp intellectual thoughts and no remarkable memory .... For the spirit will provide it when it is needed .... And of what benefit is a wealth which you cannot use over there .... it is lifeless knowledge, it gives you no light, and you cannot even demonstrate the truth of this knowledge as long as your spirit does not impart upon you the correct insight and ability to discern ....

However, you have to approach your inner spirit yourselves; you have to enable it to express itself .... Only then will you become enlightened and you will also spread brightly radiating light on entry into the spiritual kingdom. But blessed is he who allows himself to be taught by the spirit and at the same time tried to broaden his earthly knowledge .... Many thoughts will come to him, he will also receive earthly knowledge as long as he first strives to acquire spiritual possessions .... And he will make truly beneficent use of all knowledge when his earthly life has come to an end .... He will be able to share everything he owns in the spiritual kingdom, for once again he will be able to prominently and instructively influence people who, like himself, are searching and striving in their desire for God and the truth ....

Amen

BD 5802                received  05.11.1953

Adam ....
Original spirit ....
Lucifer’s test ....
Bursting the form ....

Anyone who strives to arrive at the truth leaves all darkness behind him, he will have an explanation for everything, he will know the correlation between all things, he will recognise that his path leads upwards, that he has found the connection with God, that he cannot err anymore because God Himself conveys the truth to him. But striving for the truth means that it first has to be sincerely desired, and then the knowledge he receives .... be it from outside or from within in the form of thoughts .... has to be accepted with an open heart. For the heart will be willing to either accept or reject truth and error and thus influence the person accordingly.

Truth has to be aspired to in so far as that the human being’s will has to be actively involved .... it cannot simply be given to a completely passive person who does not want it himself and who will not take the necessary steps in order to gain it. For then he will remain in spiritual darkness and not achieve progress. Truth, however, is the ascending path .... Truth is the spiritual knowledge conveyed to people by God Himself which tries to find a recipient in every human being, which can be acquired by every person’s will since it can be imparted to people in many different ways .... but it always has to be desired first. But anyone who has gained the truth no longer lives in darkness, everything is crystal clear to him, he no longer doubts, for whatever is still unclear will be explained to him when he asks for it providing he turns to the source of truth .... providing he submits his doubts and questions to God Himself and then awaits God’s answer through his heart .... The desire for truth, the mental contact with God and his inward listening also ensures him a clear and truthful answer. You humans should know that no unsolved questions need to exist for you providing you just want an explanation and present every question to the One Who is truth Himself and Who also wants to impart it to His children in order to enlighten them, in order to illuminate their path of ascent:

The body of the first-created human being was also an act of creation by My love. I then had to create an external shell for the fallen spirit once it had worked its way up from the abyss to a point where it was able to undertake its final test of will in complete freedom .... I had to create forms for all My once created original spirits whose previously dissolved substances had come together again after an infinitely long period of time and who, therefore, as self-aware beings once more, were waiting for permission to become active .... Creating the external form of such an original spirit was no different than the countless many works of creation which had previously arisen .... it was My externalised thought which, through My will, appeared before Me already completed. But giving life to this created form was only possible by permeating it with My strength of love ....

The originally created spirit, however, was My emanated strength of love .... Hence it only needed to take possession of the external form in order to turn it into a living being. The spirit was close to its perfection .... and yet far from it because it lacked final realisation .... because the sin with which it was burdened had completely deprived it of all knowledge and in this state it needed instruction and commandments .... thus it was to gradually mature into realisation by complying with these commandments .... A great spiritual battle had taken place earlier because a large number of fallen original spirits wanted to occupy My first created form .... For they knew that they could only gain access to Me again in the body of a human being, that they would only be able to gain unimaginable abundance of strength and light through a test of life in which they were to prove how they would utilise the strength at their disposal .... But I Myself chose which original spirit should take abode in the first human being .... For only I knew whose opposition to Me had weakened such that the final test of earthly life could be imposed on him; I knew whose will could have resisted My adversary’s power. Therefore I chose an original spirit which had once taken a leading position during the spirits’ apostasy .... which was indeed more heavily burdened by sin but which My love very much endeavoured to regain, for countless beings would likewise have followed it and the redemption would have progressed far more rapidly .... I have known, in fact, since eternity that this original spirit would fail .... Nevertheless, due to its changed will during the preliminary stages it was the strongest spirit, thus it was also entitled to be the first to receive the state of free will, and which therefore offered the best prospects of passing the test of will ....

The form of the first human being was .... before this original spirit occupied it, also visible to Lucifer, who certainly knew that this form was the gate from the kingdom of darkness, from his realm, into My kingdom, into the kingdom of light .... He also knew that .... if he didn’t want to lose his followers .... he had to use every means to wrest the souls back from Me during the human being’s approved probationary period, in order to turn the test to his advantage ....

My created form was still without life when Lucifer seized it in order to test it by animating it with his spirit .... yet his untamed spirit burst the form, and he was sure that every spirit banished into this form would burst it and that there would never be any danger of loss for him ....

I allowed this test to happen and then proved to him that his assumption was wrong .... For due to its long process of development the very spirit which was to embody itself in the human being no longer shared Lucifer’s will, it willingly occupied the final external form, and since this original spirit was close to its original state it did not consider the external form a shackle to prevent the fall into sin .... For it was master over all of creation, it could rule like a lord over the earth which was at its disposal with every creation .... It had abundant might and strength .... only subordinate to My might, which only gave it an easy commandment, the obedience to which would have broken any constraint imposed on it ....

And when Lucifer realised this he thought about ways to stop the human being from obeying this commandment, and since he knew the first human being’s body he tried to make him dislike it by portraying it as a shackle .... by making freedom from it dependent on transgressing this commandment .... and thus incited the original spirit to inwardly revolt against Me again for not having given it complete freedom .... It was a deliberate deception which the first human being could have resisted by merely adhering to My simple commandment .... if he had been satisfied with his possession of might and strength which made him truly happy until My adversary aroused an impure desire in him .... to be greater than the One, Who was a perceptible power above him .... of Whom he knew and Whose commandment he nevertheless disregarded ....

The first human being’s fall into sin was therefore a repetition of the original spirit’s first fall. It followed Lucifer and drew innumerable beings into the abyss with him .... just as all descendants of the first human being were afterwards also placed into the weak state of sinful people until Jesus Christ came to their rescue, until Jesus Christ acquired the strength of will on behalf of humanity through His crucifixion, until Jesus Christ opposed Lucifer’s temptations with His strong will and defeated him ....

Nothing could have induced the first-created being, Lucifer, to cover the earthly progress as a human being as long as he still considered himself lord of the spiritual world which had deserted Me with him, for he himself did not take the course through matter, through creation, before the creation of the first human being .... As a spiritually tangible spirit he was volitionally still My strongest opponent, he deemed himself lord over the creation which sheltered the spiritual substance that belonged to him, although he himself had no influence over it. His inner resistance was still unbroken, and he would never ever have put up with any coercion, he would never voluntarily have entered a form created by My will .... because he hated all forms for the spiritual substances, all works of creation, and sought to destroy them .... However, his power over the works of creation had been taken away from him, but then he was granted influence over the soul when this was to make its free decision again for Me or for him .... He also knew that he was unable to destroy a form himself once it was inhabited by spiritual beings, and for this reason he inspected the first human being’s form in advance, for his goal was to induce the original spirit which was to occupy it to destroy its own external form .... because he believed that he would thereby provide it with the freedom which I had taken away from the spirits due to the works of creation .... He wanted to stop Me from completing the plan of Salvation.

The opposition between Myself and him existed ever since his apostasy and will never be given up by him until he realises that he is completely powerless, and in profound weakness and humility appeals to Me to give him strength .... For this reason it would have been impossible to give him the first human body as an abode. For his will did not aim for ascent, whereas the past resistance to Me by the spiritual essence, having passed through creation in the state of compulsion, had already diminished and it was merely to prove just once more that it had abandoned its opposition to Me and My strength of love. And Lucifer knew how far this spiritual essence had already distanced itself from him, and he also knew that there now was a risk of losing it entirely. And since the original spirit embodied in the first human being had once been his staunch supporter he was particularly interested to bring it to fall .... But he also knew of its present desire to become free from every physical restraint ....

And then I placed a second being at this original spirit’s side, which simultaneously was to support but also help him with the test of his will. Each one could have supported the other to arrive at the final objective; I did not place the responsibility on one shoulder alone .... I gave the commandment to both, and both were able to attain the goal together .... And this second being was used by Lucifer, who recognised its weak will and thereby hoped to achieve his objective .... The test of will had to be demanded from the first human couple, and in support of this test adverse forces also had to be active, for Lucifer fought for his living creations too, which he did not want to surrender even though they belonged to Me as well. His plan succeeded, nevertheless, it did not stop Me from giving countless beings time and again the opportunity to take on a new form in the human beings of this earth and thus to achieve an ever higher degree of maturity even if, due to the fall of the first human couple, the gate to the kingdom of light remained closed until the arrival of Jesus Christ ....

The first sin had delayed but not cancelled the spiritual beings’ redemption, for what the first human being had failed to do was achieved by the human being Jesus .... He was stronger than My adversary for He availed Himself of My strength .... He was and stayed in contact with Me through love and voluntarily accomplished what the first human beings did not fulfil as a commandment .... He completely subordinated Himself to My will and proved His devotion to Me through His suffering and death on the cross .... He knew of the original sin and the first human beings’ repeated guilt, and in order to cancel this guilt, in order to redeem humankind, He offered to bring Me a sacrifice, which was satisfactory to Me .... a sacrifice, which opened the gate to the spiritual kingdom again, the path to Me, and now enables all My living beings who acknowledge Him as Son of God and Redeemer of the world to become blissfully happy once more ....

Amen

BD 5804                received  13.11.1953

Taking refuge in the Father ....

Anyone who takes refuge in Me will not go wrong, for I will always help him even if the help is not as obvious as he would like it to be. Anyone who takes refuge in Me comes to the right place, because I alone can and want to help where human help seems to be impossible. Anyone who takes refuge in Me will feel as though he is My child and can also fully confidently expect of Me the understanding of the Father. He will not call upon Me in vain. Earthly adversities and problems shall impel the person to Me if he does not enter into frequent communication with Me of his own accord. Then I will have to send him worries and afflictions so that he will remember Me and turn to where help will come from. Yet blessed are those who seek contact with their Father of their own accord .... blessed are those who often look for Me in thought and expect Me to talk to them, who turn the direction of their thoughts towards heaven .... blessed are those who do not need earthly adversities and worries in order to come to Me .... blessed are those who cannot exist without Me, who always and forever speak to Me like children to their Father, who therefore already identify themselves as part of Me and try to contact Me .... because I can draw close and reveal Myself to them .... I can give Myself away, that is, bestow blessings without measure, because they are always willing to use them and thereby come closer to Me .... But how often do people fail to find the path to Me even in adversities and worries because they lack faith in the One Who can and wants to help them ....

Being powerless and without strength their misery goes on and on, if only they could still be won over for Me .... or they will receive strength from below, from My adversary, to whom they are more inclined than to Me, because they commit themselves to the world and its commodities and therefore also to the one who is lord of this material world. And then they will be lost for infinitely long periods of time .... Then their distance from Me will increase ever more, and every gift of grace through which I want to help them attain realisation will be rejected by them. Therefore, wherever you humans see adversity and suffering that is where My care is recognisable, that is where I still struggle for every soul, that is where My adversary has not yet attained control and therefore there is still hope that the hardship will let them find their path to Me. And every person suffering hardship should be referred to this One and advised to appeal to Him .... he should trustingly take refuge in Me and I will reveal Myself and show him that I Am also Lord over life and death .... People in serious difficulties occasionally also accept an instruction and grasp the life line, they turn to the One Who is recommended to them as Saviour and as Helper .... And I will truly help them in order to then strengthen their extraordinarily weak faith; I will manifest Myself where I usually keep Myself concealed because I Am not being called upon .... I will truly not keep any of My living creations in distress if it comes to Me in prayer ....

Amen

BD 5806                received  15.11.1953

Apparitions of Mary ....

Whatever you ask of Me will be given to you if it benefits your soul. I will listen to every spiritual request, and I will enhance everyone’s understanding. And therefore I will also correct misguided teachings which you humans have accepted. But only few will believe My Words, because people are already too entangled in error that it could be quickly eliminated, although common sense alone should realise the absurdity of what is presented to them as truth:

I truly endeavour that all earthly children should find the path to Me, and I would truly do everything to enlighten them, but I always have to consider the human being’s free will and therefore cannot noticeably destroy a structure which was developed by people themselves .... I cannot forcibly correct people’s train of thoughts, I can only ever provide clarification by which they could learn to think correctly themselves .... if they wanted to .... Especially the will has an extremely strong tendency towards error in many people, and they tenaciously hold on to it. The error consists of the fact that people take a path which does not lead straight to Me .... that they aspire with all their might towards a goal which is more desirable than Me, but which, in human terms, means: You shall have no other gods before Me .... And that is My adversary’s doing who aims to confuse people who want to do what is right ....

It concerns the human being’s decision of will, the choice between Me and him, which is the only purpose of earthly life. In order to displace Me from the thoughts of people who do not obviously belong to him he attempts to give them an apparently equivalent goal worth striving for .... he opposes Me in the disguise of piety .... The achievement of this goal demands full strength of will and undivided aspiration .... hence he takes much time away from people with activities that are apparently devoted to spiritual aspiration. He finds good soil for his adverse activity wherever a second image was already established beside Me .... where the worship of God’s mother Mary has become more important than the striving for a heartfelt relationship with Me. That is where he has an easy game, and he appears as an angel of light only to leave people in even more profound darkness ....

The beings of light are certainly able to manifest themselves to people with My permission when severe spiritual hardship necessitates this, but they will always draw their attention to Me, they will try to guide people into truthful thinking .... They will want to change people’s wrong belief but never confirm an already existing error by trying to conform to this error .... And beings of light who want to bring help to people on My behalf, will never announce revelations to immature children, because the purpose of every revelation from the spiritual kingdom is to inform all people of My will .... My adversary, however, only wants to cause confusion; My adversary will prevent everything that could have redeeming consequences. My adversary wants to stop the heartfelt communication with Me .... the prayer in spirit and in truth, which need only involve a few words or heartfelt thoughts .... by making people perform mechanical prayers in order to become credible as an angel of light. And thereby he wants to deprive people of valuable time which they could put to better use for their own perfection if they turned to Me Myself in innocence and love and appealed for My merciful help.

My adversary works with much cunning and trickery .... He has no qualms about shrouding himself with a gown, the gown of the queen of heaven, the purest, most enlightened being who is devoted to Me with glowing love .... who knows no other goal but to guide the people of earth back to Me and who therefore would never appear in order to draw people’s thoughts to herself .... since she knows the purpose and goal of people’s life on earth .... Nevertheless, I do not prevent My adversary’s actions, for all these apparitions are miracles of false Christ’s and prophets, miracles which surface from wrong thinking and wrong belief, which give him the right and the opportunity to manifest himself, and which only make him stronger, so that misguided teachings will be ever more firmly believed .... Yet I will always take loving care of those who are misled and of good will .... by entering their thoughts so that they recognise the true goal and, with help of the beings of light who work on My behalf, arrive at the light anyway. But the path of those who are thoughtless becomes very much longer, for unless they remove the unnecessary burden they cannot find the short path, which, however, has to be made even shorter in order to reach Me .... the path of pure truth, by which everyone is able to reach the goal in a short time ....

Amen

BD 5808                received  19.11.1953

Duty of distribution ....
Warning of unfamiliar knowledge ....

Nothing shall prevent you from supporting the truth you receive from Me Myself. And that which was not given to you by Me Myself should not become the subject of your conversations; you cannot convincingly advocate what I have not given you and only convinced speeches are successful and can result in blessings. The knowledge is inexhaustible .... yet for your earthly life you may only receive information you can make the most of .... And this is the knowledge I convey to you .... always in line with your thoughts and your soul’s maturity. I merely want you to live a right and appropriate way of life, hence I inform you of your task on earth and explain the reasons for this task in life. But you should know that you are bound creatures which, however, can release themselves from their bondage of their own free will .... So in order that you strive for and accomplish this release, I provide you with guidelines for your way of life. Your sense of responsibility needs to be aroused so that it will subsequently determine your thoughts and actions .... And, to this end, I truly provide you with comprehensive explanations .... Yet it will only ever be partial knowledge compared to the absolute realisation possessed by the matured soul of a light being in the kingdom of the beyond. Nevertheless, the information I give you encompasses all areas worth knowing, so that you are, in a manner of speaking, completely informed .... and always able to offer an explanation if you are approached for one by other people .... Even so, it would be unwise of you to indiscriminately impart everything you received from Me to fellow human beings who are not mature enough as yet and therefore won’t understand it .... You can only ever distribute what is needed by another person .... but this in absolute truth, because you offered your service to Me, and service to Me only ever consists of distributing the truth, because any error has far-reaching consequences .... The knowledge I impart to you first enlightens yourselves, so that you will indeed be able to distinguish whether the other person lives in truth or in error .... So if you discover misconceptions, you should oppose them with the truth because you are entitled to do so, because you are instructed by Me Myself and you can truly only receive truth from Me .... Receiving the truth commits you to passing it on .... this has to be said time after time .... Therefore, you can confidently pass on anything you understand, but do not speak about spiritual knowledge you do not understand as yet .... nor allow fellow human beings to instruct you about something I Myself withheld from you .... Hold on to My Word at all times and keep your ears closed to external teachings .... For if I have not informed you of these, I do not consider this knowledge to be of benefit for you .... I will answer your every question, especially if the knowledge is useful to work for Me again. But under no circumstances should you endorse your own thoughts as truth as long as they are not confirmed through My spirit .... And this is the case if you allow fellow human beings to influence you into accepting and advocating their mental knowledge .... I place the feeling for truth and error into My light bearers’ heart and they should always pay attention to their feelings .... they should always earnestly desire the truth and only endeavour to serve the truth, then they will also serve Me and their thoughts will remain free from error, they will be suitable servants for Me and work successfully for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

BD 5810                received  23.11.1953

Final rescue work ....
Callers and admonishers ....

I want to accept all those of you who want to serve Me. Much work is yet to be done until the end, and precisely for this work I need faithful and enthusiastic servants who are aware of their task and so devoted to Me that they will only ever undertake what they recognise as My will .... but who also recognise people’s spiritual low level and their frightening end if they don’t change. The end will come without fail because it will be caused by humanity itself, and even if a few people strive towards ascent .... they will be unable to delay the end because these few cannot achieve a complete spiritual change and the whole of humanity would persistently strive towards the abyss .... thus, a change for the better is entirely out of the question precisely because of people’s utter decline of spirituality. The end of this Earth will certainly also signify a Judgment .... compensation for the profane way of life, a separation of good and evil .... But far more than that, it will be an act of mercy for the wretched souls in the abyss .... which intends to put a stop to its constant downward striving and therefore it will be deprived of its freedom of will again .... just as it will signify an act of love for the still bound spiritual substance which is still on the path of higher development. Consequently, the end can no longer be prevented .... And yet, prior to this, much can still be done for these downwards striving souls, for people who blindly rush headlong into disaster. Everyone who is being warned can come to a halt, take stock of himself and take a path which leads to a different goal .... every human being can be stopped in his fall into the abyss .... Although anyone who confronts these constantly downwards striving people and cautions them to stop .... who describes to them the horrors and torments awaiting them at the end of their way, who draws their attention to or leads them to the right path, will not prevent the end anymore but he will save individual people from the pit, for as long as a path of ascent still exists it will not be too late for them to look for and to enter it .... As long as the end has not arrived, every individual person can still avert the horrors of the end from himself. For I Am a God of love and not of wrath, I Am a God of life and not of death and destruction .... My plan has certainly been definite ever since the beginning and no-one will be able to overturn it, no-one can intervene in My law of eternal order, but everyone can integrate in this order before it is too late, and it is only too late when the day of the end has come .... For this reason I bless all those who place themselves at My disposal as callers and admonishers, who advise and help, warn and admonish; I bless all those who - taking the right path themselves - also try to entice their fellow human beings to enter it; I bless every act of love that is done with the aim of rescuing people before the end. As long as the Earth still exists it is a time of grace, since every individual can still turn back, come to his senses and change .... For as yet the human being is still capable of thinking and of praying .... However when the last day has come, it will be too late for those who neglected to look upwards .... Therefore you should all use the time which is still left to you and work diligently for Me, because those of you who are knowledgeable shall carry your knowledge amongst the people, and even if only a few seeds fall on good ground and take root .... it is an incredibly urgent and much needed rescue work which requires all your will .... But don’t grow tired and complacent, for there is not much time left .... Therefore take action and work while you still have the light of day, for the night will come when you will no longer be able to work ....

Amen

BD 5823                received  09.12.1953

Help in earthly and spiritual adversity ....
Reciprocated love ....

Break bread with the hungry, share whatever you own when you see someone going short, when he appeals to you for help, and don’t fear that you will overexert yourselves, for the measure you use will be the measure you receive, and you will receive in abundance spiritually and earthly as soon as you make good use of the wealth, as soon as you distribute it where it is needed and to where I lead you Myself in order to notice it. I refer more to spiritual than earthly hardship, for the former results in the soul’s complete debilitation, in spiritual death; yet you shall also take care of earthly adversity, because you thereby awaken love in your fellow human being’s heart and he will then realise in a flash why he experiences worldly difficulties and how he can release himself from them again. And this is why the earthly adversity in the last days will be so great, because I want to save people from the excessive spiritual hardship, which will never be possible if everything earthly goes according to the human being’s plan and his sights are steadfastly fixed on the world .... Then I will have no access to their hearts and cannot address them either, I cannot direct their thoughts towards the spiritual realm, for the world will always take precedence and have greater control over people. But when faced by earthly adversity individual souls will indeed take refuge in Me.

Call upon Me for help .... and if they don’t find the direct path to Me, if they are incapable of praying because they don’t believe in Me, in My love and My might, you will have to pave the way for them by taking loving care of them, which will not remain without impression on a person who suffers great hardship .... which affects him beneficially and can also awaken reciprocated love, which always signifies a small light, a glimmer of realisation, a step closer to Me .... Only in this way can you explain to yourselves the greater than great adversity and sorrow in the last days before the end .... I don’t use it to punish but as a means of education, and I only want to take from people what is poison for their souls and in its stead offer a life-awakening drink. I want to heal where My adversary has left deep scars which lead to death .... I only want to save My children, even if the means for this salvation are not understood by you .... I truly know how effective they can be and will apply them where I know My children to be stricken by a severe ailment which they don’t recognise themselves and which I would like to cure because I love them .... And you humans shall help Me in this by willingly allowing yourselves to be led to these patients whose spiritual ailment results in earthly adversity and whom you therefore should support with loving and patient help and advice, whom you predominantly should offer the bread of life, so that they can draw strength from it and then also humbly endure what is sent to them by My love .... Consider all who suffer adversity and know that I try to save all those who are not so totally controlled by My adversary that he can amply supply them with earthly possessions .... For they are lost for an infinitely long time ....

Amen

BD 5824                received  10.12.1953

Light of truth ....
Lamps without oil ....
Used garment ....

Your work is to illuminate, to carry light into the darkness of night, for you are surrounded by darkness where no light has been ignited as yet. It is night wherever pure truth is not to be found, where people live in error, where they have not yet correctly informed on the spiritual level .... It is night where the human being’s spirit has not yet awakened to life, which alone ignites the light in his heart .... Whatever spiritual knowledge you humans receive will remain worthless to you as long as you don’t live a life of love, for it will just remain dead knowledge .... But if you look around, you will not be able to find many loving people and therefore not much light either, since love radiates the light in the first place, since the knowledge only comes alive when it has been brought to life by love ....

Wherever love is taught My fundamental law is proclaimed, and there is also truth .... There are the true representatives of Christ and they speak in My spirit .... Whether they succeed that their listeners will fulfil the commandments of love is up to the latter themselves, but the human being’s state of maturity and thus also his spiritual enlightenment, the complete realisation, the person’s inner illumination, solely depends on his fulfilment of the commandments of love for Me and his fellow human being .... The fulfilment of the commandments of love requires a way of life in accordance with My will, a moving within My eternal order, thus a change from evil into good .... This alone is My will, and My true representatives on earth shall motivate people to do so, this alone is the vineyard work which shall be carried out by My servants, to inform the human being that he can only become perfect through a life of love, that only love can establish the union with Me.

Consequently, anything that is presented to people as My Gospel should only aim to achieve ennobling the human being, transforming him to love, then My servants on earth will carry out true vineyard work .... But why is there so little light on earth, since My Gospel is proclaimed all over the world after all? .... Or is more importance placed on ceremonies than on proclaiming My Gospel? .... Is the proclamation of the divine teaching of love treated as less significant in order to give priority to other doctrines instead? And are people paying more attention to these additional teachings and commandments than to My teaching of love?

Think about these questions seriously and draw the right conclusions from them .... If I make the fulfilment of My commandments of love dependent on spiritual maturing, if spiritual aspiration reduces or even negates earthly adversity, but if you can observe more earthly hardship than ever in the world, then the spiritual progress must also leave much to be desired and thus it follows that people also neglect what I repeatedly tell them is the most essential requirement: to practise love .... And thus the Gospel of love is not being preached to people emphatically enough either .... Consequently, there must be too few true representatives of My teaching of love, too few faithful servants on earth of service to Me, even though they all believe to speak on behalf of My name ....

There is too much pretence and too little truth, and death can also be found where I should be proclaimed and where it is believed that I Am proclaimed, nothing is alive anymore but traditional appearance, a mere reflection of what once shone brightly in utmost vitality .... That is why there is no more life amongst people either, no realisation, no truth and no spiritual progress .... all that is left is a used garment which serves no more purpose, but which is kept in exaggerated esteem .... They are lamps without oil, falsely presented to people as sources of light but are unable to emit even the slightest ray of light. Hence there is darkness everywhere, there is spiritual night all around, and only very rarely tiny lights flare up, only very rarely will a true representative of My kingdom gain access into the darkness with his light .... Yet their light will shine brightly, they will be able to offer clarification and bring the truth .... the light of realisation, which will beneficially affect everyone who is looking for light ....

Amen

BD 5825                received  13.12.1953

No one will enter the kingdom of heaven who pays homage to the world ....

To pay tribute to the world is to forfeit the kingdom of heaven, since the human being cannot gain both at the same time. And anyone who pays homage to the world will not endeavour to attain the heavenly kingdom either, for he will only recognise the earthly world and its attraction and not believe in a kingdom beyond this world. And yet the path to the kingdom of heaven has to be taken through this earthly world, it cannot be avoided, for the human being lives in this world, he has to cover the last stage of his development on earth, in midst of the realm which belongs to God’s adversary. But he can overcome this kingdom, he can pass through the earthly world without allowing himself to be extraordinarily impressed by it, without coveting it with his senses .... he can experience it and yet be its master ....

And it is your task to overcome the world, for it was given to you as a means for your soul to become fully mature therein, to detach itself voluntarily from everything pertaining to the world, because this separation is at the same time also a separation from the one who is lord of this world, and a turning-towards the spiritual kingdom and its Lord.

Hence it is understandable that anyone enslaving himself to the world will never be able to take possession of the spiritual kingdom, neither in earthly life nor after the human being’s death .... it is understandable that the lord of the world will keep him tied up because the human being gives him the right to do so himself, for the separation from his power, the separation from the material world, has to be endeavoured and accomplished by the individual himself.

He has to wage battle against himself; he has to be able to go without in order to gain something valuable, he has to resist all temptations during his short lifetime on earth in order to then take possession of the spiritual kingdom with all its glories, which will compensate him thousand fold for his renunciation on earth .... And he will only do so if he recognises the irrelevance and impermanence of what he deems desirable on earth. Only this realisation will give him the strength to change his will correctly, and he can gain this realisation by merely contemplating the material world .... For he cannot be forced to change his will .... he can only be prompted by experiences into inner contemplation, at which point the result is up to him. And God can only help him by time and again demonstrating the fleeing nature of things, that He allows the destruction of what the human being loves on earth, that He intervenes by affecting him painfully, taking from him what his heart is set on .... just to point out to him how worthless the goals of his endeavours are.

But those who learn from such experiences can consider themselves fortunate, for they will gradually change the direction of their will and relinquish the world in order to occupy the spiritual kingdom one day .... But no one should believe that he can make compromises, no one should believe that he can pay homage to the world with impunity .... All striving will have an effect after his death, and if it related to the world then it will result in spiritual death, then he will have relinquished the spiritual kingdom for the sake of earthly gain and the world will have brought him death .... Then he will have handed himself over again to the power of the one in the abyss, and the path of ascent will yet again take an infinitely long period of time ....

Amen

BD 5830                received  19.12.1953

Forerunner ....
Proclaiming Jesus ....

Humbly strive to become My true children but don’t aspire to extraordinary knowledge which is of little use for the perfection of your soul. For the least and the smallest in My kingdom is greater than he who deems himself superior, humility is of extremely great value in My kingdom, and there is no space for arrogance. However, you must make a distinction between truly great and arrogance .... you must make a distinction between what is great and what seems great. For whatever is great before Me will be appointed by Me as ruler over whole worlds and their inhabitants, it will govern infinite creations and countless living beings with Me and within My will .... and yet it will not be arrogantly spirited .... But even he who deems himself great believes himself to be entitled to govern, yet he will never ever scale the height which would guarantee him a position as ruler, for I know every being’s innermost attitude, I know where true humility exists and where My will alone fills a being.

And thus I say: There is no being on earth with such an abundance of humility that I could inaugurate it as a ruler over the worlds in the kingdom of the beyond .... For this humility is spiritual and a being like that is so closely united with Me that it would be unable to live on earth. For everything in its environment would radiate in brightest light. These beings had already taken the path across earth which resulted in their total spiritualisation on earth .... They will never ever return to earth but constantly influence the earthly inhabitants .... they send rays of light to earth because they are permeated by a greater than great will to love and their will to help lets them be constantly active in a redeeming sense. And thus every individual person can be extremely strongly influenced by such a being of light .... but that doesn’t mean that the soul of this person is a soul of light having descended from above .... Understand this correctly .... many souls of light embody themselves on this earth for the sake of a mission .... Yet they are still approaching their final perfection as a child of God, which they can certainly attain by fulfilling such a mission .... Perfected children of God, however, only affect people from above but strongly influence certain people if the conditions to do so are given .... i.e., in order to be able to be active in the redeeming sense on earth ....

Even so, one spirit of light will be allowed to descend to earth .... My forerunner, who wants to announce Me Myself before the end .... He will proclaim Me. He will once again prepare the way for Me, for this has been My will for eternity, because he has been devoted to Me from the start, because he has been a fighter for His Lord from the beginning .... It is he whom I have chosen to be My vassal, to be My herald, who always announced Me by exclaiming it to the world when I approached people, who preceded Me as the voice which told humanity to pay heed to Me .... He fought on My behalf and he will always speak up for the name of his Lord .... Thus he is the ray, the light which I will send down to earth ahead of Me, and he knows of My coming, of the end and of his task on earth, for he will recognise himself for who he is .... And he is so profoundly devoted to Me that his mouth only speaks My name, that every breath of air only glorifies My name, that every beat of his heart only beats for Me, Whom he will overzealously proclaim on earth and for Whom he will also give up his life when his mission is finished .... Hence he is the one who will live on earth shortly before My second coming, and due to his modesty people will not recognise him until he starts to speak in order to announce the One who will follow him. Then My Own will suddenly realise who he is, yet My adversary will not recognise him .... However, he will speak up irrespective of his own danger; he will proclaim the imminent end to people, he will tell them to repent, to seek God and the salvation of their souls and to despise the mammon .... He will announce Jesus Christ to them again with a voice of thunder, and everything that will help to glorify Jesus’ name will be done and said by him .... He will be My forerunner in the truest sense of the word .... he will be the one who will open paradise again to all who believe his words, who faithfully wait for Me to deliver them from utmost adversity ....

Amen

BD 5835                received  24.12.1953

The infant Jesus ....

A Saviour was born to you, the Redeemer, Who descended from above in order to set you free and bring salvation to you. You humans suffered utmost adversity for you were held captive by Satan, you were in his power and lacked the strength of will to free yourselves from him .... Your souls were ailing and a Physician had to come to heal you; a strong Saviour had to come to release you .... One had to come to bring you peace .... Salvation came to earth in a child Which was born in the midst of you, Which, in great poverty, came into the world in a stable. Yet His birth alone already testified to His divine origin, His extraordinary task and His great love for people, for an exceedingly bright light shone above the child, and this light entered into the hearts of those who were allowed to behold it and who recognised His divine mission. For the eternal Light Itself came to earth, It shone in the darkness which had cast a shadow across the whole earth .... The eternal Love had embodied Itself in the child Jesus, and the ray of love shone brightly in this significant night when the child Jesus came into the world. And the human race should have rejoiced and cheered about the eternal Love’s act of compassion to descend to earth and to bring light into the darkness. But humanity kept its eyes closed so as not to have to see the light, apart from a few who knew of their Saviour and called for help, who cried for a Saviour and gladly opened themselves to the light from above ....

And to these few the eternal Love came to help, and it came to pass what seers and prophets had proclaimed a long time before .... The Messiah came into the world, the Bringer of light .... the Son of God came down to earth, He wanted to redeem the world from sin because he took pity upon humanity which, bowed down with sorrow, almost broke down under the burden of sin and was unable to defend itself against the constraints placed on it by God’s adversary. These constraints caused humanity to stray increasingly more towards the abyss, as it obeyed every command by the enemy of souls because it was too weak to resist .... which thereby only increased its burden of sin from which it would never be able to release itself .... The Son of God descended to earth .... A most elevated being of light from God, Which knew of the fallen beings’ hardship, offered Itself to carry the infinitely great sin on behalf of humanity and to redeem it through a self-sacrifice on earth as a human being, through suffering an extremely painful death on the cross .... This being of light took abode in the child Jesus in order to accomplish Its mission to redeem the human race from sin and its consequences .... And the brightest light shone forth when the child was born, a light which called all those of good will, who waited for their Messiah and who beseechingly prayed to God in their distress. It was an act of grace of inconceivable significance, for the whole of the universe participated in it .... Heaven and Earth touched each other at the moment of Jesus birth .... the bridge was established from one kingdom to the other .... war was declared on God’s adversary by the man Jesus, Who indeed remained victorious. For He fought for and with God, Who had sent Him to earth and taken abode in Him, Who permeated Him completely .... thus God manifested Himself because He, being the eternal Love, was able to take complete possession of a human being Who had unfolded the love within Himself to utmost perfection .... Who had shaped Himself into a vessel for the divine spirit, into the shell of the eternal Deity .... He could justifiably say ‘The Father and I are One’. He brought people redemption, He gave them light, He brought Salvation for their souls, for through His crucifixion he became victorious over the one who wanted to keep the souls in the abyss and from whom people were unable to release themselves on their own .... He became their Redeemer, their Saviour from sin and death ....

Amen

BD 5840                received  30.12.1953

Battle of faith ....
Fighters for God ....

I have trained an army of fighters for Myself who have taken on the fight against the enemy of souls and against all those who harass you in their unbelief and are therefore against Me. They all belong to My adversary’s camp. My fighters, however, have Me as their Commander-in-chief and I will truly lead them to victory in the last battle on this earth. For it is certain for you .... the battle of faith, which is about to happen to My small flock in which they will have to prove themselves and from which I Myself will rescue them, as I have proclaimed. This time of trial is yet to come to My Own and therefore they will have to be extraordinarily strengthened in order to persevere, because My adversary will proceed in a fierce and most brutal manner against them to make them falter in their belief .... Yet their contact with Me will give all of them remarkable strength .... And this is why I keep cautioning you: Hold on to Me, don’t let go of Me but join Me ever more firmly, establish a heartfelt connection with Me so that you can send your thoughts to Me at all times, as soon as the slightest resistance arises in you, which is always My adversary’s doing .... You can achieve anything, accomplish anything and overcome anything if only you allow My presence within you, which is already guaranteed by your sincere will to be and to remain My Own. Your intimate thoughts, a prayer in spirit and in truth, and constant activity of love also assure you My continuous helpfulness, My strength of love and My grace.

And thus you are always equipped and able to cope with My adversary’s every onslaught, for then you will no longer fight him on your own but will have Me by your side, and he will take flight from My ray of light with absolute certainty .... And you will always be able to triumph over him as long as you stay with Me, as long as you are protected by the shield of faith and of love .... If, however, you let your eyes wander sideways, if they are turned towards the world and you lower the shield that protects you .... if you only exclude Me for a short time and thus let the world step between Me and yourselves .... then you will be in serious danger, and I want to warn you of this like a loving father warns his children not to go their own way but always to stay with the father so that he can protect them in case of threatening danger .... They are merely calls of love which I repeatedly send to you because I Am concerned about your salvation and because I want to spare you every unnecessary fight, for I know your heart’s innermost sense of purpose and will not let you go astray. Yet you could make your paths very difficult if you pay no attention to My Words. You shall be and remain My fighters and ought to prepare yourselves for this final battle on earth. And this requires that you do not sever the connection with Me, that you don’t go anywhere without Me, that you are so devoted to Me that you desire My presence when and wherever it may be .... You must accumulate a large supply of strength which will then never diminish again when you start your final battle .... I will truly lead you to victory, as I have promised you ....

Amen

BD 5843                received  02.01.1954

Strength of faith ....
Healing the sick ....
Miracles ....

You will be able to work with inconceivable strength if you call upon Me for help with profound faith. You must be motivated by love to request this strength of Mine, your faith must be so strong that you will not hesitate for a second when you think of helping a person in need. Then you shall work in My name and you will be impelled by My spirit to do so .... Therefore, do not believe that you take the right to do something that does not correspond to My will, but do without qualms whatever you feel impelled to do and you will succeed. For I have guaranteed you My strength if you are of strong faith. And it is My will that your fellow human beings shall be persuaded of the strength of faith in the last days before the end, hence I will not let you be harmed if you want to serve Me and at the same time your fellow human beings. But I will never give My blessings for actions of self-interest, destruction or heartlessness .... Understand that love has to be the driving force and motivate you to request My strength, never hatred or an urge for revenge, for only love moves My spirit into action. And only through love can you unite with Me so that you then can also partake of My strength. And this love lets your faith come so alive that you no longer doubt the success of what you want to achieve. This also explains the many healings of the sick which are accomplished in My name.

Then I Myself Am called upon for help, My promise is being appealed to ‘Ask, and it shall be given to you; knock, and it shall be opened to you ....’ and with complete faith in the truth of My Word anyone who is lovingly taken care of by the healer will be healed, for the latter will have handed himself over to Me and I will truly be with him in My strength .... he can cure him because he can make unlimited use of My strength. Profoundly faithful people can therefore work on earth for the benefit of their fellow human beings, for they are permitted to do so as soon as they associate it with a living testimony of My name, as soon as My name is thereby glorified .... as soon as it happens in order to help people who strive towards Me gain a firm and indisputable faith .... and not in order to force disbelievers into believing .... Complete unbelief is an obstacle for the working of My spirit .... And the confessor of My name will either be restrained by My spirit from working miracles while watched by a non-believer or the latter will substantiate any healing with natural explanations .... Yet in the last days the weak shall still be won over by overcoming their resistance through the strength of faith of My Own .... And therefore many a miracle will be accomplished in My name in the last days, so that those of weak faith shall be strengthened in order to then be able to believe with conviction and to stand firm in the last battle on this earth ....

Amen

BD 5844                received  03.01.1954

Acknowledgment or rejection ....
Jesus Christ ....

You humans can only acknowledge or reject Me. The latter merely proves your complete unbelief and will have very painful consequences for you, for the rejection of Me means that you are still completely under My adversary’s control and openly oppose Me. However, acknowledging Me means being fully and completely on My side and also having entered My eternal order, acknowledging Me means believing in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world and living as a disciple of Jesus; acknowledging Me means striving towards Me, the eternal Love, which is only possible through living a life of love, since only this establishes the union with Me .... And thus it will also be understandable to you that I only recognise a Yes or a No and that I cannot be deceived by evasive Words which are used when I Am only professed with words voiced by the mouth without any involvement of the heart .... You do not acknowledge Me if your way of life does not reveal your serious striving towards Me, if your way of life lacks love, if you do not hold My image in your heart, if your faith has not yet come so alive that you eagerly work at improving your soul, if you do not turn to Jesus Christ imploring Him for help and grace, if you walk along without Jesus Christ .... In that case, all your words which intend to demonstrate belief are mere empty phrases, which do not deceive Me regarding your true state of soul and which are synonymous with rejecting Me .... The person who acknowledges Me also lives with Me, time and again he makes contact with Me in thought, he enters into heartfelt dialogue with Me, he lets Me speak to him as his Father for he feels himself as My child, and thus he belongs to My Own who I have won back forever. He belongs to those who are redeemed, for he was only able to attain the strengthen of will to reach Me through the grace of the act of Salvation .... Understand .... the path to Me can only lead through Jesus Christ .... No one will reach Me and no one will strive towards Me either if he has not requested the blessings Jesus acquired .... who therefore consciously places himself under the cross of Christ. For he can only seriously strive towards Me when he has come alive through the blessings of the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, in Whom I became a visible God for you humans. Yet ask yourselves whether and to what extent you seriously strive towards Me, and don’t believe that you can be counted as My Own if you are not yet permeated by My spirit of love, if you only outwardly want to show your faith in Me but your way of life lacks all contact with Me .... Words alone will not do, and the affiliation with a Christian denomination does not make you aspirants of My kingdom if you have not yet found the path to Jesus Christ, if you have not yet seriously called upon Him to take mercy upon you who, without Him and His Salvation, are still enslaved by the adversary .... You must recognise yourselves as being burdened by guilt and confess your guilt to Him and appeal to Him for salvation for the sake of the blood He shed on your behalf .... Then you will belong to those who voice a loud Yes when the Father’s call of love rings out, you will belong to those who hurry towards Him, who have separated themselves for good from My adversary, who love Me with all their heart and enter into marriage with Me .... who will remain My Own for all eternity ....

Amen

BD 5845                received  05.01.1954

Predetermined fate ....
God’s love and help ....

I come close to the sick and weak in order to heal and strengthen them .... I come to the saddened and oppressed in order to comfort and assure them of My support .... I take the victims of persecution into My arms so that they may find a home again with Me, and I lift up the fallen to help them find a foothold again and become happy. I come to all who merely call upon Me with a thought, who believe in a God and Father, who don’t reject Me when I want to help them .... And they can all consider themselves fortunate that My ear hears their call, that My eye sees their tribulation and that My heart belongs to them because they are My children .... because they believe. Yet I also approach all unbelievers, I try to make Myself known to them as a helper in order to stimulate them into appealing for My help or into gratefully accepting it .... indeed, I often approach the unbelievers in the form of adversity and grief so that they shall remember Me, Whom they certainly know of yet don’t want to know. For no human being is entirely without knowledge about the Creator and Provider of all things .... However, many lack belief in the connection between the Creator and His living creation, and this unbelief prevents them from looking for the connection which, however, would convince them of Me and My activity, and could also convince them of the immense love which connects Me with all that is created ....

This faith makes the human being very happy and also lets him find the path to Me as soon as he is in trouble .... Or the adversity would be insufferable were I not aware of it and unable to provide My help wherever there is faith. The fact that there is always a way out, that the time of adversity and suffering is repeatedly succeeded by an endurable period of time again is not coincidence, not a matter of course .... It is My intervention, My guidance, it is My reign and activity, which is distinctly recognisable in a human being’s fate. And every person’s course of fate should lead to faith in Me, yet anyone who does not acknowledge Me also rejects a predetermined fate, he tries to explain everything as being due to his own strength or lack of strength without realising where he receives the strength from and why he can also be weak .... The acknowledgment of Me and a call to Me would truly result in a substantial change in his thinking as well as his spiritual and earthly state during his life on earth .... I won’t deny Myself to anyone who calls upon Me, yet I hold Myself back where I Am met by open resistance, where the rejection of Me is so extensive that even physical adversity will not result in any change of mind. And then there will be great danger that the one who has achieved his goal in displacing Me completely will intervene .... And he will provide amply in earthly life in exchange for everything that could lead to life in eternity .... He poisons the soul and subjects it to a death, which is far more painful than the most arduous earthly life, for this comes to an end but the soul will have to suffer forever .... until it acknowledges Me one day and appeals to Me for help .... which it will also be granted ....

Amen

BD 5847                received  07.01.1954

Belief in Jesus Christ ....
Christ’s suffering ....

No person on earth is able to judge Christ’s suffering as Jesus experienced it, because the physical pain was accompanied by indescribable spiritual torment, for which a person has no understanding as long he himself has not been spiritualised. No person will therefore be able to claim of having suffered the same agonies, because the agonies of soul far surpassed the physical pain .... since Jesus carried humanity’s entire burden of sin and was the centre of the battle against evil forces which He had challenged Himself. This darkness made his soul of light tremble and His soul suffered far greater torment than His body .... And this appalling agony is inconceivable for you humans, even though you know of it, hence you will only realise the magnitude of His act of Salvation in the spiritual kingdom, when your soul is enlightened and it is shown the inconceivable act of compassion .... As long as you live on earth you should simply believe in Him, you should envisage the love of Jesus, the human being, Who took upon Himself an exceedingly painful death merely to help His fellow human beings in their spiritual adversity .... You should envisage that He suffered innocently, that He Himself was the purest and kindest Being on earth and that He, on account of His boundless love, was also full of strength and power .... and yet He forfeited His strength in order to suffer on your behalf .... You should .... whether you can empathise with the depth of His suffering or not .... place yourselves consciously by His side, you should not keep a distance, for through His crucifixion He calls you to Himself .... He only wants you to acknowledge Him as Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... that you believe in His mission, that you believe that God Himself was in the human being Jesus and that His suffering and death on the cross was only permitted by God so that humanity would be redeemed, that the atonement was offered to God for a transgression which could not remain unexpiated according to divine justice and which people would never have been able to absolve themselves of .... You humans should believe that the mission of the man Jesus consisted of bringing God’s love and His righteousness into harmony again and so to re-establish the order which had been revoked through the past sin of rebellion against God .... You should only believe that every human being requires salvation through Jesus Christ, that Jesus’ crucifixion was not merely a historical event but had a spiritual reason .... You should believe that Love descended to Earth in order to redeem you humans. And you should believe that Jesus, the human being, so abundantly loved God and His fellow human beings, that the Eternal Love was able to manifest Itself in Him and that all miracles and Jesus’ wisdom can only be explained in this way .... You should simply believe that Jesus’ crucifixion was more than a historic event .... and draw your own consequences from it, i.e. by placing yourselves under the cross of Christ and know that you, too, belong to those for whom Jesus accomplished the act of Salvation. You should acknowledge Him as Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... Then your faith will result in your soul’s redemption, for it will detach itself from the opposing power, it will feel itself looked after by the Saviour Jesus Christ, for it will learn to love Him and only want to live to please Him .... it will avoid sin and do good works, it will give itself to the One Who has set it free .... and it will profess His name before the whole world ....

Amen

BD 5856                received  18.01.1954

Doubting divine revelations ....
The adversary’s cunning ....

Don’t let your heart be sad, and don’t doubt when divine Love manifests Itself for you .... Have faith in the Father’s love, Who truly does not bestow harmful gifts upon His children, Who thus does not allow them to be given nourishment from an unknown source which could damage them. Consider yourselves My children, then you will be able to believe with a rock-hard faith that the Father will grant you His protection, that He looks after you as His children and diverts every danger from you which might put your spiritual development at risk .... Yet also know that you live in the time of the end and that God’s adversary will use his utmost power to increase the number of his followers; know, that he rages shortly before the end and that he is particularly at work where light from above threatens to expose him .... know, that he also endeavours to cause confusion in the ranks of God-devoted people and that he will try everything in order to cause a division .... know, that he is also able to obscure the vision of those who offer him the slightest basis due to wrong will, spiritual arrogance, unkind thoughts .... and that he will always be successful there without, however, being able to separate these people from God. Yet their thinking becomes confused and they no longer recognise the pure truth .... they don’t recognise the Father’s voice because they have listened to that voice .... Nevertheless, their will remains directed towards God, they don’t fall prey to the adversary’s efforts, it is just that he succeeded in dividing a circle which wanted to work together for God. You humans don’t know his power and cunning, you don’t know his disguise and subsequently will fall prey to his game of deceit if doubt arises in you which, at the same time, is doubt in God’s love and omnipotence and wisdom .... if you therefore render yourselves incapable of recognising Him in his manifested Word .... Then his influence on you is obvious yet he will not succeed in separating you from the One Whom you sincerely desire .... for God holds His protective hand over everyone who strives towards Him, but He does not force him to think or act according to His will. He allows him the freedom to defend himself when the power of darkness attacks him .... And anyone who is of good will is also able to see through God’s adversary ....

Amen


 
 
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