Divine Revelation
My beloved sons and daughters, I as your Father am only too glad to help you break through the human limits and ideas you yourselves have set [this had previously been the content of a prayer]. This means that I give you help upon help so that you can put it into practice in your daily life, with the result that your consciousness expands and your inner eyes and ears open more and more.
And so today I want to deepen with you one aspect of the law of cause and effect—also known as the law of sowing and reaping—a law you know in broad outline but whose finer points are unknown to you. In a sense I let you take another look behind the scenes so that you recognize larger connections and in this way learn better to see and hear; but also so that you better understand what is taking place both in this world and in your personal life.
In the perfection that is your eternal home there is neither time nor space, nor any need for a principle of cause and effect. Only the Fall brought it forth; it was created by Me as an instrument to move My children who had left the heavens sooner or later to turn back. Therefore I always emphasize, and I repeat it here: the law of cause and effect springs from My love for My fallen children, but also for those who went and go into matter to help their brothers and sisters there. For they too need guidance through My law.
The fallen beings noticed very soon that outside the pure heavens they were under the influence of My educational principle of sowing and reaping. This was a thorn in their side, but they could not escape this law. At the proper time, however—and especially after My act of redemption and the blossoming of a new humanity—they did everything they could to obscure the meaning of this law, or they prevented this law from becoming accessible to My children at all.
When I entered this earth two thousand years ago, I taught the commandments of love, but I also said that the human being will reap what he has sown. No reasonably thinking person can evade this logic, for nature alone continually shows him the correctness of this teaching. Fragments of this law are still contained in your Bibles.
Because the forces of darkness could have no interest in enabling human beings to draw conclusions from apparent effects about causes previously set, or at least not merely to regard the existence of causes as possible but to see it as reality, in good time they arranged a great obscuring of My teaching. In this way connections could no longer be recognized, and consequently scarcely any reflection on one’s own fault could take place.
Considerable preparation was necessary for this before the opposing forces could finally set about laying the cloak of ignorance over a large part of humanity, especially those who as Christians stood under the influence of the church. They built up and expanded the power of the church, which over many centuries became a powerful instrument for leading people away from My eternal truth and remains so today, although its power—in contrast with earlier times—has greatly shrunk and indeed has already been broken.
The ignorant people were for the most part at the mercy of this institution for better or worse, especially since they themselves had no knowledge—and therefore depended on the knowledge of theologians—and fear was also used. Thus they were more or less forced to submit to the views, commands, and prohibitions of church authorities. Independent thinking or doubt was dangerous and not infrequently resulted in punishment or death for the dissenter.
First the teaching of reincarnation was presented as false teaching and replaced by dogmas prescribing belief in a single life. In the further course of the obscuring and misleading, the law of cause and effect was either suppressed or interpreted completely wrongly—namely, always only with a view toward the future, toward some form of existence after death in which the human being reaps what he sowed in his one life.
This remains church teaching, and indeed the teaching of the great majority of church groupings, large and small, that over the course of many years split from the dominant Roman church or were formed in other ways. This explains the present state of knowledge of those who call themselves Christians: they not only believe—or must believe—in one earthly life if they do not want to go against their church teaching; they also have no explanation for the many inconsistencies that result from this. Whoever goes through the day in this way cannot at the same time progress spiritually. In this the forces of darkness had achieved a provisional goal.
But the truth is different. In Me and in My creation there is no beginning and no end; and even when a spirit being leaves the heavens, its path resembles a cycle with earth as the most distant point, which finally leads it back to its point of origin. Along this way My child sets causes again and again and is confronted again and again with their effects; but in the end—however long such a path may take—this way will always end in the light. Without exception.
From this cycle, which includes a repeated earthly life or several such lives, one segment—one life—was cut out and presented as an independent life standing completely by itself, without relationships to what came before or after, and this was presented as My will and My law. Thus there arose birth, the years of life, death, and at some point a judgment not more closely defined.
It could therefore no longer be recognized that every life is only part of a great cycle and that every cycle always ends again in perfection. For darkness had no use for the teaching that everything will turn toward what is good again—always and everywhere, when viewed with the eyes of eternal love and when the limitation of time and space is not presented as absolute.
So it declared this cycle nonexistent and instead divided it into countless small and large sections, to which it assigned an independence of their own. The result: ignorant people see only this one section; they know nothing of what came before, they know nothing of what comes afterward, they do not know that everything will always end again in what is good, in the light, until at the end all rests once more at My heart.
With this misleading way of viewing things, those who adhere to this teaching could and can now be guided at will; for now it is no longer difficult, in view of inexplicable suffering and great distress, to instill in them ideas of an unjust God—or even to fuel their unbelief, which fits the opposing side’s plan still better—to frighten them with a later judgment, perhaps even with eternal damnation, to make and keep them unfree, to make them insecure and therefore dependent and useful for their purposes.
I want to make the subtlety of this method clear to you with an example, so that you yourselves recognize how dividing the whole into one partial section, into small and smallest sections, blocks the view of the connections. The smaller one makes this partial section—and I make it exaggeratedly small to make clear what I mean—the more readily it can be used as supposed evidence of the misuse being practiced here: Can a thief fleeing with his loot say after ten minutes—if his deed has not yet been discovered by then—that there can be no law of cause and effect because an effect has not, or has not yet, struck him? Certainly he can. But in doing so he reveals only his foolishness, because he did not notice that he was observed and will soon be identified.
You can take any example you like; you can set the span of time ever shorter—nothing will change in My law. Nor does it change the fact that one partial section joins another and in this way becomes a great whole that is and remains within My law.
You have the proverb that God’s mills grind slowly but justly and well; and therefore My justice, in the sense of balance, requires that a cause once set does not simply dissolve by itself. The only possibility of dissolving it—accompanied by My love and mercy—consists in the one who caused it being ready to recognize and repent of what he did contrary to the law and, as far as possible, make amends. It makes no difference when the cause was set, whether hours, days, a few years, the last life, or a thousand or more years ago. My law is merciful, but incorruptible.
My love therefore does not simply dissolve a cause, for its effect is intended to bring the one who caused it to recognize that he did not act in accordance with the law of love. How, then, could I simply remove a cause from the world? It would be equivalent to taking away from a child the possibility of self-knowledge; and by doing so I would make its return more difficult or even prevent it for an indefinite time.
Through the deliberately created ignorance of My human children that—in many cases—there was a life before this life and—in just as many cases—there will be a life after this life, it became possible for the opposing side to move people to deeds for which they believed, and still believe today, that they would not have to answer. Thus from time immemorial violence has been answered with violence, provocation with provocation: as you do to me, so I do to you. There is little or no fear of one day being overtaken by one’s deeds. Unbelief in Me or false views are—as described—the cause of this. No war would be waged with the knowledge of the effects that inevitably follow, of suffering distress, need, and pain in one’s own body.
Wherever you look—whether in your politics, the economy, religions, the most varied areas of your society, or your own life—where is the question of the one who caused it, or of the cause itself, seriously asked? This refusal to look, this attitude of “I close my eyes and ears to what you do so that no one points out my own faults either,” is daily practice and entirely in the spirit of the forces of darkness. Look at your news; consider the conduct of many politicians, for whom economic interests take priority over standards of humanity and decency. Instead of looking and asking how this or that situation could arise, attempts are made to find outward solutions; and in many cases these are not in accordance with the law. The range of human attempts at solutions extends from taking unfair advantage and manipulation all the way to sheer exercise of power. The law of cause and effect is left out of such considerations.
You now know the background; you now know what was intended and achieved with this misinterpretation of the law of cause and effect: continual misconduct by the great majority of people who, in ignorance of spiritual-divine principles, respond lovelessly to an effect and thereby set a new cause, which in turn produces new effects—and so the wheel has been turning from time immemorial, set in motion and kept turning because the great connection is no longer recognized.
I desire for My sons and daughters that they remember their true origin, that they mature into beings of heaven who begin to radiate already during their lifetime because they put into practice in their lives this knowledge I communicate to them; because they draw the right conclusions from it and set the course accordingly. I desire that My children do not too quickly return to business as usual and pass over what continually happens in their own lives, that they do not look past the difficulties and problems they still carry with and within themselves. For the day gives everyone willing to look the chance to recognize what still burdens him, makes him unfree, and keeps him traveling in old tracks. What is this very often? It is what from the past acts into this life and waits to be transformed and thereby redeemed.
There is only one way of resolution, and it is conditioned by the free will I gave My children. This way is: freely to undertake a turning back, as I showed you in the parable of the prodigal son. The decisive point is: freely! Among other things the law of cause and effect serves this purpose; sooner or later it will make clear to everyone that something in his life is not going as he actually desires. At this point the return begins.
The return consists—as I have often told you—of the steps of remorse, making amends, change, and no longer doing the same thing. But before remorse can arise within a human being, self-knowledge is needed, because without self-knowledge there can be no genuine remorse; for no one will truly regret something or ask forgiveness from the heart merely because another person told him to.
Self-knowledge, My sons and daughters, is something different from realization. Whoever says, “I have recognized that I shouted at my children,” or “I have recognized that I behaved rudely toward my colleagues,” does not yet have self-knowledge. For anyone could have told him this. Self-knowledge begins where the causes of your conduct become clear to you. They may have many layers, but for the time being it is enough if you begin with the upper layer. Often it is not even necessary to descend into the lower layers. Depending on the fault or weakness involved, it may be enough to come to Me in intimate prayer and say: “Lord, please help. There is something within me that does not correspond to a child of God.” And believe Me: in that same moment My help is there.
But if it is a pattern of conduct with deeper roots, then it is similar to an illness: you would not be satisfied if a physician merely treated the symptom but did not try to determine the deeper cause. I want to give you an example of this as well:
If you regularly become angry with a superior when and because he reprimands you, as a rule it is not enough simply to bless him—though this in no way diminishes the transforming power of blessing. That may be a help, especially when you are not aware of any misconduct on your part. But if a reprimand, a stern correction, is necessary three times a week, then little is gained by merely blessing your superior. Look at yourselves then, and if you wish, you will recognize that the reason for the serious talks may lie in your having arrived late three times. What do you do now? Do you come to Me and say: “Lord, I have recognized that I was late. I place my lateness before You; please take it away”? Do you truly believe it would be that simple? Do you not think that in such a case it would be appropriate to look a little deeper at why this fault appears again and again? Might you then recognize that there are some points in your life—for example disorder—on which work is needed? Or that perhaps a certain discipline is required, or the changing of an ingrained pattern of behavior that needs improvement?
When you come to Me with this realization, I am the One who stands at your side as your brother and friend; for I want you to change, and in those points where you do not yet vibrate within the divine law, I want you increasingly to come into right, loving conduct corresponding to My law. This is My offer, this is My love, and this is the help I grant every lost son and every lost daughter when the desire exists to set out on the way home.
What happens then? You have spoken about the experiences one can have with Me. Experiences arise from a life actually lived with Me, and whoever lives with Me acts responsibly. He does not hand over his responsibility to others who have not had these experiences. And whoever knows about the law of cause and effect—can he entrust himself to guides who do not have this knowledge, indeed who reject or fight against it?
I ask you, My beloved, awaken! Grow into the greatness and radiance of a son, a daughter of God. Take possession of your divine inheritance, and be in this world what you promised to be: proclaimers of My love, who build their lives on their experiences with Me, on the rock that I am in every surf.
I give you this image as a goal; hold it before your eyes as often as you wish. Let it act like a magnet drawing you to My heart. And on the way there it is My love and My mercy that accompany you, prepare the ways for you, help you stand up when you have fallen, and—when necessary—even carry you.
I bless you, My great, grown, glorious children. Amen.
Divine Revelation
My beloved, hear once again the word of the Most High, who is the Father of you all from eternity to eternity. From My boundless love and My all-governing creative will all of you came forth. And without the eternal spark of spirit, the eternally self-giving divine flame that nourishes you and forms the core of your being, none of My children nor any other creature could exist. Everything that lives is nourished from the unchanging divine Source. If I were to halt, even for the breath of a temporal moment, the eternally flowing breath that sustains My creation, the essence of life would be withdrawn from everything that exists. It would have to pass away. Oh see how greatly My own have forgotten this.
Through the opposing will of an unwholesome spirit of the age they allowed and still allow themselves to be beguiled and deceived, and many of them in these days esteem the human desire to rule over nature and its law more highly than the almighty power of the Godhead, in whose hands everything lies, and whose all-governing laws of life and love they refuse and are too blind to understand.
If My human children were ready to withdraw from the influence and grasp of all the destructive ideas and opinions, to free themselves from all the unspeakable false teachings raised to religions, ideologies, and their dogmas of human sham-wisdom; and if instead they acknowledged the infallibility and power of My divine all-wisdom and made the laws I taught and teach the basis of their contemplation and action: truly, infinitely much would then be possible for them to draw and receive from the eternal Source.
Yet the human being still believes—even in the face of problems and obstacles insurmountable to him—that he can do without God’s assistance and forgo a true way out in the Spirit of his Father. By what destructive and disastrous pride are My human children ruled and marked! Does not the Creator alone know best what His creatures need in order to live without sorrow and fear, but instead in harmony, safety, and a sense of being sheltered?
O human being, raise your thoughts and striving to Me, the All-Good and All-Wise, so that I can guide and teach you and let you partake of true realization from the Spirit of your Father, who knows the situation and need of each individual and likewise knows the solution and the healing.
Inescapably the human being has woven himself into the web of his God-forgetting life and conduct and now sees himself confronted by the dark shadows of the effects that fall threateningly upon him.
When you speak of your debt crisis, your energy and environmental crisis, I tell you: this is a crisis of human consciousness and therefore a planetary crisis of existence such as this earth has not yet had to suffer. But I tell you further, My beloved: this can happen only because an outward crisis can arise only when an inner—that is, a crisis of soul and spirit—precedes it and lies beneath it. How much easier the future of each one of My children could be if from outward signs, conditions, and developments it drew conclusions about the causal inward correspondences. For spirit, the law of inner life, rules over matter, which therefore can only ever be an image of inner purity and faithfulness to the law or, where My law of love is disregarded, an expression of opposition.
If you want to be equipped to face the debt crisis or that crisis of existence, My child, recognize the true origin and the true nature of your existence. Turn your gaze away from all those whom you believe you can identify and condemn as the causes. Look at yourself, and ask for My divine help in doing so.
Are you not in debt to your neighbor when you disregard, belittle, and condemn him? When you refuse him your hand of forgiveness and reconciliation and thus withhold your love from him, though he is your brother or your sister? How and where do you become guilty toward the innocence of nature and its creatures, which I gave to it so that they might love, serve, and delight you?
As long as you do not recognize your opposing inner feeling and thinking, speaking and acting, and do not decide to impose upon your life a fundamental change of direction and transformation for the sake of love for Me and for your neighbor, so long—I repeat Myself—you pile one cause upon another, which sooner or later will become effects.
It is like a worldly creditor who one fine day knocks at the gate of a delinquent debtor in order to demand payment and restitution, which the debtor refused to believe would come or hoped would be forgotten and pass by his house. But the law of your heavenly Father does not forget. Yet, My beloved, unlike the practices of your creditors, who tend to collect debts with human hardness and strict adherence to legal clauses—and not infrequently do so unlawfully—My divine justice, wisdom, and love apply different standards.
If My law of balance—that is, the law of cause and effect—worked entirely according to human understanding and did not always let mercy and grace prevail over strict justice, then tell Me: how many of My fallen beloved could I ever again embrace in My arms?
Recognize this: My grace, mercy, and patience rise unspeakably far above your human consciousness, and the fatherly measure by which I measure in infallible, most loving justice lies beyond your imagination.
Call it what you will, My child, but I, your heavenly Father, tell you: deliverance from all your crises and hardships, the mastering of all challenges, and the answers to all your questions are founded in Me alone and thus in our bond, which out of love for Me you are to allow to arise between us. Raise yourself to Me so that you no longer fail in the fruitless search for solutions, ways out, and answers without Me.
Recognize that an outwardly directed life forgetful of God leads you into a situation that by human standards appears hopeless. No longer set your hope and faith, your confidence and trust, upon this world, but upon Me, who know all things. Let sincere remorse and serious change of your lower self follow the realization of your faults and weaknesses. Then, My dear one, you give the hand of your heavenly Father the possibility of taking your burden from you and leading you step by step onto the path of a spiritualized human being that becomes brighter and more joyful, and of letting you feel My protecting and comforting presence.
Are you still struggling for trust in Me? Then, as I revealed to you, struggle down with Me the opposing aspects of your human ego. Overcome with Me the acts and attitudes lacking love that, as burdens, still hinder the upward striving of your soul, so that the working of My grace and mercy and the unfolding of love within you may free you from guilt and from the shadows of the lower self. Your thoughts and deeds of love and goodness, compassion and reconciliation allow you increasingly to feel Me and My healing governance. In this way trust in Me opens to you.
Enter into relationship with Me, your Creator God and Father, your Savior and friend, and open yourself to the life-giving experience of My working and My presence in your life. And you will see fulfilled the longing for trust and the desire for our intimate, joy-giving nearness. The unshakable certainty of your consciousness will carry you above every doubt through all that lies ahead, to Me.
Do not hesitate, and make the decision I place before you again and again, for your healing and bliss and that of your neighbor. For I love you, My children, My sons and daughters. Amen.