Divine Revelation
My beloved sons and daughters, when I place before My revealed word the eternal truth that I am love, I do not do so because I see a need to remind you of it. I live in every heart and therefore know of your love for Me. I do it for one reason alone: so that you make yourselves aware—once again—of the nature of My love, and that My love requires a far more differentiated consideration than it often receives.
Whoever believes in Me as love, whoever through his endeavor has sharpened his consciousness over time, will also be able to acknowledge that I make no mistakes, carry no contradictions within Me, and that everything in My creation fits together and interlocks with absolute precision. Within the limited scope of human possibilities, he will be able to follow the logic of My divine laws with the logic of his heart, even if this is perhaps not always entirely easy.
What I will explain below and consider together with you I place under the heading “Misunderstood Love of Enemies.” It concerns both the answer to the frequently asked question of who or what evil, darkness, or the demonic is, and those human beings who have committed themselves to the opposing forces and their intentions and who serve them. And finally, it concerns the fact that My children often fail to see the two separately: the seductive ideologies on the one hand and the seduced human beings on the other. When they are able to keep the two apart, they will arrive at a better and deeper understanding of the commandment to love one’s enemies.
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The origin of what is contrary—by which I mean everything directed against love—lies in the Fall. Triggered by the rebellion of the formerly pure spirit beings against Me, their Creator, the realms outside heaven arose, including matter. Everything outside the heavens carries imperfection within itself. The greater the energetic, vibrational “distance” of these realms outside heaven from the Source of all life, the more they are subject to the influence of darkness, because according to the law of attraction the effects of the negative upon the positive are most easily possible there and therefore most likely to succeed.
When I speak to you of the forces of darkness, darkness, opposing forces, and similar things, for many of you these are no more than abstract terms. Yet truly, this is not about something abstract! It is about something absolutely real! They are still the same personified forces that rebelled eons ago and since then have tried to retain or expand their power over a part of the realms outside heaven. They are My adversaries and yours, who want to harm you temporarily or permanently. But they are also My sons and daughters, created in ages past, loved by Me from eternity and into eternity. And they are your brothers and sisters, with whom one day you too will again be united in My glory and perfection.
And yet, in everything unlawful that happens, they form the ideological foundation. As long as they have not turned back, they represent everything that can be summarized in a few words: deception, betrayal, fraud, lies, ruthlessness, falseness, and more. They still represent these things, for the moment of insight and remorse will come for them as well. But for now they constitute a power that must not be underestimated, one that seeks wherever possible to weaken you, make you unhappy, and take possession of you. And from time immemorial they have sought and found human beings whose nature is open to the false thinking and subtly twisted beliefs they want to bring into the world.
The preferred arena of their struggle, invisible to you, is your earth, and the seducers find the willing exclusively among human beings. For they receive energy only from human beings who do not see through the actions of the negative forces or do not resist them; from minerals, plants, and animals they receive nothing. And only with seduced human beings can they expand their positions of power on earth and enlarge their dark realms in the astral worlds once such souls change sides at so-called death. There they are already waiting for them.
This is not new to you, for I have often enlightened you about the forces of darkness, their intentions, and their methods. Have you really listened to Me?
Have you ever asked yourselves why I described this background to you? Which I will continue to do. Is it not said that one should avoid the negative, not look at it, not speak about it? Always see the positive in everything? Show no feelings of hatred or anger toward one’s neighbor? Love away everything that is contrary to love? Can statements like these also be misunderstood, perhaps misunderstood so badly that the opposing side secretly “rubs its hands with delight,” because in this way it remains even more invisible than it already is?
Truly, I tell you, My eternally valid commandment to love your neighbor, which also includes love of enemies, can indeed be misinterpreted, and even with the best of intentions; but even then it remains a misinterpretation.
If it were true that an action directed against love may not be called by its name, that one may not—if necessary down to its smallest ramifications—point it out and warn against it, then I would never be permitted to speak about sin, Satan, the Fall, the efforts of those who fell away, the dangers threatening My ignorant children, the subtlety with which the arts of seduction are practiced, and much more. I would have to remain silent if I did not want to violate My own commandment of love!
Use the logic of your heart and your intellect, and recognize the error in this reasoning.
The spiritual forces that want to guide human beings in a wrong direction are therefore by no means abstract; nor are they impersonal. But—at least for you—they are not tangible because they act from realms into which you have no insight.
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Up to this point most will follow Me. Now the question is how, and through whom, the beings of the Fall and their followers were able to carry out their plan of destruction, chaos, and seduction. Through whom is this still happening today? Through people who long for Me, who love Me? Can false teachings that draw a false image of Me come into the world through them?
In order to bring about something in matter, the powers of darkness need a kind of “interface.” They must gain access to human beings whom they can reach through their negative soul-potential—that is, through their character, inclinations, egoistic desires, and much more. Through such people they put their intentions into practice.
But so that you do not now succumb to the temptation to point, with or without an accusing finger, at those who immediately come to mind, let this be said to you: You too have already belonged to those—and it will happen to you again and again—who have allowed themselves to be harnessed to the cart of darkness, more or less often and with greater or lesser intensity and scope. This becomes clear when you consider that in everything you feel inwardly, think, say, or do, you enter into contact with subtle forces—with good or less good ones, depending on the intention behind what you do.
Everything that has developed over the many centuries and millennia in the form of religions, ideologies, worldviews, and value systems, and that in its core does not correspond to My commandment of love for God and neighbor, bears to a greater or lesser extent the marks of satanic influence. Those who functioned as the interface just mentioned, as useful tools, did not necessarily have to be aware of this. But the condition of their souls made and makes it possible.
If, then, you want to know whether this or that “truth” is the right one, whether an intention is pure or not, whether a teaching is permeated by love for the human being and his soul, whether egoistic or selfless aims are being pursued, or whether honesty speaks from the words, apply the standard of My love and in this way you will gradually become those who “see.”
If you have courage, then also look into the teachings of your various religions. They contain much that is good, much that was inspired and received from My Spirit. But if, for example, you read and hear of a punishing God, of coercion and prohibitions, of a judgment before which I place all human beings on the Last Day, of eternal damnation, of a God who loves the good and hates the evil, of the promise of future paradisiacal conditions based on human notions bound to the senses, then it must be clear to you that at these points the forces of My adversary and yours were successful.
Or can you with full conviction trace back to Me, love, a teaching that wants to force the neighbor who has a different view into the right faith? That wants to destroy him—even if only on paper!? Or actually destroys him? But if it is not I … ?
See, My beloved sons and daughters, the efforts to bring you down, to bind you, to present you with a falsified teaching and thereby influence your soul and your future life are immeasurably diverse. They are often beautifully packaged, coated with sugar, decorated with promises, and offered with great conviction and also with fanaticism; and, if it serves the purpose, with the necessary dose of fear as well.
How could your guardian angels help you if they were not able to look into the souls of those who want to harm you? Are they to ignore lurking dangers? They have a responsibility toward you, and they fulfill it. Do you not also bear responsibility for those who come to you as seekers or learners and trust that you will enlighten them in My Spirit and encourage them to be watchful?
Am I, your heavenly Father, to remain silent? Would you remain silent if you saw that your children, who cannot yet recognize the threat themselves, were in danger of going astray through bad company? Or think of the ideology contemptuous of human beings in your recent history. Or of the efforts of the so-called ascended masters to make a distorted teaching palatable to people. Would you overlook the theft of your property merely because you believe that by naming the act you would violate the commandment of love? Would you remain silent merely because one is to love one’s neighbor and may not attribute anything evil to him? Always assuming, of course, that you have seen through the evil at all.
Are you not yet able to practice both: recognize what is unlawful and still love the perpetrator? Then let us speak about it.
Up to now, as you will have noticed, I have illuminated the background, what exerts influence on human beings without being recognized. I have not spoken about those who were seduced and themselves became seducers: about My sons and daughters, about your brothers and sisters. Nor have I passed judgment upon them, and I never will. If you too are able to distinguish in this way—on the one hand seeing dangerous thinking, evil intention, and the deed carried out, and separately from that the human being who, in the depths of his soul, is profoundly unhappy—then much has already been gained. Then half the danger of your blindly walking into the traps that have been set is already removed.
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As Jesus of Nazareth I said: “Love your enemies.” I did not say: “Love what drives your enemies; love their motivation.” Nor did My teaching say: “Close your eyes and ears so that you do not have to recognize anyone as your enemy—then you will not be tempted to have to see through him, you can continue to think well of him, and therefore you will not condemn him either.”
The secret of love of enemies put into practice is quite different. It says: See—and still love! Admittedly, this is no easy undertaking, but I am not speaking to people for whom My teaching of love is still distant; I am speaking to My sons and daughters who endeavor to put My laws into practice in their daily lives.
It belongs to the lifelong tasks of a human being to free himself from the negative character trait that so readily applies his own judging and condemning standards of value to another person’s behavior. Everything is immediately categorized, classified, and evaluated according to the kind and extent of what has been registered in the other person—more restrained where tolerance has already been acquired, or rigorous where intolerance still remains. Simply noticing something has nothing yet to do with distancing oneself from it in condemnation. But with evaluating and judging you are already entering dangerous waters. And not infrequently an opinion formed in this way culminates in moral condemnation of the perpetrator and his deed.
That is human—but it is not what corresponds to My nature. I do see and hear everything, but I condemn nothing. I love unconditionally. Yet I do not love unconditionally because I do not know My child’s motivation or because I misjudge his intentions: I know them—and I love!
Your path of development therefore cannot consist in being ignorant in order to be able to love. Nor can it consist in not knowing or recognizing your enemies, not learning what they intend, what moves them, how they disguise themselves, and much more. The path of truly following Me, which goes hand in hand with a steady expansion of consciousness and strengthening of the soul, consists in the art of looking more and more deeply while at the same time growing step by step into My law of love and mercy; and finally applying this law to your neighbor regardless of what you know about him and how he behaves. It does presuppose, however, that you have already recognized yourselves to a certain degree; for without “self”-knowledge there is no “knowledge of others.”
How do you want to pray for your enemies, for their turning back and their rescue, if you close your eyes and deny that they have bad intentions, that they are up to no good? How do you recognize My adversaries and yours? It is not always your personal opponents who are at issue. Far more dangerous—both on the material and on the subtle level—are those whom you fail to recognize as ill-disposed toward you because they pretend something to you that does not correspond to their real intentions; because they blind you.
Therefore: Look into the face, the heart, the soul of the one who wants something from you and recognize what truly drives him, what he intends. And when you recognize his evil intentions, then practice loving him! At first you will not immediately succeed. But neither do you have to make the effort alone. For this kind of inner work I am the friend at your side, the encouraging power within you. What is important is that you look at yourself; that you recognize the obstacles and resistance present within you and decide to move them aside together with Me. In doing so I will remind you again and again that the fallen beings and seducers too are your brothers and sisters.
If in the depths of your heart you know that I love everyone, then it will likewise be your endeavor—provided you are ready to follow Me—to practice love of enemies. Then in future you will no longer make the mistake of condemning everyone and everything because the correspondences within you virtually provoke such a reaction; but neither will you turn your gaze away out of sheer concern that by recognizing the true motives of your neighbor you might be drawn into condemning his person. Both patterns of behavior can be traced back to the same “root.”
After you have recognized the weaknesses within you and overcome them with My help, you will be able to wrap your neighbor in the same love in which I too wrap him. You will bring him to Me with the request that I take care of My lost child, because you know that your possibilities are not sufficient. But what you were able to do—namely to love him, even if for the moment this has brought no visible success—you have done. You have fulfilled My law of love of enemies.
To all of you who endeavor to do this, My blessing flows in rich measure, and it is the same as My strength. My love belongs eternally to all of you, all of you! Therefore also to those who are still against Me and still make life difficult for you. That I love them to the same degree is something you will grasp in its deepest meaning when you too have become love again. Amen