Divine Revelation
My beloved brothers and sisters, I, Jesus Christ, the love within the Father, raise My word in order once again to direct your attention to something you all already know, but which, despite all its simplicity, is nevertheless so complex that it repeatedly requires a new way of looking at it, one that allows you to recognize further background and connections. I am speaking of all-embracing divine love.
The principle upon which all creation is built is love; the law that ensures the flawless course of creation down to the smallest detail is love; and so the way that will bring every individual back to the heart of his heavenly Father is likewise nothing other than love. Whoever lives love, or strives to do so according to his possibilities and strength, will—with absolute certainty, because the law provides for it—find his way back to his eternal home! In accordance with the word I have already given you repeatedly: love—and nothing else!
If, then, only this effort is required, if it is “so simple” to let heaven arise again within yourselves, why is it so difficult in the practice of your everyday life?
Putting an uncomplicated teaching into practice does not automatically mean that this must happen without problems or effort. But neither does it mean that this path cannot be walked successfully. The traveler on this path will encounter many difficulties with which he will inevitably be confronted. These are indeed difficulties that come to him from outside, but—and here the solution already begins to shine through—in the end they always have something to do with himself, with his inner being. Therefore it is within himself as well that the point of approach must be sought and found, the point that makes it possible to clear one stone after another from the way purposefully and successfully—with My divine, brotherly help.
My help consisted, and still consists among other things, in giving comprehensive enlightenment through My word about the law of sowing and reaping, which is falsely interpreted and taught by the established churches and therefore finds little reflection in people’s conduct. Nevertheless, more and more people no longer believe in so-called chance, but sense that there must be certain rules upon which creation is built and which operate within creation.
The law of cause and effect can no longer simply be dismissed; the condition of your earth alone reflects to you that there are direct connections between behavior and its consequences. This is a universal principle that your philosophers and scientists discovered long ago. The fact that one cannot always infer the causes immediately from the effects does not mean those causes do not exist. In many cases the human being does not want to see them, or truly cannot recognize them because they were set in a past inaccessible to him. This applies not only to the negative that expresses itself in the material realm; it applies equally to the spiritual realm, both to the individual human being and to societies, cultures, and peoples.
But the realization that everything in a person’s life is also based on the principle of causation is only one side of the coin. It is an important one; it is one that can bring about lasting change if it is not merely accepted as theory, but influences the practice of daily life and one’s dealings with one’s neighbor.
No less important is the other side of the coin: knowing that there is an uninterrupted influence by opposing forces, which make use of the principle of attraction in order to radiate into people’s souls and subconscious minds; which use the law of sowing and reaping for their purposes in order to bring negative seed into people’s souls or reinforce seed already present there, with the aim of bringing in a harvest harmful to the human being. These forces live from this, and they are by no means abstract but exceedingly real.
This “seduction into sin,” as it is commonly described, is practiced successfully by the forces of darkness and has been for as long as human beings have existed. And it will continue for as long as humanity—still unenlightened and unwilling to change—allows itself to be seduced. When humanity begins to turn around on its path, it ceases to be an energy supplier for the demonic opposing forces and their followers, who in this way—even though only over periods of time impossible to define—will finally come to their senses and have to relinquish the power granted to them exclusively by human beings and souls. For I will bring them home too, because they are sons and daughters of the heavens, and heaven loses nothing of what it has created.
Everyone who lives in matter still has to carry more or less of his soul-burdens, his “shadows.” Only when he one day re-enters his original heavenly home will he have found again the perfection of a divine child. Before that, however—especially on your earth, but also in the lower astral realms—he represents for darkness an object to be attacked, hindered in his development, and, if possible, bound to what is negative. Even though such bondage cannot take place in all people because of the spirituality already awakened within them, everyone is nevertheless subject, to differing degrees, to its influences and impairments.
It is therefore the faults and weaknesses in the human being at which the attacks are directed. What makes it so easy for the opposing side is the complete ignorance that My and your adversaries actually exist, and exist in the reality of your life—in every moment of your day, in all your thinking, speaking, and doing. But this should not frighten you, for there is also My reality and that of all the good and light-filled forces that are likewise around you in order to help and support you. And light is and remains for all eternity the stronger force.
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The root of human behavior directed against love therefore lies not only in earlier thinking and doing, but deeper: in the ceaseless effort of lower forces to keep inciting the human being to retain his habits, defend his view of things by every means, strengthen his ego, seek his own advantage, and assert himself. A person who, because of his already diminished strength of soul, follows this path does not know that he is being drawn deeper and deeper into the swamp. The causes he continually sets anew do indeed determine his destiny, but that destiny is prepared on a level invisible to you by forces that employ lies, empty promises, deception, and fearmongering.
My beloved, whoever has opened his heart recognizes from these few words alone that in reality everything is completely different from how it appears. You always look only at the surface; few look into the depths. But the surface is either beautified or, where this is no longer possible—because events begin to tumble over one another—is portrayed as a product of human inadequacy, shaped by coincidences one is forced to accept.
It can therefore be helpful to acquire knowledge, or at least develop a sense, of what comes in sheep’s clothing but in reality represents a wolf with dishonest intentions. This must not and may not be done with the aim of condemning or fighting one person or another; it may serve only the purpose of recognizing the traps that have been set, often with unforeseeable long-term effects, and of avoiding them and, insofar as you are already able, setting against them a clear but loving no.
The necessity of learning to discern the spirits is more important in your time than ever before. As never before, ideologies and teachings are pressing into your world that do not have selfless and unconditional love as their foundation. You can scarcely, or no longer at all, distinguish them by their language, for they use terms such as peace, love, stillness, harmony, higher development, and justice so naturally that it appears they want to lead people onto a good path; especially since the names God and Jesus are no longer taboo for them either.
In this way they meet the longing of many people who seek these values but do so outside established Christianity because they receive no satisfactory answers there to their burning questions; or because—often also in earlier lives—they had to endure much suffering and injustice through their authorities, who claimed to act on My behalf but misused My name.
Here a market has opened up for the opposing forces, one they are only too glad to serve. Their promises and directives not infrequently ensnare even those who know Me but have not yet built the intimate connection with Me, their brother Jesus Christ, or with their heavenly Father; and who are therefore still in the process of developing the gift of discernment.
The paths darkness has prepared for those who give credence to its words are as numerous as the proverbial “sand of the sea.” Its sophistication, as I have often told you, is highly refined and exceeds your powers of imagination. It does not always have to involve half-truths or untruths; it is far more effective to twist the truth by only the tiniest amount, so to speak “to lie with the truth,” and in this way impress those who have not yet seen through the dangerous “game”; those who are not yet sufficiently firm inwardly; those who have not yet found the inner Christ within themselves; those who are only beginning to make the love within them the foundation of their thinking and acting.
Truly, I tell you, for immensely long ages the forces of darkness, from their secure position—secure because invisible to human beings—have made use of the weaknesses in people that are present in their souls as consequences of earlier violations of the commandment of love. Human beings represent for them the source from which they help themselves at will, insofar as people allow it.
These weaknesses do not necessarily have to be serious character flaws. A little fanaticism, ambition, unforgivingness, carelessness, superficiality, self-righteousness, envy, and much, much more are enough, while the goal in each case is to turn glowing embers into a small flame and then a large one. Thus, usually unnoticed by the person himself, new behavior arises that can become the basis for further entanglements and damage to the soul; at least if the person does not begin in time to question himself and his behavior, recognize the influence of negative forces, and decide against this external control.
To make what I have said more understandable to you, I give you an image:
Two camps face one another. On one side stands an immense host of dark figures; on the other, countless beings of light, at whose head I, Jesus Christ, stand. Between them, for the most part ignorant, helpless, and weakened: humanity. Many among the people already radiate light; others wear dark gray or black; but the majority simply stand waiting. Neither camp is inactive. Both send their messengers to the people, and the two have completely different intentions.
The dark side entices with lights, trinkets, short-lived pleasures, promises of every kind, beauty, wealth, power, and much more. Its representatives move among people, make offers, sometimes also frighten them, turn to their dark-gray and black vassals and secure their support; but above all they are interested in influencing as many as possible from the great mass of the undecided. This is relatively easy for them, because from each person’s radiation they recognize where his weak points lie, which then serve them as points of entry. That is where they begin, while they also try to seduce those who already shine. In those who allow it, they thus reinforce the consequences of earlier transgressions and thereby create the foundation for new entanglements. Not infrequently they also paralyze people by repeatedly entering into still-existing feelings of inferiority and guilt. This does not necessarily bring about lasting deterioration, but it does at least produce stagnation, which from their perspective is likewise not to be underestimated.
The side of light also attracts, but in a completely different, open, and honest way. It knows of the divine life within everyone; it addresses the longing within the soul; it gives courage, encouragement, and consolation; it offers its help without conditions; it enlightens; it speaks the truth; it paints the picture of the freedom that awaits everyone; it leaves the human being his free will to decide. It does not prevent the dark forces from acting, because they too have free will. But against their whisperings it sets the power of love; it addresses the conscience. And to everyone who calls Me I go, place My hand upon his head, and strengthen him—whose brother I am—through My divine blessing.
Even though this is only an image, it makes clear the situation in which humanity finds itself. You too, My brother, and you too, My sister, are among those for whom both camps strive unceasingly.
This is the situation as long as a person lives on earth. When he lays aside his body and enters the beyond as a soul, the light and dark forces will strive for him there as well. Their success or failure depends on which direction he already followed during his lifetime.
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I want to give you joy by speaking to you about your soul. The soul contains the divine spark of life within you. It is your divinity, for all of you are children of the one Father, who is love. He has placed this love within everyone. He has endowed you with a fullness of power you still cannot imagine, with inexhaustible strength, so that when you have found your way back home you will be capable of being active as co-creators of the infinite universe. Your activity, because it comes from eternal love, is boundless within the abilities you have already developed. And when I speak of glory and beauty, I once again overtax your imagination. For your human thinking is insufficient even approximately to describe your inner freedom, your greatness, your humility, your love.
If in a quiet minute you feel into your inner being, if you succeed in sinking deeply within, then you receive a very faint, very quiet sense of what it means to be a son, a daughter of the Most High. Then perhaps on the horizon of your consciousness there flashes an understanding that authority too—rightly understood and recognized and accepted in humility—lies within you, as a perfect creature of God, to represent His name and act in His Spirit.
This is who you are! This is the center of your soul, which fulfills its task as the connecting link between spirit and human being. Every being that leaves the pure heavens places around its “core,” its spiritual body, the so-called soul coverings, collectively called the “soul.” Every soul has its own completely individual personality. If it decides to incarnate, it needs a body of flesh and blood, which it enters at birth and leaves again at the end of life. The body thus serves the soul only temporarily as a “vehicle.”
If the incarnation has been well prepared with the help of the guardian angel from the standpoint of learning and loving, the soul chooses the circumstances on earth that suit it, and with them also its human body. It then passes through the land of forgetting, which results in the human being considering himself the only important one, for after all it is he who feels, thinks, speaks, and acts. He knows nothing of the soul; it lives largely unrecognized in the “background.” Yet it was the reason the human being came into life at all, for without the soul’s decision to incarnate there would be no human being.
The soul leads, so to speak, a shadow existence, at least insofar as it does not appear visibly on the scene. It depends upon the human being carrying out what it resolved before incarnation; upon the human being striving for the goals the soul wrote into its plan of development. And so it continually strives to let its ideas flow into the human being. He, in turn, has developed a life of his own over the years, with his ideas, habits, and patterns of behavior. These do not necessarily correspond with the soul’s wishes and with the direction it would like to take.
If this lack of correspondence grows greater and greater, the soul has various possibilities for making itself known to the human being and letting him understand that he should please change something, because otherwise there is a danger that the intended goal will be missed.
Human being and soul therefore form an inseparable unity for the time on earth, consisting of a spiritual and a material part. On the one hand, the soul-part allows its impulses to flow into the material part—while the soul receives every help from the heavens; on the other hand, the material part shapes the condition of the soul. If in the course of his life the human being increasingly places himself on the side of the camp of light, this has a decisive influence on his soul-condition or, expressed differently, on the subtle being that after so-called death leaves the perishable body it no longer needs—and which is he himself! If the human being tends more toward the camp of the opposing side, the same occurs, only with negative results. If he remains “neutral,” then the soul has gained nothing and lost nothing; at some point it will decide on another earthly round and seek a new body. For the longing within it gives it no lasting rest.
When you strive to find stillness, listen inwardly into yourselves as well. With a little practice it can become possible to perceive inner feelings that rise from your soul into your consciousness. In this way you will gradually experience the love your soul carries within itself, a love that also applies to its human self and can be an example to you to love yourselves still more. It wants to signal to you that it rejoices over the efforts its human self makes; that it rejoices also because through them it has gained greater lightness and radiance, which it gladly radiates into its human vehicle.
Depending on your circumstances in life, it may also be that you sense a certain sadness in your soul, which would so gladly take stronger steps toward the light but which you human beings carry out only hesitantly. This could spur you to reflect on yourselves and make decisions, so that the existing sadness can be replaced by joy; and to remember who you truly are, what sublime divine spirit being has found its temporary home for a few decades within your material body.
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The image of the two camps expresses the unceasing effort to act upon human beings. Even though the effects show themselves outwardly sooner or later, on the surface they merely reflect what previously took place in the background, beneath the surface—that is, within the human being. Inwardly the human being is built up and moved forward by the forces of heaven; inwardly, however, he is also weakened by destructive forces, even to helplessness. In this way these forces ultimately also reach their goal outwardly, which in turn serves them to draw other people under their spell, manipulate them, and—even over the long term—through infiltration direct a movement toward a goal that does not correspond to divine will.
This happened, for example, in early Christianity, which after only a few decades was already dominated by a spirit that slowly but surely led the followers of Jesus off course, until after two centuries the prophetic Spirit of God withdrew because the living Spirit had been replaced by misunderstood missionary zeal, by a hierarchy built and directed by human beings, and by an outward structure of belief. The changes were initiated within people—without their conscious willing or knowledge, but with a false logic that made use of the intellect while disregarding the heart, the burning love for God.
I enlighten you about all these things so that you do not walk into the same traps and do not make the same mistakes. Whoever begins to train his mindfulness, whoever lets what he encounters each day pass through the filter of his expanding consciousness, must recognize the dangerous situation into which the world has brought itself by turning toward the camp of darkness. The danger, becoming more obvious in many places, reveals to the one who has opened his eyes and ears the activity of an invisible dark power. Exclude no sphere from what you examine critically—whether political, economic, social, or religious—for evil too stops at no sphere. It waits for the unwary even, or especially, where it is least expected.
My beloved, make the knowledge I bring you your own. But do not look fearfully at what is being prepared and is showing its first effects; instead take My words as an occasion above all to look into your own personal sphere. There you can change something; there the authority to decide is yours.
But it is not only negative changes that are being prepared without humanity, or the individual, noticing. Truly, I tell you, countless of My messengers are among you, your brothers and sisters from the light, who have set out to strengthen what is good. I have already touched or addressed them inwardly, or will do so at the appropriate time. They will know the laws that make it easier for them to walk through the world with seeing eyes. And they will know that there is only one “antidote”—one alone—that can and will bring the efforts of the opposing side to nothing and break its power: the power of love, put into practice in everyday life by people who have sought and found the inner light, namely Christ within the human being.
For the one who loves Me, asks Me for help, and is ready to walk through his life at My hand, what was said at the beginning—that putting an uncomplicated teaching into practice does not mean it must happen without problems or effort—remains valid, but loses its heaviness and joylessness.
I stand at the head of the fighters who battle for the light, I, the unconquerable love within the Father. Yet I do not merely go before all the fighters in the visible and invisible realms; at the same moment I am also at your side when you call Me. If you wish, I offer you My strong arm; and if the desire awakens within you to place yourself—as many others already have—at My side, then I equip you with the sword of love and the shield of wisdom.
If in the past you opened yourselves to the promises of darkness—perhaps without being aware of it because you belonged to the many who did not see through its schemes and tricks—this need not be a reason to remain a prisoner of these forces. No one has a claim upon you; no one will be able to hold you if you want to enter the light. I extend My hand to you; I release the fetters with which you were bound; I open for you the gate that leads into freedom. My love and your yes are an unbeatable team.
This is what your divine brother Jesus Christ tells you, He who wants and will free you and everyone, who will break the power of darkness and ultimately lead even the last of the adversaries onto the way home, because he too will one day come to insight and accept My help.
Be blessed, My brothers and sisters; be strengthened in your vigilance and foresight, and be enveloped in the boundless love of your heavenly Father. Amen.