Divine Revelation
My sons and daughters, so that My revealed word today can be rightly understood and taken to heart in its deep meaning, I want to begin with something I have already brought close to you repeatedly, but which cannot be anchored firmly enough within you:
I am the source of all life; there is no other.
I am the foundation of your existence.
I am the One who called the whole of creation into life from within Himself—both the creation invisible to you and the visible—and sustains it.
I am the eternal origin of all that is.
I am the One whose power furthers an unceasing development in everything.
I am the Being associated with the term “God,” and whom, for as long as humanity can remember, people have called by the most varied names.
I am the One.
And I am love.
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Because everything has come forth from Me, I am the Creator; and what I have created are My children, for whom I am the “Father.” Even though I am far more than the person of the Father—namely, the eternally outpouring, impersonal life-force of incomprehensible greatness, depth, and power—I am nevertheless, for My children, someone in the image of the Father who is “tangible” to them, someone with whom they can speak and whom they can love. That is why, through Jesus of Nazareth, I brought human beings the “Our Father.” It is meant to make clear the intimate relationship that has existed from eternity between Me and you and everything that is.
All My children come from the same source. All My children carry the same life within themselves. The same laws of life, grounded in My love, apply to all. All have the same home; and insofar as they have left it and are presently traveling on different roads, all are striving again toward the same destination. All, without exception, will reach this destination. For My light burns within all of them. And all are loved equally by Me, again without exception!
If it were not so, I would not be eternal, absolute, unconditional, and selfless love. This love lives within you! It created you as a spiritual being; it accompanied you on your way into matter; it leads you through your life and endeavors—as far as your free will permits and as far as it is good for the well-being of your soul—to spare you much and help you solve your learning tasks.
I came into the world to be help and support for all, because all are My beloved children. On Golgotha something took place that is unknown to most people, including your scholars of Scripture: I placed within the inner being, within the spiritual body, of every human being and every soul an additional energy that wise men and women deeply devoted to Me in love recognized as the so-called “spark of Christ.” From that moment on, everyone of good will could set out on the journey home and bring it successfully to completion, which without this power had no longer been possible before.
I founded no church, nor any society in which one could become a member. I brought a teaching so simple that anyone could follow and practice it in freedom without being bound into laws and rules invented by human beings. My eternally valid teaching was so contagious and alive that many decided to follow Me.
Had I done otherwise—had I, for example, created an exclusive community that one had to join in order to be saved—then My love would not have applied to all. Had I favored a movement whose commandments and prohibitions one had to fulfill in a petty and painfully exact manner in order to reach paradise—without love for everyone and everything, including love for enemies, standing in the foreground—then all those who could not bring themselves to take such a step of strictness and literal obedience would have been excluded. Had I adopted the view of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” I would have taken sides without taking the law of cause and effect into account.
I did nothing of the kind. But I brought the commandment of love, the guiding standard that everyone throughout the world can apply to his conduct and follow according to his possibilities and abilities.
Everything else is the work of human beings.
My infinite love, which understands everything and forgives everything, does not threaten, does not punish, does not frighten. It has other means: by its own inherent ways it moves you so that realizations arise within you, so that you change something and finally, of your own free will, develop the desire to return home.
It is this love that waits for you and will then gather you into its arms again. It may be that tears of joy will flow …
I have emphasized the word “all” so strongly because this is one of the keys that makes it possible or easier for you to recognize the unshakable truth in My revelations; and it serves to create within you a firm foundation that nothing can shake, upon which your own certainty of My true nature grows. Then you are no longer dependent on contradictory and misleading teachings, dogmas, rules, commandments, and prohibitions, nor do you have to fall back on them in order to find the “right” rules of conduct or, in the end, receive only unsatisfying answers to your questions.
Let us build together on the foundation I have laid. The logic of the heart will help you.
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Perhaps you have never really thought about what it means when people simply say: God is love. If, because you lack experience with Me or because of your religious upbringing, you are not yet able to accept Me without reservation as the love I have described to you, then ask Me in prayer—if it is your desire—to experience Me as love. I will then accompany your searching and bring light into your consciousness so that your heart opens and you begin to discover the countless small and great proofs of My love.
If you are already ready to acknowledge My love as the primal ground of all life, then let us take the next step: Let us look into what is presented to you as “My truth.”
If and because I love all equally, it cannot be that I apply different standards to one child than to another. Love requires justice, and it is crowned by mercy, to which all have the same claim.
The cause of the so-called Fall or fall of the angels under the leadership of Sadhana, who later called herself Lucifer, lies in the violation of the commandment of love that applies to all. What is directed against the commandment of love carries within itself the seed of discord and separation, because unlike repels unlike just as like attracts like. I remind you of the words: “Whoever wishes to enter heaven must have unfolded heaven within himself.”
In order to restore the original harmony and unity, the turning away must be ended and the turning back begun. This applies both to the fall of the angels as a whole and to every individual who, in self-will, has turned his back on love; and therefore it also applies to the many small and great acts of lovelessness that repeatedly accompany your daily life. This means that the consequences that arose through disregard and violation of the commandment of love are canceled again through observing and fulfilling it. Through nothing else! Through this alone does the return begin, made possible and accompanied by the power of My love.
This principle is part of My laws. For the fallen angels did not have to leave the heavens because they had not sacrificed enough, had failed to observe rules and perform prayer or other exercises, or had adhered to the “wrong” religion. They acted against love; and therefore all instructions and efforts that go beyond the simple commandment to love God and one’s neighbor—however insistently, as necessary for salvation, frighteningly, or with the “necessary pressure” they may be preached—come to nothing. Invoking so-called “saints” will bring you no success either. If something nevertheless turns toward the positive, this does not happen because you turned to a “mediator,” but because I saw your distress and heard and answered your pleading request. If you believe and know that I live within you, you will never again see a need to approach Me by indirect routes.
Because I am not a God who bears grudges, takes offense, becomes angry, or seeks revenge, and therefore do not have to be “appeased” by outward things of any kind, you now also understand My words spoken so often, the putting into practice of which alone prepares the way home for you: love—and nothing else!
There is no other way back to your eternal home than the way of love lived out. I never proclaimed anything other than this commandment through Jesus of Nazareth.
Whoever teaches something else and presents it as My truth does not, as already mentioned repeatedly, speak with My authority!
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Each one of you grew up in surroundings that shaped your worldview, including your religious orientation. That you were raised in or came into contact with this or that faith—or with none—is no “coincidence.” It corresponded either to your decision before incarnation or was conditioned by the nature of your soul, which was drawn by forces corresponding to it and found its place where it had something to recognize, learn, decide, work off, or make good again.
Your present religious views are therefore primarily the result of your upbringing and the circumstances into which you were born. Have you ever taken the trouble, or allowed yourselves the freedom, to examine the faith you were taught for its correctness or error? Fundamentally there is only one religion: the lived connection with the divine power of love living within you. Everything else is more or less ideology, whose origins lie in the ideas and experiences human beings have had. In the most varied ways, including through oppression and violence, they succeeded in proclaiming and spreading their own ideas as “divine will.”
It was not always exclusively opposing forces that influenced such proclaimers. The idea that only black or only white flowed its ideas into such people is false. Every human being is like a playing field upon which every shade of color is constantly moving. Which one finally prevails and gains the upper hand depends on the person’s character and on the intensity and subtlety of the temptation.
Within your soul lies the memory of earlier times when you lived in harmony and in the light of eternal peace. After all, that is your home, and no one can ever erase this memory because it is embedded in the core of your divine being. There, within you, I have also anchored the longing upon which nothing negative can act destructively. It waits—even if for eons—for you to allow Me to awaken it.
The combination of memory and longing sooner or later moves every human being and every soul to search for meaning, for the background, for home, and for truth. All seek, consciously or unconsciously, the source of their life. All seek love! For every creature needs love. In the depths of its heart it longs for love, even if it does not know this or perhaps even vehemently rejects everything that has even the remotest connection with Me and My love out of resentment. Fundamentally, the great majority of My human and soul children are seekers. They remain so until they recognize that I dwell within them and begin to live with Me.
When you set about examining the different religious communities and their views to see where truth is to be found—without devaluing or condemning them!—many of you repeatedly fall into the same error: You direct your gaze toward outward presentation, toward the surrounding trappings that attract or repel you, toward obvious shortcomings or ceremonies and celebrations that appeal to you, toward persons you approve of or dislike, and much more. But in this way you are and remain on the surface, because you cannot succeed in recognizing what is essential: the teaching hidden behind it, with its many incorrect, unimportant, and even dangerous facets.
Recognizing what is right or wrong in a teaching is the decisive criterion if you wish to advance step by step in your search for truth. For several reasons, the teaching of a religious community is not examined, or is examined without the necessary depth. This happens not least because many do not intend anyway to deal with the details of the teaching, the “fine print,” or because knowing it might possibly have consequences. Or because one can also be part of a community quite comfortably without giving the teaching—as I proclaimed and lived it—the attention it deserves. For many, it is enough simply to “be part of it.”
My patience and forbearance are as boundless as My tolerance and My love. Therefore I will never condemn anyone if, through a decision of his free will, he chooses the path he considers right and follows it in a way corresponding to his present consciousness. But in view of the fact that it would make sense to use your time on earth for recognizing and changing your nature, it can prove to be a serious delay on your way to Me if you are content merely with what others present to you as My truth.
When memory and longing begin to awaken within you, examine whether it really is My truth. Simply using My name is no guarantee that My will and My love are also being proclaimed and that My Spirit reigns there. If My name were sufficient proof that a teaching is correct, then all religions that have written “God” on their banners and raised Him upon their shields would possess the truth—although they teach different things …
In your Scriptures you find the words “Test everything, and hold fast what is good.” As correct as this statement is, hidden within it are also pitfalls, false signposts that can lead you in a direction you did not actually intend.
Whoever wants to test something must know which standard to apply. If he applies the wrong one, he receives a false result. Which standard do you apply when you are serious about recognizing My truth? Do you look to your religious leaders as those who must know because they have studied Me? Because they preserve what has been handed down and cultivate traditions? Because they appear as authorities?
And what is the good that you are to retain? Do you see in it the fruits that make people happy, content, and free of care as the consequence of peaceful and selfless sowing in the spirit of My commandment of love? Do you see in it instructions, lived out as an example, for a life according to My commandment? If so, where do you find them? Who or what brought them forth?
If you want to seek and find the truth and nothing but the truth, there is only one standard, namely the questions:
Is what is taught as divine law based on the unrestricted love of God? Is what people are told to believe and practice free of every restriction in the form of prohibitions, threats, demands, punishments, fear-making, and accusations of guilt? Does it respect every person in his or her dignity as an expression of the love of God? Is all-forgiving love the sustaining element of the teaching? Does it give help upon help without ever losing patience? Is the teaching free of all human aspects attributed to the Creator in ignorance of His true nature, which is incomprehensible to you?
If this is so, then you have encountered love. Then, My sons and daughters, begin to take responsibility for your lives. You are then like the “prodigal son” who decided to return to his Father’s house—which is also his own. The prodigal sons and prodigal daughters come from every corner of the earth, from all peoples and cultures. They are those who have heard within themselves the call of memory and longing.
For I came for all, because I will bring all home.
As a picture, regard the gift of My redeeming additional energy as a ticket for the journey home. It is obvious that it fulfills its purpose only when it is used to board the train from which you will get off again changed, purified, and filled with light in your soul. Merely believing in the ticket or merely rejoicing in possessing it will not be enough to let you reach the destination. It is valid only for a journey on the train in whose driver’s cab love stands, and which bears the name “Freedom.”
Whoever thinks he can reach the destination more easily without boarding this train will have to discover with disappointment that he was mistaken. Whoever avoids the train journey because he believes it will take too long and be too difficult for him will likewise have to learn otherwise.
To him I say with all My love: My child, sooner or later you will have to set out on and complete the way back anyway. If you accept Me as your friend and companion at your side, the distance will be incomparably easier for you to travel than if you try to do so in self-will or with other companions.
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I have told you of My all-embracing love by opening My heart to you. I have come toward you as eternal love, which knows no boundaries and has never erected anything separating itself from all that came forth from it. The obstacles that were built were devised by human beings, influenced and seduced by the forces of the opposing side. This also applies to every false interpretation of My nature, which is incomprehensible to you. None of your religions or ideologies is exempt from this.
I permitted this so that My children might at least have a crutch with which to begin the path that dawns within their memory. But it must not be more than a crutch, an aid used only temporarily. Once you have taken the first steps, take into your hand the sturdy walking staff called “love,” and set aside everything that still makes it difficult for you to hasten joyfully, trustingly, courageously, and full of contagious enthusiasm toward your destination.
Have I touched you, My child? Do you feel within yourself the desire to come close and closer to Me? Is it difficult for you—still difficult—to speak with Me because you still lack the right words? Do you not know what name to give Me because your old image of God no longer agrees with what I have written into your heart?
If you recognize Me as love, you may call Me whatever you wish!
Then you know that I am everything for you: Father, Mother, brother, sister, male friend and female friend—but above all the holy life within you that has loved and sustained you from eternity. Then you have recognized that the same holy life pulsates within everything and everyone and waits for the seed I planted two thousand years ago to sprout to a greater extent than before. Wherever this is already happening, My presence can be felt; there My peace becomes visible and tangible. Allow Me to continue watering your seed, more intensely than in the past; for your own benefit, but also for the benefit of all those human beings whose sleeping longing still has to be awakened. Also through you, through what you express.
Amen