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The Question of the Right Religion

Source: Hans Dienstknecht

Original title: Die Frage nach der richtigen Religion

Original date: September 10, 2019

Divine Revelation

Sons and daughters of My love and My freedom, let Me take you on a journey through time that begins when I—figuratively and in essence—spoke the words “Let there be”; that is, at the beginning of My creation. Beyond the present, our journey extends to the end of a provisional future. “Provisional” because it—just like your present—came into being only through the Fall and therefore does not mean the end of creation, but merely the restoration, homecoming, or bringing home of all that once left the heavens.

My creation is eternal. This applies to everything that lives within it, and therefore to every one of you as well.

Even though our journey is only one of thought, it nevertheless has a very real background; for it is meant to help you arrive at your own conclusions, which is important for your inner development and for deeper realization. After all, you are free children of the heavens whose goal is to become once again what lies within you as wisdom, strength, and greatness.

This is My intention connected with My revealed word today: to address and activate again and again within you the logic of the heart that I have long been teaching you—provided you are freely willing to do so. This goes a little beyond My still extremely important enlightenment, admonitions, and encouragement. It challenges you, if you wish, and at the same time can bring you a gain that should not be underestimated.

In order to receive a satisfying answer to the question—which for as long as humanity can remember has occupied many millions of My sons and daughters throughout the world—of which religion or community is now the “right” one, knowledge of the fall of the angels, also called “the Fall,” and of its effects upon the whole of creation is indispensable. And it is equally important to let consequences follow from this knowledge, which means: to shape your life—that is, your thinking and actions—in the light of My words differently than before, if that proves desirable or necessary; always with regard for your free will.

I created everything from within Myself, for there is no power other than Mine. So that My creation, which in its endlessness and complexity exceeds every one of your ideas by an infinite measure, may develop and unfold flawlessly for all eternity, I created immutable laws that are never altered—not even by one iota—nor ever need to be altered. If such a necessity existed, it would at the same time mean that they were not perfect.

Everything that has come forth from Me is—as I Myself am—perfect. In its primal foundation it will remain so forever, even though self-willed conduct could and can temporarily stamp this perfection with the mark of incompleteness and inadequacy. But everything will return to Me in perfection.

Because I will it so, and because I have the power to do so. Above all, however, because I am love!

The law that stands above all others is all-understanding and all-forgiving, selfless and unconditional love. All beings of the heavens whom you call angels carry this love fully unfolded within themselves—although most of My human children do not know that they themselves are angels who, for the most varied reasons and for a limited time, have put on a “material garment.”

All other laws, including order, earnestness, wisdom, and others, are sustained by the supreme law of love. This is one of the reasons why, as Jesus of Nazareth, I brought you above all the principal commandment to love God and your neighbor: it is the essence, because everything is contained within it.

Whoever loves in this way fulfills the law and lives in Me. And whoever serves the law, the law serves him!

What does this mean? That in heaven there are indeed different mentalities and individuality knows no limits, but religions, church organizations of any kind, or religious communities do not exist. Nor will you find there differing opinions and ideologies, or groups that consider only their own teachings to be right. In principle, however, they all do this, even if they do not expressly emphasize it. If they considered the guidelines by which they live to be wrong, they would not practice their views.

Is the reason for this not obvious? Heaven and everything that lives in this perfection is love and unity. Where, then, could exclusion or separation have a place? If you wish, think about this; your thoughts can end only in one conclusion:

When a soul is once again with Me as a pure spiritual being, it must therefore have laid aside on its way from earth to heaven everything that does not belong to all-embracing love. It must have become free of every attachment that previously prevented it from entering the radiant freedom of the heavens.

When I say it “must,” this does not mean compulsion; rather, it represents a prerequisite for being able to live in the world of My perfection. Underlying this is the law of attraction, which says: “Whoever wishes to enter heaven must bring heaven with him or carry it within himself.”

The soul has the freedom to make such a decision. If it does not wish to take such a step toward further development—which changes nothing about My love for it—this does not mean that it then necessarily continues to live in lower, gray astral realms. As a rule, if it has not burdened itself with more or less serious karma, a soul continues its life in surroundings far more beautiful than those it left only shortly before—that is, in matter.

In its ignorance it may even consider its new home to be “heaven,” where it finds like-minded souls. In this sense there are indeed Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Islamic “heavens”—and very many more. There are as many as there are opinions.

But sooner or later every soul will recognize that it is not living in the heaven that is its true home and toward which its longing will eventually draw it. For there, as already said, nothing separating exists, and therefore neither does the belief that one’s own worldview, with all its regulations and humanly devised commandments and prohibitions, is the right one.

So if there are no religions with Me, but very much so on earth, does not the logic of the heart tell you that on the path of return or bringing home, everything that is not divine and therefore contrary must have dissolved? For what I created exists forever. What dissolves through transformation is human work and, in many cases, is conditioned by the influence of the fallen former angels!

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Your Christian religion teaches that two creations came forth from Me: the spiritual and the material; that I therefore created the angels and, in a further act of creation, human beings. Because of this false teaching, an entirely false image of My nature, My love, and the actions arising from it has come into being. The deception is so grave because—similar to the removal of reincarnation—it attacked a central point that not only “twisted My teaching a little,” but caused damage to your soul’s development whose extent you do not yet recognize.

My following words will evoke incomprehension, even rejection, in some who adhere to a word-for-word interpretation of your Scriptures:

There is only one primal creation, namely the spiritual creation, which is your heavenly home! All other realms outside heaven arose as a consequence of the Fall. Thus the belief that, independently of this, there is another, a second creation that brought forth the material universe together with the earth, and with it the plant and animal worlds and finally the human being, rests on false assumptions. That this is also supposed to have taken place in only a few days is a belief still held only by fundamentalists among human beings.

In My wisdom I did indeed foresee the falling away of some of the angels and from the beginning set the corresponding course for bringing them back, but the formation of worlds outside perfection became necessary only through the rebellion of Sadhana and her followers against Me and My commandment of love.

Compare this roughly with your loving conduct toward a child who leaves home after a quarrel, but whom you—because you have the financial means—provide with a roof over his head so that he does not have to live on the street. It was never your intention from the outset to create a place for the child to live outside your family community—just as it was never My intention to create living conditions outside the heavenly family community.

Now if—continuing with this example—someone regards the move of the child who left home as something completely separate, detached from everything that came before, then in his ignorance he can only arrive at the conviction that it has no connection whatever with any prior event. The child’s origin and the reasons for moving into the new place thus remain in the dark.

The intention of the opposing forces to obscure the origin of the human being and thus the realization of his true nature succeeded. And so not only did ignorance enter the world, but also the lack of awareness of the necessity, through insight and work on oneself, of becoming again what has been hidden in the depths of the soul from eternity: a pure, radiant angel living in My love.

The formation of living realms outside the heavens took place over a span of time impossible to describe. The worlds close to heaven possessed—and still possess—a high radiance and vibration; those farther from heaven became more and more condensed. Finally, as the last and lowest realm of the Fall, the material universe known to you arose; although your scientists recognized long ago that even what you know as matter is nothing other than highly condensed energy.

In My love I not only allowed all this; I also contributed My energy and thereby finally gave the fallen beings the possibility of finding on planet Earth a basis that made possible for them a slow, step-by-step upward development, provided they wished to undertake this upward development. This was not the case with all of them and still is not.

My eternal laws always remained the same. They did not change through the Fall simply because the circumstances, brought about by the opposing forces, changed. Only one additional law came into effect, serving to make return possible through recognition of one’s own wrong conduct: the law of cause and effect. My law of love as the foundation and at the same time the overarching principle of all that I created did not change.

As I have often revealed, everything in My creation is evolution. Nothing arises “just like that,” out of nothing, from one day to the next. The reason is that everything must be contained within everything in order finally to become and be perfect.

Thus life on earth also developed in evolutionary stages, each building upon the one before—and still doing so—until finally the time came when the first living beings populated your planet and the fallen beings were thereby given the possibility of incarnating as individual souls. Do not try to grasp these spans of time with your human intellect. You will not succeed.

Because of differing conditions, especially climatic ones, different peoples with their cultures formed in many places on your earth, and all developed their own ideas about “God and the world.” This should not surprise you, for the beings who incarnated brought their own ideas with them. After all, they were souls far removed from any knowledge of God; souls that, among other things, often incarnated only in order to create confusion, war, and chaos on earth, and in this way establish for themselves a “human base” for the energy they so urgently needed.

Over the course of human history, however, spiritual beings from the pure heavens also incarnated with the task of bringing knowledge and wisdom to immature human beings. But other souls also entered matter who—often indeed with good intentions, though not always with “divine blessing”—conveyed their views and teachings to people.

In every case, however, the forces of darkness, which had no interest in the spiritual development of human beings and still do not, endeavored to undermine every effort that brought people closer to Me. They proceeded as they have done from eternity and still do today:

Because they know every person’s weak points, they began where they expected the greatest possible success in influencing him. Were they successful? What does the logic of your heart tell you? How large has the “market of religions” become, in which every worldview feels and claims that it is on the right path? Who still proclaims the path that alone teaches love—and nothing else?

And yet, amid all the multitude of beliefs, regulations, and dogmas brought into being by human beings under non-divine influences and not seldom through satanic inspiration, one teaching has always remained unchanged and the same: My law of selfless and unconditional love!

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Finally, the inward distance between My children and Me had become so great that, because of their lack of awareness and lack of ability to love, they were no longer able even to recognize the way home. The confusion had reached its peak, and the danger existed that they had not only become blind to the way back; even if they had wanted to, they could no longer begin it and successfully walk it to the end by their own strength. They had moved too far from their original home.

At this point I intervened and, after a long and careful period of preparation, entered the earth Myself: love incarnated in the man Jesus of Nazareth. The rest is known to you, though incompletely and partly falsified.

Once again I address your heart and your intellect: Did I bring a new, an additional religion? Did I found a church? Was there any need for that at all? Or would it not have been sufficient to free the many existing and largely false teachings and misleading signposts from all that human thinking and willing, under the influence of the opposing side, had added to them?

For many centuries I have revealed to human beings that I brought the teaching of love and lived love. Period. Nothing more! No prohibitions, no exclusion, no gagging, no threats, no bondage, no compulsory doctrines of faith, no outward things necessary for salvation, no pomp, and no pseudo-sacred acts. None of that. Therefore I stand by My “nothing more,” even though it can be deliberately misunderstood. Yet it was the greatest gift ever given to humanity. And it contains freedom!

Whoever wants to understand will understand.

What do you think: Did the beings of darkness fighting against Me—who are far more real than you believe and who largely control the events of your world—stop pursuing their goal of confusion and destruction? For that they would have had to recognize, repent, and turn back, which was the case with only a few. The great majority of those fighting against Me and you, however, remain without insight. Why should they abandon what they are doing when they act unrecognized from the invisible realm? It benefits them that very few people consider direct and constant influence and manipulation by these forces possible at all.

This brought, and still brings, a momentous error in its wake, whose harmful seed continues to sprout until human beings, through love lived in practice, arrive at a consciousness that gives them deeper insights.

The effects of their uninterrupted influence can already be seen in the multitude of churches, religious communities, teachings, and religious views that have arisen during the past 2,000 years, all of which appeal to Me, to My life and My teaching as Jesus of Nazareth. Yet I said nothing that goes beyond love—and nothing else, or that would be required in addition.

The so-called early Christians of the first decades knew and lived nothing else. According to your present church teaching, did they have any chance at all, as souls after the death of their bodies, of drawing near to Me?

Use your intellect, My sons and daughters!

On our little journey through time we are drawing closer to the answer to the question of the right religion. Do you already sense or know it? Remember: in eternity the law of love is valid. The fall of the angels changed nothing about the eternal validity of this law; the formation of the subtle and material worlds had no influence upon love and the principles belonging to it, nor did the massive intervention of the forces of darkness during the past two millennia regarding the presentation of My teaching of love. It is and remains untouched by all this. And so love will also remain the only guiding standard for the stretch of the path still ahead of you until all have returned home.

What human work has added to it will—because as human work it cannot endure—be taken away again. As something of lower vibration it cannot enter into what is of higher and highest vibration. It will be transformed and finally dissolve, which means that the soul striving toward heaven will, through free realization, voluntarily lay aside along its path everything it was taught, trained in, practiced, and had imposed upon it. Not only does the spiritual being no longer need all that “above”; with such “luggage” it cannot cross the boundary of light into heaven.

My love alone, throughout all eons, will be the standard that leads safely home. In your true home it will be the “religion” that unites and joins Me and you forever with all that is.

The answer to our question is now obvious.

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Everything in My creation is evolution; that is, everything grows, matures, and develops without interruption. This applies also to religious views, whose foundation is generally laid already in childhood. It is therefore entirely normal that children and young people are introduced to ideas about Me that correspond to their disposition and understanding.

A comparison with attending school makes clear that the first schoolbooks are structured differently—indeed, must be differently—from later ones. Over the years, and according to the pupil’s interests, the subject matter changes. It becomes more demanding and more extensive, and no one would think of declaring the earlier arithmetic, writing, and reading exercises to be the greatest and best, the crown and summit of what is to be learned, the ultimate standard, and thereby expressing that there is nothing beyond them.

In the far more important field of mastering your life, connected with the questions Where from? Why? and Where to?, the great majority of human beings behave completely differently. Born into one of the many worldviews, they seldom make the effort to question whether what they are instructed to believe is really what I offered and still offer My children; whether the many instructions and regulations are necessary in order to fulfill the principal commandment to love God and one’s neighbor; whether the rites and ceremonies truly lead them to live love more intensely than before; and whether traditions in which one can experience a certain security and sense of belonging are not more of a hindrance than a help on their way to Me.

Above all, however, they do not ask themselves whether they have allowed themselves to be bound and therefore stagnate; something of which they are naturally unaware because they do not know the necessity of continual development of the soul with the support of My love, which I call inner work; otherwise their conduct would become steadily more selfless and loving with advancing age. They do not ask this because bondage is something entirely foreign to them, or because they cannot imagine what may have bound them.

Remember My guidance, given so often, that darkness proceeds far more subtly than human brains can imagine. The bondage of which I speak is spiritual. Unnoticed, many of you have fallen into the traps of habit, inertia, and no longer having to think, which, incidentally, applies to virtually every area of life and is not limited to religious communities. You find such manipulative behavior, which among other things can produce feelings of guilt, likewise in your partnerships and families and in raising children.

It may be necessary, as shown in the example of the schoolbooks, to begin with simple images and ideas. There is nothing wrong with this; these steps are supported by Me because they are rungs on your “soul ladder.”

And yet, My beloved, you carry within yourselves a much greater spiritual potential that in the long run will not be satisfied with what has until now been offered to it as religious nourishment. Some of you already sense this in quiet moments when you are with Me.

If you wish to yield to the longing of your childlike heart, which sooner or later will in any case, with absolute certainty, draw you to My Father’s heart—and that is a promise!—then look at yourselves and ask where you have allowed yourselves to be bound. And look at the “substitute actions and aids” that you believe you absolutely must practice and have because without them it is difficult or impossible to learn to love more than before. Is My help really not sufficient?

I live within you, My child!

With honest examination, the list of “additional measures” until now regarded as important will become smaller and smaller.

If, for example, you want to discuss something with Me, to ask Me for forgiveness because the realization of wrong conduct has arisen within you and sincere remorse has followed, then it is enough, My child, for you to close your eyes and go within. In that very moment you are with Me and have in Me the most patient listener, who is never angry with you, who neither judges nor condemns you, who makes no reproaches and gives you no guilty conscience, and who in that same moment absolves you when you come into His—into My arms. Do you need more?

If uncertainty arises already at this one thought—namely that you should let go of what has long been handed down and taught to you—and perhaps even a guilty conscience sets in, then consider whether this might possibly be a sign of an attachment not recognized until now.

When something has been done wrongly, the damage is repaired by doing it rightly. When love is violated, as happened in the fall of the angels, the resolution of what occurred consists in acting in the spirit of love. No ideas, however elaborate, expressed in a thousand outward forms, can replace a process of making amends and restoration. They are unnecessary.

Love, however, brings back into balance and returns to harmony what had previously fallen out of harmony. This is the deep meaning of love—and nothing else!

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On our little journey through time we have pursued the question of the right religion. Have you found the answer, which can only be the right one because it alone is grounded in heart and intellect? Then you know that it is the religion that teaches you to love in inner freedom!

Amen

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