Divine Revelation
My beloved sons and daughters, every human being is on the way back to Me, whether he knows it or not, and whether he believes it or not. The same applies to every soul. For both being human and being a soul are merely intermediate stages. The destination is immovably fixed for everyone: the return home to Me, to the Father’s kingdom, his true, eternal home.
In the realms of light, it is taken for granted that the stronger helps the weaker and the one who knows helps the one who does not. This applies all the more to Me, for I am love. And that is why I have revealed Myself for as long as humanity can remember and in this way have enlightened My children on earth.
In doing so, I always observe the principle of overburdening no one and allowing only as much truth and wisdom from the heavens to flow into My words as is suited to the consciousness of My children. More than that would not help you either. But surely it is also clear to you that everything I communicate to you is only a tiny part, indeed an almost vanishingly small glimpse of what awaits you one day.
There is therefore infinitely more still to recognize and unfold, for much still awaits you on the way back to Me. The “distance” between the earth, and thus human consciousness, and the heavens with their infinity is so great that it exceeds your powers of imagination if you try to picture it. At every level that you gradually enter, you will experience and learn something new; but always in a way that corresponds to your willingness—you have free will!—and to your possibilities.
I speak to you in order to prepare you, to make many things clear to you already on earth, and to foster the development of your souls; and I do so in the most varied ways and also through the most varied instruments, the most varied of My faithful ones, so that everyone who wishes may find in My words what is important for him, in keeping with his ideas and also his wishes.
But—and I repeat this with complete clarity—there are limits set to My revelations that I will not cross. These are limits that arise from the inward progress of each individual, from the intensity of the inner work that each person determines for himself. Certainly, and here too I repeat Myself, there is still infinitely much that is new and interesting to reveal, but it would merely serve to increase your knowledge and would thereby become a trap for you—the so-called knowledge trap, into which all of you have already fallen at one time or another, and which, well disguised, lies in wait at all times and everywhere. For evil does not sleep.
That is also one reason why, at present, admonitions, reminders, and repetitions are being emphasized. What is decisive, My beloved, is not knowledge but putting knowledge into practice—out of love for Me. And there every human being inevitably comes up against limits, though they are different for each person. But this is also not the first time I have told you that doing is the more important part.
Whoever wants to get from one point to another must make a change—or many changes. This applies all the more, figuratively speaking, to the distance that lies between earth and heaven. Since, according to a spiritual law, like attracts like—which conversely means that unlike repels unlike—something new must be learned at every stage of development. In this way the soul matures and becomes brighter and brighter.
Here on earth, what needs to be changed is already set in motion. That is one of the reasons for an incarnation. Changes enter your life either because you have already learned, at least in part, what you were meant to learn and therefore a next step is due; or through the law of cause and effect; or because a conscious decision for Me is made. The latter would be the ideal case, which I always support intensively. And then the new comes into play, which—this cannot be avoided—is connected with work, with “inner work,” in which I take over the greater part when it is done with Me.
None of this is new to most of you. You have also begun your inner work with greater or lesser intensity. But the opposing side does not sleep, and so there will inevitably be phases in which one thing or another—usually unintentionally—is forgotten or is no longer observed as it was at the beginning. This applies to everyone and is “normal.” It can therefore do no harm to be reminded from time to time of what one intended to do. And perhaps to find in My words one small pointer or another, one little tip, to look once again “into this or that corner.”
That is why today I am taking up a few typical subjects that have already been focal points once or repeatedly in My revelations and that belong to inner work. In this way I am reminding you of them again, perhaps with new aspects for one person or another. Everyone will surely find something that can help him move forward or perhaps even become a small aha moment.
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Whoever wants to go from A to B will have to make a change; otherwise he remains at A. For the development of your souls, this means that in the long run you cannot remain “the same old selves,” although everyone can determine for himself when the first steps toward heaven are taken. With you who read or hear My words, I assume that you have the desire to change, unless what I reveal interests you only because you want enough knowledge to have your say. But we have already spoken about that.
A change, especially a change out of love for Me and with My help, ideally presupposes that its necessity has been recognized. This means that self-knowledge “must” have preceded it, whether through one’s own insight or through circumstances that brought about a corresponding situation.
Self-knowledge, then, is the key!
For this key, the law of correspondence is a very great help—indeed, the help. You all know the law—you all have it in your heads—but because, despite all your knowledge, you repeatedly find yourselves in situations in which this help is “simply forgotten,” I want to remind you of it. The law says:
Whatever bothers me, annoys me, upsets me, occupies me for a longer time in my neighbor, whatever causes me to think or speak negatively about him, I carry within myself in the same or a similar form.
There is no greater or better help, My beloved! But it challenges you, holds up a mirror to you, reveals something about yourselves that you often do not want to know at all. That is one reason why the law of correspondence receives little or no attention or is forgotten—not because you have failed to recognize and acknowledge it as correct, but because daily life, with all that it continually brings, distracts you and does not let you stop to reflect, which usually suits you very well. For who wants to be confronted with himself more or less regularly …?
And yet it is and remains the help on your way to Me.
Perhaps you also give this law a wide berth because you do not want to be like that, because with the insights it brings you might no longer like yourselves, perhaps might even condemn yourselves. If the latter were the case, the question immediately arises: Can you then tolerate in your neighbor the same fault that you condemn in yourself? For tolerance is the very least that belongs to love. And My commandment is to love your neighbor and yourself.
If you are ready to look at yourselves without thinking negatively about yourselves, then there is no reason to avoid honest self-knowledge. I love you just as you are! So you need not be afraid of Me, nor need you hide. I know you through and through anyway, far better than you will ever know yourself. And still I love you! How this is possible will remain a great mystery to you until you are united with Me again.
Yet however important the law of correspondence may be, the more important question is how you can overcome shortcomings and weaknesses you have recognized—provided that you acknowledge the necessity of a change.
I am the solution, and I live within you and wait for you to come to Me!
Talk over with Me what occupies you. There is nothing you cannot tell Me. And if you are ready to lay aside what you have recognized as not so good, then I will be the One who accomplishes this—I, the infinite power of love within you.
That, My beloved sons and daughters, is what is contained in the law of correspondence, that and much more. So it is worthwhile, now and then in the evening, to let the day pass in review.
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The world, if it knows the law of cause and effect at all, knows it more or less only by hearsay. It is recorded in your Bible: “Whatever a person sows, that he will reap.” Very few arrive at the thought that this law determines every event without exception. For My adversary and yours has understood how to interpret this principle in such a way that, in your eyes, it applies only to the future.
Almost no one thinks to ask himself when the seed was sown whose harvest is being gathered today—not even those among you who call yourselves Christians. Yes, they in particular do not ask this question because, according to their faith, there was no “before,” for after the alteration of My teaching there is now only this one life. According to this view, at every conception I create a new soul and a new human being, whether this is My will or not. According to this conception, through physical union with another human being, a person imposes his will upon Me.
Take a moment to think about this!
And so only one thing remains: to assume so-called “chance” for every event, which is equivalent to saying that something happens without anything having preceded it. Just like that.
This view is adopted by the great majority of people without their thinking about the illogic contained in it. But you know better; and nevertheless you too repeatedly fall into the error of looking past or moving past an event without examining it more closely. In doing so, you very often deprive yourselves of the opportunity to look deeper and recognize more.
For if everything has a cause—whether you know it or not—then there is a message in everything. This can be especially important for you in living together with your fellow human beings and in the behavior on your part that results from it. If you begin here to be watchful and do not so quickly simply set aside a situation that your own conduct helped to shape, then you will learn much about yourselves.
Just take disagreements or quarrels in your marriages or families. How quickly you move past them. The main thing is that quiet is restored soon. For how long? Until the next friction. It may be that the causes cannot be found immediately. Then come to Me—provided you feel the desire to find out where the reasons lie. That is not always easy, because often one cause interlocks with another.
What is important, however, is to arrive at the thought in the first place that everything that happens to you—and not only to you; this also applies to all small and great events in the world—must have something, or many things, underlying it. Therefore forget the fairy tale of chance. It is an invention of those who want to prevent you from coming to know yourselves and your neighbor.
But do not fall into the error of condemnation. Here too, another trap has been set. If you make this mistake, you deprive yourselves of the possibility of a neutral view. The point is not simply to accept everything without thought. Even if many causes remain in the dark for the moment, your understanding nevertheless grows of how justly and flawlessly everything proceeds in My creation.
In order to destroy this belief, thereby at the same time calling My love for everything and everyone into question, the law of cause and effect was deliberately misinterpreted; and this was done in order to leave you ignorant and alone with many unanswered questions.
Now you know better. Try consciously to integrate this knowledge into your daily life, and you will no longer be so easily deceived.
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Understanding what happened in the fall of the angels, which you also call the “Fall,” and which occurred an unimaginably long “time” ago, also contributes decisively to your being able to conduct yourselves rightly and protect yourselves. For the consequences of this unique event are affecting your existence and acting within your existence right now, even though only a few recognize it in this way.
Sadhana, who later called herself Lucifer, and a part of the angels rebelled against Me, who am love, and had to leave the pure heavens. As a result, worlds arose outside the heavens that did not and do not possess the high vibration of love. Because the rebellion continued, ever new realms arose that contained less and less light, and finally, at the lowest point, matter arose. In your universe, the earth belongs to this.
Many of you hold the view that the devil was banished to hell and now ekes out his existence there. One hears and sees nothing of him, and thus the Fall would somehow be finished.
No assumption, My beloved children, could be more mistaken.
A large part of the negative forces have not recognized their error and have continued their struggle against Me ever since. Now something comes into play that most people do not know about or do not consider: energy is needed for everything, even if only for a small thought or a barely perceptible movement. Nothing can exist without energy. But I am the sole giver of energy, the one primal Source!
A law of My creation says that like attracts like, as I have repeatedly revealed to you. My love-energy is therefore received by everyone to the extent that he himself has become love. Whoever carries much love within himself can receive much love; whoever has unfolded little within himself can correspondingly take in less. Yet no being is entirely without love-energy, because then it would not exist.
Thus Satan and his followers also receive energy from Me, but in such a small measure that it “just barely suffices” for them to be able to feel any life within themselves at all. Your imagination is insufficient even to begin to picture the torment and suffering of such a low level of life.
From the point of view of the fallen beings, their foremost task is now to obtain additional energy in order to make their living situation somewhat better. Where do they find this possibility? In the human beings whom they can influence to do things that do not correspond to My commandment of love. If they succeed, then they cling like “bloodsuckers” to those they have seduced, without those people noticing it, and tap their strength, which can lead to the complete collapse of their victims.
The chief seducer is Lucifer; after him follow those obedient to him, according to their importance and usefulness. But no matter how great or small they are, all are interested in obtaining energy. For the alternative to their theft of energy—namely, gradually to open themselves again to My energy in increasing measure through self-knowledge, remorse, and turning back—is not an option for them.
Besides the goal of gaining energy, something else is important to your adversary: he seeks constantly to increase the number of those who obey him and thereby to expand his power on your earth. For he knows very well about the things that will happen in the future. He also knows that many beings of light from the heavens are already incarnated and that many more are preparing themselves. He wants to “play along,” although this is anything but a game. By now he has also recognized that he cannot win. So he confines himself to disturbing and destroying. And for this reason too he continually tries to enlarge the army of his followers.
But the most important goal of your fallen brothers and sisters is and remains to obtain energy with which they can make their lives somewhat more bearable. To achieve this, they are constantly around you, watching you and looking for your weak points.
They then approach and enter at those points in a very subtle way, so that—if at all—you often recognize only afterward that you have once again fallen into old, harmful habits that you had long wanted to put aside. What helps them in this is that, as a rule, they know you much better than you know yourselves …
You then often say: “There I was once again reinforced in my ego.” How is that supposed to happen? Who reinforces you? If you say you have been strengthened toward what is good, then it is clear: it was I, your God, who lives within you. But evil does not live within you. So only one explanation remains: it must be around you!
The devil is therefore by no means somewhere far away in a hell that cannot be more precisely described. He can be anywhere, and he is wherever he is invited—usually without people knowing it and often without their wanting it—through corresponding thoughts and actions.
There is only one way to recognize his seductions and attacks and successfully defend yourselves against them: to seek My nearness more strongly and to try to live with Me ever more intensely by consciously going through your day with Me. No one is immune from being unobtrusively “addressed” by the devil and his associates. For they too have free will. But you too are endowed with free will, with which you can oppose their whisperings and temptations with your no.
What is important is that—without fear rising within you—you be clear that you live in surroundings that are by no means as “harmless” as they seem. But you already knew this before your incarnation. The invisible world is constantly around you. And out of this world, which is much more real than you think, it is not only lower forces that observe and act upon you. I too am there—I even live within you!—and with Me the angels who have been placed at your side, and beyond them your friends from the heavens. We all so deeply desire that you steadily take your steps toward the light.
My word is meant to be a help to you in this.
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In principle, My beloved, I have told you nothing new. Was it therefore unnecessary? You must decide that, each one of you for yourself. Perhaps when reading or hearing it you will say that it was not so bad after all to be reminded once again of such simple truths. For the danger is great, amid all the work of the day, of forgetting that you had wanted to pay renewed attention to this or that.
One help can be to connect with Me immediately after waking—the same applies when falling asleep—and to speak with Me as you would with a good friend, even if it is only a few words. In this way our connection slowly but surely becomes ever more intimate, and eventually it becomes natural for you to discuss everything with Me. Often a few loving thoughts are then enough.
The most beautiful thought, at the same time the most beautiful prayer, even if it is very brief, is and remains: “Father, I know that You love me. Within me too, something has arisen, something has gradually grown, that lets me say: I love You.”
Amen
You Set Out; You No Longer Want to Rest
You set out; you no longer want to rest,
you feel how something pushes and at the same time draws you,
you already sense that despite the burdens of your life
an unknown fire glows within you.
Now you stand questioning at the parting of the ways,
you hesitate, turn, and linger there uncertain:
So many sheep are on every pasture!
Who will teach me to go to the one that is mine?
You have the choice; freedom is yours,
there are very many shepherds in the field;
each one wants to show you his own paths
and his master’s vision and his world.
When you learn that the goal is not far from you,
it is one step within you—from I to we,
would you not gladly choose, out of love,
a companion on the way who is within you?
Who can of himself say with a pure heart
that he knows you, loves you, and lives within you?
There is only One: Christ, who raises to the light
the questions your soul carries.
In Him the Father’s eternal love brought itself to birth
within every heart, whether good or bad,
so that what is dim may be filled with radiance and light.
You have the choice, my friend. So choose rightly.
from the poetry collection “Trust the Quiet Sound of Your Heart” (Hans Dienstknecht)