Divine Revelation
My beloved, I speak to you from the love of the heavenly Father. I address My word to you as your friend, as your divine brother Jesus Christ, whose redeeming act you remembered only a few days ago.
My desire and will is that My own grow more and more into a spiritual freedom that is still largely foreign to them. It is not about believing more intensely or saying still more prayers, but about recognizing what power lies within you and what possibilities you possess “in principle.” And about beginning to express your strength of soul—the divinity within you—more and more in your everyday life, without this amounting to missionary activity.
But also that you become still more conscious that the way to My heart leads only through your neighbor; and, if you follow Me in this, that you perhaps consider what steps you can still take, steps of which you have long known in your deepest inner being and which your human self may already sense.
The times have changed, and they will change much more. Whoever closes his eyes to this either thinks very superficially or lacks courage. But that changes nothing about the fact that things have already become very serious. You need only think back one or at most two generations to see that in a few years and decades a change has taken place—not toward what is good—of a kind never seen before.
This is not caused primarily by your rapid technological development, although it has contributed to the great upheavals and will contribute even more. It has another background, which many sense and about which one or another of you already knows:
After the dark forces were forced to recognize that they would not succeed in expanding and consolidating their rule on earth, they chose another goal. This goal is “destruction.” The falsification of My teaching over many centuries led humanity into an ignorance that can scarcely be surpassed. At the same time, through apparently necessary commandments and prohibitions, outward structures were built up that successfully suppressed, and still suppress, questioning and independent thought.
Thus it could happen that the law of cause and effect is known by name, but the “ordinary person” sees no connection between events of the past and their continuing effect into the present and the future.
I tell you nothing new when I remind you that energy cannot be destroyed, something your scientists confirmed long ago. It can be transformed, and My incarnation, My teaching, and the power of My redemption were meant to contribute to that. Through an intensive and extremely subtle approach by the opposing forces, things turned out differently, but that does not at the same time mean that the forces of darkness have won. They have achieved partial successes, but they too are bound into My eternal law, which stands above everything.
I am the Creator, I am the primal Source of all life; outside Me nothing exists. It is My will, and I have the power, to unite the divided creation again. Therefore it will be so. Yet the way there is still very long, which changes nothing about the fact that it will happen!
My patience gives every originator of opposing actions, over long, long periods, the opportunity for insight and making amends. But because it is My desire that everyone find his way back to Me, “at the appropriate time” I will set things in motion that are intended and able to provide an impulse to reflect on violations of My law of love. At the same time the law of cause and effect comes into play, and the bad harvest from bad seed previously sown becomes visible and must be “brought in.” You have coined the term “karma” for this.
This is not—never—intended as punishment or retaliation, but serves exclusively insight and a turning back. Both are necessary to initiate the process of returning home to Me. This time has come! You would express it in the words: “The barrel has begun to overflow.” This in itself says nothing yet about the consequences or their extent.
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For the great majority of you, it has not yet become natural to live with the knowledge that you are never alone; that an invisible, subtle world is around you which you do not see, but from which you are seen and heard. The different realms—from matter to the highest subtlety of heaven—are separated only by their vibration. Everything of higher vibration can perceive what is of lower vibration, but not the reverse.
Heaven therefore knows about everything; other realms correspondingly less. Can you imagine that your brothers and sisters from heaven and from the adjoining bright worlds simply watch when they see what is taking shape on earth? Whoever has his home in the light has unfolded selfless love—completely in heaven, largely outside it. You too carry this great love within you, even if as human beings you cannot yet feel it in the radiance it will later have.
Therefore an immeasurably large host of spirit beings has decided to incarnate in an earthly body in order to help in this and the coming time. Many are already here; many are still waiting until the right time has come for them to work where they resolved to do so.
That is one side. The other is that the opposing side too has sent, and is still sending, its “players onto the field” to assert its interests: conflict, war, destruction, hostility, and much more.
Thus two groups stand opposite one another not only in what is visible but also in what is invisible. This is not meant literally, but is intended as an explanation for what you hear and see when you follow the news. It is therefore not merely a matter of some things apparently becoming “worse”; the events have a spiritual background of immense proportions. Preparations have been made on both sides so that, at the appropriate time, what is inscribed in souls as their mission can be represented and expressed through corresponding action.
The task for a soul that incarnates consciously and with a “plan” is always to develop spiritually and in the soul. In doing so it automatically becomes a kind of example; at least some others notice that this person becomes calmer and increasingly rests within himself. The human being then builds, without himself knowing the details, on what is already positive in his soul. Whatever it may be, in the end it always comes down to strengthening the capacity for love, even if this is not always seen or recognized immediately.
Overcoming a bad habit, reacting differently and rightly in a situation in which you used to become hot-tempered, putting aside your own needs, feeling your way into your neighbor—all this and much more are steps toward Me. At the same time soul and human being become freer, attachments to former patterns of behavior are gradually loosened, and the human being feels a freedom unfolding more or less slowly or quickly. This freedom eventually leads to recognizing the deep truth in the words: love—and nothing else!
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Now I come to a point to which not everyone will immediately agree in full, namely My commandment, which in its short form reads: “You shall love the Lord your God and your neighbor as yourself.”
I look into the hearts of My children, and in many I see a great love for Me. This fills Me with joy and causes Me again and again to give you courage, comfort you, give you confidence, and naturally give you My love in many forms. There is nothing more beautiful for Me than seeing a heart open and love for Me grow within it.
Yet sometimes, amid all the joy and all the love, there is a small drop of bitterness as well, which may surprise you. I will explain it to you.
My commandment also contains the call to love your neighbor, and not just somehow, but as yourself. I know this is a difficult task, one of the most difficult. For your neighbor challenges you, scratches at your ego, absolutely refuses to be like you, works against you, does not match your ideas, and, and, and … He is different, thinks differently, wants differently.
He is allowed to, My beloved brother, My beloved sister. He has the right, just as it is your right to be and live as you wish. It is certainly not always easy to come to a solution here. If circumstances are very “complicated,” an immediate solution may not even be possible under the circumstances. Perhaps reasons also lie within you yourselves, so that solving such a task presently seems too difficult for you.
I am the last One not to understand such a thing. And I am the first to stand by you when you want to tackle and solve such a problem, regardless of whether it concerns your neighbor, a coworker, a spouse, or someone else. Not infrequently it also has something to do with the past, as I briefly mentioned before.
To love someone who, like Me—your God in Jesus Christ—is love itself, who leaves you your freedom and gives you gifts beyond measure, is relatively “easy.” Please understand that correctly! Having to accept challenges, having to recognize that perhaps one has a share in the lack of harmony, is not quite so easy; it is undoubtedly the more difficult part. How could I fail to understand that? But it can and will never be a solution to think or say: “I will not let this person into my heart, or not yet.”
To undertake this process is inner work. It is the reason you are here. Inner work will accompany you until you—that is, your soul—have reached worlds of light. Looking back then, you often will not understand what was actually so difficult about it. But, My beloved, that time has not yet come. You are still confronted with your correspondences when you encounter patterns of thought or behavior in your neighbor that do not suit you at all.
This is not the time or place to go into this in greater detail and explain how you can learn to deal with it. I have already spoken to you often enough about overcoming such difficulties. As a basic principle, if you want to examine yourselves a little, consider that everything about your neighbor that bothers, annoys, or upsets you, and so on, must also—still—be present within you in the same or a similar form. Otherwise you would indeed notice it, but it would no longer trigger negative reactions within you.
The following image may serve as a small helpful explanation of why love for Me presupposes love for your neighbor:
Later, in heaven with Me, you love everyone, and everyone loves you. Without exception. If it were otherwise, you would not yet be in heaven. On the way there, therefore, all disharmonies will gradually, in the truest sense of the word, “dissolve into nothing,” or rather be transformed with My help.
If your love for Me is already very great, then, if necessary, add to it love for your neighbor. Do not worry that loving your neighbor changes something between us: I still remain in first place, I still remain your great love. And you Mine.
The temptation is always present—and sometimes hidden behind it, cleverly disguised, is an attempt by the forces of darkness to make you uncertain—that, if necessary, you are to be prevented from looking more deeply into your relationships with your neighbor. Now you know better.
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Many of you who read or hear My word belong to those who “above” gave their yes to taking part in this not easy task. Then your soul went into the flesh, a new human child = child of God saw the light of the world and at the same time no longer knew anything about what it had resolved to do.
But you are in exactly the right place, in exactly the right family, and together with exactly the right people. For there is no chance, and heaven makes no mistakes. This does not mean that it is easy—on your earthly path.
Many do not know or do not think about the fact that they are in the domain of the forces of darkness. You knew this beforehand too, and therefore—each according to your task—you are also equipped with abilities you need at the place where you now stand. Naturally the opposing side knows this as well, but that does not prevent it from tempting you. Do not underestimate it! Remember that Satan tempted Me too …
Since the opposing forces too have sent their representatives into the struggle, it is inevitable that you encounter one another. All of you have experienced this many times yourselves. Because this will intensify, it is good to know the background so that, if you are watchful, you will no longer run so often into the traps they have set.
For traps lurk everywhere, which is why I have to remind you again and again so that you do not go through your day too naïvely and credulously. As mentioned often before, the tempters make use of your weaknesses and faults. And therefore, besides watchfulness, it is so important that you know your weak points. And that you decide to transform them into strengths with My help.
In this way and only in this way are you able to build up a counterweight that makes it difficult for evil to carry out its plan. At My hand you will have to learn, step by step, to become love still more. For this is the only answer against which My opponent and yours has nothing to set.
You see how the circle closes again and again, and how in the end it always comes down to learning to love your neighbor as yourself, so that in this way you can live and experience My love within you even more intensely.
Conscious children of God possess an inner power whose magnitude they cannot yet even estimate. Surely you have already experienced it in many moments, but what it can truly do is still foreign to you. It is an incomparable adventure if you let yourselves into it and allow it, with My help and support, to grow and grow.
Do uncertainties or even fears arise within you when you think of surrendering yourselves to Me? To Me, brotherly and infinite love without equal? If so, then try to correct the image you have somewhere “in the back of your mind.”
I take nothing from you that you do not voluntarily give Me. I do not change you against your will. But I remove the stones that still lie on your path. I place My protection around you, envelop you in My Christ-light, and am and remain with you forever, perceptibly and at all times visibly, if that is also your desire.
In this way, according to your desire and will, you become a light that makes the world a little brighter where you are and that can become comfort and support for many in the coming time. My gift to you is a growing into an inner freedom that you will never give up again.
I love you!
Amen
The Ballad of the Seeker of God and the Robber
In India, in the land of sacred cows,
a young man consumed himself with longing for God.
He sacrificed and fasted with great effort,
enduring one person’s envy and another’s mockery.
Then it happened that a stranger told him,
one never seen before in the land,
that where the highest summit rose,
he had found the Creator God in solitude.
Full of joy the young man took these words
and put them into practice that very day.
He climbed upward and searched for the place;
he found it not only quiet, he found it silent.
For high up here the world came to an end,
no bush, no tree, no life far and wide.
In gratitude he folded his hands—
now heaven was no longer all that far away.
He meditated many hours every day,
he ate little, and he did not sleep much,
and thus he hoped that soon he would have found
the Creator God and then would be at his goal.
And so about fifteen years passed,
the longing was still not satisfied,
but to give up—never, God forbid!—
he was by no means willing.
He had renounced every pleasure,
he was alone and sufficient unto himself.
He had lost love for human beings,
but that seemed to him deception anyway.
One night he fell into ecstasy
and finally knew: now it had happened.
It seemed to him that for a few moments
the Creator God could be seen in the vault of heaven.
It is achieved, heaven is opened,
he cried, and set out on the long way back.
With joyful courage he walked on undeterred
and rejoiced in his great happiness.
Then, half starved and frozen,
a robber attacked him and demanded tribute.
Since he had nothing, he seemed already lost,
for this only increased the robber’s rage.
Yet at last the robber let him continue,
and asked: Are you a holy man?
Then tell God He should make more effort,
so that I too can live contentedly. —
Full of resentment, terror still in his limbs,
the other cried: Yes, I have sought God
and I know He will rightly answer you, fool,
that you are accursed for your evil deed! —
You have sought, but have you also found?
he then heard the word within.
Tell Me, were the many silent hours worthwhile,
in which you languished there in the mountains?
Where are the good fruits of your striving?
Did your solitude deny them to you?
You seek heaven in vain far from the world,
even if it seems to you that you honored Me.
You believe heaven was already open for you?
Then tell Me, what happened to you?
Hardly had you encountered a human being
when your vain pride seduced you.
If you wish to serve Me, if you wish to fathom Me,
then love—and you know what you still lack;
I allow Myself to be found in your neighbor,
and you recognize: now you have chosen well.
from the poetry collection “Trust the Quiet Sound of Your Heart” (Hans Dienstknecht)