Divine Revelation
My beloved sons and daughters, many people believe that belief in Me is decisive for being able to be close to My heart. Now belief is undoubtedly something very important, a foundation, so to speak; but apart from the fact that in the end it is always about doing, your popular saying expresses what belief amounts to: “To believe means not to know.”
Knowledge, especially knowledge that is well founded and deeply rooted in your soul, is far more than merely believing something or believing in something. You will agree with this, and at the same time the question will arise within you as to how, where it is important and meaningful, you can arrive at such knowledge. By this I mean knowledge that is not expressed intellectually but is anchored in your soul as eternal truth.
Let us think together for a moment. Without difficulty we will be able to work out how easily the human being allows himself to be tempted not to follow a train of thought to its conclusion. As a result, important conclusions are often not drawn either—conclusions that would help you to many an aha moment. But that would then also let you recognize—and this is the “unpleasant” thing about this way of thinking—what “really” should be done differently in the future.
Should, not must, for heaven is freedom. But it gives you infinitely many small and great pointers and helps, most of which you unfortunately fail to notice because you are occupied elsewhere …
What you grasp with your five senses appears to you to be reality. For you can see and feel it. How, then, could you recognize that—figuratively speaking—you are dreaming, and that true life takes place on a completely different level, and without a time limit? Your life too. And this is not merely something said in passing; it is provided and willed by Me in this way, for I do not lose what I once created!
How, then, should you arrive at the idea that the reality you perceive is only appearance, a world into which you are enclosed for only “a few years of life,” indeed literally imprisoned? And which, in the view of the vast majority of you, begins by chance with birth and finally ends with so-called death? And then comes the end.
Not many of My human children feel within themselves the necessity of pursuing the questions: Where do I come from, why am I here, and where am I going? On the one hand this is good, for you are to use this incarnation unburdened by knowledge of earlier existences; on the other hand it is My desire that these questions arise in ever more people. Whoever then sets out in search and—figuratively speaking—does not let go of My hand and is not led astray must, yes must, find. I have provided it this way in My wisdom.
The research findings of your scientists on this subject, which are neither secret nor incomprehensible and can be read by anyone, have long sufficiently proved that everything is energy, including what you regard as matter, and that energy cannot be destroyed! It can only be transformed:
Ice becomes water, water becomes steam, steam becomes the smallest particles no longer perceptible to your eyes, and the original energy contained in the ice can no longer be recognized. But it has not dissolved into nothing, because that is impossible.
The process also works in reverse: from the invisible, the subtle, matter arises step by step! The so-called Fall was the trigger for this.
And now? What do you do with this knowledge? Is it not as I said before: “… how easily the human being allows himself to be tempted not to follow a train of thought to its conclusion”?
If everything is energy that cannot be destroyed but only transformed, then there will be no final end when life withdraws from the physical body at “death.” To assume such an end nevertheless means ignoring scientific knowledge that in many other fields of your daily life you accept without difficulty and without reflection.
What will be the reason for this “block against thinking further”? Surely it is also fear of engaging with the subject at all because, at least in theory, this would have to bring consequences with it. That is one side. The other is that over a long period of many centuries the forces of darkness falsified My teaching and equipped it with many question marks and much incomprehension.
Because the answers are lacking—answers that those who nevertheless have written Me on their banners cannot give—people have become uninterested and often discouraged. They scarcely still search seriously for the so decisive answers to the question: What happens when earthly life comes to an end and life continues in subtle worlds?
One of the goals of the opposing side had been achieved, namely to direct the focus of your effort toward this side, toward daily life, so that little or no time remains to concern yourselves with what awaits every one of you in the beyond.
Yet the here and now of every human being has a direct influence on his continued life, a good or less good one. But that is not determined by Me, because I do not punish—as you are still falsely taught—but is the consequence of his earthly life, which he has now left behind. If you are skeptical about My words, add the findings of your scientists …
The solution to this problem—that is, the answer to the question of how one should live in order to avoid later circumstances that were not really desired—I gave you as Jesus of Nazareth: it is exclusively a matter of living rightly understood love. It is not about belonging to a religion; not about observing commandments and prohibitions invented by human beings; not about membership regarded as necessary, and much more.
Love—and nothing else. And you come nearer and nearer to My heart. That is My commandment, valid not only on your earth but throughout My entire creation.
The question is therefore no longer whether life continues, but how and where!
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The great majority of you know about the Fall, the fall of the angels. It was the consequence of the rebellion of some of the angels who, under Sadhana’s leadership, allowed themselves to be seduced into not acknowledging Me as their one and only God and Creator.
As a result, realms outside heaven formed, at whose “lowest” point matter arose, which is nothing other than the most condensed form of the non-heavenly worlds. These serve the fallen as a dwelling place until, through their insight and turning back, reentry into heaven becomes or became possible; for some of those who left Me have found their way back to Me after I reopened heaven through My sacrifice on Golgotha.
So it is not as it says there in your Scripture where the creation of heaven and earth is spoken of; at least it was never My intention to bring worlds outside heaven into life. I allowed their formation, which is an enormous difference. But precisely this difference makes it so difficult for believers in Scripture to recognize the truth. And without this truth they will never find the answers that convey the meaning of their lives. And without this insight it will be very difficult for them, freely and out of love for Me and with a joyful heart, to set out on the way back.
Hold fast to this with a new way of thinking, even if it is not easy to replace old, ingrained thinking with insights that lead farther: matter is nothing other than energy expressing itself in solid form. Think of the example of ice, water, and steam.
You too are energy, as a rule bound for a few decades into a material body. You regard this as reality, for this reality can be seen, touched, felt, and experienced both pleasurably and painfully. And yet you are energy—in the depths of your nature even pure spirit—but you are not just some energy or another: you are individual, so individual that there is nothing identical in all My creation, nothing equal to you.
I gave you life originally before a “time” that cannot be expressed in your terms. You carry My immortal spirit within you. But what you made of it, how you shaped the “vessel” that carries My eternal life within it, was and is your affair. You alone decided this through what you did and failed to do, through the use of the most beautiful gift I gave you: your free will!
With this knowledge you can no longer make anyone else responsible for what you have become. It was your decisions that made you what you are. And once again it will be exclusively your decisions that determine your future. And this future includes the life you will lead when you leave matter again; when you have “died” and are forever “dead,” as common opinion has it.
It is My heartfelt desire that you internalize this fact so deeply that nothing can call it into question anymore. And that you understand what follows from it for you, including for your well-being, even when later it is expressed “only” in your soul-body.
More accurately: not “only,” but “especially then,” because the coming life in the beyond and the experiences to be made there are far more intense and are perceived far more intensely than is possible in matter—both in what is positive and joyful and in what is unpleasant and, in the worst case, full of suffering and pain.
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You have been taught wrongly about life.
For one thing, there is no judgment that I hold on the Last Day in order to separate the good from the bad. I am infinite, eternally forgiving love!
And for another, as a rule you do not live only once in matter. What purpose would that have if—as your churches teach—I created a new soul at each conception or birth, which then lives for a while in a human body, after crossing over continues its existence somewhere in some form until finally on the day of judgment a decision is made about it? Use your intellect, My beloved.
The time in which things about Me and My dealings with My creatures were brought to you that lack all logic should be over. It should be; unfortunately it is not yet, because the opposing forces succeeded in directing your interest primarily toward earthly things while at the same time distorting My eternal truths so that they no longer reflect the greatness and infinity of My love.
The fact that many of you are not enlightened and therefore cling to false ideas has led you either to believe in nothing or to believe something false. Both have consequences reaching far beyond this earthly life. And that was and remains the purpose of the devilish influence:
At the death of the human being, his soul has a very specific, entirely individual condition, a vibration determined exclusively by the life the human being led before. In the spiritual realm the law applies that like attracts like. This soul, which then for a long time represents the only reality—for the previously real material body has lost its reality—is attracted to the realms corresponding to it without having any influence over this, that is, without being able to do anything against it.
Thus the human being determines his future place of residence himself through his own conduct during life. It is his energetic condition that brings him where he finds conditions corresponding to the nature of his soul. These can be all realms between heaven and hell, depending on how he lived—that is, how selflessly he loved, or did not.
A soul whose human being previously made an effort to live in love—I do not say it for the first time: an honest effort is enough for Me and is supported by Me and many good forces—reaches correspondingly bright worlds. If it carries less light within itself, something else awaits it.
The spectrum of non-material, subtle realms stretches from the height of heaven to the depth of hell. All have their power of attraction, while the negative attraction loses effectiveness the closer the subtle worlds are joined to the light.
The soul goes somewhere into the so-called beyond. Then and there things go more or less well for it. And I do not tire of emphasizing that the soul is not some intangible thing. It is you yourself, but in your perceptions and inner feelings far more intensely than you ever were during your lifetime.
If the soul’s strength was developed, then the subtle being will now find its new home in a place from which it can continue its way into heaven without ever having to incarnate again and without still being influenced by negative forces. But of course it can also be that the soul finds itself in realms that do not permit further development without another incarnation.
With every means that exceeds your imagination, the dark side does absolutely everything to prevent you from developing your souls further while you are still alive. If it succeeds, it has incorporated another soul into its great army, one that serves it in one way or another as a supplier of energy. The soul itself need not even be aware of this, for in many cases life in the beyond, despite all dependence, is easier than on your earth.
The dark forces have practiced this approach from time immemorial, and increasingly in recent years and decades because they sense that a time is approaching in which, although at first everything will be chaotic, afterward for a while they will no longer be permitted to continue their previous activity in the accustomed way. The law of cause and effect is coming more and more into play.
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It should therefore not surprise you that I too asked My own—your heavenly brothers and sisters who love you—and inspired them accordingly to form a spiritual counterforce in your time. Nor can there be any question that their readiness was and remains very great to come to the aid of their brothers and sisters on earth. And not only through increased spiritual assistance, but also and especially through the fact that many of them have incarnated in your time from heaven and from the realms of light adjoining it.
At a time marked by people’s lack of willingness to live My commandments, I Myself came into your world in Jesus of Nazareth. I explained to you My principal commandment, which still represents the solution to all human and worldly problems: I brought you love and lived it before you to the ultimate consequence.
I enlightened ignorant humanity, which was on the way into the abyss, about the basic principles and features of My nature and My teaching. I could do this only in relatively “broad terms,” without going into details for which people at that time were not yet mature. This changed, especially in your time, so that by now I can go much more deeply.
Here too the adversary intervened: “What has once been written”—altered by him or at his instigation—“is valid for all eternity,” he proclaims. This undoubtedly applies to My truths, to the eternal validity of My inviolable word, but not to what he put into the world in order to prevent your spiritual progress.
Thus today you learn considerably more than earlier generations did. This includes more detailed knowledge that death does not mean the end, but that a continued life awaits every human being, one that he himself has shaped and for which he himself is responsible.
When you close your earthly eyes, you experience a world that seems very real to the few who are enlightened, but that confronts most of the ignorant with some questions, at least for a more or less long while. Then your spiritual companions are present, ready to enlighten you. The extent to which they succeed depends on your willingness and your consciousness.
For know this: nothing changes automatically and fundamentally merely because you enter another, subtle world. Insights do not arise “by themselves.” If during your lifetime you were ignorant, uninterested, or even unbelieving, you may have great difficulties finding your way in your new home.
Therefore it is a heartfelt concern of Mine to prepare you for what undoubtedly sooner or later will come to you: an existence that on the one hand allows you to continue living, but on the other can also bring you unpleasantness, unrest, and perhaps fear, especially if you enter the beyond ignorant or unbelieving.
Your life after death will prove not to be a dream, but pure reality. It is reality itself, as sooner or later you will discover for yourselves. What many of you dismissed as fantasy will reveal itself as the “true reality,” and looking back you will see your earthly life as a kind of dream from which you had to awaken more or less painfully, depending on whether My eternal message was able to reach your heart or not.
You will awaken with joy or perhaps with alarm in surroundings that are not the way they are by chance. Gradually you will have to recognize that you yourselves were the ones who shaped the new circumstances as they now present themselves for a time. You can gain a small impression of what it may or will be like if you imagine that things continue as you now live: with your present attitude toward life, your knowledge, your ideas, your great and small worries, and naturally also your great and small joys. Nothing becomes more beautiful or perfected by itself merely because you have left matter.
With one exception: you live, but everything in matter that you called your own will suddenly be absent. You take your nature across, your soul shaped by you yourselves with all its weaknesses and strengths, but nothing more. If, for example, you were wealthy and perhaps spent a large part of your life-energy maintaining or even increasing your possessions, then you will almost certainly experience a shock.
For you will understand—have to understand—that you are now poor, literally as poor as the proverbial church mouse. All the work, expenditures, and efforts connected with your desire for financial security or perhaps even for prestige and open or hidden satisfaction and validation: all of it useless, all gone, dissolved into nothing. Nothing remains of what was so important to you as a human being. And this perhaps even though you were diligent churchgoers and possibly even respected in your congregation.
It will be different if already during your lifetime you had the desire to come near and nearer to Me with a sincere heart. Then a kind of automatic process takes effect that, together with your helpers and companions in the beyond, moves you to walk in the direction of the light, at whose end I wait for you. At the same time I am always ready to give you every help you need with the learning tasks still awaiting you over there.
Do you now understand that for your continued life it is of decisive importance that you move the necessary questions within yourselves? And not only that: that beyond belief, which often is no more than a “having-to-believe,” you come to a knowledge that makes you unassailable when in dark hours the opposing forces try to attack you? And they will try, for every human being and every soul who has set out on the way to Me is sooner or later lost to them if they remain on their path.
Most of you knew before your incarnation that you would live in a dream world, and likewise that it would not be entirely easy. Why did you incarnate nevertheless? There may be many reasons. One very important one is surely that, completely unbiased and unburdened by knowledge, you wanted to take another opportunity to develop step by step and at the same time be able to help others; apart from incarnations whose sole purpose is to satisfy lower senses, something not possible in this form in the beyond. Or also to exercise power and play the usual ego games …
Free will makes everything possible.
The subject I have dealt with is so important for you also because intensified attempts are being made to distract you while at the same time overwhelming you with knowledge that is not My knowledge, even though it is often presented as such. Many events are moving toward a provisional climax, and the great danger is that in the process the question of your eternal existence will be pushed farther and farther into the background and become ever less important.
Therefore it was and is a concern of Mine to set before you in some detail the aspect of “life after death.” And now in this connection, at the end, I address with a small comparison those who give complete credence to My words that come from love. You will notice that the comparison is not meant entirely seriously and therefore “limps,” but you will also immediately understand the background of My question:
If a liquid stands before you and you know that it will have a harmful, perhaps deadly effect if you drink it: would you drink it anyway?
The answer is obvious.
If you possess knowledge whose disregard will lead to considerable impairment of your life: would you simply set it aside and ignore it?
I bless you, My sons and daughters, whom I love with all My heart above all else.
Amen
P.S.: There is nothing against you telling Me too that you love Me. If you feel like it.
The following poem fits this:
Death, as You See It …
Death, as you see it, frightens you greatly.
You have declared it your enemy,
but only because no one has truly recognized it,
because you look no farther than the coffin
in which a life found its final point.
Death, as you see it, is sound and smoke,
only a name, shaped by deep fear
that lays itself paralyzingly upon your souls
and thereby sweeps aside even the very last breath
of courage and clarity.
Death, as you see it, does not exist.
With your dull senses and clouded gaze
you see the small happiness of one life.
When it breaks like glass in your hand,
this appears to you as a great misfortune.
Death, as you see it, makes you blind,
and no one learns what One taught you:
Life remains unharmed in death.
And because the dead are not dead,
your teaching is not worth a penny.
from the poetry collection “Trust the Quiet Sound of Your Heart” (Hans Dienstknecht)