Dear ones,
here comes a new essay with the title “We Do Not Recognize Most Temptations.” I hope you enjoy reading it.
With love,
Hans
Some aspects of this article are new, although we already know the basic statements. But it is quite interesting to look at them once in a different context.
Our five senses continually give us the impression that what we see, hear, feel, taste, and smell is reality. This applies also to those among us who know that there is a world we do not perceive; for none of us is protected from repeatedly feeling — often even for a longer period — like a child of this world. Knowledge that we are never alone does not protect us from this either, because our senses register nothing other than the “reality” surrounding us.
Have we heard all this before? Yes, of course. But is it really clear to us that the invisible realm exerts a far greater influence upon us than we can possibly picture even with our imagination? It is no exaggeration to say that reality lies beyond what we perceive; that our impressions give us only a fleeting and often false picture of what actually constitutes and determines our life.
This fact makes it so difficult for our heavenly friends and companions to move us toward right thinking and action in the spirit of selfless love; and it makes it so easy for the devil, Sadhana, Lucifer, God’s adversary and ours — or whatever one may call him — to guide and seduce us in ways we do not notice. And if we do notice: we notice it late, perhaps even very late. With God there is no “too late,” because in the end everything returns home to Him. But for us, when we have failed to pay attention, it can under certain circumstances become a “very long time.”
Good and evil are constantly right around us; both are as near to us as our arms and legs — and nearer still. That we are not conscious of this (although many know about it) is connected with false church teaching, so that most people, the great majority, locate heaven above us — “up there” — and hell somewhere and somehow below us — “down there.” An idea could scarcely be more wrong.
Everything in creation is vibration, is energy. This applies, viewed from the respective vibration, both to the “highest” point, the pure heavens, and to the “lowest,” hell, and naturally also to all the countless subtle worlds that lie between them. What every open-minded scientist by now confirms for us: Matter too is nothing other than energy. If one “looks into” it, “illuminates” it in depth, one discovers that matter has vanished and that in its place something invisible, something intangible has appeared. The impression of something solid was and is produced because the smallest particles move without interruption at a speed unimaginable to us — because they rotate.
For lack of better knowledge, people held the mistaken view — and the opposing side played a considerable role in forming and spreading it — that the creation of the material universes, including the earth and human beings, had been intended from the beginning in God’s plan; that the realms outside heaven were brought into life by Him according to His will in the form in which they now appear (leaving evolution aside for the moment). No assumption could be more wrong or misleading. For there is a great, decisive difference between “God wanted this; it was therefore His intention” and “God permitted this.”
This false belief, based on the lack of knowledge then prevalent and still widespread today, led to the formation of a false image of God and a false idea of what He does and allows. The justification for this unrecognized ignorance was found, not least, to be confirmed by the Bible.
Every open-minded person willing to think along ought, at the latest at this point, to recognize and at least accept for himself that the biblical account of this subject cannot be correct in this form. Something of great importance was falsely portrayed here, and at the same time it became for countless people a guideline that led them onto a “false track.” With far-reaching and serious consequences.
Who could have had, and still have, an interest in this? Certainly not God or Jesus Christ.
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Originally, that is, before the Fall, and still today in the heavens, every creature is completely — 100 percent — permeated by the love of God. This love is the life in everything, and therefore all heavenly beings possess a creative power that is not equal to God’s creative power but, as He Himself has often said, resembles it. It is unimaginably great. It exceeds our imagination and our power of conception even to form an approximately accurate picture of it.
As soon as a heavenly being leaves its home, or, as in the case of Sadhana and her followers, has to leave it, the inflow of this divine power of love and life is reduced. Because Sadhana remained without insight, she moved farther and farther away from the center of creation. She “fell,” which is not to be understood spatially, but rather means that her energetic condition deteriorated more and more until she finally reached the endpoint of her Fall and she and her followers received from God only a minimum of energy, a so-called sustaining energy. This served and still serves to ensure that a being cannot “die,” that is, cannot dissolve into nothing. For God does not lose what He once created.
This small amount of energy, however, is nothing compared with the energy that flowed to Sadhana when she was still with God. It was and is for her an indescribable, in the truest sense “miserable life” that she now leads at this lowest point.
So she urgently needed energy. Where did she obtain it, or where did she get it? Primarily from human beings, but also from astral beings living within her sphere of influence.
Now quite a few things will surely become clear to us, and perhaps for one person or another the famous “click” will occur: Since she and her followers do not live somewhere in an unspecified hell but are right in our midst — around us — just as heaven with its angels is, including our guardian angel, it depends exclusively on us whether and how she approaches and influences us, if necessary in a matter of seconds. A thought, a glance, or a word from us that, without our being conscious of it, is not in love of neighbor, or is too occupied with worldly things, or seeks the satisfaction of our senses in one of many ways — and already she has found a possibility of knocking at our door without our noticing it. This happens more or less regularly with every person (and here I speak from experience). 🙂🙁 For this is her main field of activity; here live her suppliers of energy: we human beings.
But it is not only about energy for her. At the same time she strives to keep the vibration of our souls as low as possible so that we lack the corresponding strength to ascend after bodily death into higher and brighter realms. What happens then? What consequences does this have?
As spiritual beings we remain in the realms where she and her followers have the say and can repeatedly approach us and seduce us far more easily than if we lived on higher-vibrating planes.
The poem below begins with the words:
Sometimes it can be helpful and good
to think oneself into the devil’s position.
We already put ourselves into another person’s situation or thoughts very often when it matters to us. It can therefore not only do no harm, but can and will always be important for us — naturally with Christ’s help and under His protection — to ask: “Where am I vulnerable? Where does the devil find a point of entry in me?” This is important for the simple reason that the one who wishes us evil knows our faults and weaknesses, which we ourselves often ignore or do not admit, very precisely. He knows them! For him, if through corresponding thinking, speaking, and acting that are not in love we permit it, we are like an open book. He slips into our inner feeling without our noticing it.
A few days ago Ernestine Victoria Oberlohr received (what a coincidence ???) 🙂 spiritual enlightenment from the Lord on this subject:
“Some temptation is subtle and is carried out in such a way that you cannot recognize it either, at least not immediately. But because I am with you, I give you gentle reminders again and again to be attentive. And My children who already have somewhat more experience feel in their hearts, in their souls, in their inner being when something is not right, and they respond accordingly.
Now, how does My child respond when it senses that the opposing side is at work here? Well, you know the answer. This child runs to Me as quickly as possible, goes to My heart, and knows that this encounter with Me is the protection it needs in order to withstand what the opposing side intends. And you know from your own experience, when you do not take this path to Me, do not take it immediately, that various emotions within you become stronger and you stand astonished and troubled before yourselves and ask: ‘How could this happen?’ ‘Where do all these emotions that are now here come from?’
And that through this — not to say that you are capable of anything — you are at least capable of a great deal! When you have reached the point of asking yourselves, ‘How can this be?’, then you know that the opposing side is at work.”
But with these words of His the Lord at once also showed us the solution: “This child runs to Me as quickly as possible, goes to My heart, and knows that this encounter with Me is the protection it needs …”
With that, the most important thing on this subject has been said. One thing, however, is still missing. And here too it can be helpful to put oneself in the situation of the opposing side in order to recognize the truth behind the words and acknowledge it:
If we had evil intentions, upon whom would we primarily focus our chief attention, our energy, and our attempts at interference? On the many who merely go along with the crowd, or on those who are serious, who perhaps came from the heavens or at least incarnated with the intention of living what is good, living love in this time?
The answer is obvious: I would concentrate my efforts on those who could become dangerous to me through their striving to live honesty, justice, and love. The others, who do not concern themselves with the questions of meaning in life but live “cheerfully” from one day to the next, are relatively secure for me anyway.
This should make us, or cause us to become, doubly watchful. Naturally at His hand.
Hans
Sometimes It Can Be Helpful and Good
Sometimes it can be helpful and good to think oneself into the devil’s place. For surely there is hardly any question that diligently he carries out his work. What do you mean? Your name is not Faust at all? Ah, I think the name is not so important to him. If only he is underestimated — preferably greatly — that is enough for him. And that you trust him. He uses his advantage when he senses that someone there has never looked at himself, who does not know himself at all. Then he has already watched, and — scarcely before that person notices — seduced him.
from “Trust the Quiet Sound of Your Heart”