Beloved heavenly Father, the longing for Your word has led us here. Your heart has drawn us here and united us in Your love. And so we ask You for a word from Your heart. Your love is what we long for so deeply: to feel secure in Your love, to recognize You as our heavenly Father already on this Earth, knowing that You love us, that You love every single one of us so much, and that You have led each of us here today for very particular reasons, in order to give us the seeds of love and the gifts of love. And so we have opened our hearts wide for You, in expectation …
Jesus takes over: “… Amen, My children. So I have entered your midst and stand here to unite you in this My love, in this love indescribable, mighty, and strong. I am God the Almighty, who governs this creation from the smallest atom to the greatest sun with power and glory, with divine order and wisdom, so that everything may endure and everything may be led into the realm of redemption. Yet for you, My children, I stand here as heavenly Father and have opened My heart wide. My love shines toward every heart in this room, establishing a connection with Me and awakening the divine fire in your hearts. Thus a touching takes place between Father and child, a divine touching of hearts.
You cannot measure the grace that I have called you and now touch you in My love. You cannot measure the depth of My love, and yet this depth is contained within you, this infinity of love into which I want to lead you throughout eternity, ever deeper into the heart of God. This is your destiny in eternity. For this I created you, in order to give you blessedness in eternity. This is the meaning and purpose of your existence. For this, My children, you went to this Earth, into this schoolhouse, to be prepared and led into humility. For humility is the foundation of love; only humility can carry and endure divine love.
What is true humility, My children? Humility is, on the one hand, a space – the space of your soul – which can be filled with many points of attachment you have created in the world, with love for the world. Then this space is filled with worldly thoughts and worldly consciousness, and there is no room for Me. But you have the possibility gradually to detach yourselves more and more from this world, to let go of this and that which binds you and binds your love to material things. It does not all have to happen at once. It is a process, a gradual advancing through time. And yet there is a necessity, a basic condition: to make the space of your soul free so that My Spirit can flow into you.
Touches of My Spirit already take place. I touch you with love and you think, `Oh, this too is within me? – this love that I suddenly feel,´ whether toward Me, toward another person, or toward nature. There are moments when your soul is filled with love and security; that is wonderful, and in that moment you rejoice and love life. Yet these are often only moments, gifts of grace from Me, to show you what is contained within you and to kindle your longing for more love, for greater security in Me. As this longing becomes stronger and you know and feel, `This is God’s love within me,´ you open yourselves more and more to Me; the space of your soul becomes freer and emptier of worldly thoughts, worldly bonds, and addictions you still carry within you.
This does not mean that you can no longer exist in the world. You live in this world and pay your tribute to it. You have a profession and a family; there is much to do in the world. But, My children, do it detached from the world. Do it together with Me. Pray that I accompany you before you go to work, when you have to deal with bureaucracy. Everything that binds your soul to material necessities, do together with Me. Include Me in your world of thought: `Dear Father, fill out this form with me. Go with me to this person so that I can see him with Your eyes and hear his words with Your ears.´ And so you move forward through everyday life, My children.
Then the love within you, these moments of love, should become ever stronger and last ever longer, until you can say: `I feel that Jesus Christ lives within me. It is He within me who loves and lives – and He takes me with Him.´ Thus we become one in love, My children. That is why it says: Love God above all. Love for Me is the way, the truth, and the life.
Now you say, My child: `But how can I love God more? I feel love for God more in my intellect and not so much in my heart. How can I come to love You more in my heart, Father?´ There are different possibilities. One is when you do good. When you do good to another person, you have love in your heart. You feel joy in love, and in the deed you behold your love. In this way you recognize and find love in your heart.
If you do good to someone who also does good to you, that is wonderful and fills your soul with joy; it is fellowship in love. But if you do good to someone who does you no good, who perhaps speaks badly of you – a colleague, or even someone who insults or deceives you – and if you nevertheless love this person, do not despise him, but forgive him and pray for him, then your heart will blossom in a love you have not known before. For this love goes far beyond what is human; it is always I who bring it about, indeed I am this love Myself.
Forgiving an enemy is the power of divine love, no longer merely the power of the soul’s love. Therefore love of enemies is an instrument of redemption both for the one who forgives and for the person who is forgiven. If, with all earnestness and sincere effort, you repeatedly deny yourself the desire to judge, accuse, or even take revenge on someone who despises or deceives you, whether in thoughts, words, or deeds, and instead give it to Me so that through you I can give merciful love to another person, then you will experience wonders. I will become alive within you – and the becoming-one with Me in your heart can then happen very quickly.
Then you will perceive Me within you, at first as impulses of love in your heart, impulses that encompass a whole sentence. You will receive this statement, this word of My love, as a wonderful thought, and we will speak with one another as a matter of course on this level of the soul. This fellowship with Me will lead you ever more deeply into My love. And when you still live in sin, My child, do not worry. In your imperfection you may live within My perfection. According to your effort to live love and truth, I write your sins in the sand, for I am not a resentful God but a merciful and loving One.
So I stand here in your midst, My children, to bless you with these words and to bear witness to My Father-Jesus-love, which never passes away. I address every person here in this room and all who hear these words in one way or another: you, My child, and you and you, all of you. The connection of the heart between My heart and yours may be weaker in one and stronger in another, but it can no longer be severed in any case, for I will not let you go again, My child. Even if you turn away from Me, I go after you. Not to force Myself upon you. I stand like a beggar before the door of your heart and knock – softly and gently. Not like the world, pounding loudly and brightly at the door of your soul to take possession of you and draw you away from Me. No, very quietly, a light breath of wind passes through your heart when I knock. Yes, that is I, God the Almighty, a beggar before your door.
Receive these words first, My children. I have already reached deep into the treasure chest of My love and distributed ornaments for your hearts: pearls that are one day to adorn your hearts. They are seeds of My love and, when you have entered My heavens, they will become pearls of love and wisdom that will bring you blessedness in eternity.
Recognize the value of these words and the value of My having placed them within you. I would like to distribute many such pearls in this world, but who wants them? Who opens the door of the heart to Me? There are so few, My children, and that makes Me a little sad even as God, for many came to this Earth to serve and love Me, yet now they serve the world and want nothing more to do with Me. The world has taken them over completely, and a long and distant path is needed before these souls find Me again. For some it may take centuries, for others millennia, and for some millions of years.
But what is time? In My presence every second becomes an entrance into eternity, and time melts away like snow in the sun. You, My children, can already enter this place of eternity where time loses its value, for living in My presence means becoming timeless. Then time can no longer oppress you, My child; you are free of temporal constraints, detached from the rushing current of time. I free you from this when you love Me. Amen.”
* * *
Samuel: The Father has now opened my spiritual eye and I can see into the spiritual world. Around this circle stands a ring of angels – not with wings, as we imagine them, but in white garments, their hands crossed over their breasts as a sign of humility and surrender. They rejoice in this fellowship. Their love flows into our hearts and into this circle, but their eyes are directed toward Jesus. He stands here in the middle, and it is also a great joy for these angels that they may now be in the presence of their heavenly Father, for they too are not always so near Him.
Jesus now extends His hands around the circle in order to bless us, and He says there is also a special occasion: He wants to bless a newborn human child present here whom He sent to this Earth.
Jesus speaks: “I took this child from My heart and sent it into the darkness of this world so that it might walk a special path here, a dangerous path but also a protected one. I gave it a mother with a great heart, a heart full of love. I entrusted this child to her and give her responsibility for it for a certain time on this Earth.”
Jesus speaks to the mother: “Bring the child into the middle of this room now so that I may bless him. (Samuel: Jesus now makes a cross on Jakob’s forehead, then places one hand on Jakob’s forehead and one on the mother’s forehead.) Let a bond of love connect you, a heavenly bond and not an earthly bond. You will go through valleys and cross mountains; there will be tears of distress and tears of joy, but I will be with you always and at all times. I have placed this awareness deep in your heart, My daughter, and it is also anchored as a seed in the heart of your child and Mine. Raise him rightly in faith in Jesus Christ; show your child what love means on this Earth, that love is the One and All, that love is the way, that love is the only truth, and that love leads to Me.
So I bless you now. Yet when you go home from here with your child, My daughter, you are not going away from Me. I will accompany you into your home. When you cradle your child in your arms with your love, I will cradle him together with you. And each time you give Me a thought of love, you will feel My presence and know: `Yes, my heavenly Father is with me, is with us, and no matter what comes, no matter what path He leads us, we are secure in His love.´
So rejoice, My daughter, for it does not happen often on this Earth that I Myself bless a child in this way; it is something special. But this special thing is to lead you into humility, in the awareness: `I am a child of the heavenly Father and I need His help at all times.´ Therefore pray diligently in your own words; speak with Me as with your best friend, as with your brother, naturally and freely. Your heart should be free in love for Me and not trapped in a corset of prescribed words – otherwise love receives too little room. This I say to you now and here. Amen.”
The mother speaks: I wanted to thank the Father for giving me Jakob. He is the greatest gift He could have given me. With me too it was similar: I had reached a point where I no longer found a way for myself and had almost closed everything off, but then I found my way back to the Father and said to Him, `I am waiting for You someday to give me the task for which I am destined.´ Every day with Jakob I notice that he is my task, and I also know that Jesus is always there. The birth was very difficult and connected with many fears, but even then I did not feel alone because I sensed Him and knew that He was guarding and protecting us.
I thank Him every day for entrusting Jakob to me. And I notice that when I enter a room with Jakob, whether at the pediatrician’s or somewhere else, everyone has a smile on their face. He fills people’s hearts with joy, and it is wonderful to feel what an energy he radiates even though he is still such a little fellow.
* * *
Jesus speaks: “My children, once again I touch your hearts so that you may feel peace and your thoughts may come to rest. I take you out of the current of time and place your souls in the eternity of My love. Yet I also see in your hearts the words: `My Father, am I worthy to be here? Am I worthy of Your love? O Father, I am ashamed of my sins and scarcely dare to approach You. Why did You call me if I feel so unworthy?´
And I say: your worth lies in being a child of God and not in your human doing and human existence. You cannot give yourself worth and you cannot give Me worth. Many of My children try to do something valuable for Me, to do good in order to present value before Me, to be something before Me. They want to be good people so as to receive merit – from the world or from Me.
But good is to be done for the sake of good and not because it gives you an advantage. Love is to be loved for the sake of love. Evil is not to be avoided because you are afraid of its consequences or because you think I will no longer love you, but because you should reject evil. Your worth lies only in the fact that in the imperfection and weakness of earthly human existence I have placed you in the ray of My merciful love. You can give Me nothing, for all the good you do, I do through you and I am within you.
Yet it also says: `Your works will follow you.´ What does that mean? I say: I am the works within you and through you, and I follow you when you remain faithful to Me in love. These are the works you can do: to be faithful in love to My heart. Everything else I do and I am. Therefore do not try to be good people in order to get into heaven. Do good from love for love; then you do it from love for Me. In your imperfect human existence you can always recognize your worth in being a child of God in the sense that I have called you with My love. That is your worth. And within it you can move and do the works of love, from love for love.
The unworthiness in the sinfulness of your human existence – and no one in this room is excluded – I take upon Myself and once already took upon Myself. I atoned for your sins before My holiness; through the crucifixion I cleansed your imperfection before My perfection. I have cleansed everything for you, My children; you need only be faithful to Me in love. Love Me, and if you feel your love is insufficient, ask Me: `My Father, open my heart so that I may love You still more, and open Your heart to me so that a connection of hearts may arise between our hearts.´ And I will do it, My children, for this is what I have prepared and want to realize with you.
In the freedom of love, I say, for love tolerates no corset. You must be free in love. Therefore I speak these words to you now: that I love you and do not look at your sins or at what was. Come to Me, you who labor and are burdened. I fill your souls with joy, with vitality, with divine love. Trust it, for My words are words of truth. Everything I say receives reality – from My side. Your part is to open yourselves to Me, to surrender in trust that everything that encounters you first passes through My Father-heart, which sacrificed itself for you on the cross.
This is My innermost love, My children. My innermost love is vulnerable; My innermost love is gentleness and tenderness. The farther one moves from My heart, the more this love is governed by calculating wisdom and divine order, which establish cause and effect in the lawfulness of this creation. Yet the innermost core of this love is humility, gentleness, and all-penetrating mercy. Come into this innermost love of My heart, so that I can take you out of the bare lawfulness of My Godhead, which must exist as long as this creation exists. Come into My heart. There the freedom of love rules and serves, and this is your destiny in eternity.
I once took you from My heart. You are parts of My heart distributed over this Earth. And I want to put this My heart together again, to make it complete. You are the completeness of My love, even if in your human existence, in your sin and weakness, you cannot yet imagine it. Give Me your life, and give Me your death as well. For when you give Me your life, you also give Me your death: on the one hand so that I transform your death into vitality, and on the other so that I take your bodily death into My heart and shape it as I have intended for you. That is possible only if you entrust yourselves wholly to Me. Then I lead you through this life, and I Myself am the entrance door into My realm of love. Then I transform the death of your soul into life by filling it with life.”
* * *
Beloved heavenly Father, we have strengthened ourselves with food and drink on the material level, and so You strengthen us with food and drink on the spiritual level. You give us the bread of life, which is Your word that You place within us. And the word You place within us must be digested. We must chew it and process it well with the stomach of our soul so that the power and truth of the word pass into our soul and become part of it, so that Your word becomes our life.
Jesus takes over: “It is so important, My children, that you receive My word with this truthfulness and earnestness, knowing what this earthly life is about. I have often told this to My children whom I call together into communities and little flocks. Everywhere across this Earth I speak through one child to all My children in one way or another.
My word flows through My word-child, through the landscape of that child’s soul, and therefore My word receives a coloring; certain qualities of the soul flow into the message. The more the soul of the word-child is occupied by the world, the more ideas of its own it has concerning spiritual processes and conditions, the more the word can be distorted; it changes on its journey through the child’s soul. Then the word often comes forth deceptively. This also happens in some communities.
Ultimately it always bears witness to itself through love as the bond within a community. If this is not so, if what is spoken and lived is not truth, then such a circle falls apart. The brothers and sisters quarrel, each wants to be right and impose his opinion – because it is not love that carries and preserves everything. Yet love is what carries and preserves this creation as well. Everything is held together by love and carried by love. So it is in the greatness of creation; so it should be in the small, also in the family.
And if only one family member dwells in My presence and walks this Earth together with Me, then this child of My love has a great responsibility, for he also carries the souls of the family members. In prayer and love, seeds of love are placed in their hearts and will one day sprout. Usually this happens in distress, for distress teaches people to pray. It has always been so, My children, that distress is an instrument of My love, in the small as in the great. If you look at your life in this way, you can recognize that a certain distress also brought you to Me and strengthened your love for Me.
Especially in recent years, when so much falsehood and suffering have ruled the world, you have turned still more away from the world and recognized that darkness and distress are instruments by which I draw My children closer to My heart. And this has succeeded. Many of My children who previously took pleasure in the world and had many points of attachment to it have turned away from these imprisonments and prisons of the soul. I have opened the door out of the dungeons of addiction, false pleasures, fear and worry, and despair.
Thus many children have come out of their prisons. I gather these children around Me throughout the world and speak to them. In this way a network of love forms across this Earth, just as the enemy has formed his network across this Earth. The Pharisees of today, these are the politicians who speak lies; they are the leaders of great corporations who want to exercise power and use people for their own advantage. This is the present time. Yet not much has changed, My children; in those days too lies ruled and truth was persecuted, slandered, and mocked. So it is today.
It has not yet reached the point that you are persecuted. Perhaps people will smile at you when you say: `Jesus Christ is my love and my life. I trust Him. I entrust everything to Him and follow Him.´ Worldly people will laugh at you and call you fools. And yet this is the only path a human being can walk in order to enter the blessedness of My love.
The time will come – and it is already here – when there will indeed be a kind of religion on this Earth, but not with Me as God; rather a spirituality that serves self-satisfaction. Then I will, and already do, separate My true children with the light of truth, and the spirits will divide. Some will take the comfortable path of spiritual self-love and self-realization, while those whose hearts burn wholly for Me, who have oil in their lamps so that the light of their hearts burns, will follow Me.
This will be the final separation of spirits, even among My children. Yet it is not that I abandon those who go their own ways. No, they leave Me. But I see no one among you, My children, who wishes to leave Me. I look deep into your hearts, into the depth of your longing. There the fire of love for Me burns, and I will kindle it still more strongly. I want to fill your hearts and penetrate your souls with My Spirit so that you remain steadfast in this world of lies, in this world of darkness and death. I want to lead you into life; with life I want to fill you – with life I will fill you.
Therefore be of good courage and rejoice. Rejoice in this time of darkness, for you are secure in My love. Even if persecution comes, even if death carries many away, both among worldly people and among My children whom I then take home at the right time, remain in the joy that I am with you and that you may be with Me. It is so important that a person be able to rejoice. Joy is found in love for life. Only one who loves life has true joy in the heart. One who loves the world also feels satisfaction, but not in life – in death. I am life, My children. In love for Me you find joy in life. In love for Me you find security and the peace the world does not know. Amen.”
* * *
Some questions and answers in the circle:
Question: We have read in Lorber and elsewhere that a soul coming from above, for example incarnating from a sun, has beforehand a kind of preview of life and agrees to the strokes of fate and distress it will encounter. Does this also apply to souls coming from below, souls arising from the soul-evolution of the Earth through the various kingdoms of nature? Do they too have the possibility of giving consent to the fate they will experience on Earth?
Answer: As a basic principle there is no fixed suffering written in advance, because the path of fate of every soul depends on its development. Possibilities are shown to a soul from above. If one departs from the path one intended, a correction occurs, usually through suffering, so that the soul does not completely miss its life plan. Thus there is no predestination to suffering, except when a person has taken on a task of redemption in which he will meet a fellow soul sunk deeply in the world or in great distress and accompany that soul for a certain time. In such a case it is already intended that one will share some of that soul’s suffering for a time. Otherwise there are always possibilities that open according to the soul-spiritual condition.
Regarding the soul-evolution of this Earth: fallen satanic soul-substance passes through the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms. From three highly developed animal souls a human soul is then composed. It either has the possibility of incarnating as a human being, or for the time being it becomes a nature spirit, a mountain spirit, or an air spirit, which only later takes on a human body. Such souls do not previously have a consciousness to which it could be explained what awaits them as human beings – but there is a divine life plan for every soul. If, however, you are a soul from a star or even from heavenly regions, then beforehand you know approximately what awaits you. This vision is covered over in the body and the human being initially goes through life blind.
Question: How can one best deal with the suffering of people?
Answer: I find it easier to bear the suffering of people and of the world when I know that suffering and distress are in fact necessary humblings and thus ultimately serve a good purpose. A soul from above has intended to walk a certain life path, and Earth-souls too have a life plan. If one departs too far from it, a painful correction takes place in God’s mercy, and that is always good. Only when a human being has spiritually died in pride and self-will does God leave him wholly to the hellish world. Yet even in hellish abysses humblings take place again and again that ultimately serve the awakening salvation of a fallen soul.
Question: Where did the souls originally come from – those from above, from a star or sun, and those from below, the Earth-souls? How did they arise?
Answer: We have to go somewhat farther back. A certain number of spirits once moved away from the love of God with Lucifer. This was possible because God had given them a will of their own, a life of their own. He separated them from the power of His divine will, in which they had been bound in will and in love for God. At first they still remained with Him through eternities, but then by their own power they moved away from God.
God is warmth and light. If one moves away from warmth and light, one grows cold and blind and finally rigid. The consciousness of these spirits, described as spiritual substance, became more and more condensed and cold, losing what was divine-spiritual. From this hardened soul-substance the Father formed this creation: stars, suns, and planets. We speak of soul-substance because these spirits, whose number cannot be named, although originally created by God, lived within the consciousness of the light-bearer Lucifer and thus constituted, as it were, his soul – the active vitality of his spirit. Lucifer/Satan was originally the greatest angel of light, full of divine power and glory.
This fallen soul-substance must be redeemed again from death and led back to God, into the light of His love. This takes place through the soul-evolution of the fallen spirits, who now constitute the material creation in the sense that matter itself represents the greatest density of the fall, in which fallen soul-life is imprisoned. This life unfolds in the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms and finally in the human being. When two stones are struck together, for example, the spark bears witness to the soul-life within them. In plants and animals their animation by soul is obvious.
From the hardness and solidity of the motionless mineral and earth kingdom, the starting point of this return of soul, all kinds of plants grow. These already receive light and have growth. Then this soul-substance passes from the plant kingdom into the animal kingdom. Animals already have greater freedom: they can move, possess a certain instinctive intelligence, and thus represent a further development of soul. Within the animals there is development from lower insects to intelligent animals that form the summit of the animal kingdom – for example elephant, eagle, horse, dolphin.
From three such animal souls a human soul is composed. Into its heart a divine spark of spirit is placed, making it a self-determining human being. Unlike an animal, he can think about life and death and about the meaning and purpose of his earthly existence. This spark of spirit makes possible his return to God along the path Jesus Christ showed us and established for us. When a person walks this path, through his return he brings both himself and the once-fallen soul-substance contained within him back to God and thereby becomes again a divine spiritual human being. He then no longer exists under the determination of God’s will, but in the freedom of divine love. That is why the Father once freed these spirits from His will, so that in divine freedom they might return to Him and live as His children in eternity.
Thus the whole creation will in the course of eternity be led back to God. All fallen soul-substance will be returned. And Lucifer/Satan, who exists as an isolated spirit, will finally, when the whole creation has been returned and divinized and all soul-substance redeemed, enter again into the realm of love and light. Then this period of creation will end and something entirely new will begin. In a few words, that explains the meaning and purpose of this creation.
Question: I have another question concerning suffering in the broadest sense. If one comes from above, as it were with a clean slate, is the suffering one experiences on this Earth always a correction, or is it a portion of the fallen soul-substance one has taken on?
Answer: If you come from above, whether from a sun, star, or heaven, you additionally burden yourself with subtle satanic soul-substance, that is, weaknesses of the soul and counterforces to the divine – and your body too is taken from the fallen Earth-soul. You need these in order to ground yourself and especially to have counterforces within you that help you develop and unfold your spiritual strength in the struggle of life. The human being is to bring all this soul-content to redemption through love for Jesus Christ. That is his task in life.
I want to emphasize expressly: before God there is no two- or three-class society, no difference in worth between spirits from the heavens, souls from distant stars, and souls taken from the substance of this Earth. Rather, divine love bends down toward what has fallen and needs help. The Father’s heart has a great longing for the redemption of His fallen creation. He devotes His whole being to this liberation. He will be completely happy and content only when one day even the last lost child of His love has found the way home again. Therefore, as a soul from above, one does not stand above one’s brothers and sisters born from the planet Earth, but beneath them in service. Before God there are no rights of superiority of any kind. Origin from a star or descent from heaven is above all an obligation to place oneself in the service of love.
Question: What is the difference between a creature and a child of God?
Answer: A creature of God stands under the lawfulness of this creation, while a child of God stands in its mercy. That is a great difference. If you stand in the lawfulness of cause and effect, then from your side you are not connected with the love of God but are blindly exposed to your fate. As a child of God you step out of the law and are placed in the ray of mercy. Only as a child of God do you no longer encounter merely the inviolable Godhead that rules and judges with iron law, but the merciful Father in Jesus Christ, with whom you may live together in eternity.
Therefore: all human beings are creatures of God, but they are not all children of God. You become a child of God when you have recognized and acknowledged Him as your heavenly Father. Yet a loving and truthful person who does not consciously stand in faith in Jesus Christ is also a child of God in this sense. Such a person lives love and goodness because it is an inner need. But he lacks access to the heavenly Father, who could and would like to give him luminous and loving words from His heart and fill him with divine security far beyond the human measure.
This leads to a question many people ask: Why should Jesus Christ in particular be God? There are many religions; why should Christianity alone possess the truth? Would not people of other religions be disadvantaged and have no possibility of finding God? Jesus says very clearly that there are only the possibilities of incarnation given on this Earth. Not all souls who come here can become Christians; the peoples of other cultures should and must be preserved.
It also depends on the nature and origin of a soul into which culture and religion it incarnates in order ultimately to come to redemption. For souls living in Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or other communities of faith, their earthly existence there has a divine meaning, purpose, and reason. If these people carry love in their hearts and in that state pass into the spiritual world, angels stand ready, or Jesus Himself, to lead these souls into the kingdom of heaven. We therefore do not need to worry about people who have not yet recognized and accepted Jesus Christ.
But He Himself guards the door into heaven. Ultimately every soul must come to love and recognize Jesus Christ as God, for His heart is heaven. Only with and through Jesus Christ can one enter heaven. There is no other way.
Question: It has been said that Jesus Christ is a spirit created at the beginning of creation.
Answer: Jesus Christ is not a created spirit and not a created soul. Jesus as such did not exist before He was born on this Earth. Jesus of Nazareth, incarnated as a human being, is the soul of God; this soul is uncreated. When Jesus Christ is called the Firstborn in writings, it means that wisdom went forth from love – was and is born from love – and that light was and is born from warmth. Yet wisdom was always contained within love, and light within the warmth of love. Being born here is therefore to be understood as the manifestation of the essence of divine wisdom, wisdom itself.
In Jesus Christ the Father separated His soul from His Spirit, or erected a wall within Himself, so that His soul might be born on this Earth and bring life and then reunite with Himself. The Father is therefore love in Jesus Christ. Without the soul-material-human covering, divine love could not have revealed itself; in an instant it would have consumed everything into itself and thereby destroyed it. This covering is first the Son of Man, who repeatedly prayed to the Father, and who, when penetrated by the Spirit of God, became the Son of God, and as such became one again with the Father – which is equivalent to saying that divine Spirit and divine soul merged again into one God.
The Father and the Son are therefore one God and in Jesus Christ one person, not merely of one mind but a unity, as the image of fire describes well: the flame has warmth, light, and power. The warmth is love, the Father. The light is wisdom, the Son. The power is the Holy Spirit. But it is one fire, one unity; no element can be separated from another.
* * *
Father, we thank You that we were allowed to be together today in Your name and that here and there we could receive still more light – through You, through Your goodness, through the light from heaven that You give us. In this light of love, dear Father, eternal love blossoms from us toward You. And within this love also dwells the request that You accept us as Your children, for that is what matters to us today. To be accepted as Your children, dear Father, also has its personal meaning for each of us, because every one of us is personally shaped by our distresses and worries, and by our progress.
This also includes illnesses, worries, and needs that we perhaps do not understand. And so we ask You: Father, let Your love continue to blossom over us; bless and strengthen us with the powers of healing. Strengthen our brothers and sisters who are still on the way toward You and have not yet understood what is important: that we separate ourselves from the distresses of this world, from the worries and also the desires here on Earth, and that we look upward to You, into our eternal home from which we came, as we have heard several times today. Let us look into the heavenly fatherland from which we were taken in order to walk our path together, and yet each for himself in his work of redemption, to Your honor, Jesus Christ. Amen.
* * *