Divine Revelation
My beloved sons and daughters, for those who already know My revealed word, the fundamental truth “Heaven is love” represents nothing new. And many may wonder why I place something that in their eyes is self-evident at the beginning of My communication today and emphasize it especially.
I do this because I desire that you practice not merely acknowledging recognized truths and wisdom with a nod, but recognizing the depth within them. This means that you should not pass too quickly over a statement, fact, or circumstance when and because you regard it as correct or applicable. For almost always further laws lie behind it that help you on your way to Me only when you measure your own conduct against them and correct it if necessary.
If you believe that heaven is love, what follows from this for those of you who desire to return to your eternal home? The answers are obvious: first, it follows that there is no death in the sense of “everything is over,” and therefore no reason for fear and worry; and second, the spiritual law of attraction governs what happens after death for every individual. For it says that whoever wishes to enter heaven must carry heaven within himself. By “heaven” in this case are meant bright, light, expansive realms of life such as do not prevail among you on earth and which, beyond this, have dimensions inconceivable to you.
The true heaven, reunion with Me, your life in indescribable beauty and freedom, being one with all that is, lies in a dimension that cannot be reached anyway by a “leap” from earth to there. But even later entry into these spheres presupposes that in the beyond you have developed so far—that is, become love again—that you have reached, and therefore carry within yourselves, the high vibration of eternity.
It has not yet come that far; but all My human and soul children, whether they know it or not, are on the way home. For when you once left, you entered a circular path that will inevitably bring you back to Me. There is no outside of Me, nothing that does not remain within Me forever and that I do not sustain with My energy. It makes no difference whether a spiritual being separated from Me in self-will or voluntarily incarnated out of love for his brothers and sisters on earth.
Knowing this should be comfort and encouragement to you; and with that I return to what I said at the beginning: that you should not too quickly pass over something of profound importance to all of you because it wants to be recognized. This may include, for example, reflecting on whether all of you are already free of fears and worries concerning your life in the beyond. If there should still be something that burdens you more or less, that might be an occasion to look more deeply into something you have known for a long time but until now have not given the necessary attention.
The fact that none of you yet embodies heaven could be an encouragement to set out on the way heavenward, which figuratively means: on the way inward, provided you truly desire to become love again. I strengthen within you every movement, however small, toward coming closer to this goal. Often only a few easy steps are due, steps toward which I and your spiritual companions move you; sometimes there are things that are somewhat more difficult for you, and now and then there are also really big chunks that have been waiting a long time to be tackled.
But all have in common that they want to be done. For whoever wants to get “from here to there” must move. That is an old wisdom. It is no help if your authorities and scholars of Scripture teach you something else. No one can avoid the decision to act on personal responsibility beyond “faith and grace” and beyond observing commandments, regulations, and dogmas, practicing ritual actions, and keeping traditions.
From this perspective the words “love—and nothing else” take on another meaning. At first glance they seem to make matters easier because then various things no longer have their former importance or even fall away that in the past were anyway done only halfheartedly; but at the same time they call on you to set to work—inner work. With Me at your side, however, you will succeed in this much more easily and it will lead you incomparably faster to the goal than if you make the effort alone.
The experience will not fail to come that from the effort to live love in daily life, wisdom and realization arise almost by themselves. The reverse, apparently less arduous path of accumulating knowledge or membership in a religious community together with practicing ancient customs, by contrast, will never cause the necessary potential of compassionate and selfless love to develop within you that brings you closer to Me.
My beloved, what follows from this? That one cannot study Me and My wisdom, but one can immerse oneself more and more deeply in Me. What do you understand by that? How often each day are you with Me? How often do you speak with Me, even if only through a loving thought, a brief question, or by telling Me what is moving you at the moment or what you are doing? Ten times, twenty times, fifty times, or more?
Perhaps one or another of you to whom this form of communication is still somewhat unfamiliar believes he would then be talking to himself. One talks to oneself, as the term says, with oneself when one is alone. But you, My child, are never alone. Never, for there is no moment in your life when I am not with you. I am the life within you! Or do you still imagine Me in a distant and nebulous heaven that no one can tell you where it is supposed to be? A glance upward lets you see only a tiny piece of your material universe. But a glance inward points out to you the way that leads to My heart.
So when you think of Me or tell Me something—even if you merely feel accordingly—you are directly connected with your Source of life. And this Source is love! Can there be a reason not to seek and cultivate contact with the power that continually nourishes and builds you up?
Do these reflections make you thoughtful? Do I remind you by this of something you have often resolved to do yourselves? And what did practice look like afterward? “The day makes its demands and my duties call,” you will say. That is true, for as a rule you are on earth to learn something. But you yourselves know how great the latitude, how broad the range, is that this statement allows. How do you interpret it? How much room, from the many hundreds of minutes available to you each day, do you give Me?
The human being is a creature of habit, as one of your sayings puts it. Then I will make you a suggestion: Ask Me to help you change some of your habits, that is, to replace a few, some smaller ones among your many well-worn tracks with new ones. Can you seriously believe heaven would fail to hear such a request or not fulfill it? Is it not more likely that such a request is never made in the first place?
The more often you are with Me in thought or words, the closer the bond between us becomes. And the closer it becomes, the calmer and more serene you become; the more natural it becomes for you to turn to Me—later perhaps even to discuss everything with Me and receive My impulses ever more clearly—and the more trusting our relationship becomes. Such repeatedly practiced conduct becomes, as your scientists put it, a “conditioned reflex.” Applied to the two of us, to Me and you, one can put it this way: it becomes a cherished habit you no longer want to do without once you have come to know its intimacy, warmth, and advantages.
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We have only just begun to look a little deeper into the words, have only begun to “dig” somewhat more intensively, and already many new aspects arise that would fill numerous books if we were to go into the fine points, into the countless details. But because this would overburden everyone, and because learning too represents an evolutionary process that meaningfully opens only step by step, it is enough if we direct our attention to one further aspect. Yet this one is substantial, for it touches you directly and—just like My continual presence—plays a decisive role in your effort to live love.
The general ignorance that there is another, invisible reality—a reality outside your five senses—makes it so easy for My adversary and yours and his following to influence you continually without being noticed, hinder you, make you stagnate, and harm you in body and soul. The ignorance of the law of cause and effect does the rest.
I am speaking of the forces almost all of you know only by name, which you call darkness, forces of darkness, Satan, Antichrist, Lucifer, or simply devil, and which are at home in the non-material world imperceptible to you. But this subtle world exists, and its influence upon you—if you permit it—is so permanent and immediate that you would flee into My arms if you could see evil and the countless forms and variants of the temptations proceeding from it.
But it is not only personified evil that often makes your life so difficult and repeatedly places stones in your path. In many cases it is energies, so-called energy fields, of which there are countless numbers in different forms and intensities, that like enormous “formations of mist” permeate the universe and above all encircle your planet. Often enough, however, they are also controlled by souls from the astral realms with the intention of obtaining energy from human beings who vibrate in accord with the contents of these fields.
What are their contents? Everything that does not correspond to the commandment of love: beginning with hatred, enmity, war, and unforgivingness, through the vast range of “middle-level sins,” all the way to the registers of superficiality, misleading self-importance, self-satisfied flattery and vanity, and much more.
You are exposed to them more or less twenty-four hours a day. Whether they can influence you, rob you of your time, or guide you in the direction they intend depends on each individual himself. Here the law of attraction operates: every one of your inner feelings and every one of your thoughts enters more or less strongly and directly into communication with the corresponding energies, and this applies all the more to every word and deed.
You are, in practice, stimulated “to transmit,” and you “receive” without knowing it, and vice versa. What appeals to you, what you respond to, is conditioned by what lies within your soul and what interests and wishes you carry within yourselves. You can also put it this way: your character, that is, the sum of your loving and less loving qualities, interacts with corresponding forces—with good, neutral, less good, or strongly opposing ones.
Here the law of correspondence becomes effective, known to many of you also as the “law of mirroring” or “law of resonance,” which comes into action when something produces reactions within you, whether negative or positive.
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Using this one example, “Heaven is love,” I have led you a little deeper. It is obvious that beneath it lie far more realizations that help you move forward if you make the corresponding decisions. For the wisdom of your heavenly Father is infinite.
But what has been said so far is already enough to take a next step, namely to recognize the consequence that follows from the knowledge that you are continually surrounded by forces largely unknown to you. With that I return to My question about how many minutes of your time you want to give Me.
The more often you occupy yourself with something, the more often you think in a certain direction, the more you fill your consciousness, subconscious, and soul with it. Where one thing is, the other cannot be. When in thought you are with Me, you place—figuratively speaking—a small weight into the scale-pan of light. And with that something is missing on the other side, something that I, if your effort is earnest, have transformed. Then My powers in and upon you gradually become effective; but unlike the forces of the opposing side, they do not influence you (in every case I respect your free will!), but strengthen you and let ever more realizations arise within you, which then express themselves in your daily conduct as understanding, tolerance, forbearance, patience, and much more. This is a lawful consequence of your effort, which does not occur when you fill the mentioned pan of the scale of your soul with knowledge.
If you are fundamentally ready for this, then under certain circumstances the question will arise within you: “What am I supposed to change? What should I ask You for?” To answer the second question first, My child: if you are courageous—said with a smile—then ask that My will may be done in you, which is something different from the often merely spoken “Your will be done.” For then heaven will take over directing the course of your life because you have given love the right and granted it the authority to do so.
And regarding the other question: you will learn to recognize what needs to be changed; for I will, in the right measure, draw your attention to traits of your human self to which until now you have not given the necessary attention. You will learn from your reactions to recognize what still has to be transformed within you through the power of My love.
Then it is your turn. Then it is up to you to decide whether you want to become free of this or that way of behaving. But take care: a trap lurks here.
There is a difference between a human being praying, “Please, free me from this or that. Change me in this or that point,” and coming to Me with the knowledge and readiness that he too must contribute his own small share to the coming work of change. “Please help me change this trait” would be the better alternative.
If, for example, you ask to be able to live in peace with your neighbor, then you will also have to look at and work on the side within you that is not yet entirely peaceable. If that is clear to you and you are ready for it, I will take over the rest. How and when this shows itself outwardly you can confidently leave to heaven, which has the overview and knows exactly which adjusting screws to turn and when.
Even those who believe in Me and My word have only in the rarest cases reflected on why a prayer is not answered. Yet it is worthwhile to deepen precisely this reflection. For if I am absolute, selfless, and unconditional love, then it should surely be My most important concern to answer the prayers of My children. But what if a prayer request is not fulfilled? What if perhaps you ask for the same thing again and again and again, and nothing happens? Does the question never arise within you why love—then in the eyes of some of My children the “supposed love”—seems deaf and remains silent?
It is worthwhile, My beloved, to reflect on this question in a quiet hour. If you search with an open heart for an answer, then I will let this answer rise from within you or guide you to people, books, or conversations that help you move forward and find the solution. If you seek earnestly …
A further trap lurks where it is a matter of letting go of something. In many cases My human children want to get rid of something that bothers them or is unpleasant to them. But letting go is something different. It means doing without something from which, in the past, consciously or unconsciously, one drew benefit, advantage, or energy.
You want to become healthy, which is entirely understandable, but you are reluctant or unwilling to give up what contributed to your illness. The causes of an illness may very well lie in the spiritual and soul realm and not be immediately obvious. Ask Me, and I will find ways and possibilities to let you discover a trace leading to the deeper causes of an illness. Under certain circumstances this may be unforgivingness—but of course many other things as well—from which you drew a questionable satisfaction.
They may also be habits that have become dear to you and must be given up. Or they may be well-worn tracks you do not want to leave. Yet only in this way could a foundation for a new beginning be created. In every case, letting go always means changing something, no longer doing something previously practiced, even if “only” in thought.
In a certain sense that is work, My sons and daughters. Under certain circumstances it also means a little effort or even more, and above all it requires honesty and seriousness. For the forces that received and took energy from you because of your weaknesses will not simply watch as you approach the light; something is then missing for them. At the very least they will try to continue reaching you through the tracks that until now were successful for them. Or they build new tracks.
You can put a stop to this; for I, your heavenly Father, who in Jesus of Nazareth became your brother and friend, am within you and at your side. There is no stronger power in all creation!
Now you understand why it is important to come to Me more often, indeed as often as possible. Every being together with Me, even if only a brief loving thought, a childlike thank-you, or a simple “I love You,” strengthens your soul in that very moment. It makes your scale-pan of light ever fuller, and you learn, for that is why you came into the world. In this way not only can your fellow human beings see an example in you; darkness too can and may test itself against you and, if it wishes, recognize that it is worthwhile to leave darkness and orient itself toward the light.
For whoever until now could not really do much with the term “logic of the heart”: that, My beloved sons and daughters, was pure logic of the heart. It says: Use your intellect, but it fulfills its task best as the right hand of the heart. It makes possible penetrating more and more deeply into My wisdom without running the risk of becoming overly intellectual and forgetting what is truly important in life: love—and nothing else!
Amen