Divine Revelation
My beloved human children, it is impossible for you to imagine that I am everything! For that means that everything that exists came forth from Me; that absolutely everyone and everything has its life from Me and will have it from Me for all eternity; that there is no other primal Source that forever radiates its energy, that brought forth the visible and invisible creation, sustains it, and continues to let it grow.
I often summarize this truth, which overwhelms human thinking, in the two words “I am.” It cannot be said more briefly, and yet My omnipotence is expressed in them. And this omnipotence is at the same time love, in a form that cannot be grasped or comprehended by human beings. Yet each of you comes from this love, carries it within you, and sooner or later will immerse yourselves fully in it again and thereby once more consciously be love and live love.
Because you are creatures to whom all My love belongs, it was and is natural that I desired and desire to communicate with what I have created. Even if at first glance this may seem unusual to you, you will understand it if you put yourselves in the place of parents who want to communicate with their children. This exchange is especially important when you want to help the children recognize things and find their way in surroundings where much happens — including things that concern them personally — which they cannot place.
In doing so I proceeded as you would: I adapted what I wanted to tell My children to their understanding and their consciousness. It is like school: it begins with simple multiplication and the first letters. Even though what is to be learned later still lies far away, these first steps already carry “the truth” within them. They are therefore not false; they are even necessary, but they are not everything.
If you want to learn something new, you must be open and, where spiritual matters are concerned, watchful. It is completely wrong, because it amounts to stagnation, to measure new material against the old and reject it on the grounds: “That was not in the material from earlier years.”
Thus I spoke differently to the prophets of the Old Covenant than I did through Jesus of Nazareth and have done since then through many of My faithful. I gave them rules you call the Ten Commandments, which were simple to understand and still are. They were intended to lead human beings to thinking and acting that correspond to the guidelines of My whole creation, whose foundation is love. For whoever does not lie, steal, kill, or rob, whoever in general keeps My commandments, begins step by step to grow from a self-centered life into a life in which his neighbor also plays a role — and thereby, finally, so do I.
The background: The fallen beings did everything possible to seduce human beings into a life contrary to law in the sense of My love, and they succeeded more and more. Humanity was then very far from upward spiritual and soul development. The goal of the powers of darkness was the dissolution of creation after they had failed to bring a creation of their own into existence. Through correspondingly loveless and self-centered conduct, human beings’ “energy balance” had fallen sharply. Since love is the strongest energy, a life according to My commandments would have initiated upward development.
Eventually the tendency emerged that the plan of darkness seemed likely to succeed. A turning back in human conduct had been prevented by disregard of My commandments. But because I gave all My creatures free will, which I never touch, it was not an option to intervene with My omnipotence and in this way put an end to the evil game. Human beings themselves had to walk the path of love through insight and turning back. But they lacked the necessary energy.
So I decided to bring them the spiritual strength they needed and at the same time to live before them what a life according to the commandments of love can look like. After careful planning, the aspect of My love incarnated in a human being whom, at My wish, his parents gave the name Jehoshua, whom you know today as Jesus (1).
In this respect it was an incarnation unique in kind, because there is no need to repeat it: the task connected with it was fulfilled.
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Every human being is in a certain sense a two-part being, possessing both a material body and a subtle one called the soul. During earthly life the two are most closely connected and continuously influence one another. When the earthly lifetime of the body has run its course, the body is returned to the earth, while the soul enters — that is, is drawn to — realms corresponding to the nature, character, and development of the soul. These may be spiritual worlds of the most varied character, from low to high vibration, from “hell to heaven.”
All spiritual beings have a name that has nothing to do with the name the person bears during earthly life. All of this applied to Me as well, except that My spiritual being bore no “soul-name” but was God — eternal love, which entered the earth in the human being Jehoshua and acted in him and through him.
Because I had become foreign to human beings — had been made foreign through the machinations of My adversary, to which they had yielded — one of My greatest concerns was to bring their “God” closer to them again. For lack of deeper insight this term had been coined, although no one could really form an idea of what it meant. It was a designation for a supernatural being possessing a greatness and power that could not be more closely explained. For whoever believed in God — in Me — I remained something exalted before which one could bow and which one could worship. But love? Consciously receive this love and shape life with it? They were far from this thought, let alone from doing it.
Yet it is love that initiates and promotes upward development. Not power and not will, but love alone!
In order gradually to make the relationship between Me and My human children a personal one, as Jesus I spoke of the fact that I am more than an intangible God enthroned somewhere in distant heavens, of whom no one can form an idea. Since I am the primal Source of all being, the comparison suggested itself of seeing Me as Father and My creatures as My children. Naturally, this image too does not reach the core, for I am more than merely your Father — I am Mother to you as well, and much more — but it was meant to be a help so that the first tender bonds of love could be formed.
The “Father” made it easier for many of My children to see Me with different eyes, even though for the great majority of people I still remained something difficult to grasp. This was not changed by the fact that you were allowed to learn that I live within you; that My energy is in everything that exists anywhere at all. Nothing exists without Me and My sustaining love. A limited consciousness has, beyond this, reduced Me to a father-figure with a beard, which makes it doubly difficult to recognize in Me the life-principle that encompasses everything.
One reason for My incarnation, therefore, was that I could show Myself to you through a human being and be close to you through one who was completely permeated by Me and who, through his life and his complete surrender to Me, could serve you as an example. He did not merely teach love; he lived it — to the bitter death on the cross. As you would put it, he did not bring you theory alone; he also made you familiar, and this was and is the decisive thing, with the practice of how, through gradually overcoming your human weaknesses, you can develop the strengths that lie within you.
Yet despite all its uniqueness, this changes nothing about the fact that the human being who bore the name Jesus was human and remained human until his last breath. In Jesus I had created for Myself the possibility of showing My love and making My human children familiar with My love. In order to express the greatness of what the human being Jesus accomplished, people gave him the additional name “Christ” (2). And so the Spirit within him — My Spirit of love — became the Christ-Spirit.
For you human beings it was and is easier to orient yourselves toward something “tangible,” which in this case means: to see God more readily in Jesus or Jesus Christ than you can in an invisible power, even though that power is of eternal presence and infinite strength and love.
Decisive for the development of your souls, which for many of you was the reason for your incarnation, is therefore that you recognize and use the many possibilities your earthly life offers you. First and foremost this includes putting into practice, with sincere effort, what Jesus taught. Many believe that what is decisive is to believe. But here you can very easily go astray or end in a dead end without noticing it; for believing does not automatically mean living what one believes.
Faith is the prerequisite for being able to decide for something at all. The action then required afterward will be much easier for you if you build an inward relationship with the One you follow. In other words, if you do not act out of a misunderstood “I must,” but because you feel a need to come ever closer to the One whose love has touched you. In this case, Jesus. Here inner feeling is exceedingly important, much more important than anything read or any knowledge.
What do you associate with Jesus when you think of him? When you say his name? When you read or hear about him?
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Try for once to connect Jesus with a few terms that come to you quite spontaneously. Then think about them, perhaps deepen your reflections, and call them to mind as often as you remember to do so, so that they become anchored within you and in this way repeatedly enter your consciousness. They then act like reminders that accompany you and often even help you “at the right moment.”
I want to give you a few examples, but they are meant to be no more than inspiration, because at your own discretion you should find what fits you and your relationship with Jesus.
Jesus or Jesus Christ = friend, example, God, and goal.
As friend: You will find no better one! Yet “friend” does not remotely express what He is for you. Even a human friendship, a deep one based on mutual trust, is “priceless.” How much more will it be a friendship in which He, as your divine brother, extends His hand to you. He accepts you as you are, unconditionally! Such a love cannot be found among human beings. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that can impair His friendship in any way, no matter what you do. You can come to Him at any time. There is no delay. You can lay before Him everything that troubles you, that you do not understand, that worries you. He will never turn away from you but, on the contrary — even if you do not immediately feel it — will enfold you in His mantle of light and love.
As example: He is the One who, to the bitter end, lived what He taught you. Much of it was new for the people of that time and difficult or impossible to comprehend, and so it has remained to this day. Just think of the fact that He told you to love your enemies. At first this runs contrary to the usual reaction you practice toward an attack, toward something evil, toward anything negative that comes at you. Not to strike back, not even in thoughts and inner feelings, because in doing so you set new wrongdoing in motion; through conduct that corresponds to My commandments, perhaps even to move your neighbor to reflect on his own actions. But it was not only that. The whole spectrum of human life together is governed by His teaching of love: helping your neighbor, exercising patience, acting selflessly, having understanding, forgiving, comforting, putting your own needs aside, and much more. And of course building an intimate relationship with Me and living it as well, so that no room remains for selfish plans and habits.
As God: At His bodily death the same thing happened that takes place with every human being whose earthly time has ended: the Spirit within the human being leaves him again. This Spirit was and is Me! The mission of bringing human beings liberation from the bonds of evil had been successfully completed. Redemption had taken place, for at His death on the cross an additional energy from My love flowed into every human being and every soul — wherever it was in realms extending from the lower astral worlds to the high planes of light already very near heaven — an energy you call the “Christ spark.” Since then this light has burned in everyone. At the same time the heavens, which until that moment had been closed, opened. The power of darkness was broken; the way home was free again for all who were willing! This became possible because the human being Jesus had surrendered Himself unconditionally to Me, and in this way I could set through Him a sign that love cannot be defeated.
As goal: If your heart already beats for Jesus, you will also have the desire one day to meet Him. There are many people to whom He has shown Himself during their earthly lives (3). But this cannot be compared with an encounter that takes place on an entirely different level, namely in heaven. All human beings and all souls in the subtle worlds have their original home with Me, which will also one day be their future, eternal home. According to the law that like attracts like, it cannot fail to happen that with increasing development your spiritual body draws ever nearer to the high vibration of the heavens. Your true nature then emerges more and more until the time comes when I can once again embrace you. The joy you will feel cannot be described in words and surpasses even the most imaginative ideas. Never lose sight of this goal, and be aware that it was Jesus who awakened the longing for it within you, showed the way, and at the same time created the possibility that this desire will become reality.
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These, My beloved, are, as I said, only suggestions. Choose terms that fit your understanding, your ideas, and your experiences with Jesus. The point is that you do it. The more often you internalize this, the closer and more familiar your brother Jesus Christ will become to you. And the more the desire will grow within you to live still more intimately with him — with Me. Be certain that I will fulfill this desire for you.
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When you look at life around you, you can readily see that everything is continually subject to change. The human being is not excluded from this, or more precisely his soul, which should use its incarnation as an opportunity to mature so that, when it leaves the body again, it has attained an expanded consciousness.
Darkness naturally knows this too. Therefore it too is interested in influencing your development. It does so in a way far superior to your “normal” thinking; and for this reason constant attention on your part is needed in order to recognize its tricks and traps and counteract them. But that alone is not enough. A power is also needed that is superior to satanic power. This power is love. It came into the world in Jesus and waits only for the human being to make use of it.
Your problem is that much in your life has become such a strong habit that the human self resists wanting or being expected to change something. These are the blockages that the opposing side repeatedly reinforces; for a change in the direction of love, as Jesus taught and lived it, means for them that they lose more and more of their “little sheep.”
Therefore, whatever comes to mind when you think of Jesus, always and in every case add that He is the power that changes you — if you want it. This power, eternal and indescribable love, is so close to you that only a deep inner feeling is needed and the connection is already established. With it you stand against the whisperings and temptations of darkness. In this way you “work” with the Redeemer spark that flowed to you and is located near your heart. It could not be more immediate. You will not find Me in a house of stone.
It depends only on whether you develop this relationship or not. If you decide to do so, something will happen within you in that same moment, even if you do not notice it immediately. The power of love will change you step by step, and the Jesus who perhaps until now was not known and familiar to you in this way will become your true friend, a constant presence in your daily life. Once you consciously perceive His brotherly love and selfless help more and more often, you will no longer want to be without it.
This is what I desire for all My children. And it is already certain that this desire will become reality, because I do not lose what I once created. My life in Jesus was and is the guarantee that it will happen in this way.
Amen
(1) Jesus (Greek Ἰησοῦς Iēsous) is the Greek form of the Hebrew-Aramaic given name Yeshua or Yeshu, both shortened forms of Jehoshua, a common name at that time.
(2) Jesus Christ (Latinized from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς Χριστός Iēsous Christos [iɛːˈsuːs kʰriːsˈtos]) means “Jesus, the Anointed One.” In the writings of the Tanakh, anointing with oil is described as divine commissioning for a special service; in particular, Jerusalem kings and the high priests and priests of the Jerusalem Temple were anointed … In the New Testament, “the Anointed One” (Greek ὁ Χριστός ho Christos) designates Jesus of Nazareth as the risen Messiah of the end times. (Wikipedia)
(3) Paperback “They Experienced Christ.” Reports from a study by the Institute for the Sociology of Religion, Stockholm — January 1, 2002