Divine Revelation
My beloved sons and daughters, every caring father concerned for the well-being of his children will do everything to prepare them for the life ahead through guidance, help, admonitions, and words of enlightenment. Do you believe that I, your heavenly Father, act differently? And yet there are differences: On the one hand, what I have to say to My children is incomparably more extensive because it comes from My infinite wisdom and concerns not only their present earthly life but also their eternal spiritual existence; and on the other hand, I will never interfere in a child’s decision whether or not to take My words to heart.
This free will, which I have given to everyone, inevitably leads many—if they listen to Me and believe Me at all—to pass far too often and far too quickly over what My love wants to convey to them. Why this is so I have told you in many of My revelations: It is the constant influence of evil—which you can also call the negative force, the devil, the opposing side, darkness, the dark, the adversary, and much more—to which you are exposed from the beginning of your incarnation. It often makes it difficult or impossible for you to follow My words with the necessary deeds, unless you consciously say “yes” to Me and thereby, so to speak, “change levels.”
In combination with the great ignorance that was deliberately fostered through the suppression of My truths—and is being fostered even more strongly in your time—only very few are willing seriously to walk the path I marked out and lived before you as Jesus of Nazareth. Because of the restriction of their consciousness, many are often no longer capable of recognizing the machinations and backgrounds of what is happening in the world and counteracting them. And if it finally begins to dawn on them that something is no longer right, they often lack the courage and will to look more closely at the well-worn tracks of their habits and, if necessary, leave them by changing their thinking and actions.
They are also unable to see through the game because they have never pursued the questions: “Where do I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going?” Whoever neglects this will not find the right answers either. Membership in a church or religious community does not help, because the answers offered there do not satisfy a person who is truly searching. And esotericism as a substitute religion leads onto dangerous paths. Thus there is the danger that the human being becomes a plaything of dark forces that increasingly cloud his consciousness once they have found a point of access and thereby gained entry to him.
To achieve this, every means and method is acceptable to them. The situation into which the greater part of frightened humanity has been brought by the subject of a so-called pandemic, which by now dominates everything, could let you recognize the truth in My words.
Yet it would have been possible to mitigate what is now not merely becoming apparent but has already begun to appear. In your personal sphere of life this possibility still exists, and I will speak to you about it today. It will not prevent what is coming, but it will be a great help to those who trust Me and strive to follow Me; not least because their trust grows, which at the same time brings with it a lessening and finally a disappearance of the fears still present.
The foundation of their trust will be the knowledge that I make no mistakes; which means that everything that happens, on a large or small scale, unfolds within My law. And since My law is love, according to the principle prevailing throughout creation, “like attracts like,” it will take under its wings those who express this through their effort to live love; to live it seriously, and not according to ideas and regulations of human beings and institutions that, in the various religions with their countless branches, have invented outward forms in the shape of rites and customs in order to bind My children to themselves and thereby make them unfree.
I have spoken to you just as often about basic subjects—for example, that there is no death, but that your life continues in realms beyond immediately after laying aside your body—as I have about the fact of repeated earthly lives and the law of sowing and reaping. If you have not merely heard such and similar explanations with your outer ears, but have made them in your hearts a firm part of your thinking and living, then you also know that the priorities of a human life cannot be: acquiring knowledge that satisfies the intellect, accumulating material values, or relying on outward beauty, which can only flatter your ego for a time. All this and much more you will sooner or later have to leave behind.
So if you know about these things, you have surely also asked yourselves the question: “What do I take with me on my further path when I have to leave everything outward behind?”
Have you found the answer? An answer that satisfies you, lets you be without fear, and that you can take as a foundation for working more strongly than before toward your future life in the beyond? For giving it the necessary priority? Is your soul still, or already, so open that it has faced the questions “Where am I going?” and “In what way will this happen?” and accepted the only right answers? Have you recognized the consequences that honest answers bring with them, provided it is not a matter of indifference to you how things continue?
How would you, beloved child, assess the behavior of a person who knows about matters of life and death but gives no thought to what awaits him later? Does he not resemble a person about to move into a new house who does not concern himself with arranging his future home, but prefers to renovate the old one even though he knows he must soon move out?
Asking such questions has nothing to do with wanting in any way to restrict free will because the person might then become afraid or feel pressured to do something for which he is not yet ready. I never frighten or pressure! If something like that rises within someone, it is solely because he has not yet tied the bond of deep trust with Me closely enough.
Whoever has not merely accumulated knowledge but has striven to live with his insights knows the answer to the question of what remains when you leave your present place of residence called earth and move into your new home.
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Imagine a horizontal line as the boundary between the material world, your earth, and the subtle world, the beyond. Below the horizontal line run your earthly lives; above it run your stays in the realms you enter after laying aside your body. Your “life line,” put simply, resembles a sine curve, though not with regular repetitions above and below. As a rule, the sections below the horizontal are shorter. When leaving the human body that is no longer needed, the soul crosses the boundary line, enters the region above the horizontal, and remains there for a more or less long time, though it lacks a sense of how long the time lasts. Eventually, by a free decision, it can cross the boundary again in another incarnation and continue its life in matter “below the horizontal.” It then enters the “school of life” once more. Or, depending on its wish and degree of maturity, it can continue to develop in the beyond without having to take the path through matter again.
This answers the question asked before about what you take with you when you close your earthly eyes at the end of your days, remembering that “the last shirt has no pockets”: You take with you what you yourself have packed into your soul over the course of your earthly life! If it was good, beautiful, and selfless, you will encounter the happiness-giving harvest of your own sowing.
If it was nothing joyful, you will be unable to hold anyone else responsible, even if perhaps you try when, in the beyond, you become conscious of your situation and the reasons for it. You will have to recognize and eventually accept that you alone were the one who, through what you did or failed to do, shaped your soul and thereby determined your new home yourself; the one who beautified his “old home” up to the last breath instead of caring for the new one.
To many of you this may seem a hard or even merciless statement. But it arises from My justice and is founded in your free will, which you can use throughout a lifetime according to your own ideas and wishes. As Jesus of Nazareth I gave you, through My commandments, the guideline for shaping your future life in the beyond in light, harmony, and peace, and their essence is: love—and nothing else!
The soul, and this too I have often revealed to you, is the subtle body you carry within you. But it is not some neutral structure. You yourself live as a soul in non-material worlds in a non-material form before you decide to incarnate. Thus your soul is you yourself. It consists of energetic particles that are more or less burdened, which you can also call “shadows.” When all these shadows have once again been transformed and dissolved, the pure spirit being comes forth that is—still—enclosed within the soul and finally finds its way back to its true home, heaven. Then you are with Me again!
But before that point is reached, there will be a more or less frequent alternation between life on this side and life in the beyond, as described in the example of the sine curve.
Yet just as the body does not consist only of flesh and bones, the soul dwelling in the body during life does not consist only of particles of energy. Both carry life within them—life that I have continuously given to My creatures from and through all eternities—and consciousness.
Consciousness is individually shaped by the human being, by his behavior. During his life, therefore, the human being imprints his “style” upon his soul, and with it his nature, peculiarities, wishes, views, and much more—in sum, his character. What exists as an imprint in the soul in turn decisively determines the person’s behavior. It is like an interaction: What you put into your soul through your thinking and acting repeatedly prompts you to behave in the future as you did in the past. Therefore it can rightly be said that the past determines the future—if the human being does not change.
If it was something negative, you are caught in a “vicious circle” from which you can free yourself again only through a conscious decision. If that is your wish, then I, as the helping and healing power within you, am the One who helps you in your efforts.
If it was something positive, then you have done something good for your soul and your human self. Figuratively speaking, you have strengthened the credit side of your soul account. The result is that impulses and promptings repeatedly come from the depths of your soul that make it easier for you to continue along the path of love toward your neighbor and toward yourself that you have begun.
Consciousness is something very real, even though it cannot be seen or touched; but in its magnitude, its restriction or spaciousness, it can be recognized by what it brings about in the human being and expresses through him. It is something energetic—and energy cannot be destroyed! This means that a person’s consciousness cannot “die.” Since it is at the same time a component of the soul, and the soul continues to live, consciousness continues to live as well. The soul is therefore not “unconscious” in the beyond; its perception can, however, be very strongly restricted.
In an incarnation you do not, My son, My daughter, come into the world with your soul body fresh and untouched like a rose. You bring with you the imprints you carry within from one or more previous lives, provided you were unable, or unable to make sufficient use of opportunities for further development in the beyond, to work on your development. If your incarnation is motivated by the desire to learn something in the earthly school of life, that is a good basis for success.
The law of attraction ensures that you are born into precisely the circumstances that promise the best progress. These in turn have to do with the aspects of your capacity for love that you still need to acquire; and these arise from your past, which—and here the circle closes—acts into the life ahead of you and presents you with the tasks you either set yourselves or that are presented to you by the law of cause and effect.
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When in earlier revelations I trained you in the logic of the heart, I also repeatedly reminded you how valuable it can be to know about the way darkness proceeds, or at least to estimate where and in what form its influences can be exerted. That it tries to seduce the human being and thereby harm his soul is surely beyond question even for those who have not yet dealt intensively with this subject. For a burdened soul with restricted consciousness will not be able to go immediately into bright realms after the death of the human being. The opposing side has enough possibilities for its unnoticed attacks, and it sets traps in abundance. It is a master of camouflage and deception and will always be superior to you when you are not vigilant enough and do not remain by My hand.
The dark forces must therefore be concerned with restricting human consciousness, and restricting it again and again. For consciousness is the pivotal point for them if their influence is to be successful. An example will make clear to you how important this interface is.
Each of you has surely tried at some time to move another person to make a change in this or that point. If your “powers of persuasion” were successful and a step was actually taken in the recommended direction, the result was not infrequently only moderate success or even a relapse into old habits. Often you then shook your head and showed little understanding, or none at all, if your good advice was not even listened to calmly or was rejected.
Now apply this example to yourselves. How do you react when something is advised or prescribed to you that you do not truly agree with in your heart? It may be that you do what is required of you, but then it lacks the stable foundation for lasting success, for a change that endures.
Or take the disputes of two peoples whose quarrels flare up again and again—even over centuries—although outward efforts are made to silence the weapons. Why does what appears sensible or necessary outwardly not work? The answer is not so difficult to find: because there was no prior change in consciousness! Because what still lies within the soul of the person or people repeatedly presses upward and outward and causes an old, false, faulty way of acting and refraining from action, sometimes not even consciously intended! It is behavior that is “familiar” to the person, with which he may have lived for a long time, and changing it would mean inner work. Therefore everything remains as it was, and outward changes remain without lasting result. On the large scale and the small, in world events and in the personal sphere.
Are you helpless and powerless in the face of these mechanisms? You are not, at least not where you yourselves are concerned. Yet a prayer or request alone that something be taken from you or something given to you will not bring what you hope for. For change means not only receiving or doing something new, but always also letting go of the old and no longer practicing it.
At this point too My opponent and yours is not inactive: He works with your fears of having to leave this or that behind to which you have become so accustomed in the past. He reinforces in you the aversion to practicing and applying behavior that is still unfamiliar to you; behavior that perhaps requires reaching out to your opponents, a more tolerant attitude than before, dissolving habits of life that make you ill inwardly or outwardly, rethinking certain points, or giving up actions that are burdensome but nevertheless repeatedly carried out, and much, much more.
All of these are specious arguments; but if he catches you at the right point, if he presses the right buttons responsible for maintaining your interests, then it is not difficult for him to prevent a change in consciousness in many of you. He also does this by constantly creating new incentives to serve your interests and wishes, which often still lie hidden in your soul.
But because changes must take place in your consciousness if you want to progress on the path to Me, the question arises: How is this possible? How can something in your soul be transformed that lets it become brighter, more spacious, more open, and more joyful?
Neither you yourselves, nor any human being, nor even a diabolical seducer can act directly upon your soul. That is the good news. The less good news is that indirectly it is certainly possible, by allowing yourselves to be influenced into acting against the commandment of love of God and neighbor.
The best news, however, is:
One, the only One in all creation, can directly bring about something in your soul—and that is I, who came into the world in Jesus Christ! For I and no other live within you. From Me you receive your strength to live. Since Golgotha you carry in your heart the “Christ spark,” which I placed as an additional energy into every human being and every soul. Make use of it. Work with it. Allow it to make a new human being out of you. There is no power equal to Mine. Only this: In order to become fully effective, My power of love within you must wait for you to come of your own free will to it—to Me. When that happens, miracles will enter your life.
Very many of My human children carry within them the wish to live more closely and intimately with Me. Among them are the countless spirit beings incarnated in your time in order to serve, to help, which also contributes to their own development. They all sense the necessity of direct guidance by Me, love. They also know that they can master the tasks ahead of them only if they are full of trust and look toward the future without fear.
If you entrust to Me the stretch of your earthly life that still lies ahead, this may mean something different from what your unconscious or conscious fears perhaps whisper to you.
For I take nothing from you that you do not give Me of your own free will. Instead I will guide your steps thoughtfully and help you, step by step—indeed in tiny steps if necessary—to leave behind what you yourself have recognized in yourself as not belonging to a child of God. I help you toward self-knowledge, while the decision whether you want to eliminate something or not is left to you. I am then for you like a guide who leads you safely through dangerous territory, always concerned to smooth your paths in keeping with your possibilities. I will make your heart lighter and give you more inner calm, and you will be able to feel My nearness and love ever more clearly.
What I need for this is your yes, and indeed a yes that—as well as you are already able—is founded on love for Me. Beyond that I need your trust and your good will to remain by My hand even when the headwind becomes a little rougher. This cannot be avoided, because together with Me you are changing your consciousness, something that will not please certain “dark fellows” who, despite everything, are and remain your brothers and sisters. But trust: You have the strongest power in the universe within you and at your side!
So if you consciously want to choose Me as your companion, friend, and helper, then tell Me this in a quiet hour. You can do so in your own words. But you can also firmly anchor the following lines within yourself and call them repeatedly into your consciousness:
My goal is to live as You taught and lived as Jesus.
I strive for this, and I know that You help me with it.
The decisive thing is that you mean it honestly. If you wish, also place before Me one or another weakness of character. Or let your heart rejoice at the confidence and joy that will enter you. Or simply tell Me that you love Me and long for Me. Give Me your feelings; there may also be a few tears. Everything is possible, everything is allowed, everything is good. For I am closer to you than your arms and legs and have known and loved you for eternities.
Amen