Divine Revelation
My beloved brothers and sisters, it is fitting that on the feast you celebrate as Christmas in remembrance of My birth as a human being, I reveal Myself from My love, which came into the world around 2,000 years ago as Jesus of Nazareth.
I do not want to disappoint those among you who have waited or hoped for a word from Me on the subject of “Christmas.” Yet perhaps I will remind you of Christmas and the events connected with it in a different way than you would prefer. For it was an event without precedent and one that will remain unique, whose necessity and dimension were recognized by only very few, if at all; and today it touches hearts less than ever, although it proclaims a love—My love—so great that no human being and no spiritual being will ever be able fully to grasp it.
The outward trappings that are now sold as Christmas, on the other hand, have taken on a worldly scale as never before. And this takes place on a level that appeals exclusively to your five senses and no longer reaches your inner being. My adversary and yours has seen to that, and he succeeded all the more easily because he did not stop at religious communities and their teachings; indeed, it was precisely there that he began with his falsifications, rightly assuming that in this way he could reach many trusting and quite willing people.
And because the great majority of you simply believe, accept, and repeat, without much reflection, what is taught there as My truth in different interpretations, the actual understanding of My birth—and above all of the necessity connected with it for your survival as a spiritual being—has sunk into the mist of beautiful words and songs.
If you need examples: “… the world was lost, Christ is born …” or “Divine Savior, head of Christendom, You give us back what Adam stole …”. And then the confession sung so quickly: “Born in Bethlehem for us is a little child; I have chosen Him, I want to be His own.”
There is nothing wrong with calling to mind, especially through songs in the days and weeks before the feast of My birth, that something special happened then. On the contrary: it is urgently necessary to go within and reflect much more often. For only in this way will you succeed, in the long run, in correctly assessing your personal situation and that of your world. And, if you wish, in changing something.
For that is what it ultimately is about: a change in a positive sense, step by step toward conduct that corresponds more and more to My commandment of love. If the necessity of such a change, which can take place only with My help, is not recognized, then all splendor remains mere tinsel, and everything remains what it is: something put on, sound and smoke.
One person or another will feel that My words are not exactly suited to a feast of love. My beloved, understandable as that is from a human point of view, nevertheless: I speak from love, and love also includes opening people’s eyes and enlightening them; if necessary, warning them too, because so much is deception that has assumed a scale never seen before.
Whoever attentively reads My revelations will in any case have recognized that I speak much more often than in the past about what is taking shape. And I do so without giving information about time and place, because that would only frighten you. But I want to remind you again and again: it is high time to change something.
Can you recognize My love in My continual effort to draw you closer to My heart?
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The endeavor of the forces of darkness—the opposing forces in which so many do not believe because they cannot imagine them—has been, ever since their exclusion from heaven, to found a realm of their own. When this did not succeed over a period beyond your ability to imagine, their goal became to destroy what existed, which would have affected everything outside heaven; thus also all souls who, for different reasons, no longer had their home in heaven. By “all souls” I mean My children whom I brought into life through My eternal love.
To prevent this, after appropriate preparation I decided to come to earth Myself in order to give human beings—and souls in the beyond—the energy needed for survival and for returning home. The satanic powers partly saw through this plan, which led them to the mistaken conclusion that by bringing about the death of the human being Jesus they could prevent His mission.
But that merely caused the outflow of My additional love-energy to take place already at My “death” on the cross. The attempt of My opponent and yours had failed. Heaven stood open again, and now everyone who possessed the necessary longing as well as the required energetic development as a soul could return to his eternal home.
But this return home did not and does not happen automatically through a human being joining a religious community and practicing what is regarded there as necessary for salvation. Nor was that the case with the first Christians. They were merely called the “followers of the Nazarene”; in the eyes of the Jews, therefore, they were unbelievers and members of a sect.
What they did, however, was gradually change their conduct by making the effort and in this way learning to incorporate My commandment of love into their daily lives. My teaching was and is so simple that it applied and still applies to all people, for it requires nothing other than: love—and nothing else.
I spoke of a necessary energetic development of the soul as a prerequisite for entering heaven, which had previously been left—often eons ago.
Throughout creation, the principle that like attracts like applies to living together and relating to one another. Conversely, this means that unlike repels unlike. At the same time, this law says that no prohibition on My part is needed to prevent an unwanted union; rather, the mere fact that like tends toward like guarantees that there can be no error in assignment or integration.
Perhaps it is now also understandable what it means that only the one who brings heaven with him, who carries it within himself—that is, who has opened it within himself through a corresponding life according to My commandment of love—can reenter heaven: as a human being on earth if the soul decides on an incarnation, and/or through further development, spiritual progress, in the subtle worlds of the beyond. To the extent this is possible there.
Consider the full implications of this statement!
Incidentally, when sometimes “heaven” is spoken of and at other times the plural “the heavens,” there is a reason. “Heaven” means the entirety of My pure creation, your eternal home. But that does not consist of just one single “space,” but of many “infinities,” something still unimaginable for you. These in turn correspond to My qualities and essential aspects, ranging from order, will, wisdom, seriousness, patience, and love to mercy. You too come from one of these dimensions—the one corresponding to the main emphasis of your nature—while at the same time every heavenly creature has also fully unfolded within itself the other characteristics.
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The key to understanding the satanic alteration of My teaching that took place in the many centuries after My earthly life lies in this: the opposing forces succeeded, first, in making people scarcely or not at all believe in the existence of evil and its constant and direct influence and threat, or often not even know about it; and second, in gradually reshaping My simple teaching in a way that therefore went unnoticed.
Through My incarnation I prevented the world from being lost, as you sing. And in doing so I secured the continued existence of My creation and preserved the eternal life of all My creatures. It was a unique act of unimaginably immense dimensions that began in Bethlehem and reached its completion on Golgotha.
If I, your God, your Father, your Creator, your eternal and infinite primal Source, had not taken this step out of love for everything I created, then you would not be here now … It is not to be expected that any human being will ever understand what happened then. But at least this much can still be recognized: what today is celebrated as the occasion of My birth does not even remotely do justice to what took place in the spiritual realm.
In this connection you also often use the term “redemption.” By this is meant that I redeemed you from the bonds that, as a consequence of the Fall, prevented reentry into heaven. You can reduce this to a simple statement: I unlocked heaven again—now comes the decisive point, which for many is not so easy to accept—but the prerequisites for being able to enter heaven again must first be created within yourselves.
Belonging to a religious community is no more one of these prerequisites than believing in Me. Belief can be necessary in order to take the far more important steps toward love. But love is what is decisive; for whoever loves—Me, his neighbor, and himself—also believes. Belief, by contrast, is no guarantee that love is lived in the way I taught you, or at least that this is sincerely sought.
Knowledge does not bring you closer to My heart either. Nor can you study Me in order to know Me more closely. Knowledge, to the extent it is necessary, opens itself to you through love lived out. Only then do you come to know Me, gradually and to precisely the degree corresponding to the development of your soul through your efforts.
Finally—and this is My desire—depending on the honesty of your striving and the purity of your love, I begin to stir within you in the form of ever stronger impulses. In this way a familiarity arises between us that makes you more and more secure. You walk firmly at My hand. Figuratively speaking, Christmas is then within you: I am born anew within you because you consciously experience Me.
My commandment is: love! It is not: Do nothing evil. But over the course of the many centuries a way of thinking and acting has crept in that has watered down My commandment. In many cases you are already satisfied simply to make it through your day and your life reasonably “well,” that is, without major faults and transgressions. People have denied you the necessity of looking at yourselves: Stay as you are! You are not really that bad!
My beloved brothers and sisters, the opponent’s aim was and remains to keep you at the level of development where you are; to give you knowledge, yes, but at the same time to prevent you from changing for the better.
But changes are necessary because no one can enter heaven who does not carry heaven within himself. Yet this is the secret desire of every soul: to find its way back to its true home. And this is precisely the desire the forces of darkness seek to sabotage, not by saying that I do not exist—that would be too simple and primitive—but by paving the way to My heart with outward things, commandments, prohibitions, and rites that I never taught or regarded as important. Much in and around Christmas is proof of this.
In this way too, often more effectively than through direct confrontation, My own can be hindered in the development of their souls.
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My revealed word is intended to help you recognize where you stand. Not to make you feel small—I love you in every case just as you are—but so that you become clear about what still needs to be developed on your way to Me. For merely refraining from evil is not yet the fulfillment of My commandment. Fulfilling it is something active.
In My eyes you are a radiant child of heaven who is presently struggling on earth with all kinds of weaknesses, fears, and worries. You are here to learn something, among other things this: not merely to share your weaknesses, fears, and worries with Me, but gradually to transform and dissolve them with My brotherly help.
That is work, that is movement, that is change. In every case it is something different from stagnation and the feeling that you cannot do anything differently from the way you did in the past. It is the opposite of: So let us leave things as they are …
For this process you need not only a clear yes; you also need a little patience—and above all you need strength. You need energy that was no longer available to human beings in sufficient measure because the satanic forces, from their perspective, had done “good work.” So I came and brought the necessary additional energy. With Christmas, with Bethlehem, this process began; with Easter, on Golgotha, it ended when at My “death” My Christ-spark descended into every heart as additional energy.
Since then this power has been waiting for the human being to make use of it.
If he does so, his consciousness gradually expands, which means that he begins to understand more and more. He no longer necessarily seeks answers to his questions from those who have “studied” Me; rather, they are found “almost by themselves,” often rising from within him. Sometimes, however, this requires courage on his part, and also personal responsibility, because answers arise that invalidate previous views but are logical through and through; logical not only to the intellect, but equally logical in the heart.
Whoever knows, for example, the principle that like attracts like can recognize much if he does not stop thinking too early because he is afraid that the answers presenting themselves might disturb or destroy his previous worldview.
The principle mentioned is based on My justice and, on the one hand, prevents something from coming to you that is actually intended for your neighbor; on the other hand, it ensures that nothing intended for you misses you. Among other things, it also answers the questions concerning life after so-called death. And from this in turn, if you think things through to the end, arise entirely new insights that also touch on the subject “reincarnation—yes or no,” which repeatedly leads to controversial debates among you.
Try to follow My line of thought logically:
Everything is energy, although in different forms, and energy cannot be destroyed but only transformed. Your body is also energy. On the one hand it consists of matter—which likewise is nothing other than energy—while on the other hand it houses the soul, invisible to the eye, which while the human being lives is connected to the body by the silver cord. The energetic state or vibration of the soul corresponds to the human being’s conduct during life. When the human body dies, the soul goes into the realm corresponding to its development, its radiation, for which the deceased alone is responsible. These can be realms from “the very bottom” to “the very top.” There it is among those of like mind. And there it remains for the time being. For how long?
This fact—the life that then results among those of its own kind—will not be much help for further development in the lower astral realms, but rather a place of working off burdens. It is different in the higher realms. There, because of its already more developed consciousness, the soul is more open to instruction. It recognizes its condition, sees the stretch of the path still before it, and has in principle the possibility of deciding on development among its own kind with the support of its spiritual teachers or—provided the desire and prerequisites are present—on another incarnation.
Whether this is possible depends on many factors, not least on whether it finds on earth the necessary pair of parents and also the circumstances that enable it to unfold and develop the qualities it has already acquired. An incarnation is generally considered when the prospect of faster development in matter than in the spiritual realms is possible and meaningful.
Every soul, whether presently incarnated or not, is fundamentally on the way home, whether it knows this or not. This can mean that the journey is experienced in the beyond as very long and lacking in variety because there is no concept of time and the souls are “among themselves.” Their maturation depends greatly on whether a soul recognizes its goal and how great its desire is to be able to take up its place in heaven again as soon as possible. It receives all the support it needs from its spiritual brothers and sisters who have been placed at its side as guides and helpers.
There is no compulsion where reincarnation is concerned. But the most varied reasons can be decisive for an earthly life; in the lower regions they tend to be more primitive and egoistic in nature, while in the bright realms of light it is a matter of learning more quickly on earth than is possible over there and, under certain circumstances, also of being a help to others.
And naturally every incarnation, even when the intention to learn and grow is present, carries the risk of “coming out of it worse” than one had imagined. But it also offers the chance to take a great and rapid step forward. The negative forces, which know your weak points and do everything they can to disturb you again and again and perhaps even bring you down, make sure this is not easy.
There are so many variants and different reasons for an incarnation that it is impossible to mention them all. What is important is this: the possibility exists. Whether and how it is used depends on many factors, not least on whether the earth—especially in the future—offers souls wishing to incarnate the possibility, to the desired degree, of spending a few decades in matter in accordance with their intentions.
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Everything in My creation is evolution. Everything is constantly in motion. Everything expands. Everything changes. You too are not excluded from this.
If you recognize the truth in My words, and if you are ready to want to change, then give Me your yes (1); not only once, but again and again. For situations will repeatedly arise in which you are challenged—and in which you need My help. You know that I am closer to you than your arms and legs. I dwell within you!
And when you sing again, “Born in Bethlehem for us is a little child; I have chosen Him, I want to be His own,” then these are not merely beautiful words, but the text expresses your sincere commitment to walk with Me on the way into your true, your eternal home.
Amen
(1) My Little Yes
For You, Lord, I wait with patience,
for heart and hand I owe to You,
and more than that: all that I am.
Whether in the noisy hours of day,
or at night when sleep has found me—
to You I raise my inner gaze.
In love I want to build on You,
in humility trust Your word,
which has guided me so wonderfully.
In deepest quiet may Your working
reshape my inner life for You,
as is fitting for children of God.
So my path lies in Your hands.
And should it one day end in light,
then it was You alone,
who carefully guided all my steps.
I, so lovingly blessed,
added only my little yes.
from the poetry collection “Trust the Quiet Sound of Your Heart” (Hans Dienstknecht)