Divine Revelation
My sons and daughters, at the center of the word I address to you today I place the term “lack of love.” One or another among you may be a little surprised by this. “Certainly,” I hear you say, “a glance at the world shows lack of love at every turn and in every conceivable form, from hatred to violence, from contempt to abuse of power, from oppression to ruthlessness with all its selfish facets. But surely none of that is part of my thinking and acting.”
Perhaps, My beloved children, the words “lack of love” need to be looked at a little more closely, with a little more attention to the finer details, in order to recognize that lack of love has spread like a finely spun net over everything that happens in your world, that it is therefore scarcely noticed, and that no one is free from becoming entangled in its net again and again.
Let us look back at an event lying so far in the past that only those know of it who recognize as truth My word of revelation given through all ages: the Fall, also called the fall of the angels. Because of prevailing ignorance, the background of the events of creation, the formation of matter, human life, and the soul’s evolution connected with it is not understood. And humanity faces the increasing confusion of your time questioning, helpless, resigned, losing faith or despairing, often enough also indifferent because it sees no way out and at the same time is distracted and numbed in soul by all manner of loud, colorful, shrill, and superficial things.
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I am love, and I am the law! From this conclude that My law is love. Creation is built upon love, love governs creation, and love animates and preserves My creation for all eternity. Everything is in Me and from Me. I am! Whoever can grasp it, let him grasp it.
Because I have omnipotence and am wisdom, I have structured My creation—which is also your creation because you are My children who share in everything—in such a way that it cannot be destroyed. This is ensured by the law of cause and effect, which arose through the Fall and causes every violation of the all-embracing commandment of love to turn against the one who caused it. This in turn means that “sooner or later”—to use a term from your temporal dimension—every seed sown against love falls back as harvest upon the one who sowed it.
The first negative seed was sown by an angel who later called himself Lucifer, who would not acknowledge that I alone am the Creator, who wanted to be like Me, and who carried envy and accusations in his heart even though he—like all My children—had been created from My pure love. The free will given to every creature made such an inner attitude possible despite a life in indescribable glory and freedom.
The heavens are the purest energy of love, consciousness of the highest vibration, from which everything is, to which everything will return, and in which one day everything will live forever. Nothing negative can remain in this fullness of light; therefore the “Fall” was inevitable. That is, the law of repulsion came into effect, realms outside the heavens were formed, and at the lowest point of the Fall matter arose, which is nothing other than energy of love transformed and condensed through the fall of the angels. This event extended over “periods of time” that you cannot comprehend.
For all those who allowed themselves to be seduced and were thereby involved in the Fall, leaving their eternal home proved to be a one-way road that led in only one direction—ever farther downward. Their own lack of love toward the source of their eternal life—namely their refusal to acknowledge it as their origin and as the preserver of their existence, and instead opposing it—increased their distance from Me more and more. Eventually the one-way road also proved to be a dead end. Through continuing to act contrary to love, their distance from Me, their Creator, had become so great that the fallen beings were no longer able by their own strength to initiate a turning back. Moreover, a wall of light had formed around the heavens through which only those can re-enter eternal consciousness who carry heaven within themselves—that is, the love they have once again become through their own free decision.
I am love. Therefore, in order to bring the fallen back to Me, I formed the plan of setting My opposite pole against their lack of love: love that forgives everything, is unconditional and selfless. About two thousand years ago I incarnated in the man Jesus of Nazareth. My incarnation had been long and well prepared, and it took place within My existing laws. If I had had to change My laws for this act of My love in order to become human Myself—as many of My faithful ones from the eternal home also did and still do—then those laws would not be unchangeable, equally valid for all, and unrestrictedly just.
I brought Myself forth in the boy Jesus—an event whose true background you misunderstand and celebrate very superficially as Christmas, with all its excesses and aberrations. As a human being in matter, Jesus was subject to the same conditions as every other person. He had to struggle with his ego just as you do; yet after many temptations and struggles within the human being, he carried out unconditional surrender to Me. Had it been otherwise, he could not have served as an example, because people in their inner weakness would not have followed him, saying: What you accomplish as God or the Son of God is easy for you. It is not possible for us as weak human beings.
I brought love into this world—in and through the man Jesus. I taught it, and I lived it before you. Darkness believed that after I had, during My years of teaching, placed in human hearts the seed for a beginning transformation, and that seed was bearing its first fruits, it could stop My mission by killing the man Jesus. Its severely restricted consciousness and the narrowest view of things resulting from it made it impossible for darkness to recognize that the redemption of My children, and thus their return, could not be prevented by My death on the cross but was instead set in motion through it.
Love had triumphed. Against all resistance it had proved that it is the strongest force, that it embodies a power unequalled by anything. The gates into the heavens were again wide open, and the way back was again possible for every willing soul. Did that bring the opposing forces to insight? Not at all. They now did everything they could to make walking the way home as difficult as possible. If they could not prevent people and souls from setting out on the way home, they at least wanted to try everything to make that path as unattractive and arduous as possible, so as to keep those who allowed themselves to be influenced within their sphere of power for as long as possible and use them as suppliers of energy.
To achieve this goal, every means was and is acceptable to the dark beings.
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When you say that I redeemed humanity, this is indeed correct, but for the great majority “redemption” remains so abstract that they never get beyond hearing the word. They are far removed from real understanding and therefore also from recognizing that they must bring about a change in their lives—above all within themselves—if their being redeemed is to bear fruit in them.
First: Redemption concerned not only humanity but all beings in the realms between heaven and earth, all souls, whether they dwelt in the deepest astral worlds or already in bright regions. For I bring all My children back, without exception—including the originator of the Fall and his followers.
Through redemption the downward one-way road and dead end became a “circular road”; that is, the previously blocked end of the road opened and its direction was corrected. Every being that left the heavens—for whatever reason—is now on the way home.
Let these words sink deeply into you! Everyone is on the path that leads him to the goal! There is no falling back anymore, no eternal night, no hopelessness, and no helplessness. Wherever you may be on your path, it ends in the light.
That is one piece of good news. The other, no less good but sobering for many because they learned something different and never thought about the how of their return, is this:
My law, which brings you back into My arms, is very simple and can be fulfilled by anyone of good will. But My redemption did not create an automatic mechanism. The heavens were opened and a return became possible again, but belief in Me and membership in a church alone are not sufficient prerequisites for entering My glory after so-called death. There is only one key that gives you access to your eternal home: the honest and serious endeavor to practice in your everyday life the love I lived before you as Jesus of Nazareth—with My help, which always and with infinite patience stands by your side. In this way, step by step, you again approach the true being that you really are, still unrecognized and unopened within you, waiting only to be able finally to unfold again.
Deciding to live love means at the same time rejecting everything opposed to love: a no to lack of love, the dark sister of love, which knows so well how to dress itself in the garments of what is right, important, necessary, and meaningful. Darkness too knows that love prepares the way to My heart. It fears that people will come to their senses and pause in what they are doing; it worries that it will lose more and more of its followers—who often do not even know that they are bound to negative forces—and that its sphere of power will thereby be weakened. So it does everything it can to prevent inner awakening, and does so with an extremely finely woven skill that does not even let you notice that you are stagnating.
Or are not many of you of the opinion that it will already be enough to do nothing evil, to belong to the right community, to observe its regulations, and to maintain traditional rites and customs in order thereby to secure later admission to heaven?
My beloved sons and daughters, no idea about the way into paradise could be more mistaken! For it is not a matter of refraining from evil; it is a matter of doing good.
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Lack of love has infinitely many faces. When it shows itself in its ugliest form as hatred, violence, and war, it at the same time distracts you from the fact that it contains far more. Lack of love gives birth to all faults and weaknesses!
Because most of My human children are kept by the barriers of their conscience from practicing the worst excesses of lovelessness toward their neighbor and toward themselves, they scarcely consider that there is another form of lack of love that repeatedly creeps into their lives and daily routines. Compared with hatred, violence, and war it is the smaller variant, but it is extremely effective. Darkness achieves great success with it because in this way it can reach the majority of people. They also fail to notice that they are thereby acting contrary to My commandment of love, although outwardly they seem to be doing nothing terrible.
But this is the intention behind the seduction: people “stand still”; continuous development of the soul does not take place. For My teaching, which I brought as Jesus of Nazareth, was and remains for all eternity: love! It does not say: This or that is subject to My prohibition. What is contrary to My law follows of itself: Everything that is not borne by love for Me, for your neighbor, and for yourself is opposed to it.
If you follow My words, and if you have the willingness and courage to look at your everyday life from this perspective, then consider where—almost always unintentionally and unnoticed—lack of love has crept in. You will be surprised by what you discover. Above all they are habits, well-worn programs you maintain, that repeatedly cause you to act too quickly and often without reflection or to omit something that is necessary.
I do not need to tell you in detail everything that belongs here. You know it yourselves, or at least you will discover it if your inner examination is honest. But this much as help:
Do you truly listen to what your neighbor wants to tell you? Do you take time to be there for him when you recognize his loneliness and need for help? Where appropriate, do you give a smile joined with sincerity that comes from your heart? Or do your thoughts circle more around yourselves and around what you consider important? Does your plan for life include the thought of passing on in the right way what you have experienced, what you have resolved with Me, and the good experiences you have had with Me? Do you recognize as early as possible the negative thoughts that arise within you—and can you correct them—when you meet someone who does not fit your ideas at all? Are you already able to bless those who are not well disposed toward you and send them inner feelings of love from your heart?
Do you still react brusquely and impatiently when someone annoys or disturbs you? Do you still have to control yourselves constantly so that negative things do not rise up—a sure sign that they still have a place in your soul—or have you already worked to overcome this weakness so that control is only rarely necessary? Do you also take time to think of those in the beyond who have gone before you and need your love, and to pray for them? Do you plan time together with Me into your daily routine so that our bond becomes ever closer? Do you already love yourselves at least enough that you no longer have a poor opinion of yourselves and no longer demean or condemn yourselves? Do you respect your body as the vehicle of your soul by not allowing yourselves, as the spirit of the age expects, to be stressed by hurry and chaos?
The list of small or great lacks of love could be continued indefinitely. But because the “game” is called self-knowledge, I will leave it at that. Perhaps you are surprised by how much falls under the term lack of love even in this rather superficial examination. That would be a sign that I need to make you a little more sensitive—not to hold your small or great sins before your eyes, for that is not the way love proceeds, but to direct your attention more clearly to where you can improve something, if that is also your wish.
If this happens, the unintended and often unnoticed stagnation comes to an end. Then you begin to put the commandment of love into practice more intensely—not by refraining from evil, but by doing good! Recognize and grasp the difference.
Then you have also successfully thwarted a strategy of darkness. You have recognized its intention to hinder your spiritual development. In this way you become the sons and daughters of My love whom I desire. The steps you then practice with Me, contrary to old habit, may seem small; but truly, I tell you: they are decisive steps which, if you do not cease, will ultimately bring about a maturing of your soul that is still foreign to you. In the truest sense it is a “service to God” that you hold within yourselves with Me, and in it I am the One who bears you in love and helps you.
I spoke of the circular road on which everyone travels—and naturally you too, My son, and you, My daughter. This path leads you sooner or later into My arms. That is beyond question. But another question arises concerning the “sooner or later”:
How quickly you arrive again in luminous heights depends exclusively on you, on your decision and your actions. No human being and no soul can be lost, and there are no detours either, because what is often regarded as a detour is in reality a stretch of experience containing a learning task. But because you are a free child of My love, you also have the free choice whether to travel these paths, which can often be painful and oppressive, alone—that is, without Me—in their full length, or to take an easier and shorter path at My hand. I help you with your decision if you ask Me.
For this I came into the world: to proclaim My love and to give My love. In the hearts of those who recognize the truth in My words and who, out of love for Me, their neighbor, and themselves, take their next important steps, Christmas will come to be.
Amen