Divine Revelation
My beloved sons and daughters, My consciousness is infinite! I am one and all! I am without beginning or end! Everything that is, is from Me! Everything is in Me! I want My creatures to share in what I am. Therefore I endowed them with a consciousness that is not equal to Mine—for no creature can be greater than the One who created it—but I placed within every creature, and thus also within you, you, and you, an incomprehensible measure of power, radiance, wisdom, and above all love. Every being that has left the heavens—whether because of the Fall or by its own decision in order to help in bringing the souls back—will gradually open up again the fullness placed within it.
In this development I, who live within you, am figuratively speaking “at your side.” I have infinitely many possibilities for guiding you, speaking to you inwardly through thoughts and impulses, or even directly through My word, which has already broken forth in quite a few. But since time immemorial I have also spoken through sons and daughters who voluntarily undertook the task of giving My word. They are no more and no less, no greater or smaller than all the others. They are not immune to attacks and temptations, and they struggle with themselves just as everyone else does.
Whether I speak to you indirectly or directly—that is, from “outside” or from “within”—I always adapt My word to the consciousness of My child and the possibilities that follow from it. I overburden no one; I do not merely practice patience, I am patience. Therefore I know what each individual needs, but also what that part of My receptive children needs whom I reach with My word of revelation.
From My infinite consciousness I therefore always let flow as much wisdom, in the form of guidance and enlightenment, as is appropriate to the state of inner development. It would help no one if I poured out My cornucopia over you with insights into the events of My creation that you cannot yet classify and understand. The same applies to teachings and requests you are not yet able to put into practice. And I have told you several times in My revelations that I do not give you knowledge merely to be stored in your brain cells—which often leads to the temptation to shine before others with it.
My help consists in placing in your hands the tool that enables you to recognize yourselves. Beyond that, as the love-life-power that I am within every human being, I am also your support if you are willing to walk with Me the path of the soul’s development that has been shown to you.
Human consciousness is limited; this applies to everyone, naturally also to those who receive My word and reproduce it, for they are not robots to whom I dictate what I want to say. Therefore I am “restrained,” as you would put it. I overburden no one, which may cause dissatisfaction among those who hope for constantly expanded information in My revelations. To conclude from the absence of ever-new wisdom that everything has been said would be a great error. I will never cease speaking to My creatures!
There is infinitely much still to say; and yet, measured against the little and false knowledge that prevailed and still prevails over the last two thousand years, a great deal of enlightenment is already in the world. It has been given from the heavens to make the meaning and purpose of your earthly life understandable to you and to let your longing grow to come closer to Me again.
With several foundational revelations of recent months and years I have laid a foundation*) that enables everyone to see and hear who is willing to open his eyes and ears—and his heart! I desire My children to use this foundation to anchor themselves ever more firmly in Me; to shape their day with Me by putting into practice what they already know; to endeavor to recognize themselves ever better and come to Me with what they have recognized so that I can help them in their effort toward new behavior; and above all not to wait for Me continually to open a new drawer containing previously unknown thoughts and knowledge that satisfy only their intellect but do not serve the growth of their soul and the transformation of their character.
New realizations, deeper insights, and greater understanding arise primarily because your consciousness expands through your effort to live love. The new, greater, broader thing then arises within you as a consequence of putting My words into practice, not by reading texts however extensive and interesting—unless this serves as refreshment and reminder. But if it replaces inner work, such activity is useless.
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From the standpoint of what I have just said—namely, returning from time to time to various aspects and deepening them—I want to give you insights today into the way the opposing forces proceed when they seek to bind people, hinder their further development, or even pull them down. I return again and again to the invisible activity of darkness because virtually nothing is known about it in your world, and because precisely this ignorance makes it so easy for the negative forces to approach people, capture them, and hold them.
Because I am a just God, all beings have received free will. All may use their will to attain something according to their wish and desire. Whether they succeed depends, on the one hand, on how strong their effort and power are and, on the other, on how honest or dishonest the means are that they use. Darkness does not use honest means, because otherwise it would immediately be recognized as the dark force. Accordingly it is allowed to deceive, lie, cheat, and make false promises—and it does so. Children of the light do no such thing; they work with the weapons of honesty, sincerity, truth, and love.
Are they therefore at a disadvantage, in a weaker position that promises no success? By no means, for they carry within themselves the ability to see through the machinations of evil. Insofar as they have developed this ability, their inner senses sharpen, their vigilance increases, their attention can no longer be clouded so easily, and their sense of whether something is right or wrong becomes finer. And even when it is not immediately clear what is wrong in a situation, an uneasy feeling makes them cautious. Once they recognize the danger, they set their decision and conduct against it and thus allow the attempts to ensnare them and entice them into what is contrary to love to come to nothing.
In this way they weaken the adversary’s possibilities of influence and strengthen their own soul-forces. Seen from a higher perspective, this is the principle of bringing all back: the side of light becomes stronger and stronger through a life in My Spirit, in the spirit of love; the side of darkness thereby becomes poorer and poorer in energy and, because it cannot do otherwise, sooner or later comes to insight and turning back. At the end stands the reintegration of all that has fallen and a celebration of rejoicing such as the heavens have never experienced.
But it has not yet come that far. Darkness still continues its struggle, although some of its leaders already sense that their position is becoming ever weaker and their chances of emerging victorious from this gigantic confrontation spanning aeons are dwindling more and more. Not a few of their leaders have begun to reflect and are looking for ways out of their miserable, pitiable situation. When they are ready, I will show them the ways out of their darkness, and I will help them free themselves from their fetters.
But the still enormous army of those unwilling to see continues to fight. They do not fight Me directly, because they have recognized that they do not possess the necessary power. Since My act of redemption on Golgotha, through which I reopened the heavens, they also know that they cannot prevent the return of those who decide to return. They also had to give up their original goal of building a creation of their own, just as they had to give up the attempt to destroy My creation by dissolving it.
So they do not fight directly against Me; they fight against you. What they have not given up is defending their position and expanding it wherever they encounter people whom they can use as their vassals. Every action contrary to love releases negative energy generated by the one who acts against the commandment of love. This energy is taken from him and seized by the forces that incited him to the negative. Thus they repeatedly replenish their stores of energy, because life without this energy supplied by human beings resembles mere vegetating, from which they try to escape. But they do not do so through turning back and turning toward Me, their Creator, source of life, and Father, but through influencing people. My life-force, which I continue to give them—for they are and remain My children—burns within them only as a minimal spark. This force is indeed enough as an igniting spark to kindle the greater fire of seeking answers to rising questions and later the fire of their longing. But this force is not available to them for what, in their unwillingness to see and in disregard of My laws, they want and do. And so they go searching …
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Whether they find what they seek depends on you, on each individual. If you recognize the influence and the intention behind it and set a “no” against them, then they must withdraw without accomplishing anything, especially when your no is strengthened by Me and through Me. And it always will be when you ask Me. But they will try again because they still discover corresponding weak points in you and you are not attentive enough to notice the attack in time. Discovering weak points in people is no problem for all who observe you from the subtle realm. They read you like an open book. Your radiation, your aura, the vibration of your soul reveal you.
But they approach you even when they know of the strength you have already developed. From their point of view, an attempt is always worthwhile. Therefore be vigilant. As a reminder: they tempted Me too when I was incarnated as Jesus of Nazareth. So they will stop before neither you nor anyone else. This is, if you will, the second, less pleasant side of the coin called “free will.”
I know that many of you wish I would “simply” put an end to darkness. But My law, which contains justice, does not allow this. Instead it gives everyone who recognizes himself as a child of My love and wishes to mature in soul the considerable opportunity, through confrontation with the opposing forces, to gain wisdom, understanding, inner strength, and ultimately a greater capacity for love. That would not be possible if I kept these forces “at a distance” or “chained them up,” leaving them no possibility of measuring themselves against the light.
This does not mean that I do not strengthen and protect those who come to Me asking for help. No one will be exposed to trials beyond his strength, provided he turns to Me. If this nevertheless seems to be the case from time to time, it is only because the background is unknown to you; then something from the person’s near or distant past is acting upon him. It can and should serve to initiate a rethinking and a turning back. The strengthening and the example of those who withstand a trial also offer the tempters an opportunity to reflect on their futile effort and useless action. Whether they do so is subject to their free decision.
Two of the sharpest weapons available to the opposing side are seduction and fear. They are often used at the same time, which promises the best result, especially since they influence one another reciprocally:
Seduction not only weakens you in your soul and sooner or later burdens your conscience; it also carries with it the fear that what you allowed yourselves to be seduced into will become known. This in turn leads you to behave unlawfully again in order to prevent it from becoming apparent. The cycle begins to take on a life of its own. A small seduction that seemed harmless to give in to increasingly assumes the form of a large boulder. A new seduction meets little resistance, especially when it is cleverly packaged and does not even present itself as a great temptation. It is enough for the negative forces to prevent your spiritual development. Only so that you do not misunderstand Me: I do not mean the small weaknesses you give in to because you still want to experience or enjoy this or that, or because it still gives you pleasure. But even here mindfulness is required, because not infrequently an attempt is made to widen a small crack in the door in order to gain entry.
Fear has always been the means by which people are bound and kept small. It is excellently suited to manipulation and domination. Is not fear of so-called death so widespread and so deeply fixed in most of My children—especially among those who call themselves Christians—that they are unable to look joyfully toward their future life? At the same time the instrument of fear has been refined so much that the majority of people do not recognize when the club of fear is being swung. The behavior resulting from it appears normal to them in many cases. But it is precisely this unconscious behavior that binds them to darkness and robs them of energy. And they do not notice it. This fear slumbering in the subconscious is used to seduce people who live without reflection into superficialities, distractions, and amusements, in order to cover over the state of uncertainty and helplessness—which they would vehemently deny if someone pointed it out to them. The result: the cycle begins to take on a life of its own. The human being resembles a hamster running in its wheel without knowing a way out.
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I will never frighten you! Whoever feels that My words awaken fear within him does not know Me. But it could be an indication for him to look a little deeper into his inner feelings.
What follows should not frighten you either, but rather spur you on to greater vigilance and perhaps to deal more critically than before with some things that come to you or are offered to you: evil avoids everything that could contribute to betraying it, that is, to showing its true face. Therefore you cannot assume that beautiful packaging also contains something beautiful. If you want to protect yourselves from this, remember that there is one—only one—way to look deeper than before, and it is not learned by studying various writings, through discussions, or by accumulating knowledge. It arises and develops within you “by itself” when you endeavor to walk the path I walked before you: the path of love!
Then you will see behind the masks of the seducer. Again speaking figuratively, behind the bright colors and makeup you will recognize the seducer’s true face, a grimace grinning at you. You will see a countenance in which hatred, greed, and much else are reflected. None of you would voluntarily entrust yourselves to such a being.**)
And because in the depths of your heart you do not want this and would not do it, I place this danger before your eyes. Not to let fear arise within you, but to tell you:
Watch yourself! Do not be too superficial! Try to look behind things! Measure much of what you encounter by what I seek to bring close to you through My word of revelation: Not everything that glitters is gold, not even when it is offered to you prepared in the most beautiful way. You are a radiant child of My love, you carry fullness within you, you can come to Me with everything that moves you, you are on the way to Me, and—whatever may happen—you are not alone. I, your God and Father, live within you. Here you will find what you seek in vain outwardly, even if the dark side makes it appealing with the most beautiful words and colorful images. Hurry into My arms when you notice that someone wants to move you toward something that actually goes against you. In that very moment I am at your side.
Learn to see and hear. And if you wish, take My hand and never let it go again. Amen.
*) These include, among others:
September 14, 2013: “The Invisible Is Reality”
April 12, 2014: “Darkness Tries to Manipulate Your Consciousness”
December 13, 2015: “On Love and Its Dark Sister”
March 14, 2015: “The Principle of Causation”
August 9, 2015: “Inner Work”
January 26, 2016: “Falsification of the Teaching—False Security”
**) The following poem by Ephides fits here:
You would not think evil quite so lightly,
if you could see the face that evil wears.
Your head would bow, deeply moved and silent,
and you would offer it a wordless pity,
far removed from vengeance and from judgment!
I once saw evil’s eyes within a mirror.
Its countenance was mine, and it was yours,
and on its brow it still bore God’s own seal.
It slept; I called, and thus unlatched the bolt
and let the evil enter consciousness.
Lucifer too once was pure and stainless.
Despair is evil’s deepest ground and source.
You may hate evil, never hate the evildoer.
Hatred binds; love alone can loosen bonds.
Let words of kindness issue from your mouth.
Evil is the shadow shared by all of us.
We flee to distant places, yet cannot escape it.
Long we struggle vainly—and grow weary.
Then we remember what we had forgotten
and lift ourselves into the shadowless light.