Divine Revelation
My beloved sons and daughters, it should not surprise you that something exceeds your human understanding; for measured against the abilities of an opened consciousness, your intellect is like a grain of sand compared with an infinitely long beach. But this realization should not lead you to feel small, helpless, or perhaps even unworthy. For in the depths of your being you are creatures of My love, unique, unmistakable, wonderfully radiant, and endowed with a—My—divine power that must gradually be “brought to light” again.
From your point of view, you would call it difficult to impossible to lead My human children toward the mysteries of creation—though not toward its ultimate mysteries, because no one is able to follow Me into those “depths.” And yet I have infinitely many ways of guiding each person step by step so that he increasingly understands Me and My activity in your world.
As Jesus of Nazareth I used parables for this purpose. Through them much could be presented vividly and understandably then, and still can today, to anyone willing to follow My reflections. He will benefit from them if he also relates them to himself and to his behavior.
Even though none of you can comprehend how My creation functions—for example, how it extends throughout eternity into infinity—I can and will nevertheless keep trying, among other things through images, to make clear to you that each one of you is integrated into far more than he believes; that far more acts upon him and seeks to tell or show him something than he suspects; and that he can draw upon My help and support, which enables him to go through life much more freely and unburdened than in the past. Above all, that he begins to understand what tasks his earthly life holds for him individually and where his goal lies.
The idea of viewing My creation as clockwork, in which one little wheel engages another, can help you. There are large ones and small ones, different in color, each turning at its own speed. None truly hinders another, even if it seems that a disturbance occurs here and there. That is then merely a sign that maintenance is needed at that point, so that, for example through a little “lubrication,” the gears can mesh again quietly and without difficulty. No wheel is more important than another; all contribute in their own way to the clockwork functioning flawlessly throughout eternity.
When you read that creation functions smoothly, quite a few ask why there are nevertheless so often inconsistencies and injustices in the world and also in their personal lives; and why one person fares well while another has to contend with many adversities. Why is everyone not treated equally by fate if there is indeed a higher authority—in which one would like to believe—especially since this authority is described as selfless and unconditional love?
Anyone who makes the effort to investigate this question through the history of the church will find that the teaching of repeated earthly lives was removed and replaced by church decrees with the teaching of a single earthly life. In this respect the opposing side “did a thorough job.” But the thoughtful among you were and are confronted with the question: “If God creates a new soul each time a human being is born, why does He create them so differently that one person has a good character and another a less good one? Or that one has positive dispositions and another less positive ones?”
As an answer, the questioner is generally told with a shrug that human beings are not given the ability to penetrate the mysteries of God … That is indeed true, but one thing is equally certain: I am neither unjust nor is there any place in Me for illogic!
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Imagine a small village school, My beloved, such as existed in earlier times and still exists today in many parts of the earth, where pupils of different ages are taught together in one classroom by one teacher. Although all sit in the same classroom, the material to be learned is very different for each one. The reason is not difficult to find:
Because beginners and those who have already spent several years in school are taught in the same room, it makes no sense to give everyone the same assignments, since not all can solve them. Their levels of knowledge differ too greatly; but so too does the diligence with which each person applies himself. Nor were the previous day’s assignments completed or solved correctly by everyone.
So, for the sake of fairness, each one is treated individually and is given different things to learn, while solving or failing to solve the assignments at the same time forms the basis for the next steps of learning.
What this parable seeks to tell you is easy to understand if you recognize the earth in the one classroom, where all human beings have been brought together in a relatively small space. None of the many billions of people is identical to another in character, nature, willingness to learn, or condition of the soul. And yet all are together on your planet for only one reason: to develop in soul. Whether they know it or not.
Even those who decided to incarnate for superficial reasons—for example, to live out their passions and inclinations—are integrated into the plan of development laid down by Me. No one can slip out of this evolution of the soul, which may often show an up-and-down movement of varying intensity, but in the end always includes an increasingly upward trend and then an immersion into My eternal light.
So because no one is the same as another with respect to the ability to learn, each person in your village school receives the assignments that fit him; and the same applies to everyone in the school of earth, as life presents him with what still needs to be developed in strength of soul, or what—if there is no other way—must be worked off. In this way too a just balance is created. In every case, insight and willingness help to accelerate every learning process and make it easier than would have been necessary without realization and without one’s own work.
If something were not intended for you, My child, but for your neighbor, then your neighbor would have received the assignment. For My law works without error.
Can you speak of injustice when the person sitting beside you in your village school receives a different assignment, perhaps one that seems easier to you, because he only recently joined the class while you have already been sitting at the school desk for several years? None of you would do so. But in “real life” this is commonplace for many of you. The result is that many of My human children do not understand Me and consequently often lose their faith. Then the intention of darkness has, at least for a certain period of time, produced the desired poor harvest. This seed, one among many, has sprung up in countless hearts and minds.
The way My adversary and yours proceeds may serve you as proof of the sophistication with which moves planned far in advance are put into practice and, unnoticed by human beings, produce the intended effect. This kind of influence, manipulation of the highest degree, promises and produces far greater success than simply saying: “There is no God.” Turning a signpost by only a few degrees causes the traveler to miss his destination much more often than if the signpost had been removed …
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Every event in material creation resembles links in a chain, which differ in quality and quantity. But one thing is the same for all: Without links from the past there is no link in the present, and the present one creates a new link for the future. That in turn is shaped by what came before and at the same time shapes what will come.
What sounds so philosophical here holds great practical benefit for you. For on the one hand it can give you a certain insight into what behavior in the past brought you into your present situation; and on the other hand it gives you the possibility of influencing your future. Provided that you not only believe My words but also recognize and apply the mechanism of action behind everything, which is energetic in nature.
For many of you it is still difficult to understand that everything is energy, which merely appears in different ways and forms. Yet even in matter you know many kinds of energy that cannot be seen, felt, or otherwise perceived and that nevertheless naturally exist. Some of these invisible forces, which arise from My love for My creatures, guarantee that in the end everything that once left the heavens will return to the heavens. The law of spiritual attraction and repulsion plays an important role in this; for it ensures—to use an image—that the parcel intended for your neighbor is not delivered to you. And vice versa.
What does this mean for you? You can be absolutely certain that nothing happens to you that does not somehow have some connection with you or with your past, perhaps also with your future; and this does not mean that the past in question must be limited merely to your present life. There may also be effects or karma from earlier lives that now influence you because, not yet resolved, they are still current. In every case it is determined by the links of your past that you yourself forged. You may not be aware of this, or perhaps you have never seen a connection between earlier behavior and your present situation. That changes nothing about the fact that the chance to which you so readily and so often resort does not exist. For to assume it exists is equivalent to accusing Me of being unjust.
The principle of spiritual attraction and repulsion applies to everyone in matter and in the realms of the soul, and in another way also in the heavens. It determines your present and future place of residence and is decisive for which people you met in the past, meet at present, and will meet in the future—if you incarnate again. And it determines what “fate” awaits you, which would more aptly have to be called “what you have made.” For it was sent neither by Me nor by anyone else, but was brought into being solely by you, the originator of your past and present and the creator of your future.
If you now consider that this principle has applied throughout My entire material creation since the beginning of the Fall and works without error, then it must become clear to you—even though you remain infinitely far from grasping its actual scope—that the clockwork of My creation works with a precision you cannot comprehend; that you have your place within it, that this is not so “by chance,” and that everything that happens to you is founded solely in My love, which wants to and will bring you home again.
Since everything is energy, this also applies to your inner feelings and thoughts and to the words and actions that result from them. This fact is of great importance for your way back to Me, because disregarding it can lead you to burden yourselves while again and again being confronted with the question why this or that happens in the small world of your life—and also in the larger world of humanity—seemingly “just like that.” Then you resort to so-called chance and have deprived yourselves of an opportunity to learn a little more about yourselves and your behavior, or about larger connections on the stage of the world; and perhaps you have also failed to use an opportunity to achieve something positive by changing your thinking or your actions.
Because My love is the strongest power in creation, it may help your understanding if you imagine My love as a protective canopy, so to speak as an overarching structure, as a roof beneath which everything thrives splendidly. At the same time it is the foundation of all life, for without My energy of love there would be no life. Whoever has chosen love as his roof and strives to live and remain beneath it despite all temptations, however sophisticated and interestingly presented, can be guided by My law differently from one who tries, through self-will or ignorance, to shape his life according to his own rules.
The tasks that confront a person who has given Me his hand—who in the “ideal case” has entered into following Me—come from My divine direction. In this way the person increasingly steps out of the law of cause and effect, which ultimately results in his becoming free of the burdens of his past. Through his yes and his earnestness he has given Me the possibility of transforming and releasing what made him unfree through his thinking and actions in the past.
Every one of you who has already recognized these connections and taken the corresponding steps toward Me can tell of such an experience or one like it. It gives him a foretaste of what awaits him once he is truly free from everything he has—consciously or unconsciously—placed upon his soul.
In order to reach the goal of inner freedom, it is necessary for a person to be confronted with the weaknesses of character within him that prevent this desire to grow into freedom. Someone who lives alone on a deserted island will never be able to recognize whether—and if so, in what respects—he is still unfree. For such an insight to arise, a “mirror” is needed. Your neighbor as a mirror shows you, through your reactions to him and to his behavior, most clearly and most quickly what within you still needs transformation so that you can become free and freer step by step. (1)
The precisely working clockwork of My creation ensures that the right task comes to each person at the right time. For this reason alone “fate” has brought you together with the people and into the situations you encountered in the past, in which you presently live, and which in the future will determine another part of your path.
Since the concept of time does not exist for Me, everything that was set into the world as an action against the commandment of love and has not yet been recognized as an error or sin, regretted, and made good remains present as something unresolved or unredeemed. When it will one day be dissolved and transformed into energy of love through the individual’s decision and with My help depends on each person. I never interfere with the free will of My children.
The law of sowing and reaping, an instrument of My love, ensures that even the most defiant and obstinate will ultimately come to insight and find his way back to Me and thus into unity with all. For he will be confronted with the consequences of his earlier actions directed against My commandment of love and also with what those actions brought about in his neighbor. But he will not merely be confronted with them; he will experience them in and upon himself—unless a turning back has taken place beforehand that makes the harvest less severe and painful, or unless honest remorse and restitution prevent the effects to which the one who caused them would otherwise have been exposed from arising at all.
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It is difficult or impossible for you to imagine that in the clockwork of My creation all the wheels have meshed smoothly throughout eternity. It becomes even more difficult when you try to become familiar with the thought that to Me—who am all in all—each one of My creatures is equally dear because I love them all equally; including those who left Me in self-will and at present still live in darkness and cold. And that nothing is hidden from Me, that I know every smallest stirring, every desire and thought however secret—because I live in everyone! Without My will, as it is written in your Scripture, not even a hair of your head will be harmed …
It is difficult for many of My human children to become familiar with these thoughts; perhaps in the head, but when everyday life with its rush and problems takes hold of you, what had perhaps already sought and found a place in your heart suddenly fades again or is forgotten.
That is why it is important that you internalize My words, so that over time they become your own knowledge and your own will. Otherwise you repeatedly run the risk of viewing everything that happens to you and in the world solely from the standpoint of a single, present event. You then assign no past to it, although you know perfectly well that nothing can suddenly appear in your life “out of the blue” without a cause.
But if you recognize and affirm the great plan I have shown you, in which you too are integrated, inner feelings and thoughts about possible injustice on My part will dissolve into thin air. This will help you not only to deepen your faith in Me and My guidance in your life, but also to learn to love Me far more than in the past.
I have shown you the great arc within which you live: beginning in your eternal home with Me, through life in the realms of the soul and your stays in matter. The latter serve to bring you to realization of your true being and to teach you love through action, until at last the arc closes again.
With this knowledge it will become easier for you to place correctly all the beautiful and less beautiful things that meet you and also to recognize the task your neighbor fulfills for you—without knowing it—even though, because these connections are largely unknown, this is usually not experienced as “valuable” and necessary, and therefore people do not respond to it correctly either.
Fulfilling your task correctly—that is, not merely serving as a “correspondence alarm” for your neighbor, but becoming an example in more and more areas of life—will ultimately also become your goal if you remain at My hand. Applied very practically to the present time, this means, for example, living and radiating a trust that has a genuine foundation because it is rooted in Me.
Rejoice over what you have already accomplished with Me. Where it is still necessary, bring Me your faults and weaknesses; with a little practice, leave them with Me, and receive My blessing of love in return. It will not only strengthen you, but will also let you recognize more and more connections and allow you to look more deeply into My “mysteries,” which then will no longer be mysteries for you because you have brought them into your life.
Amen
(1) Are You a Book with Seven Seals to Yourself?
Are you a book with seven seals to yourself?
You ask who teaches you to break the seals?
Do you not recognize yourself in the many mirrors?
Is that why your seals remain intact?
You do not know where to find your mirrors?
Then open your eyes, look into the world,
and pay close attention to what inflames you,
what agitates you, upon whom your judgment falls.
You never have to wait long for the answer;
most often it stands before you surprisingly soon.
Your neighbor tells you, without knowing it,
what lies behind the door of your seven seals.
from: Trust the Quiet Sound of Your Heart
(Bürger-Verlag)