Divine Revelation
My beloved sons and daughters, only those who are determined to ignore reality and refuse to look at the world with open eyes can still believe that the crises emerging in every field will soon disappear and that a state of relative “normality” will then return.
These are people who, out of fear of the possible loss of their possessions, their previous standard of living, and their accustomed pastimes, have fled into an illusory world. Often they are not aware that they are suppressing insights that are urgently needed to a high degree. Dealing with them would inevitably mean having to face their inner worries, distress, and fears. And not only that: It would confront them with the fact that there is no longer any real protection outwardly.
For the world has reached a point at which it has no answer, no solution, to set against the “slow but sure, or just, or exceedingly fine grinding of God’s mills.” This can be no surprise to those who believe both My present words and those of the past.
But even many of those who have recognized the signs of the times often stand helpless before what is appearing ever more clearly on the horizon. You all know the saying, “There is no security—except in God”! You read it, and often you also affirm it in your heart, but the practice of entering into this security and living in and with it is either hardly familiar to you; or it is not yet familiar because it has not yet become part of your everyday life.
At this point I touch a—the—“sore point”: A loving and trusting relationship between us can never arise through knowledge, regardless of the way it was acquired outwardly. It forms “as if by itself” solely through putting My commandment of love into practice in your everyday life, through dealing with yourselves, and through an—at least—orderly relationship with your neighbor. A certain amount of basic knowledge can be very useful, although there are quite a few of My human children who live love without having read or discussed much. They “simply” strive to love Me, their neighbor, and themselves. My commandment underlying this effort is known to them. It is known to everyone.
The great danger is that through constant consumption, the stores of knowledge in your brain are filled more and more, which eventually colors your nature and also leaves traces in your soul. In this way it becomes increasingly difficult for you to develop or preserve the view that in the end it is only about love lived out. It may also be that you bring with you from previous incarnations certain things that explain the urge for ever more knowledge. But especially then you should recognize in this a primary task: gradually to transform the “thirst for knowledge” into a “thirst for implementation.”
The prerequisite for this, however, is first the realization that you have fallen into the knowledge trap; then follows the decision not to want this any longer in the future, turning toward Me and asking Me to help you with the change, and finally action. If you come to Me with such a request, I will lead you into situations in which you can practice putting the accumulated theory into practice. On those occasions, of this you can be absolutely certain, I am at your side and help you.
The procedure, as I have just briefly indicated it—from self-knowledge to change—is always the same, no matter which trait or characteristic is involved. Through self-will no human being can bring about lasting changes, especially when it is a matter of behavior resembling well-worn tracks.
Changing a human being toward the good, toward the positive, is the task an incarnation brings with it. It is the alpha and omega. If it is not recognized and undertaken, other circumstances—such as working off an earlier debt—may nevertheless partially free the person’s soul from old burdens, but decisive for his inner forward development are the steps that the person takes during his earthly life, by free decision, “toward heaven.”
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On earth you stand opposite the concentrated power of darkness, whose greatest trump card is that very few people know this. It does not attack everyone without interruption, for those who live their accustomed “daily routine” without Me do not represent a great danger to it. At most, the forces of darkness try to move them toward new transgressions, because they constantly need energy. The probability that these souls, after entering the beyond, will go into realms of light where the opposing forces can no longer reach them is not very great.
For My adversary and yours, the people who are interesting and important as targets are those whose behavior and aura show that they are striving for higher values in their lives or perhaps even walking their path with Me. On the one hand, satanic temptations and attacks are intensified with them; on the other hand, My powers of love also flow to them in increased measure. The mere fact that a person follows his conscience and has an open ear and heart for his neighbor is enough to strengthen the powers of his soul.
How much more can I guide and protect someone who consciously gives Me, love, his yes. For by doing so he expresses that he is ready to follow Me and observe My commandments.
But among many there is a misunderstanding here when they believe that I then take everything from them. Your development, which is nothing other than reopening the powers of your soul that already lie within you, is about making you strong; letting you recognize your true greatness again; allowing the radiant son and radiant daughter gradually to arise again.
For this I came into the world as Jesus of Nazareth: on the one hand, to free the bound souls and reopen heaven to them; on the other hand, to equip them for their journey home with My power, the so-called Christ spark. On Golgotha I placed it into every soul and every human being, and since then it has been the guarantee that all will find their way home again.
This additional power from My infinite love is what makes a person who works with it, who makes use of it, strong like an unconquerable bulwark. “Makes use” is exactly the right expression, because despite the incomparable greatness of this power, it is and remains an offer that a person may accept or not.
This change, which I call “inner work,” and in which I am the One who gives you courage and lets you grow, is not merely an instrument on the path to Me: It is the instrument above all others that moves you forward. Some people apply it without knowing it when, for example, they pray with an honest heart, resolve to act differently in the future than before, and then do so. But it unfolds its full power and abundance when the person, conscious that I live in him, turns inward, speaks with Me, gives Me what he has recognized as wrong in the sense of love, and then begins with Me to leave something old behind and practice something new.
This is the path darkness fears most, because with all its trials and temptations it has nothing comparable to set against it and is unable seriously to penetrate this protection of light; apart from the moments when, because of old burdens of the soul, weaknesses not yet recognized, lack of concentration, and other things, it briefly succeeds.
But these are no more than temporary disturbances. You are on the path to Me, and even if the storms increase: You have learned to trust! Your future knowledge will come from the experiences you have had with Me and continue to have anew. In this way and no other does knowledge finally become wisdom—and looking back you will often smile or shake your head at the various stages of your path. And yet not a single one was superfluous, because together they first brought you to the point that was and is decisive: from the head into the heart, from knowledge to action.
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Since human memory began I have revealed Myself to My sons and daughters. How could I, your Father and Creator, remain silent when I have the ability and possibility of enlightening you in the form of admonitions, guidance, and further information, and when your time and special circumstances require it? Through influence on your church representatives, the demonic side succeeded in causing a large part of humanity not to believe that even today I still speak to My own.
But it could not prevent Me, at all times, from nevertheless repeatedly sending My faithful to earth, preparing them, and at the appointed time raising My word through them. My addresses had different contents and emphasized different points, adapted to the prevailing necessities and also to the consciousness of My instruments. If you compare My words given over the course of the last centuries, you will therefore readily recognize a kind of “evolution”; nor could it be otherwise, because everything is evolution.
Thus in My enlightenment I do not reach too far ahead or make too great a leap, because that would make recognition and understanding more difficult. Or should I, as Jesus, already have spoken to My listeners about levels of consciousness, particles of the soul, vibrations, satanically manipulated energies, the structure of spiritual creation, and much more? I gave them the key that made it possible for them and all following generations to return to their true home. You all know the key. Its short form is: love—and nothing else. It is the key—the only one—that in principle is still needed today.
Further information, such as you know today in an almost unmanageable abundance, would not have served the well-being of the souls of the people of that time.
Nowadays this one key apparently is no longer enough. The human being, assuming he is spiritually interested, wants to know more because he believes he can attain the corresponding maturity of soul only in this way. Of course connections must be clearly recognizable, and the heart—assuming good will—must be able to follow My explanations. But it makes little sense to speak in detail about advanced lessons when the basics are not yet, or at least not sufficiently, known and not yet put into practice to the proper degree.
But endlessly repeating what is already known is also no help to those who want to move forward. It may and will help those who have set out and are at the beginning of their search. Building on what has come before and showing new paths that lead further, without discarding or calling the old into question, is My way of promoting the development of soul and spirit in My children.
A great danger to which I draw your attention—especially the eager among you who like to increase your knowledge—is the frequently encountered practice of always measuring what is new only by what is old. That is not evolution; on the contrary, it binds you to knowledge already acquired, especially when the accumulation of knowledge becomes the center of a life rather than the honest effort to live that knowledge as well.
So, to give you an image by way of comparison, the sole measure can never be the question whether the material of the new school year was already in the curriculum of the previous school year. And if the answer is “no,” then refusing the new material because something new has been added. My endeavor is to make continuous progress possible for you, which can be put into practice only with difficulty if you cling exclusively to what has been handed down from the past.
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I have deliberately addressed this subject, which I am not treating for the first time, in clear terms. And I have done so because it is of little use to you to approach the tasks that will very soon come toward you with false ideas or a false concept. The time that will bring difficulties of an unsuspected magnitude is already casting its shadows. How have you prepared yourselves? How will you deal with it?
Do you really believe that by reading or hearing interesting lectures and sermons, by quoting Bible passages or old and new revelations, and through books however “important,” you will obtain the equipment needed to strengthen your soul? Such things can serve as a refreshing of familiar guidance or admonitions, and also as a reminder that the point is not to lose courage or trust. But do you not already know this? For those who call themselves Christians and thereby express that they have entered into following Me, does not the effort to change their inner being with the power of My love stand first? Something that has likewise long been known?
The coming years will challenge you. What you have made of and from your knowledge will be put to the test. The strength of your soul, which has developed if you have increasingly included Me in your life, will be your great advantage. If this was hardly or not at all the case, you will have to struggle to an increased degree against uncertainty and fear. For the negative forces have sounded the call for a major attack and will try to spread doubt, mistrust, hopelessness, discord, and unbelief wherever they encounter insufficient stability of soul.
In such a situation, positive experiences you have had with Me—which always form the foundation of your trust—will help you. But you can draw upon them and lay them around yourselves like armor only if you have entered into a life with Me. This means at the same time that you have recognized the necessity of setting your knowledge aside and undertaking the next step: practicing its implementation in everyday life. In this way it will finally become a cherished habit to come to Me with everything, discuss everything with Me, and pay attention to the impulses I give you as help.
These are the preparations everyone should make, unless as the “wise person who prepares in advance” he has already begun. The same of course applies equally to My daughters. What you do not need are predictions of when what will happen where. They are not infrequently of doubtful origin, and their truth content often approaches zero. You will neither hear nor read such things from Me. That is why you will also search in vain for them here.
You should be prepared, direct your gaze forward, and not try to read answers for the present time and for right behavior out of spiritual knowledge from the past—however important and right it may have been for its time. To express it drastically in a comparison: If floodwater threatens your houses, immediate action is called for. Then it no longer helps you to listen to or look at weather reports from the past.
What you need now are clear instructions, so to speak “step-by-step directions,” that change you inwardly because they transform your faults and weaknesses and thereby let the strong sons and daughters of My love emerge, those who before their incarnation agreed to bring light into the dark world through their existence.
These directions, collectively called “inner work,” I have been revealing for many years. Logically, they are the next step after I previously, out of My wisdom, gave ignorant humanity an immense number of pieces of information over centuries. Evolution always offers sufficient opportunity to explore and test the individual stages of development and then move forward. It knows no standstill.
This also applies to the spiritual development of the human being. This principle of constant forward movement, as mentioned at the beginning, also underlies My revelations. Many more of My instruments will come who in My name proclaim My love, My wisdom, and My truth; for everything from and in Me is, like My being, infinite. It would serve no one if My faithful were always only to reveal what is already familiar. Building on what earlier bearers of My word have already brought into the world, they will gradually lead the willing among human beings into a consciousness whose greatness and breadth you are not yet able to grasp today.
In the present time the emphasis is increasingly on bringing implementation—the step from knowledge to action—more strongly into consciousness than in the past. The protection I wish to give all of you, and that each person surely also longs for deeply, consists in strengthening the power of your soul. By this are meant the energies of your spirit body, which do not increase through membership in a church, through practicing ceremonies and rites that are superfluous anyway from a spiritual point of view, nor through collecting information or comparing and endlessly examining the many religious views.
Your protection is built up solely through the effort to live love, as I taught and lived it as Jesus. For through lovelessness suffering entered creation; through love it will be transformed again. This is an energetic process whose detailed description would overwhelm every human brain and consciousness.
In this way the separated creation will finally be united again.
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Many people confuse knowledge with wisdom. Partly in order to be able to have a say, partly to obtain answers to open questions, they become collectors of knowledge—and do not notice it themselves. What they fail to consider is this: They make themselves dependent and in this way often prevent the development of their consciousness. Yet it undergoes healthy and lawful growth step by step precisely when increasing emphasis is placed on the path to Me, which is an inner path.
In the course of the path, if it is walked seriously with Me, a transformation takes place in the soul that gradually also becomes noticeable in the human being. Other people then notice, for example, a calm and composure or an indefinable radiance that were not present before. Inwardly, in one person more slowly and in another more quickly, an increased sensitivity develops, the ability to grasp and recognize things more easily, a better capacity to feel into one’s neighbor, and more.
In every case, however, the person learns—something of which at first he is usually not conscious—to see things with his own eyes, with the result that his willingness to decide on his own responsibility grows. The extensive offerings of the various religions and esoteric schools also belong in this decision-making process. By practicing the logic of the heart, which develops “as if by itself,” the person is given a measure by which he learns to separate the wheat from the chaff.
He then no longer depends so often on seeking answers from others. His inner being signals to him ever more clearly what is good and right for him. That he may at any time draw upon existing knowledge goes without saying; but in the course of the path he slowly but surely becomes “himself.”
And so he will finally also understand that the measure has lain within him throughout eternity. It is love. If, in close connection with Me, he applies it to everything, he will be able to recognize without difficulty what is from Me and what is not.
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One word at the close of this serious revelation. I remind you that I have often pointed out how important it is to be up to date. I need not explain this again here in detail. Even without lengthy explanations it tells the willing and attentive person what is meant. But this much, because it is more important than ever that you become free of your old burdens:
Receive My words with an open heart. Be ready to look at yourselves and your life. Find the courage to look correctly and, especially where it hurts, to go into the depths. I will help you if you ask Me. With My help an inventory will succeed much better, and it will also be more “thorough.” Above all, you are protected if—should this be the case—unpleasant events from the past enter your consciousness. At the same time I give you the strength to begin working through still-unresolved problems full of trust. And not only that: I am the One who takes over the greatest part of the “clearing up.” That is a promise!
At some point you will have to do this work anyway, for you know: “Whoever wants to enter heaven must carry heaven (to a large extent) within himself.” The law “like attracts like” requires this.
Even though the time ahead will be difficult, the possibilities that heaven with its many helpers offers you have never been so great.
Amen