Divine Revelation
My beloved sons and daughters, it is not without reason that I return again and again to how exceedingly important it is for My laws—upon which creation is built and which remain valid for all eternity—to be known. And not only that: they must also be lived, insofar as this is possible through sincere effort, because only knowledge that is lived is of benefit to body and soul.
Without knowing them, the human being is like a traveler moving through unfamiliar and dangerous terrain without compass or map. As Jesus of Nazareth I brought humanity the essence of My laws of creation in the commandment to love God and one’s neighbor. This word of Mine contains everything the human being needs in order to come to realization and find his way home, so that in the end he may once again be united with Me and with everyone and everything.
Admittedly—“aha, that’s the catch!” many will say—this presupposes that it does not remain merely knowledge, but accompanies you through everyday life; and through applying this commandment your spiritual horizon widens and the connections between everything that lives and constantly acts upon everything else become increasingly recognizable. In this way the great “mystery” of creation opens step by step to the one who takes My teaching of love seriously.
I was able to convey deeper knowledge to My apostles and to those who were close to Me and accompanied Me during the three years of My teaching activity. But most of My listeners lacked the necessary foundation for it; they would indeed have heard with their ears, but not understood with their hearts. Much was therefore left to their faith in Me and My words and to their longing and love; and yet, because they were sincere of heart, it led them onto the way to the Father’s house.
Nevertheless, enough insights and conclusions could have been drawn from what My teaching contained if this had not been prevented by intense influence from the opposing forces. As one example, take only the law of cause and effect, which is still found in your Scriptures—even though it is wrongly and illogically interpreted as applying only to the future—and from which it clearly follows that the human being will reap what he sows. He sows both good and less good seed in the field of his lives, which lets him learn and his soul mature until it has reached the degree of development necessary to continue its path into the light in the subtle realms beyond.
My teachings about the soul continuing to live after the physical death of the human being and its return into a new life were also altered in such a way that great uncertainty prevails among most people and, beyond that, massive fears are present in many when the time comes to leave this earth.
This and much more are the fruits of a false presentation and interpretation of My teaching, by which truth was at the same time pushed into the background or underground. The principles that operate in My creation and are grounded in My love are known only to very few. Still fewer of you know about the far-reaching consequences that result from disregarding them—worldwide, but also in your personal sphere.
The human being often experiences suffering, misfortune, and distress of the most varied kinds, but in his still-unfolded consciousness he not seldom attributes this to an unjust, angry God who in this way punishes the sins of the individual or of humanity. Or, lacking an explanation, he takes refuge in chance. Yet what happens to one person or many people is merely a consistent sequence within My law, set in motion by human beings themselves, which can at any time be canceled through My love if a turning back takes place in thought and action.
Today humanity has made progress in many fields, so that My revelatory explanations could become more extensive and much more detailed than in earlier times. Long ago I began, through men and women whom I could prepare in accordance with their free will and whose hearts were with Me, to let more spiritual knowledge flow into your world; always, however, adapted to the understanding of the respective time and the capacity of human beings to receive it. For more divine truths and wisdom than most people could yet have taken inward would only have confused them.
Whoever wishes to change something lastingly in his nature or in his life has two possibilities: He does so out of love—or he has recognized that the rules in which he has believed until now and according to which he acted in the past cannot be right as they are. He sets out to search for truth, to place his life on a new foundation and find answers that are more plausible, credible, and convincing than the previous ones, which proved to be of little help and little sense.
Because I want to move My children to develop independent and personally responsible thinking and action—which alone makes them free children of God—I show them the errors in their teachings of faith. In doing so I increasingly supplement My words of love, comfort, and encouragement addressed to humanity with explanations of My laws.
Ignorance of these laws is, for the reasons named, frighteningly great; so great that through this lack of knowledge, which almost inevitably leads to disregard and non-fulfillment, a worldwide situation has arisen that can no longer be brought under control by the means of human “problem solving” used until now. For if your world knew My laws and largely observed them, the earth would be a “little paradise.”
As it is, however, it becomes ever more deeply entangled in the causes it continually sets; and instead of recognizing wrong conduct from the bad fruits that its sowing has brought forth and continues to bring forth and learning from it, it tries, with greater or lesser skill, to evade the consequences or at least cover them over. What is not perceived is that your world has long resembled a ship on rough seas, rudderless and exposed to ever stronger storms. Your responsible leaders did not ask the helmsman—Me—to come aboard …
You will therefore be disappointed if you ask for helpful answers from those who are ignorant and who continually express their ignorance through what they do or fail to do. If your leaders in politics, business, and church knew the simple truth that every negative action already carries within itself the seed of its negative effect, which becomes seed and then fruit that comes to harvest, they would act differently. Yet they lack this insight, and they also lack the knowledge that through remorse and making amends My law of love and mercy transforms everything directed against My law.
This is how I solve your problems! This is how I would solve them if the one who caused them came to Me in the awareness that he had acted wrongly!
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Your science discovered long ago that energy cannot be destroyed. And quite concretely, in countless investigations, works, and studies, it has proved that there is no death in the conventional sense, that therefore “something” survives dying. These insights and results can be ignored only if one consciously clings to old, false beliefs or has no interest in the subject. And nevertheless: truth makes its way!
For those who are ready to concern themselves with these questions and engage with the answers, eventually there will be no more doubt that so-called death is not the end. And they will also recognize that it is untrue that the soul “rests somewhere” and waits one day to be judged by Me at a “Last Judgment.”
For a long time, many men and women from every culture have made it their task to free this subject, burdened with fear and ignorance, from all the false and often illness-producing ideas surrounding it. The value of their work can scarcely be overestimated because it has opened the eyes of many people. The literature on the subject has by now become vast beyond overview. Reading more and more, or working one’s way ever more deeply into the subject, is in any case no longer at issue for the one who has found his conviction.
So whoever wants to know whether life continues can acquire this knowledge today. In doing so, however, he should take care to approach the results of research with his inner feeling, so that here too he can separate the wheat from the chaff. For once it is established that life continues, the far more important question arises: how does it continue?
For it is all too quickly overlooked that many—indeed almost all—reports and publications lack one decisive, the decisive, element: the question of the meaning of continued life.
Once you, My sons and daughters, in your search for truth have found the answer to the question “Is there life after death?”, do not the much more important and much more exciting questions arise “almost by themselves”: “And now? What happens over there? Is there a goal for me? What can I do in order to recognize the meaning?”
If one day it is discovered and proved that life exists on this or that distant star: Does that have personal significance for you? Probably not very much. But if you learn that your life does not end with “death”: Does not the great adventure of further searching and discovery only then begin? Can you really simply lean back with this knowledge and think, “How nice that I continue to live”? Does it not only then become truly exciting?
Here too the forces of darkness intervened; and after they could not prevent the fact of continued existence from becoming ever more widely known, they placed over the consciousness of many a kind of veil that prevents the correct, important conclusions from being drawn from this fundamental realization.
For all those for whom My revealed word is still relatively new, I repeat what I have already told you more than once:
“Everything that has left the heavens is—with or without knowing it, and perhaps without wanting it—already on the way home again with its first step outward, for the large or small circle along which the soul travels outside the heavens ends again where it began: in the light!” 1)
Your true being is immortal. The time of your earthly life serves realization, learning, and maturing, possibly also making amends or working off earlier guilt. At all times you yourselves shape the degree of development of your soul, which stands in constant interaction with your material body. Both continually act upon one another, and just as continually your consciousness is shaped, which at every moment of your earthly or otherworldly existence has a completely individual nature.
Order within My creation is governed by the law of attraction. After leaving the earthly body, the soul is again traveling on its “circular path,” which as a rule, however, resembles more of a “roller coaster.” Where it finds its place depends on its development, its energetic potential, its vibration. There it will find its temporary home for a shorter or longer phase.
With the knowledge that the soul—that is you, My child, and not some abstract entity—finds itself where it belongs according to its inclinations, wishes, strengths, and weaknesses, it is by no means unimportant in what condition it left the body. Was it connected with Me in love? Did it have the feeling that it had made use of its time on earth? Was its effort serious to put love for God and neighbor into practice in its life? Did spiritual or material interests stand in the foreground during the years of its earthly life? Was it shaped by uncertainty, ignorance, fear, or purely worldly striving?
Countless are the variations in the condition of souls, and equally countless are the places in the beyond that await them: from the lower astral realms through levels of purification, planets of maturing and development, all the way to spheres that are bright and expansive and already give a sense of the glory of the heavens.
I want to direct your gaze forward, urge you—indeed inspire you—to think joyfully of your bright future, without, of course, neglecting your tasks on this side. For there is a reason that you are where you are, in this time, under these circumstances, in this country and your present surroundings. Everything serves to create a good starting basis for you, a kind of springboard for your soul—again: for you yourselves!—so that over there you can build upon it. The key to this, which is available to everyone, bears the name I have already used so often: love—and nothing else.
In this way you advance step by step, experience spiritual freedom more and more, see through the schemes of darkness, and learn to act creatively. Your ride on the roller coaster approaches its end; the circle begins to close again until, in the end, the prodigal son and prodigal daughter are home again, with Me.
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It is not unimportant to acquire appropriate knowledge, but far more important is drawing the necessary conclusions from insights and convictions. And as far as the subject of “life after death” is concerned, those conclusions are: What do I now change in the earthly years still ahead of me? Is there, after an honest inward examination, any need at all to do something differently? To approach something more seriously than before? Or do I now merely lean back reassured and with somewhat less fear?
I came into the world to save and to redeem. I accomplished both: not a single one of My children is lost, and for all the possibility again exists of returning to the heavens. How this can happen is shown to you by My teaching of love, which I brought as Jesus of Nazareth; and by My further instructions and explanations, which I can give in your time because consciousness and understanding have become different from what they were 2,000 years ago.
Inner work, the refinement of character together with the strengthening of the soul, stands at the center of the way back that everyone—without exception—must travel in order to find home again. What is decisive, My beloved, is your motivation. It is pointless, out of fear of whatever may await you after physical death, to choose this or that religious direction in the hope of finding in it a guarantee for a happy life in the beyond.
Fear is always the worst motive of all. I desire free children who are aware of their heavenly origin and inner strength; who know of the love they carry within themselves, who give this love room in their lives, and who out of love for Me, their heavenly Father, set out on the journey home. The knowledge of your eternal life can and should move you to look at your present life beyond purely factual information. Take a kind of inventory and be certain that I am at your side in doing so; and that with all My love I support you in those points you recognize as needing improvement. For I desire that you, and you, and you—that every one of you—find your way back to Me as soon as possible, because I long for you, for all of you.
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Whoever receives My words within himself with an open heart will recognize how dangerous the traps are that the forces of darkness have set through distorting My eternal truth; and how necessary it is to sharpen awareness of what comes from My love and what does not. A pure and clear consciousness cannot produce false teachings, just as an impure and clouded one cannot proclaim correct teachings.
For all human beings, it is necessary to leave the broad current of mere followers and take personal responsibility for their lives. This is certainly not entirely easy, at least not when such following has been practiced through some or many incarnations. It takes a little courage, but remember that the greatest power of creation lives within you and gives you all help, provided you are ready to take different paths in your thinking and action.
By now you often use the term “consciousness” without most of you really knowing what lies behind it. Once, before for the most varied reasons you left the heavens, your consciousness was radiant and crystal clear. There were no restrictions whatsoever; your love, your far-sightedness, your wisdom, your brotherly and sisterly conduct, your willing and doing that rested in My will, your spiritual strength—simply everything that made up your heavenly nature—was perfect. It was a form of existence that cannot be described in human words; the form you still are in your deepest inner being, wrapped in the coverings of your soul and your material body.
When you left the divine spheres, not only did coverings of the soul form around your spiritual body; your consciousness also changed. It became restricted, increasingly so the farther you moved from the Source of all life. Human consciousness now represents only a faint reflection of the original. Like the soul, it is shaped by the human being himself. While death erases everything material, including brain and subconscious, the soul takes with it into the beyond the consciousness belonging to it and, in a new incarnation, brings it into the new life.
This is one of the reasons for human individuality, which outwardly is indeed determined by the parents, but inwardly is shaped to a decisive degree by soul and consciousness. In the course of physical development it therefore becomes increasingly clear to everyone who has learned to look attentively “whose spirit’s child” the human being truly is. For what is within expresses itself more and more outwardly.
Your consciousness tells you what you eat and drink, how you dress, which physical activities you prefer, how and—if at all—whether you love, which likes and dislikes you have, what you think, what you believe, what you reject or consider right; it determines your entire conduct, which alongside your thinking also includes the action resulting from it. There is nothing you can do with conviction against your consciousness.
You have only this one consciousness; if you want to think and act differently, your consciousness must first change, and it must change through a voluntary decision on your part: on the basis of love for Me or of the realization that arises in the search for truth, as I explained earlier.
The same principle applies to all human beings, thus also to your neighbor. And just as little as you wish others to interfere in your freedom and demand different conduct from you than what you presently display, just as little do you—or anyone—have the right to devalue or even condemn your neighbor because he lives what his consciousness presents to him as right for him, worth living, and in accord with his nature!
I will return to this subject in My next revelations because it is of decisive importance for living together in mutual tolerance. For from this law arise fundamental things concerning your conduct and the change in your conduct that you voluntarily seek; for those who prefer it more concrete: your character.
Whoever knows My laws, acknowledges them, and endeavors to live accordingly undergoes a change in consciousness. He himself will notice this because his trust in Me and My guidance grows, because his uncertainties and doubts fade, his restlessness settles, and My peace increasingly enters his inner being. And those around him will likewise notice that he has begun to “missionize” in the only right way: by putting My commandment of love into practice and through the positive radiance toward his fellow human beings that is connected with it.
He has then also personally accepted the aspect of My law of which I spoke at the beginning with regard to your political, economic, and religious leaders: “… that every negative action already carries within itself the seed of its negative effect, which becomes seed and then fruit that comes to harvest.” He also knows, because he has had experiences with Me, that likewise every positive action carries within itself its kernel, which finally bears good fruit.
This is the best preparation you can make for the “move” that sooner or later lies ahead of you. I help you with it, for I love you infinitely.
Amen
1) Revelation “Every One of Your Steps Serves Perfection” of December 14, 2017