WHAT IS THE ORIGINAL SIN ?

Questions I know do arise in you again and again, which you would like to have answered. I can enlighten you when you search for union with Me. As an example, after you have had a heartfelt prayer, the emerging thoughts from the prayer may be considered My reply to you as long as you are not addressed directly by Me through the voice of the spirit. Your desire and your call to Me assures you that you are thinking correctly, but without Me you cannot recognize the truth; without Me your searching for enlightenment is in vain; without Me you may be filled with erroneous thoughts which come from below   .... because you disregard Me …. Who is the giver of truth.

And so I say the following. Only figurative enlightenment is given you as long as you are not perfect. At no time could you understand the bottomless depth of My divine wisdom. Never could you understand the motives for My actions and operations, because your imperfection means a lack of power of recognition, and therefore you cannot find any explanation with the force of your "intelligence". But you can receive it with the speed of lightning as soon as you receive the flood of My Love-Light in the spiritual realm.

On earth you must get enlightenment by seeing because it can only be explained to you through events which take place in My creations corresponding to your force of comprehension. And so, too, can the spiritual happenings in the heart of the first humans be made understandable only by earthly happenings. However, these are but weak comparisons precisely because you are still weak in spirit.

You are bound through "laws of nature" because the total freedom that you had forfeited through your former apostasy must again be deserved through your earthly life.

I chose to limit the will of the first human beings because I wanted them to know that they were subject to a "power" , and that they should voluntarily submit themselves to this power in order to receive their ultimate freedom as a present.

Once upon a time man did not wish to recognize Me, and that was the first sin, the revolt against Me, from Whom they came. Only acceptance in free will could cancel this first sin. I wanted to obtain this acknowledgment of Myself as I made the entire creations to arise.

Therefore, the first people were endowed in such a way that they could recognize Me, but they were not forced to do so. And, therefore, was the free will obliged to decide and should test itself against temptation.

The eyes of men were compelled to look at things they desire, with both a prohibition and an enticement, which simultaneously would call for a decision of the will. It was understood that the enticement was connected with a promise which they were supposed to resist.

The commandment and the temptation were issued from two sides, and men were to decide: either to return to Me so that what I created will reach the aim, or they remain with My adversary and fall down again into the abyss. Therefore, man had to have within him the desire and the possibility to overcome it in order to reach for a far higher goal .... the eternal bliss with Me which surpasses a thousand fold the fulfillment of earthly desire.

To win the return of the apostate spirits brought about a wrestling match between Me and My opponent. He also had to have the possibility of influencing the will of these beings. Only he proffered delusive values and false happiness, so that man should lose true happiness and a blissful life in eternity.

I knew about this seduction and therefore gave the first people a commandment and at the same time a warning about the eternal death. And this warning should have been sufficient to eliminate every desire in men so that they would not lose their lives.

My adversary convinced them contrary to My warning  ... he promised them the life. They recognized me as the highest power indeed, but, not withstanding, followed the lie and thereby brought death into the world.

But what was it that made their desire so irresistible that they succumbed to it? They had lived a blessed life in paradise; they had been masters of everything created. Everything was under their will and they were happy in the full possession of their force and might. The first created people were tied together through heartfelt love, and through this love they could have redeemed themselves from the shackles of My opponent. And as long as this love was directed towards me and not towards him, there was no danger that they would fail in their will-trial.

But My opponent knew how to mislead this love. He reversed it to "I-love" by giving them false promises, and so kindled their desire to achieve blissfulness for themselves. Their love changed to a craving one, a selfish one, and a low love, and it was that they surrendered themselves to the power of that one, from whom they should have delivered themselves. And they would have been able to do so if they had placed My commandment higher than their desires.

You must understand that the time for Me to bless the first human couple had not yet come. Therefore they became sinful. Nothing is sinful that adapts to My creation plan; nothing can be a sin that happens according to the lawful order. And never can the occurrence of procreation be against the order of God's will.

The satisfaction of the senses without the will to bring forth life is not an act of divine Love, but it is the sinful and perverted self-love, stimulated and influenced by my Opponent, which draws man downward and drives him entirely into My opponent's power. The first humans were victims of this false love. And this false love was their sin that reminded them of the primal- sin of arrogance that which did not wish to give itself away, but only wanted to possess everything. This false love was the inheritance of its progenitor -- of Satan -- and had nothing in common with Godly-Love.

Divine Love rests in your heart as a spark that can be lit to glow to the highest light, but the aim of My opponent was and is, to pervert this spark of Love; and he has succeeded in it.

The pure Godliness was soiled and transformed into the love of the "I" that no longer deserves to be called "love". It can only be named greediness, selfishness and self-love, which is everything, that my opponent asks of you. And so the act of procreation became also a medium of My adversary, which turned innumerable souls to him. This would never have been possible if the act of procreation had happened under My blessing, where the divine Love of giving and blessing would have crowned it with the origin of a new life.

The "fall of man" therefore consisted of the abandonment of the pure, divine Love for the un-pure, selfish love. The divine spark in man was extinguished through Satanic influence and lit a fire which destroyed everything noble and pure. Senses were inflamed and desire brought to raging heights that did in no way correspond to My act of creation. But this could not be prevented because it still lies within the will of the individual person to resist Satan's temptations.

The fall of man was therefore not the act of procreation, but the sinful and perverted love, stimulated in free will and influenced by Satan. The procreation act of God was pulled down to a play of unclean spirits.

My adversary was given access to an act where I Myself wanted to be present with My blessing to mankind; to strengthen in them the pure, divine Love so that this Love should flow also over into the newly begotten being. And so a new mankind would have arisen that would have found the way back to Me in evermore shining light, without suffering and pain; and would have recognized Me and would have redeemed itself in a short time through My love …. because where love radiates I can be recognized.

The first human beings would have been able to pass this will-test. However, as I wrestled with My opponent for man's soul, I could not prevent him from using his means to become victorious inasmuch as the return of My creatures to Me in entirely free will was in question. The free will failed. Therefore was a destiny laid clown for the entire humanity from which it could not be freed by itself, not until a man in pure and divine Love accomplished the work that made the whole human race free from sin, and opened the way towards heaven.

Because Love is victorious and will not rest until the last apostate has found the way back to Me.

AMEN

REDEEMING WORK FOR SOULS IN THE BEYOND IN GOD's WILL.

Trust in My Word and believe that only My Love keeps watch over you and that I protect you from all attacks of My adversary, if you take refuge in Me for all earthly and spiritual affliction. Your will guarantees My help and protection. I respect your will and according to your will you are in My Hands, or in the hands of My opponent. If your will is directed to Me, and you live pleasing Me then you will know that you are in My care. But if your desires are toward the world then you belong to My opponent, and then he has you in his power. This is not so when you strive towards Me, when you seek Me and pray to Me in Spirit and Truth. Although your faith is still weak, it will be strengthened as soon as you endeavor to live in Love. Be aware that My Fatherly Love extends to all who are unsaved on Earth, but also to all unredeemed who are departed from this Earth.

All those souls are in great misery and My Love will not leave them forever in this need. Therefore, I create innumerable opportunities for them to find their way out of their misery without influencing their free will. But I know the will of each human being and about each soul in the beyond. I know when they are ready to come to Me. I let you take part in the redemption work because there is such a tremendous amount of work. To each soul the opportunity has to be given, to give up its resistance and come to Eternal Salvation.

Think of the immense number of souls who are still far away from Me;, who have no faith and to whom I cannot come near because they do not believe in Me. However, I am constantly trying to create possibilities for those souls to lead them to Me through various alternate routes. You can help Me with this by caring for these souls and telling them about Me.

They listen sooner to you than to Me when they are ready to change their agonizing condition. On the one hand there is a pitiful unbelief, on the other hand, there is a great work of redemption going on among the souls in the spiritual realm. While on Earth this work of salvation continues mostly unsuccessfully, because My opponent has great power over the people on Earth, and they are so entangled in the material because the enemy entices them with worldly goods. In the beyond however, many souls realize the worthlessness of what they strove for on Earth…. because now they find themselves in a poor state and in darkness. For that reason such souls are now often easier to win if you can awaken their faith. Truly I have many ways that I will use, which are seldom without success.

The situation of those souls in the beyond cannot be described to you as it is. There will always be a cover, which prevent your looking in the beyond. But you can believe that I accept in My care all souls who come to you for rescue, and through that there is a greater possibility for success. Whoever wants to serve Me can do so, and will be placed there where his work will be successful. But always you must believe in My great Love and Mercy. Then you will understand everything and no longer be in doubt concerning the task, which I give you.

Then you will gladly serve Me and be convinced of My blessing upon your work. You can help to redeem innumerable souls out of pain and misery, and lead them to Light and Happiness.

AMEN

GOD'S CHAIN OF LOVE

Let capture you by My Love, and you will be free from him who is without any Love and who seeks therefore to deprive you also of My Love when you are his slaves. My Love indeed winds a solid band around you; it chains you in a way to Me. However, you will support these fetters with joy and happiness, and will not want to loosen them. You will devote yourself to Me, as your God and Lord, but you will also recognize in Me the Father to Whom you rush to meet and to show Me also your Love. 

The chain of My Love does not constrict you; you will not leave Me in Eternity, but you are completely free Creatures; you are My children who inherit the goods of the Father and therefore act and Create with Me and are Blissful. Because I do not tie the band of My Love against your will, I wait until you yourself are ready to be bound, until you surge forwards to Me, and thus I lay hold of you and never let you go again.

In order that you want to be devoted to me now and ever-more, I speak to you because I want you to learn to recognize Me as your God and Father, Whose Love was yours from the earliest beginning, and that you recognize Me as Love. Because you have to know Me beforehand in order to long for Me. And I give Light to you, because within you it is still dark. I am yet so hidden for your eyes, so that you are not able to recognize Me. And therefore, you have no desire to unite yourself with Me until your eyes become aware of a gentle radiation that issues from Me and falls soothingly into your heart. And then you open your heart to Me and want Me to enter. Then you long already for My Nearness and then you will do everything to keep Me, and then are you also received by My Love that keeps you then captive. You are happy and you do not ever want to leave Me.

Let Me hold you with My Love and you are already blissful Creatures on Earth. Enter consciously into union with Me and you will free yourself from the enemy of your soul, who cannot follow you when you seek My Nearness. Think that the longing for Me already makes you free because then I Myself can come closer to you, and where I am, My opponent flees.

Throw away an oppressing chain and you will submit with pleasure to My Might, and let you bind voluntarily and be pleased in that captivity, because in My Love you will be eternally happy.

Amen       

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GOD'S LOVE IS TO BE FOUND ALSO IN SORROW

Whichever way your earth-lives are shaping themselves, you must never doubt My love and care for you, which are always aiming only for your best.  Yet only I Myself know what serves you best, knowing what dangers threaten you and how these can be diverted from you. If you were able to judge the love with which I surround you it would comfort you indeed, and you would walk your earth-life in good cheer, because then you would trust your Father in heaven to arrange your lives bearably and you would never by without help, if only you would turn to Him. Your earth-lot verily then would correlate with the depth of My love, because this seeks only the best and the greatest benefit for you and not to burden you with sorrow and want for no reason, which would only weigh you down and cause you doubt in Me.

You need only to believe these My words and be still, i.e. surrender to Me in trust, and My love shall not fail to materialise. And you shall also be able to take note of soul progress, which otherwise you would hardly gain without sorrow. I still compete for the individual's love and will - mankind has not yet decided for Me: My adversary still strives for your souls and the danger of his victory is great. I therefore often make impossible of men to follow him rashly; I cause them to first consider what he offers and what he asks for it.   I turn man's attention to himself, in order to distract him from what the adversary dangles before his eyes. I send sickness and want, trouble and sorrow because these are then a blessing in disguise. But I love him and do not want to lost him to the one who is devoid of all love: who gives you only dummy foods and whose plan it is to ruin you.

He verily is bent upon only to keep you from Me, as he is without love.   You men do not know him however and allow him to deceive you - when he tempts you with goods of this world but demands your souls for it. I too want to present you with goods, which are however imperishable and whose value you do not recognise. A good father nevertheless does not give his children what harms them, even where the child eyes them greedily; he rather stops it when it hankers after them in spite of reproof.

Thus I must often hold you back when you imperil your lives yourselves through misguided aims; where your goal threatens to be other than me, because I love you and want to possess you and hence do everything not to lose you.

AMEN

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BRINGING THE GOSPEL TO SOULS IN THE BEYOND  ….  LOVE

Deliver the gospel to souls in the beyond. Remind them of My commandments of Love which must be fulfilled even in the world hereafter, if the soul would rise to the heights. Give them knowledge of My Will which always requires a turning to Me, and must take place to be apprehended by My Love.

It is the same on Earth as in the spiritual Kingdom those who are at first directed against Me must have a change of will. This can happen only through Love, for an unselfish act of Love is the first step toward Me, bringing strength to such a one.

The souls who are powerless in the beyond are poor in Love, and you must explain to them that they can only expect help when they are willing to share Love with those who, like them, are equally poor in Love and unhappy. Without Love their thinking is wrong, and as on Earth beings can come to them and teach them wrongly without them being aware of the error. Only a soul willing to help recognizes the Truth. So you must first present to the soul My commandments of Love and draw to their attention that these have been given to them that union with Me can only be restored by fulfilling these commandments of Love, for deeds of Love provide strength and also helps them upwards.

You can teach those souls again and again, but if they are not willing to Love they will not believe you, or understand you. So if you are willing to help them it must be your earnest and serious intention to encourage them and appeal to them to help other souls that are in need. Only this readiness to Love can open their spiritual eyes and ears, then they can understand everything that you lay be fore them.

My Gospel is only the doctrine of Love, because everything else comes by itself, if 'they follow My doctrine of Love. To bring souls in the beyond knowledge only, would be of no use, because as long as they are not willing to perform deeds of Love they shall not understand, because in the beyond, as well as on earth, deeds of Love must be performed, but this always demands a willingness to do so, otherwise the soul is without power.

As long as the soul thinks only about itself and its sorrowful condition, there is no possibility to give it help or to convey strength. It must first turn its eyes to its surroundings, or if it is alone in a barren region its thoughts should go out to the people on earth that it could have helped but failed to do so.

The soul must feel sorry and have a desire to make restitution. Then to that soul beings in need will come and as soon as it is willing to help them it will immediately receive strength to carry out its intentions. First of all this Love has to be inflamed which can take a long time, but through loving support from the earth of a human being, urged by a loving will to help and trying to teach, it is possible that he can give to the soul an explanation about its needs.

Love achieves everything and Love overcomes everything. Love itself is the force, which helps the soul to salvation. But as long as the soul only considers itself it will be very difficult to free it from its unpleasant condition. However, it can become tender and loving when it gets touched by small rays of Light. These are sparks of Love, which shall always touch and ignite its heart.

Every soul who feels the darkness as a pain will be pleasantly touched by such rays of Light and in this is its hope that it goes after the Light, and that it is also willing to help other souls to this Light.

Love should always be preached to these souls. Love, which found it’s crowning in Jesus Christ and His work of redemption. At first no other knowledge is necessary for those souls. They should know about the reason for their distress and how they can remove it.

Only when they have this discernment their ascent is sure, only when they themselves want to do deeds of love do they receive strength to work in Love and accept steadily more strength and go on in continually brighter Light.

Light makes these souls exceedingly happy and in their happiness comes the willingness to love constantly greater. Through this a single soul in the beyond can perform an extensive work of redemption.

Because as well as it understands itself, so shall it also bring its knowledge to other souls and try to urge them to the same endeavor in Love. For as on earth, so it is in the spiritual Kingdom: Love God above all and your neighbor as yourself.

AMEN

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THE LIFE ON EARTH IS THE WAY BUT NOT THE GOAL

The world is given to you to test your will, which means that you are to be placed in a field of action that should stimulate you to use the will in a certain direction. This world cannot be avoided, but must be overcome by man who desires to reach his objective The last embodiment of the soul    .... the spiritual in you as a human being on this earth .... is absolutely necessary to give you the opportunity to exercise your free will which had been bound previously by your former apostasy from Me.

A soul, which wishes to avoid this last embodiment is unable to come into the possession of the free will because its resistance, which does not permit it, is still so great against Me. Only if it is ready to walk on earth with serving love will it gain the mercy of the embodiment, because this willingness proves the level of maturity that is necessary for the final will-test. Each soul, before pro- creation occurs, is ready to go this final way, because this can bring it to its complete liberty from the form, and it has also the will to become free.

But it loses all recollection of the past; it enters the earth without knowledge, and as it goes through slow development, learning to use its will, it will become educated, and then will My assistance be offered to it in each form, so that it may recognize right and good and thus be able to act with free will in righteousness and goodness.

On My part everything will be done that promotes a right decision of will. However, there remains for man the liberty of his free will, so that his whole life on earth, which influences him now to a certain extent, becomes something that he can choose or reject. Because man has to pass through everything in order to come to Me in My Kingdom, but he should not stop short; he should not be caught in a renewed captivity when the final freedom beckons.

To live on earth is a passage that man must make, but it is not the goal itself . And when he raises his eyes to the highest, then will he follow his way without fail, and entirely determined to do so. But if his eyes are turned downward, he can only see what is around him and he is in danger of being held fast on the ground so that he cannot soar heavenwards. He has to have the will and the strength to liberate himself from that which seems desirable on earth. Then will he be victorious .... he will perform the way on earth as the necessary final phase of his development to the high, and he will give proof of the final trial of his will. His will was and still remains leaning towards Me, despite all seductive acts of My Opponent, who is also fighting for man's soul and for his will. But man has overcome this world and has aspired for My Kingdom, which is not of this world.

AMEN

LOVE OF THE WORLD

To pay tribute to the world is to forfeit the kingdom of heaven, because they cannot both be gained simultaneously. He who pays homage to the world does not strive for the kingdom of heaven, because for him there is only the terrestrial world with its attractions, since he does not believe in a kingdom outside this.  - Yet the way to the kingdom of heaven nevertheless has to go through this terrestrial world, it cannot be set aside, - man lives in the world and had to go through the last stage of his development on this earth, in midst of that kingdom belonging to God's adversary.   But he can overcome this kingdom - he can pass through this terrestrial world without coveting it with his senses, he can experience it and yet be its master - and this is your task: to overcome the world, because it was assigned to you for that purpose, so that your soul may mature therein, so that out of free will she would sever itself from everything pertaining to the world; because this severance also on the one hand is severance from him who is the prince of this world, and on the other a turning to the spiritual kingdom and its Lord.

And hence it is self-evident that he who enslaves himself to the world never can take possession of the spiritual kingdom neither in earth-life nor after man's death, - it is understandable that the prince of the world holds him in chains because man himself gives him the right thereto, since the loosening from the material world, - the severing from his power, man has to accomplish himself.   He has to wage battle against himself, he has to be capable of renouncing, in order to win something precious, he has to in this short earth-life resist all temptations in order to then be capable of gaining the spiritual kingdom with all its glories, which shall then recompense him a thousandfold for his renunciations on earth.

And he shall only be able to do so when he has recognised the worthlessness and transitoriness of what seemed to him worth coveting on earth.

Only this recognition gives him the power to align his will correctly, and this recognition he can gain if he himself ponders the material world, since he cannot be coerced into changing his will; he can only be roused to inner contemplation through experiences, whereupon the result is up to him.

And God can help him only by way of time and again showing him the transitoriness; that He time and again causes to pass away what is the subject of a man's passion - that He intervenes by seizing man in his painful side, taking away from him what his heart clings to, always to just prove to him the unsubstantiality of his aims.   But they who learn from these experiences can regard themselves as fortunate, because they gradually change their motivations, giving up the world in order to once gain the spiritual kingdom.  - But none should believe in being able to compromise; none should believe themselves capable of paying tribute to the world unpunished.   Every type of striving shows up after death, and if it was after the world then it also brings him spiritual death; he has then given up the spiritual kingdom for worldly gain, and the world has brought him death; then he has repeated his surrender to the power of the one in the depths, and the ascent then is once again interminable.

AMEN

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