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0771 After an announcement in trance....

February 9, 1939: Book 16

The divine in you will know well how to distinguish truth from lies, and if you entrust yourselves to the lord, you will be in full power of judgement. Therefore, reject what does not seem credible to you and keep what speaks to your heart.... It is certainly not in the lord's will that every immature spirit manifests itself, yet the human being's will alone is the cause, the pure spirit, however, is fully aware of the truth and therefore gives the receiving earthly child a heightened power of judgement in order to protect it from accepting what is untrue. And so caution is always required and the brightest attention, combined with believing devotion to the divine saviour, and the human being recognizes most clearly where truth and falsehood have merged. The innermost stirrings of a human heart are too diverse and varied.... What moves a person very often resonates and sometimes makes itself felt at times of complete detachment from the earthly. It penetrates through spiritual experience and gains the upper hand precisely through the will of the human being, who receives such thoughts and now expresses them audibly. In such moments the spirits of lies then have power over the completely unresisting man and then express themselves, and the good spiritual powers then have to step back because the will of man does not stop the former but lets itself be taken possession of. The good forces, for their part, can only prevent the proclamations from finding their way into the listening human child, and they can protect it from accepting a wrong teaching, and if it is afflicted by doubts it is necessary to seriously scrutinize the content of the proclamations, which can only be successful through heartfelt prayer. But where the earthly child trustingly turns to the heavenly father Himself, he will be given the clearest information. And so let it be said to you that only God's love ever determines God's reign and activity, but that divine love never takes revenge or retribution.... And it is only in this realization that every event can be properly assessed.... No matter how much it may appear that God's punishing hand intervenes.... love for His creatures is always the reason for intervening in ways that seem merciless to people.... Every event is always intended to bring about that the creatures, which have distanced themselves from God as the eternal love, find their way back to Him. Yet hatred, retribution or punishment in unkindness is never the motive of divine intervention, for He is an equally loving father to all His creatures and He tries to win all His children for eternity.... and if you understand this you will also know how to distinguish....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers