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2863 love and grace and guidance in free will....

August 28, 1943: Book 37

In every phase of earthly life My will guides you and My grace flows to you unstoppably.... For your embodiment on earth in every form is a grace which I grant you in order to help you to ascend again from the abyss. Through your own will you deprived yourselves of power and strength and were therefore only able to dwell in the depths, in darkness, where powerlessness and ignorance turned you into unfree creatures who now became painfully aware of their existence. And I want to liberate you from this imperfect state because My love still applies to you, who voluntarily tried to separate yourselves from Me. And therefore I give you the opportunity to ascend again by letting you take a path by virtue of My will which reduces the distance from Me again, even though it takes endless times until you have reached your goal. Nevertheless, you have to recognize every possibility of ascent as grace, for you yourselves, that is, your own will has taken the path downwards, towards the abyss from which My love wants to lead you back again. And since your will earned you complete ignorance and spiritual darkness you are also incapable of returning upwards of your own accord, and therefore I have seized you completely and subordinated you to My will again until you regain the ability to continue this process of higher development of your own free will and to strive for your liberation, your former perfection again. My love and grace will take pity on your weakness and lead you towards the light again in the infinitely long earthly path, yet then I will have to give you the freedom of will again so that you can take your last test of earthly life, where I will indeed provide you with My grace without measure but you will have to freely decide whether you want to accept and utilize this grace or leave it unused.... My will now seemingly withdraws from you, yet I still direct your course of life such that it can bring you the highest spiritual successes if you have the will to ascend, for I do not force this.... I leave you complete freedom but shape your earthly life such that you can always and everywhere recognize Me, and My love and grace will guide you if you don't oppose Me, for I want you to become again what you were from the start....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers