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3788 ‘Create and work while it is still day....’

June 2, 1946: Book 48

Create and work while it is still day.... Because for you, who fail to do so, a night of endless duration shall follow. There is still the possibility of realisation for all people, the light of day is still attainable, the darkness of the spirit can still be broken through, if only the human being has the will to do so; but then a time will come when the human being, i.e. the spiritual in him, is deprived of his free will and has to languish in darkness (of the spirit) for an endless time. And only those who long for the light escape this spiritual night, they enter the kingdom of light, they stand in fullest realisation even though they still dwell on earth, for the light they have found once, shall never go out but will illuminate their spirit forever and ever. Create and work while it is still day.... Yet the day is drawing to a close.... And therefore I constantly send light bearers to people, and all who are of good will recognise them as My messengers and gratefully accept what I offer them.... Knowledge of the pure truth.... Light from the heavens.... Food and drink from the spiritual kingdom.... so that they can diligently create and work, so that they can gather spiritual riches through labour of love and thus increase their knowledge in the time of evening, in the time which is still granted to them until the end, until nightfall. Labour and work with all diligence, for the time is not long. But in what alone do you create and work so as not to fall prey to the terror of the night? Only in obeying My commandment of love.... I have only given you one commandment.... which teaches of love for Me and for your neighbour, and if you obey it you will be eagerly active, as it is My will.... Then you create and work for your souls, if you create and work for your neighbour, if your love for Me impels you to also show love for your neighbour, to help him physically and spiritually and thus to comply with your original purpose.... to be active with love.... I only gave you one commandment, yet obeying this commandment results in every blessing, it shapes you into recipients of light, it makes you My children and thus My heirs who shall one day be able to rule and reign in the Father's house according to their will, which will then also be My will.... Create and work while it is still day.... For night comes according to the law of eternity for all who do not use the day according to My will.... Inactivity is death, and you can only live if you are restlessly active. But life also means to be enlightened, to be in the light, for the latter is absolutely necessary for true activity. And therefore, I gave you free will so that you become active of your own accord, so that you work independently, and I also gave you the ability to recognise which work corresponds to My will.... I gave you the day so that you can make full use of it, so that you can escape the night and walk in the light forever. But anyone who does not use his free will in the right way, who disregards all activity, will be surprised by the night and dwell in eternal darkness through his own fault.... And more urgently than ever I admonish you to work for yourselves, for your souls.... For the law of eternity must be fulfilled, a night will follow the day, and anyone who has not rescued himself from the spiritual darkness into the kingdom of light shall sink into the night of death again and shall not be able to free himself on his own. Therefore, work and work as long as there is still day, for the night will come when you will no longer be able to work....

Amen

Translated by Sven Immecke