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5538 Wake-up call before the long night....

November 21, 1952: Book 61

Wake up, you who sleep during the day, for a night of endless duration is approaching for you who do not hear this admonition. Then you will be condemned to inactivity, where you can still create and work and yet you do not use your strength.... Wake up, let the light of day shine into your hearts so that they will joyfully beat towards life. O hear My call which is meant for all those who keep their sleep of death, who are spiritually dead, even though they are still alive on earth. But soon this life of your body will also be over, and then the night will inevitably come for you from which no more awakening will come, whereas it is now still possible for you. You humans who only live for this earthly world, do you really believe that you became what you are now for the sake of your earthly life? Do you seriously believe that your creator and God from eternity only called you into existence so that you could animate this earth? Is this earthly existence enough for you or do you long for a life that lasts forever and makes you blissfully happy? How miserable is your existence compared to the true life in the spiritual kingdom, and yet you value it higher than this, otherwise you would only create and work for spiritual life. What hardship you will be in if this physical life is also taken from you.... You will enter the spiritual kingdom without strength if you have the grace to be called away before the end, yet you will remember the unused time on earth in endless agony and remorse, which could have earned you everything if you had striven for the most important thing, the rebirth into eternal life.... But if night falls upon you, if you are still alive, then woe to you.... then you will no longer be what you were before, then your soul will be dissolved and banished anew into hardest matter, and you will not be able to escape this dreadful fate, you will be bound again in a form which you have long since overcome, and you will have to travel an endlessly long path again until you once more attain your self-consciousness, a path which seems eternal to you.... It is the night from which there is no awakening, it is the time when you lie in the grave, dead and yet not past.... where you can no longer work according to your own will, where you lie in a sleep of death which you cannot end yourselves, whereas now you can still use your vitality if you want to become active, if you heed My wake-up call and escape the night which certainly wants to keep you imprisoned but which you can chase away if you open yourselves to the light which My love and grace lets shine for you. Rise up, you sleepers, and let it become day within you, let yourselves be warned of the eternally long night and do everything so that it does not take you by surprise, for the night is no human friend.... seek the light, come towards Me as the eternal light, and believe that eternal life awaits you where it is light and bright and where you need fear no more night for ever....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers