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6060 Final phase as a human being.... free will....

September 20, 1954: Book 65

It is a long way until you reach perfection. But you have covered the longest distance and only a short way remains for you to reach your aim. But this short distance requires a well-directed will, whereas before you had, as it were, naturally walked upwards. Earthly life as a human being is this short stretch of path where your will alone decides whether you ascend.... For a wrongly directed will can also lead you back again or let you remain on the same level. But if you consider the infinitely long path before.... if you consider that you have arrived shortly before the aim, then you should do everything not to sink back.... You should not endanger the maturity you have already attained, but eagerly seek to increase it.... you should want to reach perfection and now live according to God's will, Who makes His will known to you through His word.... For it is His constant endeavour that His word is conveyed to you, and thus every person also knows about God's will.... He knows that life should be lived in divine order, he knows the commandments of love for God and his neighbour because these commandments have already been sensitively placed in his heart. Moreover, he will be instructed by God directly or through messengers.... fate will instruct him, he will experience the law of eternal order himself, and therefore he will also know exactly how the individual human being should behave towards his fellow human beings.... and through the right relationship with his fellow human beings he will also establish the right relationship with God.... Only his will must be rightly directed, i.e. good.... That alone decides whether his life will bring him maturity of soul or will remain only an idle life.... But the result of his will is infinitely grave.... for it means: final freedom or renewed bondage.... People don't know what earthly life means for the individual, that it is a short time of grace where everything is granted to them to reach final freedom from the form, and that they also have the strength to reach the aim if only the will strives for it. But the will is free and that is why earthly life is so significant.... But the human being has reached a degree of maturity that it is possible for him to give his will the right direction, for he has also been given intellect so that he can well weigh up his will, thinking and actions. He is no longer compelled to do what he does, as before, but can freely undertake everything of his own accord.... thus also refrain from doing what contradicts God's will.... but he can also act contrary to His will.... Therefore he also bears responsibility for his life, and the wrong use of his will can earn him death instead of life.... Then the endlessly long path of upward development can be in vain, the soul.... the spiritual in the human being.... can sink back into deepest darkness and have to languish again for eternities in the hardest enclosure.... until it once again has to pass the same test of will in order to finally become free....

Amen

6061

Light is where God's spirit works....

Light is everywhere where I can pour out My spirit, for darkness has broken through there and will never be able to take hold there again. Light is where I Myself can instruct people, where My word is respected, where people long for contact with Me and listen to My word as spoken to them.... Light is where people make it possible for Me to radiate My spirit over them.... But the light is also only there, for it cannot be given to you humans other than through My working of the spirit. And therefore far more darkness is spread across the earth, for My spirit can only rarely work.... Brightest light could be emanated and deepest knowledge could be imparted to people and they would feel at ease in the light of knowledge.... But anyone who wants to be knowledgeable seeks to gain it by other means; he believes he can penetrate intellectually into areas which can only be fathomed spiritually. People are mostly unaware of the right path, they know nothing of the fact that I reveal Myself through My spirit. The 'outpouring of the spirit' is a completely unknown concept to them.... All they know about it is the Pentecostal experience of the first disciples, which they regard as unique and don't want to believe that this process can repeat itself again and again and with all people if they can demonstrate the same prerequisites as My first disciples. I am always in closest contact with My living creations but only express Myself when they also establish contact with Me through loving actions or heartfelt thoughts. To most people I am only a distant God, and they can never be addressed by Me Myself that they hear My voice, because they don't have the desire to hear Me and therefore don't pay attention to what is conveyed to them through their spirit.

The outpouring of the spirit is the ability to unfold thoughts which, as it were, touch unfamiliar territory, so that the human being's realization is increased, that clarity is gained in him about previously unresolved problems.... that he thus receives knowledge which My spirit imparts to him. The outpouring of the spirit is a transfer of strength which he did not possess himself and which now comes to him from Me.... "My spirit will pour out on all flesh...." Light and power overflow from Me into a person when he opens himself, when he prepares himself to be a vessel worthy of Me Myself.... My light and My strength.... within himself. And people are not informed about this process, nor can they be, because they can only understand it under certain conditions and cannot demonstrate them. For to shape oneself into the vessel of the divine spirit means as much as to shape oneself into love, and all people who lack love, who do not fulfil this first and most important commandment, cannot believe that I make Myself known either. My spirit's working means to be in direct contact with Me and to hear Me.... Again, only spirit-awakened people can speak about the outpouring of the spirit.... the connection with Me must already have been established which allows My spirit to be effective. And therefore the outpouring of the spirit cannot be advocated as a doctrine, because there would be no understanding for it as long as the ordering of thoughts through the spirit has not taken place.... But people could believe it and try to shape themselves through loving actions so that My spirit can pour itself out upon them. Yet even this faith does not exist because people live without any love.... Therefore they are spiritually blind, they walk in darkness, and they don't see where a light shines, and if it is brought close to them then they turn away.

9/22/1954 But they can only be happy when they stand in the light. And even if they do not recognize their darkness as a lack on earth, in the beyond the darkness will torment them unspeakably, and good for those who then strive towards the sparks of light which occasionally flash at them.... good for them, for they can also still reach the light there....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers