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7869 Final aim of the act of creation: childhood of God....

April 11, 1961: Book 82

The fact that you are My share will also have to be experienced by My adversary one day, for he will not be able to keep you for himself forever, because what originated from Me must irrevocably return to Me according to the law of eternity. And he himself will also take the path to Me when he is deprived of all his strength, which he sees in his now following.... Nevertheless, it has been granted to him to also wrestle for your possessions because you once followed him voluntarily. And it will be proven which power is stronger.... My love, which applies to you, My living creations, for all eternity, or his hatred, which keeps you bound but from which you yourselves can escape as soon as this is only your will, because then you will strive back to Me again and then also experience My support in abundance.... And therefore My endeavour, as well as His, is only ever to win your will, and as this decides, so also is the 'lord' determined, whom you call yourselves.... And even though you still turn this will towards him for a long time, even though you still remain with him in free will for eternities, your resistance will nevertheless one day be broken and you will surrender to My love, for love is strength which achieves everything and to which you will one day surrender. And thus his strength will also diminish more and more until he himself lies powerless on the ground and will appeal to Me for an influx of strength. But eternities will still pass until then, and until then we will both wrestle for souls, for I will not give up anything which has emerged from My love.... just as he no longer wants to lose what he believes to possess eternally. But the time of distance from Me is a process of development for you towards the highest perfection, a process towards the attainment of childship to God.... You do not yet understand what this means, for you were indeed created by Me as supremely perfect beings but you were only 'creatures' which could not be other than as they were created.... I had created you and thus you were 'works', coming forth from My hand.... But I wanted to have something beside Me which had shaped itself in free will in such a way that it was supremely perfect.... I wanted to have beings next to Me which I could call 'children', which therefore were not so formed as a result of My will but whose own free will had striven for and attained perfection.... and who then were also in truth My 'children'.... But this decision had to be made by them themselves, they had to have taken the path of development of their own accord, and therefore it was left up to the created beings to remain in their state of perfection given to them by Me or to strive away from Me.... and the latter meant that they surrendered the light and freedom they possessed.... it meant that they themselves resisted My love which wanted to illuminate them and they became imperfect because they separated from Me of their own will. And I allowed this to happen for the sake of the lofty aim that they returned to Me again as 'children', although they would never have had to do without My illumination of love if this had been their free will.... For My angelic spirit, which was the first to emerge, was also the first to detach itself from Me, and since it was visible to the beings in radiant abundance of light, countless beings followed it.... Thus they likewise separated from Me of their own free will, they relinquished their perfection in order to regain it again by an infinitely long path.... in order to go through the process of attaining childship to God and to approach supreme bliss.... Since this was and is the final aim of My act of creation, everything that once fell away from Me also returns to Me again. But the process of development can take eternities, depending on the spirit being's will, if it walks across earth as a human being and is to prove its now free will.... And whether it fails and fails again and again.... one day it will return to Me, and then its bliss will find no end.... for then I will have achieved what I wanted but could not create for Myself: supremely perfect children who do not have to work according to My will but create and work in free will, as it is also My will, and therefore they are immeasurably blissfully happy...._>Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers