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8174 Divine revelations spread light....

May 10, 1962: Book 86

My spirit is always willing to empty itself, for people need a light because they live in complete darkness and a light can only be kindled for them by Me Myself. For I am the eternal light which constantly radiates into infinity and thus also into the dark regions of earth where the lord of darkness reigns and therefore also wants to prevent a light from shining into this region. But the inhabitants of this earth, the people, who are therefore without light because they are without bond with Me, from Whom the light emanates, take Me. And I use every opportunity where the bond with Me is consciously established and then shine a light to earth. But then you humans must also perceive the light, you must feel a brightness in which you can now also recognize everything.... because the light breaks through all darkness which weighs upon you. This is the spiritual darkness which surrounds you humans as long as My adversary still has you under his control.... This is the ignorance of all spiritual correlations.... the ignorance of My nature.... of your beginning and your goal.... of your earthly task. It is the spiritual darkness, the lack of knowledge, which is truly not a blissful state for you. And what now contributes towards you becoming enlightened about these spiritual problems is for you a 'light'.... it is a knowledge which truthfully informs you about yourselves and about the connection with your God and creator.... As long as you have little or no knowledge of this you will still walk in spiritual darkness, and then you will not be able to speak of a light which was kindled for you by Me. And then you will also find yourselves in the hardship of the soul which, without the right light from Me, will not find the path which leads upwards, back to Me, back into the father's house. And thus you know that you first have to seriously establish the bond with Me so that a ray of light of love can touch your heart which will then also kindle the right light in you.... Knowledge must be made accessible to you, and this can only happen from My side, because I alone know everything and can therefore also reveal everything to you if I deem it necessary for your soul's salvation.... And where such knowledge is conveyed to earth, thus My spirit is active there, there you will also be able to speak of an obvious working in the human being, who now constantly increases in wisdom, in knowledge which corresponds to truth.... If you now want to test 'revelations' for their value, if you want to ascertain whether those revelations have their origin in Me Myself, free yourselves from all prejudice and only test the receptions for the depth of wisdom, for the degree of knowledge which is imparted to you through them.... Do they really give you light?.... Do they increase your knowledge?.... Do they make connections clear to you that were previously unknown to you?.... Is My essence revealed to you?.... Do you come to know your original state, your apostasy from Me and your reformation? .... Are you being introduced to My plan of salvation from eternity and are you learning the purpose of creation and your existence on earth?.... You lost all knowledge through your former apostasy from Me and also entered this earth as a human being in this lightless state.... And if I want to give you a light, this means that you will gain knowledge again of everything that once happened in the spirit kingdom and of My plan of return, so that you will now lead your earthly life responsibly, so that in the light of truth you will also recognize the right path you have to take in order to reach the final goal on this earth: to unite with the father and to live and work in blissful communion with Him for all eternity. Precisely because I want to achieve this goal but this requires your free will, My most eager endeavour is to give you light again about what you were, what you are and should become again.... And precisely for this reason I reveal Myself to you so that you will find your way out of the state of spiritual darkness.... And only pure truth can bring this about, and this in turn can only be supplied to you by the eternal truth itself through the spirit.... And thus the 'working of the spirit in the human being' only ever means that he is 'introduced' to the truth.... that a light is kindled for him, because he is in spiritual darkness as long as he is not given truthful knowledge which can now also be evaluated as 'divine revelation', because it rises from within the human being himself, because it is the 'manifestation of My spirit in the human being' which now also proves the originator of it.... Who reveals Himself.... Where only a heart opens and frees itself from all spiritual knowledge, where I can let My light of love shine in unhindered, there profound wisdom will also come to light; it will be possible to speak of knowledge gained, ignorance will give way and a body of thought will be ascertainable which the human being has never possessed before and which gives him enlightenment which was not conveyed from person to person but which was given to him by Me because I Myself was able to work in him through My spirit.... And therefore examine everything for its outcome, for truth is only with Me alone, and truth alone is the light which illuminates the darkness and which you need in order to fulfil your purpose of earthly life....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers