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8339 Twilight in the afterlife.... faith in God....

November 26, 1962: Book 88

And if only a small light can be kindled for you before your passing away from this world, then you need not enter into deepest darkness and you can find your way, you can also already include other souls in your small circle of light and likewise help them into brightness. And it is such a small light if you believe in a God and creator and pray to Him.... Then your resistance will be broken, and then it will also be possible to let ever brighter light shine towards you in the kingdom of the beyond.... And then you will not reject Jesus Christ either when the knowledge of Him is conveyed to you by spiritual beings of light. For brightest light can only shine for you when you have become free from all guilt, when you acknowledge Him and ask Him for redemption and forgiveness of your guilt.... But how many people depart from this earth without having found Him, and then they cannot be accepted into the kingdom of light either.... Nevertheless, they can move in the twilight if they have faith in Me, if they don't completely deny a God and creator, for the latter would inevitably also mean deepest darkness for the soul.... To walk in twilight is not bliss but not hopeless.... The soul will recognise like-minded souls and also have opportunities to be helpful and thereby also increase the light within and around it.... For the fact that it believes in Me also makes it remember Me and ask for help, and this can only ever be given to it in the kingdom of the beyond if it accepts the advice given to it by unknown beings of light which only ever consist of calling upon Jesus Christ and providing help for suffering souls. The resistance will also no longer be so great because it has already given up resistance on earth through her faith in Me. Therefore it is extremely important to bring My word to people while they are still on earth, which instructs them and can bring Me Myself close to them, for their will is free and their faith in Me must also be free, and they can only gain it through faith in love.... Hence the constant admonition to fulfil the commandments of love for God and neighbour is necessary.... and anyone who follows these admonitions will also soon recognise Me through his activity of love and believe in Me.... And he shall at least have reached this degree on earth, then he need not fear the hour of death either, even though he cannot enter the realms of the blessed, yet he will take a small light across with him which will illuminate his path and, in accordance with his even now still free will, will be increased and his ascent upwards will be assured for him.... But where not the slightest light could be kindled, deepest darkness is irrevocably the fate of a soul which will sink far deeper rather than take the path of ascent, even though lights occasionally shine in the darkness and entice the souls out.... yet the help offered to them is rarely accepted unless much intercession is given to those souls, which has the effect of a flow of strength and can then also cause a soul to change and desire light.... But at present human hearts on earth are in a state of profound darkness, for faith in Me has been lost to humanity because a formal faith.... a church faith which is not alive through love.... cannot be called faith and people themselves are not inwardly convinced that there is a God before Whom they will one day have to answer. This is why the kingdom of darkness is extremely densely populated and the earth is surrounded by souls which are unable to detach themselves from their former surroundings and which affect people in the most unfavourable way. So that this darkness on earth will still be broken through, small lights will shine everywhere, i.e., I will try to guide My word everywhere which shall enlighten people's hearts so that the number of those who hopelessly sink into the abyss will be reduced. For the spiritual kingdom will soon close its gates and no longer accept such dark souls, for as soon as the end of the earth has come they will fall into the lot of the new banishment.... Darkness will be their portion because they shunned the light which was offered to them from above....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers