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8670 The original debt could not be redeemed by the being itself....

November 11, 1963: Book 91

Through endless long times you had to endure torments for which you lack any concept.... And yet, these torments were not enough to erase the great original sin you had committed by falling away from Me.... through the conscious rebellion against Me.... This sin was not to be blotted out by yourselves, even if eternities were to pass, because you began it.... as you have often been told.... in a state of brightest realization, thus you were able to recognize Me Myself as loving God and creator even though I was not visible to you.... as well as being aware of the fact that you yourselves had come forth from Me.... that you were therefore the same as your creator from eternity and had called love into being for you.... You therefore went against love, you rejected love, which however was your primal element.... You lost everything divine and consciously turned away from Me.... Had you been somehow deficiently formed then your sin would not have been so immeasurably great, but precisely your perfection, which was inherent in you as divine creatures, also let you recognize what you did.... and yet you committed this sin, and the consequence of it was the fall into the abyss, the consequence was the hardening of the spiritual substance, because My love radiation was missing and this substance was now completely incapable of activity, thus it succumbed to death. You knew what you were doing and yet did not shrink from turning against Me.... against the eternal love.... And this guilt was immeasurable and could never be atoned for by the being itself, but it was cause for complete turning away from Me, for a separation, which could no longer be cancelled on the part of the guilty. Only the circumstance that that spiritual that fell away from Me was once emanated power by Me.... thus My part.... caused Me to find and initiate a way which brought My creatures back to Me. For the first time this was the way through creation, that is, the slow awakening to life of the dead, powerless beingness which was not conscious of itself. But this way was not enough, for even if the torments are unthinkable for you men, they were nevertheless no adequate atonement for the great guilt.... But I did not want to give up anything of what was My portion.... And therefore a work of atonement was necessary, which outweighed the exceeding great guilt of sin.... The beings once were blissful and gave up their bliss.... Thus, in order to redeem this great guilt, a being had to voluntarily take the guilt upon Itself, thus, in turn, surrender Its beatitude, yet It did not reject love in defiance but sacrificed Its beatitude out of love for the fallen being, It had to voluntarily take upon Itself an unhappy fate solely for the purpose of helping Its fallen brothers to beatitude. It had to voluntarily divest Itself of light and strength, as those beings had also done.... yet not as a result of lack of love, but as a result and effect of an excessive love.... This being had to take torments and pains upon Itself as man, which were superhuman; It had to let a work come to execution in Itself, which those once fallen beings accomplished through impulse of My opponent at this man. And His great love also requested for these executioner servants the forgiveness of their guilt.... And that man was Jesus, a being of light, which was devoted to Me in all love, which became a cover for Me on earth, in which I Myself could take abode and which I could fill with My love power, so that I therefore embodied Myself in the man Jesus and accomplished the work of redemption in Him. For only love Itself could redeem that guilt, Which only made use of a human form, to which a highest spirit out of the heavens gave life to take upon Itself as man the agonies, which I Myself as God could not suffer.... He and I therefore united completely because I as love from eternity took abode in Him and His human body now offered itself as a sacrifice for the sins of all mankind.... However it is explained to you, you can never fully grasp this My becoming man in Jesus as long as you yourselves still walk over earth as man. But you should know and understand one thing that you will remain eternally separated from Me if you do not accept Jesus' act of salvation, if you do not acknowledge Me Myself in Jesus as your God and father, Who has endured unspeakable suffering in a human form because He wanted to redeem the original sin and enable the fallen beings to return to the father. Why this guilt of apostasy from Me was so great that an own atonement is impossible, that you will also only recognize once you also recognize My immense love in the state of perfection, against which to rebel is the greatest sin a being can ever commit.... And only love Itself could redeem this guilt. And eternal love Itself also did this in the man Jesus, Who therefore also has to be acknowledged as God's son and redeemer of the world, in Whom God Himself became man...._>Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers