| and nothing to be sad about. Angels of God are forever near every one of God's children | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| upward with a truly sincere desire. Rejoice that God is so much nearer to you, that happiness | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| peace, my dear ones, be blessed, be in God! 25. THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS Greetings in the name of God and Jesus Christ. I bring blessings for all | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| your heart or to have real faith in God. Whatever pertains to emotions is not dependent upon | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| perfect. I know this is the will of God. But it is the ignorance of the lower | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| self seeks to advance for the love of God by way of recognition and enlightenment, aware that | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| will be disappointed - - not only in God and in what you have somehow unconsciously expected | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| now; think about them deeply. Take them to God and ask Him, if you have doubts. He | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the Christ spirit is an all-pervading spirit like God or an individual spirit? ANSWER: It is exactly | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| ANSWER: It is exactly the same as with God. The substance of Christ is the same as | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| God's substance, or Christ's substance makes no difference. God has given most of this substance to His | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to which we are referring. The presence of God or that of Jesus Christ as a person | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| now leading you. To feel the presence of God in His personification -- which is almost never | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the angels. In Isaiah it is said that God created good and evil. Did God create the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| said that God created good and evil. Did God create the evil forces and the Luciferic powers | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| have happened. You will remember my explaining that God created the power which He then gave to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| occurred. It is technically correct to say that God created evil, but it would be more correct | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| it would be more correct to say that God created the possibility for evil if with their | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| law exists, but that does not mean that God created evil. There is a great difference between | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| or not. I have explained very thoroughly why God gave to all beings the possibility to choose | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| meaning of a sentence. If instead of saying God created evil, it had said, God created the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| of saying God created evil, it had said, God created the possibility of evil, the meaning would | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| say to yourself and, in your meditations, to God: This is the way I am now. At | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and vanity, face what is in me. Ask God to help you to achieve that end, and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| their lives. Peace be with you; be in God! 26. FINDING ONE'S FAULTS Greetings in the name | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| FINDING ONE'S FAULTS Greetings in the name of God and Jesus Christ. I bring you blessings, my | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| may have. Certainly the path is difficult, but God is wise and just and He will not | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that you put yourself into the hands of God and ask Him. Let Him decide for you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| does not even occur to you to ask God for His will in this respect. Another great | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| path of self-knowledge and perfection, and do what God wants you to do. It will not take | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| master it, regardless how sincere your love for God may be. Love for God is wonderful if | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your love for God may be. Love for God is wonderful if it manifests in beautiful prayer | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| it enough if I am a decent person? God loves us all and if I just try | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| all that, my friends. Imagine the love of God, this marvelous light that lives in the soul | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| delivering in fulfillment and purification. I mean that God evaluates each individual differently. Furthermore, do not imagine | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| and concentration to general deliberations, and instead ask God for help to be able to recognize yourself | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| view the self generally reserves for itself. Ask God to inspire you how to react rightly to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| lists, work with them. Take the results to God in your daily prayer to help you further | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| it is much easier to find contact with God and His truth within yourself. Consider such days | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| consider it again, and take your problem to God. It is most difficult for human beings to | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| give in to your mood so easily. Ask God for proper understanding and light in this moment | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| find it. Then, if you still doubt, ask God for His truth and His will for you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| first decide to choose this path and trust God that He will give you what you need | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that do not belong to the world of God as yet, conditions are different. There the various | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| and opportunity of seeing other means of reaching God and of learning something from that. But in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| even though such people do not believe in God, but have merely some sense of decency, their | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| courage. Go your way in peace; be in God! 27. ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH Greetings | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your free will alone, without the help of God and the guidance He gives you provided you | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| have to take into account that nobody but God and yourself will know what you are doing | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| in harmony. Never feel lonely or alone, because God is here and everywhere. And He loves each | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| Go in joy and in peace. Be in God! 28. COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW Greetings | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| in peace. Be in God! 28. COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW Greetings in the name of | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| friends, as usual. Every living creature is seeking God; every human being is consciously or unconsciously seeking | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| every human being is consciously or unconsciously seeking God. Even those you call atheists; they, too, are | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| those you call atheists; they, too, are seeking God. Everyone seeks happiness, love, and security, and that | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| seeks happiness, love, and security, and that is God! Of course, where spiritual awareness is still lacking | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the security that only a harmonious relationship with God can provide. Financial success, satisfying emotional ties, and | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| current that is destined for the love of God, it will always leave you with a feeling | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of emptiness, dissatisfaction, or even frustration. So if God is not truly the basis of your life | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you lose a human love as long as God has his rightful place in your heart. I | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| heart. I have said that everyone is seeking God, though oftentimes without knowing it. Just as plants | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| warmth, so is the human being leaning toward God, often as unconsciously as the plant. Only when | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| as the plant. Only when you have found God within yourself will your heart be at rest | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your puzzling life make sense. Only by finding God will the light of knowledge be yours -- | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| hardships were for you. Yes, indeed, you will. God is sought in different ways. He cannot, however | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| each of you, many of you still seek God in the wrong way. No matter what religion | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| philosophy you believe in, you can only find God within by going through your lower self. If | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| excavation work to uncover the treasure house of God that lies embedded in everyone of you? Why | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| human beings who do know perfectly well that God can only be found within you, continue to | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your souls to find a spark, to experience God. Perhaps you hope to do this by seeking | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| do this by seeking general, abstract knowledge of God or by doing certain spiritual exercises. If this | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you will receive will be everything else but God. You must not try to disregard whatever the | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you seek in this way, you will find God to be so much nearer than you thought | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you than you can ever fathom. To find God, you need to recognize your hidden emotions and | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| will you find true happiness and security in God, with God, and through God. How can I | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| find true happiness and security in God, with God, and through God. How can I do that | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and security in God, with God, and through God. How can I do that? is always the | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| sides and often from more. You cannot find God unless you strive to overcome your imperfections. But | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| in all living creatures to strive upward to God. Though your yearning for God is often misunderstood | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| strive upward to God. Though your yearning for God is often misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misdirected into wrong | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you may not yet have close contact with God. Still, with the little contact you may have | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| personal relationship with or a personal experience of God. You see, my dear friends, many of you | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| my dear friends, many of you believe in God but many of you also have deep in | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| part of you that does not believe in God and even sincerely wants to strengthen the disbelief | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| yourself. But whether it is the doubt about God or some other aspect of yourself, the principle | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it. Coming back to the shortcut to knowing God: If you sense that a lack of belief | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| way to experience the reality and presence of God and His spirit world so strongly that all | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| If you are capable of sacrificing something for God, you will have that experience. The knowledge, the | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it, the better it is. Only you and God must know, and perhaps your spiritual teacher if | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| your excessive attachment -- and present it to God. Open yourself completely and ask first, What is | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| all very well, but perhaps there is no God. If there is no God, I certainly do | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| there is no God. If there is no God, I certainly do not see any reason why | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| say: All right, if there really is no God, I am not risking anything by asking, for | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| letting Him make my decision, I will ask God himself whether He exists. Dear God, one side | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| will ask God himself whether He exists. Dear God, one side of me believes in you; another | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you first settle this question between yourself and God, you will receive enlightenment. However, you must face | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| say: And if I know that you are God, I will be ready to sacrifice and let | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| enlightening realization that He who is the living God and the greatest reality of all, truly exists | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| knowledge if you are prepared to sacrifice for God. You always wait for Him to manifest first | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| relinquish your self-will and your own desires to God in the event that His will should manifest | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| self-will is stronger than your desire to put God first, you will never know the certainty of | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the certainty of His existence. Until such time, God will not be a reality for you, no | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to sacrifice your self-will for the sake of God, even if a corner of unbelief still remains | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| upward. Let go, my dear ones! Of course God is as yet unknown to you. Trust in | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Once you have sacrificed your self-will and therefore God has become a profound reality for you, all | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| know what your unconscious image or belief about God actually is. Ask yourself that question also, for | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| person this hidden subconscious or unconscious image of God -- which is, of course, not a thought | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of your human problems. Such a concept of God may have come from another image, whether in | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| had. It may dangerously color your image of God, and you should recognize this danger. Other people | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| that their problems cannot ever be presented to God, because God does not care about their lives | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| problems cannot ever be presented to God, because God does not care about their lives. This is | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| it might be almost blasphemous to go to God with certain problems. How wrong this is, too | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| is no problem which you cannot bring to God, no matter what it is, for He certainly | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| that no matter what problem you take to God in a sincere way, He will understand and | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| ask: Where is something in my life that God may wish to change? And then prepare yourself | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| so much. Put down all your cards before God. Make yourself empty. Be ready to give up | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| give up entirely, under some pretext, surrendering to God. Being honest in this way you are preparing | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| are truly in accordance with divine law. Ask God for enlightenment as to what in these patterns | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| In order to truly fulfill the will of God you need a great deal of activity and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is not necessary to fulfill the will of God. You should at all times be active and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| things -- to adhere to the laws of God, which you know. And that is not so | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| particular teachings and personal guidance. People who find God in any of the current existing religions or | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and people who are not particularly close to God, who may be agnostics or even atheists, but | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| justice and the wonderful order of the universe. God does not want you to be a puppet | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| for it in some hidden way. In reality God wants you to be independent and strong, and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| Now the question of what the will of God is for you still remains open. I have | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| to do that. To fulfill the will of God means overcoming your inner resistances and for that | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| even more actively to follow the will of God once you know it. To determine what the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| know it. To determine what the will of God is in individual instances, you very rarely need | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you enlist God's help for this purpose, because God never gives any help of this sort if | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| are called upon to make, do not expect God to decide for you or to alter an | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| a wrong channel or violates a spiritual law. God recognizes your goodwill, and if you combine prayer | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you will find out the answer for yourself. God will help you through His angels so that | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| decide, I want to do it wholeheartedly. Then God will help you. Then there will be no | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| a very grave violation, setting you apart from God. It surrounds you with a dark wall behind | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| if you decide to fulfill the will of God -- quite the contrary. For it needs the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| want to do, we always have to ask God, Is this Thy will? Or do you have | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you. The right procedure is not to ask God simply to let you know whether to do | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| For as Jesus Christ has said, render unto God what is God's and render unto Caesar that | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| themselves to prevent other people from living as God wants them to live, and if your world | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| law in order to fulfill a law of God. But these instances are rare and only expected | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| do not purify themselves and strive upward to God, and as long as people cannot refine their | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| Be in peace, be in love, be in God! 30. SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR Greetings in the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| Immediately below The Ineffable, or the House of God as we call it, a sphere is shown | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| vast reservoir. Just as all is one with God, so it is with these lightforces. They constitute | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |