The Text - Section 9
9. PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
Greetings. I bring you God's blessings, my dear friends.
My dear friends, today I would like to speak about prayer and meditation. What is the
difference between the two? Many people are not quite clear about it. It is always a matter of
agreeing upon the meaning of terms. I should like to make the following distinction: Prayer is a
preliminary step to meditation. Prayer is a matter of thinking, meditation is prayer with feeling, it
engages the soul forces as compared to the thinking forces. To get to the second and further step
you need a certain discipline and concentration which you learn through prayer. Most people are
not used to be spiritually and mentally active, yet one cannot enter into meditation unless one has
first learned the preliminary state of concentration.
The person who has walked through this first gateway needs above all the insight that nothing
can be gained without discipline, regular work, and the best will to give each day some time to get
closer to God, to liberate the often dormant and hidden forces of the soul, and find the connection
to the rays of divine energy. This can happen only through self-discipline and regular practice,
preferably always at the same time of day. Yet it is not possible to establish a rule valid for everyone
without exception. For a few a more spontaneous way may be better, but only when in spite of this
spontaneity no day is omitted and solely time and place vary. As a rule, regularity is advantageous.
Human beings have difficulty concentrating. Time and again my friends have experienced
that, at first, their thoughts wander, that something mundane gets in the way. Then they become so
dismayed that they cannot pick up the thread. As I have often said, it is important not to let these
interruptions bother you and not to get confused and bewildered. Do not ask too much of
yourselves right away, but resume your practice in a quiet and relaxed manner. After some time you
will succeed in achieving a certain continuity and concentration. This is prayer. Do not forget, as
humans often do, to ask God again and again for help. You do not know how much this will serve
you. Why don't you say: "Help me to learn real prayer, or real meditation." At any moment, when
you are confused, ask for help. Here, too, the word holds true: "Knock and it shall be opened."
Concentration in prayer is beneficial not only as a training but also because each thought
builds a form. With the thoughts of prayer you build harmonious forms, so that the "thought-
prayer" activates favorable energies even before you have learned the "feeling-prayer" or meditation.
Yet thought forms, though they may not have the power of feeling forms, can nevertheless manifest
their own greatness when coming from a full heart, without self-deception, rooted in sincere
willpower.
This is the first step on this particular segment of the path: the pure power of thought
through concentration in prayer, and the liberation of the feeling currents, which brings about some
loosening of the spirit. This then is meditation.
Once you have learned concentration in prayer to some degree, practicing regular self-
discipline for this purpose, you may encounter the problem of becoming too mechanical. Now that
you have progressed so far, you find yourself struggling not to fall into the opposite extreme of
overdiscipline where prayer becomes a fetter. Then the time has come for you to learn to bring
prayer into the deeper layers of the soul.
At this point, too, helpful tools are available. Prayer, as I said, is in the domain of thinking. It
comes from here [pointing to the head], while meditation comes from here [pointing to the chest],
what I call the spiritual field of the human being. In the solar plexus, a person's entire spiritual
picture is imprinted. Those who free the feelings here and so determine when and how to connect
with God become, to a certain degree, master over themselves by overcoming their inner obstacles.
Now you may ask, how could you enter into this vibration. I say: All inner currents diverted
into wrong channels create obstacles. All that lies unrecognized and ferments in the subconscious is
an obstacle. Wherever you have difficulties to attune to the vibration, wherever you sense a
resistance, you can be sure of unrecognized violations of the laws in your soul. Self-recognition,
self-analysis, and the digging out of these currents are the only means, and to do this is not possible
without outer guidance, help, and instruction.
Apart from this, one cannot establish any general rules. It varies from one person to the next.
You must find the place in yourself where you sense the vibrations. It is not right to expect this to
happen immediately and every time. Once in a while spiritual influences may lift a human being into
a higher vibration even when the inner obstacles are still present in the soul, but these influences are
rare. A person should not evade the issue by saying, "I am not always capable to be attuned; I have
to be in the mood for that." But the "attunements" should no longer be governed by moods. You
need to control them yourself, and this is not possible unless you cultivate systematically your spirit
and your development. You need to become master of yourself, not be mastered by moods and
depend on them for the kind of contact to God which penetrates the entire being. This is the
purpose of this path, this is the goal, which, however, you cannot expect to attain right away. On
this path you will advance to a point where you determine yourself when the pure forces will be
ready to move freely from within you. This goal can be achieved only by following a slow, laborious
path. Pray for help in this respect as well. Very specifically, Christ will help you. Whoever turns to
him will receive help, for he has promised it to you.
There are several tools to liberate the soul forces: For some it may be helpful to remember
the last time they felt a strong vibration that connected them to God. Perhaps by conjuring it up in
their imagination they can relive it emotionally. Others may find the connection easier with the help
of a specific passage from the Bible, a certain prayer or spiritual law. The tools may vary, and each
of you need to explore your individual point of connection personally. Best of all is a victory over
yourself, an insight into the self that is real, complete and wholehearted. When you overcome a
resistance you open yourself to God's will and truth. Such victory frees many powers and causes a
wonderful vibration that leads to meditation, even though in the beginning it cannot be attained
every day. Some other time I will talk more about the soul-prayer, or meditation.
Today I would like to fulfill the promise I have given some time ago to share with you a
further interpretation of, or meditation on, the Lord's Prayer.
I talked about the meaning of this prayer and the way to meditate about it once before. There
are so many possibilities and ways. Then I spoke in general terms. Tonight I want to shed a
different light on it and show you how you can meditate on the prayer -- it can easily take an hour --
and find in it whatever you need at any time, for everything is contained in it. I will show you how
the prayer can be applied in a very personal way and how it can solve all your problems.
OUR FATHER. When you think of the meaning of these words, you presumably picture
God as the father of all beings. But as you say the words very intimately to yourself, try to meditate
very specifically on how God's fatherhood also applies to those people you do not like, or do not
care for, toward whom you feel resistance, or with whom you just happen to be in discord. It does
not have to be always a feeling of hatred; it is enough to be irritated with somebody. Go into your
stillness and ponder that these people are the children of God. Calling yourself a child of God is
justified only when you allow that the people who bring out unpleasant feelings in you are also
God's children, just as you are. When you succeed in doing so, your attitude, and therefore your
feelings too, will undergo a subtle change and you will become more relaxed and free.
To do this may at first be difficult and cause resistance, because your feelings are not always
willing to change. Whenever there are strong negative feelings of any kind there has to be a tight
inner knot. Take such a resistance as a signal that tells you how important it is to dissolve the inner
knot. If you harbor negative feelings, something in you must be unresolved, no matter how wrong
the other person may be. After this insight comes the will to straighten out whatever is wrong
within you and the readiness to allow for new recognitions, inspirations or teachings. Then practical
means will also be given to you to free yourself from the unresolved, negative state. Ask for it, want
it -- and suddenly, as you meditate on the deep meaning of these words and how to apply them in
your life, a heavy pressure will be lifted from your chest; you will feel as if you had been freed of a
burden.
Try it also another way: Bypass everything that bothers you in the other people and visualize
their perfection. Try to recognize how and where the divine spark manifests through them. Always
remember, whoever seeks, will find. You will discover qualities in them which will clearly indicate
their higher self and entitle them to be regarded children of God.
It is so important to draw a line separating the higher and the lower self, to pinpoint what
belongs to each one. The higher self is eternal, immortal, and is of God. The lower self is temporal,
and not of the true reality. Do not do this just with others. Start with yourself. For when you can
distinguish the two in you, it will no longer be so difficult to love your neighbor, and you will find it
much easier to recognize someone you do not like as your brother or sister. You will then allow
your higher self to unite with the higher self of your neighbor. All this is contained in the first two
words of the prayer: Our Father.
WHO ART IN HEAVEN. Heaven is within you, not outside. Seek it therefore in yourself,
find your own perfection, which already exists, though it may be veiled and covered up. And seek
Heaven, seek God within the soul of your neighbor, even the one you reject. For only thus can you
find the eternal, living God.
HALLOWED BE THY NAME. You hallow the name of the Father by trying to fathom His
laws and fulfill them. Because for every modality of life there exists a spiritual law. When you are
confused by problems in your life, it means that you have not found the appropriate spiritual law.
When you say, "Hallowed be thy name," ask the question within: "Where are my difficulties, what
are my problems? I must be violating a spiritual law, even if only unconsciously, but I no longer
want to do so." Ask God to help you understand what law you are violating. Ask Him for an
answer and you will learn to establish a personal connection through which you will truly hallow His
name. For when you look at your problems in truth, with honesty in your heart, you will also
receive the answer. It might not come at the same moment, but if you are alert and open, life will
bring you the answer.
THY KINGDOM COME. When you hallow God's name by following all spiritual laws you
also bring His kingdom close to you. For it is within you. You always think, if you give it a thought
at all, that God's kingdom is somewhere outside, that it will descend to your earth, and that all you
will have to do is to go where God's kingdom has manifested, and enter. These are the usual vague
ideas about the kingdom of God, false thought forms that you erect in your imagination. God's
kingdom must be created within you, and this can happen only when you go through this schooling
successfully, by learning to know and to apply the spiritual laws.
THY WILL BE DONE. I do not need to say much about this, since I have done so many
times before. But I want to emphasize again how difficult it is for most people to apply these words
on the personal level. You claim that you do not know what God's will is and that you would follow
it if only you knew what it was. I have said to you that whoever strives to make contact with God's
world to find out what God's will is, and then to fulfill it unconditionally, even while you are still
doubtful, will receive the answer. And rather than trying to rack your brains about how to fulfill
God's will when you feel unsure, turn to those areas where you do not require an answer, for the
answer will be obvious once you begin to think.
Everybody can be quite sure that it must be God's will to follow the path of perfection, in
whatever way it offers itself to you. You can be quite sure that it must be God's will that you face
yourself in honesty instead of choosing the more comfortable way of pushing away what creates
uneasiness, or blaming others and circumstances to avoid the necessity to seek the wrong within
you.
Contemplate what causes your inner resistance, and you can be sure that when you feel
disharmonious you have violated a divine law. No wrongdoing or error of another human being can
give you disharmonious feelings if there is not something amiss in you as well. Your answer must be
that you have in some way failed to fulfill God's will.
For one person, feelings of disharmony might take the form of general religious doubts which
ultimately are connected to personal problems, for another the causes might be more directly of a
personal nature. But whenever there is a feeling of heaviness, of anger, of resistance, of fear, of any
disharmony, you have a clue that something in you is not quite in order. For otherwise there could
not be so much darkness in some of your life situations. If you strive for the answer
wholeheartedly, even if it takes long to find out, you will get it sooner or later. When you pray for
the answer in order to fulfill God's will, it must come. Do not be afraid of it, for God's will is always
wise and loving and leads to happiness, even though the transition is a struggle. Then ask yourself:
"Am I truly willing to do God's will even if I do not like it at first?" I have given you a whole lecture
about this subject and you can use it in this connection.
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. What does this mean? What is Heaven? What is
Earth? Is it not a bit foolish of you human beings to say a prayer that God's will be done in Heaven,
which in some people's minds is somewhere outside? If Heaven were outside, would it need your
prayers that God's will be done there? Could you exercise such influences there? Certainly not. Of
course you can, to a certain degree, do it on Earth, in that you, through being on the path of
perfection, by the influence and light you spread, work for God's kingdom in your fellow human
beings.
Heaven is within you. It is your spirit in its perfection, which waits for the walls of the lower
self to be broken through. The God in you shall manifest in every detail in your spiritual as well as
in your earthly life. To what extent is this already a reality in your life? In what respect does God
not yet penetrate your being, your actions, your thoughts, and your feelings? Try for instance to
imagine this: If you were told to relinquish something to which you cling believing it to be God's
will -- it could just be an opinion -- would you be willing to let it go and consider that it may not be
so? Or would you rather convince yourself of the contrary, just because you want it that way?
Try to pinpoint in which area of your life you have this attitude. Then face yourself in
honesty. What is more important for you: the truth, or a conviction you have clung to for one
reason or another? If your conviction is right, don't you believe that God will confirm it? But first
there must be a willingness to let go. Whenever you feel a tightening rigidity, even if your opinion is
right, you prevent the heavenly kingdom from manifesting within you. On the other hand, where
you are in error, the truth cannot penetrate. When the thought forms are false, God's kingdom
cannot come to you.
GIVE US TODAY OUR DAILY BREAD. This, too, is often mechanically repeated,
without attaching any meaning to it. People assume even if they do not clearly formulate the
thought, that earning one's daily bread has nothing to do with God. But truly, I say to you, my dear
ones, you cannot do anything good that is not blessed by God. Without God, nothing will succeed,
no matter how hard you try again and again. A person who has had some spiritual schooling can
discern very accurately, when he or she thinks back on his or her life, what had God's blessing and
what did not. "How does the difference feel? Where do I repeatedly fail? In what areas do I always
have trouble? What is the true reason for it? What did I do wrong? In what respect do I have a
wrong attitude?" Think about it and surrender yourself to God, entirely.
Be ready to let yourself be guided to obtain both your earthly and your spiritual bread. The
spiritual bread is so neglected. You believe it is less important than the material bread. No, my dear
ones, the spiritual bread is more important, much more important. First you need to make the
effort to receive spiritual nourishment: desire it. That is the gateway through which all earthly
problems will be solved, and not the other way around. Whoever yearns for the spiritual bread has
already reached a certain level on the path.
FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES. The prayer says, "Forgive us," not me alone. This
includes all human beings, even those who have hurt you and whom you may not be able to forgive
completely. If you honestly wish that God may forgive them, then you are liberated from a dark
spiritual form in you, which attracts harmful energies and dark influences. Think what these words
contain: God should not forgive only you and those whom you love, but also those for whom you
still may harbor negative feelings. Often you are not even clear about your own guilt. Humans tend
to produce false, unhealthy, exaggerated guilt feelings which are not justified.
The inner process works in the following way: You shy away from admitting your guilt where
it is justified and where you could feel a healthy, constructive repentance which would never drag
you down or discourage you. When you ask God for forgiveness with this healthy repentance and
really want to change, you will feel that you are forgiven and liberated and will know that a burden
has been lifted from your shoulders. This happens when the will to change and to carry the good
intention through is sincere and persevering.
But often you will not face the real guilt, partly because in your conceit you want to see
yourself better than you are, and partly because it takes too great an effort to bring about inner
change. Deep inside you know that this cannot happen from one day to the other; neither can it
happen without effort. The spiritual core gives out signals, spurring you on to recognize your guilt,
but your lower self interferes with its pride and laziness, so you often assume guilt that is not
genuine. It is as if you said, "See, I repent, I admit, but actually, I am not really guilty here."
Naturally, these are unconscious processes, and they have to be brought out into the daylight. This
is the difference between false guilt and real repentance.
The experience of all people who walk the spiritual path has always been that those who
recognize their real guilt lose automatically not only all false guilt complexes which pull them down,
but feel instantly relieved and at peace, because truth always brings about liberation. To open
oneself wide and be willing to overcome the resistance is a struggle. So people will be afraid to
admit the real guilt and therefore will rather produce in their unconscious all kinds of unreal guilt
feelings, which either do not at all apply, or which cover up faults which they do not want to see
because they are not yet ready to accept themselves as they are, in their momentary imperfection.
Guilt complexes are unreal and therefore never lead to liberation. They create vicious circles, they
lead to heaviness, sadness, whereas truth always liberates, no matter how unpleasant it may feel at
first.
Examine your own self in this respect. Only those who penetrate all the layers of appearance
and of delusion will reach the real guilt. They will find in what way they have violated one or more
spiritual laws, in action or in emotional reaction. Only then is it possible to ask God for forgiveness,
which includes the request to be helped and shown how to change. Only one who is thus liberated
within can forgive others totally. You cannot expect forgiveness if you are not completely ready to
forgive others. And whoever has experienced, comprehended, and felt God's forgiveness should
also be able to forgive himself. And this leads to the next line:
AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US. How many people say this
prayer, yet they do not have the slightest intention to truly forgive. Here, too, there is often self-
deception. While no hate may be left, resentment is still present; if you have not liberated yourself
from that, you cannot be free enough to have spiritual experiences. It is so difficult for you to
achieve complete forgiveness, because you lack the understanding of the other person. Therefore
ask for this understanding, ask for the insight you lack in this respect. If you really want it and do
not wallow in your resentments, as you so often do, then all this will be given to you.
You human beings do not want to understand that you cannot do it by yourselves. You need
help. This is why this sentence is part of the prayer. For if it were possible to do it with your will
alone, you would not need to pray for it. You do not pray that you should be able to move from
one spot to another; if you have healthy limbs you can do it at will. But you need help in order to be
able to really forgive. And you do need help in order to face yourself in total honesty and to know
yourself without your mask. And you need help to meet your resistances and to accomplish the
inner change. So pray for it.
This, too, has to be confronted: "Do I truly forgive all people from the bottom of my heart?"
When you clearly see that you cannot yet quite do this alone, you can ask for help. And understand
that not forgiving burdens you, makes you unhappy, blocks the light and freedom that you desire.
Not forgiving harms you much more than it harms those whom you cannot forgive.
LEAD US IN OUR TEMPTATIONS. I repeat for those friends who joined our circle
recently: What is usually said, is "Lead us not into temptation." These words give rise to
misconceptions and can do harm. For God does not lead you into temptation. Rather, the meaning
is for you to pray that God may lead you when temptation comes to you; to pray that God may
guide you so that you can resist it, that you have the strength and the vision to be victorious. If this
is what you visualize, then you can also say, "Lead us not into temptation." The words do not
matter so much unless they confuse the concepts.
Now, what is temptation? Temptation is within you. It does not come from the outside.
And even if it came from the outside, you would not yield to it if something in you were not
receptive to it. For instance, could you be tempted to commit murder? Certainly not. But you can
be tempted to give in to your faults, whatever they may be. Therefore it is important to realize that
you can be tempted, and in what way. You have to know your faults. List all your faults, so that
you remember them. And then ask again for the strength and the help, for you cannot overcome
the faults on your own. Only in that notion lies temptation.
No devil, no Satan could get at you if you did not have something in you that responded.
When you pray that God keep Satan away from you, you are therefore in error. For in you, in your
lower self, in the crust that envelops your perfect self, lies the germ through which you can be led
into temptation. The dark forces serve as instruments to draw it out, to bring it into your awareness,
so that you can fight it. If the germ of evil lay dormant, if it had no opportunity to manifest, you
would not come one step nearer to perfection, to true bliss.
BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL. Here, too, the same truth applies. The evil is in you. If it
existed only outside, it could not touch you. Put this thought into your prayer. Ask Christ to help
you overcome temptation, so that you can deliver yourself from evil. Only you yourself can do it,
with the help of God, and with the help of Christ which he has promised you. Try it with his help.
Do not try to do it alone; you are not strong enough. You need the willpower, you need unceasing
effort, but your power alone is just as insufficient as God's, Christ's, or any spirit's help would be
without your will to free yourself. You need both your willpower and the help of God. You must
approach the problem from both sides: Do your own work and you must ask for spiritual help,
again and again.
FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM. The Kingdom of God is within you. It shall belong to
God and to no one else.
THE POWER. Only God's power cleanses, delivers, and illuminates the truth. It makes you
capable of love, of understanding. It leads you to happiness, and raises you up from all the darkness
and imperfection that has burdened you through so many lifetimes, and brings you to:
THE GLORY, which you can attain only by following God's will.
I could say many more things about this most beautiful of all prayers, which contains
everything -- yes, everything -- you need for your life, but there is not enough time now. I have
given you a few clues, and it would be good if every one of you who hears or reads these words
would think about them in their quiet hour. Perhaps you will then receive further thoughts and
feelings about how to apply them very personally in your life. This then is living prayer, when the
meaning of each word expands as the interpretations become clearer to you and you see how you
already apply the essence of the prayer in certain areas of your life and not yet in others.
If you try to live in this way, you must become happy, my dear ones, and eventually all
problems will disappear. True, they are there at first, but they are the necessary medicine. You will
increasingly gain mastery over yourself and consequently mastery over life, instead of being mastered
by life. Ask the question: "How happy am I?" You may be certain that to the degree you are happy
you can also make another one, or several human beings, happy. And also know that to the degree
that you lack happiness, you cannot yet make others as happy as one day you will, if you continue to
follow this upward path. Self-examination about your own happiness is a simple little yardstick or
barometer on which you can measure how much happiness you are able to give. If you are filled
with the desire to make others happy, then God will provide the opportunity, and this is the way in
which you will be blessed with true happiness.
And now, my dear ones, I am ready for your questions.
QUESTION: Is it all right for a medium to make a living through her task? There are
different views about this. Although it is clear that a medium has to earn a living just as any other
person -- and, if it were done in any other way, she might not have enough time to fulfill her task
which is often a very important one -- yet, various spiritual sources claim that this should not
happen. So there is a problem here. What can you tell us about this?
ANSWER: This is what I have to say: If every medium who is still in training knew that he or
she could make a living also through this task, that is, if such a person counted right from the
beginning on this, there would be even more nonsense and misuse of this gift than there already is.
The temptation, even for a decent person, full of good will, would be too great. Therefore, God's
spirits are very cautious around this subject and it is usually good for a human being to approach this
task thinking that in no way would it lead to personal gain. But I will add this: A medium should
have given his or her service for free for at least three to five years before beginning to make a living
through this task. During the years of training, God's spirit world has an opportunity to observe
whether the person is really fit for this task. If not, God's spirits will withdraw anyhow. After all,
money is only one of the many obstacles that can cause people to fail. When, however, a person
turns out to be capable of fulfilling such a task, money will no longer be a hindrance, it will not
influence the person, or taint the work. So at least three to five years should first pass.
And when everything is right, when the spirit world does not withdraw, then guidance will
come from the outside and there will be signs to indicate that the time has come to accept money.
It will be just as it was at an earlier stage, when the guidance suggested that the medium can now
channel also for other people to help them. This took time, too, depending on the person's
progress. Various "green lights" are given in the course of training. Of course, some people don't
need to earn their living through mediumship because they have enough without it. If not, God's
world will see to it that the person in training has sufficient means to live.
In principle, to claim that a medium should not be rewarded by earning a living with his or her
channeling is of course quite unjustified, after having invested in her profession just as much time,
effort, and energy as any other professional person -- and often even more. Equally unjustified
would be to imply that simply because a medium accepts money the contact would not be with
God's spirits, that she must be a fraud. If you are looking for an argument to disbelieve, you will
always find one -- you would find something else if the medium did not accept any money. After all,
even when not being paid, a medium can have contact with spirits who are in no way connected to
God's spirit world. Ego, power, vanity, pride, craving for admiration can be just as great hindrances.
So, you see, the matter is not that simple. The truth will become obvious during the training period,
and when everything is right, monetary compensation will be forthcoming without asking for it.
The training period of three to five years, however, doesn't only mean developing the capacity
to channel, but, most of all, concentrating on walking the spiritual path of development in the sense
I am teaching it. If this is the case, then the contact will always be under divine protection,
regardless of external circumstances.
Of course, a medium should not refuse help to someone who is poor and cannot afford to
pay. But it wouldn't be right for someone who is willing to spend money on other things -- and
often on much less important things -- to expect the medium to give her time and service for free,
unless the medium is still in training. If, all through this time, a medium is working on the path of
self-development, then neither material self-interest nor vanity or any other obstacle will stand in the
way. Of course, no one can evaluate the situation from the outside, unless he or she knows the
medium very well, but the medium herself, and God, will know the truth. And that is what counts.
A medium who pursues this kind of training goes through a learning period very similar to a
doctor or a teacher who attends a university for years. A physician treats patients also without being
paid, for instance in a hospital while still in training, until he or she has reached the expertise that
enables him to earn a decent living as a physician. Then, when he has earned his degree, he can be
an honest, conscientious and good doctor, even though he earns money with it. If a medium is
really capable of giving help, it would be absurd to devote her time and energy to a profession for
which she is not trained, with which she could not be helpful, and which would prevent her from
fulfilling the task she is best prepared for. It would be as if an excellently trained physician pursued
medicine only as a sideline, not being supposed to earn a living that way, and therefore would have
to take a different kind of job just to earn his bread.
Any prospective medium should, therefore, be prepared to work for quite a long time without
being paid. God's world will give help and guidance, so that meanwhile the person will be provided
with what is necessary. And when the time comes, God's world will help again by slowly
withdrawing from the medium the occupation that was necessary until then.
And those who avail themselves of the medium's help, time, and effort, should, as a matter of
course, wish to enable the medium to earn her living -- everyone according to their means. This
would be beneficial for them, too, in every respect. Something must be wrong with your own
thinking if you raise doubts about the medium just because of this, and then you should examine
yourself and rethink your conclusion.
So, once more: The training period should take at least three to five years, in some cases even
longer. It depends entirely on the intensity and diligence with which the medium pursues his or her
spiritual development. When the time is ripe, then, as I said, outside events will make it clear that a
further "green light" has been given. Do you understand, my friend? (Yes, completely.)
QUESTION: You said in today's lecture that when something weighs heavily on one's chest,
we should ask ourselves what in us is wrong. But the heaviness may come also, for instance, from
grief?
ANSWER: That is possible. But the question is, what kind of grief? Healthy sorrow does
not feel like a heavy burden. On the contrary, it lifts you up, it loosens you; I could almost say that
despite the grief something quite wonderful takes place deep inside. It is almost impossible to
describe feelings in words, ever, so just try to understand and feel into what I mean, sense the
difference between the tightness of bitterness and the sorrow that loosens the soul. (I understand
exactly what you mean.)
My dear ones, receive God's blessing through my hands, through the hands of the medium.
This energy wants to penetrate into you to strengthen you and lift you up. God's blessing reaches all
of my friends, near and far. Be in God.