B.D. 6987
Dec. 7, 1957
BUFFETING BY FATE - A PROCESS OF
PURIFICATION
Whichever way your lives on earth are shaping themselves, they are
determined by My Will, to create for you ever greater opportunities for
the maturing of your souls. But you shall mature in your souls only
when you resignedly submit yourselves to My Will, when meekly you
bend, placing yourselves under Me, fully and wholly. And then you also
shall manifestly experience My help in every earthly and spiritual need.
The aim of life is the spiritualisation of your souls, the purging of the
dross still clinging to you, so that My Divine Light may irradiate your
soul when it has left its earthly body.
This purification will not take place, however, if man's presence on earth
elapses without a struggle, be it that a man leads an uncommonly loving
life. Then the shells loosen and at the end of life the soul will have
achieved its aim.
But often it will have to carry out this process of purification through
suffering, want, and inner conflict. And because My wisdom had
recognised this, My Love incessantly concerns itself with helping it to
maturity. And hence you shall not be able to lead lives of unbroken calm
while on earth, storms will rage around you, and often enough you will
be despondent over the fate befalling you.
And yet you need not fear, you will be able to overcome everything, if
only you would link up with Me ever more firmly, the harsher the fate
dealt out to you. I am mindful of everything, and you are never alone,
even where you stand in complete earthly solitude, when you believe
yourselves abandoned by men, I truly shall never leave you, and any loss
you are sustaining, or have sustained, is compensated for a thousandfold by uniting with Me.
But in every happening coming over you, you must also recognise Me.
You will be strong whatever may befall you, where I am your first and
last thought. But if you depart from Me, by complaining and grumbling
and rebelling against your fate, you shall also steadily weaken, and want
shall increasingly oppress you - because no other means are then
available for winning you back for Me and for bending you under My
Will again.
I truly have only the best in mind for you, and nothing comes over you
without My will, or My permission - but by constant union with Me you
shall be able to carry your lot more easily, and then everything will turn
out wonderfully which previously had seemed an inextricable tangle.
And the soul shall have scored a great gain, if in severest need it has not
severed its link with Me.
In this very time before the final end lies the greatest danger for mankind
to forget Me, above the rush for worldly goods. And if I would again
have them think of Me, I can employ only such means as will shake all
their thinking. Through hard blows of fate I must place them in a
situation of wit's end, sot hat they may remember Him, who alone can
help them. Because their souls still find themselves in the thickest of
encasement, they have not undertaken much for the purification of their
souls i.e. they have neglected to live a life of unselfish love, and a
different process of purification is therefore necessary if their soul
should become permeable to even a little Light, for which it shall once
be very grateful to Me. And no man is exempted from a call of fate,
because I love all men, and want to help them fid the way back to Me,
when they still stand apart from Me, so that they may unite more firmly
with Me, and be able to receive ever more strength with which to work
on themselves, and to mature already while on earth. Because I want
them to pass over with a degree of Light already, that they may be saved
from the torment of darkness in the Kingdom of the Beyond. I am
concerned that their walk on earth should not be in vain. And that is why
you men should see either My Will or My permission in everything
concerning you, and submit to My Will with resignation.
AMEN