BD.4328
June 10, 1948

COMMUNITY OF SAINTS - INTERCESSION

Mankind needs considerable support from the spiritual world if it is to win the ultimate battle on earth. However, this support is at your full disposition… you only ask for it. Therefore you shall be informed in what way help can be given to you and you can pray for it.

It is -in earthly terms -the 'Community of the Saints', which is there to help you. However, the term 'saints' must be clarified if you are to be properly informed and free from false concepts.

The angels are the most faithful guides and helpers of men, always ready, if they are only called. But how they are assigned to men, is determined solely by God in His wisdom. Thus He fills these spiritual beings with light and power according to their degree of perfection.

Men cannot judge the degree of maturity of their fellow-man and. Consequently they are neither entitled nor able to declare him a 'saint'. God alone knows the state of his soul as he enters the spiritual kingdom after his physical death.

God alone knows in what relationship to Him a man has been standing on earth and how active he was in his love. The activity of love is the decisive factor and may already have given him light and strength in all fullness during his life on earth, enabling him to do extraordinary things if he so desired. However, in the beyond God Himself will lead such mature souls to the sphere of activity commensurate with their degree of maturity. It is Me who assigns them their particular task in the spiritual kingdom, just as Me determines what kind of help men on earth are to be given.

The angels are full of strength and capable of anything because they work with God and in accordance with His will and are constantly permeated by His strength.

The angel moves completely within the will of GOD, i.e., he cannot will anything but God's will since he has already established the union with God and is fully absorbed in His will.

Possessing great wisdom he also recognizes the inexpediency of many a human plea and has to deny where fulfillment would be detrimental for the soul.

For an angel it means great happiness to help man and, therefore, God does not object to men asking angels for their help.

However, it is certainly not His will that men appeal to certain 'saints', for their task and activity may be in quite a different field, and in their ignorance men may even appeal to a being still far from perfection and as a result fall under the not at all beneficial influence of this being.

Those called do turn up; they seek to keep close to the caller and to impose their thoughts upon him, which may not conform to truth.

Besides, the 'canonization' by men is mainly dependent on a life conforming to a 'church-community', a prerequisite never demanded by God, but insisted up on by that church, and in accordance with the latter the canonization is effected. This can never be the will of God.

So not everyone canonized in this way may be an angel, a being of light, but on the other hand there are many beings of light in the spiritual kingdom whose lives pleased God but did not conform to the rules of those church-communities.

All these angels possess "power out of God" of which they want to make use and, therefore, men have been entrusted to them, whom they wish to and can help to perfection as long as the human will, is not opposed to it. To call these beings will always be of benefit whereas the opposite may be the case where specific beings are appealed.

The idea, however, to gain intercession by these beings is quite wrong. The prayer is an appeal to God… it establishes a connection from man to Him, and God insists upon this because it indicates that man has directed his will towards God.

In the opinion of men these beings of light that are already in close unison with God are meant to establish this connection with Him. However, this would relieve man of establishing this union ...which is the aim and purpose of life on earth…. because only such a union with God provides the flow of strength without which it would be impossible for a soul to attain full maturity.

This 'strength', however, cannot be conveyed to man by the angels since there are also in the spiritual kingdom laws observed by its inhabitants in the knowledge that they were given by God's love and wisdom.

The beings are at all times willing to help in accordance with the will of God. Therefore, man must first bend under the will of God to be helped by Him, either directly or through the angels who will never fail to help if it is God's will.

Thus the appeal for help to the beings of light will never by in vain; an appeal for 'intercession', however, is futile. The child itself has to approach the Father truly so that the Father's love may flow to it. Such a close union can never be established if man thinks he can reach the goal also through intercession.

God is a God of Love and does not want men to be afraid to come to Him. He wants to be the Father of His children, not their severe judge and ruler. The favor of the latter you may try to win by intercession but a Father you approach trustingly.

God demands this trust from His creatures because of His infinite love for them. And for that same reason He will also grant all their prayers.

AMEN