BD.6987
December 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 thousand-fold 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