BD.8692
December 4, 1963

CLARIFICATION REGARDING SACRAMENTS

I shall further teach you how to free yourselves from error when it is explained to you that you have interpreted My Word earthly and not spiritually. You should know that 'external ceremonies' do not invite the expression of My Spirit and that through external ceremonies nobody can be appointed to a teaching ministry or become a leader or principal of a community.

Many are called, but few only chosen, and these few I Myself instruct; I Myself put them in the right place where they can be active for me and My Kingdom.

However, these people must also fulfil conditions, which will enable them to become teachers and leaders of their fellowmen. My Spirit must be able to act within them, so that they walk within truth and as My representatives on earth administer their office in accordance with My will and under My direction.

It cannot be denied that among those who call themselves My representatives on earth, there are also some who live in accordance with My Will and serve Me conscientiously.

These, however, were appointed to their ministry by Me Myself and did not become My servants through external ceremonies performed by their fellow men. For their calling is an inner matter of their free will which surrenders to Me completely, so that the man is closely united with Me through love and I Myself can appoint him to the office he is to administer.

This loving submission and the resulting life of love then also guarantee the awakening of their spirit and entering into truth. They resist error of any kind, the distortion of all that has gone forth from Me and will always turn away from error.

So you will now understand that My true representatives are not to be found where people believe them to be and accept them, for they exclude themselves by representing error and not searching for truth in all earnest. They cannot be My servants and representatives because they walk in error and do nothing towards gaining possession of pure truth.

And so you will know what to think of the sacrament of ordination. Even though a man may be of good will, he must prove this by declaring to Me his readiness to surrender to My will completely.

This means that he has to follow up any doubts arising within him. I Myself put these doubts into his heart to enable him to draw close to Me and truth. And if he is afraid to ponder over these doubts, he keeps himself forcibly blind. He could receive light, but closes his eyes and his heart is not opened for Me to send a ray of light into it.

You should never say that it is not possible for somebody who earnestly seeks Me to free himself from error, you all are aware of My Might and love which surely helps everyone who strives for Me, the Eternal Truth.

However, you must first accept instruction, get acquainted with pure truth, find out about the activity of My adversary and the error into which he traps you, and you have to have the earnest will to free yourselves from error asking Me for help.

Could you doubt that I give you My help, when I am at all times endeavouring to deliver you people from spiritual darkness and enlighten you? And as soon as you willingly activate your intellect you will also recognise how threadbare all that really is which you are expected to believe.

The intellect, however, has been given you to distinguish you from the beast that cannot be made responsible for its actions.

You, however, will have to answer one day for the way you have used your intellect. It can help you towards recognition provided your will is sincere and you desire to be enlightened. As I keep emphasising, doubts about the truth are necessary wherever external ceremonies are to result in a spiritual success.

And your soul will never achieve such a success, neither on earth nor in the beyond, if before the death of a person, acts are performed on him which are nothing but ceremonies and rites without any benefit for the soul.

I Myself know every single soul and rate it according to the degree of light into which a soul enters after its physical death, unless it does not enter the realm of darkness being completely void of love and, therefore, an adherent of the one who governs the realm of darkness.

AMEN