The Deceased speak out. Dieter Scharnhorst

were truly saints of heaven. These are once the good spirits of God who live for the plan of salvation.

      The word "holy" does not mean the same thing to us as it does to people. In the spiritual world, a saint is understood to be one who lives according to the laws of God and Christ. There are also different levels of holiness and the spirits are divided into ranks.

      All the others, in whom spiritual development is not yet present, do not belong to the saints of heaven, and they can be recognized by their appearance.

      So I started my work in this small family and tried to adapt to their thinking and will. So I was allowed to experience that such a saint of heaven came to us, led us out of the house and onto a somewhat elevated part of this otherworldly village. There we sang together, songs were practiced and to the glory of God we sang them. We also said short prayers, which were only for the praise of God and Christ.

      Now I had to give up my former way of praying, because there was a completely different way of praying and I had to ask myself:

      Why did it take me so long to become more understanding? These saints had enlightened me about this:

      "By your obstinacy you made it impossible for you to find the faster way up. In your life you were also very stubborn. All you ever demanded of your fellow human beings was that they pray more, and you asked less about the righteous life, and you believed that prayer in life was the eradication of your sins.

      A person who prays in true devotion finds favour and approval in the divine world, especially if it comes from a sincere heart. Prayer must not be like a lament to God, nor a narrative, but it must be a praise to God. In prayer one may implore God for help, and the most beautiful prayer is the one which Christ gave to mankind, namely, the Our Father. Therefore, not every prayer of people is pleasing to God. If a person only prays in such a habitual and thoughtless way, his prayer will not be accepted by God, and no intercession can be achieved through it.

      Prayer must be with a sincere heart and elevated thinking, and connected with works, if God and the high spiritual world are to become aware of it. So I was taught.

      I worked in this family until the time when we were all allowed to leave that stage together. As I was told, the others had voluntarily endured on my behalf until I had become so solid in my sincerity. So I had to be doubly grateful to my brothers and sisters, for through the loving support they gave me, they had proved to me that they were true followers of Jesus Christ, who lived, suffered and died for His own. My brothers and sisters told me that they had made this small sacrifice in His name and for my sake, to further my ascension. I remained united with them in great gratitude, and thus we had taken a higher step together. But my roommates were the first to go back up from that level, while I was held back for some time. I was to prove myself there longer and prove that everything I experienced served my progress and that with the help of my brothers and sisters I would have made this ascent faster. They would have accelerated my ascent through their selfless assistance.

      So I remained grateful to them. We meet again and again from time to time and I try to make this further ascent even faster. In the time of my purification and instruction I accepted many things and saw many things that I had done wrong in life. And I have only one desire, that what I learn in the God-world stays in me and never again escapes from my innermost being, for I know that I must return to earth to be born again. I also know that then much of what I have now made the best intentions about can vanish. I know about the temptation and weaknesses of people on earth.

      And so I make an effort to live in the world of God according to the will of the father. I am always alert when higher spirit beings approach me. I observe their way and ask them especially for special instruction, which could later be for my salvation. This, my wish is always granted.

      So I live in peace and in great eagerness to be able to win the high happiness and bliss. In this way I want to admonish and remind people of the commandments of God, of love of neighbor, of the life that is pleasing to God, and that they find the life that will take them up to the spiritual heights. This is my wish as well as the wish of all my spiritual companions. Now I want to say goodbye to you and now retire again to my blessed work, and I wish you all the blessing and salvation of God.

      4.Case study

      You cannot imagine that you have met or lived with a family member or good friend more than once in a previous life. Also the recurring incarnation is taboo for us Christians, and one does not want to hear about it because one cannot imagine it. Also a physical handicap is often not understandable, because one thinks that this would not be just from the divine side. So the next report in the media will give us an insight into these thoughts:

      Spirit of God: Let us now come to the next case study. Today I will tell you about two souls who now live in the spiritual world. They were already closely connected during their lifetime, namely as man and woman. I will first tell you about their penultimate lives.

      There these two lived together as brother and sister in a large family. His name was Willy and she Marta, and for a better understanding I will keep these names also for the next life, where they will become man and wife.

      Willy was handicapped in walking, because he had crippled feet, but he was loved by all his siblings because he was the youngest. Marta, the eldest, loved him more than anything else and had taken special care of him, so they had an intimate affection for each other.

      When his parents died, Marta had taken this youngest brother to her, they both remained unmarried. At that time it was difficult to get a job and one lived on casual work. Life was very poor and they did not make great demands on it, they were content if there was enough food. The sister, however, also had to pay for the daily bread of her handicapped brother. But she did not consider it a burden, because a bond of love and togetherness held both of them tightly entangled.

      Then came the time of farewell from this world for these two as well. They had not burdened each other in any special way, for life a few centuries ago had not yet taken on the hectic forms of the present time and therefore there were not so many opportunities to tempt themselves. But everything went so only towards a slow ascent. That was also the case with these two. They too only walked up the ladder of ascent a little.

      First, the handicapped brother died. When he arrived in heaven, he asked that his sister be given a great reward for her sacrifice, for she had done him so much good. The angelic world that took care of him told him that he had now paid off the last part of a debt in this earthly life through his difficult life, since he had been handicapped, and thanks to the care of his bodily sister he would have been spared from even greater inconveniences. This connection with her would now have benefited him. But this bond of love, which connected the two of them, still came from an old spiritual friendship, from an even earlier life.

      They had not been together in every life since then, but for the penultimate one, God's world had arranged for them to become brothers and sisters, and Marta could care for him.

      So this soul had been granted the grace of the divine world, because you people in your present existence can hardly imagine the conditions as they were then.

      Now this Willy, who was the first to enter the divine world after his miserable life, had begged for a great reward for his sister, for she had behaved like an angel towards him. Then one of the heavenly beings said:

      "Yes, she was like an angel to you, but her life was not always like an angel's life, she also made mistakes."

      She also stumbled, but her great helpfulness and love for her sickly and handicapped brother was well credited to her. And when she too came to the afterworld, her brother came to meet her. He was no longer handicapped and upright he had received his sister. Immediately he had begged the high angels of heaven again to show mercy and grace to his sister, for she had done so much for him. The divine beings were also merciful to her, had credited her with her good works, and the two were left together in their mild purification in the first time. Later they were separated, for each one fulfilled his duties in a different field. But that does not mean that they were not allowed to see each other again. They had the opportunity to