How can one deal with financial and personal problems?

In order to answer this question,we need to understand the Laws of Creation. These Laws of Creation include the Law of Sowing and Reaping. This Law affect us and gives back to us in accordance with our actions which include our thoughts, words and deeds. We see in Nature that a grain of rice will not produce yams. In the same way, our thoughts, words and deeds also produce effects which are similar to our initial actions.

What we call financial and personal problems, therefore, are the result of former decisions and actions in this earth life or in former ones. Just as a grain of rice produce more rice, our thoughts words and deeds are seeds that bring back to us a similar harvest. Thus hatred to a fellow human being cannot produce a peaceful relationship.

Before we can be released from the effect of our previous actions, we have to go through the present experiences with the right attitude. We must accept and welcome these experiences and see them as necessary for our spiritual progress. So, the experiences you refer to as problems also mercifully point you to your freedom!

Therefore, set to work immediately to create for yourself a future of inner peace. You can do this by sowing seeds which are similar to the future of your aspirations. For example, be fair to all those you come across. If you are an employer, pay fair wages. If you are employed, do not cheat on your employer but give good service to merit your pay. Consider your natural talents and strive to develop and use them for yourself and for the benefit of others. Offer voluntary service to organisations that require it and thereby gain necessary experience that you can use later in gainful employment. And when you do have money, avoid frivolities and invest for the future. Pay those you owe, and do not cause harm to those who trust you.

With these actions you will be sowing good seeds which will naturally produce for you sooner or later a future harvest of financial well-being. This holds true unless the person in question actually needs to go through this present earth life in poverty for his spiritual benefit. As regards your personal problems, because of your decision to do only what is good, you will be helped. These problems will be made easy for you to overcome and you become free!

Remember this: “Evil cannot approach unless you call it! As you wish it, so will it happen to you!”

Can a person be possessed by a water spirit or by a demon?

A human being cannot be possessed by “water spirit” or even by a demon at all!

The elemental or nature beings that work with water are animistic in nature and therefore are not spirits although in addition to their animistic core, they have a little of the spiritual. The elemental beings have been active on earth long before man set foot on it for the first time. Without their participation there would be no mountains, meadows, rivers, lakes and seas. Since these faithful servants in Nature work selflessly in the Will of God, they can neither be malicious nor do evil. Only men have imputed such things to them.

Therefore, nature beings do not take possession of human beings. This is because the core of the human being is spirit which is different from that of the animistic beings. Apart from the animistic beings already mentioned, there are demons which are not the creatures of the Most High. The Lord in His inestimable Love cannot create the ugly entities called demons. Such entities are the handiwork of men alone. They use their spiritual decisions and thoughts to form demons and phantoms which are really dangerous to themselves and their fellow human beings. Yet, there is no question of possession.

Possession only occurs when another evil and dark human spirit in the beyond takes possession of another person’s body by pushing the original owner aside. The spirit that can be pushed aside in this way must have been careless, indolent spiritually or has been dallying with those in the beyond. People who are possessed can be cured easily and quickly through the help of someone called for it.

Be that as it may, neither nature beings nor demons can push aside the human spirit which is a necessary condition for possession.

However, the human being can be demoniacally influenced which is a different thing. Such a person has opened herself to this evil influence. For this reason a cure is made very difficult. This condition is also much more dangerous to man himself and for his surroundings because he acts in full consciousness. Such a person needs to make an inner change. The decision to turn to that which is good and pure must come from within the person under demonic influence. This is way that help can reach them.

How do I recognise the true voice of the spirit when it speaks? Is the voice the same as that of the Guardian Angel?

In order to recognise the voice of the spirit, you need to understand how the human spirit speaks. The spirit speaks in pictures! When it speaks, the spirit makes an impression on the back brain. The back brain takes these impressions like a photographic plate and forms with it a picture without words. This picture is then passed on to the frontal brain which then condenses the pictures into thoughts, words and deeds. This is the normal way, but through the fall of man, this correct process has been reversed by man. Instead of the frontal brain taking directions from the back brain as directed by the spirit, the frontal brain was elevated to be the decision maker thus cutting off the spirit!

The pictures transmitted by the spirit as mentioned earlier is what people refer to when they say that “the first impression is always right”. Let me give you an example. You meet a person for the first time and you get an impression or inner sensing to be careful. Later, you begin to look at the smart way the man is dressed and the car he drove to attend the meeting you are having. The first impression is brushed aside through the judgement of the frontal brain the source of our intellect. You deal with him and you suffer a big loss. In this example, you have failed to heed the first impression from your spirit but allowed your intellect to mislead you through the deceptive nature of the other person.

The intuition which is connected with the spiritual immediately recognised the true nature of the other person and did not allow itself to be deceived. It is absolutely impossible for the intuition to make mistakes. Only the intellect leads man astray! So man ought to listen to his “inner voice” which is his intuition and the spiritual part of man.

On the question of guardian angel, let us understand that the spirit can also perceive the advice from our helpers in the beyond. These helpers are those already in the beyond but who have faults similar to ours. They serve as helpers so that they can help us do better than they did whilst they were here. This way, they redeem a lot and do not need to be incarnated on earth for that purpose.

These helpers speak through what we call our conscience. Conscience is indeed a combination of our inner voice and the voices of our helpers and friends in the beyond! Therefore let us always keep our thoughts pure and listen within.

Will the world come to an end?

The End-Time spoken about in many prophecies does not refer to the end of the world but to the end of a great epoch. The scriptural accounts speak of the “close of the age”. After this close of the age begins a New Time, in which the Kingdom of God is to be established on earth: the Thousand-year Kingdom of Peace. The transition period from the Old to the New Time is formed by the period of the World Judgment or the Day of Reckoning alluded to severally by the Prophets. This period will be a time of troublesome cleansing of the evils of the past.

Man came to this earth unconscious from the Spiritual Kingdom, his place of origin, with the task of learning and living according to God’s Will. He is meant to return to there fully conscious after his allotted period of learning here and to continue to live in all eternity according to God’s Will. Sadly, man fell and spent the time granted for his development living in accordance with his own desires and in wickedness.

The on-going World Judgement and the Great Purification had to come about because we chose not to fulfil our purpose of coming to this earth. We also chose to misinterpret all the warnings given by the prophets like Zoroaster, Krishna, Buddha, Moses, Mohammed and even those by the Son of God Himself.

Now it is payback time! Judgement for many years of wilful stubbornness of mankind! This manifests in weather catastrophes, what men call natural disasters, political unrests, wars, economic failures which happen now with great intensity and in quick successions. These events relate to countries, organizations, families and individuals.

These happenings shake the earth as if it is about to perish but it is the Great Purification, the Cleansing willed by God that is at work. What we need to do at this momentous hour is to make up for what has been neglected. To seek to know what is right and true and to live in accordance with it with all our strength. As a help for this, in the midst of the great tribulation and at the time when the noise of the false prophets is loudest the Word of Truth will ring out for all those who truly long for God.

Many painful things have already happened and more horrors are to come as the world and all its inhabitants are shaken to their depths. But only he will be saved who does not assume he is already saved but who in all humility seeks the Truth, lives in the Truth while looking up obediently to the Most High at all times for guidance.

Why are reincarnations necessary?

In answering this question, we need to first understand the earth is given to us by the Almighty Father as a school. Let us call it “the school of life”. We are meant to develop in it and mature. On attaining the necessary maturity we are assured of ascent to the Eternal Gardens from where we came to the earth in the first place.

However, to attain this maturity, man needs more than one earth life. Man returns to the earth as often as necessary. But we return as human beings, not as plants or animals as these are of a different species from us. To attain the required maturity, we need to work and strive a little upwards in each life. Such development is the very purpose of every life on earth!

Through reincarnations the opportunities are presented to each of us to redeem the mistakes of past earth lives. This is another grace of God bestowed upon men. Even if men had remained inwardly good, they would still have to come to the earth repeatedly in order to mature but certainly not as often as has become necessary after the fall of man.

Reincarnation which many people deny today is a lawful happening in Creation that takes place day in day out across the globe!

Let me give an example. Some decades ago Therese Neumann lived in a part of Europe. At a point in her life she developed a phenomenon called stigmata. This means that she bore on her body wound marks similar to those borne by Jesus during His crucifixion. The wounds on the lady bleeds and she was sometimes drenched in her own blood while she lay on her bed in agony. The pains were aggravated when medicaments are applied to the wounds. Many people came from far and wide on pilgrimage to where she stayed. At times she heared in spirit talk about the crucifixion in dialects of the language of that time to the amazement of language experts.

When asked about this matter, the Author of the Grail Message made it clear that the soul concerned had been on earth before. She was in the past one of those that reviled Christ as He suffered on the cross. She had been permitted to come to the earth this time to settle accounts. Through reincarnation this soul was given another opportunity to recognize her faults and to ask for forgiveness, this being the only way to deliverance!

Therefore, no man lives only once on earth! We come again and again, until we have learned to be such that can be re admitted back to Paradise. That is the key to the understanding of all earth life!

How the Law of Sowing and Reaping works

The effect of the Law of Sowing and Reaping is that man must reap what he has once sown, unconditionally. No one can possibly reap or pay for what has been sown by someone else.

Examples abound. The effect of this Law is visible in nature as pineapples can only grow from seeds of pineapple. This Law also applies without fail to man’s thoughts, words and deeds. Each one of these constitutes seeds that we sow every minute and are bound to produce a harvest of a similar kind. So when we utter words of kindness we reap kindness in return. I have experienced it many times when someone who normally is difficult will say to me: well- because of the sober way you have made your request, speaking to me kindly, I will assist you.

In the same way, a tyrant who perpetrates acts of wickedness against his people will reap hatred, revolts, riots and multiple rebellions from the people. These may eventually swallow up such a wicked ruler. In recent months we have seen this happen in many Arab countries.

The point in time at which the effect will take place is irrelevant but the reaping of the fruits of our sowing happens at some time, at the specified hour, in this world or the beyond or in yet another earth life.

Scientists who are familiar with this Law speak of it by reference to the fundamental law that force always generates a counteracting force. They say further that an effect without a counter-effect is not conceivable at all. So if we strike a hammer on a hard object then the hammer will bounce back as a consequence of the hardness of the target object. If however the hammer is softer than the object, the hammer will get distorted or dented at the point of impact.

Similarly, there is an effect for every movement of our thoughts, words and action. In all simplicity – what a man sows he will reap many times over.

This Law is to be loved by those who sow good seeds, who keep their thoughts pure, do not think ill of others, who love their neighbour, give to others with their being, offer words of peace and kind advice to others and who will not betray or wilfully harm others. These ones shall reap blessings, peace and happiness. However, those who sow evil seeds need to fear this Law, for even if they are the cleverest person in the whole world the all embracing arms of the Law of Sowing & Reaping will reach them and ensure that they take in full measure the fruits of their works.

What does it mean to have other gods?

This question seeks an explanation of the very first of the Ten Commandments of God which says: “I am the Lord thy God! Thou shalt have no other gods but me!”

An easy going person may think that this Commandment is directed at idol worshippers, demon-worshippers and other similarly misguided ones. He pitifully thinks of these people without a thought that perhaps he is also an offender.

Let us consider: for many of us, material achievements, money, fame, power, and position means everything. Some place their spouse, children and family above all else for whom they can make any sacrifice. For some it is their health and fitness, for others it can be earthly pleasures. When we look deeply and closely at all of these, the persons in question actually love none other but themselves. This of course is idolatry pure and simple!

The Commandment strictly forbids and warns against it. And this is for our benefit! A person who in defiance of this Commandment places priorities on the things mentioned earlier can be likened unto a man who puts all his treasures on earth. When he passes on, he will remain bound to this earth instead of ascending to Paradise our eternal home. This is because all his thoughts and aspirations are focused on things which are on earth. He stands in danger of remaining earthbound and being swept along into the inevitable disintegration of all material substance which do not last forever but must disintegrate at a point in order to be formed anew. The human soul who is caught in this disintegration of matter will however suffer spiritual death and its name will be erased from the Book of Life!

By obeying this Commandment we are saved from this terrible fate! It is therefore necessary for man to regard this Commandment as a lifeline! Sadly man is easily carried away by many earthly matters which become a propensity that enslaves him. Whatever this earthly matter may be, once it takes the prime of place above the love for the Most High, it becomes man’s golden calf, a false deity or idol.

We obey this Commandment however, when we put God above all else not just in our imagination or mere words but deep in our hearts and soul in reverential love and pure devotion. This means abiding with the Truth and living accordingly. We thereby lay our treasures in heaven which is eternal as opposed to laying up treasures upon this transient earth. When we live our life this way, on leaving the flesh, we will be empowered to ascend to Paradise, the Kingdom of Heaven.