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Only a few people know of the wonderful help of a true prayer. Most do not know. Be it that it is buried in them. Perhaps with one or the other it requires only an impulse, and it rises dimly in his memories. It is linked mostly with childhood or any danger or mishap that spurred people to pray. As a child he learned it from what the parents taught him, without recognising the deep meaning that lies within. Or in later years, when he himself or someone dear to him, a loved one, was in danger. Then suddenly the thought was to ask for help from above through prayer. This, however, shows that the one praying is aware that earthly help cannot suffice in this case and that his…

21 Genuine faith lies only in conviction, and conviction comes solely through an inflexible weighing and examining! See that you are truly alive in the wonderful Creation of your God!Grail Message It is Christmas, with the associated build-up of festivities, the exchange and distribution of gifts meant to evoke joy all round. However, the greatest gift of all will not be lying underneath the glitteringly decorated Christmas trees, but is already beautifully wrapped within ourselves. And it will take a lifetime to fully unwrap all the priceless and wonderful blessings proffered by these precious gifts, giving unending exalted joy as they are revealed, one by one, over time. These gifts are not only meant for the transience of this brief earth-life, but, out of the greatest Love, have been graciously…

God is Life! He alone! All else is but a consequence of the motion which as such only comes into being through the pressure of the radiation of Life! ‘The man who in a really fervent prayer seeks help for something, obtains connection through his attitude with that sphere from which help can be proffered. This I have mentioned once before in my explanations about the effect of prayer. Do not think of prayer as pleading, but as worship – worship and veneration! Every plunge into such deep meditation by the human spirit, however, is nothing but an effort to establish a connection, a seeking for connection with the Light, with Purity and with Life! The desire and longing of the human spirit expand in such cases. In its spiritual…

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Tremulous with curiosity, the womenfolk crept after their men to the spot where one could exchange a word of confidence in privacy. There each man had to tell his wife what the men heard in the castle, to which the women listened fuming with rage and curses; the men recounted whom they met and what offer he had made to them. A nameless fear gripped the women, a mournful lament piercing mountains and valley, every one of them behaving as though the wicked one coveted her own child. One woman alone did not wail like the others. She was a cruelly capable woman who was said to hail from Lindau on Lake Constance and lived right here on the farm. She had fierce, black eyes and was not much afraid…