The demon of hatred and discord is up to mischief and determines people to commit the most unloving acts. Its influence is so strong that people no longer recognize the magnitude of their injustice, they rage against each other and inflict the greatest suffering and misery on each other, they mercilessly destroy their neighbour's property, they do not spare the life of the individual, they end it prematurely, are unjust in thought and action and fear neither an avenger nor his retribution. And so humanity is completely under the spell of the evil one, it does everything he demands of it, but nothing that is in accordance with God's will. And this is of utmost importance for the course of development of the spiritual, for it is in regression; the spiritual is in danger of striving towards that which it has already overcome.... It wills evil where it should will good.... And God's mercy turns to this spirituality. He presents humanity with a tremendous earthly experience that may well be able to banish the spirit of unkindness and awaken the feeling of love in people's hearts. Unimaginable suffering can trigger the will to help in people.... A person can ignore his own suffering in the face of the misery of his fellow human beings, and then he has escaped the power of evil. Then something divine has come to life in him that tears the power out of the adversary's hands, then the influence of the demon on the human being has become ineffective, because love and compassion now drive him to help his fellow human being and thereby redeem himself.... The willingness to serve will give him the strength to be able to carry out every act of help as soon as love impels him to do so. And great demands will be placed on people who want to be of service. There will be such indescribable misery in the world that only the willingness to help one another can remedy or alleviate this misery. But if a person is active in love then there will also be a certain faith in him, for the love he now gives to his fellow human being will establish a connection with God in him. He will sense the eternal deity, even if he still lacks the concept of it.... But he is turned towards God and is seized by God's love if he himself performs works of love, driven by the inner urge to help his fellow human being in his need. Once again there will be a separation between those who have awakened from the darkness of night and those who have not yet escaped the spell of evil.... who now do everything again to compensate themselves for the horrors of that dreadful event.... who try to rebuild what has been destroyed and act in a selfish way.... who do not want to help their neighbour but are only concerned about their own advantage and thus willingly open themselves to the influence of the evil power. No salvation can be brought to them, neither temporally nor eternally, for they are children of satan and their fate is eternal darkness....

Amen

This proclamation is not used in any themebook.