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0863 Spiritual influence.... direct connection.... thoughts transmission....

April 14, 1939: Book 17

To influence people's thoughts requires great love and patience on the part of the spiritual beings assigned to do so. The more distant people are from spiritual problems, the quicker they reject sudden thoughts which are the expression of those spiritual forces and hastily turn to thoughts which relate more to their earthly life. Consequently, spiritual strength has little influence on such people.... their duty is to only work in the spiritual sphere, to only convey purely spiritual thoughts and teachings to people, and precisely these meet with certain rejection in most cases. And therefore this office has to be exercised with utmost love and patience if any success is to come to light. A spiritual being cannot always express itself in direct contact from the beyond to earth and is therefore only rarely consciously listened to. Thought transmission, however, is far more difficult to carry out, for the human being often resists precisely because he rejects spiritual instruction as long as he does not consciously concern himself with it. The thinking human being often asks questions of the deity and may also receive the answer at any time, yet in a different way than is customary amongst people, and it requires faith and trust in God to also accept this answer, which comes to him in the form of thoughts, as a divine answer. Anyone who truly desires the truth will also receive the truth.... and anyone who recognizes supreme omnipotence and love in God will not doubt that an answer will come to him from above, from where alone the human being can receive enlightenment. Many things are so simple and only document the intimate love of the heavenly father for His children. But the human intellect picks everything apart in such a way that the simple can no longer be properly recognized. Then the human being tries to fathom in the most complicated way what can be explained to him easily and comprehensibly if he only pays attention to his thoughts, which truly provide him with the right answer in the quickest way. For spiritual strength makes use of the earth child's willingness to receive, i.e. it is immediately ready to give and to work where the slightest question concerning spiritual matters also reveals the human being's will to attain the truth. The spiritual beings welcome it extremely joyfully when they can be active and instruct a truth-hungry heart. However, what is mentally revealed to people will rarely be spread as pure truth.... Many a person certainly forms a judgment on the basis of this mental influence which also corresponds to the truth, but he will very rarely be able to convey his thoughts, which are supposedly the product of his own brooding, to other people as truth, because the human being also regards all thinking as unreliable, thus no proof of truthfulness can ever be provided for the expressed proclamations. Only in the direct connection from the beyond to earth lies a possibility to be able to give credible proof to the unbelievers, i.e., also only when they seriously desire the truth. And this work is intended to be such evidence for humanity, anyone with the slightest desire for divine truth should be able to gain an insight into it. And when he realizes that a human being's ability and knowledge is not enough to continuously write down such announcements, he himself will recognize a higher power in it.... he will now also increasingly feel the spiritual influence of well-meaning spiritual beings and likewise be guided into truth, for it is his will which longs for divine truth....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers