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1060 Lies and truth.... world of appearances....

August 17, 1939: Book 19

Far from the right path walks the man whose soul is anxious about earthly suffering.... What is life and everything you find desirable in it.... and what a useless endeavour it is to fight for earthly recognition. Your gaze will widen if you look inwards, but what you seek in the distance will cloud your mind.... Accept the world only as an opportunity to reach the heights and seek in eternity to find the right substitute for what you lack on earth. Let yourselves be guided by the divine creator and give Him your burden to carry, He will willingly take it on His shoulders if you love and pray.... And place yourselves in His plan from eternity. The bridge to eternity is God.... love and goodness Himself.... and whoever wants to enter the bridge must be able to give love and ask sincerely.... and then there are no barriers for him that block the path to the eternal deity.... You must learn to overcome the body's fear of transience, you must pay no attention to earthly adversity and only live for eternal destiny.... And thus it is the lord's will that people's shortcomings should become visible so that the spirit of humanity can be regocnized by all who look around them with open eyes. And in the condemnation of their weaknesses there is still the possibility of saving souls by showing them their reflection and making them detest the product of false endeavour.... Truth cannot unfold in the world of appearances, and the slightest untruth has an influence on the human being's mind because the spirit in him detests untruth, and again it is worth noting that the world is based on lies and shuns the truth, whereas the spirit only takes pleasure in the truth and thus separates itself from the world and everything earthly transient. And thus there is only one way to walk.... the world must be despised, it must be fought in every way, it must only be regarded as a means to an end, it must be endured but not loved, it must be able to be sacrificed at any time and exchanged for eternity.... It contains good and evil within itself, for those forces emanate from it which turn towards the truth, but far more which act against the truth, and both directions will be in opposition to each other and yet be active for each other, for the truth brings to light the fullest realization, and likewise the lie will assert its place.... for only where there is vice can virtue also unfold, since without the possibility of vice no virtue can be practiced. And so untruth will undoubtedly dominate the world until people's spiritual state has improved and only the truth is desired for the sake of truth....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers