1065 Negative attitude.... desert.... seed....

August 21, 1939: Book 20

The negative attitude towards the work of the divine spirit corresponds entirely to a barren region, a desert. The soil cannot provide nourishment for any plant and therefore nothing can grow unless industrious labourers dare to cultivate the soil, which requires unspeakable patience and perseverance and, not least, blessing from above. It is the same with people to whom the gospel is constantly preached, but where it falls on stony ground.... because everything that divine love sends to such people is ignored and cannot reach the soul until the lord's labourers arrive and prepare the ground with the greatest effort, patience and love to receive the seed that is to bear a thousandfold fruit.... The human mind is like a barren wasteland, turned solely towards earthly life but averse to everything spiritual. And the sun, whose rays are life-awakening, can shine incessantly, it will never succeed in bringing forth a plant from the stony rubble...., just as a person's highest spiritual knowledge would not suffice to want to transfer it to a rejecting, unprepared human being who accepts the divine words indifferently but never ponders them deep in his heart...., which is the field that is to receive the seed.... ponders. And so it is hard work, and yet it must be tackled.... all labourers who are in the service of the lord must work to ensure that the fallow ground is made fertile, and the creator's love for His creatures must be held up to them with unspeakable patience until they lend a hand of their own accord and endeavour to ensure that the divine seed continues to spread. And this will sprout forth very delicately and will overgrow all previously lifeless and dead rock, and the labour, love and patience of the workers will be blessed, for new life will arise from the former desert of ignorance. And the lord will bless the labourers who, for His sake, undertook the unspeakably great work and thereby led so many souls to knowledge and who, although their work seemed almost hopeless, did not tire and reclaimed barren, unfruitful land.... i.e. conveyed true knowledge to ignorant, God-rejecting people and thus contributed to the fact that those people no longer remained dead and lifeless in spirit....

Amen

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