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1079 Submission of the will.... awakening of the spirit of God....

September 2, 1939: Book 20

He who works in you regocnizes your will, and the spirit needs this if it wants to make itself known and no resistance is put up against its work. All spirits try to break through the shell and, once they have succeeded in doing so, they strive to ascend.... Man's will is the shell which often holds him captive when he resists everything spiritual.... And then it is unspeakably difficult for the divine spirit in the human being to make itself felt. But if the will subordinates itself to the divine spirit then all resistance is broken and the higher development of the human being or his soul is guaranteed. And thus the will first has to bend.... the will must become weak and yielding so that the spirit can dominate it, while conversely the will has been strong and unbending in all physical desires until now.... But now the strength of the will must be directed solely towards the spiritual, everything that comes about through the human being's will must only be directed by the spirit in him, and then every action, every thought and every word will only ever testify to the spiritual, and all physical desires will recede into the background. And so the will of man was subordinated to the will of God, the spirit out of him thereby released, so that it can unfold to enormous activity. And this activity of the spirit extends to the most diverse teachings, which are now offered to man in manifold kind. All teachings which the spirit of God dictates to the human being are carefully selected both in their structure and in their wording and guarantee purest truth in terms of content, and nothing is offered haphazardly or inappropriately but carefully prepared and given for a specific purpose. And what seems strange and unacceptable to one person is immediately understandable to another, and this is due to the degree of maturity or love of the one who scrutinizes such divine spiritual gifts. And again, this is so easily explainable as the shackles of the spirit in a loving person are only so weak that divine transmissions can break these weak shackles and thus spirit finds itself in spirit. And so it is never the sharpness of the intellect but the goodness and love of the heart that will subdue the will.... and since goodness and love are divine, the will will bow to the divine and thus liberate the spirit. And a liberated spirit soars.... It leaves the previous narrowness and now moves in all freedom.... Henceforth it is active and inspires the human being to love because it regocnizes love itself as the source of all spiritual.... it is only truly viable in love, and where it expresses itself love must already be rooted in the human being's heart, otherwise a mental exchange cannot take place and the human being would not be receptive to it either, for the spirit must always speak to the spirit, the spirit can never express itself to a person whose spirit is still in the firm bonds of a wrong will, thus unawakened.... The mental transmissions would pass by the ears of such a person like empty sound. And that is why the will of man is first necessary in order to be able to receive.... The will that has hitherto been overly strong in the worldly must be sacrificed and in its place the holy will must become strong, which seeks the connection with divinity.... It must suppress everything opposing and unconditionally submit to the divine will, thus the spirit will also become lively and communicate to the earthly man what is a blessing for him....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers