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1155 Language....

November 1, 1939: Book 20

Throughout the ages man's language has been the form of expression of his thinking, and man uses it in order to convey the result of his thinking to his fellow human beings. The wise creator has given them the means to connect people with each other, and at the same time He has given them the opportunity to formulate all mental activity through these means in order to allow fellow human beings to participate in every spiritual experience. At a certain stage of his development this gift is denied to him, but at the same time the ability to think is still undeveloped, and therefore both will only have the right value when they complement each other, i.e. when language can simply and clearly express what moves a person's thoughts. It is God's will that the human being has to make use of language for mutual understanding, for he shall thereby be offered the opportunity to influence his fellow human being and to explain his mental activity to him, and all people shall thereby receive the blessing of mental activity.... in that something can be imparted to them which their own thoughts have not yet awakened in them. For thoughts are again left up to people.... they can be good and also evil and thus also have a correspondingly good or evil effect on fellow human beings if this thought material is conveyed to them through language. And it will therefore be understandable how precisely language is an important factor in earthly existence.... how everything that is offered to people first becomes understandable to them through language.... and how without language the whole of life would touch people far more monotonously and without the linguistic transmission each person would only live his life for himself alone as there would be no possibility to inform other people of his own feelings.... no utterances would reach people, and the community among them would be far more endangered, for everyone would be occupied exclusively with his own thoughts, without realizing that each person is capable of thinking differently.... This becomes all the more understandable when one considers that the human being is always and constantly working out some thoughts and that countless thoughts would therefore vanish into nothing again if they did not want to make their way to their fellow human beings through language and thus stimulate mental activity there again and constantly give birth to new thoughts.... And therefore language as a gift of God cannot be valued highly enough, for it primarily enables a lively spiritual exchange for spiritual seekers and is the reason that the spiritually active person can rise up considerably more easily, for he can be offered regular instruction from all sides in many ways, and again it is only the human being's will, to believingly accept the spiritual knowledge imparted to him through language and thus to ascend, which would be incomparably more difficult for him without this divine favour and would therefore take an exceptionally long time if the human being were to reach the state of maturity of his soul without such mediation of thoughts. For since eternity divine love and wisdom has only endeavoured to make the earthly beings' ascent as easy as possible and therefore gave them the grace of being allowed to use language in order to make the path upwards easier for each other....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers