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1367 Dispositions.... moral theory.... legal concept....

April 2, 1940: Book 23

It is a matter of solving such important problems for you humans that all things must be discussed, as everything is connected to a certain extent. Nothing a person does is unimportant if the effect of it can be linked to the soul. And so something can seem to be for the good of the human being, or it can be inconsequential from a human point of view and yet be extremely serious for the development of the soul. And just now all grievances degenerate in such a way that the soul is in extreme danger. The continued life of the soul is unscrupulously disregarded, only earthly existence and its improvement is always taken care of and thereby more and more damage is done to the soul. It is a state which necessitates divine intervention, and this can only happen in such a way that people realize the futility of their endeavours, that all success they have achieved so far with regard to the increase of earthly possessions will be null and void within a short time. They must realize how impermanent and worthless everything that has been their purpose in life up to now is, so that they tear their hearts away from it and strive for something that has lasting value, i.e. is imperishable. For every admonition to reduce worldly endeavours and to turn all care to the soul is in vain, thus only a powerful call of admonition and warning can be successful.... and this is the only help which can still be offered to the soul. And furthermore, the spirit must also be guided to regocnize those aspirations which inevitably lead to the complete decline of the human soul. These are the irresponsible decrees which concern everything that signifies spiritual enlightenment.... and stop the spiritual striving. These dispositions, which are of a very different nature, have the effect that the human being is increasingly more eager to fulfil earthly requirements and neglects the soul to the same extent, that these dispositions are therefore directed against the requirements which are placed on the soul for higher development.... that whoever follows these dispositions can never consider the soul in a way which is beneficial for it. The human being is placed in an extremely perilous situation because, on the one hand, he has to comply with worldly commands and, on the other hand, he wants to listen to God's voice and thus has to choose between God's and human commandments. And this will be extremely distressing for him if he still thinks about his soul at all. And only the lord Himself can help him in this adversity, and he must not lose this trust in divine help or he will want to lack all protection during this time. You will learn to understand these words if it is demanded of you, if you are weak in faith but have not yet completely separated yourselves from God. The fulfilment of these commandments will completely go against the teaching of Christ, a completely new moral teaching will shape people's thinking even more, and it will be permitted to the human being which will have an extremely damaging effect on the soul. And precisely the soul's great hardship will cause God to make huge changes to the present living conditions, for then there will still be hope that the human being will regocnize God's will and strive to fulfil it, whereas humanity will only regocnize the will of the worldly rulers and fulfil their desires. The danger lies particularly in the fact that even those who still have faith adopt concepts of justice which go completely against God's sense of justice.... that their power of judgement is already weakened, that they are no longer able to regocnize what is right and wrong and therefore affirmatively set themselves up to act in a way which should arouse all their abhorrence. Such a person is now doubly shackled.... he first has to fight against a completely distorted way of thinking before he can begin the real work of his soul. And countless people are in this danger whom God wants to help in an extraordinary way so that they will still regocnize their immature spiritual state as long as they are still on earth....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers