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1384 Desire of the divine spirit.... love.... light and wisdom....
April 17, 1940: Book 23
Desire the divine spirit in all simplicity and listen to what he reveals to you.... and take this into your heart, willingly obey everything he tells you to do and thank the lord God for his great grace that he honours you with his word.... then you shall spend your life on earth, and it will be pleasing in the sight of God. Only he knows how to live right who always heeds the instructions from above and does not take a single step without having asked for divine protection. For the lord will lead him safely and on the right path towards his eternal home. And if you desire the divine spirit, your earthly existence will be light and bright, for you know its purpose.... Your thinking will be orderly, you will strive towards what is right, you will start and end everything with God, for you regocnize God and live to please Him.... therefore your will is the will of God.... you have subordinated it to the divine will.... And thus you approach the eternal deity and earthly life brings you final redemption. But you will not become free if you revile the spirit from God, if you do not loosen the shackles and bring liberation to the spirit within you. For the divine spirit can never express itself without man giving freedom to his spirit; the light can only shine when it is ignited and the divine spirit can only speak to man when his voice is respected, thus the spiritual in him is awakened. Spirit must strive for spirit, i.e., man must stand up for the teaching of Christ and obey it, he must be active in love, then his spirit unites with the divine spirit of love. And this results in a union of eternal duration, for the love which now takes effect in the human being loosens all fetters of the divine spiritual spark within him and this now pushes towards its source, the spirit of love of eternity. And thus every beginning from now on is able to have a redeeming effect, i.e., the awakened spirit of God urges the human being to follow the christian teaching, and since this places the commandment of love for God and neighbour above everything else and love always has a redeeming effect, this has to make itself felt in spiritual life in such a way that the unification of spiritual strength manifests itself in mediations.... in wisdom-filled teachings, where giver and receiver strive towards each other.... where both the giver and the receiver are willing to exchange spiritual strength, where the receiver gives love and thereby receives love again in increased measure, namely in the form of knowledge.... This striving from spirit to spirit is so extremely profitable for the human being. For only in this way can he receive something that cannot be offered to him in any other way. Everything spiritual is accessible to man if he desires it.... But always only by way of love. Without love, however, access is blocked, and if the human being wants to acquire wisdom he will always reject what is right and accept what is wrong without hesitation, for his senses are still directed by the spirit of unkindness inherent in him. Love, light and wisdom are inseparably connected, and if the human being is lovingly active according to God's will, light and wisdom will likewise be in him, for one is inconceivable without the other. And he will constantly increase in wisdom whose actions are full of love, for by carrying out unselfish deeds of love he will increasingly come into contact with the spiritual substance, which is in knowledge and whose love is again greater than great.... so that it therefore distributes unlimited wisdom to an earthly child willing to love.... If a person therefore wants to stand in the brightest light and the right realization, if he wants to be taught divine truth, he only has to practice love and send his spirit upwards, and everything that is likewise full of love and full of wisdom will communicate itself to the demanding earth child. The fountain of life will open and be refreshment for those who desire strength and nourishment. And so the spiritual in man must seek to multiply.... it must flee its earthly environment and join the spiritual, which has already entered the eternal home.... It must try to reach where its actual home is.... the human being must regocnize that living earthly life is not the actual purpose and thus fulfil the right purpose.... strive for union with spiritual perfection in order to finally be able to unite with the father-spirit of eternity....
Amen
Translated by Doris Boekers