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1404 Ignorance of the work of the Holy Spirit....

May 1, 1940: Book 23

The working of the divine spirit remains incomprehensible to people as long as they themselves do nothing to awaken the spirit within themselves. They cannot imagine that there is a hidden ability in the human being which only needs to be trained.... to bring about successes which cannot be achieved in a natural way. And yet anyone could easily create the proof for themselves if they had the serious will to test this working of the spirit. The success is so unusually valuable that no effort would be too great and the attempt should not be shied away from, which would provide man with the proof. But rarely will a person put all his will into fathoming such things, for the desire for truth is not predominant enough, and thus a person does not desire to know and pays too little attention to extraordinary things. He is also too far removed from love, for love and the desire for truth cannot be thought of without each other. He who is in love is seized by the divine spirit and must therefore also seek the truth.... while a person whose heart is untouched by love has no desire to fathom the inexplicable. Rather, he flees the truth and everything that could lead to it, for since he himself feels nothing divine if he is not active in love, he does not seek God either, he does not seek the light.... he does not desire to know, he wants neither enlightenment nor truth.... And divine activity is therefore something completely incomprehensible to him. And therefore only a few will be informed about it, and these must have already awakened their spirit, otherwise the working of the divine spirit in the human being would also be an empty concept to them. And again, this shows how little this precious gift is requested and how rarely it can therefore be distributed, for the power of the Holy Spirit will only be poured out on those who make God their own, for their nature will be love.... They will have a desire for truth and request the strength from God, and their thoughts will then be well-organized, for the spirit of God will pour itself out over the earthly child and thus the spirit from God will work in a visible way. And the visible success is a knowledge that far surpasses human abilities, an absorption in the spiritual and the gift of foresight in the divine will. Anyone who does not regocnize the working of the divine spirit will also doubt these predictions, after all, he is unaware that the spirit's strength protects the human being's thinking from error and thus the earthly child, which abandons itself to the working of the divine spirit, cannot accept anything which goes against divine will.... that these predictions can therefore be fully believed as long as the human being desires divine strength and does not deny the working of the divine spirit....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers