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1454 Love indispensable for spiritual wealth....

June 5, 1940: Book 24

The human being whose disposition is devoid of all love is to be called unspeakably poor, for he lacks the realization of the highest nature of God, since all that is divine cannot unfold in him. In his blindness he not only sees earthly life in a false light, but he also makes his heart completely incapable of receiving divine wisdom. He closes himself off to divine activity and can therefore never be taught the truth. For love is indispensable, it is the link between the human being and the teaching forces of the beyond.... Without love the human being does not hear the voice within himself, without love the spiritual spark cannot be kindled in him, and without love all understanding of spiritual truths is also impossible. The human being must educate himself to love, and he can do this with ease if he pays less attention to earthly life and turns to the supernatural. A person who occupies himself in thought with things that lie beyond the earthly will now also regard his fellow human being as an equal seeking being, and this will trigger a kind of feeling of connection in him. He feels the need to exchange his thoughts with him, he wants to share them with him and also lead him on the same path, and thus love begins to unfold in him and a barrier is torn down which previously blocked access to knowledge.... What the human being himself regocnizes as right he wants to communicate to his neighbour, and thus when the need to communicate comes alive in him, his train of thought will also be guided correctly, for where there is love, God Himself is and prevents wrong results of thought. Man should cultivate love, he should carry it in his heart as the most precious commodity and constantly seek to increase it.... And if he lacks the strength to do so, he should ask for it.... And his life will be rich in spiritual possessions, for love will bring him insights that man cannot gain in any other way. God gives the loving person unmeasured wisdom and power, light and strength, and he can therefore call himself abundantly rich, for he is provided for by the heavenly father with the same love.... And thus love can never be switched off if man is to be enlightened.... Without love the human being remains astray and walks in spiritual night.... But love illuminates and leads to the knowledge of divine truth....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers