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1467 Spreading the word of God.... soul is imperfect....

June 11, 1940: Book 24

It is the spiritual bond among yourselves that supports you in your striving for the heights. You should pass on everything you receive and thus work for the lord. The proclamations from above will thereby be spread, and they will also be accepted with joy wherever there is a desire for them. It is immensely instructive to receive these proclamations, for the human being is introduced to knowledge which provides complete information about God's reign and activity in the entire universe and the spiritual life of His living creations. And if the human being now imagines that only God's infinite love imparts such knowledge to him, then he must likewise lovingly pass on what has been imparted to him to those fellow human beings who are in need of truth and hungry for truth. God Himself therefore brings His creatures together in such a way that each one carries out the mission which God Himself determines. His earthly child who wants to serve Him must often let the spirit from God speak within itself and therefore also do everything to pass on what it receives. They must develop an unusual gift of speech and always turn their thoughts to God, then they will be visibly guided in their train of thought and can therefore safely appear as teachers, for it is their will to serve God. And the true service of God consists of His word being spread and thus finding its way into humanity. This precious word, the lord's greatest gift of grace, must be received with gratitude if it is also to have the effect on the earthly child which God intended it to have. And this power manifests itself in that realization comes to the human being when he surrenders himself to the divine word with the will for truth. The imparting of truth from God will be a difficult work for people, yet much spiritual support is at their disposal. And it will turn out that all these proclamations penetrate the human heart far more easily than the book of the fathers, which certainly contains much wisdom but requires the strictest purification, and thus its strength is easily lost, which can be regocnized from the infinitely many additions which are merely the work of man. If the teacher on earth has to fight resistance that prevents him from imparting the divine word, he must first draw strength from this most holy word. He must try to free himself as far as possible from those teachings that have not yet been sufficiently explained to him and try to harmonize everything that is already his spiritual property with what he has been given.... but what cannot be reconciled with it must be unhesitatingly dropped as something that has not yet been clarified. He must therefore not regard life in embodiment as a human being as the beginning of life on earth, but he must know that his soul has already travelled an endlessly long path and that divine grace now gives it the opportunity to become what its destiny is, a child of God.... Only the explanation of the soul and its task provides the fullest insight into the necessity of all world-historical events, for otherwise the forcible separation of the soul from the body would signify an unheard-of cruelty on the part of God or presuppose a different moulding of the soul, which the divine creator incorporates into the human being at birth, but which could again be perceived as injustice. Extremely erroneous conclusions can be drawn if the course of the soul is not regocnized beforehand, and then the pure truth cannot be conveyed to people who are unwilling to accept this teaching of the soul's gradual development until embodiment as a human being. They can never be given information about the actual purpose of creation and the purpose of life on earth. For what God puts into man, what He Himself has created, is perfect. Something perfect, however, needs no task in order to reach the heights, for the perfect has already reached the heights. So what would be the point of going through earthly life if the being.... the soul.... is already perfect!? But the soul that embodies itself in the human being is far removed from perfection, i.e. it did not originate from God as it was at the beginning of its embodiment. Consequently, it must have already travelled a path beforehand, and the human being must be informed about it so that he can first understand the task of the human being on earth. Thus the teaching which is offered to people from above and which first gives a clear picture of the importance of earthly life and the state of the human soul before embodiment has to be accepted without hesitation. And this knowledge should be spread and the teaching unhesitatingly accepted as truth, and then people will regocnize their responsibility in earthly life and shape their lives in accordance with divine will....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers