1498 Education for right thinking.... faith....

June 29, 1940: Book 24

People should be educated to think correctly and that alone is a task which requires helpful beings both on earth as well as in the beyond. If humanity chases after completely wrong ideals, if it strives for exactly the opposite of what is the actual purpose of earthly life, then it is therefore thinking wrongly and it is now the task of those who think rightly to instruct them and to give them information. However, any help is usually rejected, and therefore a reorganization of thinking is extremely difficult to achieve. Every assertion has to be substantiated to people with evidence and they will not allow themselves to be convinced until this evidence has been given to them. But now the spiritual can never be proven, on the other hand, in order to think correctly, man must make use of spiritual help, therefore believe in spiritual working. Only then can this working appear in such a way that the human being's thinking is organized, i.e. that it is right. Therefore, in order to educate people to think correctly they must be informed that spiritual beings look after people, that they have an influence on all earthly events in the life of the individual and that they are always and constantly willing to assist the human being with love, to advise him, to give him strength and to guide him on his earthly path. Only when the human being has familiarized himself with such thoughts will he, if he is in need of help, try to make use of these beings surrounding him and abandon himself to their guidance. And then these beings can have an unhindered effect on people's thinking. And their thinking must now be right.... The spiritual work cannot be proven to him even now, but he himself senses it and no longer needs proof, for if he thinks correctly it is easy for him to believe.... However, it is extremely difficult to teach people this conviction in an age that denies and fights against everything spiritual. Mankind lives in a completely different world, a world that is the complete opposite of the spiritual world.... In order to make the leap from this world into the spiritual realm, the human being must first undergo great emotional upheavals, or else he must be so imbued with love that the spiritual realm automatically becomes his home, towards which he strives. Without earthly hardship and without love, however, the human being does not regocnize anything supernatural, his thoughts will always stray far from what is right before God and it is difficult to steer them towards recognition. In order to think rightly, faith is necessary.... faith in God and in spiritual activity.... But if this faith is not present, then a person can never take a direction of thought that leads to the right realization. He will always go the wrong way, he will grope and search and yet constantly err. Only when a person prays, when he regocnizes his own inability, will there be light around him, for then he will ask for the strength he previously refused to acknowledge.... And now his thinking will be clear, he will suddenly realize that without spiritual strength correct thinking is impossible. He will realize that orderly thoughts are a gift of divine love which can only be received by someone who consciously desires divine love.... who therefore acknowledges and makes use of the strength from God....

Amen

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