Man's genius is also a certain danger for him, because he sacrifices his inner life to it. The certainty of being on a higher level can often have a pernicious effect, because a person is arrogant and believes himself to be superior to his fellow human beings in every respect in terms of knowledge and power of judgement. However, arrogance is the obstacle to recognizing the truth. Only where humility of heart adorns a person does the truth find entrance, for divine grace flows to them. On the other hand, where the opinion has formed that earthly visible abilities also contribute to recognizing the truth, there is a certain arrogance and therefore also a lack of cognitive power. Anti-religious endeavours promote the abandonment of any belief in what has become common knowledge through tradition. As a result, even that which is of divine origin.... the doctrine of a God of love, omnipotence and wisdom is often given up without hesitation.... And the human being's current attitude is objectively justified in the most convincing way, yet always based on the erroneous view that life ends with bodily death. And therefore the building now erected will lack the foundation walls and therefore not withstand an onslaught of evidence from a deeply believing person.... however, this evidence is just as stubbornly rejected so as not to expose the self-constructed building to the risk of collapse. If the highly developed human mind does not bow in humility to the unfathomable deity, it will only generate erroneous views and strengthen self-conceit with these views, resulting in a regrettable state of mind. Such a person can only be made to recognize his weakness and insignificance through suffering. His intellectual acuity and judgement must be shown to be deficient, as they are no antidote to his own powerlessness when God Himself expresses Himself through the forces of nature. Then every human being becomes small, no matter what talent, what intellectual knowledge he calls his own. In an earthly emergency, which proves his own powerlessness, only the inner relationship, the attitude towards God, is of importance, and this determines his further life on earth and also spiritually. All other qualities of the human being, which can only be assessed in purely earthly terms, will not come into play and every preconceived opinion will waver, for it will not stand up in the face of the catastrophe which surpasses all human imagination and which God sends in order to give precisely those people the opportunity to think right.... to believe in Him........

Amen

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