Source: https://www.bertha-dudde.org/en/proclamation/1769

1769 Forced direction of thought....

January 7, 1941: Book 27

The human being finds himself in lack of freedom of thought if wisdoms are transferred to him which are human results, that is, if intellectually acquired knowledge is conveyed to his fellow human being again and, as it were, presented to him as irrefutable, so that his train of thought is led in a direction which deviates from the truth but he himself does not even consider that he might be thinking wrongly. To a certain extent this direction of thought has now been forced upon him, and it is now difficult for the beings in the beyond to convey such thoughts to him which make him doubt the correctness of those wisdoms which have been imparted to him in a scholastic way. This is where the earthly children with the right knowledge should intervene helpfully by undauntedly trying to explain the error of those teachings. They must stimulate such misguided people to think for themselves, they must try to prove to them that a wisdom that comes from heaven.... that was gained without any prior knowledge.... is indisputably more credible than that which was devised by human understanding and passed on by human will. And mention must be made unflinchingly of divine activity, for only knowledge acquired in such an extraordinary way will find acceptance if the human being recognizes that his own knowledge is inadequate. But usually his resistance will increase as he does not want to give up his previous knowledge. However, pointing out to them that they have a duty to reflect on the knowledge they have been given can sometimes lead to success, for then their spiritual friends will be able to impart many a thought to them. Without spiritual help, however, they will hardly find the path to truth, for in order to acquire it a person has to be mentally active himself; however, he must not allow himself to be forced into thinking or accept something as truth without having acquired it as spiritual knowledge through his own mental work....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers