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2056 Trinity....

September 3, 1941: Book 30

The doctrine of the trinity of God has already given rise to the greatest fragmentation of believers and will be a constant source of offence as long as it is not corrected, i.e. offered to people in an acceptable way. Spiritual darkness gave rise to it.... spiritual darkness found an interpretation of the words "Father - Son and Holy Spirit" that was enough to confuse people's thinking. It is also a doctrine of faith which had to be accepted unconditionally because the human being who thought about it could not arrive at a satisfactory solution, thus he would have had to decisively reject it. And this was prevented by forcing the acceptance of the doctrine of faith. The doctrine of the three-personal God is unacceptable to any thinking person.... It is already impossible for man to imagine God as an entity, because for him an entity is the concept of a solid form, without which it is incomprehensible to him. As soon as man imagines the deity as a person, he gives the solid form a shape.... This is in accordance with man's ability to comprehend, but completely deviates from the truth. Establishing a doctrine of a three-personal deity only serves to weaken the divine essence and to create a distorted image of the eternal deity through humanly limited imagination. The concept of the trinity of God can only be explained where the prerequisite for understanding is given through the desire to fathom divine wisdom by way of faith and love. People who are neither deeply religious nor in love would only want to dissect this concept purely intellectually, and this cannot lead to the goal, i.e. no result can be achieved that comes close to the truth. However, many things are understandable to the believer because he is mentally instructed from the spiritual kingdom. Faith and love are the preconditions for the knowledge of God's love and wisdom, of God's work and reign.... They are also the prerequisite for receiving the truth.... They are therefore given truthful knowledge of God's love, which has brought forth everything that exists.... They are instructed about the connection of all things, the primordial beginning, the purpose and the goal of all that is, and thereby they recognize the infinite wisdom of God.... They are informed of the power that flows through everything, of the omnipotence of God, of His will, which is constantly active, and of the connection of every creation with this power. The believing, loving person grasps all this wisdom, for if he is believing and loving, the divine spirit flows through him, i.e. he receives the power from God directly and thereby becomes seeing and knowing. Thus he now also realizes that the mystery of the eternal deity can only be fathomed if God Himself can work in the human being through His strength, for spiritual things can only be grasped spiritually. God is spirit, and the strength from God is likewise spiritual.... If this now flows to man, then he can also penetrate into otherwise unfathomable territory, because then it is not man who solves this question, but the spirit from God in man. However, the mystery surrounding the nature of the eternal deity will remain a mystery to a person who only thinks intellectually.... And so the doctrine of the trinity has now also been interpreted by the human mind, and thus the doctrine of a three-personal God emerged.... God can never be personified, He can only be visualized to man in the form of Jesus Christ, so that people on earth create an image of God for themselves by imagining Jesus Christ in all His glory.... The eternal deity is love, wisdom and power. - Love is the producer of all that is.... It is the father of the universe, it is the primal force without which nothing that exists could exist.... Everything has emerged from love, and everything that has turned away from it is to become love again.... Love is God Himself. - What has emerged from love reveals His wisdom.... Love is God Himself, His wisdom testifies to everything that has arisen from Him, His creations, and therefore what is from the father is His son. - And God's will, His power, which brought everything into being, is His spirit.... God the father, God the son and God the holy spirit are in themselves the essence of the eternal deity.... love and wisdom and willpower. "The divine will of love took form", these words are the same in their meaning as "Father, Son and Holy Spirit". For the love of God allowed the will to become active and created.... God's love and spirit embodied Himself as wisdom.... The spirit of God caused the son to emerge from the father. - Anyone who believes and is in love grasps this wisdom and for them the trinity of God is resolved. But in what error do people walk who lack faith and love and yet have accepted something as a doctrine of faith that remains unacceptable even to the wisest sage. For those who imagine a person-like deity still lack all spiritual knowledge. They apply something purely earthly to spiritual beings which is completely excluded from the spiritual kingdom. The idea of a three-personal deity is misleading, although the addition is used.... "they are one". Man is forced into confused thinking as soon as he stops himself from thinking about it. But God does not forbid people to think about it.... God wants to give him clarity and it is not His will that he should be blinded by human influence, only that he should choose the right path that leads to realization. And they are truly not called to instruct the ignorant, who are ignorant themselves and try to compensate for their inability to receive spiritual knowledge through intellectual thinking and intellectually established teachings. God is spirit and can only be fathomed spiritually....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers