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2191 Truth from above....

December 20, 1941: Book 31

The few people to whom the spirit of God reveals itself are chosen to receive extraordinary knowledge, and this is why they will so often meet with resistance or disbelief, because this knowledge does not correspond to worldly knowledge and also surpasses the knowledge of the one who receives spiritual knowledge from books and believes himself to be in the right state of realization. God certainly recognizes his will and He also tries to impart increased knowledge to him; however, the human being is arrogant in spirit due to the knowledge he possesses. He will stand in the truth as soon as he asks God for enlightenment and allows himself to be mentally instructed by God. In most cases, however, knowledge is taken over by people which, in addition to the truth, also contains error. And the human being is not willing to give in to error, i.e. he does not accept any kind of instruction which would enable him to distinguish and separate truth from falsehood. And then it is difficult to convey the pure truth to him, especially if the person with the right realization wants to give him clarification about things that are beyond his knowledge. But God wants to spread this knowledge on earth in order to make people believe, in order to make them understand the connection between all things. The spirit from God will never teach people anything other than what God has revealed to people from eternity, however, human will has created its own limits of knowledge by erecting barriers which it does not want to cross and also does not want to tear down. These barriers are the work of man, which has joined the pure word of God and has thus moulded it. In order to be able to distinguish between God's word and the work of man, the spirit from God must again be active in man, and man must know that God does not force his will to think correctly but that He will always help him to do so. Furthermore, he must know that He does not prevent people from working against His will.... that He keeps His word pure insofar as that He repeatedly allows it to be conveyed to people in an unspoilt state.... that He therefore repeatedly descends to people in the word so that His word remains unchanged.... but that He does not protect that word from change, which human will has constantly shaped and reshaped ever since it came into being. Nevertheless, He will guide the mind of the person who reads this word in love for Him and in the will to serve God.... He will reveal Himself to him in the word so that the human being only draws the pure word from it and does not take offence at the teachings which were added to His word against God's will. Yet intellectually wanting to find or create a connection between the divine teachings and the work of man leads to erroneous thinking, and even if man wants to act right.... his will is stronger than the will of God, so he opposes the divine will with his own will. He who is taught by God also has the right and the duty to defend his knowledge, and he must not allow himself to be put off, whatever objections are made to him.... For those who are taught by God will receive the same truth in agreement. They will not have different knowledge, they will only ever receive from God what corresponds to the truth as soon as they have the will to serve God, i.e. to work for Him with the received truth, to impart it to fellow human beings and thus to be redemptively active on earth. Anyone who only desires knowledge for himself still has a certain self-love, which is contrary to unselfish neighbourly love, but which is the first condition for receiving the truth. And this must be the yardstick by which the truth of proclamations of various contents is tested. Only the will to serve in love makes a person capable of receiving the divine word, and only in a person who is deeply faithful and moulds himself into love can the spirit from God work. And the working of the divine spirit manifests itself in such a way that the result of it is perceived favourably by the soul but not by the body.... If the soul rejoices and exults because of the spiritual knowledge received, the body will have to withdraw with its desire, thus the person who receives spiritual knowledge from God's spirit will increasingly turn away from the world, thus no longer paying attention to the body.... while the teachings which do not correspond to the truth trigger a certain emptiness in the soul, and the person will try to lift this feeling of emptiness by striving for something beneficial for the body. Truth only benefits the soul, untruth the body, because the body, matter, is still part of the one who wants to bring untruth to humanity. Those who are of one mind strive for the life of the soul because their soul means everything to them.... But in greatest danger are those people who think they have passed away with death on earth if they are not exceptionally active in love on earth. For their knowledge is truly still limited. In order to increase their knowledge, God lets them find contact with knowledgeable people, i.e. those to whom knowledge was imparted by God for the purpose of instructing the misguided. God's love also wants to make them knowledgeable for the benefit of humanity. And the willing person recognizes the truth as soon as he humbly submits to divine guidance and allows himself to be guided by Him.... For God leads every human being towards realization and he will stand in the truth if he is willing and does not resist. He must allow himself to be guided by the voice of the heart but never judge intellectually where the inner voice urges him to accept what is offered....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers