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2192 Spiritual connectedness.... conducive to the exchange of thoughts....

December 22, 1941: Book 31

The spiritual bond between people cannot be valued highly enough, as it promotes higher development immensely through mutual exchange and the drive to do good. Man can only mature through continuous endeavour, through constant work on himself and fervent prayer. Will, action and grace must work together. Now where spiritually striving people come together, there an exchange of thoughts takes place, the result of which is that the will in man becomes extraordinarily active after the union with God, that they seriously strive for the union with God and therefore also seriously endeavour to fulfil the demand, which is the prerequisite for this intimate union with God. Thus the work on oneself begins. The will is put into action, the human being tries to shape himself correctly and, since he is aware of his weakness, he asks God for strength and grace.... and so he strives upwards. Man would tire of this labour of the soul if he wanted to separate himself from his fellow human beings, he would lack the drive, the opportunity for comparison and, not least, the opportunity to serve, for wherever people come together with good intentions, one consciously or unconsciously serves another. The knowledgeable person seeks to give, he also seeks to make the other knowledgeable, the mature person seeks to spur the immature person to work on himself. The strong will give of his strength to the weak, one will help the other, and all this leads to maturity of soul, for unselfish neighbourly love is the binding agent between them, and love will always lead upwards. And God's grace will always flow to these people who unite in order to reach God.... The will for God is decisive as to whether and to what extent God's grace is imparted to people.... Through mutual spiritual exchange of thoughts the will for God is brought to highest development in man, and consequently grace can now also flow to him in great measure, and this causes that man can put his will into action and therefore successfully works on himself, that his knowledge is increased, that he fulfils divine will and enters into an ever more intimate connection with God and thereby now also becomes able to establish new connections and to serve his fellowmen by likewise helping them upwards. The divine voice and thus God Himself expresses itself through people who truly strive to ascend, and therefore spiritual bonds between people will always be blessed, after all, it is God's will that people should work with and for each other, that they should cultivate love and draw closer to Him through love.... For only in this way can they mature in their souls and mould themselves into children of God....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers