2273 Different schools of thought.... truth depending on the degree of love....

March 23, 1942: Book 31

There is a grain of truth hidden in every school of thought, provided that it has the pursuit of God as a condition. But the reason why the different schools of thought do not agree is that they are mostly based on intellectual thinking. And people's thinking does not always follow the same path because people's degree of love is different. And thus God is closer to one person than to another as soon as he unites with God in the activity of love, and consequently this person will also be closer to the truth, since God Himself is the truth. But where love becomes weaker the intellectual thinking can still be so well developed, it will still deviate from the truth, and the result of the thinking is different from that of the first. And so it is understandable that not all views agree, even if they touch on the same problem, i.e. relate to the nature of the eternal deity and Its reign and activity. Yet seeking and researching in this area is pleasing to God and He will never close Himself off to such seekers. He will give them according to their worthiness and their desire for truth. The one who searches with human intellect does not live so much in the spiritual world. He tries to build up a structure from existing writings and traditions, so he takes a grain of truth with him into his work and then builds on it, but he is without inner enlightenment, without inner connection with God, and therefore he will never be able to see clearly and brightly and will always grope in the dark, although he represents his views as truth. But if the human being is in love then he is connected to God, he will receive His strength and strength is light.... He will know the truth, for his spirit will instruct him and then he will be unable to think other than the truth. And a spiritual direction created and gained in this way fully corresponds to the truth. If such an enlightened person succeeds in persuading the representative of another school of thought to walk rightly before God, so that the latter first puts himself into an elevated state of love, then he will not take offence at the former's teachings. He will drop his views and join those which were gained under the right conditions, for then he will recognize them as truth, because the activity of love will always result in the truth and the recognition of it. This is understandable because God is in him and where God is, all darkness will also disappear. And therefore the human being will always follow the spiritual direction which arose under the same preconditions which also establish his nature. Increased activity of love must result in true thinking. But where this is deficient, there the human being stands in wrong thinking. Yet the will to solve eternal problems finds God's approval and is therefore rewarded with truth as far as this is permissible, i.e. in accordance with the degree of love....

Amen

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