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2309 God's protection.... right thinking.... truth or error....

April 22, 1942: Book 32

The thought activity of a soul forming itself into love is subject to divine protection, and if the human being wants to be good he will always willingly take up the right thoughts if they rise from the heart and desire to be held in the human being's brain. The will of the person striving for love affirms the good thoughts and rejects the bad thoughts, and God strengthens this will because He recognizes the person's striving and seizes everything that wants to turn to Him, thus He meets the person who has Him as his goal. The good person cannot think wrongly as soon as his thoughts are born in his own heart, i.e. everything that is unclear to him and triggers questions in him will awaken truthful thoughts in him and can therefore be called his own acquired thoughts. However, if human teachings have preceded it which deviate from the truth, the soul will not give itself unreservedly to the eternal truth, which is God Himself.... it does not desire enlightenment, but believes itself to be enlightened.... Thoughts are not born in the heart but have been implanted in it.... man's will cannot free itself from it, and man's love does not exclusively turn to the eternal deity but also belongs to that which gave rise to human wisdom.... So man is not yet free from earthly love. But man must be prepared to give up everything he possesses if he wants to receive eternal truth. This, however, compensates him for everything he gives. The activity of thought is left up to him and is therefore not forcibly steered in a certain direction as long as the human being wants to be active himself. Only when he also hands over his thoughts to God's guidance, when he asks for His protection and blessing and recommends every thought that comes to him to His care and grace, will his thoughts be guided by God and inevitably move in the truth. And the human being need not fear having to surrender something pleasing to God, for as soon as he is already in the truth, it will come to him again as thought material. But the heart refuses to allow that which does not correspond to divine truth to ascend to the brain.... i.e. the human being then rejects such thoughts purely by will (emotionally?) because he can no longer fully affirm them. And God separates truth from error and gives the person who surrenders to Him in full faith the knowledge of what is truth and what is error. Whoever wants to draw wisdom from the books of the world will never attain wisdom; but whoever approaches God with heartfelt love for the truth, his wisdom will surpass everything that has been gained intellectually. And thus a characteristic is set when a person moves in the truth.... But the same truth is always offered to those who ask God as the eternal truth for the right knowledge....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers