2352 The power of evil does not extend to creations....

May 30, 1942: Book 32

No spiritual forces can express themselves which are under the influence of the evil power as long as the spiritual is still in bound will, because the opposing power of God is powerless against this beingness. It can only test itself on the soul of man, therefore on the spiritual, which is in the stage of free will, and also does this in the most extensive way. Thus people will always be oppressed by the power opposing God, but they will never be able to influence creations which harbour the as yet undeveloped spiritual substance. These creations are solely subject to God's will, and everything that takes place in these creations can be attributed to His divine activity. It is therefore totally erroneous to attribute phenomena to satanic power which run counter to divine order, i.e. which come to light in the creations. Every change in God's creation is also caused by His will, for the power of God's adversary never extends beyond that which God has brought into being through His will in visible creations. And therefore the effect of that power can only be expressed in the human soul.... It can indeed, by influencing the human will, cause it to act destructively in creation, but then man will always be the executor, he will therefore, as it were, do something on behalf of the evil power which the latter cannot carry out itself, namely somehow act contrary to the divine laws of nature. If it is therefore assumed that the power hostile to God can gain faith in people by carrying out things which require divine power, then God would first have to give this power to His adversary, and this would not correspond to the nature of the eternal deity, Which, full of mercy and love, inclines towards all Its living creations and wants to help them in their spiritual adversity. For it would truly not be a help if people were misled in their faith and were even less able to recognize God. It would then be almost impossible for people to believe that God would hand His creatures over to the adversary, that He would not only abandon them to the adversary but push them towards the one from whose power He wants to liberate them. Yet God's love lasts forever.... He helps humanity and He will always stand by it in the battle against evil, but He will never put His living creations into such trouble that they suspect God in the activity of the one who is His greatest enemy and adversary. The God-opposing power will always be recognizable by people who think and act lawfully, and thus they will not experience the adversity of considering God's adversary to be God Himself either, unless they are so devoted to him due to their completely wrong way of life on earth which deprives them of all power of judgment.... But these are no longer His children but children of satan because they are subject to his will and completely oppose God....

Amen

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