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2508 Arrogance.... darkness.... ray of light.... truth....

October 12, 1942: Book 33

Deep darkness weighs on humanity and the sign of this is wrong thinking and arrogance. He who is arrogant in spirit does not examine whether he is in the truth, and if he is thus mistaken, he does nothing to free himself from it. He who seeks finds.... but he who believes himself to be infallible does not seek the truth and will therefore never find it. To possess the truth means to walk in the light, but error is darkness. This is why God occasionally lets a light shine so that it breaks through the darkness and the benefit of a ray of light is shown to people, i.e. pure truth is offered to a person from the kingdom of the one Who is truth in Himself.... And where there is truth, error is also recognized as such.... The light shines brightly in the darkness.... And now people are free to remain with the truth or to return to error, i.e. to sink back into the night of the spirit. In most cases, however, people flee the light.... the truth.... They do not want to let go of what they possess as spiritual property, even though it contradicts the truth, because they are arrogant in spirit and do not want to recognize anything that goes beyond their knowledge. And that is why it is so difficult to bring the truth to people. If they were to examine everything with a childlike mind, consider everything and then accept what stands up to their scrutiny, their knowledge would be much closer to the truth. But as it is, every bearer of truth is attacked out of the instinctive feeling that his knowledge is greater, and thus humanity remains in darkness, it extinguishes the light because it shies away from it. And even if God repeatedly lights a little light to shine for humanity, it does not recognize the blessing of it and carelessly passes it by or only eagerly endeavours to obscure its bright shine. The ray of light is a blessing for people who desire to walk in the light and they gratefully accept this blessing, but there are only a few of them, they are predominantly people who lack worldly knowledge, for worldly knowledge is likewise a light which shines brightly enough for them.... But it is not capable of breaking through the darkness of the night. But because they believe they possess a light, they do not desire to illuminate their spiritual state, and so humanity continues to walk in darkness, which has an immeasurably painful effect on it....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers