2518 Love.... truth.... wisdom.... teacher....

October 18, 1942: Book 33

In a world of discord, people must inevitably fall into confused thinking; for the cause of discord is lack of love, and where there is a lack of love, man is also far removed from the truth. This wrong thinking can never benefit the soul; the soul cannot mature as long as it does not think correctly, i.e. as long as it is not in the truth. And therefore love has to be cultivated first, only then will the human being also think correctly and only then can he give information about problems without being wrong. As soon as disputes arise in the spiritual field people are only allowed to express their opinion if they endeavour to live a life of love, and no attention needs to be paid to the opinion of a person without love. And this also applies to all teaching people. As soon as they are in love they spread truth, often even unintentionally, in so far as the people listening to them will understand it as it corresponds to the truth, even if the teaching person was wrongly instructed. However, a loving person also recognizes error when it is offered to him, provided that his desire for truth is strong and he wants to serve God by spreading the truth.... Anyone whose spirit has been set free through loving activity is also called to teach his fellow human beings. In the world without love, however, the spirit is not yet free, unkindness keeps it in fetters, and therefore the person whose spirit is still bound is far from the truth and will therefore never be able to pass on the truth to his fellow human beings, but what he conveys to them is permeated by error, if not complete error. From this it can be seen that only a few people are in the truth because only a few people are also active in love. This is such a bitter realization that these few have to fight a difficult battle if they want to guide people into the truth, because they first have to preach love to them, for only then can a person recognize the truth when his heart has become capable of love.... And transforming loveless humanity into love is truly a task that can hardly be accomplished unless God Himself takes care of humanity. The more unloving people are, the more difficult it will be for the truth to prevail, and it will always be fought against by those who believe themselves to be in the truth but do not practice love themselves enough. Test the teachers to what extent they stand in love.... and check whether these teachers are only passing on learned wisdom.... Truth must be felt, it cannot be learnt in a scholastic way.... And what is passed on only becomes wisdom once it has been absorbed by the heart and mind at the same time.... and a person is only wise when the knowledge shines like a light within him and makes him happy. The teacher must be in love and the person being taught must likewise receive wisdom with a heart capable of love, only then will it be possible to speak of true wisdom. And humanity lacks this love, and therefore it also lacks wisdom, the truth from God.... Yet it believes itself to be knowledgeable and rejects everything that opposes its knowledge. For until humanity has changed to love it is content with adopted teachings which it believes to be the truth because it lacks all power of realization....

Amen

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