2777 Teaching in the hereafter and on earth....
June 17, 1943: Book 37
In the spiritual kingdom only those beings are admitted to the teaching ministry who possess knowledge which covers all areas. Every being can certainly pass on the knowledge it calls its own to the ignorant souls in the beyond, but all-encompassing knowledge is required of beings whose activity is to constantly instruct the children of earth or even the souls in the beyond. These beings have a high degree of maturity, they always and constantly receive their knowledge from God and therefore constantly increase in wisdom, even though they distribute it accordingly. Hence, as soon as a person on earth is destined to introduce fellow human beings to divine wisdom he must have received this wisdom beforehand, he himself must have been taught beforehand in a way which completely excludes error.... And this teaching ministry is carried out by those beings which are in closest contact with God and receive the truth from God Himself as a flow of strength which constantly flows to them. The activity of all beings in the beyond who are in the light consists of passing on what the being itself receives. However, every being can only pass on what its degree of maturity has brought to it; thus the degree of light varies and so does the knowledge. And they also have to receive this knowledge again from beings of light who are responsible for the teaching activity. This is why people on earth who are taught by God's spirit can confidently entrust themselves to the teachers, for they are the recipients of light and strength who receive light and strength directly from God.... the emanation of His spirit.... and transmit it to earth. They are the people in whom the spirit of God is at work, thus they are taught by God Himself, as it were, although the knowledge is conveyed to them through those beings of light which are most intimately united with God, for everything full of light is one with God, except that the individual being finds the flow of divine strength inconceivably blissful and God therefore transfers this activity of love to the beings which have already found union with Him because He wants to make them happy. Yet even in the spiritual kingdom God's laws are observed and the beings cannot act arbitrarily but have to subordinate themselves to divine will which, however, they feel as their own will. And therefore no being will push itself forward to an activity which goes beyond its degree of maturity, which therefore requires greater knowledge than the being possesses. And therefore the receiving human being on earth need not fear that he will be approached by beings which, due to their own ignorance, could impart insufficient or wrong knowledge to him, for completely ignorant beings have no access to the human being who abandons himself to the working of the spirit. beings of light, which have not reached the degree that they can carry out the teaching activity, only come to receive spiritual knowledge at the same time, so that the human being is instructed on earth, because this corresponds to divine will. But as soon as the human being is mentally instructed, those beings who are informed about the disputed questions can express themselves mentally, provided that the human being desires the pure truth and makes himself worthy of being instructed in the truth through his way of life.... i.e. does not grant the opposing forces power over himself through a way of life contrary to God....
(17.6.1943) The most important thing, however, is to open oneself up to these instructions, to allow the beings distributing light and knowledge to have an effect on oneself and not to oppose this working. For the knowing beings of the spiritual kingdom are close to every human being and they constantly try to guide him mentally into the spiritual kingdom. If the human being now gives in to their influence and desires to penetrate the truth he can be constantly instructed, and the more demanding he is the more detailed he will be. And now those forces come into action whose knowledge is unlimited. For the desire for truth also testifies to the desire for God, and the eternal deity therefore approaches a desiring human being Itself by allowing the emanation of Its own strength to flow to him through bearers of light and strength.... And light and power is knowledge, deepest divine wisdom, which is now offered to man, mentally or through the audible inner word. The degrees of light in the spiritual kingdom are therefore decisive as to which degree of knowledge the spiritual being calls its own, and it now works with this knowledge, and indeed again in the sphere assigned to it, where its knowledge is desired and therefore can also be distributed. These spheres can now also extend to earth, for they are not bound to space but depend on the willingness to receive and on the degree of ignorance, both on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom. And therefore all beings, which are already receivers of light, can always work there, where the degree of maturity of the souls corresponds to the knowledge of the giving beings, where therefore the distributing being possesses the knowledge, which the receiving being still lacks. But if an earthly child now offers itself to God for service, that it therefore consciously wants to work on the winning back of souls for God, then it also needs a special knowledge for this work, i.e., the man must also receive that, what he wants to hand out as labourer of the lord, in clearest and most comprehensible way; he must be instructed in a way that all knowledge is made accessible to him, that he is well instructed about the spiritual connections of all things and himself walks in fullest truth. But such instruction is only carried out by the teachers appointed for this purpose, who now introduce the human being to all wisdom on God's behalf. For he can only fulfil the demands that are now placed on him if he is well instructed about everything that concerns the reign and work of God. His office is to spread the knowledge he receives himself, thus to be active on earth as a teacher again, and this teaching activity understandably requires complete knowledge, which can only be conveyed to him by the beings of light who are themselves in the most profound knowledge. But they also watch over the human being's spiritual knowledge, thus they prevent any wrong transmission through spiritual forces, they protect the human being from erroneous thinking and always guide his thoughts towards the right realization. For with the deepest knowledge they also have the highest power at their disposal, against which all less perfect beings are powerless. The ignorant, imperfect beings are denied access because the desire for truth of the receiving human being sets them a barrier that they cannot cross. And this is why the human being can accept the spiritual knowledge imparted to him as profound truth with complete conviction; he need not fear being misguided as soon as he places himself at God's disposal in humility and love in order to be active for Him on earth.... His God-centred will and the desire for the pure truth protect him from all error and also make him capable of a task which is again dedicated to spreading the truth on earth.... He can trustingly abandon himself to the beings of light and allow them to teach him....
amen
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