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2781 God as teacher.... power of cognition....

June 20, 1943: Book 37

Wise is he who constantly allows himself to be taught by God, who therefore utilizes His strength which His love and grace constantly wants to convey to people. For he who receives a gift from God cannot remain in his degree of maturity, he must develop himself upwards, he must become knowledgeable if wisdom is offered to him by God Himself. Having God as a teacher guarantees deepest knowledge and purest truth. And God will be the teacher of the one who wants to be taught by Him, for the will alone is decisive as to which forces try to transfer their thoughts to people. Every instruction, no matter how unimportant it may seem, supplements the human being's knowledge as soon as divine strength supplies it to him, and divine strength is always at work when the recipient opens himself to this strength, when he desires the truth and strives towards God. It is a misguided thought that even powers which are distant from God can convey spiritual gifts to earth if these powers are not obviously granted access through a completely God-opposing way of life. For God-opposing forces will always want to deny the eternal deity, they will only want to enlighten people in earthly matters, and that too in a way which would soon reveal their ignorance. But as soon as spiritual questions are asked they are incapable of expressing themselves, and it is immediately recognizable to the person striving for truth when his fellow human being falls under the influence of those forces. Yet the truth-aspiring human being can unperturbedly abandon himself to the mental influences from above, he will always be shown the right way. The power of the knowing beings in the beyond is so great that they can keep all evil forces away from man. They watch over the truth and the protégés entrusted to them as soon as their desire is directed towards being taught by God Himself. And they increase in wisdom and strength of faith.... for anyone who is knowledgeable will also be able to believe firmly and unshakably because, together with the knowledge, he receives the power of realization which also allows him to accept the knowledge as pure truth. Allowing himself to be taught by God is also the only path to truth, for even if the truth is conveyed to him through fellow human beings, the human being must ask God for enlightenment, for illumination of the spirit, so that he will recognize it as truth.... And then he is taught by God, he has called upon Him for His help, and God as the eternal truth now guides him into knowledge, regardless of which mediator He uses for this. And that is what people usually fail to do, that they ask God to enlighten their thinking. They research and ponder and believe that they can intellectually absorb the wisdom, they try to acquire the knowledge through books and writings, and it can all be dead material and therefore not bring them any knowledge if they absorb it without having first asked for God's help. People must turn to God, Who is the truth Himself, if they want to receive the truth and also recognize it as such. God Himself must not be ignored, the strength of the spirit must be requested from Him, otherwise it cannot become effective in the human being and the human being's thinking will only remain intellectual thinking. But the human being who strives towards God will not do anything without having requested His help, and if he now recommends himself to God's grace with faithful confidence his thinking will be enlightened; he will recognize the truth as such, he will be convinced of it and also stand up for it towards his fellow human beings, he will be able to advocate the truth because he has penetrated the knowledge imparted to him by God's love, because he desired to be taught by Him....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers