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2823 Researching the mind.... connectedness to God....

July 24, 1943: Book 37

Every desiring person will be given spiritual nourishment and thereby he will recognize God's love and kindness which reveals itself to him by illuminating his spirit. And this love expresses itself in such a way that thought follows thought and the human being becomes knowledgeable.... that the one who has become knowledgeable no longer harbours any doubts as to whether his knowledge corresponds to the truth. Every person will indeed advocate what he has mentally made his own, even though it need not be the pure truth, but in most cases it is knowledge taken over from people; it is therefore thoughts that he has not born himself but that have been transferred to him by fellow human beings. Such knowledge cannot be called self-acquired knowledge as long as it has not become his own spiritual knowledge through deep reflection.... And this reflection must now take place with the help of the divine spirit, i.e. the spirit of God must be approached for its work, which now separates right thoughts from wrong ones and gives the human being the realization of what is right and what is wrong. People make many assertions, all of which have been gained through intellectual thought, and yet they differ from one another and no human being can be blamed for a lack of intellectual activity.... On the other hand, the desire for the pure truth will be quite different in its strength. And this is the reason why all the results of intellectual activity are different. For only the desire for truth guarantees pure truth.... Because only then can God Himself, as the eternal truth, reveal Himself and He will also reveal Himself because His love wants to give man the truth which is to make him happy. Whoever desires to receive knowledge from God Himself will truly also be in the right knowledge; whoever excludes God and searches without Him, his thoughts cannot move in truth, because truth is only with God, nowhere else. Right thinking, i.e. knowledge that corresponds to the truth, cannot be achieved without being connected to God, even though the greatest worldly wise make it their life's work to penetrate this in a research-like manner. His knowledge will never go beyond visible or tangible things which can be verified and proven on earth.... But how all these things are connected with God, with the creator, what spiritual meaning all that man sees and what surrounds him has, that cannot be fathomed scientifically. But the human being who is intimately united with God can ask Him all these questions, they will be answered for him through God's great love and grace, and he will very well recognize the thoughts which now arise in him as God's answer, they will appear to him as truth, they will move and delight him because truth is something divine and therefore must also delight and satisfy. This is why the person who has received such knowledge from God Himself will no longer ponder and research but unconditionally accept what he has received as truth, whereas the intellectual researcher will not stop his pondering and researching because he lacks innermost conviction, because he will not remain without doubt and ever new thoughts will make him discard the old ones, provided they are thoughts which have not emerged from his heart but from his intellect. However, if he has received it from fellow human beings, then his conviction is only weak and will soon be shaken as soon as he earnestly desires the truth. The will for truth and the call to God as the eternal truth is absolutely necessary in order to receive the pure truth and to be able to recognize it as pure truth....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers