Source: https://www.bertha-dudde.org/en/proclamation/2889

2889 Serious testing in impartiality....

September 21, 1943: Book 37

Unteachable are those people who believe themselves to be knowledgeable, for they are inaccessible to all instruction. They do not demand what they believe they possess and therefore no wisdom can be imparted to them if they lack the will and the desire for it. A strict examination would make them suspicious, however, this examination must take place impartially, the human being must be willing to accept or reject to the best of his knowledge and conscience, but he must never only want to seek what he can reject. And he must exercise the strictest criticism of himself. His will must be to serve God by wanting to serve the truth, by wanting to reject what is false and recognize the pure truth in order to pass on only the pure truth again. And an already existing knowledge is an obstacle to such a serious examination insofar as it holds the person too captive. He does not want to surrender it if it contradicts what he is supposed to examine. And then there is only one way to induce him to accept the pure truth, that he himself comes into doubt through events, that his previous knowledge no longer gives him a foothold, that he is no longer able to harmonize it with his thinking. And thus strong trials are necessary for those people, trials which shake his faith and make him doubt as long as he lacks the truth.... For erroneous teachings will not be able to provide exhaustive clarification and therefore have to be corrected and only then will the human being be inclined to acknowledge what he previously rejected and he will be suitable for an unbiased examination....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers