3133 Earthly or spiritual expression of power....

May 26, 1944: Book 41

You may accept every proclamation with complete faith, for it is purest truth because God Himself conveys it to you. And if something seems incomprehensible to you then submit it to Him, Who will not leave you without an answer. And His spiritual helpers are always ready to enlighten you where there is still darkness in you, for God's will is to make you knowledgeable, and God's will is always fulfilled by those beings of light.... beings of light are receivers and transmitters of power from God.... their activity consists of filling everything without strength with the strength from God if it turns to God of its own free will. However, this strength will always have a spiritual effect and therefore this strength will not manifest itself so obviously that it is recognizable to a person who is far removed from the spiritual. The spiritual beings, which only fulfill God's instructions, will always order the mental activity of people who turn to God Himself in their desire for truth. This is the spiritual work of these beings, and this work is always successful as soon as people do not oppose it. But resistance exists when the human being is either indifferent to the truth or desires it by excluding the eternal deity, that is, when he tries to penetrate the truth purely intellectually. Then those beings cannot approach him, for he is surrounded by beings of darkness who want to lead him into erroneous thinking and thus find a welcome reception for their mental whisperings. For people are not taught by beings of light against their will, i.e. without a willingness to receive, otherwise it would be a forced development. Thus the dark beings can likewise mentally influence people but never carry out a spiritual process which requires strength, which is therefore also visible to people.... by creating something which was not there before and which goes beyond the natural ability of man. It is different with the execution of actions which as such lie within the range of human ability, only requiring more or less physical strength. These are carried out with the life force flowing into the human being, which can also be strengthened by his willingness to perform these actions. This life force is likewise imparted to him by spiritual beings according to his willingness to do good or evil. The beings of light constantly have power at their disposal from God, which they constantly receive and pass on, just as the dark beings also receive such from their producer, who receives his power from God but uses it for God-opposing work. The attitude towards God or towards His adversary determines from where the strength flows to the human being, just as the human will uses it for good or evil deeds. An expression of strength can extend to natural or supernatural achievements, but it will always have to be described as vitality because these actions are always carried out by people who have a certain ability to do so and which can only be considerably increased by the influx of strength. However, the process of a transmission of spiritual thoughts in such a form that the results are also visible, i.e. audible, to other people is to be assessed differently insofar as it is a purely spiritual emanation of strength which neither contributes to the preservation of bodily life nor to the strengthening of physical strength but only promotes the higher development of the soul. And such a transmission of strength can only take place on the part of beings which are themselves recipients of strength from God. However, the beings of darkness lack spiritual strength and therefore cannot distribute it, much less can they induce the human being into an activity which requires spiritual strength.... so that something comes into being which the human being is incapable of without a spiritual supply of strength. For every human being would then have to be able to write about the same subjects without any help and at the same time, even if they differed from each other, as soon as the powers of darkness had the same power at their disposal to instruct people. They use the power at their disposal for works of unkindness and hatred, but they try to spread error through mental influence, yet only where the human being's will is inclined towards evil. And therefore a transmission of strength in this form, where spiritual knowledge is imparted to people, must always be addressed as the working of spiritual forces which are in the light, thus they are recipients of light and strength from God and are therefore permitted as teaching forces, i.e. instructed by God to bring light to people and to spread wisdom, thus the truth from God. God's adversary will indeed spare no means to convey the lie and the error to people, yet he uses worldly-minded and materially thinking people for this purpose, and he also influences them in a purely worldly and material way so that they pursue all other goals than spiritual ones; and they neither recognize the error and the lie nor do they desire the truth. They are inclined towards the mental whisperings of the evil forces and now they are active in spreading them of their own free will by using their human ability to convey misguided teachings to their fellow human beings in word and writing. However, these mediations do not reveal anything extraordinary, there can be no talk of extraordinary activity and supernatural power which, however, is indisputably revealed by the spiritual writings....

amen

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