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3742 Judgement of blind fools.... False knowledge without love....

April 13, 1946: Book 47

The only path to wisdom, the only true knowledge from God, is love.... But how can you humans be knowledgeable if you do not have love within yourselves? How can you presume to judge events in world affairs as well as in the life of the individual human being according to their effect if you do not know the meaning and purpose of them, if you lack all knowledge and are completely blind in spirit as a result of your loveless way of life.... Live in love and the scales will fall from your eyes as to why the Creator and Sustainer of heaven and earth also allows that to happen which is inflicted on you by fellow human beings who are equally devoid of all love. As long as you do not recognise the purpose of earthly life and your actual destiny you also do not recognise Me Myself in every earthly event, you do not recognise My will which underlies everything that happens, even though I do not approve of what unkindness brings about but it is merely an admission on My part to pull you back from the wrong path in order to lead you onto the path of love, through which you will then also come to recognise it. You all want to be wise and even go so far as to reject Me Myself because your wisdom does not allow you to recognise Me Myself.... O you blind fools, how far you are from the truth, from the right knowledge. And how easily you could reach it if you would give in more to the inner stirring of the heart, which urges you to do works of love when you see great need around you. Yet you pay too little attention to the voice of the heart, you only think of yourselves and do not want to renounce yourselves in order to alleviate hardship and kill the spark of love within you instead of fanning it into a bright flame. And that is why it remains dark in you, and in the lack of light in your soul you certainly know nothing of My reign and activity for your salvation. And your thinking will remain wrong as long as you live without love, no matter how much intellectual acuity you possess.... Reason will not lead you to the goal like love.... reason will not make you wise, for true wisdom is born of love. And as long as you neglect the activity of love you will not recognise the meaning and purpose of earthly life, you will not recognise the meaning and purpose of the great earthly adversity, you will not recognise Me, for only through love will you be guided into correct thinking, only love guarantees you true knowledge, because the truth comes from Me to the one who endeavours to live in love in accordance with My will. But the great earthly adversity will be understandable to him, he will not doubt Me and My power, he will believe in Me and the greater the earthly adversity assails him the more firmly he’ll do so.... And he will also be helped, for he belongs to My Own and I shall never abandon My own....

Amen

Translated by Sven Immecke