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4762 The world stands separating between God and man....

October 21, 1949: Book 54

The world stands between you and Me. But I placed you in the midst of the world so that you should learn to recognize who its ruler is and avoid him of your own free will for My sake. I want your decision of will, which you can only make if you know both Me and My adversary in order to then strive towards the one out of inner drive. Thus the world is an obstacle for you to reach Me, for the world usually keeps its victims, it entices you with glamour and splendour and the human being is accessible to its temptations. But I want him to put all earthly things aside in order to gain Me, I want him to be filled by the thought of Me and to begin to regard the world as unreal, I want him to freely decide in favour of Me, and he will also be able to do so if only he has the serious will. It will always mean a struggle for the human being, for his thoughts and aspirations are mostly directed towards the world. Therefore he first has to overcome matter before he unites himself undividedly with Me. I demand this devotion to Me, which is only possible when the world no longer has any influence on the human being. Only then will I have gained victory over the human being's soul, only then will the human being be ready for the spiritual kingdom, only then will the soul have entered the path which leads into the father's house, only then will the adversary have lost all power over it. I seize the human being with My love and constantly fill him with light and strength, and his soul ascends, it now also strives towards its aim of being constantly united with Me, and it will also certainly reach its aim....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers