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5448 Spiritual spark.... Life....

July 25, 1952: Book 60

It is the spirit that gives life.... It is My Spirit, My Share, which slumbers within you and shall be brought to awaken, which does not push itself forward but patiently waits until you prompt it to express itself.... But then it will announce marvellous things to you, for it is divine and therefore knows everything, it can also reveal everything to you that you desire to know and even more....

My Spirit is the divine spark which rests in every human being's heart and which only gives him the right life if it can be active in him. And to let this spiritual spark become an infinite sea of fire is the purpose of your earthly life or also the fulfilment, for then you will be filled with the divine spirit as soon as the spark in you, which is My Share, has become a bright flame of love. For then you will have accomplished the union with Me, the spark of love will have united with the fire of Eternal Love and I shall be present in the human being in all fullness, he shall live in and with Me.... At the beginning of your embodiment as a human being your soul came from below, that is, its substances passed through the material creation because they belonged to the fallen spiritual substance which first had to develop upwards again.... The body is likewise still very immature spiritual substance, and both soul and body would hardly progress upwards during earthly life if the divine spark within the soul did not take the lead.... or also.... if I were not always willing to let My Spirit, My power of love, flow into the human being, which always results in the achievement of the final goal, but this grace is not utilised by every human being.... For My Spirit can only express itself once the human being listens to it of his own free will, My Spirit can only express itself when the human being's heart shapes itself into love which enables him to hear the subtle voice of My Spirit.... Thus he awakens it to life through love, that is, he allows its effectiveness, My Spirit becomes active and now guides the human being onto the right path.... My Spirit instructs him, the human being is taught divine wisdom from within because it is not earthly but spiritual knowledge which he now receives, knowledge which originates from Me Myself, which is thus conveyed to the human being through the voice of the spirit. However, in order to be able to hear this voice the human being's spiritual ear has to be trained, that is, the soul has to shape itself such that it understands what the spirit is saying to it, and this shaping happens through loving actions.... A person who lives a life of love has the ability to inwardly hear the words imparted to him by My Spirit; however, the soul has only regained this ability, for it once possessed great abilities which it lost due to its past apostasy from God.... But love brings back all its divine attributes, and therefore the human being can still accomplish much more if he endeavours to live a life of love, for it is his original state into which he enters once he joins Eternal Love through love, when he can now work in union with Me and thus also accomplish everything. But the soul would never reach this goal by its own strength, therefore I placed a small spark of My Eternal Spirit into the soul, and blessed is he who allows himself to be guided by it, blessed is he who listens to its voice.... blessed is he who establishes the connection with the Father-Spirit of Eternity.... For he shall live forever....

Amen

Translated by Sven Immecke