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5663 Mental disorders - temptations.... patience....

April 30, 1953: Book 62

Every spiritual exchange assures you spiritual protection as long as you only desire the truth. Nevertheless, you can be disturbed in such a way that you are prevented from gathering yourselves inwardly, because the forces of darkness use every opportunity to prevent the supply of truth. If they cannot influence you from the spiritual kingdom by feeding you error, they will use people on earth to prevent you, but this will only be detrimental to you if you allow yourselves to be aroused by such disturbances. Then they can certainly book a success for themselves but never endanger the spiritual exchange itself. You must regard everything as God's permission and know that you, too, must often be tested, that you must practice patience and gentleness and that you will always have achieved victory if you always calmly and equanimously face everything that concerns you, for you will only mature if you no longer offer the enemy of the souls a point of attack.

He rejoices over every defeat of yours, which can already be regarded as an inner agitation or impatience. And He will refrain from His efforts when everything bounces off you, when you are in fullest harmony of soul and accept everything as God's will or His permission. But the spiritual exchange is not endangered by the fact that you are occasionally hindered, instead, your desire for it will increase and your spiritual work will always be carried out more eagerly where the desire for God and truth fills the human being. For no dark power can diminish or even kill this desire, because the beings of light always influence the human being such that he will not neglect to seek God and truth, and the influence of the beings of light will always be stronger than the power of darkness....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers