5709 Free will basic law.... test of will of the spiritual....

June 27, 1953: Book 62

The directed spiritual is to be redeemed, it is to become free for once, the banished spiritual, which is to be understood by matter, is to be restored to its original state so that it can freely create and create in divine order, so that it is once again a blissful being as it was in the beginning. But at a certain stage of development, when it has regained free will, it must also pass a test of will.... the same test it was once supposed to pass but failed. A free being must also call free will its own, but a perfect being must move this free will in divine order.... Thus it will only be perfect when its will is rightly directed without coercion.... the being's free will cannot be steered into a certain direction under compulsion, the being can only be exposed to positive and negative influence and then decide for itself which direction it wants to take. And this free decision of will takes place for every being in the stage as a human being, which is why earthly life is of utmost importance, because it concerns the redemption from a bound state, because God, after an infinitely long time of banishment, now gives the being an extremely short time to test its will which, however, is fully sufficient for the final decision. People must know what this last decision means, they must know that this decision determines their fate in eternity.... With the right attitude towards God, with a life of faith and love, the teaching about it would also appear acceptable to them, they would live their way of life in accordance with God's will and thus also make the right decision of their own accord.... but since they lack faith in God and love, since they don't establish the right relationship between the created being and the creator, they don't accept instruction about their earthly task either, they lack all knowledge, yet through their own fault. And since freedom of will is an irrevocable law, the human being cannot be given knowledge against his will which he rejects in free will. Free will is a fundamental law which can earn a being unlimited beatitude but which can also postpone the redemption of the spiritual for an infinitely long time because the state of perfection cannot be created but requires precisely this free will. What emerged from God was in possession of free will, for they were God's creations which He externalized from Himself in all perfection.... that the beings became imperfect is due to the fact that they moved their free will in the wrong direction despite their realization, despite their state of light. Free will could be directed positively or negatively, and through the direction of its will the being should prove its perfection, it should be able to choose for itself, and it decided wrongly.... It strove towards the opposite pole of God and lost its perfection.... But God's works cannot be lost, they cannot remain at a distance from Him forever, they will one day give up their oppositional attitude towards God and strive towards Him again.... For His infinite love has eternally known ways and means to bring back that which once voluntarily turned away from Him. Yet not a single means disregards free will, and not a single being can circumvent the free will test.... But the being shall make the decision in earthly life as a human being.... And with His love and an unlimited measure of grace God influences the human being's will without, however, forcing him to turn to Him. He certainly courts all His creations with all love, yet free will is never eliminated, the fundamental law of eternity....

Amen

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