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5734 Process of transmission of spiritual gifts.... power....

July 31, 1953: Book 62

The transmission of spiritual gifts from the kingdom of light is an expression of strength, a process which would not be possible if the giving beings lacked strength, if they did not work on God's behalf. Therefore, where a person receives a thought material which is not gained through thought, a strength is at work, a being which therefore only passes on what it receives itself.... which flows forth from the source of strength from eternity. A power can be recognized when a result emerges beyond the natural ability, when the human being does not use his abilities but is, as it were, inactive himself and yet something comes about which he has not achieved, which therefore demonstrates another power.... which has become recognizably effective for the human being. Own intellectual activity can indeed also produce results which are not to be rejected, but then the human being himself is the producing power, he uses the vitality at his disposal and he will be able to record results according to his abilities. But where the human being's own intellect takes a back seat, where it behaves passively, where it does not defend itself against expressions of a force, there results emerge which were not determined by the human being's will but by the will of the force which is now active, which now certainly also allows itself to be determined by the human being's will by answering questions but the answer itself is completely independent of the human being's will. Hence it is a thinking power which expresses itself, which is stronger than the human being because it gives something which the human being does not possess.... the knowledge about things which the human being's intellect cannot fathom. What the human being acquires intellectually is therefore always the result of eager reflection or absorption of knowledge which was again acquired intellectually. And then one cannot speak of the working of a force which lets something arise which was not there before.... but in which the human being himself is uninvolved, only that he receives what has arisen, what the force has brought forth, and appropriates it for himself through subsequent intellectual activity.... Thus receptions from the spiritual kingdom prove the working of a power which therefore has to be recognized as divine because it works in order to bring forth something, whereas a negative power only has a destructive effect and is easily recognizable because it confuses the human being's thinking but does not sharpen it, because therefore also mental results which have come into being through the influence of negative powers only cause ever more confusion but do not bring enlightenment.

(31.7.1953) Mental activity can indeed also be influenced by good spiritual side and therefore also produce good results, but the human being's vitality is always effective in mental activity, whereas in transmissions from the spiritual kingdom in the form of the divine word the vitality only becomes active insofar as the receptions are written down, but an unusually active power can be recognized which, although it also expresses itself from within, is obviously connected with a power outside, with a power which can only be sought in the spiritual realm and which legitimizes itself as divine power through the spiritual gifts it brings forth. To want to regard this expression of strength, which people cannot grasp, as the working of God's counter-spirit is completely refuted by its content, which only seeks to induce people to change their nature into love, to attain perfection, and which imparts knowledge to people which God's adversary would never give them, but which could also not be proven to be error or a lie if it were seriously examined for it. Although the truth of this cannot be proven either, it can be sensed if the way of life is lived in accordance with the content.... So the word proves itself when it is lived out. And then the divine origin will also be recognized and acknowledged, yet only by those who strive towards God and do not grant God's adversary any right over them. They also believe in God's working in the human being, in the working of spiritual forces, in the connection between the spiritual world and people on earth, and they can understand a process which cannot be explained by earthly abilities alone, which visibly proves a radiation from above, a strength emanating from God....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers