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5757 Free will.... earth fate....

August 30, 1953: Book 62

My plan of salvation has been determined since eternity, i.e., everything unfolds according to a plan which was determined by My love and wisdom, because I have known from eternity what is expedient and therefore apply it in order to enable the beings to receive real healing.... Hence the individual person's destiny is also determined according to My thought of salvation, because I also know the human being's will, because every impulse of will and direction has been known to Me since eternity.... But this will is and remains free, even if I have known about it since eternity.

It is incomprehensible to you humans that the human being is not forced into thinking, wanting and acting, that he is completely free to use his will in every direction, but that I have already shaped the human being's destiny according to this will in order to influence his will in the most favourable way imaginable and thereby achieve the highest possible maturity during his earthly life. I only ever want to give him the opportunity for a change of will, thus for a connection with Me, which the being once wanted to dissolve.... And this shall bring about the earthly fate imposed on it.... Hence it depends more on the transformation of his thinking than on what he.... is determined to do by any predicament.... The will in itself is not always the same as the execution of a thought.... The will is the innermost impulse in man.... and the will can also be directed towards something completely unattainable, something that appears to be unrealizable to it..... And it is precisely this will which is evaluated, for which the human being must answer.... Actions can certainly result from this will, which the human being then sees as being caused by fate and which let him deny free will.... and yet, for the first time they are based on free will which, however, has already been recognized by Me since eternity and was the reason why I shaped his earthly destiny as it is now fulfilled in him. Admittedly, you can now also counter that your thinking is also subject to a lawful compulsion.... And My word must now suffice you here that neither I as God and father of eternity nor My adversary will forcibly influence your thinking, that you can defend yourselves against every thought which comes from below if you only want thoughts to touch you from above and vice versa.... Your will is and remains decisive, which is not subject to any coercion. And therefore you must first clarify what you understand by 'will' in the first place.... As beings with self-consciousness who are capable of thinking, your self must therefore create a mental content for itself, it must move in a sphere which addresses it.... the self must be able to assert itself in the self-created sphere and freely determine itself.... The will is nothing other than a projecting or striving out of the ego into the sphere outside itself.... Thought and will are inseparable concepts, for a being capable of thinking can only prove its thinking through the will. However, thinking and willing are not to be confused with the execution of the will.... because this requires strength, which the being may or may not have.... but the lack of strength does not cancel out the ability to will.... that the human being is forced by fate to act in this or that way is a great error if it is claimed that the human being then therefore has no free will.... For it is not the action that is decisive but the will that accompanies every action.... but I have known about it since eternity, which should now also explain the individual's fate, which is based on precisely this will of his....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers