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5915 Maturity level ensures right thinking.... spirit work....

March 27, 1954: Book 64

A certain degree of maturity also ensures the human being's right thinking.... the enlightenment of the spirit and thus also the recognition of truth. And you should therefore also strive for this degree of maturity.... You should lead your soul to perfection by fulfilling the divine commandments, you should acquire strength of love by performing selfless works of love.... You should do everything to become the image of God. For with increasing maturity of soul you will also step into ever brighter light, and this means that you will learn to distinguish between truth and error, between the real and the false, between the real and the illusory.... But for this a certain degree of maturity is indispensable. For an imperfect soul is also blind in spirit, and the soul is imperfect as long as it lives outside the divine order, which, however, is restored by fulfilling the divine commandments. Work on your soul so that it matures, so that you reach the light of knowledge.... Otherwise the light cannot be given to you, for you would not be able to see it in your immature state because you are blind in spirit as long as you are imperfect. But if you stand in the light, in realization, as a result of your soul's maturity, then you need not fear erroneous teachings either, for you will immediately recognize them as erroneous. But error finds good ground and can spread extremely quickly where people make no effort to improve their immature state of soul.... where they are incapable of recognizing error as such. And then it will have a very pernicious effect, it will darken the spiritual state more and more, because at the same time it will also prevent the human being from working on his soul, for an erroneous teaching will never demand the fulfilment of divine commandments because this would illuminate him himself. Therefore, it cannot be emphasized enough that the spirit in a person can only be illuminated through the working of love and that anyone who desires to stand in truth, who does not want to be deceived by erroneous teachings, absolutely has to take the path of love which brings him enlightenment of his spirit. Not the clever person protects himself from error but only the good, willing to love, for he sees things as they are and does not allow himself to be deceived by appearances. Appearance, however, is everything that makes a person lukewarm about the work of the soul.... Appearance is everything that does not correspond to truth and.... because it does not stimulate the transformation of the being.... never results in the state of realization, yet it will always appeal to people who do not strive for the aim of eternity; for these are blind in spirit and feel comfortable in their blindness.... These do not seek the truth, they do not seek the light and will therefore also remain in darkness....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers