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6082 Value of spiritual and earthly knowledge....

October 18, 1954: Book 66

It is extensive knowledge which can be conveyed to you spiritually.... it is knowledge which you humans alone, intellectually, will never be able to gain, for it gives you information about questions which no human being who has not been spiritually instructed again could answer. But you humans may also ask questions about everything.... You will receive answers if you choose the spiritual path.... if you ask God Himself to instruct you. But knowledge must always be a blessing for you; it must help your soul to mature.... God Himself will provide you with everything that helps the soul to do so, as soon as you request it, and everything that provides information about the creator's connection with His living creations, about the meaning and purpose of creation and about God and the creator of eternity will help the soul to mature.... So it is always spiritual areas which are made accessible to you humans when the knowledge of 'truth' is supplied to you. This fact should at the same time be an indication to you that earthly knowledge only has an illusory value, that it should not be overestimated or striven for more desirably at the expense of spiritual knowledge, for it does not bring the soul one step forward in its development. It can certainly also have a beneficial effect on the human being's time on earth, namely when a spiritually striving person places his earthly knowledge at the service of his fellow human beings, when he sees his earthly task in helping his fellow human beings and therefore acquires earthly knowledge without, however, forgetting God.... but to put Him before all his studies. He will truly be blessed spiritually and earthly.... earthly knowledge will be added to him because he strives for spiritual things first. Nevertheless, he will be far more delighted with the thoughts imparted to him from the world of the spirit, for they direct his gaze into eternity.... It lets him recognize his purpose of earthly life, and therefore he creates far more for the spiritual than for the earthly world.... and yet he also works to bless this world. Entrust yourselves to them for they can give you much.... But people who only live in the world and are distant from spiritual experience are like dead, fruitless trees which are unable to give anything that can bring salvation to their fellow human beings.... even though they possess worldly knowledge in abundance.... They are transient goods, without value, because they perish with the death of the human being, whereas spiritual goods, spiritual knowledge, will remain for eternity and signify light and knowledge for the soul, which will make it happy forever....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers