6705 Lore.... study, dead knowledge.... light....

December 4, 1956: Book 72

Knowledge will not make you happy if you lack love, for as long as it is only dead knowledge which the intellect has absorbed but which could not yet touch the heart which lacks love. This should also be taken to heart by those who acquire spiritual knowledge through study, whose intellect is eagerly at work, who store up much of such knowledge and believe that they are now also suitable to be active as My proclaimers, as My representatives. They do not yet know the difference between such acquired knowledge and the knowledge which comes to them from within through the working of love.... And they first have to get to know this difference before they can be true servants to Me on earth. The right light in them first ignites love, and only then will they brightly and clearly recognize all correlations, but only then will they be able to speak vividly, because they themselves first came to life through a life of love and can now also help their fellow human beings to likewise attain life. All knowledge, even pure truth, remains incomprehensible to those who walk along without love, even though they deal with it intellectually, but it is learned spiritual knowledge which brings them little enlightenment and which they therefore dutifully pass on when they procure a teaching authority for themselves, but which is never a complete explanation to questions (enlightenment gives about questions) which a person seriously desiring truth will ask them. For the correlations remain alien to them because I Myself reserved the right to explain them to people but I also set conditions for it: that the human being lives a life of love. Only then will I enlighten his spirit, and only then will he be able to work with his knowledge in such a way that it brings blessings, that the hearts are addressed and the dead comes to life. That is why not everyone can be suitable for the teaching ministry, even if his intellect is highly developed and he has great knowledge from a human point of view. He then only ever teaches his disciples the same dead knowledge, certain words and sentences are used again and again, which.... if seriously thought about.... are completely meaningless, but they are 'traditions' which are not shaken. If a person is of enlightened spirit then the teachings always make him wonder and he seeks to grasp them.... Thus he requests My support and asks Me for clarification and then brightly and clearly recognizes how they are to be understood or whether they are just worthless sayings which are intended to cover up a certain lack of knowledge. Spiritual knowledge cannot be gained through study, for as long as the spirit is not enlightened as a result of a life of love, that body of thought is only to be valued as worldly knowledge, even if it touches upon spiritual problems. But as soon as I Myself can work in the human being he will only penetrate the depth of what his intellect has absorbed.... And then it will suddenly become light in him, then he will also know that the light of knowledge is a truly delectable asset, and then he will be so intimately united with Me in thought, in prayer and through constant activity of love that he will remember with horror the time when he had only been a dead proclaimer of My word.... For now life is in him, and now knowledge has become realization in him, now he can rightly claim that a light has been kindled for him. But such a light never shines where there is no love.... the love which serves completely unselfishly, which always makes happy and never demands.... Until the human being has entered into this heartfelt bond with Me through loving activity he will never be able to say that he is knowledgeable, for he can only attain the right knowledge from Me Myself, the right knowledge cannot be learned but must have been acquired through loving activity....

Amen

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