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6943 Scientific research with God or without God.... II.

October 13, 1957: Book 74

You have been allowed to take possession of the earth in order to mature on it during your short earthly lifetime. You can subdue it as far as this corresponds to your degree of maturity, and you can make it serviceable to you, for everything serves you for the preservation of your life if you use it properly and integrate yourselves into the law of eternal order. Earth has been assigned to your soul as a place of residence for the purpose of maturing, and full of gratitude you should only make use of this gift of grace, for having to walk the earthly path is not easy but it offers the greatest possibility of success, and the human being can leave it as a true child of God, for which only earth thus offers him the opportunity. But this great grace is not valued.... In their delusion people believe that life on this earth alone is the purpose of their existence, and they also arrange their lives according to this opinion. They truly proclaim themselves rulers of this earth, yet not in the sense that God has given them the right to do so, but only with a view to earthly success, to increasing their material goods and taking possession of all things which are common property but which are illegally appropriated by individuals. And this attitude of people leads so far that they soon no longer allow themselves to be satisfied with the domination of this earth, that they climb into an area outside the work of creation which was assigned to them by God.... But the creator of heaven and earth also foresaw this procedure from the very beginning. He built His plan of salvation on people's free will, on the direction of their will, and this plan of salvation will always be carried out when people's will gives cause for it. Thus, as soon as human souls are in serious danger of completely forgetting their purpose of earthly life, when it is no longer possible to speak of a development or a maturing of the souls at all, then the purpose of earth will also have been missed and God will end one epoch of salvation in order to start a new one under different conditions. People are increasingly distancing themselves from their actual aim, they draw up plans and work overzealously on their implementation which have nothing whatsoever to do with the development of the soul, and this attitude reveals one thing in particular: that the ruling principle is becoming increasingly more widespread.... thus also that God's adversary is visibly at work and that people are all too obedient servants to him. For what people are striving for in the last days is by no means aimed at a return to God, at the transformation of their being. It is merely earthly-materially oriented; the search for power and strength, for honour and fame and a prominent position is all too evident, and all this testifies to the influence of the one who, as God's 'adversary', also wants to hold people back from their actual earthly task and who therefore tries to direct their eyes towards anti-divine intentions. But God does not prevent people.... But He foresaw this, and He puts an end to the redemption period in the knowledge that the earth no longer fulfils its purpose. People will still provide incredible evidence of their wrong thinking and striving and boast of their successes.... but they will not be allowed to enjoy them for long.... The adversary has great power in the last days, and he also needs it extensively, but people need not fall prey to him, for they also have an abundance of grace at their disposal so that they could free themselves from him and his power. Yet people themselves misjudge their purpose of earthly life, people themselves like to be dazzled, and therefore they also have to bear the consequences when the end has come....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers