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6950 Love" only opens up knowledge.... human commandments unimportant....

October 20, 1957: Book 74

Every person could attain correct thinking if only he lived his life in divine order. And then every person would also possess the right knowledge why and for what purpose he takes the path across earth, for God does not keep Himself hidden and He also enlightens the person who listens to Him, who desires clarification about the meaning and purpose of his earthly existence. But a way of life in divine order is synonymous with a way of life in love.... And people usually lack this, and the result is wrong thinking, a darkened spiritual state, lack of understanding and rejection of truth. Love is the bond with God, where love is missing there is great distance from God. This is the simplest explanation for the fact that people lack knowledge and do not accept it when it is offered to them. Only a person who is willing to love can be given knowledge which he lacks, for only he will also be able to understand it and it will appeal to him, he will recognize it as truth. A change of thinking can therefore only be brought about if people are made so urgent about the commandments of love for God and neighbour that they seek to change themselves.... And as long as those commandments are not emphasized as important, as long as people's attention is drawn to completely unimportant things, it is also impossible to familiarize them with the truth, to present them with knowledge which explains their purpose and reason for being. Proof of this is that the same knowledge is readily accepted by one person while it meets with rejection from the other.... and that the former unmistakably possesses a heart willing to love while the other is hardened and pays little attention to God's commandments of love. 'Knowledge' will also never cause people to become 'active in love', but only the will to love opens up the meaning of knowledge to the human being. Love is therefore the factor that must always be reckoned with if people want to achieve spiritual progress. For even the most ignorant person can mature his soul if his way of life is a change of love, even though he lacks all knowledge on earth but it is imparted to him in a flash in the spiritual kingdom. And therefore love will always have to be preached to people first.... This is far more important than introducing them to knowledge for which they lack all understanding as long as love has not been kindled in them either. Jesus' teaching of love, however, is proclaimed everywhere where a spark of faith can still be found amongst people, for Jesus' teaching of love is the foundation on which every church organization was built. Therefore, anyone who belongs to a church organization also knows about the commandments of love for God and love for one's neighbour.... He himself can now make use of this knowledge.... He can make the commandments of love the guiding principle of his way of life, but he can also put the fulfilment of these commandments on the back burner and give priority to unimportant commandments.... He can forget about this latter of the divine commandments of love.... He is not prevented from doing so, for he has free will. But then his spiritual state is darkened and he cannot be illuminated in any other way than that the light of love ignites in him. For this reason the blame does not lie solely with those who offer people false food when they have been informed of Jesus' divine teaching of love. For every human being can freely choose to observe the commandments of love for God and neighbour.... If he considers them to be of primary importance, as he was taught, then he will also kindle in himself the light which will give him brightness even about the occasion and purpose of his earthly life.... If he neglects the fulfilment of these commandments then it will remain dark in him, no matter how much truthful knowledge is supplied to him. Therefore only one thing is necessary, again and again to point people to Jesus' divine teaching of love, again and again to preach love and to urge the fulfilment of the commandments.... Only then will the human being make himself receptive for knowledge which explains God's plan of salvation to him, and only then will he utilize the knowledge and eagerly strive for perfection....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers