6983 'Mind' does not replace the 'spirit from God'....

December 3, 1957: Book 74

Only pure truth can reach you through the strength of the spirit, for only the spirit, which is part of the eternal deity, knows everything and can impart the knowledge of everything to you. Until you humans make this fundamental truth your own, all your research and brooding will be in vain because you are not certain of the correctness of the results you have gained through research and brooding. And as long as something seems doubtful to you, you cannot speak with conviction of its truth. That is why so much thought work is in vain, and people spend much time and energy which they would use far better if they did works of unselfish love instead of those mental researches. For the man of the world these words are incomprehensible, because he is not able to reconcile emotional and intellectual activity. And yet the activity of the intellect is only blessed by God when the heart is willing to love. For God's blessing must rest on everything the human being intends to do.... or divine order must first be observed if the human being's thoughts and actions are to be successful, a success which is valuable in every direction. Error, however, will never have a successful effect, and no human being will want to keep it either if he has recognized it as error. And the recognition of error and lie would also be easy for every person as soon as he lives a life of love. It is all so clearly understandable if the human being would first want to accept the law of divine order, if he would admit that for the time being the human being has to remain in order in order to also be able to recognize everything that corresponds to this divine order. The law of divine order, however, is and remains love.... If this law is overturned, if it is not fulfilled, then all effects must also irrevocably contradict the order. Lies and error, however, exist outside of order, lies and error will always be where people sin against divine order, where people live next to each other without love and no longer understand the meaning of their earthly life. Therefore, if a person wants to attain truth he cannot possibly find it in people who obviously live in opposition to divine order, whose lives therefore do not reveal any divine order according to the fundamental principle of love. For there the spirit from God cannot express itself either. There the 'portion of God' is prevented in its working, and the intellect of man cannot replace the spirit from God. How much richer, therefore, is the human being to be called who, through a life of unselfish neighbourly love, is instructed and guided by the divine spirit within himself and who, upon entering the kingdom on the other side, can survey with brightest clarity everything that was still kept hidden from him on earth.... compared to those people who make excessive demands on their intellect and yet will never find their way out of limited thinking if their way of life is led in unkindness.... These will only be surrounded by darkness at the end of their earthly life, for all earthly knowledge is gone and only spiritual knowledge is still of value after the death of the body. But all people carry the divine spiritual spark within themselves, and it would be possible for all people to cause it to be released. But their free will must impel them to move in divine order, i.e., to live in love. For truth is also a sign of divine order, because only the 'deity' is to be addressed as 'eternal truth' and every truthful explanation must therefore also originate from God, Who imparts it to people through His spirit. God, however, can only speak through His spirit to those people who are already within His circle of love, because those outside cannot hear the voice of the spirit. And people only enter His divine circle of love when they practice love themselves, but without loving activity they also isolate themselves from the one Who is eternal love and also eternal truth.... And no matter how eagerly they use their intellect they will not arrive at the truth, instead, all their research or results of thought deviate from the pure truth, which God only gives to those who want to belong to Him, who make an effort to live in divine order and who therefore also cause the spiritual spark within themselves to express itself and now no longer need to fear falling prey to lies and error.... For God Himself protects them from this by enlightening their spirit, by guiding their thinking correctly so that they are very well able to distinguish truth from error....

Amen

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