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7346 Right thinking is working of the spirit.... love....

April 25, 1959: Book 78

The power of the spirit will always break through if only no obstacle is placed in its way through open unkindness. For the spirit can only work where there is love.... but there it also expresses itself, albeit in different ways.... It need not express itself obviously so that unusual abilities become apparent.... The human being's thinking can also be guided in such a way that the working of the spirit becomes apparent, that the human being is enlightened and will always speak and think in accordance with the truth, because the spirit in him orders his thinking, thus it 'introduces him to the truth', as it were. For the understanding of truth must also be made accessible to the human being, only then can the truth make him happy.... And this is the working of the spirit in the human being, that it opens up the right understanding for him. Therefore, as soon as the human being endeavours to live in love he can also expect with certainty that God will grant him right thinking, that He will give him understanding for spiritual teachings, that He will help him to recognize the truth as such and to dismiss error. But this will to love must also be present, because without love the spirit cannot express itself out of God. And thus you can also safely condemn or reject a teaching which unkind people want to present to you as truth, for no truth can come from an unkind mouth, for this is the right of the divine spirit which, however, never uses an unkind person to express itself. On the other hand, a loving person cannot and will not be able to speak anything but the truth, because he is prompted to do so by the spirit within himself, which now guides his speech and thinking and certainly always in accordance with the truth. It must always be kept in mind that the human being is first required to change into love, that the change of nature from selfish love to unselfish neighbourly love is the purpose and aim of a human being on earth.... Where this change has already begun, where love has been able to break through, the effects must also already be recognizable, the consequences which arise from a loving way of life.... But where love is, there is also God Himself.... where God Himself is, there must be truth.... Thus the thinking of a loving person must also correspond to the truth, because God's presence expresses itself through the spirit in the human being, which gives the human being the truth from within, for it is not the spiritual knowledge which is brought to the human being from outside which conveys the truth to him, but only the thinking of the human being himself, how he attunes himself to this spiritual knowledge. And this is brought about by the spirit which was awakened through a life of love and is now constantly active.... For this reason the divine commandments of love are repeatedly emphasized as the only priority for the salvation of the human being's soul, for they absolutely have to be fulfilled if the human being wants to live in truth, if he wants to enjoy correctly guided thinking, if he wants to be taught from within and attain full understanding for everything spiritual which remains incomprehensible to him as long as his spirit is still unawakened. But his life will only begin to give him full satisfaction when he can live it fully consciously with an awakened spirit, because before that a spiritual blindness closes everything off to him as long as he does not pay attention to the divine commandments of love.... as long as he does not move within the law of divine order himself. Only love establishes this order, only love clarifies his thinking, only love makes the human being see, and only through love does he learn to recognize, to differentiate and to think and judge rightly.... But then there is also light in him in all his ways.... Then the spirit from God, whom love has awakened to life, will guide him....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers