7723 Value of earthly knowledge....

October 9, 1960: Book 81

It is not knowledge which makes you blissfully happy if it concerns worldly knowledge which the soul does not need to mature. But if you acquire spiritual knowledge the soul will benefit from it, because spiritual knowledge is the result of a life of love and because only a life of love provides the soul with the maturity which will one day make it happy. And therefore you need not value earthly knowledge too highly, for the human being's body can indeed benefit from it, the human being can attain earthly fame and earthly possessions but his soul will come away empty-handed. For only earthly knowledge will rarely help a person attain 'realization', because realization is light, pure truth from Me.... which can only ever result in love, and that therefore only earthly knowledge will rarely increase the degree of love.... if love is not already in the human being and this love then enables the person to attain 'realization'.... For this reason it is wrong to say that the human being arrives at the truth by way of intellect, that he can therefore acquire the truth intellectually.... it is wrong to say that a person can attain knowledge of God through earthly knowledge.... because love has to direct his intellectual thinking beforehand such that he now gains knowledge which corresponds to truth and which opens up spiritual knowledge to him. Earthly knowledge is only of value for the earthly world, and if the human being gives up his earthly life, if he changes his earthly abode with the kingdom of the beyond, then nothing of his knowledge will remain with him, then his thoughts will become confused if he has not ignited spiritual light within himself through love, which is now his wealth, which will shine in bright splendour, that he will now recognize everything because I Myself will make the knowledge accessible to him which will cause him beatitude, because he can work with it in the spiritual kingdom to make himself and other souls happy. Therefore, on earth don't primarily strive for earthly knowledge but know that your activity of thought will be guided correctly in every respect if you first cultivate the love of your heart, if you first make sure that My spirit can instruct you from within. Then it will also provide you with the right earthly knowledge, but it will primarily point you to spiritual knowledge, and you will truly do better if you try to penetrate the latter, for it will follow you into eternity, while all earthly knowledge will pass away. Therefore believe that love gives you the right knowledge, that love imparts wisdom to you which is a real gain for the souls. For even if you wanted to attain knowledge of God by intellectual means, this knowledge would only ever remain dead knowledge, it would only ever be a share of the intellect but never a knowledge of the heart.... It would not make you alive in faith but would again only remain a pure knowledge of the intellect. Thus you would perhaps be able to recognize a 'God' but never a 'father' Who is love in Himself and through Whom alone you can attain life, which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life. And no matter how much you exhaust yourselves in words or knowledge.... what the intellect gives birth to is and remains the earth's share, it does not lead to Me, Who alone can be found in the heart, Who demands love from you in order to be able to enlighten your spirit which truly leads you into realization. For realization is light, realization is truthful knowledge about all spiritual correlations, about your relationship with Me, your God and creator, about your state as it was, as it is and shall be, and about My plan of salvation from eternity.... And this knowledge alone has value for your soul, this knowledge alone can lead you to Me again, but only ever if you have love within you.... There is no such thing as 'realization' without love, yet you can possess much intellectual knowledge but you will not gain beatitude through it, your soul will remain dead in spirit and enter the spiritual kingdom in this dead state, and everything it possessed on earth will have passed away.... For if you want to be wise then you must stand in love and come to Me and ask Me for wisdom, you must kindle the light within yourselves and you will be what you were in the beginning.... beings of supreme wisdom who are connected through love with Me Myself, the eternal light...._>Amen

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