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7789 God as the "guardian" of truth?.... incorrect education....

January 5, 1961: Book 81

Again and again you humans will misrepresent My word as long as you are not moved by the deepest desire for truth which protects you from error and untruth. But this desire for truth is inherent in very few people; most of them are indifferent towards spiritual possessions because earthly life still occupies them too much and because they have little interest in what happens to them after death. For the belief in a continuation of life after death is not very strong, even among those who call themselves Christian and belong to church organisations it is lacking.... They doubt it very much, if they do not even deny a "survival". And so they do not think of their later lot, nor do they seek enlightenment about it. And if they are given clarification they do not examine its origin but thoughtlessly accept or reject it because they lack the desire for truth.... And as long as My pure word is in danger of being deformed by people because they are driven to it by My adversary who fights against the truth. You humans must know about all correlations, you must know about the battle of darkness against light.... You must know that only truth will help you to attain perfection, that truth is spiritual nourishment for the soul which it needs in order to mature.... you must know that you can never find the right nourishment for your soul in error.... you must know that the basic condition for attaining the truth is precisely the desire for truth which is proof that you also desire Me Myself.... And you will only have the desire for Me in you again if you are willing to love. This is why a person who is willing to love will also recognize My word as truth and willingly accept it from Me.... And the rejection of My word will always also prove a loveless heart, and then My word is not protected from being distorted either, because then My adversary will make use of that person who also willingly listens to him and acts as the adversary demands.... And since love has grown cold amongst people the truth will also be lost, that is, error and lies will break through and be willingly accepted by people, whereas the truth will be resisted or misinterpreted by people's will, which always signifies a change of My word. For whether My word is conveyed to you directly or whether you receive it from the book of books, you must have the desire to be addressed by Me.... to receive spiritual knowledge which has originated from Me, because then it must also be truth.... you must desire the truth.... otherwise you cannot protect yourselves from wrong spiritual knowledge. Hence the view is erroneous that I Myself am the 'guardian of truth' and that you cannot be offered wrong spiritual knowledge by those who claim to be My representatives.... The human being has free will, and by virtue of it he can transform and shape every spiritual knowledge, no matter how pure it originated from Me.... And thus every individual can move in the truth as well as every individual can shape the truth of his own accord, according to his will, according to his maturity of soul and according to his attitude towards Me.... otherwise beatification would be the privilege of those who only ever accept what those 'representatives of God' impart to them because they believe that this spiritual knowledge is protected from all contamination by Me.... Every person is responsible for his spiritual knowledge himself, it is up to him whether he lives in truth, for the condition for this is that he desires the truth himself. But then he can also be certain that I will enlighten his thinking; then he will recognize My word as such, and then he will also know how to protect it and not allow any distortion of it, because he will recognize it immediately, because his spirit instructs him and this truly only conveys the truth from Me to him...._>Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers