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8408 Enlightenment about "outpouring of the spirit"....

February 10, 1963: Book 88

Let yourselves be guided into truth, as I have promised you: I Myself will teach you so that you will not doubt, because only pure truth can reach you from Me. And this truth especially extends to the clarification of knowledge which cannot be proven to you but which is necessary for you to fulfil your earthly task correctly. It is the knowledge of your beginning and your goal.... of your connection, your relationship with Me, your God and creator of eternity, and of Jesus Christ's act of salvation, its significance and its reason.... If this knowledge is truthfully conveyed to you then your return to Me is guaranteed, but if you are given a defective or erroneous explanation about it then you will hardly fulfil your earthly task, which consists of fulfilling My will and fitting into the law of eternal order which you had voluntarily overturned. Thus it is necessary that you are offered pure truth, because without it you are ignorant as a result of having once stepped out of order. But you will not be able to accept the pure truth from people as long as they do not possess this truth themselves, and they will not possess it themselves as long as they do not allow My spirit's working in them. But where does My spirit still work if people are taught completely wrongly, if they have no knowledge of this 'working of My spirit'.... and if they also do not fulfil the prerequisites which allow the 'working of My spirit' within themselves?.... Therefore they must first be instructed about this in fullest truth, which they must do themselves in order to hear My voice within themselves or.... in order to make it better understandable to them.... in order to attain right thinking, so that they will, as it were, penetrate the truth by themselves, so that they will only ever think as it corresponds to the truth from Me.... The 'outpouring of the spirit upon My disciples' is known to all, but they also only refer this miraculous event to those disciples and exclude themselves from the circle of those upon whom My spirit could be poured.... By 'outpouring of the spirit' you can first understand that your thinking is enlightened, that your thoughts are ordered and that they are guided by knowing forces which truthfully convey thoughts to you which you can process yourselves, and then you truly also possess a right recognition of truth.... that you represent it with conviction because you feel that it is the truth.... My spirit can then work in you and you need not fear to walk in error.... But you have to fulfil one condition: You must live a life of love, because you unite with Me through love and therefore also have to live in truth, whereas an unloving person has no bond with Me whatsoever and is only open-minded for the spiritual knowledge My adversary presents to him. A bright light shall be kindled for you humans about the meaning of the outpouring of the spirit upon you.... You should know that a spark of My divine spirit slumbers within you, which is inseparably connected to Me, and that you yourselves must ignite this spark within you through love.... This spirit spark is therefore in contact with Me, it is the same as I Myself am, it is divine share and thus light and strength in itself.... Thus it must also be able to impart knowledge to you because it knows everything, because it is a spark of light itself and a light always spreads a glow and illuminates the darkness. This divine spirit spark within you will therefore instruct you from within and always proclaim the purest truth from Me to you.... provided that you yourselves fulfil the prerequisite that you unite with Me through a life of love and that My spirit can flow into you. Only what My spirit imparts to you is truth, and therefore only the person who has received it directly from Me himself can pass on pure truth to his fellow human beings.... And pure truth will find acceptance where My spirit has already been able to take effect again, where I have been able to enlighten a person's thinking, where it is guided by Me through My spiritual spark and thus the right order has been restored: where the human being has made love his principle of life.... So few people know about the outpouring of the spirit correctly and yet it explains so much that is still incomprehensible to people but which they should know in order to recognize their purpose of earthly life and seek to achieve it. Intellectual thinking offers people no guarantee for pure truth, which is already evident from the fact that it produces different results, whereas only the same truth is ever offered and received through the working of My spirit in the human being and therefore the truth of a spiritual possession can also be recognized from it, that its content completely corresponds to what I Myself taught people on earth, Who also promised them the outpouring of the spirit in order to instruct those correctly who, after My life on earth, should also know the truth and no longer had any guarantee as to whether pure truth was offered to them by their fellow human beings.... I pour out My spirit on all who fulfil My will and live in love.... And you humans should know what I want to be understood by 'outpouring of the spirit'.... You should all know that you conceal a spark of My eternal spirit of God within you and that this will truly 'guide you into all truth' as soon as you allow Me to work in you Myself through My spirit by your way of life. But who knows this of those who believe they can teach you? Only a few, otherwise this obvious transmission of My word from above would not be doubted or rejected, as is the case, for only a few people have an open ear and heart in order to let the light shine into them which is kindled for them through the transmission of truth.... Only a few people attach a deeper meaning to the very words about the outpouring of the spirit upon My disciples and also accept them as spoken to themselves, only a few awaken their spirit within themselves to life and establish the intimate connection with the father-spirit of eternity.... because only a few know about the effect of a right life of love, because only a few people know that pure truth can only come forth from Me Myself and is conveyed to people through My spirit.... "who works in you who believe.... " (1 Thessalonians 2:13 [Luther]). And that is why humanity walks in darkness, in error and wrong thinking, because it denies the spirit to work in it and therefore cannot move in the truth either.... For truth emanates from Me and shares itself with the divine part in the human being if he himself allows it through his will and his love....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers