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Purification of the soul through love....
It contributes a lot to your purification if you only keep reminding yourselves of the commandments of love for God and your neighbour and ask yourselves how far you comply with these commandments. For if you are honest with yourselves you will never be satisfied with yourselves and your way of life, because you could always be more eager in your activity of love and often miss an opportunity. But already the will to act right and already the fact to carry out this self-examination is an advantage for your soul, for every good will has a beneficial effect. And during such a serious examination you will also become aware of your weaknesses, which every person still has, even if his will is good, until he is so eagerly active in love that he is now filled by the strength of love which also gives the will the right strengthening. Just never believe that you no longer need to purify your soul; never believe that you have already reached the degree which secures your entry into the kingdom of light. You must strive and work on yourselves as long as you live on earth, and you will only do well if you often devote yourselves to such inner reflections and try to fathom your faults and weaknesses. And your will will also be strengthened to constantly carry out the work on your soul, because such introspections already testify to your serious will to become perfect. Every omission of a good deed will come to your mind during self-examination, every failure or disregard of the divine commandments of love will come to your mind, and then you should only ever firmly resolve to improve yourselves and use every opportunity to make up for what you have neglected, and it will only result in a blessing for you that you will always fulfil the commandments of love for God and your neighbour more easily, because you will receive strength if your will is serious. The human being should once consider his duties towards his neighbour if he wants to fulfil this very commandment.... He should always remind himself that he should help his neighbour in every adversity and distress, be it of an earthly or spiritual nature.... And therefore he should not close his eyes to his neighbour's adversity, he should always remember how helpful help would be to him in the same adversity and how gratefully he would accept it. And he should always consider what his fellow human being is in need of, be it spiritually or physically.... For he should also try to remedy spiritual hardship where possible, because this is a work of love with a special effect on his fellow human being's soul. For this reason the human being cannot go into himself often enough and think about everything God requires of him through His commandments of love, for these are always the guideline for a correctly lived earthly change, he can always keep to these commandments if he wants to live his earthly life correctly and according to God's will, always as a blessing for himself and his fellow human beings.... For God requires nothing else of the human being than that he change into love, He only requires that he fulfils His commandments in order to grant him a blissful life in light and strength and freedom, which, however, is inconceivable without love.... And all perfection of the soul solely depends on the transformation (of selfish love) into unselfish love, which then also guarantees love for God and establishes the union with Him, on which all beatitude in the spiritual kingdom depends....
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PROČIŠĆAVANJE DUŠE KROZ LJUBAV....
To uvelike doprinosi vašem pročišćenju, samo ako se vi uvijek iznova pridržavate zapovijedi Ljubavi za Boga i za bližnjega, i pitate se, u kojoj mjeri vi slijedite ove zapovijedi. Jer, ako ste iskreni prema sebi, vi nećete nikada biti zadovoljni samim sobom i svojim načinom života, budući bi uvijek mogli biti gorljiviji u vašem Ljubavnom djelovanju, i često propuštate priliku. Ali, već volja da postupate ispravno, i sama činjenica da poduzimate ovo samopromatranje, korist je za vašu dušu, jer sva dobra volja ima blagoslivljajući učinak. U takvom iskrenom i ozbiljnom preispitivanju, vi ćete osvijestiti i vaše slabosti, koje svaki čovjek još uvijek ima, čak i kada je njegova volja dobra, sve dok on nije tako revan (gorljiv, marljiv, oduševljen) u djelovanju u Ljubavi, da ga sada ispunja Ljubavna snaga, koja i volji daje istinsko osnaženje. Samo, nikada nemojte vjerovati da više nije potrebno pročišćavanje vaše duše; nikada nemojte vjerovati da ste vi već postigli stupanj koji vam osigurava ulazak u kraljevstvo svjetla.... vi morate nastojati, i raditi na sebi samima, sve dok živite na Zemlji, i činit će vam jedino dobro, ako se često predate takvim unutarnjim promatranjima, i pokušate dokučiti vaše pogreške i slabosti. A, također će i vaša volja biti osnažena za neprestano vršenje rada na duši, jer takva samopromatranja već svjedoče o vašoj ozbiljnoj volji da postanete savršeni. Svaki propust jednog dobrog djela, tijekom samopromatranja će vam doći u svijest, svako zanemarivanje ili nepoštivanje Božanskih zapovijedi Ljubavi doći će vam u pamćenje, i onda vi trebate jedino uvijek čvrsto odlučiti popraviti se, i iskoristiti svaku priliku da propust nadoknadite, a to će se za vas pokazati jedino blagoslovom, da ćete vi sve lakše izvršavati zapovjedi Ljubavi prema Bogu i prema bližnjemu, budući vi primate snagu, ako je vaša volja iskrena i ozbiljna. Čovjek se jednom mora uhvatiti u koštac sa svojim dužnostima prema bližnjemu, ako on želi ispuniti upravo tu zapovijed.... On se treba uvijek držati toga da treba pomoći bližnjemu u svakoj potrebi i poteškoći, bilo zemaljske bilo duhovne vrste.... I, on ne treba držati zatvorene oči pred njegovom nevoljom, on treba uvijek misliti na to, kako bi njemu dobro došla pomoć u jednakoj nevolji, i koliko zahvalno bi ju on prihvatio. I on treba uvijek promisliti što bližnji potrebuje, bilo duhovno, bilo tjelesno.... Dakle, duhovnu nevolju on također mora nastojati ukloniti gdje je to moguće, jer ovo Ljubavno djelo je od osobitog (posebnog) učinka na dušu bližnjega. Stoga, čovjek ne može dovoljno često ulaziti u sebe, i promišljati o svemu što Bog kroz Svoje zapovijedi Ljubavi traži od njega, jer one su uvijek crta vodilja za ispravno življenje zemaljskog života, on se uvijek može držati ovih zapovjedi, želi li ispravno i u skladu sa Božjom voljom proći svoj zemaljski život, uvijek njemu samome i njegovom bližnjemu na blagoslov.... Jer, Bog ne traži od čovjeka drugo, nego da on promijeni sebe u Ljubav, On traži jedino, da on ispunjava Njegove zapovijedi, kako bi mu poklonio blagoslovljen život u svjetlu, snazi i slobodi, što međutim 'bez' Ljubavi nije zamislivo.... A, bilo kakvo usavršavanje duše ovisi isključivo o pretvorbi (sebične ljubavi) u nesebičnu Ljubav, što onda također jamči Ljubav za Boga i uspostavlja sjedinjenje s Njim, o čemu ovisi svo blaženstvo u duhovnom kraljevstvu.
AMEN
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