2872 Working of the spirit.... listening inwards consciously....

September 7, 1943: Book 37

Listening inwards is a conscious expression of will, it is not a switching off of one's own will, it is not a weakness, not a surrender to another will, but a strengthened will to hear the expression of the divine will within oneself. And that is why God will now also make Himself known, because the human being desires God and His eternal truth. But if the human being relinquishes his will then he gives himself over to forces which now use his weakness of will in order to express themselves. The desire for God protects him from forces which are not permeated by God, and yet the danger is obvious that he will not turn to God Himself in a conscious state but only call upon the spiritual forces in the beyond, that a kind of craving for knowledge will develop in him which aims at otherworldly states, and that spiritual beings will then express themselves in an unconscious state which want to express their thoughts and are not yet in truth, in the light. For in the unconscious state the human being can no longer control himself as to whether and to what extent he is connected to God. Although the will in the conscious state is good and turned towards God, the answer from God should also be expected in the conscious state, for the spirit in the human being should express itself. And by this it can be recognized whether the emanations of God touch him, whether the spirit of God itself becomes effective in man. Announcements from the beyond, received in an unconscious state, are always external mediations, whereas the working of the spirit expresses itself such that it conveys the truth to the person from within, that the person is able to hear the voice himself in a conscious state. An erroneous being cannot express itself from within because this is a process of emanation of strength.... but power is only there where light.... i.e. the pure truth, whereas with a human being who surrenders his own will by putting himself into a state of sleep, an immature, i.e. ignorant being makes use of the human being's strength in order to make itself known, and the human being himself does not put up any resistance through the conscious desire for the pure truth, which such a being would immediately repel. And once a misguided opinion could be conveyed to people in this way they will then hold on to it with such tenacity that it is difficult for the beings of light to invalidate this body of thought, which is why a cleansing has to be carried out time and again because misguided teachings are spread time and again which signify a spiritual danger for people....

amen

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