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LENOST.... REDNA DEJAVNOST....

Redna (strokovna, poklicna) dejavnost nosi v sebi blagoslov, da tako človeka ščiti pred pregreho lenosti. To nikakor ni nepomembno, ker lenost predstavlja največo nevarnost za dušin napredek. To je na nek način vrnitev v stanje pasivnosti, katerega je stvaritev morala prestati, ko je bila njena volja omejena v začetnem stadiju svojega razvoja (ko je razgrajena služila v materialnem, rastlinskem in živalskem svetu).... torej zloraba svobodne volje, ki dovoljuje živahno (živo) dejavnost. Dejavnost je življenje, nedejavnost smrt.... se pravi, da stvaritev, duša, daje prednost smrti in se obenem tudi postavlja v nevarnost, da se preda najrazličnejšim pregreham. Čim je namreč človek ne-dejaven, se vsiljujejo hlepenja (poželenja) telesa; ono od življenja zahteva vse mogoče zemeljske užitke in zadovoljstva, kar pa duši povzroča največjo škodo.

Po drugi strani pa je stanje dejavnosti za dušo nevarno edino tedaj, ko je človek toliko materialističen, da on s svojo dejavnostjo želi povečevati svoje zemeljske dobrine (bogastva). Vendar pa je poleg tega tudi ta dejavnost služenje.... Tako da človek nezavestno izpolnjuje nalogo, ki mu je dana v času (življenja) na Zemlji. Nemreč celo tedaj, ko on to dejavnost služenja izpolnjuje brez Ljubezni, pa se ta materija zopet v sebi spreminja oz. duhovnemu (ki je omejeno) v njej se pomaga, da služi preko trajne preobrazbe, katero pa za seboj povleče vsaka dejavnost.... naj bo to neposredno ali posredno preko dejavnosti poučevanja.

In zaradi tega se je potrebno najbolj goreče boriti proti lenosti in človeka spodbujati na marljivo delo, ker vsaka dejavnost nosi blagoslov, vse dokler se ona ne izvaja na škodo bližnjega. Namreč resnična Ljubezen do človeka je v tem, da se ga zavaruje pred duševnim nazadovanjem. Težave zemeljskega življenja se ne morejo niti približno primerjati s pomanjkanjem, ki se duši rojeva (prenaša) iz zemeljskega življenja, v katerem je človek iz prividne obzirnosti prikrajšan za zahtevo redne dejavnosti. Človek pa lahko dozoreva edino preko slednjega, ker se služenju ne more nikoli izogniti. In tisti, ki želi služiti, mora biti dejaven (aktiven).... Toda lenost izključuje služenje; tako da bo tisti človek, ki izvaja dejavnost služenja vedno blagoslovljen....

AMEN

Idleness.... regulated activity....

Regulated activity is a blessing in that it protects people from the vices of idleness. This is by no means meaningless, for idleness is the greatest danger to the soul's higher development. It is, as it were, a return to the state of inactivity that the beingness had to endure in the bound will in the initial stage of its development.... thus an abuse of free will, which permits busy activity. Activity is life, inactivity death.... Thus the beingness, the soul, favours the state of death and at the same time puts itself in danger of falling into the most diverse vices. For as soon as a person is inactive, the desires of the body come to the fore; it wants to extract from life whatever earthly pleasures and joys are possible. And this is of the greatest harm to the soul. The state of activity, on the other hand, is only a danger to the soul if the human being is so materialistically minded that he wants to increase his earthly goods through his activity. Nevertheless, being active is serving.... And thus the human being unconsciously fulfils the task assigned to him for his time on earth. For although he carries out this serving activity without love, matter itself is nevertheless changed again, i.e. the spiritual in it is helped to serve through the constant transformation which every activity entails.... be it directly or indirectly through teaching activity. And that is why idleness should be fought most diligently and people should be encouraged to be industrious, because every activity is a blessing as long as it is not carried out to the detriment of fellow human beings. For this is true love for man, to protect him from spiritual decline. The hardships of earthly life are not even remotely comparable to the disadvantage that arises for the soul from an earthly life in which, out of apparent consideration, the demands that exist in regulated activity are kept from the human being. Man can only mature through the latter because he can never be spared serving. But he who wants to serve must be active.... But idleness excludes service; rather, man claims serving activity for himself, which is always a blessing only for the one who serves....

Amen