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1561 Obstacle.... Working of the spirit.... Arrogance or unbelief....

August 11, 1940: Book 25

The spirit within you does not command you, but leaves it entirely up to your will whether you want to feel its power or whether you want to ignore it. Your share can be its brightest light and knowledge about everything in creation, about the working of blissful spiritual beings, about the advantage of the connections to the beyond, about God's infinite love, wisdom and omnipotence.... but it can also be its deepest darkness of spirit.... And you are allowed to choose at will. No power forces you to belong to it, yet good and also evil beings in the beyond fight for your soul, for your free will to turn to them. So you are given complete freedom of decision, you must on the other hand receive clarification about the responsibility of your decision. It must be suggested to you that you yourselves create the state in the beyond with your earthly way of life. And that is why God imparts His Word to you, that is, He informs you through His Word of the immense responsibility of the human being, and the dreadful consequences of a wrongly applied will. He can only do this by way of truly deeply believing people who offer themselves to God for service and completely submit their will to the Lord's will. He gives them a wealth of knowledge so that they can distribute it to those who seek God.... He gives them the gift of foresight so that people may recognise the truth of what has been announced. He allows them to gain an insight into the activity of the spiritual beings in order to spur them on to most eager soul labour. Yet He will never force you to accept His utterances if you are not willing to let yourselves be taught by the spirit itself. Yet you must recognise by the glimmer of light emanating from every divine activity of love that the Giver is God Himself.... There is a connection from heaven to earth, even if it cannot be obviously proven to you humans who blindly walk through earthly life. For everything that is perfect and therefore abides in love wants to help the still imperfect by virtue of this love.... After all, love is the only thing that can redeem you, and therefore the beings of light in the beyond continue the work of redemption precisely because you humans on earth fail to redeem yourselves through love. And they largely accommodate you. They know about your deficient spiritual state and take pity on you, because they do not want you to suffer, but they cannot spare you suffering for your own sake either. Once they have succeeded in making you understand the working of the divine spirit in the human being and opening your ears and hearts to the truths from above, the spirit from God will begin to work in you yourselves, and it will not leave out anyone who does not withdraw from its working through unbelief or spiritual arrogance. For both are visible evidence of the working of the opposing power, which likewise does everything in its power to seize the will of man in order to destroy everything that God builds up. For everything that is perfect wrestles for the souls, but does not force them....

Amen

Translated by Sven Immecke