The slightest resistance hinders spiritual activity, and if the human being's will refuses to accept something that is not agreeable to him then the spirit from God cannot manifest itself, and thus stagnation occurs where the human being's will strives towards the spiritual. And this will be the case where the human being has already formed an opinion which contradicts what the spirit from God wants to proclaim. And therefore that human being will be unsuitable to receive spiritual proclamations if he cannot completely free himself from spiritual knowledge which he has previously acquired through scholastic teachings. It is difficult for people to detach themselves from such mental knowledge and it will only be possible to have a corrective mental influence on them when they start to doubt their knowledge, when they come across contradictions and then seriously reflect on them. And it is the task of the beings of light in the beyond to correct and right their train of thought, who only wait for the moment when the human being ponders and questions and seeks the truth. Yet it is impossible to eradicate a firmly accepted teaching as long as the human being himself does not doubt it, for the will for truth has to become active itself, and this only occurs when he begins to waver in his previous views. And that is why it is the endeavour of the friends in the beyond to first shake the wrong belief. A state must arise where the human being feels a certain uncertainty about what he has held up to now, then the beings of light immediately intervene and constantly bring new doubts and contradictions to his mind, and these make the human being question and reflect. And only then can the activity of the beings of light begin to mentally enlighten him. And yet even then there will still be resistance; the more firmly the old teachings are rooted in the human being, for it is difficult to remove spiritual knowledge from the memory which had already taken possession of the human being's thinking. It is difficult to put other wisdom in its place, the old thinking will always push itself forward.... Every spiritual activity will be all the more successful the less resistant the person reacts to it, and therefore a heartfelt devotion to God is necessary and the will to be instructed in the pure truth, only then can the power of God flow through the person, let him recognize the wrong, and he will now more easily free himself from the previous teachings or his knowledge. He must first find everything reprehensible before he can completely separate himself from it. And that is why the most heartfelt prayer is a prerequisite.... If a person can truly and childlike pray to God for inner enlightenment, God will answer this prayer and give him the power of knowledge so that he suddenly recognizes the truth as such lightly and clearly and he now appropriates it in order to never give it up....

Amen

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