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1802b Consequences of not recognizing an entity of God....

February 5, 1941: Book 27

The more stubbornly man persists in his view that creation certainly betrays a natural power but is not the working of an exceedingly perfect being, the more the spiritual in him seeks to detach itself from the all-sustaining power, and the will to distance itself also reduces the supply of strength, so that this spiritual remains unredeemed. Not wanting to recognize an essential deity is a rejection of the strength which God wants to impart to people. The human being has lost all sense of belonging to God, despite his long earthly life he is still in the most blatant rejection of Him; he denies Him because his spirit does not want to acknowledge Him, which is now expressed through a completely erroneous view of the work of creation and its origin. Whoever believes himself to be completely independent of the creating power, i.e., whoever does not feel closely connected to this power, is also not so insofar as he deprives himself of the supply of strength which results in spiritual realization. Denying God must result in spiritual decline, for the human being exalts himself if he believes that he can shape his earthly life completely independently.... God's adversary will always support such people by trying to reinforce this erroneous opinion and thus want to determine the human being to rebel against the assumption that an essential deity rules the universe and determines the fate of the individual person. This person then perceives such a thought as a burden and oppression and therefore rejects it and believes that he can free himself from the deity if he rejects It. And he sins against God anew because he does not utilize the grace of embodiment as a human being, thus he can hardly establish the connection with God and thus lives his earthly life in vain....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers