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1965 Secular researchers....

June 23, 1941: Book 28

The worldly wise often give a detailed explanation of the results of their research but fail to realize that truthful results can only be achieved through spiritual research. Earthly evidence is only ever valid where earthly research is concerned but lacks any foundation in the case of creations which lie outside the earthly realm. And these people cannot understand that earthly wisdom is not sufficient for such creations. God sets limits to human research and human knowledge which can only be entered with God's approval. However, He grants this permission to anyone who wants to enrich his knowledge.... i.e. He gives him clarification about problems which are unsolvable for earthly people. God Himself distributes this gift, God Himself introduces the person to knowledge and requires deep faith and a desire for truth.... Then every question will be answered and every problem solved. However, man has the ambition to excel, i.e. to outdo his fellow human beings in knowledge, and this is then a somewhat noble motive for his research. Consequently, success will also be correspondingly low. Wanting to fathom the truth for the sake of the truth is pleasing to God, but wanting to fathom it for the sake of success will never produce infallible results. Therefore, the results of the research of the worldly wise are rarely to be believed. Rather, error is often spread, which requires great spiritual knowledge to refute. But God stands by those who fight against such error on earth in order to make humanity more receptive to the pure truth....

(23 June 1941) Only what comes from above, i.e. what God, as the truth Himself, gives, can be regarded as truth. Man, in his delusion, believes himself to be infallible. His entire thinking and research is based on a completely wrong biology, and he is so convinced of the correctness of his conclusions that a contrary opinion cannot arise. But if he were to accept such an opinion, then a whole edifice of thought would collapse, and this could well confuse man's thinking as long as he does not recognize in God and His work a power that is wiser than all the wise men in the world. How inconceivably small is man, and what problems he is capable of solving.... All the wisdom of the earth is not able to penetrate into supernatural things.... And supernatural is everything that is outside the earth, regardless of whether they are visible or invisible to man. There are no limits to the spirit, but there are limits to the human intellect. And all purely intellectual research is to be assessed as misguided unless divine spirit has been requested to do so. How quickly people believe they have found the key and how far they are from the truth. Such wisdom may well apply to the earth, but it can never be harmonized with extraterrestrial creations, even though these appear to be closely connected to the earth as mother stars. What belongs to the earth is accessible to human enquiry, but beyond that the intellect fails if the spirit in man does not become active at the same time. Those who abandon themselves to God in order to be taught by Him will learn more of the purest truth in a short time than years of study by worldly researchers can give them. For everything spiritual wants to be grasped spiritually.... But what is outside of earth is only spiritual, only visible to the human eye as luminous or lightless bodies, but which in reality do not consist of tangible, earthly substance, but only seem to be form through the radiation of the more or less perfect spiritual.... This explanation is almost unacceptable to all worldly researchers, and it is therefore an almost hopeless endeavour to make the pure truth accessible to them. And yet the truth about it has to be conveyed to earth, for through their apparent wisdom people are increasingly distancing themselves from the truth and therefore also from faith.... For the more they want to investigate for themselves, the more they switch off the eternal deity. They consider themselves wise enough to be able to analyse the power from God and fall deeper and deeper into error. But the spirit from God gives enlightenment to every person who desires pure truth for the sake of truth....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers