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2385 Teaching activity.... no previous knowledge and studies....

June 27, 1942: Book 32

No special previous knowledge is necessary if love impels a person to instruct his fellow human being in order to win him for the kingdom of God. This is the highest and most beautiful goal a person can set for himself on earth, and for this endeavour he is assured of God's blessing and therefore also of His strength, which enables a person to carry out an activity which serves the salvation of souls. Every spiritual endeavour is blessed, every prayer for spiritual possessions is answered and every spiritual struggle takes place under divine assistance, and therefore every fighter for God will have to be victorious.... The strength from God will always flow to him, and this for every activity which the human being wants to carry out for God and his fellow human beings. If he makes himself available to God as a transmitter of eternal truth, he will also be enabled by God to recognize the truth himself and then be able to pass it on. For divine truth cannot be attained in a scholastic manner through earthly teachers because it remains a dead word for as long.... as long as it is taught scholastically.... until man has brought himself to a certain state of maturity where the word takes on life. But once the human being has reached this state, i.e. has shaped himself according to God's will through active loving activity, he will receive divine truth from God in all purity and clarity and he will penetrate the deepest knowledge without the help of people who have earthly knowledge. For he is filled by the spirit of God, which reveals all knowledge to him and introduces him to eternal truth. However, this always requires an activity of love on the part of the human being towards his fellow human beings and the will in his deepest heart to help his fellow human beings out of spiritual hardship. Anyone who recognizes this need is already aware of the purpose and goal of earthly life and sees the disregard of divine will on the part of people. He knows about the dreadful consequences, and now love drives him to turn them away from his fellow human beings, and this is the driving force of his endeavour to impart spiritual knowledge to his fellow human beings. God needs such teachers so that people are encouraged, but not forced, to change their way of life while respecting their free will. Every instruction that is transmitted from God to man and from man to his fellow human being is only for the soul.... Only the salvation of the soul, which is in danger, is to be secured by these teachings. And thus a person must offer himself for teaching activity who does not strive for worldly but only purely spiritual goals, only then can he carry out a task and receive the strength from God to do so, which now consists of the ability to be able to teach. For spiritual knowledge is not gained through regular study but through a righteous life of love before God; spiritual knowledge will come to the person who surrenders himself to Him in heartfelt closeness to God, who wants to serve Him and who declares himself willing to undertake any task which is aimed at saving erring souls. The lord accepts him as a labourer in His vineyard, as an instrument through which He Himself can now work.... For he is suitable for his task of imparting the knowledge to people which can cause them to live a right way of life, which will give their souls the degree of maturity.... that they will walk in love on earth again and stand in the right knowledge and in truth.... And "blessed are the poor in spirit...." who have not lost all faith through earthly knowledge.... For earthly knowledge is more likely to shroud the soul in spiritual darkness than to enlighten it.... Earthly knowledge therefore need not be present where spiritual truths are taught. For in order to be able to offer the latter to fellow human beings, the spirit from God must be at work, and its activity is only dependent on the human being's will.... on his labour of love for the salvation of his fellow human beings....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers