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2396 Various results.... rebirth of the spirit.... called by God....

July 5, 1942: Book 32

The spirit that dispenses wisdom can only be of divine origin, and therefore this spirit can never err. Consequently, everything that has arisen through the working of the spirit is to be believed, even if it is difficult to accept. It only remains to check whether what has come into being is the working of the spirit or a human product. And this is very easy to determine. It must first be considered what purpose the human being is pursuing by informing his fellow human being of it.... whether earthly advantages are to be achieved through it or whether he is merely driven by spiritual will. It must also be examined whether what has been created touches on spiritual or earthly issues, the nature of the creation must be taken into account and the attitude of the person whose spiritual activity is to be examined towards God.... A work can never come into being purely intellectually, which is only purely spiritual in content, without the help of God, i.e. the working of His spirit. For the will to solve spiritual problems already results in the working of the spirit, and if this will is turned towards God then the human being inevitably has to think correctly, i.e. accept the thought material from the spiritual world which flows to him from the likewise God-connected spiritual world. And so the only question that remains is why various results could be disseminated, all of which were presented as the work of the spirit. There is a difference to be made as to whether a person is called to receive and spread divine spiritual gifts or whether he believes himself to be called to do so.... whether he acquires an office himself before he has established an intimate connection with God, before he is born again in the spirit. The rebirth of the spirit must have preceded before the spirit can become effective in man. But the rebirth of the spirit did not always precede this, and yet spiritual questions were raised and answered using the world's intellect, and thus doctrines arose which differ from one another and which all claim to be recognized as truth. Spiritual problems were therefore only solved intellectually, but they can only be solved truthfully by the spirit of God.... However, the spirit of God can only be effective if the human being is born again in the spirit, if he is in intimate, simple union with God and longs for nothing other than to receive divine truth in the deepest awareness of his belonging to God and in the ardent desire for final union with Him. The purest truth flows to him, and the results of such people must inevitably coincide. People cannot judge the degree of devotion to God, but God sees it and He chooses those who are to serve Him because He recognizes their will and their willingness to do so. There must be an intimate relationship between the human being and God, for this intimate relationship is a prerequisite for the working of the spirit in him and through him. However, the intimate relationship can only be established in appearance before people, by those who believe they are called and yet are not. For neither intellect nor rank, neither denominations nor ministries are decisive for the working of the spirit, but only the condition of the heart, which does not remain hidden from God. Consequently, wisdom and truth cannot be sought and expected where human will has made a vocation out of it, for the vocation must come from God alone, and the person will be called who makes himself worthy of His grace through loving activity, who loosens the shackles of the spirit through loving activity, thus opening his soul to the spiritual influx from outside. God chooses these as His co-workers by imparting the truth to them so that they can pass it on again by teaching. And anyone who is thus taught by God will have the same knowledge and not deviate from it. Yet these people will mostly be found outside of those who claim the right to teach.... They will not belong to those who believe to have acquired knowledge through study; they will be found in the ranks of those who walk their earthly path unnoticed; they will not hold or strive for offices; they will not desire the world and its goods but will acquire the greatest grace through voluntary renunciation.... to be allowed to receive the word of God and to be taught by God Himself.... The rebirth of the spirit is therefore indispensable beforehand, the state must have occurred that the human being consciously seeks union with God, that he wants to serve Him because he feels himself to be His creature and desires union with Him in the realization that this is (was?) his original state and his original destiny. This realization makes the working of the spirit in him possible and also makes the human being receptive to the truth, for without this realization the truth would be incomprehensible to him and it would never be recognized as truth. truth can certainly be imparted, i.e. passed on, at school, but in order to be able to grasp it, the spirit of God must be able to work in the human being, which first requires loving activity. However, people who feel called to teach are not always active in love and capable of love, thus also incapable of teaching, for they can only pass on what they possess. However, they lack wisdom, just as they lack love. And what they hand out can never be addressed as divine truth, for God reserves this for Himself, offering it to those whom He chooses because they prove themselves worthy of His grace....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers