5484 Thoughts are connecting-currents between the beyond and the earth....

September 12, 1952: Book 60

The connection from the earth to the spiritual world can exist at any time because thoughts can go back and forth, i.e., because thoughts are basically the connecting rays which are sent out in the spiritual kingdom and can be picked up by people on earth and also sent back again in another form. So the connection from above to below continues to exist and cannot be denied. But for the most part these connections are still unconscious to the human being, for as long as he is not yet a believer and has attained a certain realization through love he is not aware as yet about the connection between the spiritual and the earthly world. And that’s why he cannot control which kingdom he is in contact with by his thinking.... For the thought currents the one receives can come from the kingdom of light as well as from the kingdom of darkness, but he can determine them himself through his will. As soon as he believes he also desires light, his will is turned towards God as the eternal Light and now will also secure him its supply from the kingdom of light. His thinking will be good, for he consciously accepts good thought-currents and rejects what is brought to him from the kingdom of darkness. His will directs the heart to accept and pass on to the intellect what touches him as a flow of thoughts from the kingdom of light.

This way then is the good, God-willed thinking to explain that inevitably comes from a person who lives in faith and love. The desire to serve God will now drive such a rightly-thinking person to share his knowledge, his thoughts, with his fellow human being to guide him into the same thinking, as it were, because it makes him happy himself. And this will is pleasing to God.... And also, it will always find support, for a right will is the first thing to let people reach the top. Now, every good thought originates from God, so to speak, it can never be dismissed as ungodly, it is the power emanating from God which is picked up by light-beings and passed on until it touches the human being's heart and is accepted by it.... And such good thoughts will also never fail to have an effect on fellow human beings who are of good will.... But nevertheless, there is a great difference between the thought-material gained through intellectual activity.... thus the use of spiritual strength through the intellect.... and the direct transmission of spiritual thought-material through God's great love....

(11.9.1952) The intellect ceases its activity for the time of the transmission but, instead, the soul becomes active as receiving device. The spiritual ear opens itself and the thought-currents from the spiritual kingdom are flowing out and are collected. The rays from the light-kingdom touch the spiritual ear, this directs it to the soul, it feels addressed, it 'receives', passes it on to the intellect, which receives it mechanically, activates the bodily organs to hold it, and only afterwards deals with what it has received, i.e. allows it to become spiritual property through its own reflection, by intellectual activity. Receiving always presupposes a giver or transmitter, in contrast to a self-production, to a result by one's own work, in this case active intellectual activity. God Himself wants to give something that people do not possess and cannot create for themselves either.... For this reason He conveys His Word to earth and through the Word a knowledge which corresponds to the truth, which no human being could get to arise through one’s own strength, that only needs to be accepted in order to possess it. God instructs the human being, the light-world instructs him.... but always through the Spirit which rests inactively in the human being until the human being's will determines It to divest Itself.... until the spiritual kingdom is more important to the human being than the earthly kingdom.... until man enters into a bond with God and thereby finds access to the kingdom from which the truth comes to the one....

(12.9.1952) But if God Himself instructs the human being, the truth as the right knowledge, will be given to the one.... He is not required to work on his intellect but those thoughts arise from the heart which the spirit awakens in the human being.... who, because It is part of the divine Father-spirit, can only produce truthful thoughts which the soul's ear hears and recognizes, which is why it has to recognize them because, at the same time as the truth, the ability to judge what is right and true is also given to the human being. A person whose intellect is diligently active through heartfelt prayer to God for His enlightenment, can certainly consider himself to be taught by God.... He then believes to have worked out the mental result himself, but it has nevertheless come to him through his spirit, yet in a not unusual way. But it is different though when the truth is conveyed to earth by God, when God instructs a person through the inner Word.... This one thus receives extensive knowledge directly through literal transmission which he did not possess before, which does not slumber within him subconsciously and which he does not gain through works of thought.... And yet it comes from within, for it is the divine Spirit in the human being that speaks to the one, that imparts the knowledge to the one in such a way that it touches the soul as a spoken word, that it emerges in the heart as a thought, which is not formed by the human being according to one’s own will, but which forms itself into words of deepest meaning, which the human being, as a willing recipient, writes down as heard.... This is an unusual process insofar as no other source can be discovered than the human being's innermost part; it is the living water which flows out of the body of the one whom God Himself instructs through His Spirit.... For the divine Spirit is the original source, which truly has an abundance of the water of life.... Yet humanity passes by it, only very few refresh themselves with the water of life, only very few people know about the pure truth from God and strengthen themselves with it and thereby also have contact with the spiritual world from which the light comes, the truth and the life....

Amen

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