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5973 Caller on the path of life.... way to the height or the depth....

June 9, 1954: Book 65

It is up to you which way you want to go, but you will be told which way leads to the height and which to the depth, and then you choose the aim yourselves. For not everyone wants to go to the heights because they do not seem enticing to him.... he wants to see what the level paths or the paths leading to the depth offer him. He therefore does not strive for the heights because the depths hold him fast, because he sees alluring images everywhere where his eyes are directed, as long as he avoids the heights. And the path upwards seems laborious and unpromising to him, for he does not see Him Who would precede him, Who would take over his guidance if he made the height his aim. And that is why he does not listen to the warnings and admonitions that come to him at the beginning of his hike, he looks for the most feasible path for himself and consciously ignores the warning calls of those who are well-disposed towards him. He has free will and can use it without being prevented from doing so.... But even then he has to bear the consequences which a wrong direction of will has brought him, he has to accept the fate which awaits him in the abyss, he reaches an aim even if he strives towards the abyss, he finds what he longed for during his earthly change.... Matter keeps him bound, from which he should detach himself on earth.... But the path upwards leads into the spiritual kingdom.... The gaze is always spiritually directed, and the guidance is also spiritual, and a life in fullest freedom and bliss beckons as the aim.... The human being is free of all restraints because nothing holds him back in the depths, and can now create and work in the kingdom of the blessed spirits.... On the path of life there are so often callers and admonishers who want to show you humans the right path and point out the danger you are facing if you don't pay attention to the admonishers, and who paint you in enticing colours the kingdom you are so indifferent to because you first have to climb upwards in order to see it before your eyes.... And they warn you so urgently of the depths towards which you are heading.... But you do not believe them, and you do not want to go any ways that are strenuous.... you walk along carelessly and only pay attention to beauty which, however, is dangerous for you. And you cannot be forced to turn to the right path, you can only be made aware in love that your path leads astray.... But if you don't want to believe and don't choose a different path you will also have to bear the consequences that you will distance yourselves ever further from the right aim and thereby increase the distance from God ever more and finally end up with the one from whom you should release yourselves as long as you live on earth. Therefore, do not close your ears when God's messengers who want to guide you step into your path.... Give up your resistance and let yourselves be guided by them, and one day you will realize how much more you have gained and what a dreadful lot you have escaped.... You will give thanks and praise to Him Whose mercy was for you, that He prepared for you the path that leads upwards....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers