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Form faith.... False worship....

Pay attention to the words which are sent to you today.... Your thoughts so often move heavenward and therefore lead you much more surely upward than an earthly child, however willing, who makes a point of listening to Christ's teaching, but afterwards gives no thought whatsoever to what he has heard. People do not know that they stand in immeasurable riches, if they hear the word of God and live according to it..... They are familiar with the teachings, but they do not grasp the deep meaning, because only the ear hears them, but the heart does not try to understand them. And so the faith is outwardly not to be touched, but inwardly the man is empty and hollow, and the Word of God finds no echo in the human heart.

And to such people it is not given to speak a judgment..... They believe to be deeply initiated, and yet do not harbor the slightest wisdom in their hearts, from where alone all understanding of the doctrine of God can come. If a person wants to devote himself to the Word of God, the first condition is that everything around him is silenced so that the heart can absorb.... , i.e., that no temptations from outside are a reason for the person to divert his thoughts from the Word of God. Only where man is immersed in the Divine teaching, the heart will be considered, and only there is also full understanding for the gifts from above to be presupposed.

Nothing is more unwholesome to man than the external affirmation of faith. It lets man become sluggish, because he is so conscious of his value and his fulfillment of duty, that striving is out of the question, and so man remains eternally on the same level, because the Word of God goes unheard by the heart, and therefore such an earthly child cannot feel the blessings of a deep, living faith in himself..... Knowledge will be so far from him.... and.... since he does not strive of his own accord to come close to Divine truth.... he will have no spiritual progress to record.... And yet, what is the worst, living in faith, completely fulfilling his duty.

Therefore, an unbelieving person is even more likely to be guided on the right way than a person who satisfies all ecclesiastical forms, because he is on the wrong way, but remains on this way mostly in wrong or lacking knowledge..... He thinks himself to be on the right track.... he believes to serve God, but his worship is superficial.... it lacks any depth and is therefore only a form-faith which does not contain the Divine blessings.... And My words will not seem acceptable to them, because they demand greater self-denial and a strong heart willing to sacrifice..... And all wisdom will therefore remain hidden from them until their own will drives them to internalize....

Amen

FORMALNA VJERA.... KRIVO BOGOSLUŽJE....

Obrati pažnju na riječi koje ti danas dolaze.... Tvoje misli tako se često kreću u pravcu Neba i stoga te mnogo sigurnije vode prema gore nego bilo koje zemaljsko dijete koje doduše rado sluša Kristovo učenje ali potom ne ulazi u kontemplaciju toga što je čulo. Ljudi ne znaju da su u neizmjernom bogatstvu ako slušaju Riječ Božju i žive po Njoj.... Oni su doduše upoznati s tim učenjima, no dublji smisao oni ne hvataju, pošto ih čuje samo uho, a srce se ne trudi razumjeti ih. Tako da vjera na van izgleda besprijekorno, no iznutra je čovjek prazan i šupalj, i Riječ Božja u ljudskome srcu ne nalazi odjek.

A takvim ljudima nije dano da prosuđuju.... Oni vjeruju da su duboko upućeni, ali u srcu ne nose ni najmanje mudrosti, a jedino od tamo i može doći svo razumijevanje Božanskog učenja. Ako se čovjek želi prepustiti Riječi Božjoj, onda je prvi preduvjet za to da sve u njemu utihne da bi srce moglo primiti.... tj. da samim ljudima vanjski primamljive stvari nisu povod za to da misli okreću od Riječi Božje. Jedino će tamo gdje se čovjek zadubljuje u Božansko učenje srce biti pozorno, i jedino tamo se može očekivati puno razumijevanje darova odozgor.

Ništa čovjeku nije štetnije od priznavanja vjere na van. To čini da čovjek postaje trom, jer on je onda toliko svjestan svoje bitnosti i svog ispunjavanja obaveze, da nikakvo stremljenje ne dolazi u obzir, i onda čovjek vječno ostaje na istom stupnju, jer Riječ Božja odzvanja bez da ju je srce čulo, pa takvo jedno zemaljsko dijete na sebi ni ne može iskusiti blagoslove duboke, žive vjere.... Njemu će spoznaja biti jako daleka.... i.... pošto on sam po sebi ne stremi tome da se približi Božanskoj Istini.... neće ni moći zabilježiti ikakav duhovni napredak.... I što je najgore, živjeti će u uvjerenju da je potpuno zadovoljio svoju obavezu.

Stoga je lakše navesti na pravi put nevjernika nego čovjeka koji zadovoljava sve crkvene forme, jer ovaj je na krivom putu no u krivoj ili nedovoljnoj spoznaji na njemu (tom putu) najčešće i ostaje.... uvjeren je da je on osobno na ispravnom tragu.... Vjeruje da služi Bogu, no njegovo Bogoslužje je površno.... Ono nema nikakve dubine i stoga je samo formalna vjera, koja u sebi ne nosi Božanske blagoslove.... A tim ljudima se Moje Riječi neće činiti prihvatljivima, pošto one traže veće odustajanje od samoga sebe, i snažno srce koje je se voljno žrtvovati.... I stoga će im sva mudrost ostati skrivena, sve dok ih vlastita volja ne potakne na to da se okrenu na unutra...

AMEN