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Thinking ability and understanding of the world.... feeling of the heart....

It is not the ability to think which is decisive for the inner spiritual state of a person, and it is not the greatness of the worldly intellect which determines the soul's state of maturity, but only the degree of love of the person who, regardless of his earthly abilities and situation in life, tries to draw close to God and feels this desire in his deepest heart. And this truly requires neither worldly wisdom nor extraordinary intellectual activity, but everyone can cultivate the feeling of the heart, since it lies dormant in him as a seed and it is every person's own business to bring this seed to bloom, and every person also has the ability to do so.... Where else would God's justice be.... if He wanted to make the conditions for achieving perfection easier for one person and more difficult for another?.... The same opportunity and the same favours are available to all human beings, even though it may seem that the natural conditions are so different that they must therefore also lead to different developments. The simple, uncomplicated thinking of one person seems to have the advantage that faith is easier for him to accept.... on the other hand, however, the human being, whose intellectual thinking is exceptionally developed, is able to think through the miracles of divine creation in greater depth, and thus he, who has the opportunity to gain insight into God's creation in the most comprehensive way, could likewise become a believer if his arrogance did not prevent him from doing so through this intellectual knowledge, and this, in turn, is precisely a resistance which he must voluntarily overcome for the purpose of perfection.... The same conditions are imposed on all beings, and thus every being has to fight against the same weaknesses and faults, only some succeed in overcoming them in a shorter time, whereas others often succumb and thereby reinforce precisely these faults and thus require ever greater strength in order to be able to master them, and thus many an ugly characteristic will express itself more strongly because the fight against it was not directed at it from the start but had previously only contributed considerably to its increase and now all the greater resistance is required. Thus it never has any disadvantage on the soul's life or the possibility of the soul's maturing whether the human being's thinking moves in smaller or larger districts, for in the end only the heart's receptivity is decisive, but it is each individual's own business to develop it or to let it atrophy, for God's love has endowed all His earthly children with this ability and only left it up to the individual beings to utilize it according to their will....

Amen

SPOSOBNOST RAZMIŠLJANJA I SVJETOVNO RAZUMIJEVANJE... OSJEĆAJ SRCA...

Za unutarnje duševno ustrojstvo čovjeka nije presudna sposobnost razmišljanja, i obim svjetovnog razumijevanja ne donosi stanje zrelosti duše, nego jedino stupanj Ljubavi onoga, koji se bez obzira na njegove zemaljske sposobnosti i životne situacije, pokušava približiti Bogu, i tu želju osjeća u najvećoj dubini srca. A tome uistinu ne pripada ni svjetovna mudrost, ni izvanredna misaona aktivnost, nego osjećaj srca svatko može njegovati, budući on u njemu drijema kao klica, i stvar je svakog pojedinog čovjeka da ovu klicu dovede do cvata, a za to također svaki čovjek posjeduje sposobnost... Gdje bi inače bila Božja pravednost... ako bi On jednom čovjeku želio postaviti lakše uvijete za postizanje savršenstva, a drugome teže?... Svim ljudima stoje na raspolaganju iste mogućnosti i iste povlastice, čak i ako bi moglo izgledati kao da su prirodni uvjeti tako različiti, da bi oni također morali dovesti do različitih razvoja. Jednostavno, ne-komplicirano razmišljanje jednog čovjeka ima prividnu prednost, da će za njega biti lakše prihvatiti vjeru, s druge strane je međutim čovjek, čije je racionalno razmišljanje iznimno razvijeno, sposoban podrobno proniknuti čuda Božanskog Stvaranja, i stoga bi mogao on, koji ima sposobnost, imati širi uvid u Božje Stvaranje, također postati veći vjernik, ako ga kroz to razumsko znanje ne spriječi njegova oholost, a ova je opet podjednako jedan otpor, kojeg on mora dobrovoljno nadvladati u svrhu usavršavanja. Svim bićima su postavljeni jednaki uvjeti, i stoga se svako biće treba boriti protiv istih slabosti i mana, samo njihovo nadvladavanje jednome uspijeva u kraćem vremenu, dok drugi često podlegnu, i time osnažuju baš te mane, pa im je potrebna sve veća snaga kako bi postali njihov gospodar, i otuda će se neka ružna osobina očitovati snažnije, budući da borba protiv nje nije primjenjivana odmah na početku, nego se najprije znatno doprinijelo njenom povećanju, te je sada potreban to veći otpor. Dakle, nikada nema nikakvu štetu za duševni život, ili mogućnost za sazrijevanje duše, ako se razmišljanje čovjeka kreće u manjem ili većem području, jer je u konačnici odlučujuća jedino sposobnost primanja srca (sposobnost srca da primi), no to je vlastita stvar svakog pojedinca, da nju razvije ili ju pusti da uvene, budući da je Božja Ljubav obdarila svu Svoju zemaljsku djecu ovom sposobnošću, a samo je prepušteno svakom pojedinom biću da ju koristi prema svojoj volji.

AMEN