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Partition.... spiritual battle.... temptations....

It is like a dividing wall that the good builds around itself when its desire is directed towards God. Evil tries to tear down this partition and uses unfair means to do so.... It fights in secret and often under the guise of goodness and piety. And then it is necessary to be doubly vigilant so that it is recognized as evil. Forces turned away from God remain close to the person striving towards God and perceive the slightest lukewarmness on his part to direct his thoughts towards things that lie beyond the divine. And now the human being only needs to be weak, then he will take in the thoughts which are whispered to him and his thinking will no longer exclusively move along a spiritual path. And then the human being has to fight with himself again in order to overcome those thoughts. Only then will his heart drive him more powerfully towards God, for the soul senses the apostasy as something burdensome and seeks to be free of it again. However, every spiritual battle manifests itself depending on the victor.... If the adversary has the upper hand, then the person will strive for external things and strive for earthly success.... He will interrupt his spiritual endeavours and thus pay tribute to the world.... But if the power of the spirit is active in him, earthly temptations cannot change his will.... He is inwardly calm and purposeful; he despises what approaches him and would like to cause him to think in an earthly way; he remains faithful to God and therefore there are no distractions for him, his will is always and constantly directed towards union with God.... And it means spiritual progress to have withstood the temptations and to have an increased desire for God. He has therefore erected the wall of partition that prevents evil from reaching him. He is immune to temptation and also recognizes the forces that seek to oppress him in the mask of goodness. For his feelings are mimosa-like.... he will always sense the impure and defend himself against it; but those who allow themselves to be taken captive by it are still impure themselves, in their hearts the desire for the world is still too great and what approaches them with beautiful words and expressions they do not realize as bad and wrong, and so the adversary has an easy game. But if a person is vigilant and asks God for help, his eyes will be sharpened and he will act in accordance with God's will. It remains a constant battle for him, only less noticeable, as his desire for God applies.... Yet the battle is permitted by God so that the human being himself will test his strength in it, so that he will ask God for the strength he lacks and thus take refuge in Him.... And thus his attitude towards God will always be decisive as to who remains victorious, the good or the evil....

Amen

ZAŠČITNI ZID... DUHOVNI BOJ... PREIZKUŠNJE...

Ko je dobro usmerjeno k Bogu, zgradi okoli sebe nekakšen varovalni zid. In zlo skuša porušiti ta zid in se pri tem poslužuje nečistih sredstev... bojuje se na skrivaj in pogosto pod krinko dobrote in pobožnosti. In takrat je potrebno biti dvojno pozoren, da bi se to prepoznalo kot zlo. Bogu nasprotujoče sile ostajajo blizu človeka, ki stremi k Bogu in zaznavajo tudi najmanjšo mlačnost človeka, da bi njegovo mišljenje usmerili k stvarem, ki so onkraj božanskega. Še posebej, ko je človek šibak, takrat sprejema misli, ki mu jih šepetajo, in njegovo razmišljanje se ne giblje več izključno po duhovni poti. In potem se mora človek boriti sam s seboj, da te misli premaga. Šele takrat ga srce močneje žene k Bogu, ker duša občuti padec kot nekaj obremenjujočega in se ga želi osvoboditi. Vendar pa se vsak duhovni boj izraža glede na zmagovalca... Če ima nasprotnik premoč, potem bo človek težil k zunanjim stvarem in bo delal za zemeljski uspeh... Prekinil bo duhovno stremljenje in tako plačal davek svetu.... Če pa v njem deluje moč duha, ga zemeljske preizkušnje ne morejo spremeniti v njegovi volji... V sebi je miren in osredotočen na cilj; prezira tisto, kar se mu bliža in ga hoče nagniti k zemeljskemu načinu mišljenja; je zvest Bogu in tako zanj ni odstopanja, njegova volja je vedno in nenehno usmerjena k zedinjenju z Bogom... Upiranje skušnjavam in povečano hrepenenje po Bogu predstavlja duhovni napredek.

Ta človek je torej zgradil varovalni zid, ki preprečuje, da bi ga zlo doseglo. Zavarovan je pred skušnjavami in prepoznava sile, ki ga pod krinko dobrega poskušajo zatirati. Ker so njegovi občutki podobni mimozi. (Ker je njegovo zaznavanje prečiščeno).... Neprestano bo opažal nečisto in se ga branil; a tisti, ki se jim pustijo ujeti, so še sami nečisti, v njihovih srcih je še prevelika želja po svetu in kar se jim približa z lepimi besedami in kretnjami, tega se ne bodo zavedali kot slabo in napačnega, tako da ima nasprotnik lahko igro. Če pa je človek buden in prosi Boga za pomoč, se bo njegov vid izostril in ravnal bo v skladu z Božjo voljo. Boj bo zanj ostal stalen, edino manj opazen bo, če bo njegovo stremljenje usmerjeno k Bogu... Vendar Bog ta boj dopušča, da človek na njem preizkuša svojo moč, da bi moč, ki mu primankuje, lahko izprosil pri Bogu, da bi pri Njem našel svoje zatočišče... In tako bo njegov odnos do Boga vedno odločilen za to, kdo bo zmagovalec, dobro ali zlo.

AMEN