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Decision between two worlds.... spiritual seeing and hearing....

Every worldly thought weakens a person's ability to see with the spiritual eye or hear with the spiritual ear. And that is why he must always endeavour to detach himself from the world. He must learn to despise everything earthly in order to be able to strive undividedly for his spiritual perfection. For as soon as he is able to see spiritually, as soon as his ear is able to hear the voice of the heart, the messages from the spiritual kingdom, he will also mature spiritually, whereas the world cannot offer him any spiritual goods, but rather robs him of them because it deprives him of the ability to do so. There are two worlds which want to bring themselves closer to the human being and the representatives of each world endeavour to assert themselves. Man's will must decide for itself in which world he wants to dwell. He sees these earthly joys and attractions of the world with bodily eyes and feels them with the bodily senses; the treasures of the spiritual world, on the other hand, are not obviously revealed to him. If he wants to see these, he must first develop the ability within himself, which has the will of man as its first prerequisite. He must withdraw into his inner life regardless of the earthly world, he must open his senses to the spiritual influx, he must listen and observe what is conveyed to him from the spiritual realm, and it will be all the more understandable and clearer to him the more he separates himself from the world and suppresses his desire for it. For only one thing can be offered to him.... one world must be sacrificed in order to enter the other world. As long as the human being still dwells on earth, it is a struggle for him, for the earthly world pushes itself forward again and again. However, the will to gain insight into the spiritual kingdom gives the human being constant strength to overcome the earthly world, and the ability to see and hear spiritually grows from hour to hour if the human being is seriously willing to exchange this spiritual kingdom for the earthly world.... He is then able to separate himself from it with ease, he hears the voice of the beings of light speaking within him, which are only the organs of the divine voice, he sees what his physical eye is unable to see and his knowledge is enriched more and more. Yet it is always knowledge which is meaningless to the world but which should and can inspire people to likewise strive for the state which will bring them the goods of the spiritual kingdom. He must seek everything spiritual within himself, whereas everything worldly seeks to find access to him from outside. And again the spiritual can only then be imparted to the fellow human being when he likewise goes inwards, for only then is he receptive to what is offered to him, whereas before he only receives it with his physical ear but it remains dead to him as long as he does not let it speak to his heart. That which is to retain value for eternity must come to the human being from the heart, for these are the currents from the spiritual kingdom which emerge in the heart as thoughts and must be consciously grasped by the human being in order to become effective in him....

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ODLUKA IZMEĐU DVA SVIJETA.... DUHOVNO GLEDANJE I SLUŠANJE....

Svaka svjetovna misao slabi sposobnost čovjeka da vidi duhovnim okom ili da čuje duhovnim ušima. I zato on mora uvijek nastojati osloboditi se od svijeta. On mora naučiti prezirati sve zemaljsko, samo da bi mogao nepodijeljeno težiti duhovnom savršenstvu. Jer, čim je on u stanju duhovno gledati, čim je njegovo uho u stanju čuti glas srca, poruke iz duhovnog kraljevstva, on će i duhovno sazrijevati, dok svijet njemu ne može ponuditi duhovna dobra, nego mu ih radije otima, budući mu on oduzima sposobnost za to. Dva su svijeta koja sebe žele približiti ljudima, a predstavnici svakog svijeta se trude sebe promicati (istaknuti). Volja čovjeka mora sama odlučiti u kojem svijetu on želi prebivati. Ove zemaljske užitke i mamljenja svijeta on vidi zemaljskim očima i osjeća tjelesnim osjetilima; blaga duhovnog svijeta mu se naprotiv, ne otkrivaju očigledno. Želi li on ova vidjeti, on najprije u sebi mora izgraditi sposobnost, koja za prvi preduvjet ima volju čovjeka. On se, bez obzira na zemaljski svijet, mora povući u unutarnji život, on mora svoja osjetila otvoriti za duhovni priljev, on mora osluškivati i uočavati ono što mu se prenosi iz duhovnog kraljevstva, i to će mu biti sve razumljivije i jasnije, što više se on odvaja od svijeta i suzbija žudnju za njim. Jer, samo jedno mu može biti ponuđeno.... jedan svijet mora biti žrtvovan, kako bi dospio u drugi svijet. Dok god čovjek još boravi na Zemlji, za njega je to borba, jer se zemaljski svijet uvijek iznova nameće (gura naprijed). Volja da pogleda u duhovno kraljevstvo, međutim čovjeku stalno privodi snagu da nadvlada zemaljski svijet, i sposobnost da duhovno vidi i čuje, raste iz sata u sat, ako je čovjek ozbiljno voljan ovim duhovnim kraljevstvom zamijeniti zemaljski svijet.... On se onda od njega lako može odvojiti, on u sebi čuje glas duhovnih bića koja govore, koja su samo organi Božanskog glasa, on vidi što njegovo tjelesno oko ne može vidjeti, i njegovo znanje se sve više obogaćuje. No, to je uvijek znanje koje je za svijet beznačajno, ali ljude treba i može potaknuti, da isto tako streme stanju koje im donosi dobra duhovnog kraljevstva. Sve duhovno mora on u sebi tražiti, sve svjetovno naprotiv nastoji, izvana naći pristup k njemu. I opet može duhovno tek onda biti posredovano čovjeku, kada ovaj isto tako ide naunutra, jer je on tek tada prijemčiv za njemu ponuđeno, dok on njega prethodno prima samo tjelesnim uhom, no ono za njega ostaje mrtvo, dok god ga on ne pusti da govori srcu. Ono što treba zadržati vrijednost za vječnost, čovjeku mora prići iz srca, jer su to strujanja iz duhovnog kraljevstva, koja se u srcu pojavljuju kao misli, i od čovjeka moraju biti svjesno uhvaćena (dohvaćena), kako bi sada u njemu mogla postati učinkovita.

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