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"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak...."

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.... for the flesh still belongs to God's opposing power because it still harbours many spiritual substances which are immature and therefore at the beginning of their higher development. And these substances are still too much in the power of the adversary, they push towards him and also try to pull the human soul along with them. And so the spirit in the human being wages a constant battle with all the immature entities that surround him. Although the soul has decided in its favour, it is also still surrounded by entities in need of purification and is constantly pressured by them to turn towards the world, which means everything that is beneficial, i.e. pleasant, for the body of flesh. The soul is very often weak and unable to offer sufficient resistance to these desires. And yet it must try to overcome this counter-current, it must wrestle with itself, it must only direct its will towards what the spirit imparts to it, it must desire to hear it and reject every temptation from outside by paying no attention to them and only desiring to hear the voice of the spirit. It must pray fervently for a supply of strength and must not tire, for God allows all these temptations in order to strengthen the will and faith so that it may prove itself in the face of greater opposition from outside. The human being is still fighting against purely physical desires and oppositions but a time will come when he will have to stand firm against external temptations, when he will have to prove himself before the world and when the body will not only have to renounce but also accept suffering in order to set an example of strong unshakeable faith to the world.... He will always and constantly be supplied with strength so that his will becomes strong.... And this will shall already now be strengthened by overcoming small resistances, the soul shall only ever remain united with the spirit in it, it shall learn to despise everything worldly, it shall pass it by unimpressively and by no means hold it back from spiritual striving, the weakness of the flesh shall be fought against and the result will be an ever stronger will which overcomes everything that opposes it. But this strong will cannot be achieved without a fight, otherwise it would be an undeservedly received grace which has to bring the human being to maturity without him striving for it. The supply of strength from God is indeed such a grace which, however, has to be requested time and again, and thus the prayer for increased will will provide him with strength and grace, his will will grow stronger, for then the human being will call upon God Himself for His help and this will also be available to him in abundance. Prayer is also a means of battle against the enemy's temptations, although even the will can be so weakened that it is incapable of prayer, for this also requires the will which, however, will then also find support. But the human being must not surrender to the temptations, the allurements of the world, without will; he must not become so weak that he is no longer able to pray, in every adversity of the soul he must take refuge in prayer, in God, Who will then truly not leave him without help. He must heed the subtle voice of the spirit, which will urge him to pray, to call upon God for strength and grace.... Only then will every weakness of the flesh be overcome, he will become strong in spirit, and his will will conquer all resistance....

amen

„DUH JE VOLJAN, ALI TIJELO JE SLABO...“

Duh je voljan, ali tijelo je slabo.... budući tijelo još pripada snazi protivnoj Bogu, jer u sebi sklanja još mnogo duhovnih supstanci koje su nezrele, odnosno, nalaze se na početku njihovog višeg razvoja. A ove supstance su još previše u vlasti protivnika, guraju ga prema njemu, i nastoje sa sobom povući i dušu čovjeka. I tako duh u čovjeku vodi stalnu borbu sa svom nezrelom suštinom koja ga okružuje. Premda se duša odlučila za njega, ona se također još uvijek nalazi usred suštine kojoj je potrebno pročišćavanje, i ona će od nje biti stalno tlačena da se okrene svijetu, pod čime treba razumjeti ono što pogoduje, i stoga je ugodno, tijelu od mesa. Duša je vrlo često slaba i nije u stanju pružiti dovoljan otpor ovim žudnjama. A ona ipak mora nastojati nadvladati ovu nasuprotnu struju, mora se boriti sama sa sobom, mora svoju volju usmjeriti jedino na to što joj prenosi Duh, ona mora žuditi da Ga čuje, i odbiti svaku kušnju izvana, ne poklanjajući joj nikakvu pažnju, i jedino žuditi čuti glas Duha. Ona mora usrdno moliti za dostavu snage, i ne smije se umoriti, budući Bog dopušta sve ove kušnje kako bi osnažio volju i vjeru, tako da se on iskaže (dokaže) u većim preprekama koje mu pristupaju izvana. Čovjek se još bori protiv čisto tjelesnih žudnji i otpora, ali, doći će vrijeme, u kojem on mora odoljeti napadima izvana, u kojem se on mora dokazati pred svijetom, i u kojem se tijelo ne mora jedino odricati, nego također i preuzeti patnju na sebe, kako bi dao svijetu primjer snažne, nepokolebljive vjere.... Njemu će uvijek i neprestano biti dostavljana snaga, tako da njegova volja bude jaka.... A ova volja treba već biti osnažena kroz nadvladavanje manjih prepreka (otpora), duša treba jedino uvijek ostati u kontaktu sa Duhom u njoj, mora naučiti prezreti sve svjetovno, mora nedojmljena proći pokraj njega, i na nijedan način se ne zadržati od duhovnog nastojanja, slabost tijela treba biti pobijeđena, a posljedica će biti uvijek snažnija volja koja nadvladava sve što joj se suprotstavlja. Ali, ova snažna volja se ne može postići bez borbe, inače bi bila nezaslužena primljena milost koja čovjeka mora dovesti do zrelosti, bez da to bude nastojano od njega. Dostava Božje snage je uistinu takva milost, koja međutim mora uvijek iznova biti tražena, i tako će mu molitva za osnaženu volju dostaviti snagu i milost, njegova volja će ojačati, jer onda čovjek poziva Boga Osobno za Njegovu pomoć, i onda mu ona također izobilno stoji na raspolaganju. Molitva je također sredstvo borbe protiv kušnji neprijatelja, premda sama volja može biti tako oslabljena, da je on nesposoban moliti, budući i to uključuje volju, koja tada međutim također pronalazi podršku. Jedino se čovjek ne smije bezvoljno prepustiti kušnjama, zavođenjima svijeta; on ne smije postati tako slab da više nije u stanju moliti, on mora u svakoj nevolji duše naći utočište u molitvi, u Bogu, Koji ga onda zaista neće ostaviti bez pomoći. On mora obratiti pažnju na nježan glas Duha, koji će ga potaknuti na molitvu, da zazove Boga za snagu i milost.... Jedino onda će biti nadvladana svaka slabost tijela, on će postati jak u Duhu, i njegova volja će pobijediti svaki otpor.

AMEN