It will never be possible to enter the spiritual kingdom through research, nor will it be possible to receive knowledge about spiritual things in a scholastic way. And the reason for this is that the heart must be active in order to fathom knowledge and truth, otherwise neither can be imparted to it. spiritual knowledge has nothing to do with worldly knowledge, indeed, even a person with little worldly knowledge will be far more receptive to spiritual knowledge because it is made known to him through the voice of the spirit, which only resounds in the heart and is heard the easier the less resistance is put up to it by intellectual knowledge, which mostly rebels against spiritual knowledge. The mind is exposed to all influences; both good and bad forces try to assert themselves, and that is why it is full of wisdom, which, however, does not always have to be truth. It is human wisdom that fills the thinking of a person who has only gained it intellectually. However, only the working of the spirit in the human being offers a guarantee of pure truth. Consequently, divine wisdom does not come from outside but from within, from the heart, and can therefore only be heard if the human being is introspective. But the truth never comes to him from the outside unless the bearer of the truth has been taught by God Himself, i.e. the spirit of God has come alive in him. It would now be wrong to want to deny knowledge of the truth to every worldly researcher, just as, conversely, a person taught by the spirit of God can also have great worldly knowledge, provided that spiritual knowledge was sought first and therefore God provides him with spiritual and earthly knowledge.... He then only grants access to the knowing beings, and they also consider him according to the truth, both spiritually and earthly. But he must also utilize the spiritual knowledge towards his fellow human beings, otherwise it cannot expand if the spiritual knowledge is the result of unselfish loving activity towards his neighbour. Thus every intellectual researcher must at the same time fulfil the commandment of neighbourly love in order to penetrate knowledge that cannot be gained purely intellectually. People do not want to accept this because it is incomprehensible to them that thoughts are born in the heart, i.e. that thinking, feeling and willing are decisive as long as thoughts move in spiritual areas. Only a person whose feelings and will are good and noble, who is therefore able and willing to love, can think rightly, i.e. think truthfully. For his thoughts are guided by the spirit in him, which, however, can only work in a loving person. But the spirit in the human being receives the truth from the spirit outside himself, which is God's emanation of love, which therefore knows everything because it is divine, whereas the human being, who lives without love, cannot partake of this emanation of God's love and his thoughts are merely the transmissions of ignorant forces as soon as they touch upon spiritual areas or the function of the thinking organs, where earthly questions are merely solved. And such results can and will always be disputed because the human being as such can always err. Love and truth cannot be separated from each other, because both are divine and therefore cannot be thought of without each other. But love is part of the heart, consequently truth can only be born in the heart, it must be felt and also recognized as truth by the heart, then received and thought through by the intellect and thus remain with man as intellectual property. The intellectual man, however, ponders and researches and tries to dissect everything, his heart remains mute and unfeeling as long as he is not active in love, and then he comes to conclusions that are completely erroneous; but he tries to prove them again with false intellectual results. He is convinced of the correctness of his conclusions only to doubt them again when another intellectual researcher has arrived at different results and again supports them as the only correct ones. The spirit from God, however, gives simple and clearly understandable explanations which are so plausible to the human being if he is in love. He knows no doubts because his heart, his being capable of love, also gives him the power of realization and the explanations of the divine spirit are understandable and therefore credible to him. He knows that he walks in truth, he also knows that this truth can never be refuted, that it always and constantly remains the same, because the truth from God is eternally unchanging, just as God, as the giver of truth, remains unchanging for eternity....
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TranslatorNikada se ne može pristupiti duhovnom Kraljevstvu putem istraživanja, a još manje može biti znanje o duhovnim stvarima stečeno učenjem. I ovo je utemeljeno na činjenici da u ispitivanju duhovnog znanja i Istine srce mora biti aktivno, jer mu inače obje stvari ne mogu biti prenesene. Duhovno znanje nema nikakve veze sa svjetovnim znanjem, naprotiv, osoba s malo svjetovnog znanja bit će više prijemčiva za duhovno znanje, jer mu je ono objavljeno kroz glas Duha koji odzvanja samo u srcu i biva jednostavnije zamijećen, manje otpora mu se suprotstavlja kroz razumsko znanje koje se često protivi duhovnom znanju.
Razum je podložan svim utjecajima; kako dobronamjernim silama, tako i onim zlima što mu se nastoje nametnuti i radi toga je prepun znanja, koje ipak nije uvijek nužno istinito. Ljudsko znanje je ono što ispunjava njegove misli, koje je zadobio samo razumom. Međutim, jamstvo za Čistu Istinu nudi samo djelovanje Duha u čovjeku. Posljedično, Božanska mudrost ne dolazi izvana, već iznutra, iz srca, i zbog toga može biti samo pojmljiva kada čovjek zađe u samoga sebe.
Stoga, Istina mu se nikada ne primiče izvana, osim ako nositelj Istine nije bio podučen od Boga Osobno, tj. Duh Božji je postao živ u njemu. Bilo bi sada nepravedno htjeti negirati svakome svjetovnom istraživaču znanje o Istini, kao i obratno.... čovjek podučen od Duha Božjega može biti također u velikom svjetovnom znanju, ukoliko je prije svega težio duhovnom znanju i zbog toga ga Bog nagrađuje s duhovnim i sa zemaljskim znanjem. On [[(Bog)]] dakle dozvoljava pristup samo mudrim bićima, kako duhovno tako također i zemaljski. No, on mora vrednovati duhovno znanje u odnosu na svoje bližnje, jer inače se ono ne može povećati, ako je duhovno znanje posljedica nezainteresirane ljubavi prema bližnjemu. Stoga, razumski istražitelj mora ujedno ispunjavati zapovijedi Ljubavi prema bližnjemu da bi prodro do spoznaje koja ne može biti stečena čistim razumom. Ljudi ovo ne žele prihvatiti, jer im je neshvatljivo da bi se misli rađale u srcu, da je onda razmišljanje, osjećanje i htjenje odlučujuće onoliko koliko se misli kreću u duhovnim predjelima.
Samo osoba čiji su osjećaji i volja dobri i plemeniti, onaj koji je sposoban ljubiti i želi ljubiti, može razmišljati u skladu sa Istinom, tj. slijedit će istinito razmišljanje. Jer njegove su misli vođene Duhom koji pak može djelovati samo u čovjeku koji je aktivan u Ljubavi. Duh čovjeka prima Istinu od Duha van sebe koji je zračenje Ljubavi Božje, Koji zna sve jer je Božanski, dok čovjek koji živi bez Ljubavi ne može biti dio toga zračenja od Boga i njegove misli su jednostavno samo prijenosi nepoznatih sila, jedva dotiču duhovne predjele, ili funkcioniranje misaonog organa mozga, gdje se razjašnjavaju samo zemaljska pitanja. I takvi rezultati mogu i bit će uvijek pobijeni, jer takav čovjek može uvijek pogriješiti. Ljubav i Istina ne mogu biti razdvojeni, jer su oboje Božanski i zbog toga nezamislivi jedan bez drugoga. Ljubav čini dio srca, posljedično Istina se može izroditi samo u srcu, mora biti shvaćena i također prepoznata od srca kao Istina, zatim prihvaćena i razumski razmatrana da bi tako ostala misaono vlasništvo čovjeka.
Međutim, razumski čovjek se zaluđuje, traži i istražuje ne bi li sve razložio, u tome njegovo srce ostaje nijemo i bezosjećajno, dokle god nije aktivan u Ljubavi.... i onda dođe do zaključaka koji su potpuno pogrešni; ali ih nastoji razumski prikazati rješenjima koja su lažna. Uvjeren je u ispravnost svojih zaključivanja, da bi u njih ponovno sumnjao kada je neki drugi razumski istraživač došao do drugih rezultata i smatra iznova samo ove točnima.
Duh Božji međutim, pruža jednostavna objašnjenja i jasno shvatljiva, koja su za čovjeka toliko prosvjetljujuća kada je on u Ljubavi. Ne poznaje dvojbe, jer njegovo srce, njegovo biće koje je sposobno ljubiti, osigurava mu moć spoznavanja i zbog toga su mu tumačenja Božanskog Duha razumljiva i ujedno vjerodostojna. On zna da hoda u Istini, zna također da ta Istina nikada ne može biti opovrgnuta, da ostaje uvijek i zauvijek ista, jer Istina od Boga je vječno nepromjenjiva, baš kao i Bog kao Davatelj Istine, Koji ostaje nepromjenjiv u vječnosti.
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