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Spiritual decline.... teaching of Christ.... additions....

There is a constant spiritual decline, and this is not least due to the teaching of Christ which has been misrepresented to people, which has undergone many additions and thus has become untrustworthy to people. The divine teaching of love as such would be acceptable to people; even if they are unwilling to follow it, they cannot provide any valid reasons for rejecting it as a teaching that does not have an ennobling effect. The human additions, however, find little favor; the right-thinking man rejects them because he does not regard them as divine will; the worldly man, however, also rejects the whole divine teaching with them, because he also transfers the human origin of those additional teachings to the former. To a certain extent this is a justification for him to deny divine origin, thus he does not pay attention to the divine teaching of love, and this results in a spiritual decline which is extremely significant. love alone is spiritual progress, the human being redeems himself through loving activity, and loving activity is constantly preached to him as soon as he allows himself to be taught by those who try to spread Christ's teaching of love in the world. For Christ taught nothing else than that people should live in love, that they should develop themselves upwards by serving in love, thus gaining God's pleasure, so that God's love will flow to all those who respect His teaching of love and thus seek and find union with God, Who is eternal love Himself. But as soon as man believes to be able to live without love he takes a course on earth which leads downwards. He does not strive for spiritual perfection and also does not remain on the same level of development, but his desire, his love, does not turn to the neighbor but to dead things; and therefore it is not a redeeming but an again binding love, which pulls man further and further down, chains him ever more firmly to matter and finally leads to another walk through the whole works of creation. At present, humanity has reached a spiritual level that cannot be emphasized enough as a spiritual regression because humanity no longer has faith in what Jesus Christ taught on earth. It pays more attention to the additional works of men than to His teachings and has thus strayed from the right path.... from the path of active charity.... or it has detached itself from the demands made on humanity by man.... from actions that were made obligatory for people as divine commandments and recognized by them as erroneous. With this human work, the pure teaching of Christ has also been rejected and frowned upon, and people have completely strayed from their mission in life. They live their earthly life without knowledge and consequently also without any success. Love has to be practiced if the human being is to progress in his development, and thus love also has to be taught.... And thus Christ's teaching of love must also be acknowledged and followed, otherwise the human being's development will come to a standstill, a standstill which will gradually lead to spiritual decline. Spiritually and earthly, however, a spiritual decline entails the most evil consequences, which is why God in His love leaves no stone unturned to stop it and to make people realize that they have to strive and that their higher development is extremely endangered.... that they are in danger of sliding down to the abyss, from which they can only develop upwards again under dreadful torments until they are allowed to fulfil the law of love again in free will....

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DUHOVNO NAZADOVANJE... KRISTOVO UČENJE... DODACI (IZMJENE)...

Treba primijetiti stalno duhovno nazadovanje, a u konačnici krivnju za to ne snosi ljudima pogrešno prikazano Kristovo učenje, koje je pretrpjelo mnogobrojne izmjene (dodatke), te je kroz to ljudima postalo nevjerodostojno. Božansko učenje Ljubavi kao takvo, bilo bi prihvatljivo ljudima; čak i kada ga oni nisu voljni slijediti, budući oni ne mogu navesti nijedan valjani razlog da ga odbace kao učenje koje ne djeluje oplemenjujuće. Ljudski dodaci međutim nalaze malo odobravanja, čovjek koji ispravno misli ih odbacuje, budući ih ne smatra Božanskom voljom; svjetovan čovjek s njima međutim odbacuje i cijelo Božansko učenje, jer ljudsko porijeklo ovih nadodanih učenja pripisuje također i prvome. To je za njega na neki način opravdanje da zaniječe Božansko porijeklo, tako on ne poštuje Božansko učenje Ljubavi, a to ima za posljedicu duhovno nazadovanje koje je vrlo znatno. Jedino Ljubav je duhovni napredak, kroz Ljubav-no djelovanje se čovjek iskupljuje, i njemu je stalno propovijedano Ljubav-no djelovanje, čim se on dopušta podučiti od onih koji nastoje širiti u svijet Kristovo učenje Ljubavi. Jer On nije podučavao drugo nego da ljudi moraju živjeti u Ljubavi, da se oni kroz služenje u Ljubavi razvijaju naviše, da oni stoga moraju izboriti Božji užitak, tako da se Božja Ljubav prigne svima onima koji poštuju Njegovo učenje Ljubavi, te stoga traže i nalaze zajedništvo s Bogom, Koji je Sama vječna Ljubav. Ali, čim čovjek vjeruje da može živjeti bez Ljubavi, on ide putem na Zemlji koji vodi naniže. On ne teži duhovnom savršenstvu, a niti ne ostaje stajati na istom stupnju razvoja, nego se njegova žudnja, njegova ljubav, ne okreće bližnjemu, nego mrtvim stvarima; i stoga nije oslobađajuća Ljubav, nego iznova vezujuća, koja čovjeka još više vuče nadolje, još čvršće vezuje za materiju, i konačno dovodi do ponovljenog prolaska kroz sva djela Stvaranja. Trenutno je čovječanstvo prispjelo na stupanj razvoja koji ne može biti dovoljno istaknut kao duhovno nazadovanje, jer čovječanstvo više nema nikakve vjere u ono što je Isus naučavao na Zemlji. Ono više cijeni ljudski nadodano djelo, nego Njegovo učenje, a time je odstupilo od pravog puta... od puta djelatne Ljubavi prema bližnjemu... ili se ono odvojilo od zahtijeva koji su čovječanstvu bili postavljeni s ljudske strane... od postupaka koji su, kao Božanske zapovijedi, učinjeni obaveznima ljudima, i od njih bili prepoznati kao pogrešni. S ovim ljudskim djelom je također odbačeno i uskraćeno i čisto Kristovo učenje, i ljudi su sasvim odstupili od njihovog životnog zadatka. Oni žive njihov zemaljski život bez znanja, i time također bez ikakva uspjeha. Mora biti prakticirana Ljubav, treba li čovjek napredovati u svome razvoju, a stoga također Ljubav mora biti i podučavana... A tako također mora biti priznato i slijeđeno Kristovo učenje Ljubavi, inače razvoj čovjeka doživljava stagnaciju, zastoj koji postepeno vodi do duhovnog nazadovanja. Duhovno i zemaljski, međutim, duhovno nazadovanje povlači za sobom najgore posljedice, zbog čega Bog u Svojoj Ljubavi ne ostavlja ništa ne okušano da ga zaustavi, i da ljude dovede do spoznaje da oni moraju nastojati, i da je njihov viši razvoj krajnje ugrožen... da su oni u opasnosti kliznuti dolje u ponor, odakle se iznova mogu razviti naviše jedino pod strašnim mukama, sve dok oni iznova ne budu smjeli ispuniti zakon Ljubavi u slobodnoj volji.

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