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Correctly used mental activity.... Will....

Making correct use of the gift of intelligence is absolutely essential for the soul's higher development, since the human being was given intellect so that he can mentally process everything that exists and happens around him and thereby reach conclusions which consciously make him seek the eternally Divine. By using the intellect, free will becomes active in him, for a person will only want something if his intellect has portrayed the benefit of this volition to him, thus the will is always the result of thinking.... And the correct use of intellect, i.e., to want what is good and to detest evil, must inevitably advance the soul's maturity. One cannot speak of correct use of intellect if the latter impels someone to behave badly; in that case the gifts of intellect are being misused. With serious and sensible deliberation, a person can easily recognise the activity of a wise creative Power which brought everything surrounding him into existence and that this creative Power continues to care for its creations. Once a person has come this far then the intellect will be able to persuade the will into making contact with this creative Power, for he has to regard himself as an independently thinking being, thus as His living creation, subsequently he also has to acknowledge the Creator as an equally thinking Being of supreme perfection, and this awareness is enough to establish a connection with the Creator.

Every human being can arrive at this conclusion if he uses his intellect in order to come closer to the truth. The fact that his mental activity will be correctly guided afterwards is this Creator's working as soon as the person has consciously established a connection with Him. However, the human being was given intellect in order to use it until the moment of contact, thus it was added to free will in order to enable the latter's move in the right direction which leads to the goal, to contact with God. The only condition is that a person must want what is good of his own volition, then his reasoning will invariably lead him to the goal. Thus the intellect has to be used for activating the will to consciously establish a connection with God, yet prior to that this will must have made a decision in favour of God, otherwise the mental activity will have been used incorrectly by refraining from all serious deliberation and merely assessing the advantages and disadvantages of his surroundings and what takes place therein. In that case, he will not be making full use of the gift of reasoning and the result will be accordingly.... he will never reach the goal, instead he will always doubt or be mistaken, for he is influenced by good or evil forces according to his will. With earnest use, the mind can even change an ill-will, and this is indeed its task. For this reason the human being has to justify himself if he misuses the gift of intelligence, if he fails to use it for its actual purpose.... to come closer to the truth, which God does not withhold from anyone who seriously strives for it through earnest mental activity. With the right determination he will be extremely successful and after serious deliberation, he will also influence his determination to aim towards the same goal....

Amen

ISPRAVNO KORIŠTENA AKTIVNOST RAZUMA... VOLJA...

Dar ispravnog korištenja razuma je neizostavno potreban za viši razvoj duše, jer zbog toga je čovjeku dan razum, tako da on misaono obradi sve što je oko njega i što se događa, i kroz to izvuče zaključke, što mu sada omogućava svjesno traženje vječnog Božanstva. Kroz razumijevanje treba slobodna volja u njemu postati aktivna, jer će čovjek nešto htjeti samo onda kada mu je njegov razum već predočio korist tog htijenja; tako će volja uvijek biti samo posljedica razmišljanja... A sada, ispravno koristiti razum, odnosno htjeti dobro, a gnušati se zla, bezuvjetno mora potpomoći razvoju duše. Ne može se govoriti o ispravnom korištenju razuma, ako ovaj čovjeka potiče na zle postupke, jer onda će darovi razuma biti zloupotrijebljeni. U ozbiljnom razumskom promišljanju čovjek može vrlo lako prepoznati da je na djelu mudra stvaralačka Sila, Koja je omogućila da nastane sve oko njega, i da ova stvaralačka Sila i nadalje održava sve stvoreno. A ako je čovjek za početak dotle stigao, onda razumijevanje također može odlučiti volju da uspostavi vezu sa ovom stvaralačkom Silom, jer on mora sebe samoga vidjeti kao samostalno misaono (koje razmišlja) biće, dakle Njegovo stvorenje, i posljedično prepoznati Stvoritelja kao isto tako misaono Biće u najuzvišenijem savršenstvu, a ta svjesnost je dovoljna da sada uspostavi vezu sa Stvoriteljem. To je misaoni zaključak kojeg svaki čovjek može doseći, ako on koristi svoj razum kako bi došao bliže Istini. Da je njegova misaona aktivnost tada ispravno vođena, djelovanje je Ovog Stvoritelja, čim je čovjek s Njim uspostavio svjesnu vezu. Ali razum je dan čovjeku kako bi do trenutka povezivanja sam bio aktivan, on je stoga pridodan slobodnoj volji, tako da ona može uzeti ispravan smjer koji vodi do cilja, povezanosti s Bogom. Jedini uvjet je da čovjek iznutra želi dobro, onda će ga njegova razumska aktivnost neizbježno dovesti do cilja. Stoga razum treba biti korišten tako da postane aktivna volja da se uspostavi svjesna povezanost s Bogom, ali se najprije ova volja mora odlučiti za Boga, inače razumska aktivnost neće biti ispravno korištena, čim on zanemaruje svako ozbiljno promišljanje, i samo razumski važe prednosti i nedostatke onoga što ga okružuje i što se događa. On onda ne cijeni dar razmišljanja, a odgovarajući je također i rezultat toga... on neće nikada doći do cilja, nego će stalno sumnjati ili lutati (griješiti), budući će sukladno volji biti pod utjecajem dobrih ili zlih sila. Razum, ako je ispravno korišten, može čak i preobratiti zlu volju, a to je također njegov zadatak. Zato čovjek mora također odgovarati, ako on zloupotrebljava dar razuma, ako ga ne koristi za stvarnu svrhu... da dođe bliže Istini, koju Bog ne uskraćuje onome, tko tome ozbiljno teži kroz gorljivu misaonu aktivnost. Sa ispravnom voljom on će postići najveći uspjeh, a sa ozbiljnim razmišljanjem će on također odlučiti svoju volju da stremi istom cilju.

AMEN