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Selfish love.... Love your neighbour as yourself....

God instructed you to love each other; He gave you a commandment you must fulfil if you want to be saved. And this commandment requires nothing else but love for Him and your neighbour.... Yet it includes the entire work of improving your soul, which should attain perfection while you still live on earth. Your every thought, word and action should correspond to this commandment of love, it must express itself in your will to give and to please, to help, comfort, encourage and protect.... the human being must do to other people what would please himself were he in need of the same degree of help. Love your neighbour as yourself.... Hence, God has granted the human being a degree of selfish love by which he can always judge how far he fulfils the commandment of neighbourly love. If a person loves himself very much, he also has a duty to give a greater measure to his fellow human being if he wants to comply with God's will. In that case he must also accomplish more kind-hearted deeds.... If a person's selfish love is small and he wants to fulfil God's will, his neighbourly love will exceed the degree of selfish love, and he will find this easier because he will easily be able to let go of earthly possessions and give them to his fellow human beings. But you humans are always expected to practise unselfish neighbourly love, consequently, you must also be able to go without, you must be able to make sacrifices in favour of pleasing a fellow human being. And the more you love a fellow human being, the easier you can do this. But in order to awaken the feeling of love for a fellow human being you must bear in mind that all of you are children of a Father, that all of you came forth from the same strength and therefore all of you are creatures of God's love.... Then you will learn to regard your fellow human being as your brother, you will treat him with love, you will want to help him if he suffers adversity, and your willingness to help will make you happy, because it is blissful in itself and results in spiritual knowledge.... If you give to your neighbour what you desire yourselves, then God will give you what belongs to Him.... He will give you the truth, He will give you light and strength and grace.... He will please you and likewise will only give you possessions which originate from His kingdom, which cannot be offered to you in an earthly way. But He will also bless your possessions in an earthly way by increasing what you sacrifice if it benefits your soul's salvation. If you therefore give because of love for your neighbour, you will not need to starve, for God's love will give you in kind if you are in need, and He is not prudent with His Own but distributes His gifts without measure.... providing you also sacrifice without anxiously calculating what you can do without. If you are impelled to give by love, you will not hesitate or give very little and therefore also receive in abundance from the eternal Love. And if you are incapable of the feeling of love, then you must train yourselves to accomplish unselfish deeds of love, you must look around yourselves and actively intervene with helpful support when you come across hardship. This is God's will, and you should adopt this will as your own, then your kind-hearted activity for your neighbour will make you happy in every way.... you will kindle love in yourselves until it grows into a bright flame which takes hold of everything that enters its vicinity. For love is divine, it comes forth from God and leads back to God again, this is why the commandment of love for God and one's neighbour is the most important commandment which must be fulfilled on earth as well as in the beyond in order to unite with the eternal Love and to attain eternal bliss....

Amen

SAMOLJUBJE.... LJUBI SVOJEGA BLIŽNJEGA KOT SAMEGA SEBE....

Bog vas je napotil na to, da ljubite eni druge; dal vam je zapoved, ki jo morate izpolniti, če želite postati blaženi. Toda ta zapoved ne zahteva ničesar drugega, razen Ljubezni do Njega in bližnjega.... Vendar pa ona vključuje celotno delo na vaši duši, katero morate pripeljati do stanja popolnosti, še dokler živite na Zemlji. Vse vaše misli, govor in postopki (dela) morajo biti skladni s to zapovednjo Ljubezni; ona se mora izraziti v volji, da dajete in da osrečite, v pomaganju, tolaženju, opogumljanju in zaščiti.... človek mora svojemu bližnjemu narediti to, kar bi tudi njega samega osrečilo, če bi bil on v enaki meri v potrebi za pomočjo (Matej 7:12). Ljubi bližnjega kot samega sebe.... in tako je Bog človeku odobril neko količino samoljubja, po kateri on lahko vedno izmeri, koliko daleč je on pri izpolnjevanju zapovedi Ljubezni do bližnjega. Če je človekova ljubezen do samega sebe velika, ima on potem ravno tako dolžnost, da v povečani meri obskrbi bližnjega, če želi izpolniti Božjo voljo. Potem mora biti ravno tako povečana njegova Ljubezen-ska dejavnost.... Če je samoljubje manjše in če človek namerava izpolniti Božjo voljo, potem bo Ljubezen do bližnjega premagala nivo samoljubja; in to bo za človeka lažje, ker se on lahko loči od zemeljskih dobrin in le te (pre)usmeri na bližnjega. Vendar pa se bo od vas vedno zahtevalo, da prakticirate nesebično Ljubezen do bližnjega; in tako morate biti vi ravno tako v stanju, da se odrečete, morate biti v stanju, da se žrtvovujetev korist bližnjega, katerega želite osrečiti. In kolikor več Ljubezni čutite do bližnjega, toliko lažje vam bo to uspelo. Da pa bi vi v sebi prebudili občutek Ljubezni do bližnjega, si morate vi predstavljati, da ste vi vsi otroci enega Boga (Malahija 2:10), da ste vi vsi imeli izhodišče v enaki moči in da ste zaradi tega vsi stvaritve Božje Ljubezni.... Vi se boste potem naučili, da svojega bližnjega smatrate za svojega brata. Izkazali mu boste Ljubezen. Želeli mu boste pomagati, ko je v stiski; in ta volja, da pomagate, vas bo osrečila, ker ona že sama po sebi blagoslavlja in vam prinaša duhovno spoznanje.... Če vi bližnjemu dajete to, kar si sami želite, vam tudi Bog daje to, kar je Njegovo.... On vam daje Resnico; On vam daje svetlobo (znanje, prosvetljenje), moč in milost.... On vas osrečuje in vas na enak način oskrbi edino z dobrinami, ki izhajajo iz Njegovega kraljestva, ki pa vam na zemeljski način ne morejo biti ponujena. Torej On ravno tako blagoslavlja vaše zemeljsko imetje, ko vam povečuje to, kar vi žrtvujete, če to služi odrešenju vaše duše. Če se tako iz Ljubezni do bližnjega odrekate, vam ne bo potrebno biti v stiski, ker vam Božja Ljubezen daje enako, če ste vi v stiski; in On resnično ne oskrbuje skromno, temveč On Svoje darove deli brezmejno.... v kolikor vi žrtvujete brez zaskrbljenega preračunavanja o tem, kar bi vam lahko primanjkovalo. Če vas Ljubezen spodbuja na dajanje, potem vi ne boste v pomanjkanju ali delili skromno, zaradi česar boste vi ravno tako oskrbljeni od Večne Ljubezni. Če vi niste v stanju (ob)čutiti Ljubezni, potem se morate naučiti biti dejavni v nesebični Ljubezni. Morate gledati okoli sebe, in kjer opazite stisko, intervenirati ter ponuditi podporo v pomaganju. Takšna je Božja volja, in vi morate to voljo narediti za lastno. Potem vas bo Ljubezen-ska dejavnost (aktivnost) do bližnjega osrečila v vsakem pogledu.... vi boste v sebi prižgali Ljubezen, da bo tako ona postala jasen plamen, ki zajema vse, kar se mu približa. Ljubezen je namreč Božanska; ona izhaja iz Boga in vodi nazaj k Bogu. In zaradi tega je Ljubezen do Boga in do bližnjega najbolj vzvišena zapoved, katera mora biti izpolnjena tako na Zemlji, kakor tudi v onostranstvu, da bi se združili (zedinili) z Večno Ljubeznijo in preko tega dosegli večno blaženost.

AMEN