Everything remains hidden from the spiritually blind, he lacks all realization, he is unable to take a look into the kingdom of the spirit, for he has closed his eyes and no ray of light is able to penetrate them; he walks in constant darkness.... and no matter how vividly he may move in the earthly world, no matter how earthly success he may have.... this does not change the blind state his soul is in, a state devoid of all light and therefore also devoid of all strength to leave the darkness. But the spiritually blind person himself keeps his eyes closed to the light. Therefore he cannot be pitied as a victim of his fate, as a being inadequately considered by God, who is deprived of every realization, every ray of light. He, too, is illuminated by the divine light of love and only needed to open himself, he only needed to expose himself to this radiation of light without resistance, then he would also open his eyes in order to see from where he receives the benefit of the rays of light.... i.e., the divine radiation.... the word of God.... will also be supplied to him, and if he only receives it.... and if he merely listened to it it would also have a beneficial effect on him, and the desire would awaken in him to hear ever more, his spirit's eye would open and the light would now shine in and illuminate everything that had been dark in him until now. But the spiritually blind person still resists God.... And therefore it is his own fault that he is unable to see, that he always walks in the night, that the light of the morning cannot make him happy. The spiritually blind person has a strong will which is directed against everything that signifies light.... And he rarely gives up this will. For mostly these blind in spirit feel exceedingly comfortable in the earthly world and are devoted to it with all their senses, thus their will is fully turned towards God's adversary and he keeps them bound.... he deceives them with so much light that they don't feel their spiritual blindness, that they only chase after these blinding lights more and more and don't realize what illusion and deception they have fallen prey to.... But their spiritual darkness also prevents them from recognizing what is offered to them as deceptive light by God's adversary. And this also strengthens their resistance against every radiation of light which touches them from above.... They can become seeing, they can receive much divine light as soon as they open themselves, as soon as they are willing to give up their resistance.... as soon as they desire to become seeing, which is still possible as long as they live on earth. For even the spiritually blind can grow weary of the world with its pleasures, if he has enjoyed them abundantly.... He too can recognize the worthlessness and impermanence of earthly goods and no longer be satisfied with them.... The desire for knowledge about hidden things can also awaken in him, and then it is still possible that his eyes will be opened, that he will turn to where he believes to discover rays of light, and then he can also come to realization, which will-o'-the-wisps he has been chasing until now, and then it is still not too late to turn to the one Whom he has recognized as the eternal light and to appeal to Him for His grace that He may also open his eyes and grant him the light which will henceforth illuminate his path.... And his request will be heard....
Amen
TranslatorDuhovno slepemu ostaja vse skrito, manjka mu vsakršno spoznanje, ne more pogledati v kraljestvo duha, saj je zaprl oči in noben žarek svetlobe ne more prodreti vanje; hodi v stalni temi.... in ne glede na to, kako živahno se giblje v zemeljskem svetu, ne glede na to, kakšen zemeljski uspeh ima...., to slepemu ne spremeni stanja, v katerem je njegova duša, stanja brez vsake svetlobe in zato tudi brez vsake moči za izhod iz teme.
Toda duhovno slepa oseba drži oči zaprte pred svetlobo. Zato ga ni mogoče pomilovati kot žrtev njegove usode, kot bitje, ki ga Bog neustrezno upošteva, in ki je prikrajšan za vsako spoznanje, za vsak žarek svetlobe. Tudi on je osvetljen z božansko svetlobo ljubezni in mora se le odpreti, le brez odpora se mora izpostaviti temu svetlobnemu sevanju, potem bo odprl tudi oči, da bo videl, od kod prejema koristi svetlobnih žarkov.... to je božansko sevanje.... Božja beseda...., bila bi mu tudi posredovana, če bi jo le sprejel..... in če bi jo le poslušal, bi blagodejno vplivala nanj in v njem bi se prebudila želja, da bi slišal še in še več, odprlo bi se oko njegovega duha in takrat bi zasvetila luč in razsvetlila vse, kar je bilo v njem temno in je bilo tako daleč.
Toda duhovno slepi človek se še vedno upira Bogu.... In zato je sam kriv, da ne more videti, da vedno hodi v temi, da ga jutranja svetloba ne more osrečiti. Duhovno slepa oseba ima močno voljo, ki je usmerjena proti vsemu, kar predstavlja svetlobo.... In tej volji se le redko odpove. Kajti večina teh slepih se v zemeljskem svetu počuti zelo dobro in mu je predana z vsemi čuti, zato je njihova volja popolnoma obrnjena k Božjemu sovražniku in ta jih drži privezane.... zavaja jih s tolikšno količino svetlobe, da ne čutijo svoje duhovne slepote, da se le vedno bolj ženejo za temi bleščečimi lučmi in se ne zavedajo kakšni iluziji in prevaram so postali žrtve.... Vendar jim njihova duhovna tema tudi preprečuje, da bi prepoznali, kaj jim Božji nasprotnik ponuja kot zavajajočo svetlobo.
In to tudi krepi njihov odpor proti vsakemu žarku svetlobe, ki se jih dotakne od zgoraj.... Lahko prejmejo veliko božanske svetlobe, takoj ko se odprejo, takoj ko so pripravljeni opustiti svoj odpor.... takoj, ko si želijo videti, kar je še možno, dokler živijo na Zemlji. Kajti tudi duhovno slepi se lahko naveliča sveta in njegovih užitkov, če jih je obilno užival.... Tudi on lahko spozna ničvrednost in minljivost zemeljskih dobrin in z njimi ni več zadovoljen....
V njem se lahko prebudi tudi želja po spoznanju o skritih stvareh, in takrat je še vedno mogoče, da se mu bodo odprle oči, da se bo obrnil tja, kjer verjame, da bo odkril žarke svetlobe, in takrat lahko pride tudi do spoznanja, in takrat še vedno ni prepozno, da se obrne na tistega, ki ga je prepoznal kot večno Luč in ga prosi za milost, da bi tudi njemu odprl oči in mu podelil luč, ki mu bo v prihodnosti razsvetljevala pot.... In njegova prošnja bo uslišana....
Amen
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