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Purification of the soul through love....
It contributes a lot to your purification if you only keep reminding yourselves of the commandments of love for God and your neighbour and ask yourselves how far you comply with these commandments. For if you are honest with yourselves you will never be satisfied with yourselves and your way of life, because you could always be more eager in your activity of love and often miss an opportunity. But already the will to act right and already the fact to carry out this self-examination is an advantage for your soul, for every good will has a beneficial effect. And during such a serious examination you will also become aware of your weaknesses, which every person still has, even if his will is good, until he is so eagerly active in love that he is now filled by the strength of love which also gives the will the right strengthening. Just never believe that you no longer need to purify your soul; never believe that you have already reached the degree which secures your entry into the kingdom of light. You must strive and work on yourselves as long as you live on earth, and you will only do well if you often devote yourselves to such inner reflections and try to fathom your faults and weaknesses. And your will will also be strengthened to constantly carry out the work on your soul, because such introspections already testify to your serious will to become perfect. Every omission of a good deed will come to your mind during self-examination, every failure or disregard of the divine commandments of love will come to your mind, and then you should only ever firmly resolve to improve yourselves and use every opportunity to make up for what you have neglected, and it will only result in a blessing for you that you will always fulfil the commandments of love for God and your neighbour more easily, because you will receive strength if your will is serious. The human being should once consider his duties towards his neighbour if he wants to fulfil this very commandment.... He should always remind himself that he should help his neighbour in every adversity and distress, be it of an earthly or spiritual nature.... And therefore he should not close his eyes to his neighbour's adversity, he should always remember how helpful help would be to him in the same adversity and how gratefully he would accept it. And he should always consider what his fellow human being is in need of, be it spiritually or physically.... For he should also try to remedy spiritual hardship where possible, because this is a work of love with a special effect on his fellow human being's soul. For this reason the human being cannot go into himself often enough and think about everything God requires of him through His commandments of love, for these are always the guideline for a correctly lived earthly change, he can always keep to these commandments if he wants to live his earthly life correctly and according to God's will, always as a blessing for himself and his fellow human beings.... For God requires nothing else of the human being than that he change into love, He only requires that he fulfils His commandments in order to grant him a blissful life in light and strength and freedom, which, however, is inconceivable without love.... And all perfection of the soul solely depends on the transformation (of selfish love) into unselfish love, which then also guarantees love for God and establishes the union with Him, on which all beatitude in the spiritual kingdom depends....
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PREČIŠČENJE DUŠE PREKO LJUBEZNI....
To ima zelo velik doprinos k vašemu prečiščenju samo, če se vi vedno znova držite zapovedi Ljubezni do Boga in do bližnjega in se vprašate, v kolikšni meri sledite tem zapovedim. Če ste namreč iskreni do sebe, ne boste nikoli zadovoljni s samim seboj in s svojim načinom življenja, ker bi morali vi vneto delovati v Ljubezni in ker pogosto zamujate priložnosti. Toda že sama volja, da želite delati pravilno in že samo dejstvo, da izvajate to samopreverjanje, je za vašo dušo koristno, ker vsaka dobra volja prinaša učinek blagoslova. V takšnem iskrenem in resnem preverjanju si boste ozavestili tudi vaše slabosti, katere pa ima še vedno vsak človek celo takrat, ko je njegova volja dobra, vse dokler ni tako vnet v svojem delovanju v Ljubezni, da ga sedaj izpolnjuje Ljubezen-ska moč, katera tudi volji daje pravo okrepitev. Samo nikoli ne verjemite, da ste že dosegli stopnjo, katera vam omogoča vstop v kraljestvo svetlobe.... Vse dokler živite na Zemlji si morate prizadevati in delati na sebi; in če se pogosto predate takšnim notranjim opazovanjem, če poizkušate dognati vaše napake ter slabosti, bo to edino dobro delovalo na vas. Tako pa bo tudi vaša volja okrepljena za nenehno izvajanje dela na duši, ker vsako opazovanje že pričuje o vaši resni volji, da želite postati popolni. V času preverjanja si boste ozavestili vsako zamujeno dobro delo; spomnili se boste vsakega zanemarjanja ali nespoštovanja Božanskih zapovedi Ljubezni. Potem pa morate samo biti vedno odločni, da se popravite; in izkoristiti morate vsako priložnost, da to zamujeno tudi nadoknadite. To se bo pokazalo edino kot blagoslov za vas tako, da boste vse lažje izvajali zapovedi Ljubezni do Boga in do bližnjega, ker prejemate moč, če je vaša volja resna. Človek se enkrat mora soočiti z dolžnostmi do bližnjega, če želi izpolniti ravno to zapoved.... On se mora vedno držati tega, da mora pomagati bližnjemu v vsaki potrebi in težavi, naj bo to zemeljska (fizična) ali pa duhovna.... In ne bi smeli obračati vaših pogledov stran od njegove težave; vedno je potrebno misliti na to, da bi mu prav prišla pomoč v enaki težavi in kako hvaležno bi jo (s)prejel. In vedno je potrebno (po)misliti na to, kaj potrebuje bližnji, naj bo to duhovno ali pa telesno.... Torej ravno tako si je potrebno prizadevati odstraniti duhovno težavo tam, kjer je to mogoče, ker ima to Ljubeze-sko delo poseben učinek na dušo bližnjega. Zaradi tega se človek ne more nikoli dovolj pogosto poglabljati v sebe in premišljati o vsemu, kar Bog preko Svojih zapovedi Ljubezni zahteva od njega; one so namreč vodeča linija za pravilen način zemeljskega življenja. On se lahko vedno drži teh zapovedi, če želi pravilno in v skladu z Božjo voljo iti preko svojega zemeljskega življenja, vedno njemu samemu in njegovemu bližnjemu na blagoslov.... Bog od človeka namreč ne zahteva drugega razen tega, da se spremeni v Ljubezen; On zahteva samo to, da izpolnjuje njegove zapovedi, da bi mu podaril blagoslovljeno življenje v svetlobi, moči in svobodi, česar pa si torej »brez« Ljubezni ni mogoče zamisliti.... Toda vsakršno izpopolnjevanje duše je odvisno izključno od spremembe (sebične ljubezni) v nesebično Ljubezen, kar pa obenem tudi zagotavlja Ljubezen do Boga in vzpostavlja zedinjenje z Njim, od česar je odvisna celotna blaženost v duhovnem kraljestvu.
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