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LIJENOST.... KONTROLIRANA AKTIVNOST...

Kontrolirana aktivnost u sebi nosi blagoslov tako da čovjeka štiti od poroka lijenosti. To nikako nije beznačajno, jer za napredovanje duše lijenost je najveća opasnost. Na izvjestan način to je povratak u stanje pasivnosti, koje je stvorenje u svezanoj volji moralo podnositi u početnom stadiju svoga razvoja.... dakle zlorabljenje slobodne volje koja dopušta živu aktivnost. Aktivnost je život, ne-aktivnost smrt.... znači stvorenje, duša, stanju smrti daje prednost i istovremeno se stavlja u opasnost da potpadne najrazličitijim porocima. Jer čim je čovjek ne-aktivan, nameću se žudnje tijela, ono od života traži sve moguće zemaljske užitke i zadovoljstva. A to je od najveće štete za dušu.

S druge strane, stanje aktivnosti jedino je onda opasno za dušu kad je čovjek tako materjalističan da on putem svoje aktivnosti svoja zemaljska dobra želi umnažati. No i pored toga je aktivnost služenje.... Tako da čovjek nesvjesno ispunjava zadatak koji mu je dodijeljen za vrijeme na Zemlji. Jer čak i kad on tu aktivnost služenja ispunjava bez Ljubavi, i pored toga opet se materija u sebi mijenja, tj. duhovnom u njoj pomaže se služiti putem trajne preobrazbe, koju svaka aktivnost sa sobom donosi.... bilo to direktno ili indirektno putem naučavajuće aktivnosti.

I zato se protiv lijenosti treba najrevnije boriti i čovjeka poticati na marljivi rad, pošto na svakoj aktivnosti počiva blagoslov, dok god se ona ne izvodi na štetu bližnjega. Jer, istinska je Ljubav prema čovjeku sačuvati ga od duševnog nazadovanja. Teškoće zemaljskog života nisu ni približno za usporediti sa nedostatkom koji se duši rađa iz zemaljskog života u kojem iz prividne obzirnosti čovjek bude uskraćen zahtjeva za kontroliranom aktivnošću. Čovjek može sazrijevati jedino kroz potonje, pošto služenja nikada ne može biti pošteđen. No tko želi služiti, taj mora biti aktivan.... A lijenost isključuje služenje, međutim onaj čovjek koji vrši aktivnost služenja uvijek će i biti blagoslovljen....

AMEN

Idleness.... regulated activity....

Regulated activity is a blessing in that it protects people from the vices of idleness. This is by no means meaningless, for idleness is the greatest danger to the soul's higher development. It is, as it were, a return to the state of inactivity that the beingness had to endure in the bound will in the initial stage of its development.... thus an abuse of free will, which permits busy activity. Activity is life, inactivity death.... Thus the beingness, the soul, favours the state of death and at the same time puts itself in danger of falling into the most diverse vices. For as soon as a person is inactive, the desires of the body come to the fore; it wants to extract from life whatever earthly pleasures and joys are possible. And this is of the greatest harm to the soul. The state of activity, on the other hand, is only a danger to the soul if the human being is so materialistically minded that he wants to increase his earthly goods through his activity. Nevertheless, being active is serving.... And thus the human being unconsciously fulfils the task assigned to him for his time on earth. For although he carries out this serving activity without love, matter itself is nevertheless changed again, i.e. the spiritual in it is helped to serve through the constant transformation which every activity entails.... be it directly or indirectly through teaching activity. And that is why idleness should be fought most diligently and people should be encouraged to be industrious, because every activity is a blessing as long as it is not carried out to the detriment of fellow human beings. For this is true love for man, to protect him from spiritual decline. The hardships of earthly life are not even remotely comparable to the disadvantage that arises for the soul from an earthly life in which, out of apparent consideration, the demands that exist in regulated activity are kept from the human being. Man can only mature through the latter because he can never be spared serving. But he who wants to serve must be active.... But idleness excludes service; rather, man claims serving activity for himself, which is always a blessing only for the one who serves....

Amen