Teško je prosvijetliti ljude sve dok su oni uvjereni kako poznaju Istinu. Potpuno neobaviještena osoba će rado prihvatiti znanje koje mu je ponuđeno, i ako se pokaže da ga ono prosvjetljuje ono će ga usrećiti. Teško je uvjeriti nekoga da on razmišlja neispravno ako vjeruje za sebe kako već zna Istinu, a čak je još teže njemu prenijeti drugačiju duhovnu informaciju, budući se on drži prijašnjeg i jedino je prijemčiv za drugo znanje kada počinje dvojbiti. I stoga, vi uvijek možete prepoznati među vašim bližnjim ljudskim bićima one koji su potpuno bez vjere i žive čisto zemaljski život, i one koji smatraju sebe religioznima, koji čak gorljivo podupiru njihovu vjeru a ipak brane nešto što je daleko od Istine.
Prijašnji su u većini i, zbog njihove totalne nevjere, u groznoj nedaći jer ne traže kontakt sa svijetom koji je njihov dom baš kao i njihov cilj, dok će vjernici sebe i dalje zaokupiti sa duhovnim predmetima unatoč pogrešnim učenjima i obmanjujućim gledištima koja jedino trebaju biti ispravljena, i njima će često biti ponuđena prilika za ovo na Zemlji baš kao i u onostranom, ipak smjer njihovih misli je uvijek određen njihovom slobodnom voljom. Ali kompletnim nevjernicima bi trebala biti ponuđena duhovna informacija, oni bi trebali biti motivirani o njoj razmišljati, stvarnost duhovnog svijeta bi im najprije trebala biti učinjena mogućom, i oni također mogu biti pridobijeni ako im je duhovno znanje predstavljeno inteligentno.
Što je više osoba sebe udaljila od crkvenog vjerovanja, to je teže uvesti ga u crkvene doktrine, čak ako se one i podudaraju sa Istinom.... Ipak na neki način se svakoj osobi treba pristupiti, jedino što je potrebno opsežno znanje za pridobiti takve ljude, koje na kraju ipak vodi tamo gdje Bog može biti pronađen.... Ovi ljudi moraju naučiti vjerovati putem promišljanja, i onda će oni postići vrloduboku, živu vjeru ako ozbiljno žele Istinu. Jer njihovo vjerovanje ne treba uvijek prikazati njihovu kompletnu udaljenost od Boga.... Oni su možda bili gurnuti u nevjerovanje naračun obmanutih učenja koje je njihov razum odbio prihvatiti i što je rezultiralo u njihovom odbacivanju svega.... I ovim ljudima treba biti pomognuto iznova putem njihova razuma da prepoznaju Istinu, onda će oni sami postati uvjereni podržavatelji Istine i ostati čvrsti u njihovom uvjerenju....
Srce i razum moraju biti sposobni prihvatiti duhovne koncepte, jer Istina, koja potječe od Boga, može također izdržati svo razumsko pomno ispitivanje i ne zahtijeva slijepu vjeru.... dok obmanjujući duhovni koncepti, obmanjujuće religijske doktrine, neće izdržati ozbiljno ispitivanje od strane razuma i prema tome je slijepa vjera zahtijevana za ova učenja, što nikada nije Božja volja.... Puno je lakše za skeptika pristići do Istine nego za one ljude koji ne žele Istinu budući da oni vjeruju kako je već posjeduju.... koji ne koriste njihov razum nego prihvaćaju sve ne istražujući porijeklo toga.
AMEN
TranslatorIt is difficult to enlighten people as long as they are convinced that they know the truth. A completely uninformed person will gladly accept knowledge offered to him, and if it appears to enlighten him it will make him happy. It is difficult to convince someone that he is thinking incorrectly if he believes himself already to know the truth, and it is even more difficult to convey different spiritual information to him, because he holds on to the former and is only receptive for other knowledge when he begins to doubt. And thus, you can always identify amongst you fellow human beings those who are completely without faith and live a purely earthly life, and those who deem themselves religious, who even eagerly support their faith and yet are defending something that is far from the truth.
The former are in the majority and, due to their total unbelief, in dire straights because they don’t look for contact with the world which is their home as well as their goal, whereas the believers still occupy themselves with spiritual issues despite wrong teachings and misguided views which only need to be rectified, and they will often be offered the opportunity for this on earth as well as in the beyond, yet the direction of their thoughts is always determined by their free will. But complete unbelievers should be offered spiritual information, they should be motivated to reflect on it, the reality of the spiritual world should first be made plausible to them, and they can also be won over if the spiritual knowledge is presented to them intelligently.
The more a person has distanced himself from ecclesiastical belief, the more difficult it is to introduce him to church doctrines, even if they correspond to the truth.... Yet somehow every person can be approached, it just requires extensive knowledge to win such people, which in the end nevertheless leads to where God can be found .... These people must learn to believe by way of deliberation, and then they will attain a profound, living faith if they seriously want the truth. For their unbelief need not always demonstrate their complete remoteness from God.... They might have been pushed into unbelief on account of misguided teachings which their intellect refused to accept and which resulted in their rejection of everything.... And these people must be helped again by their intellect to recognise the truth, then they will become convinced supporters of the truth themselves and remain firm in their conviction....
Heart and intellect must be able to accept spiritual concepts, for the truth, which originates from God, can also stand up to all intellectual scrutiny and does not just demand blind faith.... whereas misguided spiritual concepts, misguided religious doctrines, will not withstand a serious examination by the intellect and therefore blind faith is demanded for these teachings, which is never God’s will.... It is much easier for the sceptic to arrive at the truth than for those people who don’t want the truth because they believe they already possess it.... who do not use their intellect but accept everything without investigating its origin....
Amen
Translator