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POTICANJE NE-VJERNIKA NA DJELA LJUBAVI..

Ne-vjerniku se ne može usaditi duhovno znanje pošto on odbija sve što se ne može dokazati nego baš zahtjeva vjeru. No on može biti potaknut na djelovanje u Ljubavi, jer jedino putem Ljubavi može dospjeti do vjere. Srce ne-vjernika ne mora biti otvrdnuto, tako da će on kad mu je nevolja drugih ljudi predočena učiniti djela Ljubavi prema bližnjemu, ako je putem njemu naklonjenog čovjeka potaknut na to da doprinese ublaženju nevolju drugoga.... ako se apelira na njegovo suosjećanje, na njegovu spremnost za pomoći i njegovu materijalnu situaciju koja mu omogućuje da pomogne....

Najveća zasluga čovjeka koji i sam živi u Ljubavi, je potaći drugoga na akcije Ljubavi, jer iz toga onda može proizići vjera, koja je pak bez Ljubavi samo mrtva vjera, tako da ona nije puno vrednija i korisnija nego ne-vjera. Dokle god čovjek pored nevolje drugoga (samo) prolazi, može se smatrati ne-vjernikom, čak i ako sâm sebe naziva vjernikom. Tek kad se istakne čovjekova volja za davanjem, kad se on potrudi drugoga usrećiti ili nastoji od njega odagnati patnju.... kad želi pomoći.... on je i sposoban poslušati pruženo mu znanje i zauzeti stav u odnosu na to, i tek tada je dakle moguće da u njemu zaživi vjerovanje u (jedno) duhovno područje koje postoji izvan zemaljskog područja....

Stoga je uzaludno ne-vjernog čovjeka razumski željeti uvjeriti, njemu dakle htjeti naturati duhovno znanje i željeti ga nagovoriti da prihvati, jer čovjek bez Ljubavi za to nije sposoban. S druge strane, Božansko Učenje Ljubavi može mu biti predstavljeno te mu njegovi rezultati biti učinjeni vjerojatnima kad mu se primjerom pokaže takav jedan život u Ljubavi i kad se apelira na njegovo srce da sudjeluje u ublažavanju patnje drugih ljudi.... ako prvo bude potican na davanje iz svoga izobilja, sve dok onda sâm ne nađe zadovoljstvo u tome da čini dobro.... a tad je već zadobiven, tad će njegov otpor protiv duhovnog znanja biti sve manji, biti će uzdrman u svojoj ne-vjeri.... počinje razmišljati o svom životu i voljnije prihvaća ono što pretpostavlja vjeru.... naučiti će vjerovati, jer je tad putem Ljubavi za to postao sposoban....

AMEN

Stimulating an unbeliever to love work....

The unbeliever cannot be given spiritual knowledge because he rejects everything that cannot be proven but only demands faith. But he can be stimulated to work with love, because he can only attain faith on the path of love. An unbeliever's heart need not be hardened so that he will therefore very well perform works of neighbourly love if he is made aware of his fellow human being's adversity, if he is encouraged by a well-meaning fellow human being to contribute towards the alleviation of this adversity.... if an appeal is made to his compassion, to his willingness to help and his earthly situation which makes it possible for him to help.... It is the greatest merit of a person who lives in love himself to spur his fellow human being into loving activity, for this can then also result in faith which, without love, is nevertheless only a dead faith and thus not much more valuable than unbelief. As long as a person passes by his fellow human being's adversity he can also be regarded as unbelieving, even though he calls himself believing. Only when a person's will to give breaks through, when he seeks to make his fellow human being happy or to avert suffering from him.... when he wants to help.... he is also able to listen to knowledge offered to him and to take a stand on it, and only then is it possible to revive in him a belief in a spiritual kingdom which exists outside the earthly kingdom....

Therefore it is a futile labour of love to try to convince an unbelieving person intellectually, that is, to present spiritual knowledge to him and persuade him to accept it, because a person without love is not capable of doing so. On the other hand, the divine teaching of love can be presented to him and its effect made credible if such a life of love is exemplified to him and his heart is also appealed to to participate in alleviating his fellow human being's hardship.... if he is first encouraged to give away his abundance until he then finds happiness himself in doing good.... And then he is also already won, then his resistance to spiritual knowledge becomes less and less, he is shaken in his unbelief.... he begins to think about his life and more willingly accepts what requires faith.... he will learn to believe because he has now become capable of it through love....

Amen