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ZNAČAJ LJUBAVNOG ŽIVOTA....

Božje opomene će uvijek isticati način života u Ljubavi.... Sam značaj Ljubavnog života slabo je poznat vama ljudima, a ipak je Ljubavni život jedini čimbenik koji vam osigurava blaženstvo, vječni život. Ljudi ne razmišljaju o tome, i sve ostalo razmatraju više nego njihov osobni stav prema najvažnijem u zemaljskom životu, prema Ljubavi.... Iz dana u dan oni vrše svoje zemaljske obaveze, ali sve rade više svojim razumom nego srcem.... Oni važu sve prednosti i mane, nastoje djelovati probitačno (unosno), te stvarati i obavljati zemaljski posao po dužnosti, no oni ne vode računa o tome, koliko pri tome sudjeluje srce, koliko je Ljubav odlučujuća u njihovom djelovanju. A ipak, beskorisno je svako djelo učinjeno bez Ljubavi.... Čak i svakodnevni poslovi moraju pokazati jedan stupanj Ljubavi, ljudima za koje su učinjeni. No, ovoga je tek malo ljudi svjesno, i odatle za mnoge može cijeli život biti hod uprazno, ako se nije odvila polagana promjena ljudskog bića.... promjena iz samoljublja u Ljubav prema bližnjemu, ili također: povratak u nekadašnje biće, koje je bilo Ljubav. Svaka aktivnost se skoro uvijek obavlja samo zbog određene koristi, međutim nesebično Ljubavno djelovanje je rijetko, a jedino posljednje je od vrijednosti za dušu čovjeka. Ljudi bi trebali jednom povesti računa o tome što su u danu učinili u potpuno nesebičnoj Ljubavi. To će biti vrlo malo, jer još uvijek presnažno dominira sebična Ljubav, inače na Zemlji ne bi moglo biti takvo stanje, kakvo je međutim neosporno. Ljudi bi također trebali voditi računa, u kojoj su mjeri oni sami još u stanju ljubiti, odnosno, u kojoj mjeri su oni dotaknuti sudbinom bližnjega i voljni mu pomoći. Svaki čovjek misli jedino na svoju vlastitu sudbinu i nastoji ju poboljšati prema mogućnosti, no nitko ne misli na svojega bližnjega koji živi u bijedi. I tako nijedan čovjek ne može biti zadovoljan samim sobom, ako je on jedino ispunio svoju dužnost. Njegovo duhovno stanje ostaje uvijek na istoj razini, jer ga jedino čin Ljubavi može poboljšati, jedino Ljubavno djelovanje donosi njegovoj duši duhovnu zrelost. Stoga, što vama ljudima koristi, ako i osigurate sve pogodnosti (lagodnosti) života, ako vi po dužnosti činite sve kako bi postigli tako luksuzan život, što vam koristi sav trud i napori u zemaljskom životu, ako su bili učinjeni bez Ljubavi, te na kraju vašeg života niste ni koraka napredovali u vašem razvoju, ako ste vi brinuli samo za vaše ovozemaljsko dobro... Duša se može iscijeliti i sazrjeti jedino kroz djela Ljubavi, i duša je jedina koja će opstati kada vi završite svoj zemaljski put. Duša može doći u svoj izvorni lik jedino kroz Ljubavno djelovanje, a upravo Ljubavno djelovanje vi zanemarujete na najgrublji način, vi radije dodajete još bešćutnih (bezosjećajnih, ne-Ljubavnih) djela, i otuda izuzetno otežavate dušu... I vi kroz to činite sasvim beskorisnim vaš zemaljski život, ne živite primjereno cilju, i jednom ćete osjetiti gorko žaljenje, što ste ostavili neiskorišten dar milosti, i kroz to odbacili veličanstvenu sudbinu u vječnosti. Ali, vi ljudi ste također nedostupni za poduke o važnosti Ljubavnog života. Vi ste već tako duboko potonuli kroz vašu sebičnu ljubav, da je vaš duh zatamnjen, i vi više ne prepoznajete svjetlo koje sija prema vama, kada vam je Božansko učenje Ljubavi dovedeno u blizinu. Ljubav se ohladila među ljudima, a to također znači beskorisnost zemaljskog života za duše, pogrešno procijenjenu svrhu zemaljskog života i zamračenje duhovnog stanja ljudi.... I samo onaj tko sam njeguje Ljubavni život, također prepoznaje propast koja prijeti čovječanstvu koje živi bez Ljubavi.... Jedino on zna da onda i princ tame ima vlast nad bezdušnim čovječanstvom, koje mu je podložno i nalazi se u njegovoj vlasti, od koje se može osloboditi jedino kada primijeni oružje Ljubavi protiv njega, jer tko je u sebi zapalio Ljubav,on će od protivnika biti izbjegavan, budući je u njegovoj blizini Sam Bog, Koji je vječna Ljubav i od Kojeg bježi onaj koji je lišen svake Ljubavi.

AMEN

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Translated by: Lorens Novosel

Meaning of a love life....

God's admonitions will only ever result in a life of love.... Precisely the importance of a life of love is little known to you humans, and yet a life of love is the sole factor which secures your beatitude, an eternal life. And people don't think of that, and they pay more attention to everything else than their own attitude towards the most important thing in earthly life, love.... They go about their earthly duties day in and day out but they do everything more with their intellect than with their heart.... They consider all pros and cons, they try to work and create advantageously and to carry out earthly work dutifully, but they don't account for the extent to which the heart is involved, to what extent love is the determining factor in their actions. And yet, every work done without love is useless.... And even the daily work must show a degree of love for the people for whom it is done. Yet only few people are aware of this, and therefore for many their whole life can be an idle one if a slow transformation of the human being has not taken place.... a transformation from self-love to neighbourly love, or also: a reshaping to the former being, which was love. For the most part, every deed is only done for the sake of a certain advantage, but selfless activity of love is rare, and only the latter is of value for the human being's soul. And people should once give an account of what they have done during the day in complete selfless love.... It will be extremely little, for selfish love is still too predominant or such a state could not exist on earth as it undeniably does. People should also give account to themselves as to what extent they themselves are still capable of love, i.e. how they are touched by their fellow human being's fate and willing to help him. Every person only thinks of his own fate and tries to improve it if possible, but no one thinks of his fellow human being who is in need. And thus no human being may be self-satisfied if he only fulfils his duty. His spiritual state will always remain on the same level, for only an act of love will improve it, only loving activity will bring spiritual maturity to his soul. Therefore, what use is it to you humans if you also provide yourselves with all the comforts of life, if you dutifully do everything in order to gain such a life of well-being, what use are all your efforts and endeavours in earthly life if they were made without love and you have not progressed one step further in your development at the end of your life if you have only taken care of your earthly well-being? The soul could only recover and mature through works of love, and it is the soul alone which will remain when you have completed your earthly course. The soul can only attain its original form through loving activity, and it is precisely this loving activity which you grossly neglect, you rather add unloving works to it and therefore burden the soul extraordinarily.... And thereby you render your earthly life completely useless, you don't live according to purpose and will one day feel bitter remorse that you left a gift of grace unused and thereby missed out on a glorious fate in eternity. But you humans are also inaccessible to teachings about the meaning of a life of love.... You have already sunk so low through your selfish love that your spirit is darkened and you no longer recognize the light which shines towards you when the divine teaching of love is brought to you. Love has grown cold amongst people, and this also means that earthly life is useless for the souls, that the purpose of earthly life is misunderstood and that people's spiritual state has become darkened. And only the one who makes an effort to live a life of love himself also recognizes the disaster which threatens humanity, which lives without any love.... Only he knows that the prince of darkness then also has power over an unloving humanity, that it is in bondage to him and is in his power from which it can only free itself if it uses the weapon of love against him, for he who kindles love in himself will be avoided by the adversary because in his vicinity is God Himself, Who is eternal love and Whom he flees who is devoid of all love....

Amen

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Translated by: Doris Boekers