BD 3502 30.7.1945

Faith Merit Act of Free Will ....
No Gift ....
Searching the Mind ....

The deepest darkness must give way to the bright light if the soul has a desire for it, on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom, for the desire for it is always decisive as to how the soul is considered. And thus the human being on earth will also create the degree of light for himself which corresponds to his desire. And indeed, he will be able to mentally accept truth or error but only recognise both for what they are when he strives for truth. But to recognise truth as truth, error as error, means to be fully convinced that he thinks right or wrong. And yet he will have no evidence of it valid for the world, but he will believe it ....

So faith is acquired by his own merit, because he had the will to stand in the truth, to know the truth as such. And thus can man believe if he will .... and it is not a gift, a grace, to be able to believe, because faith always presupposes the will, the desire for truth. This applies to faith which has the right value before God, which God demands of people .... faith in Him as a supremely perfect Being full of love, power and wisdom.

Only this faith is demanded by God because it is a prerequisite for a way of life on earth which corresponds to divine will and because it entails everything else the soul needs for its ascent development. For anyone who calls this faith his own will always and constantly consult the eternal Deity, he will mentally unite himself with it and consciously strive for the most perfect being .... he will, in the realisation of his own inadequacy, request advice and help from God, he will gratefully accept the blessings offered to him with love and thus fulfil his purpose of earthly life.

But every human being can acquire a convinced faith in God as an exceedingly loving, wise and omnipotent Being if he begins to think about his purpose of earthly life completely uninfluenced, always with the will to recognise what is right. He need only pay attention to everything that happens around him and follow his own fate in life; then he will always be able to recognise God's love, if he does not use earthly well-being as a standard. Creation will continue to prove God's wisdom and omnipotence to him, always provided that he seeks the truth, that he desires enlightenment not only with his intellect but with his heart, i.e. that he does not try to fathom the truth scholastically but that it is his heart's innermost urge to fathom his purpose of earthly life ....

because intellectual thinking does not guarantee the pure truth, because God .... the truth Himself .... keeps Himself hidden from those who are not driven by the innermost desire for Him .... For this reason the simple-minded person will also be able to believe more easily than many a person with a keen intellect, because the latter ponders and investigates where a heartfelt questioning thought of the eternal Creator is appropriate in order to receive truthful enlightenment. The former seeks to reach the goal alone, but the latter consciously or unconsciously turns to God for enlightenment and will understandably be rightly successful.

To be able to believe is not reserved for any human being, and even the keenly thinking intellectual man is able to believe childishly as soon as he does not submit spiritual questions to his intellect for an answer, because they can only be answered by the heart. And even the greatest scientist can face the Father of eternity like a child, if he allows himself to be impressed by the wonders of creation, which his intellect alone cannot fathom, but which find their explanation in deep faith in an omnipotent, wise and loving Deity.

Whoever is unable to believe exalts himself, for the humility of the heart allows him to find deep faith; but arrogance is an obstacle that does not allow faith to arise. But whether the human being is humble or arrogant depends solely on his will, which can bend or remain in opposition to the Being Which created him and thus also wants to be acknowledged by him. And thus faith is also an act of free will, it will never be conveyed to a person as a gift of grace but he has to acquire it himself, which he is also enabled to do by God if he uses the gift of intellect in the right way, if he desires the truth and unresistingly surrenders himself to the thoughts which come to him, as soon as he sincerely desires light ....

Amen

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