BD 3798 12.6.1946

Spiritual compulsion detrimental to the soul ....

Spiritual coercion may not be exerted on any human being if he is to become perfect on earth. And therefore the Word of God can only ever be brought to him, to which he then has to respond of his own free will. He should only know about the commandment of love, yet every other commandment impairs his free will and is therefore not a blessing for the soul's ascent development. If the human being deals with this divine commandment of love then his will will also start to become active as soon as he accepts this commandment. Then his thinking and acting is free, it corresponds to the direction of his will for or against God, and every action is now evaluated by God according to this will.

But if the slightest coercion is exerted, if the human being is induced by commandments to certain actions, they nevertheless remain without deeper value before God, as they are effects of those commandments but not of the human being's freest will. And this is a use of vitality without any blessing for the soul. You humans must distinguish between the spiritual being's original purpose and its completely powerless state at the time of its life on earth. .... And you must know that the latter was only the result of your own wrong will.

Understandably, the original state must again be striven for and attained in completely free will, which eliminates every law of necessity during the last stage as a human being. Now the human being can be shown the path through the commandment of love for God and his neighbour. And this commandment is also only to be given to him in the form of divine teaching, which is to be brought to him as God's Word and now demands his own freest opinion on it. He should by no means feel compelled to do so by punishment or promise of reward, only the effect of a life of love or a life of unkindness should be held up to him so that his own sense of responsibility towards his soul will be awakened.

But this does not mean compulsion for the human being's soul, for as long as he does not seriously turn his will towards God he also lacks faith in everything, in God, in a continuation of the soul and in responsibility after his death ..... And as long as any spiritual enlightenment means no compulsion of faith, no curtailing of free will .... Nevertheless, he can practise love of his own accord, and thereby he will enter the state of weak realisation and now also seriously take a stand on the Word of God .... and this out of completely free will.

Every spiritual compulsion must be eliminated (= d. Hg.), for it is only to the detriment of the person's soul. But the teaching of Christ should be spread diligently, and those who are of good will will accept it and arrange their lives accordingly. They will strive upwards and gain God's pleasure, because their will is freely inclined towards Him and this alone is valued ....

Amen

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