BD 4458 11.10.1948

Danger of flattening (cath.) ... Duty ....
Free will ....

There are untold numbers of people in danger of becoming spiritually shallow because they have adopted an erroneous view which makes serious reflection on the most important things seem unnecessary. What God demands of people is merely work on the soul and the fulfilment of the human being's duties for earthly life. But the work on the soul is the most important thing and can only be done from within, i.e. an attitude which corresponds to God's will must determine every thought, will and action, the human being, driven from within, must lead the way of life which pleases God. And this way of life is merely a life of unselfish loving activity towards his fellow human being. Then his soul will mature, then he will do the work on his soul which is the purpose and goal of his earthly life ....

But how many people understand by a God-pleasing way of life an outwardly recognisable attitude towards a certain denomination ....? How many people are of the mistaken opinion that God has made certain outward appearances obligatory for them, and they strive to fulfil them conscientiously without, however, furthering the maturity of their soul. Now they do not live in themselves contrary to God, but neither do they advance, they do not sin, but neither do they gather spiritual goods; they are not contrary to God, but neither are they attached to God; they do nothing bad, but neither do they do anything particularly good, they are not cold, but neither are they hot, and they therefore always remain on the same level, they do not ascend, but their path is level and therefore does not lead to the goal, which requires an ascent, otherwise it is never reached.

It is not only a few people who are in this danger, but a great number belong to those who cannot be taught because they are firmly convinced that they walk the right path and have the right knowledge. But these people lack one thing: the awareness of their own weakness and the resulting need to lean on the One to Whom they belong ..... This awareness would make them ask for advice and help, which God will not deny them, but which also consists in guiding them into right knowledge.

People who do not rightly recognise the divine will must first be rightly instructed, and thus realise their ignorance and seek to remedy it. This is a deeply humble admission of one's imperfection, which, however, is rarely made. Instead of humility, self-conceit is much more common, and this does not accept any teachings, but is convinced of the truth and the infallibility of one's own thinking. So the truth does not find its way in, because man thinks he is already in possession of the truth, which, however, would first have to be presented to him.

(12/10/1948) And thus countless people do not focus their attention on the transformation of their nature, as it should be, instead they are content with adhering to laws which appear to them to be the most important, because they are not properly instructed by those who, however, call themselves My representatives on earth. But what is important is how the individual person leads his daily life with regard to the spiritual life of the soul, i.e. how his conduct is in spiritual terms, whether it corresponds to God's will, i.e. whether it represents a fulfilment of His commandments of love.

The commandment of love, however, mainly extends to dealings with fellow human beings, with the neighbour, to whom the same degree of love should be given if the human being wants to fulfil the divine commandments. Activities that have nothing to do with love for one's neighbour, which in case of omission mean no harm for the other person, are therefore also completely meaningless for the increase of soul maturity, they then fall into the category of worldly activities, which serve some worldly purpose and therefore as purely worldly service cannot be evaluated for the degree of soul maturity.

Laws which have been added to the fundamental law of love for God and neighbour are likely to make this fundamental law appear less important and therefore a danger to the human soul, so that precisely the commandments of love cannot be preached insistently enough, on the fulfilment of which the soul's salvation and thus its whole life in eternity depends. And time and again it has to be pointed out to people that they use their will wrongly if they use it to carry out humanly decreed commandments and believe that they have now fulfilled their duty, whereas they do not work on the transformation of their nature and therefore remain at the stage of their spiritual development, thus they make no progress during their earthly life. Only loving activity is required, for this fulfils the commandment of love, which is the only one God has given to people so that they may become blessed ....

Amen

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