BD 4466 21.10.1948

Influence of matter on man ....

The directed matter exerts great influence on the human being insofar as the spiritual substance bound in it urges him to unite with it, which therefore has the effect of the human being's desire for its possession. The spiritual substance bound in matter pushes itself into the human being's love .... it seeks to make itself indispensable to him, it strives for unification with the human being because it thereby feels stronger in its resistance against God. For it also senses the resistance the human being still has against God, or it pushes towards people who still resist God in their immaturity. And these people are also easily influenced. They themselves have a great desire for matter, and thus like-minded things come together which are only on different levels of development.

But the human being is in danger of sinking from his already higher level of development if he chains himself to matter, which is why he cannot be warned enough to strive for matter and is constantly admonished to overcome it. The spiritual in matter can indeed also be willing to serve and help the human being in his ascent development, just as conversely the human being can help the spiritual bound in matter to ascend. But then we are dealing with objects of use which do not kindle man's greed for possession, i.e. which do not awaken the perverse love in man for material possessions.

As soon as matter is of service to the human being, the opposition to God is also already broken; but matter which does not fulfil a serving purpose will often awaken an increased desire in the human being to possess it, and it is this matter which is considered a danger to the human being's soul, for the influence of it on the soul is great and can have such an effect that the soul itself sinks to the stage where it is embodied in matter again. Then the bound spiritual has achieved what it wanted .... it has drawn the free spiritual down to itself and, as it were, strengthened its own power .... man has fallen prey to the influence of God's adversary, who has influenced his will to use it in the wrong direction, who constantly presents dead matter to him in order to persuade him to revert, because thereby he increases his kingdom, his power and violence and it stimulates the God-hostile beings to constant resistance.

What turns towards God is lost to him, and this he tries to undermine by all means. Matter itself, i.e. the spiritual bound in it, is still in bondage to him in its immaturity, although God's opponent cannot have a determining effect on the spiritual. But since the spiritual itself has not given up its resistance to God, it also pushes towards people who are in the same resistance, who are pointed to matter by God's adversary, to whom he presents matter as a lure of the world. The human being can evade this influence or resist it through his will, but he often uses the freedom of his will in a wrong way and gives in to the urge of the enemy of his soul. ....

This is why the fight against matter is the actual battle the human being should wage in earthly life, for once he has overcome it his ascent is also assured, because then there will be nothing to hold him back on earth and then his soul can soar into spiritual spheres, because then it will no longer be hindered by anything in its flight upwards and thus there will no longer be any danger, and at the same time the human being then helps the spiritual in matter to ascend, which he uses, and thereby helps it to serve, whereby the spiritual in matter can redeem itself from every form, until it has finally also reached the last stage and can serve as a human being in free will ....

Amen

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