BD 4569 20.2.1949

Effectiveness of divine truth only after overcoming the world ....

For people, the world is the real, the spiritual the unreal, to which they pay no attention. In the world of appearances they see reality, and they are therefore accessible to everything that comes from the world or leads to it. The spiritual realm, however, is a dreamland for them, which touches them dimly from time to time, but is not taken seriously. And thus divine truth is only valuable and significant to the person who has already broken with the earthly world, who has recognised it as a world of appearances and no longer desires it. This is why so few people can be taught the truth, because the world still holds most of them captive and even the spiritually striving person is often plagued by doubts when he still turns to the world.

The divine truth can make infinitely happy if it seems to be the only good that is desirable to the human being; this is why it fills the human being's heart and no longer gives room to thoughts of the world. But before this state occurs in the human being, the intellect must assert itself, i.e., i.e., it must at the same time incline to the truth with the heart, confess it, and this can only occur when the earthly does not excessively claim the intellect, when it can turn to that for which the heart strives.

If the human being is in a completely closed area when he is occupied with spiritual things, then access to the world is closed, and the soul of the human being is happy, even if unconscious to the human being himself. Then divine strength can have an effect on the soul which, however, immediately diminishes when the world approaches him again and he pays attention to it. Therefore, whoever wants to connect with God must withdraw into his little chamber .... he must seek solitude or keep quiet contemplation within himself .... he must switch off the world, otherwise the spiritual kingdom cannot exert its effect on him.

But in the midst of the world he will not find what is good for his heart, which longs for God. It is true that man can also go into silence in the middle of the world, listen to himself, but then he is only physically in the world, but his soul withdraws into spiritual realms, then man himself is stronger than the earthly world, then he does not desire it, but puts the spiritual world before the earthly one, and then he will also succeed in rising into spiritual spheres at any time, even if his body is still bound to the earth.

Now, in order to be able to spread and represent the pure truth, this preceding must be taken into account. It is extremely difficult to introduce worldly people to divine truth because it seems so unreal to them and the worldly person in his sobriety rejects what is not tangible or visible to him. And it often takes a long time for the divine Word to become effective in such a person, until he mentally engages with it and thereby puts the world aside.

And it is difficult to preach about the end of the world, about the last judgement and the great spiritual hardship to people who are completely worldly minded and have little contact with the spiritual kingdom. The preacher will always appear to them as a fantasist, and he will not feel the effect of truth on himself until he ventures into spiritual realms himself and allows these spheres to have an effect on him. Then he will separate the spiritual and the earthly world, and only then will he be accessible to the pure truth from God and it will make his soul profoundly happy ....

Amen

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