BD 4859 15.3.1950

Teaching in compulsion ....
Love in free will .... (cath.!)

I don't want to give you a commandment, I only want to advise you what you should do for your soul. For even My teaching of love is not a commandment, because love has to be practised of your own free will if it is to bring you success. A work of love also requires love in the human being's heart; the work alone can be carried out purely mechanically and will then also be assessed accordingly. I never say to you: you must, but always: you should .... A constraint is a law whose non-fulfilment results in punishment.

But I will not punish you if you transgress the law of love, because this is indeed a law in itself, i.e. adapted to My eternal order, but I, as the Lawgiver Who is Love Itself, will not punish you since this contradicts My love. I can only warn you to live without love, thus I advise you to shape yourselves into love in order to be able to enjoy bliss, which you will never feel without love. What you obey as a commandment, however, will not bring you happiness .... Therefore, I am also an opponent of all coercion, since freedom is the right of the being which emerged from Me.

Although I also use coercion in the stage of the being before becoming human, yet this coercion emerges from love, which could not win you back otherwise, which cannot procure freedom for you otherwise than through coercion .... but unconsciously for you. But in the human stage you are aware of every state of compulsion. If your free will is curtailed, it contravenes My eternal order, since I have given you free will which you can and should use at your own discretion.

And now judge for yourselves who contravenes My eternal order .... by observing where compulsion determines people's way of life. I cannot approve of coercion as a means of spiritual education, for no human being will strive to ascend under coercion. Wherever coercion is used for spiritual development, you will be able to recognise anti-divine activity, and coercion is everywhere where a punishment is threatened or a reward is promised, for both are means of pressure which are intended to determine a person's way of life.

And coercion is everywhere where organisations are formed which seek to bind their members by means of measures, thus making them unfree in their thoughts and actions .... (17.3.1950) Coercion also exists where people are not tolerated to acquire knowledge elsewhere, i.e. where they freely investigate on their own initiative and seek to arrive at the truth. Every lack of freedom of the human will is not in accordance with My will, for what the human being will one day have to answer for also presupposes his freedom of will. Wherever people are obliged to live their way of life, through commandments or threats of any kind, it is not My will which is represented but the will of the one who is My adversary and thus your enemy, even though My name is spoken.

For countless misguided teachings and countless offences against My will arise from the impersonation of the will. A person's will must never be considered so infallibly right that thousands of people blindly follow it and don't use their will themselves or are forced to think and act against their will. Even My pure teaching given to you from above must not be forcibly conveyed to people, but they should freely decide for or against it of their own accord, but how much less a teaching which is no longer as unformed as I Myself preached it on earth.

Always the duty and also the right must be granted to people to examine and judge spiritual knowledge conveyed to them by fellow human beings. And if the pure teaching is preached it should be done with love, and inner conviction will then let the teacher find the right words to win over his fellow human beings, yet all coercion should be refrained from. The person who is willing to believe and looks for Me also recognises Me and can believe with conviction; then he will also practise love of his own accord, yet no longer out of duty but out of love for Me, in Whom he believes .... Compulsion kills love, and every work of love is then only a mechanical exercise which cannot be valued by Me.

You shall love .... because every ascent makes love a condition; yet you will not be compelled, nor can you be compelled, because then love would not be love .... Consider this well, and then realise what an error the spreading of My doctrine of love is by way of denominational regulations .... Everything the human being does to attain eternal life presupposes freedom of will, thus no commandment may be given to him, the fulfilment of which is enforced by promise of reward or threat of punishment .... He shall only be instructed about My commandment of love, which alone is significant and on the fulfilment of which eternal life depends ....

Amen

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