Primordial beginning - goal .... recognize - faith – humility ....

B.D. No. 1938 June 4th 1941

What was primordial is still and will remain for eternity .... And what remains is divine, what is has distanced itself far from the divine, and what was can only have been divine again. But the human being, who does not grasp this wisdom, has no connection with the primordial, nor does he know about the final goal of everything spiritual, yet he is in the midst of the present, which is distant from God and yet does not want to recognize Him either. And therefore he must be led to recognize, he must learn to believe what cannot be proven to him. He must form an image for himself which will now more or less correspond to the truth. That there is a God Who created and maintains everything is the first thing he has to believe, and this is also partly proven to him by the fact that he sees creation and its development and also knows that humanity is uninvolved in its emergence and existence. Consequently, believing in it will not be so difficult .... It will be impossible for him to form an exact picture of the nature of the deity until he has unconsciously recognized God as a being Which is powerful and wise by fulfilling His commandments .... For only that person will fulfil a commandment who affirms the lawgiver and grants Him the right to give laws, who therefore submits to Him .... Now he stands in the grace of God, which means that he now has the power from above to penetrate deeper into the essence of the deity. By submitting he has broken the spell, he has given freedom to the spirit within him, for he has become humble, and he who lives in humility also lives in love .... The spirit of arrogance is also the spirit of unkindness, but only he whose heart can feel love will be humble. And love brings him closer to God, and so recognizing will always be easier .... But now the human being also knows his outcome, for he knows that he is a creature of God. And at the same time he also realizes his goal, he strives to return to God in order to no longer separate himself from Him in eternity .... But the human race of the present is devoid of all love and humility. In self-conceit, they consider themselves superior and above childlike faith in a God. And since they lack the simplest faith it is not possible to guide people towards realization, and thus they will never know their final goal and consequently also not their task. And earthly life no longer corresponds to the actual purpose, thus God will take it away from people who oppose Him and in their hearts reject the eternal deity .... (interruption)