BD 5167 8.7.1951

Recognizing the truth and utilizing it with love ....

It is not a person's knowledge which constitutes his bliss but the utilization of knowledge, because love is necessary for this and love alone has a blissful effect. And so a person can certainly possess knowledge without living in love. But then it is only pure intellectual knowledge, gained through study, through eager thinking about problems, which certainly reach into spiritual territory but can only be called spiritual knowledge when the human being has been taught about it by the spirit within himself through a life of love.

Having absorbed extensive knowledge does not guarantee possession of it, for what has been gained through intellectual activity is just as transient as any earthly knowledge, even if it is spiritual in content. It is dead knowledge that has no vitalizing effect on earth and is completely lost in the beyond. Only love awakens the letter to life, only love gives understanding for spiritual knowledge and only love makes this knowledge happy .... Love, however, constantly gives away what it makes happy itself in order to also make its fellow human being happy. Knowledge, however, will only make you happy again if it is received with a loving heart ....

From this you humans can see that only love ever determines people's degree of knowledge, for although a loving person still lacks knowledge he will immediately understand it if it is presented to him. Love recognizes the truth and love also utilizes it .... Anyone who has the right truth cannot help but pass it on because he is driven by love but must also be in love in order to have recognized it as truth. Nevertheless, a person can also advocate knowledge which does not correspond to the truth, but then he should give himself an unsparing answer to the question: To what degree am I willing to love .... And this answer is also the measure of the truth of what he advocates.

A loving person is full of eagerness to serve God because he has recognized Him as Father and Creator from eternity, as the most perfect Being by Whom he knows himself to be loved. And therefore he will serve Him with all his heart and soul, even if it is not outwardly recognizable. However, he will not fail to point his fellow human beings to Him and try to persuade them to believe in Him .... For he who believes himself also wants to persuade his fellow human beings to give themselves to the Father as children. And therefore he will always pass on to his fellow human being what he knows himself. This knowledge is complete truth and increases with increasing loving activity. Intellectual knowledge, on the other hand, is passed on professionally and this is mostly connected with earthly interests.

Love gives without demanding payment, but anyone who demands this is not in love but only in a profession .... He makes use of his intellectual knowledge and only puts love in second place. And this knowledge will not bring much blessing, it only stimulates intellectual activity again, but the heart remains untouched and does not get to know the bliss oFuereceiving the truth. For knowledge can be the truth, but without love it is not recognized as such. Therefore, first cultivate love, and whatever knowledge is then offered to you, share it out again in love .... Only then will your knowledge increase and remain your spiritual property, which is everlasting and will enable you to be happily active in the kingdom of the beyond and again prepare you for happiness.

Amen

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