"... poverty and need among people on this earth solely and entirely makes for lack of love among them ..." (GGJ IX 210, 4) "The great and the powerful are thieves and robbers of nations because of their desire for profit and their great need for power, and they will have to expect their just rewards from Me in due time." (GGJ IX 101, 6) "All the ills presently apparent in the world were not created by Me, but are the product of free will being misused by men. Being free they are able to do as they like, but they will also have to accept responsibility for the consequences." (Lord's Sermons 83) "Whoever is so heart-hearted as to be unable to meet his visible fellowman with love - how is he supposes in the obdurate blindness of his heart to love God, Whom he cannot, nor is willing to, see and perceive?! Behold, likewise one day no unrepentant sinner will be able to justify himself before Me, since everyone has been endowed by Me with the capability of recognizing the truth and the good in it, the heathen through the recognition of the visible things and conditions in the great realm of nature, and the Jew by way of special revelation. Therefore, I tell you again:if you ask Father in Me for something in My name, ask Him above all only for the imperishable treasures of the Kingdom of God, and you will obtain them and with them also whatever you require for the life on this earth." (GGJ IX 210:14-16) "I tell you: let the fire of your love for your family be like a light which is lit during the night; but let your love for the children of other poor parents be like a great conflagration, through which a large area is lit up far and wide!" (GGJ X 225:4)
[03] Therefore, nothing is more dangerous to man’s eternal life than the great treasures of this world. And what would it benefit man if he possessed the treasures of the whole world, but harmed his soul? Before he realises what is happening, his soul will be taken from him and thrown into great darkness where there is eternal weeping and gnashing of teeth. What use will all this treasures be to him then? [04] Let all of you, therefore, gather treasures of the spirit which cannot be destroyed by rust and moths, then you will have an abundance of everything eternally. [05] Behold, many a ship with its cargo, its masters and sailors lies buried at the bottom of the sea. What did they gain who hoped to make a great profit in the markets? A storm made an end to all their loose dealings, and their souls are buried in the deep, too. [06] You, however, have in your ship, which this night had to battle against a violent storm, nothing but a cargo of indestructible treasures for spirit and life from God, -and behold, the gale was unable with all its fierce force to hurl you down into the abyss. And I came to you on foot across the raging waves in order to show you actively that he who carries only heaven’s everlasting treasures within him, can easily rise above all the wild storms and waves of the bustle of life, can walk over them unharmed and finally is and remains a master over all the troubles of the world. [07] But if he loads his ship of life with the treasures of the world and falls prey to the storm above the waves of his worldly cares, ship and skipper will both perish. – Have all of you understood this properly?” (GGJ II, chap. 102) The true leader „He who is in complete order within himself is also a master over all worldly conflict and therefore able to endure in any political society, no matter of what nature. I Myself am also on this earth and adapt Myself as to My outer person to the order prescribed by the Roman emperor, never being in opposition to the same, not even seemingly. Do I thereby lose the order of My innermost divine nature? By no means! I am who I am, unchanged. And My counsel is also accepted by those bearing the ruler´s might in their hands. Believe Me, one who has truly become a master over his own self, can easily become a ruler over a whole nation. The people will appoint him themselves by rushing to him for advice. Of course, such an attitude requires also that indomitable courage that knows no fear of death. Yet how should he fear it who is clearly aware of eternal life within, well knowing that those that slay the body cannot harm the soul, but that the soul makes an inconceivable gain shedding the body. Therefore, do strive above all to become perfect masters over your own self, and you will also be masters over all the laws and all judgement and not subject to the curse of some foolish worldly law.” (GGJ V/133, 4 on) „As long as the nations are not controlled and guided by pure love and meekness, it will generally remain dark on the earth and selfishness, envy, avarice and persecution, as the true elements of hell, will not be abolished from the ground of the earth.” (GGJ) “Follow My advice, My warning. I do not call you a generation of vipers as John in his sermon of repentance did, but I call you My children whom I once created in My image and want to restore once more to this image. Originally the outer appearance corresponded to that of the spirit; today there still remains externally a faint likeness with the long vanished paradisaical beauty, but the soul, as the temple and seat of My divine spark, has become but a caricature. My order does not allow this discord to remain, and the inner man must once more be brought into harmony with the outer. Even if you are no longer able to change the outer shell on which passions have left their mark, do make at least every effort to shape the inner, spiritual man once more according to his archetype, for there does not exist a more beautiful, or a greater and more spiritual image in all of creation. It is that image as a copy of which every being has been created to a greater or lesser extent. And of this image you, as the highest expression of all material and spiritual creation, bear within you that form, that archetype, which not only wishes to be your Creator and Lord, but also your Father. He could lay down for you laws with inexorable severity through the power of His will and either reward you or punish you relentlessly and devastatingly but, instead of punishment, He has only forgiveness, mercy and love for you.“ (Sermon 4 – The Lord’s Sermons)
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