BD.5744
August 11, 1953

TO ATHIESTS

Now I want to speak to those who cannot yet decide aright, who nonetheless are not willing to believe, but cannot acknowledge Me with conviction either. To those who still oppose with their intellectual knowledge the knowledge with which My representatives wish to acquaint them, to those who would have everything proven to them and who believe themselves capable of fathoming or refuting all with sharp intellectual thinking. But their knowledge kills the spirit - since that which is described as higher Truth - which cannot be proven, therefore, in a worldly sense, because there must be no religious coercion in earth-life - cannot be fathomed scientifically, and hence the sharpest human intellect is no guarantee for right thinking in the spiritual domain.

I want to address a question to you men - into which category of the works of Creation do you classify yourselves? Do you not recognise that you alone are beings capable of thinking and inferring, whilst none of the other works of Creation can boast of this thinking capacity? From this you infer already that you were created by a Power which likewise is capable of thinking and besides, is mighty in an unlimited scale - since you yourselves are not, in spite of your thinking capacity, capable of bringing into existence beings with similar thinking capacity. You cannot introduce your offspring as proof, because you did not "create" same, but only availed yourselves of existing natural laws - which in turn testify of a lawgiver.

Consider furthermore; is a nature-force capable of thought? Can it bring into existence beings capable of thinking, whose organism testifies of the highest wisdom? Must not such natural force then be deemed as itself a being capable of creating and animating purposeful forms? Sen in this way, is not the work of Creation sufficient proof in itself, event o the intellectually most astute? Or can you substantiate the non-presence of such an almighty Being? Or can you introduce a vague analogy even, by which a "force" brings forth ordered creations, unless this force finds its master in the will of a man?

Permit a force unbridled action for once only, and you will have a fearful experience - but not obtain creations which you can admire for their expediency and order!

Therefore, you can already acknowledge, by virtue of your intellect alone, a Being, which you must regard as the Creator from eternity. It truly does you no honour to deny this Being, to explain Its action - which becomes evident in Its Creation - as the effects only of an unguided force, when you, therefore, appoint something unconscious, and working blindly, as the cause for the appearance of Creation.

It truly is no evidence of an intellect correctly utilised, it is furthermore a defiant evasion, which you seek who do not want to acknowledge God. Because where there is merely a weakness of will, there both possibilities are weighted in the first instance, and only then man decides - usually in favour rather than for rejection of a power-entity which is recognisable in the Creation.

If you men know how fraught with consequences for your soul so your rejection and denial of a Divine Being, you would also understand why I wish to give you clarification, so that you could believe what seems unacceptable to you so long as you judge one-sidedly - so long as you believe yourselves capable of fathoming Truth intellectually.

Faith in a God and Creator, however, is necessary in order to link up with Such - and the link with Him is the actual purpose and aim of your earth-life, otherwise you should really not have incarnated on this earth, which was truly created only for that purpose, that man would find union with /God, which once he had given up of his own accord. But if deny a God, it means still the greatest distance from Me - it means renewed resistance with free will, which incurs you a fearful lot in the Beyond - or the re-banishment in matter even, if the end of this earth has come. Therefore, it is you I want to address and cause you to think before it is too late. And may your worldly knowledge be yet so extensive, you will be guaranteed penetration to far deeper knowledge, if you entrust yourselves to Him Who has created you, and who wishes to be recognised as God and Creator from eternity, in order to then stand by you helpingly.

AMEN