BD.5967
May 28, 1954

WHAT IS THE ORIGINAL SIN

Questions I know do arise in you again and again, which you would like to have answered. I can enlighten you when you search for union with Me. As an example, after you have had a heartfelt prayer, the emerging thoughts from the prayer may be considered My reply to you as long as you are not addressed directly by Me through the voice of the spirit. Your desire and your call to Me assures you that you are thinking correctly, but without Me you cannot recognize the truth; without Me your searching for enlightenment is in vain; without Me you may be filled with erroneous thoughts which come from below... because you disregard Me - Who is the giver of truth.

And so I say the following. Only figurative enlightenment is given you as long as you are not perfect. At no time could you understand the bottomless depth of My divine wisdom. Never could you understand the motives for My actions and operations, because your imperfection means a lack of power of recognition, and therefore you cannot find any explanation with the force of your "intelligence". But you can receive it with the speed of lightning as soon as you receive the flood of My Love-Light in the spiritual realm.

On earth you must get enlightenment by seeing because it can only be explained to you through events which take place in My creations corresponding to your force of comprehension. And so, too, can the spiritual happenings in the heart of the first humans be made understandable only by earthly happenings. However, these are but weak comparisons precisely because you are still weak in spirit.

You are bound through "laws of nature" because the total freedom that you had forfeited through your former apostasy must again be deserved through your earthly life.

I chose to limit the will of the first human beings because I wanted them to know that they were subject to a "power" , and that they should voluntarily submit themselves to this power in order to receive their ultimate freedom as a present.

Once upon a time man did not wish to recognize Me, and that was the first sin, the revolt against Me, from Whom they came. Only acceptance in free will could cancel this first sin. I wanted to obtain this acknowledgment of Myself as I made the entire creations to arise.

Therefore, the first people were endowed in such a way that they could recognize Me, but they were not forced to do so. And, therefore, was the free will obliged to decide and should test itself against temptation.

The eyes of men were compelled to look at things they desire, with both a prohibition and an enticement, which simultaneously would call for a decision of the will. It was understood that the enticement was connected with a promise which they were supposed to resist.

The commandment and the temptation were issued from two sides, and men were to decide: either to return to Me so that what I created will reach the aim, or they remain with My adversary and fall down again into the abyss. Therefore, man had to have within him the desire and the possibility to overcome it in order to reach for a far higher goal .... the eternal bliss with Me which surpasses a thousand fold the fulfillment of earthly desire.

To win the return of the apostate spirits brought about a wrestling match between Me and My opponent. He also had to have the possibility of influencing the will of these beings. Only he proffered delusive values and false happiness, so that man should lose true happiness and a blissful life in eternity.

I knew about this seduction and therefore gave the first people a commandment and at the same time a warning about the eternal death. And this warning should have been sufficient to eliminate every desire in men so that they would not lose their lives.

AMEN