BD.6547
May 15, 1956
MERE CONFORMISTS UNSUCCESSFUL
Your success at the end of your earth-life shall not be worth
the mention if you only travel the wide road, joining up with the strollers,
without asking whither goes the way of the "masses". Because
you then are mere conformists who think they can delegate their responsibility
to fellow man - the ringleaders of the masses. Every individual in his
earth-walk comes upon crossroads, besides some companions deviating, and
then man has to decide which way to turn. - Because if he remains a conformist
till the end of his life, he shall have won nothing for the good of his
soul.
That is why no church organization can guarantee beatitude for its adherents,
because each man has to strive and attain to same, even though he can
be given directions indeed; each man however having to then himself carry
out the work on his soul - i.e. each then has to take the path which
leads upwards.
It is a great mistake to try shifting responsibility for the soul unto
purported leaders, always doing just what these demand, believing this
to be "conscious work upon the soul". It is a great mistake
to believe oneself not permitted to subject the demands of those leaders
to scrutiny - to unconditionally accept and believe everything that these
preset as truth.
Even if it is the truth, each person has to form an opinion about it,
because only then can he discern whether error has crept in, and guard
against it. But he who relies on what cannot be left unexamined, cannot
deem himself excusable - he cannot believe himself capable of shifting
blame on those who have guided him wrongly. Everyone can see the paths
that branch off, and can walk these just as easily as the trodden one,
but he needs to always ask himself where the different paths lead and
then consciously choose. But he who keeps his eyes to the ground and unthinkingly
follows the masses can also miss the intersections, and it is then again
his own fault, because he should look about himself and not wander blindly,
having received the gift of sight. And he should think, since intellect
was given him for it, which he should use for the attainment of his soul-health.
- And you should know too that the road the masses take is never the right
one. - Because the masses are steered by God's adversary, and truth never
encountered there.
If you men could only keep in mind that on the earth the adversary has
the upper hand, and that by far the greater number of people are a adherent
of his than of God. - If only you would recognise from mankind's evil,
lovelessness and the low spiritual level how great is his hold upon mankind.
Then you would, in your earnest striving for the good of your souls, not
move with the crowds, but separate yourselves from same and seek a path
in a different direction - you would heed the messengers who precede you
with Light, to light your way. You would not be contented with empty rhetoric,
- you would demand wise instruction, giving you a proper light - you would
yourselves ponder and attain to ever-brighter Light.
Shake off your indifference where the well being of your soul is concerned.
Do not let others take over, because you yourselves carry the responsibility
for your soul, of which no one can relieve you. Try to establish a connection
with God yourselves, choosing Him as your leader, and free yourselves
from those who deem themselves His representatives on earth, because His
representatives shall be always urging you to establish a connection with
God, whilst the false representatives want to relieve you of you responsibility
and demand blind obedience from you, and the keeping of human regulations.
If you want to attain to beatitude, then you need to also walk the way
leading to beatitude - you have to ask God to show you the right ways,
and ask for strength to walk them even if they go upwards. - And God shall
send you the right guides, He shall Himself draw you, and you shall attain
to the right goal with certainty.
AMEN |
