BD.7837
February 28, 1961

THE FREE WILL

Your will alone decides whether or not you reach perfection on this Earth. And therefore is the free will-decision the most important part in your Earth existence. But this does not concern earthly questions or attitudes towards earthly planning's, but solely your soul should decide accurately which master it acknowledges.

To this decision man cannot be forced from any side. And never can a "free-will" be denied, no matter how often this is tried by men. The innermost thinking of man alone is decisive, and this is not subordinated to any power. Therefore man can only be influenced by ideas, speeches and actions of all kinds that shall effect his will.

And this will be tried by the Divine, as well as by his opponent. But, always man decides for himself to which influence he submits. The will of man is free. And therefore he is held responsible for the direction he has given to the will, because he has received his existence as man for the purpose to prove his will, and therefore the soul has to take the consequences of its will-decision.

Man can in every life situation turn his will to GOD, just as well as he can submit himself to His opponent. -But never can he make his fellow-men responsible for his will-decision or a worldly might, or God Himself, or His opponent, because this is a matter of his freest will-decision as to which direction his thoughts are going, and whether they are pressing forward to GOD or to HIS opponent.

But his destiny is always imposed by GOD in such a way that he can easily find GOD as long as he offers HIM no inner resistance, - which is decided by his free will. Men are inclined to deny a free-will because they are not always able to realize what they want. But it is not always the question what they do, but rather what they want. Be cause they can be hindered in their actions by the influence of spiritual Forces, but never in their volition itself.

Therefore, man should criticize himself as to which direction his will manifests. Because he knows that it is asked from him to move toward GOD in the life on Earth, as GOD HIMSELF gives him such indication again and again, and he does not walk through the Earth -life without any knowledge. Since he is influenced also by GOD' s opponent, it will not fail to occur that he is obliged to meditate, and thus he will be urged to a decision.

This therefore is the fight between Light and darkness that man himself is carrying out, but that would be inconceivable without man's free-will because then only the positive and the negative forces would be engaged in this battle, out of which one Force would proceed victorious. But the struggle between Light and darkness is not to be understood in this way, because man's soul is at stake and it decides about itself in the free-will.

And therefore the Earth-life of man is a continuous chain of experiences, of encounters and impressions that stimulates him to think, and enables him too to think in the right direction. But as GOD' s opponent has also the right to fight for the soul, man's thoughts are also negatively influenced, and he must decide for himself. And the strength of the resistance against GOD is decisive for the fate of the soul, after the death of the body, which can be extremely blissful or exceedingly painful.

But whatever his will decides, GOD' s Love never gives up the soul, and if it does not reach the goal in this life on Earth, then the Redemption is indeed delayed for an endlessly long time, until the will makes the right decision, because the Love is GOD' s Force against which the soul cannot oppose eternally.

AMEN