BD.8238
August 12, 1962

ECCLESIASTICAL ORGANIZATIONS

There is still a lot I have to tell you because there is still much error to be eliminated if you people want to walk in truth. However, My Spirit can be active only to a limited extent depending upon the state of your maturity. In order to be able to receive a knowledge, which is still quite new to you, the recipient must surrender to Me so trustingly that My Spirit can flow into him unimpeded.

You will ask why I allowed such a considerable contamination of the truth -which originally came from Me- resulting in this great spiritual darkness of mankind. In reply to this I must repeat that man's free will resists any limitation if he belongs to My adversary whose will he fulfills on earth. Since it is My adversary's objective to prevent men on earth from recognizing their God and Creator, and he is anxious to extinguish or dim any light from Me, and has the same right to influence men's will, truth will always be contaminated eventually. My adversary wants to distort My image. He wants to represent Me to men in such a way that they cannot love Me, and in order to achieve this he leaves no stone unturned.

When I had completed My work of salvation on earth, My pure gospel was spread abroad by My disciples. They had received truth in its purest form directly from Me and passed it on quite as pure because they where enlightened by the Spirit.

However, people differed. Their souls were still burdened by the original sin and they were also still a part of My adversary although he could not force them to surrender completely to him. Their hereditary evils -arrogance and lust for power - had still a firm hold on them and he also used them to sow dissention among the followers of My doctrine of the pure gospel.

So some became prominent, founded organizations, promoted themselves to be administrators and thus erected a structure with many worldly interests in which My adversary had a hand, whose greatest objective was to undermine the truth of the gospel. Thus the light kept on becoming dimmer and adverse influences set up 'other doctrines' which were not recognized as false, but were ardently defended as having been conveyed by Me to those leaders who then demanded faithfulness to them by every member of that organization, which duly became extremely powerful. Everyone could and should have recognized that a structure, where people wanted to dominate, could never have been erected by Me; My doctrine being to serve in love.

The activity of My adversary promotes lust for power and the wish to dominate, and everyone can still form an opinion today as to where these characteristics can clearly be detected. However, you have your free will. If I had destroyed such organizations with My might, I would have interfered with man's free will, because the maturing of the soul during its life on earth must be the act of a completely free will if man is to gain perfection. My adversary has erected a ‘deception', which has caused much harm to the souls of men. However, I equipped man with his intellect and provided him with plenty of grace. I gave him the grace of prayer and bent so near to men that they could call to Me in prayer. And if they had prayed only for truth and protection from error, their spirit would have been truly enlightened and they could never have got entangled in falsehood and error.

Everyone should think, for that is what he has received his intellect for. If he does not think, it is his own fault if he becomes far removed from truth -if he has allowed himself to be captivated by false doctrines. Every human being is My creature and is meant to attain maturity through his life on earth. I long for his return to Me and shall give him every chance, but he must make use of it by his own free will. This I do not force, and My adversary cannot do it either.

In view of all this you should understand that I keep conveying the pure truth to men. I see to it that false doctrines are exposed and proved to be false, so that anyone who earnestly desires it can walk in truth. But he must make every effort to free himself from the structure of falsehood erected by the one who will always endeavor to increase the darkness on earth and employ every possible means to extinguish the light.

However, it is hard to get through with truth because men's thinking is already so distorted that it cannot free itself from the traditional ideas, and therefore every bearer of light whom I have commissioned to spread My light, will be attacked. But while men have not been given full explanation, there can be no clarity and men will keep fighting each other unless they come to Me with an sincere desire for truth. Only then they will receive a light and seek to free themselves from a doctrine, which they have defended as the truth, but which is a product of him who opposes truth because he is My adversary.

AMEN