BD.8371
January 3, 1963

CLARIFICATION OF TRADITIONAL DOCTRINES

You have repeatedly received the assurance that you can defend everything as pure truth, that you received from Me through the working of the Spirit within you. I shall not let you walk in error if it is your serious will to move in truth and correct thinking and if you keep asking Me to convey the truth to you.

Often, however, men are not willing to abandon erroneous thinking because they have accepted a mental product, which they regard as irrefutable truth, having often adopted it and passed it to others for a long time. And since certain knowledge was not necessary for the maturing of their souls but would rather have confused them in their thinking, they did not have to be taught about it.

But as the desire for enlightenment becomes strong in a person, it will also be received. I alone can give enlightenment and teach correctly those who allow the working of My Spirit within them. When men receive My Word any error becomes impossible; but a man who does receive My Word must free himself of every doctrine received from other sources. Truth can enter only where the heart is free from error, or: I can be only where My adversary has quit the field.

You people rely on the 'Book of Books' believing that its contents have not been falsified, but I tell you that nothing can remain pure when administered by imperfect men. There will always remain an inclination towards that which comes from Me, but there is no guarantee of an unspoilt doctrine, even less so the farther you look back to the early times of mankind on this earth.

What you are now taught about these times is only partly true, for pure truth is an attribute of the perfect, and men are not perfect. Therefore, you ought not to base your thinking on that which has been handed to you from ancient times and which you still hold to be the 'sole truth'.

Truth will never keep pure through generations, but error will. A false doctrine is defended as truth with tenacity and will keep unchanged for a long time.

Men build their lives on such false doctrines and are not willing to be taught differently until an opportunity arises to convey to men pure truth from 'above'. This, however, is not accepted if it deviates from the ancient traditional doctrines and only those who long for truth from the bottom of their heart, will be touched by it and will accept the teaching even if it contradicts the traditional doctrines.

My Spirit is never wrong. However, it cannot always be active in a person if he has worldly inclinations or if he wants to know things that are not spiritual knowledge and are of no benefit for the maturing of the soul. Often man has already answered such questions for himself, and his own thoughts only hinder the working of My Spirit. This is a risk that can only be eliminated by a loving union with Me and repeated prayer for protection from error.

If a doctrine is involved which -from time immemorial - has never been doubted, which has been adopted by everyone because no other explanation seemed to be possible, such an opinion cannot be refuted because I refrain from using coercion where the thinking of a person is concerned. But he who desires the pure truth will also receive it and gain the inner conviction that it is the truth.

The idea is to convey to men in their ‘final time' knowledge of My rule and of My working in the universe in order to enable them to find the right explanation for everything, because this pure truth shall be transferred to the new earth. Therefore, the false doctrines must be exposed and confronted with the pure truth. This is only possible if I, as the giver of truth, can work in a person who is so devoted to Me that he will unconditionally accept that which I offer him and do all he can to spread abroad what he is receiving.

Particularly during periods of religious controversy, it will be essential to have adopted this truth, for he who has done so will be able to withstand all attacks because truth furnishes him with the necessary strength to defend it.

Not that man must know everything, but, struggle, every false doctrine carried among men by My adversary will enable him to destroy all faith in men forcing them to recognize that they were defending unreliable doctrines so that, after they have been confronted by their enemies with those doctrines, they will be compelled to surrender everything.

You do not know his cunning and malice, but I know how he proceeds against you who want to believe. Therefore, I enlighten you wherever possible and you who are receiving My Word will soon be faced with questions which you would not be able to answer were it not for the explanations received from 'above'. Then you will also understand why I gave you this knowledge, which appears to contradict the 'Book of the Fathers', which should be the pure truth; but you are no longer able to examine the integrity of the origin of this book.

When I Myself speak to you, I am the origin of the knowledge you are receiving and you need not fear any errors. For I am the Eternal Truth and I convey it to those who long for it. From the beginning men were taught by Me. The first men heard My Word within themselves, but they possessed only a certain degree of knowledge, enough to be able to recognize Me and to fulfill My will.

By the influence of My adversary, however, the light of cognition kept fading as they began to disregard My Commandments. Among the first men, there were also beings of light incarnated who let their light shine among men, but with the growing of lovelessness, spiritual darkness increased.

Again and again I spoke to mankind through prophets in order to enlighten them. When Jesus descended to earth, because the darkness had become almost impenetrable, a bright light shone once more in the spiritual night of mankind.

You must know that in such times of spiritual darkness error could always gain a foothold, and so too could those men - not free from error - who made it their task to record the events which were compiled in the 'Book of Books'.

Take into consideration the time that has passed since then and do not think that these records have kept to the facts. But through enlightened men I have always been able to tell you what you need for the maturing of your soul. These messages have always remained the same and were always passed on to men as My Word. And I will continue to convey My Word to the earth so that men may receive the pure truth.

Historical records cannot be considered as My Word unless they concern the spiritual events that took place during and after, the creation of the beings that were brought into existence by My love.

These events you must know because you have to learn about the aim and purpose of your life on earth. Therefore, I am giving you the full truth about the process of reclamation of that which has apostatized from Me and is now to return to Me.

Thus too, the coming into existence of the creation has been explained for you as well as the evolution of the entire spiritual that apostatized through the works of creation until the state of man, about whose coming into existence you have also learned.

However, every process of creation has taken place countless, times since I have no limitations and My power works incessantly. Besides, countless spiritual beings, whose number man cannot even imagine, are in need of the works of creation. Man sets himself limits, not least in his thinking, and therefore he is subject to wrong conclusions that can be corrected only by Me if My Spirit is allowed to work in him. Then enlightenment can be given, but only if desired, because this has nothing to do with the spiritual maturity of a person; it is given because it was requested and a prayer is thus fulfilled.

AMEN