fr-Chapter 36 - Faith, Truth and Knowledge

Faith That Overcomes All

1. To overcome weakness, poverty, misery, and passions, and to dispel doubt, faith and good works are indispensable; these are virtues that master the impossible; in their presence, what is difficult and unattainable fades away like shadows.

2. I said to the people who believed in Me during the "Second Era": "Your faith has helped you." I explained it this way because faith is a healing power, a force that transforms, and its light dispels the darkness. (20, 63-64)

3. Those who are still far from spiritualization wish to see Me in the form of Jesus so that they may say to Me: "Lord, I believe in You, for I have seen You." To them I say: "Blessed are those who have believed without seeing, for they have provided proof that, thanks to their spiritualization, they have felt Me in their hearts." (27, 75)

4. I want you to know what faith is, so that you may understand that whoever possesses it is the owner of an incomparable treasure.

5. Whoever lives enlightened by this inner light will never feel rejected, abandoned, weak, or lost—no matter how poor the world may consider him. Their faith in the Father, in life, in their destiny, and also in themselves will never let them perish in the struggle of life, and they will also always be capable of accomplishing great and marvelous works. (136, 4-5)

6. Faith is like a lighthouse that illuminates your path through life until you arrive at the safe harbor of eternity.

7. Faith must not be that of those lukewarm and fearful souls who take one step forward today and one step back tomorrow, who do not want to struggle with their own pain and believe in the victory of the Spirit solely because of the Father's mercy.

8. Faith is that which the soul feels when, conscious that God is within her, she loves her Lord and rejoices to feel Him within herself and to love her fellow human beings. So great is her faith in the Father's justice that she does not expect her neighbors to love her, that she forgives insults and transgressions, but believes that tomorrow she will be filled with light because she has attained her purification through her own merits.

9. Whoever has faith has peace, possesses love, and has goodness within.

10. He is rich in spirit and even in material things; but in true wealth, not in the kind you think of. (263, 12-16)

11. I will now give you the proof that true faith exists: when the heart does not lose heart in the hour of trial; when, in the most critical moments, peace permeates the soul.

12. Whoever has faith is in harmony with Me, for I am life, health, and salvation. Whoever truly seeks this harbor and this lighthouse will not perish.

13. Whoever possesses this virtue performs miracles beyond all human understanding and bears witness to the Spirit and to the higher life. (237, 69-71)

Recognizing God's Truth

14. When the heart harbors good faith and the mind is free from prejudice and unclear notions, one appreciates life more fully, and the truth is recognized with greater clarity. When, on the other hand, one harbors doubt or vanity in the heart and errors in the mind, everything appears unclear, and even the light appears as darkness.

15. Seek the truth; it is life, but seek it with love, with humility, with perseverance, and with faith. (88, 5-6)

16. Pray, ask your Father in your prayer, and then in your meditation you will receive a spark of My infinite light. Do not expect to receive the whole truth in a single moment. There are souls who have long been searching for truth, who seek and try to penetrate all mysteries, and yet have not yet reached the longed-for goal.

17. Christ, the Anointed One, showed you the way with the words: "Love one another." Can you imagine the significance of this sublime commandment? The whole of human life would be transformed if you were to live according to this teaching. Only love will be able to reveal to you the truths of the divine mysteries, for it is the source of your life and of all creation.

18. Seek the truth earnestly, seek the meaning of life, love, and grow strong in goodness, and you will experience how, step by step, everything that was false, dishonest, or imperfect will fall away from your being. Become more sensitive day by day to the light of divine grace, and then you will be able to ask your Lord directly about everything you wish to know and what your soul needs to attain the highest truth. (136, 40-42)

19. I am "The Word" that seeks out people because they could not come to Me. It is My truth that I reveal to them, for truth is the kingdom into which, according to My will, you are all to enter.

20. How do you intend to discover the truth if I do not first tell you that many sacrifices are necessary for this?

21. To find the truth, it is sometimes necessary to renounce what one possesses, even to renounce oneself.

22. The self-satisfied, the materialist, the indifferent cannot recognize the truth until they tear down the walls within which they live. It is necessary for them to overcome their passions and weaknesses in order to behold My light face to face. (258, 44-47)

23. Blessed is he who seeks the truth, for he is one who thirsts for love, light, and goodness. Seek, and you will find; seek the truth, and it will come to meet you. Continue to reflect, continue to consult the Book of Divine Wisdom, and it will answer you, for the Father has never remained silent or indifferent toward those who earnestly seek Him.

24. How many of those who seek the truth in books, among scholars, and in the various sciences will ultimately discover it within themselves, for I have planted a seed of the Eternal Truth in the innermost being of every human being. (262, 36–37)

25. I cannot deceive you! I am never in an act of falsehood; I do not hide Myself in darkness. My truth is always naked. Yet if people have been unable to see the nakedness of My Spirit, it is only because they did not want to. I do not hide My truth from you behind any veil. My nakedness is divine and pure; My nakedness is holy, and I will reveal it to all beings in the universe. As a symbol of this, I came into the world naked as a human being, and naked I departed from you.

26. I want truth to always reign among My own, for I am and will always be in your truth. I want love to be among you, and My love will always be in your love.

27. There is only one truth, a single true love; and if this truth and this love are within you, your love and your truth will be Mine, and My truth and My love will be yours. (327, 33-34)

28. My light is in every spirit. You are now in the time when My Spirit will pour out upon humanity. Therefore, I tell you that you will all soon feel My Presence—the learned as well as the ignorant, the great as well as the small, the powerful as well as the poor.

29. Both groups will tremble in the face of the truth of the living and true God. (263, 33-34)

The Knowledge of the Spiritual and the Divine

30. It is impossible for any of My children to forget Me, for they carry within their souls the Spirit, which is the light of My Spirit, through which they must recognize Me sooner or later.

31. For some, it is easy to penetrate the meaning of My Word and find the light there; yet for others, My Word is a mystery.

32. I tell you that not all can understand the spirituality of My message in this age. Those who cannot will have to wait for new times, so that their spirit may open its eyes to the light of My revelations. (36, 4-6)

33. When I tell you that My wisdom will be yours—do you believe that a single earthly life is enough to experience all that I have to reveal to you? When I tell you that you cannot attain human knowledge without traversing the long path of development, you can even less acquire spiritual understanding without the complete development of your soul.

34. I do not set spiritualization in opposition to science, for that error was that of men, never mine. On the contrary, I teach you to harmonize the spiritual with the material, the human with the divine, the transitory with the eternal. Nevertheless, I explain to you that in order to walk the paths of life, one must first know the way marked out for you by the Spirit, whose spiritual law springs from the Divine Spirit. (79, 38-39)

35. You have sunk so low and have strayed so far from the spiritual that you consider supernatural everything that—since it belongs to the Spirit—is entirely natural. Thus you call the Divine supernatural, and likewise you view everything that belongs to your own spirit as such, and this is an error.

36. The reason for this is that you see and perceive only what lies within the realm of your senses or within the scope of your human intelligence, and you have regarded that which lies beyond the senses and the mind as supernatural. (273, 1)

37. Both the person who seeks the light of knowledge in nature and the one who seeks My wisdom in spiritual revelations must walk the path on their own two feet to find all those truths that they cannot discover on other paths. That is precisely why I have sent your soul to live one life after another here on earth, so that , through its development and experience, may discover all that is within it and in what surrounds it.

38. If you wish, examine My words thoroughly, but afterward study and observe life from their perspective so that you may discern the truth contained in all that I have told you.

39. There will be occasions when it seems to you as though there is a contradiction between what I am telling you today and what was revealed to you in times past, yet there is none. It is people who are caught in error. But now all will come to the light. (105, 54-56)

Prerequisites for Spiritual Knowledge

40. Humility is the light of the soul, and in contrast, the lack thereof is darkness within it. Vanity is the fruit of ignorance. Whoever is great through knowledge and esteemed because of virtue possesses true modesty and spiritual humility. (101, 61)

41. Let all evil thoughts depart from you and clothe yourselves in noble thoughts. Happiness lies not in what one possesses materially, but in what one recognizes spiritually. To recognize is to possess and to act accordingly.

42. He who possesses true knowledge is of a humble spirit. He is not proud of earthly wisdom, which strives only to know everything (earthly) and denies everything it has not understood. Whoever carries within themselves the light of inspired knowledge is able to receive revelations at the right time, just as they also know how to expect them. Many have called themselves scholars, yet the sun, which shines in full light day after day, has been a mystery to them.

43. Many have believed they know everything, yet truly, I tell you, the ant that imperceptibly crosses their path also holds an unfathomable mystery for them.

44. People will be able to explore many wonders of nature, but as long as they do not do so on the path of divine love, they will not attain the true wisdom contained in the immortal life of the soul. (139, 67-70)

The Necessary Expansion of Human Consciousness

45. From the very beginning, I granted humanity the freedom of thought. Yet he has always been a slave—sometimes out of fanaticism, and in other cases a slave to the false worldviews of the pharaoh and the emperor. This is the reason why, in this age, he is blinded by the freedom the spirit now attains and the brightness that presents itself to his eyes. For his mind is not yet accustomed to this freedom.

46. Man had diminished the power of his understanding of the spiritual, and therefore he fell into fanaticism, walked on winding paths, and was like a shadow of the will of others.

47. He had lost his freedom; he was master neither of himself nor of his thoughts.

48. But now the age of light has come, the time when you must break the chains and spread your wings to rise freely into the infinite in your longing for truth. (239, 4-7)

49. This century in which you live reveals two aspects: one is the development of the intellect, and the other is spiritual stagnation.

50. Indeed, the divine light shines down upon the faculties of the mind, and from this springs my great inspiration, whose fruits astonish humanity; for the mind now yearns for freedom and the expansion of knowledge. Man immerses himself in the study of nature; he researches, discovers, rejoices, marvels, yet is never indecisive.

51. Yet whenever the thought arises within him to clarify his relationship to the spiritual, to the truth that lies beyond the matter known to him, he is fearful; he is afraid to venture into the unknown, into what he considers forbidden, into what (in his opinion) belongs only to exalted beings worthy of exploring the mysteries of God.

52. There he has shown himself to be weak and foolish, incapable of overcoming by force of will the prejudices that hold him down. There it has become evident that he is a slave to distorted interpretations.

53. The development of human intelligence will never be complete as long as it does not also develop on the spiritual level. Recognize how great the backwardness of your soul is, because you have devoted yourselves only to the knowledge of earthly life.

54. Man is a slave to the will of others, a victim of curses, condemnations, and threats. But what has been achieved by this? That he gives up all his desires to comprehend and attain the highest knowledge that man is meant to possess; that he prevents himself from being able to clarify what he has absurdly always regarded as a mystery: spiritual life.

55. Do you think that the life of the soul will forever remain a mystery to man on earth? If you think so, you are greatly mistaken. Truly, I tell you, as long as you do not know your origin and know nothing of what pertains to the spirit, you will, despite all the progress of your sciences, remain merely creatures dwelling in a wretched world among plants and animals. You will continue to fight one another in your wars, and pain will continue to reign over your lives.

56. If you do not discover what you carry within your being, nor recognize in your neighbor the spiritual brother who dwells in everyone—can you truly love one another? No, children of men, even if you say that you know Me and follow Me. If you take My teaching superficially, your faith, your knowledge, and your love will be false. (271, 39-45)

57. In Me, people will find the courage to free themselves from the yoke of their ignorance.

58. How can you expect there to be peace on earth and for wars to cease, for people to be renewed and for sin to diminish, if they lack spiritual knowledge, which is the prerequisite, origin, and foundation of life?

59. Truly, I tell you, as long as you do not understand or follow My truth, your existence on earth will be like a building constructed on quicksand. (273, 24-26)

60. I tell man that he is a stranger to himself, because he has not penetrated into his inner self, because he does not know his secret, because he does not know his true nature. Yet I wish to teach him in this time the contents of the book that has been closed to him for so long, where all the secrets are kept that I promised to reveal to you already in the "Second Era" with the light of My Spirit.

61. Now you will truly come to know yourselves and penetrate into the depths of your spirit. Then you will be able to say that you are beginning to know who you are.

62. Man will come to know his origin, his destiny, his mission, his abilities, and that entire, infinite, and eternal life that lives and weaves around him. He will no longer be able to harm his neighbor, will no longer be able to endanger the existence of his fellow human beings, nor will he dare to desecrate anything of all that surrounds him, because he has come to realize that everything is sacred.

63. He will recognize what his soul contains and conceals, and then he will have a clear vision and a deep faith that—since the soul is wondrous—the home his Father has prepared for him in eternity must also be wondrous. (287, 4-6)