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B.D.

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5.10.1950

Dogma: Mary’s ascension....

Your spiritual development depends on your attitude to truth. Anyone who looks for it will find it and progress without fail,
anyone who rejects it or is indifferent to it cannot gain spiritual advancement, since he does not live with love either, which
is closely connected to truth. People’s response to truth corresponds to their response to Me, Who Himself is eternal truth as
well as love. And thus you will understand that I will always endeavour to convey the truth to people, since error
understandably has to retract away from Me. Every inaccuracy has to be rectified and misguided teachings exposed because
they poison people’s thoughts and consign the soul into the hands of the one who is the representative of lies. Hence it
cannot be tolerated that people are offered error in form of religious dogma which they have to accept. Any doctrine
demanding compulsory acceptance meets My disapproval, even if it corresponds to the truth, for faith in such a doctrine
does not result in any benefit for the soul. It is far worse, however, if a misguided teaching is forced on people which is of
no use for the development of the soul. No measure can ever meet My approval which restricts the human being’s free
will…. And every dogma is an infringement of free will.... In any case, it is inconsequential for the ensuing generations how
the mother of Jesus left earth because, as long as people are not spiritually advanced enough to comprehend the process of a
soul’s spiritualisation, the portrayal of ascension will only result in darkness again. Complete lack of understanding will
result in doubt and disbelief.

However, the ascension of Christ is a different matter. He was, after all, the divine Redeemer, Who had to be obeyed by
every power and Who accomplished the act of Salvation for all human beings. Hence, all human beings should also receive
knowledge of Him, and His earthly life from beginning to end should therefore be known and comprehensible to people.
His ascension was the conclusion of divine activity on earth, his ascension was the culmination, it was the fulfilment of
many prophesies and the completion of Jesus’ life on this earth. But even the belief in this should not be demanded, but
people should remain completely free to believe it, because only a life of love and profound desire for truth results in living
faith…. Consequently, it is neither valuable nor advantageous to provide people with a new bone of contention, which
human intellect cannot prove and which requires a higher degree of development in order to be understood and believed.
This, however, is no longer found amongst people and therefore it merely increases the confusion when, in fact, people
ought to be receiving knowledge…. Amen

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