A0352: Who is enlightened and how does one get into this state?

We start by telling you what we mean when we say someone is enlightened and then you will see that many people are enlightened and that there is a gradation among the enlightened that we will explain to you. 

When a person thinks about whether he or she is enlightened, he must understand that thinking about it is not part of the practice of an enlightened one, because really enlightened people do not value it. 

We spiritual beings consider a person to be enlightened when they have a wide range of knowledge. If we take the writer, we say very clearly that in some areas he is very enlightened, but not in other areas. Is he now considered an enlightened person? No, the writer is not enlightened and he never will be. He’s even happy about it, why is that? Because he doesn’t care at all. If we had said that he was enlightened, then he would certainly have thought about deleting the passage, but we can be sure that he will leave everything as it is. He is not enlightened because he has not built up knowledge in certain areas and will never accumulate it, because actually only religious people are enlightened. If the writer were to discuss with you how the spiritual world is structured, you could probably listen to him for hours because we had already told him so much about it and he could tell about a large pool of topics. But if it were actually about religious topics, the writer’s knowledge would not even be nearly sufficient to at least discuss the basics. It doesn’t interest him at all because he knows that most of them are fictitious stories and the writer simply cannot understand how people can subordinate themselves to these stories and the spiritual beings. Therefore the writer will never be enlightened as we define it in the spiritual world. The writer is something else that was seldom seen before, because before that all persons were full of humility towards the spiritual world and that is why the term came about. 

Enlightened are people who devotedly do everything their faith dictates to them, they are full of humility and take every religious sentence into themselves as a fact. This creates a close connection to the spiritual world, which is rewarded by the fact that the enlightened person receives many skills and accumulates a lot of knowledge. The skills are extraordinary, but the knowledge is humbug because every enlightened person just believes, nothing more. The more the person believe, the more enlightened the person seem to be. The writer still cannot understand it because he is one of the few people who have accumulated knowledge of the spiritual world without believing. That is why the writer will never be an enlightened person, because he completely lacks the humility for enlightenment. When someone appears enlightened, he has amassed a lot of useless knowledge and is very advanced religiously, so that he has acquired many abilities as a reward, which he then uses for the common good. 

If someone is very knowledgeable, then that person is considered partially enlightened, but without humility such persons will never be placed on a par with a real enlightened one.