BD 3299 18.u.19.10.1944

Belief in the survival of the soul ....

The certainty that there is life after the death of the body makes it much easier for people to endure earthly suffering, for they then only regard earthly life as a preliminary stage to beatitude, to the actual life in the spiritual kingdom. For them earthly life does not mean the highest, and therefore they do not attach so much importance to adversities and suffering, just as they pay little attention to earthly goods and the pleasures of the world because they know that they are transient. The life of the soul after death is a happy thought for them, and death itself loses its terror because they do not fear it but only regard it as an entrance into spiritual life.

This is why a person who believes in the survival of the soul on earth has an advantage in every respect over those who deny the survival of the soul. The latter only seek to exploit earthly life in an earthly sense, and they only strive to live long and well on this earth, since they consider themselves to have passed away with the death of their body. However, the human being can only gain the convinced belief in the soul's continued existence through his own reflection, it cannot be conveyed to him by fellow human beings but the human being can only be stimulated to think, and he must come to the conclusion of his own accord that God's creations must be enduring, otherwise the Creator would have delivered a defective work.

However, everything the human being contemplates is again a work of creation in a more perfect form than already existing works of creation, thus a constant upward development can be observed in it, which understandably cannot stop with the human being but continues in the spiritual kingdom. Yet this cannot be proven to the human being if he does not accept his own feelings as evidence, which more joyfully affirm the thought of a continuation of life after death than the thought of a complete end with the conclusion of earthly life ....

So the human being has to believe what cannot be proven to him .... and he can nevertheless have the inner conviction of it which now also allows him to live consciously without doubt. For a person with faith in a continuation of life after death will arrange his earthly life completely differently than a person without faith in it, because he sees higher spiritual development as the purpose of earthly life, because he recognises a state of spiritual maturity as the goal, which is the prerequisite for a blissful life after death. He now pays more attention to his soul, whereas the human being without this faith only seeks to maintain physical life and only pursues earthly goals. He is touched by everything that concerns the body, be it joy or suffering, because he does not find the compensation for it in his soul life.

He is indeed emotionally and mentally also in spheres which lie outside of the earthly, however, he is not aware of the fact that this is a search of the soul for which earthly goals alone are not sufficient. But the body's desire will always prevail and fetch the soul back from these spheres, and it will also succeed before the belief in its continued life has awakened and it then resists the body's desire. The adversity of the coming time will therefore be much easier to bear for people who firmly believe in survival, while others will be seized by despair because they consider their temporal end to have come and the knowledge of it triggers a paralysing horror in them.

For faith will always be a source of comfort and strength, faith will never depress but uplift, faith will not be a weakness of the will but a strength of the will and likewise produce a strong will. Faith is nothing human but something divine, even though the unbeliever tries to smile disdainfully about it ..... He lacks the strength which flows from strong faith. And therefore this faith should be struggled for first, for as soon as the human being believes himself to be immortal he also works for the salvation of his soul and is not satisfied with the successes of earthly life.

However, the immortality of his soul can only be made credible to him when he is active in unselfish love .... otherwise selfish love predominates and this will always reject the belief in survival after death because the soul is aware of its deficient state and therefore rather fears survival. And therefore love must always be preached first so that the human being's thinking will change and he will come close to the right faith, so that he will only learn to recognise earthly life as a transitional station and consciously strive for perfection in order to be able to enter the life on the other side in a state which will secure him eternal life ....

Amen

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