BD 3916 27.10.1946

Sleep of death ....
Raising from the graves on the last day ....

The dead only rest according to the body, i.e., the body is relieved of all earthly activity, and the earthly-material fulfils its purpose assigned to it by the Creator by still granting abode to innumerable living beings in its process of dissolution until it is completely dissipated again as spiritual substance. The human soul, however, no longer participates in the body's state of rest; it can indeed dwell in the beyond without activity, but this state is not a state of rest but a state of impotent awareness of its existence, a state of greatest powerlessness, which is agonising because it is consciously felt by the soul.

This is why it is impossible to speak of a rest of the dead and even less so of souls which have reached a degree of perfection that they find entrance into spheres of light. For these souls are constantly active and are blissfully happy in their activity. And therefore it is wrong to speak of the sleep of the dead until their awakening on the last day ..... The dead will certainly be raised on that day .... the spiritually dead on earth will awaken from their sleep when they recognise God in His greatness and might and when they have to answer to His justice. But this awakening will be terrible.

And so also many who rest in the graves, bodily and spiritual, who already dwell in otherworldly spheres, will be called to account, because they prefer the rest of death to the life-bearing activity .... On the day of judgement those souls will also be sentenced to renewed banishment in matter so that they can taste the state of rest which seemed desirable to them and yet from which they were able to escape. For if a soul regresses in the beyond, it will strive towards matter itself and its will will be complied with ...., thus the awakening from the graves on the last day is to be understood ....

The body of flesh has certainly found its rest insofar as it no longer needs to serve the soul, yet its spiritual substances must also continue to fulfil their purpose according to divine destiny. But the souls are to be pitied if they cannot enter the state of life after the death of the body, and the resurrection on the last day to eternal life or to eternal damnation is only to be understood in such a way that the realisation will suddenly come to those living on earth, the awakening from deepest spiritual sleep, but to the evil for judgement; for the good, God-fearing and God-fulfilling people know about the state of life after bodily death and do not fear the latter, and they also enter into eternal life.

However, many souls will also have to go the renewed course of development on the new earth through their creations, who have long since departed from this earth, who had time in abundance in the spiritual kingdom to change their will and become active, but who remained in their powerless state and preferred the rest of death and therefore became ever more powerless, so that the spiritual itself hardened and is ripe for renewed banishment in earthly creations. These arise, as it were, from their graves, for they are again offered a new opportunity to come to the light of day, albeit after an unthinkably long period of time.

All that is dead in spirit shall awake at the last day, yet not to life but to judgment .... Blessed are those who do not rest in this sleep of death, blessed are those who are continually active on earth or in the spiritual realm and whose activity does not consist in earthly toil but serves their spiritual development .... blessed are those who live in the spirit, who do not give themselves over to slothful sleep, who do not seek rest, for they will live in blessedness and will not need to fear the day of resurrection ....

Amen

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