BD 4088 22.7.1947

Spiritual death ....
The term "life" ....

The human being can live and yet be spiritually dead, but he can also die the other way round and yet enter into eternal life, except that the latter is a spiritual life, whereas the former only concerns the body, whereby the soul is in a state of lightlessness and consequently also without strength, thus a state of death is its lot, even if it lives in the midst of a joyful environment. For earthly life is but an illusory life, which is not of continuance, but the man who is spiritually dead is also without knowledge, and therefore puts the illusory life before the real life, the life of the spirit in eternity.

But what are you men at the bottom of the ground? You are spiritual, only enclosed in a material shell, and as soon as this shell falls, which is perishable, the spiritual in you is free, no matter in what state the soul relies the body ..... It is free from its external form, but not every soul is freely capable of wanting and creating. But wanting and being able to create from within itself is its bliss, it is the state which was its original purpose and which has been lost. But wanting and being able to create is synonymous with life .... being able to be continuously active according to their will ....

Also on earth 'life' means being able to be active unhindered by physical weaknesses and infirmities, for an earthly life which is accompanied by the latter is not fully valued and is regarded as a shortcoming as long as the human being does not have the right knowledge about his earthly task. On earth, however, even the inactive person usually compensates himself by fulfilling earthly desires and thus helps himself overcome his state of weakness or conscious inactivity .... idleness ...., robbing himself one day after the other which he was given for the upward development of his soul. In the spiritual kingdom, on the other hand, the soul must lack every anaesthetic, it must find the state of its inactivity oppressive, it must become a torment to it so that it tries to escape from it.

Its lack of strength prevents it from changing its state of its own accord, it is poor in every respect and must live in want until help is brought to it in its adversity through the prayer of people close to it on earth. For where love sends such a prayer after it into eternity, a glimmer of realisation will come to the soul in a flash. If it uses this, the light around it will soon become stronger and the dreadful torments of lightlessness will subside. But the desire for life awakens in it and stimulates it to activity, but activity in the beyond is: to work in love, just as on earth the soul can only gain eternal life through a life of love, which only gives its soul the right life.

And so death need never frighten a person who endeavours to walk in love on earth, for he will not die but live for eternity. But for the others, who only value earthly life alone, death will retain its sting, for they are truly in the state of death after their demise, only that they are not completely extinguished but that the awareness of their existence clings to them exceptionally and often such that they only think of themselves and pay no attention to the hardship of the souls around them. And then they are in deepest danger of having to remain in the state of death for eternities, for only love can give life, because the law of love has to be fulfilled on earth as well as in the beyond, because without love there is no life and the human being can never become blissfully happy.

Life and death can therefore be close together, a person's passing away need not mean his death, just as a person's life on earth can only be called life if his spirit is constantly active, if the person sets himself a spiritual goal and diligently pursues it; if he works in love, as his spirit tells him to do, for he will not die but live for eternity ....

Amen

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