0584 Work of the spiritual forces.... inner life.... grid.... mercy of God.... necessity of sorrow....

September 15, 1938: Book 12

It is in the power of the most high to create whole worlds.... and it is also possible for Him to dissolve everything into nothingness, but what is of God will never perish, and even if the earth and its inhabitants become entangled in the deepest darkness, it will never be destroyed, but the good forces will immediately seek to win back all beings on earth. An endless battle will be waged against all those powers that oppose this endeavour of the good spiritual forces. Such an endeavour will certainly extend over thousands of years, but divine love will never cease, and this love will ensure that no being will forever distance itself from the supreme deity but will gradually approach its starting point again, albeit over a truly endless period of time.... Without question, the spiritual forces find themselves in situations where all their efforts and labour seem hopeless, but thanks to their perfection they can approach the most difficult problems.... they can initiate people into everything, both in the earthly and in the spiritual realm.... they can first train him to become a person capable of thinking and judgement, put questions into his heart that he seeks to fathom.... they can make the wonders of creation clear to him so that the spirit in him becomes active.... and after a person has been prepared in this way, they approach him with the most important task of life.... They direct his mind upwards towards the eternal creator, and now an awakening of the inner life begins in the quite pre-formed earthly man.... a searching and questioning.... a feeling and sensing. And once the human being has come this far, he is no longer lost for eternity, then the heavenly father Himself puts him in a position to nurture this inner life so that it grows and flourishes and bears fruit. Once a person has reached this stage, he can no longer fall back, for he has eaten the bread of life and will eternally desire it and yet also be satisfied. Only to the weary and sluggish is ascent tremendously difficult, for just as he does nothing to expose his body to any exertion, so he also leaves the soul in permanent inactivity, which is like death. For a spiritually active person is, as it were, at the source of life where he finds refreshment in abundance, yet, as in a desert, no refreshment will beckon to the sluggish person, he will only ever carelessly walk past this.... has no desire for spiritual strengthening, and therefore his soul is constantly in need as long as the body is empty of divine grace. Thus the soul does not leave its shell so easily.... (interruption)

(15.9.1938) This is, so to speak, like a lattice which can only be opened through the mercy and love of others.... If a person does not make himself worthy of this mercy, he cannot be assisted, but again the slightest deed of love is enough to give the soul God's mercy and love. In the sphere of the world beyond only mercy and love can intervene to help, for the soul is unable to do anything on its own.... it must only have the will to separate itself from matter and long upwards.... otherwise, however, it is completely dependent on the love of other spiritual beings or the prayer of earthly people, whereas its earthly existence gives it daily or hourly opportunities to cultivate a field of love for itself which will again bear rich fruit for its life in the beyond and it need not go hungry there. Either the soul leaves earthly life with a treasure of imperishable goods, such as works of love for its neighbour.... Or it stands completely empty at the entrance to eternity and remembers with remorse what it missed out on earth. The state of their helplessness is so extremely oppressive that, if humanity knew about it, they would never be so hardened as to prepare this state for their soul.... but even if they are told, they do not believe it and still remain unteachable, for all otherworldly messages disturb their enjoyment of life and therefore they prefer to deny everything and easily ignore things which come from the realm of the invisible. The world wants to be dealt with harshly.... with all love and kindness alone the divine saviour achieves nothing, for they do not hear this voice of love or deliberately ignore it.... then only such events can still bring help which shake the calm of man, that he only then realizes that he does not live arbitrarily on earth, but that everything must have its well-considered reason and final purpose.... If God is not heard in His love, then He must let the human being feel His power so that the resistance will be broken and he will recognize the greatness of the one Who created him....

Amen

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