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1067 Entering the afterlife.... influence of the beings of light....

August 23, 1939: Book 20

The gate to eternity should not frighten anyone, that is God's will.... But man's will all too often takes a different path and makes his entry into the hereafter an hour of deepest anxiety and abandonment instead of an hour of blissful joy. And yet God's goodness has shown him the right path countless times in his earthly life. But because the will of man may not be touched, the father in heaven only ever restricts Himself to indications of all kinds, but not that man must necessarily take a path that leads safely to the goal. And so the human being can organize the hour of separation from the bodily shell according to his own will for joy or for suffering, and he will not be eternally hindered in his will. What effort and endeavour it costs on the part of the beings of light who look after every human being to constantly guide the earthly child onto the right path.... if it does not consciously pursue its high goal.... can be seen from the fact that these beings constantly surround the earth and constantly let their spiritual strength flow to the earthly beings. If people would willingly surrender to every impulse of the heart it would be easy for the beings caring for them to shape people to highest perfection; yet how rarely does an earthly child live in the clear realization that it should only live on earth for its perfection, and how rarely does this result in a complete integration into divine will.... People are far more likely to struggle with the thoughts that want to impose themselves on them, which want to influence people in that direction.... What they should do in order to live in a God-pleasing way mostly does not appeal to them; they do not think of the end of their body and the therefore imperfect state of their soul but only of the body and its well-being, and it is therefore incredibly difficult for the beings of light to exert any influence on such earthly children, and thus the help which can be offered to them is very little, although it is available to them unmeasured.... But man believes that he does not need such help because he believes himself to be strong enough to carve out his own life and does not really think about the actual purpose of life. Behold, this is the great mistake of mankind, that it trusts its own strength too much.... and is therefore proud and arrogant.... True faith must be manifested through humility. The less a person trusts himself, the more he desires help.... And it is truly the right help to hope for from the beings standing in the light.... The earthly child has to struggle unbelievably and its strength would weaken prematurely if spiritual help were not always ready for it.... And this spiritual help also warns against too quick a judgement if it appears as if the lord chooses spiritually pre-trained people for His work on earth, i.e. people who are well-instructed by perfect beings. This view could confirm people in their opinion that God's will assigns this or that office to a person and that it is therefore irrelevant how far a person's spiritual maturity is.... Oh no, every human being must struggle with all his strength.... firstly for knowledge.... and this struggle is particularly difficult and should therefore be emphasized.... and then to make his will compliant and to submit to the divine will without resistance. Only he who offers his will to the lord will be chosen for an office which is of very special importance.... But every person's struggle should lead to the fact that the human being should hand himself over to his spiritual helpers and thus allow himself to be guided by them onto the right path which leads through the gate to eternity, thus to heavenly bliss with utmost certainty.... and you will not need to shy away from the hour of death but it will only mean a release from the physical shell for you....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers