1361 Aversion to spiritual food.... obstacle....

March 29, 1940: Book 23

Enormous obstacles are placed in front of the soul if the human being has an aversion to spiritual food. He piles up the bulwark higher and higher, which he is supposed to remove, and this manifests itself in ever greater worldliness, in keen interest in all earthly things, while the soul is only poorly thought of. Such people spend by far the greater part of their life in inactivity of spirit, for they spend all their thinking only on what is tangible to them and cling to it with extreme tenacity, not realizing that everything comes to an end with their departure from this world. They call concern for their soul's salvation useless and fruitless, or they cling to sham faith and sham worship and are convinced of their infallibility so that they believe they need no instruction. And what could be offered to them for their souls they let pass by unnoticed.... This depresses the soul and it anaesthetizes itself with self-chosen pleasures to which no spiritual value can be attributed. And so the hour of death will come and with it the realization that it has rejected the greatest grace the lord has bestowed on people. This realization is extremely bitter, for the event can never be reversed and thus the soul cannot be given a degree of maturity afterwards either if the time on earth was not used as far as possible. The lord leads every human being into the proximity of divine activity, the human being himself is always the decisive factor as to whether he utilizes this opportunity and thus matures spiritually or takes no notice of it at all and thus remains spiritually on the same level. And if people would consider this, that they enter the beyond unprepared as it were, and then think of the many days which could have brought them spiritual progress if only they had been willing, then they would now have to muster all willpower to make use of all opportunities. For it is difficult to make up for what the human being failed to do on earth, even though the soul will still be given opportunities to ascend in the beyond. However, it is never possible to achieve the perfection in a short time that earthly life can bring to a willing person. Only he who strives continuously, i.e. who first considers his soul before he does something to his body, will be able to reach a very high level already on earth, which requires an unimaginably long time in the beyond. For earthly life is a blessing for the human being, it has been granted to him for the soul's complete redemption, yet it is not always utilized such that the human being can enter the kingdom of light, which promises unimaginable delights, immediately after his passing away. What the human being did not want to hear on earth he will have to accept in the beyond if he does not want to remain inactive on the lowest level as an unfinished spirit and be dependent on the mercy of the beings of light or the prayers of people still on earth.... And this is the fate of those who reject what is offered to them from above and make no effort whatsoever to improve the state of their soul, for they are faced with an almost insurmountable task when realization finally comes to them....

Amen

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