1396 Insight into the realm beyond.... spiritual seeing and reproducing....

April 28, 1940: Book 23

It is up to the human being's will to gain insight into the kingdom which is otherwise closed to him because it exists outside of everything earthly. He only has to adjust himself likewise extraterrestrially.... he must send that which is supernatural in him.... the spiritual spark which God has placed in his heart as a particle of Himself.... to where his actual home is. The spiritual within him strives towards the spiritual outside the earth, and this spiritual guides it and leads it into eternal glory. The spirit in the human being can therefore see everything and nothing remains hidden from it, yet it is not always possible to make what the spirit sees accessible to the human being's soul.... The soul must first have developed its senses in such a way that it is able to take in what is offered to it. It must first desire the spiritual before it pays attention to the earthly. And this requires a strong will on the part of the human being and a deep desire for spiritual impressions: But if both are present, then there are no limits for the human being. He can let his gaze wander into that land which is unimaginable in its splendour. All earthly concepts such as constraint, limitation and imperfection are eliminated. What presents itself to the eyes of the spiritual observer is fullest harmony, noblest lines, indescribable in its colouring, light and lively and not bound to the narrow limits of earthly life. Everything is light and bright, and nothing inharmonious disturbs the graceful picture.... It is a harmonious peace and yet nothing dead.... it breathes life and love, it is incomparable beauty, and it is the most varied impressions that the spirit of God wants to convey to his soul, but which cannot be grasped by human senses. It is therefore extremely difficult to reproduce what has been seen, for man's imagination is too small to be able to form a true picture; yet what the spirit has seen once remains in him and he repeatedly seeks out those realms in order to gather new impressions. Sometimes it succeeds in conveying such impressions to the soul, and this always happens when the desire for it has become so strong in the human being that he completely forgets the earth. Then the separation from the physical bondage is easier and the receptivity for spiritual images is greater. These are unimaginable glories which the human eye could never behold, because splendour and magnificence would blind it, and only a very high degree of maturity can endure conscious beholding. Man must have lost all connection with earth, then it is possible for him to have a look into those spheres already in earthly existence. But in order to grant people a small insight into those glories, God instructs His messengers to awaken the gift of imagination in some people in order to be able to reproduce approximately in pictures what they have seen spiritually and conveyed to the soul, so that the desire for those glories is awakened and increased. However, the beauty of the forms, the radiant splendour of the colours, the diversity of the wonders of creation cannot be reproduced, for the boldest fantasies do not even come close to those glories. And so it is only possible to tell the children of earth to a limited extent, and only the deepest desire for it removes the veil that is spread over everything as long as the being still belongs to earth.... Yet it is possible for the sincerely striving person to lift this veil and consciously look into the kingdom beyond, but then his departure from this world is not far away....

Amen

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