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1414 Purification process....

May 11, 1940: Book 23

The process of purification to which every soul is subjected will last until the earthly change has been completed, for until this is finished the soul is not free of dross and consequently not yet worthy of approaching the highest and purest being, the eternal deity. For every imperfection separates the being from God, who is perfection itself. And thus the state of perfection must first be reached before the fusion with the eternal deity can take place, the being must have put away all impurity, it must be without error, it must have completely purified itself, and for this the path on earth was indispensable.... it was the only possibility to shape the being as it has been destined to be since eternity.... into a God-like being, into a being which is absorbed in love, which serves in love and now in turn carries out the same mission of bringing imperfect beings to perfection. Until this process has been fully accomplished, union with God cannot take place.... but God longs for His living creations, the father wants to win His children, and thus His infinite love seeks to shorten their path. He provides them with every opportunity to rid themselves of the dross, He sets them tasks the solution of which will bring them progress, He offers them aids which likewise accomplish a purification in a shorter time, and in the final stage He leaves it up to the being to redeem itself from the unfree state.... He gives it the power of realization, He grants the being all help and only demands free will from it.... but in return assures him the most luminous state in the beyond. And thus it is precisely God's love Itself which has also imposed those states on the human being which would have to cause the being to strive supremely if its will likewise wanted to escape the banished state. And again God has to send suffering to man in order to steel the will to become free from it. The only purpose of all suffering is to make the being long for God, since only then can divine grace come into action and without grace the human being's strength to liberate himself would be too weak again, and the will will only become active when it regocnizes the meaning and purpose of what it is striving for. Since the human being's will is challenged he has to be influenced by suffering and adversity such that he turns to where final redemption beckons him.... to the eternal deity, Which in Its love always seeks to shorten the being's state of suffering....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers