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1778 Participation of beings in the afterlife in the teachings....

January 16, 1941: Book 27

Regulated instruction in the spiritual field provides people on earth as well as the souls in the beyond with comprehensive knowledge, which is also necessary if the being wants to fulfil the task assigned to it as soon as it has entered the kingdom of the beyond, for great work has to be done and this mostly applies to those souls which are ignorant but not unwilling to hear the word of God. These are therefore now supplied with the knowledge they lack and for which they are receptive. If they have a desire for clarification, it is given to them immediately, and every answer stimulates them to eager reflection, and only rarely.... and that in cases of blatant rejection.... souls in the beyond do not pay attention to what they receive, and then these souls do not remain in the vicinity of light-giving beings but are banished to a place where the light-giving beings stay away, where there is profound darkness and correspondingly little-knowing beings reside. These souls can spend endless times there if their desire for knowledge is not aroused. However, the souls who are constantly being taught by beings of light do not leave these beings alone in their distress. They seek them out and give them a description of the activity of loving beings towards people on earth and the souls in the beyond. And such descriptions can cause the ignorant beings to attend an instruction. They then look at the process with still worldly feelings; they see that there are connections between earth and the hereafter, and since they themselves are still very attached to the earthly, they believe to be able to establish the connection with their loved ones likewise. And this causes them to return to the place of instruction time and again, and thus they are also witnesses to how radiant with light the recipient of messages from the beyond is during the time of reception and how beneficially the light emanation is felt by the surrounding beings, i.e., how delighted the souls in the beyond participate in every instruction of the earthly child because their knowledge is thereby increased and they can make countless even poorer souls happy again with this knowledge. Only those who have knowledge can fulfil the task assigned to them, for ignorant beings cannot give anything themselves but only the giving being will be able to redeem itself. But again, only spiritual possessions can be passed on and therefore they first have to become the being's property, that is, they have to be willingly received by it so that they can be distributed.... For the latter is a serving in love, whereby the being redeems itself. Thus, anyone who receives much can give out much, and therefore the souls in the beyond are tireless listeners to all instructions which take place from the beyond to earth, and knowledge is imparted which, in turn, is the basis for activity with love, for this is the working of love, both on earth and in the beyond, that this knowledge is spread so that light will be given wherever beings are active for each other with love....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers