2169 Loosening of the solid form through God's will....
November 29, 1941: Book 31
An infinitely long time passes before the being is allowed to embody itself as a human being on earth, and this time can be called the most agonizing during its course of development. For although the external form as a human being is also a constraint for the being, it is nevertheless minor compared to the many previous external forms. The stay in the solid form is particularly agonizing for the being, because before these shells are dissolved, an unimaginable amount of time passes. The external form as a human being, on the other hand, is only intended as a shell for the soul, the beingness, for a short period of time, and the human being does not experience this time as torment either because the body, the external form, can also create comforts for itself which do not make its stay on earth seem particularly agonizing. The body therefore does not experience earthly existence as oppressive as long as it can create fulfilment for itself. Nor does it feel the bound state, for nothing binds it but what people put on it as a shackle through demands that the body cannot easily fulfil. For the soul, on the other hand, the body itself is the shackle that makes it unfree, and it would like to be free of this shackle. The soul will therefore suffer from its outer form for as long as it fulfils its desire. However, it can loosen the shackles at any time the less it respects the body and its desires. In the preliminary stages the being was forced to carry out its activity, which was determined for it by God, and yet it was again a favour for the being when it was called to an activity, i.e. admitted, for the being also had to endure the state before that it was completely inactive.... and indeed in the solid form, which was assigned to the being for its first stay on earth. The solid form encloses the being for an inconceivably long time and it has to endure this agonizing state because it is still completely opposed to God. But the being can do nothing to dissolve the solid form in order to free itself from it. The change of the solid form is dependent on divine will and is not carried out arbitrarily, but it is dependent on the willingness of the being to carry out a serving activity. If God recognizes the willingness of the banished in the fixed form, then He loosens this form and now instructs it to carry out some activity which is conducive to the maturing of the spiritual in the form. However, the change of such external forms must be preceded by a certain act of violence, since these forms do not release the essence hidden within them. God's will is sufficient to destroy or dissolve solid forms, and God's will will loosen these outer forms everywhere where the will to serve is present. However, eternities will pass before a solid form has changed to such an extent that it no longer restrains the beingness. This is why God Himself often intervenes in order to liberate the beingness from the hard form, namely through planned changes of the earth's surface, which always take place when God wants to give the beingness the opportunity to develop higher. Such changes are always to be observed at times when the already more mature spiritual does not fulfil its earthly task, which consists of overcoming the last outer form, when the being in the embodiment as man does not strive for further development but leaves the actual earth purpose unnoticed. Then that which is still completely immature urges towards serving activity. It longs for the favours which entail a release from the form. And this willingness to serve determines God to loosen the hard outer form of the beingness and therefore to give it the possibility to free itself. And now the being can cover the earth path in serving activity, and it progresses in its higher development. The stay in the now outer forms now no longer lasts as long as formerly in the solid form, but still inconceivable times until the beingness can enter the last stage as man, which can earn it the complete liberation from the form. The last time as a human being on earth is only a moment compared to the long time before, and it is not an impossible achievement for the being to free itself through a right way of life before God.... Yet it is up to him how he lives his earthly life, only the bound state is not ended arbitrarily if he has not utilized earthly life in accordance with divine will, and then life in the beyond will likewise mean a kind of forced state for him, and this will result in incomparable torments for him in the beyond....
Amen
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