Source: https://www.bertha-dudde.org/en/proclamation/2174

2174 Gratitude of the souls redeemed by prayer in the hereafter....

December 4, 1941: Book 31

The more willing the human being is to help the souls in the beyond, the more intimately these souls join the human being again, after all, they recognize in him the saviour from their plight. They only sever the connection with earth when they no longer need the help of people, when they are more mature, so to speak, than those and now connect with the souls in the beyond who are in the same state of maturity. Then, however, they will assist people again but no longer desire to be close to earth, instead they will try to draw people's thoughts up into the spiritual kingdom, they will try to guide people's spirit away from earth upwards because they are happier in that kingdom and earth has lost all attraction for them. However, they do not forget the people on earth and they are particularly helpful to those who have reduced their state of suffering and redeemed them from their misery and torment through prayer and heartfelt remembrance. Once these souls have been redeemed they themselves will have much strength at their disposal which they can pass on to the human being on earth, and his struggle on earth will become increasingly easier and his spiritual progress will be easily recognizable. For now the redeemed souls draw from an inexhaustible source.... It is their bliss to be able to help, and their love will turn to the people on earth who still have to fight for the salvation of their souls. They now offer their thanks in the same way, they help the unredeemed to become free from their bondage. How easy it is for people to strive upwards if they have acquired the love of the beings in the beyond through their willingness to help and are now rewarded for their love.... People can then enter the beyond in a state of light and be spared the agonizing state of imperfect beings. For this is also spiritual good that a person acquires on earth.... He finds his loved ones again in the beyond, there is no separation of those who were united in love on earth and whose love did not end with the death of the body.... Inward understanding and blissful love now also unites the beings because the same spiritual state of maturity is the effect of mutual loving remembrance. What it means to have contributed to the redemption of a soul will only be understandable to the souls in the beyond when the being realizes both the state of happiness as well as the state of suffering.... And this is why the redeemed being in the beyond is always willing to help the unredeemed, and its love extends to the kingdom of the beyond as well as to earth. And this is why people on earth should make friends in the beyond through their constant willingness to help the souls which are still dependent on their help and love. For what they do out of love will be repaid to them many times over....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers