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2440 Concept for time and space as a free or unfree being....

August 7, 1942: Book 33

In the period of eternity it is irrelevant in which phase of development, i.e. in which redemption period, the spiritual substance covers the earthly path, for the time before and also after is so infinitely long that the time of constraint in the form can only be assessed as a moment. Nevertheless it is not indifferent for the spiritual itself, because the sooner it is liberated from the oppressive outer form, the sooner the glories of the spiritual kingdom are made accessible to it; thus while it previously belonged to the negative forces, it has now become a positive force, which is why the time of liberation cannot be striven for seriously enough. For an unthinkably long time it worked against God, but for eternities it is now active for God and with God.... But as long as the spiritual is bound it feels like an unfree being and suffers, and moreover it has a different concept of time and space during this time than afterwards in eternity as a free being. And so this time of bondage seems unbearably long to it, and this feeling of time is likewise divine permission in order to strengthen the desire for freedom in the spiritual being. Thus it is irrelevant when the spiritual being embodies itself on earth, it will always experience this time as extremely long lasting and suffer from it; afterwards, however, as a being of light it appears to it as a fleeting moment.... As an imperfect being in the beyond, however, it still suffers from the same estimation of time.... often the time of suffering even seems never-ending to it as soon as the being is condemned to complete inactivity. For the greater is its agony because the prospect of a change in its state would reduce the being's torment. Only the imperfect being will therefore always have the awareness of time, on earth as well as in the beyond, while the perfect being is neither subject to the law of time nor space. Everything is present to it at all times, thus the perfected spiritual being knows no past, present and future but all this is only a concept.... The being can experience everything at the same time, which is incomprehensible to people on earth. However, it will no longer be able to regard the time of suffering beforehand as a time of suffering but only as a purification process which was indispensable and therefore inevitable but which it no longer perceives as agonizing because suffering and torment are no longer an option for the being of light. In the state of freedom the being is so extremely happy that it only regards the time of trial on earth as a necessary stopover which has brought it this unspeakably great happiness....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers