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2527 Another walk through creation.... banishing again in the form....

October 29, 1942: Book 33

Countless souls have to cover the course of development on earth once again, and this is the worst thing these souls still have to face, since they have already led a life in a certain freedom and are now bound anew in the solid form. The latter is so agonizing that the eternal deity takes pity on them and uses all means to spare these souls a renewed earthly life. Yet God has to leave one thing to people.... free will.... And therefore He cannot forcibly guide the souls upwards, instead, higher development is left to the human being's will, and this will usually turns away from the spiritual goal, which is expressed in his purely worldly life, a life which is lived completely without God. Such a life cannot result in the soul's higher development, and if it ends earthly life in an unchanged low degree of maturity then higher development in the beyond will also be questioned. There is the danger that the soul develops regressively and consequently distances itself further and further from God, i.e. the spiritual hardens and is banished again in the most solid form for the purpose of its further development in order to cover the course on earth once more until the stage as man, where free will is given to it again. It must be left to the human being how he adapts to his spiritual development.... but the consequences in both the earthly and the otherworldly life are corresponding. Having to walk through creation again is so dreadful that God tries to guide people into realization in a different way and at the same time to turn their will towards Himself so that the soul already has the desire for Him when it enters the beyond, for this desire is necessary in order to be accepted by God. And this is why God lets something come over the world which lets people seek refuge with the heavenly father so that they have a desire for Him and can now be given according to this desire. And yet even this catastrophe will only awaken a small proportion of people. Only a small part will seriously utilize the rest of their lives. And thus countless souls will have to cover the path through creation again when people no longer remember their soul and therefore cover the long earthly path in vain, so that they are now on the same level of development as before at the beginning of their embodiment as a human being....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers