2838 Knowledge about the primordial beginning and final destination....

August 6, 1943: Book 37

People lack the knowledge of the primordial beginning and the final goal of everything that exists, and therefore they do not live their earthly life consciously. But no human being can say that this knowledge was never conveyed to him, even if not in detail, at least the belief in a deity was suggested to them Whose pleasure they should gain through their way of life.... This has always been held out to them with regard to the effects in the kingdom beyond, thus it has always been the prerequisite for life after the death of the body, and the human being could now take a stand on it according to his will.... As soon as he now lets this faith become strong in himself he penetrates ever deeper into knowledge, i.e., he is mentally instructed by the knowing beings in the spiritual kingdom according to divine will, the meaning and purpose of the works of creation and therefore also of the human being is informatively presented to him, the sense of responsibility is awakened in him, and of his own free will he now tries to comply with divine will.... he transforms himself into love and thus now fulfills his actual task on earth. But people of the present time are not accessible to such knowledge, they regard their earthly life as a purely external matter which does not entail any future responsibility, and thus they will never make an effort to find an explanation for the endlessly long path of earthly life, they will only ever pay attention to purely earthly events and never think about why God has given His permission for an activity which makes countless people responsible....

Only the meaning and purpose of life on earth, i.e. a task connected with it, can justify what is happening in the world, what suffering and misery is being poured out on people and what cruelty is taking place. But people can never justify themselves if they themselves lend a hand and increase the evil. Anyone who knows about the primordial beginning and the final goal also knows that humanity is still very far from the final goal and therefore also knows that the great suffering is still a possibility to reach the goal. And yet people's behavior cannot be approved of, which causes such suffering to fellow human beings, for people's will is bad, only the effect of their bad will is directed by God in such a way that it can still spiritually benefit the human being as soon as he feels prompted to flee to Him and seeks help from Him. If people would pay attention to the thoughts arising in them about the purpose and goal of earthly life, if they would desire answers to such questions and quietly listen inwardly to what mentally comes to them as an answer, they would also recognize in every worldly event a means to reach the final goal set for them. But thus the disbelief about the soul's continuation of life after death is so widespread that people only see the purpose and goal of earthly life in earthly life in general, and as long as they only have this purely earthly view world events will be incomprehensible to them because they have a completely opposite effect, thus they completely contradict the goal they have set for themselves. And this is blindness of spirit, it is short-sightedness, because they regard that which is only a means to an end as an end in itself.... It is an ignorance which has a highly detrimental effect because the actual purpose of earthly existence is not taken into account and therefore not striven for. And again, it is difficult to guide people into this knowledge as long as they do not believe in life after death.... as long as they do not believe that earthly life is only a preliminary stage for the actual life, a school which they have to complete in order to be accepted into the kingdom where the actual life begins.... They must first gain this faith if they want to understand the suffering and misery, tribulation and distress that is currently happening on earth....

amen

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