Source: https://www.bertha-dudde.org/en/proclamation/3499

3499 Collecting spiritual treasures.... bogus goods....

July 27, 1945: Book 45

All that the world offers are illusory goods that are without any value and without permanence. They are only given to the human being to test his will, who should turn away from them in order to strive for spiritual goods which are of lasting value and imperishable. The person who lives in love very quickly learns to recognize the worthlessness of earthly goods, whereas a person who lacks love for his neighbour has an increased desire for it, thus his love is wrongly directed and strives for what it should overcome. Until he fights this love, spiritual good is not desirable to him. At the end of his life, however, he must separate himself from all earthly things, and this separation will be difficult or easy for him, depending on his attitude towards the pseudo-goods of the world. To have overcome these means an easy detachment from earth; but the human being who has lost his heart to matter, to dead goods without value and continuance, is held back to earth as if by chains. His soul cannot detach itself and it means a difficult battle for it in which it is defeated as soon as the end has come. And now it enters the spiritual kingdom completely poor and naked, which only offers it what the soul desired on earth.... again sham goods, although they are no longer material, yet they constantly oppress it as foam formations by increasing the desire for them, while the soul is denied fulfilment so that it shall recognize the worthlessness of what it aspired to on earth. But the soul does not possess spiritual goods since it has not collected any on earth. And its fate is not very enviable.... Nowhere does it find what it is looking for, and poor and meagre it now dwells in desolate surroundings. She cannot hand out anything since she has nothing herself and therefore cannot receive anything either, because it is the law in the spiritual kingdom that every soul is considered according to its will to love, that only those who give receive, and receiving as well as giving is blissful. It is indeed also offered spiritual gifts by loving souls in order to help it, yet a soul which has not yet overcome earthly matter and constantly desires its possession will not accept spiritual gifts because it does not yet recognize their value and desires them just as little as on earth. It must first have killed its own desire, it must have recognized its worthlessness and now strive for constant goods, only then will it pay attention to these if they are offered to it, and only then will it seek to collect spiritual treasures. Whoever already achieves this on earth enters the beyond carefree, and the spiritual goods he has acquired on earth he takes with him into the spiritual kingdom. And since he now has treasures at his disposal he can also work with them, he can distribute and constantly receive new treasures for his own happiness, for love impels him to use what he possesses.... he distributes and makes the souls happy which are needy but want to receive in order to be able to give again. The treasures of the world are so worthless and yet people desire them and strive for them with all eagerness. But they pay no attention to the spiritual treasures and therefore they also fear the physical end because they only think of the body but not of the soul. And God comes to their aid by showing them the transience of earthly goods in order to make them think. He also gives them spiritual gifts and tries to persuade them to accept them, yet He does not force free will but leaves the human being free to decide for the goods of this world or the gifts from the spiritual kingdom.... However, the end and the entrance into the spiritual kingdom will be according to their decision of will, for the soul creates its own fate according to its desire....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers