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4430 Value of spiritual teachings....

September 9, 1948: Book 52

You are not yet able to assess the value of spiritual instructions because you are still too entangled in earthly matter; however, upon entering eternity you will realize what possessions you call your own or how terribly poor you are, for only with spiritual values can you create the life in the spiritual world which signifies beatitude. What you can freely have on earth because My greater than great love offers you something which no human being is denied, whether he deserves it or not, you must also attain in the spiritual kingdom if you do not already enter the beyond in a state of spiritual maturity. And this achievement requires great willpower, which you then no longer possess because you have not practiced love enough on earth, which earns you increased willpower. Now you certainly also have the opportunity to take part in spiritual instructions, however, only ever on condition that your will expresses itself in loving activity towards fellow suffering souls, that you want to help them; and precisely this will will be lacking for you, for the adversity you find yourselves in, which you enter into the spiritual kingdom empty and bare, only lets you think of your own fate, and you pay no attention to the hardship of other souls. And therefore your spiritual wealth can only rarely increase unless you receive a lot of help from people on earth or beings of light who were in close contact with you and try to pull you up. Nevertheless, even then your will is still decisive. But if you are already instructed on earth and thus blessed with spiritual possessions upon entering the kingdom of the beyond, then you will only ever increase them, even though you constantly give them away.... For the will to love is exceedingly strong in you and expresses itself in the distribution of what makes you happy....

As long as you walk on earth everything earthly-material is more important to you than spiritual teachings, and yet the latter represent a far greater value because they are imperishable, whereas earthly goods can be destroyed or lost from today to tomorrow. Therefore you must imagine the transience of that which is desirable to you in order to learn to despise it, in order to reduce your desire for it. Accordingly, the value of spiritual goods will increase for you if you hope for a blissful life in the spiritual kingdom, treasures which you can take with you into eternity and which can no longer be taken away from you. If you now have the extraordinary grace of being taught directly from the spiritual kingdom, you will have an overwhelming wealth at your disposal which you can already utilize on earth. Love must drive you to share it with your neighbour, to want to impart the same to him. You should present your treasures to the world and offer them to people who are in need and in spiritual distress. For they are poor and you should give them what you have in abundance, for I want to help them to enter the blessing of spiritual possessions, so that they will hear the truth through your mouth through which I thus express Myself, because I want the soul not to enter the spiritual kingdom poor and naked at its death....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers