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5822 Course of development.... what success?.... last graces....

December 8, 1953: Book 63

A long way you have had to go, and now it shall be finished.... But what degree of maturity have you humans attained? To what spiritual height have you reached when your physical life is over? How far have you come closer to Me as your creator and father of eternity? How far have you bent your will under Mine and what degree of love do you show Me? All this now decides your life in the spiritual kingdom, for you have finished your walk in the material world.... unless you are still so far away from God that you are destined for a new banishment into solid matter. You humans do not know that you are standing at the end of an incomprehensibly long course of development on earth, you do not know that you only have a short time left until you finally leave this earth. Your ego will then move into a new world, but it will be quite different, depending on the degree of development you have reached at the time of your passing. You had an infinitely long time at your disposal to attain a degree of maturity which ensures you a blissfully carefree life in the spiritual kingdom.... but how differently this time was used.... and how low down most people remained because they did not make proper use of earthly life, because they did not strive for any spiritual perfection. Yet even now they are still given a short period of time which, if they use their will correctly, can still enable them to attain a degree of maturity.... And people do not pay attention to this last time of grace, they do nothing in order to develop upwards.... they still live on earth but in spiritual death.... and the endless time they spent on earth in a state of compulsion was in vain.... Man strives again for that which he had long since overcome: hard matter. And this will therefore become his fate, his lot in the time that will come after this time. People don't know about the long path their souls have already travelled but they don't accept the knowledge about it either if it is offered to them, they don't believe it when their attention is drawn to it by those in the know because their spiritual blindness prevents them from doing so and no light can be given to them other than in the form of speeches given to them on My behalf by My servants on earth. They therefore don't believe it because they cannot tolerate the truth, because with the acceptance of the truth they have to surrender everything else from which, however, they don't believe they can separate themselves.... And if I want to offer them assistance I Myself have to take from them what they don't want to give up in order to make clear to them the impermanence, the transience and decrepitude of everything that fills their thoughts and aspirations. I have to cause them great pain, I have to inflict a wound on them that makes them apprehensive, so that they approach the one Who was hitherto distant from them.... so that they take advantage of the short period of time to heal their sick souls, when the body is powerless to resist, or to hand over body and soul to Him Who can heal everything and restore it to life.... You humans don't have much time left until the end, and obviously I will still intervene in people's fates in order to save them for eternity. For what is on earth will pass away.... but what spiritual treasures the soul still acquires will remain and one day make it happy after its physical death....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers