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6400 Informing people (earth task)....

November 13, 1955: Book 68

It is your task to make the significance of earthly life clear to your fellow human beings if you want to be of service to Me, for very few are informed of the fact that they live on earth for the sake of a purpose. They look for the purpose of life in earthly life itself, they conscientiously endeavour to meet all the demands of life as far as they serve the body.... But they don't know that it is the soul which has been given an aim on earth which the human being should achieve, and that earthly life was given to him for this purpose. And as long as people don't receive full enlightenment about their actual purpose of existence they live thoughtlessly and unscrupulously into the day.... Admittedly, only a few will listen to a knower's ideas, only a few will believe what you tell them, and yet they must be informed of it, because only then can they be called to account when they have received a certain knowledge about it. People's thinking has to be directed from the earthly into the spiritual kingdom in order to then be able to decide in which kingdom they now want to permanently dwell. Through education most people are already mentally pointed to this, so that there is hardly a person who has not already taken notice of a world existing outside of earth.... But as long as this knowledge has not become an inner conviction it is of no use to the human being.... And thus you, My servants on earth, should try to convey this inner conviction to your fellow human beings. It is arduous work which requires patience and perseverance and often enough is also unsuccessful, yet it has to be done if people are to be helped.... It is a work which has to be tackled again and again if it was unsuccessful at first.... And I Myself support you through external influences, through strokes of fate, through events which cause you to think. For only when the human being thinks can the first success be recorded. People strive for matter with all their senses.... They must learn to recognize matter as worthless in order to overcome it.... I Myself must repeatedly present or prove to them the transience of matter, and you must build on this and present to them the goods which are imperishable and have lasting value.... and thus draw their attention to their actual purpose of earthly life: to the overcoming of matter and the acquisition of spiritual treasures during their existence. The more a human being is chained to the material world and its goods, the less he will accept your teachings, but for every human being the time comes when he is deprived of what he believes to possess.... Every human being experiences death around him and is thereby prompted to think of his own death. And death is so certain for every human being that thoughts of it will also arise in him one day.... And then it is good if he remembers your instructions which are guaranteed to come to his mind through the influence of the world of light, which is why none of your efforts will be entirely unsuccessful, only sometimes delayed to the own detriment.... You should not let yourselves be discouraged by rejections, you should insistently point out the coming end, but also the end of life which is certain for every human being once.... But you should also preach to them the survival of the soul, the immortality of that which, as soul, gives the human being his I-consciousness.... This soul cannot pass away, this soul has received earthly life for the purpose of maturing, and after the death of the body this soul takes upon itself the fate it acquired in earthly life.... Again and again you should remind people of death and the state of the soul after death.... Again and again you should distract them from earthly thoughts and try to open up the spiritual kingdom for them, again and again you should inform them of their earthly task.... And I Myself will always support you as far as it is possible without coercion of will. Every person knows about it, yet only a few believe in the truth of what is repeatedly held up to them.... And therefore your vineyard work is so urgently needed, because all people who are of good will shall still be helped....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers