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7174 Final destruction also an act of mercy....

July 25, 1958: Book 76

The perpetual change of the outer form, the constant becoming and passing away of all visible things, guarantees a slow upward development of the spiritual bound in it, it guarantees the attainment of a certain degree of maturity, even if after an endlessly long time. Every change in the creation of nature is therefore proof of this upward development, even though it takes place in the law of compulsion. And thus it can also be concluded that works of creation whose change is not recognizable to the human eye.... which therefore require a very long time until external changes become noticeable.... still harbour very hardened spiritual substances within themselves which are only able to detach themselves from the depth with difficulty and which therefore often need help from outside in order to get rid of their cover and to be able to take on other external forms. Everything visible to you humans serves this upward development of the spiritual, and anyone who once makes these thoughts his own will also learn of his own accord to understand the necessity of events which bring about a violent detonation or dissolution of those works of creation which have already existed unchanged for endless times and yet also once have to release the spiritual for the purpose of further development. What people often regard as the greatest misfortune, because it places people and animals in unimaginable hardship, is at the same time an act of love and mercy on that spiritual which has languished for eternities in hardest matter and can only be freed from its imprisonment by such natural events willed by God. It is true that its resistance is often still very great, but it can only diminish in the individual phases of its development, because every slightest relief can also awaken the spiritual being's desire for a serving activity and then the resistance also begins to weaken.... thus the upward development can continue. However, it is by no means insignificant when the spiritual substance bound in solid matter is allowed to become active, for the redemption periods also have a limited duration by God's will, and the spiritual substance should also have started its course as a human being across earth during this limited time.... And therefore, at the beginning of a new epoch that which is bound in the hardest form will always have become free, which happens precisely through natural disasters, eruptions and destruction of earth creations at the end of the old earth period, so that then the spiritual's path through already loosened forms, through the new creations, can begin.... while the now risen creations of hardest matter receive the spiritual into themselves again, which, as completely satanically influenced, belongs to the attachment of God's adversary and is therefore banished again in hard form. And thus the destruction and total transformation of the earth's surface predicted for the end of an earth period will also be explainable to you humans as an act of necessity, because one day the spiritual substances still languishing in the abyss shall also start their path of development and therefore must also be helped to emerge from hard matter.... For all 'spiritual' beings are beings which once fell away from God and which He wants to win back again on a path which He recognizes as successful. And all beings once emerged from His love and will not lose this love either, which is why He always and constantly helps them to emerge from darkness into light....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers