7449 Impact of the teachings in the afterlife....

November 7, 1959: Book 78

It is not easy work to eliminate error from the world because it is in the nature of things that error is far more readily accepted by people, that they are not as defensive towards it as they are towards pure truth. This can be explained by the defective nature of the human being himself, who is still too much under the influence of the adversary, who will always influence the human being negatively and find a hearing with him. Nevertheless, an attempt must be made to fight against error, which will only ever be possible for a person who himself stands in the pure truth and who is therefore also able to distinguish truth from error. He will not only reject an erroneous teaching but also be able to justify why such a teaching should be rejected, and this justification alone can make a turning away from it possible, whereas otherwise people will remain firmly convinced that this teaching is truth. This applies in particular to people who unhesitatingly adopt old traditions without considering their origin; it applies to people who do not even ask whether they have been offered truth but unhesitatingly accept everything that is presented to them as truth. It applies to all those who are uninterested in the 'truth', who don't care in which school of thought their thinking moves, and who don't think at all and therefore have no desire for the truth. But they too shall be addressed by the bearers of truth, they too shall be roused from their state of sleep and the misguided teachings shall be brightly illuminated so that they will think about them and take a stand. For having to enter the kingdom of the beyond afflicted by error means hard work for the soul until it becomes somewhat free, because the error is so firmly held by such a soul that it is difficult to talk it out of it.... But a soul can only be blissfully happy when it moves in truth, because its bliss consists of distributing but it will only be able to distribute when it has a possession itself. The soul first has to attain the truth in the kingdom of the beyond before it can participate in making other souls happy, which consists of spreading and passing on the truth. You humans don't know how serious the consequences of misguided teachings are in the beyond, because it is your own fault if you are entangled in error.... because you neither desire the pure truth nor do anything to receive it. For it is available to you at all times, and the slightest will to experience the truth will be met by it being conveyed to you in some way. But as long as you don't muster this will, as long as you feel comfortable in the midst of error or you are indifferent as to what your spiritual knowledge consists of, you will also reject the truth if it is conveyed to you in the form of gifts of grace.... Your earnest will to stand in the pure truth is enough and it will become yours.... Then your thoughts will always be guided such that you will start to doubt and question, that you will pay attention as soon as spiritual enlightenments are conveyed to you, and you will always think the right thoughts because you desire the truth.... For this reason it is easy for every person to attain the truth, because only his own sincere desire needs to be stimulated in order to then also be guaranteed to receive the truth, which he irrevocably still has to gain on earth in order to be able to enter the kingdom of the beyond with a bright spirit, where it is light and clear for him, where he therefore no longer has to fear darkness.... But every error also means darkness.... If you seriously consider that light can only shine where truth is, then you would anxiously chase after the truth in order not to fall into the darkness which every error will one day mean for your soul. For darkness is torment, light alone is bliss.... This is why the disciples of the end time are instructed to take action against all error, because the souls shall one day be spared this darkness. But people must have the will and desire for light, for a state of brightest realization which only truth can offer them.... In their deepest heart people must want to live in truth, because this truth is part of the eternal deity and because error means an eclipse of the spirit, which is only ever backed by God's adversary. Truth alone is light.... Therefore seek the truth as long as you live on earth, for then it will be far more difficult to attain it when you are surrounded by darkness in the spiritual kingdom, from which you cannot detach yourselves as easily as on earth, where pure truth is repeatedly offered to you, where truth will constantly fight error and can also be recognized as truth by every person who is of good will....

Amen

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