Life on earth is given to you to detach yourselves from form.... What this means will only really become understandable to you in the spiritual kingdom, where every cover is a hindrance to you because it always means a shackling of the spirit. And the spirit is bound as long as there is still an earthly thought, an earthly desire in the soul, for it is bound to a certain environment which it creates for itself through its desire. The free spirit, on the other hand, is master of time and space. Where it wants to dwell, there it is; spiritual territory is accessible to it, for its will alone is enough to move it to where it wants to dwell. His will can accomplish everything, he is no longer hindered by anything, therefore completely free. Once it has become free it no longer has to fear a decline either, but it does not completely distance itself from the spiritual, which is still languishing in bondage, because it urges itself to help it to freedom too. And the still unfree soul only feels the benefit of becoming free when its earthly desire begins to subside.... Then its ascent will also begin, but before that unthinkably long times can pass where it does nothing to become free from the form, which no longer consists of earthly substances but burdens the soul in such a way that it feels it as compulsion or pressure. It often has to walk arduous paths which it hardly believes it can overcome, it has to endure hardship, albeit in a different way than on earth, yet the suffering does not weigh it down any less than on earth. And it could have easily averted this painful state on earth, for it was given the opportunity to become free from the form.... This awareness is agonizing and increases its torment, for it certainly recognizes its state of suffering but not in what way it can still free itself from it in the beyond. For this realization is only the result of its will to want to help; only when it disregards its own suffering and takes the hardship of fellow suffering souls to heart, when it wants to help them, does it realize that this is the only way to become free itself, that the activity of love is also necessary in the beyond in order to illuminate the dark surroundings and to reach somewhat brighter regions, and it becomes easier and freer for the soul the more willing it is to serve the other suffering souls.... The free spiritual essence assists it by instructing the soul and giving it advice, yet even unrecognized by its abundance of light, for just as on earth the ascent upwards has to be striven for of completely free will and all compulsion has to be eliminated. Yet the free spiritual essence does not abandon the suffering souls in their adversity but tries to help them wherever and however it can....
Amen
TranslatorŽivljenje na Zemlji vam je dano zato, da se ločite od oblike.... Kaj to pomeni, vam bo zares razumljivo šele v duhovnem kraljestvu, kjer vam je vsako pokrivalo ovira, saj vedno pomeni okov duha. Duh pa je zvezan, dokler je v duši še zemeljska misel, zemeljska želja, je duša vezana na določeno okolje, ki si ga ustvarja s svojo željo. Svobodni duh pa je gospodar časa in prostora. Kjer želi prebivati, tam je; duhovno ozemlje mu je dostopno, saj je dovolj samo njegova volja, da ga premakne tja, kjer želi prebivati. Njegova volja lahko doseže vse, nič več ga ne ovira, zato je popolnoma svoboden. Ko postane svoboden, se mu tudi ni več treba bati propada, vendar se ne oddalji povsem od duhovnega, ki še vedno tiči v suženjstvu, saj je pozvan, da tudi njemu pomaga do svobode. Še vedno nesvobodna duša pa občuti korist od tega, da je postane svobodna šele takrat, ko se njena zemeljska želja začne umikati.... Takrat se bo začel tudi njen vzpon, toda pred tem lahko mine nepredstavljivo dolgo obdobje, ko ne stori ničesar, da bi se osvobodila oblike, ki ni več sestavljena iz zemeljskih snovi, ampak dušo obremenjuje tako, da jo čuti kot prisilo ali pritisk.
Pogosto mora prehoditi težke poti, za katere komaj verjame, da jih lahko premaga, prenašati mora stisko, čeprav na drugačen način kot na Zemlji, vendar jo trpljenje ne obremenjuje nič manj kot na Zemlji. In na Zemlji bi se zlahka izognila temu bolečemu stanju, saj ji je bila dana priložnost, da se osvobodi forme.... To zavedanje je mučno in povečuje njeno muko, saj prepozna svoje stanje trpljenja, ne pa tudi, kako se ga v posmrtnem življenju lahko osvobodi. To spoznanje je namreč le posledica njene volje, da želi pomagati; šele ko ne upošteva svojega trpljenja in si vzame k srcu stisko sočloveka, ki trpi, ko mu želi pomagati, spozna, da je to edini način, da sebe osvobodi, da je dejavnost ljubezni potrebna tudi v onstranstvu, da bi osvetlila temno okolico in dosegla nekoliko svetlejša območja, in da je za dušo tem lažje in svobodnejše, čim bolj je pripravljena služiti drugim trpečim dušam....
Svobodno duhovno bistvo je zaradi obilice svetlobe celo neprepoznavno, pomaga ji z navodili in nasveti, ki jih duša sicer ne prepozna, saj si je potrebno tako kot na Zemlji za vzpon navzgor prizadevati s povsem svobodno voljo in odpraviti vsakršno prisilo. Vendar svobodno duhovno bistvo ne zapusti trpečih duš v njihovi nesreči, temveč jim skuša pomagati, kjerkoli in kakorkoli lahko....
Amen
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