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The will to live.... Fear of death

The human will to live is very strongly developed as long as his soul’s maturity is still very low, which is quite understandable since the world still captivates him and pretends to fulfil his wishes. The human being finds it extremely difficult to give up his earthly life as long as he lacks faith in life after death, because the latter makes him look at all life on earth differently. A profoundly devout person merely looks at earthly life as in intermediate place, as a school which he has to attend in order to be admitted into the kingdom where real life begins. And this faith will also give him the strength to overcome all obstacles and difficulties of earthly life, whereas the unbeliever often breaks down and discards his life assuming that he is able to permanently end it himself. Anyone with profound faith will gladly give up his life if it is demanded of him because he directs his attention towards the life after the death of his body and his longing towards the union with God, since he feels that this is primarily the true life. As long as the human being only pays attention to the earth and its goods he inhibits his aspirations to ascend, he desires the world with every fibre of his being and the thought that he will have to leave this world one day is intolerable and depressing to him.

And this reveals his state of mind because his love for the world diminishes his love for God and other people, and thus the person is still spiritually immature, i.e. his soul has not yet united with the spirit within himself, he is not yet aware and knows nothing better than his earthly life. In that case he finds every thought of death appalling, he wants to live to enjoy, he desires worldly goods and disregards spiritual values. And this spiritual low level cannot be criticized enough since the human being is now in great danger to lose his earthly as well as his spiritual life. If he does not use his earthly life to find a connection to God he will live in vain and it is better that he should suffer the loss of his earthly life than to fall into deepest love with matter, which amounts to spiritual death. Earthly life is a mercy given to the human being for higher development and for rising above matter in order to enter the spiritual kingdom.... However, if the human being’s real task on earth is disregarded he chains himself to matter and forcibly has to be pulled away by the termination of his earthly life. As long as the thought of physical death is intolerable to a person he is not paying any attention to his real earthly task. The will to live is so strong in him that he will do anything to protect and lengthen it in the belief that his life is in his own hands, and yet again he feels fearful of having to lose it prematurely. Only in view of the beyond, in the belief of the soul’s life after death, the terror of death begins to subside and then the human being understands that his earthly life is a mere preliminary stage for the real life which will last eternally....

Amen

VOLJA ZA ŽIVOTOM.... STRAH OD SMRTI....

Volja ljudskog bića za životom/življenjem je vrlo snažno razvijena sve dok je zrelost njegove duše i dalje vrlo niska, što je sasvim razumljivo budući ga svijet i dalje obuzima/očarava i daje mu pričinu [[ili ‘pretendira/pretvara se’]] kako ispunjava njegove želje. Ljudsko biće nalazi odustajanje od njegovog zemaljskog života izuzetno teškim sve dok mu nedostaje vjere u život nakon smrti, budući potonje čini da on na život na Zemlji gleda drugačije. Vrlo duboko posvećena/privržena osoba na zemaljski život gleda tek kao na prijelazno mjesto, kao na školu koju mora pohađati kako bi bio primljen u kraljevstvo gdje započinje stvarni život. I ova vjera će mu također dati snagu prevladati sve prepreke i poteškoće zemaljskog života, dok se nevjernik često slama i odbacuje svoj život pretpostavljajući kako ga je on sam sposoban trajno dokončati. Svatko sa vrlo dubokom vjerom će rado dati svoj život ako se to od njega zahtjeva budući usmjerava svoju pažnju prema životu nakon smrti njegova tijela i njegovoj čežnji za uniji sa Bogom, pošto osjeća kako je to primarno istinski život. Sve dok ljudsko biće jedino obraća pažnju na Zemlju i njezina dobra on koči/spriječava svoje težnje za uzlazom, on žudi svijet sa svakom žilicom svojeg bića i misao kako će jednog dana morati napustiti ovaj svijet je za njega nepodnošljiva i depresivna.

A to otkriva njegovo stanje uma pošto njegova ljubav za svijetom umanjuje njegovu ljubav spram Boga i drugih ljudi, i stoga je čovjek i dalje duhovno nezreo, to jest, njegova duša se još nije ujedinila sa duhom u sebi, on još nema svjesnost i ništa mu bolje nije poznato od njegova zemaljskog života. U tom slučaju je za njega svaka misao o smrti strašna, on želi živjeti da bi uživao, on žudi svjetovna dobra i zanemaruje/prezire duhovne vrijednosti. I ovaj se duhovno nizak nivo ne može dovoljno puno kritizirati pošto je ljudsko biće sada u velikoj opasnosti izgubiti njegov zemaljski baš kao i duhovni život. Ako ne iskoristi svoj zemaljski život da bi pronašao sjedinjenje sa Bogom on će živjeti uzalud i za njega je bolje izgubiti zemaljski život nego se najdublje zaljubiti u materiju, što je istoznačno sa duhovnom smrću. Zemaljski život je milost dana ljudskom biću poradi višeg razvoja i za nadvladavanje [[ili ‘da bi se izdignuo iznad’]] materije kako bi mogao ući u duhovno kraljevstvo.... Međutim, ako zbiljski zadatak ljudskog bića na Zemlji biva zanemaren on sebe veže za materiju i mora na silu biti odvučen/odvojen dokončavanjem njegovog zemaljskog života. Sve dok je misao o fizičkoj smrti nepodnošljiva za čovjeka on ne obraća dovoljno pažnje na njegov stvaran zemaljski zadatak. Volja za životom je u njemu toliko jaka da će učiniti sve da bi ga zaštitio i produžio u vjeri kako je njegov život u njegovim vlastitim rukama, a ipak on se plaši da ga ne izgubi prerano. Jedino sa mišlju o onostranom, u vjeri o dušinom životu nakon smrti, užas od smrti se započinje povlačiti i onda ljudsko biće razumije kako je njegov zemaljski život samo pripremna faza za stvaran život koji će trajati vječno.

AMEN