1433 The essential in the solid form.... material....

May 23, 1940: Book 23

Recognizing the essential essence of God's creation requires a certain knowledge, because without this knowledge man only sees so-called dead matter, but not the essence that this matter contains within itself. However, God's creation is only visible to people at all if it harbours essence. So what is visible to man as matter is by no means dead. Everything is alive, even the seemingly lifeless solid form. Only the spiritual hidden in it is still in the lowest degree of maturity, therefore condemned to inactivity, just as every low being will always be inactive and just the increased activity of a being or any creation also betrays a higher state of maturity. The outer form therefore does not enclose something lifeless, but an entity that is forced to remain in inactivity, which therefore appears lifeless because its low degree of maturity does not yet allow it to engage in blissful activity. For all activity is a blissful state and therefore presupposes a certain degree of maturity. The sooner the spiritual being in the solid form is given the opportunity to serve.... i.e. the sooner it is given some task that is beneficial to another being, the sooner it fulfils its destiny and can now escape from this fixed form. And every new external form will mean a somewhat relieved state of constraint for the being. However, the development of the plant and animal world progresses considerably faster than that in the solid form. For in order to redeem the spiritual from the solid form, each time violent disintegrations are necessary, which now take place either through the will of God, i.e. naturally, or through human hands. The former are planned and decided in deepest wisdom when the spiritual in this form has matured and is therefore to become free. This happens through natural catastrophes, which completely transform creations of unspeakably long life within a short time, so that through shattering of formerly solid form what was bound in it becomes free. In the other case, people themselves contribute to releasing what is bound from its solid form by wanting to remodel existing material and, to this end, shredding, dissolving and otherwise reassembling it. Every work of destruction, however, is based on a specific purpose.... thus means an advantage for other creations.... results, as it were, in an opportunity for the being to serve and is therefore God-willed.... provided that everything now created by human hands corresponds to His divine will, i.e. that it is not based on base motives.... e.g. harm done to one's neighbour or anything that is detrimental to people or any creation. The frequent remodelling of what is spiritual within itself is only a great blessing for the being and is gratefully welcomed by it if the new external form serves some useful purpose. The form, and thus also the spiritual substance in this form, now serves, and this serving again earns it a new deformation, and this continues until the form around the being becomes less and less burdensome.... and the transformations proceed faster and faster. This development of all beingness is not often recognizable to man and is therefore far too little observed, but when man imagines the many objects which have the purpose to serve him.... when he now considers that all these objects carry spiritual life in themselves.... when he finally imagines that he himself has already lived through this captivity and likewise had to endure endless times of agony and banishment, then he will only look at every work of creation in this thought.... but he will also pay more attention to his earthly life and thus also regocnize the responsibility he bears towards his soul.... He will help the spiritual in the solid form to liberation as far as possible and also endeavour himself to always serve God and his fellow human being in order to redeem himself from the last form through service....

Amen

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