7214 Must state.... free state as a human being....

November 24, 1958: Book 76

You passed through countless deformations and continued to ascend in your development, but it happened under the law of compulsion; you were, as it were, forced into an activity which was assigned to you and which you also carried out in accordance with your deformation.... It was a state of bondage, a state of being bound, which could not dispose of itself but was subject to the eternal lawgiver, Who, however, in love and wisdom ordered everything in such a way as was good and promising of success. And thus this long period of your upward development was also of a certain expediency.... i.e., the spiritual being which covered this course irrevocably reached a degree of maturity which made the ever higher deformation possible and finally therefore also resulted in the embodiment as a human being.... for which a certain degree of maturity is a prerequisite. Now, in the last stage of development, there is the possibility of becoming completely free from form, i.e. of attaining again to full spiritualization, to a state of light, strength and freedom.... But there is also the danger of remaining in or falling away into a state which has long since been overcome, because the human being can now act and want freely, in contrast to the state where everything took its course according to natural law and success was guaranteed. But for once the free decision must be demanded of the spiritual, because it is now to prove which direction the will of the spiritual takes. This alone is decisive as to whether the being will become free from every material external form and be ready for the kingdom of light or will still make a last attempt in dark spheres to reach the light.... For even the latter is still possible through God's great mercy and grace if the human being has failed on earth, but it is no longer possible for him to attain the degree of childship to God which can only be acquired on earth. This is, in short, the course of development of a soul.... And people should take note of this and do everything in order to mature during their short earthly lifetime, that is, they should live according to God's commandments and thus endeavour to live in love in order to then inevitably also mature.... For it is only love which the being lacks and which should ignite it again within itself in order to remedy all imperfections, in order to become perfect again as it was in the beginning.... Nothing impossible is demanded of you humans; but if you know how tremendously serious the effects of a right or wrong way of life are, if you know what lies behind you and what fate you are facing, it should nevertheless be easy for you to make God's will your own and fulfil His easy commandments, for this fulfilment of love for God and your neighbour does not require such difficult conditions as the course of development already behind you has demanded of you.... You only need to overcome selfish love and change your nature into unselfish neighbourly love, you only need to let your original nature break through again and you will lose nothing but only gain, for you will receive freedom, light and strength in abundance and only give away temporary illusory goods which are only of use to your body but not to your soul. But this last test of will has to be put to you on earth because your free will has to take the last steps towards perfection, otherwise the infinitely long time you spent under the law of compulsion would have been in vain and the being would be in danger of sinking back into the abyss again.... In order to be unspeakably happy, your free will must decide on the final return.... for this return cannot take place under compulsion.... And for this last decision earthly life as a human being has been given to you, which is therefore extremely significant for you. But nothing impossible is demanded of you but only the fulfilment of the divine commandments of love.... And every person can practice love because a spark of love was placed in his heart by God which he only needs to ignite, which requires the human being's own will. But this is why you humans should also know about the long path of development you had to travel beforehand, and through this knowledge you should also attain a sense of responsibility in order to consciously cover earthly life, in order to want and act in mind of the success or failure.... For it is the last possibility to reach perfection.... in order to attain a life which lasts forever and promises unimaginable bliss, but which must be striven for and acquired of one's own free will....

Amen

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