2450 Acquiring graces in the afterlife.... activity in spheres of light....

August 16, 1942: Book 33

The time of earthly life rich in grace comes to an end with the human being's death, for then his soul returns to the spiritual kingdom and is either richly blessed with spiritual possessions or poor and meagre, depending on whether it has utilized the blessings which were at its disposal during earthly life. As soon as earthly life is over the supply of grace ceases insofar as that the being now has to struggle for it itself, that it therefore only acquires new favours through its right attitude towards God.... that it is therefore granted divine grace, i.e. with His help, if it professes God, thus acquires His emanation of love through the will to work with love. This is a favour in the truest sense of the word, since the test of earthly life should actually bring final perfection to the human being and now God, out of greater than great love, will not deny the being His help in the beyond either, in such a way that He grants the being an insight into the suffering of other souls and thereby wants to cause the former to help these suffering souls. Through this will to help it acquires God's grace again, which God hands out unmeasured in order to save the souls from darkest adversity. And the soul thanks its creator when it has become knowledgeable, i.e. when it can receive God's emanation of love, for then it is full of bliss and praises and glorifies God uninterruptedly.... (16.8.1942) The spheres of light are now accessible to this soul, they are its constant environment. It no longer has to fear a decline, it can only enter ever brighter spheres of light, but no shadow will ever cloud its bliss.... And now its otherworldly activity begins, which brings it supreme satisfaction, for it only carries out what deepest love impels it to do, and therefore its present activity is blissful. A loving soul is only anxious to give happiness, thus to hand out what makes it happy itself, and since it has gone through the state of lightlessness itself and felt the agonizing lack of freedom, it wants to help the souls in its love who have to endure the same fate. For now it also knows that it thereby fulfils God's will; it feels as if it is permeated by the divine will and carries it out without resistance. And yet it does not curtail the freedom of will of the souls it wants to lead upwards. Hence its work is laborious and requires utmost patience, yet its love will not let it tire, and the effort will also be rewarded, for it feels utmost bliss when the soul listens to its whisperings and begins to detach itself from the world. This work on the souls in the beyond and on earth is redeeming activity, the significance of which the human being on earth only rarely realizes, for only the knowledge of eternal bliss makes the necessity of such activity understandable. But as soon as the soul in the beyond is in the realm of the divine emanation of love, it also knows about its task and its importance, and it now fulfils it with a devotion that is only based on its love. love and beatitude are inseparable, the soul has to prepare beatitude with love because it constantly receives beatitude, and it has to help the still bound souls to remove all obstacles which prevent access to beatitude.... The soul must pass on the knowledge through which the unfree souls also attain freedom and can now likewise enter spheres of light, eternal bliss....

Amen

This proclamation is used in the following themebooks:

Themebook	Title	Download
111	Divine Grace	ePub   PDF   Kindle
137	Work Of Love In The Beyond	ePub   PDF   Kindle

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