2860 Imperishability.... soul.....

August 25, 1943: Book 37

Everything that God has created is spiritual power and as such is imperishable. Nevertheless, the visible creations are subject to constant change, thus they do not completely cease to exist but merely change within themselves, and even if it is no longer visible it nevertheless does not cease to exist, because God only temporarily dissolves matter until the spiritual substance therein requires a new external form again. This change now also contributes to the fact that the spiritual develops further, that it therefore never remains in the same stage, but that it reaches an ever higher degree of maturity, until it can enter its last embodiment as man. The human being, too, is to a certain extent transient, but again only the external form, whereas the soul, the spiritual substance in the human being, also outlasts the final external form and enters eternity as a disembodied being. To man on earth this spiritual, the soul, is not visible; and nevertheless it is the actual being, which only needs the bodily cover for the purpose of the last maturing on earth. But after the death of the body the soul continues its life without any cover and therefore also only visible to the spiritual beings, which are completely independent of earth and every earthly substance. What God has created remains eternally, yet the form of existence, the state of that which was created through God's will, can be very different.... accordingly also more or less visible, although it cannot pass away eternally. The human being with his bodily eyes is only able to see everything created in the stage where it has material shells, for only these are visible to the bodily eye since it can only see the spiritual in its external form in a high degree of maturity. And this is why the immortality of the human soul is usually doubted because the human being only wants to believe what he sees and what he can prove. However, after some reflection he comes to the realization that everything originated from God and therefore cannot be transient, even though it loses its earthly shell. Only when he has recognized the spiritual in himself, when he leads a spiritual life alongside his earthly, external life, does he regard matter as a shell necessary for development, which is only a means to an end for the spiritual. Then he also knows that there is no end for the spiritual, but that the outer cover is only of limited duration and remains as long as it is divine will, which then releases the spiritual for a life outside of earth, outside of matter, which never ever ends but lasts forever. Earthly life can therefore only be regarded as a transitional stage in which the spiritual, the soul, has to overcome its last external form so that it can then enter a sphere completely uncovered where its actual life begins.... in freedom and in the awareness of its strength, which it lacked on earth as long as it had not yet attained the necessary maturity.... where it is aware that it lives eternally, that it can never ever perish because that which is of God is imperishable....

amen

This proclamation is used in the following themebooks:

Themebook	Title	Download
151	O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?	ePub   PDF   Kindle
166	Conscious Soul Work	ePub   PDF   Kindle

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