Threefold path of development for man and final judgment in the third time

Audio: The Book of True Life - Volume 3 - Instruction 63 - Verses 51 - 58

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 51 In the First Age, your God revealed Himself in Sinai, and the quality of His essence that He offered you was that of His righteousness and His law. In the Second Time, the same God spoke to you in Christ and revealed to you a side of His Being which you had not understood: love. And in the present time epoch, which is the Third Time, My Holy Spirit speaks to you from infinity; He communicates with your spirit out of the spiritual and thus shows you another characteristic of His being, that of His wisdom, which is light for all mankind. Why see secrets where there are none? The mystery of the Trinity has been solved.

52 What was it that caused Me to create you? - My Love. for before I created you, I loved you already in Me the Lord loved those who were to become His children, but He wanted to feel loved by them too For the children I designed nature, the forces of nature, the worlds or homes, so that you could be a part of the material life and so could begin a path of perfection and upward development. I gave the souls a material body through which they could express their feelings and their abilities, guided by conscience.

53 To the man thus procured and endowed I granted free will; in his inner being I laid the leaf of my law and my justice and placed him at the beginning of the path of development.

54 Without this inner law man would never have recognized, understood, and loved me. But the conscience, which has been the beacon that lights the way, and the voice that advises the good, has made you understand the revelations of the Father; and now you have arrived at the presence in which the incarnated spirit is to freely reveal itself and assert itself against the useless and the material.

55 Why did I have to come down to you on three occasions? Because you fell on the difficult life journey and I had to come to raise you up from the dust of the earth - because you deviate from the path with full consciousness. But when you then perish and weep, you tell me, "Father, why do you punish me? Why do you say that I have punished you? Consider that - while you blaspheme - the life with which I have surrounded you continues to give you its benefits. Learn to live, then you will not stumble: this My law teaches you. Do not expect peace or true life from the teachings of men.

56 My judgment will come to all. When the time comes, I will ask the "servants of My law" and the men who form dogmas, "What is your harvest? And the one as well as the other will show me only vanity, hostility and their lack of love for men.

57 Before all others I will judge the keepers of My law, for this is My testament of love and wisdom for all My children, for from him the redemption of men proceeds. Woe to those who keep these teachings hidden in their minds because this will be a cave of darkness - or in their hearts because it will be only a cave of selfishness!

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Der Ewigvater und der Krieg in den Herzen    (The Eternal Father and the war in the hearts) 

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Study about the soul - From a spiritual point of view*

* This study is based on the "Book of True Life" Vol. II and other revelations.

The term "soul" is familiar to people, but they have different opinions about what the soul is. They know that it is a part of the human being and they insert it into the triad of Body - Soul - Spirit. Three components that form the unit "human being", each part having a different task.

The body is the visible, material part of man; it serves as a protective cover for soul and Spirit and is at the same time their tool to be able to communicate with the outside world. Since the body is visible and palpable, it has been studied and researched by scientists over the course of time, so that one has a great deal of knowledge about its tasks and its wonderful mechanism. It functions so perfectly and logically that many have forgotten that behind it there is a highly wise, spiritual force.

Knowledge about the other two components of man is less certain and partly blurred. Since they are invisible and cannot be investigated experimentally, science has great difficulty in explaining the nature and function of the soul and Spirit. And yet it is very important to have clarity about them, because if we succeed in lifting the veil of the unknown, we will also gain a precise knowledge about the meaning and purpose of human life on earth. However, our intellect alone is not capable of this, because spiritual things can only be grasped and explained spiritually. But God's Spirit reveals these mysteries through men whom he has prepared to receive his inspirations. Through these tools, God has revealed to us the knowledge that our limited mind is able to grasp.

The material, visible world creation has existed since incomprehensible times; but before it there was already a spiritual creation. Its author is God, the original spirit from eternity. At the center of His being burned the fire of perfect love, which is His main attribute. But what good is the highest love if it cannot be passed on and thus proved? - So God created for himself in a spirit being a vessel into which he could put his love, his wisdom, his light, and also his creative power. It was a being, out of God's love hearts, an image of God, for it carried the same divine qualities in itself. Since it was a pure mirror of the divine light, the designation "Lucifer" or "Lightbearer" was analogously his own. Thanks to divine authority, this first-created being could be creatively active, and soon other, identical beings emerged from it, but of lesser power. They too were children of God's love, in radiant light, in highest perfection. Thus God experienced the unspeakable joy of seeing his love reflected in the innumerable spirit beings.

The first created Spirit was overjoyed, but as a being created by God, he was bound to the Creator's will.

But God wanted him to be able to develop freely, because this is only the characteristic of a divine being. Lucifer's love for his Creator was to be so overpowering that it alone was decisive for the voluntary subordination of his will to the divine. God wanted to receive this proof of love from His First Created One, and for this purpose He gave him complete freedom of will. The innumerable spirit beings also possessed free will, and were therefore not subject to the mandatory law of the creature, but as children of God freely decisive beings. God taught them through conscience, which was audible in their spirit as the voice and expression of His will. They were to follow the voice of conscience, not in coercion, but in free will, as a response to the great love that God showed them.

Characteristic of freedom of will is that it carries within it the hidden incentive to do the opposite of what conscience advises. Thus there were constant contrasts in the spiritual beings, which caused them to decide constantly in free struggle: to realize the divine virtues or to do their opposite. For long periods of time the divine voice of conscience prevailed and everything was in the right order. But there came a time when Lucifer no longer wanted to obey the spiritual guidance of his Creator. The glory of the first-created being was so great that he was blinded by it. Lucifer saw the innumerable beings that his will had made appear, and he felt himself to be their creator, even though he knew that he had received the power for this from God. He could see the created spirits, but not the source of power, since God gives himself visible form only on rare occasions, for the sake of His children. In his delusion, Lucifer finally believed that the source of power was within himself, and he rose to be the sole ruler over "his" spirits, whom he knew how to convince that not God but he, Lucifer, was their creator and that they had to submit to his will.

Lucifer had decided against his Creator. Now also the innumerable spirit beings had to decide, free will could choose. - God's light beam illuminated them, and they felt their divine Father, although they could not see him. They felt His love and heard His voice in their conscience. - On the other side was Lucifer, with whom they very well noticed a change of will. But since they could see him and were devoted to him as their direct begetter in love, very many listened to his call, submitted themselves to his will, and thus strove to get away from God. With these apostate spirits, a serious change took place.

Love, the center of the divine spirit spark, had to separate from the spirit beings after they had decided against their creator. In this way they deprived themselves of the divine life force, and the vessels and organs of execution (souls) remaining without the Spirit hardened into a soul substance.

In His omniscience, the Creator knew that a great part of His children would not pass the great love test, and He had His plan ready: Not the destruction of the apostates, but their repatriation. Since the spirit beings had turned away from God through the wrong exercise of their free will, He wanted to prepare and educate them with great patience - on an infinitely long and arduous path, far from His Father's house - in such a way that they would again find the way to His Father's heart. God grasped the soul substance of Lucifer as well as that of the innumerable beings devoted to him, dissolved it into the smallest particles and transformed it into the visible, material creation. - This is incomprehensible to the intellect; only those who already possess spiritual knowledge can grasp it with an inkling. It is a nuisance to the scientist to acknowledge the thesis that the material, matter, is directed, hardened soul substance. But against this background, we can understand the words in the Apostle Paul's letter to the Romans, chapter 8, verse 19, that the whole creature is groaning and waiting with us for its redemption.

In what we consider to be an infinitely long process of development, the soul substance must constantly change, transform itself, into ever new and higher forms of life. Thus it is also understandable why matter is transitory, i.e. why it is constantly in the process of "dying and becoming". In other words, matter has no eternal existence, since it is only the shell of spiritual soul substances, which must develop higher and therefore cannot remain forever in the same shell. Matter itself does indeed consist of the same soul substance, but it is still at the beginning of its development and must therefore, as a lower form of life, serve the already higher developed forms of life in Creation. While these are normally invisible to us, matter is sensually perceptible to us, since our body also consists of matter particles, i.e. of condensed soul particles of the same lower vibration.

The soul particles bound in the material creation have to join together like crystals during the process of development. The upward development begins in the mineral kingdom and continues through the plant and animal kingdom. This is to be understood in such a way that e.g. in the animal kingdom the soul units of large quantities of small animals are combined to a larger unit after a longer development period when their shells die off, in order to produce an already higher developed soul substance, which develops further in a larger animal. This process is repeated several times, until finally in clever animals the soul has reached its highest possible maturation at this stage of development. Several such souls are then combined into a new unit according to the divine plan of salvation, which does not tolerate any standstill in the upward development, and result in a human soul. The development of souls over the creation realms of the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms takes billions of years, and it is guided by God's Spirit through His innumerable army of spirits of light, which transmit and carry out His will according to natural law.

The trained soul is now ready. It has acquired powers and abilities on its journey through the various nature kingdoms and awaits the last stage of its development: incarnation in man. It approaches the lovers on earth, and at conception it is placed in the womb of the future mother. But the essential is still missing for the soul to attain its highest perfection. Shortly before the birth of the new citizen of the earth, God directs into the soul a Spirit prepared for the first incarnation. Thus the spirit being is complete again: The two parts of this unity now strive together for the final development to perfection, which also takes a long time and goes over many reincarnations, i.e. over multiple lives on earth in different eras.

In the case of a reincarnation the Spirit-soul-unit is ready to take possession of a new earthly body, but even then the soul penetrates the mother's body alone at first and takes up the connection with the becoming germ of life. Spirit enters its soul shell later, in some cases earlier, in others later, but no later than three days before birth. - Since the soul consists of innumerable tiny particles, which are not absolutely inseparably connected with each other, it also takes up soul particles of the parents during the process of procreation, with which - besides the attraction of related souls - the inheritance of some parental dispositions can be explained.

After the origin and the development of the soul was explained in the preceding, now its nature and some of its tasks in human life shall be illuminated. First of all, it should be made clear that the soul is not something earthly-material, but an invisible, ethereal-spiritual force. It once emerged from God's Spirit as an independent being and, after an eternal atonement through the divine creations, has found its way back to its original purpose. - Spatially seen the soul in man extends over the entire human body; like the nervous system it is distributed over all organs and parts of the body. It enlivens the body, which would be lifeless without it and, on its detachment from it, leaves it as a lifeless shell. Practical thinking and wanting, sensual feeling and sensation, as well as hearing, seeing, tasting and smelling are functions of the soul. It is the inner, driving force of the bodily shell, and only those who have the gift of the spiritual face can see it and recognize that it is completely in the form of the associated human form; therefore it is also called the astral body.

Together with the body's own defenses, the soul is responsible for the health of the body. If it can vibrate undisturbed and harmoniously, it forms a protective wall against all kinds of pathogens. If, however, these have already penetrated the human body, the soul, in interaction with the bodily defense functions, immediately takes up the fight against them in order to render them harmless or drive them away. It is a real fight, through which increased temperatures are caused, which we know as fever. - The soul also has a role to play in feeding the body. The finer life forces of the food taken in by the body are passed on by the soul to all organs of the body so that each one receives the subtle soul energies beneficial to it. But if we eat and drink too much, we feel our soul become dull and sluggish, because it is too much occupied by physical concerns and therefore has lost its buoyancy for some time.

This little study would be incomplete if the relationship between Soul and Spirit was not explained and if it was not told what the Spirit is and what its functions are. First, what it is not: it must not be confused with "mind. Spirit in man is a spark of the divine spirit, of divine love, of divine light. He carries in himself all divine qualities, therefore God calls us His images, and we may call Him Father. Nevertheless, our Spirit must constantly draw strength from the source of its origin: through prayer and spiritual upliftment, and through the study of divine revelations. Only in this way can it remain active and alive and impart to man the love, wisdom and power to fulfill God's commandments.

The human Spirit - of divine origin - was put into Adam by the Creator according to the biblical account that God blew His breath of life into Adam's nostrils. Since then this invisible act of grace is repeated at the birth of every human being, when the Spirit is embedded in the soul. The soul forms the shell for the Spirit, as it were, just as the body is the shell for the soul. It is now the task of the Spirit to illuminate the soul, to imbue it with the divine virtues. In these efforts, however, the Spirit must not force the soul; the soul must subordinate itself in free decision to the guidance of the Spirit.

The soul incarnated in man is initially completely turned towards the body and is ready to fulfill all its desires. And in the same measure as the body develops, the earthly-sensual qualities of the soul become stronger, which it still carries within itself from its long path of development. Here now the task of the Spirit begins. With love and patience it must teach the soul through conscience that it must discard the lower and evil inclinations and overcome the earthly desires of the body - if unlawful. If the Spirit finds a hearing with the soul, then it has achieved great success, even if there are always relapses, in which the soul fulfills the earthly desires of the body. If the soul continues to keep itself open to the admonitions of the Spirit, the spiritual virtues can penetrate it more and more, and at the same time it becomes increasingly immune to the perverse desires of the body. The consequences of this transformation then become visible in the radiations of man: It is a person with good thoughts and pure feelings; he shows humility, patience and goodness as well as charity. When the hour of death comes, Spirit and soul leave the earthly body in full harmony and great joy, knowing that bliss and peace await them in the hereafter. As a unity they continue on the path laid out in the spiritual kingdom until they have regained the highest perfection that they had when God created them as spiritual beings. With this the salvation plan of God is brought to an end and the return of the "Prodigal Son" is achieved.

But the course of a human life can also take place quite differently. When the soul resists the teachings and the urging of the Spirit, it opens itself more and more to the demands of the body and the lower qualities in it. The Spirit fights a desperate battle and asks for strength and wisdom from his Heavenly Father. If, in its free will, the soul stubbornly rejects all influences and admonitions of the Spirit, it becomes a slave to sensual passions, material desires and all selfish impulses. It sinks so deeply that the God-spark in it is forced to inactivity; it becomes a prisoner in the soul's shell; man is then "spiritually dead. - At this stage it becomes clearly evident that Spirit and soul are two different forces. While the Spirit is condemned to inactivity and no longer makes itself perceptible through conscience, the soul lives very intensively in the "unscrupulous" man (otherwise the body would be lifeless), and its evil vices then become recognizable through thoughts and words, through feelings and actions in the outer sphere of man. God does not give up His child in this lost state. If the soul does not want to hear the voice of conscience, God speaks to it through diseases in its material body and through various hardships. In many cases, the soul then begins to think and is ready to heed the Spirit's admonitions for conversion. In this way a change takes place and the soul voluntarily submits to the guidance of the Spirit. It draws it to itself, imbues it with the spiritual virtues, and so together they go the arduous path of higher development until God calls it out of earthly life.

Unfortunately, there are innumerable cases in which the soul, in spite of the good admonitions of the Spirit through conscience and in spite of trials, persists in its evil doings. When such a soul is surprised by death, there is a bad awakening for it in the hereafter. There it can no longer escape the voice of conscience, which inexorably accuses it: whether of disobeying the divine commandments, of evil deeds, and of base passions. These self-accusations cause great pain to the soul and serve for purification. When a soul realizes and repents of its transgressions, its re-awakened Spirit can guide it so that, step by step, it can cast off its evil inclinations and absorb the divine virtues. In the cases in which a soul remains stubborn in its wickedness, it prepares an unhappy existence for itself. Since it no longer possesses an earthly body and on the other hand cannot enter the spiritual sphere either, it errs aimlessly over the earth near men. It is then attracted by those whose bad thoughts, evil deeds and base passions coincide with its own being. It takes up "dwelling" with them, influences them to evil, and this state can lead to possession, whereby it becomes worse and worse with such men. The earth-bound souls support acts of violence, confuse the mind and cause diseases; they are a constant danger to all men. But there is a protection: men who orient their lives according to God's will and send out good thoughts and feelings are surrounded by these as if with a protective cover, against which the evil-meaning attacks of lower souls bounce off, since their whispers find no resonance in these men and are immediately rejected; beyond this, men of good will can and should help the benighted souls through their prayer and the sending out of lightful thoughts.

God does not prevent the evil goings-on of the dark souls, since he must respect their free will. But the day comes once - usually after a very long time - when the soul becomes tired of its miserable existence and looks back with disgust at the atrocities it has caused. If she honestly repents and asks for forgiveness and help, her Spirit can intervene at the same moment and gently guide her. Spirits of light and angels of God are then also ready to help and instruct her. Now, step by step, the ascent can begin in the spiritual sphere.

The human Spirit - as a divine spark within us - stands in contrast to the body, while the soul stands between the two. It must decide for the Spirit or for the body, for it cannot serve two masters at the same time. If it decides for the Spirit, it is ready to absorb the divine in itself and to submit to the guidance of the Spirit. If its choice is for the body, then it submits to the desires of the flesh, and the inclinations present in it can let off steam to the detriment of the full. Practically there are only two poles, and therefore the Lord in His teachings does not mention the soul, or its functions such as mind, thoughts, feelings, etc., as often as Spirit and body. Most often the "Spirit" is mentioned - as the most important part - whereby after the above explanations it has become understandable that the general reference to the spirit being also includes the soul, even if the perfect unity between "spirit" and "soul" has not yet been reached. - In the New Revelations the Divine Master very often speaks of the struggle of the Spirit against the influences of the body. According to the preceding explanations, this is to be understood in such a way that it is a fight of the Spirit with the soul when the soul has become completely "incarnate", i.e., has become completely subject to the influences of the body and all material things. For the body cannot be led directly by the Spirit, but only through the soul.

In fine sensitivity the great poet Goethe felt the two opposing forces, and in his "Faust" he puts the words into the mouth of a person:

"Two souls dwell "ach"! in my breast,

The one wants to separate from the other;

The one holds in the coarse lust of love

To the world with clinging organs;

The other lifts itself violently from the

To the realms of high ancestors."

He speaks of "two souls" in his breast: the one power, the soul, in bondage to the lust for love and to earthly thinking and wanting. The other power, the Spirit, wants to free itself from the embrace of the senses and materialism and to rise to the high realms, to the Divine Spirit, from whom it has gone forth. It is the conflict between Spirit and soul, when the latter has not yet overcome the lower desires of body-nature.