Source: https://www.bertha-dudde.org/en/proclamation/1943

1943 Way of the flesh....know before.... serve....

June 7, 1941: Book 28

The path of the flesh must be travelled by every being that wants to become free from bondage. Until the being has completed its earthly life in embodiment as a human being it cannot enter the spiritual kingdom free and unbound. But the beingness will also strive for embodiment as a human being in order to finally become free from the constraint which every external form means for the beingness. And that is why it takes up the earthly battle with full consent. It feels up to the task and is not afraid of it, and therefore the souls will push themselves to be conceived into the flesh in order to be able to fulfil their final task. They have previously been shown the path on earth and also the degree of maturity they can attain through this earthly life. Furthermore, the measure of grace is also presented to them, which enables them to mature, and therefore the soul does not hesitate to start the last course, even though it is now deprived of the awareness of the soul's pre-formation and now begins its earthly existence in complete ignorance. The more willing to serve the soul was before, the more it is now up to the earthly demands, i.e., it will also master earthly life, since it has declared its willingness to redeem itself through service. Admittedly, the human being will now come into situations in life where the will to serve will be shaken in him; he will get to know life with all its joys and comforts, and now the soul must prove to itself whether it is still willing to serve. For it must go through resistance and prove itself in the face of this resistance. So it now puts the previously cherished will into practice, and only this earns it liberation. The will to serve earned it the grace of embodiment as a human being, but the active will releases it again from the final form.... If, however, the will does not become active, then it has to a certain extent illegally acquired embodiment as a human being; it has not fulfilled what it promised to do. And it is itself the sufferer, for the hour of liberation from spiritual fetters has by no means struck for it, even though it is seemingly freed from its outer form through the death of the body. Nevertheless, it takes the form with it into eternity, i.e. it still feels the shackles of the spirit just as agonizingly as before the earthly body. And it has to feel the shackles until it decides to serve in love.... No being can be spared the path on earth in the flesh; but it cannot be spared serving in love either, and if it does not do the latter on earth it only prolongs its bound state and in fact its time on earth. For the immature soul will not be able to separate itself from earth until it has fulfilled its serving activity, even though it has already left earth. But the will to serve will often only be very weak in the beyond. And it will require twice as much strength to realize this will. And therefore it is far more difficult to finally become free than on earth, where the slightest will brings the strength from God to the person and he can effortlessly fulfil his earthly task.... to serve in love in order to become completely free from the form....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers