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2393 Final liberation or bound state in eternity....

July 3, 1942: Book 32

Complete detachment from the form also requires complete abandonment of the resistance against God, for even if the soul apparently loses every external constraint at the death of the body at the end of its life, it nevertheless does not need to be finally released from its constraint, for it can take the awareness of its bound state with it into eternity, which signifies precisely that state of torment for it. The environment of the soul is then still the same as on earth, i.e., once it stays where it has stayed on earth because it is still bound to earthly matter with all its senses; but then it will always create its environment itself according to its desire. It can therefore still be completely surrounded by earthly matter, even if only in its imagination, is therefore still subject to earthly laws according to its feelings, i.e., it has the same desire, the same cravings as on earth, but also the same resistance to overcome, so that it recognizes its powerlessness and constraint as on earth, while the completely free state is also a state of fulfilment, where no more obstacles are set against the being and it feels this spiritual freedom extremely blissfully. The soul has certainly cast off the physical shackle with the bodily death, but it does not yet have the awareness of its freedom until it has reached the degree of maturity which earns it spiritual freedom. And therefore it often does not know about its passing away from earth. It believes itself to still be in its body and it often takes a long time before it realizes it, depending on its willingness to serve.... which, however, is only very weak, for mostly such souls are only seized by selfish love and seek satisfaction of their desires for themselves. But since they never find such, it begins to dawn on them after a long time that in reality they no longer possess anything and only ever strive for illusory possessions, and only then does the process of complete detachment from earthly matter begin, although this is still very protracted. And only the detachment from matter, the overcoming of it and the complete mental detachment loosens the shell of the soul and signifies the beginning of its final liberation from form. However, an unthinkably long time can pass before the being can enjoy the freedom of the spirit....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers