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6298 Earthly world passage to the true home....

June 29, 1955: Book 68

The inclination towards the world is still the sign of the bond with God's adversary, although you humans don't like to hear such a judgment about yourselves, yet you would unhesitatingly despise the world if you had already completely detached yourselves from it. You would not be able to take pleasure in things which are material, in pleasures and enjoyments which lie outside the spiritual kingdom, for your soul would.... if it had detached itself from its enemy, would long to return to the spiritual kingdom where it had originally been, it would know and feel that the material kingdom is only a passage which imposes fetters on it, but it would never ever long for it. As a result of your ignorance you humans believe that life on this earth is the epitome of what you call happiness, if you can shape this earthly life as you please.... because you don't know true happiness, which is completely different from the unfree, burdensome life in the flesh on this earth.... You do not know freedom in fullness of strength, you do not know the radiant light in which you may move if you have detached yourselves from the desire for the world.... even so, because you still belong to him who is lord of this world. But all desire dies when you seriously turn away from the one to whom you owe your existence as a human being.... And your desire is now directed towards another aim, the soul desires other pleasures than the world is able to offer it.... the soul recognizes its weakness and inadequacy and now desires strength and light, it longs for the state of perfection again, it strives with all its senses towards the spiritual kingdom, of which the human being's intellect can have no idea. But the soul, which has detached itself from God's adversary, knows that its true home is desirable. And that is why it cannot gain anything from the world's goods which it has learnt to recognize as empty appearances and which it therefore despises. As long as you humans desire the world you are still under its control, you still belong to it because you have not yet been able to muster the strength to detach yourselves from it, to renounce what it offers you in exchange for goods which can make you happy in truth. But you cannot possess both at the same time.... You have to give up one in order to gain the other, you have to.... even if you still live on earth, dare to take the step into the spiritual kingdom, for this is your decision of will, to want to exchange the material kingdom for the spiritual one of your own accord.... And if you have succeeded in doing so you have passed the test of will, you have liberated yourselves from the power of the one who holds you captive. And you will be helped in every way to dare this step, you will be enticed and offered assistance but you will not be forced.... But the transience of earthly-material goods is so often made clear to you that it should truly not be difficult for you to strive for what is imperishable. And again and again God lets His call resound: Free yourselves from the fetters which prevent you from returning to the father's house.... give up the world so that you can take possession of the spiritual kingdom again which offers you peace and bliss which the world can never offer you again....

Amen

Translated by DeepL