So hear the voice of the lord and pay attention to it: You deprive yourselves of the greatest favour as long as you doubt the immortality of the soul, because on the assumption that life has found its end with the death of the earthly body, you desire nothing that lasts for eternity. You are therefore as it were content with the care of your body on earth and do not ask for any help for life after death. And you do not consider the spirit but are content with what is only beneficial for the body. And if you do not ask, help cannot be granted to you. You will certainly end the life of the body with the death of the body but not the life of the soul. In a form, which your way of life on earth determines itself, will be the soul's new stay according to this bodily life, you will no longer be able to do anything out of your own strength, however use your senses exactly as on earth and therefore feel joy and also suffering, and this is every soul's inevitable fate that it has to take upon itself the just atonement or the just reward and cannot escape it. And therefore it is of utmost importance to count on the soul's continued life on earth, because without faith in it the human being does not avail himself of God's grace, that is, he believes that he does not need divine help and only focuses all his thoughts and actions on the fulfilment of earthly duties, and this lets him fall seriously behind when he is asked for spiritual merit in eternity.... Nothing depresses the soul more than unutilized opportunities of earthly life.... And every earthly life will remain unused for eternity if the concept of 'eternity' is incomprehensible to the human being without faith in the soul's continued existence, for who cares for eternity if he simply lacks faith in it?.... And thus a soul certainly enters into earthly rest but can only bask in the peace of heaven if it was restlessly active on earth for life in the beyond. Or else it must now seek to reach it by a laborious path, which would have been many times easier for it when it was still in the body of flesh. And so I call out to all doubters on earth: Remember life after death and do not live in the delusion that everything ends with the death of the body.... but know that only then does the real life begin.... know that you only have to pass a probationary period on earth, but that only then does the real life begin and this life is completely dependent on how you have utilized earthly life. For it is a dreadful certainty for the soul that it let earthly life pass by and now has to regocnize its poverty of spiritual treasures at the entrance into the beyond. And therefore make use of your life as long as you are still in full possession of your strength and ask for grace unceasingly, for it alone enables your spiritual progress and clears the path to your eternal home....
Amen
TranslatorPoslušajte dakle glas Gospodnji, i obratite pažnju na ovo: vi sebi kradete najveću milosti ukoliko sumnjate u besmrtnost duše, jer uz pretpostavku da je život našao svoj kraj sa smrću zemaljskog tijela, vi ne žudite ništa što bi imalo vječno trajanje. Vi tako, kao da ste zadovoljni brigom za vaše tijelo na Zemlji, i ne tražite nikakvu pomoć za život poslije smrti. I vi ne mislite na Duh, nego se zadovoljavate onim što je korisno jedino tijelu. A ako ne tražite, ne može vam biti dodijeljena pomoć. Tjelesni život ćete vi onda doduše zaključiti smrću tijela, ali ne i životom duše. U uređenju koje je vaš način života na Zemlji sam odredio,biti će novo boravište duše u skladu sa ovim tjelesnim životom, vi više ništa nećete moći vlastitom snagom, nego baš kao što na Zemlji koristite vaša osjetila i onda osjećate užitak kao i patnju, a neizbježna je sudbina svake duše da ona na sebe mora preuzeti pravednu kaznu ili pravednu naknadu (plaću), i tome ne može uteći. I zato je od najveće važnosti, na Zemlji računati sa preživljavanjem duše, jer bez vjere u to, čovjek se neće okoristiti Božjom milošću, odnosno, on vjeruje da ne treba Božansku pomoć, i cjelokupno razmišljanje i djelovanje usmjerava jedino naispunjavanje zemaljskih dužnosti, a ovo ga dovodi u teško nazadovanje, kada on bude pitan o duhovnim tekovinama (stečevinama) u vječnosti.... Ništa ne tlači dušu više od neiskorištenih mogućnosti u zemaljskom životu.... A neiskorišten za vječnost će ostati svaki zemaljski život, kada je, bez vjere u preživljavanje duše, pojam „vječnosti“ neshvatljiv za čovjeka, jer tko brine za vječnost, ako mu jednostavno nedostaje vjera u to?.... I stoga duša doista zemaljski ulazi u počinak, ali se može sunčati u nebeskom miru jedino ako je na Zemlji bila neumorno aktivna za život u onostranom. Ili pak ona sada mora na mukotrpan način pokušati postići ono, što bi joj dok je još u fizičkom tijelu bilo mnogostruko lakše. I tako Ja pozivam sve nepovjerljive na Zemlji: Mislite na život poslije smrti, i ne živite u zabludi da će sa smrću tijela sve biti završeno.... nego znajte da tek onda počinje pravi život.... znajte, da vi na Zemlji samo trebate izdržati vrijeme ispita (vrijeme kušnji), ali da tek onda otpočinje istinski život, a ovaj život u potpunosti ovisi o tome kako ste vi iskoristili zemaljski život. Jer, za dušu je strašna izvjesnost da je pustila da prođe (propustila) zemaljski život i sada na ulazu u onostrano mora spoznati svoje siromaštvo duhovnim blagom. Stoga iskoristite život, dok god ste još u punom posjedu vaše snage i neprestano molite za milost, jer jedino vam ona omogućava duhovni napredak i čini slobodnim put u vječnu domovinu.
AMEN
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