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Self-love in the afterlife prolongs the state of suffering.... willingness to help....

In the spiritual kingdom the activity of love has the same effect as on earth.... in an increased supply of strength, thus also in spiritual progress, for all activity of love paves the path to God, and closeness to God is the ultimate goal of all beings. Hence love is likewise preached in the spiritual kingdom, that is, the beings of light draw the unredeemed souls' attention to the fact that only love will bring them liberation, and they also provide them with every opportunity to develop themselves in love. No soul can develop itself upwards other than on the path of love, yet this is far more difficult in the spiritual kingdom than on earth as long as the soul is still ignorant, thus not yet enlightened. For then it only touches its own fate, it does not see the hardship of other souls because it is still very much in self-love, which is to blame for its ignorant state. And this self-love prevents it from selfless loving activity, for then the soul regards itself as the center, it feels unhappy, and unjustly so, for its self-love conceals its own faults, whereas it recognizes all faults of other souls and feels elevated above them. And so it cannot feel any love for its suffering environment. It is hard and unfeeling and takes no interest in the other souls, and as long as it does so it will also feel its hardship bitterly, which will only diminish if love is kindled in it and stimulates it into loving activity. And it often takes an infinitely long time until the soul softens and is willing to help of its own accord. And yet it cannot be stimulated into loving activity other than through instruction from the beings of light, for it has to decide of its own free will to be helpful, it has to put aside its selfish love, disregard its own hardship and try to alleviate the suffering of fellow-suffering souls, then its hitherto powerless state will change, the soul will feel the influx of strength and become increasingly more capable of helping and working with love. Its state will now become increasingly freer and it will realize that it is becoming increasingly lighter around it, it will be able to see things which make it happy, its knowledge will increase and its will to reach God will become ever stronger.... And thus her activity of love also becomes eager, for she recognizes the power and strength of love, she recognizes her goal and strives towards it.... she seeks to come close to God and to redeem herself through love....

amen

SAMOLJUBJE V ONOSTRANSTVU PODALJŠUJE STANJE TRPLJENJA.... PRIPRAVLJENOST NUDITI POMOČ....

Ljubezen-ska dejavnost (aktivnost) ima v onostranstvu enak učinek kot na Zemlji.... povečan dotok moči, kar obenem tudi pomeni duhovni napredek, ker vsaka Ljubezen-ska dejavnost poravnava pot k Bogu, Božja bljižina pa je končni cilj vsakega bitja. Zato se tudi v duhovnem področju pridiga o Ljubezni; se pravi da svetlobna bitja neodrešenim dušam (dušam, ki niso priznale Jezusa Kristusa za Gospodarja, mu predale svojega življenja in zato ne živijo Ljubezni) usmerjajo pozornost na to, da jim Ljubezen prinaša osvoboditev, in približana jim je vsakršna možnost (priložnost), da se lahko razvijajo v Ljubezni. Na nikakršen način razen z Ljubeznijo ni mogoče, da se duša razvija navzgor (na višje, da napreduje); to je v duhovnem področju veliko težje kot pa na Zemlji, vse dokler je duša še brez znanja (brez luči, prosvetljenja), torej dokler še nima spoznanja. Tedaj je namreč ganjena edino z njeno lastno usodo; ona ne vidi stiske in težave drugih duš, ker se ona še vedno nahaja v samoljubju (sebičnosti), katero pa je tudi zaslužno za njeno stanje neznanja.

In samoljubje ji preprečuje, da je nesebično Ljubezen-sko aktivna. Tedaj namreč duša vidi sebe kot centralno točko; nesrečna je, čeprav pa neupravičeno, ker njeno samoljubje zakriva njene lastne napake, pri čemer ona prepozna vse napake drugih duš in se počuti, da je iznad njih. Tako da ona sploh niti ne more čutiti Ljubezni z njeno okolico, ki trpi. Ona je trdosrčna in brezčutna in ne gleda na druge duše; toda tako bo bridko doživljala svojo težavo (nesrečno stanje), katera je lahko zmanjšana edino, če se v njej razgori Ljubezen in jo spodbudi na Ljubezen-sko dejavnst (aktivnost). In pogosto mine nekončno dolgo časa, preden se duša omehča in iz lastne pobude postane voljna (pripravljena) pomagati.

Vendar pa tudi poleg tega ne more drugače prejeti spodbude za Ljubezn-sko dejavnost (delovanje), razen preko učenja (Božje Besede) s strani svetlobnih bitij, ker se mora ona popolnoma v svobodni volji odločiti za to, da je pripravljena (voljna) pomagati. Ona mora zmanjšati svoje samoljubje, zanemariti svojo lastno težavo in poizkušati zmanjšati ter ublažiti težave drugih duš, ki trpijo. Tedaj bo njeno stanje, ki je bilo do tedaj brez moči (nebogljeno), doživelo spremembo; duša bo (ob)čutila dotok moči in bo posta(ja)la vse bolj sposobna za nudenje pomoč in za delovanje v Ljubezni. Njeno stanje na ta način postaja vse bolj svobodno, in ona tedaj spoznava, da okoli nje postaja vse svetlejše, uspeva videti stvari, ki jo osrečujejo, njeno znanje (prosvetljenje) postaja večje in njena volja, da pride do Boga, je vse močnejša.... In tako njena Ljubezen-ska dejavnost (aktivnost) postaja živa, ker ona spoznava silo ter moč Ljubezni, prepoznava njen cilj in hiti k njemu.... trudi se doseči Božjo bljižino in se preko Ljubezni rešiti....

AMEN