BD.1618
September 18, 1940
THE SOUL AND THE SPIRITUAL SPARK IN MAN
The soul of man is the unification of countless soul-substances,
who are the rallying-points of spiritual Forces and thus receptacles of
the spiritual out of GOD. Every one of those countless substances was
previously somewhere embodied, i.e. surrounded by an outer Form for the
purpose of the development of the spiritual to the height and for the
possibility of later unification with an equal substance. The soul of
man in its single substances went through each Creation -Work and it is,
so to speak, matured for its last embodiment on Earth.
The soul always takes on the same Form as the outer-hull that encloses
it. If it were possible by somebody to contemplate with a spiritual eye
the soul of man in its composition, he would view an incredible charming
and varied picture. This Creation-Work of GOD, invisible to man is beyond
description, both in its structure and also in its suitability. But man's
thinking would be only puzzled by the description of the formation of
the soul, for he would not understand the countless miracles that are
hold in the human body.
It is the whole Creation -Work in miniature that is now understandable
as the "soul" of man. The soul is the inner- most of man and
includes the whole Creation. It has been deter minded to transfigure itself
during the Earth-life, and to enjoy the delight of Heaven in praising
GOD. The soul has within itself the divine Spirit. The Ur-substance of
the soul is in fact also spiritual in all its phases of evolution, but
the divine Spirit-spark places GOD HIMSELF in the soul, incarnating in
man. He instills in man HIS Breath. HE places in him the Divine and HE
lets the soul decide, during the last existence on Earth, either for the
Divine or for the human.
If the soul, the spiritual out of GOD, that once was opposing GOD, is
now willing to unite with the divine Spirit, thus starts the transfiguration
of what was once far away from HIM, and Light will be in the human soul.
And then the human soul unites with the divine Spirit when all human desires,
that cling to the human body as temptation for the testing and hardening
of the will are steadfastly overcome - when it resists all that the body
as such requires of it, and willingly submits to what the divine Spirit
desires. Then the soul gives finally up its former resistance against
GOD, it decides for GOD instead. It is no longer consciously against the
Divine and accepts the Love-rays, the Force of GOD, in order to increase
the spiritual within itself -by trying to unite the spiritual within,
with the spiritual outside of itself, and thus strives consciously for
an approach to GOD.
But if the bodily longing dominates, then the divine Spirit-spark slumbers
in the deepest wrapper in man. No Light can be radiated from him and the
soul remains in utter darkness. Its earthly life goes by without the smallest
success; the path on Earth does not lead to higher development, instead
it is a time of standstill or even of regression. The divine Spirit-spark
in man was neglected and therefore could not manifest itself. It was not
possible for the Force of the divine Love to flow towards the being and
thus the union with the Father-Spirit of Eternity did not take place.
And the lightless state on Earth, that the soul itself has chosen is taken
across into Eternity, where it remembers in endless pain of repentance
of the unused time on Earth. And now it has to lead a much more strenuous
struggle in order to change its state into one that has more Light.
AMEN |
