BD.1899
April 28, 1941

THE DISSVOLVING OF EARTHLY FORM - CREMATION - ACCELERATING THE DISINTEGRATION PROCESS

Everything must proceed towards dissolution in order for it to go the path of higher development. That spirit substance now having overcome matter separates itself from matter. But the spiritual substance is still not so completely matured that it needs no further earthly cover, where it can again take a new abode in a new form, which is also matter. So now the soul, the spiritual man, separates from the body and ends its earthly development. The soul thus escapes the last earthly form, is free from all matter and enters a new realm totally different from the Earth.

Then the body, the last earthly form is destined again for disintegration. In other words: the spiritual substances, of which the earthly body is made up, must go through the path to higher maturity, because they are still in the beginning stage of their development. And to this end the Divine Creation joins in, the goal being the higher development of the spiritual.

Now this can happen in various ways, although it must always be given the possibility of a serving activity. These substances themselves must join such a creation work, where they are given one or another task to fulfill, for through the fulfilling of this serving task, and only through serving, the spiritual substances can develop. If that possibility is taken away, then the higher development path is interrupted, which for that spiritual means a painful condition.

The time of the spiritual suffering may well be shortened, but such spiritual will not thank anyone who intervenes in its path of development by hindering its serving.

Whenever the natural decomposition of a man's body is hindered, when the dissolving process is hastened by cremation or by chemical means, then the spirituality must go a much more painful way, for this process violates the Divine Order and is contrary to the natural order, which GOD has ordained for each creation work. This is a contemptuous action of man, which is contrary to GOD's Will. The human body should be returned to the Earth as is its destiny: "From the dust you have been taken, to the dust you shall return"...Unless GOD determines otherwise by ending a human life in ways other than man's natural bodily death.

The soul itself has yielded up the body, so the obligation of the body, as well as the spiritual substance, of which the body is made up, toward the soul is fulfilled. But until this spiritual substance has completely freed itself, it is given further opportunities to be active in serving. But man seems to have so little understanding that hastening the dissolving procedure leaves very little scope for serving activity. It is certainly very wrong to believe that the body of man joins itself with the soul through such a purification process. The spiritual substance of the exterior form has this same destiny, to eventually join itself with innumerable other soul entities, to go the last path of development on Earth, as a human soul. However, this will not take place, as people wrongly think. A certain time is set for the development of the spiritual entities, which eternal process man should not hasten in their own judgment.

The possibility of man to obtain maturity on Earth is through his life's walk, his attitude to GOD, his faith, and through his deeds of Love. He can also shorten the earthly way for his physical cover, although it must always be entrusted to the Will of GOD, Who will assign to it its serving task.

AMEN