BD.4533
January 6, 1949
SPIRITUAL TURNING-POINT - TOTAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE EARTH
You may regard it as a certainty that the world is poised
before a change, spiritual as well as tellurian. The earth itself stands
before a total transformation - a re-structuring of its surface as well
as a re-shaping of its interior, and men likewise must prepare for a process
with spiritual repercussions, because everything living upon earth, man
and animal, shall have ceased to exist as soon as the re-shaping of its
interior, and men likewise must prepare for a process with spiritual repercussions,
because everything living upon earth, man and animal, shall have ceased
to exist as soon as the re-shaping is under way.
It will be understandable, therefore, that the grounds for an all-embracing
transformation will be spiritual, that a new school for spirit shall be
created, which however calls for the destruction of everything old, The
earth cannot remain as at present, if it is not to circle through the
universe amid other creations and heavenly spheres devoid of all purpose.
A change has to take place, and those men shall live to see the act of
transformation, upon whom God has bestowed the Grace of using the last
opportunities for maturing, because God has blessed the final time of
this earth's existence by heaping graces upon graces on men, and they
are will able to mature by the last day.
That the gifts of grace go unheeded - that they are unwelcomed and hence
not accepted is only proof that the final time is come. Only few, therefore,
shall be able to observe the final act of transformation, as these stand
within God's will, and hence have knowledge of His Plan of Salvation from
eternity.
These shall incur no harm from the process of transformation, as they
shall be lifted from the earth before the final work of destruction of
the old earth, and are therefore only affected by the change to the extent
of exchanging their habitation for a Kingdom of Peace until they are again
led to the newly formed earth, as progenitors of the new human race.
The others have, until the last day, ample opportunity to change, however,
and thus to save themselves. Because as soon as the spiritual transformation
has taken place in them - return of the soul to God, from Whom they were
alienated through the firmest resistance, these souls also become aspirants
tot he Kingdom of the Blessed, and need no longer fear the ruin of the
old earth. Nothing of the creations of the old earth shall remain, neither
any man alive who had not been previously lifted off.
Complete destruction of the earth's surface as a whole also results in
the end of every creature, and where a soul is still capable of change;
the change will have been accomplished at the hour of the last judgment.
Spiritual change, therefore, is a man's criterion - whether he will live
to see the end of this earth-epoch, and is permitted to inhabit the new
earth as a child of God.
All men would still be capable of change, but only few are willing to
change, and hence the act of transformation of the earth shall take place
because men's wills no longer take the right direction, and the earth
no longer accords with its destiny. Earth life is misused.
And thus mankind collectively stands before a spiritual change which shall
not, however, take place on the old earth, and which only few men will
consciously live to see, whilst the largest part of mankind shall, indeed,
enter a new stage of development, and therefore shall also be affected
by the spiritual change, but in a most retrograde sense. They lose their
physical life but continue their existence in an entirely different form.
Life has ceased, and a condition of "death" enfolds the spiritual
because, as man, it had failed, not having utilised the opportunity to
change, to redeem itself.
In the universe, however, the act of transformation signifies an entirely
new period of Salvation, and the termination of an epoch supremely memorable,
for God Himself incarnated on earth, in order to exemplify to mankind
the transformation from man to a divine being, which all men ought to
carry out on themselves.
The earth, which carried His earthly body, must now also help the hardened
physical, solid matter, to salvation, every creature must undergo a change
of its outer form, everything bound in form beneath the level of man must
be allowed to maintain its upward-impetus, which, indeed, is possible
through a total transformation of the earth, because the love of the Divine
Man Jesus held true also for the still unredeemed physical, and desired
to help it also through His work of Salvation.
If, therefore, this phase of salvation is coming to an end, it also signifies
the end for all creations in, upon, and above the earth, so that forward
development can take its inception in the creations of the new earth for
all redeemable spiritual which shall animate the various forms corresponding
with its attitude toward God until its ultimate salvation.
AMEN |
