BD.5441
July 18, 1952

THE DESCRIPTION OF THE BEYOND - ONLY PICTORIAL AND COMPARATIVE

Everything that happens outside your earthly life will always be a mystery to you, even if it is revealed to you through the goodness and Love of your Heavenly Father. Because it can only be explained to you in a way that is easy to understand while you are on this earth. You can only form for yourself an ideal if it is your ability to comprehend it permits. You also try to know more about the other world, which is still closed to you.

But you cannot conceive how limited all your knowledge is and how insignificant this earth is, on which you live, compared to the magnificence of many other creations in God's Kingdom. You cannot see that all comparisons fail to give you a full understanding of the supernatural world.

So it is impossible to give you a clear description that corresponds to the Truth. You can only receive a comparative description by which you understand that there, as well as on earth, laws have to be kept, and the divine order in the spiritual Kingdom has to be unconditionally observed, so that the development of the soul in the beyond will succeed.

Furthermore, it is impossible to send spiritual impressions to people on earth, or even approximately explain to them. No words can describe what beings in the realm of the beyond feel. There are no words, which can describe their conditions. There is no way to under-stand these feelings, or what they experience and see in view of the indescribable creations, whether they are of a happy or unhappy nature.

To describe something like this to you is only possible by an analogy of that which comes close to your earthly concepts, which seem to you to have sense and purpose but are never a reality. The death of the body is not the end, the soul lives on in spheres, which it has created itself through its earthly life. Its lot can be either blessed or unhappy.

However it may be, it can only be shown to you figuratively, and any explanation, any description of it is always only a weak attempt to solve a problem with the conceptions known to you, to strengthen in you that feeling of responsibility for your soul. You human beings have formed for yourself on earth your lot in the beyond.

The knowledge about things in the beyond is withheld from humanity, which can never penetrate into an area that can only be entered when the spiritual growth of a man has reached that grade of maturity where it can see spiritually. It would still be impossible for him to explain his feelings and impressions to his fellowman in a way they could under-stand, because the earthly and the spiritual kingdom are two separate areas where the one no longer belongs to the other. Therefore, the laws, which are valid in the one, do not apply in the other world.

But still, the world of spirits is a reality, everyone and will realize this when he takes off his earthly cover and enters the beyond. Then he will understand that mankind on this earth could not receive' an explanation according to the entire truth.

AMEN