BD.5767
September 11, 1953

THE GREAT NEED OF SOULS IN THE BEYOND

Souls in the beyond who lack Light are in a very great need. To describe this condition to you, on Earth, would certainly cause you to live your lives another way, but it would then inevitably destroy your free will. Driven by the fear of a similar fate you would try to walk differently, being careful to do what was required of you, but not doing it of your own free will. But if you want to know about the fate of souls it shall be told to you, and you can still remain free to believe and draw your own conclusions.

Those souls, who pin all their hopes on this Earth, on their entrance into the realm of the beyond, will have lost everything. They will possess nothing because they can only take with them what was spiritually earned, which they greatly lack. As long as they lead godless lives they are enveloped in total darkness and therefore powerless, but not without feeling.

Those who on Earth were fearless in everything they did, are now plunged into darkness, surrounded by fear and torment which their soul feels. This indescribable suffering awakens the longing in their soul to either flee from this condition seeking satisfaction in that realm, or give in totally to the evil urges and fall prey to the power of darkness.

But also the souls who did not leave their earthly life in sinfulness, but have lived their lives without Love and were indifferent to spiritual things, are still in serious difficulty. For them also the darkness will give way, if the soul has not become totally hardened and if it longs for the Light, because only a longing for Light will enable the soul to reach the Light. All these souls lack the strength to want what is right, and as long as they themselves do not desire it, strength cannot be brought to them, in accordance with the eternal law.

Certainly the mercy work of God is not over. When the soul leaves the earthly body, what is left unused on Earth, although it possessed it in rich measure, must first be earned in the beyond, and the soul is often too weak to do this. Imagine yourself a weak helpless being, in great suffering, needing help to be set free. If you could see them in their need, pity would overcome you.

Everyone has souls over here of which they do not know in which state they entered the spirit realm. Everyone has people that they were close to but they have lost in death. Remember at least those souls who were closely related to you, and help them. Even the smallest redeeming work for such souls draws them further along in their redemption, to which you will then have contributed.

You can help those souls only through loving thoughts, prayers and intercession. This will admittedly not release them from their suffering, but it will give them the strength to do so themselves. In other words; these souls will then have a change of will and be able to move toward the Light.

They cannot be set free from their suffering condition against their own will, but your intercession and your prayers are needed and should be given to them in Love whenever they put themselves in your thoughts. You must understand concerning those souls that ask you for help when they put themselves into your thoughts, that you will increase their misery if you deliberately push thoughts of these de- ceased ones out of your mind.

The lot of these souls remains hidden so as not to impair your free will. There are two realms in which you and the deceased souls find yourselves, between which a dividing line is drawn. Still they exist and you from your world can send them much Love, which in a certain way, and to some extent, enables many souls to escape their fate.

Remember these unfortunate souls often and do not overlook them in their need, because what you do for them in merciful Love will be richly repaid, you will receive spiritual help while you are still on Earth, from all those souls who have already come out of darkness into the Light.

AMEN