BD.5796
October 26, 1953

THE OVERCOMING OF MATTER, KINGDOM OF THE SPIRIT

So long as you pander and strive after the world and its goods, you are not likely to gain My kingdom, because 'My kingdom is not of this world'. My kingdom can be gained only by the giving up of that which you men still covet.

My kingdoms demands the overcoming of matter, because you can be liberated from physicality and enter upon My kingdom only when you have detached yourself from everything belonging to My adversary. The world of matter is his kingdom, although he has no influence upon matter as such. But that much greater is his influence upon men, who as souls harbour the spiritual, which had progressed to the stage at which it can escape his dominion, where by right application of will it can rid itself of all exterior form. Then he exerts his influence towards chaining man to matter in order to pervert his will towards striving or that which he had long overcome.

The material world for you is a most powerful test of will, for you are to renounced it; you are of your own accord to forego everything you covet in the course of your earthly life - you are to seek the spiritual kingdom, and hence choose and decide: for My kingdom, or for the kingdom of My adversary.

The latter tempts you with his goods; yet be mindful of these being transient, that they can in themselves perish, or of having to give them up at the hour of death, - You cannot lastingly secure them for yourselves, you shall sooner or later irrevocably forfeit them.

Hence think of it, working towards and acting and earning in good time goods which cannot be taken from you - goods that are imperishable; this being capable of proper evaluation only in eternity, after death of the body, being then the wealth of the soul, which shall make it endlessly blissful.

It is the hankering after matter that makes you blind towards spiritual goods, you are incapable of recognising them for what they are, because your thoughts point only terrestrially, spiritual currents being unable to touch you - because My kingdom is not of this world; yet My kingdom comes to all who seek it.

Detach yourselves therefore from what prevents your entry into My kingdom. - Free yourselves from coveting earthly goods; live in want, and abstain whilst dwelling on earth, in order to then in all fullness receive My goods of love in the kingdom of the Spirit.

AMEN