BD.5877
February 15, 1954

THE SHORT PERIOD ON EARTH DECIDES YOUR FATE IN THE BEYOND

Your existence on earth is one of the phases of your upward development. Even if you are matured on earth so that you can enter into that realm of Light, your development will still continue further. The soul, who has recognized this, will never stop to strive forward. It shall forever strive toward God and therefore try to become closer to Him and be unspeakably happy in complete union with Him.

The time on earth as man is therefore a short moment compared with eternity and compared with the endless long way of one's preceding development through the material creation. Yet this short period determines the fate of the soul. It decides the further way of development in the Spiritual Kingdom. There is a difference in whether the soul has already reached a higher degree of maturity on earth, or only comes to recognition in the Spiritual Kingdom. Indeed the latter will move upwards to the heights but through exceptionally arduous work. It has to earn what was available on earth in abundance in order to reach a higher degree of Light.

To endure the test of will on earth means an abundance of Light. and strength on entering eternity and a continuing increase of Light and strength. Because, the soul from the hour that it departs from this earthly life is a receiver of power, it can as well be a distributor of that power and the more it gives the more it will receive.

It then moves upwards exceedingly fast because it joins itself with spirits who are in the same mature state, and works according to the Divine Will and commission. It draws its entire strength from God and uses it for God. While the souls who failed in their test of will on earth, can still come to this realization in the beyond. They now have to develop themselves with the help of other beings so that they become Light themselves, and they can receive the rays of Light to use them according to the Divine Will.

These souls must also in free will long for Light and strength because only then can they receive it. Then their upward development can begin through the help they themselves give to other souls, who still exist in darkness. All the same, it is a troublesome road, an upward path that has to be climbed step by step, using all the strength and will they have. However, no effort will be without reward, helping the soul upwards, because it is still weak and has not much strength it has to use all its will-power. They will find much support from the realm of Light, and strength, so that they can give of their power to others and through that receive more strength themselves.

This short life on earth will decide your lot in eternity. If your time on earth is used in the right way the entering in the spiritual kingdom can be an exceedingly happy one, which happiness will never have an end.

However, the time on earth can also be wasted and the soul has to bear the result of that, it has to struggle further, but it will not perish. Life in the Spiritual Kingdom is in many ways the same as on earth, but never hopeless if the soul has the will to come to Light and Strength. Its will alone is decisive. If the will on earth is already directed to God then it shall with determination follow its purpose to come closer to Him, which goal it soon reaches.

But as long as the will is still turned away from God, it means darkness and weakness, and the soul will then enter the beyond in this state. While the former radiates Light and nothing binds that soul to the world, except the Love to those whom it left and to whom it offers its help in any possible way.

But those still languishing need that support. Although they have escaped from the earth they still keep themselves close to the earth, until they too can receive enough Light and Strength that they themselves can be active in the Spiritual Kingdom.

This activity consists of influencing the will of those who have been misdirected. To save them from the same lot, for a misdirected will on earth results in difficult progress in the Spiritual Kingdom.

AMEN