BD.6625
August 18, 1956

THINK OF THE TIME AFTER DEATH

One day you will lay down your earthly body and your soul will receive another abode. No, one can escape this fate. Each must certainly expect his physical death. You know also that your stay on Earth is limited and no one can fight against bodily death when his hour has come.

But in spite of this certainty, you lead a life on this Earth as if it will never end. You busy yourself and constantly plan for the future, not knowing whether that time will ever come. You cannot count on that, but what is certain for you is that you are busy and work only for this short life on Earth, which has no continuous existence. You yourself however, will not perish. Your soul remains alive even after physical death and your soul is the real "you". So for you there is really no death, only a change of your abode.

If you seriously think about all this you would act prudently. If you care whether your abode hereafter will make you happy, you would then extend that care to the time when you will no longer walk on this Earth, but continue your life in the realm of the beyond which is however, created in accordance with your earthly life's walk.

You would be all the more diligent if you really believed in this. The more you care about looking after your body, the less you are convinced that you will continue to live. But you can be given no proof of this since your earthly walk should not be determined by fear. For each proof of a continued life after death would awaken you, who do not willingly strive upwards.

Others have this certainty within themselves, believing because they strive upwards. A striving however, born out of fear cannot lead to perfection. And therefore it cannot be proven to you that there is a continued life after death. But people, who are sincere and always do, what is right, can awaken this faith for themselves.

People who are continually clearly reminded, which they value so highly is transitory. When people are snatched away in the middle of their lives, we should learn from this and see our lives as a gift that could be taken any day. On such occasion when the sudden death of a fellow man touches them, they should follow their departed in their thoughts into Eternity. He need only concern himself with the one who has not really departed but only changed his abode. And truly there will be those from the spiritual realm who will extend their hands to him and draw him to them.

But even if a man does not have this certainty of a further life, he must still consider this possibility, and think about this possibility repeatedly on the death of his fellowman. Then he must ask himself what his lot would be if he were to be suddenly called away.

As long will be as man cannot prove that there no continuing life after death, and that will never be possible, he will always worry. He will never regret that he on Earth concerned himself with not only his body but also his soul, thus gathering spiritual treasures on Earth, which will help him upwards in the spiritual realm.

Then will the soul reap what the man on Earth has sowed and blessed is that soul who, on Earth, has provided for Eternity.

AMEN