BD.7343
April 21, 1959

LIFE OF THE SOUL AFTER DEATH

You can be certain, that you will live even if your body falls prey to death. But it depends on yourself in what state you will live after your physical death, whether your life will be a happy one, which could be called "real life", or whether you find yourself in darkness and weakness which could be compared to death, where you still have the awareness of your existence but must endure suffering.

But you will never totally cease to exist or lose your self-consciousness. And because you will always exist you should do your utmost to create for yourself a happy destiny, while you are still on this Earth.

Your lot in the beyond depends on your own will. You create this according to the life you live on this Earth. A life in unselfish Love toward your fellowman gives you the certainty that you can expect a blessed lot. But if you live only to please yourself with little love for your neighbor or GOD, you can certainly expect a painful state. You will then be poor and unhappy, lacking in everything; Light, strength and Freedom, experiencing inexpressible misery.

Your lack of belief in life after death for man on Earth, affects the way you live your life. You are irresponsible concerning your soul because you do not believe that it will still live when your body deteriorates. You do not believe that your soul is your real "self" and that it will long for Happiness and Light, in the beyond, as it does on Earth.

When the soul gets even a glimmer of understanding, it will realize what its Earthly task was and look back with bitter regret at its unfulfilled mission. While souls that are allowed to enter into the realm of Light will sing Love and Praise and be active in Power and Freedom to their own happiness.

The soul will never perish. Man himself, while on Earth, decides in which condition his soul will feel its existence. This time on Earth is given to you to improve the state of your soul, because at the beginning of the soul's embodiment it is still very defective.

Therefore, the efforts of people should be to acquire for their soul that immortal "Life", so that they can enter that Kingdom of Freedom and Light where they can progress according to the degree of maturity, which is possible in different degrees, but it can only be called "Life", when the soul enters the Kingdom of Light.

It is possible for the soul at the end of its earthly life to be just as defective as it was at the beginning. In fact, it can be even more darkened. Then its state is like a state of death. Then it has misused its earthly life, and the grace of embodiment. Still, it shall not perish.

This is a very pitiful and agonizing condition acquired through its own fault, because only the will of man decides the lot of the soul, and that will is free.

If people would only believe that there is a further life after physical death, they would live more responsibly on Earth and actively seek to rise upwards from the depths. But man cannot be forced to believe, although everyone will be helped to come to faith.

AMEN