BD.7490
December 12, 1959

FATE OF THE SOUL AFTER PHYSICAL DEATH

After death you enter a totally different world. On Earth you have the possibility to form that world for yourself so that it will make you happy, and glad to have changed your life on earth for this new world.

You can earn for yourself a corresponding kingdom of Light and Happiness through your walk on earth. If you perform your soul work zealously and gather treasures for the spiritual kingdom, then the world in which you enter shall be a happy place. There will be no end to your amazement and rejoicing and you would never want to return to earth, even if that were possible.

You create for yourself the world, which receives you after the death of your body. Therefore, you must live conscious of your responsibility on this earth, because you could enter a place, which is dark, and bare in which you are very unhappy, which you cannot leave at will. Because this is the kingdom you prepared for yourself, in free will, when on earth. It was your own doing, it was your own free will, because your walk on earth was such that it could not give you any other lot in the spiritual kingdom than misery and confinement, in darkness and weakness.

In any case, you enter a different world, a kingdom that is spiritual, where you have lost all earthly goods, where you find only what you have earned spiritually on earth. Therefore, it is a frightful state for souls who have not acquired for themselves any spiritual goods and who have only cared for earthly things. These will enter totally empty into that spiritual kingdom where it is difficult to obtain spiritual treasures. However, it is not impossible.

The world in which they then live is constituted according to the state of their soul. It can mean for that soul an incessant wandering through lean and barren places, where they cannot find anything to satisfy their hunger, which torments these souls continually, and can only be stilled with gifts of Love, or with a supply of strength, which still can be obtained for such souls through loving prayers. Therefore, it is a blessing for these souls if after the grave, kind thoughts and good works, done on earth, follows them in eternity.

But poor and needy are those souls who have earned no love of their fellowman on earth, after whom unkind thoughts follow and who suffer because of those thoughts, more than you people on earth imagine.

Therefore, see to it that every deceased person has good thoughts to follow them in eternity. Have pity on them and help them, so that they can find their way out of the darkness. Never leave them alone but think of them often. This will do them good; they will feel this as strength, as a little help on their way upward, when this is granted unto them. The soul creates for itself the lot that is waiting for it over in the spiritual kingdom, and in order for it to be happy, one must be active already on earth, earning spiritual goods and zealously performing deeds of love. These will always follow you, with which you can work for the happiness of yourself and others. So you can at any time increase your own happiness and supply others with strength that will lead their steps upwards and eventually achieve happiness for them.

Though the road upwards is difficult and requires much strength, yet it is possible if their will is right, to reach the heights, with help from their spiritual friends and from the people on earth, who hold them up in their prayers.

AMEN