The Father says: “If you give Me your miserable life, I will give you My perfect life.”
Divine life has nothing to do with the intoxication of earthly existence. Even if one believes oneself to be a citizen of the world, it is death that deludes one into thinking it is alive in the dazzling garb of matter. However, this is the lie of the world par excellence.
To be tossed about by one’s emotions like a boat on a stormy ocean and to draw all the pleasures of transience to oneself like a polyp is not a life that can find immortality. And even if the pursuit of maximum material fulfillment is considered normal, to the seer it is madness. He sees people in their blind rage as playthings of destructive forces until they stand on safe spiritual ground at the hand of God.
To live truthfully means to walk on the waters of the soul worlds and to be master of the overwhelming waves of emotion and stormy passions. True life knows no sting of death, for it is imperishable and immortal. To live truthfully means to regard the world as a tool for the fulfillment of spiritual striving and to find peace regardless of all external circumstances through devotion to divine love. To live truthfully means to unite with God already here on earth. This greatest adventure of being human makes possible the seemingly unattainable and unimaginable: to dwell in the house of our Creator and Father forever.
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On the Christian path, thinking is reduced to the essentials of each situation. The useless and superfluous fall away. Earthly events become a reflection of spiritual processes. Talking about others and small talk filled with banalities burden the soul, and it becomes increasingly difficult to engage in superficial conversations. The child of God participates in this solely for reasons of charity. If it turns out that someone is hungry for spiritual nourishment, the conversation is gently steered in the appropriate direction, but nothing is ever forced upon one’s fellow human beings. Tolerance is appropriate here in order to respect the respective beliefs of one’s neighbor.
“By their love you shall know them,” says Jesus Christ. Where selfless love reigns, God is present. Where selfishness stirs up fears and seeks to convince others of its radical views, darkness reigns. Love, gentleness, and patience are the main characteristics of the children of God. The Father dwells in them.
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In spiritual awakening, one increasingly encounters the environment on the level of the heart. Then it is sometimes difficult to enter the world of speech for long periods of time. Too many words far removed from reality interrupt the inner connection and bind consciousness to superficiality. Unfortunately, many “religious” people also talk constantly about trivialities. If they had the patience to wait until divine thoughts arose from their hearts, a rapid change in the structures of their souls could occur, which would open up the possibility of spiritual growth.
When spiritually awakened people meet, much is said in a moment and an embrace. They recognize each other in their corresponding spheres, that is, in their hearts, even if they have never met on earth. Their thoughts and words spring from the same source, as do their lives and their love. This event creates an intense feeling of togetherness in all sensitive attendees.
The communication of the angels is even more intimate. Each of their words is fulfillment, a harmonious consonance in the divine light of love. However, the intensity of the feeling of their presence depends on the spiritual openness and individual state of love of the people present.
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If you live with a heart burning with love, you are tempted to hug people arbitrarily. Of course, this is not possible in material existence. Now it is a good exercise to shift your still physical sensuality more to the spiritual level and to consolidate it as a spiritual embrace in divine love, so that it can continue to unfold and touch your neighbor.
As a rule, however, a worldly person does not feel the divine breath of love in a physical and/or spiritual embrace. They are trapped in their conditioning, which keeps the door to receiving God’s love firmly closed. But even if such a touch is not consciously perceived, it remains with the soul. And one day the heavenly seed will sprout and be a light in spiritual darkness, opening up the possibility of awakening. This is also how intercessory prayers spoken in love and the laying on of hands in the name of Jesus work. And even if mental or physical suffering does not disappear immediately, the person being treated is touched by God in a lasting way and is thus richly blessed.
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Spiritual knowledge cannot be held onto. Thoughts from the spirit of the heart shoot like lightning into the soul and are clear and distinct in the moment of manifestation. But in the initial awakening, the impressions quickly disappear again. Therefore, one is inclined to remember the insights and write them down, which is useful at this stage.
Once you have penetrated deeper into spiritual existence, you learn to surrender yourself continually to divine revelations in order to live and act in them in the moment. This does not yet apply to everyday time-related activities, such as keeping appointments and deadlines or work-related processes. But even these activities are deified through devotion to the all-pervading love of the Father, which transforms all temporal and transitory events into its imperishable property.
Once spiritual birth has taken place, one lives, as it were, constantly in the presence of the knowledge that is necessary at the moment. The divine source ceaselessly provides the thoughts needed at the moment in order to be able to act truthfully. This perfect experience contains much more than time-bound thinking, for its content is essential and comprehensive: depending on the degree of enlightenment, a field of knowledge opens up more or less holistically and immediately in its original truthfulness. There is no learning here, rather it is a perpetual contemplation of creative reality.
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Awake in sleep
In accordance with its spiritual progress, the nightly dreams of the child of God become clearer and clearer, painting beautiful pictures of the dwelling place beyond. One night, it awakens while its body sleeps. “Oh! What is happening now?!” it thinks. Now the soul’s connection to the body has loosened to such an extent that it can detach itself from it at any time. The dreamlike descent of the sleeper into the subconscious becomes waking self-awareness.
At this stage, divine order already reigns in the soul. Its reasons and abysses are largely purified and stand in the light. The human being is aware of its inner spaces – it perceives itself as an immortal spirit being. Only now can one speak of self-knowledge.
Eventually, they will wake up more and more often while their body sleeps. As a spiritual being, they perform otherworldly activities, while at the same time finding rest from their earthly tasks in their spherical home. Here there are many embraces and lively exchanges with siblings, and, depending on the intensity of their love for Jesus Christ, encounters with him as well.
The lively spirit of the heart not only gives the awakened person insights into his world beyond in his ‘dreams’, but also prophetic visions – both of his own future and that of the earth – which the Father gladly interprets for him in retrospect. Once the person is finally fully born into his spirit, he allows his body to fall asleep while remaining conscious. Day and night, they are now an active inhabitant of two worlds – this world and the beyond, the earth and heaven.
(NB: Not all spiritually awakened people experience waking sleep and/or remember their nocturnal experiences clearly and distinctly. The following day, however, a vividly perceptible echo of the blissful events lingers in the soul, which can lead to a longing to leave the body. I have experienced this longing for death intensely. The spiritual homesickness sometimes lasted for days; however, I did not find this pain unpleasant, as it filled me with a wonderful feeling of otherworldly security at the same time.)
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