“Why does God allow this?” is one of the first questions people ask about events such as the new war between Palestine and Israel, including people who already have some basic spiritual knowledge. Whoever has little or none of this finds no answer. That can then strengthen him in the assumption that there is no God at all or—if there is—that He appears unjust, or that He does not have under control what happens in His creation.
The reason for this is easy to find. For readers of the regularly published revelations, it should in any case be no problem, at least in part, to look behind the things that take place in the world and in their personal lives. For for many years we have been enlightened, among other things, about the fact that there is no such thing as so-called chance, by which is meant that something happens “just like that”; or else that “chance” is to be understood in the sense that what is destined for someone falls to him.
If we engage the logic of our hearts, it must be clear to everyone that an effect must always have been preceded by something: namely, a cause. In many cases that occur in our daily lives, we also find the cause if we look for it, because that may be important or interesting to us. The cause itself, of course, is in turn also an effect or consequence and has its own cause. And so on and so forth. Sometimes we succeed in going back several steps and finding the individual causes. But then we reach a point where we cannot go any further: cause not found 1). Does that mean there is no cause? Activate the intellect: it merely means that we do not know the cause.
So if chance—an event and its effect without a cause—does not exist, there can only be another explanation, another reason: our knowledge of what in the past triggered the present event is more than incomplete or nonexistent. And we make no effort—why should we?—to search for corresponding causes, which in most cases is not necessary anyway because the matter is insignificant or because it would accomplish nothing.
It is quite different when the issue is not trivialities or unimportant things, but a serious understanding that—even if it may not directly affect us at the moment—is nevertheless of decisive importance: because it shows us fundamental things that can be crucial for our lives, also and especially with regard to our never-ending, eternal life.
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From the revelations we know that God and everything that has been and will be created endures forever. Our origin is spiritual in nature, and matter, which exists only temporarily, is basically energy. Which in turn means: there is nothing other than energy, even if in different forms.
Albert Einstein put this insight into his famous formula: E = mc². It establishes a relationship between mass m, the speed of light c, and energy E and describes that mass and energy can be transformed into one another. That is, energy is a form of mass and vice versa. This is a law of nature, not an invention of Albert Einstein. To ignore this law of nature means … yes, what exactly?
And now comes something to which even those who know it often do not attach the decisive importance:
Energy cannot be destroyed. It can be transformed into different forms, but it cannot “just like that” disappear without a trace; it cannot be extinguished or dissolved. We remember: there is nothing other than energy. Everything is energy.
Everything means: our thoughts as well, our actions, our lives. And none of it disappears by itself 2). It can be changed, but it cannot be removed from existence! Not even after our so-called death, not after hundreds, thousands, or periods of time immeasurable for human beings.
This principle therefore also applies to our existence after death. It is a law of creation about which one cannot argue (that is: of course one can …). That life continues is a fact. How it continues is another question.
Everything negative that has been and is brought into the world—which means everything that does not correspond to the commandment of love—exists for as long as it is nurtured, cultivated, and lived. The Fall, also called the fall of the angels, with the resulting formation of the realms outside heaven including the material universe, is evidence of this eternal truth.
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“Whatever a person sows, that he will reap,” it says in the Bible (Galatians 6:7). “Strangely enough,” this statement is always interpreted in relation to the future. Apparently hardly anyone thinks to ask when we sowed what we are reaping in this life. And if someone asks, what answer does he receive? The familiar shrug, accompanied by the observation that one cannot penetrate the mysteries of God!
But this statement is not so “strange” after all, for its origin lies in the fact that according to church teaching there was no prior life of a human being, and indeed there cannot have been one, because every soul is created brand-new by God before birth and then enters the human being when he sees the light of day.
So there is no past grounded in very personal conduct in earlier lives. With this teaching, answers cannot be given to many important, indeed decisive, questions. This is not only unsatisfying; it can also have fatal consequences for life in the beyond.
The thought of repeated earthly lives was not unfamiliar to the early Christians. This knowledge was considered so fundamental that it was reaffirmed once again at the council of 451. But naturally it was a thorn in the side of the forces of darkness, because it often gives rise to very different conduct in the spirit of love for God and neighbor. They therefore did everything possible to portray this truth as false doctrine, which they finally succeeded in doing at the Fifth Ecumenical Council in the year 553, convened by Emperor Justinian at the instigation of his wife Theodora. Of the more than three thousand bishops, exactly 165 were present.
Since then, according to church teaching, the human being has had only one single life; he has no past, and so the law of cause and effect can likewise be interpreted only in relation to the future.
Since then, enormous ignorance has dominated many people when it comes to the questions of why this or that happens without reason when God, our heavenly Father, is love—love that even came into the world in Jesus Christ …
From the perspective of the opposing side, one can probably describe this move as one of its greatest “successes.”
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What does all this have to do with Israel and Palestine? God’s love naturally also includes justice. The law of cause and effect, also called the law of sowing and reaping, ensures this. What happens to a human being also has to do with that human being—and no other. The same applies to a people. No people has to suffer anything that does not in some form originally lie in its past.
So in order to come closer to the answer to the “Why?” we must look at the past of both peoples or population groups. And there it becomes highly interesting. This is not the place, nor is there enough time, to give comprehensive information or write in detail about how warlike the past of both parties has been; and I do not mean the past few decades, since reference is always made to the fact that tensions intensified with the founding of the state in 1948. With our present knowledge we have to go back many hundreds of years, far into the time before Christ. Just one example:
The Israelites’ Taking Possession of the Land
“The Book of Exodus tells that after the Israelites settled in Egypt, they fell into slavery. YHWH led Israel to freedom through Moses. From an archaeological perspective, it is more than questionable whether the biblical account contains more than small kernels of fact. Many cities said to have been conquered by the immigrating Israelites no longer existed at that time or did not yet exist. The accounts clearly come from a later period and mix different time levels. According to the biblical account, the Israelites returned to the land of Canaan, which they had to conquer under Joshua’s leadership. This phase is called the ‘taking possession of the land.’ The presence of Israelite tribes in Canaan is regarded as established from about 1250 BC onward. The conquest of Canaanite city-states by Israelite nomads, only a small proportion of whom at most could have immigrated from Egypt, took place gradually over several decades around 1100 BC.” (from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_Israels)
But the other side was not inactive either when it came to fighting the Jews they disliked or hated. There are countless reports of armed conflicts that were repeatedly set in motion by both parties. If a longer period of ceasefire (one certainly could not speak of peace) lay between two wars and then conflict suddenly broke out again, it seemed as though one of the two sides had suddenly begun hostilities for no reason, out of a clear blue sky.
In reality, neither in many souls of the living nor in those who lived in the beyond and still carried their hatred and thirst for revenge within them was there ever a readiness to approach one another, to step back from their own positions, to question their own conduct, to extend a hand in genuine reconciliation, and to put the commandment of love of Jesus of Nazareth into practice—even with the disadvantages that such a gesture would undoubtedly bring for their own people. All of this applies to both sides, and none of us has the right to decide who committed the more evil deeds in the past.
But negatively set causes simply cannot be removed from the world through similar conduct. Love alone can do that, and as long as there is no willingness for it, the spiral of violence will continue to turn.
It is certainly not easy to make this knowledge one’s own immediately if one has previously assumed something different. But one could also ask oneself: “Why have I until now believed this or that? Because it felt right and logical to me? Or because I was taught nothing different from childhood onward? Am I willing and able to rethink? Do the answers that arise from knowing about reincarnation and thus from the law of cause and effect shed light on the questions I have had until now?”
The answers we have found in our consideration of “Israel : Palestine” explain much and can take away many uncertainties. But they become far more important for us when we also view our own lives, our patterns of behavior, our relationship with our neighbor, and in general the seriousness of our effort to put the commandment of love into practice from this perspective.
Much success to us if we do this. It can become exciting.
With love,
Hans
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Here is one more short poem from Trust the Quiet Sound of Your Heart that fits the subject
The Soul Keeps Debit and Credit
You insist upon your right,
the other one is bad,
so you think, and you will not let it rest.
I showed him what was what,
he bowed before me,
you tell it with a great display.
Yes, if you only bite,
and because you do not know
that the soul keeps debit and credit,
it seems to you bold,
and every pretext serves
to feast upon a quarrel.
Still you do not see
that it might also be
that you are only paying old debts.
You lay new seed,
and so the wheel keeps turning—
just one word, and you could stop it.
1) An example (there are no limits to the imagination):
The floor in the hallway gets wet = effect and at the same time has a cause,
I came home from my walk soaking wet = has a cause,
I had forgotten the umbrella = has a cause,
because my thoughts were somewhere else = has a cause,
something was occupying me very strongly = has a cause,
I had not yet been able to resolve the problem = has a cause,
the other person involved in the problem is unwilling to talk = has a cause,
he is an unfriendly and not very communicative person anyway = has a cause,
now it becomes more difficult, but that does not mean there is no cause for it. I simply do not know it …
2) Another example:
Someone steals €200,000 from another person and thereby causes him severe financial distress with serious consequences, without it becoming known during their lifetimes who committed the theft. Both the thief and the person harmed die. Everything over, everything forgotten, everything gone from the world? By no means. The debt exists, and when the two meet “over there,” what happened becomes obvious. Perhaps through appropriate conduct (remorse, making amends, etc.) the matter can be put right. If not, the debt remains, and it remains until it is balanced, even if this occurs in a new incarnation in which, under certain circumstances, the thief this time is the one harmed—without, of course, knowing the background, considering God and the world unjust, and perhaps trying to obtain his money again by unlawful means.