The rebirth of the soul is not tied to a particular religion. Regardless of any conception of God, the spirit of the heart is already active and awakening due to prenatal preparation and/or a loving way of life. It enlightens the soul according to its cultural and religious imprint. It gives it far-reaching knowledge and insight into divine existence. However, a renewed separation of soul and spirit is possible as a result of free will—an indissoluble union has not yet taken place.
If someone is a Christian with heart and soul, the Father draws their longing ever closer to Himself. In the process, the child of God recognizes more and more how much they are loved by their heavenly Father – and ultimately can and wants nothing else but to surrender themselves completely to this love, thereby irrevocably entering into the Spirit of God: the Christian is spiritually reborn.
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In the radiance of his divine spirit, man withdraws more and more often into his heart, and his identification with matter dissolves visibly. Parts of the soul that are bound to the body, which, according to the current state of development of the earth’s population, are usually only released in the further progress of the afterlife, are for the most part already released during earthly existence – man rejoices in his natural wholeness. His mind is enlightened; earthly needs no longer suppress the divine spark in his heart. He has insight into spiritual matters and is in contact with the world beyond. Immortality is his property. He is reborn in his soul. As he progresses, the Christian can, through love for his heavenly Father, achieve complete union with his ancestral spirit of God, which ultimately permeates and permanently fulfills him. Body, soul, and spirit then form a harmonious unity ( ). When someone has actually realized this destiny, it is called spiritual rebirth.
This rebirth is referred to in religious scriptures, but its meaning has been misinterpreted or distorted by blind priests for the purpose of exercising power, and has been and continues to be blindly accepted by many spiritual seekers. The Buddhist teaching of the wheel of rebirth also does not correspond to actual earthly conditions.
This distortion has degraded rebirth in the spirit to the so-called doctrine of reincarnation. Reincarnation does not mean the repeated birth of the soul as a human being on this earth. Rather, it is the entry of the human soul into its heart spirit, in order to then return deified to the existing body, which is also renewed during this reincarnation.
(NB: If all humans were constantly reborn on this earth, there would be a gradual increase in incarnated beings due to the increase in the world’s population, but an evolutionary work of salvation with the ultimate humanization of spirits solidified into material substance would not be possible. Space on Earth is needed for them. There are probably isolated souls who incarnate more often for vocational reasons or even make a journey through the epochs of this world, but as a rule, one lives only once in an earthly body. In the case of universal cosmic rebirth, the people of other stars spend their existence on increasingly higher developed worlds until their condition allows them to enter the heavenly realms. Only on this earth is there a door with direct access not only to the heavenly worlds, but also to the dwelling place of our Father in Jesus Christ.
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The world’s intellect cannot in any way imagine or comprehend what happens to and within a person who truly follows the Christian path. When the Father is serious about a child and the child is serious about loving the Father, a divine metamorphosis takes place.
At first, this happens in secret; this is where the course is set, where the transformation is prepared. Eventually, the divine qualities emerge from the depths of consciousness, so that the person is increasingly amazed at what is actually happening: God takes up residence in him, even though he still remains imperfect
. But this is precisely where the miracle of transformation begins and takes place. Only in the presence of Jesus is complete healing possible; only in understanding divine love does the sinner find his God-given identity.
Sometimes he feels a little strange, because he is no longer the person he knows. His self-perception and his perception of his environment are changing. He senses that something incredible is happening within him and to him: the Father opens his heart in the heart of his child and permeates his soul from within. This is rebirth in the Spirit of God—the goal of both each individual created being and creation as a whole.
(NB: Just as on all planets and celestial bodies in the cosmos, many different aptitudes and talents enable mutual helpfulness and charity, so individual spiritual rebirths contain a wide variety of God’s attributes: different gifts and predispositions result in different states of perfection due to prevailing divine qualities. This also enables charity to be practiced in heaven, allowing God’s children to bestow their heavenly talents upon one another.)
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In contrast to the unbeliever, who subordinates his existence to an unknown fate, the awakened one has true insight into and comprehensive understanding of all events in time and eternity. In the divine light, he sees conditions in this world and the next and the associated effects—albeit in a manner corresponding to his soul identity.
He looks death in the eye with confidence: “Come, sweet death! How can you frighten me? I live spiritually. You take only the garment of the soul—it belongs to you, you have a right to it, and that is good. But you may keep only your share; the life trapped within it will be returned to me as an eternal memory of earthly existence.”
What do fleeting satisfactions mean in the face of divine vitality and reality! Not just said in passing, but now fully conscious of eternal life. Thus he already exists here and now in two worlds. Now they have realized the true meaning and purpose not only of their earthly existence, but also of their cosmic-spiritual existence: spiritual rebirth through the return to the heart of their heavenly Father. Their bliss is an indescribable sense of security, their consciousness is filled with peace and joy in a dimension that is incomprehensible to the worldly mind.
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The divine attributes take up residence in man. The new life fills him with heavenly peace and a freedom of heart never known before. More and more often, love takes over and rules the thoughts of the soul, which now ultimately kneels in worship before God’s throne.
But the Christian is not yet complete. In order to realize spiritual birth, the Father must sometimes withdraw to test his child’s faithfulness. These tests vary from person to person, both in nature and intensity, depending on the interplay of the previous way of life with the respective soul structure. They require the killing of earthly desires, which are then laid in the grave (of decay) and ultimately, resurrected from death, added back to the soul in a purified form.
But suddenly, the spirit of God opens up completely in consciousness: “That’s you!” the child says in amazement to the father – and immediately afterwards: “You live in me and think and act! It is no longer I who live, but you who live in me! And in this coexistence we are completely one, one love and one life!”
Now there are no more limits to spirit and soul. The reborn human being is completely free, for in all his creativity he acts divinely. But it is not that God is no longer his counterpart; rather, he enters into a heavenly marriage with Jesus Christ. In this union of love, the bride soul can act completely independently. But she is only truly happy when she accomplishes her deeds at the side of her divine bridegroom. And he, too, wants to share himself completely with his bride souls and give them everything he himself has and is.
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The spiritually reborn person is the ruler of his soul world. His inner life takes place in the light of truth. Only good and true things can manifest in him and through him, for the divine light allows no darkness. In his love for the Father, he sees wonderful thoughts rising from his heart, filling him with unspeakable joy and heavenly peace. Now man is completely restored, divinely alive. But he is still bound to his body and should not leave it, for now he is a revelation of God in the world of illusion and death. Only when the child of God has fulfilled his task will he take off his body like a worn-out garment and return home to the heart of his beloved Father. I can see his homecoming… but I cannot describe it. Only my tears of joy bear witness to the vision of grace and spiritual perfection.
(NB: The reborn person is both the bride of Christ and the beloved child of his heavenly Father. A more detailed explanation of this can be found in one’s own heart.)
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