THE BOOK
ORGAN TRANSPLANTS
Now, reader; precisely because of the lawful existence of the “Silver Cord” within each one of us, its vital function in the life and death of human beings brings into question the medical “wisdom” of organ transplants.
The great “medical breakthrough” that “saves lives” and is thus lauded as one of the greatest of “human achievements”. Taken from the medical/scientific point of view, ostensibly beneficial for the human race; but that is, of course, looking at it from a solely earthly perspective. For, in truth, such a belief does not even begin to enter into the knowledge of what “real life” truly is! From out of The Living Word of God we have striven many times over to hammer home the Truth of who, and what, we human beings really are!
Even the incredible and not-at-all-understood human brain, with its hundreds of billions of neurons/synapses etc., --- as marvellous as it is ---- still cannot function without the “power” of our “spirit”. It is our “spirit” that animates it, thereby and therewith giving it its necessary earthly-life function.
Let’s say it again: At the earthly death of a human being, that once marvellous brain becomes just part of a rotting corpse. We ---- the real us as “soul/spirit” human beings ---- do not “rot away” but live on in a fully conscious and aware state for whatever time our previous life-decisions lawfully decree!
So, the whole industry centred round “organ transplantation”, in the final analysis does not add one extra minute to the recipient’s “true life”. Yes: It might give them a few more years of earth-life, but that pales into zilch when one recognises The Truth about Eternal Life ---- but with the commensurate need to live according to The Divine Laws of Creation of GOD to achieve that state of Grace!
Organ transplants “do not cut it”, for that practice stands as one of the greatest transgressions against those Immutable, Inviolable, and thus Unchangeable, Laws! In severe concert, therefore; all who are actively involved in the planning, the medical operations, and the receipt of “donated” or “stolen” human organs, set in place for themselves the extreme “spiritual” danger of not being able to “return” to our “true home” in The Spiritual Realm --- but the terrible transition through the process of The Second Death, and thence to final extinction of the conscious personality!
(Remembering that: “Only the few will know”: --- We will learn much more on that reality in the next Discourse.)
Since it is invariably the very rich who feed this “industry”; as we point out at the end of this Work, arguably the darkest evil possible has wrought “murder for profit” through human organ trafficking. Whilst their multi-millions/billions of dollars can buy whatever they want, it is certainly their complete ignorance of Creation-Law and the death process that drives a paranoiac fear of death and, of course, the concomitant loss of the earthly use of their “great riches”. For them, let’s have a wonderful spiritual reality-check from the Divine Wisdom of The Son of God:
“What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul (his life).”
Why? Well, here’s why! In such practices it is vitally necessary to ensure that the organs are taken from a body very recently “presumed” dead, or conveniently pronounced “brain-dead”, to ensure the “freshness” of the product.
This means that the “donor” will almost certainly still be attached to his physical body and, depending on the density of the “Cord”, may well feel considerable pain at the removal of “his” organs.
Viewed from the Higher Knowledge of Divine Creation-Law, organ transplants add little to the overall “life” of a person, as earthly death is merely a transitional phase in the total existence of an individual in any case.
The emotional turmoil associated with the thought of “losing loved ones forever” coupled with the Medical Profession’s general disbelief in these matters has resulted in the propensity to want to extend physical life way past what should be a natural and desirable point at which to exit from earthly life. Consequently, this has changed the nature of how we relate to every other human being.
Today we are all just potential spare parts units. Of course, it is correct and proper to seek to extend life where possible, but not to the point where the lawful process of dying a completely natural death is actually hindered. Yet do we ever read of anyone dying of old age anymore? Hardly ever! Where death occurs in the very aged, medical protocol must always find the exact medical words to attempt to describe this completely natural process of ageing, even where it may logically be something as simple as plain organ deterioration.
The astute reader should now have little difficulty in recognising that the Silver Cord is the key to understanding how one can “return to life”. As long as the cord is still attached to the body, the possibility exists for a return. In such cases, it is merely a question of the re-strengthening of the radiation-connection between the physical shell and the soul body that offers the potential for reconnection.
The condition of the shell or corpse does not necessarily prevent such a reunion either, though a severely ravaged one will probably not allow for a reunion of any great length of time. As already noted, Dr. Watson records that even in cases where decomposition of the body had begun, people still returned to life. In all cases, however, the possible return of the “dead”, or the inability to return, will always be subject to strict Spiritual Law without any kind of arbitrary intervention.
JESUS: THE “MIRACLE” OF CALLING THE DEAD TO LIFE
We have now very-crucially learned the singular and primary function of the Silver Cord. It can be likened to a “power cable” from our Spirit connecting that “life-force” of Spirit to our physical body. We have further learned that its severance is not an instant happening immediately upon death but can be there for up to many weeks. That being the case, those two realities now permit us a clear understanding of how what is arguably the greatest “miracle” of Jesus was “performed.
The inviolable and thus immutable outworking of The Eternal Laws permits a fascinating insight into how Jesus was able to “call the dead back to life”. What we should not lose sight of here is that Spiritual Law is also Natural Law; for it is Creation-Law! Indeed, The Divine Laws could not possibly be anything other than “completely natural”. Thus the “miracles” that Jesus wrought were so wrought under the naturalness of the highest Primordial Laws which He came to fulfil --- as stated in Matthew 5:17, Fenton.
“Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have not come to abolish, but to complete them.”
It is unfortunate that the followers of all the great Teachers have invariably distorted the clear Truth of their original Teachings, probably more so with those of Jesus, Who came from out of The Living Law Itself. In His unequivocal reference to “fulfilling” The Laws, He firmly indicated that even He, as The Son of God, could not circumvent or overthrow The Laws of Creation, but had also to submit to them.
Thus, even the “miracles” He performed were similarly subject to the strict consistency and inviolability of those Eternal Laws of God. The miraculous aspect of His Work, however, was in the acceleration of the healing effect of the cures He wrought, simply by virtue of the fact that He possessed the Power to bring it about.
This does not lessen the greatness of those miracles, however. Indeed, the very fact that The Son of God had absolutely to operate within The Law shows the sure certainty and naturalness of them whereby we human beings can also live in the supreme confidence and Perfection of the same Laws.
If, now, a reader wishes to use the argument that God, and therefore Jesus, could do “anything He pleased” without being constrained by the very Laws which The Creator placed into His Creation; the very vital and critical point of the “Perfection of God” is automatically called into question!
As we have stated in a previous Discourse: If we accept the premise that God is, and must be, Perfect by virtue of His Nature, then His Laws of Creation must also be similarly Perfect. The possible “human contention” deriving from non-understanding of that clear reality means that a Perfect God would somehow produce imperfect Laws. That is as untenable as it is fatuous, though it clearly reveals our human propensity to attempt to ascribe human notions and values to: The Creator of All the Worlds!
For without such Perfection in The Godhead and the immutable Eternal Laws that have issued from It, the whole idea of Laws that actually are Eternal, inviolable in their “Perfection”, and therefore unchangeable, becomes an absolute and illogical impossibility.
Therefore, the natural extrapolation from that, in any case, rather silly yet strangely common belief that God can change His Laws at will in order to bring about a particular event, can only mean that The Law needing to be changed to effect such a thing was not perfect to begin with. Intimately connected with that assertion is the obvious further assertion of an imperfect God unable to put into place Perfect Laws from the very beginning. When we gaze at the night sky in awe and veneration and marvel at its incredible vastness, the idea of such imperfection and changeability cannot logically be considered, not even as a remote possibility. As some kind of religious “doctrine of faith”, it is about the dumbest thing that earth-humans could ever “formulate”.
Having clarified the key fact that it is not at all possible to alter The Laws of Creation, let’s now assess the “miracles” of Jesus with regard to the “dead”. We can now easily understand that the soul-bodies of those He summoned travelled back to the physical shell along the Silver Cord which had not yet been completely severed. Whilst this is a lawful process, the key point here is that Jesus possessed the power to do so. In reiteration, issuing as He did from The Godhead --- without which nothing could come into existence --- He naturally and lawfully possessed the Power to command the souls to return.
Thus, He clearly demonstrated the fact that death is only a transitory phase and that we should not fear it. However, a vital aspect of those particular “miracles” is not the fact that He could order the souls to return, but the different manner in which He commanded them to do so. In Luke 8:54-55 from the Fenton Bible, in the case of the young maid who had very recently died, Jesus simply says:
“My girl, arise.” Her breath thereupon returned, and she at once got up. And He gave orders for her to be given something to eat.
In Luke’s Chapter 7:14-15, with the young man from Nain who has been dead longer and is about to be buried, the command of Jesus is stronger, more urgent, where He calls:
“Young man, I say to you, Arise!”... the dead man sat up and began to speak. And He handed him to his mother.
Finally, we have the celebrated case of Lazarus who had already been in his tomb for four days. It is interesting to note that John the Disciple records Martha, sister of Lazarus, as objecting to the expressed intention of raising him from the dead when she stated to Jesus: “Master, by this time the smell must be offensive: for this is the fourth day.” (John 11:39, Fenton.)
The Disciples, who were also aghast at the thought of Jesus bringing back to earth-life a man dead four days, protested to Him to not be so foolish. In serious admonition and clear “righteous anger” as indicated in the Scriptures, He accordingly told them that with Lazarus, the Power of God through Him would be revealed for the world to see, and that they should not dare to oppose Him.
And so in John II: 42-44, we read that Jesus, after ordering the burial-cave stone to be removed, first prays for help, before commanding Lazarus to rise. The Scripture states that, ‘...He called with a loud voice’:
“Lazarus, come out!” He who was dead accordingly came out, swathed hand and foot with bandages, and his head wrapped in a napkin. Jesus told them, “loosen and let him walk”.
Thus we see that in those three cases the longer the person had been dead, the stronger the command required by Jesus to effect a return, a clear indication of the relative “distances” the respective souls were from their bodies. As long as the “cord” is still attached the “dead” have the possibility of returning, which is the sole, lawful and only reason why Jesus was able to “call them back to earth-life”.
It is important to note that in each of the three respective cases, He gave different instructions to the families of the deceased. In the case of the young girl, whom we may deduce was formerly frail and weak, the order to give her food was probably to immediately re-strengthen the “radiation-connection” between her soul body and material body --- which she had recently vacated and had now re-entered.
Once the “cord” is severed, however, it is not possible for any return. Even though possessing Divine Power, Jesus would not have been able to alter The Eternal Laws to achieve that, as He clearly pointed out!
His miraculous healings did not require a “Law change” either, as everything can only take place under the umbrella of such Laws. It was simply a case of His Divine Power, which stands far higher again than The Spiritual, accelerating the normal process of healing by a very large degree so as to make it seem instantaneous, and thus miraculous. He intimated that humankind, too, would one day be able to achieve similar results once we had reached the appropriate level of Spiritual purity. The Bible narrative records that the Disciples also produced healing “miracles” after the Ascension of Jesus!
THE “SPIRITUAL” CONSEQUENCES OF TOO-STRONGLY EXPRESSED GRIEF
Grieving is a natural facet of virtually all peoples at funerals. Some races, however, appear to inherently display a level of emotion that can sometimes border on unhealthy over-emotionalism. Whilst there will always be a normal and naturally-healthy level of grief for departed loved ones in particular, without the knowledge of the death process to guide us we could not ever have been sure of the effect that displays of very deep emotional grief and loud lamentations might have on the very ones for whom we grieve.
Now that we do have clear and unequivocal understanding it behoves us, regardless of race, culture or tradition, to take cognisance of this knowledge, and begin to more fully understand the effects that our behaviour might have on the very recently departed.
We should therefore ask ourselves the question: “What should we do to help those who are struggling to become free from the earthly body and associated ties?” Given the huge amounts of emotion and stress invariably present at funerals, perhaps the more relevant question is: “What should we not do when grieving for the dead?” Equally importantly, why should we not do it?
That question is better answered in the following Lecture from The Son of Man’s Grail Message!
In brief, however, we should resolve to place our personal sense of loss in a secondary role and consider more the plight of our friend or loved one as he struggles to stand free of the shackles of the earthly body. More particularly if there has been a prolonged illness or a restrictive and painfully-debilitating accident. A quick merciful release from that should be our primary concern, and not our own personal wish to hold him to us.
To this end, it is important to clearly understand the differences that actually exist between a natural, emotional experiencing at such an event, and a situation where this aspect is perhaps unconsciously subjugated to a state of overwrought emotionalism brought on by the collective, emotional upwelling of the occasion. Even though the emotions are given to us to deepen every experience -- irrespective of whether they be joyful or painful -- there is a vast difference between the two positions in this case, even if, on the surface and to the onlooker, the grief may appear to be the same.
One is naturally healthy having a Spiritual foundation as its wellspring of understanding, whilst the other is basically earthly emotionalism. And it is that which most people reveal at funerals. Displays of unnecessary emotionalism have little affinity with true spirituality, for in its earthly manner it invariably focuses more on the person/s displaying it.
Only by accepting that death is a far more serious and important occasion for the departing one than it is for us, might we learn to leave behind the loud wailing and lamenting that has invariably accompanied death and funerals for so long. If we need to grieve --- for it is recorded that even Jesus wept openly at times --- we should replace loud lamentations with quiet, controlled, natural and dignified grief, thus offering the help of a quick release and peace and dignity to the one who is dying.
Far better yet, we should strive to develop genuine understanding of the process and not display grief at all, for there is actually no need to do so! Earthly death being a “life-transition” process into the Ethereal Realm means that we should direct thoughts and words of encouragement and knowledge to the departed one to help him in his next and most necessary step. As we would no doubt want that also, we should remind ourselves once more of the following, appropriate words of Jesus. From Luke 6:31:
“And as you wish men to do to you, do the same to them.”
In this Discourse, we have endeavoured to bring you at least some understanding of what happens at “death” from as wide a source as possible. In particular for the “disbelieving religious” who might just need a little extra help to transition into a more open mind-set, we used other, perhaps more familiar, publications to extend our knowledge of the process --- at least insofar as “human” understanding allows, which, in the end, is very little!
Now you will be gifted with the complete picture, and from the very Highest Source of Knowledge on earth: The Grail Message!
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DEATH
Although everybody from childhood onward reckons with the fact that they must eventually die, yet the majority always try to ward off the thought. Many people indeed are irritated if the subject is broached in their presence. Others again carefully avoid cemeteries and funerals, and if by chance they meet a funeral procession in the street, they seek to efface every impression as soon as possible.
They are always oppressed at such moments by a secret fear that death may one day suddenly surprise them. An indefinable horror prevents them from seriously grappling with this irrefutable fact.
There is hardly another event that is so inevitable and yet so constantly pushed aside in their thoughts as death; and hardly so important an event in life, except for birth! It is a striking fact that man wishes to concern himself so little just with the beginning and the end of his earthly existence, whereas to all other events, even quite trivial matters, he tries to ascribe a deep significance.
He examines and ponders over all the intermediate happenings much more than upon that which would enlighten him on everything --- the beginning and the end of his life on earth! Death and birth are so closely linked because one is the result of the other.
In the first place how little serious thought is given to the act of procreation! Only in very rare cases is there anything to be found worthy of the dignity of a human being! Just in this matter man cheerfully places himself on a level with the animal, yet without being able to preserve its innocence. This, indeed, puts him below the animal, which acts according to the level it occupies in Creation.
Man. However, cannot or will not keep to the level that befits him, but descends to a lower one, and then wonders why the whole of humanity gradually deteriorates in every respect. ---------------------
If, then, life on earth is built up on such a frivolous foundation, as has indeed already become customary, one can understand that man also tries to deceive himself about death by striving desperately not to think of it. This pushing aside of all serious thoughts is closely connected with his own base attitude during the act of procreation. The indefinable fear which accompanies man like a shadow during his whole life on earth largely originates in the fact that he is fully aware of all that is wrong in his frivolous and unworthy actions.
And if he cannot get peace any other way, as a last resort he artificially and frantically clings to the delusion that either death is the end of all things, whereby he consciously acknowledges his inferiority and cowardice at possibly being called to account, or the hope that he is not much worse than others.
But all this does not alter the fact in the slightest degree that earthly death is approaching --- coming nearer day by day, hour by hour!
How pitiful it so often appears when the majority of those who so rigidly tried to deny any responsibility in a life after death begin, in their last hours, fearfully to ask the great questions, thus proving they have suddenly become confused about their own convictions! But their questioning is of little avail then, for again it is only cowardice which, shortly before the great step out of this earth-life, suddenly conjures up the possibility of a continuation of life and of being called to account therein.
However, anxiety, fear and cowardice can no more diminish or redeem the unconditional reaction arising from every deed than can stubbornness. Real comprehension, i.e., a true understanding, cannot be attained in this way. Prompted by fear, their intellectual cunning, which often proved trustworthy during their earth-life, plays a mean trick on dying people during their last hours by inducing them, out of ordinary prudence, suddenly to become outwardly pious; this at the moment when the severing of the ethereal man, who continues living, from the physical body has so far advanced that during this process of separating, the intuitive life has become equal in strength to the intellect, which up till then had forcibly subjugated it.
But they gain nothing from this! They will reap what they sowed through their thoughts and deeds during their life on earth! Nothing has improved or changed in the slightest degree! They will be irresistibly drawn into the network of the strictly operating Laws of Reciprocal Action, so as to experience in the Ethereal World all the errors they perpetrated in thought and deed as a result of wrong convictions.
Such people have every reason to dread the hour when they must leave their physical bodies, which for a time offered protection against many ethereal happenings. This protection was given to them as a shield and a cover so that behind it they could have changed for the better in undisturbed peace, and even completely redeemed many a thing which would otherwise have hit them severely. ------
The case is quite different with those who have not wasted their existence on earth but who, although at a late hour yet still in time and not impelled by fear and anxiety, have set out on the road to spiritual ascent. They will take their serious seeking over with them as a staff and support in the Ethereal World! Without fear and anxiety they can venture to take the step from the Gross Material World into the Ethereal World which is inevitable for everyone, because all that is transient, such as the physical body, must sooner or later perish again! They may welcome the hour of this release, for it means definite progress for them, no matter what they have to experience in the ethereal life! Their good experiences will bring them happiness and the evil ones will be made surprisingly easy, for their good volition will help them in this far more powerfully than they ever dreamed.
The process of dying is itself nothing but birth into the Ethereal World, similar to the process of birth into the Gross Material World. After the separation the ethereal body remains attached to the physical body for a time as if with a navel cord. The higher the soul now born into the Ethereal World has already developed itself towards this Ethereal World during its life on earth, the looser this cord will become.
The more a man’s volition has chained him to this earth, i.e., to gross matter, indicating thereby a refusal to acknowledge any continuation of life in the Ethereal World, the more firmly will this volition bind him with this cord to his physical body and consequently also bind the ethereal body, which he needs as a garment for his spirit in the Ethereal World.
The denser his ethereal body is the heavier it becomes according to the prevailing laws, and the darker it must appear. Such great resemblance and close relation to matter makes it very hard for the ethereal body to detach itself from the physical body, so that it happens in such cases that it must still undergo and feel the last physical pains as well as the whole process of decay. Neither does one remain insensible with cremation.
After the final severance of the connecting cord, the ethereal body sinks to that level in the Ethereal World where its surroundings are of corresponding density and weight. There, in this environment of equal weight, it will find only those of similar tendencies. It is understandable that conditions there are worse than when on earth in the physical body, because in the Ethereal World all intuitive feelings express themselves in full force and without restraint.
It is different with those people who during their life on earth have begun to strive for all that is noble. Because they bear within themselves a living conviction about the step into the Ethereal World, the severance is made much easier. The ethereal body of such a person and its connecting cord are not dense. Their texture is alien to that of the physical body, and this permits the severance to be very quickly effected. Thus, during the entire so-called death struggle, or the last muscular twitchings of the physical body, the ethereal body is already standing beside the latter, if indeed one can speak of a death struggle at the normal death of such a person. The loose and slender condition of the connecting cord prevents the ethereal being standing beside the body from feeling any pain because, being so frail and light in substance, this cord cannot transmit pain from the physical body to the ethereal body.
Owing to its finer nature such a strand severs the connection more quickly, setting the ethereal body completely free in a shorter space of time to soar to the region consisting of this finer and lighter substance. There it can only find kindred souls and gain peace and happiness through the increasingly high quality of the intuitive life. ---
Those, however, who are present at a death-bed should take warning not to break out into loud lamentations! When the grief at parting is expressed too strongly, the person in the process of detaching himself, or who is perhaps already standing beside the body in ethereal form, may hear or feel it, and be emotionally disturbed by it. If then pity awakens in him, together with the wish to say a few words of consolation, this again binds him more strongly to his physical body through the desire to make himself understood by the grief-stricken mourners.
He can only make himself understood on earth by the use of his brain. This effort, however, makes for a closer connection with the physical body, and indeed this is a necessary condition. The result is that not only does an ethereal body still in the process of detaching itself re-unite itself more closely to the physical body but, if it is already standing detached beside the physical body, it will be drawn back into it once more. The final result is that he will once again feel all the pain from which he had already been delivered.
When the process of detachment is renewed it is much more difficult, and may even last for some days. This brings about the so-called prolonged death struggle, which becomes really painful for the soul wanting to depart. The blame lies with those who, through their selfish grief, have called it back from its natural course of development.
Through this interruption of the normal course, be it only the weak attempt at concentrating on making itself understood, a new and forced connection has taken place. To dissolve this unnatural connection again is not so easy for one who is completely inexperienced in this matter. And because it desired this reconnection itself, no help can be afforded.
Such a connection can be effected as long as the physical body is not yet completely cold and the connecting strand, which often does not tear till after many weeks, is still in existence. It is unnecessary suffering for the dying man, a rudeness and want of consideration on the part of the bystanders.
Therefore, absolute quiet should reign in the chamber of death, a dignity and seriousness corresponding to the importance of the hour! People who cannot control themselves should be forcibly removed, even if they be the nearest relatives.
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH:
And SON OF MAN!
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Now, reader: In the great human uncertainty of “death”, what we have just received is Knowledge Supreme in the understanding of it. In direct concert, there is an aspect of “death” that for decades produced heated debate in the medical establishment, and that is the much-reported “out-of-body” experience of patients undergoing surgery.
Despite patients accurately detailing the conversations of medical staff as they desperately strove to “bring them back to life”, those reports were invariably dismissed as just their imagination, or that they were “hallucinating”.
We have stated a number of times that on the question of “who is right” when it comes down to science (medical or otherwise) versus ancient knowledge, in more and more areas the “catch up” time of earth-science has been long indeed. So is it in this case! Advances in brain-monitoring and research into its function and purpose has at least now established that patients who ostensibly “died” on the operating table could not have been hallucinating.
Being anaesthetised to a state of complete unconsciousness precludes that possibility, for in order to suffer hallucinations in the first place means that one must be conscious to be able to do so!
So: With the ultimate knowledge of All-Things now gifted to us from out of The Grace of God, we arrive, thereby, at the sure recognition that physical death is nothing more than a transitory phase --- a Rebirth into the next world for our further experiencing. Of course, strict rules govern the process, as it does everything in Creation.
By adjusting ourselves to The Laws or Rules, however --- with the subsequent gaining of the Spiritual knowledge that is a natural accompaniment of them --- we can fully understand, and thus consciously experience one inevitable day, this “ostensibly fearful” thing called Death!
To that end, and for our greater knowledge-illumination, we will now venture further into this full process. This, too, comes from The Grail Message of Imanuel.
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DEPARTED THIS LIFE
Confused, he looks around! He sees himself lying on his death-bed, sees people he knows standing about it weeping, hears the words they speak, and senses their grief as they lament his passing. He would like to laugh and call out that he is still alive! He does so, but is surprised to observe that they do not hear him. He calls again and again, louder and ever louder. The people do not hear it, but go on lamenting. Fear begins to arise within him, for he himself hears his own voice quite clearly, and is also distinctly aware of his own body.
Again he calls out in anguish, but nobody pays any attention to him! Weeping, they gaze upon his lifeless body, which he recognises as his own yet suddenly regards as something strange that is no longer part of him, for he now stands beside it in a body free from all the pain he had suffered up till then!
Now he lovingly calls the name of his wife who is kneeling beside the death-bed, but her weeping does not cease and there is no word or movement to show that she has heard him. In desperation he walks up to her and shakes her shoulder vigorously. She does not notice it. He does not know that he is only touching and shaking the ethereal body of his wife, not the physical one, and that the woman, who like him, never gave a thought to the existence of anything beyond the physical body, therefore cannot feel his touch upon her ethereal body.
An unspeakable feeling of dread makes him shudder! A feeling of being utterly forsaken makes him so weak that he sinks to the floor and loses consciousness!
The sound of a voice he used to know gradually awakens him again. He sees the body he used on earth surrounded by flowers. He would like to fly away, but he finds it impossible to sever himself from this cold, lifeless body. He distinctly feels he is still connected to it. Again he hears the voice which awoke him from his slumber. It is his friend speaking to another person. They have each brought a wreath and are talking together while laying them down. No one else is in the room.
His friend! He wishes to attract his attention, also that of the other man; they were often welcome guests together in his home. ---------
He calls out! But his friend calmly turns to his companion and goes on talking. But what he says gives him a shock! --
Petrified, he listens to the words of these people with whom he had so often drunk and laughed, and who only flattered him while sitting at his table enjoying the hospitality of his home!
They left and others came. How clearly he could now see through people! So many whom he had highly valued now filled him with disgust and anger, and several whom he had always disregarded he would like to shake hands with gratefully. But they neither heard nor sensed him, although he shrieked and raved at them to prove he was still alive!
In a great procession the body was carried to the grave. He sat astride the coffin! Embittered and desperate, he could now but laugh and laugh! But his laughter quickly gave way to deepest despondency, and a great feeling of desolation assailed him. He became tired and fell asleep.
When he awoke, darkness surrounded him. How long he had been asleep he could not tell, but he felt that he could no longer be connected to his physical body, for he was free. But free in strangely oppressive darkness!
He called out but no sound came. He could not hear his own voice. He sank back groaning....... --------------------
When after a long time he awoke once more there was still the same darkness, the same sinister silence. He wanted to jump up, but his limbs were heavy and refused to do their work. -------------
....a strong urge drove him to grope onwards unceasingly and to seek. To seek! But what? His thinking was confused, tired and without hope. He was seeking something that he could not comprehend. He was seeking!
It drove him onward, ever onward, until he again sank down, only to arise once more to resume his wanderings. Years passed in this way, decades, till finally tears welled up in his eyes and sobs shook his breast and ... a thought arose in him, a petition, the outcry of a soul yearning for an end to this condition of dark hopelessness!
This outcry of utter despair and hopeless suffering, however, gave birth to the first thought of longing to escape from this condition. He tried to understand what had brought him to this terrible plight, and what had so cruelly forced him to wander in darkness. -----------------
Was this the earth, or perhaps after all the other world in which he had never been able to believe?
The other world! Then he must be physically dead and yet alive, if he could call this condition being alive. He found thinking the greatest difficulty. And so he groped onward in his seeking. Again years passed. Oh, for a way out of this darkness! The wish grew into a powerful urge, which gave way to longing. Longing, however, is the purer intuition, born out of the coarse urge, and out of this longing very timidly a prayer arose.
Finally this prayer of longing burst forth from him like a spring, and a feeling of soothing, comforting peace, humility and submission, entered his soul. When he arose to continue his wanderings he experienced a warm glow coursing through his body, for now twilight surrounded him and he could suddenly see!
Far away in the distance he recognised a light, like a torch that greeted him. Jubilantly he stretched his arms towards it, and filled with deep happiness he again sank down, his heart overflowing with gratitude, and gave thanks to Him Who had granted him this light! With renewed strength he then strode towards the light. It came no nearer to him, but after his experiences he still hoped to reach it even if it should take centuries. --------------------------------
Such is the story of the initial experiences of a soul in the Ethereal World! This soul could not be called bad, on earth he had even been considered very good. He had been the head of a large industrial establishment, always busy and meticulously concerned to comply with the mundane laws.
Let me add an explanation to this case! The man who in his life on earth refuses to acknowledge that there is also life after death, and that sooner or later he will be forced to render account for all that he has done and all that he has left undone, is blind and deaf when he one day has to pass over into the Ethereal World. Only during the days and weeks while he still remains connected to his discarded physical body will he be able partially to observe what goes on around him.
However, once he is free from his disintegrating physical body this possibility is lost to him! He no longer sees or hears anything. That, however, is not punishment, but quite natural, because he did not want to see or hear anything of the Ethereal World. His own will, which can quickly form ethereal matter corresponding to it, prevents his ethereal body from seeing as well as hearing, until gradually a change takes place in his soul. Whether this takes years or decades, or even centuries, is the concern of each individual. He can exercise his free will untrammelled. Help will only come to him when he himself longs for it. Not Before! It will never be forced upon him!
The light which this soul greeted with such great joy when it started to see again was always there, but previously the soul was unable to see it. This light is also clearer and stronger than it appears at first sight to the hitherto blind soul! How the soul sees it, whether strong or weak, depends entirely on the condition of the soul itself. The light does not come closer of its own accord, but it is there! The soul can enjoy it at any time, if it humbly and earnestly wishes to do so.
However, what I am explaining here applies only to this particular kind of human soul. It does not necessarily apply to others. In the region of darkness and its planes there is no light. There it is impossible for him who advances inwardly to be able suddenly to see the light, for he must first be led out of the surroundings which hold him.
The condition of the soul depicted here may surely be called miserable, because it is filled with a great fear and is devoid of all hope, but it did not wish it otherwise. It now receives only what it forced upon itself. It had refused to believe in a conscious life after physical death. But the soul cannot abolish this continuation of life for itself, because it has no jurisdiction over it. It only builds for itself a barren ethereal plane, paralysing the senses of the ethereal body, so that it can neither see nor hear ethereally until ... the soul itself finally changes its attitude.
These are the souls which can be found by the million on earth today. Apart from the fact that they refuse all knowledge about God and eternity, they can still be called decent. The fate of the evil-minded is naturally much worse, but we will not speak about them here, only about the so-called respectable people.
When it is said that God will stretch forth His Hand to help, this is done in the Word which He sends out to mankind, showing them how they can redeem themselves from the guilt in which they have become entangled. From the very beginning He has shown His Mercy in all the great possibilities placed freely at the disposal of human spirits in Creation. Thus so overwhelming that the man of today cannot even conceive it because he never concerned himself with it seriously enough! Wherever he did, however, it was only as a pastime or for the purpose of vain self-aggrandisement!
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH:
And SON OF MAN!
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CHRISTIANITY: A WAKE-UP CALL
Take serious note from Imanuel: “When it is said that God will stretch forth His Hand to help, this is done in the Word which He sends out to mankind, showing them how they can redeem themselves from the guilt in which they have become entangled.”
So, what you have learned in this Text is the hard reality for you and your appallingly-distorted “Christian religion” that Jesus, The Love of God, did not die for your, sometimes knowingly calculated, sins.
Instead, and despite the sublime words of John, the beloved of Jesus ---- “And the WORD became incarnate, and encamped among us --- and we gazed upon His majesty, such majesty ... --- full of beneficence and truth”: He was nonetheless brutally tortured, and then “murdered by Crucifixion”!
And for that very large, but truly very strange, American “cult of Christianity” which subscribes to the foolish and totally unworkable “Left Behind” story; you will not find instant “paradise” either.
For all of you, therefore, remember one of the key points of why this Work was written, and why it has come to your attention. It is to remind us all on planet earth of the still, as yet:
“Unpaid Debt for Golgotha”!
ISLAM: A WAKE-UP CALL
That Lecture from The Hand of our Eternal Mediator now sets the stage for a revelatory journey in the next Discourse into what happens should we be unfortunate enough to be one of the very many prophesied to experience The Second Death!
That is; as we transit through the full and terrible experience, until reaching the point of complete unconsciousness and permanent termination of what we had previously possessed as our “life force of consciousness”.
That logically means, of course, that in order to so experience that dreadful process of death for the last time; under the aegis and outworking of The Law of Rebirth/Resurrection, we will have lived a number of earth-lives, but in those successive “lives”, did not heed the Divine Command to Obey The Law!
“I set before you life and death. Therefore choose life that you and your posterity may live.”
Tragically, albeit completely “Lawfully”, that is the end-fate awaiting the greater number of the billions of human beings now present in The World of Matter.
Throughout this Ordained Work you have been told in no uncertain terms what to do and how to live according to Divine Creation-Law! You have also been told just as authoritatively why the vast majority of humanity did not ever heed such Perfect Law, nor, indeed, will they heed IT now! Thus, the stage is set for the most horrific “reckoning” in the history of the world.
Let’s again summon the great Prophet, ISAIAH (24:4-6 (KJV)) who will remind us once more of what is in store for every global society, culture, nation and especially the religions of humankind at this rapidly closing “End-Time”!
‘The “Earth” mourns and fades away, the “World” languishes and fades
away, the haughty people of the “Earth” do languish.
The “Earth” also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they
have transgressed the “Laws”, changed the decrees, broken the
everlasting covenant.
Therefore has the curse devoured the “Earth”, and those that dwell
therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the “Earth” are burned,
and few men left.’
And from Jesus --- not the son of Mary --- but The Son of God:
“For there shall then be such widespread affliction such as has not been
known since the beginning of Creation, nor will they ever be known again.
And were the times not cut short, not a man would be saved”!
(The Four Evangelists!)
To that end, as we have learned: The very reason why there will be such terrible destruction is simple. It is to ensure that the commensurate numbers of intransigent human beings can be comprehensively taken out!