Thus, in his weakness and worldly habit, each one will
find a certain cross, which will prepare him much more pain in the spiritual
world, if he has not overcome it in this world completely or largely
victoriously, with much less difficulty*
My God, may I ask You.
I have already experienced a few times now, that
someone has not overcome an earthly addiction and sometimes even dies because
of that earthly addiction. And now I came across this quote from Jakob Lorber.
Actually, I think it's intense, would You like to comment on this?
Of course I do so.
Why is this intense, isn't it rather logically and justly, understandably
and usefully arranged in this way?
Let’s recall someone who is addicted to alcohol and therefore dies ten
years earlier in great solitude. Because the negative consequences of alcohol are
among other things a destruction of the body and a deformity of character, so
that someone becomes aggressive, intolerant, evil and unloving to the loved
ones in his environment, and therefore logically becomes very alone in life. Who
wants such a person?
This person is of course lovingly taken care of in the spiritual world
and receives beneficial attention and a restoration of his spiritual body,
which is deformed and weakened by the earthly consequences of alcohol abuse.
And it doesn't take spiritual guidance to make this person realize very quickly
that he has wasted his life. And because the person craving alcohol obviously
does not get a drop of alcohol served, We like the best approach here, someone
quickly comes to clarity and insights.
We leave aside here someone who has become so evil on earth that he
becomes a demon in the spiritual world and remains bound to the earth and tries
to incite others to alcohol abuse in order to experience something of the
alcohol rush. These are insane exceptions.
I'm talking about a nicely raised person with a good heart, who has
nevertheless been derailed.
And there is that person, looking back on his earthly life. Do you know
how horrible regret is, My Son? Intense excruciating all-consuming regret when
one gets the insight that one could have done otherwise, that one has made
wrong choices, that one has been weak to oneself. When in fact one should have
dealt with oneself ruthlessly. Intense regret, and even though everything in
the spiritual world is put right and one is given thousands of opportunities to
make up for everything one has done wrong, one would have wanted otherwise and
this realization will continue for centuries. Not because God wants it, not
because it has to be, but because one for oneself cannot forget the memory of
this wasted life, even though one has forgiven oneself.
Thus, in his weakness and worldly habit, each one will
find a certain cross, which will prepare him much more pain in the spiritual
world, if he has not overcome it in this world completely or largely
victoriously, with much less difficulty
And now we come to the most important thing. On earth, a person can really tackle an
addiction or largely overcome it with less effort. But that is what one must
want. And that is the core of the regret
in the spiritual world, one then comes to realize that one did not really want
to. That one always has chosen the pleasures of addiction. Because addiction
really means nothing more than being a slave. And it is a horrifying
realization “here above” when one comes to realize that one wanted to remain a
slave. And a person who overcomes his addiction on earth stops being a slave. I
cannot describe to you the joy of everyone who arrives in the spiritual world
and then makes contact with the intense relief that one has overcome the
addiction on earth and not too late in the spiritual world.
So, My son, the words of Jakob Lorber are not intense, but bear witness
to a glorious truth. Intense is someone who dies as an addict.
And the above story applies to all addictions and pernicious habits,
even though each addiction or pernicious habit has a different price.
All addicts are nevertheless blessed.
My blessings to you all
*Jakob Lorber, Heavenly gifts (Hi, New revelations,
II p. 221.6)
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