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Do Not Mourn Your Dead

10. You should do likewise when you mourn for the dead and are sad, for your loss is their gain. Do not act like those who mourn before the people and make loud lamentation and rend their garments, so that others may see their sadness. For all souls are in the hands of God and all those who have done good will rest with their ancestors in the bosom of the Eternal

11. Pray, rather, for their rest and ascent, and consider that they are in the land of rest, which the Eternal has prepared for them, and will receive just reward for their deeds, and do not murmur like hopeless people. (Chap. 26:10-11)

Christ explains, corrects
and deepens the word:

The one who mourns for the dead is still far from eternal life, because he sees death as the end of life. He has not yet reached the resurrection in Me, the Christ. He is counted among the spiritually dead.

Do not mourn your dead! For the one who mourns the loss of a person does not consider the gain of the soul, which – if it has lived in Me, the Christ – enters into higher consciousness spheres of life. For if its life in its earthly existence was in God, then it will also be in God in another form of existence.

Recognize that the temporal, the life in the body, is not the life of the soul. The soul has taken on flesh for just a short segment of life, in order to clear up and settle in the temporal what it had inflicted upon itself in different earthly garments. The earth is to be seen as a mere transit station where the souls in earthly garment can clear up in brief time what they cannot overcome so quickly beyond the veils of consciousness – also called the walls of fog.

When a soul leaves its earthly garment, a person cries only for the garment of the soul, not thinking of the soul that has slipped out of the garment.

After laying aside its earthly body, a light-filled soul will be led, by light-filled beings invisible to humans, into the plane of consciousness that corresponds to the way of thinking and living of the person in whom this soul was incarnated.

Recognize: Every soul that has left its body is drawn, for some time still, to the people with whom it lived together as a human being. Should it learn that its former earthly relatives mourn for its shell, this is very painful for the soul. The soul that is still close to earth recognizes very well why its relatives grieve only over its human shell and why it is ignored as a soul by the mourners. A soul that has to recognize this then feels the first deep soul-pain after laying aside its physical body; for it learns why the person mourns instead of thinking of it with love and unity. With this, it perceives many a self-serving thought from its former earthly relatives. It cannot draw their attention to itself, because it is not perceived by them. What it says the person does not hear, and what it can see he does not see. But the soul perceives many things.

I suggest you think about this: Do you grieve when the snake sheds its skin, when it leaves its skin behind and slithers away?

It is similar with the soul. It leaves its perishable body, its shell, and journeys on. Therefore, you are grieving the loss of the shell, and are not remembering the soul. The person who remembers the soul thanks God who called the soul back to His bosom, insofar as the soul made use of a life in God while in the earthly garment, thereby drawing closer to Him. Remember that for a light-filled soul, discarding the body is a gain.

And if you mourn the loss of a person just in front of people, you are playing the hypocrite. In reality, you think neither of the person nor of the soul. You think only of yourself. The soul, which registers this, recognizes that it has not been loved selflessly, that perhaps it was there just to serve its neighbor’s self-interest.

Many souls have to recognize that, while in the earthly garment, their earthly relatives and acquaintances lived through them. This means that, as human beings, they could not develop themselves and live according to their own characteristics, because they had to do the will of those who demanded of them what was advantageous to the former. Many of these souls perceive what they missed in their earthly existence and, for this reason, return again into the earthly existence. They return to the earth through the veils of consciousness and, as souls, they again stay among those who had lived through them. Still others seek to live on earth those things they were unable to develop as human beings.

As long as people are tied to people or things – like possessions, wealth and power – their souls return to earth and slip again into new earthly garments. There are manifold causes and reasons why souls reincarnate. If a soul recognizes, for example, that it is chained to its relatives through sin, then it often becomes resigned and gives in to the wish to take on a new body. Inspired by this wish, it lives on the plane of consciousness that corresponds to its spiritual state and is taught there. Among other things, it is made to understand the pros and cons of a new incarnation. It then goes into incarnation when the stars – in which its pros and cons are stored and thereby, its pathway to earth – show the way to matter and when an earthly body is conceived on earth that corresponds to its spiritual level of consciousness. It then slips into this human shell at its birth.

The man who begot the body and the woman in whom the embryo grew attracted that soul with which they still have something to clear up, or, in order to walk the path of the Lord together, in selfless service for their neighbor.

The person should not look just to his body, but above all to the incarnated being within him, and should strive to do the will of God and not allow the human will of a second or third person to be imposed on him.

Recognize: Even if you say “I do the will of my neighbor, to keep the outer peace,” you prevent your soul and your neighbor’s soul, as well, from developing and unfolding as it is good for both. You prevent yourself and your neighbor from fulfilling the tasks that your souls have brought along into the earthly existence: to purify itself and to free itself from the burden of sin, which perhaps was brought into this incarnation from previous incarnations. Whoever allows his fellow man to lead him by the nose – doing what others say although he recognizes that this is not his way – is lived and his own actual earthly existence passes him by. He does not use the days; he is used by those to whom he is servile and therefore does not know his own path over this earth as a human being.

The one who binds his fellow man, by forcing his will upon him, is comparable to a vampire that sucks the energy from its fellow man. He does not know himself, and at the same time, he ties himself to his victim, and vice versa; the victim who lets himself be drained also ties himself to the former. Both will be brought together again in one of their lives, either in an earthly garment or as souls in the spheres beyond – and this, so often and for so long, until the one has forgiven the other.

If two people tie themselves to each other – regardless of who does the binding or lets himself be bound – both have burdened themselves and both must clear things up together, so that love and unity can be re-established between them.

No one can say, “I did not know about the laws of life.” I say to you that Moses brought you excerpts from the eternal laws, the Ten Commandments. And if you keep these, then you will not tie yourselves to each other, but will live in peace with one another.

Recognize: Only love and unity among one another show souls and people the pathways to the higher life.

God, the eternally kind One, offers His hand to each soul and to each person. The one who takes it uses his earthly life. He treasures the days and is also able to live them according to the commandments, by clearing up what the day shows him. As soul, he will one day walk and rest in God with all those who likewise have used their earthly existence by recognizing and overcoming with Me, the Christ, what the day brought and showed them day after day – joy and suffering.

And if you do not mourn for your own sake the mortal shell that your neighbor discarded, but rejoice in spirit that the soul in earthly garment has recognized its spiritual life and has prepared itself for it, then you will pray joyfully for your neighbor to the Father, through Me, the Christ. You will send forces of love to the soul that is now closer to God, so that it may move on to higher planes in order to unite with God more and more.

The soul feels the joy and suffering of its relatives. The souls that passed away in Me, the Christ, feel linked through Me, the Christ, with all those who still walk in the earthly garment. The joy of the soul for being remembered with love by its relatives fills it with strength.

Recognize: Selfless, loving prayers give power and strength to the soul that journeys on its path toward the divine. In your selfless prayers it feels the caring closeness and receives increased strength. Through this, it will more quickly lay aside the humanness that still clings to it, thus becoming free for Him, who is freedom and love – God, the life. The reward from God is great for every soul that earnestly strives to fulfill the will of God.

Recognize: Only the one who merely speaks about his faith is without hope, but he does not live what he appears to believe. In the last analysis, the doubter does not believe in what he pretends to believe. From this, hopelessness develops.

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