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 Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL . . . . |
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IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL . . . .
The teaching of the immortality of the soul is not accepted by many
people because they compare it to earthly transience. In their opinion
nothing on earth is permanent, everything passes away, and hence they
believe that they are no exception to this natural law. The earthly
body decays indeed, that is, it seemingly disintegrates and passes
away. But the human being does not consider that the apparent
disappearance is only the means of transition into a new form. On
reflection he will have to conclude that everything earthly serves
some purpose, and he will observe that even the most insignificant
creations are somehow related to one another and therefore not without
purpose.
When such a work of creation fades away numerous other creations
absorb the remainder of the first, which thus serves them and
continues to live on in the new creations. He only has to seriously
observe an outer transformation and he would have to admit that the
inner life cannot vanish either. And he should at least grant the
human being this inner life too… he has to make it clear to himself
that the human soul, the emotional life, cannot be discontinued
arbitrarily … that this emotional life is the essential significance
of every embodiment. The outer form is of no use unless the inner core
is acknowledged by humanity.
The construction of a human being always requires the same components:
body, soul and spirit. The body… the external form… performs the
functions which are determined by the soul. Consequently the body is
just the agent through which the soul’s will is accomplished. At the
moment of death the soul no longer needs an agent for service as it
did on earth… i.e. in the visible work of creation… because it
changes its environment and moves into regions where nothing
externally visible needs to be done. The body, which was just the
instrument for the earthly path during which the soul should have
formed itself into the carrier of the divine spirit, becomes
unnecessary.
The spirit, the third component of the living being, lies in fact
dormant in every human being and only becomes active when the will of
the soul pays more attention to the spirit than to the body, that is,
when the soul considers the earthly demands less important than the
demands of the spirit, which always amounts to earthly needs becoming
secondary. Although body, soul and spirit belong together they
nevertheless can have separate goals. The soul can direct its will
more towards the demands of the body, but it can also disregard those
and make its will available to the spirit within itself. And it is
precisely this direction of will that decides its life in the beyond,
i.e. the state the soul finds itself in after the earthly life, which
can be blissful or distressing.
The earthly life, the function of the body, is therefore just a
temporary condition for the soul. The soul impels the body to all
actions on earth but it has by no means ceased to exist when the body
cannot perform its function any longer. The soul has indeed left the
body because it moves into regions where it no longer requires an
exterior form.
But to consider the soul dead as well would be a completely wrong
concept of its essence… because the soul is something that cannot pass
away. Indeed, when the human body is dead the soul can no longer
determine it’s functions; it can, due to a lack of maturity because it
had not given enough consideration to the spirit within itself, also
fall into a state of inactivity; but it can never ‘cease to exist’.
Because the soul is something spiritual that is everlasting, while the
body consists of earthly substance, of matter, and is therefore
subject to constant change and finally disintegrates into its
components as soon as the soul has left the body… Amen
BD 1874
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