- 28 - This is strange!” He was finally overcome with emotion and started to cry. The tears naturally poured out of the medium’s eyes. The seven of us then formed a closed chain (we held hands) and prayed for this pitiable spirit being asking for him to be freed from his pain and that he may recognise his present life’s situation. After the Lord’s Prayer, the deceased asked: “What should I do now? – I see a light, a beam of light that is enveloping me. It is like a breath of fresh air.” He took a number of deep breaths and said: “I feel quite light!” After a pause he asked: “Who are you?” We explained what we were doing here and that we try to help needy spirit beings by explaining their new situation in the hereafter to them and to pray for them and with them. The deceased finally said: “I am being carried away. I believe that I must thank you.” The medium Mrs. A. later told us that she had felt the pain of the spirit being quite intensively in her head, neck and her chest. It only gradually eased off after the end of the trance state. After having listened to them, I selected and narrated four fates of deceased people from a plethora of similarly progressed events that have eventuated completely different from the one’s Dr. Kübler-Ross and Willian Stead reported about. They list examples where the dying are joyfully welcomed by relatives and friends that have died before them. In the cases I describe, they roam about by themselves. We don’t know why the transition to the world of the hereafter can run this way or that way along completely different lines. We can only make our assumptions, namely that the inner attitude and the behaviour of the deceased during their terrestrial life might possibly have an influence on their afterdeath existence. A spirit entity that had died in Scotland in 1925 according to its information, stated that he had been trained as a teacher for us here on this Earth and he presented his versatile narrations about the hereafter through the medium Beatrice Brunner from Zurich (1910 – 1983). This entity told his listeners that his name was Josef. In answer to a question asked on the 4th of April 1970, he stated during one of the weekly public meetings (25, P. 142): “When a deceased crosses over to the world of the hereafter, he or she will still have the same thoughts and the same abilities as before. These can at times, depending on their spiritual level and their spiritual merits, remain with them. Well, they can - where people have made an effort and deserve it – even be trained and developed further in the world of spirit. On the other hand, the abilities brought with them can also be scotched, because these abilities might have been abused by damaging other human beings, thereby burdening oneself in the process. If one has burdened oneself through one’s abilities, one can be sure that they will be prohibited for quite some time. I would really like to talk about this spiritual world and particularly about its various spiritual levels where deceased human beings are welcomed, where they have to endure their refinement on the one hand, where they have to work and to learn, and where they find their new home on the other hand. Our friends, those that are not familiar with the doctrine of the spirit, find the fact that one still has to work in the world of spirit, simply incredible. That is to say: It is very unwise to think like that. How could one imagine a harmonic, peaceful co-existence if one couldn’t perform a satisfying activity, if one was condemned to idleness, if one could not contribute to the configuration and the beautification of heaven. If the spirit siblings had not participated in the configuration and beautification of the spheres of the spirit since time immemorial, many would only find a wasteland after their terrestrial demise, a world without joy. The deceased should however learn to feel happy in their new spiritual world. But learning this often consumes a long period of time. When I said that one arrives in the world of spirit with all of one’s human traits, it means that the same thoughts and wants, the same human knowledge that one possessed, including one’s obstinacy, one’s idiosyncrasy, one’s dishonesty, one’s imperiousness and all other characteristics that are a human hallmark, once again form the personality in the world of spirit. Because all of this
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