- 59 - everything is now filled with tasteful furnishings that seem correct to me. You would be astonished about how comfortable it is in my house. Everything is of the most glorious craftmanship and artistically completed to a standard that is impossible on Earth. Matter obeys our will here and it constructs itself exactly the way that we want it. The nature of our matter here is rather completely different than the terrestrial. I am enormously pleased about being allowed to make contact with you. You cannot imagine the pleasure we derive from telling you what you can expect. Do not worry about the mundane, even when times are ever so hard. It is not worth the trouble, because all of it will soon be behind you and eternal joy will follow. This is then the true life God has prepared for you. Just take care that the mundane doesn’t tie you down and that you never lose your heart to it. Love, trust in God and fulfilling one’s duty are the best preparation for your life here. On the 20th of November 1947, Landmann presented another otherworldly rapporteur, S. G.19 with the question of whether there were also cities in the hereafter. The answer was (11, P. 41): Your large cities are often mass quarters for misery and poverty and the miserable accommodation promote vices and baseness. The destruction of many cities through bombing raids should therefore be seen as a warning, something that should tell pious people quite a lot. How easy is it to walk past the huts of poverty where more people reside than in the houses of the more affluent? We also have cities and villages here and there are also individual settlements. Our homes do always have a relationship to the people that live within them. Individuals live in some whilst a number of people live in others. They have different styles, but everything fits well together. The more love, the more glorious the house, that is the principle. A valuation based on external, random circumstances doesn’t exist here. God only acknowledges what resides in the heart, namely love and faith, everything else is of no value to Him. This is why there are no poor or rich here like on Earth, because all here20 have love and faith. What’s inside determines the outside. Love and faith therefore also decorate our houses externally. They have a glorious effect on the design and the furnishing of our homes. It is up to each to arrange their house the way they want to have it. Some love simplicity, whilst others the splendid, everyone can have it the way they like it. Our houses are a ‘communal’ affair, that is to say, it’s as if they belonged to all of us. Everyone virtually has the home of the other in their house, that is to say, every house is the expression of the individual, but also expresses their solidarity. Everything in the house bears the stamp of their personal taste. There are no factory products here like on Earth. There is no loveless envy here and no resistances that often trigger denaturing bitterness and lessen the joy of possessing something. Everybody here is very pleased with their home or abode and with everything it contains. Nice people come and go and are happy for them. Our cities have many houses, exactly like the cities on Earth. All of these houses, even when they differ in size, style and construction, match and offer a unified picture. There are cities amongst them that were given a specific purpose. We have cities that are dedicated to consecrated insights, that is to say, insights into the divine creative act transmitted from higher spheres. They are the equivalent of your university cities. The character of other cities is determined by the arts. Music, it is particularly fostered here, has facilities to instruct those that are artistically gifted. They in turn educate those that show an interest. The same applies to the facilities for painters and sculptors. They have the same purpose as the academies for painters and sculptors on Earth. But they naturally produce a much higher artistry than on Earth. Art is aligned with God. This 19 He answered most the questions through the medium Landmann. 20 This naturally also applies to the region or level the rapporteur presently find himself. The “Poor” or “lovelessness and faithlessness” can certainly be found elsewhere.
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