Life after physical death

- 63 - good and proper. Here comes the new. The spiritual body, it bears a resemblance to the discarded physical body, has completely different necessities of existence. It is, if God’s thoughts it is based upon find realisation, the most perfect and most beautiful thing one can imagine. God’s thought is the thought of love and thereby the inner communion with God.” The transmission from Dr. Schwarz is abruptly interrupted here. He would surely have like to continue with it. But Pastor Landmann’s time on Earth had also come to an end. On the eve of his death, one week after the above memorandum, Schwarz had tried to once again contact Landmann. But due to the already occurring weakness, the medium was no longer capable of writing the message down. Any further informative reports will unfortunately remain hidden from us. Those that read this and other descriptions of the hereafter that are related in their depiction, can possibly reach the conclusion that merely human wishful thinking produced them. The sceptic will object by saying that the medium’s subconscious has been allowed free reign. The wish to survive death has somewhat idealised the terrestrial conditions and simply transferred them into a hereafter. But during the 19th century, and it still applies today, a large section of the populations was educated along religious lines and this means a Christian education within the European cultural arena. The Christian churches and sects in no way teach the image of the hereafter depicted here. Lots of evangelic theologians and a number of founders of religious sects even adhere to the so-called “completely dead theory”. This is the concept of the complete annihilation of the human existence by God after physical death. A new creation is supposed to come into being on the “Day of Judgment” and this on this Earth in the form of physical matter. A section of the newly created, whose terrestrial predecessors had a bad past life, will then be cast into eternal hellfire. But those whose terrestrial predecessors were good will end up in heaven. Other theologians and churches on the other hand teach the eternal damnation into the fires of hell or a temporary refinement (in purgatory) immediately after death or the instant ascent into heaven to a life of eternal bliss in the presence of God. If it was really only the subconscious of the medium at work, such imaginations would surely also see the light if day. But this is never the case. The eminent British zoologist Professor Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 – 1913) has this to say about this contradiction (cited from 13, Volume III, P. 347): “Almost all mediums have been brought up according to orthodox religious credos. So why is it that the usual orthodox concepts of heaven are never confirmed by them? There is nothing more wonderful in the history of the human spirit than the fact that, whether in the backwoods in the Americas or in the cities in England, ignorant men and women that have mostly been brought up with the usual concepts of heaven and hell promoted by their sects, utter indoctrinations about these things the moment they are in the grip of this strange gift of psychic ability, indoctrinations that differ completely from the ones implanted so deeply into their minds and this without consideration to where the alleged origin of these spirits actually is, that is to say, whether it is of a Catholic, Protestant, Mohammedan or Indian origin.” One can recognise from such argumentations that there is good reason to grant these objective depictions of the hereafter great meaning and an actual basis. One should at least take the possibility that is it like this into serious consideration and prepare oneself for an eventual life after death, and this as best as one can. The reader might also remember that the presented reports only describe the conditions after death in regions that are more or less “near” the Earth, regions were presumably most people will be guided to after their terrestrial demise. This in no way tells us anything about a region that one could denotes as “heaven” or “paradise” wherein one lives in immediate proximity of God. This region remains occlusive to human knowledge and human experience. But many of the deceased report about further development in the world of the hereafter, about an ascent into higher spheres wherein the return to God’s Realm is found. Those that would like to receive further elucidation about these questions should read the book by

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