- 64 - Pastor Johannes Greber: "Der Verkehr mit der Geisterwelt Gottes, seine Gesetze und sein Zweck" (7). Messages from an entity from a higher region are presented there, from a spirit that has never been a human being on Earth. His report reveals deeper knowledge and more comprehensive information than that which is usually accessible to the deceased this book here talks about. The influence of mourning on the deceased Today’s sciences, in particular the natural sciences, have furnished some very meaningful insights into our environment and our human body. But up to now, all conventional sciences ended with or at man’s death. Birth and death are seen as the beginning and the end of the human existence. But people generally do not know why they traverse this route between the two alleged endpoints. Birth is usually seen as a joyful event whilst death on the other hand is seen as the merciless destroyer. Even theologists sometimes share this opinion these days. A Protestant minister of my former community told me one day during a discussion about this theme: “Death is a terrible affair to me. It is the complete annihilation of the human existence by God.” Adopting this attitude, even by theologists or people with the same or similar notions, maybe even atheists, they naturally see death as an elementary affair that they are afraid of when they feel its approach. Death does however also depress them when it concerns immediate family members and dear friends. A lot of people will then completely succumb to grief, that is to say, they feel sorry for the deceased and particularly for themselves. Some even doubt their own life, they feel that their life is meaningless and they try to kill themselves. This makes a specific appearance when mothers lose their only child or when spouses lose their intimate partner. The grief over the loss and the yearning for the departed, loved individual can be boundless. The thoughts of such mourners, their unspeakable pain, can be directed at the deceased day and night and also their wish to have them back. They do however give no thoughts to the repercussions that might develop for the deceased. They hold the opinion that, as they are dead, they will not feel anything anyway. But does the concept of “death” mean that the deceased no longer feels anything of what is happening on this Earth? – The following report is designed to show that it mustn’t necessarily be so. Very strong thoughts from people on this Earth can certainly reach the deceased and these can either make them feel happy or deeply sad and also retard their further progress. The knowledge about this fact was also known to individual people in the past and it found its poetical expression in the fairy story “The Teardrop Jug” by Ludwig Bechstein. His way of expressing himself might seem very sentimental these days and the language he used no longer contemporary, but the facts described could have actually taken place in such or a similar way or even take place nowadays. The fairy story goes: Once upon a time there was a mother and a child, and the mother had the child, her only one, dear with all her heart, and could neither live nor be without the child. But then the Lord sent a great disease, which raged among the children and also seized that child, that it sank on its bed and fell ill to the point of death. For three days and three nights the mother woke up, wept and prayed with her beloved child, but he died. Then the mother, who was now alone on the whole of God's earth, seized a tremendous and nameless pain, and she neither ate nor drank and wept and wept, wept again for three days and three nights without ceasing, and called for her child. As she sat so full of deep sorrow on the third night, at the place where her child had died, tired of tears and pained to the point of fainting, the door opened softly and the mother gave a start, for her dead child was standing before her. She had become a happy angel and smiled sweetly as innocence and beautiful as transfiguration. But it carried a jug in its little hands that was almost overfull. And the child said: "O dear mother, don't weep for me anymore! See, in this jug are your tears, which you have shed for me; the angel of mourning has collected them in this vessel. If you
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