Volume 11 · Chapter 53

SPIRITUAL VISUALIZATION A few words have to be added here now about spiritual visualization for those who follow My ways and want to experience on themselves how much their soul is capable to be already developed in the body. It will not be taught here how one can acquire special, miraculous or magic qualities, nor will the recipe be given to only strife for these, but the way will be shown here how to overcome the multiple doubts of the heart which the soul feels as long as he has not loosened the bands of his flesh. This is the true goal: to be independent from the flesh with all its lusts, doubts and errors in order to feel good in the actual, real and true world wherein the soul must go after death, and to be able to enter it while being completely free and independent.

[GGJ.11_53,02] It is obvious that when the constricting shackles of the flesh become looser, the life of the soul must of itself completely become noticeable. And all those who hear My Word, but who further on do not perceive anything of that inner life of the soul, are still completely stuck in their fleshly bonds. They are hearers but no doers of the Word.

[GGJ.11_53,03] Everyone who will cast off his shackles receives a clearer view on people and nature. First only in such a way that he thinks that his ability of perception is becoming much sharper. But it actually means that the spirit is stirred, receiving more freedom of movement. Then man should take the habit to look into himself, this means to recognize the images that his spiritual eye can see, independently from his physical eyes and can observe. Then, when he stands in the love for Me and continues to build on that basis, he will quickly acquire the qualities of the spirit which you call ‘clairvoyance’. But this is not a magic quality but a very natural one of the soul against which he can of course close off himself just like you can close off yourself in the body against the development of various qualities.

[GGJ.11_53,04] During sickness the connection between soul and body becomes often looser. The clairvoyance which then exists by the weakness of the body is a kind of unhealthy clairvoyance by which many things appear that are not correct. The life of the soul in a world that is completely strange to him is nothing unusual with sick people, and the many imaginations that appear by that are nothing else but corresponding images of the world of the soul. Corresponding images because the language in which the spirit speaks to the soul are not words but only complete ideas while words can only communicate those ideas with difficulty.

[GGJ.11_53,05] The development of the ability to understand the language that you know – at least according to the word – as the language of correspondences is not only useful during lifetime but even necessary because otherwise the soul will, after the death of his body, feel like a stranger in the spiritual kingdom, coming into a completely strange country in which he cannot understand the language and where he can only make himself understandable with great difficulty. Only with this difference: that the inhabitants of that country understand the stranger but he does not understand the inhabitants who first have to adopt again to the laborious shackles of the souls’ life to be familiar again with the laborious physical language which became unusual and by which one can only make contact by means of words but not by a series of thoughts.

[GGJ.11_53,06] This is why spiritually advanced people often regret the impossibility to express their feelings in sufficiently clear words, or the impossibility to set out, through writing or speaking, the flow of their thoughts as quickly as the spirit shows them to the soul. All this would not be possible if that language of the spirit in quick images and series of ideas would not exist.

[GGJ.11_53,07] So there is more than being able to communicate in word and writing, and let thus no one believe that a very highly developed written language or a highly developed orators’ talent is the most brilliant that the soul of man can express, for these are only very weak outflows of the inner striving of the spirit to share with the soul of what lies most perfectly hidden in the spirit. So let no one believe that he has achieved something special when he is considered a master in this outer communication. He is only a poor bungler compared to the richness of the inner master that does not display its talents to the outer.

[GGJ.11_53,08] The striving to let it speak in oneself as perfectly as possible by My power and by the love for Me means My way and to follow Me, for I went along the same way during My earthly life in the flesh, and just like any other human being I had to acquire it step by step with difficulty. – Let us return now to My followers.