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About death and fear of death
29th April 1841, evening
[1] The death of the body is life's ultimate distress and is attachment to the cross.
[2] If not for the death of the body, all life would be lost. But through the death of the body, the life is gathered and strengthened, so that it can still exist as something after the falling away of the body, even in the worst case.
[3] The fear preceding death, is just the act of the unification of the life which was already before scattered all too often into all world winds.
[4] For this reason, and with great necessity, the worldly must taste an often extremely bitter death. For if such would not happen out of My great mercy, then they would completely and forever be nullified.
[5] And the fact that such worldly ones come into a highly unfree state after the harsh earthly death, is again only so that their life, which was difficult to collect in physical death, does not evaporate again and finally become completely destroyed.
[6] And so even the fearful and agonizing so-called eternal death is nothing but life-preservation granted by My great mercy.
[7] But those people who have already united their life in Me during their physical life through self- denial, humility and love for Me, truly, they will not feel much fear of the bodily death. And when their little earthly ship of life will once be destroyed on the treacherous cliffs of the world, then the wanderer will say painlessly and carefree: ‘I am in the dry with my possessions!’
[8] Therefore, make an effort to unite your life in Me already here, so the death of the body will appear to you one day like a great rising sun to the nightly wanderer at a seashore which is full of cliffs and abysses.
[9] Believe Me that it is so, and no-one will rob you of your inner peace any more.
[10] This is what the Lord of life and death says! Amen. Amen. Amen!