Volume 11 · Chapter 50

THE REBIRTH OF THE SOUL The next morning, Simon Peter came to Me and said: “Lord and Master, we all can see now very clearly that we acted wrongly since God Himself will certainly never need the help or care of men. But it is still not so clear how Your body can sometimes be in some sort of timely independence of Your inner Spirit so that out of Your words it sounds as if one time You are the eternal Spirit of God Himself in person and then again as if Your physical person is entirely independent and is only once in a while pervaded by Him. This is why we always come into a certain conflict in our viewpoints which you certainly will forgive us since we firmly adhere to You and believe in You but still do not completely understand Your inner nature. How is this now actually?”

[GGJ.11_50,02] I said to him: “My dear Peter, you and also your brothers still do not understand many things because you did not yet reach the spiritual level in yourselves in order to understand this in itself simple process which I often explained to you. But you are here now to examine in yourselves what is still unclear on Me.

[GGJ.11_50,03] What is the use to always point out the difference between the Son of man and the Son of God if in yourselves you are not capable to know and to feel the difference between the spiritual and the physical man?

[GGJ.11_50,04] Only after you will be completely reborn in the body will this question be solved to your full satisfaction. You all have already made important steps in that direction so that this goal is not far away from you anymore. But it is still not completely reached.

[GGJ.11_50,05] But answer Me now a few questions so that you may better understand this important point.

[GGJ.11_50,06] Firstly: how do you experience your thinking and feeling? Is it outerly or innerly? That means: can you only answer a question that is asked to you because you learned the answer with your memory from your teacher, or does your own inner ‘I’ answer the question by reasoning?

[GGJ.11_50,07] You will say: ‘This can be both’. If man were only a machine, although provided with a self-conscious soul, he would only be able to think outerly. That means: to obtain knowledge by means of impressions of his memory which were only acquired by what he learned – somewhat like one trains an animal. To reason means however that the soul asks questions to an inner principle that lives in man and which answers questions that are asked and which also lives in the soul as spirit that is perfect as such, as I often told you. That is why a real activity of questions and answers can take place in the inner of man.

[GGJ.11_50,08] One will say: ‘Yes, if the spirit is perfect, then how come that often such enormous foolish conclusions can come up? Does the spirit then not give always the right answer?’

[GGJ.11_50,09] The spirit does but since it is in man in the first place the life’s principle of the soul, this one can, as he is self-conscious, also act according to his nature like a mirror image. Even as a real mirror image cannot exist without the presence of an object which is exactly the same, so also the soul can only give his opinion freely when these come from the spirit as reflections. But, as a mirror image represents everything in reverse – exactly the reverse of the object but still real – this is also what happens here until they both seek to merge with one another.

[GGJ.11_50,10] Only he who has awakened his spirit to such degree that his soul does no more reflect earthly, reverse reactions, has reached the rebirth and stands in the full truth. It is of course not easy to break through those barriers because the earthly adjusted soul is more strongly attracted by the material- earthly body than by the spirit which influence is only weak and of which he gladly accepts the activity as his own work if he did not learn to see the difference.

[GGJ.11_50,11] To break through those barriers is My and your task, as well as of all My followers, and the way to it you can find by your inner spirit and you need to let it speak. This is the only, one true teacher because it is connected with the universal Spirit of God and is a small image of it, and it therefore draws all truth only from Him.

[GGJ.11_50,12] Now when the soul has made himself completely subordinate to the nature of his spirit and has by that no more earthly wishes so that he solely strives to the spiritual and has therefore, as a self conscious soul, passed into the spiritual, then the more completed person has reached a level that was indicated by the Indian sages as ‘Nirvana’, thus a condition in which every will, based on fleshly, earthly tendencies, is destroyed and which eliminates every life in the flesh as material existence. That condition is possible in the material life and should even be reached so that total peace will come into the heart of man.

[GGJ.11_50,13] Now you all have almost reached that rebirth of the soul. However, over there in My Kingdom, when I will have ascended, there is still another rebirth, which is the one of the spirit, which will then consist of an inseparable community with Me. There will be the highest bliss of the children in the house of the Father and joys which no human heart can ever suspect because they are purely spiritual and of which not the smallest glimpse can be made understandable to you before that time.

[GGJ.11_50,14] So most of all, strife to reach the rebirth of your soul so that your soul will learn to only look with the eye of the spirit and will know by that more and more himself and his origin.

[GGJ.11_50,15] But since I Myself, just like all of you, have to climb those steps in Myself as a human being – because I am the One who leads the way for humanity that, despite many messengers, always entangled themselves in errors – you finally will also understand that I, in order to clarify this climbing up to completion and make it understandable, cannot speak otherwise than I do now.”