47. The Regions Of Light And Paradise
Radiant light! Dazzling purity! Blissful lightness! All this speaks so much by itself that hardly any details need to be mentioned. The less the ethereal body, i.e. the mantle of the human spirit in the beyond, is burdened with any inclination towards lower things, with any desire for gross material things and joys, the less it will be drawn towards them, the less dense and thus also the less heavy will be its ethereal body, which will be shaped according to its volition, and the faster it will be lifted up through its lightness into the luminous regions corresponding to the lesser density of its ethereal body.
The less dense, thus looser and finer this ethereal body becomes through its detachment from lower desires, the brighter and more luminous it must also appear, since then the core of the spiritual essentiality in the human soul, which in itself is radiant through its nature, shines through the less dense ethereal body more and more from within, while in the lower regions this intrinsically radiant core remains veiled and darkened through the greater density and heaviness of the ethereal body.
In the regions of light, too, every human soul will find the like kind, i.e. like-minded people, depending on the nature of its ethereal body. Since only the truly noble, the good-willed, is capable of striving upwards, free from lower desires, he will find only the noble as his kindred. It is also easy to understand that the inhabitant of such a region has no torments to suffer, but only enjoys the blessing of the nobility that emanates from him in the same way, feels blessed in it and in turn also awakens and feels joy in others towards his own actions. He can say that he walks in the realms of the blessed, i.e. those who feel blessed. Spurred on by this, his joy in the pure and high will grow stronger and stronger and lift him higher and higher. His ethereal body, permeated by this intuition, will become finer and finer and less and less dense, so that the glow of the spiritual-ethereal core will break through more and more radiantly, and finally even the last little dust of this ethereal body will fall away as if bursting into flames, whereby the thus perfected and conscious human spirit, which has become personal, can then cross the boundary into the spiritual-ethereal in a completely pure-spiritual-ethereal way. Only then does he come into the Eternal Kingdom of God the Father, into the imperishable Paradise.
As little as a painter could depict in a picture the agonies of the real life of the dark regions, just as little can he depict the delight that lies in the life of the regions of light, even if the regions still belong to the transient ethereal, and the boundary to the Eternal Realm of God the Father has not yet been crossed.
Every description and every attempt to depict life pictorially would necessarily mean a diminution, which would therefore only bring harm to the human soul instead of benefit.
