79. Can Age Be An Obstacle To Spiritual Advancement?
There is often a big difference between wanting what is right according to earthly concepts and wanting what is good! What is earthly right is not always good!
Today, it is no longer enough for a person simply to want what is right intentionally! He could do that in his first incarnation. Now, more is required of him! If he does not pull himself together and rise spiritually by force, he is inevitably lost. Old age is not an obstacle, but an incentive, for in old age the hour of one’s passing over comes visibly closer! It is only the laziness and complacency, which I have often called the worst enemies, with which such hesitant ones burden themselves and thus perish.
The time of spiritual vagrancy has come to an end, as has the time of ease and comfortable expectation. Soon it will strike the sleepers and the loafers with uncanny fear and severity, so that even the most deaf will awaken.
Studying my lectures, however, requires effort from the outset, a vigorous summoning of all the senses, thus spiritual vivacity and full alertness! Only then is it possible to immerse oneself in my words and really grasp them.
And that is intentional! I reject any kind of spiritual indolence.
However, if mankind have not buried within themselves even a grain of Truth from the home of the Spiritual Realm, then the Word must strike them as a call, provided that they also take the trouble to read it once, uninfluenced and with full seriousness. If they then feel nothing that awakens a resonance within them, it will hardly be possible to awaken them in the afterlife, because they cannot receive anything else there either. They will remain where they place themselves, through their own will. No one will force them to leave from there, but they will not get out of this materiality in time to save themselves from decomposition, that is, from eternal damnation.
The "refusal to hear" they naturally take with them from this Earth to the Ethereal World, and there they will not behave any differently than they did here. How can age even be an obstacle! It is a call of eternity that strikes them from the word, which they, however, do not want to hear because it is more convenient for them. Convenience, however, will ultimately destroy them if they do not want to become alive in time. The question, however, clearly shows this convenience. It is the same way of so many people who constantly want to deceive themselves under some somewhat acceptable pretext. They belong to the chaff that will not be strengthened by the coming purifying storms, but will be blown away because they are useless for the seriousness of true existence.
They would always demand new time from the Creator to reflect, without ever rising to a level where they would have to mobilize themselves spiritually. For this reason, there is no point in dwelling on it for long. They are the eternally wanting and the never-achieving ones. And thus also the lost. –
