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Many people think that by praying to God so much, they have advantages over others, and those who pray to their so-called saints are received by them or led to them when they return to the hereafter. Through their ecclesiastical education they have a false idea of life after death. They cannot imagine that one has to work and learn a lot there. And when you tell them, they indignantly reject it. The following report, which was received by the media, gives an answer.

Spirit of God: In the following case study, a returnee tells of her life in the hereafter:

My name is Hilde, and I would like to tell you about my early days in the world of God. In addition I would like to make some remarks about my human life.

I remained unmarried and, as I believed, lived a pious life and, in my opinion, took religious life very seriously. But my fellow men did not always agree with my conduct. They said I was violent and often hypocritical, so they did not believe my exaggerated piety. I, on the other hand, tried to be pious all my life, for I believed that prayer was part of life and that it was important to pray quite a lot. I was taught by my parents that by praying a lot one's sins are forgiven. I also tried to do a lot of good at the same time.

Now I want to tell you about my life in the spiritual world. When I had opened my spiritual eye, I was amazed and surprised by this new world. My parents, some relatives and friends came to meet me. They did not make happy faces and all did not seem very happy. They reached out their hands to greet me and I wanted to express my joyful surprise at the reunion and that they had come to greet me. But I did not get the chance, not even to talk. At first everything went haywire in my mind. I was not yet quite aware whether I had really died or whether all that I was experiencing now was only a dream.

But then someone had stood beside me and made it clear to me that I was in the hereafter. I would have died for the earthly world, but risen in the spirit, and all those who welcomed me would now also be in the world on the side beyond, in the world with which I now had to familiarize myself. I would now have to adapt myself to this order and should be quite obedient, because everything I would have done in life would not be in the best order. Now I would have to make up for everything I had done wrong. But they did not talk about it any more and asked me to come along. I had the impression that I lived somewhere on earth in a village unknown to me. It all looked so similar to earthly conditions. Then a man who had become my companion walked up to a house and said

"In this house you will have to take up residence for the time being. The inhabitants here live together like a family. You must now join them and try to live harmoniously with them, for you came last.

Further spoke the being that those other spirit brothers and sisters had been here for a long time and therefore they would know the order of God exactly. So I should follow their instructions.

My companion still promised to ask for me occasionally and left me after he had left me to those roommates.

The house I entered was as simple and modest as I had been used to live on earth. Here a brother approached me and greeted me on behalf of all. He asked me to sit down, for they would tell me something about their life and activities. At first I was really dazed and felt quite tired. I still did not know, is it true what they told me, am I dead now, or is it all just a dream? So I asked them to let me rest a little first, I needed a lot of sleep. So they took me to a small, narrow room to lie down. I could still see that it was a plain room, for I only saw my simple bed. Everything else was indifferent to me too, for I felt very tired, but I could still think about it, if it is really so that I died, then I only want to rest. How long I had really slept I did not know afterwards. There was no time calculation and no clock to look at. After I had slept in, they continued to look after me and asked me to join the community now. I felt really recovered and relieved after that sleep. Everyone showed me their joy that I was doing well and rested.

Now they began to tell me about what they had to work here and what they had already achieved and what still had to do. So they always talked about working.

I was disappointed, one reason being that I had to live together with the strangers in this limited space. Now I finally asked them if there would not be the possibility to get in touch with the saints of heaven. For, I said, I was taught on earth that whoever prays a lot, the gates of heaven will be opened to him, his sins will be forgiven and he can then enter into heavenly glory.

And so I asked them:

"Where are the saints in heaven? Is there no one left but you? Must I truly live with you?"

They confirmed it to me, and said I had to make amends as they did. I should try to live in harmony with them. I replied that I was used to nothing but living harmoniously. But I noticed that they now looked at me half dismissive, half questioning, and then they looked at each other again. Now I asked them if they would not pray here in the Kingdom of Heaven, if it was not more necessary to pray in the Kingdom of Heaven, because I could not imagine that it was necessary to work in the Kingdom of Heaven. I expressed my disappointment that they had not prayed with me first.

They only looked at each other, and then the brother who had received and greeted me stood up and spoke:

"Of course, we also pray. But we must pray and work here. Now I asked them to get up for prayer and they also complied with my request and got up with me for prayer, because we were sitting together before. I had said the prayer as I was used to during my lifetime. Then I asked them to kneel down and they did. It did not escape me, however, what looks they exchanged among themselves. When I rose, the others also rose and said that now it was time to work. I should come with them and they would introduce me to the work. But I could not and would not understand that one should work in heaven. I was convinced that they were all misbehaving and I replied that I would not accompany them to work but stay here in the house and pray. I would also pray for them that God would forgive them their sins. But again I saw how they looked at each other just wondering. I did not want to understand that, because I was of the opinion that one prays predominantly in heaven. For my desire was to come to the saints of heaven as soon as possible. For this only prayer seemed to me to be the right way.

And now I began to pray again until the others returned from work. Then I asked them to pray with me again. But they refused and said that they would only be willing to pray if a high spirit, an angel being came to them and asked them to pray. For here in the world of God life itself must be equal to prayer. So I was taught that charity, benevolence and understanding here was as much as a prayer. I did not want to get that into my head, and I did not want to understand it either. Now they said that I could pray alone, as I was used to, but they would do as they pleased. Then I began to reason and told them that it was their own fault that they were not yet with the saints of heaven because they failed to pray.

Now they asked me to leave this house for the sake of peace. I could pray outside the house in the same way and I would not disturb their peace any more. They were used to living together in peace and no one from the spirit world had ever disturbed them, nor had they ever been rebuked.

Now that they had asked me to leave the house I did not want to stay any longer. For I regarded the others as disobedient and unbelieving brothers and sisters. They did not even want to pray in the Kingdom of Heaven. I expressed my horror at this.

So I left the house and went to freedom. Outside the house there were still many spirit brothers and sisters wandering around. Here and there I came into contact with them and they were very strange. So first I asked everyone about their confession of faith and whether they prayed. Some said yes to praying, others said no. So I did not want to have anything to do with either of them. I wanted to go my own way, for I had to realize that those I met all had a fixed opinion and would not be dissuaded from their intentions and opinions.

Now, since I had not been in the spiritual world for long, I had the desire to return to the people. I felt attracted to them. Since I did not find piety in this new world as I had imagined it and the way to the saints remained blocked for me, I only wished to return to the people. There were enough people who shared my piety with me and prayed as I did. So now I just wanted to visit the people. And strangely enough I had found this way to them so easily, for I was drawn, as if by a magnet, straight back to the people on earth, and exactly where I had lived. I also re-entered my house on earth, but immediately I had to realize that various changes had been made here. I was not at all satisfied with them. I also noticed that there were many other spirit brothers and sisters around me, all of them were looking for something better. So sometimes I got into conversation with this and that, but nobody could give me the answer I would have liked to hear. Some were apathetic, others rebuked me, others sent me back to where I had come from, others said they wanted nothing to do with me at all. I had the impression that they were all on the wrong track, that they were not striving hard enough and that they would not turn to God.

Now I met a person whom I now intended to follow. I wanted to see his day's work and as I noticed how many other spiritual brothers and sisters accompanied people and took interest in them, I wanted to do the same for them.

So I went after this person to observe him. But I was not the only being who was willing to accompany this person. Where these various others belonged I had no idea. At that time I did not know these spirits yet. I observed two such beings who were especially interested in a person and did not leave him. These two beings were simply dressed. I had the impression that they were dressed like people or something similar. I could not see anything special about them. So I followed them. But these two had also been watching me. They had to see that I was also running after this human brother. They let it happen, but sometimes they had a look at me, but at first they did not speak a word to me. Wherever I saw this brother go I always accompanied him in prayer. I had prayed for his protection. All the time I did that for him and so I assumed that this brother would also pray. I had only accompanied him for a short time, then I made the following observation:

These two, whom I did not see anything special, also began to pray. And so it seemed to me that I had finally found the right company, which after all was also praying to God.

But I watch the brother in his actions and soon I had to realize that this was a sin. I had prayed for him again and the other two followed my example. But I also noticed that at a greater distance behind me stood a tall, slender being.

I could not look at it closely, for it was too far away from me. The two others were much closer to me, I could observe them better. Now I had taken the floor and turned to them:

"How is it possible for this brother to commit a sinful act while we prayed for him?"

And they answered that it was not so bad after all, one only had to keep on praying, but that the action of this person was not a sin. He would not even be aware of what he had done, nor would he consider it a sin himself, especially since he was under their blessing. They pointed at me and said:

"You are a spirit of prayer and you see that we are also good spirits. We accompany the person with prayer that nothing will happen to him. "

So I was perfectly fine with that. I also accompanied this brother to church on Sundays. He prayed there, and we prayed with him. However, I always found that during the day he committed so many acts that were contrary to the spiritual law. I could not understand that our prayer did not influence him any more to do the right thing. So I began to talk more and more with these two other companions and they told me that I did not have to accompany him, there were so many other people who could also be accompanied and they were ready to lead me to another person. I was in complete agreement with them.

Here I only see how weak a person can be, one can accompany him with prayer and blessing, and yet he is still capable of doing only evil. So it is necessary to pray constantly for people.

But now I could make another observation. When this person was at rest, we were not allowed to enter him. Neither I nor my two companions could go near the sleeping person. The surroundings were darkened and so we had to look for something else that might interest us. We then went to people who were not asleep, or we wandered to such places where people were awake and thus remained with them. But I was not satisfied with them for a long time and I had to see again and again that it was precisely those people who committed sinful acts for whom we prayed. I had then decided to leave these two, but I promised them to come back, but first I would like to look around on my own.

I also accompanied other people and saw spirits behind them, who, like me, followed people, but I had to realize that these spirits did not pray with them at all, as I and those two did. Instead they now walked behind a person and sometimes held him by the hand when he wanted to cross a path or do something wrong.

They also sometimes kept him with other people and let him extend the conversations he had with them for longer. I saw how they put their thoughts into the mind of this person and took possession of him, so to speak.

Surprised I had to find out that these spirits acted differently. They tried to keep people from evil, to offer them real protection and they had not just prayed all the time. So for a while I had made my observations.

Personally I had not succeeded in gaining power over a person in this way and in leading him. For I had always seen the human being as he had already been led by his faithful companions. I also did not want to be intrusive, but only prayed with them and thus earn my heaven and help that the others also deserve heaven.

Now, after a considerable time of observation, I came into conversation with such a spirit who was leading one of these people. I saw how he transmitted his thoughts to him, guided him by the hand and now I asked this protecting spirit, who truly only wanted the good, whether he was the protecting spirit of this person. He was not, but then he showed me the real protecting spirit. He stood at a distance from man and the one I had asked said that he was a good friend of man, but still earthbound himself, like me, and thus had the opportunity to guide his friend and prove to the high heaven that he only wanted the good. Afterwards others of his kind like him told me that they had to prove that they were able to recognize the right thing and to save man from evil.

Now I told about my special encounter with a human being whom I followed with two other spirits and the three of us always prayed. Yet in my opinion this person had lived a sinful life. How was that possible? Then the companion of this person promised me that he would see to it that I would be enlightened. He then summoned the guardian spirit, who was to enlighten me, much more precisely than he did. So I listened astonished. And this beautiful being said:

"These are two unclean spirits who have accompanied this man. They are two evil spirits who have exerted their influence on this man."

I asked him how it was possible that they had prayed too. And this guardian spirit replied that they had only started to pray when I had prayed to deceive me, because they did not want to be recognized as unclean, evil spirits, and that was also their intention. So they would have deceived me, and so these unclean beings, when they cling to people, would sometimes deceive spirit brothers and sisters who are still beginners. They do not reveal themselves for what they are. They start to pray or to pretend in any other way when it is useful to them. Then these beings, like me, fall for such hypocrisy, and then follow them until they themselves come to the realization that something is wrong here.

And the Spirit of God further explained that by this means these unclean ones achieve that those who roam outside the order of God and those unengaged brothers and sisters remain longer in their disorder. Since they were not in the order of God, they would also obey these unclean and evil ones. And these impure ones are also still happy to find tools in the spiritual world and to deceive them in such a way that they do not offer men any protection but even support them in their sin.

I could not understand that God and his good angels would allow such things. I said that this was to be prevented that those unclean ones could exercise their power on men and that they would also deceive the other spirit brothers and sisters.

I was asked where I came from and where I belonged. And so I had to confess that I had left that family because they did not seem pious enough to me. This Spirit of God drew my attention to my disobedience, and he urged me to return as soon as possible and to ask to be admitted to that family and to put myself in their order. If I did not do this, I would not be redeemed for a long time, because then I would be out of order and could never come to the saints. And this good spirit asked me, I would like to return right now and be taught. He had drawn my attention to the work of the good spirits who accompany people, but who would have been chosen and commissioned for their work, and that these commissioners would be supported in their work. Only if I received the commission to go to the people to protect them would I be supported in this, otherwise I could prevent my ascent myself, because such wretches would influence me. They would then have the greatest joy that I do not recognize them, and that I think that prayer is a means to protect people from mistakes.

That is how I was taught. It was not easy for me to return as a penitent soul. Before I followed this advice, I had made further observations. I had observed these two wretches once more and had approached them again, but in such a way that they should not see me, for I wanted to see through their true intentions. For a short time I succeeded in hiding myself from them. Now I had to listen to their scornful laughter and their disgusting sayings and I had to watch how they had this person in their power. But I had also noticed that this was not a good person, that he had bad thinking and a weak will and I recognized that he was a willing tool for them. No special effort was therefore required on their part, for I could now see that support for his lower thoughts came from these two wretches. They only made a hand movement around him, as if they wanted to wrap him in something unknown to me. As I was later told, the two unclean spirits had transferred some of their power to man.

They supported him with their strength in his lower thinking, also supported his health, only so that he remained a willing tool for them.

So I had to experience it myself and admit to myself that it was so important to enlighten people about this, that they were not only accompanied by protective spirits, but that unclean spirits also approach people and persecute them constantly. I had the wish that people should be spared such things. But I then had to let myself be taught that such unclean spirits would only have access to a person when the person first of all developed an unfair thinking and when his whole being was in agreement with the depravity of these lower spirits. When a man is displeased and quarrelsome, or has any other vices, these unclean spirits are quickly at hand, and they are very happy to have found such an instrument that acts according to their wishes. So they accompany this man and support him in his low thinking and unfair doing. It is easy for them to lead the man according to their will.

Later I was also taught that if a person is peaceful and full of good will, he can never come into constant distress through such lower spirits.

God would well allow man to be tempted because he had to be tested and therefore would allow many things and man would then be observed in his thinking, acting and decisions and therefore these tests would be necessary.

But when man directs the majority of his will towards the good, when he has the desire to live justly according to God's will, corresponding helpful spirits of God will be there, which support him in his noble doing and thinking.

Now I had to return as a repentant soul and asked to be admitted again. The way back there I had easily found again, for it seemed to me to be somewhat illuminated. I had arrived there somewhat shyly and I had asked me meekly if I would be allowed to enter and I could see that they were all very happy about my return. They were happy about my coming home and offered to help me carry my burden.

But now they asked me to start work immediately and I had to do this in a garden and always do the same with my brothers and sisters. I did not pray aloud any more either, for I had recognized that thinking was very important and had learned that one must also obey in this world on the other side, which should be heaven. Now it also became clear to me that I could only earn a higher heaven through work. I no longer had to ask about the saints of heaven, for I did not think that I did not deserve to be immediately accepted into the company of the saints. I found that many saints went around and took care of the insecure, and those who were seeking the way were addressed by them.

But I had a completely wrong idea about them, because I believed that they all walked around with precious robes, decorated with jewellery and wore crowns on their heads. But I did not encounter such things, but still I had the impression that they were holy beings, for they differed from the others in their appearance.

Later I was taught that they were truly saints of heaven. These are once the good spirits of God who live for the plan of salvation.

The word "holy" does not mean the same thing to us as it does to people. In the spiritual world, a saint is understood to be one who lives according to the laws of God and Christ. There are also different levels of holiness and the spirits are divided into ranks.

All the others, in whom spiritual development is not yet present, do not belong to the saints of heaven, and they can be recognized by their appearance.

So I started my work in this small family and tried to adapt to their thinking and will. So I was allowed to experience that such a saint of heaven came to us, led us out of the house and onto a somewhat elevated part of this otherworldly village. There we sang together, songs were practiced and to the glory of God we sang them. We also said short prayers, which were only for the praise of God and Christ.

Now I had to give up my former way of praying, because there was a completely different way of praying and I had to ask myself:

Why did it take me so long to become more understanding? These saints had enlightened me about this:

"By your obstinacy you made it impossible for you to find the faster way up. In your life you were also very stubborn. All you ever demanded of your fellow human beings was that they pray more, and you asked less about the righteous life, and you believed that prayer in life was the eradication of your sins.

A person who prays in true devotion finds favour and approval in the divine world, especially if it comes from a sincere heart. Prayer must not be like a lament to God, nor a narrative, but it must be a praise to God. In prayer one may implore God for help, and the most beautiful prayer is the one which Christ gave to mankind, namely, the Our Father. Therefore, not every prayer of people is pleasing to God. If a person only prays in such a habitual and thoughtless way, his prayer will not be accepted by God, and no intercession can be achieved through it.

Prayer must be with a sincere heart and elevated thinking, and connected with works, if God and the high spiritual world are to become aware of it. So I was taught.

I worked in this family until the time when we were all allowed to leave that stage together. As I was told, the others had voluntarily endured on my behalf until I had become so solid in my sincerity. So I had to be doubly grateful to my brothers and sisters, for through the loving support they gave me, they had proved to me that they were true followers of Jesus Christ, who lived, suffered and died for His own. My brothers and sisters told me that they had made this small sacrifice in His name and for my sake, to further my ascension. I remained united with them in great gratitude, and thus we had taken a higher step together. But my roommates were the first to go back up from that level, while I was held back for some time. I was to prove myself there longer and prove that everything I experienced served my progress and that with the help of my brothers and sisters I would have made this ascent faster. They would have accelerated my ascent through their selfless assistance.

So I remained grateful to them. We meet again and again from time to time and I try to make this further ascent even faster. In the time of my purification and instruction I accepted many things and saw many things that I had done wrong in life. And I have only one desire, that what I learn in the God-world stays in me and never again escapes from my innermost being, for I know that I must return to earth to be born again. I also know that then much of what I have now made the best intentions about can vanish. I know about the temptation and weaknesses of people on earth.

And so I make an effort to live in the world of God according to the will of the father. I am always alert when higher spirit beings approach me. I observe their way and ask them especially for special instruction, which could later be for my salvation. This, my wish is always granted.

So I live in peace and in great eagerness to be able to win the high happiness and bliss. In this way I want to admonish and remind people of the commandments of God, of love of neighbor, of the life that is pleasing to God, and that they find the life that will take them up to the spiritual heights. This is my wish as well as the wish of all my spiritual companions. Now I want to say goodbye to you and now retire again to my blessed work, and I wish you all the blessing and salvation of God.