Although man, to a certain degree, is convinced that he is an immortal soul, there always stays a measure of doubt that with the last breath going out, man’s little light will also go out for ever. But contrary to this, at the same instant that the death of the body sets in, the full, living consciousness (the soul) withdraws herself from matter and in amazement sees the own deceased body and in the free condition wherein the being suddenly finds himself, it is difficult for him to think that he could have founded himself, as life, in such a totally dead object.

Yes, consciousness, and not the body, is the true life and so originates, with the moving of the spirit into matter, the first pulsating heartbeat, which will carry the precious life-giving juices rhythmically through the body for the rest of its stay on earth, and with the departure of this consciousness (soul) from her temporary earthly house, everything in matter quiets down again with a single last heartbeat.

Directly thereafter the soul is led, by better or worse spirits, according to the spiritual condition, to the spiritual sphere which the soul has prepared for herself during her stay on earth. And here the words are applicable which go like this: “There where your treasure is, there your heart will also be”, and the more intensely man has worked on himself to come closer in love to Me, his Creator, precisely so it will be for him, and he and I will see each other face to face, in love. But alas, for the one who made little effort during his earthly life, so the outlook it will be scanty to his soul in the life hereafter.