Salvation.

Salvation. The soul's path to life. 

The soul is an intelligent life compound that is at a decisive stage in its final liberation from matter, which has long held it back in a slow process of revelation to attain consciousness and human form, in likeness to the divine form. Now, the soul, still trapped by matter, must recover its free, vivid and immortal spiritual condition;  it must remember that it was part of a living spirit created by God, the great spirit of light that separated from God and thus fell into death and the night of matter, along with all of its creation. Every human soul is now a new heaven, prepared by God, where a sun shall rise to illuminate the day of its new life. This sun is the living Lord in the heart of the soul. 

To achieve this final purification and level of life-consciousness, God offers it His word and has endowed it with will and intelligence.

The more light the Lord, in His mercy, gives to a person, light which leads to the soul feeling attraction and, to its happiness, love for God, the more the soul, now inspired by the Spirit of God, that is, halfway awakened, wants to know about true life, which knows no death, and to take it in, or rather to step into this life, because it recognizes it as its salvation, a salvation from its death. 

The person wants to take this step with full justification; he wants to be redeemed from guilt, an old guilt that clings to him like the horrible night of his own death, holding him back and filling him with fear.

The soul now wants to quench its thirst for life, now that it has realized that it is thirsty. As soon as a person has heard the Lord's holy promise of immortality through the word in the Scriptures and has enough faith in this promise, the soul feels that it is suddenly on a path where more and more light shines ahead.

The Lord has wisely arranged it so, weaving His own infinity into His Word, His life, that His light not only offers revelations about that free life without death, but at the same time, with every ray of light from His wisdom, ignites new questions in the soul, which then soon seize the soul like a fire spreading across the steppe grass, driven by the tailwind of the Spirit.

Thus, nourished by the Lord, the hunger for more of the soul grows almost without limits, and so the soul, which is halfway material and not yet purely spiritual, is led by the spiritual nourishment that lies in the Word to the threshold of its salvation, which it then not only assimilates as an increasingly clearer idea, but also begins to love, if it does not allow itself to be distracted too much from the world in its love. For it is here precisely to test this love for the Lord within itself. It has incarnated itself voluntarily for this purpose. 

This love acts like a fire within it, leading it to salvation by burning away all the chaff. This chaff is the material things it still loved. Thus, the soul consumes its own old body in the flame of the Spirit. In this way, it undergoes a spiritual purification. 

Its dead and dry steppe grass is transformed into light and warmth. It literally sacrifices itself, i.e., its old life, in order to gain a new life. The Lord accomplishes this by giving the soul seeking true life more and more elements that help it understand its own salvation and bring it about from within itself, as if it were doing it itself, in a hard struggle against that which in it distances it from salvation. In this way, it gains a sense of success by overcoming its love to matter. It has now fully understood that it wants to rise to the spirit, because it is essentially spirit and always has been, but has now fallen into this delicate situation in dark, impure matter through its own fault, from which it can free itself again with serious willpower, patience, and obedience to the commandments of love according to Christ. The soul also feels boundless gratitude for the grace and mercy of God, who has awakened it to life and is now showing it the way home. Everything it has, it possesses as a gift from God, starting with its own life. Its relationship with the Creator leads it from these insights to love for Him.

But those who read the Bible and do not recognize God's love between the lines will never see these elements, because they are not there in the literal sense. Salvation does not lie there either, but solely in the love that must awaken to the Lord.

For this assimilation, through insights into topics such as sin, true love, and, of course, not least, God as the cause of everything, as the source of its own life, helps the soul to accept its salvation as something alive for its own being, through the Word, in which the Spirit of God lies as truth and way. The soul begins to realize that it really must be redeemed from its fear of death.

Then, because the soul feels love for the Lord, it will desire its salvation ever more deeply, which, when the desire within it has become great enough, will draw it into a pull toward the Lord. It has thus recognized its salvation, through the truth revealed to it by the Lord in the Word, as its absolute priority. Then the soul looks up to the Lord, becomes humble and obedient. It turns its heart to the Lord and no longer looks down, as it had done until now due to its semi-material nature, in which it arrogantly thought itself perfect and looked down on others.

It now recognizes its impurity, which is communicated to it even more clearly by its material shell, its body, and begins to long for purity of spirit, even to detest everything material that it previously loved and revered, as a reflection of its own impurity and guilt. The soul now wants to free itself completely from all of this. It draws its confidence from its belief in the mercy of God, which it recognizes in the life around it. The feeling of gratitude now knows no end in its heart. 

Now that the person understands sin better thanks to the Word, sees himself in the context of the original fall, and appreciates and feels the love of the Lord, he lets go of the old false idea of his perfection, recognizes the many mistakes he himself has made, and realizes that he needs the help of a higher power to escape from sin, a power that flows from the Lord as pure love, within him, as the Spirit that God shares with him, which is something inexhaustible that man can always better understand and accept in his repentant and humble heart.

Then the soul recognizes the Spirit within it as pure life and as a creative power and abundance, whose limits are set only by love for the Lord and for her neighbor, not as here on earth, where everyone puts himself first and puts only his own desires, which he call dreams, above all else, which only draws him deeper into material life until he no longer knows who he is, unable to have the slightest idea or hope of spiritual salvation. Such a person must then wait a very long time until the love of God seeks him again as the prodigal son.