THOSE WHO CAME BACK
FROM THE DEAD

Jozef Rulof

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© 2014 'De Eeuw van Christus'

Now I’ll tell you about this life. What we discussed so far belongs to your present life, they are spiritual realities. I have told you about attunements and that each individual has his own level. In addition love is light and means happiness on this side. I’ll think back to life on earth to explain some levels to you. This will give you a clear idea of the universe and eternal life.

Man on earth lives in the pre-animallike to the material level. You know already that level means sphere and that human beings are living in these spheres. These lives or souls have and feel love and in accordance with this love they are tuned to this life. You are now in a condition which is the coarse-material level. This sphere, as I said before, borders the first spiritual sphere. People who have reached the material level live in the first, second and third sphere and subsequently enter the fourth sphere which is the first blissful spiritual level. Only then are they free from earthly thoughts. I’m trying to explain to you that you live between all these levels and that you are now on your way to acquire the first sphere. The fourth sphere is followed by the fifth, sixth and seventh and all these spheres belong to one cosmic degree, the third degree which is the universal level.

As I said in all these spheres people like you and I live but in a higher condition. Life on earth serves to develop us in the spirit and to return to God. All of us who are here and lived on earth have had to acquire these powers, that is to say being convinced of our eternal life. This should have happened already on earth. Those who forget themselves on earth and lead life as it comes are here confronted with their own life and must try to free themselves from it. So you’ll understand and accept when I tell you that the spiritual body, the body you now have, is the eternal one that carried and guided the material body. Your feelings are the way you felt and acted on earth. I explained all this to you and that you entered spiritual life with your earthly level of feeling. I left you alone to contemplate the things I discussed with you. But you are not yet able to think straight, you can’t understand any of my explanations. You keep thinking of your life on earth, you return to that life in your mind which is wrong. You may make comparisons but you must start from this side. Try to keep all this firmly in your mind, contemplate over what I said and compare this life with your life on earth. In this way you’ll learn to see the difference between material and spiritual life. It is very difficult, but I’ll help you. I’ll influence you in different ways and this will all help you to enter this life. Do you understand what I mean? You live in the eternal life, at a level in the spirit, but that level is material. Together we’ll try to discard these material feelings and to acquire the spiritual ones. You feel quiet now, the spiritual peace and power we have, because I focussed my concentration and will on you. You live through my power and I’ll leave you in this condition so that you can quietly absorb everything.’

Quietly and intensely I had been listening but I could not keep my eyes open. I became drowsy again, no matter how hard I tried to fight against it. I felt that loving hands reached out to me and I dozed off. I dreamt of my parents, my wife and child, I saw them together and heard my mother say to my wife: ‘Come on, dear, life goes on, you are still young and have to look after your child. It is God’s will and he will be in paradise, won’t he? He is better off than we and nothing can change it. We must accept it.’

Then I heard my wife say: ‘He was so young and it happened so suddenly.’

I saw that she cried and both were feeling sad. It made me feel sad too. How I longed for them. Was I in paradise? With God? With God in paradise? Who was God, that unknown power? What did I know about God? On earth I thought of God in the same way everybody else did, as a great, unknown power and as this power was so mighty and far away I left it at that. I was satisfied and did not trouble to attempt to know this God. I did pray and went to church, but in spite of this – I knew and felt it – this God remained far away from me.

That was when I woke up and I went on thinking. God, yes, who was God? Would that unknown Greatness know that I had died? That I possessed nothing, that I was not dead but alive? Who knew God and what He meant to us? In the brother I sensed God, but I did not know why. Was the man who guided me and who did not get angry part of God? Strange that mother had spoken of God and that this occupied my mind. Yes, I had to learn to know God, otherwise I would not progress any more, and I wanted to get on to the spheres the brother had told me about. I was part of God, my life was eternal, I was living in the universe and that universe was me. That is how the brother had explained it. I had died, yet I was alive and in the spirit. Did I begin to feel it? Was I on my way? I began to think differently. To many people on earth God is a person and that is not so, at least according to the brother. Here God means life and I lived in God. Were the wonderful powers the brother had Divine? Was I part of it now that I had died? And what about the earth? Was this life not the same as on earth? I remembered, he had told me about it.

‘He was still so young!’ my wife had said. Young and dead! Was I dead? But I was alive, wasn’t I? How does that make sense? Death and life, therein resided the solution of my own problem. I could not yet make a distinction between the three mighty phenomena God, life and death. But I realized, though I did not understand it, that I already knew and felt more than those on earth. For them I was dead and I knew that I was alive. I was ahead of them, I lived in that unknown world of which they knew nothing. Even so death remained a mystery to me like God remained a mystery, neither could I understand my present life. However, I began to feel, so there was hope! My dream gave me an idea of this mightiness and this brought me in an other condition. I was living in paradise, my mother said, but what was my paradise like? Mother, I thought, how little do you know of my paradise. Yes, that’s what the priests, the church and her religion would say. I was with God in paradise. But I was imprisoned in a cage and that was my paradise. Yes, mother, I do live. To them I was in paradise and yet they were crying and felt that I was dead. Why cry over me when I am alive?

Oh, people of the earth, you will be surprised when you find your paradise on this side! But it is not as you think. I was with God, but I had to laugh about my paradise, notwithstanding all my misery I was amused because of the comparison I made. For those on earth it was difficult to believe, but I lived in reality. My paradise was a small room without an exit. And in this paradise I was locked in and was tied to it. Yet I was happy because I felt that I could concentrate much better. I began to feel and to try to free myself from that paradise. I was still lost in thought when the door opened and the brother entered.

‘Rested? Had lovely dreams and slept well?’

I looked at him and my eyes asked: ‘Can’t I even think or dream without you knowing it? Can’t anything remain hidden?’

‘No, my dear friend, nothing. God knows all His children. God lives within us and the Divine level is in our soul.’

‘But surely my thinking has nothing to do with God?’

‘That is exactly what I want to talk about. Listen! Your life is God, it may be Divine, so you have to do with God, also when you think.’

‘Because I am alive?’

‘Exactly, because you are alive. Our life and that of millions of beings living here and on earth and on all other planets, all that life is God. I know what you are dreaming and thinking of. If it is possible for me to know everything about you, just think what is possible to those beings I told you about. Once more, what will the powers be like of those who live in the spheres of light? Something within you attunes to that divine life which is God. But every person, every life sees and feels differently. Yet thousands are like we are. The way you feel millions of others feel. My way of feeling is shared by others and we all progress until we have reached the Divine level. Thus, every life feels in accordance with the love it has. Love, as I have already said, means light and to have a lot of light is happiness, it is your paradise on this side.’

The brother looked at me and smiled and I knew why, because he knew everything.

‘So we are all on the way to develop spiritually.’

I thought of my dream for I could not yet understand it and I asked: ‘I heard mother speak of God and His holy Will, but how do you know I was thinking about that? Did mother speak the truth?’

‘Your mother spoke the truth but it wasn’t your mother, it was me.’

‘You?’

‘Yes, dear friend, nobody else. Didn’t I tell you previously that I would work on you in various ways? I sent my thoughts to you for I wanted to give you an image of God. All this serves to make you free from earthly feelings.’

Nothing is safe here, I thought.

‘Nothing’, the brother said, ‘for this is your eternal life. The powers you admire you must try to acquire yourself and when you feel this life you would not want another.’

‘You are a wonder’, I said.

‘So you will be. Isn’t it marvellous to have these powers? Wouldn’t you like to have them? Everything is the result of concentration and willpower. You see that I keep in touch with you all the time. Your curiosity has been aroused, a glimpse of illumination pierces through all that darkness, so that you’ll soon be able to distinguish your spiritual life from the material. When you have followed me properly you’ll feel that I help you in your thinking, but I could also destroy your thinking if I so wanted. You do not have the power to think yourself as you should do. Your way of thinking is earthly, material.

As I said before you’ll understand later that from the time you arrived here you have acted and lived through my thoughts.’

Again I was puzzled and I said: ‘If you go on like this there will be nothing left of me!’

‘On the contrary, everything spiritual will remain, only the earthly part is broken off.’

‘Where do I start then, am I nothing now?’

‘Exactly, now we are getting somewhere, you are nothing in the spirit yet. That’s why I’ll try to destroy your inner earthly life to be able to reach you in the spirit. Thus, breaking down and building up, only then you’ll begin to live on this side. So I break your pedestal but won’t leave you alone and help you build up an other life, a new pedestal, that of the spirit. Instead I give you our life, our eternal life and wouldn’t you like to change your earthly life for such happiness? You don’t know our life yet, but the powers I have and which you admire you’ll also receive. You’ll acquire that life, that concentration.’

There I was, a nothing, a nobody in eternity. On earth I did not think much of myself, but certainly more than nothing. How much many people living on earth will have to discard. Had I, a simple coachman, still something to discard? I was nothing and yet I was too much in this life, I had acquired too much of the earthly life and had learned nothing in the spirit. I should have lived a more spiritual life. To pray and to go to church was not enough, it did not give spiritual qualities. Religions had nothing to do with this life because this life is different.

‘Exactly’, the brother said, so that I understood that he followed me in everything, ‘if you had lived more spiritually on earth by giving love to everything that lives you would have entered the first sphere. You are like a raw diamond, rough on the outside but inside your eternal attunement radiates. By serving life, only by serving you will reach that sphere. They who live in the first sphere have acquired that, they have a spiritual foundation and won’t sink back. But for that you have to discard your earthly life entirely.’

‘But why have I deserved all this?’

‘You couldn’t have asked a better question, go on like this. Listen and I’ll tell you why we help you, that is what you mean, isn’t it? We who live here, the brothers and sisters in the spirit, are here to help you and everyone else. We serve life and by serving others we’ll progress to a higher sphere. Rich or poor, learned or simple, there is no difference here and everybody is helped. We feel love for all and we are open to life. Everything I do for others, I do for myself, it is the serving love. That is what our life is like and the possibility to advance.’

I bowed my head, Jozef. Everything he did for me and told me meant love. Really, on earth I had never met people like him. However, there are people like him on earth, as the brother told me later.

‘There are difficult times ahead’, the brother continued, ‘and I advise you therefore to control yourself in everything. Think things over calmly and quietly. By doing so you’ll begin to feel the attunement and connection as is necessary for you. You will then become conscious of this life and you will pass on to it because you will then live spiritually. Do you understand what I mean?’

‘Yes, I understand you completely.’

The brother looked at me and said: ‘You will be surprised by what I’m going to tell you now, however, don’t let it discourage you. You understand me, you say, but I must tell you that you do so on my powers, otherwise you would not be able to understand me. You still can’t stand on your own feet, for to live here on your own power means to be awake in this world. You still fall asleep and wake up again until you reach the first sphere. Many people on earth think they have love, but it is self-love which has no meaning on this side.’

‘How difficult it is to live here’, I said.

‘But real and natural. In this life you can’t make mistakes. When you put your mind to it your surroundings will change and the treasures of the spirit will be yours. There is another thing, beware of gross thinking. Thinking and speaking in that way will make you attune to other conditions which are the dark spheres.’

‘I’ll do my best, brother, and I hope that you’ll stay with me. You know my life as you know yours.’

‘That is true and when I tell you that my earthly life has been like yours, although my position in society was different, then you’ll feel that we are the same in many ways. That is why I understand you so well. Everyone who arrives here will receive a teacher who has a similar attunement. When I entered here, as I told you, I had not yet reached that level.’

‘I am very happy, brother.’

‘Thank you, we have already become friends and we will remain friends, brothers in the spirit, won’t we?’

At that moment something broke within me and I fell on my knees and cried for a long time. My heart was broken, I had surrendered. I was deeply moved, I thanked God and prayed to that unknown power for forgiveness. I felt like a child, again my earthly life passed through my mind and I felt entirely broken. Something inside me had been destroyed which was my earthly pedestal.

I now felt far from the earth and yet at that moment I experienced my life on earth. I felt that the brother put his hands on my head and I heard him say: ‘Very good, my friend, it is nice to have a pupil who feels the power of the spirit and is prepared to bow his head.’

I looked up at him and said: ‘I’ll do my best, brother, but do have a little patience with me.’

Again I thought of my life on earth and saw myself as a child, open and willing. That is how it should be, how I should become, I did not feel important anymore for I was nothing. How many people on earth did not want to be nothing, but will be here. All those on earth who fancy themselves are nobodies in the spirit. It is following a path leading straight to darkness. All of us who live on this side and on earth, including those in the higher spheres, are children in the spirit, children of that unknown God.

Jozef, the master says I must stop now. Tomorrow I may return. I realize that I have told a great deal and yet I’m not half finished. It goes quickly, Jozef.’

I still heard him say: ‘I thank you, master and I thank God for this opportunity. Oh, I am so happy! But you don’t want to be thanked, neither do those who live in the spheres of light.

‘Until tomorrow, Jozef.’

I saw Gerhard fade away and I came back to myself so that the contact was broken. Amazing, I thought, how quickly he has developed, how he has changed. The simple coachman had become a true human being and a spirit of light. I did not know what I had written down but I would soon read it. I did know what he had said because I had experienced it, but how it would be on paper I did not yet know. In this way a deceased could tell about his life on the side beyond, because the human being, the medium, was lifted in his life.

The next morning I saw him again. He successfully tried to connect himself with me. I opened myself and heard him say: ‘Here I’m again, Jozef. I am so happy.’

I spoke to him by feeling, he could receive my thoughts.

He felt me and said: ‘Yes, Jozef, I have now acquired what the brother told about, I’m sure you know all this. I have acquired those powers and learned a lot, but it has not been so easy. It’s really wonderful.’

I understood and felt what he meant. Gerhard had gone through the miracle of dying on earth and returning. Now he was in contact with a human being on earth whom he had once ridiculed. Now he was a spirit himself.

‘I admired your paintings’, I heard him say, ‘they radiate. They are spiritual products, and are of great value and love, they radiate your entire room. One must sense these pictures, otherwise they mean nothing. The light they radiate has a healing effect because it is the spiritual tranquillity of the higher attuned spirit.’

I made him feel that I had to visit my patients.

‘Oh’, I heard him say, ‘I’m going with you and I’ll follow you in everything. What happiness, Jozef!’

Soon I was ready to go and once outside I saw Gerhard beside me. Who would believe me? A human being whom I had known on earth but who was now in the spirit walking beside me and talking to me. Gerhard experienced an earthly event. It should encourage people to work on themselves, to learn to know themselves as he had done. These wonders were for everybody who enters life after death. But people should start during life on earth. If they wanted to live spiritually, loved everything alive and served others they would advance that far. To be able to see this on earth they should have the inner light.

There he was, the man who had passed away only a short time ago. Not a word was spoken and yet we were one, we talked the spiritual language, the language of the mind. Gerhard had come to understand life, which he had learned in the spheres. When something surprised him he let me feel it. Sometimes he floated above me then came down again as if to show me what powers he now had. No, I could not yet do that, I was still bound by the laws of gravity. Then he walked beside me again and showed that he could walk right through people on earth. Thus are the possibilities in the spirit, for the human being who lives in eternal life. He took great pleasure in it for he now disappeared into the ground up to his head as if to show me that nothing on earth obstructed him.

He felt, saw and heard everything in the material and when he had made this clear to me I heard him say: ‘This has taken a long time, Jozef and I suffered a lot before I was able to concentrate on earth. Now I can see everything in the same way as when I was still in my material body and yet I am a spirit. Isn’t it wonderful?’

When I visited my first patient I saw Gerhard and my leader beside me. Alcar showed him how people could be helped from the side beyond. Through magnetic radiation diseases ceased to exist as the material body resumed its normal work. Gerhard knew this but he had not yet experienced it. He was quite surprised to notice that Alcar’s radiation lit the human body.

I heard him say: ‘I’m going to learn all this, Jozef, when I am ready and have returned to the spheres.’

After I had treated my last patient I returned home and Gerhard asked: ‘Are we going to start in a minute, Jozef?’

‘As soon as possible’, I said, ‘for I’m very eager to hear other things you have to tell.’

‘Man’, I heard him say, ‘you are to be envied, how mighty it is to be allowed to work for us.’

When I returned home I felt a strong influence, an urge to begin. I concentrated on him and I felt a peaceful state of mind come over me so that Alcar could connect me with him. Gerhard descended into me, I felt I was lifted and he could start.