THOSE WHO CAME BACK
FROM THE DEAD

Jozef Rulof

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© 2014 'De Eeuw van Christus'

I’ll return and then we’ll leave for school. I’am sure you will soon make progress there.’

I laid down to think all this over. How poor in the spirit these people were. Those who have no love are living dead in the spirit. I would do my best for I wanted to make progress, I intended to work hard on myself. Now I understood the brother in everything. How simple this life really was. On earth there is religion but all those religions had no meaning if they felt no love, no love for everything that lives. Within the human soul resides the Divine core, man is attuned to God. These people, however, were dead, spiritually dead. If I were allowed to live my life over again on earth how different I would be. I would acquire nothing but love, for love means light and happiness. My teacher possessed much love, for he was open and gave himself completely. That is how I wanted to be, like him and many others.

Soon the brother came for me and took me to an other very large building not far from where I lived. When we took leave he said that he would come and see me from time to time. I had now grown very fond of my teacher for he was like a father to me. It was not easy to part from him but it was to my own advantage. With a few kind words this difficult moment passed and I entered the large building. I was given a beautiful room, where I could study, meditate and come to myself.

Hundreds of sisters and brothers were together who all wanted to acquire knowledge. All had reached the age of around thirty, some were younger but there were no children. All were convinced of their eternal life.

I waited in my room for someone to call me. I had plenty of time to think over all that I had experienced during my stay on this side. I went over my life on earth and the beautiful things I now had. On earth I had never dreamt of the way I now felt and thought, my life there had been so very different. Now I was alive, on earth however I had fallen asleep. I had never thought about my inner condition and my level. I lived, but how! You’ll have to feel love for life. Otherwise you have no part in it and you don’t feel all that God has given and created. My mind returned to this again and again, I could not stop thinking of it.

I had not yet heard that condemned people lived on this side. On earth priests talk about damnation and hell and I would soon get to know this hell. I would descend to it and it was terrible there, as the brother told me. But I was not afraid, what others were able to do I could do as well! I was preparing myself for it, I wanted to acquire everything related to it. I no longer felt hunger and thirst, only a spiritual hunger that I wanted to satisfy. There was only one way which I had decided to follow.

A wonderful stillness present around me comforted me. In this tranquillity I felt life on earth still clearer. A terrible vermin gnaws at the souls of human beings, a monster called ‘comfort’, the comfort of earthly possessions. I was happy now not to have known property. This monster gnaws at many souls as a result of which many people perish. They will be as the brother showed them to me. Most of those I had seen had been in this life for fifty years or more and they were still holding on to what they owned on earth, which darkens their eternal light. Comfort serves us, but don’t forget that it is only temporary. Only now did I understand all this, in this tranquillity, while I prepared myself for a spiritual training. I felt the deep significance of life on earth.

I would not have to wait long for the first lessions to commence, I was of course full of curiosity. I was led to a large hall where several hundred people were gathered. All levels of society were together here. No distinction is made between nationalities and religions, white and coloured people were one in the spirit. There is no question of white and coloured here but I only learned to understand that later. Nobody laughed at my funeral suit, I saw people dressed in rags. We had already become sisters and brothers and appreciated each other. Those who were in rags would soon depart to higher spheres where they would receive their spiritual garments. At school we were one in everything.

Spiritual life was explained to us. It was pointed out to us what life on earth meant. Birth on earth, life in various conditions of transition, from youth to old age followed by death. We received a clear understanding of all these various transitions. I saw many human deathbeds which all vary according to the state of the dying person. It was all very impressive and instructive. We were also shown how the spirits help a person when he is dying, how auras are broken and connections are made. Subsequently how people enter this life and will receive their happiness and sphere according to their attunement. With all this a month of earthly time passed.

The brother came to visit me and we walked in nature where he asked several questions which I all answered.

‘You have made good progress’, he said ‘and you have understood everything. You see how useful it is to meditate.’

I made me happy to hear this from my teacher. With renewed energy I continued my work. We were taught about cosmic forces. When I started to tell you my story I mentioned this to you. These are forces which may give a person a premonition that he is going to die. It was explained how these great inner powers may get lost so that man can’t feel them any more. You surely understood me when I told about them?

Then, the endurance of our inner capacity for spiritual attunement. That was explored in depth and we spent more than a fortnight on that subject. To feel the depth of the human soul is awe-inspiring. We could understand all this because our minds were free from the earth. All this is related to the constitution of the human body wherein the times of transition man experiences on earth reside. They are the years the human being goes through successively until the human level, in other words adult life, is reached. These are all cosmic events, of which nothing on earth is felt, the human being goes through them unconsciously. The meaning of this lies hidden in the soul, these are unconscious forces and have to do with the love man carries. When awakening – as I will call it – the spiritual level manifests itself which is cosmic. The human being comes to the earth with a definite purpose and he cannot escape his destiny. All this we learned and understood because, as I said already, in feeling we had left the earth. But had I not worked on myself, I would have to wait until I accepted and had discarded myself. Those who do not want to will remain living dead here.

The next lesson was about the first moments in this life. I had already experienced many transitions of sensivity through my own teacher, as I have told you before. Remember that I tell you all this in flashes. It would otherwise take too long and that should be avoided, the master says.

We were also taught how to make contact and to understand the various conditions, hells and heavens, from the lowest conditions to the higher spheres. We learned that every human attunement can be hell or heaven. That’s why they speak here of heavens and hells. Through beautiful visions we saw the heavens going past our minds, and we were enchanted that so much beauty is in store for us. The depth of hell we knew already and we then returned through all the transitions to the highest heaven of spiritual attunement.

Then we learned to know the cosmic degrees which were quite difficult to understand but all this gave us an idea of all life existing in the universe. Another month passed and my teacher came to visit me again.

I was overjoyed to see him. He was again satisfied with my progress, I had done my best for I did not stop before I felt and understood everything taught. To this end we took walks in nature as life which is present in everything will help the human being. In this way I learned to solve various problems that I would be faced with later.

During this time I made many friends who became my brothers and sisters in the spirit. They will remain so forever.

Subsequently there was an examination and individually we were questioned. I made only one or two slip-ups and none of us had to be re-examined. We realized how essential it was for us to know all this. Now I understood the many problems that the brother had explained to me, soon I was to experience and acquire them.

I passed the examination and when the brother came to fetch me we returned to my sphere and the building where I lived. Though I was not aware of it I had passed for the course into an other condition, for the building was not very far from the building where I lived. Yet I had entered a transitional condition, as the brother told me. The spheres merge into each other of which I was unaware because it was the first transitional condition next to my own sphere. When progressing an other condition it can be observed because everything changes as I would later experience.