THOSE WHO CAME BACK
FROM THE DEAD

Jozef Rulof

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© 2014 'De Eeuw van Christus'

Before we left the brother said to me: ‘Say goodbye to all you love and who understand you, Gerhard, because it will be a long time before you return!’

So I did what my teacher asked and we started on our way. The brother walked to the right of me, whom I loved like a child loves his father and mother. For me he had been both and I would be forever thankful for that. After walking for quite a while I suddenly noticed that the natural surroundings were changing. Was I imagining things? No, I saw greenery, really green like on earth. The further we went the more nature and everything in it changed.

‘Have we been here before, brother?’

‘No’, he said, ‘we have not been this way before.’

He did not give me any further explanation. The trees were in their summer glory and I saw flowers which I had not seen in all the time I had lived here. I cried out time and again.

‘Look over there, brother, birds! Where are we going? This is so very different from my own sphere. I have not seen those dear birds in such a long time. Am I dreaming or is this real? Do tell me where we are going, brother.’

I looked at my teacher, waiting for what he was going to say.

‘Everything is changing, brother.’

‘Listen, Gerhard. We are on our way to the first sphere.’

‘What!’

‘To the first sphere of light in the spirit’

‘That can’t be true, can it?’

‘It is the truth, we don’t mock as you very well know! I should not need to tell you that any more. You are going to the sphere of your own attunement.’

Hearing this I took both his hands and looked at him but I was speechless for happiness. The brother knew how I felt and arm in arm we continued. Oh, how happy I was! I would soon be able to go to the earth and tell you all this, Jozef. How could I thank God enough? To the first sphere! It was almost too good to be true. Birds were singing as if welcoming me to my new surroundings. My happiness was boundless. As we proceeded everything at this level changed. Then we entered the first sphere. I realized that people cut themselves off because those living in my sphere could apparently not yet leave it. I found it all amazing.

‘That’s true’, the brother said to me, ‘that is quite obvious. You have changed so that you are more free, everything corresponds to your inner state.’

Nature is like summer on earth, soft, with a clear blue sky, and a few snow-white clouds in the early morning when everything is still so beautiful, when nature sings and seems to smile. That is what the first sphere is like. Nothing will change here and no shadow will darken the light. I had reached my first spiritual level!

Many people were going in the same direction as we did and I understood that I was not the only one entering the sphere. At the border a surprise was waiting for me. My grandfather came to meet me. He had known for a long time that I was coming. Can you imagine, Jozef, how happy I was? This happiness is for the mother and her child, the brother and sister and many other beloved ones. All people here wait for those who return to God. This is possible for everybody. They were all beaming with joy and I saw many tears of love and reunion shed. It is indeed no short journey we had undertaken. Among those who came here were people who had waited fifty or a hundred years. Can you understand their happiness?

Dear people, keep this in your minds and think especially about your own attunement. I received a home here, for ‘in my Father’s house there is room for everyone’. We are together here with millions of people. One day I’ll receive my own spiritual home.

Now we set out to admire the first sphere with all its beautiful regions. The brother taught me how to make contact in this sphere.

We stayed together for a long time because much had to be explained to me. One practises art here but this kind of art cannot be compared with that of earth. How beautiful was the music I heard! Of this alone I could write a book. I have not told you yet that the brother lived in the third sphere and that that sphere is his attunement. I’m a long way from it but one day I’ll get there.

Soon a time came that was not pleasant for me for I had to part from my teacher. An other task from the one he had given his heart and soul to for years was appointed to him. The brother was going to earth to become the leader of a well-known circle and the leader of an earthly medium. As you see everything is properly timed here and one cannot just do what one wants. There are some, however, who pretend they can but such spirits have no spiritual attunement. You’ll find these kinds of people in the material world as well and they act in the same way. I mean those who falsely claim mediumship but do not possess it. You know what I mean? Such mediums attract spirits that have no light on this side and then people on earth are misled and deceived. Both parties are unhappy and will have to make up for it.

Those who have spiritual attunement are also attached to one of several orders that directs everything, sends them to the earth where they are in contact with thousands, no millions of spirits, all of whom have only one purpose in mind, which is to deliver mankind from its misery and above all to convince people of eternal life.

I would meet the brother again on earth later. In eternity we were one and would remain as one. Nevertheless, I was greatly moved by his departure. I had grown very fond of him.

He said: ‘Gerhard, as you love me, love everthing that lives.’

How could I answer that? Not a word came from my lips but I understood what he meant. Then he left and I waited for what was to happen.

Finally, and how I had longed for it, the time came again for me to visit earth. I was warned to be ready by high spirits who were associated with the master Alcar. I was prepared, Jozef, and I waited for this great and rewarding time to come.