The Immortality of Living Beings
The article: The Immortality of Living Beings
Chapter 7
Immortality and the justice of the fates of living beings
With the experience of the immortality of living beings one cannot avoid seeing how the justice and thereby the love behind all creation in Nature and behind all the fates of living beings begin to reveal themselves for those people who from the bottom of their hearts are true seekers after truth.
They see that all living beings are subject to a divine process of transformation in the form of evolution.
And where this evolution is complete the living being is a joy and a blessing for living beings; he is a shining and warming mental sun for his surroundings.
There God's closeness is felt.
Where living beings are still not perfected they cannot of course fulfil this divine purpose.
There arise great shadowy regions of mental cold, hatred, bitterness, jealousy, envy and the like.
This gives rise in turn to wars and unhappy fates for the beings concerned.
And it is just such a shadowy region that today prevents terrestrial human beings from attaining peace, joy and happiness in their culture and in their life together.
But immortality shows that this state is only temporary, just like all the other epochs of evolution manifested by Nature's or God's creation.
And since the other epochs have always led from a primitive to a more perfect and completely developed epoch, why should the present epoch of life for mankind not also follow in the same tracks and be superseded by an epoch in which all the blessings and cultural advantages of lasting peace should be shedding joy on all?
Through this great process of evolution, which led the earth from a glowing state of fire to its present state, we can see how there emerged more and more perfect forms of life, more and more perfect forms of organisms or bodies for living beings.
And since immortality now shows that it is the same beings, namely ourselves, who were behind the reactions of mineral substance, and it was likewise we who later existed in plant organisms so as to come later to experience life in even more perfect organisms, namely animal organisms, in order after this to end in the splendid organisms we today call human organisms, we cannot get away from the fact that we are subject to divine modelling by means of which God is leading us into a new epoch; and in this epoch he will make every human being in "God's image".
Man in God's image is in turn the same as a being who is one with God in all things and can therefore reveal nothing but love, wisdom, art, beauty and joy.
He reveals God's presence in everything and everywhere he goes.
Immortality thus shows us that not one single living being can be doomed to damnation.
Not one single being can come to experience any eternal hell or unceasingly unhappy fate.
All living beings without exception are in the embrace of God.
Everyone will become conscious in God and thereby become one with his neighbour, one with the earth, one with Nature and real life.
Everyone will thus in all situations become one with the way, the truth and the life.
A greater revelation of justice and love behind all the phenomena of life cannot be manifested.
Justice and thereby love are, in truth, the fulfilment of all the laws.