Lessons

38.4 The spiritual body reflects the soul’s inner level of love

 

The spiritual body that leaves the body at death usually resembles the earthly body, with which it was intimately connected during earthly life. The outer beauty and age of the spiritual body reflects the inner level of love of the soul. The more selfless love, the younger the spiritual body looks. The spiritual robe also reflects the inner life of the wearer. When a spirit from the Spheres of Light goes to earth to pick up a loved one, he can concentrate on his own earthly life and let his spiritual body assume the last age it was when his loved one knew him. This allows him to be recognized by his beloved. For the same reason, the soul can make his spiritual body wear those clothes that his beloved on earth remembers.

-Our emotional life determines the shape of our bodies, my son. The more love we possess, the younger and more beautiful our form becomes.

Through the Grebbeline to Eternal Life p.103

-So, the higher a human being rises, the more beautiful his spiritual body will become, more rarefied even, just as the inner self. Is that clear to you?’

A View in the Hereafter p.541

-His soul life spun it, wove the threads into this pattern and it was his characteristics which produced the colours. In this way the emotional life of a person is attached to the spiritual garment.

Through the Grebbeline to Eternal Life p.129

-A spirit of light who has left the earth at an advanced age must concentrate on his past life if he wants to be recognized on earth, and that will make them see him in his ripe age. Yet in the spirit he is young and beautiful. As you see, this is also possible to us. Everything is concentration and strong will power! If my body can change, then why shouldn’t my clothes change too? My appearance takes on whatev- er I desire within; even my tone of voice will be changed.

A View into  the Hereafter p. 551

-Over here the spirit takes on the appearance of the inner being, and a person who leaves the earth at the age of eighty and who has led a bad life, will appear even older on the other side of the grave. Over here a person’s appearance is the mirror of the soul and he will be marked according to his inherent power. So those who lost control over themselves on earth will be found to have aged even more over here.
-Such a person made little of life on earth and went spiritually astray.

A View into  the Hereafter p.57

Source: Quotations from the books of Jozef Rulof