Spiritual rebirth....

Spiritual rebirth is the human being's objective on earth, otherwise
the soul will also be without life when the body dies, but since it is
immortal it cannot entirely fade away. Spiritual rebirth means life
for the soul, but life for the soul without spiritual rebirth is
impossible.

However, the human being will be spiritually reborn when he seeks
contact with the spiritual realm of his own accord. The human soul is
no longer content with the body's life, but it cannot find fulfilment
of its desire in the earthly world either and aspires towards the
realm to which it really belongs, and depending on the sincerity of
its will the human being will be reborn sooner or later.

Kind-hearted activity is absolutely necessary for the attainment of
spiritual rebirth, since this revives the person's spirit. Through
actions of love the dormant spiritual spark within the soul unites
with the eternal Father-Spirit, it becomes active, and activity is
life....

If, by his deeds of love, the human being gives the spiritual spark
within himself the opportunity to become active, he will have become
spiritually reborn and can no longer descend into the state of death.
Once the spirit is awakened it will never disregard him, it will
constantly influence its surrounding shell, i.e. the spirit will
influence the soul and through it also the human being's body, urging
him into kind-hearted actions and thereby advancing the soul's higher
development.

Spiritual rebirth cannot be intellectually achieved, neither will nor
words can make it happen, only a will that is put into action results
in it, and these actions need to be deeds of unselfish love for other
people.

 A person's spirit will only come alive through love, it will only
move into action through deeds of love, and thus only through love can
the soul achieve eternal life, which is the consequence of spiritual
rebirth. But anyone who has love also lives in constant contact with
the Eternal Love, and thus the eternal Father-Spirit will also
constantly influence the spiritual spark in the human being....

Eternal Love will draw to Itself what is striving to shape itself into
love.... And then there will be no more death for the soul.... Then
there will only be life, i.e. uninterrupted activity in strength and
light; then the shackle of death has been removed, then death has been
conquered....

Hence a spiritually reborn person will never fear his body's death
because his soul knows the transience of all earthly things as well as
the immortality of everything in the spiritual realm, it does not fear
its earthly death because its eternal life is guaranteed. It does not
merely believe in the soul's life after the death of the body but it
has become certain of it, because it is instructed by the revived
spirit, because the knowledge it receives from the spirit results in
profound conviction....

Hence its faith has become unwavering because it carries the evidence
within itself.... the awakened spirit, which is part of the eternal
Father-Spirit. A spiritually reborn human being has no further doubt
in regards to spiritual knowledge, because the working of the spirit
within him also includes ever-increasing understanding, recognition of
the eternal Deity and His reign and activity, as well as the knowledge
of God's eternal plan of Salvation....

His imparted knowledge is not mere faith, since the wisdom of what is
presented to him is so self-evident in the eyes of the spiritually
reborn person that he needs no further evidence but he is fully
convinced of its truth, which he can now call his own mental concept
because his heart and intellect have absorbed it. Therefore the
spiritually reborn person need no longer search, through love he has
found what he was looking for. Thus love is the key to wisdom, and
wisdom is knowledge which corresponds to truth, which emanates from
and leads back to the spiritual kingdom....

However, a human being can only be reborn in spirit if his soul
ignores the body and merely strives to bring the spirit to life who,
thus, even if unaware of success, relinquishes what the body desires
of his own accord, in order to give it to those who suffer hardship
and are in need of spiritual or worldly help.

Giving away worldly goods for the sake of selfless love will bring him
spiritual wealth. However, distributing spiritual wealth will result
in immense growth within himself, because God's spirit can then work
in the human being without restriction, He will give truth, which
signifies eternal life....

Life, however, is uninterrupted activity.... The spiritually reborn
person can no longer be inactive, but will then diligently work for
the kingdom of God.... he will take part in Christ's act of Salvation
for erring souls on earth, because the spirit in him does not rest,
like his eternal Father-Spirit it is always and forever active....

And thus spiritual rebirth will always result in the human being
feeling urged to work for the spiritual kingdom. He will take little
notice of worldly life but keep his attention constantly focussed on
spiritual life in the knowledge of its importance and in the desire to
help where understanding is lacking. Because the spiritually reborn
person knows of the darkness on earth, of the lack of strength in
people who attach too much importance to worldly life. He knows of the
souls' hardship, of their spiritual death even on earth and one day in
eternity, where they are far more conscious of their helpless state,
where it is an agonising state for them and the soul can no longer be
helped if it continues to reject all advice as it had done on earth.

The spiritually reborn human being is aware of his mission and will
follow it with love and eagerness. He radiates light, and good for him
who is not offended by this light.... good for him who takes notice of
the person who wants to bring him light, who seeks to awaken him into
life too.... Spiritual rebirth can be recognised by everyone who is
spiritually orientated, because true wisdom is recognisable by every
willing person, because where there is will the spirit's strength gets
activated.

Let your spirit come to life and you will have reached the goal on
earth which you were given in the beginning. As soon as the soul
detaches itself from the body you will enter the spiritual kingdom
with a wealth of strength and knowledge, and all you will leave behind
is immature matter which has not yet spiritualised itself on earth....
But you yourselves will enter the realm of the blissful spirits in a
free state and nothing will deter you from actively forming and
creating, for the love in you will prompt you to do so and cause a
state of bliss in you which you are unable to comprehend on earth.
Because you will be able to unite with the eternal Father-Spirit Who
will draw His children to Himself with burning love to make them
eternally happy....

Ephesians 4

¹⁷ So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. ¹⁸ They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. ¹⁹ Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.

²⁰ That, however, is not the way of life you learned ²¹ when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. ²² You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; ²³ to be made new in the attitude of your minds; ²⁴ and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.