The Road to Paradise
Chapter 56
The road of life or the road to paradise
We have now reached the end of this brief overview of the road of life or the road to paradise.
Through this overview we have gained a little insight into how the beings are compelled to live for a while in two worlds: the spiritual world, which is the primary world and the location of all living beings' life experience and creation, and the physical world, which is a vital extension to this, a sphere of matter that is the material for God's creation of the living beings' transformation into being like God Himself.
Without this matter, all creation of consciousness would, as we have seen, be an impossibility.
It is therefore essential that the living beings incarnate for a while in this matter in order, as we have also already pointed out, to be able to experience here how their behaviour should be and how it should not be, in order that they, through this behaviour, can become qualified to experience and practise
being one with God.
It is therefore evident that reincarnation or the beings' long series of physical terrestrial lives is the Godhead's great, wide highway to His own radiant and eternal paradise on the highest pinnacles of infinite wisdom, universal love and omnipotence.
Here in this all-outshining highest paradise we have arrived at the final goal of all life's movement towards the pinnacles of light or the eternal Father.
There is no living being whatsoever in the physical universe that is not on this road leading to the divine abode of all living beings.
This road of life is immeasurably long, but we have seen that the tired wanderer who has to negotiate it is well taken care of.
Here there are many inns built in the same joyful and happy style as the Father's house or God's own paradise, which is the goal for all travellers who travel this divine road.
Here the hard-pressed, wandering son of God can spend the night, have a good rest and enjoy the entire bodily warmth and well-being of fatherly love.
Here he can have his worn-out and decrepit physical "means of transport" replaced, and even get a completely new travelling kit, so that, refreshed and with new zest for life, he can again set out on a new lap to the next inn, and so on in this way from inn to inn on the long journey towards the great revelation of the adventure of life or the solution to the mystery of life or the riddle of the universe.
The physical lives on Earth are the living being's laps in the journey between the inns.
These inns are in turn the same as the living being's spiritual existences or stopovers in paradise between its physical terrestrial lives.
We have already seen what these paradises mean to the living being.
Here for a short time it is allowed to throw off the ballast it has on board in the form of heavy mental burdens, sorrows, problems, sufferings and difficulties, and be clothed in its heavenly, princely robes (the shining halo of peace, joy and happiness), at the same time as it is permitted to live here in the realisation of its temporary, very highest dream existence.
And after thus having dwelt in the Father's love and having been pervaded by new courage to face life and having received new divine strength and a new physical organism or means of transport, the eternal son of God can again set out on a journey in the physical world and complete the lap to the fatherly blessing of the next inn.
And thus he continues further and further along the long cosmic road of life to his ultimate, all-outshining heavenly home with his eternal Father and comes to rest in this Father's direct blessing and caress.
We know the Godhead's reception of his returning son by the concept of the great birth.