Talking to the dead

Good thoughts are like balm to the dead

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There is healing grief and there is grief that burdens the dead. Steiner asks that we discern the difference.

The great Rudolf Steiner Quotes Site

Good thoughts are like balm to the dead. No selfish love must be send them, no grieving because the departed is not around any longer; this bothers the deceased and brings to them a heavy burden. The love that remains and makes no claim to still want the dead  here with us, benefits the deceased and increases his or her happiness.

Source (German): Rudolf Steiner – GA 95 -Vor dem Tore der Theosophie – Stuttgart, September 2, 1906 (page 151)

Translated by Nesta Carsten-Krüger

Previously posted on August 30, 2015

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Nothing more important

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The bell is ringing. It is time we stop thinking of communication with the dead as only for the “gifted.” Or somehow a sin against God. We need all the help we can get on both sides of the threshold to navigate the chaos we are encountering. Together we can do it.

The great Rudolf Steiner Quotes Site

There is nothing more important for life, even for material life, than the strong and sure realization of communion with the spiritual world.

If modern men had not lost their relationship with spiritual things to such an extent, these grave times would not have come upon us. Only a very few today have insight into this connection, although it will certainly be recognized in the future. Today men think: When a human being has passed through the gate of death, his activity ceases as far as the physical world is concerned. But indeed it is not so! There is a living and perpetual intercourse between the so called Dead and the so-called Living. Those who have passed through the gate of death have not ceased to be present; it is only that our eyes have ceased to see them. They are there in very truth.

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