of their correction. This happens because the Lord is perfect justice and
does what he does with perfect judgment.
[ 16 ] “From these points you can clearly see why I made the statement
I did: we act with spiritual goodwill when we base our actions on a love
for justice, and use our judgment.
“The love has to come solely from the Lord God the Savior, because
all goodness related to goodwill comes from the Lord. He says, ‘Those
who live in me and I in them bear much fruit, because without me you
cannot do anything’ (John 15 : 5 ); and that he has all power in heaven and
on earth (Matthew 28 : 18 ). All love for justice and use of judgment comes
from the God of heaven alone, who is justice itself, and who is the source
of all our ability to judge (Jeremiah 23 : 5 ; 33 : 15 ).
[ 17 ] “In conclusion, let’s review all the definitions of goodwill from
the chairs to the left and right—that it is morality combined with faith;
religious devotion combined with compassion; doing good to everyone
whether honest or dishonest; doing all you can for your relatives and
friends; giving donations to the poor and helping the needy; building
hospitals and maintaining them with donations; providing church build-
ings with an endowment and benefiting their ministers; the ancient
Christian family feeling; and forgiving anyone’s wrongs. These are all
outstanding examples of goodwill as long as they are done with a love for
justice and with judgment. Otherwise they are not goodwill: they are
only streams that have been cut off from a river or branches that have
been pulled off a tree, since real goodwill is believing in the Lord and
behaving justly and uprightly in all our work and in every role we have.
People who receive a love for justice from the Lord and who practice jus-
tice with judgment are goodwill in its image and likeness.”
[ 18 ] After I said that there was silence, like the silence of people who
see something in their inner self and acknowledge the truth of it to some
extent, but do not see it yet in their outer self. I noticed this in their faces.
Suddenly, however, I was taken out of their sight because I went back
out of the spirit into my physical body. Because our earthly self wears a
physical body, it is not visible to any spiritual person, meaning a spirit or
an angel, and neither are they visible to it.
The second memorable occurrence.Once when I was looking around the 460
spiritual world I heard a sound like teeth grinding together and a sound
like hammering and also a whistling mixed in with both other sounds. I
asked what they were. The angels who were with me said, “They are
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