Issues

The lives of so many people are marked by anxiety – be that fear of failing in life, of not fulfilling one’s tasks, or be that fear of other people, of the future, of dying. This issue of The Spiritual World explores why so many people live in a constant state of anxiety and shows how we can practice trust in God, how we can draw strength and courage from our faith and our devotion to the divine, as well as how we can attain the inner certainty that we are well cared for and guided in both life and death.

Spirit-teacher Joseph also explains in this issue how people can combat the fear of war. They ought to constantly ask God for peace, grace, and mercy on behalf of all peoples; they ought to trust in his support and live in the hope of Christ’s promise: “I am with you always, to the end of the world.” And what is meant by this “end of the world” is not the destruction of the world, but the return of all the fallen to God. For Christ did not die in vain.

In another lecture we learn that a life of anxiety and distress can also be a fate, the cause of which lies in a previous earthly existence.