Visions of the spiritual world E-Book

Sadhu Sundar Singh

• Herausgeber: FV Éditions
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

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*** Premium Ebook with beautiful layout *** Visions of the spiritual world : A Brief Description of the Spiritual Realm, Its Different States of Existence, and the Destiny of Good and Evil Men as Seen in Visions Sundar Singh was known in his lifetime as India's most famous convert to Christianity. His twenty-three years pilgrimage as a sadhu – a wandering, penniless pilgrim – had led him across more than twenty countries on four continents. He had profoundly influenced tens of thousands of people. He never accepted the religion as such but he instead emphasized the life-changing starkness of Christ's original teachings.  

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Visions of the spiritual world

Sadhu Sundar Singh

Contents

Sadhu Sundar Singh

PREFACE

THE VISIONS

LIFE

DEATH

MAN CAN NEVER BE DESTROYED

WHAT HAPPENS AT DEATH?

THE WORLD OF SPIRITS

SONS OF LIGHT

SONS OF DARKNESS

DEATH OF A CHILD

DEATH OF A PHILOSOPHER

UNSEEN HELP

THE CORRECTION OF ERROR

THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST

A LABOURER AND A DOUBTER

THE JUDGMENT OF SINNERS

A GOOD MAN AND A THIEF

SECRET SINS

WASTED OPPORTUNITIES

A WICKED MAN PERMITTED TO ENTER HEAVEN

THE SPIRIT OF A MURDERER

AND THE SPIRIT OF THE MAN MURDERED

THE SPIRIT OF A LIAR

THE SPIRIT OF AN ADULTERER

THE SOUL OF A ROBBER

THE STATE OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THEIR GLORIOUS END

THE DEATH OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN

COMFORTING HIS DEAR ONES

THE MANSIONS OF HEAVEN

A PROUD MINISTER AND A HUMBLE WORKMAN

HEAVENLY LIFE

THE AIM AND PURPOSE OF CREATION

NAMES IN HEAVEN

SEEING GOD

DISTANCE IN HEAVEN

THE WITHERED FIG TREE

IS MAN A FREE AGENT?

THE MANIFESTATION OF GOD'S LOVE

Sadhu Sundar Singh

1889-1929

Sundar Singh was known in his lifetime as India's most famous convert to Christianity. His twenty-three years pilgrimage as a sadhu – a wandering, penniless pilgrim – had led him across more than twenty countries on four continents. He had profoundly influenced tens of thousands of people. He never accepted the religion as such but he instead emphasized the life-changing starkness of Christ's original teachings.

PREFACE

by SUNDAR SINGH

In this book I have attempted to write about some of the visions which God has given me. Had I considered my own inclinations I would not have published the account of these visions during my life time; but friends, whose judgment I value, have been insistent that, as a spiritual help to others, the publication of the teaching of these visions should not be delayed. In deference to the wish of these friends this book is now presented to the public.

At Kotgarh, fourteen years ago, while I was praying, my eyes were opened to the Heavenly Vision. So vividly did I see it all that I thought I must have died, and that my soul had passed into the glory of heaven; but throughout the intervening years these visions have continued to enrich my life. I cannot call them up at will, but, usually when I am praying or meditating, sometimes as often as eight or ten times in a month, my spiritual eyes are opened to see within the heavens, and, for an hour or two, I walk in the glory of the heavenly sphere with Christ Jesus, and hold converse with angels and spirits. Their answers to my questions have provided much of the material that has already been published in my books, and the unutterable ecstasy of that spiritual communion makes me long for the time when I shall enter in permanently to the bliss and fellowship of the redeemed.

Some may consider that these visions are merely a form of spiritualism, but I would emphasise that there is one very essential difference. Spiritualism does presume to produce messages and signs from spirits out of the dark, but they are usually so fragmentary and unintelligible, if not actually deceptive, that they lead their followers away from, rather than to, the truth. In these visions, on the other hand, I see vividly and clearly every detail of the glory of the spiritual world, and I have the uplifting experience of very real fellowship with the saints, amid the inconceivably bright and beautiful world made visible. It is from these angels and saints that I have received, not vague, broken and elusive messages from the unseen, but clear and rational elucidations of many of the problems that have troubled me.

This "Communion of the Saints" was a fact so real in the experience of the early Church, that it is given a place among the necessary articles of their faith, as stated in the "Apostles' Creed." Once, in a vision, I asked the saints for a proof from the Bible of this communion of saints, and was told that it was to be found clearly given in Zechariah 3:7-8, where "those that were standing by" were not angels, but saints in glory; and God's promise, on condition of Joshua fulfilling His command, is that he will be given "a place of access to walk among them (saints) that stand by," and these are his "fellows" the spirits of men made perfect with whom he could commune. There is repeated mention of Spirits, Saints and Angels in this book. The distinction I would make between them is that spirits are good or bad, who after death exist in a state intermediate between heaven and hell. Saints are those who have passed on through this stage into the higher sphere of the spiritual world, and have had special service allotted to them. Angels are those glorious beings to whom all kinds of superior service have been allotted, and among them are included many saints from other worlds, as well as from this world of ours, who live together as one family. They serve one another in love, and, in the effulgence of God's glory, are eternally happy. The World of Spirits means that intermediary state into which spirits enter after leaving the body. By the Spiritual World is meant all spiritual beings that progress through the stages between the darkness of the bottomless pit and the throne of the Lord in light.

I wish to express my sincere thanks to Rev. T. E. Riddle of the New Zealand Presbyterian Mission, Kharar, Punjab, who has journeyed up to Subathu to translate the original book from Urdu into English. My thanks are again due to Miss E. Sanders, of Coventry, for having corrected the proofs.

SUNDAR SINGH

Subathu, July, 1926.