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What is in you is what you will wear into eternity. That's right: the attire you will be given upon passage to the other side will perfectly reflect the brightness or darkness or shadow of your soul.

This we have heard consistently -- whether from saints, from seers, and especially, from those who have had "near-death" experiences.

Just the other day, we wrote about a woman from Kansas named Gladys L. Hargis who had one such set of experiences (over the course of an eight-day "coma") starting on August 5, 2006.

Gladys recounted how, when she died -- and was taken to a passageway by an angel -- all the "chain" and attachments to the world were suddenly gone, and she went from wearing a dull garment to a bright white purified one.

This is often accomplished in purgatory: the "washing" of our souls, which reflect the stains of sin. In Purgatory, robes are described as gray or with blots; in Heaven, there is no way to describe their consistency of purity -- like a cross between spun glass and spun cotton, but much more.

In Heaven, we become and are seen for who we really are. Some have said the robe was given to them by an angel; others have described bathing in incredible "living waters" from which they emerged with the new robe; one famous one described souls in Heaven fashioning the garments.

"A wall opened and there was a beautiful white light and it just sucked you in," Gladys, now 80, told us last week (816/2011). "It cleaned everything away. My gown has been off-white when I glided in. Now it was bright white. I have never felt so much love. All the grime was swept away."

Through life, explains Gladys, we collect bondages and dirt as a result of the temptations and trials of a world that has its share of evil. In Heaven, that is all vanquished. There is only purity -- and happiness. But we have trouble getting through the opening, that portal, if we have too much grime around us.

This accents to crucial importance of Confession -- and also expiation: asking the Holy Spirit to cleanse us and let us totally atone for past wrongdoing before we approach the other side. After Confession, we must make certain not to repeat our sin -- and even those thongs we usually ignore as simple "mistakes."

The Lord calls us all to perfection and one of the great chains of this earth, Gladys says she learned, are material things. On the other side, she said, they count for nothing. "You can't take your furniture with you," she says. "You can't take your money. You can't take your jewelry."

In fact, a preoccupation and an over-attachment to those things not only wastes valuable time on earth (where every moment is precious), but builds grime around us -- often so thickly that we can't just glide into the garden where Heaven starts but rather must go through levels of purification.

This goes right to what Jesus said when He warned that "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." (Matthew 19:24). 

That's because money builds such thickness and hardness and blindness and ego around us that we are too thick to fit through that "narrow" passage.

It is not wrong to be gifted with money (if it has been a gift); what's wrong is to to hoard it or use it selfishly (when it is meant, as are all gifts, as a means to give glory to God). In fact, we can thus see why -- as the Church has so often taught -- we should feel sorry for those whose focus has been on the material (no matter how "blessed," or lucky, they seem).

Money is baggage and with great wealth comes so wide a burden that one cannot immediately fit through the passage.

The same is true if we have over-attachments to wrong thinking, negativity, dislike, sin in any form, bad habits, or creatures of this passing world -- which disappears as with a wave of the hand.

It is simple:

Just follow Jesus.

Just do as He did.

Just read the Bible.

Just concern yourself with what He concerned Himself with.

It's the simplest thing and also the hardest thing in the world -- but once accomplished, you'll be enhanced and glorified forever.

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