IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH

THE GRAIIL MESSAGE

by

Abd-ru-Shin

VOL I

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Abd-ru-shin (civil name Oskar Ernst Bernhardt) was born on April 18, 1875, in
Bischofswerda, Germany. After being educated and trained in business, he
established himself in Dresden. In the years that followed, he made many
journeys abroad, and wrote successful travel books, stories, and plays.

At the outbreak of World War I, Mr. Bernhardt was living in London. On account
of his German citizenship, he was imprisoned on the Isle of Man for the duration
of the war. The seclusion of internment brought with it an inner deepening.
After returning to his homeland in the Spring of 1919, Mr. Bernhardt soon
became conscious of his task: to open the path for mankind to a new knowledge
of Creation. In 1923, he began writing essays of a spiritual nature under the pen
name "Abd-ru-shin", and by 1937, the lectures which constitute the book In the
Light of Truth: The Grail Message were completed.

Abd-ru-shin had long since settled in the Austrian Alps, but his activity ended
abruptly with the seizure of power by the Nazis on March 12, 1938. He was
arrested on the very same day, and his property and possessions were taken.

After an imprisonment of several months, Abd-ru-shin was placed under house

arrest in northern Germany. He utilized these years of confinement to edit and
arrange the lectures of the Grail Message into their present sequence. He was,
however, kept under constant surveillance by the Gestapo and forbidden any
further activity towards the fulfillment of his task. Unable to continue his work,
Abd-ru-shin died on December 6, 1941.

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 WHAT IS THE GRAIL MESSAGE?

Between 1923 and 1937, Abd-ru-shin wrote 168 essays, which he

assembled to form the book In The Light of Truth: The Grail
Message. Since then, the Grail Message has been translated into
15 languages and is available in over 80 countries.

Among all books of spiritual content, this work occupies a truly

unique place. It can be said that it gives an explanation of the
World, for it offers a complete survey of everything that takes
place between God and us human beings. In its logical train of
thought, the Grail Message addresses the reader in simple words.

It is the author’s declared intention with his work to lead seekers

again closer to life, indeed, back to God. Therefore the Grail
Message always addresses itself to the individual alone –
irrespective of nationality, race, or religion. For the individual
alone must bear the responsibility for everything he thinks and
does, just as every man “shall reap what he hath sown”.

Out of love, the Grail Message helps the earnest reader to attain
to personal conviction about his own life’s path and purpose, so
that peace and happiness may be his. The more the reader uses
life itself as his criterion for testing the explanations given in the
Grail Message, the more the Truth shines forth from it.

THE AUTHOR WRITES:

“...I wish to fill the gaps which have so far always remained
unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which
never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the
Truth.”

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“In order to convey to mankind such knowledge, which gives
them a clear and intelligible conviction of the working of God in
His Justice and Love, I have written the work ‘In the Light of
Truth’.”

VOLUME I

FOR YOUR GUIDANCE!

1. WHAT SEEK YE?

2. THE CALL FOR THE HELPER

3. THE ANTICHRIST

4. MORALITY

5. AWAKE!

6. SILENCE

7. ASCENT

8. CULT

9. RIGIDITY

10. CHILDLIKENESS

11. CHASTITY

12. THE FIRST STEP

13. THE WORLD

14. THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM

15. THE CONFLICT

16. MODERN PSYCHIC SCIENCE

17. WRONG COURSES

18. WHAT SEPARATES SO MANY FROM THE LIGHT TODAY?

19. ONCE UPON A TIME...!

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 20. ERRORS

21. THE HUMAN WORD

22. THE WOMAN OF SUBSEQUENT CREATION

23. SUBMISSION

24. INDOLENCE OF THE SPIRIT

25. EARTHMAN BEFORE HIS GOD

26. ALL THAT IS DEAD IN CREATION SHALL BE AWAKENED, SO THAT IT MAY PASS
JUDGMENT UPON ITSELF

27. THE BOOK OF LIFE

28. THE MILLENNIUM

29. A NECESSARY WORD

30. THE GREAT COMET

31. THE WORLD TEACHER

32. THE STRANGER

33. SALVATION! REDEMPTION!

34. THE LANGUAGE OF THE LORD

FOR YOUR GUIDANCE!

THE BANDAGE falls, and belief becomes conviction. Liberation and

redemption lie only in conviction! I am addressing serious seekers
only. They must be able and willing to examine this matter
objectively! Religious fanatics and irresponsible enthusiasts may
hold aloof, for they are detrimental to the Truth. As for the
malevolent and prejudiced, they shall find their sentence in the
very words.

The Message will strike only those who still carry within them a
spark of truth, and the yearning to be true human beings. To all
such it will become the shining light and staff. It will lead them
unswervingly out of all the chaos of the present-day confusion.

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The following Word does not bring a new religion, but is intended
as the torch to help all serious listeners or readers find the right
path, which leads them to the longed-for height.

Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who
uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made
opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while
ignoring his own healthy limbs. But the moment he boldly uses all
the abilities which lie dormant within him awaiting his call, to
help in his ascent, he is employing the talent entrusted to him in
accordance with his Creator’s Will, and will easily overcome all
obstacles that seek to divert him.

Therefore awake! Genuine faith lies only in conviction, and

conviction comes solely through an inflexible weighing and
examining! See that you are truly alive in the wonderful Creation
of your God!

Abd-ru-shin

1. WHAT SEEK YE?

WHAT SEEK YE? What is all this tumultuous agitation? It

permeates the world like a ferment, and a flood of books
overwhelms all peoples. Scholars pore over ancient writings,
investigating and pondering until spiritually exhausted. Prophets
arise to warn, to predict ... suddenly from all sides people strive
feverishly to spread new light!

Thus it rages now over the troubled soul of mankind, not

refreshing and invigorating, but scorching, consuming, absorbing
the last vestiges of strength still left to the afflicted one in this
gloominess of the present time.

Here and there also a whispering is heard, rumors of a growing

expectation of something impending. Every nerve is restless,

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tense with subconscious longing. There is seething and surging,
and over everything lies a kind of ominously brooding stupor.
Fraught with disaster. What must it bring? Confusion,
despondency and ruin, unless a mighty hand tears asunder the
dark layer that now envelops the terrestrial globe spiritually.
With the slimy tenacity of a dirty morass, absorbing and
smothering every ascending free light-thought before it has
become strong; with the gruesome silence of a swamp,
suppressing, disintegrating, and destroying every good volition
even in the bud, before any action can arise from it.

But the seekers’ cry for light, imbued with strength to cleave
through the mire, is turned aside and dies away beneath an
impenetrable canopy, assiduously set up by the very people who
think they help. They offer stones for bread!

Look at the innumerable books:

They do not animate, they only weary the human spirit! And this
is the proof of the barrenness of all they offer; for whatever
wearies the spirit is never right.

Spiritual bread immediately refreshes, Truth revitalizes and Light

animates!

Simple people must surely despair when they see what walls are
being built around the beyond by so-called psychic science. Who
among the simple is to grasp the learned sentences and strange
expressions? Is the beyond, then, intended exclusively for psychic
scientists?

They speak of God! But is it necessary to set up a university in

order first of all to acquire the abilities to recognize the
conception of the Godhead? To what lengths will this mania,
which is mostly rooted only in ambition, drive them?

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Readers and listeners stagger along like drunkards from one
place to another – unsteady, not free in themselves, one-sided,
because they have been diverted from the simple path.

Listen, you despondent ones! Lift up your eyes, you who are
seriously seeking: The way to the Highest lies open to every
human being! Proficiency in learning is not the gate to it!

Did Christ Jesus, that great example on the true path to the Light,
choose His disciples among the learned Pharisees? Among the
Scribes? He took them from the simple, natural people, because
they had no need to struggle against this great delusion that the
way to the Light is hard to master, and must be difficult.

This thought is man’s greatest enemy, it is a lie!

Thus turn away from all scientific knowledge, where it is a

question of what is most sacred in man, which must be fully
grasped! Leave it alone; for science, being a product of the
human brain, is piecework and must remain piecework.

Consider, how should scientific knowledge, acquired by laborious

study, lead to the Godhead? What, after all, is knowledge?
Knowledge is what the brain can conceive. Yet how very limited is
the perceptive capacity of the brain, which remains firmly bound
to space and time. Even eternity and the meaning of infinity
cannot be grasped by a human brain. Just that which is
inseparably linked with the Godhead.

But the brain stands silent before the incomprehensible power

streaming through all that exists, from which it derives its own
activity. The power which everyone intuitively perceives as a
matter of course every day, every hour, every moment, whose
existence science too has always recognized; whereas with the

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brain, that is with the knowledge and intellect, one seeks in vain
to grasp and comprehend it.

So inadequate is the activity of a brain, the basis and instrument

of science, and this limitation naturally also affects what it
produces, hence all science itself. Thus science does indeed
subsequently help to elucidate, classify and arrange all that it
receives ready-made from the creative power which precedes it;
but when it seeks to assume leadership or offer criticism, it must
inevitably fail so long as it binds itself so firmly to the intellect,
that is, to the perceptive capacity of the brain, as it has done
hitherto.

For this reason erudition, along with those who adjust themselves
to it, always remains clinging to details; whereas each man
carries within himself, as a gift, the great inconceivable whole,
and is fully capable of attaining to the noblest and highest
without laborious study!

Therefore away with this needless torture of spiritual

enslavement! Not for nothing does the great Master exhort us:
“Become like children!”

He who bears within himself the firm volition for what is good,
and strives to give purity to his thoughts, has already found the
way to the Highest! All else will then be added unto him. This
requires neither books, nor spiritual strain; neither asceticism,
nor solitude. He will become sound in body and soul, freed from
all pressure of morbid pondering; for all exaggeration is harmful.
You are meant to be human beings, not hothouse plants which
through one-sided cultivation succumb to the first puff of wind!

Awake! Look around you! Listen to your inner voice! That alone
can open the way! Heed not the dissensions of the churches. The
great Bringer of Truth, Christ Jesus, the personification of Divine
Love, did not concern Himself with creeds. After all, what are the
creeds today? A shackling of the free spirit of man, enslavement

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of the Divine spark dwelling within you; dogmas that seek to
compress the work of the Creator, and also His great Love, into
forms molded by the human mind. This indicates a dishonoring of
Divinity, a systematic disparaging.

Every serious seeker is repulsed by such things, because they

prevent him from ever experiencing the great reality within
himself. As a result his longing for the Truth becomes increasingly
hopeless, and finally he despairs of himself and of the world!

Therefore awake! Shatter the walls of dogma within you, tear off
the bandage, so that the pure Light of the Highest may reach you
undimmed. Then your spirit will soar aloft in exultation, jubilantly
sensing all the great Love of the Father, which knows no
limitations of earthly intellect. You will at last know that you are a
part of this Love; you will grasp It easily and completely, unite
with It, and thus gain new strength daily and hourly as a gift,
enabling you to ascend out of the chaos as a matter of course!

The book In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message is a translation

after the original German text, “Im Lichte der Wahrheit –
Gralsbotschaft”. In some cases the word-forms of the translation
can only render the meaning and contents of the original
approximately. Nevertheless, the reader will come to a good
understanding of the text, if he strives to absorb its meaning
inwardly.

2. THE CALL FOR THE HELPER

JUST LET US LOOK more closely at all those people who today
with special eagerness are seeking a spiritual helper, those who,
inwardly uplifted, are awaiting him. In their opinion they
themselves are already thoroughly prepared spiritually to
recognize him and to hear his word!

On calm observation we notice a great many factions. Christ's

Mission, for instance, affected so many people in a strange way.

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They formed a false picture of it. As usual, this was due to their
wrong self-assessment, their presumption.

Instead of the former veneration and the preservation of a

natural gulf and sharp demarcation towards their God, there has
arisen on the one hand a plaintive begging which always wants
only to receive, but on no account to contribute anything itself.
They certainly accepted the "pray", but refused to acknowledge
that this was also coupled with "and work" – "work on yourself."

Again, on the other hand, people imagine they are so self-reliant,

so independent, that they can do everything themselves, and
with a little effort even become Divine.

There are also many people who only demand and expect God to
run after them. Inasmuch as He had already once sent His Son, He
proved thereby how greatly concerned He is that mankind should
draw near to Him, indeed that He probably even needs them!

Wherever one turns there is nothing but presumption to be found

in all things, no humility. True self-assessment is lacking. –

In order really to be a human being, and begin his ascent as such,

it is first of all necessary for man to descend from his artificial
height.

Today, spiritually puffed up, he is sitting in a tree at the foot of

the mountain, instead of standing with both feet firmly and
securely on the ground. Thus unless he first comes down or falls
from the tree he will obviously never be able to climb the
mountain.

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Meanwhile, however, all those who went their way calmly and
sensibly on the ground beneath his tree, and upon whom he
looked down so haughtily, have probably arrived at the summit.

But events will come to his aid; for in the very near future the
tree will fall. When he is so roughly shaken down from his
precarious perch, perhaps man will then once more come to his
senses. But for him it will then be high time; he has not a single
hour left to waste.

Many now think that life can continue in the old way, as it has
done for thousands of years. Stretched out comfortably in their
armchairs, they are awaiting a strong helper.

But how do they depict this helper! It is really pathetic!

In the first place they expect or, just to be quite correct, demand
that he should prepare the way upward to the Light for each
individual! He must exert himself to build bridges to the path of
the Truth for the adherents of every religious faith! He must
make it so easy and intelligible that everyone can understand it
without effort. His words must be so chosen that their rightness
will immediately convince one and all.

As soon as man must exert himself and think for himself, then the
helper is not a proper helper. For if he is called to lead and to
show the right way through his word, he must then naturally also
exert himself for men. It is his duty to convince men, to awaken
them! After all, Christ also gave His life.

Those who think in this way today – and there are many who do
so – need not begin to trouble themselves, for they are like the
foolish virgins, they face the ''too late"!

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The helper will surely not awaken them, but will let them sleep
quietly on until the gate is closed and they can find no entrance
into the Light, because they cannot free themselves in time from
the sphere of matter, for which the word of the helper showed
them the way.

For man is not as valuable as he imagined. God does not need

him, but he does need his God!

Since in their so-called progress mankind today no longer know

what they really want, they will at last have to experience what
they must!

As they both seek and criticize in a supercilious way, this type of

people will pass by, just as even at that time so many also passed
by Him for Whose coming everything had already been prepared
through the revelations.

How can one possibly envisage a spiritual helper thus!

He will not budge an inch to make concessions to mankind, and

wherever he is expected to give he will demand!

That man who is capable of serious reflection, however, will

immediately recognize that just this strict and uncompromising
demand for attentive thinking contains what is best, and what
mankind, already so deeply entangled in spiritual indolence, need
for their salvation! It is just by demanding spiritual alertness
right from the beginning, together with an earnest volition and
self-exertion for the understanding of his words, that a helper
easily separates the grain from the chaff already at the outset. An
automatic working lies in this, as it is in the Divine Laws. Here,
too, men receive exactly according to their actual volition. –

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But there is yet another class of people who fancy themselves
particularly alert!

Naturally these have formed an entirely different picture of a

helper, as can be read from reports. It is no less grotesque,
however, for they expect him to be ... a spiritual acrobat!

In any case, thousands already suppose that clairvoyance,

clairaudience, clairsentience, etc., indicate great progress, which
is really not so. These arts, whether acquired, cultivated, or even
a natural gift, can never rise above the constraint of this earth,
thus they only operate within low limits, can never claim to any
height, and are therefore almost worthless.

Is that the way to help the ascent of mankind – showing them, or

teaching them to see and hear, ethereal things which are on the
same level as they are?

This has nothing to do with the actual ascent of the spirit, and is
to equally little purpose for earthly happenings! They are minor
spiritual tricks, nothing more, interesting to the individual, but
utterly useless to mankind as a whole!

That all such people wish for the same kind of helper, but one
even more proficient than themselves, is indeed readily
understandable. –

Yet there are a great many who carry matters much further in
this respect, even to the point of absurdity. And who are
nevertheless perfectly serious about it.

For example, one of the fundamental conditions they impose to

prove he is genuine is that a helper … must be immune from
catching a cold!

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He who does so is already disqualified; for in their opinion this
does not correspond to an ideal helper. At all events, a strong
helper must as a first essential be completely above these trifles
with his spirit.

This may sound fanciful and ridiculous; but it is only based on

facts, and suggests a faint repetition of the former cry: "If Thou
be the Son of God, save Thyself and come down from the cross!" –
They are already calling out the same today, even before such a
helper is in sight at all!

Poor, ignorant men! He who trains his body so one-sidedly that it

is rendered temporarily insensible under the power of the spirit is
by no means great or eminent. Those who admire him are like
children of former times, watching with open mouth and shining
eyes the antics of traveling clowns, and filled with a burning
desire to emulate them.

And a great many so-called spirit-seekers or God-seekers of today

are no further advanced in the spiritual field than the children of
bygone days were in this quite earthly field!

Just let us consider a little further: The vagrants of olden times,

of whom I have just spoken, developed themselves increasingly
and became acrobats in circus and music-hall. Their skill grew
prodigious, and even now thousands of sophisticated people
watch these feats every day in perpetual wonder, often inwardly
shuddering.

Yet do they themselves gain anything from it? What do they take
away with them after such hours? Although many an acrobat even
risks his life during his performances. Nothing whatever! For even
at the peak of perfection all these things will always remain
strictly limited to music-hall and the circus. They will always

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serve only to amuse, but never lead to any advantage for
mankind.

Yet people now look for such acrobatic feats in the spiritual field
as the standard by which to measure the great helper!

Let such people keep their spiritual clowns! They will soon
enough experience where this leads! They have really no idea
what they are actually pursuing thereby. They imagine that only
he is great whose spirit so controls his body that it no longer
suffers illness!

All such development is one-sided, and one-sidedness brings only

what is unhealthy and diseased! These things do not strengthen
the spirit, but only weaken the body! The balance necessary for
healthy harmony between body and spirit is disturbed, and as a
result such a spirit finally severs itself much sooner from the
maltreated body, which can no longer provide the strong healthy
resonance needed for earthly experience. But then the spirit lacks
this experience, and enters the beyond while still immature. It
will have to live its earth-life once again.

These are spiritual tricks, nothing more, performed at the

expense of the earthly body, which should in reality help the
spirit. The body belongs to an epoch in the spirit's development.
But if it is weakened and suppressed it cannot be of much use to
the spirit either; for its radiations are too feeble to provide the
full power that the spirit needs in the World of Matter.

If a man wishes to suppress an illness he must spiritually bring

about the pressure of an ecstasy on the body, just as in a minor
degree fear of the dentist may suppress toothache.

The body may be able to stand such intense stimulation once,

perhaps even several times, unharmed, but not continually
without suffering serious damage.

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And if that is the practice or advice of a helper, he is not worthy
to be a helper; for he is thereby transgressing the Natural Laws in
Creation. Man on earth should cherish his body as property
entrusted to him, and strive to achieve healthy harmony between
spirit and body. To disturb this through one-sided suppression is
neither progress nor ascent, but a decisive obstacle to the
fulfillment of his task on earth, as in the World of Matter in
general. The full power of the spirit as regards its effectiveness in
the World of Matter is thereby lost, since this definitely calls for
the strength of a physical body which is not enslaved but which
harmonizes with the spirit!

He who is accounted master on such grounds is less than a pupil

who knows nothing whatever of the tasks of the human spirit, nor
of what is required for its development! He is even detrimental to
the spirit.

They will come soon enough to the painful recognition of their

folly.

Every false helper, however, will have to undergo bitter

experiences! His ascent in the beyond can only begin when the
very last of all those whom he has held up or even led astray by
spiritual trifling has come to recognition. As long as his books and
writings continue to influence men on earth, he will be held fast
in the next world, even if in the meantime he has come to a
better understanding there.

He who recommends occult training gives men stones instead of

bread, thereby proving that he has not even the faintest idea of
what actually takes place in the beyond, still less of the complete
mechanism of the Universe!

3. THE ANTICHRIST

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MEN! WHEN THE HOUR comes in which, according to the Divine
Will, the purification and winnowing must take place on earth,
then watch for the predicted and partly supernatural signs in the
sky!

Do not then allow yourselves to be confused by those men and

also churches who have already long ago surrendered to
Antichrist. It is sad that until now not even the churches have
known where to look for this Antichrist, although he has already
been active among all men for so long. If they had only been a
little on the alert they must have recognized it! Who can possibly
act in a more anti-Christian manner than those who at that time
fought against Christ Himself and finally also murdered Him! Who
could have revealed themselves in a worse and also more obvious
way as antagonistic to Christ!

They were the leaders and representatives of earthly religion;

and the true teaching of God, as revealed in and through the Son
of God, did not agree with what they had built up. Indeed, the
true Message of God could not be reconciled with it, because the
structure set up by priestly dignitaries was aimed at earthly
influence, earthly power and expansion.

They proved quite clearly thereby that they were servants of the
human intellect, which is directed solely towards earthly
knowledge and earthly power, and is hostile and obstructive to
everything that lies beyond earthly comprehension! Now since
God remains completely outside the range of earthly intellectual
knowledge, as also does the spiritual, the intellect is clearly the
only real obstacle thereto! Thus by its nature it is opposed to all
that is Divine and all that is spiritual! And with it logically
therefore all men who acknowledge their intellect as of
paramount importance, and seek to build only upon that!

The religious leaders of those days were afraid of losing influence

among the people through the enlightenment of the Son of God.
As everyone today knows, this was the main reason for the
slanders they sought to spread against Christ, and ultimately also

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for the execution of the Son of God. They nailed Him to the cross
as a blasphemer of the very God by Whom He was sent to bring
enlightenment, and Whose servants they professed to be!

They tried to make people believe they were serving God; but
how little did they really know this God and His Will, for Whose
honor and earthly defense this Son of God, the Divine Messenger,
was however … murdered by them!

This was clearly the disastrous result of their enslavement to the

earthly intellect, which fought solely to maintain its influence
thereby. They allowed themselves to become the executioner as
tools of the Antichrist, whom they had secretly enthroned in their
hearts. For this satisfied their human weaknesses - their
presumption, arrogance and vanity.

Whoever expects clearer proof cannot be helped; for there is

nothing more antagonistic to Christ, the Son of God, and His
Words! And indeed Antichrist signifies the fighter against Christ,
against man's redemption in God's Message. The earthly intellect
drove them to it! This very intellect, as a poisonous product of
Lucifer, is an instrument for him which has become the greatest
danger to mankind!

Thus the disproportionate over-development of the human

intellect in the past has grown into the hereditary sin for man!
Behind this, however, stands Lucifer himself as Antichrist in
person! He it is who through men was able to raise his head! He,
the only real enemy of God! He acquired the name of Antichrist
through his hostile struggle against the Mission of the Son of
God. None other would have had the strength and the power to
become the Antichrist.

And in his warfare against the Will of God, Lucifer makes use not
merely of one man on earth but of nearly all mankind, thus
leading them to destruction under the effect of the Divine Wrath!
Whoever cannot grasp this most obvious fact, that only Lucifer

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himself could be the Antichrist who dares to oppose God, will
never be able to understand anything of all that takes place
outside the World of Gross Matter, that is, outside what is purely
earthly.

And as it was then, so is it still today! Indeed far worse. Today,

too, many religious representatives will wish to fight bitterly to
maintain the earthly intellectual ordinances hitherto upheld in the
temples and churches.

It is precisely this human intellect, blunting all nobler intuition,

that is one of the most insidious growths of Lucifer which he was
able to spread among mankind. All slaves of the intellect,
however, are in truth Lucifer's servants, who are accomplices in
the terrible collapse which must thus befall mankind!

Since no one suspected that Antichrist lurked beneath the

intellect, he could extend his sinister influence all the more
easily! Lucifer triumphed; for he thereby cut off mankind from
any comprehending of all that lies outside the World of Gross
Matter. From real life! From that place where contact is first
made with the spiritual, which leads to the proximity of God!

With this he set his foot upon this earth as lord of the earth and
of the greater part of mankind!

No wonder, then, that he could penetrate to the altars, and that

representatives of earthly religions, also of the Christian
churches, were bound to become his victims. For they too expect
the Antichrist just before the predicted Judgment. Up till now the
great Revelation in the Bible, like many other things, has never
yet been understood in this respect.

The Revelation says that this Antichrist will raise his head before
the Judgment, but not that he will first appear then! If it is said
therein that he raises his head, this clearly indicates that he must

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be here already, but not that he is yet to come. It means that he
will have reached the zenith of his dominion just before the
Judgment!

Listen to this cry of warning, you who are not yet spiritually deaf
and blind! Take the trouble for once to think quite seriously about
it yourselves. If you remain indolent in this respect you give
yourselves up as lost!

If you lift the protecting cover from the lair of a poisonous snake
that suddenly realizes it is exposed, it will naturally try to rear up
and bite this ruthless hand.

It is no different here. Finding himself exposed, the Antichrist will

quickly protest through his servants; on being unmasked he will
make a great outcry, and try in every possible way to maintain
himself on the throne which mankind so willingly offered him. But
all this he can only do through those who inwardly revere him.

Therefore now keep a sharp watch on your surroundings when

the conflict begins! By their very outcry you will all the more
surely recognize them, everyone who belongs to him! For once
again, as before, fear of a pure truth will make them side with its
opponents!

The Antichrist will again try desperately to retain his influence on

earth. Observe his dubious methods in defense and attack; for he
will once more make use only of slander and insinuations, since
his followers are incapable of doing anything else. To stand
before the Truth and refute it is impossible.

Thus Lucifer's servants will also fight the Messenger of God, just
as they once fought the Son of God!

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Be on the alert where such an attempt is made; for thereby such
people only wish to protect Lucifer in order to uphold his reign on
earth. A center of Darkness lurks there, even if the people
habitually appear in bright earthly garments, even if they are
servants of a church.

Do not forget what happened when the Son of God was on earth,
but reflect that still today the same Antichrist, with a far greater
human following, is striving to retain dominion over the earth, to
escape destruction and to go on obscuring the true Will of God.

Therefore watch carefully for all the promised signs! Each

individual must make his final decision. Salvation or destruction!
For this time it is God's Will that everything which again dares to
oppose Him shall be lost!

Every act of negligence will rise up against you in the Judgment!

-The Divine Insignia will not appear above some church, nor will
any priestly dignitary on earth bear the sign that he is the
Messenger of God! But only He Who is inseparably linked with the
Signs, Who therefore also carries them living and radiating with
Him, as once the Son of God did when He dwelt on this earth.
They are the Cross of Truth, living and radiating within Him, and
the Dove above Him! They will become visible to all those who are
blessed to see spiritual things, so that they may give testimony of
it to all people on earth; for there will be among all peoples those
who will this time be permitted to "see," as the last Grace of God!
---

These Sublime Signs of the Holy Truth can never be simulated.

Not even Lucifer, who must retreat before them, can achieve this,
much less a human being. Therefore he who still seeks to set
himself against these Signs of God henceforth sets himself
against God as an enemy of God. He shows thereby that he
neither is nor ever was a servant of God, no matter what he has
hitherto pretended to be on earth.

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Be on your guard, lest you also be found among such!

4. MORALITY

IT IS AS THOUGH a dark thunder cloud were hanging over

humanity. The atmosphere is sultry. Man's intuitive faculty labors
sluggishly under a heavy pressure. Only the nerves affecting the
senses and animal instincts of the bodies are in a highly-strung
condition. Artificially stimulated through the error of a wrong
education, of a false attitude, and self-delusion.

In this respect the man of today is not normal, but is burdened

with a morbid sexual instinct, aggravated tenfold, for which in a
hundred forms and ways he seeks to establish a cult that is
bound to become the ruin of all humanity.

Infectious and contagious as a plague, all this gradually

influences also those who still seek desperately to cling to an
ideal that floats half-hidden in their subconscious mind. They
indeed stretch forth their arms longingly towards it, but ever
again, after a glance at their surroundings, drop them with a sigh
of hopelessness and despair.

Utterly helpless, they observe with horror how swiftly the clear
vision regarding morality and bad habits is obscured, how the
capacity to judge is lost, and how these concepts change to such
an extent that so much which only a short time before would still
have aroused disgust and contempt is very soon regarded as
quite natural, not even causing surprise.

But the cup will soon be filled to the brim. A terrible awakening
must come!

Already now these sensually overwrought masses will sometimes

quite involuntarily and unconsciously recoil in sudden misgiving.
A momentary feeling of uncertainty grips many a heart; but it

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brings no awakening, nor any clear perception of their unworthy
conduct. They thereupon only redouble their efforts to shake off
such "weakness" or "last remnants" of old-fashioned ideas, if not
to suppress them altogether.

Progress at any price, that is what it must be. However, one can
progress in two directions. Upwards or downwards. As one
chooses. And as things now stand it is downwards, with horrifying
speed. When the hour strikes for those hurtling downwards to
encounter a strong resistance, the impact must shatter them.

In this sultry atmosphere the thunder-cloud grows ever more

dense and ominous. At any moment now the first flash of
lightning may be expected, rending and lighting up the darkness,
and brilliantly illuminating the most obscure corner so
relentlessly and sharply as to bring liberation to those striving for
light and clarity, but destruction to those who have no longing for
the Light.

The longer this cloud has time to grow in darkness and density,
the more dazzling and terrifying will also be the lightning it
generates. Gone will be the soft enervating atmosphere whose
sluggish embrace hides a lurking sensuality; for the first flash of
lightning will quite naturally also be followed by a current of
fresh, bracing air, bringing new life. In the cold clarity of the
light, all the products of morbid imagination will suddenly stand
stripped of their dazzling falsehoods before the eyes of horrified
humanity.

The awakening will strike the souls like the shock of a mighty
thunderclap, so that the living spring water of undimmed Truth
can pour forth and rush over the loosened soil. The day of
freedom dawns. Deliverance from the spell of an immorality that
has existed for thousands of years, and that is now reaching its
climax.

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Look around you! Observe what people read, how they dance,
how they dress! By tearing down all barriers between the two
sexes, the present time is more than ever anxious systematically
to obscure the purity of the intuitive perception, thus to distort it
and give it misleading masks, and ultimately, if at all possible, to
smother it.

When misgivings arise they are quietened by high-sounding talk,

which however proves on investigation to emanate only from the
inwardly vibrating sexual instinct, in order to provide ever fresh
nourishment for the carnal lusts in countless ways, skillful and
clumsy, open and covert.

They speak of the emergence of a free independent humanity, of

a development of inner stability, of physical culture, the beauty
of the nude, ennobled sports, and of education to bring to life the
saying: "To the pure all things are pure!" In short: Upliftment of
the human race by laying aside all "prudery", thus producing the
noble and free human being who is to carry the future! Woe to
him who dares to remonstrate! With a great outcry, accusations
are immediately hurled at such an audacious person, similar to
the assertions that only impure thoughts can make him "find
anything wrong in it"!

It is a mad whirlpool of foul water, spreading a stupefying,

poisoning atmosphere which, like the effect of morphine, induces
mental delusions into which thousands upon thousands
continually allow themselves to slide until they become so
weakened that they go under.

A brother seeks to enlighten his sister, and children their parents.

Like a storm-driven tide it sweeps over all mankind, and wild
breakers surge round the few who, gripped with repugnance,
have retained their balance and still stand like solitary rocks in
the sea. To these cling many whose strength threatens to fail
them in the violent storm. It is good to see these small groups
standing like refreshing oases in the desert, inviting the traveler

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to find rest and recuperation after grimly battling his way
through the sandstorm that threatened to overwhelm him.

What is being preached today under the fine guise of progress is

nothing but a veiled encouragement of utter shamelessness, the
poisoning of every higher intuitive perception in man. It is the
greatest pestilence that ever befell humanity. And strange: it
seems as if so many had only been waiting for a plausible excuse
to debase themselves. To countless people it is very welcome!

But he who knows the spiritual laws operating in the Universe will
turn away in disgust from today's pursuits. Let us take just one of
the "most harmless" pleasures: "Mixed bathing".

"To the pure all things are pure!" These words have such a
pleasant sound that many things are permissible under their
protection. But just let us consider the most simple ethereal
happenings in such a bathing-place. Let us assume that of thirty
persons of both sexes, twenty-nine are really pure in every
respect. This is an assumption which is completely impossible
from the very start; for the opposite would be more correct, and
even then still rare. But let us assume it.

Stimulated by what he sees, impure thoughts arise in the mind of

the one, the thirtieth bather, although his outward behavior may
be absolutely irreproachable. These thoughts are immediately
embodied ethereally in living thought-forms, which move towards
and attach themselves to the object of his glances. This is a
defilement, whether or not it leads to any remarks or
improprieties!

The person thus contaminated will carry about this dirt, which is
capable of attracting similar straying thought-forms. Thereby
they become denser, ever denser around this person, and may
finally confuse and poison the victim, as a parasitic creeper often
destroys the healthiest tree.

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Such are the ethereal happenings in so-called "harmless" mixed
bathing, at party games, dances or the like.

It should be borne in mind, however, that in any case it is just all

those particularly desirous of having their thoughts and senses
excited by such exhibitions who will visit these bathing-places
and pleasure haunts! It is not difficult to explain what filth is thus
generated, without anyone being outwardly aware of it in the
gross material sense.

It is also obvious that this steadily increasing and condensing

mass of sensual thought-forms must gradually influence
countless people who of themselves do not seek such things. At
first vague thoughts of a similar nature arise in them; in time
these grow stronger and more alive, being ceaselessly nourished
by the various expressions of so-called "progress" around them.
And so one after another they glide along into the viscous dark
stream, in which the power to apprehend true purity and morality
is ever more obscured, until finally everything is dragged into the
depth of uttermost darkness.

First of all, these opportunities and incitements for such rapidly

growing abnormalities must be done away with! They are nothing
but breeding centers into which the pestilential vermin of
immoral human beings can cast their thoughts, which then spring
up luxuriantly and spread destruction over all humanity; creating
ever new breeding grounds which finally form only one huge field
of noxious growths, exuding a poisonous stench that also
suffocates the good.

Wrench yourselves out of this delirium, which like a narcotic only

appears to invigorate, but in reality has a weakening and
destroying effect!

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It is natural, though sad, that it is just the female sex which is
again the first to exceed all bounds, and which has sunk without
any scruple to utter shamelessness in their attire.

However, this only proves that the explanation about ethereal

happenings is correct. It is just woman, gifted by nature with a
stronger intuitive ability, who first and more deeply absorbs this
poison of the tainted ethereal world of thought-forms, albeit
quite unconsciously. She is more at the mercy of these dangers,
for which reason she is also the first to be carried away, and
oversteps every limit incredibly quickly and conspicuously.

Not for nothing is it said: "When a woman becomes bad she is

worse than a man!" This holds good in everything, be it in cruelty,
in hatred or in love! The behavior of woman will always be a
product of the Ethereal World around her! There are exceptions,
of course. Nor is woman on this account free from responsibility;
for she is able to observe the influences assailing her, and can
guide her own volition and actions according to her will if … she
so desires! That the majority of women unfortunately fail to do
this is a fault of the female sex, which is entirely due to the
absolute ignorance in these matters.

It is a great misfortune for the present time, however, that the

future of the people actually lies in the hands of woman. She
carries it because her psychic condition influences her
descendants more incisively than that of the man. What a decline,
then, must the future bring! Inevitably! It cannot be halted by
arms, money, nor discoveries. Nor by kindness or diplomacy
either. More incisive means are required here.

Yet this enormous guilt does not fall upon woman alone. She will
always be only the true reflection of that world of thought-forms
which hovers over her people. This must not be forgotten.
Respect and honor woman as such, and she will form herself
accordingly; she will become what you see in her, and in this way
you uplift your whole people!

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However, before this can happen, a great process of
transformation must take place among women. As they are now a
cure can only be effected through a radical operation, by a
forceful and relentless intervention, removing any growth with
sharp knives and casting it into the fire! Otherwise it would also
destroy all the healthy parts.

Towards this essential operation on all mankind the present time

is irresistibly rushing, faster, ever faster, and will finally bring it
about of itself! This will be painful and terrible, but the end will
be restoration to health. Not until then will it be the time to speak
of morality. Today it would die away like the word spoken in the
wind.

But when the hour is past, in which corrupt Babylon had to

perish, because it collapsed from inner decay, then observe the
female sex! What they do and what they leave undone will always
show you how you stand, because through their finer intuitive
ability they live what the thought-forms desire.

This fact also gives us the assurance that when the thinking and
intuitive perceiving are pure, womanhood will be the first to soar
upwards to that ideal which we regard as a truly noble human
being. Then morality, in the full glory of its purity, will have
entered!

5. AWAKE!

AWAKE, YE MEN, out of your leaden slumber! Recognize the

ignoble burden you bear, that weighs upon millions with
enormous pressure. Throw it off! Is is worth bearing? Not for a
single second!

Of what does it consist? Empty husks which the breath of Truth

will scatter in the wind. You have wasted time and energy for
nothing. Therefore burst the fetters that hold you down, and free
yourself at last!

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The man who remains inwardly bound will always be a slave, even
if he were a king.

You bind yourselves with all that you aspire to learn. Reflect: In
acquiring knowledge you force yourselves into alien forms
thought out by others; you willingly adopt an alien conviction,
making your own only what others have experienced within, for
themselves.

Consider: What applies to one does not apply to all! What helps
one person may harm the other. Each individual must make his
own way to perfection. The abilities he carries within him are his
equipment for this. He must adjust himself to them and build
upon them! Otherwise he will remain a stranger to his real self,
will always stand beside what he has learned, which can never
come to life in him. Thus he is barred from any gain. He will
vegetate, all progress being impossible.

Listen, you who seriously aspire to Light and to Truth:

Each individual must inwardly experience the way to the Light, he

must discover it himself if he wishes to be sure of the way. Only
what a man experiences inwardly, what he perceives intuitively in
all its variations, has he fully grasped!

Both sorrow and joy are constantly rapping at the door to

encourage and arouse man to awaken spiritually. He is then very
often freed for a few seconds from the trivialities of everyday life,
and in happiness or grief vaguely senses his affinity with the
spirit pulsating through all that lives.

And everything is life, nothing is dead! Happy is he who seizes

and holds on to such moments of affinity, using them to soar

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upwards. In so doing he must not keep to rigid forms, but
everyone must develop himself, from within.

Ignore the scoffers, who are still strangers to spiritual life. They
stand before the great Work of Creation, which offers us so much,
like drunkards, like sick people. Like blind men who grope their
way through life on earth without seeing all the splendor around
them!

They are confused, they sleep; for how can anyone still affirm, for
instance, that only what he can see exists? That where his eyes
perceive nothing there is no life? That with his physical death he
himself also ceases to exist, all because in his blindness he could
not, up till now, convince himself to the contrary through his
eyes? Does he not already know from many things how very
limited is the capacity of the eye? Does he not yet know that it is
related to the capacity of his brain, which is bound to time and
space? That because of this he cannot recognize with his eyes
anything rising above time and space? Has this logical,
intellectual reasoning not yet become clear to any of these
scoffers? Spiritual life, let us also call it the beyond, is after all
merely something that stands completely above the earthly
division of time and space, and therefore requires a similar
nature in order to be recognized.

Yet our eyes do not even see all that can be classified within time
and space. Think of a drop of water, which appears immaculately
pure to every eye; and which on examination under the
microscope is shown to contain millions of living organisms
mercilessly fighting and destroying each other. Are there not
sometimes bacteria in both water and air that have the power to
destroy human bodies, and that are imperceptible to the human
eye? But they become visible by means of powerful instruments.

Who then will still dare to maintain that there is nothing new and
as yet unknown to be seen when the power of these instruments
is further increased? Increase their power a thousandfold, a
millionfold, and there will be no end to what may be seen, but

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ever new worlds which previously you could neither see nor feel,
yet which nevertheless existed, will unfold before you.

Logical thinking also leads to the same conclusions about

everything the sciences have hitherto been able to collect. There
is a prospect of continuous progress and development, but never
of an end.

What, then, is the beyond? The word confuses many. The beyond
is simply all that cannot be perceived by earthly means. And
earthly means are the eyes, the brain and all other parts of the
body, also the instruments that help them to do their work still
more accurately and precisely, and to extend its scope.

Therefore one could say: the beyond embraces all that is beyond
the perceptive capacity of our physical eyes. But there is no
division between this world and the beyond! Nor any gulf! All is
united, as is the whole of Creation. One power streams through
this world and the beyond, everything lives and works from this
one life stream, and is thus quite inseparably linked. Thus the
following becomes clear:

If one part of it sickens the effect must be felt in the other part,
as with a physical body. Through the attraction of homogeneous
species, diseased matter from this other part will then flow
across to the sick part, thus further aggravating the illness. But
should such a disorder become incurable, it will absolutely be
necessary forcibly to sever the ailing member, if the whole is not
to suffer permanently.

For this reason change your attitude. There is no such thing as

this world and the beyond, but only one united existence! The
idea of a division has been invented solely by man, because he is
unable to see everything, and imagines himself to be the center
and focal point of the surroundings visible to him. Yet his sphere
of action is greater. With the erroneous idea of a division,
however, he forcibly limits himself, hinders his progress, and

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allows his imagination to run riot and conjure up grotesque
pictures.

Is it surprising then, if as a consequence many only smile

incredulously, while others adopt an unwholesome form of
worship that becomes servile or degenerates into fanaticism?
Who can then still be astonished if some people develop a
nervous fear, even terror and consternation?

Away with all this! Why these torments? Break down this barrier
which human error sought to erect, but which never existed! Your
past wrong attitude also gives you a false foundation, on which
you vainly endeavor continually to build up the true belief, that
is, inner conviction. You consequently encounter points,
obstacles, which must make you waver and doubt, or compel you
to tear down the whole structure, perhaps abandoning everything
out of despair or resentment.

The loss is then yours alone, because this is not progress for you,
but standstill or retrogression. The road which in any case you
must follow one day will only be lengthened thereby.

When you have at last perceived Creation as a complete whole, as

it is, and do not separate this world from the beyond, then you
have found the direct path, the true goal draws nearer and the
ascent gives you joy and satisfaction. You are then much better
able to feel and understand the reciprocal actions pulsating
warmly through this uniform whole, since all activity is driven and
sustained by the one power. Then the Light of Truth will dawn
upon you!

You will soon realize that many who scoff only do so out of
indifference and indolence, just because it would require a certain
effort to throw over existing ideas and learning and erect
something new. Others would find it interferes with their
customary mode of living and thus becomes uncomfortable for
them.

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Leave all such alone, do not argue, but offer your knowledge
helpfully to those who are not satisfied with fleeting pleasures, to
those who seek for something more in their earthly lives than
merely to fill their stomachs like animals. Do not then bury your
talent, impart to them the recognition you are granted; for in
giving, your knowledge will in turn be enriched and strengthened.

An Eternal Law operates in the Universe: That only in giving can

one receive where lasting values are concerned! Like a sacred
legacy of its Creator, this Law deeply permeates the whole of
Creation. To give unselfishly, to help where help is needed, and to
understand both the suffering and the weaknesses of your fellow-
men, means to receive, because it is the simple and true way to
the Highest!

And to will this seriously brings you immediate help and strength!
By one single, honest and ardent wish to do good, the wall which
your thoughts have hitherto erected as a barrier is cleaved as
with a flaming sword from the other side that is now still invisible
to you; for you are indeed one with the beyond which you so fear,
deny or long for, you are closely and inextricably linked with it.

Try it, for your thoughts are the messengers you send forth,
which return heavily laden with similar thought-forms, good or
evil as the case may be. This actually happens! Remember that
your thoughts are realities that shape themselves spiritually,
often becoming forms outliving the earth-life of your body, then
much will become clear to you.

Thus it is quite rightly said: "For their works will pursue them!"
Thought-creations are works which will one day await you! Which
form light or dark rings around you, which you must traverse in
order to enter the spiritual world. Neither protection nor
intervention can help in this, because the decision lies with you.
Therefore you yourself must take the first step in everything. This
is not difficult; it lies solely in the volition, which expresses itself
through thoughts. Thus you carry heaven or hell within you.

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You are free to decide, but you are then irrevocably subject to the
consequences of your thoughts, of your volition! You yourselves
create these consequences, and that is why I exhort you:

Keep the hearth of your thoughts pure, by so doing you will bring
peace and be happy!

Do not forget that every thought you produce and send out
attracts all similar thoughts on its way, or attaches itself to
others, thus continually increasing in strength and finally also
reaching a goal, a human brain which is perhaps off its guard just
for a moment, thereby offering such floating thought-forms the
opportunity to penetrate and operate.

Just consider what responsibility will fall upon you if at some time
or other the thought becomes a deed through some person whom
it was able to influence! This responsibility already arises through
the fact that every single thought keeps a constant link with you
just as if by an unbreakable thread, so as to return with the
strength gained on its way, either to burden you or to bring you
joy, according to the kind you produced.

Thus you stand in the world of thoughts, and according to your

way of thinking at the time make room for similar thought-forms.
Do not therefore waste the power of thinking, but gather it for
defense and for keen thinking, which goes forth like spears and
affects everything. Thus create out of your thoughts the Holy
Spear which fights for the good, heals wounds and furthers the
whole of Creation!

Adjust your thinking, therefore, towards activity and progress! To

do this you must shake many a pillar supporting traditional ideas.
Often it is some concept wrongly understood that hinders man
from finding the right way. He must return to the starting-point.
One flash of light will destroy the whole structure so painfully

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erected over decades, and following a shorter or longer period of
stunned inertia, he will make a fresh start! He must do so, for
there is no standing still in the Universe. Let us take, for instance,
the concept of time:

Time passes! Times change! We hear this said everywhere, and

automatically a picture arises in the spirit: We see changing times
marching past us!

This picture becomes so ingrained that for many it also forms a

solid foundation on which they continue to build, adjusting their
whole research and speculation to it. Before long, however, they
encounter obstacles which contradict each other. However hard
they try, not everything will fit in. They lose their way, leaving
gaps that can no longer be filled in spite of all their pondering.

Many then believe that in such places faith must act as a

substitute for the failure of logical reasoning. But this is wrong!
Man should not believe in things he cannot grasp! He must try to
understand them; for otherwise he opens wide the door to errors,
and with errors the Truth is always debased.

To believe without understanding is just indolence, mental

laziness! It does not lead the spirit upwards, but presses it down.
Look upward, therefore, we are to test and investigate. Not for
nothing does the urge to do so lie within us.

Time! Does it really pass? Why does one encounter obstacles

when thinking more deeply about this axiom? Simply because the
fundamental idea is wrong; for time stands still! We, however,
hurry towards it! We rush into time, which is eternal, and seek
the Truth in it.

Time stands still. It remains the same, today, yesterday and a

thousand years hence! Only the forms change. We plunge into
time, to cull from her records for the purpose of enriching our

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knowledge from what has been collected there! For time has lost
nothing, it has recorded all things. It has not changed, because it
is eternal.

You too, O man, are always just the same, whether you appear
young or old! You remain what you are! Have you not already
sensed this yourself? Do you not clearly notice a difference
between the form and your "ego"? Between the body that is
subject to change and yourself, the spirit, which is eternal?

You seek the Truth! What is Truth? What you still feel to be truth
today you will recognize even tomorrow as error, in which,
however, you will later again discover grains of truth! For the
manifestations also change their forms. Thus your seeking
continues, yet amid these changes you mature!

Truth, however, remains always the same, it does not change, for
it is eternal! And being eternal it can never be clearly and truly
grasped by the earthly senses, which are familiar only with the
change of forms!

Therefore become spiritual! Free from all earthly thoughts, and

then you will possess the Truth, will stand in the Truth, and will
bathe in it, constantly surrounded by its pure Light, for it will
envelop you completely. As soon as you become spiritual, you will
swim in it.

Then you need no longer study so painstakingly what science has

to offer, nor need you fear errors, but you will already have the
answer to every question in the Truth itself. Moreover, you will no
longer have any questions, because without thinking you will
know all things, will embrace all things, because your spirit will
live in the pure Light, in the Truth!

Therefore become spiritually free! Burst all the fetters that hold
you down! If obstacles present themselves welcome them

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joyfully; for they show you the way to freedom and strength! Look
upon them as gifts from which you will benefit, and you will
overcome them with ease.

Either such obstacles are put in your way to teach and develop
you, in which case you add to the means of your ascent, or they
are the reaction to some debt you have incurred, which you can
redeem in this way and thus free yourselves. In either case they
help you to advance. Therefore set out to meet them with a bold
heart, it is for your own good!

It is foolish to talk of reverses of fortune or of trials. Every

conflict and every sorrow means progress. Men are thus offered
the chance to dispel the shadows of former misdeeds; for not a
single farthing can be remitted to the individual, because here
also the cycle of the Eternal Laws in the Universe is inflexible. The
Creative Father-Will reveals Himself in them, and thereby forgives
us and dispels all Darkness.

So clearly and wisely is everything arranged that the minutest

swerving from this would have to plunge the world into ruins.

But what of the man who has very much to redeem from former
times, must he not then despair, will he not tremble at the
thought of the misdeeds he has to atone for?

As soon as he honestly wills he can hopefully and gladly begin

with it, free from all worry! For a balance can be brought about
by the counter-current of the power of good volition, which like
other thought-forms takes life in the spiritual, forging a strong
weapon capable of removing every dark burden, every weight,
and leading the "ego" towards the Light!

Power of volition! A mighty force, unsuspected by so many!

Attracting similar powers like a never-failing magnet, it grows
like an avalanche. Uniting with similar spiritual forces, it works

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backwards, again reaching the starting-point, thus the origin, or
rather, the producer, uplifting him high to the Light, or pressing
him deeper into the mud and filth! Exactly in accordance with
what the author himself originally willed.

He who is acquainted with this steady, never-failing reciprocal

effect inherent in all Creation, which manifests and unfolds itself
with absolute certainty, knows how to make use of it; he must
love it and fear it! Gradually the invisible world around him
becomes alive to him; for he feels its influence so distinctly that it
silences all doubt.

If he only pays a little attention to it he must intuitively sense the

strong waves of ceaseless activity that affect him from out of the
great Universe. Finally he feels himself the focal point of strong
currents, like a lens that absorbs the rays of the sun,
concentrating them on one point and producing a combustive
power which can burst forth to singe and destroy, but also to
heal, animate and bring blessing; and likewise can start a blazing
fire!

And you, too, are such lenses, capable through your volition of
gathering these invisible power-currents that reach you, and
sending them forth as a united force for good or evil, to bring
blessing or indeed destruction to mankind. Through this you can
and should light a blazing fire in the souls of men, a fire of
enthusiasm for the good, for the noble and for perfection!

This only requires a strength of volition, which in a certain sense

makes man lord of Creation and master of his own fate. It is
man's own volition which brings him destruction or redemption,
reward or retribution, with inexorable certainty!

Do not fear then, that this knowledge will alienate you from the
Creator, or weaken your present faith. On the contrary! The
knowledge of these Eternal Laws, which you can put to use,
makes the entire work of Creation appear even more sublime to

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you. Its magnitude forces him who searches more deeply to his
knees in veneration!

Man will then never wish for evil things. He will joyfully grasp at
the best support that exists for him: Love! Love for the whole
wonderful Creation, and love for his neighbor, that he too may be
led to the glory of this enjoyment, of this consciousness of power.

6. SILENCE

WHEN A THOUGHT SUDDENLY strikes you, keep it back, do not

utter it at once, but nourish it; for it will condense through being
retained in silence, and gain strength like steam under counter-
pressure.

Pressure and condensation produce the quality of a magnetic

activity, in accordance with the Law that all that is stronger
attracts what is weak. Similar thought-forms are thus attracted
from all sides and retained, constantly reinforcing the power of
your own, your original thought, yet working in such a way that
through the joining of other forms the originally produced form is
refined, changes, and takes on different shapes until it comes to
maturity. Indeed you sense all this inwardly, but you always think
it is entirely your own volition. But you never give purely your
own volition in any matter, there are always other influences as
well!

What does this process tell you?

That only in the union of many elements can anything perfect be

created! Created? Is that right? No, but formed! For there is really
nothing new to be created; in everything it is merely a matter of
producing new forms, since all the elements already exist in the
vast Creation. But these elements are to be pressed into service
for the way to perfection, which is brought about through union.

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Union! Do not pass over this lightly, but try to become absorbed
in the concept that maturity and perfection are achieved through
union. The principle rests in all Creation as a treasure that needs
to be unearthed! It is closely related to the Law that only in
giving can there also be receiving! And what is required to grasp
these principles aright? Thus to experience them? Love! And
therefore love indeed stands as the highest power, as unlimited
might, in the mysteries of the great Life!

As with a single thought, union moulds, refines and forms, so is it

with man himself and with the whole of Creation, which in a
never-ending fusion of existing, individual forms undergoes
transformations through the power of volition, and thus becomes
the way to perfection.

A single individual cannot offer you perfection, but the whole of

humanity, with all its varied characteristics, may do so! Each
individual has something which is definitely part of the whole.
And this is also why one so far advanced as no longer to know any
earthly desires loves all mankind, not one individual, because
only the whole of mankind can make the strings of his mature
soul, laid bare through purification, sound the chord of heavenly
harmony. He bears the harmony within himself, because all
strings vibrate!

Let us return to the thought that attracted the other forms, and
thereby became strong and ever stronger. It finally emerges
beyond you in firmly united power-waves, breaks through your
own personal aura, and exerts an influence upon your wider
environment.

Mankind call this personal magnetism. The uninitiated say: "You

radiate something!" According to your nature, either unpleasant
or pleasant. Attractive or repulsive. It is felt!

But you do not radiate anything! The process which engenders

the feeling in these others has its origin in the fact that like a

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magnet you draw to yourself all that is spiritually similar. And it is
this drawing that is felt by those around you. Yet in this, too, lies
the reciprocal effect. Through the connection the other person
then clearly senses your strength, and thereby "sympathy"
awakens.

Always bear in mind: Expressed according to our concepts, all

that is spiritual is magnetic, and you also know that the stronger
always overcomes what is weak through attraction, through
absorption. In this way "from him that hath not (the weak one),
even that which he hath shall be taken away". He becomes
dependent.

There is no injustice in this, but it takes place according to the

Divine Laws. Man only needs to pull himself together and will
aright, and he will be protected from it.

You will now probably ask: What happens when all want to be
strong? When there is nothing left to be taken from anybody?
Then, dear friend, there will be a voluntary interchange, based on
the Law that only in giving can there also be receiving. There will
be no standstill on that account, but all that is inferior is
eliminated.

Thus it happens that through indolence many become spiritually

dependent, and sometimes, in the end, they hardly possess the
ability to develop thoughts of their own.

It must be emphasized that only the homogeneous will be

attracted. Hence the proverb: "Birds of a feather flock together."
Thus drinkers will always find each other, smokers will have
"fellow feelings", likewise gossips, gamblers, and so on; yet noble
characters will also come together for a high aim.

But it goes further: Whatever is drawn to another spiritually will

eventually also manifest physically, since everything spiritual

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penetrates into the gross material, whereby we must bear in
mind the Law of Returns, because a thought always remains
connected with its origin and radiates back to it through this link.

I am always speaking here only of real thoughts, which carry

within them the vital power of the psychic intuition. Not of the
power wasted by the brain-substance entrusted to you as a tool,
which forms but fleeting thoughts that only manifest in a wild
medley as shadowy phantoms, and fortunately very soon fade
away. Such thoughts merely waste your time and energy, and
thereby you fritter away a gift entrusted to you.

If, for instance, you seriously ponder over something, this

thought becomes strongly magnetic within you through the power
of silence, attracting all that is similar and thus becoming
fructified. It matures and rises above the commonplace, thereby
even penetrating into other spheres, from which it receives an
influx of higher thoughts … inspiration! Hence, in contrast to
mediumship, the basic thought in inspiration must proceed from
yourself, must form a bridge to the beyond, to the spiritual world,
in order to draw consciously from a spring there.

Inspiration has therefore nothing whatever to do with

mediumship. In this way the thought is brought to full maturity
within you. You approach its realization, and bring into effect,
condensed through your power, what already in countless
elements was floating in the Universe before as thought-forms.

Through unification and condensation of what has long existed

spiritually you thus produce a new form! So in the entire Creation
it is always only the forms that change, because all else is eternal
and indestructible.

Beware of confused thoughts, of all shallowness in thinking.

Carelessness will exact a bitter revenge; for it will speedily
debase you to the level of a playground for alien influences,

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through which you very easily become sullen, moody and unjust
to your surroundings.

If you have a genuine thought and cling to it, then the gathered
power must eventually also press towards realization; for the
evolution of everything takes place entirely in the spiritual, since
every power is purely spiritual! What then becomes visible to you
are always only the final effects of a preceding spiritual-magnetic
process, which takes place continually and uniformly according to
a firmly established order.

Observation of your thoughts and feelings will soon prove to you

that all real life can in truth only be spiritual life, in which alone
the origin and also the development lie. You must come to the
conviction that everything you see with your physical eyes is in
reality only the manifestations of the eternally driving spirit.

Every action, even the slightest movement of a human being, is

indeed always first spiritually willed. The physical bodies merely
act as spiritually animated instruments, which themselves only
took shape through the power of the spirit. The same applies to
trees, stones and the whole earth. Everything is animated,
permeated and driven by the Creative Spirit.

However, since all matter, thus all that can be physically seen, is
simply the outcome of spiritual life, it is not hard for you to
comprehend that conditions on earth are also formed according
to the nature of the spiritual life which immediately surrounds us.
What logically follows from this is clear: Through the wise
ordering of Creation man has been given the power to shape
conditions for himself with the Power of the Creator. Happy is he
who uses it only for good! But woe unto him who succumbs to the
temptation to use it for evil!

The spirit in men is only encompassed and darkened by earthly

desire, which clings to it like dross, burdens it and drags it down.
However, his thoughts are acts of will endowed with spiritual

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power. The decision to think in a good or evil way lies with man,
and he can thus guide the Divine Power to good or evil purpose!
Therein lies the responsibility that man bears, for reward or
retribution will infallibly be his, as all the consequences of his
thoughts return to the starting-point through the established
reciprocal action, which never fails, and which is quite inflexible
in this matter, thus inexorable. Thereby also incorruptible, stern
and just! Do people not also say the same of God?

If today many opponents of religion reject the existence of a

Godhead, this cannot in any way alter the facts I have cited.
People need only omit the little word "God", and engross
themselves deeply in science, and they will find exactly the same,
only expressed in different words. Is it not absurd, therefore, still
to argue about it?

There is no getting round the Laws of Nature, no man can defy

them. God is the Power that activates the Natural Laws; the
Power that nobody has yet grasped or seen, but whose effects
every one, daily, hourly, indeed in every fraction of a second,
must see, intuitively sense and observe, if only he wants to do so
– in himself, in every animal, every tree, every flower, in every
fiber of a leaf swelling and bursting its sheath to come to the
light.

Is it not blindness to oppose this so obstinately while everyone,

including these stubborn repudiators themselves, confirms and
acknowledges the existence of this Power? What is it that
prevents them from calling this acknowledged Power God? Is it
childlike obstinacy? Or is it a certain shame at being obliged to
confess that they have been obstinately trying all the time to
deny something, the existence of which has always been clear to
them?

Probably nothing of all this. The cause may well lie in the
caricatures of the great Godhead held up to mankind from so
many sides, which on serious investigation they could not accept.
Any attempt to press the all-embracing and all-pervading Power

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of the Godhead into a picture must certainly debase and dishonor
It!

On serious reflection no picture can be brought into harmony with

It! Just because every man bears within him the awareness of
God, he rejects with misgiving the narrowing down of the great
inconceivable Power that created and guides him.

It is dogma that is to blame for a great number of those who, in

their antagonism, seek to overstep the mark altogether, very
often against the certainty living within them.

The hour is not far distant, however, when spiritual awakening

will come! When the words of the Redeemer will be rightly
interpreted and His great Work of Redemption rightly grasped;
for Christ brought redemption from the Darkness by pointing out
the way to the Truth, by showing as a man the path to the
Luminous Height! And with His blood shed on the cross He set the
seal to His conviction!

Truth has never yet been different from what it was even then,
and is today, and still will be tens of thousands of years hence;
for it is eternal!

Therefore learn to know the Laws contained in the great Book of

the entire Creation. To submit to them means: To love God! For
then you will bring no discord into the harmony, but will help to
bring the resounding chord to its full magnificence.

Whether you say: I voluntarily submit to the existing Laws of

Nature because it is for my own good, or: I submit to God's Will,
Which manifests in the Laws of Nature, or to the unfathomable
Power Which activates the Laws of Nature … would the effect be
any different? The Power is there and you recognize it, you simply
must acknowledge it, because as soon as you reflect a little there

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is nothing else you can do … and thereby you acknowledge your
God, the Creator!

And this Power also operates within you when you are thinking!
Therefore do not misuse it to evil purpose, but think good
thoughts! Never forget: When you are producing thoughts you
are using Divine Power, with which you can achieve the purest
and highest!

Try never to forget here that all the consequences of your

thoughts always fall back upon you in proportion to the power,
importance and extent of the effect of the thoughts for good or
evil.

Since thought is spiritual, however, the consequences will return

spiritually. They will thus affect you no matter whether here on
earth, or later in the spiritual after your departure. Being spiritual
they are by no means bound to the material either. Thus it follows
that the disintegration of the body does not prevent the
consequences from taking effect! The requital in the reaction will
surely come, sooner or later, here or hereafter, with all certainty.

The spiritual link with all your works remains firm; for indeed
earthly, material works also have a spiritual origin through the
creative thought, and will remain in existence even when
everything earthly has passed away. It is therefore rightly said:
"Your works await you, in so far as the effect has not yet reached
you through the reaction".

If you are still here on earth when a reaction is due, or if you are
again here, the consequences coming from the spiritual will exert
their force according to their nature either for good or for evil,
through your circumstances and your environment, or directly on
yourself, on your body.

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Here it must once more be specially emphasized: The true real life
takes place in the spiritual! And that knows neither time nor
space, and therefore no separation either. It stands above earthly
conceptions. For this reason the consequences will strike you,
wherever you may be, at the time when, according to the Eternal
Law, the effect returns to its starting-point. Nothing is lost in the
process; it is bound to come.

This now also answers the question so often asked: Why is it that
obviously good people must sometimes suffer such bitter
adversity in their earth-lives as to make it appear unjust? These
are reciprocal effects, which must strike them!

Now you know the answer to this question; for your existing
physical body plays no part in it. Your body is not you personally,
it is not your entire "ego", but an instrument which you have
chosen or which you were obliged to take according to the
existing Laws of the spiritual life, which you may also call Cosmic
Laws if that makes them easier to understand. The particular
earth-life is but a short span of your real existence.

A crushing thought if there were no escape, no protecting power

to counteract it. On awakening to the spiritual many a person
would then have to despair, and wish rather to go on sleeping in
the same old way. For he has no idea what awaits him, what will
still strike him in the shape of reaction from former times! Or as
people say: "What he has to make good."

But take comfort! In the wise provision of the great Creation, as

you awaken a path is also shown to you through that power of
good volition to which I have already called special attention, and
which mitigates or entirely pushes aside the dangers of the
karma that is taking effect.

This, too, the Father's Spirit has given into your hands. The power
of good volition forms a circle around you capable of

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disintegrating the evil pressing upon you, or at least of greatly
modifying it, exactly as the atmosphere also protects the earth.

But the power of good volition, this strong protection, is fostered

and nourished by the power of silence.

Therefore I once more urgently exhort you, seekers:

"Keep the hearth of your thoughts pure and then, above all,
exercise the great power of silence if you wish to ascend."

The Father has already endowed you with the strength for
everything! You have only to use it!

7. ASCENT

YOU WHO ARE STRIVING for recognition, do not entangle

yourselves in a web, but become seeing!

Through an Eternal Law you are burdened with an irrevocable

obligation to make atonement, which you can never cast upon
others. What you burden yourselves with through your thoughts,
words or deeds can be redeemed by no one but yourselves!
Consider, were it otherwise Divine Justice would be but an empty
sound, in which case everything else would also crumble into
ruins.

Therefore free yourselves! Do not delay a single hour in setting a

limit to this enforced atonement! The honest volition for what is
good, for something better, reinforced by a truly heartfelt prayer,
will bring redemption!

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Without the honest, steadfast volition for good there can never
be atonement. Evil will then perpetually find ever fresh
nourishment to keep it alive, and thus require ever new
atonement, unceasingly, so that through constant renewal it only
appears to you as a single vice or affliction! Whereas it is a whole
chain without end, continually binding anew even before the old
could be severed.

Then there will never be redemption because of the demand for

constant atonement. It is like a chain that keeps you fettered to
the ground; and there is very great danger of being dragged still
further down. Therefore, you who are still in this world or already
in what you regard as the beyond, pull yourselves together at last
and concentrate your volition on what is good! With steadfast
good volition the end of all atonements must come, since he who
wills what is good and acts accordingly will incur no fresh debts
demanding further atonement. This will then bring deliverance,
redemption, which alone permit ascent to the Light. Listen to the
warning! There is no other way for you! For no one!

But thereby everyone also receives the certainty that it can never
be too late. For the individual deed, that you will have to redeem
and settle, certainly; yet in the moment when you earnestly begin
to strive for the good you mark the end of your atonement. Rest
assured that this end must come one day, and your ascent will
therewith begin! You can then joyfully start working off all your
karmaic burden. Whatever you then still encounter is for your
own good and brings you nearer to the hour of redemption, of
liberation.

Do you now understand the value of my counsel to start exerting

yourselves with all your strength for what is good, and to keep
your thoughts pure? Not giving up, but pursuing this course with
all your longing, all your energy? It will uplift you! It will change
you and your environment!

Bear in mind that every life on earth is a short time of schooling,

and that you yourselves do not cease to exist when you lay aside

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your physical body. You will continually live or continually die!
Continually enjoy bliss or continually suffer!

Whoever imagines that with earthly burial everything is also

ended and balanced for him, may turn and go his own way; for he
is only trying to delude himself thereby. Horrified, he will come
face to face with the Truth and … will have to begin his path of
suffering! His true self, deprived of the protection of his body,
whose density surrounded him like a wall, will then be attracted,
enveloped and held fast by what is homogeneous.

It will be more difficult for him, and for a long time impossible, to
arouse the earnest volition for what is better, which could
liberate and help him to ascend, because he is entirely subject to
the influence of the homogeneous surroundings, which does not
carry the kind of light-thought that might awaken and support
him. He must suffer doubly under everything he has created for
himself.

For this reason ascent is much harder than when he was in the
flesh, where good and evil dwell side by side, which only the
protection of the physical body makes possible because ... this
earth-life is a school in which every "ego" is given the opportunity
of further development according to its free will.

Therefore rouse yourselves at last! The fruit of every thought will

return to you, here or there, and you have to taste of it! No one
can escape this fact!

Of what use is it to try and bury your head timidly in the sand like
an ostrich, to evade this reality? Face the facts boldly! You
thereby make it easy for yourselves; for here progress is quicker.

Make a start! But realize that all old debts must be settled. Do
not expect blessings to rain down upon you immediately, as many
fools do. Perhaps some of you still have a long chain to expiate.

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But he who despairs on that account only harms himself, because
it cannot be spared and remitted him. Through hesitation he only
makes everything more difficult for himself, perhaps for a long
time impossible.

This should spur him on not to delay another hour; for he only
begins to live when he takes the first step! Happy is he who
plucks up the courage to do so, for link by link he will be
released. He can rush ahead with giant strides, jubilantly and
gratefully overcoming also the last obstacles; for he becomes
free!

The stones that his previous wrong-doing had heaped up before

him like a wall, inevitably barring his advance, will indeed not be
cleared away, but on the contrary will be carefully laid out before
him so that he may recognize and surmount them, because he
must bring about the balance for all his errors. However, filled
with astonishment and admiration, he will soon see the love that
surrounds him as soon as he only evidences his goodwill.

With tender forbearance the way will be made as easy for him as
a child's first steps, aided by its mother. Should there be things in
his former life that were a silent source of apprehension to him,
and which he would rather let sleep forever … quite unexpectedly
he will be placed directly before them! He must decide, must act.
In a striking way he is urged to do so through the enchainments.
If he then ventures to take the first step, trusting in the victory of
the good volition, the fateful knot is severed, he passes through
and is freed from it.

But hardly is this debt settled than already the next one in some
form or other presents itself to him, requesting as it were also to
be settled.

Thus one by one the fetters that restricted and were bound to
weigh him down are burst. He feels so light! And the feeling of
lightness which some of you have surely experienced at one time

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or another is no illusion, but the effect of reality. The spirit thus
freed from pressure becomes light and, in accordance with the
Law of Spiritual Gravity, leaps upwards, to that region to which in
accordance with its lightness it now belongs.

And so it must rise steadily upwards towards the longed-for Light.

An evil volition presses the spirit down and makes it heavy,
whereas a good volition uplifts it.

For this, too, Jesus has already shown you the simple way leading
unerringly to the goal; for deep truth lies in the simple words:
"Love thy neighbor as thyself!"

With these words He gave the key to freedom and ascent!

Because it is an irrefutable fact: What you do for your neighbor
you do in reality only for yourselves! Solely for yourselves, since
according to the Eternal Laws everything returns to you without
fail, good or evil, either already here or there. It will surely come!
Thus you are shown the simplest of ways in which this step to the
good volition is to be understood.

You should give to your neighbor with your being, your nature!
Not necessarily with money and goods. For then those without
means would be excluded from the possibility of giving. And in
this being, in this "giving yourself" in the relation with your
neighbor, in the consideration and respect you voluntarily offer
him, lies the "love" of which Jesus speaks; lies also the help you
give to your neighbor, because it enables him to change himself
or ascend further, and because he gains strength from it.

The returning radiations of this, however, will quickly uplift you in

their reciprocal action. You will receive continually new strength
through them. With a soaring flight you will then be able to strive
towards the Light ...

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Poor fools are they who can still ask: "What do I gain by giving up
so many old habits and changing myself?"

Is it a question of a business deal? And were they only to gain as

human beings, to become ennobled as such, that alone would be
reward enough. But there is infinitely more to it! I repeat: The
moment a man begins to exert his good volition he also marks the
end of his obligation to make atonement, which he must fulfill
and can never escape. In this respect no one else can take his
place.

Thus with this resolution the end of the enforced atonement is in

sight. Of such great value is this that all the treasures of this
world cannot outweigh it. He thus struggles free from the chains
that fetter him, which he is constantly forging for himself.
Therefore rouse yourselves from your enervating sleep. Let the
awakening come at last!

Away with the intoxication that brings the paralyzing delusion

that redemption through the Savior has become a letter of safe
conduct, enabling you to spend your whole life in careless
selfishness, provided that in the end you embrace the faith, turn
back, and depart this earth believing in the Savior and His Work!
Fools to expect such miserable, defective piecework from the
Godhead! That indeed would mean cultivating evil! Remember
this, and free yourselves!

8. CULT

CULT SHOULD BE the endeavour which has taken on form, to

make in some way acceptable to the earthly senses something
that is beyond earthly comprehension.

It should be the endeavor which has taken on form, but

unfortunately this is not yet so; for otherwise many things would
have to have quite different forms if they had emerged from the
endeavor itself. The right way for this requires the breaking forth

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of the outward forms from the inmost being. But all we see today
is an intellectual upbuilding, into which the intuitive perceptions
are only afterwards to be pressed. Thus the opposite way is
taken, which naturally might just as well be called the reverse or
wrong way, that can never really be inwardly alive.

As a result many a thing appears clumsy or obtrusive, which in

another form would come much nearer to the real volition, and
only then could have a convincing effect.

Much that is well-intentioned must repel rather than convince,

because the right form for it has not yet been found, which the
intellect can never give for something that is beyond earthly
comprehension!

So is it also in the churches. The intellectual upbuilding here,

which is directed towards earthly influence, is only too evident,
and much that is good fails to impress because it has an
unnatural effect.

On the other hand only that which does not conform to the Laws
of Creation can have an unnatural effect. Just such things,
however, are very much in evidence in the present-day cults,
where simply everything that is opposed to the natural Laws of
Creation is shrouded in a mysterious darkness.

However, just by unconsciously never speaking of a mysterious

light in such matters, but always only of a mysterious darkness,
men strike the right note; for the Light knows no veiling,
therefore also no mysticism either, which should have no place in
the Creation that arose out of the perfect Will of God, and works
automatically in accordance with an unchangeable rhythm.
Nothing is more clear in its weaving than just Creation, which is
the Work of God!

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Therein lies the secret of success and continuity, or of collapse.
Where something is built on these living Laws of Creation, there
they help, bring success and also continuity. But where these
Laws are not observed, either through ignorance or self will,
sooner or later collapse must inevitably follow; for nothing that
does not stand on a firm and solid foundation can endure
permanently.

That is why so much of man’s work is transient when it need not

be so. This includes many kinds of cults, which have to undergo
continual changes to prevent them from complete collapse.

In the simplest and clearest manner, the Son of God gave to

earthmen in His Word the right path on which to lead their lives
on earth in accordance with this weaving of Creation; so that
through the Laws of God that operate in the weaving of Creation
they might be helped, sustained and uplifted to Luminous
Heights, and so also attain to peace and joy on earth.

Unfortunately, however, the churches have not followed the way

to the redemption and upliftment of mankind, quite clearly
explained and given to them by the Son of God Himself. Instead
they have added to His teaching many of their own ideas as well,
thereby naturally creating confusion, which was bound to cause
dissensions because it was not in accordance with the Laws of
Creation, and therefore, strange as it may sound, is also opposed
to the clear teaching of the Son of God, although they call
themselves Christians after Him.

So is it, for example, with the mariolatry of the papal Christians.

Did Jesus, Who taught men everything, how they should think and
act, yes even speak and pray, in order to do what is right and
what lies in the Will of God, ever say even one single word of the
kind? No, He did not! And this is a proof that He did not wish it
either, that it was not to be!

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There are even statements by Him which prove the opposite of
what mariolatry implies.

And surely Christians would wish through honest living to follow

only Christ, otherwise they would not be Christians.

If still more has now been added by men, and the papal churches
act otherwise than as Christ taught, it is proof that this church
has the effrontery to set itself above the Son of God; for it tries to
improve on His Words by instituting practices which the Son of
God did not want, because otherwise He would undoubtedly also
have taught them, judging by all He gave to men.

Certainly, there is a Queen of Heaven, Who according to earthly

conceptions could also be called the Primordial Mother, and Who
yet possesses the purest virginity. She however has dwelt from
all eternity in the Highest Heights, and has never been incarnated
in an earthly body!

And it is She, Her radiated picture, but not in reality Herself, that
can occasionally be “seen” or “intuitively perceived” by persons
who have been profoundly moved. Through Her, help often comes
at such an accelerated speed that people call it a miracle.

However, it is never possible, even for the most matured human

spirit, to have an actual vision of this Primordial Queen Herself,
because in accordance with the inflexible Laws of Creation each
species can only always see the same species. Thus the physical
eye can only see earthly things, the ethereal eye only ethereal
things, the spiritual eye only spiritual things, and so on.

And since the human spirit can only see the spiritual, from which
it has emerged, it is unable actually to behold the Primordial
Queen, Who is of a much higher species. But should anyone ever
be so blessed, it would only be possible to see Her spiritually
radiated picture. This, however, appears so lifelike, and can be so

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strong even in its radiation, that it works miracles wherever it
finds the soil prepared for it, through unshakable faith or the
deep emotions arising out of suffering or joy.

This lies in the working of Creation, which issues from and is

sustained by the perfect Will of God. In this working also lies all
help for men from the beginning and unto all eternity, providing
they themselves do not turn away from it in their pretentious
learnedness.

God manifests in Creation; for it is His perfect Work.

And it is just on account of this perfection that the earthly birth of

the Son of God had also to be preceded by a physical procreation.
Whoever asserts the contrary throws doubt on the perfection of
the Works of God, and thus also on the perfection of God Himself,
out of Whose Will Creation issued.

An immaculate conception is a conception in purest love, as

opposed to a conception in sinful lust! But no earthly birth
without procreation.

If an earthly conception, that is, a physical procreation as such

could not be immaculate, then every motherhood would have to
be regarded as unclean!

Through Creation God also speaks, and clearly shows His Will.

To recognize this Will is the duty of man. And the Son of God in
His Holy Word showed the right way to do so, because men had
made no effort towards it, and had thus entangled themselves
more and more in the self-acting Laws of Creation.

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This inflexible weaving of Creation was bound to destroy men in
time through their ignorance and misapplication; whereas it will
raise mankind on high if they live aright according to the Will of
God.

Reward and punishment for man lie in the weaving of Creation,

which is perpetually and unswervingly guided by the Will of God
Itself. In it also lies rejection or redemption! It is relentless and
just, always impartial, never arbitrary.

In it lies the indescribable Greatness of God, His Love and Justice.

That is, in His Work, which

He made over to man and to many other beings, as a dwelling-

place and a home.

The time has now come for men to acquire the knowledge of it, so
that with complete conviction they will come to the recognition of
God’s activity, which is expressed in His Work!

Then every earthman will stand quite unshakable here on earth,

filled with the most joyful eagerness to work, most gratefully
looking up to God, because recognition links him for all time
through the knowledge!

In order to convey to mankind such knowledge, which gives them

a clear and intelligible conviction of the working of God in His
Justice and Love, I have written the work “In the Light of Truth”,
which leaves no gap, contains the answer to every question, and
clearly shows to mankind how wonderful are the ways in Creation
that are upheld by many servants of His Will.

But God alone is Holy!

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9.RIGIDITY

EVERYTHING IN CREATION is movement. Brought into being

strictly according to Law by the pressure of the Light, movement
produces heat through which forms are able to unite. Thus
without Light there could be no movement, and therefore man
can also imagine that in the proximity of the Light the movement
must even be far more rapid and strong than at a vast distance
from It. In fact the greater the distance from the Light, the slower
and more sluggish becomes the movement. In time it may even
lead to the rigidity of all the forms which had already taken shape
when at first the movement was still more animated. The
expression “Light” in this connection does not, of course, refer to
the light of some planet, but to the Primordial Light, which is Life
itself, therefore God!

Following this picture of a great survey of what takes place in

Creation, I wish for once today to direct attention to the earth,
which is now revolving at a far greater distance from the
Primordial Light than it did many millions of years ago, because it
has been increasingly exposed to the weight of the Darkness
through men, who in their ridiculous and stubborn conceit, due to
a one-sided over-development of the intellect, drew away from
God. The intellect is and will always continue to be directed only
downwards towards coarse matter, because that is the purpose
for which it was provided; on the assumption, however, that it
should be able to receive absolutely undimmed all radiations and
impressions emanating from above, out of the Luminous Heights.

All the work of the intellect for outward activity in coarsest

matter, that is, in material substance, falls to the frontal brain.
On the other hand, the back brain has the task of taking in from
above impressions which are lighter and more luminous than
coarse matter, and passing them on for further use.

This harmonious cooperation of the two brains, given to men for

their benefit, was disturbed by man’s one-sided surrender to
purely earthly, that is, to gross material activities. In the course
of time it was completely stifled and tied off, as it were, because
owing to its excessive activity the frontal brain was bound

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gradually to over-develop in proportion to the neglected back
brain, which consequently became still less capable of receiving
and also weakened. Thus over thousands of years the hereditary
evil came into being through physical reproduction; for even
newly-born children brought with them a frontal brain
proportionately far more developed than the back brain. This held
the danger of the awakening of the hereditary sin, through which
man is compelled from the outset to direct his thoughts solely
towards earthly things, and thus away from God.

All this will be easily comprehensible to every man of sincere

goodwill; moreover, I have given many and detailed explanations
of it in my Message.

All the evil on earth came into being because man, owing to his
spiritual origin, could exert a pressure with his volition upon
everything else existing on earth; whereas just because of this
spiritual origin he could and also should have had an uplifting
influence; for that was and is his real task in Subsequent
Creation, in which all that is spiritual naturally takes the lead. It
can lead upwards, which would be the natural thing, but it can
also lead downwards if the volition of the spiritual is mainly
striving only after earthly things, as is the case with earthmen.

In the knowledge of Creation which I have given in my Message,

and in the related explanation of all the Laws automatically
working in Creation, which may also be called the Laws of Nature,
the whole weaving of Creation is displayed without a gap; it
allows every process to be clearly recognized, and therewith the
purpose of man’s whole life. With unassailable logic it also
unfolds his “whence” and his “whither”, thus giving an answer to
every question, provided man seriously seeks for it.

Even the most malevolent opponents must halt here, because

their cunning is insufficient to be able to invade and destroy the
perfect completeness of what has been said, and thus also rob
man of this help. – –

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I have said that the movement in Creation must become
progressively slower the further away anything is from the
Primordial Light, the starting point of the pressure which
subsequently brings about movement.

So is it with the earth at the present time. Through the guilt of

earthmen its orbits have become increasingly distant. As a result
the movements are becoming slower, ever more sluggish, and
thereby much has already approached the stage where rigidity
sets in.

Rigidity also has very many stages; in its beginnings it is not so

easy to recognize. Even while it is progressing, recognition
remains impossible unless a flash of light for once stimulates the
keenest observation.

This recognition is difficult simply because everything living

within the sphere of the steadily slackening movements is also
drawn uniformly into the increasing denseness that leads to
rigidity. This applies not only to the body of a human being, but
to everything, including his thinking. It affects even the most
minute things. Imperceptibly every concept also changes and
becomes distorted, even those concerning the actual meaning of
the language.

Since he himself is drawn along in the same sluggish vibration,

man cannot notice this in his neighbor, unless from out of his
inner being he seeks once more to fight his way upwards
spiritually with the strongest volition and with tenacity, so as
again to come a little nearer to the Light. His spirit will then
gradually become more mobile, thus lighter and more luminous,
and will influence his earthly recognition.

Terrified and aghast with horror, however, he will then see, or at

least intuitively perceive, how far the distortions of all concepts
have already progressed in rigidity on this earth. The far-seeing
view of how things really are is lacking, because everything has

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been pressed into narrow and obscure limits which can no longer
be penetrated, and must in time completely stifle everything they
embrace.

I have already often pointed out distorted concepts; but now,

through the steady withdrawal from the Light, these are slowly
proceeding on the downward path to rigidity.

It is unnecessary to give individual examples, for either no

attention whatever would be paid to such explanations, or they
would be described as tiresome quibbling, because man is much
too rigid or too indolent to want to give them serious reflection.

I have also already spoken sufficiently of the power of the word,

of the mystery that even the human word can, for a time, work
constructively or destructively on the weaving of Creation within
the sphere of the earth. This is because through the sound, tone
and composition of a word, creative forces are set in motion
which do not work according to the intention of the speaker, but
according to the sense of the word in its meaning.

The meaning, however, was originally given through the forces

which the word sets in motion, and which are therefore exactly
adjusted to the true meaning, or vice versa, but not to the
volition of the speaker. Meaning and word arose out of the
corresponding movement of forces, therefore they are
inseparably one!

Again, man’s thinking sets in motion other currents of force which

correspond to the essence of his thinking. Man should therefore
endeavor to choose the right words to express his thinking, thus
in so doing to perceive intuitively in a more accurate and clear
manner.

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Suppose a man is asked about something of which he has heard,
and part of which he may even have seen. When questioned he
would maintain without hesitation that he knows it!

In the opinion of many superficial people this answer would be

correct, and yet in truth it is wrong and objectionable; for “to
know” means to be able to give exact information about
everything, every detail from beginning to end, without any
omission and from one’s own experience. Only then can a man
say that he knows it.

Great responsibility attaches to the expression, and to the

concept of “knowledge” associated with it!

I have also already pointed out the great difference between

“knowledge” and what has been “learned”. Learnedness is by no
means real knowledge, which can only be absolutely personal;
whereas what has been learned remains the acceptance of
something outside the personal.

To hear something, and perhaps even to see part of it, is far from
being the knowledge itself! A man should not assert: I know it,
but the most he could say is: I have heard of it or seen something
of it. If he wishes to act correctly, however, truth would oblige
him to say: I do not know it!

This would be far more correct in every way than to report about
something which he himself has nothing to do with, and which
cannot therefore be a real knowledge either; whereas through
incomplete reports he would only cast suspicion on or incriminate
other people, perhaps even plunge them unnecessarily into
misfortune, without knowing the actual ins and outs. Therefore
carefully weigh with your intuitive perception every word you
intend to use.

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He who thinks more deeply, who will not be satisfied with already
rigid concepts as a personal excuse for loquacious pomposity and
malevolence, will easily understand these explanations, and in
quiet examination will learn to look further in everything he says.

A multitude of such restricted concepts, with their fatal

consequences have already become habitual among earthmen.
They are greedily snatched up and promoted by slaves of the
intellect, who are the most willing adherents of the Luciferian
influences of deepest Darkness.

Learn to observe attentively and to use properly the currents in

this Creation, which bear the Will of God, and thus God’s Justice
in pure form. Then you will again find the true humanity which
has been wrested from you.

How much suffering would thereby be avoided, and how many ill-
disposed persons among mankind would also be deprived of the
opportunity to commit their deeds.

This evil is also responsible for the description of the earthlife of

the Son of God Jesus not corresponding at all points with the
facts, as a result of which a totally false picture has gradually
arisen in the minds of men up till now. The words given by Him
were also distorted, as has happened with every teaching that
was made into a religion and which was intended to bring
upliftment and perfection of spirit to mankind.

And therein also lies the great confusion among all men, who
increasingly fail really to understand one another, thus allowing
discord, distrust, slander, envy and hatred to grow and flourish.

All these are unmistakable signs of advancing rigidity on earth!

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Arouse your spirit, and begin to think and speak in a far-seeing
and comprehensive way! This naturally also demands that you
not only work with the intellect, which belongs to coarsest
matter, but also make it possible once more for your spirit to
guide your intellect, which should serve the spirit as ordained by
your Creator, Who from the very beginning has permitted you to
come undistorted into existence here on earth.

So much is already in the first stage of rigidity. Soon your entire

thinking may already be gripped by it and must flow through
rigid, iron channels, bringing you nothing but uneasiness,
suffering upon suffering, and finally forcibly degrading you from a
human being to the state of an empty machine serving only the
Darkness, far away from all Light.

10. CHILDLIKENESS

THE WORD “childlike” is an expression which is in most cases

wrongly applied by human beings in their careless and
thoughtless manner of speaking.

Hampered by indolence of the spirit, this expression is not

perceived intuitively enough to be properly grasped. But he who
has not grasped it in its entirety will never be able to use it aright
either.

And yet it is just childlikeness that offers mankind a strong bridge

for ascent to Luminous Heights, for giving every human spirit the
possibility to mature, and for reaching perfection in order to live
eternally in this Creation, which is the House of God the Father
that He places at the disposal of men, provided . . . they remain
guests therein who are agreeable to Him. Guests who do not
cause damage in the rooms so graciously made over to them
solely for their use, with a table at all times richly spread.

But how far removed is man now from the childlikeness he so

needs!

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Yet without it he can achieve nothing for his spirit. The spirit
must possess childlikeness; for it is and remains a child of
Creation, even when it has gained full maturity.

A child of Creation! In this lies the deep meaning; for the spirit
must develop into a child of God. Whether it will ever achieve this
depends entirely on the degree of recognition it is willing to
acquire on its wanderings through all the Spheres of Matter.

But with this willingness the deed must also manifest. In the
Spiritual Planes will is at the same time also deed. There will and
deed are always one. However, this is only so in the Spiritual
Planes, not in the Worlds of Matter. The more dense and heavy a
plane of the World of Matter is, the further removed is the deed
from the will.

The fact that density causes obstruction is demonstrated even by

sound, which as it travels has to struggle through material
substance, which obstructs it according to the nature of the
density. This can be clearly observed even over shorter distances.

When a man chops wood or drives nails into the timbers of a

building, the impact of his tool can be clearly seen, yet the sound
of it only arrives a few seconds later. This is so noticeable that
everybody must have experienced it at one time or another.

The process is similar, but still more ponderous, between the will
and the deed of man on earth. The will flares up in the spirit, and
is immediately deed in the spirit. But to make the will visible in
the Gross Material World, the spirit also needs the physical body.
Only on impulse does a physical body already act within a few
seconds of the flaring up of the will. Thereby the more tedious
work of the frontal brain is eliminated, which otherwise has to
mediate the way of the will right up to the impression on the
activity of the body.

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The normal way takes rather longer. Sometimes the result is only
a feeble action, or none at all; because on its extended way the
volition is weakened, or altogether suppressed, by the pondering
intellect.

In this connection, although not strictly relevant here, I would like

to make a reference to the effects of Creation’s Law of the
Attraction of Homogeneous Species, which are overlooked and
yet so clearly visible also in human activity:

Human-earthly laws have been worked out by the earthly

intellect, and are also carried into effect by it. For this reason
schemes pondered with the intellect, thus premeditated actions,
are as such more severely punished and judged as more evil than
actions committed on the impulse of the moment, thus
unpremeditated. In most cases these latter are treated more
leniently.

In reality, there is a connection which is imperceptible to men, in

the homogeneity of intellectual activity under the compulsion of
the Law of Creation, for all those who unconditionally submit to
the intellect. To them this is quite understandable.

Without knowing about it, the greater part of the atonement for
an impulsive action is therewith assigned to the Spiritual Plane.
Legislators and judges have no idea of this, because they proceed
from quite different, purely intellectual principles. With deeper
reflection, however, and knowledge of the active Laws of
Creation, all this appears in an entirely different light.

Nevertheless, in other earthly sentences and judgements, the

Living Laws of God in Creation work quite independently on their
own, uninfluenced by earthly-human laws and conceptions. It will
surely not occur to any serious-minded person to think that real
guilt, not merely what men first designate as guilt, could also be

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expiated at the same time before the Laws of God through a paid
penalty dictated by the earthly intellect!

Already for thousands of years these have been, as it were, two

separate worlds, separated by men’s actions and thoughts,
although they should only be one world in which God’s Laws
alone operate.

Through such earthly punishment, atonement can only ensue if

the laws and the punishments are completely in accord with
God’s Laws in Creation.

Now there are two kinds of unpremeditated actions. Firstly, those

already described, which should really be called impulse; and
then the kind that flashes up in the frontal brain, thus not in the
spirit, and belongs to the intellectual category. The latter are
unpremeditated, but should not receive the same mitigation as
impulse-actions.

However, to find out exactly the just difference between the two
will only become possible to those human beings who know all
the Laws of God in Creation and are familiar with their effects.
This must be reserved for a time to come, when there will also be
no more arbitrary actions among men, because they will have a
spiritual maturity that lets them swing only in the Laws of God in
all their deeds and thoughts.

This digression is merely to induce reflection, it did not belong to

the real purpose of the lecture.

Take note, then, that in the Spiritual Planes will and deed are
one, but in the Material Planes they are separated through the
nature of the substance. That is why Jesus once said to men: “The
spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak!” The flesh, which refers
here to the gross material substance of the body, does not

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convert into deed everything that has already been will and deed
in the spirit.

But also on earth the spirit in its gross material garment could
compel its volition always to become a gross material deed, if it
were not too lazy to do so. It cannot hold the body responsible for
this indolence; for the body was given to each spirit only as an
instrument, which it must learn to control in order to use it
properly. -

Thus the spirit is a child of Creation. And it must be childlike

therein if it wishes to fulfill the purpose for which it stands in
Creation. The arrogance of the intellect caused the spirit to
withdraw from childlikeness, because the intellect could not
“understand” what it really is. As a result, however, the spirit lost
its foothold in Creation, which in order to remain healthy itself
must now expel it as a stranger, an intruder and a dangerous
creature.

And so it will come to pass that through their wrong thoughts and
actions men will dig their own graves. -

How strange it is that every man who wishes to experience the

Christmas Festival in the true sense must first try to recall his
childhood!

This can surely be regarded as a clear enough sign of the fact

that as an adult he is quite incapable of experiencing the
Christmas Festival with his intuitive perception. It is definite
proof that he has lost something he possessed as a child! Why
does this not make men reflect!

Again it is spiritual indolence that prevents them from serious

reflection on such matters. “That is for children”, they think,
“and grown-ups have simply no time for it! They have to think
about more serious matters.”

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More serious matters! By these more serious matters they mean
only the pursuit of earthly ends, thus the work of the intellect!
The intellect quickly represses memories, so as not to lose its
supremacy if the intuitive perception is for once yielded to!

The greatest things could be recognized in all these apparently so

trivial facts, if only the intellect would allow time for it. But it has
the upper hand, and fights for it with all craftiness and cunning.
That is to say, it is not the intellect that fights, but actually that
which uses it as a tool and hides behind it: the Darkness!

The Darkness does not want the Light to be found in memories.

And how the spirit longs to find the Light, to draw new strength
from It, can be recognized by the fact that with the memories of
childhood Christmas Festivals there also awakens an undefined,
almost painful longing, able to move many people for a brief
moment to tenderness.

If such tenderness were used at once and with all one’s strength,
it could become the best soil for the awakening! But
unfortunately this only sends adults into a reverie, whereby the
rising power is wasted and lost. And in the reverie the
opportunity also slips by without the possibility of bringing
benefit, or of having been used.

Even though many a person sheds a few tears, he feels ashamed

and tries to hide them, pulling himself together with a physical
jerk that so often betrays unconscious defiance.

How much could people learn from all this. It is no coincidence

that a tender sadness also weaves itself into the memories of
childhood days. It is the subconscious sensing that something has
been lost, leaving an emptiness, the inability still to perceive
intuitively like a child.

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But you have surely often noticed the wonderful and refreshing
influence of the mere quiet presence of any person from whose
eyes a childlike radiance sometimes glows.

The adult must not forget that childlike is not childish. But you do
not know whence the childlike has such an effect, what it really
is! And why Jesus said: “Become as little children!”

To fathom what childlike is, you must first be clear that the
childlike is by no means bound up with the child itself. No doubt
you yourselves know children who lack the true beautiful
childlikeness! Thus there are children without childlikeness! A
malicious child will never have a childlike effect, nor an unruly
one who is really ill-bred!

This clearly shows that childlikeness and the child are two things
independent in themselves.

That which is called childlike on earth is a branch of the effect

from out of Purity! Purity in its higher, not merely earthly-human
sense. The human being who lives in the ray of Divine Purity, who
makes room for the ray of Purity within himself, has thereby also
acquired childlikeness, whether it be still in childhood or already
as an adult.

Childlikeness is the result of inner purity, or the sign that such a

human being has submitted to Purity and serves It. All these are
merely different modes of expression, but in reality they always
amount to the same thing.

Thus only a child who is pure within itself, and an adult who
cultivates purity within himself, can have a childlike effect. That
is why he has a refreshing and vitalizing effect, and also inspires
confidence!

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And wherever there is true purity, genuine love can also enter,
for God’s Love works in the ray of Purity. The ray of Purity is the
path It treads. It could not possibly walk on any other.

The ray of Divine Love can never find its way to him who has not
absorbed the ray of Purity!

Man, however, has deprived himself of childlikeness by turning

away from the Light through his one-sided intellectual thinking,
to which he has sacrificed everything that might have uplifted
him. Thus he has firmly chained himself with a thousand fetters
to this earth, that is, to the World of Gross Matter, which will hold
him in its grip until he liberates himself from it. This, however,
cannot come to him through earthly death, but only through
spiritual awakening.

11. CHASTITY

CHASTITY IS A CONCEPT that has been so unbelievably narrowed-

down by earthmen that absolutely nothing of its real meaning is
left. It has even been dragged on to a wrong course; and as the
natural and inevitable consequence this distortion has brought
needless oppression, and even very often untold suffering, upon
many people.

Ask where you will what chastity is, and everywhere in reply you
will find explained in one way or another the concept of physical
virginity; in any case, this is the highest that the perception of
earthmen can reach.

This proves completely the inferior way of thinking of those who

subordinate themselves to the intellect, which has itself set the
limits to everything earthly, because it cannot reach any further
with its faculties that are born of the earthly.

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How easy it would then be for man to be regarded as chaste and
so create a reputation, while sunning himself in vain self-
glorification. But this does not bring him one step upwards on the
road to the Luminous Gardens, which as Paradise are the blissful
and final goal of a human spirit.

It is of no avail to earthman if he keeps his physical body chaste

and defiles his spirit, which can then never cross the thresholds
that lead upwards from one step to the next.

Chastity is different from men’s idea of it, far more

comprehensive and greater. It does not demand that man should
go against nature; for this would be an offense against the Laws
vibrating in God’s Creation, and could only have harmful results.

Chastity is the earthly concept of Purity, which is Divine. For

every human spirit it is the endeavor to manifest gross-materially
what is sensed as a reflection of something that really exists in
the Divine Sphere. Purity is Divine, chastity its representation by
the human spirit; thus a spiritual image, which can and should
become evident in earthly conduct.

This should suffice as a fundamental Law for every matured

human spirit in order to realize chastity. But on earth, urged on
by many a selfish desire, man is inclined to imagine he possesses
something which he actually does not, solely for the purpose of
having his wishes fulfilled.

Selfishness takes the lead, and dulls the truly pure volition! Man
will never admit this to himself, but simply allows himself to drift
along. And when he can no longer persuade himself otherwise, he
describes this often very obvious attempt to satisfy his
questionable selfish desires as a decree of fate to which one must
submit.

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Therefore to guide and support him he needs still other hints
which will let him experience and recognize what in truth chastity
is as it lies in the Will of God, Who does not want any separation
from nature on earth.

In the Divine Sphere Purity is closely united with Love! Hence if

he is to derive blessing from them, man must not try to separate
the two on earth either.

But on earth love is also no more than an evil caricature of what it

really is. Thus unless it first undergoes a change it cannot unite
with the true concept of purity.

To all those who strive to attain chastity, I herewith give a hint

which provides the support that man needs on earth in order to
live in such a way as rests in the Law of Creation, and as is
therefore also pleasing to God:

“He who in his actions always remembers not to harm his fellow-
man who reposes trust in him, not to do anything that may later
oppress him, will always act in such a way as to remain spiritually
unburdened, and may therefore be called truly chaste!”

These simple words, rightly understood, can fully protect and

guide man through the entire Creation, and lead him upwards
into the Luminous Gardens, his true home. These words are the
key to all rightful activity on earth; for genuine chastity lies in
them.

The Son of God Jesus expressed precisely the same in the words:

“Love thy neighbour as thyself!”

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But you must beware of falling back into the old human faults,
and of once more construing and partly distorting the meaning of
the words so as to make them serve your own purpose, soothe
you in your wrong-doing, and lull your fellow-men into
carelessness or even help to mislead them.

Absorb such words as they are truly meant to be absorbed, not as

appears convenient to you and suits your stubborn volition. Then
for you they will be like the keenest sword in your hand, with
which you can slay all Darkness if you but will. Let them become
alive within you in the right way so that, filled with gratitude, you
may grasp life on earth as jubilant victors!

12. THE FIRST STEP

LET MY WORD become alive within you; for this alone can bring
you that benefit which you need, enabling your spirit to ascend to
the Luminous Heights of the Eternal Gardens of God.

It is of no avail to know of the Word! And if you could recite my

entire Message sentence by sentence from memory, in order to
teach yourselves and your fellow-men . . . it is of no avail unless
you act accordingly, think in the sense of my Word, and adjust
your whole earth-life to it as a matter of course, as something
which has become an integral part of your being, which cannot be
separated from you. Only then will you be able to draw from my
Message the eternal values it holds for you.

“By their works ye shall know them!” This saying of Christ is

primarily intended for all the readers of my Message! By their
works means by their activity, that is, by their thinking and deeds
in their daily life on earth! Your deeds also include your speech,
not only your actions; for speaking is action, the effect of which
you have hitherto underestimated. Even your thoughts are
included here.

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Men are in the habit of saying that thoughts are “free”. By this
they wish to imply that they cannot be held accountable on earth
for their thoughts, because these are on a level which is
inaccessible to human hands.

Therefore they often play with thoughts in the most careless way
or, better expressed, they play in thoughts. Unfortunately often a
very dangerous game, in the light-hearted illusion that they can
emerge from it unharmed.

But here they err; for thoughts too belong to the World of Gross
Matter, and must in all circumstances also be redeemed in it
before a spirit becomes capable of swinging itself freely upwards,
once it has severed the connection with its earthly body.

Therefore seek at all times to swing even with your thoughts in

the sense of my Message, in such a way that you desire only what
is noble, and do not lower yourselves because you imagine that
nobody can see or hear it.

Thoughts, words and the visible deed all belong to the Realm of
Gross Matter in this Creation!

Thoughts operate in the World of Fine Gross Matter, words in the

World of Medium Gross Matter, and visible actions take form in
the World of coarsest, that is, densest Gross Matter. These three
kinds of your activity are gross material!

But the forms of all three are closely connected with each other,
their effects are interwoven. What that implies for you, how
incisive and decisive its effect often is in the course of your
existence, you cannot estimate all at once.

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It means nothing else than that also a thought, automatically
working on according to its nature, can strengthen a
homogeneous type in the World of Medium Matter, thereby
producing more powerful forms; likewise then, deducing from
this, it again continues to work on within this intensification, and
arises in a visible active form in the coarsest World of Matter,
without you yourselves seeming to be directly concerned with it.

It comes as a shock to know this, when one realizes how

superficial and careless these earthmen are in their thinking.

Thus without knowing it you participate in many a deed

perpetrated by one or other of your fellow-men, simply because
he has received the intensification in the way I have just
explained to you. It became capable of driving him to the crudest
perpetration of something that had hitherto slumbered within
him, with which previously he had always merely toyed in his
thoughts.

Thus many a person on earth very often looks with disapproval

upon some action of one of his fellow-men, angrily repudiating
and condemning it, and yet he is partially responsible for it
before the Eternal Laws of God! In this someone who is a
complete stranger to him may be involved, and it may concern a
deed which he himself would never have committed in the Realm
of Coarsest Matter.

Think yourselves deeply into such happenings for once, and you
will then all the more understand why I call to you in my Message:
“Keep the hearth of your thoughts pure, by so doing you will
bring peace and be happy!”

But when you have become sufficiently strong in this respect

through your own purification, far fewer crimes than hitherto, in
which many have been unknowingly implicated, will be committed
on earth.

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The time and place of such deeds as you may become implicated
in are of no importance here. Even if they occurred at the
opposite end of the earth to where you live, in places where you
have never set foot, of whose existence you have no knowledge
whatever. Through your toying with thoughts intensifications will
strike wherever they discover homogeneous types, independent
of distances, nation and country.

Thus in the course of time thoughts of hate and envy may thrust
themselves upon individuals, groups or whole nations, wherever
they find homogeneity, impelling them to actions expressed in
forms entirely different from those that first arose through your
toying with thoughts.

The final result may then manifest according to the inner state of
the perpetrator at the time of the deed. Thus you may have
contributed to the perpetration of such horrible deeds as you
yourselves have never really contemplated, and yet you are
connected with them, and a part of the reaction must burden your
spirit, must hang on it like a weight when it severs itself from the
body.

But on the other hand you can also contribute even more
powerfully to the peace and happiness of humanity, and through
pure, joyful thinking can have a share in works that develop
through total strangers.

From this the blessing also naturally flows back to you, and you
do not realize why.

If you could but once see how the immutable Justice of God’s All-
Holy Will is always fulfilled in the self-acting Laws of this Creation
for every single thought you harbor, you would strive with all
your might to attain purity in your thinking!

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Only then will you have become such human beings as the
Creator in His Work will mercifully guide to the knowledge that
bestows eternal life upon them, allowing them to become helpers
in Creation worthy to receive the high blessings destined for the
human spirit; so that these may be joyfully and gratefully
transformed and passed on to those creatures who are only able
to absorb them through such a transformation by man, and who
today, through the decline of the human spirit, remain wantonly
cut off from them, after it had already been possible for them to
come into existence in times of a better and more purely swinging
humanity.

With this, however, you will have made only one sentence from
my Message glow with vitality for yourselves on earth!

For you it is the most difficult one, which will then make all the
rest much easier, whose fulfillment must already let miracle upon
miracle arise before you in earthly visible and tangible form. –

When you have conquered yourselves in this, you will be

confronted on your path with yet another danger resulting from
the distortion of human thinking: You will recognize in it a power
which you will wish to press all too readily into quite definite
forms, so that it may serve this or that special purpose made up
of selfish desires!

Already today I wish to warn you against this; for the danger can
engulf you, you would perish in it, even after you have set out on
the right path.

Beware of a desperate struggle to enforce this purity of thoughts;

for in so doing you would already press them into definite
channels, and your effort would become an illusion, would always
be only artificially enforced, and could never have the great
effect that it should have. Your efforts would bring harm rather
than benefit, because they lack the genuineness of the free

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intuition. Again it would be a product of your intellectual volition,
but never the work of your spirit! Against this I warn you.

Remember my Word of the Message which tells you that all true
greatness can lie only in simplicity, since true greatness is
simple! You may be better able to understand that simplicity
which I mean here, if for the time being you use instead the
human-earthly concept of being unassuming. This perhaps comes
nearer to your comprehension, and you will hit upon the true
meaning.

You cannot give the purity that I mean to your thoughts through
your thought-volition; but the pure volition, unassuming and
boundless, must well up within you from your intuitive
perception, not compressed into a word which can only give rise
to a limited concept. That must not be; but an all-embracing urge
for the good, able to envelop your thoughts as they arise and to
permeate them even before they take form, is the right thing
which you need.

It is not difficult, indeed much easier than the other attempts,

once you become unassuming, whereby intellectual conceit about
your own abilities and your own power cannot arise. Empty
yourselves of thoughts, and set free within you the urge for what
is noble and good. Then you will have that foundation for thinking
which comes from the volition of your spirit; and whatever arises
from that you can then safely leave to the work of your intellect
to carry out in the Realm of Densest Gross Matter. Nothing wrong
can ever develop.

Cast off all the torment caused by thoughts, and trust instead in
your spirit, which will surely find the right way if you yourselves
do not wall it up. Become free in spirit, which means nothing else
than let the spirit within you have its way! Then it simply cannot
do other than journey towards the height; for its very nature
draws it upwards with all certainty. Hitherto you have restrained
it so that it could no longer unfold, thereby you had restricted its
flight or bound its wings.

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The foundation for the upbuilding of a new humanity, which you
cannot and must not evade, rests in the one sentence: Keep the
hearth of your thoughts pure!

And it is with this that man must begin! That is his first task
which will make him what he must become. An example to all who
strive for Light and Truth, who wish to serve the Creator
gratefully through the nature of their whole being. He who fulfills
this needs no further directions. He is as he should be, and will
thus receive the full measure of help that awaits him in Creation
and leads him upwards without interruption.

13. THE WORLD

THE WORLD! When man uses this word he often utters it

thoughtlessly, without forming a picture of what this world he
speaks of is really like.

Many, however, who try to picture something definite visualize

countless celestial bodies of the most varied nature and size
arranged in solar systems, pursuing their courses in the Universe.
They know that ever new and more celestial bodies can be seen
as stronger and more far-reaching instruments are produced. The
average man is then satisfied with the word “infinity”, and
thereby the error of a wrong conception sets in with him.

The World is not infinite. It is the material Creation, that is, the
Work of the Creator. This Work, like every work, stands beside
the Creator, and as such is finite.

So-called advanced thinkers often pride themselves on having the

recognition that God rests in all Creation, in every flower, every
stone; that the driving forces of nature are God, thus everything
that is beyond investigation, what is sensed but cannot really be
grasped. An ever-active Primordial Energy, the Source of Power,
Itself eternally evolving anew, the Unsubstantiate Primordial

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Light. They consider themselves mightily advanced in the
consciousness of finding God everywhere, of encountering Him
everywhere, as an all-pervading driving Power, ever working
towards the one goal of further development to perfection.

But only in a certain sense is this true. What we encounter in all

Creation is only His Will and thus His Spirit, His Power. He Himself
stands far above Creation.

From its very inception the Material Creation was bound to the
unalterable Laws of evolution and dissolution; for what we call
the Laws of Nature are the Creative Will of God, which in its
activity is continually forming and dissolving worlds. This Creative
Will is uniform in all Creation, to which the Ethereal World and
the Gross Material World belong as one.

The absolute and immutable uniformity of the Primordial Laws,

thus of the Primordial Will, ordains that in the most minute
process of the gross material earth the course is always exactly
the same as it must be in every happening, thus also in the most
stupendous events of the entire Creation, and in the creative
process itself.

The strict form of the Primordial Will is plain and simple. Once it
is recognized we easily discover it in everything. The complexity
and incomprehensibility of many happenings lies solely in the
manifold interlacing of the detours and bypaths formed by the
varied volitions of men.

Thus the Work of God, the World, is as Creation subject to the

Divine Laws, which are constant in all things and perfect; it also
issued from them, and is therefore finite.

The artist, for example, also is in his work, merges with it, and
yet personally stands beside it. The work is limited and transient,
but not the talent of the artist on that account. The artist, that is,

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the creator of the work, can destroy his work, in which lies his
volition, without himself being affected by it. Nevertheless he will
still remain the artist.

We recognize and discern the artist in his work, and he becomes

familiar to us without our needing to see him personally. We have
his works, his volition lies in them and influences us, he confronts
us in them, and yet may himself be living his own life far away
from us.

The creative artist and his work faintly reflect the relation of the
Creation to the Creator.

It is only the cycle of Creation, in its continuous coming into

being, disintegration and reformation, that is eternal and without
end, thus infinite.

All the revelations and prophecies, too, are fulfilled within this
happening. Finally the “Last Judgement” for the earth will also be
fulfilled in it!

The Last, that is, the Final Judgement, comes one day for each
material celestial globe, but it does not take place simultaneously
in the whole of Creation.

It is a process necessary in that particular part of Creation which

reaches the point in its cycle where its disintegration must set in,
so that it can form itself anew on its further course.

This eternal cycle does not refer to the orbit of the earth and
other stars around their suns, but to the great and mightier cycle
which must in turn be followed by all the solar systems, while
they in themselves also carry out their own movements
separately.

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Again, by reason of the consistency of the Natural Laws, the point
at which disintegration of each celestial globe must begin is
precisely determined. A very definite place at which the process
of disintegration must develop, irrespective of the condition of
the celestial globe concerned and of its inhabitants.

The cycle drives every celestial globe irresistibly towards this

point, the hour of disintegration will be fulfilled without delay; as
with everything in Creation this actually denotes only a
transformation, the opportunity for a further development. Then
the hour of the “either – or” has come for every human being.
Either he is raised high towards the Light if he strives for the
spiritual, or he remains chained to the World of Matter, to which
he clings if out of conviction he declares that only material things
are of value.

In that case, through the lawful consequence of his own volition,

he is unable to rise from the World of Matter, and on the last
stretch of the way he is drawn with it into disintegration. This
then is spiritual death! Equivalent to effacement from the Book of
Life.

This process, in itself quite natural, is also designated as eternal

damnation, because he who is thus drawn along into
disintegration “must cease to be personal”. It is the most
dreadful thing that can befall man. He is considered as a
“rejected stone”, which cannot be used for a spiritual building
and must therefore be ground to dust.

This separation of spirit from matter, likewise taking place by

reason of quite natural processes and Laws is the so-called “Last
Judgement”, which is connected with great upheavals and
transformations.

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Surely everyone will readily understand that this disintegration
will not take place in one earth day; for in world events a
thousand years are as one day.

But we are well into the early stages of this epoch. The earth now
approaches the point at which it diverges from its hitherto
existing course, which must also make itself strongly felt in gross
matter. Then the separation among all men, which has already
been prepared for some time, but which until now has only
manifested itself in “opinions and convictions”, will set in more
sharply.

Every hour of an earth-life is therefore more precious than ever.

He who earnestly seeks, and is willing to learn, should exert all
his strength to tear himself from base thoughts, which must chain
him to earthly things. Otherwise he is in danger of remaining
attached to the World of Matter, and being drawn with it towards
complete disintegration.

Those who strive for the Light, however, will gradually become
detached from the World of Matter, and will finally be uplifted to
the home of all that is spiritual.

Then the division between Light and Darkness will be finally

accomplished, and the Judgement fulfilled.

It is not “the World”, that is to say all Creation, which will perish
thereby, but the celestial globes will only be drawn into the
disintegrating process when their course reaches the point where
dissolution, and with it also the preceding separation, is due to
set in.

This is accomplished through the natural effect of the Divine

Laws, which have lain in Creation from its very beginnings, which
brought forth Creation itself, and which also now and in the
future unswervingly bear the Will of the Creator. In the eternal

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cycle there is a perpetual creating, sowing, ripening, harvesting
and dissolving, so that, newly invigorated through the change in
the combination, other forms may again evolve, speeding towards
a new cycle.

In considering this cycle of Creation, one may picture a gigantic

funnel or a gigantic cave, from which in an incessant stream there
perpetually gushes forth primordial seed, striving in rotating
movements towards fresh union and development. Exactly as
science already knows and has correctly noted.

Through friction and amalgamation dense nebulae are formed,

and from these again celestial globes, which through immutable
Laws group themselves with absolute consistency into solar
systems; and rotating individually, they must unitedly follow the
great cycle which is the eternal one.

Exactly as it is in the process that is visible to the physical eye in

connection with plant, animal and human bodies, where there
ensue from the seed the development, forming, maturity and
harvest or decay, thus entailing a change, a disintegration,
leading to further development, so is it also in great world
events. The gross materially visible celestial globes, surrounded
as they are by a far greater ethereal environment that is
therefore invisible to the physical eye, are subject to the same
process in their eternal cycle, because the same Laws are active
in them.

Not even the most fanatical sceptic is able to deny the existence
of primordial seed, and yet it cannot be seen by any physical eye
because it is of a different substance which lies in the “beyond”.
Let us again simply call it ethereal.

Nor is it difficult to understand that in the natural order of things

the world that first forms itself from primordial seed is equally
ethereal, and not discernible with the physical eyes. Only later
the coarsest precipitation further resulting from it gradually

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forms, dependent on the Ethereal World, the Gross Material
World with its gross material bodies; and it is only that which can
be observed from its minutest beginnings with the physical eyes
and with all additional gross material aids.

It is no different with the covering of the real man in his spiritual

nature, of whom I shall yet speak later. During his wanderings
through the various worlds his garment, cloak, shell, body or
instrument, no matter what one cares to call the covering, must
always be of the same substance as the particular environment
which he enters, so that he can make use of it as a protection and
necessary aid if he wishes to be able to work directly and
effectively therein.

Since the Gross Material World is dependent upon the Ethereal

World, it follows that whatever happens in the Gross Material
World also reacts on the Ethereal World.

This immense ethereal environment has likewise been created

from the primordial seed. It takes part in the eternal cycle, and is
finally also driven towards and sucked into the rear end of the
aforesaid gigantic funnel, where disintegration takes place, in
order to be thrust out again at the other end as primordial seed
for a new cycle.

As with the action of the heart and the blood circulation, the
funnel is like the heart of material creation. Thus the process of
disintegration involves the whole of Creation, including the
ethereal part, because everything that is material is again
dissolved into primordial seed in order to form itself anew. There
is nothing arbitrary in this, but everything develops out of the
natural consistency of the Primordial Laws, which permit of no
other course.

Hence at a certain point of the great cycle the moment arrives for
all that is created, whether gross material or ethereal, when the

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process of disintegration is prepared independently from out of
what is created, and finally breaks through.

Now this Ethereal World is the transitional dwelling-place of the

earthly departed, the so-called beyond. It is closely connected
with the Gross Material World, which is part of it and one with it.
At the moment of death man, with his ethereal body, which he
bears along with the gross material body, enters the
homogeneous ethereal environment of the Gross Material World,
while he leaves the gross material body behind on the latter.

Now this Ethereal World, the beyond, belonging as it does to

Creation, is subject to the same Laws of continuous development
and disintegration. With the setting-in of decay, a separation of
the spiritual from the material again takes place in a perfectly
natural way. According to man’s spiritual state in the Gross
Material World as well as in the

Ethereal World, the spiritual man, the real “ego”, must either
move upwards or remain chained to the World of Matter. The
serious longing for Truth and Light will, by virtue of the change it
works in him, make each person spiritually purer and thus more
luminous, so that this condition must naturally detach him more
and more from dense matter, and drive him upwards in
proportion to his purity and lightness.

However, he who believes only in matter keeps himself bound to

matter by his conviction, remaining chained to it, and thus cannot
be driven upwards. Through a decision personally desired by each
individual, a separation therefore takes place between those
striving towards the Light and those connected with the
Darkness, in accordance with the existing natural Laws of
Spiritual Gravitation.

Thus it becomes clear that one day there will be a definite end
also to the possibility of development through the purification-
process in the so-called beyond for those who have departed this

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earth. A final decision! Men in both worlds will either be so far
ennobled that they can be uplifted to the Regions of Light, or
they will remain bound in their base nature through their own
volition and thereby be finally hurled down into “eternal
damnation”. This means that together with matter, from which
they cannot detach themselves, they will be drawn towards
disintegration, will themselves suffer painful disintegration, and
therewith cease to be personal.

They will be scattered like chaff in the wind, crumbled to dust and
thereby erased from the Golden Book of Life!

Hence this so-called “Last Judgement”, that is, the Final

Judgement, is likewise a happening which through the operation
of the Laws upholding Creation takes place in an absolutely
natural manner, and in such a way that it could not be otherwise.
Here, too, man always receives only the fruits of what he himself
has willed, that is to say, what he himself brings about through
his conviction.

It does not diminish the greatness of the Creator, but can only
give cause to regard Him as even more sublime, to know that all
that happens in Creation is strictly consistent and takes place
automatically, that the direction of men’s fate is always
determined by themselves alone through their wishes and
volition, and that the Creator does not look on and intervene to
reward or punish.

The greatness lies in the perfection of His Work, and this compels
us to look upwards in reverential awe, since the greatest Love
and the most incorruptible Justice must lie without distinction in
the mightiest as well as in the most minute happening.

Great also is man, placed as such in Creation as master of his own

destiny! Through his will he is able to lift himself out of the Work,
and at the same time contribute to its higher evolution; or he can
drag it down and become entangled in it so that he can no longer

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free himself and will continue with it towards dissolution,
whether in the Gross Material World or in the Ethereal World.

Therefore strive to free yourselves from all ties arising from base
feelings; for it is high time! The hour approaches when the period
allotted for this will have expired! Awake in yourselves the
longing for the pure, the true and the noble! –

Far above the eternal cycle of Creation there floats like a crown in
the centre an “Azure Island”, the abode of the blessed, of the
purified spirits, who may already dwell in the Regions of Light!
This Island is separate from the World. Therefore it has no part in
the cycle; but in spite of its height above the rotating Creation, it
constitutes the support and the centre for the outgoing spiritual
forces. It is the island that bears on its height the much-praised
city with its streets of gold. Here nothing is subject any longer to
change. No “Last Judgement” is to be feared any more. Those
who can dwell there are “at home”.

But as the last, as the highest on this Azure Island, inaccessible

to those not specially called, stands the . . . Grail Castle, so often
spoken of in poetry!

Encompassed by legends, the object of longing to so many, it

stands there in the Light of Greatest Glory and harbors the
Sacred Vessel of the Pure Love of the Almighty, the Grail!

The purest of spirits are appointed as guardians. They are

bearers of Divine Love in its purest form, which is very different
from what men on earth imagine it to be, although they
experience it daily and hourly.

Through revelations, tidings of the Castle were brought down

stage by stage the immense distance from the Azure Island
through the Ethereal World, until finally, through a few deeply
inspired poets, they also became known among people of the

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gross material earth. Passed on downwards step by step, the
Truth also unintentionally suffered various misrepresentations, so
that the final version could only be an increasingly dimmed
reflection, which gave rise to many errors.

If now from some part of the great Creation in dire distress,

suffering and ardent appeals rise to the Creator, then a Servant
of the Vessel is sent forth as a bearer of this Love to intervene
helpingly in the spiritual need. What floats merely as a myth and
a legend in the Work of Creation then enters Creation as a living
reality!

Such missions, however, do not often occur. Each time they are
accompanied by incisive changes and great upheavals. Those who
are thus sent bring Light and Truth to the erring, Peace to the
despairing; with their message they stretch forth their hands to
all who seek, offering them new courage and new strength, and
guiding them through all Darkness up to the Light.

They come only for those who long for help from the Light, but
not for the scoffers and the self-righteous.

14. THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM

THERE SHALL NOW be Light here on earth, as once it should have

been when the Star of Promise shone radiantly above a stable in
Bethlehem.

But at that time only a few accepted the Light, and those who
listened to them very soon distorted and misrepresented it, as
men on earth are apt to do. What they forgot they tried to replace
with ideas of their own, thereby creating only a confusion that
nowadays is meant to pass as inviolable Truth.

Out of alarm that everything will collapse if even the smallest

pillar proves to be unsound, every ray of Light that can bring

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recognition is resisted, defiled and, if there is no other way, at
least ridiculed with a malice and cunning which plainly indicates
to clear thinking that it springs from fear! But clear thinking is
only rarely to be found on earth.

In spite of this the light of true recognition must at last come

over all mankind!

The time has arrived when everything unhealthy invented by the

human brain will be swept out of Creation, so that it no longer
suppresses the enlightenment that the Truth wears a different
aspect from the unsteady images which boastful conceit and
commercialism, morbid imagination and hypocrisy, in a craving
for earthly power and earthly admiration, have created out of the
sultry swamp of base narrow-mindedness.

Accursed now be those who through leading millions of people

astray have so enslaved them that today they no longer dare to
open their eyes to the Light, but blindly revile anything coming to
their knowledge that sounds different from what they have
hitherto heard, instead of at last listening attentively and
examining inwardly to see whether the new does not come nearer
to their understanding than what they have learned in the past.

Their ears are stopped, and anxiously they see to it that no

breath of fresh air penetrates to them. Actually just out of
laziness and fear that this fresh air, through the ensuing
recovery, implies spiritual activity, demanding and enforcing self-
exertion. In contrast to the present apparently comfortable
spiritual slumber, which is followed by the heavy permanent
sleep, and thereby only gives a free hand to the cunning of the
distorted, debased intellect!

But it is of no avail to stop your ears against the new Word, to

shut your eyes lest the Light dazzle and startle you! You will now
be forcibly roused from this deplorable stupor! You will have to
stand shivering before the cold Light that mercilessly strips you

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of all false wrappings. Shivering because your spirit-spark can no
longer be kindled within you, and thus generate the warmth from
within that will unite with the Light.

Indeed it is all too easy for you to believe the unbelievable; for
then you need not trouble to think and examine for yourselves.
Just because it cannot stand up to any test that is in accordance
with the Divine Laws of Nature, you simply have to believe,
without questioning the why or wherefore; you have to believe
blindly, and this you imagine to be great! You who so
conveniently imagine you are particularly devout, simply raise
yourselves above all doubts in this matter, and . . . feel happy,
secure, noble, pious and sure of a place in Heaven!

However, you have not thereby raised yourselves above all doubt,
but only bypassed it in a cowardly way! You were too spiritually
indolent to bestir yourselves, and preferred blind faith to a
knowledge of the natural happening in the Law of God’s Will.
Fictions devised by the human brain aided you in this. For the
more absurd and incomprehensible the things you are supposed
to believe, the easier it also becomes literally to believe in them
blindly, because in such matters it is quite impossible to do
otherwise. Knowledge and conviction must be eliminated then.

Only the impossible demands blind, unreserved faith; for

whatever is possible immediately stimulates independent
thinking. Wherever there is Truth, which is always characterized
by naturalness and consistency, thinking and deep intuitive
sensing automatically set in. This only ceases where it no longer
finds anything natural, thus where Truth does not exist. And it is
only through deep intuitive sensing that anything can become
conviction, which alone brings values to the human spirit.

So now, along with everything else, the cycle which begins with
the Holy Night in Bethlehem is also closing! And the closing of
this cycle must cast out all inaccuracies in the transmissions, and
in their stead bring the Truth to victory. The Darkness created by
humanity is dispelled by the penetrating Light!

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All legends which in the course of time have been woven around
the life of Jesus must fall away so that it may at last emerge in
purity, in accordance with Divine Laws, as indeed it could not
have been otherwise in this Creation. Hitherto you have
credulously and wantonly denied the Perfection of the Creator,
your God, with your self-established cults.

You deliberately and consciously represent Him in these cults as

imperfect in His Will! I have already spoken about this and, turn
and twist as you will, not a single subterfuge can acquit you of
having been too indolent to think about it yourselves. You do not
honor God by blindly believing in things that are not in
accordance with the Primordial Laws of Creation! On the contrary,
if you believe in the Perfection of the Creator, then you must
know that nothing can happen here in Creation that does not also
precisely conform to the logical sequence in the firmly
established Laws of God. Only therein can you truly honor Him.

He who thinks otherwise thus doubts the Perfection of the

Creator, his God! For where alterations or further improvements
are possible, there is not and never has been perfection!
Development is something different. This is provided for and
intended in this Creation. However, it must follow unconditionally
as a logical sequence of the effect of already existing Laws. But
all this cannot produce such things as many believers take for
granted, especially in the life of Christ!

Wake up from your dreams at last and become inwardly true! Let
it be said once more that according to the Laws in Creation it is
impossible for bodies of earthmen ever to be born without
previous physical procreation, and equally impossible for a
physical body to be raised into the Ethereal Realm after its
earthly death, still less into the Animistic or even the Spiritual
Realm! And since Jesus had to be born here on earth, this event
was also subject to the gross material Divine Law of a previous
procreation.

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If it had happened with Christ as transmissions report, God would
have to act against His own Laws. But this He cannot do since He
is perfect from the very beginning, and thus also His Will, Which
lies in the Laws of Creation. Whoever still dares to think
otherwise doubts this Perfection and thus ultimately also doubts
God! For God without Perfection would not be God. There can be
no subterfuge! No human spirit can quibble about this simple
certainty, even if the foundations of many a former opinion must
now be shaken thereby. Here there is only either – or. All or
nothing. There can be no compromise, because nothing
incomplete or unfinished can exist in the Godhead! Nor in
anything concerned with God!

Jesus was procreated physically, otherwise an earthly birth would

not have been possible.

At that time only a few recognized the Star as the fulfillment of

the prophecies. Among them were Mary herself, and also Joseph
who, deeply stirred, hid his face.

Three kings found their way to the stable and presented earthly
gifts; but then they went away, leaving without protection the
Child Whose earthly path they should have smoothed with their
wealth and power, so that no harm might befall Him in the
fulfillment of His Mission. Although they received enlightenment
enabling them to find the Child, they did not fully recognize their
sublime call.

Disquietude drove Mary away from Nazareth, and Joseph, seeing

her silent suffering and longing, granted her wish solely to make
her happy. He handed over the management of his carpenter’s
shop to his oldest employee, and with Mary and the Child
journeyed to a distant country. In the course of their everyday life
of work and cares, the memory of the Radiant Star slowly faded
from their minds, especially as in His early years Jesus displayed
nothing extraordinary, but like all children was quite natural.

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It was only on his deathbed, after returning to his native town,
that Joseph, who had always been the best of fatherly friends to
Jesus, saw in his passing, during his last moments on earth, the
Cross and the Dove above Jesus, Who stood alone at his bedside.
Deeply stirring were his last words: “So Thou art He after all!”

Jesus Himself knew nothing of this until something urged Him to

go to John, of whom He had heard that he was proclaiming wise
teachings and baptizing at the River Jordan.

With this gross material act of baptism, the beginning of the

Mission was firmly anchored in the World of Gross Matter. The
bandage fell. From this moment Jesus Himself was conscious that
He was to carry the Word of the Father among mankind on earth.

His whole life as it really was will unfold itself before you,
divested of all the fantasies invented by human brains! With the
closing of the cycle of this event, it will be revealed to all during
the Judgement through the victory of the Truth, which for a long
time to come may no longer be obscured!

Mary fought an inward battle with her doubts, which were

strengthened through motherly anxiety for her son, right up to
the grievous walk to Golgotha. Purely human and not
supernatural. Only there did recognition of His Mission, and with
it belief, finally come to her.

But now, at the return of the Star, all errors shall henceforth be
redeemed through the Grace of God; and likewise all the faults of
those who, without obstinacy or evil intent, rendered Christ’s way
more difficult at that time; and who now at the closing of the
cycle come to recognition, and try to make good their neglect or
failures.

Through their desire to make good, redemption arises for them

with the Radiant Star; liberated, they can give jubilant thanks to

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Him Who in His Wisdom and Goodness created the Laws by which
all creatures must judge and also redeem themselves.

15. THE CONFLICT

UP TILL NOW there could be no question as yet of a sharp

confrontation between two world views. Conflict is therefore an
ill-chosen term for what is actually happening between the
intellectuals and serious seekers for the Truth.

All that has so far taken place has consisted of one-sided attacks
by the intellectuals, which to any dispassionate observer must
appear obviously unfounded and often absurd. Scorn, hostility,
and even persecution of a most serious kind await all those who
seek to develop themselves higher in a purely spiritual sense,
even when they maintain silent reserve. There are always some
who try by ridicule or force to pull back and drag down such
aspiring ones to the dull insensibility or hypocrisy of the masses.

Thus many were bound to become actual martyrs, because not

only the masses but therewith also the earthly power has been on
the side of the intellectuals. What these have to offer is already
clearly indicated in the word “intellect”. That is: A narrowing of
the range of the perceptive capacity to purely earthly matters,
and thus to the minutest part of real existence.

It is easily understandable that this can produce nothing perfect,

nothing good whatever for a humanity whose existence moves
mainly through spheres which the intellectuals have closed to
themselves. Especially so when one considers that just one brief
earth-life should become a significant turning-point for the whole
existence, entailing as it does decisive interventions in those
other spheres which are completely inconceivable to the
intellectuals.

The responsibility of the intellectuals, who rightly considered

have already fallen deeply, is thus enormously increased, and as

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heavy pressure it will help to push them more and more swiftly
towards the goal of their choice, so that they will at last have to
partake of the fruits of what they have persistently and
presumptuously advocated.

By intellectuals are to be understood those who have

unconditionally submitted themselves to their own intellect.
These people, strange to say, have for thousands of years
believed that they had an absolute right to impose their limited
convictions by law and by force also upon those who wished to
live according to another conviction. This utterly illogical
presumption again lies only in the intellectuals’ narrow
perceptive capacity, which is incapable of lifting itself higher.
This very limitation brings them a so-called peak of
comprehension, whereby such presumptions are bound to arise in
the imagination, because they believe they really are standing on
the utmost height. This is actually true so far as they are
concerned, since they have arrived at the boundary which they
cannot cross.

But their attacks on seekers for the Truth, so often inexplicably

malevolent, clearly show on closer observation the whip of the
Darkness brandished behind them. Seldom does one find in these
hostile acts a trace of honest volition, which might somewhat
excuse their often shocking manner of proceeding. In most cases
there is only blind fury devoid of any real logic. Just examine such
attacks dispassionately. How seldom is there among them an
article whose contents indicate an attempt to enter really
objectively into the speeches or essays of a seeker for the Truth.

The unfounded and paltry nature of the attacks is always quite

strikingly apparent from the very fact that these are never kept
purely objective! They are always a veiled or open defilement of
the person of the Truth-seeker. This is only done by someone who
is incapable of replying objectively. After all, a seeker for the
Truth or a bringer of the Truth does not give himself personally,
but he brings what he says.

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The word must be examined, not the person! It is a habit of the
intellectuals to seek always to regard the person first, and then
to consider whether they can listen to his words. Owing to the
narrow limitation of their perceptive capacity, these people need
such an outward hold, because they must cling to externals to
prevent them from becoming confused. Indeed just this is the
hollow structure which they erect, which is inadequate for men
and a great hindrance to their advancement.

If they had a firm inner hold they would simply let fact speak
against fact, excluding the personal element altogether. But this
they are unable to do. Indeed, they intentionally avoid it because
they feel or partly know that in a well-ordered tournament they
would be quickly unseated. The ironic reference to “lay preacher”
or “lay interpretation”, so often used, shows such a degree of
ridiculous presumption that every serious person immediately
senses: “This is a shield used to conceal shallowness at all costs.
To cover their emptiness with a cheap signboard!”

Clumsy strategy which cannot last for long. Its purpose is from
the beginning to place seekers for the Truth who may become
troublesome on an “inferior” if not even a ridiculous level in the
eyes of their fellow-men, or at least to classify them as
“dabblers” so that they will not be taken seriously.

In so doing they seek to prevent anyone from seriously paying

attention to the words. The motive for this proceeding, however,
is not anxiety lest their fellow-men be delayed in their inner
ascent through erroneous teachings, rather it is a vague
apprehension of losing influence and thereby being compelled to
penetrate more deeply than before, and having to change much
that till now was supposed to be unassailable, and which suited
them.

It is just this frequent reference to “laymen”, this strange looking

down upon those who through their strengthened and less
influenced intuitive perception stand much nearer to the Truth,
and who have not built walls for themselves through rigid

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intellectual forms, that exposes a weakness whose dangers
cannot escape the notice of any thinker. He who believes in such
opinions is at the outset excluded from being an unprejudiced
teacher and guide, for he stands much further away from God and
His Activity than any other man.

Knowledge about the development of religions, with all the errors

and faults, does not bring men nearer to their God, and just as
little does the intellectual interpretation of the Bible or of other
valuable writings of the different religions.

The intellect is and remains bound to time and space, that is to

say earthbound; whereas the Godhead, and thus also the
recognition of God and His Will, are above time and space and
above all that is transitory, and therefore can never be grasped
by the narrowly-confined intellect.

For this simple reason the intellect is not called upon to bring
enlightenment in eternal values. Indeed it would be a
contradiction. Therefore he who in these matters boasts of
university qualifications, and would look down upon those who
are not so influenced, thereby declares his own incompetence and
limitation. Thinking people will at once sense intuitively the one-
sidedness, and use caution against him who cautions them in
such a manner!

Only those who are called can be true teachers. Called ones are
those who carry the ability within them. These abilities, however,
do not ask for university training, but for the vibrations of a
refined intuitive faculty, able to soar above time and space, thus
beyond the limit of comprehension by the earthly intellect.

Moreover, any inwardly free man will always assess a matter or a

teaching according to what it brings, not according to who brings
it. The latter is the strongest possible evidence of his unfitness to
be an investigator. Gold is gold, whether a prince or a beggar
holds it in his hand.

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But just in the most valuable things of the spiritual man, one
seeks obstinately to disregard and to alter this irrefutable fact.
Naturally without any more success than in the case of gold. For
those who are really seeking seriously do not permit themselves
to be influenced by such distractions from examining the matter
itself. But those who do allow themselves to be so influenced are
not yet mature to receive the Truth. It is not for them.

But the hour is not far distant when a conflict, which has been
lacking as yet, must now break out. The one-sidedness will end,
and a sharp confrontation will follow which will destroy all false
presumption.

16. MODERN PSYCHIC SCIENCE

MODERN PSYCHIC SCIENCE! What gathers beneath this flag! What

comes together there, and what also opposes each other beneath
it! A playground for earnest seeking, little knowledge, great
plans, vanity and stupidity; in many cases also for empty
boasting, and still more for the most unscrupulous
commercialism. Out of this confusion there frequently blossom
envy and boundless hatred, which finally results in the basest
kind of malicious vindictiveness.

In such a state of affairs it is naturally not surprising if many

people shun all these strange activities, fearing to poison
themselves by coming into contact with them. They are not far
wrong either; for countless adherents of psychic science are
anything but engaging in their behavior, still less attractive; on
the contrary, everything about them warns others to exercise the
greatest caution.

It is strange that the whole field of so-called psychic science,

which is often confused by the malicious or ignorant with ghost
science, is today still considered a sort of free territory where
everyone may go on in his own way and get up to his tricks
unhindered, even unrestrained and unpunished.

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Such is it considered to be. But already experiences have very
often taught that it is not so!

Countless pioneers in this field who were rash enough to venture

a few steps forward in their investigations, equipped with only an
imagined knowledge, have become helpless victims of their
carelessness. The only sad thing about this is that all these
victims fell without bringing even the slightest benefit to
humanity thereby!

Now each of these cases should really have proved that the way
followed is not the right one, because it brings only harm and
even destruction, but no blessing. Yet with singular persistence
these false ways are still retained, and fresh victims continually
sacrificed; a great clamor is raised over every small detail that is
discovered and newly recognized, although self-evident in the
mighty Creation, and innumerable treatises are written which
must repel many serious seekers, because the uncertain groping
therein is clearly perceptible.

All investigations until now can really rather be called dangerous

pastimes, based on good intentions.

The field of psychic science, which is considered free territory,

can never be entered upon with impunity as long as one does not
first know how to take into account the spiritual Laws to their full
extent. Every conscious or unconscious opposition to these Laws,
that is “non-observance” of them, which is equivalent to a
transgression, must through its inevitable reciprocal action strike
the bold, frivolous or careless person who does not or cannot pay
close attention to them.

Trying to explore the non-earthly with earthly means and

possibilities is no different from placing and leaving an
undeveloped child, as yet unfamiliar with earthly dangers, alone

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in a virgin forest, where only a man adequately equipped for it
and at the height of his strength, exercising the greatest
precaution, can have any prospect of surviving unharmed.

For modern psychic scientists with their present methods it is no

different, even if their intentions are absolutely serious, and if
they are really taking great risks for the sole purpose of gaining
knowledge to help men advance across a boundary, before which
they have long stood knocking and waiting.

Today these investigators still stand before it like children,

helpless and groping, unaware of the dangers that may stream
towards them at any moment, or pour forth through them on to
others if their bungling efforts breach the natural defenses, or
open a door that for many had better remain closed.

As long as those desiring to forge ahead are not absolutely

certain that they will be able completely and instantly to master
all dangers which may arise, not only for themselves but also for
others, all this can only be termed rashness, not courage.

Those “investigators” who engage in experiments act most

irresponsibly of all. Attention has already been repeatedly called
to the crime of hypnotism.*

Investigators experimenting in yet other ways in most cases

make the regrettable mistake, knowing nothing themselves – for
otherwise they would surely not do it – of putting other very
sensitive or mediumistic persons into either a magnetic or even a
hypnotic sleep, in order to bring them nearer to the physically
invisible influences of the “other world”, in the hope of thereby
hearing and observing various things that would not be possible
if the person experimented upon was in a fully day-conscious
condition.

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In at least ninety-five out of a hundred cases they thus expose
such persons to great dangers, which they are not yet qualified to
meet; for every kind of artificial help towards deeper penetration
is a binding of the soul, forcing it into a sensitiveness that goes
further than its natural development would permit.

The result is that such a victim of experiments suddenly stands

psychically in a region where he is robbed of his natural
protection by the artificial help, or for which he does not have his
natural protection, which can only be formed through personal,
sound inner development.

One must picture such a pitiable person as if he stood naked, tied

to a stake and pushed far out into a dangerous country as a bait,
to attract and even let himself be affected by the as yet unknown
life and activity there, so that he can report upon it; or so that
various manifestations will also become visible to others, through
his cooperation, by the giving off of certain earthly substances
from his body.

A person thus experimented with is able at times, through the

connection his projected soul must maintain with his earthly
body, to report as through a telephone all that happens, and
transmit it to the observer.

However, should the outpost thus artificially pushed forward be

in some way attacked, he cannot defend himself through lack of
his natural protection. He is helplessly abandoned, because with
the aid of others he has been only artificially pushed into a
domain where, according to the state of his own development, he
either does not yet or does not at all belong. And the so-called
investigator, whose thirst for knowledge pushed him into it, can
do just as little to help him, since he himself is strange and
inexperienced in the place whence the danger comes, and
therefore unable to do anything to provide protection.

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Thus it happens that the investigators unwittingly become
criminals, who cannot be apprehended by earthly justice.
However, this does not prevent the spiritual Laws from exercising
their reciprocal action with full force, and chaining the
investigator to his victim.

Many a person used for experiments has suffered ethereal

attacks which in due course, often also quickly or immediately,
have a gross-material-physical effect as well, so that physical
illness or death follows, but without eliminating the harm done to
the soul.

The observers who call themselves investigators, however, who

push their victims into unknown regions, in most cases stand
during such hazardous experiments under good earthly cover
through the protection of their body and day-consciousness.

It is seldom that they share simultaneously in the dangers

confronting the persons experimented with, thus that such
dangers are immediately communicated to them. But then at
their physical death, the transition into the Ethereal World,
because they are chained to their victims they must inevitably go
wherever these may have been drawn, so that together with them
they may slowly begin to ascend once more.

The artificial projection of a soul into another domain must not

always be taken to mean that the soul leaves the body and floats
away to another region. In most cases it remains quietly in the
body. But the magnetic or hypnotic sleep makes the soul
unnaturally sensitive, so that it responds to much finer currents
and influences than would be possible in its natural state.

It is self-evident that in this unnatural condition the full strength

is not available, which the soul would otherwise possess if it had
attained this point through its own inner development, and would
therefore stand firmly and securely on this new and more refined
soil, bringing an equal strength to bear on all influences.

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Because of this lack of sound full vigor, the artificiality produces
an inequality which is bound to entail disturbances. As a result all
intuitive perceptions become absolutely blurred, giving rise to
distortions of reality.

The cause of the false reports and countless errors is again

always given only by the investigators themselves, through their
harmful assistance. That is also why in the many “investigated”
matters from the occult field already available so much does not
accord with strict logic. They contain countless errors, which until
now could not yet be recognized as such.

Absolutely nothing that could be of the slightest use or blessing

to mankind is gained by these obviously wrong methods.

Actually only that which helps men upwards, or at least points a

way thereto, can be of any use to them. But from the outset there
can be absolutely no question of this as far as these experiments
are concerned!

Sometimes, however, an investigator through artificial assistance

may ultimately be able to crowd some sensitive or mediumistic
human being out of his earthly gross material body into the
Ethereal World nearest to him, but not a hair’s breadth above the
region to which in any case he belongs by virtue of his inner
development. On the contrary, through artificial assistance he
cannot even bring him that far, but always only to the
environment nearest to all that is earthly.

However, this environment nearest to the earthly can only

contain all that of the beyond which is still closely earthbound,
which remains chained to the earth by its inferiority, its vice and
passion.

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Naturally, now and then something more advanced will also make
a short stay in this environment. But it is not always to be
expected. Something exalted cannot be there, purely by virtue of
the Natural Laws. Sooner would the world be turned upside down,
or . . . a foundation for anchoring the Light exist in a human
being!

It is hardly to be assumed, however, that this should be sought

either in a person experimented upon or in such a groping
investigator. Thus the danger and uselessness of all experiments
remains.

Moreover it is certain that unless there is a human being of

advanced development, whose presence purifies all coarseness,
something really higher can not approach a medium, much less
speak through him. Materializations from higher circles are
altogether out of the question, to say nothing of such popular
pastimes as knocking, movements of objects, and so on. The gulf
for this is far too wide to be easily bridged.

Even with a medium, all these things can only be carried out by
such souls in the beyond as are still very closely connected with
matter. Were it otherwise possible, that is to say, if an exalted
being could so easily make contact with humanity, then there
would have been no need whatever for Christ to become man, but
He could have accomplished His Mission also without this
sacrifice.** Men of today, however, are certainly no more highly
developed psychically than in Jesus’ earth-life, so it cannot be
assumed that it is easier to establish a link with the Light now
than it was in those days.

Now psychic scientists declare, of course, that their primary aim

is to establish that there is life in the beyond, and especially that
life continues after physical death; and that in view of the
skepticism prevailing today very strong and forceful arguments
are needed, hence earthly tangible proofs, to breach the defenses
of the adversaries.

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But this reasoning does not justify the repeated endangering of
human souls in such a wanton way!

Besides, there is really no compelling need to set about

convincing malevolent opponents at all costs! Surely it is well
known that even if an angel came directly from Heaven to
proclaim the Truth to them they would not be prepared to
believe. As soon as he had gone they would simply affirm that it
was a mass hallucination and no angel at all, or trump up some
other excuse. And if any thing or any body were brought, which or
who remains in an earthly state, thus neither vanishing nor
becoming invisible, there would again be other excuses, just
because it would then be too earthly for those who do not wish to
believe in a beyond.

They would not hesitate to declare such a proof a swindle, and

the person a visionary, a fanatic, or likewise a swindler. Whether
it be too earthly or too unearthly, or both together, they will
always have some fault to find and doubt to express. And if they
know of no other way to help themselves, then they will take to
abuse, proceed to even more vigorous attacks, and will not shrink
from violence.

Therefore, to convince these, sacrifices are not called for! Still

less, however, for many of the so-called adherents. With a
strange kind of arrogance, due to their generally rather vague
and fantastic belief in life in the beyond, these think they can
make certain demands on it whereby they in turn must “see” or
“experience” something. They expect signs from their guides in
the beyond as a reward for their good behavior.

The expectations they harbor, which they consider to be their

natural due, are often as utterly ridiculous as the much-knowing,
leniently forgiving smile with which they mask their real
ignorance. It is poison to wish even to give performances to these
masses; for since they imagine they know so much, the
experiments are little more to them than well-earned hours of

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entertainment, in which those in the beyond are expected to act
as music-hall artistes.

But just let us leave the big experiments now and consider the
small ones, such as table-turning. These are by no means as
harmless as people imagine, but because of the extreme ease
with which these practices can spread they are a very grave
danger!

Everyone should be warned against this! Enlightened persons

must turn away in horror when they see how lightly these things
are treated. How many adherents seek to display their
“knowledge” in various circles by suggesting experiments in
table-turning, or by introducing into families, with smiles or
mysterious whispers, the almost playful practice with letters and
a glass, or some other aid, which when the hand is lightly laid on
it glides or is drawn along to various letters, thus forming words.

With uncanny rapidity all this has developed into party games
carried out amid laughter, derision and at times a kind of
pleasant thrill.

Every day older and younger ladies, in families or also alone, are
seated at a little table before a piece of cardboard on which
letters have been drawn, which if possible must even be of a very
special design, so that the hocus-pocus stimulating the
imagination is not lacking. Actually this is quite unnecessary; for
the object would also be accomplished without it, if the person
concerned has only some tendency towards these things. And
those who have are innumerable!

Modern psychic scientists and leaders of occult societies are glad

of this, because real words and sentences are formed of which
the person practicing has neither consciously nor unconsciously
been thinking. He must thereby become convinced and increase
the number of adherents of the “occult”.

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Publications of occult societies point to this, speakers support it,
and appliances are made and sold, which facilitate all this
nonsense, and thus almost the entire occult world acts as an
efficient underling of the Darkness, in the honest conviction of
being a priest of the Light!

These occurrences alone prove the utter ignorance that lies in

occult endeavors of this kind! They show that of all these people
nobody is really a “seeing” one! If now and then some good
medium has developed from these beginnings, or rather, to be
more correct, if in the early stages a good medium has been
temporarily attracted to them, this must not be regarded as proof
to the contrary.

The few people destined for this from the outset have in their
own natural development a totally different protection, carefully
watching over every step, which others do not enjoy. However,
this protection is only effective in natural self-development,
without any artificial aids! Because only in all that is natural does
protection lie as a matter of course.

As soon as there is the slightest assistance, whether through

practices by the person concerned or from another source in the
form of magnetic sleep or hypnotism, it becomes unnatural, and
is thus no longer completely in harmony with the Natural Laws
which can alone grant protection. When to this there is added
ignorance such as exists everywhere today, then it becomes
disastrous. Volition alone will never replace ability when it comes
to action. But no one should go further than his own ability will
carry him.

It is naturally possible that among the hundreds of thousands

who engage in this dangerous pastime there may be here and
there one who really escapes unpunished and enjoys good
protection. There are also many who will only be harmed in such a
way as is not yet apparent on earth; and not until they pass on
must they suddenly realize in what follies they have actually

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indulged. But there are also many who already bear physical
evidence of harm, although they will never recognize the real
cause during their life on earth.

For this reason the ethereal and spiritual happenings during

these pastimes must for once be explained. It is just as simple as
everything in Creation, and not at all so complicated, and yet
again more difficult than many imagine.

In the present state of the earth the Darkness has, through the
volition of mankind, gained the upper hand over everything
material. Thus in all material things it stands to all intents and
purposes on its own familiar ground, and can therefore manifest
to the fullest extent in the material. Hence it is in its element
there, fighting on soil with which it is well acquainted. Thereby,
for the time being, in all that is material, that is gross material, it
is superior to the Light.

The consequence is that in all things material the power of the

Darkness becomes greater than that of the Light. Now with such
pastimes as table-turning, etc., the Light, thus what is exalted, is
completely out of the question. At the most we can speak of
something bad, thus dark, and something better, thus more
luminous.

Now when a person makes use of a table, or a glass, or indeed of

any gross material object, he thus enters upon the battle-ground
which is familiar to the Darkness. A soil which all Darkness calls
its own. From the start he thereby yields to the Darkness a power
against which he cannot summon up adequate protection.

Let us for a moment consider a spiritist pastime, or simply a party

game with the table, and then follow the spiritual, or rather the
ethereal happenings.

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When one or more persons approach a table for the purpose of
contacting through it those living in the beyond, either so that
these should make knocking sounds or, as is more usual, move
the table, so that words can be formed from these signs, then
through the connection with material substance the first to be
attracted is also the Darkness, which will take over the
manifestations.

Those in the beyond often use high-sounding language with great

skill, and seek to answer the thoughts of men, which they can
read quite easily, in the manner these desire; but if serious
questions arise they invariably lead them astray and, if it is done
often, try gradually to bring them under their ever-increasing
influence, and so slowly but surely to drag them down. Yet they
very cunningly leave the dupes in the belief that they are
ascending.

But if perhaps at the very start, or at some other opportunity, a

relative or friend who has passed over can communicate through
the table, which very often happens, the deception is then much
more easily accomplished. The people will recognize that it must
really be a specific friend who manifests, and then will believe
that it is always he when any utterances are transmitted through
the table and the name of the friend is given as the author.

But this is not the case! Not only does the ever watchful Darkness
make cunning use of the name to make deceptions appear as
authentic as possible, and gain the confidence of the questioners;
but it even goes so far that a dark one will interfere in the middle
of a sentence begun by the real friend, and purposely give it a
false ending. Thereupon emerges the scarcely known fact that in
a smoothly and flowingly given sentence two have taken part.
First the real, and perhaps quite luminous, therefore purer friend,
and then a dark entity of evil volition, without the questioner
noticing anything of it.

The results of this are easy to imagine. The trusting person is

deceived and his faith shaken. The opponent uses the incident to

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support his ridicule and doubts, and occasionally to make violent
attacks on the whole subject. But in fact both are wrong, which
can only be traced back to the ignorance still prevailing on the
whole matter.

What occurs, however, takes place in all naturalness: If a more

luminous and real friend is at the table to comply with the wish of
the questioner and to make himself known, and a dark spirit
crowds to the table, then the more luminous one must retreat
from it, since the darker one can develop greater strength
through the material substance of the table acting as an
intermediary, because at the present time all that is material is
the actual domain of the Darkness.

The mistake is made by the person who chooses material objects,

and thus from the outset provides unequal ground. What is
dense, heavy, and therefore dark, certainly stands by virtue of its
density nearer to gross matter than what is luminous, pure and
lighter, and through the closer connection it can develop greater
strength.

On the other hand what is more luminous and still able to

manifest through a material object, likewise still possesses a
certain degree of density corresponding with the object,
otherwise a link with physical matter for the purpose of some
communication would no longer be possible at all. This in itself
presupposes a closer approach to matter, which in turn involves
the possibility of defilement as soon as the connection with the
Darkness is made through matter.

To avoid this danger the more luminous one has no option but
quickly to withdraw from the material, thus from the table or
some other appliance, as soon as a dark one reaches out for it, in
order to cut off the intermediary link, which would form a bridge
over the natural separating and thereby protecting gulf.

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It is then unavoidable in the beyond that in such cases the person
experimenting through the table must be left at the mercy of
base influences. Indeed, his own action proves that he wished for
nothing else; for ignorance of the Laws cannot protect him here
either.

With these occurrences much that has hitherto been inexplicable

will become clear to many, numerous puzzling contradictions will
be solved, and it is to be hoped that in future many people will
really leave such dangerous playthings alone!

Also the dangers attaching to all other experiments, which are

much bigger and more powerful, can now be described in the
same detailed manner. But for the time being it should suffice to
mention these most common and widespread instances.

Only one other danger must yet be mentioned. Through this kind
of questioning and seeking for replies and advice, people make
themselves very dependent and lose their self-reliance. This is
the reverse of life’s purpose on earth.

In every respect it is the wrong course! It only brings harm, no

benefit. It is a groveling on the ground where there is danger of
constantly encountering disgusting vermin, wasting one’s
strength, and finally collapsing exhausted by the wayside . . . all
for nothing!

With this “desire to investigate”, however, much damage is also

done to those in the beyond!

Many dark ones are thus offered an opportunity, indeed they are
thereby even directly tempted to commit evil and to burden
themselves with fresh guilt, which they could not so easily do
otherwise. And others are retarded in their upward striving
through the constant link formed by such wishes and thoughts.

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In clearly observing the nature of these investigations it often
appears so childishly obstinate, so imbued with a most ruthless
egotism, and withal so clumsy, that one must shake one’s head
and ask oneself how anyone could possibly want to open out to
the general public a region of which he himself does not really
know the first thing.

It is also wrong for all these investigations to take place before

the general public. To do so opens the way for visionaries and
charlatans, making it difficult for mankind to gain confidence.

This has never happened in any other field. And every

investigation whose complete success is now acknowledged was
subject to numerous failures during the previous period of
research. But the public were not allowed to take part in them to
the same extent! They are fatigued by them, and in due course
lose all interest. The result is that when the Truth is at last
discovered the impetus for a revolutionary and sweeping
enthusiasm was bound to be lost beforehand. Mankind can no
longer rouse themselves to an exultant joy, so convincing that it
carries everything along with it.

When it is realized what wrong courses have been pursued, the

repercussions become sharp weapons in the hands of many
enemies, who in the course of time are able to instill such distrust
in the minds of hundreds of thousands of people that, when the
Truth emerges, these unfortunates will no longer desire to
examine it seriously for sheer fear of a new delusion! They close
their ears, which they would otherwise have opened, and so miss
the last span of time that could still grant them the opportunity
to ascend to the Light.

Thereby the Darkness will then have won a further victory! It can
offer its gratitude to the investigators who to that end extended
their hands to it, and who are pleased and proud to proclaim
themselves leaders of modern psychic sciences!

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*Lecture: "The Crime of Hypnotism"

**Lecture: "The Redeemer"

17. WRONG COURSES

WITH FEW EXCEPTIONS, mankind labor under a boundless

delusion which is fatal for them!

God has no need to run after them and beg them to believe in His
existence. Nor are His servants sent out forever to admonish
people on no account to turn away from Him. This would indeed
be absurd. To think and expect such things is a dishonoring and
debasing of the sublime Godhead.

This erroneous conception causes great harm. It is fostered by

the behavior of many truly earnest pastors who, out of a real love
for God and men, try again and again to convert people who turn
only to material things, to convince them and win them over to
the church. All this only tends immeasurably to increase man’s
conceit in regard to his importance, of which there is more than
enough already, and in the end really to place many under the
delusion that they must be begged to strive for what is good.

This is also the cause of the strange attitude of the majority of all
“believers”, whose example is more often a deterrent than an
inspiration. Thousands upon thousands feel a certain inner
satisfaction, an exaltation, in the consciousness that they believe
in God, that they utter their prayers with such earnestness as
they are capable of bringing up, and that they do not
intentionally harm their neighbors.

In this inner “exaltation”, they feel a certain reward for

goodness, thanks from God for their obedience, and they sense a
being linked with God, of Whom they also think at times with a

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certain sacred thrill that produces or leaves behind a state of
bliss, in which they revel.

But these legions of believers take the wrong course. Living

happily in a self-created delusion, they are unaware that it
numbers them with those Pharisees who, with the genuine but
mistaken feeling of gratitude, bring their small sacrifices: “Lord, I
thank Thee that I am not as other men are.” This is not expressed
in words, nor really in thought, but the inner “uplifting feeling” is
nothing more than this unconscious prayer of thanks, which
Christ too has already shown to be false.

In these cases the inner “exaltation” is nothing more than the

setting free of self-satisfaction engendered by prayer or forced
good thoughts. Those who call themselves humble are mostly
very far from really being humble! It often requires self-restraint
to speak with such believers. In such a frame of mind they will
never at any time attain to the bliss which they are confident they
already possess! Let them take heed lest they be altogether lost
through their spiritual arrogance, which they consider to be
humility.

It will be easier for many who now are still absolute unbelievers
to enter the Kingdom of God than for all the legions with their
conceited humility, who do not really stand before God in simple
supplication, but indirectly demanding that He reward them for
their prayers and pious words. Their petitions are demands, their
inner being hypocritical. They will be swept away like empty chaff
before His Countenance. They will have their reward, certainly,
but it will be different from what they imagine. They have already
satiated themselves long enough on earth in the consciousness of
their own value.

The feeling of well-being will rapidly disappear on passing into

the Ethereal World, where the inner intuitive perception, which is
scarcely sensed here, will come to the fore, while the feeling
hitherto mainly produced only by thoughts will be blown to
nothing.

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This inner, silent, so-called humble expectation of something
better is really nothing but a demand, even though it be
expressed differently, in however beautiful words. Every demand,
however, is a presumption. God alone has to demand! Nor did
Christ come pleading to mankind with His Message, but warning
and demanding. He certainly gave explanations about the Truth,
but He did not enticingly hold out rewards before the eyes of His
hearers to spur them on to become better. Calmly and sternly He
commanded serious seekers: “Go thou and do likewise!”

God stands before humanity demanding, not enticing and

pleading, not lamenting and grieving. He will calmly abandon to
the Darkness all the wicked, even all the wavering ones, so that
those who are striving upwards shall no longer be exposed to
their attacks; enabling the others thoroughly to experience
everything they consider to be right, and thus come to the
recognition of their error!

18. WHAT SEPARATES SO MANY FROM THE LIGHT TODAY?

LIKE DEEPEST NIGHT ethereal darkness lies spread over this

earth! For a very long time already. So dense and firm is the
suffocating embrace in which it holds the earth that every
ascending light-perception is like a flame which, without oxygen,
loses its power and quickly fading dies out.

This ethereal condition, now manifesting at its worst, is dreadful.

Anyone permitted for only five seconds to glimpse what is
happening would from sheer horror be deprived of all hope of
salvation! –

And all this has been brought about through the guilt of men
themselves. Through the guilt of their propensity for what is
base. Here mankind have been their own worst enemy. Now even
those few who are once more earnestly striving upwards are also
in danger of being swept into the depths, towards which others
are now developing at a sinister speed.

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It is like a close embrace, which is followed inevitably by fatal
absorption. Absorption into the sultry, tenacious swamp, in which
everything sinks without a sound. There is no longer a struggling,
but only a still, silent, gruesome choking.

And man does not recognize it. Spiritual indolence blinds him to
this fateful happening.

But all the time the swamp is sending forth its poisonous
emanations, which slowly weary those who are still strong and
alert, so that they, too, will fall asleep and sink away powerless.

That is the state of affairs on earth today. It is not a picture that I

am unfolding therewith, but life! Since all ethereal matter bears
forms, created and animated through men’s intuitive perceptions,
such a happening actually takes place continually. And this is the
environment that awaits men when they must leave this earth,
and cannot be led upwards to the more luminous and beautiful
regions.

But the Darkness grows ever more dense.

Therefore the time draws near when for a while this earth must
be left to the rule of Darkness, without direct help from the Light,
because humanity enforced this through their volition. The
consequences of the volition of the majority were bound to bring
this ending. – It is the time which John was once permitted to
behold, when God will veil His Countenance. –

Everywhere there is night. Yet during the deepest affliction when

everything, including what is better, is also in danger of sinking
away, at the same time dawn will now break! But the dawn will
first bring the travail of a great purification, which is inevitable
before the salvation of all serious seekers can begin; for no

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helping hand can be offered to all those who pursue base ends!
They shall fall headlong into those terrible depths where alone
they can still hope for an awakening through such torments that
they must come to loathe themselves.

Those who with sneers and apparent impunity have hitherto been
able to hinder the upward striving ones will become silent and
more pensive, until finally, begging and whimpering, they will
supplicate for the Truth.

Then it will not be so easy for such; they will be irresistibly led
through the millstones of the inexorable Laws of Divine Justice,
until in the experiencing they come to the recognition of their
errors. –

In the course of my travels I could see that a firebrand was hurled

among the indolent human spirits with my Word, which declares
that no man can lay claim to Divinity; whereas just at this time
much effort is bent upon discovering God within oneself, so that
ultimately man himself might also become God!

Hence disquiet has often awakened with my Word, mankind

rebelliously seeking to defend themselves against it, because
they only wish to hear soothing and reassuring words that seem
pleasant to them!

Those who so rebel are simply cowards, who would like nothing
better than to evade the personal issue, only to remain in
obscurity, where they can indulge in sweet and peaceful dreams
to their heart’s content.

Not everyone can bear to be exposed to the Light of Truth, which

clearly and mercilessly shows up the defects and spots on one’s
garment.

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With smiles, scoffing or with enmity such people would like to
prevent the coming of the day when the feet of clay supporting
that flimsily constructed idol, their “ego”, will be clearly
revealed. Such fools are only masquerading with themselves,
which will be relentlessly followed by the grey Ash Wednesday.
With their wrong views they really want only to idolize
themselves, and thereby they feel well and comfortable on earth.
From the outset they regard anyone who disturbs them from this
indolent placidity as an enemy!

However, this time no resistance will be of any avail to them!

The self-idolatry evident in the assertion that there is Divinity in

man is a base attempt to grasp at the sublimity and purity of your
God, thereby defiling for you the most Holy, to which you look up
in the most blissful trust! –

There is within you an altar which should serve for the worship of
your God. This altar is your intuitive faculty. If this is pure it is
directly connected with the Spiritual Realm and thus with
Paradise! Then there are moments when you too can fully
perceive the nearness of your God, as often happens in times of
deepest sorrow and greatest joy!

You then perceive His nearness in the same way as is constantly

experienced by the eternal Primordial Spirits in Paradise, with
whom you are closely connected at such moments. The strong
vibration caused by the emotion of great joy or deep sorrow for a
few seconds pushes everything earthly and low far into the
background, thereby setting free the purity of the intuitive
perception, which thus immediately forms the bridge to the
homogeneous purity that animates Paradise!

This is the most supreme happiness for the human spirit. The
eternal ones in Paradise live in it continually. It brings the
glorious certainty of being protected. They are then fully
conscious of the nearness of their great God, in Whose Power

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they stand, yet at the same time they also realize as a matter of
course that they have reached their greatest height, and will
never be able to behold God.

This, however, does not depress them, but in the recognition of

His unapproachable Majesty they give jubilant thanks for the
inexpressible mercy He has always shown in regard to the
arrogant creature.

And this happiness can already be enjoyed by man on earth. It is

quite right to say that in deeply solemn moments earthman
senses the nearness of his God. But it is sacrilege if man asserts
that he himself possesses a spark of the Godhead within, because
of this wonderful bridge which grants him the awareness of
Divine nearness.

Hand in hand with this assertion also goes the debasing of Divine
Love. How can God’s Love be measured by the standard of human
love? Moreover, how can It be valued even below this human
love? Look at those people who picture Divine Love as the highest
ideal, just silently enduring and also forgiving everything! They
want to recognize Divinity by the fact that It tolerates any
misbehavior from lower creatures, such as only the greatest
weakling or the most cowardly human being would do, for which
they are despised. Just reflect what a monstrous insult this
implies!

Men would like to sin unpunished, and then finally even please
their God by allowing Him to forgive their wrong-doing without
having to atone for it themselves! Such presumption shows either
the utmost narrow-mindedness, unpardonable laziness, or the
realization of how hopelessly weak they are in bringing forth the
good volition to strive upwards: The one, however, is as
reprehensible as the other.

Picture to yourselves Divine Love! Crystal clear, radiant, pure and

great! Can you then imagine that It is as sentimentally weak and

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ignobly yielding as mankind would so like it to be? They want to
build up a false greatness where they wish for weakness, they
give a false picture only to deceive and reassure themselves
about their own shortcomings, which make them willing servants
of the Darkness.

Where then is to be found the freshness and power that

unquestionably belong to the crystal purity of Divine Love? Divine
Love is inseparable from the utmost severity of Divine Justice.
Indeed It even is Divine Justice. Justice is Love, and Love again
lies only in Justice. In this alone lies also Divine Forgiveness.

The churches are right in saying that God forgives everything!

And really forgives! Contrary to man, who goes on condemning a
person even after he has atoned for some trivial offense, and
thus burdens himself with a double guilt by such thoughts,
because he does not act according to the Will of God. Here human
love is lacking in justice.

The activity of the Divine Creative Will purifies every human spirit
of its guilt as soon as it strives upwards, whether through its own
experiences or through its voluntary efforts at improvement.

If it returns to the Spiritual Realm from these mills in the World of

Matter, it will then stand pure in the Kingdom of its Creator; it
matters not what its guilt may have been! Just as pure as one
who has never yet sinned. But first his path will take him through
the activity of the Divine Laws, and in this fact lies the guarantee
of Divine Forgiveness, of His Mercy!

Do we not often hear today the fearful questioning: How could

God allow such years of tribulation? Where does love, where does
justice come in? The question is asked by mankind, by nations,
often by families and the individual human being! Should this not
rather prove to him that, after all, God’s Love is probably
different from what many would like to imagine it? Just try in this
way to visualize to the end the all-forgiving Love of God, as man

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insists on portraying It! Demanding no self-atonement, tolerating
everything, and ultimately even offering generous forgiveness. It
must produce a lamentable result! Does man consider himself so
precious that his God should suffer under this? Thus more
precious even than God Himself? To what lengths does men’s
presumption go. –

On thinking it over calmly you must stumble over a thousand

obstacles, and can only come to a conclusion when you belittle
God and make Him imperfect.

But He was, and is, and remains perfect, regardless of men’s

attitude to this.

His Forgiveness lies in Justice. Nothing else. And in this

unconditional Justice also lies the great Love which has hitherto
been so misunderstood!

Rid yourselves of the habit of measuring according to earthly

standards! God’s Justice and God’s Love are concerned with the
human spirit. Material substance has nothing whatever to do with
this. It is only formed by the human spirit itself, and has no life
without spirit.

Why do you so often torment yourselves with mere earthly trifles

which you perceive to be sin, but which are not really so.

It is only what the spirit wills in any action that is decisive for the
Divine Laws in Creation. This spiritual will, however, is not
thought-activity, but the deepest intuitive perception, the actual
volition within man, which alone can set in motion the Laws of the
beyond, and indeed does so automatically.

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Divine Love cannot be degraded by men; for in It rest in Creation
also the inexorable Laws of His Will, Which is borne by Love. And
these Laws take effect according to how man adjusts himself in
Creation. They may link him with the proximity of his God, or they
form a dividing wall that can never be destroyed unless man at
last adapts himself to them, which means obeys them, in which
alone he can find his salvation, his happiness.

It is one perfect whole, the great Work shows no flaws, no gaps.

Any fool or simpleton who would have it otherwise will meet with
his doom. –

Divine Love weaves therein only what benefits every human

spirit, but not what pleases and seems agreeable to it on earth.
Divine Love goes far beyond this, because it governs the whole of
existence. –

At present many a person very often thinks: If tribulation and

destruction are to be expected in order to bring about a great
purification, then God must be so just as to send out in advance
preachers calling for repentance. Man must certainly be
forewarned. Where is John who proclaims what is to come?

These are wretched ones who think themselves so wise, but are
so empty-minded! Such cries merely conceal an utterly hollow
presumption. They would only scourge him and throw him into
prison!

Do open your eyes and ears! But man goes dancing frivolously
away over all the suffering and misery of his fellow-men! He does
not want to see and hear! –

Already two thousand years ago a preacher also first appeared,

calling for repentance, and following on his heels the Word
Incarnate. Yet mankind have made strenuous efforts to efface

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and obscure the pure luster of the Word, so that the magnetic
power of Its radiance should gradually become extinct. –

And all those who wish to disentangle the Word from the clinging
vines must soon perceive how desperately the messengers of
Darkness try to prevent every joyful awakening!

But today there will be no recurrence of what happened in

Christ’s time! At that time the Word came! Mankind had their free
will, and the majority then decided to reject and repudiate this
Word! From that time onwards they were subject to the Laws,
which were automatically linked to the free decision then carried
out in this way. Thereafter men found all the fruits of their own
volition on their self-chosen path.

Soon the ring will close. Things are piling up ever more, rising like
a rampart which will soon collapse and crash down upon mankind,
who go on living unsuspectingly in spiritual apathy. Finally, at the
time of fulfillment, they will naturally no longer have the free
choice!

They must now just reap what they sowed at that time, and also
later on their wrong ways.

All who once rejected the Word at the time of Christ are today
reincarnated on this earth to settle accounts. Now they no longer
have the right to be forewarned, and to make a second decision.
In the two thousand years they have had time enough to change
their minds! Also he who absorbs a wrong interpretation of God
and His Creation, and does not exert himself to grasp It more
purely, has not absorbed It at all. Indeed, it is far worse, for a
wrong belief keeps one back from grasping the Truth.

But woe unto him who, in order to attract followers, falsifies or

perverts the Truth because men find it more agreeable in an
easier form. He not only burdens himself with the guilt of

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falsification and deception, but in addition he also bears the
whole responsibility for those whom he was able to attract to
himself by making it more convenient or acceptable. When his
hour of retribution comes he will not be helped. He will fall into
the abyss from which there can be no return, and rightly so! –
This John was also permitted to see and warn against in his
Revelation.

And when the great purification begins man will now have no time
to rebel, or even to stem this happening. The Divine Laws which
man so much likes to picture wrongly will then take inexorable
effect.

Just in the most terrible tribulation of the times that the earth has
ever experienced, humanity will at last learn that God’s Love is
far removed from the softness and weakness which man so
audaciously ascribed to It.

More than half of all the men living at the present time do not
belong on this earth at all!

Already for thousands of years this mankind have sunk so low,

and live so strongly in the Darkness, that through their unclean
volition they have built many bridges to dark spheres which are
far below this earth-plane. There live those who have sunk
deeply, whose ethereal weight would never have permitted the
possibility of their rising to this earth-plane.

This formed a protection both for all those living on earth and for
these dark ones themselves. They are separated by the natural
Law of Ethereal Gravity. Down below they can give full vent to
their passions, and all baseness, without doing any harm. On the
contrary. There their unrestrained indulgence only strikes those
of a like nature, whose base way of living similarly also affects
them. Thus they suffer mutually, which leads to maturing but not
to further guilt. For through the suffering, loathing for
themselves may in time awaken, and with it also the desire to

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escape from this region. Gradually the desire leads to an
agonizing despair, which may finally result in the most fervent
prayers, and therewith in an earnest volition to do better.

This is how it should be. But through men’s wrong volition things
developed differently!

Through their dark volition men built a bridge to the region of

Darkness. Thus they held out a hand to those living there, making
it possible for them to rise to the earth through the power of
attraction of similar species. Here they naturally also found the
opportunity for a fresh incarnation, which was not yet intended
for them in the normal course of world events.

For on the earth-plane, where through the medium of gross

matter they can live together with those who are more luminous
and better, they only do harm and thereby burden themselves
with fresh guilt. This they cannot do in their lower regions; for the
depravity is only beneficial to their homogeneous kind, because
ultimately they only recognize themselves as they really are, and
come to abhor their baseness, which helps towards improvement.

Man has now disrupted this normal course in all development

through the base use of his free will, with which he formed
ethereal bridges to the region of Darkness, so that those who had
sunk there could be thrown onto the earth-plane like a rabble,
who now joyfully populate the greater part of it.

Since luminous souls must retreat before the Darkness wherever

the latter has gained a firm foothold, it was easy for the darker
souls, who had no right to be on the earth-plane, also to
incarnate sometimes where otherwise only a luminous soul would
have entered. In such a case the dark soul has found an
anchorage through some person near the prospective mother,
enabling it to assert itself and push aside the light soul, even
when mother or father belong to the more luminous ones.

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This also clears up the puzzle of how many a black sheep could
come to good parents. However, if a prospective mother takes
more heed of herself and of her immediate surroundings, of those
with whom she associates, this can not happen.

Thus one can recognize it only as Love when at last the final
effect of the Laws sweeps away from the earth-plane in full
justice those who do not belong here, so that they fall into that
realm of Darkness to which by their nature they definitely belong.
Thus they can no longer hinder the ascent of the more luminous
ones, nor burden themselves with fresh guilt, but perhaps still,
after all, mature through disgust at their own experiences. –

The time will certainly come when the hearts of all men will be
seized with an iron grip, when spiritual arrogance will be
uprooted in every human creature with terrible relentlessness.
Then every doubt which today prevents the human spirit from
recognizing that Divinity is not in him, but high above him, will
also disappear. That It can only stand as the purest image on the
altar of his inner life, to which he looks up in humble prayer. –

It is no error but sin when a human spirit confesses his desire

also to be Divine. Such presumption must cause his fall; for it is
equivalent to an attempt to tear the scepter from the Hand of his
God, and degrade Him to the same level as man occupies, and on
which until now he has never even fulfilled his task, because he
wanted to be more, and aspires to heights which he can never
possibly reach, nor even recognize. Thus he heedlessly
overlooked all reality, not only making himself quite useless in
Creation, but far worse, making himself directly harmful!

In the end, brought about through his own wrong attitude, it will
be proved to him with uncanny clarity that in his present so
degenerated state he does not even represent the shadow of
Divinity. The whole hoard of earthly knowledge that he has
laboriously accumulated over these thousands of years will then
prove before the horrified gaze of his eyes to be as nothing;

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helpless, he will experience with himself how the fruits of his one-
sided earthly aspirations become useless and sometimes even a
curse to him. Then he may reflect upon his own divinity, if he can!
––

A mighty voice will sound forth and compel him: “Down on your
knees, creature, before your God and Lord! Do not sacrilegiously
try to lift yourself up to the level of God!” – –

The self-centeredness of the indolent human spirit cannot

continue. Only then can this humanity really think of an ascent.
That will also be the time when everything that does not stand on
a sound foundation will collapse. The sham forms of life, the false
prophets and the organizations surrounding them, will
disintegrate from within! Therewith the wrong courses that have
hitherto prevailed will also be exposed.

Then many a self-complacent person will probably also be

terrified to realize that he is standing on the brink of an abyss
and, through being wrongly guided, is swiftly gliding downwards
when he proudly imagined himself already to be ascending and
nearing the Light! That he opened protective gates without
having the full strength of defense behind them. That he
attracted dangers which in the natural course of events he would
have passed over. Happy is he who then finds the right way back!

19. ONCE UPON A TIME...!

FOUR WORDS ONLY, yet they are like a magic formula; for they
bear within them the quality of instantly arousing some special
intuitive perception in every human being. Seldom is this intuitive
perception of the same kind. Similar to the effect music has.
Exactly as with music, these four words also find their way
straight to the spirit of man, his real “ego”. Naturally only to
those who do not keep the spirit completely locked within them,
and have thus already lost their real humanity here on earth.

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On hearing these words, however, every human being will
involuntarily and instantly think back to some former experience.
This rises vividly before him, and with the picture also a
corresponding intuitive perception.

With one it will be a yearning tenderness, a melancholy

happiness, or also a silent longing impossible of fulfillment. With
others, however, pride, anger, horror or hatred. Man will always
think of some experience which made an exceptional impression
upon him, but which he also thought long since extinguished
within him.

Yet nothing has been extinguished in him, nothing lost of what he

once really experienced within himself. All of it he can still call his
own, as really acquired by himself, and thus imperishable. But
only that which has been experienced! Nothing else can arise
with these words.

Man should for once closely heed this with care and with an alert
mind, then he will soon recognize what is really alive within him,
and what can be designated as dead, as a soulless shell of
useless memories.

Only what has so deeply affected him during his earth-life as to

stamp an indelible and ineffaceable imprint on his soul serves to
benefit man, by whom we must not imagine the physical body.
Only such imprints have an influence on the forming of the human
soul and thereby, going further, also on the advancement of the
spirit for its continual development.

In reality, therefore, only that which leaves such a deep

impression is experienced and thus made one’s own. All else flits
ineffectively by, or at best serves to help in the development of
events that are capable of calling forth such great impressions.

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Happy is he who can call his own many such powerful
experiences, no matter whether called forth by joy or sorrow; for
the impressions they leave will one day be the most precious that
a human soul takes with it on its way into the beyond. –

Purely intellectual work, such as is customary today, when

properly applied serves only to facilitate physical life on earth.
Closely considered, that is the actual ultimate aim of all
intellectual activity! In the final analysis there is never any other
result. With all erudition, irrespective of which branch of
education, and also with all activities whether in public affairs or
in the family, with every individual or with nations, as also finally
with humanity as a whole.

But unfortunately everything has subjected itself quite

unconditionally to the intellect alone, and therefore lies in heavy
chains of earthly limitation of the perceptive capacity, which was
naturally bound to bring in its wake disastrous consequences in
every activity and happening, and will continue to do so.

To this there is only one exception on this whole earth. This

exception, however, is not perhaps offered to us by the church,
as many will think and indeed as it should be, but by art! Here
now the intellect unquestionably takes second place. But where
the intellect gains the upper hand, art is at once reduced to
craftsmanship; it is immediately and quite incontestably
degraded from its lofty position. This is a logical consequence
which in its simple naturalness cannot possibly be otherwise. Not
one exception to it can be pointed out.

Of course, the same conclusion must also be drawn in all else!

Does this not make man think? Surely it must be as though scales
fell from his eyes. This quite plainly indicates to the thinking and
discriminating person that with everything else dominated by the
intellect he can indeed obtain but one substitute, the inferior!
From this fact man should recognize the place assigned by nature
to the intellect, if anything that is right and of value is to arise!

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So far only art is still born out of the activity of the living spirit,
out of the intuitive perception. Art alone has had a natural and
therefore a normal and healthy origin and development. The
spirit, however, does not express itself in the intellect, but in the
intuitive perceptions, and only manifests in what is generally
called “deep inner feeling” (“Gemuet”). That is just what the
intellectual man of today, who is so inordinately proud of himself,
likes to mock and ridicule. Thus he derides what is most valuable
in man, yes, the very thing that really makes man a human being!

Spirit has nothing to do with the intellect. If at length man wishes

for improvement in all things he must take heed of Christ’s
words: “By their works ye shall know them!” The time is at hand
when this will come to pass.

Only the works of the spirit from their very origin bear life within
them, and with it permanence and stability. Everything else must
collapse from within when its time of blossoming is past. As soon
as the fruits of it are due to appear, the barrenness will be
exposed!

Just look at history! Only the work of the spirit, that is to say art,
has outlived the peoples who have already collapsed through the
activity of their intellect, which in itself is lifeless and cold. Their
great, much-praised knowledge could not offer them any
salvation from collapse. Egyptians, Greeks and Romans went this
way; later also the Spaniards and the French, now the Germans –
yet the works of genuine art have outlived them all! Nor can they
ever perish. But no one has perceived with what strict regularity
these events have recurred. No person thought of getting to the
real root of this great evil.

Instead of searching for this root, and for once calling a halt to
the ever-recurring decline, men have blindly submitted to it, and
with laments and complaints have resigned themselves to the
idea that “nothing can be changed”.

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Now finally it will strike all mankind! Much misery already lies
behind us, still greater is to come. And deep affliction moves
through the dense ranks of those who have even now to some
extent been affected by it.

Think of all the peoples who have already had to fall on reaching
full bloom, the zenith of the intellect. The fruits which developed
from the blossom-time were everywhere the same! Immorality,
shamelessness and debauchery in various forms, inevitably
followed by decline and ruin.

The complete similarity is very obvious to everyone! And also

every thinking person must discover a very definite nature and
consistency of the strictest Laws in this happening.

One after the other these peoples had finally to recognize that
their greatness, their power and their glory were only apparent,
upheld solely by force and compulsion, and not secured by an
inner soundness.

If you would only open your eyes, instead of despairing! Look

about you, learn from the past, and compare it with the messages
that have reached you already thousands of years ago from the
Divine, and you must discover the root of the devouring evil,
which alone forms the obstacle to the ascent of all mankind.

Only when the evil has been thoroughly eradicated will the path
to general ascent be open, not before. And this will then be
lasting, because it will be animated by the living spirit, which has
hitherto been impossible. –

Before going into this subject more deeply, I want to explain what
spirit, as the only really living part in man, is. Spirit is not wit,
and not intellect! Nor is spirit acquired knowledge. It is
erroneous, therefore, to call a person “rich in spirit” because he
has studied, read and observed much and knows how to converse

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well about it, or because his brilliance expresses itself through
original ideas and intellectual wit.

Spirit is something entirely different. It is an independent

consistency, coming from the world of its homogeneous species,
which is different from the part to which the earth and thus the
physical body belong. The spiritual world lies higher, it forms the
upper and lightest part of Creation. Owing to its consistency, this
spiritual part in man bears within it the task of returning to the
Spiritual Realm, as soon as all the material coverings have been
severed from it. The urge to do so is set free at a very definite
degree of maturity, and then leads the spirit upwards to its
homogeneous species, through whose power of attraction it is
raised.*

Spirit has nothing to do with the earthly intellect, only with the
quality which is described as “deep inner feeling” (“Gemuet”). To
be rich in spirit, therefore, is the same as “having deep inner
feelings” (“gemuetvoll”), but not the same as being highly
intellectual.

Just to discover this difference more easily, man should now make
use of the expression: “Once upon a time!” That alone will help
very many seekers to find clarification. If they observe
themselves carefully they can recognize what has so far proved
beneficial to their souls in their earth-life, or what has merely
served to ease the conditions of their life and work in the earthly
environment. In other words, what is of value to them not only on
earth but also in the beyond, and what serves only earthly
purposes but remains valueless for the beyond. The one can be
taken over by man, but the other he leaves behind on his
departure as belonging only here, because it can be of no further
use to him. What he leaves behind, however, is but the tool for
earthly events, an aid for the time of earth, nothing more.

If a tool is not used solely as such, but is valued much more

highly, it obviously cannot come up to the higher demands made
upon it; it is in the wrong place and will thereby naturally also

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produce many kinds of deficiencies, which in time will have quite
disastrous consequences.

The first and foremost of these tools is the earthly intellect

which, as a product of the human brain, must bear within itself
the limitation to which anything physical-gross-material by its
own consistency is always subject. And the product cannot
possibly be different from its origin. It always remains bound to
the nature of the origin. Likewise the works that develop through
the product.

For the intellect this naturally results in the most limited, purely
earthly comprehensive capacity, closely bound to time and space.
Since it originates in the World of Gross Matter, itself inert and
with no life of its own, the intellect is also without living power.
This condition, of course, is likewise perpetuated in all the
activities of the intellect, for which it thereby remains impossible
to impart life to its works.

In this inflexible natural happening lies the key to the unhappy

events during man’s life on this small earth.

We must at last learn to differentiate between the spirit and the

intellect, the vital core of man and his tool! When this tool is
placed above the living core, as it has hitherto been, the result
will be something unsound, which even at its inception must bear
within it the germ of death; and thereby the vital, the highest and
most valuable part, is constricted, bound and cut off from its
necessary activity, until in the inevitable collapse of the lifeless
structure it rises free but incomplete from the ruins.

Instead of “once upon a time” let us now picture to ourselves the

question: “What was it like in former times?” How different is the
effect. The great difference is immediately perceived. The first
question speaks to the intuitive perception, which is linked with
the spirit. But the second question is directed to the intellect, and
entirely different pictures emerge. From the outset they are

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limited, cold, without warmth of life, because the intellect has
nothing else to give.

From the very beginning, however, mankind’s greatest guilt has

lain in placing this intellect, which can only produce what is
incomplete and without life, on a high pedestal, and virtually
dancing around it in worship. It was given a place that should
have been reserved for the spirit alone.

This action is entirely opposed to the ordinances of the Creator

and thus to nature, because these are anchored in what takes
place in nature. Therefore nothing can lead to a true goal either,
but everything must fail at the point where the harvest is due to
set in. It cannot be otherwise, but is a natural happening that is
to be expected.

Only in purely technical science, in all industry, is it different.

This has reached great heights through the intellect, and will
even advance much further in the future! This fact, however,
serves to prove the truth of my explanations. Technical science in
all its aspects is and will always remain purely earthly, lifeless.
Now since the intellect likewise belongs to all that is earthly it is
able to develop brilliantly in the technical sciences, and can
accomplish really great things. Here it stands in its right place, in
its real task!

But wherever anything “living”, thus purely human, has to be

considered as well, the intellect by its nature is not adequate,
and must therefore fail if it is not then guided by the spirit! For
spirit alone is life. Success of a specific kind can always be
achieved only by the activity of the homogeneous kind. The
earthly intellect will therefore never be able to do spiritual work!
For this reason placing the intellect above life has become the
grave offense of this mankind.

Contrary to the creative, thus wholly natural ordinance, man has

therewith directly reversed his task, and has, so to speak, turned

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it upside down by yielding the supreme place that belongs to the
living spirit to the intellect, which comes in the second and purely
earthly place. Through this it is again quite natural for man now
to be obliged painfully to seek from below upwards, whereby the
superimposed intellect, with its limited capacity to comprehend,
obstructs any broader view, instead of his being able to look
down from above through the spirit.

If he wishes to awaken he is compelled first to “transpose the

lights”. To put the intellect, which is now above, in the place
given to it by nature, and restore the spirit to the supreme
position. This necessary transposition is no longer so easy for the
man of today. –

The change of order that men introduced in bygone times, so

incisively directed against the Will of the Creator, thus against
the Laws of Nature, was the actual “fall of man”, the
consequences of which cannot be more terrible; for in due course
it developed into “inherited sin”, because the elevation of the
intellect to the position of sole ruler again brought in its wake the
natural consequence that, in the course of time, such one-sided
cultivation and activity also strengthened the brain one-sidedly,
so that only the part which has to do the work of the intellect
grew bigger, and the other part was bound to become stunted.
Thereby the part that has become stunted through neglect can
only operate today as an unreliable dream-brain, even then being
still under the powerful influence of the so-called day-brain,
which activates the intellect.

Thus the part of the brain which should form the bridge to the
spirit, or rather the bridge from the spirit to everything earthly, is
thereby paralyzed; a connection is broken, or at least very much
loosened, whereby man has cut off for himself all spiritual
activity, and with it also the possibility of “animating”,
spiritualizing and inspiring his intellect.

Both parts of the brain should have been developed absolutely

equally, for joint harmonious activity, like everything in the body.

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The spirit leading and the intellect carrying out here on earth. It
is obvious that because of this all the activity of the body too, and
even the body itself, can never be what it should be. For naturally
what has taken place affects everything! Because the most
essential factor for all earthly things is thereby missing!

It is easy to understand that the cutting off was simultaneously

linked with the withdrawal and estrangement from the Divine.
Indeed, there was no longer any way to It.

Finally this in turn had the disadvantage that already for

thousands of years, owing to the ever-increasing hereditary
factor, every child’s body that is born brings with it to the earth
the frontal intellectual brain so large that, from the outset and
because of this condition, each child is again readily submitted to
the intellect the moment this brain develops its full activity. The
gulf between the two parts of the brain has now grown so wide,
and their functions so proportionately unequal, that with the
majority of all mankind an improvement can no longer be
achieved without catastrophe.

The intellectual man of today is no longer a normal human being,

but lacks any development of the principal part of his brain that
belongs to the complete human being, because he has allowed it
to become stunted for thousands of years. Without exception,
every intellectual has only a crippled normal brain! Therefore
brain-cripples have been ruling the earth for thousands of years;
they regard the normal human being as an enemy and seek to
subjugate him. In their crippled condition they imagine that they
accomplish a great deal, and they do not know that the normal
human being is in a position to achieve ten times as much,
producing works of a permanent nature which are more perfect
than the present efforts! The way is open to every really serious
seeker to acquire this ability!

An intellectual, however, will no longer so easily become able to

grasp something that belongs to the activity of this stunted part
of his brain! He is simply incapable of it, even if he should desire

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it; and solely because of his voluntary restriction he ridicules
everything that he is unable to attain, and which owing to his
really retarded, not normal brain will never at any time be
understood by him either.

Just therein lies the most terrible part of the curse of this
unnatural aberration. The harmonious cooperation of both parts
of the human brain that absolutely belongs to a normal human
being, is definitely impossible for the present-day intellectuals,
who are called materialists. –

To be a materialist is really no recommendation, but evidence of a

stunted brain.

Thus the unnatural brain has hitherto ruled on this earth; and
finally its activity must obviously also bring about the inevitable
collapse in all things, since everything, no matter what it wishes
to produce, naturally contains discord and ill-health even from
the very start, owing to the stunting.

Nothing of this can now be changed any more, but one must
calmly let the naturally developing collapse come about. Then,
however, will be the day of resurrection for the spirit, and also for
a new life! The slave of the intellect, who has held the reins for
thousands of years, will thus be disposed of for ever! Never again
will he be able to arise, because the evidence and his own
experience will finally compel him voluntarily to submit at last, ill
and spiritually impoverished, to that which he was unable to
grasp. Never again will he be given the opportunity to oppose the
spirit, either by scoffing or by the semblance of right through
imposing force, such as was also used towards the Son of God,
Who had to fight against it.

Then there would still have been time to avert such misery. But
now it is too late; for in the meantime the loosened connection
between the two parts of the brain can no longer be bridged.

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Many intellectuals will again try to ridicule the explanations in
this lecture, but except for empty platitudes, they will be unable
to present even one really objective counter-argument. Yet any
serious seeker and thinker will have to take such blind zeal
simply as fresh proof of what I have set forth herein. However
hard they try, it is impossible for these people. Let us therefore
regard them from now on as sick persons, who will soon be in
need of help, and . . . let us calmly await the time.

No struggle and no act of violence are needed to enforce the

necessary progress; for the end will come of itself. Here too,
through the immutable Laws of all reciprocal actions, the natural
course of events will take effect quite inexorably, and also
punctually. – –

Then, according to various prophecies, a ”new generation” shall

arise. However, this will not only be made up of the newly-born,
such as are now already observed in California and also in
Australia to be endowed with a “new sense”, but mainly of people
already living, who in the near future will become “seeing”
through the many impending events. They will then possess the
same “sense” as those now newly-born; for this is nothing more
than the ability to stand in the world with an open and
unrestrained spirit, no longer allowing itself to be suppressed by
the limitation of the intellect. Inherited sin will thereby be
eliminated!

But all this has nothing to do with what has been hitherto
described as “occult faculties”. It is then simply the normal man
as he should be! To “become seeing” has nothing to do with
“clairvoyance”, but signifies “insight”, recognition.

Men will then be in the position to observe everything impartially,

which means nothing else than to assess. They will see the
intellectual man as he really is, with the limitation so dangerous
to himself and his environment, in which there simultaneously

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arise the arrogant lust for power, and the disputing that is
actually part of it.

They will also see how, with strict consistency, all humanity has
suffered under this yoke in one form or another for thousands of
years; and how this cancerous sore, as the hereditary enemy, has
always been directed against the development of the free human
spirit, which is the main object in human existence! Nothing will
escape them, also not the bitter certainty that affliction, all
suffering, and every downfall, were bound to come about through
this evil, and that there could never be any betterment because
from the start all insight was ruled out owing to the limitation of
the perceptive capacity.

But with this awakening all influence, all power of these

intellectuals has ceased. For all time; for then begins a new and
better epoch for mankind, in which the old can no longer survive.

Therewith the necessary victory of the spirit over the failing

intellect, already longed for by hundreds of thousands today, will
come. Many of the masses who have hitherto been led astray will
then still recognize that until now they had completely
misinterpreted the term “intellect”. The majority simply accepted
it as an idol, without examination, just because the others also
did so; and because all its adherents always knew how through
force and the laws to pose as infallible, absolute rulers. That is
why many do not even take the trouble to expose the real
hollowness of these people, and the deficiencies it has concealed.

There are certainly also some who already for decades have been
fighting against this enemy with tenacious energy and conviction,
in secret and to some extent also openly, occasionally also being
exposed to most bitter suffering. But they fight without knowing
the real enemy! And this has naturally made success more
difficult. Indeed, it has made it impossible from the outset. The
warriors’ sword was not well sharpened, because they were
always striking at non-essential things that dented it. With these
non-essentials, however, they have always struck to one side,

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missing the mark, wasting their own strength, and only causing
disunion among themselves.

In reality there is only one enemy of mankind all along the line:
The hitherto unrestricted rule of the intellect! That was the great
fall of man, his most grievous guilt, which brought all evil in its
wake. That became the hereditary sin, and that also is the
Antichrist of whom it is proclaimed that he will raise his head.
More plainly expressed: The mastery of the intellect is his tool,
through which men have fallen prey to him. To him, the enemy of
God, the Antichrist himself . . . Lucifer!**

We are in the midst of this time! He dwells today in every human

being, ready to ruin him; for his activity immediately brings
estrangement from God as quite a natural consequence. As soon
as he is allowed to rule he cuts off the spirit.

Therefore, let man be keenly on his guard. –

He must not on that account belittle his intellect, but must make
it what it is, his tool; not, however, his authoritative will. Not his
master!

The man of the coming generation will be able to regard past

times only with disgust, horror and shame. Rather as we feel on
entering an old torture chamber. There, too, we perceive the evil
fruits of the cold, calculating domination of the intellect. For it is
surely quite undeniable that a person possessing only a little
inner feeling, and thus spiritual activity, could never have devised
such atrocities! Still, on the whole it is no different today, only
somewhat more camouflaged; and the miseries of the masses are
just as rotten fruits as was the individual torture in olden times.

On looking back into the past, man will only be able to shake his
head in sheer amazement. He will ask himself how it was possible
to suffer these errors calmly for thousands of years. The answer,

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of course, is simple: by force! Wherever one looks it can be
recognized quite clearly. Leaving aside the times of remote
antiquity, we need only enter the aforementioned torture
chambers which can still be seen everywhere today, and the use
of which does not lie so very far back.

We shudder as we look at these old implements. What cold

brutality, what bestiality do they reveal! Hardly anyone today will
doubt that the most grievous crime lay in those past proceedings.
Upon the criminals an even greater crime was thus perpetrated.
But also many an innocent person, dragged away from family and
freedom, was roughly cast into these dungeons. What
lamentations, what shrieks of suffering died away here from
those who, completely defenseless, were at the mercy of their
tormentors. People were compelled to suffer things the
contemplation of which simply fills one with horror and loathing.

Involuntarily every one asks himself whether it was really

humanly possible – all that happened to these defenseless ones,
and moreover under the guise of justice. Of a justice that after all
once had only been obtained by force. And now again, through
physical pain, confessions of guilt were forced from those under
suspicion, so that they could then be murdered at leisure. Even
though these confessions of guilt were only extracted under
compulsion, in order to escape these insane physical tortures, yet
they nevertheless satisfied the judges, because they needed
them to comply with the “letter” of the law. Did these so narrow-
minded ones really imagine that in this way they could also
whitewash themselves before the Divine Will, and escape the
inexorable working of the basic Law of Reciprocal Action?

Either all those who dared to pass judgement on others were the
scum of the most hardened criminals, or it clearly showed the
unhealthy limitation of the earthly intellect. There can be nothing
between.

According to the Divine Laws of Creation every person in

authority, every judge, no matter what office he holds here on

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earth, should never stand in his actions under some protection of
his office, but like any other person he must alone and purely
personally, unprotected, bear full responsibility himself for all he
does in his office. Not only in the spiritual but also in the earthly
sense. Then everyone would regard things much more seriously
and carefully. And so-called “errors”, whose consequences are
forever irreparable, will certainly not so easily occur again. To say
nothing of the physical and psychic suffering of the victims and
their relatives.

But let us further consider another aspect of this subject, the

trials of so-called “witches”!

Anyone who has ever had access to the court records of such
trials would wish, in an outburst of burning shame, never to be
numbered among this mankind. In those days if anyone even had
knowledge of healing herbs, either through practical experience
or tradition, and if he used this knowledge to aid sufferers asking
him for help, he was relentlessly tortured for it. Final release
from these tortures only came with death at the stake, if his body
had not already succumbed to these cruelties.

Even physical beauty, especially chastity that did not yield

willingly, could in those days give rise to such tortures.

And then the horrors of the Inquisition! Comparatively speaking,

only a few years separate us from “that time”!

Just as today we recognize this injustice, so also did the populace

feel at that time. For the “intellect” had not yet limited them to
such an extent, and here and there the intuitive perception, the
spirit, broke through in them.

Do we not recognize today the absolute narrow-mindedness in all

this? The irresponsible stupidity?

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Although these things are spoken of with an air of superiority and
a shrugging of the shoulders, yet fundamentally nothing has
changed. The stupid presumption towards everything not
understood is still exactly the same! Except that instead of these
tortures men now publicly scoff at everything which, owing to
their narrow-mindedness, they do not understand.

Many a person would do better to search his heart for once and
think seriously about this without sparing himself. Upholders of
the intellect, which means those who are not quite normal, and
often even the law courts, will from the outset regard as a
swindler every person who possesses the ability to know
something that is concealed from others; he may be able also to
see the Ethereal World with his ethereal eyes as a natural
occurrence, which will very soon no longer be doubted, much less
brutally opposed.

And woe unto him who does not himself know what to make of it,
but naively speaks of what he has seen and heard. He must fear
the consequences as did the first Christians under Nero, with his
helpers always ready for murder.

Should he even possess still other abilities which can never be

grasped by the out-and-out intellectuals, then he will most
certainly be mercilessly hunted, slandered and ostracized unless
he complies with everyone’s wishes; if at all possible he will be
rendered “harmless”, as it is so charmingly expressed. Nobody
has any qualms of conscience about it. Even today such a man is
regarded as the free prey of anyone, and sometimes of inwardly
very unclean persons. The more narrow-minded, the greater the
delusion of cleverness and the propensity to conceit.

Man has learned nothing from these happenings of the olden

days, with their tortures, burnings at the stake, and records of
ridiculous trials! For even today anyone is still free to defile and
insult with impunity all that is unusual and not understood. In this
respect it is no different now from what it was then.

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The proceedings of the Inquisition, which were instigated by the
Church, were even worse than those of the courts of law. Here
the shrieks of the tortured were drowned by pious prayers. It was
a mockery of the Divine Will in Creation! The ecclesiastical
representatives of those days thus proved that they had no idea
of Christ’s true teaching, nor of the Godhead and Its Creative Will,
Whose Laws lie irrevocably anchored and work on in Creation, the
same even from the very beginning to the end of time.

God endowed the human spirit by its very nature with the free
will to decide. Only through this can it mature as it should, refine
itself and develop fully. Only therein lies the possibility for it to
do so. However, should this free will be cut off, then this is a
hindrance, if not a violent throwing back.

But in those days the Christian churches, as well as many

religions, fought this Divine ordinance, opposing it with the
greatest cruelty. By means of torture and finally death, they
sought to compel people to pursue courses and make confessions
which were against their conviction, thus against their will.
Thereby they violated the Divine commandment. And not only
that, but they hindered men’s spiritual progress, even throwing
them back centuries.

If only a spark of real intuitive perception, thus of the spirit, had

shown itself, this should and could never have happened!
Therefore such barbarities were only the cold-blooded work of the
intellect.

As history proves, many a Pope even permitted the use of poison

and dagger to realize his purely earthly wishes and aims. That
could only happen under the domination of the intellect, which in
its triumphal march subjugated everything and stopped at
nothing. –

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And supreme over all the Will of our Creator inexorably
manifested and manifests in the irrevocable march of events. On
passing into the beyond every human being is divested of earthly
power and its protection. Name, position, everything is left
behind. Only a poor human soul passes over, there to receive and
experience what it sowed. Not a single exception is possible! On
its path it is led through all the wheels of the relentless reciprocal
action of Divine Justice. There is no church, no state, but only
individual human souls who must personally account for every
error they have made!

He who acts against God’s Will, and thus commits a sin in

Creation, is subject to the consequences of this transgression. It
matters not who he may be and on what pretext he acted. Be it
an individual under the cloak of the church or of the law . . . a
crime committed against body or soul is and remains a crime!
Nothing can alter it, not even the semblance of justice, which is
by no means always justice; for of course the laws, too, were
made only by intellectuals, and therefore must be subject to
earthly limitations.

Just consider the law in so many states, especially in Central and

South America. The man who today presides over the
government, enjoying all the honors connected with it, may even
tomorrow be thrown into prison or executed as a criminal, if his
opponent succeeds in seizing the reins of this government
through an act of violence. Should he not be successful, then it is
he who, instead of being recognized as the ruler, will be looked
upon as a criminal and persecuted. And all the public officials are
as willing to serve the one as the other. Even a world traveler, to
remain in good standing everywhere, must change his conscience
as often as he would his clothes when passing from one country
to another. What in one country is considered a crime is very
often permitted in another and, what is more, may even be
welcomed.

This is naturally only possible in the achievements of the earthly

intellect, but never where the intellect must occupy its natural
place as a tool of the living spirit; for he who listens to the spirit
will never neglect the Laws of God. And where these are used as

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the foundation there can be no flaws, no gaps, but only a
uniformity that brings in its wake happiness and peace. In their
basic features the expressions of the spirit can always and only
be exactly the same everywhere. They will never contradict each
other.

Also the arts of justice, healing and statesmanship are bound to

remain merely deficient crafts where only intellect can form the
foundation, and the spiritual is lacking in them. It cannot possibly
be otherwise. Here naturally always starting from the true
conception of “spirit”. –

Knowledge is a product, but spirit is life, the value and power of

which can only be measured according to its connection with the
origin of the spiritual. The closer this connection the more
valuable and powerful will be the part which emanated from the
origin. But the looser this connection becomes, the more distant,
alien, isolated and weak must also be the emanated part, thus
the human being concerned.

All these are such simple self-evident facts that it is impossible to

comprehend how the erring intellectuals can pass them by over
and over again as if they were blind. For what the root provides,
sustains the trunk, the blossom and the fruit! But here also this
hopeless self-limitation in understanding reveals itself. They have
toiled to erect a wall before themselves which they can now no
longer see over, much less see through.

However, with their conceited, superior and mocking smile, with

their arrogance and looking down upon others less deeply
enslaved, they must sometimes appear to all spiritually alive
people like poor, sick fools who, in spite of all pity, must be left to
their delusion, because their limited understanding even allows
facts that prove the contrary to slip by without making any
impressions. Every effort to bring about an improvement must
simply prove as fruitless as trying to heal a sick person by
hanging a new and resplendent cloak around his shoulders.

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Even today materialism is past its climax, and now, failing
everywhere, it must soon collapse. Not without also tearing down
much that is good. Its devotees are already at the end of their
ability, and will soon become confused about their work and then
about themselves, without perceiving the abyss that has opened
up before them. They will soon be like a flock without shepherds,
one not trusting the other, each pursuing his own way, and yet
still proudly looking down upon others. Not thinking matters out
carefully, but merely following old habits.

With all signs of the outward semblance of their hollowness, they

will end by blindly falling into the abyss. They still regard as spirit
what are only the products of their own brains. But how can
lifeless matter produce living spirit? They are proud of their
meticulous thinking in many things, but quite unscrupulously and
most irresponsibly leave gaps in the most important.

Every new step, every attempt at improvement, will ever again

have to carry within it all the barrenness of the intellectual work,
and thus the germ of inevitable doom.

All that I am saying here is neither prophecy nor loose prediction,

but the unalterable consequence of the all-animating Creative
Will, Whose Laws I explain in my lectures. He who follows with me
in spirit along the paths that are clearly indicated therein must
also survey and recognize the necessary end. And all the signs for
it are already here.

People complain and cry out, they see with disgust how the
excrescences of materialism today take on scarcely believable
forms. They beg and pray for deliverance from the affliction, for
improvement and recovery from the overwhelming downfall. The
few who have managed to save some stirring of their inner life
from the tidal wave of the incredible happenings, who have not
suffocated spiritually in the general downfall that deceptively
bears the name of “progress” proudly on its brow, feel like
outcasts and backward people, and are also regarded and
ridiculed as such by the soulless followers of modern life.

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A laurel wreath to all those who had the courage to refrain from
joining the masses! Who have proudly stayed behind on the
steeply sloping path!

He who today still considers himself unfortunate because of this

must be a sleepwalker! Open your eyes! Do you not see that
everything that oppresses you is already the beginning of the
sudden end of materialism, which at the moment only appears
still to rule? The whole structure is already collapsing, without
any assistance from those who have suffered and must still suffer
under it. Intellectual mankind must now reap what for thousands
of years they have produced, nourished, reared and acclaimed.

In human reckoning it is a long time, but for God’s self-acting

mills in Creation a brief span. Wherever you look there is failure
everywhere. It surges back and heaps itself up menacingly like a
heavy rampart that will soon topple over and crash down upon its
admirers, burying them beneath the ruins. It is the inexorable
Law of Reciprocal Action which during this manifestation must
have a terrible effect, because in spite of the many kinds of
experiences gained there has never in thousands of years been
any change towards higher things, but on the contrary the same
wrong road has been trampled wider and wider.

Despondent ones, the time is at hand! Hold up your heads, which

you have so often had to hang in shame when injustice and
stupidity were able to cause you such deep suffering. Now look
calmly at the opponent today who thus sought to suppress you!

Already the fine raiment worn up till now is very badly tattered.
The figure in its true form is at last visible through all the rents.
The exhausted product of the human brain, the intellect, which
allowed itself to be enthroned as spirit, less confident but no less
conceited, looks forth confounded!

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Just confidently take the bandage from your eyes and look about
you more keenly. Alone the perusal of newspapers which are
otherwise quite good reveals all sorts of things to the clear-
sighted. There are desperate efforts still to cling to all the old
illusions. With arrogance, and often very coarse jokes, people
seek to cover up the lack of comprehension that becomes more
and more evident. A person will frequently use absurd language
to judge something, of which in reality he has quite obviously no
shred of understanding.

Today even people with quite good abilities helplessly take

refuge in questionable courses rather than confess that so many
things are beyond the grasp of their own intellect, on which alone
they have hitherto sought to rely. They do not sense the
absurdity of their behavior, do not see the weaknesses which
they only help to increase thereby. Confused and dazzled, they
will soon stand face to face with the Truth, and mournfully look
back over their bankrupt life, at last recognizing with shame that
stupidity lay just where they thought themselves wise.

What have things already come to today? The man of muscle is

the hero! Has an earnest scientist, who after decades of arduous
research has discovered a serum giving protection and also help
against fatal diseases year after year to hundreds of thousands,
young and old, ever been able to celebrate such triumphs as a
boxer, who with purely physical, crude brutality overpowers his
fellowman? Yet does this in any way benefit even one human
soul? It is only earthly, all earthly, which means low in the whole
Work of Creation! Entirely corresponding to the golden calf of
intellectual activity. As the triumph of this so earthbound clay
effigy of a monarch over narrow-minded mankind! – –

And no one sees this mad rush downwards into the gruesome
abyss!

He who intuitively perceives this will still keep silent for the
present, in the shameful awareness of being ridiculed in any case
should he speak. It is already a wild frenzy in which, however,

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there is a dawning recognition of powerlessness. And with the
growing awareness of that recognition people become even more
rebellious, out of sheer obstinacy, out of vanity, and last but not
least from fear and horror of the impending events. They simply
refuse already to think of the end of this colossal error!
Convulsively they cling to the proud structure built up over past
millennia, which closely resembles the Tower of Babel, and which
will end in the same way!

This hitherto uncurbed materialism carries within it a foreboding

of death, which becomes more evident every month! –

Yet in many human souls, in all places, on the entire earth,

something is astir! The radiance of the Truth is still only covered
by a thin layer of old, false conceptions, which the first gust of a
purification will sweep away, thus setting free the core, whose
light will unite with that of so many others to unfold its cone of
rays, rising like a fire of gratitude to the Realm of Pure Joy, to the
Feet of the Creator.

That will be the time of the much-longed-for Millennium, which

lies before us in brilliant promise as the great Star of Hope!

And with this the grievous sin of all mankind against the spirit,
which has kept the spirit bound on earth through the intellect, is
at last redeemed! Only that then is the right way back to what is
natural, to the way of the Will of the Creator, Who desires men’s
works to be great, and suffused with living intuitive perceptions!
The victory of the spirit, however, will at the same time also be
the victory of purest Love!

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*Lecture: "I am the Resurrection and the Life...!"

**Lecture: "The Antichrist"

20. ERRORS

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 THERE IS MANY A MAN who lifts up his eyes seekingly for Light
and Truth. His longing is great, but very often he lacks earnest
volition! More than half of the seekers are not genuine. They
bring their own preconceived opinion. Should they have to change
it in the slightest degree, then they would much rather reject all
that is new to them, even if it contains the Truth.

Thus thousands must go under because, entangled as they are in

erroneous convictions, they have restricted the freedom of
movement which they need to swing themselves upward to
salvation.

There are always some who imagine they have already grasped
all that is right. They have no intention of subjecting themselves
to a strict examination based on what they have heard and read.

I am naturally not addressing such as these!

Nor do I speak to churches and political parties, to fraternities,

sects and societies, but only in all simplicity to man himself. Far
be it from me to pull down what exists; for I am building up and
completing the answers to questions as yet unsolved, questions
that must arise in everyone as soon as he thinks just a little.

Only one basic condition is essential for every listener: Earnest

seeking for the Truth. He should inwardly examine the words and
let them come to life, but not heed the speaker. Otherwise he
derives no benefit. All who do not strive to do this are simply
wasting their time from the start.

It is incredible how naively the great majority of people cling

tenaciously to their ignorance on such questions as whence they
come, what they are, and whither they go!

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Birth and death, the inseparable poles of all life on earth, should
not be a secret to man.

There is a great deal of contradiction in the views of what

constitutes the inner core of man. This is the result of the morbid
self-aggrandizement of the earth-dwellers, who presumptuously
boast that their inner core is Divine!

Look at humanity! Can you discover anything Divine in them?

Such a foolish statement should be branded as blasphemy,
because it denotes a debasement of Divinity.

Man does not carry a grain of Divinity within him!

This idea is just morbid presumption, the cause of which is simply

the consciousness of being unable to understand. Where is the
man who can honestly say that for him such a belief has also
become conviction? Whoever examines himself seriously must
deny it. He will feel distinctly that it is only a longing and a desire
to harbor something Divine within him, but not a certainty! It is
quite right to say that man carries within him a spark of God. But
this spark of God is spirit! It is not a part of Divinity.

The term spark is a perfectly correct designation. A spark

develops and flies out without taking along or bearing within it
anything of the quality of the producer. It is the same here. A
spark of God is not itself Divine.

Where such mistakes can already be found in regard to the origin

of a being, there failure must ensue in the whole development! If
I have built on a wrong foundation, then one day the whole
structure must totter and fall.

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For it is the origin that provides the mainstay for everyone’s
whole existence and development! Anyone who seeks to reach far
beyond his origin, as usually happens, reaches for something he
cannot grasp, and thereby loses all support in the quite natural
course of events.

If, for instance, I reach for the branch of a tree which through its
material consistency is similar to my earthly body, I can gain a
hold on this branch and thus swing myself up on it.

But if I reach beyond this branch, then through the different

consistency of the air I can find no support, and . . . cannot
therefore pull myself up either! Surely this is clear enough.

It is exactly the same with the inner consistency of man, called

the soul, and its core, the spirit.

If this spirit wishes to have the essential support that it needs

from its origin, then it must not of course seek to reach into the
Divine. That would be unnatural; for the Divine lies much too far
above it, and is of an entirely different consistency!

And yet in his conceit man seeks contact with that sphere to
which he can never attain, and thus interrupts the natural order
of things. His wrong desire is like a dam forming an obstruction
between himself and his necessary supply of power from the
origin. He cuts himself off from it.

Therefore away with such errors! Not until then can the human
spirit develop its full power, which it still heedlessly disregards
today, and become what it can and should be, lord in Creation!
But mark well, only in Creation, not standing above it.

Only Divinity stands above all Creation! –

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God Himself, the Origin of all being and life, is Divine, as the very
word implies! Man was created by His Spirit!

Spirit is the Will of God. Now out of this Will the first Creation
came into being. Do let us keep to this simple fact; it provides the
possibility for a better understanding.

By way of comparison, just picture your own will. It is an act, but

not part of man himself; otherwise man would in time dissolve in
his many acts of will. There would be nothing whatever left of
him.

It is no different with God! His Will created Paradise! But His Will
is the Spirit, designated as the “Holy Spirit”. Paradise, again, was
only the work of the Spirit, not part of the Spirit Itself. There is a
gradation downwards in this. The Creative Holy Spirit, that is, the
Living Will of God, was not absorbed in His Creation. He did not
even give one part of Himself to it; but He Himself remained
wholly outside Creation. The Bible already states this quite
clearly and plainly with the words: “And the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters”, not God Himself! After all, that is
different. Thus man does not carry within him anything of the
Holy Spirit Itself either, but only of the spirit which is a work of
the Holy Spirit, an act.

Instead of concerning himself with this fact, man already exerts

all his energy to form a gap here! You have only to think of the
prevalent conception of the First Creation, of Paradise! It
absolutely had to be on this earth. The small human intellect
thereby compressed the event requiring millions of years within
its own sphere, limited by space and time, imagining himself to
be the centre and axis of all that happens in the world. As a result
he immediately lost the way to the actual starting-point of life.

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In place of this clear path of which he could no longer command a
view, a substitute had to be found in his religious conceptions, if
he was not to designate himself as the creator of all being and
life, and thus as God. The term “faith” has given him this
substitute until now! And all mankind has suffered ever since
from the word “faith”! What is more, this misunderstood word,
which was meant to restore all that was lost, became a cliff
against which everything was wrecked!

Only the indolent one is content with faith. It is also faith which
can become the butt of scoffers. And the word “faith”, wrongly
interpreted, is the barrier which today obstructs the road to
mankind’s progress.

Faith is not meant to be the cloak generously covering all slothful

thinking, which like a sleeping-sickness gradually steals over and
paralyses the spirit of man! Faith should really become
conviction. Conviction however demands life, the keenest
examination!

Where even one gap, one unsolved riddle remains, conviction

becomes impossible. Therefore no one can have genuine faith so
long as he has a question unanswered.

Even the words “blind faith” show that there is something

unsound!

Faith must be alive, as Christ already once demanded, otherwise

it serves no purpose. But to be alive means to bestir oneself, to
weigh and also to examine! Not dumbly accepting the thoughts of
others. After all, blind faith plainly means lack of understanding.
What a person does not understand, however, cannot bring him
spiritual benefit either, for through lack of understanding it
cannot come to life within him.

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But whatever he does not fully experience within never becomes
his own either! And only what is his own helps him to ascend.

After all, no one can walk and go forward along a road containing
great yawning clefts. Where man’s knowledge cannot take him
any further he must come to a spiritual standstill. This fact is
irrefutable and no doubt also easily understood. Hence he who
wishes to advance spiritually should awaken!

He can never proceed on his path to the Light of Truth in his

sleep! Nor with a bandage or a veil over his eyes.

The Creator wants to have His humanity seeing in Creation. To be

seeing, however, means to be knowing! And knowledge does not
go with blind faith. Only indolence and slothful thinking lie in
such a belief, not greatness!

The privilege of being endowed with the ability to think also

brings man the duty to investigate!

In order to avoid all this, man out of laziness has simply so

belittled the great Creator as to ascribe to Him arbitrary actions
in proof of His Omnipotence.

He who will but think a little must again find a great error
therein. An arbitrary act implies the possibility of diverting the
existing Laws of Nature. However, where such a thing is possible,
perfection is lacking. For where there is perfection there can be
no alteration. Thus a large part of humanity erroneously
represents the Omnipotence of God in such a way that those who
think more deeply would have to regard it as a proof of
imperfection. And therein lies the root of much evil.

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Give God the honor of perfection! Then you will find the key to
the unsolved riddles of all life. –

It shall be my endeavor to bring serious thinkers to this point. A

sigh of relief shall go through the circles of all seekers for the
Truth. Finally they will joyfully recognize that there is no mystery,
no gap in the entire course of world events. And then . . . they
will see clearly before them the road to ascent. They only need to
follow it. –

In all Creation there is no justification whatever for mysticism!

There is no room for it, because everything should lie clearly and
without gaps before the human spirit, right back to its origin.
Only what is above that will have to remain a most sacred
mystery to every human spirit. Therefore it will never be able to
grasp what is Divine. Not with the best will and the greatest
knowledge. But in this inability to grasp what is Divine lies the
most natural thing for man that one can think of; for as everyone
knows, it is not possible for anything to go beyond the
composition of its origin. Nor for the spirit of man either! A
boundary is always set by the difference in composition. And the
Divine is of an entirely different consistency from the spiritual, in
which man originates.*

The animal, for instance, can never become a human being,

however highly developed its soul may be. From its animistic
substance there cannot possibly blossom forth the spiritual which
brings forth the human spirit. In the composition of all animistic
substance the spiritual basic species is missing. Man, who has
issued from the spiritual part of Creation, can in turn never
become Divine either, because the spiritual has not the nature of
Divine substance. The human spirit may well be able to develop
to the highest degree of perfection, but must nevertheless always
remain spiritual. It can never go above itself into the Divine. Here
again the different consistency naturally forms the ever
impassable limitation upwards. The World of Matter does not
come into it at all here since it has no life of its own, but serves
as a covering, motivated and formed by the spiritual and the
animistic.

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The mighty field of the spirit extends through all Creation.
Therefore man can, should and must fully grasp and recognize
Creation! And through his knowledge he will rule therein. But
rightly understood, to rule, however severely, simply means to
serve! –

At no point in the entire Creation, up to the highest spiritual, is

there any deviation from the natural happening! This fact alone
surely makes all things much more familiar to everyone. The
unhealthy and secret fear, the reluctance to face so many things
as yet unknown, thus fall away of their own accord. With
naturalness a fresh breeze blows through the sultry atmosphere
formed by the morbid imaginings of those who like to cause a
great stir. Their sickly fantastic creations, which terrify the weak
and are mocked by the strong, have an absurd and childishly
foolish effect on the sight that is becoming clear, and that finally,
joyful and happy, takes in the glorious naturalness of every
happening, which always moves only in simple straight lines that
can be clearly recognized.

It runs through everything uniformly, in the strictest regularity

and order. And this makes it easier for every seeker to obtain the
broad, free view right to the point of his actual origin!

For this he needs neither painstaking research nor imagination.

The main thing is for him to stand aloof from all those who in
their muddled secretiveness try to make a scanty part-knowledge
appear greater.

It all lies so simply before men that owing to the very simplicity
they often do not come to recognition, because from the outset
they assume that the great work of Creation must be much more
difficult and intricate.

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Here in spite of the best volition thousands stumble, they raise
their eyes seekingly to the heavens, not realizing that without
effort they have only to look before and around them. They will
then see that through their existence on earth they are already
standing on the right road, and need only go calmly ahead!
Without haste and without effort, but with open eyes and a free,
unprejudiced mind! Man must at last learn that true greatness
lies only in the most simple and natural happening. That
greatness implies this simplicity.

So is it in Creation, so also in himself, who belongs to Creation as

a part of it!

Only simple thinking and intuitive perceiving can give him clarity!
Such simplicity as children still possess! Calm reflection will show
him that, in the ability to comprehend, simplicity is identical with
clarity and also with naturalness! The one simply cannot be
thought of without the others. They form a triad that expresses
one concept! Whoever makes it the foundation-stone of his
search will soon break through the nebulous confusion.
Everything that has been added artificially will then collapse into
nothingness.

Man will realize that the natural order of events may nowhere be
eliminated, and that at no place is it interrupted! And therein the
greatness of God also reveals itself! The unchangeable vitality of
the self-acting Creative Will! For the Laws of Nature are the
inexorable Laws of God, continually visible to all men, appealing
to them, testifying to the Greatness of the Creator, of an
unshakable regularity, admitting of no exception! Of no
exception! For a grain of oats can again bring forth only oats,
likewise a grain of wheat only wheat, and so forth.

So is it also in that first Creation, which as the Creator’s own

Work stands nearest to His Perfection. There the fundamental
Laws are anchored in such a way that, driven by the vitality of the
Will, they were bound in the most natural order of events to
result in the coming into being of the further Creation, right down

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finally to these celestial globes. Only becoming coarser the
further Creation draws away in the process of development from
the Perfection of the origin. –

Let us first of all just consider Creation.

Imagine that all life therein, no matter in what part it is found, is

of two kinds only. The one kind is self-conscious and the other
unconscious of itself. It is of the utmost value to observe these
two different categories! This is connected with the “origin of
man”. The differences also give the stimulus to further
development, to the apparent struggle. The unconscious is the
basis of all the conscious, but its composition is of exactly the
same nature. To become conscious is progress and development
for the unconscious, which through association with the conscious
is continually being stimulated also to attain to this
consciousness.

In the process of developing downwards, the first Creation itself

brought successively three great basic divisions: As uppermost
and highest is the spiritual, the Primordial Creation, followed by
the denser and thus also gradually heavier Sphere of Animistic
Substance. Lastly as the lowest, and because of its greatest
density the heaviest, still follows the great Realm of Matter
which, severing itself from Primordial Creation, has gradually
sunk down! Through this there finally remained as the uppermost
only the Primordial Spiritual Substance, because in its pure
nature it embodies what is lightest and most luminous. It is the
oft-mentioned Paradise, the crown of all Creation.

With the sinking down of that which becomes denser we already

touch upon the Law of Gravitation, which is not only anchored in
matter, but has an effect in all Creation, from the so-called
Paradise down to us.

The Law of Gravitation is of such decisive importance that

everyone should hammer it into his mind; for it is the main lever

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in the whole evolution and process of development of the human
spirit.

I have already said that this gravitation applies not only to

earthly consistencies, but also works uniformly in those parts of
Creation which earthmen can no longer see, and which they
therefore simply call the beyond.

For a better understanding I must still divide the World of Matter

into two sections. Into ethereal matter and gross matter. Ethereal
matter is that matter which cannot become visible to the physical
eye, owing to its different nature. And yet it still is matter.

The so-called “beyond” must not be confused with the longed-for

Paradise, which is purely spiritual. The spiritual must not be
taken as something “to do with thoughts”, but the spiritual is a
consistency, just as the animistic and the material are each a
consistency. Therefore now this ethereal matter is simply called
the “beyond”, because it lies beyond earthly vision. Gross matter,
however, is this side, all that is earthly, which on account of its
similar species becomes visible to our gross material eyes.

Man should get rid of the habit of regarding things that are
invisible to him as also incomprehensible and unnatural.
Everything is natural, even the so-called beyond, and Paradise,
which is still an immense distance from it.

Now just as here our physical body is sensitive to its surroundings

of a homogeneous nature, which it can therefore see, hear and
feel, so is it exactly the same in those parts of Creation whose
consistency is not like ours. The ethereal man in the so-called
beyond feels, hears and sees only his homogeneous ethereal
environment; the higher spiritual man again can only feel his
spiritual environment.

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Thus it happens that many an earth-dweller now and then already
sees and hears also the Ethereal World with his ethereal body,
which he bears within, before the separation from the gross
material earthly body takes place through physical death. There
is absolutely nothing unnatural in this.

Side by side and cooperating with the Law of Gravitation is also

the no less valuable Law of Homogeneous Species.

I have already touched upon this in saying that one species can
only recognize the same species. The proverbs: “Birds of a
feather flock together”, and “like father, like son” seem to have
been sensed from the Primordial Law. Together with the Law of
Gravitation it swings throughout Creation.

In addition to those already mentioned there is a third Primordial

Law in Creation: The Law of Reciprocal Action. The effect of this
Law is that man must reap what he has once sown,
unconditionally. He cannot reap wheat where he sowed rye, nor
clover where he sowed thistles. In the Ethereal World it is exactly
the same. In the end he will not be able to reap kindness where
he felt hatred, nor joy where he nourished envy!

These three fundamental Laws form the cornerstones of the

Divine Will! They alone automatically work out reward or
punishment for a human spirit, with inexorable justice! So
incorruptibly, in the most wonderful delicate gradations, that the
thought of a slightest injustice in the gigantic world happening
becomes impossible.

The effect of these simple Laws brings every human spirit exactly
to the place where, according to his inner attitude, he does
belong. Any error here is impossible, because the manifestation
of these Laws can only be set in motion by the inmost condition of
a human being, which will, however, set it in motion without fail
in every case! Thus to bring this about the spiritual power of the
intuitive perceptions which is in man is needed as the lever!

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Nothing else has any effect. For this reason only the real volition,
man’s intuitive perception, is decisive for what develops for him
in the world that is invisible to him, and which he must enter
after his earthly death.

There neither pretense nor self-deception will help him. He must

then unconditionally reap what he has sown through his volition!
What is more, exactly according to the strength or weakness of
his volition, it sets in motion to a greater or lesser degree the
homogeneous currents of the other worlds, no matter whether
they are hatred, envy or love. An absolutely natural process, of
the greatest simplicity, and yet with the inexorable effect of
adamantine justice!

He who tries to go seriously and deeply into these happenings in

the beyond will recognize what incorruptible justice lies in this
automatic working, and will see in this alone the inconceivable
Greatness of God. He does not need to interfere, after having
given His Will as Laws, thus perfect, into Creation.

He who in the course of his ascent again enters the Spiritual

Realm is purified; for he had first to pass through the self-acting
mills of the Divine Will. No other road leads to the proximity of
God. And how these mills work on the human spirit depends on its
former inner life, its own volition. They can carry it blissfully into
the Luminous Height; or on the other hand they can also pull it
agonizingly down into the night of horror, indeed even drag it to
complete destruction. –

It should be realized that at the time of its earthly birth the

human spirit which has matured to the point of incarnation
already wears an ethereal cloak or body, which it has needed on
its journey through the Ethereal World. During its earthly
existence this also remains with it as a connecting link to the
physical body. Now the Law of Gravitation always exerts its main
effect upon the densest and coarsest part. Thus during life on
earth upon the physical body. But when this dies and falls away,
the ethereal body again becomes free, and in this moment, being

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unprotected and now the coarsest part, is subject to this Law of
Gravitation.

When it is said that the spirit forms its body, that is true as
regards the ethereal body. The inner quality of man, his desires
and his actual volition lay the foundation for it.

In the volition lies the power to form ethereal matter. Through

the urge for what is base or for mere earthly pleasures the
ethereal body becomes dense, and therewith heavy and dark,
because the fulfillment of such desires lies in the World of Gross
Matter. Thereby man binds himself to what is coarse and earthly.
His desires draw along the ethereal body, that is to say, it is
formed so densely that its consistency resembles as nearly as
possible that of the earthly body. This alone holds the prospect of
being able to participate in earthly pleasures or passions, as soon
as the physical body has fallen away. Whoever strives after such
things must sink through the Law of Gravitation.

But it is different with those people whose minds are mainly

directed towards higher and nobler things. Here the volition
automatically makes the ethereal body lighter and thus also more
luminous, so that it can draw near to what to these human beings
is the goal of their earnest aspirations! That is, to the purity of
the Luminous Height.

Expressed in other words: Through the prevailing goal of the

human spirit, the ethereal body in earthman is at the same time
so equipped that after the death of the physical body it can strive
towards this goal, whatever kind it may be. Here the spirit really
forms the body; for its volition, being spiritual, also bears within
it the power to make use of ethereal substance. The spirit can
never evade this natural process. It happens with every volition,
no matter whether it is pleasant or unpleasant for the spirit. And
these forms remain clinging to it as long as the spirit nourishes
them through its volition and intuition. They advance or retard
the spirit according to their nature, which is subject to the Law of
Gravitation.

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Yet the moment the spirit changes its volition and intuition new
forms will thereby immediately arise, whereas the old ones, no
longer receiving nourishment because of this change, must fade
and dissolve. In this way man also changes his fate.

Now as soon as the earthly anchorage falls away through the

death of the physical body, the ethereal body which is thereby
released either sinks down or floats up like a cork in the Ethereal
World, which is called the “beyond”. Through the Law of
Gravitation it will be held fast exactly in that place which
corresponds with its own weight; for then it cannot move further,
either up or down. Here it will naturally also find all homogeneous
species or all like-minded people; for like nature implies like
weight, and like weight of course like nature. According to how
man was himself, so will he have to suffer or be able to rejoice
among those of like nature, until he changes anew inwardly, and
with him his ethereal body, which under the effect of the altered
weight must either lead him further upwards or downwards.

Therefore man can neither complain nor need he give thanks; for
if he is raised towards the Light it is his own consistency that
inevitably causes him to be raised; if he falls into the Darkness, it
is again his condition that forces him to do so.

But every human being has reason to glorify and praise the
Creator for the perfection that lies in the working of these three
Laws. The human spirit is thereby unreservedly made the
absolute master of its own fate! For its true volition, thus the
genuine inner condition, must cause it either to rise or to sink.

If you try to get a true picture of the effect of these Laws, singly
and working together, you will find that they contain reward and
punishment, mercy or also damnation, minutely weighed for each
one according to his inner state. It is the most simple process,
and shows the lifeline provided by every serious volition of a
human being, which can never break and never fail. It is the
greatness of such simplicity that forcibly drives him who

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recognizes to his knees before the infinite Sublimity of the
Creator!

In every happening and in all my explanations we always again

and again meet clearly and distinctly the effect of these simple
Laws, whose wonderful interaction I must yet describe especially.

Once man knows this interaction he thus also has the step-ladder
to the Luminous Realm of the Spirit, to Paradise. But he then also
sees the road that leads down to the Darkness!

He need not even tread these steps himself, but the automatic
mechanism raises him on high or drags him down, entirely
according to how he adjusts the mechanism for himself through
his inner life.

Which way he wishes to let himself be borne along is always left

to his decision.

Man must not allow himself to be confused by scoffers.

Rightly viewed, doubt and derision are nothing but the expression
of wishes Quite unconsciously every doubter expresses what he
wishes for himself, thus exposing his inner self to the searching
glance. For denial and defense also harbor deeply hidden wishes
which can be easily recognized. It is sad, or even revolting, to see
what negligence or poverty of mind is thus sometimes revealed,
because just through this a man often drags himself inwardly
down below the level of any ignorant animal. One should have
compassion for such people without, however, being indulgent;
for indulgence would indeed mean cultivating indolence in serious
investigation. He who seeks earnestly must become sparing with
indulgence; otherwise he will ultimately harm himself without
helping the other thereby.

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But with growing recognition man will jubilantly stand before the
wonder of such a Creation, and consciously let himself be borne
aloft to the Luminous Heights which he may call his home!

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*A still more extensive breakdown in regard to this will be given in later

lectures.

21. THE HUMAN WORD

AS A GREAT GRACE for your maturing in the coarse World of

Matter, the ability to form words has been bestowed upon you
human beings by the Creator! You have never recognized the true
value of this sublime gift, because you did not trouble yourselves
about it, and treated it carelessly. Now you must suffer bitterly
under all the consequences of your wrongdoing.

You stand in this affliction, and do not yet know the causes which
bring such suffering in their wake.

No one may trifle with gifts of the Almighty without harming

himself; such is the Law which rests and works in Creation, and
which can never be diverted.

And when you consider that this being able to speak, thus your
ability to form words, which anchor your volition in the World of
Gross Matter through speaking, is an especially high gift of your
Creator, then you will also know that it involves obligations for
you, and that an immense responsibility arises therefrom; for it is
with the language, and through it, that you are to work in
Creation!

The words you form, the sentences, shape your outward fate on
this earth. They are like seed in a garden which you build around
you; for each human word is part of the most vital thing that you
can weave for yourselves in this Creation.

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Today I give you this, with an admonition, to think it over: there
is a releasing quality in every word, because all words are firmly
anchored in the Primordial Laws of Creation!

Every word shaped by man has come into being under the
pressure of higher Laws and, according to its application, must
manifest formingly in a very definite way!

The application lies in man’s hands according to his free volition;

however he is unable to control the effect, which is strictly and
justly governed in conformity with the Holy Law by a power
hitherto unknown to him.

Therefore in the final reckoning woe will now fall upon every
human being who has abused the mysterious working of the
word!

But where is the man who has not yet sinned in this respect! For
thousands of years the whole earthly race has been deeply
entangled in this guilt. What harm has already been spread
throughout this earth by the wrong application of this gift of
being permitted to speak!

Through ruinous, thoughtless and idle talk all men have sown
poison. The seed has duly sprung up, the plant has blossomed
forth, and now bears the fruit which you must harvest, whether
you like it or not; for it is all the consequences of your actions
that are now thrown into your lap!

That this poison must bring forth the most repulsive fruits will not
surprise anyone who knows the Laws in Creation, which do not
conform to the ideas of men, but serenely pursue their great
course, irresistibly, without deviation, from the primordial
beginning, and also unchanged unto all eternity.

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Look around you, men, clearly and without bias: You must easily
recognize the self-acting Divine Laws of the Most Holy Will,
because you do have before you the fruits of your sowing!
Wherever you look you will find that today high-sounding talk
predominates and leads in everything. This seed had to come
swiftly to such flower, to reveal now in the ripening its true
kernel, whereby it will then collapse as useless.

It had to ripen under the increased pressure from the Light, and
must shoot up as if in a hothouse; so that, losing every support
through its hollowness, it will fall and bury all who with
lighthearted confidence or selfish hope imagined themselves safe
under its protection.

The time of harvest has already begun! Therewith all the

consequences of wrong speaking now fall back upon the
individual, as upon the entire masses who encouraged such talk.

It is quite natural, and shows the strict consistency of the effects

of the Divine Laws, that now on the eve of the harvest the
greatest talkers must in the end also gain the strongest influence
and greatest power, as culmination and fruit of this continual
wrong use of the word, whose mysterious working foolish
humanity could no longer know, because they have long since
closed themselves to the knowledge of it.

They did not listen to the warning voice of Jesus, the Son of God,
Who already at that time said:

“Let your communication be yea or nay; for whatsoever is more

than these cometh of evil!”

There is more in these words than you imagined; for they hold
upbuilding or decline for mankind!

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Through your propensity for much and useless talk you have
chosen decline, which has already come to you. Finally, before
the general collapse in the Judgement, it also still shows you
quite clearly, as a help towards the saving recognition, all the
fruits which you have forcibly brought into being through the
wrong application of the word.

The reciprocal power now raises the masters at your own sins to
the top, in such a way that you are in danger of being crushed by
them, so that through recognition you will at last free yourselves
from or be destroyed by them.

That is at the same time justice and help, as only the Will of God
in His Perfection can offer you!

Just look around you! You must recognize it, if only you will. And
for those who still hesitate to do so, the veil which they
themselves hold before their eyes will yet be forcibly torn away
from the fruits of their volition through still greater suffering
than in the past, so that this earth may be cleansed from the
pressure of your great guilt!

The entire mankind has actively participated in this, not merely

individuals. They are the blossoms of all the wrongdoing over
past centuries, which now had to ripen in these last fruits for the
Judgement, so as to perish in this ripeness.

The frivolous, senseless and thoughtless chatter which, however,

is always wrong and out of harmony with the Primordial Laws of
Creation, had to culminate in the universal disease which is
evident today, and must now in fever spasms, as in a storm, also
shake off the fruits... . . they drop into the lap of mankind.

Hence no people should be pitied who must now groan and suffer
under this; for these are the fruits of their own volition, which
must be consumed even if they taste rotten and bitter and bring

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destruction to many, because from poisonous seed only poison
can be harvested. I have already said: where you sow thistles, no
wheat can grow!

Thus out of agitation, mockery and harming your fellow-men

there can never come any upbuilding whatever; for each kind of
expression and attitude can only bring forth something similar,
can only attract what is homogeneous! You must never forget this
Law of Creation! It works automatically, and all human volition
can never act against it! Never, do you hear that? Impress it upon
yourselves, so that you may always heed it in your thinking,
speaking and acting; for everything germinates from this and
grows into your fate! Therefore never hope for anything else as
fruit than always and only the same kind as the seed!

This after all is not so difficult, and yet it is just in this that you
continually fail! Slander can again only produce slander, hate only
hate, and murder only murder. But dignity, peace, light and joy
can in turn only arise from a dignified way of thinking, never
otherwise.

Liberation and redemption do not lie in the clamor of individuals

and of the masses. A people that permits itself to be led by
talkers must inevitably and rightfully fall into bad repute, into
sorrow and death, into distress and misery; it is forcibly pushed
into the mire.

And if hitherto the fruit and the harvest have so often not
appeared in one earth-life, but only in later ones, this is now
different; for the fulfillment of the Holy Will of God enforces
immediate release of every happening on earth, and therewith
also the unravelling of all the fates of men and of the peoples!
Final reckoning!

Therefore guard your word! Pay careful attention to your speech;

for the human word is also a deed which, however, can only

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produce forms in the Plane of Fine Gross Matter, that sink into
and have an effect on everything earthly.

Yet do not imagine that promises are fulfilled according to their

wording and thus grow into deeds, unless at the same time the
speaker bears the purest intentions in his soul; but the words
form that which from out of the innermost being of the speaker
simultaneously vibrates with them. So the same word can
produce two kinds of results, and woe unto him with whom it did
not truthfully vibrate in complete purity!

I lift the veil covering your ignorance which has prevailed up to

now, so that you may henceforth consciously experience the evil
consequences, and benefit from them for the future.

As a further help I therefore give you:

Heed your word! Let your speech be simple and true! In

accordance with the Holy Will of God, it contains an ability to
form in an upbuilding or also in a destroying way, depending on
the nature of the words and of the speaker.

Do not squander these sublime gifts which God so mercifully

granted you, but seek to recognize them aright in their full value.
Up till now the power of speech has been a curse to you through
such people, who as Lucifer’s satellites have misused it under the
evil influence of the distorted and one-sidedly developed
intellect!

Therefore beware of people who talk much; for with these goes
disintegration. You, however, are to become upbuilding ones in
this Creation, not talkers!

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Heed your word! Do not talk merely for the sake of talking. And
speak only when, where and how it is necessary! In the human
word there shall be a reflection of the splendor of the Word of
God, which is Life and will eternally remain Life.

You know that all Creation swings in the Word of the Lord! Does
this not make you think? Creation vibrates in Him, as also do you
yourselves, who are indeed part of Creation; for it arose out of
Him and is maintained through this Word.

It has been clearly proclaimed to mankind:

“In the beginning was the Word! And the Word was with God! And
the Word was God!”

Herein lies all knowledge for you, if you would only draw it. But
you skim over it and do not heed it. Plainly it tells you:

The Word came out of God! It was and is a part out of Him.

A faint reflection of the power of the Living Word of God, which

contains all and embraces all that is outside of God, a faint
reflection of this also lies in the human word!

It is true that the human word is only able to send out its effect
into the Planes of Fine Gross Matter, but that is enough
retroactively to shape the destinies of men and also of peoples
here on earth!

Remember that! He who talks much stands only on the ground of

the distorted, one-sidedly developed intellect! The two always go
hand in hand. By that you can recognize it! And these are words
emanating from the low earthly planes, that can never build up.

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Yet in accordance with the Divine Law the word is to build up.
Wherever it does not obey this command it can only bring about
the opposite.

Therefore always heed your word! And stand to your word! You
have still to be taught the right way to do this in the building up
of the Kingdom of God here on earth.

You must first learn to recognize the power of the words which
you have hitherto so thoughtlessly and frivolously debased.

Just think for once of the most Holy Word that has been given to
you, of the Word: GOD!

You very often speak of God, too often for that awe still to
resound in It which would indicate the right intuitive perception
when you utter this Word: the awe which will allow you only to
whisper the Sublime Word in reverential devotion, so as to shield
It carefully from any kind of desecration.

But what have you men made of the most Sacred of all concepts
in the Word! Instead of humbly and joyfully preparing your spirit
for this most Sublime Expression, so that it may gratefully open
itself to an unspeakable Radiation-Power of the Unsubstantiate
Light-Sublimity of real Being, Who first permits you as well as all
creatures to breathe, you have dared to drag It down to the low
planes of your most trivial thinking, using It carelessly as an
every-day word, which thereby had now to form itself in your ears
into only an empty sound, and thus can find no entrance to your
spirit.

It is then obvious that the effect of this most Sublime of all words
will be different from the effect on those who whisper It with the
proper awe and recognition.

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Therefore pay attention to all words; for they hold joy or sorrow
for you, they build up or disintegrate, they bring clarity but can
also confuse, according to the manner in which they are spoken
and applied.

I will later also give you recognition for this, so that you can give
thanks with every word which the Creator still permits you to
speak now! Then you shall also have earthly happiness, and
peace will reign here on this hitherto troubled earth.

22. THE WOMAN OF SUBSEQUENT CREATION

THESE WORDS TOUCH UPON the sorest spot in Subsequent

Creation. That spot which needs the greatest change, the most
lasting purification.

Although man of Subsequent Creation has made himself the slave

of his own intellect, woman has transgressed to a far greater
extent.

Equipped with the greatest delicacy of intuitive perceptions, she

should easily swing herself up to the purity of Luminous Heights,
and form the bridge to Paradise for all humanity. Woman!
Streams of Light should flow through her. Her entire physical,
gross material nature is adapted to this. Woman only needs to
will honestly, and all the offspring from her womb must be
strongly protected and encompassed by the power of the Light
even before birth! It could not possibly be otherwise, because
every woman through the wealth of her intuitive perception can
almost entirely alone influence the spiritual nature of the fruit!
Therefore she remains primarily responsible for all her
descendants!

In addition she has been richly endowed with unlimited

possibilities to influence the entire people, indeed even the whole
of Subsequent Creation. Her starting-point of the greatest power
is, for her, home and hearth! There alone lies her strength, her

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unlimited might, but not in public life! In home and family her
abilities make her queen. From the quiet, intimate home her
incisive virtue extends through the whole people, present and
future, and pervades everything.

There is nothing upon which her influence cannot absolutely be

brought to bear, if she stands in that place where her inherent
womanly abilities fully unfold to blossom. But only if woman is
truly womanly does she fulfill the mission which is assigned to
her by the Creator. Then she is completely what she can and
should be. And it is only genuine womanliness that silently
educates the man who, supported by this quiet activity
containing undreamed-of power, feels like storming the heavens.
Out of an inner naturalness he will then gladly and joyfully seek
to protect true womanhood as soon as it only shows itself to be
genuine.

But womankind of today trample underfoot their real power and

their high mission, they blindly overlook them, wantonly destroy
all the sacred gifts they carry within them, and instead of being
an upbuilding influence they bring about disintegration, thus
being the most poisonous element in Subsequent Creation. They
push man as well as children down with them into the abyss.

Look at the woman of today! Just let a ray of Light fall upon her
with all the relentlessness and dispassion which are always
accompanying conditions of Purity.

You will hardly recognize the high qualities of genuine

womanhood, those in which there can be unfolded that pure
might which is given only to the finer sensitiveness of
womanhood, to be used solely as a blessing.

A man can never develop this pervading nature. The silent

weaving of that invisible power which the Creator allows to move
through the Universe, first and completely seizes the woman with

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her more delicate intuitive perception. Man receives it only
partially, and then converts it into deeds.

And just as the Living Power of the Creator remains invisible to all
men, while yet upholding, nourishing, moving and driving the
whole Universe, so the weaving of all genuine womanhood is
intended to be; it is that for which she has been created, and that
is her high, pure and wonderful goal!

It is ridiculous to use the expression “weak woman”, for woman is

psychically stronger than man. Not in herself, but through being
more closely connected with the Creative Power, which grants her
the more delicate intuitive faculty.

And this is just what the woman tries to hide today; she exerts
herself to coarsen or suppress it altogether. In boundless vanity
and stupidity she surrenders the most beautiful and valuable gift
bestowed on her. Through this she makes herself an outcast from
the Light, to whom the way back will remain closed.

What has thereby become of these images of queenly

womanhood! One must turn away from them with horror. Where
does one still find in the woman of today the genuine feeling of
shame, which is the expression of the most delicate intuitive
perception of noble womanhood. It is so grossly distorted that is
must be exposed to ridicule.

The woman of today is certainly ashamed to wear a long dress if

fashion decrees a short one, but she is not ashamed to expose
almost three-quarters of her body, offering it to the glances of all
on festive occasions. And of course not only to their glances but
also, when dancing, unavoidably to their hands! Without
hesitation she would also uncover still more if fashion required it,
probably even everything judging by present experiences!

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This is no exaggeration. For hitherto we have had enough of this
disgraceful conduct. It was not a wrong but, alas, only too true a
saying that “woman begins to dress herself when she retires for
the night”!

Besides, delicate intuitive perceptions also demand a sense of

beauty! Unquestionably. But if today the delicacy of womanly
intuitive perceptions is still to be assessed on that basis, then
affairs are in a deplorable state. Indeed, the type of dress often
and plainly enough tells the opposite, and these thinly-stockinged
legs of a woman, or even of a mother, are very difficult to
reconcile with womanly dignity. Bobbed hair and modern sports
for women are no less harmful to genuine womanhood! Coquetry
is the inevitable accompaniment of vain fashion follies, which
result in grave dangers for body and soul, to say nothing of the
simple domestic happiness. Often enough many a woman prefers
the coarse and really insulting flattery of some idler to the
faithful labour of her husband.

Thus much, very much more could be cited as visible evidence

that a woman of today is lost to her real task in this Subsequent
Creation! And likewise all the high values entrusted to her, of
which she must now give an account. Accursed be these empty
human beings! They are not the victims of circumstances, but
they have forced these circumstances into being.

All this talk about progress does not alter the fact that these
zealots of progress, together with their faithful followers, only
sink deeper, ever deeper. Already they have all buried their real
values. The majority of womankind no longer deserve to bear the
name of honor, woman! And they can never represent nor become
men, thus in the end they remain nothing but drones in
Subsequent Creation, which must be exterminated according to
the inflexible Laws of Nature.

Of all the creatures in Subsequent Creation, woman stands least

in the place where she should stand! In her way she has become
the saddest figure among all creatures! She simply had to

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become corrupt in soul, since she wantonly sacrifices her most
noble intuitive perception, her purest power, to outward, absurd
vanity, thereby ridiculing and scorning the decree of her Creator.
With such superficiality there can be no salvation; for these
women would reject words, or be no longer able to understand
and grasp them at all.

Thus out of the horrors the new, true woman must first arise, who
has to become the mediator, and therewith also provide the
foundation for the new God-willed life and human activity in
Subsequent Creation, the woman who will have become free from
poison and corruption!

23. SUBMISSION

"THY WILL BE DONE!” People who believe in God utter these

words submissively! But a certain sadness always vibrates in
their voices or lies in their thoughts, in their intuitive
perceptions. These words are used almost exclusively where
sorrow that was inescapable has entered. Where man realizes
that he could do nothing more about it.

Then, if he is a believer, he will say in passive submission: “Thy

Will be done!”

It is not humility, however, that prompts him to speak thus, but

the words are meant to calm him in face of something he has
been powerless to deal with.

That is the origin of the submission which man expresses in such

a case. If, however, he were offered the slightest opportunity to
alter things in any way, he would not care about the Will of God,
but his submissive attitude would again quickly be changed to the
form: “My will be done!”

Such is man! –––

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“Do with me as Thou wilt, O Lord!” and similar hymns are often to
be heard at funerals. But every mourner bears within him the
unshakable wish: “If I could alter it I would do so at once!”

Human submission is never genuine. Deeply implanted in a

human soul lies the opposite. Rebellion against the fate that
befalls it; and it is this very protest that causes the soul’s
suffering, which “oppresses” and bows it down.

What is unhealthy in this is due to the wrong application of the

meaning of these words: “Thy Will be done!” They do not belong
where man and churches use them.

The Will of God lies in the Laws of this Creation! Whenever man
says: “Thy Will be done!” it is tantamount to affirming: “I will
honor and obey Thy Laws in Creation!” To honor means to
observe them, but to observe them demands to live accordingly!
Only thus can man honor the Will of God!

But if he wants to observe It, if he wants to live accordingly, he

must also first of all know It!

That is just the point, however, against which mankind on earth

has transgressed in the worst way! Until now man has never
concerned himself with the Laws of God in Creation! Thus not
with the Holy Will of God! And yet he utters over and over again:
“Thy Will be done!”

You see how unthinkingly earthman approaches God! How

senselessly he seeks to apply the sublime words of Christ.
Plaintively, often writhing in anguish, feeling himself defeated,
but never with a joyful pledge!

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“Thy Will be done” actually means: “I will act according to It” or
“I desire Thy Will!” One can just as well also say: “I will obey Thy
Will!”

But he who obeys also acts. One who obeys is not inactive; that is
implied in the very word. He who obeys also does something.

Yet as the man of today says: “Thy Will be done!” he wishes to do

nothing himself, but puts into his intuitive perception the
meaning: “I remain still, You do it!”

He considers himself great in this, believing that he has

conquered himself and “become merged” with the Will of God.
Man even imagines himself superior to all others thereby, and
believes he has made a tremendous advance.

All such people, however, are useless weaklings, idlers,

enthusiasts, visionaries and fanatics, but no useful links in
Creation! They are numbered among those who must be rejected
in the Judgement; for they do not want to be laborers in the
vineyard of the Lord! The humility of which they boast is nothing
but indolence. They are idle servants!

The Lord demands life, which lies in movement! –

Submission! This word should not exist at all for believers in God!
Simply replace it with “joyful volition”! God does not want dull
submission from men, but joyful activity.

Just look closely at those who are described as “resigned to God’s

Will”. They are hypocrites who bear a great lie within them!

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Of what use is it to cast a glance of submissive resignation
upwards, if at the same time man looks around with cunning, lust,
arrogance, conceit or malice! This only makes him doubly guilty.

Submissive people bear the lie within, for submission is

absolutely incompatible with “spirit”! Therefore also with a
human spirit! All that is “spirit” is utterly unable to bring the
quality of true submissiveness to life within itself! Wherever it is
attempted it must remain artificial, thus self-delusion or even
conscious hypocrisy! But it can never be genuinely felt because
the human spirit, being spiritual, is incapable of it. The pressure
under which the human spirit stands does not allow the quality of
submissiveness to become conscious. The pressure is too strong
for this. And therefore man cannot practice it either.

Submissiveness is a quality that lies solely in the animistic! Only

in the animal does it find genuine expression. The animal is
submissive to its master! But the spirit does not know this
designation! Therefore it always remains unnatural for the human
being.

Submission was drilled into slaves with difficulty and harshness,

because they were put on a par with animals in sale and
purchase, as personal property. Yet the submission could never
become really genuine in these slaves. It was either dullness,
fidelity or love that lay hidden under the submission and gave it
expression, but never true submission. Slavery is unnatural
among men.

The submission of the animistic finds its enhancement in the

spiritual in conscious and willed loyalty! What denotes
submission in the animistic, therefore, is loyalty in the spiritual!

Submission does not befit man; because he is of the spirit! Just

pay closer attention to the language itself, which indeed
expresses in its words what is right, and bears the true meaning
in it. It gives you the right picture.

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For instance, the victor also says to the vanquished: “Submit!” In
this word lies the meaning: “Surrender yourself to me
unconditionally so that I may deal with you as I see fit, even over
life or death!”

But in this the victor acts wrongly; for even in victory man has to
conform strictly to the Laws of God. Otherwise with every neglect
of them he makes himself guilty before the Lord. The reciprocal
action will then strike him without fail! This applies to the
individual as well as to entire peoples!

And now the time has come when everything, everything that has
hitherto taken place in the world, must be redeemed! What has
been wrong, what is happening on earth today, not one word will
remain unatoned for!

The atonement is not reserved for a distant future, but is already

taking place in the present time!

Thus the speedy release of all the reciprocal actions is not

opposed to the Law of Creation, but lies quite correctly in the Law
itself.

The action of the mechanism is at present accelerated by the

increased radiation of the Light, which enforces final effects by
first driving everything to fruition and over-ripeness, so that the
false will decay therein and in withering away judge itself, while
the good will become free from the hitherto existing pressure of
the wrong and can gain strength!

In the near future this radiation will be so intensified that in very

many cases the reciprocal action will come at once,
instantaneously!

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This is the power which will soon alarm earthmen, and which they
will then have to fear in the future! But only those who have done
wrong need fear it, and rightly so. Whether they have thought
themselves in the right, or have tried to make others believe they
were, it will not save them from the blow of the reciprocal effect
that operates in the Laws of God!

Even though men have devised different laws on earth, under

whose protection many act wrongly and unjustly in the delusion
that they are thereby also in the right, it does not absolve them
of one particle of their guilt.

The Laws of God, thus the Will of God, do not concern themselves
with the opinions of these earthmen, which they have laid down
in their mundane laws, even though the whole world has now
considered them to be right. Whatever is not in harmony with the
Divine Laws, there also the blow of the sword will now strike!
Judging in the process of redemption!

All those who in the light of God’s Laws have suffered innocently
at the hands of men may now rejoice; for henceforth they shall
receive justice, while their adversaries or judges are delivered up
to the Justice of God.

Rejoice; for this Divine Justice is near! It is already working in

every country on earth! Look at the confusion! This is the effect
of the approaching Will of God! It is the setting-in of the
purification!

For this reason everything that is wrong among men is already

now meeting with its doom, be it in economics, the state, politics,
the churches, sects, peoples, families and also in the individual!
Everything, everything is now dragged before the Light, so that it
may reveal and simultaneously judge itself therein! Also what has
hitherto been able to remain hidden must reveal itself as it really

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is, must become active, and thus finally, despairing of itself and
others, disintegrate and turn to dust.

Thus even now there is a boiling up under the pressure of the

Light in all countries, everywhere. Every kind of tribulation is
increasing to the point of despair, until finally nothing remains
but hopelessness, with the realization that the would-be saviors
had only empty words besides selfish desires, but could offer no
help! Spiritual warriors are sweeping over all humanity, and
striking sharply where a head refuses to bow.

Only then will there be the right soil that pleads once more for
God’s help! After murder and fire, starvation, pestilence and
death, after man has recognized his own incapacity.

The great upbuilding begins.

Then the despairing ones shall become free, free from the
pressure of the Darkness! But they shall also become free within
themselves! To become free within, however, can only be
achieved by each individual alone. Yet for this he must know what
freedom means, what it is.

Only the man who lives in the Laws of God is free! Thus and not
otherwise does he stand unoppressed and unconstrained in this
Creation. Everything then serves him instead of obstructing his
path. It “serves” him because he uses it in the right way.

God’s Laws in Creation are in truth simply all that every man
needs for a healthy, happy life in Creation. They are, as it were,
nourishment for his well-being! Only he who knows the Will of
God and lives accordingly is really free! All the others must bind
themselves in many threads of the Laws of this Creation, because
they entangle themselves.

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Creation originated only in the Will of God, in His Laws. Working
together, the threads of these Laws sink deeper and deeper,
everywhere enforcing movement towards development, and
inevitably branching out more and more in the course of
development, while in the continuous movement new creations
are perpetually formed around the threads. Thus these Laws
provide at the same time the support, the possibility of continued
existence and the further expansion of Creation.

Nothing exists without this Will of God, Which alone gives

movement. Everything in Creation conforms to It.

Only the human spirit has not adjusted itself to these threads! It
has tangled them and thereby entangled itself, because it wanted
to follow new roads according to its will, and disregarded those
already prepared and in existence.

The increasing power of the Light is now changing this. The

threads of all the Divine Laws in Creation are being charged with
increased energy, so that they become powerfully taut. This
enormous tension causes them to spring back into their original
position. What is tangled and knotted is thereby disentangled, so
suddenly and irresistibly that everything that cannot still adapt
itself to the right position in Creation is simply torn down in this
process!

Whatever it may be, whether plant or animal, whether mountains,

streams, countries, states or man himself, all will collapse that
cannot prove itself at the last moment to be genuine and willed
by God!

24. INDOLENCE OF THE SPIRIT

THE COSMIC CLOCK can be heard on earth as it now booms out

the hour of twelve through the Universe! Frightened, Creation
holds its breath, and every creature bows down in fear; for the

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Voice of God rings down and demands! Demands that you render
account, you who have been permitted to live in this Creation!

You have mismanaged the bounty which God in His Love made
over to you. All those servants who have thought only of
themselves and never of their Master will now be expelled! And
all those who sought to make themselves the master. –

You men shy away from my words, for you do not consider
severity Divine! But that is only your fault, because until now you
have imagined everything Divine, everything that comes down
from God, to be tenderly loving and all-forgiving, since that is
what the churches have taught you!

But these false teachings were only intellectual schemes aimed at

the mass capture of human souls on earth. In order to catch
something, a bait is needed that is attractive to everything at
which it is aimed. The right choice of bait is the main thing for
each catch.

Now as this was intended for human souls, a plan based on their
weaknesses was skillfully devised. The lure had to correspond to
the main weakness! And this main weakness of the souls was love
of ease, the indolence of their spirit!

The church knew very well that it was bound to achieve great
success as soon as it showed much leniency towards this
weakness, and did not require it to be overcome!

Recognizing this aright, it built for earthmen a broad and easy

road that was ostensibly to lead to the Light, and displayed it
enticingly to these earthmen who would prefer to give one-tenth
of the fruits of their labour, go on their knees and murmur
prayers by the hundred, rather than exert themselves spiritually
for even one moment!

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Therefore the church took the spiritual effort away from men,
also pardoning all their sins if they were obedient outwardly and
in the earthly sense, and carried out what the church required of
them in mundane ways!

Whether in the way of church attendance, confessions, in the

number of prayers, in tributes or in donations and bequests, no
matter what, the church was satisfied. They left the believers
under a delusion that everything they did for the church would
also secure them a place in Heaven.

As if the church could allot these places!

However, the achievements and the allegiance of all believers

links them only with their church, not with their God! Neither the
church nor its servants can take away from or even forgive a
human soul one particle of its guilt! Just as little are they
permitted to canonize a soul, and thereby interfere in God’s
perfect eternal Primordial Laws of Creation, which are immutable!

How can men presume to vote and also to decide on matters that
rest in the Omnipotence, the Justice and the Omniscience of God!
How dare earthmen try to make their fellow-men believe such
things! And it is no less sacrilegious for earthmen credulously to
accept such claims, which so plainly carry within them only a
dishonoring of the Sublimity of God!

Anything so incredible can only be possible with thoughtless

people of herd mentality, who by such action brand themselves
with the mark of the greatest spiritual indolence; for the most
simple reflection must enable anyone instantly and easily to
realize that such presumptions cannot even be explained by
human conceit or arrogance, but contain grave blasphemies!

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The reciprocal effect must be terrible!

The time of God’s forbearance is now indeed over. Holy Wrath

strikes the ranks of those offenders who thereby seek to dupe
humanity on earth in order to increase and preserve their
authority, whereas within themselves they clearly sense that here
it is a question of matters far beyond the level to which they can
ever be entitled to rise!

How dare they dispose of the Kingdom of God in Eternity?

Overnight the Ray of Divine Wrath will awaken them from their
unbelievable spiritual slumber and . . . judge them! – – –

What does a man give to his God by obedience to the church! He

does not have with it a single, natural intuitive urge, which alone
can help him to ascend.

I say to you that men can in truth only serve God with just that
which did not come to life through the churches: With their own
thinking and independent investigation! Everyone must journey
alone through the mills, through the mechanism of the Divine
Laws in Creation. And therefore it is necessary for every man
himself to become acquainted at the right time with the nature
and function of the mills.

But this is just what many a church has persistently withheld, so

that the believers could not develop the necessary personal
reflection and intuitive perception. Thereby they robbed man of
that staff which alone can guide him safely and direct him
towards the Light, and tried instead to force upon every man an
interpretation, the acceptance of which was bound to bring
benefit only to the church. Benefit, influence and power!

Human souls can serve their Creator only by the activity of their
own spirit! Thereby, however, in the first place they are also
simultaneously serving themselves. Only that human spirit which

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stands bright and alert in this Creation, aware of its Laws and
adapting itself to them in thought and deed, is pleasing to God,
because it is then fulfilling the purpose of existence, which every
human spirit has in this Creation!

But this never lies in the observances that the churches demand
of their believers! For these lack naturalness and free conviction,
knowledge, as the main requisite of true service to God! There is
a lack of vigor and joy in helping all creatures to advance, in
letting their souls exult in the happiness of knowing that they can
contribute to the beauty of this Creation as a part of it, and
thereby thank and honor the Creator!

Instead of joyful, free worshippers of God, the church has

cultivated church-slaves for itself! It has thrust itself before
men’s free upward gaze! Thereby obscuring true Light. It has only
bound and gagged the human spirits, instead of awakening and
liberating them. Wantonly it has kept the spirits in slumber,
oppressed them, restrained their desire for knowledge, and
forbidden the knowledge itself through regulations that are
contrary and opposed to the Will of God! All this in order to
uphold its own power.

Even as in olden times the churches have not shrunk from various
forms of torture, torment and murder, so today they do not
hesitate to slander their fellow-men, speak ill of them, undermine
their reputation, agitate against them, and put every available
obstacle in their way if they are not willing to join the host of
church-slaves! They work with the most sordid means only for
their influence, their earthly power.

But through the reciprocal action this now will also be the very
first to waver and collapse; for it is the opposite of what God
wills! It shows how far removed they are from humbly serving
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Enticed by the sanctioned indolence of the spirit, endless
multitudes have allowed themselves to be drawn into the fold of
the church, which lulls them to sleep! They believed the wicked
delusion of a cheap atonement for their sins, and as the
spiritually indolent masses grew so did the earthly influence, with
the final goal of earthly power!The people did not see that the
false view and teaching obscured and defiled the Sacred Justice
of Almighty God; they saw only the thus simulated broad and
easy road to the Light, which in reality does not exist at all!
Through its arbitrary, illusory forgiveness it leads to Darkness
and destruction!

The self-glorification of all the churches, which is hostile to God,

separates their believers from God instead of leading them to
Him. The doctrines were false! But the people should easily have
found this out themselves, for they clearly contradict the simplest
sense of justice! And therefore the church believers are just as
guilty as the churches themselves!

The churches proclaim in the words of Christ from the Gospel of

John:

“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you
into all truth. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of
sin, and of righteousness! And will bring the Judgement. I,
however, go to the Father and you will henceforth not see me. I
came forth from the Father and am come into the world. Again, I
leave the world and go to the Father!”

These words are read in the churches without understanding; for

it is quite clearly stated by the Son of God that another than He
will come to proclaim the Truth and to bring the Judgement. The
Spirit of Truth Who is the Living Cross! And yet in this matter,
too, the church teaches wrongly and against these clear words.

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Even though Paul also once wrote to the Corinthians: “For we
know in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away!”

Here the Apostle shows that the coming of Him Who will proclaim
the Perfect Truth is yet to be expected, and that the prophecy of
the Son of God concerning it should not be taken to refer to the
well-known outpouring of the Power of the Holy Spirit, which at
that time had already taken place when Paul wrote these words.

He testifies thereby that the Apostles did not regard this

outpouring of Power as the fulfillment of the mission of the
Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, as strange to say many churches
and believers now try to interpret it at Whitsuntide, because
these things would not otherwise fit into the structure of their
faith, but would form a gap which must cause serious shocks to
this false edifice.

Yet it avails them nothing; for the time has come for the
recognition of all these things, and everything that is false
collapses!

Until now there could not yet be a true Pentecost for mankind;
the recognition through spiritual awakening could not come to
them, since they acquiesced in so many false interpretations, in
which the churches especially have a great share!

Nothing of their great guilt will be remitted to them! –

Now you men stand amazed before the new Word, and many of
you are no longer even capable of perceiving that It comes from
the Luminous Heights, because It is so different from what you
had imagined! For in you, too, there certainly still lives some of
the tenacious indolence in which the churches and the schools
have enveloped you, so that you would remain faithful followers,
and have no longing for the awakening of your own spirit!

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Until now men on earth have been indifferent to what God
demands! Once more, however, I say to you: “The broad and easy
road which the churches have hitherto tried to simulate for their
own advantage is wrong! With its promise of an arbitrary, illusory
forgiveness, it does not lead to the Light!”

25. EARTHMAN BEFORE HIS GOD

MEN, WHAT HAS BEEN your attitude towards your God up till now!
Hypocritically you have sought to deceive Him, even as you have
always wished to deceive yourselves with the false piety which
was only lip-service, but never shared by your spirit. You have
established rules and observances, in your temples, your
churches, without asking whether this way was pleasing to God. If
only they pleased you, then that settled the service to God for
you!

Do you not see how arrogant all this was. You wanted to decide
the way everything should be arranged. In doing so you have
never cared about God’s Will. What you termed great was to be
equally acceptable to God. You wanted to force your opinions in
all things upon God as justified, irrespective of what you were
dealing with.

What you considered right was to be rewarded by God as

righteous; what you chose to call wrong God was to punish.

You have never seriously wanted to find out what God regards as
right, and what before His Eye is wrong. You have paid no
attention to the Divine Laws, nor to the inexorable Holy Will of
God, Which has existed from all Eternity and has never yet
changed, nor ever will change!

It will now shatter you, and with you all the false works of man,
which have created laws to serve your earthly desires. But you
human beings yourselves stand before God as scheming,

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neglectful servants who in their selfishness, self-conceit and
ridiculous claim to know everything have never respected His
Will.

You have been and still are servants who thought themselves
masters, and who out of arrogance and spiritual indolence have
tried to resist and drag down all that they could not understand,
if it did not agree with the attainment of the base earthly ends
which they wished to be regarded as of the highest order.

You miserable ones, who could so transgress! Everything was

only to serve you, even the Laws! Only what served you,
regardless of its form, only what helped you towards the
fulfillment of your earthly desires – only that did you acknowledge
as right, only such things did you still want to know about.

But should it now be required of you that you yourselves should

eagerly and loyally serve your Lord, to Whom you owe your
existence, then you are quite astonished, since in your opinion it
is only He Himself Who should serve you with His Power, with His
Glory and His Great Love!

How could it possibly be otherwise, in view of the high opinion

you have of yourselves! For you thought it was service enough to
God if you acknowledge Him, and ask in thought for His help to
fulfill all the wishes you carry within you. To put it plainly, that He
should serve you with the Omnipotence that is His own, and make
your life pleasant! Nothing else enters your mind.

At its best your service to God has been begging!

Just think it over very carefully for once; it has never yet been
otherwise.

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When you examine yourselves in this respect, are you not seized
with both shame and anger about yourselves?

The majority of mankind think that the only object of this earth-
life is the purpose of acquiring material gain! Also at best the
purpose of a family and children! He who does not think so still
acts accordingly! But on such a basis what is the use of
propagation, as you call it, which in reality does not mean
propagation at all, but simply provides opportunities for other
human spirits to incarnate so that these may continue to improve
themselves and cast off old faults. By your behavior you add to
the burden of your guilt; for you thereby prevent all those spirits
from ascending, whom you bring up as your children for the same
empty purposes!

What is the good of building up an earthly kingdom if it is not

intended for the honor of God, if it does not work according to the
Wishes of God, about Which you are still completely ignorant, and
have hitherto not wanted to learn anything either, since your
wishes are more important to you than anything else. You only
want to satisfy yourselves, and then even expect God to bless
your poor efforts! You do not care to serve and to fulfill your duty
towards your God.

The strange activities of mankind on earth, who in their folly even

dare to drag the Name of God into everything that is false,
thereby defiling what is most sacred, will now be shattered!

You will be thrust from the throne of your intellectual artifice so

that at least some of you may still become able, in pure humility,
to receive true Wisdom from Divine Heights, Which alone can
make you human beings; for you would never mature for this of
your own accord.

What does not suit you, you slander, and you are quick to pick up
stones to do away with anything that is irksome enough to
disturb you from the continued belief in yourselves.

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You would rather hail Luciferian satellites who, in flattering your
vanities and encouraging your self-conceit, then all the more
surely cut you off from the Light and keep you in spiritual
indolence, which must lead to the sleep of death for your true
being!

But I say to you that you are now awakened from the intoxication,
the oppressive delirium, that is already holding you in its iron
grip. You must awaken against your will, be it only to recognize
with the most terrible despair, even at the last moment, all you
have freely abandoned with such wanton indifference – before
you are thrust into the bottomless pit that seems so desirable to
you!

This earth and the whole world is now being purified! No longer
shall any of the filth remain; so that the creatures will be able
peacefully and joyfully to serve their Lord, the Almighty God, Who
in His Love once granted them the conscious enjoyment of all the
blessings of Creation.

He who again tries to bring disturbance into it by disregarding or

even opposing the Laws of God in Creation will be mercilessly
eliminated; for with such conduct he brings to you only envy,
hate, suffering, disease and death!

All this tribulation can only still be avoided if you really seek to
recognize and honor the Word of the Most High! To do so,
however, It must first be understood in Its true nature! But
hitherto you have always construed It only as It pleased you! And
not as It was given by God for your help, your salvation, out of
the greatest need!

However, you have not shrunk from making even the Holy Word
the slave of your arrogance, so that through the distortion of Its
true meaning It might serve only you; instead of you serving the

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Word for your own salvation in that sense in which It was given to
you!

What have you made of the Word of God in your explanations,

and even in the Scriptures! That you can quarrel about It, that
you as human beings can come together and deliberate this way
and that way over It, even this in itself is evidence of an unsound
foundation and of a lack of clarity in what you have dared to set
up as the pure, sublime Word of God! The Word of the Lord is
inviolable, simple, clear and indestructibly hewn into Creation.

Where It is not obscured and distorted there can be no analyzing,

no deliberation! It is clear to every creature.

But for you, with your ridiculous conceit, the greatness of this
simplicity was still too small! In the gloom of your mental
workshop you have laboriously toiled away at the Word until you
could distort and mould It in such a way that It pleased you, so
that It conformed to your petty earthly desires, your weaknesses,
and also to your great opinion of yourselves and your importance.

In this way you created something that had to serve you, that
flattered your vanity.

For also that humility which you display when you speak of your
great sins, for which a God brought the sacrifice of atonement, is
nothing but the basest vanity. A God for you! How valuable you
must imagine yourselves! And you need do nothing further about
it than graciously condescend, after much persuasion, merely to
ask for remission!

This train of thought must surely make even the most conceited
feel somewhat uneasy in his hypocritical humility.

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But this is only one thing among many. You have thus distorted
everything that is intended to clarify your relation as a self-
conscious creature towards the great Creator!

Nothing of it has remained pure and sublime under the conceit of

this humanity on earth. Therefore the right attitude towards God
has automatically changed and become false.

Presumptuously expecting a good reward or disdainfully begging,

only thus have you stood before your Lord – if indeed you have
ever taken the trouble and time really to think of Him, forced to
do so by many a misfortune that had to strike you in the
reciprocal effect of your actions!

But now you must at last awaken and must accept the Truth as It
really is, not as you think It is! With this what is false collapses,
and the gaps due to your hypocritical claim of knowing everything
better become apparent. Nothing can hide in the Darkness any
longer; for through the Will of God there will henceforth be Light,
so that the Darkness will fall and perish!

Now there will be Light also on earth and in the whole great
World of Matter! It blazes forth radiantly in every part,
disintegrating and burning all evil as well as all evil volition.
Everything false must show itself wherever it seeks to hide, must
collapse of itself before the Ray of God’s Light, which now
illuminates the entire Creation! All that is not and does not wish
to live in accordance with the Sublime Laws of God will sink down
to the region of destruction, where it can never arise again!

26. ALL THAT IS DEAD IN CREATION SHALL BE AWAKENED, SO

THAT IT MAY PASS JUDGMENT UPON ITSELF

THE DAY of Judgement! Every prophecy that is connected with

this proclaims the resurrection of all the dead for the Final
Judgement! But this mankind have again introduced an error into
the concept of the expression; for it is not meant to denote:

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Resurrection of all the dead, but resurrection of all that is dead!
That is: The animating of all that is without movement in
Creation, so that it may become alive for the Divine Judgement,
either to be strengthened in its activity or annihilated!

Today nothing remains motionless; for the Living Power that now
flows with greater intensity through all Creation urges, presses
and forces everything into motion. Thereby it grows stronger,
including that which has hitherto been inactive or dormant. It is
awakened, strengthened, and thus must become active; in this
awakening activity it is, so to speak, dragged before the Light,
even if it wished to hide. It can also be said that it comes to the
Light of itself and must reveal itself; it can no longer remain
dormant, wherever it may be. As the popular saying is: “It comes
to light!”

Everything becomes life and activity in this entire Creation

through the new penetration of the Light! The Light thereby
exerts a powerful attraction . . . whether that which rests or
perhaps even hides in this Creation wishes it or not; and finally it
will also come into contact with this Light, it cannot escape It,
even if it had the wings of the morning no place in the entire
Creation can grant it protection from the Light. There is nothing
which will not be lit up.

But in the movement of being attracted, anything that cannot

endure the radiation, thus anything that is not already voluntarily
striving towards this Light, must be shattered and burnt up by
the Light. What is attuned to the Light, however, will blossom and
grow strong in the purity of its volition!

So is it also with all the qualities of the souls of these earthmen.

What has hitherto appeared to be dead, what has slumbered in
them, often unknown to men themselves, will awaken and
become strong under the Power, will develop into thought and
deed, so that according to its nature it will in manifesting judge
itself by the Light! Reflect, whatever is slumbering in you will

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come to life! Therein lies the resurrection of all that is dead! The
Living Judgement! The Day of Judgement!

Then you must deal with all that is within you, must purify
yourselves, or you will perish with the evil if it is able to become
too powerful in you. It will then hold you fast, break over your
head with foaming and bubbling, to sweep you down with it into
the abyss of disintegration; for it can no longer exist in the
radiance of Divine Power! ––

To you I have now given the Word showing the way that, in the
awakening of this Creation, leads you unerringly to the Luminous
Heights, the way that will not let you fall, whatever happens and
tries to flare up within you! If you have turned your gaze to the
Light in loyal conviction, if you have rightly grasped my Word and
absorbed it in your souls, then you will calmly ascend out of the
chaos, cleansed and purified, free from everything that might
once have hindered you from entering Paradise.

Watch and pray, therefore, that you do not let your clear outlook
be dimmed by vanity and conceit, the most dangerous snares for
these earthmen! Beware! As you have now prepared the soil
within you, so will it happen to you during the purification of
Creation!

27. THE BOOK OF LIFE

EVEN AS THE DARKNESS moved over Golgotha when Jesus, the

Living Light, departed from this earth, so is it now moving over
mankind, returning to them the great suffering they inflicted
upon the Love of God in the cruel way of the cunning intellect,
which is utterly incapable of any intuitive vibrations, and which as
Lucifer’s most powerful tool you have held sacred! –

Now try if you can, you human beings, to protect yourselves with
your intellect against God’s All-Holy Wrath! Defend yourselves
against the Omnipotence of Him Who graciously made over for

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your use that part of Creation which you have devastated and
defiled like a stable of the most neglected animals, so that only
suffering and misery can still dwell therein, because all peace and
joy flee before your wrong actions and dark volition, and all purity
conceals itself in horror.

Try to hide from God’s inflexible Justice! It strikes you everywhere

in the inexorable execution of Divine Will, without remitting
anything of the enormous guilt with which you have laden
yourselves in your self-will and obstinacy.

You are judged even before you are able to stammer a single
word of excuse, and all petitioning, all supplicating, all
blaspheming or cursing avails you nothing; for now you have
unpardonably wasted the last respite for searching your soul and
turning back, merely on fostering your vices! –

I do not tell you this as a warning; because it is too late for that.
Far be it from me to continue to admonish you as I have done for
years. You are only to think of it in the coming experiences! For
this reason I state once more what this time has in store for you.
Perhaps the knowledge of it will help to alleviate many an
affliction for you, although it can no longer prevent anything.

You know it is the clearing of the debt with which you have
voluntarily burdened yourselves, since nobody has forced you to
do this. If through my words you can come to recognition in the
suffering, and if thereby a yearning for Light and for Purity arises
within you and forms a humble petition, you may still be granted
salvation as you are sinking; for God’s Love is ever watchful.

Then you will also be permitted to see the new life, which the
Lord will grant only to those who willingly swing in the sacred
Laws of His Creation, to those who will keep His Mansion in which
you are but guests free from all activities that are hostile to the
Light, and who will not again wantonly devastate the beautiful

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gardens, in whose splendor and purity they shall evermore rejoice
in order to grow strong therein.

Oh, you deluded ones, why would you not awaken! You could
have been spared so much hardship. But as it is, your existence
must be shrouded in grey veils of deep sorrow, from which only
through the piercing flashes of the Holy Wrath of God can
liberation and redemption once more be granted to you!

And this Wrath will break over you with unsuspected might in the
Holy Judgement! –

But the Judgement is different from your conception of it. You

know of a Book of Life which will be opened by the Judge of God
at the appointed hour for each one!

The Book of Life shows the names of all creatures who have come
to life, and nothing else.

But the inscribed pages belonging to the great Book of Life, which
show the for and against of every single thought and every single
deed of the individual, are the souls themselves, upon whom has
been imprinted all that they have experienced or done in the
course of their existence.

The Judge can clearly read therein all the for and against. But
again you also picture the reading wrongly. This too is much
simpler than you try to imagine.

The Judge does not order each soul to step separately before Him,
before His Judgement Seat, but in the Name of God He sends His
sword-thrusts into the Universe! The sword-thrusts are
radiations, which go forth and strike everything in Creation!

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Realize the great simplicity and amazing naturalness! The Judge
does not send the rays consciously or intentionally to this one or
that one; no, He simply sends them out at God’s Holy Command;
for it is the Power of God, nothing else but His All-Holy Will could
operate in this way!

Thus the radiation-thrusts or radiations penetrate all Creation,

but in such force as they have never been before.

Nothing can hide from the effect! And thus, in the Law of the
Working of Creation, the Ray of Divine Power also strikes every
soul at the appointed hour.

When the Divine Ray, which is completely invisible to the human

soul, falls upon it, everything that still clings to it must revive and
also become manifest, active, thereby enabling the last link in the
cycle to be closed, either pressing the soul down or raising it up.

Whatever of wrong or evil such a soul in the course of its

existence has already been able to throw off, through redemptive
experiences according to the Laws of Creation, is obliterated, and
in such a way as if it had never been; thus it no longer clings to
the soul, it is then no longer imprinted upon it. The soul is freed
from it and pure, and therefore can suffer no harm from it.

Only that which has not yet come to the closing of its cycle, and
therefore still clings to and is connected with the soul, is
forthwith driven to the closing of the cycle in the pressure of the
Light, in that as it comes to life it reveals itself as it attempts to
become active, and in so doing also receives the blow it deserves.

The actual blows depend entirely on the strength of the individual

volition which, being released in the reciprocal action, is directed
against the soul as the point of origin! Everything, be it good or
evil, is now strengthened by the irresistible pressure of the Light
and thrust back to the starting-point, to the soul.

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And everything which otherwise, in the cumbersome movement of
the condensed, hardened environment of all the human souls on
earth, might still have required many thousands of years to close
the cycle, is now, through the power of the blows from the Light,
compressed into a few months in the impetus that is unexpected
by mankind.

Such is the manifestation of the World Judgement in its simple

naturalness! This time it is the “Last Judgement”, so often
proclaimed to you! But its manifestations are entirely different
from what you thought. What was formerly proclaimed to you was
given in pictures, because you would not otherwise have
understood it at all.

By means of the Grail Message, however, your knowledge of the

working in Creation goes further, and therefore more and more
can be revealed to you; for today you are already able to
understand it through my Message.

The sword-thrusts of the Judgement-Day strike as strong Light-

radiations into Creation, and flow through all the channels that
have already been formed through the automatic working of the
Divine Laws in Creation, which are based on all the intuitive
perceptions, thoughts, volitions and also actions of men as
starting-points.

The judging rays are therefore guided with infallible certainty

through these existing channels to all souls, and there take effect
according to the state of the souls concerned, but in such an
accelerated way that their whole existence is brought to the final
closing of the cycle of all past activities within a few months; and
in exact accordance with their actual condition these souls will be
uplifted or cast down, animated and strengthened or destroyed!

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Such is the Judgement! Today you are able through the Message
to understand the process thus described.

Formerly you could not have grasped it, and therefore everything
had to be revealed in simple pictures which correspond more or
less to the operation of the process. –

And these blows of the Last Judgement are already on their way
to you, to each one in Creation, no matter whether he is with or
without his physical body.

The first blows have already reached you, and everything that
still clings to your souls is revived.

But also the final blows bringing destruction or upliftment have

been sent out with an all-overwhelming severity to complete the
purification upon this earth! Already they are rushing towards
mankind, and nothing can check them anywhere. At the exact
hour appointed by God, mankind will be inexorably but justly
struck by them!

28. THE MILLENNIUM

LIKE a legend it floats in the minds of many people who know of

the prophecy, but it is vague, without form, because no one
knows how to come to the right conception of it!

The Millennium! Wiseacres have tried again and again to put

forward an explanation of how this great period of peace and joy
that is implied in it is going to be realized. But it has never yet
been possible to come any nearer the truth! They have all gone
wrong because they have assigned far too great a role to
earthmen, as always happens with everything men think.
Moreover, they approved of and built upon existing concepts, and
thus every one of these theories had to be regarded as wrong
from the start, no matter what its nature.

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And then man forgot the principal thing! He did not take into
account the condition that was also foretold, that before the
thousand-year Reign of Peace everything has to become new in
the Judgement! That is the essential foundation for the New
Kingdom. It cannot be built up on the existing soil! Everything
that is old has first to become new!

This does not mean, however, that the old is to be revitalized in

its existing form, but the expression “new” implies a change, a
transformation of the old!

In his pondering man failed to take this into consideration, and

therefore never made any progress towards a right conception.

What must first change most drastically in the Judgement is man

himself; for he alone has brought the confusion into Subsequent
Creation. From him, from his wrong volition, the evil went forth
into the world.

The original beauty, purity and health that always result from a
swinging in the Primordial Laws of Creation were gradually
distorted and perverted through the wrong volition of this
humanity. Instead of a healthy maturing towards perfection,
nothing but caricatures could still form in the unceasing process
of development!

Just picture to yourselves a potter sitting at his wheel, before him

the clay, pliable enough to be moulded to any shape. The wheel,
however, is not turned by the potter himself but by a driving-belt,
which in turn is kept in motion by the power of an engine.

By a pressure of his fingers the clay is now shaped in continual

rotation, carried out by the wheel on which the clay was placed.

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Now as the finger presses so the shape develops, either beautiful,
plain or ugly.

The spirit of man also works in the same way in this world, in
Subsequent Creation. Through his volition he exercises
leadership, thus as spirit he exerts pressure upon certain
animistic substance, which shapes both ethereal and gross
matter. For a spirit, animistic substance is the finger that
exercises the pressure according to the spirit’s volition. The clay
is ethereal and gross matter; but the movement, which is
independent of the human spirit, comprises the automatic
movements of the Primordial Laws of Creation, which like
currents ceaselessly drive towards the development of everything
man forms in his volition.

Thus the volition of the human spirit is answerable for much that
develops in Subsequent Creation; for man as spirit exercises the
pressure that determines the nature of the form. He cannot
exercise his will without simultaneously forming! No matter what
it is! Thus he can likewise never evade this responsibility for all
the forms created by him. His volition, his thinking and his
actions – everything takes on form in the mechanism of this
world. That man has neither known it, nor wanted to know it, is
his concern, is his fault. His ignorance does not alter the effect.

Thus through his wrong volition, his obstinacy and self-conceit,

he has not only held back any true blossoming, but has ruined
Subsequent Creation and brought about only harm instead of
blessing!

Admonitions through prophets, then through the Son of God

Himself, were not enough to change man and induce him to take
the right course! He did not want to, and increasingly nourished
his conceited idea of being a world-ruler, in which already lay
hidden the germ for his inevitable downfall. This germ grew with
his conceit, and prepared the catastrophes that must now be
unleashed according to the Eternal Law in Creation, which man

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failed to recognize because his conceited idea of being the master
prevented him from doing so.

The sole cause of the coming horrors lies in the distortion of the
Divine Primordial Laws through the false volition of these human
spirits in Subsequent Creation! For this wrong volition threw into
confusion all the power-currents that take effect automatically.
The diversion of their course, however, cannot go unpunished
since, knotted and entangled as they are, they will then forcibly
detach themselves at a certain time. The detaching and
disentangling shows itself in the manifestations that we call
catastrophes. It makes no difference whether this occurs in public
affairs, in families, with individuals or entire peoples, or with the
forces of nature.

Thereby all that is false will collapse, judging itself through the
power that is in these currents, which have been wrongly directed
by humanity’s conceit, contrary to what God willed; for these
currents can only bring about blessing when they follow those
courses which are intended for them by Primordial Law, thus
ordained for them by the Creator. Never otherwise.

That is also why the end could be foreseen already thousands of

years ago, because owing to the wrongly-willed attitude of men it
could not possibly come about any differently, since the final
result of anything that happens always remains strictly bound to
the Primordial Laws.

Now since the human spirits have proved their utter inability to
recognize their task in this Creation, since they proved their
unwillingness to fulfill it by repudiating and misinterpreting all
the warnings given by called ones and prophets, even those by
the Son of God Himself, sealing their enmity by the crucifixion,
God now forcibly intervenes.

Hence the Millennium!

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Only by force can Subsequent Creation still be helped, as well as
mankind, who have proved that they would never voluntarily be
persuaded to take the right path which they must follow in
Creation in order to live in it according to God’s Will, and also to
work and bring blessing as the beings that they really are by
virtue of their spiritual nature.

For this reason mankind now, in the Judgement, are being

deprived of their rights, they are for a time disinherited of the
right they have possessed up till now, the right that the human
will rules over this Subsequent Creation, guiding and forming it!
Disinherited for a thousand years, so that at last there may be
peace, and a striving towards the Light in accordance with the
Primordial Laws in Creation, to which man has hitherto been
hostile.

Disinheriting humanity of all the rights hitherto held in

Subsequent Creation therefore makes possible and safeguards
the establishment of the long-wished-for Kingdom of Peace! Thus
does man stand before his God! For that must he now render
account. That is the meaning of and the necessity for the
thousand-year Kingdom of God here on earth. A sad truth, which
cannot be more shaming for this mankind! But . . . it is the only
way to help them.

Thus the Millennium will become a school for mankind, in which

they must learn how they have to stand in this Subsequent
Creation, how to think and to act in order to fulfill their appointed
task correctly, and thereby to achieve happiness themselves!

To this end the will of mankind as ruler in Subsequent Creation is

now suspended for a thousand years, after whatever he has
wrongly sown and wrongly guided has been destroyed in the
Judgement!

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During the thousand years the Will of God alone will reign
supreme, to Which every human spirit must submit as soon as he
has been able to pass through the Judgement!

But should there be another failure as in the past, then mankind

must count on complete annihilation!

Such is the Millennium and its purpose! In their self-conceit and

the delusion of their own importance, mankind have imagined it
to be quite different. But they will have to learn and experience it
as it actually is!

Therein also lies only a Grace of God, to help those who are really
of a pure volition!

29. A NECESSARY WORD

BE ON YOUR GUARD, spirit of man, for your hour has come! The
time which you so ardently desired, which is granted to you for
your development – you have spent it only in wickedness!

Beware, in your presumptuous intellectual conceit that has

thrown you into the arms of Darkness, which today holds you
triumphantly in its clutches!

Look upwards! You are standing in the Divine Judgement!

Awake and tremble, you who in your narrow-mindedness and

limited outlook swarm around the golden calf of earthly
transience, like moths attracted by a deceptive brightness. It was
because of you that Moses, in his wrath of disappointment, once
shattered those tablets of the Laws of your God that were to help
you to ascend to the Light.

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This breaking of the tablets was the living symbol that the entire
humanity did not deserve to have knowledge of this Will of God,
of the Will Which they rejected in their wanton behavior and
earthly arrogance, in order to dance round a self-made idol and
thereby follow their own desires!

Now, however, the end is at hand in the final reaction, in the

consequences, in the retribution! For now you will be shattered
by the Will once so frivolously rejected!

Neither lamentations nor pleading will help any more; for you
were given thousands of years to come to your senses! But you
never had time for that! You did not want to, and even today,
with incorrigible arrogance, you think yourselves much too wise.
That just in this the greatest stupidity reveals itself, you do not
want to see. Thereby you have finally become troublesome
vermin in this world, no longer knowing anything other than
willfully to revile all Light, because with your persistence in
grubbing about only in the Darkness you have lost every
possibility of seeking with a free upward gaze, of recognizing or
of being able to bear Light.

Thus you are now branded by yourselves!

Therefore as soon as the Light once more shines forth you will
stagger back dazzled, and beyond help sink into the abyss that
has even now opened up behind you, waiting to engulf those who
have thus been rejected!

There you shall be bound in an inescapable grip, so that all those

who strive to aspire to the Light may find the way thereto in
blissful recognition, free from your presumption and your
hankering to accept tinsel instead of pure gold! Sink into that
death-dealing horror, which you have prepared for yourselves
with the most stubborn efforts! In future you shall no longer be
able to obscure the Divine Truth!

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How zealously they try, these little human beings, to push their
ridiculous pseudo-knowledge well into the foreground, and how
do they thereby confuse so many souls who could be saved if they
did not fall into the hands of spiritual highwaymen, who like
brigands still prowl about the first stretch of the right path,
apparently following the same road. But what is it that they really
offer? With great pompousness and hackneyed phrases they
proudly take their stand on traditions, the true meaning of which
they have never understood.

Very apt is the popular saying about this: they are threshing
empty straw! Empty because they have not also picked up the
real kernels, for which they lack understanding. One comes up
against such narrow-mindedness everywhere; with dull obstinacy
they ride upon the phrases of others, because they themselves
have nothing to contribute.

There are thousands of these, and again thousands who imagine

that they alone possess the true faith! Wherever they meet with
anything beyond their comprehension they humbly, and with
inner satisfaction, warn against arrogance! These belong among
the worst! They are the very ones who are even now rejected,
because their religious obduracy makes it impossible ever to help
them. Once they realize their error no dread, no lamenting and no
petitioning will be of any avail. They did not want it otherwise,
they missed their opportunity. There shall be no mourning over
them. Each moment is far too precious still to be wasted on those
who think they know everything better; for they will never in any
case come to an awakening from their obstinacy, but will blindly
perish in it! With nauseating words and assurances of their faith
in God, their purely imaginary recognition of Christ!

In no better case are the masses of those who attend their Divine
Services with the regularity and duty they apply to other work;
because it is necessary and advantageous, expedient. Partly also
out of habit or because it is the “custom”. Perhaps also out of
simple prudence because, after all, “one never knows to what

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good it might ultimately lead”. Like a breath in the wind they will
vanish! –-

More to be pitied are those investigators who with their really

earnest inquiring mind fail still to rise from the brushwood in
which they tirelessly rummage, expecting to discover in it a way
to the beginning of Creation. Nevertheless it is all useless, and
there is no excuse for it! Besides there are only a few, a very few.
Most of those who call themselves investigators become lost in
meaningless trifling.

The great remainder of mankind, however, have no time for

“introspection”. Apparently they are very harassed human
beings, burdened with quite enough work in order to achieve
fulfillment of their earthly desires, their daily needs, but
ultimately also of things going far beyond that. They do not
notice that with the fulfillment their wishes also increase,
whereby a final aim never comes in sight, and thus the striving
one can never find the peace or the time for inner awakening!
Without any high goal for eternity, he allows himself to be hurried
through his earth-life, enslaved to his earthly desires.

Exhausted by such activities, he must finally also care for his

body through rest, change and diversion. So of course he has no
time left for anything beyond the earthly, for the spiritual! But
should his intuitive perception occasionally and very softly make
itself felt with the thought of what comes “after death”, then at
best he becomes somewhat pensive for a few moments, but never
allows himself to be stirred and awakened by it; instead, he then
brusquely and quickly represses all such things, complaining that
he cannot occupy himself with them even if he really wanted to!
He simply has not any time for it!

Many a one would even like to see others creating the

opportunity for it. Quite often there are also accusations against
fate and murmuring against God! Naturally every word is wasted
on such as these, because they are never willing to acknowledge

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that it depended solely upon themselves to shape their lives
differently!

For them there are only earthly needs, which always increase
with every success. They have never seriously wished for
anything else. They have always raised all kinds of obstacles
against it. They have frivolously relegated it to the fifth or sixth
place, only to be thought of in dire need or at the approach of
death. Until now it has remained a matter of secondary
importance for all . . . who have time!

And if one day there presented itself, plainly recognizable, the

opportunity to concern oneself seriously with it, then immediately
new and special wishes, which are really nothing more than
excuses, would arise, such as: “But first I still want to do this and
that, then I am quite prepared to study it.” Exactly as Christ once
said!

Nowhere is there to be found that seriousness which is absolutely

imperative for this most essential of all matters! It seemed to
them too remote. For this reason they are now all rejected, all of
them! Not one of them will be admitted into the Kingdom of God!

Rotten fruit for ascent, who only spread further decay around
them. Now reflect for yourselves, who then can still remain! A sad
picture! But unfortunately only too true. –

And when now the Judgement causes mankind to yield they will
very quickly kneel in the dust! But just envisage already today
how they will kneel: In all wretchedness, but at the same time
once more arrogantly; for again they will only be lamenting and
begging that help may be given to them!

The heavy burden which they have imposed on themselves, and

which finally threatens to crush them, should be taken from
them! That then is what they petition for! Do you hear it? Their

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petitions are for alleviation of their torment, but without at the
same time one thought for their own inner improvement! Not one
honest wish for voluntary alteration of their hitherto wrong
thinking, of their purely earthly pursuits! Not one wish to
recognize and bravely acknowledge their present errors and
faults.

And then, when the Son of Man comes among them in the great
affliction, no doubt all their hands will be stretched out to Him,
with whining and beseeching, yet again only in the hope that He
will help them in the way they wish, thus ending their suffering
and leading them to new life!

But He will push away the majority of these petitioners like

poisonous vermin! For after receiving help, all such imploring
ones would immediately relapse into their old faults, poisoning
their environment at the same time. He will accept only those
who plead to Him for strength finally to pull themselves together
for permanent improvement, who humbly strive to throw off all
former stubbornness, and joyfully greet the Word of Truth from
the Light as redemption! –

But an understanding of the Grail Message, as well as of the

previous Message of the Son of God, will only become possible
when a human spirit casts aside everything that it has built up
with its imagined understanding, and starts from the very
beginning! In this they must first become like children! A leading
across from the present errors is impossible. From the ground up
there must be a complete newness, which grows and becomes
strong out of simplicity and humility.

If mankind were helped in the way they ask in the hour of danger
and need, then everything would once more be quickly forgotten
as soon as their terror was removed. With their lack of
understanding they would again unscrupulously begin to criticize
instead of to reflect.

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Such a waste of time is quite impossible in the future, since the
existence of this part of the world has to hasten towards its end.
Henceforth for every human spirit it is: Either – Or! Salvation from
self-created entanglements or destruction therein!

The choice is free. But the consequences of the decision are

definite and irrevocable!

As though released from a great pressure, those saved will then

breathe freely and exult after the repulsive, unclean Darkness,
with the creatures that gladly cling to it, has at last had to go
down where it belongs, through the sword-thrusts of the Light!

Then the earth, purified of all pestilential thoughts, will arise like
a virgin, and peace will blossom for all mankind!

30. THE GREAT COMET

FOR YEARS now “knowing ones” have been speaking of the

coming of this especially significant Star. The number of those
who await it is continually increasing, and the indications become
more and more definite, so much so that in fact it is to be
expected soon. But what it really signifies, what it brings, whence
it comes, has not yet been rightly explained.

It is thought that it brings upheavals of an incisive nature. But

this Star portends more.

It can be called the Star of Bethlehem, because it is of exactly the

same nature as that was. Its power sucks the waters up high,
brings weather catastrophes and still more. When encircled by its
rays the earth quakes.

Since the event in Bethlehem there has been nothing like it. Like
the Star of Bethlehem, this Star has also detached itself from the

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Eternal Realm of Primordial Spirit at such a time as to take effect
on this earth exactly when the years of spiritual enlightenment
are to come to all mankind.

The Star takes its course in a straight line from the Eternal Realm
to this part of the Universe. Its core is filled with high spiritual
power; it envelops itself in material substance, and will thereby
also become visible to men on earth. Unerringly and unswervingly
the Comet pursues its course, and will appear on the scene at the
right hour, as already ordained thousands of years ago.

The first direct effects have already begun in recent years. For
anyone who wishes neither to see nor to hear this, and who does
not perceive how ridiculous it is still to maintain that all the
extraordinary things which have already happened are of
everyday occurrence, there is naturally no help. He either wishes
to act like an ostrich out of fear, or he is burdened with an
extremely limited understanding. Both types must be allowed to
go serenely on their way; one can only smile at their easily
refutable assertions.

But the knowing ones could also be told where the first powerful
rays are striking. However, since the rays are gradually also
encompassing the whole earth, there is no use in being more
explicit. It will take years to come to this point, and years before
the Comet again releases the earth from its influence.

And then the earth is purified and refreshed in every respect for
the blessing and joy of its inhabitants. It will be more beautiful
than it has ever been. Therefore every believer shall look forward
to the future with tranquil confidence, and not be alarmed at
anything that may happen in the coming years. If he can look up
with confidence to God no harm will come to him.

31. THE WORLD TEACHER

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HE IS CALLED World Teacher not because He is to teach the
World, and will perhaps found a religion that unites the World, or
more specifically the earth, or better still humanity on earth, or
that holds sway over the earth; but He is called World Teacher
because He explains the “World” and brings the teaching about
the World. That which man really must know! He teaches how to
recognize the “World” in its automatic activity, so that earthman
may adjust himself accordingly, and thereby be able consciously
to ascend in the recognition of the actual Laws of the World!

Thus it is really a question of cosmology, of instruction about the

World, about Creation.

Behind this true World Teacher, visible to pure clairvoyants,

stands radiantly the great Cross of Redemption, as once it did
with Christ! It can also be said: “He bears the Cross”! But that
has nothing to do with suffering and martyrdom.

This will be one of the signs which, “living and radiating”, no

sorcerer or magician however accomplished is able to simulate,
and by which the absolute genuineness of His Mission can be
recognized! This “beyond-earthly” happening is not
disconnected, not merely arbitrary, therefore not unnatural. The
connection will immediately be understood as soon as the true
significance of the actual “Cross of Redemption” is known. The
Cross of Redemption does not have the same meaning as Christ’s
Cross of Suffering, through which indeed mankind could not be
redeemed, as I explain in detail in the lecture “The Crucifixion of
the Son of God and the Lord’s Supper”, and repeat many times. It
is something quite different, again of apparent simplicity, yet of
immense greatness!

The Cross was already known before Christ’s time on earth. It is

the sign of Divine Truth! Not merely the sign, but the living form
for It. And since Christ was the Bringer of Divine Truth, of the
genuine One, and came from the Truth, was in direct connection
with It, bearing a part of It within Himself, It also clung to Him
inwardly and outwardly in a living form! It is visible in the living,

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thus shining and independently radiating Cross! It may be said
that It is the Cross itself. Where this Radiant Cross is, there also
is Truth, since this Cross cannot be separated from Truth; rather
they are both one, because this Cross displays the visible form of
Truth.

The Cross of Rays or the radiating Cross is therefore the Truth in

its original form. And since man can ascend only through the
Truth, and in no other way, the human spirit finds true
redemption only in the recognition or knowledge of Divine Truth!

Again, since redemption lies only in the Truth, it follows that the
Cross, that is, the Truth, is the redeeming Cross, or the Cross of
Redemption!

It is the Cross of the Redeemer! The Redeemer, however, is the

Truth for mankind! Only knowledge of the Truth and, connected
therewith, making use of the way that lies or is shown in the
Truth, can lead the human spirit out of its present derangement
and error upwards to the Light, can liberate and redeem it from
its present state. And as the Son of God Who was sent, and the
Son of Man now coming, are the sole Bringers of the undimmed
Truth, bearing It within Themselves, They must both naturally
also bear inseparably the Cross within Themselves, that is, They
must be Bearers of the Cross of Rays, Bearers of Truth, Bearers of
Redemption, which for humanity lies in the Truth. They bring
redemption in the Truth to those who receive It, who thus walk on
the path shown. – What is all the clever talk of men beside this? It
will fade away in the hour of need.

For that reason the Son of God told men that they should take up
the Cross and follow Him, which means to accept the Truth and to
live accordingly! To adapt themselves to the Laws of Creation, to
learn to understand them fully and make only the best use of
their automatic effects.

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But what has the restricted mind of man once more made of this
simple and natural fact! A doctrine of suffering desired neither by
God nor the Son of God! And thereby they have taken a wrong
path, that is not in accord with the path indicated, but leads far
away from the Will of God, Which desires only to lead to joy
instead of suffering.

It is naturally a terrible symbol for mankind that at that time the

Son of God was nailed by them just to the earthly representation
of the form of Truth, and tortured to death, thus going to His
earthly destruction on the symbol of the Truth which He brought!
The Cross of Suffering of the churches, however, is not the Cross
of Redemption!

It is said of the Son of God: “He who stands in the Power and the
Truth”. The Power is the Will of God, the Holy Spirit. Its visible
form is the Dove. The visible form of Truth is the independently
radiating Cross. Both were seen – living – with the Son of God,
because He stood in them. Thus with Him it was a natural and
self-evident manifestation.

The same will also be seen with the Son of Man! The Dove above
Him, the Cross of Redemption behind Him; for He again is
inseparably linked with them as the Bringer of Truth, “Who
stands in the Power and the Truth”! They are the infallible signs
of His genuine Mission to fulfill the prophecies. The signs that can
never be imitated, which are indestructible, warning, and despite
the fearfulness of the severity also promising! Before these alone
must the Darkness yield!

Look upwards! As soon as the inexorable harbingers of His

coming have appeared, clearing the way for Him of the obstacles
that human conceit heaps upon it, the bandage will fall from the
eyes of many to whom is granted the grace to recognize Him
thus! Then, forced by the power of the Light, they will have to
bear witness openly.

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Not one of the false prophets and of the leaders, today still so
numerous, is able to stand his ground against this; for in these
two sublime signs, which no one but the Son of God and the Son
of Man can bear, God Himself speaks for His Servant, and all
human wisdom must become silent because of them. –

Watch for that hour, it will be nearer than all men think.

32. THE STRANGER

ONCE MORE DARKNESS had settled over the earth. Triumphantly

it overshadowed men, and barred their way to the Primordial
Spiritual Realm. The Light of God had withdrawn from them. The
body that had served It as an earthly vessel hung bleeding and
mutilated on the Cross, as a victim of the protest of those to
whom It wished to bring happiness and holy peace.

At the summit of the entire Creation, in the radiant vicinity of

God, stands the Grail Castle as the Temple of Light. Deep grief
prevailed there over the erring human spirits far below who,
blindly imagining that they knew everything better, closed
themselves in hostility to the Truth, and allowed themselves to be
driven so far by the hate-filled Darkness as to commit this crime
against the Son of God. The curse thus created by mankind fell
heavily on the whole world, pressing them into an even greater
limitation of understanding. –

Gravely perplexed, a youth beheld this monstrous happening

from the Castle of the Grail . . . the future Son of Man. He was
then already being prepared for His Mission, a process which took
thousands of years; for He was to descend well-equipped into
those lower regions where, through the volition of mankind,
Darkness reigned.

A woman’s hand was gently laid on the shoulder of the dreaming

one. The Queen of Womanhood stood beside Him, and spoke in a
sad and loving voice:

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“Let this event impress itself upon you, dear son. Such is the
battlefield through which you will have to pass in the hour of
fulfillment; for at the request of the murdered Saviour God the
Father grants that before the Judgement you shall once more
proclaim His Word to the faithless, in order to save those who are
still willing to listen to It!”

The youth bowed His head in silence and sent up a fervent prayer
for strength, for such great Divine Love re-echoed mightily within
Him!

The tidings of the last, of another possibility of Grace spread

rapidly through all the spheres, and many souls besought God to
grant that they might be permitted to help in the great work of
the redemption of all those who still wish to find the way to God.
The Love of God the Father granted this to many a soul, who was
thereby helped in its ascent. In grateful joy the host of these so
blessed ones jubilantly gave a solemn pledge of loyalty to fulfill
the opportunity of serving that was granted them.

Thus those Called ones were trained, who were later to hold
themselves at the disposal of the Envoy of God when His hour of
fulfillment on earth came. They were carefully developed for
these tasks and incarnated on earth at the right time, so that
they might be ready whenever the Call reached them, and their
first fulfillment of duty remained to listen for this Call!

Meanwhile the legacy of the murdered Son of God, His Living

Word, was exploited on earth solely for selfish purposes. Mankind
had no conception of the true Principles of Christ. On the
contrary, they gradually grew into such a wrong and purely
earthly doctrine of love that finally they rejected anything else as
not coming from God, and they still today reject and revile
whatever does not conform to this nauseating sentimentality
desired by them, and what does not practice a similar and very
unwholesome servile worship of mankind.

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Everything that does not have as its foundation the
acknowledgement of the supremacy of man is simply labeled as
false, and not belonging to the Word of God. This behavior,
however, actually only conceals the uneasy apprehension that the
long-felt hollowness of the false edifice might become apparent.

This is what had been made of the sacred legacy of the Son of
God! On such degrading assumptions His clear words were
interpreted and passed on in all too human a way. Adherents
were solicited through courting human frailties, until some
earthly power could be developed, which has always remained
the ultimate goal. Then, however, by their brutal cruelties they
very soon showed how far the bearers of the misconstrued Christ-
Principle were from the real understanding of it, and how little
they lived it.

Continually and ever more clearly there was proof that the very
ones who wished to be the bearers of the Christ-Principle were
shamelessly and unpardonably the worst enemies and greatest
offenders against the true Christ-Principle! After Christ’s life on
earth the whole of history, from the beginning of the churches,
sets forth these facts so clearly, in letters so indelibly engraved
and branded, that they can never be denied or glossed over. The
stigma of conscious hypocrisy was undisguisably established
throughout the long history of individual and mass murders under
unpardonable invocations of God, and even today this is being
extended in many places, but in different forms adapted to the
present time.

Thus, thanks to the willingness of all the human spirits, the

Darkness became ever denser as the time approached when the
Son of Man had to be incarnated upon earth.

Joyful activity in the elements heralded the earthly birth. Angels

lovingly accompanied Him down to this earth. Primordial Beings
formed a solid rampart around Him and around His earthly
childhood. His earthly youth was allowed to be bright and sunny.

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In the evenings He saw the Comet, radiant above Him, like a
greeting from God the Father; He regarded it as nothing unusual,
as one of the other stars, until the bandage which He had to wear
during His bitter training on earth was put before His eyes.

Then life around Him seemed strange; only a great unquenchable

longing filled His soul, increasing to a restlessness, to a continual
nervous seeking. Nothing the earth offered could satisfy it.

With the ethereal bandage over His eyes, He now stood on hostile
ground facing the Darkness, on a battlefield where everything
dark could have a firmer foothold than He Himself. Therefore it
was only natural that wherever He sought to undertake
something He could find no response and no success, but only the
Darkness hissed up in enmity every time.

As long as the time of fulfillment for Him had not arrived, the
Darkness could always remain stronger, and could inflict material
damage upon Him wherever He engaged in some earthly affairs;
for everything earthly quite naturally had to oppose the Envoy of
God with nothing but hostility, because all human volition today
is directed against the true Will of God in spite of the alleged
search for Truth, behind which there always lurks only self-
conceit in various forms. The Darkness easily found willing
creatures everywhere to hinder the Envoy from the Light, and to
injure Him grievously and painfully.

Thus His time of learning on earth became the path of suffering.

Just as spiritual substance, with great power, appears to have a

magnetically attracting and holding effect upon animistic,
ethereal and gross material substances, so in a similar and much
more powerful way whatever has its origin above the spiritual in
Subsequent Creation must exert an influence on everything that
lies below it. This is perfectly natural, it could not be otherwise.
However, it only resembles the power of attraction in its

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manifestation. The power of attraction in the ordinary sense is
effective only among homogeneous species.

But here it is a question of the existing power of the stronger in a

purely objective and most noble sense! It is not to be thought of
in an earthly human way; for in the World of Gross Matter this
Law, like everything else, has been coarsened in its effect
through the actions of men. The natural effect of this dominant
power reveals itself outwardly like a magnet attracting, uniting,
holding together and controlling.

Now because of this Law, men too felt themselves magnetically

drawn to this veiled, more powerful Stranger from On High,
although often resisting Him with enmity. The thick veils He wore
around Him could not entirely prevent the emanation of this
power that was alien on earth; while on the other hand this power
could not yet radiate freely either to exert that irresistible might
which it has after the falling away of the covering veils in the
hour of fulfillment.

This brought conflict among the intuitive perceptions of men. The

very being of the Stranger was enough to awaken in those who
met Him hopes of the most varied kinds which alas, because of
their attitude, were always brought down to merely earthly
wishes, which they nourished and fostered within themselves.

The Stranger, however, could never heed such wishes, since His
hour had not yet come. Thereby many were often greatly
disappointed through their own imaginings and, strange to say,
even felt themselves deceived. They never reflected that in
reality it was only their own selfish expectations which were not
fulfilled and, indignant about this through their disappointment,
they laid the responsibility for it on the Stranger. Yet He did not
call them; but they forced themselves upon and clung to Him
because of this Law which was unknown to them, and they often
became a heavy burden to Him, with which He journeyed through
those years on earth that were ordained for Him as His time of
learning.

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Men on earth perceived something mysterious and unknown
about Him, which they could not explain, they sensed a hidden
might which they did not understand, and in the end through
their ignorance they naturally suspected only intentional
suggestion, hypnotism and magic, according to the nature of
their lack of understanding; whereas there was no question of
any of these. Their original attachment, the consciousness of
being strangely attracted, then very often turned into hatred,
which expressed itself in moral stone-throwing and attempts to
defile Him from Whom they had expected much – too soon.

No one took the trouble to make a just self-examination, which

would have revealed that the Stranger, living apart with different
views and ideals, was the one made use of by those who crowded
towards Him, but not that He had taken advantage of anyone, as
the obtruders, in their bitterness over the non-fulfillment of their
desires for a life of ease, encouraged themselves and others to
believe. Blindly they repaid the friendliness shown them with
senseless hate and enmity, similar to the deed of Judas.

But the Stranger on earth had to bear everything patiently; for it

was only a quite natural consequence of His existence, so long as
mankind were still living in error. By this alone He, to Whom all
wrong-doing and wrong thinking were entirely alien, was able to
recognize what earthmen in their nature could become capable
of. At the same time, however, such experiences also gave Him
the necessary hardening, which slowly laid itself like an armor
around His otherwise ever-present helpfulness, and thus created
a gulf between that and mankind . . . through the wounds
inflicted upon His soul, which brought about a separation, and
which can only be healed through the complete change in
mankind. These wounds inflicted on Him have formed from that
hour the gulf which can be bridged only by that man who wholly
follows the road of the Laws of God. This alone can serve as a
bridge. Everyone else must be dashed to pieces in the abyss; for
there is no other way over it. And to remain standing before it
means destruction.

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At the exact hour, even before the end of this arduous time of
learning, the meeting came to pass with that Companion Who as
a Part of Him was to journey with Him through earthly life, to
participate in the great task according to Divine Ordinance.
Herself a Stranger on earth, She joyfully entered the Will of God
through Her own recognition, and gratefully merged with It.

Only then came the time for the Called ones, who had once
solemnly pledged to God their loyalty for service! The granting of
their petition had been carefully carried out. At the appropriate
time they were incarnated on earth. Through faithful guidance
they were equipped in the earthly sense with everything they
needed for the fulfillment of their respective tasks. It was
brought, given to them, so noticeably that they simply could not
consider it other than as a gift, as a loan for the hour of
fulfillment of their former promise.

At the precise moment they came into contact with the Envoy,
through His Word, and then also personally . . . but many of them,
although they sensed the Call and intuitively perceived something
unusual in their souls, had meanwhile in the course of their earth-
life permitted themselves to be so ensnared by purely earthly
matters, and to some extent even by the Darkness, that they
could not summon up the strength to conquer themselves for the
true service, to fulfill which they were permitted to come to earth
for this great time.

A few did show a faint willingness to fulfill, yet their earthly faults
held them back from it. Unfortunately there were also others who
certainly set out on the path of their mission, but who from the
very beginning sought first of all to gain earthly advantage for
themselves thereby. Even among those of earnest volition there
were several who expected Him Whom they had to serve to
smooth their way to the fulfillment, instead of the reverse.

Only a few isolated ones really showed themselves capable of

growing into their task. To these was then given in the hour of
fulfillment ten times greater strength, so that the gaps were no

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longer perceptible, and in loyalty they became capable of
accomplishing even more than the great throng could ever have
achieved. –

It was with grief that the Stranger on earth saw the havoc among
the group of the Called ones. That was one of the most bitter
experiences for Him! Much as He had learned, much as He
suffered at the hands of men . . . before this last fact He stood
uncomprehending; for He found no excuse whatever for this
failure. In His conception a Called one who, in the granting of his
petition, was specially guided and incarnated, could do no other
than faithfully carry out his task in the most joyous fulfillment!
For what other purpose was he on earth! Why had he been
faithfully guarded up to the hour when the Envoy needed him!
Everything had been given to him solely for the sake of his
necessary service.

So it was that the Stranger, on meeting the first Called ones, put
His full trust in them. He regarded them only as friends, who
simply could not think, intuitively perceive and act in any other
way than in the most steadfast loyalty. Was it not the highest,
the most precious privilege that could fall to the lot of a human
being. The possibility never entered His mind that even Called
ones could have become impure during their time of waiting. It
was inconceivable to Him that any human being, in view of such
grace, could wantonly neglect and trifle away the real purpose of
his earth-life. With the faults clinging to them they only appeared
to Him as being in need of great help . . . And so the dreadfulness
of a recognition struck Him all the more severely when He had to
experience that even in such exceptional cases the human spirit
is not reliable, and that it shows itself unworthy of the highest
blessing even with the most faithful spiritual guidance!

Deeply shaken, He suddenly saw before Him mankind in all their

unspeakable inferiority and depravity. They filled Him with
disgust.

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 Misery fell more oppressively upon the earth. The instability of
the false structure of all that mankind had hitherto produced
became ever more apparent. Proof of their incapacity came more
plainly to light. With the increasing confusion everything slowly
began to sway, with one exception: Man’s conceit in his own
imagined abilities.

This was just what sprang up more luxuriantly than ever, which
was quite natural, because conceit always needs the soil of
narrow-mindedness. The increase of narrow-mindedness must
also bring with it an abundant growth of conceit.

The craving for importance increased to a feverish frenzy. The

less man had to offer the more his soul, which forebodingly
sensed only too well that it was sinking, cried out anxiously
within him for liberation, the more he then, in his false desire to
keep his balance, obtrusively pursued outward earthly trifles and
human honors. Even if in quiet moments men at last began to
doubt themselves, this only made them the more eager to have at
least a reputation for knowledge. At all costs!

Thus things went rapidly downhill. In the fear-producing

recognition of the approaching collapse, each in his own way
finally thought to dull himself, letting the outrageous state of
affairs continue to take its course. He closed his eyes to the
menacing responsibility.

“Wise” men, however, proclaimed the time of the coming of a

strong helper out of the distress. But most of them wanted to see
this helper in themselves or, if they were modest, at least to find
him within their circle.

The “faithful” prayed to God for help out of the confusion. But it
became evident that these petty earthmen, even while praying in
expectation of a fulfillment, sought inwardly to impose conditions
upon God by wishing for such a helper as would correspond with
their views. So far-reaching are the results of earthly narrow-

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mindedness. Mankind can believe that an Envoy of God needs to
adorn Himself with earthly honors! They expect Him to adapt
Himself to their narrow-minded earthly opinions in order to be
acknowledged by them, and thereby to win their faith and
confidence. What incredible conceit, what arrogance, lie in this
fact alone! In the hour of fulfillment the conceit will be completely
shattered, along with all those who inwardly indulged in such a
delusion! –

Then the Lord called to His Servant, Who was walking the earth
as a Stranger, that He should speak and give tidings to all those
who were thirsting for it!

And behold, the knowledge of the “wise ones” was false, the
prayers of the faithful were not genuine; for they did not open
themselves to the Voice that came forth from the Truth, and
which therefore could only be recognized where the spark of
Truth within man had not been buried by earthly wrongdoing, the
domination of the intellect, and all those things that tend to
crowd the human spirit from the right path and cause its
downfall.

It could only awaken an echo where the petition came from a

truly humble and honest soul. The Call went forth! Wherever it
struck it brought disquiet and dissension. But in those places
where it was earnestly awaited it brought peace and happiness.

The Darkness began to stir restlessly, and massed ever more

densely, heavily and gloomily around the earth. Here and there it
was already hissing up malignantly, and spitting in hate into the
ranks of those who wished to obey the Call. Ever more closely it
surrounded those Called ones who, through their failure, were
forced to sink away into the Darkness, to which they had thereby
voluntarily held out their hand. Their former solemn vow bound
them fast to the Envoy spiritually, and drew them to Him at the
hour of the approaching fulfillment, while their faults formed
obstacles and repelled them from Him, because a connection with
the Light was thus impossible.

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Now from this there could in turn only arise a bridge for hate, for
the whole hate of the Darkness against all that is Light. And so
they intensified the path of suffering of the Envoy from the Light
until it became a Golgotha, and the majority of mankind only too
gladly joined in making it more difficult; especially those who
imagined that they already knew and were following the path of
the Light themselves, as once the Pharisees and Scribes did.

All this created a situation in which mankind could prove once

more that they would again behave in exactly the same way
today as long ago they acted against the Son of God. Only this
time in a more modern form, a symbolic crucifixion through an
attempt at moral murder, which according to the Laws of God is
no less punishable than physical murder.

It was fulfillment after the last opportunity of mercy had been

frivolously neglected. Traitors, false witnesses and slanderers
came from the ranks of those who had been called. Base minions
of the Darkness ventured to approach in ever increasing
numbers, since they felt themselves secure, because in fulfillment
the Stranger on earth kept silent when confronted with this filth,
as He had been commanded to do, and as once the Son of God
also was silent before the howling mob that wanted to have Him
nailed to the cross as a criminal.

But when the faithless deserters in their blind hate already

thought themselves close to victory, and the Darkness once more
assumed that the Work of the Light had been destroyed, because
it hoped that the Bearer of this Work had been rendered quite
impotent on earth, then this time God revealed His Will with
Omnipotence! And then . . . even the mockers sank trembling to
their knees, but . . . for them it was too late!

33. SALVATION! REDEMPTION!

SALVATION! Redemption! How often already have human beings

pictured these words wrongly to themselves, when they wanted

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to see in them unconditional help from the Light, to the exclusion
of the All-Holy Justice! This implies a total error, that is already
evident today in everything devised by the human mind. They
want to make God into their helpful slave, who is only to be
considered in connection with the welfare of insignificant
earthmen.

Just ask yourselves for once about this, throw light on your
thoughts without extenuation, delve into them clearly and
objectively, then you will have to confess that your whole
thinking has never been attuned other than to the idea that, upon
your petitions, God should always serve and help you to fulfill
your wishes.

Of course you do not speak of it in terms that would be more

according to the nature of your being, but as always give another
name to your false volition, putting on little cloaks of deceptive
humility, and only speaking of “granting” instead of serving; yet
this does not alter the fact that your whole conduct, even when
praying, is dominated by evil and cannot be pleasing to God!

At last be honest with yourselves for once, and tremble at the

recognition of how you have hitherto always stood before your
God, stubborn, arrogant and discontented, hypocritical because
of your superficiality, thinking of Him only in misery and distress
so that He may help you out of the consequences of your actions;
but you have never asked beforehand whether your decisions
really were according to His Will.

What are you men before the Omnipotence and Sublimity of the
Lord, Whom you would have rule over you just as it pleases you!
With what presumption you would like to enforce here on earth
those laws that come from your narrow way of thinking, and that
are not in harmony with the Divine Laws that He placed in
Creation. You so often exercise your wrong volition, with a
cunning and evil-mindedness that is inexcusable before God,
harming your neighbors thereby to gain advantages for

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yourselves, either in money or goods, or to acquire a reputation
with those for whom you do it.

All this will now fall heavily upon you with the weight of a
mountain; for nothing of all your wrong-doing could be cancelled
in the Law of Reciprocal Action as having been redeemed, unless
you freed yourselves through the change in your volition for what
is good.

The barriers that still hold back the collapse of the piled-up mass
of reprisals are torn away! Everything rolls down irresistibly on
earthly humanity, who would like to continue in spiritual
indolence and arrogance in order to enforce their will, which has
long since strayed far from the Will of God.

This, however, is the end for the dominion of all Darkness on

earth! It will collapse, and drag down all those human beings who
have sided with it.

But in the midst of the thundering roar of the collapse, the Word
rings out! Victoriously It resounds through the lands, so that
those who honestly strive for It may still save themselves.

The condition implied is that each one must himself strive to

recognize the Word of the Lord as salvation! If he doubts and
allows this last opportunity to pass without making use of it with
all his strength, he will never again be in this position, and the
moment for him to find redemption is forever lost.

Salvation, redemption, will only come to him in the Word, Which

he must absorb, so that by living in accordance with It he may
release himself from the bonds that hold him down through
misunderstanding and distorting the true concepts.

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You have been most seriously poisoned and endangered by the
false representation of the Love of God, which you sought to
divest of all vigor, all power and clarity, enveloping it instead in
an unhealthy weakness and harmful indulgence, which was bound
to plunge you all together into spiritual indolence and thus into
ruin.

Beware of the fatal distortion of the concept of the Holy Love of

God! You therewith fall into a slumber which at first is pleasant,
but which becomes the sleep of death.

True love does not lie in indulgence, and in a kindness that is

expected to forgive everything. This is wrong, and acts like a
drug that only lulls the spirits into lassitude and weakness, finally
bringing on complete paralysis and enforcing eternal death, since
an awakening at the right time is then impossible.

Only the severe coolness of Divine Purity can penetrate the

lassitude, and pave the way for the true Love that leads to your
spirits. Purity is severe, It knows neither extenuation nor excuse.
Therefore It will probably appear ruthless to many a person who
only too willingly tries to deceive himself. But actually It only
hurts where something is not in order.

Weakness brings harm to yourselves as well as to those whom

you imagine you are pleasing by it. In time you will be judged by a
Higher One with the kind of justice that has become strange to
you for a long time through yourselves, for you have withdrawn
from it.

It is the Divine Justice, unchangeable from eternity to eternity,

and independent of the opinions of men, free of their partiality, of
their hate and their malice, their power. It is Almighty, for it is of
God!

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Unless you devote all your strength to severing yourselves from
the old, you will not learn to comprehend this Justice either. But
you will then likewise not be able to become new within! And only
the new man, who stands in the Word of Life and strives towards
the Light, will receive the help that he needs to pass through the
Judgement of God.

Man must help himself through the Word, which shows him the
ways he must follow! Only thus can he find redemption, otherwise
it will not fall to his lot! He must grow strong in the battle that he
wages for himself, or he must perish in it!

Awake, and present a fighting front to all Darkness, then you will
also be given strength to help you. Weaklings, however, will lose
even what strength they still possess, because they do not know
how to use it properly. The little they have will thereby be taken
away from them because, according to the Law of Attraction of
Homogeneous Species, it flows to those who use this strength
with zeal and in the right manner. Thus an ancient promise is
fulfilled.

34. THE LANGUAGE OF THE LORD

IT IS THE SACRED DUTY of the human spirit to investigate why it

is living on earth, or in general in this Creation, in which it is
suspended as if by a thousand threads. No man considers himself
so insignificant as to imagine that his existence is without
purpose, unless he makes it purposeless. In any case he deems
himself too important. And yet there are only a few men on earth
capable of laboriously detaching themselves from their spiritual
indolence, so far as seriously to concern themselves with the
investigation of their task on earth.

Again it is solely indolence of the spirit that makes them willing

to accept the firmly-established doctrines of others. And it is
indolence that lies in the reassurance that comes from thinking
that it is great to adhere to the faith of their parents, without
submitting its underlying principles to keen, careful and
independent examination.

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In all these matters men are now eagerly supported by
calculating and selfish organizations, which believe that the best
way to extend and safeguard their influence, and thus to increase
their power, is by adding to the number of their adherents.

They are far from the recognition of God; for otherwise they
would not bind the human spirit with the fetters of a firmly-
established doctrine, but would have to educate it for the
personal responsibility ordained by God, which fundamentally
stipulates full freedom of spiritual decision! Only a spirit free in
this respect can come to the true recognition of God that matures
within him to the complete conviction which is essential for
anyone who wishes to be uplifted to Luminous Heights; for only
free, sincere conviction can help him to achieve this. –

But what have you done, you men! How have you suppressed this
highest Grace of God and wantonly prevented it from developing,
and from helping all earthmen to open up that path which safely
leads them to peace, to joy, and to the highest bliss!

Consider this: that also in making a choice, in agreement or in

obedience, which as a result of spiritual indolence may be done
only from habit or general custom, a personal decision is
involved, laying upon the individual who makes it personal
responsibilities according to the Laws of Creation!

Those who influence a human spirit to do this naturally bear a

personal responsibility, which is inevitable and irrevocable. No
thought or action, however trivial, can be erased from Creation
without similar consequences. In the web of Creation the threads
both for the individual and for the masses are accurately spun,
awaiting redemptions, which in turn must eventually be received
by the originators or producers, either as suffering or as joy,
according to how they once issued from them; only now they have
grown and are thus strengthened.

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You are caught in the web of your own volitions, of your actions,
and are not released from it until the threads can fall away from
you in the redemption.

Among all creatures in Creation the human spirit is the only one
to have free will, which until today he could not explain and did
not understand, because within the narrow bounds of his
intellectual pondering he found no essential facts to prove it.

His free will lies solely in the decision, of which he may make
many every hour. In the independent weaving of the Laws of
Creation, however, he is unswervingly subject to the
consequences of every one of his personal decisions! Therein lies
his responsibility, which is inseparably connected with the gift of
free will to make decisions, which is peculiar to and an absolute
part of the human spirit.

Otherwise what would become of Divine Justice, which is firmly

anchored in Creation as support, balance and maintenance of all
the working therein?

In Its effects, however, It does not always take account of the

short span of only one earth-life for a human spirit; but here
there are entirely different conditions, as readers of my Message
know.

You have often brought harm upon yourselves, and sometimes

force it upon your children, through many superficial decisions.
Even though you yourselves have proved too indolent still to
summon up the strength to decide for yourselves in your deepest
intuitive perception whether, regardless of all you have learnt,
each word to which you decided to adhere can hold Truth, at least
you should not seek to force the consequences of your indolence
also upon your children, whom you thus plunge into misfortune.

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Thus what in one case is caused by spiritual indolence, in others
is brought about by the calculating intellect.

Through both these enemies of spiritual freedom in decision

mankind is now bound, except for a few who still try to summon
up the courage to burst this bond within them in order to become
real human beings themselves, as follows from obedience to the
Divine Laws.

The Divine Laws are true friends in everything, they are helpful
blessings from the Will of God, Who thus opens the paths to
salvation for everyone who strives towards it.

There is not a single other road to this than the one clearly shown
by the Laws of God in Creation! The whole of Creation is the
Language of God, which you should earnestly strive to read, and
which is by no means as difficult as you may think.

You belong to this Creation as a part of it, and therefore you must
swing with it, work in it, and mature in learning from it; and thus
through gaining in understanding you must rise ever higher, from
one step to the next, drawing along through the radiation in
order to ennoble everything that comes in contact with you on
your way.

There will then spontaneously develop around you one beautiful

miracle after another, which through reciprocal action will raise
you ever higher.

Learn to recognize your path in Creation, and you will also know
the purpose of your existence. Then you will be filled with
grateful rejoicing, and the greatest happiness a human spirit is
able to bear, which lies solely in the recognition of God!

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The supreme bliss of the true recognition of God, however, can
never grow out of an acquired blind faith, much less come to
flower; but convinced knowledge, knowing conviction, alone gives
to the spirit what is necessary for this.

You earthmen are in this Creation to find supreme happiness! In

the Living Language which God speaks to you! And to understand
this Language, to learn it, and to sense inwardly the Will of God in
it, that is your goal during your journey through Creation. In
Creation itself, to which you belong, lies the explanation of the
purpose of your existence, and at the same time also the
recognition of your goal! In no other way can you find either.

This demands of you that you live Creation. But you are only able
to live or experience it when you really know it.

With my Message I now open the Book of Creation for you! The
Message clearly shows you the Language of God in Creation,
which you must learn to understand so that you can make it
completely your own.

Just imagine a child on earth who cannot understand his father or

mother because he has never learned the language they speak to
him. Indeed, what is to become of such a child?

He does not even know what is expected of him, and will thus fall
into one difficulty after the other, draw upon himself one sorrow
after another, and probably end up utterly useless for any
purpose or enjoyment on earth.

If he is to amount to anything, must not every child personally

learn the language of his parents for himself? Nobody can do it
for him!

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Otherwise he would never adjust himself, nor would he ever be
able to mature and work on earth, but he would remain a
hindrance, a burden to others, and would finally have to be
segregated to prevent him from causing harm.

Could you expect anything else then?

You have of course inescapably to fulfill such a duty of the child

towards your God, Whose Language you must learn to understand
as soon as you desire His help. God, however, speaks to you in
His Creation. If you want to advance in it, you must first recognize
this His Language. Should you neglect it, you will be cut off from
those who know the Language and adjust themselves to it,
because you would otherwise cause harm and obstruction,
without necessarily wishing to do so!

You must therefore do it! Do not forget this, and see that it is
done now, otherwise you will be helplessly abandoned to
whatever threatens you.

My Message will be a faithful helper to you!

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