PEOPLE are only too ready to express an opinion about things they do not understand. In itself this would not be so bad if such utterances were not spread abroad so often, and then suddenly stand as a firm judgment, which is accepted in many spiritually indolent circles as definite knowledge.

It then simply exists, maintaining itself with a remarkable tenacity, although nobody is able to state how this has come about!

And how often do these frivolous remarks cause great harm! But this does not worry men — they continue to prattle because they like it that way! They prattle unceasingly, either out of stubbornness, spitefulness, frivolity, thoughtlessness, as a pastime, not infrequently also from a craving to be heard, or with deliberately malicious intent. An evil motive can always be found for it. One meets only a few people who actually indulge in this devastating custom just for the pleasure of talking.

This talking epidemic has also only arisen as a consequence of the disintegrating rule of the intellect. Much talking, however, suppresses the purer capacity to perceive intuitively, which requires a greater »personal« deepening!

It is not without reason that a prattler, even when harmless, does not enjoy any confidence, but only he who can be silent. So much lies in the instinctive reserve towards prattlers that everybody should become aware of it, in order to learn lessons therefrom for his personal relations with his fellow-men.

However, in the truest sense prattlers are, above all, those persons who are so quick and ready with words where it concerns things which they do not understand.

In their superficiality they are destructive persons who cause a great deal of harm and untold suffering.

Let us just take one case! Newspapers very often report so-called ghostly apparitions, which suddenly appear in houses where nothing like it has occurred before. Objects are disarranged or lifted, pots are flung about and similar incidents!

This kind of news comes from various regions and countries. In every case the happening always takes place around some very definite person.

Wherever this person is these happenings take place!

Immediately the opinion is bandied about that such a person must be »possessed«! No other possibility is even thought about, but thoughtlessly and unscrupulously they simply talk of being possessed!

Officials and churches in the various countries were often induced to take an interest in it, and if there was no evidence of fraud on anybody’s part the church would occasionally attempt to exorcise the demons. Such efforts, however, are not of much use, because they are ignorant of the facts!

Formerly such a person — it mostly concerns children or young girls — would simply have been submitted to a regular witch’s trial of a penal character, until the tormented person explained everything in the way the judges and servants of the churches wanted it. Then, as a final disgusting spectacle, came the death of the tortured one by fire in order to free devout humanity from such a person!

In reality, however, all this only happened in order to indulge the wanton craving for earthly power, and to obtain a strong influence over the people who were at that time such childish believers — an influence which thus became ever greater. The reason for this did not lie with the pure conviction to serve God thereby! This sacrilegious conduct aroused nothing but fear of men, suppressing all trust in God and giving full vent to the infamy of the most base slander.

In each case the sad end could always be reliably foreseen already at the beginning, and all those so frivolously accused could just as well have been murdered immediately without further ceremony. In that case the guilt of the murderers would have been even less than the guilt of the then fiends who were attired as God’s servants and in judges’ robes!

I do not want to draw any comparisons between the olden times and the present, nor do I want to build bridges by giving special explanations, but through thoughtless talk the process is still exactly the same spiritually! In the earthly gross material sense it is now only modified through newer laws. Nevertheless ignorant mankind think wrongly as ever in this matter, and they would act accordingly if the laws did not prevent them from doing so.

Among low Negro tribes such persons are still persecuted out of superstition, killed or also... venerated! These two extremes in human behaviour have always been found very close to one another!

Among the low and ignorant tribes their sorcerers come in order to expel such evil spirits from the hut, by torturing the »possessed one« in their own special way.

Similar happenings can be found all over the world and among all peoples. I only quote these facts for a better understanding.

In all these cases, however, people who are considered as being »possessed« in this way are completely innocent. There is no trace of possession, even less of the demons which one seeks to exorcise! All this is but childish prattle and medieval superstition — a remnant from the time of the witches! In reality only those burden themselves with guilt who in their ignorance due to erroneous conceptions and superficial opinions want to help.

It is in lunatic asylums that the possessed can be found, and more than people imagine! And these can be cured!

Today, however, these pitiable persons are still simply regarded as insane, and no difference whatever is made between the really sick and those who are possessed, because as yet nothing is understood about it.

The lack of understanding in these matters is due solely to the ignorance about Creation. What is lacking is the knowledge of Creation, which can provide the foundation for the recognition of all happenings and of the changes within and around man, i.e., the foundation which leads to true knowledge, to that future science which has no need to grope about with pitiful efforts in order therewith only to arrive at a theory, which in many cases and after decades proves ever again to be wrong.

Learn to know Creation and the Laws operating therein, you men, and you will no longer need to grope and to seek; for you will then possess everything you need in order to help yourselves in the events occurring during your earthly life, and also even far beyond this — throughout your entire existence!

Then there will no longer be any pseudo-scientists, for they will have become knowing ones, who cannot be confronted with anything in the existence of men which holds something unknown to them.

A surprisingly great part of those today called incurably insane, who are forced to spend their lives confined in lunatic asylums, are not insane but possessed. It is the same here as with so many things. One does not seek for it therein, and consequently one cannot find anything either in the effect of Christ’s Word, which clearly stipulates and undoubtedly demands: Seek and ye shall find!

This Word of Truth can be applied to everything in life! In any form! Therefore I, too, have already pointed out several times that only that person will find values in my Message who in all earnestness seeks values therein.

Nobody else! For the Living Word only gives when earnest seeking from within the soul touches it! Only then does it open up in rich abundance! —

Indeed today the word »possessed« is still heard and found always and only where there is no question of it!

And wherever it is appropriate nobody thinks of using it!

However, here also the expression coined in the human word has already unintentionally and at the right place hit upon the right thing; for you will find many in the lunatic asylums of whom it is said, with a shrug of the shoulders: »He is only possessed of a fixed idea, but otherwise seems normal!«

Here again men unintentionally hit upon what is right, but without themselves giving it any further thought.

However, not only this type should be called possessed — those who have a fixed idea and so-called lucid hours or moments, but also those who talk irrationally all the time may be possessed. In reality they are not always sick! —

As an example let us now consider one of the many cases where a young girl is regarded by her surroundings as possessed, or where at least she is suspected of it, because in her presence some such peculiar things suddenly occur, the origin of which is not known.

There are many different and possible explanations which correspond with reality, but not a single one is consistent with being possessed.

In the house concerned a human spirit may be earthbound through some cause or other; for in all cases it can only be a question of human spirits which have departed from the earth. Demons or the like are utterly out of the question in this matter.

Through some deed such a human spirit is perhaps bound to the house or only to the place, the spot. Thus it need not necessarily have done something during the period when the house existed, but it may have already been before then, at or near the spot where the house now stands.

Sometimes this spirit is tied to the place for decades or centuries, either through a murder or through some grave act of negligence, through harming some other person as well as through other happenings, many of which can bind a person.

Therefore it is not absolutely necessary for it to be connected with the people inhabiting the house now. Despite its perpetual presence in the house it has at all events never before had an opportunity enabling it to manifest itself in the gross material on earth, which now only takes place through the girl on account of her special, but also only present, peculiarity.

This peculiarity of the girl is a matter all by itself, which merely gives the spirit the opportunity of expressing its volition in the gross material world in a certain way. It has otherwise nothing to do with the spirit.

The cause of the peculiarity lies in the radiation of her blood at that time, the instant it has a very definite composition. It is from this that the human spirit without a gross material earth cloak derives strength for carrying out its desires to make itself conspicuous, which often develop into irksome bad behaviour.

As I have once already pointed out every person has different blood radiations, and this blood composition is changed several times during life on earth, whereby the type of radiation of the blood also changes at the same time. Thus in most cases the singular effect some persons exercise in being able to set free the unusual happenings occurs over a very definite period only, i.e., temporarily. There is hardly a single case where it lasts during the whole earth life. Sometimes it continues only for weeks or months, but seldom for years.

Therefore when such a happening suddenly ceases this does not prove that the spirit concerned no longer exists or is released, but in most cases it has suddenly no further possibility of making itself conspicuous in such a crude way.

Consequently it is by no means »exorcised« nor has it vanished, just in the same way as it may have already been confined to the place for a long period without people ever noticing it. Moreover it remains just as imperceptible to people as their permanent spiritual environment. People are never alone in reality!

With this example I have given only one possibility for consideration, in which the spirit is bound to a particular place.

However, it can also be a human spirit chained to a person living in the house, chained through any of the happenings which have so often been mentioned in my Message. It need not involve the particular child which through its blood composition offers the temporary possibility for earthly visible activity. The real cause may also be the father, the mother, the brother, the sister, or some other person living in the same house or merely frequenting it.

And there is still another difference, for the guilt of this happening can lie either with the departed human spirit or with one of the occupants of the house, and may date from the present life on earth or from a previous one.

So many and varied are the possibilities that no definite outline whatever should be prescribed in this matter without running the risk of arousing and supporting wrong thinking in people, and an over-hasty, thoughtless judgment in individual cases.

I only mention all these possible causes in order to show the comprehensiveness of these matters, and thus warn people not to be so quick with some superficial expression; for a suspicion is often thereby voiced which is unjustified.

Therefore be careful with your conversation about things you do not understand! You bear the full responsibility for it, and you may also perhaps bind yourselves with as little as one word for years and decades!

The spirit concerned in such a happening may have been evil and detained through some guilt. It does not change so easily in this, and it will, according to its nature, show its hatred towards people provided it receives the strength from somewhere to carry this into effect on the earthly gross material plane. Or the spirit itself was the one harmed and attaches itself spiritually to the person who at one time harmed it and who now lives in the house. However, in every case the spirit binds itself ever anew by such spiteful and disturbing activities and entangles itself still more, whereas with a good volition it could sever itself and would be able to ascend. Such a blustering spirit always harms itself most of all by this!

But the person who through his blood radiation temporarily offers the opportunity for this manifestation need not be connected at all with such an affair. It is, of course, possible that he is linked with it through some former guilt or, alternatively, that the spirit is bound to him. All this is not excluded. But on no account is it a question of being possessed!

Were a person possessed by another spirit, i.e., should an alien spirit periodically or continually make use of a body not belonging to it for the purpose of manifesting on the earthly gross material plane, then the physical body concerned would itself have to carry out everything that happens, such as throwing, hitting, scratching, and destroying, or in whatever way it is expressed.

As soon as someone is possessed the alien spirit concerned will always work directly through that physical body with which it has been able to connect itself, of which it has partly taken possession and which it uses for its purposes. It was only through this that the expression »possessed« arose, because an alien spirit takes possession of an earthman’s body, appropriating it in order to work with it in an earthly gross material way. The spirit also lays claim to the possession of the physical body alien to it. And this body is then »possessed« by the spirit, or we may also say it is »occupied«. The spirit places itself within the physical body, possesses it or has periodically possessed it.

It is quite natural that the process of taking possession occurs first of all in the brains. Those earthmen to whom this happens are then described as being insane or not normal mentally, because there are often two different human spirits quarrelling and fighting to use the brains.

Thus thoughts and words and deeds are expressed which contradict each other, often in confused succession and in incomprehensible chaos, because two different spirits are trying to impress their volition — the rightful owner and the intruder! Naturally this also causes an over-straining of the nerves of the brain, which are literally shaken up and thrown into confusion; and man, observing this from outside, can only conclude there is cerebral confusion, although the brain itself may be quite healthy otherwise. It is only the fight and conflict between the two different spirits which causes the confusion.

Occasionally it also happens that the alien human spirit which forcibly takes possession of a physical body not only makes complete use of the brain, but even carries the encroachment further by subjugating still other parts of the body for itself and its purposes, even pushing out the soul which is the rightful owner of the body, crowding it out with the exception of a small part which it cannot steal without endangering the life of this body itself.

In such serious cases there occurs the »double life« of a person, already often mentioned in reports which have caused learned scholars quite some brain-racking; a double life which could even drive those afflicted with it to commit suicide because they became desperate over the way they acted.

But these happenings can also be explained in accordance with the Laws of Creation. They are always strictly linked with very definite conditions which must first be fulfilled by both parties. Man is not just simply at the mercy of an alien spirit’s desire to intrude upon him!

For instance, the spirit of such a person whose body offers the possibility for an alien spirit to take advantage of it in this way, and who also more or less surrenders his body to the spirit for this purpose, will always be lazy or weak; for otherwise his own natural defence should remain strong enough to prevent this happening.

Indolence or weakness of the spirit is always due to one’s own guilt, though mankind is unable to recognise it. This condition is again a consequence of the domination of the intellect, which oppresses and confines the spirit, stifling it. Thus it is the result of the hereditary sin, which I accurately described in my Message together with all its evil outworkings, one of which is also the possibility of becoming possessed.

A person with a weary spirit, however, may be exceptionally lively in his thinking, also in his learning, because spiritual indolence has nothing whatever to do with intellectual keenness, as readers of my Message know.

Indeed it is just the spirit of distinguished scholars which is often very strongly earthbound and confined. As a fitting expression for this one could use the term »a spirit with drooping wings«, because this gives the best conception. In reality the spirit of some great intellectual scholars is already slumbering towards spiritual death, although among men on earth the person concerned is particularly honoured as a shining light!

Therefore a person so afflicted may be exceptionally fresh intellectually and clever, and yet have a weary spirit which allows his physical body to become in part the subject of dispute by another bodiless human spirit.

Therefore, you men, gain greater knowledge of God’s Primordial Laws of Creation, and you will be able to prevent much evil from assailing you! Tear yourselves away from your hollow knowledge-conceit, which brings forth only piecework, hardly of any use in the smallest need!

Science today lacks the knowledge which will enable it to recognise these things, for what science still teaches to date and what it pretends to know only proves clearly and distinctly that it really does not yet know anything about Creation at all. It lacks all the great connections and thus at the same time the actual picture of the real happening. It is only shortsighted and cramped, and has passed by all the great truths. However, this is the beginning of a new era, which will also in this matter let everything arise anew!

Thus a child or a grown-up is not always to be suspected if he sets free such things as knocking or the throwing of physical objects. The basis for such causes is so manifold that a statement can only be made in each individual case and on the very spot by those who really know.

What has been said here does not nearly exhaust all the possibilities, but one thing is certain: There is no question here of being possessed!

People who through the temporary state of their blood radiation offer the possibility for such actions on the part of an alien and earthbound spirit, may during such happenings naturally be subject to bodily convulsions, fever symptoms, and also indeed to unconsciousness.

This all comes about, however, because the alien human spirit seizes the helping radiations concerned and literally draws them forcibly from the physical body, thus causing disturbances in the harmony of the normal bodily radiation, which naturally becomes immediately noticeable in the body itself.

All these are very simple happenings which through careful observation can easily and conclusively be substantiated as soon as the proper connections are known.

Useless prattling and suppositions about it serve no purpose; they can only harm other people who have absolutely nothing to do with the whole matter.

Therefore, guard your words, you men! For they, too, are bound to drag you down, because all that is unnecessary is disturbing in Creation, and all that is disturbing sinks downwards according to the Law of Gravity.

But if your speech is true and good you will have a furthering effect, and you yourselves will become lighter and be uplifted in the light of your words, because they also hold threads which run and knot in the same way as the threads of your thoughts and actions. And then, when you no longer wish to speak needlessly, you will become more silent and reserved, and in this way powers will be stored up within you which I already described as the power of silence!

As soon as you desire to say only what is useful, as man should always have done from the outset, it will become natural to you. Then man will hardly take up a third of that time with his talking which he still spends upon it today.

Unfortunately, however, he prefers superficial chatter to a noble silence, thus allowing himself to be drawn ever further downwards in accordance with the Law of Gravitation, which presses downwards all that is unnecessary in Creation, allowing it to sink away as being useless!

Therefore heed your words, you men, and do not regard the evil of thoughtless prattling too lightly!

 

MAN IS still in doubt about how to form his prayers. He desires to do what is right and not to omit anything. Although he gives the matter the most sincere and willing thought, he is still not really sure that he is not doing something wrong.

But such pondering is utterly useless; it only proves that man is ever again trying to approach God with his intellect, and this he will never achieve, for he always remains far away from the Almighty with such efforts!

Whoever has absorbed my Message aright is clear about the fact that words are much too limited in their nature to be able to ascend to the Luminous Heights. It is only the intuitive perceptions embraced by the words which, depending upon their strength and their purity, ascend above the boundaries of formed words.

Words are meant in part only as signposts to indicate the direction which the rays of the intuitive perception should take. In part they also release the nature of the rays within man himself, who uses the formed word as a support and as a cloak. The word which is thought during prayer reverberates within man, if he experiences it within himself or if he exerts himself to call it to life within himself.

With this explanation you already see two kinds of prayer arising before you. The one arises within you out of your intuitive perception, without reflection, through the experiencing itself, which is therefore the strong intuitive perception of some moment, and which while springing forth yet veils itself in words; and then the other kind, which in the process of reflection forms words beforehand, and in working backwards through the words it only seeks to set free the corresponding intuitive perception, i.e., it wishes to fill the already formed words with intuitive perception.

There is no need to state which of these kinds of prayer counts as the more powerful one, for you yourselves know that that which is more natural is always more correct. Thus in these cases it is that prayer which arises through the bursting forth of a sudden intuitive perception, and which only afterwards seeks to compress itself into words.

Just assume that you are unexpectedly hit by a very heavy blow of fate, which shakes you to the depths. Fear for someone or something you love grips your heart! In your need a cry for help arises within you with a strength which shakes your body!

It is in this that you see the strength of the intuitive perception which is capable of ascending to Luminous Heights, if ... this intuitive perception bears within itself humble purity; for without this every ascent is already halted on its way at a very definite point, no matter how strong and powerful the intuitive perception is. It is utterly impossible without humility; it could never advance to that purity which in an immense circle surrounds all that is Divine.

Such a strong intuitive perception will also bring in its train only a stammering of words because its strength does not permit it to be squeezed into narrow words. The power streams far beyond the confines of all words, foaming over and tearing down the boundaries which words want to erect through the narrow limits of the earthly brain’s activity.

Every one of you will already have had such an experience in his life. Therefore you can grasp what I am trying to convey to you. That is the intuitive perception which you should have if you expect your prayer to be able to ascend to the Heights of Pure Light, from which all granting comes to you.

However, not only on account of fear shall you turn to the Heights, but also pure joy as well as happiness and gratitude can well up within you with the same strength! And this joyful kind swings upwards even faster, because it remains more undimmed. Fear very easily dims your purity of intuitive perception and forms a wrong kind. Too often it is connected with a silent reproach or even grudge that whatever hit your soul so severely just had to happen to you, and naturally this is not right. It must then hold back your cries!

It is not necessary to form words in order to pray. The words are for you, in order to grant you the support of your intuitive perception, so that it remains more concentrated and does not become dissipated in many varieties.

You are not accustomed to think clearly without words and to become absorbed without losing the straight direction, because through too much talk you actually became far too superficial and distracted. You still need the words as signposts and also as cloaks to keep certain types of your intuitive perceptions together, and to envisage more clearly through words whatever you wish to express in prayer.

Such is the way to pray if the urge to do so arises from the intuitive perception, i.e., if it is a volition of your spirit! But this rarely happens with the mankind of today — only when they are hit in some way or other by a very strong impulse, through suffering, joy or also through some physical pain! Nobody takes the trouble any more to think now and then about God the Dispenser of all mercies, voluntarily and without some impulse!

Now let us turn to the second kind of prayer! It comprises those which are intended to be said at very definite times and without the kind of cause we have just discussed. Man takes it upon himself to pray. It is a deliberate, especially willed prayer.

This brings about a change in the process. Man thinks or speaks certain words of the prayer, which he himself has composed or which he has learned. Usually these prayers have little of intuitive perception. Man thinks far too much about getting the words right, and this alone already diverts him from really perceiving intuitively that which he speaks or merely thinks.

Without any difficulty you will recognise that this explanation is right, if only you think back and examine yourselves carefully in this respect. It is not easy to fill such prayers with the capacity of pure intuitive perception. Even the slightest constraint weakens it, claiming part of the concentration for itself.

Here the formed words must first be called to life within yourselves, i.e., the words must arouse that kind of intuitive perception within you which in their form they express. The procedure does not then follow the course of bursting forth from within, and passing through the back brain into your frontal brain, which quickly forms words according to the impressions received; but the frontal brain begins by first forming words which only thereafter must be absorbed retroactively and assimilated by the back brain, in order to exercise from there a corresponding pressure on the nerve system of the solar plexus, which only after further proceedings can arouse an intuitive perception in accordance with the word.

It is true that everything in the sequence takes place at such an enormous speed that it appears to the observer as if it happens simultaneously, but nevertheless such forms are not so powerful or so original as those arising in the reverse manner. Therefore they cannot attain the effect, and in most cases remain devoid of intuitive perception. Even with a repetition of the same words ever again daily, they lose their power for you, they become habitual and thus meaningless.

Therefore become natural in your praying, men, become free and unaffected! What you have learned by heart so easily becomes a recitation. You only make it difficult for yourselves by this!

If you begin your day with truly heartfelt gratitude to God, and if you also finish it with equally heartfelt gratitude, be it only gratitude for the lesson you have learned on this day through experiencing, you live well! Through diligence and care let everything you do arise as a prayer of gratitude! Let each word you speak reflect the love which God grants you! Then life on this earth will soon become a joy for everyone who is allowed to live upon it!

It is not nearly so difficult, nor does it take up any of your time. A short moment of honest heartfelt gratitude is much better than praying for hours what you have learned by heart, and which you could not in any case follow with your intuitive perception. Moreover, such outward praying only takes up the time you should use for genuine thanksgiving through joyous activity.

A child which really loves its parents will demonstrate this love by its ways, by its actions, and not with flattering words, which in many cases remain nothing but an expression of nestling self-complacency, unless it is even a selfish desire. The so-called wheedlers are seldom of any value and only think of themselves, and of satisfying their own wishes!

You stand no differently before your God! Prove through the deed what you wish to say to Him!

You now know how you have to pray and already again you are anxiously facing the question as to what you shall pray!

If you wish to recognise the right way for this you must first separate your prayer from your petitions. Differentiate between prayer and petition! Do not always try to stamp your petitioning as prayer!

Prayer and petition must signify two different things to you; for prayer belongs to worship, whereas a petition cannot count as worship if you really want to adjust yourselves to the conception.

And it is necessary that henceforth you should adjust yourselves to it, and not intermingle everything!

When you pray give yourselves! This only I wish to call out to you, and in the word itself you have the explanation. Give yourselves to the Lord in your prayer, give yourselves entirely to Him and without reserve! Prayer must be the unfolding of your spirit at the feet of God in veneration, praise and gratitude for everything He grants you out of His great Love!

It is so inexhaustibly much! Up till now you just have not understood it; you have lost the way which would enable you to enjoy it in the full consciousness of all the capacities of your spirit!

Once you have found this way through recognising all the treasures of my Message you will no longer have any petition left. You will have nothing but praise and thanksgiving as soon as you turn your hands and eyes upward to the Highest, Who reveals Himself to you in His Love. Then you will stand in a perpetual state of prayer, such as the Lord cannot expect otherwise from you; for in Creation you may indeed take for yourselves whatever you need. The table is prepared therein at all times!

And you may choose from it through the abilities of your spirit. The table always offers you everything you need, and petitions are unnecessary if you only make the right kind of effort to move within the Laws of God.

All this has already been said in words well known to you: »Seek, and ye shall find! Ask, and it shall be given unto you! Knock, and it shall be opened unto you!«

These words teach you the necessary activity of the human spirit in Creation, and above all the right application of his abilities. They point out exactly the way in which he must comprehend Creation, and also the path which will help him onwards.

The words must not be regarded merely in a commonplace sense, for their meaning goes deeper, encompassing the existence of the human spirit in Creation in accordance with the Law of necessary Movement.

The words »Ask, and it shall be given unto you!« point very clearly to the ability of the spirit (which I mentioned in the lecture: »The cycle of radiations«), causing it through a certain urge which cannot be shaken off always to will or to wish something; through its radiation this immediately attracts the homogeneous species, as a result of which it is automatically given what it desired.

The urge impelling the desire, however, must always remain a petition and must not become a one-sided demand, as unfortunately every human being of the present time has accustomed himself to making. For if it remains a petition it also holds humbleness, and consequently it will always contain what is good and will also bring in its train what is good.

With His words Jesus clearly showed how man has to adjust himself in order to direct all the self-acting abilities of his spirit onto the right course!

It is the same with all His words. Unfortunately, however, they were pressed into the narrow mould of the human earthly intellect, and thus became badly distorted, with the result that they were never understood any more, nor interpreted in the right way.

For it will probably be easily understandable to everybody that this does not refer to the ordinary relations between men, because men’s attitude was neither then, nor is it today, of such a nature that one could expect from them the fulfilment of such hints.

Go among men and ask, and you will be given nothing! Knock, and the door will not be opened unto you! Seek among men and their works, and you will not find what you are seeking!

Nor did Jesus refer to the attitude of man towards God personally, omitting all the huge worlds lying in between, which cannot be pushed aside as if non-existent. Neither did He mean the Living Word alone therewith, but Jesus always spoke out of the primordial wisdom, and this He never compressed into small earthly thinking or conditions. When He spoke He depicted man standing in Creation, and He chose His words in an all-embracing manner!

All reproductions, translations and interpretations, however, suffer from the neglect to think of this! They were always intermingled with and carried out by earthly, petty human thinking and thus distorted and misrepresented. And where understanding was lacking their own ideas were added, which could never answer the purpose, however good the intention!

That which is human always remained petty human; the Divine, however, is always all-embracing! In this way wine was badly mixed with water, and finally there emerged something different from the original. This you must never forget!

Similarly with »The Lord’s Prayer«, through the petitions stated therein Jesus merely sought to direct the human spirit’s volition in the most simple form, towards that which would permit the human spirit to desire only what is useful for its ascent, so that it could receive such from Creation.

This does not hold a contradiction, but it was the best signpost, the infallible staff for every human spirit of that time.

The man of today, however, needs the entire stock of words he has meantime created for himself, and the application of every conception arising therefrom, if he is to find a path out of the confusion of his intellectual sham wisdom.

Therefore, men of the present time, I must now grant you more extensive explanations, which in reality convey exactly the same again, only in your way!

It is now your duty to learn this, for your knowledge of Creation has become greater! So long as with this knowledge you do not now fulfil the duties laid upon you by your spirit’s abilities, which have to be developed, so long have you no right to ask either!

With the faithful fulfilment of your duty in Creation, however, you receive everything through the reciprocal effect, and there is no longer a reason for any petition; from within your soul there then streams forth only gratitude to Him Who in His Omniscience and Love ever again loads you with gifts every day!

You men, could you but pray aright at last! Really pray! How rich would your existence then be! For in prayer lies the greatest happiness you can receive. It uplifts you to immeasurable heights so that supreme happiness streams through you blissfully. Could you but pray, men! That shall now be my wish for you!

In your small thinking you will then no longer ask to Whom you shall and may pray. There is but One to Whom you are allowed to dedicate your prayers, only One: GOD!

Approach Him in solemn moments with a sacred intuitive perception, and pour out before Him what your spirit can bring up in the way of gratitude! Turn only to Him when you pray; for it is to Him alone that gratitude is due and to Him alone you yourself belong, Oh Man, because only through His great Love were you able to come into existence!

 

»THANKS! A thousand thanks!« Everybody has probably heard these words quite often. They are uttered with such a variety of expression that they cannot so easily be classified into one single and definite kind, as is actually required by the sense of the words.

In fact the meaning of the words is here only of secondary or even third consideration! It is more the inflection, the tone of voice used, which gives value to the words or indicates their worthlessness.

In many cases, probably in the majority, it is merely a superficial habit expressing the customary form of social politeness. In such instances the words might just as well have never been uttered at all, for they remain a hollow phrase which is more of an insult than an acknowledgement to all those for whom it is intended. Only occasionally, indeed very seldom, can there be sensed a vibration indicating an intuitive stirring of the soul.

One’s hearing does not need to be so keen in order to recognise just what the person uttering these words means. They do not always contain something good, for the vibrations of the souls vary greatly with the same words.

They may reflect discontent or disappointment, yes, even envy and hatred, deceit and many an evil volition. These beautiful words of genuine gratitude are often misused in all sorts of ways so as carefully to gloss over something else, unless they are completely empty and only spoken in order to conform to manner and custom, or to habit!

These words are generally expressed by those who are accustomed to receiving, who use them constantly and who always keep them ready for every occasion without giving any thought to it. This is similar to the frequently encountered babbling of endless chains of all kinds of formulated prayers, but which through being rattled off without any inner intuitive response are nothing but an offence against the Holiness and Greatness of God!

But where the words are really used in accordance with that sense which they seek to express, i.e., where the soul vibrates in the wording, where the words formed remain indeed the expression of the pure vibrations of the soul, as it always should be when man forms words — then such cases shine forth brilliantly in Creation like beautiful blossoms springing forth from stony ground!

If you consider it aright, in fact, everything uttered without intuitive prompting is bound to remain nothing but empty prattle, wherewith man fritters away the time which he should value differently; or it can only contain a false volition, with the words representing something to his fellow-men not in accord with the speaker’s intuition. Nothing healthy and constructive can ever come from it — the Laws of Creation prevent it!

Thus it is, and not otherwise, although it remains very sad, clearly showing all the mire men are piling up through their varied prattling in the field of fine gross matter, which has a retroactive effect upon life on earth, and through which every human soul must first journey before it can enter the lighter spheres.

Never forget that each of your words allows a form to arise which clearly shows the contradiction between your intuitive perception and the words, no matter whether you wish it or not. You cannot alter this fact! Consider this with everything you say! Although fortunately they are but lighter forms which quickly vanish again, yet there is always the danger for you that such products may suddenly obtain reinforcement from a completely strange source, strengthening and condensing them in the same species and thus permitting them to extend their activity, which is bound to become a curse to you!

For this reason try to reach the point where you only utter that in which your soul vibrates.

You imagine this would be quite impossible on earth, because otherwise, in comparison to your present custom, you could say so little to each other that life would thereby threaten to become monotonous and boring, especially at social gatherings. There must be many who think in this way and who are afraid of it!

However, if man only advances to this point in his thinking, he will also see how much of his time on earth so far was bound to remain utterly empty, without value and thus without a purpose. Then he will no longer be sorry at the loss of so many empty hours, but quite on the contrary he will be afraid to indulge in them in the future.

The person who must seek to fill his time with empty words, just for the purpose of keeping on social terms with his fellow-men, is empty himself, as are his surroundings. However, he will not admit this to himself. He will console himself by saying that he cannot always talk about serious matters, that he will become boring to the others, in short that it is only the fault of the others if he does not speak of that which perhaps still stirs him personally.

With this, however, he deludes himself. For if his fellow-men are really as he supposes them to be, then this proves that he himself has nothing else to offer either, because it is only through the attraction of homogeneous species that the surroundings with which he associates come into existence. Or his surroundings have attracted him because of the homogeneity! It is the same in both cases! The popular saying about this is quite right when it asserts: »You can judge a man by the company he keeps!«

Empty people who do not strive to fill their life with genuine contents will flee from such people bearing spiritual values within them!

Nobody can conceal spiritual values; for as soon as it is not buried within man but still really alive, the spirit has quite a natural urge towards activity through Creation’s Law of Movement. It irresistibly presses towards the outside, and such a person will again find men to whom he can give something as recompense through his spiritual activity, so that he in turn may receive from them, if only through new stimulation or through questions of serious purport.

It is absolutely impossible for boredom to find any room in such cases! On the contrary, the days are then far too short, time passes by ever faster, and there is not enough of it to hold everything a spirit can give when it is really astir!

Go among your fellow-men and listen to how much of the many things they talk about contains anything worth mentioning. Speedily and without any trouble you will recognise how spiritually dead humanity is at present — the humanity who should work spiritually, which means that every word they utter should be of great and upbuilding value, because they are of the spirit! You yourselves have deprived your words of all the high power which they should contain in the Law of Creation due to your wrong application of the ultimate expression of your thoughts. The language is intended to serve man with power and as a sword in order to promote and protect harmony, not to spread suffering and conflict.

He who speaks out of his spirit cannot make many words. But with him every word becomes a deed, because he swings in his word and this swinging brings fulfilment in the Law of Reciprocal Action, which itself is fulfilled in the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species.

For this reason man shall never utter words of gratitude in a superficial way; for they do not offer gratitude unless penetrated by the soul!

Does it not sound like a jubilant song as soon as human lips form these plain words with a blissful heartfelt emotion: »Thanks! A thousand thanks!«

And it is more, in reality much more, for such gratitude from a soul which is stirred is at the same time a prayer — gratitude to God!

In all such cases the intuitive perceptions contained in the words rise unconditionally towards the heights, and the blessing descends reciprocally upon that person or those persons who called forth these intuitive perceptions, i.e., upon that place which the words of genuine thanks are meant for, the place to which they were directed.

Therein lies the just equilibrium which is fulfilled with the blessing, which also takes on form and is bound to become visible on earth.

But... the blessing cannot flourish visibly everywhere, for the process requires this one condition: No matter what has been done by the one for whom the words of such genuine gratitude are meant, he must have done it with love and with the intention of giving joy to the other! Whether it has been a gift or some action, or only some really well-meant and good word of advice!

If this requirement is not met by the giver, then the blessing sinking down in reciprocal action for the gratitude which ascended does not find the soil in which it could become anchored, and thus in all these cases the just blessing must nevertheless fail to materialise, because the one who should have received it is incapable of accepting or receiving it.

Therein lies a justice which man on earth does not know, and which is only contained in the Laws of Creation working so vitally and automatically, the Laws of Creation which can neither be distorted nor influenced in this matter.

For example, a person who does something in a calculating way, either to attain fame or some other pleasant reputation, will never be able to receive the true blessing arising out of his kind actions, because he does not carry within himself the soil which is required according to the Law to receive this blessing. At the most he can receive transitory, dead and thus nothing but temporary earthly advantage, but never a true reward of God, which can only be received by a person who himself stands and lives in the sense of the Divine Will in Creation.

Even if a person would give away millions for the poor or, as so often happens, sacrifices them for the sciences, if his impulse is not genuine love, if his urge to help does not come from his soul, then he will not get any reward of God either, because it cannot possibly come about, since such a person is incapable of absorbing, of receiving it!

As a consequence of many a genuine expression of thanks from those who received from him, the blessing in accordance with the Law already hovers above him, it has descended upon him, but such a person cannot partake of it due to his own fault, because he does not offer the soil within himself for its reception.

When genuine gratitude is uttered the reaction will come in any case. However, the extent of the effect depends in turn — and according to the Law — upon the attitude adopted by the soul of him for whom the blessing came through the reciprocal action.

The one who should receive is therefore himself at fault when such a blessing cannot take shape for him, because he does not possess the inner capacity to receive it in accordance with the requirements of the Primordial Law of Creation, since he lacks the right warmth of soul.

The misuse of beautiful words of thanks, however, is not only carried on by the one party, not only by the receiving ones, but also by the giving ones, who entirely displace and distort the conception of gratitude.

There are more than a few among mankind who to all appearances do a lot of good, and yet extend their help just to reap gratitude for themselves.

In their giving they are coldly calculating! Only the cleverness of their intellect is at work. Among these there are also a few whose momentary feeling prompts them to offer help, but who later on constantly try to throw this at the one-time recipient, expecting gratitude from him for the rest of their life!

Persons of this kind are even worse than the most evil usurers. They do not shrink from expecting life enslavement from those who at one time or other received help from them.

With this they not only destroy their self-respect and the value they should receive for the help once given, but they fetter and burden themselves with tremendous guilt. They are despicable creatures, not worthy to breathe another hour in Creation or to enjoy its blessings, which the Creator grants them ever anew with each moment. They are the most unfaithful of servants who, due to themselves, must be cast out.

But just these insist upon morals on earth and are also supported by earthly moralists, who always seek with high-sounding words to further the same wrong opinions about obligatory thankfulness, thereby cultivating something which, according to the Primordial Laws of Creation, is akin to the grossest immorality.

Many now praise gratefulness as a virtue, others as a duty of honour! Through one-sidedness and lack of understanding opinions are uttered and frivolously spread, which have already caused severe suffering to many a person.

Therefore man must now become clear as to what gratitude really is, what it calls forth and how it works!

Then much will become different, and all the chains binding slaves, which were forged through wrong opinions about gratitude, will fall away. Mankind will at last be freed from them. You have no idea what travail has spread over mankind on earth like a shroud draping all human dignity and the noble, joyful desire to help, due to this mutilation and the false conceptions of pure gratitude forced upon men. Countless families in particular are infected with this, and have been producing accusing victims for thousands of years.

Away with this false delusion, which seeks with deliberate intent to drag every noble action which is natural to human dignity deep into the mud!

Gratitude is not a virtue! It must not, nor does it want to be counted among the virtues! For each virtue emanates from God and is therefore unlimited!

Nor may genuine gratitude be stamped as a duty! For then it would be unable inwardly to unfold that life and warmth which it needs in order to receive the blessing of God from Creation through the reciprocal action.

Gratitude is closely linked with joy! Gratitude itself is an expression of purest joy. Thus wherever there is no joy included, where no joyful elation is the cause for gratitude, there the expression gratitude is used wrongly, there it is misused!

In such cases it will never be able to set free those forces which are automatically released by true gratitude in accordance with the Laws of this Creation. The blessing is then lacking. Confusion must come in its place.

Such misuse, however, is found almost everywhere when men speak of gratitude, of thanks today!

The gratitude really felt intuitively is a compensatory value willed by God, which mediates the counter-value to whomsoever gratitude is due. This is contained in the Law of necessary Equilibrium in this Creation, which can only be upheld and furthered by harmony, which lies in the fulfilment of all the Primordial Laws of Creation.

You men, however, bring entanglement into all the running threads of the Laws through your false practices, your erroneous conceptions! Therefore you make it difficult for yourselves to attain to true happiness, to peace! In most cases you are hypocrites with your words! How then can you expect that truth and happiness can blossom forth for you? You must indeed always reap what you sow!

Thus you must also reap everything you sow with your words, and through the manner in which you utter your words! Your own attitude towards these words!

Nothing other can develop out of this for you — this you must always remember in regard to everything you say!

Just think over everything once again each evening, and seek to recognise the worth of the words you have exchanged with your fellow-men in the course of the day; you will be horrified at their emptiness! Even at the emptiness of many hours of but a single day! Attempt this without any extenuation of yourselves! With a shudder you will realise what must also arise out of this for you in the workshop of Creation, well known to you through my Message, in which everything automatically manifests which issues from you through your intuitive perception, your thinking, your speaking and your actions!

Examine yourselves seriously and with an honest confession! From that hour onwards you will change yourselves in many things!

You must not on that account become sparing with words in your life on earth in order to proceed on the right path. But in talking you must avoid superficiality as well as lack of sincerity, which lie behind the major part of all the speaking of these earthmen.

For you act with all your talking in the same way that you deal with expressions of gratitude, and yet inwardly you highly praise such moments as earnest, solemn and significant when with your words you simultaneously express your intuitive perception!

This happens only seldom, however, but it should always be thus! So many men consider themselves very clever and wise, even highly developed spiritually, when they know how to conceal their intuitive perceptions and their actual volition behind their words, never permitting their fellow-men to see their true face in spite of lively conversation.

This method is called diplomatic, as a soothing expression for the strange mixture of crafty cheating, of hypocrisy and falsehood, and of the greed which is always lying in wait triumphantly to create advantages for oneself at the expense of weaknesses discovered in others.

In the Law of Creation, however, it makes no difference whatever whether all this is done by someone acting for himself personally or only for the benefit of a state. In this matter acting is acting, and is bound to release all the effects of these Laws.

He who knows the Laws and their effects need not first be a prophet in order to recognise quite clearly the end of all that is bound up in the fate of individual nations and of mankind on earth; for the whole of mankind is incapable of displacing or distorting anything in this matter!

Only through recognition and genuine observance of the Laws, and thus acting differently in time, could mankind have sought to diminish a great deal in order to ease many afflictions for themselves. However, it is now too late for this! For all the effects of their past actions are already rolling!

But all that is burdensome therein truly serves only as a blessing! It is a mercy! It brings about purification where there is something wrong which now causes the collapse as the final consequence, no matter whether in the state or in the family, in the people themselves, or in association with others generally. We stand in the great final reckoning, which rules over the force of the human means of power. Nothing can shut itself out or hide from this!

Only the Laws of God still speak, which with superhuman accuracy and in an unswerving manner take automatic effect in everything that has happened so far; for new energy has penetrated them from the Will of God, which energy now permits them to enclose men as with immovable walls, protecting them or also destroying them, depending upon the nature of men’s attitude towards them.

For a long time in the future they will also remain like walls, surrounding everything with the same power, in order to prevent such confusion as has occurred in the past from coming about once more. Soon men will be thereby compelled to move only in the forms willed by God, for their own salvation and for their deliverance, so far as this is still possible, until they themselves go consciously forward again on the right paths in accordance with the Will of God.

Therefore look around you, men, and learn to swing in your words, so that you will not neglect anything!

 

LET THERE be Light! How far man still is from grasping this great Word of Creating! Far even from the right desire to learn to understand this happening! And yet he has never ceased to occupy himself with it for thousands of years. In his way, however! Not in humility does he wish to take a spark of recognition from the Truth, to receive in purity, but only to puzzle out everything himself intellectually!

In the course of doing so he stubbornly tries to substantiate every proposition he sets up in accordance with the nature and need of his earthly brain. This is quite right for the things of the earth and for everything gross material, which includes the brain from which the intellect issues; for the intellect is nothing but gross material comprehension. Thus all those who merely submit to the intellect, wanting only those things to be considered justified and correct which can be absolutely substantiated through the intellect, are very narrow-minded and inseparably bound to the World of Gross Matter.

With this, however, they are also furthest away from true knowledge and from knowledge in general, although just they in particular imagine themselves to be knowing!

Rightly considered, it is in this pitiable role that the whole of science presents itself to us today. Narrowing itself, convulsively suppressing and fearfully rejecting everything which it cannot also press into the limited confines of its so earthbound understanding! They really reject it with fear, because in spite of their rigidity these learned men cannot indeed deny that there exists more than merely that which they can classify in the gross material register of the brain, which thus still belongs unconditionally to the gross material plane, to the outermost ramifications at the lowest end of this great Creation!

In their anxiety some of them become malicious and even dangerous towards all those who refuse to be embraced by this rigidity, but who expect more from the human spirit. For this reason they not only investigate with their earthbound intellect, but reach out beyond gross material happenings with their spirit, just as is worthy of a still healthy human spirit and as remains its duty in this Creation.

The intellectuals want to suppress alert spirits at all costs. This has been so for thousands of years. And the darkness, spreading ever more rapidly mainly through the intellectuals — as a consequence of such gross material narrowness, gradually formed the soil which made it possible for the intellect to expand its power on earth.

Whatever could not be substantiated by the intellect was persecuted, if at all possible was ridiculed, to prevent it from getting a foothold and disquieting the intellectuals.

As a precautionary measure they tried to disseminate as wisdom, that everything which cannot be fathomed and proved by the intellect belongs only to an untenable theory.

For thousands of years this established principle of the intellectuals has been their pride, also their weapon and their shield. It has even been their throne, which is now bound to collapse as soon as the spiritual awakening commences! The spiritual awakening shows that this principle has been absolutely wrong, and that with boundless effrontery it was so twisted as just to protect the earthbound narrow-mindedness and to keep the human spirit in idle sleep!

Nobody realised that just this reasoning proved at the same time how far removed intellectual work lies from true knowledge.

Break the narrow bounds drawn around you in such a clever way as to render you incapable of developing beyond the pompous earthly erudition of the human intellect! You will quickly learn to perceive intuitively that it is precisely those things which the intellect can substantiate that belong to theory; for only earth-built theory can be substantiated as a structure, never true knowledge!

Thus in this matter, too, it is just the contrary of what has been asserted hitherto. Here also everything must now become new, as mankind was promised by the Lord! —

Everything that can be proved by the intellect is earthly theory, nothing else! And the scholarship of today is based on this, and presents itself to us in this way! But that has nothing to do with intelligence, i.e., with true knowledge! There are scholars who, according to the Primordial Laws of Creation, i.e., according to reality, count among the most narrow-minded of human spirits, even though they possess a great reputation on earth and are highly esteemed by men. In Creation itself they only play a ridiculous role!

Some of them, however, can become really dangerous to the human spirits of this earth, because they lead them along false and narrow ways on which the spirit is never able to unfold itself. They suppress them, seeking to impose upon them their own scholarship, which is fundamentally nothing but narrow-minded earthly intellectualism veiled with tinsel.

Awake and expand, you human spirits, make room for upward flight. You are not made for the purpose of remaining only in the gross material sphere; you are to make use of it, but not to consider it your home.

In these perverted days many a farm labourer is more spiritually awake and thus more valuable in Creation than a scholar who has entirely lost his pure intuitive perception. It has really a deep meaning when people talk of dry intellectual work or of dry scholarship. How often does the most simple person hit unswervingly on the right thing with an expression of the intuitive perception! The expression »dry« here means »without life«, thus dead! There is no life in it! And the saying carries truth within it!

For this reason man will never be capable of grasping with his intellect the high conception of the Holy Words: »Let there be Light!« Nevertheless, or perhaps just because of this, the words »Let there be« leave him no peace of mind! He tries time and again to picture this to himself in order to arrive at the how. Once he knows about the how he is soon confronted with the question of »why?«

Finally he also wants to know why God let Creation come into existence at all! Such is man’s nature! However, he desires to fathom everything himself, but he will never succeed in fathoming it! For to do so he would have to work with his spirit. In view of the present decisively dominating activity of the intellect, however, the spirit would be quite unable to set to work, because it is too badly confined and tied to what is gross material only, whereas the beginning of Creation, as part of an utterly different species, lies so infinitely far above the gross material.

For this reason man in his present state would never have any prospect of divining this, even if he had the inner capacity to do so. But he has not the capacity to do so either! The human spirit simply cannot fathom happenings in such heights, because they are far above that point where the human spirit can »know« something, i.e., above where it is capable of absorbing anything consciously!

Wanting to fathom these matters can thus never enter into it! Therefore it is of no avail for man to attempt to concern himself with it! He can merely receive it in pictures as soon as he is willing to absorb a knowing of it in true humility. This »knowing of it« is naturally not the knowledge itself, which latter he can never receive.

Thus if he desires seriously but humbly to know something about it, he may picture it to himself. I will describe the process in such a way that he is able to absorb it. To unfold it in its entire greatness before the human spirit, even if only in picture form, is impossible, because those modes of expression given to the human spirit to understand things do not suffice. —

In my lecture »Life« I have already explained how, upon the Act of the Will of God expressed in the words »Let there be Light!«, the rays shot beyond the border of the Divine Sphere, and how then, as they proceeded downwards, they cooled off more and more and were bound to manifest. Through the ever diminishing elasticity or pressure caused by the cooling off, various entities could gradually come to personal consciousness, first in the intuitive perception and then also by strengthening themselves little by little in outward activity. However, it is better for me to say that the pressure does not diminish through the cooling off, but that the cooling off takes place through and within the slackening pressure.

I do not need to emphasise that each individual happening, each minute change in the cooling off process, spans immense spaces and distances, which again the human spirit can never understand and conceive.

In that lecture I contented myself with simply saying that the radiations were impelled beyond the boundary of the Divine Sphere through the Act of Will. I did not speak further about the Act of Will itself.

Today I want to go further and explain why the radiations were then bound to shoot across the boundary of the Divine Sphere; for everything in the development of Creation happens only because it cannot be otherwise, thus strictly according to the Law. —

From all eternity the Holy Grail was the extreme pole of the direct Radiation of God; a vessel in which the radiation was collected at the last and furthest point in order, by flowing back, to become renewed ever again. Around it stood the Divine Castle of the Grail, with its gates shut fast towards the outside so that nothing could penetrate it any more and there was no possibility of any further cooling off. Everything was guarded and watched over by the »Elders«, i.e., the Eternal Unchangeable Ones who, at the outermost boundary in the Divine Sphere of Radiation, are able to live conscious of their existence. —

Now if man wishes to follow my description aright he must first realise that Will and Deed are always one in the Divine Sphere. Each word is directly followed by the deed or, more precisely, each word as such is already the deed itself, because the Divine Word possesses creative power, and thus immediately forms itself into the deed. So it also was with the great Word: »Let there be Light!«

Only God Himself is Light! And His Natural Radiation forms what to the human mind is the immeasurable circle of the Divine Sphere, the outermost anchorage of which is and was the Grail Castle from eternity. When God wished that there should also be Light beyond the boundary of the immediate Divine Radiation, there could be no question of a simple arbitrary extension of radiation, but Light had to be placed at the outermost point of the immediate boundary of the Radiation of Divine Perfection, in order to radiate forth from there through that which had not hitherto been illumined.

Thus God not only uttered the Words: KLet there be Light!« according to human conceptions, but it was simultaneously a deed! This was the great happening when a Part of Imanuel was sent out or born out from the Divine Sphere! The placing out of a Light-Part from the Primordial Light in order that this Part might radiate and illuminate independently beyond the direct Radiation of God! The beginning of the great development of Creation was the simultaneous consequence of the sending out of a Part of Imanuel.

Thus Imanuel is the cause and the starting point of Creation through the sending out of a Part of Him. He is the Will of God, Who carries the Word: »Let there be Light!« living within Himself, Who is this Word Himself! The Will of God, the Living Cross of Creation, around Which Creation could and had to form! Therefore He also is the Truth as well as the Law of Creation, which was allowed to form through Him, from out of Him!

He is the bridge from the Divine outward, the way to the Truth and to Life, the Creative Source and the Power which issues from God!

It is a new picture which unfolds before mankind, and yet a picture which does not distort anything, but which only sets right what has been distorted in human opinions.

Now you still have the question as to »why«! Why did God send out Imanuel! Although this is a rather strange, indeed presumptuous, question asked by the human spirit, I will nevertheless explain it to you, because so many men on earth feel themselves to be victims of this Creation through imagining that if they can make mistakes God has created them faulty!

Their presumption even goes so far as to make a reproach of this, with the personal excuse that God only needed to create man in such a manner that he could never think and act wrongly, and therewith the Fall of Man would not have occurred either!

But it is only the human spirit’s capacity for free decision which brought about his decline and fall! Had he always heeded and followed the Laws in Creation there could have been nothing but ascent, happiness and peace for him; for that is how these Laws wish it to be. When he disregards them he naturally bumps against them, stumbles and falls. —

In the Circle of Divine Perfection the Divine alone can partake of the joys of conscious existence which the Radiation of God bestows. It is the purest of the pure in the radiation which can take on form, such as Archangels, for example; still further away at the outermost limit of the sphere of radiation also the Elders, who at the same time are the Guardians of the Grail in the Grail Castle within the Divine Sphere.

When this is accomplished that which is most powerful and strong is drawn out of the radiation. From what is left animal forms, landscapes and buildings then arise in the Divine. Therewith the nature of the last remnants changes ever more, but it is subject to the highest tension in the tremendous pressure brought about by the nearness of God, although even here His distance away must still remain vast and incomprehensible to the human spirit.

These last remnants, which as the ramifications and exhausted residues of the radiations can no longer take on form in the Divine Sphere, and which float along and surge about at the outermost boundaries of the Divine like little luminous clouds, also contain the spiritual. Under the high pressure the latter cannot unfold and become conscious. The strong urge to do so, however, is inherent in all that is spiritual, and it is this urge which like one great petition ascends out of the perpetual surging, which surging cannot at the boundary come to the point of weaving and forming.

And again it was this petition within the unconscious urge to which God yielded in His great Love, which He allowed to be fulfilled; for only outside the boundaries of all that is Divine was it possible for the spiritual, in following its urge, to unfold; so as in part consciously to enjoy the blessings of the Divine radiations, to live in them joyfully, and to build up and create a realm for itself which, flourishing and abounding in harmony, may become a monument raised to the honour of God, in gratitude for His Goodness in granting all that is spiritual the opportunity for the freest development and thus for the forming of all their wishes!

In accordance with the nature and laws of the Radiations of God, nothing but happiness and joy was bound to ensue for all those becoming conscious therefrom. It simply could not be otherwise, because any darkness is altogether foreign and incomprehensible to the Light itself.

Thus the great deed was a sacrifice of love on the part of God, Who severed and sent out a small Part of Imanuel just in order to grant a conscious enjoyment of existence in response to the perpetual petitioning urge of the spiritual.

To attain this the spiritual had to cross the boundaries of the Divine Sphere towards the outside. However, only a part of the Living Light could pave the way for such a happening, because the attraction of the Primordial Light is so strong that all else was held back at the boundary of its own immediate radiation and was unable to proceed further.

Thus there was but one possibility to grant the fulfilment of the urge of all that is spiritual: To send forth a Part from out of the Light Itself! Only in Its Power, by using the way of the radiation of this Part of the Light as a bridge, could the spiritual cross the boundary toward becoming self-conscious.

But even this did not suffice, because according to the Law this small Part of the Light would Itself also be drawn back by the Primordial Light. Therefore the Part of the Light had to be anchored outside the boundaries of the Divine Sphere, otherwise the spiritual there would have been as good as lost.

Once having crossed the boundary of the immediate Radiation of God, which could only occur with the help of a Part of the Light, the spiritual was no longer subjected to this original power of attraction, because the ever-increasing distance permitted a cooling off and a subsequent partial becoming conscious. Thus it no longer had this firm support, because in the cooling off another species came into existence, creating a separating gulf. Only the Part of the Light, being homogeneous with the Primordial Light, always remained connected with the Primordial Light and also directly subject to Its Law of Attraction.

Thus the inevitable consequence would have been the drawing back of this emitted Part of the Light to the Primordial Light, which would have necessitated a constant repetition of the emission, and thus continual interruption of the Act of Grace. This had to be prevented because, with a return of the Part of the Light across the border into the Divine Region to the Primordial Light, the spiritual outside the border would have immediately been left to itself and thus without any support, and without the supply of power it would have become unable to live. This would have meant the destruction of everything in existence outside.

Now for this reason the Primordial Light, God, connected the Part He sent out from Imanuel with a part of the purest extraction from all that is spiritual as a cloak, which acted as an anchorage of the Part of the Light with everything outside the border. This was a sacrifice of love on the part of God for the sake of the spiritual, which was therewith able to become conscious and to remain so.

The spiritual and everything issuing from it had thus found a support outside the border of the Divine and an eternal Source of Life, from which it could perpetually develop further. Simultaneously the bridge (in character similar to a lowered drawbridge) was built therewith from out of the Divine, so that the spiritual could perpetually renew and expand itself.

Thus a Part of Imanuel manifesting as »Let there be Light« became the starting-point and perpetual Stream of Life for Creation, the core around which all Creation could form.

First of all of the Primordial Spiritual Region as the Basic Creation, to which Imanuel formed the bridge. This made Him the Outborn Son of God in the Radiation of Whom the Primordial Spiritual World could come to self-consciousness, the Son in Whose Radiation mankind developed, from which happening the surname »the Son of Man« originated; that Son Who directly stands above the human spirits because they could only develop to consciousness through Him.

In the mystery of the separation and sending forth of a Part of Imanuel this Part remained in the Grail Castle of the Divine Region by the Law, corresponding with His origin as King of the Holy Grail. He opened the gate towards the outside and therewith formed the bridge over which the spiritual could pass. He did not also cross the threshold in person; only His Radiations issued from this border into the space which up till then had been void of Light.

Thus Parsifal came into existence in the Primordial Spiritual as coming from Imanuel, always being connected with Imanuel by a tie or, still more accurately, by an unbreakable radiation. This is the way in which man can imagine this connection. They are Two, and yet They are but One in Their working — the Part of Imanuel in the Divine Part of the Grail Castle at the outermost border of the Divine Region, still standing within it and only forming the bridge, which remains kept open towards the Primordial Spiritual Sphere through Him, indeed within Him; and Parsifal in the Primordial Spiritual Part of the Grail Castle, which came into existence with the spiritual becoming conscious and with the forming of all the landscapes and buildings connected with this process, both Persons being inseparably linked and working as one Person, thus also being One!

Parsifal is linked with Imanuel by a tie of radiation, at the same time also by a tie of radiation with Elizabeth, the Queen of Womanhood in the Divine, as His Mother, and thus He forms the permanent anchorage through the radiation connection. From the radiations of Her mantle Elizabeth gave the first form-giving cloak for the Unsubstantiate radiating core of Parsifal.

Subsequent Creation could come into existence through the activity of the Prime-Spiritual Primordial Beings. In descending the process is always a constant but weaker repetition of the Primordial Creation, which proceeds according to the respective laws. As a matter of course the nature of the happening changes according to the respective transformation of the Laws.

There was no longer any direct link from Imanuel for Subsequent Creation, because this only developed as a consequence of Primordial Creation from the volition of the Primordial Spiritual Beings. This process, however, was likewise based only on the Love towards the spiritual which, remaining unconscious in the Primordial Spiritual Realm, developed the same urge to become conscious as was the case previously with the Primordial Spiritual in the Divine Region. But the power of the spiritual did not suffice to form itself immediately and at once to the state of consciousness in Subsequent Creation, as was possible for the stronger Primordial Spiritual to do.

The last precipitation of the spiritual, not being as strong as the Primordial Spiritual, had first slowly to develop in Subsequent Creation under the influence of the Prime-Spiritual Primordial Beings.

Since Subsequent Creation grew dark through the slowly developing human spirits and their fall, which was due to the one-sided cultivation of the intellect, it was necessary to intervene. In order helpfully to put right again everything in which mankind had failed, Parsifal was linked with the World of Gross Matter in Abd-ru-shin. Therefore Abd-ru-shin was Parsifal through the continued direct connection of the radiations, which cost great preparation and trouble to bring about. Through His Life on earth Subsequent Creation could again be given corresponding Light-Power to clarify, strengthen and help all that is spiritual, and passing through this the entire Subsequent Creation.

However, mankind of Subsequent Creation stubbornly opposed it and in their conceit refused to accept it, because they did not trouble themselves about the Laws in Creation and clung instead to their man-made theories! Nor did they heed the mission of the Son of God, which was to bring them help before the World Judgment.

The World Judgment itself is a natural happening, and the consequence of establishing a straight line to the Light, which was accomplished by Parsifal’s wandering through the parts of the world.

In this wandering the earth was the turning-point, being the outermost boundary in the World of Gross Matter, for due to the spiritual nature of a few men it still offered an anchorage for this. Thus the earth is the last planet that can be saved, although it already belongs to the Realm of Darkness. Whatever lies even lower in this respect than the earth, i.e., whatever is encompassed even more by the Darkness, is left to disintegration, to which all darkness is bound to fall a prey with everything it holds fast.

The earth has thus become the last stronghold of the Light on soil which is hostile to the Light. Therefore the terminal point of the Light is now anchored here. The tighter the direct line of the Triune of the Light Activity, Imanuel — Parsifal — Abd-ru-shin, stretches from one day to the other, the more tangible and visible becomes the outworking of the power in the Divine Will, which creates order and forcefully straightens everything which mankind has distorted, that is, in so far as it can still be put right. That which cannot be made straight will have to break. The Power of the Light never permits of anything intermediate!

Only when this line of the Light is stretched taut and straight does the world tremble from the Divine Power, does mankind then recognise Imanuel in Abd-ru-shin!

Such is the process of development in all simplicity! Out of love, the innate desire of all creatures consciously to experience was fulfilled! However, out of love for all those who wish to have happiness and peace by obeying the Natural Laws of this Creation, everything that disturbs the peace therein will now also be destroyed, because it proved unworthy of the permission to be self-conscious. This is the World Judgment, rightfully dreaded! The great Cosmic Turning Point!

The human spirit has no right whatever to ask about the »why« of Creation, for this is a demand upon God which he must not make, because through the voluntary fall of man he closed himself to all wisdom and the possibility of higher recognition!

But I gave an explanation in order to counteract the senseless illusions of the intellectuals, so that such human spirits as strive seriously for the Truth, and who are ready to receive it in humility, shall not allow themselves to be led astray by such wanton, blasphemous presumption in the moment of final decision — to be or not to be — for every creature! —

The true seeker will now gain much from knowing about this, for you all cannot live otherwise but in the Law! The Living Law!

Whether you are capable of absorbing it is your affair! For I cannot help you with this either! Mankind asked, begged, and I have answered in matters far above the human spirit’s ability to comprehend, which are fulfilled vast distances away from him, following the adamantine course of Divine Justice and Divine Perfection. Man should bow down in humility!