PEOPLE will have noticed how often I mention the unlimited domination of the intellect and the great spiritual indolence as fatal, but it is necessary to do so; for both processes are inseparably linked together and can be designated as starting points of many evils, indeed as the real hostile-to-the-Light cause of the decline and fall of the developed beings.
Hostile to the Light, because it prevents recognition of all that happens through the Light and all the help available from the Light; for when it attains a dominating position the earthbound intellect, as a reaction, first of all severs the connection which makes it possible for the spirit to recognise the Light, and thus binds it to the physical cloak in which it is awaiting its development, to the cloak which should be its servant.
The process, which takes effect as a matter of course and in complete accord with the Laws of Creation, is of such a horrible nature as man can hardly picture to himself aright, for otherwise he would surely break down inwardly out of fear.
It is especially dreadful because on that account everything is bound to develop towards destruction. It simply cannot do otherwise, since the human spirit on earth, through its malicious, stubborn opposition against the All-Holy Will of God, gave the wrong direction to its own development — something which forms all the evil under the pressure of the automatic Laws of this Creation, the activity of which man cannot recognise because he deprived himself of the possibility to do so.
In the perfectly running mechanism of the wonderful Work of God man frivolously and forcibly altered a switch so that now, as his train of fate continues to roll on, derailment must follow as an inevitable happening.
And in turn this happening, which first of all strikes mankind on earth, also at the same time very severely endangers their environment, which has no part in this failure, but which always had to suffer under it and was thereby retarded in its development.
Just contemplate quietly what it must mean when that implement the intellect (with which the Creator graciously endowed each human spirit on earth as an aid for his necessary development in the World of Gross Matter), contrary to its task even chokes off the spirit from any possibility of connection with the uplifting streams of power from the Light — and this as a consequence of your deed; instead of submitting to the spirit and serving it, and spreading the volition of the Light in the material environment, thus ever more ennobling and forming it into the Paradise on earth which should have come about!
This failure, forcibly brought about in the free volition by greed and conceit, is so unprecedented that such guilt on the part of the indolent human spirit on earth now appears far too great to enable those who are awakening to obtain forgiveness once again in the Love of the Almighty!
Only damnation by withdrawal of all the blessings from the Light, and disintegration, should be the well-deserved lot of the human spirits on earth, who with their conceited stubbornness have steadily driven an entire part of Creation towards inevitable destruction, were it not that this Love of the Almighty is also simultaneously connected with Perfect Justice — because it is God’s Love which will forever remain incomprehensible to the human spirits!
And the Justice of God cannot entirely abandon something to destruction as long as tiny sparks are glowing therein which do not deserve this!
For the sake of this minute number of little spirit sparks longing for the Light, the Word of the Lord was once more brought to this so-near-to-disintegrating part of Creation, that all those who carry the right inner volition for it, and who really bestir themselves with all the strength still left to them, may save themselves.
However, this volition must be differently constituted from how so many of the numerous believers in God on earth imagine it!
The domination of the intellect entirely shuts off the spirit from every possibility for its necessary development. This actually is not malevolent on the part of the intellect, but only a quite natural effect.
In this the intellect merely acts according to its nature, because it cannot do otherwise than only develop its nature to blossom and to full strength when it is cultivated one-sidedly and put in the wrong place by unreservedly subjecting the whole of life on earth to it!
And this its nature is earthbound and will never be otherwise, because as the product of the physical body it must also remain within the latter’s boundaries, i.e., within the purely earthly gross material; for gross matter cannot produce what is spiritual.
The fault lies solely with man himself and with the fact that he surrendered the mastery to the intellect, thus also gradually enslaving himself to it, i.e., binding himself to the earth. In doing so he completely lost the real purport of his life on earth — the possibility of spiritual recognition and spiritual maturing.
He simply cannot grasp it any more because the channels for this are choked up. The spirit lies in the physical body as if in a sack which is tied at the top by the intellect. Thus the spirit can no longer see and hear anything, and any path leading to the spirit is cut off in the same manner as is the spirit’s path towards the outside!
That it could be so tightly blocked by the earthly intellect is due to the fact that the binding up already takes place before physical maturity, i.e., before the period of adolescence, during which the spirit is meant effectively to work its way through the body towards the outside in order to take up a leading connection with its surrounding World of Matter for the tempering of its volition.
At this time, however, the intellect has already been one-sidedly and much too strongly developed through the wrong schooling, and it already keeps the physical cloak around the spirit closely locked, so that the latter simply cannot come to development or gain authority.
Pernicious, one-sided education which was lacking in spiritual balance! Nothing but a rigid dogma that cannot give it anything was forced upon the spirit; it does not warm up the spirit towards its own free conviction about all that is connected with God, since what is taught itself lacks vitality and has no connection with the Light, because in the teachings everywhere the intellect and conceit of earthman has caused much devastation.
The past schooling about the knowledge of the Creator stood on feet much too weak or, better expressed, on feet already too weakened by men, for it to remain capable of keeping pace with the intellect, which quickly grew stronger through its one-sided cultivation.
The instruction intended for the spirit, i.e., for the mind of strong activity on the part of the intuitive perception, always remained rigid and therewith lifeless, so that it could consequently never really be received spiritually.
Thus everything was directed only towards learning, which could never become experiencing. Consequently whatever was meant predominantly for the spirit had to be absorbed, like everything else, by the intellect, and was held fast by it without being able to penetrate to the spirit! In this way the drops of the Living Water, in so far as here and there a few did exist, were also lost in the sand!
The inevitable result was that the spirit received nothing and the intellect everything! Thus that condition was finally reached when the spirit was no longer capable of absorbing anything at all. This brought standstill to the spirit germ, which without an impulse from outside was in any case always inclined towards inactivity, and also its inevitable retrogression.
In this state of inactivity and lack of friction the spirit germ languished more and more until today a pitiful picture presents itself on earth: Human beings saturated with earthbound intellectual cleverness and with completely languid spirits which for the greater part are also really asleep!
With many of them the sleep has already turned into the sleep of death! These are the dead who must now awaken for the Judgment! These are the ones meant when it was proclaimed: He shall come to judge both the quick and the dead! This implies those spiritually alive and those spiritually dead; for there are no others, since the physical body cannot be considered as either alive or dead. It has never been alive of itself, but has only been animated for a time.
You men indeed do not realise the danger in which you stand, and it will already be too late for many when you now have to recognise it; for they no longer have strength to shake off this lethargy which has caused such frightful harm.
In connection with all the evils of mankind I must for this reason ever again revert to their actual cause — the domination of the intellect, and connected therewith the spiritual indolence which has come about as the immediate consequence.
Also the majority of today’s believers in God count in the first place among the spiritually indolent, who are like the lukewarm that must be cast out in the Judgment!
If with a little volition you would for once examine the situation aright, and would then wish to draw the corresponding conclusions, you should see clearly and be able without any doubt to form the correct opinion. You need only think logically about it, nothing else!
Look around you and see how people today accept the extension of the knowledge of Creation which is necessary for them! From this alone you can already draw sufficient conclusions about their true condition!
When today statements are made about the necessity for the advance of spiritual knowledge, because for human beings the time has now arrived for this, you hear all kinds of reasons for the rejection of the new revelation from the Light!
I do not want to name all of them, for there are too many widely ramified varieties; and there would be no end. However, in their actual sense they are all alike because they have but one origin — spiritual indolence!
Let us take just one of them; for many an apparently quite good-willing church believer among the Christians says:
»The Word of the Message is actually correct in many things, but it does not tell me anything new!«
Whoever speaks in this way has not grasped nor does he know the past which he believes he has already learned in his school or church, despite imagining to the contrary; for otherwise he should know that there is very much which is utterly new in the Message, but which is naturally not opposed to that Message which Jesus brought, because both issue from the same source, from the Living Truth!
What is new is not always equivalent to a negation of what is past, but it can also swing in the old and lead onwards in the upbuilding, in such a manner as it unites the actual Message of Jesus with mine.
However, just because my Message is completely in accord with the true words of Jesus, so many people when reading it intuitively perceive that there is nothing new in it! But only for the reason that the Message of Jesus and my Message are in reality one!
Therefore everything does swing uniformly, with the exception of what people in their sham wisdom have added to the words brought by Jesus, which is mostly wrong! Naturally my words cannot conform with what has been added or rendered differently. But with the words of Jesus Himself they agree absolutely!
And this intuitive perception about a similar swinging from the same origin, which the spirit recognises without the intellect being conscious of it, permits men to think, without giving it any reflection, that nothing new was given therein.
Such is one part of men! But others accept the new as a matter of course and as something already given once before, because they do not really know the old they thought they possessed, and therefore they have no idea what the new is that is contained in my Message for them.
Yet there is no lecture in my Message which would not indeed bring something that is perfectly new to the human spirits, something they have not yet known up till now!
Many people therefore neither know what they imagine they possess nor what I bring them! They are also much too indolent really to absorb anything at all from it within themselves!
For all those, however, whose spirit is at least capable of perceiving the uniform vibration of both Messages, this very fact should be proof that both Messages issue from one Source.
But those who are indolent do not become conscious of this. They simply prattle away about it, thereby laying themselves open so that everybody must clearly and immediately recognise them as being spiritually indolent.
Other believers again struggle against extending their knowledge, assuming or fearing that they could thereby do something wrong! However, this is fear in only a few cases, rather is it merely conceit rooted in stupidity, and only able to flourish on such soil; for conceit in itself is already stupidity — the two cannot be separated!
However, the stupidity is meant here in a spiritual and not an earthly respect, because just those persons who are considered particularly strong and clever in the earthly intellectual sense are in most cases spiritually languid, and as human beings in Creation possess no value before God; for they have failed as regards their actual existence, and are in no position with their intellectual knowledge to create any values for eternity, or to use their intellect for that purpose.
But let us leave everything else aside, let us take only the believers among Christians, of whom there are not in any case many who can be considered truly believing; for the greater number are nominal Christians only, inwardly empty and nothing else!
In a certain sense these people speak just as do the first ones mentioned, or they explain with a certain theatrical expression that is supposed to be reverential awe (at least as they try to delude themselves):
»We have our Jesus, our Saviour, we shall not renounce Him, nor do we need anything more!«
This is just about the sense of all their words, although the words themselves sound different according to the person speaking.
These genuine reproductions of the Pharisees, whom Jesus so often sharply censured, are in reality nothing but spiritually indolent, and in this case also very self-complacent. Their occasional repugnant way of talking alone characterises them all too plainly!
If you ever try to enter deeply into the thoughts of this type of person, you will recognise that they do not really hold a true conviction inwardly, but just a simple, empty habit since their youth! They no longer wish to be disturbed in their indolence, for if they occupied themselves with it thoroughly it could cause them spiritual unrest.
They seek carefully to avoid this without realising that they thereby sin against the important Law of God, the Law of Spiritual Movement, which offers them the preservation of their soul as well as of their body, and in the activity of which, when obeyed, the ascent and the possibility to mature towards perfection alone rest!
Just the very thing they consider great and proudly seek to display in order to continue feigning support for themselves, which they do not at all carry inwardly, will become their doom and destruction!
If in obedience to the Law they would for once only bestir themselves a little spiritually, they would very quickly have to recognise that their past belief was no belief at all, but something they had learned which became a welcome habit, because apart from a few formalities it required nothing from them and they thereby considered it pleasant and right!
However, they should not avoid this restlessness but should be grateful for it; for it is the best sign that their spirit is awakening, which must naturally be first preceded by restlessness before the security of a real, free conviction can arise, the conviction which only unfolds its power through serious and zealous examination, and in the actual experiencing in the spirit that is closely linked with the examining.
Wherever restlessness arises, there the irrefutable proof is thus given that the spirit has been asleep and wants to awaken. But wherever rejection takes place with the proud reference to a personal, possessive claim to Jesus, there it merely shows that this human spirit has already lapsed into the agony that leads to the sleep of death!
It furthermore proves that just these spirits would also have sternly rejected Jesus and His Word during His life on earth. They would have done so with the same empty, overweening pride by clinging to what they had already learned, had it been offered to them for their choice and personal decision as the new revelation at the necessary turning point of that time!
For the same merely convenient reason they would have held fast to the old, which must furnish the soil for advancement if no standstill is to ensue.
They are rejectors of all that is new because they do not feel capable or strong enough to examine that which is incisive earnestly and without prejudice, or because they are already too indolent and prefer to try and cling to past habits!
It can be assumed with certainty that they would definitely have rejected Jesus had they not been compulsorily taught about this already from childhood!
Nor is it any different with those who try to reject everything that is new by referring to the prophecy about the appearance of false prophets! This likewise contains nothing but spiritual indolence again; for in this prophecy on which they insist it is simultaneously and also clearly enough stated that the Right One, the Promised One, will come just at this time when the false prophets appear!
How then do they think they can recognise Him if for their convenience they simply dispose of everything light-heartedly with such a reference! No person has as yet propounded this fundamental question to himself!
But they themselves have to find the proof of identity in the Word, which with a very few exceptions people did not want to heed during the time of Jesus either, but still expected other proofs.
His Word of Truth, which was the real proof of identity, did not have any value for them at that time. Personal spiritual indolence in everyone wherever you look, and as it was then so it is again today, only much worse even; for now every spirit-spark is buried almost completely!
The believers of today have accepted everything merely as a doctrine without digesting any of it or making it their own! They are too spiritually sluggish to perceive intuitively that their belief is nothing but habit from childhood on, which in complete ignorance about themselves they now call their conviction.
Often their behaviour towards their fellow-men very clearly indicates that they are no real Christians, but only empty, spiritually indolent pseudo-Christians!
With my words I lead to God and also to Jesus! However, in a more vital way than has been known in the past, and not as people have trimmed it through their propensity for spiritual comfort!
I point to the fact that God wishes to have spirits in Creation who are alive and conscious of their personal responsibility, such as lies in the Primordial Laws of Creation! That everyone must personally and fully account for everything he thinks, speaks and does, and that this could not be effaced for mankind by the murder of the Son of God at that time!
Jesus was murdered because with His demands of a like nature He too was felt to be irksome; he appeared dangerous to those priests who taught differently, who taught much more leniently so as to attract ever larger congregations in an earthly way only, which at the same time was meant to bring about and preserve an increase of their mundane power through mounting earthly influence.
This they did not wish to give up! Men did not want to surrender their comfort, nor the priests their influence, their power! The priests did not want to be teachers and helpers at all, but only rulers!
As true helpers they would have had to educate people to become inwardly independent, dignified and great spiritually, so that these people would adjust themselves to the Will of God and act joyfully in accordance with it out of free conviction.
The priests did the opposite and bound the spirit, so that it would remain tractable for their earthly purposes.
In His Laws of Creation, however, God demands striving towards spiritual perfection from mankind! Constant progress in extending their knowledge of Creation, so that they stand and work in it aright and do not become a hindrance in the swinging, rotating movement!
But whoever does not wish to go further now, and tries to insist on what he already believes he knows, consequently rejecting or in hostility opposing new revelations from God, will remain behind and be flung out in the World Judgment, because this tears down any obstacle in order at last to let clarity arise again in Creation, the clarity which in future will further the progressive development which rests in the Will of God for His Creation.
Jesus was a new revelation and brought further revelations in His Word. All this was new for that time, and as necessary a progress then as it is today; at which point, however, there should not be a final halt!
Jesus shall not be given up as the Son of God through my Message! He must now be recognised as such all the more, but not as the servant and slave of a decayed humanity in order to carry their burden of guilt, or to redeem it so that they may have it easier!
And just those who have really accepted Jesus as the Son of God can do no other than welcome my Message with joyful gratitude, and the new revelations from the Grace of God connected with it! Nor will it come hard to them to grasp everything I say aright and make it their own!
Whoever does not or cannot do this has not recognised the Message nor the true Being of the Son of God Jesus, but has built up for himself something only alien and wrong out of his own judgment and conceit and ... not as the least ... out of the laziness of his easy-going spirit, which shuns the movement demanded by God.
The meaning and purpose of the Message from the Light through me in the fulfilment of God’s All-Holy Will is the necessary extension of the knowledge for mankind.
Neither the excuses of the spiritually indolent nor vain pharasaical phrases are of any value then; and also the malicious slanders and attacks will have to give way before the Justice of the Triune God and vanish like chaff; for there is nothing which is greater and mightier than God the Lord and what issues from His Will!
The spirit of earthman must now become alive and strong in the Will of God, to serve which he is allowed to dwell in this Creation. The time has come! No longer are any enslaved spirits tolerated by God! And man’s self-will shall be broken unless he is prepared to adjust himself to the Primordial Laws of God which He placed into Creation!
To these also belongs the Law of constant Movement, which demands unhampered progress in development. The extension of knowledge remains connected with this! The knowledge of Creation, spiritual knowledge, is the real purport of all life!
For this reason you were given new revelations. If you reject them through the indolence of your spirit, if you want to let your spirit sleep on quietly as in the past, then it will awaken in the Judgment in order to deteriorate in the disintegration!
And woe unto all those who still wish to keep the human spirit bound! They will suffer tenfold harm and in the last moment, full of horror, will have to recognise too late what they burdened themselves with, in order then to collapse under their burden and sink into the horrible abyss.
The day has come! The Darkness must perish! The glorious Light of God now breaks in two all that is wrong and burns what is indolent in this Creation, so that it can pursue its course only in light and joy for the blessing of all creatures, as a jubilant prayer of thanks for every Grace of their Creator, to the Honour of God, the Only One, the Almighty!
WHY, YOU men, do you always wish for something different spiritually from that which you really need and which will really benefit you? This peculiar characteristic is spreading abroad among all seekers with the devastating effect of a serious plague.
It would be of little avail for me to ask you about it; for you cannot account for it yourselves, even if you would exert yourselves to think about it day and night.
Just observe yourselves in all calmness for once, consider the questions that come to life within you, follow where your train of thought leads to, and you will soon recognise that for the greater part it always concerns such spheres as you will never reach because they lie above your origin, which you will therefore never be able to grasp.
However, it is a basic condition that you must be capable of grasping everything intended to benefit you!
Make this clear to yourselves in all your thoughts and deeds and adjust yourselves accordingly. Then everything will also become easier for you! So only deal with that which you can really grasp, i.e., with that which is anchored within the compass of your human existence.
Towards the Luminous Heights there is a sharp limitation to the sphere in which you have the capacity to be conscious as a human spirit, but it is not small on that account. It offers you room for all eternity and therewith fields of activity that are correspondingly great.
The possibility of your development alone is without limits, manifesting itself in the ever greater perfecting of your work within these spheres of activity. Therefore observe very closely what I am revealing to you herewith!
There is absolutely no limit to the greater perfecting of your spiritual activity — there is no end to it! You can become ever stronger in it, and with this becoming stronger the sphere of activity will always automatically expand, as a result of which you will find peace, joy, happiness and bliss.
In the past everyone has also formed a false idea about bliss. This lies solely in the radiant joy of an activity which is full of blessing, and not in lazy idleness and indulgence or, as the false is cleverly concealed by the expression, in »sweet idleness!«
For this reason I often call the human Paradise the »Luminous Realm of Joyful Activity!«
The human spirit cannot obtain bliss in any other way but through joyful activity for the Light! Through this alone will the crown of eternal life be finally bestowed upon it, granting the guarantee to the human spirit to be eternally permitted to co-operate in the cycle of Creation without the danger of falling into disintegration as a useless building stone.
In spite of the possibility graciously bestowed upon them continually to perfect their spirit, human beings will never be able to overstep the bounds of their sphere of existence in Creation, nor to tear down the strictly established boundaries of the human consciousness granted to them. In the simple not being able to do so there lies for them the very natural not being allowed to do so, which always manifests itself automatically, but just because of this has an invincible effect.
Increased perfection lies in the radiations of the spirit becoming ever more luminous, which is manifested correspondingly through increased strength of activity.
The increasing luminosity of the spirit arises in turn from the purification and cleansing of the soul, if in the volition for the good it strives upwards. One always develops out of the other in this matter in strict consistency.
If you deal exclusively and earnestly with what is good all else follows of its own accord. Thus it is not at all so difficult! But in your volition you constantly reach far beyond this, thus from the outset making the most simple things not only very hard for yourselves but quite often even impossible.
Consider that in the growth of the perfecting process even the strongest radiation of your spirit can never change its species but only its condition!
Therefore it is never possible to overstep the bounds of the limits of human consciousness, because the limits are defined through the species and not just through the condition. Within this great framework of the species, however, the condition builds very special small part-boundaries for itself, which can also be crossed through the change in condition.
Within this compass lie enormous expanses, worlds that are also spiritually immeasurable for you, in which you can sojourn and work without end for all eternity.
If you thoroughly and also deeply occupy yourselves with this, then you will be happy! In my Message I gave you the exact knowledge of what you are connected with and what is connected with you, how through your thoughts and actions you work in it, and what you must therewith achieve.
But instead of now devoting yourselves in the right sense and with all seriousness to what is offered to you, and therewith at last filling the post which each individual must occupy in this Creation, all your thoughts, your questions and also your wishes go ever again far above this into regions which the human spirit can never consciously reach.
Thus it is impossible for man really to grasp anything of this. All the weaving, radiating, striving, in brief the entire life in these regions, will forever remain incomprehensible to man, far remote from him. Therefore it can be of no benefit to him when he ponders over it. He only wastes the time and strength proffered to him for his own necessary development and must finally perish as useless.
Bestir yourselves at last with all your strength in that sphere which the Creator has given you, so that you will lead it to purest beauty, making it into a Garden of God similar to Paradise; a garden resembling a prayer of gratitude that has taken on form, in which everything arises jubilantly to the steps of God’s Throne, in order through the deed humbly to praise the Creator of all things for His bountiful mercies.
Men, how small you are and yet how immeasurably exacting and conceited! If only you would bestir yourselves a little in the right manner, in such a way that you will swing undimmed and harmoniously with the Primordial Laws of Creation (and not always as in the past have only a hampering effect due to your ignorance), then richest blessings would spring forth over everything, wherever you lend a helping hand, no matter what you exert yourselves to undertake.
It simply could not be otherwise; and with the same unswerving certainty with which over a long period already you have been gliding towards destruction, you would see yourselves uplifted by the same power, leading to spiritual wealth and trouble-free earthly life.
But first you must know your home in Creation, and also everything in it that helps and furthers you! You must know how you yourselves have to wander and work in it before the blossoming can begin!
Try first of all to adjust yourselves aright in the earthly sense to the vibrations of the Divine Laws, which you can never circumvent without bringing great harm upon yourselves and upon your surroundings; and also make your laws accordingly, let them arise from this, then you will quickly have that peace and happiness which furthers the upbuilding for which you long so much; for without this all effort is utterly in vain, and even the greatest ability of the most skilled intellect is useless and brings ill success.
It lies with you, with you alone, with each individual, and not as you so much like to delude yourselves — always with the others! Try it with yourselves first of all — but this you do not wish to do! For you imagine yourselves too superior for this, or it appears too small and incidental to begin with!
In reality, however, it is but the indolence of your spirit which is capable of keeping you back from this, and to which you have all enslaved yourselves for thousands of years. Your intellect which bound the faculties of your spirit can now no longer help you when it is a matter henceforth of either humbling yourselves before the Pure Power of God or of perishing.
You must rouse your spirit, awaken it within you in order to recognise the Will of God and hear what it demands of you; for since the very beginning man is subject only to this Will and to none other, and he must now render account to this Will for everything he did in the part of Creation that was lent to him for a home.
And your accursed propensity for always reaching out only towards something higher, of longing for what is alien to you instead of enjoying your surroundings will, as proving one of your worst evils, direct itself against you. The evil has issued from the indolence of your spirit, which must not be confused with the intellect — for intellect is not spirit!
Indeed you have always done the same in the earthly sense. Instead of forming your environment more beautifully with all your strength and joy, making it more perfect and bringing it to full blossom, you often want to get out of it, because that seems easier for you and promises a quicker success. You wish to separate yourselves from it in order to find the desired improvement, because in all that is alien you also at the same time expect betterment and embellishment!
First of all try to evaluate aright that which is given to you! Then you will discover one marvel after another!
However, in order to make use of something in the right way you must first thoroughly know it beforehand. And this you are completely lacking! You were always too indolent to recognise the Will of your God, which becomes clearly and distinctly visible to you from out of Creation.
Ever again I must touch the old wound that you men bear, from which I have already often torn off all the coverings, but which you ever again seek to apply to it carefully. The wound that forms the origin of all evil, under which you must now suffer until you either free yourselves from it or completely collapse, is and remains the voluntary indolence of your spirit!
Many among these earthmen will no longer be capable of freeing themselves from the deadening clutches of this evil, for they have hesitated too long to recover from it.
It is natural that the sagacity of the intellect tries to cover up all spiritual slumber, because with the awakening of your spirit the domination of the intellect is also quickly ended.
It is only through indolence that the spirit pays too little attention to what is given to it! It does not take the trouble to discover its beauty and to make it ever more perfect, but imagines it can only find improvement in change and seeks happiness in everything that seems alien to it.
Man does not consider that a change first necessitates an uprooting, and then places the uprooted one on alien soil with which he does not yet know what to do. For this reason he very easily makes big mistakes which bring unsuspected harmful consequences. He who places his hope in changes, who does not know what properly to do with what is given to him, lacks the serious volition as well as the ability. From the very outset he stands on the precarious ground of an adventurer!
First recognise yourselves aright and avail yourselves of that which God offers for your use, employing it in such a way that it can also blossom forth; then the earth and the entire sphere of Creation left to the human spirit for his activity must and will become a Paradise where only joy and peace dwell; for the Law of Creation will then work for you with the same certainty as it must now work against your activities, and it is immovable, stronger than the will of men; for it rests in the Ray of the Primordial Light!
The hour is not far off when men must already recognise that it will not be at all difficult to live differently than hitherto, to get along with their fellow-men in peace! Man will become seeing, because all possibility for his hitherto prevailing wrong doing and thinking will now be taken away from him by God.
He must then acknowledge with shame how ridiculously he has behaved in the haste of his bustle that is so unimportant for real life, and how dangerous he was to the whole of that part of Creation with which he was graciously entrusted for his use and enjoyment.
In the future he will live only to the joy of his fellow-men, just as they will to his joy, and he will not always carry about envious desires for what he does not yet possess. The ability will awaken to develop the beauty of his personal environment to the most glorious blossom, to fashion it in complete accordance with his nature as soon as he brings it into the great blissful swinging of the simple Primordial Laws of Creation; such as I could teach him with the Message through the Love of God, which this time helps by punishing in order to save those who still possess good volition and humility of spirit!
If you wish to build up clarify your spirit first and make it strong and pure. Clarify it, which means let it come to maturity! Creation is already standing in the time of harvest, and man as a creature with it!
However, he remained behind in this through his stubbornly wrong volition; he placed himself apart from all the swinging willed by the Light, and must be flung out of the already intensified and more joyful rotation of Creation, because in his immaturity he cannot maintain himself therein.
The popular saying about the clarified spirit is quite right! A mature or clarified person can very easily be recognised, for he stands in the Light and avoids all that is dark! He will also radiate peace around him through his nature!
There will be no more hissing up, but calm objectivity in the great swinging of joyous activity, or cool severity which in all friendliness will clear up and throw light upon the frailties of those who have not yet been able to become strong in spirit, but who are still subject to fermentation, which must bring about purification and clarification or ... destruction!
Only the Darkness can hiss up, never the Light! The Light always exhibits cool purity and peaceful circumspection in the conscious power of the high knowledge!
Wherever anger can still hiss up in a person there weaknesses must still be burned out; such a spirit can also still succumb to attacks of the Darkness or serve it as a tool. He is not »clarified«, not yet purified enough!
It is the same with all the weaknesses you carry within you, which you seem utterly unable to dispose of, or at least only with great difficulty.
In reality it would not be difficult as soon as you are finally able to agree to deal sensibly with that which God has given you, to apply in the right way what you already hold in your hands, and to adapt yourselves to the swinging of the Laws, the knowledge of which you could already gain through my Message. Then in the truest sense it is as easy as child’s play!
Refrain from occupying yourselves predominantly with questions which go beyond the sphere assigned to you, and learn first of all to recognise thoroughly all of that which is within and around you! Then ascent will come of its own accord; for you will be automatically uplifted by the consequences of your activities.
Be simple in your thoughts and deeds; for greatness and also strength lie in simplicity! You do not retrogress thereby, but advance and erect a firm structure for a new life in which every person finds his way about because it is no longer confused and entangled, but in full view in every respect, bright and clear, in a word healthy, natural!
Develop yourselves as inwardly upright, genuine human beings, and you will thereby immediately have the intimate connection with the entire Creation, which will further you in everything that you need for yourselves and for your ascent! You cannot achieve this in any other way!
Then everything you have need of, everything that brings you joy and peace, will stream towards you in rich abundance! In no case will it happen before you do this, no matter how hard you would exert yourselves for it; for the time has now arrived when man on earth must open himself to the Word of God, which is the same as adjusting himself to the existing Laws of God’s Holy Will, which sustain and further Creation!
WITH my Word I lead you back to God, from Whom you gradually allowed yourselves to become estranged through all those who placed their human pseudo-knowledge above the Wisdom of God.
And those who are still profoundly convinced of the Omniscience of God, who wish humbly to bow before the great, loving guidance contained therein through the effects of the irrevocable Laws of this Creation, they think of this Omniscience of God as different from what it is!
They picture the Wisdom of God as much too human and consequently much too small, compressed into much too narrow boundaries! With the best of volition they make nothing but an earthly should-know-everything out of Omniscience.
However, all their good thinking in this matter is too human, for ever and again they commit the one big mistake of seeking to picture God and the Divine as the crowning point of what is human!
They simply do not get away from the human basis, but contemplate everything only from their own particular status; proceeding upwards from the human level they come to conclusions which are perfected to the highest and most ideal point of the same species. In spite of everything they do not leave their own level in their conception of God!
Even when they seek to raise their expectation to something which is utterly incomprehensible to them, everything still remains in one mental groove, and thus although the volition is there to perceive it faintly, they will never find even a shadow of the conception of the true greatness of God!
It is no different with the conception of Divine Omniscience! With your most venturesome thinking you make nothing of it but a petty and earthly all-knowing!
You imagine that Divine Omniscience should »know« your human thinking and perceiving. This conception therefore demands or expects from Divine Wisdom an unlimited entrance into and adjustment to the most personal and smallest thinking of every individual here on earth and in all the worlds! A taking care and understanding of each little human spirit, and what is more — a troubling itself over each one!
Such »should-knowing« is not wisdom! Wisdom is much greater, standing far above this!
Providence lies in wisdom!
Providence, however, is not identical in meaning with foreseeing by the guidance, as people so often understand the expression »wise providence«, i.e., as they imagine it. In this matter they also err, because in their human way of thinking they again start from below, and for every kind of greatness picture an enhancement of everything they bear within themselves as human beings!
Even with the best attitude they do not deviate from this habit, never thinking of the fact that God and the Divine are utterly alien to their species, and that all thinking about this must result in nothing but errors, if they use the human species as a basis for it!
Herein lies all that has been wrong in the past, all the errors as regards concepts. It can be said quite calmly that not a single one of the past concepts resulting from thinking, pondering and investigating about this has really been right; in their human narrow-mindedness they have never been able to come near to the actual truth!
Providence is Divine activity; it lies anchored in the Divine Wisdom, in Omniscience. And this Omniscience has become deed in the Divine Laws of this Creation! It rests in them, as also does Providence, which latter takes effect upon the human beings.
Therefore do not think that God’s Omniscience should know your thoughts and how you are faring on earth. The working of God is entirely different, greater and more comprehensive. With His Will God spans everything, maintains everything, and furthers everything from out of the Living Law which brings to each individual that which he deserves, i.e., that which he wove for himself!
Not one can thereby escape the consequences of his deeds, be they evil or good! It is in this that God’s Omniscience, which is united with Justice and Love, manifests itself! In the working of this Creation everything for man has been wisely provided! Also that he must judge himself!
That which comes in the Judgment of God is the release of the sentences which men had to pass upon themselves in wise Providence according to the Law of God!
For years now, strangely enough, mankind have been talking about the Cosmic Turning-Point which is supposed to come, and in this they are as an exception right for once. But the Turning-Point has already come! Mankind stand amid the world-embracing happening which they are still awaiting, and they do not notice it because they do not want to!
As always they think about it differently and do not wish to acknowledge how it really is. Through this, however, they miss for themselves the right time for the possibility of individual maturing, and they fall short. As always they fall short, for never as yet have mankind fulfilled what God can and must expect of them if He is to permit them to stay any longer in this Creation.
In men’s actions there is such a stubborn limitation, which is repeated in the same way at every Light Happening! There is such childish wilfulness and ridiculous conceit that not much hope remains for any possibilities of salvation!
For this reason Creation is now being purified from all such evil. The All-Holy Will brings the purification in the closing of the cycle of all happenings, all actions!
The closing of the cycle is brought about through the Power of the Light, in which everything must judge itself, must purify itself, or must perish and sink into terrible disintegration!
It is natural, conditioned by the Laws of Creation, that now towards the end all the evil characteristics must bring forth their strongest blossoms and most repulsive fruit in order to live themselves to extinction thereby, through each other and in each other!
Everything must come to the boiling point in the Power of the Light! However, this time only a matured mankind can emerge from the effervescing, those who are able and also willing to accept the new revelations from God gratefully and jubilantly, and to live accordingly so that they wander through Creation by working in the right way. —
At each Turning-Point the Creator offered the maturing human spirits new revelations unknown to them until then, which were meant to serve as an extension of their knowledge so that through further recognition their spirits would become capable of swinging themselves upwards to the Luminous Heights, which once they left as unconscious spirit germs.
However, there have always been just a few who proved themselves willing gratefully to accept descriptions descending from the Divine Sphere, and who could thereby gain as much in value and spiritual power as it was necessary for human beings to have. The majority of all mankind rejected these high gifts from God due to their constantly increasing limitation in spiritual comprehension.
The periods for such Cosmic Turning-Points were always connected with the condition of Creation’s state of maturity at the time. In its development according to the Holy Law of God the maturity of Creation was always exactly fulfilled, but due to their spiritual indolence the human beings in Creation often placed themselves hinderingly in the way of these developments.
During the dissemination among human beings of the increasing recognition of all God’s Activity in Creation — which was arranged in world epochs — they closed themselves to it almost every time.
Since human beings elevated themselves to be the starting-point of all existence, they did not wish to believe that something existed which they could not grasp with their earthly senses. They limited their knowledge to this alone, and did not therefore want to approve of anything else — they, the smallest ramifications of Creation, most remote from genuine existence and real life, who wantonly fritter away the time of grace allowed them in order to mature through advancing recognition!
Now comes a new, great Turning-Point which also brings new knowledge! They already speak about this Turning-Point themselves, but again they only envisage it as the fulfilment of conceited human wishes of a kind they thought up themselves. Not that they would have duties thereby, no, again they only await an improvement in earthly comforts which the Light throws into their laps! That is how the Turning-Point shall be, for their thinking does not reach any further!
The new compulsion to knowledge closely connected with this Turning-Point, which enables man to ascend spiritually and thus at last to transform the surroundings in the material realms as well, does not interest them! What did not exist before they simply reject out of spiritual indolence!
But now the human beings are forced by God to accept it, for otherwise they can no longer ascend spiritually; for they must know about it! —
It lies within the working of Omniscience that at very definite periods of maturing in Creation ever new revelations are given to the human spirits about the working of God. —
For this reason Created Ones were already sent down to this earth primeval ages ago after the spirit-germs in their slow development had already trained the animal bodies chosen for this purpose to become human body forms, something which went hand in hand with the development of spiritual self-consciousness in the physical body. This was unutterably long times before the known glacial age of this earth!
Since I have already given the knowledge about Primordial Created Beings there must also exist Subsequent Created Beings or Created Ones, because I have also talked of Developed Beings, only to whom the human beings on earth belong.
These Created Ones, of whom I have not so far spoken, inhabit spheres in Creation which lie between those of the Primordial Beings of Primordial Creation and those of the Developed Beings of Subsequent Creation.
In the times of the beginning a Created Being was also incarnated here and there among the maturing tribes of the ones developing from the spirit-germs. His task was to lead and to proffer the connection to the particular next step in the necessary upward striving of all that is spiritual. These were the great Turning-Points there in the times of the beginning.
Later on came the Prophets as blessed ones! In this way the Infinite Love from the Light worked to help and assist the human spirits with ever new revelations whenever Creation was mature for it, until finally there came also the Sacred Tidings about the Divine and Its Working.
Thus at the great Cosmic Turning-Point now operating there also comes the absolute necessity for an extension of knowledge.
Either the human spirit must swing itself upwards to knowledge or remain stationary, which latter is equivalent to the setting in of decay, due to uselessness consequent upon a stationary human spirit becoming over-ripe through inactivity; a human spirit which no longer knows how to apply the Power of the Light accumulating within it in the right way. Thus that which can and would help it becomes its ruin, as is the case with all energy that is wrongly applied!
God is the Lord, He absolutely alone, and whoever does not want to acknowledge Him humbly just as He really is, and not as you imagine Him to be, cannot rise up to the new life.
I was allowed to unfold before you the picture of the weaving in Creation to which you belong, so that you will become seeing and may consciously enjoy and use for your benefit the blessings contained in Creation for you; so that in future they may only help you to advance upwards, and not have to punish you painfully or even be compelled to reject you! Thank the Lord that He thinks of you with such Love as to allow me to tell you with my Message what will help you, and also what is dangerous for you!
I showed you those paths which lead to the Luminous Heights! Now follow them!
IF YOU want to recognise how much wrong there is in the hitherto prevailing ideas, habits and customs of these earthmen, the search for it will not cause you much trouble; for you do not need to do anything else than to take some expression and reflect upon it deeply. It will be wrong, because even the foundation of all the thinking done by these earthmen is already utterly distorted. On a false basis, however, the right way of thinking can never develop, but in view of such a foundation it is also bound to be wrong.
Today let us take the designation which is generally disseminated about womanhood on earth as being the »weak sex«. There will hardly be anyone among my hearers who has not already heard this expression. It is used in an affectionate way as well as sneeringly, kind-heartedly and also ironically, but it is always taken up without reflection as something that is established, and adhered to thoughtlessly, or at least without being examined.
In reality, however, womanhood is just as strong as manhood on earth, only in a different way.
In my lectures I have already often explained that the actual concept of womanhood and manhood issues from the nature of their activity in Creation, i.e., that the nature of their activity is fundamental for this and determines the form which allows human beings on earth to be recognised as female or male.
The difference immediately shows itself as soon as the human spirit-germs leave their sphere of origin. Those inclined towards the active, i.e., the coarser working, take on male forms, whereas female forms shape themselves around those who wish to work passively, i.e., in a more delicate way. These are two different kinds of activity, but of equal strength; there can be no question whatever of a weaker species.
These two species also give the meaning of the Living Cross, which in itself is perfect! The vertical beam of the Cross represents the positive, i.e., the active life, and the horizontal beam of equal length and strength represents the negative or passive life. The Living Cross bears both within Itself!
The Cross of Creation from out of which and around which the whole of Creation develops itself says and indicates the same. The vertical beam is the positive, active working, and the horizontal beam the negative, passive working.
The Elders in the Divine Sphere, who at the same time are the Guardians of the Holy Grail in the Divine part of the Grail Castle, likewise show the cross with beams of equal length in their radiation. In their case, however, it is not the Living Cross which Itself forms their radiation, but it enables one to recognise that these Elders are perfected spirits of their species, and that they carry both the active and the passive within themselves, uncurtailed and working in harmony.
In Creation, however, the active is separated from the passive as regards their working. Every spirit carries within itself either the active only or the passive only, which is later also repeated with the spirit seed-germs.
These work either passively or actively side by side, and yet they constantly strive towards one another, since the two species can only achieve something which is perfect through their joint activity. However, it only becomes perfect when the two work with equal strength and strive for one goal — towards the Light!
They do not need to live together in earthly marriage in order to achieve this, nor to be at all close together gross-materially — they need not even be personally acquainted! Only the goal must be the same — towards the Light!
I mention this particularly so that no wrong conclusions may be drawn from my lecture; for marriages and physical gross-material approaches in general are things entirely for themselves, which are not a requirement connected with striving for the Light, though if they are pure they do not hinder it either!
But this lecture is primarily concerned with the erroneous expression »the weaker sex«! I must not digress too much, for I want to show how the expression once originated and how it could be continuously maintained.
This is not so difficult fundamentally! You can also recognise it easily if you are willing to take the trouble closely to examine everything your fellow-men utter!
You know that all womanhood on earth must keep awake the longing for the Light as the guardian of the flame of the preserving-and-upward-leading-longing for the Light.
For this purpose a more delicate capacity to perceive intuitively develops within woman for, in her urge towards a more delicate activity, less of the spiritual substantiality detaches itself from her than from the man, who inclines towards coarser activity.
Through this every woman is the receiver and mediator of radiations which men can no longer receive. Womanhood stands therein half a step higher, turned more towards the Light than any man. Provided, of course, that she stands aright and does not fritter away her abilities or obstruct them herself!
Man subconsciously senses that woman thereby possesses refinements which he no longer bears within himself, nor can he bear them within him in view of the nature of his activity, since they would restrain him from many a coarse matter which has still to be dealt with. It is true that he does not become quite clear about this, or at least very rarely, but he perceives a treasure therein which needs to be preserved. He feels urged to protect this invisible treasure in the World of Gross Matter, because he feels himself the stronger one in the earthly, i.e., in the gross material sense.
There are only a few men who do not intuitively perceive this. But these have in any case become brutalised and can no longer be counted as men in the true sense.
The desire to protect which remains unuttered because only subconsciously felt, has now brought man gradually and erroneously to view womanhood as the weaker sex, the sex which needs his protection. Thus this designation does not perhaps originate from an evil volition or a depreciatory judgment, but only from ignorance of the true reason for his own intuitive perceptions.
Along with the beginning and advancing dullness due to earthmen’s false ways of thinking, and along with the ever-increasing limitation of their ability to understand things lying outside the coarsest World of Matter, there also naturally arose an interpretation of the expression that became ever more base.
In reality man is not the stronger sex but only the coarser sex, i.e., the more gross material one, and therefore the denser one; womanhood, however, is not the weaker sex, but merely the more delicate, the more »loosened« one, which has nothing to do with weaknesses.
Due to his greater activity man is gross materially more strongly solidified, but this is no fault since he needs it in order to work effectively in Creation, to stand more firmly on earthly soil, and to have a more direct effect in and upon the dense gross material substance. Thus he is more firmly connected with the earth and more inclined towards it.
Woman, however, tends to be drawn more in an upward direction, to what is finer, more delicate and less dense. In this she supplements human spirituality, holding it and uplifting it... naturally only if she stands at the post to which the Creator appointed her!
Through retaining a very definite species of the higher substantiality in her body the latter is not so strongly solidified, because this substantiality penetrates her physical body and keeps it loose.
This again is neither a deficiency nor a weakness, but a necessity for the reception and mediation of radiations, the help of which man in his working cannot do without, although through his coarser nature he does not have the ability to take up these radiations directly.
All this naturally also includes gross material things in the most simple way. Let us take a birth, for example! For this reason alone a man would simply be unable to offer the possibility for a soul to approach him for the purpose of incarnating on earth, even if the organs for this were present in his body.
He lacks the bridge for the soul that is contained in the delicate substantiality which womanhood still carries within, and which was bound to sever itself automatically from manhood owing to their active volition.
Therefore even if the organs for this were present, only the beginning of a physical body could develop, nothing more, because then the co-operation of the new soul is missing, the soul which cannot approach unless the more delicate bridge of the substantiate is at hand. With some women, too, a soul can sometimes approach, but it is unable to maintain itself if this bridge has become damaged, because the woman has acquired male characteristics which pushed aside the delicate substantiate addition to womanhood. The souls then release themselves again before an earthly birth can take place!
All this reaches much further than you can imagine. Even the earthly health of your children is conditioned, retarded or furthered through the flawlessness and purity of this higher substantiate bridge which the mother offers.
It is not only the organs alone which are the cause of childlessness or of the fact that many births do not occur as they normally should do. The main cause for the difficulties, illnesses or weaknesses very often lies only in the defectiveness of the bridges, which the souls need for striding along their earthly path securely and vigorously.
How often has a woman either through stupid trifling or condemnable vanity accepted male characteristics which were bound to weaken or push aside completely the higher substantiate part that was given to her as a privilege. The results of this are so varied as to the nature and form of their conditions that men often rack their brains how many a thing is possible.
But worse even than the injuries arising out of these happenings, which still become physically visible immediately, are the injuries on the planes of fine gross matter, brought about through such a failure on the part of womanhood and which then also manifest on earth, although only a long time afterwards.
You will hear even more about this when later on I deal with these subjects, and you will be struck with horror at the frivolous guilt of womanhood, which was even furthered by men and strengthened through wanton conduct, because such guilt was very welcome to them!
For decades you will still blush about this, because this period of degradation will oppress you through your memories like a loathsome burden for a long time.
At present these happenings are still a mystery to mankind, which I shall yet unveil when they have matured to the point where they can grasp it; for I also work absolutely according to the Laws in these matters. Mankind can come to know everything from me; however I only open my mouth for it when they have become capable of absorbing it through their inner maturity. This process acts in the same way as an opening or ignition connection is established, quite automatic! For this reason mankind will get to know only as much from me as they are capable of digesting, not more!
However, they need not always be conscious of this; for I perceive the inner awakening and stirring of the spirit, which is very different from the day-consciousness of the intellect. And that to me gives the release for my Word!
For this reason it seems as if today I already give much more than you are able to absorb really consciously. But your spirit to which I speak does take it up without your knowing about this in the earthly sense. Thus it looks as if I am now giving much that is meant for later times, whereas your spirit has already taken it up.
The »day-conscious« understanding only comes to you later, perhaps not for decades, so that only then will you become capable of knowing how to apply it also in the earthly sense with perfect understanding.
As soon as you vigorously stride along with me spiritually I can reveal the entire Creation to you. It always lies only with you, you men! Therefore remain awake and alert in spirit, so that I need not withhold anything from you!
I like to give and give joyously, but I am bound to the Law because I myself have no choice! I am allowed to give to you according to your ability to receive and no more! Bear this in mind! Therefore make use of the time as long as I am with you so that you will not miss anything!
Guard my Word and use It; It can give you everything!
IT IS pitiable to see how diligently man on earth works at his retrogression and thus at his destruction under the delusion that he is thereby striding upwards!
Earthman! A bitter taste is attached to the name of this creature for everything in Creation weaving in the Will of God, and it would seem better for man if this name were no longer uttered, because whenever it is mentioned vexation and uneasiness penetrate the entire Creation at the same time, something that lays a burden upon mankind on earth; for this vexation, this uneasiness, are a living accusation which forms itself automatically and must confront all mankind on earth adversely.
Due to his wrong activity, which made itself conspicuous in this Creation by hindering, disturbing, and continually doing harm, man on earth has at last become an outlaw through himself, through his ridiculous pretence of knowing everything better! He has stubbornly and forcibly brought on his expulsion, because he made himself incapable of simply receiving God’s blessings in humility.
He wanted to make himself the creator, the achiever, he wanted to force the activity of the Almighty into complete submission to his earthly will!
There is no word which could properly describe such conceited arrogance in its boundless stupidity! Just delve into this hardly credible behaviour yourselves! Imagine man on earth, and how by assuming an air of importance he wishes to place himself above the mechanism of this marvellous work of a Divine Creation (which has up till now remained unknown to him) in order to direct it, rather than willingly fitting himself into it as a small part thereof... you will not then know whether to laugh or to weep!
A toad standing before a high rock and wanting to order it to move out of its way does not produce quite so ludicrous an effect as does present-day man in his mad ambition towards his Creator!
To envisage this must also arouse disgust within every human spirit who now comes to awakening in the Judgment. He will be seized with dismay, shuddering and horror when, through recognising the Luminous Truth, he suddenly sees everything before him just as it has really been for a long time, although he was unable in the past to notice it in this way. Filled with shame, he then wants to flee to the end of all the worlds!
And the covering veil will now be torn to pieces, ground to powder as the grey remnants flutter here and there, until the Ray of Light can stream freely into the souls which are deeply tormented with remorse, those who in newly awakened humbleness want to bow before their Lord and God, Whom they were no longer able to recognise through the chaos which the earthbound intellect brought about at all times when it was allowed unlimited domination.
But you must thoroughly experience disgust at the deeds and thoughts of the earthmen upon yourselves, and also within yourselves first, before you can be redeemed from it. You must taste disgust as thoroughly as every Envoy from the Light always had to experience it through the villainous depravity of mankind on earth, which is hostile to the Light! In no other way can you obtain redemption!
It is the sole redeeming reciprocal action of your guilt, which you are now compelled to live through yourselves, because it cannot be forgiven you in any other way!
You will already enter upon this experience very soon — the sooner it touches you the easier it will become for you! May it at the same time open up the way for you to the Luminous Heights!
And again womanhood will have to feel the ignominy first, because her downfall now compels her to expose herself to these things. Frivolously she has put herself into a position where she will now be forced down at the feet of brutalised manhood. It is with anger and contempt that manhood on earth will now flare up and look down upon all women who are no longer capable of giving that for which the Creator had designated them, that which man so urgently needs for his activity.
This is self-respect, which first makes every true man a man! Self-respect, not self-conceit! However, man can only have self-respect through looking up to womanly dignity, to protect which gives him respect for himself — and upholds it!
That is the great secret between woman and man, the secret which has never been uttered before, which is able to spur him on to great and pure deeds here on earth, which glows purifyingly through all thinking, thus spreading a holy shimmer of high longing for the Light over the whole of life on earth.
But all this has been taken away from man through woman, who quickly succumbed to Lucifer’s enticements through the ludicrous vanities of the earthly intellect. With the awakening of the recognition of this great guilt, man will now regard womanhood as only that which she was really bound to become on account of her wilfulness.
But although this disgrace brings pain it is nothing but a strong help for those female souls who awaken under the just blows of the Judgment, and who through their recognition see the enormity of the theft which they perpetrated on man with their false vanity; for they will have to muster all their strength to regain the dignity they lost, the dignity which they threw from themselves like some worthless property which hindered them on their chosen path downwards.
You have not yet become quite clear about the burden of the harmful consequences, the burden which was bound to fall upon the whole of earth’s humanity when earthly womanhood, through wrong actions, zealously sought for the greater part to destroy the bridges that connected her with the streams of Light.
The harmful consequences are a hundredfold and multiform, working in all directions. You need only try and place yourselves in the course of the inevitable outworkings that accord with the Laws of Creation! The recognition is then not at all difficult!
Once again think of the simple process which takes place in strict lawfulness:
As soon as woman tries to become masculine in her thoughts and actions this volition already takes corresponding effect — first of all upon everything of her which is closely connected with (higher) substantiality, then also with ethereal substance, as well as after a very definite period with fine gross matter!
The consequence is that with her attempts at positive activity, which is contrary to the task of woman on earth, all the more refined elements of her womanly nature are repressed because they are passive, and they finally release themselves from her, since through lack of use they gradually lose strength and are drawn off the woman by the same basic species.
The bridge is then broken down which enables earthwoman through her passive nature to absorb higher radiations and to mediate them to the coarser World of Matter, in which she is anchored with a very definite strength by her body.
But this is also the very bridge a soul needs for earthly incarnation into the physical body! If this bridge is missing it is made impossible for any soul to enter the growing body; for the soul of itself cannot step across the gulf that was bound to arise in this way.
If this bridge is only partly broken down, however, which depends on the nature and strength of woman’s desire to become masculine through her activities, it is nevertheless possible for souls to incarnate which are in the same way neither completely masculine nor completely feminine, and which therefore form ugly, unharmonious mixtures; later on these hold all sorts of unquenchable longings, they never feel understood during their life on earth, and are thus a constant source of unrest and discontent to themselves and to their surroundings.
It would be better for such souls, as well as for their later earthly surroundings, if they had never found an opportunity to incarnate; for they only burden themselves with guilt and will never redeem anything, because in reality they do not belong on this earth.
The opportunity and possibility for such incarnations which are not willed by Creation, thus by the Will of God, is proffered only by those women who through their capricious ways and ridiculous vanity, as well as through the degrading craving for a sham importance, are inclined to become to some extent masculine, no matter how it is expressed!
Delicate, genuinely female souls are never incarnated through such unwomanly women, and thus the female sex on earth is gradually completely poisoned, because this eccentricity has become ever more widespread, attracting more and more new souls of this kind, souls which can neither be wholly female nor wholly male, thus spreading what is neither genuine nor harmonious on earth.
Fortunately the wise Laws of Creation have also drawn a sharp line even in such matters; for through a distortion of this nature, violently brought about by a wrong volition, there first of all occur difficult or premature births, then children who are liable to illness, who are nervous and have torn intuitive perceptions, and finally after a very definite period sterility sets in, so that a nation which allows its womanhood to strive towards the unsuitable state of manliness is sentenced to slow extinction.
Naturally this does not happen from one day to the next, so that it would become glaringly conspicuous to the people living at the time, but a happening of this kind must also proceed along the path of development. Even if slowly, it will yet be surely! And a few generations need to vanish first before the consequences of such an evil on the part of womanhood can be halted or made good in order to restore a people from a decline to a state of health and save it from total extinction.
It is an adamantine Law that wherever the size and strength of the two beams of the Cross of Creation are unable to swing in perfect harmony and purity, i.e., where the positive masculine as well as the negative feminine do not remain equally strong and undistorted (whereby the equal-armed Cross would also become distorted), decline and finally also destruction are bound to follow so that Creation will again become free of such absurdities.
Therefore no people can ascend or be happy unless they possess genuine, unadulterated womanhood, in whose wake alone genuine manhood can and must develop itself.
A thousand things spoil genuine womanhood in this way. Therefore all the consequences show themselves in quite different ways, more or less severe in their harmful effects! But they will always appear without fail!
I do not yet wish to speak here of the frivolous imitation of men’s evil habits by women, of which smoking probably counts as the first; for this is a plague entirely by itself, forming a crime against humanity such as man of the present time hardly dares to imagine.
With a closer recognition of the Laws in Creation, the unjustified and thoughtless presumption of the smoker even to indulge in his vice out of doors, thereby poisoning God’s gift of fresh, upbuilding air, which is meant to be available to every creature, will very soon vanish, especially when he must experience that this bad habit is the seat of many a disease under the scourge of which today’s humanity groans.
Quite apart from the smokers themselves, having to breathe in such tobacco smoke hampers the normal development of many an organ in infants and children, especially the necessary firmness and strengthening of the liver, which is particularly important for every person, because when functioning in the right and healthy manner it can prevent the establishment of a cancerous centre as the surest and best means of resistance to this plague.
In most cases the woman of today has chosen a wrong path for herself. She strives to rid herself of womanliness, be it in sports, in excesses or diversions, but mostly through participating in positive spheres of activity which fall to and must also remain with manhood if there is to be genuine ascent and peace.
Through this everything on earth has already become fundamentally disarranged, has lost its equilibrium. Even the ever-increasing and more violent disputations, as well as the failures, can only be traced to the wilful mixing of the positive and negative activities among all human beings on earth, which activities Creation stipulated should remain pure only. The confusion forcibly brought about in this way can have no other consequence but decline and destruction.
How foolish are you human beings that you do not wish to learn to recognise the simplicity of God’s Laws, which in their absolute consistency are so easy to observe!
It is true that you possess wise sayings which you like to quote! Even this one sentence tells you much: Small causes, great effects! But you do not follow them! It never occurs to you to look for the small cause first of all in the things happening around you which threaten, afflict and oppress you, so that by avoiding this the great effects cannot even arise!
This is much too simple for you! Therefore you prefer first to tackle the severe effects only, if at all possible with a lot of noise, so that the action will also be fully valued and bring you earthly fame!
But you will never attain victory in this way, no matter how well you believe yourselves to be equipped for it, unless you condescend in all simplicity to look for the causes, so that by avoiding all of them you can for ever banish the severe consequences.
And again you cannot find the causes unless you learn to recognise in humility the mercies of God, Who gave you everything in Creation that can protect you from every misfortune!
As long as you lack the humility to receive God’s mercies gratefully you will remain entangled in your wrong actions and thoughts until the final fall which must inevitably lead you to eternal damnation! And this last moment lies before you! You are already standing with one foot in the gate! The next step will let you fall into bottomless depths!
Consider this well! Pull yourselves back and leave behind the flat earthly life, without form and warmth, which you preferred to lead hitherto! At last become such human beings as the Will of God wishes further to tolerate in Creation in the future! In doing so you fight for yourselves, since your God, by Whose Grace you were granted to fulfil your urge for a conscious existence in this Creation, does not need you! Remember this at all times, and thank Him with every breath which you are allowed to take through His boundless Love!
