I HAVE already spoken several times about Creation’s Ring of Animistic Substantiality, which embraces the Worlds of Matter as the transition from the spiritual to the material.

This substantiality is a very special species by itself and really forms the final ring for the entire Creation, and simultaneously also the bridge for Subsequent Creation.

Once again let us envisage everything outside the Divine Sphere, thus below the Grail Castle, in three big divisions!

Let us enumerate Primordial Creation as uppermost and first, Creation as second, and Subsequent Creation as third.

The Grail Castle itself is not strictly speaking part of Primordial Creation, but is something entirely by itself that is above Primordial Creation. The Grail Castle stands! I deliberately choose this expression, for the Grail Castle does not float, but is firmly anchored.

Also that part of it which is outside the Divine Sphere, from which Primordial Creation issues, is firmly connected with the Grail Castle in the Divine Sphere like an annexe, and is therewith anchored immovably in the Divine.

Down to that point the only activity is a streaming downwards and upwards of Divine Waves of Light. Only in the Grail Castle does a change in this activity take place, and outside the Castle, streaming downwards, the rotational movement sets in, bringing all the Creations into existence and keeping them in motion. Here, too, they are held by waves that are descending and rising!

Such is the large picture of the form in which all the movements take place!

I have already spoken in greater detail about the Primordial Creation and named the two basic divisions. They are Primordial Spiritual. The one part immediately took on form and came to consciousness, while the other could only develop to it. It is the same in Creation, which in the conception as being Spiritual we separated from the Primordial Spiritual.

Creation is also separated into two divisions. The first could again immediately take on form, and the second had to develop to this point.

After this comes as a termination the afore-mentioned ring of that substantiality of which you do not yet have a clear picture, because I have only made a slight reference to it in my past explanations.

Today let us name it as a division of Creation by itself — the Ring of Animistic Substantiality!

From now on we must understand by this ring something quite different from that which we simply called the elemental (animistic, substantiate) beings. Those which I have so far designated in this way are the Light-waves that have taken on form through their activity, which stream downwards and again upwards, thus being connected with the Grail Castle in a straight line or chain. They are not the rotational forces!

There lies the difference! The rotational forces are also formed in their working, but they are of a different nature and could only come into existence through the intersection of radiations. You do not yet know anything about this, though you already know many of them!

This rotational movement originates or begins with the separation of the positive from the negative, thus of the active from the passive, which occurs in the Grail Castle and which, at the beginning of today’s explanations, I called the change in the currents — the rotational movement that results through the separation in the Castle.

As the radiations of the Light begin to cool off, the positive separates from the negative and through this two kinds of radiations form, whereas down to the Grail Castle there is only one uniform ray in activity fashioning the Divine Sphere, where all that has become form bears within itself both positive and negative in a harmonious union!

Picture all this to yourselves just as I sketch it with very simple strokes, then you will grasp it in the quickest and surest manner. Only then can you try to penetrate ever deeper through your desire to understand!

If you act in this way then the whole will gradually become alive before you, and as »knowing« onlookers you can let the floating and weaving of Creation pass before you in spirit.

However, if you should wish to try it the other way round and already at the first hearing seek to follow me with the power of your intellect, You will become stuck at my very first sentences and will never be able to attain to any goal.

You must absorb it simply and only then, by gradually following the individual strokes, can you let everything come to life within you! In this way you will succeed!

Therefore today we want to talk of the ring of animistic substantiality which forms the termination of all that is mobile.

Just as the precipitation of the spiritual is known to you as spirit-germs, so the ring of animistic substantiality can also be called a precipitation, though in quite a different way; which precipitation trickles and drops down from out of the rotation of the self-moving Creations, from out of the substantiate waves, in order to assemble at the termination of the Creations and to maintain itself through the attraction of the same basic species.

Therewith we again hit upon an extension of the conceptions of Creation!

Consequently we have self-moving parts, which include Primordial Creation and Creation, and then follows Subsequent Creation, unable to move of its own accord and needing to be driven.

The self-moving parts are activated by their own warmth, whereas Subsequent Creation, which must be set in motion, is activated by the effect of alien warmth. Thus individual parts thereof can also become cold when that which supplies warmth is withdrawn, something which is quite impossible in Primordial Creation and in Creation, because they possess their own warmth.

Pay strict attention to all the details I am telling you herewith, for they lay the foundation in advance for many further explanations, which will be of great use for every aspect of man’s earthly life.

This ring of the animistic substantiate precipitation is below the spirit-germs, therefore below the ring of the spiritual precipitation, and forms the termination of all that is mobile; for also the ring of the spiritual precipitation as the last of the spiritual, and the ring of the animistic substantiate precipitation as the last of the substantiate, have their own movement and thus warmth within, although still unconscious in the beginning. This is important to know!

Then follow the various Worlds of Matter. They are called like this because they can only serve as cloaks and possess neither their own warmth nor movement. They must first be permeated with warmth before they pass on warmth, and they are again cold and immobile when the dispenser of warmth is withdrawn. That is the peculiarity shown only by the Worlds of Matter.

Now the expressions material and the World of Matter have not perhaps been named according to the material with which man on earth covers himself, but the reverse is the case. Earthman has caught up these designations and then transferred them according to the proper meaning also to his earthly products, with which he covers himself.

The ring of animistic substantiality, however, not only forms the termination of that which is mobile and has inherent warmth but, since this ring also contains warmth and movement in itself, it presses even further into the World of Matter, thus warming it up and driving it from static inactivity into rotational movement, which in turn warms it increasingly and causes it to glow through friction, as is conditioned by the density of its nature.

In the movement thus forcibly brought about the material substance takes on form, and permits the radiations to penetrate it very easily through this activity of the even greater warming of the driving animistic, in order to spread ever new warmth and thus movement for the forming.

After this comprehensive picture let us go into details! Thus we return to the ring of animistic substantiality, which serves as the bridge for the unwarmed and consequently immobile stratifications of all the Material Worlds.

In this ring of animistic substantiality the corresponding special types of all the animistic-germs draw closely together in accordance with the Law. Groups then form which may also be called centres or accumulations.

Thus, for example, there is a separation between the groups of those germs which, as they penetrate the Worlds of Matter, co-operate through their development and awakening in the forming and preservation of fire, water, air and earth, of rocks, plants, and also animals.

I have already spoken of the process of the penetration of the animistic germs, and I only want to point especially to the fact that all this happening is carefully directed by animistic helpers, which serve like a chain in the straight streaming downward of the Light-waves from the Castle, and also help to guide them upwards again.

All this you already know, and you can easily put together the basic knowledge for this out of my Message, but you must proceed in this matter like children, who make the effort to put the parts of a Chinese puzzle together correctly until a very definite picture arises therefrom.

It is in this way that you must make use of the knowledge from the Message, for it contains the foundation stones for all knowledge, and gives explanations for every happening in the whole of Creation!

If you want to achieve clarity about some matter in Creation or in your own life, about how this experience in the effect of the Primordial Laws must absolutely take place, you only need to lift any one of the many little individual stones containing something of the question which moves you, from among all the precious stones that can be found in the Message as a treasure that wants to be unearthed for you.

Just as with the game of putting Chinese puzzles or toy constructions together, you then seek to join from the Message that which fits this first little individual part. Finally you will obtain in this way a large picture standing completely by itself and compact in itself, which gives you a precise answer in pictorial form of that weaving of Creation which you desire to know.

If you follow my advice you will always succeed in obtaining a solution to everything in a form which will in any case become intelligible to you, and which will never let you go astray.

Just place the individual stones in such a way that they will fit in precisely with the first stone which you take from the treasure for your question. It is all the same whether this stone indicates the centre or should lie only to one side. The others belonging to it can always and only be so dovetailed or added that the final result is the very picture you need for an answer and the clarification of your question!

The stones never let themselves be placed in any other way, and you immediately realise when you have put just one part wrongly. This part simply does not fit in with the whole, and thus compels you to put it where it belongs, or to leave it out altogether if it does not belong there.

When you do this just think of a Chinese puzzle, which results in complete pictures or constructions when the individual parts given in a definite form for this purpose are put together logically.

This is the way I have given you my Message, which contains everything, but which forces you to co-operate in this yourselves! It does not allow itself to be taken up lazily as something standing there complete, but upon each of your questions you must exert yourselves to extract from it and put together that which will form the perfect picture.

That is the peculiarity of the Living Word, which forms and educates you and forces you to movement of your spirit!

Should you put a picture together wrongly, through error or superficiality, you will quickly come to a stop and realise that it brings no harmony, perhaps because you put just one little stone in the wrong place or, according to its form, put it in such a way that it cannot fit that picture or construction you are striving for. Thus you cannot complete it, and must try ever again until it stands firmly and correctly put together before you!

Each stone can be used for many pictures, not only for one, but through its peculiarity you are forced to place it differently for each picture, always so that it will fit in exactly with the other stones.

If, however, the individual picture results in a complete whole, then you may be sure that your work in seeking was right!

You will never lack a stone in this, not the smallest part, for the Message contains everything you need! Just try it until this work becomes easy to you, then you will yourselves stand firmly in the entire Creation!

In my Word of the Message I give you the perfect »box of bricks« consisting of the best-cut precious stones, so that you can build with it yourselves! From the very beginning they are precisely arranged to meet all your needs. But you alone must construct the building, for this is how it is willed!

Now you know how you have to act, and I can proceed with my explanations about the animistic ring and its effect upon the Material Worlds, to which it simultaneously forms a bridge through its working, the ring which is really the termination of all that is mobile.

Among other species there has gathered in this ring an accumulation of a species of that animistic substantiate precipitation from which the animal soul with its many ramifications is formed.

It is just this part, however, which needs a very special course of instruction, which must be connected with observation, in order to arouse complete clearness in earthman, but at least I will give a few hints about this.

The soul of every animal forms itself, it puts itself together first, something which is indicated in the expression »to form«.

To show the difference and make it easier to understand I point once again to the human spirit. The spirit of earthman already carries everything within itself in the spirit-germ and only needs to develop to become conscious.

The soul of the gross material animal, however, puts itself together first, it forms itself, so as gradually to become strong through development. As it becomes strong it is able to form ever more firmly and durably.

The soul of the animal that belongs to the World of Gross Matter can only gradually receive a permanent form. In most cases, following severance from the physical body, after a shorter or sometimes longer period the animal soul again loses its form and is absorbed by the accumulation of homogeneous species, absorbed as a homogeneous species which indeed brings increased warmth, but which does not yet remain in a stable form. Hence the expression »group soul«!

Only one thing can maintain the form of the animal soul, the strongest thing there is — the love!

If an animal has taken to loving a person it is thereby uplifted, and through the voluntary connection with the spirit it receives a supply of power which also keeps its soul together more firmly. But more about this later! There are not only animals from the terminating ring of the animistic but also in higher, even up to the highest planes.

In the very highest planes there are thus knowing animals which are perfectly pure in their serving.

It can also occur that animals from the higher planes are incarnated on earth for very special purposes. We will not deal with this now but remain with the animals that are known on earth, the souls of which form out of the animistic ring round the Worlds of Matter.

I only want to give one other hint about this concerning your nearest visible earthly environment, thus your gross material surroundings.

All forms that are bound to a definite spot on earth have no soul of their own, for it would indeed become too dependent upon that which approaches it and would thus be at the mercy of every arbitrary action in the World of Gross Matter.

But such a lack of balance is utterly impossible in the wise arrangement of the Creator in His Work!

That is why such forms have no souls of their own, but serve solely as habitations for beings which are quite independent of the forms, which forms they merely protect and tend.

Plants and rocks belong to these forms! Thus you will gain further enlightenment which can benefit you, through which you can clearly recognise wrong opinions.

Only those creatures which are independent of a place, such as animals which can move freely from their spot, have within themselves a mobile core of their own that guides them.

With animals this core is the animistic soul, with men it is the spirit! Plants and rocks, however, merely serve as habitations for alien entities that are independent, and which therefore cannot be called the soul of the forms concerned.

FOR ALL those who have already absorbed my Message aright, for those alone will I again extend the picture of Creation a little further in order to increase their knowledge of it.

In this way you will be initiated into higher recognitions, which have not been given to mankind in the past because they would not have understood it, because they would have been far too immature spiritually to absorb it. And no man himself, of his own accord, could ever attain to these recognitions.

It is given as a grace from the Light! Often in the past I have spoken of the Primordial Beings who are active in Primordial Creation, the Primordial Spiritual Realm.

Instead of saying primordial spiritual I could with equal justification also use the expressions »highly spiritual« and »completely spiritual«. I could likewise designate it as the highest spiritual. All would be correct!

But I preferred the term »primordial spiritual«. It is the strongest out of the spiritual capable of becoming fully conscious of itself, and in remaining conscious also to be active, under the highest pressure of the Light which the spiritual as being spiritual can bear at all.

In becoming conscious of itself the form also simultaneously came into existence without having first to undergo a slow process of development, as becomes necessary in those spheres of movement of this Creation which lie deeper, which have cooled off even further, and which are consequently denser and also slower.

After the strongest out of the spiritual was immediately able to sever itself and take on form, remaining in the closest proximity to the Divine Sphere and held fast by the latter’s strong attraction through the Light-Pressure, the remainder was pushed further away by this pressure because it was unable to resist and had to give way to the too strong pressure, after the strongest thereof had become form.

The spiritual species which had been pushed still further away and remained unformed was able to cool off even more in the greater distance from the Light, and with this a new world again came into existence; for in the cooling off that which was this time considered the strongest in the remainder of the spiritual could now again simultaneously release itself and take on form in order to be active in conscious state in this plane which had cooled off more.

However, the second as well as the first, the uppermost, plane contain many gradations within themselves, forming themselves with these gradations, which latter formed according to the speed of their ability to be conscious.

The differences therein were again conditioned by the varieties that even occur within the homogeneous species, in so far as they have a greater or lesser capacity to bear the nearness of the Light-Pressure.

Thus here, too, there are still fine distinctions. Therefore each plane of a definite homogeneous species has nevertheless within its boundaries numerous planes which can be active either nearer to the highest point of this corresponding plane or only further away.

This often results in barely noticeable transitions which are drawn in this way through the whole of Creation without interruption, resulting in glorious, absolutely gapless connections for the flowing through of the Light-Power — we may also call them steps which, despite their delicate nature, can never be surmounted upwards unless the corresponding degree of consistency in the homogeneous species has been attained for this purpose.

But the developed human spirits, to which earthmen belong, originate neither in the afore-mentioned first nor in the second collective spiritual plane, but they issue from the last precipitation of spiritual substance, which does not hold enough strength to enable it to form itself by becoming conscious in the second plane of the spirit.

Neither could this precipitation stay there because it was no longer able to withstand the pressure of the Light even at this more remote place, after that part had severed and formed itself which was able to do so on this second plane. Thus the part left over, being the last precipitation, had to recede still further into yet deeper cooling-off possibilities.

But here also, being the weakest part and last precipitation of the spiritual, it was not possible for this precipitation to come to consciousness of its own accord without receiving an impulse from outside. That is why they remained only human spirit-germs, capable of development it is true, and filled with the urge towards it by their spiritual nature. But they were not strong enough to awaken of themselves, and thus to take on form in the process of becoming conscious.

That alone is the place where the spirit of earthman as such originates in the great Creation; there arose and also is the Paradise of the human spirits that develop to completion, thus the plane from which they actually set out and likewise to which they return in the completion!

Looking downwards from above it lies at an immense depth, yet looking upwards from the earth it lies nevertheless at an indescribable height; for the planes of the Worlds of Matter, which are the spheres of development and fields of activity for the human spirits, are far flung!

Their inability to awaken of themselves, even at this outermost place which is furthest away from the Light and the last point of support of the spiritual, forces these spirit-germs as they follow the inner urge for development to move even further in order gradually to develop to spiritual consciousness by wandering through the more and more distant fine and coarse Worlds of Matter, because the friction and colliding therein due to the density and heaviness contribute to and compel them to awaken and grow strong.

That is the approximate picture of the growth of your human spirit!

Only to those who are to be taken seriously and to those who plead for it do I give the extended view into the wonderful Creation, which surrounds you as the Work of God in clear greatness, with the activity of the most perfect and thereby irrevocable self-acting laws.

To this there must later be added special descriptions about the origin and coming into existence of everything which, corresponding to its species, can be found in every Realm of Creation, such as plants, animals, soil, rocks, seas, air and fire, etc., which here on earth we can only consider as the coarsest reproductions, as are earthmen themselves!

It is a vast field, and yet no gaps shall be left, but everything only at its time! Now I am first giving only that with which earthman is connected in an absolutely straight line.

It remains unpleasant enough to know in what an unworthy manner earthly mankind have been exerting themselves for thousands of years to narrow and oppress in a destructive way their most valuable possession, indeed that which really makes them human beings — their spirit! So that now man on earth is even ashamed to speak of something spiritual, to admit to a spiritual experience! But it becomes agonising to experience ever again that men, with a stupidity which has an incredibly ridiculous effect, take this voluntarily enforced narrow-mindedness even for cleverness, regard it indeed as learnedness!

There is only one consolation in this matter — the knowledge of the turning-point in these things which is already so near at hand as nobody would divine or believe; and the knowledge of the fact that a part of these same men will then ashamedly look back to the time of their disgraceful aberration which separates them widely from their real humanity and human dignity, while the other part will no longer be a matter of concern, for it will have ceased to exist!

Only with this in view do I continue my explanations! —

However, I wish to lift the veil even more for the human spirit after having already given a very compact picture of the path of the Light down to him, along which path with its various anchorages the Light had to proceed each time help was extended from above, only in the end to be rewarded with outrageous conceit on the part of these small earthmen, as has always happened in the past!

It is true that revelations from these planes have often descended to you, but you only absorbed miserable fragments and formed them according to your human nature, so that the renditions can be found only as badly distorted fragments in legends and poetic writings. Confused and impossible according to the Laws of Creation in their presentation, interwoven with various happenings of a purely earthly nature... the result is a mixture which seems sublime to you, but which appears ridiculous when compared to the Truth, and only to be excused by your complete lack of knowledge!

Already before my Message people here and there heard of the existence of such planes, but they were unable to keep them apart and so, due to the usual conceit of human trying-to-be-clever, the most impossible productions arose!

It can readily be understood that serious people shook their heads and kept at a proper distance therefrom, while among enthusiasts and visionaries the most devastating aberrations arose, quite apart from the fact that especially the many small »would-be-greats« sought to use such opportunities to swing themselves upwards without effort, so as to be able at least once to satisfy their morbid craving for easily achieved respect, which propensity always clings to them.

All that resulted from this was a disgusting ethereal swamp which became a great danger to the human spirits, because it hindered them from taking up the Truth uninfluenced and thus recognising the right path to ascent!

Despite everything, however, it is none the less the personal and free will, and the result of a self-created indolence of the spirit of each individual, which hold him back from recognition.

Whoever exerts himself only a little must very soon clearly recognise the truth in these writings through his intuitive perception!

Let us take the legend about Parsifal! Starting in his thinking from this small earth man seeks to fathom and to find something about Parsifal in order to discover how this legend originated, came into existence.

No doubt these earthly writers had in mind earthly persons who gave an outward impulse to the form of the poetic production, but in their spiritual absorption as they worked they unconsciously drew some things from sources which they themselves did not know.

Since in the end, however, they again polished it up with their intellect, thus seeking to make it beautiful in the earthly sense and more easily intelligible, even the little which could flow to them from unknown planes was compressed into the World of Gross Matter, diminished and distorted!

It is not worth while to go especially into this with further explanations! I am giving what is founded on fact, and every person can take out of it for himself whatever his spirit is able to.

However, it is necessary at the outset to point to certain things which must clarify for many people much that is erroneous, and which will make many things easier for those who can be initiated into higher recognitions, because through this they will be able right from the beginning to swing themselves above all the wrong that has settled down on the earth.

There actually is a Castle where an Amfortas dwelt, who for a time was considered the first guardian there. In this Castle there is a vessel called the »Grail«, which is faithfully guarded by the knights. It was indeed there that Amfortas actually met his downfall, and where a great helper was promised.

But this happened neither on earth nor in the high Light Castle of Primordial Creation!

The Castle which is revealed there (where Amfortas was) is even today still to be found as the highest point on a plane in which the Created Beings have their field of activity towards the developed ones. In their purest volition and worship of God they possess only an imitation of the Light Castle. This Light Castle radiates down from the highest place in Primordial Creation and, as the actual Castle of the Holy Grail, also forms the exit gate from the Divine Sphere of Radiation.

In this lower lying imitation Amfortas was once active, and he fell when he succumbed to the evil influence of Lucifer. His mistake was that by following this influence he once, for a short time, sought to devote himself comfortably to the enjoyment of a proud knightly life!

Therewith he stepped out of the harmony of the necessary movement of his plane, which movement the Primordial Law of Creation automatically compels him who wishes to stay on the same height to maintain. For a short time Amfortas came to a standstill, thereby hindering and creating a gap for the streaming through of the Power of the Light.

Thus his fall was unavoidable and it tore him down. The gap was the wound he carried. Upon the supplication of the faithful knighthood the coming of the helping Pure One who could arrest the destruction was proclaimed.

And Parsifal fulfilled the promise as He journeyed through all the parts of Creation, just as He fulfils all the promises that were ever given to the creatures of the entire Creation. But the fulfilment was entirely different to what is described in the poetic writings.

The description of Creation also brings full enlightenment about this, and eliminates all that has been wrong in the past.

Thus only parts of a revelation from the lowest imitation of the Light Castle could penetrate to the opened spirits of these earthly poets, who absorbed them during their work. They did not come from the luminous Grail Castle itself, for there it was impossible to proclaim Parsifal’s coming, because Parsifal was and is the First in the whole of Creation, only with Him could the entire Creation come into existence. He is part of the God-Spirit Imanuel, anchored into the Primordial Spiritual in order to create the Primordial Spiritual.

It was out of His Light-Radiation that the Primordial Beings came into existence, and with them the Castle and everything that took on form. Thus He could not be proclaimed to anyone, because He Himself was the First and all else could only come into existence after Him. No one but He has ever been King of the Holy Grail!

For this reason it was only natural that the Castle of which the poets speak had to be further down than the actual Grail Castle, because later on Parsifal hastened through the world in order to redeem it from the evil influence of Lucifer, and to shackle him for the Kingdom of God lasting a thousand years in the World of Matter.

Thus during His wandering through all the parts of Creation He also came to that Castle which is wrongly described in the poetic writings. He made His entry there as King of the Holy Grail, Who He is from the beginning and will remain so eternally, because He Himself originates from the Light. Nor did He remain there, but in place of Amfortas appointed a new highest guardian for the vessel, which they honour as the image of the Holy Grail.

In the Holy Light Castle which surrounds the actual Grail it is absolutely impossible for any of Its guardians to be found wanting, because Parsifal remains present therein; in Whom an Unsubstantiate part of the Light Itself is anchored, which was guided down from out of Imanuel through the Primordial Queen Elizabeth at the Word of God: Let there be Light!

PARSIFAL! How well known is this word as such among earthmen, of whom none, however, has any idea as to the real significance!

A poetic work, a legend! This hits upon the right thing if they mean that which is known about the word today; for in reality it is nothing else but a legend that has become a poetic work, which as a fragment of a former knowledge has been preserved as such!

As I have already pointed out, it was always small fragments only which came down from spiritual planes into the gross matter of this earth long, long ago.

The authors of the Grail legends known today are by no means the first who concerned themselves with this and who, as they became absorbed in their work, were once again able to divine a few gleams of light.

Far, far back lies the time when the first hints as to the Light Castle and its inhabitants descended to the earth from the spiritual planes, together with the tidings of the Holy Grail.

At that time it was received with reverential awe and childlike confidence by the inhabitants of the earth, who were still working undisturbed in co-operation with the elemental beings, whose advice they liked to heed. Without knowing it the human beings in turn helped the elementals with the radiations of their spirit-sparks. Thus Creation increasingly unfolded itself in the World of Gross Matter with the spirit sparks, which gave promise of a wonderful blossoming.

At that time, long before the revolutionary changes which we know about today took place on earth, even before men made an idol of their intellect, thus bringing about their defection from the Light and their downfall, a connection with the Luminous Castle was created; for the rays could flow unhindered all the way down to the earth, and in these rays men on earth could already divine Parsifal.

But then, proceeding from the human beings, the reign of intellectual idolatry set in, causing the connection with the Light Castle to be cut off, which was automatically followed by ignorance about it, the impossibility of a spiritual divining through the intuitive perception.

Finally the ability to absorb anything of the animistic also dried up, and all the natural experiencing in the knowledge about the animistic helpers sank into the realm of fables, so that the development which up till then had been striving upwards in a straight line was quite unexpectedly torn apart.

If men had remained as they were at the time I have mentioned, when the first tidings of the Luminous Castle and of Parsifal came down to the earth, then through their steady ascent they would indeed be lords of all the World of Gross Matter today in the best upbuilding sense. Nor would any person have been destroyed during the revolutionary changes, which were bound to occur from time to time in the maturing development.

The great catastrophes were always a necessity of the development, but not the destruction of so many nations, something which has up till now always invariably remained connected with this.

If men had not frivolously and wantonly given up the connection with the animistic helpers and the Luminous Heights, they would always have been warned in time of any emergency and led away from the endangered regions in order to escape destruction! For that is how it also happened at the time when men allowed themselves willingly to be guided by the helpers, which the Creator assigned to them from the animistic and spiritual worlds, and with which they sought to maintain the connection with joy and gratitude.

But later on they always robbed themselves of these invaluable aids due to the conceited wanting-to-be-clever of their intellect, and thus several times they enforced their own painful destruction in the same way as they are now bringing it about again, because they no longer want to listen to the last calls from the Light and even think they know everything better, as was so often their attitude in the past!

Tribulation, despair and destruction are always and only the lawful reciprocal effects of wrong actions. Surely this is not difficult to grasp if one only wills it so! This contains such a simple and clear naturalness that you will later on hardly understand how it could happen that such a thing could be overlooked and not strictly heeded, in order not only to spare all personal suffering but even to change it into joy.

Today you yourselves see clearly enough that no person can really defend himself against this! No nation, nor a joint volition of the whole of mankind, would manage to achieve it; for every being in Creation remains nothing but a creature dependent upon the Will of God! It will never be otherwise!

Thus it was always and only the wrong action of submitting to the bound and binding intellect, to the natural consequences of which many individuals and whole nations were certain to fall a prey, because they kept themselves outside every possibility of salvation through higher guidance!

You can easily recognise the great simplicity of the effect of the Divine Laws therein, and also see what men missed for themselves.

With this I have given you a brief glimpse today into that great activity of Creation which caused men many a headache already, so that by way of the Message you can see that all the distress, all the fear and suffering can only be ascribed by man to himself; and he could have avoided a great deal had he not stubbornly entered upon wrong courses!

Through the Message you can clearly recognise and substantiate every happening that takes place in Creation. You know about the unalterable effects of the Laws of Creation, which I have explained to you, you know of their simplicity and greatness which can be easily surveyed.

You will experience ever more that, with the Message, I have given you the key to the right explanation of every happening, and therewith of the entire Creation!

Let your fervour and untiring watchfulness gradually fathom it, then you will have the path to eternal life, which you only need to tread in order to reach it. —

Thus primeval ages ago men had already received the first and right tidings about Parsifal. This knowledge was passed on by word of mouth from parents to children.

But through the retrogression in the purity of the connection with the activity of Creation, the transmission of the original knowledge also gradually became clouded. It was imperceptibly distorted and finally curtailed by the growing intellect, remaining only as a legend which no longer bore any resemblance to the former knowledge.

Those human beings who were striving for noble-mindedness continued to interest themselves in these fragmentary legends and tried to make something of them here on earth gross materially, because they imagined that the origin of these transmissions must once have existed in an earthly prototype ages ago.

They wanted to renew this, and they often tried to do so over great intervals of time. Thus it is that even today many an investigator imagines he has found an origin in one of the earthly attempts of past centuries, but without hitting on what is right therewith.

Man does not emerge from the confusion however hard he tries to exert himself, for he lacks connection with the reality, which I want to restore to him in order to eradicate all that is wrong!

Parsifal! He cannot be separated from Imanuel; for Imanuel is in Him and He works out of Parsifal. It may also be said that Parsifal is a cloak of Imanuel formed by the Primordial Queen Elizabeth, through which Imanuel, standing at the head of Creation, works; which Creation could only come into existence out of Him — it would not and simply could not exist otherwise; for Imanuel in Parsifal is in fact the origin and starting point of Creation.

He is the Creative Will of God and God is with Him, in Him. That something like this could be dragged down to become that figure which people imagine Parsifal to be today is only possible for this mankind on earth, who press everything into the dust through their intellect, which itself is born of the dust!

Whatever this mankind try to absorb with their intellect they consequently also press into the dust in the natural course of events, thus dragging it down into the range of the earthly ability to understand. With this everything is confined within the narrow limits of coarse matter, that which is highest being wrapped in the density and ponderousness of a slow movement in the zone of the most extreme cooling-off. And thus quite naturally it cannot even bear any resemblance to the reality of that which was so dragged down, which reality is found in altogether different conditions and in such heights as the human spirit is unable to grasp, much less the earthbound intellect!

The expression »to drag into the dust« does not here mean to press into the dirt, but merely to make it earthly!

The expressions »dust« and »born of the dust« are inserted in the place of the conception »gross matter«, something which will perhaps be more easily understood by some men, because it is a popular saying.

Thus that is Parsifal! The First in Creation! He bears within Himself an Unsubstantiate core out of God, is connected with Imanuel and remains so connected in all eternity, because Imanuel works out of Him and thus rules the Creations. With this He is the King of all kings, the Son of the Light, also called the Prince of the Light!

Now compare this with the figure contained in the poetic writings! What an impossible caricature you see before you! But when one can overlook the whole and separate it into three great sections, it can readily be understood how all this happened.

But let each of these three sections, one by one, come to life in picture form in front of your spirit! Only in this way can you survey the whole and understand what I am trying to make clear to you!

The first thing which is fundamental for an understanding is:

To think of Parsifal as the Son of the Light, Who descends into Creation from above, Who is not perchance lifted up from below; to think of Him as the beginning and the end in Creation, the A and the O for all the weaving outside of the Divine, and therewith King of the Holy Grail, King of Creation!

The second:

Parsifal’s great work of purification which leads Him personally through the worlds, with the unreserved condition that He must through His own experiencing learn to know all the evil, which work was bound to end with the fettering of Lucifer for the protection of the Creations and of all the creatures that remain after the purification.

The third:

The fall and great failure of the developed ones, i.e., of the human spirits in the World of Matter, which necessitates the breaking of their wrong self-will; the immediate institution of God’s Will in the establishment of the Millennium, until the voluntary submission of mankind’s entire volition to the Will of God comes about, thus completely ensuring the undisturbed further development of the Creations in the swinging of the Light-pervaded spheres of movement. —

He who grasps these three sections well, one by one, and who is at least able to envisage them clearly as a picture, can quite easily understand how the wrong poetic writings of today gradually came into existence. Part tidings of the three happenings penetrated to the earth here and there, announcing much of it beforehand.

Through the lack of understanding men pressed everything into the coarse conceptions of the densest World of Matter, transferring it onto the earth and thus mixing a concoction from which the last writings emerged.

You must follow my words precisely, you must also obey them and picture to yourselves living illustrations of the three sections as tremendous individual happenings, of which only a part-knowledge could reach the earth through channels open for this purpose, channels which are badly clogged up and which in any case only let through that which has been dimmed, that which has already been mixed with what men themselves thought, which was deposited as mud in these channels!

For thousands of years it has been unable to penetrate to the earth clearly and purely!

With all this I am referring only to happenings in Creation which forcibly arose out of the development through the wrong volition of failing creatures, and for the time being I am following this one path in my explanations! I am still leaving everything else aside! Therefore this does not include the attempted redemption of earthmen by the Son of God Jesus either, for this was a Work of Love standing all by itself.

You must follow me precisely, otherwise you will be unable to understand! Perhaps it is quite good when I therefore also explain to you what the happening is like when I speak to you.

I see before me the entire happening, for I overlook it in its complete activity down to the most delicate ramifications. I see everything at the same time in the knowledge!

Now through what I want to explain I am trying to prepare a straight road on which you can so grasp the main points that you receive a basic picture for that particular point which you are meant to take in through the lecture. But all this I must first press into such a narrow form as is adapted to the perceptive faculty of the developed human spirit. When I have achieved that then I must still seek suitable words and forms of expression to let the very picture arise before you which I want to give.

All this, however, does not happen successively but simultaneously within myself, and then I give in a form which is accessible to you the happening which you can neither overlook nor grasp, in which past and future are consummated in the present, a process the nature of which human spirits are absolutely unable to imagine!

You receive it drop by drop from out of that which is incomprehensible to you, and yet in such a way that the drops together yield an enjoyable and powerful draught which strengthens you in your knowledge and helps you upwards, if only you wish to accept this restorative as nourishment on your way!

There is very often a great deal which I must first leave out in order to bring it in other places much later, but then always in such a way that it completes the picture to which it actually belongs; for all the weaving of Creation above him is far too intricately patterned, much too alive and mobile to enable the earthly human spirit to grasp anything thereof, even pictorially, unless he receives it in a form made accessible to him through special descriptions.

Just take one tenth of that trouble which I must take merely in order to make it accessible to you, and you will have attained to everything for yourselves!

Later on I shall perhaps also describe how it is in the Light Castle, and then illuminate those planes which could develop at a greater distance, until we finally come down to that place where the human spirit-germs remain as the last precipitation of the spiritual in order to find development in wandering through all the Worlds of Matter, the urge and longing towards the fulfilment of which they all bear within themselves.

First I shall give pictures of how it is, and perhaps later on about how at one time it came into existence; for the happening is too great. First you must know how it is, for this is what you need, because for yourselves you must always count with the present and with the future that opens up from the present. If you stand firmly in this then we can stride onwards in the knowledge.

Learn to recognise the three basic sections for today that are connected with the name Parsifal.

PRIMORDIAL Beings! These words are familiar to you but you cannot imagine anything by them, or what you imagine can never correspond with the real facts.

Therefore I want to lead you towards a better understanding of them, so that you may become knowing in this matter, as far as this is possible for a human being!

In telling you about the Realm of the Primordial Beings I must once again begin with Parsifal, out of Whom Primordial Creation came into existence.

You already know the main facts about Parsifal. You know where He came from and what He is!

Adjoining the Unsubstantiate Light-Core of the Triune Godhead is the plane of the direct radiation of God’s Power, something which is incomprehensible to everything that has been created. It is the sphere embracing the surroundings that live from eternity to eternity in the radiation of God’s Power, which radiation cannot be restrained. So was it ever!

And when Creation was meant to arise out of the Will of God the Father, everything could only develop in the course of the action or happening necessary for this purpose, which course you are today able to envisage logically through the Message.

Creation had to come into existence through the Creative Will of God the Father! As such the Creative Will of God the Father is Imanuel, Who is personal in His Creating and yet stands or remains completely in the Father, and the Father is within Him as He creates.

I believe that in this way many things will become increasingly comprehensible to you!

Just as the Creative Will Imanuel is personal so also the Love became personal in the activity in Jesus.

Both being Parts of the Father are one with Him, and the Father is within Them. From eternity unto all eternity!

Jesus is the Love of God, Imanuel the Will of God! Creation therefore swings in His Name. Everything that occurs, that is fulfilled therein, is inscribed in the Name which carries Creation, from the smallest to the greatest happening! There is nothing that does not come out of this Name and that would not have to be fulfilled therein!

You men have no idea of the greatness that rests in this; for this Name is the Living Law in its origin and in the fulfilment — it carries the Universe with all that it contains!

The fate of each individual rests in this Name, because you must pass judgment upon yourselves through it, since you are all firmly anchored in it.

And the Name is! It is living and personal, for the Name and its Bearer are inseparably one!

The work of creating had to devolve upon the Creative Will, i.e., upon Imanuel, Who is the Creative Will in God!

And since the creating could only take place outside the immediate radiation of the Primordial Light, which radiation has existed from eternity and cannot be held back, the necessity arose to place a small Part of the Creative Will of God Himself outside of, beyond the boundary of the direct radiation. A Part Who remains eternally united with the Creative Will in the Unsubstantiate, and yet Who remains standing and working by Himself outside the Divine Sphere, so that through His radiation Creation can form itself and be maintained.

And this small Part Who out of the Creative Will of God was placed outside, so that Creation can form from His radiation and also remain preserved, is Parsifal!

His Unsubstantiate Core out of Imanuel received form through the Primordial Queen Elizabeth, i.e., a cloak which became His anchor, so that He can remain standing outside the Divine Sphere! And this cloak, this form, is the Holy Vessel in which Imanuel is anchored and out of which He works.

At that time it was Parsifal Who was on earth in Abd-ru-shin, whereas in the hour of fulfilment Imanuel as such will take possession of the physical cloak of Parsifal after troublesome purification of this cloak.

Only then can the full power gradually sink down into this cloak in order, through merciful dispensation, to fulfil the Divine Promises for humanity!

In this way I once again unfold immeasurable happenings before your spirit as a foundation for the understanding about Parsifal!

It is exceedingly troublesome to give a clear picture for earthly comprehension, and I must not fight shy of the number of lectures if I want to attain it!

Thus I already clearly stated in advance in the first lecture that the explanations can only be for those people who were already able to bring the Message to complete experience within themselves. Only those will be able to follow me if they exert themselves with all their strength again and again until they can grasp it; for I narrow it down in such a way that it becomes possible for their spirit to do so.

Above all, you must not think of the term »Son« in the human way, not like a son in a human family!

For the Divine »Son« means a »Part«, a Part of the Father that works specially by Itself. Son and Father are completely one and can never be separated!

Therefore never in any case think about it according to the human way, for that would be certain to give an absolutely false picture. It would lead you to errors in conception that would completely eliminate the actual facts, and would consequently never let you come nearer to the Truth!

Perhaps one should rather say: It is all only God the Father, He works threefold as One!

It probably comes closer to your understanding as you picture it! And considered from the Origin it is also described more correctly, for there is but One God! Whatever God the Son works that He works out of the Father, in the Father, for the Father! He would be nothing without the Father; for He is Part of the Father and the Father Himself is within Him and works in Him.

Here we can perhaps again come a little closer to earthly comprehension if you imagine: The Father does not perchance work out of the Son, thus not through Him, but in Him! Herein lies the mystery for the human conception, which despite my efforts will probably always remain a mystery too; for it cannot be described in earthly words. Words are in the end only words, strictly limited; they cannot render that which is mobile, that which in truth is living, such being inherent in everything concerning God and the Divine.

That which is with God can never be with men. In the human family the son is by himself and the father is by himself, they are and remain two. At the utmost they can become united in their working, but never one! It is different with the expression God the Son! Just the opposite! God the Father and God the Son are one and can only be considered as two in Their working, as also the two Sons of God Imanuel and Jesus are one in the Father and only in Their working two, in the nature of Their working!

With this I have once more tried to explain to you the origin of Parsifal, Who through Imanuel is in God and therewith God in Him.

Now I will also try to show Him to you as a picture, as a person, how He is! And then in His working!

It will be hard for you to imagine that the Light Castle was also bound to issue from His radiation, the Castle that surrounds Him protectingly in the Primordial Spiritual Sphere, in Primordial Creation. The Castle that must be considered like an annexe to that Castle which is situated since Prime Eternity at the boundary of the Divine Sphere, in which Castle the Elders, the Eternal Ones, have their home and activity in the Divine Sphere! In the Divine, that is in the immediate radiation of God, not perchance in God Himself!

I do not include the Castle in the Divine Sphere in the range of my explanations because mankind has nothing to do with it, but I always and only speak of the Castle in the Primordial Spiritual Sphere, which is the summit and starting-point of the entire Creation.

The Castle in the Primordial Spiritual, in Primordial Creation, may be looked upon as an annexe of the Castle in the Divine Sphere. At its uppermost end is the golden screen and the curtain through which the Primordial Beings cannot pass and which forms the boundary.

Imagine Parsifal at this boundary as the First and Uppermost in the whole of Creation, from Whom Creation issued! In a hall of pillars that has closed around Him in the most faithful and pure volition of all the Primordial Beings and their Love for the Light!

The first Primordial Beings, the uppermost of Primordial Creation, could only become conscious as they severed themselves within and out of the creative radiation of Parsifal, outside the boundary of the Divine Sphere, i.e., beyond the immediate radiation of God!

I am repeating the expressions and designations so often that they may become hammered into you as unshakable conceptions!

Thus Parsifal stands there as the First One! He has stepped out of the Divine Sphere. From out of His radiation there first severed themselves the uppermost Primordial Beings as they became conscious, and their love and loyalty to the Light, towards Parsifal, formed itself in the volition to the glorious Hall, to the Temple, to the Castle!

However, I want to mention this living forming and weaving only fleetingly today. Perhaps I shall give more detailed enlightenment about it later on. It has only to be mentioned now for the sake of the whole picture I want to give.

For you Parsifal Himself is only undulating Light, His Unsubstantiate Core out of Imanuel puts all else deep into the shadow, if shadow can be spoken of at all in the Luminous Castle. Therefore this is only stated pictorially, for actually there is no trace of shadow whatever.

However, to the eye of the Primordial Spiritual Beings, of the Primordial Beings, the form takes shape, the Primordial Spiritual Form of the Son of the Light, brilliantly penetrated with radiation by His Unsubstantiate Core!

What shall I now tell you about that which simply cannot be limited by earthly words?

A luminous head in the most perfect form, cloaked in the eternal movement of the Living Light, which causes every Created One who looks at it to lose consciousness and throws him down. The body enveloped in a radiant cloak which gives the impression of a flexible scaly mail, above the head the wings of the Dove spread protectingly... thus can you envisage Him, powerful, imperious, invincible, unapproachable, the Power of God embodied, the Radiance of God that has taken on form: Parsifal, the Son of Light, in the Primordial Spiritual, standing at the summit of Creation! The Pure Gate that has opened from the Divine to Creation, that leads from God to man!

According to its meaning the name Parsifal signifies among other things: From God to man! He is therefore the gate or the bridge from God to man. He is not the pure simpleton (in German »der reine Tor«), but the Pure Gate (in German »das reine Tor«) of Life to Creation!

For His work of purifying Creation which was granted by God the Father, and which became necessary through the fall of the human spirits in the World of Matter, Parsifal’s volition as a Part of Him took on form for His wandering through all the parts of the world, so that through gathering experiences therein He would recognise all the weaknesses and wounds of the human spirits.

Parsifal always remained in the Castle while His living volition, as a part out of Him become form, wandered through the parts of the world learning.

Being of an alien nature, particularly towards everything that is wrong, the form of His volition for this task was naturally bound to be like that of a child first, then like that of a youth who had to learn and so mature to become a man, which in the swinging of the Laws of Creation naturally also manifested in the outward form, corresponding to the nature of the particular plane.

As in wandering downwards Parsifal arrived at the boundary where the World of Matter began, i.e., the area of the human spirits developing from spirit-germs, he reached that plane in which the effects of the dark currents that had also already touched Amfortas first became manifest.

At this boundary there is the Castle in which Amfortas was priest-king. It is the lowest image of the actual Grail Castle, furthest away from it and most different from it in nature. Also therefore the nearest one to the earth, although in terms of human thinking at such a great distance as can hardly be grasped! In this Castle there are indeed the purest of the developed human spirits as guardians of the vessel and as knights.

Upon entering this plane it was necessary for Parsifal to become veiled with a cloak of the same kind, even though of the very fine material substance such as existed there, which was like a bandage that temporarily blots out all memories of higher regions.

Coming from the Light He now in pure innocence faced the evil that was completely unknown to Him, and He could only take notice of it through suffering under it. He thereby had to learn laboriously what human spirits are capable of in this respect.

Thus He did indeed obtain a thorough knowledge of it, but since it was completely alien to His nature He could never understand such things.

Thus it was here that the currents from the Darkness, which had naturally taken on form, rushed for the first time upon the wandering stranger, who in the struggles connected therewith gained strength and awoke to the recognition of Himself.

It is of this path, difficult and full of suffering, that mankind on earth received knowledge, because it took place in the World of Matter, although only at its highest boundary. That is why the errors could arise, because the human spirit on earth can never picture to itself such happenings as lie far above its species.

However, I shall give closer explanations about all this some time later, explanations that will bring light and therewith clarity!