LIFE

   GOD   IS  LIFE   PROPER   ALL    ELSE    IS   CONSEQUENSE    OF    LIFE.

L I F E            

Man's  conception of life, has so far been erroneous!

All that he has called life is nothing but impelled motion, which may only be considered as the natural effect of life proper.

Therefore in the whole of Creation there are only the after - effects of this more or less strong motion, which form, mature, maintain and disintegrate everything.

The human intellect has investigated this motion as being the highest force conceivable, and thus found therein the limit of its capacity to comprehend!

Man cannot proceed further in his investigation because he himself is a product of this motion.

As it was the highest he could comprehend he simply called it ''power'' or ''living power'' or even ''life''.

It is neither power nor life, however, but only a natural and inevitable effect of these, for power only exists in life itself, is one with it and inseparable from it.

Since power and life are inseparable, and since Creation is formed, maintained and again disintegrated by movement alone, it is impossible to speak either of power or of life within Creation.

Thus he who desires to speak of the discovery of Primordial Power, or even of the exploitation of Primordial Power by machinery, is greatly in error, because Primordial Power is not to be found within Creation at all! 

He mistakes something else for it and erroneously expresses his opinion that this is ''power''. 

Such a person thereby proves that he has no idea of the processes in Creation, nor of Creation itself!

However, he cannot be reproached about this, for he shares his ignorance with ''all'' his fellow - men, whether they are learned or otherwise!

''For this reason''  I have spoken from the very beginning in my Message of one ''power'' streaming through all Creation, as it was only thus that I could explain many things for men's understanding. 

Otherwise they would not have grasped my explanations at all! 

Now, however, I can go further in these matters and furnish a picture which soberly reflects the processes in all that happens. This description is novel, but it changes ''nothing'' of my previous descriptions. 

Everything remains exactly as I have stated, and ''it is real!''

What I am now saying only appears new because this time I put it in a new light!

In so doing I provide a solid foundation -- a large bowl, so to speak, into which man can place everything already mentioned in the Message, as the constantly moving, effervescent contents, combined into one whole, something which unquestionably belongs together and intermixes. 

Thereby man can obtain a comprehensive survey of all the great happenings hitherto unknown to him, including his own existence and inner development, which survey is quite inexhaustible to him and harmonises in every way!

The hearer and the reader should now try to picture in his mind what I am about to unfold!

Life, real Life, is something completely autonomous, something completely independent. 

Otherwise it could not be designated as ''Life''.

Such Life is in ''God'' alone!

And since besides God nothing is truly ''living'' it follows that He alone holds the power which lies in Life.

Thus He and He alone is the Primordial Power, or simply the ''Power'', so often referred to!

And again, in this Power there is Light!

Here again the expression ''Primordial Light'' is just as false as the expression ''Primordial Power'', for there is but One Light and One Power -- ''God!''

The existence of God, of Power, of Light, i.e., of Life, alone inevitably brings into being the Creations, for the Living Light, the Living Power, cannot but ''radiate!''

''And these radiations contain all that is necessary for Creation!''

''The radiations, however, are not the Light Itself!''

Hence all that exists outside of God has its origin only in the radiation of God.

This radiation is a natural effect of the Light, however, an effect that has ''always'' existed from all eternity. 

The strength of the radiation, is naturally greatest in the proximity of the Light, so much so that there can be no other movement in it than the ''perfectly straight Line'' movement, which is an intrinsic quality of the radiation.

Thus it issues from God and proceeds for fabulous distances, the extent of which a human spirit is unable to imagine!

When, however, this inflexible forward propulsion, which is equivalent to an immense and constant pressure, comes to the point where it at last eases off a little, the nature of the movement changes from the hitherto straight line'' to a circular movement''.

This circular movement is produced by the attraction of the Living Power simultaneously pulling back all that has been flung beyond the border of the full radiation to that point where only the straight line movement predominates.

In this process the rotating movements take on an ''elliptical'' form, because they are ''not independent'' movements, but only produced by this flinging - out - of - the - main - stream and the subsequent pulling back through the attraction which rests in the Power, that is, in God Himself!

Moreover the process of dividing the radiation into positive and negative species, which takes place after the radiation leaves the Sphere of Divine White - Heat, also  plays a part here!

 In these rotating movements, in which the immense pressure of the original radiation has diminished, a slight cooling off also takes place in the course of nature. 

This in turn causes a certain deposit to be precipitated.

This deposit sinks deeper or recedes further away from the original strongest radiation, but is still held by the all - pervading attractions of the Power. 

Yet it simultaneously retains enough of the straight line impetus of the radiation to again produce new rotating movements, which always remain within very definite but quite different limits. 

Thus one deposit after another is precipitated and corresponding elliptically rotating planes of motion form, which bring accumulations of substance and finally ever more solid  forms, receding further and further away from the Original Radiation and its enormous forward pressure!

The gradations thus produced form planes in which definite species link together and settle, conforming to the degree their temperature has cooled off. 

I have  already described these planes or species in my Message as being the great fundamental planes of Spiritual Substantiality in the uppermost region of Creation, under which successively range the Spheres of Animistic Substantiality, of Ethereal Substance, and finally of Gross Matter, with their many sub - divisions. 

It is quite natural that the more perfect species should remain higher, thus closest to the Point of Origin, because they most nearly resemble It and are most strongly affected by the attraction of the Living Power!

As I have already said this radiation of the Light working in such an incomprehensible way has always existed from all eternity!

But God did not allow this radiation to penetrate further and act beyond the limits at which the forward drive of the stream still forms an absolutely straight line, so that the pure Divine Radiation" still remained luminous and clear without any cooling off and consequent precipitation.

This formed the Divine Sphere which, as with God Himself, is eternal!

In this clear transparency there could never be any dimming, nor can there be any swerving aside or change.

Only perfect harmony with the Source, with the Light Itself, was possible.

And this Sphere is inseparably connected with God, because ''this'' radiation" of the Living Power, being its natural effect, can never be avoided! 

To this Divine Sphere, which because of its close proximity to the Living Power is subjected to a pressure incomprehensible to the human spirit, belongs the actual Castle of the Grail as the most extreme outpost and anchorage, as a terminating counter - pole, so to speak!

This still stands within the Circle of Divinity and has therefore existed from all eternity and will remain unchanged for all eternity, even if in times to come Creation would have to fall to ruin!

Thus it was from all eternity! 

It is something the human spirit is unable to comprehend!

It was not till God, In His Volition, sent forth the great words: ''Let there be Light!'' that the rays shot out over the limit hitherto set them into the Universe, then in utter darkness, carrying movement and warmth!

This was the beginning of Creation, which gave birth to the human spirit and could become his homes!

God, Who is Light, does not need this Creation!

Should He again limit His Radiation to its unavoidable minimum, so that only a Sphere of Divine Purity would remain into which no dimness, can ever enter, as it was in the beginning, then the end of all that has been subsequently created would be at hand! 

Man would also cease to exist, as he can be  conscious only ''within'' Creation!

The immediate radiation of the Light can produce ''only'' what is perfect. 

In the changes from this first pressure, caused by the ever - increasing distances, however, this original perfection diminishes because, in the progressive cooling off, individual particles constantly separate themselves and remain behind.

Purity in perfection necessitates ''the pressure of Divine Radiation at its greatest necessity'', which is possible only in the proximity of God. 

The pressure creates motion which in turn, produces warmth, heat and white heat.

Pressure, however, is but the resultant effect of the power, and not the power itself, just as the radiations come into existence only under the pressure of the power, but they are not the Power Itself!

Therefore the radiations within Creation are but the consequence of a corresponding motion, which in turn must adjust itself to the particular pressure at the time! 

Thus where there are no radiations in Creation there is also no motion or, as man erroneously calls it, no ''life''!

For all motion radiates, while stagnation is nothingness, an absence of motion which men call death!

Thus the Great Judgment comes about only through the increased pressure of a Divine Ray, passed on through an Envoy from God incarnated in the World of Gross Matter, to Whom God has given a spark of ''His Living Power!''

Only that which swings ''aright'' in the Laws manifesting the Power of God can withstand the pressure of this Living Power - ''Spark'', which naturally cannot be as strong as the enormous pressure of the Living Power in God the Father Himself.

That which swings aright will be strengthened by this pressure, but not brought to white heat, for which the radiation of the power - spark is insufficient.

The radiation of the power - spark, however, is amply sufficient to unhinge all disturbing elements, thrust them out of their false movements, and crush and disintegrate them.

Thus the Great Judgment of God follows quite automatically and in no wise depends on an arbitrary act of the Divine Envoy!

It is simply the result of the Law of Radiation, which was bound to come into being in consequence of the radiation of God's Power. 

For all that moves ''aright'' in thought and deed radiates a violet color in the World of Gross Matter.

That which is of the Darkness, either evil or striving towards it, albeit in thought or desire, emits a dull ''yellow'' colour.

These two colors are fundamental for the Judgment!

According to the strength of a volition or deed, the radiations are either weak or strong!

With the coming of God's Envoy an absolutely unmodified ray of ''Divine'' Light enters Creation and thereby also this earth. 

Divine Light strengthens and uplifts all that is good, i.e., all that is of violet colour on earth, while all that is of a dull earthly yellow will be disintegrated and destroyed by  It!

The radiation is stronger or weaker according to the nature and strength of a volition or deed. 

And this again influences the nature and strength of the judging effect of the Divine Light - Ray with unswerving  justice!

It may quite well be said that Creation is encompassed and penetrated by a gigantic network of many - coloured radiations.

These radiations are nothing but the expression of the diversified movement having their origin in the pressure of the Living Power in God.

In other words: God holds Creation in His Living Power!

All this is right, no matter in what form it is expressed! 

But if one wishes to put it to good account the real origin and process of further development must be known accurately.

Just as the highest degree of heat throws out a ''white'' glow, so is it the same in the Divine Sphere!

With a decrease in temperature other colors gradually appear, and in the cooling off process everything becomes more and more dense!

To continue my explanations, with the aid of these earthly conceptions, I wish to say that the human spirit can never come to white-heat, because it came into being in a sphere where the pressure was already becoming weaker and where it was consequently no longer able to produce this highest degree of heat.

Thus in its origin the human spirit is of a species which cannot consciously withstand this highest degree of power! 

Or one can also say: ''That which is spirit cannot evolve and become conscious until the temperature has fallen to a certain level!''

Furthermore, the species in which the ''spirit'' originates is nothing more than a ''deposit''  precipitated from the Divine Sphere, which was bound to form itself owing to the slight decrease in temperature, and so on!

But there are still further graduated extensions!

The first precipitation from the Divine Sphere forms the Primordial Spiritual Sphere in which the Primordial Beings originate. 

It is only the deposit the Primordial Beings precipitated which produces the species from which the human spirit can evolve. 

The deposit precipitated from the latter species in turn produces the Sphere of Animistic Substantiality, out of which the World of Ethereal Substance emerges, which again is finally followed by the World of Gross Matter!

But each of the fundamental species named here, including the Divine, contains many intermediate spheres, which are bridges that have to act as connection links from one sphere to another!

The ''first'' deposit from the Divine Sphere, as is easily understandable, holds the greatest value and could therefore produce self - consciousness immediately!

It produced the so-called Primordial Beings, whereas the deposit precipitated after this first deposit is not quite so strong and must gradually develop towards consciousness.

From this second deposit the human spirits originate.

Due to the greater value and significance of the species, and because they constitute the ''first'' deposit from the Divine Sphere, the Primordial Beings therefore stand at the highest heights in Creation, while the human spirits emerged only from a still further deposit.

Naturally even at their full maturity the human spirits cannot reach the height of the much more valuable significant Primordial Beings, but  must  remain  on  the  level  of  their  own  species!

In order to rise higher they lack something which it is impossible to supplement, unless this something was given to them directly by the Living Power of God which, however, cannot take place in natural course of events. 

Instead it would have to issue from a Living Part of God placed in Creation because, being the personal and truly ''Living Power'' Himself, the radiation has not cooled, which ordinarily it is bound to do in transition.

He alone, therefore, is in a position, to add to a human spirit through His own immediate radiation something which makes it possible for the spirit to cross the border to the region in which the Primordial Beings Live!

When the radiation first shot over the boundary - line" of the Divine Sphere, i.e., at the beginning of Creation, a new session was added to the external Castle of the Grail situated at the most remote border of the Divine Sphere.

This section protruded towards the further side, towards the most spiritual part of Creation, so that the Primordial Beings on their side can also visit this new section of the Castle in the Spiritual World, at least as far as the limit set by their species permits!

One step beyond this border, i.e., into the Divine Sphere, would mean immediate unconsciousness, for they would be consumed in white-heat, if . . . they were able to take such a step! 

But this is impossible, because the much greater pressure of the Divine Sphere, to which they are not accustomed, would simply fling them back or, in other words, would prevent them from entering. 

In an absolutely natural manner it bars their entrance without the necessity of any further action!

The position is similar as between the developed human spirits and the Primordial Beings in the plane in which they live!

Thus the Castle of the Grail with its spiritual extension today constitutes the intermediary point between the Divine and Creation!

Through the Castle all the radiation necessary for Creation must flow, and the Son of Man as King of  the Grail and  as the only Mediator is, owing to the nature of His Origin ( which combines Divinity with Spirituality ), able to cross the border into the Divine Sphere from Creation! 

For this reason the mystery of this union ''had to be'' brought about!

It is only far below this Castle of the Grail and the Sphere of the Primordial Beings that Paradise lies! 

It is the highest and most beautiful sphere for those human spirits who have fully matured in the Divine Will through obeying the Laws of His Radiations!

To avoid enlarging the picture of these happenings too far I will not enter into details here. 

I shall be publishing books on these matters so that earthly scientists can study the individual processes, such as the development within the various spheres, their relationship to one and another, etc.

Nothing must be passed over lest there be a gap, which would immediately call a halt to human knowledge! 

Thus when the spirit of an earthman in all its maturity returns from its long wandering and arrives at the boundary ordained for it' species, i.e., to the point where it encounters stronger pressure, it cannot increase its own luminosity beyond what its own full maturity has already brought about!

The higher pressure of a much greater power would disintegrate and consume its particular species. 

In the greater degree of heat to which it was exposed then its ego would be lost. 

It could then no longer exist as human spirit, for in merging with the White Light" it would be dissolved, while in the region of the Primordial Beings it would become unconscious through the higher pressure prevailing there!

''The White - Light'', i.e., the Radiation of God, in which only what is Divine can exist consciously, ''thus carries within itself all the fundamental components of Creation'' which, in the gradual process of cooling off, deposit themselves in a downward direction, manifesting in forms through motion, and as such uniting themselves with each other.

But they no longer merge with each other, because the pressure needed for this is lacking. 

With every degree that the temperature decreases a definite type precipitation forms and remains behind.

First the Divine, later the Spiritual and then  the Animistic, until finally only Ethereal Substance and Gross Matter sink still further!

Thus Creation is actually the deposit formed through the increasing cooling off of The White Light, of the Radiation of the Living Light!

The Spiritual, as also the Animistic, can only form and become conscious at a very definite degree in the process of cooling off, which is equivalent to the decrease in pressure of God's Radiation.

If I here  speak of the melting or dissolution of the human spirit when the pressure of the Light Radiation becomes too great, this does not refer to the Nirvana of the Buddhists as these would perhaps like to interpret my explanation. 

My present explanation merely concerns the happenings as they occur from the Light downwards, whereas Nirvana is meant to be the climax on the way upwards!

Here the way would be blocked, for in order to ascend from the earth, into the Spiritual Kingdom, into Paradise (at the highest boundary of which this point of dissolution would be found ), every human spirit as ''a conscious ego'' must have already attained to the highest maturity, a maturity according to  the Divine Will and not perhaps as man thinks it should be. 

Otherwise it cannot enter this Kingdom.

But if as a self - conscious spirit it has matured so far, it will be strictly held back and repulsed at the boundary by the increased pressure of the Divine Sphere. 

It ''cannot'' proceed any further! 

Nor does it want to do so!

It would never be able to enjoy bliss in the Divine Sphere because it cannot live there as a human spirit but would have dissolved, while in the Spiritual Kingdom, in Paradise, it finds eternal bliss, and in its gratitude, thinks no more of wanting to be completely dissolved!

Besides, in the fullness of its  maturity, the human spirit is ''needed'' for the uplifting and perfecting of the spheres lying below it.

These spheres being still further deposits can withstand even less pressure than the human spirit.

There ''it'', the human spirit, is the greatest, because it can endure and even has need of a stronger pressure! 

It is the task of the human spirit in these lower regions, through the power inherent in it, to open everything that stands below it as much as possible to the influence of the pure Radiations of the Light; and thereby, as a mediator through which the stronger pressure can operate, to dispense blessings to all else, because it can receive this higher pressure and distribute it as a purifying element that destroys all uncleanness!

Unfortunately man has made sad havoc of this! 

It is true that everything in Creation that was meant to develop did develop up to the present time following the pressure or the urge.

However, it developed, in the wrong way, because here man not only failed, but even misdirected this development downwards instead of upwards! 

For this reason only hideous caricatures of everything came into being instead of natural beauty!

To be natural, however, means to ascend, to strive upwards, following the attraction of the Living Power! 

For where there is naturalness everything strives upwards only, just like every blade of grass, every flower and every tree.

Thus what man's volition brought about unfortunately bears only an external ''resemblance'' to that which he  was supposed to accomplish! 

A rich inner life, for instance, may to the superficial observer outwardly resemble the emptiness which comes of a blasè attitude to knowledge.

Reverential Love of all that is beautiful, at starting, bears some resemblance to lustful desire, for both exhibit a certain enthusiasm, except that the one is genuine, and the other is false and only a means to an end.

Vanity becomes a substitute for real charm, and place hunting for honest service. 

And so it is with everything that man brings forth. 

Only rarely do his way lead towards the Light!

Almost everything is inclined towards darkness!

All this must be eliminated  so that in place of this Sodom and Gomorrah  the Kingdom of God may now come upon the earth! 

Everything must finally turn towards the Light, and for this man  is the mediator!

Of the Light Itself, of God, I will not speak here! 

The subject is too sacred!

Besides which man would never be able to grasp it!

He must be eternally content to know ''that God Is!'' 

                                                                                                    LET     THERE    BE     LIGHT!

LET THERE be Light! 

How far man still is from grasping this great Word of Creating! Far even from the right desire to learn to understand this happening! 

And yet he has never ceased to occupy himself with it for thousands of years. 

In ''his way'', however! 

Not in humility does he wish to take a spark of recognition from the Truth, to receive in purity, but only to puzzle out everything himself intellectually!

 In the course of doing so he stubbornly tries to substantiate every proposition he sets up in accordance with the nature and need of his earthly brain. 

This is quite for ''the things of the earth'' and for everything gross material, which includes the brain from which the intellect issues; for the intellect is nothing but gross material comprehension. 

Thus all those who merely submit to the intellect, wanting only those things to be considered justified and correct which can be absolutely substantiated through the intellect, are very ''narrow - minded'' and inseparably bound to the World of Gross Matter. 

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

Rightly considered, it is in this pitiable role that the whole of science presents itself to us today. 

Narrowing itself, convulsively suppressing and fearfully rejecting everything which it cannot also press into the limited confines of its earthbound understanding! 

They really reject it with fear, because in spite of their rigidity these learned men cannot indeed deny that there exists ''more'' than mere that which they can classify in the gross material plane, to the outermost ramification at the lowest end of this great Creation! 

In their anxiety some of them become malicious and even dangerous towards all those who refuse to be embraced by this rigidity, but who expect ''more'' from the human spirit. 

For this reason they not only investigate with their earthbound intellect, but reach out beyond gross material happenings with their ''spirit'', just as is worthy of a still healthy human spirit and as remains its duty in this Creation.

 The intellectuals want to suppress ''alert'' spirits ''at all costs''. 

This has been so for thousands of years. And the Darkness, spreading ever more rapidly mainly through the intellectuals - as a consequence of such gross material narrowness, gradually formed the soil which made it possible for the intellect to expand its power on earth. 

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

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

For thousands of years this established principle of the intellectuals has been their pride, also their weapon and their shield. 

It has even been their throne, which is now bound to collapse as soon as the ''spiritual'' awakening commences!

 The spiritual awakening shows that this principle has been absolutely wrong, and that with boundless effrontery it was so twisted as just to protect the earthbound narrow - mindedness and to keep the human spirit in idle sleep!

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

Break the narrow bounds drawn around you in such a clever way as to render you incapable of developing beyond the pompous earthly erudition of the human intellect! 

You will quickly learn to perceive intuitively that it is precisely those things which the intellect can substantiate that belong to ''theory''; for only earth - built theory can be substantiated as a structure, ''never true knowledge''!

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

Everything that can be ''proved'' by the intellect is earthly theory, nothing else! 

And the scholarship of today is based on this, and presents itself to us ''in this way''! 

But this has nothing to do with intelligence, i.e., with true knowledge! 

There are scholars who, according to the Primordial Laws of Creation, i.e., according to reality, count among ''the most narrow - minded'' of human spirits, even though they possess a great reputation on earth and are highly esteemed by men. In Creation itself they only play a ridiculous role! 

Some of them, however, can become really dangerous to the human spirits of this earth, because they lead them along false and narrow ways on which the spirit is never able to unfold itself. 

They suppress them, seeking to impose upon them their own scholarship, which is fundamentally nothing but narrow - minded earthly intellectualism veiled with tinsel.

 Awake and expand, you human spirits, make room for upward flight. 

You are not made for the purpose of remaining only in the gross material sphere; you are to ''make use'' of it, but not to consider it your home. 

In these perverted days many a farm labourer is more ''spiritually'' awake and  thus more ''valuable'' in Creation than a scholar who has entirely lost his pure intuitive perception. 

It has really a deep meaning when people talk of dry intellectual work or of dry scholarship. 

How often does the most simple person hit unswervingly on the right thing with an expression of the intuitive perception! 

The expression ''dry'' here means ''without life'', thus dead! 

There is no life in it!

 And the saying carries truth within it! 

For this reason man will never be capable of grasping with his intellect the high conception of the Holy Word : ''Let there be Light!'' 

Nevertheless, or perhaps just because of this, the words ''Let there be'' leave him no peace of mind!

 He tries time and again to picture this to himself in order to arrive at the ''how''.

 Once he knows about the how he is soon confronted with the question of ''why?'' 

 Finally he also wants to know ''why'' God let Creation come into existence at all! 

Such is man's nature! 

However, he desires to ''fathom'' everything himself, but he will ''never'' succeed in ''fathoming'' it! 

For to do so he would have to work with his spirit.

 In view of the present decisively dominating activity of the intellect, however, the spirit would be quite unable to set to work, because it is too badly confined and tied to what is ''gross material only'', whereas the beginning of Creation, as a part of an utterly different species, lies so infinitely far above the gross material.

 For this reason man in his present state would never have any prospect of divining this, even if he had the inner capacity to do so.

 But he ''has not'' the capacity to do so either! 

The human spirit simply cannot fathom happenings in such heights, because they are far ''above'' that point where the human spirit can ''know'' something, .i.e., above where it is capable of absorbing anything consciously! 

Wanting to fathom these matters can thus never enter into it! 

Therefore it is of no avail for man to attempt to concern himself with it! 

He can merely receive it in pictures as soon as he is willing to absorb a knowing of it in true humility. 

This ''knowing of it'' is naturally not the knowledge itself, which latter he can never receive. 

Thus if he desires seriously but humbly to know something about it, he may picture it to himself.

 I will describe the process in such a way that he is able to absorb it. 

To unfold it in its entire greatness before the human spirit, even if only in picture form, is impossible, because ''those'' mode of expression given to the human spirit to understand things do not suffice. - 

In my lecture ''Life'' I have already explained how, upon the Act of the Will of God expressed in the words ''Let there be Light!'', the rays shot beyond the border of the Divine Sphere, and how then, as they proceeded downwards, they cooled off more and more and were bound to manifest. 

Through the ever diminishing elasticity or pressure caused by the cooling off, various entities could gradually come to personal consciousness, first in the intuitive perception and then also by strengthening themselves little by little in outward activity.

 However, it is better for me to say that the pressure does not diminish through the cooling off, but that the cooling off takes place through and within the slackening pressure. 

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

In that lecture I contended myself with simply saying that the radiations were impelled beyond the boundary of the Divine Sphere through the Act of Will. 

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

 From all eternity the Holy Grail was the extreme pole of the direct Radiation of God; a vessel in which the radiation was collected at the last and furthest point in order, by flowing back, to become renewed ever again. 

''Around '' it stood the Divine Castle of the Grail, with its gates shut fast towards the outside so that nothing could penetrate it any more and there was no possibility of any further cooling off. 

Everything was guarded and watched over by the ''Elders'', i.e., the Eternal Unchangeable Ones who, at the outermost boundary in the Divine Sphere of Radiation, are able to live conscious of their existence. - 

Now if man wishes to follow my description aright he must first realise that Will and Deed are always one in the ''Divine Sphere''. 

Each word is directly followed by the deed or, more precisely, each word as such ''is'' already the deed itself, because the Divine Word possesses creative power, and thus immediately forms itself into the deed. 

So it also was with the great Word : ''Let there be Light!''  ''Only God Himself is Light!'' 

And His Natural Radiation forms what to the human mind is the immeasurable circle of the Divine Sphere, the outermost anchorage of which is and was the Grail Castle from eternity. 

When God wished that there should also be Light beyond the boundary of the immediate Divine Radiation, there could be no question of a simple arbitrary ''extension'' of radiation, ''but Light had to be placed at the outermost point of the immediate boundary of the Radiation of Divine Perfection'', in order to radiate forth from there through that which had not hitherto been illumine. 

Thus God not only uttered the Words : ''Let there be Light'' according to human conceptions, but it was simultaneously a deed! 

This was the great happening when a Part of Imanuel was sent out or born out from the Divine Sphere! 

The placing out of a Light - Part from the Primordial Light in order that this Part might radiate and illuminate independently beyond the direct Radiation of God! 

The beginning of the great development of Creation was the simultaneous consequence of the sending out of a Part of Imanuel. Thus Imanuel is the cause and the starting - point of Creation through the sending out of a Part of Him. 

He is the Will of God, Who carries the Word; ''Let there be Light!'' living withing Himself, Who is this Word Himself! 

The Will of God, the Living Cross of Creation, around Which Creation could and had to form! 

Therefore He also is the Truth as well as the Law of Creation, which was allowed to form through Him, from out of Him! 

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

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

Now you still have the question as to ''why''! 

Why did God send out Imanuel!

 Although this is a rather strange, indeed presumptuous, question asked by the human spirit, I will nevertheless explain it to you, because so many on earth feel themselves to be victims of this Creation through imagining that they can make mistakes God has created them faulty! 

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

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

When he disregards them he naturally bumps against them, stumbles and falls. -

 In the Circle of Divine Perfection the ''Divine'' alone can partake of the joys of ''conscious'' existence which the Radiation of God bestows. 

It is the purest of the pure in the radiation which can take on form, such as Archangels, for example; still further away at the outermost limit of the sphere of radiation also the Elders, who at the same time are the Guardians of the Grail in the Grail Castle within the Divine Sphere. 

When this is accomplished that which is most powerful and strong is drawn out of the radiation.

 From what is left animal forms, landscapes and buildings then arise in the Divine.

 Therewith the nature of the last remnants changes ever more, but it is subject to the highest tension in the tremendous pressure brought about by the nearness of God, although even here His distance away must still remain vast and incomprehensible to the human spirit.

 These last remnants, which as the ramifications and exhausted residues of the radiations can no longer take on form ''in the Divine Sphere, and which float along and surge about at the outermost boundaries of the Divine like little luminous clouds, also contain the spiritual. 

Under the high pressure the latter cannot unfold and become conscious. 

''The strong urge to do so'', however, is inherent in all that is spiritual, and ''it is this urge'' which like one great petition ascends out of the perpetual surging, which surging cannot at the boundary come to the point of weaving and forming.

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

In accordance with nature and laws of the Radiation of God, ''nothing but happiness and joy was bound to ensue'' for all those becoming conscious therefrom. 

It simply could not be otherwise, because any darkness is altogether foreign and incomprehensible to the Light itself. 

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

 To attain this the spiritual had to cross the boundaries of the Divine Sphere towards the outside. 

However, only a part of the Living Light could pave the way for such happening, because the attraction of the Primordial Light is so strong that all else was held back at the boundary of its own immediate radiation and was unable to proceed further. 

Thus there was but ''one'' possibility to grant the fulfilment of the urge of all that is spiritual : To send forth a Part from out of the Light Itself! 

Only in Its Power, by using the way of the radiation of this Part of the Light as a bridge, could the spiritual cross the boundary toward becoming self - conscious. 

But even this did not suffice because according to the Law this small Part of the Light would Itself also be drawn back by the Primordial Light.

 Therefore the Part of the Light had to be ''anchored'' outside the boundaries of the Divine Sphere, otherwise the spiritual there would have been as good as lost. 

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

 Only the Part of the Light, being homogeneous with the Primordial Light, always remained connected with the Primordial Light and also directly subject to Its Law of Attraction.

 Thus the inevitable consequence would have been the drawing back of this emitted Part of the Light to the Primordial Light, which would have necessitated a constant repetition of the emission, and thus continual interruption of the Act of Grace. 

This had to be prevented because, with a return of the Part of the Light across the border into the Divine Region to the Primordial Light, the spiritual outside the border would have immediately been left to itself and thus without any support, and without the supply of power it would have become unable to live. This would have meant the destruction of everything in existence outside.

 Now for this reason the Primordial Light, God, connected the Part He sent out from Imanuel with a part of the purest extraction from all that is spiritual as a cloak, which acted as an anchorage of the Part of the Light with everything outside the border. 

This was a sacrifice of love on the part of God for the sake of the spiritual, which was therewith able to become conscious and ''to remain so''. 

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

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

 First of all of the Primordial Spiritual Region as the Basic Creation, to which Imanuel formed the bridge.

 This made Him the Outborn Son of God in the Radiation of Whom the Primordial Spiritual World could come to self - consciousness, the Son in Whose Radiation mankind developed, from which happening the surname ''the Son of Man'' originated; ''that'' Son Who directly stands above the human spirits because they could only develop to consciousness through Him. 

In the mystery of the separation and sending forth of a Part of Imanuel this Part remained in the Grail Castle of the ''Divine'' Region by the Law, corresponding with His origin as King of the Holy Grail. 

He opened the gate towards the outside and therewith formed the bridge over which the spiritual could pass.

 He did ''not'' also ''cross the threshold'' in person; only His Radiations issued from this border into the space which up till then had been void of Light.

 Thus Parsifal came into existence in the Primordial Spiritual as coming from Imanuel, always being connected with Imanuel by a tie or still more accurately, by an unbreakable radiation.

 ''This'' is the way in which man can imagine this connection.

 They are Two, and yet They are but One in Their working - the Part of Imanuel in the Divine Part of the Grail Castle at the outermost border of the Divine Region, still standing within it and only forming the bridge, which remains kept open towards the Primordial Spiritual Sphere through Him, indeed within Him; and Parsifal in the Primordial Spiritual Part of the Grail Castle, which came into existence with the spiritual becoming conscious and with the forming of all the landscapes and buildings connected with this process, both Persons being inseparably linked and working as ''one'' Person, thus also being one! Parsifal is linked with Imanuel by a tie of radiation, at the same time also by a tie of radiation with Elizabeth, the Queen of Womanhood in the Divine, as His Mother, and thus He forms the permanent anchorage through the radiation connection.

 From the radiations of Her mantle Elizabeth gave the first form - giving cloak for the Unsubstantiate radiating core of Parsifal. 

Subsequent Creation could come into existence ''through the activity of the Prime - Spiritual Primordial Beings. 

In descending the process is always a constant but weaker repetition of the Primordial Creation, which proceeds according to the respective laws. 

As a matter of course the nature of the happening changes according to the respective transformation of the Laws. 

There was no longer any direct link from Imanuel for Subsequent Creation, because this only developed as a consequence of Primordial Creation from the volition of the Primordial Spiritual Beings.

 This process, however, was likewise based only on the  Love towards the spiritual which, remaining unconscious in the Primordial Spiritual Realm, developed the same urge to become conscious as was the case previously with the Primordial Spiritual in the Divine Region. 

But the power of the spiritual did not suffice to form itself immediately and at once to the state of consciousness in Subsequent Creation as was possible for the stronger Primordial Spiritual to do.

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

 Since Subsequent Creation grew dark through the slowly developing human spirits and their fall, which was due to the one - sided cultivation of the intellect, it was necessary to intervene.

 In order helpfully to put right again everything in which mankind had failed, Parsifal was linked with the World of Gross Matter in Abd-ru-shin. 

Therefore Abd-ru-shin was Parsifal through the continued direct connection of the radiations, which cost great preparation and trouble to bring about.  Through His Life on earth Subsequent Creation could again be given corresponding Light - Power to clarify, strengthen and help all that is spiritual, and passing through this the entire Subsequent Creation. 

However, mankind of Subsequent Creation stubbornly opposed it and in their conceit refused to accept it, because they did not trouble themselves about the Laws in Creation and clung instead to their man - made theories! 

Nor did they heed the mission of the Son of God, which was to bring them help ''before'' the World Judgment.

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

In this wandering the earth was the turning - point, being the outermost boundary in the World of Gross Matter, for due to the spiritual nature of a few men it still offered an anchorage for this. 

Thus the earth is the last planet that can be saved, although it already belongs to the Realm of Darkness.

 Whatever lies ''even'' lower in this respect than the earth, i.e., whatever is encompassed even more by the Darkness, is left to disintegration, to which all darkness is bound to fall a prey with everything it holds fast. 

The earth has thus become the ''last'' stronghold of the Light on soil which is hostile to the Light.

 Therefore the terminal point of the Light is now anchored ''here''.

 The tighter the direct line of the Triune of the Light Activity, Imanuel - Parsifal - Abd-ru-shin, stretches from one day to the other, the more tangible and visible becomes the outworking of the power in the Divine Will, which creates order and forcefully straightens everything which mankind has distorted, that is, in so far as it can still be put right. 

That which ''cannot'' be straight will have to break. 

The Power of the Light never permits of anything intermediate! 

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

 Such is the process of development in all simplicity!

 Out of Love, the innate desire of all creatures consciously to experience was fulfilled!

 However, out of love for all those who wish to have happiness and peace by obeying the Natural Laws of this Creation, everything that disturbs the peace therein will now be destroyed, because it proved unworthy of the permission to  be self - conscious.

 This is the World Judgment, rightfully dreaded!

 The great Cosmic  Turning  Point!

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

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

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

The ''Living'' Law! Whether you are capable of absorbing it in your affair!

 For I cannot help you with this either!

 Mankind asked, begged, and I have answered in matters far above the human spirit's ability to comprehend, which are fulfilled vast distances away from him, following the adamantine course of Divine Justice and Divine Perfection. Man should bow down in humility!

                                                                                                                                THANKS

''THANKS! A thousand thanks!'' 

Everybody has probably heard these words quite often. 

They are uttered with such a variety of expression that they cannot so easily be classified into ''one'' single and definite kind, as is actually required by the ''sense'' of the words. 

In fact the meaning ''of the words'' is here only of secondary ort even third consideration! It is more the ''reflection'', the ''tone of voice'' used, which gives value to the words or indicates their worthlessness. In many cases, probably in the majority, it is merely a superficial habit expressing the customary form of social politeness. 

In such instances the words might just as well have never been uttered at all, for they remain a hollow phrase which is more of an insult than an acknowledgement to all those for whom it is intended. 

Only occasionally, indeed very seldom, can there be sensed a vibration indicating an intuitive stirring of the soul. 

One's hearing does not need to be so keen in order to recognise just ''what'' the person uttering those words mean. 

They do not always contain something good, for the vibrations of the souls vary greatly with the same words. 

They may reflect discontent or disappointment, yes, even envy and hatred, deceit and many an evil volition. 

These beautiful words of genuine gratitude are often misused in all sorts of ways so as carefully to gloss over something else, unless they are completely empty and only spoken in order to conform to manner and custom, or to habit! 

These words are generally expressed by those who are accustomed to receiving, who use them constantly and who always keep them ready for every occasion without giving any thought to it. 

This is similar to the frequently encountered babbling of endless chains of all kinds of formulated prayers, but which through been rattled off without any inner intuitive response are nothing but an offence against the Holiness and Greatness of God! 

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

If you consider it aright, in fact, everything uttered without intuitive prompting is bound to remain nothing but empty prattle, wherewith man fritters away the time which he should value differently; or it can only contain a false volition, with the words representing something to his fellow - men not in accord with the speaker's intuition. 

Nothing healthy and constructive can ever come from it - the Laws of Creation prevent it! 

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

Never forget that each of your words allows a form to arise which clearly shows the contradiction between your intuitive perception and the words, no matter whether you wish it or not. 

You cannot alter this fact! 

Consider this with everything you say! 

Although fortunately they are but lighter forms which quickly vanish again, yet there is always the danger for you that such products may suddenly obtain reinforcement from  a completely strange source, strengthening and condensing them in the same species and thus permitting them to extend their activity, which is bound to become a curse to you! 

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

You imagine this would be quite impossible on earth, because otherwise, in comparison to your present custom, you could say so little to each other that life would thereby threaten to become monotonous and boring, especially at social gatherings. 

There must be many who think in this way and who are afraid of it! 

However, if man only advances to this point in his thinking, he will also see how much of his time on earth so far was bound to remain utterly empty, without value and thus without a purpose. 

Then he will no longer be sorry at the loss of so many empty hours, but quite on the contrary he will be afraid ''to indulge in them'' in the future. 

The person who must seek to fill his time with empty words, just for the purpose of keeping on social terms with his fellow - men, is empty himself, as are his surroundings. 

However, he will not admit this to himself. 

He will console himself by saying that he cannot always talk about serious matters, that he will become boring to the others, in short that it is only the fault of the ''others'' if he does not speak of that which perhaps still stirs him personally. With this, however, he deludes himself. 

For if his fellow - men are really as he supposes them to be, then this proves that he himself has nothing else to offer either, because it is only through the attraction of homogeneous species  that the surroundings with which he associates come into existence. 

Or his surroundings have attracted him because of the homogeneity! It is the same in both cases!  

The popular saying about this is quite right when it asserts: ''You can judge a man by the company he keeps!'' 

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

Nobody can conceal spiritual values; for as soon as it is not buried within man but still alive, the spirit has quite a natural urge towards activity through Creation's Law of Movement. 

It irresistibly presses towards the outside, and such a person will again find men to whom he can give something as recompense through his spiritual activity, so that he in turn may receive from them, if only through new stimulation or through questions of serious purport. 

It is absolutely impossible for boredom to find any room in such cases! 

On the contrary, the days are then far too short, time passes by ever faster, and there is not enough of it to hold everything a spirit can give when it is really astir! 

Go among your fellow - men and listen to how much of the many things they talk about contains anything worth mentioning. 

Speedily and without any trouble you will recognise how spiritually dead humanity is at present - the humanity who should ''work'' spiritually, which means that every word they utter should be of great and upbuilding value, because they are of the spirit! You yourselves have deprived your words of all the high power which they should contain in the Law of Creation due to your wrong application of the ultimate expression of your thoughts. 

The language is intended to serve man with power and as a sword in order to promote and protect harmony, not to spread suffering and conflict. 

He who speaks out of his spirit ''cannot'' make many words. 

But with him every word becomes a deed, because he swings in his word and this swinging brings fulfilment in the Law of Reciprocal Action, which itself is fulfilled in the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species. 

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

Does it not sound like a jubilant song as soon as human lips form these plain words with a blissful heartfelt emotion: ''Thanks! 

A thousand thanks!'' 

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

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

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

But . . . the blessing cannot flourish visibly everywhere, for the process requires this one condition: No matter what has been done by the one for whom the words of such genuine gratitude are meant, ''he must have done it with love and with the intention of giving joy to the other!'' 

Whether it has been a gift or some action, or only some really well - meant and good word of advice! 

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

Therein lies a justice which man on earth does not know, and which is only contained in the Laws of Creation working so vitally and automatically, the Laws of Creation which can never be distorted nor influenced in this matter. 

For example, a person who does something in a calculating way, either to attain fame or some other pleasant reputation, will never be able to receive the true blessing out of his kind action, because he does not carry within himself the soil which is ''required'' according to the Law to receive this blessing. 

At the most he can receive transitory, dead and thus nothing but temporary ''earthly'' advantage, but never a true reward of God, which can only be received by a person who himself stands and lives in the sense of the Divine Will in Creation. 

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

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

When genuine gratitude is uttered the reaction will come in any case. 

However, the extent of the effect depends in turn - and according to the Law - upon the gratitude adopted by the soul of him for whom the blessing came through the reciprocal action. 

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

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

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

Only the cleverness of their intellect at work. 

Among these there are also a few whose momentary feeling prompts them to offer help, but who later on constantly try to throw this at the one - time recipient, expecting gratitude from him for the rest of their life! 

Persons of this kind are even worse than the most evil usurers. 

They do not shrink from ''life enslavement'' for those who at one time or other received help from them. 

With this they only destroy their self - respect and the value they should receive for the help once given, for they fetter and burden themselves with tremendous guilt. 

They are despicable creatures, not worthy to breathe another hour in Creation or to enjoy its blessings, which the Creator grants them ever anew with each moment. 

They are the most unfaithful of servants who, due to themselves, must be cast out. 

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

Many now praise gratefulness as a virtue, others as a duty of honour! 

Through one - sidedness and lack of understanding opinions are uttered and frivolously spread, which have already caused severe suffering to many a person. 

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

Then much will become different, and all the chains binding slaves, which were forged through wrong opinions about gratitude, will fall away. 

Mankind will at last be freed from them. 

You have no idea what travail has spread over mankind on earth like a shroud draping all human dignity and the noble, joyful desire to help, due to this mutilation and the false conceptions of pure gratitude forced upon men. 

Countless families in particular are  infected with this, and have been producing accusing victims for thousands of years. 

Away with this false delusion, which seeks with deliberate intent to drag every noble action which is natural to human dignity deep into the mud! Gratitude is ''not a virtue!'' 

It must not, nor does it want to be counted among the virtues! 

For each virtue emanates from God and is therefore unlimited! 

Nor may genuine gratitude be stamped as a duty! 

For then it would be unable inwardly to unfold ''that'' life and warmth which it needs in order to receive the blessing of God from Creation through the reciprocal action. 

Gratitude is closely linked with joy! Gratitude itself is an expression of purest joy. 

Thus wherever there is no joy included, where no joyful elation is cause for gratitude, there the expression gratitude is used ''wrongly'', there it is misused! 

In such cases it will never be able to set free ''those'' forces which are automatically released by true gratitude in accordance with the Laws of this Creation. 

The blessing is then lacking. 

Confusion must come in its place. 

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

The gratitude really felt intuitively is a ''compensatory value'' willed by God, which mediates the counter - value to whomsoever gratitude is due. 

This is contained in the Law of necessary Equilibrium in this Creation, which can only be upheld and furthered by harmony, which lies in the fulfilment of all the Primordial Laws of Creation. 

You men, however, bring entanglement into all the running threads of the Laws through your false practices, your erroneous conceptions! 

Therefore you make it difficult for yourselves to attain to true happiness, to peace! 

In most cases you are hypocrites with your words! 

How then can you expect that truth and happiness can blossom forth for you? 

You must indeed always reap what you sow! 

Thus you must also reap everything  you sow with your words, and through the manner in which you utter your words! 

Your own attitude towards these words! 

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

Just think over everything once again each evening, and seek to recognise the worth of the words you have exchanged with your fellow - men in the course of the day; you will be horrified at their emptiness! 

Even at the emptiness of many hours of but a single day! 

Attempt this without no extenuation of yourselves! 

With a shudder you will realise what must also arise out of this for you in the workshop of Creation, well known to you through my Message, in which everything automatically manifests which issues from you through your intuitive perception, your thinking, your speaking and your actions! 

Examine yourselves seriously and with an honest confession! 

From that hour onwards you will change yourselves in many things! 

You must not on that account become sparing with words in your life on earth in order to proceed on the right path. 

But in talking you must avoid superficiality as well as lack of sincerity, which lie behind the major part of all the speaking of these earthmen. 

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

This happen only seldom, however, but it should ''always'' be thus! 

So many men consider themselves very clever and wise, even highly developed spiritually, when they know how  to conceal their intuitive perceptions and their actual volition behind their words, never permitting their fellow - men to see their true face in spite of lively conversation. 

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

In the Law  of Creation, however, it makes no difference whatever whether all this is done by someone acting for himself personally or only for the benefit of a state. 

In this matter acting is acting, and is bound to release all the effects of these Laws. 

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

Only through recognition and genuine observance of the Laws, and thus acting differently ''in time'', could mankind have sought to diminish a great deal in order to ease many afflictions for themselves. 

However, it is now too late for this! For all the effects of their past actions are already rolling! But all that is burdensome therein truly serves only as a blessing! 

It is a mercy! 

It brings about purification where there is something wrong which now causes the collapse as the final consequence, no matter whether in the state or in the family, in the people themselves, or in association with others generally. 

We stand in the great final reckoning, which rules over the forces of the human means of power. 

Nothing can shut itself out or hide from this! Only the Laws of God still speak, which with superhuman accuracy and in an unswerving manner take automatic effect in everything that has happened so far; for new energy has penetrated them from the Will of God, which energy now permits them to enclose men as with immovable walls, protecting them or also destroying them, depending upon the nature of men's attitude towards them. 

For a long time in the future they will also remain like walls, surrounding everything with the same power, in order to prevent such confusion as has occurred in the past from coming about once more. 

Soon men will be thereby compelled to move only in the forms willed by God, for their own salvation and for their deliverance, so far as this is still possible, until they themselves go consciously forward again on the right paths in accordance with the Will of God. 

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

                                                                                     ASK,   AND   IT  SHALL   BE   GIVEN   UNTO   YOU

MAN is still in doubt about how to form a prayer. 

He desires to do what is right and not to omit anything. 

Although he gives the matter the most sincere and willing thought, he is still not really sure that he is not doing something wrong. 

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

Whoever has absorbed my Message ''aright'' is clear about the fact that words are much too limited in their nature to be able to ascend to the Luminous Heights. 

It is only the ''intuitive perception'' embraced by the words which, depending upon their strength and their purity, ascend above the boundaries of formed words. 

Words are meant in part only as signposts to indicate the direction which the rays of the intuitive perception should take. 

In part they also release ''the nature'' of the rays within man himself, who uses the formed word as a support and as a cloak. 

The ''word'' which is thought during prayer reverberates within man, if he experiences it within himself or if he exerts himself to call it to life within himself. 

With this explanation you already see two kinds of prayer arising before you. 

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

There is no need to state which of these kinds of prayer counts as the more powerful one, for you yourselves know that that which is ''more natural'' is always ''more correct''. 

Thus in these cases it is ''that'' prayer which arises through the bursting forth of sudden intuitive perception, and which only afterwards seeks to compress itself into words. 

Just assume that you are unexpectedly hit by a very heavy blow of fate, which shakes you to the depths. 

Fear for someone or something you love grips your heart! 

In your need a cry for help arises within you with a strength which shakes your body! 

''It is in this'' that you see the strength of the intuitive perception which is capable of ascending to Luminous Heights, if . . . this intuitive perception bears within itself ''humble purity''; for without this every ascent is already halted on its way at a very definite point, no matter how strong and powerful the intuitive perception is. 

It is utterly impossible without humility; it could never advance to that purity which in an immense circle surrounds all that is Divine. 

Such a strong intuitive perception will also bring in its train a ''stammering'' of words because its strength does not permit it to be squeezed into narrow words. 

The power streams far beyond the confines of all words, foaming over and tearing down the boundaries which words want to erect through the narrow limits of the earthly brain's activity. 

Every one of you will already have had such an experience in his life. 

Therefore you can grasp what I am trying to convey to you. 

''That'' is the intuitive perception which you should have if you expect your prayer to be able to ascend to the Heights of Pure Light, from which all granting comes to you. 

However, not only on account of fear shall you turn to the Heights, but also pure joy as well as happiness and gratitude can well up within you with the same strength! 

And  this ''joyful'' kind swings upwards even faster, because it remains more undimmed. 

Fear very easily dims your purity of intuitive perception and forms a wrong kind. 

Too often it is connected with a silent reproach or even grudge that whatever hit your soul so severely just had to happen ''to you'', and naturally this is not right. 

It must then hold back your cries! 

It is not necessary to form words in order to pray. 

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

You are not accustomed to think clearly without words and to become absorbed without losing straight direction, because through too much talk you actually became far too superficial and distracted. 

''You'' still ''need'' the words as signposts and also as cloaks to keep certain types of your intuitive perceptions together, and to envisage more clearly through words whatever you wish to express in prayer. 

Such is the way to pray if the urge to do so arises from the intuitive perception, i.e., if it is a volition of your ''spirit!'' 

But this rarely happens with the mankind of today - only when they are hit in some way or other by a very strong impulse, through suffering, joy or also through some physical pain! 

Nobody takes the trouble anymore to think now and then about God the Dispenser of all mercies, voluntarily and without some impulse! 

Now let us turn to the second kind of prayer! 

It comprises those which are intended to be said at very definite times and without the kind of cause we have just discussed. 

Man takes it upon himself to pray. 

It is a deliberate, especially ''willed'' prayer. 

This brings about a change in the process. 

Man thinks or speaks certain words of the prayer, which he himself has composed or which he has learned. 

Usually these prayers have little of intuitive perception. 

Man thinks far too much ''about'' getting the words right, and ''this alone'' already diverts him from really perceiving intuitively that which he speaks or merely thinks. 

Without any difficult you will recognise that this explanation is right, if only you think back and examine yourselves carefully in this respect. 

It is not easy to fill such prayers with the capacity of pure intuitive perception. 

Even the slightest constraint weakens it, claiming part of the concentration for itself. 

Here the formed words must first be called to life within yourselves, i.e., ''the words'' must arouse ''that kind of intuitive perception'' within you which in their form they express. 

The procedure does not then follow the course of frontal brain, which quickly forms words according to the impressions received; but the frontal brain begins by ''first'' forming words which only thereafter must be absorbed retroactively and assimilated by the back brain, in order to exercise from there a corresponding pressure on the nerve system of the solar plexus, which only after further proceedings can arouse an ''intuitive perception'' in accordance with the word. 

It is true that everything in the sequence takes place at such an enormous speed that it appears to the observer as if it happens ''simultaneously'', but nevertheless such forms are not so powerful or so original as those arising in the reverse manner. 

Therefore they cannot attain the effect,  and in most cases remain devoid of intuitive perception. 

Even with a repetition of the ''same'' words ''ever again'' daily, they lose their power for you, they become habitual and thus meaningless. 

Therefore become ''natural'' in your praying, men, become free and unaffected! 

What you have learned by heart so easily becomes recitation. 

You only make it difficult for yourselves by this! 

If you begin your day with truly heartfelt gratitude to God, and if you also finish it with equally heartfelt gratitude, be only gratitude for the lesson you have learned on this day through experiencing, you live well! 

Through diligence and care let everything you ''do'' arise as a prayer of gratitude! 

Let each word you speak reflect the love which God grants you! 

Then life on this earth will soon become a joy for everyone who is allowed to live upon it! 

It is not nearly so difficult, nor does it take up any of your time. 

A short moment of honest heartfelt gratitude is much better than praying for hours what you have learned by heart, and which you could not in any case follow with your intuitive perception. 

Moreover, such outward praying only takes up the time you should use for genuine thanksgiving through joyous activity. 

A child which really loves its parents will demonstrate this love by ''its ways'', by its actions, and not with flattering words, which in many cases remain nothing but an expression of nestling self - complacency, unless it is even a selfish desire. 

The so - called wheedlers are seldom of any value and only think of themselves, and of satisfying their own wishes! 

You stand no differently before your God! 

Prove through the deed what you you wish to say to Him! 

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

If you wish to recognise the right way for this you must first ''separate'' your prayer from your petitions. 

Differentiate between prayer and petition! Do not always try to stamp your petitioning as prayer! 

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

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

When you pray ''give'' yourselves! 

This only I wish to call to you, and in the word itself you have the explanation. 

''Give'' yourselves to the Lord in your prayer, give yourselves entirely to Him and without reserve! 

Prayer must be the unfolding of your spirit at the feet of God in veneration, praise and gratitude for everything He grants you out of His great Love! 

It is so inexhaustibly much! 

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

Once you have found ''this'' way through recognising all the treasures of my Message ''you will no longer have any petition left''. 

You will have nothing but praise and thanksgiving as soon as you turn your hands and eyes upward to the Highest, Who reveals Himself to you in His Love. 

Then you will stand in ''a perpetual'' state of prayer, such as the Lord cannot expect otherwise from you; for in Creation you may indeed take for yourselves whatever you need. 

The table is prepared therein at all times! 

And you may choose from it through the abilities of your spirit. 

The table always offers you ''everything'' you need and petitions are unnecessary if you only make the ''right'' kind of effort to move within the Laws of God. 

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

These words teach you the ''necessary'' activity of the human spirit in Creation, and above all the ''right'' application of his abilities. 

They point out exactly the way ''in which'' he must comprehend Creation, and also the path which will help him ''onwards''. 

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

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

The urge impelling the desire, however, must always remain ''a petition'' and must not become a one -sided demand, as unfortunately every human being of the present time has accustomed himself to making. 

For if it remains a petition it also holds ''humbleness'', and consequently it will always contain what is good and will also bring in its train what is good. With His words Jesus clearly showed ''how'' man has to adjust himself in order to direct all the self - acting abilities of his spirit onto the ''right'' course! 

It is the same with all his words. 

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

For it will probably be easily understandable to everybody that this does not refer to the ordinary relations between men, because men's attitude was  neither then, nor is it today, of ''such'' a nature that one could expect from ''them'' the fulfilment of such hints. Go among men and ask, and you will be given ''nothing!''  

Knock, and the door will ''not'' be opened unto you! Seek among men and their works, and you will ''not'' find what you are seeking! 

Nor did Jesus refer to the attitude of man towards God personally, omitting all the huge worlds lying in between, which cannot be pushed aside as if non - existent. 

Neither did He mean the Living Word alone therewith, but Jesus always spoke out of the primordial wisdom, and this He never compressed into small earthly thinking or conditions. 

When He spoke He depicted man ''standing in Creation'', and He chose His words in an ''all - embracing'' manner! 

All reproductions, translations and interpretations, however, suffer from the neglect to think ''of this!'' 

They were always intermingled with and carried out by earthly, petty human thinking and thus distorted and misrepresented. 

And where understanding was lacking their own ideas were added, which could never answer the purpose, however good the intention! 

That which is human always remained petty human; the Divine, however, is always all - embracing! In this way wine was badly mixed with water, and finally there emerged something different from the original. 

This you must never forget! 

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

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

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

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

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

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

You men, could you but ''pray'' aright at last! ''Really pray!'' 

How rich would your existence then be! 

For in prayer lies the greatest happiness you can receive. 

It uplifts you to immeasurable heights so that supreme happiness streams through you blissfully. 

Could you but ''pray'', men! 

That shall now be my wish for you! 

In your small thinking you will then no longer ask to Whom you shall and may pray. 

There is but ''One'' to Whom you are allowed to dedicate your prayers, only One: GOD! 

Approach Him in solemn moments with a sacred intuitive perception, and pour out before Him what your spirit can bring up in the way of gratitude! 

Turn ''only to Him'' when you pray; for it is to Him alone that gratitude is due and to Him alone you yourself belong, oh Man, because only through His great Love were you able to come into existence!

                                          HUMAN OPINIONS AND GOD'S WILL IN THE LAW OF RECIPROCAL ACTION

WHEN human opinions are considered, including the subject of earthly justice, one must not expect the latter to be the same as Divine Justice, or even to come near it. 

On the contrary it must unfortunately be said that in most cases they are far apart as heaven and earth! 

The popular expression ''as far apart as heaven and earth'' is truly appropriate in this connection! 

Often this difference could be explained as being due to the human intellect, which is limited to space and time, and which because of this limitation cannot recognise and distinguish ''real'' injustice from justice. 

This  can seldom be perceived clearly by external means, for it really lies only deep within each human being, and cannot be sufficiently interpreted by rigid paragraphs oof the law or by scholarly erudition. 

It is saddening that on account of this so many judgments of the earthly courts are bound to be in direct opposition to Divine Justice! 

We need not talk about the time of the Middle Ages, of the sad times when there were agonising tortures, as well as so - called witch burnings and other juridical crimes! 

Nor need we touch upon the numerous burnings at the stake, the tortures and murders which have to be charged to the ''religious'' communities! 

The retribution for such crimes must be doubly terrible upon those who carried them out, because they abused the Name of the Perfect God in so doing, committing all these crimes in His Name as if they were supposed to be agreeable to Him, and thereby stamping Him in the eyes of men as answerable for it. 

These abuses and cruelties should not be so quickly forgotten, but should always be recalled as a warning when passing judgments today, particularly since those practising such evils at the time did so enthusiastically, under the pretext of acting in all good faith and of having every right to do so! 

Much as changed since then! 

But the time will also inevitably come when one will look with similar horror upon the existing administration of justice, just as with our present enlightenment we look today upon the times mentioned above in which so much injustice was done. 

That is way of the world, and gives evidence of a certain progress! 

If we look deeper, however, we shall find that the apparently great progress made between then and now ''lies merely in the outward forms''. 

The immense power held by some individuals, which cuts so deeply into the whole existence of many a man without the one wielding it being held responsible here on earth, is still the same in many respects. 

Nor have men and the motives which dictate their actions changed very much! 

And where the ''inner'' life is still the same the reciprocal actions carrying out Divine Justice will also be the same. 

If mankind could suddenly become ''seeing in these matters'' there could only follow a long - drawn - out cry of despair, and horror would afflict all the peoples! 

No one would then raise hand in reproach against his neighbour, for in one way or another ''each individual'' would be bound to feel the same burden of guilt oppressing him. 

Indeed no one has the right to rebuke his neighbour because up till now ''every one'' has wrongly judged from appearances only, ''overlooking all real life!'' If the first ray of Light could penetrate them without their being prepared for it many would despair of mankind themselves, while others who have hitherto never taken the time to reflect would be embittered beyond words at having been asleep for so long! 

Therefore the time has come to urge man to serious thought and to develop ''his own impartial power of judgment'', which will refuse to lean blindly on the opinions of others but only ''accept, think, speak and act according to its ''own'' intuitions! 

Man must never forget that he ''personally'' must take full and complete responsibility for everything ''he'' perceives, thinks and does, even if he has accepted it from others without question! 

Blessed is he who reaches this height and weighs every judgment he is confronted with, and then acts in accordance with his ''own'' intuitions! 

By so doing he will not become so deeply implicated as thousands of others who often burden themselves with heavy karma through mere thoughtlessness and love of sensation, or by showing prejudice and slandering, which will lead them into regions of suffering and torment they need never have experienced. 

Thus they often allow themselves to be deterred here on earth from a great deal that is really good, and thereby not only miss much for themselves but perhaps risk everything, even their whole existence! 

Such was the case with the senseless and blazing hatred against Jesus of Nazareth! 

Only a few of the malevolent clamourers knew the actual reason for it while all the others, who had never come into personal contact with Him, merely worked themselves up into a completely blind and ignorant passion and joined in the general outcry. 

Just as lost are all those who turned their backs upon Him because of the false opinions of others, and who did not even listen to His words, much less gave themselves the trouble of examining them objectively, whereby they might have recognised their value after all! 

Only thus could the insane tragedy develop in which, of all men, the ''Son of God'' was being charged with ''blasphemy'' and brought to the cross! 

He Who alone came directly from God and proclaimed to mankind the Truth about God and His Will! This happening is so grotesque that it shows up with glaring clarity the whole narrow - mindedness! 

And mankind have by no means progressed inwardly since then! 

Instead they have retrogressed even further in this respect, in spite of all their other discoveries and inventions! 

On account of their outward successes mankind advanced in conceit only, and thereby became even more presumptuous! 

It is just conceit that is born of and cultivated by narrow - mindedness, indeed it is a definite sign of narrow - mindedness! 

And it is from this soil, which has become more and more fertile in the last two thousand years, that the present opinions of mankind have developed! 

The effect is both decisive and ''devastating'', the while men, without realising it, continue to entangle themselves more and more in their opinions, thus preparing their own terrible doom! 

So far it has very rarely become clear to anyone how many have drawn upon  themselves the evil effects of reciprocal currents, that is to say, how many, often well - meaningly, have transgressed against the Divine Laws through their false opinions! 

Their number is large, indeed many in their unsuspecting arrogance are even proud of the fact until the day when, to their agonising horror, they will have to face the Truth, which is entirely different from what their convictions had allowed them to depict! 

Then, however, it is too late! 

The guilt with which they have burdened themselves must be expiated in a laborious struggle with themselves which often lasts decades! 

As soon as man has lost his opportunity while on earth, when either wilfully or through ignorance he even burdened himself with new guilt, the way to recognition is long and arduous. 

Excuses never carry any weight in these matters! 

''Every one'' can know it if he ''wishes!'' 

He who feels the urge to distinguish between Divine Justice and earthly opinions in the course of the reciprocal actions should make an effort by taking any example in earth - life and examining it to find out which side is right and which side is wrong. 

He will find very many every day! 

Soon his intuitive capacity will unfold more strongly and actively, until he finally casts off all the prejudices derived from faulty opinions. 

Thereby a conception of justice will arise which can depend upon itself because, in recognising all the reciprocal actions, it will absorb the Will of God, stand in It and work in It!