WARFARE   IN   NATURE

                               THE     DIVINE   LOVE   OF   PUREST    JUSTIFICATION  (  JUSTICE  )

                                                              HOLY  GRAIL  GOD'S   REALM  ANCHORED  IN   LOVE

                                                                                                 WARFARE      IN     NATURE

 HOW FOOLISH are you who always ask whether the struggle in Creation is right, who only perceive as cruel!

Do you not know that you thereby appear as weaklings who endanger every ''present - day'' possibility of ascent?

Rouse yourselves at last out of this shocking weakness, which only allows both the body and spirit to gradually to ''sink'', but never to rise!

Look about you, seeing and recognising, and you must bless the great impulse which induces the need to struggle and consequently to defend, to act cautiously, to be ''alert'' and really to ''live!'' 

It protects the creature from the deadly embrace of sloth!

Can an artist ever reach the peak of his skill and maintain himself there unless he continually practises and fights for it, no matter what his profession and how great the abilities he possesses?

The voice of a singer would soon loose in power and dependability, if he did not force himself constantly to practise and learn afresh!

An arm can only grow strong if it is constantly exercised! 

If there is any relaxation in this respect it must weaken. 

And so it is with every body and every spirit! 

However, no man can be brought to do this voluntarily! 

There must be some compulsion!

If you wish to be healthy you must ''care'' for your body and your spirit, that is to say, keep them in strict activity!

But what man today understands and what he has always understood by ''caring'' is not the right thing! 

Either he means indulging in sweet idleness, which as such already implies a weakening and paralysis, or he practises this ''caring'' only one - sidedly, as with every sport, thus making the caring a ''sport'', a ''one - sided exaggeration'', and thereby a frivolous and ambitious abuse that is utterly unworthy of serious humanity!

True humanity must indeed have in view the ''highest goal'', which cannot be reached by high jumping, swimming, running, riding or furious driving! 

Mankind and the entire Creation derive no benefit from such individual accomplishment, for which many a man often sacrifices the greater part of his thoughts, his time, and his life on earth!

That such extravagant activities could develop at all shows how false is the road on which mankind travel, and also how they divert this great motive power in Creation into nothing but wrong channels, thereby frittering it away in useless toying, if not even causing injury by hindering healthy progress, all the possibilities for which have been provided in Creation!

In their human conceit men so distort the course of the strong currents of the spirit, which are meant to further ascent, that instead of the intended progress stoppages occur which act as hindrance! 

In their reaction these stoppages increase the struggling instinct until finally, bursting all bounds, they carry everything along with themselves into the depths!

It is with ''such'' hollow pseudo - scientific toying and ambitions that man of the today primarily occupy himself!

A ''mischief - maker'', destructive of all harmony in Creation!

He would have long since fallen into the lazy sleep of idleness which must lead to decay had it not fortunately been for the fighting instinct resting in Creation which ''forces'' him to bestir himself ''in spite of'' everything! 

Otherwise hey would long ago have arrogantly assumed that God must care for him through His Creation, just as in the dream of a fool's paradise! 

And if he offers his thanks for it in a spiritless prayer, then that is more than enough reward for his God!

Indeed there are many who never thank Him for it at all!

''Such'' is man, and in truth not otherwise!

He talks of cruelty in Nature, but it never occurs to him to examine himself first of all! 

He only wants to criticise!

Even in the fighting among animals there lies only blessing, and not cruelty!

One only need to observe some animals closely! 

As an example let us take a dog! 

The more considerately a dog is treated the more slothful it will become. 

If a dog is in the study of its master and the latter always carefully refrains from stepping upon or pushing the animal, even if it lies down in those places where it is in constant danger of being hurt unintentionally, as for instance near a door, this is to the ''detriment'' of the animal!

In a very short time this dog will lose it's alertness. 

''Kind - hearted people will say in ''loving'' extenuation, perhaps even be moved by the wonderful ''trust'' the dog shows in this, that it knows nobody will hurt it!

In reality, however, this is nothing but a gross diminution in it's capacity to ''be alert'', a marked falling - off in psychic activity!

If, on the other hand, an animal has constantly to be on the alert and ready to defend itself, it will not only become and remain psychically awake, but it's intelligence will steadily grow keener and it will ''gain'' in every way. 

It remains alive in all respects, and that means progress!

It is the same with every creature! 

Otherwise it will perish, because its body gradually weakens and, having no longer any power of resistance, it becomes more liable to disease!

The fact that man takes an absolutely wrong attitude towards the animal in various ways will not surprise a keen observer, for man does the same towards ''everything'', towards himself and towards the entire Creation, doing harm spiritually everywhere instead of bringing benefit!

If today there was no longer in Creation the fighting instinct which so many indolent people call cruel, the World of Matter would already long ago have been in a state of rottenness and disintegration.

This instinct has a ''preserving'' effect on the body and soul. 

It is certainly not destructive, although it may appear so  on the surface! 

Otherwise there would no longer be anything left to keep this sluggish World of Gross Matter in motion, and consequently in good health and vigour, since man, through his errors, has so wantonly diverted the quickening effects of the all - pervading ''spiritual power'' actually destined for this purpose, so that it cannot act in the it really should!

If man had not failed so miserably to carry out the task for which he was destined, then much, ''everything'', would look different today!

Neither would the so - called ''fight'' have taken on ''the'' form in which it shows itself ''at present!''

The fighting instinct would have been ennobled, spiritualised by the upward surging will of man. 

Its original uncouth effect, instead of increasing as it does now, would gradually have changed under the ''right'' spiritual influence and become a united, cheerful incentive to help one another forward, which would require the same energy as the most violent struggle. 

But with this difference, that a struggle is followed by exhaustion, while in mutually helping one another a great increase in energy, would be the consequence!

Also in the reproduction of Creation, in which the ''spiritual'' will of man is the strongest influence, there would finally have set in for ''all'' creatures the Paradise - like state, just as it is in the real Creation, where there is no struggle and no apparent cruelty required any longer!

This paradise - like condition, does not consist of idleness, but it is equivalent to being most energetically ''astir'', to real personal fully - conscious life!

That this could not happen is the guilt of the human spirit! 

I must again and again revert to the decisive fall of man, which I describe in detail in the lecture ''Once upon a time''. 

Only the complete failure of the human spirit in Creation, through the ''misuse'' of the spiritual power entrusted to it, the effects of which were diverted ''downwards'' instead of upwards to Luminous Heights, has brought about the present unsound aberrations!

Man has already trifled or gambled away even the ability to see his mistake! 

Thus if I wanted to say more about it, I would only be ''preaching to deaf ears!'' 

He who really ''wishes'' to ''listen'' and ''is able'' to seek earnestly will find ''all'' he needs in my Message. 

And he will also find everywhere explanations about the great failure which has brought on such unspeakably serious disasters in so many varied forms!

He, however, who is ''spiritually deaf'', as so many are, has only the inane laugh of those who are devoid of understanding, a laugh that is meant to ''simulate knowledge'', but which in reality merely indicates a careless superficiality, and is the same as gross narrow - mindedness!

As those on whom, the idiotic laughing of such spiritually limited human beings makes any impression today are themselves worthless.

To ''such'' Christ's words are applicable: ''Let the dead bury their dead'', for he who is ''spiritually'' deaf and blind is spiritually dead!

With his ability the human spirit could make the earth, this replica of Creation, a Paradise! 

He has not done so, and therefore he now sees the world before him as he has distorted it through his false actions.

''Everything lies there - in!''

Therefore do not out of false sentimentality disdain such an important matter as the warfare in Nature, for it restores the necessary balance to something which man neglected to carry out! 

Nor be so bold as to call your sweet sultry sentimentality ''love'', with which man likes so much to cover his weaknesses!

Such falsehood and hypocrisy must avenge themselves bitterly!

Therefore, woe unto you, man, you  degenerate product of your imagination! 

You caricature of what you ''should be!''

Try to observe calmly what you usually call Nature - the mountains, the lakes, the woods, and the meadows, at all seasons!

Man is enraptured by the beauty that meets his gaze! 

And now reflect: That which gives you so much happiness and refreshment is the fruit of the activity of all that comprises ''animistic substantiality'' which, in Creation, ranks ''below'' the spiritual, with the power of which you have been endowed!

Then seek out the fruits of ''your'' work, you who are spiritual and who should accomplish higher things than the animistic substantiality, which actually ahead of you!

And what do you find? 

Only feeble imitations of what animistic substantiality has already achieved, but no progress towards ideal heights in all that is living and thus in Creation! 

With nothing but degenerated creative instincts mankind only try lifelessly to imitate existing forms, whereas with a free and conscious spirit, and their eyes uplifted to the Divine, they would be capable of producing very different and much more sublime things!

Men have wantonly cut themselves off from the greatness which is born only of a ''free spirit'', and besides childish imitations they can therefore produce nothing but machines, constructions, and technical achievements in general. 

All earth - bound, on a lowly plane, hollow and lifeless, just like themselves!

''These'' are the fruits which man as spiritual beings, can now compare with the activity of the elemental beings! 

''This'' is how he has fulfilled spiritual task in the Subsequent Creation given to him for  that purpose!

How do they expect to pass when the reckoning comes?

Is it any wonder if the sublime Paradise ''must'' remain closed to people with such base propensities?

And can one be surprised if now in the end the elementals, in reaction, will completely destroy the work so wrongly led by the human spirit?

And when now, owing to the lack of ability you showed, everything will collapse upon you, then cover your face and acknowledge with shame the terrible guilt with which, ''you'' have burdened yourselves!

Do not again try to accuse your Creator of it, or to call Him cruel and unjust!

You who are seeking, however, examine yourselves seriously and unsparingly, and then try to ''readjust'' your whole thinking and intuitive perception, indeed your whole being, upon a ''spiritual'' foundation, which will no longer rock like the intellectual and thus very limited foundation of the past!

                                                                                     THE   CREATURE   THAT   IS   MAN

MY Assertion that mankind do not bear within themselves anything that is Divine continually evokes new waves of indignation which flood over the borders of one country after another.

This shows how deeply conceit has taken root in the souls of men, and how much they dislike separating themselves from it, even though their intuitive perception calls out warningly now and then, giving them the opportunity to recognise that this must be true after all!

But struggling against it does not alter the fact!

As soon as the human spirits have come to the conviction that they are void of anything Divine, they  will recognise that they are ''still'' smaller, indeed much less, than they imagine they are!

Therefore I wish to go further than I have done as yet, and explain Creation, in a little more detail in order to show on which step man belongs.

Indeed it is hardly possible for him to begin his ascent without knowing exactly beforehand what he ''is'' and what he ''can do!''

Once this becomes clear to him he will also finally realise what he ''must do!''

That, however, is greatly at variance with everything he ''will'' today!

Indeed, what a difference there is!

This no longer awakens compassion in the person who is privileged to see clearly!

By ''seeing'' I do not mean the seeing of a clairvoyant, but that of a man who possesses true knowledge!

Instead of compassion and pity today only ''anger'' is engendered, anger and contempt at the stupendous presumption shown towards God, of which hundreds of thousands of conceited ones are guilty daily and hourly!

Their conceit contains no grain of knowledge to Justify it!

It is not worth wasting a single word it!

What I have to say from now onwards is meant for few who, in pure humility, can still attain to a certain degree of recognition without first having to be so crushed as will happen in accordance with the Divine Laws, in order finally to force an entrance and prepare a fertile soil for His true Word!

Then all the empty and wordy effusions of earthly wiseacres will crumble away, together with the absolutely unfruitful soil of the present day!

It is indeed high time that this empty profusion of words, which acts like a poison upon all that strives upwards, should collapse in all its hollowness!

Hardly had I made my assertion that the Son of God and the Son of Man are two separate Personalities than there appeared treatises intended to ''clarify'' in confused theological - philosophical jargon that this is not so!

Without going into my arguments impartially, attempts are made to maintain the old error ''at all costs'', even at the cost of all logical objectiveness, citing for this purpose the obscure terms of this existing dogma!

They stubbornly rely upon single sentences out of ancient manuscripts to the exclusion of all independent thought; thus making it a condition (which is never expressed in words) that hearers and readers must not think, much less sense intuitively!

For otherwise it would be quickly recognised that nothing is explained by this multitude of words, because whichever way they are examined it remains impossible to draw the right inference!

But it is still more obvious that this verbosity lacks all connection with actual events!

He who finally succeeds in opening his eyes and ears in these matters must without difficulty recognise the emptiness of such ''apologia''!

It is but a last convulsive clinging (one can no longer call it real adherence) to what has hitherto been their support, which will soon prove to be ''useless!''

The only foundation for arguments is composed of sentences, the correct transmission of which cannot be proved.

On the contrary, it is impossible logically to fit them into the course of world events, thereby clearly showing that their sense has been distorted by the human brain in the course of transmission.

Not one of these sentences can be assimilated with the chain of events and man's intuitive perception without leaving a gap.

Yet only where everything comes to a conclusion through ''the completion of its cycle'', without any phantasy or expressions of blind faith, only ''there'' is every happening explained ''in the right manner!''

But why exert oneself if man ''does not wish'' to be freed from such obstinate fatuity?

Therefore let that calmly come to pass which in the circumstances ''must'' come to pass!

It is with a shudder that I turn away from all the believers and from all those who in their false humility think they know better, who do not recognise a simple truth but even smile indulgently at it and want to correct it!

How quickly will just these person become little, so very little, and lose every support, although in fact neither in their faith nor in their knowledge do they have such!

They will be ''permitted'' to walk upon the road which they so persistently desire, but upon which they can no longer return to life!

The right to choose has never been denied them!

Those who have followed me so far know that man originates in the highest sphere of Creation, in the Spiritual Sphere.

But there are still many differences to be noted in the Realm of the Spiritual.

Man on earth, who audaciously consider himself great, who does not shrink from dragging his God down by regarding Him merely as the highest on ''that'' step to which ''he himself belongs, who sometimes even ventures to deny or revile Him, man in reality is not even that which many a humble soul imagines himself to be in all good faith!

Man on earth is ''not a created being'', but merely a ''developed being!''

That is a difference which man is unable to perceive, and which he will never be able to survey freely!

Beautiful and agreeable to many are the words which numerous teachers utter in their efforts to increase the number of their adherents!

Yet these ignorant teachers are themselves convinced that all the errors they spread abroad are the truth, and do not realise what harm they thereby do to  mankind!

Only certainty about the answer to that great question ''What am I?'' can lead to ''ascent!''

If the significance of this question has not been completely recognised and the solution found beforehand ascent will become bitterly difficulty!

For men do not ''voluntarily'' submit themselves to that humbleness which will help them on to the right path on which they can really progress!

That has been clearly proved by all the past events right up to the present time!

Even in their efforts to be humble these men turned themselves into slaves, which is just as wrong as being presumptuous, or reached far beyond their actual goal, placing themselves upon a road the end of which they can never reach, because the nature of their spirit does not suffice for this!

As they aspired to what is too exalted for them they will now fall headlong into the depths, which will destroy them!

Only the ''Created Ones'' are images of God!

These are the Primordial Beings, The Prime - Spiritual Beings, in that Original Creation out of which all else developed.

In their hands lies the main guidance of all that is spiritual.

They are the ideals, the eternal prototypes for all humanity.

Earthman, on the other hand, has only been able to develop himself as a copy out of this complete Creation, starting as small unconscious spirit - germ and evolving into a self - conscious personality.

''Only when he has reached perfection by "keeping to the right path in Creation will he take on the likeness of the images of God!''

He himself is never an actual image of God!

There is a great gulf all the way down to him from the Divine!

But even from the actual images of God the next step is far from being to God!

Therefore man on earth should at last recognise all that lies between him and the Sublimity of the Godhead, which he tries so hard to usurp!

Man on earth imagines that he will become Divine once he has reached perfection, or at least be a part of Divinity, while actually at his greatest height he will only be the ''likenesses'' of an ''mage'' of God. 

He is permitted to enter the forecourt in the entrance hall of a Grail Castle as the highest distinction which can be bestowed upon a human spirit!

Cast aside this presumption at last!

It can only hinder you and make you miss the luminous path!

Dwellers in the beyond who wish to give well - meaning advice in spiritist circles do ''not'' know about it, for they themselves lack the necessary recognition.

They would rejoice if they were permitted to hear about it!

Among these also the great lamentation will not fail to come, once they recognise how much time they have wasted in fruitless toying and obstinacy!

What applies to the Spiritual World also holds true for the Animistic Sphere.

Here the Lords of the Elements are the ''Prime - Elemental Beings''.

All those elementals which gain consciousness, such as the nixies, elves, gnomes, salamanders, and so on, are ''not'' Created Ones, but merely beings which have been developed out of Creation.

They have developed out of the Realm of Animistic Substantiality, starting as unconscious ''elemental'' seed - germs and evolving into conscious elementals, in the course of which, as they gain consciousness, they also assume human forms.

This latter always occurs simultaneously with becoming conscious.

There is the same gradation here in the Animistic Sphere as exists in the Spiritual Sphere.

According to the nature of their activity the Prime - Elemental Beings in the Animistic Sphere are clothed in male and female forms, just the same as  the Primordial Beings in the Spiritual Sphere.

Hence the conception of ''gods'' and ''goddesses'', in the olden times, which I have already dealt with in my lecture: ''The Gods, Olympus and Valhalla''!

There is one great uniform feature permeating all Creation and the World!

The reader and hearer of my lectures should always work within himself, keenly scrutinising my lectures and constructing bridges from one to the other, as well as outside to the great  and small happenings in the world!

''Not until he does so'' will he be able to understand the Grail Message!

He will find that it will gradually shape itself into one complete whole, leaving no gaps.

Again and again in all the happenings the reader will come back to the basic features.

He can explain everything and deduce everything without having to change one single sentence.

He who detects gaps lacks full understanding!

He who does not realise its great depth and its all - embracing character is superficial, and had never tried to penetrate with real animation into the Truth brought here!

He may join those masses who, full of self - complacency and believing they already possess the highest knowledge, follow the broad road!

The belief that they possess this knowledge prevents such mistaken persons from recognising in other statements the vitality lacking in their pseudo - knowledge.

Wherever they look, wherever they hear, everywhere their self - satisfaction with what they imagine they hold firmly in their hands blocks them!

Not until, they reach the boundary line, where all untruth and sham are inevitably rejected, will they recognise on revealing their hands that this contain ''nothing'' which makes it, at all possible for them to continue on their present road and ultimately enter the Kingdom of the Spirit.

Then, however, it will prove too late to retrace their steps and receive what they previously rejected and disregarded!

There is no longer sufficient time for that!

The gate to the entrance is locked!

The last opportunity is missed!

Only when man ''actually'' becomes what he ''should'' be and ceases to cling to what he wishes to be can he speak of a true humanity!

He must always remember that he issued out of ''Creation'', not directly from the Hand of the Creator!

''That is quibbling with words, for basically it is just the same, only in expressed differently!''

So say the boastful and lazy ones, barren products of this humanity because they will forever remain incapable of perceiving the great gulf indicated by these words.

Once more they let themselves be deceived by the simplicity of the words!

He who is inwardly alert will not carelessly pass this by!

He will try to perceive the immeasurable distances and sharp lines of demarcation involved!

Were I now to indicate ''all'' the divisions of Creation, many a man who today considers he is great would prostrate himself in despair on recognising that such words contain the Truth, crushed by the realisation of his own emptiness and insignificance!

The frequently used expression ''earth - worm'' is justified when applied to those who today boast of their cleverness and ''spiritual superiority'', but who soon, very soon, will be made the lowest in all Creation if, indeed, they are not numbered among those who are rejected!

The time has now come to comprehend the world aright!

It is not wrong to separate that which is temporal from that which is spiritual, also in earthly life.

These terms have probably arisen through the ability of many human beings to sense correctly, for they reflect the difference existing right through the entire Creation.

We can also divide Creation into Paradise and the World, i.e., into the spiritual and the temporal.

Here also the spiritual is not excluded from the temporal, but the temporal is excluded from the spiritual!

We must call the World the World of Matter, which is also penetrated by the spirit!

The spiritual is the Spiritual Realm of Creation, Paradise, from which everything that is material is excluded.

Thus we have Paradise and the World, the spiritual and the material, Original Creation and the development therefrom, which may be called an automatic copy!

Creation proper merely consists of Paradise, the Spiritual Kingdom of today.

Everything else is only ''developed'' i.e., no longer really created!

And what had been ''developed'' must be designated as the ''World!''

The World is transient.

It develops from the emanations of Creation, imitating the latter in reflections, being driven and sustained by spiritual emanations.

It comes to maturity and then disintegrate again through over - ripeness.

The Spiritual, however, does not age, but remains forever young or, in other words, eternally the same!

Guilt and atonement are only possible in the ''World!''

This is due to the faultiness of the subsequent development.

Guilt of any kind is utterly impossible in the Realm of the Spirit!

He who has seriously read my lectures will be absolutely clear about this.

He knows that any spirit which penetrates the world can never return to its source of origin as long as but a ''minute speck'' of a different species still clings to it from its wanderings!

The smallest particle makes it impossible to step over the border into the Spiritual Realm!

The spirit would be retained, even if it had advanced to the very threshold!

Owing to its different and baser consistency this last particle does not permit the spirit to enter as long as it remains clinging thereto!

Not until the moment when this minute speck severs itself and sinks back does the spirit become free, thus attaining the same consistency as prevails in the ''lowest'' plane of the Spiritual Sphere, which consistency exists as the law for this lowest spiritual plane!

Then the spirit not only ''can''  but ''must'' enter by crossing the threshold at which it was previously held back by the particle!

This process can be considered and described from many angles, but remains exactly the same, regardless of the words used to illustrate it.

I can embellish it with the most fantastic stories, and can use many parables to make it understood, but the fact in itself is quite plain and simple, and is produced by the effect of three laws I have so often mentioned.

It may also rightfully be said that no sin can occur in Paradise, that it is not touched by any guilt.

Consequently only that which has been created is of full value.

But in that which has subsequently evolved out of it as a copy of Creation, and which has been set aside as a training ground for the development and strengthening of the the human spirit, guilt can be incurred through the false volition of indolent human spirits, which must be balanced through atonement they are able to return!

If in following a self - engendered urge spirit - germs issue from Creation, i.e., from Paradise, in order to wander through the aforementioned world, one can naturally say by way of illustration that they are like children who leave home in order to learn and finally return fully matured.

This mode of expression is justified if it is regarded merely as a ''picture''.

However, everything must always remain a picture, and must not to be taken personally, as is attempted everywhere!

Since the human spirit only burdens itself with guilt in the world, such a thing not being possible in the Spiritual Sphere, it is also natural that it cannot return to the Spiritual Realm until it frees itself from this burdens of guilt!

I could give a thousand different illustrations of this, but they would ''all'' have the same fundamental meaning, which I have so often depicted in the working of the three simple basic laws.

It sounds strange to  many  people when I describe the process ''objectively'', because ''illustrations'' flatter man's conceit and self - love!

He much prefers to live in a dreamland, because everything sounds much nicer there, and he imagine himself to be much more important than he really is!

In so doing he makes the mistake of refusing to examine what is objective, but instead indulges increasingly in imaginative phantasy, thus losing his way and his support!

He is then horrified, perhaps even indignant, if I show him soberly and in all simplicity ''how'' Creation is and  what part actually he plays  in it!

For him the transition is somewhat like that of a small child which, in the loving hands of mother or grandmother, listens  happily to fairy stories with sparkling eyes and cheeks flushed with enthusiasm, and then, out in the world, sees men as they really are!

So altogether difference from the beautiful tales, and yet, when you look more keenly  and retrospectively at these fairy tales, it is basically the same!

This moment is bitter but and necessary, otherwise the child would be unable to make any progress and, as ''a stranger in the worlds'', would perish under much suffering!

It is no different here!

He who wishes to ascend further must at last come to understand Creation as it ''really'' is!

He must stride firmly on his feet, and no longer lose himself in emotional impressions, which may be all very well for irresponsible child, but not for a mature man whose power of volition penetrates Creation, either furthering or retarding it, and uplifting or destroying him in the process!

Young girls who read novels which misrepresent the truth and only veil the reality of life will, through the fanciful illusions thus awakened, quickly experience bitter disappointments, and even very often become broken for their entire time on earth, falling an easy prey to this unscrupulous deception which they so trustingly approached.

It is no different with the development of a human spirit in Creation!

Therefore away with all illustrations! 

Man never learned to understand them, because he was too lazy to apply himself seriously to the discovery of the right interpretation.

It is time for the veils to fall  so that man can see clearly whence he came, what duties his task bestows upon him, and also what is his destination!

''He needs to be shown the right path!''

And he will find this path clearly marked in my Grail Message, providing he ''wishes'' to see it.

The Word of the Grail Message lives!

It only permits those people to find abundantly in it who really carry the honest desire in their souls!

All others are automatically rejected!

To those who are conceited and who only seek superficially the Message will remain a book of seven seals!

Only he who willingly opens himself will receive!

If from the beginning he starts read with a sincere and honest mind , then everything he seeks will be revealed in one glorious fulfilment!

But those whose hearts are not completely pure will be repelled by this Word; it will remain closed to those of deceitful eye!

They  will find nothing therein!

                                                                                                                           THE      WORLD

THE WORLD! 

When man uses this word he often utters it thoughtlessly, without forming a picture of ''what'' this world he speaks of is really ''like''. 

Many, however, who try to picture something definite visualise countless celestial bodies of the most varied nature and size arranged in solar systems, pursuing their courses in the Universe. 

They know that ever new and more celestial bodies can be seen as stronger and more far - reaching instruments are produced. 

The average man is then satisfied with the word ''infinity'', and thereby the error of a ''wrong'' conception sets in with him. 

The World is not infinite. 

It is the material Creation, that is, the ''Work'' of  the Creator. 

This Work, like every work, stands ''beside'' the Creator, and as such is finite. 

So - called advanced thinkers often pride themselves on having the recognition that God rests in all Creation, in every flower, every stone; that the driving forces of nature are God, thus everything that is beyond investigation, what is sensed but cannot really be grasped. 

An ever - active Primordial Energy, the Source of Power, Itself eternally evolving anew, the Unsubstantiate Primordial Light. 

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

But only in a certain sense is this true. 

What we encounter in all Creation is only His Will and thus His Spirit, His Power. 

He Himself stands far above Creation. 

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

This Creative Will is ''uniform'' in all Creation, to which the Ethereal World and the Gross Material World belong as ''one''. 

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

The strict form of the Primordial Will is plain and simple. 

Once it is recognised we easily discover it in everything. 

The complexity and incomprehensibility of many happenings lies solely in the manifold interlacing of the detours and by - paths formed by the varied volition of men. 

Thus the Work of God, the World, is as Creation subject to the Divine Laws, which are constant in all things and perfect; it also issued from them, and is therefore finite. 

The artist, for example, also is in his work, merges with it, and yet personally stands beside it. 

The work is limited and transient, but not the talent of the artist on the account. 

The artist, that is, the creator of the work, can destroy his work, in which lies his volition, without himself being affected by it. 

Nevertheless he will still remain the artist. 

We recognise and discern the artist in his work, and he becomes familiar to us without our needing to see him personally. 

We have his works, his volition lies in them and influences us, he confronts us in them, and yet may himself be living his own life far away from us. 

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

It is only the ''cycle'' of Creation, in its continuous coming into being, disintegration and re - formation, that is eternal and without end, thus infinite. 

All the revelations and prophesies, too, are fulfilled within this happening. 

Finally the ''Last Judgment'' for the earth will also be fulfilled in it! 

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

It is a process necessary in that particular part of Creation which reaches the point in its cycle where its disintegration must set in, so that it can form itself anew on its further course. 

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

Again, by reason of the consistency of the Natural Laws, the point at which disintegration of each celestial globe must begin is precisely determined. 

A very definite place at which the process of disintegration ''must'' develop, irrespective of the condition of the celestial globe concerned and of its inhabitants. 

The cycle drives every celestial globe irresistibly towards this point, the hour of disintegration will be fulfilled without delay; as with everything in Creation this actually denotes only a transformation, the opportunity for a further development. 

Then the hour of the ''either - or'' has come for every human being. 

Either he is raised high towards the Light if he strives for the spiritual, or he remains chained to the World of Matter, to which he clings if out of conviction he declares that only material things are of value. 

In that case, through the lawful consequence of his own volition, he is unable to rise from the World of Matter, and on the last stretch of the way he is drawn with it into disintegration. 

This then is spiritual death! Equivalent to effacement from the Book of Life. 

This process, in itself quite natural, is also designated as eternal damnation, because he who is thus drawn along into disintegration ''must cease to be personal''. 

It is the most dreadful thing that can befall man. 

He is considered as a ''rejected stone'', which cannot be used for a spiritual building and must therefore be ground to dust. 

This separation of spirit from matter, likewise taking place by reason of quite natural processes and Laws is the so - called ''Last Judgment'', which is connected with great upheavals and transformations. 

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

But we are well into the early stages of this epoch. 

The earth now approaches the point at which it diverges from its hitherto existing course, which must also make itself strongly felt in gross matter. 

Then the separation among all men, which has already been prepared for some time, but which until now has only manifested itself in ''opinion and convictions'', will set in more sharply. 

Every hour of an earth - life is therefore more precious than ever. He who earnestly seeks, and is willing to learn, should exert all his strength to tear himself from base thoughts, which must chain him to earthly things. 

Otherwise he is in danger of remaining attached to the World of Matter, and being drawn with it towards complete disintegration. 

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

Then the division between Light and Darkness will be finally accomplished, and the Judgment fulfilled. 

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

This is accomplished through the natural effect of the Divine Laws, which have lain in Creation from its very beginnings, which brought forth Creation itself, and which also now and in the future unswervingly bear the Will of the Creator. 

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

In considering this cycle of Creation, one may picture a gigantic funnel or a gigantic cave, from which in an incessant stream there perpetually gushes forth primordial seed, striving in rotating movements towards fresh union and development. 

Exactly as science already knows and has correctly noted. 

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

Exactly as it is in the process that is visible to the physical eye in connection with plant, animal and human bodies, where there ensue from the seed the development, forming, maturity and harvest or decay, thus entailing a change, disintegration, leading to further development, so is it also in great world events. 

The gross materially visible celestial globes, surrounded as they are by a far greater ethereal environment that is therefore invisible to the physical eye, are subject to the same process in their eternal cycle, because the same Laws are active in them. 

Not even the most fanatical sceptic is able to deny the existence of primordial seed, and yet it cannot be seen by any physical eye because it is of a different substance which lies in the ''beyond''. 

Let us again simply call it ethereal. 

Nor is it difficult to understand that in the natural order of things the world that ''first'' forms itself from primordial seed is equally ethereal, and not discernible with the physical eyes. 

Only ''later'' the ''coarsest'' precipitation further resulting from it gradually forms, dependent on the Ethereal World, the Gross Material World with its gross material bodies; and it is ''only that'' which can be observed from its minutest beginning with the physical eyes and with all additional gross material aids. 

It is no different with the covering of the real man in his spiritual nature, of whom I shall yet speak later. 

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

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

This immense ethereal environment has likewise been created from the primordial seed. 

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

As with the action of the heart and the blood circulation, the funnel is like the heart of material creation. 

Thus the process of disintegration involves the whole of Creation, including the ethereal part, because ''everything'' that is material is again dissolved into primordial seed in order to form itself anew. 

There is nothing arbitrary in this, but everything develops out of natural consistency of the Primordial Laws, which permit of no other course. 

Hence at a certain point of the great cycle the moment arrives for all that is created, whether gross material or ethereal, when the process of disintegration is prepared independently from out of what is created, and finally break through. 

Now this Ethereal World is the transitional dwelling - place of the earthly departed, the so - called beyond. 

It is closely connected with the Gross Material World, which is part of it and one with it. 

At the moment of death man, with his ethereal body, which he bears along with the gross material body, enters the homogeneous ethereal environment of the Gross Material World, while he leaves the gross material body behind on the latter. 

Now this Ethereal World, the beyond, belonging as it does to Creation, is subject to the same Laws of continuous development and disintegration. 

With the setting - in of decay, a separation of the spiritual from the material again takes place in a perfectly natural way. 

According to man's spiritual state in the Gross Material World as well as in the Ethereal World, the spiritual man, the real ''ego'', must either move upwards or remain chained to the World of Matter. 

The serious longing for Truth and Light will, by virtue of the change it works in him, make each person spiritually purer and thus more luminous, so that this condition must naturally detach him more and more from dense matter, and drive him upwards in proportion to his purity and lightness. 

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

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

A final decision! Men in both worlds will either be so far ennobled that they can be uplifted to the Regions of Light, or they will remain bound in their base nature through their own volition and thereby be finally hurled down into ''eternal damnation''. 

This means that together with matter, from which they cannot detach themselves, they will be drawn towards disintegration, and therewith cease to be personal. 

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

Hence this so - called ''Last Judgment'', that is, the Final Judgment, is likewise a happening which through the operation of the  Laws upholding Creation takes place in an absolutely natural manner, and in such a way that it could not be otherwise. 

Here, too, man always receives only the fruits of what he himself has willed, that is to say, what he himself brings about through his conviction. 

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

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

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

Through his will he is able to lift himself out of the Work, and at the same time contribute to its higher evolution; or he can drag it down and become entangled in it so that he can no longer free himself and will continue with it towards dissolution, whether in the Gross Material World or in the Ethereal World. 

Therefore strive to free yourselves from all ties arising from base feelings; for it is high time! 

The hour approaches when the period allotted for this will have expired! 

Awake in yourselves the longing for the pure, the true and the noble! - 

Far above the eternal cycle of Creation there floats like a crown in the centre an ''Azure Island'', the abode of the blessed, of the purified spirits, who may already dwell in the Regions of the Light! 

This Island is separate from the World. 

Therefore it has no part in the cycle; but in spite of its height above the rotating Creation, it constitutes the support and the centre for the outgoing spiritual forces. 

It is the island that bears on its height the much - praised city with its streets of gold. 

Here nothing is subject any longer to change. 

No ''Last Judgment'' is to be feared any more. 

Those who can dwell there are ''at home''. 

But as the last, as the highest on this Azure Island, inaccessible to those not specially called, stands the . . . Grail Castle, so often spoken of in poetry! Encompassed by legends, the object of longing to so many, it stands there in the Light of Greatest Glory and harbours the Sacred Vessel of the Pure Love of the Almighty, the Grail! 

The purest of spirits are appointed as guardians. 

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

Through revelations, tidings of the Castle were brought down stage by stage the immense distance from the Azure Island through the Ethereal World, until finally, through a few deeply inspired poets, they also became known among people of the gross material earth. 

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

If now from some part of the great Creation in dire distress, suffering and ardent appeals rise to the Creator, then a servant of the Vessel is sent forth as a bearer of this Love to intervene helpingly in the spiritual need. 

What floats merely as myth and a legend in the Work of Creation then enters Creation as a living reality! 

Such mission, however, do not often occur. 

Each time they are are accompanied by incisive changes and great upheavals. 

Those who are thus sent bring Light and Truth to the erring, Peace to the despairing; with their message they stretch forth their hands to all who seek, offering them new courage and new strength, and guiding them through all Darkness up to the Light. 

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

                                                                                                                         WORLD      EVENTS

THERE is no greater danger to a cause than to leave a gap in its presentation which needs filling up, as may often be intuitively sensed. 

It is of no avail to pass it over because such a gap hinders all progress. 

Any building erected over it will inevitably collapse sooner or later, even if the greatest skill and best materials have been used. 

Such is the case with the various Christian religious communities of today. 

They persistently close their eyes and ears to certain points of their teaching which can be sensed as illogical. 

They try to dismiss them with empty phrases instead of taking thought in all seriousness. 

They readily apprehend the danger that one day the temporary bridges they have built over such gaps through a teaching of blind faith will no longer suffice, and they dread the moment when enlightenment will show up the flimsy character of these structures. 

Moreover they know that they will then no longer be able to persuade anybody to follow such a deceitful course, with the natural result that all the rest of their teaching, however sound, will also be discarded. 

They also realise that a single flash of fresh truth must sweep away such artificial constructions. 

Still, for want of something better, they seek to maintain their swaying plank in spite of every danger. 

Even worse, they are prepared to defend their position by every means in their power, and would destroy him who dared to provide a firmer crossing over the gap through the Truth Itself! 

Without any hesitation they would try to repeat what occurred here on earth nearly two thousand years ago, and which still casts its shadow right down to the present day. 

Yet they themselves, while using that event as the subject of a great accusation against the blindness and pernicious stubbornness of mankind, also make it the focal point of their own teaching and faith. 

It was the ''church dignitaries'' and scholars of that time, with their narrow dogmatism and a conceit which betrayed their weakness, who were unable to recognise the Truth and the Son of God. 

They also closed themselves against it, hating and persecuting Him and His followers out of envy and fear, whereas other people more readily opened themselves to the recognition and were quicker to perceive the Truth of the Word. 

Although the present heads of Christian religious communities lay special stress on the Son of God's path of suffering, they have learned and profited nothing from this fact. 

It is just the present leaders of communities based on Christ's teaching, as well as the leaders of newer movements, who would today try to eliminate any man who, by revealing the Truth Itself, could  endanger the swaying bridges over the precarious gaps in their teachings and interpretations. 

They would persecute him with hatred born of fear and even more of vanity, exactly as happened once before. 

They would lack the greatness to endure the fact that their own knowledge was insufficient to enable them to recognise the Truth and fill the gaps, and thus help to smooth the path for mankind towards easier understanding and complete grasping of It. 

''And yet it is only possible for mankind to ascend by fully grasping the Truth; but they can never do so by blind ignorant faith!'' 

One such gap created by an erroneous transmission concerns the concept of the ''Son of Man''. 

People cling to it morbidly, like Pharisees who did not want to open themselves to the Truth brought by the Son of God, which opposed their conventional and rigid teachings. 

Christ spoke of himself ''only'' as the Son of God. 

It was far from His thoughts to be so illogical as to call Himself also the Son of Man. 

Even if, as a result of their own doubts, people have tried with greater artistry and skill in every direction to clarify this obvious contradiction between the Son of God and the Son of Man, which is intuitively sensed by every person who reflects quietly, it cannot be asserted in spite of all their efforts that they have managed to ''unify'' them. 

The most favourable of all the interpretations could but repeatedly show a dual personality ''each standing beside the other'', but never appearing as ''one!'' 

This is quite in the natural order of things. 

The Son of God cannot become the Son of Man just because He had to be born of a human body so as to enable Him to walk on earth. 

Every Christian knows that the Son of God came only on a ''spiritual'' mission, and that all His words referred to the ''Spiritual Kingdom'' and were thus meant ''spiritually''. 

Consequently His repeated references to the Son of Man may not from the very outset be interpreted in any other way! 

Why should an exception be made here? 

In the spiritual sense, however, Christ was and remained only the ''Son of God!'' 

Therefore when He spoke of the Son of Man He could not possibly mean Himself! 

There is something far more stupendous in all this than is indicated in the present interpretations of the Christian religions. 

This obvious contradiction should long ago have induced men to more serious reflection, had it not been for the fetters of dogmatism darkening everything! 

Instead of making the serious investigations which are absolutely necessary to such incisive matters, they clung tenaciously to the transmitted words, thus putting on ''blinkers'' that hindered a free view.  

The natural consequence is that these interpreters and teachers, although they stand in the Creation of their God, are not even able to understand this Creation aright. 

Yet this carries the only possible prospect of coming closer to the Creator Himself, the Origin of all that is created! 

In the first place Christ taught absolute naturalness, which means adjusting oneself to the Laws of Nature, and thus of Creation. 

But only he who knows these laws can adapt himself to them. 

Again these Laws of Nature embody the Will of the Creator, and therefore provide the path to the recognition of the Creator Himself. 

Whoever knows the Laws of Nature will also experience with what absolute precision they gear into each other. 

He therefore knows that their activity is unchangeable in the steady consistency with which it drives forward, as is also the Will of the Creator, God the Father. 

Every divergence would mean  a change of the Divine Will. 

A change, however, would indicate imperfection. 

But since the Primordial Source of All Being, God the Father, is unity and perfection, it follows that even the minutest deviation in the Laws of Nature, thus the laws of development, would be simply impossible and out of the question from the very start. 

This fact imposes the condition that the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of natural science must in every respect coincide in perfect clarity and consistency if they are to represent the ''Truth!'' 

That natural science today still has a very limited range of knowledge compared with the whole of Creation is not denied, as  it has merely kept to the World of Gross Matter, because the intellect of today can tackle what is bound to time and space. 

The one absolutely unpardonable mistake made is that the disciples of this science try to ridicule and deny the existence of anything which goes beyond its range, except for a few scientists who have lifted themselves above the average and become more far - sighted, and who refused to cloak their ignorance with conceit. 

Although the science of religion extends much further, it nevertheless remains dependent upon the Natural Laws which reach out beyond all that is bound to time and space and which, coming from the Primordial Source, extend down into what is physically visible without a break or change in their nature. For this reason there may be neither gaps nor contradictions in religious teachings if they are really to accord with the Truth and thus with the Laws of Nature or the Divine Will, that is if they are to harbour the ''Truth''. 

Leading and responsible teachings cannot permit themselves the liberty of a blind faith! 

The erroneous conception concerning the Son of Man therefore weighs heavily upon the followers of the true Christian teachings, because they quietly accept and carry on wrong transmissions, in spite of the fact that from time to time a contrary intuition quietly warns many people. 

It is the very immutability and perfection of the Divine Will which precludes any arbitrary interference of God in Creation. 

And it is this same perfection which is unable simply to eliminate Lucifer after he had fallen through his wrong actions! 

It also has to allow men to misuse the Natural Laws, the Divine Will, because the human spirit, in virtue of its origin from the eternal Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality, has been granted the freedom of decision. 

''It is just because of this immutable perfection of the Creator's Will that it must appear bound to a certain extent when it evidences itself in the happenings of ethereal and gross material Creation!'' 

But upon this being recognised, only inferior and small human spirits will regard it as a limitation of the Power and Magnitude. 

Such a view would merely be the result of their own narrow - mindedness! 

It is the vastness of the whole problem that confuses them, because actually they can only envisage it within the narrower limits which correspond to their own understanding! 

He, however, who makes an honest effort to recognise his Creator in His Work will, when he follows the sure road of the Natural Laws, receive a convincing idea of the vastness and extent of the manifestations that have their beginning in the Primordial Source, i. e., the starting point of all happenings, whence they spread through Creation like irremovable railway lines, along which all further life unrolls itself according to the position of the points. 

The turning of the points, however, is done ''automatically'' by the ''human spirit'' on its journey through the World of Matter. 

Unfortunately the majority allow themselves to be induced through Lucifer's principle to turn the points in the wrong direction, and so their lives, in accordance with the immutable laws of continuous development which pervade all material Creation like railway lines, roll more and more downwards towards a very definite final goal, a goal conforming to their attitude! 

The direction in which the free decision turns the points can be exactly observed or intuitively perceived from the Point of Origin On High, making it possible clearly to recognise what will be the further course, which can only run along those lines which the Laws anchored in Creation have laid down according to the decision taken. 

''This circumstance enables many events to be foreseen'', because the Laws of Nature or Creation never deviate in their urge to develop. 

Here millennia make no difference. 

Out of these clearly foreseen and final irrevocable goals come forth the great revelations shown to the specially blessed in spiritual pictures which, when passed on, come to the knowledge of mankind. 

One thing, however, ''cannot'' be accurately predicted - ''the earthly time'' at which these revelations and promises find their fulfilment! 

This will come to pass at the hour when such a life, travelling along the line it has chosen, reaches a foreseen intermediate station or the terminus. 

The fate of man, of the nation, indeed of all humanity, may be compared to a train standing and waiting on a single track connected to lines leading in all directions. 

Man switches the points as it pleases him, jumps on to the engine and turns on the steam, which means he animates it. 

As soon as he turns on to the line he has chosen one can mention each station and terminus only, but never give the exact hour of arrival, for this depend on the speed at which the train travels, and that may vary according to the nature of people. 

For it is ''man who animates'' the engine, and he will drive it forward in accordance with his own nature, either with quiet evenness or impetuous temperament, or with alternate variations. 

The nearer such a train - whether representing a single individual, a nation, or all mankind - gets to a station lying on the line of its fate, the more surely can its arrival be foreseen and foretold! 

Connected to the network of lines are a few branch lines which, by turning the points occasionally ''during the journey'', can be used to change its direction and so reach another terminus than the one first contemplated. 

It is obviously necessary in this case to slow down when reaching such points, and then to stop and turn them. 

The slowing down represents the act of reflection, and the stopping the decision taken by man, which he is always free to make until he reaches the last opportunity to choose. 

The turning of the points is the deed that follows his decision. 

The Divine Will which, like railway lines, penetrates the World of Matter in the form of the firmly established Natural Laws, may also be called the nerves in the work of Creation, which detect every unevenness in the gigantic body of Creation and report it to the starting point, the Creative Primordial Source. This precise survey which, through the immutable laws, the Creator possesses over everything to its final end, causes Him to supplement His revelations with ''promises'' proclaiming the advent of helpers to be sent by Him in time, when a train is seen to be approaching the most dangerous curves, intermediary stations and termini! 

Properly equipped by Him, such helpers are intended to open the eyes of those human spirits who are travelling along the wrong track, by proclaiming the Truth shortly before inevitable catastrophes and dangerous changes take place! 

This serves to enable mankind to change the points in time, thus avoiding the increasingly dangerous places and also escaping the fatal terminus by taking a new direction! 

As the Creator cannot alter the Perfection of His own Will, He will also, in connection with this help, keep exactly to the existing laws. 

In other words, His Will is perfect from the Primordial beginning. 

Every new expression of His Will must naturally also be perfect! 

This presupposes that every new Act of Will issuing from Him must also bear within itself the same laws as those that preceded it. 

Consequently it will fit itself precisely into the course of development prevailing in the Ethereal and Gross Material Worlds. 

By virtue of the Perfection of God any other possibility is absolutely excluded! 

It was through this already explained foreseeing that the promise of the coming of the Son of God in the flesh was given. 

By proclaiming the Truth He was to induce mankind to turn their points! 

According to the laws, however, the act of turning the points is reserved to the human spirits themselves. 

As a result it is not possible to foresee how  they will decide. 

It is only those lines ''already chosen'' by the human spirits, in which they have already fixed the points according to their free decisions, which can be exactly surveyed with all the stations and curves right to the terminus. 

This naturally excludes those turning - points which are still to be determined by a free decision of mankind, for this right is also just as immutable as everything else, due to the natural lawfulness of coming into existence and development through the Perfection of God. 

And as the Creator has granted this right to the human spirits because of their origin in the Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality, He does not demand to know beforehand what their decision will be! 

It is only ''the consequence'' of such a decision which He can clearly recognise to its very end, because it will then have to work itself out within His Will which rests in the laws governing Ethereal and Gross Material Creation. 

If it were otherwise the reason could only be found in a lack of perfection, and this is absolutely out of the question! 

Thus man should always be fully aware of this his immense responsibility, that he is really independent in his basic decisions! 

Unfortunately, however, he imagines himself either as a totally dependent slave or, over - rating himself, as a part of the Divine! 

The probable reason for this is that in both cases he considers himself relieved of all responsibility; in the one case as being too low and dependent a creature, and in the other as standing far above it! 

Both of these views are wrong! 

He should look upon himself as an administrator who has the free right of decision in certain matters, but also full responsibility; who thus enjoys great confidence, but who must not abuse it by being a bad householder! 

And it is just this perfection which makes it necessary that, when sending direct help to mankind travelling on a wrong course, the Creator must reckon with the possibility of their failing to come to a right decision! 

In His Wisdom and Love, which are the inherent, lawful and natural attributes of the Creator, He has still other means in reserve to afford help in such cases. 

These join up as a continuation with the former course, which had been cut off through the failure of mankind. 

Thus before the Son of God was incarnated upon earth, another revelation of the Truth was being prepared in the Eternal Kingdom of the Father, in case of humanity should fail in spite of the Father's great sacrifice of Love. 

If mankind did not heed the warning of the Son of God, with His Pure Divine attitude, to the extent that they turned the points in the direction He indicated, but blindly continued on their course leading to destruction, then another Messenger should be sent out Who could stand closer to the inmost nature of mankind than did the Son of God. 

He was once more to admonish and lead them in the last hour if . . . they desired to listen to His call of Truth! 

''That is the Son of Man!'' 

Christ as the Son of God knew about this! 

On recognising during His Mission how choked and parched were the souls of men, it became clear to Him that His Ministration on earth would not bear the fruit which, given the good volition of mankind, should have ripened. 

He grieved deeply about this, for He knew so well the Laws of Creation that bear the Will of His Father, and He could clearly foresee the way things were bound to develop towards the inevitable end, which the nature and volition of man were certain to bring about! 

It was then that He began to speak about the Son of Man, Whose advent would become necessary because of the course events had taken. 

His great Mission left two ways open for mankind to decide upon - either to follow His teaching and so ascend, avoiding all that brings destruction, or to fail and descend still further on the downward road leading to destruction. 

The further He came towards the fulfilment of His great Mission the more clearly He saw that the decision of the great majority of mankind was inclined towards failure and thus towards destruction! 

Consequently His utterances about the Son of Man formed themselves into direct promises and proclamations, such as when He declared: ''But when the Son of Man cometh . . . '', etc.! 

Therewith He marked the time just prior to the danger of destruction, which was bound to be the ultimate end according to the Divine Laws operating in the World of Matter, because of the failure of mankind towards His Mission and their insistence on continuing their chosen course. 

The realisation caused Him intense suffering, for He was Love incarnate! 

Every transmission affirming that Jesus, the Son of God, at the same time called Himself the Son of Man is wrong! 

The Divine Laws cannot hold anything so illogical, nor can it be ascribed to the Son of God Who Himself knew the Laws and carried them within Him! 

The ''disciples'' could not grasp this, as was evident from their questions. 

They alone spread the error which has prevailed up to the present day. 

They thought that the Son of God meant Himself when He used the expression ''the Son of Man'' and, acting on this assumption, transmitted this error to posterity! 

Neither did succeeding generations trouble to concern themselves more seriously with the want of logic inherent in it than did the disciples themselves! They simply disregarded it, partly from diffidence and partly from indolence, although the all - embracing Love of the Creator would have evidenced itself all the more clearly and powerfully by a rectification of the error. 

Following in the footsteps of the Son of God, that is, taking up and carrying on His Mission, the Son of Man will face mankind on earth as the Envoy of God the Father, so as to drag them back from their present course by proclaiming  the Truth, and induce them voluntarily to decide to change their attitude. This will lead them away from destruction that now awaits them! Son of God and Son of Man! 

Surely it is not so hard to discover that there must be difference between these Two? 

Each of these words has its own clearly defined, strictly marked meaning, and those who would mix and fuse them into one must forthwith be stamped as too indolent to think. 

Hearers and readers of my lectures will be aware of how the natural process of development, beginning with Primordial Light, which is God the Father, descends right down too the globes of the Gross Material World. 

The Son of God came from Divinity Unsubstanstiate, quickly passing through all the spheres until He was incarnated in the World of Gross Matter. 

This is a process of radiation! 

Therefore it is absolutely right to call Him the Son of God Who became flesh. 

His rapid transit through the Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality (it is only there that the human spirit has its origin) permitted Him neither there, nor subsequently in the ethereal part of Creation, to gain a foothold strong enough so that His core of Divine Unsubstantiality could obtain the strong protecting covers of these different natures. 

Consequently these covers, which otherwise serve as a protective armour, remained thin! 

This had the advantage that His innermost Divine nature burst through and shone forth more easily and strongly, but it also had the drawback that in the regions of the earth hostile to the Light it was all the more quickly opposed and furiously attacked because it stood out. 

The strong Divine part, which was only thinly veiled in the physical vessel, had to remain a stranger among men, something which stood too far apart. Figuratively speaking, one might say that His Divine core was insufficiently armed and equipped for the lower Gross Material Sphere, through the lack of absorption from the Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality and the Ethereal World. 

The gulf between the Divine and earthly parts was but slightly bridged. 

As mankind neither heeded nor treasured this gift of Divine Love but, through the natural driving power of all Darkness, faced the luminous Son of God with animosity and hatred, a second Envoy, better equipped for the World of Gross Matter, had to come - the Son of Man! 

The Son of Man is also an Envoy of God and has issued from Divinity Unsubstantiate, which was also a process of radiation! 

Before beginning His Mission in the World of Gross Matter, He was incarnated in the World of Primordial Spiritual Substantiality, and was thus closely connected with that spiritual species in which the seed - germ of the human spirit originates. 

Thus the Divine Unsubstantiate core of this second Envoy comes nearer to the origin of the human spirit; thereby gaining greater protection and direct power against it! 

It was only after being in this sphere that He was sent down on His Mission to the World of Gross Matter at that time which enabled Him to arrive at the proper hour on the field of battle, there to show the right way into the Kingdom of the Father to all those seriously seeking God and asking for spiritual guidance and, at the same time, to protect them against the attacks of those who are hostile and striving downwards! 

Therefore, be on your guard, so that you may recognise Him as soon as His time is come, for that will also be your time!  

                                                                                                                                 ASCENT

YOU WHO are striving for recognition, do not entangle yourselves in a web, but become seeing! 

Through an Eternal Law you are burdened with an irrevocable obligation to make atonement, which you can never cast upon others. 

What you burden yourselves with through your thoughts, words or deeds can be redeemed by no one but yourselves! Consider, were it otherwise Divine Justice would be but an empty sound, in which case everything else would also crumble into ruins. 

Therefore free yourselves! 

Do not delay a single hour in setting a limit to this enforced atonement! 

The honest volition for what is good, for something better, reinforced by a truly heartfelt prayer, ''will bring redemption!'' 

Without the honest, steadfast volition for good there can never be atonement. 

Evil will then perpetually find ever fresh nourishment to keep it alive, and thus require ever new atonement, unceasingly, so that through constant renewal it only appears to you as a ''single'' vice or affliction! 

Whereas it is a whole chain without end, continually binding anew even before the old could be severed. 

Then there will never be redemption because of the demand for constant atonement. 

It is like a chain that keeps you fettered to the ground; and there is very great danger of being dragged still further down. 

Therefore, you who are still in this world or already in what you regard as the beyond, pull yourselves together at last and concentrate your volition on what is good! 

With steadfast good volition the end of all atonements ''must'' come, since he who wills what is good and acts accordingly will incur no fresh debts demanding further atonement. 

This will then bring deliverance, redemption, which alone permit ascent to the Light. 

''Listen to the warning!'' 

''There is no other way for you!'' 

''For no one!'' 

But thereby everyone also receives the certainty that it can never be too late. 

For the individual deed, that you will have to redeem and settle, certainly; yet in the moment when you earnestly begin to strive for the good you mark the end of your atonement. 

Rest assured that this end ''must'' come one day, and your ascent will therewith begin! 

You can then joyfully start working off all your karmaic burden. 

Whatever you then still encounter is for your own good and brings you nearer to the hour of redemption, of liberation. 

Do you now understand the value of my counsel to start exerting yourselves with all your strength for what is good, and to keep your thoughts pure? 

Not giving up, but pursuing this course with all your longing, all your energy? 

It will uplift you! 

It will change you and your environment! 

Bear in mind that every life on earth is a short time of schooling, and that you yourselves do not cease to exist when you lay aside your physical body. 

You will continually live or continually die! 

Continually enjoy bliss or continually suffer! 

Whoever imagines that with earthly burial everything is also ended and balanced for him, may turn and go his own way; for he is only trying to delude himself thereby. 

Horrified, he will come face to face with the Truth and . . . will ''have'' to begin his path of suffering! 

His true self, deprived of the protection of his body, whose density surrounded him like a wall, will then be attracted, enveloped and held fast by what is homogeneous. 

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

He must suffer doubly under everything he has created for himself. 

For this reason ascent is much harder than when he was in the flesh, where good and evil dwell side by side, which only the protection of the physical body makes possible because . . . this earth - life is a school in which every ''ego'' is given the opportunity of further development according to its free will. Therefore rouse yourselves at last! The fruit of every thought will return to you, here or there, and you have to taste of it! 

No one can escape this fact! 

Of what use is it to try and bury your head timidly in the sand like an ostrich, to evade this reality? 

Face the facts boldly! 

You thereby make it easy for yourselves; for here progress is quicker. 

Make a start! 

But realise that all old debts must be settled. 

Do not expect blessings to rain down upon you immediately, as many fools do. 

Perhaps some of you still have a long chain to expiate. 

But he who despairs on that account only harms himself, because it cannot be spared and remitted him. 

Through hesitation he only makes everything more difficult for himself, perhaps for a long time impossible. 

This should spur him on not to delay another hour; for he only begins to live when he takes the first step! 

Happy is he who plucks up the courage to do so, for link by link he will be released. 

He can rush ahead with giant strides, jubilantly and gratefully overcoming also the last obstacles; for he becomes free! 

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

With tender forbearance the way will be made as easy for him as a child's first steps, aided by its mother. 

Should there be things in his former life that were a silent source of apprehension to him, and which he would rather let sleep forever . . . quite unexpectedly he will be placed directly before them! 

He must decide, must act. 

In a striking way he is urged to do so through the enchainments. 

If he then ventures to take the first step, trusting in the victory of the good volition, the fateful knot is severed, he passes through and is freed from it. 

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

Thus one by one the fetters that restricted and were bound to weigh him down are burst. 

He feels so light! 

And the feeling of lightness which some of you have surely experienced at one time or another is no illusion, but the effect of reality. 

The spirit thus freed from pressure becomes light and, in accordance with the Law of Spiritual Gravity, leaps upwards, to that region to which in accordance with its lightness it now belongs. 

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

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

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

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

Because it is an irrefutable fact: What you do for your neighbour you do in reality only for yourselves! Solely for yourselves, since according to the Eternal Laws everything returns to you without fail, good or evil, either already here or there. 

It will surely come! 

Thus you are shown the simplest of ways in which this step to the good volition is to be understood. 

You should give to your neighbour with your ''being'', your nature! 

Not necessarily with money or goods. 

For then those without means would be excluded from the possibility of giving. 

And in this being, in this ''giving yourself'' in the relation with your neighbour, in the consideration and respect you voluntarily offer him, lies the ''love'' of which Jesus speaks; lies also the help you give to your neighbour, because it enables him to change himself or ascend further, and because he gains strength from it. 

The returning radiations of this, however, will quickly uplift you in their reciprocal action. 

You will receive continually new strength through them. 

With a soaring flight you will then be able to strive towards the Light . . .  

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

Is it a question of a business deal? 

And were they only to gain as human beings, to become ennobled as such, that alone would be reward enough. 

But there is infinitely more to it! 

I repeat: The moment a man begins to exert his good volition he also marks the end of his obligation to make atonement, which he must fulfil and can never escape. 

In this respect no one else can take his place. 

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

Of such great value is this that all the treasures of this world cannot outweigh it. 

He thus struggles free from the chains that fetter him, which he is constantly forging for himself. 

Therefore rouse yourselves from your enervating sleep. 

Let the awakening come at last! 

Away with the intoxication that brings the paralysing delusion that redemption through the Saviour has become a letter of safe conduct, enabling you to spend your whole life in careless selfishness, provided that in the end you embrace the faith, turn back, and depart this earth believing in the Saviour and His Work! 

Fools to expect such miserable, defective piecework from the Godhead! 

That indeed would mean cultivating evil! 

Remember this, and free yourselves!