THE  DIVINE  LOVE  OF   PUREST  JUSTIFICATION  ( JUSTICE ).

                                             THE        GODS        OLYMPUS         AND             VALHALLA  

For a long time now attempts have been made to find the right interpretation about  the gods known in the past ages and their very connection with the present time.

Called ones and scholars alike are seeking for a solution which will bring complete clarification!

However this will only be possible if the solution provides a comprehensive and unbroken survey over ''all'' the ages, from the beginning of the human race to the present day. 

Otherwise it will again remain incomplete. 

It is of no value just to pick out the period in which the well - known cults of the Greeks, Romans, and Teutons regarding gods were at their height.

So long as the explanations do not also freely and quite naturally embrace all evolution and disintegration they are wrong! 

In spite of much cleverness the attempts so far begun have always finally resulted in failure. 

They could never stand their ground before the deeper intuitive perception, and without a connection with the previous and succeeding periods could only hang in the air!

Nothing else can be expected when one closely scrutinises the development of man!

The hearers and readers of  my Grail Message should be able to discover for themselves how these matters actually stand!

They have even been partly relegated to the realm of sagas and legends, or efforts were made to accept them only as phantasies conjured up by religious beliefs, formed and thought out through observation of Nature and in context with every daily life!

Yet it should not be too hard for the thinker and investigator in finding ''more'' in the old lore than mere ''myths''!

He must even clearly see the ''actual occurrence''! 

Those  who wish to do so should follow the explanation!

 Here I would refer back to my lecture : ''Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!'' 

In that lecture I briefly described the history of mankind on earth from the very beginning until now. 

I also gave a glimpse into the future. 

In so doing I showed how midway in the cycle of Creation animistic, which stands lower than the spiritual, and had achieved fulfilment to the highest of its abilities in the World of Matter below it, and in the course of this fulfilment had opened the way for the entrance into the matter of the higher spiritual - a process which repeats itself continually in Creation.

I also explained how in the highest animal body  developed by the animistic, also called Primeval Man, there was created the opportunity which ''only then'' , that is,  during the climax of its development, permitted spirit - germ to enter, which promptly took place.

It is an opportunity which will always be provided anew, at this point of development in Creation. 

Thus into the most highly developed animal of that time entered something  new, the spiritual which had never been in it before!

It should not be hastily concluded from the foregoing that this process continuously repeats itself in the ''same''  part of the Universe as that part develops further, for this is not the case!

It happens only once in each part!

In the further development the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species also here effectively blocks a repetition in the same part of the Universe.

In this case the attraction of the homogeneous species is equivalent to the "admission" of the spirit - germs to the World of Matter during a certain state of half - ripeness and receptivity, the spirit - germs whirling about on its border are able to rush like meteoric showers into the World of Matter. There they are absorbed and enveloped, i.e., neatly protected and retained by the elements which have become receptive for this purpose, which in this case were the most highly developed animal bodies.

It is just the same on a small scale with the chemical process of amalgamation, in which  a foreign substance can only amalgamate with the absorbing substance when the latter has reached a very definite temperature, this degree of heat having in turn produced a very special and outstanding state of the absorbing substance which can only be attained at this particular temperature.

The slightest divergence from the exact condition again prevents an amalgamation, the substances repelling and remaining unapproachable to each other!

In this case the homogeneity of the two species lies in a certain condition of mutual maturity, which ''appears'' to indicate a great contradiction, but the balance is maintained through the difference in elevation of the two parts to be amalgamated.

The maturity of the lowest point of the spiritual is similar to the maturity of the highest point of the animistic lying below it.

Only at this exact point of meeting is amalgamation possible. 

An since in it's development the World of Matter unceasingly moves in a gigantic cycle  - budding, blossoming, ripening, and decaying, through over - ripeness, while the spiritual reposes above it - this process can only be sparked  at a very definite point during the time that the World of Matter passes by. 

This is a  spiritual fructification of the World of Matter, which has been developed for this purpose by the working of the animistic, and  longingly await consummation!

If a certain part of the world in it's cycle passes this point, the possibility of spiritual fructification ''by the spirit - germs'', ceases for this part, and the part following it  moves  into position . 

For the first part, however, a new stage commences in which maturing spirits can later find access to it, and so on. In this lecture I have no room to unfold the whole world picture, but a serious investigator may well conjecture the further development.

Due to it's higher nature the spiritual, even in it's unconscious state, exercised it's vital influence in a noticeable manner upon everything as soon as it entered the World of Matter - it began to dominate on it's arrival in the World of Matter!

How the spiritual then gradually raised the animal body to the level of the present human body my readers already comprehended!

The animal bodies of the most highly developed race of that time, into which no spirit - germs incarnated, came to a standstill in their development, however, because the animistic element, within them had already attained to the highest it could  attain to, and they lacked the power of the spirit to advance further. 

And with the standstill over - ripeness quickly set in, to be followed by retrogression and disintegration!

For these races there were only two possibilities, either development into human body through the power  of the spirit, or decay and extinction! 

And as result these matured animal species became completely extinct!

Let us now follow up the slow ''development'' of the at first unconscious spirit - germs to a state of ''consciousness'' as human spirit, and ''let us accompany it spiritually as step by step it penetrates the coverings enveloping it and the surroundings in which it lives''!

This is not so difficult because the process of development is quite plainly visible externally. 

One need only observe the human races ''still'' in existence on earth ''today''!

The Spirit of the most primitive people, for instance, which include the so - called savage tribes, and also the Bushmen, Hottentots, and so on, has perhaps been in the World of Matter just as long as that of other peoples, but has not kept pace in development, ''or after already ascending in this world or in the beyond has again retrogressed so far'', that it could be incarnated ''only'' in such ''lowly'' surroundings. 

Through their ''own guilt'' and in the natural course of events they either ''remain'' or are ''again'' on a low step, as a result of which their outlook upon the ''non-gross material'' environment is far from being of an uplifting nature!

The spiritual urge of desiring to see more than that which is on it's own step has always resided within the spirit - germs as part of it's essential nature, and therefore has a strong effect even in the lowest stages of development!

This is the living motive power ''within the human spirit'', the special element which is lacking in other kinds or species in Creation. 

The possibility of thus wishing to see or perceive is always provided, but for ''one'' step only ''above'' the one it stands upon at the time, and no further.

It is for this reason that the human souls standing on such a low step, who have so sinfully neglected their development, can similarly see or perceive only "base entities" through clairvoyance!

There are mediums and clairvoyant people among all races, regardless of what step they belong to.

Here I must once more mention especially that when I speak of "seeing" or "perceiving", I really only mean  that which is "personally seen" by the clairvoyant, according to my explanation!

But that which the "seeing ones" of all times can actually "see" is only the fourth part ''at the most'' of what they see.

And this again can be but one step above their own  inner maturity, and no more.

There is no other possibility!

But this circumstances constitutes at the same time a great natural protection for every clairvoyant!

It must not be assumed that mediums and clairvoyants are necessarily ''so'' matured and inwardly advanced as are the things, which they describe as having "seen" , for the purer and more luminous heights, the happenings and the spirits are ''shown'' to them only in ''living pictures'' by spirit guides and higher entities!

The clairvoyant, however, ''erroneously'' imagine that they have actually experienced all this, thus deceiving themselves about it.

Great surprise is often occasioned by the baseness of the characters of so many mediums, who describe things as though they had experienced and seen them, things which do not at all seem to fit their own characters, or very little! 

Therefore I speak ''here'' only of the narrow field of ''actual personal seeing" by mediums and clairvoyants! 

The rest is not brought to consideration!

The mediums and clairvoyants of ''all'' times should actually only serve the purpose of helping mankind  more and more upwards through their gifts, not as leaders but as instruments!

Mediums could never be leaders because they are much too dependent upon vibrations and other influences!

They are meant to be doors which is open from time to time for the purpose of furthering, development, rungs in the ladder of ascent!

If  you now realise that races standing on a low level of spiritual development can only see into the same base environment, with but little scope in an upward direction, it is not to understand that among the lower human races we find primarily the fear and worship of demons!

That is what they are able to see and perceive!

So much for a superficial consideration, but I shall go deeper with my explanation, although in so doing we branch off from the clear survey!

The spirit of the lower human races which has either never been developed or has again degenerated is naturally still ''spiritually blind" and "deaf", or has again become so. 

Such a person cannot see with his spiritual eye, ''nor unfortunately has this become possible to any man even to this day''!

The man still on the lower stage, however, cannot even see with his animistic eye, and just as little with his ethereal eye - they can only see with his gross material eye, which becomes ever sharper in the wilderness through the necessary personal struggle, with his fellow  - men, the animals and the elements, whereby he gradually learns to distinguish "finer''  and "finest'' gross matter!

Thus in the beginning they notice the "phantoms", entities which have only been ''formed'' through  men fear and anxiety, which also are sustained by these motions!

These phantoms ''which have no life of their own'', are completely dependent upon the intuitions of man.

They are attracted or repulsed by them. 

Here the Law of the Power of Attraction of all Homogeneous Species, takes effect.

Fear always attracts these forms produced by fear and anxiety, so that it appears as if they were absolutely rushing at the frightened human beings!

Since these phantoms are connected with their authors -  themselves frightened human beings - through flexible nourishing - strands, every fearful man is therefore always indirectly connected with the mass of anxious and fearful people, thus receiving additional nourishment which increases his own fear and anxiety all the more, and which may finally even drive him to despair and insanity!

Fearlessness or courage, on the other hand, absolutely repels such phantoms, in a very natural manner! 

Therefore, as is well known, the fearless man always has the advantage!

Is it then surprising if among the lower races the so - called medicine men and sorcerers came into being, whose caste was founded by ''clairvoyant persons'', because the latter were able to observe how such forms, erroneously considered entities with a life  of their own, are "repelled" through a little inner composure, by warding off fear through leaps and contortions, or through concentration or courage - instilling exorcisms!

If in our opinion they consequently think up ideas which appear impossible and ridiculous to us, that does not alter the fact that they are doing something ''which is quite right within the limits of their horizon'' and their power of comprehension, and that ''we'' alone are ignorant ones who lack understanding for such things!

It happens that, among the successors of these sorcerers and medicine - men there are naturally many men who had neither mediumistic nor clairvoyant abilities in any way, especially since this position brings them influence and  income, at which men  on the most inferior steps grab just as unscrupulously as those of the high  white race.

These non - clairvoyant successors then simply imitated all the actions of their predecessors without understanding what they were doing.

They even added a few more follies in order to make a greater impression, because they only valued the respect of their fellow-men!

Thus they became the crafty impostors who seek only their own advantage, and have not the slightest idea about the real meaning!

And today the whole caste is judged and condemned on their account!

This is the real reason why we first of all find only the fear and worship of demons among the lower human races!

It is what they are able to see and what they fear on account of it's different nature!

Let us now proceed to somewhat higher stages of development!

Here the ability to see reaches further, be it through clairvoyant or only unconsciously through perception, which is also a part of inner - seeing. 

Through these higher developments, further enveloping layers are pushed through from the inside upwards by the encased spirits, which are awakening more and more.

These spirits already see more friendly entities or know about them by perception, and thus they will gradually lose their demon - worship.

And so it goes on higher and higher, becoming more and more luminous!

With normal development the spirit pushes  further and further!

The Greeks, the Romans and the Teutons, for instance, could see still further! 

Their inner seeing reached beyond the World of Matter into the Animistic Sphere lying above it. 

In their more advanced development they could finally even ''see the Lords of the Elementals and of Elements".

A few mediumistic among them, by virtue of their ability, could  even enjoy a closer relationship with them, because these created beings of the Conscious Animistic Sphere have a certain affinity to ''that'' animistic substantiality of which  man also  carries a part within himself in addition to the spiritual!

To see, to feel and to hear the elementals was the highest the  peoples could achieve in their stage of development ''at that time''!

It is only natural that these peoples should then look upon the mighty Lords of the Elements, whose activity and nature were so different from their own, as the highest possible, calling them gods, and their high impregnable fastnesses, which really exists, Olympus and Valhalla!

Any outward expression of the inner seeing and hearing of men is always dependent upon their ''personal'' ability to comprehend and to express at the time. 

Thus it is that the Greeks, the Romans and the Teutons depicted the ''same'' Lords of the Elements and of all that is animistic in form and conception, but always in accordance with the views prevailing in their surroundings!

Despite some differences in their descriptions they were the same, however!

If today, for example, five or more really good clairaudients are assembled, and all of them simultaneously hear a very definite sentence ''spoken in the "beyond", then only the "sense" of what they heard will be rendered uniformly, but not the actual words.

Each will report the words differently, even hear them differently, because even in the reception much that is ''personal'' makes itself felt!

It is the same as with music, which is perceived quite differently by the various listeners, yet recognized as being fundamentally the same!

I must only gradually reveal the details regarding the far - reaching secondary phenomena in the relation between the  earthman and the Universe, as today it would divert us too far from the subject under discussion!

When in later times "called''  peoples, that is, those who were most highly developed inwardly (intellectual development does not count in these matters), were able to burst - through this boundary of the Animistic Sphere as they matured through their experiences, their seeing or perception penetrated ''to the threshold of the Spiritual Realm"!

The natural consequence was that, they had to dethrone the past gods as such and replace them, with was higher. 

Despite this, however, they unfortunately ''did not advance'' so far as to become able ''to see what is spiritual" !

Thus the Spiritual Realm remained ''closed'' to them, because the  normal course of development, was halted at this point, restrained by the ever - increasing growth of intellectual conceit!

Only a few exceptions  saved themselves from this standstill, such as Buddha and few others who, by renouncing the world, succeeded in continuing in their development in a normal manner, and in seeing spiritually to a certain definite degree!

This renunciation of the world, or turning away from mankind for the purpose of further spiritual development, became necessary through the one - sided training of the intellect, which gradually increased it's domination more and more and became antagonistic to all that is spiritual.

It was a natural form of self - protection" against the increasing spiritual decline, which would not be necessary at all if the ''general'' development is normal!

On the contrary, for when  a man reaches a certain height, in his spiritual development he must continue to strengthen himself through further activity, otherwise, he will become lax, which would quickly put a stop to further advance!

Standstill, would then ensue, speedily followed by retrogression!

Although the further spiritual development of Buddha and others succeeded only to a certain degree, i.e., it was incomplete, still this greatly increased their remoteness from their fellow-men, so that such  normally developed human beings came to be regarded as Divine Envoys, whereas what in fact happened was that only a new conception arose quite naturally through their further spiritual progress!

Those human beings, who had risen above the masses (which had halted and partly retrogressed spiritually) stood only at the open door to the Spiritual World, where they could perceive certain things vaguely, ''but could never see clearly''.

Yet they distinctly sensed and intuitively perceived a powerful conscious ''uniform" guidance coming from above, from a world into which they were never able to see!

Yielding to this intuition they now formed the idea of  ''one invisible God, without knowing anything further about Him!

It is therefore understandable that they regarded this God, Whom they had merely sensed, as the highest ''spiritual'' being, because the spiritual region was very new to them and they were still standing only on it's "threshold".

Thus it was that their new idea of an invisible God was only correct as to the fact, ''but not to the conception'', because their conception of "Him", was wrong!

The human spirit ''has never envisaged the''  God ''as He really is!

Man thought of Him merely as the ''Highest Spiritual Being''!

And this gap in the further development even shows itself today in that many human beings persistently cling to the idea that they have something of the ''same nature'' as they perceive to be their God's!

The fault lies  in the ''standstill'' that occurred in ''spiritual development".  

Had this development ''continued'' then maturing mankind, during the transition from the old gods of the Animistic Sphere, would not have thought next of this One God, as an Invisible God, but would first of all have been able to perceive, standing above the Lords of the Elements called gods, the "Spiritual Primordial Beings who have their seat in the Grail Castle", the highest fastness of the ''Spiritual World"!

And in the beginning they would have again considered these Primordial Beings as gods, until they had ''developed themselves inwardly to such an extent '' that they would not merely have been able to perceive the Primordial Beings, who are the "true'' images of God, but also to "hear" them spiritually through mediators.

From this they would have received information of the existence outside of Creation of the "One Supreme God"!

Had their intuitive perception been directed in this manner they would, through further spiritual maturing and development, have finally become capable of joyfully receiving "Divine Messages", out of actual Divine Sphere from a Messenger" of God, i.e., from the outside of Creation, and therefore beyond their capacity to see!

''That would have been the  normal way!

As it was, however, their development came to a halt on the threshold of spiritual Sphere, and even declined quickly through the fault of mankind!

Thus, the time came when,'' as an act of emergency",  a strong Envoy from God had to be incarnated in Jesus of Nazareth, in order to bring to humanity still too immature ''for it'' a Message from the Divine Sphere to help and enlighten them, so that seekers lacking the necessary maturity ''could for the time being, at least pin their faith in it!

For this reason the Son of God, who had been sent to the aid of erring mankind, could do nothing more than demand ''faith and trust'' in His Word!

A desperate task! 

''Christ could not even to say everything He wished to say!

Therefore He  did ''not'' speak of many things, such as reincarnation and so on!

In these matters He was confronted with too a great spiritual immaturity. 

And He Himself sorrowfully said to His disciples : "I would say many things unto you, but you would not understand!''

Thus even His disciples misunderstood Him in many things! 

And if Christ Himself already knew while He was on earth that He was not understood ''by His disciples'', it is obvious that later on there arose during the transmission of His Word many errors to which, unfortunately, even today man  tries to cling tenaciously!

Although Christ demanded only "faith" in His Word on account of the immaturity of that time, yet He requested from those who were of serious volition that their initial faith should also become "alive" within them! 

That means  that they would thereby become convinced!

For he who confidently followed  His Word, would again progress in their spiritual development, and would thus be bound gradually to advance from faith to conviction as to the truth of what Christ had said!

Therefore the Son of Man will  now demand, "conviction" instead of faith!

Also from all those who profess to carry Christ's Message within themselves and pretend to follow it! 

For he who has not been able to replace his faith with the "conviction'' of the truth of Christ's Divine Message, which is "one" with and inseparable from the Grail Message, has not attained the maturity of spirit necessary to enter Paradise.

Such  a person will be cast out!

Even the greatest intellectual knowledge will not permit him to slip through!

He must naturally remain behind and be lost for evermore! 

That in their stage of development mankind in this part of the Universe still stand on the ''threshold'' of the Spiritual Realm, the greater part even far ''below'' it, is merely caused by their personal lack of volition, their intellectual conceit and their belief that they know everything better than others!

As a result it is absolutely impossible for them to develop in the normal way, as has probably become clear to many persons in the meantime!

The various religious cults of mankind do not originate from phantasy, but indicate sections of ''life'' in the so - called beyond! 

Even the existence of the medicine - man of a Negro or a Red Indian tribe is justified in view of the ''low stage of development'' of his people!

That there are rogues and impostors among them does not discredit this fact as such!

Demons, wood - nymphs and sylphs, as also the so - called "old gods, are today still in the same place and carry on the same very activity as before! 

Even the high fastnesses of the great Lords of the Elements, Olympus or Valhalla, were never fairy tales, but were really seen!

However, what mankind  ''has never been able to see'', having come to a standstill in their development, are the prime - spiritual Primordial images of God, who also have a lofty fastness which they call the Grail Castle, the highest castle in the Primordial Sphere, and thus in all Creation!

Standing as he did on the threshold of the spiritual sphere man could only receive knowledge of the existence of this Castle through  inspiration, because he was not spiritually mature enough ''intuitively'' to ''perceive it''!

All is Life!

Only men, who consider themselves advanced, have turned aside  and back again towards the depths, instead of progressing!

Now it must not be thought that in a further development the conception of  God as taught by Christ and in my Grail Message would change again!

This will remain forever as it is, because there is nothing further!

When entering the Spiritual Realm, which mankind still fails to accomplish today, and achieving perfection therein, every human spirit can ascend to that point where in the end he gains absolute conviction of this fact in his inward experiences.

Then, standing consciously in the Power of God, he could bring about those great things for which he  had been ordained from the beginning!

He would then never again imagine he possessed Divinity within himself! 

This delusion is nothing but the stamp and the seal of his present immaturity!

Having achieved a ''right'' consciousness he would then feel true humility and a liberating desire to serve, which had always been ''demanded'' by the pure teachings of Christ!

Only when missionaries, preachers and teachers begin their activities by using as their foundation the knowledge of the  natural  development of all Creation, and  thus the exact knowledge about the  Laws of the Divine Will, without being desultory or leaving any gaps, will they really be able to achieve successes that are "spiritual alive"!

Unfortunately every religion is now nothing but a rigid form, only holding together it's dull doctrine with a great deal of trouble!

After the necessary change, however, the hitherto dull doctrine will become invigorated, burst asunder, the cold, dead and rigid forms, and also jubilantly and tumultuously flow forth over the entire world and among all  peoples!                                .

                                                                             THE     RING     OF    ANIMISTIC      SUBSTANTIALITY

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

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

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

 Let enumerate Primordial Creation as upper most and the first Creation comes second, and Subsequent Creation the third.

The Grail Castle Itself is not strictly part of Primordial Creation, but It is entirely something standing all by Itself, which "above" Primordial Creation.

The Grail Castle ''stands''!

I deliberately choose this  expression, for the Grail Castle does not float, but is firmly anchored!

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

Down to that point the only activity is a streaming ''downwards'' and ''upwards'' of Divine Waves of Light.

Only in the Grail Castle does a change in this activity take place, and outside the Castle, streaming downwards, the "rotational movement" sets in, bringing all the Creations into existence and keeping them in motion.

Here, too, they are ''held by waves that are descending and rising!

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

I have already spoken in greater detail about the Primordial Creation and named the two basic divisions.

They are Primordial Spiritual. 

The one part immediately took on form and came to consciousness, while the other could only develop to it.

It is  the same in Creation, which in the conception as being Spiritual we separated from the Primordial Spiritual. 

Creation is also separated into two sections.

The first could again immediately take on form, and the second  had to develop to this point.

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

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

From now on we must understand, by this  ''ring'' something quite different from that which simply called "the elemental" (animistic, substantiate) beings.

Those which I have so far designated in this way are the Light - Waves that taken on form through their activity, which stream ''downwards'' and again ''upwards'', thus being connected with the Grail Castle in a straight line or chain.

They are not the ''rotational'' forces!

There  lies the difference!

The rotational forces are also formed in their working, but they are of a different nature and could only come into existence through the ''intersection'' of radiations. 

You do not  yet know anything about this, though you already know many of them!

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

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

Picture this to yourselves just as I sketch with very simple strokes, then you will grasp it in the quickest and surest manner.

Only then can you try to penetrate  ever deeper through your desire to understand!

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

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

You must absorb it ''simply'' and only ''then'', with a gradual following the individual strokes, can you let everything  come to within you! 

In this way you will succeed!

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

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

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

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

The self - moving parts are activated by their own warmth, whereas the Subsequent Creation, which must be set in motion, is activated by the effect of  alien warmth.

Thus the individual parts thereof can also become cold when that which supplies warmth is withdrawn something which is quite impossible in Primordial Creation and in Creation, because they both possess their own warmth.

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

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

''This is important to know''!

Then follow the various Worlds of Matter.

They are called like this because they can only serve  as cloaks and possess neither their own warmth nor movement.

They must first be permeated with warmth before they pass on warmth, and they again cold and immobile when the dispenser of warmth is withdrawn.

''That'' is the peculiarity portrayed only by the Worlds of Matter.

Now the expressions material and the World of Matter have not perhaps  been named according to the material with which  man cover himself but the reverse is the case.

Earthman  has  caught up these designations and transferred them according to the proper meaning also  to earthly products, with which he cover himself.

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

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

After this very comprehensive let us go  into details!

Thus we return to the  ring of animistic substantiality, which serves as the bridge for unwarmed and consequently immobile stratifications of all the Material Worlds.

In the ring of animistic substantiality the corresponding special types of all the animistic - germs draw closely together in accordance with the Law. 

 Groups then formed which may also be called  centres of accumulations.

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

I have already spoken of the process of the ''penetration" of the animistic - germs, and  I only want to point especially ''to the fact'', that all this happening ''is'', are carefully directed by the animistic helpers, which ''serve'' like a chain of  the Light Waves from the Castle, and also help to guide them upwards again!

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

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

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

Just as with the game of putting Chinese puzzles or toy constructions together, you then seek ''to join from Message'' that which fits this first little individual part.

Finally ill obtain, in this way a large picture standing completely by itself and compact in itself, which gives you a precise answer in pictorial form of that weaving of Creation which  you desire to know.

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

Just place the individual stones ''in such a way that they will fit in ''precisely with the first stone'' which  you take from the treasure for you question.

It is all the same whether this  stone indicate the centre or should lie only to one side.

The other stones belonging to it can always and only be ''so'' dovetailed" or added  that the final result is the very picture you need for an answer and the clarification of your question!

These stones never let themselves be placed in any other way, and you immediately realise when you have put just one part wrongly.

The part simply does not fit in with the whole,  and thus compels you to put it where it belongs, or to leave it  altogether if it does not belong there.

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

''This'' is the way I have given you my Message, which contains ''everything''  but which forces you ''to co-operate in this  yourselves''!

It does not allow itself to be taken up lazily as something standing there perfect complete, but upon each of your questions must exert yourselves to extract from it and put together that which will form the perfect picture.

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

Should put a picture together wrongly, through  error or superficiality, you will quickly come to a stop and realise that it brings no harmony, perhaps because you put just one little stone in the wrong place or, according to it's form, put it in such a way that it cannot fit ''that''  picture or construction, striving for.

Thus you cannot not complete it and must try ever again until  it stands  firmly and correctly put together before  you! 

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

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

You will never lack a stone in this, not the smallest part, for the Message contains ''everything''  you need!

Just try it until  this work becomes easy to you, then you will yourselves stand firmly in the entire Creation!

In my Word of the Message I give you the perfect ''box of bricks'' consisting of the best - cut precious stones, so that you can build it yourselves!

From the very beginning they  are precisely arranged to meet all your needs.

But you alone must construct the building, for this is how it is willed!

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

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

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

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

To show the difference and make it easier to understand I point once again to human spirit.

The spirit  of the earthman already carries everything within itself in spirit - germ and only needs to develop to become conscious.

The soul of the gross material animal, however, puts itself together first, it ''forms'' itself, so as to gradually become strong through development.

As it becomes strong it is able to form ever  more firmly and durably.

The soul  of the animal that belongs to the World of Gross Matter can only gradually receive a permanent form.

In most cases, following severance from the physical body, after a shorter or sometimes longer period the animal soul again loses it's and is absorbed by the accumulation of homogeneous species, absorbed as a homogeneous species which indeed brings ''increased'' but  does not yet remain in a stable form!

Hence the expression ''group souls''!

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

If an animal has taken to loving a person it is thereby uplifted, and through the voluntary connection with the spirit  it receives supply of  power  which also keeps soul together more firmly.

But more about this later!

There are not only animals from the terminating ring of the animistic, but also in higher, even up to the highest planes.

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

It can also occur that animals from the highest planes  are incarnated on earth for very special purposes.

We will not deal with this now but  remain with the animals that are known on earth, the souls  of which form out of the animistic ring around the Worlds of Matter!

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

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

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

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

Plants and rocks, belong to these forms!

Thus you will gain further enlightenment which benefit you, through which you can clearly recognise  wrong  opinions.

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

With  animals this core is animistic soul, with men it is the spirit!

Plants and rocks, however,  merely serve as habitations for alien entities that are independent, and which therefore cannot be called  the soul of the forms concerned.

                                                                     GERMS  ORIGINATING  FROM  ANIMISTIC  SUBSTANCE 

I HAVE spoken of the awakening of the spirit -germs to consciousness of existence.

 Just as there are spirit - germs as the last precipitation in the Spiritual Sphere, so there is finally also a precipitation of unconscious animistic - germs in the Animistic Sphere; and just as the spirit - germs sink into the most delicate layer of ethereal matter, so the animistic - germs sink into the most delicate layer of gross matter, where later on they work as developed animistic helpers. 

These animistic - germs are also veiled with cloaks and, having thus become heavier, they sink into somewhat denser layer of gross matter, where they likewise remain literally stuck. 

Before proceeding with explanations, however, I must mention something of which I have already briefly spoken, but about which I so far intentionally avoided giving closer descriptions, because if I say too much prematurely it might easily lead to confusing entanglement for the human spirit.

 I once pointed out the fact that, in addition to those things which have taken on form, there are also ''currents'' which flow through and penetrate Creation. 

But with the expression ''currents''  we already have the form itself again; for it is actually so -- they are streams flowing through Creation just as rivers flow upon earth, and also like the currents of air! 

And just as these two differing gross material species of currents exists on earth, so we also have two species that stream through Creation -- animistic currents and spiritual currents! 

There is nothing in Creation which is not formed. 

We have individual forms and collective forms. 

To the collective forms belong the currents of the species which work beside or, better said, ''with'' the special forms or individual forms. 

Each of these currents has very definite tasks which precisely correspond with their species; we may also say; which issue from the species. 

Thus it is a spiritual current which among other things also guides the spirit - germs as long as they are unconscious along the path which brings them to where development may begin. 

On this path the spirit - germs' inner urge to become conscious has a ''pushing'' and ''pressing'' effect upon them, while the effect of the stream of the spiritual current is to ''carry'' them along. 

At the time when the first spirit - germs approached ''that'' part of the world which includes the earth, the World of Matter was not yet as dense as it is today; for it was only later on through men's volition developing in the wrong way that greater density and heaviness came about, resulting in a greater distancing from the Light and more sluggish and hampering movement. 

In view of the lightness of the World of Matter at that time, the spirit - germ's inherent urge, together with being carried along by the stream, were sufficient impulse to proceed along another stretch of the path.

 All this has become considerably more difficult today! 

Here I must again insert something! 

The sinking down of spirit - germs is a process which proceeds ''without interruption'' for Creation. 

When I formerly stated that a very definite stage of maturity must be present in the World of Matter for the reception of the spirit - germs, and that this can no longer be repeated as the maturity increases, this did not concern the whole of Creation, but only ''individual'' celestial bodies such as ''the earth'', for example! 

Finally, only such human souls as were older, and which had already been previously incarnated, could come to earth; those which have to complete their course in the closing of the cycles, but not spirit - germs, i.e., souls which have never before been in the dense World of Gross Matter. 

But there are always parts in Creation prepared to receive spirit - germs which have already attained to consciousness of their existence, but which must first develop towards self - consciousness through experiencing.

 As long as the human spirit leads nothing but a life of being conscious of its existence it must retain the name ''spirit - germ'', although its cloak may already bear the human form. 

Only with further development towards self - consciousness does it cease to be a human spirit - germ'' and become a ''human spirit''! 

It is necessary to say this here in order to avoid misinterpretations or erroneous conceptions.

 That is why I have already mentioned in my last lecture that it is a big step from consciousness of existence to human self -consciousness, which later alone brings in its train the ''free'' and conscious will to decide, but also the full responsibility for it. 

As I proceed with my explanations I must make ever keener divisions in the conceptions, whereas in the past I could still leave many things under collective conceptions. 

This is not perhaps a sort of play upon words, which many clever intellectuals in their spiritual indolence held in readiness as a designation for certain passages in my Message; with which, however, they plainly enough showed nothing but their utter ignorance and lack of comprehension for the seriousness and the greatness of the matter! 

Instead, it is an urgent and unavoidable necessity if man wants to fathom the movement of Creation at all! 

Then he cannot get along for ever with a few earthly expressions; but he must in fact accommodate himself to the necessity of gradually learning ever more exacts limits and of clearly weighing the real meaning of each individual word.

 We must also do the same if we want to advance, and not come to a halt or leave unclarified areas behind us! 

There must be movement in this, too, instead of rigid and stubborn adherence! 

When first I explain something in broad outlines I can name it differently than when I go into details and have to separate things more and more, all of which I could at first take as a collective conception. 

And I must ''always'' give collective conceptions first in order to go into details ''later on'', once your apprehending faculty has gained to some degree a clear picture of the collective conception; otherwise you would never be able to come to an understanding in view of the vast magnitude of Creation. 

You would quickly lose the firm soil of real knowledge, and fall into desultory obscurities which are customary among men, and which characterise the adherents of the numerous sects and of the churches as well. For this reason let such persons continue to talk! 

They only give evidence of their superficiality and of their dread of taking the trouble to go into things more closely. 

Follow me joyfully ''in the way'' in the which I give it to you! 

Then you will gain nothing but benefit therefrom, for not only do I make it easier for the human spirit, but I first make it possible for him to grasp the magnitude at least in ''those'' parts with which he is connected and upon which his activity remains dependent.

 Just as the spiritual currents carry the ''spirit'' - germs, so the animistic currents carry the ''animistic'' - germs along their courses. 

Only later on can one talk specifically about the starting - point, the species and activities of all these currents. 

As a beginning today let us simply accept the conception that all these currents, like the air and water of the earth, are fructifying, preserving and purifying -- in short furthering in every respect! 

Moreover these currents were also in part already known to former earthmen! 

But let us now return to the purpose of today's lecture after these digressions! 

The animistic - germs are carried by currents of an animistic nature. 

Despite the animistic ''basic species'' of the currents there are, however,  quite different, even many - sided individual species; and for this reason ever more side currents seeking their own path gradually separate from the original main current as it follows its course through the various planes. 

For as the distance from the Light increases the various individual species separate as side - currents, which ultimately contain the whole of only ''one'' very definite species of being; and in obedience to the Law these side - currents only lead along with them the corresponding homogeneous species of animistic - germs.

 In this way such animistic -  germs proceed towards their destined places, fulfilling the Laws of Creation. 

They are divided into such germs as are closely connected with flowers, with other plants, likewise with water, air, with the Worlds of Matter as well. 

As the currents stream through the planes, the corresponding beings are always deposited in each individual plane, indeed in each intermediate plane as well -- those beings that are of the same homogeneity as the plane where they are deposited! 

They stay behind in the plane where they have to work, because they become conscious there. 

All this takes place through the natural and most simple operation of the laws, in such a way that it could not possibly be different!  

In each intermediate plane specific kinds of beings awaken to consciousness in a manner that in each case corresponds with their strength, and begin to work there in a forming, protecting and tending way. 

Finally there remain in these currents merely those beings which can only come to consciousness on the celestial bodies of the ''coarsest Worlds of Matter. And as the last deposit thereof there are also animistic - germs, which cannot immediately awaken in the coarse World of Matter, but which need a special development. 

However, this again is only a large picture I am giving you for the time being, which you can best take in at first as if you were looking at a ''flat'' map, observing the courses of the streams, rivers and brooks with their many branches and apparently self - chosen paths! 

Only ''then'' can you ''round off'' the picture envisage that water arteries also stream through the interior of the earth and not merely flow on the surface, and the same with air currents.

 In this way you will have finally gained in picture from a part of ''this'' kind of happening in Creation.

 If men of the earth would swing and serve ''aright'' in the Will of God, the earth would actually be a harmonious although coarse reproduction of Creation. It is only due to the perversity of mankind that this has not yet happened. 

Now let us at last talk of animistic - ''germs'', which we had taken as our subject. 

Those that are most closely related to the spirit - germs of earthmen as reject. 

Those that are most closely related to the spirit - germs of earthmen as regards their development are the small flower - elves of the earth. 

As you regard, these awaken in the cups of earthly flowers, but not in the way you imagine it! 

It is true that they are in the flower - buds which form their coarsest protective cloak until they awaken, but there is something else in addition. 

In reality they lie ''softly'' embedded in a layer of fine, delicate gross matter, not visible to you in the earthly sense.
But at the same time they also lie in a flower - bud of the earth. 

The delicate layer of gross matter not only penetrates the bud also the entire earth and its surroundings, something which is invisible to you.

 It is this layer that the actual development to consciousness of the flower - elves takes place, while the earthly flower - bud remains but the coarsest ''outer'' protection, of which the flower - elves are pretty well ''independent'' despite a certain connection.

 Nor do they die as the flowers wither, but their development continues through their helpful tending  of new earthly flowers, and partly also of new elf - children. 

Their strength grows with their ability. 

So it goes on and ever onwards  to the point where they can lift themselves in full maturity to another and new field of activity; for as with the spirit - germ so with the animistic - germ . . . both are subject to ''one Divine Law'' of development which is uniform in its effect! 

Nor are the small elves left unprotected from danger as they develop, so that their habitation, even while a flower - bud, could be eaten by animals or  destroyed by an inconsiderate human hand, as it would seem in the gross material sense. 

The flowers are, of course, ''tended'' by developed elves, but an elf - child does not live in every flower, only in those that are specially protected and inaccessible to danger, as far as one can speak of inaccessibility. 

Also in cases where danger approaches they are immediately carried away as long as they have not yet become conscious.

 I first mention the flower - elves because they have always been and still are standing in the swinging of the Will of God. 

They ''cannot'''be influenced by the will of men, but they always weave and breathe in the vibrations of the Light! 

In this fact lies the secret as to why ''every'' flower, even the most simple, is radiant with beauty; for the flower - elves stand in the Light! 

Owing to their delicacy they have female forms and, because they are attuned to the Light, they are of the most exquisite beauty! 

On the basis of the Message you will now already be able to follow that there are also elves which have male forms according to their activity!

 They are denser and more positive, because they occupy themselves with a harder material. 

The tree elf, for instance, has a male form. 

The form and density always correspond with the activity!

 Thus, because they are working with earth and rocks, the gnomes also have male forms. 

They are denser, while the nixies or water sprites of the liquid element, again bear female forms. 

You yourselves can draw further conclusions and will always his upon what is right, if you use the Message in which you find the Laws of Creation as a basis! 

What is said here concerns the developed animistic beings of your surroundings on earth!

 Everything which is closely connected with ''coarsest'' World of Matter can really only count on a result which is quickly visible through positive activity and greater density. 

Therefore that which is male ''is'' always the part inclined towards what is denser and thus lower, the part which acts positively; on the other hand, that which is female is the part inclined towards the more delicate and thus higher, the part which receives negatively. 

Such is the arrangement of Creation according probably many people in to the Will of God, and only when man also adjusts himself accordingly and swings therein will real ascent come to him, which he cannot achieve in any other way. 

For then all his activity swings in the Cross of Creation, in which positive with negative, working actively and receiving passively, hold the balance! 

And ever again it is still the ''woman'' of humanity who does ''not'' fill her post in Creation! 

If you reflect upon all this quietly you can come to undreamed - of conclusions, and to clarifications that have so far seemed almost insoluble to you. 

But your intellect will not acquiesce so readily and quietly, but will ever again want to sow doubt in order to confuse you and thus hold you fast in the spell which it was able to inflict upon you almost unopposed during the past centuries. 

There are probably many people in whom the questioning thought arises : The furies exist in both male and female form, yet both have ''one'' aim alone in spite of their diverse effects . . . destruction! 

The furies, however, are ''not animistic beings''. 

Such a thing does not originate from the Will of the Light!

 Furies are nothing but productions of men's volition. 

They belong to the demons that must immediately perish when men's volition improves and turns to the Light! 

True, they are very dangerous, and in the Judgment they are set free so that they rush upon all mankind!

 But they can only do harm where they can attach themselves, i.e., where they find homogeneous evil or fear in a person. 

Through this the furies must also serve the Light, for they do away with the evil of men on earth and thus further the great purification! As soon as this is completed the furies also obtain no further nourishment, and must automatically perish! 

But whoever has fear   in the Judgment lacks conviction about the Word of Truth, and thus also confidence in the Omnipotence of God and His Justice, which so often manifest in the helping Love!

 Such a person will then ''rightly'' fall a victim to his lukewarmness or indolence. 

He is ''meant'' to be seized and destroyed by the furies during the Judgment! 

Therefore in the end ''that'' also is a simple happening which in its dreadfulness must proceed along the paths of the Holy Law of God!  

 The furies unleashed! 

This means they are not restrained, but for a time will be allowed to have a completely free run! Men will not be protected therefrom, but abandoned to the raging! 

However, it is quite natural that ''those'' people who have the right inner conviction and who are connected with the Light cannot be attacked, for no response can be found within them to which the furies can cling in order to confuse them. 

During this raging those connected with the Light stand as if in a cloak which cannot be penetrated, and upon which every attacking evil volition injures itself. 

This cloak has automatically grown during the hours of danger through the firm trust in God.

 But men who in their conceit or presumption think they are faithful, and yet have faith only in their church but not in ''God", and who are thus not inwardly alive, will be tossed hither and thither like withered leaf in a storm. 

They must also perish in this turmoil unless they recognise in time through this happening that they have been hollow in their rigid belief, and ardently exert themselves to absorb life from the Light of Truth which shines above all the storms. 

Remain wakeful and strong so that the furies cannot find support within you! 

Become wakeful and strong so that the furies cannot find support within you! 

Become in your deeds like the many small animistic helpers which in their faithful service are an example for men!  

                                                                                                LITTLE    ELEMENTAL   BEINGS

I CONTINUE with my explanations about Substantiality and its functions in Creation. 

To do so it is necessary that I first give you a small glimpse into the ''nearer'' surroundings of earthman, which is easier for the earthly understanding, before I bring to life before your gaze the vast picture of all the happenings, beginning from above and continuing downwards. 

Let us therefore first consider  '''those'' elemental beings which are concerned with the Gross Material world. 

These consist of many special groups formed through the nature of their activities. 

There are, for example, groups which work entirely independent of the human spirits and which, being led only from above, busy themselves with the continuous development of new celestial bodies.

 They further their maintenance as well as their course, and likewise their disintegration wherever this becomes necessary due to their over - ripeness, in order that they may come into existence again in a new form in accordance with the Primordial Laws of Creation, so on. 

But those are not the ''particular'' groups with which we want to deal today! 

Rather it is the ''little beings'' we want to consider! 

You have often heard of the elves, the nixies, the gnomes and the salamanders, which are occupied with the gross matter of the earth here which is visible to you, also similarly on all the other gross material globes. 

They are the densest of all and can therefore also be most easily seen by you. 

You ''know'' about them, but you are not yet acquainted with their actual work.

 At least you imagine you already know ''what'' they occupy themselves with; but you are absolutely ignorant as to the manner in which they perform their task, and how their activity is always carried out strictly in accordance with the Laws of Creation. 

Generally speaking, everything that you already call knowledge is not yet real and authoritative recognition, but merely an uncertain groping; indeed a great shout goes up when here and there something is found through this groping, i.e. when these desultory and, in comparison with Creation, trifling attempts to clutch at something happen to reveal a little speck of dust, the existence of which is often a surprise. 

However, today I still do not want to unveil this for you either, but I first want to tell you of ''that'' which is closely connected ''with you personally'', which is linked up with your thoughts and actions, so that you will gradually achieve the capacity of careful observation at least in ''such'' matters. 

These groups about which I speak today also belong to the ''little'' elementals. But you must not forget that every tiniest one them is immensely ''important'' and more reliable in its activity than a human spirit. 

They carry out the work assigned to them with an accuracy so great that you cannot even imagine it, because even the apparently most insignificant of the elementals is ''one'' with the whole and therefore through it also works the power of the whole, behind which stands the ''one'' Will furthering, strengthening, protecting and  leading; Will of God! 

It is like this throughout the whole of the realms where ''beings'' are active, and it could and ''should'' also have been the same long ago with you, the spirits of Subsequent Creation which have developed to ego- consciousness. 

This firmly - established connection automatically ensures that, should any one  of these elementals fail in some way or other, it is immediately expelled by the pressure of the whole and thus remains cut off.

 It would then wither away because the power no longer flows to it. 

All that ''is'' weak is quickly shaken off in this way and does not even have a chance to become harmful.

 I now want to talk about these elemental beings which, though seemingly small, are ''yet'' so great in their activity; these you still have no knowledge about whatever, of the existence of which you have hitherto not known anything. 

But you have already heard about their ''activity'' in my Message. 

However, you will not have associated it with Substantiality, since I myself did not link them with this because it would have been premature at that time. What I then revealed in short sentences ''objectively'' I am now giving to you in its real working. 

I have already once observed that the little elemental beings around you are influenced by the human spirit and can accordingly produce either good or even evil. 

However, their influence does not take effect in ''that'' sense as you imagine it. 

It is not that you could be ''masters'' over these beings, that you could direct them! 

In a sense of course, it could be described like that without saying anything wrong.

 It is actually expressed in the right way as far as ''your'' conceptions and language are concerned, because you look at everything ''from you point of view'' and also judge accordingly. 

Therefore I very often had to speak to you in my Message in the same manner to make myself understood. 

I could also do it ''here'' because in this case it makes no difference as regards your acting in the right way. 

Because it more closely corresponded with the attitude of your intellect it was much easier for you to understand at that time when I told you that with your volition you always strongly influence everything of the animistic around you, and that it adjusts itself to your thoughts and actions because you are spiritual. 

That in itself remains literally true, but the reason for it is different; for the actual guidance of all creatures standing in the Laws of this Creation, which thus live in the Will of God, is exercised solely ''from above''! 

This includes all the elemental beings! 

They are never subject to an alien volition, not even temporarily, nor in cases where you it seems to you as if they were. 

The little elementals which I mentioned do indeed adjust their activity to your ''volition'' and your ''actions'', you human spirits, but nevertheless their work stands entirely in the Will of God! 

This appears to be a riddle, but its solution is not difficult; for now I only need to show you the other side as against that which you consider everything! Looked at from your angle you do influence the little elementals! 

Looked at from the Light, however, these only fulfil the Will of God, the Law!  

And since any power to act can only come exclusively from the Light, therefore this side which is ''different'' to you is the ''right one''!

 But nevertheless, for the sake of better understanding, let us first consider their activity as seen ''from your side''. 

In accordance with the Law that with every volition the spirit exerts a pressure here in the Material World, also upon the small Substantiality that is only Animistic, so you leaved an imprint upon the little elemental beings with your thoughts and deeds.

 These little elementals then form in ''fine gross matter'' everything which is transferred to them by this pressure.

 Let us therefore say, from your point of view, that they carry out all your volitions!  In the ''first'' place your ''spiritual'' volition! 

''Spiritual'' volition, however, ''is intuitive perception''! 

The little elementals form it in the fine gross matter exactly according to the volition that has issued from the spirit.

 They immediately take up the thread which springs forth from your volition and from your deed, and fashion at the end of the thread ''that'' form which corresponds exactly with this thread of will. 

Such is the nature of the activity of the little elementals, which you do not yet know in their actual working.

 In this way they create or, better said, they ''form'' the plane of Fine Gross Matter, which awaits you when you have to pass over into the Ethereal World! 

It is ''the threshold'' thereto for your soul where, to use your expression, it must first ''purify'' itself after earthly death, before it is able to enter the Ethereal World.

 The stay of the soul on this plane is of longer  or shorter duration depending upon its inner quality and upon whether, through its various propensities and weaknesses, it strove with greater or lesser strength after the gross material. 

This plane of finer gross matter has already been seen by many people. 

It still belongs to the World of Gross Matter and is formed by the elemental beings which prepare the path of the human spirit everywhere.

 This is very important for you to know. 

The elemental beings prepare for the human spirit, and thus also for the human soul as well as for earthman, that path which he ''must'' follow whether he wants to or not!

 These elemental beings are influenced by man and  also apparently directed by him.

 But only apparently, for the ''actual'' direction in this matter does not come from man but from the ''Will of God'', the adamantine Law of Creation, which stationed this group of elementals at this place and directs their activity in the swinging of the Law. 

All the thought - forms also come about through a similar activity of the elementals. 

However, this work is again carried out by different group and a different species of the elementals, which also develop a special plane in fine gross matter alongside the first.

 In this way landscapes, villages and towns also arise.

 That which is beautiful and that which is ugly! 

However, the different kinds are always precisely linked together, i.e., the ugly with the ugly, the beautiful with the beautiful, corresponding to the homogeneous species. 

These are the places, the planes, in which you must still move about after your earthly death, ''before'' you can enter the Ethereal World. 

The  coarsest which still clings to your  soul in the earthly sense is cast off and left behind here.

 Not one little speck of this dust can you take along with you into the Ethereal World.

 It would hold you back until it has fallen off, i.e., until you have lived it off through recognition. 

Thus the soul must journey slowly onwards  after earthly  death; it must climb step by step, i.e., plane by plane, through constant recognition by personal experience of that which it acquired. 

Wearisome is the path if the elementals had to build dark or gloomy places for you, depending on your volition here upon earth.

 It is always you who give the cause for it! - - 

Now you know what thew little elementals do and how they work for you under your influence.

 It is the Law of Reciprocal Action! 

The little elementals thereby weave your fate! 

They are the little master weavers which work for you, because they always and only weave ''in such a manner'' as you wish it through your inner intuitive perception, likewise through your thinking and also your action! 

Yet in spite of this they are not in your service! --   

There are three species of such elemental beings alone which are busy with this. 

The one species weaves all the threads of your intuitive perception, the second one the threads of your thinking, and the third the threads of your actions.

 It is not to be assumed that this is ''one'' weaving only, but there are three, however, they are linked with each other and also again linked with many other weavings besides. 

A whole army is busy at this work.

 And these threads are coloured according to their nature. 

But I must not carry my explanations so far yet, or we shall get into depths which are still incomprehensible to you and would never find an end. 

You could not get a clear picture thereby!  

Therefore let us concern ourselves with the individual person for the time being.

 Apart from other things there issue ''three'' weavings from him, each of a different nature, because his intuitive perception is not always identical with his thinking, nor his thinking always in strict accord with his actions! 

In addition, the threads of the intuitive perception are of an altogether different nature, for they reach into the Ethereal and Spiritual Spheres and are anchored ''there'', while the threads of the thinking remain in ''fine'' gross matter ''only, and must be lived off ''there''. 

The threads issuing from the actions, however, are ''still'' more dense and heavy, and they are therefore anchored closest to life on earth, and must ''first'' be journeyed through and lived off after departure from the earth before it is at all possible for a soul to continue. 

You have no idea how far many a soul must travel just to be able to enter the Ethereal World, not to speak of the Spiritual Sphere! 

In his superficial way man simply call all this ''the beyond''  and is satisfied with that. 

In his indolence he pours everything into one pot!

 Many souls are earthbound over a long period because they are suspended on threads which are firmly anchored close to this heavy gross matter. 

The soul cannot release itself from them until it has lived itself free of them i.e., when in the course of its compulsory journey through them it came to the recognition that all these things possess neither the value nor the importance which the soul had attached to them, and that it was futile and wrong to waste so much time  on them while on earth. 

This often takes a very long time and it is sometimes very bitter! 

Meanwhile many souls are again attracted from out of heavy gross matter, and they are incarnated again and ever again on earth without ever having been in the Ethereal World during that time. 

They had to remain in fine gross matter because they were unable to free themselves quickly enough. 

The threads held them too tightly therein. 

And in this it is impossible to slip through by cunning! 

So much is possible for man here upon earth which he is unable to do after his departure. 

He  then hang more firmly in the Law of this Creation, experiencing everything instantly  without the interference of a ponderous gross material cloak to delay matters. 

The earthly cloak is able to ''delay'' through its dense heaviness and impermeability, but it can never actually prevent.

 Therefore many things awaiting redemption are  only postponed, but nothing is ever cancelled.

 ''Everything'' that man here upon earth has perceived and thought is awaiting him, as well as the strict and just consequences of his actions! 

 When a man perceives intuitively then the threads thereby produced, which seem like small seeds sprouting forth from the soil, are taken up and cared for by the little elementals.

 And just as it is in heavy gross matter, the weeds receive exactly the same careful attention as the best plants. 

As the threads develop they are anchored for the first time at the border of fine gross matter, where they pass into the hands of different species of the elementals, which lead them onward through the Ethereal World.

 They are again anchored at the border of the Ethereal World, and passed on into the  Animistic Sphere. 

From the Animistic Sphere they then reach the  Spiritual Sphere, where they are finally anchored again by a different species of the elementals.

 Such is the path of ''good'' volition which leads ''upwards''. 

The path of an evil volition is guided ''downwards'' in the same way. 

With each anchorage at a border these threads lose a certain species of their substance, which they leave behind in order to be able to proceed into the next sphere. 

This, too, takes place in a lawful manner, exactly corresponding to the particular species of the sphere.

 And all these developments are subject to the activity of the elementals. 

As the intuitive perception of a good volition originates in the mobility of the ''spirit'', these threads are consequently carried into the Spiritual Sphere.

 From there they pull at the soul or at least ''hold'' it fast when it still has to live through or redeem many a thing in fine gross matter. 

Thus, if there are many such threads anchored in the Spiritual Sphere, the soul cannot sink and fall so quickly as can a soul which carries with itself threads only for fine gross matter, because the latter was spiritually indolent while on earth and only bound itself to the World of Gross Matter, considering its pleasures alone worth striving for. 

The soul that is being pulled by the threads of its volition no more sees these threads than does man here on earth, because they are always of a somewhat finer substance than outermost cloak in which the soul still moves about. 

At the very moment, however, when the process of living off these threads through recognition enables the cloak to attain the same consistency as the densest among the still existing threads, whereby the soul through the homogeneous nature of its outer cloak could see them, these threads have already fallen off as being redeemed. 

Consequently it never happens that the soul connected with such threads actually sees them. - 

Thus from the ''earthly'' point of view these little elementals are in the service of the human spirit because they adjust their activities to the nature of the conscious or unconscious volition of men.

 And yet in reality they only act in accordance with the Will of God, Whose Law they thereby fulfil. 

Thus their activity is only ''apparently'' influenced by the human spirit.

 For the difference to become evident it depends entirely from which side you look at the matter.

 When in the lectures about reciprocal action I spoke of threads which, as they issue from you, are thrust out and attracted, you perhaps until now saw only a conglomeration of threads before your mind's eye. 

However, it was not to be supposed that these threads would continue by themselves like worms, but they must pass through hands, must be guided.

 And these hands belong to the little elementals working therein, of which you could have no knowledge up till now. 

But now the picture has come to life and stands before you! Imagine that you are constantly surrounded by these elementals, which observe you and at once take up every thread and guide it to where it belongs. 

Not only that, but they anchor it and care for it until the seed springs up, indeed until the blossoms and fruit appear! Just as it is here in the World of heavy Gross Matter with the seeds of plants, which are tended by the elemental beings until you can eventually have the fruits thereof!

 It is the same basic Law, the same activity, but carried out by other species of the elemental beings which, as we would express it in an earthly way, are specialists in this fields. 

And thus the same weaving, the same activity - the producing of seed, the germination, the growth, the blossoming and  the  fruit bearing - under the supervision and care of the elementals, penetrates the entire Creation for ''everything'', no matter what it is and to which species it belongs. 

The activities of the elemental beings cover every single species, and without their activity there would in turn be no species. Thus through the activity of the elemental beings, under the impulse of the base volition of men, and through the anchoring of the threads springing forth from this volition, there also came into existence the so - called hell. 

The threads of the evil volition were anchored there, grew, blossomed and finally bore the corresponding fruit, which ''those'' human beings who produced the seed had to accept.

 Therefore a consuming lustfulness has dominion in these nether regions, the lust for murder, for quarrelling and for all the aberrations of human passions, each with its corresponding place. 

However, everything springs forth from the same Law, in the fulfilment of which the little elemental beings also fashion the fairy - like ''beauty'' of the more Luminous Realms! - 

Thus I shall let one picture after another arise from Creation until you receive a great and uniform survey, which will never allow you to waver upon your way nor let you go astray, because you are then ''knowing''. 

Whoever even ''then'' would still ''not'' wish to direct his path towards the Luminous Heights would fundamentally prove himself as absolutely depraved and only worthy to be cast out! 

                                                                                                  INSTINCT    OF    ANIMALS

MEN ARE often struck with admiration when they observe the instinctive actions of animals. 

They ascribe a special sense to animals which mankind either lack completely or which they have allowed to degenerate. 

They are perplexed, for example, when they see a horse, a dog or some other animal suddenly refusing to pass a certain place on a road it is accustomed to and which it has perhaps taken daily, and when they subsequently learn that an accident occurred on that very spot shortly afterwards.

 Quite often the lives of one or more persons have been saved through such incidents. 

So many of these cases have been published that there is no need to go into the matter more deeply here. 

Instincts or unconscious presentiment are the terms man has used to describe this characteristic of the animal! 

Having found a name for a thing men are usually well satisfied! 

They envisage something in their imagination and accept it as fact, irrespective of whether they are right or wrong. 

It is the same with this! 

The reason for such actions on the part of an animal, however, is quite a different one.

 It possesses neither the quality nor the ability of instinct as man understands the word.

 In such incidents it merely heeds a warning that is given to it. 

These warnings can be ''seen'' quite well by the animal, whereas only a few changes in people are able to observe them. 

As I have already explained in one of my earlier lectures, the soul of an animal does not originate in the Spiritual Sphere from which man comes, but from the Animistic Sphere. 

The elemental beings also originate there, such as the gnomes, elves, nixies, and so on, whose field of activity lies in what men usually call Nature, i.e., water, air, earth and fire.

 The same applies to stones, plant and the like.

 All these elemental beings originate in another section of the Animistic Sphere to that of the animal souls. 

However, the mutual homogeneity of their origin provides a greater possibility for them to recognise each other. 

Thus an animal is far better equipped to recognise these elemental beings than is man, whose origin lies in the Spiritual Sphere. 

The elemental beings know exactly when and where sudden changes in Nature are about to take place, such as landslides, rocks being dislodged from mountains, trees falling, the caving - in of land undermined by water, the bursting of a dam, sudden water eruptions, volcanic and fire eruptions, tidal waves and floods, earthquakes, and everything else coming with are in the same category, because they themselves are occupied with the preparation and bringing about of such changes, which men call disaster and catastrophes.

 If such a happening is imminent it may well be that an animal or a person approaching the spot is warned by these elementals.

 They block  the way and try, through vehement motions, shouting or sudden impressions upon their feelings, to induce them to return. 

The animal is startled, its hair ''bristles'', and it energetically refuses to continue, quite contrary to its usual behaviour, so that often as an exception even the best - trained animal disobeys its master. 

''This'' is the reason for the striking behaviour of the animal in such cases.

 Man, however, does not see these elemental beings and very often runs into the danger, thereby perishing or suffering great harm. 

For this reason man should pay more intention to animal so that he learns to understand them.

 Then animal will truly become man's friends, able to fill gaps and thus be much more useful to him than they have been in the past.