THE  DEVELOPMENT OF CREATION 

THE   DIVINE  LOVE  OF  PUREST  JUSTIFICATION  ( JUSTICE ).

                                                                                                                THE      DEVELOPMENT    OF       CREATION

Once before I have pointed out that the written accounts of Creation should not be taken in an earthly sense. 

The Bible narrative also does not refer to this earth.

 The creation of the earth was simply the natural consequence of the further development of the ''first'' Creation. 

It is almost incredible how scriptural scholars could have jumped to such an illogical and incomplete assumptions as that God out of His own Perfection could, without any transition, have immediately created the gross material earth!

 To get nearer to the truth of what actually happened, it is not necessary to change the ''Word'' of the Scriptures.

 On the contrary, the description of the history of Creation represents the truth much more clearly than do all the false and incomplete assumptions!

 It is only the erroneous interpretations which have caused a misunderstanding on the part of so many people! 

This people quite rightly sense the mistake that is made by persistently placing the Paradise referred to in the Bible on this gross material earth, which is so far remote from the Divine.

 It surely cannot be so little known that the Bible is primarily a ''spiritual'' book! 

It gives clarification about spiritual events, man only only being mentioned where he has an immediate relationship with these spiritual things in order to illustrate and make them clear.

 Finally even the human intellect can understand - because it is so natural - that the Bible narrative of Creation does not refer to the earth, which is so far away from the Creator! 

Hardly anybody will dare to dispute the fact that this immediate Creation of God, designated as the ''first'' Creation, can only be looked for in His immediate neighbourhood, because it was the ''first'' to emanate from Him, and is thus ''bound to be'' in closer connection with Him! 

No calm and clear thinker will expect that this ''first'' and ''original'' Creation was enacted just on this earth, which is furthest removed from the Divine Sphere, and which only came into being, in the further course of development! 

Thus there could be no question of a Paradise ''on earth''! 

What God created, as expressly stated in the story of Creation, naturally remained immediately connected with Him and could only be situated in His near vicinity.

It is likewise quite understandable and natural that consequently all that was created in or emanated from His immediate proximity must most nearly resemble the Creator's own Perfection.

 However, to suppose this to be on the gross material earth must breed doubters! 

The thought of a ''driving out'' from ''earthly'' Paradise, whereby those driven out would still have to remain on the same earth, is so unhealthy, is so evidently and grossly material in its concept, as to be almost grotesque!

 It is a lifeless picture, bearing the stamp of such rigidly compiled dogma that no sensible human being knows what to do with it!

 The less perfect a thing is, the further removed it is from Perfection. 

Hence the spiritual beings who were created out of Perfection cannot be human beings on earth, but must have their place closest to this Perfection, and therefore represent the most ideal examples for humanity!

They are the eternal spiritual beings who never descended into the World of Matter and therefore never become human beings.

They are radiant, ideal figures who attract like magnets and, at the same time, exercise a strengthening influence on all the abilities in the human spirit - germs, and later in the spirits which have attained to consciousness.

The Paradise mentioned in the Bible may therefore not  be confused with the earth!

 For a better understanding it is necessary once again to give a complete picture of all that exists in order to make it easier for the seeker to find his way to the Eternal Kingdom of God, the Paradise from which he originates in his very first spiritual beginning.

Let man imagine Divinity as absolutely the highest over all!

 God Himself, as the starting point of all that exists, as the Primordial Source of all Life, is in His absolute Perfection ''unsubstantiate''.

Next to God Himself in His very own ''Unsubstantiality'' follows the Sphere of Divine ''Substantiality''.

In this originate the first beings to take form and shape.

To these belong in the first place the Primordial Queen and the Archangels, and finally a small number of Elders.

The Elders are of great importance for the further development towards spiritual substantiality, much in the same way as, later on, the conscious beings of the Animistic Sphere are of great importance for the development of matter.

Lucifer was sent from the Sphere of Divine Substantiality to be a direct support for Creation as it automatically developed further.

 The Son of God, however, issued from Divine Unsubstantiality as a part of It, and after fulfilling His Mission of help, had to return to Divine Unsubstantiality and again become One with the Father.

 The Son of Man also issues from Divine Unsubstantiality. 

Through the connection with conscious spiritual substantiality His Part, which was severed, remained of necessity separate from Divine Unsubstantiality, and yet also directly connected with It, so that He may stand as the Eternal Mediator between God and His Work.

As Lucifer, who proceeded from the Sphere of Divine Substantiality, failed in his mission, it became necessary to send in his place someone stronger, who could bind him and bring help to Creation.

 For this reason the Son of Man, who was entrusted with this office, issued from Divine Unsubstantiality.

Adjoining the Sphere of Divine Substantiality is Primordial Creation, the Eternal Kingdom of God.

Closest to Divine Substantiality there is first of all ''conscious spiritual substantiality'', consisting of the created eternal spiritual beings who are also called spirits.

These are the perfect, ideal forms of all that human spirits, in their most perfect development, can and should aspire to.

Like magnets they draw up those who strive to ascend.

Through this automatic connection, those who are seeking and those who strive to ascend often feel an inexplicable longing, which gives rise to the urge to seek and strive upwards.

 These spirits were never born into the World of Matter, and were created by God Himself, the Primordial Source of all Being and all Life, as the first Primordial Spirits, thus coming nearest to Him in perfection.

They are the ''one made after His Own Image''!

It must not be overlooked that the story of Creation expressly states: ''After His Image''!

This statement is not without importance, for they can only be after His Image, not after Himself, i.e., only after that in which He ''shows'' Himself, because only pure Divinity Itself is unsubstantiate.

 In order to show Himself, God must first clothe Himself in Divine Substantiality, as has already been said above, but even then He cannot be seen by those who dwell in spiritual substantiality, but only by those dwelling in Divine Substantiality, and that to a minor degree, because all that is purely Divine must in its perfect purity and radiance blind what is not so Divine.

 Even those of Divine Substantiality cannot look upon God's Countenance!

The difference between Divine Unsubstantiality and Divine Substantiality is still far too great!

This Paradise of conscious spiritual substantiality also contains ''unconscious spiritual substantiality'' which holds the same fundamental components as conscious spiritual substantiality, i.e., the germs.

These germs have life, and all life in the Whole Creation strives to develop in obedience to Divine Will, to develop towards consciousness.

This is quite a natural and healthy process!

The unconscious, however, can only achieve this consciousness through experiencing, and this urge towards further development through experiencing finally causes such maturing or ambitious germs of unconscious spiritual substantiality to be automatically expelled or ejected, which ever you wish to call it, over the boundary of the Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality.

Since this expulsion or ejection of a germ cannot take place in an upward direction, it must necessarily proceed in the only way open to it, downwards.

''And this is the natural expulsion from Paradise, from the Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality, necessary to every spirit - germ striving to become conscious''! When it is said: ''In the sweat of thy brow thou shalt eat thy bread'', this is metaphorically quite right.

In other words, the turmoil of experiencing makes it necessary for it to defend itself and struggle against the onrushing influences of the lower sphere, into which it penetrates as a stranger!

This expulsion, ejection, or being driven out from Paradise is in no wise a punishment, but becomes an absolutely natural and automatic necessity, when the spirit - germ is nearing a certain stage of maturity as a result of the urge to develop self - consciousness. 

It is the birth from the Sphere of Unconscious Spiritual Substantiality into the Sphere of Animistic Substantiality, and later into the World of Matter for the purpose of developing.

It is progress not retrogression!

The Fall of Man, which occurred only later, and from which hereditary sin developed, was a happening all on its own, about which I shall still give a detailed explanation.

It has nothing whatever to do with the continuously recurring process described here!

It is also quite a correct description when it is said in the story of Creation that man felt the desire to ''cover his nakedness'' after the conception of good and evil awakened within him, which was the beginning of self - consciousness.

With the increasing urge to become conscious, ejection or expulsion from Paradise follows automatically, so as to journey through the Animistic Sphere and enter the World of Matter.

Now as soon as the spirit - germ steps out of the Realm of Spiritual Substantiality, it would stand ''naked'' as such in the lower, different and denser surrounding.

One could say ''uncovered''.

It is then that the human spirit feels not only the urge but the absolute necessity to cover itself protectingly with the essence and nature of the substance surrounding it; to wrap itself in a sort of cloak and take on first animistic covering, then the ethereal body and finally also the gross material body.

Not until it has clothed itself in a gross material cloak or body does sexual instinct fully awaken and with it physical shame!

The greater this feeling of shame is, the nobler is this instinct and the higher the man also ranks spiritually!

''The inner spiritual worth of a human being'' on earth, may be directly measured by the greater or lesser degree of his physical shame.

This is an infallible standard and easily recognised by any man!

When this feeling of outward shame has been choked or eradicated, the soul's far finer and quite different feeling of shame will always be simultaneously choked and the inner man consequently debased.

It is an infallible sign of a deep fall and certain deterioration when humanity, under the guise of progress, begin to want to ''lift'' themselves above the feeling of shame, this precious jewel which could help them in every respect.

No matter whether this is done under cover of sport, hygiene, fashion, children's education or many another welcome pretence!

Decline and fall cannot then be stayed, and only the greatest of shocks can perhaps still bring to their senses a few of all those who so thoughtlessly allowed themselves to drawn along this course!

Following its natural expulsion and during its journey through the animistic sphere and material parts of Creation, not only one but ever more urgent necessities arise for the existence of the spirit - germ in these lower regions of Creation so as further to develop and uplift them. 

This also works in return to strengthen and fortify the germ, not only contributing to its own development towards self - consciousness but actually making it possible. 

It is a gigantic working and weaving, with the threads in the cosmic loom, as it were, intermingling in a thousand ways.

Yet in spite of all the lively individual activity, there is such an absolutely logical interlocking with the reciprocal actions, that the path of a single spirit - germ, right to its very end, appears to be part of a beautiful many - coloured carpet, deliberately formed by the hand of an artist.

It is a path either leading upwards towards self - consciousness or descending to eventual annihilation in order to protect the others.

There are so many laws working silently but surely in the wonderful work of Creation that one could write an essay upon each of the thousand different processes in the life of man, but they would always lead back to the one great basic truth - ''the Perfection of the Creator as the Source of all that exists, Whose Will is the Living Creative Spirit''.

''The Holy Spirit''!

''All that is of spirit is Its Work''!

As man originates in this work of spiritual substantiality, he bears within himself a particle of the volition of this spirit.

This, it is true, brings with it the freedom of decision and the responsibility attaching to it, but it is in no way the same as Divinity Itself, as is so often erroneously assumed and asserted. 

Those who can survey with understanding every manifestation of the Divine Will, which through the Laws of Nature works to help and further Creation, will join in a wonderful harmonious hymn of praise, in one united feeling of gratitude and joy rising through millions of channels towards the Source! 

The eternally recurring process of development in Creation, which brings about the consequent expulsion of the spirit - germ from Paradise at a certain stage of maturity, can also be seen with the physical eyes in all earthly happenings, because everywhere the process is reflected in the same way. 

One could also call this expulsion, which is quite a natural development, the process of automatic release. 

It is exactly the same, as a ripe apple or any other ripe fruit, falling from a tree, so as to release the seed in the process of decomposition according to the Creative Will.

''Only then'', under the outside influences brought, to bear directly upon it, can it ''burst'' the covering, germinate and become a tender plant! 

The plant again can only develop resistance through exposure to rain, storm and sunshine and thus glow into a strong tree.

Thus the expulsion of the mature spirit - germ from Paradise is an inevitable result of development, in much the same way as the Animistic and Material Spheres, and finally the Gross Material World, are basically only a consequential development from the Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality! 

In this the fundamental characteristics of Original Creation continually repeat themselves, but with the necessary distinction that the manifestations always correspond to the essence and nature of the particular substance. 

The expulsion of the soul also occurs in the World of Gross Matter, as soon as its time of maturity has arrived.

This is called physical death, and it is the automatic expulsion or severance of the soul from the physical matter and its birth into the ethereal matter.

Here also one can liken the process to fruit falling from a tree.

The ripe fruit are those who pass over into the ethereal beyond, at the right time and with their seeds inwardly matured. 

They are spiritually ''ready'' for the beyond, and therefore will quickly take root and be able to grow up securely! 

The unripe fruit, however, are those whose fall or death, with the accompanying decay of the protecting physical body, lays bare the ''as yet unripe'' ethereal seeds, thus exposing them prematurely to all the influences, whereby they either have to perish or will be forced to complete their process of ripening, before they can take root ( adjust themselves ) in the ethereal soil ( conditions )  and thus grow up. 

And so development continually proceeds step by step unless, in the mean - time decay sets in and destroys the seeds insufficiently ripened.

Such a seed is then lost and naturally with it the inherent possibility to become an independent fruit - bearing tree which, in its turn, can help to continue the process of development.

He who looks around attentively can often clearly observe this fundamental picture of all the happenings in Creation, in his immediate vicinity, for in the most minute, there is always mirrored, a reflection of the greatest.

Next in order downwards from this Paradise of Spiritual Substantiality comes the Sphere of all ''Animistic Substantiality''. 

This sphere is again divided into two parts.

There is first ''conscious animistic substantiality'', consisting of the elementals and nature - beings to which, as the last of many, belong the elves, gnomes, nixies, etc.

These elementals and nature - beings were the necessary preparation for the further development towards the eventual creation of matter, for matter could only come into existence in unison with animistic substantiality.

The elementals and nature - beings had to co-operate creatively in the developing World of Matter just as they still do today! Secondly, in the Sphere of the Animistic Substantiality there exists ''unconscious animistic substantiality''. 

From this issues the life of the animal soul.

Here should be noted the difference between the Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality and the Sphere of Animistic Substantiality.

Only that which is ''spirit'' bears within it, from the very beginning onwards, the power to make free decision, and the resulting full responsibility.

This is not the case with the ''beings'' of animistic substantiality! 

A further result of the process of development was the creation of matter. 

This is divided into ''ethereal substance'', in which there are many divisions, and ''gross material substance'' which, commencing with the finest nebulae, is visible to the physical eye.

But there is no question of a Paradise on earth, as the earth is one of the furthest outposts of gross matter.

The time will arrive when ''a reflection'' of the real Paradise ''must'' come on earth, under the rule of the Son of Man at the beginning of the Millennium!

Then at the same time, there will be erected an earthly replica of the Grail Castle, the original of which stands on the highest heights of Creation as the hitherto only true Temple of God!         

                                                     "THE PRIMORDIAL QUEEN"

THERE has always been vibrating within men a knowledge about the Primordial Queen, Who is also called by some, The Primordial Mother or The Queen of Heaven.

There are still many other designations for  this and, as always, through such a designation men envisage something very definite which approximately corresponds with this particular ''designation'', and which in fact exists for the sole purpose of awakening a picture thereof in the spirit.

This picture then naturally always conforms with the particular kind of designation, and not least also strongly with the nature of the character and education of the person who, after hearing the designation, lets the picture arise within himself.

However, each ''different'' designation will also always call forth a different picture.

It cannot possibly be otherwise with the human spirit. Through the word of the designation a picture is created, and this picture then  successively forms the ''conception'' .

This sequence contains the circle of movement of earthman or,  better said, of the human spirit incarnated on earth.

When he has departed from the earth the designation formed  by the words, such as is conditional and customary during the stay on earth, also falls away from him, and only the picture remains with him, which has then to form the conception.

Thus the earthly word and the picture arising in the spirit are the aids the human spirit uses to form the conception.

In the end colour and tone also join these aids in order to complete the conception aright.

The higher the human spirit rises in Creation the stronger colour and tone stand forth in their effects; in reality they are not two separate things but only one!

Here on earth in this World of Gross Matter we already find the co-operation of colour and tone in the forming of a conception, although it is only relatively and faintly indicated; for often, when forming a conception of a person, the latter's selection of colours for his  surroundings and it's clothing plays a part which is not to be under-estimated, even if in most cases it is unconscious.

And in conversation the use of a change in tone really underlines something other than is said ; either intentionally or unintentionally it is be stressed, and as one quite rightly say : It is "emphasised" in order to evoke a very special "impression" through what is spoken.

This means nothing else than the intention to foster the right conception within the listener. 

In most cases this is also attained, because it is in fact easier for the listener, to get a more correct ''idea'' of what was said through the use of the particular intonation.

Naturally it is not different with the consequences of the various designation about the Primordial Queen. 

With the designation Primordial Queen an entirely different picture arises than with the designation Primordial Mother.

Furthermore, Primordial Queen immediately implies a certain and justified distance, whereas Primordial Mother suggests a more intimate connection.

Moreover, everything about this in particular is always bound to remain only "shadow-like" conception for man, because with every attempt to arrive at an understanding, he can only bring about a tremendous limitation and belittlement of the reality; it does not give him ''that'' which it really ''is''!

In spite of this I will say something  about it because otherwise the unhealthy fantasy of men, stimulated and also directed along this course by their conceit,

creates ideas of it which again as always seek to push conspicuously into the foreground some kind of importance and value for the spirit of the earthman.

In order to render this impossible and to avoid misdirections I will speak about it for once, especially since the ideas already existing 

about it also contain much that is wrong.

Too much of men's  personal thinking and wishing interferes therewith.

 And this always produces confusion when it concerns matters which man is utterly unable to think out, but which he can simply receive as a gift from above, provided he has prepared the soil, within himself for reception; part of this is being "humbleness", which man of the present day does not possess!

To add more to the still more confusion many people also call "the earthly mother of Jesus Christ'', the Queen of Heaven, which with some understanding of the strict Primordial Laws of Creation could not have been possible at all, because a human spirit such as was Mary of Nazareth is never able to become the Queen of Heaven!

Nor was Mary of Nazareth ever meant with the inspirations and visions some artists and other men had of the Queen of Heaven with the Crown, if in this matter it really was a question of pictures given from above!

In many cases they were but fanciful images of their own!

Genuine visions, however, always showed pictures of Elizabeth with the infant Parsifal or also without the latter.

These were only live pictures shown by guides, but never Elizabeth Herself, Who can never be seen by men.

But these pictures were never understood by men.

 It is true that they were right  -  it was the Queen of Heaven, for they mostly directed their longing also their prayers towards Her, but She was not identical with Mary of Nazareth.

Here again men have devised something without finding the real and true connection.

Unfortunately they  always and only make it ''as they themselves think it is'', and they imagine it must then also be correct, 

whereas they are not at all capable of thinking right into the Divine!

In this also earthmen have done much harm, through their presumptuous pseudo-knowledge, thereby making the path of Mary of Nazareth unspeakably difficult. 

It was a torment for her to be linked so forcibly by earthmen with these wrong paths they have taken.

Such error again have their quite understandable origin in the greatest plague of the human spirits,  in their "spiritual indolence" which is hostile to the Light, and which under the domination of the intellect either makes them conceited earthbound creatures or, if their volition turns to religion, allows them to go to the other extreme, adopting childish ideas which consider anything possible!

I explicitly call it; "childish" because it is not childlike; for that which is childlike manifests in much healthier forms, whereas that which is conceited and earthbound, as also with the childish type of imagination, results only in unhealthy and disjointed piecework.

Therefore today I again call out: ''Learn to receive'', men for not until then can you become really great in this Creation!

''Everything'' is contained in this if the human spiritual beings desire to become happy, in consequent "Knowing"!

But you ''must'' comply with it, otherwise you cannot receive anything.

And therefore you have so far been denied the enjoyment of the real ''treasures'' of this Creation!

Today I can  explain many things you who wish to receive if you have absorbed the lecture about "Substantiality" aright, for this enables you to understand me.

I already spoke in the Message of  the Primordial Queen of Womanhood, Who bears the name "Elizabeth".

The designation Primordial Mother is also quite rightly applied to Her, but man must envisage the right thing if he wishes to come closer to the truth in the conception.

The "envisaging" is the picture I spoken about which fashions the aid for forming the conception through the activity of the human spirit.

First of all  let my  lectures  about Substantiality arise before you, in which I said that the feminine, thus also woman, always forms the transition,

the bridge, from one step of Creation to the next, both downwards and upwards!

This is a law which begins to operate ''at that step'', where the "ego-consciousness" of the individual species of beings becomes capable of manifesting.

And this step is ''first of all that is in the Divine'', right in the Divine Region!

As you already know, God alone is Unsubstantiate!

All  else, Substantiate!

This includes in the first place the Archangels as the pillars of the Throne.

These  still swing completely and solely in the Will of God without desiring anything else from within themselves.

 And as according to the Law of God there is nothing which would not automatically turn into a form in Creation, these Angels, which do not activate a will from within themselves but which only swing in the Will of God, wear pinions, thus wings!

The wings are the expression of their nature, which has taken on form, and a proof that they swing purely in the Will of GOD and do not desire anything else.

If they were to change in this, which would only be possible at a cosmic distances from God, as once happened with Lucifer, their wings would automatically become stunted and paralysed and  finally fall off altogether, as soon as a swinging in the Will of  God no longer exists!

And the more purely they swing in the Will of God the more luminous and pure are also their wings!

Wherever ego-consciousness can arise, these wings, must fall away.

From the very outset they are not at all developed with the spirits, because the spiritual  must develop personal volition and does not swing unconditionally in the Will of  God. 

Here you  need only to accustom yourselves to the thought that everything in Creation consequently exists immediately "in actual fact''; and this is all the more pronounced in Substantiality, where personal volition is absolutely out of the question; instead everything therein submits unconditionally to the Will of God!

But a strength which you cannot at all realise lies  just in ''this'' fact.

In this giving up or devoting of oneself, there is rooted the power to transform also that which you call Nature.

But I want to speak to you about the ''Primordial Queen''!

A transformation embracing complete worlds is in the Divine Realm'' between'' the Archangels and Eternal Ones who have become conscious of themselves;

 these latter are called the Elders in the Divine Realm, and have their existence, before the steps of the Throne of God, where the Grail Castle is to be found in the Divine Sphere!

You must not  envisage this picture too narrowly.

Distances of worlds lie between the Archangels and  the starting - out point from the Divine Sphere, where The Grail Castle, in the Divine is  anchored from eternity, thus at the boundary of the direct effect of the Radiations of God!

This has nothing to do with the part of the Grail Castle which was revealed to you in pictures as being the highest in ''Creation''!

For this part known to you through the descriptions is only in the Primordial Spiritual, beyond direct Radiations of God.

The ''steps''  of  the Throne of God to ''that point'' only, however, already comprise world distances and in reality also comprise worlds.

With a little reflection you can already gather from the lecture "Woman and Man" that it is necessary that the womanly must definitely be present to act as a bridge at each transformation in Creation.

Neither is this Law circumvented in The Divine Sphere!

The eternal Elders in the Divine, who were able to become self-conscious at the boundary of the Divine Sphere because the great distance from the immediate proximity of God then permitted it, could not have come into existence, and just as little could the Archangels have been formed, unless the Primordial Queen representing Primordial Womanhood had stood, "in advance" of them as the mediator, as the necessary bridge for this change  and forming.

Naturally, this has nothing at all to do with the earthly gross material  species and thinking.

There is nothing personal whatever in it, but contains much greater happenings  than you will probably ever be able to imagine.

You must try to follow in this matter as best as you can!

Elizabeth is the  very foremost ''Divine-Substantiate'' embodiment of radiation, which as the only one therein took on the most ideal womanly conformation.

Thus She is the Primordial conformation of the ''radiation'' of the Love of God which, as the first, is embodied in Her.

Jesus is the conformation of the living Unsubstantiate Love of God Itself, being a Part out of God.

I only speak  of these things in order to prevent any false picture from arising within you, and so that you can divine the further connection from that  place where,

 as you go upwards in your comprehension, you must stay behind, if you take as a  basis, that also further above the laws remain "uniform", because they do come from there.

There they are even much more simplified, because only later on in descending must they also split owing to the many divisions, and therefore appear much more extensive than they really are.

When  I say to you that every  intuitive perception, every movement up there becomes an event which radiates its effect into all the worlds and sinks down upon milliards of smaller personalities, not to make mention upon all that is objective, then  the words I am able to give you about this are insufficient; they are only  words of your own  language, from which you must try to obtain a conception!

It is utterly impossible to express the real greatness of the matter itself in words; it is hardly possible to indicate it!

And there the Primordial  Queen has Her Being!

She has Her origin in the Divine, possesses the great Divine - Substantiality  of the Archangels, and in spite of this carries personal ego-consciousness within Herself in a transfigured way.

Beside  Her are the Archangels, and further downwards lie the Eternal Gardens  of all the  Virtues, in each of which, one main conformation is active; the uppermost there-of being  the  Garden of  Purity, of  the ''Pure Lily'',  at the feet of the Primordial Queen,  from Whose radiations it issued!

At the lowest end of this Divine Sphere there are then the Elders, Who are only called the Old Ones or Elders, because they are eternal, and who have therefore always existed from eternity; in the same way as the Grail Castle in the Divine exists as  an  anchorage of the Radiation of God, which like Him was and is eternal, as also is Elizabeth, the Primordial Queen of Womanhood .

However, She is virgin!

Although She is called Primordial Mother and Parsifal calls Her Mother!

A Divine Mystery which the human spirit will never understand, it is too far removed from them, and must  always remain so!

She is in the Divine the Primordial Prototype of all Womanhood, after which the womanhood of the Primordial Beings formed themselves into  likenesses!

                               " S U B S T A N T I A L I T Y "'

                    ''  Das  Wesenhafte'   ----  ''  Die  Wesenhaften  '' 

In  my Message I have often been spoken of Animistic Substantiality in Creation. I spoke of its nature and its working, also of its significance for the human spiritual  whose paths in Creation, it smoothen  as he develops towards perfection.

All this you already know!

In spite of this I now considered necessary to speak once more in greater detail of all Substantiality, so that man is given the opportunity to absorb within himself the entire picture of this activity. -

"Substantiality" is an expression which I myself gave to you, because it best expresses that which can provide  you with a definite form for your conceptions about the working and also the nature of this component part of Creation, which is so important for every activity that is brought into existence!

"Substantiality" let us also call it, for once that which is ''essential" for Creation or, better still, that which ''visibly manifests" in Creation; then perhaps what I actually  want to say by the expression "Substantiality" will become even more comprehensible to you.

We can also use other conceptions from the vocabulary of language (English) in order to fashion it even better.

The expression appertaining here is ''that which unites and combines" or, in brief, "that which binds" and is thereby, itself "bound"!

After all these "transitory" expressions I can now also safely say "that which shape forms", without you thereby, thinking that Substantiality would create forms out of Its own volition, this would be wrong,  because Substantiality is only able to create forms, when behind it,

 stands the Will of God, the living Primordial Law of Creation, "setting" It, in "motion".

We may just as well  call Substantiality the executive and preservative motivating power, in the creating of forms!

Perhaps this is the easiest way to provide your mental capacity with the approximately correct conception.

That which is Substantiate, i.e., that which manifests visibly in a form and which can therefore also be reproduced in a picture,

 comprises everything but  God.

God Alone Is Unsubstantiate, so called in order to differentiate from the conception of Substantiate.

Therefore everything existing outside the Unsubstantiality of God is Substantiate and formed!

Take this as a basic conception for your understanding!

Thus, everything is Substantiate but Almighty God.

And since nothing but radiation of God exists outside  God,  it follows that Substantiality is the natural and inevitable radiation of  God.

Thus Substantiality is much more comprehensive and higher than you thought it to be.

It comprises everything outside of God, but it is divided into many gradations depending on the  degree of cooling-off and  the consequent distance from  God.

If you understand  the Message aright you will know that I have already of Divine Substantiality, which exists in the Divine Sphere, also of Spiritual Substantiality, which  in turn is divided into Primordial Spiritual Substantiality and  Spiritual Substantiality.

Thereafter, I mentioned  the gradation of that Substantiality that is only Animistic, which is followed further downwards,

 by the World Of Ethereal Matter and finally by the World of Gross Matter, with all their various transitional planes.

Since everything is Substantiate, however, outside of God Himself.

I simply called the various species Divine, Primordial Spiritual, Spiritual and Animistic, as well as Ethereal Matter and Gross Matter, 

these being the various gradations downwards.

In the basic structure, however, there are only two -

that which is Unsubstantiate and that which is substantiate.

 God Is Unsubstantiate, while His Radiation must be called Substantiate.

There is nothing else; for everything which outside  God issues and develops solely from the Radiation of  God.

Although if you study it ''aright'' this follows quite clearly from the Message already, yet many hearers and readers at present still think of the substantiate as being only the sphere of Creation between the Spiritual Sphere and the Ethereal World, the region from which the elementals originate, such as the elves, nixies, gnomes  and salamanders; and also the souls of animals, which do not bear anything spiritual within them.

Actually the thought was not wrong up till  now, because this region between the Spiritual Sphere and  the Ethereal World is the simple Substantiality which is only Animistic, from which the Divine, the Primordial Spiritual, and the Spiritual have already separated.

It is the heaviest of the layers still mobile within itself, from which in the process of further cooling off the World of Matter detaches itself and sinks.

In the first stage of this cooling off process there remains the ponderous World of Ethereal Matter, from which in addition the mass of the Gross Material World severs itself, which is without inherent mobility.

But even within these two planes of matter, the species of which are alien to each other, there are still many special gradations.

Thus the earth, for instance, is not the most ponderous of them.

There are within the World of Gross Matter further gradations which are far heavier and denser, and where consequently the conceptions of space and time, become much narrower still, quite different what they are here on earth, and where the resultant mobility is even slower and the possibility of development also more cumbersome.

The conceptions of space and time in each gradation are formed according to the capacity for movement, for not only do the stars journey more slowly in the greater density and heaviness, but the bodies of flesh are also plumper and firmer, and the brains therefore less mobile too.

In short, everything is different, due to the resulting entirely different character and effect of the mutual radiations, which are the impulse towards movement, and also at the same time, after having been transformed, the consequences of this movement.

It is just because everything is subject to one  Law in Creation that the forms and conceptions must always manifest differently in the various gradations,

depending on the nature of the mobility.

This in turn is related to the particular cooling off and the resultant density. 

But I am again straying too far from the subject with this, for today I want first of all to enlarge the conception about Substantiality a little more.

In doing so I refer to an illustration which I gave once before, and say briefly:

That which Is Unsubstantiate Is  God.

That which Is substantiate is the mantle of  God.

There is nothing else whatever!

And this mantle of  God must be kept pure by those who weave it or who may shelter in its folds, which also include the human spirits.

Since everything outside of  God is substantiate, Substantiality therefore extends right into the Divine  Sphere; indeed this Sphere itself must be called Substantiate.

In order to prevent errors from creeping in we must now make  a finer distinction.

It is best if we separate  the conception, ''the substantiate" and "the animistic (elemental) beings"!

"The Substantiate" comprises everything outside of Almighty God because it is the opposite of the Unsubstantiate.

But the substantiate also bears within itself the Divine, the Primordial Spiritual, and the Spiritual with all its special gradations, which I have not yet explained because at present this would be beyond your  capacity to understanding.

It is necessary that the exact foundations should first be unshakably established in the consciousness of the human spirit, from which we can always and only  gradually undertake the  extensions by small steps, until the comprehension possible to the human spirit has become sufficiently embracing.

Thus in the future when we speak of Substantiality as such this means the Substantiality which comprises everything but  God.

Only in the course of further lectures would  you recognise how great this is; 

for there are not only the already known gradations leading downwards but also various important related species ''side by side'',

 through the activity of which Creation develops. 

If, however, we speak ( in German ) of the elemental beings in the plural, then refers to those elementals which you have hitherto thought about as comprising the Substantiality which is only Animistic. 

This includes all those beings which deal with that which men in a very superficial way call Nature,

 which includes the seas, the mountains, the rivers, the forests, the meadows and the countryside, as well as the soil,

 the rocks and the plants, while the soul of the animal is again something different, although it also comes from this Sphere of Substantiality which is only Animistic.

 All this is quite correctly designated by the expression: ''Beings''. Elves, nixies, gnomes and salamanders are thus beings, whose activities lie solely in the World of Matter. It is therein that we now find the real possibility to classify them.

 But there are also beings active in the Spiritual Sphere, others working in the Primordial Spiritual Sphere and still others busy even in the Divine Sphere.

 This recognition must completely undermine the conception you have hitherto held, based on your assumption that the spiritual stands above the elemental beings.

 But this is true only for a definite species of elementals, for those which are active solely in the World of Matter, such as the already-mentioned elves, nixies, gnomes and salamanders, and also for the souls of animals.

 But not for others!  

You surely cannot imagine that a being active in the Primordial Spiritual Sphere and even in the Divine Sphere should stand under you human spirits! 

To further an understanding of this matter I must first give a more precise explanation as to the difference between  spirit and being;

 for only thus can I give you a key to the right conception.

 ''In Creation'' there is actually no difference in value between the creature ''spirit'' and the creature ''being''. 

The only difference lies in the difference of species and the consequent necessity for a difference in their activities.

 The spirit, which also belongs to the great Substantiality, is permitted to follow roads of  its own choosing and work correspondingly in Creation.

 The being, however, stands directly in the pressure of the Will of God, and therefore it has no possibility to make personal decisions or, as man expresses it, it does not possess its own free will.

 The elemental beings are the builders and administrators of the House of God, i.e., of Creation. 

The spirits are the guests therein. 

At present, however, all the beings stand higher in Subsequent Creation than the human spirits, because the human spirits did not place themselves voluntarily under the Will of God, which the normal course of development would have automatically assured.

 Instead they turned their will in a different direction, pushing it in between and thus disturbing all harmony and upbuilding, and going other ways than those willed by God. 

Thus the only standard of value for a creature in Creation is ''the quality of the activity'' in which it is engaged. 

The smaller beings working in the World of Matter, however, suffered greatly through this disturbing work of the human spirit with their wrong volition. 

But now they eagerly draw from the Living Source of Power which came to earth with the Will of God, and all the harm caused by the human spirits now rolls back upon its originators. 

But more of this later! Today it is a question of forming the conception as a basis for a further understanding. 

The Archangels in the Divine Sphere are beings, because under the immeasurably  great pressure of the proximity of God no other volition but that which swings pure and undistorted in the Will of God would be at all possible. 

Only at a distance so vast that it is beyond your power to grasp, at the extreme boundary of the Divine Sphere, there where the Grail Castle is anchored in the Divine as a counter-pole, only there for the first time can an ego-consciousness manifest itself in the Eternal Ones or, as they are also sometimes called, the Elders, who at the same time are the Divine Guardians of the Holy Grail.

 It is only their remoteness from the proximity of God which made this possible. 

And only further downwards therefrom, at an ever greater distance from the proximity of God, could there also develop the smaller ego-consciousness ones. Unfortunately, however, they also lost their real support thereby and finally strayed away from the swinging of the pure Will of God.

 Likewise it was only due to the ever-increasing distance that Lucifer was able long ago to change, and through his wilfulness to cut himself off from the connection, thereby automatically opening up chasms which in time became unbridgeable, so that he himself became darker and heavier and sank ever deeper. 

Thus in the process of densification and cooling off he became a spirit possessing free volition, and with great capacities bestowed upon him by his origin he finally stood under the World of Matter as the ''strongest spirit''.

 His wrong volition then brought the evil upon everything spiritual in the World of Matter, which at first felt attracted by him and then ''voluntarily'' succumbed to his enticements. 

Of their own free will because, in accordance with the Law in Creation, the human spirits ''themselves'' had to make the decision leading to their fall! 

Without their own decision to do so, it would have become impossible for them to sink and now consequently to fall.

 However, this also is but the logical fulfilment of the Perfect Law! - 

Thus spirits with a volition of their own cannot possibly exist in the immediate proximity of God. 

This is a lawful condition of the Almighty Power of the Living Light! - 

Where there are archangels there must also be other angels, as the word implies.

 There are very many of them in the Divine Sphere, also in the Primordial Spiritual and Spiritual Spheres, but they are all beings.

 The beings which are called angels ''swing'' in the Will of God and are His messengers. 

They carry out the Will of God and spread it abroad. 

Besides the angels, however, there are also innumerable beings, all linked together like small wheels in a great machine, and yet apparently working independently and faithfully in the building up and maintenance of the entire Creation , because they are firmly anchored in the Law. 

And above all these stand individual leaders equipped with a power incomprehensible to man; and again above these there are still higher and more powerful leaders, always of a species alien to the one below. 

And so it goes on and on right up into the Divine Sphere. 

It is like a great chain, the links of which penetrate the whole of Creation without a break, their joyful activity like the verses of a hymn of praise resounding to the honour and glory of their Lord. 

Remember that what you see around you here is but a coarse image of everything which lies higher, which takes on ever more glorious, more noble and lighter forms, the nearer it is permitted to be to the Circle of the Divine. 

In all these circles, however, the beings always work exactly in accordance with the Will of God that rests in the Laws! 

All beings stand in the service of God, which spirits themselves must first acknowledge voluntarily if they wish to work beneficially in Creation.

 If spirits follow the path which  is exactly designed for them, and which they can easily recognise if they only wish to do so, 

then a way of happiness and joy is assured for them; for they will then swing together ''with'' the beings which help to smooth their paths.

 But the spirits must compel themselves to take any wrong path by a very special decision. 

They only bring about failure, however, and create suffering for themselves therewith, and ultimately their fall and the necessity to expel them from Creation into the funnel of disintegration, as being useless for the God - willed and lawful conditioned development of everything that has so far come into existence.

 The developed spiritual alone has evolved in the wrong direction and to the disturbance of harmony. 

After the Judgment, it is now once more granted, a period in which to change through the God - willed  Millennium.

 If it does not by then become absolutely firm in its striving for the good, the developed human - spiritual must again be drawn back to that border where it ''cannot'' develop itself to become self - conscious, so that at last peace and joy will prevail for all creatures in the Realms of God. 

Thus you, man, are the only one who has a disturbing effect in the desired beauty of this Creation when it is now to be uplifted for its necessary change to the state of a gross material Paradise.

 Make haste!

 For only in the knowledge can you still swing yourselves up, you men! You will receive the strength to do so as soon as you open your souls for it!                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                              CHASTITY

CHASTITY is a concept that has been  so unbelievably narrowed down by earthmen that absolutely nothing of its real meaning is left.

 It has even been dragged  on to a wrong course; and as the natural and inevitable consequence this consequence has brought needless oppression, and even very often untold suffering, upon many people. 

Ask where you will what chastity is, and everywhere in reply you will find explained in one way or another the concept of physical virginity; in any case, this is the highest that the perception of earthmen can reach. 

This proves completely the inferior way of thinking of those who subordinate themselves to the intellect, which has itself set the limits to everything earthly, because it cannot reach any further with its faculties that are born of the earthly.

 How earthly. 

How easy it would then be regarded as chaste and to create a reputation, while sunning himself in vain self - glorification. 

But this does not bring him one step upwards on the road to the Luminous Gardens, which as Paradise are the blissful and the final goal of the human spirit. 

It is of no avail to earthman if he keeps his physical body chaste and defiles his spirit, which can then never cross the thresholds that lead upwards from one step to the next. 

Chastity is different from men's idea of it, far more comprehensive and greater.

 It does not demand that man should go against nature; for this would be an offence against the Laws vibrating in God's Creation, and could only have harmful results. 

Chastity ''is'' the ''earthly'' concept of Purity, which ''is Divine''. 

For every human spirit it is the endeavour to manifest gross -  materially what is sensed as a reflection of something that really exists in the Divine Sphere. 

Purity is Divine, chastity its representation by the human spirit; thus a spiritual image, which can and should become evident in earthly conduct. 

This should suffice as a fundamental Law for every ''matured'' human spirit in order to realise chastity. 

But on earth, urged on by many a selfish desire, man is inclined to imagine he possesses something which actually does not,  solely for the purpose of having his wishes fulfilled. 

Selfishness takes the lead, and dulls the truly ''pure'' volition! 

Man will never admit this to himself, but simply allows himself to drift along. 

And when he can no longer persuade himself otherwise, he describes this often very obvious attempt to satisfy his questionable selfish desires as a decree of fate to which one must submit. 

Therefore to guide and support him he needs still other hints which we let him experience and recognise what in truth chastity ''is'' as it lies in the Will of God, Who does not want any separation from nature on earth. 

In the Divine Sphere Purity is closely united with Love! Hence if he is to  derive blessing from them, man must not try to separate the two on earth either. But on earth love is also no more than an evil caricature of what  it ''really is''. 

Thus unless it first undergoes a change it cannot unite with the true concept of purity. 

To all those who strive to attain chastity, I herewith give a hint which provides the support that man needs on earth in order to live ''in such a way'' as rests in the Laws of Creation, and is therefore also pleasing to God : ''He who in his actions always remembers not to harm his fellow - man who reposes trust in him, not to do anything that may later oppress him, will always act ''in such a way'' as to remain spiritually unburdened, and may therefore be called truly chaste!'' 

These simple words, rightly understood, can fully protect and guide man through the entire Creation, and lead him upwards into the Luminous Gardens, his true home. 

These words are the key to all rightful activity on earth; for genuine chastity lies in them. 

The Son of God Jesus expressed precisely the same in the words : ''Love thy neighbour as thyself!'' 

But you must beware of falling back into the old human faults, and of once more construing and partly distorting the meaning of the word  so as to make them serve your own purpose, soothe you in your wrong - doing, and lull your fellow - men into carelessness or even help to mislead them. 

Absorb such words as they are truly meant to be absorbed, not as appears convenient to you and suits your stubborn volition. 

Then for you they will be like the keenest sword in your hand, with which you can slay all Darkness if you but will. 

Let them become alive within you in the right way so that, filled with gratitude, you may grasp life on earth as jubilant victors!

                                                                                                            HEALING  BY  MAGNETISM

HEALING by magnetism is taking a leading role in the further development of the human race. 

When I speak of magnetopaths I only mean serious practitioners who are prepared to help mankind with an honest volition. 

Not the group of those who, with a low average radiation, make many words and mysterious gestures, and imagine that they are accomplishing great things! 

There is a nervous disquiet in the ranks of those courageous pioneers who for many years and in numerous cases have brought to their fellow - men the best earthly gift they could bring - recovery from many an illness through the so - called magnetism of their bodies, or through the transmission of similar currents from the Ethereal World, the beyond! 

Unfortunately there are continued and repeated attempts to represent the whole class of magnetopaths as inferior, if not even worse, to hinder them and suppress them! 

With much clamour their opponents magnify out of all proportion the individual exceptions where a low desire for money - making created dishonest characters, or where fraudulent intentions were the basis from the beginning, but in those cases this beautiful gift did not even exist with those who ''practised'' it! 

Just look around you! 

Where do you ''not'' find impostors and swindlers? 

You will find them everywhere -- even more so in other vocations! 

For this reason the ''deliberate'' injustice characterising such enmity immediately makes itself clear to everyone! 

But envy, and still more fear, causes the number of opponents and enemies to increase. 

Naturally ''this'' art of healing ''cannot'' be acquired at beer and wine orgies! 

''It demands serious and, above all, abstemious and healthy human beings''! 

''This'' perhaps is the deepest root of all the envy, of which the great animosity is a consequence, for today such conditions are not easily fulfilled. 

And what has once been neglected in this respect cannot be retrieved! 

Besides, the ''genuine'', strong healing power cannot be acquired by learning. It is a gift, which ordained the one thus gifted as a ''called one''! 

He who, wishes to suppress such people proves that he is ''not'' interested in the welfare of humanity, much less has it in his heart. 

He thereby burdens himself with guilt which must become fatal to him! 

The little group of courageous pioneers need have no fear, for the obstacles are only temporary! 

In truth they are a sure sign of an early, joyful and proud ascent!