THE LANGUAGE OF THE LORD
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THE DIVINE LOVE OF PUREST JUSTIFICATION ( JUSTICE )
THE LANGUAGE OF THE LORD.
IT is the sacred duty of the human spirit to investigate why it is living on earth, or in general in this Creation, in which it is suspended as if by a thousand threads.
No man considers himself so insignificant as to imagine that his existence is without purpose, unless ''he'' makes it purposeless.
In any case he deems himself too important.
And yet there are only a few men on earth capable of laboriously detaching themselves from their spiritual indolence, ''so'' far as seriously to concern themselves with the investigation of their task on earth.
Again it is solely indolence of the spirit that makes them willing to accept the firmly - established doctrines of others. And it is indolence that lies in the reassurance that comes from thinking that it is great to adhere to the faith of their parents, without submitting its underlying principles to keen, careful and independent examination.
In all these matters men are now eagerly supported by calculating and selfish organisations, which believe that the best way to extend and safeguard their influence, and thus to increase their power, is by adding to the number of their adherents.
They are far from true recognition of God; for otherwise they would not bind the human spirit with the fetters of a firmly - established doctrine, but would have to educate it for the personal responsibility ordained by God, which fundamentally stipulates ''full freedom of spiritual decision''!
Only a spirit free in this respect can come to the true recognition of God that matures within him to the complete conviction which is essential for anyone who wishes to be uplifted to Luminous Heights; for only free, sincere conviction can help him to achieve this. --
But what have you done, you men!
How have you supressed this highest Grace of God and wantonly prevented it from developing, and from helping all earthmen to open up ''that'' path which safely leads them to peace, to joy, and to the highest ''bliss''!
Consider this : that also in making a choice, in agreement or in obedience, which as a result of spiritual indolence may be done only from habit or general custom, a ''personal decision is involved'', laying upon the individual upon the individual who makes it personal responsibilities according to the Laws of Creation!
Those who influence a human spirit to do this naturally bear a personal responsibility, which is inevitable and irrevocable.
No thought or action, however trivial, can be erased from Creation without similar consequences.
In the web of Creation the threads both for the individual and for the masses are accurately spun, awaiting redemptions, which in turn must eventually be received by the originators or producers, either as suffering or as joy, according to how they once issued from them; only now they have grown and are thus strengthened.
You are caught in the web of your own volition, of your actions, and are not released from it until the threads can fall away from you in the redemption. Among all creatures in Creation the human spirit is the only one to have ''free will'', which until today he could not explain and did not understand, because within the narrow bounds of his intellectual pondering he found no essential facts to prove it.
His free will lies solely in the ''decision'', of which he may make many every hour. In the independent weaving of the Laws of Creation, however, he is unswervingly subject to the consequences of every one of his personal decisions!
Therein lies his responsibility, which is inseparably connected with the gift of free will to make decisions, which is peculiar to and an absolute part of the human spirit.
Otherwise what would become of Divine Justice, which is firmly anchored in Creation as support, balance and maintenance of all the working therein?
In Its effects, however, It does not always take account of the short span of only one earth - life for a human spirit; but here there are entirely different conditions, as readers of my Message know.
You have often brought harm upon yourselves, and sometimes force it upon your children, through many superficial decisions.
Even though you yourselves have proved too indolent still to summon up the strength to decide for yourselves in your deepest intuitive perception whether, regardless of all you have learnt, each word to which you decided to adhere can hold Truth, at least you should not seek to force the consequences of your indolence also upon your children, whom you thus plunge into misfortune.
Thus what in one case is caused by spiritual indolence, in others is brought about by the calculating intellect.
Through both these enemies of spiritual freedom in decision mankind is now bound, except for a few who still try to summon up the courage to burst this bond within them in order to become real human beings themselves, as follows from obedience to the Divine Laws.
The Divine Laws are true friends in everything, they are helpful blessings from the Will of God, Who thus opens the paths to salvation for everyone who strives towards it.
There is not single other road to this than the one clearly shown by the Laws in Creation!
The whole of Creation is the Language of God, which you should earnestly strive to read, and which is by no means as difficult as you may think.
You belong to this Creation as a part of it, and therefore you must swing with it, work in it, and mature in learning from it; and thus through gaining in understanding you must rise ever higher, from one step to the next, drawing along through the radiation in order to ennoble everything that comes in contact with you on your way.
There will then spontaneously develop around you one beautiful miracle after another, which through reciprocal action will raise you ever higher.
Learn to recognise your path in Creation, and you will also know the purpose of your existence.
Then you will be filled with grateful rejoicing, and the greatest happiness a human spirit is able to bear, which lies solely in the recognition of God!
The supreme bliss of the true recognition of God, however, can never grow out of an acquired blind faith, much less come to flower; but convinced knowledge, knowing conviction, alone gives to the spirit what is necessary for this.
You earthmen are in this Creation to ''find'' supreme happiness!
In the Living Language which God speak to you!
And to understand this Language, to learn it, and to sense inwardly the Will of God in it, ''that'' is your ''goal'' during your journey through Creation.
In Creation itself, to which you belong, lies the explanation of the ''purpose'' of your existence, and at the same time also the recognition of your ''goal''!
In no other way can you find either.
This demands of you that you ''live'' Creation.
But you are only able to live or ''experience'' it when you really ''know'' it.
With my Message I now open the Book of Creation for you!
The Message clearly shows you the Language of God in Creation, which you must learn to understand so that you can make it completely your own.
Just imagine a child on earth who cannot understand his father or mother because he has never learned the language they speak to him.
Indeed, what is to become of such a child?
He does not even know what is expected of him, and will thus fall into one difficulty after the other, draw upon himself one sorrow after another, and probably end up utterly useless for any purpose or enjoyment on earth.
If he is to amount to anything, must not every child ''personally'' learn the language of his parents for himself?
Nobody can do it for him!
Otherwise he would never adjust himself, nor would he ever be able to mature and work on earth, but he would remain a hindrance, a burden to others, and would finally have to be segregated to prevent him from causing harm.
Could you expect anything else then? You have of course inescapably to fulfil such a duty of the child towards your God, Whose Language ''you'' must learn to understand as soon as you desire His help.
God, however, speaks to you in His Creation. If you want to advance in it, you must first recognise this His Language.
Should you neglect it, you will be cut off from those who know the Language and adjust themselves to it, because you would otherwise cause harm and obstruction, without necessarily wishing to do so!
''You'' must therefore do it!
Do not forget this, and see that it is done now, otherwise you will be helplessly abandoned to whatever threatens you.
My Message will be a faithful helper to you!
ONCE UPON A TIME . . .!
FOUR words only, yet they are like a magic formula; for they bear within them the quality of instantly arousing some special intuitive perception in every human being.
Seldom is this intuitive perception of the same kind.
Similar to the effect music has. Exactly as with music, these four words also find their way straight to the spirit of man, his real ''ego''.
Naturally only to those who do not keep the spirit completely locked within them, and have thus already lost their real humanity here on earth.
On hearing these words, however, every ''human being'' will involuntarily and instantly think back to some former experience.
This rises vividly before him, and with the picture also a corresponding intuitive perception.
With one it will be a yearning tenderness, a melancholy happiness, or also a silent longing impossible fulfilment.
With others, however, pride, anger, horror or hatred.
Man will always think of some experience which made an exceptional impression upon him, but which he also thought long since extinguished within him.
Yet nothing has been extinguished in him, nothing lost of what he once really ''experienced'' within himself.
All of it he can still call his own, as really acquired by himself, and thus imperishable.
But only that which has been experienced!
Nothing else can arise with these words.
Man should for once closely heed this with care and with an alert mind, then he will soon recognise what is really alive within him, and what can be designated as dead, as a soulless shell of useless memories.
Only what has so deeply affected him during his earth - life as to stamp an indelible and ineffaceable imprint on his ''soul'' serves to benefit him, by whom we must not imagine the physical body.
Only such imprints have an influence on the forming of the human soul and thereby, going further, also on the advancement of the spirit for its continual development. In reality, therefore, only ''that'' which leaves such a deep impression is experienced and thus made one's own.
All else flits ineffectively by, or at best serves to help in the development of events that are capable of calling forth such great impressions.
Happy is he who can call his own many such powerful experiences, no matter whether called forth by joy or sorrow; for the impressions they leave will one day be the most precious that a human soul takes with it on its way into the beyond. --
Purely intellectual work, such as is customary today, ''when properly applied'' serves only to facilitate ''physical'' life on earth.
Closely considered, that is the actual ultimate aim of ''all'' intellectual activity!
In the final analysis there is never any other result.
With ''all'' erudition, irrespective of which branch of education, and also with all activities whether in public affairs or in the family, with every individual or with nations, as also finally with humanity as a whole.
But unfortunately ''everything'' has subjected itself quite unconditionally to the intellect alone, and therefore lies in heavy chains of earthly limitations of the perceptive capacity, which was naturally bound to bring in its wake disastrous consequences in every activity and happening, and will continue to do so.
To this there is only ''one'' exception on this whole earth.
This exception, however, is not perhaps offered to us by the church, as many will think and indeed as it should be, but by ''art''!
Here now the intellect unquestionably takes ''second'' place.
But where the intellect gains the upper hand, art is at once reduced to ''craftmanship''; it is immediately and quite incontestably degraded from its lofty position.
This is a logical consequence which in its simple naturalness cannot possibly be otherwise.
Not one exception to it can be pointed out.
''Of course, the same conclusion must also be drawn in all else''!
Does this not make man think?
Surely it must be as though scales fell from his eyes.
This quite plainly indicates to the thinking and discriminating person that with everything else dominated by the intellect he can indeed obtain but one substitute, the inferior!
From this fact man should recognise the place assigned by nature to the intellect, if anything that is right and of value is to arise!
So far only art is still born out of the activity of the living spirit, out of the intuitive perception.
Art alone has had a natural and therefore a normal and healthy origin and development.
The spirit, however, does not ''express'' itself in the intellect, but in the ''intuitive perception'', and only ''manifests'' in what is generally called ''deep inner feeling'' ( ''Gemuet'' ) .
That is just what the intellectual man of today, who is so inordinately proud of himself, likes to mock and ridicule.
Thus he derides what is most valuable in man, yes, the very thing that really makes man a human being!
Spirit has nothing to do with the intellect.
If at length man wishes for improvement in all things he must take heed of Christ's words : ''By their works ye shall know them!''
The time is at hand when this will come to pass.
Only the works of the ''spirit'' from their very origin bear ''life'' within them, and with it permanence and stability.
Everything else must collapse from within when its time of blossoming is past.
As soon as the fruits of it are due to appear, the barrenness will be exposed!
Just look at history!
Only the work of the spirit, that is to say art, has outlived the peoples who have already collapsed through the activity of their intellect, which in itself is lifeless and cold.
Their great, much - praised knowledge could not offer them any salvation from collapse.
Egyptians, Greeks and Romans went this way; later also Spaniards and the French, now the Germans -- ''yet the works of genuine art have outlived them all''!
Nor can they ever perish.
But no one has perceived with what strict regularity these events have recurred.
No person thought of getting to the real root of this great evil.
Instead of searching for this root, and for once calling a halt to the ever recurring decline, men have blindly submitted to it, and with laments and complaints have resigned themselves to the idea that, ''nothing can be changed''.
Now finally it will strike all mankind!
Much misery already lies behind us, still greater is to come.
And deep affliction moves through the dense ranks of those who have even now to some extent been affected by it.
Think of all the peoples who have already had to fall on reaching full bloom, the zenith of the intellect.
The fruits which developed from the blossom - time were ''everywhere the same''!
Immorality, shamelessness and debauchery in various forms, inevitably followed by decline and ruin.
The complete similarity is very obvious to everyone!
And also every thinking person must discover a very definite nature and consistency of the strictest Laws in this happening.
One after the other these peoples had finally to recognise that their greatness, their power and their glory were only apparent, upheld solely by force and compulsion, and not secured by inner soundness.
If you would only open your eyes, instead of despairing!
Look about you, learn from the past, and compare it with the messages that have reached you already thousands of years ago from the Divine, and you ''must'' discover the root of the devouring evil, which alone forms the obstacle to the ascent of all mankind.
Only when the evil has been thoroughly eradicated will the path to general ascent be open, not before.
And this will then be lasting, because it will be animated by the living spirit, which has hitherto been impossible. --
Before going into this subject more deeply, I want to explain what spirit, as the only really part in man, is.
Spirit is not wit, and not intellect!
Nor is spirit acquired knowledge.
It is erroneous, therefore, to call a person ''rich in spirit'' because he has studied, read and observe much and knows how to converse well about it, or because his brilliance expresses itself through original ideas and intellectual wit.
Spirit is something entirely different.
It is an independent ''consistency'', coming from the world of its homogeneous species, which is different from the part to which the earth and thus the physical body belong.
The spiritual world lies higher, it forms the upper and lightest part of Creation.
Owing to its consistency, this spiritual part in man bears within it the task of returning to the Spiritual Realm, as soon as all the material coverings have been severed from it.
The urge to do so is set free at a very definite degree of maturity, and then leads the spirit upwards to its homogeneous species, through whose power of attraction it is raised.
Spirit has nothing to do with the earthly intellect; only with the quality which is described as ''deep inner feeling'' ( ''Gemuet'' ) .
To be rich in spirit, therefore, is the same as ''having deep inner feelings'' ( ''gemuetvoll'' ), but not the same as being highly intellectual.
Just to discover this difference more easily, man should now make use of the expression : ''Once upon a time!''
That alone will help very many seekers to find clarification.
If they observe themselves carefully they can recognise what has so far proved beneficial to their ''souls'' in their earth - life, or what has merely served to ease the conditions of their life and work in the earthly environment.
In other words, what is of value to them not only on earth but also in the beyond, and what serves only earthly purposes but remains valueless for the beyond.
The one can be taken over by man, but the other he leaves behind on his departure as belonging only here, because it can be of no further use to him. What he leaves behind, however, is but the tool for earthly events, an aid for the ''time on earth'', nothing more.
If a tool is not used solely as such, but is valued more highly, it obviously cannot come up to the higher demands made upon it; it is in the wrong place and will thereby naturally also produce many kinds of deficiencies, which in time will have quite disastrous consequences.
The first and foremost of these tools is the ''earthly intellect'' which, as a product of the brain, must bear within itself the limitation to which anything physical - gross - material by its own consistency is always subject.
And the product cannot possibly be different from its origin. It always remains bound to the nature of the origin.
Likewise the works that develop through the product.
For the intellect this naturally results in the most limited, purely earthly comprehensive capacity, closely bound to time and space.
Since it originates in the World of Gross Matter, itself inert and with no life of its ''own'', the intellect is also without living power.
This condition, of course, is likewise perpetuated in all the activities of the intellect, for which it thereby remains impossible to impart life to its works. In this inflexible natural happening lies the key to the unhappy events during man's life on this small earth.
We must at last learn to differentiate between the spirit and the intellect, the vital core of man and his tool!
When this tool is placed ''above'' the living core, as it has hitherto been, the result will be something unsound, which even at its inception must bear within it the germ of death; and thereby the vital, the highest and most valuable part, is constricted, bound and cut off from its necessary activity, until in the inevitable collapse of the lifeless structure it rises free but incomplete from the ruins.
Instead of ''Once upon a time'' let us now picture to ourselves the question : ''What was it like in former times?''
How different is the effect.
The great difference is immediately perceived.
The first question speaks to the intuitive perception, which is linked with the spirit.
But the second question is directed to the intellect, and entirely different picture emerge.
From the outset they are limited, cold, without warmth of life, because the intellect has nothing else to give.
From the very beginning, however, mankind's greatest guilt has lain in placing this intellect, which can only produce what is incomplete and without life, on a high pedestal, and virtually dancing around it in worship.
It was given a place that should have been reserved ''for the spirit alone''.
This action is entirely opposed to the ordinances of the Creator and thus to nature, because these are anchored in what takes place in nature.
Therefore nothing can lead to a true goal either, but everything must fail at the point where the harvest is due to set in.
It cannot be otherwise, but is a natural happening that is to be expected.
Only in ''purely technical science'', in all industry, is it different.
This has reached great heights through the intellect, and will even advance much further in the future!
This fact, however, serves to prove the truth of my explanations.
Technical science in ''all'' its aspects is and will always remain purely earthly, lifeless.
Now since the intellect likewise belongs to all that is earthly, it is able to develop brilliantly in the technical sciences, and can accomplish really great things.
Here it stands in its right place, in its real task!
But wherever anything ''living'', thus purely ''human'', has to be considered as well, the intellect by its nature is not adequate, and ''must'' therefore fail if it is not then guided by the spirit!
For the spirit alone is life.
Success of a specific kind can always be achieved only by the activity of the homogeneous kind.
The earthly intellect will therefore never be able to do spiritual work!
For this reason placing the intellect above life has become the grave offence of this mankind.
Contrary to the creative, thus wholly natural ordinance, man has therewith directly ''reversed'' his task, and has, so to speak, turned it upside down by yielding the supreme place that belongs to the living spirit to the intellect, which comes in the second and purely earthly place.
Through this it is again quite natural for man now to be obliged painfully to seek from below upwards, whereby the superimposed intellect, with its limited capacity to comprehend, obstructs any broader view, instead of his being able to look down from above through the spirit.
If he wishes to awaken he is compelled first to ''transpose the lights''.
To put the intellect, which is now above, in the place given to it by nature, and restore the spirit to the supreme position.
This necessary transposition is no longer so easy for the man of today. --
The change of order that men introduced in bygone times, so incisively directed against the Will of the Creator, thus against the Laws of Nature, was the actual ''fall of man'', the consequences of which cannot be more terrible; for in due course it developed into ''inherited sin'', because the elevation of the intellect to the position of sole ruler again brought in its wake the natural consequence that, in the course of time, such one - sided cultivation and activity also strengthened the brain one - sidedly, so that only the part which has to do the work of the intellect grew bigger, and the other part was bound to become stunted.
Thereby the part that has become stunted through the neglect can only operate today as an unreliable dream - brain, even then being still under the powerful influence of the so - called day - brain, which activates the intellect.
Thus the part of the brain which should form the bridge to the spirit, or rather the bridge from the spirit to everything earthly, is thereby paralysed; a connection is broken, or at least very much loosened, whereby man has cut off for himself all spiritual activity, and with it also the possibility of ''animating'', spiritualising and inspiring his intellect.
Both parts of the brain should have been developed absolutely ''equally'', for joint harmonious activity, like everything in the body.
The spirit leading and the intellect carrying out here on earth.
It is obvious that because of this all the activity of the body too, and even the body itself, can never be what it should be.
For naturally what has taken place affects everything!
Because the most essential factor for all earthly things is thereby missing! It is easy to understand that the cutting off was simultaneously linked with the withdrawal and estrangement from the Divine. Indeed, there was no longer any way to It.
Finally this in turn had the disadvantage that already for thousands of years, owing to the ever - increasing hereditary factor, every child's body that is born brings with it to the earth the frontal intellectual brain so large that, from the outset and because of this condition, each child is again readily submitted to the intellect the moment this brain develops its full activity.
The gulf between the two parts of the brain has now grown so wide, and their functions so proportionately unequal, that with the majority of all mankind an improvement can no longer be achieved without catastrophe.
The intellectual man of today is no longer ''normal'' human being, but lacks any development of the principal part of his brain that belongs to the complete human being, because he has allowed it to become stunted for thousands of years. Without exception, every intellectual has only a ''crippled'' normal brain!
Therefore ''brain - cripples'' have been ruling the earth for thousands of years; they regard the normal human being as an enemy and seek to subjugate him.
In their crippled condition they imagine that they accomplish a great deal, and they do not know that the normal human being is in a position to achieve ''ten times as much'', producing works of a ''permanent'' nature which are more perfect than the present efforts!
The way is open to every really serious seeker to acquire this ability!
An intellectual, however, will no longer so easily become able to grasp something that belongs to the activity of this stunted part of his brain!
He is simply ''incapable'' of it, even if he should desire it; and solely because of his voluntary restriction he ridicules everything that he is unable to attain, and which owing to his really ''retarded'', not normal brain never at any time be understood by him either.
Just therein lies the most terrible part of the curse of this unnatural aberration.
The harmonious co - operation of both parts of the human brain that absolutely belongs to a normal human being, is definitely impossible for the present - day intellectuals, who are called materialists. --
To be a materialist is really no recommendation, but evidence for a stunted brain.
Thus the ''unnatural'' brain has hitherto ruled on this earth; and finally its activity must obviously also bring about the inevitable collapse in all things, since everything, no matter what it wishes to produce, naturally contains discord and ill - health even from the very start, owing to the stunting.
Nothing of this can now be changed any more, but one must calmly let the naturally developing collapse come about.
''Then, however, will be the day of resurrection for the spirit, and also for a new life''!
The slave of the intellect, who has held the reins for thousands of years, will thus be disposed of for ever!
Never again will he be able to arise, because the evidence and his own experience will finally compel him voluntarily to submit at last, ill and spiritually impoverished, ''to that'' which he was unable to grasp.
Never again will he be given the opportunity to oppose the spirit, either by scoffing or by the semblance of right through imposing force, such as was also used towards the Son of God, Who had to fight against it.
Then there would still have been time to avert such misery.
But now it is too late; for in the meantime the loosened connection between the two parts of the brain can no longer be bridged.
Many intellectuals will again try to ridicule the explanations in this lecture, but except for empty platitudes, they will be unable to present even ''one really objective counter - argument''.
Yet any serious seeker and thinker will have to take such blind zeal simply as fresh proof of what I have set forth herein.
However hard they try, it is ''impossible'' for these people.
Let us therefore regard them from now on as sick persons, who will soon be in need of help, and . . . let us calmly await the time.
No struggle and no act of violence are needed to enforce the necessary progress; for the end will come of itself.
Here too, through the immutable Laws of all reciprocal actions, the natural course of events will take effect quite inexorably, and also punctually. - - Then, according to various prophecies, a ''new generation'' shall arise.
However, this will not only be made up of the newly - born, such as are now already observed in California and also in Australia to be endowed with a ''new sense'', but mainly of ''people already living'', who in the near future will become ''seeing'' through the many impending events.
They will then possess the same ''sense'' as those now newly - born; for this is nothing more than the ability to stand in the world with an open unrestrained spirit, no longer allowing itself to be suppressed by the limitation of the intellect.
''Inherited sin will thereby be eliminated''!
But all this has nothing to do with what has been hitherto described as ''occult faculties''.
''It is then simply the normal man as he should be''!
To ''become seeing'' has nothing to do with ''clairvoyance'', but signifies ''insight'', recognition.
Men will then be in the position to observe everything impartially, which means nothing else than to assess.
They will see the intellectual man as he really is, with the limitation so dangerous to himself and his environment, in which there simultaneously arise the arrogant lust for power, and the disputing that is actually part of it.
They will also see how, with strict consistency, all humanity has suffered under this yoke in one form or another for thousands of years; and how this cancerous sore, as the hereditary enemy, has always been directed against the development of the free human ''spirit'', which is the main object in human existence!
Nothing will escape them, also not the bitter certainty that affliction, all suffering, and every downfall, were bound to come about through this evil, and that there could never be any betterment because from the start all insight was ruled out owing to the limitation of the perceptive capacity.
But with ''this'' awakening all influence, all power of these intellectuals has ceased. For ''all'' time; for then begins a new and better epoch for mankind, in which the old can no longer survive.
Therewith the necessary victory of the spirit over the failing intellect, already longed for by hundreds of thousands today, will come.
Many of the masses who have hitherto been led astray will then still recognise that until now they had completely misinterpreted the term ''intellect''. The majority simply accepted it as an idol, without examination, just because the others also did so; and because all its adherents always knew how through force and the laws to pose as infallible, absolute rulers.
That is why many do not even take the trouble to expose the real hollowness of these people, and the deficiencies it has concealed.
There are certainly also some who already for decades have been fighting against this enemy with tenacious energy and conviction, in secret and to some extent openly, occasionally also being exposed to most bitter suffering.
''But they fight without knowing the real enemy''!
And this has naturally made success more difficult.
Indeed, it has made it impossible from the outset.
The warriors' sword was not well sharpened, because they were always striking at non - essential things that dented it.
With these non - essentials, however, they have always struck to one side, missing the mark, wasting their own strength, and only causing disunion among themselves.
In reality there is only ''one'' enemy of mankind all along the line : ''The hitherto unrestricted rule of the intellect!''
''That'' was the great ''fall of man'', his most grievous guilt, which brought all evil in its wake.
''That'' became the ''hereditary sin'', and ''that also is the Antichrist'' of whom it is proclaimed that he will raise his head.
More plainly expressed : The mastery of the intellect ''is'' his tool, through which men have fallen prey to him.
To him, the enemy of God, the Antichrist himself . . . Lucifer!
We are in the midst of this time!
He dwells today in ''every'' human being, ready to ruin him; for his activity immediately brings estrangement from God as quite a natural consequence. As soon as he is allowed to rule he cuts off the spirit.
Therefore, let man be keenly on his guard. --
He must not on that account belittle his intellect, but must make it is, ''his tool''; not, however, his authoritative will.
Not his master!
The man of the coming generation will be able to regard past times only with disgust, horror and shame.
Rather as we feel on entering an old torture chamber.
There, too, we perceive the evil fruits of the cold, calculating domination of the intellect.
For it is quite undeniable that a person ''possessing only a little inner feeling'', and thus spiritual activity, could never have devised such atrocities! Still, on the whole it is no different today, only somewhat more camouflaged; and the miseries of the masses are just as rotten fruits as was the individual torture in olden times.
On looking back into past, man will only be able to shake his head in sheer amazement.
He will ask himself of their how it was possible to suffer these errors calmly for thousands of years.
The answer, of course, is simple : by force!
Wherever one looks it can be recognised quite clearly.
Leaving aside the times of remote antiquity, we need only enter the aforementioned torture chambers which can still be seen everywhere today, and the use of which does not lie so very far back.
We shudder as we look at these old implements. What cold brutality, what bestiality do they reveal!
Hardly anyone today will doubt that the most grievous crime lay in those past proceedings.
Upon the criminals an even greater crime was thus perpetrated.
But also many an innocent person, dragged away from family and freedom, was roughly cast into these dungeons.
What lamentations, what shrieks of suffering died away here from those who, completely defenceless, were at the mercy of their tormentors.
People were compelled to suffer things the contemplation of which simply fills one with horror and loathing.
Involuntarily every one asks himself whether it was really humanly possible -- all that happened to these defenceless ones, and moreover under the guise of justice.
Of a justice that after all once had only been obtained by force.
And now again, through physical pain, confessions of guilt were forced from those under suspicion, so that they could then be murdered at leisure. Even though these confessions of guilt were only extracted under compulsion, in order to escape these insane physical tortures, yet they nevertheless satisfied the judges, because they needed them to comply with the ''letter'' of the law.
Did these so narrow - minded ones imagine that in this way they could also whitewash themselves before the Divine Will, and escape the inexorable working of the basic Law of Reciprocal Action?
Either all those who dared to pass judgment on others were the scum of the most hardened criminals, or it clearly showed the unhealthy limitation of the earthly intellect.
There can be nothing in between.
According to the Divine Laws of Creation every person in authority, every judge, no matter what office he holds here on earth, should never stand in his ''actions'' under the protection of his office, but like any other person he must alone and purely ''personally'', unprotected'', bear full responsibility ''himself'' for all he does in his office.
Not only in the spiritual but also in the earthly sense.
Then everyone would regard things much more seriously and carefully.
And so - called ''errors'', whose consequences are forever irreparable , will certainly not so easy occur again.
To say nothing of the physical and psychic suffering of the victims and their relatives.
But let us further consider another aspect of this subject, the trials of the so - called ''witches''!
Anyone who has ever had access to the court records of such trials would wish, in an outburst of burning shame, never to be numbered among this mankind.
In those days if anyone even had knowledge of healing herbs, either through practical experience or tradition, and if he used this knowledge to aid sufferers asking him for help, he was relentlessly tortured for it.
Final release from these tortures only came with death at the stake, if his body had not already succumbed to these cruelties.
Even physical beauty, especially chastity that did not yield willingly, could in those days give rise to such tortures.
And then the horrors of the Inquisition!
Comparatively speaking, only a few years separate us from ''that time''!
Just as today we recognise this injustice, so also did the populace feel at that time.
For the ''intellect'' had not yet limited them to such an extent, and here and there the intuitive perception, the spirit, broke through in them.
Do we not recognise today the absolute narrow - mindedness in all this?
The irresponsible stupidity?
Although these things are spoken of with an air of superiority and a shrugging of the shoulders, yet fundamentally nothing has changed.
The stupid presumption towards everything not understood is still exactly the same!
Except that instead of these tortures men now publicly scoff at everything which, owing to their narrow - mindedness, they do not understand.
Many a person would do better to search his heart for once and think seriously about this without sparing himself.
Upholders of the intellect, which means those who are not quite normal, and often even the law courts, will from the outset regard as a swindler every person who possesses the ability to know something that is concealed from others; he may be able also to see Ethereal World with his ethereal eyes as a natural occurrence, which will very soon no longer be doubted, much less brutally opposed.
And woe unto him who does not himself know what to make of it, but naively speaks of what he has seen and heard.
He must fear the consequences as did the first Christians under Nero, with his helpers always ready for murder.
Should he even possess still other abilities which can ''never'' be grasped by the out - and - out intellectuals, then he will most certainly be mercilessly hunted, slandered and ostracised unless he complies with everyone's wishes; if at all possible he will be rendered ''harmless'', as it is so charmingly expressed. Nobody has any qualms of conscience about it.
Even today such a man is regarded as the free prey of anyone, and sometimes of inwardly very unclean persons.
The more narrow - minded, the greater the delusion of cleverness and the propensity to conceit.
Man has learned nothing from these happenings of the olden days, with their tortures, burning at the stake, and records of ridiculous trials!
For even today anyone is still free to defile and insult with impunity all that is unusual and not understood.
In this respect it is no different now from what it was then.
The proceedings of the Inquisition, which were instigated by the Church, were even worse than those of the courts of law.
Here the shrieks of the tortured were drowned by pious prayers.
It was a mockery of the Divine Will in Creation!
The ecclesiastical representatives of those days thus proved that they had no idea of Christ's true teaching, nor of the Godhead and Its Creative Will, Whose Laws lie irrevocably anchored and work on in Creation, the same even from the very beginning to the end of time.
God endowed the human spirit by its very nature with the free will to decide.
Only through ''this'' can it mature ''as it should'', refine itself and develop fully.
Only therein lies the possibility for it to do so.
However, should this free will be cut off, then this is a hindrance, if not a violent throwing back.
But in those days the Christian churches, as well as many religions, fought this Divine ordinance, opposing it with the greatest cruelty.
By means of torture and final death, they sought to compel people to pursue courses and make confessions which were against their conviction, thus ''against their will''.
Thereby they violated the Divine Commandment.
And not only that, but they hindered men's spiritual progress, even throwing them back centuries.
If only a spark of real intuitive perception, thus of the spirit, had shown itself, this should and could never have happened!
Therefore such barbarities were only the cold - blooded work of the intellect.
As history proves, many a Pope even permitted the use of poison and dagger to realise his purely earthly wishes and aims.
''That'' could only happen under the domination of the intellect, which in its triumphal march subjugated ''everything'' and stopped at nothing. --
And supreme over all the Will of our Creator inexorably manifested and manifests in the irrevocable march of events.
On passing into the beyond every human being is divested of earthly power and its protection.
Name, position, everything is left behind.
Only a poor human soul passes over, there to receive and experience what it sowed.
Not a ''single'' exception is possible!
On its path it is led through all the wheels of the relentless reciprocal action of Divine Justice.
There is no church, no state, but only individual human souls who must personally account for every error they have made!
He who acts against God's Will, and thus commits a sin in Creation, is subject to the consequences of this transgression.
It matters not who he may be and on what pretext he acted.
Be it an individual under the cloak of the church or of the law . . . a crime committed against the body or soul is and remains a crime!
Nothing can alter it, not even the ''semblance'' of justice, which is by no means always justice; for of course the laws, too, were made only by intellectuals, and therefore must be subject earthly limitations.
Just consider the law in so many states, especially in Central and South America.
The man who today presides over the government, enjoying all the honours connected with it, may even tomorrow be thrown into prison or executed as a criminal, if his opponent succeeds in seizing the reins of this government through an act of violence.
Should he not be successful, then it is ''he'' who, instead of being recognised as the ruler, will be looked upon as a criminal and persecuted.
And all the public officials are as willing to serve the one as the other.
Even a world traveller, to remain in good standing everywhere, must change his conscience as often as he would his clothes when passing from one country to another.
What in one country is considered a crime is very often permitted in another and, what is more, may even be welcomed.
This is naturally only possible in the achievements of the earthly intellect, but never where the intellect must occupy its natural place as a tool of the living spirit; for he who listens to the spirit will never neglect the Laws of God.
And where these are used as the foundation there can be no flaws, no gaps, but only a uniformity that brings in its wake happiness and peace.
In their basic features the expressions of the spirit can always and only be exactly the same everywhere.
They will never contradict each other.
Also the arts of justice, healing and statesmanship are bound to remain merely deficient crafts where only intellect can form the foundation, and the spiritual is lacking in them.
It cannot possibly be otherwise.
Here naturally always starting from the true conception of ''spirit''. --
Knowledge is a product, but spirit is life, the value of which can only be measured according to its connection with the origin of the spiritual.
The closer this connection the more valuable and powerful will be the part which emanated from the origin.
But the looser this connection becomes, the more distant, alien, isolated and weak must also be the emanated part, thus the human being concerned. All these are such simple self - evident facts that is impossible to comprehend how the erring intellectuals can pass them by over and over again as if they were blind.
For what the root provides, sustains the trunk, the blossom and the fruit!
But here also this hopeless self - limitation in understanding reveals itself.
They have toiled to erect a wall before themselves which they can now no longer see over, much less see through.
However, with their conceited, superior and mocking smile, with their arrogance and looking down upon others less deeply enslaved, they must sometimes appear to all spiritually alive people like poor, sick fools who, in spite of all pity, must be left to their delusion, because their limited understanding even allows facts that prove the contrary to slip by without making any impressions.
Every effort to bring about an improvement must simply prove as fruitless as trying to heal a sick person by hanging a new and resplendent cloak around his shoulders.
Even today materialism is past its climax, and now, failing everywhere, it must soon collapse.
Not without also tearing down much that is good.
Its devotees are already at the end of their ability, and will soon become confused about their work and then about themselves, without perceiving the abyss that has opened up before them.
They will soon be like a flock without shepherds, one not trusting the other, each pursuing his own way, and yet still proudly looking down upon others. No thinking matters out carefully, but merely following old habits.
With all signs of the outward semblance of their hollowness, they will end by blindly falling into the abyss.
They still regard as spirit what are only the products of their own brains.
But how can lifeless matter produce living spirit?
They are proud of their meticulous thinking in many things, but quite unscrupulously and most irresponsibly leave gaps in the most important.
Every step, every attempt at improvement, will ever again have to carry within it all the barrenness of the intellectual work, and thus the germ of inevitable doom.
All that I am saying here is neither prophesy nor loose prediction, but the unalterable consequence of the all - animating Creative Will, Whose Laws I explain in my lectures.
He who follows me in spirit along the paths that are clearly indicated therein must also survey and recognise the necessary end.
And all the signs for it are already here.
People complain and cry out, they see with disgust how the excrescences of materialism today take on scarcely believable forms.
They beg and pray for deliverance from the affliction, for improvement and recovery from the overwhelming downfall.
The few who have managed to save some stirring of their inner life from the tidal wave of the incredible happenings, who have not suffocated spiritually in the general downfall that deceptively bears the name of ''progress'' proudly on its brow, feel like outcasts and backward people, and are also regarded and ridiculed as such by the soulless followers of modern life.
''A laurel wreath to all those who had the courage to refrain from joining the masses!
Who have proudly stayed behind on the steeply sloping path!
He who today still considers himself unfortunate because of this must be a ''sleepwalker''!
''Open your eyes''!
Do you not see that everything that oppresses you is already the beginning of the sudden end of materialism, which at the moment only appears still to rule?
The whole structure is already collapsing, without any assistance from those who have suffered and must still suffer under it.
Intellectual mankind must now reap what for thousands of years they have produced, nourished, reared and acclaimed.
In human reckoning it is a long time, but for God's self - acting mills in Creation a brief span.
Wherever you look there is failure everywhere.
It surges back and heaps itself up menacingly like a heavy rampart that will soon topple over and crash down upon its admirers, burying them beneath the ruins.
It is the inexorable Law of Reciprocal Action which during this manifestation must have a terrible effect, because in spite of the many kinds of experiences gained there has never in thousands of years been any change towards higher things, but on the contrary the same wrong road has been trampled wider and wider.
Despondent ones, the time is at hand!
Hold up your hands, which you have so often had to hang in shame when injustice and stupidity were able to cause you such deep suffering.
Now look calmly at the opponent today who thus sought to suppress you!
Already the fine raiment worn up till now is very badly tattered.
The figure in its true form is at last visible through all the rents.
The exhausted product of the human brain, the intellect, which allowed itself to be enthroned as spirit, less confident but not less conceited, looks forth confounded!
Just confidently take the bandage from your eyes and look about you more keenly.
Alone the perusal of newspapers which are otherwise quite good reveals all sorts of things to be clearsighted.
There are desperate efforts still to cling to all the old illusions.
With arrogance, and often very coarse jokes, people seek to cover up the lack of comprehension that becomes more and more evident.
A person will frequently use absurd language to judge something, of which in reality he has quite obviously no shred of understanding.
Today even people with quite good abilities helplessly take refuge in questionable courses rather than confess that so many things are beyond the grasp of their own intellect, on which alone they have hitherto sought to rely.
They do not sense the absurdity of their behaviour, do not see the weaknesses which they only help to increase thereby.
Confused and dazzled, they will soon stand face to face with the Truth, and mournfully look back over their bankrupt life, at last recognising with shame that stupidity lay just where they thought themselves wise.
What have things already come to today?
''The man of muscle is the hero''!
Has an earnest scientist, who after decades of arduous research has discovered a serum giving protection and also help against fatal diseases year after year to hundreds of thousands, young and old, ever been able to celebrate such triumphs as a boxer, who with purely physical, crude brutality overpowers his fellow - man?
Yet does this in any way benefit even one human ''soul''?
It is only earthly, all earthly, which means ''low'' in whole Work of Creation!
Entirely corresponding to the golden calf of intellectual activity.
As the triumph of this so earthbound clay effigy of a monarch over narrow - minded mankind! -- --
And no one sees this mad rush downwards into the gruesome abyss!
He who intuitively perceives this will still keep silent for the present, in the shameful awareness of being ridiculed in any case should he speak.
It is already a wild frenzy in which, however, there is a dawning recognition of powerlessness.
And with the growing awareness of ''that'' recognition people become even more rebellious, out of sheer obstinacy, out of vanity, and at last but not least from fear and horror of the impending events.
They simply ''refuse'' already to think of the end of this colossal error! Convulsively they cling to the proud structure built up over past millennia, which closely resembles the Tower of Babel, and which will end in the same way!
This hitherto uncurbed materialism carries within it a foreboding of death, which become more evident every month! --
Yet in many human souls, in all places, on the entire earth, something is ''astir''!
The radiance of the Truth is still only covered by a thin layer of old, false conceptions, which the first gust of a purification will sweep away, thus setting free the core, whose light will unite with that of so many others to unfold its cone of rays, rising like a fire of gratitude to the Realm of Pure Joy, to the Feet of the Creator.
That will be the time of the much - longed - for Millennium, which lies before us in brilliant promise as the great Star of Hope!
And with this the grievous ''sin'' of all mankind ''against the spirit'', which has kept the spirit bound on earth through the intellect, is at last redeemed! Only ''that'' then ''is'' the right way back to what is natural, to the way of the Will of the Creator, Who desires men's work to be great, and suffused with living intuitive perceptions!
The victory of the spirit, however, will at the same time also be the victory of purest Love!
IT IS FINISHED!
''IT IS finished!''
These momentous words of the Son of God were taken and interpreted by mankind as the end of the work of redemption, as the crowning act of a propitiatory sacrifice which God offered to earthmen for all their guilt.
Trembling with gratitude, faithful Christians are therefore stirred by the sound of these words and , with a deep sigh of relief, feel themselves comfortably protected through them.
However, this ''feeling'' has no genuine foundation, but only originates from an empty imagination.
In every human soul there always lies more or less hidden this anxious question : How was such a great sacrifice on the part of God possible?
Is humanity so precious to Him?
And this anxious question is justified, for it comes from the intuitive perception and is intended as a warning!
The spirit rebels and wishes to speak through the intuitive perception.
Therefore this warning can never be silenced with empty words which hint that God Himself is ''Love'' and that Divine Love remains incomprehensible to mankind!
One seeks to use such words to fill the gaps that arise wherever true knowledge is lacking.
But the time is now past for empty phrases!
The spirit must now awaken!
It ''must'', for it has no other choice!
He who is satisfied with shallow excuses in matters concerning men's salvation proves himself spiritually indolent in the most important questions of this Creation.
''It is finished!''
That was the last sigh of Jesus as He ended His earth - life and thereby His sufferings through mankind!
Not ''for'' mankind, as they in their irresponsible conceit try to deceive themselves, but ''through'' mankind!
It was the cry of relief that now the suffering was coming to an end, and thus the special confirmation of the hardships He had already suffered.
In uttering ''it'' He did not wish to make accusation for, being the personification of Love, He would never do so.
Yet in spite of this the Laws of God works on everywhere, and thus also here, unswervingly and inevitably!
And just here with double severity, for this great ''suffering without hatred'' falls back tenfold upon the originators of the suffering in accordance with the law!
Man must not forget that God is also ''Justice'' Himself in Inviolable Perfection!
He who doubts this commits an outrage against God, and mocks at Perfection!
God is the Living and Inflexible Law from Eternity to Eternity!
How then can any person dare to doubt this by supposing that God is able to accept an atonement through someone who did not himself also place the guilt in Creation, who is not himself the author of it?
Such a thing is not even possible ''on earth'', and how much less then in the Divine Realm?
Who among you, you men, would believe likely that an earthly judge would be capable quite deliberately of allowing a person utterly innocent of the crime to be executed in place of a murderer, and that instead he would then allow the actual murderer to go free without punishment?
Not one of you would consider such an absurdity to be right!
However, you allow men to tell you such things about God without even inwardly resisting it!
You even accept it thankfully and always endeavour to suppress as wrong the voice stirring within you which tries to induce you to reflect upon it!
I say unto you : The effect of the Living Law of God pays no heed to the wrong opinions which you seek to cultivate in these matters against your personal conviction, but it now falls upon you severely, simultaneously bringing about the reactions to the culpable neglect of such wrong thinking!
Wake up, so that it is not too late for you!
Tear yourselves loose from opinions which lull you to sleep, and which can never be brought into harmony with Divine Justice!
Otherwise it may well happen that such indolent drowsiness turns into a death - like sleep for you, with spiritual death as the inevitable consequence! Hitherto you believed that the Divine should allow Itself to be scorned and persecuted without exacting punishment, while you earthmen wish to claim true justice for yourselves!
To your mind the Greatness of God shall consist in His being allowed to suffer for you, and in offering you good for the evil which you do unto Him!
That is what you call Divine, because only a god in accordance with your conceptions can accomplish this.
In so doing you are declaring that man is much more just that God! You only wish to recognise in God all that is improbable, but even then only when it serves you for the best! Never otherwise!
For when it threatens to turn against you, you immediately cry out for the just God!
You must yourselves recognise the childishness of such one - sided opinions!
You would surely blush if just once you attempted to think about it in the right way!
According to your way of thinking God in His indulgence would cultivate and strengthen that which is mean and ignoble!
You fools, accept the truth : God manifests towards all creatures in this Creation, thus also towards you, only through His adamantine Laws, which are firmly anchored therein from the beginning.
They are inflexible and inviolable, and their activity takes effect at all times with infallible certainty.
This activity proceeds irresistibly, crushing all that tries to stand in its way instead of ''adapting'' itself ''in full knowledge'' to their swinging.
Knowledge, however, is humbleness!
For he who has true knowledge can never be other than humble!
They are as if inseparable!
True knowledge simultaneously brings humility into being as a matter of course!
Where there is no humility there is also never true knowledge!
''Humility, however, is freedom!
Genuine freedom for each human spirit lies solely in humility!
Take this also for guidance!
And never again forget that the Love of God is inseparable from ''Justice'' !
As God is Love, so also is He Living Justice!
Indeed He is the Law!
Absorb this fact at last and use it as a basis for your thinking for all time!
You will then never miss the right path to the conviction of the Greatness of God, and you will ''recognise'' it in your surroundings as well as through the observation of every - day life.
Therefore be spiritually alert!
EARTHMAN BEFORE HIS GOD.
MEN, WHAT has been your attitude towards your God up till now!
Hypocritically you have sought to deceive Him, even as you have always wished to deceive yourselves with the false piety which was only lip - service, but never shared by your spirit.
''You'' have established rules and observances, in your temples, your churches, without asking whether this way was pleasing to ''God''.
If only they pleased ''you'', then that settled the service to God for you!
Do you not see how arrogant all this was.
''You'' wanted to decide the way everything should be arranged.
In doing so you have never cared about ''God's Will''.
What ''you'' termed great was to be equally acceptable to God.
You wanted to force ''your'' opinions in all things upon God as justified, irrespective of what you were dealing with.
What ''you'' considered right was to be rewarded by God as righteous; what ''you'' chose to call wrong God was to punish.
You have never seriously wanted to find out what ''God'' regards as right, and what before ''His'' Eye is wrong.
You have paid no attention to the Divine Laws, nor to the inexorable Holy Will of God, Which has existed from all Eternity and has never yet changed, nor ever will change!
It will now shatter you, and with you all the false works of man, which have created laws to ''serve earthly desires''.
But you human beings yourselves stand before God as scheming, neglectful servants who in their selfishness, self - conceit and ridiculous claim to know everything have never respected ''His Will''.
You have been and still are servants who thought themselves masters, and who out of arrogance and spiritual indolence have tried to resist and drag down all that they could not understand, if it did not agree with the attainment of the base earthly ends which they wished to be regarded as of the highest order.
You miserable ones, who could so transgress!
Everything was only to serve ''you, even the Laws''!
Only what served you, regardless of its form, only what helped you towards the fulfilment of your earthly desires -- only ''that'' did you acknowledge as right, only such things did you want to know about.
But should it now be required of you that you yourselves should eagerly and loyally serve your Lord, to Whom you owe your existence, then you are quite astonished, since in your opinion it is only He Himself Who should serve you with His Power, with His Glory and His Great Love!
How could it possibly be ''otherwise'', in view of the high opinion you have of yourselves!
For you thought it was service enough to God if you acknowledge Him, and ask in thought for His help to fulfil all the wishes you carry within you.
To put it plainly, that He should ''serve you'' with the Omnipotence that is His own, and make your life pleasant!
Nothing else enters your mind.
At its best your service to God has been ''begging''!
Just think it over very carefully for once; it has never yet been otherwise.
When you examine yourselves in this respect, are you not seized with both shame and anger about yourselves?
The majority of mankind think that the only object of this earth - life is the purpose of acquiring material gain!
Also at best the purpose of a family and children!
He who does not ''think'' so still ''acts'' accordingly!
But on such a basis what is the use of propagation, as you call it, which in reality does not mean propagation at all, but simply provides opportunities for other human spirits to incarnate so that these may continue to improve themselves and cast off old faults.
By your behaviour you add to the burden of your guilt; for you thereby prevent all those spirits from ascending, whom you bring up as your children for the same empty purposes!
What is the good of building up an earthly kingdom if it is not intended for the honour of God, if it does not work according to the Wishes of God, about Which you are still completely ignorant, and have hitherto not wanted to learn anything either, since ''your'' wishes are most important to you than anything else.
You only want to satisfy ''yourselves'', and then even expect God to bless your poor efforts!
You do not care to serve and to fulfil your duty towards your God.
The strange activities of mankind on earth, who in their folly even dare to drag the Name of God into everything that is false, thereby defiling what is most sacred, will now be shattered!
You will be thrust from the throne of your intellectual artifice so that at least some of you may still become able, in pure humility, to receive true Wisdom from Divine Heights, Which alone can make you human beings; for you would never mature for this of your own accord.
What does not suit you, you slander, and you are quick to pick up stones to do away with anything that is irksome enough to disturb you from the continued belief in yourselves.
You would rather hail Luciferian satellites who, in flattering your vanities and encouraging your self - conceit, then all the more surely cut you off from the Light and keep you in spiritual indolence, which must lead to the sleep of death for your true being!
But I say to you that you are now awakened from the intoxication, the oppressive delirium, that is already holding you in its iron grip.
You must awaken ''against'' your will, be it only to recognise with the most terrible despair, even at the last moment, all you have freely abandoned with such wanton indifference -- before you are thrust into the bottomless pit that seems so desirable to you!
This earth and the whole world is now being purified!
No longer shall any of the filth remain; so that the creatures will be able peacefully and joyfully to serve their Lord, the Almighty God, Who in His Love once granted them the conscious enjoyment of all the blessings of Creation.
He who again tries to bring disturbances into it by disregarding or even opposing the Laws of God in Creation will be mercilessly eliminated; for with such conduct he brings only to you envy, hate, suffering, disease and death!
All this tribulation can only still be avoided if you really seek to recognise and honour the ''Word of the Most High!''
To do so, however, It must first be understood in ''Its true nature!''
But hitherto you have always construed It as It pleased ''you''!
And not as It was given by God for your help, your salvation , out of the greatest need!
However, you have not shrunk from making even the Holy Word the slave of your arrogance, so that through the distortion of Its true meaning It might serve only ''you''; instead of ''you'' serving the Word for your own salvation in ''that'' sense in which It was given to you!
What have you made of the Word of God in your explanations, and even in the Scriptures!
That you can quarrel about It, even this in itself is evidence of an unsound foundation and of a lack of clarity in what you have dared to set up, as the pure, sublime Word of God!
The Word of the Lord is inviolable, simple, clear and indestructibly hewn into Creation.
Where It is not obscured and distorted there can be no analysing, no deliberation!
It is clear to ''every'' creature.
But for you, with your ridiculous conceit, the greatness of this simplicity was still too small!
In the gloom of your mental workshop you have laboriously toiled away at the Word until you could distort and mould It ''in such a way'' that It pleased ''you'', so that It conformed to your petty earthly desires, your weaknesses, and also to your great opinion of yourselves and your importance.
In this way you created something that had to serve you, that flattered your vanity.
For also that humility which you display when you speak of your great sins, for which a '''God'' brought the sacrifice of atonement, is nothing but the basest vanity.
''A God for you!''
How valuable you must imagine yourselves!
And you need do nothing further about it than graciously condescend, after much persuasion, merely to ask for remission!
This train of thought must surely make even the most conceited feel somewhat uneasy in his hypocritical humility.
But this is only one thing among many.
You have thus distorted ''everything'' that is intended to clarify your relation as a self - conscious creature towards the great Creator!
Nothing of it has remained pure and sublime under the conceit of this humanity on earth.
Therefore the right attitude towards God has automatically changed and become false.
Presumptuously expecting a good reward or disdainfully begging, only ''thus'' have you stood before your Lord -- if indeed you have ever taken the trouble and time really to think of Him, forced to do so by many a misfortune that had to strike you in reciprocal effect of your actions!
But now you must at last awaken and must accept the Truth as It ''really is'', - not as ''you'' think It is!
With this what is false collapses, and the gaps due to your hypocritical claim of knowing everything better become apparent.
Nothing can hide in the Darkness any longer; for through the Will of God there will henceforth be Light, so that the Darkness will fall and perish!
Now there will be Light also on earth and in the whole great World of Matter!
It blazes forth radiantly in every part, disintegrating and burning all evil as well as all evil volition.
Everything false must show itself wherever it seeks to hide, must collapse of itself before the Ray of God's Light, which now illuminates the entire Creation!
All that is not and does not wish to live in accordance with the sublime Laws oof God will sink down to the region of destruction, where it can never arise again! ----
SALVATION! REDEMPTION!
SALVATION! Redemption!
How often already have human beings pictured these words wrongly to themselves, when they wanted to see in them unconditional help from the Light, to the exclusion of the All - Holy Justice!
This implies a total error, that is already evident today in everything devised by the human mind.
They want to make God into their helpful slave, without extenuation, delve into them clearly and objectively, then you will have to confess that your whole thinking has never been attuned other than to the idea that, upon your petitions, God should always serve and help you to fulfil your wishes.
Of course you do not speak of it in terms that would be more according to the nature of your being, but as always give another name to your false volition, putting on little cloaks of deceptive humility, and only speaking of ''granting'' instead of serving; yet this does not alter the fact that your whole conduct, even when praying, is dominated by evil and cannot be pleasing to God!
At last be honest with yourselves for once, and tremble at the recognition of how you have hitherto always stood before your God, stubborn, arrogant and discontented, hypocritical because of your superficiality, thinking of Him only in misery and distress so that He may help you out of the consequences of your actions; but you have never asked beforehand whether your decisions really were according to ''His'' Will.
What are you men before the Omnipotence and Sublimity of the Lord, Whom you would have rule over you just ''as'' it pleases you!
With what presumption you would like to enforce here on earth ''those'' laws that come from your narrow way of thinking, and that are not in harmony with the Divine Laws that He placed in Creation.
You so often exercise your wrong volition, with a cunning and evil - mindedness that is inexcusable before God, harming your neighbours thereby to gain advantages for yourselves, either in money or goods, or to acquire a reputation with those for whom you do it.
All this will now fall heavily upon you with the weight of a mountain; for nothing of all your wrong - doing could be cancelled in the Law of Reciprocal Action as having been redeemed, unless you freed yourselves through the change in your volition for what is good.
The barriers that still hold back the collapse of the piled - up mass of reprisals are torn away!
Everything rolls down irresistibly on earthly humanity, who would like to continue in spiritual indolence and arrogance in order to enforce their will, which has long strayed far from the Will of God.
This, however, is the end for the dominion of all Darkness on earth! It will collapse, and drag down all those human beings who have sided with it.
But in the midst of the thundering roar of the collapse, the Word rings out! Victoriously It resounds through the lands, so that those who honestly ''strive'' for It may still save themselves.
The condition implied is that each one must himself strive to recognise the Word of the Lord as salvation!
If he doubts and allows this last opportunity to pass without making use of it with all his strength, he will never again be in this position, and the moment for him to find redemption is forever lost.
Salvation, redemption, will only come to him in the Word, Which he must absorb, so that by living in accordance with It he may release himself from the bonds that hold him down through misunderstanding and distorting the true concepts.
You have been most seriously poisoned and endangered by the false representation of the Love of God, which you sought to divest of all vigour, all power and clarity, enveloping it instead in an unhealthy weakness and harmful indulgence, which was bound to plunge you all together into spiritual indolence and thus into ruin.
Beware of the fatal distortion of the concept of the Love of God! You therewith fall into a slumber which at first is pleasant, but which becomes the sleep of death.
''True'' love does not lie in indulgence, and in a kindness that is expected to forgive everything.
This is wrong, and acts like a drug that only lulls the spirit into lassitude and weakness, finally bringing on complete paralysis and enforcing eternal death, since an awakening at the right time is then impossible.
Only the severe coolness of the Divine Purity can penetrate the lassitude, and pave the way for the true Love that leads to your spirits.
Purity is severe, It knows no extenuation nor excuse.
Therefore It will probably appear ruthless to many a person who only too willingly tries to deceive himself.
But actually It only hurts where something is not in order.
Weakness brings harm to yourselves as well as to those whom you imagine you are pleasing by it.
In time you will be judged by a ''Higher One'' with the kind of Justice that has become strange to you for a long time through yourselves, for you have withdrawn from it.
It is the ''Divine Justice'', unchangeable from eternity to eternity, and independent of the opinions of men, free of their partiality, of their hate and their malice, their power.
It is Almighty, for it is of God!
Unless you devote ''all'' your strength to severing yourselves from the old, you will not learn to comprehend this Justice either.
But you will then likewise not be able to become new within!
And only the ''new'' man, who stands in the Word of Life and strives towards the Light, will receive the help that he needs to pass through the Judgment of God.
Man must help himself through the Word, which shows him the ways he must follow!
Only ''thus'' can he find redemption, otherwise it will not fall to his lot!
He must grow strong in the battle that he wages for himself, or he must perish in it!
Awake, and present a fighting front to all Darkness, then you will also be given strength to help you.
Weaklings, however, will lose even what strength they still possess, because they do not know how to use it properly.
The little they have will thereby be taken away from them because, according to the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species, it flows to those who use this strength with zeal and in ''right manner''.
Thus an ancient promise is fulfilled.
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