THE   STAR   OF   BETHLEHEM

 THE      DIVINE   LOVE   OF   PUREST   JUSTIFICATION   ( JUSTICE )

                                                                                                           UNSUBSTANTIATE.    

THE WORD  ''substantiate'' is an expression of Creation.

 It is so comprehensive that the human spirit as a particle of Creation will never be able to get a right conception of it.

 As the counterpart of substantiate the expression ''Unsubstantiate'' is named.

 Less than ever can man imagine what is the meaning of Unsubstantiate.

 He will always have a confused idea of it, because it is something which must perpetually remain an enigma to him.

 He cannot even form a conception of it, because there exists no form for Unsubstantiate that comes within the understanding of the human spirit. 

However, in order to bring you at least a little closer to an understanding I will for once substitute earthly expressions for the expressions of Creation,

 although these can only be considered the vaguest shadow in comparison to the reality.

 For substantiate imagine ''dependent'', and for Unsubstantiate that which alone is ''independent''. 

According to human thought this gives you the best possibility to approach the matter ''objectively'',

 although it can neither render nor designate ''that'' which it really is, or how it is; for you would always be unable to comprehend the ''what'',

 whereas in this way you can at least approximately envisage the ''how'' to yourselves.

The Unsubstantiate is therefore that which alone is independent, while all else is dependent upon it ''in every respect'' and is thus called substantiate,

of which latter everything that is spiritual is also a part and likewise everything that is Divine, whereas the Unsubstantiate is only God. 

From this you can realise that there is still a great difference between the Divine and God.

The Divine is not yet God; for the Divine is substantiate, but God is Unsubstantiate. 

The Divine and all else that exists is dependent upon God, it cannot exist without God. God, however, is absolutely independent,

if we are to use the earthly conceptions which, however, can naturally not convey what it really is,

 because earthly or human conceptions cannot span such greatness. 

Thus heed this well,

 God is not Divine, but God is God, because He is Unsubstantiate, 

and the Unsubstantiate is not Divine, but God!

                                                                                                 THE   STAR   OF   BETHLEHEM. 

There shall now be Light here on earth, as once it should . have been when the Star of Promise shone radiantly above a stable in Bethlehem.

 But at that time only a few accepted the Light, and those who listened to them very soon distorted and misrepresented it, as men on earth are apt to do.

What they forgot they tried to replace with ideas of their own, thereby creating only a confusion that nowadays is meant to pass as inviolable Truth. 

Out of alarm that everything will collapse if even the smallest pillar proves to be unsound, every ray of Light that can bring recognition is resisted, 

defiled and, if there is no other way, at least ridiculed with a malice and cunning which plainly indicates to clear thinking that it springs from fear!

 But clear thinking is only rarely to be found on earth. In spite of this the light of true recognition ''must'' at last come over all mankind!

 The time has arrived when everything unhealthy invented by the human brain will be swept out of Creation,

 so that it no longer suppresses the enlightenment that the Truth wears a ''different'' aspect from the unsteady images which boastful conceit

 and commercialism, morbid imagination and hypocrisy, in a craving for earthly power and earthly admiration, 

have created out of the sultry swamp of base narrow - mindedness. 

Accursed now be those who through leading millions of people astray have so enslaved them that today they no longer dare to open their eyes to the Light,

 but blindly revile anything coming to their knowledge that sounds different from what they have hitherto heard,

 instead of at last listening attentively and examining inwardly to see whether the new does not come nearer to their understanding than what they have learned in the past. 

Their ears are stopped, and anxiously they see to it that no breath of fresh air penetrates to them.

 Actually just out of laziness and fear that this fresh air, through the ensuing recovery, implies ''spiritual activity'', demanding and enforcing self - exertion.

 In contrast to the present apparently comfortable spiritual slumber, which is followed by the heavy permanent sleep, 

and thereby only gives a free hand to the cunning of the distorted, debased intellect! 

But it is of no avail to stop your ears against the new Word, to shut your eyes lest the Light dazzle and startle you!

 You will now be ''forcibly'' roused from this deplorable stupor! 

You will have to stand shivering before the cold Light that mercilessly strips you of all wrappings. 

Shivering because your spirit - spark can no longer be kindled ''within you'', and thus generate the warmth from within that will unite with the Light.

 Indeed it is all too ''easy'' for you to ''believe'' the ''unbelievable''; for then you need not trouble to think and examine for yourselves. 

Just because it cannot stand up to any test that is in accordance with the Divine Laws of Nature, you simply ''have'' to believe, without questioning the why or wherefore; you have to believe ''blindly'', and this you imagine to be ''great''!

 You who so conveniently imagine you are particularly devout, simply raise yourselves above all doubts in this matter, and . . . feel happy, secure, noble, pious and sure of a place in Heaven!

 However, you have not thereby raised yourselves above all doubts, but only bypassed it in a cowardly way! 

You were too spiritually indolent to bestir yourselves, and preferred blind faith to a knowledge of the natural happening in the Law of God's Will. 

Fictions devised by the human brain aided you in this.

 For the more absurd and incomprehensible the things you are supposed to believe, the easier it also becomes literally to believe in them ''blindly'', because in such matters it is quite impossible to do otherwise.

 Knowledge and conviction ''must'' be eliminated then. 

Only the impossible demands blind, unreserved faith; for whatever is possible immediately stimulates independent thinking. 

Wherever there is Truth, which is always characterised by naturalness and consistency, thinking and deep intuitive sensing automatically set in.

 This only ceases where it no longer finds anything natural, thus where Truth does not exist.

 And it is ''only'' through ''deep intuitive sensing'' that anything can become conviction, which alone brings value to the human spirit. 

So now, along with everything else, the cycle which begins with the Holy Night in Bethlehem is also closing!

 And the closing of this cycle must cast out all inaccuracies in the transmission, and in their stead bring the Truth to victory. 

The Darkness created by humanity is dispelled by the penetrating Light! 

All legends which in the course of time have been woven around the life of Jesus must fall away so that it may at last emerge in purity,

 in accordance with Divine Laws, as indeed it could not have been otherwise in this Creation.

 Hitherto, you have credulously represent Him in these cults as imperfect in His Will! 

I have already spoken about this and, turn and twist as you will, not a ''single'' subterfuge can acquit you of having been too indolent to think about it yourselves. 

You do not honour God by blindly believing in things that are not in accordance with the Primordial Laws of Creation!

 On the contrary, if you believe in the Perfection of the Creator, then you must know that nothing can happen here in Creation that does not also precisely conform to the logical sequence in the firmly established Laws of God. 

Only therein can you truly honour Him. He who thinks otherwise thus doubts the ''Perfection'' of the Creator, his God! 

For where alterations or further improvements are possible, there is not and never has been perfection! 

Development is something different. 

This is provided for and intended in this Creation. 

However, it must follow unconditionally ''as a logical sequence'' of the effect of already existing Laws.

 But all this cannot produce such things as many believers take for granted, especially in the life of Christ! 

Wake up from your dreams at last and become inwardly ''true''! 

Let it be said once more that according to the Laws in Creation it is impossible for bodies of earthmen ever to be born  without previous physical procreation,

 and equally impossible for a physical body to be raised into the Ethereal Realm after its earthly death, still less into the Animistic or even the Spiritual Realm!

 And since Jesus had to be born here on earth, this event was also subject to the gross material Divine Law of a previous procreation. 

If it had happened with Christ as transmissions report, God would have to act against His own Laws.

 But this He cannot do since He is ''perfect from the very beginning'', and thus also His Will, Which lies in the Laws of Creation.

 Whoever still dares to think otherwise doubts this Perfection and thus ultimately also doubts God!

 For God without Perfection would not be God. 

There can be no subterfuge! 

No human spirit can quibble about this simple certainty, even if the foundations of many a former opinion must now be shaken thereby. 

Here there is only either - or.

 All or nothing. 

There can be no compromise, because nothing incomplete or unfinished can exist in the Godhead! 

Nor in anything concerned with God! 

Jesus was procreated ''physically'' otherwise an earthly birth would not have been possible. 

At that time only a few recognised the Star as the fulfilment of the prophecies.

 Among them were Mary herself, and also Joseph who, deeply stirred, hid his face.

 Three kings found their way to the stable and presented earthly gifts; but then they went away, 

leaving without protection the Child Whose earthly path they should have smoothed with their wealth and power, 

so that no harm might befall Him in the fulfilment of His Mission.

 Although they received enlightenment enabling them to find the Child, they did not fully recognise their sublime call.

 Disquietude drove Mary away from Nazareth, and Joseph, seeing her silent suffering and longing, granted her wish solely to make her happy.

 He handed over the management of his carpenter's shop to his oldest employee, and with Mary and the Child journeyed to a distant country.

 In the course of their everyday life of work and cares, the memory of the Radiant Star slowly faded from their minds,

 especially as in His early years Jesus displayed nothing extraordinary, but like all children was quite natural. 

It was only on his deathbed, after returning to his native town, that Joseph who had always been the best of fatherly friends to Jesus,

 saw in his passing, during his last moments on earth, the Cross and the Dove above Jesus, Who stood alone at his bedside.

 Deeply stirring were his last words : ''So Thou art He after all!''

 Jesus Himself knew nothing of this until something urged Him to go to John,

 of whom He had heard that he was proclaiming wise teachings and baptising at the River Jordan.

 With this gross material act of baptism, the beginning of the Mission was firmly anchored in the World of Gross Matter. 

The bandage fell. 

From this moment Jesus Himself was conscious that He was to carry the Word of the Father among mankind on earth.

 His whole life as it really was will unfold itself before you, divested of all the fantasies invented by human brains!

 With the closing of the cycle of this event, it will be revealed to all during the Judgment through the victory of the Truth, which for a long time to come may no longer be obscured! 

Mary fought an inward battle with her doubts, which were strengthened through motherly anxiety for her son, right up to the grievous walk to Golgotha.

 Purely human and not supernatural.

 Only there did the recognition of His mission, and with it belief, finally come to her.

 But now, at the return of the Star, all errors shall henceforth be redeemed through the Grace of God; and likewise all the faults of those who, 

without obstinacy or evil intent, rendered Christ's way more difficult at that time; and who now at the closing of the cycle come to recognition,

 and try to make good their neglect or failures. 

Through their desire to make good, redemption arises for them with the Radiant Star;

 liberated, they can give thanks to Him Who in His Wisdom and Goodness created the Laws

 by which all creatures must judge and also redeem themselves.     

                                                                                                              OMNIPRESENCE.

God is omnipresent!

 Children are taught this even at school!

 To those who still believe in God at all this is so familiar and so self - evident that they do not consider it necessary to ponder seriously as to whether they really know what they are saying with these words.

 But if an explanation is demanded as to how they picture this, then their wisdom immediately fails them and they themselves recognise that,

 after all, the word ''omnipresent'' as such does not hold the knowledge as to its real significance. 

Men indeed have the word, but not the understanding of it!

 And that, after all, is the main point in everything. 

Even knowledge is of no avail where understanding is lacking. 

Man knows the meaning of the term ''omnipresent'', but to know the meaning is not the same as understanding or grasping its sense. 

I must therefore refer you to my lecture ''Life''. 

God is Life! 

He alone! 

All else is but a consequence of the motion which as such only comes into being through the pressure of the radiation of Life!

 The man who in a really fervent prayer seeks help for something, obtains connection through his attitude with that sphere from which help can be proffered. 

This I have mentioned once before in my explanations about the effect of prayer. 

Do not think of prayer as pleading, but as worship - worship and veneration! 

Every plunge into such deep meditation by the human spirit, however, is nothing but an effort to establish a connection, 

a seeking for connection with the Light, with Purity and with Life! 

The desire and the ''longing'' of  the human spirit expand in such cases. 

In its spiritual seeking it reaches out to Luminous Heights. 

And if it thereby seeks in true ''earnestness'' it will then find, as Christ has already promised. 

It finds the ''connection'' with Life. 

But only the connection, not Life Itself! 

Thus through prayer or earnest seeking you find the ''path connecting'' you with God, and it is on account of this that He appears as omnipresent as you have imagined in the past.

 But God can ''never'' be seen by any creature!

 Omnipresence has been misunderstood.

 Omnipresence might perhaps be even better interpreted with the words ''always present'', always to be found if one seeks! 

It is only the outward manifestation of the happening that has misled mankind. 

They have approached the subject from the assumption that God personally looks after them, pleads with them, and also surrounds them with His protection.

 It never occurred to them that ''they themselves must do everything'' in order to strive for the necessary connection, which they have always unconsciously fulfilled in accordance with the Laws of Creation in their genuine prayers.

 They did not like to believe that it is only the Laws of God resting in Creation that encompass them, and these act automatically to mete out every reward and every punishment.

 To be omnipresent really means nothing else than to be accessible from every part of Creation!

 But even this must again only be taken in a restricted sense, for when it is said : 

''Before God everything dissolves!'' this is literally true.

 There is a tremendous gulf! 

Not a single creature can step directly before God and thus come into His Presence, unless it is One who issued directly from God. 

This is possible for two only - Son of God and the Son of Man! 

All else would and must be dissolved in His Presence, i.e., could never stand consciously before Him. 

It is only possible for the human spirit to find the connecting path to God! 

OMNISCIENCE.

WITH my Word I lead you back to God 

Whom you gradually allowed yourselves to become estranged through

 all those who placed their human pseudo - knowledge above the Wisdom of God.

 And those who are still profoundly convinced of the Omniscience of God, who wish humbly to bow before the great, loving guidance contained therein through effects of the irrevocable Laws of this Creation, they think of this Omniscience of God as different from what it is! 

They picture the Wisdom of God as much too ''human'' and consequently much too small, compressed into much too narrow boundaries! 

With the best of volition they make nothing but an earthly ''should - know - everything'' out of Omniscience.

 However, all their good thinking in this matter is too human, for ever and again they commit the one big mistake of seeking to picture God and the Divine as the ''crowning point'' of what is ''human''! 

They simply do not get away from the human basis, but contemplate everything only from their own particular status; proceeding upwards from the ''human'' level they come to conclusions which are perfected to the highest and most ideal point of the same species.

 In spite of everything they do not leave their own level in their conception of God! 

Even when they seek to raise their expectation to something which is utterly incomprehensible to them, everything still remains in one mental groove, and thus although the volition is there to perceive it faintly, they will never find even a shadow of the conception of the true greatness of God! 

It is no different with the conception of Divine Omniscience!

 With your most venturesome thinking you make nothing of it but a petty and earthly ''all - knowing!'' 

You imagine that Divine Omniscience should ''know'' your ''human'' thinking and perceiving.

 This conception therefore demands or expects from Divine Wisdom an unlimited entrance into and adjustment to the most personal and smallest thinking of every individual here on earth and in all the Worlds! 

A taking care and understanding of each little human spirit, and what is more - a troubling itself over each one!

 ''''Such ''should - knowing'' is not wisdom!""

  Wisdom is much greater, standing far above this!

 ''Providence'' lies in wisdom! Providence, however, is not identical in meaning with foreseeing by the guidance, as people so often understand the expression ''wise providence'', i.e., as they imagine it.

 In this matter they also err, because in their human way of thinking they again ''start from below'', and for every kind of greatness picture an ''enhancement'' of everything they bear within themselves ''as human beings!'' 

Even with the best attitude they do not deviate from this habit, never thinking of the fact that God and the Divine are utterly ''alien to their species'', and all thinking about this must result in nothing but errors, if they use the human species as a basis for it!

 Herein lies all that has been wrong in the past, all the errors as regards concepts.

 It can be said quite calmly that not a single one of the past concepts resulting from thinking, pondering and investigating about this has really been ''right''; in their human narrow - mindedness they have never been able to come near to the actual truth!

 Providence is ''Divine'' activity; it lies anchored in the Divine Wisdom, in Omniscience.

 And this Omniscience has become deed in the Divine Laws of this Creation!

 It rests in them, as also does Providence, which latter takes effect upon he human beings.

 Therefore do not think that God's Omniscience should know your thoughts and how you are fairing on earth. 

The working of God is entirely different, greater and more comprehensive. 

With His Will God spans everything, maintains everything, and furthers everything from out of the Living Law which brings to each individual ''that'' which he deserves, i.e., that which he wove for himself!

 Not one can thereby escape the consequences of his deeds, be they evil or good! 

''It is in this'' that God's Omniscience, which is united with Justice and Love, manifests itself! 

In the working of this Creation ''everything'' for man has been wisely provided! 

Also that he ''must'' judge himself! 

That which comes in the Judgment of God is the ''release'' of the sentences which men had to pass upon themselves in wise Providence according to the Law of God!

 For years now, strangely enough, mankind have been talking about the ''Cosmit Turning - Point which is supposed to come, and in this they are as an exception right for once. 

But the Turning - Point has already come!

 Mankind stand amid the world - embracing happening which they are still waiting, and  they do not notice it because they ''do not want to!'' 

As always they think about it ''differently'' and do not wish to acknowledge how it ''really'' is.

 Through this, however, they miss for themselves the right time for the possibility of individual maturing, and they fall short.

 As always they fall short, for never as yet have mankind ''fulfilled what'' God can and must expect of them if He permit them to stay any longer in this Creation. 

In men's actions there is such a stubborn limitation, which is repeated in the same way at ''every'' Light Happening! 

There is such childish wilfulness and ridiculous conceit that not much hope remains for any possibilities of salvation! 

For this reason Creation is now being purified from all such evil. 

The All - Holy Will brings the purification in the closing of the cycle of all happenings, all actions! 

The closing of the cycle is brought about through the Power of the Light, in which everything must judge itself, must purify itself, or must perish and sink into terrible disintegration! 

It is natural, conditioned by the Laws of Creation, that now towards the end all the evil characteristics must bring forth their strongest blossoms and most repulsive fruit in order to live themselves to extinction thereby, through each other and in each other! 

Everything must come to the boiling point in the Power of the Light! 

However, this time only a ''matured'' mankind can emerge from the effervescing, those who are able and also willing to accept the new revelations from God gradually and jubilantly, and to live accordingly so that they wander through Creation by working in the right way. - 

At each Turning - Point the Creator offered the maturing human spirits new revelations unknown to them until then, which were meant to serve as an extension of their knowledge so that through further recognition their spirits would become capable of swinging themselves upwards to the Luminous Heights, which once they left as unconscious spirit germs.

 However, there have always been just a few who proved themselves willing gratefully to accept descriptions descending from the Divine Sphere, and who could thereby gain as much in value and spiritual power as it was necessary for human beings to have. 

The majority of all mankind rejected these high gifts from God due to their constantly increasing limitation in spiritual comprehension. 

The periods for such Cosmic Turning - Point were always connected with the condition of Creation's state of maturity at the time. 

In its development according to the Holy Law of God the maturity of Creation was always exactly fulfilled, but due to their spiritual indolence the ''human beings'' in Creation often placed themselves ''hinderingly'' in the way of these developments. 

During the dissemination among human beings of the increasing recognition of all God's Activity in Creation - which was arranged in world epochs - they closed themselves to it almost every time. 

Since human beings elevated themselves to be the starting - point of all existence, they did not wish to believe that something existed which they could not grasp with their earthly senses. 

They limited their knowledge to this alone, and did not therefore want to approve of anything else - they, the smallest ramifications of Creation, most remote from genuine existence and real life, who wantonly fritter away the time of grace allowed them in order to mature through advancing recognition! Now comes a new, great Turning - Point which also brings new knowledge!

 They already speak about this Turning - Point themselves, but again they only envisage it as the fulfilment of the conceited human wishes of a kind they thought up themselves. 

Not that ''they'' would have duties thereby, no, again they only await an improvement in earthly comforts which the Light throws into their laps! 

''That'' is how the Turning - Point shall be, for their thinking does not reach any further!

 The new compulsion to knowledge closely connected with this Turning - Point, which enables man to ascend spiritually and thus at last to transform the surroundings in the material realms as well, does not interest them! 

What did not exist before, they simply reject out of spiritual indolence!

 But now the human beings are ''forced'' by God to accept it, for otherwise they can no longer ascend spiritually; for they ''must'' know about it! -

  It lies within the working of Omniscience that at very definite periods of maturing in Creation,

 ever new revelations are given to the human spirits about the working of God. -  

For this reason ""Created Ones'' were already sent down to this earth, primeval ages ago,

 after the spirit - germs in their slow development had already trained the animal bodies chosen for this purpose to become human body forms,

 something which went hand in hand with the development of spiritual self - consciousness in the physical body. 

This was unutterably long times ''before'' the known glacial age of this earth! 

Since I have already given the knowledge about ""Primordial'' Created Beings

 there must also exist Subsequent Created Beings or Created Ones, because I have also talked of Developed Beings,

 only to whom the human beings on earth belong.

 These Created Ones, of whom I have not so far spoken, 

inhabit spheres in Creation which lie between those of the Primordial Beings of Primordial Creation and 

those of the Developed Beings of Subsequent Creation.

 In the times of the beginning a Created Being was also incarnated here and there among the maturing tribes of the ones developing from the spirit - germs.

 His task was to lead and to proffer the connection to the particular next step in the necessary upward striving of all that is spiritual. 

These were the great Turning - Points ''there'' in times of the beginning.

 Later on came the Prophets as blessed ones! 

''In this way'' the Infinite Love from the Light worked to help and assist the human spirits with ever new revelations whenever Creation was mature for it, until finally there came also the Sacred Tidings about the Divine and Its Working.

 Thus at the great Cosmic Turning - Point  now operating there also comes the absolute necessity for an extension of knowledge.

 Either the human spirit must swing itself upwards to knowledge or remain stationary, which latter is equivalent to the setting in of decay,

 due to uselessness consequent upon a stationary human spirit becoming over - ripe  through inactivity; a human spirit which no longer knows how to apply the Power of the Light accumulating within it in the right way.

 Thus that which can and would ''help'' it becomes its ruin, as is the case with all energy that is wrongly applied! 

 ''God is the Lord, He absolutely alone,

 and whoever does not want to acknowledge Him humbly just as He really ''is'',

 and not as ''you imagine Him'' to be, cannot rise up to the new life.

 I was allowed to unfold before you the picture of the weaving in Creation to which you belong, 

so that you will become seeing and may consciously enjoy and use for your benefit the blessings contained in Creation for you; 

so that in future they may only ''help'' you to advance upwards, and not have to punish you painfully or even be compelled to reject you!

 Thank the Lord that He thinks of you with such Love as to allow me to tell you with my Message what will help you, and also what is dangerous for you! 

I showed you ''those'' paths which lead to the Luminous Heights!  Now follow them!

CHRIST   SAID . . .

YOU CAN hear these words repeated  unctuously in a thousand ways today! 

 ''Christ said!''

 With this introduction every contrary opinion is supposed to be quashed from the beginning.

 Every person using these words, however, also desires to absolve himself of all personal liability, but instead of  this he burdens himself with enormous responsibility . . . before God! 

But this does not occur to him until it descends upon him with such a force that he will be compelled to remain silent for ever after! 

The hour is approaching, already the first stones of retribution are rolling. 

But the biggest stone of retribution for many human spirits was formed through using the introductory words : ''Christ said . . .! 

These words are then followed by some quotation from the ''Holy Scriptures'' which meant to soothe and comfort, to encourage, also to warn and even threaten, or in defence and argument. 

They are used both as a balm and as a sword, as a shield and also as a soft cushion. 

All this would be beautiful and great, and would even be the ''right thing'', if the words quoted still existed in the ''same sense'' as Christ ''actually'' spoke them.

 But this is not so! Many of these words were fashioned out of themselves by ''men'' who had a very deficient memory.

 Consequently they could not reproduce the same sense as was intended by the words of Christ. 

You only need to observe how it is today! 

Anyone wishing to explain in his ''own'' words or to write down from memory alone a passage from the Grail Message, which is available in printed form and written by myself, even today does not reproduce it according to the original sense.

 A second mouth, a second pen always introduces alterations. 

New words change the original meaning, sometimes even distort it, although the writer may be absolutely willing to answer for it. It is never ''that'' word which I have spoken! 

And how much worse it was at the time of the Son of God when He Himself had not written down any of His words, and when everything could ''only'' be transmitted to posterity at second or third hand! Indeed, not until a long time after Christ had left the World of Gross Matter! 

Everything - the writings and narratives, and all the words which today are customarily prefaced with a definite : ''Christ said! - evolved only out of the imperfect human memory! 

Even at that time Lucifer's effort to elevate the human intellect to the status of an idol had progressed so ominously as to prevent Christ's words from finding ''that'' soil which provides possibility of a right understanding. 

This was an exceptionally clever move out of the Darkness.

 For the ability to grasp aright all those words which tell of other things than gross material can only arise through the ''unimpaired'' co - operation of the intuitive brain. 

Even during the time of Christ on earth, however, this was already sadly neglected by all men, and had consequently become degenerate and incapable of playing its full part.

 Thus Lucifer also had mankind on earth in his power! 

And that was his weapon against the Light! - 

It is the human intuitive brain only, i.e., the back brain, which possesses the capacity of keeping memories ''undistorted'', which is impossible for the intellect of the frontal brain. 

Thus their hereditary sin was sharply and decisively brought home to mankind, who lightheartedly allowed their back brain to become so terribly degenerate, the back brain which alone is capable of retaining in pictures and intuitive impressions all happenings and experiences as ''such'', and ''in such a manner'' that they can be exactly reproduced at any time as they really were, unchanged and even ''undimmed''. 

The frontal brain cannot do this because it is more closely bound to the gross material conceptions of time and space.

 It was not created for ''reception'', but for ''transmission into the earthly world''. 

Thus it was that the descriptions of what was experienced and heard during Christ's days on earth were transmitted from memory, intermingled with earthly human opinions and quite unconsciously formed in an earthly way, but not with that purity with which a powerful intuitive brain would have seen and recorded them. 

The claws of Lucifer's minions had already embedded themselves too deeply, preventing their slaves of the intellect from escape, so that they could no longer grasp aright or hold fast to the greatest treasure, the Message of God, which was their only possibility of salvation, but had to let it pass by unused. Just try to realise this situation! It does not require much trouble to understand it! 

Many people approached Christ with questions asking His advice about this or that. Gladly He advised them out of His great love, which never failed, because He was and also today ''still is'' Living Love! 

Thus rich young man who was eager to know the way which could lead him to the Kingdom of Heaven! 

The Son of God advised him to distribute all that he possessed among the poor and then to follow Him! 

To follow Christ means nothing else than to live strictly in accordance with His words! 

The bystanders quickly seized upon this happening as they had seized upon many others, passing it on, in that manner in which each as an individual, had humanly perceived it. 

And that very seldom or never coincided with the actual meaning of Christ's original words, for a few words arranged in a different form can change the entire sense. 

The first persons to pass it on, however, contented themselves with ''relating'', giving a simple account of the happening. 

But later on such pieces of individual advice were turned into basic laws for the whole mankind. 

It was ''mankind'' who did this, however, and not Christ Himself, the Son of God. 

And this same mankind also have the effrontery simply to assert : ''Christ said!'' 

They attribute to ''Him'' what men themselves out of their memory and a wrong interpretation alone had clothed in forms and words which, as ''the Word of God'', are today supposed to remain authoritative and irrefutable for Christians! 

Therein lies a ''thousandfold murder of the true'' Word of the Son of God! 

Everybody knows quite well that after weeks or months have elapsed he is unable to describe ''without error'' what he once experienced and heard, that he can never repeat it literally word for word.

 And if there are two, three, four or even ten persons who simultaneously heard or saw the same thing, they will give just as many different versions of it. Nobody today still doubts this fact! 

On recognising this it is therefore natural that you should come to some conclusions as to what happened in the past, conclusions that are convincing and irrefutable!  

For it was also no different when the Son of God was on earth. 

You can observe it clearly enough with the evangelists. 

Their reports plainly bear the stamp of it in many instances, as for example when Peter, the first among the disciples to declare his recognition, said to the Son of God : ''Thou art the Christ, Son of the Living God!'' 

The evangelists recorded these portentous words and also Christ's answer, but not at all uniformly. 

Mathew reports that the Son of God thereupon figuratively endowed Peter with a key to the Kingdom of Heaven and made him the rock upon which a future community was to be built, while the other evangelists give Christ's answer in a more general form, which is more correct.

 Peter spoke only as ''the first'' to put this conviction into words. 

And such happenings remain not only as words, but immediately become a deed in Creation, quickly ''taking form'' in the Ethereal World directly! 

The honest conviction which Peter thus anchored in the World of Matter through his words, his profession of belief, became at the same moment a rock in the Ethereal sphere which represented the foundation stone for the building of a later community for all those who can become able to believe in the Son of God with the ''same'' simple and honest conviction.

 And ''with this'' Peter also held the key to Paradise in his hand! 

For the conviction that Jesus is the Son of God quite naturally brings in its train the urge ''to live'' in accordance with His Word.

 ''That'', however, is at the same time the key to the Kingdom of Heaven for ''every'' man.

 This confession ''is'' the key, provided such a believer absorbs the Word of God in ''undistorted'' form, understands It aright and lives accordingly. 

Christ knew about this happening which, when Peter uttered his words of conviction, took place ethereally according to the Laws of Creation, and He spoke about it in order to explain it to the disciples. 

The lawfulness of ethereal happenings is also known to every reader of my Grail Message.

 Thus merely through being the first to confess in words what he intuitively perceived. 

Peter consequently became the first to receive the key to Paradise. 

And to whomsoever on earth he could later on mediate this same conviction he would open the Kingdom of Heaven! 

For those, however, who did not wish to share his conviction it was bound to remain shut.

 All this is a quite natural and automatic happening, clear and simple, and it is neither bound up with Peter nor dependent upon him! 

Christ wished to and ''could'' only lay the foundation for a community upon ''such a conviction'', but not upon any person! 

Peter merely happened to be the first who really expressed this conviction in words. 

The ''conviction'' developed, formed and ''became'' the rock, but not Peter as a person! 

But Mathew, in accordance with his own interpretation, gives to Christ's answer a meaning which is purely personal, connecting Peter only, and this he passes on.

 Mathew in particular shows that he misunderstood many things which he then thoughtlessly passes on after interpreting them in his own way. 

Just as he has already done at the beginning of his writings with the announcement of the angel to Joseph in Mathew 1 . v . 21 : ''And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins''! 

And then Mathew follows in verses  22 and  23 with : ''Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Imanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.''

 In explaining this Mathew wants to form a close link between  the prophecy of Isiah and the birth of the Son of God, but the way in which he does it shows only too plainly that in his writings he expresses only his personal interpretations and does not remain objective. 

This should have served ''as a warning'' to everybody that these writings must not be considered as the Word of God, but only as the personal opinion of their author.

 Mathew, for example, does not even see the difference between the announcement made by Isiah, which he himself quotes, and that of the Angel, but mixes them together with a childlike innocence because ''he  imagines'' it to be so, and is quite unconcerned as to whether it is also correct! 

He does not even notice that the ''names'' mentioned in them are different! 

But it was not without purpose that they were so precisely named!

 Isiah prophesied ''Imanuel'', but the Angel ''Jesus''.

 Therefore it was not Imanuel to whom Mary gave birth, nor was her child the one of whom Isiah prophesied!

 Isiah announced ''Imanuel'', the Son of Man; the Angel, however, ''Jesus'', the Son of God! 

It is clear that these are two different announcements requiring two different fulfilments which, again, must be carried out by two different Persons.

 A mixing of these two happenings is impossible and can only be maintained by a human volition which ''deliberately'' ignores all basic facts. Mathew had no evil intention in this, he merely wrote down his own simple opinion in a most thoughtless manner.

 It could easily  fulfilment of the  happen that he linked up these two events because at that time, more so than today, people were waiting and longing for the fulfilment of the promises of the old prophets. He did not foresee the evil of still greater misunderstanding that would grow out of it! 

I do not need to speak further here about the fulfilment of the prophecy of ''Imanuel'', as I have already dealt with this in detail several times in Grail Message. - 

Thus the misunderstanding was as great at Jesus' time on earth as it is today.

 Indeed He Himself often lamented that His disciples did not understand Him, could not understand Him!

 Do you think it was any different when He was no longer with them? 

''Later on the spirit came upon them,'' many will say here, those who give little or no thought to the matter at all! 

The spirit, however, did not at the same time correct the deficiencies of the brain. 

Weaklings consider it sinful to think in such a way, but this is really nothing but an excuse for their spiritual indolence, which they imagine they can gloss over thereby.

 You will soon be awakened from the half - heartedness of such thoughts however! 

''But when the Son of Man will come. . . .'' declared Christ, as a warning and threat! 

Think of it when now the hour of announcement comes in which the Lord Himself reveals that He ''sent'' the Son of Man to this earth! 

Remember that with those words Christ threatened all the spiritual indolent among mankind! - - 

When at that time He told the rich young man to give away all his earthly possessions, this was necessary ''only for him'', since he had asked : ''What shall I do. . . .?''

 And Christ gave ''him'' the answer, which in this sense was not meant to apply to all mankind!

 Only the rich youth could profit ''quite personally'' from this advice. 

Amid all the comforts provided by his wealth he was too weak to exert himself to rise inwardly. 

Therefore his riches formed a hindrance to his spiritual ascent. 

The best advice which Christ could therefore give him was naturally to remove every obstacle, which in his case was the wealth inducing him to live a life of comfort!

 But only for that reason!

 Not because a man should not possess wealth!

 A man who does not pile up riches needlessly just for self - gratification, but who uses them ''aright'' by ''revaluing'' them and applying them for the benefit of many, is much greater and worthier than one who gives all his wealth away. 

He stands much higher in Creation because he furthers it. 

Through his wealth such a man is able to provide employment for thousands during the whole earth - life, thereby giving them the satisfaction of having earned their own living, which strengthens and supports them both spiritually and physically.

 It is quite natural, of course, that a correct attitude must be preserved as regards work and rest, as also in giving the right remuneration for all work done, so that a strict and just equilibrium is upheld. 

That ''assures movement'' in Creation, which is indispensable to healthy development and harmony.

 A one - sided giving away without asking for an equivalent value, however, is contrary to the Laws of Creation, and only brings stagnation and disorders as can seen in ''everything'', including our physical bodies, where lack of movement causes a thickening and stagnation of the blood, because only ''movement'' permits the blood to flow more freely and purely through the veins. 

Man finds this law of essential movement ''everywhere'', in a thousand different forms, but always the same in basic principle. 

It arises with every individual happening, and yet in its reciprocal action it works harmoniously throughout Creation, through all the spheres. 

Even the spirit needs uninterruptedly to obey this law if it wishes to continue in existence, remain strong and soar upwards! 

There is nothing without this law!

 Movement everywhere in an absolute balance of give and take! 

It was not a universal precept which the Son of God proclaimed in the advice He gave to the rich young man, but it was meant exclusively and entirely for the young man himself, or perhaps for those who are ''like'' him, those who are also too weak to control their riches. 

He who allows himself to be dominated by his wealth shall not have it either, for it does not serve him, but serves only that person who controls it, for in the latter's hand it will also bring benefits! 

He ''shall'' possess it, because he knows how to help himself and many others with it, thereby maintaining and furthering movement in Creation. 

This is never or very seldom the case when things are given away.

 Many people are only brought to an awakening and to activity through suffering.

 If others help them too soon they slacken, depend upon this help and succumb spiritually, because without some stimulus they cannot remain active. Then they live on aimlessly., often spending their time ''only'' in observing ''what'' is to be criticised in others instead of looking within themselves, and yet wishing to possess what others possess. 

A corrupt generation is created by such one - sided giving, worthless for a robust and cheerful life, and therefore harmful to the entire Creation! 

''That'' was not the meaning of the advice given to the rich young man! 

Nor did the Son of God ever speak against wealth as such, but always and only against those rich men who through their riches allowed all feelings of compassion at the suffering of others to dry up, who thereby sacrificed their spirit to their wealth, who had no interest beside their earthly possessions, in short who let themselves be entirely dominated by their riches.

 That Christ Himself neither despised  nor disapproved of wealth was proved by his frequent visits to the houses of the rich, where He was a welcome guest. 

Neither was He Himself poor, as is strangely enough often assumed! 

There is no foundation for the assumption, now almost proverbial, that Christ was poverty stricken! 

Christ never knew of worries caused by struggle of life. 

He was born into circumstances similar to those designated as the good middle class, because it was just this soil alone which had remained the most healthy. 

It was neither affected by the over - cultivation of all the rich and aristocratic circles, nor by the bitterness of the working classes.

 It was carefully selected. Joseph, the carpenter, could be described as well - to - do, but by no means poor. 

That Christ was born in a stable at Bethlehem was merely a consequence of the overcrowding of Bethlehem due to the taking of the census, to which Joseph had also come.

 Joseph could simply find no lodging anywhere, something which can easily happen here and there to many a person attending some special gathering today. 

All this had nothing to do with poverty! 

In Joseph's house there would have been bedrooms such as are customary among well - to - do citizens. 

Nor did Christ have to live in poverty!

 This idea only arose because any earthly possessions which exceeded the necessities of earthly life had no meaning for the One coming out of God. 

The task He had come to fulfil was not an earthly one, but purely ''spiritual''. 

Christ's allusion to people as being ''brother and sisters'' is also being used in the wrong way today. 

How earthly unhealthy, akin to communistic ideas, how sickly sweet and repugnant in regard to religion!

 It plays directly into the hands of Darkness, for in its present interpretation it absolutely suppresses the free upward striving of the individual human spirit as willed by God.

 Nothing but the unhealthy caricatures of what Christ intended! 

When He spoke of all men being brothers and sisters He was far from thinking of the manifold eccentricities such as are in vogue today. 

He was giving enlightenment for ''that'' time, when the wicked custom of keeping slaves flourished greatly, when men were given away and sold, and thus considered as having no will of their own! 

People, however, are brothers and ''sisters from out of the spirit, from out of their origin''. 

''They are human spirits'' which may not be considered as chattels without a will of their own, since every human spirit carries within itself the ability consciously to exercise its own will.

 It was meant only ''in that way'', and never intended to signify ''that'' equality of rights for which one looks in the words today! 

In fact no human spirit may enter Paradise just because it can call itself a human spirit. 

No such equality of rights exists in the general sense there.

 The conditions of ''maturity'' play a decisive role.

 The human spirit must first of all fulfil everything and do everything which it is able to do with its volition set on what is good. 

Only in this way will it so mature that it can gain access to Paradise!

 Inflexible laws permeate Creation which can never be overthrown or  deflected by the designation little brother and little sister because of our common origin. 

Nor here on earth either! 

How sharply the Son of God demanded the separation of the mundane from the spiritual, yet fulfilment towards both, lies clearly and distinctly in His statement : ''Render unto the Emperor that which is due to the Emperor, and unto God that which is due to God!'' -

 And so it is with many sentences and reports in the Bible that men have based on their ''own'' views when transmitting them. 

Yet all these writers did not intend at the time to make any law out of them for the whole of mankind, they only wanted to report! 

It is also to be forgiven that the contemporary earthmen, and also Christ's disciples, did not understand much of what the Son of God told them, which often made Him very sad; and that later on they transmitted everything in terms of their own lack of understanding, which they did with the best of  intentions, just as it was retained in their memories, but which for the reasons already stated must not be considered as wholly authoritative.

 But it is unpardonable that ''later on'' men simply and boldly assert as if it were a fact : ''Christ said. . . .!'' 

And thus without further ado attribute these erroneous human views, these products of a faulty human capacity to remember, categorically and finally to the Son of God!

 But only in order to establish and maintain buy their selfish endeavours a system of teaching, the gaps in which from the very outset were bound to reveal to every powerful intuition that the entire structure was rotten and unsafe!

 Only the demand for blind faith offered the possibility to prevent these numerous shortcomings in the structure from being discovered immediately! Such systems have been upheld, and are still today being upheld, ''only'' through the strict demand for blind faith and the decisive word : ''Christ said. . . .''! And this word, this scheming assertion, shall become a dreadful Judgment for them! 

For it is just as wrong as the presumptuous assertion that the Crucifixion of Christ was willed by God in order to wash away all the sins of humanity through this sacrifice. 

What lies within all this, how much impudent wantonness and unbelievable human conceit were necessary to distort the murder of the Son of God in this fashion, that the future will reveal and mankind will experience in themselves! 

Woe unto those men who once murdered the Son of God upon the cross!

 A hundredfold woe unto you, however, who since then have nailed Him to the cross a thousandfold in His Word, and who still murder Him daily and hourly over and over again! A heavy Judgment will fall upon you!