THE   WORLD   TEACHER

THE    DIVINE     LOVE    OF    PUREST    JUSTIFICATION    (JUSTICE)

                                                                             THE     WORLD    TEACHER  

HE is called World Teacher not because He is to teach the World, and will  perhaps found a religion that unites the World, or more specifically the  earth, or better still humanity on earth, or that holds sway over the earth; but He is called World Teacher because He "explains" the "World" and brings the teaching about the World.

That which man really must know!

HE "teaches" how to "recognise" the "World", in it's 'automatic activity, so that earthman may adjust himself accordingly, and thereby be able, consciously to ascend  in the  recognition of the actual  Laws of the World!

Thus it is really a question of cosmology, of instruction about the World, about Creation. 

Behind this "true" World Teacher, visible to "pure clairvoyants", stands radiantly the  great "Cross Redemption", as once it did with  Christ! 

It can also be said: "He bears the Cross"! 

But that has nothing to do with suffering and martyrdom.

This will be one of the signs which, "living and radiating", no sorcerer or magician, however accomplished is able to simulate, and by which the absolute genuineness of the Mission can be recognised!

This "beyond-earthly" happening is not disconnected, not merely arbitrary, therefore not unnatural. 

The connection will immediately be understood, as soon as the true significance of actual "Cross of Redemption" is known.

The Cross of Redemption does not have the same meaning as Christ's Cross of Suffering, through which indeed mankind could not be redeemed, as I explain in detail in the lecture, "The Crucifixion of The Son of God, and the Lord's Supper", and repeat many times.

It is something quite different, again of apparent simplicity, yet of immense greatness!

The Cross was already, known before "Christ's time on  earth.

It is the sign of Divine Truth!

Not merely the sign, but the living form for It.

And since Christ was the Bringer of Divine Truth, of the genuine One, and came from the Truth, was in direct connection with It, bearing a part of It, within Himself, It also clung to Him, inwardly and outwardly, in a living form!

It is "visible" in the living, thus shining and independently ''radiating'' Cross!

It may be said that, It is the Cross itself.

Where this Radiant Cross is, there also is Truth, since this Cross can never be separated from Truth; rather they both are one, ''because this Cross displays the visible form of Truth!

The Cross of Rays, or the radiating Cross ''is'' therefore the Truth in it's original form. 

And since the human spiritual beings, could ascend, only through the "Truth", and in no otherwise, would the human spiritual beings, find "True Redemption", only in the recognition or "knowledge of Divine Truth"!

Again, since "redemption" lies only in "The Truth", it follows that, "The Cross", meaning "The Truth", is "The Redeeming Cross", or The Cross of Redemption"!

It is "The Cross of The Redeemer!

''The Redeemer, however, is The Truth for mankind''!

Only knowledge of the Truth, and connected therewith, making use of the way that lies or is shown in the Truth, can lead the human spirit out of it's present derangement and error consequently upwards to the Light, can liberate, and redeem it from it's present state.

And as the Son of  God, Who was sent, and the Son of Man now coming, are the "sole'' Bringers of the "undimmed" Truth, bearing It within Themselves, They must both naturally also bear inseparably the Cross within Themselves, that is, They must be Bearers of the Cross of Rays, Bearers of Truth, Bearers of Redemption, which for the humanity lies in the Truth.

They bring redemption in the Truth, to those who receive It, who thus walk on the path shown. -- 

What is all the clever talk of the men beside this?

It will fade away in the hour of need.

''For that reason'' the Son of God told men that they should take up the Cross and follow Him, which means to "accept the Truth and to live accordingly"!

To adapt themselves to the Laws of Creation, to learn to understand them fully and make only the best use of their automatic effects.

But what has the restricted mind of man  once more made of this simple and natural fact!

A doctrine of suffering desired neither by God, nor the Son of God!

And thereby they have taken a ''wrong'' path, that is not in accord, with the path indicated, but leads far away from the Will of God, Which desires only to lead to joy instead of suffering.

It is naturally a terrible symbol for mankind that at that time the Son God was nailed by them just to the  earthly representation, of the form of Truth, and tortured to death, thus going to His  earthly destruction on the symbol of Truth which He brought!

The Cross of Suffering of the churches, however, ''is not''  the Cross Of Redemption!

It is said of The Son of Almighty GOD : "He who stands in Power and the Truth".

The Power is the Will of God, the Holy Spirit.

It's visible form is the Dove.

The visible form of Truth is the independently radiating Cross.

Both were seen ---  living --- with the Son of God, because He stood in them.

Thus with Him it was a natural and self - evident manifestation.

''The same will also be seen with the Son Of Man!''

The Dove above Him, the Cross Of Redemption behind Him; for He again is inseparably linked with them as The Bringer of Truth, "Who stands in the Power and the Truth"!

''They are the infallible signs of His genuine Mission to fulfil the prophecies".

The Signs that can never be imitated, which are indestructible, warning, and despite the fearfulness of the severity also promising!

Before this alone must the Darkness yield!

Look upwards!

As soon as the inexorable harbingers of His coming have appeared, clearing the way for Him of the obstacles that human conceit heaps upon it, ''the bandage will fall away from the eyes of many'' to whom is granted the grace to recognise Him ''thus''!

Then, forced by the power of the Light, they will ''have'' to bear witness openly!

Not one of the false prophets and of the leaders, today still so numerous, is able to stand his ground against ''this''; for in these two sublime sign, which no one but the Son of God and Son of Man can bear, God Himself speaks for His Servant, and all human wisdom must become silent because of them. --

Watch for that hour, it will be nearer than ''all'' men  think!        

                                                                                                                  THE      STRANGER.

ONCE more Darkness had settled over the earth. 

Triumphantly it over - shadowed men, and barred their way to the Primordial Spiritual Realm. 

The Light of God had withdrawn from them. 

The body that had served It as an earthly vessel hung bleeding and mutilated on the Cross, as a victim of the protest of those to whom It wished to bring happiness and holy peace. 

At the summit of the entire Creation, in the radiant vicinity of God, stands the Grail Castle as the Temple of Light. 

Deep grief prevailed there over the erring human spirits far below who, blindly imagining that they knew everything better, closed themselves in hostility to the Truth, and allowed themselves to be driven so far by the hate - filled Darkness as to commit this crime against the Son of God.

 The curse thus created by mankind fell heavily on the whole world, pressing them into an even greater limitation of understanding. -- 

Gravely perplexed, a youth beheld this monstrous happening from the Castle of the Grail . . . the future Son of Man. 

He was then already preparing for His Mission, a process which took thousands of years; for He was to descend well - equipped into those lower regions where, through the volition of mankind, Darkness reigned. 

A woman's hand was gently laid on the shoulder of the dreaming one. 

The Queen of Womanhood stood beside Him, and spoke in a sad and loving voice : ''Let this event impress itself upon you, dear son.

 ''Such'' is the battlefield through which you will have to pass in the hour of fulfilment; for at the request of the murdered Saviour God the Father grants that before the Judgment you shall once more proclaim His Word to the faithless, in order to save those who are still willing to listen to It!'' 

The youth bowed His head in silence and sent up fervent prayer for strength, for such great Divine Love re - echoed mightily within Him! 

The tidings of the last, of another possibility of Grace spread rapidly through all the spheres, and many souls besought God to grant that they might be permitted to help in the great work of the redemption of all those who still wish to find the way to God. 

The Love of God the Father granted this to many a soul, who was thereby helped in its ascent. 

In grateful joy the host of these so blessed ones jubilantly gave a solemn pledge of loyalty to fulfil the opportunity of serving that was granted them. 

Thus ''those'' Called ones were trained, who were later to hold themselves at the disposal of the Envoy of God when His hour of fulfilment on earth came. They were carefully developed for these tasks and incarnated on earth at the right time, so that they might be ready whenever the Call reached them, ''and their first fulfilment of duty remained to listen for this Call!'' 

Meanwhile the legacy of the murdered Son of God, His Living Word, was exploited on earth solely for selfish purposes. 

Mankind has no conception of the true Principles of Christ. 

On the contrary, they gradually grew into such a wrong and purely earthly doctrine of love that finally they rejected anything else as not coming from God, and they still today reject and revile whatever does not conform to this nauseating sentimentality desired by them, and what does not practise a similar and very unwholesome servile worship of mankind. 

Everything that does not have as its foundation the acknowledgement of the supremacy of the man is simply labelled as false, and not belonging to the Word of God. 

This behaviour, however, actually only conceals the uneasy apprehension that the long - felt hollowness of the false edifice might become apparent. 

''This is'' what had been made of the sacred legacy of the Son of God! 

On such degrading assumption His clear words were interpreted and passed on in all ''too'' human a way. 

Adherents were solicited through courting human frailties, until some earthly power could be developed, which has always remained the ultimate goal. The, however, by their brutal cruelties they very soon showed how far the bearers of the misconstrued Christ - Principle were from the real understanding of it, and how little they lived it. 

Continually and ever more clearly there was proof that the very ones who wished to be the bearers of the Christ - Principle were shamelessly and unpardonably the worst enemies and greatest offenders against the true Christ - Principle! 

After Christ's life on earth the whole of history, from the beginning of the churches, set forth these facts so clearly, in letters so indelibly engraved and branded, that they can never be denied or glossed over. 

The stigma of conscious hypocrisy was undisguisably established throughout the long history of individual and mass murders under unpardonable invocations of God, and even today this is being extended in many places, but in different forms adapted to the present time. 

Thus, thanks to the willingness of all the human spirits, the Darkness became ever denser as the time approached when the Son of Man had to be incarnated upon earth. 

Joyful activity in the elements heralded the earthly birth. Angels lovingly accompanied Him down to this earth. 

Primordial Beings formed a solid rampart around Him and around His earthly childhood. 

His earthly youth was allowed to be bright and sunny. In the evenings He saw the Comet, radiant above Him, like a greeting from God the Father; He regarded it as nothing unusual, as one of the other stars, until the bandage which He had to wear during His bitter training on earth was put before His eyes. 

Then life around Him seemed strange; only a great unquenchable longing filled His soul, increasing to a restlessness, to a continual nervous seeking. Nothing the earth offered could satisfy it.

 With the ethereal bandage over His eyes, He now stood on hostile ground facing the Darkness, on a battlefield where everything dark could have a firmer foothold than He Himself. 

Therefore it was only natural that wherever He sought to undertake something He could find no response and no success, but only the Darkness hissed up in enmity every time. 

As long as the time of fulfilment for Him had not arrived, the Darkness could always remain stronger, and could inflict material damage upon Him wherever  He engaged in some earthly affairs; for everything earthly quite naturally ''had'' to oppose the Envoy of God with nothing but hostility, because all human volition today is directed ''against'' the true Will of God in spite of the alleged search for Truth, behind which there always lurks only self - conceit in various forms. 

The Darkness easily found willing creatures everywhere to hinder the Envoy from the Light, and to injure Him grievously and painfully. 

Thus His time of learning on earth became the path of suffering.

 Just as spiritual substance, with great power, appears to have a magnetically attracting and holding effects upon animistic, ethereal and gross material substances, so in a similar and much more powerful way whatever has its origin above the spiritual in Subsequent Creation must exert an influence on ''everything'' that lies below it. 

This is perfectly natural, it could not be otherwise. 

However, it only resembles the power of attraction in its manifestation. 

The power of attraction in the ordinary sense is effective only among homogeneous species. 

But ''here'' it is a question of the existing ''power of the stronger'' in a purely objective and most noble sense! 

It is not to be thought of in an earthly human way; for in the World of Gross Matter this Law, like everything else, has been coarsened in its effect through the actions of men. 

The natural effect of this dominant power reveals itself outwardly like a magnet attracting, uniting, holding together and controlling. 

Now because of this Law, men too felt themselves magnetically drawn to this veiled, more powerful Stranger from on High, although often resisting Him with enmity. 

The thick veils He wore around Him could not entirely prevent the emanation of this power that was alien on earth; while on the other hand this power could not yet radiate freely either to exert ''that'' irresistible might which it has after the falling away of the covering veils in the hour of fulfilment. 

This brought conflict among the intuitive perceptions of men. 

The very being of the the Stranger was enough to awaken in those who met Him hopes of the most varied kinds which alas, because of their attitude, were always brought down to merely earthly wishes, which they nourished and fostered within themselves. 

The Stranger, however, could never heed such wishes, since His hour had not yet come. 

Thereby many were often greatly disappointed through their own imaginings and, strange to say, even felt themselves deceived.

 They never reflected that in reality it was ''only their own'' selfish expectations which were not fulfilled and, indignant about this through their disappointment, they laid the responsibility for it on the Stranger. 

Yet He did not call h them; they forced themselves upon and clung to Him because of this Law which was unknown to them, and they often became a heavy burden to Him, with which He journeyed through ''those'' years on earth that were ordained for Him ''as'' His time of learning.

 Men on earth perceived something mysterious and unknown about Him, which they could ''not'' explain, they sensed a hidden might which they did not understand, and in the end through their ignorance they naturally suspected only intentional suggestion, hypnotism and magic, according to the nature of their lack of understanding; whereas there was no question of any of these. 

Their original attachment, the consciousness of being strangely attracted, then very often turned into hatred, which expressed itself in moral stone - throwing and attempts to defile Him from Whom they had expected much --- too soon. 

No one took the trouble to make a just self - examination, which would have revealed that the Stranger, living apart with different views and ideals, was the one made use of by those who crowded towards Him, but not that He had taken advantage of anyone, as the obtruders, in their bitterness over the non - fulfilment of their desires for a life of ease, encouraged themselves and others to believe. 

Blindly they repaid the friendliness shown them with senseless hate and enmity, similar to the deed of Judas. But the Stranger on earth had to bear everything patiently; for it was only a quite natural consequence of His existence, so long as mankind were still living in error. 

By this alone He, to Whom all wrong - doing and wrong - thinking were entirely alien, was able to recognise what earthmen in their nature could become capable of. 

At the same time, however, such experiences also gave Him the necessary hardening, which slowly laid itself like an armour around Him otherwise ever -  present helpfulness, and thus created a gulf between that and mankind. . . through the wounds inflicted upon His soul, which brought about a separation, and which can only be healed through the complete change in mankind. 

These wounds inflicted on Him have formed from that hour the gulf which can be bridged only by ''that'' man ''who wholly'' follows the road of the Laws of God. This alone can serve as abridge.

 Everyone else must be dashed to pieces in the abyss; for their is no other way over it. 

And to remain standing before it means destruction. 

At the exact hour, even before the end of this arduous time of learning, the meeting came to pass with ''that'' Companion Who as a Part of Him was ''to'' journey with Him through earthly life, to participate in the great task according to Divine Ordinance. 

Herself a Stranger on earth, 

She joyfully entered the Will of God through Her own recognition, and gratefully merged with It. Only then came the time for the Called ones, who had once solemnly pledged to God their loyalty for service! 

The granting of their petition had been carefully carried out. 

At the appropriate time they were incarnated on earth.

 Through faithful guidance they were equipped in the earthly sense with everything they needed for the fulfilment of their respective tasks. 

It was brought, given to them, so noticeably that they simply could not consider it other than as a gift, as a loan for the hour of fulfilment of their former promise. 

At the precise moment they came into contact with the Envoy, through His Word, and then also personally . . . but many of them, although they sensed the Call and intuitively perceived something unusual in their souls, had meanwhile in the course of their earth - life permitted themselves to be so ensnared by purely earthly matters, and to some extent even by the Darkness, that they could not summon up the strength to conquer themselves for the true service, to fulfil which they were permitted to come to earth for this great time. 

A few did show a faint willingness to fulfil, yet their earthly faults held them back from it. 

Unfortunately there were also others who certainly set out on the path of their mission, but who from the very beginning sought ''first'' of all to gain earthly advantage for themselves thereby. 

Even among those of earnest volition there were several who expected Him Whom ''they'' had to serve to smooth their way to the fulfilment, instead of the ''reverse''. 

Only a few isolated ones really showed themselves capable of growing into their task. 

To these was then given in the hour of fulfilment ten times greater strength, so that the gaps were no longer perceptible, and in loyalty they became capable of accomplishing even more than the great throng could ever have achieved. --  

It was with grief that the Stranger on earth ''saw''  the ''havoc'' among the group of the Called ones. 

''That was one of the most bitter experiences for Him''! 

Much as He has learned, much as He suffered at the hands of men . . . before this last fact He stood uncomprehending; for he found no excuse whatever for this failure. 

In His conception a Called one who, in the granting of his petition, was specially guided and incarnated, could do no other than faithfully carry out his task in the most joyous fulfilment! 

For what other purpose was he on earth! 

Why had he been faithfully guarded up to the hour when the Envoy needed him!

 Everything had been given to him solely for the sake of his necessary service. 

So it was that the Stranger, on meeting the first Called ones, put His full trust in them. 

He regarded them only as friends, who simply could not think, intuitively perceive and act in any other way than in the most steadfast loyalty. 

Was it not the highest, the most precious privilege that could fall to the lot of a human being. 

The possibility never entered His mind that even Called ones could have become impure during their time of waiting. 

It was inconceivable to Him that any human being, in view of such grace, could wantonly neglect and trifle away the real purpose of his earth - life. 

With the faults clinging to them they only appeared to Him as being in need of great help . . . 

And so the dreadfulness of a recognition struck Him all the more severely when He had to experience that even in such exceptional cases the human spirit is not reliable, and that it shows itself unworthy of the highest blessing even with the most faithful spiritual guidance! 

Deeply shaken, He suddenly saw before Him mankind in all their unspeakable inferiority and depravity. 

They filled Him with disgust.

 Misery fell more oppressively upon the earth.

 The instability of the false structure of all that mankind had hitherto produced became ever more apparent.

 Proof of their incapacity came more plainly to light. 

With the increasing confusion everything slowly began to sway, with one exception : Man's conceit in his own imagined abilities. 

This was just what sprang up more luxuriantly than ever, which was quite natural, because conceit always needs the soil of narrow - mindedness. 

The increase of narrow - mindedness must also bring with it an abundant growth of conceit.

 The craving for importance increased to a feverish frenzy.

 The less man had to offer the more ''his'' soul, which forebodingly sensed only too well that it was sinking, cried out anxiously within him for liberation, the more he then, in his false desire to keep his balance, obtrusively pursued ''outward earthly trifles'' and human honours. 

Even if in quiet moments men at last began to doubt themselves, this only made them the more eager to have at least a ''reputation'' for knowledge.

 At ''all costs''! 

Thus things went rapidly downhill. 

In the fear - producing recognition of the approaching collapse, each in his own way finally thought to dull himself, letting  the outrageous state of affairs continue to take its course. 

He closed his eyes to the menacing responsibility.

 ''Wise'' men, however, proclaimed the time of the coming of a strong helper out of the distress. 

But most of them wanted to see this helper in themselves or, if they were modest, at least to find him within their circle. 

The ''faithful'' prayed to God for help out of their confusion. 

But it became evident that these petty earthmen, even while praying in expectation of a fulfilment, sought inwardly to impose conditions upon God by wishing for ''such'' a helper as would correspond with ''their views''. 

So far - reaching are the results of earthly narrow - mindedness. 

Mankind can believe that an Envoy of God needs to adorn Himself with earthly honours! 

They expect Him to adapt Himself to their narrow - minded earthly opinions in order to be acknowledged by them, and ''thereby'' to win their faith and confidence. 

What incredible conceit, what arrogance, lie in this fact alone! 

In the hour of fulfilment the conceit will be completely shattered, along with all those who inwardly indulged in such a delusion! -- 

Then the Lord called to His Servant, Who was walking the earth as a Stranger, that He should speak and give tidings to all those who were thirsting for it! And behold, the knowledge of the ''wise ones'' was false, the prayers of the faithful were not genuine; for they did not open themselves to the Voice that came forth from the Truth, and which therefore could only be recognised where the spark of Truth within man had not been buried by earthly wrong - doing, the domination of the intellect, and all those things that tend to crowd the human spirit from the right path and cause its downfall.

 It could only awaken an echo where the petition came from a truly humble and honest soul. 

The Call went forth! 

Wherever it struck it brought disquiet and dissension. 

But in those places where it was earnestly awaited it brought peace and happiness.

 The Darkness began to stir restlessly, and massed ever more densely, heavily and gloomily around the earth.

 Here and there it was already hissing up malignantly, and spitting in hate into ranks of those who wished to obey the Call. 

Ever more closely it surrounded ''those'' Called ones who, through their failure, were forced to sink away into the Darkness, to which they had thereby voluntarily held out their hand. 

Their former solemn vow bound them fast to the Envoy spiritually, and drew them to Him at the hour of the approaching fulfilment, while their faults formed obstacles and repelled them from Him, because a connection with the Light was thus impossible.

 Now from this there could in turn only arise a bridge for hate, for the whole hate of the Darkness against all that is Light. 

And so they intensified the path of suffering of the Envoy from the Light until it became a Golgotha, and the majority of mankind only too gladly joined in making it more difficult; especially those who imagined that they already knew and were following the path of the Light themselves, as once the Pharisees and Scribes did. 

All this created a situation in which mankind could prove once more that they would again behave in exactly the same way today as long ago they acted against the Son of God. 

Only this time in a more modern form, a symbolic crucifixion through an attempt at ''moral murder'', which according to the Laws of God ''is no less punishable than physical murder''.

 It was fulfilment after the last opportunity of mercy had been frivolously neglected. 

Traitors, false witnesses and slanderers came from the ranks of those who had been called.

 Base minions of the Darkness ventured to approach in ever increasing numbers, since they felt themselves secure, because in fulfilment the Stranger on earth kept silent when confronted with this filth, as He had been commanded to do, and as once the Son of God also was silent before the howling mob that wanted to have Him nailed to the cross as a criminal. 

But when the faithless deserters in their blind hate already thought themselves close to victory, and the Darkness once more assumed that the Work of the Light had been destroyed, because it hoped that the Bearer of this Work had been rendered impotent on earth, then this time God revealed ''His Will with Omnipotence''!

 And then . . . even the mockers sank trembling to their knees, but . . . for them it was too late! 

                                                                                       THE  OUTPOURING  OF  THE  HOLY  SPIRIT.

THE EVENT described in the Bible of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of the Son of God is still an inexplicable happening to many people, and is mostly regarded as extraordinary, as having occurred only on this occasion, and therefore as an arbitrary act! 

It is just in this erroneous view that there lies the cause for what is apparently ''inexplicable''! 

The happening was not an isolated one, not one specially brought about for the disciples, but one that has ''recurred regularly''  ever since Creation started. 

With ''this'' recognition it will immediately lose its inexplicability, and it will become understandable to the seriously seeking readers of the Grail Message without forfeiting any of its greatness, but on the contrary making it even more stupendous! 

He who has attentively studied my Grail Message will already have found the solution for this in it, for he must also have read the explanation given in the lecture ''The Holy Grail''.

 There I mentioned the ''regularly recurring'' yearly renewal of power for the entire Creation.

 It is the moment in which new Divine Power streams into the Holy Grail for the maintenance of Creation!

 For some moments the ''Holy Dove'' appears above the Grail. 

This is the spiritually visible form of the presence of the Holy Spirit, which directly belongs to the ''form'' of the Holy Spirit, and ''is'' therefore a part of this ''form''.

 Just as the Cross is the spiritually visible form of Divine Truth, so is the ''Dove'' the visible form of  the Holy Spirit. 

This actually ''is'' the form, not merely an imaginary conception! 

This renewal of power by the Holy Spirit, the Living Will of God which is this Power, recurs every year at a certain definite time in the Holy of Holies of the highest castle or temple harbouring the Holy Grail. 

This temple is the only point of connection of Creation with the Creator and is therefore called ''the Grail Castle''. 

This renewal may also be called the outpouring of power, thus the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit or, still more explicitly, the outpouring of power ''by'' the Holy Spirit, for it is not the Holy Spirit that is poured out, but the Holy Spirit pours out the power!

 Now the disciples were assembled on this day in commemoration of their ascended Lord Who had promised to send the Spirit, that is, the Living Power. The fact of the commemorating provided an anchorage ''for this'', an anchorage for the event which took place at this time in the Primordial Sphere, enabling the Living Power to descend to a certain and corresponding degree directly upon the disciples on earth, who had assembled in devotion and accordingly adjusted themselves to it. 

All the more so as the way to these disciples had been opened up and smoothed by the life of the Son of God on earth!

 And for ''this'' reason the miraculous happened, which could not otherwise have been possible on earth, and the experiencing of which is related in the Bible. 

The evangelists were able to describe their own ''experiences'' but not the actual happening, which they themselves did not understand. 

The festival of Whitsuntide has been instituted by the Christians in memory of this occurrence, without their ever suspecting that at this approximate time each year the Day of the Holy Dove occurs in the Grail Castle, that is, the day of the renewal of power for Creation by the Holy Spirit.

 Naturally this does not always correspond exactly with the Whitsuntide holiday as figured out on earth, but at its approximate time! 

At that time the meeting of the disciples coincided ''exactly'' with the actual happening! 

Later on it will also be celebrated here on earth regularly and at the ''right'' time as the most supreme and holy festival of mankind, the day on which the Creator always renews His gift of sustaining power to Creation, as the ''Day of the Holy Dove'', or the ''Day of the Holy Spirit, a great prayer of thanksgiving to God the Father!

 It will be celebrated by ''those'' human beings who at last stand ''consciously'' in this Creation, and who have finally learned to understand it aright in all its manifestations. 

The devout attitude at the exact time will also make it possible that, through opening themselves, the blessing can again flow down to this earth in return, and pour itself into the thirsting souls as it did long ago with the disciples! 

This period which is not too far distant, will bring peace and happiness if men do not fail and do not want to be lost for all eternity!

                                                                                                 THREADS  OF  LIGHT   ABOVE   YOU.

YOU SHOULD now put together the lectures I gave about Substantiality and the closest surroundings of earthman, in which I spoke of the undulating and weaving constantly going on around you, and try to regard them as being assembled into one picture. 

It is really not difficult. 

You will be able to recognise their connection with each other and also with yourselves very quickly and easily. In your imagination set everything in motion just as you do with jigsaw puzzle, first of all as regards the individual effects working in the various directions, ''taking them one after another'', and finally in ''their combined effects upon each other as a whole''. 

You will see how clearly in the course of time the picture unfolds and come alive before you. 

In doing so try to see how each evil thought or volition runs through weaving like a shadow, more or less dimming what is clear and destroying the beauty here and there, whereas clear, good thinking or volition penetrates the threads luminously, spreading beauty and lustre on the paths it follows. 

The mechanism will soon become so familiar to you that it will form a support for you which will only permit you to think or desire, and also finally to carry out, that which is good. 

Spare no pains in this matter, for you will obtain such rich reward as nobody can reduce.

 And when you then have the activated picture before you absorb something else in addition, which will give a termination and a frame worthy of the picture. 

Instead of ceiling imaging many luminous, delicate threads hanging above the ''weaving around you'' like thinnest and daintiest of gossamer veils, which send forth a delightful fragrance that can animate and strengthen in a singular way as soon as one is able to become aware and take notice of it. 

Innumerable are these threads, possessing manifold possibilities of application, and ready at any time to lower themselves to ''those'' places where a longing for them is revealed.

 If somewhere in the depths of the mechanism a small spark glows from which a longing, a prayer or a strong desire arises, then the threads of the same species immediately reach out towards this little spark, connect themselves with it magnetically and strengthen it, so that it can become brighter and more luminous and thus quickly push aside all that is more dark and gloomy around it.

 And when it blazes up brightly it scorches all the spots which still connect ''that'' strand with darkness or evil on which this spark sought to develop itself. Thus this strand is very quickly freed from all that is holding it down.

 But only light, pure wishes or prayers can achieve the connection with the luminous threads continually hanging above the mechanism which always surrounds a human soul or an earthman. 

Dark wishes never find any support therefrom because they are unable to bring about a connection. 

For every earthman the connection with these threads coming from Substantiality takes place through the cloak or body of medium gross matter which is usually called the astral body. 

The soul radiates through the astral body according to the nature of each of its emotions.

 If the emotions of the soul are of a dark nature then the luminous threads hanging in readiness do not find a channel for the help. 

Only when the emotions are luminous can the astral body radiate ''in such a way''  that it quite automatically opens itself for ''those'' threads coming from on high which are of the same nature as the particular emotions of the soul. 

Therefore this astral body of medium gross matter is the true entrance and exit gate of the soul. 

In reality the threads mentioned are consequently active on the plane of medium gross matter, which is called the astral plane, and work through the latter's mediation according to the nature of its glowing. 

Picture all this to yourselves! It is so simple, and yet so dependable and just, that it is never possible for any thought or volition towards what is good to remain without help. It is always made so easy for the human spirit.

 ''Too easy'' that with his strange ways he would still respect it according to the value belonging to and inherent in these processes! 

In order to avoid a gap in your ability to depict it I will also show you you the origin of these threads, otherwise they will remain hanging in the air for you, which is really impossible because everything has -- indeed ''must'' have  -- a very definite starting point in this Creation, nor could it exist without such! The threads are the radiations of many substantiate mediators, the activities of which have not yet become very familiar to you, but which mediator were already well known to the ancient peoples.

 In the same way as you human spirits on earth should have become the collectors and then the mediators for passing on all the radiations of such human spirits as are more matured than you are and who stand on higher planes in Creation; and just as these in turn carry this out in regard to even higher and more luminous matured human spirits, until ultimately this results in the  connection with Paradise, where the completed and perfect ones of the human spirits of this Subsequent Creation dwell in joyous activity, who are likewise in touch through a chain of mediators reaching up to the most perfect ones of the Primordial Beings in the Primordial Spiritual; so is it also in like manner and like sequence with all the substantiate beings helping and working with you in the entire Creation, but in each case they are always  half a step higher than you are.

 Whatever of this unfolds its activity beside you and below you is also partly connected with you, but not in this manner. 

Let us first keep to ''those'' threads which I have mentioned.

 The threads are so many - sided that there is nothing in which the earthman, and also the soul already distant from the earth, could not find and receive help, invigoration, comfort and support at the actual moment when his longing or prayer for it has a very definite intensity of genuine volition. 

Not before, because formed words alone never suffice to bring about the connection, neither does a casual thought! 

It must be ardent, genuine and true yearning or desiring without any intellectual scheming, without expecting a reward, without something memorised, which can never really come from the heart or the soul! 

For the formed ''earthly word'' binds too strongly for that! 

The earthly word can only give the direction for the volition of a soul, it can construct a street for the way which the intuitive perception wants to take, it must never be meant to represent ''everything''! 

If man cannot combine both, i.e., the word and his volition, if he must ''think'' too much about the right forming of his words, then it is better only to pray and to thank, or to petition intuitively without words! 

Then it will surely be undimmed.

 The firmly formed word blurs much too easily and cramps every intuitive perception. 

Much more beautiful it is, and also stronger, if you can drop your words and replace them ''only'' with ''one picture'' arising spiritually before you, into which you can pour intuitive sensing, great and pure! 

You must try which is easier for you and which does not restrict you! As soon as you can dispense with earthly words then it is your ''soul'' which speaks -- the soul as it will speak when it has departed from this earth  and also all the planes of gross matter, for then the formed word remains ''behind''.

 Probably you will again already question within yourselves how it is that souls from the Ethereal World are still able to speak through people with mediumistic abilities, or that mediums ''hear'' such souls speak, taking this in and passing it on in writing or verbally. I know that many such questions immediately arise within you! 

If, however, you search thoroughly in my Message you will already find the answer to all such questions, which are nothing but intellectual doubts. 

Just absorb ''aright'' what I tell you, and then you will be able to build up everything for yourselves in ''such'' a logical way that no doubts will no longer arise. 

Already long ago I explained to you the activity of the earthly brain, which we divided into the back brain and the frontal brain. 

The back brain is ''impressed by intuitive perceptions''. 

It only absorbs pictures of the volition of the intuitive perception, and after preparing them accordingly it passes them on to the frontal brain. 

The frontal brain then takes this up and makes it ''more earthly'' by remodelling everything again, condensing it according to the frontal brain's respective radiating capacity and transforming it into coarser earthly substance. 

In this way it is compressed into a still narrower form, more firmly put together, and coined anew for the expression earthly word. 

Such is the activity of the brains of this earthly cloak of every earthman! 

The brains form a widely ramified workshop, and are a marvellous mechanism full of the most stirring activity.

 And since the frontal brain performs the so - called hard labour, i.e., it transforms all the impressions conveyed to it by the back brain into heavier, dense forms, which due to their increased density have much narrower limits in order to become intelligible to earthly understanding; therefore the frontal brain grows weary and needs sleep, whereas the back brain does not need to share this sleep and continues to work on. 

Even the body itself would not require this sleep, but merely ''rest'', repose! 

Sleep is solely a necessity of the brain! 

However, this too you can easily grasp and understand! 

You need only to reflect calmly and logically upon everything!  

Therefore realise that while the body rests you can be awake an do not sleep. 

You have frequently experienced this with yourselves already. 

But when a rest is taken by the frontal brain which provides you with the ''thinking'', i.e., which brings about the remodelling of the impressions of the intuitive perception into coarser and narrower forms and heavier density; once this brain must rest  then of course the thinking also ceases.

 Naturally you are unable to think anything while the frontal brain is resting! 

And here on earth you only designate the ability to think as being awake, and inability to think as sleep or unconsciousness!

 Here it is a matter only of so - called ''day'' - consciousness, which is exclusively the activity of the frontal brain. 

The back brain is always awake. 

After this digression let us return again to the language of the souls; with the latter the limited word - forms fall away and only pictures exist which have to form the conception. 

When the departed souls communicate something to an earthman these pictures of their volition or experiences are impressed upon his back brain, in the way as his own volition; and according to its nature, condenses the pictures received and expresses them in thoughts, word or writing.

 For many a mediumistic person this is, of course, as if he actually ''heard'' these words, this again being due to the activity of the frontal brain, which is also connected with the ''hearing'' and takes up ''its'' impressions in order to work them over accordingly.

 In ''these'' cases mentioned here, however, if it concerns the so - called ''clairaudience'' from the Ethereal World, the frontal brain, during the transformation into greater density, radiates the picture of the intuitive perception which it received from the back brain also to the hearing in the ''reverse'' way. 

The hearing is then induced to vibrate in the word forms while they are been fashioned, because the connection ''is'' provided and ''is'' likewise always to receive. 

Due to this ''reversed'' order of transmission to the gross material ear, it then naturally sounds somewhat different to the mediumistic person, because the nature of the vibrations is different from those producing the gross material sound - waves and striking the ear of the heavy physical body which passes them on to frontal brain. 

For this process of clairaudience, however, the heaviest outer gross material substance of the ear ''is'' not taken into consideration, but the finer gross material substance. 

This you can imagine, because the outer and heaviest material substance is much too coarse and rigid to respond to the more delicate vibrations coming from the brain.

 Only the finer gross material substance vibrates with it, being of the same nature as the vibration of the frontal brain. 

The admission or reception points of the ''outer'' ear are effectively hit and moved only by the coarser sound - waves ''coming from outside''. 

As I think you could easily follow me in these observations I have gone into greater detail in order to make everything fully understandable to you. 

Such is therefore the process of the mediations through pictures rather than through words as used by the souls in the Ethereal World, in order to form the conception of their volition with earthmen. 

Likewise the ''hearing'' of the souls which have become more luminous and lighter takes place there ''from within outwards''! 

The process is in the ''reverse'' order to that in the World of Matter, where owing to its density the cloak has a protecting but also hindering effect, which protection is no longer necessary in the Ethereal World. 

Thus you can more easily account for the circumstance that souls which do not open themselves ''inwardly'' are ''deaf'' there as well as ''blind'', for I have already explained in an earlier lecture that the actual seeing ''is'' a seeing ''of the spirit''.

 Many a subtle, specially clever intellectualist ( but who may better be described as being bound only to his earthly brain ) will perhaps come across ''the fact'' that the manner of expression of various departed souls through one and the same medium '' is also'' very often entirely different, although the same brain is being used as a tool. 

This circumstance should really point more ''to the fact'' that they are still ''nevertheless'' using a language with word expression in order to make themselves understood, especially since such manifestation also sometimes come in languages of which the medium is totally ignorant, like English or French, Latin, as well as Japanese, Turkish, and many another. 

However, this does not stand the test because such manifestations come only from planes that ''still belong to the World of Gross Matter'', which indeed comprises many planes. 

There the process is still similar to that of heavy gross matter on earth. 

Furthermore, those in the beyond periodically take complete possession of the brains of some mediums as tools for direct expression. 

Only in the ''World of Ethereal Matter'', which is of an entirely different nature from that of gross material substance, does the form of expression of the same Laws of Creation change with the species, as I have already pointed out in the Message several times. You must not make the mistake of wanting to press my Message -- which comprises the entire Work of Creation and even goes far beyond this -- just as it ''is'' into your world of small thoughts! 

You would not get far with it; for I have often crowded immense spaces into one single small sentence in order to make at least a well - rounded basic picture available to your comprehension, a picture which you can use as support so that you no longer need go astray in aimless confusion in a field which does not even form the smallest part of your closer surroundings.

 To understand my Message aright you must ''assimilate it''! 

First of all I want to give you the ''connections'' only, and not the details! 

Not until you have firmly grasped the great connection van you also deliberately go into details without needing to lose the connection. 

The higher you come the less it can be framed in words.

 Finally everything is solely ''radiation'' for you, and all else ceases!

 I especially emphasise  ''for you'', i.e., for the spirit of earthman, the spirit of Subsequent Creation which has become form! 

All else, that which is not beneath or beside you, you can never grasp anyways! 

That which becomes radiation for you is still visible, prehensible and formed to that which is higher than you are.

 Thus it goes on ever higher, until ultimately only the Divine in the Divine Realm can recognise everything as having form, with the exception of God Himself, Who in His Unsubstantiality cannot be recognised by the Divine Ones either. 

Make this ever again clear to yourselves, and use what I ''give you by always assimilating it yourselves, having regard to the present time and to your immediate surroundings''! 

With your desire for knowledge do not in fantasy climb to ''those'' heights where after all you could neither work nor recognise anything. 

However, it is necessary for you to know the ''connections'' therewith if you want to go ''aright'' wherever according to the Law, you have to abide.

 And it is for this purpose that I want to mediate the ''connections'' to you!  

But now let us return to our threads hanging above the weaving which ''is'' in perpetual movement around you! 

These are the radiations of the substantiate mediators which stand in the great chain coming down from above. 

Running down from ''above'', that you must not forget, for otherwise you lose the connection!

 I only explained it previously by going upwards because I was then near the ''ends'' of the threads hanging down, and in order to complete the picture which we allowed to arise before us.

 Thus there are different kinds of such threads. 

They originate in the radiation of the beings concerned, which have absorbed the power passed on by the particular mediator higher than themselves, and pass it on again, whereby a change takes place in this streaming through, and in this way the radiation is adjusted to ''that'' species which it then next contacts in its leading downwards. 

From these threads earthmen can receive increased strength for ''every'' virtue and for every good volition! 

At any time! 

For these threads are ''always'' suspended above you, ready and waiting for you to express a ''desire'' for them! 

Just for once I will tell you about ''one'' kind so that you know how these happenings take place in exact obedience to the Primordial Laws of Creation through the operation of the Laws themselves.

 Elizabeth, the Primordial Queen of Womanhood, embraces in Her perfection ''all'' the virtues and all the qualities. 

The radiations corresponding with Her nature proceed from Her further downwards within the Region of Divine, and also emerge into the Primordial Spiritual Realm, where there are many gradations of all the Primordial Beings. 

At each stage downwards the radiations are split into various individual species, which are forthwith embodied in the substantiate as the reproduction of their origin, i.e., as reproductions of Elizabeth, the point of origin of these radiations. 

This takes place in the Substantial ''and'' in the Spiritual, because ''both'' kinds of radiations emanate from the Primordial Queen and are united in Her. Their forms mould themselves exactly according to the very definite and individual kind of the radiations which they embody and ''are'' themselves. Therewith naturally various deviations occur in the appearance or in the manifestation of the reproductions, which always clearly and distinctly express ''that'' which the nature of the particular radiation contains and produces. 

Thus finally ever more individual species come into existence, which are visibly personified. 

The older races called them goddesses and gods because at that time they could see no further, and already imagined the female mediators of these radiations to be the actual points of origin, consequently regarding them as the highest in existence. 

Proceeding from the human spirits upwards, which is for once in the reverse direction, we therefore find many such female intermediaries in the Realms of Substantiality, as well as male ones. 

Each earthman can receive ''everything'' through them if he only longs for something of it in purity. 

For instance chastity ( which, however, is entirely different from man's conception of it ), loyalty, productivity, truthfulness, grace, modesty, diligence ( swinging in the Law of Movement ), and much else. 

A female mediator for all that is womanly embodies each single womanly virtue, in the same way as there are also  mediators for all that is masculine, such as strength, courage, daring, adroitness, genuine and pure gentle manliness, and all else which need not be mentioned here, since I merely want to develop a rough picture of it to enable to understand better what I am giving you today. 

From each of this mediators, which became necessary due to the splittings of the single parts, come these threads which I am describing to you. 

And in turn each of these mediators have many helpers, which surround him and are active in the radiations. 

It is a happy surging which is contained in all this activity! 

But if you look at the ''threads today'', in the ''present'' time, the a picture of despair opens up before your eyes; for many of these threads, indeed the greater part of them, hang down without finding any connection with earthmen. 

They flutter about loose, entirely unused, not taken up by the places for which they were intended through the helping love. 

Hanging in this way the threads point out ''your guilt'', you earthmen, just as so much else already cries out your guilt into Creation and up to the Creator Who has hitherto so showered you with His Love, and Who made it easy so easy for you in His Holy Laws exactly to recognise the paths which you were meant to take! 

How great must be your shame when recognition comes at last! 

You human beings are just those and  the only ones who do not pass on what they receive in the right way, and in this case also failed completely as mediators, because already for a long time you have been unable to receive as such. 

There is not much more to be said about this! 

All the mediators which are in connection with you, you men, stand sadly in the Realms of Substantiality. 

Accusingly they hold up the threads which through being used by earthmen were also meant to bring them retroactive currents.

 These would animate the one - sidedness of the purely outgoing radiations, making them more brilliantly colourful, and thus inducing them to become even more powerful and strongly beneficial and to begin to glow. 

They are dried up at the ends and withered! 

Only those mediators connected with the animals, plants and stones still stand firm and joyful; for their threads of radiation are taut through the alternating rotation of giving and taking ( which must also lie therein ) in cheerful obedience to the Laws of Creation, and in gratitude that the possibility was given for this through the Infinite Love of God manifesting in it. 

Thus due to the wrong thinking you fostered you made a harmful, ugly - looking crack in the picture showing that part of the weaving in Creation which is very closely connected with you. 

Wherever you go and stand, you men, you spread around you that which is ugly.

 Wherever your thoughts could reach there you destroyed the harmony and thus the beauty, as well as the lawful possibility to mature. 

You have much to account for and also to redeem!

                                                                                                             DUTY      AND      LOYALTY.

THE FULFILMENT of duty has always been considered man's greatest virtue. 

Among all peoples it ranked higher than everything else, higher than life itself. 

It was held in such esteem that it retained first place even among the intellectuals who ultimately regarded nothing as sacred any more but their own intellect, to which they submitted like slaves. 

The consciousness of the need to fulfil one's duty remained; not even the domination of the intellect was able to upset this! 

However, the Darkness found a point of attack after all, and gnawed at its ''root''. 

As everywhere so also here it distorted the ''conception''. 

The idea of the fulfilment of duty remained, but the ''duties themselves'' were set up by the intellect and thus became earthbound, piecework and imperfect. 

It is therefore only natural that a person of intuitive perception is often unable to acknowledge that the duties assigned to him are right. 

He comes into conflict with himself.

 He, too, considers the fulfilment of duty to be one of the supreme laws which a person must observe, and yet at the same time he is bound to admit to himself that in fulfilling the duties laid upon him he sometimes acts against his convictions.

 As a result of this condition forms arise not only in the inner man, who thus torments himself, but also in the Ethereal World, forms which also cause discontent and discord in others. 

Thus a craving for fault - finding and grumblings spread over the widest circles without anybody being able to discover the actual cause, which cannot be recognised because the effect comes from the Ethereal World through the living forms created by a person of intuitive perception, arising out of the conflict between his urge to fulfil his duty and his intuitive perception which wills otherwise. 

There must now be a change in this matter in order to redress the evil. Duty and inner conviction must always ''harmonise'' with each other. 

It is wrong for a person to risk his life in the fulfilment of a duty which he cannot acknowledge within himself as being right.

 Each sacrifice becomes of genuine value only when conviction harmonises with duty. 

But if a man only risks his life in the fulfilment of duty ''without'' conviction he thereby degrades himself to the position of a mercenary who, in the service of another, fights for the sake of money, similar to the lansquenets. 

Fighting of that kind becomes murder! 

If, however, someone risks his life out of conviction, he also bears within himself love for the cause for which he voluntarily resolved to fight.

 And this alone has high value for him! 

He must do it for the sake of love, out of love for the ''cause''! 

Thereby the duty he thus fulfils come to ''life'' and is so uplifted that he places its fulfilments before  everything else. 

Thus the dead, rigid performance of duty automatically separates itself from the living. 

And only the living has spiritual value and effect! 

Everything else can only serve and advantage earthly purposes. 

Not for any length of time either, but only temporarily, because only what is living become of lasting duration!

 Thus the fulfilment of duty arising out of conviction becomes genuine, self - willed loyalty, and natural to the one carrying it out. 

He is neither desirous nor capable of acting otherwise. 

He cannot stumble and fall because with him loyalty is genuine, is closely connected with him, indeed it is a part of him which he is unable to lay aside. Blind obedience and blind fulfilment of duty are therefore of a little worth as is blind belief! 

Both are lacking life because they lack love! 

From this alone man  immediately recognises the difference between a genuine sense of duty and a feeling of duty which has only be imparted to him. 

The one burst forth from out of the intuitive perception, and the other is grasped by the intellect only. 

Therefore love and duty can never oppose each other but are ''one'' where the perception is ''genuine'', and from this blossoms forth loyalty! 

Where love is missing there is also no life, there all is dead! 

Christ has often pointed this out. 

It is inherent in the Primordial Laws of Creation, and is therefore universal without exception.

 The performance of duty which voluntarily breaks forth radiantly from a human soul can never be confused with a duty carried out for the, sake of earthly reward, but each can quite easily be recognised. 

Therefore let genuine loyalty arise within you, or hold aloof where you cannot be loyal! Loyalty! 

So often praised, yet never understood! 

As with everything else, earthman has also deeply debased the conception of loyalty, narrowing and compressing it into rigid forms. 

Its greatness, freedom and beauty became cold and devoid of all expression.

 Its naturalness became ''forced''! 

According to present conception loyalty ceased to be part of the soul's mobility and was made a quality of the character.

 A difference like day and night! 

Thus loyalty became soulless. 

Where it is required it has devolved into a duty. 

Man has thus declared it to be independent, it stands upon its own feet, all by itself, and therefore . . . wrong!

 Loyalty, too, was twisted and distorted by the human mind! 

Loyalty is ''not'' something which is independent, but only a quality of love! 

Of the ''right'' love, which embraces everything! 

To embrace everything, however, does not hold the meaning of embracing everything at once in accordance with human understanding, which is expressed in the well - known words ''embracing the whole world''! 

To embrace everything means : ''To have the capacity of being directed upon everything'', upon personal and impersonal matters. 

It is not merely bound to something specific, nor is it meant to be one - sided. 

Right love does not exclude anything that is pure or kept pure, no matter whether this concerns persons or one's native land, also such things as work or Nature. 

That is what is meant by embracing.

 And ''the quality of this right love is'' loyalty, which must no more be considered of small, earthly narrowness than is the conception of chastity. 

There is no real loyalty without love, just as there is no true love without loyalty either. 

But the earthman of today regards fulfilment of duty as loyalty, ''a rigid'' form with which the soul does not need to vibrate.

 This is wrong! 

Loyalty ''is nothing but'' a quality of true love, which is merged with justice, but has nothing to do with being ''in love''. 

Loyalty rests in the vibrations of the intuitive perception of the spirit, and thus becomes a quality of the soul. 

In performing his duty today a person often gives reliable service to someone whom he must inwardly despise. 

This, of course, cannot be described as loyalty, but remains the fulfilment of earthly duties which he has undertaken.

 It is purely an ''external'' affair, which in the  reciprocal action can ''also bring nothing but outward benefit'' to the person concerned, be it improvement in his earthly means or earthly reputation. 

In each cases true loyalty cannot manifest because it wants to be offered ''freely'' with love, from which it cannot be separated. 

Therefore loyalty cannot exert influence of itself either! 

However, if men would live on a basis of true love, as is willed by God, this condition alone would provide the impetus to alter many things among them, in fact everything! 

No man who is inwardly base would then be able to exist any longer, much less gain any success here upon earth. 

A great purification would set in immediately! 

Men who are inwardly base would not enjoy earthly honours, nor would they hold office, for intellectual knowledge of itself shall not suffice to place them in authoritative positions. 

Thus the fulfilment of duty would then always become an absolute pleasure and all work will become enjoyment, because all thinking and all working would be completely penetrated by true, God - willed love, and bring in its train not only an unshakable intuitive perception of justice but also loyalty, that loyalty which as a matter of course remains unchangeable in its essence, and does not consider this as a merit that must be rewarded.