THE  SON  OF  MAN

                 THE     DIVINE     LOVE     OF     PUREST     JUSTIFICATION     (JUSTICE)                                  

                                                  THE    SON    OF     MAN

Ever since the crime committed against the Son of God, the Bringer of Truth, Jesus of Nazareth, the fact that men did not recognise this most important prophecy has lain like a curse upon mankind, and even they stand before it unsuspectingly as if their eyes are closely blindfolded!

The terrible consequence will be that a great part of mankind will stumble on towards destruction, past the only possibility of saving themselves from being cast out!

This is the prophecy of the Coming Of the Son of Man, which the Son of God held forth as a star of hope and also as a serious warning in face of the constant attacks upon Him by the masses, who through their subservience to the Darkness naturally hated the Bringer of Truth.

The same deceptive feelings and thoughts which prevented the Son God from being recognised as such also caused confusion in their minds regarding the importance of this prophecy at the time it was made.

The human spirit was too dark and too conceited to be able to receive  still undimmed such high Messages of God!

Messages coming from a height above their own sphere of origin passed them by without leaving any impression!

For a real understanding of this Message a belief backed by conscious conviction would have been needed, and this even His followers were not capable of at that the time.

The soil upon which the words of the Redeemer fell was still much too overgrown with weeds.

Furthermore, the momentous experiences and psychic shocks of a life in the Saviour's vicinity were crowded into only a few short years.

Consequently everything was bound to be concentrated on the Person of Jesus, so much, so that when He spoke of another Person in the distant future what He said was also again interwoven with Him personally!

Thus the error has lived on in the opinions of men until the present day!

The unbelievers did not bother themselves about the Saviour's words, while the believers, just because of their beliefs, forcibly suppressed every serious criticism of the transmissions, out of holy awe that they must not come too close to these words of the Saviour!

But in doing so they overlooked the fact that it was not a question of His own real original words, but merely of transmissions written down long after His life on earth.

Thus the words were naturally subject to unconscious modifications through the human intellect and personal opinions!

A certain greatness is indicated in this reverential upholding of purely human transmissions, and therefore no reproach shall be voiced about it!

All this, however, does not prevent the hampering consequences of erroneous opinions which have arisen through faulty transmissions, because the Law of Reciprocal Action cannot be overthrown in this  case either".

Even if the only effect of such errors is to raise obstructions barring the human spirit in its further ascent, this still constitutes a disastrous standstill preventing all progress as long as the liberating Word of Enlightenment cannot come to life within them.

He who believes in the Son of God and His Words and has made them come to life within himself, thus carrying them  within him in their ''true'' interpretation and acting accordingly, naturally need not to wait for the promised Son of Man because the Son of Man has nothing else to bring than the Son of God has already brought!

It is a condition, however, that such a person has ''really understood" the words of the Son of God, and does not stubbornly cling to erroneous transmissions.

If somewhere he has bound himself to errors he will not be able to complete his ascent until he has received enlightenment.

It was reserved for the Son of Man to bring this because the limited human spirit is unable to free itself from the dense undergrowth which now obscures the Truth!

Jesus spoke of the Coming of the Son of Man as the last possibility of salvation, and also pointed out that with His Coming the Judgment would commence!

Therefore those who are still not willing or, to express it differently, those who are too stiff-necked, or too indolent to be prepared to accept enlightenment would be irretrievably cast out!

From this the conclusion is to be drawn that there will be no further opportunity for consideration and decision.

This undoubtedly, contains the announcement of great tribulation which will bring to and end a period of patient forbearance!

This in turn indicates the impending struggle of the Light against all darkness, which must end with the violent destruction of  darkness!

It is not to be assumed that all these events will coincide with human expectations, wishes and conceptions, because ''all'' past happenings indicate to the contrary.

Never as yet have human ideas agreed with the manifestations of the Divine Will!

The reality was always different to what men had imagined, and it was only  long, long afterwards that they sometimes slowly grasped the meaning of what had happened!

Neither is there any hope that it would be different this time, because human ideas and views have gained nothing in comparison with  former times!

On the contrary they become much more "realistic"!

The Son of Man!

A veil still lies over Him and His time!

Even if here and there a vague presentiment arises in many a spirit, a longing for the Day of His Coming, many of those who feel this will probably pass Him by unsuspectingly and will not wish to know Him, because their expectations promised them a very different kind of fulfillment!

It is only with great difficulty that man can accustom himself to the idea that, in obedience to The Law of God, a Divine Being on earth can not differ outwardly from human beings themselves.

He insists on picturing the Divine in supernatural form only, and yet he has unfortunately so fettered himself that he would not be capable of recognising "aright" what is supernatural, much less would he be able to bear it!

Nor is this in the least necessary!

The man who seeks the Will of his God in the Natural Laws of all Creation will soon recognise it therein, and finally realise that the Divine can come only on the paths of these adamantine Laws, not otherwise.

As a result such a person will become vigilant and  carefully scrutinise everything he meets on these paths, but only in the light of the ''Divine'' Laws, and not with regard to human opinions.

Thus through his personal examination of is brought, and not through the clamour of the masses, he will at the right hour recognise Him, Who Brings liberation in the Word! 

It will have occurred already to every person that the Son of God and the Son of Man cannot be one!

The difference is quite clearly expressed in the words themselves.

Just on account of the very purity of His Divinity, during His emission and incarnation the Pure Divinity of The Son of God bore within itself the ''condition of becoming One again" with Divinity as such.

In the natural order of things there is simply no other possibility!

This is also confirmed by the Son of God Himself when He hinted at ''His becoming One with The Father'' and His "being reunited with the Father".

For this reason the Son of God's Mission as "Mediator", between The Godhead and Creation could only ''last a limited time''.

The Son of God, after having laid aside all that was not Divine, was inevitably drawn back by the power of the attraction of the stronger homogeneous species to the Divine Origin and forced to remain there.

Therefore He could not remain thee "eternal" Mediator between the Godhead  and the Creation in which mankind lives.

Thus through the reunion of the Son of God and the Father a new gulf would have arisen, and the Mediator between pure Divinity and Creation would again have been missing!

The Son of God personally proclaimed to mankind the Coming of the Son of Man, Who will then remain the ''eternal'' Mediator between the Divine and Creation!

This expresses the sublime love of the Creator for His Creation!

The difference between the Son of Man and the Son of God is that, though born out of the purely Divine, the Son of Man was at the same time connected with the Sphere of Conscious Spiritual Substantiality, so that it is as if He stands simultaneously with one foot in the Divine and with the other in the highest part of Conscious Spiritual Substantiality.

He is a part of ''each'', and thus forms the eternal bridge between the Divine and the summit of Creation.

This union, however, involves the obligation of remaining separated from the pure Divine, yet in spite of this permits and even conditions the admittance to Divinity.

The addition of the spiritual to the Divine merely prevents a reunion which would otherwise have been unavoidable.

Mankind will hardly ever grasp that this is another sacrifice of love on the part of the Creator, and the fulfillment of a promise such magnitude as only God Himself is capable of giving and fulfilling!

''That'' is the difference between the Son of God and the Son of Man!

The Mission of the Son of Man on earth is the continuation and completion of the Mission of the Son of God, as the Mission of Son of God could be only be transient one.

Hence this continuation and completion is at the same time a ''consolidation'' of Christ's Mission!

Whereas the Son of  God was born directly into His earthly Mission, the Son of Man had to traverse a far wider sphere before He could enter upon the beginning of His actual Mission.

As a condition for the fulfilment of His task, which in comparison to that of the Son of God was more terrestrial, the Son of Man, coming as He did from the highest Heights, also had to descend  into the deepest of depths; not only in the beyond but also here on earth, so that He might personally ''experience'' all the misery, and suffering man is heir to.

Only then will He be in the position, when His Hour comes, to intervene effectively in their shortcomings and help to bring about changes!

For this reason He could not merely stand ''beside'' the experiences mankind but had to stand in the midst of them through His own personal experiences.

He  even had to stand in and suffer under the bitter side of life.

Again it was only for the sake of men that He had to serve His time of apprenticeship in this way!

But it is just on account of this that people will try to reproach Him in order to make His task more difficult as they have done previously with Christ, because the human spirit with all its limitations can never understand such high guidance, being only to judge by externals!

Just what He had to suffer for the sake of men in order to learn to recognise the worst points in their errors, that is, what He suffered or came to know through His own experiences in the interests of the future welfare of mankind, they will wish to use as stones to throw at Him when their rising hatred is inflamed by the Darkness as it trembles in fear of annihilation!

That something so incredible can happen again in spite of the events during the Son of God's wanderings on earth is not inexplicable, because in reality more than half of the present inhabitants of the earth do not belong here at all but should be maturing, in much deeper and darker regions!

The foundation for this was laid through constant psychic retrogression, which in turn was brought about by those who became slaves of their own tool, the limited intellect, and gained the upper hand!

When the limited intellect gains the sole direction it will, because it is purely earthly, always further everything that is material and therefore cultivate all the accompanying secondary effects.

The resulting decline from a higher conception created a breach through which a hand was stretched downwards to assist those souls in climbing up for earthly incarnation which otherwise, owing to their spiritual heaviness  and the denser darkness, could never have penetrated to the surface of the earth.

But, above all, there are the purely animal sensations accompanying procreation, just as well as the general striving for earthly enjoyments which, during the demoralising times for centuries past, have enabled inferior souls to rise!

These inferior souls then constantly circle around expectant mothers, and if an opportunity presents itself they incarnate, because up till now all that is light had voluntarily retired before what is dark in order to avoid becoming soiled.

So it has gradually come to pass that the ethereal surrounding of the earth has grown ever denser and darker and thus heavier, so heavy in fact that it even keeps the gross material earth from a course that would have made it more accessible to higher spiritual influences.

As the majority of all incarnated souls actually belong to regions that lie much much deeper than the earth itself, it will therefore be but Divine Justice if such  souls are swept away and sink back to where they properly belong; to the region where, due to their absolute homogeneity, they have no further opportunity to burden themselves with new guilt; and where consequently they  better able to mature and begin to ascend through the suffering inflicted upon them in their own sphere.

It does not lie with mankind to elect the Son of Man sent by GOD.

But the Power of GOD, will uplift Him at the hour when mankind in their helplessness are whining for deliverance!

Then they will cease to revile, because horror will silence them, and they will willingly accept all the gifts the Creator offers His creatures, through His Envoy!

But he who will not accept them from Him shall be cast forth for all eternity!                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                          THE      REDEEMER 

THE SAVIOUR on the Cross! 

These crucifixes are erected by the thousands as a token that Christ suffered and died for the sake of humanity.

On all sides they  call out to the faithful: "Remember it"!

In the lonely meadow, in the bustling city streets, in the private sanctuary, in churches, on the graves and at wedding celebrations - everywhere these token serve to comfort, strengthen and admonish.

"Remember It"!

Because of your sins the Son of God, Who came to earth to bring you salvation, suffered and died on the Cross!

The faithful Christian tremulously approaches them, in deep veneration and full of gratitude.

With a glad feeling he leaves the place, conscious that he also had been released from his sins by the sacrificial death.

But you who are earnest seekers go and stand before the sacred, solemn token and strive to understand your Redeemer!

Cast aside the soft cloak of ease that keeps you so pleasantly warm and creates a comfortable feeling of well-being and  safety, allowing you to doze on till your last hour on earth!

Then you will be vigorously aroused from your half-slumber and, freed from your earthly fetters, you will suddenly find yourself facing the naked truth.

The dream which you clung so persistently, and in which you surrendered yourself to inertia, will then quickly come to an end.

Therefore awake!

Your time on earth is precious!

Because of our sins the Saviour came - that is unassailably and literally true!

It is also true that He died because of the guilt of humanity.

''But this does mean that  your sins have been taken from you!''

The Saviour's work of redemption was to take up the  battle with Darkness in order to bring Light to mankind, to ''open the way to the forgiveness of all sins''.

But each one must tread this path alone in accordance with the irrevocable Laws of the Creator.

Christ did not come to overthrow the laws but rather to fulfill them.

Do not fail to recognize Him Who should be your best friend!

Do not attach a wrong meaning to such true words!

When it is quite rightly said that for the sake of man's sins, all this happened, it means that the coming of Jesus became necessary only because mankind could no longer find their way alone out of their self -  created darkness, nor could release themselves from it's clutches.

Christ had to show mankind the way.

Had they not entangled themselves so deeply in sin, that is, had they not taken the ''wrong'' road, then the coming of Jesus would not have been necessary.

He would indeed have been spared of His life of struggle and pain.

Therefore it is quite right to say that He was obliged to come for the sake of men's sins, if the latter in their pursuit after the wrong road were not to sink into the abyss, into darkness.

This does not mean, however, that the personal guilt of every individual is therewith remitted ''at a moment's notice'', as soon as he really believes in and lives according to the words of Jesus.

But if he does live according to the words of Jesus hiss sins ''will'' be forgiven him.

Of course only gradually, as soon as redemption sets in through the reciprocal action ensuing from the counter-activity of his good volition.

Not otherwise!

It is different with those who do not live according to the words of Jesus; for them forgiveness is absolutely impossible.

This does not imply, however, that only members of the Christian religion can attain to the forgiveness of sins.

Jesus proclaimed the ''Truth!''

His words, must therefore also embrace all the truths in other religions.

He did not want to found a church, but to show mankind the right path, which can equally well lead through the truths of other religions.

For this reason His words often accorded with the religions already existing.

Jesus did not take these truths out of them but, as He brought the Truth, it must necessarily contain all that was true in the other religions.

He who does not know the words of Jesus personally, but who seriously strives for the Truth and for ennoblement, often lives completely in  harmony with the sense of these words, and will surely attain to pure faith and the forgiveness of his sins.

Beware, therefore, of one - sided outlook!

It would be debasing the work of the Redeemer.

He who strives earnestly after truth and purity will also not be lacking in love.

Though sometimes beset with serious doubts and struggles, he will be led upwards, spiritually step by step and, ''regardless of what religion he may belong to'', he will  either here or later in the Ethereal World meet the Christ-Spirit, which in ''the final end'', will lead him on towards the recognition of God the Father.

Thus the Word will be fulfilled: "No man cometh unto the Father but by me!"

''The final end'', however, does not begin with your last hours on earth, but at a certain stage in the development of spiritual man, for whom the passing from the Gross Material World to the Ethereal World is but a transition.

And now to turn to the great work of Redemption itself.

Mankind was erring in spiritual darkness.

They had created this themselves by subjecting themselves more and more to the intellect, which they had so assiduously cultivated.

In so doing they limited their perceptive ability more and more until, like their brain, they became unconditionally bound to space and time, and could no longer grasp the way to what is infinite and eternal.

Thus they became completely earthbound, limited to space and time.

All connection with the Light, with Purity, with the spiritual, was cut-off thereby.

The volition of man was only capable of directing itself to earthly things, with the exception of a few who, as prophets, did not have the power to penetrate and make a free path to The Light.

This situation opened all the gates to evil.

Darkness welled up and flooded the earth, bringing disaster.

This could only have ''one'' end -- spiritual death!

The most terrible fate to befall mankind!

The guilt for all this misery lay upon mankind.

They brought it upon themselves by voluntarily choosing this course.

They had wanted it to be so and cultivated it.

In their utter blindness they were even proud of their achievement without recognising the terrible consequences arising from their limited understanding, which they painstakingly forced upon themselves.

To open a path to the Light from a humanity in such a state was impossible.

The self - imposed limitation was already too great.

If there was still to be any possibility of salvation help must come from the Light.

Otherwise the downfall of man into darkness was inevitable.

Darkness itself, through it's impurity, has a great density, which brings about a heaviness.

Because of this heaviness Darkness cannot of itself rise above a certain weight - level, unless from the other side some attracting power comes its aid.

Light, however, possesses a lightness corresponding to it's purity, which makes it impossible for the Light to descend to the level of Darkness.

Thus there is an unbridgeable gulf between both parts, and in the middle of which stands man and his earth.

According to the nature of his volition and wishes, man now possesses the choice of approaching the Light or of approaching Darkness, of opening the gates and smoothing the way so that either Light or Darkness can flood the earth.

In this process men themselves are the mediators through whose power of volition either Light or Darkness can gain a firm foothold there, from which it can operate more or less powerfully.

The more Light or Darkness thereby gains in power on earth, the more each can pour over mankind what it has to give -- either good or evil, well - being or disaster, happiness or unhappiness, the peace of Paradise or the torment of hell.

The pure volition of man had become too weak to be able to offer an anchorage for the Light in the heavy stifling Darkness, which had already gained the upper hand on earth.

This anchorage was needed for the Light to hold on to and unite with in such a way that it's undimmed purity and consequent unimpaired power could cleave the Darkness and thus deliver mankind.

They would then be able to draw strength by tapping this source, and find their way upward to the Luminous Heights.

It was impossible for the Light Itself to descend so far into the mire unless a firm anchorage was offered to It.

Consequently a Mediator had to come.

Only a Messenger from the Luminous Heights could, ''by incarnating'', break through the dark wall which men's volition had built and, in the midst of all the evil, create for the Divine Light ''that'' gross material foothold which would stand firm amid the heavy darkness.

From this anchorage the pure rays of the Light would then be able to cleave through and disperse the dark layers so that humanity would not to sink completely and suffocate in the Darkness.

Thus Jesus ''came'' for the sake of mankind and their sins!

This newly -  created connection with the Light could not --  because of the purity and strength of the Messenger from the Light --  be cut off by the Darkness.

Thus a new road to the spiritual heights was opened for mankind.

From Jesus, who had become the earthly foothold" of the Light, rays penetrated the Darkness through the Living Word which brought the Truth.

He transmit this Truth unblemished as He Himself was the Word and the Truth!

People were aroused from their spiritual lethargy through the miracles that happened simultaneously.

In following these up they came upon the Word.

Hearing the Truth that Jesus brought and reflecting upon It gradually awakened in hundreds of thousands the wish to follow this Truth and know about It.

By so doing they slowly strove upwards towards the Light!

Through this wish the Darkness surrounding them had to loosen it's grip, and ray after ray of Light victoriously penetrated as people thought about these words and found them to be true.

It became brighter and brighter around them and the Darkness, being no longer able to retain a firm hold on such persons, finally fell back and thus lost more and more grounds.

In this way the Word of Truth worked in the Darkness just like a germinating mustard seeds, as yeast does in bread.

And ''this'' was the work of redemption of the Son of God, Jesus, the Bringer of Light and Truth!

The Darkness, which imagined it was already master of all humanity rebelled against this in a wild struggle to make the work of redemption impossible.

It could get no hold on Jesus  Himself, for it fell back before His pure Intuition.

Thus it naturally made use of the willing tools at it's disposal for the battle.

These were people who rightly call themselves ''intellectual'', who yielded to the intellect and who, like the intellect, were fast bound to space and time.

Consequently they could no longer grasp the higher spiritual concepts, which lie far beyond space time, and it thus became impossible for them to follow the teaching of the Truth.

All these had the conviction that they stood on too ''realistic'' a ground, just as so many do today.

Realistic ground, however, really means a very limited ground.

The majority of these people represented power, being in positions of authority in government and church.

Thus the Darkness, in furious self - defence, whipped up these people to commit the brutal assaults against Jesus  through the earthly power that lay in their hands.

By this the Darkness hoped to destroy the work of redemption.

That it was at all possible for it to exert this power on earth was due solely to the guilt of humanity which through their self - chosen wrong attitude, limited their perceptive ability and thus gave the Darkness the upper hand.

''And because of this sin of humanity Jesus had to suffer!''

The Darkness continued to fan the flame to the uttermost!

Jesus would have to suffer death on the Cross if He stood firm in His assertion that He was the Bringer of Truth and Light.

It was the final decision!

To flee or withdraw from it all could save Him from death on the Cross.

But that would have meant victory to the Darkness at the last moment, because all the work of Jesus would then gradually have run to sand, and the Darkness would have victoriously engulfed everything.

Jesus would not have fulfilled His Mission and inevitably the work of redemption started by Him would have remained unfinished.

The inner struggle in Gethsemane was sharp but short!

Jesus did not shun physical death, but calmly faced it for the sake of the Truth He brought.

With His blood on the Cross He put the seal upon all He had said and lived.

With this deed  He vanquished the Darkness completely, which had then played it's last trump.

Jesus won the victory  --  out of love for mankind, whose way to freedom and Light, thus remained open, because His death fortified their faith in the Truth of His words.

If He had withdrawn and fled, and so given up His work, doubts would inevitably have assailed them.

''Thus Jesus died for the sake of humanity's sins!''

If mankind had not sinned, nor turned away from God by limiting themselves through the intellect, then Jesus could have spared Himself His Coming as well as His path of suffering and His crucifixion.

Therefore it is quite right to say: "On account of our Jesus came, suffered, and died on the Cross!''

''But this does not mean that you do not have to redeem your own sins yourselves!''

It is only that now it is easy for you, because by bringing the Truth Jesus has ''shown the you the way in His Words!''

Neither can the crucifixion of Jesus simply wash away your sins!

Before such a thing could happen all the laws of Universe, would first have to be abrogated overthrown.

But that will not happen!

Jesus Himself often referred to ''all that is written'', that is, to the Old Covenant.

The new Gospel of Love does not intend to overthrow", abrogate, or annul, the Old Gospel of Justice, ''but to supplement'' and unite with it.

Therefore do not forget the Justice of the mighty Creator of all things, which cannot be moved by even so much as a hair's breadth, and which stands inviolable from the very beginning of the world until it's end!

It could never permit any person to take another's guilt upon his shoulders in order to redeem it.

So for the sake of the guilt of others, or because of the guilt of others, Jesus could come, suffer and die  --   could step forth as the Warrior for the Truth, but He Himself remained pure and untouched by this guilt.

That is why He was unable to take this guilt upon Himself personally.

This does not lessen the work of redemption; but instead it is a sacrifice that could not be greater.

Jesus came down for you out of the Luminous Heights into the mire.

He fought for you, suffered and died for you, in order to bring you Light and to show the right way upward, so that you will not become lost in the Darkness and sink!

That is ''how'' your Redeemer stands before you!

''That'' was His tremendous work of Love!

The Justice of God, continued to exist, severe, and strict, in the Laws of Universe.

For what a man sows shall he reap, as Jesus Himself said in His Message!

Divine Justice does not permit one farthing to be remitted.

Think of this when you stand before this sacred, solemn token!

Give fervent thanks that with His  Word the Redeemer re-opened the way to the forgiveness of your sins, and leave the spot with earnest intention to go the way shown to you so that forgiveness may really be yours!

To go that way does not mean just to learn the Word and believe It, but ''to live'' the Word!

To believe It, to It as right, and yet not to act according to It in everything, would not benefit you at all.

On the contrary, you would be worse off than those who know nothing of Word.

Therefore awake! Your time on earth is precious!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

                                                                       WHAT  SEPARATES  SO  MANY  FROM  LIGHT  TODAY

LIKE deepest night ethereal darkness lies spread over this earth! 

For a very long time already. 

So dense and firm is the suffocating embrace in which it holds the earth that every ascending light - perception is like a flame which, without oxygen, loses its power and quickly fading out. 

This ethereal condition, now manifesting at its worst, is dreadful. Anyone permitted for only five seconds to glimpse what is happening would from sheer horror be deprived of all hope of salvation! - 

And all this has been brought about through the guilt of men themselves. 

Through the guilt of their propensity for what is base. 

Here mankind have been their own worst enemy. 

Now even those few who are once more earnest striving upwards are ''also'' in danger of being swept into the depths, towards which others are now developing at a sinister speed. 

It is like a close embrace, which is followed in inevitably by fatal absorption. 

Absorption into sultry, tenacious swamp, in which everything sinks without a sound. 

There is no longer a struggling, but only a still, silent, gruesome choking. 

And man does not recognise it. 

Spiritual indolence blinds him to this fateful happening. 

But all the time the swamp is sending forth its poisonous emanations, which slowly weary those who are still strong and alert, so that they, too, will fall asleep and sink away powerless. 

That is the state of affairs on earth today. 

It is not a picture that I am unfolding therewith, but ''life!'' 

Since all ethereal matter bears forms, created and animated through men's intuitive perceptions, such a happening actually takes place continually. 

And this is the environment that awaits men when they must leave this earth, and cannot be led upwards to the more luminous and beautiful regions. 

But the Darkness grows ever ''more dense. 

Therefore the time draws near when for a while this earth must be left to the rule of Darkness, without direct help from the Light, because humanity enforced this through their volition. 

The consequences of the volition of the majority ''were bound'' to bring this ending. - 

It is the time which John was once permitted to behold, when God will veil His Countenance. - 

Everywhere there is night. Yet during the deepest affliction when everything, including what is better, is also in danger of sinking away, at the same time dawn will now break! 

But the dawn will first bring the travail of a great purification, which is inevitable before the salvation of all serious seekers can begin; for ''no'' helping hand can be offered to all those who pursue base ends! 

They shall fall headlong into those terrible depths where alone they can still hope for an awakening through such torments that they must come to loathe themselves. 

Those who with sneers and apparent impunity have hitherto been able to hinder the upward striving ones will become silent and more pensive, until finally, begging and whimpering, they will be irresistibly led through the millstones of the inexorable Laws of Divine Justice, until in the ''experiencing'' they come to the recognition of their errors. - 

In the course of my travels I could see that a firebrand was hurled among the indolent human spirits with my Word, which declares that no man can lay claim to Divinity; whereas just at this time much effort is bent upon discovering God ''within'' oneself, so that ultimately man himself might also become God! 

Hence disquiet has often awakened with my Word, mankind rebelliously seeking to defend themselves against it, because they only wish to hear soothing and reassuring words that seem ''pleasant'' to them! 

Those who rebel are simply cowards, who would like nothing better than to evade the personal issue, only to remain in obscurity, where they can indulge in sweet and peaceful dreams to ''their'' heart's content. 

Not everyone can bear to be exposed to the Light of Truth, which clearly and mercilessly shows up the defects and spots on one's garment. 

With smiles, scoffing or with enmity such people would like to prevent the coming of the day when the feet of clay supporting that flimsily constructed idol, their ''ego'', will be clearly revealed. 

Such fools are only masquerading with themselves, which will be relentlessly followed by the grey Ash Wednesday. With their wrong views they really want only to idolise themselves, and thereby they feel well and comfortable on earth. 

From the outset they regard ''anyone'' who disturbs them from their indolent placidity as an enemy! 

However, ''this time'' no resistance will be of any avail to them! 

The self - idolatry evident in the assertion that there is Divinity in man is a base attempt to grasp at the sublimity and the purity of your God, ''thereby defiling'' for you the most Holy, to which you look up in the most blissful trust! - 

There is within you an altar which should serve for the worship of your God. 

This altar is your intuitive faculty. 

If this is pure it is directly connected with the Spiritual Realm and thus with Paradise! 

Then there are moments when you too can fully perceive the nearness of your God, as often happens in times of deepest sorrow and greatest joy! 

You then perceive His nearness in the same way as is constantly experienced by the eternal Primordial Spirits in Paradise, with whom you are closely connected at such moments. 

The strong vibration caused by the emotion of great joy or deep sorrow for a few seconds pushes everything earthly and low far into the background, thereby setting free the purity of the intuitive perception, which thus immediately forms the bridge to the homogeneous purity that animates Paradise! This is the most supreme happiness for the human spirit. 

The eternal ones in Paradise live in it continually. 

It brings the glorious certainty of being protected. 

They are then fully conscious of the nearness of their great God, in Whose Power they stand, yet at the same time they also realise as a matter of course that they have reached their greatest height, and will never be able to behold God. 

This, however, does not depress them, but in the recognition of His unapproachable Majesty they give jubilant thanks for the inexpressible mercy He has always shown in regard to the arrogant creature. 

And this happiness can already be enjoyed by man on earth. 

It is quite right to say that in deeply solemn moments earthman senses the nearness of His God. 

But it is sacrilege if man asserts that he himself possesses a spark of the Godhead within, because of this wonderful bridge which grants him the awareness of Divine nearness. 

Hand in hand with this assertion also goes the debasing of Divine Love. How can God's Love be measured by the standard of human love? 

Moreover, how can It be valued even ''below'' this human love? 

Look at those people who picture Divine Love as the highest ideal, just silently enduring and also forgiving everything! 

They want to recognise Divinity ''by the fact'' that It tolerates any misbehaviour from lower ''creatures'', such as only the greatest weakling or the most cowardly human being would do, for which they are despised. 

Just reflect what a monstrous insult this implies! 

Men would like to sin unpunished, and then finally even please their God by allowing Him to forgive their wrong - doing without having to atone for it themselves! 

Such presumption shows either the utmost narrow - mindedness, unpardonable laziness, or the realisation of how hopelessly weak they are in bringing forth the good volition to strive upwards: The one, however, is as reprehensible as the other. 

Picture to yourselves Divine Love! 

Crystal clear, radiant, pure and great! 

Can you then imagine that It is as sentimentally weak and ignobly yielding as mankind would so like it to be? 

They want to build up a false greatness where they ''wish'' for weakness, they give a false picture only to deceive and reassure themselves about their own shortcomings, which make them willing servants of the Darkness. 

Where then is to be found the freshness and power that unquestionably belong to the crystal purity of Divine Love? 

Divine Love is inseparable from the utmost severity of Divine Justice. 

Indeed It even is Divine Justice. 

Justice is Love, and Love again lies only in ''Justice''. 

In this alone lies also Divine Forgiveness. 

The churches are right in saying that God forgives ''everything!'' 

And ''really'' forgives! 

Contrary to man, who goes on condemning a person even after he has atoned for some trivial offence, and thus burdens himself with a double guilt by such thoughts, because he does not act according to the Will of God. 

Here human love is lacking in justice. 

The activity of the Divine Creative Will purifies every human spirit of its guilt as soon as it strives upwards, whether through its own experiences or through its voluntary efforts at improvement. 

If it returns to the Spiritual Realm from these mills in the World of Matter, it will then stand pure in the Kingdom of its Creator; it matters not ''what'' its guilt may have been! 

Just bas pure as one who has never yet sinned. 

But ''first'' his path will take him through the activity of the Divine Laws, and in ''this'' fact lies the guarantee of Divine Forgiveness, of His Mercy! 

Do we not often hear today the fearful questioning: How could God allow such years of tribulation? 

Where does love, where does justice come in? 

The question is asked by ''mankind'', by ''nations'', often by families and individual human being! 

Should this not rather prove to him that, ''after all'', God's Love is probably ''different'' from what many would like to imagine it? 

Just try ''in this way'' to visualise to the ''end'' the all - forgiving Love of God, as man insists on portraying It! 

Demanding no self - atonement, tolerating everything, and ultimately even offering generous forgiveness. 

It must produce lamentable result! 

Does man consider himself so precious that his God should suffer under this? 

Thus more precious even than God Himself? 

To what lengths does men's presumption go. - 

On thinking it over calmly you must stumble over a thousand obstacles, and can ''only'' come to a conclusion when you belittle God and make Him imperfect. 

But He was, and is, and remains perfect, regardless of men's attitude to this. 

His Forgiveness lies in ''Justice''. 

Nothing else. 

And in this unconditional Justice also lies the great Love which has hitherto been misunderstood! 

Rid yourselves of the habit of measuring according to earthly standards! 

God's Justice and God's Love are concerned with the human ''spirit''. 

Material substance has nothing to do with this. 

It is only ''formed'' by the human spirit itself, and has no life without spirit. 

Why do you so often torment yourselves with mere earthly trifles which you perceive to be sin, but which are not really so. 

It is only what the ''spirit wills'' in any action that is decisive for the Divine Laws in Creation. 

This spiritual will, however, is not thought - activity, but the deepest intuitive perception, the actual volition within man, which alone can set in motion the Laws of the beyond, and indeed does so automatically. 

Divine Love cannot be degraded by men; for in It rest in Creation also the inexorable Laws of His Will, Which is borne by Love. 

And these Laws take effect according to how man adjusts himself in Creation. 

They may link him with the proximity of his God, or they form a dividing wall that can never be destroyed unless man at last adapts himself to them, which means obey them, in which alone he can find his salvation, his happiness. 

It is ''one'' perfect whole, the great Work shows no flaws, no gaps. 

Any fool or simpleton who would have it otherwise will meet his doom. - 

Divine Love weaves therein only what ''benefits'' every human spirit, but not what pleases and seems agreeable to it on earth. 

Divine Love goes ''far'' beyond this, because it governs the whole existence. - 

At present many a person very often thinks: If tribulation and destruction are to be expected in order to bring about a great purification, then God must be so just as to send out in advance preachers calling for repentance. 

Man must certainly be forewarned. 

Where is John who proclaims what is to come? 

These are wretched ones who think themselves so wise, but are so empty - minded! 

Such cries merely conceal an utterly hollow presumption. 

They would only scourge him and throw him into prison! 

Do open your eyes and ears! 

But man goes ''dancing'' frivolously away over all the suffering and misery of his fellow - men! 

He does not ''want'' to see and hear! - 

Already two thousand years ago a preacher also first appeared, calling for repentance, and following on his heels the Word Incarnate. 

Yet mankind have made strenuous efforts to efface and obscure the pure lustre of the Word, so that the magnetic power of Its radiance should gradually become extinct. - 

And all those who wish to disentangle the Word from the clinging vines must soon perceive how desperately the messengers of Darkness try to prevent every joyful awakening! 

''But today there will be no recurrence of what happened in Christ's time!'' 

At that time the Word came! 

Mankind had their free will, and the majority then decided to reject and repudiate this Word! 

From that time onwards they were subject to the Laws, which were automatically linked to the free decision then carried out in this way. 

Thereafter men found all the fruits of their own volition on their self - chosen path. 

Soon the ring will close. 

Things are pilling up ever more, rising like a rampart which will soon collapse and crash down upon mankind, who go on living unsuspectingly in spiritual apathy. 

Finally, at the time of fulfilment, they will naturally no longer have the free choice! 

They must now just reap what they sowed at that time, and also later on their wrong ways. 

All who once rejected the Word at the time of Christ are today reincarnated on this earth to settle accounts. 

Now they no longer have the right to be forewarned, and to make a second decision. 

In the two thousand years they have had time enough to change their minds! 

Also he who absorbs a wrong interpretation of God and His Creation, and does not exert himself to grasp It more purely, has ''not'' absorbed It ''at all''. Indeed, it is far worse, for a wrong belief keeps one back from grasping the Truth. 

But woe unto him who, in order to attract followers, ''falsifies'' or ''perverts'' the Truth because men find it more agreeable in an easier form. 

He not only burdens himself with the guilt of falsification and deception, but in addition he also bears the whole responsibility for those whom  he was able to attract to himself making it more convenient or acceptable. 

When his hour of retribution comes he will ''not'' be helped. 

He will fall into abyss from which there can be no return, and rightly so! - 

This John was also permitted to see and warn against in his Revelation. 

And when the great purification begins man will now have no time rebel, or even to stem this happening. 

The Divine Laws which man so much likes to picture wrongly will then take inexorable effect. 

Just in the most terrible tribulation of the times that the earth has ever experienced, humanity will at last learn that God's Love is far removed from the softness and weakness which man so audaciously ascribed to It. 

More than half of all the men living at the present time do not belong on this earth at all! 

Already for thousands of years this mankind have sunk so low, and live ''so'' strongly in the Darkness, that through their unclean volition they have built many bridges to dark spheres which are far ''below'' this earth -  plane. 

There live those who have sunk deeply, whose ethereal weight would never have permitted the possibility of their rising to this earth - plane. 

This formed a ''protection'' both for all those living on earth and for these dark ones themselves. 

They are separated by the natural Law of Ethereal Gravity. 

Down below they can give full vent to their passions, and all baseness, without doing any harm. On the contrary. 

There their unrestrained indulgence only strikes those of a like nature, whose base way of living similarly also affects them. 

Thus they suffer mutually, which leads to maturing but no further guilt. 

For through suffering, loathing for themselves may in time awaken, and with it also desire to escape from this region. 

Gradually the desire leads to an agonising despair, which may finally result in the most fervent prayers, and therewith in an earnest volition to do better. ''This is how it should be. 

But through men's wrong volition things developed differently!'' 

Through their ''dark'' volition men built a bridge to the region of Darkness. 

Thus they held out a hand to those living there, making it possible for them to rise to the earth through the power of attraction of similar species. 

Here they naturally also found the opportunity for a fresh incarnation, which was not yet intended for them in the normal course of world events. 

For on the earth - plane, where through the medium of gross matter they can live ''together'' with those who are more luminous and better, they only do harm and thereby burden themselves with ''fresh'' guilt. 

This they cannot do in their lower regions; For the depravity is only beneficial to their homogeneous kind, because ultimately they only recognise themselves as they really are, and come to abhor their baseness, which helps towards improvement. 

Man has now ''disrupted'' this normal course in all development through the base use of his free will, with which he formed ethereal bridges to the region of Darkness, so that those who had sunk there could be thrown onto the earth - plane like a rabble, who now joyfully populate the greater part of it. 

Since luminous souls must retreat before the Darkness wherever the latter has gained a firm foothold, it was easy for the darker souls, who had no right to be on the earth - plane, also to incarnate sometimes where otherwise only a luminous soul would have entered. 

In such a case the dark soul has found an anchorage through some person near the prospective mother, enabling it to assert itself and push aside the light soul, even when the mother or father belong to the more luminous ones. 

This also clears up the puzzle of how many a black sheep could come to good parents. 

However, if a prospective mother heed of herself and of her immediate surroundings, of those with whom she associates, this can ''not'' happen. 

Thus one can recognise it only ''as Love'' when at last the final effect of the Laws sweeps away from the earth - plane in full justice those who do ''not'' belong here, so that they fall into that realm of Darkness to which by their nature they definitely belong. 

Thus they can no longer hinder the ascent of the more luminous ones, nor burden themselves with fresh guilt, but perhaps still, after all, mature through disgust at their own experiences. - 

The time will certainly come when the hearts of ''all'' men will be seized with an iron grip, when spiritual arrogance will be uprooted in every human creature with terrible relentlessness. 

Then every doubt which today prevents the human spirit from recognising that Divinity is not ''in'' him, but high ''above'' him, will also disappear. 

That It can only stand as the purest ''image'' on the altar of his inner life, to which he looks up in humble prayer. - 

It is no error but sin when a human spirit confesses his desire to be Divine. 

Such presumption must cause his fall; for it is equivalent to an attempt to tear the sceptre from the Hand of his God, and degrade Him to the same level as man occupies, and on which until now he has never even fulfilled his task, because he wanted to be ''more'', and aspires to heights which he can never possibly reach, nor even recognise. 

Thus he heedlessly overlooked all reality, not only making himself quite useless in Creation, but far worse, making himself directly ''harmful!'' 

In the end, brought about through his own wrong attitude, it will be proved to him with uncanny clarity that in his present so degenerated state he does not even represent the shadow of Divinity. 

The whole hoard of earthly knowledge that he has laboriously accumulated over these thousands of years will then prove before the horrified gaze of his eyes to be ''nothing''; helpless, he will experience with himself how the fruits of his one - sided earthly aspirations become useless and sometimes even a curse to him. 

''Then he may reflect upon his own divinity, if he can!'' - - 

A mighty voice will sound forth and compel him: ''Down on your knees, creature, before your God and Lord! 

Do not sacrilegiously try to lift yourself up to the level of God!'' - -

The self - centredness of the indolent human spirit cannot continue. 

Only then can this humanity really think of an ascent. 

That will also be the time when everything that does not stand on a sound foundation will collapse. 

The sham forms of life, the false prophets and the organisations surrounding them, will disintegrate from within! 

Therewith the wrong courses that have hitherto prevailed will also be exposed. 

Then many a self - complacent person will probably also be terrified to realise that he is standing on the brink of an abyss and, through being wrongly guided, is swiftly gliding downwards when he proudly imagined himself already to be ascending and nearing the Light! 

That he opened protective gates without having the full strength of defence behind them. 

That he attracted dangers which in the natural course of events he would have passed over. 

Happy is he who then finds the right way back!      

                                                                                                             THE   CALL   FOR   THE   HELPER  

JUST let us look more closely at all those people who today with special eagerness are seeking a spiritual helper, those who, inwardly uplifted, are awaiting him. 

In their opinion they themselves are already thoroughly prepared spiritually to recognise him and to hear his word! 

On calm observation we notice a great many factions. 

Christ's Mission, for instance, affected so many people in a strange way. 

They formed a false picture of it. 

As usual, this was due to their wrong self - assessment, their presumption. 

Instead of the former veneration and the preservation of a natural gulf and sharp demarcation towards their God, there has arisen on the one hand a plaintive begging which always wants only to receive, but on no account to contribute anything itself. 

They certainly accepted the ''pray'', but refused to acknowledge that this was also coupled with ''and work'' - ''work on yourself''. 

Again, on the other hand, people imagine they are so self - reliant, so independent, that they can do everything themselves, and with a little effort even become Divine. 

There are also many people who only demand and expect God to run after them. 

Inasmuch as He had already once sent His Son, He proved thereby how greatly concerned He is that mankind should draw near to Him, indeed that He probably even needs them! 

Wherever one turns there is nothing but presumption to be found in all things, no humility. 

True self - assessment is lacking. - 

In order ''really'' to be a ''human being'', and begin his ascent as ''such'', it is first of all necessary for man to descend from his artificial height. 

Today, spiritually puffed up, he is sitting in a tree at the foot of the mountain, instead of standing with both feet firmly and securely on the ground. 

Thus unless he first comes down or falls from the tree he will obviously never be able to climb the mountain. 

Meanwhile, however, all those who went their way calmly and sensibly on the ground beneath his tree, and upon whom he looked down so haughtily, have probably arrived at the summit. 

But events will come to his aid; for in the very near future the tree ''will'' fall. 

When he is so roughly shaken down from his precarious perch, perhaps man will then once more come to his senses. 

But for him it will then be high time, he has not a single hour left to waste. 

Many now think life can continue in the old way, as it has done for thousands of years. 

Stretched out comfortably in their armchairs, they are awaiting a strong helper. 

But ''how'' do they depict this helper! 

It is really pathetic! 

In the first place they expect or, just to be quite correct, ''demand'' that ''he'' should prepare the way upward to the Light for each individual! 

''He'' must exert himself to build bridges to the path of the Truth for the adherents of ''every'' religious faith! 

''He'' must make it so easy and intelligible that everyone can understand it without effort. 

His words must be so chosen that their rightness will immediately convince one and all. 

As soon as man must exert himself and think for himself, then the helper is not a proper helper. 

For if he is called to lead and to show the right way through his word, he must then naturally also exert himself for men. 

It is ''his'' duty to convince men, to awaken them! 

After all, Christ also gave His life. 

Those who think in this way today -- and there are many who do so -- need not begin to trouble themselves, for they are like the foolish virgins, they face the ''too late''! 

The helper will surely ''not'' awaken them, but will let them sleep quietly on until the gate is closed and they can find no entrance into the Light, because they cannot free themselves in time from the sphere of matter, for which the word of the helper showed them the way. 

For man is not as valuable as he imagined. 

God does not need him, but does need his God! 

Since in their so - called progress mankind today no longer know what they really ''want'', they will at last have to experience what they ''must''! 

As they both seek and criticise in a supercilious way, this type of people will pass by, just as even at that time so many also passed by ''Him'' for Whose coming everything had already been prepared through the revelations. 

How can one possibly envisage a spiritual helper ''thus!'' 

He will not ''budge an inch'' to make concessions to mankind, and wherever he is expected to give he will ''demand!'' 

''That'' man who is capable of serious reflection, however, will immediately recognise that ''just this strict and uncompromising demand'' for attentive thinking contains what is best, and what mankind, already so deeply entangled in spiritual indolence, need for their salvation! 

It is just by demanding spiritual alertness right from the beginning, together with an ''earnest'' volition and self - exertion for the understanding of his words, that a helper easily separates the grain from the chaff already at the outset. 

An automatic working lies in this, as it is in the Divine Laws. 

Here, too, men receive exactly according to their actual volition. - 

But there is yet another class of people who fancy themselves particularly alert! 

Naturally these have formed an entirely different picture of a helper, as can be read from reports. 

It is no less grotesque, however, for they expect him to be . . . a spiritual acrobat! In any case, thousands already suppose that clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, etc., indicate great progress, which is really ''not'' so. 

These arts, whether acquired, cultivated, or even a natural gift, can never rise above the constraint of this earth, thus they only operate within the low limits, can never claim to any height, and are therefore almost worthless. 

Is ''that'' the way to help the ascent of mankind - showing them, or teaching them to see and hear, ethereal things which are on the same level as they are? This has nothing to do with the actual ascent of the spirit, and is to equally little purpose for earthly happening! 

They are minor spiritual tricks, nothing more, interesting to the individual, ''but utterly useless'' to mankind as a whole! 

That all such people wish for the same kind of helper, but one even more proficient than themselves, is indeed readily understandable. - 

Yet there are a great many who carry matters much further in this respect, even to the point of absurdity. 

And who are nevertheless perfectly serious about it. 

For example, one of the fundamental conditions they impose to prove he is genuine is that a helper . . . must be immune from catching cold! 

He who does so is already disqualified; for in their opinion this does not correspond to an ideal helper. 

At all events, a strong helper must as a first essential be completely above these trifles with his spirit. 

This may sound fanciful and ridiculous; but it is only based on facts, and suggests a faint repetition of the former cry: ''If Thou be the Son of God, save Thyself and come down from the cross!'' - 

They are already calling out the same today, even before such a helper is in sight at all! 

Poor, ignorant men! 

He who trains his body so ''one - sidedly'' that it is rendered temporarily insensible under the power of the spirit is by no means great or eminent. 

Those who admire him are like children of former times, watching with open mouth and shining eyes the antics of travelling clowns, and filled with a burning desire to emulate them. 

And a great many so - called spirit - seekers or God - seekers of today are no further advanced in the ''spiritual'' field than the children of bygone days were in this quite ''earthly'' field! 

Just let us consider a little further: The vagrants of olden times, of whom I have just spoken, developed themselves increasingly and become acrobats in circus and music - hall. 

Their skill grew prodigious, and even now thousands of sophisticated people watch these feats every day in perpetual wonder, often inwardly shuddering. 

Yet do they ''themselves gain'' anything from  it? 

What do they take away with them after such hours? 

Although many an acrobat even risks his life during his performance. 

Nothing whatever! 

For even at the peak of perfection all these things will ''always'' remain strictly limited to music - hall and the circus. 

They will always serve only to amuse, but never lead to any advantage for mankind. 

Yet people now look for ''such'' acrobatic feats in the ''spiritual'' field as the standard by which to measure the great helper! 

Let such people keep their spiritual clowns! 

They will soon enough experience where this leads! 

They have really no idea ''what'' they are  actually pursuing thereby. 

They imagine that only he is great whose spirit so controls his body that it no longer suffers illness! 

All such development is one - sided, and one - sidedness brings only what is unhealthy and diseased! 

These things do not ''strengthen the spirit'', but only ''weaken the body!'' 

The balance necessary for healthy harmony between body and spirit is disturbed, and as a result such a spirit finally severs itself much sooner from the maltreated body, which can no longer provide the strong healthy resonance needed for earthly experience. 

But then the spirit lacks this experience, and enters the beyond while still ''immature''. 

It will have to live its earth - life ''once again''. 

These are spiritual tricks, nothing more, performed at the expense of the earthly body, which should in reality ''help'' the spirit. 

The body ''belongs'' to an epoch in the spirit's development. 

But if it is weakened and suppressed it cannot be of much use to the spirit either; for its radiations are too feeble to provide the full power that the spirit needs in the World of Matter.

If a man wishes to suppress an illness he must spiritually bring about the pressure of an ecstasy  on the body, just as in minor degree fear of the dentist may suppress toothache. 

The body may be able to stand such intense stimulation once, perhaps even several times, unharmed, but not continually without suffering serious damage. 

And if ''that'' is the practice or advice of a helper, he is not worthy to be a helper; for he is thereby transgressing the Natural Laws in Creation. 

Man on earth should cherish his body as property entrusted to him, and strive to achieve healthy harmony between spirit and body. 

To disturb this through one - sided suppression is neither progress nor ascent, but a decisive obstacle to the fulfilment of his task on earth, as ''in the World of Matter'' in general. 

The full power of the spirit as regards its effectiveness ''in the World of Matter'' is thereby lost, since this definitely calls for the strength of a physical body which is not enslaved but which harmonises with the spirit! 

He who is accounted master on such grounds is less than a pupil who knows nothing whatever of the tasks of the human spirit, nor of what is required for its development! 

He is even detrimental to the spirit. 

They will come soon enough to the painful recognition of their folly. 

Every false helper, however, will have to undergo ''bitter'' experiences! 

His ascent in the beyond can only begin ''when the very last'' of all those whom he has held up or even led astray by spiritual trifling has come to recognition. 

As long as his books and writings continue to influence men on earth, he will be held fast in the next world, even if in the meantime he has come to a better understanding there. 

He who recommends occult training gives men stones as bread, thereby proving that he has not even the faintest idea of what ''actually'' takes place in the beyond, still less of the complete mechanism of the Universe! -

                                                                                                                            WHAT    SEEK    YE  ?

WHAT ''seek ye''? 

What is all this tumultuous agitation? 

It permeates the world like a ferment, and a flood of books overwhelms all peoples. 

Scholars pore over ancient writings, investigating and pondering until spiritually exhausted. 

Prophets arise to warn, to predict . . . suddenly from all sides people strive feverishly to spread new light! 

Thus it rages now over the troubled soul of mankind, not refreshing and invigorating, but scorching, consuming, absorbing the last vestiges of strength still left to the afflicted one in this gloominess of the present time. 

Here and there also a whispering is heard, rumours of a growing expectation of something impending. 

Every nerve is restless, tense with subconscious longing. 

There is seething and surging, and over everything lies a kind of ominously brooding stupor. 

Fraught with disaster. 

What ''must it bring? 

Confusion, despondency and ruin, unless a mighty hand tears asunder the dark layer that now envelops the terrestrial globe spiritually. 

With the slimy tenacity of a dirty morass, absorbing and smothering every ascending free light - thought before it has become strong; with the gruesome silence of a swamp, suppressing, disintegrating, and destroying  every good volition even in the bud, before any action can arise from it. 

But the seekers' cry for light, imbued with strength to cleave through the mire, is turned aside and dies away beneath an impenetrable canopy, assiduously set up by the very people who think they help. 

''They offer stones for bread!'' 

Look at the innumerable books: ''They do not animate, they only weary the human spirit!'' 

And this is the proof of the barrenness of all they offer; for whatever wearies the spirit is never right. 

''Spiritual bread immediately refreshes, Truth revitalises and Light animates!'' 

Simple people must surely despair when they see what walls are built around the beyond by so - called psychic science. 

Who among the simple is to grasp the learned sentences and strange expressions? 

Is the beyond, then, intended exclusively for psychic scientists? 

They speak of God! 

But it is necessary to set up a university in order first of all to acquire the abilities to recognise the conception of the Godhead? 

To what length will this mania, which is mostly rooted in ambition, drive them? 

Readers and listeners stagger along like drunkards from one place to another - unsteady, not free in themselves, one - sided, because they have been diverted from the simple path. 

Listen, you despondent ones! 

Lift up your eyes, you who are seriously seeking: ''The way to the Highest lies open to   every human being! 

Proficiency in learning is not the gate to it!'' 

Did Christ Jesus, that great example on the true path to the Light, choose His disciples among the learned Pharisees?

Among the Scribes? 

He took them from the simple, natural people, because they had no need to struggle against this great delusion that the way to the Light is hard to master, and must be difficult. 

''This thought is man's greatest enemy, it is a lie!'' 

Thus turn away from all scientific knowledge, where it is a question of what is most sacred in man, which must be ''fully grasped!'' 

Leave it alone; for science, being a product of the human brain, is piecework and must remain piecework. Consider, how should scientific knowledge, acquired by laborious study, lead to the Godhead? 

''What, after all, is knowledge''? 

Knowledge is what the brain can conceive. 

Yet how very limited is the perceptive capacity of the brain, which remains firmly bound to space and time. 

Even eternity and the meaning of infinity cannot be grasped by a human brain. 

Just that which is inseparably linked with the Godhead. 

But the brain stands silent before the incomprehensible power streaming through all that exists, from which it derives its own activity. 

The power which everyone intuitively perceives as a matter of course every day, every hour, every moment, whose existence science too has always recognised; whereas with the brain, that is with the knowledge and intellect, one seeks in vain to grasp and comprehend it. 

So inadequate is the activity of a brain, the basis and instrument of science, and this limitation naturally also affects what it produces, hence all science itself. 

Thus science does indeed ''subsequently'' help to elucidate, classify and arrange all that it receives ready - made from the creative power which precedes it; but when it seeks to assume leadership or offer criticism, it must inevitably fail so long as it binds itself so firmly to the intellect, that is, to the perceptive capacity of the brain, as it has done hitherto. 

For this reason erudition, along with those who adjust themselves to it, always remains clinging to details; whereas each man carries within himself, as a gift, the great inconceivable whole, and is fully capable of attaining to the noblest and highest without laborious study! 

Therefore away with this needless torture of spiritual enslavement! 

Not for nothing does the great Master exhort us: ''Become like children!'' 

He who bears within himself the firm volition for what is good, and strives to give purity to his thoughts, ''has already found the way to the Highest!'' 

All else will then be added unto him. 

This requires neither books, nor spiritual strains; neither asceticism, nor solitude. 

He will become sound in body and soul, freed from all pressure of morbid pondering; for all exaggeration is harmful. 

You are meant to be human beings, not hothouse plants which through one - sided cultivation succumb to the first puff of wind! 

Awake! 

Look around you! 

Listen to your inner voice! 

That alone can open the way! 

Heed not the dissensions of the churches. 

The great Bringer of Truth, Christ Jesus, the personification of Divine Love, did not concern Himself with creeds. 

After all, what are the creeds today? 

A shackling of the free spirit of man, enslavement of the Divine spark dwelling within; dogmas that seek to compress the work of the Creator, and also His great Love, into forms moulded by the human mind.

This indicates a dishonouring of Divinity, a systematic disparaging. Every serious seeker is repulsed by such things, because they prevent him from ever experiencing the great reality within himself. 

As a result his longing for the Truth becomes increasingly hopeless, and finally he despairs of himself and of the world! 

Therefore awake! 

Shatter the walls of dogma within you, tear off the bandage, so that the pure Light of the Highest may reach you undimmed. 

Then your spirit will soar aloft in exultation, jubilantly sensing all the great Love of the Father, which knows no limitations of earthly intellect. 

You will at last know that you are a part of this Love; you will grasp It easily and completely, unite with It, and thus gain new strength daily and hourly as a gift, enabling you to ascend out of the chaos as a matter of course!