THE   GUARDIAN  OF  THE  FLAME

                          THE     DIVINE     LOVE     OF     PUREST      JUSTIFICATION      (JUSTICE)

THE   GUARDIAN    OF   THE    FLAME

UNGRATEFUL and devoid of understanding, even reproachful - that is how men often face the greatest help from the Light!

It is distressing to observe how even those of good volition behave lamentably in these things or turn away doubtingly from the Light just because of unfulfilled hopes regarding wrongful earthly wishes.

And yet, through non - fulfilment, the Light very often grants salvation and gain.

But, sulking like the most stubborn children, men close themselves to the recognition of the All - Wise Love thereby harming themselves to ''such'' an extent that frequently they can never again ascend, and become lost like a useless grain of seed in this Creation.

The smallest of all the evils which they thereby inflict upon themselves during their wanderings are multifarious incarnations on earth that result from the reciprocal action.

These incarnations take up centuries, perhaps thousands of years, ever again delaying the possibility of the spirit's ascent, permitting new suffering to arise, and resulting in continual new chains of unnecessary entanglements, which must all be redeemed without fail down to the last and finest speck of dust, before the spirit can rise from the confusion brought about through stubbornness.

Were the Light as ''human nature'' is, then It would drop Creation out of weariness, for truly an unbelievable patience is needed to allow such disgusting, stupid stubbornness to live itself out so that those of good volition still emerging from such a state will not lose their possibilities of salvation, and need not perish in the whirlpool of destruction created by those who no longer wish to change  themselves.

But even among those  of good volition only a small part will attain to real salvation, for many weaken too soon and lose heart, and also sometimes think  they have taken wrong courses, because so much opposes them and causes vexation, worry and suffering from the moment the good volition sets in; whereas formerly they did not notice it so much.

Along with the resolution for ascent contained in the firm volition for what is good, there first comes a time of refining for many persons which lets them experience their past wrong ways of thinking or action, and transforms them for what is right!

The more conspicuous this becomes the more such a person is endowed with grace, and the stronger the help already extended from the Light.

It is already the beginning of salvation, the severance from Darkness, which in the process seems to keep him clasped even more ''firmly''.

But this firmer and harder embrace only seems to be such because the spirit which is already awakening and growing strong ''is striving away'' from the Darkness that holds it.

It is only the ''upward striving of the spirit'' which makes the grip of the Darkness to appear more painful, because until then the grip could not become as noticeable so long as the spirit voluntarily adapted itself to or nestled itself in this embrace.

Previously the spirit offered no counter - pressure, but always yielded without struggling against it.

Only when it wishes to uplift itself is the hindrance through the Darkness bound to become perceptible and incisive to the upward striving spirit, until finally it ''tears'' itself forcibly ''away'' in order to become free of the ties retaining it.

The very word already indicates that this tearing away cannot always take place without pains; for a ''tearing'' away cannot be accomplished with gentleness.

But no time is left for a quiet ''severance''.

For this earth has already sunk far too deep and the World Judgment is in full swing in its final fulfilment.

Man does not reflect about all of this!

Many a person thinks his resolution cannot be right because he never perceived such hindrances before, and could perhaps even feel quite comfortable.

Thus through such false thinking he again lets himself sink into the hands of Darkness.

He then no longer resist it, and consequently fails to perceive its embrace as hostile.

He is pulled down without sensing any pain until aroused by the call of Judgment, to which he cannot close himself, but then . . . it will be too late for him!

He is only stirred up so as to come to the dreadful recognition of his fall into the bottomless pit of final disintegration, of of being cast out!

And with this begin the torments which will never ease off, but which are bound to increase until the horrible end comes to his being permitted to be self - conscious, i.e., of being allowed to be a human being, something that could have brought him bliss for all eternity!

Consider you men, that you are deeply embedded in Darkness, that you have  embedded yourselves therein!

If you wish to be saved you must wrench yourselves free from it, and my Word shows you the way to do so, giving you the possibility through the knowledge and the strength to carry out your liberation, and redemption!

As soon as you have resolved to escape from the collapsing Darkness which embraces you firmly and pulls you down into the depths, there already comes like a flash with this resolution a ray of light and strength to help you!

You have tied innumerable knots into the threads of your fate through your past wrong thinking, and through the actions that so pulled you down.

But, held in the fist of Darkness, you no longer thought of them at all, neither could you see or perceive them because they still lie ''above'' you, blocking your  path and your connection with the Luminous Heights.

With your upward striving, however, you will naturally find them all again upon your path, and you must untie the knots one after the other so that your path will  become free for ascent.

When it concerns knots of your vanities and so much else, this then seems to you like misfortune and sorrow, anguish of the souls.

In reality, however, it is the only possible way to liberation and salvation and simply cannot be otherwise, because you yourselves had prepared your path beforehand in this manner, and must now return along it if you wish to attain the height again.

''Such'' is the way towards your liberation and redemption, ''such'' the path towards ascent into the Luminous Heights!

It simply cannot be otherwise!

And since you now find yourselves in Darkness, it is natural that everything hampers and opposes you in the very moment when through your resolution you want to proceed upwards into the Light!

You need only reflect a little in order to understand the correctness of the process and also to hit upon it yourselves!

But very many think that at the moment of their volition to ascend everything must reveal itself to them in sunshine and joy, that they must succeed in everything without a struggle, that their path is immediately smoothed for them, and that without effort sweet fruits will even drop into their laps as a  reward  from the very beginning.

And if it turns out quite differently they will quickly tire in their volition, and give up and sink lazily back into their old course, if they do not even show enmity towards the person who pointed out to them the path, leading to freedom, and who in their opinion caused them nothing but disquiet thereby.

''Such'' are the majority off these earthmen!

Stupid and lazy, presumptuous, and demanding, and even requiring reward and gratitude when they ''permit'' the way to be ''offered'' to them that leads them out of the swamp in which they indolently wallow, finally to become engulfed therein.

But you who wish to fight for yourselves honestly, never forget that you are actually in the ''Darkness'', where a good volitions is immediately attacked!

Your surroundings will also quickly seek to make their claims felt if you dare to sever yourselves from them.

Although previously nobody ever bothered about what your souls desired, no one paid any attention as to whether it was already near to starvation and dying of thirst, nobody proved willing to refresh . . . yet at the very moment you dare to place your foot on the only true path towards your redemption, ''then'' they suddenly and quickly make themselves heard so that you will not leave them.

They are then apparently worried about the welfare of your soul, although on more than one occasion they already proved that your soul ''and'' your life on earth were really of utter indifference to them!

It is so conspicuous that it even appears ridiculous, as can be frequently observed; and it clearly shows that all these dear earthly relatives or other acquaintances are nothing but blind tools of the Darkness, whose urge they obey without  being conscious of it.

If you do not then listen to them they will show through their actions that it was ''not'' really worry about you which caused them to do such things, for real concern would embrace love for one's neighbour.

But love is not shown when they annoy you with malicious remarks or spiteful talking about you, when they even seek to harm you in some way or other!

Plainly and quickly hatred also flares up, which all that is dark harbours against anything striving the Light!

Observe this and now learn to recognise the Darkness ''thereby!''

Just ''through this''  you can also see that you have chosen the ''right'' path; for the Darkness ''must reveal'' itself in the way that is ''solely'' its own!

You will easily learn to differentiate!

And finally, the real hatred of the Darkness and also of its slaves is directed beyond you, towards Him Who offers the Word to human beings for their redemption!

Heed this! 

For in this way you will now immediately recognise all the henchmen of Lucifer who are already cast out in the Judgment!

Turn away from them and no longer try to help them with the Word, for it shall no longer be offered to them.

Henceforth you must ''eliminate'' them from it unless you yourselves want to suffer harm through ill - considered friendly advances!

Your love must be directed to the ''Light'' and to all those striving towards the Light through their pure and humble volition, but not to those who must be cast out of this Creation because they are harmful.

Above all the call is directed to ''womanhood''  once more!

Through their more delicate intuitive spiritual perception womanhood has the ability to distinguish with infallible certainty what belongs to the Light and where there is still hope for it, and what irretrievably a prey to the Darkness and must perish with it.

For this, however, womanhood must first be purified itself and rise from the swamp into which it has frivolously led the whole of mankind!

And only when vanity has fallen away from her will woman again be able to perceive intuitively in the ''right'' way!

Of all the developed ones womanhood has allowed itself to be seduced ''too'' willingly, to descend from that step which the Creator graciously assigned to woman to spread ruination instead of God's blessing, and to distort all that is noble, when she was meant to ''keep'' it upright and also undimmed.

She tore womanly dignity down into the dust!

Her every thought, her every wish was subjugated to the most base calculation, and all the innate charm bestowed upon her as a gift by the Creator, in order thereby to keep awake the longing for the beauty of the Luminous Heights in human souls, and to set ablaze the urge to protect all that is pure - this charm, so sublime in itself, was scornfully dragged down into the deep mire by womanhood on earth in order sinfully to exploit it for ''earthly aims'' only!

Never before has any creature of Creation sunk as deeply as has woman on earth!.

The reciprocal action in the power of the Light now strikes with unfettered force every woman who does not wish to awaken for pure and high deeds, which through His Grace the Creator once placed in her hands and also endowed her accordingly!

It is womanhood, the woman, whom the Creator once chose to be the Guardian of the Flame of Holy Longing for the Light in all His Creations, bestowing the most delicate intuitive ability upon her for this purpose!

She came into existence in order to absorb the radiations of the Light without hindrance, and to pass them on in the purest way to the man as well as to her particular surroundings.

For this reason she exercises an influence no matter where she may be!

Through her nature she has been blessed for this!

And she has used this Gift of Grace for the opposite!

The influence given to her by God she exercises to attaining egoistic and often condemnable, instead of uplifting her surroundings, keeping the longing for the Light alive within the souls during their wanderings through the dense planes that have to serve  for their development and maturing towards the Spiritual Height!

Thus they were meant to be a  steadying and supporting influence to the wanderers, to offer upliftment and strength through their being, and to keep open the connection to the Light, the Prime Source of all Life!

They could have already turned this earth into a Paradise in the World of Gross Matter, swinging joyously in the purest Will of the Almighty!

The Guardian of the Flame of Holy Longing for the Light, however, has failed as no creature has ever failed before, because she was equipped with gifts the possession of which should never have allowed her fall!

And she has dragged down an entire section of the World with her into the swamp of Darkness!

The way is far and great the exertion which still confronts ''that'' woman who longs to co-operate in the future!

But again only if she really wishes to do so, will the Grace of the increased strength fall to her share!

But she must not think it so easy!

The high distinction of now again being permitted to become the Guardian of the Longing for the Light, to keep it alive in the material world through the purity of her womanly dignity, ''must be won by severe exertion'' through perpetual alertness and unswerving faith.

Wake up, woman of this earth!

Become purity, once again, and faithful in your thinking and your actions, and keep your entire volition firmly anchored in the Holiness of the Will of God! 

                                                                                                                 THOUGHT - FORMS

TAKE a seat in any cafe or restaurant and observe the people sitting at the tables around you! 

Listen to their conversation and note what they have to say to one another! 

Listen to their conversation and note what they have to say to one another! 

Go into families, watch your most intimate friends in their hours of leisure when work no longer presses! 

You will be shocked at the hollowness of their conversations when they cannot talk about their various occupations. 

If you observe them closely you will sense with disgust the emptiness of their thoughts and the oppressively narrow sphere of their interests, as well as their terrible superficiality. 

The few exceptions you encounter, those whose words in their ''leisure hours'' of everyday life are penetrated by a longing for a greater development of their souls, will appear to you as solitary strangers in the midst of a fair. 

It is just in his so - called leisure hours that you can best recognise the real inner man, when his daily work is done and he has lost the outer hold on life provided by his special field of knowledge. 

What ''then'' remains is the actual man. 

Watch him and listen dispassionately to his words! 

You will soon cease your observations because they will become intolerable. 

You will be filled with deep sadness when you realise that many people are not very much different to animals, not quite so dull and equipped with a higher intellect, but on the whole the same. 

They go through life on earth as if with blinkers, never seeing more than one aspect, i. e., what is purely material. 

They attend to eating and drinking and aim to increase to a greater or lesser extent their hoard of earthly treasures, seeking for physical enjoyment and regarding all reflection on things they cannot see as a waste of time, which they consider would be better employed in ''rest and recreation''. 

They cannot and will not understand that life on earth, with all its pleasures and joys, only gets its real meaning when one has become  more or less familiar with the Ethereal World, and knows about the reciprocal actions connecting us with it, for then one no longer has the feeling of being at the mercy of chance. 

They repudiate this idea under the misapprehension that, if an ethereal world really exists, it would only bring them discomfort or even dismay as soon as they concern themselves with it. 

To them it is strange idea that life on earth only gets real value through striving upwards, and that then a delightful, vital warmth also pulsates through all earthly joys and pleasures. 

This latter are not pushed aside; on the contrary, those who yearn for and earnestly seek what is pure and high will, as a beautiful result of reciprocal action, attain an ardent love of life, often ending in jubilant enthusiasm for all that exists and is proffered. 

Fools are they who pass this by! 

Cowards, to whom the glorious joy of those who advance courageously will ever be denied! 

Rejoice that everything around you ''lives'', far away to regions that seem immeasurable! 

Nothing is dead, nothing is void as it would appear! 

Everything is working and weaving in reciprocal action, in the centre of which you stand as men continually forming and directing the threads, being both starting point and final goal. 

Mighty rulers are you! 

Each one of you is establishing his own kingdom in such a way that it will either uplift you or bury you beneath its ruins. 

Awake! Use the power given to you in the full knowledge of this mighty happening, lest in your stupidity and obstinacy, or even in your indolence, you bring forth only harmful deformities which choke all that is healthy and good and finally cause you as their author to totter and fall! 

Even man's nearest ethereal surrounding can contribute much to uplift or debase him. 

This is the strange world of thought - forms, the vital activity of which comprises only a small section of the giant mechanism of the whole Creation. 

Their threads, however, penetrate both into the Gross Material World, and further up into the Ethereal World, as well as descending into the realm of Darkness. 

Like a gigantic network of veins or strands, all is intertwined and interwoven, untearable and inseparable! 

Mark this well! 

There are favoured ones who here and there can see a part of this, but much they can only divine. 

In this way some things have come to the knowledge of mankind, who have sought to build further upon this knowledge in order to obtain a complete picture. 

But in so doing gaps and mistakes were bound to occur. 

Many investigators of the ethereal realm jumped to conclusions which inevitably caused the proper sequence to be lost. 

Others again filled the gaps with fantastic imagery, bringing disfigurements and distortions which consequently shattered faith in the whole matter. 

The result was a justifiable derision which, based on the lack of logic of the so - called spiritual investigators, was certain to be victorious. 

If these matters are to be spoken of at all it is necessary that first of all a cord should be drawn through all that happens in the working of Creation, which the onlookers can grasp in order to help him climb upwards. 

Many of the processes which perplex him have their origin in his immediate vicinity. 

One glance into the world of thought - forms should suffice to make him understand several things that seemed inexplicable before. 

In dealing with many a case the Judiciary would also find the real originators to be quite different persons to those accused, and would first of all call such persons to account. 

The key to this lies in the connection between the individual and the world of thought - forms, which stands closest to humanity. 

It is certainly a blessing for many that they are blindfolded and cannot see further than their physical eyes will permit, for the nature of the existing thought - forms would give them a fright. 

Paralysing horror would grip many who today naively or frivolously lead unscrupulous lives. 

For ''every thought that is generated'', like everything in the Ethereal World, immediately takes a form which embodies and expresses the essential meaning of the thought. 

The Living Creative Power which flows through man collects ethereal substance through the volition of a completed thought and moulds it into a form which gives expression to the will of this thought. 

Thus this form is something real, something living, which now, in accordance with the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species, attracts what is homogeneous in this world of thought - forms or is attracted by them, depending on the strength it possesses. 

Just as a thought when it arises is simultaneously ''perceived intuitively'', with greater or lesser intensity, so its ethereal form will bear an equivalent ''life''. 

This world of thoughts is densely populated.  

Through the mutual power of attraction complete centres have been formed which, by means of their accumulated energy, exercise a great influence upon human beings. 

In the first place those persons will always be influenced who tend towards a similar nature, that is, who bear something similar within themselves. 

Such persons will thereby be strengthened in their corresponding will, and encouraged to continue producing new and similar forms which, working in the same manner, enter the world of thought - forms. 

But also other people who do not possess these special tendencies can be bothered by these influences and gradually be attracted to them, if these centres are continually reinforced and so obtain unsuspected power. 

Only those are protected who possess other tendencies in greater strength, making a connection with what is dissimilar impossible. 

Unfortunately, however, it is hate, envy, jealousy, lustfulness, avarice and all other evils which, through their greater numbers of adherents, form the strongest power centres in the world of thought - forms. 

Far less great are those of purity and love! 

This is the reason why evil is spreading with such uncanny rapidity. In addition these power centres of thought - forms in turn obtain a connection with analogous spheres of darkness. 

From there they are specially roused to ever greater activity so that as a consequence they are able to create downright devastation among mankind. Therefore, blessed be the hour when thoughts of pure love will once more take a greater place among mankind, so that similar strong centres will develop themselves in the world of thought - forms, which can be reinforced from the more luminous spheres and thus not only strengthen those striving towards what is good, but also slowly work on darker minds with a gradually purifying effect! 

Yet another activity is to be observed in the Ethereal World. 

According to the wishes of their originator, thought - forms are sent out to certain persons to whom they may then cling. 

If these thought - forms are of a pure and noble nature, they will beautify the persons for whom they are meant, strengthen the shield of purity around him and, if they meet with inner intuitive perception of a similar nature, they can uplift him further and strengthen him for his ascent. 

Impure thoughts, however, cannot fail to soil the person for whom they are meant in just the same way as a physical body is soiled if mud and dirt is thrown at it. 

If a man so attacked is not inwardly anchored firmly to the centres of light - steams, it may very well happen that in time his intuitive perception may become confused under this barrage of impure thoughts. 

This is possible because these impure thought - forms clinging to him are able to attract others of a like nature, which strengthen them so that by degrees they poison the thoughts of the person so encompassed. 

The greater part of the responsibility naturally falls back upon the man who generated the impure thoughts and whose wish or desire sent them out to the person concerned, for the thought - forms also remain attached to their author and react upon him accordingly. 

It is therefore necessary repeatedly to call out to all true seekers: ''Give heed to the purity of your thoughts!'' 

Put all your energy into this effort! 

You have no idea what you are thus doing; something stupendous lies in it! 

You can work with this like mighty warriors and pioneers for the Light, and thus liberate your fellow - men from the poisonous creepers that infest the world of thought - forms! 

If now the bandage could be removed from the eyes of a man so that he could look into the immediate ethereal environment, he would at first be alarmed and terrified at the wild confusion he would see there. 

But this would only last until he realised the power within him, with which, as with a sharp sword, he can without effort clear a free passage merely by exerting his volition. 

He would see thought - forms in a hundred thousand varieties in all possible and, to the physical eye, often impossible shapes. 

Each one, however, is sharply defined, showing and expressing what was the actual volition, unadorned and without artificial disguise, when the thought was generated. 

Still, in spite of the thousands of varieties, one learns in time to recognise at a glance the nature of each thought - form, that is to say, one knows to which category they belong in spite of their different shapes. 

Just as one can distinguish a man from an animal by his face, or indeed recognise the different human races by certain facial characteristics, so in precisely the same way thought - forms have also quite marked expressions that clearly indicate whether the form belongs to hatred, envy, lust, or some other basic type. 

Each of these will fundamental types has its own particular stamp which has been impressed on each thought - form as the foundation of the characteristics embodied in it, no matter what outer shape each form has taken through the generating thought. 

Thus, in spite of the most grotesque distortion of a form, which may reach the most terrible deformity, one can immediately recognise to what fundamental type it belongs. 

Once this is recognised that which appears to be wild confusion no longer remain so. 

One sees the inexorable order and strictness of the fundamental laws governing all Creation which, if one knows them and has adapted oneself to their course, afford unbounded protection and great blessing. 

He, however, who opposes these laws will naturally be attacked and, if not utterly cast down and crushed, will at least undergo a severe grinding between the great millstones which, through pain and bitter experiences, will remodel him until he fits into the working of these laws and is no longer an obstacle. Only then can he be carried along upwards! 

These thought - forms not only return their effects to humanity, but go further. For to the same Ethereal World belong the greater number of the elementals. 

He who has reconciled himself to the fact that all is alive and also has a form, whether physically visible or not, will not find it difficult to go a step further and realise that the elemental powers also have forms. 

To these belong the gnomes, elves, sylphs, water - sprites, etc., the earth, air, fire, and water elementals, which have been seen by many, but formerly more often than now. 

These are being influenced by the thought - forms so that there much good or evil arises. 

And so it goes on! 

One thing gears into another like cogwheels in the finest and most highly - perfected mechanism. In the midst of all this ''machinery'' stands man! 

He is equipped with the means to decide the nature of the weaving that shall proceed from the loom of Creation and to set the mechanism in motion in different directions. 

Be conscious of this immeasurable responsibility, for it all takes place only within the circle of your earthly limits. 

By the wise ordinance of the Creator nothing goes beyond this, but falls back upon you yourselves. 

Through your wishes, your thinking and your volition you are able to poison this world and the beyond, or you may purify and uplift them towards the Light. 

Therefore direct your destiny so that it may lead upwards through the purity of your thoughts!     

                                                                                  VOLUNTARY   MARTYRS,  RELIGIOUS  FANATICS

MEN WHO voluntarily inflict pain and privation upon themselves in order to become pleasing to God are repulsive! 

None of them will ever attain to the Kingdom of Heaven! 

Instead of showing gratitude for their existence by enjoying the beautiful Creation, they torment and torture their bodies, which before were often quite healthy, in the most wanton manner, or harm them by various self - imposed privations and renunciations only . . . in order to be considered great ''in the eyes of men'', or to achieve personal satisfaction and exaltation under the delusion that they have accomplished quite an exceptional feat! 

All this is nothing but an evil and obnoxious outgrowth of the most gross and base conceit - the desire by every means and at all costs to pass for something before others! 

Generally such persons fully realise that they can never command attention in any other way, thereby clearly perceiving their inability to distinguish themselves by achieving something great. 

They have become convinced of their insignificance! 

In their self - delusion they consider this conviction as to their insignificance to be humility. 

But it is not humility, and they immediately prove it by their to attract attention! 

Only self - complacency and vanity drive them to such repugnant acts. 

These are not pious ones or humble servants of God, nor should they be considered saints, but only wilful ''sinners'' - sinners who even expect to be admired for their sins and to be rewarded for their indolent attitude towards work! 

If it never dawns upon many of them that this is a great sin, because in striving for ''self - exaltation'' they themselves do not wish to recognise it as such, this does not alter the fact that ultimately every action remains always and only what it ''really'' is, and not what man wishes to make himself and others believe it is! 

Such men are nothing but ''sinners'' before God, because by their wilful or stubborn behaviour they oppose His Primordial Laws of Creation. 

They do not give the bodies entrusted to them the necessary nourishment and care in order to develop that strength which will enable them to provide a strong soil for the spirit on earth, and to make healthy and vigorous tools for defence and reception, serving the spirit powerfully both as shield and as sword at the same time. 

Wilfully to oppose the Laws of Nature in order to stand out and attract attention is nothing but the result of a diseased brain. 

For a healthy man will never imagine that he can change or improve the Will of God expressed in the Primordial Laws of Creation, even by as much as a hair's breadth, without harming himself! 

How foolish, how childishly wayward or ridiculous does it appear when a man spends a lifetime in a hollow tree, when he allows a limb of his body to become completely paralysed, or he lacerates or defiles himself! 

Let man exert himself as he will to find a reason which would justify such behaviour, or which would even offer some sense for it, it is and remains a crime against the body entrusted to him, and therefore a crime against the Will of God! 

To these also belong the innumerable martyrs to vanity and fashion! 

Pay no further attention to such people! 

You will see how quickly they change, how shallow are their convictions! 

A fanatic ruins himself by his stubbornness! 

He is not worth grieving over, for such a human spirit never has any ''values'' to show! 

And just as thousands of people severely maltreat their physical bodies in this manner, therewith maliciously turning against the Will of God, so is it also done in a thousand ways against the soul! 

Great is the number of those, for instance, who continually live under the self - imposed delusion that they are outcasts in the world, bereft of happiness, neglected by their fellow - men, and so on! 

Yet they themselves make demands upon their fellow - men which are far from justified; their envy has a disintegrating effect upon their surroundings, whereby they heap an ever - growing and heavy burden of guilt upon their shoulders. 

These comprise the vermin which must be crushed under foot in the Judgment, so that undimmed peace, joy and happiness may at last reign among men! However, not only do they torment their neighbours with their moods, but they also injure ''their own'' soul bodies in much the same way as religious fanatics harm their physical bodies. 

In so doing they ''especially'' transgress against the Divine Laws, for they recklessly injure all those necessary cloaks which are entrusted to their spirit, so that they cannot be used by the spirit in their fresh health and full vigour! 

Far - reaching indeed are the consequences of such deeds on the part of those who thus abuse their physical or soul bodies! 

Their spirits are hampered and harmed in their urgent and necessary development, and may even be led into eternal disintegration, into perdition! 

But even as they fall they will still suffer from the delusion that they are the victims of injustice! 

Basically, however, they are only compatible creatures, unworthy to enjoy any happiness! 

Disregard and avoid them, therefore, for they do not merit one good word!  

                                                                                                               SHUN  THE  PHARISEES!

THE DESIGNATION ''Pharisee'' has become a conception containing nothing good, but signifying a combination of spiritual arrogance, hypocrisy, cunning and occasionally also malice. 

Persons deserving this designation can be found everywhere today, in all countries and in every walk of life. 

This has nothing whatever to do with race or nation, and there are many more of them now than there ever were before. 

Every profession has its Pharisees, but they can still mostly be found where they could formerly be encountered at any time in great numbers - among the servants and representatives of the temples and churches! 

And, strangely enough, wherever some messenger of the Light had to proclaim the Truth according to the Will of God, he was attacked, defiled, slandered and persecuted. 

This was  done first and foremost by the representatives and servants  of the prevailing religious dogmas who pretended to serve God, and by those who even had the effrontery to profess themselves as representatives of the Divine Will. 

This has always been the case from the most primitive medicine man and sorcerer up to the highest priests. 

Without exception they always felt themselves menaced by the Truth, and thus  either carried on a veiled agitation or quite openly made mischief against every person who was ordained, mercifully granted or sent by God to bring Light to these earthmen. 

No denial of this irrefutable fact is of any avail, nor any perversion or glossing over, for ''world history gives proof of it!'' 

Clearly and distinctly it testifies to the ineffaceable fact that it has never been otherwise; among the many instances that have occurred there has not been a single exception. 

Always and ever again it was just the priests who were the most definite adversaries of the Light and thus enemies of God, Whose Will they did not want to observe. 

Instead they fought against the Will of God, and opposed it with their own volition. 

Of what use was it when recognition sometimes came ''afterwards'', but often not until it had become too late for many things! 

On the contrary, this only proves that it was just the priests who were never in the position to recognise the Truth and the Light in time! 

Recognition lay always and only with a few among the people, but not with the priests or those who made a pretence of recognising God purely on account of their profession. 

And  these few among the people clung to it firmly until later on the priests also considered it wiser to go along in ''their'' way so as not to lose the upper hand. 

The servants and representatives of a religion have never voluntarily and joyfully harboured a messenger from God. 

It is characteristic that neither such messengers nor the Son of God could issue from their ranks. 

And, strange to say, no person thinks about the fact that God Himself always declared His ''Judgment'' in these matters and therewith ''clearly'' manifested His Will. 

Experiences over many thousands of years confirm ever and always again that the priests were never capable of recognising Divine Truth, but in their conceit they always close themselves to It, sometimes also because they ''constantly'' fought against ''every'' messenger from God with the vilest methods a man can use. 

There can be no dispute about it whatever; for past times themselves offer the most irrefutable evidence! 

In every way, even with the Son of God! 

Nor was it love of humanity which drove the priests to this, but professional envy and nothing else! 

It was the Truth which ''disturbed'' them, because they have never yet faithfully taught the Truth - they themselves did not know It! 

And, humanlike, they were much too weak to admit that there were many things they did not yet know, and therefore they spread wrong opinions in some matters; nor were they capable of admitting this, for fear their authority might begin to wane! Just delve into history of the world and investigate it seriously, and you will find that it was never otherwise! 

But nobody has so far wanted to learn a lesson from it! 

Nobody takes it as a warning, because although it always remains basically the same this is continually appearing in a new form. 

Therefore, due once more to indolence, man imagines that just in ''his'' time it is different after all. 

But it is still the same today as it used to be. 

There is ''no difference'' now to what it was in the past. 

Nothing has changed therein, but if anything it has become worse! 

Go and ask earnest people who serve the church, but who are nevertheless still courageous enough openly to confess their inner stirrings, people who do not shrink from being honest with themselves . . . they will all have to admit to you that even today the church would still want to make every person impossible, and carry on an agitation against him, if he is able to endanger the rigid dogmas supporting the churches! 

Even if Christ Jesus would now suddenly walk among them as a human being in the same way as before! 

If He did not agree that their conceptions were the only right way they would immediately treat Him ''as an enemy'', and without any hesitation would again accuse Him of blasphemy! 

They would pelt Him with dirt and be unsparing with their ugly slanders in the process! 

''That is how it is'', and not otherwise! 

The reason for all this wrong - doing, however, is not the urge to honour Almighty God, but the struggle to influence men and acquire earthly power and wealth! - 

But you men draw no beneficial consequences whatever for yourselves and for your seeking from these many facts, which are so easily discernible in the disputes among all churches. 

You thoughtlessly overlook it! 

But do not imagine that God in His Holy Laws will thereby leave it at that for you! 

You will be roused suddenly and severely from this irresponsible indolence! 

The second group of persons hostile to the Truth are the spiritually arrogant among those who do not belong to the clergy. 

For one reason or another they are self - complacent. 

Perhaps one such person has gone through an inner experience in accordance with his nature, no matter what caused it. 

It need not always have been suffering. 

Sometimes it is also joy, some vision, or a celebration, in brief there are many incitements for it! 

He then clings to this one - time experience which proved capable of moving him so much, not thinking that it very likely arose out of himself, and that it was therefore not a real experience at all. 

However, he quickly seeks to raise himself above his fellow - men with the self - comforting assertion: ''I had my experience and so I know I am standing in the true recognition of God!'' 

The wretched man! 

A human spirit must have a thousandfold experiences if he really wishes to mature to a higher recognition! 

And such a spiritually indolent human spirit om earth, who holds himself in high esteem, clings fast as if in a shrine to one ''single'' experience within himself and does not strive to proceed further, because he believes that with this ''everything'' has already happened and that he has achieved enough for his life! 

The fools who act in such a manner will now come to the awakening; for they must realise that they were asleep! 

It is all right when a person has once had an inner experience, but not enough is achieved with that alone. 

He must not stagnate there but unswervingly stride onwards - he must keep alert in spirit! 

On this path he would very soon realise that his experience was only a transition serving to awaken him to real recognition. 

However, his spiritual arrogance only comes more than ever to the fore, and he fancies he is of greater worth than those who go another way and follow a different creed. Onward, ever ''onward'', must man proceed on his way through Creation, ever onward also in the recognition of everything he finds in Creation! 

He must never feel safe and bask in a ''single'' experience which came to him once. 

Onward, only onward, proceeding with all his strength! To remain stationary means to stay behind. 

And danger threatens those who stay behind. 

With ascent, however, the dangers always lie ''behind'' every human spirit and never ''in front of'' him - he should be aware of this! 

Therefore calmly leave ''those'' people alone who seek so proudly to ''talk'' about themselves. 

Look at their ''actions'', their manner, and you will quickly recognise what they are worth! 

There are very many who belong to this group. 

They are hollow fruit which have to be cast out; they no longer absorb anything, for in their conceit they imagine they already have everything. - 

The third big of useless ones comprises the visionaries and enthusiast who, easily stirred over anything that is new, harm everything which is really good. 

They always want to conquer the world immediately, but quickly collapse inwardly when it comes to proving their strength through ''perseverance'', in working ''upon themselves'' unceasingly! 

They would sometimes be useful as stormers provided the resistance does not last long, and when it is a question of assailing their fellow - men -- wishing to teach them without already possessing a firm basis for themselves! 

Fireworks which quickly begin to glow and soon fade away!  

They belong to the superficial ones who have no great value! 

Next to this group comes still another comprising ''those'' persons who cannot abstain from adding their own thoughts to something they are given, so that through the opportunity to absorb one particle of truth they ''themselves'' can also achieve some distinction or other by spreading it! 

They cannot refrain from weaving their own opinions into what they have read or heard, and continuing to follow up everything just as it arises in their imagination. 

Fortunately they are not very numerous, but they are all the more dangerous because they create and spread false doctrines out of one little grain of truth. 

Thus they are not only very harmful to themselves but also to many of their fellow - men by the ever - changing form of their activities. 

Let us take a minor example which everybody knows about - the fanciful novels and stories. 

What is so wantonly achieved therein on the basis of seemingly small grains of truth or, to express it better, what do some people burdened with fantasy achieve therewith! 

It cannot always be assumed that the reason is that the writer merely wants to make money by stimulating the diseased fantasies of his fellow - men and offering them the most incredible stories in which they can revel with a shudder. In most cases the reason lies deeper. 

Such people principally wish to shine with their work and revelations. 

They wish to let their spirit flare up before others, thinking to provide further realms for investigation and to incite others to important work in this connection. 

But what nonsense is often brought forth by this! 

Let us only consider a few of the fantastic accounts written and printed about the inhabitants of Mars! 

Every line shows the lack of comprehension regarding the Divine Laws in Creation! 

And in the end we are bound to include Mars in ''Creation'' as well as everything else! 

Creatures are described which really spring forth from a ''diseased'' imagination, based on the belief that men there must be of quite a different shape to those here on earth because Mars is a ''different'' planet! 

Enlightenment on such matters will come through learning to know the Laws of Creation. 

A knowledge of the Laws then opens up entirely different prospects, with exact foundations, to the scholars and technicians, and thus also brings about an entirely different kind of progress and success in every realm. 

I have already said quite often that there is no reason whatever to think that something is different in Creation because it happens to be further from the earth or because it cannot be seen with physical eyes. 

Creation has come into existence through ''uniform'' laws: it is equally uniform in its development, and is also maintained with the same uniformity. 

It is wrong to let a sickly imagination have a free run in these matters or even to heed it! 

Every ''man'' of Subsequent Creation is in the likeness of the primordial images of God. 

Therefore throughout the entire Creation men bear only the one form, more or less ennobled and ordained for them as human beings. 

The form itself, however, can always be recognised, and cannot, for instance, have three legs or in general only one eye in the middle of the head, unless there is an occasional deformity, which only occurs in isolated cases. 

However, this does not contain anything fundamental! 

That which does ''not'' bear the fundamental human form cannot be called ''human'' either! 

In its individual stages of development a spirit - germ, for example, is not yet a human being, yet it would still not have such divergent forms as are described by the harmful fantasts! 

In the realms of medium and fine gross matter of the darker and dark planes there can be found fantastic forms with human faces, forms which resemble animals and which always correspond with the manner in which a human spirit has thought and acted upon earth, but these forms are mostly produced only by the ''thinking'' of men. 

Periodically they bear the face of ''that'' person who produced them, because being the children of his thoughts they issue from him. 

And when a person has become ''such'' that he continually indulges in hatred, envy and other evil passions, then it happens that outside the materiality of the earth a body of this kind forms around his spirit. 

With this occurrence, however, he has lost every claim to be human, and consequently he is no longer permitted to, nor can he bear any resemblance to the form of the likenesses of the images of God. 

In reality he is then no longer human being, but has sunk down to something as yet unknown to earthmen, and for which they therefore still have no name. - 

However, soon the false chimeras of the fantasts will no longer be spread, because the time is drawing near when the knowledge of the Laws of God in Creation will have advanced so far that such untrue things will disappear of their own accord. 

Men will laugh when they look back at the present time, which gives plain evidence of their ignorance in so many ways. -     

                                                                                                THE  ERROR  ABOUT  CLAIRVOYANCE

CLAIRVOYANCE! 

How much glory has been woven around it! 

What ridicule is heaped upon it by some, while others approach it with timid curiosity, and the rest in respectful silence! 

Those who have the gift strut about proudly like peacocks in a chicken yard! 

They imagine themselves to be endowed with Divine Grace, and in their conceited form of humility feel far superior to other people. 

They love to receive admiration for something which, in reality, is just as strange to them as to the many curious enquirers around them. 

They hide  their actual ignorance behind meaningless smile, which is supposed to create the impression that they ''know''. 

However, it comes much nearer to an expression of helplessness, which has developed into a habit when they are confronted with questions which test their personal knowledge about this process. 

In reality they know no more than the hammer and chisel which a sculptor uses to form some work of art! 

Here again it is only mankind themselves who wish to turn those endowed with the gift of clairvoyance into something different from that which they really are, thereby doing them great harm! 

This is the unhealthy state of affairs that is to be found everywhere today! 

In most cases the ''seeing'' is ''real'' enough, but it is nothing special, nothing worthy of admiration let alone trepidation, because in reality it should be quite a natural thing. 

But it only remains natural as long as it comes about of its own accord, and is left to develop without extraneous or personal aid. 

To give such ''help'' is just as damnable as to help forward physical death! Seeing, however, only becomes of value when it is accompanied by real ''knowledge''. 

Knowledge alone can provide a sound foundation for this natural ability, and thereby induce the ''right'' attitude and the right goal. 

That this is lacking in the majority of clairvoyant persons is readily evident by the manner in which they like to display an over - zealousness based on presumption and a barely - concealed sham knowledge! 

It is just this imagined knowledge that not only prevents such people from advancing further, but which indeed becomes absolute perdition for them, because it directs their efforts on to wrong paths which lead ''downwards'' instead of upwards, without those persons who think they know more being aware of it! 

The best thing that can happen to some of these people is that their clairvoyant or clairaudient abilities should gradually diminish and disappear through some favourable circumstances, of which there are several kinds! 

That is salvation! 

Let us now look more closely at these clairvoyant people and at the erroneous convictions they spread among men! 

They alone are responsible for this whole field being dragged into the mud and branded as false and unreliable up till now! 

What these people see in the most favourable and advanced cases is the second step of the so - called beyond, if one wishes to divide the beyond into steps (and not to think in spheres), the plane of the Light being about the twentieth step, in order to obtain an approximate picture of the difference. 

Those, however, who are really able to see to the second step imagine they have achieved something stupendous, while those who can see only to the first step are in most cases even more conceited. 

Now it should be realised that a person with the highest gifts can in reality see only as far as his own inner maturity will permit. 

''He is thereby bound by his own inner condition!'' 

In the nature of things it is simply impossible for him to see, really to see, anything other than his own species, that is, within the region in which he could move about freely after his physical death. 

But no further, for in the moment when he would step over the boundary prescribed for him in the beyond by his own state of maturity he would immediately become unconscious of his environment! 

In any case he would not be able to cross this boundary of his own accord! If after it had severed itself from its earthly body his soul were to be taken along by a dweller on the next higher step of the beyond, it would, on crossing the border to the next higher step, at once lose consciousness in his arms, that is, it would fall asleep. 

On being brought back he would only be able to remember as far as his own maturity permitted his soul to look about while it was still awake, despite its clairvoyant gifts. 

Thus no benefit would be derived, but his ethereal body would be harmed. Whatever he imagines he sees in regions beyond, whether landscapes or persons, is never truly or actually experienced or personally seen by him! 

It is merely a question of ''pictures'' being shown to him and voices which he imagines he hears! 

They are never reality! 

These pictures appear so lifelike that he himself cannot distinguish between what is only shown to him and what he really experiences, because an act of will of a stronger spirit can create such lifelike pictures. 

Thus it is that many clairvoyant and clairaudient people imagine they are on a much higher during their excursions into the beyond than is actually the case, and this leads to many errors! 

Even if many think that they see or hear Christ this is a great delusion! 

Due to the great gulf caused by the lack of homogeneity, this would be utterly impossible because it would be contrary to the Creative Laws of the Divine Will! 

The Son of God cannot come to afternoon tea in a spiritist circle in order to confer some favour or distinction on the visitors, neither can great prophets nor higher spirits! 

No human spirit in flesh is granted such a sure and firm intercourse with the beyond during his earth - life as to be able to see and hear everything there unveiled, and perhaps climb the steps as if there were nothing more to it! 

It is not quite so simple as all that despite its entire naturalness, for it remains subject to the immutable laws! 

And if a clairvoyant or clairaudient person neglects his earthly task in his eagerness to penetrate into the beyond he loses more than he ever gains! 

As soon as the time arrives for him to continue his maturing in the beyond, he will take with him a gap in his experiencing which he can ''only'' fill ''upon the earth!'' 

Thus he cannot ascend any further and remains bound at a certain point! 

Before he can think about a further serious ascent he must go back to make up for what he missed. 

Everything about this is quite simple and natural, and always merely a necessary consequence of what lies behind, which can never, never be turned aside. 

Every step in a man's existence requires to be really experienced in all seriousness, with all the receptive abilities trained upon what is happening at the time. 

To neglect to do this causes a disruption which makes itself felt with increasing acuteness the further he advances! 

Eventually it will lead him to a breakdown and finally to collapse, unless he returns in time and, through further experience, bridges the gap so that it is made firm and secure! 

This applies to all happenings! 

Unfortunately, however, man has acquired the morbid habit of always reaching beyond himself, because he imagines himself to be more than he actually is!   

                                                                                         VARIOUS  ASPECTS  OF  CLAIRVOYANCE

FOR A LONG time I have hesitated to answer the various questions about clairvoyance, because any man who has read my Grail Message ''aright'' must be completely informed on the subject. 

Provided, of course, that he has not read the Message as he would a novel, merely to pass the time away, or from a prejudiced point of view, but has delved into it seriously and considered every sentence as important! 

Quite naturally he must ''exert'' himself to fathom every sentence, as well as its connection with the whole Message, because this is how it was intended from the very beginning! 

The spirit must be awake in so doing! 

This is in order automatically to exclude superficial people! 

I have repeatedly pointed out that a particular ''species'' can only be recognised by the ''same species''. 

The species referred to here naturally mean species of Creation. 

Considering them from below upwards there are the species of ''gross matter'', of ''ethereal matter'', of ''animistic substantiality'', and of ''spiritual substantiality''. 

Each of these species is again divided into many grades or steps, so that the danger easily arises of confusing the steps of fine gross matter with the steps of coarse ethereal matter. 

The transitions are quite imperceptible, and in their operation and effects are not really firmly connected but only interlinked with each other. 

On each of these steps life manifests itself in a different manner. 

Man has a cloak of each species of Creation ''below'' the spiritual. 

The core itself is spiritual. 

Each cloak is equivalent to a body. 

Thus man is a spiritual core which, in developing self - consciousness, takes on human form! 

The more its development inclines towards the Light the more ideal it becomes, till it attains perfect beauty, but if development proceeds in a downward direction this has the opposite effect and produces grotesque deformities. 

In order to avoid any errors I wish especially to mention that the gross material covering or body is not subject to this development. 

It must co - operate only for a short time, and on the gross material earth - plane can be subject only to very limited changes. 

Thus a human being on earth who is outwardly beautiful may be inwardly evil, and vice versa! Man on earth, that is, man living in the World of Gross Matter, bears the cloaks of ''all'' the species in Creation ''simultaneously''. 

Each cloak, each body of the different species, also has its own separate organs of sense. 

The gross material organs, for example, can function ''only within the same species'', the gross material species. 

A more refined development under the most favourable conditions might perhaps provide the possibility to see finer gross matter to a certain degree. This finer gross matter is called ''astral'' by the people who occupy themselves with it, a conception which is not even really understood by those who introduced the term, much less by those who repeat it! 

I use this definition because it is already known. 

It should be realised that like other terms used by occult investigators, the word ''astral'' serves only as a sort of collective name for everything that is known and felt to exist, but which cannot rightly be understood, much less explained! 

The mass of pseudo - knowledge that occultists have established up till now is nothing but a great, self - created labyrinth of ignorance, a rubbish heap of presumptions produced by intellectual thinking, which does not suffice for these things. 

Nevertheless I wish to retain this much - used term ''astral''! 

That which men see and mean by ''astral'', however, does not even belong to the World of Ethereal Matter, but merely to fine gross matter! 

The investigators, filled with human imaginings, have not yet stepped beyond the World of Gross Matter in these fields, but have remained in the ''lowest species'' of Subsequent Creation, and therefore make much ado with all kinds of ''high - sounding'' words! 

They do not even see with their ethereal eye, but merely with ''a transitory perception'' which functions between gross material and ethereal sight. 

This could be called transitory or intermediate sight! 

When a human spirit lays aside its gross material body through physical death, naturally the gross material organs of sense are also laid aside, because these belong to the cloak concerned. 

Thus earthly death is nothing but the stripping off of the outermost cloak or shell which enabled man to see and work in the World of Gross Matter! Immediately after the human spirit has cast aside this cloak it stands in the so - called other world or, more precisely, in the planes of the World of Ethereal Matter. 

Here again it can only work with the same sense organs of the ethereal body, which has now become its outer shell or covering. 

Thus it sees with the eyes and hears with the ears, etc., of the ethereal body. 

It is natural that on entering the Ethereal World the human spirit must first learn to make proper use of the sense organs of the ethereal cloak which has suddenly been forced into activity, as formerly it had to learn to use the organs of the physical body in the World of Gross Matter. 

As this different species of matter is not so ponderous as gross matter, this learning to use the organs in the proper way takes place more quickly and easily. 

And this applies to each of the other species also! 

It is to help the spirit to become acclimatised to the various species that this transitory or intermediate sight has been given to it for use upon the intermediate planes. 

Thus through certain exertions and in special physical circumstances the gross material eye may be able to get a glimpse in advance of the intermediate plane between gross matter and ethereal matter, while the ethereal eye in the initial stages of its activity may also, upon looking back, reach in a half - seeing way this same plane where fine gross matter and coarse ethereal matter join hands. 

This half - seeing affords a certain support to the human spirit on its transit so that it never need feel completely lost. 

This applies to ''every'' border between two different species. Waves of ''animistic'' power, the magnetic quality of which has a holding and binding effect, ensure that the two different species of matter cling to each other, and do not form a gulf because they cannot mix. 

After the human spirit has passed through the different sections of the World of Ethereal Matter it also lays aside its ethereal body and then enters the ''World of Animistic Substantiality''. 

Only the ''animistic'' body then remains with it as its outermost cloak, with the eyes and ears of which it must now see and hear, until the possibility also arises for it to lay aside this animistic cloak and enter the Spiritual Realm! 

It is only here that ''it is really itself'', unveiled, and it must see, hear and speak, and so on, with its ''spiritual'' organs. 

Also its garments and everything round about it consist of ''spiritual'' substantiality! 

These statements of mine must have the deep consideration of readers so that they can formulate a proper picture for themselves. 

Materialisations of those who have left the earth are nothing more than the process by which those departed ones who are wearing the ethereal body can, with the help of a medium, envelop themselves with a cloak of fine gross matter. 

This is probably the only exception which allows earthly men of today ''clearly'' to see and grasp fine gross matter with their physical eyes and other physical senses respectively, because in this case a specially strong binding and densening of fine gross matter occurs through the unusual blood radiations of the medium. 

They can see it and feel it because, in spite of its fineness, the same kind of sense organs are still involved, that is, those of gross matter. 

Man should therefore realise that gross matter can only be ''perceived'' by what is of gross matter, ethereal matter by what is of ethereal matter, animistic substantiality by what is of animistic substantiality, and spiritual substantiality by what is of spiritual substantiality. 

No intermingling is possible. By the above - mentioned ''animistic substantiality'' a very definite species of its own is meant. 

Divine substantiality and spiritual substantiality are again of entirely different species. 

However, one thing is possible - a man on earth who is able to see with his physical or gross material eye may also, while still in the flesh, open his ethereal eye, at least from time to time; that is to say, not simultaneously, but each one after the other. 

When he sees with his ethereal eye his physical sight is wholly or in part inactive, and vice versa. 

He will never be able properly to see ethereal things with his physical eye, nor gross material things with his ethereal eye. 

That is impossible! Statements to the contrary would only rest upon errors caused through ignorance about the Laws of Creation! 

They are delusions to which those people fall victim who assert that they can recognise ethereal matter with their physical eyes or spiritual substantiality with their ethereal eyes! 

He who considers this truly and tries to picture the process clearly to himself will recognise what indescribable confusion must exist at present in judging clairvoyance, so that it is quite impossible to obtain reliable information on this subject as long as the laws governing it are not made known. 

This ''cannot'' be done through inspiration or through revelations in spiritists circles, because neither the ''inspiring' souls nor the ''revealing'' spirits in the beyond can survey the whole question, for each one must always move within the limits set by his own state of maturity! 

It is only possible to achieve an orderly explanation of the wonderful weaving of Subsequent Creation if there is an all - embracing ''knowledge''. Otherwise it is impossible! 

In their well - known morbid faith in human ''learnedness'' , however, men never recognise this, but take a hostile attitude to all such correction from the very beginning! 

They prefer to go strutting jauntily about in their pitiful seeking, with the result that they can never agree with others nor achieve any real success. 

If they would but ''once'' show enough greatness to conquer their conceit and ''really'' to apply themselves ''in all seriousness'' and without prejudice to the Grail Message as offering an explanation of the world, eliminating all faith in their own learnedness while studying it, then there would soon be revealed new aspects which, in logical sequence, would clarify every happening not understood, and in one broad sweep pave the way to what was hitherto unknown. 

However, it is well known that obstinacy is ''only one'' of the unmistakable signs of real stupidity and narrow - mindedness. 

None of these people ever suspect that through such behaviour they brand themselves as utterly incapable, and that in the future such a brand will burn them with shame and eliminate them because they no longer hide or deny it! 

In judging clairvoyance one should first of all know with which eye the clairvoyant sees in each particular case, to which plane his ''seeing'' belongs, and how far he is developed therein. 

Only then can further conclusions be drawn! 

The person who superintends such investigations would need to have an absolutely clear knowledge about the various steps within the different species, and also regarding the various effects and activities in them. 

The present time is suffering through this, because it is just those people who imagine that they know who do not understand anything at all about it! 

It is deplorable to see the flood of publications in the form of magazines and books about all kinds of occult observations and experiments, and to read the more or less illogical and untenable efforts at explanation, which in most cases presumptuously receive the stamp of definite authority, while on the whole they not only remain divorced from the facts, but even give ''the opposite''. 

And how infuriated and hostile the army of such wiseacres becomes when the structure of Subsequent Creation is put before them in simple sequence, which can indeed be easily examined, and yet without the exact knowledge of which they cannot understand anything at all! 

We must leave Primordial Creation out of the discussions altogether for the time being! 

He who would judge or even condemn clairvoyants must know, really know, the entire Creation! 

As long as this is not the case he should keep silent about it! 

And similarly the zealous champions of the facts of clairvoyance should also never make assertions which cannot be substantiated without an exact knowledge of Creation! 

So many calamitous errors are current about all the happenings outside the World of Gross Matter that it is now high time to bring some order and lawfulness into it! 

Fortunately the time is not far off when a clean sweep will be made among the many and indeed ridiculous figures in the serious fields of occultism who, as everybody knows, vociferate the loudest and who are the most obtrusive with their theories! 

It is regrettable, however, that it is just these prattlers who have led many seekers astray through their behaviour. 

They will be unable to avoid the responsibility for this; it will fall with dreadful force upon all those who have tried to deal with this most serious field in such a frivolous manner. 

But those who have gone astray and been seduced thereby will derive little benefit from it. 

Instead they must suffer for allowing themselves to be so easily influenced into adopting false opinions! 

On the average it can be said that at the moment it is just in the occult fields that prattling has been given the beautiful name of ''investigation'', and that consequently most investigators are mere prattlers! 

Thus among clairvoyants there are those who can see fine gross matter, those who can see ethereal matter, and those who can see animistic substantiality, each with the eyes belonging to the same species! 

A spiritual seeing, however, has been denied to men, unless it be to a specially ''called one'' who, for a certain purpose, is also endowed with the ability to open his spiritual eye while still here on earth! 

But the countless present - day clairvoyants do ''not'' belong to these! 

Many of them can only recognise ''one'' of the various steps in the World of Ethereal Matter, and in time perhaps several steps. 

Thus their ethereal eye is opened! 

It happens only rarely that the eye of the animistic body is also able to see! 

If in connection with special earthly events, such as criminal or other cases, a clairvoyant human being is called in to solve the mystery, the interested person must know the following - that the clairvoyant sees with his ethereal eye, and is therefore ''not'' able to see the ''gross material'' happening as it actually took place. 

But every earthly happening has at the same time its ethereal counterpart, which is often the same as the earthly happening, lor at least similar. 

For instance, in the case of murder the clairvoyant will see the ''ethereal'' happening which occurs at the same time, not the actual earthly event which, in accordance with the existing mundane laws, is alone decisive for the exercise of jurisdiction. 

This ethereal happening, moreover, may vary in detail to a greater or lesser degree from the earthly event. 

Consequently it would be wrong hastily to condemn the clairvoyant for having failed or for a wrong seeing! Let us consider a murder or a theft! 

The clairvoyant who has been asked to help solve the mystery will see partly on the astral plane and partly on the ethereal plane - astral, that is, in fine gross matter, showing the scene of the scene of the action; and ethereal, showing the action itself. 

To this must be added the fact that he can also see various thought - forms which came into being through the train of thought of the murderer as well as of the murdered person, or of the thief. 

How to distinguish between all these must be part of the knowledge of the person superintending the investigation. 

Only then will the result be correct! 

However, there is not yet a person proficient enough to conduct such an investigation! 

Although it may sound grotesque, since it really has no relation to the matter, I would still like to give a secondary example by mentioning the work of a police dog, which is also used to help in the uncovering of crimes. 

Naturally the leader of a police dog must be thoroughly acquainted with the manner in which the dog works, and must closely and very actively collaborate with it, as is well known to those who are experts! 

We only need to think of this kind of work in a more noble form and we have the activity of the director of an investigation collaborating with a clairvoyant in the uncovering of a crime! 

Here also the leader of the investigation is the one who actually does the work, observing and combining the various factors, and taking the greater part of the activity upon himself, whereas the clairvoyant merely remains the passive working assistant! 

Every judge must go through a protracted study of such activities before he should be allowed to deal with them! 

It is far more difficult study than the study of the law!