A    NEW    LAW

                        THE   DIVINE   LOVE   OF   THE   PUREST   JUSTIFICATION   (JUSTICE)

                                                                                                                            A           NEW          LAW 

I HAVE told you: ''At your desire you are allowed to wander through the Creations, thereby becoming self - consciousness, but in so doing you must not harm others in order to satisfy your ''personal'' desire!''

There is nothing in Creation you would not be allowed to enjoy in the sense in which Creation it to you, i.e., for the same purpose as that for which it is developed.

However, you do not know the real purpose of so many things, and erroneously commit many excesses which are bound to bring harm instead of benefit.

Thus the desire to taste, to get to know and to enjoy often increases until it becomes a ''propensity'', which finally keeps you enchained and quickly enslaves your free volition, so that through your own selves you become ''servants'' instead of masters.

Never let yourselves be subjugated through enjoying, but take only what is necessary in life on earthly for the maintenance and development of the good things entrusted to you.

You hinder all and development by excess, no matter whether the body or the soul is involved.

Just as you hold thing up through excess, so also through negligence or imperfection!

You disturb the great God - willed development.

Everything which you now wish to do with the best volition to adjust and compensate for such mistakes remains nothing but patchwork, leaving traces of repair which do not look nice and which can never be the same as one uniform and unpatched work.

The fulfillment in the promise that ''everything must become new'' does not contain the sense of remodelling, but of forming ''anew'' everything that has been distorted and poisoned by the human spirit after it has collapsed.

And as there is nothing which has not yet been touched and poisoned by man in his conceit, ''everything'' must collapse in order ''afterwards'' to become new again; not, however, in accordance with men's volition as hitherto, but according to the Will of God, which has never yet been understood by the human soul that has begun to decay through through its obstinacy.

Mankind has ''touched'' everything created by the Will of God, but has ''not recognised'' it, as it should have been the task of every human spirit to do.

In his presumptuous imagining that he was master man ''touched'' everything, but thereby only devalued and soiled all purity.

What does man really know of the conception of purity!

What has he already made of the boundless sublimity of true purity in his atrocious pettiness!

He has dimmed and debased this conception, dragging it down to his own low and dirty cravings, wherein he no longer knows the intuitive perception of his spirit but only follows the narrow limitations of his feelings, which is produced by his intellect through the retrospective effect of its thinking.

But in the future the feeling shall again become pure!

Feeling in relation to the intuitive perception is what the intellect should become in relation to the spirit - a ''tool'' for activity in gross material life!

Today, however, the feeling is debased and dragged down to be the implement of the intellect, and has thus become dishonored.

In the same manner as the spirit bearing the intuitive perception with which to express its working has already been forced down and fettered by the hereditary sin of intellectual domination, so also the coarser feeling produced by the intellect was simultaneously and automatically bound to triumph over the purity of the spiritual intuitive perception, suppressing the latter and cutting it off from the possibility of a wholesome  working in Creation.

In the natural course of things one fault consequently brought the other in its train.

Thus it is that today men also in this matter only hold lead in their hands instead of gold without realising it, and they consider this lead to be gold, although they no longer have any knowledge, whatever of pure intuitive perception.

However, as the spirit must be rightly balanced and connected with the intellect, i.e., the spirit dominating and leading, and the intellect as an implement serving, preparing the way and bringing about possibilities for carrying the spiritual volition into effect in the World of Matter, so also must the intuitive perception at the same time have a leading and animating influence, while the feeling in following this lead transforms the activity into gross material.

Then at last will the feeling also very soon and speedily take on nobler forms, quickly effacing by its upward soaring the wretched moral breakdown in conceptions, which could only arise out of the domination of the present - day feeling!

If the activity of the feeling is guided by the intuitive perception, all thinking and doing is filled only with beauty, balance and ennoblement.

There is never any desiring, only the sacred wish to give!

This must be taken to heart in everything, including love and marriage!

With your short - sighted and narrow - minded attitude you often consider certain persons to be pure when in reality, according to the Laws in Creation, they belong to the most depraved class of men.

There are many actions which without further ado you think in your narrow - mindedness are impure, yet which radiate with purity, while many things considered pure by you are impure. 

The purity of the intuitive perception uplifts many an action to heights undreamt - of by you, yet which here you still wish to soil with your scorn and mockery.

For this reason first of all liberate your ''intuitive perception'' you may judge aright and weigh good and evil, otherwise you are bound to go astray!

Also do not think that you have ''overcome'' this or that within so long as you have not ''been endangered'', and faced the possibility of yielding to your weaknesses in the certainty that nobody will hear about it!

Neither does an escape into solitude bring real benefit to anyone!

This merely proves that such a person feel himself too weak or is too tired for the struggle, is perhaps even afraid of himself that he will fall at a given opportunity.

''Being strong is different, it manifests'' in a different way!

The strong one pursues his path unswervingly and unerringly amid all dangers.

He cannot be upset, nor does he deviate of his own accord, but he knows and sees his high goal, the personal attainment of which is more valuable than anything else that may present itself before him.

Man must now become ''new'' in everything, new and strong ''within themselves!''

I give you some advice regarding this new activity: ''No longer cause any harm to your fellow men in order to fulfil your personal desires thereby!''

You have not yet grasped all that this contains.

It is the best staff for a man's journey through the various parts of Creation to Paradise.

In addition I give you a second piece of advice: ''Take care of the good things entrusted to you upon earth, which also include your physical body, ''in the right manner''.

''Never let pleasure become a propensity, and you will then remain free from the chains holding you down!''

It should be a condition for everyone striving seriously upon earth that the addressing of a  person as ''Thou'' (''Du'' in German) must be kept strictly sacred among each other.

Only in exceptional cases may it be used or offered.

This is different in the Ethereal World, the so - called ''beyond!''

There the barriers of spiritual maturity are ''strictly established'' and cannot just be transgressed.

''There'' the real homogeneous species live together in accordance with the Law of Creation, ''and it is solely the homogeneous species which justifies the address of ''Du''!

In the Gross Material World, however, these barriers must first be established.

Here the gross material earthly body makes it possible for spirits of ''all'' degrees of maturity to live closely together in a way which occurs nowhere on other planes again.

Therefore establish a barrier for the future, the necessity and great value of which you probably cannot quite understand.

Already once in my Message I have pointed out in the lecture: ''The Kiss of Friendship''. 

Part of this is the  ''poison - spreading'' habit of calling each other ''Du'', and thus bursting through and transgressing one of the most necessary barriers in the World of Gross Matter.

A barrier offering you support, the value of which you are not capable of measuring!

Thus it must become a ''command'' for everyone striving for the Light that he follow the habit of offering the familiar ''Du'' to his fellow - men sparingly.

Best of all he should avoid it entirely!

If it should be offered to you reject it, except in those cases where a serious union for earthly - life is intended, i.e., in marriage!

''Years later'' you will recognise the value resting in this command.

A shudder always comes over me when I hear of it, for I know of the corruption contained in this habit.

But no man has any idea of it!

With this German ''Du'', which embodies a very special conception, every soul enters into a bond capable of reaching beyond the earthly grave!

Special threads which are by no means harmless immediately link one to the other with the use of this ''Du'' -  threads which may hold the spirits down, even those capable of ascent!

For very seldom will it happen that two spirits of the same maturity in all things are thereby linked together, two  which actually stand on the same step spiritually.

And wherever two link up who are unequal, the law ordains that the higher one is ''pulled down'', but the lower one never ascends!

For in Creation the higher one can descend to lower planes, but no spirit can ever succeed in raising itself even one step above place where it stands.

Thus in the case of a voluntary and close union between two spirits who are unequal in their maturity the higher one ''must'' either descend or be retarded by the other, who remained backward in his maturity, and hangs upon him like a weight through this tie.

Not everyone possesses the strength to lead the less mature one in such a way that he comes upward to him.

These are exceptions which one may not take into account.

And a complete severance from a voluntary union is not easy!

This contains a fact the dreadfulness of which the earthman has never yet taken into account.

He frivolously passes over this unfathomably deep in earthly existence, and is hampered in ''every case'' without exception as soon as he trespasses against the law.

Like a swimmer who dives into the water at places he does not know he is often hampered by invisible creepers!

The time will come when you will one day be free from this danger, to which many fall victim every day and every hour upon earth.

You will become free through the knowledge!

But then marriages will also be different, as well as friendships and other unions, all of which quite distinctly bear the name ''binding''.

Then all quarrels between friends will be ended, all spitefulness and misunderstandings will disappear.

In observing law, which until today has not been understood, everything will turn into the fullest harmony.

Until then, however, you can only be helped by the advice to be careful with the familiar ''Du''!

If you observe this you will be protected from great suffering!

You can shorten your spiritual ascent by thousands of years!

Do not forget this, even when you do not understand it today.

I thereby give you the  best weapon with which to avoid creepers of an ethereal nature!

You need more commandments in the World of Gross Matter than is necessary in the Ethereal Worlds, where all human spirits cannot but associate with their homogeneous species, even if this species carries many gradations and therefore also shows very many and varied forms.

In following this advice you will now become free from heavy and unnecessary load with which mankind burden themselves ever anew.

Do not look for an example to the beyond, which is subject to simpler laws.

Those in the beyond must also first learn for themselves in the new time, in the promised Millennium.

They are no wiser than you yourselves and only know what is necessary for their plane.

Therefore the bond will still have to be torn asunder for spiritists, where it brings nothing but harm due to misunderstanding and stupid conceit; the conceit which has already brought so many wrong interpretations of much that is valuable, thus leading the masses astray or preventing them from recognising the Truth ''now!''

Do not let yourselves be misled, but ''heed'' my advice!

It is for ''your'' help, and  you could easily recognise its value even now if you looked around you more attentively!

You must not perhaps break off without cause what exists.

That would bring no solution!

It would be an attempt at false and unhealthy transformation!

But now you must act ''differently'' in these matters, no longer in a thoughtless and frivolous manner!

You must build up entirely anew.

What is old will fall away of itself.

And when I now also say to you: ''Man shall never live together with another whom he cannot respect!'' then you have for your earth - life ''that'' which will enable you to stay free from karma.

Take these principles along with you on your path!

So that you may ascend there must in addition to all this be the inner yearning for the pure and luminous Realm of God!

The ''yearning'' for it carries the spirit upwards!

Therefore ''think'' upon God and His Will at all times!

But do not make a picture of it for yourselves!

It would certainly prove wrong because the human spirit cannot grasp the conception of God.

Therefore it is given to him to grasp the ''Will'' of God, for which he must seek honestly and in humility.

''If he has found the Will he will then recognise God therein!''

That is the only way to Him!

So far, however, man has not yet exerted himself in the right way to grasp the Will of God, to find It, but he has always given precedence to the ''human volition'' which originated within himself, embodying the human wishes and  the instinct for self - preservation.

This is not in harmony with the automatic upward swinging of all the Primordial Laws of Creation.

Therefore find the way to the true Will of God in Creation, and then you will recognise God therein!

                                                                                                                            MORALITY

IT IS as though a dark thunder cloud were hanging over humanity. 

The atmosphere is sultry. Man's intuitive faculty labours sluggishly under a heavy pressure. 

Only the nerves affecting the senses and animal instincts of the bodies are in a highly - strung condition. 

Artificially stimulated through the error of a wrong education, of false attitude, and self - delusion. 

In this respect the man of today is not normal, but is burdened with a morbid sexual instinct, aggravated tenfold, for which in a hundred forms and ways he seeks to establish a cult that is bound to become the ruin of all humanity. 

Infectious and contagious as a plague, all this gradually influences also those who still seek  desperately to cling to an ideal that floats half - hidden in their subconscious mind. 

They indeed stretch forth their arms longingly towards it, but ever again, after a glance at their surroundings, drop them with a sigh of hopelessness and despair. 

Utterly helpless, they observe with horror how swiftly the clear vision regarding morality and bad habits is obscured, how the capacity to judge is lost, and  how these concepts change to such an extent that so much which only a short time before would still have aroused disgust and contempt is very soon regarded as quite natural, not even causing surprise. 

But the cup will soon be filled to the brim. 

A terrible awakening must come! Already now these sensually overwrought masses will sometimes quite involuntarily and unconsciously recoil in sudden misgiving. 

A momentary feeling of uncertainty grips many a heart; but it brings no awakening, nor any clear perception of their unworthy conduct. 

They thereupon only redouble their efforts to shake off such ''weakness'' or ''last remnants'' of old - fashioned ideas, if not to suppress them altogether. Progress at any price, that is what it must be. 

However, one can progress in two directions. 

Upwards or downwards. 

As one chooses. 

And as things now stand it is downwards, with horrifying speed. 

When the hour strikes for those hurtling downwards to encounter strong resistance, the impact must shatter them. 

In this sultry atmosphere the thunder - cloud grows ever more dense and ominous. 

At any moment now the first flash of lightning may be expected, rending and lighting up the darkness, and brilliantly illuminating the most obscure corner so relentlessly and sharply as to bring liberation to those striving for light and clarity, but destruction to those who have no longing for the Light. The longer this cloud has time to grow in darkness and density, the more dazzling and terrifying will also be the lightning it generates. 

Gone will be the soft enervating atmosphere whose sluggish embrace hides a lurking sensuality; for the first flash of lightning will quite naturally also be followed by a current of fresh, bracing air, bringing new life. 

In the cold clarity of the light, all the products of morbid imagination will suddenly stand stripped of their dazzling falsehoods before the eyes of horrified humanity. 

The awakening will strike the souls like the shock of a mighty thunder - clap, so that the living spring water of undimmed Truth can pour forth and rush over the loosened soil. 

The day of freedom dawns. 

Deliverance from the spell of an immorality that has existed for thousands of years, and that is now reaching its climax. 

Look around you! 

Observe what people read, how they dance, how they dress! By tearing down all barriers between the two sexes, the present time is more than ever anxious systematically to obscure the purity of the intuitive perception, thus to distort it and give it misleading masks, and ultimately, if at all possible, to smother it. 

When misgivings arise they are quietened by high - sounding talk, which however proves on investigation to emanate only from the inwardly vibrating sexual instinct, in order to provide ever fresh nourishment for carnal lusts in countless ways, skilful and clumsy, open and covert. 

They speak of the emergence of a free independent humanity, of a development of inner stability, of physical culture, the beauty of the nude, ennobled sports, and of education to bring to life the saying: ''To the pure all things are pure!'' In short: Upliftment of the human race by laying aside  all ''prudery'', thus producing the noble and free human being who is to carry the future! 

Woe to him who dares to remonstrate! With a great outcry, accusations are immediately hurled at such an audacious person, similar to the assertions that only impure thoughts can make him ''find anything wrong in it''! 

It is a mad whirlpool of foul water, spreading a stupefying, poisoning atmosphere which, like the effect of morphine, induces mental delusions into which thousands upon thousands continually allow themselves to slide until they become so weakened that they go under. 

A brother seeks to enlighten his sister, and children their parents. 

Like a storm - driven tide it sweeps over all mankind, and wild breakers surge round the few who, gripped with repugnance, have retained their balance and still stand like solitary rocks in the sea. 

To these cling many whose strength threatens to fail them in the violent storm. 

It is good to see these small groups standing like refreshing oases in the desert, inviting the traveller to find rest and recuperation after grimly battling his way through the sandstorm that threatened to overwhelm him. 

What is being preached today under the fine guise of progress is nothing but a veiled encouragement of utter shamelessness, the poisoning of every higher intuitive perception in man. 

It is the greatest pestilence that ever befell humanity. 

And strange: it seems as if  so many had only been waiting for a plausible excuse to debase themselves. 

To countless people it is very welcome! 

But he who knows the spiritual laws operating in the Universe will turn away in disgust from today's pursuits. 

Let us take just one of the ''most harmless'' pleasures: ''mixed bathing''. 

''To the pure all things are pure!'' 

These words have such a pleasant sound that many things are permissible under their protection. 

But just let us consider the most simple ethereal happenings in such a bathing - place. 

Let us assume that of the thirty persons of both sexes, twenty nine are really pure in every respect. 

This is an assumption which is completely impossible from the very start; for the opposite would be more correct, and even then still rare. 

But let us assume it. 

Stimulated by what he sees, impure thoughts arise in the mind of the one, the thirtieth bather, although his outward behaviour may be absolutely irreproachable. 

These thoughts are immediately embodied ethereally in living thought - forms, which move towards and attach themselves to the object of his glances. This is a defilement, whether or not it leads to any remarks or improprieties! 

The person thus contaminated will about this dirt, which is capable of attracting similar straying thought - forms. 

Thereby they become denser, ever denser around this person, and may finally confuse and poison the victim, as a parasitic creeper often destroys the healthiest tree. 

Such are the ethereal happenings in so - called ''harmless'' mixed bathing, at party games, dances or the like. 

It should be borne in mind, however, that in any case it is just all those particularly desirous of having their thoughts and senses excited by such exhibitions who will visit these bathing - places and pleasure haunts! 

It is not difficult to explain what filth is thus generated, without anyone being outwardly aware of it in the gross material sense. 

It is also obvious that this steadily increasing and condensing mass of sensual thought - forms must gradually influence countless people who of themselves do not seek such things. 

At first vague thoughts of a similar nature arise in them; in time these grow stronger and more alive, being ceaselessly nourished by the various expressions of so - called ''progress'' around them. 

And so one after another they glide along into the various dark stream, in which the power to apprehend true purity and morality is ever more obscured, until finally everything is dragged into the depth of uttermost darkness. 

First of all, these opportunities and incitements for such rapidly growing abnormalities must be done away with! 

They are nothing but breeding centres into which the pestilential vermin of immoral human beings can cast their thoughts, which then spring up luxuriantly and spread destruction over all humanity; creating ever new breeding grounds which finally form only one huge field of noxious growths, exuding a poisonous stench that also suffocates the good. 

Wrench yourselves out of this delirium, which like a narcotic only appears to invigorate, but in reality has a weakening and destroying effect! 

It is natural, though sad, that it is just the female sex which is again the first to exceed all bounds, and which has sunk without any scruple to utter shamelessness in their attire. 

However, this only proves that the explanation about ethereal happenings is correct. 

It is just woman, gifted by nature with a stronger intuitive ability, who first and more deeply absorbs this poison of the tainted ethereal world of thought - forms, albeit quite unconsciously. 

She is more at the mercy of these danger, for which reason she is also the first to be carried away, and oversteps every limit incredibly quickly and conspicuously. 

Not for nothing is it said: ''When a woman becomes bad she is worse than a man!'' 

This holds good in everything, be it in cruelty, in hatred or in love! 

The behaviour of woman will always be a product of the Ethereal World around her! 

There are exceptions, of course. 

Nor is woman on this account free from responsibility; for she is able to observe the influences assailing her, and can guide her own volition and actions according to her will if . . . she so desires! 

That the majority of women unfortunately fail to do this is a fault of the female sex, which is entirely due to the absolute ignorance in these matters. 

It is a great misfortune for the present time, however, that the future of the people actually lies in the hands of woman. 

She carries it because her psychic condition influences her descendants more incisively than that of the man.  

What a decline, then, must the future bring! Inevitably! 

It cannot be halted by arms, money, nor discoveries. 

Nor by kindness or diplomacy either. 

More incisive means are required here. 

Yet this enormous guilt does not fall upon woman alone. 

She will always be only the true reflection of that world of thought - forms which hovers over her people. 

This must not be forgotten. 

''Respect and honour'' woman ''as such'', and she will form herself accordingly; she will become ''what you see in her'', and in this way you uplift your whole people! 

However, before this can happen, a great process of transformation must take place among women. 

As they are now a cure can only be effected through a radical operation, by a forceful and relentless intervention, removing any growth with sharp knives and casting it into fire! 

Otherwise it would also destroy all the healthy parts. 

Towards this essential operation on all mankind the present time is irresistibly rushing, faster, ever faster, and will finally bring it about of itself! 

This will be painful and terrible, but the end will be restoration to health. 

Not until then will it be the time to speak of morality. 

Today it would die away like the word spoken in the wind. But when the hour is past, in which corrupt Babylon had to perish, because it collapsed from inner decay, then observe the female sex! 

What they do and what they leave undone will always show you ''how you stand'', because through their finer intuitive ability they live what the thought - forms desire. 

This fact also gives us the assurance that when the thinking and intuitive perceiving are pure, womanhood will be first to soar upwards to that ideal which we regard as a truly noble human being. 

Then morality, in the full glory of its purity, will have entered!        

                                                                                                                                 AWAKE!

AWAKE, ye men, out of your laden slumber! 

Recognise the ignoble burden you bear, that weighs upon millions with enormous pressure. 

Throw it off! Is it worth bearing? 

Not for a single second! 

Of what does it consist? 

Empty husks which breath of Truth will scatter in the wind. 

You have wasted time and energy for nothing. 

Therefore the fetters that hold you down, and free yourselves at last! 

The man who remains inwardly bound will always be a slave, even if he were a king. 

You bind yourself with all that you aspire to learn. 

Reflect: In acquiring knowledge you force yourselves into alien forms thought out by others; you willingly adopt an alien conviction, making your own only what others have experienced within, ''for themselves''. 

Consider: What applies to one does not apply to all! What helps one person may harm the other. 

Each individual must make his own way to perfection. 

The abilities he carries within him are his equipment for this. 

He must adjust himself to them and build upon them! 

Otherwise he will remain a stranger to his real self, will always stand ''beside'' what he has learned, which can never come to life in him. 

Thus he is barred from any gain. He will vegetate, all progress being impossible. 

Listen, you who seriously aspire to Light and to Truth: Each individual must inwardly experience the way to the Light, he must discover it ''himself'' if he wishes to be sure of the way. 

Only what a man experiences inwardly, what he perceives intuitively in all its variations, has he fully grasped! 

Both sorrow and joy are constantly rapping at the door to encourage and arouse man to awaken spiritually. 

He is then very often freed for a few seconds from the trivialities of everyday life, and in happiness or grief vaguely senses his affinity with the spirit pulsating through all that lives. 

And ''everything'' is life, nothing is dead! 

Happy is he who seizes and holds on to such moments of affinity, using them to soar upwards. 

In so doing he must not keep to rigid forms, but everyone must develop himself, from within. 

Ignore the scoffers, who are still strangers to spiritual life. 

They stand before the great Work of Creation, which offers us so much, like drunkards, like sick people. 

Like blind men who grope their way through life on earth without seeing all the splendour around them! 

They are confused, they sleep; for how can anyone still affirm, for instance, that only what he can see exists? 

That where his eyes perceive nothing there is no life? 

That with his physical death he himself also ceases to exist, all because in his blindness he could not, up till now, convince himself to the contrary through his eyes? 

Does he not already know from many things how very limited is the capacity of the eye? 

Does he not yet know that it is related to the capacity of his brain, which is bound to time and space? 

That because of this  he ''cannot'' recognise with his eyes anything rising ''above'' time and space? 

Has this logical, intellectual reasoning not yet become clear to any of these scoffers? 

Spiritual life, let us also call it the beyond, is after all merely something that stands completely above the earthly division of time and space, and therefore requires a similar nature in order to be recognised. 

Yet our eyes do not even see all that can be classified within time and space. 

Think of a drop of water, which appears immaculately pure to every eye; and which on examination under the microscope is shown to contain millions of living organisms mercilessly fighting and destroying each other. 

Are there not sometimes bacteria in both water and air that have the power to destroy human bodies, and that are imperceptible to the human eye? 

But they become visible by means of powerful instruments. 

Who then will still dare to maintain that there is nothing new and as yet unknown to be seen when the power of these instruments is further increased? Increase their power a thousandfold, a millionfold, and there will be no end to what may be seen, but ever new worlds which previously you could neither see nor feel, yet which nevertheless existed, will unfold before you. 

Logical thinking also leads to the same conclusions about everything the sciences have hitherto been able to collect. 

There is a prospect of continuous progress and development, but never of an end. 

What, then, is the beyond? 

The ''word'' confuses many. 

The beyond is simply all that cannot be perceived by earthly means. 

And earthly means are the eyes, the brain and all other parts of the body, also he instruments that help them to do their work still more accurately and precisely, and to extend its scope. 

Therefore one could say: the beyond embraces all that is beyond the perceptive capacity of our physical eyes. 

''But there is no division between this world and the beyond!'' 

Nor any gulf! 

All is united, as is the whole of Creation. 

''One'' power streams through this world and the beyond, everything lives and works from this one life stream, and is thus quite inseparably linked. 

Thus the following becomes clear: If one part of it sickens the effect must be felt in the other part, as with a physical body. 

Through the attraction of homogeneous species, diseased matter from this other part will then flow across to the sick part, thus further aggravating the illness. 

But should such a disorder become incurable, it will absolutely be necessary forcibly to sever the ailing member, if the whole is not to suffer permanently. For this reason change your attitude. 

There is no such thing as this world and the beyond, but only one united existence! 

The idea of a division has been invented solely by man, because he is unable to see everything, and imagines himself to be the centre and focal point of the surroundings visible to him. 

Yet his sphere of action is greater. 

With the erroneous idea of a division, however, he forcibly limits himself, hinders his progress, and allows his imagination to run riot and conjure up grotesque pictures. 

Is it surprising then, if as a consequence many only smile incredulously, while others adopt an unwholesome form of worship that becomes servile or degenerates into fanatism? 

Who can then still be astonished if some people develop a nervous fear, even terror and consternation? 

Away with all this! 

Why these torments? 

Break down this barrier which human error sought to erect, but which never existed! 

Your past wrong attitude also gives you a false foundation, on which you vainly endeavour continually to build up the true belief, that is, inner conviction. You consequently encounter points, obstacles, which must make you waver and doubt, or compel you to tear down the whole structure, perhaps abandoning everything out of despair or resentment. 

The loss is then yours alone, because this is not progress for you, but standstill or retrogression. 

The road which in any case you must follow one day will only be lengthened thereby. 

When you have at last perceived Creation as a complete whole, as it is, and do not separate this world from the beyond, then you have found the direct path, the true goal draws nearer and the ascent gives you joy and satisfaction. 

You are then much better able to feel and understand the reciprocal actions pulsating warmly through this uniform whole, since all activity is driven and sustained by the one power. 

Then the Light of Truth will dawn upon you! You will soon realise that many who scoff only do so out of indifference and indolence, just because it would require a certain effort to throw over existing ideas and learning and erect something new. 

Other would find it interferes with their customary mode of living and thus becomes uncomfortable for them. 

Leave all such alone, do not argue, but offer your knowledge helpfully to those who are not satisfied with fleeting pleasures, to those who seek for something ''more'' in their earthly lives than merely to fill their stomachs like animals. 

Do not then bury your talent, impart to them the recognition you are granted; for in giving, your knowledge will in turn be enriched and strengthened. 

An Eternal Law operates in the Universe: That only in giving can one receive where lasting values are concerned! 

Like a sacred legacy of its Creator, this Law deeply permeates the whole of Creation. 

To give unselfishly, to help where help is needed, and to understand both the suffering and the weaknesses of your fellow - men, means to receive, because it is the simple and true way to the Highest! 

And  to will this seriously brings you immediate help and strength! 

By one single honest and ardent wish to do good, the wall which your thoughts have hitherto erected as a barrier is cleaved as with a flaming sword from the other side that is now still invisible to you; for you are indeed one with the beyond which you so fear, deny or long for, you are closely and inextricably linked with it. 

Try it, for your thoughts are the messengers you send forth, which return heavily laden with similar thought - forms, good or evil as the case may be. 

This actually happens! 

Remember that your thoughts are realities that shape themselves spiritually, often becoming forms outliving the earth - life of your body, then much will become clear to you. 

Thus it is quite rightly said: ''For their works will pursue them!'' 

Thought - creations are works which will one day await you! 

Which form light or dark rings around you, which you must traverse in order to enter the spiritual world. 

Neither protection nor intervention can help in this, because the decision lies with you. 

Therefore you yourself must take the first step in everything. 

This is not difficult; it lies solely in the volition, which expresses itself through thoughts. 

Thus you carry heaven or hell within you. 

You are free to decide, but you are then irrevocably subject to the consequences of your thoughts, of your volition! 

You yourselves create these consequences, and that is why I exhort you: ''Keep the hearth of your thoughts pure, by so doing you will bring peace and be happy!'' 

Do not forget that every thought you produce and send out attracts all similar thoughts on its way, or attaches itself to others, thus continually increasing in strength and finally also reaching a goal, a human brain which is perhaps off its guard just for a moment, thereby offering such floating thought - forms the opportunity to penetrate and operate. 

Just consider what responsibility will fall upon you if at some time or other the thought becomes a deed through some person whom it was able to influence! 

This responsibility already arises through the fact that every single thought keeps a constant link with you just as if by an unbreakable thread, so as to return with the strength gained on its way, either to burden you or to bring you joy, according to the kind you produced. 

Thus you stand in the world of thoughts, and according to your way of thinking at the time make room for similar thought - forms. 

Do not therefore waste the power of thinking, but gather it for defence and for ''keen'' thinking, which goes forth like spears and affects everything. 

Thus create out of your thoughts the ''Holy spear'' which fights for good, heals wounds and furthers the whole of Creation! 

Adjust your thinking, therefore, towards activity and progress! 

To do this you must shake many pillars supporting traditional ideas. 

Often it is some concept wrongly understood that hinders man from finding the right way. 

He must return to the starting - point. 

One flash of light will destroy the whole structure so painfully erected over decades, and following a shorter or longer period of stunned inertia, he will make a fresh start! 

He ''must'' do so, for there is no standing still in the Universe. 

Let us take, for instance, the concept of time: Time passes! 

Times change! 

We hear this said everywhere, and automatically a picture arises in the spirit: ''We see changing times marching past us!'' 

This picture becomes so engrained that for many it also forms a solid foundation on which they continue to build, adjusting their whole research and speculation to it. 

Before long, however, they encounter obstacles which contradict each other. 

However hard they try, not everything will fit in. 

They lose their way, leaving gaps that can no longer be filled in spite of all their pondering. 

Many then believe that in such places ''faith'' must act as a substitute for the failure of logical reasoning. 

But this is wrong! 

Man should not believe in things he cannot grasp! 

He must try to understand them; for otherwise he opens wide the doors to errors, and with errors the Truth is always debased. 

To believe without understanding is just indolence, mental laziness! 

It does not lead the spirit upwards, but presses it down. Look upward, therefore, we are to test and investigate. 

Not for nothing does the urge to do so lie within us. 

Time! 

Does it really pass? 

Why does one encounter obstacles when thinking more deeply about this axiom? 

Simply because the fundamental idea is ''wrong''; ''for time stands still!'' 

We, however, hurry towards it! 

We rush into time, which is eternal, and seek the Truth in it. 

Time stands still. 

It remains the same, today, yesterday and a thousand years hence! 

Only the forms change. 

We plunge into time, to cull from her records for the purpose of enriching our knowledge from what has been collected there! 

For time has lost nothing, it has recorded all things. 

It has not changed, because it is eternal. 

You too, O man, are always just the same, whether you appear young or old! 

You remain what you are! 

Have you not already sensed this yourself? 

Do you not clearly notice a difference between the form and your ''ego''? 

Between the body that is subject to change and yourself, the spirit, which is eternal? 

You seek the Truth! 

What is Truth? 

What you still feel to be truth today you will recognise tomorrow as error, in which, however, you will later gain discover grains of truth! 

For the manifestations also change their forms. 

Thus your seeking continues, yet amid these changes you mature! 

Truth, however, remains always the same, it does not change, for it is eternal! 

And being eternal it can never be clearly and truly grasped by the earthly senses, which are familiar only with the change of forms! 

Therefore become spiritual! 

Free from all earthly thoughts, and then you will ''possess'' the Truth, will stand in the Truth, and will bathe in it, constantly surrounded by its pure Light, for it will envelop you completely. 

As soon as you become spiritual, you will swim in it. 

Then you need no longer study painstakingly what science has to offer, nor need you fear errors, but you will already have the answer to every question in the Truth itself. 

Moreover, you will no longer have any questions, because without thinking you will know all things, will embrace all things, because your spirit will ''live'' in the pure Light, in the Truth! 

Therefore become spiritually free! 

Burst all the fetters that hold you down! 

If obstacles present themselves welcome them joyfully; for they show you the way to freedom and strength! 

Look upon them as gifts from which you will benefit, and you will overcome them with ease. 

Either such obstacles are put in your way to teach and develop you, in which case you add to the means of your ascent, or they are the reaction to some debt you have incurred, which you can redeem in this way and thus free yourselves. 

In either case they help you advance. 

Therefore set out to meet them with a bold heart, it is for your own good! 

It is foolish to talk of reverses of fortune or of trials. 

Every conflict and every sorrow means ''progress''. 

Men are thus offered the chance to dispel the shadows of former misdeeds; for not a single farthing can be remitted to the individual, because here also the cycle of the Eternal Laws in the Universe is inflexible. 

The Creative Father - Will reveals Himself in them, and thereby forgives us and dispels all Darkness. 

So clearly and wisely is everything arranged that the minutest swerving from this would have to plunge the world into ruins. 

But what of the man who has very much to redeem from the former times, must he not despair, will he not tremble at the thought of the misdeeds he has to atone for? 

As soon as he ''honestly wills'' he can hopefully and gladly begin with it, free from all worry! 

For a ''balance'' can be brought about by the counter - current of the power of good volition, which like other thought - forms takes life in the spiritual, forging a strong weapon capable of removing every dark burden, every weight, and leading the ''ego'' towards the Light! 

Power of volition! 

A mighty force unsuspected by so many! 

Attracts similar powers like a never - failing magnet, it grows like an avalanche. 

Uniting with similar forces, it works backwards, again reaching the starting - point, thus the origin, or rather, the producer, uplifting him high to the Light, or pressing him deeper into the mud and filth! 

Exactly in accordance with what the author himself originally willed. 

He who is acquainted with this steady, never - failing reciprocal effect inherent in all Creation, which manifests and unfolds itself with absolute certainty, knows how to make use of it; he must love it and fear it! 

Gradually the invisible world around him becomes alive to him; for he feels its influence so distinctly that it silences all doubts. 

If he only pays a little attention to it he must intuitively sense the strong waves of ceaseless activity that affect him from out of the great Universe. 

Finally he feels himself the focal point of strong currents, like a lens that absorbs the rays of the sun, concentrating them on one point and producing a combustive power which can burst forth to singe and destroy, but also to heal, animate and bring blessing; and likewise can start a blazing fire! 

''And you, too, are such lenses'', capable through your volition of gathering these invisible power - currents that reach you, and sending them forth as a united force for good or evil, to bring blessing or indeed destruction to mankind. 

Through this you can and should light a blazing fire in the souls of men, a fire of enthusiasm for the good, for the noble and for perfection! 

This only requires a strength of volition, which in a certain sense makes man lord of Creation and master of his own fate. 

It is man's own volition which brings him destruction or redemption, reward or retribution, with inexorable certainty! 

Do not fear then, that this knowledge will alienate you from the Creator, or weaken your present faith. 

On the contrary! 

The knowledge of these Eternal Laws, which you can put to use, makes the entire work of Creation appear even more sublime to you. 

Its magnitude forces him who searches more deeply to his knees in veneration! 

Man will then never wish for evil things. 

He will joyfully grasp at the best support that exists for him: Love! 

Love for the whole wonderful Creation, and love for his neighbour, that he too may be led to the glory of this enjoyment, of this consciousness of power.  

                                                                                                            THE     HUMAN     WORD  

AS A GREAT grace for your maturing in the coarse World of Matter, the ability to form words has been bestowed upon you by the Creator! 

You have never recognised the true value of this sublime gift, because you did not trouble yourselves about it, and treated it carelessly. 

Now you must suffer bitterly under all the consequences of your wrongdoing. 

You stand in this affliction, and do not yet know the ''causes'' which bring such suffering in their wake. 

No one may trifle with gifts of the Almighty without harming himself; such is the Law which rests and works in Creation, and which can never be diverted. And when you consider that this being able to speak, your ability to form words, which anchor your volition in the World of Gross Matter through speaking, is an especially high gift of your Creator, then you will also know that it involves obligations for you, and that an immense responsibility arises therefrom; for it is with the language, and through it, that you are to work in Creation! 

The words you form, the sentences, shape your outward fate on this earth. 

They are like seed in a garden which you build around you; for each human word is part of the most vital thing that ''you'' can weave for yourselves in this Creation. 

Today I give you this, with an admonition, to think it over: there is a releasing quality in every word, because all words are firmly anchored in the Primordial Laws of Creation! 

Every word shaped by man has come into being under the pressure of higher Laws and, according to its application, must manifest formingly in a very  definite way! 

The ''application'' lies in man's hands according to his free volition; however he is unable to control the effect, which is strictly and justly governed in conformity with the Holy Law by a power hitherto unknown to him. 

Therefore in the final reckoning woe will now fall upon every human being who has abused the mysterious working of the word! 

But where is ''the'' man who has ''not'' yet sinned in this respect! 

For thousands of years the whole earthly race has been deeply entangled in this guilt. 

What harm has already been spread throughout this earth by the wrong application of this gift of being permitted to speak! 

Through ruinous, thoughtless  and idle talk of men have sown poison. 

The seed has duly sprung up, the plant has blossomed forth, and now bears the fruit which you must harvest, whether you like it or not; for it is all the consequences of ''your'' actions that are now thrown into your lap! 

That this poison ''must'' bring forth the most repulsive fruits will not surprise anyone who knows the Laws in Creation, which do not conform to the ideas of men, but serenely pursue their course, irresistibly, without deviation, from the primordial beginning, and also unchanged unto all eternity. 

Look around you, men, clearly and without bias: You ''must'' easily recognise the self - acting Divine Laws of the Most Holy Will, because you do have before you the fruits of your sowing! 

Wherever you look you will find that today high - sounding talk predominates and leads in everything. 

This seed ''had'' to come swiftly to such flower, to reveal now in the ripening its true kernel, whereby it will then collapse as useless. 

It ''had'' to ripen under the increased pressure from the Light, and must shoot up as in a hothouse; so that, losing every support through its hollowness, it will fall and bury all who with light - hearted confidence or selfish hope imagined themselves safe under its protection. 

The time of the harvest has already begun! 

Therewith all the consequences of wrong speaking now fall back upon the individual, as upon the entire masses who encouraged such talk. 

It is quite ''natural'', and shows the strict consistency of the effects of the Divine Laws, that now on the eve of the harvest the greatest talkers must in the end also gain the strongest influence and greatest power, as culmination and fruit of this continual wrong use of the word, whose mysterious working foolish humanity could no longer know, because they have long since closed themselves to the knowledge of it. 

They did not listen to the warning voice of Jesus, the Son of God, Who already at that time said: ''Let your communication be yea or nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil!'' 

There is more in these words than you imagined; for they hold upbuilding or decline for mankind! 

Through your propensity for much and useless talk you have chosen ''decline'', which has already come to you. 

Finally, before the general collapse in the Judgment, it also still shows you quite clearly, as a help towards the saving recognition, all the fruits which you have forcibly brought into being through the wrong application of the word. 

The reciprocal power now raises the masters at your own sins to the top, in such a way that you are in danger of being crushed by them, so that through recognition you will at last free yourselves from or be destroyed by them. 

That ''is'' at the same time justice and help, as only the Will of God in His Perfection can offer you! 

Just look around you! 

You ''must'' recognise it, if only you will. 

And for those who still hesitate to do so, the veil which they themselves hold before their eyes will yet be forcibly torn away from the fruits of their volition through still greater suffering than in the past, so that this earth may be cleansed from the pressure of your great guilt! 

The entire mankind has actively participated in this, not merely individuals. 

They are the blossoms of all the wrongdoing over past centuries, which now had to ripen in these last fruits for the Judgment, so as to perish in this ripeness. 

The frivolous, senseless and thoughtless chatter which, however, is always wrong and out of harmony with the Primordial Laws of Creation, had to culminate in the ''universal'' disease which is evident today, and must now in fever spasms, as in a storm, also shake off the fruits . . . they drop into the lap of mankind. 

Hence no people should be pitied who must now groan and suffer under this; for these are the fruits of their ''own'' volition, which must be consumed even if they taste rotten and bitter and bring destruction to many, because from poisonous seed only poison can be harvested. 

I have already said: where you sow thistles, no wheat can grow! 

Thus out of agitation, mockery and harming your fellow - men there can never come any upbuilding whatever; for each kind of expression and attitude can only bring forth something ''similar'', can only attract what is homogeneous! 

You must ''never'' forget this Law of Creation! 

It works ''automatically'', and all human volition can never act against it! 

Never, do you hear that? 

Impress it upon yourselves, so that you may always heed it in your thinking, speaking and acting; for everything germinates from this and grows into your fate! 

Therefore never hope for anything else as fruit than always and only the same kind as the seed! 

This after all is not so difficult, and yet it is just in this that you continually fail! 

Slander can again only produce slander, hate only hate, and murder only murder. 

But dignity, peace, light and joy can in turn only arise from a ''dignified'' way of thinking, never otherwise. 

Liberation and redemption do not lie in the clamour of individuals and of the masses. 

A people that permits itself to be led by talkers must inevitably and rightfully fall into bad repute, into sorrow and death, into distress and misery; it is forcibly pushed into the mire. 

And if hitherto the fruit and the harvest have so often not appeared in ''one'' earth - life, but only in later ones, this is now different; for the fulfilment of the Holy Will of God enforces ''immediate'' release of every happening on earth, and therewith also the unravelling of all the fates of men and of the peoples! 

Final reckoning! 

Therefore guard your word! 

Pay careful attention to your speech; for the human word is also a deed which, however, can produce forms in the Plane of Fine Gross Matter, that sink into and have an effect on everything earthly. 

Yet do not imagine that promises are fulfilled according to their wording and thus grow into deeds, unless at the same time the speaker bears the ''purest'' intentions in his soul; but the words form ''that'' which from out of the ''inner - most being of the speaker'' simultaneously vibrates with them. 

So the same word can produce two kinds of results, and woe unto him with whom it did not truthfully vibrate in complete purity! 

I lift the veil covering your ignorance which has prevailed up to now, so that you may henceforth consciously experience the evil consequences, and benefit from them for the future. 

As a further help I therefore give you: ''Heed your word!'' 

''Let your speech be simple and true!'' 

In accordance with the Holy Will of God, it contains an ability to form in an upbuilding or also destroying way, depending on the nature of the words and of the speaker. 

Do not squander these sublime gifts which God so mercifully granted you, but seek to recognise them aright in their full value. 

Up till now the power of speech has been a curse to you through such people, who as Lucifer's satellites have misused it under the evil influence of the distorted and one - sidedly developed intellect! 

Therefore beware of people who talk much; for with these goes disintegration. 

''You'', however, are to become ''upbuilding ones'' in this Creation, not talkers! 

Heed your word! 

Do not talk merely for the sake of talking. 

And speak only when, where and how it is necessary! 

In the human word there shall be a reflection of the splendour of the Word of God, which is Life and will eternally remain Life. 

You know that all Creation swings in the Word of the Lord! 

Does this not make you think? 

Creation vibrates in Him, as also do you yourselves, who are indeed part of Creation; for it arose out of Him and is maintained through this Word. 

It has been clearly proclaimed to mankind: ''In the beginning was the Word!'' 

''And the Word was with God!'' 

''And the Word was God!'' 

Herein lies all knowledge for you, if you would only draw it. 

But you skim over it and do not heed it. 

Plainly it tells you: The Word came ''out of'' God! 

It was and is a part out of Him. 

A faint reflection of the power of the ''Living'' Word of God, which contains all and embraces all that is outside of God, a faint reflection of this also lies in the ''human word!'' 

It is true that the human word is only able to send out its effect into the Planes of Fine Gross Matter, but that is enough retroactively to shape the destinies of men and also of peoples ''here on earth!'' 

Remember that! He who talks much stands only on the ground of the distorted, one - sidedly developed intellect! 

The two always go hand in hand. 

By that you can recognise it! 

And these are words emanating from the low earthly planes, that can never build up. 

Yet in accordance with the Divine Law the word ''is'' to build up. 

Wherever it does not obey this command it can only bring about the opposite. 

Therefore always heed your word! 

And ''stand'' to your word! 

You have still to be taught the right way to do this in the building up of the Kingdom of God here on earth. 

You must first learn to recognise the power of the words which you have hitherto so thoughtlessly and frivolously debased. 

Just think for once of the most Holy Word that has been given to you, of the Word: GOD! 

You very often speak of God, ''too'' often for ''that'' awe still to resound in It which would indicate the right ''intuitive perception'' when you utter this Word: the awe which will allow you only to ''whisper'' the Sublime Word in reverential devotion, so as to shield It carefully from any kind of desecration. But what have you men made of the most Sacred of all concepts in the Word! 

Instead of humbly and joyfully preparing your spirit for this most Sublime Expression, so that it may gratefully open itself to an unspeakable Radiation - Power of the Unsubstantiate Light - Sublimity of real Being, Who first permits you as well as all creatures to breathe, you have dared to drag It down to the low planes of your most trivial thinking, using It carelessly as an every - day word, which thereby had now to form itself in your ears into only an empty sound, and thus can find no entrance to your ''spirit''. 

It is then obvious that the effect of this most Sublime of all words will be different from the effect on those who whisper It with the proper awe and recognition. 

Therefore pay attention to ''all'' words; for they hold joy or sorrow for you, they build up or disintegrate, they bring clarity but can also confuse, according to the manner ''in which'' they are spoken and applied. 

I will later also give you recognition ''for this'', so that you can ''give thanks'' with ''every'' word which the Creator still permits you to speak now! 

Then you shall also have earthly happiness, and peace will reign here on this hitherto troubled earth.   

                                                                                                            A    NECESSARY    WORD 

BE ON your guard, spirit of man, for your hour has come! 

The time which you so ardently desired, which is granted to you for your development - you have spent it only in wickedness! 

Beware, in your presumptuous intellectual conceit that has thrown you into the arms of Darkness, which today holds you triumphantly in its clutches! Look upwards! 

You are standing in the Divine Judgment! 

Awake and tremble, you who in your narrow - mindedness and limited outlook swarm around the golden calf of earthly transience, like moths attracted by a deceptive brightness. 

It was because of you that Moses, in his wrath of disappointment, once shattered those tablets of the Laws of your God that were to help you ascend to the Light. 

This breaking of the tablets was the living symbol that the entire humanity did not deserve to have knowledge of this Will of God, of the Will Which they rejected in their wanton behaviour and earthly arrogance, in order to dance round a self - made idol and thereby follow their own desires! 

Now, however, the end is at hand in the final reaction, in the consequences, in the retribution! 

For now ''you'' will be shattered by the Will once so frivolously rejected! 

Neither lamentations nor pleading will help any more; for you were given thousands of years to come to your senses! 

But you never had time for that! 

You did not want to, and even today, with incorrigible arrogance, you think yourselves much too wise. 

That ''just in this'' the greatest stupidity reveals itself, you do not want to see. 

Thereby you have finally become troublesome vermin in this world, no longer knowing anything other than wilfully to revile all Light, because with your persistence in grubbing about only in the Darkness you have lost every possibility of seeking with a free upward gaze, of recognising or of being able to bear Light. 

Thus you are now branded by yourselves! 

Therefore as soon as the Light once more shines forth you will stagger back dazzled, and beyond help sink into abyss that has even now opened up behind you, waiting to engulf those who have thus been rejected! 

There you shall be bound in an inescapable grip, so that all those who strive to aspire to the Light may find the way thereto in blissful recognition, free from your presumption and your hankering to accept tinsel instead of pure gold! 

Sink into the death - dealing horror, which you have prepared for yourselves with the most stubborn efforts! 

In future you shall no longer be able to obscure the Divine Truth! 

How zealously they try, these little human beings, to push their ridiculous pseudo - knowledge well into the foreground, and how do they thereby confuse so many souls who could be saved if they did not fall into the hands of spiritual highwaymen, who like brigands still prowl about the first stretch of the right path, ''apparently'' following the same road. 

But what is it that they really offer? 

With great pompousness and hackneyed phrases they proudly take their stand on traditions, the true meaning of which they have never understood. 

Very apt is the popular saying about this: they are threshing empty straw! 

Empty because they have not also picked up the real kernels, for which they lack understanding. 

One comes up against such narrow - mindedness everywhere; with dull obstinacy they ride upon the phrases of others, because they themselves have nothing to contribute. 

There are thousands of these, and again thousands who imagine that they ''alone'' possess the true faith! 

Wherever they meet with anything beyond their comprehension they humbly, and with inner satisfaction, warn against arrogance! 

''These belong among the worst!'' 

They are the very ones who are even now because there religious obduracy makes it impossible ever to help them. 

Once they realise their error no dread, no lamenting and no petitioning will be of any avail. 

They did not want it otherwise, they missed their opportunity. 

There shall be no mourning over them. 

Each moment is far too precious still to be wasted on those who think they know everything better; for they will never in any case come to an awakening from their obstinacy, but will blindly perish in it! 

With nauseating words and assurances of their faith in God, their purely imaginary recognition of Christ! 

In no better case are the masses of those who attend their Divine Services with the regularity and duty they apply to other work; because it is necessary and advantageous, expedient. 

Partly also out of habit or because it is the ''customary''. 

Perhaps also out of simple prudence because, after all, ''one never knows to what good it might ultimately lead''. 

''Like a breath in the wind they will vanish!'' - 

More to be pitied are those investigators who with their really earnest inquiring mind fail still to rise from the brushwood in which they tirelessly rummage, expecting to discover ''in it'' a way to the beginning of Creation. 

Nevertheless it is all useless, and there is no excuse for it! 

Besides there are only a few, a very few. 

Most of those who call themselves investigators become lost in meaningless trifling. 

The great remainder of mankind, however, ''have no time'' for ''introspection''. 

Apparently they are very harassed human beings, burdened with quite enough work in order to achieve fulfilment of their earthly desires, their daily needs, but ultimately also of things going far beyond that. 

They do not notice that with the fulfilment their wishes also increase, whereby a final aim never comes in sight, and thus the striving one can ''never'' find the peace or the time for ''inner'' awakening! 

Without any high goal for eternity, he allows himself to be hurried through his earth - life, enslaved to his earthly desires. 

Exhausted by such activities, he must finally also care for his body through rest, change and diversion. 

So of course he has no time left for anything beyond the earthly, for the spiritual! 

But should his intuitive perception occasionally and very softly make itself felt with the thought of what comes ''after death'', then at best he becomes somewhat pensive for a few moments, but never allows himself to be stirred and awakened by it; instead, he then brusquely and quickly represses all such things, complaining that he cannot occupy himself with them even if he really wanted to! He simply has not ''any'' time for it! 

Many a one would even like to see ''others'' creating the opportunity for it. 

Quite often there are also accusations against fate and murmurings against God! 

Naturally every word is wasted on such as these, because they are ''never willing'' to acknowledge that it depended solely upon themselves to shape their lives differently! 

For them there are only ''earthly'' needs, which always increase with every success. 

They have never ''seriously'' wished for anything else. 

They have always raised all kinds of obstacles against it. 

They have frivolously relegated it to the fifth or sixth place, only to be thought of in dire need or at the approach of death. 

Until now it has remained a matter of secondary importance for all . . . who have time! 

And if one day there presented itself, ''plainly recognisable'', ''the opportunity'' to concern oneself seriously with it, then immediately new and special wishes, which are really nothing more than excuses, would arise, such as: ''But ''first'' I still want to do this and that, then I am quite prepared to study it.'' Exactly as Christ once said! Nowhere is there to be found that seriousness which is absolutely imperative for this most essential of all matters! 

It seemed to them too remote. 

For this reason they are now ''all'' rejected, all of them! 

Not one of them will be admitted into the Kingdom of God! 

Rotten fruit for ascent, who only spread further decay around them. 

Now reflect for yourselves, who ''then'' can still remain! 

A sad picture! 

But unfortunately only too true. - 

And when now the Judgment causes mankind to yield they will very quickly kneel in the dust! 

But just envisage already ''today how'' they will kneel: In all wretchedness, but at the same time once more arrogantly; for again they will only be lamenting and ''begging that help may be given to them!'' 

The heavy burden which they have imposed on themselves, and which finally threatens to crush them, ''should be taken from them!'' 

''That'' then is what they petition for! 

Do you hear it? 

Their petitions are for alleviation of their torment, but without at the same time one thought for their own inner improvement! 

Not ''one'' honest wish for voluntary alteration of their hitherto wrong thinking, of their purely earthly pursuits! 

Not ''one'' wish to recognise and bravely acknowledge their present errors and faults. 

And then, when the Son of Man comes among them in the great affliction, no doubt all their hands will be stretched out to Him, with whining and beseeching, yet again only in the hope that He will ''help them in the way they wish'', thus ending their suffering and leading them to new life! 

''But He will push away the majority of these petitioners like poisonous vermin!'' 

For after receiving help, all such imploring ones would immediately relapse into their old faults, poisoning their environment at the same time. 

He will accept ''only'' those who plead to Him for strength finally to pull themselves together for permanent improvement, who humbly strive to throw off all former stubbornness, and joyfully greet the Word of Truth from the Light as redemption! - 

But an understanding of the Grail Message, as well as of the previous Message of the Son of God, will only become possible when a human spirit casts aside ''everything'' that it has built up with its imagined understanding, ''and starts from the very beginning!'' 

In this they must first become like children! 

A leading across from the present errors is impossible. 

From the ground up there must be a complete ''newness'', which grows and becomes strong out of simplicity and humility. 

If mankind were helped in the way they ask in the hour of danger and need, then everything would once more be quickly forgotten as soon as their terror was removed. 

With their lack of understanding they would again unscrupulously begin to criticise instead to reflect. 

Such a waste of time is quite impossible in the future, since the existence of this part of the world has to hasten towards its end. 

Henceforth for every human spirit it is: Either - Or! Salvation from self - created entanglements or destruction therein! 

The choice is free. 

But the consequences of the decision are definite and irrevocable! 

As though released from a great pressure, those saved will then breathe freely and exult after the repulsive, unclean Darkness, with the creatures that gladly cling to it, has at last had to go down where it belongs, through the sword - thrusts of the Light! 

Then the earth, purified of all pestilential thoughts, will arise like a virgin, and peace will blossom for all mankind!