THE    DIVINE    LOVE    OF    PUREST       JUSTIFICATION     (JUSTICE) 

                                                                                                                        POSSESSED

PEOPLE are only too ready to express an opinion about things they do not understand.

In itself this would not be so bad if such utterances were not spread abroad so often, and then suddenly stand as a firm judgment, which is accepted in many spiritually indolent circles as definite knowledge.

It then simply exists, maintaining itself with a remarkable tenacity, although nobody is able to state ''how'' this has come about!

And how often do these frivolous remarks cause great harm!

But this does not worry men - they continue to prattle because they like it that way!

They prattle unceasingly, either out of stubbornness, spitefulness, frivolity, thoughtlessness, as a pastime, not infrequently also from a craving to be heard, or with deliberately malicious intent.

An evil motive can always be found for it.

One meets only a few people who actually indulge in this devastating custom just for the pleasure of talking.

This talking epidemic has also only as a consequence of the disintegrating rule of the intellect.

Much talking, however, suppresses the purer capacity to perceive intuitively, which requires a greater ''personal deepening!''

It is not without reason that  a prattler, even when harmless, does not enjoy any confidence, but only he ''who can be silent''.

So much lie in the instinctive reserve towards  prattlers everybody should become aware of it, in order to learn lessons therefrom for his personal relations with his fellow - men.

However, in the truest sense prattlers are, above all, those persons who are so quick and ready with words where it concerns things which they do not understand.

In their superficiality they are destructive persons  who cause a great deal of harm and untold suffering.

Let us just take one case!

Newspapers very often report so - called ghostly apparitions, which suddenly appear in houses where nothing like it has occurred before.

Objects are dis - arranged or lifted, pots are flung about and similar incidents!

This kind of news comes from various regions and countries.

In every case the happening always takes place around some very definite person.

Wherever ''this person'' is these happenings take place!

Immediately the opinion is bandied about that such a person must be ''possessed''!

No other possibility is even thought about, but thoughtlessly and unscrupulously they simply talk of being possessed!

Officials and churches in the various countries were often induced or encouraged to take an interest in it, and if there was no evidence of fraud on anybody's part the church would occasionally attempt to exorcise the demons.

Such efforts, however, are not of much use, because they are ignorant of the facts!

Formerly such a person -  it mostly concerns children or young girls - would simply have been submitted to a regular witch's trial of a penal character, until the tormented person explained everything in the way the judges and servants of the churches wanted it.

Then, as a final disgusting spectacle, came the death of the tortured one by fire in order to free devout humanity from such a person!

In reality, however, all this only happened in order to indulge the wanton craving for earthly power, and to obtain a strong influence over the people who were at that time such childish believers - an influence which thus became ever greater.

The reason for this did not lie with the pure conviction to serve God thereby!

This sacrilegious conduct aroused nothing but fear of men, suppressing all trust in God and giving full vent to the infamy of the most base slander.

In each case the sad end could always be reliably foreseen already at the beginning, all those so frivolously accused could just as well have been murdered immediately without further ceremony.

In that case the guilt of the murderers would have been even less than the guilt of the then fiends who were attired as God's servants and in judges robes!

I do not want to draw any comparisons between olden times and the present, nor  do I want to build bridges by giving special explanations, but through thoughtless talk the process is still exactly the same ''spiritually!''

In the ''earthly gross material sense'' it is now only modified through newer laws.

Nevertheless ignorant mankind think wrongly as ever in this matter, and they would act accordingly if the laws did not prevent them from doing so.

Among low negro tribes such persons are still persecuted out of superstition, killed or also . . . venerated!

These two extremes human behaviour have always been found very close to one another!

Among the low ignorant tribes their sorcerers come in order to expel such evil spirits from the hut, by torturing the ''possessed one'' in their own special way.

Similar happenings can be found all over the world and among all people, I only quote these facts for a better understanding.

In all these cases, however, people who are considered as being possessed, in this way are completely innocent.

There is no trace of possession, even less of the demons which one seeks to exorcise!

All this is but childish prattle and medieval superstition - a remnant from the time of the witches!

In reality only those burden themselves with guilt who in their ignorance due to erroneous conceptions and superficial opinions want to help.

It is in ''lunatic asylums'' that the possessed can be found, and more than people imagine!

And these ''can'' be cured!

Today, however, these pitiable persons are still simply regarded as insane, and no difference whatever is made between the really sick and those who are possessed, because as yet nothing is understood it.

The lack of understanding in these matters is due solely to the ignorance about Creation.

What is lacking is the ''knowledge of Creation'', which can provide the foundation for the recognition of ''all'' happenings and of the changes within and around man, i.e., the foundation which leads to true knowledge, to that future science which has no need to grope about with pitiful efforts in order ''therewith'' only to arrive at a ''theory'', which in many cases and after decades proves ever again to be wrong.

Learn to know ''Creation'' and the Laws operating therein, you men, and you will no longer need to grope and to seek; for then you will possess everything you need in order to help yourselves in the events occurring during your earthly life, and also even far beyond this -  throughout your ''entire existence''!

Then there will no longer be any pseudo - scientists, for they will have become ''knowing ones'', who cannot be confronted with anything in existence of men which holds something unknown to them.

A surprisingly great part of those today called incurably insane, who are forced to spend their lives confined in lunatic asylums, are not insane but possessed.

It is the same here as with so many things.

One does not ''seek'' for it therein, and consequently one cannot find anything either in the effect Christ's Word, which clearly stipulates and undoubtedly demands: ''Seek and ''ye'' shall find!

This very Word of Truth can be applied to ''everything'' in life!

In any form!

Therefore I, too, have already pointed out several times that only ''that'' person will find values in my Message who in all earnestness ''seeks values therein''.

Nobody else!

For the Living Word only gives when earnest seeking from within the soul touches it!

Only then does it open up in rich abundance! - 

Indeed today the word ''possessed'' is still heard and found always and only where there is no question of it!

And wherever it appropriate no one thinks of using it!

However, here also the expression coined in the human word has already ''unintentionally'' and at the ''right'' place hit upon the right thing; for you will find many in the lunatic asylums of whom it is said, with a shrug of the shoulders: ''He is only possessed of a fixed idea, but otherwise seems normal!''

Here again men ''unintentionally'' hit upon what is right, but without themselves giving it any ''further'' thought.

However, not only this type should be called possessed - those who have a fixed idea and so - called lucid hours or moments, but also those who talk irrationally all the time may be possessed.

In all reality they are not always sick! - 

As an example let us now consider one of the many cases where a young girl is regarded by her surroundings as possessed, or where at least she is suspected of it, because ''in her presence'' some such peculiar things suddenly occur, the origin of which is not known.

There are many different and possible explanations, which correspond with reality, but not a single one is consistent with being possessed.

In the house concerned a ''human spirit'' may be ''earthbound'' through some cause or other; for ''in all cases'' it can only be a question of ''human spirits'' which have departed from the earth.

Demons or the like are utterly out of the question in this matter.

Through some deed such a  human spirit is perhaps bound to the house or only to the place, the spot.

Thus it need not  necessarily have done something during ''the period'' when the house existed, but it may have already been ''before'' then, at or near the spot where the house now stands.

Sometimes this spirit is tied to the place for decades or centuries, either through a murder or through some grave act of negligence, through harming some other person as well as through other happenings, many of which can bind a person.

Therefore it is not absolutely necessary for it to be connected with the people inhabiting the house ''now''.

Despite its perpetual presence in the house it has at all events never before had an opportunity enabling it to manifest itself in the gross material earth, which ''now only'' takes place through the girl on account of her special, ''but also only present'', peculiarity.

This peculiarity of the girl is a matter all by itself, which merely gives the spirit the opportunity of expressing its volition in the gross material world in a certain way.

It has otherwise nothing to do with the spirit.

The cause of the peculiarity lies in the radiation of her blood at that time, the instant it has ''a very definite composition''.

It is ''from this'' that the human spirit without a gross material earth cloak derives strength for carrying out its desires to make itself conspicuous, which often develop into irksome bad behaviour.

As I have once already pointed out every person has different blood radiations, and this blood composition is changed several times during life on earth, whereby the type of radiation of the blood also changes at the same time.

Thus in most cases the singular effect some persons exercises in being able to set free the unusual happening occurs over a very definite period only, i.e., ''temporarily''.

There is hardly a single case where it lasts during the whole earth life.

Sometimes it continues only for weeks or months, but seldom for years.

Therefore when such a happening suddenly ceases this does not prove that the spirit concerned no longer exists or is released, but in most cases it has suddenly no further possibility of making itself conspicuous in such a crude way.

Consequently it is by no means ''exorcised'' nor has it vanished, just in the same way as it may have already been confined to the place for a long period without people ever noticing it.

Moreover it remains just as imperceptible to people as their permanent spiritual environment.

People are never alone in reality!

With this example I have given only ''one'' possibility for consideration, in which the spirit is bound to ''a particular place''.

However, it can also be a human spirit chained to a ''person'' living in the house, chained through any of the happenings which have so often been in my Message.

It need not involve particular the particular child which through its blood composition offers the temporary possibility for earthly visible activity.

The real cause may also be the father, the mother, the brother, the sister, or some other person living in the same house or merely frequenting it.

And there is still another difference, for the guilt of this happening can lie either with the departed human spirit or with one of the occupants of the house, and may date from the present life on earth or from a previous one.

So many and varied are the possibilities that no definite outline whatever should be prescribed in this matter without running the risk of arousing and supporting wrong thinking in people, and an over - hasty, thoughtless judgment in individual cases.

I only mention all these possible causes in order to show the comprehensiveness of these matters, and thus warn people not to be so quick with some superficial expression; for a suspicion is often thereby voiced which is unjustified.

Therefore be careful with your conversation about things you do not understand!

You bear the full responsibility for it, and you may also perhaps bind yourselves with as little as one word for years and decades!

The spirit concerned in such a happening may have been evil and detained through some guilt.

It does not change so easily in this, and it will, according to its nature, show its hatred towards people provided it receives the strength from somewhere to carry this into effect on the earthly gross material plane.

Or the spirit itself was the one harmed and attaches itself spiritually to the person who at one time harmed it and who now lives in the house.

However, in every case the spirit binds itself ever anew by such spiteful and disturbing activities and entangles itself still more, whereas with a ''good'' volition it  could sever itself and would be able ascend.

Such a blustering spirit always harm itself most of all by this!

But the person who through his blood radiation temporarily offers the opportunity for this manifestation need not be connected at all with such an affairs.

It is, of course, possible that he is linked with it through some former guilt or, alternatively, that the spirit is bound to him.

All this is not excluded.

But on no account is it a question of ''being possessed!''

Were a person possessed by another spirit, i.e., should an alien spirit periodically or continually make use of a body not belonging to it for the purpose of manifesting on the earthly gross material plane, then the physical body concerned would ''itself'' have to carry out everything that happens, such as throwing, hitting, scratching and destroying, or in whatever way it is expressed.

As soon as someone is possessed the alien spirit concerned will ''always'' work ''directly through that'' physical body with which it has been able to connect itself, of which it has partly taken possession and which it uses for its purposes.

It was only through this that the expression ''possessed'' arose, because  an alien spirit takes possession of earthman's body, appropriating it in order to work with it in an earthly gross material way.

The spirit also lays claim to the possession of the physical body alien to it.

And this body is then ''possessed'' by spirit, or we may also say it is ''occupied''.

The spirit places itself within the physical body, possesses it or has periodically possessed it.

It is quite natural that the process of taking possession occurs first of all  ''in the brains''.

Those earthmen to whom this happened are then described as being insane or not normal mentally, because there are often two different human spirits quarrelling and fighting to use the brains.

Thus thoughts and words and deeds are expressed which contradict each other, often in confused succession and in incomprehensible chaos, because two different spirits trying to impress their volition - the rightful owner and the intruder!

Naturally this also causes an over - straining of the nerves of the brain, which are literally shaken up and thrown into confusion; and man, observing this from outside, can only conclude there is cerebral confusion, although brain itself may be quite healthy otherwise.

It is only the fight and conflict between two different spirits which causes the confusion.

Occasionally it also happens that the alien human spirit which forcibly takes possession of a physical body not only makes complete use of the brain, but even carries the encroachment further by subjugating still other parts of the body for itself and its purposes, even pushing out the soul which is the rightful owner of the body, crowding it out with the exception of a small part which it cannot steal without endangering the life of this body itself!

In such serious cases there occurs the ''double life'' of a person, already often mentioned in reports which have caused learned scholars quite some brain - racking; a double life which could even drive those afflicted with it to commit suicide because they became desperate over the way they acted.

But these happenings can also be explained in accordance with Laws of Creation.

They are always strictly linked with every definite conditions which must first be fulfilled by ''both'' parties.

Man is not just simply at the mercy of alien spirit's desire to intrude upon him!

For instance, the ''spirit''  of such a person whose body offers the possibility for an alien spirit to take advantage of it in this way, and who also more or less surrenders his  body to the spirit for this purpose, will always be lazy or weak; for otherwise his own natural defence should remain strong enough to prevent this happening.

Indolence or weakness of the spirit is always due to one's own guilt, though mankind is unable to recognise it.

These condition is again a  consequence of the domination of the intellect, which oppresses and confines the spirit, stifling it.

Thus it is the result of hereditary sin, which I accurately described in my Message together with all its evil outworkings, one of which is also the possibility of becoming possessed.

A person with weary spirit, however, may be exceptionally lively in his thinking, also in his learning, because spiritual indolence has nothing whatever to do with intellectual keenness, as readers of my Message know.

Indeed it is just the spirit of distinguished scholars which is often very strongly earthbound and confined.

As a fitting expression for this one could use the  term ''a spirit with drooping wings'', because this gives the  best conception.

In reality the spirit of some great intellectual scholars is already slumbering towards spiritual death, although among men on earth the person concerned is particularly honoured as a shining light!

Therefore a person so afflicted may be exceptionally fresh intellectually and clever, and yet have a weary spirit which allows his physical body to become in part the subject of dispute by another bodiless human spirit.

Therefore, you men gain ''greater knowledge'' of God's Primordial Laws of Creation, and you will be able to prevent much evil from assailing you!

Tear yourselves from your hollow knowledge - ''conceit'', which brings forth only piecework, hardly of any use in smallest need!

Sciences today lacks the ''knowledge'' which will enable it to recognise ''these'' things, for what sciences still teaches to date and what it pretends to know only proves clearly and distinctly that it really does not yet know anything about Creation at all!

It lacks all the great connections and thus at the same the actual picture of the real happenings.

It is all shortsighted and cramped, and has passed all the great truths.

However, this is a beginning of new era, which will also in this matter let ''everything arise anew!'' 

Thus a child or a grown up is not always to be suspected if he sets free such things as knocking or the throwing of physical objects.

The basis for such causes is so manifold that a statement can only be made in each individual case and on the very spot by those who really know.

What has been said here does not nearly exhaust all the possibilities, but one thing is certain: ''There is no question here of being possessed!''

People who through the temporary state of their blood radiation offer the possibility for such actions on the part of an alien and earthbound spirit, may during such happenings naturally be subject to bodily convulsions, fever symptoms, and also indeed to unconsciousness.

This all comes about, however, because the alien human spirit seizes the helping radiations concerned and literally draws them forcibly from the physical body, thus causing disturbances in the harmony of the normal bodily radiation, which naturally become immediately noticeable in the body itself.

All these are very simple happenings which through careful observation can easily and conclusively be substantiated as soon as the proper connections are known.

Useless prattling and suppositions about it serves no purpose; they can only harm other people who have nothing to do with the whole matter.

Therefore, guard your words, you men!

For they, too, are bound to drag you down, because all that is ''unnecessary'' is disturbing in Creation, and all that is disturbing sinks downwards according to the Law of Gravity.

But your speech is true and good you will have a furthering effects, and you yourselves will become lighter and uplifted in the light of your words, because they also hold threads which run and knot in the same way as threads of your thoughts and actions.

And then, when you no longer wish to speak needlessly, you will become more silent and reserved, and in this way powers will be stored up within you which I already described as the power of  silence!

As soon as you desire to say only what is ''useful, as man should always have done from the outset, it will become natural to you.

Then man will hardly take up a third of ''that'' time with his talking which he still spends upon it today.

Unfortunately, however, he prefers superficial chatter to a noble silence, thus allowing himself to be drawn ever further downwards in accordance with the Law of Gravitation, which presses downwards all that is unnecessary in Creation, allowing it to sink away as being useless!

Therefore heed your words, you men, and do not regard the evil of thoughtless prattling too lightly!

                                                                                                                      SILENCE

WHEN a thought suddenly strikes you, keep it back, do not utter it at once, but nourish it; for it will condense through being retained in silence, and gain strength like stream under counter - pressure.

Pressure and Condensation produce the quality of a magnetic activity, in accordance with the Law  that all that is stronger attracts what is weak.

Similar thought - forms are thus attracted from all sides and retained, constantly reinforcing the power of your own, your original thought, yet working in such a way that through the joining of other forms the originally produced form is refined, changes, and takes on different shapes  until it comes to maturity.

Indeed you sense all this inwardly, but you always think it is entirely your own volition.

''But you never give purely your own volition in any matter, there are always other influences as well!''

What does this process tell you?

That only in the union of many elements can anything perfect be created!

Created?

Is that right?

No, but formed!

For there is really nothing new to be created; in everything it is merely a matter of producing new forms, since all the elements already exist in the vast Creation.

But these elements are to be pressed into service for the way to perfection, which is brought about through union.

Union!

Do not to pass over this lightly, but try to become absorbed in the concepts that maturity and perfection are achieved through union.

The principle rests in all Creation as a treasure that needs to be unearthed!

It is closely related to the Law that only in giving can there also be receiving!

And what is required to grasp these principles aright?

Thus to experience them?

Love!

And therefore love indeed stands as the highest power, as unlimited might, in the mysteries the great Life!

As with a single thought, union moulds, refines and forms, so it with man himself, and with  the whole of Creation, which in a never - ending fusion of existing, individual forms undergoes transformations through the power of volition, and thus becomes the way to perfection.

A single individual cannot offer you perfection, but the whole of humanity, with all its varied characteristics, may do so!

Each individual has is something which is definitely part of the whole.

And this is also why one so far advanced as no longer to know earthly desires loves all mankind, not one individual, because only the whole of mankind can make the strings of his mature souls, laid bare through purification, sounding the chord of heavenly harmony.

He bears the harmony within himself, because all strings vibrate!

Let us return to the thought that attracted the other forms, and thereby became strong and ever stronger.

It finally emerges beyond you in firmly united power - waves, breaks through your own personal aura, and exerts an influence upon your wider environment.

Mankind call this personal magnetism.

The uninitiated say: ''You radiate something!''

According to your nature, either unpleasant or pleasant.

Attractive or repulsive.

It is felt!

But you do not radiate anything!

The process which engenders the feeling in these others has its origin in the fact that like a magnet you draw to yourself all that is spiritual similar.

And it is this very drawing that is felt by those around you.

Yet in this, too, lies the reciprocal effect.

Through the connection the other then clearly senses your strength, and thereby ''sympathy'' awakens.

Always bear in mind: Expressed according to our concepts, all that is spiritual is magnetic, and you also know that the stronger always overcomes what is weak through attraction, and through absorption.

In this way ''from him that hath not (the weak one), even that which he hath shall be taken away''.

He becomes dependent.

There is no injustice in this, but it takes place according to the Divine Laws.

Man only needs to pull himself together and will aright, and he will be protected from it.

You will now probably ask: What happens when all want and to be strong?

When there is nothing left to be taken from anybody?

Then, dear friend, ''there will be a voluntary interchange'', based on the Law that only in giving can there be receiving.

There will be no standstill on that account, but all that is inferior is eliminated.

Thus it happens that through indolence many become spiritually dependent and sometimes, in the end, they hardly possess the ability to develop thoughts of their own.

It must be emphasised that only the homogeneous will be attracted.

Hence the proverb: ''Birds of a feather flock together''.

Thus drinkers will always find each other, smokers will have ''fellow feelings'', likewise gossips, gamblers, and so on; yet noble characters will also come together for a high aim.

But it goes further: Whatever is drawn to another spiritually will eventually, also manifest ''physically'', since everything spiritual penetrates into the gross material, whereby we must bear in mind the Law of Returns, because a thought always remains connected with its origin and radiates back to it through this link.

I am always speaking here only of ''real'' thoughts, which carry within them the vital power of the psychic intuition.

Not of the power wasted by the brain - substance entrusted to you as a tool, which forms but fleeting thoughts that only manifest in a wild medley as shadowy phantoms, and fortunately very soon fade away.

Such thoughts merely waste your time and energy, and thereby fritter away a gift entrusted to you.

If for instance, you seriously ponder over something, this thought becomes strongly magnetic within you through the power of silence, attracting all that is similar and thus becoming fructified.

It matures and rises above the commonplace, thereby penetrating into other spheres, from which it receives an influx of higher thoughts . . . inspiration!

Hence, in contrast to mediumship, the basic thought in inspiration must proceed from yourself, must form a bridge to the beyond, to the spiritual world,  in order to draw consciously from a spring there.

Inspiration has therefore nothing whatever to do with mediumship.

In this way the thought is brought to full maturity within you.

You approach its realisation, and ''bring'' into effect, ''condensed through your power'', what already in countless elements was floating in the Universe before as thought - forms.

Through unification and condensation of what has long existed spiritually you thus produce ''a new form!''

So in the entire Creation it is always only the forms that change, because all else is eternal and indestructible.

Beware of confused thoughts, of all shallowness in thinking.

Carelessness will exact a bitter revenge; for it will speedily debase you to the level of playground for alien influences, through which you very easily become sullen, moody, and unjust to your surroundings.

If you have a genuine thought and cling to it, then the gathered power must eventually also press towards realisation; for the evolution of everything takes place entirely in the spiritual, ''since every power is purely spiritual!''

What then become visible to you are always only the final effects of a preceding spiritual - magnetic process, which takes place continually uniformly according to a firmly established order.

Observation of your thoughts and feelings will soon prove to you that all real life can in truth ''only be spiritual life'', in which alone the origin and also the development lie.

You must come to the conviction that everything you see with your physical eyes is in reality the manifestations of the externally driving spirit.

Every action, even the slightest movement of a human being, is indeed always first spiritually willed.

The physical bodies merely act as spiritually animated instruments, which by themselves only took shape through the power of the spirit.

The same applies to trees, stones, and the whole earth.

Everything is animated, permeated, and driven by the Creative Spirit.

However, since all matter, thus all that can be physically seen is simply outcome of spiritual life, it is not hard for you to comprehend that ''conditions on earth'' are also formed according to the nature of the spiritual life which ''immediately'' surrounds us.

What logically follows from this is clear: Through the wise ordering of Creation man has been given the power to shape conditions for himself with the Power of the Creator.

Happy is he who uses it only for good!

But woe unto him who succumb to the temptation to use for evil!

The spirit in men is only encompassed and darkened by earthly desire, which clings to it like dross, burdens it and drags it down.

However, his thoughts are acts of will endowed with spiritual power.

''The decision to think in a good or evil way lies with man, and he can thus guide the Divine Power to good or evil purpose!

Therein lies the responsibility that man bears, for reward or retribution will infallibly be his, as all the consequences of his thoughts return to the starting - point through the established reciprocal action, which never fails, and which is quite inflexible in this matter, thus inexorable.

Thereby also incorruptible, stern and just!

Do people not also say the same of God?

If today many opponents of religion reject the of a Godhead, this cannot in anyway alter the facts I have cited.

People need only omit the little word ''God'', and engross themselves deeply in science, and they will find ''exactly the same'', only expressed in different words.

Is it not absurd, therefore, still to argue about it?

There is no getting around the Laws of Nature, no man can defy them.

God is the Power that activates the Natural Laws; the Power that nobody has yet grasped or seen, but whose ''effects'' every one daily, hourly, indeed in every fraction of a second, must see, intuitively sense and observe, if only he ''wants'' to do so - in himself, in every animal, every tree, in every flower, in every fibre of a leaf swelling and bursting its sheath to come to the light.

Is it not blindness to oppose this so obstinately while everyone, including these stubborn repudiators themselves, confirms and acknowledges the existence of this Power?

What is it that prevents them from calling this acknowledged Power God?

Is it childlike obstinacy?

Or is it a certain shame at being obliged to confess that they have been obstinately trying all the time to deny something, the existence of which has been clear to them?

Probably nothing of all this.

The cause may well lie in the caricatures of the great Godhead held up to mankind from so many sides, which on serious investigation they could not accept.

Any attempt to press the all - embracing and all - pervading Power of the Godhead into a picture must certainly debase and dishonour It!

On serious reflection no picture can be brought into harmony with It!

Just because every man bears within him the awareness of God, he rejects with misgiving the narrowing down, of the great inconceivable Power that created and guides him.

It is ''dogma'' that is to blame for a great number of those who, in their antagonism, seek to overstep the mark altogether, very often against the certainty living within them.

The hour is not far distant, however, when spiritual awakening will come!

When the words of the Redeemer will be rightly interpreted and His great Work of Redemption rightly grasped; for Christ brought redemption from the Darkness by pointing out the way to the Truth, by showing as a man the path to the Luminous Height!

And with His blood shed on the cross He set the seal to His conviction!

The Truth has never yet been different from what it was even then, and is today, and still will be tens of thousands of years hence; for it is eternal!

Therefore learn to know the Laws contained in the great Book of the entire Creation.

To submit to them means: To love God!

For then you will bring no discord into the harmony, but will help to bring the resounding chord to its full magnificence.

Whether you say: I voluntarily submit to the existing Laws of Nature because it is for my own good, or: I submit God's Will, Which manifests in the Laws of Nature, or to the unfathomable Power Which activates the Laws of Nature . . . would the effect be any different?

The Power is there and you will recognise it, you simply must acknowledge it, because as soon as you reflect a little there is nothing else you can do . . .  and thereby you acknowledge your God, the Creator!

And this Power also operates within you when  you are thinking!

Therefore do not  misuse it to evil purpose, but to think good thoughts!

Never forget: When you are producing thoughts you are using Divine Power, with which you can achieve the purest and highest!

Try never to forget here that all the consequences of your thoughts always fall back upon you in proportion to the power, importance and extent of the ''effect'' of the thoughts for good or evil.

Since thought is spiritual, however, the consequences will return ''spiritually''.

They will thus affect you no matter whether here on earth, or later in the spiritual after your departure.

Being spiritual they are by no means bound to the material either.

Thus it follows ''that the disintegration of the body does not prevent the consequences from taking effect!''

The requital in the reaction will surely come, sooner or later, here or hereafter, with all certainty.

The spiritual link with all your works remains firm; for indeed earthly, material works also have a spiritual origin through the creative thought, and will remain in existence even when everything earthly has passed away.

It is therefore rightly said: ''Your works await you, in so far as the effect has not yet reached you through the reaction''.

If you are still here on earth when a reaction is due, or if you are again here, the consequences coming from the spiritual will exert their force ''according to their nature'' either for good or for evil, through your circumstances and your environment, or directly on yourself, on your body.

Here it must once more be specially emphasized: ''The true real life takes place in the spiritual!''

And that knows neither time nor space, and therefore no separation either.

It stands above earthly conceptions.

For this reason the consequences will strike you, wherever you may be, at the time when, according to the  Eternal Law, the effect returns to its starting - point.

Nothing is lost in the process; it is bound to come.

This now also answers the question often asked: Why is it that obviously good people must sometimes suffer such bitter adversity in their earth - lives as to make it appear unjust?

''These are reciprocal effects, which must strike them!''

Now you know the answer to this question; for your  existing physical body plays no part in it.

Your body is not you personally, it is not your entire ''ego'', but an instrument which you have chosen or which you were obliged to take according to the existing Laws of spiritual life, which you may also call Cosmic Laws if that makes them easier to understand.

The particular earth - life is but a short span of real existence.

A crushing thought if there were no escape, no protecting power to counteract it.

On awakening to the spiritual many a person would then have to despair, and wish rather to go on sleeping in the same old way.

For he has no clues idea ''what'' awaits him, what will still strike him in the shape of reaction from former times!

Or as people say: ''What he has to make good.''

But take Comfort!

In the wise provision of the great Creation, as you awaken a path is also shown to you through that ''power of good volition'' to which I have already called special attention, and which mitigates or entirely pushes aside the dangers of the karma that is taking effect.

This, too, the Father's Spirit has given into your hands.

The power of good volition forms a circle around you capable of disintegrating the evil pressing upon you, or at least greatly modifying it, exactly as the atmosphere also protects the earth.

But the power of good volition, this strong protection, is fostered and nourished by the power of silence.

Therefore I once more exhort you, seekers: ''Keep the hearth of your thoughts pure and then, above all, exercise the great Power of silence if you wish to ascend.''

The Father has already endowed you with the strength for everything!

You have  only to use it!

                                                                                                                  DISTORTED   SOULS

MAN ASKS question upon question! as soon as I offer him a new knowledge he immediately comes with new questions, even before he has understood and absorbed everything which I proffered to him. 

This is great mistake! 

He wants to ''hasten'' forward! If I were to adjust myself to ''him'' in this matter he could never accomplish anything; for with his questioning he always remains stationary only at his spot, like a lazy wanderer who seats himself comfortably in the shade of the woods and lets others tell him of his goal, instead of pulling himself together and striding towards the goal. 

On his way he himself would then ''notice'' and ''experience'' everything he would like to know in answer to the questions which he always allow to arise within himself. 

He must ''move'', otherwise he will not get to the goal! 

In my lecture ''Woman and Man'', I said that each person should draw from my words practical applications for his present life on earth. 

If he wishes to follow this advice then there is nothing else for him to do but to ''make'' my Word ''come to life'' within him just as I give to him; for I know exactly what man needs for this, and I always arrange my lectures accordingly. 

He must follow the discourse word for word, for they contain a step - ladder which carefully leads his soul upwards. 

A path which the soul ''is able to'' follow if it only will! 

His quick questioning, however, shows that he wants to ''learn'' in his hitherto accustomed intellectual way, and again brushes aside the necessary experiencing. 

''Learning'' is of no avail to the ''soul'', for that which has been learned stays behind with the body as soon as the first step is taken away from this earth. The soul takes along only that which has been ''experienced''. 

I have said this often before, and yet despite this earthman always approaches the Holy Word in the wrong way again! 

He wants to know better, or he does not like to relinquish his long - accustomed manner of doing things. 

There is a guidance in the structure of my lectures which he does not understand. 

Nor is it even necessary for him to recognise it therein as long as he only follows it and does not seek to hurry on ahead in his desire to know, like the superficial readers of a book who read for the sake of the ''suspense'', just to fill in free hours with it, and to divert themselves from one - sided thinking about their everyday activity. 

While reading they do not see the characters in the book coming to life before them, they pay no attention to the various developments which the persons acting therein have to live through inwardly, they do not perceive the precise consequences arising therefrom, which are continually capable of changing the circumstances and the surroundings. 

All this they disregard, but they advance by leaps and bounds just to learn quickly about this or that in the action. 

They derive no profit from the ''best'' books describing a part of life on earth, from which the reader could draw much for himself if he ''experienced'' everything within himself aright! 

Just as those readers who absolutely seek to devour all books in their zeal without ever recognising their true purpose and sense, but knowing how to differentiate between only two kinds - the fascinating and the non - fascinating books, ''so'' are men who immediately allow questions to arise within themselves again as soon as they read a lecture concerning the knowledge of Creation! 

First of all with the greatest effort and expenditure of energy they should seek to ''draw'' from each lecture what it offers! 

If then something does not immediately appear quite clear to them they must not look ''ahead'' in their seeking, but they ''must look back in the Message'' in order to delve ''therein and'' find enlightenment ''there''. 

And man will ''find'' it if in his spirit he lets the Message arise in pictures before him! 

He finds ''everything'' when he really seeks. 

Through this necessary seeking, however, the Message becomes continually clearer, stronger and more secure within him. 

Thus he learns to know it ever better and . . . to ''experience'' it! 

Just ''in this way'' I force him to do something that he would never do voluntarily owing to his spiritual indolence, which in part still hangs over all men. Therein lies a guidance which he did not recognise, but which is an invaluable help to him in bringing my Message to life. 

He thus learns to recognise all that is expressed in the Message, all that it contains, about which he had so far no idea in spite of reading it. 

He sees ''how'' he can delve into this Message and makes what appears to him the ever new discovery that indeed he does find ''everything'' therein; that it was only due to himself, to his weak manner of seeking, when so much escaped his attention previously. 

Not ''one'' passage can be avoided thereby! 

And this is not asking too much for a knowledge of Creation! 

Whoever finds this too much will never be able to make an end of it! I am trying to guide you along the path which is best for you. 

However, you must go along ''with me'' with firm steps, and you must not always desire to try and hurry ahead as do the readers whose superficiality I quoted to you as an example. 

It is the same, too, with my lecture about ''Woman and Man''. 

From what I know of people they will again have questions arising in their brains before they take the trouble to find an answer from the Message or in the lecture itself, and by no means last ''through observation of their fellow - men in the present life on earth''. 

It is just ''in this'' that you will discover the most, because in observing it through my Message it offers you abundant confirmation of everything I explained to you! 

But mark well, only when you regard it from the contents of my Message! 

This stipulates that you must stand in the Message aright. 

If you are able to do so then you can immediately and exactly recognise everything, absolutely everything in your surroundings, and thus you become knowing, you become wise! 

You will then read in the life on earth just as one reads in a book. 

It is opened up to you for this purpose through the Message! 

Just try it! 

Your eyes will then be quickly opened, and you will therewith have awakened. 

Do not shun any trouble to achieve what is so necessary! 

It is not that you should only see the faults of your fellow - men in this way! 

That is not how it is meant, but you should recognise ''life itself'' therein with all its consequences and changes, to which my Message is your guide and always will remain as guide in unchangeable faithfulness! 

Only ''in'' life or ''through'' life itself will you recognise all the values of my Message, and not with your pretended knowledge. 

And through the Message you can in turn view life aright, in such a way as is beneficial for you. 

Here, too, everything works in a reciprocal way, and true knowledge only comes through experiencing! 

In this way you will soon become ''one'' with the Message; it becomes life for you, because only from out of this life are you able to recognise it; for it speaks to you of life. 

Therefore you must not seek to recognise the value of the Message in the book itself, but through the observation of life! 

With eager and most careful observation of all that happens around and within yourselves you must contribute to the possibility of ''finding'' the Message ''again'' in life, out of which it speaks to you. 

''That'' is your path to the true recognition of my Words, which must bring you benefit and in the end victory over Darkness! 

Therewith quite automatically you will receive the Crown of Eternal Life, which is being permitted to exist eternally as a self - conscious being in this Creation. 

Thereby you can then co - operate in its further development by spreading blessings for the joy of peace of all creatures. 

And after my last lecture there indeed ''arose'' questions within you again! 

Questions which are bound to bring a certain oppression even, though an answer is easily to be found in the Message; for there it states consolingly that each consequence of a wrong action also contains the possibility of release and thus redemption, as soon as the human spirit learns from it and recognises the wrong. 

And yet a certain anxiety exists when a person with advanced knowledge says to himself that he is a distorted human soul, if once he was a woman on earth and the next time a man, or vice - versa. 

His soul becomes oppressed. 

That, of course, is wrong and once again throwing the child out with the bath! 

For what lies nearest to this is the recognition that such a person ''had'' distorted his soul! 

The distortion does ''not'' necessarily ''still exist''. 

In reality he has only changed his garment, the body! 

But in spite of all the changes the ''spirit'' itself always remained that which it had originally resolved  upon at the start of its wanderings through Creation; for in this respect there is also for him, as with everything in Creation, only ''one single'' and decisive free resolve to which the spirit then remains bound. 

Thus the oppression arises only from a too superficial absorption of the Message; for everyone should know from the Message that such a change could be of benefit for the one concerned. 

It does give him the possibility of putting things straight again; it induces him, indeed it helps him in the strongest way to make everything good again. The soul can even ''grow strong'' through compulsory experiences of this nature. 

Now it must not be imagined again that those whose path remained straight have missed something! 

This is not so! But where a distortion occurred through one's own wrong volition, only ''there'' can the change mercifully become beneficial in order to strengthen this distorted soul which showed such a weakness, to strengthen it to such an extent that it will not repeat the mistake. 

With this, of course, the fault has also fallen away from it! 

Now look around you for once and observe your fellow - men! 

You will soon find among them women who bear ''masculine'' characteristics in their nature. 

Just today there are more of them than ever. 

One can say that much that is womanly appears to be absolutely ''infected'' with this; for it is not difficult to understand that a woman or a girl of this kind has and ''must'' have something in her nature which is ''distorted'', because a woman naturally neither can nor should be a man. 

With that, of course, I never mean the body; for this is almost always markedly female with the exception of the hips, which in most such cases are reminiscent of the male through their narrowness, which is therefore actually ''not womanly''. 

I mention this purposely because I immediately name therewith a distinctive ''outward'' mark. 

In most cases the female body harbouring a distorted male soul will have this distinctive mark of the narrow hips inclining towards the male structure, in contradistinction to those whose soul is just beginning to strive towards the masculine in some way, be it in their opinions or in their activities, causing a propensity through which the threads develop for the next incarnation into a male body. 

It is the same with male bodies which receive broader hips inclining towards the female structure, as soon as they harbour a distorted female soul. 

Of course there are also exceptions through the degeneration of the physical structure of women, which are due to over - breeding, also to one - sided sports or wrong physical activity indulged in by mothers, the consequences of which are transferred to the children. 

We have therewith also designated two principal groups which we must keep separate from each other. 

The one group of women and girls on earth who already bear a distorted male soul within themselves, and the other group who still harbour female souls but who are striving towards the masculine due to distorted conceptions, which they have either adopted voluntarily or received through  a wrong upbringing! 

I probably need not specially mention that in the last - named cases not only the female souls themselves have to bear the consequences, but those who gave cause for this will also be woven into the threads of guilt. 

However, we do not want to digress too much with this, but remain with the two groups we have found for the present. 

Let us eliminate those still developing, for they are female souls in the process of distortion whose physical bodies, due to the density and heaviness connected therewith, naturally cannot change any more in this present life on earth. 

This is reserved for them in their next incarnation. 

But they are offered deliverance even from this! 

When in ''this'' present life they still pull themselves together and energetically shake off all that is unwomanly! 

Through this new threads must immediately form which will incline and pull towards ''female'' incarnation, while the other threads no longer receive any supply of power. 

What is finally decisive, however, is the ''exact condition'' of the soul ''at its departure'', the side towards which it is personally inclined most strongly. 

If up till then the female volition, thinking and activity has regained the upper hand within the soul, its radiation at its departure from earth will mainly strive towards ''those'' threads, and thereby revive ''such'' as lead towards the womanly; while the others after only a short and light experience in the beyond can then quickly dry up and fall off, providing they were not knotted ''too strongly'' beforehand. 

It is too possible that these wrong threads are already redeemed during the time on earth through strong womanly volition, and that the soul becomes free from them before it has to pass over. 

All this depends on the nature and strength of each particular volition, and on whether the soul incarnated on the earth has still sufficient time left before its necessary departure to do this; for the Law must be fulfilled in any case, either here on earth or after passing over. 

However, for our consideration today let us take ''only'' those distorted souls which are already incarnated in corresponding physical bodies as a result of this distortion. 

First among them the earthly womanhood in which weak masculine souls were incarnated, because in their former lives they deviated too much from purely male thinking and activity! 

This already explains that in the case of such earth women only ''weak'' male souls can be concerned. 

Thus it is not at all praiseworthy when a woman, contrary to the feminine nature, seeks to push male characteristics into the foreground or even to show them. 

A woman of this kind is not really strong in any direction as regards her thoughts and actions, neither towards the male nor towards the female direction. She would also gain more for herself ''in the earthly sense'' if she tries to suppress the distortion. 

Her experience, however, helps her to change; she must soon notice that a genuine man never feels happy in her proximity. 

He finds within himself no understanding for her. 

Much less can any harmony arise, because genuine manhood is repulsed by everything false, thus also by the masculine striving of a woman! 

A marriage between genuine man and a woman who carries within herself a distorted male soul can only take place on a purely intellectual basis. Genuine harmony will never arise therewith. 

Such a woman will in any case be automatically drawn to ''those'' men who carry within themselves a distorted female soul! 

Also the latter are subconsciously not taken seriously by men with undistorted souls. 

This unconscious intuitive perception and action, however, contains the force of truth, of reality. 

However, all the consequences of such instinctive and intuitive actions, which we can describe as ''natural'', produce an educational effect on the distorted souls who, through the painful experiences arising from their disappointments, are again bent towards the right direction, at least in many cases. 

But this does not preclude that later on they may ever again relapse into such or similar faults. 

Unless they become stronger through these  experiences they will remain like reeds swaying in the wind. 

Much, much, however, can men ''now'' spare themselves in the future by becoming knowing in these matters. 

Much suffering and much time! 

For not until now could a soul become conscious of being distorted. 

Just as it is with male souls in women's bodies so it also is with female souls in men's bodies. 

The same consequences arise for both parts out of one uniform, immutable law. 

One thing which I have already mentioned will strike you when observing your surroundings: that strangely enough female souls in men's bodies feel drawn to male souls in women's bodies, and vice versa. 

Thus here the woman with stronger intellectual volition and with predominant male characteristics feels in most cases unconsciously drawn to a man with more delicate characteristics. 

Therein lies not only an unconscious seeking for balance, but also the great Law of the attraction of Homogeneous Species is at work here. 

The homogeneous species lies ''in the distortion of the souls!'' 

The souls of both are distorted, and through this there exists a real homogeneity, the species of which attract each other in accordance with the Law. 

The attraction of the man towards the woman (sexual instinct being excluded from this) is the consequence or the effect of ''another'' law, and not that of the attraction of homogeneous species. 

For the sake of a better understanding it is appropriate if at this point I say something about the homogeneous species and explain what is to be understood by that term; for therein lies that which is decisive here. 

The attraction of the homogeneous species is not the only kind which seems to have an ''attracting'' effect. 

There is a great difference in the process of the apparent attraction. 

The attraction of homogeneous species, this great Law of Creation, however, is ''fundamental'' for ''everything striving for union'' in Creation, no matter how this happens. 

This great Law as such is the ''cause'' of all these happenings, brings them about and also regulates them. 

It floats above everything and works like a motive force in them and through them in the entire weaving of Creation. 

Therefore I first want to ''separate'' the species of attraction according to the character of their actual working, i. e ., according to their manifestation, into the genuine ''attraction'' and into the ''desire for a union'' of split parts of a definite species, such desire being forcibly brought about by this great Law which overtops and conditions everything. 

Consequently there is an ''attracting'' and a ''desiring for union'' in the working of Creation. 

The effects of both processes appear to be same outwardly. 

The inner motivating power for this, however, is entirely different. 

The ''attraction'' results from similar species which are complete within themselves, and the ''desire for union'' arises in the ''split'' species which continue to strive for the formation of a species again! 

The assertion made by people that opposites attract each other but like poles repel each other is therefore an ''apparent'' contradiction of the Law of the Attraction of Homogeneous Species. 

In reality, however, this holds no contradiction; for this man - made assertion is valid and correct for the process in which there is the desire by the various split species for union into  a definite species of full value. 

''But only in this!'' 

Only among the complete species themselves does there come into force the actual Law of the Attraction of Homogeneous Species, which in addition calls forth the motivating effect of seeking union to establish a definite species of full value. 

It swings above and in it! 

What man has hitherto recognised through his science are but the small happenings among the ''split'' species. 

He has not at all so far discovered the effect and manifestation of the real species, because on earth and in its nearer circle there exist only ''split'' species, i. e., ''small parts'' the activities and effects of which he was able to observe. 

Thus the female spirit and the male spirit are also nothing but a ''split'' species each, which in accordance with the Laws of Creation strive towards each other seeking a union, i. e., they are only small parts which by their union in turn furnish but a part to the real ''spiritual species''. 

What is here stated, however, concerns only the ''fundamental feature'' between the female and the spiritual; whereas the soul - cloaks and finally the gross material cloaks are much smaller parts of consequent splittings from other species which, according to their particular basic species, produce a desire for union and therein show definite results. 

The human being himself, for example, is no definite species, but only a splitting which carries within itself the desire for union. 

But his evil thoughts or evil deeds are a definite species which attracts the homogeneous species and is attracted by it! 

From this you see that from a split species there can issue not only split parts but a complete species. Let me give another hint here: There lies a very definite and immutable limitation in the attraction of homogeneous species. 

This also holds a greater power which is anchored in the basic law. 

The desire for union on the part of the split species, however, contains a greater freedom of movement granted through weakened power. 

For this reason ''split'' species can unite in ''various'' ways, and thus result in changing effects and forms. 

Today I can only give a brief illustration of this because all these points vary a thousandfold and we should find no end. 

Unless I open up for you ''a very definite'' path in this, which is adapted to your human capacity, you would never be able to receive a really well - rounded picture of the happenings in Creation. 

Therefore you must also follow me slowly! 

You must not try to go one step further before you have inwardly absorbed everything I explained to you correctly and ineffaceably; for otherwise you could and would become helpless on your way despite my guidance. 

You will derive no benefit from an ''unconscious'' following. 

Reflect that you are following me along a path on which I do not return with you! 

We climb up a ladder together on which there must be no single rung missing, and thus we go up rung by rung! 

If you do not experience each rung in the right way so that they become really familiar to you, it may easily happen that you suddenly lose your support on your way and must fall. 

If the rungs have not become familiar to you, have not become your own, then some day perhaps you may already stand at a considerable height, but confused; you can no longer continue upwards because you lack the secure support for this beneath your feet. 

But neither can you go back any more, because the rungs have not become sufficiently familiar for you to do so, and thus you must crash headlong down in a sudden fall! 

Do not take such a warning and admonition too lightly, for your entire existence is at stake!    

                                                                                                          THE     DISTORTED    TOOL  

THE GREATEST burden with which the human soul has encumbered itself, and which will hinder every possibility of ascent, is vanity! It has spread ruin throughout the entire Creation. 

Vanity has become the most powerful poison for the soul, because man has cherished it as a shield and mask for all his shortcomings. 

Like a narcotic it always helps to overcome psychic shocks easily. 

It is of no consideration to earthmen that this is merely an illusion, so long as it affords them satisfaction and therewith the possibility to attain some earthly goal, if only a few minutes of ridiculous self - complacency. 

It does not need to be genuine, a mere semblance will suffice! 

People speak of this vanity, of conceit, spiritual arrogance, malicious joy and so many characteristics of all earthmen in a benevolent and glossing - over way as being snares of the Lucifer principle. 

All this, however, is nothing but feeble self - excuse! 

Lucifer had no need whatever to exert himself so very much. 

It sufficed for him to tempt man to enjoy the fruit of the ''tree of knowledge'', and thus to indulge in the knowledge, thereby inducing him to over - develop his intellect. 

All that followed was brought about by man himself. 

As the worst outgrowth of the intellect (which is earthbound and gaining upper hand), vanity must be disposed of - vanity which is the root of so many evils, such as envy, hatred, slander, and the craving for all kinds of earthly pleasures and possessions. 

Everything that is ugly in this world is really anchored in vanity, which expresses itself in a great variety of ways. 

It was the urge towards outward sham which produced the ''caricature of man'' so predominant today! 

The sham being who does not deserve to be called ''man'', because in his vanity he undermined the possibility of the necessary spiritual ascent for the sake of sham, stubbornly blocking all the natural connecting lines given to him for his activity and spiritual maturing, and wantonly burying them  entirely against the Creator's Will! 

The effect of raising the earthbound intellect to the position of an idol was in itself sufficient to change the entire course which the Creator had designed for man in His Creation. 

Lucifer claimed it as a triumph for himself that the human soul had ventured to interfere with its physical body in such a manner as to make it utterly impossible for the soul to fulfil its willed activity in Creation. 

In order to sharpen the intellect man feverishly promoted the one - sided cultivation of ''that'' part of the brain which is exclusively devoted to working in the World of Gross Matter, namely the frontal brain. 

This resulted in the automatic repression and curtailment of the activity of the spiritually ''receiving'' part of the human brain. 

Consequently the ability to comprehend spiritual things was rendered more difficult, and in the course of thousands of years earthmen even entirely lost ''spiritual'' understanding. 

Thus he now stands forsaken and ''useless'' in Creation! 

Cut off from the possibility of spiritual recognition and ascent, and consequently also cut off from God! 

''That'' is the work of Lucifer! 

He had no need to do anything more! 

He could then leave earthman to himself, watching him sink from one step to another and thus remove himself further and further from God, all as a consequence of this single act! 

For those men who make the genuine effort to ''think'' objectively just for once it is not at all difficult to observe this. 

It is easily understandable that intellectual activity also bears within itself the conceit which comes of an insistence on knowing better, the obstinate perseverance in everything which such activity considers right, for man has ''thought'' as far as he was able to think in these matters. 

He has reached ''his'' highest limit in thinking! Man cannot know that this limit is a ''low'' one because of the earthbound condition of his frontal brain, and that therefore he ''cannot'' penetrate any further with his intellect. 

For ''this reason'' he will always believe and aver that with ''his'' limit he has also achieved what is ''right''. 

If he hears something different he will always give greater credence to and consider right what ''he'' has thought out. 

This remains the peculiarity of every intellect, and thus of all intellectuals! 

As I have already pointed out once it is the task of one portion of the brain substance ''to receive what is spiritual like an antenna'', while the other portion, which produces the intellect, transforms what has been received for use in the Gross Material World. 

Conversely the frontal brain which produces the intellect is likewise supposed to take in all the impressions from the World of Matter, and so transform them that the back brain can receive them and use them for the further development and maturing of the spirit. 

Both parts, however, are intended to work ''together'', for it has been so decreed by the Creator! 

Due to the intervention caused by the one - sided cultivation of the frontal brain, the latter became over - dominating in its activity, thus disturbing the necessary harmonious co - operation between the two brains, and consequently all healthy activity in  Creation. 

The development of the portion meant to receive spiritual impressions lagged behind, while the frontal brain, which became more and more active through training, had long since ceased to receive through the back brain the pure vibrations from Luminous Heights necessary for its work, and for transmission into the World of Gross Matter. 

Instead it absorbs its working substance for the most part from its material environment and from thought - forms only, which it sends out again remodelled as its own production. 

There are only a few people today whose ''receptive'' portion of the brain co - operates harmoniously at least ''to some extent'' with the frontal brain. These people rise above the ordinary level and distinguish themselves through great inventions or through an amazing reliability in their capacity to perceive intuitively, which enables them quickly to grasp many things that can only be attained by others through laborious study. 

These are the people of whom it is enviously said that they ''receive it in their sleep!'' 

They confirm the saying: ''The Lord gives it to His own in their sleep!'' 

By ''His own'' are meant those who still use their implements in accordance with the Creator's decree, i. e., those who are what He wills them to be and who, like the wise virgins, continually replenished the oil in their lamps; for these alone can ''recognise'' the Bridegroom when He comes. 

Only they  are really ''awake''! 

All the others are ''asleep'' in their self - imposed limitations! 

They rendered themselves incapable of ''recognising'' because they did not keep the requisite ''tools'' in proper order. 

Without the ''harmonious co - operation of that portion of the brain meant to receive spiritual impressions, the frontal brain is like lamp without oil! Persons of mediumistic ability ''cannot'' so easily be included in the above category. 

While it is true that the receptive part of their brain necessarily functions more or less well, during this receptive activity the frontal brain of such mediums, which is meant for the earthly transmission of what is received, becomes fatigued. 

Due to the determined volition of some dweller in the beyond, the proceedings bring exceptional pressure to bear upon the receptive portion of the medium's brain, and this consequently calls for a more powerful counter - pressure, which in turn automatically draws blood from the frontal brain, i. e., the warmth which is engendered by movement, with the result that the frontal brain comes to a partial or complete standstill. 

It co - operates only sluggishly or not at all. 

This withdrawal of blood would not be necessary if the receptive brain had not been seriously weakened by the suppression. 

This gives the cause why the transmission of a medium, either verbally or in writing, does not appear to be ''so well'' remodelled for earthly comprehension as it must necessarily be if it is to be ''correctly'' understood by earthly conceptions, such as computation of space and time. 

This also gives the cause why mediums who often foresee earthly events, catastrophes or the like, can rarely in their utterances or writings forecast the earthly time accurately. 

A medium receives the ''ethereal'' impression and passes it on verbally or in writing with little or nom alteration at all for the Gross Material World. 

This naturally results in misunderstanding on the part of those who view things from a purely gross material standpoint. 

The ethereal impression differs from the gross material effect which manifests later on. 

For in the World of Ethereal Matter the contrasts  are sharper and richer, with corresponding effects. 

Now it frequently happens that mediums depict nothing but ethereal things without alteration, because the frontal brain cannot follow up with its work of remodelling and is quiescent. 

Then the ''picture'' of an event and the ''times'' given differ, for ethereal conceptions of time also differ from earthly conceptions. 

Consequently predictions and descriptions of the same happening will sound different from almost every mediumistic person, depending on the degree of co - operation possible by their frontal brain, which can only in very rare cases achieve the complete transformation necessary for earthly conceptions. If those dwelling in the beyond, however, are striving to re - establish connection between the World of Ethereal Matter and the World of Gross Matter, which had been severed by earthmen, then no exactions or ridiculously presumptuous judgements on the part of ignoramuses and intellectuals shall be further tolerated, for such efforts must be taken with absolute seriousness, so that what has been spoiled by conceited vanity can again be restored. 

All fanatics, zealots and mystics must also be excluded from participating, for in reality they are even more detrimental than the intellectuals! 

If both parts of the brain of earthmen could co - operate harmoniously, as the Creator ordained they should, then the transmissions of the mediums would be given in conceptions of time suitable to the World of Gross Matter. 

As it is, however, the more nor less extensive withdrawal of blood from the frontal brain causes derangements and distortions. 

To correct them requires diligent study through observation. 

But it deserves neither the ridicule nor the aspersion of fraudulent intentions, such as the spiritually indolent love to suggest. 

As in all fields so also in this there will naturally always be people with a pretense to knowledge who bask in their ''proficiency'' in these things, and who make themselves completely ridiculous, not to mention others with sordid aims! 

But such can be found everywhere, and it affords no justification for besmirching the work itself or those seriously engaged upon it in such a flagrant manner! 

This kind of conduct which disparages everything that cannot yet be understood is again nothing but an expression of ridiculous vanity, a sign of irresponsible stupidity which has become habitual among these people. 

But there is nothing that is great or sublime which has ''not'' in the beginning incurred the enmity of mankind. 

Not excluding the utterances of Christ Jesus, Who fared no differently Himself! 

Such scoffers show only too clearly that they go through life blindfolded, or at least with obvious narrow - mindedness! 

Let  us take a glance around us! 

He who goes on his way scoffing at the previsions and forecasts of terrible happenings which accumulate from all sides, and who refuses to see that many of them are already being fulfilled, that natural catastrophes are increasing from one week to the next, ''is'' either narrow - minded or does not yet want to recognise anything because of a certain fear! 

These are narrow - minded or cowardly who dare not face the facts! 

In any case they are harmful creatures! 

He who does not yet wish to recognise the great economic distress which steadily increases in every country on earth, nor see in the consequent confusion and helplessness a disastrous set back, just because he himself still happens to have enough to eat and drink - such a person no longer deserves to be called a man, for he must be inwardly corrupt and blunted to the suffering of others. 

''All this has already happened before!'' 

That is what they thoughtlessly reply! 

It is true that such events have taken place before, ''but singly'', and not in the same conditions as today, not with all this knowledge men boast of and with all the precautionary measures which can now be taken. 

That is as different as day is from night! 

Above all there was never such an ''accumulation'' of events! 

In past times a gap of years occurred between natural catastrophes. 

Such happenings excited all civilised nations and were talked and written about for months, while today they are dismissed from the mind within a few hours at a dance or in everyday conversation. 

This is a difference which people do not want to see on account of fear which manifests itself in frivolity, in a wanton refusal to understand! 

''The people must not be disturbed!'' 

That is the order which has gone forth! 

Not out of love for humanity, however, but only for fear that mankind might make demands with which no one could cope any longer! 

The attempts made to calm the public are often so crude that none but the ''indifference'' humanity, with that obtuseness that prevails today, can listen to them in silence! 

Nobody bothers to recognise and remonstrate against these efforts as being antagonistic to the Sublime Will of God! 

God ''wills'' that men should recognise these warnings which speaks so plainly to them in the march of events! 

They ''are meant'' to awaken out of their irresponsible spiritual lethargy in order to reflect and retrace their steps in time, before it becomes necessary that they themselves must experience all the afflictions they can still see their fellow - men suffering. 

It is rebellion against God on the part of those who try to prevent this with comforting words! 

Unfortunately, however, mankind are only too susceptible to every word which tends to absolve them from personal spiritual activity, hence they like to listen to the most peculiar utterances, accept them faithfully, and in fact ''desire'' to have them; even spread and advocate them rather than be disturbed from their peace and comfort! 

And beloved vanity beats time to this, proving the best support of all those weeds which, like vanity itself, grow as the fruit of the intellectual domination which is hostile to God! 

Vanity will never permit the recognition of the Truth, no matter where it is to be found. 

What it achieves in this respect is proved by the attitude of this mankind to the life on earth of the Son of God which, in its true and great simplicity, does not satisfy the vain minds of men. 

The believer wants ''his'' Saviour only in accordance with ''his own'' ideas. 

Therefore he embellishes the earthly mission of the Son of God, Christ Jesus, with events of his own fabrication! According to man's opinion and solely because of his ''humility'' towards all that is Divine, this Saviour, being the Son of God, must also be absolutely ''supernatural''! 

But in so thinking they do not realise that God Himself is ''the Perfection of all that is natural'', and that Creation developed out of this His perfect Naturalness through His Will. 

Perfection, however, also bears the unchangeable within itself. 

If there could possibly be an exception in the Laws of Creation, which correspond with the Will of God, they would be bound to contain a gap and thus lack perfection. 

Man's humility, however, sets itself above all this! 

For as regards the life of the Son of God on earth it expects, indeed ''demands'', an alteration in the existing Laws of Creation, thus a trespass against them. 

And just from Him Who had come to fulfil  all the Laws of His Father, as He Himself said! 

They expect from Him things which must simply be impossible according to the laws of natural development. 

And just ''by that'' is His Divinity to manifest Itself, the Divine Which carries the Living Source of the Natural Laws within Itself! 

Yes, man's humility can achieve a great deal! 

But its true face bears the stamp of ''exaction'', and not of genuine humility! 

The greatest presumption and the worst form of spiritual arrogance! 

Sweet vanity just covers this with a thin cloak which bears a semblance of humility! 

It is indeed sad that so often even those who have a really good volition allow themselves, in their initial and quite genuine humility, unwittingly to be carried away by their enthusiasm to commit the most incredible things! 

They gave play to their imagination, and the subsequent transmissions did great harm! 

Thus the child Jesus was already supposed to have performed the greatest miracles, even during the childhood games played by every child who is healthy and spiritually alert. 

The small birds which he modelled from ordinary clay ''came to life'' and flew into the air singing merrily, and many other such things! 

Such happenings are ''simply impossible, because they are contrary to all the Divine Laws in Creation!'' 

Otherwise God the Father might just as well have placed His Son upon the earth as ''a fully mature man!'' 

What was the need of a human mother? 

Why the inconvenience of a birth? 

Are men unable to think in ''simple'' terms for once? 

It is their personal vanity which deters them! 

In their opinion the life of the Son of God on earth ''must'' be different. 

''They'' want it this way so that ''their'' Saviour and ''their'' Redeemer should not be subject to the Laws of God in Creation. 

Actually in their view this would not have been too small for ''Him'', the Son of God, but it surely would have been for all those who wish to recognise their Redeemer in Him! 

Human vanity, and nothing else! 

They fail to realise how even greater it was for Jesus voluntarily to subject Himself to these Laws by becoming flesh in order to bring the Truth in the Word to those who, through the distortion of their earthly tool, had wantonly rendered themselves incapable of receiving and recognising the Truth of their own accord. 

They were much too conceited to see Christ's Mission fulfilled in the Word Itself. 

For them, vain men that they are, ''greater'' things had to come to pass! 

And when the Son of God suffered physical death upon the cross, dying just as any man must die when crucified because it corresponds with the Divine Laws in Creation, when His human body could not simply descend unharmed from the cross, then vanity had no other choice but to assert that the Son of God had to die in this way, that in order to bear the sins of the poor little men ''He did not wish to step down from the cross'', so that they can now be joyfully received into the Kingdom of Heaven! 

And thus the foundation was laid for the later belief in the ''necessity'' of the death on the cross, that great and tragic error prevalent among Christians today, which is entirely due to the vanity of men! If there is no longer any man who wishes to recognise that such thinking can only arise out of shameless conceit - to the joy of Lucifer who presented man with vanity in order to ruin him - then their no longer any help for humanity and all is in vain! 

Even the greatest and strongest warnings in Nature cannot arouse them from their spiritual sleep! 

Why does not man think any further? 

If it would have been possible for Christ to have risen from the dead in the flesh, then it follows that one could just as logically expect it to be possible for Him to descend to the earth already matured in the flesh, from that sphere to which He was supposed to have ascended physically at His resurrection! That this did not happen, however, that on the contrary from the very beginning He had to live through the phases that every human body is subject to from birth onwards, with all their great and minor troubles, and also face the many other needs of His earthly life, clearly enough speaks against this conception. 

Quite apart from the fact that it could not be otherwise because the Son of God also had to submit Himself to the Perfect Laws of His Father in Creation! 

He who wishes to enter Creation and live upon the earth is subject to the Immutable Laws of Creation! 

All assertions to the contrary are inventions, created in their enthusiasm by men themselves, and then bequeathed as the Truth! 

The same happened with all traditions, regardless of whether they were passed on verbally or in writing. 

Human vanity plays a great role in this! Very seldom indeed do they issue from the human hand, voice or even brain without something being added! Second - hand records never constitute a proof on which posterity should rely. 

Man only needs to observe current events closely! Let us take just one example which received world - wide publicity! 

Newspapers in all countries ''published reports'' of the mysterious ''castle'' on Vomperberg, of which I was supposed to be the owner! 

I was described as ''the Messiah of the Tyrol'' or ''the Prophet of Vomperberg'' with great and prominent headlines, even in the leading newspapers which wish to be taken seriously! 

There were weird and mysterious accounts of numerous underground tunnels, of temples, of knights both in black and silver armour, of an unheard - of cult, also of great parks, automobiles, stables, and whatever else could be invented by diseased brains that could report such things. 

Details were quoted, some based on beautiful phantasy and others so disgustingly filthy that anyone giving a little thought to the matter could not fail immediately to recognise the lies and malevolence behind it! 

And there was ''not one word of truth'' in any of these reports! 

If, however, after centuries or, better still, in thousands of years to come, some person reads one of these evil and scurrilous articles . . . who can blame him for wanting to believe it and saying: ''Here it is, reported and published, and the same in nearly every newspaper and language!'' 

And all this was nothing but a reflection of the decadent brains of this time! 

With their own works they stamped themselves with the proof of their depravity, ready for the coming Judgment! 

This happened even ''today'' in spite of every facility for speedily obtaining accurate information ''before'' publication. 

What must it have been like in former times, in the days of Jesus, when everything could only be passed on by word of mouth? 

How greatly subject to alteration are such verbal transmissions! 

This applies equally to written records and letters. 

It takes on the characteristics of an avalanche! 

Already partially misunderstood at the start, in this way there always arises something different to the original facts. 

How much of what has been heard has been written down at second, third or even tenth hand only, but which has now come to be regarded as the original basis! 

Surely men should know their fellow - men! 

As soon as they can no longer make use of the scaffolding of their intellect - which is the case with all truth ''on account of its great simplicity'' - they are not satisfied. 

They either reject or change it in a manner that suits their beloved vanity! 

For this reason ''mysticism'' is preferred to the simple truth! 

The great craving for ''mysticism'', for everything mysterious, which is engrained within every person is vanity, and not the urge for truth as is so often depicted! 

''Self - complacency'' constructed the unhealthy way upon which hosts of idle enthusiasts can sun themselves, and upon which many who are spiritually indolent allow themselves leisurely to drift! 

In all these matters the vanity of man plays a devastating and dismal role, dragging him tenaciously and irretrievably down to destruction, because he has come to love it! 

He would be seized with consternation if he could but once master himself sufficiently to reflect about it objectively and without self - complacency! 

But again that is just the difficulty! 

He cannot do anything without being self - complacent! 

Thus many will probably have to remain in this state until they perish from it! 

This fact in all its tragedy is the result which, consequent upon the Fall of Man, was forcibly brought about by the prevention of the harmonious development of the brain in the earthly body entrusted to him. 

The distortion of the tool indispensable to man in this Gross Material World through its one - sided development has thereby exacted its revenge. 

Now man stands ''unharmoniously'' in Creation with his gross material tool, his physical body, incapable of performing the task he has to fulfil therein, rendered useless by himself! 

To eradicate the root of all this evil the intervention of God is necessary! 

Every other power and authority, however great, is inadequate to achieve this! 

It constitutes the greatest and most devastating contamination in man's false volition that ever found its way into Creation. 

''Everything'' on this earth will have to collapse before any improvement can come about, because there is nothing in existence which is not already irretrievably pervaded by it!      

                                                                                                       THE    DESTROYED    BRIDGE

IT IS pitiable to see how diligently man on earth works at his retrogression and thus at his destruction under the delusion that he is thereby striding upwards! Earthman! 

A bitter taste is attached to the name of this creature for everything in Creation weaving in the Will of God, and it would seem better for man if this name were no longer uttered, because whenever it is mentioned vexation and uneasiness penetrate the entire Creation at the same time, something that lays a burden upon mankind on earth; for this vexation, this uneasiness, are a living accusation which forms itself automatically and must confront all mankind on earth adversely. 

Due to his wrong activity, which made itself conspicuous in this Creation by hindering, disturbing, and continually doing harm, man on earth has at last become an outlaw through himself, through his ridiculous pretence of knowing everything better! 

He has stubbornly and forcibly brought on his expulsion, because he made himself incapable of simply ''receiving'' God's blessings in humility. 

He wanted to make himself the creator, the achiever, he wanted to force the activity of the Almighty into complete submission to his earthly will! 

There is no word which could properly describe such conceited arrogance in its boundless stupidity! 

Just delve into this hardly credible behaviour yourselves! 

Imagine man on earth, and how by assuming an air of importance he wishes to place himself above the mechanism of this marvellous work of a Divine Creation (which has up till now remained unknown to him) in order to direct it, rather than willingly fitting himself into it as a small part thereof . . . you will not then know whether to laugh or to weep! 

A toad standing before a high rock and wanting to order it to move out of its way does not produce quite so ludicrous an effect as does present - day man in his mad ambition towards his Creator! 

To envisage this must also arouse disgust within every human spirit who now comes to awakening in the Judgment. 

He will be seized with dismay, shuddering and horror when, through recognising the Luminous Truth, he suddenly sees everything before him just ''as'' it has ''really'' been for a long time, although he was unable in the past to notice it in this way. 

Filled with shame, he then wants to flee to the end of all the worlds! 

And the covering veil will now be torn to pieces, ground to powder as the grey remnants flutter here and there, until the Ray of Light can stream freely into the souls which are deeply tormented with remorse, those who in newly awakened humbleness want to bow before their Lord and God, Whom they were no longer able to recognise through the chaos which the earthbound intellect brought about at all times when it was allowed unlimited domination. 

But you must thoroughly experience disgust at the deeds and thoughts of the earthmen ''upon'' yourselves, and also ''within'' yourselves first, before you can be redeemed from it. 

You must taste disgust ''as'' thoroughly as every Envoy from the Light always had to experience through the villainous depravity of mankind on earth, which is hostile to the Light! 

In no other way can you obtain redemption! It is the sole redeeming reciprocal action of your guilt, which you are now ''compelled'' to live through yourselves, because it cannot be forgiven you in any other way! 

You will already enter upon this experience very soon - the sooner it touches you the easier it will become for you! 

May it at the same time open up the way for you to the Luminous Heights! 

And again womanhood will have to feel the ignominy ''first'' because her downfall now compels her to expose herself to these things. 

Frivolously she has put herself into a position where she will now be forced down at the feet of brutalised manhood. 

It is with anger and contempt that manhood on earth will now flare up and look down upon all women who are no longer capable of giving ''that'' for which the Creator had designated them, that which man so urgently needs for his activity. 

This is ''self - respect'', which first makes every true man a man! Self - respect, not self - conceit! 

However, man can only have self - respect through looking up to ''womanly dignity'', to protect which gives him respect for himself - and upholds it! 

''That'' is the great secret between woman and man, the secret which has never been uttered before, which is able to spur him on to great and pure deeds here on earth, which glows purifyingly through all thinking, thus spreading a holy shimmer of high longing for the Light over the whole of life on earth. But all this has been taken away from man through woman, who quickly succumbed to Lucifer's enticements through the ludicrous vanities of the earthly intellect. 

With the awakening of the recognition of this great guilt, man will now regard womanhood as only ''that'' which she was really bound to become on account of her wilfulness. 

But although this disgrace brings pain it is nothing but a strong help for ''those'' female souls who awaken under the just blows of the Judgment, and who through their recognition see the enormity of the theft which they perpetrated on man with their false vanity; for they will have to muster all their strength to regain the dignity they lost, the dignity which they threw from themselves like some worthless property which hindered them on their chosen path downwards. 

You have not yet become quite clear about the burden of the harmful consequences, the burden which was bound to fall upon the whole earth's humanity when earthly womanhood, through wrong actions, zealously sought for the greater part to destroy the bridges that connected her with the streams of Light. 

The harmful consequences are a ''hundredfold'' and multiform, working in all directions. 

You need only try and place yourselves in the course of the inevitable outworkings that accord with the Laws of Creation! 

The recognition is then not at all difficult! 

Once again think of the simple process which takes place in strict lawfulness: As soon as woman tries to become masculine in her thoughts and actions this volition already takes corresponding effect - first of all upon everything of her which is closely connected with (higher) substantiality, then also with ethereal substance, as well as after a very definite period with fine gross matter! 

The consequence is that with her attempts at positive activity, which is contrary to the task of woman on earth, all the more refined elements of her womanly nature are repressed because they are passive, and they finally release themselves from her, since through lack of use they gradually lose strength and are drawn off the woman by the same basic species. 

The bridge is then broken down which enables earthwoman through her passive nature to absorb higher radiations and to mediate them to the coarser World of Matter, in which she is anchored with a very definite strength by her body. 

But this is also the ''very'' bridge a soul needs for earthly incarnation into the physical body! 

If this bridge is missing it is made impossible for any soul to enter the growing body; for the soul of itself cannot step across the gulf that was bound to arise this way. 

If this bridge is partly broken down, however, which depends on the nature and strength of woman's desire to become masculine through her activities, it is nevertheless possible for souls to incarnate which are in the same way neither completely masculine nor completely feminine, and which therefore form ugly, unharmonious mixtures; later on these hold all sorts of unquenchable longings, they never feel understood during their life on earth, and are thus a constant source of unrest and discontent to themselves and to their surroundings. 

It would be better for such souls, as well as for their later earthly surroundings, if they had never found an opportunity to incarnate; for they only burden themselves with guilt and will never redeem anything, because in reality they do not belong on this earth. 

The opportunity and possibility for such incarnations which are not willed by Creation, thus by the Will of God, is proffered only by ''those'' women who through their capricious ways and ridiculous vanity, as well as through the degrading craving for a sham importance, are inclined to become to some extent masculine, no matter how it is expressed! 

Delicate, ''genuinely female'' souls are never incarnated through such unwomanly women, and thus the female sex on earth is gradually completely poisoned, because this eccentricity has become ever more widespread, attracting more and more new souls of this kind, souls which can neither be wholly female nor wholly male, thus spreading what is neither genuine nor harmonious on earth. 

Fortunately the wise Laws of Creation have also drawn a sharp line even in such matters; for through distortion of this nature, violently brought about by a wrong volition, there first of all occur difficult premature births, then children who are liable to illness, who are nervous and have torn intuitive perceptions, and finally after a very definite period sterility sets in, so that a nation which allows its womanhood to strive towards the unsuitable state of manliness is sentenced to slow extinction. 

Naturally this does not happen from one day to the next, so that it would become glaringly conspicuous to the people living at the time, but a happening of this kind must also proceed along the path of development. 

Even if slowly, it will yet be surely! And a few generations need to vanish first before the consequences of such an evil on the part of womanhood can be halted or made good in order to restore a people from a decline to a state of health and save it from total extinction. 

It is an adamantine Law that wherever the size and strength of the two beams of the Cross of Creation are unable to swing in perfect harmony and purity, i. e., where the positive masculine as well as the negative feminine do not remain equally strong and undistorted (whereby the equal - armed Cross would also become distorted), decline and finally also destruction are bound to follow so that Creation will again become free of such absurdities. 

Therefore no people can ascend or be happy unless they possess genuine, unadulterated womanhood, in whose wake alone genuine manhood can and must develop itself. 

A thousand things spoil genuine womanhood in this way. 

Therefore all the consequences show themselves in quite different ways, more or less severe in their harmful effects! 

But they will always appear without fail! 

I do not yet wish to speak here of the frivolous imitation of men's evil habits by women, of which smoking probably counts as the first; for this is a plague entirely by itself, forming a crime against humanity such as man of the present time hardly dares to imagine. 

With a closer recognition of the Laws in Creation, the unjustified and thoughtless presumption of the smoker even to indulge in his vice out of doors, thereby poisoning God's gift of fresh, upbuilding air, which is meant to be available to every creature, will very soon vanish, especially when he must experience that this bad habit is the seat of many a disease under the scourge of which today's humanity groans. 

Quite apart from the smokers themselves, having to breathe in such tobacco smoke hampers the normal development of many an organs in infants and children, especially the necessary firmness and strengthening of the liver, which is particularly important for every person, because when functioning in the ''right'' and healthy manner it can prevent the establishment of a cancerous centre as the surest and best means of resistance to this plague. 

In most cases the woman of today has chosen a wrong path for herself. 

She strives to ''rid'' herself of womanliness, be it in sports, in excesses or diversions, but mostly through participating in ''positive spheres of activity'' which fall to and must also remain with manhood if there is to be genuine ascent and peace. 

Through this everything on earth has already become fundamentally disarranged, has lost its equilibrium. 

Even the ever - increasing and more violent disputations, as well as the failures, can only be traced to the wilful ''mixing'' of the positive and negative activities among all human beings on earth, which activities Creation stipulated should ''remain pure'' only. 

The confusion forcibly brought about in this way can have no other consequence but decline and destruction. 

How foolish are you human beings that you do not wish to learn to recognise the simplicity of God's Laws, which in their absolute consistency are so easy to observe! It is true that you possess wise sayings which you like to quote! 

Even this one sentence tells you much: Small causes, great effects! 

But you do not follow them! It never occurs to you to look for the small cause first of all in the things happening around you which threaten, afflict and oppress you, so that by avoiding ''this'' the great effects cannot even arise! 

This is much too simple for you! 

Therefore you prefer first to tackle the severe effects only, if at all possible with a lot of noise, so that the action will also be fully valued and bring you earthly fame! 

But you will ''never'' attain victory in this way, no matter how well you believe yourselves to be equipped for it, unless you condescend in all simplicity to look for ''the causes'', so that by avoiding all of them you can for ever banish the severe consequences. 

And again you cannot find the causes unless you learn to recognise in humility the mercies of God, Who gave you everything in Creation that can protect you from every misfortune! 

As long as you lack the humility to receive God's mercies gratefully you will remain entangled in your wrong actions and thoughts until the final fall which must inevitably lead you to eternal damnation! 

And this last moment lies before you! 

You are already standing with one foot in the gate! 

The next step will let you fall into bottomless depths! 

Consider this well! 

Pull yourselves back and leave behind the flat earthly life, without form and warmth, which you preferred to lead hitherto! 

At last become ''such'' human beings as the Will of God wishes further to tolerate in Creation in the future! 

In doing so you fight ''for yourselves'', since your God, by Whose Grace you were granted to fulfil your urge for a conscious existence in this Creation, does not need you! 

Remember this at all times, and thank Him with every breath which you are allowed to take through HIs boundless Love!