THE WORSHIP OF GOD
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THINE AM I LORD, TO THEE ALONE IN GRATITUDE LORD , I DEDICATE MY EXISTENCE, DO ACCEPT MY VOLITION , AND GRANT ME THE LIVING HELP OF THY POWER, GOD!
THE DIVINE LOVE OF PIREST JUSTIFICATION (JUSTICE)
THE DIVINE LOVE OF PIREST JUSTIFICATION (JUSTICE)
THE WORSHIP OF GOD
THE WORSHIP OF GOD
IT CAN safely be stated that man have never yet understood, much less practised, the worship of God, which should be absolutely natural to him.
Just consider for a moment how the worship of God, had been carried on so far!
Man only know how to plead, or still better said, how to beg!
Only now and then does it happen that prayers of thanksgiving ascend which really come from the heart.
However, that is a great exception and occurs only when a person ''unexpectedly'' receives a very special gift or when he is ''suddenly'' rescued from a great danger.
Unexpectedness and suddenness are necessary before he will arouse himself to utter a prayer of thanks.
The tremendous things may fall undeserved into his lap, but so long as this happens in a quiet and normal way, it would never occur to him, or only very seldom, to think of offering thanks.
If he and all his loved ones, are always blessed with good health and if he has no material cares, he will hardly bring himself to utter an earnest prayer of thanksgiving.
In order to arouse a stronger emotion right within himself man unfortunately need a very ''special'' incentive.
Whenever all is well with him he will never bestir himself of his own free-will.
He may perhaps talk about it now and then or go to church in order to murmur prayers of thanks, but it will never occur to him to put his whole soul into it, not even for a single minute!
Only if real misfortune befalls him will he ''then'' very quickly remember that there is One Who is able to help him.
Fear finally drives him to stammer prayers for once!
However, even then it is always merely begging, and never worshipping!
''Such'' is the man who still thinks he is ''good'' and calls himself a believer!
But there are few enough of then on earth and even they are laudable exceptions!
Just ponder over this deplorable state of affairs!
After care consideration how does it strike you as human beings?
Then how much more despicable must such a personal appear in the eyes of his God!
Yet unfortunately this is reality!
Turn and twist as you will, these facts would remain when you trouble to investigate closely and without trying to make excuses.
It must leave you somewhat depressed, for neither begging nor thanksgiving, belong to worship!
Worship, means ''reverence''!
But this is really not to be found anywhere on earth!
Just look at the festivals or celebrations which are intended to honour God and in which, as an exception, begging and pleading are for once left out!
There are oratorios!
Pick out the singers who worship God with their singing!
Observe them as they prepare themselves in the concert hall or church!
They all want to achieve something that will please the ''people".
In this respect God is a matter of indifference to them!
Just He in Whose honour it is supposed to be given!
Look at the conductor!
He invites applause -- he wants to show the people what he can do!
Then go further! Look at the proud buildings, the churches and cathedrals, which are supposed to have been raised in honour of God!
The artists, the architects, and the builders only strive for gross material earthly acknowledgement.
Every city ''shows off'' these buildings -- for its own renown!
They must even serve to attract strangers, not indeed for the purpose of worshipping God, but so that their money shall flow into the town through increased business!
Wherever you look it is nothing but craving for earthly externals!
All these things, under the pretext of worshipping God!
Here and there one may still find a person whose soul will unfold in the forest or on the mountain heights, and who may even give a fleeting thought to the greatness of the Creator of all the beauty around him, but a Creator pushed into the far distant background.
His soul unfolds, but not to take jubilant flights upwards - it really expands in a luxurious feeling of enjoyment!
This may not be mistaken for soaring upwards!
It really has no other value than the pleasure derived by a glutton from a richly - laden table!
Such an expansion of the soul is erroneously taken for worship; but it remains a shallow ecstasy, a ''personal'' feeling of well - being, which is mistakenly sensed as gratitude to the Creator.
But is merely a earthly happening!
There are also many nature enthusiasts, who take their ecstasy to be genuine worship of God.
They also imagine that they are far superior to those who have no possibility of enjoying the scenic beauties of the earth.
It is a crude, pharasaical view, having it's origin only in a personal feeling of well - being - sham gold, utterly worthless!
When the time come for such people to seek in their souls for the treasures which can be used for their ascent, they will find their inner shrine completely empty, for what they imagined to be a treasure was only ecstasy at the sight of beauty, nothing else!
Genuine veneration for their Creator, was very much lacking!
The real worship of God does not show itself in ecstasy, in murmuring prayers, in begging, kneeling, and wringing one's hands, nor in blissful shuddering - but rather in joyful ''activity''!
In the jubilant acceptance of life on earth!
In the thorough enjoyment of every moment!
This means nothing to make full use of it, which in turn means - to experience!
Not, however, in gambling and dancing or wasting time, which are harmful to body and soul, and which the intellect seeks and needs as a balance and stimulant to it's activity, but in looking upwards to the Light and It's Will, which alone furthers, uplifts, and ennobles ''all'' that exists in Creation!
The fundamental condition for this, however, is the exact knowledge of the Divine Laws in Creation.
These show man how he must ''live'' if he wishes to be healthy in body and ; they point path leading upwards to the Spiritual Realm.
But they also enable him to recognise clearly the horrors he will have to face if he opposes these Laws!
As the inexorable and adamantine Laws in Creation operate vitally and automatically, with a power against which human spirits are entirely helpless, it stands to reason that the most urgent need of every human being must be the ''thorough recognition'' of these very Laws, to the effects of which he remains absolutely defenceless in every respect.
And yet men are so narrow - minded that they heedlessly tried to overlook this clear and simple necessity, although there is nothing of great importance to them!
It is well - known that mankind never hits ''simplest'' thoughts!
In this, strangely enough, every animal is wiser than man.
It adapts itself to Creation and is furthered therein as long as man do not seek to hinder it.
Man , however, want to be master over something to which, with it's independent activity, he is and will always remain subject.
No sooner has he learned to turn to his profit minute fractions of certain radiations, or learned to apply in some way the effects of air, water, and fire, than he thinks in his conceit he is already ''masters over'' these forces!
But he does not consider that before he can make his relatively minor applications he ''first has to learn'' and observe how to make complete ''use'' of the already existing conditions or forces, according to their ''specific nature''.
He must try to adapt himself if he wishes for success
He is the one who must to do so!
This is not ruling or conquering, but submitting and adapting himself to the existing Laws.
Through this man at last realise that only by adapting himself can he learn and receive any benefit!
With this in mind he should gratefully go forward!
But no!
Instead he gives himself airs and even more arrogantly than ever!
And in those particular instances where for once he bows to and serves the Divine Will in Creation, thereby immediately receiving visible benefits, he childishly tries to pose as conqueror, a subduer of nature!
This senseless attitude is climax of stupidity, as a result of which he blindly overlooks that which is really great.
For if he had the right attitude will actually be a conqueror - over himself and his vanity!
Because he would see on sober examination that in all his notable achievements he had previously bowed to and studied what already existed!
This alone will bring him success!
Every inventor and everyone achieving something really great have adapted their thinking and volition to the existing Laws of Nature.
Whatever resists or even wishes to oppose these Laws will be smothered, crushed and shattered.
It could never really come to life!
As it is with minor experiences, so also man's whole existence, and with man himself.
Man, who not only has to live the short span on earth but also wander the whole Creation, must of necessity possess the knowledge of the laws to which ''the whole Creation'', and not merely the nearest visible environment of man remains subject.
If he does not possess this knowledge he will be hampered, delayed, hurt, thrown back or even crushed, because in his ignorance, he could not go along ''with'' the power - currents of the laws, but fitted himself into them so wrongly that they had to press him down instead of lifting him up.
A human spirit who stubbornly and blindly tries to reject facts, the effects of which he ''must'' daily recognise everywhere, does not appear great or admirable but rather ridiculous if he makes fundamental use of them for his activity and for every kind of technical work, yet not for himself and his souls.
In his earthly life and activity the spirit ''always'' has the opportunity to observe the absolute steadiness and uniformity of all the basic effects of the laws, providing he does not thoughtlessly or even hostile close himself to them and remain asleep.
In this respect there is no exception in all Creation, not even for a human soul!
The human spiritual beings "must submit" to The Laws of Creation, if their activity, is for ennoblement and furthering progressive development.
In the most superficial way men have up till now completely overlooked this simple self - evident fact.
So simple did it appear that by virtue of it's very simplicity it was bound to become the most difficult thing for him to recognise, so difficult indeed that in time it proved impossible for him to do so.
So today man faces ruin, the psychic breakdown, which must demolish everything he has built up!
Only one thing could save him - - - a thorough knowledge of The Divine Laws in Creation!
This alone would help him onward and upward again, and with all that he attempts to build up in the future!
Do not argue that, being human spirits, you cannot so easily recognise the Laws in Creation, and that it is difficult to distinguish between the truth and the false conclusions!
That is not so!
Whosoever says this is either trying once more to use it to conceal his indolence and to hide the indifference of his soul, or is making excuses for the sake of his own peace of mind.
But it is of no use!
For all those who are indifferent or indolent will now be rejected!
Only he who musters all his strength so as to devote it ''unremittingly'' to achieve what is most indispensable for his soul, has any prospect of being saved!
All half measures count for nothing!
Every hesitation, every postponement, is the same as a complete neglect of duty!
Mankind have no more time left because they have already waited until the limit of their allotted period!
This time, naturally, it will not be made so easy for man , nor will he find it so easy, since through the most careless negligence in these matters he robbed himself of the slightest capacity even to believe in the profound seriousness of a necessary ''final'' decision!
And it is exactly ''this'' point which is his greatest weakness, which will inevitably cause the downfall of many!
For thousands of years much had been done to enlighten you about God's Will or the working of the Laws of Creation, at least in so far as you need it in order to ascend and find your way back to the Luminous Heights you came!
This was not achieved through the so - called earthly sciences, nor through the churches, but only through the servants of God, the prophets of olden times, and later through the Message brought by the Son of God!
Although it was given to you quite simply, so far you have only ''talked'' about it, and never seriously troubled to understanding aright, still less to live accordingly!
In your indolent opinion this was asking too much of you, although it is your only salvation!
You wished to be saved without exerting yourselves in any way!
If you reflect upon this you must surely come to this sad conclusion!
You turned every Divine Message into a religion!
For your own convenience!
''And that was wrong''!
You placed religion upon a special pedestal, removed from everyday life!
That was the greatest mistake you could have made; for in doing you also removed God's Will from daily life, or what amounts to the same thing, you separated ''yourselves'' from God's Will, instead of uniting with It and making It the centre of your daily life and activity, thus becoming ''one'' with It!
You must absorb every message from God quite ''naturally'' and interweave it in such a practical manner into your work, your thoughts and your whole life!
You must not set apart by itself, as you have now done, only paying it a visit in your leisure hours in order to indulge for a short time in contrition gratitude or relaxation!
As a result it never became something natural, a part of such as hunger and sleep!
Understand this aright at last!
You shall ''live'' in this Will of God so that you may find your path on all the paths which bring you benefit!
God's Messages are precious hints which you need.
Without knowing and obeying them you are lost!
Therefore must not place them as something sacred in glass shrine, to gaze upon them in awe and trembling only on Sundays, or to retreat there in fear and distress in order to receive strength!
You wretched ones, shall not only venerate the Message, but ''make use'' of It!
You shall grasp It with hearty goodwill, not only when you are in Sunday attire but also with the fist hardened by daily toil, which never shames or debases, but only honours every one!
The precious gem shines with greater purity and brilliance in a rugged hand discoloured by sweat and dirt, than in the well - cared - for fingers of a lazy idler who spends his time on earth only in contemplation!
Every Divine Message was granted to you so that ''it should become integral part you''!
You must try and grasp this means!
You should not look at it as a something separate, something that remains outside yourselves, which you accustom yourselves to approach with timid reserve!
''Absorb'' the Word of God so that each one of you may know ''how'' he must live and proceed in order to attain to the Kingdom of God!
Therefore at last awake and learn to know the Laws in Creation!
No worldly cleverness will help you in this matter, nor the small amount of technical knowledge derived through observation!
Something so meagre will not suffice for the path your souls must to take!
You ''must'' lift your eyes far ''beyond'' this earth and recognise where your path leads after this earth life, so that at the same time you may become aware of why and for what purpose you are here on earth!
And whatever your conditions are in ''this'' life, whether rich or poor, healthy or ill, at peace or in conflict, in joy or sorrow, so will you to recognise the reason and purpose of it all!
This will make you glad and happy, grateful for the experiences which have come your way.
You will learn to value every single second as precious and, above all, learn to use them for your ascent to joyful existence and purest happiness.
And because you so badly entangled and confused yourselves, the Divine Message was brought to you by the Son of God as a means of salvation, after the warnings of the prophets had remained unheeded.
The Divine Message showed the way, the only way, to save you from the swamp which already threatened to smother you!
The Son of God sought to lead you this way by parables!
Those who wanted to believe and who were seekers listened with their ''ears'', but it penetrated no further.
They never tried to live in accordance with them!
Religion and daily life have always remained also for you two separate things!
You always stood beside it, never in it!
The effects of the Laws of Creation explained in the parables remained absolutely incomprehensible to you because you never looked for them in those parables!
And now, through the Grail Message, the explanation of the laws comes to you in a form more understandable in the present time!
In reality they are precisely the same as those Christ already brought in the form suitable ''at that time''.
He showed men how they should think, speak and act so that they could mature spiritually and advance upwards in Creation!
Humanity needed no more than that!
There is not a single gap in the Message given at that time!
He who at last adapts himself to It in his thoughts, words, and deeds ''thus practises the purest worship of God, for this lies only in deeds''!
He who willingly submit himself to these Laws will always do the right things!
''In so doing'' he proves his veneration for the wisdom of God and joyfully submit to His Will expressed in His Laws.
It's effects will then further and protect him, and he will be freed from all sorrow and uplifted into the realm, of the Luminous Spirit.
There, in jubilant experiencing, the Omniscience of God will become visible in all it's perfection to everyone!
There the worship of God is life itself!
There every breath, every intuitive perception, every action speaks of joyous gratitude and thus becomes a lasting delight -- a delight born of happiness, disseminating happiness, and therefore reaping happiness!
The worship of God in your life and in your experiences consists solely of keeping the Divine Laws!
This alone ensures happiness!
So shall it be in the coming Kingdom, in the Millennium, which will be called the Kingdom of God earth!
GREAT COMET
FOR YEARS now ''knowing ones'' have been speaking of the coming of this especially significant Star.
The number of those who await it is continually increasing, and the indications become more and more definite, so much so that in fact it is to be expected soon.
But ''what'' it really signifies, what it brings, whence it comes, has not yet been rightly explained.
It is thought that it brings upheavals of an incisive nature.
But the Star portends more.
It ''can'' be called the Star of Bethlehem, because it is exactly the same nature as that was.
Its power sucks the waters up high, brings weather catastrophes and still more.
When encircled by its rays the earth quakes.
Since the event in Bethlehem there has been nothing like it.
Like the Star of Bethlehem, this Star has also detached itself from the Eternal realm of Primordial Spirit at such time as to take effect on this earth exactly when the years of spiritual enlightenment are to come to all mankind.
The Star takes its course in a ''straight'' line from the Eternal Realm to this part of the Universe.
Its core is filled with high spiritual power; it envelops itself in material substance, and will thereby also become visible to men on earth.
Unerringly and unswervingly the Comet pursues its course, and will appear on the scene at the right hour, as already ordained thousands of years ago. The first direct effects have already begun in recent years.
For anyone who wishes neither to see nor hear this, and who does not perceive how ridiculous it is still to maintain that all the ''extraordinary'' things which have already happened are of everyday occurrence, there naturally no help.
He either wishes to act like an ostrich out of fear, or he is burdened with an extremely limited understanding.
Both types must be allowed to go serenely on their way; one can only smile at their easily refutable assertions.
But the knowing ones could also be told where the ''first powerful'' rays are striking.
However, since the rays are gradually also encompassing the whole earth, there is no use in being more explicit.
It will take years to come to this point, and years before the Comet again releases the earth from its influence.
And ''then'' the earth ''is purified'' and ''refreshed'' in ''every respect'' for the blessing and joy for its inhabitants.
It will be more beautiful than it has ever been.
Therefore every believer shall look forward to the future with tranquil confidence, and not be alarmed at anything that may happen in the coming years. If he can look up with confidence to God no harm will come to him. ----
SUBMISSION.
''THY WILL be done!''
People who believe in God utter these words submissively!
But a certain sadness always vibrates in their voices or lies in their thoughts, in their intuitive perceptions.
These words are used almost exclusively were ''sorrow'' that was ''inescapable'' has entered.
Where man realises that he could do nothing more about it.
''Then'', if he is a believer, he will say in passive submission : ''Thy Will be done!''
It is not humility, however, that prompts him to speak thus, but the words are meant to calm him in face of something he has been powerless to deal with. ''That'' is the origin of the submission which man expresses in such a case.
If, however, he were offered the slightest opportunity to alter things in any way, he would not care about the Will of God, but his submissive attitude would again quickly be changed to the form : ''My will be done!''
''Such'' is man! -- -- -- ''Do with me as Thou wilt, O Lord!'' and similar hymns are often to be heard at funerals.
But every mourner bears within him unshakable wish : ''If I could alter it I would do so at once!''
Human submission is ''never'' genuine.
Deeply implanted in a human soul lies the opposite.
Rebellion against the fate that befalls it; and it is this very protest that causes the soul's suffering, which ''oppresses'' and bows it down.
What is unhealthy in this is due to the wrong application of the meaning of these words : ''Thy Will be done!''
They do not belong where man and churches use them.
The Will of God lies in the Laws of this Creation!
Whenever man say : ''I will honour and obey Thy Law in Creation!''
To honour means to ''observe'' them, but to observe them demands to live accordingly!
Only thus can man honour the Will of God!
But if he wants to observe It, if he wants to live accordingly, he must also first of all ''know'' It!
That is just the point, however, against which mankind on earth has transgressed in the worst way!
Until now man has never concerned himself with the Laws of God in Creation!
Thus not with the Holy Will of God!
And yet he utters over and over again : ''Thy Will be done!''
You see how unthinkingly earthman approaches God!
How senselessly he seeks to apply the sublime words of Christ.
Plaintively, often writhing in anguish, feeling himself defeated, but never with a joyful pledge!
''Thy Will be done'' actually means : ''I will act accordingly to It'' or ''I desire Thy Will!''
One can just as well also say : ''I will obey Thy Will!''
But he who obeys also ''acts''. One who obeys is not inactive; that is implied in the very word.
He who obeys also ''does something''.
Yet as the man of ''today'' says : ''Thy Will be done!'' he wishes ''to do nothing himself'', but puts into his intuitive perception the meaning : ''I remain still, 'You do it'!''
He considers himself great in this, believing that he has conquered himself and ''become merged'' with the Will of God.
Man even imagines himself superior to all others thereby, and believes he has made a tremendous advance.
All such people, however, are useless weaklings, idlers, enthusiasts, visionaries and fanatics, but no useful links in Creation!
They are numbered among those who must be rejected in the Judgment; for they do not want to be ''labourers'' in the vineyard of the Lord!
The humility of which they boast is nothing but indolence.
They are idle servants!
The Lord demands ''life'', which lies in ''movement''! --
Submission!
This word should not exist at all for believers in God!
Simply replace it with ''joyful volition''!
God does not want dull submission from men, but joyful activity.
Just look closely at those who are described as ''resigned to God's Will''.
They are hypocrites who bear a great lie within them!
Of what use is it to cast a glance of submissive resignation upwards, if at the same time man looks around with cunning, lust, arrogance, conceit or malice!
This only makes him ''doubly'' guilty.
Submissive people bear the lie within, for submission is absolutely incompatible with ''spirit''!
Therefore also with a human spirit!
All that is ''spirit'' is utterly unable to bring the quality of true submissiveness to life within itself!
Wherever it is attempted it must remain artificial, thus self - delusion or even conscious hypocrisy!
But it can never be genuinely felt because the human spirit, being spiritual, is incapable of it.
The pressure under which the human spirit stands does not allow the quality submissiveness to become conscious.
The pressure is too strong for this.
And therefore man cannot practise it either.
Submissiveness is a quality that lies solely in the animistic!
Only in the animal does it find genuine expression.
The ''animal'' is submissive to its master!
But the spirit does not know this designation!
Therefore it ''always'' remains unnatural for the human being.
Submission was drilled into the slaves with difficulty and harshness, because they were put on a par with animals in sale and purchase, as personal property.
Yet the submission could never become really genuine in these slaves.
It was either dullness, fidelity or love that lay hidden under the submission and gave it expression, but never true submission.
Slavery is unnatural among men.
The submission of the animistic finds its enhancement in the spiritual in conscious and willed loyalty!
What denotes submission in the animistic, therefore, is loyalty in the spiritual!
Submission does not befit man; because he is of the spirit!
Just pay closer attention to the language itself, which indeed expresses in its words what is right, and bears the true meaning in it.
It gives you the right picture.
For instance, the victor also says to the vanquished : ''Submit!''
In this word lies the meaning : ''Surrender yourself to me unconditionally so that I may deal with you as I see fit, even over life or death!''
But in this the victor acts wrongly; for even in victory man has to conform strictly to the Laws of God.
Otherwise with every neglect of them he makes himself guilty before the Lord.
The reciprocal action will then strike him without fail!
This applies to the individual as well as to entire peoples!
And now the time has come when everything, everything that has hitherto taken place in the world, must be redeemed!
What has been wrong, what is happening on earth ''today, not one word will remain unatoned for''!
The atonement is not reserved for a distant future, but is already taking place in the ''present time''!
Thus the ''speedy'' release of ''all'' the reciprocal actions is not opposed to the Law of Creation, but lies quite correctly in the Law itself.
The action of the mechanism is at present accelerated by the increased radiation of the Light, which enforces final effects by first driving everything to fruition and over - ripeness, so that the false will decay therein and in withering away judge itself, while the good will become free from the hitherto existing pressure of the wrong and can gain strength!
In the near future this radiation will be so intensified that in very many cases the reciprocal action will come ''at once, instantaneously''!
This is the power which will soon alarm earthmen, and which they will then have to fear in the future!
But only ''those'' who have done ''wrong'' need fear it, and rightly so.
Whether they have thought themselves in the right, or have tried to make others believe they were, it will not save them from the blow of the reciprocal effect that operates in the Laws of God!
Even though men have devised different laws on earth, under whose protection many act wrongly and unjustly in the delusion that they are thereby also in the right, it does not absolve them of one particle of their guilt.
The Laws of God, thus the Will of God, do not concern themselves with the opinions of these earthmen, which they have laid down in their mundane laws, even though the whole world has now considered them to be right.
Whatever is not in harmony with the Divine Laws, there also the blow of the sword will now strike!
Judging in the process of redemption!
All those who in the light of God's Laws have suffered ''innocently'' at the hands of men may now rejoice; henceforth they shall receive justice, while their adversaries or judges are delivered up to the Justice of God. Rejoice; for this Divine Justice is near!
It is already working in every country on earth!
Look at the confusion!
This is the effect of the ''approaching'' Will of God!
It is the setting - in of the purification!
For this reason everything that is wrong among men ''is'' already ''now'' meeting with its doom, be it in economics, the state, politics, the churches, sects, peoples, families and also in the individual!
Everything, everything is now dragged before the Light, ''so that it may reveal and simultaneously judge itself therein''!
Also what has hitherto been able to remain hidden ''must'' reveal itself as it ''really'' is, must become active, and thus finally, despairing of itself and others, disintegrate and turn to dust.
Thus even now there is a boiling up under the pressure of the Light in all countries, everywhere.
Every kind of tribulation is increasing to the point of despair, until finally nothing remains but hopelessness, with the realisation that the would - be saviours had ''only empty words'' besides selfish desires, but could offer no help!
Spiritual warriors are sweeping over all humanity, and striking sharply where a head refuses to bow.
Only then will there be the right soil that pleads once more for God's help!
After murder and fire, starvation, pestilence and death, after man has recognised his own incapacity.
The great upbuilding begins.
Then the despairing ones shall become free, free from the pressure of the Darkness!
But they shall also become free ''within themselves''!
To become free within, however, can only be achieved by each individual ''alone''.
Yet for this he must know what freedom means, what it ''is''.
''Only the man who lives in the Laws of God is free''!
Thus and not otherwise does he stand unoppressed and unconstrained in this Creation.
Everything then serves him instead of obstructing his path.
It ''serves'' him because he uses it in the right way.
God's Laws in Creation are in truth simply all that every man needs for a healthy, happy life in Creation.
They are, as it were, nourishment for his well - being!
Only he who knows the Will of God and lives accordingly is really free!
All the others must bind themselves in many threads of the Laws of this Creation, because they entangled themselves.
Creation originated only in the Will of God, in His Laws.
Working together, the threads of these Laws sink deeper and deeper, everywhere enforcing movement towards development, and inevitably branching out more and more in the course of development, while in the continuous movement new creations are perpetually formed around the threads.
Thus these Laws provide at the same time the support, the possibility of continued existence and the further expansion of Creation.
Nothing exists without this Will of God, Which alone gives movement.
Everything in Creation conforms to It.
Only the human spirit has ''not'' adjusted itself to these threads!
It has tangled them and thereby entangled itself, because it wanted to follow new roads according to ''its'' will, and disregarded those already prepared and in existence.
The increasing power of the Light is now changing this.
The threads of all the Divine Laws in Creation are being charged with increased energy, so that they become powerfully taut.
This enormous tension causes them to spring back into their original position.
What is tangled and knotted is thereby disentangled, so suddenly and irresistibly that everything that cannot still adapt itself to the right position in Creation is simply torn down in this process!
Whatever it may be, whether plant or animal, whether mountains, streams, countries, states or man himself, all will collapse that cannot prove itself at the last moment to be genuine and willed by God!
SERVANTS OF GOD.
WITHOUT any reason to justify it many people have hitherto assumed that servants of churches, temples and religious movements in general must also be regarded as the equivalent of servants of God.
This idea was disseminated at the time of the founding and development of all sorts of cults by the servants of these cults, who thereby sought to gain respect for themselves, which they would hardly have been able to achieve personally.
And it has been retained ever since without anybody attempting to realise the fact that this is harmful instead of beneficial to mankind and, most important of all, that it leads to a wrong conception of God.
A man standing in Creation with an alert spirit, one who does not remain closed to the delicate intuitive vibrations of his soul, will never be able to accept as true that the Great and Living God can really be served through the practises of cults, through the begging and men call ''praying'', or through mortification of the flesh!
With these practises you do not ''give'' anything to your God!
You do not offer Him anything! What then is your real aim?
You yourselves do not know how to answer this question when you stand before the Judgment Seat of God!
You will have to remain silent, for you have done all this only ''for yourselves'', for ''your'' inner composure and exaltation, or in despair or affliction!
But I say unto you : Only ''that'' man who stands aright in the Creation of his God, who recognises himself as a part of Creation and ''lives accordingly'', only he is the true servant of God, no matter in what way he earns his necessary living on earth.
As a part of Creation he will always strive to adjust himself to ''those'' laws that have a ''furthering'' effect therein.
Thus he himself furthers Creation, and serves his God in the only right way.
For through the right adjustment ''only'' happiness, joy and further progress can arise!
''For this reason he must naturally become familiar with Creation''!
And this is something you badly need - - to ''recognise'' the Will of God resting in Creation and its constant self - acting effects therein!
But so far you have never troubled yourselves to do this in the correct manner.
And yet it is the same for all of you, namely, that you stand and must move in the midst of a mighty mechanism, so to speak, without ever being able to alter or improve upon it.
Unless you stand and move in it ''aright'', however, danger threatens you from all sides!
You are sure to hit yourselves, and may fall and be torn to pieces!
Exactly as in a gigantic machine - shop, with numerous driving belts constantly moving in all directions, confusing the eye and seriously threatening at every step all those not acquainted with it, but only of real service and use to the expert!
It is no different for man in Creation!
At last learn to understand its mechanism aright, then you may and shall use it for your own happiness.
But to do this you must first become an apprentice, as in everything!
The greatest of all works, this Creation, is no exception; the same applies here as with all men's productions.
Even an automobile gives pleasure only to the ''expert''!
It brings death, however, to him who does not know how to control it!
There are thousands of such minor examples available to you!
Why have you never learned anything from them as yet?
All this may be recognised in such a simple and natural way.
But just in this matter you stand as if before a wall - apathetic, indifferent and with an inexplicable stubbornness!
After all it is your life, your entire existence, which is at stake here!
Only the constructor himself can explain the working of a machine to you, or a man whom ''he'' has trained for the task.
It is the same in Creation as here on earth!
But it is just in regard to Creation that men, who are themselves only a part of it, imagine that they of themselves know everything better than their Master, and refuse to be trained in the use of the mechanism!
They themselves want to teach the basic laws, which they try to establish through superficial observation of the very faint, last ramifications of what is great and true, to the ''perception'' of which they always kept themselves closed.
Thus there can never be any question of knowledge!
And yet the possibility of recognition was already lovingly offered to you by the Son of God, Who tried to teach you through parables and pictures! However, their meaning was not grasped, but instead by insisting that they knew better men badly distorted, darkened and perverted it!
Now again you are granted the opportunity clearly to see the Laws of God in Creation, ''so'' that men may become true servants of God, fully conscious and in joyous and cheerful activity, as the true worship of God requires!
''Joy'' and happiness can exist in all Creation!
You men alone bring about distress and sorrow, disease and crime, for right up to the present day you did not ''want'' to recognise the source of the vast power which was given to you for your journey through all the worlds, in which by your own desire you must all wander for your development!
If only you adjust yourselves aright this power will forcibly bring sunshine and happiness into your lives.
Unless you do this you stand small and helpless in the all - embracing mechanism, yet still boasting with big words of yourselves and your knowledge, until finally you must fall through these faults, which arose only out of your ignorance and unwillingness to learn anything! Wake up at last!
First start ''learning'' in order to acquire the ''knowledge'', otherwise you will never make any progress!
In the eyes of the Creator you are now far less than an insect!
An insect faithfully fulfils its allotted task, while you as human spirits fail!
You fail through your vain pseudo - knowledge that is no knowledge!
Your schools founded on this sham knowledge are fetters that hold you firmly bound, even choking every attempt at spiritual ascent, because the teachers in these schools cannot set about this spiritual ascent themselves.
Thank the Lord that the possibility of continuing to live on such empty and thoroughly detrimental basis will now be forcibly taken from you!
Otherwise you would never recognise the contemptibleness surrounding you everywhere today, which must bring ridicule upon you throughout Creation for being empty, grotesquely dressed - up dolls, whose spirits are asleep within them!
THE RELIGION OF LOVE.
THE RELIGION of Love has been misunderstood, because the concept of ''love'' has in many ways been distorted and misinterpreted, for the greater part of true love is severity!
What is ''now'' called love is anything but love!
If all so - called love were relentlessly sifted to the bottom, nothing would remain but selfishness, vanity, weakness, desire for ease, conceit or instinct. Genuine love will take no account of what gratifies the other, of what is agreeable to him and gives him joy, but will only direct itself towards what will ''benefit'' him, regardless of whether it affords him pleasure or not.
That is genuine love and service!
If, therefore, it is written : ''Love your enemies'', it means : ''Do that which will benefit them!
Punish them if they cannot otherwise be made to understand!''
That is serving them!
But justice must prevail, for love cannot be separated from justice -- they are one!
Misplaced indulgence would mean fostering the faults of the enemies and thus letting them slide further on the downward path.
Would that be love? On the contrary, by acting thus one would burden oneself with guilt!
Through the unexpressed wishes of man alone the Religion of Love has deteriorated to a religion of laxity, as also the personality of the Bringer of Truth, Christ Jesus, has been dragged down to one of weakness and yielding, characteristics which He never possessed.
It was just because of His all - embracing Love that He was so harsh and severe among the men of intellect.
That he was often overcome with sadness is natural when one considers His high mission and the human material He had to deal with.
This sadness had nothing whatever to do with weakness.
After eliminating all distortions and dogmatic restrictions, the Religion of Love will be a doctrine of the strictest consistency, in which no weakness or illogical indulgence ''is'' to be found.
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