INTUITIVE    PERCEPTION

               THE   DIVINE   LOVE   OF   PUREST   JUSTIFICATION   (JUSTICE)

                                                                                                   INTUITIVE  PERCEPTION 

EVERY intuitive perception that a person has immediately forms a picture.

In the formation of this picture the small brain or cerebellum participates as the bridge across which the soul should control the body.

It is ''that'' part of the brain through which you receive your dreams.

It is in turn connected with the frontal brain or cerebrum, through the activity of which thoughts are generated that are closely tied to space and time and which eventually constitute the intellect.

Now pay close attention to the process!

You will then be  able clearly to distinguish when the intuition speaks to you through the spirit, or when the feeling addresses you through the intellect.

The activity of the human spirit awakens intuitive perception within the solar plexus, thereby simultaneously making an impression upon the cerebellum.

It is the ''effect'' of the spirit, that is, a wave of power ''issuing'' from the spirit.

Man naturally perceives this wave in spot where the spirit within the soul is connected with the body - in the center of the so - called solar plexus, which passes on the waves to the cerebellum where it creates an impression.

In accordance with the specific nature of the various impressions received the cerebellum, like a photographic plate, forms a picture of the process as willed by the spirit or as created with the strong power of the spirit through its volition.

''A picture without words!''

The frontal brain takes over this picture and seeks to describe it in words, thereby generating thoughts which then find expression in language.

In truth the whole process is very simple!

I will repeat it once more: With the help of the solar plexus the spirit makes an impression on the bridge provided for it, thus impressing a definite volition in power waves upon the small brain, the instrument given to it for this purpose, which immediately passes on what it received to the frontal brain.

In the process of transmission a slight change through consolidation has already occurred, because the small brain adds something of its own nature to it.

The instruments within the human body which are at the disposal of the spirit work like the connecting links of a chain.

But they all serve in ''forming'' capacity ''only'', because they cannot do otherwise.

Everything transmitted to them they form in accordance with their own special nature.

Thus the frontal brain takes up the pictures transmitted to it by the cerebellum and, in accordance with its somewhat coarser nature, first of all compresses them into narrower conceptions of space and time, thereby condensing them and bringing them into the ethereal world of thought - forms, which is of a more tangible substance.

Next the frontal brain forms words and sentences which, through the organs of speech, penetrate as formed sound - waves into the World of Fine Gross Matter, there again producing a new effect brought about by the movement of these waves.

Thus the spoken word is the resultant effect of the pictures transmitted through the frontal brain!

The latter can also direct the course of the effect towards the organs of locomotion instead of to the organs of speech whereby words are replaced by writing or action.

That is the normal course of the activity of the human spirit in the World of Gross Matter as willed by the Creator! 

It is the ''right'' way, which would have brought about a healthy subsequent development in Creation, making it utterly impossible for mankind to go astray.

Man, however, voluntarily abandoned the course prescribed for him through the constitution of his body.

He stubbornly interfered in the normal working of ''the chain'' of his instruments by making the intellect his idol.

Thus he concentrated his whole energy upon the training of the intellect in an entirely one - sided manner!

As a result the frontal brain, having now become the producer, was force to exert itself out of all proportion to what was required of the other co - operating instruments.

This naturally incurred a heavy penalty!

The uniform and harmonious co - operation of all the individual links was upset and hindered, and with it every right development.

The excessive strain to which the frontal brain ''alone'' was subjected for thousands of years forced its development far beyond everything else.

This consequently curtailed the activity of all the neglected parts which, because of their lack of use, were bound to remain weak.

Foremost among these is the cerebellum, which is the instrument of the spirit.

Thus it follows that the activity of the human spirit proper was not severely obstructed, but it is often completely cut off and remains excluded!

The possibility of proper intercourse with the frontal brain over the bridge of the small brain is buried, while a direct connection between the human spirit and the frontal brain is utterly impossible owing to the latter's nature.

The frontal brain is absolutely dependent on the full activity of the cerebellum, to which it stands ''next in succession'' according to God's Will, in order to fulfill the task assigned to it.

The specific quality of the cerebellum is needed in order to receive the vibrations of the spirit.

It is impossible to bypass it, for the work of the frontal brain is to prepare their transition to the World of Fine Gross Matter, and therefore it is of a quite a different and much coarser nature.

In the one - sided cultivation of frontal brain lies the hereditary sin of earth - man against his God or, more precisely, against the Divine Laws, which manifests through the right apportionment of the bodily instruments, as in the entire Creation!

The observance of the correct apportionment would have  automatically indicated the straight and right road of ascent to the human spirit.

As it was, however, man in his ambitious conceit interfered with this machinery of healthy activity, singled out one part and cultivated it specially while disregarding all others!

This was ''bound'' to bring disproportion and stagnation in its train.

If the course of natural events is hampered in such a way disease and failure must ensue, ending finally in wild confusion and collapse.

Here it is not only a question of the body but in the first place of the spirit!

Through this interference - the unequal cultivation of the two brains -  the cerebellum was suppressed through neglect in the course of thousands of years, and thereby the spirit was hampered in its activity.

This became the ''hereditary sin'', because the one - sided over - cultivation of the frontal brain is in the course of time passed on to each child through physical inheritance.

Thus from the outset it becomes immensely difficult for the child's spirit to awaken and grow more powerful, because the bridge necessary for this purpose, the cerebellum, is no longer so easy to cross  and is even very often completely cut off!

Man has not the faintest idea what irony and strong censure lie in the expressions ''large brain'' and ''small brain'' which he created!

No indictment regarding his transgression against Divine ordinance could be set forth in a more devastating manner!

This precisely indicates the gravest of his earthly sins, for in his wanton obstinacy he so mutilated this fine instrument of his physical body, which is meant to help him on earth, that not only is it unable to serve him any longer ''in the way''  the Creator ordained, but it ''must'' even lead him to the depths of destruction!

In this man has failed to a far greater extent than the drunkards or those who destroy their bodies by becoming slaves to their passions!

In addition they now have the presumption to expect that God should make Himself manifest to them ''in a manner they can understand''  in their wantonly distorted physical bodies!

After committing such a sin they would also make ''this demands!'' 

How easily and joyfully man could have ascended the steps to Luminous Heights in the natural course of development if he had not so wantonly interfered with the Work of God!

The man of the future  will have ''normal'' brains which will work uniformly and thus support each other harmoniously.

The cerebellum, called the small brain because it is stunted in its growth, will now grow in strength as it attains to its proper field of activity until it is in the right proportion to the frontal brain.

Then there will be harmony again, and all that is petrified and unhealthy must disappear!

But let us now turn to the ''further'' consequences of the false mode of living in the past!

The cerebellum, which is relatively much too small, makes it difficult for the truly serious seekers of today to distinguish between what is genuine intuitive perception within them and what is merely feeling.

I have already said that feeling is produced by the frontal brain; the thoughts it sends out influence the bodily nerves in such a way that, in reaction, they forcibly incite the frontal brain to indulge in so - called imagination!

Imagination consists of pictures generated by the frontal brain, but they are not to be compared with the pictures the cerebellum forms under the pressure of the spirit!

Here we have the difference between the mode of expression of the intuitive perception as the consequence of an activity of the spirit, and the results of feeling issuing from the bodily nerves.

Both produce pictures between which the ignorant person finds it almost or entirely impossible to distinguish, although they differ tremendously!

The pictures of the intuitive perception are genuine and full of living power, while the pictures of feeling, i.e., the imagination, are deceptions produced with borrowed power!

But the  difference is easily detected anyone who knows the process of development in Creation as a whole and then studies himself attentively!

In the case of intuitive pictures, which arise through the cerebellum acting as a bridge for the spirit, the picture immediately appears ''first'', and only thereafter is it transmuted into thoughts which then influence the feeling of the body!

In the case of pictures produced by the frontal brain the process is reversed.

Here the thoughts must ''precede'' in order to form the basis for the pictures.

All this occurs so rapidly that it almost seems to be one and the same thing.

With a little practice in observation, however, man can very soon learn to distinguish the nature of the process exactly!

A further consequence of this hereditary sin is presented by the confusion in dreams.

For this reason man can today no longer give ''that'' value to his dreams which is  really their due.

The normal cerebellum, influenced by the spirit, would render dreams clear and unconfused.

This is to say, they would not be ''dreams'' at all, but ''experiences'' of the spirit, received and reproduced by the cerebellum while the frontal brain rests in sleep.

The radiation of the now overwhelmingly strong frontal or day - brain, however, makes its influence felt upon the sensitive cerebellum even during the night.

In its present weakened condition the latter absorbs the strong radiations of the frontal brain simultaneously with the experiences of spirit, creating a mixture like a double exposure on a photographic plate.

The result is the confused dreams of today!

The best proof of this double influence is the frequent appearance in dreams of words and sentences which ''only'' originate in the activity of the ''frontal brain''.

Only the frontal brain forms words and sentences, because it is more closely bound to space and time.

For this reason man is no longer, or at least very inadequately, susceptible to spiritual warnings and  instructions through the cerebellum, and is consequently far more exposed to dangers which he could otherwise escape through spiritual warnings. 

Thus, besides the evil consequences already mentioned, there are many others brought about by man's interference with Divine Ordnance, for in reality ''all'' evil proceeded only from this failure, so clearly visible to everybody today!

It was a fruit of vanity, which developed through the appearance of woman in Creation!

If man does not wish to be lost he should at last tear himself away from the results of this hereditary sin!

Naturally, since he has to take trouble over everything, this is no exception!

Man ''must'' awaken from his comfortable indolence to become at last what he should have been from the beginning - one who is bent on furthering Creation and a  mediator of Light to all creatures!

                                                                                                        MAN    AND   HIS   FREE   WILL 

IN ORDER to give a complete picture of this, much that is extraneous but which more or less influences the main question must be taken into consideration.

 Free will! 

This is something which even many eminent persons ponder over, because the laws of justice decree that where responsibility exists there must  also unquestionably be a possibility to make a free decision. 

Wherever one turns, from all sides one hears the question: Where does free will come in if in fact man is subject to Providence, guidance, destiny, the influence of the stars, and karma? 

Man gets pushed, polished and moulded whether  he wishes it or not! 

Serious seekers eagerly seize upon all that is said about free will, rightly discerning that it is just on this subject that an explanation is very necessary. 

As long as this is lacking man cannot adjust himself properly so as to maintain the position in this great Creation which is rightfully his. 

If he is not properly attuned to Creation he must remain a stranger in it. 

He will roam about and have to submit to being pushed, polished and moulded because he is not conscious of the purpose of life. 

His great deficiency is that he does not know where his free will comes in and how it functions. 

This fact alone shows that he has completely lost the way to his free will and no longer knows how to find it. 

The entrance to the path leading to this knowledge is blocked by drifting sands and is no longer visible. 

All traces are effaced. 

Man runs around irresolutely in circles, tiring himself out, till a fresh wind comes at last to make the path clear again. 

It is obvious that in this process the drifting sands will first be violently whirled up and, before they are carried away, will blind the eyes of many who continue hungrily to seek the entrance to the path. 

For this reason everyone must exercise the greatest care to keep his vision free until the last grain of drifting sand is blown away. 

Otherwise it might well happen that, although he sees the way, his somewhat obscured vision may cause him to take a false step, stumble and fall, and thus sink away when the path is right in front of him. 

The lack of understanding which men stubbornly show regarding the actual existence of free will has its roots mainly in the fact that they do not know what the free will really is. 

Although the explanation is already given in the words themselves, here as elsewhere man overlooks such simple things because of their utter simplicity. Instead he searches in the wrong place, thereby preventing himself from getting a clear picture of free will. 

The great majority of men today regard the will as something forcefully brought into being by the earthly brain when the intellect, which is bound to time and space, indicates and decrees a certain definite direction for thoughts and feelings. 

However, that is not free will, but the will ''bound'' by the earthly intellect! 

The confusion of these two concepts by many people brings about great errors, and erects the wall which makes recognition and understanding impossible. 

Then man is surprised when he comes upon gaps and contradictions and cannot find any logic in it! 

The free will which alone has such an incisive effect upon actual life that it reaches far into the world beyond, and which imprints its stamp upon the soul and is able to mould it, is of quite a different nature. 

It is too great to be limited to things of this earth. 

Hence it has no connection whatever with the earthly physical body, nor with the brain. 

Free will is inherent in the spirit alone, in the soul of man! 

If man would not always give unlimited sway to the intellect, then the free will of his actual spiritual ''ego'', which has a wider vision, could through its finer intuition prescribe the direction the intellectual brain should take. 

Then the ''bound'' will, so absolutely necessary for all earthly purposes, which are limited to time and space, would very often choose another course that is now the case. 

That fate would also then hold different possibilities is easily comprehensible because, owing to the different course taken, karma would also weave different threads and bring about a different reciprocal action. 

This explanation is naturally not sufficient to give a right understanding of what free will is. 

To give a complete picture it is necessary to know how free will has already manifested, and how the many intricate entanglements of an existing karma came about, the effects of  which can so conceal the free will that it is hardly possible, or completely impossible, to recognise its existence. 

Again, such an explanation can only be given if the entire course of development of the spiritual man is taken into consideration, beginning with the moment in which the spirit - germ of man for the first time descended into the ethereal covering on the very outskirts of the World of Matter. 

Then we see that man is in no way what he prides himself on being. 

He can by no means claim the absolute right to eternal bliss and eternal individual existence! 

The expression: ''We are all God's children'' is wrong in the sense that man has given to it. 

''Not'' every man is a child of God, only he who has developed into one! 

Man is sent down into Creation as a spirit - germ. 

This germ contains everything it needs to enable it to develop into a child of God, conscious of its personality. 

The condition is, however, that he unfolds and cultivates the corresponding abilities and does not allow them to perish. 

Great and mighty is the process and yet quite natural in its every stage. 

Nothing goes outside logical development, for there is logic in all Divine activity, because this is perfect, and what is perfect cannot be wanting in logic. Each of these spirit - germs carries the same abilities within itself, as they are all of the ''same'' spirit. 

Each of these abilities contains a promise which will be unconditionally fulfilled as soon as the ability has been developed. 

But only then! 

That is what ''each'' germ has in prospect when it is sown. 

And yet . . . ! 

A Sower went forth to sow! 

The region where the finest ethereal substance of Creation borders upon the Realm of Animistic Substantiality is the field in which the human spirit - germs are sown. 

Small sparks go out from this Animistic Sphere across the border and sink away into the virgin soil of the finest ethereal part of Creation, similar to the electric discharges during a thunderstorm. 

It is as if the Creative Hand of the Holy Spirit were sowing seeds in the World of Matter. 

While the seed develops and slowly ripens towards the harvest many of them are lost. 

They do not germinate, that is, they have not developed their higher qualities, but have let them decay or wither, and they must therefore lose themselves in the World of Matter. 

But those which have germinated and work up above the surface are strictly sifted at the harvest, and the dead ears are separated from the full ears. Then, after the harvest, once more the chaff is carefully separated from the wheat. 

That is the general outline of the development, but to come to a better understanding of human free will it is necessary to go more thoroughly into the actual development ''of man''. 

When spirit - sparks fly over into the soil of the ethereal outskirts of the World of Matter, a gaseous covering of the same substance as this most delicate of all the regions of the World of Matter immediately envelops them. 

Thereby the spirit - germ of man has entered Creation which, like all that is material, is subject to charge and disintegration. 

It is still free from karma and awaits the things which are to come. 

The vibrations of the powerful experiences which continually take place in the midst of Creation, in the process of development and decay, penetrate to the furthest outskirts of that ethereal region. 

Even if they are but the most delicate of vibrations that pass like a breath through the World of Ethereal Substance, yet they are sufficient to awaken the sensitive volition in the spirit - germ and arouse its attention. 

It desires to ''taste'' of this or that vibration, to follow it or, to express it differently, to let itself be drawn by it, which  is the same as allowing itself  to be attracted by it. 

Therein lies the first decision of the spirit - germ which, with its manifold tendencies, is now attracted here or there according to the choice it makes. 

Thus the first delicate threads are woven for the fabric that later is to become its tapestry of life. 

The rapidly developing germ can now use every moment to indulge in vibrations of other kinds, which are constantly crossing its path in many variations. As soon as it determines to do so, thus wishing it, it will change its course and follow the newly - chosen kind or, rather, allow itself to be drawn by it. 

Its wish is like a rudder through which it can change its course in the currents as soon as the one it is following no longer pleases it. 

In this way it is able to ''taste'' here and there. 

Through this tasting it matures more and more. 

It gradually develops the capacity to distinguish and finally the ability to judge until, in the end, becoming ever more conscious and assured, it follows a certain definite direction. 

The choice of vibrations it is willing to follow has a deep effect upon it. 

In accordance with their own characteristics it quite naturally follows that the vibrations in which of its free volition the spirit - germ ''swims'', so to speak, exercise an influence upon it through the reciprocal action. 

The spirit - germ itself, however, possesses ''only pure and noble'' qualities. 

These are the talents which it should put to the highest use in Creation. 

If it indulges in noble vibrations, these through the reciprocal action will arouse its latent qualities, stir them up, and strengthen and cultivate them, so that they may, in time, bear good fruit and bring great blessing to Creation. 

A man developing spiritually in this manner will become a good householder. 

If, however, the spirit - germ decides principally in favour of ignoble vibrations these can, in due course, influence it so strongly that their nature remains clinging to it, and also envelop its own pure qualities, suffocating them and preventing them from awakening and developing. 

Those must finally be considered as ''buried'', whereby the person concerned becomes a bad householder of the talents entrusted to him. 

Thus a spirit - germ itself cannot be impure as it comes from the region of purity and carries only purity within it. 

But after it has sunk into the World of Matter it can sully its cloak, which is also of material substance, by voluntarily ''tasting'' impure vibrations, as through temptations. 

In doing so it can even outwardly make ''its own'' the inward impurity which has superimposed itself upon the noble characteristics, whereby it also receives impure qualities in contrast to the inherited qualities of the spirit which it brought along. 

All guilt and karma are ''only material'', existing only within material Creation and nowhere else! 

Nor can they become part of the spirit as such, but can only cling to it! 

Therefore it is possible to be ''washed clean'' of all guilt! 

The recognition of this does not upset anything but only confirms what religion and church say allegorically. 

Above all we recognise more and more the great Truth which Christ brought to mankind. 

It is quite natural that a spirit - germ, having burdened itself with impurity in the World of Matter, cannot return with this burden to the Spiritual Realm, but must remain in the Material World until it has cast off this burden and redeemed itself from it. 

In this process it must naturally remain in that region to which the weight of its burden forces it, depending on the greater or lesser degree of impurity. 

If it does not succeed in ridding itself of and casting off its burden before the Day of Judgment, it will not be able to rise in spite of the purity always retained by the spirit - germ. 

This could not unfold itself according to its actual qualities, because it had been overlaid with impurity. 

The impurity holds it down by its weight and draws it along into dissolution of all that is material. 

The more conscious a spirit - germ becomes in the course of its development, the more does its outer covering take on the nature of its inner qualities, striving either towards what is noble or ignoble, and thus becoming beautiful or ugly. 

Every deviation it makes forms a knot in the threads dragging behind it which, through the following of many wrong paths and going to and fro,  become looped and form an intricate network in which the spirit is entangled, either perishing through being held fast, or having forcibly to extricate itself. 

The vibrations in which it indulged while nibbling or enjoying during its wandering remain attached to it and drag after it like threads, continually sending their peculiar radiations to it. 

If it keeps to the same direction for a long time, then both the threads further back and the new threads can operate with undiminished vigour. 

Whenever it changes its course, however, the influence of the further vibrations will slowly be weakened by being crossed, for they must first pass through a knot. 

This hinders them because, in making the knot, they joined and fused with new vibrations of quite a different nature. 

Thus it goes on and on. 

As the spirit - germ grows the threads become denser and stronger and form karma, the ultimate effect of which may become so powerful that it may attach to the spirit this or that ''propensity'', which is finally able to influence its free decisions and give it a direction that can already be estimated in advance. 

Then the free will has been darkened and can no longer operate as it should. 

Thus from the beginning free will has existed, but later many a free will becomes burdened to such an extent that it is strongly influenced in the way already described and so can no longer act as a free will. 

The spirit - germ which is developing in this way more and more must come ever nearer to the earth, for from there the vibrations emanate more strongly. Steering more and more consciously, the spirit - germ follows these or, more precisely, lets itself be ''attracted'' by them, so that it may enjoy ever increasingly those kinds which its inclination chooses. 

It wants to pass from ''nibbling'' to the real ''tasting'', and finally to ''enjoying''. 

The reason why the vibrations from the earth are so strong is that something new and powerful has been added - physical, material, generative power! The latter has the mission and the capacity to set the whole spiritual intuitive perception ''aglow''. 

It is only through this that the spirit gets the proper connection with material Creation and consequently it can only then work in it with full vigour. 

It then embraces all that is requisite to gain complete authority in the Material World, to stand firmly in it in every respect, to be able to work in it decisively and forcefully, and to be armed and protected against everything. 

Hence the mighty waves of power issuing from man's experiences in his life on earth! 

It is true they only go as far as material substance in Creation, but they penetrate to the furthest and most delicate regions therein. 

If there was on earth a human being of spiritually high and noble character, who was therefore able to bring to his fellow - men a high spiritual love, he would remain a stranger to them and could not come inwardly near them as long as his generative power was missing. 

Through this a bridge to understanding and to the psychic sensing of the intuitive feelings of others would be lacking, leaving a gap. 

However, at the moment in which this spiritual love enters into a pure union with generative power and is thereby set aglow, the emanation from this receives an entirely different vitality for all material substance. 

It becomes more real in the earthly sense and is thereby able to work more completely and understandably upon humanity and upon the whole World of Matter. 

Only then can this emanation be absorbed and finally perceived intuitively, bringing into Creation the blessing which the spirit of man should bring. There is something mighty about this union. 

''This'' is the actual purpose, at least the ''main purpose'', of this natural instinct, so immense and yet so mysterious to many, namely that it permits the spiritual to unfold in the World of Matter to its fullest working power. 

Without it the spiritual would remain too alien to material substance to be able to work in it properly. 

The purpose of procreation only comes in the ''second'' place. 

The main thing resulting from this union is the ''swinging upwards'' of the human being. 

This gives the human spirit its full powers, its warmth and vitality. 

With this happening it is, so to speak, completed. 

''It is at this moment, therefore, that its full responsibility sets in!'' 

At this important turning point the wise Justice of God gives man not only the opportunity but at the same time the natural urge easily to shake off all the karma with which he has burdened his free will up till then. 

This enables man once more completely to free his will, so as to become a child of God, standing consciously and powerfully in Creation, working according to God's Will, and ascending in his pure and sublime intuitive perceptions to those heights to which he will later be attracted as soon as he has laid aside his physical body. 

If man does not do this it is his own fault, for when his generative power sets in he is first of all stirred by a mighty upward impulse to all that is ideal, beautiful and pure. 

This can always be clearly observed with unspoiled youth of both sexes. 

Hence the enthusiasm in the years of youth, not to be mistaken for the years of childhood, which are unfortunately often laughed at by adults! 

This also accounts for the inexplicable, rather melancholy but none the less serious intuitive perceptions in these years. 

The hours in which it seems as if the young man  or maiden were burdened with all the sorrows of the world, when presentiments of a deep seriousness come over them, are not altogether without reason. 

Also their frequent feeling of not being understood has in reality much truth in it. 

It arises from their occasional recognition of how wrong is the world around them, a world which cannot and will not understand the sacred wish of their soul to soar on high. 

A world which is not satisfied until these strongly warning intuitive perceptions in the maturing soul are dragged down to a level people can better understand, thus something ''more real'' and matter - of - fact, which they consider better suited to man and, with their one - sided intellectual mind, the only normal state of affairs! 

In spite of this there are many out - and - out materialists who during this period of their lives have perceived these same serious warnings, and who now and then enjoy speaking of the golden days of their first love with a slight tinge of sentiment, even melancholy, thus unconsciously expressing a certain sadness at having lost something they cannot define more closely. 

And indeed they are all correct in this respect! 

The most precious thing has been taken away from them, or they themselves carelessly threw it  away when, in the dull routine of every - day work, or under the ridicule of their so - called ''men and women friends'', or again by reading bad books or through bad examples, they faint - heartedly buried the treasure. 

And still its radiance shines forth from time to time during their further life and, for a moment, makes their disappointed heart beat faster, oppressed and bewildered by an inexplicable feeling of sadness and longing. 

Even if these intuitive feelings are always quickly pushed away and laughed at in bitter self - contempt, they still bear witness to the existence of this treasure. 

Fortunately there are but few who can assert that they never had such feelings! 

Such men would indeed only excite pity, for they have never really lived! 

But even such depraved ones, or let us rather call them pitiable ones, intuitively sense a longing when they have an opportunity to meet a person who makes use of this energy with the right attitude, through which he has become pure and already attained an inner maturity on earth. 

The first effect of such a longing in these people is in most cases the involuntary recognition of their own baseness and negligence which then turns into hatred and may culminate in blind rage. 

It often happens that a man whose soul has attained to an exceptionally high degree of maturity attracts the hatred of the masses without himself given them any outwardly visible cause. 

Such masses know nothing better than to cry: ''Crucify him! Crucify!'' 

This is the reason for the long series of martyrs in the history of mankind. 

The real cause is their violent grief at seeing something precious in others which they themselves have lost, a grief which they only feel as hatred. 

When people who have more inner warmth, and who have only been kept down or dragged in the mud by the bad example of others, meet a person of high inner maturity, the longing for something they have not attained themselves will often call forth an unbounded love and veneration. 

Wherever such a man goes there will always be a for and against, but indifference towards him is impossible. 

The mysterious radiating charm of an unsullied maiden or youth is nothing but the ''pure'' upsurge of the awakening generative power which, united with spiritual power, strives for what is highest and noblest, and is intuitively perceived by their environment through  the strong vibrations emanating from it. 

With careful forethought the Creator provided that this awakening should come at an age when man can be fully aware of his volition and actions.  

This is the time when, in conjunction with  the full power now resting in him, he can and should easily shake off all that lies in the past. 

It will even fall away of itself, if man only keeps his volition for the good, which he is being unceasingly urged to do during this time. 

Then, as the intuitive perceptions quite rightly intimate, he could  rise without any effort to that level to which he as a human being belongs! 

Behold the dreaming of unsullied youth! 

It is but the perception of this upsurge, the wish to be free from all baseness, the ardent longing for the ideal! 

Their uneasy restlessness, however, is the signal not to waste time, but energetically to cast off their karma and start on their ascent. 

That is why the earth is the great turning - point for mankind! 

How glorious it is to stand in this all - embracing power, to work in it and with it! 

At least as long as the direction man chooses remains a good one! 

But there is nothing more pitiable than one - sidedly  to dissipate these powers in blind sensual orgies, thereby enfeebling one's spirit and depriving it of a great part of the impetus it so urgently needs to advance upwards!  

And yet in most cases man fails to profit by this priceless period of transition and allows himself to be led by those in his environment who think they ''know'' on to the wrong paths, which hinder him from rising and, alas, only too often lead him downwards! 

Consequently he is unable to throw off the dark vibrations clinging to him; on the contrary these only attract reinforcement, and he will more and more entangle his free will till he can no longer recognise it. 

This is what happens with the ''first'' incarnation on earth. 

In later incarnations which become necessary man brings a much heavier karma with him. 

But in spite of this the possibility of shaking it off recurs in every life, and no karma could be stronger than a human spirit which has acquired its full vigour as soon as it receives, through the generative power, the complete connection with the World of Matter to which karma belongs. 

But if man fails to make use of these periods to cast off his karma and thereby regain his free will, and should he have further entangled himself or perhaps even sunk deeply, in spite of this a powerful ally is offered to help him fight his karma and ascend. 

It is the greatest conqueror existing, able to overcome everything! 

The wisdom of the Creator has ordained that the times mentioned above are not the only one in the World of Matter in which mankind may find the  possibility of quick help, in which he is able to discover himself and his true worth, and in which he even  receives an exceptionally strong impetus to draw his attention to it. 

This magic power which every person during his whole life on earth has at his disposal in constant readiness to help, which also originates from the same union of generative power with the spiritual power, and which can liberate from all karma, ''is the love''. 

Not the demanding love of the material world, but the high pure love which only knows and wishes the welfare of the beloved ones, and which never thinks of itself. 

This love also belongs to material Creation, and it demands no renunciation, no asceticism, but only wishes what is best for the other. 

It fears for him, suffers with him, but also shares in his joy. 

The basis of this love is similar to the intuitive longing for the ideal which unsullied youth has when its generative power sets in. 

But it also spurs on the responsible, i. e. the mature human beings to the full power of all his abilities, even to heroism, so that the creative and competitive powers are exerted to their utmost extent. 

In this no limit is set as to age! 

As soon as a human being open his heart to pure love, whether it be man's love for a woman or vice versa, or the love for friends, parents or children, it is all the same! 

If only it is pure it will bring as its first gift the opportunity to cast off all karma, which will then only be redeemed ''systematically'', so that the free and conscious will, which can ''only'' strive upwards, may blossom forth. 

As a natural consequence ascent will then begin, that is, redemption from the unworthy fetters that hold him down. 

The first intuitive feeling which stirs the heart at the awakening of pure love is thinking oneself unworthy of the beloved one. 

This can be described in other words as the dawn of modesty and humility, thus the acquisition of two great virtues. 

With this comes the desire to protect the other so that no possible harm could come to him from any direction, and so that his way should lead over flowery, sunny paths. 

This desire ''to wait hand and foot upon a person'' is no empty saying, but quite rightly marks the rising intuitive perception. 

Inherent in this is the surrendering of one's personality, a strong desire to serve, which alone could suffice to cast off all karma in a short time, provided the volition remains uppermost and does not give way to mere sensual instincts. 

Finally, with pure love comes the ardent desire to do something really great and noble for the beloved one, not to offend or hurt him by look, thought or word, much less by unworthy action. 

The most delicate consideration is engendered. 

The important thing is to hold fast to these pure intuitive perceptions and to place them above all else! 

Then no one will desire or do anything wrong. 

He will simply be unable to do so! 

On the contrary, through this he will enjoy the best protection, the greatest power, and the most benign helper and adviser. 

That is why Christ refers again and again to the supreme power of love! 

Love alone can overcome and accomplish all things, always provided, however, that it is not the earthly demanding love, which harbours jealousy and kindred evils. 

With this the Creator in His Wisdom has thrown a lifebuoy into Creation, with which ''every'' individual comes more than once into contact during his life on earth, so that he may grasp it and swing himself upwards. 

This help is there for all! 

No distinctions are made, either in age or sex, between rich or poor, high or low! 

Therefore love is the greatest of God's gifts! 

He who grasps this can be certain of salvation from every tribulation, and however deep he may have fallen. 

He frees himself and thus quickly and easily regains an undimmed free will, which leads him upwards. 

And even if he had fallen to such a depth as to make him despair, love is able to sweep him upward with impetuosity of a whirlwind to the Light, to God, Who Himself is Love! 

As soon as pure love stirs within a man, no matter what has caused it, he obtains the most direct connection with God, the Primordial Source of all Love, and thus the strongest help. 

But should a man possess all things and have ''no'' love, he would be but ''sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal'' - without warmth, without life . . . nothing! However, if he does find true love for some fellow being, a love striving only to bring light and joy to the beloved one, and not to drag him down through senseless desires, but a love that protects and uplifts him, then he ''serves'' the other without being aware that he is doing so. 

Through this he becomes more of an unselfish giver, and this serving sets him free. 

Many will here say to themselves: ''That is exactly what I do or, at least, what I am already striving to do! 

Using all the means in my power I try to make life on earth easy for my wife or family, offering them pleasures while I exert myself to obtain sufficient resources to enable them to lead a comfortable and agreeable life, free from all care!'' 

Thousands will give themselves airs, feeling uplifted and imagining they are undeniably good and noble. 

But they err! 

''That'' is ''not'' the living, vital love! 

Such living love is not so one - sidedly material, but simultaneously urges much more strongly towards that which is high, noble and ideal. 

Certainly no one may venture to forget earthly necessities with impunity, i. e., without detriment to himself! 

He should not disregard them, but at the same time they must not become the principal aim of his thoughts and actions. 

Hovering above all this, great and strong, is the desire, so mysterious to many, to be able actually to ''attain to what'' they are considered to be in the eyes of those who love them. 

With this desire they are on the right path, which will only lead upwards! Genuine pure love needs no further explanation! Every man feels exactly what it is! 

Man often tries to deceive himself about it on seeing his mistakes and realising how far away he really is from loving truly and purely. 

But he must then pull himself together, he may not hesitate or stop and finally give up, for without genuine love there can no longer be any free will for him. 

How many opportunities thus offered to men to pull themselves together and swing upwards are left unused! 

The complaint and seeking of the majority are therefore not genuine. 

They simply do not want to be bothered if it means that they themselves must contribute something, be it but a slight re - arrangement of their habits and views. 

To  a great extent it is falsehood and self - deception! 

God should come to them and lift them upwards to Him without the necessity for them to forgo their precious comfort and self - worship! 

Then they would possibly condescend to go along, but not, however, without expecting special thanks from God for so doing! 

Let these drones go their own way to destruction! 

They are not worth any trouble! 

Over and over again they will let the opportunities presented to them pass by while lamenting and praying. 

If ever such a person does grasp an opportunity, he would surely rob it of its most noble adornment of purity and unselfishness in order to drag this precious treasure into the mire of passion. 

Those who seek and those who know should finally make up their minds to avoid such people! 

They should not think they are doing the Almighty a favour in spreading His Word and His Holy Will in such a cheap manner, offering it by trying to teach others, so that it almost appears as if the Creator were forced, with the help of His faithful ones, to go begging in order to extend the circle of adherents. 

It is defilement to offer His Word to such as would grasp it with unclean hands. 

The saying should not be forgotten which forbids ''casting pearls before swine''! 

And that is what it amounts to in such cases! 

An unnecessary waste of time, which may no longer be wasted to such a degree without ultimately causing harmful reactions! 

Help should be given only to those who seek! 

The increasing disquietude felt by people, and the searching and seeking for the whereabouts of the free will, are perfectly justified, and a sign that it is high time to set about it! 

This feeling is strengthened by an unconscious premonition that there may come a time when it is too late. 

That is what keeps the searchers constantly active at the present time. 

But for the greater part it is in vain! 

''The majority of people of the present day can no longer make use of their free will because they have entangled themselves too gravely!'' 

They have sold and bartered it . . . for nothing! 

They cannot hold responsible for this, however, as is so often and continually being tried through all kinds of interpretations by which they erase from their minds all thought of personal responsibility awaiting them, but they must accuse themselves! 

Even if this self - accusation was of the greatest bitterness and accompanied by the deepest pain, it could not be severe enough to counterbalance, even in a small measure, the value of the lost gift which has been senselessly suppressed or squandered! 

Yet, in spite of this, man can still find the way to regain what he lost as soon as he seriously exerts himself, always provided, of course, that the wish to do so comes from deep within, that it is really ''alive'' in him and never weakens. 

He must carry the greatest longing for it! And should he need to spend his whole life on it, he could only benefit, for it is an urgent necessity for mankind to regain their free will! 

Instead of ''regain'' we n could say ''dig it out'' or ''wash it free''. 

It would be all the same! As long as man only ''thinks'' and ''ponders'' on the subject, however, he will attain nothing. 

The greatest efforts and perseverance must then fail him, because through thinking and pondering he can never reach beyond the limits if time and space, which means that he cannot get to where the solution lies. 

And since at present thinking and pondering are considered as the high road to all research, there is no prospect that any progress, apart from mere earthly matters, may be expected. Unless, indeed, men would fundamentally change in this respect! 

Make use of your time on earth! Remember the great turning - point which always brings full responsibility with it! 

For this reason a child is spiritually still under age, because the union between the spiritual and the material has not been established through the generative power. 

Not until the moment when this power sets in will its intuitive perceptions be sufficiently strong incisively to penetrate the entire World of Matter, reforming and transforming it. 

With this he automatically takes full and complete responsibility. 

Previous to this the reciprocal action is not so strong either, because the intuitive faculty is much weaker. 

Therefore in the first incarnation on earth karma cannot be so powerful. 

At the utmost it could influence the circumstances into which a child is born, so that this can help the spirit in its earth - life to redeem its karma by recognising the qualities it possesses. 

The question of the attraction of homogeneous species species would play an important role in this. 

But all these influences would be rather weak. 

The actual powerful and incisive karma only sets in when the generative power unites with spiritual power in man, whereby he not only becomes of full value in the World of Matter, but can far surpass the material in every respect if he adapts himself accordingly. 

Until then darkness and evil are unable to approach man directly. 

The child is protected against this by the gap which exists between itself and the material world. 

It stands as if isolated, because the bridge is missing. 

Many readers will now more readily understand why children enjoy much greater protection from evil; this is even proverbial! 

However, on the same path which the bridge forms for the entering generative power, and over which a man in his full power can stride forth to do battle, naturally also everything else can approach him, unless he is on his guard. 

But in no case can this happen until he possesses the necessary means of defence! 

Not for one moment does an inequality exist which could serve as an excuse! 

This enormously increases the responsibility of the parents. 

Woe unto those parents who through misplaced ridicule or a wrong education, if not even by bad example, which also includes all sorts of ambitious desires, rob their children of the opportunity to rid themselves of their karma and to ascend! 

The temptations of life on earth lure men hither and thither as it is. 

And since adolescent youth are not enlightened as to the scope of their power, they either do not use it at all or too little, or they squander it in irresponsible manner, if not even put it to an improper or evil use. 

Thus, because of ignorance, their karma inevitably grows ever greater! 

Through some propensity or other its radiations influence decisions on this or that matter in advance, thereby limiting actual free will to the extent that it is no longer free. 

That is why the ''majority'' of the people today can no longer make use of their free will. 

They have bound, chained and enslaved themselves through their own guilt. 

How childish and unworthy do men make themselves when they try to reject the thought of an absolute responsibility, preferring to blame the Creator for injustice in this matter! 

How ridiculous it sounds to pretend that they never really possessed free will but were guided, pushed, polished and moulded without being able to do anything against it! 

If they could but realise for a moment what a pitiable role they actually play with such behaviour! 

Above all, if they could but once critically observe themselves in view of the position of power bestowed upon them, so as to recognise how senselessly they squander this power in petty and transitory things, how they raise trifles to a contemptible position of importance, and how they feel themselves great in things in which they must appear very small in comparison with their real vocation as human beings in Creation! 

The man of today may be likened to one to whom a kingdom is given, but who prefers to idle away his time with the most simple of children's toys! 

It is only natural, and not to be expected otherwise, that the mighty powers which have been given to man must crush him if he cannot guide them! 

It is high time to awake! 

Man should make full use of the time and the grace accorded to him with earth - life! 

He has still no idea how urgent this already is! 

In the moment when he once more frees his encumbered will, everything that now so often seems to be against him will then help him. 

Even the radiations of the stars, feared by so many, are only there to help him, no matter what their nature! 

And every one can do it regardless of how heavily karma weighs upon him, even when the radiations of the stars appear to be predominantly unfavourable! 

The effect of all this is only unfavourable when the will is not free. 

This, however, is only apparently so, for in reality it is only for his benefit when he is at a loss to help himself. 

It forces him to defend himself, to awaken and to be on the alert. 

Fear of the radiations of the stars is quite out of place, however, because the reactions they call forth are always and only linked up with the threads of karma attached to the person concerned. 

The radiations of the stars are merely channels into which is drawn all the karma hanging about a person at that time, in so far as the karma is homogeneous to the existing radiations. 

If the radiations of the stars are unfavourable then only the unfavourable karma clinging to a person will be drawn into these channels, exactly as it corresponds to the nature of the radiation, and nothing else! 

It is the same with favourable radiations. 

Jointly guided in this way, karma can have a much more perceptible effect on mankind. 

However, where there is no karma outstanding, even unfavourable radiations of the stars cannot have bad effects. 

The one cannot be separated from the other. 

Here again the great Love of the Creator can be recognised. 

The stars control or direct the effects of karma. 

Therefore bad karma cannot manifest without interruptions because the stars send out their radiations alternately, and this leaves man time to breathe in the intervals, for evil karma cannot take effect at the times of favourable radiations. 

As it must then cease and wait until unfavourable radiations again set in, it cannot so easily oppress a man completely. 

If, apart from the evil karma, a man has no good karma which could manifest when the radiations of the stars are favourable, then at least the favourable radiations would give him some respite from his suffering during the they are active. 

Thus also here one wheel in the course of events gears into the other. 

In strict consistency the one draws the other along, simultaneously controlling it, so that there can be no irregularities. 

And so it continues, as in a gigantic machine! 

On every side the teeth of the wheel gear sharply and exactly into each other, moving everything onward, driving it forward in its development. 

And in the midst of all this stands man, with the immeasurable power entrusted to him to direct this mighty mechanism through his volition. 

''But always and only for himself!'' 

It can lead him upward or downward. 

The direction he gives it alone decides the outcome. 

But the machinery of Creation does not consist of rigid substance, but is entirely composed of living forms and beings who, in co - operating, create a much greater impression. 

The whole wonderful weaving, however, has the sole purpose of helping man, so long as he does not obstruct it by childishly squandering and misusing the power given to him. 

It is time man adapted himself in a different way in order to become what he should be! 

To obey really means nothing else than to understand. 

To serve is the same as to help. 

And to help means to rule. 

Within a short period every man can make his will free, as it should be. 

In doing so everything will change for him, because he himself has first changed inwardly. 

But for thousands, for hundreds of thousands, indeed for millions, it will become too late because they do not wish it otherwise. 

It is quite natural that the  wrongly - applied power, which would otherwise have served the mechanism so as to accomplish a work full of blessing, must now destroy it. 

And when everything breaks down all those who hesitated will suddenly bethink themselves of prayer, but they will be unable to find the right way to pray, which alone can bring them help. 

If they recognise their failure they will, in desperation, speedily start to curse, declaring accusingly that there can be no God if He permits such things to happen. 

They will never believe in an inexorable justice, nor that they had the power given to them in time to change everything, and that they were told of this often enough. 

With childish obstinacy they demand for themselves a loving God as they want Him to be, a God Who forgives everything! 

Only in that do they want to recognise His greatness! 

But how then should this God of their imaginings deal with those who have always sought Him seriously, but who, on account of their seeking, were downtrodden, scorned and persecuted by those who now expect forgiveness? 

Fools who in their continually self - chosen blindness and deafness rush on to their destruction, who diligently created their own doom! 

Let them be abandoned to darkness, towards which they stubbornly strive in their self - sufficiency! 

Only through their own experiences can they still come to their senses! 

Therefore the Darkness will be their best school. 

But their will come a day and an hour when this way will also be too late, because there will not be time enough left, after they have finally come to a recognition through their experiences, to tear themselves from darkness and ascend. 

For this reason it is high time seriously to concern yourselves with the Truth!               

                                                  WHAT  MUST  A  MAN  DO  TO  ENTER  THE  KINGDOM  OF  HEAVEN?

ONE is often approached with this question, but it would be wrong to reply with a definite rule and say ''Do this'' and ''Do that''! 

''That is not showing the way!'' 

It would be completely devoid of life, and for this reason nothing living, such as is absolutely necessary for soaring upwards, can arise from it, for ''life'' alone contains the key necessary for ascent! 

If now I say ''Do this and that, and don't do the other,'' I am only giving weak, external crutches on which no one can walk properly and independently, for these crutches do not at the same time help him to ''see''! 

And yet he must ''see'' the ''way'' clearly before him, otherwise the crutches are of no use to him! Such a person will only hobble about aimlessly, like a blind man on a road he does not know. 

No, that is not the right thing, and would once more only lead to another dogma, which would hinder and delay every ascent! 

Let man consider: If he wishes to enter the Realm of the Spirit he must naturally journey there! 

''He'' must walk there - it does not come to him! 

The Spiritual Realm lies at the summit of Creation, indeed  it ''is'' the highest point itself! 

The human spirit, however, is still in the nether regions of the World of Gross Matter. 

Therefore it will probably be clear to everyone that he must first wander from these nether regions to the longed - for height in order to reach the goal! 

In order not to lose his way it is imperative that he should have a ''thorough knowledge'' of the whole distance he has to traverse! 

Not only the way itself, but also everything he may meet en route, the dangers which threaten him, and the help he can count upon! 

Since the road lies entirely ''within Creation'', in fact ''is'' Creation, the wanderer who journeys towards the Spiritual Realm must become absolutely ''familiar'' beforehand with the Creation which leads him there. 

For he needs must pass through it, otherwise he will not reach his goal! 

Up till now there has been no man able to give ''such'' a description of Creation as it is necessary to absorb in order to ascend. 

In other words, there was no one who could make ''the way to the Grail Castle, the summit of Creation, visible and distinct. 

It is the way to the Castle which stands as the Temple of the Almighty in the Spiritual Realm, where alone ''pure'' worship takes place. 

This is not only meant allegorically, but it exists in all reality! 

The Message of the Son of God pointed out the way once before. 

But in his eagerness to show how clever he was, man ''interpreted it wrongly'' in many respects and consequently ''misplaced'' the ''signposts'', thereby misleading the human spirit and preventing it from rising! 

Now, however, the hour has arrived in which ''every'' human spirit ''must'' decide for itself, whether it is to be ''yes'' or ''no'', day or night, ascent to the Luminous Heights or descent, finally and irrevocably, without any further possibility for it to reconsider! 

For this reason another Message from the Luminous Castle has now been given. 

This Message puts the misplaced signposts back into their ''proper'' places, so that the right road may be recognised by all ''serious'' seekers! 

Happy are all those who adjust themselves to this Message with an open mind and a free heart! 

They will find in it ''all'' they must know of Creation, and see ''all'' the rungs which their spirit must use on its ladder of ascent in order to enter into the Spiritual Realm, Paradise! 

Each individual will find in it what ''he'' needs for his climb towards the Light with the abilities ''he'' possesses! 

That alone brings ''life'', freedom for ascent, and development of the abilities necessary for each individual, as against the uniform yoke of a fixed dogma which makes him slave without a will of his own, suppresses all independent development, and thereby not only hinders but complete destroys the possibility of ascent for many! 

The man who knows Creation in all its lawful activity will soon comprehend the sublime Will of God in it. 

If he adjusts himself to it in the right manner Creation, and also the way itself, will serve him ''only'' for a joyful ascent, because then he also stands correctly in the Will of God. 

His way and his life must therewith be right! 

It is not the attitude of a canting devotee, writhing on his knees and with eyes upturned in contrite prayer, but prayer made a ''living reality'' in fresh, pure minded and joyful activity! 

It is not begging and whining to have the way pointed out, but ''recognising'' it with a thankful upward glance to the Creator and ''travelling'' upon it cheerfully! 

Thus a life which can be described as devoted to God is quite different from what has been presumed hitherto! 

It will be much more free and beautiful! It means ''standing aright in Creation'' as is willed by your Creator through His Creation, in which (metaphorically speaking) one grasps the hand of God which He thereby stretches to mankind! 

Therefore I call out once more: Take all these things as ''factual'' as ''real'', and no longer regard them as figurative! 

Then you yourselves will become ''living'' realities instead of the lifeless shadows you now are! 

Learn to understand Creation aright ''in its laws!'' 

Therein lies the way upward to the Light!

                                                                                                                THE     FIRST     STEP 

LET MY Word become ''alive'' within you; for ''this'' alone can bring you ''that'' benefit which you need, enabling your spirit to ascend to the Luminous Heights of the Eternal Gardens of God. 

It is of no avail to ''know'' of the Word! 

And you could recite my entire Message sentence by sentence from memory, in order to teach yourselves and your fellow - men . . . it is of no avail unless you ''act'' accordingly, ''think'' in the sense of my Word, and adjust your whole earth - life to it as a matter of course, as something which has become an integral part of your being, which cannot be separated from you. 

Only then will you be able to draw from my Message the eternal values it holds for you. 

''By their ''works'' ye shall know them!'' 

This saying of Christ is ''primarily'' intended for all the readers of my Message! 

By their works means by their ''activity'', that is, by their thinking and deeds in their daily life on earth! 

Your deeds also include your speech, not only your actions; for speaking ''is'' action, the effect of which you have hitherto under - estimated. 

Even your ''thoughts'' are included here. 

Men are in the habit of saying that thoughts are ''free''. 

By this they wish to imply that they cannot be held accountable on earth for their thoughts, because these are on a level which is inaccessible to human hands. 

Therefore they often ''play'' with thoughts in the most careless way or, better expressed, they play ''in'' thoughts. 

Unfortunately often a very dangerous game, in the light - hearted illusion that they can emerge from it unharmed. 

But here they err; for thoughts too belong to the ''World of Gross Matter'', and must in all circumstances also be redeemed in it before a spirit becomes capable of swinging itself freely upwards, once it has severed the connection with its earthly body. 

Therefore seek at all times to swing even with your thoughts in the sense of my Message, in such a way that you desire only what is ''noble'', and do not lower yourselves because you imagine that nobody can see or hear it. 

Thoughts, words and the visible deed all belong to the Realm of Gross Matter in this Creation! 

Thoughts operate in the World of ''Fine'' Gross Matter, words in the World of ''Medium'' Gross Matter, and visible actions take form in the World of ''coarsest'', that is, ''densest'' Gross Matter. 

These three kinds of your activity are ''gross material!'' 

But the forms of all three are closely connected with each other, their effects are interwoven. 

What that implies for you, how incisive and decisive its effect often is in the course of your existence, you cannot estimate all at once. 

It means nothing else than that also a thought, automatically working on according to its nature, can strengthen a homogeneous type in the World of ''Medium'' Matter, thereby producing more powerful forms; likewise then, deducing from this, it again continues to work on within this intensification,  and arises in a visible active form in the ''coarsest'' World of Matter, without you yourselves seeming to be directly concerned with it. 

It comes as a shock to know this, when one realises how superficial and careless these earthmen are in their thinking. 

Thus without knowing it you ''participate'' in many a deed perpetrated by one or other of your fellow - men, simply because he has received the intensification in the way I have just explained to you. 

It became capable of driving him to the crudest perpetration of something that had hitherto slumbered within him, with which previously he has always merely toyed in his thoughts. 

Thus many a person on earth very often looks with disapproval upon some action of one of his fellow - men, angrily repudiating and condemning it, and yet he is ''partially responsible'' for it before the Eternal Laws of God! 

In this someone who is a complete stranger to him may be involved, and it may concern a deed which he himself would never have committed in the Realm of Coarsest Matter. 

Think yourselves deeply into such happenings for once, and you will then all the more understand why I call to you in my Message: ''Keep the hearth of your thoughts pure, by so doing you will bring peace and be happy!'' 

But when you have become sufficiently strong in this respect through your own purification, far fewer crimes than hitherto, in which many have been unknowingly implicated, will be committed on earth. 

The time and the place of such deeds as you may become implicated in are of no importance here. 

Even if they occurred at the opposite end of the earth to where you live, in places where you have never set foot, of whose existence you have no knowledge whatever. 

Through your toying with thoughts intensifications will strike ''wherever'' they discover homogeneous types, independent of distances, nation and country. 

Thus in the course of time thoughts of hate and envy may thrust themselves upon individuals, groups or whole nations, wherever they find homogeneity, impelling them to actions expressed in forms entirely different from those that first arose through your toying with thoughts. 

The final result may then manifest according to the inner state of the ''perpetrator'' at the time of the deed. 

Thus you may have contributed to the perpetration of such horrible deeds as you yourselves have never really contemplated, and yet you are connected with them, and a part of the reaction must burden your spirit, must hang on it like a weight when it severs itself from the body. 

But on the other hand you can also contribute even more powerfully to the peace and happiness of humanity, and through pure, joyful thinking can have a share in works that develop through total strangers. 

From this the blessing also naturally flows back to you, and you do not realise why. 

If you could but once ''see'' how the immutable Justice of God's All - Holy Will is always fulfilled in the self - acting Laws of this Creation for every single thought you harbour, you would strive with all your might to attain purity in your thinking! 

Only then will you have become ''such'' human beings as the Creator in His Work will mercifully guide to the knowledge that bestows eternal  life upon them, allowing them to become helpers in Creation worthy to receive the high blessings destined for the human spirit; so that these may be joyfully and gratefully transformed and passed on to ''those'' creatures who are only able to absorb them through such a transformation by man, and who today, through the decline of the human spirit, remain wantonly cut off from them, after it had already been possible for them to come into existence in times of a better and more purely swinging humanity. 

With this, however, you will have made only ''one'' sentence from my Message glow with vitality for yourselves on earth! 

For you it is the ''most difficult one'', which will then make all the rest much easier, whose fulfilment must already let miracle upon miracle arise before you in earthly ''visible'' and tangible form. - 

When you have conquered yourselves ''in this'', you will be confronted on your path with yet another danger resulting from the distortion of human thinking: You will recognise in it power which you will wish to press all too readily into quite definite forms, so that it may serve this or that special purpose made up of selfish desires! 

Already today I wish to ''warn'' you against this; for the danger can engulf you, you would perish in it, even after you have set out on the right path. Beware of a ''desperate struggle'' to enforce this purity of thoughts; for in so doing you would already press them into definite channels, and your effort would become an illusion, would always be only ''artificially'' enforced, and could never have great effect that it should have. 

Your efforts would bring harm rather than benefit, because they lack the genuineness of the free intuition. 

Again it would be a product of your ''intellectual volition'', but never the work of your spirit! 

Against this I warn you. 

Remember my Word of the Message which tells you that all true greatness can lie only in ''simplicity'', since true greatness ''is'' simple! 

You may be better able to understand ''that'' simplicity which I mean here, if for the time being you use instead the human - earthly concept of ''being unassuming''. 

This perhaps comes nearer to your comprehension, and you will hit upon the true meaning. 

You cannot give the purity that I mean to your thoughts through your thought - volition; but the pure volition, ''unassuming'' and boundless, must well up withing you from your intuitive perception, not compressed into a word which can only give rise to a limited concept. 

That must not be; but an  all - embracing urge for good, able to envelop your thoughts as they arise and to permeate them even before they take form, is the right thing which you need. 

It is not difficult, indeed much easier than the other attempts, once you become unassuming, whereby intellectual conceit about your  own abilities and your own power cannot arise. 

Empty yourselves of thoughts, and set free within you the urge for what is noble and good. 

Then you will have ''that'' foundation for thinking which comes from the volition of your ''spirit''; and whatever arises ''from that'' you can then safely leave to the work of your intellect to carry out in the Realm of Densest Gross Matter. 

Nothing wrong can ever develop. 

Cast off all the torments caused by thoughts, and trust instead in your ''spirit'', which will surely find the right way if you yourselves do not wall it up. Become ''free in spirit'', which means nothing else than ''let the spirit within you have its way!'' 

Then it simply ''cannot'' do other than journey towards the height; for its very nature draws it upwards with all certainty. 

Hitherto you have restrained it so that it could no longer unfold, thereby you have restricted its flight or bound its wings. 

The foundation for the upbuilding of a new humanity, which you cannot and must not evade, rests in the one sentence: ''Keep the hearth of your thoughts pure!'' 

And it is ''with this'' that man must begin! 

That is his ''first'' task which will make him ''what'' he ''must'' become. 

An ''example'' to all who strive for Light and Truth, who wish to serve the Creator gratefully through the nature of their whole being. 

He who fulfils ''this'' needs no further directions. 

He ''is'' as he should be, and will thus receive the full measure of help that awaits him in Creation and leads him upwards without interruption.

                                                                                                                    CHILDLIKENESS

 THE WORD ''childlike'' is an expression which is in most cases wrongly applied by human beings in their careless and thoughtless manner of speaking.  Hampered by indolence of the spirit, this expression is not perceived intuitively enough to be properly grasped. 

But he who has not grasped it in its entirety will never be able to use it aright either. 

And yet it is just childlikeness that offers mankind a strong bridge for ascent to Luminous Heights, for giving every human spirit the possibility to mature, and reaching perfection in order to live eternally in this Creation, which is the House of God the Father that He places at the disposal of men, provided . . . they remain guests therein who are ''agreeable'' to Him. 

Guests who do not cause damage in the rooms so graciously made over to them solely for their use, with a table at all times richly spread. 

But how far removed is man now from the childlikeness he so needs! 

Yet without it he can achieve nothing for his spirit. 

The spirit ''must'' possess childlikeness; for it is and remains a child of Creation, even when it has gained full maturity. 

''A child of Creation!'' 

In this lies the deep meaning; for the spirit must develop into a child of God. 

Whether it will ever achieve this depends entirely on the degree of recognition it is willing to acquire on its wandering through all the Spheres of Matter. But with this willingness the ''deed'' must also manifest. 

In the Spiritual Planes will is at the same time also deed. 

There will and deed are always ''one''. 

However, this is only so in the ''Spiritual'' Planes, not in the Worlds of Matter. 

The more dense and heavy a plane of the World of Matter is, the further removed is the deed from the will. 

The fact that density causes obstruction is demonstrated even by sound, which as it travels has to struggle through material substance, which obstructs it according to the nature of the density. 

This can be clearly observed even over shorter distances. 

When a man chops wood or drives nails into timber of a building, the impact of his tool can be clearly seen, yet the sound of it only arrives a few seconds later. 

This is so noticeable that everybody must have experienced it at one time or another. 

The process is similar, but still more ponderous, between the will and the deed of man on earth. 

The will flares up in the spirit, and is immediately deed in the spirit. 

But to make the will visible in the Gross Material World, the spirit also needs the physical body. 

Only on impulse does a physical body already act within a few seconds of the flaring up of the will. 

Thereby the more tedious work of the frontal brain is eliminated, which otherwise has to mediate the way of the will right up to the impression on the activity of the body. 

The normal way takes rather longer. 

Sometimes the result is only feeble action, or none at all; because on its extended way the volition is weakened, or altogether suppressed, by the pondering intellect. 

In this connection, although not strictly relevant here, I would like to make a reference to the effects of Creation's Law of the Attraction of Homogeneous Species, which are overlooked and yet so clearly visible also in human activity: Human - earthly laws have been worked out by the earthly intellect, and are also carried into effect by it. 

''For this reason'' schemes pondered with the intellect, thus premeditated actions, are as such more severely punished and judged as more evil than actions committed on the impulse of the moment, thus unpremeditated. 

In most cases these latter are treated more leniently. 

In reality, there is a connection which is imperceptible to men, in the homogeneity of intellectual activity under the compulsion of the Law of Creation, for all those who unconditionally submit to the intellect. 

To them this quite understandable. 

Without knowing about it, the greater part of the atonement for an impulsive action is therewith assigned to the ''Spiritual Plane''. 

Legislators and judges have no idea of this, because they proceed from quite different, purely intellectual principles. 

With deeper reflection, however, and knowledge of the active Laws of Creation, all this appears in an entirely different light. 

Nevertheless, in other earthly sentences and judgments, the Living Laws of God in Creation work quite independently on their own, uninfluenced by earthly - human laws and conceptions. 

It will surely not occur to any serious - minded person to think that real guilt, not merely what men first designate as guilt, could also be expiated at the same time before the Laws of God through a paid penalty dictated by the earthly intellect! 

Already for thousands of years these have been, as it were, two separate worlds, separated by men's actions and thoughts, although they should only be ''one'' world in which ''God's'' Laws alone operate. 

Through such earthly punishment, atonement can only ensue if the laws and the punishments are completely in accord with God's Laws in Creation. 

Now there are two kinds of unpremeditated actions. 

Firstly, those already described, which should really be called ''impulse''; and then the kind that flashes up in the frontal brain, thus not in the spirit, and belongs to the intellectual category. 

The latter are unpremeditated, but should not receive the same mitigation as impulse - actions. 

However, to find out exactly the just difference between the two will only become possible to ''those'' human beings who know all the Laws of God in Creation and are familiar with their effects. 

This must be reserved for a time to come, when there will also be no more arbitrary actions among men, because they will have a spiritual maturity that lets them swing only in the Laws of God in all their deeds and thoughts. This digression is merely to induce reflection, it did not belong to the real purpose of the lecture. 

Take note, then, that in the Spiritual Planes will and deed are ''one'', but in the Material Planes they are separated through the nature of the substance. That is why Jesus once said to men: ''The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak!'' 

The flesh, which refers here to the gross material substance of the body, does not convert into deed everything that has already been will and deed in the spirit. 

But also on earth the spirit in its gross material garment could compel its volition always to become gross material deed, if it were not too lazy to do so. It cannot hold the body responsible for this indolence; for the body was given to each spirit only as an instrument, which it must learn to control in order to use it properly. - 

Thus the spirit is a child of Creation. 

And it must be ''childlike'' therein if it wishes to fulfil the purpose for which it stands in Creation. 

The arrogance of the intellect caused the spirit to withdraw from childlikeness, because the intellect could not ''understand'' what it really is. 

As a result, however, the spirit lost its foothold in Creation, which in order to remain healthy itself must now expel it as a stranger, an intruder and a dangerous creature. 

And so it will come to pass that through their wrong thoughts and actions men will dig their own graves. - 

How strange it is that every man who wishes to experience the Christmas Festival in the true sense must first try to recall his childhood! 

This can surely be regarded as a clear enough sign ''of the fact'' that as an adult he is quite incapable of experiencing the Christmas Festival with his ''intuitive perception''. 

It is definite proof that he has lost something he possessed as a child! 

Why does this not make men reflect! 

Again it is spiritual indolence that prevents them from serious reflection on such matters. 

''That is for children,'' they think, and grown - ups have simply no time for it! 

They have to think about ''more serious matter.'' 

More serious matters! By these more serious matters they mean only the pursuit of earthly ends, thus the work of the intellect! 

The intellect quickly represses memories, so as not to lose its supremacy if the intuitive perception is for once yielded to! 

The ''greatest'' things could be recognised in all these apparently so trivial facts, if only the intellect would allow time for it. 

But it has the upper hand, and fights for it with all craftiness and cunning. 

That is to say, it is not the intellect that fights, but that which uses it as a tool and hides behind it: the Darkness! 

The Darkness does not want the Light to be found in memories. 

And ''how'' the spirit longs to find the Light, to draw new strength from It, can be recognised by the fact that with the memories of childhood Christmas Festivals there also awakens an undefined, almost painful longing, able to move many people for a brief moment to tenderness. 

If such tenderness were used at once and with all one's strength, it could become the best soil for the ''awakening!'' 

But unfortunately this only sends adults into a reverie, whereby the  rising power is wasted and lost. 

And in the reverie the opportunity also slips by without the possibility of bringing benefit, or of having been used. 

Even though many a person shed a few tears, he feels ashamed and tries to hide them, pulling himself together with a physical jerk that so often betrays unconscious defiance. 

How much could people learn from all this. 

It is no coincidence that a tender sadness also weaves itself into the memories of childhood days. 

It is the subconscious sensing that something has been lost, leaving an emptiness, the inability still to perceive intuitively like a child. 

But you have surely often noticed the wonderful and refreshing influence of the mere quiet presence of any person from whose eyes a ''childlike'' radiance sometimes glows. 

The adult must not forget that childlike is not childish. 

But you do not know whence the childlike has such an effect, what it really is! 

And why Jesus said: ''Become as little children!'' 

To fathom what childlike is, you must first be clear that the childlike is by no means bound up with the child itself. 

No doubt you yourselves know children who lack the true beautiful childlikeness! 

Thus there are children without childlikeness! 

A malicious child will never have a childlike effect, nor an unruly one who is really ill - bred! 

This clearly shows that childlikeness and the child are two things independent in themselves. 

That which is called childlike on earth is a branch of the effect from out of ''purity!'' 

Purity in its higher, not merely earthly - human sense. 

The human being who lives in the ray of Divine Purity, who makes room for the ray of Purity within himself, has thereby also acquired childlikeness, whether it be still in childhood or already as an adult. 

Childlikeness is the result of inner purity, or the sign that such a human being has submitted to Purity and serves It. 

All these are merely different modes of expression, but in reality they always amount to the same thing. 

Thus only a child who is pure within itself, and an adult who cultivates within himself, can have a childlike effect. 

That is why he has a ''refreshing'' and vitalising effect, and also inspires confidence! 

And wherever the is true purity, genuine love can also enter, for God's Love works in the ray of Purity. 

The ray of Purity is the path It treads. It could not possibly walk on any other. 

The ray of Divine Love can never find its way to him who has not absorbed the ray of Purity! 

Man, however, has deprived himself of childlikeness by turning away from the Light through his one - sided intellectual thinking, to which he has sacrificed everything that might have uplifted him. 

Thus he has firmly chained himself with a thousand fetters to this earth, that is, to the World of Gross Matter, which will hold him in its grip until he liberates himself from it. 

This, however, cannot come to him through earthly death, but only through ''spiritual'' awakening.