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As the product of the earthly brain, thought volition, in contrast to the volition of the intuitive
perception, does not have the ability to make direct contact with the neutral principal power resting in
Creation. Therefore these forms lack the self-acting core of the intuitive forms, which in comparison to
animal souls can only be called “animistic soul shadows”. Thought-forms remain absolutely dependent
upon their creator, with whom they are connected in a similar way as the forms of the intuitive volition.
That is through a feeding cord which simultaneously constitutes the road for the returning reciprocal
actions. However, I have already spoken about this species in the lecture on “Thought-forms”*(Lecture Nr.
22). Therefore I need not repeat it here.
In the Law of Reciprocal Action thought-forms are the weakest gradation. Despite this their effects
are still disastrous enough, and can not only bring about the doom of individual human spirits, but even
that of great masses, and can even contribute to the devastation of whole parts of the world as soon as
they are over-nourished and over-cultivated by men, thus receiving undreamt of power, as has happened
in the last few thousand years.
Thus the whole of this evil has been brought about by men alone. Owing to their uninhibited and
false intuitive volition and thought volition, as well as through their carelessness in these matters! —
These two realms, the realm of the forms of the human intuitive volition and the realm of the forms
of the human thought volition, in which naturally real human spirits are also forced to live, alone formed
the fields of action and the vision of the greatest “magicians” and “masters” of all time, who became
entangled in them and who finally are retained there when they pass over. And today?
The “great masters of occultism”, the “enlightened ones” of so many different sects and lodges... are
no better off! They are masters only in these realms. They live amid forms of their own making. Only
there can they be “masters”, but not in the real life of the beyond! Their power and mastery never extend
so far.
Unfortunate people, regardless of whether they have pledged themselves to the black or the white art,
according to their evil or good volition... they imagined and still believe themselves mighty in their
spiritual power, whereas in reality they are less than a man ignorant in these matters. In his childlike
simplicity such a man stands far above these actually low fields of activity of such ignorant “spiritual
princes”, that is, he stands higher spiritually than they do.
All would be well if the reciprocal effects of the work of such eminent ones could fall back upon
themselves only, but such “masters” through their efforts and activities agitate these nether regions, which
are of no particular importance in themselves, stirring them up unnecessarily and thereby increasing their
strength, so that they become a danger to all whose resistance is weak. For others, happily, they hold no
danger; because a harmless human spirit, one who enjoys his life like a child, rises without any difficulty
above these nether regions, into which the pseudo-scientists burrow and probe, finally being retained
there by the forms and images which they themselves have strengthened. Although this should all be
taken seriously, yet seen from above it makes an unspeakably ridiculous and sad impression, entirely
unworthy of the human spirit. For inwardly bloated with false conceit they busily creep and crawl about,
embellished with frills, endeavoring to animate such a realm. A shadowy realm in the truest sense, an
entire world of sham, capable of simulating all kinds of things. And he who first called it into existence
can in the end no longer exorcise it, but must succumb to it! Eagerly many dig and delve into these nether
regions, priding themselves on the tremendous height they have reached thereby. A clear and ordinary
human spirit, however, can readily and without worry pass through these nether regions, not having to
pause there for any reason.
What else shall I say about such “great ones”? Not one of them would listen, because in their sham
world they can for a time pretend to be what, in the real existence of the living spirit, they could never
hope to become; for there they must: “serve”. Then their presumption to be masters would quickly come
to an end. For this reason they fight against it, because much is taken from them through the Truth! And
they lack the courage to bear this. Who likes to have the entire structure of his imagination and vanity
overthrown? He would indeed have to be a true and really great human being! This kind of person would
never have fallen into such snares laid by vanity.
One thing in all this is very distressing: how many or, better said, how few human beings are so clear
and firm within themselves, how few still command such childlike, cheerful simplicity that would allow
them to safely traverse these planes, which are so wantonly created and constantly reinforced by man’s volition. For all others, however, it evokes a continually increasing danger.
If only men could at last become really seeing in these things! How much harm could be avoided. A
purer intuitive perception and pure thinking on the part of every human being would soon so weaken the
dark and dismal planes of the beyond that even the struggling human spirits retained there would gain
faster release, because they would be able to fight to free themselves more easily from their ever
weakening surroundings. —
Just as many great “masters” here on earth experience everything as real so do human spirits in the
various environments, forms and constructs in the beyond experience everything as real, regardless of
whether it be in the lower or darker regions or in ethereally higher and friendlier regions... fear as well as
joy, despair and also liberating redemption... and yet they are not in the realm of real life at all, rather
only they themselves are really alive! All else, their quite diversified and changing surroundings, can only
exist through them and through those on earth who are like-minded.
Even hell itself is but a product of human spirits, existing, it is true, and also holding serious dangers
and causing terrible suffering, but it is completely dependent on the volition of all those human beings
whose intuitive perceptions enable the existence of hell by supplying it with power from the neutral
Divine Power which rests in Creation for the use of human spirits. Thus hell is not a Divine institution,
but the work of man!
He who recognizes this aright, and then consciously makes use of this knowledge, will help many,
and he himself will also ascend more easily towards the Light, in which alone all real Life lies.
If men would for once open themselves far enough to be able to get a sense of what treasure rests in
Creation for them! A treasure which should be discovered and picked up by every human spirit, which
means consciously made use of: and this is the neutral principal power I have mentioned so often. It
makes no distinction between good or evil, but stands outside these conceptions, it is simply the “Living
Power”.
Every intuitive volition of a human being is like a key to this treasure chamber and makes contact
with this sublime power. Good volition as well as bad volition. Both are reinforced and animated by this
“power” because it immediately reacts upon the intuitive volition of the human spirit. Only upon this
volition, nothing else. Man determines the nature of the volition; this lies in his hand alone. The power as
such brings neither good nor evil, but is simply “power”, and it animates what man has willed.
It is important, however, to know that man does not bear this life-giving power within himself, but
only possesses the key to it in the capacity of his intuitive faculty. Thus he is the steward of this creative
formative power which works in accordance with his volition. For this reason he has to render account of
his stewardship, which he exercises at all times. But unwittingly he plays with fire in these matters like an
ignorant child, thus causing great damage, as does such a child. Yet he need not be ignorant! This is his
fault! Through parables and teachings all the prophets and finally the Son of God Himself tried to
enlighten men on this point, to show men what path to take, how they must intuitively perceive, think and
act in order to tread the right path!
But it was in vain. Men continued to play with this tremendous power entrusted to them only as they
saw fit, without listening to the warnings and advice from the Light, which ultimately will bring about the
collapse, the destruction of their works and also of themselves; for this power works in a completely
neutral manner, reinforcing the good as well as the evil volition of the human spirit, and thus will not
hesitate coldly to ruin the car and its driver, just as happens with any motor vehicle that is not driven the
right way. Surely the picture has now been made clear enough. Through their volition and thoughts men
direct the destiny of the entire Subsequent Creation as well as their own, without knowing anything about
it. They promote either growth or death; they can achieve either up-building in fullest harmony or that
wild chaos which we now have! Instead of building up in a reasonable manner they waste their time and
energy unnecessarily in a great deal of futile trivialities. Insightful people call this punishment and
judgment, which in a certain sense is correct, yet it is men themselves who have forcibly brought about
everything that must now happen.
There have been thinkers and observers who already sensed all of this, but they erred when they
falsely assumed that this power of the human spirit is a manifestation of personal divinity. This is an error
which only arises from a one-sided observation of appearances. The human spirit is neither God nor Divine. Such wiseacres see only the outer shell of the happening, but not the inner core. They confuse the
effect with the cause. Unfortunately many false doctrines and much presumption originated from this
inadequacy. Therefore let me stress it one more time: The Divine Power which always permeates and
rests in Creation is given to all human spirits only on loan. As they use it they can direct it, but they do
not have it within themselves, it is not inherently theirs! This power is inherent in Divinity alone. The
Divine, however, uses it only for the good, because It does not know Darkness at all. The human spirits,
however, to whom it is on loan, only turn it into a den of thieves!
Therefore once more I urgently call out to everyone: Keep the hearth of your volition and your
thoughts pure, and you will become peacemakers and be happy! Then at last Subsequent Creation will
begin to resemble Primordial Creation, where all is Light and Joy. All this lies in the hands of man, in the
capacity of every self-conscious human spirit, who will no longer remain a stranger in this Subsequent
Creation! — —
Many of my readers and listeners will quietly wish that in addition to my explanations, I might add a
fitting picture of such a happening, a lifelike view to improve understanding. Others again might find this
distracting. There may also be some who think that I would thereby weaken the seriousness of what was
said, because the rendering of a living happening in these planes might easily be construed as a flight of
fancy or clairvoyance. I already heard similar remarks when I published my lectures: “The Holy Grail”
and “Lucifer”. Those who investigate deeply, however, and whose spiritual ears are not closed, will
intuitively perceive the purpose of what I describe. The picture I wish to give about this is meant for these
persons alone, for they will know that it is neither fantasy nor clairvoyance, but more.
Therefore let us take an example: A mother has taken her life by drowning herself, and in so doing
has carried her two-year-old child to its earthly death along with her. Upon awakening in the beyond she
finds herself sinking in a dismal, muddy body of water; for the soul’s last terrible moment has come to
life in the Ethereal World. This is the place where, together with her, all homogenous species suffer
continual torment. She has the child in her arms, and it clings to its mother in mortal fear, even though in
her earthly act she had flung it into the water before throwing herself in. Depending on her psychic
condition, she has to live through these agonizing moments for a shorter or longer period of time, that is,
she must always be on the verge of drowning without ever coming to an end, and never losing
consciousness. It may take decades and even longer before a genuine cry for help, uttered in pure
humility, awakens in her soul. This is not so easily done; for everything around her is only of
homogeneous species, there is no light. She hears only ghastly swearing and cursing, brutish words, and
she sees nothing but callous ruthlessness.
In time there may gradually awaken within her the urge at least to protect her child from this, or to
remove it from such dreadful surroundings and their perpetual danger and torment. Trembling with fear,
while still on the verge of drowning, she therefore holds her child above the stinking, slimy surface, while
many another being in her vicinity clings to her and tries to drag her down into the depths.
This leaden, heavy water is composed of the thoughts of those who have committed suicide by
drowning, thoughts which have come to life ethereally but which are not yet sharply defined, as well as of
the thoughts of all those still on earth who harbor similar ideas. These thoughts have contact with one
another and, in the process of mutual attraction, constantly reinforce each other, whereby the torment is
endlessly renewed. These waters would have to dry up if, instead of receiving homogeneous
reinforcements, waves of fresh, happy and joyful thoughts would stream forth from the earth.
Worry about the child, which, as a natural maternal instinct, may gradually develop into anxious and
caring love, receives enough strength to form for the mother the first saving step towards the stairway
leading out of the agony, which she herself created by bringing her life on earth to a premature end. In
trying to save the child from the horror into which she herself has plunged it in the first place, she
nourishes within herself more noble qualities which can ultimately lift her into the next, less dismal
environment.
The child in her arms, however, is not the living soul of the child she murdered when she dragged it
into the water with herself. Such an injustice would be impossible. In most cases the living soul of the
child frolics in sunny meadows, whereas the child in the arms of the struggling mother is only... a
phantom, a living form of the intuitive perception of the murderess and also... of the intuitive perception
of the child! This may be a guilt-form, i.e. arising from the pressure of a guilty conscience, or it may be a despair-form, a hatred-form, a love-form, no matter, the mother imagines it to be the living child itself,
because the form exactly resembles the child, moves like it, cries like it, etc. I do not wish to go into such
details nor into their many variations.
Countless happenings could be depicted, the nature of which is always bound precisely to the deeds
which preceded them.
But I wish to mention one more thing as an example of how the transition from this world into the
beyond occurs.
Take the case of a woman or girl who is facing an unwanted pregnancy and who has, as unfortunately
very often happens, done something against it. Even if in especially favorable cases all went well without
causing any bodily harm, it is not thereby simultaneously atoned for. The Ethereal World, as the
environment in which the soul lives after physical death, records everything exactly and impartially. From
the moment it happened an ethereal body of the developing child has fastened itself to the ethereal neck
of the unnatural mother, where it remains clinging until the deed is atoned for. Naturally the woman or
girl concerned does not notice this as long as she lives in her physical body here on earth. She may
perhaps have an uneasy feeling now and then as a reaction, for the small ethereal body of the child is as
light as a feather in comparison with the physical body, and today most girls are much too callous to be
able to feel this little burden. This callousness however, is not in the least a sign of progress, nor of robust
health, but indicates retrogression; it is a sign of the soul being buried.
But at the moment of physical death the weight and density of the clinging child’s body become
homogeneous with that of the ethereal body of the mother, which has now left its earthly vessel, and it is
thus an absolute burden. It will immediately cause as much discomfort to the ethereal body of the mother
as would a gross-material child’s body on earth clinging to her neck. Depending on the nature of the
preceding happening, it may well increase to a breath-taking agony. The mother must drag the child’s
body around with her in the beyond, and she does not become free of it until maternal love awakens
within her and, setting aside her own comfort, she faithfully and laboriously tries to provide care and
relief to the little body. Very often a long and thorny path has to be traversed to reach that point!
These happenings are naturally not without a certain tragicomic aspect. One need only imagine
someone from whom the wall between this world and the beyond has been removed, entering a family
gathering or a party. Perhaps a group of ladies is sitting there in lively conversation. One of the women or
“virgins”, in a tone of moral indignation, voices a disdainful opinion of her fellow-men, and all the while
the visitor sees one or even several little children’s bodies hanging from the neck of this ranting zealot or
proud woman. Not only that, but every other person also has the works of his real volition hanging on to
him, distinctly visible, and often in the most grotesque contrast to his words and to how he wishes to
appear and assert himself before the world.
Many a judge sits with a much larger burden before the person condemned by him. How quickly his
few years on earth will be over and then he will stand before his Judge where other laws pertain. What
then?
Unfortunately, in most cases man is easily able to deceive the Gross Material World, while in the
Ethereal World this is impossible to do. Fortunately there a man must really reap what he has sown.
Therefore no one need despair if here on earth injustice temporarily has the upper hand. Not one single
evil thought will remain unatoned for, even when it has not developed into a physical deed.